Thomas Samuelsson

Thomas Samuelsson is a Researcher at Stockholm University, affiliated with the Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German. His work bridges Slavic linguistics and digital humanities, focusing on the intersection of political discourse and linguistic evolution.

Research Interests: Samuelsson specializes in morphology and discourse analysis, particularly within the frameworks of corpus linguistics and distributional semantics. His research explores how changes in Russian political society are reflected in linguistic patterns, with a focus on prefixation and compounding in media texts from 2012–2020.

Publications: Samuelsson has contributed to academic conferences on topics such as keymorph analysis of Russian political reporting and the linguistic implications of ideologically charged adjectives in Russian media. His work employs tools like FastText, BERT, and ElMo for semantic analysis.

Additional Roles: He manages research data and the Slavic library within his department, supporting digital humanities initiatives and corpus-based studies.