Jacob Lee Suchardt

Education

2026–ongoing PhD, Computer Science — LION Lab, Leipzig University, Germany, supervised by Leonie Weissweiler
2025 MA, Language Technology — University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Thesis: Training for the Unexpected. Approaching Universal Phone Recognition for Computer-Assisted IPA Transcription of Low-Resource Languages, supervised by Pierluigi Cassotti and Hana El-Shazli
2023 BA, Computational Linguistics & Japanese Language and Literature — Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Thesis: “Intonation in the Tokyo dialect of modern Japanese: Downstep and focus effects”, supervised by Sven Osterkamp

Publications

See my full list of publications.

Talks

May 2025 “Training for the Unexpected. Approaching Universal Phone Recognition with Whisper” — Speaker at the 34th TaCoS Conference
Jan 2025 “Exploring RoBERTa for Pseudonym Generation in English” — Invited Talk at CLASP Cognitive Systems research group, Gothenburg

Teaching

See my teaching page for courses and roles.

Service

2026 Reviewer — 4th UniDive General Meeting
Nov 2025 Student Volunteer — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Suzhou
2024/2025 Student Representative — Master programme Language Technology, University of Gothenburg
2022/2023 Member of Student Representatives Council — Institute of Linguistics, Ruhr-University Bochum