Martin Schweinberger
University of Queensland
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Makes learning interactive and engaging.
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Great Professor!
About Martin
Dr. Martin Schweinberger is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Queensland's School of Languages and Cultures. He earned his PhD from the Universität Hamburg in 2014 with a thesis titled "The discourse marker LIKE: a corpus-based analysis of selected varieties of English," and his M.A. from the Universität Kassel in 2008. Currently, he serves as Director of Research for the Applied Linguistics Program and Director of the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL), a globally used platform for language data science training. Schweinberger is also a principal contributor to the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA), a major initiative building infrastructure for language research data.
His research interests encompass sociolinguistics, language variation and change, corpus linguistics, corpus phonetics, learner corpus research, and digital humanities, with a focus on vulgarity and swearing, discourse markers such as "like" and "you know," adjective amplification, and computational text analytics. He employs big data, statistical methods, and natural language processing to reveal patterns in real-world language use. Key publications include "Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world" (Lingua, 2025, with Kate Burridge), "Implications of the replication crisis for corpus linguistics: some suggestions to improve reproducibility and transparency" (2025, Cambridge University Press), "Corpora and instructed second language acquisition: a useful methodological synergy?" (2025, John Benjamins, with Peter Crosthwaite), and "Seeded topic modeling as a more appropriate alternative to unsupervised standard topic models" (Discourse Studies, 2024). Schweinberger promotes open science practices and holds international roles as Vice-President Professional of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) and board member of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME). Through LADAL and LDaCA, he has significantly impacted language research infrastructure and training worldwide.
Professional Email: m.schweinberger@uq.edu.au