Publications

4 … Group Identity in Intermediated Interactions. Lessons from a Trust Game with Delegation in South Africa
in Experimental Economics and Culture 227–264 (Gunnthorsdottir/Norton ed., 2018), jointly with Nicky Nicholls … DOI: 10.1108/S0193-230620180000020008

3 … Die kritische Masse. Aspekte einer quantitativ orientierten Hermeneutik am Beispiel der computergestützten Rechtslinguistik
in Messen und Verstehen in der Wissenschaft. Interdisziplinäre Ansätze 81–95 (Schweiker/Hass/Novokhatko/Halbleib ed., 2017), jointly with Friedemann Vogel … DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-18354-7_7

2 … Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL²)
in Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. JURIX 2016: The Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference 195–198 (Bex/Villata ed., 2016), jointly with Friedemann Vogel / Isabelle Gauer … DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-726-9-195 We introduce Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL²) as a semi-automated method to “make sense” of legal discourse by systematically analyzing large collections of legal texts. Such digital corpora have been increasingly used in computational linguistics in recent years, as part of a quantitative research strategy designed to complement (rather than supplant) the more qualitative methods used hitherto. This use of statistical algorithms to analyze large bodies of text meets with an increasing demand by lawyers for empirical data and the recent turn towards evidence-based jurisprudence. Together, these research strands open exciting avenues for research and for developing useful IT tools to support legal decision-making, as we exemplify using our reference corpus of about 1 billion tokens from the language of German jurisprudence and legal academia.

1 … Der „Sprachgebrauch“ im Waffenarsenal der Jurisprudenz. Die Rechtspraxis im Spiegel der quantitativ-empirischen Sprachforschung
in Zugänge zur Rechtssemantik. Interdisziplinäre Ansätze im Zeitalter neuer Medien 184–204 (Vogel ed., 2015) … DOI: 10.1515/9783110348941-009