Category Archives: Publications
Probabilistic German Morphosyntax (book version)
This publication is in the INCUBATOR section.
Roland Schäfer (in preparation) Probabilistic German Morphosyntax. Book version of my cumulative habilitation thesis of the same name. To be submitted in 2020.
Probabilistic German Morphosyntax (Habilitationsschrift)
Probabilistic German Morphosyntax is a sequence of papers with a methodological introduction representing my kumulative Habilitation (cumulative version of the second thesis in the German-speaking systems). As a result, I obtained the venia legendi for German and General Linguistics from the Faculty of Language Sciences (Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 10 April 2019.
Download: Roland Schäfer (2018) Probabilistic German Morphosyntax. General introduction, overview, and wrap-up (Rahmentext der kumulativen Habilitationsschrift). Continue reading
Die germanistische Linguistik als Fachwissenschaft in der Lehramtsausbildung (Sayatz & Schäfer 2019)
Statistische Inferenz in der Linguistik
This publication is in the INCUBATOR section.
Roland Schäfer (in preparation) Statistische Inferenz in der Linguistik. To be submitted to Language Science Press when it’s done. English version planned to be written after the German version.
The Git repository is here (Roland Schäfer Statistical Inference in Linguistics Git repository), but there isn’t much going on at the moment. It’s still an empty document mostly.
Abstractions and exemplars: The measure noun phrase alternation in German (2018)
Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen, dritte Auflage (2018)
Roland Schäfer. 2018. Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen (Introduction to the Grammar of German), Dritte, überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Berlin: 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 it on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.de/dp/3961101183
Previous editions: second edition, first edition.
The plural interpretability of German linking elements (Schäfer & Pankratz 2018)
Roland Schäfer & Elizabeth Pankratz (2018) The plural interpretability of German linking elements. Morphology 28(4), 325–358. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-018-9331-5 (Click the title for online reading, click the DOI for official bibliographic information.) [BibTeX]
- https://github.com/rsling/linkingelements/blob/master/Paper/lemorphology.pdf
- Data set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323211
- GitHub (use above DOI instead): https://github.com/rsling/linkingelements
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
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.)
Generalised Linear Mixed Models (Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics)
Roland Schäfer. 2018 (maybe). Generalised Linear Mixed Models. In: Stefan Gries & Magali Paquot. Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. De Gruyter. Read more for a link to a better version. Continue reading
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)
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]