Dear colleagues,

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We are pleased to invite you to the final online workshops https://www.lingsoft.fi/en/microservices-your-service-workshops of our European project "Microservices at Your Service: Bridging the Gap Between NLP Research and Industry” https://www.lingsoft.fi/en/microservices-at-your-service-bridging-gap-between-nlp-research-and-industry, co-financed by Connecting Europe Facility. https://ec.europa.eu/inea/en/connecting-europe-facility/cef-telecom/2020-eu-ia-0046

Our project addresses the objective of the "Collaborative Language Tools Projects" call, which makes the natural language processing (NLP) tools accessible for a wider audience through the ELG https://www.european-language-grid.eu/ (European Language Grid) repository. Specifically, we have made available speech and language technology tools created for Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Northern Sami, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Basque, Catalan and Valencian languages.

As the main result of the project, we would like to share knowledge about these tools with you, researchers and software/service developers, so that you can benefit from them in your research and service development. In parallel, we can enhance the visibility of the research institutions that developed them.

With this objective in mind, we would like to invite you to participate in free online workshops:

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Microservices general workshop will give a general overview of the project, present the European Language Grid platform and some selected tools. -

on January 20 at 10:00 am CET (11:00 AM EET) -

Registration at https://forms.gle/6HzBLhU8NAcguTA67

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Four local workshops – which will introduce our project and the European Language Grid Platform, show demos and demonstrate use cases for these tools, concentrating on tools for that area. -

Estonia, January 27, 10 EET (In Estonian) -

Finland, January 24, 13 EET -

Iberia, January 25, 10 CET -

Iceland, February 1, 9 GMT -

The registration links for the local workshops can be found on our workshop website https://www.lingsoft.fi/en/microservices-your-service-workshops

A link to the workshops will be sent to the registered participants by email before the selected date. If you are unable to attend, the video recording of the workshop will be available after the workshop.

The project has already hosted two workshops geared towards researchers and providers of NLP tools. The first one, the Docker and API workshop, was a hands-on workshop on how researchers can easily share their tools by means of Docker and an API. The second one, ELG, a Bridge for NLP Development, introduced the ELG platform in more detail including guidelines on how developers can get their tools there. You can find recordings of these workshops at our workshop website.

Thank you very much for your time, we look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely, Tiina Lindh-Knuutila, project manager