Elke Teich

Elke Teich is a Professor of English Linguistics and Translation Studies at Saarland University, where she leads the Department of Linguistics and Language Technology. She serves as spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, funded by the DFG, and heads the Saarbrücken CLARIN-D Center. Her work bridges computational linguistics, corpus analysis, and translation studies, with a strong focus on diachronic and register-based language variation.

Education and Affiliations:

• Professor, Saarland University
• Spokesperson, SFB 1102 (DFG-funded)
• Head, CLARIN-D Saarbrücken
• Former member, Cluster of Excellence Multimodal Computing and Interaction
• Previous affiliations: TU Darmstadt, University of Sydney, ISI Los Angeles

Research Interests:
Elke Teich's research centers on language variation and change in scientific English, using computational models and information-theoretic measures like surprisal, entropy, and relative entropy. She investigates how communicative concerns shape linguistic encoding, particularly in translation and historical texts. Her work combines corpus linguistics, NLP, and cognitive perspectives under the framework of rational communication.

Publication Trends:
Her recent publications focus on diachronic analysis of scientific writing using the Royal Society Corpus, probabilistic modeling of translationese, and infrastructure development for language resources (e.g., Text+, CLARIN-D). There is a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary methods, combining data mining, syntactic annotation, and information theory to explore linguistic evolution.

Scientific Awards:

• No awards explicitly mentioned in the text.

Advising and Grants:
Elke Teich leads a research group at Saarland University and supervises students in the Bachelor's program Language Science and Master's program Translation Science and Technology. She has secured significant funding through the DFG SFB 1102 and participates in national research data infrastructure initiatives like NFDI Text+. Her team includes research assistants and collaborators such as Stefan Fischer, Jörg Knappen, and Tom S. Juzek.

Labs and Teams:
Her research group is part of the Department of Language Science and Technology and is actively involved in the CLARIN-D consortium. The team develops and maintains corpora like the Royal Society Corpus and EuroParl-UdS, and works on tools for annotation, metadata generation, and text mining.