Veronika Laippala
mavela@utu.fi +358 29 450 3330 +358 50 328 9739 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku |
Areas of expertise
Computational linguistics; text linguistics; corpus linguistics; digital discourse analysis.
Computational linguistics; text linguistics; corpus linguistics; digital discourse analysis.
Biography
I am a linguist who likes computers. My main research topics include language variation across different communicative situations and the development of automatic tools so that we could better benefit from large, web-crawled corpora.
My ongoing projects include "A piece of news, an opinion or something else? Different texts and their detection from the multilingual Internet" funded by Emil Aaltonen foundation and "Massively multilingual modeling of registers in web-scale data" funded by Academy of Finland.
For more information, please have a look at our lab website at https://turkunlp.github.io/
Publications
- Do all politicians sound the same? Comparing model explanations to human responses (2026)
- DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - From keywords to key embeddings – contrasting French and Swedish web registers using multilingual deep learning (2026)
- Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Suomi24 alueellisen variaation aineistona (2026)
- Virittäjä
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Analyzing register variation in web texts through automatic segmentation (2025) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities Henriksson, Erik; Hellström, Saara; Laippala, Veronika
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - An Expanded Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT) (2025)
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Aurora-M: Open Source Continual Pre-training for Multilingual Language and Code (2025) Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics : Industry Track Nakamura, Taishi; Mishra, Mayank; Tedeschi, Simone; Chai, Yekun; Stillerman, Jason T.; Friedrich, Felix; Yadav, Prateek; Laud, Tanmay; Chien, Vu Minh; Zhuo, Terry Yue; Misra, Diganta; Bogin, Ben; Vu, Xuan-Son; Karpinska, Marzena; Dantuluri, Arnav Varma; Kusa, Wojciech; Furlanello, Tommaso; Yokota, Rio; Muennighoff, Niklas; Pai, Suhas; Adewumi, Tosin; Laippala, Veronika; Yao, Xiaozhe; Junior, Adalberto Barbosa; Drozd, Aleksandr; Clive, Jordan; Gupta, Kshitij; Chen, Liangyu; Sun, Qi; Tsui, Ken; Moustafa-Fahmy, Nour; Monti, Nicolo; Dang, Tai; Luo, Ziyang; Bui, Tien-Tung; Navigli, Roberto; Mehta, Virendra; Blumberg, Matthew; May, Victor; Nguyen, Hiep; Pyysalo, Sampo
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Building the Penitentiary Document Corpus (PeDoCo) for NLP: Balancing Data Complexity and Uniform Data Structure (2025)
- Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Evaluation in social media discourse: A corpus-assisted discourse study of evaluative images of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Finnish Twitter-sphere (2025)
- Finnish journal of linguistics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - L. Onervan varhaisen proosatuotannon tyylipiirteitä korpusstilistiikan avainsanamenetelmän valossa (2025)
- Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Perspectives on Forests and Forestry in Finnish Online Discussions - A Topic Modeling Approach to Suomi24 (2025) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing (NLP4Ecology2025) Peura, Telma; Krizsán, Attila; Kuusalu, Salla-Riikka; Laippala, Veronika
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )



