Neural-Symbolic AI Research Lab

Basement AI

Advancing the foundations of language understanding through neural-symbolic approaches, computational linguistics, and hybrid AI systems.

About

Independent Research Lab

Basement AI is an independent research lab bridging theoretical linguistics and machine learning. We develop foundational models that combine the interpretability of symbolic systems with the power of neural networks to advance language understanding.

Research Focus

Neural-Symbolic Integration

Our research spans foundational questions in computational linguistics, hybrid AI architectures, and the development of robust, interpretable language models.

Hybrid AI Systems

Developing neural-symbolic architectures that combine the learning capabilities of neural networks with the interpretability and reasoning power of symbolic systems for robust language understanding.

Computational Linguistics

Bridging linguistic theory with machine learning through structured approaches to language modeling, exploring how grammatical formalisms can inform more interpretable AI systems.

Model Robustness

Investigating how language models behave under different conditions—from data corruption to domain shifts—to develop more reliable and generalizable NLP systems for real-world applications.

Publications

Selected Research

Selected publications developing foundational approaches to language understanding, model reliability, and reasoning.

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

2021 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

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