Research Output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
I hold an MA degree in Northern European Studies from Humboldt University of Berlin, a PhD in General Linguistics from the University of Leipzig and I am an Adjunct Professor (title of Docent) in Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Helsinki. My current affiliation is at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Freiburg. I lead my own research group (http://saami.uni-freiburg.de) and I am also the co-applicant for a large-scale and long-term interdisciplinary research project (https://inel.corpora.uni-hamburg.de) funded in the Academies’ Programme at the University of Hamburg and aiming at the systematic linguistic documentation of several Uralic and other languages of Siberia.
Multilingualism and Language Diversity are the major keywords for my own professional interest as a linguist. In addition to documenting and describing endangered languages under the roof of Digital Humanities, I am specialized in language contacts, linguistic typology, sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. I have also carried out research and taught on other aspects of endangered cultures and languages.
External positions
Senior Researcher
1 Jul 2019 → …Acting professor, Universität Bielefeld
1 Oct 2017 → 31 Mar 2019Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
1 Mar 2017 → 30 Sep 2017Fields of Science
- 6121 Languages
- Uralic languages
- North Germanic languages
- digital humanities
- anthropological linguistics
- contact linguistics
- sociolinguistics
- sociology of language
- typological linguistics
- historical linguistics
- language technology
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
Publications
Kildin Saami
Rießler, M., 2020, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic languages. Oxford University Press, 13Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
File
An OCR system for the Unified Northern Alphabet
Partanen, N. & Rießler, M., 2019, Proceedings of the fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. The Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 77-89 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
File
Automatic validation and processing of ELAN corpora for spoken language data
Partanen, N. & Riessler, M., 16 Aug 2019.Research output: Conference materials › Paper
Developing technologies for low-resource Uralic languages: The case of North Saami and Komi-Zyrian
Partanen, N., Riessler, M. & Poibeau, T., 29 Nov 2019.Research output: Conference materials › Poster
Developing technologies for low-resource Uralic languages: Case studies on Saami and Komi varieties
Partanen, N., Riessler, M. & Poibeau, T., 5 Dec 2019.Research output: Conference materials › Poster
Projects
IKDP-2: Language Documentation meets Language Technology: The Next Step in the Description of Komi
Blokland, R., Rießler, M. & Partanen, N.
01/03/2017 → …
Project: Research project
IKDP: Building an annotated digital corpus for future research on Komi speech communities in northernmost Russia
Blokland, R., Fedina, M., Rießler, M. & Partanen, N.
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2016
Project: Research project
Linguistic and Cultural Rights of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in Europe: Comparing Russian Federation and European Union
Saarikivi, J., Toivanen, R. & Rießler, M.
28/08/2007 → 01/09/2007
Project: Research project
Datasets
Universal Dependencies 2.4
Partanen, N. (Creator), Blokland, R. (Creator) & Rießler, M. (Creator), Universal Dependencies Consortium, 15 May 2019
http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-2988
Dataset
gt-xml-lexica-sms
Rueter, J. (Creator), Lehtinen, M. (Creator), Koponen, E. (Creator), Rießler, M. (Creator) & Gerstenberger, C. (Creator), Zenodo, 11 Jan 2018
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146854
Dataset
Activities
International Workshop for Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages
Tommi Pirinen (Member of organizing committee), , Jack Rueter (Member of organizing committee), , Francis M. Tyers (Member of organizing committee), , Trond Trosterud (Member of organizing committee), , Jörg Tiedemann (Member of organizing committee), & Michael Rießler (Scientific Committee Member)
8 Jan 2018 → 9 Jan 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Saami Linguistics Symposium
Michael Rießler (Chair of organizing committee)
1 Mar 2017 → 20 Oct 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation
Michael Rießler (Scientific Committee Member)
1 Jun 2017 → 3 Mar 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Vähemmistökielen CG ja kieliteknologian infrastruktuurinkehitys, kpv.
Jack Rueter (Member of organizing committee), , Jörg Tiedemann (Member of organizing committee), , Trond Trosterud (Member of organizing committee), , Michael Rießler (Attendee), , Marina Fedina (Attendee), , Sjur Moshagen (Attendee), & Rogier Blokland (Attendee)
19 Sep 2017 → 22 Sep 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
International Workshop for Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages (Event)
Francis Tyers (Board member), , Tommi Pirinen (Board member), , Trond Trosterud (Board member), , Kevin Unhammer (Board member), , Zsófia Schön (Board member), , Kimmo Matti Koskenniemi (Board member), , Jack Rueter (Board member), , Michael Rießler (Board member), , Heiki-Jaan Kaalep (Board member), & Eszter Simon (Board member)
23 Jan 2017 → 24 Jan 2017
Activity: Membership types › Membership or other role in national/international committee, council, board