Yvonne Adesam

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, now living in Gothenburg, Sweden, with my husband and sons Alexander and Maximilian. Currently working as a (post doc) researcher at Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg.

Degrees

    • Doctor of Philosophy in Computational Linguistics, Stockholm University, 2012
    • Master of Arts (Magister) in General Linguistics, specifically Computational Linguistics, Stockholm University, 2005
    • Bachelor of Arts (Kandidat) in General and Comparative Literature and Literary Studies, Stockholm University, 2001

Publications

N.B. I changed my surname from Samuelsson to Adesam in late 2010.

An up to date list of the most recent publications can be found at Språkbanken.

.:2012:.

    • Adesam, Yvonne, 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

Unpublished

.: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:.

.: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]

Services

    • 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