David Snee
David Snee
Curriculum vitae
Education:
- Since 2024 – PhD – Multilingual Computational Linguistics at the University of Passau
- 2018–2020 – Master of Arts – Applied Linguistics at the University of Erfurt
- 2014–2018 – Bachelor – French and German at University College Dublin
Work experience:
- Since 2024 – Research Assistant at the University of Passau
- Chair for Multilingual Computational Linguistics
- 2021–2026 – English Instructor at the University of Passau
- 2021 – English Instructor at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
- 2018–2022 – English Instructor at the University of Erfurt
Publications
- Bocklage, K., Georgakopoulos, T., van Dam, K. P., Ciucci, L., Blum, F., Kučerová, A., Rubehn, A., Stephen, A., Snee, D., and List, J.-M. (2025). Testing the Potential of Automatically Inferred Affix Colexifications for Linguistic Typology. Humanities Commons [preprint, not peer-reviewed, under review]. https://doi.org/10.17613/a06m1-c9939
- Cathcart, C., Rubehn, A., Bocklage, K., Ciucci, L., van Dam, K. P., Kučerová, A., Mažara, J., Meloni, C. Y., Snee, D., and List, J.-M. (2026). How communicatively optimal are exact numeral systems? Once more on lexicon size and morphosyntactic complexity. arXiv [preprint, not peer-reviewed, under review]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.20372
- Rubehn, A., Rzymski, C., Ciucci, L., Bocklage, K., Kučerová, A., Snee, D., Stephen, A., van Dam, K. P., and List, J.-M. (2025). Annotating and Inferring Compositional Structures Across Languages. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.sigtyp-1.4
- Snee, D., Ciucci, L., Rubehn, A., van Dam, K. P., and List, J.-M. (2025). Unstable Grounds for Beautiful Trees? Testing the Robustness of Concept Translations in the Compilation of Multilingual Wordlists. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.sigtyp-1.3
- Snee, D., Ciucci, L., and List, J.-M. (2026). Variation in language phylogenies may result from variation in concept translation. Journal of Language Evolution, 11, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzag005
Focus areas
Data robustness, Computational linguistics, Phylogenetics, Historical linguistics, Lexicostatistic wordlists
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Winter semester 2025/26
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