Consultants

Liona Paulus

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Dr. Liona Paulus
(Accessibility Consultant)

University of Cologne
l.paulus@uni-koeln.de

Dr. Liona Paulus grew up bilingually with German Sign Language (DGS) and German. She obtained her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Göttingen with a sociolinguistic study on conditional clauses in DGS and Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). She is a state certified interpreter for DGS and German and currently teaches Deaf Studies, Translation Studies and Interpreting Practice as a research assistant at the University of Cologne. In addition, she provides trainings on linguistics for sign language lecturers and teachers and is part of the examination committee of the teachers’ academy in Darmstadt. Her research interests comprise e.g., the development of terminology in sign languages in the field of sciences, technology, engineering and math (STEM), the use of gestures by sign language interpreters and comparative sign language research. In the priority program ViCom, her task is to create an interface between the projects and the Deaf communities and to advise stakeholders on issues regarding accessibility and diversity.

Selected publications

  • Thomas Finkbeiner, Liona Paulus and Nina-Kristin Meister (in prep.): 100 Fragen und Antworten rund um die Deutsche Gebärdensprache (DGS). Hamburg: Buske.
  • Paulus, L. (2021). Der Konditionalsatz in Deutscher Gebärdensprache (DGS) und Brasilianischer Gebärdensprache (Libras) – Eine empirische soziolinguistische Studie. Veröffentlichte Doktorarbeit. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Verfügbar unter: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0008-58D1-9.
  • Paulus, L. (2020). Chapter 2. Socio-Historical Background. The sign language community. In: Proske, S., D. Nuhbalaoglu, A. Herrmann, J. Hosemann & M. Steinbach (eds.), A Grammar of German Sign Language (DGS). 25–30. SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammars, doi: http://doi.org/10.48406/texn-2f63.
  • Riegert, K., Döring, C.; Friedrich-Austermühle, S.; Pallaske, J.; Paulus, L. & Temming, T. (2019). Gebärdensprachdolmetschen. In: Gätjens, J., B. Luz & S. Osterberg (Hgg.). Handbuch Dolmetschen. Grundlagen und Praxis. 113–137. Berlin: BDÜ Fachverlag.

Marc Schulder

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Dr. Marc Schulder
(Open Data Consultant)

University of Hamburg
marc.schulder@uni-hamburg.de

Marc is a computational linguist working to further the open and ethical creation and use of language data, especially data for signed languages. After completing his PhD on the automatic creation of lexical resources for negation-causing content words in English and German, he joined the DGS-Korpus project, creators of the largest available discourse corpus of German Sign Language (DGS), in early 2019. As part of the project he investigates machine-assisted methods to support corpus linguistic research, possible implementations of open science principles and data standardisation for signed language data, and the creation of cross-lingual sign language resources. Marc is also co-creator of the Sign Language Dataset Compendium, a website collecting information on corpora and lexical resources for sign languages from around the globe, and of the workshop series archive sign-lang@LREC Anthology.

Selected publications

  • Marc Schulder and Thomas Hanke. 2022. How to be FAIR when you CARE: The DGS Corpus as a Case Study of Open Science Resources for Minority Languages. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), pages 164–173, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association. URL: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/2022.lrec-1.18.html
  • Maria Kopf, Marc Schulder, and Thomas Hanke. 2022. The Sign Language Dataset Compendium: Creating an Overview of Digital Linguistic Resources. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages(sign-lang@LREC 2022), pages 102–109, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association. URL: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/22025.html
  • Gabriele Langer and Marc Schulder. 2020. Collocations in Sign Language Lexicography: Towards Semantic Abstractions for Word Sense Discrimination. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2020), pages 127–134, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association. URL: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/20017.html
  • Thomas Hanke, Marc Schulder, Reiner Konrad, and Elena Jahn. 2020. Extending the Public DGS Corpus in Size and Depth. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages(sign-lang@LREC 2020), pages 75–82, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association. URL: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/20016.html
  • Marc Schulder, Michael Wiegand, and Josef Ruppenhofer. 2021. Automatic generation of lexica for sentiment polarity shifters. Natural Language Engineering, 27(2):153–179. URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S135132492000039X