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Aleksandrs Berdicevskis

Researcher

Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technology
Mail
aleksandrs.berdicevskis@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Aleksandrs Berdicevskis

I am a researcher (associate professor) at Språkbanken Text (part of the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology). Since 2026, I have also been co-director of Språkbanken Text.

I want to know how and why languages change (or do not change). In order to address this big question, I work with various smaller questions about language variation, change and evolution, usually relying on computational methods.

I also work with the development of language resources with a focus on reference data: high-quality resources that can be used to train and test natural language processing tools, including AI-like tools. At the moment, my focus is on developing Swedish treebanks annotated according to the Universal Dependencies framework.

Recent projects that I have led or have been part of include Cassandra, SuperLim, Xhosa corpus.

I am the main supervisor of Tom Södahl Bladsjö and co-supervisor of Emilie Francis. I was also co-supervisor of Felix Morger, who defended his thesis in 2024.

Prior to starting my work at the University of Gothenburg I was assistant professor at the Uppsala University, and before that postdoc at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. I defended my PhD in 2013 at the University of Bergen.

See more at my page at the Språkbanken's website or at my personal webpage.