I am a PhD student in Natural Language Processing, advised by Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls and Aarne Ranta. My thesis project revolves around leveraging the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework to develop cross-lingually applicable approaches to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) studies and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).
Current focus
I am currently working on harmonized guidelines for UD as an annotation standard for learner language, as well as on a treebank based on SweLL, the Swedish Learner Language corpus. I am also supervising Christina Klironomou's Master's thesis project on automatic parsing and error annotation of learner Greek.
On the side, I develop treebank tools:
- the STUnD Search Tool for (parallel) UD treebanks, in collaboration with Herb Lange
- CQP/Tree, a converter that translates tree queries in to CQL, the query language used in Korp. The lead developer of this project is Niklas Deworetzki
- WYTIWYS (What You Tree Is What You Search), a tool for graphical tree queries, also in collaboration with Niklas Deworetzki
- treview, a command-line CoNLL-U to HTML-embedded SVG converter.
I am also a teacher in the Introduction to Programming and Computational Syntax courses offered by GU's Master in Language Technology.
I am a member of the CompSLA working group, as well as of UniDive.
Previous projects
Over the course of my PhD, I have also:
- led the organization of the MultiGEC-2025, the first shared task on text-level Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction
- contributed to the development of:
- supervised the following student projects:
- Caroline Grand-Clement's course project on the effect of annotator language background on the annotation of L2 material
- Christina Klironomou's course project on the creation of a UD treebank of L2 Greek
- Marco Leali's course project on domain-specific terminology injection in MT models
- Dawit Jembere's Master's thesis on UD parsing for Amharic
- been involved as a teacher and/or teaching assistant in several programming courses at both the University of Gothenburg and at the Chalmers University of technology.
For more, more informal information, see my personal website.
