Anna Korhonen
Anna Korhonen researches multilingual natural-language processing, lexical acquisition and language applications in health and other fields. Korhonen earned a doctorate in computer science at Cambridge and conducted earlier research at Penn and Japan’s National Institute of Informatics. Her projects include multilingual conversational AI and the acquisition of language information. ACL elected her a Fellow in 2023. She has leadership roles in the Language Technology Laboratory and the Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on human-centered language technology.
- Now at
- University of Cambridge
- Works
- 376
- Citations
- 11,579
- h-index
- 54
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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Education and early research
Combining computing and linguistics
Korhonen earned a doctorate in computer science at Cambridge and master’s degrees in computing and linguistics. She also conducted research at Penn and held a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics.
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Research career
Language technology across settings
Her research covers multilingual and low-resource NLP, information extraction, text mining and dialogue systems. Her projects include multilingual conversational AI and lexical acquisition. Their applications cross health, cognition and other disciplines.
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2023
ACL fellowship
ACL elected Korhonen a Fellow in 2023. Her work includes lexical acquisition, multilingual and low-resource NLP, socially useful language applications and service.
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As of October 2026
Human-centered language research
Korhonen is a professor of NLP, co-director of the Language Technology Laboratory and director of CHIA. Her research interests include NLP informed by human cognitive and social intelligence, with applications aimed at social and global needs.
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