2021

  • Bjerva, J. and Augenstein, I. Does Typological Blinding Impede Cross-Lingual Sharing? EACL 2021 [Pre-print]

    • 2020

  • Bjerva, J., Bhutani, N., Golshan, B., Tan, W-C and Augenstein, I. (2020) SubjQA: A Dataset for Subjectivity and Review Comprehension, EMNLP 2020 [Pre-print]
  • Nooralahzadeh, F., Bekoulis, G., Bjerva, J. and Augenstein, I. (2020) Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer with Meta Learning, EMNLP 2020 [Pre-print]
  • Bjerva, J., Salesky, E., Mielke, S., Chaudhary, A., Celano, G. G. A., Ponti, E. M., Vylomova, E., Cotterell, R., and Augenstein, I. (2020) SIGTYP 2020 Shared Task: Prediction of Typological Features, Proceedings of the 2nd SigTyp Workshop at EMNLP 2020. [Pre-print]
  • Muttenthaler, L., Augenstein, I. and Bjerva, J. (2020) Unsupervised Evaluation for Question Answering with Transformers, Proceedings of the 2020 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP [Pre-print]
  • Zhao, W., Eger, S., Bjerva, J. and Augenstein, I. (2020) Inducing Language-Agnostic Multilingual Representations [Pre-print]
  • Bjerva, J., Kouw, W. and Augenstein, I. (2020) Back to the Future -- Sequential Alignment of Text Representations, AAAI 2020 [Pre-print]

    • 2019

  • Bjerva, J., Kementchedjhieva, Y., Cotterell, R. and Augenstein, I. (2019) Uncovering Probabilistic Implications in Typological Knowledge Bases, ACL 2019 [Article]
  • Bjerva, J., Kann, K. and Augenstein, I. (2019) Transductive Auxiliary Task Self-Training for Neural Multi-Task Models, Second Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low Resource NLP (DeepLo 19) [Pre-print]
  • Bjerva, J., Kementchedjhieva, Y., Cotterell, R. and Augenstein, I. (2019) A Probabilistic Generative Model of Linguistic Typology, NAACL 2019 [Article]
  • Bjerva, J., Östling, R., Han Veiga, M., Tiedemann, J. and Augenstein, I. (2019) What do Language Representations Really Represent?, Computational Linguistics, MIT Press, (June 2019) [Article]

    • 2018

  • Bjerva, J. (2018) Multitask and Multilingual Modelling for Lexical Analysis, Summary of PhD thesis, Künstliche Intelligenz Volume 32, Issue 4, pp 287–290, Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [Article]
  • Bjerva, J. and Augenstein, I. (2018) From Phonology to Syntax: Unsupervised Linguistic Typology at Different Levels with Language Embeddings, long paper, NAACL-HLT 2018. [Article]
  • de Lhoneux, M., Bjerva, J., Augenstein, I. and Søgaard, A. (2018) Parameter sharing between dependency parsers for related languages, short paper, EMNLP 2018. [Article]
  • Kementchedjhieva, Y., Bjerva, J. and Augenstein, I. (2018) Copenhagen at CoNLL–SIGMORPHON 2018: Multilingual Inflection in Context with Explicit Morphosyntactic Decoding, CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018. [Article]
  • Bingel, J. and Bjerva, J. (2018) Cross-lingual complex word identification with multitask learning, the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. [Article]
  • Kann, K., Bjerva, J., Augenstein, I., Plank, B., Søgaard, A. (2018) Character-level Supervision for Low-resource POS Tagging, the First Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low Resource NLP (DeepLo 18). [Article]
  • Nyegaard-Signori, T., Veistrup Helms, C., Bjerva, J. and Augenstein, I. (2018) KU-MTL at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Multi-task Identification of Affect in Tweets, the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2018).
  • Bjerva, J. and Augenstein, I. (2018) Tracking Typological Traits of Uralic Languages in Distributed Language Representations, the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (IWCLUL). [Article]

    • 2017

  • Bjerva, J. One Model to Rule them all: Multitask and Multilingual Modelling for Lexical Analysis (2017) [PhD thesis], University of Groningen.
  • Bjerva, J., Grigonyte, G., Östling, R., Plank, B. (2017) Neural Networks and Spelling Features for Native Language Identification, Shared Task on NLI at BEA17, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Article]
  • Kulmizev, A., Blankers, B., Bjerva, J., Nissim, M., van Noord, G., Plank, B. (2017) The power of character n-grams in native language identification, Shared Task on NLI at BEA17, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Article]
  • Bjerva, J. (2017) Will my auxiliary tagging task help? Estimating Auxiliary Tasks Effectivity in Multi-Task Learning, NoDaLiDa 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden. Best short paper! [Article]
  • Östling, R. and Bjerva, J. (2017) SU-RUG at the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task: Morphological Inflection with Attentional Sequence-to-Sequence Models, CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017, Vancouver, Canada. [arXiv preprint]
  • Bos, J., Basile, V., Evang, K., Venhuizen, N. and Bjerva, J. (2017) The Groningen Meaning Bank in Nancy Ide and James Pustejovsky (eds.): Handbook of Linguistic Annotation. Berlin: Springer. [Handbook]
  • Bjerva, J. and Östling, R. (2017) Cross-lingual Learning of Semantic Textual Similarity with Multilingual Word Representations, NoDaLiDa 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden. [Article]
  • Sjons, J., Hörberg, T., Östling, R., Bjerva, J. (2017) Articulation rate in Swedish child-directed speech increases as a function of the age of the child even when surprisal is controlled for, Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden. [arXiv preprint]
  • Bos, J., Abzianidze, L., Bjerva, J., Evang, K., Haagsma, H., Ludmann, P., Nguyen, D., van Noord, R. (2017) The Parallel Meaning Bank: Towards a corpus of translations with deep semantic annotation, EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain. [Article]

    • 2016

  • Bjerva, J., Plank, B. and Bos, J. (2016) Semantic Tagging with Deep Residual Networks, COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan. [Article]
  • Bjerva, J. (2016) Byte-based Language Identification with Deep Convolutional Networks, Third Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2016) at COLING 2016. [Article]
  • Bjerva, J., Börstell, C. (2016) Morphological Complexity Influences Verb-Object Order in Swedish Sign Language, Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC) at COLING 2016 [Article]
  • Busger op Vollenbroek, M., Carlotto, T., Kreutz, T., Medvedeva, M., Pool, C., Bjerva, J., Haagsma, H., Nissim, M. (2016) GronUP: Groningen User Profiling, PAN Shared Task Winner, CLEF 2016. [Article]
  • Bjerva, J., Bos, J. and Haagsma, H. (2016) The Meaning Factory: Producing AMRs with Boxer, SemEval 2016 Task 8. [Article]
  • Haagsma, H. and Bjerva, J. (2016) Detecting novel metaphor using selectional preference information, Meta4NLP Workshop. [Article]

    • 2015

  • Bjerva, J. and Praet, R. (2015) Word Embeddings Pointing the Way for Late Antiquity, in Proceedings of the 9th LaTeCH workshop. [Article]

    • 2014

  • Bjerva, J., Bos, J., van der Goot, R., Nissim, M. (2014) The Meaning Factory: Formal Semantics for Recognizing Textual Entailment and Determining Semantic Similarity, in Proceedings of SemEval 2014: International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. [Article]
  • Bjerva, J. (2014) Multi-class Animacy Classification with Semantic Features, in Proceedings of EACL-SRW 2014. [Article]

    • 2013

  • Bjerva, J. Genetic Algorithms in the Brill Tagger -- Moving towards language independence (2013) M.A. thesis, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.

    • 2012

  • Bjerva, J. Predicting the N400 Component in Manipulated and Unchanged Texts with a Semantic Probability Model (2012) B.A. thesis, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
  • Bjerva, J., Marklund, E., Engdahl, J., Tengstrand, L. and Lacerda, F. (2012) Preceding non-linguistic stimuli affect categorisation of Swedish plosives in Proceedings of Acoustics 2012
  • Engdahl, J., Bjerva, J., Marklund, E., Byström, E. and Lacerda, F. (2012) Acoustic analysis of adults imitating infants: a cross-linguistic perspective in Proceedings of Acoustics 2012

    • 2011

  • Bjerva, J., Marklund, E., Engdahl, J. and Lacerda, F. (2011) Anticipatory Looking in Infants and Adults in Proceedings of Tobii EyeTrackBehavior 2011
  • Bjerva, J., Marklund, E. and Lacerda, F. (2011) Training in Anticipatory Looking Experiments with Adult Participants in Proceedings of ICPhS XVII

    • In progress

  • Praet, R. and Bjerva, J. (in press) Cassiodigitalis: A computational charting of self-representation in Cassiodorus’ Variae, submitted to DHant 2015 Collective Volume. []
  • Bjerva, J. and Praet, R. (abstract accepted, paper submitted) Rethinking intertextuality with high-dimensional word-space representations, in Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities. []