Dept. 4: Modern Languages

Institute of German Language and Literature

Research

WR-AI-TING

Creative writing with AI tools in school and museum contexts, sub-project on literature/writing didactics (BMBF)

More information • Prof. Dr. Carolin Führer • WR-AI-TING

Research Training Group "Task Quality in Digitally Supported Teaching" (AQUA-d)

More information • Prof. Dr. Carolin Führer

Hybrid edition of Martin Opitz's German-language works (DFG project)

More information • Prof. Dr. Jörg Robert

Religious Knowledge in Narrative Form

Edition and Commentary of Religious Verse and Prose Texts from the 13th to the 16th Century (Hybrid Edition)

More information • Prof. Dr. Klaus Ridder

Literary knowledge construction and collaborative learning with AI

Collaboration project with the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) as part of the 2025 research price of the Dr. K. H. Eberle Stiftung

More information • Prof. Dr. Carolin Führer • Prof. Dr. Ulrike Cress

Education and AI in the 21st century

Technology-supported innovations in subject-specific teaching settings, sub-project: Text competence

More information • Prof. Dr. Carolin Führer

Middle High German Semantics of Aesthetics

A digital lexicological information system

More information • Prof. Dr. Annette Gerok Reiter (CRC 1391 “Different Aesthetics”) • Prof. Dr. Manuel Braun (Stuttgart)

with the participation of: Dr. Marion Darilek • Dr. Uli Barton • Leslie Wentsch • Prof. Dr. Stefan Engelberg (Tübingen/Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim)

RiSC: Surprising Production

Developing probabilistic production models to enable the prediction of reading times based on readers' expectations in situated language comprehension

Prof. Dr. Britta Stolterfoht • Dr. Fabian Schlotterbeck

Teaching

Winter Term 2026/27

Lecturer	Title	SWS	Category
PD Dr. Christoph Kleinschmidt	Digital Literary Studies - Possibilities and Limitations Using the Example of Ludwig Tieck	2	AI tools, Discussion

Summer Term 2026

Lecturer	Title	SWS	Category
Dr. Frauke Buscher-Schiewe	Linguistic work with AI	2	Reflection on AI use
Dr. Sercan Sever	AI prompting workshop: AI for the classroom	2	AI/LLM

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Institute of English Languages and Literatures

Research

Annotating Literature

(Student Peer Learning Project and Research Project)

More information • Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer • Prof. Dr. Angelika Zirker

TDISF – Tübingen Database of Irish Science Fiction

Dr. Raphael Zähringer

Routes of Narration

Domestic travel in the Íslendingasögur

Dr. Cassidy Croci

The aesthetics of co-creativity in early modern English literature

More information • Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer • Ina Berner • Yves Herak • Prof. Dr. Angelika Zirker

REDACT - Researching Europe, Digitalisation and Conspiracy Theories

More information • Prof. Dr. Michael Butter et al.

Teaching

Winter Term 2026/27

Lecturer	Title	SWS	Category
Matthias Bauer, Carolin Führer	Aesthetics of Co-Creativity in Pre- and Postmodernity	2	AI/LLM tools
Prof. Dr. Angelika Zirker	How to Do Things with Jane Austen Fan Fiction: Canon – Characters – Digital Methods	2	DH tools
Dr. phil. Johanna Roering	Seminar: Blueprints & Dystopias: North American Science Fiction as Mirror, Map and Warning	2	DH/AI discussion
M.Ed. Denise Meier	Seminar: Feminism and AI: Techno Liberation in Sci-Fi Films (Post-Civil War)	2	DH/AI discussion

Summer Term 2026

Lecturer	Title	SWS	Category
Dr. Risto Lenz	Media Technologies and Pop-Cultural Figures from the 1970s to the Digital Age	2	Theorie zu DH, DH in Popkultur
Prof. Dr. phil. Matthias Bauer, apl. Prof. Dr. phil. Angelika Zirker	Workgroup: Annotating Literature	2	Digital edition, DH publication
Dr. phil. Johanna Roering	Tech Utopia and American Politics	2	DH theory
Prof. Dr. Uwe Küchler	TEFL IV: Exploring Media in the Classroom	2	Reflection on AI use

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Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures

Research

Travel to France and Italy

The correspondence of southern German noble and patrician families (17th and 18th centuries)

Hans Baumann

Recording regularities in the dramatic works of Pedro Calderón de la Barca using a computational approach

More information • Prof. Dr. Hanno Ehrlicher

Comptes rendus de débats parlementaires à l'Assemblée nationale de mai et juin 2019

in: ORTOLANG (Open Resources and TOols for LANGuage)

More information • Apl. Prof. Dr. Rembert Eufe • Dr. Fabian Schwabe (Master specialisation Digital Humanities)

Navigating 'Fin de Siècle' Iberian Cultural Fields

A Digital Humanities' Exploration of Madness Representations

Dr. Adriana Rodríguez-Alfonso

Decoding Global Digital Humanities

Mediations in Latin America's Digital Transformation (TRT Argentina 2025-2026)

More information • Dr. Adriana Rodríguez-Alfonso • Dr. Gimena del Río Riande (UBA, CONICET)

Digitisation and analysis of cultural transfers in Colombian literary journals (1892–1950) (DFG)

Prof. Dr. Hanno Ehrlicher

PaLaFra

From Latin to French: Building and analysing a digital corpus of Late Latin and Old French (DFG-ANR)

More information • Apl. Prof. Dr. Rembert Eufe

Corpus of debates on language legislation in the French National Assembly from 2014 to 2020

More information • Apl. Prof. Dr. Rembert Eufe • Dr. Fabian Schwabe (Master specialisation Digital Humanities) • Hans Baumann

Database from the Dictionnaire étymologique des créoles français d'Amérique

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Evelyn Wiesinger • Dr. Fabian Schwabe (Master specialisation Digital Humanities)

Teaching

Winter Term 2026/27

Lecturer	Title	SWS	Category
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alessia Cassarà	Les créoles français de la Caraïbe – perspectives historiques, linguistiques et sociolinguistiques	2	DH tools

Summer Term 2026

Lecturer	Title	SWS	Category
Apl. Prof. Dr. Rembert Eufe, Dr. Fabian Schwabe	Le français du 17ème au 19ème siècle entre l’Europe et les Caraïbes	2	Digitization, Digital edition

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Institute of Linguistics

General linguistics

Research

NorthEuraLex

Lexicostatistical Database of Northern Eurasia

More information • Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jäger

Database of South American Languages (DSAL)

More information • Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jäger

Understanding of, and Explanations with, Large Language Models

More information • Prof. Dr. Michael Franke • (VW-Momentum Funding, official begin October 2025)

Phylomilia

Phylogenetic Linguistic Inference from Acoustic Speech Data

More information • Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jäger

GloBasLex

Global Basic Lexicon

More information • Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jäger • Coordination: Dr. Johannes Dellert

TuLaR (Tupían Language Resources)

More information • Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jäger

Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modeling (SSP 2556)

Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology (LaSTing)

More information • Prof. Dr. Michael Franke

Teaching

Winter Term 2026/27

Lecture	Title	SWS	Category
Todd Snider, Ph.D.	Methods I – Programming and Data Analysis	2	Programming
Dr. Inna Stupak	Grammatical Number in Ukrainian: A Distributional Approach	2	AI theory
Prof. Dr. Harald Baayen	Linguistics for Cognitive Science	4	AI theory, Discussion

Summer Term 2026

Lecture	Title	SWS	Category
Prof. Dr. Michael Franke, Amir Pour	Understanding Language Models	4	DH theory, AI

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Theoretical Computational Linguistics

Research

ALEE

Adaptive Digital Learning in Economics Education

More information • Dr. Kordula De Kuthy

Excellence Mini Research Training Group “Machine Learning in Education”

Part of “Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science” Exzellenzclusters

More information • Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers with 10 Co-Pls

AI2Teach

Individual tutoring in an extended digital teaching-learning concept for foreign language classroom (AIM Foundation)

Mehr Informationen • Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers mit Co-Pls • Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trautwein • Prof. Dr. Benjamin Nagengast • Prof. Dr. Josef Schrader

Digital internal differentiation

Integration of linguistic and cognitive measures for adaptive support (DigBindiff) (Robert Bosch-Stiftung)

Detmar Meurers with Co-Pl • Prof. Dr. Caterina Gawrilow

SAW sub-project in “Competencies of school teachers and adult educators in teaching German as a second language in linguistically diverse class rooms (COLD)”

More information • Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers

Comparing Meaning in Context (CoMiC)

(Project A4 in CRC 833)

More information • Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers

LATILL

Level-Adequate Texts in Language Learning (EU)

Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers in collaboration with the Universities of Vienna, Salamanca, Charnivtsi and the ÖSD

Adaptive digital Learning in Economics Education (Joachim Herz Stiftung)

Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers with Co-Pls • Prof. Dr. Ulf Brefeld (Leuphana University) • Prof. Dr. Dirk Loerwald • Dr. Michael Koch (IÖB Oldenburg)

Interact4School

Individualized learning and the interfaces to school: Effective digital practicing as a basis for competence-oriented foreign language teaching (BMBF)

More information • Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers with Co-Pls • Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trautwein • Prof. Dr. Benjamin Nagengast • Prof. Dr. Torben Schmidt (Leuphana University)

KANSAS

Competence-adative, user-oriented search engine for authentic language learning materials (BMBF)

More information • Detmar Meurers

in collaboration with the German Institute for Adult Education and the Mercator Institute for Language Promotion and German as a Second Language, University of Cologne

Developing an interactive workbook for English foreign language teaching

Integrating state-of-the-art form and meaning assessment from computational linguistics into a current workbook (DFG, Project T1 in CRC 833)

More information • Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers

WoLKE – Where do AI methods offer solutions to challenges in teaching specific subjects?

Computer linguistics-based design and evaluation of curriculum-based courses for language and STEM teaching (MWK BW, PH Ludwigsburg, PH Schwäbisch Gmünd)

More information • Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers

Teaching

Winter Term 2026/27

Lecturer	Title	SWS	Category
Dr.-Ing. Besim Kabashi	Introduction to Computational Linguistics	2	Introductory course, Discussion
Jochen Saile	Data Structures and Algorithms for Computational Linguistics I	6	Programming, AI theory
Dr. Çağrı Çöltekin	Data Structures and Algorithms for Computational Linguistics III	8	Programming, AI theory
Dr. Çağrı Çöltekin	Statistical Methods for NLP I	4	AI theory
Prof. Dr. Kyle Richardson	Discrete Methods for Modern AI	2	AI theory
Jan-Felix Klumpp, M.A.	Language Model Interpretability	2	AI theory
Prof. Dr. Lea Frermann	NLP for Computational Social Science	4	LLM
Prof. Dr. Lea Frermann	Text as Data	2	LLM
Rong Wang, Ph.D.	Do Language Models Model Language or the Human Mind?	2	AI ethics, Discussion
Dr.-Ing. Besim Kabashi	Alignment in Generative AI: Technical and Ethical Issues	2	AI ethics, Discussion
Dr.-Ing. Besim Kabashi	Computing Emotions	4	AI theory
Prof. Dr. Lea Frermann, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Ritter	Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Narratives	2	AI ethics, Discussion
Prof. Dr. Lea Frermann	Advanced Seminar in Computational Linguistics	2	DH tools

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Former Research Training Unit 1808 "Ambiguity: Production and Reception"

Research

Tübingen Interdisciplinary Corpus of Ambiguity Phenomena (TInCAP)

More information • Asya Achimova, PhD

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Institute of German Language and Literature

Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures

Theoretical Computational Linguistics

Institute of English Languages and Literatures

Institute of Linguistics

Former RTG 1808 Ambiguity

Creative writing with AI tools in school and museum contexts, sub-project on literature/writing didactics (BMBF)

Edition and Commentary of Religious Verse and Prose Texts from the 13th to the 16th Century (Hybrid Edition)

Collaboration project with the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) as part of the 2025 research price of the Dr. K. H. Eberle Stiftung

Technology-supported innovations in subject-specific teaching settings, sub-project: Text competence

A digital lexicological information system

Developing probabilistic production models to enable the prediction of reading times based on readers' expectations in situated language comprehension

(Student Peer Learning Project and Research Project)

Domestic travel in the Íslendingasögur

The correspondence of southern German noble and patrician families (17th and 18th centuries)

in: ORTOLANG (Open Resources and TOols for LANGuage)

A Digital Humanities' Exploration of Madness Representations

Mediations in Latin America's Digital Transformation (TRT Argentina 2025-2026)

From Latin to French: Building and analysing a digital corpus of Late Latin and Old French (DFG-ANR)

Lexicostatistical Database of Northern Eurasia

Phylogenetic Linguistic Inference from Acoustic Speech Data

Global Basic Lexicon

Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology (LaSTing)

Adaptive Digital Learning in Economics Education

Part of “Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science” Exzellenzclusters

Individual tutoring in an extended digital teaching-learning concept for foreign language classroom (AIM Foundation)

Integration of linguistic and cognitive measures for adaptive support (DigBindiff) (Robert Bosch-Stiftung)

(Project A4 in CRC 833)

Level-Adequate Texts in Language Learning (EU)

Individualized learning and the interfaces to school: Effective digital practicing as a basis for competence-oriented foreign language teaching (BMBF)

Competence-adative, user-oriented search engine for authentic language learning materials (BMBF)

Integrating state-of-the-art form and meaning assessment from computational linguistics into a current workbook (DFG, Project T1 in CRC 833)

Computer linguistics-based design and evaluation of curriculum-based courses for language and STEM teaching (MWK BW, PH Ludwigsburg, PH Schwäbisch Gmünd)