Research Output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Curriculum vitae
I work as professor of language technology at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. My main research interest is in cross-lingual NLP and machine translation.
- Since August 2015: Professor of Language Technology at the Department of Digital Humanities / HELDIG (formerly at the Department of Modern Languages), University of Helsinki
- September 2014 – July 2015: Senior Researcher at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
- September 2009 – August 2014: Visiting Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
- September 2004 – August 2009: PostDoc researcher at the Department of Information Science/Humanities Computing (Informatiekunde), University of Groningen
- January 2004 – August 2004: Lecturer in computational linguistics and coordinator for the language technology programme, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
- 2000 – 2003: Ph.D. research at the Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University
- 2001 – 2002: Visiting Ph.D. student, Division of Informatics, Edinburgh University, UK
- 1997 – 1999: Research assistent, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University
- 1991 – 1997: Masters in Computer Science (Diplom für Informatik), “Otto-von-Guericke” University, Magdeburg, Germany
Recent Projects
- Found in Translation: Natural Language Understanding with Cross-lingual Grounding (ERC)
- MeMAD: Methods for Managing Audiovisual Data (EU H2020)
- NLUxG – NLU with Cross-Lingual Grounding (AoF)
- Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (nordforsk, NeIC)
- fiskmö: Parallel corpora and machine translation for Finnish and Swedish (SKF)
- Cross-lingual NLP for low-resource languages (UH)
- Discourse Oriented Statistical Machine Translation (VR)
- Efficient Algorithms for Natural Language Processing Beyond Sentence Boundaries – a project within the e-science collaboration eSSENCE
- LetsMT! – Building a Platform for Online Sharing of Training Data and Building User Tailored MT (EU ICT)
Resources and Tools
- OPUS – a collection of freely available parallel corpora and tools
- fiskmö translator – a translation demo for the Nordic languages
- efmaral and eflomal – tools for efficient word alignment
- WMT en-fi 2016, 2017: official MT test sets for Finnish-English
- HNMT – the Helsinki Neural Machine Translation system
- Lingua::Align – a toolbox for tree-to-tree alignment
- Uplug – a toolbox for processing parallel corpora
- Lingua::Ident::Blacklists – language identifier for related languages
- Docent – a document-level SMT decoder
- pdf2xml – a converter for PDF documents
- subalign – tools for converting and aligning movie subtitles
- Helsinki-NLP at github and bitbucket
Active PhD Students
Former PhD Students
Education/Academic qualification
Computational Linguistics, PhD, Uppsala University
2000 → 2003
Computer Science, M.Sc., Otto Von Guericke University, Magdeburg
1991 → 1997
Keywords
- 6121 Languages
- Computational Linguistics
- machine translation
- 113 Computer and information sciences
- language technology
- machine learning
- Natural language processing
- Artificial intelligence
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
Publications 2009 2019
The MeMAD Submission to the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task
Stig-Arne, G., Huet, B., Kurimo, M., Laaksonen, J., Merialdo, B., Pham, P., Sjöberg, M., Sulubacak, U., Tiedemann, J., Troncy, R. & Vázquez Carrillo, J. R., 1 Nov 2018, Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT): Shared Task Papers. Bojar, O., Chatterjee, R., Federmann, C., Fishel, M., Graham, Y., Haddow, B., Huck, M., Yepes, A. J., Koehn, P., Monz, C., Negri, M., Névéol, A., Neves, M., Post, M., Specia, L., Turchi, M. & Verspoor, K. (eds.). Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 603-611 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
File
Emerging Language Spaces Learned From Massively Multilingual Corpora
Tiedemann, J., 2018, Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference (DHN 2018). Mäkelä, E., Tolonen, M. & Tuominen, J. (eds.). Helsinki: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2084. p. 188-197 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
File
Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2017
Zampieri, M., Malmasi, S., Ljubešić, N., Nakov, P., Ali, A., Tiedemann, J., Scherrer, Y. & Aepli, N., 1 Apr 2017, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific
Open Access
Synthetic Treebanking for Cross-Lingual Dependency Parsing
Tiedemann, J. & Agi, Z., Jan 2016, In : Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 55, p. 209-248 40 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
File
Parallel Data, Tools and Interfaces in OPUS
Tiedemann, J., 1 May 2012, Unknown host publication. Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Declerck, T., Dogan, M. U., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Odijk, J. & Piperidis, S. (eds.). p. 2214-2218 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Projects 2004 2023
FoTran: Found in Translation - Natural Language Understanding with Cross-Lingual Grounding
Tiedemann, J., Celikkanat, H., Raganato, A., Vazquez , R., Sulubacak, U. & Silfverberg, M.
European Research Council (ERC)
01/09/2018 → 31/08/2023
Project: Research project
MeMAD: Methods for Managing Audiovisual Data: Combining Automatic Efficiency with Human Accuracy
Hirvonen, M., Tiedemann, J., Tiittula, L., Sulubacak, U. & Vazquez , R.
European Commission / Horizon 2020
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2020
Project: Research project
fiskmö: Creation of a parallel corpus of translated documents and machine translation for Finnish and Swedish
Tiedemann, J., Ginter, F., Papula, N., Aulamo, M., Nieminen, T. & Kanerva, J.
01/05/2018 → 31/05/2020
Project: Research project
NLUxLG: NLU with Cross-Lingual Grounding
Tiedemann, J., Talman, A., Raganato, A. & Celikkanat, H.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
Datasets
WMT17 test set Finnish-English
Tiedemann, J. (Creator), Zenodo, 21 Jan 2018
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1156326, https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/WMT16-test-enfi/tree/v1.0
Dataset
WMT16 test set Finnish-English
Tiedemann, J. (Creator), Zenodo, 21 Jan 2018
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1156325, https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/WMT16-test-enfi/tree/v1.0
Dataset
Shared Task in Cross-Lingual Parsing
Tiedemann, J. (Data Manager), Atlassian, 2017
https://bitbucket.org/hy-crossNLP/vardial2017
Dataset
DiscoMT 2015 Shared Task on Pronoun Translation
Tiedemann, J. (Creator), LINDAT/CLARIN, 31 Jan 2016
DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/11372/LRT-1611, http://hdl.handle.net/11372/LRT-1611
Dataset
Activities 2007 2019
What is the meaning of life? I found it in translation ...
Jörg Tiedemann (Speaker)12 Dec 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
FoTran 2018: Found in translation
Jörg Tiedemann (Scientific Committee Chair), Hande Celikkanat (Member of organizing committee), Juan Raul Vazquez Carrillo (Member of organizing committee)28 Sep 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Language (Technology) is the key to (Artificial) Intelligence
Jörg Tiedemann (Invited speaker)27 Feb 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Marianna Apidianaki
Jörg Tiedemann (Host)14 Apr 2019 → 19 Apr 2019
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Academic visit at UH
Desmond Elliot
Jörg Tiedemann (Host)9 Jun 2019 → 16 Jun 2019
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Academic visit at UH