People
Professors and Research Fellows
Shaoxiong Ji
Asst. Professor
PI at ELLIS Institute Finland. His research directions include multilingual natural language processing and AI for health.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Doctoral Researchers, Project 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.
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.
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.
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.
Jenna Saarni
Doctoral researcher
Otto Tarkka
Doctoral researcher
Otto's research focuses on analysing and improving text corpora with machine learning and LLMs.
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.
Jouni Luoma
Doctoral researcher
Jenna Saarni
Doctoral researcher
Anna Ristilä
Doctoral researcher
Anna's dissertation explores the topic landscape of Finnish parliamentary speeches.
Erofili Psaltaki
Doctoral Researcher
My research combines dialectology and language variation with NLP, and I build tools to make sense of dialectal corpora.
Alireza Razzaghi
Doctoral Researcher
I am doing research on Persian registers in web corpora. I am interested in automatic text analysis and applying AI-based systems to linguistic corpora.
Maryam Teimouri
Project researcher
Jousia Piha
Research assistant
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.
