MICHAEL RIEßLER

Professor

PhD, Docent

Professor of General Linguistics (School of Humanities / Foreign Languages and Translation Studies)

Multilingualism and Language Diversity in the Barents region are the major keywords for my own professional interest as a linguist. In addition to documenting and describing endangered languages with contemporary digital methods, I am specialized in the sociology of language and minority language policy, as well as language contacts and linguistic typology.

Contact info

Organization

School of Humanities, Foreign Languages and Translation Studies

Email

michael.riessler@uef.fi

Phone

+358 50 434 6054

Keywords

anthropological linguistics contact linguistics documentary linguistics endangered languages language contact language endangerment language sociology language technology language typology northern europe Russia sociolinguistics

RESEARCH GROUPS - UEF

The Changing Environment of the North: Cultural Representations and Uses of Water (CEN)

Publications

Kildin Saami. Rießler, Michael / The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Langugaes. 2022. 2022
The Relevance of the Source Language in Transfer Learning for ASR. Hjortnæs, Nils; Partanen, Niko; Rießler, Michael; Tyers, Francis M / Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. Volume 1 (Papers). 2021. 2021
This is thy brother's voice - Documentary and metadocumentary linguistic work with a folklore recording from the Nenets-Komi contact area. Blokland, Rogier; Partanen, Niko; Rießler, Michael / Multilingual facilitation. 2021. 2021
Envisioning digital methods for fieldwork in the Arctic. Partanen, Niko; Rießler, Michael; Wilbur, Joshua / Visual representations of the Arctic : Imagining shimmering worlds in culture, literature and politics. 2021. 2021
A pseudonymization method for language documentation corpora. Partanen, Niko; Blokland, Rogier; Rießler, Michael / Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages. 2020. 2020
Hakimov, Nikolay; Rießler, Michael. 2020. Partial fusion in long-term bilingualism: The case of vernacular Kildin Saami International journal of bilingualism 2021; 25 2: 401-424. 2020
Rießler, Michael. 2020. Rimma Kuruch and Kildin Saami language planning Linguistica uralica 56 3: 220-225. 2020
Seyfeddinipur, Mandana; Ameka, Felix; Bolton, Lissant; Blumtritt, Jonathan; Carpenter, Brian; Cruz, Hilaria; Drude, Sebastian; Epps, Patience L; Ferreira, Vera; Galucio, Ana Vilacy; Hellwig, Brigit; Hinte, Oliver; Holton, Gary; Jung, Dagmar; Buddeberg, Irmgarda Kasinskaite; Manfred, Krifka; Kung, Susan; Monroig, Miyuki; Neba, Ayu'nwi Ngwabe; Nordhoff, Sebastian; et al (Incl.Rießler, Michael). 2019. Public access to research data in language documentation: Challenges and possible strategies Language documentation and conservation 13: 545-563. 2019
Using computational approaches to integrate endangered language legacy data into documentation corpora. Past experiences and challenges ahead. Rogier Blokland, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler, Joshua Wilbur / Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages. 2019. 2019
Domokos, Johanna; Rießler, Michael; Schlosser, Christine (ed.) . 2019. Worte verschwinden / fliegen / zum blauen Licht. Samische Lyrik von Joik bis Rap. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Samica 4. 2019
An OCR system for the Unified Northern Alphabet. Partanen, Niko; Rießler, Michael / Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. 2019. 2019
Dependency Parsing of Code-Switching Data with Cross-Lingual Feature Representations. Partanen, Niko; Lim, Kyungtae; Rießler, Michael; Poibeau, Thierry / Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages. 2018. 2018
Kola Sámi literature (Kildin Sámi, Ter Sámi, Akkala Sámi). Rießler, Michael / A writing hand reaches further : Recommendations for the improvement of the Sámi literary field = "Cálli giehta ollá guhkás". 2018. 2018
Skolt Sámi literature. Rießler, Michael / A writing hand reaches further : Recommendations for the improvement of the Sámi literary field = "Cálli giehta ollá guhkás". 2018. 2018
The First Komi-Zyrian Universal Dependencies Treebanks. Partanen, Niko; Blokland, Rogier; Lim, Kyungtae; Poibeau, Thierry; Rießler, Michael / Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018). 2018. 2018
Documenting endangered oral histories of the Arctic: A proposed symbiosis for documentary linguistics and oral history research, illustrated by Saami and Komi examples. Rießler, Michael; Wilbur, Joshua / Oral history meets linguistics. 2017. 2017