Bernhard Schröder

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schröder holds the full professorship (W3) of German Studies/Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he leads research at the Institute of German Studies (Faculty of Humanities). His academic career includes a Magister in Linguistics from University of Bonn (1991), PhD in Philosophical Linguistics (1997), and Habilitation in Language and Communication Sciences (2003).

• Education:
  • Magisterabschluss (1991), University of Bonn
  • Dr. phil. (1997), University of Bonn
  • Habilitation (2003), University of Bonn

His research bridges computational linguistics with cognitive science, focusing on prosodic analysis in mathematical proof texts, autism spectrum disorder communication studies, and corpus-based linguistic resource development. He directs the Naproche Project for computational proof checking and the AEET institute for early modern text digitization.

Key projects include:

• Mathematical proof text modeling with frame semantics
• Prosody perception in autism through speech synthesis
• Corpus portal korpora.org development
• German-Namibia institute partnership
• Media-intensive linguistics training modules (MiLCA)

He collaborates across institutions like University Hospital Freiburg, TU Dresden, and University of Bonn, with leadership roles in the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology and German Society for Computational Linguistics. His work involves speech synthesis uncertainty modeling, Kant text digitization, and Frege's arithmetic analysis.