Cornelia Ebert

Also known as Cornelia Endriss

Cornelia Ebert is a formal semanticist who studies how gesture and visual signals shape meaning. She co-edited an introduction to computational linguistics in 2001, completed her linguistics doctorate at Potsdam in 2006, and became a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2019. She coordinates DFG research on visual communication, including work on multimodal human-computer interaction. In September 2026, she co-authored a review of visual meaning across sign, spoken, and written language; as of October 2026, she is professor of linguistics/semantics and vice-dean of Faculty 10.

Now at: Goethe University Frankfurt
Works: 122
Citations: 2,076
h-index: 14
Badges: Wayfarer

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

2001

A computational linguistics book

She co-edits Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie – Eine Einführung, a book introducing computational linguistics and language technology.
2006–2009

A doctorate and monograph

She completes a linguistics doctorate at Potsdam in 2006 with a thesis on quantificational topics and exceptional wide scope. In 2009, she publishes a revised version as Quantificational Topics.
2012

A Caroline von Humboldt Prize

She receives the Caroline von Humboldt Prize in 2012.
2019

Professor at Goethe University

She becomes professor of linguistics/semantics at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2019, after research posts at Osnabrück, Stuttgart, and Leibniz-ZAS Berlin.
2022

Coordinating visual communication

She coordinates DFG's Visual Communication priority programme (ViCom), which begins in 2022. The programme studies sign language and gesture and includes multimodal human-computer interaction systems.
As of October 2026

Professor and vice-dean at Frankfurt

Goethe University's Multimodal Communication field lists her among its speakers and names gesture as one of her research interests. In September 2026, she co-authors Visual Components to Interpretation: Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning, a review of visual meaning across sign, spoken, and written language. As of October 2026, she is professor of linguistics/semantics and vice-dean of Faculty 10 at Goethe University Frankfurt.