Jan Gorisch

Jan Gorisch is a Researcher in the 'Oral Corpora' program area of the Pragmatics Department at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS Mannheim). He holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield (2012) and has conducted postdoctoral research at Aix-Marseille Université and Nanyang Technological University. His research focuses on oral corpora, interactional phonetics, conversation analysis, and automatic speech recognition. He collaborates on projects like the SegCor ANR-DFG initiative and contributes to the development of the 'German Today' corpus.

Key contributions include advancing corpus segmentation techniques, analyzing turn-taking dynamics in multi-party interactions, and developing frameworks for multimodal dialogue analysis. His work bridges computational methods with empirical linguistic research, emphasizing practical applications in corpus curation and speech technology.