Talks & Lectures

Upcoming talks

• Roemling, D. & Grieve, J. (2026). Delineating Cultural Regions in Germany Using Geostatistical Lexical Analysis of Social Media Data. ICLaVE|13. Lausanne, Switzerland, June/July, 2026.
• Grieve, J., Alkhudhayr, R., Bartl, S., Huang, W., Li, B., Liu, M., Mısır, H, Roemling, D., Su, Q. & Van Riper, A. (2026). Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? A Linguistic Analysis of the Bitcoin Authorship Problem. 6th European Conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL2026). Montpellier, France, June, 2026.
• Roemling, D. (2026). Corpus-Based Methods in Regional Forensic Authorship Profiling. 6th European Conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL2026). Montpellier, France, June, 2026.
• Roemling, D. (2026). Advancing Forensic Authorship Profiling through Computational Sociolinguistic Methods. BRIDGE Workshop on Computational Sociolinguistics. Birmingham, UK, April, 2026.

Previous talks

Peer-reviewed conference talks

• Roemling, D. & Coats, S. (2025). A New Corpus of Investigative Interviews and Criminal Justice Content. 7th General ILLA Conference "Language and Law in an Age of Uncertainty and Transition". Kaunas, Lithuania, September, 2025.
• Griffin, D. & Roemling, D. (2025). Legal Language as Authority: A Multimodal Comparative Study of Legitimate and Pseudolegal Texts. 7th General ILLA Conference "Language and Law in an Age of Uncertainty and Transition". Kaunas, Lithuania, September, 2025.
• Coats, S. & Roemling, D. (2025). CRIME: The Corpus of Recorded Investigative, Media, and Evidence-based Proceedings. 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora). Bayreuth, Germany, September, 2025.
• Roemling, D. (2025). Mapping Linguistic Variation: A Corpus-Driven Approach to Forensic Authorship Profiling. Corpus Linguistics 2025. Birmingham, UK, July, 2025.
• Griffin, D. & Roemling, D. (2025). Looking Beyond Lexis: A Corpus Semiotic Approach to the Analysis of Static Texts. Corpus Linguistics 2025. Birmingham, UK, July, 2025.
• Roemling, D. & Busso, L. (2025). CorGeS: a historic corpus of German suicide notes. 17th Biennial International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics Conference. Cape Town, South Africa, July, 2025.
• Roemling, D. (2024). Digital Methodologies in Forensic Linguistic Authorship Analysis: Social Media Data and Computational Approaches in Geolinguistic Profiling. Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum) 2024. Joensuu, Finland, December, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2024). Forensinen kirjoittajaprofilointi suomalaisessa kontekstissa. AFinLA syyssymposium 2024. Turku, Finland, November, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2024). Forensinen lingvistiikka – soveltavan kielitieteen merkitys oikeudellisissa ja lainvalvonnallisissa yhteyksissä. Kriminologian päivät 2024. Tampere, Finland, October, 2024.
• Roemling, D., Scherrer, Y., Miletić, A. & Siewert, J. (2024). Model Interpretability as Error Analysis for Variation Research. Language and Languages at the crossroad of Disciplines (LLcD). Paris, France, September, 2024.
• Roemling, D., Scherrer, Y. & Miletić, A. (2024). Explainability of Machine Learning Approaches in Forensic Linguistics: A Case Study in Geolinguistic Authorship Profiling. First International Conference on Natural Language Proessing and Artifical Intelligence for Cyber Security. Lancaster, UK, July, 2024.
• Scherrer, Y., Aepli, N., Roemling, D. & Miletić, A. (2024). Extracting dialect-specific features from dialect classifiers. ICLaVE|12. Vienna, Austria, July, 2024.
• Roemling, D. & Grieve, J. (2024). How to draw isoglosses (if you must): A spatial approach for the replicable analysis of dialect maps. ICLaVE|12. Vienna, Austria, July, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2024). Forensic Authorship Profiling: The Benefits of Geostatistical Methods in Regional Profiling. International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics European Conference. Birmingham, UK, June, 2024.
• Psaltaki, E. & Roemling, D. (2024). Drawing on Research on Explainability of Dialect Classifiers to Extract Greek Dialect Features. MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop. Leiden, Netherlands, June, 2024.
• Roemling, D. & Grieve, J. (2024). Extracting dialect features from German social media data using local spatial autocorrelation. MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop. Leiden, Netherlands, June, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2023). Validität deutschsprachiger regionaler Marker für die Autorschaftsbestimmung. Doktorand:innen-Workshop der Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft & Friends. Vienna, Austria, November, 2023.
• Roemling, D. (2023). Geolinguistic Authorship Profiling in Forensic Linguistics: Moving Beyond Traditional Approaches with Computational Methods and Social Media Data. British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Annual Meeting. York, UK, August, 2023.
• Roemling, D. (2023). Uncovering an Author’s Regional Background through High-Resolution Authorship Profiling Using Social Media Data. Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security (CREST BASS23). Bath, UK, July, 2023.
  Slides available here: 10.5281/zenodo.8154415
• Grieve, J., Bartl, S., Elstein, S., Ogburn, K. & Roemling, D. (2023). Variation in Response Structure in a Corpus of Online Chat. Corpus Linguistics Conference 2023. Lancaster, UK, July, 2023.
• Roemling, D. (2022). Triangulaion in Legal Corpus Linguistics - The Case Study of Ex Parte Ankrom (2013). 12th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP). Jyväskylä, Finland, September, 2022.
• Roemling, D. (2022). The Potential of NLP Methods in Dialect Classification for Forensic Geolinguistic Profiling. 4th European Conference of the International Association of Forensic and Legal Linguistics. Porto, Portugal, July, 2022.
• Roemling, D. (2021). Language & Law and the Ordinary Meaning of “Child”: How Corpus Linguistics Would Have Decided Ankrom v. Alabama. International Association of Forensic Linguists Conference & Biennial Meeting. Birmingham, UK, September, 2021. ■
  Recording available here | Slides available here: 10.5281/zenodo.8154513
• Roemling, D. (2015). Don’t read the comments: Pejorative linguistic reactions to Conchita Wurst’s Eurovision win from a legal perspective. Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics Roundtable. Mainz, Germany, September, 2015.
• Roemling, D. & Lautner, N. (2015). Die Repräsentation des anderen Geschlechts in der juristischen Fachsprache. Symposium on Lavender Languages and Queer Identities. Duesseldorf, Germany, July, 2015.
• Roemling, D. (2015). Sprache als Straftat oder warum ein Vollidiot nicht gleich ein Vollidiot ist. 57. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft. Marburg, Germany, May, 2015.
• Sternke, K. & Roemling, D. (2015). Conchita Wurst shouldn’t read the comment section – Online reactions to individuals in the limelight not fitting binary gender categories. Lavender Languages Conference. Washington, DC, USA, February, 2015.
• Roemling, D. (2014). How to elicit a confession - linguistic issues in investigative interviewing. 56. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft. Hamburg, Germany, November, 2014.
• Roemling, D. (2014). Ein Chatroom als Gerichtssaal – Auslegung und Vagheit in Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen in sozialen Netzwerken. Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics Roundtable. Mainz, Germany, September, 2014.
• Roemling, D. (2014). A German chat room - issues in linguistics, law and statutory interpretation. Oxford Cyber Harassment Research Symposium. Oxford, UK, March, 2014.
• Roemling, D. (2013). Statutory interpretation online. Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics Roundtable. Mainz, Germany, September, 2013.
• Naumann, P. & Roemling, D. (2013). Can you read 1337? - The Influence of Leetspeak on Word Reading. 53. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft. Munich, Germany, May, 2013.
• Roemling, D. (2013). Semantik vor Gericht – Wer hat das Recht Bedeutung zu bestimmen? 53. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft. Munich, Germany, May, 2013.
• Lindroos, E. & Roemling, D. (2012). On the Role of Language and Linguistic Analysis in Criminal Proceedings. Nordic Police Research Seminar. Police College of Finland, Tampere, November, 2012.
• Roemling, D. (2012). Vagheit in Sprache und Recht - welche Regel definiert 'regelmäßig'? 51. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft. Stuttgart, Germany, May, 2012.
• Roemling, D. (2011). Genuine and Simulated Suicide Notes in German. International Association of Forensic Linguists Conference & Biennial Meeting. Birmingham, UK, July, 2011.

Peer-reviewed panels hosted

• Love, R., Alsop, S., Cabral, D., Griffin, D., Roemling, D. (2025). BAAL Corpus SIG panel: Methodological innovation in applied corpus linguistics. Corpus Linguistics 2025. Birmingham, UK, July, 2025.
• Scherrer, Y., Kuparinen, O., Miletić, A., Psaltaki, E., Roemling, D. & Janine Siewert (2025). Computational approaches to language variation. Finnish Conference of Linguistics 2025. Helsinki, Finland, May, 2025.
• Roemling, D. & Siiroinen, H. (2024). Thematic Workshop: Forensinen lingvistiikka Suomessa: Nykykehitys ja tulevaisuuden näkymät. AFinLA syyssymposium 2024. Turku, Finland, November, 2024.

Invited lectures or talks

• Scherrer, Y., Roemling, D. & Kuparinen, O. (2026). Dialektforschung mit neuronalen Sprachmodellen: Erklärbare Dialektometrie durch Analyse von Attention-Mustern. Dialekt 3.0 – Die Zukunft der Regionalsprache. Marburg, Germany, March, 2026.
• Roemling, D. (2026). Corpus Linguistics in Forensic Authorship Profiling: Mapping Regional Signals. Sociolinguistics in the West Midlands, University of Birmingham Research Seminar, March, 2026.
• Roemling, D. (2025). Regionale Sprachmerkmale und ihre Kartierung: Korpusgestützte Ansätze in der forensischen Autorschaftsanalyse. Kolloquium Autorschaft und individueller Sprachgebrauch. Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, November, 2025.
• Grieve, J., Alkhudhayr, R., Bartl, S., Cao, J., Huang, W., Li, B., Liu, M., Misir, H., Roemling, D., Su., Q, & Van Riper, A. (2025). Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Using Computational Authorship Analysis to Help Resolve The Bitcoin Authorship Problem. MEDAL Summer School, University of Birmingham. Birmingham, UK, June, 2025.
• Roemling, D. & Coats, S. (2025). CRIME: A Corpus of Investigative Interviews and Criminal Justice Discourse. Aston University Research Seminar. Birmingham, UK, April, 2025.
• Grieve, J., Alkhudhayr, R., Bartl, S., Cao, J., Huang, W., Li, B., Liu, M., Misir, H., Roemling, D., Su., Q, & Van Riper, A. (2025). Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Using forensic linguistics to help resolve the Bitcoin authorship problem. Linguistics and Communication Seminar, University of Birmingham. Birmingham, UK, April, 2025.
• Roemling, D. (2025). Learning from dialect classifiers: Detecting dialect features across different data sources. LiME lecture series, Meertens Institute. Amsterdam, Netherlands, January, 2025.
• Roemling, D. & Busso, L. (2024). CorGeS: a historic corpus of German suicide notes. Aston University Research Seminar. Birmingham, UK, November, 2024.
• Roemling, D. & Siewert, J. (2024). Dialect Feature Detection from Neural Models: Insights from Different Language Varieties. Language Technology Group, University of Helsinki. Finland, November, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2024). Forensic Authorship Analysis: Moving Beyond Traditional Approaches in Geolinguistic Profiling. LingDig Conference, University of Helsinki. Finland, May, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2024). Forensic Linguistic Authorship Analysis: Computational Methods and Social Media Data in Geolinguistic Profiling. School of Humanities, Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland. Joensuu, April, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2024). From Words to Evidence: An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics. Humanities Research Seminar, University of Eastern Finland. Joensuu, April, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2024). From Tweets to Trends: Social Media in Dialectology. School of Humanities, Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland. Joensuu, April, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2024). Computational Techniques for Geolinguistic Profiling in Forensic Authorship Analysis. Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki. Finland, April, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2024). Advancing Geolinguistic Authorship Profiling in Forensic Linguistics: Computational Approaches and Social Media Data. VariEng, University of Helsinki. Finland, March, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2024). Language as Evidence: Geolinguistic Profiling in Forensic Authorship Analysis. TurkuNLP, University of Turku. Finland, March, 2024.
• Roemling, D. (2024). Geolinguistic Authorship Profiling in Forensic Linguistics. Language Technology Group, University of Helsinki. Finland, February, 2024.
  Slides available here: helsinki.fi
• Roemling, D. (2023). From Sociolinguistic Theories to Forensic Practices: Mapping Authorship Profiling. English language and linguistics, Tampere University. Finland, October, 2023. ■
• Roemling, D. (2023). The use of regional dialect markers for authorship profiling. Aston University Research Seminar. Birmingham, UK, May, 2023.
  Recording available here: Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics' Past Events
• Roemling, D. (2021). The meaning of “child” in Ankrom v. Alabama (2013) – a case for Statutory Interpretation in US criminal law. Forensic and Forensic-Clinical Seminar Series. University of Birmingham, UK, December, 2021. ■
• Roemling, D. (2021). Statutory interpretation in US criminal law: A corpus linguistic approach to meaning making in Ankrom v. Alabama. PGTips. University of Birmingham, UK, June, 2021. ■
• Roemling, D. (2015). Linguistic Authenticity of German Suicide Notes. Forum Linguistik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University. Bonn, Germany, November, 2015.
• Roemling, D. (2015). The Language of the Law. Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz. Germany, January, 2015.
• Roemling, D. (2015). Legal linguistics as interdisciplinary language teaching - linguistic knowledge in application. Language Centers in Higher Education Conference. Brno, Czech Republic, January, 2015.
• Roemling, D. (2014). Suicide Notes in Forensic Linguistics - aims, themes and perspectives.Workshop: The Language of Suicidal Notes. Duesseldorf, Germany, December, 2014.

Peer-reviewed conference posters

• Sternke, K. & Roemling, D. (2015). Lavender Linguistics, an overview. ICLaVE|8. Leipzig, Germany, May, 2015.
• Roemling, D. (2014). Statutory interpretation online - vagueness in general terms and conditions in social networks. Language and Law in Social Practice. Caserta, Italy, May, 2014.

Impact and outreach events / events not exclusively academic

• Roemling, D. (2024). Words as Evidence: An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics. Associació No Marcada. Barcelona, Spain, April, 2024. ■
  Recording available here: Youtube
• Roemling, D. (2024). Tracing Identity through Language: Geolinguistic Profiling in Forensic Linguistic Authorship Analysis. Diversity in Linguistics Society. Cologne, Germany, January, 2024. ■
  Slides available here: 10.5281/zenodo.10556203
• Roemling, D. (2023). The Basics of Visualising Map Data in R using ggplot2. R-Ladies Coventry. UK, April, 2023. ■
  Link to Github repository with session code
• Roemling, D. (2022). Arbeiten in der Forensischen Linguistik. Job-Café Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf. Germany, December, 2022.
• Sternke, K. & Roemling, D. (2014). Gegendertes Gehirn - wie weiblich und männlich sind zerebrale Strukturen? Frauenreferat, Duesseldorf University of Applied Science. Duesseldorf, Germany, November, 2014.