Computational Linguistics & Natural Language Processing

Parser evaluation

Doctoral Thesis

• Kakkonen, T.: Framework and Resources for Natural Language Parser Evaluation. PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Joensuu, Finland, 2007. (PDF)

Conference Papers

• Kakkonen, T., Sutinen, E.: Coverage-based Evaluation of Parser Generalizability. Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hyderabad, India, 2008. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T.: Developing Parser Evaluation Resources for English and Finnish. Proceedings of the 3rd Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, Kaunas, Lithuania, 2007.
• Kakkonen, T.: Robustness Evaluation of Two CCG, a PCFG and a Link Grammar Parsers. Proceedings of the 3rd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan, Poland, 2007. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T., Sutinen, E.: Towards a Framework for Evaluating Syntactic Parsers. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Turku, Finland, 2006. (PDF)

Sentiment Snalysis and Opinion Mining

Journal Articles

• Cosma, G., Kakkonen, T., Joy, M.: Automatic Prediction of Review Ratings using Information Retrieval and Artificial Neural Network algorithms, Submitted for review.

Conference Papers

• Kakkonen, T., Montero, C. S., Munezero, M.: Towards a Sentiment Analysis Dataset Annotated Based on the Circumplex Model of Affect. Submitted for review.
• Dai, Y., Montero, C. S., Kakkonen, T., Nasiri, M., Sutinen, E., Kim, M., Savolainen, T.: TrustAider - Enhancing Trust in e-Leadership. To appear in the Proceeginds of the 16th International Conference on Business Information Systems, Poznan, Poland, 2013.
• Munezero, M., Kakkonen, T., Montero, C. S.: Towards Automatic Detection of Antisocial Behavior from Texts. Proceedings of the Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology Workshop associated with the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T., Galić Kakkonen, G.: SentiProfiler: Creating Comparable Visual Profiles of Sentimental Content in Texts. Proceedings of the Language Technologies for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Workshop associated with the RANLP 2011 Conference, Hissar, Bulgaria, 2011. (PDF)

Treebanks & other linguistic resources

Conference Papers

• Mozgovoy, M., Kakkonen, T.: An Approach to Building a Multilingual Translation Dictionary that Contains Case, Prepositional and Ontological Information. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Humans and Computers, Shizuoka, Japan, 2009.
• Kakkonen, T., Werner, S.: The Annotation Scheme for an Evaluation Treebank of Finnish. Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, Tübingen, Germany, 2007.
• Kakkonen, T.: DepAnn - An Annotation Tool for Dependency Treebanks. Proceedings of the 11th ESSLLI Student Session at the 18th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Malaga, Spain, 2006. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T.: Dependency Treebanks: Methods, Annotation Schemes and Tools. Proceedings of the 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, Joensuu, Finland, 2005. (PDF/PS)

Other Publications

• Kakkonen, T. and Sutinen, E.: Developing and Evaluating Natural Language Processing Resources. In Sillanpää et al. (eds.): CSC Report on Computational Science in Finland 2006-2007. Scientific Computing Ltd. Espoo, Finland, 2007.

Text Mining for Business Intelligence

Journal Articles

• Dai, Y., Kakkonen, T., Arendarenko, E., Liao, D., Sutinen, E.: MOETA - A Novel Text-Mining Model for Collecting and Analysing Competitive Intelligence. To appear in International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication.
• Dai, Y., Kakkonen, T., Sutinen, E.: MinEDec: A Decision Support Model that Combines Text Mining Technologies with Two Competitive Intelligence Analysis Methods, International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, 3:165-173, 2011. (PDF)

Conference Papers

• Arendarenko, E., Kakkonen, T.: Ontology-based Information and Event Extraction for Business Intelligence. Proceedsing of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Varna, Bulgaria, 2012.
• Dai, Y., Arendarenko, E., Kakkonen, T., Liao, D.: Towards SoMEST - Combining Social Media Monitoring with Event Extraction and Timeline Analysis. Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Engineering for Online Reputation Management, LREC, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012. (PDF)
• Dai, Y., Kakkonen, T. & Sutinen, E.: SoMEST - a Model for Detecting Competitive Intelligence from Social Media. Proceedings of the 15th MindTrek Conference, Tampere, Finland, 2011. (ACM Digital Library)
• Kakkonen, T. & Mufti, T.: Developing and Applying a Company, Product and Business Event Ontology for Text Mining. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, Graz, Austria, 2011. (ACM Digital Library)
• Dai, Y., Kakkonen, T., Sutinen, E.: MinEDec: A Decision Support Model that Combines Text Mining with Competitive Intelligence. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, Cracow, Poland, 2010. (IEEE Xplore)
• Dai, Y., Kakkonen, T., Sutinen, E.: MinerVA: A Decision Support Model that Uses Novel Text Mining Technologies. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Management and Service Science, Wuhan, China, 2010. (IEEE Xplore)

Educational Technology

Automatic and Semi-automatic Essay Assessment

Book Chapters

• Randolph, J. J., Rogers, P. C., Kakkonen, T., Myller, N., and Bednarik, R.: Emerging Technologies for Educational Evaluation. In Ortiz, M., Rubio, C. (eds.): Educational Evaluation: 21st Century Issues and Challenges, pp. 417-442. Nova, Hauppauge, New York, USA, 2009.

Journal Articles

• Kakkonen, T., and Sutinen, E.: EssayAid: Towards a Semi-automatic System for Assessing Student Texts. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning, 21(2-3):119-139, 2011. (InderScience web site)
• Kakkonen, T., Myller, N., Sutinen, E., Timonen, J.: Comparison of Dimension Reduction Methods for Automated Essay Grading. Journal of Educational Technology and Society, 11(3):275-288, 2008.
• Kakkonen, T., Sutinen, E., Timonen, J.: Applying Validation Methods for Noise Reduction in LSA-based Essay Grading. WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, 9(2):1334-1342, 2005. (PDF)

Conference Papers

• Kakkonen, T.: TexComp - A Text Complexity Analyzer for Student Texts. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interactive Computer-aided Learning, Villach, Austria, 2009. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T., Sutinen, E.: Semi-automatic Assessment Model of Student Texts - Pedagogical Foundations. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interactive Computer-aided Learning, Villach, Austria, 2009. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T., Sutinen, E.: Evaluation Criteria for Automatic Essay Assessment Systems - There is much more to it than just the correlation. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computers in Education, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T.,Myller, N., Sutinen, E.: Applying Latent Dirichlet Allocation to Automatic Essay Grading. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Turku, Finland, 2006. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T., Myller, N., Sutinen, E.: Applying Part-of-Speech Enhanced LSA to Automatic Essay Grading. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2006. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T., Myller, N., Sutinen, E., Timonen, J.: Automatic Essay Grading with Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 2005. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T., Sutinen, E., Timonen, J.: Noise Reduction in LSA-based Essay Assessment. Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Optimization, Corfu Island, Greece, 2005. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T. and Sutinen, E.: Automatic Assessment of the Content of Essays Based on Course Materials. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education 2004, London, UK, 2004. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T., Myller, N., Sutinen, E.: Semi-Automatic Evaluation Features in Computer-Assisted Essay Assessment. Proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education , Kauai, Hawaii, USA, 2004.(PDF)
• Kakkonen, T., Myller, N., Scheinin, P., Sutinen, E., Timonen, J.: Applying Natural Language Processing to Text Analysis in Educational Context. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Finnish Educational Research Association, Joensuu, Finland, 2004.

Master's Thesis

• Kakkonen, T.: Esseetehtävien tietokoneavusteinen arviointi (In Finnish) (Computer-assisted assessment of essays). Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, Finland, 2003. (PDF)

Plagiarism Detection

Book Chapters

• Kakkonen, T., Mozgovoy, M.: Students' Cyber Plagiarism. Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior, IGI Global, 2012. (IGI Global)

Journal Articles

• Mozgovoy, M., Kakkonen, T., and Cosma, G.: Automatic Student Plagiarism Detection: Future perspectives. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 43(4):507-527, 2010.
• Kakkonen, T., and Mozgovoy, M.: Hermetic and Web Plagiarism Detection Systems for Student Essays - An evaluation of the state-of-the-art. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 42(2):135-159, 2010.
• Kakkonen, T.: Plagiarismi sekä sen havaitseminen Internet-aikakaudella. Kasvatus, 38(4):364-369, 2007 (Plagiarism and its detection in the Internet era. The Finnish Journal of Education, 38(4):364-369, 2007). (PDF abstract)

Conference Papers

• Kakkonen, T., Myller, N.: AntiPlag - A Sampling-based Tool for Plagiarism Detection in Student Texts. Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on e-Learning, Bari, Italy, 2009. (PDF)
• Kakkonen, T., Mozgovoy, M.: An Evaluation of Web Plagiarism Detection Systems for Student Essays. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computers in Education, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008. (PDF)
• Mozgovoy, M., Kakkonen, T., Sutinen, E.: Using Natural Language Parsers in Plagiarism Detection. Proceedings of the SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, Farmington, Pennsylvania, USA, 2007. (PDF)

Scientific Writing Aid

Conference Papers

• Kinnunen, T., Leisma, H., Machunik, M., Kakkonen, T., LeBrun, J.-L.: SWAN - Scientific Writing AssistaNt. A Tool for Helping Scholars to Write Reader-Friendly Manuscripts. Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for computational Linguistics, Avignon, France, 2012. (PDF)