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<p class="MsoNormal">With great sadness, we must announce that our
dear colleague, the computational linguist Hans-Jörg Bibiko
(1967-2024), has passed away unexpectedly. He had been working at
the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology since 2003
and played a key role in the technical implementation of the <i>World
Atlas of Language Structures</i> (WALS). He is well known among
many typologists as the creator of the "Interactive Reference
Tool" on CD-ROM, which was widely used for a long time, even after
the online version of WALS was published (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/research/tool.php">https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/research/tool.php</a>).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hans-Jörg Bibiko was a wonderful colleague, who
also collaborated with linguists such as Michael Cysouw, Jeff
Good, Paul Heggarty, Frank Seifart, Susanne Maria Michaelis, and
Russell Gray
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p5r_8eEAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=sra">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p5r_8eEAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=sra</a>).
In addition to his work on typological databases, he had a
particular interest in Japanese and Russian lexicography (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bibiko.de/">https://www.bibiko.de/</a>).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We will miss him dearly.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Martin Haspelmath and colleagues (DLCE, MPI-EVA
Leipzig)</p>
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Martin Haspelmath
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/staff/martin-haspelmath/">https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/staff/martin-haspelmath/</a></pre>
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