Data set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323211
GitHub repository (use Zenodo DOI to refer to the data set instead).
Category Archives: Publications
Gebrauchsbasierte Graphematik des Deutschen: eine methodische Einführung (Schäfer & Sayatz, in preparation)
This publication is in the INCUBATOR section.
Roland Schäfer & Ulrike Sayatz (in preparation) Gebrauchsbasierte Graphematik des Deutschen: eine methodische Einführung. To be submitted in Q2/2019 to Language Science Press. Continue reading
Probabilistic German Morphosyntax (Habilitationsschrift)
Probabilistic German Morphosyntax is a sequence of papers with a methodological introduction and overview chapter representing my kumulative Habilitation (cumulative version of the second thesis in the German-speaking systems). The thesis has been accepted by the Faculty of Languages and Letters of the Humboldt University Berlin (Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and the official process of habilitation (Habilitationsverfahren) is ongoing.
Information about the individual papers:
- Roland Schäfer (2018, to appear) Abstractions and exemplars: the measure noun phrase alternation in German. To appear in Cognitive Linguistics (COGL) 29(4).
- Roland Schäfer & Ulrike Sayatz (2016) Punctuation and Syntactic Structure in “obwohl” and “weil” Clauses in Nonstandard Written German. Written Language and Literacy (WLL) 19:2, 215–248.
- Roland Schäfer (2016, ahead of print) Prototype-driven Alternations: The Case of German Weak Nouns. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (CLLT).
- Roland Schäfer & Ulrike Sayatz (2014) Die Kurzformen des Indefinitartikels im Deutschen (Cliticization of the Indefinite Article in German). Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (ZS) 33(2).
Abstractions and exemplars: the measure noun phrase alternation in German (to appear)
The limits of predictability: sequences of oblique attributive adjectives in German
This publication is in the INCUBATOR section.
Roland Schäfer (in preparation). The limits of predictability: sequences of oblique attributive adjectives in German. To be submitted in Q3 or Q4 of 2018.
Full dataset and scripts on GitHub. (To be released after paper has been accepted.)
Statistical Modeling in Linguistics
This publication is in the INCUBATOR section.
Roland Schäfer (in preparation) Statistical Modeling in Linguistics. To be submitted in Q4/2018 to Language Science Press.
Generalised Linear Mixed Models (Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics)
Roland Schäfer. 2018 (expected). Generalised Linear Mixed Models. In: Stefan Gries & Magali Paquot. Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. De Gruyter. [Click to download draft.]
Click this to download older draft which I presonally find better: Roland Schäfer. 2018 (expected). Generalised Linear Mixed Models [older draft significantly changed after further reviewing]. In: Stefan Gries & Magali Paquot. Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. De Gruyter.
Wie viel Grammatik braucht das Germanistikstudium? (2017)
Roland Schäfer & Ulrike Sayatz (2017) Wie viel Grammatik braucht das Germanistikstudium? Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 45(2). [BibTeX]
Ulrike Sayatz and I hold the copyright to this paper since we refused to transfer our rights to DeGruyter. We simply did not sign the form. You can do the same!
Punctuation and Syntactic Structure in “obwohl” and “weil” Clauses in Nonstandard Written German (2016)
Induktive Topikmodellierung und extrinsische Topikdomänen (2017)
Introduction to the Grammar of German, 2nd edition (2016)
Roland Schäfer. 2016. Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen (Introduction to the Grammar of German), Zweite, überarbeitete Auflage. Language Science Press, Text Books in Language Science, No. 2. [BibTeX]
The book can be downloaded freely under an open access license (CC-BY). If you use the book, why not do me a favor and tweet it @codeslapper or send me a message? Or visit the book website grammatick.de.
Buy paperback at Amazon.de (Germany).
Prototype-driven Alternations: The Case of German Weak Nouns (2016 aop)
Proceedings of the 10th Web as Corpus Workshop and the EmpiriST shared task (2016)
Paul Cook, Stefan Evert, Roland Schäfer and Egon Stemle (eds) 2016. Proceedings of the 10th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-X). ACL: Stroudsburg. [BibTeX]
Automatic Classification by Topic Domain for Meta Data Generation, Web Corpus Evaluation, and Corpus Comparison (2016)
On Bias-free Crawling and Representative Web Corpora (2016)
Accurate and Efficient General-Purpose Boilerplate Detection for Crawled Web Corpora (2016)
CommonCOW: Massively Huge Web Corpora from CommonCrawl Data and a Method to Distribute them Freely under Restrictive EU Copyright Laws (2016)
Processing and Querying Large Web Corpora with the COW14 Architecture (2015)
Roland Schäfer. Processing and Querying Large Web Corpora with the COW14 Architecture. In Proceedings of Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC-3) (IDS publication server). 28–34. [BibTeX]
Die Kurzformen des Indefinitartikels im Deutschen (2014)
Roland Schäfer & Ulrike Sayatz (2014) Die Kurzformen des Indefinitartikels im Deutschen (Cliticization of the indefinite article in German). Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (ZS) 33(2). [BibTeX]
Focused Web Corpus Crawling (2014)
Proceedings of the 9th Web as Corpus Workshop (2014)
Felix Bildhauer & Roland Schäfer (eds) 2014. Proceedings of the 9th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-9). ACL: Stroudsburg. [BibTeX]
The Good, the Bad, and the Hazy: Design Decisions in Web Corpus Construction (2013)
Web Corpus Construction (2013)
Roland Schäfer & Felix Bildhauer (2013) Web Corpus Construction. Morgan and Claypool. [BibTeX]
Websites: Morgan & Claypool (official), Companion web site (additional information, errata, etc.)
Reviews: Serge Sharoff in Computational Linguistics 41(1) (2015), Mats Wirén in Nordic Journal of Linguistics 37, 03 (2014)
Scalable Construction of High-quality Web Corpora (2013)
Building Large Corpora from the Web Using a New Efficient Tool Chain (2012)
Roland Schäfer & Felix Bildhauer (2012) Building Large Corpora from the Web Using a New Efficient Tool Chain. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12). 486–493. [BibTeX]
Please cite this paper if you use the COW corpora up to version COW16.
Arguments and Adjuncts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface (2010)
Roland Schäfer (2010) Arguments and Adjuncts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Dissertation. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. [BibTeX]
On Frequency Adjectives (2007)
Ossetic (2006)
Michael Job & Roland Schäfer (2006) Ossetic. In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. 109–115. [BibTeX]