Research Output per year
Personal profile
Curriculum vitae
Leo Leppänen is a PhD student at the Discovery Reseach Group, in the Department of Computer Science. He has a MSc in Computer Science and a BA in Language Technology.
His research focus is on automated generation of natural language, especially on the generation of factual content such as news and other reports from structured data. He also continues to be -- albeit in a smaller role -- active in the fields of educational data mining, learning analytics and computer science education research.
Keywords
- 113 Computer and information sciences
Publications 2016 2019
News Automation: The rewards, risks and realities of 'machine journalism'
Linden, T. C-G. (ed.), Tuulonen, H. E. (ed.), Bäck, A., Diakopoulos, N., Granroth-Wilding, M., Haapanen, L., Leppänen, L. J., Melin, M., Moring, T. A., Munezero, M. D., Siren-Heikel, S. J., Södergård, C. & Toivonen, H., Mar 2019, Frankfurt: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, WAN-IFRA. 55 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › Professional
Open Access
No landslide for the human journalist: An empirical study of computer-generated election news in Finland
Melin, M., Bäck, A., Södergård, C., Munezero, M. D., Leppänen, L. J. & Toivonen, H., 1 Aug 2018, In : IEEE Access. 6, p. 43356-43367 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
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Towards Data-Driven Generation of Visualizations for Automatically Generated News Articles
Alhalaseh, R., Munezero, M. D., Leinonen, M., Leppänen, L. J., Avikainen, J. E. O. & Toivonen, H., Oct 2018, Proceedings of the 22nd International Academic Mindtrek Conference. ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, p. 100-109 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
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Comparison of Time Metrics in Programming
Leinonen, J., Leppänen, L., Ihantola, P. & Hellas, A., 14 Aug 2017, ICER '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research. New York: ACM, p. 200-208 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Computational Thinking as an Emergent Learning Trajectory of Mathematics
Niemelä, P., Partanen, T., Harsu, M., Leppänen, L. & Ihantola, P., 16 Nov 2017, Koli Calling '17: Proceedings of the 17th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research. New York: ACM, p. 70-79 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Projects 2016 2021
Embeddia: Cross-Lingual Embeddings for Less-Represented Languages in European News Media
Toivonen, H., Linden, C., Granroth-Wilding, M., Leppänen, L., Alnajjar, K. & Zosa, E.
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2021
Project: Research project
NewsEye: A Digital Investigator for Historical Newspapers
Toivonen, H., Tolonen, M., Kaukonen, M., Marjanen, J., Granroth-Wilding, M., Leppänen, L., Avikainen, J., Alnajjar, K., Zosa, E. & Hengchen, S.
01/05/2018 → 30/04/2021
Project: Research project
IA: Immersive Automation: automated storytelling, audience engagement and user experience in a news ecosystem
Linden, C., Moring, T., Backholm, K., Hujanen, J., Toivonen, H., Granroth-Wilding, M., Leppänen, L., Munezero, M., Haapanen, L. & Sirén-Heikel, S.
Viestintäalan tutkimussäätiö, Sanoma Media Finland Oy, Alma Media Oyj, Conmio Oy, Tekes, Svenska kulturfonden, KSF Media Ab, Keski Pohjanmaan Kirjapaino Oyj
01/12/2016 → 31/05/2018
Project: Research project
Prizes
Pro Gradu Award for an Exceptional Master's Thesis
Leo Leppänen (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prizes and awards
Researcher of the Year Award for junior researchers
Leo Leppänen (Recipient), Dec 2018
Prize: Prizes and awards
Activities 2015 2019
The Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (Event)
Leo Leppänen (Reviewer)2019
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Artificial Intelligence and IPR
Leo Leppänen (Invited speaker), Juha Vesala (Invited speaker)2 Jun 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
EC-TEL 2019 (Event)
Leo Leppänen (Reviewer)2019 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation (2IS&NLG)
Leo Leppänen (Attendee)5 Nov 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Legal Tech Lab Conference 2018
Leo Leppänen (Attendee)8 Jun 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars