Martin Volk, Prof. Dr.
Head of Department
Tel.: +41 44 635 43 17
Raumbezeichnung: AND-2-24
Research
Current Research Projects
- Machine Translation Project list
- Digitizing and Annotating Heritage Texts: Text+Berg digital.
- Digital Humanities Project list
- Information Extraction and Ontologies
Long-term Research Interests
- Grammar and parser engineering
- Data-driven methods for NLP (corpora and treebanks)
- Multilingual text analysis
- Cross-language information retrieval
Teaching
Recent Teaching
- Corpus Linguistics and Ontologies
- Language Technology for Ontologies
- Machine Translation and Parallel Corpora
- Mathematical Linguistics
- Methods and Applications, an Introduction to Computational Linguistics
- Treebanks: Formats, Tools and Usages
Past Teaching
- Lexicon structure and morphology analysis (in German)
- Formal grammars and syntax analysis (in German)
- Introduction to Computer Science (for translators) (in German)
- Terminology Databases and Terminology Extraction (for translators) (in German)
- Corpus Linguistics for Computational Linguistics (overview in German, slides in English)
Hobbies
- Running
- Ice-skating on frozen lakes
- Seakayaking (e.g. in the Stockholm Archipelago)
- Hiking and biking
- Listening to Classical Music
- Enjoying a good glass of wine (mostly) from Weingut Volk
- Digitizing old books (e.g. Lesebuch für die Kath. Volksschulen der Rheinprovinz from 1917)