Other Scientific Activities

Antti Arppe
15.5.2011

Teaching at university level

(F)all — (S)pring

  • Cross-Cultural Business (2 credits), Institute of Strategy and International Marketing, Helsinki University of Technology: F1993.
  • Teknologian kaupallistaminen (Kaupallinen kieliteknologia) [Commercialization of (language) technology] (1-2 credits), Language technology, Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki: F1999, F2000, F2001, F2002; University of Oulu: F2002 (1-day intensive package)
  • Projektityöskentely [Working in projects] (2 credits), Language technology, Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki / LANGNET graduate school of language studies: S2002, S2003, S2004, F2004, F2008.
  • UNIX:in perusteet ja tekstikorpusten tietojenkäsittely [Basic UNIX programming and text corpus processing (3 credits), Department of Informatics, University of Tampere/KIT network: F2002.
  • Korpukset ja kieli [Corpora and language] (2 credits), Language technology / General linguistics, Department of General Linguistics: S2003, S2004.
  • Kielitieteen lukemattomat klassikot -lukupiiri [Workshop on "Unread Classic Works in Linguistics"], Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki: F2003-S2004 (several guest presenters; co-ordination and arrangements together with Reetta Konstenius)

    • Workshops

  • Exploratory univariate analysis. As part of: Introduction to Corpus Linguistics for Slavic Linguists, Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 15.10.2009.

    • Individual lectures as part of university-level courses

  • Kokemuksia [kieliteknologisten] ohjelmistotuotteiden sopimusneuvotteluista [Experiences from licensing negotiations of language-technology software]: Immateriaalioikeudet [Immaterial property rights], Language technology, Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki: S2003, S2004.
  • Monimenetelmäisyys kielitieteessä [Multimethodological perspectives in linguistics] - Kielitieteellistä tutkimusmetodiikkaa -kurssin moduuli II [Linguistic research methodology, module II], Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki / LANGNET graduate school: F2007.
  • Exploiting Multiple Methods in Linguistics: Corpora and Language Dynamics, Helsinki, 12-14.4.2010, LANGNET graduate school, Finland & Doctoral School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia.
  • Theory vs. practice – some well as well as less known characteristics of a morphologically rich language – Finnish. 16.11.2010 & 17.3.2011. Introduction to Linguistic analysis (LING 101). Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta.
  • Finnish is written as it is spoken – and spoken as it is written – or is it? 17.3.2011, Writing systems (LING 325). Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta.
  • Mixed-effects logistic regression with polytomous outcomes, 2.12.2010. Mixed-effects modeling. Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta.

    • Supervision of Master's theses

  • M. Sc. (Eng.) Heikki Vesalainen: Automatic Extraction of Protein-Protein Interactions from Medical Papers (computer science/information technology), 2002-2005, Laboratory of Computer and Information Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology.
  • M.A. Camilla Magnusson: Analysing the Language of Quarterly Reports Using Collocational Networks (general linguistics), 2001-2002, Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki.

    • Organization of scientific events

  • Re-thinking synonymy: semantic sameness and similarity in languages and their description (SKY Symposium 2010), Helsinki, 27-29.10.2010. Member of the Organizing Committee.
  • 1st Networking Event for European Research Infrastructures (NEERI-09), Helsinki, 30.9.-2.10. Member of the Organizing Committee
  • Third Workshop on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL3). Helsinki, 2-4.6.2008. Co-chair and secretary of the organizing committee (other members Urpo Nikanne, co-chair, Kaius Sinnemäki, co-chair, Laura Arola, Maria Metsä-Ketelä, Alexandre Nikolaev, Maarit Niemelä, Ulla Vanhatalo).
  • Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP-2005). Helsinki, 1-2.9.2005. Member of the organizing committee (other members Anssi Yli-Jyrä, chair, and Hanna Westerlund).
  • 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics (SCL-20), Helsinki, 7-9.1.2004. Member of the organizing committee (responsible for workshops).
  • Kielitiede, ihmistiede –tiede? -työpaja ["Linguistics, Human Science - Science?" workshop]. XXX Kielitieteen päivät, Joensuu, 15-16.5.2003. Member of the organizing committee (other members Prof. Urho Määttä and Reetta Kenttä).
  • Korpukset ja kieli -työpaja ["Corpora and language" workshop]. XXIX Kielitieteen päivät, Helsinki, 3-4.5.2002. Chairman of the organizing committee (other members Anu Airola, Jussi Piitulainen and Hanna Westerlund) and chairman of the panel discussion (participants Krista Lagus, Fred Karlsson, Anna Mauranen, Urho Määttä, Martti Vainio).

    • Participation in research projects

  • GILTA project (USIX/TEKES). Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki (other participating institutions: Signal Processing Laboratory, and Pori School of Technology and Economics, Tampere University of Technology; and Laboratory of Information Systems, Åbo Akademi University): Deputy member of the steering committee 2000-2002, researcher 2000-2002, practical supervision of research assistant Camilla Magnusson 2001-2002.

    • Other tasks involving scientific expertise

  • Language: Reviewer 2011
  • Natural Language Engineering: Reviewer 2003-2004; 2011
  • Software: Practice and Experience: Reviewer 2010
  • Virittäjä: Reviewer 2008
  • 17th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2009), Odense, 14-16.5.2009. Member of the Scientific Committee.
  • Re-thinking synonymy: semantic sameness and similarity in languages and their description (SKY Symposium 2010), Helsinki, 27-29.10.2010: Member of the Scientific Committee.
  • 4th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-4), Humboldt University of Berlin, 27-31.3.2011. Member of the Scientific Committee.

    • Activities in scientific societies

  • Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY ry.): Auditor 2001-2006; Deputy member of the board 2007; Treasurer 2008–2009.
  • Finnish Association of Cognitive Linguistics (FiCLA ry.): Member of the board 2007-2008.
    • Last modified: Tue May 17 19:03:27 EEST 2011