Dr. Tanja Wissik

Telephone
(+43 1) 51581 – 2206

E-Mail
tanja.wissik(at)oeaw.ac.at

… graduated from the University of Graz in translation and interpretation studies. She holds a PhD from the University of Vienna in translation studies with a specialization in the field of terminology and corpus linguistics. She has been working in numerous national and international research projects first as a junior researcher at the Institute for Specialized Communication and Multilingualism of the European Academy Bolzano, and then as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna.

She joined the ACDH in 2015, where she currently works as a senior scientist leading the team ERICs (European Research Infrastructure Consortia) & Education within the research unit DH Research & Infrastructure. There she was leading several projects (e.g. DYLENELEXISDYSEN). She initiated the creation of the ParlAT corpus and she is involved in the current ParlaMint project. At the moment, she is involved in the European research infrastructures CLARIN-ERICDARIAH-EU, and their Austrian counterpart CLARIAH-AT.

Since 2024 she is National Coordinator for Austria in CLARIN, and Deputy National Coordinator for Austria in DARIAH.

Furthermore, she is part of the Joint Research Committee in DARIAH.

Moreover, she is active in the Austrian Standards Committee 033 "Terminology, information and documentation" and in ISO TC/37.

Since 2019 she is one of the editors of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative.

Furthermore, she has over 15 years of teaching experience in different institutions, at various levels (BA, MA, PhD, Training Schools) and currently she is teaching DH tools and methods at the University of Vienna. At the ACDH she is responsible for the Tool Galleries.

Her research interests include digital language resources and technologies, especially terminological resources and corpora and the encoding of parliamentary data. Further research interests are terminological research, workflow research, standards, translation studies and the teaching of DH technologies and methods.

 

Academic Awards / Grants

 

Publications

  • Impact of automatic term extraction on terminology work. / Wissik, Tanja.
    in: Terminology, Jahrgang 31, Nr. 1, 23.05.2025, S. 110-135.
  • AI in Higher Education: A CLARIN Community Survey. / der Lek, Van; Woldrich, Anna; Wissik, Tanja.
    in: Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, Jahrgang 7, Nr. 2, 03.03.2025, S. 1-11.
  • Multilingual comparable corpora of parliamentary debates ParlaMint 5.0

    Erjavec, T., Kopp, M., Kuzman Pungeršek, T., Ljubesic, N., Ogrodniczuk, M., Osenova, P., Agirrezabal, M., Agnoloni, T., Aires, J., Albini, M., Alkorta, J., Antiba-Cartazo, I., Arrieta, E., Barcala , M., Bardanca, D., Barkarson, S., Bartolini, R., Bel, N., Bonet Ramos, M. D. M., Perez, M. C., Cardoso, A., Çöltekin, Ç., Coole, M., Dargis, R., de Libano, R., Depoorter, G., Diwersy, S., Dodé, R., Fernandez, K., Fernández Rei, E., Frontini, F., Garcia, M., García Díaz, N., García Louzao, P., Gavriilidou, M., Gkoumas, D., Grigorov, I., Grigorova, V., Haltrup Hansen, D., Iruskieta, M., Jarlbrink, J., Jelencsik-Mátyus, K., Jongejan, B., Kahusk, N., Kirnbauer, M., Kryvenko, A., Ligeti-Nagy, N., Luxardo, G., Magarinos, C., Magnusson, M., Marchetti, C., Maarten, M., Meden, K., Mendes, A., Mochtak, M., Mölder, M., Montemagni, S., Navarretta, C., Nitoń, B., Norén, F. M., Nwadukwe, A., Ojsteršek, M., Pančur, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pereira, R., Pérez Lago, M., Piperidis, S., Pirker, H., Pisani, M., Pol, H. V. D., Prokopidis, P., Quochi, V., Rayson, P., Regueira, X. L., Rii, A., Rudolf, M., Ruisi, M., Rupnik, P., Schopper, D., Simov, K., Sinikallio, L., Skubic, J., Tungland, L. M., Tuominen, J., van Heusden, R., Varga, Z., Vázquez Abuín, M., Venturi, G., Vidal Miguéns, A., Vider, K., Vivel Couso, A., Vladu, A. I., Wissik, T., Yrjanainen, V., Zevallos, R. & Fišer, D., CLARIN-ERIC, 2025

  • CLARIAH-AT: Back (and) to the Future. / Wissik, Tanja; Scholger, Walter; Klenke, Kerstin et al.
    Clarin Annual Conference Proceedings 2025. 2025. S. 63-67.
  • An infrastructural approach to terminology. / Wissik, Tanja.
    Selected papers of the Clarin Annual Conference 2024. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, 2025. S. 1-12.
  • The use of translation technologies and generative artificial intelligence by terminology professionals in institutional settings: an exploratory study. / Wissik, Tanja.
    in: Revista Tradumatica, 2025.
  • ParlaMint II: advancing comparable parliamentary corpora across Europe. / Erjavec, Tomaz; Kopp, Matyas; Ljubesic, Nikola et al.
    in: Language Resources and Evaluation, Jahrgang Dezember 2024, 28.12.2024, S. 1-32.
  • Dimensions of sustainability in terminology practice in institutional settings. / Wissik, Tanja.
    in: Terminology Science & Research (TRS), Jahrgang 28, 11.12.2024, S. 93-116.
  • “Hier in diesem Hause sitzen keine Idioten!” - Emotion and Concreteness in Austrian Parliamentary Discourse. / Hofmann, Klaus; Wissik, Tanja; Conference, Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual (Serienherausgeber:in).
    N/A. 2024.
  • Terminologiearbeit für das Gerichtsdolmetschen: eine Umfrage unter österreichischen Gerichtsdolmetscher*inne. / Wissik, Tanja; Lušicky, Vesna; Chiocchetti, Elena.
    in: Fachsprache, Jahrgang 46, Nr. 1-2, 19.04.2024, S. 20-39.
  • Terminology standards and their relevance for legal interpreters and translators Results of an exploratory study in Austria and Italy. / Chiocchetti, Elena; Lušicky, Vesna; Wissik, Tanja.
    in: Digital Translation: International Journal of Translation and Localization, Jahrgang 10, Nr. 2, 15.12.2023, S. 156 - 179.
  • Multilingual legal terminology databases Workflows and roles. / Chiocchetti, Elena; Lušicky, Vesna; Wissik, Tanja et al.
    Handbook of Terminology. Vol. 3. Legal Terminology. Amsterdam: Unknown Publisher, 2023. S. 458-484.
  • Semantic micro-dynamics as a reflex of occurrence frequency: a semantic networks approach. / Baumann, Andreas; Hofmann, Klaus; Marakasova, Anna et al.
    in: Cognitive Linguistics, Jahrgang 34, Nr. 3-4, 19.10.2023, S. 533-568.
  • Chapter 5: Legal lexicography. / Aodha, Mac; Wissik, Tanja; Wagner, Anne (Herausgeber:in) et al.
    Research Handbook on Jurilinguistics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.
  • Emotion and Abstractness in Austrian Parliamentary Discourse. / Wissik, Tanja; Hofmann, Klaus; Lindén, Krister (Herausgeber:in) et al.
    CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings 2023. 2023.
  • Research Infrastructures and Lexicography: An European Perspective. / Wissik, Tanja; Sciences, Mongolian Academy of (Herausgeber:in).
    Mongolian Terminology. Ulaanbaatar, 2022.
  • The DH Course Registry: A Piece of the Puzzle in CLARIN's Technical and Knowledge Infrastructure. / Wissik, Tanja; Wessel, Leon; Fischer, Frank et al.
    CLARIN The Infrastructure for Language Resources. de Gruyter, 2022.
  • Encoding interruptions in parliamentary data: from applause to interjections and laughter. / Wissik, Tanja; Hannesschläger, Vanessa.
    in: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Jahrgang Issue 14, 30.06.2022, S. k.A.
  • The ALPIN Sentiment Dictionary: Austrian Language Polarity in Newspapers. / Kolb, Thomas; Katharina, Sekanina; Kern, Bettina M et al.
    Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022). 2022. S. 4708--4716.
  • Visualizing Parliamentary Speeches as Networks: The DYLEN Tool. / Yim, Seun-bin; Wünsche, Katharina; Cetin, Asil et al.
    Proceedings of the Proceedings of the LREC 2022 ParlaCLARIN III Workshop on Creating, Enriching and Using Parliamentary Corpora. 2022.
  • The role of interjections in Austrian parliamentary debates. / Hofmann, Klaus; Wissik, Tanja.
    Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis (CPSS-2021). Düsseldorf, 2021.
  • Lexical convergence and divergence in Austrian parliamentary debates: a network-based approach. / Marakasova, Anna; Hofmann, Klaus; Baumann, Andreas et al.
    Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis (CPSS-2021). Düsseldorf, 2021.
  • A Review and Cluster Analysis of German Polarity Resources for Sentiment Analysis. / Kern, Bettina M; Baumann, Andreas; Kolb, Thomas E et al.
    3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge. LDK 2021, September 1-3, 2021, Zaragoza, Spain. Band 93 Dagstuhl: Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. S. 37:1-37:17 (OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)).
  • Exploring Causal Relationships Among Emotional and Topical Trajectories in Political Text Data. / Baumann, Andreas; Hofmann, Klaus; Kern, Bettina et al.
    3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge. LDK 2021, September 1-3, 2021, Zaragoza, Spain. Band 93 Dagstuhl: Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. S. 38:1-38:8 (OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)).
  • Komparative Zeitreihenanalyse der lexikalischen Stabilität und Emotion in österreichischen Korpusdaten. / Kern, Bettina M; Hofmann, Klaus; Baumann, Andreas et al.
    Digital Lexis and Beyond. Selected Papers from the Workshop „Digital Lexis, and Beyond”. 45th Austrian Linguistics Conference Dec. 2019. 2021. S. 104-118.
  • Stimulating Knowledge Exchange via Trans-National Access – the ELEXIS Travel Grants as a Lexico-graphical Use Case. / Olsen, Sussi; Pedersen, Bolette S; Wissik, Tanja et al.
    Proceedings CLARIN Annual Conference 2020. 2020. S. 77-81.
  • Formal Representation of Linguistic Restrictions expressed in Terminologies. / Declerck, Thierry; Racioppa, Stefania; Wissik, Tanja.
    Actes de la conférence TOTh 2020. Université Savoie Mont Blanc 26 & 27 novembre 2020. Chambéry: Presses Universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc, 2020. S. 251-266 (Terminologie & Ontologie: Théories et Applications).
  • ELEXIS: Technical and social infrastructure for lexicography. / Woldrich, Anna; Goli, Teja; Kosem, Iztok et al.
    in: K Lexical News, Jahrgang 28 (July 2020), 15.07.2020, S. 45-53.
  • Automated Formalisation of unstructured Terminologies. / Declerck, Thierry; Wissik, Tanja.
    Actes de la conférence TOTh 2020. Université Savoie Mont Blanc 26 & 27 novembre 2020. Chambéry: Presses Universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc, 2020. S. 217-232 (Terminologie & Ontologie: Théories et Applications).
  • Using an Infrastructure for Lexicography in the Field of Terminology. / Wissik, Tanja; Declerck, Thierry.
    Actes de la conférence TOTh 2019. Le Bourget du Lac – 6 & 7 juin 2019. Chambéry: Presses Universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc, 2020. S. 365-379 (Terminologie & Ontologie: Théories et Applications).
  • Editorial Introduction to Issue 11 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. / Resch, Claudia; Wissik, Tanja; Hannesschläger, Vanessa.
    in: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Jahrgang Issue 11, 25.06.2020, S. k.A.
  • Teaching Digital Humanities Around the World:An Infrastructural Approach to a Community-Driven DH Course Registry. / Wissik, Tanja; Edmond, Jennifer; Fischer, Frank et al.
    in: Library Tribune, Jahrgang 40, Nr. 6, 24.06.2020, S. 1-27.
  • Comparing Lexical Usage in Political Discourse across Diachronic Corpora. / Hofmann, Klaus; Marakasova, Anna; Baumann, Andreas et al.
    LREC2020. 2020. S. 58-65 (Proceedings of the Workshop Creating, Using and Linking of Parliamentary Corpora with Other Types of Political Discourse ( ParlaCLARIN II) at LREC 2020).
  • A Multilingual Evaluation Dataset for Monolingual Word Sense Alignment. / Ahmadi, Sina; McCrae, John; Nimb, Sinna et al.
    N/A. 2020. S. 3232-3242 (Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (ELREC 2020)).
  • Language resources in repositories and catalogues: Pilot study on their potential for LSP teaching and training. / Lušicky, Vesna; Wissik, Tanja; Simonnæs, Ingrid (Herausgeber:in) et al.
    New Challenges for Research on Language for Special Purposes Selected Proceedings from the 21st LSP-Conference 28–30 June 2017 Bergen, Norway. Frank & Timme, 2019. S. 327-342 (Forum für Fachsprachen-Forschung).
  • DYLEN: Diachronic Dynamics of Lexical Networks. / Baumann, Andreas; Neidhardt, Julia; Wissik, Tanja et al.
    Proceedings of the Poster Session of the 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK-PS 2019). Leipzig, Germany, May 21, 2019. Band 2402 2019. S. 24-28 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).
  • Issue 11 | June 2019 - (Open issue) Selected Papers from the 2016 TEI Conference. / Resch, Claudia (Herausgeber:in); Wissik, Tanja (Herausgeber:in); Hannesschläger, Vanessa (Herausgeber:in).
    2019. (Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative).
  • Encoding Crime and Punishment in TEI: The Digital Processing of Early Modern Broadsheets from Vienna. / Resch, Claudia; Schopper, Daniel; Wissik, Tanja et al.
    in: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Nr. 11, 25.06.2019, S. k.A.
  • Rechtssprachliche Aspekte in historischen Flugblättern des 18. Jahrhunderts. / Wissik, Tanja; Resch, Claudia.
    in: Fachsprache, Jahrgang 41, Nr. 1-2, 15.04.2019, S. 41-60.
  • European Lexicographic Infrastructure (ELEXIS). / Krek, Simon; McCrae, John; Kosem, Iztok et al.
    Proceedings of the XVIII EURALEX International Congress Lexicography in Global Contexts. 2018.
  • Digitale Sprachressourcen in Österreich. / Mörth, Karlheinz; Wissik, Tanja; Lobin, Henning (Herausgeber:in) et al.
    Digitale Infrastrukturen für die germanistische Forschung. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018. S. 73-88 (Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft um 2020).
  • ELEXIS: Yet Another Research Infrastructure. Or Why We Need An Special Infrastructure For E-Lexicography In The Digital Humanities. / Wissik, Tanja; Zaytseva, Ksenia; Declerck, Thierry.
    DH2019. 2018.
  • ELEXIS – European Lexicographic Infrastructure: Contributions to and from the Linguistic Linked Open Data. / Declerck, Thierry; McCrae, John; Navigli, Roberto et al.
    Proceedings of the LREC 201 8 Workshop Globalex 2018: Lexicography & WordNets. Miyazaki, 2018. S. 17-22.
  • ParlAT beta Corpus of Austrian Parliamentary Records. / Wissik, Tanja; Pirker, Hannes; Fišer, Darja (Herausgeber:in) et al.
    LREC2018 Workshop ParlaCLARIN: Creating and Using Parliamentary Corpora In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC2018. Miyazaki: European Language Resources Association, 2018.
  • Kollaborative und kooperative Terminologiearbeit im Bereich Recht. Die Funktion der Rechtsfachleute. / Chiocchetti, Elena; Wissik, Tanja.
    in: Paralleles, Nr. 30/1, 22.04.2018, S. 137-153.
  • ELEXIS – Eine europäische Forschungsinfrastruktur für lexikographische Daten. / Wissik, Tanja; Krek, Simon; Jakubicek, Milos et al.
    DHd 2018 Kritik der Digitalen Vernunft. 2018.
  • MeuchelmörderInnen, KindsmörderInnen, DiebInnen und die dazugehörigen Tatbestände: Erstellung eines Thesaurus für das österreichische Strafrecht des 18. Jahrhunderts zur Erschließung einer Flugblattsammlung. / Wissik, Tanja; Resch, Claudia.
    DHd 2018 Kritik der digitalen Vernunft. 2018.
  • Creating a historical thesaurus for Austrian criminal law of the 18th century. / Wissik, Tanja; Resch, Claudia; Schopper, Daniel et al.
    21st Conference on Language for Specific Purposes 2017. Interdisciplinary knowlege-making: Challanges for LSP Research. 28-30 June. Book of Abstracts. Bergen: NHH, 2017.
  • Language resources in repositories and catalogues: Pilot study on the potential for LSP teaching and training. / Lušicky, Vesna; Wissik, Tanja; Andersen, Gisle (Herausgeber:in) et al.
    21st Conference on Language for Specific Purposes 2017. Interdisciplinary knowlege-making: Challanges for LSP Research. 28-30 June. Book of Abstracts. Bergen: NHH, 2017.
  • Optimisation of translation workflow with integrated translation-oriented terminology workflow: A case study in the administrative and legal domain. / Wissik, Tanja; Lušicky, Vesna; Andersen, Gisle (Herausgeber:in) et al.
    21st Conference on Language for Specific Purposes 2017. Interdisciplinary knowlege-making: Challanges for LSP Research. 28-30 June. Book of Abstracts. Bergen: NHH, 2017.
  • Discovering Resources in the VLO: A Pilot Study with Students of Translation Studies. / Lušicky, Vesna; Wissik, Tanja; Borin, Lars (Herausgeber:in).
    Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2016, Aix-en-Provence, 26–28 October 2016, CLARIN Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure. Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet, 2017. S. 63-75.
  • Researcher Hands-On Training in the Digital Humanities: The ACDH Tool Gallery as an Austrian Case Study. / Wissik, Tanja; Resch, Claudia; Borin, Lars (Herausgeber:in).
    Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2016, Aix-en-Provence, 26–28 October 2016, CLARIN Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure. Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet, 2017. S. 131-138.
  • Quality assurance in multilingual legal terminological databases. / Chiocchetti, Elena; Wissik, Tanja; Lušicky, Vesna et al.
    in: Journal of Specialised Translation, Nr. 27, 18.01.2017, S. 164-188.
  • Researcher Hands-On Training in the Digital Humanities: An Austrian Case Study. / Wissik, Tanja; Resch, Claudia.
    Proceedings CLARIN Annual Conference 2016. 2016. S. 711-713.
  • Discovering Resources in the VLO: and Suggestions from a Pilot Study with Students of Translation Studies. / Lusicky, Vesna; Wissik, Tanja.
    CLARIN Annual Conference 2016. 2016.
  • TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting 2016. Book of Abstracts. / Resch, Claudia (Herausgeber:in); Hannesschläger, Vanessa (Herausgeber:in); Wissik, Tanja (Herausgeber:in).
    Vienna, 2016.
  • Digitale Tools und Methoden für die geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung praxisnah erklärt: Ein neues Format im Test. / Wissik, Tanja; Resch, Claudia; Eder, Mieciej (Herausgeber:in) et al.
    Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts. Kraków, 2016.
  • Research Data Workflows: From Research Data Lifecycle Models to Institutional Solutions. / Wissik, Tanja; Ďurčo, Matej; Smedt, De (Herausgeber:in).
    Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2015, October 14–16, 2015, Wroclaw, Poland. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2016. S. 94-107.
  • D13 Technical Report on Project Portal Development - dariahTeach (DARIAH-RC) Deliverable. / Ďurčo, Matej; Wissik, Tanja.
    2016.
  • #dariahTeach: online teaching, MOOCs and beyond. / Schreibman, Susan; Benardou, Agiatis; Clivaz, Claire et al.
    Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts. 2016.
  • Research Data Workflows: From Research Data Lifecycle Models to Institutional Solutions. / Wissik, Tanja; Ďurčo, Matej.
    CLARIN 2015. Wroclaw, 2015.
  • Research Data Workflows: From Research Data Lifecycle Models to Institutional Solutions. / Wissik, Tanja; Ďurčo, Matej.
    N/A. 2015.
  • Terminologische Variation in der Rechts- und Verwaltungssprache. / Wissik, Tanja; Müller, Stephan (Serienherausgeber:in).
    N/A. Wien, 2015. S. 13-16 (Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Germanistik 2013 - Serielle Formen).
  • The codification situation of terminological variation within pluricentric languages. / Wissik, Tanja; Muhr, Rudolf (Herausgeber:in); Dawn, Marley (Herausgeber:in).
    Österreichisches Deutsch Sprache der Gegenwart, Pluricentric Languages: New Perspectives in Theory and Description. Wien: Peter Lang, 2015.
  • The role of the domain expert in legal administrative terminology work. / Chiocchetti, Elena; Ralli, Natascia; Wissik, Tanja et al.
    Language and Law in Social Practice. E-book of selected articles. Language and Law in Social Practice 3rd International Conference. Caserta, 2015. S. 249-267.
  • DH-AUSTRIA-STRATEGIE. Sieben Leitlinien für die Zukunft der digitalen Geisteswissenschaften in Österreich. / Alram, Michael; Benda, Christoph; Ďurčo, Matej et al.
    Wien. 2015.
  • dariahTeach - Freizugängliche Plattform für DH Lehrmaterialien. / Wissik, Tanja; Ďurčo, Matej.
    Dhd2016. 2016.