Johann-Mattis List

24 papers · 2013–2026 · 5 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (36) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (4) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌍 Conference Polyglot (5) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🏃 Academic Marathon (12) 🏆 Keyword Champion (4) 🔬 Deep Specialist (14) 🔥 Unstoppable (5) ⚡ Prolific Year (5) 💎 Century Club (23) ❓ The Questioner (3) 📈 Trend Setter 🗃️ Keyword Collector (92)

Conferences

ACL (9) EACL (8) COLING (3) NAACL (3) EMNLP (1)

Top co-authors

Frederic Blum (5) Robert Forkel (4) Taraka Rama (3) Gerhard Jäger (3) Nathan Hill (3) Arne Rubehn (3) David Snee (2) Christoph Rzymski (2) Michele Pulini (2) Kellen Parker Van Dam (2)

Research topics

Linguistics (4) Digital Humanities (2) Probability (1)

Keywords

phonological reconstruction (4) historical linguistics (4) cognate detection (4) computational linguistics (4) phylogenetic reconstruction (3) cognate identification (3) comparative linguistics (3) multilingual wordlist (3) phonetic alignment (3) sound correspondence (3) cross-linguistic datum (3) cross-linguistic analysis (2) language comparison (2) digital edition (2) comparative method (2) language family (2) morphological analysis (2) language typology (2) lexical semantics (1) multilingual processing (1)

Papers

Using Correspondence Patterns to Identify Irregular Words in Cognate Sets Through Leave-One-Out Validation EACL 2026

Using Cross-Linguistic Data Formats to Enhance the Annotation of Ancient Chinese Documents Written on Bamboo Slips NAACL 2025

From Isolates to Families: Using Neural Networks for Automated Language Affiliation ACL 2025

Partial Colexifications Improve Concept Embeddings ACL 2025

Unstable Grounds for Beautiful Trees? Testing the Robustness of Concept Translations in the Compilation of Multilingual Wordlists ACL 2025

Annotating and Inferring Compositional Structures in Numeral Systems Across Languages ACL 2025

First Steps Towards the Integration of Resources on Historical Glossing Traditions in the History of Chinese: A Collection of Standardized Fǎnqiè Spellings from the Guǎngyùn COLING 2024

Linguistic Survey of India and Polyglotta Africana: Two Retrostandardized Digital Editions of Large Historical Collections of Multilingual Wordlists COLING 2024

A Computational Model for the Assessment of Mutual Intelligibility Among Closely Related Languages EACL 2024

Are Sounds Sound for Phylogenetic Reconstruction? EACL 2024

Invited paper: Computer-Assisted Language Comparison with EDICTOR 3 ACL 2024

Resource Acquisition for Understudied Languages: Extracting Wordlists from Dictionaries for Computer-assisted Language Comparison COLING 2024

Representing and Computing Uncertainty in Phonological Reconstruction EMNLP 2023

Detecting Lexical Borrowings from Dominant Languages in Multilingual Wordlists EACL 2023

Trimming Phonetic Alignments Improves the Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns from Multilingual Wordlists EACL 2023

Information-Theoretic Characterization of Vowel Harmony: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Word Lists EACL 2023

A New Framework for Fast Automated Phonological Reconstruction Using Trimmed Alignments and Sound Correspondence Patterns ACL 2022

The SIGTYP 2022 Shared Task on the Prediction of Cognate Reflexes NAACL 2022

An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics ACL 2019

Are Automatic Methods for Cognate Detection Good Enough for Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics? NAACL 2018

Using support vector machines and state-of-the-art algorithms for phonetic alignment to identify cognates in multi-lingual wordlists EACL 2017

A Web-Based Interactive Tool for Creating, Inspecting, Editing, and Publishing Etymological Datasets EACL 2017

Using Sequence Similarity Networks to Identify Partial Cognates in Multilingual Wordlists ACL 2016

An Open Source Toolkit for Quantitative Historical Linguistics ACL 2013