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Elena Volodina
Professor
Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technologyAbout Elena Volodina
I am an Associate Professor (‘Docent’ in Swedish) since 2018, Professor since 2025 and an active researcher at Språkbanken Text (SBX) at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, where I have been working since 2010. My focus area of research is Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Swedish as a second language (L2 Swedish), including directions such as automatic exercise generation, readability classification, linguistic complexity classification, grammatical error detection and correction.
Apart from research proper, I have been actively involved in building research infrastructure, primarily aimed at Language Technology research in the field of L2 Swedish. Among such resources are two SweLL corpora of learner essays, Swedish Second Language Profile, Swedish Morpheme/Word Family resource, DaLAJ for linguistic acceptability judgments, MultiGED datasets for the multilingual shared task on learner language where; learning platform Lärka, and many others.
To profile my area of research internationally, I have started a series of workshops on NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL), that I have been organizing (and co-organizing) annually since 2012 and that are well attended by researchers worldwide. I am currently coordinating an international group, Computational SLA, that promotes multilingual shared tasks on second language data (e.g. MultiGED-2023, MultiGEC-2025).
My competence includes English linguistics (PhD), Language Technology (Docentship & MA) and Language Teacher education (5-year specialist program).
More information: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena
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The MultiGEC-2025 Shared Task on Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction at
NLP4CALL
Arianna Masciolini, Andrew Caines, Orphée De Clercq, Joni Kruijsbergen, Murathan Kurfalı, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Elena Volodina, Robert Östling
Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning, March, 2025, Tartu, Estland / edited by Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, David Alfter, Elena Volodina and Jelena Kallas - 2025 -
Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL
2025)
Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Jelena Kallas
2025 -
Towards better language representation in Natural Language
Processing
Arianna Masciolini, Andrew Caines, Orphee De Clercq, Joni Kruijsbergen, Murathan Kurfali, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Elena Volodina, Robert Ostling, Kais Allkivi, Spela Arhar Holdt, Ilze Auzina, Roberts Dargis, Elena Drakonaki, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Isidora Glisic, Pinelopi Kikilintza, Lionel Nicolas, Mariana Romanyshyn, Alexandr Rosen, Alla Rozovskaya, Kristjan Suluste, Oleksiy Syvokon, Alexandros Tantos, Despoina-Ourania Touriki, Konstantinos Tsiotskas, Eleni Tsourilla, Vassilis Varsamopoulos, Katrin Wisniewski, Ales Zagar, Torsten Zesch
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEARNER CORPUS RESEARCH - 2025 -
The Devil’s in the Details: the Detailedness of Classes Influences Personal Information Detection and
Labeling
Maria Irena Szawerna, Simon Dobnik, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025), March 3–4, 2025 Tallinn, Estonia) / Richard Johansson and Sara Stymne (eds.) - 2025 -
An overview of Grammatical Error Correction for the twelve MultiGEC-2025
languages
Arianna Masciolini, Andrew Caines, Orphée De Clercq, Joni Kruijsbergen, Murathan Kurfalı, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Elena Volodina, Robert Östling, Kais Allkivi, Špela Arhar Holdt, Ilze Auzin̦a, Roberts Darģis, Elena Drakonaki, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Isidora Glišic, Pinelopi Kikilintza, Lionel Nicolas, Mariana Romanyshyn, Alexandr Rosen, Alla Rozovskaya, Kristjan Suluste, Oleksiy Syvokon, Alexandros Tantos, Despoina-Ourania Touriki, Konstantinos Tsiotskas, Eleni Tsourilla, Vassilis Varsamopoulos, Katrin Wisniewski, Aleš Žagar, Torsten Zesch
2025 -
Jingle BERT, Jingle BERT, Frozen All the Way: Freezing Layers to Identify CEFR Levels of Second Language Learners Using
BERT
Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, David Alfter, Simon Dobnik, Maria Irena Szawerna, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2024) - 2024 -
Pseudonymization Categories across Domain
Boundaries
Maria Irena Szawerna, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Xuan-Son Vu, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), LREC-COLING, 2024 20-25 May, 2024, Torino, Italia - 2024 -
On two SweLL learner corpora – SweLL-pilot and
SweLL-gold
Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), 10-11 January, 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden / edited by Elena Volodina, Gerlof Bouma, Markus Forsberg, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, David Alfter, Mats Fridlund, Christian Horn, Lars Ahrenberg, Anna Blåder - 2024 -
Profiles for Swedish as a Second Language: Lexis, Grammar,
Morphology
Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann
Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024) 10-11 January, 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden / Editors: Elena Volodina, Gerlof Bouma, Markus Forsberg, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, David Alfter, Mats Fridlund, Christian Horn, Lars Ahrenberg, Anna Blåder - 2024 -
Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL
2024)
Thomas Gaillat, Cyriel Mallart, Fabienne Moreau, Jen-Yu Li, Griselda Drouet, David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Arne Jönsson
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Multiword expressions in Swedish as a second language: Taxonomy, annotation, and initial
results
Therese Lindström Tiedemann, David Alfter, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Daniela Piipponen, Beatrice Silén, Elena Volodina
Multiword Expressions in Lexical Resources: Linguistic, Lexicographic, and Computational Perspectives / edited by Voula Giouli and Verginica Barbu Mititelu - 2024 -
Swedish Learner Essays Revisited: Further Insights into Detecting Personal
Information
Maria Irena Szawerna, Simon Dobnik, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Elena Volodina
The Tenth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), 27-29 November, 2024, Linköping, Sweden - 2024 -
Swedish word family resource : Construction, applicability, strengths
and first
experiments
Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Therese Lindstrom Tiedemann
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics - 2024 -
Name Biases in Automated Essay
Assessment
Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Maria Irena Szawerna, Elena Volodina
The 28th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS 28),19-23 August, 2024, Helsinki, Finland - 2024 -
Detecting Personal Identifiable Information in Swedish Learner
Essays
Maria Irena Szawerna, Simon Dobnik, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo 2024), March 21, 2024, St. Julian’s, Malta - 2024 -
Did the Names I Used within My Essay Affect My Score? Diagnosing Name Biases in Automated Essay
Scoring
Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Simon Dobnik, Maria Irena Szawerna, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo 2024), March 21, 2024, Malta - 2024 -
Harnessing GPT to Study Second Language Learner Essays: Can We Use Perplexity to Determine Linguistic
Competence?
Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Simon Dobnik, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024), June 20, 2024, Mexico City, Mexico - 2024 -
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo 2024), March 21, 2024,
Malta
Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Maria Irena Szawerna, Xuan-Son Vu
2024 -
Towards an Ideal Tool for Learner Error
Annotation
Špela Arhar Holdt, Tomaž Erjavec, Iztok Kosem, Elena Volodina
2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings - 2024 -
Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), 10-11 January, 2024, Gothenburg,
Sweden
Elena Volodina, Gerlof Bouma, Markus Forsberg, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, David Alfter, Mats Fridlund, Christian Horn, Lars Ahrenberg, Anna Blåder
2024 -
DaLAJ-GED – a dataset for Grammatical Error Detection tasks on
Swedish
Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Gerlof Bouma, Joey Öhman
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 - 2023 -
Superlim: A Swedish Language Understanding Evaluation
Benchmark
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
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, December 6-10, 2023, Singapore / Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali (Editors) - 2023 -
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL
2023)
David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Thomas François, Arne Jönsson, Evelina Rennes
2023 -
MultiGED-2023 shared task at NLP4CALL: Multilingual Grammatical Error
Detection
Elena Volodina, Christopher Bryant, Andrew Caines, Orphée De Clercq, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Elizaveta Ershova, Alexandr Rosen, Olga Vinogradova
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2023) - 2023 -
Towards automatically extracting morphosyntactical error patterns from L1-L2 parallel dependency
treebanks
Arianna Masciolini, Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls
Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023), July 13, 2023, Toronto, Canada - 2023 -
Grandma Karl is 27 years old – research agenda for pseudonymization of research
data
Elena Volodina, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Xuan-Son Vu
2023 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications (BigDataService), Athens, Greece, 2023 - 2023 -
Generation of Synthetic Error Data of Verb Order Errors for
Swedish
Judit Casademont Moner, Elena Volodina
NAACL workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, July 15, 2022, Seattle, Washington - 2022 -
Exploring Linguistic Acceptability in Swedish Learners’
Language
Julia Klezl, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2022) - 2022 -
Swedish MuClaGED: A new dataset for Grammatical Error Detection in
Swedish
Judit Casademont Moner , Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2022) - 2022 -
Crowdsourcing ratings for single lexical items: a core vocabulary
perspective
Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann
Slovenščina 2.0: Empirical, Applied and Interdisciplinary Research - 2022 -
Annotation Management Tool: A Requirement for Corpus
Construction
Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Arild Matsson, Elena Volodina
Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021, Virtual Event, 2021, 27–29 September / Monica Monachini and Maria Eskevich (eds.) - 2022 -
Reliability of Automatic Linguistic Annotation: Native vs Non-native
Texts
Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Maisa Lauriala, Daniala Piipponen
Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021, Virtual Event, 2021, 27–29 September / edited by Monica Monachini and Maria Eskevich - 2022 -
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL
2022)
David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Thomas François, Piet Desmet, Frederik Cornillie, Arne Jönsson, Evelina Rennes
2022 -
CEFR-nivåer och svenska
flerordsuttryck
Therese Lindström Tiedemann, David Alfter, Elena Volodina
Svenskan i Finland 19 : föredrag vid den nittonde sammankomsten för beskrivningen av svenskan i Finland, Vasa den 6-7 maj 2021 / redigerade av Siv Björklund, Bodil Haagensen, Marianne Nordman och Anders Westerlund - 2022 -
Swedish L2 profile - a tool for exploring L2
data.
Elena Volodina, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Yousuf Ali Mohammed
Learner Corpus Research conference, 22-24 September, Padua, Italy - 2022 -
Lyxig språklig födelsedagspresent from the Swedish Word
Family.
Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Therese Lindström Tiedemann
Live and Learn- Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin - 2022 -
ICALL: Research versus reality
check.
Elena Volodina, David Alfter
Live and Learn- Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin - 2022 -
Live and Learn- Festschrift in honor of Lars
Borin
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SweLL pseudonymization
guidelines
Beáta Megyesi, Lisa Rudebeck, Elena Volodina
2021 -
Crowdsourcing Relative Rankings of Multi-Word Expressions: Experts versus
Non-Experts
David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina
Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT) - 2021 -
SweLL transcription guidelines, L2
essays
Elena Volodina, Beáta Megyesi
2021 -
DaLAJ - a dataset for linguistic acceptability judgments for
Swedish
Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Julia Klezl
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2021), Online - 2021 -
CoDeRooMor: A new dataset for non-inflectional morphology studies of
Swedish
Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Therese Lindström Tiedemann
23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) Proceedings, May 31–2 June, 2021, Reykjavik, Iceland Online / Simon Dobnik, Lilja Øvrelid (Editors) - 2021 -
Automatic Generation of Exercises for Second Language Learning from Parallel Corpus
Data
Arianna Zanetti, Elena Volodina, Johannes Graën
International Journal of TESOL Studies - 2021 -
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL
2021)
David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán , Johannes Graën, Lars Borin
2021 -
Language learning and teaching with Swedish FrameNet++: Two
examples
Julia Prentice, Camilla Håkansson, Therese Linström Tiedemann, Ildikó Pilán, Elena Volodina
The Swedish FrameNet++. Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications / edited by Dana Dannélls, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin - 2021 -
Language teachers and crowdsourcing: Insights from a cross-European
survey.
Špela Arhar Holdt, Rina Zviel-Girshin, Elżbieta Gajek, Isabel Durán-Muñoz, Petra Bago, Karën Fort, Ciler Hatipoglu, Ramunė Kasperavičienė, Svetla Koeva, Ivana Lazić Konjik, Lina Miloshevska, Antonia Ordulj, Christos Rodosthenous, Elena Volodina, Tassja Weber, Lorenzo Zanasi
Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje - 2020 -
Expert judgments versus crowdsourcing in ordering multi-word
expressions
David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), 25–27 November 2020, (Online) - 2020 -
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning
2020
David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Herbert Lange, Lars Borin
2020 -
Towards Privacy by Design in Learner Corpora Research: A Case of On-the-fly Pseudonymization of Swedish Learner
Essays
Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Sandra Derbring, Arild Matsson, Beata Megyesi
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), December 8-13, 2020, Barcelona, Spain (Online) - 2020
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