Academic talks
Presentations & Talks
1 plenary · 42 conference talks · 6 posters · 19 public lectures & webinars · 14 invited talks · 12 application talks
Conference & Workshop Organization
IC: XXIII International CALL Research Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 3–5/10/2025 (with Peter Crosthwaite, Paul Moore, Noriko Iwashita, Hao Tran & Teresa Hien)
IC: ISLE7 (7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English), Brisbane, Australia, 19–23/6/2023. International hybrid conference (with Kate Burridge & Michael Haugh)
CW: Replication and Reproducibility in English Corpus Linguistics, workshop at ISLE 6, Joensuu, 6/2021 (with Joseph Flanagan, University of Helsinki)
CW: Exploring Powerful Tools to Ensure Robust and Reproducible Results in Corpus Linguistics, workshop at ICAME 42, Dortmund, 8/2021 (with Gerold Schneider, University of Zurich & Joseph Flanagan, University of Helsinki)
OE: LADAL event: Computational Thinking in the Humanities (9/2022, Brisbane)
OE: LADAL Webinar Series 2022 (6 webinars on topics relating to Language Technology and Data Analysis, Brisbane 2–12/2022)
OE: LADAL Webinar Series 2021 (LADAL opening event with 25 webinars on topics relating to Language Technology and Data Analysis, Brisbane 6–10/6/2021, with Michael Haugh)
NC: 17. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK 17), Hamburg 31/3–2/4/2016 (with Niklas Steih)
NC: 11. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK 11), Hamburg 5–6/3/2010 (with Florian Dolberg & Arne Lohmann)
(IC: International Conference, NC: National Conference, CW: Conference Workshop, OE: Online Event)
Plenary
2021: Schweinberger, Martin. Corpus Linguistics, Language Data Science, and Computational Linguistics – building bridges or splitting apart? ICAME 42 (42nd Meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English). Dortmund, Germany, 18–21/8/2021. [slides]
Conference Presentations (Talks)
42. 2025: Schweinberger, Martin. Vulgarity in spoken interaction across selected varieties of English. Forum on Englishes in Australia. Melbourne, 7/11/2025. [slides]
41. 2025: Schweinberger, Martin. Standardizing Corpora: Why and How? Forum on Englishes in Australia. Melbourne, 7/11/2025. [slides]
40. 2025: Schweinberger, Martin. Vulgarity in spoken interaction across selected varieties of English. ICAME 46 (46th Meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English). Vilnius, Lithuania, 17–21/8/2025.
39. 2024: Schweinberger, Martin and Chang-Hao Luo. Automated, Corpus-and Usage-Based Semantic Classification of Word Class using Word Embeddings. ICAME 45. Vigo, Spain, 18–21/8/2024. [slides]
38. 2023: Schweinberger, Martin, Fatemi, Masoud, Hames, Sam, Haugh, Michael, Laitinen, Mikko, Rautionaho, Paula, and Takahashi, Marissa. Who swears most – and in what social settings? ISLE7, Brisbane, Australia, 19–23/6/2023.
37. 2023: Schweinberger, Martin & Ruihua Yin. A corpus-based acoustic analysis of vowel production by L1-Chinese learners and native speakers of English. ISLE7, Brisbane, Australia, 19–23/6/2023.
36. 2023: Schweinberger, Martin & Ruihua Yin. A corpus-based acoustic analysis of vowel production by L1-Chinese learners and native speakers of English. ICAME44, North-West University, South Africa, 17–21/5/2023.
35. 2022: Schweinberger, Martin & Yuki Komiya. A corpus-based acoustic analysis of vowel production by L1-Japanese learners and native speakers of English. ICAME 43. Dortmund, Germany, 2022. (slides)
34. 2021: Schweinberger, Martin. The Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL). ICAME 42. Dortmund, Germany, 18–21/8/2021. (slides)
33. 2021: Schweinberger, Martin. On the waning of forms — a corpus-based analysis of losers in language change. ISLE 6. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, 2–5/6/2021. (slides, video)
32. 2020: Schweinberger, Martin, Michael Haugh & Sam Hames. Text Mining the COVID-19 discourse in the Australian Twittersphere. ALS 2020. Online, 14–15/12/2020. (slides, video)
31. 2020: Schweinberger, Martin. A corpus-based analysis of ongoing change in the adjective amplifier systems of Hong Kong, Indian, and Philippine English. JAECS 2020. Online, 3–4/10/2020. (slides, video)
30. 2020: Schweinberger, Martin. Best Practices in Corpus Linguistics – What lessons should we take from the Replication Crisis? ICAME 41. Heidelberg, Germany, 20–24/5/2020. (slides, video)
29. 2020: Schweinberger, Martin. Analyzing historical changes in Irish English adjective amplification. NPIE 6. Wien, Austria, 19/2/2020. (slides)
28. 2019: Schweinberger, Martin. The Replication Crisis and HASS. How Best Practices can Assist in Producing Reliable Research. Open Data Forum. UQ, 21/10/2019. (slides)
27. 2019: Haugh, Michael & Martin Schweinberger. Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL). Research Capabilities Showcase. UQ, Brisbane, 20/09/2019. (slides)
26. 2019: Haugh, Michael & Martin Schweinberger. Implementing school-based support infrastructure for digital humanities research at UQ. LADAL. ARDC: The Australian eResearch Skilled Workforce Summit. Sydney, 29–30/7/2019. (slides)
25. 2019: Schweinberger, Martin. A corpus-based analysis of ongoing changes in the Australian English amplifier system. Forum on Englishes in Australia. Melbourne, 29–30/07/2019. (slides)
24. 2019: Schweinberger, Martin. Corpus-based evidence for a cognitive mechanism underlying lexical replacement. ICAME 40. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2–3/6/2019. (slides)
23. 2019: Schweinberger, Martin. Using R for Corpus Linguistics — an Introduction and Discussion Note on Sustainability and Replicability in Corpus Linguistics. CoEDL corpus workshop. Melbourne, 2–3/4/2019.
22. 2018: Schweinberger, Martin. A corpus-based analysis of ongoing changes in the Australian English amplifier system. ALS 2018. Adelaide, 10–12/12/2018. (slides)
21. 2018: Schweinberger, Martin. A Corpus-Based Analysis of the L1-Acquisition of Amplifiers in American English. ISLE 5. London, 17–20/7/2018. (slides)
20. 2018: Schweinberger, Martin. Analyzing diachronic change in the American English amplifier system. ICAME 39. Tampere, Finland, 30/5–3/6/2018. (slides)
19. 2018: Schweinberger, Martin. The Sociolinguistics of Emotional Language — Emotive Use in Irish English. NPIE 5. Potsdam, 25–27/4/2018. (slides)
18. 2017: Schweinberger, Martin. Using Semantic Vector Space Models to investigate lexical replacement. METHODS XVI. Tokyo, 7–11/8/2017. (draft slides)
17. 2017: Schweinberger, Martin. Modelling intensification in New Zealand English data. Methods in Dialectology XVI. Tokyo, 7–11/08/2017. (slides)
16. 2017: Schweinberger, Martin. Using intensifier-adjective collocations to determine mechanisms of change. ICAME 38. Prague, 24–28/5/2017. (slides,
15. 2016: Schweinberger, Martin. Ongoing change in the New Zealand English Intensifier System. ISLE 4. Poznań, Poland, 18–21/9/2016. (slides, R script)
14. 2016: Schweinberger, Martin. Ongoing Changes in the Irish Intensifier System. NPIE4. Bergen, 5–7/7/2016. (slides, R script)
13. 2016: Schweinberger, Martin. On the Acquisition of Intensifier Constructions. 17. NLK, Hamburg, 31/3–2/4/2016. (slides, R script)
12. 2015: Schweinberger, Martin. Why We Need Better Statistics – A Case Study on eh in New Zealand English. 16. NLK. Leibniz Universität Hannover, 26–28/3/2015. (slides, R script)
11. 2012: Schweinberger, Martin. Global diffusion and local implementation – the discourse particle LIKE around the world. ICAME 33. Leuven, Belgium, 26/5–3/6/2012. (slides)
10. 2012: Siemund, Peter, Monika Edith Schulz & Martin Schweinberger. How multilingual are Singaporeans really? English in Asia’s Languages Habitats and Europe’s Asia Competence. Berlin, 9–12/5/2012.
9. 2012: Schweinberger, Martin. A corpus-based study of language internal and language external determinates of linguistic variation in Singapore English — a pilot study. 13. NLK. Potsdam, 25–26/3/2012. (with Melanie Burmeister)
8. 2011: Schweinberger, Martin. Global diffusion and local implementation – the discourse particle LIKE around the world. Symposium Sprachwandel/Language Change. Munich, 13–15/7/2011. (slides)
7. 2011: Schweinberger, Martin. The Local Spread of Globally Available Innovations: the discourse marker LIKE around the world. LCTG3. Greifswald, 30/6–2/7/2011. (slides)
6. 2010: Schweinberger, Martin. Epistemic Modality and Discourse Markers. ModE4. Madrid, 9–11/9/2010. (slides)
5. 2010: Schweinberger, Martin. New perspectives on the discourse marker LIKE. IVACS 5. Edinburgh, 18–19/6/2010.
4. 2010: Schweinberger, Martin. What’s this, LIKE, all about? ICAME 31. Gießen, 26–30/5/2010. (slides)
3. 2010: Schweinberger, Martin. Revisiting LIKE. NPIE 1. Dublin, 11–13/3/2010.
2. 2010: Schweinberger, Martin. Rethinking the classification of high frequency discourse markers. 11. NLK. Hamburg, 5–6/3/2010.
1. 2009: Schweinberger, Martin. And he’s like, is LIKE like LIKE, like? 10. NLK. Greifswald, 13–14/3/2009.
Conference Presentations (Posters)
6. 2021: Schweinberger, Martin. Best Practices in Corpus Linguistics. ISLE 6. Joensuu, Finland, 2–5/6/2021. (poster, video)
5. 2018: Schweinberger, Martin. VowelChartProject – Erstellung personalisierter Vokaltrapeze. Campusfest Universität Kassel. Kassel, 07/6/2018. (poster)
4. 2017: Schweinberger, Martin & Sandra Gerspacher. VowelChartProject. Profale Congress 2017. Hamburg, 21–23/09/2017. (poster)
3. 2017: Schweinberger, Martin, Nina Stedman, Jelena Buzuk, Sabrina Sarkodie-Gyan, Naomi Boye & Sandra Gerspacher. VowelChartProject. CuTLi 2017. Hamburg, 21–22/1/2017.
2. 2016: Schweinberger, Martin. Gender Differences in Emotion Language. Submission for “Posterpreis der Universitätsgesellschaft e.V.” 2016. Kassel, 21/11/2016. (poster)
1. 2016: Schweinberger, Martin. Using Sentiment Analysis to Investigate the Social Stratification of Emotives in Irish English. ST & D 2016. Kassel, 18–20/7/2016. (poster, R script)
Public Lectures / Panels / Webinars
19. 2026: Schweinberger, Martin. 17/3/2026. Some suggestions to improve reproducibility and transparency in data-intensive corpus linguistics. Book Launch: Data-Intensive Investigations of English (ISLE Online Forum, Hybrid event).
18. 2025: Schweinberger, Martin. 11/10/2025. Vulgarity in World Englishes. Public Lecture at the University of South Australia (slides).
17. 2024: Schweinberger, Martin. 19/4/2024. F%$# Twitter — A corpus-based analysis of vulgar language on Twitter. Presentation for the Digital Fellowship Program (LDaCA, UQ).
16. 2022: Haugh, Michael and Martin Schweinberger. 15/11/2022. Panel discussion: Designing user-friendly Platforms and Toolkits for Digital Humanities. Building Digital Humanities 2022, Western Sydney University. (slides)
15. 2022: Schweinberger, Martin. 25/10/2022. From the darkness to the light: reproducibility, replication and transparency in Corpus Linguistics? Sydney Corpus Lab Webinar, the University of Sydney. (slides)
14. 2022: Schweinberger, Martin. 1/9/2022. Advantages and Challenges of Computational Thinking in the Humanities. Computational Thinking in the Humanities at UQ. (slides)
13. 2021: Schweinberger, Martin. 12/11/2021. An evaluation of computational, corpus-based approaches to language learning. International Perspectives on Corpus Technology for Language Learning at UQ. (slides)
12. 2021: Schweinberger, Martin. 6/5/2021. Adjective amplification in English — determining factors of success in language change. AcqVA Aurora center, Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. (slides)
11. 2020: Schweinberger, Martin, Sam Hames, and Michael Haugh. 10/9/2020. Text Mining the COVID-19 discourse in the Australian Twittersphere. Data Science MeetUp, Brisbane. (slides)
10. 2019: Schweinberger, Martin. 18/11/2019. LADAL — School-based support infrastructure for digital humanities research. School of Languages and Cultures’ Research Day at UQ. (slides)
9. 2019: Schweinberger, Martin. 15/11/2019. Computational Approaches to Textual Data. Digital Methods Seminar at UQ. (slides)
8. 2019: Haugh, Michael & Martin Schweinberger. 30/10/2019. Implementing school-based support infrastructure for digital humanities research at UQ. LADAL. ARDC webinar. (slides; video)
7. 2019: Open Data Forum. Panel discussion about Open Data plus lightning talk about Open Science and the Replication Crisis at UQ, 21/10/2019. (slides)
6. 2019: Schweinberger, Martin. 2019. Absolutely fantastic! Adjective amplification in English. Linguistics Seminar Series, School of Languages and Cultures at UQ, 19/9/2019. (slides)
5. 2019: Schweinberger, Martin. 28/8/2019. Best Practices in and a Practical Introduction to Text Analysis. TINKER Webinar streamed from UQ. (slides)
4. 2018: Schweinberger, Martin. 16/1/2018. Methoden linguistischer Datenanalyse: Quantitativ-statistische Modellierung sprachlicher Variation. Empirieformate in der linguistischen Forschung, UHH. (slides)
3. 2016: Schweinberger, Martin. 23/2/2016. Können Bienen Sprechen? Unitag UHH. (slides)
2. 2010: Dolberg, Florian, Martin Schweinberger, Svea Gertrud Svoboda & Anja Wilken. 20/5/2010. Killing Metaphors — Analyzing conceptual metaphors in current political debates on military interventions. Ringvorlesung: Politik und Ästhetik, UHH.
1. 2009: Schweinberger, Martin & Florian Dolberg. 2009. Wie kam der Mensch zur Sprache? Oder: Können Bienen sprechen? Open Uni UHH, 13/6/2009.
Invited Talks
14. 2025: Schweinberger, Martin. 18/12/2025. Vulgarity in World Englishes. LMU Munich (invitation by Stephanie Hackert) (slides).
13. 2025: Schweinberger, Martin. 27/1/2025. Indigenous Australian Languages — Linguistic Features, Revitalization Efforts, and Research Infrastructure for Archiving and Accessibility. University of Hamburg (invitation by Hannah Wegener) (slides).
12. 2024: Schweinberger, Martin. Vulgarity in Online Discourse across the English-Speaking World. University of Bonn, 25/11/2024 (invitation by Svenja Kranich) (slides).
11. 2024: Schweinberger, Martin. Computational and empirical analyses of vowels produced by learners of English. University of Zurich (LiRI), 30/1/2024 (invitation by Gerold Schneider & Volker Delwo).
10. 2024: Schweinberger, Martin. LDaCA and LADAL – Building a computational humanities infrastructure in Australia. University of Zurich (LiRI), 31/1/2024 (invitation by Gerold Schneider & Volker Delwo).
9. 2023: Schweinberger, Martin. F%$# Twitter. A corpus-based analysis of vulgar language on Twitter. University of Bayreuth, 18/7/2023 (invitation by Markus Bieswanger).
8. 2023: Schweinberger, Martin. Reproducibility in corpus-based computational analyses of learner speech. University of Hamburg, 13/01/2023 (invitation by Peter Siemund) (slides).
7. 2022: Schweinberger, Martin. From the darkness to the light: reproducibility, replication and transparency in Corpus Linguistics? Sydney Corpus Lab, University of Sydney, 25/10/2022 (invitation by Monika Bednarek) (slides).
6. 2021: Schweinberger, Martin. An evaluation of computational, corpus-based approaches to language learning. International Perspectives on Corpus Technology for Language Learning, 12/11/2021 (invitation by Peter Crosthwaite).
5. 2020: Schweinberger, Martin. Establishing LADAL: experiences, challenges, and future directions. University of Eastern Finland, 25/11/2020 (invitation by Mikko Laitinen) (slides).
4. 2019: Schweinberger, Martin. Absolutely fantastic! Adjective amplification in English. Linguistics Seminar Series, UQ, 19/9/2019 (invitation by Lara Weinglass).
3. 2017: Schweinberger, Martin, Nina Stedman, Jelena Buzuk, Sabrina Sarkodie-Gyan, Naomi Boye & Sandra Gerspacher. Assessing differences in the English vocalic systems of L1-German learners and native speakers of English. CuTLi 2017. UHH, 21–22/1/2017 (invitation by Prof. Dr. Peter Siemund).
2. 2012: Schweinberger, Martin. LIKE in Irish English and around the World. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 4/12/2012 (invitation by Prof. Dr. Anne Barron) (slides).
1. 2009: Schweinberger, Martin. Is his like like her like? Universität Flensburg, 13/5/2009 (invitation by Prof. Dr. Markus Bieswanger).
(Invited) Application Talks
12. 2026: Schweinberger, Martin. Vulgarity in spoken interaction across selected varieties of English. Universität Hildesheim, Germany, 19/1/2026.
11. 2024: Schweinberger, Martin. Using machine-learning to analyse English vowels produced by Chinese learners of English. Universität Hildesheim, Germany, 11/4/2024.
10. 2023: Schweinberger, Martin. English(es) on the Move: What we can learn about language change from variation in amplifier use. Universität Innsbruck, Austria, 16/12/2023. (slides)
9. 2023: Schweinberger, Martin. Pushing the boundaries — analysing English vowel production among Chinese learners of English. Universität Freiburg, Germany, 14/7/2023.
8. 2022: Schweinberger, Martin. Analysing Learner Speech and Resulting Applications for EFL Classrooms. Universität Kiel, Germany, 13/6/2022.
7. 2017: Schweinberger, Martin. Acquisition, Variation, and Diachronic Development of Intensification in English. Universität Innsbruck, Austria, 4/9/2017.
6. 2017: Schweinberger, Martin. Defining English as a Global Language. University of Helsinki, Finland, 8/5/2017.
5. 2016: Schweinberger, Martin. What is my vision for research-led teaching in Corpus Linguistics at Undergraduate level? University College Dublin, Ireland, 14/12/2016.
4. 2016: Schweinberger, Martin. Very good, really great, absolutely amazing — Sociolinguistic Variation in New Zealand’s Intensifier System. Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 20/7/2016. (slides, R script)
3. 2013: Schweinberger, Martin. The effect of Singapore’s language policy on multilingualism in Singapore. Universität Köln, Germany, 16/4/2013. (slides)
2. 2012: Schweinberger, Martin. Particles and Priming – Combining Socio- and Psycholinguistic Determinants of Variation. Universität Mainz, Germany, 23/10/2012. (slides)
1. 2012: Schweinberger, Martin. Women always in the lead of change? Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, 16/4/2012. (slides)