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Head of the Digital Linguistics Department at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim,
Professor of Computational Humanities & Text Technology & Professor of Digital Humanities.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt heads the Digital Linguistics Department at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language in Mannheim. He is also Professor of Computational Humanities and Text Technology at the University of Mannheim and Honorary Professor at the Institute for Computational Linguistics of the University of Heidelberg. For many years he has been very active in the field of data preservation and infrastructures for language data. Currently, he serves as Spokesperson for Text+, a consortium of the German National Research Data Infrastructure specialised in text data; the National Coordinator of CLARIN-D, the German national consortium within CLARIN ERIC; and a member of the Executive Board of Nestor, a Competence Network for Digital Preservation. He is also an editor of the Digital Linguistics book series (de Gruyter) and co-editor of an upcoming Routledge Handbook of Digital Linguistics.