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.

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Last updated: November 2024