Overview
Background
My name is Martin Schweinberger and I am Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia. At the UQ, I am Director of the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) (together with Michael Haugh) and I am a quantitative corpus linguist specialized in computational analyses of text and speech. In my research, I aim to combine and bridge the gap between computational linguistics and corpus linguistics.
I am steering committee member and Chief Investigator (CI) of the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) and was also steering committee member and CI of the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) before it was merged with LDaCA. Both ATAP and LDaCA aim at establishing language data infrastructures and text analytics upskilling resources in Australia and they have received substantive funding from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). I have recently been elected as Vice-President Profession to be of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) and I am board member of The International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME).
Regarding my background, I have a PhD in English linguistics and I studied at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and Universität Kassel where I graduated in 2008 with an MA in English Philology, Philosophy, and Psychology. After my MA, I remained in Kassel for a short while but soon moved on to the University of Hamburg where I worked on and later received my PhD.
Potential topics for supervision
I would be particularly interested in supervising theses on the following topics:
Sociolinguistics / Language Variation and Change / World Englishes
- General extenders
- Terms-of-address and salutations
- Discourse particles and markers
- Vulgarity
- Adjective amplification
Learner Language / Applied Linguistics / Corpus Phonetics / Learner Corpus Research
- Vowel production among L1 speakers and learners of English
- Voice-onset-times among L1 speakers and learners of English
- Fluency and pauses in learner and L1 speech.
- Accent and intelligibility / comprehension.
Text Analytics / Digital Humanities / Corpus Linguistics
- Applied word embedding applications in the language sciences.
- Comparison of different association / keyness measures
Availability
- Dr Martin Schweinberger is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Universität Hamburg
Research interests
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Socio- and psycholinguitics
I am interested in how social and cognitive-psychological factors impact language use and variability.
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Language variation and change
I find it fascinating how and why languages changes and how variation and variability form the basis of language change.
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Computational and quantitative analyses
I use computational methods using programming environments to process, analyze and visualize language data.
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Corpus linguistics
Corpus data allows us to test hypotheses about how language works and changes empirically.
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First and second language acquisition
How do humans acquire their first language (L1) and how to learners differ from L1 speakers? What are common phenomena of learner language(s)?
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Discourse markers and particles
While often considered mere fillers, discourse markers and particles fulfill very important communicative functions such as drawing attention to what is important, signalling, restarts and repairs, or linking utterances.
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Adjective intensification
Research impacts
As director and initiator of the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) I am very proud that LADAL has emerged as one of Australia’s most prominent web-based collaborative support infrastructures for digital and computational humanities with more than 1.1 million page views of more than 500,000 active users in nearly 750,000 engaged sessions since 2021.
Works
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2025
Journal Article
Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world
Schweinberger, Martin and Burridge, Kate (2025). Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world. Lingua, 321 103946, 1-25. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103946
2025
Other Outputs
Indigenous Australian languages – linguistic features, revitalization efforts, and research infrastructure for archiving and accessibility
Schweinberger, Martin (2025). Indigenous Australian languages – linguistic features, revitalization efforts, and research infrastructure for archiving and accessibility. Hamburg, Germany: University of Hamburg.
2024
Journal Article
Seeded topic modeling as a more appropriate alternative to unsupervised standard topic models
Schweinberger, Martin (2024). Seeded topic modeling as a more appropriate alternative to unsupervised standard topic models. Discourse Studies. doi: 10.1177/14614456241293895
2024
Other Outputs
Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world
Schweinberger, Martin (2024). Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world. Bonn, Germany: University of Bonn.
2024
Book Chapter
A corpus-based comparative acoustic analysis of target-like vowel production by L1-Japanese learners and native speakers of English
Schweinberger, Martin and Komiya, Yuki (2024). A corpus-based comparative acoustic analysis of target-like vowel production by L1-Japanese learners and native speakers of English. Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics. (pp. 41-61) edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/scl.119.03sch
2024
Book Chapter
Concluding remarks and future directions in studies on sociopragmatic variation
Schweinberger, Martin and Ronan, Patricia (2024). Concluding remarks and future directions in studies on sociopragmatic variation. Socio-pragmatic variation in Ireland: using pragmatic variation to construct social identities. (pp. 235-240) edited by Martin Schweinberger and Patricia Ronan. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110791457-012
2024
Book Chapter
Boring much? Semantic determinants of constructional attraction in Irish English
Schweinberger, Martin and Ronan, Patricia (2024). Boring much? Semantic determinants of constructional attraction in Irish English. Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland. (pp. 107-130) Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110791457-007
2024
Book Chapter
An introduction to sociopragmatic variation
Ronan, Patricia and Schweinberger, Martin (2024). An introduction to sociopragmatic variation. Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland. (pp. 1-8) Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110791457-001
2024
Conference Publication
Automated, Corpus-and Usage-Based Semantic Classification of Word Class using Word Embeddings
Schweinberger, Martin and Luo, Chang-Hao (2024). Automated, Corpus-and Usage-Based Semantic Classification of Word Class using Word Embeddings. ICAME45, Vigo, Spain, 18-21 June 2024.
2024
Other Outputs
Introduction to R for Social Science
Schweinberger, Martin (2024). Introduction to R for Social Science. Joensuu, Finland: University of Eastern Finland.
2024
Other Outputs
Introduction to Computational Text Analytics (Workshop)
Schweinberger, Martin and Hames, Sam (2024). Introduction to Computational Text Analytics (Workshop). Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
2024
Journal Article
Corpus-based discourse analysis: from meta-reflection to accountability
Bednarek, Monika, Schweinberger, Martin and Lee, Kelvin K. H. (2024). Corpus-based discourse analysis: from meta-reflection to accountability. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 20 (3), 1-28. doi: 10.1515/cllt-2023-0104
2024
Journal Article
A corpus‐based analysis of adjective amplification in Hong Kong, Indian and Philippine English
Schweinberger, Martin (2024). A corpus‐based analysis of adjective amplification in Hong Kong, Indian and Philippine English. World Englishes. doi: 10.1111/weng.12640
2024
Book Chapter
When natural language processing meets corpus linguistics
Schweinberger, Martin (2024). When natural language processing meets corpus linguistics. Digitally-assisted historical English linguistics. (pp. 73-88) edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Dagmar Haumann and Arne Peters. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003360285-6
2023
Other Outputs
Introduction to Dimension Reduction Methods with R
Schweinberger, Martin (2023). Introduction to Dimension Reduction Methods with R. Tromsø, Norway: The Arctic University of Norway.
2023
Journal Article
On the L1-acquisition of the pragmatics of discourse like
Schweinberger, Martin (2023). On the L1-acquisition of the pragmatics of discourse like. Functions of Language, 30 (3), 255-286. doi: 10.1075/fol.20025.sch
2023
Other Outputs
F%$# Twitter. A corpus-based analysis of vulgar language on Twitter
Schweinberger, Martin (2023). F%$# Twitter. A corpus-based analysis of vulgar language on Twitter. Bayreuth, Germany: Bayreuth University.
2023
Journal Article
Research trends in corpus linguistics: a bibliometric analysis of two decades of Scopus-indexed corpus linguistics research in arts and humanities
Crosthwaite, Peter, Ningrum, Sulistya and Schweinberger, Martin (2023). Research trends in corpus linguistics: a bibliometric analysis of two decades of Scopus-indexed corpus linguistics research in arts and humanities. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 28 (3), 344-377. doi: 10.1075/ijcl.21072.cro
2023
Conference Publication
An introduction to the resources provided by LADAL - the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory
Schweinberger, Martin (2023). An introduction to the resources provided by LADAL - the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory. 7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE7), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19 - 23 June 2023. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
2023
Conference Publication
Who swears most – and in what social settings?
Schweinberger, Martin, Fatemi, Masoud, Hames, Sam, Haugh, Michael, Laitinen, Mikko, Rautionaho, Paula and Takahashi, Marissa (2023). Who swears most – and in what social settings?. 7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE7), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19-23 June 2023. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
A corpus-based analysis of conspiracy theory discourse on Reddit: Understanding conspiracy-fuelled anomie and moral panics during COVID-19
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Ryan Ko
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Doctor Philosophy
Examining Changes in Conspiracy Discourse on Reddit from 2019 - 2023
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Ryan Ko
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Doctor Philosophy
A multifactorial study of morpho-syntactic errors across different L1 backgrounds and language proficiency levels
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Peter Crosthwaite
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Doctor Philosophy
Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in TESOL: A Study on Personalised Learning and Impact on Student Engagement and Motivation in A Rural Indonesian University
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Peter Crosthwaite
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Doctor Philosophy
EFL writers' knowledge and use of appraisal language, factors that affect such use, and the influence of such appraisal language use on the quality of these writers' essays
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Peter Crosthwaite
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Doctor Philosophy
The Relationship Between Writing Tasks and Second Language Writers¿ Use of Metadiscourse
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Peter Crosthwaite
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Doctor Philosophy
Corpus-based investigation of three-minute thesis presentations: Register perspective
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Peter Crosthwaite
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Doctor Philosophy
EFL writers' knowledge and use of appraisal language, factors that affect such use, and the influence of such appraisal language use on the quality of these writers' essays
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Peter Crosthwaite
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
The acquisition of number marking: The case of Indonesian as a second language
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Peter Crosthwaite
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