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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

Visiting address
  • Spuistraat 134
  • Room number: 535
Postal address
  • Postbus 1641
    1000 BP Amsterdam
  • 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.

     

  • 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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