Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Joshua Wilbur

Selected work experience

since Jan 2023	Lecturer in Digital Linguistics Centre for Digital Humanities and Information Society, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022	Visiting Lecturer in Digital Humanities Centre for Digital Humanities and Information Society, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia
Jul 2016 - Jun 2019	Principle Investigator Syntactic patterns in Pite Saami: A corpus-based exploration of 130 years of variation and change Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies, Skandinavisches Seminar, Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany DFG-funded linguistics research project
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016	Principle Investigator / Lexicographer The Pite Saami Lexicography Project Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies, Skandinavisches Seminar, Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany Lexicographic and orthographic work on the Pite Saami language
May 2015 - Oct 2015, Dec 2015	Guest Researcher Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies, Skandinavisches Seminar, Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany Linguistic work on the Pite Saami language (lexicography, syntax, documentation)
Nov 2015	Research Assistant Skolt Saami language technology project, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Skolt Saami Museum, Neiden, Norway Lexicographic and transcription work for Skolt Saami
Feb 2013 - Apr 2015	Researcher (Postdoctoral Fellow) Documentation and Lexicography of Semi-Nomadic and Sedentary Pite Saami Lifestyles Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies, Skandinavisches Seminar, Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany Digital linguistic documentation of the Pite Saami language
May - Oct 2012	Researcher Från kust til kyst – Áhpegáttest áhpegáddáj Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway Linguistic description of the Pite Saami language
Oct 2011 - Apr 2012	Research Assistant Mávsulasj: Spoken Lule Saami Documentation Project Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway Documentary linguistics consultant; presentation of project lexical data
June 2006 - Mar 2008	Student Research Assistant Kola Saami Documentation Project Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Fieldwork on phonological structures in Kildin Saami, annotation of recordings
Oct 2003 - Aug 2004	Student Research Assistant AUTOTYP typological database project Institute for Linguistics, Universität Leipzig, Germany Researching phonological and grammatical word domains in a variety of languages

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Externally funded projects

Jan 2023 - Dec 2025	Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics (MEDAL) Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia €1,498,888 from the European Commision's Horizon Europe funding program for research and innovation and UK Research and Innovation for a Twinning consortium project Co-Applicant (together with Virve Vihman (lead applicant) and colleagues from Tartu, the University of Birmingham (UK), the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (NL) and Radboud University (NL)) Head of the "Administration and Management" work package
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024	Center of Estonian Language Resources Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia €102,000 from the Estonian Research Council; project led by Prof. Mark Fišel Senior research staff member, National Coordinator for CLARIN ERIC Estonia
Jul 2016 - Jun 2019	Syntactic patterns in Pite Saami: A corpus-based exploration of 130 years of variation and change Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies, Skandinavisches Seminar, Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany € 308,995 from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Society) Principle investigator
Jan - Jun 2016	The Pite Saami Lexicography Project Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies, Skandinavisches Seminar, Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany NOK 260,000 from the Saami Parliament of Norway and Duoddara Ráfe Pite Saami Center Principle investigator
Feb 2013 - Apr 2015	Documentation and Lexicography of Semi-Nomadic and Sedentary Pite Saami Lifestyles Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies, Skandinavisches Seminar, Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany £ 114,093 from the Hans Rausing Endangered Language Project Principle investigator; Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship
June 2008 - July 2011	The Pite Saami Documentation Project Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany £ 64,748 from the Hans Rausing Endangered Language Project Principle investigator; Individual Graduate Studentship

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Education

Apr 2008 - May 2013

PhD in General Linguistics (magna cum laude)

Department of General and Comparative Linguistics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (through July 2010 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dissertation: ‘A Corpus-based Grammar of Spoken Pite Saami’
Supervised by Prof. Ulrike Mosel
(download list of errata)

Apr 2002 - Mar 2008

Magister Artium in General Linguistics (final grade: 1,1 = “very good”)

Institute for Linguistics, Universität Leipzig

Master’s Thesis: “Syllable Structures and Stress Patterns in Kildin Saami”
Supervised by Prof. Balthasar Bickel

Aug 1993 - May 1998

Bachelor of Arts in English Literature/German Studies (magna cum laude)

Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA

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Publications

Monograph (*peer-reviewed)

*Wilbur, Joshua, 2014. A grammar of Pite Saami. Studies in Diversity Linguistics 5. Berlin: Language Science Press.
(download list of errata)

Articles / Chapters in chronological order (*peer-reviewed)

*Wilbur, Joshua. Forthcoming. "Bidumsáme tjállemvuoge birra: A review of the official Pite Saami orthography".

*Wilbur, Joshua and Michael Rießler. 2022. "Working with language data: Practical, technical and scientific considerations". In Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke (eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 3-19.

*Wilbur, Joshua. 2021. "Pite Saami Metaphony". In Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

*Partanen, Niko, Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur. 2021. "Envisioning digital methods for fieldwork in the Arctic". In M. Lehtimäki, A. Rosenholm and V. Strukov (eds.), Visual Representations of the Arctic: Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature. London: Routledge. 313-339.

Wilbur, Joshua. 2020. "Pite számi irodalmi szövegek". In J. Domokos (ed.), Alkotni csodára vágyva: kortárs számi művészeti fejlemények. Budapest: Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem and L'Harmattan Kiadó. 147-152.

Blokland Rogier, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur. 2019. "Using computational approaches to integrate endangered language legacy data into documentation corpora. Past experiences and challenges ahead". In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages. Vol. 2. Honolulu: Association for Computational Linguistics. 24-30.

*Wilbur, Joshua. 2019. "ELAN as a search engine for hierarchically structured, tagged corpora". In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop for Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (IWCLUL 2019). Tartu: Association for Computational Linguistics. 90-103.

Wilbur Joshua. 2018. "Pite Sámi Literary Texts". In J. Domokos (ed), "Čálli giehta olla guhkás" A writing hand reaches further: Recommendations for the improvement in the Sámi literary field. Helsinki: Yhdenvertaisen kulttuurin puolesta ry.

*Wilbur, Joshua. 2018. "Extracting inflectional class assignment in Pite Saami: Nouns, verbs and those pesky adjectives". In T. A. Pirinen, M. Rießler, J. Rueter, T. Trosterud (eds), Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop for Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (IWCLUL 2018). Helsinki: Association for Computational Linguistics. 156-170.

*Gerstenberger, Ciprian, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur. 2017. "Instant Annotations: Applying NLP Methods to the Annotation of Spoken Language Documentation Corpora". In T. A. Pirinen, M. Rießler, T. Trosterud, F. M. Tyers (eds), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages: Proceedings of the Workshop. ACL Anthology. St. Petersburg, Russia: Association for Computational Linguistics. 25-36.

Rießler, Michael and Joshua Wilbur. 2017. “Documenting endangered oral histories of the Arctic: A proposed symbiosis for endangered language documentation and oral history research, illustrated by Saami and Komi examples”. In E. Kasten, K. Roller, Joshua Wilbur (eds), Oral History meets Linguistics. Fürstenberg: Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien. 31-64.

Kasten, Erich, Katja Roller and Joshua Wilbur. 2017. “Introduction”. In E. Kasten, K. Roller, Joshua Wilbur (eds), Oral History meets Linguistics. Fürstenberg: Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien. 7-11.

Wilbur, Joshua. 2017. “The Pite Saami Lexicographic Backbone: From a FileMaker Pro Database to Published Digital Results”. In M. Fedina (ed), Электронная письменность народов Российской Федерации: Опыт, проблемы и перспективы [Electronic Written Language of the Peoples of the Russian Federation: Experience, Problems and Perspectives]. Syktyvkar: ГОУ ВО КРАГСиУ. 299-308.

Wilbur, Joshua. 2016. “Stavningsregler” [orthographic rules]. In Joshua Wilbur (ed), Pitesamisk ordbok samt stavningsregler, Samica 2. Freiburg: Universität Freiburg. (continuously updated web version)

Bengtsson, Nils Henrik, Marianne Eriksson, Inger Fjällås, Eva Karin Rosenberg, Gry Sivertsen, Valborg Sjaggo, Dagny Skaile, Peter Steggo and Joshua Wilbur. 2016. “Pitesamisk ordbok” [Pite Saami dictionary]. In Joshua Wilbur (ed), Pitesamisk ordbok samt stavningsregler, Samica 2. Freiburg: Universität Freiburg.

*Gerstenberger, Ciprian, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur. 2016. “Utilizing Language Technology in the Documentation of Endangered Uralic Languages”. Northern European Journal of Language Technology. Special Issue on Uralic Language Technology. Vol. 4. (T. A. Pirinen, T. Trosterud, F. M. Tyers (eds)). 29-47.

*Blokland, Rogier, Marina Fedina, Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur. 2015. “Language Documentation meets Language Technology”. In T. A. Pirinen, F. M. Tyers, T. Trosterud (eds), Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. Septentrio Conference Series 2. Tromsø: The University Library of Tromsø.

Wilbur, Joshua. 2015. “Pitesamisk språk – en introduksjon”. In L. M. Skarvik (ed), Pitesamiske stedsnavn i Salten. Drag: Báhko forlag.

*Wilbur, Joshua. 2014. “Archiving for the community: Engaging local archives in language documentation projects”. In David Nathan & Peter K. Austin (eds), Language Documentation and Description, vol. 12: Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving. London: University of London. pp. 85-102.

Wilbur, Joshua. 2013. A corpus-based grammar of spoken Pite Saami (PhD thesis). Kiel: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

*Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa and Joshua Wilbur. 2011. “The past, present and future of the Pite Saami language: Sociological factors and revitalization efforts”. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 34. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. 295-329.

Wilbur, Joshua. 2011. “Think Globally, Archive Locally: Opportunities and Challenges in Working with Local Archiving Institutions”. In D. Nathan (ed), Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Documentation and Archiving. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. 51-58.

Rießler, Michael and Joshua Wilbur. 2007. “Documenting the endangered Kola Saami languages”. In T. Bull, J. Kusmenko, M. Rießler (eds), Språk og språkforhold i Sápmi. (Berliner Beiträge zur Skandinavistik 10). Berlin: Humboldt-Universität. 39-82.

Edited volumes

Kasten, Erich, Katja Roller and Joshua Wilbur, eds. 2017. Oral History meets Linguistics. Fürstenberg: Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien.

Wilbur, Joshua, ed. 2016. Pitesamisk ordbok samt stavningsregler [Pite Saami dictionary and orthographic rules], Samica 2. Freiburg: Universität Freiburg.

Reviews

Wilbur, Joshua. 2014. "The Sony NEX-VG30 video camera: a review for use in language documentation". Language Documentation & Conservation 8. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 100-112.

Wilbur, Joshua. 2007. Review of W. Labov, S. Ash and C. Boberg: The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, phonology, and sound change. English Language and Linguistics 11.1: 227-234.

Unpublished theses

Wilbur, Joshua. 2008. Syllable Structures and Stress Patterns in Kildin Saami (MA thesis). Universität Leipzig.

Wilbur, Joshua. 1998. Burning a Discovery of Grace: History and Fiction as Abstracting, Introducing, Narrating, Multiplying, and Identifying Postmodern Canada (BA thesis). Westminster College.

Data set

Wilbur, Joshua, Peter Steggo, Olve Utne, Nils-Henrik Bengtsson, Marianne Eriksson, Inger Fjällås, Eva-Karin Rosenberg, Gry Helen Sivertsen, Valborg Sjaggo and Dagny Skaile. 2024. The Pite Saami Lexical Database. Version 1.0. Center for Estonian Language Resources. DOI: 10.15155/z0p6-k519.

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Archived collections of language materials

Pite Saami: documenting the language and culture

Endangered Languages Achive; SOAS, University of London, Great Britain

Pite Saami, Pan-Saami Language Archive

The Language Archive, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen/Netherlands

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Natural language processing (NLP) for Pite Saami

Finite state and Constraint Grammar based analyzers for Pite Saami

in collaboration with Sámi Giellatekno Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway

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Online Pite Saami lexical database

Development and maintenance of the lexical database and web interface for Bidumsáme Báhkogirrje • Pitesamisk ordlista • Pite Saami lexical database

Website hosted by the Center of Estonian Language Resources

Download the dataset (v1.0 from 2024-05-13 – see here for bibliographic reference).

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Other professional activities, affiliations and collaborations
(current and past)

National Coordinator	for CLARIN ERIC Estonia and Member of CLARIN National Coordinators' Forum (since Dec 2022)
Chair	of the Pite Saami Standardization Committee; supported by Sámi Giellagáldu at the Norwegian Saami Parliament (June 2024-March 2027)
Steering Committee Member	for the project Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics (MEDAL) (2023-2025)
Supervisor	for MA theses at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia, the Faculty of Philosophy, Universität Tübingen, Germany, and the Faculty of Philology, Universität Freiburg, Germany for BA theses at the Faculty of Philology, Universität Freiburg, Germany
Researcher	in the Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies (until 2022)
Co-Editor	of the book series Samica (ISSN: 2199-6229); with Thomas Mohnike and Michael Rießler.
Advisory Board Member	for the MA program Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages (EFUL), University of Tartu, Estonia
	for the project Measuring Effectiveness – A study on changes in minority language use and perception due to revitalisation efforts, with evidence from North Frisian (for the project duration)
Consultant/co-organizer	for Sámi Contemporary: A Symposium about Minorities and Identities at the Nordic Embassies in Berlin (22 Sept 2015)
Organizer	for 5th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS-5), University of Tartu, Estonia (22-23 September 2022, together with Helen Türk, Merit Niinemägi) for Unlocking the potential of digital language archives, Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, online (25 June 2021, together with the Endangered Languages Archive) for 3rd Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS-3), the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany (19-20 October 2017, together with Michael Rießler, Tim Feist, Flore Picard) for Language Documentation, Corpus Building and Corpus-Based Studies: PhD Workshop on Methods in Language Documentation and Description, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (20-21 July 2016, together with Michael Rießler) for Applying Documentary Linguistics (Junior Researcher Conference), the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany (22-23 November 2013, together with Michael Rießler) for Orthography and language technology: opportunities and challenges for Pite Saami (workshop), Arjeplog, Sweden (14-15 May 2011)
Collaboration	on Pite Saami language technology with Sámi Giellatekno, Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway
Technical advisor	for the project From gesture to speech: multimodal analysis of spoken Estonian, University of Tartu, Estonia for the project Interdisciplinary Corpus of Seto, University of Tartu, Estonia
Supervision	of student assistants in the Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies
Ad hoc reviewer	for grant proposals: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
	for book proposals: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press
	for paper submissions: Studies in Diversity Linguistics, Studies in Language Companion Series, Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, Linguistica Uralica, Language Documentation and Description, and others
	for the Arctic Indigenous Languages and Revitalization project maps
Expert linguistics consultant	for Indigenous Rights and the Global Politics of Resource Extraction: The Case of Mining in Sápmi, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden

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Smaller grants and scholarships

2022 Conference	Institutional support funding €2,535 from the University of Tartu for organizational costs to host the 5th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS-5)
2018 Scholarship	Ontario-Baden-Württemberg Faculty Mobility Program €2,400 from Universität Konstanz and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts researcher exchange program at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2014-16 Publication	Pitesamisk ordbok samt stavningsregler (Pite Saami dictionary and orthographic standard) €5,500 from Arjeplog Municipality (Arjeplog, Sweden) for production/publication costs
22-23 Nov 2013 Workshop	Applying Documentary Linguistics the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany €8,000 from FRIAS Conceived of, applied for and organized the workshop (with Michael Rießler)
14-15 May 2011 Workshop	Orthography and Language Technology: Opportunities and Challenges for Pite Saami Arjeplog, Sweden €11,000 from Nordforsk and the Saami Documentation and Revitalization Network Conceived of, applied for and organized the workshop
1996-97 Scholarship	Rotary International Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship $19,000 from Rotary International to study at Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany

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Selected teaching experience in linguistics and digital humanities

Digital Data in the Humanities

undergraduate/graduate student seminar

Corpora in Linguistics Research

graduate student seminar

Corpora and Language Technology for Finno-Ugric Languages

graduate student seminar

Open Science: what, why and how?

"Junior researcher luncheon" (lecture and workshop)

Language Technology and Comprehending Unfamiliar Texts

"Master Student weekend" (lecture and workshop)

Pite Saami Structure Course

undergraduate/graduate student seminar

Documentary Linguistics

graduate student seminar

ELAN for beginners

MEDAL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics, 19 June 2023, Tartu University, Estonia

Creating rich annotations for media files using ELAN

graduate student seminar

Sprachdokumentation

introduction to documentary linguistics (graduate student seminar)

Syntaktische Strukturen in den Sprachen Nordeuropas

introduction to syntax based on the languages of northern Europe (bachelor seminar)

Morphologie der nordeuropäischen Sprachen

introduction to morphology based on the languages of northern Europe (bachelor seminar)

Saami Research Colloquium

research colloquium on various topics relevant to Saami linguistics (with Michael Rießler)

Strukturkurs Pitesaamisch

phonological and structural aspects of Pite Saami (bachelor seminar)

Einführung in die Morphologie anhand der Sprachen Nordeuropas

introduction to morphology based on the languages of northern Europe (bachelor seminar)

Dokumentationslinguistik und Sprachtechnologie: Theorie und Praxis von angewandter Forschung in den "Digitalen Sprachwissenschaften"

bachelor/masters seminar on the theories and practices of documentary linguistics and language technology (with Michael Rießler)

Fieldwork methodology course

Courses on documentary linguistics, recording techniques, and ELAN

Seminarium om Språkdokumentation (Seminar on language documentation)

week-long introduction to theoretical and practical aspects of language documentation

ELAN: a linguistic annotation tool for audio/video media

workshop for PhD students

Pite Saami Fieldwork tutorial

two week course on linguistic fieldwork methods

Sprachdokumentation im nordeuropäischen Raum (Language documentation in Northern Europe)

undergraduate seminar on the theory and practices of language documentation

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Fieldwork experience

2008-2019	Pite Saami (Uralic, Sweden; 29 months for various Pite Saami projects)
July 2007	Ter Saami (Uralic, Russia; for Kola Saami Documentation Project)
Oct-Nov 2006	Kildin Saami (Uralic, Russia; for Kola Saami Documentation Project)
Sep-Dec 2004	Manang-Gurung, Manange (both Tibeto-Burman, Nepal; internship and field trip with Prof. Kristine Hildebrandt)

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Presentations
⇢ Invited lectures ⇢ Conference papers ⇢ Posters

Invited lectures & presentations ⇡
23 November 2023	The role of digital and analogue linguistics research in supporting the critically endangered Pite Saami language Les rencontres du Sápmi (Session inaugurale), Université de Caen Normandie, France
1 June 2022	Pite Saami language attrition: a case study lecture in the e-learning course on language attrition (REMODUS), online
21 May 2021	Working with consultants: experiences from Pite Saami fieldwork lecture for the linguistic fieldwork workshop, Community of Practice in Uralic Studies (COPIUS), online
30 Oct 2020	Exposing Beginners to Digital Data Digital Competencies in the Humanities Workshop, Centre for Digital Humanities and Information Society, University of Tartu, Estonia
6 Oct 2020	Language Technology for Critically Endangered Languages: Opportunities for Linguistics and Society TÜling lecture series, Institute for Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia
11 July 2019	Pite Saami: eine Kleinstsprache in Nordskandinavien Lecture class on the Pite Saami language, Skandinavisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg, Germany
10 July 2019	Nordens urfolksspråk: De samiska språken och deras ställning Seminar on the Saami languages, Skandinavisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg, Germany
7 May 2019	Digital Approaches to Fieldwork and Grammatical Description The Uppsala Language Documentation Group, Uppsala University, Sweden
28 Mar 2019	Fieldwork and Grammaticography in a Digital World (plenary lecture) Descriptive Grammars and Typology Conference: The challenges of writing grammars of underdescribed and endangered languages, University of Helsinki, Finland
22 Nov 2018	Utterance-final weakening: A discourse-level prosodic feature in northern Scandinavia Linguistics Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
8 Nov 2018	Automatic Syntactic Parsing: Corpus Creation for Pite Saami Linguistics Reading Group, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
10 Oct 2018	Prosodic Structures in Two Saamic Languages (with Michael Rießler) Linguistik Kolloquium, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
30 Nov 2017	Minderheitensprachen in Skandinavien: das Beispiel des (Pite)Saamischen Lecture class on minority languages in Scandinavia, Skandinavisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg, Germany
30 Nov 2017	Traditionswelten und Überlebensstrategien der Samen im hohen Norden Europas Evangelische Akademie Meißen, Germany
22 Nov 2017	Incorporating Pite Saami: Combining Lexicography, Morphophonology, Syntax in Automatic Corpus Creation Linguistik Kolloquium, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
27 Nov 2016	Die Saamen: Das indigene Volk des hohen Nordens Stuttgarter Buchwochen, Stuttgart, Germany
29 Oct 2016	Pitesamiskt ordboksarbete: på papper och på skärm Samisk språk - fortid og nåtid, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway
3 Oct 2016	Pitesamisk ordbok samt stavningsregler Samiska kulturveckan, Arjepog, Sweden
4 Dec 2015	Oral Histories in Endangered Language Corpora (with Michael Rießler) Oral History meets Linguistics, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Freiburg, Germany
14 Apr 2015	Searching for Pite Saami: Language endangerment and documentary linguistics UWC Robert Bosch College, Freiburg, Germany
9 Apr 2015	Language Revitalization and the Saami Languages Département d'études scandinaves, Université de Strasbourg, France
21 Jan 2015	Die Sprachenlandschaft Arjeplogs Skandinavisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg, Germany
5 Oct 2014	Det pitesamiska språket: dokumentation och beskrivning Samiska kulturveckan, Arjepog, Sweden
20 Jun 2013	Das Schwedische im Pitesaamischen: Kontakt-bedingter Sprachwandel in einer bedrohten Minderheitensprache Skandinavisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg, Germany
13 Oct 2012	Swedish Influence on Pite Saami Nordic Collaboration on Language Variation Studies (N'CLAV) workshop, Arjeplog, Sweden
16 Feb 2012	Språkdokumentation och det pitesamiska språket Lule Saami Language Conference, The Saami Education Center, Jokkmokk, Sweden
19 Jan 2011	Software and Documentary Linguistics Guest lecture in field work methods course; LOT Winter School 2011; University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Conference presentations ⇡
6 Nov 2024	Utterance final weakening in Pite Saami (and beyond?) 6th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS-6); University of Helsinki, Finland
17 Mar 2022	The usefulness of “small data” in capturing syntactic change in an under-documented endangered language Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 2022; Uppsala University, Sweden
23 Oct 2020	From Research to Revitalization: Fighting Language Endangerment with Digital Humanities Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 2020; National Library of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
14 Nov 2019	Bidumsáme tjállemvuoge birra: A critical review of the new Pite Saami orthography 4th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS-4); Uppsala universitet, Sweden
16 Aug 2019	Integrating language technology into work with spoken corpora (with Niko Partanen & Michael Rießler) Research Data and Humanities, University of Oulu, Finland
27 Feb 2019	Using computational approaches to integrate endangered language legacy data into documentation corpora: Past experiences and challenges ahead (with Rogier Blokland, Niko Partanen and Michael Rießler 3rd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages, University of Hawai’i Mānoa, Honolulu, USA
27 Sep 2018	Automatic linguistic annotation of spoken Pite Saami 6th Estonian Digital Humanities Conference; Tartu, Estonia
08 Jan 2018	Extracting inflectional class assignment in Pite Saami: Nouns, verbs and those pesky adjectives 4th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages; Helsinki, Finland
29 Sep 2017	Utterance-final weakening: A discourse-level prosodic feature in Pite Saami Second Workshop on Uralic Prosody; Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
16 Mar 2017	The Pite Saami lexicographic backbone: From a FileMaker Pro database to published digital results Electronic Writing of RF Small Peoples: History, Issues, and Perspectives; Syktyvkar, Russian Federation
9 Apr 2016	Towards a Pite Saami lexicography: Creating a dictionary from a community-driven wordlist Dictionary Journal Workshop; Institute for Linguistics, Universität Leipzig, Germany
10 Mar 2016	Bidumsáme Báhkogirrje: Challenges and Opportunities in Producing Pite Saami Lexicographic Materials Aktasne II: New concepts, theories, and methodologies on Saami studies; Department of Language Studies, Umeå universitet, Sweden
18 Aug 2015	A critical evaluation of past, current and future approaches in Uralic language documentation (with Rogier Blokland, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler) International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies; Oulu, Finland
16 Jan 2015	Language Documentation meets Language Technology (with Richael Blokland, Marina Fedina, Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler) 1st International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages; Tromsø, Norway
22 Aug 2014	Nordisk dialektologi och samisk språkdokumentation: Icke-nordiska språkmaterial som källa för nordisk dialektologi Tionde nordiska dialektologkonferensen; Mariehamn, Finland
24 Sep 2013	Flexionsklassen der pitesaamischen Nomen: eine allgemeinlinguistische Einteilung 21. Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik; Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
3 May 2013	Das phonologische Wort: Universalität und Gegenbeispiele PhD oral examination presentation; Institut für Skandinavistik, Frisistik und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft; Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
19 Apr 2012	Pite Saami under Swedish Rule(s): Bilingualism and contact-induced change in an endangered minority language 11th International Conference of Nordic & General Linguistics; Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
18 Nov 2011	Think Globally, Archive Locally: Opportunities and challenges in working with local archiving institutions Workshop on Language Documentation and Archiving; Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory 3; School of Oriental and African Studies, London, Great Britain
14 June 2011	Hard-Core Phonology: Dismantling the Pite Saami Consonant Center Leiden Summer Phonology Workshop; Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands
28 May 2011	Einblicke in den Alltag einer bedrohten saamischen Sprachgemeinschaft Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
6-8 Apr 2011	Creating Future Legacy: the Documentation of Five Endangered Saami Languages (with Kristina Kotcheva) Workshop on Saami Language Legacy; Uppsala universitet, Sweden
9-10 Oct 2010	Reindeer terminology and lexicographic tools in the Pite Saami Documentation Project Workshop on Dictionary of Reindeer Terminology; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
30 Nov-1 Dec 2009	Endangered Saami language archives (with Michael Rießler, Kristina Kotcheva) Sources of Sami Culture and History: New Challenges; Stockholms universitet, Stockholm, Sweden
19-20 Nov 2009	The Morphosyntax of Pite Saami Adjectives 2nd Saami Linguistics Symposium; Universitetet i Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
28-29 Feb 2008	Documenting the endangered Pite and Ume Saami languages Saami Documentation and Revitalization Workshop; Universitetet i Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
26-27 Nov 2004	Observations on varieties of Gurung spoken in the Lower Manang District Conference of the Linguistic Society of Nepal; Tribuvan University, Katmandu, Nepal
17-18 Feb 2004	Using Speech Analyzer Linguistic Field Methods Workshop; Institute for Linguistics, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Poster presentations ⇡
8 Jan 2019	ELAN as a search engine for hierarchically structured, tagged corpora 5th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages; University Tartu, Estonia
23 Jan 2017	Instant Annotations: Applying NLP Methods to the Annotation of Spoken Language Documentation Corpora (with Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler) 3rd International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages; Norwegian University Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
28 May 2011	The Pite Saami Documentation Project: Einblicke in den Alltag einer bedrohten saamischen Sprachgemeinschaft Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2011; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
9-14 May 2011	The Pite Saami Documentation Project: Impressions of an Endangered Saami Language Community Endangered Languages Week 2011; School of Oriental and African Studies, London, Great Britain
9-14 Aug 2010	Documentation of Saami languages at DoBeS and ELAR (with Michael Rießler, Kristina Kotcheva) 11th International Congress for Fenno-Ugric Studies; Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary