Sprachqualität

Measuring language quality in the digital age

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While edited texts published in the media, scientific texts and literature are expected to comply with certain language norms, it is evident that texts in social networks often do not meet the same standards. Will this have a long-term effect on written language in general and on the quality of texts produced by digital natives in particular?

Our project aims at exploring ways of empirically addressing this question. So far, scientific debate was based on a relatively limited amount of data concerning the effects of digital media on writing skills. We intend to provide an objective basis by developing a model that takes into consideration different aspects of quality, which are relevant for dialogical communication in digital and multimodal social media, and relates to the tradition of reflecting on language quality in rhetoric and text linguistics. We further plan to develop methods for measuring coherence as an aspect of quality and to evaluate them with the help of small case studies. In this way we hope to gain some insights into how constantly reading and writing short messages within dialogues affects the competence of planning and drafting longer monologues, thus contributing to filling a research gap. The project uses digital text collections (corpora) of learner texts and web genres that have been prepared and evaluated with the methods of corpus linguistics. New methods (e.g. crowd sourcing and data mining) will also be tested.

Publications
Textqualität in Sozialen Medien
Abel A, Glaznieks A (2020)
Contribution in book
Deutsch in Sozialen Medien

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/14768

Kohärenz digital: Zum Konnektorengebrauch in der Online-Kommunikation und dessen Repräsentation in Sprachressourcen
Abel A, Glaznieks A (2020)
Journal article
Deutsche Sprache

https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1868-775X.2020.02.05

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/14720

Einführung in das Themenheft „Textqualität im digitalen Zeitalter“
Abel A, Glaznieks A, Müller-Spitzer C, Storrer A (2020)
Journal article
Deutsche Sprache

https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1868-775X.2020.02.02

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/14721

Themenheft Textqualität im digitalen Zeitalter
Abel A, Glaznieks A, Linthe M, Wolfer S (2020)
Journal issue (editorship)
Deutsche Sprache

More information: https://www.dsdigital.de/ce/deutsche-sprache-ausgabe-02-2020 ...

https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1868-775X.2020.02

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/16461

Using Data Mining to Repurpose German Language Corpora. An evaluation of data-driven analysis methods for corpus linguistics
Frey J (2020)
PhD thesis

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/17321

Wie misst man Textqualität im digitalen Zeitalter? (MIT.Qualität)
Abel A, Frey JC, Glaznieks A, Linthe M, Müller-Spitzer C, Storrer A, Wolfer S (2019)
Contribution in book
Neues vom heutigen Deutsch. Empirisch – methodisch – theoretisch

More information: https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110622591/978311062 ...

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110622591-025

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/9697

Wie misst man Textqualität im digitalen Zeitalter? Neue Fragen - neues Methodenspektrum
Abel A, Frey JC, Storrer A (2018)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: GAL-Kongress 2018 "Sprachen - Kommunikation - Öffentlichkeit" | Essen | 11.9.2018 - 14.9.2018

Was wir bewerten, wenn wir Schülertexte bewerten: Menschliche Bewertungen und digitale Zugänge zu ihren empirischen Spuren
Frey JC (2018)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Expertenworkshop MIT.Qualität | Mannheim | 18.6.2018 - 19.6.2018

Measuring Text Quality in the Digital Age: The Project “MIT.Qualität”
Glaznieks A, Linthe M, Frey JC (2018)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: 1st Literary Summit | Porto | 1.11.2018 - 3.11.2018

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  • University of Mannheim

  • Institute for the German Language