Jenna Kanerva
jmnybl@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/ https://orcid.org/ 0000-0003-4580-5366 |
language technology, natural language processing, machine learning, corpus annotation
University Lecturer in Language Technology and Digital Language Studies. I’m working as a part of the TurkuNLP research group focusing on language technology and natural language processing (NLP) related topics. I got my MSc degree in 2014 and PhD in 2024 (computer science, University of Turku).
My research focuses on language technology, with a particular interest in machine learning based methods for Finnish language processing. I also greatly enjoy and value elementary corpus work and data annotation.
I'm involved in teaching language technology related courses at the Department of Computing and Digital Language Studies. I have completed a 25 ECTS study module in university pedagogy between years 2019 and 2021.
- Measuring Social Integration Through Participation: Categorizing Organizations and Leisure Activities in the Displaced Karelians Interview Archive using LLMs (2026) Proceedings of the 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature 2026 Laato, Joonatan; Schroderus, Veera; Kanerva, Jenna; Kauppi, Jenni; Lummaa, Virpi; Ginter, Filip
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - A Deep Dive into Multi-Head Attention and Multi-Aspect Embedding (2025)
- Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Creating a Historical Migration Dataset from Finnish Church Records, 1800–1920 (2025)
- Journal of Open Humanities Data
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Muuttoluetteloista digitaaliseen tietokantaan – muuttoluettelot sukututkijan avuksi (2025)
- Suku: lehti sukututkijoille
(E1 Popularised article) - OCR Error Post-Correction with LLMs in Historical Documents: No Free Lunches (2025) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains (RESOURCEFUL-2025) Kanerva, Jenna; Ledins, Cassadra; Käpyaho, Siiri; Ginter, Filip
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - TCBLex - A lexical database of Finnish literary texts for children (2025)
- Behavior Research Methods
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Extracting Social Connections from Finnish Karelian Refugee Interviews Using LLMs (2024)
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Improving Latin Dependency Parsing by Combining Treebanks and Predictions (2024) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities Kupari, Hanna-Mari Kristiina; Henriksson, Erik; Laippala, Veronika; Kanerva, Jenna
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Semantic search as extractive paraphrase span detection (2024)
- Language Resources and Evaluation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Understanding the structure and meaning of Finnish texts: From corpus creation to deep language modelling (2024) Kanerva, Jenna
(G5 Article dissertation )
