Aleksandrs (Sasha) Berdicevskis
I am a computational linguist interested in language change, language evolution and quantitative typology.
For more information about me, see my CV or my personal page.
Publications
2023
- Evie Coussé, Yvonne Adesam, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2023):
Inget stöd i forskningen för att de/dem slås ut, in
Svenska Dagbladet, issue
2023-03-20
- Katharina Ehret, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Christian Bentz, Alice Blumenthal-Dramé (2023):
Measuring language complexity: challenges and opportunities, in
Linguistics Vanguard
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Evie Coussé, Alexander Koplenig, Yvonne Adesam (2023):
To drop or not to drop? Predicting the omission of the infinitival marker in a Swedish future construction, in
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Viktor Erbro (2023):
You say tomato, I say the same: A large-scale study of linguistic accommodation in online communities, in
Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)
- Katharina Ehret, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Christian Bentz, Alice Blumenthal-Dramé (2023):
Measuring Language Complexity, in
Linguistics Vanguard, volume
9, issue
s1, pages
1-167
- 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 the 12th Workshop on Natural LanguageProcessing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2023), pp 94--101
- Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Onelisa Slater, Aron Zahran, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Anne Schumacher (2023):
Preparing a corpus of spoken Xhosa, in
Proceedings of the 2023 CLASP Conference on Learning with Small Data (LSD)
2022
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Arturs Semenuks (2022):
Imperfect language learning reduces morphological overspecification: Experimental evidence, in
PLoS ONE, volume
17, issue
1, pages
1-26
- Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Markus Forsberg, Shafqat Virk (2022):
Live and Learn- Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Yvonne Adesam, Evie Coussé (2022):
We may actually all die tomorrow... nevertheless: Predicting short-term frequency changes in Swedish
neologisms, in
Live and learn: Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin / Editors: Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Markus Forsberg, Shafqat Virk, pages
5-12
2021
- Yvonne Adesam, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2021):
Part-of-speech tagging of Swedish texts in the neural era, in
Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa, May 31–2 June, 2021, Reykjavik, Iceland (online) / eds Simon Dobnik and Lilja Øvrelid
- Katharina Ehret, Alice Blumenthal-Dramé, Christian Bentz, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2021):
Meaning and Measures: Interpreting and Evaluating Complexity Metrics, in
Frontiers in communication, volume
6
- Ali Basirat, Marc Allassonnière-Tang, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2021):
An empirical study on the contribution of formal and semantic features to the grammatical gender of nouns, in
Linguistics Vanguard, volume
7, issue
1
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Alexander Piperski (2021):
Tri skljanki popoludni i drugie zadachi po lingvistike
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2021):
Successes and failures of Menzerath’s law at the syntactic level, in
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (Quasy, SyntaxFest 2021), 21–25 March, 2022, Sofia, Bulgaria / Radek Čech, Xinying Chen (eds.)
2020
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2020):
Older English Words Are More Polysemous, in
The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (EvoLang13). Pp. 14-21
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2020):
Kogda morfologija bessil'na, in
VAProsy jazykoznanija: megasbornik nanostatej, pages
56-60
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Arturs Semenuks (2020):
Different trajectories of morphological overspecification and irregularity under imperfect language learning, in
The Complexities of Morphology / edited by Peter Arkadiev and Francesco Gardani, pages
283-305
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Hanne Eckhoff (2020):
A Diachronic Treebank of Russian Spanning More Than a Thousand Years, in
Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), May 11-16, 2020, Marseille, France / ed. Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair).
- Sean Roberts, Anton Killin, Angarika Deb, Catherine Sheard, Simon Greenhill, Kaius Sinnemäki, José Segovia-Martin, Jonas Nölle, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Archie Humphreys-Balkwill, Hannah Little, Cristopher Opie, Guillaume Jacques, Lindell Bromham, Peeter Tinits, Robert Ross, Sean Lee, Emily Gasser, Jasmine Calladine, Matthew Spike, Stephen Mann, Olena Shcherbakova, Ruth Singer, Shuya Zhang, Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Christian Kliesch, Ewan Thomas-Colquhoun, Hedvig Skirgård, Monica Tamariz, Sam Passmore, Thomas Pellard, Fiona Jordan (2020):
CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database, in
Journal of Language Evolution, volume
5, issue
2, pages
101–120
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2020):
Pizzas and vermouth, in
The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe, pages
150-151
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, Ilja Seržant (2020):
Subjects tend to be coded only once: Corpus-based and grammar-based evidence for an efficiency-driven trade-off, in
Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, TLT 2020, 27–28 October 2020, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2020):
Foreigner-directed speech is simpler than native-directed: Evidence from social media, in
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, NLP+CSS 2020, November 20, 2020, Online. Pp. 163-172
- Hartger Veeman, Marc Allassonnière-Tang, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Ali Basirat (2020):
Cross-lingual Embeddings Reveal Universal and Lineage-Specific Patterns in Grammatical Gender Assignment, in
Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Online, November 19-20, 2020. Pp. 265-275
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Alexander Piperski (2020):
Corpus evidence for word order freezing in Russian and German, in
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020), December 13, 2020, Barcelona, Spain (Online) / Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Miryam de Lhoneux, Joakim Nivre, Sebastian Schuster (Editors). Pp. 26-33
- Yvonne Adesam, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Felix Morger (2020):
SwedishGLUE – Towards a Swedish Test Set for Evaluating Natural Language Understanding Models
2018
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Çağrı Çöltekin, Katharina Ehret, Kilu von Prince, Daniel Ross, Bill Thompson, Chunxiao Yan, Vera Demberg, Gary Lupyan, Taraka Rama, Christian Bentz (2018):
Using Universal Dependencies in cross-linguistic complexity research, in
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018), 8–17
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Christian Bentz (2018):
Proceedings of the First Shared Task on Measuring Language Complexity
2017
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2017):
M. Baerman, D. Brown, G. G. Corbett (eds.). Understanding and measuring morphological complexity, in
Voprosy jazykoznanija - Journal of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, issue
5, pages
123-135
2016
- Christian Bentz, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2016):
Learning pressures reduce morphological complexity: Linking corpus, computational and experimental evidence, in
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC at COLING 2016): 222–232
- Hanne Eckhoff, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2016):
Automatic parsing as an efficient pre-annotation tool for historical texts, in
Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology Resources and Tools for Digital Humanities (LT4DH at COLING 2016): 62–70.
- Hanne Eckhoff, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2016):
From diachronic treebank to dictionary resource: the Varangian Rus' project, in
Proceedings of the EURALEX 2016 conference: 335–340
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Hanne Eckhoff, Tatjana Gavrilova (2016):
The beginning of a beautiful friendship: rule-based and statistical analysis of Middle Russian, in
Computational linguistics and intellectual technologies. Papers from the annual international conference "Dialogue", 15: 99–111
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Hanne Eckhoff (2016):
Redundant features are less likely to survive: empirical evidence from the Slavic languages, in
The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11), 69–77
2015
- Hanne Eckhoff, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2015):
Linguistics vs. digital editions: The Tromsø Old Russian and OCS Treebank, in
Scripta & e-Scripta, issue
14-15, pages
9-25
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2015):
Estimating Grammeme Redundancy by Measuring Their Importance for Syntactic Parser Performance, in
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning, 65–73
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Hanne Eckhoff (2015):
Automatic identification of shared arguments in verbal coordinations, in
Computational linguistics and intellectual technologies. Papers from the annual international conference "Dialogue", 14: 33–43
2014
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Hanne Eckhoff (2014):
Verbal constructional profiles: reliability, distinction power and practical applications, in
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, 2–13
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Vera Zvereva (2014):
Slangs Go Online, or The Rise and Fall of the Olbanian language, in
Digital Russia: The Language, Culture and Politics of New Media Communication, pages
122-140
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2014):
The written turn: how computer-mediated communication actuates linguistic change in Russian, in
Digital Russia: The Language, Culture, and Politics of New Media Communication, pages
107–122
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2014):
"Ty chto-to pechatala, ja tebja perebil": igra so strukturoj dialoga v kvazisinxronnoj kommunikacii, in
Sovremennyj russkij jazyk v internete, pages
61-82
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2014):
Predictors of pluricentricity: lexical divergences between Latvian Russian and Russian Russian, in
The Russian Language Outside the Nation, pages
225–246
2013
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2013):
Language Change Online: Linguistic Innovations in Russian Induced by Computer-Mediated Communication
2012
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2012):
Introducing pressure for expressivity into language evolution experiments, in
The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, 64-71
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2012):
«Orfograficheskij» srednij rod: grammaticheskaja innovacija v jazyke russkogo Interneta, in
Variativnost’ v jazyke i kommunikacii, pages
51–72
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2012):
Jazykovaja slozhnost’, in
Voprosy jazykoznanija - Journal of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, issue
5, pages
101-124
2011
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2011):
E-mail vs. Chat: The influence of the communication channel on the language, in
Computational linguistics and intellectual technologies. Papers from the annual international conference "Dialogue","Dialogue", 10: 84-93
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Aleksandr Piperski (2011):
Doubts About a Serial Founder-Effect Model of Language Expansion, in
Science
2007
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2007):
Punktuacija kak sredstvo razreshenija neodnoznachnosti, in
Struktury i interpretacii: raboty molodyx issledovatelej po teoreticheskoj i prikladnoj lingvistike, pages
11-32
- Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Boris Iomdin (2007):
Rol' punktuacii v razreshenii neodnoznachnosti, in
Komp'juternaja lingvistika i intellektual'nye texnologii (Dialogue-2007). Trudy konferencii, 44–49
- Boris Iomdin, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2007):
Combinations of Probability Qualifiers in Russian, in
Meaning - Text theory 2007: proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Meaning - Text Theory, 189-198
2006
- Boris Iomdin, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2006):
A kto ètot ètot? Imena sobstvennye i opredelennaja neopredelennost’, in
Komp'juternaja lingvistika i intellektual'nye texnologii (Dialogue- 2006). Trudy konferencii, 196–201.
2005
- Igor Boguslavsky, Leonid Iomdin, Alexander Lazursky, Leonid Mityushin, Viktor Sizov, Leonid Kreydlin, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2005):
Interactive Resolution of Intrinsic and Translational Ambiguity in a Machine Translation System, in
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (3406)
- Igor Boguslavskij, Leonid Iomdin, Aleksandr Lazurskij, Leonid Mitjushin, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2005):
Interaktivnoe razreshenie neodnoznachnosti razlichnyx tipov v mashinnom perevode, in
In Komp'juternaja lingvistika i intellektual'nye texnologii (Dialogue-2005). Trudy konferencii, 216–221.
- Aleksandr Lazurskij, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Leonid Krejdlin, Leonid Mitjushin, Viktor Sizov (2005):
Interaktivnoe razreshenie leksicheskoj i sintaksicheskoj neodnoznachnosti v sistemah avtomaticheskoj obrabotki estestvennogo jazyka, in
Internet-matematika 2005: sistemy obrabotki veb-dannyh, pages
44-66
2004
- Ivan Derzhanski, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Kseniya Gilyarova, Boris Iomdin, Maria Rubinshtein (2004):
O perevodimosti lingvisticheskih zadach: Uroki Pervoj mezhdunarodnoj lingvisticheskoj olimpiady, in
Komp'juternaja lingvistika i intellektual'nye texnologii (Dialogue-2004). Trudy konferencii, 166–171.
