Computational Linguistics – Uppsala University

The Computational Linguistics Group at Uppsala University (often referred to as Uppsala NLP) is a leading research environment within the Department of Linguistics and Philology.

We combine computer science and linguistics to analyze and process human language, with a strong empirical orientation emphasizing multilingual systems, dependency parsing, and digital humanities.

Research & Subject Areas

Our research is driven by both theoretical goals—understanding human language processing—and practical applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Key focus areas include:

• Multilingual NLP: Cross-lingual transfer learning and typologically diverse language modeling.
• Syntax & Parsing: Development of algorithms for grammatical analysis, with a special focus on dependency-based parsing.
• Digital Philology: Computational methods for historical texts, including handwriting recognition and cipher decoding.
• Machine Translation: Neural machine translation and discourse-oriented translation models.

Key Resources & Projects

We are actively involved in the development of several major community resources and tools:

• Universal Dependencies (UD): Uppsala is a founding node of this open community effort to create cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for over 100 languages.
• MaltParser: A data-driven parser-generator for dependency parsing.
• Swe-CLARIN: As a partner in the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, we develop and maintain tools for digital humanities research.
• Historical Corpora & Models:
  • UU_SwedishNovels_1800-1940: A corpus of Swedish literary novels.
  • SOU-corpus: Processed versions of Swedish Government Official Reports.
  • DECODE: Automatic decoding of historical manuscripts.

About the Group

The Computational Linguistics group fosters a vibrant international environment with professors, researchers, and doctoral students. We offer a specialized Master’s Programme in Language Technology and participate heavily in the global NLP research community.

Contact & More Information

• Website: uu.se/en/department/linguistics-and-philology
• GitHub: github.com/UppsalaNLP
• Location: Uppsala, Sweden