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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

• Juan Raul Vazquez Carrillo
• Umut Sulubacak
• Mika Hämäläinen
• Aarne Talman
• Emily Öhman
• Matias Tamminen

Former PhD Students

• Yan Shao (Thesis, 2018)
• Ali Basirat (Thesis, 2018)
• Robert Östling (Thesis, 2015)
• Tom Vanallemeersch (Thesis, 2017)
• Christian Hardmeier (Thesis, 2014)
• Gideon Kotzé (Thesis, 2013)
• Peter Nabende (Thesis, 2011)