Short Academic Biography for Flammie A Pirinen

Flammie A Pirinen is a senior engineer in the Arctic University of Norway, working on language technologies for Indigenous Sámi languages and free and open source infrastructures, end user applications among others.

Flammie finished his Ph.D. and his MA at the University of Helsinki in Computational linguistics. His research interests range from computational linguistics of Uralic and minority languages to formal languages and software engineering interactions with digital humanities and linguistics. His studies up until Ph.D. were in the field of rule-based language technologies and finite-state methods, software engineering, and large infrastructures for language resource development. Majority of the work concerns hybrid approaches that include rule-based and data-driven methodologies, as well as co-operation of data scientists, engineers, language experts and language communities.

Flammie has served as a chair of Association of Computational Linguistics’ Special Interest Group for Uralic Languages 2015–2022, and has co-organised an annual conference on the theme. He has served in programme committees of number of computational linguistics conferences such as NAACL and NoDaLiDa and reviewed for journals such as LRE. He works actively on free/libre open source software and wants to promotes freedom and openness in science as well.

For additional information see https://flammie.github.io.

Last updated: September 2024