Nicholas (Nick) Evans, ARC Laureate Fellow and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University, directs the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL). He has carried out wide-ranging fieldwork on indigenous languages of Australia and Papua New Guinea. The driving interest of his work is the interplay between documenting and describing the far-reaching diversity contained in the world’s endangered languages and the many humanistic and scientific questions they can help us answer.

In addition to book-length grammars and dictionaries of several Aboriginal languages (Kayardild, Bininj Gun-wok, Dalabon) and edited collections on numerous linguistic topics, he has published over 180 scientific papers. His crossover book Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us, which sets out a broad program for engaging with the world’s dwindling linguistic diversity has been translated into French, Japanese, Korean and German, with a Chinese translation soon to appear.

He has also worked as a linguist, interpreter and anthropologist in two Native Title claims in northern Australia, and as a promotor of Aboriginal art.

Nick is a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Australian Social Sciences Academy, a corresponding member of the British Academy, and a recipient of the inaugural Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation / German Ministry of Science and Education, and the Ken Hale Award from the Linguistics Society of America.

Dr. Johannes Dellert (University of Tübingen, Germany) is a computational linguist who currently works as a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Linguistics in Tübingen. His current research focuses on the development of novel approaches to the interpretation of non-standard language (as part of Prof. Detmar Meurers’ ICALL research group), and on developing new interactive tools for historical linguistics as a continuation of his PhD work in Prof. Gerhard Jäger’s group. As part of the latter, Dr. Dellert is also the main contributor and coordinator for the NorthEuraLex database.

Dr. Robert Forkel (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany) leads the data management group of the Department for Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at MPI SHH.

Luís Morgado Da Costa (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) is a cognitive scientist with a wide range of interests, currently focusing his work on computational linguistics. He is currently a PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), in Singapore. Before that, he was a research associate in the Computational Linguistics Lab, Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, also at NTU, working on several projects, ranging from Natural Language Parsing and Generation, Computational Lexicography, Computer Assisted Language Learning, as well as general Mandarin Chinese and Japanese Linguistics.

The main focus of his current research is to model diverse aspects of linguistic knowledge in ways it can be applied to different tasks (e.g. Machine Translation, Word Sense Disambiguation, Computer Assisted Language Learning, etc). He works mainly with English and Mandarin Chinese, but has also done work with other languages such as Japanese, Kristang, Portuguese, Indonesian, Coptic and Abui.

He a member of DELPH-IN, sharing the communal commitment to develop open source NLP tools and resources for deep linguistic processing of natural languages, a member of the Global Wordnet Association, and a member of NTU’s Digital Humanities Cluster.

Dr. David Moeljadi (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and soon Sinophone Project, Olomouc) graduated from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2018, works as data scientist at Traveloka Services Pte. Ltd. in Singapore, a leading Southeast Asia online Indonesian travel company. His research is about computational linguistics, grammar engineering, treebanking, corpus, dictionaries and lexicography. He built an open-source computational grammar for Indonesian called INDRA (Indonesian Resource Grammar) which can parse and generate sentences and a treebank called JATI. He develops Wordnet Bahasa, a large scale open-source semantic dictionary of the Malay languages (Malaysian and Indonesian). He collaborates with the Language Development and Cultivation Agency, under the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, created and develops a database for the authoritative Indonesian dictionary KBBI (Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia) and a database for loanwords in Indonesian. He collaborates with The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc. in Japan and works as the chief translator of The Kanji Learner’s Dictionary: Indonesian Edition. Together with researchers from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, He worked in a project to build an open-source morphological dictionary and analyser for Malay/Indonesian (MALINDO Morph), and in a project to build an Asian language parallel corpus (TALPCo). David is a member of the Indonesian Association for Lexicography and a member of the Deep Linguistic Processing with HPSG (DELPH-IN) research consortium.