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Zurich University of Applied Sciences
The Zurich University of Applied Sciences is represented in the CLARIN-CH Consortium by Prof. Cerstin Mahlow, from the School of Applied Linguistics,
Institute of Language Competence.
The community from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences provides CLARIN-CH language resources and expertise in language sciences, and it is actively involved in research projects involving language resources.
Language resources
The Swiss Web Corpus for Applied Linguistics (Swiss-AL) corpus. It is the largest multilingual corpus in Switzerland and includes texts from over 350 relevant actors in public communication. It currently contains 8 million texts, including news items, specialist publications and parliamentary minutes, websites of political parties, companies and universities, statements by business associations and NGOs. Flexible data processing enables data-supported and data-driven analysis options on social and political discourses. The Swiss-AL corpus is available for research here.
Schools and Institutes involved in CLARIN-CH
School of Applied Linguistics
Institute of Language Competence
Group of Digital Linguistics
Areas of expertise:
- (Computer) morphology and phraseology
- Development of NLP-based methods for the analysis and visualisation of text production
- Digitality
- Digital transformation and its socio-cultural and pedagogical/didactic implications
- Text and Discourse Linguistics
- Language and Politics/Political Linguistics
- Language and Law/Legal Linguistics
- Language Use in the 20th Century
- Language Criticism
- Language Ideology
- Linguistic analysis and modelling of writing processes
- Postcolonial Language Studies
- Writing technology and document engineering
Group of Professional communication and knowledge transfers
Areas of expertise:
- Didactics of writing
- Expert-layman communication
- Specialised text production
- Specialised text linguistics
Group of Interculturality and language diversity
Areas of expertise:
- Communication with authorities
- Culture and language
- Gender-equitable language
- Functional-pragmatic language and discourse analysis
- Inclusive language
- Individual and social multilingualism
- Institutional communication
- Intercultural communication
- Language policy and language-political aspects of multilingualism
- Language comparison and language contrast
- Linguistic relativity
- Medical communication
- Pragmatics
- Scientific and administrative language
- Swiss-German sign language
Group of Language competence and knowledge transfer
Areas of expertise:
- English as a world language in work and education
- German as a foreign language
- Psycholinguistics (Language Production)
- Sign language (structure and processing; development of a European reference framework)
- Spatial linguistics
- Training language competence in the first language
Institute of Translation and Interpreting