Biography

I’m Chadi [ˈʃɛdi; SHE-dee], a postdoc researcher at the Université de Neuchâtel. I grew up in باجة Beja, Tunisia, then left rather early to Paris, France, where I –among other things– started my journey in linguistics research.

I’m a linguist that uses corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics methodologies to investigate a diverse range of cognitive, structural, and sociocultural questions; with a special interest in techniques that allow for the quantitative analysis of low resource languages and imbalanced/sample biased data sets, as well as the discovery and study of formulaic language and Multiword Expressions (MWEs). Currently, my postdoctoral research focuses on corpus-based techniques geared towards the inductive analysis of connectivity changes in a network of constructions.

I obtained my BA in English Philology (linguistics, literature, culture, and civilization), my MA in Linguistics from the Université Paris 8, Vincennes–Saint-Denis, and expecting a PhD in linguistics from the university of California, at Santa Barbara (December 2024).

https://cbyoussef.github.io/

Scientific Activity

• Detecting connectivity changes inductively in a network of constructions
• mMERGE: a corpus driven Multiword Expressions discovery algorithm

Publications

Ben Youssef, C., & Gries, S. Th. (2023). Code-switching in Tunisian Arabic: a multifactorial random forest analysis. Corpora, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2023.0289

Todd, S., Ben Youssef, C., & Vasquez, A. (2023). Language structure, attitudes, and learning from ambient exposure: Lex- ical and phonotactic knowledge of Spanish among non-Spanish-speaking Californians and Texans. PLoS ONE, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284919

Willis, C., & Ben Youssef, C. (2023). Random bisexual forests: Intersections between gender, sexuality, and race in /s/ pro- duction. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 8(1): 5004. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5504

Ben Youssef, C., & de la Fuente, A. (in press). ‘I wear combat boots on my tongue’: a random forest analysis of stance taking and evaluation in the radical-right media. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science.