Krista Lagus

D. Sc (Tech), Academy Research Fellow,
EIT ICT Labs Lead of Schools & Camps Catalyst Development

I work at Adaptive Informatics Research Centre in the Department of Information and Computer Science of Aalto University.

Research

Publications, Older list of publications with some more links, PhD Thesis

Most of my research concerns the study of emergent representations for cognition and language, and natural language processing methods that build on these.

My current interest is in wellbeing informatics, that is, applying these methods for supporting individuals and societies in their quest for general wellness, meaning and happiness. An event that we organised related to this was Wellbeing Innovation Camp 29.8.-2.9.2011. We have begun the Virtual Coach - Pathways of Wellbeing -research project funded by Tekes in 2011-2012.

Some ongoing and past projects have their own pages:

• Unsupervised discovery of morphemes
• IVGA -- Obtaining efficient (structured) representations by unsupervised learning
• Emergence of linguistic and cognitive features and structures

Research groups

• Computational cognitive systems group page
• Adaptive natural language processing group page
• Multimodal Interfaces group page

Past projects: WEBSOM - document maps of large text collections and USIX INTERACT - Interaction using natural language.

Teaching

Autumn 2007:	T-61.6090 Emergence of early cognition, communication and language: from humans to machines
Spring 2005:	T-61.281 Statistical natural language processing
Fall 2004:	T-61.186 The Evolution of Language and Cognition: Modeling Perspectives
Spring 2004:	T-61.281 Statistical natural language processing
Fall 2003:	T-61.184 Statistical and Adaptive Approaches to Conceptual Modeling
Spring 2002:	T-61.281 Statistical natural language processing
Fall 2001:	T-61.184 Statistical (adaptive) language modeling
Spring 2000:	Tik-61.182 Information Retrieval and Statistical Natural Language Processing
Fall 1999:	Tik-61.184 Self-Organizing Maps

Studying language technology in Finland

• TKK-KIT - Kieliteknologian pää/sivuaine TKK:lla
• KIT - Valtakunnallinen kieliteknologian opetuksen verkosto
• KIT-tutkijakoulu - Kieliteknologian valtakunnallinen tutkijakoulu
• TYKIT - KIELI, IHMINEN JA TEKNOLOGIA - Turun yliopiston tutkijakoulu

Societies in Finland

• FiCLA
• STeS (FAIS)
• Hatutus

Contact information

Adaptive Informatics Research Centre (AIRC)

ICS Department

Aalto University, School of Science

P.O. Box 15400, FI-00076 Aalto, Espoo, Finland

Tel: +358-40-553 1704   Fax: +358-9-470 23277

Room A325

Personal home page

http://www.cis.hut.fi/krista/index.shtml
krista.lagus at tkk.fi
Tuesday, 11-Oct-2011 15:49:39 EEST