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Dec 2025
Challenges of implementing the comparative method with neural networks. Wiener Sprachgesellschaft, Wien.
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Dec 2025
Computermodelle zur Diversifikation des Nordwestgermanischen: Chancen und Herausforderungen. Kleines internationales Symposium zum Nordwestgermanischen, Erlangen.
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May 2025
Computational Linguistics workshop. Workshop organizer, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Denton, Texas.
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May 2024
Geospatial models for analyzing contact effects. GramAdapt Symposium, Helsinki, Finland.
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Apr 2024
Causal approaches for testing the effect of humidity on tone. Workshop co-organizer, Causal approaches to investigating language evolution — International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang), Madison, Wisconsin.
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Oct 2023
Agent-based models in diachronic linguistics. Workshop main speaker, University of California, Los Angeles.
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May 2023
Workshop: Statistik neu entdecken. Workshop main speaker, University of Potsdam.
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Jul 2021
Intensivkurs gemischte Modelle. Workshop main speaker, University of Vienna.
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Jul 2021
Computational Models for Language Contact and Language Shift. Old Frisian Summer School, Leeuwarden.
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Sep 2020
Statistische Methoden für Linguisten. Workshop main speaker, University of Vienna.
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Nov 2019
Is sound change predictable? Deep learning and diachrony. Keynote talk, 7th workshop of the SimPhon network, Konstanz.
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Sep 2025
Reconstructing linguistic proto-forms using phylogenetically aware Neural Networks. Protolang 9, Vienna.
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Mar 2025
Agent-based simulations as process models of linguistic dynamics. Bridging the Gap workshop, Zürich.
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Dec 2024
Replicability and Causality in Typological Research. Workshop introduction (remote), Replication & reproducibility in quantitative typology, 15th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT), Singapore.
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Apr 2024
The Verschärfung and Germanic subgrouping: Inheritance by proxy (with Joseph Salmons). Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC), Bloomington, Indiana.
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Oct 2023
Simulation Models of Wave-like Diversification: A Novel Tool for Indo-European Cladistics? Thirty-Fourth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC), Los Angeles.
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Apr 2023
Analysing the early development of the Germanic family using Bayesian phylogenetics and agent-based models. Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC), Banff, Canada.
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Dec 2022
Syntax vs. phonology in language relatedness. Third AMC symposium: Change in syntax and phonology, Edinburgh.
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Aug 2022
An agent-based modelling approach to wave-like diversification of language families. Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25).
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Dec 2021
Lexical and sublexical effects on diachronic stability and instability of phonological systems. 5th Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP5).
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Nov 2021
The greater Sahara in the historical linguistic geography of Africa (with Johanna Nichols). Workshop on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Diedrich Westermann, Berlin.
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Oct 2021
Prospects of computational internal reconstruction: machine learning and phonological predictability. Proto-Indo-European Reconstruction: Problems, possibilities and new perspectives, Cambridge.
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Aug 2021
Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior. Poster, 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Oct 2019
Old Frisian breaking revisited — Context and chronology of a complex change. 10th Conference on Frisian Linguistics, Leeuwarden.
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Sep 2019
Sound change in German verbs: effects of paradigmatic and lexical confusability. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung (P&P), Düsseldorf.
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Aug 2019
Investigating the phonological predictability of sound change using deep neural networks. RUSE symposium, Manchester.
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May 2019
Neues zu einer alten Sprache — die Korpuslinguistik und das Vandalische. Nomen et Gens Tagung 2019, Cologne.
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May 2024
Investigating the diachronic development of phonological complexity as a latent process — a computational study using deep neural networks. International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang), Madison, Wisconsin.
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Jul 2019
Predicting Historical Phonetic Features using Deep Neural Networks: A Case Study of the Phonetic System of Proto-Indo-European. 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, ACL, Florence, Italy.
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Nov 2025
A roadmap for Neural Language Reconstruction. Linguistics Department, University of Texas at Austin.
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Dec 2024
Advantages of advanced quantitative methods in linguistics. Linguistics Department, University of Vienna.
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Oct 2024
Causal approaches for testing the effect of humidity on tone. Webinar, Causal Inference from Evolutionary Human Sciences, Cambridge (remote).
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Mar 2023
Methodological pitfalls in research on environmental effects in phonology: a computational investigation. Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson.
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Sep 2022
Agent-based models of language diversification and language change. Department of Linguistics, University of North Texas, Denton.
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Feb 2022
Why does language change? Approaches and discussions: a dialogue between linguistics and philosophy. Department of Philosophy, Konstanz.
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Jul 2021
Germanic phylogeny: computational simulations and phylogenetics. Research colloquium, Department of Linguistics, Konstanz.
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Dec 2019
Die Germanen — Herkunft und Entwicklung aus linguistischer Perspektive. Research colloquium, Department of History, Konstanz.