CLiPS Research Center
The research group has a strong computational and corpus linguistic orientation and ample variational linguistic, sociolinguistic, and dialect-geographical expertise. Consequently, we can offer a combination of methodologies that is highly relevant for the analysis of large amounts of dialect data: computational modeling combined with correlational sociolinguistic and variational corpus linguistic approaches. The automatic analysis of dialect data and the training of linguistic models on dialect corpora are interesting challenges for us. Furthermore, in the past we extensively studied the geographical diffusion of dialect and vernacular features, in relation to their social embedding. This general knowledge of dialect-geographical diffusion patterns will guarantee adequate data processing.