Dr. Thomas Schmidt (former Director)
Thomas Schmidt studied mathematics, computer science, linguistics, English and Romance languages at the Universities of Kaiserslautern an Mainz, at the University of Edinburgh, the FU Berlin and at Paris 8. In 2004 he completed his doctorate on “Computer-assisted transcription: modelling and visualizing spoken language through text technological means” at the University of Dortmund. He worked as a language resource engineer for Philips Speech Processing for a year before taking up a position at the Special Research Centre on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg. In Hamburg, he worked first as a research assistant, later as the principal investigator of the project “Computer-assisted methods for creating and analysing multilingual data” and was the founding managing director of the Hamburg Centre for Language Corpora (HZSK). He spent his postdoc year at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley. In 2012, he took up the position as head of the program area “Oral Corpora” at the Leibniz Institute for the German language where his responsibilities included the management of the Archive for Spoken German (AGD) and the Research and Teaching Corpus of Spoken German (FOLK). From September 2021 until July 2022, he has been heading the RISE team at the University of Basel. Thomas research interests are methodology and technology for working with digital audiovisual language data and computer lexicography.
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0026-6450
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