Department of Computer Science

Department information

 

Roman Yangarber

• Office hours:
  • Room A224, Exactum Building
  • By appointment
• Telephone: +358 9 191 51145
• Calendar
  • For dates out of office, please see calendar

• (Old home page at New York University)
• DOREMI Group page

Projects

• 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
• UraLink: Computational etymology
• Modeling genetic relationships and reconstruction in Uralic etymological data
• Supported by the Academy of Finland
• Clarin: European Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology
• European Clarin
• Finnish National Clarin

Scientific Events

Co-organizer in:

• MINUCS:
  Workshop on Mining User-Generated Content for Security,
  at UCMedia-2009: Conference on User-Centric Media
  December 2009, in Venice, Italy
• NODALIDA 2009:
  Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics.
  May 2009, in Odense, Denmark
• HLIE:
  Workshop on High-level Information Extraction
  at ECML/PKDD-2008.
  September 2008, in Antwerp, Belgium
• MMIES-2:
  Workshop on Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization,
  at the 2008 COLING Conference
  August 2008, in Manchester, UK
• Course: with Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield, UK)
  Weakly-supervised Learning for Information Extraction
  at ESSLLI-2007
  in Dublin, Ireland
• Workshop on Cross-Document Analysis,
  at the 2006 ACL/COLING conference. (Proceedings on-line.)

Publications

Links

Teaching

2011 Fall	Course: Natural Language Processing
2008 Fall	Seminar: Text Mining
2008 Spring	Natural Language Processing
2007 Fall	Seminar: Analysis of Text
2007 Summer	Natural Language Processing (University of Joensuu)
2006 Spring	Introduction to Natural Language Processing
2005 Fall	Seminar: Information Extraction

Thesis advisement

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

• computational linguistics / natural language processing / language technology,
• any of the Projects mentioned 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 Hällströmin katu 2B
Finland

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