Joachim Gasch, M.A.
Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache
R 5, 6-13, Büro 3.03
D-68161 Mannheim
E-Mail: gasch(at)ids-mannheim.de
Tel.: +49 621 / 1581 – 303
Fax: +49 621 / 1581 – 200
Joachim Gasch, M.A.
Function:
Employee of the Pragmatics Department
Role:
Conceptualization and implementation of information technologies, project support:
- Conceptualization and project planning of the system and information architecture of speech corpora
- Semantic modeling of project related data structures in XML and implementation in the object relational database management system Oracle
- Workflow implementation (Web-based user interfaces) for machine-aided project data gathering, maintenance and retrieval
- Assistance in the project SegCor – ANR-DFG-Projekt "Segmentation of Oral Corpora"
CV:
- 1990 - 1998 Studies in Computational Linguistics and French Language at the University of Trier (1998 Magister Artium). Title of the thesis: "A WWW client-server model for a content oriented navigation in SGML-corpora"
- 1997 - 1998 Cooperation in the research project "Development of an information retrieval tool for handicapped persons" at the Zentralstelle für Psychologische Information und Dokumentation (ZPID), Trier, Germany.
- 1994 - 1998 Analyst / programmer for multilingual Content Management and -Retrieval at euroscript S.A., Luxemburg.
- 1998 - 1999 IT-Consultant for several online Publishing Systems at the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
- 1999 - 2000 Project manager for Web Portals at ixl S.A., Madrid, Spain.
- 2000 - 2003 Consultant / senior developer for the XML Broker application (UNECE EDIFACT B2B message gateway) at SAIOS S.A., Luxembourg.
- 2003 Consultant for technical documentation and translation at El Periódico Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain.
- 2003 Senior analyst J2EE/XML at Caja Badajoz, Spain.
- 2004 Senior consultant Extranet Portal for mobile devices at Multiasistencia S.A., Madrid, Spain.
- 2004 - 2006 EDIFACT (EDI) Project manager EMEA at Hewlett-Packard Germany GmbH, Böblingen, Germany.
Research interests:
Information management and information retrieval technologies, markup languages, semantic models
Recent publications:
- Gasch, Joachim (2010): DGD 2.0: A Web-based Navigation Platform for the Visualization, Presentation and Retrieval of German Speech Corpora. In: SDV - Sprache und Datenverarbeitung / International Journal for Language Data Processing. Vol. 34.1/2010, pp. 27-38.
- Gasch, Joachim (2008): XML Schema driven Database Management of Speech Corpus Metadata. In: SDV - Sprache und Datenverarbeitung/International Journal for Language Data Processing. Vol. 32.1/2008, pp. 23-33.
- Gasch, Joachim/Brinckmann, Caren/Dickgießer, Sylvia (2008): memasysco: XML schema based metadata management system for speech corpora. In: Proceedings 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakesh, Morocco. PDF
- Brinckmann, Caren/Dickgießer, Sylvia/Gasch, Joachim (2007): Minimally Redundant Metadata Schemas for Speech Corpora. In: Proceedings of the 4th Corpus Linguistics conference, Birmingham. PDF