Leo Leppänen — University of Helsinki

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

International and National Collaboration Publications and projects within past five years.

Publications 2016 2019

11 Conference contribution
1 Commissioned report
1 Article
1 Master's thesis

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