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David Alfter
Research Engineer
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and ReligionAbout David Alfter
Background
- PhD in Language Technology (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
- MA in Computational Linguistics (Universität Trier, Germany)
- BA in Computational Linguistics and English Linguistics (Universität Trier, Germany)
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Jingle BERT, Jingle BERT, Frozen All the Way: Freezing Layers to Identify CEFR Levels of Second Language Learners Using
BERT
Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, David Alfter, Simon Dobnik, Maria Irena Szawerna, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2024) - 2024 -
Complexity and Indecision: A Proof-of-Concept Exploration of Lexical Complexity and Lexical Semantic
Change
David Alfter
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, August 15, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand - 2024 -
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo 2024), March 21, 2024,
Malta
Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Maria Irena Szawerna, Xuan-Son Vu
2024 -
Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), 10-11 January, 2024, Gothenburg,
Sweden
Elena Volodina, Gerlof Bouma, Markus Forsberg, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, David Alfter, Mats Fridlund, Christian Horn, Lars Ahrenberg, Anna Blåder
2024 -
Humanistic AI: Towards a new field of interdisciplinary expertise and
research
Mats Fridlund, David Alfter, Daniel Brodén, Ashely Green, Aram Karimi, Cecilia Lindhé
Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), 10-11 January, 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2024 -
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL
2023)
David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Thomas François, Arne Jönsson, Evelina Rennes
2023 -
TCFLE-8: a Corpus of Learner Written Productions for French as a Foreign Language and its Application to Automated Essay
Scoring
Rodrigo Wilkens, Alice Pintard, David Alfter, Vincent Folny, Thomas François
EMNLP 2023 - 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings - 2023 -
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, LChange'23, December 6th, 2023,
Singapore
Nina Tahmasebi, Syrielle Montariol, Haim Dubossarsky, Andrey Kutuzov, Simon Hengchen, David Alfter, Francesco Periti, Pierluigi Cassotti
2023 -
Crowdsourcing ratings for single lexical items: a core vocabulary
perspective
Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann
Slovenščina 2.0: Empirical, Applied and Interdisciplinary Research - 2022 -
Reliability of Automatic Linguistic Annotation: Native vs Non-native
Texts
Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Maisa Lauriala, Daniala Piipponen
Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021, Virtual Event, 2021, 27–29 September / edited by Monica Monachini and Maria Eskevich - 2022 -
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL
2022)
David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Thomas François, Piet Desmet, Frederik Cornillie, Arne Jönsson, Evelina Rennes
2022 -
CEFR-nivåer och svenska
flerordsuttryck
Therese Lindström Tiedemann, David Alfter, Elena Volodina
Svenskan i Finland 19 : föredrag vid den nittonde sammankomsten för beskrivningen av svenskan i Finland, Vasa den 6-7 maj 2021 / redigerade av Siv Björklund, Bodil Haagensen, Marianne Nordman och Anders Westerlund - 2022 -
ICALL: Research versus reality
check.
Elena Volodina, David Alfter
Live and Learn- Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin - 2022 -
Crowdsourcing Relative Rankings of Multi-Word Expressions: Experts versus
Non-Experts
David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina
Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT) - 2021 -
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL
2021)
David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán , Johannes Graën, Lars Borin
2021 -
Exploring natural language processing for single-word and multi-word lexical complexity from a second language learner
perspective
David Alfter
2021 -
Expert judgments versus crowdsourcing in ordering multi-word
expressions
David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), 25–27 November 2020, (Online) - 2020 -
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning
2020
David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Herbert Lange, Lars Borin
2020 -
Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2019), September 30, Turku
Finland
David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Lars Borin, Ildikó Pilán, Herbert Lange
2019 -
From river to bank: The importance of sense-based graded word
lists
David Alfter, Elena Volodina
EUROCALL 2019 - CALL and Complexity, Book of Abstracts, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 28-31 August 2019 - 2019 -
LEGATO: A flexible lexicographic annotation
tool.
David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, No. 167, NEAL Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), September 30-October 2, Turku, Finland Editor(s): Mareike Hartman and Barbara Plank - 2019 -
Interconnecting lexical resources and word alignment: How do learners get on with particle
verbs?
David Alfter, Johannes Graën
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceeding, No. 167, NEAL Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), September 30-October 2, Turku, Finland / Editor(s): Mareike Hartman and Barbara Plank - 2019 -
Lärka: From Language Learning Platform to Infrastructure for Research on Language
Learning
David Alfter, Lars Borin, Ildikó Pilán, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings - 2019 -
Review of Advanced Proficiency and Exceptional Ability in Second
Languages
Anders Agebjörn, David Alfter
Linguist List - 2019 -
Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? A corpus-based pilot study of the lexical complexity in multi-word
expressions.
David Alfter, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of SLTC 2018, Stockholm, October 7-9, 2018 - 2018 -
Towards Single Word Lexical Complexity
Prediction.
David Alfter, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 5, 2018 - 2018 -
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2018), SLTC, Stockholm, 7th November
2018
Ildikó Pilán, Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Lars Borin
2018 -
SB@ GU at the Complex Word Identification 2018 Shared
Task
David Alfter, Ildikó Pilán
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 5, 2018 - 2018 -
From Language Learning Platform to Infrastructure for Research on Language
Learning
David Alfter, Lars Borin, Ildikó Pilán, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of CLARIN-2018 conference, Pisa, Italy - 2018 -
Lärka: an online platform where language learning meets natural language
processing
Ildikó Pilán, David Alfter, Elena Volodina
7th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 25-26 August 2017, Stockholm, Sweden - 2017 -
Review of Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second
Languages
David Alfter, Anders Agebjörn
Linguistlist - 2017 -
Learning the Learner: User Modeling in Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning
Systems
David Alfter
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, v.1618. UMAP 2016 Extended Proceedings. Halifax, Canada, July 13-16, 2016. Edited by : Federica Cena, Michel Desmarais, Darina Dicheva, Jie Zhang - 2016 -
Hybrid Language Segmentation for Historical
Documents
David Alfter, Yuri Bizzoni
Proceedings CLiC-it 2016 and EVALITA 2016, Napoli, Italy, December 5-7, 2016. Edited by : Pierpaolo Basile, Anna Corazza, Franco Cutugno, Simonetta Montemagni, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti, Giovanni Semeraro, Rachele Sprugnoli - 2016 -
Classification of Swedish learner essays by CEFR
levels
Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, David Alfter
Proceedings of EuroCALL 2016. 24-27th August 2016, Cyprus. - 2016 -
Modeling Individual Learner Knowledge in a Computer Assisted Language Learning
System
David Alfter, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the Sixth Swedish Language Technology Conference. Umeå University, 17-18 November, 2016 - 2016 -
Coursebook texts as a helping hand for classifying linguistic complexity in language learners'
writings
Ildikó Pilán, David Alfter, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity - 2016 -
From Distributions to Labels: A Lexical Proficiency Analysis using Learner
Corpora
David Alfter, Yuri Bizzoni, Anders Agebjörn, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings - 2016 -
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language
Change
Nina Tahmasebi, Syrielle Montariol, Andrey Kutuzov, David Alfter, Pierluigi Cassotti, Netta Huebscher
2004