Professor Joakim Nivre
Joakim Nivre is Professor of Computational Linguistics at Uppsala University and Senior Researcher at RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden).
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 160 languages and over 600 researchers around the world. He has produced over 300 scientific publications and has nearly 25,000 citations according to Google Scholar (August, 2024). He is a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics and was the president of the association in 2017.
Spouse: Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre, Professor of German, Stockholm University. Visiting fellow at Clare Hall September–December 2024. Home page: https://www.su.se/english/profiles/ewg-1.185051
Select publications
- Joakim Nivre. 2003. An Efficient Algorithm for Projective Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Parsing Technologies, pages 149–160, Nancy, France.
- Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall, Jens Nilsson, Atanas Chanev, Gülsen Eryiğit, Sandra Kübler, Svetoslav Marinov, and Erwin Marsi. 2007. MaltParser: A Language-Independent System for Data-Driven Dependency Parsing. Natural Language Engineering. 2007;13(2):95–135.
- Joakim Nivre. 2008. Algorithms for Deterministic Incremental Dependency Parsing. Computational Linguistics, 34(4):513–553.
- Ryan McDonald and Joakim Nivre. 2011. Analyzing and Integrating Dependency Parsers. Computational Linguistics, 37(1):197–230.
- Ryan McDonald, Joakim Nivre, Yvonne Quirmbach-Brundage, Yoav Goldberg, Dipanjan Das, Kuzman Ganchev, Keith Hall, Slav Petrov, Hao Zhang, Oscar Täckström, Claudia Bedini, Núria Bertomeu Castelló, and Jungmee Lee. 2013. Universal Dependency Annotation for Multilingual Parsing. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 92–97, Sofia, Bulgaria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Joakim Nivre, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Filip Ginter, Yoav Goldberg, Jan Hajič, Christopher D. Manning, Ryan McDonald, Slav Petrov, Sampo Pyysalo, Natalia Silveira, Reut Tsarfaty, and Daniel Zeman. 2016. Universal Dependencies v1: A Multilingual Treebank Collection. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16), pages 1659–1666, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Joakim Nivre, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Filip Ginter, Jan Hajič, Christopher D. Manning, Sampo Pyysalo, Sebastian Schuster, Francis Tyers, and Daniel Zeman. 2020. Universal Dependencies v2: An Evergrowing Multilingual Treebank Collection. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4034–4043, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Christopher D. Manning, Joakim Nivre, and Daniel Zeman. 2021. Universal Dependencies. Computational Linguistics, 47(2):255–308.
Select Awards
- The Thuréus Prize, awarded by the Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala (2015)
- Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2021)
- Working Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (2022)
- The ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award (2023)
Further links
Personal home page: https://jnivre.github.io