Biography
I am an Associate Professor in NLP at the University of Gothenburg. I work at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science. During the past years, I also worked for a Language Technology Research Lab, Språkbanken Text and the Centre for Digital Humanities, now GRIDH. My research focuses on computational methods for detecting changes in natural language, in particular semantic changes and lexical replacements.
I am the principal investigator of a large research program, Change is Key! that received 33.5 Million SEK in funding for research on computational semantic change for the humanities and social sciences funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. The program spans six years starting in 2022 with a total of 15 researchers, one research engineer and six partner universities.
I am also the principal investigator of Towards Computational Lexical Semantic Change Detection, a 4-year research project funded by the Swedish Research Council. I am the workshop chair for the International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change workshop series. I also work on text mining for the digital humanities.
I find that one of the most interesting questions relating to AI is how we can apply data science methods to large scale text to generate sustainable and representative knowledge for the humanities and social sciences. I started up a study circle for textmining in the humanities for researchers at the University of Gothenburg that will be resumed at some point.
For a full list of publicatoins, please see my University website or my Google Scholar site.
Interests
- Language Technology
- Data Science / text-based AI
- Digital Humanities
- Computational Lexical Semantic Change
Education
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PhD in Computer Science, 2013
University of Hannover
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M.Sc. in Engineering Mathematics, 2008
Chalmers University of Technology
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B.Sc. in Mathematics, 2007
University of Gothenburg
