Johannes Graën

Dr. Johannes Graën is a Researcher at the University of Zurich, affiliated with the Department of Computational Linguistics under the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He leads the Language Technology group within the Linguistic Research Infrastructure, focusing on corpus linguistics, computer-assisted language learning (CALL), and games with a purpose (GWAP).

• Primary Affiliation: University of Zurich
• Role: Researcher and Educator

His research emphasizes corpus linguistics, NLP tools for education, and language learning games. He develops web-based infrastructures like the LiRI Corpus Platform and SwissBERT, a multilingual language model tailored for Swiss languages. His work often intersects with machine translation, word alignment, and multilingual resource exploitation.

The trends in his publications highlight multimodal corpus analysis, CALL applications, and parallel corpora modeling. He has contributed to tools like Multilingwis and SPARCLING, which enhance the accessibility and annotation of multilingual datasets.