Dr Martin Schweinberger
Honours Coordinator
Applied Linguistics Program
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56892
Researcher biography
My name is Martin Schweinberger and I am Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia. At the UQ, I am Director of the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) (together with Michael Haugh) and I am a quantitative corpus linguist specialized in computational analyses of text and speech. In my research, I aim to combine and bridge the gap between computational linguistics and corpus linguistics.
I am steering committee member and Chief Investigator (CI) of the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) and was also steering committee member and CI of the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) before it was merged with LDaCA. Both ATAP and LDaCA aim at establishing language data infrastructures and text analytics upskilling resources in Australia and they have received substantive funding from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). I have recently been elected as Vice-President Profession to be of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) and I am board member of The International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME).
Regarding my background, I have a PhD in English linguistics and I studied at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and Universität Kassel where I graduated in 2008 with an MA in English Philology, Philosophy, and Psychology. After my MA, I remained in Kassel for a short while but soon moved on to the University of Hamburg where I worked on and later received my PhD.
Potential topics for supervision
I would be particularly interested in supervising theses on the following topics:
Sociolinguistics / Language Variation and Change / World Englishes
- General extenders
- Terms-of-address and salutations
- Discourse particles and markers
- Vulgarity
- Adjective amplification
Learner Language / Applied Linguistics / Corpus Phonetics / Learner Corpus Research
- Vowel production among L1 speakers and learners of English
- Voice-onset-times among L1 speakers and learners of English
- Fluency and pauses in learner and L1 speech.
- Accent and intelligibility / comprehension.
Text Analytics / Digital Humanities / Corpus Linguistics
- Applied word embedding applications in the language sciences.
- Comparison of different association / keyness measures
| Featured projects | Duration |
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Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) and Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) ARDC Co-investment Project |
2021–2028 |
Publications
Book Chapters
Schweinberger, Martin and Komiya, Yuki (2024). A corpus-based comparative acoustic analysis of target-like vowel production by L1-Japanese learners and native speakers of English. Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics. (pp. 41-61) edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/scl.119.03sch
Schweinberger, Martin and Ronan, Patricia (2024). Concluding remarks and future directions in studies on sociopragmatic variation. Socio-pragmatic variation in Ireland: using pragmatic variation to construct social identities. (pp. 235-240) edited by Martin Schweinberger and Patricia Ronan. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110791457-012
Ronan, Patricia and Schweinberger, Martin (2024). An introduction to sociopragmatic variation. Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland. (pp. 1-8) Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110791457-001
Schweinberger, Martin and Ronan, Patricia (2024). Boring much? Semantic determinants of constructional attraction in Irish English. Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland. (pp. 107-130) Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110791457-007
Schweinberger, Martin (2024). When natural language processing meets corpus linguistics. Digitally-assisted historical English linguistics. (pp. 73-88) edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Dagmar Haumann and Arne Peters. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003360285-6
Schweinberger, Martin (2022). Absolutely fantastic and really really good. Expanding the landscapes of Irish English research. (pp. 129-145) edited by Stephen Lucek and Carolina P. Amador-Moreno. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003025078-7
Schweinberger, Martin (2021). On the waning of forms – a corpus-based analysis of decline and loss in adjective amplification. Lost in change: causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions. (pp. 235-260) edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban . Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/slcs.218.08sch
Schweinberger, Martin (2021). Using intensifier-adjective collocations to investigate mechanisms of change. Variation in time and space: observing the world through corpora. (pp. 231-255) edited by Anna Čermáková and Markéta Malá. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110604719-010
Schweinberger, Martin (2020). Analyzing change in the American English amplifier system in the fiction genre. Corpora and the changing society: studies in the evolution of English. (pp. 223-249) edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/scl.96.09sch
Schweinberger, Martin (2015). A comparative study of the pragmatic marker like in Irish English and in south-eastern varieties of British English. Pragmatic markers in Irish English. (pp. 114-134) edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/pbns.258.05sch
Schweinberger, Martin (2014). Frequency, dispersion and register variation of selected discoursepragmatic particles in Singapore English. Language contact around the globe. (pp. 259-273) edited by Amei Koll-Stobbe and Sebastian Knospe. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang.
Schweinberger, Martin and Burmeister, Melanie (2013). A corpus-based study of language internal and language external determinants of non-standard uses of noun phrase structures - a primer. Korpuslinguistische Untersuchungen: Analysen einzelsprachlicher Phänomene. (pp. 131-149) edited by Anja Hennemann and Claudia Schlaak. Berlin, Germany: Frank & Timme.
Schweinberger, Martin (2013). A sociolinguistic analysis of discourse marker LIKE in Northern Ireland. A look behind the scenes of quantitative reasoning. New approaches to the analysis of linguistic variability. (pp. 13-39) edited by Markus Bieswanger and Amei Koll-Stobbe. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang.
Siemund, Peter, Maier, Georg and Schweinberger, Martin (2012). Reflexive and intensive self-forms. Areal features of the anglophone world. (pp. 409-438) edited by Raymond Hickey. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110279429.409
Schweinberger, Martin (2012). The discourse marker LIKE in Irish English. New perspectives on Irish English. (pp. 179-202) Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g44.09sch
Siemund, Peter, Maier, Georg and Schweinberger, Martin (2009). Towards a more fine-grained analysis of the areal distributions of nonstandard features of English. Language contacts meet English dialects: studies in honour of Markku Filppula. (pp. 19-45) edited by Esa Pentitilä and Heli Paulasto. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Journal Articles
Schweinberger, Martin and Burridge, Kate (2025). Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world. Lingua, 321 103946, 1-25. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103946
Schweinberger, Martin (2024). Seeded topic modeling as a more appropriate alternative to unsupervised standard topic models. Discourse Studies. doi: 10.1177/14614456241293895
Bednarek, Monika, Schweinberger, Martin and Lee, Kelvin K. H. (2024). Corpus-based discourse analysis: from meta-reflection to accountability. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 20 (3), 1-28. doi: 10.1515/cllt-2023-0104
Schweinberger, Martin (2024). A corpus‐based analysis of adjective amplification in Hong Kong, Indian and Philippine English. World Englishes. doi: 10.1111/weng.12640
Schweinberger, Martin (2023). On the L1-acquisition of the pragmatics of discourse like. Functions of Language, 30 (3), 255-286. doi: 10.1075/fol.20025.sch
Crosthwaite, Peter, Ningrum, Sulistya and Schweinberger, Martin (2023). Research trends in corpus linguistics: a bibliometric analysis of two decades of Scopus-indexed corpus linguistics research in arts and humanities. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 28 (3), 344-377. doi: 10.1075/ijcl.21072.cro
Schweinberger, Martin (2021). Ongoing change in the Australian English amplifier system. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 41 (2), 166-194. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2021.1931028
Crosthwaite, Peter, Sanhueza, Alicia Gazmuri and Schweinberger, Martin (2021). Training disciplinary genre awareness through blended learning: an exploration into EAP students’ perceptions of online annotation of genres across disciplines. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 53 101021, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.jeap.2021.101021
Ruhlemann, Christoph and Schweinberger, Martin (2021). Which word gets the nuclear stress in a turn-at-talk?. Journal of Pragmatics, 178, 426-439. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.04.005
Crosthwaite, Peter, Luciana and Schweinberger, Martin (2021). Voices from the periphery: perceptions of Indonesian primary vs secondary pre-service teacher trainees about corpora and data-driven learning in the L2 English classroom. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 1 (1) 100003, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100003
Schweinberger, M. (2021). Analyzing Historical Changes in the Irish English Amplifier System. Anglistik, 32 (1), 139-158. doi: 10.33675/angl/2021/1/11
Schweinberger, Martin, Haugh, Michael and Hames, Sam (2021). Analysing discourse around COVID-19 in the Australian Twittersphere: a real-time corpus-based analysis. Big Data and Society, 8 (1), 205395172110214. doi: 10.1177/20539517211021437
Schweinberger, Martin (2020). A corpus-based analysis of differences in the use of very for adjective amplification among native speakers and learners of English. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 6 (2), 163-192. doi: 10.1075/ijlcr.20011.sch
Crosthwaite, Peter, Storch, Neomy and Schweinberger, Martin (2020). Less is more? The impact of written corrective feedback on corpus-assisted L2 error resolution. Journal of Second Language Writing, 49 100729, 100729. doi: 10.1016/j.jslw.2020.100729
Schweinberger, Martin (2020). How learner corpus-research can inform language learning and teaching. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43 (2), 195-217.
Schweinberger, Martin (2020). How learner corpus research can inform language learning and teaching: an analysis of adjective amplification among L1 and L2 English speakers. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43 (2), 196-218. doi: 10.1075/aral.00032.sch
Schweinberger, Martin (2020). Speech-unit final like in Irish English. English World-Wide, 41 (1), 89-117. doi: 10.1075/eww.00041.sch
Schweinberger, Martin (2019). A sociolinguistic analysis of emotives. Corpus Pragmatics, 3 (4), 327-361. doi: 10.1007/s41701-019-00062-z
Schweinberger, Martin (2018). The discourse particle eh in New Zealand English. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 38 (3), 395-420. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2018.1470458
Schweinberger, Martin (2018). Swearing in Irish English: a corpus-based quantitative analysis of the sociolinguistics of swearing. Lingua, 209, 1-20. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2018.03.008
Siemund, Peter, Schulz, Monika Edith and Schweinberger, Martin (2014). Studying the linguistic ecology of Singapore: a comparison of college and university students. World Englishes, 33 (3), 340-362. doi: 10.1111/weng.12094
Conference Papers
Schweinberger, Martin and Luo, Chang-Hao (2024). Automated, Corpus-and Usage-Based Semantic Classification of Word Class using Word Embeddings. ICAME45, Vigo, Spain, 18-21 June 2024.
Schweinberger, Martin (2023). An introduction to the resources provided by LADAL - the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory. 7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE7), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19 - 23 June 2023. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Schweinberger, Martin, Fatemi, Masoud, Hames, Sam, Haugh, Michael, Laitinen, Mikko, Rautionaho, Paula and Takahashi, Marissa (2023). Who swears most – and in what social settings?. 7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE7), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19-23 June 2023. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Schweinberger, Martin and Yin, Ruihua (2023). A corpus-based acoustic analysis of vowel production by L1-Chinese learners and native speakers of English. 7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE7), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19 - 23 June 2023. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Schweinberger, Martin and Yin, Rui (2023). A corpus-based acoustic analysis of vowel production by L1-Chinese learners and native speakers of English. 44th Meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME44), Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 17 - 21 May 2023. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Schweinberger, Martin and Komiya, Yuki (2022). A corpus-based computational analysis of high-front and -back vowel production of L1-Japanese learners of English and L1-English speakers. Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 13 - 16 December 2022. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association.
Schweinberger, Martin, Flanaghan, Joseph and Schneider, Gerold (2022). Exploring powerful tools to ensure robust and reproducible results in corpus linguistics. 43rd Meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME43), Cambridge, United Kingdom, 18 - 21 August 2021. Cambridge, United Kingdom: TU Dortmund University.
Crosthwaite, P., Ningrum, S. and Schweinberger, M. (2022). Research trends in corpus linguistics: a bibliometric analysis of two decades of Scopus-indexed corpus linguistics research in arts and humanities. ICAME43, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 27-30 July 2022.
Schweinberger, Martin (2020). Using Semantic Vector Space Models to investigate lexical replacement – a corpus based study of ongoing changes in intensifier systems. Methods in Dialectology XVI, Tachikawa, Japan, 7 - 11 August 2017. Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/b17102
Schweinberger, Martin (2018). A corpus-based analysis of the L1-acquisition of amplifiers in American English. 5th International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 5), London, United Kingdom, 17-20 July 2018.
Schweinberger, Martin (2018). Analyzing diachronic change in the American English amplifier system. ICAME 39 (39th Meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Tampere, Finland, 30 May - 3 June 2018.
Schweinberger, Martin (2018). The sociolinguistics of emotional language - emotive use in Irish English. NPIE 5 (5th New Perspectives on Irish English meeting), Potsdam, Germany, 25-27 April 2018.
Schweinberger, Martin (2018). Methoden linguistischer Datenanalyse: quantitativ-statistische Modellierung sprachlicher Variation. Ringvorlesung Empirieformate in der linguistischen Forschung, Hamburg, 16 January 2018.
Schweinberger, Martin and Gerspacher, Sandra (2017). VowelChartProject: Erstellung personalisierter Vokaltrapeze zur Verbesserung der Zielsprachennähe im Zweitspracherwerb bei Lehramtsstudierenden. New International Perspectives on Future Teachers' Professional Competencies, Profale Congress 2017, Hamburg, Germany, 21-23 September 2017.
Schweinberger, Martin (2017). Using semantic vector space models to investigate lexical replacement - a corpus based study of ongoing changes in intensifier systems. 16th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Tokyo, Japan, 7-11 August 2017.
Schweinberger, Martin (2017). Using intensifier-adjective collocations to determine mechanisms of change. ICAME 38 (38th meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Prague, Czech Republic, 24-28 May 2017.
Schweinberger, Martin, Stedman, Nina, Buzuk, Jelena, Sarkodie-Gyan, Sabrina, Boye, Naomi and Gerspacher, Sandra (2017). Assessing differences in the English vocalic systems of L1-German learners and native speakers of English. CuTLi 2017 (Current Trends in Linguistics 2017), Hamburg, Germany, 21-22 January 2017.
Schweinberger, Martin, Stedman, Nina, Buzuk, Jelena, Sarkodie-Gyan, Sabrina, Boye, Naomi and Gerspacher, Sandra (2017). VowelChartProject. Erstellung personalisierter Vokaltrapeze zur Verbesserung der Zielsprachennähe im Zweitspracherwerb bei Lehramtsstudierenden. CuTLi 2017 (Current Trends in Linguistics 2017), Hamburg, Germany, 21-22 January 2017.
Schweinberger, Martin (2016). On the acquisition of intensifier constructions. 17. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (17. NLK), Hamburg, Germany, 31 March - 2 April 2016.
Schweinberger, Martin (2016). Ongoing changes in the Irish intensifier system. NPIE4 (4th meeting on New Perspectives on Irish English), Bergen, Norway, 5-7 July 2016.
Schweinberger, Martin (2016). Using sentiment analysis to investigate the social stratification of emotives in Irish English. ST & D 2016 (2016 meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse), Kassel, Germany, 18-20 July 2016.
Schweinberger, Martin (2016). Ongoing change in the New Zealand English Intensifier System. ISLE 4 (4th meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English), Poznan, Poland, 18-21 September 2016.
Schweinberger, Martin (2015). Why we need better statistics - A case study on eh in New Zealand English. 16. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (16. NLK), Hannover, Germany, 26-28 March 2015.
Schweinberger, Martin (2012). Global diffusion and local implementation - the discourse particle LIKE around the world. ICAME 33 (33rd meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Leuven, Belgium, 26 May - 3 June 2012.
Siemund, Peter, Schulz, Monika Edith and Schweinberger, Martin (2012). How multilingual are Singaporeans really? A sociological and sociolinguistic analysis of the linguistic ecology of Singapore. English in Asia's Languages Habitats and Europe's Asia Competence, Berlin, Germany, 9-12 May 2012.
Schweinberger, Martin (2012). A corpus-based study of language internal and language external determinantes of linguistic variation in Singapore English - a pilot study. 13. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (13. NLK), Potsdam, Germany, 25-26 March 2012.
Schweinberger, Martin (2011). Global diffusion and local implementation - the discourse particle LIKE around the world. Symposium Sprachwandel/Language Change, Munich, Germany, 13-15 July 2011.
Schweinberger, Martin (2011). The local spread of globally available innovations: the discourse marker LIKE around the world. LCTG3 (International Conference Language Contact in Times of Globalization), Greifswald, Germany, 30 June - 2 July 2011.
Schweinberger, Martin, Dolberg, Florian , Svoboda, Svea Gertrud and Wilken, Anja (2010). Killing metaphors analyzing conceptual metaphors in current political debates on military interventions. Politik und Ästhetik/Politics and Aesthetics, Hamburg, Germany, 20 May 2010.
Schweinberger, Martin (2010). Rethinking the classification of high frequency discourse markers. A new approach towards LIKE across Varieties of English. 11. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (11. NLK), Hamburg, Germany, 5-6 March 2010.
Schweinberger, Martin (2010). Revisiting LIKE. A quantitative analysis of the distribution, position, and function of the discourse marker LIKE in Hiberno-English and other varieties of English. NPIE 1(1st meeting on New Perspectives on Irish English), Dublin, Ireland, 11-13 March 2010.
Schweinberger, Martin (2010). What's this, LIKE, all about? Analyzing the use of LIKE across varieties of English. ICAME 31 (31st meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Giessen, Germany, 26-30 May 2010.
Schweinberger, Martin (2010). New perspectives on the discourse marker LIKE. IVACS 5 (5th meeting on Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies), Edinburgh, Scotland, 18-19 June 2010.
Schweinberger, Martin (2010). Epistemic modality and discourse markers: A quantitative analysis of the distribution and function of discourse marker LIKE across varieties of English. ModE4 (4th meeting on Modality in English), Madrid, Spain, 9-11 September 2010.
Schweinberger, Martin (2009). And he's like, is LIKE like LIKE, like? A quantitative account of the positional and functional distribution of the discourse marker LIKE across varieties of English. 10. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (10. NLK), Greifswald, Germany, 13-14 March 2009.
Creative Works
Schweinberger, Martin (2025). Indigenous Australian Languages – Linguistic Features, Revitalization Efforts, and Research Infrastructure for Archiving and Accessibility. Hamburg, Germany: University of Hamburg.
Schweinberger, Martin (2024). Vulgarity in Online Discourse around the English-Speaking World. Bonn, Germany: University of Bonn.
Schweinberger, Martin (2024). Introduction to R for Social Science. Joensuu, Finland: University of Eastern Finland.
Schweinberger, Martin and Hames, Sam (2024). Introduction to Computational Text Analytics (Workshop). Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Schweinberger, Martin (2023). Introduction to Dimension Reduction Methods with R. Tromsø, Norway: The Arctic University of Norway.
Schweinberger, Martin (2023). F%$# Twitter. A corpus-based analysis of vulgar language on Twitter. Bayreuth, Germany: Bayreuth University.
Schweinberger, Martin and Hames, Sam (2023). Data in the humanities with text analytics. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Schweinberger, Martin (2023). Text Analytics with Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory Resources: an introduction to free, open-source interactive resources for linguists. Hamburg, Germany: University of Hamburg.
Schweinberger, Martin (2023). An introduction to conditional inference trees in R. Bonn, Germany: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University.
Schweinberger, Martin (2022). From tables to forests – working with tables and tree-based models. Tromsø, Norway: The Arctic University of Norway.
Schweinberger, Martin (2022). Introduction to Power Analysis with R. Tromsø, Norway: The Arctic University of Norway.
Schweinberger, Martin (2022). Introduction to data visualization with R. Tromsø, Norway: The Arctic University of Norway.
Schweinberger, Martin (2021). Fixed- and mixed-effects regression models in R. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, School of Languages and Cultures.
Schweinberger, Martin (2021). Tree-based models in R. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, School of Languages and Cultures.
Schweinberger, Martin (2019). The Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL). Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, School of Languages and Cultures.
Theses
Schweinberger, Martin (2014). The discourse marker LIKE: a corpus-based analysis of selected varieties of English. PhD Thesis, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Hamburg.
Schweinberger, Martin (2008). Sprache und Raum im Lichte der Raumkonzeption Kants - Untersuchung der Beziehbarkeit von Kants Überlegungen zum Raum auf Thematisierungen des Raums in der neueren Linguistik. M.A. Thesis, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Universität Kassel.