Silke Reineke

Silke Reineke is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, where she leads the program area 'Oral Corpora' and manages projects like 'Research and Teaching Corpus Spoken German (FOLK)' and 'Social Interaction with voice- and touch-controlled virtual assistants'. She holds a PhD in German Studies from the University of Mannheim (2014) and previously studied at the University of Waterloo, Canada (MA 2009). Her research spans

• interactional linguistics
• corpus construction
• epistemic markers in German
• conversational analysis

Reineke's research focuses on social interactions with voice-controlled virtual assistants, using computational transcription systems like cGAT to analyze spoken German. She explores

• grammatical and lexical methods of knowledge attribution
• metadata usage in corpus analysis
• discourse markers like 'ja' and 'ich dachte'

Her publications (2016–2024) emphasize

• troubleshooting in AI-human dialogue
• longitudinal user studies
• pragmatic functions of negation
• audiovisual documentation standards

Scientific awards include the Peter Roschy Prize and Hugo Moser Prize from the IDS. She collaborates on projects like FOLK and cGAT and contributes to open-access linguistic resources.