Department information

 

Roman Yangarber

• My Official Department home page
• Office hours: by appointment
  • Telephone: +358 9 191 51145
  • Room A224, Exactum Building
• Calendar—for dates out of office on travel
• (Ye olde home page at New York University)

Projects

• I lead the Research Group in
  Computational Linguistics and Language Technology.

• PULS: Automatic Surveillance of News Media
• Epidemic Surveillance through Analysis of On-Line News, in collaboration with MedISys, developed at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC)
• Supported by
  • The ContentFactory Project, funded by TEKES
  • Algodan: Algorithmic Data Analysis
    Finnish National Center of Excellence
• In the press
• Etymon: Computational etymology
  • Modeling genetic relationships and reconstruction in Uralic etymological data
  • Supported by the UraLink Project of the Academy of Finland
• Computational Bananas:
  • Application of methods from the area of population genetics to linguistic data, to model and investigate the genetic relationships among members of different language families.
  • Collaboration with J Corander, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics. Supported by HIIT Pump-Priming project.

Previously collaborated on:

• Clarin: European Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology
  • European Clarin
  • Finnish National Clarin

Publications

On Google Scholar

Links to all publications

Scientific Events

Co-organizer:

• BSNLP-2013:
  The 4th Biennial Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing,
  at the 51st annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  August 4-9, 2013, in Sofia, Bulgaria.
• MINUCS:
  Workshop on Mining User-Generated Content for Security,
  at UCMedia-2009: Conference on User-Centric Media
  (December 2009) Venice, Italy
• NODALIDA 2009:
  Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics.
  (May 2009) Odense, Denmark
• HLIE:
  Workshop on High-level Information Extraction
  at ECML/PKDD-2008.
  (September 2008) Antwerp, Belgium
• MMIES-2:
  Workshop on Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization,
  at the 2008 COLING Conference
  (August 2008) Manchester, UK
• ESSLLI-2007: European Summer School on Language, Logic and Information
  Course (with Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield, UK):
  Weakly-supervised Learning for Information Extraction
  Dublin, Ireland
• Workshop on Cross-Document Analysis,
  at the 2006 ACL/COLING conference. (Proceedings on-line.)
  (July 2006) Sydney, Australia

Teaching

2013 Spring	Models of Language Evolution and Language Change
2011 Fall	Natural Language Processing
2010 Fall	Natural Language Processing
2008 Fall	Text Mining
2008 Spring	Natural Language Processing
2007 Fall	Finding Facts in Text
2007 Summer	Natural Language Processing (University of Joensuu)
2006 Spring	Introduction to Natural Language Processing
2005 Fall	Information Extraction

Thesis advisement

If you are interested in a topic for a MSc or a PhD thesis related to:

• computational linguistics, natural language processing, language technology,
• any of the Projects above,
• applying machine learning or information-teoretic methods to problems in these areas

please contact me.

Contact

Roman Yangarber

      Department of Computer Science                 Street address:
      P.O. Box 68                        Exactum Building, Room A224
      FIN-00014 University of Helsinki    Gustaf Hällstörmin katu 2B
      Finland
    

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