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Jörg Tiedemann

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-7989

  • PL 24 (Unioninkatu 40)

    00014

    Finland

20042023

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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

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

Fields of Science

  • 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

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: The 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: The Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 1-15 15 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › 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

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. & Koponen, M.

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.

Svenska kulturfonden

01/05/2018 → 31/05/2020

Project: Research project

NLPL: Nordic Language Processing Laboratory

Tiedemann, J. & Scherrer, Y.

01/01/2017 → 31/12/2019

Project: Other project

OPUS: The Open Parallel Corpus

Tiedemann, J.

01/06/2004 → …

Project: Research project

Datasets

OPUS

Tiedemann, J. (Creator), University of Helsinki, 2017

http://opus.nlpl.eu

Dataset

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

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

PhD defence Tommi Jauhiainen

Jörg Tiedemann (Member of thesis committee / follow-up group)
28 May 2019

Activity: Examination types › Member of doctoral thesis committee / follow-up group

Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (Organisational unit)

Jörg Tiedemann (Member)
2019 → …

Activity: Membership types › Membership or other role in research network

Desmond Elliot

Jörg Tiedemann (Host)
9 Jun 2019 → 16 Jun 2019

Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Academic visit at UH