Joakim Nivre Professor of Computational Linguistics Uppsala University Department of Linguistics and Philology Box 635, SE-75126 Uppsala Tel: +46 18 4717009 Fax: +46 18 4711094 E-mail:

I was recently elected Vice-President-Elect of the ACL. Here is my election statement.

We organized the Swedish Language Technology Conference in Uppsala in November 2014.

We are organizing the Dependency Linguistics Conference in Uppsala in August 2015.

Research

• Publications (and experimental settings for replicability)
• Some recent talks:
  • Beyond MaltParser - Advances in Transition-Based Dependency Parsing (Invited talk at various institutions during 2012)
  • Training Deterministic Parsers Using Non-Deterministic Oracles (Invited talk at various institutions during 2013)
  • Universal Dependency Parsing (Invited talk at SPMRL-SANCL, Dublin, August, 2014)
• Tools and resources:
  • MaltParser (version 1.8)
  • Swedish Treebank (supersedes Talbanken05, now also with Stanford dependencies)
  • Universal Dependencies
• Projects:
  • PARSEME (ICT COST Action)
  • Efficient Algorithms for Natural Language Processing Beyond Sentence Boundaries (a subproject of eSSENCE - The e-Science Collaboration)

Teaching

• Current:
  • Syntactic Parsing (PhD course, Spring 2015)
• Textbooks and other material:
  • Recent Advances in Dependency Parsing (EACL Tutorial 2014 with Ryan McDonald)
  • Dependency Parsing (Textbook with Sandra Kübler and Ryan McDonald, 2009)
  • Introduction to Data-Driven Dependency Parsing (ESSLLI Course 2007 with Ryan McDonald)
  • Dependency Parsing (ACL-COLING Tutorial 2006 with Sandra Kübler)

PhD Students

• Ali Basirat
• Marie Dubremetz
• Eva Pettersson
• Mojgan Seraji
• Shao Yan

Other Information

• Curriculum vitae (short, long)
• Old stuff (no longer maintained)