University of Helsinki
Senka Dobrac and Pekka Kauppinen won the prize for the best student paper together with their supervisor Krister Lindén at NoDaLiDa2017 for the paper: OCR and post-correction of historical Finnish texts
Congratulations!
Die Welt und der Weltfrieden
The Peace Machine project goes international and the German newspaper Die Welt published an article on Timo Honkela’s work: Automatischer Weltfrieden
Recent and coming events
Many things happen and here is a list of some recent and coming events:
- The 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) will be held on 22-24th of May 2017 in Gothenburg
- Geraint A. Wiggings (Computational Creativity Lab, Queen Mary University of London) will give a talk on Thursday, April 27 in our seminars on “Creativity, deep symbolic learning, and the Information Dynamics of Thinking“
- Our research seminar featured a special event organised in connection with the MT special interest group of KITES on Neural Machine Translation
- Jörg Tiedemann gave a keynote at EESTI KEELETEHNOLOOGIA 2017 in Tallin about “Learning from multilingual data – Using translations as semantic supervision“
VarDial2017 mentioned in “Die Welt”
Our workshop on closely related languages and language varieties was mentioned in the German newspaper “Die Welt”. They talk about dialect identification with respect to immigration: 170317_Dialektanalyse_Welt_Hummel
Seminarium på svenska
Jag höll en presentation om språkteknologi och maskinöversättning på svenska på Gumtäkt. Förhoppningsvis kan det leder till nya samarbeten och studentutbyten. Mina presentationsbilder finns här: MT-seminar-slides
Welcome to our new PostDoc Yves Scherrer
Timo Honkela presents the Peace Machine Concept
Don’t miss our next seminar in language technology with a presentation by Timo Honkela: “Machine Learning and Language Technology in the Peace Machine Concept”
- Time: Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 2:15 p.m.
- Place: Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Lecture hall 25
More about the Rauhankone project:
and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rauhankone
7 tenure track positions at HELDIG and more …
There are seven open tenure track professor positions related to
Helsinki’s Center for Digital Humanities (HELDIG)
Tenure track positions (deadline: February 15):
computer-science-pertaining-to-algorithmic-data-science-with-focus-on-ssh-applications
russian-big-data-methodology
digital-learning-at-work
big-data-learning-analytics
digital-humanities
law-and-digitalization
digital-learning-at-schools
Professor in English Language and Digital Humanities (deadline: February 27)
There are also 5-10 PostDoc positions in the UH Humanities Programme:
(deadline: February, 20) Note that language technology is part of humanities in Helsinki!
Furthermore the position of the HELDIG Research Coordinator (1.3.2017–31.12.2020)
General information about open positions at the University of Helsinki
BAULT 2016
We organised a 2-day symposium on December 1-2, 2016 within the framework of BAULT – a research community on Building And Using Language Technology. Links to slides and projects are added to the website of the symposium.
Miikka Silfverberg’s doctoral defense
Miikka Silfverberg is defending his PhD thesis in language technology on Saturday, October 22 at 10 AM. The public defenes will take place at the University of Helsinki.
Porthania, Lecture Hall P674,
Yliopistonkatu 3, 6th floor.
The title of the thesis is “Morphological Disambiguation using Probabilistic Sequence Models”
The opponent is professor Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) and the custos is professor Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki). The language of the defense will be English.
Everyone is welcome!
