Andreas Witt

After graduating from Bielefeld University in 1996, Andreas Witt started at this university as a researcher and instructor in Text Technology. He was heavily involved in the establishment of the Magister and BA programmes in Text Technology at Bielefeld Universität in 1999 and 2002 respectively. After completing his Ph.D. in 2002 he became an assistant lecturer with the Text Technology group in Bielefeld. In 2006 he moved to Tübingen University, where he was involved in a project on “Sustainability of Linguistic Resources” and in projects on the interoperability of language data. Since 2009 he has been a senior researcher at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Institute for the German Language) in Mannheim. In 2014 he was appointed Honorary Professor in the field of Digital Humanities at Heidelberg University. 

Andreas is a member of numerous research organizations including the TEI Special Interest Group "TEI for Linguists". His major research interests deal with questions of the use and limitations of markup languages for the linguistic description of language data.  Andreas Witt is a member of the steering committee of the Leibniz Research Alliance "Science 2.0" and speaker of the Leibniz-ScienceCampus "Empirical Linguistics and Computational Language Modeling".