Senior lecturer at the Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technology at University of Gothenburg.
Doctor of Philosophy in Computational Linguistics, Stockholm University, 2012
Master of Arts (filosofie magister) in General Linguistics, specifically Computational Linguistics, Stockholm University, 2005
Bachelor of Arts (filosofie kandidat) in General and Comparative Literature and Literary Studies, Stockholm University, 2001
N.B. I changed my surname from Samuelsson to Adesam in late 2010.
.:2025:.
Lars Borin, Yvonne Adesam, Louise Holmer (2025): Investigating lexical change with diachronic lexical resources and corpora. In Sixty years of Swedish computational lexicography / Dana Dannélls , Kristian Blensenius and Lars Borin (eds.), pages 233–260
Evie Coussé, Yvonne Adesam (2025): Exploring the language of Swedish social media: A contrastive corpus analysis. In Nordic Journal of Linguistics
.:2024:.
Yvonne Adesam, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, and Evie Coussé (2024): Språkförändring på bar gärning. En mikrodiakron korpusstudie av pågående förändringar i stavning, lexikon och grammatik. In Svenskans beskrivning 38: Förhandlingar vid trettioåttonde sammankomsten. Örebro 4–6 maj 2022, Del I, pages 234-251
Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Evie Coussé, Alexander Koplenig, and Yvonne Adesam (2024): To drop or not to drop? Predicting the omission of the infinitival marker in a Swedish future construction. In Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, volume 20, number 1, pages 219–261
.:2023:.
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, and Nina Tahmasebi (2023): Superlim: A Swedish Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, December 6-10, 2023, Singapore / Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali (Editors), pages 8137-8153
Evie Coussé, Yvonne Adesam, Faton Rekathati, and Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2023): Hur används de, dem och dom i nutida skriftspråk? En storskalig korpusundersökning av nyheter och sociala medier. In Språk & Stil, volume NF 33, pages 39-70
Evie Coussé, Yvonne Adesam, and Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2023): Inget stöd i forskningen för att de/dem slås ut. In Svenska Dagbladet, issue 2023-03-20
.:2022:.
Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Yvonne Adesam, and Evie Coussé (2022): We may actually all die tomorrow... nevertheless: Predicting short-term frequency changes in Swedish neologisms. In Live and learn: Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin / Editors: Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Markus Forsberg, Shafqat Virk, pages 5-12
Gerlof Bouma and Yvonne Adesam (2022): Counting dirty words: The effect of OCR quality on token statistics in historical Swedish corpora. In Live and learn: Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin / Editors: Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Markus Forsberg, Shafqat Virk, pages 17-24
.:2021:.
Yvonne Adesam and Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (2021): Part-of-speech tagging of Swedish texts in the neural era. In Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa, May 31–2 June, 2021, Reykjavik, Iceland (online) / eds Simon Dobnik and Lilja Øvrelid, pages 200-209
Yvonne Adesam, Peter Andersson, Lars Borin, and Gerlof Bouma (2021): A lexical resource for computational historical linguistics. In The Swedish FrameNet++. Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications, pages 98–121
Saga Hansson, Konstantinos Mavromatakis, Yvonne Adesam, Gerlof Bouma, Dana Dannélls (2021): The Swedish Winogender Dataset. In Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), May 31 - June 2, 2021, Reykjavik, Iceland (online)
.:2020:.
Richard Johansson and Yvonne Adesam (2020): Training a Swedish Constituency Parser on Six Incompatible Treebanks. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)
Yvonne Adesam, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Felix Morger (2020): SwedishGLUE – Towards a Swedish Test Set for Evaluating Natural Language Understanding Models (tech report)
.:2019:.
Yvonne Adesam, Dana Dannélls, and Nina Tahmasebi (2019): Exploring the Quality of the Digital Historical Newspaper Archive KubHist. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference of The Association Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN), Copenhagen, Denmark, March 5-8, 2019 / edited by Costanza Navarretta, Manex Agirrezabal, Bente Maegaard
Yvonne Adesam and Gerlof Bouma (2019): The Koala Part-of-Speech Tagset. In Northern European Journal of Language Technology, volume 6, pages 5-41
Peter Ljunglöf, Niklas Zechner, Luis Nieto Piña, Yvonne Adesam, and Lars Borin (2019): Assessing the quality of Språkbanken’s annotations (tech report)
.:2018:.
Yvonne Adesam, Malin Ahlberg, and Gerlof Bouma (2018): FSvReader – Exploring Old Swedish Cultural Heritage Texts. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2084. Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018. Edited by Eetu, Mäkelä Mikko, Tolonen Jouni Tuominen
Yvonne Adesam, Dana Dannélls, and Nina Tahmasebi (2018): Exploring the Quality of the Digital Historical Newspaper Archive KubHist. In Seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), Stockholm, 7-9 November 2018
Yvonne Adesam, Gerlof Bouma, Richard Johansson, Lars Borin, and Markus Forsberg (2018): The Eukalyptus Treebank of Written Swedish. In Seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), Stockholm, 7–9 November 2018
Yvonne Adesam, Gerlof Bouma, and Richard Johansson (2018): The Koala Part-of-Speech and Morphological Tagset for Swedish. In Seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), Stockholm, 7-9 November, 2018
.:2017:.
Gerlof Bouma and Yvonne Adesam, editors, 2017, Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2017 Workshop on Processing Historical Language
.:2016:.
Richard Johansson, Yvonne Adesam, Gerlof Bouma, and Karin Hedberg, 2016, A Multi-domain Corpus of Swedish Word Sense Annotation. In 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia
Gerlof Bouma and Yvonne Adesam, 2016, Part-of-speech and Morphology Tagging Old Swedish. In Proceedings of the Sixth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC) Umeå University, 17-18 November, 2016
Fabienne Cap, Yvonne Adesam, Lars Ahrenberg, Lars Borin, Gerlof Bouma, Markus Forsberg, Viggo Kann, Robert Östling, Aaron Smith, Mats Wirén, and Joakim Nivre, 2016, SWORD: Towards Cutting-Edge Swedish Word Processing. In Proceedings of the Sixth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC) Umeå University, 17-18 November, 2016
Gerlof Bouma and Yvonne Adesam, 2016, Multiword Annotation in the Eukalyptus Treebank of Written Swedish. In PARSEME, 6th general meeting, 7-8 April 2016, Struga, FYR Macedonia
Yvonne Adesam and Gerlof Bouma, 2016, Old Swedish Part-of-Speech Tagging between Variation and External Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 10th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Berlin, Germany, August 11, 2016
Yvonne Adesam, Malin Ahlberg, Peter Andersson, Lars Borin, Gerlof Bouma, and Markus Forsberg, 2016, Språkteknologi för svenska språket genom tiderna. In Kungliga Skytteanska Samfundets Handlingar, volume 76, Studier i svensk språkhistoria 13, pages 65-87
.:2015:.
Yvonne Adesam, Gerlof Bouma, and Richard Johansson, 2015, Multiwords, Word Senses and Multiword Senses in the Eukalyptus Treebank of Written Swedish. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT14), 11–12 December 2015 Warsaw, Poland, pages 3-12
Yvonne Adesam, Gerlof Bouma, and Richard Johansson, 2015, Defining the Eukalyptus forest – the Koala treebank of Swedish. In Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, NODALIDA 2015, May 11-13, 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania. Edited by Beáta Megyesi, pages 1-9
.:2014:.
Yvonne Adesam, Lars Borin, Gerlof Bouma, Markus Forsberg, and Richard Johansson, 2014, Koala – Korp’s Linguistic Annotations Developing an infrastructure for text-based research with high-quality annotations. In Proceedings of the Fifth Swedish Language Technology Conference, Uppsala, 13-14 November 2014
Yvonne Adesam, Malin Ahlberg, Peter Andersson, Gerlof Bouma, Markus Forsberg, and Mans Hulden, 2014, Computer-aided Morphology Expansion for Old Swedish. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) May 26-31, 2014 Reykjavik, Iceland, pages 1102-1105
.:2013:.
Gerlof Bouma and Yvonne Adesam, 2013, Experiments on sentence segmentation in Old Swedish editions. In NEALT Proceedings Series, volume 18
.:2012:.
Yvonne Adesam, 2012, The Multilingual Forest: Investigating High-quality Parallel Corpus Development. PhD thesis, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University [pdf]
Yvonne Adesam, Malin Ahlberg and Gerlof Bouma, 2012, Processing spelling variation in historical text. In Proceedings of the Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2012), pages 1--2, Lund, Sweden [pdf]
Yvonne Adesam, Malin Ahlberg and Gerlof Bouma, 2012, bokstaffua, bokstaffwa, bokstafwa, bokstaua, bokstawa -- Towards lexical link-up for a corpus of Old Swedish. In Jancsary (ed), Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of KONVENS 2012 (LThist 2012 workshop), pages 365--369, Vienna, Austria [pdf]
.:2011:.
Martin Volk, Torsten Marek and Yvonne Samuelsson, 2011, Building and Querying Parallel Treebanks. In: Translation: Computation, Corpora, Cognition (Special Issue on Parallel Corpora: Annotation, Exploitation and Evaluation). 1(1), pages 7--28. [pdf]
.:2010:.
Markus Dickinson and Yvonne Samuelsson, 2010, Consistency Checking for Treebank Alignment. In ACL 2010: Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop, pages 38--46, Uppsala, Sweden [pdf]
.:2008:.
Yvonne Samuelsson, Oscar Täckström and Sumithra Velupillai, 2008, Evaluation of Local Features for Argument Identification and Classification for Semantic Role Labelling. In SLTC 2008: Proceedings of the Swedish Language Technology Conference, Stockholm, Sweden [pdf]
Martin Volk, Torsten Marek and Yvonne Samuelsson, 2008, Human Judgements in Parallel Treebank Alignment. In Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Human Judgements in Computational Linguistics, pages 51--57, Manchester, England [pdf]
Yvonne Samuelsson, Oscar Täckström, Sumithra Velupillai, Johan Eklund, Mark Fishel and Markus Saers, 2008, Mixing and Blending Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies. In CoNLL 2008: Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 248--252, Manchester, England [pdf]
.:2007:.
Yvonne Samuelsson and Martin Volk, 2007, Automatic Phrase Alignment: Using Statistical N-Gram Alignment for Syntactic Phrase Alignment. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2007), Bergen, Norway [pdf]
Martin Volk and Yvonne Samuelsson, 2007, Frame-semantic Annotation on a Parallel Treebank. In Proceedings of the Nodalida Workshop on Building Frame Semantics Resources for Scandinavian and Baltic Languages, Tartu, Estonia [pdf]
Yvonne Samuelsson and Martin Volk, 2007, Alignment Tools for Parallel Treebanks. In Proceedings of GLDV Frühjahrstagung, Tübingen, Germany
.:2006:.
Yvonne Samuelsson and Martin Volk, 2006, Phrase Alignment in Parallel Treebanks. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2006), Prague, Czech Republic [pdf]
Martin Volk, Sofia Gustafson-Capkova, Joakim Lundborg, Torsten Marek, Yvonne Samuelsson and Frida Tidström, 2006, XML-based Phrase Alignment in Parallel Treebanks. In EACL 2006: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing, Trento, Italy [pdf]
.:2005:.
Yvonne Samuelsson and Martin Volk, 2005, Presentation and representation of parallel treebanks. In Nodalida 2005: Proceedings of the Workshop on Treebanks, Joensuu, Finland
.:2004:.
Yvonne Samuelsson and Martin Volk, 2004, Automatic node insertion for treebank deepening. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2004), Tübingen, Germany
Martin Volk and Yvonne Samuelsson, 2004, Bootstrapping parallel treebanks. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC) at COLING 2004, pages 63--69, Geneva, Switzerland [pdf]
Yvonne Samuelsson, 2004, Parallel Phrases - Going automatic. Further experiments towards a German-Swedish parallel treebank. D-uppsats (Master's thesis), Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
Yvonne Samuelsson, 2004, Parallel Phrases. Experiments towards a German-Swedish parallel treebank. C-uppsats (Bachelor's thesis), Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
.:2010:.
Martin Volk, Anne Göhring, Torsten Marek and Yvonne Samuelsson, 2010, SMULTRON (version 3.0) — The Stockholm MULtilingual parallel TReebank. Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich. http://www.cl.uzh.ch/research/paralleltreebanks_en.html
Yvonne Samuelsson, Martin Volk, Sofia Gustafson-Capkova, Elisabet Jönsson Steiner, 2010, Alignment Guidlines for SMULTRON. Technical Manual, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University and Institute of Computational Linguistics, Universiry of Zürich. [pdf]
.:2009:.
Martin Volk, Torsten Marek and Yvonne Samuelsson, 2009, SMULTRON (version 2.0) - The Stockholm MULtilingual parallel TReebank. Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich. http://www.cl.uzh.ch/research/paralleltreebanks_en.html
.:2007:.
Sofia Gustafson-Capkova, Yvonne Samuelsson and Martin Volk, 2007, SMULTRON (version 1.0) - The Stockholm MULtilingual parallel TReebank. Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. http://www.ling.su.se/dali/research/smultron/index.htm
Yvonne Samuelsson, 2007, Annoteringsvägledning SWE-TIGER: TIGER-annotering av svenska i Annotate. Technical Manual, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. [pdf]
Reviewer for Lingua, 2015
Program committee member for NoDaLiDa, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2015
Program committee member for the Swedish Language Technology Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 2014
Organizing committee member for The first Swedish national SWE-CLARIN workshop, Uppsala, Sweden, 2014
Local organizing committee member for EACL, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014
Program committee member for the workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 12, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013
Program committee member for the NoDaLiDa workshop on Computational historical linguistics, Oslo, Norway, 2013
Program committee member for the workshop on Annotation and Exploitation of Parallel Corpora, Tartu, Estonia, 2010
Program committee member for the workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 7, Groningen, the Nederlands, 2009
Student representative of the academic board of GSLT (Swedish national graduate school of language technology) 2008-2009
Program committee member for the workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 6, Bergen, Norway, 2007
Board member of Brf Sländan (housing cooperative), 2005-2008
Board member of the student society for literature, Klubb Klopstock, Stockholm University, 1995-1998