His research interests include syntactic parsing, treebank development, large-scale corpora, and event extraction from scientific literature. He has contributed to the tools and the technical infrastructure of the UD project, as well as the development of the UD guidelines. Francis Tyers is a postdoctoral fellow in Sámi and Russian language technology at UiT in Tromsø, Norway. His research area is language technology for lesser-resourced languages, and especially languages with rich morphology such as the Turkic and Uralic languages. He has been involved in the development of rule-based morphological analysers, machine translation systems and treebanks for a number of languages, including Kazakh, Tatar, Tuvan, Kyrgyz and Turkish. He is secretary and co-founder of the ACL SIG on Uralic languages (SIGUR).