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Dr. D. (Daniel) Wiechmann

I am an assistant professor of English Linguistics and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the UvA.
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Engelse taal en cultuur
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  • Spuistraat 134
  • Room number: 535
Postal address
  • Postbus 1641
    1000 BP Amsterdam
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  • About

    I am a assistant professor of English Linguistics and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the UvA.

    My perspective on language is a blend of views from cognitive psychology and computer science, and is best framed within an experiential or usage-based emergentist theory. My research focuses on applying machine learning techniques to analyze data from corpora of natural language productions to address issues of human language learning and  processing.

    The most recent version of my research results can be found on Semantic Scholar, an artificial intelligence-based search engine for scientific publications

     

  • Publications

    2023

    2022

    • Kerz, E., Qiao, Y., Zanwar, S., & Wiechmann, D. (2022). Pushing on Personality Detection from Verbal Behavior: A Transformer Meets Text Contours of Psycholinguistic Features. In J. Barnes, O. De Clercq, V. Barriere, S. Tafreshi, S. Alqahtani, J. Sedoc, R. Klinger, & A. Balahur (Eds.), The 12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis: WASSA 2022 : proceedings of the workshop : May, 26, 2022 (pp. 182-194). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.wassa-1.17 [details]
    • Kerz, E., Qiao, Y., Zanwar, S., & Wiechmann, D. (2022). ♠ SPADE: A Big Five-Mturk Dataset of Argumentative Speech Enriched with Socio-Demographics for Personality Detection. In N. Calzolari, F. Béchet, P. Blache, K. Choukri, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), Conference proceedings : Language Resources and Evaluation Conference: LREC 2022 : 20-25 June 2022 : Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France (pp. 6405–6419). European Language Resources Association. https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.688 [details]
    • Wiechmann, D., Qiao, Y., Kerz, E., & Mattern, J. (2022). Measuring the Impact of (Psycho-)Linguistic and Readability Features and Their Spill Over Effects on the Prediction of Eye Movement Patterns. In S. Muresan, P. Nakov, & A. Villavicencio (Eds.), The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 : proceedings of the conference : May 22-27, 2022 (Vol. 1, pp. 5276–5290). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.08085, https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.362 [details]

    2021

    • Kerz, E., Qiao, Y., & Wiechmann, D. (2021). Language that Captivates the Audience: Predicting Affective Ratings of TED Talks in a Multi-Label Classification Task. In O. De Clerq, A. Balahur, J. Sedoc, V. Barriere, S. Tafreshi, S. Buechel, & V. Hoste (Eds.), The Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis: Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop : EACL 2021 : April 19, 2021, held online due to the COVID situation (pp. 13–24). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.wassa-1.2 [details]
    • Kerz, E., Wiechmann, D., Qiao, Y., Tseng, E., & Ströbel, M. (2021). Automated Classification of Written Proficiency Levels on the CEFR-Scale through Complexity Contours and RNNs. In J. Burstein, A. Horbach, E. Kochmar, R. Laarmann-Quante, C. Leacock, N. Madnani, I. Pilán, H. Yannakoudakis, & T. Zesch (Eds.), Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications: EACL 2021 : proceedings of the 16th workshop : April 20, 2021 (pp. 199-209). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.bea-1.21 [details]
    • Mattern, J., Qiao, Y., Kerz, E., Wiechmann, D., & Strohmaier, M. (2021). FANG-COVID: A New Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Fake News Detection in German. In R. Aly, C. Christodoulopoulos, O. Cocarascu, A. Mittal, M. Schlichtkrull, J. Thorne, & A. Vlachos (Eds.), FEVER : Fact Extraction and VERification: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop : EMNLP 2021 : November 10, 2021 (pp. 78-91). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.fever-1.9 [details]
    • Qiao, Y., Yin, X., Wiechmann, D., & Kerz, E. (2021). Alzheimer’s Disease Detection from Spontaneous Speech Through Combining Linguistic Complexity and (Dis)Fluency Features with Pretrained Language Models. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 22, 3805-3809. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1415 [details]

    2020

    2019

    • Kerz, E., & Wiechmann, D. (2019). Effects of Statistical Learning Ability on the Second Language Processing of Multiword Sequences. In G. Corpas Pastor, & R. Mitkov (Eds.), Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology: Third International Conference, Europhras 2019, Malaga, Spain, September 25–27, 2019 : proceedings (pp. 200-214). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 11755), (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30135-4_15 [details]
    • Kerz, E., Burgdorf, A., Wiechmann, D., Meeger, S., Qiao, Y., Kohlschein, C., & Meisen, T. (2019). Understanding Vocabulary Growth Through An Adaptive Language Learning System. In D. Alfter, E. Volodina, L. Borin, I. Pilan, & H. Lange (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Workshop for Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning: NLP4CALL 2019 (pp. 65-78). (NEALT Proceedings Series; Vol. 39), (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings; No. 164). LiU Electronic Press. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-6307/ [details]
    • Kerz, E., Wiechmann, D., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Tuning to Multiple Statistics: Second Language Processing of Multiword Sequences across Registers. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Creativity + cognition + computation: 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019) : Montreal, Canada, 24-27 July 2019 (Vol. 1, pp. 546-552). Cognitive Science Society. https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2019/papers/0112/index.html [details]

    2018

    • Ströbel, M., Kerz, E., Wiechmann, D., & Qiao, Y. (2018). Text Genre Classification Based on Linguistic Complexity Contours Using A Recurrent Neural Network. In J. Cassens, R. Wegener, & A. Kofod-Petersen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop Modelling and Reasoning in Context: co-located with the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018) and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2018) : Stockholm, Sweden, July 13, 2018 (pp. 56-63). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2134). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2134/paper12.pdf [details]

    2017

    • Kerz, E., & Wiechmann, D. (2017). Individual Differences in L2 Processing of Multi-word Phrases: Effects of Working Memory and Personality. In R. Mitkov (Ed.), Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology: Second International Conference, Europhras 2017, London, UK, November 13-14, 2017 : proceedings (pp. 306-321). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10596), (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69805-2_22 [details]
    • Kerz, E., Wiechmann, D., & Riedel, F. B. (2017). Implicit Learning in the Crowd: Investigating the Role of Awareness in the Acquisition of L2 Knowledge. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 39(4), 711-734. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S027226311700002X [details]

    2016

    • Kerz, E., & Wiechmann, D. (2016). Second language construction learning: investigating domain-specific adaptation in advanced L2 production. Language and Cognition, 8(4), 533-565. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2015.6 [details]
    • Ströbel, M., Kerz, E., Wiechmann, D., & Neumann, S. (2016). CoCoGen - Complexity Contour Generator: Automatic Assessment of Linguistic Complexity Using a Sliding-Window Technique. In D. Brunato, F. Dell'Orletta, G. Venturi, T. François, & P. Blache (Eds.), CL4LC 2016 : Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity: proceedings of he workshop : December 11, 2016, Osaka, Japan (pp. 23-31). The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W16-4103/ [details]
    • Wiechmann, D., & Kerz, E. (2016). Formulaicity as a Determinant of Processing Efficiency: Investigating Clause Ordering in Complex Constructions. English Language and Linguistics. https://doi.org/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674316000320

    2015

    • Kerz, E., & Wiechmann, D. (2015). Register-Contingent Entrenchment of Constructional Patterns: Causal and Concessive Adverbial Clauses in Academic and Newspaper Writing. Journal of English Linguistics, 43(1), 61-85. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424214564364 [details]
    • Wiechmann, D. (2015). Understanding Relative Clauses: A Usage-Based View on the Processing of Complex Constructions. (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; Vol. 268). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339581 [details]

    2014

    • Wiechmann, D., & Kerz, E. (2014). Cue Reliance in L2 Written Production. Language Learning, 62(2), 343-364. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12047 [details]
    • Wiechmann, D., & Kerz, E. (2014). Missing Generalizations: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to L2 Written Production. In A. Lenci, M. Padró, T. Poibeau, & A. Villavicencio (Eds.), EACL 2014 : 14th Conference of the European Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics: proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning (CogACLL) : April 26 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden (pp. 55-63). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/W14-0511.pdf [details]

    2013

    • Wiechmann, D., & Kerz, E. (2013). The positioning of concessive adverbial clauses in English: assessing the importance of discourse-pragmatic and processing-based constraints. English Language and Linguistics, 17(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674312000305 [details]
    • Wiechmann, D., & Lohmann, A. (2013). Domain minimization and beyond: Modeling prepositional phrase ordering. Language Variation and Change, 25(1), 65-88. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394512000233 [details]
    • Wiechmann, D., Kerz, E., Snider, N., & Jaeger, T. F. (2013). Introduction to the Special Issue: Parsimony and Redundancy in Models of Language. Language and Speech, 56(3), 257-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830913490877 [details]
    • Wiechmann, D., Steinfeld, J., & Kerz, E. (2013). Modeling Bilingual Children's Acquisition of Complex Sentences in German. In M. Knauf, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society : Berlin, Germany, July 31-August 3, 2013 (pp. 3753-3758). Cognitive Science Society. http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2013/papers/0664/index.html [details]

    2016

    • Wiechmann, D., Kerz, E., & Steinfeld, J. (2016). The Effect of Dual Language Exposure on Single Language Development: Comparing Acquisition Rates in Bilingual and Monolingual Children. In A. Bannink, & W. Honselaar (Eds.), From variation to iconicity: festschrift for Olga Fischer on the occasion of her 65th birthday (pp. 425-438). Uitgeverij Pegasus. [details]

    2017

    • Kerz, E., & Wiechmann, D. (2017). Working Memory, Language Experience and L2 Comprehension Ability. Poster session presented at 23rd AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Lancaster, United Kingdom.

    2016

    • Wiechmann, D., Kerz, E., & Terhorst, D. (2016). Awareness, Inhibition and the Acquisition of L2 Morphology under Incidental Conditions. Poster session presented at Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar, Lancaster, United Kingdom.

    Prize / grant

    • Wiechmann, D. (2017). "Best Paper Award" at EUROPHRAS 2017.
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