Natalia Levshina

‘Hot’ and ‘cool’ languages at the UD workshop in Palma de Mallorca

2026-05-03T00:00:00+00:00

On May 16 I’m giving a talk at the 9th Universal Dependencies workshop in Palma de Mallorca, collocated with LREC. The title of my talk is “Which languages are “hot”, and which are “cool”? Using Universal Dependencies for large-scale comparisons of subject expression”.

Universal Dependencies is a great framework that brings cross-linguistic comparability to syntactic annotation, enabling linguists to study patterns across languages in a systematic way. I’ve already been lucky to attend three UD workshops (in Gothenburg, Paris and Turin), which were a lot of fun and have resulted in three papers about UD. I’m very much looking forward to the fourth one, to catch up with colleagues and learn the latest developments and news about this exciting project.

URL of the workshop: https://universaldependencies.org/udw26/

Statistics for typologists at the ExQuaCCo summer school

2026-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

I’ll be teaching statistical methods for typologists at the thematic school on Experimental, Quantitative, Computational & Corpus Linguistics, which takes place on 1–5 June 2026 in Fréjus, France. This school brings together formal, experimental, field & computational linguists, with hands-on workshops on quantitative methods, NLP, corpus annotation and more. I’ll be teaching a course “A statistical toolkit for typology”, with practical R exercises on cross-linguistic data. We will discuss the following topics: phylogenetic regression for testing cross-linguistic correlations and implications, Multidimensional Scaling, conditional inference trees and random forests.

URL of the summer school: https://exquacco.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en

Looking forward to many inspiring exchanges on the beautiful Côte d’Azur!