Gertrud Faaß

Gertrud Faaß, PhD (University of Pretoria), is an academic member of the Institute for Information Science & Language Technology at the University of Hildesheim. She supervises student theses, co-teaches courses like Language Description for Language Technology and a Colloquium for Qualification Theses, and provides consultation hours by appointment. Her work focuses on linguistically grounded language technology tools, particularly for South African Bantu languages.

• Current Research: Digitization of Karl Endemann’s historical Sotho dictionary, collaboration with SADiLaR and South African universities.
• Past Roles: Research Fellow (2013–2018) and visiting researcher (2015–2016) at the University of South Africa.
• Committee Involvement: Admissions Committee for the Master’s Program IIM-IW, Academic Staff Group, Doctoral Committee.
• Professional Memberships: GSCL (Board), DGfS, DHASA.

Her research emphasizes ISO-compliant representation of linguistic data, corpus infrastructure development, and user-friendly documentation of language technology tools. She has contributed to projects involving Zulu dictionaries and Bantu language processing, aligning with her expertise in empirical research methods and eHumanities.