presentations | Marieke Meelen

Invited Talks
Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations

Invited Talks

2025

Language Technologies for Endangered Languages in the Himalayas

Marieke Meelen

Invited Keynote lecture for JLAO in Paris, France - July 2025

@misc{meelen2025langtech,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Language Technologies for Endangered Languages in the Himalayas},
  year = {2025},
  note = {Invited Keynote lecture for JLAO in Paris, France - July 2025}
}

Diachronic syntax with data gaps

Marieke Meelen

Invited Keynote lecture at LELPGC, Edinburgh, UK - June 2025

Bib Link

Addressing Gaps in Diachronic Data

Marieke Meelen

Invited Lecture at the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics, The Netherlands - July 2025

Bib Link

@misc{meelen2025_Leiden,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Addressing Gaps in Diachronic Data},
  year = {2025},
  note = {Invited Lecture at the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics, The Netherlands - July 2025}
}

2024

Syntactic reanalysis and reconstruction in Celtic and Tibetan

Marieke Meelen

Jun

Oxford Historical Syntax Seminar

2023

How to do language documentation fieldwork?

Marieke Meelen

Invited Fieldwork Master Classes at Leiden University, The Netherlands - September 2023

Bib

@misc{meelen2023documentation_leiden,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {How to do language documentation fieldwork?},
  howpublished = {Conference talk (online)},
  year = {2023},
  note = {Invited Fieldwork Master Classes at Leiden University, The Netherlands - September 2023}
}

NLP for Tibetan corpus creation: how to get more out of our data?

Marieke Meelen

Invited talk at the Digital Humanities for Tibetan Studies Workshop at Vienna Academy of Sciences, Austria - April 2023

Bib

@misc{meelen2023tibetan_vienna,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {NLP for Tibetan corpus creation: how to get more out of our data?},
  howpublished = {Conference talk},
  year = {2023},
  note = {Invited talk at the Digital Humanities for Tibetan Studies Workshop at Vienna Academy of Sciences, Austria - April 2023}
}

An NLP pipeline for Tibetan and Newar

Christian Faggionato, Marieke Meelen, and Alexander O’Neill

Invited talk at Perspectives of Digital Humanities in the Field of Buddhist Studies in Hamburg, Germany - January 2023

Bib

@misc{meelen2023pipeline_hamburg,
  author = {Faggionato, Christian and Meelen, Marieke and O'Neill, Alexander},
  title = {An NLP pipeline for Tibetan and Newar},
  howpublished = {Conference talk},
  year = {2023},
  note = {Invited talk at Perspectives of Digital Humanities in the Field of Buddhist Studies in Hamburg, Germany - January 2023}
}

The diachrony of Celtic subject pronouns

Marieke Meelen

Nov

Nominal Syntax in the Medieval and Early Modern Celtic Languages
How to do language documentation fieldwork?

Marieke Meelen

Leiden, september 2023

Leiden University Fieldwork Master Classes

NLP for Tibetan corpus creation: how to get more out of our data?

Marieke Meelen

Vienna, austria - april 2023

Advanced Computational Methods for Studying Buddhist Texts

Bib Link

@misc{meelen2023tibetan_viennb,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {NLP for Tibetan corpus creation: how to get more out of our data?},
  howpublished = {Conference talk},
  address = {Vienna University},
  month = {{Vienna, Austria - April 2023}},
  year = {2023},
  note = {Advanced Computational Methods for Studying Buddhist Texts}
}

An NLP pipeline for Tibetan and Newar

Marieke Meelen

Hamburg, january 2023

Perspectives of Digital Humanities in the Field of Buddhist Studies

2022

On getting more out of historical data: transforming state-of-the-art NLP techniques to effective historical annotation tools

Marieke Meelen

Invited Lecture series for Discovering Linguistics - Linguistic Discoveries at Ghent University, Belgium - November 2022

Bib Link

@misc{meelen2022scarce_ghent,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {On getting more out of historical data: transforming state-of-the-art NLP techniques to effective historical annotation tools},
  howpublished = {Conference talk},
  year = {2022},
  note = {Invited Lecture series for Discovering Linguistics - Linguistic Discoveries at Ghent University, Belgium - November 2022}
}

Corpus Annotation of the Conscious Self: from manuscript to egophoric grammar in low-resource historical languages

Marieke Meelen

Invited Keynote lecture at Grammar and Corpora at Ghent University, Belgium - July 2022

Bib Link

@misc{meelen2022egophoricity_ghent,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Corpus Annotation of the Conscious Self: from manuscript to egophoric grammar in low-resource historical languages},
  year = {2022},
  note = {Invited Keynote lecture at Grammar and Corpora at Ghent University, Belgium - July 2022}
}

On answering diachronic research questions: Case Studies in the history of Celtic and Tibetan

Marieke Meelen

Invited Lecture series for Discovering Linguistics - Linguistic Discoveries at Ghent University, Belgium - December 2022

Bib Link

@misc{meelen2022egophoricity_ghenu,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {On answering diachronic research questions: Case Studies in the history of Celtic and Tibetan},
  year = {2022},
  note = {Invited Lecture series for Discovering Linguistics - Linguistic Discoveries at Ghent University, Belgium - December 2022}
}

Syntactic Reconstruction of Celtic

Marieke Meelen

Invited lecture for the Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics series, Arizona, USA - April 2022

Bib

@misc{meelen2022reconstruction_arizona,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Syntactic Reconstruction of Celtic},
  year = {2022},
  note = {Invited lecture for the Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics series, Arizona, USA - April 2022}
}

Tibetan and Newar egophoricity

Marieke Meelen

Invited talk for the Typology of evidential systems workshop, Paris, France - February 2022

Bib

@misc{meelen2022newar_paris,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Tibetan and Newar egophoricity},
  year = {2022},
  note = {Invited talk for the Typology of evidential systems workshop, Paris, France - February 2022}
}

How to do historical linguistics with scarce data?

Marieke Meelen

Ghent, october 2022

Discovering Linguistics - Linguistic Discoveries
On filling the gaps: fieldwork on endangered languages in Nepal

Marieke Meelen

Ghent, belgium - november 2022

Discovering Linguistics - Linguistic Discoveries

Link
Emergence of Egophoricity in historical corpora

Marieke Meelen

Ghent, june 2022

Grammar and Corpora
Syntactic Reconstruction of Celtic

Marieke Meelen

Arizona, april 2022

Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics
Tibetan and Newar egophoricity

Marieke Meelen

Paris france, february 2022

Typology of evidential systems workshop

2021

Historical Tibetan morpho-syntax

Marieke Meelen

Invited talk for the Tibetan Peer-Review Workshop, SOAS, London, UK - April 2021

Bib

@misc{meelen2021morphosyntax_soas,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Historical Tibetan morpho-syntax},
  year = {2021},
  note = {Invited talk for the Tibetan Peer-Review Workshop, SOAS, London, UK - April 2021}
}

Reconstructing Proto-British phonology and syntax

Marieke Meelen

Invited lecture for the Indo-European Seminars, Leiden University, The Netherlands - April 2021

Bib

@misc{meelen2021protobritish_leiden,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Reconstructing Proto-British phonology and syntax},
  howpublished = {Conference talk},
  year = {2021},
  note = {Invited lecture for the Indo-European Seminars, Leiden University, The Netherlands - April 2021}
}

Historical Tibetan morpho-syntax

Marieke Meelen

London, uk - april 2021

Tibetan Peer-Review Workshop
Reconstructing Proto-British phonology and syntax

Marieke Meelen

Leiden, the netherlands - april 2021

Indo-European Seminars

2019

Historical Corpora & Language Change

Marieke Meelen

Invited Keynote at the Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium, Cambridge, UK - November 2019

Bib

@misc{meelen2019corpora_cambridge,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Historical Corpora \& Language Change},
  year = {2019},
  note = {Invited Keynote at the Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium, Cambridge, UK - November 2019}
}

Automatic Bilingual alignment of Classical Tibetan and Chinese

Marieke Meelen

Invited talk for the Open Philology Project Seminar, Leiden, The Netherlands - May 2019

Bib

@misc{meelen2019alignment_leiden,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Automatic Bilingual alignment of Classical Tibetan and Chinese},
  year = {2019},
  note = {Invited talk for the Open Philology Project Seminar, Leiden, The Netherlands - May 2019}
}

Word order in the 16th chronicle of Elis Gruffyd

Marieke Meelen

Invited talk for the British Academy Project Workshop ‘Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg’, Cambridge, UK - March 2019

Bib

@misc{meelen2019elis_british,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Word order in the 16th chronicle of Elis Gruffyd},
  year = {2019},
  note = {Invited talk for the British Academy Project Workshop `Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg', Cambridge, UK - March 2019}
}

Historical Corpora & Language Change

Marieke Meelen

Cambridge, uk - november 2019

Annual Language Sciences Symposium
Historical Syntax of British Celtic languages

Marieke Meelen

Helsinki, finland - september 2019

Celtic Linguistics Seminar
Automatic Bilingual alignment of Classical Tibetan and Chinese

Marieke Meelen

May

Open Philology Project Seminar
Word order in the 16th chronicle of Elis Gruffyd

Marieke Meelen

Mar

British Academy Project Workshop ’Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg’

2018

Language Change in Multilingual Settings: the case of Dutch Urban Vernaculars

Marieke Meelen

Invited talk for the Oslo Linguistics Seminar, Oslo, Norway - May 2018

Bib

@misc{meelen2018multilingual_oslo,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Language Change in Multilingual Settings: the case of Dutch Urban Vernaculars},
  year = {2018},
  note = {Invited talk for the Oslo Linguistics Seminar, Oslo, Norway - May 2018}
}

Language Change in Multilingual Settings: the case of Dutch Urban Vernaculars

Marieke Meelen

May

Oslo Linguistics Seminar
Creating a Corpus of Multilingual Accounts from London Bridge

Marieke Meelen

Nov

Annual Language Sciences Symposium

2017

Information Structure and Syntax in Middle and Early Modern Welsh

Marieke Meelen

Invited talk at the Sprachwissenschaft Seminar, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany - June 2017

Bib

@misc{meelen2017information_marburg,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Information Structure and Syntax in Middle and Early Modern Welsh},
  year = {2017},
  note = {Invited talk at the Sprachwissenschaft Seminar, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany - June 2017}
}

Syntax and Information Structure in sixteenth-century Welsh

Marieke Meelen

Invited talk at the British Academy Project Workshop ‘Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg’, Dublin, Ireland - April 2017

Bib

@misc{meelen2017dias_dublin,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Syntax and Information Structure in sixteenth-century Welsh},
  year = {2017},
  note = {Invited talk at the British Academy Project Workshop `Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg', Dublin, Ireland - April 2017}
}

Towards a Welsh historical treebank

Marieke Meelen

Invited talk for the Maynooth Spring Colloquium, Maynooth, Ireland - April 2017

Bib

@misc{meelen2017treebank_maynooth,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Towards a Welsh historical treebank},
  year = {2017},
  note = {Invited talk for the Maynooth Spring Colloquium, Maynooth, Ireland - April 2017}
}

Information Structure and Syntax in Middle and Early Modern Welsh

Marieke Meelen

Jun

Sprachwissenschaft Seminar
Syntax and Information Structure in sixteenth-century Welsh

Marieke Meelen

Apr

British Academy Project Workshop ’Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg’
Towards a Welsh historical treebank

Marieke Meelen

Apr

Maynooth Spring Colloquium

2015

Emergence and Distribution of V2 orders in Welsh

Marieke Meelen

Invited talk for the Comparative Syntax Meeting, Leiden, The Netherlands - December 2015

Bib

@misc{meelen2015v2_leiden,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Emergence and Distribution of V2 orders in Welsh},
  year = {2015},
  note = {Invited talk for the Comparative Syntax Meeting, Leiden, The Netherlands - December 2015}
}

The Old, the New or the Alternative: word order (un)limited

Marieke Meelen

May

British Academy Project Workshop ‘Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg’
Emergence and Distribution of V2 orders in Welsh

Marieke Meelen

Dec

Comparative Syntax Meeting
The Old, the New or the Alternative: word order (un)limited

Marieke Meelen

May

British Academy Project Workshop ’Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg’

2014

Annotating historical corpora using state-of-the-art NLP tools

Marieke Meelen

Jul

Language diversity in Wales
How syntactic features can solve the ’philologist’s dilemma’

Marieke Meelen

Apr

British Academy Project Workshop ’Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg’
Annotating historical corpora using state-of-the-art NLP tools

Marieke Meelen

Jul

Language diversity in Wales
How syntactic features can solve the ’philologist’s dilemma’

Marieke Meelen

Apr

British Academy Project Workshop ’Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg’

2013

Where computational, theoretical and historical linguistics meet

Marieke Meelen

Nov

Annual Van Hamel Lecture
Parsing historical Welsh corpora

Marieke Meelen

Mar

British Academy Project Workshop Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg’
Where computational, theoretical and historical linguistics meet

Marieke Meelen

Nov

Annual Van Hamel Lecture
Parsing historical Welsh corpora

Marieke Meelen

Mar

British Academy Project Workshop ’Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg’

Syntactic reanalysis and reconstruction in Celtic and Tibetan

Marieke Meelen

Invited talk at the Historical Syntax Seminar in Oxford, UK - June 2024

Bib

@misc{meelen2024syntactic_oxford,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {Syntactic reanalysis and reconstruction in Celtic and Tibetan},
  howpublished = {Conference talk},
  note = {Invited talk at the Historical Syntax Seminar in Oxford, UK - June 2024}
}

Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations

2025

Comparing efficacy of IPA vs Pinyin romanisation transcriptions for complex tonal languages: A case study in Baima

Katia Chirkova, Rolando Coto-Solano, Rachael Griffiths, and Marieke Meelen

Poster at the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages

Bib Link

@misc{chirkova2025comparing,
  title = {Comparing efficacy of IPA vs Pinyin romanisation transcriptions for complex tonal languages: A case study in Baima},
  author = {Chirkova, Katia and Coto-Solano, Rolando and Griffiths, Rachael and Meelen, Marieke},
  note = {Poster at the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages},
  year = {2025}
}

How ‘Pagan’ is my text? Information Extraction from untranscribed data

Rachael Griffiths and Marieke Meelen

Poster at the Computational Humanities Research conference

Bib Link

@misc{griffiths2025pagan,
  title = {How `Pagan’ is my text? Information Extraction from untranscribed data},
  author = {Griffiths, Rachael and Meelen, Marieke},
  year = {2025},
  note = {Poster at the Computational Humanities Research conference},
}

A multi-stage approach to information extraction and text classification in large untranscribed manuscript collections

Rachael Margaret Griffiths and Marieke Meelen

Cambridge Language Science symposium

Bib Link

@misc{griffiths2025multi,
  title = {A multi-stage approach to information extraction and text classification in large untranscribed manuscript collections},
  author = {Griffiths, Rachael Margaret and Meelen, Marieke},
  month = {},
  note = {Cambridge Language Science symposium},
  year = {2025}
}

2024

End-to-end speech recognition for endangered languages of Nepal

Marieke Meelen, Alexander O’Neill, and Rolando Coto-Solano

Honolulu hawai’i, usa - march 2024

Poster at the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages

Bib Link

@misc{meelen2024end,
  title = {End-to-end speech recognition for endangered languages of Nepal},
  author = {Meelen, Marieke and O’Neill, Alexander and Coto-Solano, Rolando},
  note = {Poster at the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages},
  month = {{Honolulu Hawai'i, USA - March 2024}},
  year = {2024}
}

Uncovering Tibet’s Oldest Religion through AI-enhanced Handwritten Text Recognition

Rachael Griffiths and Marieke Meelen

Cambridge, november 2024

Poster at the Cambridge Language Science Symposium

Bib Link

@misc{griffiths2024uncovering,
  title = {Uncovering Tibet’s Oldest Religion through AI-enhanced Handwritten Text Recognition},
  author = {Griffiths, Rachael and Meelen, Marieke},
  month = {Cambridge, November 2024},
  note = {Poster at the Cambridge Language Science Symposium},
  year = {2024}
}

Emergence of Egophoric marking

Nathan Hill, Marieke Meelen, and Alexander O’Neill

Helsinki, finland - september 2024

SLE

Bib Link

@misc{hillmeelenoneill2024_emergence,
  title = {Emergence of Egophoric marking},
  author = {Hill, Nathan and Meelen, Marieke and O'Neill, Alexander},
  month = {{Helsinki, Finland - September 2024}},
  note = {SLE},
  year = {2024}
}

2023

The diachrony of Celtic subject pronouns

Marieke Meelen

Nominal Syntax in the Medieval and Early Modern Celtic Languages in Göttingen, Germany - November 2023

Bib Link

@misc{meelen2023diachrony_gottingen,
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  title = {The diachrony of Celtic subject pronouns},
  howpublished = {Conference talk},
  year = {2023},
  note = {Nominal Syntax in the Medieval and Early Modern Celtic Languages in G\"ottingen, Germany - November 2023}
}

Language Preservation through ASR

Alexander O’Neill, Marieke Meelen, Rolando Coto-Solano, Sonam Phuntsog, and 1 more author

Cambridge uk, november 2023

Poster at the Cambridge Language Science Symposium

Bib Link

@misc{oneilletal2023languagepreservation,
  title = {Language Preservation through ASR},
  author = {O'Neill, Alexander and Meelen, Marieke and Coto-Solano, Rolando and Phuntsog, Sonam and Ramble, Charles},
  month = {Cambridge UK, November 2023},
  note = {Poster at the Cambridge Language Science Symposium},
  year = {2023}
}

From co-reference to evidentiality: how syntax, semantics and information structure interact to create a new grammatical feature

Nathan Hill and Marieke Meelen

Paris, france - september 2023

Himalayan Languages Symposium

Bib Link

@misc{hillmeelen2023coreference,
  title = {From co-reference to evidentiality: how syntax, semantics and information structure interact to create a new grammatical feature},
  author = {Hill, Nathan and Meelen, Marieke},
  month = {{Paris, France - September 2023}},
  note = {Himalayan Languages Symposium},
  year = {2023}
}

How to investigate Switch Reference in a historical corpus?

Marieke Meelen and Nathan Hill

Cambridge, uk - september 2024

LAGB

Bib Link

@misc{meelenhill2023switchreference,
  title = {How to investigate Switch Reference in a historical corpus?},
  author = {Meelen, Marieke and Hill, Nathan},
  month = {{Cambridge, UK - September 2024}},
  note = {LAGB},
  year = {2023}
}

2022

NLP pipeline for annotating (endangered) Tibetan and Newar varieties

Christian Faggionato, Nathan Hill, and Marieke Meelen

Marseille, france - june 2022

Presentation at the workshop on low-resource NLP at LREC2022 in Marseille

Bib Link

@misc{faggionatohillmeelen2022nlp,
  title = {NLP pipeline for annotating (endangered) Tibetan and Newar varieties},
  author = {Faggionato, Christian and Hill, Nathan and Meelen, Marieke},
  note = {Presentation at the workshop on low-resource NLP at LREC2022 in Marseille},
  month = {{Marseille, France - June 2022}},
  year = {2022}
}

Towards coreference resolution for Early Irish

Mark Darling, Marieke Meelen, and David Willis

Poster at the workshop on low-resource NLP at LREC2022 in Marseille

Bib Link

@misc{darlingmeelenwillis2022towards,
  title = {Towards coreference resolution for Early Irish},
  author = {Darling, Mark and Meelen, Marieke and Willis, David},
  note = {Poster at the workshop on low-resource NLP at LREC2022 in Marseille},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {Association for Computational Linguistics}
}

Tibetan word embeddings: from distributional semantics to facilitating Tibetan NLP

Marieke Meelen

Prague, czechia - july 2022

Bib Link

@misc{meelen2022_iats,
  title = {Tibetan word embeddings: from distributional semantics to facilitating Tibetan NLP},
  author = {Meelen, Marieke},
  month = {{Prague, Czechia - July 2022}},
  year = {2022}
}

2021

Named Entity Recognition (NER) for Tibetan and Mongolian Newspapers

Robert Barnett, Christian Faggionato, Marieke Meelen, Sargai Yunshaab, and 3 more authors

Cambridge uk, november 2021

Poster at the Cambridge Language Science symposium

Bib

@misc{barnettetal2021_NER,
  title = {Named Entity Recognition (NER) for Tibetan and Mongolian Newspapers},
  author = {Barnett, Robert and Faggionato, Christian and Meelen, Marieke and Yunshaab, Sargai and Samdrup, Tsering and Hill, Nathan and Diemberger, Hildegard},
  month = {Cambridge UK, November 2021},
  note = {Poster at the Cambridge Language Science symposium},
  year = {2021}
}

2019

Developing the Old Tibetan treebank

Christian Faggionato and Marieke Meelen

Varna bulgaria, may 2019

RANLP

Bib

@misc{faggionatomeelen2019developing,
  title = {Developing the Old Tibetan treebank},
  author = {Faggionato, Christian and Meelen, Marieke},
  note = {RANLP},
  month = {Varna Bulgaria, May 2019},
  year = {2019},
  doi = {10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_035},
  publisher = {Incoma Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria}
}

2018

Creating a Corpus of Multilingual Accounts from London Bridge

Marieke Meelen

Poster at the Annual Language Sciences Symposium, Cambridge, UK - November 2018

Link