• Areas of interest: dependency parsing, grammar engineering, interlingual approaches, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Second Language Acquisition
• Current position: PhD student at Språkbanken Text (Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg) (see also my employee page)
• Supervisors: Elena Volodina and Dana Dannélls
• Contact: arianna.masciolini@gu.se

Scientific publications

• Arianna Masciolini, Emilie Francis and Maria Irena Szawerna. Synthetic-Error Augmented Parsing of Swedish as a Second Language: Experiments with Word Order. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 43–49, Torino, Italy, 2024 [pdf] [bibtex] [code]
• Arianna Masciolini, Bootstrapping the Annotation of UD Learner Treebanks. In Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 111-117, Torino, Italy, 2024 [pdf] [bibtex]
• Arianna Masciolini and Márton A. Tóth (equal contributions). STUnD: ett Sökverktyg för Tvåspråkiga Universal Dependencies-trädbanker. In Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), pages 95-109, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2024 [pdf] [bibtex] [code]
• Arianna Masciolini, Elena Volodina, and Dana Dannélls. Towards automatically extracting morphosyntactical error patterns from L1-L2 parallel dependency treebanks. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023), pages 585–597, Toronto, Canada, 2023 [pdf] [bibtex] [code]
• Arianna Masciolini. A query engine for L1-L2 parallel dependency treebanks. In The 24rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2023 [pdf] [bibtex] [code]
• Arianna Masciolini. Building a multilingual AWE tool for L2 learners: challenges and ideas. In LIVE and LEARN-Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin, 2022 [pdf] [bibtex]
• Arianna Masciolini and Aarne Ranta. Grammar-based concept alignment for domain-specific Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2020/21), 2021 [pdf] [bibtex] [code]

Other writings

• Rapport från LREC-COLING (short report on the Nationella Språkbanken website)
• Språkbanken Students at LREC-COLING 2024 (joint blog post with Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez on the (blog post on the Språkbanken Text blog)
• Korp tips and tricks: using CQP labels to search for dependency structures (blog post on the Språkbanken Text blog)

Talks

• Synthetic-Error Augmented Parsing of Swedish as a Second Language: Experiments with Word Order. Paper presentation at the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024 (Torino, Italy) on May 25th, 2024 [poster]
• SweDiagnostics: A Diagnostics Natural Language Inference Dataset for Swedish. Paper presentation on behalf of Felix Morger at the 17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) @ LREC-COLING 2024 (Torino, Italy) on May 20th, 2024
• Bootstrapping the Annotation of UD Learner Treebanks. Paper presentation at the 17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) @ LREC-COLING 2024 (Torino, Italy) on May 20th, 2024 [poster]
• STUnD i användning​ - presens perfekt i svenska och engelska. Joint paper presentation with Márton A. Tóth​ at the Huminfra conference (HiC 2024) (Gothenburg, Sweden) on January 11, 2024 [slides]
• Feedback for language learners with UD and GF. Invited talk at the 8th Grammatical Framework Summer School (Tampere, Finland) on August 22, 2023 [slides]
• Towards automatically extracting morphosyntactical error patterns from L1-L2 parallel dependency treebanks. Paper presentation at the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023) (Toronto, Canada and online) on July 13, 2023. [poster] [slides] [pre-recorded video]
• A query engine for L1-L2 parallel dependency treebanks. Paper presentation at the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2023) (Tórshavn, Faroe Islands) on May 23, 2023 [slides]
• UD-based analysis of grammatical errors in L2 texts. Planning seminar given at the “Högre seminarium” of the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology of the University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden) on April 3, 2023 [slides]
• A gentle introduction to Argument Mining. Joint seminar with Anna Lindahl, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez and Stian Rødven-Eide. Presented at CLASP (Gothenburg, Sweden) on October 21, 2022 [slides]
• Grammar-based concept alignment for domain-specific Machine Translation. Paper presentation at the 7th International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2020/21) (online) on September 8, 2021 [slides]
• Concept Alignment for Multilingual Machine Translation. Invited talk at the 7th Grammatical Framework Summer School (online) on August 4, 2021 [slides] [video]

Teaching

Since 2019, I’ve been a teaching assistant in several Haskell and Python bachelor-level programming courses, as well as in the Computational Syntax course of the Master in Language Technology at the University of Gothenburg. In 2023, I have also been co-course responsible for the Introduktion till Programmering summer course at the Chalmers University of technology.

Special topic lectures

• Applications of UD analysis: syntactic queries, cross-linguistic comparisons and language learning. Joint lecture with Aarne Ranta as past of the Computational Syntax course at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, on April 8, 2024 [slides]
• Dependency grammar and Universal Dependencies: an introduction and annotation exercise. Part of the Syntax 2 course at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, on March 4, 2024 [slides]
• Python in Natural Language Processing. Part of the Advanced Programming in Python course (DAT/DIT515) at the Computer Science and Engineering department of the Chalmers University of Technology/University of Gothenburg, Sweden, on December 5, 2023 [slides and code]
• Artificiell intelligens och maskininlärning. Part of the Introduktion till Programmering i Python summer course (DAT455) at the Chalmers University of Technology (online), on July 31, 2023. [slides]