CORDIAL develops CorpusMentor, an AI-supported assistant integrated into the BonnCorpora platform to facilitate corpus-linguistic research and teaching. The project aims to reduce the technical barriers associated with corpus analysis by allowing students to formulate corpus queries in natural language. Through a locally hosted open-source large language model (LLM), CorpusMentor translates user prompts into structured corpus queries, retrieves and visualizes results, and supports iterative, research-oriented learning. The project promotes data literacy, methodological competence, and independent empirical inquiry in English linguistics education.

Project members:

Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs (PI)

Julia Schilling, M.Ed. (Technical Development & Research Integration)