Martijn Wieling

Martijn Wieling is a Professor of Computational Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. His research spans dialectology, speech pathology, and computational language modeling, with a focus on articulography and acoustic analysis. He leads the EVICT project analyzing eviction litigation through data science and has contributed to generalized additive modeling in linguistic research.

Research Interests

• Dialectal variation and sound change in Dutch, Frisian, and Low Saxon
• Neurological speech disorders (Parkinson's, oral cancer)
• Machine learning applications in legal and linguistic analysis
• Minority language preservation and sociolinguistic well-being

Scientific Recognition

• European Young Research Award (2016)
• Elected member of De Jonge Akademie (2015)
• Multiple NWO grants (Veni 2013, Rubicon 2012)

Collaborations

Active in multidisciplinary research with medical institutions (Parkinson's disease analysis), legal scholars (eviction litigation), and computational linguistics teams (low-resource ASR development). Key collaborations visible in 2024 presentations on auditory-motor adaptation and speech pathology verification.