Scholar
Dmitry Nikolaev
Google Scholar ID: Myl8EpkAAAAJ
Lecturer, University of Manchester
Citations & Impact
Citations
403
H-index
11
i10-index
16
Publications
20
Co-authors
24
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Contact
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Core creator and maintainer of the Database of Eurasian Phonological Inventories (EURPhon); one of the architects of SegBo, a database of borrowed sounds in the world’s languages; iClassifier, an online research tool for analysing classifiers in ancient classifier scripts (Egyptian hieroglyphic, cuneiform, archaic Chinese), as well as contemporary classifier languages; BivalTyp, a typological database of bivalent verbs and their encoding frames.
Research Experience
- From early 2016 until late 2019, a post-doc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, dividing time between the Dynamics of Language Lab at the Department of Linguistics and the NLP lab at the Department of Computer Science; 2019–2021, guest researcher at the Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University, affiliated with the NLP group and the typology group; 2021–2023, postdoc with the Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart, affiliated with the Chair of Theoretical Computational Linguistics.
Education
- Obtained combined BA+MA and PhD degrees in French and Celtic studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow.
Background
- Research interests span typological and computational linguistics, digital humanities, and computational social science. Works on (and accepts students interested in) data-driven methods in linguistic typology and contact linguistics, especially in phonology; analysis of large language models; multilingual NLP; and computational analysis of political discourse.
Miscellany
- Currently a lecturer at the department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester.
