My work mostly falls within the fields of Natural language processing (NLP) and Computational linguistics. My research interests include NLP for morphologically complex languages, computational semantics, morphological tagging, parsing, as well as computational phonology and morphology. I am an assistant professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). I am also a teacher in the Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics or MDS-CL program at UBC.
Until January 2020, I was a Lecturer of Language Technology at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. In Helsinki, I also worked in the FoTran. Until September 2018 I was a postdoc at the Department of Linguistics at University of Colorado Boulder working in the CLEAR group. I got my PhD at the University of Helsinki in Finland, where I worked in the Helsinki Finite-State Technology research group. In October 2016, I defended my PhD thesis on morphological tagging at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Helsinki.
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Contact
My email address is of the form username@iki.fi where the username is mpsilfve.
Publications
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Thesis
Morphological Disambiguation using Probabilistic Sequence Models
Software Projects
The FinnPos morphological tagging toolkit
The HFST toolkit for finite-state algebra
Teaching
UBC
COLX-535: Parsing for Computational Linguistics
COLX-525: Computational Morphology
COLX-581: Natural Language Processing for Low-Resource Languages
COLX-563: Unsupervised learning
DSCI-572: Supervised learning II
University of Helsinki
Introduction to Language Technology, KIK-405, fall 2018
Models and Algorithms in NLP Applications, LDA-T3105, fall 2018
Command-Line Course, KIK-LG218, fall 2018
Introduction to Deep Learning, LDA-T3114, spring 2019
Mathematics for Linguists, KIK-LG209, spring 2019
Talks
Neural Models for Word Inflection and Phonology. Invited talk at the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 04/2018
Neural Models for Morphology. Invited talk at Ling Circle at the Department of Linguistics at University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. 04/2018
GRoW Your LaTeX Skills. Invited tutorial at the Graduate Research Workshop at the Department of Linguistics at University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO. 09/2017.
Open-Source Optical Character Recognition. Invited tutorial at Langnet Graduate School, Turku, Finland. 05/2015.
Morphological Disambiguation using Probabilistic Sequence Models. Invited talk at Computational Semantics Seminar at University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO. 01/2015.
Corpus Tools. Invited talk at Langnet Graduate School, Turku, Finland. 12/2014.
Probabilistic parsing with weighted FSTs. Invited tutorial at FSMNLP, Donostia, Spain. 07/2012.