I absolutely love the maps of regional variation that my colleagues have created for our #GermanSignLanguage dictionary. The month of May is particularly wild with respect to which sign is most commonly used in different parts of Germany. #SignLanguage
https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/korpusdict/clusters/cluster56.html

Our corpus-based dictionary DW-DGS (digital dictionary of #GermanSignLanguage) just received the Kulturpreis Deutsche Sprache award, acknowledging its service to (a) German language!

My own project duties mostly lie elsewhere, but I absolutely love what my colleagues have created. I especially love the interactive maps that visualise dialectal distributions.

Press release in German:
https://kulturpreis-deutsche-sprache.de/3-juli-2023-mai-thi-nguyen-kim-erhaelt-jacob-grimm-preis-in-baden-baden/

DW-DGS (still in beta, more content and features to follow):
https://dw-dgs.de

Time for a re-#introduction:

I am a researcher in #SignLanguage #Lingustics. I work at the #DGSCorpus project at #UniversitätHamburg, creators of the largest discourse corpus of #GermanSignLanguage. My background is in #ComputationalLinguistics (aka #NLP) and currently I focus a lot on #ResearchDataManagement and ethical #OpenScience for sign language data.
I program mostly in #Python and enjoy tinkering with #LaTeX.
I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett's #Discworld. And of #cats. Cats are nice ❤️