Ohman Emily

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Assistant Professor

Research field (5)： Science education , Library/information science, humanistic/social informatics , Tertiary education , Linguistics , Computational science

Research keywords (1)： sentiment analysis, emotion detection, digital humanities, language technology, computational social science, computational literary studies, NLP, machine learning, social media analysis, hate speech detection, digital research ethics, affect studies

Research theme for competitive and other funds (11)：

2024 - 2028 Social Roots of Language Change: Investigating Change with Enriched Data
2023 - 2028 Culture-specific emotions and literature: conceptual modelling and new methods in the light of literature of the Finnish North (STRANGENORTH)
2024 - 2027 EmoMap: Emotion Mapping in Semantic Space
2024 - 2027 Contextual word embeddings for emotion detection in applied research
2022 - 2024 Negative emotions in literature: a computational approach to tone and mood

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Papers (31)：

Emily Ohman, Riikka Rossi. Text & Mood: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Computational Approaches for Literary Analysis of Finnish Novels. Journal of Scandinavian Studies. 2025. 97. 3
Emily Ohman, Aatu Liimatta. Text Length and the Function of Intentionality: A Case Study of Contrastive Subreddits. Proceedings of the 4th Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities Workshop. 2024. 4
Eugenia Diegoli, Emily Öhman. Contrasting the semantic space of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Japanese. Language and Cognition. 2024. 1-23
Emily Ohman, Yuri Bizzoni, Pascal Feldkamp Moreira, Kristoffer Nielbo. EmotionArcs: Emotion Arcs for 9,000 Literary Texts. Proceedings of LaTeCH-CLFL 2024, Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature. 2024
Hidetsune Takahashi, Xingru Lu, Sean Ishijima, Seo Deokgyu, Kim Yongju, Park Sehoon, Min Song, Kathylene Marante, Keitaro-Luke Iso, Hirotaka Tokura, et al. OZemi at SemEval-2024 Task 1: A Simplistic Approach to Textual Relatedness Evaluation Using Transformers and Machine Translation. Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024). 2024

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Books (5)：

Text Analytics
Sage Publishing 2024
Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
ACL Anthology 2023 ISBN:9798891760127
Lightning Proceedings of NLP4DH and IWCLUL 2023
https://zenodo.org/records/10214495 2023 ISBN:9789526536903
Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence
Edward Elgar 2023 ISBN:9781803928555
The Language of Emotions: Building and Applying Resources for Computational Approaches to Emotion Detection for English and Beyond
UniGrafia (University of Helsinki) 2021 ISBN:9789515171054

Lectures and oral presentations (39)：

Scaffolding in Practice: Zones of Proximal Development for Large Programming Classes
(The International Conference for Media in Education (ICoMe 2024) 2024)
Hate Speech, Offensive Speech, and Moderation of Online Fora: A Computational Perspective
(LUT University 2024)
Mining Social Media Data for Insights into Language Use
(Language of Social Media course at University of Helsinki 2023)
Unearthing Emotions: Analyzing Ancient Roman Inscriptions with NLP
(The 3rd NLP4DH & 8th IWCLUL Conference 2023 2023)
Teaching large DH programming courses at Waseda University
(International Digital Humanities Symposium 2023)

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Works (4)：

FEIL (Finnish Emotion Intensity Lexicon)
Emily Ohman 2020 - 2021
SELF (Sentiment and Emotion Lexicon for Finnish)
Emily Öhman 2020 - 2021
XED multilingual emotion-annotated dataset
Emily Ohman, Kaisla Kajava, Marc Pàmies, Jörg Tiedemann 2020 - 2021
Sentimentator (dockerized sentiment annotation tool)
Emily Ohman, Kaisla Kajava 2018 - 2018

Education (4)：

2016 - 2021 University of Helsinki Department of Digital Humanities - Language Technology PhD
2016 - 2021 University of Helsinki HYPE (Centre for University Teaching and Learning) 30 credits of University pedagogy
2016 - 2016 Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School
- 2015 Linnaeus University Department of English MA in English Linguistics

Work history (8)：

2024/04 - 現在 LUT University Master's programme in Social Sciences and Communication Sciences
2021/04 - 現在 Waseda University School of International Liberal Studies
2024/10 - 2029/09 LUT University LUT School of Engineering Sciences Title of Docent in Computational Media and Communication Studies
2020/12 - 2021/03 Tampere University Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences Intimacy in Data-driven Culture
2020/09 - 2021/03 University of Helsinki / Tampere University / Consumer Society Research Centre Unconventional Communicators in the Corona Crisis (UnCoCo)

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Committee career (6)：

2023/10 - 現在 Waseda University Statistics & Data Science Education Review Committee
2023/04 - 現在 Waseda University Journal Editorial Committee
2021/04 - 現在 Waseda University The Coordination Team for Compulsory Statistics Courses
2021/04 - 2023/10 Waseda University Statistics Education Review Committee
2017 - 2021 University of Helsinki Ethics committee

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Awards (3)：

2023/09 - Waseda University 12th WASEDA e-Teaching Award Individual Zones of Proximal Development for Massive Online Programming Courses
2020/11 - European Association for Digital Humanities Small grants Python for digital humanities
2020/11 - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Digital Futures research center, Sweden Future Digileader Future Digileader

Association Membership(s) (5)：

Japanese Association for Digital Humanities , European Association for Digital Humanities , Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) , Rajapinta ry (Computational Social Science) , Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries

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