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My name is Martin Schweinberger and I am Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia. At UQ, I am Director of the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) (together with Michael Haugh) and I would consider myself a quantitative corpus linguist specialised in computational analyses of text and speech. In my research, I aim to combine and bridge the gap between computational linguistics and corpus linguistics.

I am steering committee member and Chief Investigator (CI) of the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) where I focus on producing resources and training through LADAL. I am Associate Editor of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) and book series editor for the Bloomsbury series Language, Data Science and Digital Humanities. I am also Vice-President Profession of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) and re-elected board member of The International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME).

Research Areas

  • Mechanisms of language variation and change
  • Determinants of language use and linguistic variability
  • Discourse markers and particles / adjective intensification
  • L1 & L2 acquisition
  • Computational modelling and visualization of linguistic data
  • Computational Humanities (Digital Humanities)
  • Language Data Science and reproducibility
  • Best practices in text analytics and data management

Digital Footprint

My ORCID is 0000-0003-1923-9153. You can also find me on Google Scholar, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, GitHub, and GitLab.

News

12/12/2025: Stephanie Hackert from LMU Munich invited me to give a talk on Vulgarity in World Englishes (slides).

7/11/2025: Giving a talk on Vulgarity in Spoken Interaction Across Englishes and a Lightning Talk on Data Structure Harmonization at the Forum on Englishes in Melbourne, Australia.

12/10/2025: Amir Sheikhan from the University of South Australia invited me to give a lecture on “Vulgarity in World Englishes” (slides and recording).

13/6/2025: Just out: The Conversation article about “201 ways to say ‘fuck’” by Kate Burridge and myself.

6/4/2025: Was on ABC Radio Melbourne Victorian Evenings with David Astle together with Kate Burridge (28:28–42:32) — listen to the segment here.

30/5/2025: Was on ABC Radio Hobart with Joel Rheinberger (4:15–18:50) to discuss our paper on vulgarity in online discourse. Listen here and read our open-access paper here.

23/5/2025: Was on TV — Kate and my study made it to the national news! Check out this Channel 10 News segment!

22–23/5/2025: Spoke about vulgarity in public and online discourse on ABC Drive with Ellen Fanning (22 May) and ABC Radio Melbourne with Ali Moore (23 May). Listen to the ABC Drive interview here (17:50–33:00).

27/1/2025: Invited to the University of Hamburg to talk about Indigenous Australian Languages (slides).

25/11/2024: Invited to the University of Bonn to talk about Vulgarity in Online Discourse around the English-Speaking World (slides).