Alexander Mehler

Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler is a full professor of Computational Humanities and Text Technology at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he leads the Text Technology Lab (TTLab). He has held leadership roles in multiple academic societies including the German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology and the German Society of Semiotics, and is a founding member of the German Society for Network Research (DGNet).

His research focuses on quantitative analysis of textual units in spoken/written communication, linguistic network modeling, and 4D text technologies integrating Virtual/Augmented Reality. Current projects include ENTAILab (DFG-funded infrastructure for social sciences), FACES (VR-based survey research), and C08/B05 modules in the Critical Online Reasoning (COR) framework.

He has supervised numerous PhD candidates in areas spanning multilingual NLP, 3D scene generation from text, stemma analysis tools, and network-theoretic approaches to language classification. His lab's work intersects with machine learning, cognitive modeling, and digital humanities infrastructure.

As principal investigator, he leads projects funded by DFG (SPP 2431, SFB 1629, FID 326061700) and LOEWE programs, with recent developments in mimodockerized NLP pipelines and VR-based learning systems. Key collaborations include ACM Conference on Hypertext and KONVENS NLP conferences.

His methodological expertise spans multimodal data analysis, neural active learning, and cross-linguistic computational models. He has developed open-source infrastructures for digital humanities research and educational analytics, including the TextImager platform.