Prof. Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb

Welcome! I'm an Assistant Professor (Privatdozentin/Akademische Rätin) at Saarland University working in the Department of Language Science and Technology.
My research interests lie in text mining and data analytics for research questions from sociolinguistics, register/language variation as well as change in language use. I’m particularly interested in variation of language use considering linguistic as well as other possible variables that might be at play by using probabilistic models.

For more information about my research, have a look at my personal website!

@Students: Infos about courses I teach, course material, and supervision of BA/MA theses can be found below!

I’m a Principal Investigator with Elke Teich in the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1102) Information Density and Linguistic Encoding for Project B1 on Information Density in Englisch Scientific Writing: A Diachronic Perspective, where we investigate register formation and linguistic densification in the evolution of scientific writing in English (17th century to present).

I’ve recently received funding (April 2023 – March 2024) from the Data-Pin project „Innovative use of AI in education“ for a project on „Overcoming the computational hurdle and exploiting opportunities for humanities students in linguistic research for the Digital Humanities (DH) with Chat-GPT“.

Soon I’ll also advertise two PhD positions within a EU Horizon MSCA on Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE).