Natural Language Processing

Jacob Lee Suchardt

[jaːkɔp liː zʊχaːt]

PhD Student @ LION Lab, Leipzig University, DE

Hello there! I'm Jacob, a general linguistics enthusiast and PhD student in Natural Language Processing at LION Lab, lead by Leonie Weissweiler.

Jacob Lee Suchardt

Research

My research centers on cross-linguistic morphosyntax and what it reveals about multilingual (large) language models. Phonetics and phonology also have a special place in my heart.

Selected Projects

MultiBLiMP v2 · Contributor

Subject–Verb Agreement Decision Trees

Decision-tree diagnostics for subject–verb agreement across languages, building on the MultiBLiMP benchmark.

Research

Speech-to-IPA Cross-Lingual Transfer

Investigating cross-lingual transfer of speech-to-IPA models for low-resource and oral languages.

News

Jun 22–26 Attended the 12th International Summer School on AI and Big Data, on Neuro+Symbolic AI.
May 06 My abstract on speech-to-IPA modeling was accepted as a poster for the 4th UniDive General Meeting in Bucharest.
Apr 22 Joined the UniDive COST action in working groups 1 and 3.
Apr 01 Starting my journey as a PhD student in NLP @ LION Lab with Leonie Weissweiler.
Mar 15 One more paper accepted to SLiDE Workshop @ LREC.
Feb 13 Two papers accepted to LREC Main!
Earlier 2025

Selected Publications

Towards Language-Agnostic STIPA: Universal Phonetic Transcription to Support Language Documentation at Scale

Jacob Lee Suchardt, Hana El-Shazli and Pierluigi Cassotti

EMNLP 2025 · Suzhou, China · ACL Anthology · DOI