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Email

thien@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Principal Fellow of Linguistics
School of Languages and Linguistics
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Masters (Research)
La Trobe University
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
La Trobe University
ORCID

0000-0001-8797-1018

A/Prof Nicholas Thieberger

Principal Fellow of Linguistics
School of Languages and Linguistics

150 Scholarly works
31 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    TULUN: Transparent and Adaptable Low-resource Machine Translation
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-demo.13
  • 2025

    Journal article

    The tip of the iceberg: Public good and the curation of humanities research records
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    English-based acoustic models perform well in the forced alignment of two English-based Pacific Creoles
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1505
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Records of Pacific Languages: Where Are They and Who Can See Them
    DOI: 10.25911/4Q9D-VM92
  • 2025

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Language Data Commons of Australia, University of Sydney Collaboration
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Nyingarn: A Platform for Primary Sources in Australian Indigenous Languages
  • 2021

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Nyingarn: A Platform for Primary Sources in Australian Indigenous Languages
Nicholas Thieberger

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2024
https://www.dpconline.org/news/dpa2024-winners Digital Preservation Award for Research and Innovation
2021
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
2021
Research Partnership and Social Impact Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH)
2018
University of Melbourne award for excellence in team-based research

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Book

    Keeping Time: Dialogues on Music and Archives in honour of Linda Barwick
    DOI: 10.30722/sup.9781743329504
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    From collection to engagement: Indigenous language research at the University of Melbourne
  • 2024

    Journal article

    The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records
    DOI: 10.37683/asa.v51.10971
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Nafsan
    DOI: 10.1017/S0025100321000177
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    Documentation of Australian languages
    DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198824978.003.0003
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    Hypothetically Speaking: Ethics in linguistic fieldwork, a provocation

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2014

    Internal Research Grant

    Arc Centre of Excellence for Dynamics of Language - Matching Contribution
  • 2014

    Internal Research Grant

    Arc Centre of Excellence for Dynamics of Language - Matching Contribution

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