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Emily Ohman is an Associate Professor at Waseda University's School of International Liberal Studies since April 2025, with additional roles as Title of Docent in Language Technology at the University of Helsinki (2024–) and Visiting/Adjunct Associate Professor at LUT University (2024–2029). Her research bridges Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, and Social Science, focusing on emotion detection, sentiment analysis, and machine learning applications across languages like English, Japanese, and Finnish.
- PhD in Language Technology (University of Helsinki, 2021)
- MA in English Linguistics (Linnaeus University, 2015)
- 30 ECTS pedagogy certification (HYPE, 2016)
Her scholarly work includes creating foundational tools like the XED multilingual dataset and SELF/FEIL Finnish lexicons, alongside pioneering research on emotion dynamics in literature, politics, and social media. Recent projects explore AI ethics, cross-cultural emotional semantics, and hate speech moderation.
- Key publications span 15+ years in emotion detection, gamified annotation, and computational literary studies
- Awarded for pedagogical innovation (Waseda e-Teaching Award, 2023)
- Active in curriculum development for computational methods in humanities
- Peer review/editorial roles for Digital Humanities Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and conference committees
