Karlheinz Moerth

Biography

Proceeding from a background in Near Eastern Studies (with a focus on modern languages and applied linguistics), Karlheinz Mörth has been working at the interface between modern IT and humanities studies throughout his academic life. He has conducted research in a wide range of text technological fields taking a special interest in eLexicography, text lexicography, methodologies for the build-up and maintenance of digital corpora, annotation research, and corpus-related encoding standards. He is also lecturer of Arabic and Modern Persian at the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Vienna where he also engages in teaching digital humanities courses.

Research Interest

In early 2015, he was entrusted by the Presidium of the Austrian Academy of Sciences with the task of building up the new Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the foundation of which he had helped to prepare in the months before.