Frederic Blum

Blum, F., Herbold, S., & List, J.-M. (2025). From Isolates to Families: Using Neural Networks for Automated Language Affiliation. In W. Che, J. Nabende, E. Shutova, & M. T. Pilehvar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 17915–17927). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.876/

Blum, F., Barrientos, C., Englisch, J., Forkel, R., Greenhill, S. J., Rzymski, C., & List, J.-M. (2025). Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data. Open Research Europe, 5, 126. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.20216.2

Blum, F., Paschen, L., Forkel, R., Fuchs, S. & Seifart, F. (2024). Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(10). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01988-4

Blum, F., Barrientos, C., Ingunza, A. & List, J.-M. (2024). Cognate reflex prediction as hypothesis test for a genealogical relation between the Panoan and Takanan language families. Scientific Reports, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82515-3

Blum, F., Barrientos, C., Zariquiey, R. & List, J-M.  (2024). A comparative wordlist for investigating distant relations among languages in Lowland South America. Scientific Data, 11(92). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02928-7

Blum, F., Barrientos, C., Ingunza, A., & Poirier, Z. (2023). A phylolinguistic classification of the Quechua language family. Indiana, 40(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.18441/ind.v40i1.29-54

Blum, F., & List, J.-M. (2023). Trimming phonetic alignments improves the inference of sound correspondence patterns from multilingual wordlists. In L. Beinborn, K. Goswami, S. Muradoğlu, A. Sorokin, R. Kumar, A. Scherbakov, E. M. Ponti, R. Cotterell, & E. Vylomova (eds.), The 5th workshop on research in computational linguistic typology and multilingual NLP: proceedings of the workshop (pp. 52-64). Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigtyp-1.6/

Özsoy, O., & Blum, F. (2023). Exploring individual variation in Turkish heritage speakers’ complex linguistic productions: evidence from discourse markers (pp. 534-564). Applied Psycholinguistics, 44(4) . http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000267

Blum, F. (2022). Evaluating zero-shot transfers and multilingual models for dependency parsing and POS tagging within the low-resource language family Tupían. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (pp. 1-9). Dublin: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-srw.1

Ich bin Doktorand in der Arbeitsgruppe “Computer-Assisted Language Comparison" (Universität Passau & MPI-EVA in Leipzig), wo ich die Geschichte und Diversität südamerikanisches Sprachen erforsche. Meine Doktorarbeit dreht sich vor allem um die Geschichte der Pano-Takana Sprachfamilie und ihr Verhältnis zu anderen Sprachen der Region. Methodologisch entwickel ich neue computationelle Methoden um die Regularität von Lautkorrespondenzen zu evaluieren und zu verbessern. Diese Techniken sollen die Analyse von Kognaten verbessern und so zu einer verbesserten Methodologie in der historischen Linguistik beitragen. Andere Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Bayesianische Statistik und Typologie.

I am a PhD student at the group for "Computer-Assisted Language Comparison", where I conduct research on the history and diversity of South American Languages. My main research topic is the history of the South American Pano-Takana language family and its relation with other language families of the area. Methodologically, I am developing computational methods to measure the regularity in linguistic reconstruction and cognate judgements. These methods are designed to improve cognate judgements and the methodological scrutiny which with we conduct historical language comparison. Other areas of interests are Bayesian statistics and linguistic typology.