Roland Schafer

Roland Schafer studied General, Comparative, and Japanese Linguistics at Philipps University, Marburg. Between 2002 and 2007, he worked as a research assistant at Georg-August University, Gottingen, where he received a Ph.D. in English Linguistics in 2008 for a dissertation on formal aspects of the syntax-semantics interface. From 2007 to 2014, he worked as a post-doc researcher at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology of Freie Universitat Berlin. During that time, he worked on the...See more

Roland Schafer studied General, Comparative, and Japanese Linguistics at Philipps University, Marburg. Between 2002 and 2007, he worked as a research assistant at Georg-August University, Gottingen, where he received a Ph.D. in English Linguistics in 2008 for a dissertation on formal aspects of the syntax-semantics interface. From 2007 to 2014, he worked as a post-doc researcher at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology of Freie Universitat Berlin. During that time, he worked on the creation of very large corpora derived from web data as well as the morphosyntax and graphemics of German and other Germanic languages. From 2015 to 2017, he will lead the project "Linguistic Web-Characterization and Web Corpus Construction," funded by the German Research Council (DFG) at Freie Universitat Berlin. He has a broad teaching experience in German and English linguistics as well as theoretical and computational linguistics." See less