Elena Volodina is Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, carrying a full-time position at Språkbanken Text at the department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology.

Prof. Volodina has been carrying out various activities in relation to research and research infrastructure. Currently, she is leading a large externally funded project on pseudonymization of research data with several national and international researchers. It is one of several projects she has been successful in attracting funding for. She worked in the national coordination group for Swedish CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) and as a package leader of an EU-funded project, which requires good administrative and leadership skills.

Prof. Volodina has been and still is active within the development of resources and applications for Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) in combination with Corpus Linguistics, both for research and research infrastructure, as well as computational linguistic methods for text analysis. Recently, she has initiated and is coordinating an international group Computational SLA which promotes research on underrepresented languages in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) through building a community, release of datasets and organization of shared tasks. The recent shared task on Grammatical Error Correction, MultiGEC-2025, involved twelve languages.

For a detailed overview of Dr. Volodina’s previous and current activities, please visit:
https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena