Researcher

Joakim Nivre

Joakim Nivre connects computational grammar, multilingual parsing, and language model research. Nivre leads Universal Dependencies. The shared project develops consistent grammatical annotations across languages and involves many universities and language communities. Universal Dependencies aims to support multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and typological parsing research.

Now at
Uppsala University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Works
352
Citations
17,038
h-index
60

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Joakim Nivre

Timeline

  1. 2021

    Research recognition

    ACL elected Joakim Nivre as a Fellow in 2021.

  2. 2023

    Swedish language models

    Nivre helped build Swedish language models with researchers at AI Sweden and RISE in May 2023. The team trained models of several sizes within the project.

  3. As of October 2026

    Universal Dependencies

    Nivre leads Universal Dependencies. The shared project develops consistent grammatical annotations across languages and involves many universities and language communities.

  4. As of October 2026

    Resources for multilingual parsing

    Universal Dependencies aims to support multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and typological parsing research.

Sources and credits

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  1. Universal Dependencies – Department of Linguistics and Philology – Uppsala University uu.se. Checked 13 October 2026.
  2. The AI tool quickly became good at Swedish – Uppsala University uu.se. Checked 13 October 2026.
  3. ACL Fellows — 2021 — Joakim Nivre aclweb.org. Checked 13 October 2026.