Inari Listenmaa
Curriculum Vitae
Inari Listenmaa
January 2026
Contact information
| 🏢 | EDIT building, room 6126 Rännvägen 6B, Göteborg |
| 📞 | ️031 772 2919 |
| 📧 | inari@chalmers.se |
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, 2019
University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering Thesis: “Formal Methods for Testing Grammars”
Licentiate of Philosophy, 2016
University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering Thesis: “Analysing Constraint Grammar with SAT”
Master of Arts, 2013
University of Helsinki Department of Modern Languages Thesis: “Ontology-based lexicon management in a multilingual translation system—a survey of use cases”
Employment
January 2025 – present
Lecturer at Chalmers University of Technology, department of Computer Science and Engineering.
June 2020 – December 2024
Senior research scientist at Singapore Management University, Centre for Computational Law. Profile page on SMU website: https://cclaw.smu.edu.sg/people/inari-listenmaa
September 2018 – January 2026
Senior developer at Digital Grammars AB.
September 2013 – September 2018
PhD student at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
April 2010 – June 2013.
Research assistant at University of Helsinki, Department of Modern Languages.
Publications
2023
- Ranta, Aarne and Listenmaa, Inari (2023). Grammatical Framework: from Interlingual Semantics to Morphophonemic Processes. Book chapter, Rule-Based Language Technology. [Link]
2022
- Ranta, Aarne and Listenmaa, Inari and Soh, Jerrold and Wong, Meng Weng (2022). An End-to-End Pipeline from Law Text to Logical Formulas. Legal knowledge and information systems: Proceedings of the 35th International Conference (JURIX 2022). [Link]
2021
- Listenmaa, Inari and Hanafiah, Maryam and Cheong, Regina and Källberg, Andreas (2021). Towards CNL-based verbalization of computational contracts. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Controlled Natural Language. [Link]
2019
- Listenmaa, Inari (2019). Formal Methods for Testing Grammars. PhD thesis. Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg. Gothenburg, Sweden. [Link]
2018
- Listenmaa, Inari and Claessen, Koen (2018) Automatic test suite generation for PMCFG grammars. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science. [Link]
2017
- Kokke, Wen and Listenmaa, Inari (2017). Exploring the Expressivity of Constraint Grammar. Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2017 Workshop on Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications. [Link]
- Listenmaa, Inari and Arriola, Jose Maria and Aduriz, Itziar and Bick, Eckhard. Cleaning up the Basque grammar: a work in progress. Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2017 Workshop on Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications. [Link]
2016
- Listenmaa, Inari (2016). Analysing Constraint Grammar with SAT. Licentiate thesis. Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg. Gothenburg, Sweden. [Link]
- Listenmaa, Inari and Claessen, Koen (2016) Analysing Constraint Grammars with a SAT-solver. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). [Link]
2015
- Listenmaa, Inari and Claessen, Koen (2015) Constraint Grammar as a SAT-problem. Proceedings of the Constraint Grammar workshop at NoDaLiDa, the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics. [Link]
- Listenmaa, Inari and Tyers, Francis (2015) Automatic conversion of colloquial Finnish to standard Finnish. Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics. [Link]
2014
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Enache, Ramona and Listenmaa, Inari and Kolachina, Prasanth (2014) Handling non-compositionality in multilingual CNLs. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Controlled Natural Language. [Link]
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Listenmaa, Inari and Kaljurand, Kaarel (2014) Computational Estonian Grammar in Grammatical Framework. Proceedings of the SALTMIL Workshop at LREC 2014. [Link]
Teaching
Education
Completed 10 HEC in higher education pedagogy.
Lecturer and course responsible
- Fundamentals of Program Development (2025–)
- Computer Scientist in Society (2025–
Teaching assistant
- Algorithms (2016-2018)
- Computational Syntax (2014-2016)
- Computer Scientist in Society (2015-2017)
- Introduction to Natural Language Processing (2014-2017)
- Programming Language Technology (2014-2015)
Summer schools
- GF Summer School (2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2025)
- Summer School in Rule-Based Machine Translation (2016)
Thesis supervision
- Praveen Alavala & Zachris Stenhammar (MSc in Computer Science, Spring 2026)
- Bokun Xiao (MSc in Computer Science, Spring 2025)
- Mohammad Rakib Imtiaz (MSc in Computer Science, Spring 2025)
- Bjarki Traustason (MSc in Computer Science, Autumn 2016)
- Neda Amiri & Josef Al-Sader (BSc in Software Engineering and Management, Spring 2016)