Dr.

Barbara Piringer

Telephone
(+43 1) 51581 – 7276

E-Mail
barbara.piringer(at)oeaw.ac.at

… has almost 30 years of experience in the digitisation and processing of dialect data. Before joining ACDH-CH, she worked as an author on the print edition of the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria (Wörterbuch der bairischen Mundarten in Österreich, WBÖ) and on associated digital projects. With her academic background in biology, she is particularly interested in dialectal animal and plant names. At ACDH-CH, she has been able to expand her skills through her work with other foreign language and dialect dictionaries and projects, focusing on text annotation, open innovation and citizen science. She is co-editor of two conference proceedings.

Since 2020, she has been part of the Central Office team at ACDH-CH, where she is responsible for various administrative tasks. In addition, she is also the institute's Data Protection Officer.


Publications

  • Geyer, Ingeborg, and Barbara Piringer, eds. 2021. Sprachinseln und Sprachinselforschung heute. Internationale Tagung vom 23. bis 24. November 2018 aus Anlass 45 Jahre Verein der Freunde der im Mittelalter von Österreich aus besiedelten Sprachinseln. Ingeborg Geyer. Vol. 25. Beiträge Zur Sprachinselforschung. Wien: Praesens Verlag.
  • Dorn, Amelie, Renato Rocha Souza, Barbara Piringer, and Eveline Wandl-Vogt. 2020. Uncertain Spaces, Uncertain Places – Dealing with Geographic Information in Digital Humanities: The Example of a Language Legacy Dataset. Adrijana Car, Griesebner, Gerald, and Vogler, Robert. Adrijana Jekel Car Thomas Strobl. GI_Forum. Journal for Geographic Information ScienceGI_Forum 2018, Volume 8, Issue 1 8. Gi_Forum. Journal For Geographic Information Science. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: 32-46. doi:10.1553/giscience2020_01_s32.
  • Rocha Souza, Renato, Amelie Dorn, Barbara Piringer, and Eveline Wandl-Vogt. 2020. Identification of Indigenous Knowledge Concepts through Semantic Networks, Spelling Tools and Word Embeddings. Nicoletta Calzolari, Béchet, Frédéric, Blache, Philippe, Choukri, Khalid, Cieri, Christopher, Declerck, Thierry, Goggi, Sara, et al. LREC 2020, Marseille. Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Conference Proceedings.
  • Dorn, Amelie, Barbara Piringer, Yalemisew Abgaz, Jose Luis Preza Diaz, and Eveline Wandl-Vogt. 2019. Enrichment of legacy language data: linking lexical concepts in data collection questionnaires on the example of exploreAT!. DH_Budapest_2019 [Abstract Booklet].
  • Rocha Souza, Renato, Amelie Dorn, Barbara Piringer, and Eveline Wandl-Vogt. 2019. Towards A Taxonomy of Uncertainties: Analysing Sources of Spatio-Temporal Uncertainty on the Example of Non-Standard German Corpora. Informatics 6: 34:1-34:29. doi:10.3390/informatics6030034.
  • Rocha Souza, Renato, Amelie Dorn, and Barbara Piringer. 2019. exploreAT! Concepts Processing (Version 1.0).