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+name: Create Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - 'v*.*.*'
+      - 'KorAP-Tokenizer-*'
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Create GitHub release from Changelog
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+
+      - name: Determine version from tag
+        id: version
+        run: |
+          TAG="${GITHUB_REF_NAME}"
+          VERSION="${TAG#v}"
+          VERSION="${VERSION#KorAP-Tokenizer-}"
+          echo "version=$VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Extract release notes from CHANGELOG.md
+        id: changelog
+        run: |
+          VERSION="${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}"
+          ESCAPED_VERSION=$(printf '%s' "$VERSION" | sed 's/[.[\*^$()+?{|]/\\&/g')
+          awk -v ver="$ESCAPED_VERSION" '
+            BEGIN { found = 0 }
+            /^## / {
+              if (found) exit
+              if ($0 ~ "^## " ver "([^0-9.]|$)") { found = 1 }
+              next
+            }
+            found { print }
+          ' CHANGELOG.md | sed -e '/./,$!d' -e ':a' -e '/^\n*$/{$d;N;ba' -e '}' > release_notes.md
+
+          if [ ! -s release_notes.md ]; then
+            echo "::error::No CHANGELOG.md section found for version $VERSION (tag $GITHUB_REF_NAME)"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          echo "Release notes for $VERSION:"
+          cat release_notes.md
+
+      - name: Create GitHub release
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+        with:
+          name: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+          body_path: release_notes.md
+          draft: false
+          prerelease: false