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Fwd: *ContribuLing 2021 (call for contribution and diffusion at SIGUL)
by Sakriani Sakti 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: *ContribuLing 2021 (call for contribution and diffusion at SIGUL) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2021 19:52:41 +0000 From: Sadat, Fatiha <sadat.fatiha(a)uqam.ca> To: Claudia Soria <claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it>, ssakti(a)is.naist.jp <ssakti(a)is.naist.jp> *ContribuLing2021 (English) (French / Spanish versions below)* There are significant differences when it comes to the digitisation and computational processing of languages, which are the reflection of the availability of language-specific linguistic resources. In turn, this significantly impacts existing tools, whether they serve to build or collect data - speech recognition, OCR software, data collection (in some specific languages) or whether they are used to process data (search engines, encyclopedias, language learning, chatbots). Given the situation, numerous projects have been launched over the last few years to make it easier to produce and share linguistic resources. The latter are mostly geared towards data collection, e.g. speech or text corpora, dictionaries, glossaries or grammars. One of the major challenges is to allow everyone easy access to linguistic resource platforms. TheContribuLingproject (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ContribuLing <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ContribuLing>) - a joint contribution of INALCO, Wikimedia, BULAC and UQAM - will take place on June 3rd/4th, 2021, either online or in Paris/Montreal depending on the situation. Its aim is to offer linguistic resource platform managers an opportunity to lay out their specs and stage workshops that will enable would-be users to contribute. ContribuLing's main goal is to ensure that the largest possible number of contributors can use the platforms. An additional benefit will be to allow the emergence or the development of user groups who share the same tools or platforms. Emphasis will not be laid on producing data sets but on enabling attendees to do so. To offer someContribuLingpresentation/workshop, please send a draft poposal - 2 pages max. - by April 27th tocontribuling(a)framalistes.org <mailto:contribuling@framalistes.org>. Your proposal should provide the following info: - name(s), forename(s), credentials of workshop organisers - time needed for workshop - platform name - language used for workshop - platform languages currently available - size of platform data - platform and lingusitic data type of licence - bird's eye-view of tool - 10 lines - linguistic or programing requisites - platform access mode -online, login ... - specific needs for workshop - any info for seamless workshop organisation Using the above info,ContribuLing's organising committee will look into the proposals and offer the selected platform managers time slots with a view to setting some tentative schedule. Once the schedule has been agreed on, theContribuLingproject will reach out to would-be participants. The project will consist of presentations of tools and platforms that can contribute to improving how they are designed and used. Language-specific workshops will help would-be contributors to use tools and platforms in relation to specific languages. *ContribuLing2021 (Français)* La disponibilité des ressources numériques dans une langue a un impact indéniable sur la qualité des outils de traitement informatique disponibles, autant pour la création et l'acquisition de nouvelles données (saisie / OCR / reconnaissance de parole) que pour leur traitement (moteurs de recherche, encyclopédies, apprentissage des langues, chatbots, etc). Face à ce constat, de nombreux projets ont été initiés ces dernières années pour faciliter la contribution et le partage de ressources linguistiques. Il existe ainsi de nombreuses plateformes permettant la collecte directe de données linguistiques, telles que des corpus oraux ou écrits, des dictionnaires et lexiques, des grammaires, etc. Les outils de traitement automatique des langues ayant besoin de données de tout type et non nécessairement spécialisées, tout locuteur est légitime pour contribuer à enrichir les bases de données pour sa langue. Ainsi, actuellement, un des enjeux est de permettre à tou·te·s de contribuer efficacement sur ces plateformes. L'événementContribuLing(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ContribuLing <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ContribuLing>), co-organisé par l'INALCO, Wikimedia, la BULAC et l'UQAM les 3 et 4 juin 2021 entièrement en ligne (ou si la situation le permet, également en présentiel à Paris et à Montréal), propose aux plateformes d’organiser des conférences sur la création et l’utilisation des outils qu’elles ont mis en place, ainsi que des ateliers à destination des participant·e·s, permettant de former de potentiel·le·s contributeur·rice·s. Il s'agit en premier lieu de permettre au plus grand nombre de prendre en main ces plateformes pendant ces journées, afin qu'elles·ils puis sent par la suite contribuer en ligne. Nous espérons également que cet événement permettra de constituer ou renforcer des communautés d'utilisateur·rice·s autour des outils et des plateformes présentées. Les ateliers n'auront pas vocation à constituer des jeux de données au cours de ces journées, mais d'apporter aux participant·e·s la capacité de le faire par la suite. Pour proposer une présentation ou un atelier lors de ces journées, nous vous prions de bien vouloir nous envoyer votre proposition (maximum deux pages) avant le 27 avril 2021 à l'adresse contribuling(a)framalistes.org <mailto:contribuling@framalistes.org> avec, autant que possible, les informations suivantes : - noms, prénoms, affiliation des organisateur-rice-s de l'atelier, - durée envisagée de l'atelier, - nom de la plateforme contributive, - langue dans laquelle sera présenté l'atelier, - langues actuellement prises en charge par la plateforme, - volume des données déjà présentes sur la plateforme, - licence de la plateforme (code) et des données linguistiques collectées, - description sommaire de l'outil (10 lignes), - modalités d'accès à la plateforme (en ligne, authentification, etc.), - prérequis de compétences en informatique et/ou en linguistique, - moyens nécessaires à l'organisation de l'atelier, - autres informations liées à la bonne organisation de l'atelier. À partir de ces informations, le comité d'organisation deContribuLing examinera les propositions d'ateliers et proposera aux ateliers retenus des plages horaires afin d'établir un programme sur les deux journées concernées, l'annonce de l'événement sera alors diffusée plus largement. *ContribuLing2021 (Español)* La disponibilidad de recursos digitales en una lengua tiene un impacto indiscutible sobre la calidad de las herramientas de tratamiento informático para esa lengua, tanto para la creación y adquisición de nuevos datos (entrada de [auto]texto, OCR, reconocimiento de voz) como para su procesamiento (motores de búsqueda, enciclopedias, aprendizaje de lenguas, chatbots, etc). Ante esta situación, en los últimos años se han iniciado numerosos proyectos para facilitar la contribución y el intercambio de recursos lingüísticos. Varias plataformas ya permiten a los usuarios compartir datoslingüísticos como corpus orales o escritos, diccionarios y léxicos, gramáticas, etc. Las herramientas de procesamiento automático de lenguas necesitan datos de todo tipo, no necesariamente especializados; por consiguiente cada hablante es legítimo para contribuir a enriquecer las bases de datos de su lengua. Por ello, uno de los retos actuales es permitir que todos puedan contribuir eficazmente en estas plataformas. El eventoContribuLing(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ContribuLing <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ContribuLing>), coorganizado por el INALCO, Wikimedia, la BULAC y la UQAM tendrá lugar los días 3 y 4 de junio de 2021 en línea (o si la situación lo permite, también en presencial en París y Montreal). Se ofrece a los representantes de plataformas colaborativas la oportunidad de organizar conferencias sobre ésas (utilización, método de trabajo, comunidad, etc), así como proporcionar a los participantes talleres de formación a su utilización colaborativa. El objetivo principal es que el mayor número posible de personas se familiarice con las herramientas de estas plataformas dentro del marco de este evento, de manera que luego puedan contribuir en línea. También esperamos que este encuentro permita constituir o fortalecer comunidades de usuarios en torno a las herramientas y plataformas presentadas. Es de notar que los talleres no tendrán como objetivo constituir bases de datos durante estos días, sino proporcionar a los participantes la posibilidad de hacerlo posteriormente. Para proponer una presentación y/o un taller, les invitamos a enviar su propuesta (máximo dos páginas) antes del 27 de abril de 2021 al correo contribuling(a)framalistes.org <mailto:contribuling@framalistes.org>con, en la medida de lo posible, las informaciones siguientes: - nombre, apellido, afiliación de los organizadores del taller, - duración prevista del taller, - nombre de la plataforma contribuyente, - idioma en el que se presentará el taller, - idiomas actualmente soportados por la plataforma, - volumen de datos ya presente en la plataforma, - licencia de la plataforma (código) y de los datoslingüísticos recogidos, - breve descripción de la herramienta (10 líneas), - métodos de acceso a la plataforma (en línea, autenticación, etc.), - si se requieren conocimientos informáticos y/olingüísticos para el uso de la plataforma, - recursos necesarios para la organización del taller, - cualquier otra información necesaria para la buena organización del taller. A partir de estos datos, el comité organizador deContribuLingexaminará las propuestas de talleres y propondrá franjas horarias para los proyectos seleccionados, con el fin de establecer en conjunto un programa completo. Más adelante, éste se difundirá ampliamente. *Organising Committee* Adélaide Calais (Wikimedia France) Claire Camberlein (BULAC) Johanna Cordova (INALCO ERTIM) Hugo Lopez (Wikimedia France / LinguaLibre) Damien Nouvel (INALCO ERTIM) Thérèse Ottawa (Wikimedia Canada) Lucas Prégaldiny (Wikimédia France / Lingua Libre) Fatiha Sadat (UQAM) Anass Sedrati (Wikimedia Maroc) Emma Vadillo Quesada (Wikimedia France / LinguaLibre)

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Fwd: Call for Participation: WMT 2021 Machine Translation using Terminologies
by Laurent Besacier 24 Apr '21

24 Apr '21

Envoyé de mon iPhone Début du message transféré : > Expéditeur: Philipp Koehn <phi(a)jhu.edu> > Date: 24 avril 2021 à 00:03:43 UTC+2 > Destinataire: wmt-tasks(a)googlegroups.com, Moses Support <moses-support(a)mit.edu>, "corpora(a)uib.no" <CORPORA(a)uib.no> > Objet: Call for Participation: WMT 2021 Machine Translation using Terminologies > Répondre à: wmt-tasks(a)googlegroups.com > > WMT 2021 Shared Task: > > Machine Translation using Terminologies > > November 10-11 , 2021 > Punta Cana, Dominican Republic > Language domains that require very careful use of terminology are abundant. The need to adequately translate within such domains is undeniable, as shown by e.g. the different WMT shared tasks on biomedical translation. > > More interestingly, as the abundance of research on domain adaptation shows, such language domains are (a) not adequately covered by existing data and models, while (b) new (or “surge”) domains arise and models need to be adapted, often with significant downstream implications: consider the new COVID-19 domain and the large efforts for translation of critical information regarding pandemic handling and infection prevention strategies. > > In the case of newly developed domains, while parallel data are hard to come by, it is fairly straightforward to create word- or phrase-level terminologies, which can be used to guide professional translators and ensure both accuracy and consistency. > > This shared task will replicate such a scenario, and invites participants to explore methods to incorporate terminologies into either the training or the inference process, in order to improve both the accuracy and consistency of MT systems on a new domain. > > IMPORTANT DATES > > Release of training data and terminologies April 2021 > Surprise languages announced: June 28, 2021 > Test set available July 19, 2021 > Submission of translations July 23, 2021 > System descriptions due August 5, 2021 > Camera-ready for system descriptions September 15, 2021 > Conference in Punta Cana November 10-11, 2021 > SETTINGS > > In this shared task, we will distinguish submissions that use the terminology only at inference time (e.g., for constrained decoding or something similar) and submissions that use the terminology at training time (e.g., for data selection, data augmentation, explicit training, etc). Note that basic linguistic tools such as taggers, parsers, or morphological analyzers are allowed in the constrained condition. > The submission report should highlight in which ways participants’ methods and data differ from the standard MT approach. They should make clear which tools were used, and which training sets were used. > > LANGUAGE PAIRS > > The shared task will focus on four language pairs, with systems evaluated: > English to French > English to Chinese > Two surprise language pairs English-X (announced 3 weeks before the evaluation deadline) > We will provide training/development data and terminologies for the above language pairs. Test sets will be released at the beginning of the evaluation period. The goal of this setting (with both development and surprise language pairs) is to avoid approaches that overfit on language selection, and instead evaluate the more realistic scenario of needing to tackle the new domain in a new language in a limited amount of time. The surprise language pairs will be announced 3 weeks before the start of the evaluation campaigns. At the same time we will provide training data and terminologies for the surprise language pairs. > You may participate in any or all of the language pairs. > > ORGANIZERS > > Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason University > Md Mahfuz ibn Alam, George Mason University > Laurent Besacier, NAVER > James Cross, Facebook > Georgiana Dinu, AWS > Marcello Federico, AWS > Matthias Gallé, NAVER > Philipp Koehn, Facebook / Johns Hopkins University > Vassilina Nikoulina, NAVER > Kweon Woo Jung, NAVER > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wmt-tasks+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wmt-tasks/CAAFADDBpQCyXGOdFTYMN185fB_iKKY….

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OLAC visualiser - please distribute
by Nick Thieberger 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

We have released a new version of the OLAC visualiser, which takes OLAC metadata and prepares it in a novel view by geographic location, identifying each language and showing how many items are in OLAC repositories for that language. https://language-archives.services/olacvis/ For each language you can see the kind of resources available (Primary texts; Lexical resources; Language descriptions; Other resources about the language; Other resources in the language). You can select a country and download all information about languages in that country. Look for the link "browse the data by country" in the sidebar. This page is refreshed once a week. The project outline and links to the source code are here: https://language-archives.services/about/olac-vis/ This site was produced by Marco La Rosa in a project led by Nick Thieberger and funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language

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WMT21 Shared Task: European Low-Resource Multilingual Translation
by Claudia Soria 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

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CfP: IWCLUL 2021 (International Workshop of Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages)
by Claudia Soria 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

What: International Workshop of Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages (IWCLUL 2021) and Electronic writing of the peoples of the Russian Federation 2021 Conference When: September 23-25, 2021 Where: Syktyvkar (Komi Republic, Russia) and in remote mode Submission deadline: May 15, 2021 URL: https://conference.krags.ru/sites/default/files/First%20call%20for%20papers… > Inizio messaggio inoltrato: > > Da: Tommi Pirinen <tommi.pirinen(a)uit.no> > Oggetto: [Corpora-List] CfP: IWCLUL 2021 (International Workshop of Computational Linguistics of Uralic Langauges) > Data: 20 aprile 2021 17:28:01 CEST > A: Corpora List <corpora(a)uib.no> > > Dear Corpora-list, > > Our workshop on Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages is being organised together with ELECTRONIC WRITING OF THE PEOPLES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 2021: https://conference.krags.ru/sites/default/files/First%20call%20for%20papers… > > Please find the CfP copied below, apologies if you receive multiple copies: > - - - > First call for papers > Dear Colleagues! > > We invite you to participate in the international scientific conference Electronic writing of the peoples of the Russian Federation 2021 & IWCLUL 2021. The conference is held in the year of the 100th anniversary of the Komi Republic. The conference will take place on September 23–25, 2021 in Syktyvkar (Komi Republic, Russia) in the Komi Republican Academy of State Service and Administration. > > The conference is organized with the support of the Government of the Komi Republic. > > A wide range of topical issues in the field of language technologies and computational linguistics of the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation will be addressed during the conference. The main goal of the conference is the cooperation of researchers working on computational approaches to the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation. > > The main areas of the conference: > > standardization of alphabets and keyboard layouts; > font support for electronic writing; > electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias; > electronic libraries; > parsers, analyzers and technologies of stream processing of requests; > ready-made applications for end users (spelling and grammar checkers, machine translation or speech processing, etc.); > electronic educational resources; > language corpora; > evaluation methods and standards, morphological and syntactic annotation of corpora; > the functioning of the languages in social media; > language documentation; > neural networks; > ways to stimulate the activity of the language community; > regulatory support for electronic writing of languages, etc. > The conference includes plenary and thematic sessions. In addition, presentations of finished products, thematic platforms and master classes in certain areas are planned. > > The working languages of the conference are Komi, Russian, and English. > > All scholars and specialists whose field of research interests is related to theoretical, methodological and applied issues of language technologies and computational linguistics of the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation, are invited to participate in the conference. > > Applications for participation in the conference are accepted in the Registration section of the conference website or by e-mail (conference(a)krags.ru) until 15.05.2021. > > -- > regards, Dr Tommi A Pirinen <http://flammie.github.io/purplemonkeydishwasher> > Sorry for top-posting / potential HTML messages, our university's IT department only supports webmail for Linux users due to "security" :-/ > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora > Corpora mailing list > Corpora(a)uib.no > https://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora

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Talk by Dr Adriana Molina-Muñoz at Cardamom Seminar Series in Minority and Historical Languages [26 Apr, 17:00 PM]
by Claudia Soria 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

FYI. Claudia > Inizio messaggio inoltrato: > > Da: John McCrae <john.mccrae(a)insight-centre.org> > Oggetto: [elexis-all] Talk by Dr Adriana Molina-Muñoz at Cardamom Seminar Series in Minority and Historical Languages [26 Apr, 17:00 PM] > Data: 19 aprile 2021 18:33:22 CEST > A: elexis-all(a)googlegroups.com, Prêt-à-LLOD <pret-a-llod(a)insight-centre.org> > > Hi all, > > The Unit For Linguistic Data at the Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway is delighted to welcome Dr Adriana Molina-Muñoz, a researcher at the University of Oxford, as the first speaker in our seminar series. In her talk, Dr Molina-Muñoz will give an overview of methodological and theoretical challenges methodological and theoretical challenges that emerge when working with a historical language. > > The aim of the seminar series is to connect the researchers working to alleviate the language resources and technologies for minority, historical, indigenous and less resource languages across the globe. The seminar series will provide us with a platform to discuss various types of problems and share our views to solve those problems that the researchers face during their research. > > The seminar will take place at 17:00PM (Irish Time) on Monday 26th April. All are welcome to attend by registering at: > > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cardamom-seminar-series-tickets-151375625571 > > This is a start of a series of seminars on the topic of minority and historical languages that is supported by the IRC funded Laureate project "Cardamom". > > I hope to see you all there. > > Regards, > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ELEXIS-all" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elexis-all+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elexis-all/5016f92e-6dbc-7b21-6ae8-98d0d6….

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Postdoc fellowship in Indigenous Language Documentation and Computational Linguistics
by Claudia Soria 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

FYI. --- Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Computational Linguist Specialization: Computational Linguistics; Indigenous Language Documentation Job Rank: Post Doc / Computational Linguist Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics WEBPAGE: https://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/postdoc-computational-linguistics-2021/ DESCRIPTION: The SSHRC-funded (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), university-community Partnership “21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages” invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Fellowship, beginning in Fall 2021 (start date negotiable). Position is tenable for 2 years, subject to review after the 1st year. This 7-year Partnership is led by the Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) in the Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta. Its partners include 13 institutions and Indigenous language communities and 31 individual researchers and educators in Canada, the United States, and Norway. Further details of our Partnership can be found at: https://21c.tools and http://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca. Members of our Partnership (https://21c.tools/people) have been developing computational models of the phonetics, morphology, lexis, and syntax of Indigenous languages in Canada and North America, starting with the Algonquian and the Dene language families, to create software applications that support their continued use in daily life by both speakers and learners. These include intelligent electronic dictionaries, spell-checkers, linguistically analyzed text collections, computer-aided language learning tools, as well as text-to-speech synthesizers and optical character recognition. The languages we have gotten the furthest with are Plains Cree (Algonquian) and Tsuut’ina (Dene). Duties: TASKS: The tasks of the Postdoc will include the following, allowing for variation based on the successful applicant’s competences and interests: 1. participation in/responsibility for the continued development of our existing computational morphological and phonetic models (primarily using finite-state technology) and end-user applications for the Algonquian and/or Dene and/or other Indigenous languages we are working with; 2. participation in/responsibility for the application of new computational methods (e.g. machine learning techniques such as neural networks) in the morphological and phonological modeling of these languages; 3. participation in/responsibility for the development of new computational morphological and phonetic models and applications for Indigenous languages other than the ones we are working on, preferably spoken in Canada; 4. partial training and supervision of undergraduate and graduate students (M.Sc./Ph.D level) in developing models, applications and resources for Indigenous languages; 5. engagement with Indigenous community consultants on collecting primary linguistic data and gathering feedback from field-testers; 6. participating in the dissemination of the results as publications in scientific journals; and 7. other administrative responsibilities. The postdoc is expected to work with and support the activities of multiple partners in the Partnership, and may be co-located or based at other Partners for part of their tenure. The Partnership has allocated dedicated funding to this end. QUALIFICATIONS: a. Successful applicants will have specialized in the computational modelling (text and/or speech) of morphologically rich languages, with a willingness to learn the essential morphological and phonetic characteristics of the languages we are working with. b. The applicants should have recently completed, or be about to finish, a Ph.D degree in linguistics or an associated relevant discipline. By the end of the Postdoc appointment, the successful applicant will have a set of skills allowing them to partner with Indigenous communities and field linguists to develop a range of sophisticated tools in support of language maintenance and revitalization. Application Instructions: HOW TO APPLY: The application should include: 1. a research statement (ca. 2 pages) outlining past experience and current research interests and, in particular, how these align with and contribute towards the goals of our Partnership project; 2. a Curriculum Vitae (with a List of Publications); 3. 1-3 relevant academic writing samples; and, 4. 3 letters of recommendation (sent directly to the Project Director, Dr. Arppe, by referees). Moreover, applicants are REQUIRED to contact Dr. Arppe in advance to discuss their research plan and application. Applications should be sent to our Partnership email (21ct4il(a)gmail.com). For inquiries please email Dr. Antti Arppe (arppe(a)ulberta.ca). Review of applications will begin by May 5, 2021, and will continue until the position is filled. Application Deadline: 5-May-2021 (Open until filled) Email Address for Applications: 21ct4il(a)gmail.com Contact Information for Inquiries: Dr. Antti Arppe (arppe(a)ualberta.ca) Full and up-to-date position posting: https://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/postdoc-computational-linguistics-2021/ -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Associate Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Warmest Greetings to SIGUL Members
by Sakriani Sakti 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Warmest greetings to all SIGUL members! We do hope this email finds you well. First of all, we would like to thank the members for electing and entrusting us to serve as SIGUL Board for the next two years. We want to thank Khalid Choukri and ELRA for the efforts in making the successful election. We would like to also acknowledge past SIGUL Board members for creating SIGUL and for their services to SIGUL. Many successful events have been organized to make a better future for the under-resourced languages (UL). SIGUL was created in 2017 for people who share the same interest in UL. This year, SIGUL enters the fifth year and now has more than 300 members. We hope that we’ll be able to repeat the past success and improve our activities and collaborations to meet your interests. However, up to now, we never have had a chance to explicitly ask what you are interested in UL and what you are interested in doing together through SIGUL. So let us know your interests/opinions/suggestions for SIGUL by filling in the survey below. We will open the survey until April 30th, 2021. Please note that SIGUL is not a funding agency, so please kindly refrain from asking about the research budget. Survey link: https://forms.gle/AfdRhffwVcVjSywJA Thank you and let us hear your voice! Sakriani Sakti Claudia Soria Maite Melero

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Call for applications (all areas of linguistics): funded training school, ‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’, Ávila, Spain, 4-8 October 2021 (deadline 3 May)
by Claudia Soria 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Dear all, ‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’ (https://lithme.eu/ <https://lithme.eu/>) aims to prepare the field of linguistics for imminent changes in the way we use technology to communicate. From immersive augmented reality to super-intelligent chatbots, in the near future we will be communicating in very different ways. This will present significant challenges for all areas of linguistics and language research; and so we must all adapt, whether or not we know much about technology right now! LITHME is here to raise awareness of these challenges, and to prepare linguistics and its sub-disciplines for what is to come. Our fully funded training school is open to any eligible researcher who is interested to explore how the widespread use of new and emerging technologies might influence their research. No technological expertise is required, only an interest in exploring the possible effects of these near future advances in language technology. We're currently planning for this to be held in person. We really hope the vaccination effort makes that possible! But if not, our hosts UNED (National Distance Education University of Spain) have specialist expertise in remote learning, so we can still hold a high quality online event. More information about eligibility, and the online application form, can be found at https://lithme.eu/training-school/ <https://lithme.eu/training-school/>. The deadline for applications is 3 May. Please forward this email on to anyone who may be interested, and please retweet the announcement here: https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1380067980432785409 <https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1380067980432785409>. We hope to see you in Ávila! Best wishes, Claudia Soria (on behalf of the training school organising committee)

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SIGUL New Board
by ELRA ELDA Information 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Dear All, Further to the recent election, please find below the new SIGUL Board: * Chair and ISCA liaison representative: Sakriani Sakti <mailto:ssakti@is.naist.jp> (NAIST, Nara, Japan) * Co-chair and ELRA liaison representative: Claudia Soria <mailto:claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it> (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy) * Secretary: Maite Melero <mailto:maite.melero@upf.edu> (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Best Regards, Khalid Choukri, ELRA Secretary General, in charge of supervising the SIGUL committee election

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