Current position

Currently, I am a PhD student at the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, Department of Information Science (or in Dutch: Informatiekunde) at the University of Groningen. I am supervised by Professor John Nerbonne of the University of Groningen and Professor R. Harald Baayen of the University of Tübingen and the University of Alberta. I am interested in quantitative linguistics, corpus linguistics and language variation and change. On January 16, I have submitted my dissertation with the title A Quantitative Approach to Socal and Geographical Dialect Variation to the reading committee. I expect to have my PhD defense at the end of June 2012.

Since 2006, I am also coordinator of the Examentraining VWO, which offers three-day courses to prepare high school students on their exams in different subjects.

Peer-reviewed papers

Submitted

1. Hanneke Loerts, Martijn Wieling and Monika Schmid. Neuter is not Common in Dutch: Eye Movements reveal Asymmetrical Gender Processing. Submitted (February 22, 2012) to Visual Cognition.
2. Martijn Wieling, Simonetta Montemagni, John Nerbonne and R. Harald Baayen. Lexical Differences between Tuscan Dialects and Standard Italian: A Sociolinguistic Analysis using Generalized Additive Mixed Modeling. Submitted (January 9, 2012) to Language.
3. Martijn Wieling, Esteve Valls, R. Harald Baayen and John Nerbonne. The effects of language policies on standardization of Catalan dialects: A sociolinguistic analysis using generalized additive mixed-effects regression modelling. Submitted (December 21, 2011) to Language Variation and Change.
4. Simonetta Montemagni, Martijn Wieling, Bob de Jonge and John Nerbonne. Synchronic patterns of Tuscan phonetic variation and diachronic change: Evidence from a dialectometric study. Submitted (December 16, 2011) to a special issue on dialectology of LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
5. Esteve Valls, Martijn Wieling and John Nerbonne. Linguistic advergence and divergence in north-western Catalan: A dialectometric investigation of dialect leveling and border effects. Submitted (November 29, 2011) to a special issue on dialectology of LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
6. Martijn Wieling, Robert G. Shackleton, Jr. and John Nerbonne. Analyzing Phonetic Variation in the Traditional English Dialects: Simultaneously Clustering Dialect and Phonetic Features. Submitted (November 7, 2011) to a special issue on dialectology of LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.

Accepted

1. Simonetta Montemagni, Martijn Wieling, Bob de Jonge and John Nerbonne. Patterns of language variation and underlying linguistic features: a new dialectometric approach. Accepted (January 12, 2012) to appear in Nicola de Blasi (ed.) La variazione nell'italiano e nella sua storia. Varietà e varianti linguistiche e testuali. Proceedings of the Congresso della Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana (XI Congresso SILFI). [note: not peer-reviewed]
2. John Nerbonne, Sandrien van Ommen, Charlotte Gooskens and Martijn Wieling. Measuring Socially Motivated Pronunciation Differences. Accepted (December 23, 2011) to appear in the Proceedings of the Gothenburg Workshop on comparing approaches to measuring linguistic differences.
3. Esteve Valls, John Nerbonne, Jelena Prokić, Martijn Wieling, Esteve Clua, & Maria-Rosa Lloret. Applying Levenshtein Distance to Catalan Dialects. A Brief Comparison of Two Dialectometric Approaches. Accepted (July 28, 2011) to appear in Verba. Anuario Galego de Filoloxía.

2012

1. Martijn Wieling, Eliza Margaretha and John Nerbonne (2012). Inducing a measure of phonetic similarity from pronunciation variation. Journal of Phonetics, 40(2), 307-314.

2011

1. Martijn Wieling, Eliza Margaretha and John Nerbonne (2011). Inducing phonetic distances from dialect variation. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, 1, 109-118.
2. Martijn Wieling, John Nerbonne and R. Harald Baayen (2011). Quantitative Social Dialectology: Explaining Linguistic Variation Geographically and Socially. PLoS ONE, 6(9): e23613. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023613.
3. Martijn Wieling and John Nerbonne (2011). Measuring Linguistic Variation Commensurably. In: John Nerbonne, Stefan Grondelaers, Dirk Speelman and Maria-Pilar Perea (eds.), Dialectologia, Special Issue II: Production, Perception and Attitude, 141-162.
4. Martijn Wieling and John Nerbonne (2011). Bipartite spectral graph partitioning for clustering dialect varieties and detecting their linguistic features. Computer Speech and Language, 25(3), 700-715.

2010

1. John Nerbonne, Jelena Prokić, Martijn Wieling, & Charlotte Gooskens (2010). Some Further Dialectometrical Steps. In: G. Aurrekoexea & J.L. Ormaetxea (eds.) Tools for Linguistic Variation. Bilbao: Supplements of the Anuario de Filologia Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", LIII, pp. 41 - 56.
2. Martijn Wieling and John Nerbonne (2010). Hierarchical spectral partitioning of bipartite graphs to cluster dialects and identify distinguishing features. Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, ACL, Uppsala, Sweden, July 16, 2010, pp. 33-41.
3. Martijn Wieling and Adriaan Hofman (2010). The impact of online video lecture recordings and automated feedback on student performance. Computers and Education, 54(4), 992-998.
4. Kevin Williams, Justin Park and Martijn Wieling (2010). The face reveals athletic flair: Better National Football League quarterbacks are better looking. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 112-116.

2009

1. Wilbert Heeringa, Martijn Wieling, Boudewijn van den Berg and John Nerbonne (2009). A Quantitative Examination of Variation in Dutch Low Saxon Morphology. In: Alexandra Lenz, Charlotte Gooskens and Siemon Reker (eds.) Low Saxon Dialects across Borders - Niedersächsische Dialekte über Grenzen hinweg (ZDL-Beiheft 138), Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009, pp. 195-216.
2. Martijn Wieling and John Nerbonne (2009). Bipartite spectral graph partitioning to co-cluster varieties and sound correspondences in dialectology. In: Monojit Choudhury et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs-4), ACL-IJCNLP, Singapore, 7 August 2009, pp. 14-22.
3. Martijn Wieling, Jelena Prokić and John Nerbonne (2009). Evaluating the pairwise string alignment of pronunciations. In: Lars Borin and Piroska Lendvai (eds.) Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education (LaTeCH - SHELT&R 2009) Workshop at the 12th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Athens, 30 March 2009, pp. 26-34
4. Jelena Prokić, Martijn Wieling and John Nerbonne (2009). Multiple sequence alignments in linguistics. In: Lars Borin and Piroska Lendvai (eds.) Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education (LaTeCH - SHELT&R 2009) Workshop at the 12th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Athens, 30 March 2009, pp. 18-25

2008

1. Justin Park, Martijn Wieling, Bram Buunk, and Karlijn Massar (2008). Sex-specific relationship between digit ratio (2D:4D) and romantic jealousy. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 1039 - 1045.

2007

1. Martijn Wieling and John Nerbonne (2007). Dialect Pronunciation Comparison and Spoken Word Recognition. In: Petya Osenova (ed.) Proceedings of the RANLP Workshop on Computational Phonology, Borovetz, pp. 71 - 78.
2. Martijn Wieling, Therese Leinonen and John Nerbonne (2007). Inducing Sound Segment Differences using Pair Hidden Markov Models. In: John Nerbonne, Mark Ellison and Greg Kondrak (eds.) Computing and Historical Phonology: 9th Meeting of ACL Special Interest Group for Computational Morphology and Phonology Workshop. Prague, pp. 48-56.
3. Martijn Wieling, Wilbert Heeringa and John Nerbonne (2007). An aggregate analysis of pronunciation in the Goeman-Taeldeman-van Reenen-Project data. Taal en Tongval, 59, 84 - 116.
4. Justin Park, Bram Buunk and Martijn Wieling (2007). Does the face reveal athletic flair? Positions in team sports and facial attractiveness. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 1960 - 1965.

2006

1. Martijn Wieling, Mark-Jan Nederhof and Gertjan van Noord (2006). Parsing partially bracketed input. In: Khalil Sima’an, Maarten de Rijke, Remko Scha and Rob van Son (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands. Amsterdam, pp. 1-16.

2004

1. Nicolai Petkov and Martijn Wieling (2004). Gabor filtering augmented with surround inhibition for improved contour detection by texture suppression, Perception, 33 supplement, 68c. [download poster]

Master thesis

• Martijn Wieling (2007). Comparison of Dutch Dialects. Master thesis Computing Science and BCN.

Popular science

• Peter Kleiweg, John Nerbonne and Martijn Wieling (2011). Dialectometrische indeling van de Nederlandse dialecten. In: Nicoline van der Sijs (ed.) Dialectatlas van het Nederlands. Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, Amsterdam, pp. 60-61.

Presentations

Upcoming

• None currently.

Previous

• A quantitative investigation of English accents (2012). Poster presented at the BCN New Year's Meeting. Groningen, February 2. [Best poster award - there were 3 awards for 48 posters]
• Segment distances and foreign accents (2012). Lecture at the LOT Winter school, Tiburg, January 12.
• Inducing a measure of phonetic similarity from dialect variation (2011). Conference talk at the Workshop on comparing approaches to measuring linguistic differences, University of Gothenburg, October 24.
• Gabmap tutorial (2011). In connection with the Workshop on comparing approaches to measuring linguistic differences, University of Gothenburg, October 26.
• A sociolinguistic analysis of aggregate dialect distances (2011). Conference talk given at Methods in Dialectology 14, University of Western Ontario, Canada, August 2.
• Mixed-effects regression analyses of eyetracking data (2011). Invited workshop presentation at an eye-tracking and EEG course week of Monika Schmid. University of Groningen, July 7.
• A sociolinguistic analysis of dialect distances (2011). Poster presented at the BCN New Year's Meeting. Groningen, February 17.
• On the sublinear distribution of linguistic variation with respect to geography (2010). Talk given at the Forum Sprachvariation Workshop, Universität Erlangen, Germany, October 15.
• Co-clustering varieties and linguistic features using bipartite spectral graph partitioning (2010). Poster presented at the Forum Sprachvariation Workshop, Universität Erlangen, Germany, October 14.
• Dialectometry and hierarchical bipartite spectral graph partitioning (2010). Invited presentation at the Machine Learning Reading Group of Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, September 23.
• Text Manipulation in Linux (2010). Lecture and Lab session given at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, September 22.
• Hidden Markov Models (2010). Lecture given at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, September 20.
• Applying Hidden Markov Models in Transliteration (2010). Lecture and Lab session given at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, September 20.
• Modelling geography’s influence on language variation: calibrating linguistic measurements (2010). Talk given at the Cultural Evolution in Spatially Structured Populations Conference, University College London, United Kingdom, September 13.
• Dialectometry in Groningen (2010). Invited talk given as a guest-researcher during the Summer Colloquium of the Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, August 11.
• Hierarchical bipartite spectral graph partitioning to cluster dialect varieties and determine their most important linguistic features (2010). Conference talk given at the TextGraphs-5 Workshop at ACL 2010, Uppsala, July 16.
• A graph-theoretic analysis of English dialects (2010). Oral presentation at the workshop Bloomsday 2010: Echoes of Albion, University of Groningen, June 16.
• On the sublinear distribution of linguistic variation with respect to geography (2010). Conference talk given at the 31st TABU Dag 2010. Groningen, June 3-4.
• On the sublinear distribution of linguistic variation with respect to geography (2010). Talk given at the BCN Retreat. Odoorn, March 25.
• Co-clustering varieties and linguistic features using bipartite spectral graph partitioning (2010). Conference talk given at the The 20th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands. Utrecht, February 5.
• Understanding Séguy's law. On the sublinear distribution of linguistic variation with respect to geography (2010). Invited symposium talk given together with John Nerbonne at the Past and present processes of dialect convergence. Data and Methods symposium, Amsterdam, February 4.
• Bipartite spectral graph partitioning to co-cluster varieties and sound correspondences in dialectology (2009). Conference talk given at the TextGraphs-4 Workshop at ACL-IJCNLP, Singapore, August 7.
• Tools for Detecting Geographical and Structural Affinities (2009). Conference talk given at the Workshop on Small Tools for Cross-Linguistic Research. Utrecht, June 15-16.
• Evaluating the pairwise string alignment of pronunciations (2009). Conference talk given at the Workshop on Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education. Athens, March 30.
• Evaluation of pairwise string alignment methods (2009). Conference talk given at the The 19th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands. Groningen, January 22.
• Dialect Pronunciation Comparison using the Goeman-Taeldeman-Van Reenen-Project Data (2007). Conference talk given at the The 17th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands. Leuven, January 12.
• Parsing partially bracketed input (2005). Conference talk given at the The 16th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands. Amsterdam, December 16.
• Gabor filtering augmented with surround inhibition for improved contour detection by texture suppression (2004). Poster presentation given at the 27th Annual Meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception. Budapest, August 22-26.

Some statistics

• My Hirsch index: 8
• My Erdös number: 5

 

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