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Jenna Kanerva

- University Lecturer,
Data-analytiikka (Department of Computing)

jmnybl@utu.fi

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/ https://orcid.org/ 0000-0003-4580-5366

TurkuNLP

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Areas of expertise

language technology, natural language processing, machine learning, corpus annotation

Biography

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).

Research

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.

Teaching

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.

Publications

7 of 7

Towards a Dependency-based PropBank of General Finnish (2013)
- Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of the 19th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa'13) Haverinen Katri, Laippala Veronika, Kohonen Samuel, Missilä Anna, Nyblom Jenna, Ojala Stina, Viljanen Timo, Salakoski Tapio, Ginter Filip
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )