publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Chapters

2026

1. From Large and Complex Manuscript Collections to Searchable eTexts: the Case of PaganTibet

   Rachael M. Griffiths and Marieke Meelen

   Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines , 80

   Bib Link

   @article{griffithsmeelen2026,
     author = {Griffiths, Rachael M. and Meelen, Marieke},
     title = {{From Large and Complex Manuscript Collections to Searchable eTexts: the Case of PaganTibet}},
     volume = {80},
     journal = {Revue d'Etudes Tib\'etaines},
     year = {2026}
   }

2025

1. 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

   In Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages , pp. 170-181

   Bib Link

   @inproceedings{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},
     booktitle = {Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages},
     pages = {170-181},
     year = {2025}
   }

2. Syntactic reconstruction in Celtic

   Marieke Meelen

   In Foundational approaches to Celtic linguistics , pp. 417–467

   Bib Link

   @incollection{meelen2025syntacticreconstruction,
     title = {Syntactic reconstruction in Celtic},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke},
     booktitle = {Foundational approaches to Celtic linguistics},
     editor = {Carnie, Andrew and Ohala, Diane and Hunter, Dee and Prins, Samantha and Hammond, Michael and Irizarry, Luis},
     pages = {417–467},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.15654879},
     publisher = {Language Science Press}
   }

3. Collaborative Workflows for Handwritten Text Recognition in Under-Resourced Manuscript Collections

   Marieke Meelen and Rachael M Griffiths

   Journal of Open Humanities Data , 11 , pp. 1-54

   Bib Link

   @article{meelengriffiths2025b,
     title = {Collaborative Workflows for Handwritten Text Recognition in Under-Resourced Manuscript Collections},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Griffiths, Rachael M},
     year = {2025},
     journal = {Journal of Open Humanities Data},
     volume = {11},
     pages = {1-54},
     doi = {10.5334/johd.388},
     publisher = {Ubiquity Press}
   }

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

   Rachael M. Griffiths and Marieke Meelen

   In Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research conference , pp. 1262–1273

   Bib Link

   @inproceedings{griffithsmeelen2025b,
     author = {Griffiths, Rachael M. and Meelen, Marieke},
     title = {{How `Pagan' is my text? Information Extraction from untranscribed data}},
     editors = {Arnold, Taylor and Fantoli, Margherita and Ros, Ruben},
     pages = {1262–1273},
     doi = {10.63744/aYiz0uLyIS4f},
     booktitle = {{Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research conference}},
     year = {2025}
   }

2024

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

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

   In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages , pp. 83–93

   Bib Link

   @inproceedings{meelen2024end,
     title = {End-to-end speech recognition for endangered languages of Nepal},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and O’Neill, Alexander and Coto-Solano, Rolando},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages},
     pages = {83--93},
     year = {2024}
   }

2. Breakthroughs in Tibetan NLP & Digital Humanities

   Marieke Meelen, Sebastian Nehrdich, and Kurt Keutzer

   Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines , 72 , pp. 5-25

   Bib Link

   @article{meelen2024breakthroughs,
     title = {Breakthroughs in Tibetan NLP \& Digital Humanities},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Nehrdich, Sebastian and Keutzer, Kurt},
     year = {2024},
     volume = {72},
     pages = {5-25},
     journal = {Revue d'Etudes Tib\'etaines},
     publisher = {Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris}
   }

3. The Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar: From manuscript to morphosyntax

   Alexander James O’Neill and Marieke Meelen

   Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale , 54 , pp. 162–191

   Bib Link

   @article{o2024diachronic,
     title = {The Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar: From manuscript to morphosyntax},
     author = {O’Neill, Alexander James and Meelen, Marieke},
     journal = {Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale},
     volume = {54},
     issue = {2},
     doi = {10.1163/19606028-bja10047},
     pages = {162–191},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Brill}
   }

4. The diachrony of Welsh subject pronouns

   Marieke Meelen and David Willis

   Studia Celtica Posnaniensia Special Issue: Noun phrase and pronominal syntax in medieval and early modern Celtic languages , 9 , pp. 84-111

   Bib Link

   @article{meelen2025diachrony,
     title = {The diachrony of Welsh subject pronouns},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Willis, David},
     year = {2024},
     volume = {9},
     journal = {Studia Celtica Posnaniensia Special Issue:
     Noun phrase and pronominal syntax in medieval and early modern Celtic languages},
     pages = {84-111},
     doi = {10.14746/scp.2024.9.3},
     publisher = {Sciendo}
   }

2022

1. Towards a historical treebank of Middle and Modern Welsh: Syntactic parsing

   Marieke Meelen and David Willis

   Journal of Historical Syntax , 6

   Bib Link

   @article{meelen2022towards,
     title = {Towards a historical treebank of Middle and Modern Welsh: Syntactic parsing},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Willis, David},
     journal = {Journal of Historical Syntax},
     volume = {6},
     number = {4-11},
     doi = {10.18148/hs/2022.v6i4-11.135 },
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Konstanz}
   }

2. Crosslinguistic semantic textual similarity of Buddhist Chinese and Classical Tibetan

   Rafal Felbur, Marieke Meelen, and Paul Vierthaler

   Bib Link

   @article{felbur2022crosslinguistic,
     title = {Crosslinguistic semantic textual similarity of Buddhist Chinese and Classical Tibetan},
     author = {Felbur, Rafal and Meelen, Marieke and Vierthaler, Paul},
     year = {2022},
     pages = {1-23},
     volume = {8},
     doi = {10.5334/johd.86},
     publisher = {Ubiquity Press}
   }

3. NLP pipeline for annotating (endangered) Tibetan and Newar varieties

   Christian Faggionato, Nathan Hill, and Marieke Meelen

   In Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference , pp. 1-6

   Bib Link

   @inproceedings{faggionato2022nlp,
     title = {NLP pipeline for annotating (endangered) Tibetan and Newar varieties},
     author = {Faggionato, Christian and Hill, Nathan and Meelen, Marieke},
     editors = {Ojha, Atul Kr. and Ahmadi, Sina, Liu, Chao-Hong and McCrae, John P. },
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
     pages = {1-6},
     year = {2022}
   }

4. Towards coreference resolution for Early Irish

   Mark Darling, Marieke Meelen, and David Willis

   In Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop within LREC2022 , pp. 85–93

   Bib Link

   @inproceedings{darling2022towards,
     title = {Towards coreference resolution for Early Irish},
     author = {Darling, Mark and Meelen, Marieke and Willis, David},
     year = {2022},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop within LREC2022},
     editors = {Fransen, Theodorus and Lamb, William and Prys, Delyth},
     pages = {85–93},
     organization = {Association for Computational Linguistics}
   }

5. Creating annotated corpora for historical languages

   Marieke Meelen and David Willis

   Journal of Historical Syntax , 6 , pp. 1–5

   Bib Link

   @article{meelen2022creating,
     title = {Creating annotated corpora for historical languages},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Willis, David},
     journal = {Journal of Historical Syntax},
     volume = {6},
     number = {4-11},
     pages = {1--5},
     doi = {10.18148/hs/2022.v6i4-11.164},
     year = {2022}
   }

6. What are cognates?

   Marieke Meelen, Nathan W Hill, and Hannes Fellner

   Papers in Historical Phonology , 7 , pp. 44-80

   Bib Link

   @article{meelen2023cognates,
     title = {What are cognates?},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Hill, Nathan W and Fellner, Hannes},
     journal = {Papers in Historical Phonology},
     year = {2022},
     volume = {7},
     pages = {44-80},
     doi = {10.2218/pihph.7.2022.7405},
     publisher = {Edinburgh University Library}
   }

2021

1. Optimisation of the largest annotated Tibetan corpus combining rule-based, memory-based, and deep-learning methods

   Marieke Meelen, Élie Roux, and Nathan Hill

   ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) , 20 , pp. 1–11

   Bib Link

   @article{meelen2021optimisation,
     title = {Optimisation of the largest annotated Tibetan corpus combining rule-based, memory-based, and deep-learning methods},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Roux, {\'E}lie and Hill, Nathan},
     journal = {ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)},
     volume = {20},
     number = {1},
     pages = {1--11},
     year = {2021},
     publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA}
   }

2. Towards a historical treebank of Middle and Early Modern Welsh, part I: Workflow and POS tagging

   Marieke Meelen and David Willis

   Journal of Celtic Linguistics , 22 , pp. 125–154

   Bib Link

   @article{meelen2021towards,
     title = {Towards a historical treebank of Middle and Early Modern Welsh, part I: Workflow and POS tagging},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Willis, David},
     journal = {Journal of Celtic Linguistics},
     volume = {22},
     number = {1},
     pages = {125--154},
     year = {2021},
     doi = {10.18148/hs/2022.v6i4-11.135},
     publisher = {University of Wales Press}
   }

3. Old Catalan Morphosyntax: Developing an Annotated Corpus

   Marieke Meelen and Pujol I Campeny

   Bib Link

   @article{meelen2021old,
     title = {Old Catalan Morphosyntax: Developing an Annotated Corpus},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Campeny, Pujol I},
     year = {2021},
     volume = {7},
     pages = {1-30},
     doi = {10.5334/johd.54},
     publisher = {Ubiquity Press}
   }

2020

1. Annotating Middle Welsh: POS tagging and chunk-parsing a partial corpus of native prose

   Marieke Meelen

   In Corpus-based approaches to morphoysyntactic variation and change in medieval Celtic languages , pp. 27-47

   Bib Link

   @incollection{meelen2020,
     author = {Meelen, Marieke},
     title = {{Annotating Middle Welsh: POS tagging and chunk-parsing a partial corpus of native prose}},
     pages = {27-47},
     editors = {Lash, Elliott and
     Qiu, Fangzhe and Stifter, David},
     publisher = {Berlin: De Gruyter},
     booktitle = {Corpus-based approaches to morphoysyntactic variation and change
     in medieval Celtic languages},
     year = {2020}
   }

2. Adjectival agreement in Middle and Early Modern Welsh native and translated prose

   Marieke Meelen and Silva Nurmio

   Journal of Celtic Linguistics , 21 , pp. 1–28

   Bib Link

   @article{meelen2020adjectival,
     title = {Adjectival agreement in Middle and Early Modern Welsh native and translated prose},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Nurmio, Silva},
     journal = {Journal of Celtic Linguistics},
     volume = {21},
     number = {1},
     doi = {10.16922/jcl.21.2},
     pages = {1--28},
     year = {2020},
     publisher = {University of Wales Press}
   }

3. V3 in Dutch urban varieties

   Lisa L Cheng, Marieke Meelen, and Khalid Mourigh

   Open Generative Syntax , pp. 327–355

   Bib Link

   @incollection{cheng2020v3,
     title = {V3 in Dutch urban varieties},
     author = {Cheng, Lisa L and Meelen, Marieke and Mourigh, Khalid},
     editors = {B{\'a}r{\'a}ny, A and Biberauer, T and Douglas, J and Vikner, S},
     journal = {Open Generative Syntax},
     booktitle = {Syntactic Architecture and its Consequences},
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4280657},
     pages = {327--355},
     year = {2020},
     publisher = {Language Science Press}
   }

4. Meta-dating the parsed corpus of Tibetan (PACTib)

   Marieke Meelen and Élie Roux

   In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories , pp. 31–42

   Bib Link

   @inproceedings{meelen2020meta,
     title = {Meta-dating the parsed corpus of Tibetan (PACTib)},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Roux, {\'E}lie},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2020.tlt-1.3},
     pages = {31--42},
     year = {2020}
   }

5. (Not so) Great Expectations: Listening to foreign-accented speech reduces the brain’s anticipatory processes

   Niels O Schiller, Bastien P-A Boutonnet, Marianne LS De Heer Kloots, Marieke Meelen, and 2 more authors

   Frontiers in Psychology , 11 , pp. 2143

   Bib Link

   @article{schiller2020not,
     title = {(Not so) Great Expectations: Listening to foreign-accented speech reduces the brain’s anticipatory processes},
     author = {Schiller, Niels O and Boutonnet, Bastien P-A and De Heer Kloots, Marianne LS and Meelen, Marieke and Ruijgrok, Bobby and Cheng, Lisa L-S},
     journal = {Frontiers in Psychology},
     volume = {11},
     pages = {2143},
     year = {2020},
     doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02143},
     publisher = {Frontiers Media SA}
   }

6. Reconstructing the rise of Verb Second in Welsh

   Marieke Meelen

   In Rethinking Verb Second , pp. 426–454

   Bib Link

   @incollection{meelen2020reconstructing,
     title = {Reconstructing the rise of Verb Second in Welsh},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke},
     booktitle = {Rethinking Verb Second},
     editor = {Woods, Rebecca and Wolfe, Sam},
     year = {2020},
     pages = {426–454},
     publisher = {Oxford University Press}
   }

2019

1. Developing the Old Tibetan treebank

   Christian Faggionato and Marieke Meelen

   In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing , pp. 304–312

   Bib Link

   @inproceedings{faggionato2019developing,
     title = {Developing the Old Tibetan treebank},
     author = {Faggionato, Christian and Meelen, Marieke},
     year = {2019},
     pages = {304–312},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing},
     doi = {10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_035},
     publisher = {Incoma Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria}
   }

2017

1. Object-initial word order in Middle Welsh narrative prose

   Marieke Meelen

   In Referential Properties and Their Impact on the Syntax of Insular Celtic Languages. Studien und Texte zur Keltologie 14 , pp. 145-178

   Bib Link

   @incollection{meelen2017,
     author = {Meelen, Marieke},
     title = {{Object-initial word order in Middle Welsh narrative prose}},
     pages = {145-178},
     editors = {Widmer,  and Poppe, Erich},
     publisher = {M\"unster: Nodus Publikationen},
     booktitle = {Referential Properties and Their Impact on the Syntax of Insular Celtic Languages. Studien und Texte zur Keltologie 14},
     year = {2017}
   }

2. Segmenting and POS tagging Classical Tibetan using a memory-based tagger

   Marieke Meelen and Nathan Hill

   Himalayan Linguistics , 16 , pp. 64-89

   Bib Link

   @article{meelenhill2017segmenting,
     title = {Segmenting and POS tagging Classical Tibetan using a memory-based tagger},
     author = {Meelen, Marieke and Hill, Nathan},
     journal = {Himalayan Linguistics},
     doi = {10.5070/H916234501},
     volume = {16},
     number = {2},
     pages = {64-89},
     year = {2017}
   }

2015

1. Promoting youth development worldwide: The Duke of Edinburgh’s international award

   Eva van Baren, Marieke Meelen, and Lucas CPM Meijs

   Journal of Youth Development , 10 , pp. 1-14

   Bib Link

   @article{van2015promoting,
     title = {Promoting youth development worldwide: The Duke of Edinburgh’s international award},
     author = {Baren, Eva van and Meelen, Marieke and Meijs, Lucas CPM},
     journal = {Journal of Youth Development},
     volume = {10},
     number = {1},
     pages = {1-14},
     year = {2015}
   }