I am Assistant Professor for Digital Forensic Linguistics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

News

We have just published extensive data on the meaning and interpretation of face emojis. See the face emoji data here and read the paper !

Interview im WDR 5, Scala: “Was ist das eigentlich, Digitale Forensische Linguistik?”

I maintain the public Zotero library on “Linguistics of Emojis”. You can suggest additions via a form linked from the Zotero group page.

This page hasn’t been properly updated since 2020 Please visit my lab website for current info. (June 2024)

Research Interests (incomplete list)

digital forensic linguistics: harmful speech, analysis and detection of disinformation, authorship in social media

digital linguistics: linguistic variability in social media, emojis, language of Twitter

computational linguistics: discourse modelling, discourse parsing, analysis of social media data, corpus linguistics, computational social science, Tree-Adjoining Grammar

theoretical linguistics: discourse & dialog, connectives, corpora, semantics, pragmatics, syntax-semantics interface

intelligent user interfaces: multimodality, mobile applications, spoken dialog systems, user modelling