I do Language Technology for Swedish as a second language at the Department for Swedish, Multilingualism and Language Technology of the University of Gothenburg, where I am a PhD student advised by Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls and Aarne Ranta. On the side of my main project, I develop tools for dependency treebanks.

For more information, see my employee page at Språkbanken Text, the research group I am part of. You are also welcome to send an email to arianna.masciolini@gu.se.

Peer-reviewed publications

• Arianna Masciolini, Herbert Lange and Márton András Tóth. Exploring parallel corpora with STUnD: A Search Tool for Universal Dependencies. In Huminfra handbook: Empowering digital and experimental humanities, 2025 [full text] [bibtex] [code]
• Elena Volodina, Arianna Masciolini, Beáta Megyesi, Julia Prentice, Lisa Rudebeck, Gunlög Sundberg, and Mats Wirén. SweLL with pride: How to put a learner corpus to good use. In Huminfra handbook: Empowering digital and experimental humanities, 2025 [full text] [bibtex]
• Arianna Masciolini, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Maria Irena Szawerna, and Elena Volodina. Annotating second language in Universal Dependencies: a review of current practices and directions for harmonized guidelines. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Universal Dependencies @ SyntaxFest, 2025 [full text] [bibtex] [slides]
• Arianna Masciolini, Andrew Caines, Orphée De Clercq, Joni Kruijsbergen, Murathan Kurfalı, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Elena Volodina, and Robert Östling. The MultiGEC-2025 shared task on Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction at NLP4CALL. In Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, David Alfter, Elena Volodina, and Jelena Kallas, editors, Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025 [full text] [bibtex] [slides] [website]
• Arianna Masciolini, Andrew Caines, Orphée De Clercq, Joni Kruijsbergen, Murathan Kurfalı, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Elena Volodina, Robert Östling, Kais Allkivi, Špela Arhar Holdt, Ilze Auzina, Roberts Darg̀is, Elena Drakonaki, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Isidora Glišić, Pinelopi Kikilintza, Lionel Nicolas, Mariana Romanyshyn, Alexandr Rosen, Alla Rozovskaya, Kristjan Suluste, Oleksiy Syvokon, Alexandros Tantos, Despoina-Ourania Touriki, Konstantinos Tsiotskas, Eleni Tsourilla, Vassilis Varsamopoulos, Katrin Wisniewski, Aleš Žagar, and Torsten Zesch. Towards better language representation in Natural Language Processing - a multilingual dataset for text-level Grammatical Error Correction. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 2025 [full text] [bibtex] [website] [dataset] [supplementary report]
• 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 [full text] [bibtex] [code] [poster]
• 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 [full text] [bibtex] [poster]
• Arianna Masciolini and Márton A. Tóth (equal contributions). STUnD: ett Sökverktyg för Tvåspråkiga Universal Dependencies-trädbanker. In Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), 2024 [full text] [bibtex] [code] [slides]
• 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 [full text] [bibtex] [code] [poster] [slides] [video]
• Arianna Masciolini. A query engine for L1-L2 parallel dependency treebanks. In The 24rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2023 [full text] [bibtex] [code] [slides]
• 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 [full text] [bibtex] [code] [slides]

Other writings

• Rarely Asked Questions about Swedish UD (blog post on the Språkbanken Text blog)
• Rapport från LREC-COLING (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)
• Arianna Masciolini. Building a multilingual AWE tool for L2 learners: challenges and ideas. In LIVE and LEARN-Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin, 2022 [full text] [bibtex]

Talks

Aside from paper presentations, I have given the following talks:

• Trädbanken SweLL: när andraspråkstalare annoterar andraspråkstexter. Invited talk at the Språkbanken CLARIN consortium meeting at Uppsala University, Sweden on February 6, 2026 [slides]
• UD come standard per i corpora di L2. Seminar at the Laboratorio Sperimentale LILEC (University of Bologna, Italy) on September 5, 2025 [slides]
• MultiGEC-2025: a Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction shared task. Joint presentation with Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez at the Mini-workshop on Language learning, Multilinguality and Grammatical Error Correction, at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden on December 16, 2024 [slides]
• STUnD: a Search Tool for (parallel) Universal Dependencies treebanks. Joint presentation with Herbert Lange at the 2024 workshop of Applications on Universal Dependencies, co-located with the 2024 Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2024) (Linköping, Sweden), on November 29, 2024 [slides]
• Cross-lingual approaches to computational SLA: the potential of Universal Dependencies. Halfway PhD seminar given at the “Högre seminarium” of the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology of the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) on October 21, 2024 [slides]
• Universal Dependencies meets Second Language Acquisition: the case of Swedish. Project presentation at the PhD student session of the CLARIN Annual Conference 2024 (Barcelona, Spain) on October 16, 2024 [poster]
• SweLL-UD: a treebank of L2 Swedish essays. Project presentation at the 1st UniDive training school (Chișinău, Moldova) on July 8, 2024 [poster]
• Feedback for language learners with UD and GF. Invited talk at the 8th Grammatical Framework Summer School (Tampere, Finland) on August 22, 2023 [slides]
• UD-based analysis of grammatical errors in L2 texts. PhD 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]
• Concept Alignment for Multilingual Machine Translation. Invited talk at the 7th Grammatical Framework Summer School (online) on August 4, 2021 [slides] [video]

Datasets

I am the main maintainer of:

• UD_Swedish-SweLL, a treebank of learner Swedish based on SweLL, the Swedish Learner Language corpus
• MultiGEC, a dataset for text-level Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction used in the MultiGEC-2025 shared task

Events

• I was the main organizer of the MultiGEC-2025 shared task on Multilingual text-level Grammatical Error Correction, whose results will be presented at the 14th NLP4CALL workshop, co-located with the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT conference in Tallin, Estonia on March 5, 2024
• I was one of the organizers of the 2024 workshop of Applications on Universal Dependencies, co-located with the 2024 Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2024), on November 29, 2024

Reviewing

I have reviewed for the following venues:

• the 11th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
• the Journal of Contemporary Educational Studies / Sodobna pedagogika
• the 2025 edition of the RESOURCEFUL Workshop on RESOURCEs and representations For Under-resourced Languages
• the 2024 and 2025 editions of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)
• the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)
• the 2022 and 2025 editions of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL)