Language technology entries in HELDA (tags: kieliteknologia, language technology, computational linguistics, språkteknologi); information for students looking for a bachelor/master/individual project:

• A form for students looking for project supervisors
• A list of project proposals and ideas

Recent PhD Theses

• Aarne Talman, 2024: Towards Natural Language Understanding: Developing and Assessing Approaches and Benchmarks
• Raúl Vázquez, 2023: Representation Learning in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
• Emily Öhman, 2021: The Language of Emotions : Building and Applying Computational Methods for Emotion Detection for English and Beyond
• Aleksi Sahala, 2021: Contributions to Computational Assyriology
• Senka Drobac, 2020: OCR and post-correction of historical newspapers and journals
• Mika Hämäläinen, 2020: Generating Creative Language : Theories, Practice and Evaluation
• Tommi Jauhiainen, 2019: Language identification in texts
• Mikka, Silfverberg, 2016: Morphological Disambiguation using Probabilistic Sequence Models
• Maarit Koponen, 2016: Machine Translation Post-editing and Effort : Empirical Studies on the Post-editing Process
• Tommi Pirinen, 2014: Weighted Finite-State Methods for Spell-Checking and Correction
• Jussi Piitulainen, 2011: Explorations in the distributional and semantic similarity of words

Recent Master Theses

• Readability-Controlled Sentence Simplification, Hynynen, Jussi-Veikka (2023)
• Finding different sentences with same meanings – Paraphrasing Easy Finnish and Standard Finnish, Tarvainen, Jonna (2023)
• Comparative analysis of prosodic characteristics of dialects of the English language using WaveNet, Tapper, Suvi (2023)
  
• Low-resource Neural Machine Translation from Finnish to Chinese, Zhixu, Gu (2023)
• RPG-GPT: Leveling up game dialogue with creative NLG, Pöyhönen, Teemu (2023)
• Annotating multimodal discourse relations by combining crowdsourcing and natural language processing, Hotti, Helmiina (2023)
• Linguistic Feature Analysis of Real and Fake News: Human-written vs. Grover-written, Nikula, Ottilia (2023)
• Detecting hostility in user-created content of mobile games using machine learning models : A case study of Supercell’s Brawl Stars, Williams, Salla (2023)
• Automatic Normalization of Finnish Social Media Text, Vehomäki, Varpu (2022)
• Clustering of Neural Document Embeddings for Machine Generation of Search Extension Terms in Finnish in the Public Procurement Domain, Rahman, Dean (2022)
• Supervised multi-class text classification for media research: augmenting BERT with topics and structural features, Bedretdin, Ümit (2022)
• Text Normalisation of Dialectal Finnish, Koho, Tiina (2022)
• Automatic Normalization of Finnish Social Media Text, Vehomäki, Varpu (2022)
• Neural Factoid Question Answering and Question Generation for Finnish, Kylliäinen, Ilmari (2022)
• Phonological Bias, Keturi, Joonas (2022)
• BERT, have you no manners? : representations of troponymy and verb hypernymy in BERT, Narkevich, Dmitry (2021)
• Computer-Assisted Language Learning based on Authentic Texts : applications to Italian, China-Kolehmainen, Elena (2021)
• Using graph databases in linguistics, De Bluts, Thomas (2021)
• Multilingual Named Entity Recognition through Data and Model Transfer, Palma-Suominen, Saara (2021)
• Creating Maps of Science Using Topic Models : A Reproducibility Study, An, Yu (2020)
• Analysing Finnish Multi-Word Expressions with Word Embeddings, Itkonen, Sami (2020)
• Email Classification : Case: Ministry of Finance, Finland, Melasuo, Elina (2020)
• Feature-based Transfer of Multilingual Sentence Representations to Cross-lingual Tasks, Nyholm, Sabine (2020)
• Semi-Automated Methods of Direct Anglicisms Identification in Finnish Corpora, Mikusová, Nina (2020)
• Sense-aware Unsupervised Machine Translation, Vahtola, Teemu (2020)
• Unsupervised zero-shot classification of Finnish documents using pre-trained language models, Leal, Rafael (2020)
• Using POS n-grams to detect grammatical errors in Finnish text, Aulamo, Mikko (2019)
• Cross-Lingual Sentiment Preservation and Transfer Learning in Binary and Multi-Class Classification, Kajava, Kaisla (2018)
• Multilingual paraphrase grammars for machine translation evaluation, Nieminen, Tommi (2018)
• Automatic generation of inflectional multiple-choice clozes for Finnish language learners,  Sutinen, Marjo (2017)
• Document classification based on library catalogue metadata, Roivainen, Hege (2017)
• Nothing but the Truth! : Deception Prediction on Hotel Reviews using Language Technology, Ciarlanti, Alberto (2016)
• OCR Post-Processing by Parallel Replace Rules Implemented as Weighted Finite-State Transducers, Kauppinen, Pekka (2016)