I am an Associate Professor in NLP at the University of Gothenburg. I work at a Language Technology Research Lab, Språkbanken Text. During the past years, I also worked for the Centre for Digital Humanities. 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 11 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 sentiment mining for Swedish, and 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 have started up a study circle for textmining in the humanities for researchers at the University of Gothenburg and will post the videos online as we go.
PhD in Computer Science, 2013
University of Hannover
M.Sc. in Engineering Mathematics, 2008
Chalmers University of Technology
B.Sc. in Mathematics, 2007
University of Gothenburg
Computational detection of lexical and semantic change from diachronic texts.
An Unsupervised Method for Named Entity Evolution Recognition
Computational detection of lexical and semantic change from diachronic texts.
Towards a Knowledge-based Culturomics.
From Collect-All Archives to Community Memories – Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowds for Intelligent Preservation
Developing the next generation web archive technologies - Living Web Archives
I have the following teaching experiences
Summer Course Mathematics (MVE800) 2007
Matematik TB (LMA162) 2007