Joakim Nivre

Joakim Nivre is Senior Researcher at RISE and Professor of Computational Linguistics at Uppsala University and. He holds a Ph.D. in General Linguistics from the University of Gothenburg and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Växjö University. His research focuses on data-driven methods for natural language processing, in particular for morphosyntactic and semantic analysis. He is one of the main developers of the transition-based approach to syntactic dependency parsing, described in his 2006 book Inductive Dependency Parsing and implemented in the widely used MaltParser system, and one of the founders of the Universal Dependencies project, which aims to develop cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages and currently involves over 140 languages and over 500 researchers around the world. He has produced over 300 scientific publications and has over 22,000 citations according to Google Scholar (May, 2023). He is a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics and was the president of the association in 2017. Publications (Google Scholar): https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=lLBHtFUAAAAJ&view_op=li…