purplemonkeydishwasher

A public git version of my research projects, i.e. articles and all that

View project on GitHub

see also: my academic publications, TeX CV and HTML by latexml from my previous job application run (some specific hand picked selected articles for example)

Curriculum Vitae — Flammie Pirinen

  • Name: Flammie Antero Pirinen
  • Date of Birth: 1984-02-28
  • Address: Norway
  • E-mail: flammie@iki.fi

Education

  • PhD in Language Technology in University of Helsinki 2014
  • MA in Language Technology in University of Helsinki 2008
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science in University of Joensuu 2005
  • Ylioppilastutkinto (Matriculation examination certificate) in Joensuun Lyseon Lukio 2001

Language skills

  • Finnish (native)
  • English (excellent)
  • Norwegian, Swedish, German (conversational)
  • Hungarian, Estonian, French (basic)

Computer literacy

  • Operating systems: Linux, Mac OS X, DOS, Windows (pre-7)
  • Programming and markup languages: Rust, C, C++, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl; XML, SGML, HTML, XHTML; CSS, XSLT…
  • Other: Localisation, Free/Open Source Software, Natural language processing

Work experience

  • Arctic University of Norway, 2020–
    • Divvun
  • Univeristy of Hamburg, HZSK 2016–
    • CLARIN-D, CLARIAH-DE
  • Dublin City University, CNGL 2014—2016
    • Abu-Matran machine translation
  • Helsinki University, department of Phonetics 2013—2014
    • Simple4all Text-to-Speech systems
  • Doctoral student (i.e. junior researcher) in Helsinki university 2009—2012
    • HFST research and development as related to PhD topic (FSTs in spell checking)
    • Teaching courses: Text corpora, Rule-based machine translation
  • Research assistant in Helsinki university 2008—2009
    • Programming in HFST research group
  • Course assistant in Helsinki University 2007—2009:
    • Introduction to Speech Synthesis
    • Speech analysis
    • Programming NLP
    • XML
    • Natural language parsing methods
    • Grammar engineering
    • Morphological language processing
    • Finite state parsing methods
    • Statistical NLP
  • Helpdesk in Faculty of Arts of University of Joensuu from 2004 to 2006

Military Service

Objecting compulsory conscription military service in prisons of South Finland for 6 months (also: not bound to obligatory reserve training periods).

Miscellaneous

I am an active member in Free/Libre open source communities, working with Finnish translations, NLP-related software including end-users tools like spell-checkers and text-to-speech, as well as more scientific frameworks like finite-state automata libraries and language models. Please see e.g. my github profile.

Last updated: November 2024