Rate My Professor Martin Schweinberger

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.