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:
- TaPaCo – A Corpus of Sentential Paraphrases for 73 Languages
- MuCoW – Multilingual Contrastive Word sense disambiguation test suites for machine translation
- Morpheval – Evaluation of the morphological quality of machine translation outputs (English-Finnish)
- ArchiMob – Transcriptions of interviews in various Swiss German dialects
- Corpus of Spoken Rusyn – Transcriptions of interviews in different Rusyn varieties
- SwissAdmin – A multilingual tagged parallel corpus of press releases (mirror)
- Allegra – A parallel corpus for Romansh, German and Italian (mirror)
Interactive visualization projects for dialect data:
- dialektkarten.ch – Online visualization of selected maps of the Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz
- dialektkarten.ch – Dialectometric studies with data from various Germanic and Romance dialect areas
- Cartopho – Phonological variation in European French
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.scherrer@helsinki.fi