About me

I am an associate professor in NLP in the Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. Until summer 2023, I was a university lecturer in Language Technology at the University of Helsinki.

Research interests

  • Computational dialectology and dialectometry (e.g. in the context of the CorCoDial project)
  • Text normalization and translation between closely related language varieties
  • Analysis and evaluation of neural machine translation architectures (e.g. in the context of the FoTran project)
  • Annotation and annotation transfer for closely related languages and dialects

Corpora and datasets:

Interactive visualization projects for dialect data:

Contact (at the University of Helsinki)

  • Postal address: Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 24, FI-00014 Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland
  • Visiting address: Metsätalo Room A213, Unioninkatu 40, Helsinki
  • E-mail: yves.scherwenurer@helskapyinki.fi