Aleksandrs (Sasha) Berdicevskis

Publications

2024

• Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Evie Coussé, Alexander Koplenig, Yvonne Adesam (2024): To drop or not to drop? Predicting the omission of the infinitival marker in a Swedish future construction, in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, volume 20, issue 1, pages 219–261

2023

• Evie Coussé, Yvonne Adesam, Faton Rekathati, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2023): Hur används de, dem och dom i nutida skriftspråk?, in Språk & Stil, volume NF 33, pages 39-70
• 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, in Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, December 6-10, 2023, Singapore / Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali (Editors)
• Katharina Ehret, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Christian Bentz, Alice Blumenthal-Dramé (2023): Measuring language complexity: challenges and opportunities, in Linguistics Vanguard
• 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 Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2023) / edited by David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Thomas François, Arne Jönsson and Evelina Rennes
• 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), Gothenburg and online 11–12 September 2023
• Katharina Ehret, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Christian Bentz, Alice Blumenthal-Dramé (2023): Measuring Language Complexity, in Linguistics Vanguard, volume 9, issue s1, pages 1-167
• Evie Coussé, Yvonne Adesam, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2023): Inget stöd i forskningen för att de/dem slås ut, in Svenska Dagbladet, issue 2023-03-20
• 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)

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

• 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
• Katharina Ehret, Alice Blumenthal-Dramé, Christian Bentz, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2021): Meaning and Measures: Interpreting and Evaluating Complexity Metrics, in Frontiers in communication, volume 6
• 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.)
• Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Alexander Piperski (2021): Tri skljanki popoludni i drugie zadachi po lingvistike
• 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

2020

• 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, 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).
• Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2020): Older English Words Are More Polysemous, in The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (EvoLang13). Pp. 14-21
• 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 (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
• 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
• 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): 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

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.