Funded Projects

Forschungsinitiative Rheinland-Pfalz - DigitS EU

The European Union is responding to the challenges of digital change with various legal acts, for example to regulate digital platforms or artificial intelligence. The aim of the research network is to accompany this process both legally and empirically and, in particular, to apply for a DFG research group on this topic in 2025.

2019/2020

INWEND (togehter with Ralph Bergmann), BMBF-Project

Intelligent knowledge-based decision support

The INWEND project is a BMBF-funded interdisciplinary research project in which business IT specialists and lawyers from Trier University have developed software that can make legal recommendations in a sub-area of data protection law. The aim of the project was to investigate the extent to which artificial intelligence methods can be used to support legal decision-making processes, specifically in data protection law.

Participation in the Project Mining and Modeling Text (MiMoText) funded by: Forschungsinitiative des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz

Digitisation is making increasingly extensive text and data collections available. The network is facing up to the challenge that, in order to utilise them efficiently in the humanities, it is necessary to develop innovative processes that enable the automatic extraction of information and promote the generation of knowledge based on this.

Against this background, the project deals with the automatic extraction, structuring and networking of specialised information from text and data collections as well as the use of such information networks to answer questions in the humanities. The initial application context is German and French literary history, but the transferability of the methods to other disciplines is being considered from the outset. The project takes into account different types of texts: from easily structured texts (e.g. bibliographical indexes) to non-fiction texts in the humanities (e.g. specialised literature on literary history) and literary texts (e.g. novels).

The core objective is to develop interdisciplinary approaches to solutions, whereby conceptual, humanities, IT, legal and infrastructural issues and processes are interlinked.

Workshops „Strategies for the utilisation of copyrighted text collections for research for third parties“, funded by DFG

Together with the Trier Center for Digital Humanities Competence Centre, the IRDT has organised an expert workshop on the topic of ‘Strategies for the utilisation of copyrighted text collections for research by third parties’, which is funded by the DFG.

Copyrighted text data is to be transformed in such a way that it loses its copyrighted form, but certain text-and-data-mining analysis procedures can still be carried out.