Päivikki Parpola

Address: Hauenkalliontie 2 B 54 FIN-02170 ESPOO Finland Phone: +358 9 420 8482 (home) +358 50 55 23 114 (portable) Email: Paivikki.Parpola@hut.fi

About me

• born 22nd November, 1965 in Helsinki.
• MSc (University of Helsinki) in computer science 1988 (Finding a grammar describing a set of strings, in Finnish: Merkkijonojoukkoa kuvaavan kieliopin löytäminen).
• Worked at Nokia Research Center 1987-1993.
• Retired 1994 due to serious MS (multiple sclerosis) symptoms.
• Ph.lic. (University of Helsinki) in computer science. 1995 (Object-oriented knowledge aquisition).
• Currently a PhD student at Helsinki University of Technolofy, developing a knowledge acquisition methodology called Seamless Structured Knowledge Acquisition (SeSKA). The main example expert system, built using Seska
• tries to solve the testbench project Sisyphus III. Another example concerns MS and nutrition. A development tool SOOKAT (gif picture, 15 kB) (Structured Object-Oriented Knowledge Acquisition Tool) is being built to support SeSKA.
  

Interests:

• dietary control of MS (some principles of living food, sufficiene intake of vitamin D - 20 mcg/day for MS patients, 10 normally -, Swank and MacDougall diets, progesterone, information found in Medlin etc.)
• mental exercises with Silva method, Feldenkrais method, affirmations, techniques of psychosynthesis, etc.)
• horseriding, swimming

Publications

• Parpola, P. (1987) Computer in research of the Indus script. (in Finnish, Tietokone Indus-kirjoituksen tutkimuksessa). Pp. 123-132 In Seppänen, J. (ed.), Proceedings of Symboliikka 87 - Computers in symbolic graphics and communications. Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Aug. 17-18, 1987. Volume 2: Languages and writing systems. Finnish society of semiotics.
• Parpola, P. (1988) On the synthesis of context-free grammars. Pp. 133-141 In Mäkelä. M., Linnainmaa, S., Ukkonen, E. (eds.), Proceedings of STeP88 - Finnish Artificial Intelligence Symposium. University of Helsinki, August 15 - 18, 1988. Volume 1: Invited papers, Contributed papers: Applications. Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society. University of Helsinki. Limes association.
• Parpola, P. (1988) Finding a grammar describing a set of strings (in Finnish, Merkkijonojoukkoa kuvaavan kieliopin löytäminen) Master's Thesis. University of Helsinki.
• Hätönen, K. Parpola, P. Rämö, K. Tyrväinen, P. (1991) "On the Structures of Technical Documentation," SIMPR document No. SIMPR-NRC-1991-26-22e, September 1991. 
• Hätönen, K. Parpola, P. Tyrväinen, P. (1991) "Semi-Automatic Creation of Domain Models Based on Design Information Input," SIMPR document No. SIMPR-NRC-1991-24-17e, September 1991. 
• Hätönen, K. Parpola, P. Tyrväinen, P. (1991) "Text References: Methods to Link Models with Texts," SIMPR document No. SIMPR-NRC-1991-24-18e, September 1991. 
• Parpola, P. (1995) Object-oriented knowledge acquisition. Licentiate's thesis. University of Helsinki.
• Parpola, P. (1998) Seamless development of structured knowledge bases. In proceedings of KAW98 - Eleventh Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modelling and Management. Banff, Alberta, Canada, 18th-23rd April, 1998 (overhead slides attached).
• Parpola, P. (1999) Development and inference in integrated OO models. Proceedings of CIMCA '99 - The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation. Vienna, Austria, 17-19 February, 1999. IOS Press.
• Parpola, P. (1999) Applying SeSKA to Sisyphus III. In Fensel D., Studer R. (eds.), Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management. Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop EKAW '99. Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, May 1999. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1621. Springer.
• Parpola, P. (2000) Managing terminology using statistical analyses, ontologies and a (eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Ontologies and Texts. In connection with EKAW'2000 (12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management). Juan-les-Pins, France, October 2000.
• Parpola, P. (2001) Integration of development, maintenance and use of knowledge bases. Dieng-Kuntz R., Matta N. (eds.), Proceedings of the Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories workshop (KRR-1), August 6th. In connection with IJCAI-2001 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, Washington, 4th-10th August, 2001.
• Parpola, P. (2002) Integration of development, maintenance and use of knowledge bases. Revised version. Chapter 4 in Dieng-Kuntz R., Matta N. (eds.), Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
• Parpola, P. (2004\?) Inference in the object-oriented knowledge acquisition tool {SOOKAT}. Knowledge And Information Systems. Springer-Verlag. To appear.