Hanna Schmück

I'm a Research Associate at the University of Augsburg. Until recently, I was a a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow where I was working on the linguistic and data visualisation outputs of the OHOS Project. I was also a Research Assistant and Associate Lecturer at Lancaster University where I did my PhD. I greatly enjoy all things corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and data visualisation. The main aim of my work is to develop new, explainable methodologies and workflows so we can analyse (existing) linguistic data in new ways and further our understanding of language and the mind. I also greatly enjoy working with data from the heritage sector and exploring the concept of language as heritage. Have a look at my research/projects, publications, learn more about what I get up to, and feel free to get in touch if you want to explore possible collaborations.


Current Role at the University of Augsburg

Research Associate - Chair for Natural Language Understanding (Prof. Friedrich), Faculty of Applied CS

I am a member of the HLT@Augsburg group and work on a variety of projects, chiefly (from September 2025) on the Computational Discourse Analysis and Processing across Languages and Time project with Prof. Annemarie Friedrich and Dr. Jakob Prange. As a Research Assistant on this DFG-funded project, I support research developing a computer-aided framework for analysing discourse modes in texts. I co-create annotation guidelines and diachronic corpora, contribute to corpus studies on grammatical structures in historical German texts and discourse patterns in English historiography, and assist with developing computational tools for analysis. Our work extends beyond traditional register-based approaches to examine how passage-level discourse features evolve over time.
I am also teaching the INF-0467: Seminar Natural Language Understanding module (UG + PG).

Experience at the University of Glasgow

Research Associate - Information Studies, School of Humanities

The project I was working on, Our Heritage, Our Stories, is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. It aims to make community-generated digital content from a large number of different community archives more linkable, searchable, and to make it available alongside custodial resources like The National Archive. My main research area within this project is identifying how corpus linguists can benefit from the rich resources found in community archives and how language can be valued and appreciated as a heritage object. I have also created the visualisation outputs (named entity networks) for the project. These can be found here.

Projects and Experience at Lancaster University