Jenna
Kanerva
University Lecturer, Data-analytiikka
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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).
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.
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.
Publications
Characterizing Finnish children’s books by target age — Complementing key feature analysis with machine learning (2026)
Applied Corpus Linguistics
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
The Algorithmic Challenges and Opportunities in Tracing Meaning at Scale in Large Historical Document Collections (2026)
Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa)
Measuring Social Integration Through Participation: Categorizing Organizations and Leisure Activities in the Displaced Karelians Interview Archive using LLMs (2026)
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa)OCR Error Post-Correction with LLMs in Historical Documents: No Free Lunches (2025)
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa)TCBLex - A lexical database of Finnish literary texts for children (2025)
Behavior Research Methods
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Creating a Historical Migration Dataset from Finnish Church Records, 1800–1920 (2025)
Journal of Open Humanities Data
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Muuttoluetteloista digitaaliseen tietokantaan – muuttoluettelot sukututkijan avuksi (2025)
Suku: lehti sukututkijoille
(E1 Yleistajuinen artikkeli lehdessä)
A Deep Dive into Multi-Head Attention and Multi-Aspect Embedding (2025)
(D3 Artikkeli ammatillisessa konferenssijulkaisussa )Improving Latin Dependency Parsing by Combining Treebanks and Predictions (2024)
The 4th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (NLP4DH)
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa)
Semantic search as extractive paraphrase span detection (2024)
Language Resources and Evaluation
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )