Prof. Dr. John Nerbonne

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
KeywordsDialectology, Computational Linguistics, Quantitative Linguistics, Varationist Linguistics, Dialectometry

Current contact address

CountryNetherlands
CityGroningen
InstitutionUniversity of Groningen
InstituteCenter for Language and Cognition Groningen
Homepagehttp://www.let.rug.nl/nerbonne/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Peter AuerFreiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2013

Programme(s)

2012Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Prof. John Nerbonne is an internationally renowned researcher at the interface of linguistics and informatics. Over the last 15 years he has fundamentallly reshaped areal linguistics, particularly dialectology, by making cutting edge methods of computational linguistics and statistics available for topics of research traditionally located in the humanities. Professor Nerbonne is hosted by Professor Auer at the University of Freiburg/Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.