Who I Am

My name is Christian Schuler. I am a researcher at Saarland University and DFKI working on computational linguistics and language technology, with a particular focus on Kurdish and other languages that are underrepresented in digital tools and NLP systems.

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Why This Survey

My interest in Kurdish language communities grew out of a concern with a pattern I kept encountering in computational linguistics: research on "low-resource languages" that was designed primarily around the researcher's agenda, with communities consulted only superficially - if at all.

Before building tools or collecting data for Kurdish NLP, I wanted to start differently: by listening. This survey is that first step.

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Contact

Email: christianschuler8989@gmail.com

Affiliation: Saarland University and DFKI

Website / Profile: https://christianschuler8989.github.io/

I Welcome Feedback

If you have questions about this research, concerns about how it is conducted, or simply want to say something that the survey did not give you space to say, please write to me at the address above. I also welcome critique - of the survey design, of the framing, or of the project as a whole. Getting things right matters more than looking like I already got them right.