Heather Lent

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg University

Joined

July 2019

Names

Heather Lent (Preferred)

Heather C Lent

Heather C. Lent

Heather Christine Lent

Emails

****@di.ku.dk (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@cs.aau.dk (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg University (cs.aau.dk)

2025 – Present

Postdoc

Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University (cs.aau.dk)

2022 – 2025

PhD student

Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (diku.dk)

2019 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Johannes Bjerva

2022 – 2025

PhD Advisor

Anders Søgaard

2019 – 2022

Expertise

natural language processing

2014 – Present

Publications

Tokenization on Trial: The Case of Kalaallisut–Danish Legal Machine Translation
Esther Ploeger, Paola Saucedo, Johannes Bjerva, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, Heather Lent
- Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)
- Readers: Everyone
Transfer Learning for Code-Mixed Data: Do Pretraining Languages Matter?
Kushal Tatariya, Heather C. Lent, Miryam de Lhoneux
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 03 Oct 2023
- WASSA@ACL 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Challenges and Strategies in Cross-Cultural NLP
Daniel Hershcovich, Stella Frank, Heather C. Lent, Miryam de Lhoneux, Mostafa Abdou, Stephanie Brandl, Emanuele Bugliarello, Laura Cabello Piqueras, Ilias Chalkidis, Ruixiang Cui, Constanza Fierro, Katerina Margatina, Phillip Rust, Anders Søgaard
- 2022 (modified: 04 Aug 2022)
- ACL (1) 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Ancestor-to-Creole Transfer is Not a Walk in the Park
Heather C. Lent, Emanuele Bugliarello, Anders Søgaard
- 2022 (modified: 17 Apr 2023)
- Insights@ACL 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
Ruixiang Cui, Rahul Aralikatte, Heather C. Lent, Daniel Hershcovich
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 Jun 2023
- Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 2022
- Readers: Everyone
What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs
Heather C. Lent, Kelechi Ogueji, Miryam de Lhoneux, Orevaoghene Ahia, Anders Søgaard
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 03 Oct 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs
Heather C. Lent, Kelechi Ogueji, Miryam de Lhoneux, Orevaoghene Ahia, Anders Søgaard
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 03 Oct 2023
- LREC 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Challenges and Strategies in Cross-Cultural NLP
Daniel Hershcovich, Stella Frank, Heather C. Lent, Miryam de Lhoneux, Mostafa Abdou, Stephanie Brandl, Emanuele Bugliarello, Laura Cabello Piqueras, Ilias Chalkidis, Ruixiang Cui, Constanza Fierro, Katerina Margatina, Phillip Rust, Anders Søgaard
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 03 Oct 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Ancestor-to-Creole Transfer is Not a Walk in the Park
Heather C. Lent, Emanuele Bugliarello, Anders Søgaard
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 03 Oct 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Multilingual Compositional Wikidata Questions
Ruixiang Cui, Rahul Aralikatte, Heather C. Lent, Daniel Hershcovich
- 2021 (modified: 14 Oct 2021)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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