Jenna Kanerva
jmnybl@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/ https://orcid.org/ 0000-0003-4580-5366 |
Areas of expertise
language technology, natural language processing, machine learning, corpus annotation
language technology, natural language processing, machine learning, corpus annotation
Biography
I am a doctoral researcher at the Department of Computing, University of Turku. 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 Master of Science degree in 2014 at the University of Turku (major subject computer science).
Research
My PhD research focuses on the area of language technology, especially being interested in machine learning based methods for Finnish language processing. I also greatly enjoy and respect elementary corpus work after being part of the data collection and annotation effort of several language data resources built for Finnish language at the TurkuNLP group. After building the elementary resources, these datasets are used to develop several language processing tools based on the latest machine learning methods.
Teaching
Starting from the year 2014, I have acted as a responsible/co-responsible person for the Introduction to Language Technology course lectured at the University of Turku each year. In addition to this, I have been lecturing/co-lecturing several courses/lectures related to language technology at the University of Turku, as well as being invited to give lectures as part-time teacher at the Arcada University of Applied Sciences and the University of Tampere (Pori unit). In order to advance as a teacher, I have completed a 25 ECTS study module of university pedagogy within the years 2019-2021.
Publications 
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- A Deep Dive into Multi-Head Attention and Multi-Aspect Embedding (2025) Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI era Teimouri, Maryam; Kanerva, Jenna; Ginter, Filip
(D3 Article in a professional conference publication) - Creating a Historical Migration Dataset from Finnish Church Records, 1800–1920 (2025)
- Journal of Open Humanities DataLähikuva
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - TCBLex - A lexical database of Finnish literary texts for childrenTextual Paraphrase Dataset for Deep Language Modelling2025
- Behavior Research Methods
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Extracting Social Connections from Finnish Karelian Refugee Interviews Using LLMsTowards Automatic Short Answer Assessment for Finnish as a Paraphrase Retrieval Task (2024)
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Improving Latin Dependency Parsing by Combining Treebanks and PredictionsFinnish Paraphrase Corpus (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 ) - FinGPT: Large Generative Models for a Small LanguageUniversal Lemmatizer: A sequence-to-sequence model for lemmatizing Universal Dependencies treebanks2023Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Luukkonen Risto, Komulainen Ville, Luoma Jouni, Eskelinen Anni, Kanerva Jenna, Kupari Hanna-Mari, Ginter Filip, Laippala Veronika, Muennighoff Niklas, Piktus Aleksandra, Wang Thomas, Tazi Nouamane, Scao Le Teven, Wolf Thomas, Suominen Osma, Sairanen Samuli, Merioksa Mikko, Heinonen Jyrki, Vahtola Aija, Antao Samuel, Pyysalo Sampo
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2023)
- Natural Language EngineeringLinköping Electronic Conference Proceedings
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Deep Learning and Film History: Model Explanation Techniques in the Analysis of Temporality in Finnish Fiction Film Metadata (2022)
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - GEMv2: Multilingual NLG Benchmarking in a Single Line of Code (2022) Proceedings of the The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations Gehrmann Sebastian, Bhattacharjee Abhik, Mahendiran Abinaya, Wang Alex, Papangelis Alexandros, Madaan Aman, McMillan-Major Angelina, Shvets Anna, Upadhyay Ashish, Bohnet Bernd, Yao Bingsheng, Wilie Bryan, Bhagavatula Chandra, You Chaobin, Thomson Craig, Garbacea Cristina, Wang, Dakuo, Deutsch Daniel, Xiong Deyi, Jin Di, Gkatzia Dimitra, Radev Dragomir, Clark Elizabeth, Durmus Esin, Ladhak Faisal, Ginter Filip, Winata Genta Indra, Strobelt, Hendrik, Hayashi, Hiroaki, Novikova Jekaterina, Kanerva Jenna, Chim Jenny, Zhou Jiawei, Clive Jordan, Maynez Joshua, Sedoc João, Juraska Juraj, Dhole Kaustubh, Chandu Khyathi Raghavi, Perez-Beltrachini Laura, Ribeiro Leonardo F.R., Tunstall Lewis, Zhang Li, Pushkarna Mahima, Creutz Mathias, White Michael, Kale Mihir Sanjay, Eddine Moussa Kamal, Daheim Nico, Subramani, Nishant, Dusek Ondrej, Liang Paul Pu, Ammanamanchi Pawan Sasanka, Zhu Qi, Puduppully Ratish, Kriz Reno, Shahriyar Rifat, Cardenas Ronald, Mahamood Saad, Osei Salomey, Cahyawijaya Samuel, Štajner Sanja, Montella Sebastien, Jolly Shailza, Mille Simon, Hasan Tahmid, Shen Tianhao, Adewumi Tosin, Raunak Vikas, Raheja Vipul, Nikolaev Vitaly, Tsai Vivian, Jernite Yacine, Xu Ying, Sang Yisi, Liu Yixin, Hou Yufang
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Out-of-Domain Evaluation of Finnish Dependency Parsing (2022)
- LREC Proceedings
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Paimen, piika ja emäntä. Arvot ja ammatit suomalaisessa näytelmäelokuvassa 1907–2017 (2022)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2022) European Language Grid: A Language Technology Platform for Multilingual Europe Kanerva Jenna, Ginter Filip, Chang Li-Hsin, Skantsi Valtteri, Kilpeläinen Jemina, Kupari Hanna-Mari, Piirto Aurora, Saarni Jenna, Sevón Maija, Tarkka Otto
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - (2022) Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Chang Li-Hsin, Kanerva Jenna, Ginter Filip
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2021)
- Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Quantitative Evaluation of Alternative Translations in a Corpus of Highly Dissimilar Finnish Paraphrases (2021) Proceedings for the First Workshop on Modelling Translation: Translatology in the Digital Age Chang Li-Hsin, Pyysalo Sampo, Kanerva Jenna, Ginter Filip
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2021)
- Natural Language Engineering
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - WikiBERT Models: Deep Transfer Learning for Many Languages (2021)
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Dependency parsing of biomedical text with BERT (2020)
- BMC Bioinformatics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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