Felix Sculptor

Felix Sculptor is a Professor and researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS Mannheim), where he leads the Corpus Grammar project. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics and Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Bremen (2008) and has held academic positions at the Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Cologne.

• Affiliations: IDS Mannheim (since 2015), former roles at Free University of Berlin (2004–2015), and University of Cologne (2015).
• Research Focus: Corpus linguistics, computational methods for corpus analysis, statistical modeling, and information structure in German, Spanish, and French.

His work emphasizes web corpus construction, topic modeling, and theoretical syntax. Recent projects include the Corpus Grammar initiative, focusing on empirical methods for linguistic analysis. Sculptor has published extensively on corpus design, statistical methods, and formal syntax models.

Key Projects:

• "Constraint-Based Analysis of Information Structure in German, Spanish, and French" (DFG SFB 632)
• "Corpus Grammar" project at IDS Mannheim