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META-FORUM 2019: 8/9 Oct. 2019 – save the date!
by Georg Rehm 17 May '19

17 May '19

Dear colleagues, with this email we’d like to inform you about the date and location of this year’s META-NET conference and the opportunities how to participate actively: META-FORUM 2019: Introducing the European Language Grid 8/9 October, 2019 – Brussels, Belgium (BluePoint Conference Centre) Please save the date! META-FORUM 2019 is organised by the new EU project European Language Grid (ELG). Details about the project are available on https://www.european-language-grid.eu <https://www.european-language-grid.eu/>. Submit programme suggestions While the website of META-FORUM 2019 is still under development, we’d already now like to invite you to participate in the event and also to propose relevant content, presentations, sessions etc. If there’s a certain topic or speaker that you’d like to see at META-FORUM 2019, please let us know. Invitation to participate in the project and initiative expo Furthermore, we’re organising an expo again at this year’s META-FORUM 2019. We want to showcase current projects, especially EU projects and European initiatives from the area of Language Technology, Artificial Intelligence and related fields. Larger regional or national projects are also welcome to showcase their activities. We can provide either a table with chairs or space for a roll-up or poster so that projects and initiatives can present themselves. Please note that the availability of expo booths is limited – if you’re interested, please get in touch as soon as possible. Participation is free of charge Participation (including expo booths) is, as usual, free of charge. The registration form will be available on the website very soon. In the meantime, if you want to actively participate, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via email to my colleague Katrin Marheinecke (cc:) and me. Look forward to seeing you in Brussels in October! Best regards, Georg -- Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/> Principal Researcher and Research Fellow <http://www.dfki.de/> DFKI GmbH <http://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 – Mobile: +49 173 2735829 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Jana Köhler (Vorsitzende), Dr. Walter Olthoff Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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SIGUL Newsletter no. 7
by Claudia Soria 17 May '19

17 May '19

** *Dear SIGUL Members,* * we are pleased to share with you the seventh SIGUL Newsletter. The SIGUL Newsletter is a bi-weekly report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair SIGUL is the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages * *Calls for papers* ICALP2019 (ex CITALA) submission deadline is approaching (May 31, 2019). The International Conference on Arabic Language Processing ICALP2019 (ex CITALA) is aimed to be one of the most important and leading conference on Arabic NLP (https://icalp2019.loria.fr). ICALP2019 is the 7th edition (information about the previous editions are mentioned at: ICALP2017), all branches of NLP related to Arabic or Semitic languages are welcomed. Arabic spoken or text language processing are the main kernel of ICALP2019. The conference will emphasize on all the approaches from theoretical models to industrial applications. ICALP2019 will be held at Loria (University of Lorraine), which is situated in Nancy on the east part of France near the border of Luxembourg and Germany. We look forward to welcome you to a scientifically inspiring event and we hope that ICALP2019 will be a highly positive scientific experience for all the participants. Two keynote speakers *Dr Mona Diab* (Department of Computer Science, George Washington University) and *Dr Albert Gatt *(Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta.) will share their expertise with the aim of exposing participants to a wide spectrum of research and applications, to foster cross-pollination of research ideas and interests in Arabic Language Processing and related applications. As in the previous year (ICALP – CITALA 2017), we aim, for accepted papers, to be published by Springer. All the submitted papers will be reviewed by three experts from the domain. Only the 30% best papers will be selected to be published by Springer. Participants are invited to submit original communications in all the areas of Arabic NLP. Few topics of the conference are given below. *Thanks to the Google's sponsoring two scholarships (including the Flight ticket, the accomodation and the registration fees) are proposed to Phd or Master students to attend the conference. A short CV and a motivation letter are requested to apply to this scholarship (please contact icalp2019(a)inria.fr) * List of Topics * Arabic dialect processing * Automatic speech recognition * Building ontologies * Code Switching phenomena * Comparative Linguistic Studies * Cross-Language Applications * Deep Learning for Arabic applications * Digital Humanities * End-to-End DNN * Generation and Analysis * Human Machine-Dialogue * Information retrieval on Social Networks * Linguistic Resources for Arabic NLP Applications * Machine Translation * Multi-Word Term Extraction * Named Entity Recognition * Opining Mining and Sentiment Analysis * Optical Character Recognition * Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment * Question/Answering Systems * Semitic languages * Spell-check and automatic corrections * Study of Linguistic Phenomena * Text Categorization and Clustering * Text Summarization * Word Sense Disambiguation Committees Program Committee * *Ahmed Ali *(Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)) * *Mohamed Afify (*Microsoft, Cairo, Egypt) * *Hassina Aliane* (Centre de Recherche sur l’Information Scientifique et Technique , Algeria) * *Frédéric Béchet* (Aix Marseille Université - LIF, France) * *Almoataz Bellahal-Said* (Cairo University, Egypt) * *Laurent Besacier* (University of Grenoble, France) * *Karim Bouzoubaa* (EMI, UM5, Rabat, Morocco) * *Violetta Cavalli-Sforza* (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco) * *Khalid Choukri* (ELDA, European Language Resource Association, France) * *Kareem Darwish* (Qatar Computing Research Institute) * *Joseph Di Martino* (Loria - University of Lorraine, France) * *Mona Diab* (George Washington university, USA) * *Abdelhamid El Jihad* (IERA, UMS, Rabat, Morocco) * *Mahmoud El-Haj* (School of Computing and Communications Lancaster University, UK) * *Yannick Estève* (LIUM University of Maine, France) * *Albert Gatt* ( Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta) * *Nada Ghneim (*Higher Institute for Applied Science and Technology, Damascu) * *Ahmed Guessoum* (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria) * *Hatem Haddad* (Department of Computer & Decision Engineering, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) * *Kais Haddar* (Faculté des sciences de Sfax, Tunisia) * *Abdelfetah Hamdani* (IERA, UMS, rabat, Morocco) * *Yannis Haralambous* (Institut Mines-Télécom & UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC, Brest, France) * *Salima Harrat* (Ecole Normale Supérieure Bouzaréah, Algiers, Algeria) * *Mark Hasegawa-Johnson* (University of Illinois, USA) * *Mustafa Jarrar* (Birzeit University- Sina Institute, Palestine) * *Denis Jouvet* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *Abdelmonaime Lachkar* (ENSA, USMBA, Fez, Morocco) * *David Langlois* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *Abdelhak Lakhouaja* (UMP, Oujda, Morocco) * *Azzedine Lazrek* (UCA, Marrakech, Morocco) * *Yves Lepage* (University of Waseda, Japan) * *Azzedine Mazroui* (UMP, Oujda, Morocco) * *Karima Meftouh* (University of Annaba, Algeria) * *Farid Meziane* (University of Salford, Manchester, UK) * *Vito Pirrelli* (Institute for Computational Linguistics CNR, Pisa Italy) * *Violaine Prince* (LIRMM, Montepelier, France) * *Allan Ramsay* (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK) * *Horacio Rodríguez* (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain) * *Paolo Rosso* (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) * *Motaz Saad* (University Islamic of Gaza, Palestine) * *Fatiha Sadat* (University du Québec à Montréal, Canada) * *Khaled Shaalan* (The British University, United Arab Emirates) * *Olivier Siohan* (Google, USA) * *Kamel Smaili* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *Adnan Yahya* (Birzeit University, Palestine) * *Abdella Yousfi* (Mohammed V university, Morocco) * *Wajdi Zaghouani* (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar) * *Imed Zitouni* (Microsoft Research, USA) Organizing committee * *Karima Abidi* (Student management) * *Olivia Brenner* (Communication) * *Joseph Di Martino* (Special Event) * *David Langlois* ( Publication and Logistic management) * *Mohamed-Amine Menacer* (Website designer) Invited Speakers * *Dr Mona Diab* ( Department of Computer Science <http://www.cs.gwu.edu/>, George Washington University (GW) <http://www.gwu.edu/> ) * *Dr Albert Gatt* ( Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology <http://www.um.edu.mt/linguistics/>, University of Malta <http://www.um.edu.mt/> ) Publication ICALP2019 (CITALA) proceedings aim to be published by Springer *Important**Dates* * Submission portal opens *April 30, 2019* * Final paper submission deadline *May 31, 2019* * Acceptance/rejection notification *July 15, 2019* * Camera ready*July 31, 2019 * * Registration open*August 25, 2019* * Conference*16-17 October, 2019* Venue The conference will be held in Nancy (East of France) near the borders of Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium. It will be held at Loria ( Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications). Contact smaili(a)loria.fr -------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- The 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019) The Helix, DCU, Dublin, August 20, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/ @ MT Summit XVII ---------------------------------------------------- BRIEF 1. Call for Papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/LoResMT2019 Submission due on "May 24, 2019" (Abstract on "May 17"): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=loresmt2019 2. Shared Tasks on MT for Bhojpuri, Magahi, Sindhi, and Latvian (<> English) *Registration open. Training, Development sets available upon registration!* Participants please register by sending email to loresmt(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:loresmt@googlegroups.com> with Team name, members (emails and affiliations) information. Timeline: May 03, 2019: Release of training data June 04, 2019: Release of test data June 11, 2019: Submission of the systems June 16, 2019: Notification of results June 25, 2019: Submission of shared task papers 3. Prof Xiaobing Zhao et al. will give an invited talk on "Building Cross-Lingual Knowledge Base for Low Resource Languages in China" 4. Please find below the proceeding and slides of LoResMT 2018. Works on several low resource languages, e.g. Filipino, Finnish, Irish, Latvian, Mongolian, Quechua, Tibetan, and Uyghur, are presented. https://amtaweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/AMTA_2018_Workshop_Proceedin… https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt-2018/ SCOPES Machine translation (MT) technologies have been improved significantly in the last two decades, with the developments on phrased-based statistical MT (SMT) and recently the neural MT (NMT). However, most of these methods rely on the availability of large parallel data (millions to tens of millions sentence pairs) in the training, which are resources that do not exist in many language pairs. In addition, MT methods still rely on a few natural language processing (NLP) tools to help pre-process human generated texts in the forms that are required as input for these methods, and/or post-process the output in proper textual forms in target languages. In many MT systems, the performance of these tools has great impacts on the quality of the resulting translation. These NLP tools include, but not limited to, several kinds of word tokenizers/de-tokenizers, word segmenters, morphology analyzers, etc. The workshop solicits papers on MT systems/methods for low resource languages in general. We also solicit papers dedicated to these supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low resource languages. We would like to have an overview of research on MT for low resource languages and these NLP tools from our community. TOPICS We solicit original research papers, review papers, and position papers on MT research for low resource languages in the workshop. Multilingual and/or cross-lingual NLP tools for low resource languages are especially welcome. Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: - Research and review papers of pre-processing and/or post-processing NLP tools for MT - Position papers on the development of pre-processing and/or post-processing tools for MT - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Re-usability of existing NLP tools for low resource languages - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low resource languages - Review of available parallel corpora for low resource languages - Research and review papers of MT methods for low resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low resource languages - Pivot MT for low resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation SUBMISSION INFORMATION Workshop papers should adhere to MT Summit 2019 style guide (LaTeX, OpenOffice, Word). https://www.mtsummit2019.com/submissions Submission deadline: "May 24, 2019" (Abstract on "May 17"). https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=loresmt2019 There are two types of submissions in the workshop. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. More pages would be allowed as long as it could be justified. The review will be double-blinded. For non-archival system demonstration abstracts, the limit is four (4) pages. The review will be single-blind. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. IMPORTANT DATES March 19, 2019: Call for papers April 19, 2019: 2nd Call for papers May 24, 2019: Submission deadline of workshop papers June 21, 2019: Notification of acceptance July 12, 2019: Camera-ready papers due July 19, 2019: Workshop proceeding on-line August 21, 2019: LoResMT workshop ORGANIZERS (listed alphabetically) Alina Karakanta FBK-Fondazione Bruno Kessler Atul Kr. Ojha Panlingua Language Processing LLP/Jawaharlal Nehru University Chao-Hong Liu ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University Jonathan Washington Swarthmore College Nathaniel Oco National University (Philippines) Surafel Melaku Lakew FBK-Fondazione Bruno Kessler Valentin Malykh Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Varvara Logacheva Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Xiaobing Zhao Minzu University of China CONTACT chaohong.liu(a)adaptcentre.ie <mailto:chaohong.liu@adaptcentre.ie> LoResMT @ MT Summit 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/ LoResMT @ AMTA 2018 https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt-2018/ -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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SIGUL Newsletter #6
by Claudia Soria 03 May '19

03 May '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the sixth SIGUL Newsletter is out. The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair SIGUL is the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Less-Resourced Languages *Deadline extension* The third WiNLP (“Widening NLP”) Workshop, in conjunction with ACL 2019 Florence, Italy, 28 July 2019 http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2019-workshop/ Extended submission deadline: 5 May 2019 *Job announcement* The Expression team of the IRISA lab (France) is opening a 18-month postdoctoral position on speech synthesis and natural language processing for the Breton language, starting as soon as possible. Detailed missions are: * Development of NLP and TTS modules for Breton: * Phonetization, grapheme-to-phoneme conversion * Text normalization * POS tagging and chunking * Adaptation of the team’s TTS engine. This includes the use of machine learning techniques. Profile / skills : * PhD in natural language processing, speech processing or machine learning * Good academic and publication records * Good communication skills. The detailed description in and here : http://www.irisa.fr/fr/page/text-speech-and-natural-language-processing-bre… *Call for papers* The 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019) The Helix, DCU, Dublin, August 20, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/ @ MT Summit XVII Call for Papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/LoResMT2019 Submission due on "May 24, 2019" (Abstract on "May 17"): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=loresmt2019 -------- 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) University of Turku, Turku, Finland, September 30 - October 2, 2019 http://www.nodalida2019.org <http://www.nodalida2019.org/> Submission deadline: May 31, 2019 -------- 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web for Historical and Legacy Linguistic and Lexicographic Data Auckland, New Zealand, October 26-27, 2019 https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~rhaque/workshop/index.html Submission deadline: Friday, June 28 – 23:59 EST (New York City Time) [ Current EST ] *************************** *Call for participation* ******************************** *Call for proposals* Facebook is pleased to announce the call for research proposals in natural language processing and machine translation. Grants will be awarded in three areas: - Computationally Efficient Natural Language Processing https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/computational... [1] - Neural Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/neural-machin... [2] - Robust Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/robust-deep-l... [3] Awards will be made in amounts up to $80,000 per proposal, for projects up to one year in duration, beginning in August 2019. Applications close May 31, 2019, 11:59 PST. Please visit the corresponding links above for further details on each area. Questions can be emailed to academicrelations(a)fb.com [4]. Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/facebook-call-research-proposals-natu… [1]https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/computationall… [2]https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/neural-machine… [3]https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/robust-deep-le… [4] mailto:academicrelations@fb.com ************************* *Miscellaneous* The article "Rediscovering 15 Years of Discoveries in Language Resources and Evaluation: The LREC Anthology Analysis”, published first at LREC 2014 on the occasion of the LREC 15th anniversary, has been extended to the production and analysis of the NLP4NLP corpus containing close to 65,000 articles published in major conferences and journals in speech and language processing over 50 years (1965-2015) on various aspects (publication, collaboration, citation, innovation, plagiarism,...). The results of those analyses have recently been assembled in a series of two papers published in a special issue on "Mining Scientific Papers: NLP-enhanced Bibliometrics" of the "Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics" journal : https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00036/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00037/full *************************** In the framework of the World Summit on Information Society 2019, a panel session "ICT4ALL: Indigenous languages Matter for Peace, Innovation, and Development" organized by UNESCO in the framework of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019) took place on April 10. Moderator: Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg (UNESCO), Panelists: Eirik Larsen (Sami Parliament, Norway), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France), Emily Taylor (Oxford Information Labs, UK), Rebecka Forsgren (WIPO, Geneva). The recording is available at : https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2019/Agenda/RemoteParticipation/259 -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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