| Lili Aunimo, Computer Science, University of Helsinki |
| Web page |
www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/aunimo |
| Thesis title |
Methods for Answer Extraction in Textual Question Answering |
| Research areas |
Information extraction |
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| Henrik Bulskov, Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University |
| Web page |
http://akira.ruc.dk/~bulskov/ |
| Thesis title |
Ontology-based Information Retrieval |
| Defence date |
May 2006 |
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| Mathias Creutz, Computer and Information Science, Helsinki University of Technology |
| Web page |
http://www.cis.hut.fi/mcreutz/ |
| Thesis title |
Induction of the Morphology of Natural Language: Unsupervised Morpheme
Segmentation with Application to Automatic Speech Recognition |
| Defence date |
15th June 2006 |
| Research areas |
Unsupervised learning of natural language |
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| Antoine Doucet, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki |
| Web page |
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/doucet/ |
| Thesis title |
Advanced Document Description, a Sequential Approach |
| Defence date |
19th November 2005 |
| Research areas |
Text Mining
Information Retrieval
Multiword Expressions |
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| Markus Forsberg, Computing Science, Chalmers University of Technology |
| Web page |
www.cs.chalmers.se/~markus |
| Thesis title |
Three Tools for Language Processing: BNF Converter, Functional Morphology, and Extract |
| Defence date |
25th September 2007 |
| Research areas |
Lingustic Tools, Morphology,
Lexicon Extraction
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| Leif Grönqvist, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, Växjö University |
| Web page |
www.gslt.hum.gu.se/~leifg |
| Thesis title |
Exploring Latent Semantic Vector Models Enriched With N-grams |
| Defence date |
29th November 2006 |
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| Jakob Halskov, Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen Business School |
| Web page |
www.halskov.net |
| Thesis title |
New Terms from the Net: a tool for semi-automatic updating of termbases |
| Defence date |
1st October 2007 |
| Research areas |
Term mining |
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| Thomas Hansen, Natural Interactive Systems Lab, Southern Denmark |
| Web page |
http://www.nis.sdu.dk/~thomas/ |
| Thesis title |
Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training |
| Research areas |
Computer Assisted Language Learning |
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| Hans Hjelm, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University |
| Web page |
www.ling.su.se/staff/hans/ |
| Thesis title |
Cross-language Ontology Learning: Incorporating and Exploiting Cross-language Data in the Ontology Learning Process |
| Defence date |
6th February 2009 |
| Research areas |
Lexical Semantics, Term Similarity. |
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| Kristofer Johannisson, Computing Science, |
| Research areas |
Computer Science / (Natural) Language Technology |
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| Richard Johansson, Department of Computer Science, Lund University |
| Web page |
http://www.cs.lth.se/~richard |
| Thesis title |
Dependency-based Semantic Analysis of Natural-language Text |
| Defence date |
8th December 2008 |
| Research areas |
Machine learning and automatic or
semi-automatic data production
methods for natural language semantics. |
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| Kimmo Kettunen, Information studies, University of Tampere |
| Thesis title |
Morphological and fuzzy string processing in IR |
| Research areas |
Information retrieval |
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| Toomas Kirt, Information Technology, Tallinn University of Technology |
| Web page |
http:// |
| Research areas |
Neural networks (Self-Organizing Maps), data analysis, pattern recognition, (artificial)intelligence, self-organization |
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| Daniil Kocharov, Department of Phonetics, Saint-Petersburg State University |
| Thesis title |
Automatic Interpretation of Speech Sounds |
| Defence date |
27th June 2008 |
| Research areas |
Speech Technologies |
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| Krister Lindén, General Linguistics, Helsinki University |
| Web page |
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~klinden/ |
| Thesis title |
Word Sense Discovery and Disambiguation |
| Defence date |
June 2005 |
| Research areas |
Language Technology |
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| Kadri Muischnek, dept of Estonian and Finno-ugric Linguistics, University of Tartu |
| Web page |
http://www.cl.ut.ee/inimesed/kmuis/ |
| Thesis title |
Fixed expressions consisting of verbs and nouns in Estonian |
| Defence date |
29th June 2006 |
| Research areas |
Morpho-syntactic structure of Estonian,
especially the multi-word units of Estonian |
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| Jens Nilsson, MSI, Växjö University |
| Thesis title |
Data-Driven Dependency Parsing by Transformations and Combination |
| Defence date |
16th October 2009 |
| Research areas |
Deterministic Dependency Parsing |
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| Anders Nøklestad, Department of Linguistics, University of Oslo |
| Web page |
http://www.hf.uio.no/ilf/om-ilf/ansatte/noklesta/index.html |
| Thesis title |
A Machine Learning Approach to Anaphora Resolution Including Named
Entity Recognition, PP Attachment Disambiguation, and Animacy
Detection
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| Defence date |
19th June 2009 |
| Research areas |
Statistical methods for natural language
processing, with a focus on Norwegian |
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| Ilya Oparin, Phonetics, St.Petersburg State University |
| Thesis title |
Language Models for Automatic Speech Recognition of Inflectional Languages |
| Defence date |
8th June 2009 |
| Research areas |
NLP, TTS, ASR |
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| Erika Rimkute, Department of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University |
| Web page |
http://fcim.vdu.lt/~erika_rimkute/index.html |
| Thesis title |
Morphological disambiguation of the corpus of Lithuanian language |
| Defence date |
2006 |
| Research areas |
Automatic morphological analysis and disambiguation, automatic syntactic analysis |
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| Magnus Rosell, KTH Nada, KTH |
| Web page |
http://www.nada.kth.se/~rosell/ |
| Thesis title |
Text Clustering Exploration - Swedish Text Representation and Clustering
Results Unraveled
|
| Defence date |
6th April 2009 |
| Research areas |
Document Clustering |
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| Anders Sewerin Johansen, Dept. of Innovation, IT University of Copenhagen |
| Thesis title |
Use of word prediction in efficient text input for disabled users and mobile devices |
| Defence date |
November 2006 |
| Research areas |
Language technology
Mobile text input
Dynamic user interfaces |
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| Elin Anna Topp, CSC, KTH |
| Web page |
www.csc.kth.se/~topp |
| Thesis title |
Human-Robot Interaction and Mapping with a Service Robot: Human Augmented Mapping |
| Defence date |
13th October 2008 |
| Research areas |
Human-Robot Interaction,
spatial/environment representations, interactive acquisition
of spatial information, interaction in a tour scenario. |
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| Trond Trosterud, Dept. of languages and linguistics, |
| Web page |
http://www.hum.uit.no/a/trond/ |
| Thesis title |
Morphological Encoding of the Arguments of the Verb and the Noun.
A Study of the Form of the Uralic (...) |
| Research areas |
Morphology, langage technology |
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| Erik Velldal, Institutt for Lingvistiske Fag, Universitetet i Oslo |
| Web page |
folk.uio.no/erikve |
| Thesis title |
Empirical Realization Ranking |
| Defence date |
27th May 2008 |
| Research areas |
Statistiske metoder for entydiggjøring i forbindelse med maskinoversettelse. |
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| Luis Villarejo, The Department of Culture, Language and Information Technology (Aksis) is a department of Unifob AS., University of Bergen |
| Web page |
www.lsi.upc.edu/~luisv |
| Thesis title |
Exploiting ontologies and advance machine learning techniques for WSD |
| Defence date |
13th July 2009 |
| Research areas |
Word Sense Disambiguation |
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| Pontus Wärnestål, Dept. of Computer Science, Linköping University, Sweden |
| Web page |
http://www.ida.liu.se/~ponjo/ |
| Thesis title |
Dialogue Behavior Management in Conversational Recommender Systems |
| Defence date |
7th September 2007 |
| Research areas |
Personalized interaction in conversational recommender systems |
| |
| Anssi Yli-Jyrä, Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki |
| Web page |
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~aylijyra/ |
| Thesis title |
Contributions to the Theory of Finite-State Based Linguistics Grammars |
| Defence date |
20th June 2005 |
| Research areas |
Natural Language Parsing |
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