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Foundations of Language Processing

Research group Languages, formal or natural, permeate our intellectual and practical lives. When agents, computer or human, wish to communicate something, they must encode it in some type of language. We study how languages can be processed based on their structure, and how their semantics or meaning can be extracted.

Languages are typically defined by syntactic rules or well-formedness constraints, and their sentences are commonly associated with some type of semantics or meaning. Moreover, language is usually embedded in the context of other information-bearing content. Perhaps the most obvious example is video, where language appears in the form of text (subtitles) and speech, but there is also visual content and there may be metadata embedded in the video.

The research group Foundations of Language Processing studies the theoretical and practical aspects of representing language on computers, and its interconnection with other sources of information. The work of the group spans from the theoretical analysis of formal languages as a theoretical basis for XML and linguistic applications to the study, practical implementation, and application of multimodal media analysis.

Head of research

Suna Bensch
Associate professor
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Henrik Björklund
Associate professor
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Johanna Björklund
Associate professor
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Adam Dahlgren Lindström
Research assistant
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Hannah Devinney
Doctoral student
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Anton Eklund
Doctoral student
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Emil Häglund
Doctoral student
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Anna Jonsson
Postdoctoral fellow
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Yonas Woldemariam
Research student
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Lena Strobl
Doctoral student
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Overview

Participating departments and units at Umeå University

Department of Computing Science

Research area

Computing science

Research projects

SAVANT – Self-optimising Video Platform for Affiliate Marketing
Research area: Computing science
Duration 1 March 2018 until 29 February 2020
Type of project Research project
Syntactical methods for text classification
Duration 1 November 2014 until 30 September 2017
Type of project Research project
MICO - Media in context
Duration 1 May 2013 until 30 April 2016
Type of project Research project
Parameterized Natural Language Parsing
Duration 12 October 2012 until 6 February 2020
Type of project Research project

Latest publications

Graph Transformation: 15th International Conference, ICGT 2022, Held as Part of STAF 2022, Nantes, France, July 7–8, 2022, Proceedings, Cham: Springer 2022 : 3-19
Drewes, Frank; Hoffmann, Berthold; Minas, Mark
AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence
Hellström, Thomas; Bensch, Suna
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Student Research Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics 2022 : 84-91
Eklund, Anton; Forsman, Mona; Drewes, Frank
Acta Informatica, Springer Nature 2021, Vol. 58 : 177-194
Björklund, Johanna; Cleophas, Loek
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2021 : 9136-9142
Björklund, Johanna; Dahlgren Lindström, Adam; Drewes, Frank
CIKM '21: Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, ACM Digital Library 2021 : 3078-3082
Hatefi, Arezoo; Vu, Xuan-Son; Bhuyan, Monowar H.; et al.
Awarded 4 million SEK for developing new Deep Learning methods

Johanna Björklund receives funding for research on semantic parsing of multimodal data.

Latest update: 2021-09-06