European intercultural workplace: Sverige
Jens Allwood, Natalia Lindström, Margreth Börjesson, Charlotte Edeb{\ a}ck, Randi Myhre, Kaarlo Voionmaa, Emily Öhman, European intercultural workplace: Sverige. G"oteborgs Universitet, 2007.
CV
Education
- Ph.D in Language Technology, University of Helsinki, Finland, January 1, 2016 - March, 2021
- M.A. in English (Linguistics), Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2015
- B.A. in English (Linguistics), Linköping University, Sweden, 2006
- Bilingualism and Metalinguistic Awareness in the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language
Professional experience
- Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, 4/21-
- PostDoc, Intimacy in Data-driven Culture (IDA), Tampere University, 12/21-3/21
- PostDoc, Unconventional Communicators in the Corona crisis (UnCoCo), 9/21-
- Doctoral Student, Department of Digital Humanities (Language Technology), University of Helsinki 1/2016-2/2021
- Research Assistant, Reassessing language change: the challenge of real time, University of Helsinki, 9/2014-12/2015
- Systems Specialist, Imagine Global Care, Tokyo, Japan 2013-2014
- Project Manager, Komatsu Australia, Sydney, Australia 2011-2012
- Assistant Director, Imagine International Preschool, Tokyo, Japan 2006-2010
- Project Assistant, “European Intercultural Workplace”, Gothenburg University, Fall 2005
Research Interests
- Sentiment and Emotion Analysis
- Crosslingual sentiment analysis
- Fine-grained sentiment analysis
- Multidimensional sentiment analysis
- Annotation projection
- Validation
- Emotion categorization
- Applied sentiment analysis
- Digital Humanities
- Computational Literary Studies
- Applied sentiment and emotion analysis
- Computational political studies
- Communication studies
- Computational social studies
- DH Pedagogy
- AI Ethics
- Open science
Social Media Analysis
- Linguistics
- Semantic shift in closely related languages
- Semantic shifts in time
- Reduplication
- Corpus linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Metalinguistic awareness (and language acquisition)
Languages
- English
- Swedish
- Finnish
- Japanese
- JLPT N1
- Norwegian
- Various levels of “rustiness”:
- German
- French
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Icelandic
- Chinese (Mandarin)
Publications
Recent Changes in Indefinite Pronouns with Human Reference: A diachronic corpus study of 200 years of-one/-body and-man indefinite pronoun variation in Late Modern and Present-day English
Emily Öhman, Recent Changes in Indefinite Pronouns with Human Reference: A diachronic corpus study of 200 years of-one/-body and-man indefinite pronoun variation in Late Modern and Present-day English. Linnaeus University, 2015.
Language Change Database: A new online resource
Terttu Nevalainen, Turo Vartiainen, Tanja S{\ a}ily, Joonas Kes{\ a}niemi, Agata Dominowska, Emily Öhman, Language Change Database: A new online resource. ICAME journal, 2016.
The challenges of multi-dimensional sentiment analysis across languages
Emily Öhman, Timo Honkela, Jörg Tiedemann. The challenges of multi-dimensional sentiment analysis across languages. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of People’s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES) at COLING 2016, 2016.
Sentimentator: Gamifying Fine-grained Sentiment Annotation
Emily Öhman, Kaisla Kajava. Sentimentator: Gamifying Fine-grained Sentiment Annotation. In the proceedings of Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 2018, 2018.
Creating a dataset for multilingual fine-grained emotion-detection using gamification-based annotation
Emily Öhman, Kaisla Kajava, Jörg Tiedemann, Timo Honkela. Creating a dataset for multilingual fine-grained emotion-detection using gamification-based annotation. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis at EMNLP 2018, 2018.
Towards the inevitable demise of everybody?
Emily Öhman, Tanja S{\ a}ily, Mikko Laitinen, Towards the inevitable demise of everybody?. ICAME 40, 2019.
Challenges in Annotation: Annotator Experiences from a Crowdsourced Emotion Annotation Task.
Emily Öhman. Challenges in Annotation: Annotator Experiences from a Crowdsourced Emotion Annotation Task.. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference, 2020.
Emotion Preservation in Translation: Evaluating Datasets for Annotation Projection.
Kaisla Kajava, Emily Öhman, Hui Piao, Jörg Tiedemann, Emotion Preservation in Translation: Evaluating Datasets for Annotation Projection.. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference, 2020.
LT@Helsinki at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual or language-specific BERT?
Marc Pàmies, Emily Öhman, Kaisla Kajava, Jörg Tiedemann. LT@Helsinki at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual or language-specific BERT?. In the proceedings of SemEval-2020: International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation - COLING 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, 2020.
XED: A Multilingual Dataset for Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Detection
Emily Öhman, Marc Pàmies, Kaisla Kajava, Jörg Tiedemann. XED: A Multilingual Dataset for Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Detection. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020.
Emotion Annotation: Rethinking Emotion Categorization.
Emily Öhman, Emotion Annotation: Rethinking Emotion Categorization.. In the proceedings of DHN Post-Proceedings, 2020.
Affect and Emotions in Finnish Literature: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approach
Emily Öhman, Riikka Rossi, Affect and Emotions in Finnish Literature: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approach. University of Helsinki, 2021.
The Language of Emotions: Building and Applying Computational Methods for Emotion Detection for English and Beyond
Emily Öhman, The Language of Emotions: Building and Applying Computational Methods for Emotion Detection for English and Beyond. University of Helsinki, 2021.
Japanese Beauty Marketing on Social Media: Critical Discourse Analysis Meets NLP
Emily Öhman, Amy Metcalfe. Japanese Beauty Marketing on Social Media: Critical Discourse Analysis Meets NLP. In the proceedings of ICON 2021, 2021.
The Validity of Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis in Interdisciplinary Research
Emily Öhman, The Validity of Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis in Interdisciplinary Research. In the proceedings of NLP4DH @ ICON 2021, 2021.
Hate speech, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech: The Changing Policies of Reddit
Emily Öhman, Elissa Nakajima, Hate speech, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech: The Changing Policies of Reddit. Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, 2022.
SELF & FEIL: Emotion Lexicons for Finnish
Emily Öhman, SELF & FEIL: Emotion Lexicons for Finnish. In the proceedings of The 6th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2022), 2022.
Strategic sentiments and emotions in post-Second World War party manifestos in Finland
Koljonen, Juha & Emily Öhman & Pertti Ahonen & Mikko Mattila, Strategic sentiments and emotions in post-Second World War party manifestos in Finland. In Journal of Computational Social Science. 2022.
Computational Exploration of the Origin of Mood in Literary Texts
Öhman, E. and Rossi, R., 2022. Computational Exploration of the Origin of Mood in Literary Texts. NLP4DH 2021, p.8.
From hate speech recognition to happiness indexing: critical issues in datafication of emotion in text mining
Laaksonen, S.M., Pääkkönen, J. and Öhman, E., 2022. From hate speech recognition to happiness indexing: critical issues in datafication of emotion in text mining. In Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar.
Introduction to Text Analytics
Öhman, E., 2024. Introduction to Text Analytics. Edward Elgar.
Talks & Presentations
Language Change Database: a new online resource
International conference, peer-reviewed at From Data to Evidence (d2e), Helsinki, Finland
Sentiment Analysis as a Research Topic
Keynote Speaker at HELSLANG , Helsinki, Finland
Sentiment Analysis for low-resource languages
Invited speaker at FIN-CLARIN seminar/conference, Helsinki, Finland
Sentiment Analysis for Theoretical Philosophy
Invited speaker at Wittgenstein Institute, December , Helsinki, Finland
The Challenges of Multi-dimensional Sentiment Analysis Across Languages
International conference, peer-reviewed at PEOPLES: CoLing, Osaka, Japan
Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis
International conference at Building and Using Language Technology (BAULT) , Helsinki, Finland
Sentimentator: A Sentiment and Emotion Annotation Platform
International conference, peer-reviewed at Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries , Helsinki, Finland
Creating a Dataset for Multilingual Fine-grained Emotion-detection Using Gamification-based Annotation
International conference, peer-reviewed at WASSA: EMNLP 2018, October , Brussels, Belgium
Computational Bias
International conference, invited speaker at Stanford University: AI in Education, October , Stanford, CA, USA
Multilingual Emotion Analysis
International conference at AKA JSPS Seminar, Helsinki, Finland
Sentiment Analysis for Social Media Analytics
National conference at Rajapinta-days, Espoo, Finland
Biased Algorithms
International conference, invited speaker at AI in Education, Helsinki, Finland
Teaching Computational Methods to Humanities Students
International conference, peer-reviewed at Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries , Copenhagen, Denmark
Towards the Inevitable Demise of Everybody? A multifactorial analysis of -one/-body/-man variation in indefinite pronouns in historical American English
International conference, peer-reviewed at International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 40), Switzerland
Emotion Annotation
International conference, peer-reviewed at Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, Riga, Latvia
Mitigating the effects of bias in data for machine learning algorithms
National conference workshop at Rajapinta days, Espoo, Finland
Sentiment annotation and analysis in Finnish
National conference at Rajapinta days, Espoo, Finland
XED: Multilabel Emotion Dataset
International conference, peer-reviewed at COLING, Barcelone, Spain
Concepts of Beauty on Japanese Social Media.
National conference, peer-reviewed at Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, Tokyo, Japan
Coding for Digital Humanities
Invited panelist at EADH conference, Kraznoyarsk, Russia
Breaking into Academia
Invited panelist at at Future Digileaders, , Stockholm, Sweden
Japanese Beauty Marketing on Social Media: Critical Discourse Analysis Meets NLP
International conference, peer-reviewed at NLP4DH@ICON�'21 , Zoom
The Validity of Lexicon-based Emotion Analysis in Interdisciplinary Research
International conference, peer-reviewed at NLP4DH@ICON�'21 , Zoom
SELF & FEIL Emotion Lexicons for Finnish
International conference, peer-reviewed at Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries 2022, Uppsala, Sweden
Creating an army of hacker-scholars
International conference, peer-reviewed at Digital Humanities Annual Conference, Tokyo, Japan
Teaching
Grants, Projects & Awards
- JSPS Kakenhi Early career researcher: Negative emotions in literature: A computational approach to tone and mood: 2022-2024. 1,950,000JPY
- Tokutei Kadai (internal), Research base creation, 2022-2023. 200,000JPY: Python for DH videos
- Tokutei Kadai (internal), Early career, 2022-2023. 300,000JPY: Japanese NLP for CLS
- Tokutei Kadai (internal), Research base creation, 2021-2022. 298,000JPY: Establishing digital humanities at SILS
- European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) small grants recipient 2020 for the development of a Python notebook for Digital Humanities. 1000€
- Helsingin Sanomain Säätiö, Unconventional communicators in the corona-crisis, 2020-2022. 99000€ (group application)
- The Faculty of Arts (University of Helsinki): 4-year research grant (salary) for Ph.D. research. 2016-2021. roughly 150,000€
- The Dean’s Mobility Grant 2018 (to visit the University of Tokyo, Japan). 9000€
- Chosen as a Future Digileader 2020 by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Digital Futures research center in Sweden.
Other Academic experience
- Member of Ethics Committee at the University of Helsinki
- Member of Steering Committee for Digitalization at the University of Helsinki (Digitaalisen kehittämisen ohjausryhmä)
- Member of Teaching Evaluation Committee at the University of Helsinki (Evaluating teaching demos and teaching skills of applicants of faculty positions)
- Member of Statistics Education Committee at Waseda University
- Reviewer for various Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing journals and conferences (EMNLP, COLING, NAACL, ACL, EACL, DHNB, DH, NLP4DH, NoDaLiDa)
- Program Committee member for the NLP4DH workshop in 2021 at ICON’21.