Ines Rehbein

Dr. Ines Rehbein serves as a postdoctoral researcher in the Data and Web Science Group at the University of Mannheim, collaborating with Prof. Dr. Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Prof. Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt. She is actively engaged in projects B6 and C4 of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 884 "Political Economy of Reforms", focusing on interdisciplinary applications of computational methods to political science.

Her academic credentials include:

• PhD from the National Centre for Language Technology at Dublin City University, Ireland

Her research program centers on adapting Natural Language Processing techniques for Computational Humanities and Social Sciences challenges, with demonstrated expertise in syntactic parsing, lexical semantics, and discourse analysis. Current work emphasizes linguistic annotation of political texts and user-generated content, enabling novel methodologies for large-scale textual analysis in social science domains. This bridges technical NLP innovations with domain-specific research questions requiring nuanced language understanding.

Publication trends reveal a consistent trajectory in developing computational frameworks for social science data, particularly in political text scaling and non-standard language processing. Recent work establishes robust pipelines for user-generated content analysis while advancing semantic modeling techniques applicable to political discourse.

Dr. Rehbein previously led Area B ("Induction of (variational) linguistic models & resources") in the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Empirical Linguistics and Computational Language Modeling", a joint initiative between the Leibniz Institute of German Language (IDS) Mannheim and Heidelberg University, demonstrating sustained leadership in computational linguistics research infrastructure.