Interests
Professional Interests
Computational Linguistics and the World Wide Web
Text and Corpus Linguistics, Web Genres (Hypertextsorten), the Semantic Web, Ontologies and Knowledge Management, novel approaches to search engine technology, Text Classification, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Language Resources, Text Technology (i.e., XML, SGML, and related meta and markup languages as well as technologies), Web 2.0, Web as Corpus approach, Web Usability.
Digital Media
Hypertext, Digital Genres, Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), E-Learning.
Miscellaneous
Electronic Publishing, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), the Open Source paradigm, all aspects of modern Information Technology.
Other Interests
Travelling, film, music, British comedy, typography and typesetting, modern art, photography, running, skiing, hiking, writing, Berlin, Hamburg, London, New York, Zürich.
Monty Python
Some time around early 1994, I built up a page that dealt with Monty Python. As hits on this page increased on a daily basis, I decided to discontinue hosting it and handed it over to Paul Bonfanti who now is its proud new host. Fetch ... the comfy chair.