DYLEN: Diachronic Dynamics of Lexical Networks

DYLEN is a research project which aims to gain insights to the dynamics of the Austrian German lexicon in the last 20 years and to measure the influence of politicians on language change.

Project and Team

About

The project explores the diachronic dynamics of lexical networks on the basis of large-scale authentic language data.

Project Team

The DYLEN project is carried out by an interdisciplinary project team from three different institutions.

Advisory Board

In order to provide advice and to overview the risk management of the project an Advisory Board was set up

Workflow

The Dylen Project covers the full data-science cycle from NLP pre-processing and data model development over network construction and description and network analyses and comparisons […]

Methods & Tools

The DYLEN project bridges the fields of linguistics, digital humanities and computer science in order to explore the diachronic dynamics of lexical networks on the […]