Dr.

Karlheinz Mörth

Telephone
(+43 1) 51581 – 2220

E-Mail
karlheinz.moerth(at)oeaw.ac.at

Proceeding from a background in Near Eastern studies (with a focus on modern languages and applied linguistics), Karlheinz Mörth has been working at the interface between modern ICT and humanities studies throughout his academic life. He has conducted research in a wide range of text technological fields taking a special interest in eLexicography, text lexicography, methodologies for the build-up and maintenance of digital corpora, annotation research, and corpus-related encoding standards.

In recent years, he has developed a keen interest in digital infrastructures, digital infrastructure components, and their role in the humanities. He has grown involved in many activities of the European infrastructure consortia CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) and DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructures for the Arts and Humanities) where he has been active in a number of bodies. On the Austrian level, he has been coordinating (on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research) the Austrian CLARIN and DARIAH activities since January 2014. On the European level, he served as co-head of the DARIAH-EU Virtual Competency Centre I (e-Infrastructures) from 2011 until 2014. Until 2016 he was head of the DARIAH-EU National Coordinators Committee. Currently, he is co-head of CLARIN’s Standards Committee, member of the Conseil scientifique d'E-RIHS France and member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of CLARIAH-NL.

From early 2015 untill the end of 2019 he served as director of the new Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the foundation of which he had helped to prepare in the years before. Since 2020 he is research director and deputy director of the ACDH-CH.

Recent Presentations

Modelling Diatopic Variation in TEI. The Case of the VICAV Dictionaries. DGFS 2020, Hamburg, Dictionary Articles and Corpora – a Research Laboratory for Linguistic Diversity, 5.3.2020. Presentation (pptx)

The VICAV Dictionaries: Tools for Creating Lexical Data. DH Training Workshop: Digital Methods for Linguistic Investigation , Berlin 14.11.2019. Presentation (pptx)


Publications

  • Martina Trognitz,, Matej Ďurčo, and Karlheinz Mörth. 2022. Text Technology for the Digital Humanities. In CLARIN. The Infrastructure for Language Resources, eds. Darja Fišer and Andreas Witt. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110767377-009.
  • Schopper, Daniel, and Karlheinz Mörth. 2021. VICAV 3.0: Zooming in on Lexical Resources. Christina Katsikadeli, Sellner, Manfred, and Gassner, Michael. Digital Lexis, and Beyond. Selected Papers from the Workshop „Digital Lexis, and Beyond” 45th Austrian Linguistics Conference Dec. 2019. Wien: Verlag der ÖAW. doi:10.1553/VICAV.
  • Kálmán, Tibor, Matej Ďurčo, Frank Fischer, Nicolas Larrousse, Claudio Leone, Karlheinz Mörth, and Carsten Thiel. 2019. A landscape of data – working with digital resources within and beyond DARIAH. International Journal of Digital Humanities 1: 113-131. doi:10.1007/s42803-019-00008-6.
  • Mörth, Karlheinz, and Tanja Wissik. 2018. Digitale Sprachressourcen in Österreich. In Digitale Infrastrukturen für die germanistische Forschung, eds. H. Lobin, Roman Schneider, R., and Witt, A., 73-88. Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft Um 2020. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Mörth, Karlheinz. 2017. Arabic lexicography in the Internet era. In The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography, ed. P. A. Fuertes-Olivera, 503-517. Routledge.
  • Ransmayr, Jutta, Karlheinz Mörth, and Matej Ďurčo. 2017. AMC (Austrian Media Corpus) - Korpusbasierte Forschungen zum österreichischen Deutsch. In Digitale Methoden der Korpusforschung in Österreich (= Veröffentlichungen zur Linguistik und Kommunikationsforschung Nr. 30), eds. C. Resch and Dressler, W. U., 27-38. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Publications (Before ACDH)

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Alram, Michael, Christoph Benda, Matej Durco, Karlheinz Moerth, Sibylle Wentker, Tanja Wissik, Gerhard Budin, et al. 2015. DH-AUSTRIA-STRATEGIE. Sieben Leitlinien für die Zukunft der digitalen Geisteswissenschaften in Österreich.

 


Moerth, Karlheinz, Daniel Schopper, and Omar Siam. 2015. Towards a diatopic dictionary of spoken Arabic varieties: challenges in compiling the VICAV dictionaries. 11th Conference of AIDA - Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe. 25.-28. May 2015, Bucharest.

 


Declerck, Thierry, Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Karlheinz Moerth, and Claudia Resch. 2014. Towards a Unified Approach for Publishing Regional and Historical Language Resources on the Linked Data Framework. In Workshop on Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages in the Linked Open Data Era. Co-located with LREC 2014. 26.-31 May 2014, Reykjavik. Reykjavik, Iceland: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

 


Durco, Matej, and Karlheinz Moerth. 2014. CLARIN-DARIAH.AT - Weaving the network. In 9th Language Technologies Conference, 14–18. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Information Society - IS 2014.

 


Durco, Matej, Karlheinz Moerth, Hannes Pirker, and Jutta Ransmayr. 2014. Austrian Media Corpus 2.0.

 


Korecky-Kröll, Katharina, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Eva Maria Freiberger, Eva Reinisch, Karlheinz Moerth, and Gary Libben. 2014. Morphonotactic and phonotactic processing in German-speaking adults. Language Sciences 46, Part A: 48–58.

 


Moerth, Karlheinz, and Wolfgang U. Dressler. 2014. German plural doublets with and without meaning differentiation. Franz Rainer, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler. Vienna: John Benjamins.

 


Moerth, Karlheinz, Stephan Prochazka, and Ines Dallaji. 2014. Laying the Foundations for a Diachronic Dictionary of Tunis Arabic. A First Glance at an Evolving New Language Resource. In Proceedings of the XVI EURALEX International Congress: The User in Focus, ed. Andrea Abel, Chiara Vettori, and N. Ralli, 377–387. Bolzano / Bozen, Italy: EURALEX 2014.

 


Declerck, Thierry, Karlheinz Moerth, and Eveline Wandl-Vogt. 2014. A SKOS-based Schema for TEI encoded Dictionaries at ICLTT. In LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 26.-31 May 2014, Reykjavik. Reykjavik, Iceland: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

 


Budin, Gerhard, Karlheinz Moerth, and Matej Durco. 2013a. Working towards European Infrastructures - The ICLTT Language Resources Portal. In 49. Jahrestagung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, Poster-Session, Korpora geschriebener Sprache. Mannheim: Institut für Deutsche Sprache.

 


Budin, Gerhard, Karlheinz Moerth, and Matej Durco. 2013b. European Lexicography Infrastructure Components. In Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: thinking outside the paper. Proceedings of the eLex 2013 conference, 17-19 October 2013, ed. Iztok Kosem, J. Kallas, P. Gantar, S. Krek, M. Langemets, and M. Tuulik, 76–92. Tallin, Estonia: Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies/Eesti Keele Instituut.

 


Declerck, Thierry, Piroska Lendvai, and Karlheinz Moerth. 2013. Collaborative Tools: From Wiktionary to LMF, for Synchronic and Diachronic Language Data. In LMF. Lexical Markup Framework, ed. Gil Francopoulo, 175–186. John Wiley & Sons.

 


Declerck, Thierry, and Karlheinz Moerth. 2013. Porting Persian Lexical Resources to NOOJ. In Selected papers from the NooJ 2012 International Conference, 14–23. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 


Moerth, Karlheinz, Stephan Prochazka, Omar Siam, and Thierry Declerck. 2013. Spiralling towards perfection: an incremental approach for mutual lexicon-tagger improvement. In Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: thinking outside the paper. Proceedings of the eLex 2013 conference, 17-19 October 2013, ed. I. Kosem, J. Kallas, P. Gantar, S. Krek, M. Langemets, and M. Tuulik, 225–242. Tallin, Estonia: Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies/Eesti Keele Instituut.

 


Moerth, Karlheinz, Laure Romary, Gerhard Budin, and Daniel Schopper. 2015. Modelling frequency data. Methodological considerations on the relationship between dictionaries and corpora. Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative: Selected Papers from the 2013 TEI Conference 8 2015.

 


Ransmayr, Jutta, Karlheinz Moerth, and Matej Durco. 2013. Linguistic Variation in the Austrian Media Corpus. Dealing with the challenges of large amounts of data. In 5th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2013), 111–115. Alicante, Spain: University Alicante.

 


Budin, Gerhard, Heinrich Kabas, and Karlheinz Moerth. 2012. Towards Finer Granularity in Metadata. Analysing the Contents of Digitised Periodicals. Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 2 2012. doi:10.4000/jtei.416.

 


Budin, Gerhard, Stefan Majewski, and Karlheinz Moerth. 2012. Creating Lexical Resources in TEI P5. Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 3 2012. doi:10.4000/jtei.522.

 


Budin, Gerhard, Stefan Majewski, and Karlheinz Mörth. 2012. Creating Lexical Resources in TEI P5: A Schema for Multi-purpose Digital Dictionaries. Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. doi:10.4000/jtei.522.

 


Dressler, Wolfgang U., and Karlheinz Moerth. 2012a. Produktive und weniger produktive Komposition in ihrer Rolle im Text an Hand der Beziehungen zwischen Titel und Text. In Das Deutsche als kompositionsfreudige Sprache. Strukturelle Eigenschaften und systembezogene Aspekte, ed. Livio Gaeta and Barbara Schlücker, 219–234. Linguistik-Impulse & Tendenzen 46. De Gruyter.

 


Dressler, Wolfgang U., and Karlheinz Moerth. 2012b. Vom Einfluss der Pragmatik auf die Grammatik, insbesondere in der Entwicklung der Pluralbildung. Eine corpusbasierte Untersuchung. In Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte, ed. Hans U. Schmid and Arne Ziegler, Bd. 3, Heft 1:75–93. De Gruyter.

 


Moerth, Karlheinz, Claudia Resch, Thierry Declerck, and Ulrike Czeitschner. 2012. Linguistic and Semantic Annotation in Religious Memento Mori Literature. In Proceedings of the LREC’2012 Workshop: Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts (LRE-Rel-12). Co-located with LREC 2012. 21.-27. May 2012, Istanbul, ed. Eric Atwell, Claire Brierly, and Majdi Sawalha, 49–52. Istanbul, Turkey: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

 


Budin, Gerhard, and Karlheinz Moerth. 2011. Hooking up to the corpus: the Viennese Lexicographic Editor’s corpus interface. In Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: new applications for new users. Proceedings of eLex 2011 conference, 10-12- November 2011, ed. Iztok Kosem and Karmen Kosem, 52–59. Bled, Slovenia: Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies.

 


Declerck, Thierry, Ulrike Czeitschner, Karlheinz Moerth, Claudia Resch, and Gerhard Budin. 2011a. A Text Technology Infrastructure for Annotating Corpora in the eHumanities. In International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL-2011), ed. Stefan Gradmann, Francesca Borri, Carlo Meghini, and Heiko Schuldt, 457–460. Berlin, Germany: Springer.

 


Declerck, Thierry, Ulrike Czeitschner, Karlheinz Moerth, Claudia Resch, and Gerhard Budin. 2011b. A Text Technology Infrastructure for Annotating Corpora in the eHumanities. In International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL-2011), ed. Stefan Gradmann, Francesca Borri, Carlo Meghini, and Heiko Schuldt, 457–460. Berlin, Germany: Springer.

 


Moerth, Karlheinz, Thierry Declerck, Piroska Lendvai, and Tamás Váradi. 2011. Accessing Multilingual Data on the Web for the Semantic Annotation of Cultural Heritage Texts. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web: pp.80-85.

 


Moerth, Karlheinz, Niku Dorostkar, and Alexander Preisinger. 2011. Gleaning micro-corpora from the internet: integrating heterogeneous data into existing corpus infrastructures.

 


Moerth, Karlheinz, and Matej Durco. 2011. In quest of a multi-purpose multi-corpus service based corpus research tool. In Proceedings of Practical Applications in Language and Computers, ed. Piotr Pezik. Lodz.