People
Professors
Postdoctoral Researchers
Doctoral Researchers and Research Assistants
Liina Repo
Doctoral researcher
Liina's research interests focus on corpus linguistics, Early and Late Modern English language variation, and using computational methods to study register variation in large historical language databases.
Ville Komulainen
Research assistant
Li-Hsin Chang
Doctoral researcher
Li-Hsin does research in educational NLP, specializing in computer-assisted grading of student responses.
Juhani Luotolahti
Doctoral researcher
Hanna-Mari Kupari
Doctoral researcher
Hanna-Mari's research combines medieval Latin textual data with latest machine learning methods. She holds a Master’s degree in Classical Philology with a specialization in medieval Latin. In her PhD she is focusing on grammar, improvement of parsing tools, structuring data and local history. Her work is funded by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation.
Valtteri Skantsi
Doctoral researcher
Saara Hellström
Doctoral researcher
Saara is interested in register variation in online context. She focuses on web language use from a multilingual, cross-linguistic perspective using various machine learning and statistical methods. Currently, her main research focus is on French and Swedish web registers and hybrids.
Risto Luukkonen
Research assistant
Maryam Teimouri
Research assistant
Selcen Erten Johansson
Doctoral researcher
Selcen conducts research in corpus linguistics with a focus on text varieties (registers) and media discourse analysis on the Turkish web.
Otto Tarkka
Doctoral researcher
Otto's research focuses on analysing and improving text corpora with machine learning and LLMs.
Jouni Luoma
Doctoral researcher
Jenna Saarni
Doctoral researcher
Frederike Schram
Doctoral researcher
Frederike's research interests include regional or minority languages, digital discourse, commodification of language, and language and identity, focusing on the use of Low German in digital spaces.
Cassandra Ledins
Research assistant
Anna Ristilä
Doctoral researcher
Anna's dissertation explores the topic landscape of Finnish parliamentary speeches.
Jousia Piha
Research assistant
Tapio Nojonen
Doctoral researcher
Tapio's research is on using modern NLP methods to create and detect suitable Finnish reading comprehension material for students in primary and lower secondary education.
Joonatan Laato
Research assistant
Processing interview texts using large language models. Extracting and post-processing data through different prompt engineering techniques. Always exploring new methods to optimize LLM interactions with text.