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Prof. Dr. Erhard Hinrichs

Research Projects

Current

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "CLARIN - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure". Award by the European Commission. 2008-2020.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "CLARIAH-DE: Ein gemeinsames Angebot von CLARIN-D und DARIAH-DE". Project award by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). 2019-2021.
  • National Scientific Coordinator and Head of the German Section of the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Federation: "CLARIN-D: A Web and Centre-based Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities". Project award by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). 2011-2020.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Transatlantic Collaboration between LAPPS and CLARIN: Semantic, Technical and Infrastructural Interoperability of Services. Phase II". Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. 2019-2021.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "MoKo - Modellierung lexikalisch-semantischer Beziehungen von Kollokationen" (MoKo). Project award by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 2018-2021.
  • Principal Investigator of
    Research Grant "Corpus-Based Semantic Composition Models for Phrases" and of
    Research Grant "Heterogeneous Research Data of the SFB 833: Representation and Processing".
    Project awards by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in the Collaborative Research Center "Emergenz von Bedeutung" (Sonderforschungsbereich 833: Emergence of Meaning). 2009-2022.

2018

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "European Data Infrastructure" (EUDAT). Co-funded by the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7 and Framework Programme Horizon2020. 2014-2018.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "ViCE - Virtual Open Science Collaboration Environment" (ViCE). Research Award by the Ministry of Science and Research (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst) Baden-Württemberg. 2016-2018.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Transatlantic Collaboration between LAPPS and CLARIN: Semantic, Technical and Infrastructural Interoperability of Services". Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. 2016-2018.

2017

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "CLARIN-PLUS" - Strengthening the CLARIN Infrastructure. Funded by the European Commission’s Framework Programme Horizon2020. 2015-2017.

2016

  • National Scientific Coordinator and Head of the German Section of the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Federation: "CLARIN-D: A Web and Centre-based Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities". Project award by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). 2011-2016.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Nachhaltigkeit linguistischer Daten" (NaLiDa: Sustainability of Linguistic Data). Project award by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 2010-2016.

2015

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Semantic Information Retrieval" (SIR-III). Project award by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 2011-2015.

2014

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "European Data Infrastructure" (EUDAT). Co-funded by the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7. 2011-2014.
  • Principal Investigator in the EU Marie-Curie Early Training Network: "Common Language Resources and their Applications" (CLARA). 2010-2014.

2013

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Semantic Information Retrieval" (SIR-I, SIR-II and SIR-III). Project award by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 2005-2013.

2011

  • Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Deutsche Sprachressourcen-Infrastruktur" (D-SPIN). Project award by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). 2008-2011.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Entwicklung einer prototypischen eScience-Forschungsumgebung an der Universität Tübingen - BW-eSci(T)". Research Award by the Ministry of Science and Research (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst) Baden-Württemberg. 2009-2011.

2010

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "BulDialects - Measuring linguistic unity and diversity in Europe", in cooperation with the Alfa-Informatica at the Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, The Netherlands and the Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria. Project award by the Volkswagen Stiftung. 2006 – 2010.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Language Technology for Lifelong Learning" (LTfLL). Award by the European Commission. 2008-2010.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Semantic Information Retrieval" (SIR-II. Project award by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 2008-2010.

2008

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Sustainability of Linguistic Data". Project award by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in the Collaborative Research Center "Linguistic Data Structures" (Sonderforschungsbereich 441: "Linguistische Datenstrukturen"). 2005-2008.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Semantic Information Retrieval" (SIR-I. Project award by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 2006-2008.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Repräsentation und Erschließung linguistischer Daten" and of Research Grant "Linguistische Datenstrukturen: sprachübergreifende Annotationen und Datenklassen". Project awards by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in the Collaborative Research Center "Linguistic Data Structures" (Sonderforschungsbereich 441: "Linguistische Datenstrukturen"). 1999-2008.

2007

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Language Technology for eLearning" (LT4eL). Award by the European Commission. 2005-2007.

2005

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Kompetenzzentrum für Text- und Informationstechnologie" (KCL). Research Center Award (Forschungsschwerpunkt) by the Ministry of Science and Research (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst) Baden-Württemberg. 2000-2005.
  • Research Grant "Romanian Computational Linguistics Summer School". Award by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). 2005.

2003

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "International Studies in Computational Linguistics". Award by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). 2002-2003.
  • Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Medien-intensive Lehre in der Computerlinguistik-Ausbildung" (MiLCA). Project award by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). 2001-2003.

2001

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Deutsches Referenzkorpusprojekt" (DeReKo). Research Center Award (Forschungsschwerpunkt) by the Ministry of Science and Research (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst) Baden-Württemberg. 1999-2001.
  • Principal Investigator of ARC Exchange Program with the University of Essex, Colchester, UK. Award by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). 1999-2001.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "GermaNet". Research Center Award (Forschungsschwerpunkt) by the Ministry of Science and Research (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst) Baden-Württemberg. 1999-2001.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Applied Computational Linguistics" as part of the Research Center Virtugrade awarded to the University of Tübingen in the teaching and research program Virtuelle Hochschulen by the Ministry of Science and Research (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst) Baden-Württemberg. 1999-2001.

2000

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Development of an HPSG Syntaxfragment for German". Project award by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in the Research Center "Linguistic Foundations of Computational Linguistics" (Sonderforschungsbereich 340: "Linguistische Grundlagen für die Computerlinguistik"). 1998-2000.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "VERBMOBIL-II". Project award by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to a consortium of 25 partners, including the University of Tübingen for the development of a speech-to-speech machine translation system between German and Japanese. 1997-2000.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Tübingen-Sofia International Graduate Program in Computational Linguistics and Represented Knowledge" (CLaRK). Project award by the Gemeinsame Wege nach Europa Program of the Volkswagen Stiftung, awarded to the University of Tübingen for basic research and training in Computational Linguistics. 1998-2000.
  • Principal Investigator of PROCOPE Exchange Program with the University of the Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France. Award by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). 1999-2000.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Learning Computational Grammar". Project award by the Training and Mobility of Researchers Program of the European Commission to a project consortium (coordinated by the University of Groningen), including the University of Tübingen as German partner, for basic research and training in Computational Linguistics. 1998-2000.

1999

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "EuroWordNet-II". Project award by the Telematics Program of the European Commission to a project consortium (coordinated by the University of Amsterdam), including the University of Tübingen as German partner, for the development of multilingual on-line thesauri. 1998-1999.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "STEEL". Project award by the Kopernikus Program of the European Commission to the XEROX Corp., Lexis Corporation, University of Lyon, University of Prague and the University of Tübingen for the development of a terminological on-line help facility for machine translation applications. 1997-1999.

1998

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Semantisch-lexikalische Desambiguierung". Research Center Award (Forschungsschwerpunkt) by the Ministry of Science and Research (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst) Baden-Württemberg. 1996-1998.

1997

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Development of an HPSG Syntaxfragment for German". Project award by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in the Research Center "Linguistic Foundations of Computational Linguistics" (Sonderforschungsbereich 340: "Linguistische Grundlagen für die Computerlinguistik"). 1995-1997.
  • Co-Principal Investigator of Research Grant "From Constraints to Rules: Efficient Compilation of HPSG Grammars". Project award by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in the Research Center "Linguistic Foundations of Computational Linguistics" (Sonderforschungsbereich 340: "Linguistische Grundlagen für die Computerlinguistik"). 1995-1997.

1996

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "VERBMOBIL". Project award by the German Ministry of Science and Technology (BMfT) to a consortium of 32 partners, including the University of Tübingen for the development of a speech-to-speech machine translation system between German and Japanese. 1993-1996.

1995

  • Scientific Director of the Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Graduiertenkolleg) "Integriertes Linguistik-Studium" awarded to the University of Tübingen by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 1992-1995.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "COMPASS". Project award by the Linguistic Research Engineering Program of the European Commission to the XEROX Corp., Oxford University Press, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Stuttgart, University of Lyon and the University of Tübingen for the development of a terminological on-line help facility for machine translation appplications. 1993-1995.

1994

  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "DYANA-II". Project award by the ESPRIT Program of the European Commission to the Universities of Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Munich, Stuttgart, Tübingen and Utrecht for investigations in the computational modelling of dynamic aspects of natural language semantics. 1992-1994.
  • Co-Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Constraints on Grammar for Efficient Generation". Project award by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in the Research Center "Linguistic Foundations of Computational Linguistics" (Sonderforschungsbereich 340: "Linguistische Grundlagen für die Computerlinguistik"). 1992-1994.
  • Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Corpus-Aided Development of Lexical Knowledge Bases" (ELWIS). Research Center Award (Forschungsschwerpunkt) by the by the Ministry of Science and Research (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst) Baden-Württemberg. 1992-1994.

1991

  • Co-Principal Investigator of Research Grant "Automated Language Generation for Navigational Advice Systems". Award by the Corporate Research and Development Center of Motorola Corporation, Schaumburg, Illinois. Fall 1989-Summer 1991.

1990

  • Co-Investigator of Research Grant "Information Transfer in the Context of an Interdisciplinary Institute". Principal Investigators: Theodor Brown, Director of the Beckman Institute, and Leigh Estabrook, Dean of the School of Library Science. Award by the Research Board, University of Illinois. Spring 1989-Spring 1990.

1989

  • Research Grant "Generalized Unification for Attribute-Value Grammars". Award by the Research Board, University of Illinois. Spring Semester 1989.

1988

  • Research Grant "Toward a Model of Temporal Structures in Discourse". Award by the Research Board, University of Illinois. Fall Semester 1987 - Fall Semester 1988.