Computational Linguist & NLP Researcher

Dr. Aarne Talman

Bridging formal computational models with AI and machine learning to build systems that truly understand language.

About Me

Research and Impact

I'm a researcher in natural language processing and computational linguistics, working at the intersection of formal semantics, grammar, and AI.

Formal Foundations

I investigate formal models of grammar and semantics to understand how meaning is composed in natural language.

Machine Learning

I train, apply and evaluate statistical and neural methods—particularly large language models—on tasks that require understanding, reasoning, and generalization.

Research Philosophy

I believe in research that balances theoretical depth with practical relevance, aiming to produce insights that endure and systems that work.

Research Areas

My Focus Areas

I explore core challenges at the intersection of language, logic, and learning—combining formal and statistical approaches to build systems that understand and reason with language.

Language Understanding

Developing models that move beyond pattern matching toward deep semantic interpretation and contextual understanding.

Formal & Computational Linguistics

Exploring grammar, meaning, and compositionality through symbolic and logic-based frameworks.

Reasoning & Inference

Designing systems that perform structured reasoning, entailment, and generalization in real-world settings.

Large Language Models

Training and evaluating large language models on tasks of meaning, structure, and generalization.

Career & Activities

Professional Roles

A blend of industry leadership, academic research, and AI-driven entrepreneurship.

Data & AI Senior Manager

Accenture · Helsinki, Finland

I lead the Machine Learning and Computational Science practice and the Model Customization capability at the EMEA Centre for Advanced AI.

My work focuses on deploying and adapting cutting-edge AI models for enterprise use cases, enabling organizations to operationalize AI with trust, transparency, and performance in mind.

Visiting Scholar

University of Helsinki · Helsinki, Finland

Continuing research in natural language understanding—connecting formal semantics with deep learning methods.

My academic work explores how meaning is composed and represented in human language, with a focus on integrating symbolic frameworks and neural models.

Founder

Muves  |  Basement AI

Building Muves — an AI-powered workspace for collecting, organizing, and understanding the latest in AI research. Backed by your personal Research Assistant.

Leading Basement AI — an independent R&D lab and venture builder focused on advanced natural language processing, computational linguistics, and AI research.

Publications

Recent Work

My latest contributions to the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing.

ELOQUENT 2024 — Robustness Task

2024 Sahlgren, Karlgren, Dürlich, Gogoulou, Talman, Zahra · CLEF

ELOQUENT 2024 - Topical Quiz Task

2024 Karlgren, Talman · CLEF

Voight-Kampff Task @ PAN and ELOQUENT 2024

2024 Bevendorf et al., including Talman · CLEF

ELOQUENT CLEF Shared Tasks

2024 Karlgren et al., including Talman · ECIR

Uncertainty-Aware Natural Language Inference with Stochastic Weight Averaging

2023 Talman, Celikkanat, Virpioja, Heinonen, Tiedemann · NoDaLiDa

NLI Data Sanity Check: Assessing the Effect of Data Corruption on Model Performance

2022 Talman, Apidianaki, Chatzikyriakidis, Tiedemann · NoDaLiDa

Predicting Prosodic Prominence from Text with Pre-trained Contextualized Word Representations

2019 Talman, Suni, Celikkanat, Kakouros, Tiedemann, Vainio · NoDaLiDa

The University of Helsinki submissions to the WMT19 news translation task

2019 Talman, Sulubacak, Vázquez, Scherrer, Virpioja, Raganato, Hurskainen, Tiedemann · WMT

Sentence Embeddings in NLI with Iterative Refinement Encoders

2019 Talman, Yli-Jyrä, Tiedemann · Natural Language Engineering

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Let's Collaborate

Interested in my research, collaborations, or academic inquiries? I'd love to hear from you.