Hans C. Boas

Presentation on TGDA 2.0. Today, I co-presented a talk and workshop on “TGDA 2.0 – An enriched Texas German Dialect Corpus for (comparative) corpus analyses” at the Conference Varieties in Contact: Phenomena – Methods – Theories at the University of Dortmund, Germany.

New paper published! Together with my colleagues Collin Baker (International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California) and Josef Ruppenhofer (Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany), I just published a new paper on FrameNet at 25: Results and Applications in the International Journal of Lexicography.

Call for papers just published! My colleague Atiba Pertilla (German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.) and I are organizing a workshop on “Listening to the Past,” bringing together scholars from history, linguistics, and digital humanities (March 2026). See here for more information.

Two talks on Texas German in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the  49th annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies: “The study of Texas German in the 1960s” (together with Marc Pierce and Joren Somers) and “Updating the Texas German Dialect Corpus for (Comparative) Speech Island Analysis” (together with Thomas Schmidt and and Margo Blevins).

My colleague Dr. Thomas Schmidt is visiting UT Austin this week to continue programming work on the Texas German Dialect Archive.