Jun 07, 2025 | Three accepted papers: Very happy to announce that our paper “Partial Colexifications Improve Concept Embeddings” (with Johann-Mattis List) has been accepted for the main conference of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Two more papers that I have co-authored were accepted to SIGTYP. |
Jun 06, 2025 | Talk held: The Potential of Partial Colexifications for Comparative Linguistics (with Johann-Mattis List). C-LESTE Workshop, University of Frankfurt, Germany. |
May 09, 2025 | Talk held: Improving Digitization Efforts in Comparative Linguistics. Workshop “Linguistic data and language comparison in light of the quantitative turn and big data”, University of Bern, Switzerland. |
Mar 13, 2025 | Talk held: Concept Embeddings: Applying graph embedding techniques to colexification networks. Workshop “Bridging the Gap: Unifying approaches to linguistic evolution”, University of Zurich, Switzerland. |
Mar 05, 2025 | New preprints: Annotating and Inferring Compositional Structures Across Languages (with Christoph Rzymski, Luca Ciucci, Kellen Parker van Dam, Alžběta Kučerová, Katja Bocklage, David Snee, Abishek Stephen, and Johann-Mattis List; arXiv:2503.01625) & Unstable Grounds for Beautiful Trees? Testing the Robustness of Concept Translations in the Compilation of Multilingual Wordlists (with David Snee, Luca Ciucci, Kellen Parker van Dam, and Johann-Mattis List; arXiv:2503.00464). |
Feb 17, 2025 | New preprint: Partial Colexifications Improve Concept Embeddings (with Johann-Mattis List). arXiv:2502.09743. |
Nov 20, 2024 | Invited talk: Word Embeddings. Ringvorlesung “Methoden To Go” [Lecture Series “Methods To Go”], University of Passau. |
Sep 19, 2024 | New publication: Extracting Tuscan phonetic correspondences from dialect pronunciations automatically (with Simonetta Montemagni and John Nerbonne). In Language Dynamics and Change. |
Sep 11, 2024 | Talk held: Automatically Segmenting Words into Morphemes: A Detailed Comparison of Unsupervised Approaches Applied to Monolingual Wordlists from Different Languages. 21st International Congress of Linguistics, Poznań, Poland. |
Aug 05, 2024 | New blogpost: Generating Phonological Feature Vectors with SoundVectors and CLTS. In Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, available online at Hypotheses or as an article via its DOI. |
Jul 22, 2024 | Accepted paper: Extracting Tuscan phonetic correspondences from dialect pronunciations automatically (with Simonetta Montemagni and John Nerbonne). To appear in Language Dynamics and Change. |
Jun 27, 2024 | New publication: Generating Feature Vectors from Phonetic Transcriptions in Cross-Linguistic Data Formats (with Jessica Nieder, Robert Forkel, and Johann-Mattis List). In Proceedings of the 2024 Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL). |
May 08, 2024 | New preprint: Generating Feature Vectors from Phonetic Transcriptions in Cross-Linguistic Data Formats (with Jessica Nieder, Robert Forkel, and Johann-Mattis List). arXiv:2405.04271. |
May 06, 2024 | The Python library soundvectors (v.1.0) has been released and can now be obtained from pypi. |
Apr 10, 2024 | Accepted paper: Generating Feature Vectors from Phonetic Transcriptions in Cross-Linguistic Data Formats (with Jessica Nieder and Johann-Mattis List). To appear in Proceedings of the 2024 Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL). |
Oct 02, 2023 | I started my PhD at the University of Passau. |