Mit schwerem Herzen nehmen wir Abschied von Prof. Dr. Martin Volk. Er verstarb am 15. September 2025 im Alter von 64 Jahren nach kurzer, plötzlicher Krankheit.

It is with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, who passed away on 15 September 2025 at the age of 64 after a brief and sudden illness.

In Memoriam: Prof. Dr. Martin Volk

Curriculum Vitae

Current Research Projects

• Machine Translation Project list
• Digitizing and Annotating Heritage Texts: Text+Berg digital.
• Digital Humanities Project list
• Information Extraction and Ontologies

Past Research Projects

Long-term Research Interests

• Grammar and parser engineering
• Data-driven methods for NLP (corpora and treebanks)
• Multilingual text analysis
• Cross-language information retrieval

Publications

Recent Teaching

• Corpus Linguistics and Ontologies
• Language Technology for Ontologies
• Machine Translation and Parallel Corpora
• Mathematical Linguistics
• Methods and Applications, an Introduction to Computational Linguistics
• Treebanks: Formats, Tools and Usages

Past Teaching

• Lexicon structure and morphology analysis (in German)
• Formal grammars and syntax analysis (in German)
• Introduction to Computer Science (for translators) (in German)
• Terminology Databases and Terminology Extraction (for translators) (in German)
• Corpus Linguistics for Computational Linguistics (overview in German, slides in English)

• Running
• Ice-skating on frozen lakes
• Seakayaking (e.g. in the Stockholm Archipelago)
• Hiking and biking
• Listening to Classical Music
• Enjoying a good glass of wine (mostly) from Weingut Volk
• Digitizing old books (e.g. Lesebuch für die Kath. Volksschulen der Rheinprovinz  from 1917)