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2d Call For Participation : Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) - January, 17-22 2021
by Laurent Besacier 24 Aug '20

24 Aug '20

--- SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) January, 17-22 2021 Autrans (Grenoble area) - France We are opening the registration for the first Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) in Grenoble, co-organized by University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe. *Target Audience* This is a winter school covering advanced topics in NLP, and we are primarily targeting doctoral students and advanced (research) masters. A few slots will also be reserved for academics and persons working in research-heavy positions in industry. *Characteristics* This winter school aims to provide talks of renowned NLP researchers, as well as creating an ideal environment to foster collaborations The speakers are: - Isabelle Augenstein: _Interpretability and Explainability for NLP_ - Tim Baldwin: _Natural Language Processing for User Generated Content_ - Kyunghyun Cho: _Neural Sequence Modeling: Learning and Inference_ - Yejin Choi: _Neural Commonsense Knowledge and Reasoning_ - Grzegorz Chrupała: _Visually Grounded Models of Spoken Language and their Analysis_ - Claire Gardent: _Neural approaches to Natural Language Generation_ - Sanjeev Khudanpur: _Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (TBC)_ In addition to the talks, an important aspect of this school is the interaction between participants. The registration fee covers full board in a residence close to a ski resort, and some of the afternoons there will be organised social activities. In view of the current public health situation, we are preparing to hold the event virtually in case it will not be possible to do so physically in January. Registration fees will be adapted in that case. *Application* To apply to this winter school, please follow the instructions at http://alps.imag.fr/index.php/application/ <http://alps.imag.fr/index.php/application/> . The deadline for applying is July 31st, and we will notify acceptance in September *Contact* Website: http://alps.imag.fr/ Contact: alps2021(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

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Call for Participation: Dravidian-CodeMix - FIRE 2020 Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis for Under-resourced Languages
by John P. McCrae 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

Apologies for cross-posting ---- We are inviting researchers to participate in a shared task at FIRE 2020 on sentiment analysis for Dravidian languages in code-mixed text. Website: https://dravidian-codemix.github.io/2020/ The goal of this task is to identify sentiment polarity of the code-mixed dataset of comments/posts in Dravidian Languages (Malayalam-English and Tamil-English) collected from social media. The comment/post may contain more than one sentence but the average sentence length of the corpora is 1. Each comment/post is annotated with sentiment polarity at the comment/post level. This dataset also has class imbalance problems depicting real-world scenarios. Our proposal aims to encourage research that will reveal how sentiment is expressed in code-mixed scenarios on social media. The participants will be provided development, training and test dataset. Key Dates: Release of Trail data: 10 June Release of Training data: 10 June Release of Test data: 1 August Run submission deadline: 20 August Results declared: 31 August Paper submission: 20 September Revised paper: 30 October. 10th-13th December - FIRE 2020

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