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Elena Volodina

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Researcher, Docent

Natural Language Processing

Docent title (since February 2018)
Researcher at Language Bank (from 2017)
Research engineer at Language Bank (from 2010)
MA in Computational Linguistics from Gothenburg University (2008)
PhD in Linguistics from Moscow State Pedagogical University (1998)
 

Research

Research Interests

  • Privacy protection of research data (pseudonymization)
  • Research infrastructure
  • Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL)
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Text and sentence readability
  • Linguistic complexity
  • Second language corpora
  • CEFR profiles

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Ongoing projects

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Past projects

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Presentations

  • Elena Volodina (September, 2024, Higher seminar / University of Gothenburg). Open access to research data - is pseudomnymization an answer? [Slides]
  • Elena Volodina (April, 2024, Uppsala university). Guest talk. Swedish Second Language profiles: vocabulary, grammar, word-building [Slides]
  • Elena Volodina (November, 2023, Open House at Mormor Karl's). Who is Mormor Karl and why is he 27 years old? Mormor Karl’s Research Agenda
  • Elena Volodina (April 2023, L2P workshop). Organizer talk. Swedish Morphological profile [Slides] [Video]
  • Elena Volodina (December, 2022, NLP4CALL). Invited talk. ICALL research: agenda vs reality [Slides] [Article, p.145-151]
  • Elena Volodina (December 2021, Workshop GR4L2). Invited talk. CEFR-graded Morpheme Family for L2 Swedish.
  • SweLL release - a research resource for Swedish as a Second Language (2-day program). August 2021.
  • Elena Volodina (Autumn 2021, Department of Swedish, UGOT). L2 profiles and Swedish Word family resource.
  • Elena Volodina (Spring 2021, Department of Swedish, UGOT) SweLL learner corpus: statistics, Korp access and more.

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  • Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Sandra Derbring, Arild Matsson and Beata Megyesi (December 2020), COLING-2020, poster presentation.  Towards privacy by design in learner corpora research: A case of on-the-fly pseudonymization of Swedish learner essays. 
  • Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann. (2020-11-26), SLTC 2020, paper presentation. Expert judgments versus crowdsourcing in ordering multi-word expressions. [Slides]
  • Elena Volodina (2020-11-25), NLP4CALL 2020, replacement keynote talk. Pseudonymization of learner corpora. [Slides]
  • Elena Volodina (2020-09-23), Baltic HLT 2020, keynote talk. Learner corpora – overcoming challenges with building and sharing the data. [Slides]

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  • Elena Volodina (September 2019), organizer talk. SVALA - pseudonymization service for L2 Swedish. NLP4CALL-8, Turku Finland. [Slides]
  • Elena Volodina, Arild Matsson (Dan Rosén and Mats Wirén) (September 2019). SVALA: an Annotation Tool for Learner Corpora generating parallel texts. Learner Corpus Research Conference-2019. Poland, Warszawa. [Slides]
  • Elena Volodina (April,11, 2019). Crowdsourcing for language learning: looking for potential. A regular research seminar at Språkbanken-Text, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Elena Volodina (April, 3, 2019), guest talk. Crowdsourcing for language learning: looking for potential. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, guest talk. [pdf]

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  • Elena Volodina (December 2020). Enet-Collect, WG1 workshop, organizer talk. Introduction to the pre-workshop MWE experiment [Slides] 
  • Elena Volodina (December 2020). Enet-Collect, WG1 workshop, organizer talk. Summary: what we have learnt, awareness of limitations, benefits, reality checks, etc. [Slides]
  • Elena Volodina, Lena Granstedt, Beáta Megyesi, Julia Prentice, Dan Rosén, Carl-Johan Schenström, Gunlög Sundberg & Mats Wirén. (2018). Annotation of learner corpora: first SweLL insights. Proceedings of SLTC-2018, Stockholm, Sweden [pdf]
  • Interoperability of Second Language Resources and Tools. A paper presentation at CLARIN-2018 conference, Italy, 7-10 October [Slides]
  • Towards a research infrastructure for Second Language Acquisition and teaching: case of L2 Swedish. A guest talk at Ljubljana University, Slovenia, June 7, 2018 [pdf]
  • "Annotation of L2 corpora for NLP and SLA studies: case of SweLL", keynote talk at INDUS network meeting, Tübingen, Germany, 28 Feb-1 March 2018 [Slides]

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  • "Legal and ethical issues when dealing with learner essays" - 2 presentations: at an NCN workshop (Nordic CLARIN Network), September 2017, Stockholm; at a CLARIN L2 workshop, December 2017, Gothenburg.
  • "Introduction to SweLL" - CLT (Center for Language Technology) workshop, November 2017, Gothenburg
  • "Situation and legal problems with collecting learner texts" - Presentation at a meeting of enet-COLLECT, September 2017, Bolzano, Italy. [slides]
  • "SweLL in a nutshell" - Presentation at Språkbanken's internal talk series, August, 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden. [slides]
  • 2017-05-22, NLP4CALL & LA, organizer talk: "Common pitfalls in developing ICALL applications"
  • 2017-04-20, Estonian Annual Conference on Applied Linguistics, plenary talk: A friend in need? Language Technology for Second Language Learning
  • 2017-02-25, ENEL, Budapest, invited talk: Crowdsourcing Second language learner data: experiences and prospects
  • 2017-02-14, Språkrådet, seminarieföredrag: SweLL - forskningsinfrastruktur för svenska som andraspråk

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  • 2016-11-17, SLTC, conference presentation: A Friend in Need? Research Agenda for electronic second language infrastructure
  • 2016-10-17, Språkbankens höstworkshop: Språkinlärningsplattform Lärka: funktioner och utsikter
  • 2016-09-23, Bokmässa, Göteborg: (föreläsning) Datorverktyg för språkinlärning - hur gör man? + (demo) Lärka
  • February, 2016, ENeL meeting (European Network for e-Lexicography), Vienna: (presentation) "Karp & Korp"
  • February, 2016, ENEL workshop (European Network for e-Lexicography), Vienna: (presentation) "Sentence selection in the context of Swedish as a second language: potential for GDEX"
  • January 2016, LexicoNordica 2016, Denmark: (presentation) “Studenter drillar Lärkans sång – om hur studenter lär grammatik via korpusverktyget Lärka” [program]

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Interviews

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Blogs and news

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Organization of events

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PhD supervision

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Research grants

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Other activities

  • NEALT executive committee: Treasurer. 2020-2024
  • Språkbanken-Text, operativa gruppen, 2020-2021
  • Forskningsutbildnings kommitté, Göteborgs universitet, Inst för svenska. Representant från språkteknologi. 2020-2023.
  • NAACL-2019 workshop co-chairing. Chairing all co-chairs from NAACL, ACL and EMNLP.
  • National coordination group, Swe-Clarin, 2016-2017
  • Coordination group member: Språkbanken, 2016-2017
  • Steering group member: Program in Master in Language Technology, 2017
  • Sponsor Chair for the 21st NoDaLiDa conference, 22-24 May 2017
  • Co-organizer of a CLARIN EU workshop on Interoperability of Second Language Tools and Resources
  • Co-organizer of a shared task on Automatic Evaluation of Scientific Writing, AESW, NAACL/BEA 2016
  • Chair of SIG-ICALL of NEALT, North European Association of Language Technology, since 2013
  • Organizer of a series of workshops on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning, NLP4CALL, annually since 2012
  • Book Fair 2016 - a talk for public on Development of Tools for Language Learning
  • Book Fair 2016 - a demo of a platform Lärka for language learning
  • Volunteer at an EACL 2014 conference held in April 2014, in Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Vetenskapsfestivalen 2014 - workshop om Lärka
  • Vetenskapsfestivalen 2014 - presentation for the public about Language Technology for language learning
  • Grammatikfestivalen 2014 - allmän föreläsning om NLP för grammatikundervisning
  • European networking (COST actions):
    • ENeL - European Network of e-Lexicography, active member of work group 3
    • enetCOLLECT, co-applicant
  • Defense committee member (Betygskommité):
    • 2024-2027, Isidora Glišić, member of a Doctoral Committee; (University of Iceland)
    • 2024, Xiu Li, PhD defense, Examination committee member. Title: Exploring Natural Language Processing for Linking Digital Learning (Stockholm university)
    • 2022, Evelina Rennes, PhD defense, Examination committee member. Title: Automatic Adaptation of Swedish Text for Increaed Inclusion (Linköping university)
    • 2022, Murathan Kurfali, PhD defense, Examination committee member. Title: Contributions to Shallow Discourse Parsing (Stockholm university)
    • 2020, Herbert Lange, PhD defense, Examination committee member. Title: Learning Language (with) Grammars: From Teaching Latin to Learning Domain-Specific Grammars (Chalmers university)
    • 2020, Evelina Rennes, Half-way PhD review, Main reviewer. (Linköping University)
    • 2019, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, PhD defense, Main reviewer. Title: ... (EURAC, Italy)
    • 2019, Lisa Loenheim, PhD defence. Title: Att tolka det samansatta. Befästning och mönster i första- och andraspråkstalares tolkning av sammansättningar (University of Gothenburg, Dpt of Swedish. Stand-in (suppleang))
    • 2017, Anki Hult, PhD defence. Title: Ordboksanvändning på nätet: en undersökning av användningen av Lexins svenska lexikon. Stand-in (suppleang)
    • 2015, Judy Ribeck, PhD defence. Title: Steg för steg. Naturvetenskapligt ämnesspråk som räknas. Stand-in (suppleang)
  • Examining committee assignments (reviews for promotion and applications)
    • Reviewer of PhD candidates, on request from University of Gothenburg (Språkbanken), Sweden. (2013-...)
    • Reviewer for promotion, on request from University of Maryland (CASL), USA. (2017-2018)
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Publications

2024

  • Thomas Gaillat, Cyriel Mallart, Fabienne Moreau, Jen-Yu Li, Griselda Drouet, David Alfter, Elena Volodina and Arne Jönsson. 2024. Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2024). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 211, NEALT Proceedings Series 56. [link]
  • Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, David Alfter, Simon Dobnik, Maria Szawerna, Elena Volodina. (2024) Jingle BERT, Jingle BERT, Frozen All the Way: Freezing Layers to Identify CEFR Levels of Second Language Learners Using BERT. In Proceedings of the 13th workshop on natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted language Learning (NLP4CALL, France). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 211, NEALT Proceedings Series 56. [link]
  • Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Simon Dobnik and Elena Volodina. (2024) Harnessing GPT to Study Second Language Learner Essays: CanWe Use Perplexity to Determine Linguistic Competence? In Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024) [link]
  • Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Maria Irena Szawerna and Elena Volodina. (2024) Name Biases in Automated Essay Assessment. An abstract at the 28th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences - University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland [link]
  • Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Simon Dobnik, Maria Irena Szawerna, Therese Lindström Tiedemann and Elena Volodina. (2024) Did the Names I Used within My Essay Affect My Score? Diagnosing Name Biases in Automated Essay Scoring. In Proceedings of the the EACL workshop Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo-2024). EACL, Malta, 2024. Association for Language Technology. [link]
  • Maria Irena Szawerna, Simon Dobnik, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Therese Lindström Tiedemann and Elena Volodina. (2024) Detecting Personal Identifiable Information in Swedish Learner Essays. In Proceedings of the the EACL workshop Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo-2024). EACL, Malta, 2024. Association for Language Technology. [link]
  • Volodina Elena, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Xuan-Son Vu, David Alfter, Maria Irena Szawerna, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez. (2024) Proceedings of the EACL workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo), Editors. EACL, Malta, 2024. Association for Language Technology. [link]
  • Arhar Holdt, Špela , Tomaž Erjavec, Iztok Kosem and Elena Volodina. (2024) Towards an Ideal Tool for Learner Error Annotation. In Proceedings of LREC-Coling 2024. [link]
  • Szawerna, Maria Irena , Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Xuan-Son Vu and Elena Volodina. (2024) Pseudonymization Categories across Domain Boundaries. In Proceedings of LREC-Coling 2024. [link]
  • Volodina Elena, Yousuf Ali Mohammed and Therese Lindström Tiedemann. (2024) Swedish word family resource: Construction, applicability, strengths and first experiments. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company [link]
  • Elena Volodina, Gerlof Bouma, Markus Forsberg, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, David Alfter, Mats Fridlund, Christian Horn, Lars Ahrenberg, Anna Blåder (2024). Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024). Editors. Gothenburg, Sweden. [link]
  • Volodina Elena. (2024) On two SweLL learner corpora–SweLL-pilot and SweLL-gold. In Huminfra Conference, pp. 83-94. [link]
  • Volodina Elena, David Alfter, and Therese Lindström Tiedemann. (2024) Profiles for Swedish as a second language: lexis, grammar, morphology. In Huminfra Conference, pp. 10-19. [link]
  • Lindström Tiedemann, Therese, Alfter, David, Mohammed, Yousuf Ali, Piipponen, Daniela, Silén, Beatrice, Volodina, Elena. (In press) Multiword expressions in Swedish as a second language: taxonomy, annotation and initial results. In: Giouli, Voula & Mititelu, Verginica Barbu (eds.), Multiword expressions in language resources. Linguistic, Lexicographic and Computational Considerations. Berlin: Language Science Press. [link]

2023

  • Arianna Masciolini, Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls. 2023. Towards automatically extracting morphosyntactical error patterns from L1-L2 parallel dependency treebanks. Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023), July 13, 2023, Toronto, Canada. [link]
  • Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Gerlof Bouma, Robin Kurtz, Felix Morger, Joey Öhman, Yvonne Adesam, Lars Borin, Dana Dannélls, Markus Forsberg, Tim Isbister Anna Lindahl, Martin Malmsten, Faton Rekathati, Magnus Sahlgren, Elena Volodina, Love Börjeson, Simon Hengchen, Nina Tahmasebi. 2023. Superlim: A Swedish Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023, Singapore), pp. 8137–8153. [link]
  • David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Thomas François, Arne Jönsson, Evelina Rennes (Eds). 2023. Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2023, Faroe Islands). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 197, NEALT Proceedings Series 53. Linköping University Press. [link]
  • Elena Volodina, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann and Xuan-Son Vy. 2023. Grandma Karl is 27 Years old – Research Agenda for Pseudonymization of Research Data. Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications (BigDataService), Workshop on Big Data and Machine Learning with Privacy Enhancing Tech. Athens, Greece.  [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Christopher Bryant, Andrew Caines, Orphée De Clercq, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Elizaveta Ershova, Alexandr Rosen and Olga Vinogradova. 2023. MultiGED-2023 shared task at NLP4CALL: Multilingual Grammatical Error Detection. In Proceedings of 12th workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2023). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 197. NEALT Proceedings Series 53. [link]
  • Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Gerlof Bouma, Joey Öhman. 2023. DaLAJ-GED - a dataset for Grammatical Error Detection tasks on Swedish. In Proceedings of 12th workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2023). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 197. NEALT Proceedings Series 53. [link]
  • Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann. (2023). Crowdsourcing ratings for single lexical items: a core vocabulary perspective. Slovenščina 2.0: Empirical, Applied and Interdisciplinary Research, 10(2), 5-61. [DOI]

2022

  • Judit Casademont Moner, Elena Volodina. 2022. Swedish MuClaGED: A new dataset for Grammatical Error Detection in Swedish. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2022), Belgium. NEALT Proceedings Series 47. [url]
  • Julia Klezl, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Elena Volodina. 2022. Exploring Linguistic Acceptability in Swedish Learners’ Language. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2022), Belgium. NEALT Proceedings Series 47. [url]
  • Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammad and Therese Lindström Tiedemann. 2022. Lyxig språklig födelsedagspresent from the Swedish Word Family. In Volodina, Dannélls, Berdicevskis, Forsberg and Virk (editors), Live and Learn – Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin, pages 153–160. GU-ISS-2022-03, University of Gothenburg. [url]
  • Elena Volodina and David Alfter. 2022. ICALL: Research versus reality check. In Volodina, Dannélls, Berdicevskis, Forsberg and Virk (editors), Live and Learn – Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin, pages 145–151. GU-ISS-2022-03, University of Gothenburg. [url]
  • Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls, Aleksandrs Berdicevkis, Markus Forsberg, Shafqat Virk (Eds.). 2022. Live and Learn - Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin. GU-ISS-2022-03, University of Gothenburg. [url]
  • Elena Volodina, Therese Lindström Tiedemann and Yousuf Ali Mohammed (2022). Swedish L2 profile - a tool for exploring L2 data. Learner Corpus Research conference, Padua Italy. [abstract, pp.189-190]; [slides]
  • Judit Casademont Moner and Elena Volodina (2022). Generation of Synthetic Error Data of Verb Order Errors for Swedish. NAACL workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. [link]
  • Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Arild Matson, Elena Volodina (2022). Annotation Management Tool - a Requirement for Corpus Construction. Selected papers from the Annual Clarin Conference 2021. [link]
  • Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Maisa Lauriala, Daniala Piipponen (2022). Reliability of Automatic Linguistic Annotation: Native vs Non-native Texts. Selected papers from the Annual Clarin Conference 2021. [link]
  • Lindström Tiedemann, Therese, Alfter, Dadvid, & Volodina, Elena (2022). CEFR-nivåer och svenska flerordsuttryck. In Svenskan i Finland 19, p.218-233. [full issue - pdf]

2021

  • Prentice, Julia, Camilla Håkansson, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Ildikó Pilán and Elena Volodina. (2021). Language learning and teaching with Swedish FrameNet+. In: (Eds.) Dannélls, Dana, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin. The Swedish FrameNet++: Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications.  John Benjamins Publishing Company(2021): 303 [NLP 14]. [book, open access]
  • David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina (2021). Crowdsourcing Relative Rankings of Multi-Word Expressions: Experts versus Non-Experts. Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT). [journal version] [arxiv preprint]
  • Arianna Zanetti, Johannes Graën, Elena Volodina (2021). Automatic Generation of Exercises for Second Language Learning from Parallel Corpus Data.  International TESOL Union, 2021-2. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Maisa Lauriala and Daniela Piipponen (2021). Reliability of Automatic Linguistic Annotation: Native vs Non-native Texts. Proceedings of Clarin-2021, pp 90-94. [pdf]
  • Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Arild Matsson, Elena Volodina (2021). Annnotation Management Tool: a Requireement for Corpus Annotation Construction. Proceedings of Clarin-2021, pp 77-81. [pdf]
  • David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Johannes Graën and Lars Borin (2021). (Eds.) Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2021). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 177. November 25 2020, Reykjavik (online) Iceland. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, and Therese Lindström Tiedemann. (2021). CoDeRooMor: A new dataset for non-inflectional morphology studies of Swedish. NoDaLiDa 2021 (2021): Linköping Electronic University Press, Vol.178. [pdf] [video-presentation]
  • Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, and Julia Klezl. (2021) DaLAJ - a dataset for linguistic acceptability judgments for Swedish.Proceedings of the 10th NLP4CALL workshop. Linköping Electronic University Press, Vol. 177:3. [pdf] [an extended version on arXiv]
  • Beáta Megyesi, Lisa Rudebeck, Elena Volodina. (2021). SweLL pseudonymization guidelines. Research report: GU-ISS Forskningsrapporter från Institutionen för svenska språket [link]
  • Elena Volodina, Beáta Megyesi. (2021). SweLL transcription guidelines. Research report: GU-ISS Forskningsrapporter från Institutionen för svenska språket [link]
  • Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed and Therese Lindstrom Tiedemann. (2021). Graded Word Family resource for L2 Swedish. Abstract for the workshop on Building CEFR-graded resources for foreign second language learning.
  • Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Yousuf Ali Mohammed and Elena Volodina. (2021). Grammar profiling for empirical research and teaching. Abstract for the workshop on Building CEFR-graded resources for foreign second language learning.

2020

  • Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Sandra Derbring, Arild Matsson and Beata Megyesi (2020).  Towards privacy by design in learner corpora research: A case of on-the-fly pseudonymization of Swedish learner essays. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) (pp. 357-369). [pdf]
  • David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Herbert Lange and Lars Borin (2020). (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2020). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 175. November 25 2020, Gothenburg (online) Sweden. [pdf]
  • Špela Arhar Holdt, Rina Zviel-Girshin, Elżbieta Gajek, Isabel Durán-Muñoz, Petra Bago, Karën Fort, Ciler Hatipoglu, Ramunė Kasperavičienė, Svetla Koeva, Ivana Lazić Konjik, Lina Miloshevska, Antonia Ordulj, Christos Rodosthenous, Elena Volodina, Tassja Weber, Lorenzo Zanasi (2020). Language teachers and crowdsourcing: Insights from a cross-European survey. Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Vol 46-1, p.1-28
  • David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina (2020). Expert judgments versus crowdsourcing in ordering multi-word expressions. Proceedings of the Swedish Language Technology Conference - Online, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 2020.

2019

  • Elena Volodina, Lena Granstedt, Arild Matsson, Beáta Megyesi, Ildikó Pilán, Julia Prentice, Dan Rosén, Lisa Rudebeck, Carl-Johan Schenström, Gunlög Sundberg and Mats Wirén (2019). The SweLL Language Learner Corpus: From Design to Annotation. Northern European Journal of Language Technology, Special Issue. [pdf]
  • David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Lars Borin, Ildikó Pilán, Herbert Lange (2019). Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2019), September 30, Turku Finland. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Arild Matsson, Dan Rosén and Mats Wirén. 2019. SVALA: an Annotation Tool for Learner Corpora generating parallel texts. Learner Corpus Research conference (LCR-2019). Proceedings.
  • David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann and Elena Volodina. 2019. LEGATO: A flexible lexicographic annotation tool. Nodalida 2019, Turku, Finland. LiUP Press. [pdf]
  • Wirén Mats, Arild Matsson, Dan Rosén, Elena Volodina. 2019. SVALA: Annotation of Second-Language Learner Text Based on Mostly Automatic Alignment of Parallel Corpora. CLARIN-2018 post-conference volume. LiUP Press. [pdf]
  • David Alfter, Lars Borin, Ildikó Pilán, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina. 2019. From Language Learning Platform to Infrastructure for Research on Language Learning. CLARIN-2018 post-conference volume. LiUP Press. [pdf]
  • Emma Sköldberg, Louise Holmer, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán. (2019). State-of-the-art of monolingual Lexicography for Sweden. In: Slovenščina 2.0: empirical, applied and interdisciplinary research. [DOI ]
  • Egon W. Stemle, Adriane Boyd, Maarten Janssen, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Nives Mikelić Preradović, Alexandr Rosen, Dan Rosén, Elena Volodina. (2019) Working together towards an ideal infrastructure for language learner corpora. Learner Corpus Research 2017. In Andrea Abel, Aivars Glaznieks, Verena Lyding & Lionel Nicolas (eds.) Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research. Selected papers from the fourth Learner Corpus Research Conference. Corpora and Language in Use – Proceedings 5, Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 427-468. [post-print]

2018

  • Iztok Kosem, Robert Lew, Carolin Müller-Spitzer, Maria Ribeiro Silveira, Sascha Wolfer, ...Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Emma Sköldberg, Louise Holmer... (2018). The image of the monolingual dictionary across Europe. Results of the European survey of dictionary use and culture. International Journal of Lexicography ecy022 [ DOI]
  • Pilán, I., Volodina, E., Alfter, D., & Borin, L. (Eds.). (2018). Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2018) at SLTC, Stockholm, 7th November 2018. NEALT Proceedings Series 36. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 152. [pdf]
  • Beáta Megyesi, Sofia Johansson, Dan Rosén,Carl-Johan Schenström, Gunlög Sundberg, Mats Wirén & Elena Volodina. (2018). Learner Corpus Anonymization in the Age of GDPR: Insights from the Creation of a Learner Corpus of Swedish. Proceedings of the 7th NLP4CALL workshop. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Lena Granstedt, Beáta Megyesi, Julia Prentice, Dan Rosén, Carl-Johan Schenström, Gunlög Sundberg & Mats Wirén. (2018). Annotation of learner corpora: first SweLL insights. Proceedings of SLTC-2018, Stockholm, Sweden [pdf]
  • David Alfter & Elena Volodina. (2018). Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? A corpus-based pilot study of the lexical complexity in multi-word expressions. Proceedings of SLTC-2018, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Dan Rosén, Mats Wirén and Elena Volodina. (2018). Error Coding of Second-Language Learner Texts Based on Mostly Automatic Alignment of Parallel Corpora. Clarin-2018. [pdf]
  • David Alfter, Lars Borin, Ildikó Pilán, Therese Lindström Tiedemann and Elena Volodina. (2018) From Language Learning Platform to Infrastructure for Research on Language Learning. Clarin-2018.
  • Elena Volodina, Maarten Janssen, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Nives Mikelic Preradovic, Silje Karin Ragnhildstveit, Kari Tenfjord and Koenraad de Smedt. (2018) Interoperability of Second Language Resources and Tools. Clarin-2018.
  • Pilán, Ildikó, & Volodina, Elena. (2018). Exploring word embeddings and phonological similarity for the unsupervised correction of language learner errors. In Proceedings of the Second Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (pp. 119-128) at COLING-2018. [pdf]
  • Alfter, David, & Volodina, Elena (2018) Towards Single Word Lexical Complexity Prediction. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (pp. 79-88) at NAACL-2018 [pdf]
  • Pilán, Ildikó, & Volodina, Elena. (2018). Investigating the importance of linguistic complexity features across different datasets related to language learning. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Complexity and Natural Language Processing (pp. 49-58) at COLING-2018 [pdf]

2017

  • Ildikó Pilán, Elena Volodina, Lars Borin. (2017). Candidate sentence selection for language learning exercises: from a comprehensive framework to an empirical evaluation. TAL Journal: Special issue NLP for learning and Teaching. Volume 57, Number 3. [pre-print]
  • Lars Borin, Nina Tahmasebi, Elena Volodina, Stefan Ekman, Caspar Jordan, Jon Viklund, Beáta Megyesi, Jesper Näsman, Anne Palmér, Mats Wirén, Kristina N Björkenstam, Gintarė Grigonytė, Sofia Gustafson Capková, Tomasz Kosiński. 2017. Swe-Clarin: Language Resources and Technology for Digital Humanities. In: Digital Humanities 2016. Extended Papers of the International Symposium on Digital Humanities (DH 2016) Växjö, Sweden, November, 7-8, 2016. Edited by Koraljka Golub, Marcelo Milra. Vol-2021. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Lars Borin, Gintare Grigonyte, Kristina Nilsson Björkenstam (Eds). 2017. Proceedings of the joint 6th workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning and 2nd NLP for Research on Language Acquisition at Nodalida 2017. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 134, e-ISSN 1650-3740 (Online), ISSN 1650-3686 (Print), ISBN 978-91-7685-502-7. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Lars Borin, Gintarė Grigonytė, Kristina Nilsson Björkenstam. 2017. Preface. In: Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Lars Borin, Gintare Grigonyte, Kristina Nilsson Björkenstam (Eds). Proceedings of the Joint 6th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning and 2nd Workshop on NLP for Research on Language Acquisition at NoDaLiDa 2017, Gothenburg, 22nd May 2017. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 134, e-ISSN 1650-3740 (Online), ISSN 1650-3686 (Print), ISBN 978-91-7685-633-8 [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Lars Borin, Ildikó Pilán, Anaïs Tack & Thomas François. (2017). SVALex. En andraspråksordlista med CEFR-nivåer. Svenskans beskrivning 35. Eds: Emma Sköldberg, Maia Andréasson, Henrietta Adamsson Eryd, Filippa Lindahl, Sven Lindström, Julia Prentice & Malin Sandberg, Gothenburg. pp. 369-382. [pdf]

2016

  • Elena Volodina, Gintarė Grigonytė, Ildikó Pilán, Kristina Nilsson Björkenstam, Lars Borin. 2016. Eds: Proceedings of the joint workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning and NLP for Language Acquisition at SLTC, Umeå, 16th November 2016. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 130, e-ISSN 1650-3740 (Online), ISSN 1650-3686 (Print), ISBN 978-91-7685-633-8 [pdf]
  • Ildikó Pilán, Elena Volodina and Torsten Zesch. 2016. Predicting proficiency levels in learner writings by transferring a linguistic complexity model from expert-written coursebooks. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2016, Osaka, Japan. [pdf]
  • Ildikó Pilán, Elena Volodina and David Alfter. 2016. Coursebook texts as a helping hand for classifying linguistic complexity in language learners' writings. Proceedings of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC), COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan.
  • David Alfter, Yuri Bizzoni, Anders Agebjörn, Elena Volodina and Ildikó Pilán. 2016. From Distributions to Labels: A Lexical Proficiency Analysis using Learner Corpora. Proceedings of the workshop on NLP4CALL&LA. NEALT Proceedings Series / Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Lorena Llozhi, Baptiste Degryse, Thomas François. 2016. SweLLex: second language learners' productive vocabulary. Proceedings of the workshop on NLP4CALL&LA. NEALT Proceedings Series / Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Beata Megyesi, Mats Wirén, Lena Granstedt, Julia Prentice, Monica Reichenberg, Gunlög Sundberg. 2016. A Friend in Need? Research agenda for electronic Second Language infrastructure. Proceedings of SLTC 2016, Umeå, Sweden [pdf]
  • Ildikó Pilán, Elena Volodina. 2016. Classification of Language Proficiency Levels in Swedish Learners' Texts. Proceedings of SLTC 2016, Umeå, Sweden
  • David Alfter, Elena Volodina.2016. Modeling Individual Learner Knowledge in a Computer Assisted Language Learning System. Proceedings of SLTC 2016, Umeå, Sweden. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, David Alfter. 2016. Classification of Swedish learner essays by CEFR levels. Proceedings of EuroCALL 2016, Cyprus. [link]
  • Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina & Håkan Jansson. (2016). Lärka – ett verktyg för träning av språkterminologi. LexicoNordica, Vol. 23, p.161-181. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Thomas François & Anaïs Tack. 2016. SVALex: en andraspråksordlista graderad enligt CEFR nivåer. Proceedings of Svenskans beskrivning 35, Göteborg 2016. [pdf]
  • Therese Lindström Tiedemann & Elena Volodina. 2016. Lärka som didaktiskt verktyg. Undersökning om studenternas metaspråkliga kunskap. Proceedings of Svenskans beskrivning 35, Göteborg 2016. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Ingegerd Enström, Peter Lundkvist, Gunlög Sundberg, Lorena Llozhi, Monica Sandell. 2016. SweLL – en korpus med L2 uppsatser för CEFR studier. Proceedings of Svenskans beskrivning 35, Göteborg 2016. [pdf]
  • Vidas Daudaravicius, Rafael E. Banchs, Elena Volodina & Courtney Napoles. 2016. A report on the Automatic Evaluation of Scientific Writing Shared Task. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications 2016, NAACL. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Ingegerd Enström, Lorena Llozhi, Peter Lundkvist, Gunlög Sundberg, Monica Sandell. 2016. SweLL on the rise: Swedish Learner Language corpus for European Reference Level studies. Proceedings of LREC 2016, Slovenia. [pdf]
  • Thomas François, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Anaïs Tack. 2016. SVALex: a CEFR-graded lexical resource for Swedish foreign and second language learners. Proceedings of LREC 2016, Slovenia. [pdf]

2015

  • Pilán, Ildikó, Sowmya Vajjala, Elena Volodina. 2015. A readable read: Automatic Assessment of Language Learning Materials based on Linguistic Complexity. To appear in International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications (IJLCA). [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Dijana Pijetlovic. 2015. Lark Trills for Language Drills: Text-to-speech technology for language learners. Proceedings of the 10th workshop on Building Educational Applications (BEA10), NAACL 2015, Denver, USA [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Lars Borin, Ildikó Pilán. 2015. Eds: Proceedings of the fourth workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning at Nodalida 2015, May, 11, Vilnius, Lithuania. NEALT Proceedings Series 26. [pdf]

2014

  • Elena Volodina, Lars Borin, Ildikó Pilán.2014. Eds: Proceedings of the third workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning at SLTC 2014, November, 13, Uppsala, Sweden. NEALT Proceedings Series 22. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Stian Rødven Eide and Hannes Heidarsson 2014. You get what you annotate: a pedagogically annotated corpus of coursebooks for Swedish as a Second Language. Proceedings of the third workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning. NEALT Proceedings Series 22 / Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 107: 128–144. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Therese Lindström Tiedemann. 2014. Evaluating students' metalinguistic knowledge with Lärka. Proceedings of the 6th Swedish Language Technology Conference. Uppsala, Sweden, 13-14 November 2014. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán. 2014. Annotation guide for the Course book editor in Lärka. Inst. för svenska språket. [pdf]
  • Ildikó Pilán, Elena Volodina. 2014. Reusing Swedish FrameNet for training semantic roles. Proceedings of LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Lars Borin and Therese Lindström Tiedemann. 2014. A flexible language learning platform based on language resources and web services. Proceedings of LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland. [pdf]
  • Ildikó Pilán, Elena Volodina and Richard Johansson. 2014. Rule-based and machine learning approaches for second language sentence-level readability. Proceedings of the 9th workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP, ACL 2014. [pdf]

2013

  • Kilgarriff Adam, Charalabopoulou Frieda, Gavrilidou Maria, Bondi Johannessen Janne, Khalil Saussan, Johansson Kokkinakis Sofie, Lew Robert, Sharoff Serge, Vadlapudi Ravikiran Volodina Elena. (2014). Corpus-Based Vocabulary lists for Language Learners for Nine Languages. Language Resources and Evaluation Journal 48.1: 121-163. Springer, Netherlands. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10579-013-9251-2 [Download pdf through open acces]
  • Pijetlovic, D. & Volodina, E. (2013). Developing a Swedish spelling game on an ICALL platform. In: 20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future. 2013 EUROCALL Conference, Évora, Portugal, Proceedings [pdf]
  • Pilán, I. Volodina, E. and Johansson, R. (2013). Automatic selection of suitable sentences for language learning exercises. In: 20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future. 2013 EUROCALL Conference, Évora, Portugal, Proceedings [pdf]
  • Volodina E., Borin L., and Loftsson H. (2013) Eds: Proceedings of the second workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning at NODALIDA 2013, May 22-24, Oslo, Norway. NEALT Proceedings Series 17[pdf]
  • Volodina, E., Pijetlovic, D., Pilán, I. and Johansson Kokkinakis, S. (2013). Towards a gold standard for Swedish CEFR-based ICALL. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Nodalida 2013, Oslo, Norway.[pdf]
  • Volodina, E. & Johansson Kokkinakis, S. (2013). Compiling a corpus of CEFR-related texts. Proceedings of the Language Testing and CEFR conference, Antwerpen, Belgium, May 27-29, 2013. [pdf, p.248-259]

2012

  • Elena Volodina, Lars Borin, Hrafn Loftsson, Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Guðmundur Örn Leifsson. 2012. Waste not, want not: Towards a system architecture for ICALL based on NLP component re-use. Workshop on NLP in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Proceedings of the SLTC 2012 workshop on NLP for CALL. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 80: 47-58. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Richard Johansson, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis. 2012. Semi-automatic selection of best corpus examples for Swedish: Initial algorithm evaluation. Workshop on NLP in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Proceedings of the SLTC 2012 workshop on NLP for CALL. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 80: 59–70. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina, Hrafn Loftsson, Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Lars Borin, and Guðmundur Örn Leifsson. 2012. Towards a system architecture for ICALL. In G. Biswas et al. (eds), Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computers in Education. Singapore: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. [pdf]
  • Elena Volodina and Lars Borin. 2012. Developing a freely available web-based exercise generator for Swedish. EuroCALL 2012 Proceedings, Gothenburg. [pdf]
  • Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Elena Volodina 2012. Building corpus-informed word lists for L2 vocabulary learning in nine languages. EuroCALL 2012 Proceedings, Gothenburg. [pdf]
  • Volodina, E. & Johansson Kokkinakis, S. (2012). Introducing Swedish Kelly-list, a new lexical e-resource for Swedish. LREC 2012, Turkey.[pdf]
  • Volodina, E. & Johansson Kokkinakis, S. (2012). Swedish Kelly: Technical Report. GU-ISS-2012-01. The Swedish Language Bank, Gothenburg University. [pdf]

2011

  • Johansson Kokkinakis, S. and Volodina, E. (2011). Corpus-based approaches for the creation of a frequency based vocabulary list in the EU project KELLY – issues on reliability, validity and coverage. eLex 2011, Slovenia.[pdf]

2010

  • Elena Volodina (2010). Corpora in Language Classroom: Reusing Stockholm Umeå Corpus in a vocabulary exercise generator. Lambert Academic Publishing

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Teaching

2019-2021

  • MLT Language Resources and Algorithms course (invited lectures and project supervision)
  • Master Thesis supervision
    • Kristoffer Homquist (2021). Nominaliseringar i inlärarsvenska.
    • Julia Klezl (2021). Acceptability judgments in Swedish learners' language. Post-publications [link1, link2]
    • Arianna Zanetti (2020). NLP methods for the automatic generation of exercises for second language learning from parallel corpus data. Post-publication [link]

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2017

2016-ongoing

2016

2015

  • labs with Lärka, grammar course for upper-secondary teachers in Swedish as a Second Language
  • invited lecture on ICALL at a course for linguists
  • Master student supervision: Lorena Llozhi

2014

  • labs with Lärka, grammar course for upper-secondary teachers in Swedish as a Second Language
  • invited lecture on ICALL at a course for linguists

2013

  • Master student supervision, Language Technologies, topic: NLP-based Approaches to Sentence Readability for Second Language Learning Purposes, [pdf]
  • Master student supervision, Language Technology, topic: Swedish Spelling Game: Developing Swedish spelling exercises on the ICALL platform Lärka using Text-to-Speech technology [abstract]

2013 - 2018

2012

  • Invited lecture at a Master in LT course "Resources and Tools": Language Technology Tools and Resources for Computer-Assisted Language Learning

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