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 am running for Vice-President-Elect of the ACL. Here is my election statement.

We are organizing the Swedish Language Technology Conference in Uppsala in November 2014.

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)
  • Adventures in Multilingual Parsing (Invited talk at the Third Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation, Gothenburg, April 27, 2014)
• Tools and resources:
  • MaltParser (version 1.8)
  • Swedish Treebank (supersedes Talbanken05, now also with Stanford dependencies)
  • Universal Dependency Treebanks
• Projects:
  • PARSEME (ICT COST Action)
  • Efficient Algorithms for Natural Language Processing Beyond Sentence Boundaries (a subproject of eSSENCE - The e-Science Collaboration)

Teaching

• Current:
  • Grundläggande textanalys (Bachelor's course [in Swedish], Spring 2014)
• 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
• Christian Hardmeier
• Eva Pettersson
• Mojgan Seraji

Other Information

• Curriculum vitae in English (and Swedish)
• Old stuff (no longer maintained)