Students

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List of students

Samer Al Moubayed, Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology KTH
Web page  http://www.speech.kth.se/staff/homepage/index.html?id=sameram
Thesis topic  Multimodal Speech Synthesis
Research areas  Speech Communication, Talking Agents, Machine learning.
 
Atelach Alemu Argaw, DSV, Stockholm University and KTH
Web page  DSV
 
Nazareth Amlesom Kifle, Comaparative Literature and Linguistics, University of Bergen
Web page  8000,00 NOK/month , quota scholarship
Thesis topic  Applicative constructions in Tigrinya
Research areas  Writing Electronic Grammars
 
Sigrun Ammendrup, Department of Humanities, University of Iceland
Web page  ammendrup@gmail.com
Thesis topic  Not decided
Research areas  Grammar
 
Gopal Ananthakrishnan, School of Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Web page  http://www.speech.kth.se/staff/homepage/index.html?id=agopal
Thesis topic  Statistical Methods for Audiovisual-to-Articulatory Mapping.
Research areas  Speech Technology, Speech Production
 
Andrea Andrenucci, Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm University/KTH
Web page  www.dsv.su.se/~andrea
Thesis topic  Medical information mediation on Web portals
Research areas  Information Retrieval, Question Answering systems, Human Computer Interaction
 
Krasimir Angelov, Computer Science, Chalmers University of Technology
Web page  http://www.chalmers.se/cse/EN/people/angelov-krasimir
Thesis topic  Semantics Aware Parsing in the Grarnmatical Framework
Research areas  Computational Linguistic
 
Lene Antonsen, Humanistisk Fakultet, Universitetet i Tromsø
Web page  http://uit.no/humfak/tilsette/195
Thesis topic  Not decided yet
Research areas  Language technology and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (of sami).
 
Ansis Ataols Berzins, Institute of mathematics and informatics, University of Latvia
Web page  http://ansis.lv/
Thesis topic  Automatical comparison and typologisation of Baltic languages
Research areas  Computational linguistics
 
Gintaras Barisevicius, Software Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology
Research areas  Lithuanian - English and English - Lithuanian Machine Translation. Machine Translation Lexikon.
 
Ulla Bjursäter, Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm University
Thesis topic  "From sound to word - children's early speech development"
Research areas  Language development
 
Lone Bo Sisseck, Dept. of Comp. Linguistics, Copenhagen Business School
Thesis topic  Semantic relations between concepts in danish domain specific texts
Research areas  Terminology
 
Martha Dís Brandt, Computer Science, Reykjavik University
Thesis topic  Shallow-transfer translation using existing open-source tools.
Research areas  Machine translation
 
Björn Bringert, Computer Science and Engineering, Göteborg University
Web page  http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/
Research areas  Computing Science
 
Håkan Burden, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University
Web page  http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~burden/
Thesis topic  Robust parsing of LCFRS.
Research areas  Robust parsing methods for LCFRS-equivalent grammar formalisms. Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems (LCFRS) is a Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammar formalism that exploits the benefits of separating the abstract syntax from the concrete linearizations. One advantage is that an abstract tree can be linearized by several different concrete linearizations, letting the tree work as an interlingua or pivot between the different string representations.
 
Eduards Cauna, Faculty of physics and mathematics, University of Latvia
Web page  www.tehno.lv/cauna
Thesis topic  Latvian physics terminology
Research areas  Physics terminology
 
Karin Cavallin, Dept. of Linguistics, Göteborg university
Web page  www.ling.gu.se/~karinc
Thesis topic  Modelling coordination of lexical meaning Towards dynamic lexicons and ontologies
Research areas  Lexical Semantics, Dialogue
 
Loredana Cerrato, Dept of Speech Music and Hearing, KTH- Royal Institute of Technology
Web page  http://www.speech.kth.se/~loce/
Thesis topic  Study of feedback phenomena in unimodal and multimodal corpora of Italian and Swedish
Research areas  Multimodal speech communication
 
Natalja Cigankova, Department of English, University of Latvia
Thesis topic  Linguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of Academic Electronic Discourse
Research areas  Academic electronic discourse analysis; CALL; CMC in ELT
 
Philipp Conzett, Linguistics, Tromsø
Web page  http://uit.no/humfak/tilsette/211
Thesis topic  Gender assignment in Norwegian
Research areas  Lexicon, morphology, lexical semantics, historical linguistics
 
Dana Dannélls, Swedish Language, Göteborg
Thesis topic  Exploring resources for producing readership-adapted documents automatically
Research areas  The aim of this research is to clarify how existing language technology tools and methods can be utilized in order to adapt documents for a particular category of readers, with an emphasis on the adaptation for lay readers of documents originally produced by professionals for professionals. This PhD project will explore methodologies that reduce linguistic complexity in syntax, vocabulary and rhetorical text structure. More specifically, this project will focus on empirical evaluation of approaches for generating simple and understandable documents for different categories of (non-professional) readers from professional text in an arbitrary domain. This involves investigation of a spectrum of language technology and information access methods, such as text understanding, text segmentation, topic detection, natural language generation and summarization techniques. We will identify and suggest optimal ways in which such natural language processing techniques can be brought to bear upon the problem of adapting the presentation of text content to a specific readership. Automatic simplification of technical and other kinds of documents has been studied to some extent, but almost exclusively for English. In this research we are planning to study whether the proposed approaches are applicable to Swedish.
 
Sigita Dereskeviciute, Lithuanian language department, Vytautas Magnus university
Web page  www.vdu.lt
Thesis topic  Acoustical properties of Lithuanian consonants
Research areas  Acoustical properties of Lithuanian consonants
 
Philip Diderichsen, LUCS, Dept. of Philosophy, Lund University
Research areas  Processing of information structure in Danish dialog
 
Janis Dzerins, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia
Web page  none
Thesis topic  OWA (open world assumption) and CWA (closed world assumption) interaction and usage in data processing applications
Research areas  Semantic Web, Description Logic, natural language processing, knowledge representation
 
Jakob Elming, computational linguistics, copenhagen business school
Web page  www.id.cbs.dk/~je
Research areas  statistical machine translation
 
Erik Eriksson, Inst. för Filosofi och Lingvistik, Umeå universitet
Thesis topic  see above
Research areas  Forensic linguistics / imitated voices
 
Maria Eskevich, Department of Phonetics and Foreign Languages Teaching Methodology, Saint Petesburg State University
Thesis topic  Structural description of the language in its spoken form (on the basis of Russian)
Research areas  phonetics, spontaneous speech
 
Liina Eskor, department of estonian and finno-ugric linguistics, University of Tartu
Thesis topic  Communicative Strategies in Estonian Dialogue Corpus
Research areas  computer linguistics (dialogue modelling), spoken language analysis
 
Vera Evdokimova, Phonetics, Saint-Petersburg State University
Research areas  Phonetics, speech technologies
 
Julia Filyasova, Department of Phonetics, St. - Petersburg State University
Thesis topic  Prosodic accent in English
Research areas  Phonetics, Linguistics, Speech technologies
 
Mark Fishel, Computer Science, University of Tartu
Research areas  Machine learning, human-computer dialogue systems,
 
Jody Foo, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Linköping university
Web page  http://www.ida.liu.se/~jodfo/
Thesis topic  Computer aided Terminology Work
Research areas  Computational Linguistics, Term extraction Computer aided Terminology Work
 
Eva Forsbom, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
Web page  http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~evafo
Thesis topic  Textlinguistic methods in summarisation and information access
Research areas  Computational linguistics
 
Karin Friberg, Department of Swedish,
Thesis topic  Compounds in crosslingual information retrieval
Research areas  Compounds in crosslingual information retrieval
 
Olga Gerassimenko, Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, University of Tartu
Web page  Unfortunately, I do not have one
Thesis topic  "Feedback in Estonian and Russian phone conversations"
Research areas  contrastive research on talk-in-interaction
 
Tatiana Gornostay, Applied Linguistics, Herzen University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Web page  haven't got any webpage
Thesis topic  Grammatical transformations in Latvian-Russian machine translation (not decided finally)
Research areas  Machine translation, language modeling, grammatical transformations
 
Sara Gotthardsson, Centre for Speech Technology(CTT), KTH, Sweden
Thesis topic  The Influence of Speaking Rate, Global Word Frequency and Segment Level Reduction on the Perceived Naturalness of Synthetic Speech
Research areas  Speech Technology
 
Gintare Grigonyte, Computer Science, Kaunas University of Technology
Thesis topic  Dependancy Grammar in Natural Language
Research areas  computational syntactical analysis, mathematical statistics, software engineering
 
Petr Gromov, Faculty of Mathematics & Mechanics, St.Petersburg State University
Web page  http://sepulkarium.blogspot.com/
Thesis topic  A framework for natural language syntax description
Research areas  Natural Language parsing
 
Normunds Gruzitis, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia
Thesis topic  Automatic extraction/construction of lexical ontology(-ies) from existing linguistic resources of Latvian (dictionaries, encyclopedias, text corpora a.o.)
Research areas  Lexico-syntactic analysis and formal semantic modelling of Latvian; creation of (multilingual) dictionaries and flexible lexicon systems; NLP support for the Semantic Web
 
Emiliano R. Guevara, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN), University of Oslo
Web page  http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/
Thesis topic  Distributional approaches to lexical semantics, corpus-based word space models
Research areas  Applying data-driven approaches to general linguistics (methods from computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, statistical techniques). In particular, I am interested in word formation processes (compounding and derivation), their computational representation and processing, and related implications for cognitive science and theoretical linguistics.
 
Geir Gunnarsson, Philosophy, University of Iceland
Research areas  Speech Synthesis
 
Lisa Gustavsson, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
Web page  http://www.ling.su.se/staff/lisag/
Thesis topic  Early language acquisition - see above.
Research areas  The spoken language is built upon recursive patterns of equivalent classes of speech sounds, but the acoustic representations of these sounds are anything but stable. They will vary for example depending on speaker, speaking style, situation and linguistic/phonetic context. Despite all this we have usually no problems understanding each other, that is we figure out the underlying linguistic structure in the speech signal and interpret the message. This linguistic competence in adult language users might not be that hard to explain; years of linguistic exposure and experience, knowledge about the surrounding world and expectations and hypotheses are all present during a conversation, a language “tool-box” that obviously makes the task of decoding the acoustic signal easier by reducing the search space. But how we get there in the first place, the early stages of language acquisition, is hard to explain without arguing that some kind of universal human language know-how might be present already at birth. It goes something like this: Not only is the speech input available in the infant’s linguistic environment far from acoustically equivalent speech signals (for example in utterances produced by mother and father), but there is also a huge mismatch between this typical adult input and the vocalisations produced by infant, obviously due to the immature vocal-tract of a newborn in terms of anatomy and physiology. This equivalence-problem is the focus in my thesis but I am trying to approach this “problem” of the acoustic mismatch as a structuring strength in the language acquisition process instead of a problem. The inexperienced language learner is modelled as a computational system constrained by biological principles that is forced to find a way to efficiently process an increasing flow of information in interaction with its environment. The variation in speech is thus viewed as a necessity for the infant in order to discover the lowest common denominators in speech signals – namely the linguistic structure. To put my thesis in a speech technological context and to model some of my hypotheses I will try to apply my perspective on problems within the area of speech technology. Many speech recognition systems and speech syntheses work well under good conditions but the overall performance is still far behind that of humans. It is true that human language users are equipped with grammar, syntax, context specific expectations and experience from many different speakers and listeners and this kind of expertise is indeed utilised and hard-wired in the systems. So how can an infant with almost no knowledge or experience outperform almost any speech synthesis or ASR system after only a couple of years in life? Perhaps we are missing out on some crucial pieces for a flexible yet robust system if we skip the initial naïve information processing steps and just copy the crystallised skills of the adult language user. In my thesis I am trying to model some of these initial steps of information processing in order to investigate how close to language acquisition one can get without hard-wiring knowledge beforehand.
 
Johan Hall, MSI,
Web page  http://www.msi.vxu.se/~jha
Thesis topic  Deterministic Dependency Parsing Statistical Methods
Research areas  Degree in Computer Science
 
Jarle Bauck Hamar, IET, NTNU
Thesis topic  Utilizing knowledge in statistical speech recognition
Research areas  Speech technology
 
Harald Hammarström, Computing Science, Chalmers
Web page  http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~harald2/
Research areas  Multilingual Natual Language Processing Unsupervised Learning of Morphology NLT for Linguistic Typology
 
Martin Hassel, NADA, KTH
Web page  http://www.nada.kth.se/~xmartin/
Thesis topic  Automatic text summarization
Research areas  Automatic text summarization Information retrieval and extraction Statistical methods in NLP
 
Martin Haulrich, Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen Business School
Web page  http://www.isv.cbs.dk/~mwh/
Thesis topic  Using synchronous parsing to ease the creation of parallel treebanks.
Research areas  Synchronous parsing, machine translation, statistical machine learning, parallel treebanks.
 
Sigrún Helgadóttir, Department of Icelandic, University of Iceland
Web page  n.a.
Research areas  Tagging and corpus building
 
Anna Hjalmarsson, Department of Speech Music and Hearing, KTH
Research areas  Spoken dialogue systems
 
Gordana Ilic Holen, Department of Informatics , University of Oslo
Web page  folk.uio.no/gordanil
Research areas  Machine translation
 
Maria Holmqvist, Department of computer and information science, IDA, Linköpings universitet
Web page  http://www.ida.liu.se/~marho
Research areas  Machine translation and parallel text processing.
 
Ola Huseth, Department of language and communication studies, NTNU
Thesis topic  Identification and Use of Medical Information in Unstructured Electronic Medical Records
Research areas  NLP in medicine
 
Luke Jeffery, Bacteriology and immunology, Helsinki University
Web page  http://www.helsinki.fi/project/ritvos/Luke.Jeffery.htm
Thesis topic  A bioinformatics approach to the functional analysis of TGF-beta superfamily proteins important in the ovarian context.
Research areas  Bioinformatics. In particular, applying skills learned in natural language processing, speech recognition and computational neuroscience to problems in reproductive biology.
 
Arnt Richard Johansen, Department of language and communication studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Thesis topic  A comparison of human and automatic evaluation of machine translation
Research areas  Automatic evaluation of machine translation
 
Hildur Jónsdóttir, Icelandic Language and Literature, University of Iceland
Research areas  Icelandic Grammar, Icelandic Treebank
 
Anni Järvelin, Department of information studies, University of Tampere
Thesis topic  Fuzzy matching methods in cross-language and historical IR: "Studies in text retrieval across historical and cross-language boundaries: Experiments between Scandinavian languages and in monolingual Nordic historical collections."
Research areas  Cross-language information retrieval
 
Fredrik Jørgensen, Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, Universitetet i Oslo
Web page  http://folk.uio.no/fredrijo
Thesis topic  Methods for automatic annotation of spoken language (Norwegian)
Research areas  Syntax of spoken language Methods for automatic annotation of spoken language Corpus Linguistiscs
 
Neeme Kahusk, Psychology, Tallinn Pedagogical University
Web page  http://www.cl.ut.ee/inimesed/nkahusk
Thesis topic  The role of semantic relations in word explanation task demanding quick answers
Research areas  Psycholinguistics
 
Fumiko Kano Glückstad, International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen Business School
Thesis topic  At the moment: "Impact of a Named Entity Database with a Triangular Structure for CLIR"
Research areas  Ontology, Terminology
 
Örvar H. Kárason, Icelandic Language and Literature, University of Iceland
 
Hanna Karkkainen, Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Thesis topic  Prominence in Russian and Finnish spontaneous speech and read-aloud speech - acoustic features and learning
Research areas  Acoustic phonetics, prosody, language teaching and learning
 
Bjarki M Karlsson, Department of Icelandic and Culture, University of Iceland
Web page  n/a
Thesis topic  Metrical, grammatical and syntactical analyzis of poetry.
Research areas  Metrics, Grammar, Syntax, Language processing, Database tools, Statistics
 
Riina Kasterpalu, Department of General Linguistics, University of Tartu
Web page  http://www.cl.ut.ee/inimesed/rkasterpalu/
Thesis topic  Response particles jah, jaa and jaajaa in Estonian spoken institutional interaction
Research areas  I am studying the functionality of the Estonian response particles jah, jaa, jaajaa, ahhaa and ahah in spoken Estonian in institutional settings. Method of mu study is Conversation Analysis and the outcome of the research has been already implemented in creating our own typology of Dialogue Acts for annotating The Estonian Dialogue Corpus. Earlier studies on everyday talk have mainly taken up usage of particles jah and jaa as answers to yes-no questions. In addition, especially jah has been mentioned as a closing turn in repair sequences. However, only one research has been carried out in which there was payed attention to the intonation of the particles used in naturally occured dialogues. In Estonian both particles, jah and jaa, can be used as a claim of recognition and may be produced with falling and with rising intonation. By using Praat in my analysis it came out that the particle jaajaa should be considered as an independent token not just a lexical synomym of jaa. The particle ahhaa has been treated in written studies in the same pattern as jaajaa. It has been named as a possible synomym of particle ahaa. By using Praat in addition to Conversation Analysis it came clear that both particles have their own home position. Moreover, the particle ahah is signalling that given information by coparticipant is sufficient, while in the other hand, particle ahhaa is strongly claiming additional information.
 
Taavet Kikas, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Tartu
Web page  http://math.ut.ee/~tkikas/
Thesis topic  Dialogue act recognition
Research areas  Dialogue act recognition Machine learning
 
Mikaela Klami, Laboratory of Computer and Information Science, Helsinki University of Technology
Thesis topic  Applying unsupervised morph discovery in text alignment
Research areas  Machine translation, unsupervised discovery of morphology, parsing technologies, multilinguality; particularly from the point of view of statistical and unsupervised machine learning methods.
 
Dana Kornishova, Department of General Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University
Web page  http://www.genling.nw.ru/study/sBaMaSj.htm
Thesis topic  Reference establishment in the course of communicative interaction.
Research areas  Discourse analysis
 
Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Department of the German and French Languages, University Vytautas Magnus
Research areas  Corpus Linguistics
 
Ida Kramarczyk, Computer Science, Reykjavik University
Web page  http://nlp.ru.is
Thesis topic  Improving the tagging accuracy of Icelandic text
Research areas  POS Tagging
 
Neringa Krapikaite, Faculty of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University
Research areas  Phonology
 
Björn Kristinsson, Dept, of philosophy, faculty of Icelandic, University of Iceland
Web page  http://www.hi.is/~bjornkri/
Thesis topic  Not entirely decided yet, but will be something like "Prosodic prediction for speech synthesis in Icelandic".
Research areas  Speech synthesis is where my main interest lies.
 
Dainora Kuliesiene, Applied Informatics, Vytautas Magnus University
Thesis topic  Not decided yet
Research areas  Data driven speech segmentation
 
Emilia Käsper, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu
Thesis topic  Sentence realization for the Estonian language
Research areas  Natural language generation with further interest in its applications in multilingual tools and machine translation
 
Tine Lassen, Datalogi, RUC
Research areas  OntoQuery:Ontologibaserede forespørgselssystemer Mit specifikke område er semantisk analyse af NP'er (bliver indsnævret senere), samt implementering af resultater.
 
Till Christopher Lech, Seksjon for lingvistiske fag, Universitetet i Bergen
Web page  http://www.kundoc.net
Thesis topic  Knowledge-based Methods for Anaphora Resolution and Coreference Chaining (Working title)
Research areas  Knowledge-based Methods for Anaphora Resolution and Coreference Chaining Knowledge Acquisition from Text
 
Steve Legrand, Computer Science, University of Jyväskylä
Web page  http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~stelegra/
Thesis topic  The use of ontologies in word sense disambiguation.
Research areas  Computational Linguistics
 
Ola Leifler, Department of Human-Centered Systems, Linköpings universitet
Web page  http://www.ida.liu.se/~olale
Thesis topic  critiquing using semantic desktops
Research areas  Critiquing as decision support in command and control applications. Semantic Desktops, information extraction and presentation
 
Mietta Lennes, Department of Speech Sciences, University of Helsinki
Web page  http://www.helsinki.fi/~lennes/
Thesis topic  Phonetic variability of speech sounds in Finnish informal speech
Research areas  Phonetics
 
Erkki Liba, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tartu
Thesis topic  audiovisual speech synthesis in Estonian
Research areas  audiovisual speech synthesis
 
Krista Liin, Mathematics and informatics, University of Tartu
Research areas  Language Technology
 
Irina Likhanova, Phonetics, St. Petersburg State University
Web page  phonetics.pu.ru
Thesis topic  Correlates of F0 in whispered speech
Research areas  speech technologies and whispered speech
 
Jonas Lindh, Department of Linguistics,
Web page  www.ling.gu.se/~jonas
Thesis topic  Forensic Speaker Identification
Research areas  Phonetics/Forensic Speaker Identification
 
Kerstin Lindmark, Linguistics, Stockholm
Thesis topic  L2 interference in L1 -- a corpus-based study of translation students' translations
Research areas  Translation Studies using parallel corpora
 
Peder Livijn, Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm University
Web page  -
Thesis topic  The place of articulation of the four Swedish coronals /t, d, n and l/ as a dialect dicerning feature in 107 Swedish dialects.
Research areas  Phonetics (Acoustic typology and dialects)
 
Kristina Lundholm Fors, Linguistics, Göteborg
Web page  www.ling.gu.se/~lundholm
Thesis topic  See above
Research areas  Pause production and perception in sponteanous speech and dialogue systems
 
Björn Lundquist, CASTL/Hum.Fak, Tromsø
Web page  http://www2.uit.no/www/ansatte/organisasjon/ansatte/person?p_document_id=43531&p_dimension_id=31315
Thesis topic  see above
Research areas  My thesis is about nominalizations and participles in Swedish, or more general, productive de-verbal morphology in Swedish. I focus on questions related to three big fields within linguistics: verbal semantics, lexical categories and morphological syncretism. The thesis is basically a study of three suffixes: the present participle/nominalizing -a/e-nde, the nominalizing -(n)ing and the passive participle suffix (n/d/t). These suffixes all attach to verbs, but crucially not all verbs, and they all have more than one "output" (i.e., verb+(n)ing can give rise to either an event denoting or a result denoting nominal, verb+e/a-nde can either function as an adjective or a noun etc. etc.). I try in the dissertation to capture the way the (lexical) semantics of the verbal root determine the possible interpretations of the derived forms. I also discuss the way the morphemes in question "compete" in certain domain, and how to best capture cases that can be described as "blocking".
 
Pivovarova Lydia, Philological, Saint-Petersburg State University
Web page  http://portal.phil.spbu.ru/structure/sub-faculties/itah_phil/teachers/pivovarova
Thesis topic  Fact extraction from natural language texts (by the example of media texts).
Research areas  Information Extraction
 
Gunn Inger Lyse, Department of Linguistics and Comparative Literature, University of Bergen
Web page  http://ling.uib.no/~gunn
Thesis topic  Translationally based lexical semantics for Word Sense Disambiguation
Research areas  Computational linguistics: lexical semantics and word sense disambiguation
 
Alfonso Martínez del Hoyo Canterla, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, NTNU
Research areas  Automatic Speech Recogntion
 
Nima Mazdak, , KTH
 
Meelis Mihkla, Estonian and Finno-ugric lingvistics, University of Tartu
Thesis topic  Modelling of temporal characteristics of speech for Estonian TTS
Research areas  modelling of speech prosody, databases of speech units
 
Hanne Moa, ISK, part of HF, NTNU
Thesis topic  -
Research areas  multi-words, robust MT
 
Gunta Nespore, Phaculty of Philology, University of Latvia
Thesis topic  Formal analysis of motion verbs in modern Latvian and Lithuanian
Research areas  Lexical semantics of Baltic languages;
 
Jyrki Niemi, Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki
Web page  http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/users/janiemi/
Thesis topic  Modelling and reasoning with the semantics of temporal expressions using finite-state methods
Research areas  Temporal representation and reasoning; calendar expressions in natural language
 
Helen Nigol, Estonian and Finno-Ugric linguistics, University of Tartu
Thesis topic  not yet decided
Research areas  treebanks, formal syntax
 
Kristina Nilsson, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
Web page  http://www.ling.su.se/staff/krinil
Thesis topic  Coreference Resolution for Information Extraction
Research areas  Information Access
 
Giedrius Norkevicius, Applied Informatics, Vytautas Magnus University
Web page  www.vdu.lt
Research areas  Computational models of speech prosody
 
Anni Oja, Faculty of Philology, Department of Estonian Philology, Tallinn University
Web page  https://www.etis.ee/portaal/isikuPublikatsioonid.aspx?TextBoxName=oja&PersonVID=39532&lang=et&FromUrl0=isikud.aspx
Thesis topic  Analysis of Estonian internet language and communication, based on the corpus of rate.ee web portal
Research areas  internet communication, corpus linguistics
 
Stina Ojala, Language Technology, University of Helsinki
Thesis topic  The handshapes of Finnish Sign Language
Research areas  sign language phonetics
 
Maxim Orlovskiy, Phonetics, Saint-Petersburg State University
Thesis topic  Automatic Segmentation of Connected Speech
Research areas  Segmentation of connected speech is very important in speech technologies. It's accuracy mostly defines the accuracy of speech recognition. Automatic segmentation in comparison to manual needs less time and efforts.
 
Henrik Oxhammar, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
Thesis topic  Not decided
Research areas  Automatic means for classifying/mapping text to ontology concepts. Currently working on a system for mapping product descriptions to the CPV (Common Procurement Vocabulary).
 
Inese Ozola, Linguistics, University of Latvia
Thesis topic  Pragmalinguistic Approach to Processing Spoken Discourse in Foreign Language Acquisition
Research areas  Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Listening Development
 
Nicolai Pharao, Dept. of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (Faculty of Humanities), University of Copenhagen
Thesis topic  Variation in spontaneous speech - acoustic correlates of higher level information in production and perception
Research areas  My thesis focuses on variation in spontaneously spoken Danish, particularly the different variants of single words and the factors, linguistic or otherwise, which can be seen to condition the use of one particular variant among a set of possible variants of a word. The investigation will rely primarily on the classifications made by professional phonetic transcribers, which will be supplemented by acoustic analysis of the different variants in order to establish, if possible, a hierarchy of distinctiveness along with the factors that influence the “choice” of level of distinctiveness. The aim of the acoustic analysis is to determine whether fine phonetic details may be found that are omitted in a broad phonetic transcription. Perceptual experiments will help determine to what extent such fine phonetic detail is used by listeners and whether possible correlation of specific details with information at other levels of structure (e.g. morphology, syntax, discourse) is also used by listeners to decode the incoming speech signal. Thus, the first part of the study will help improve upon the naturalness of synthetic speech by providing detailed information about the signal, and the second part will contribute to an understanding of the role of "low-level" phonetics in the decoding of information at higher levels
 
Liisi Piits, Department of General Linguistics, University of Tartu
Thesis topic  Neighbourhood collocations of the most frequent words denoting man
Research areas  Neighborhood collocations. Corpus design for TTS
 
Jussi Piitulainen, Department of general linguistics, University of Helsinki
Thesis topic  Distributional similarity of words
Research areas  Distributional similarity of words
 
Siiri Pärkson, Estonian and Finno-Ugric linguistics, University of Tartu
Research areas  dialogue acts
 
Anton Ragni, Department of Physics, Faculty of Physics and Chemistry, University of Tartu
Web page  http://www.ut.ee/~ragni/
Research areas  1) Desing and developement of LVCSR-system (named as Cicero Software Package (CSP)); 2) Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition; 3) Acoustic Modelling of Speech; 4) Decoding strategies and issues;
 
Julia Reshetnikova, Philology, Saint-Petersburg State University
Thesis topic  Automated phase breaking of a Finnish text.
Research areas  Automated phase breaking.
 
Markus Saers, Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
Research areas  My project is within the field of empirical machine translation methods. My aim is to use resources beyond simple strings currently beeing used.
 
Yvonne Samuelsson, Dep. of Linguistics, Stockholm
Research areas  Computational linguistics, Treebanks, Example-based Machine Translation
 
Baiba Saulite, Faculty of Pholology, University of Latvia
Thesis topic  Theme and rheme, word order in Latvian sentence.
Research areas  Text syntax and discourse analysis
 
Janne Savela, Phonetics, University of Turku
Thesis topic  Attentive and pre-attentive processing of vowels
Research areas  Phonetics
 
Anna M. Sigurðardóttir, Computer science, Reykjavík University
Web page  www.nemendur.ru.is/annams02/
Thesis topic  Improved tagging accuracy of Icelandic text
Research areas  Part-of-speech tagging
 
Vera Simakina, Phonetics, Saint Petersburg State University
Thesis topic  Phonological and morphological characteristics of Yiddish language
Research areas  Phonology of Yiddish, Germanic languages, speech technologies, phonetics
 
Raivis Skadins, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, University of Latvia
Web page  n/a
Thesis topic  Combined use of rule based and corpus based methods in machine translation
Research areas  Machine Translation
 
Sara Stymne, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University
Web page  www.ida.liu.se/~sarst
Thesis topic  Preliminary topic: Machine translation
Research areas  My main research interest is machine translation using multilingual grammars. The work will be based on my master's thesis “Swedish-English Verb Frame Divergences in a Bilingual Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar for Machine Translation”, in which I developed a bilingual grammar for Swedish and English with a focus on verb frame divergences. The grammar is used both for analysis and generation and has a shared semantic representation. My research project will look at different aspects of this strategy.
 
Gunilla Svanfeldt, Speech, music and hearing, KTH
Research areas  Visual correlates of expressive speech
 
Timur Svirava, Phonetics, Saint-Petersburg State University
Thesis topic  Realization of the differential features of consonants in the spontaneous speech and reading
Research areas  My studies are based on the material within the framework of the INTAS project concerning the comparison of the spontaneous speech and reading in three typologically different languages. I deal with the Russian language data. Concentrating on the segmental level, I consider the differences which could exist between the spontaneous speech and reading in the realization of consonants in the intervocal position and the realization of their differential features in various conditions.
 
Margus Treumuth, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu
Web page  http://www.ut.ee/~treumuth
Thesis topic  not decided
Research areas  Dialogue Modelling
 
Kristel Uiboaed, Department of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, University of Tartu
Research areas  Word explanations
 
Riikka Ullakonoja, Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Thesis topic  Acquisition of Russian intonation by Finnish students. Licenciate thesis 18th May 2009, the title "Fluency Development in L2 during Study Abroad: Finnish Students of Russian"
Research areas  Acoustic phonetics, prosody, teaching
 
Marcus Uneson, Dept. of Linguistics, Lund
Web page  http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/Marcusu/
Thesis topic  Automatic induction of phonological correspondences in related languages
Research areas  Computational phonology, phonetic distance measures, phonetic string alignment, letter-to-sound conversion
 
Smirnov Valentin, Phonetics, Saint-Petersburg State University
Web page  www.phonetics.pu.ru/smirnov/
Research areas  Phonetics, speech technologies
 
Maria Valyuzhenich, Phonetics and Speech Technologies, St.Petersburg State University
Thesis topic  The Characteristics of The Speaker in Case of the Imitation
Research areas  I'm interested in Speech Recognition and Speaker Verification. I would like to analyze the individual characteristics of a certain speaker. At first I will take some records of a speaker (for example, a well-known person). Then I would analyze characteristics of his voice (the intonation, the pitch range, the characteristics of the vowels and consonants etc.) After this I will take some records of the people who imitate this person and analyze the same characteristics of their voices. After comparison I want to learn what features do the parodists imitate and which individual features of their voices rest during the imitation.
 
Andrejs Vasiljevs, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, University of Latvia
Web page  http://www.ebaltics.com/QuickPlace/forum2004/Main.nsf/h_1FCE0015E80CDA52C2256E67002575DC/657E3A894B098CD9C2256E71002D2482?OpenDocument&Form=h_PageUI
Thesis topic  Consolidation and harmonisation of heterogenous multilingual terminology resources
Research areas  Information systems for terminology data Application of terminology resources for translation systems Machine Translation Cross Language Information Retrieval
 
Sumithra Velupillai, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, KTH/Stockholm University
Web page  n/a
Research areas  Text clustering techniques, multi-lingual information retrieval, medical natural language processing.
 
Kaarel Veskis, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu
Web page  no personal webpage
Thesis topic  not yet decided
Research areas  Applications of parallel corpora
 
Thomas Vestskov Terney, Datalogi, Roskilde Universitetscenter
Web page  -
Thesis topic  -
Research areas  Text classification, Statistical NLP and ontologies.
 
Kadri Vider, General Linguistics, University of Tartu
Thesis topic  Word Sense Disambiguation of Estonian Verbs According to Lexical-Syntactic Information
Research areas  lexical-semantic databases lexical semantics word sense disambiguation lexical functions
 
Jessica Villing, Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University
Web page  www.ling.gu.se/~jessica
Thesis topic  Dialogue systems
Research areas  Dialogue systems
 
Zigrida Vincela, Faculty of Modern Languages, English Language Department, University of Latvia
Web page  http://www.lu.lv
Thesis topic  Linguistic Aspects of Electronic Discourse in English Academic Writing
Research areas  Applied linguistics: ELT
 
Jaakko Väyrynen, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
Web page  http://www.cis.hut.fi/jjvayryn/
Thesis topic  Emergent linguistic representations for machine translation
Research areas  Computer and information science, Computational linguistics, Emergent representations, Independent component analysis
 
Matthew Whelpton, Icelandic, University of Iceland
Web page  http://www.hi.is/~whelpton
Thesis topic  Not decided - related to annotation and exploitation of predicate argument structure.
Research areas  Semantics, Predicate Argument Structure, Syntax
 
Linda Wiechetek, Institutt for språkvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø
Thesis topic  Automatic Semantic Role Annotation for Sámi
Research areas  Verb classes, subcategorization, semantic (role) annotation
 
Preben Wik, TMH, KTH
Web page  http://www.speech.kth.se/~preben/
Thesis topic  Creating a virtual language tutor
Research areas  Language technology in language learning
 
Gisle Ytrestøl, Informatics, Logic and natural languages, University of Oslo
Thesis topic  Design, implementation and validation of an incremental transition-based parsing algorithm for rich phrase structure grammars.
Research areas  Computational linguistics
 

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