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.
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 personal webpage.
