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Extended deadline CfP Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 26 Aug '22

26 Aug '22

Due to several requests, we have extended the submission deadline to 4 September 2022 Final call for papers Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2022 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is organising the 3rd RAIL workshop in the field of Resources for African Indigenous Languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers who are interested in showcasing their research and thereby boosting the field of African indigenous languages. This provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art and emphasizes availability of African indigenous language resources, including both data and tools. Additionally, it will allow for information sharing among researchers interested in African indigenous languages and also start discussions on improving the quality and availability of the resources. Many African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited resources available and, additionally, they are often structurally quite different from more well-resourced languages, requiring the development and use of specialized techniques. By bringing together researchers from different fields (e.g., (computational) linguistics, sociolinguistics, language technology) to discuss the development of language resources for African indigenous languages, we hope to boost research in this field. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. It aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as tools, specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Suggested topics include the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources The 3rd RAIL workshop 2022 will be co-located with the 10th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop (https://sites.google.com/nwulettere.co.za/samwop-10/home). This will be an in-person event located in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Registration will be free. RAIL 2022 submission requirements: * RAIL asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed), which must strictly follow the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa style guide (https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/30 ). * Accepted submissions will be published in JDHASA, the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/). * Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed and must be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rail2022). Important dates Submission deadline: 4 September 2022 Date of notification: 30 September 2022 Camera ready copy deadline: 23 October 2022 RAIL: 30 November 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom SAMWOP: 1 – 3 December 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom Organising Committee Jessica Mabaso Rooweither Mabuya Muzi Matfunjwa Mmasibidi Setaka Menno van Zaanen South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU CORONA VIRUS: http://www.nwu.ac.za/coronavirus/ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Final CfP Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Final call for papers Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2022 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is organising the 3rd RAIL workshop in the field of Resources for African Indigenous Languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers who are interested in showcasing their research and thereby boosting the field of African indigenous languages. This provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art and emphasizes availability of African indigenous language resources, including both data and tools. Additionally, it will allow for information sharing among researchers interested in African indigenous languages and also start discussions on improving the quality and availability of the resources. Many African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited resources available and, additionally, they are often structurally quite different from more well-resourced languages, requiring the development and use of specialized techniques. By bringing together researchers from different fields (e.g., (computational) linguistics, sociolinguistics, language technology) to discuss the development of language resources for African indigenous languages, we hope to boost research in this field. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. It aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as tools, specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Suggested topics include the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources The 3rd RAIL workshop 2022 will be co-located with the 10th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop ( https://sites.google.com/nwulettere.co.za/samwop-10/home). This will be an in-person event located in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Registration will be free. RAIL 2022 submission requirements: * RAIL asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed), which must strictly follow the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa style guide ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/30 ). * Accepted submissions will be published in JDHASA, the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/). * Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed and must be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rail2022). Important dates Submission deadline: 28 August 2022 Date of notification: 30 September 2022 Camera ready copy deadline: 23 October 2022 RAIL: 30 November 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom SAMWOP: 1 – 3 December 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom Organising Committee Jessica Mabaso Rooweither Mabuya Muzi Matfunjwa Mmasibidi Setaka Menno van Zaanen South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU CORONA VIRUS: http://www.nwu.ac.za/coronavirus/ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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SLT-CODE Hackathon Announcement
by LAURENT BESACIER 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

Hi Some colleagues organizing this hackton asked if I could help to boradcast it. Hence this message ! Best Laurent Besacier SLT-CODE Hackathon Announcement Have you ever asked yourself how your smartphone recognizes what you say and who you are? Have you ever thought about how machines recognize different languages ? If that is your case, join us for a two-day speech and language technology hackathon. We will answer these questions and build fantastic systems with the guidance of top language and speech scientists in a collaborative environment. The two-day speech and language technology hackathon will take place during the IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop in Doha, Qatar, on January 7th and 8th, 2023. This year's Hackathon will be inspiring, momentous, and fun. The goal is to build a diverse community of people who want to explore and envision how machines understand the world's spoken languages. During the Hackathon, you will be exposed (but not limited) to speech and language toolkits like ESPNet, SpeechBrain, K2/Kaldi, Huggingface, TorchAudio, or commercial APIs like Amazon Lex, etc., and you will be hands-on using this technology. At the end of the Hackathon, every team will share their findings with the rest of the participants. Selected projects will have the opportunity to be presented at the SLT workshop. The Hackathon will be at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) in Doha, Qatar (GMT+3). In-person participation is preferred; however, remote participation is possible by joining a team with at least one person being local. More information on how to apply and important dates are available at our website https://slt2022.org/hackathon.php . Interested? Apply here: https://forms.gle/a2droYbD4qset8ii9 The deadline for registration is September 30th, 2022. If you have immediate questions, don't hesitate to contact our hackathon chairs directly at hackathon.slt2022(a)gmail.com .

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3rd CfP Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

Third call for papers Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2022 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is organising the 3rd RAIL workshop in the field of Resources for African Indigenous Languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers who are interested in showcasing their research and thereby boosting the field of African indigenous languages. This provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art and emphasizes availability of African indigenous language resources, including both data and tools. Additionally, it will allow for information sharing among researchers interested in African indigenous languages and also start discussions on improving the quality and availability of the resources. Many African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited resources available and, additionally, they are often structurally quite different from more well-resourced languages, requiring the development and use of specialized techniques. By bringing together researchers from different fields (e.g., (computational) linguistics, sociolinguistics, language technology) to discuss the development of language resources for African indigenous languages, we hope to boost research in this field. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. It aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as tools, specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Suggested topics include the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources The 3rd RAIL workshop 2022 will be co-located with the 10th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop ( https://sites.google.com/nwulettere.co.za/samwop-10/home). This will be an in-person event located in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Registration will be free. RAIL 2022 submission requirements: * RAIL asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed), which must strictly follow the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa style guide ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/30 ). * Accepted submissions will be published in JDHASA, the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/). * Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed and must be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rail2022). Important dates Submission deadline: 28 August 2022 Date of notification: 30 September 2022 Camera ready copy deadline: 23 October 2022 RAIL: 30 November 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom SAMWOP: 1 – 3 December 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom Organising Committee Jessica Mabaso Rooweither Mabuya Muzi Matfunjwa Mmasibidi Setaka Menno van Zaanen South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU CORONA VIRUS: http://www.nwu.ac.za/coronavirus/ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Fwd: [Corpora-List] Job opening: Computational linguist
by Claudia Soria 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

FYI > Inizio messaggio inoltrato: > > Da: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen(a)nwu.ac.za> > Oggetto: [Corpora-List] Job opening: Computational linguist > Data: 19 luglio 2022 08:43:38 CEST > A: "corpora(a)list.elra.info" <corpora(a)list.elra.info> > > Computational Linguist > > Purpose of the position: > As a Computational Linguist at the South African Centre for Digital > Language Resources (SADiLaR) you will have the opportunity to initiate > and lead Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities projects > stemming from your own research interests. You will work closely with a > team of researchers as part of SADiLaR’s extended network, both on your > own and commissioned projects. Dissemination of project results at > national and international conferences will be encouraged and > supported. > > This position is crucial for research and development in Human Language > Technology and Digital Humanities, fields that form the essence of > SADiLaR, which is a national Research Infrastructure supported by the > Department of Science and Innovation. > > Minimum Requirements > * PhD in one of the following fields: Computational Linguistics, > Natural Language Processing, General Linguistics, Human Language > Technology, Digital Humanities, Computer Science, Information > Technology, Artificial Intelligence or related fields with a focus on > computational aspects of linguistics. > * Applicable experience in the use of Python (recommended). Other > programming languages used within the computational linguistics domain > can also be considered. > * Experience as a supervisor/co-supervisor of students or playing a > mentorship/supervising role for individuals. > * Evidence of peer-reviewed academic publications. > * Advanced computer literacy. > > Other competency requirements > * Ability to work independently or as part of a team. > * Ability to effectively liaise and communicate with public, students, > colleagues, and other stakeholders at various levels and from diverse > backgrounds. > * Demonstration of language proficiency in order to function optimally > in the various multilingual environments of SADiLaR. > > Recommendations: > * Experience with writing research reports. > * Ability to lead research projects. > * Evidence of acquiring research funding. > * Experience with using and/or developing computational tools. > * Experience related to research within the domain of Language > Technology or Digital Humanities. > * Experience in the presentation of research-based results at national > and international conferences. > * Experience related to teaching within the domain of Language > Technology or Digital Humanities. > * Strong interest in the advancement of under-resourced South African > languages. > > Responsibilities: > * Research in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital > Humanities. > * Teaching in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital > Humanities. > * Initiating and leading Human Language Technology and Digital > Humanities projects. > * Mentorship of researchers in the field of Computational Linguistics > and Digital Humanities. > > ENQUIRIES: > Prof Menno van Zaanen, menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za > > CLOSING DATE: > 29 July 2022 > > COMMENCEMENT OF DUTIES: > As soon as possible > > TO APPLY: > https://bit.ly/3yQqcnd > -- > Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za > Professor in Digital Humanities > South African Centre for Digital Language Resources > https://www.sadilar.org > ________________________________ > NWU CORONA VIRUS: > http://www.nwu.ac.za/coronavirus/ > > NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: > http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html > > DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Corpora mailing list -- corpora(a)list.elra.info > https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ > To unsubscribe send an email to corpora-leave(a)list.elra.info

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Fwd: [Corpora-List] 2nd CfP Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Claudia Soria 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

FYI. > Inizio messaggio inoltrato: > > Da: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen(a)nwu.ac.za> > Oggetto: [Corpora-List] 2nd CfP Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) > Data: 19 luglio 2022 09:07:30 CEST > A: "corpora(a)list.elra.info" <corpora(a)list.elra.info> > > > Second call for papers > > Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) > https://bit.ly/rail2022 > > > The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is > organising the 3rd RAIL workshop in the field of Resources for African > Indigenous Languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers > who are interested in showcasing their research and thereby boosting > the field of African indigenous languages. This provides an overview of > the current state-of-the-art and emphasizes availability of African > indigenous language resources, including both data and tools. > Additionally, it will allow for information sharing among researchers > interested in African indigenous languages and also start discussions > on improving the quality and availability of the resources. Many > African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited > resources available and, additionally, they are often structurally > quite different from more well-resourced languages, requiring the > development and use of specialized techniques. By bringing together > researchers from different fields (e.g., (computational) linguistics, > sociolinguistics, language technology) to discuss the development of > language resources for African indigenous languages, we hope to boost > research in this field. > > The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers > working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically > targeted towards African indigenous languages. It aims to create the > conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that > focuses on data, as well as tools, specifically designed for or applied > to indigenous languages found in Africa. > > Suggested topics include the following: > * Digital representations of linguistic structures > * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous > languages > * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages > * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age > * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African > indigenous languages > * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African > indigenous languages > * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages > * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African > indigenous language resources > > > The 3rd RAIL workshop 2022 will be co-located with the 10th Southern > African Microlinguistics Workshop ( > https://sites.google.com/nwulettere.co.za/samwop-10/home). This will be > an in-person event located in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Registration > will be free. > > RAIL 2022 submission requirements: > * RAIL asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages > for references if needed), which must strictly follow the Journal of > the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa style guide ( > https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/30 > ). > * Accepted submissions will be published in JDHASA, the Journal of the > Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa ( > https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/). > * Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed and must be submitted > through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rail2022). > > Important dates > Submission deadline: 28 August 2022 > Date of notification: 30 September 2022 > Camera ready copy deadline: 23 October 2022 > RAIL: 30 November 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom > SAMWOP: 1 – 3 December 2021, North-West University - Potchefstroom > > > Organising Committee > Jessica Mabaso > Rooweither Mabuya > Muzi Matfunjwa > Mmasibidi Setaka > Menno van Zaanen > > South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South > Africa > > -- > Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za > Professor in Digital Humanities > South African Centre for Digital Language Resources > https://www.sadilar.org > ________________________________ > NWU CORONA VIRUS: > http://www.nwu.ac.za/coronavirus/ > > NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: > http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html > > DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Corpora mailing list -- corpora(a)list.elra.info > https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ > To unsubscribe send an email to corpora-leave(a)list.elra.info

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The two-day speech and language technology hackathon
by Sakriani Sakti 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Dear All, There will be the two-day speech and language technology hackathon will take place during the IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop in Doha, Qatar, on January 7th and 8th, 2023. This year's Hackathon will be inspiring, momentous, and fun. The goal is to build a diverse community of people who want to explore and envision how machines understand the world's spoken languages. More details can be found here: https://slt2022.org/hackathon.php Sincerely yours, Sakriani Sakti

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PhD Position in Speech Translation : Naver Labs Europe (France) and FBK Trento (Italy) start Nov 2022
by LAURENT BESACIER 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

PhD Position : Naver Labs Europe (France) and FBK Trento (Italy) start Nov 2022 Have you recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering, or a related area? Are you interested in carrying out research on Speech-to-Speech Translation during the next few years? Are you excited to spend a part of your life in 2 pleasant alpine cities in France (Grenoble) and Italy (Trento) ? WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! The Machine Translation (MT) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with Naver Labs Europe (Grenoble, France) are pleased to announce the availability of the following fully-funded Ph.D. position at the Doctorate Program in Industrial Innovation of the University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler. PhD topic: Unified Foundation models for Speech-to-Speech Translation The deadline for application: August 23rd. More details here: [ http://tinyurl.com/PhD-FBK-NLE | http://tinyurl.com/PhD-FBK-NLE ] ===== Laurent Besacier

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Fwd: NAACL D&I initiative (promoting work of researchers from underrepresented communities)
by Claudia Soria 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

FYI Claudia -------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: NAACL D&I initiative (promoting work of researchers from underrepresented communities) Data: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 16:51:14 +0100 Mittente: Nedjma OUSIDHOUM <nedjma.ousidhoum(a)gmail.com> A: north-africans-in-nlp(a)googlegroups.com Dear all, There is a NAACL D&I initiative <https://twitter.com/naaclmeeting/status/1542382305846923264> to promote the work of underrepresented groups in the NLP community. If this applies to you and you would like to get your work promoted and gain more visibility, please fill in this form https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQA…. The D&I committee would love to feature your work! Best regards, Nedjma. -- Website: https://sites.google.com/view/NorthAfricansInNLP <https://sites.google.com/view/NorthAfricansInNLP > Group: https://groups.google.com/g/north-africans-in-nlp <https://groups.google.com/g/north-africans-in-nlp > To post to this group, send email to: north-africans-in-nlp(a)googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North Africans In NLP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to north-africans-in-nlp+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/north-africans-in-nlp/CADc1t_p8PoTpJvdRHB… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/north-africans-in-nlp/CADc1t_p8PoTpJvdRHB…>.

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SIGUL2022 Workshop: Proceedings available
by Claudia Soria 29 Jun '22

29 Jun '22

Dear SIGUL list members, we are happy to inform you that the SIGUL2022 Workshop Proceedings are available for download: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/SIGUL/2022.sigul-1.… The individual papers can be found as well on the workshop program page, where we are laso making available the slides and posters that were used during the presentations: https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it/programme/ SIGUL2022 was held on the last 24th and 25th of June in Marseille, co-located with LREC2022. It featured 27 papers addressing a vast array of topics and covering 76 different languages from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. We are very thankful to all the authors, participants, invited speakers, chairs, panelists, local organisers and program committee members for contributing to a very successful event. All the best, Claudia, Maite, Sakti (SIGUL2022 Co-chairs) -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Management Committee member COST Action CA19102 ‘Language In The Human-Machine Era' (LITHME) www.lithme.eu Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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reading list for under-resourced SLT newbies
by Alex CRISTIA 24 Jun '22

24 Jun '22

Dear colleagues, My team and I are thinking of approaching a Bolivian community we have collaborated with in the past about potentially building SLT tools and/or a dataset with them. One of our research projects requires the creation of a TTS system, so we think it would be important to couch this research goal within a collaborative research project that takes into account the communities' own goals and needs. This is the first time I do anything like this, and I'm sorry if my question is very naïve: Do you have materials you'd recommend for us to read, such as: - information often provided to aboriginal communities about this kind of effort - information about how other communities have set up a payment scheme - information about variable terms in licensing; eg if the community does not want commercial reuse, is that ok by the LDC? any other restrictions communities often ask for? any other rights, such as royalties in case of commercialization, or free access to the software? Please reply to me alone. I'll compile all replies and share back the full list of resources with the mailing list. Thank you in advance, Alex --------------------------------------------------------------- Alex (Alejandrina) Cristia Researcher, CNRS Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique 29, rue d'Ulm, 75005, Paris, FRANCE My site: www.acristia.org --------------------------------------------------------------- If you donate, ask me about effective charities <https://effectivealtruism.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=52b028e7f799cca…>. / Si vous faites des dons, demandez moi sur le don efficace <https://www.altruismeefficacefrance.org/guide-don-efficace-1/>.

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Fwd: Crosslinguistic morphology experiments - call for collborators
by Alex CRISTIA 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

Dear colleagues, A fascinating opportunity for those working on languages that are inflectional! Read below & contact Ben Ambridge, in cc, for any questions. -Alex --------------------------------------------------------------- Alex (Alejandrina) Cristia Researcher, CNRS Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique 29, rue d'Ulm, 75005, Paris, FRANCE My site: www.acristia.org --------------------------------------------------------------- If you donate, ask me about effective charities <https://effectivealtruism.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=52b028e7f799cca…>. / Si vous faites des dons, demandez moi sur le don efficace <https://www.altruismeefficacefrance.org/guide-don-efficace-1/>. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ben Ambridge <ben.ambridge(a)manchester.ac.uk> Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 10:15 PM Subject: Fwd: Crosslinguistic morphology experiments - call for collborators To: Alex CRISTIA <alecristia(a)gmail.com> Hi Alex - I know you’ve worked on quite a few hard-to-reach languages - would you be interested in this, or able to point me in the direction of others who might be? Thanks Ben === Dear colleagues, we are seeking potential collaborators for a grant application for a large crosslinguistic project investigating children’s acquisition of inflectional morphology. We aim to include 100 typologically-diverse languages. Due to the size of the envisaged project, it would not be feasible to apply for funding for full-time research assistants to test children (or to fund a portion of each collaborator’s salary). Our intention for the grant application is that each collaborator will be able to claim up to €10,000 for expenses (e.g., travel, laptops, participant payments, part-time/casual researchers), with the data collected by a researcher who is already primarily sponsored/employed (e.g., as PhD student, postdoc or research assistant) at your institution. We will provide computerized elicitation tasks; your role (with the help of full-time research and support staff employed at our end) would be to translate the task into your language and inflectional system and to supervise data collection (with children aged 3-6, and adults). At the moment, our goal is simply to put together a list of *potential* collaborators+languages for the grant application (NB: we can include only languages with verb and/or noun person/case/number inflectional morphology). To be included on this provisional list, please email Ben.Ambridge(a)Manchester.ac.uk with your name, institution and language(s).

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Extended submission deadline - SIGUL2022 Workshop on under-resourced languages (co-located with LREC2022)
by Claudia Soria 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

****Apologies for cross-postings**** Call for Papers SIGUL 2022 Workshop <https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it/> a post-Conference Workshop of LREC 2022 Marseille (FR), 24-25 June 2022 *EXTENDED paper submission deadline: 19 April 2022* The 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2022) will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2022 will carry on the tradition of the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organised since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this Workshop spans the research interest areas of less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority and minoritized languages. Since this year LREC includes a track dedicated specifically to endangered and less-resourced languages, the workshop aims to be a venue for networking and discussion as much as for scientific debate. Over the last years, research in NLP for less-resourced languages has taken momentum. The multiplication of research interest makes it even more necessary for the community that revolves around less-resourced languages to find opportunities for aggregation and discussion. Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in NLP, MT and Speech Technologies for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers, and also to offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honouring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics include but are not limited to: General research on under-resourced languages. Transfer-learning techniques for under-resourced languages (use of multilingual, pretrained models, unsupervised, semi-supervised, zero-shot, few-shot training,...) in NLP, MT and Speech technologies. We also invite position papers on methodological, ethical, or institutional issues Instructions for submission can be found here <https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it/submission/> Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: *19* April 2022 - Notification of acceptance: 3 May 2022 - Camera-ready paper: 23 May 2022 - Workshop date: 24-25 June 2022 Organizing Committee Maite Melero - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain Sakriani Sakti - NAIST, Japan Claudia Soria - CNR-ILC, Italy To contact the organisers, please mail sigul2022(a)ilc.cnr.it <mailto:sigul2022@ilc.cnr.it> (Subject: [SIGUL2022]).

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Research Internship on Controlled Text Generation at Naver Labs Europe
by Laurent Besacier 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

> > > Research internship position at NAVER LABS Europe (Grenoble, France) on Energy-Based Models for Controlled Text Generation > > Start date: June 2022 > Duration: 5-6 months > > DESCRIPTION > Large language models can now be used to generate highly fluent texts. However, the synthesized utterances can be deficient on other important levels: semantic consistency, faithfulness to the facts, toxic or socially biased content. > > Our team has developed several effective solutions on that front [1,2,3,4] exploiting the expressive power of Energy-Based Models in defining constraints over generative models. However, certain challenges remain: (1) How can we quickly adapt to changing control conditions without the need for model retraining? (2) Can we exploit these techniques to improve on hard-to-quantify features, such as safety, unbiasedness, textual coherence, or matching the human intention? (3) Can we improve training speed/robustness, for example, by leveraging techniques from RL? > > We are looking for a motivated intern to help us develop techniques and algorithms addressing these challenges. Experiments will be conducted on selected text generation tasks using the state of art pre-trained language models. > > The successful candidate should be enrolled in a graduate program, at the Master or (preferably) PhD level. > > The intern will work in a team integrated by Hady Elsahar, Marc Dymetman, Germán Kruszewski, and Jos Rozen. > > Publication of this internship's results in major conferences/journals will be strongly encouraged. > > REQUIRED SKILLS > - Strong programming skills > - Relevant experience with training Deep Learning models for NLP > - Strong mathematical skills > - Ability to communicate research > > OPTIONAL SKILLS > - Knowledge of MCMC sampling techniques and/or Reinforcement Learning > - Publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences > > REFERENCES > [1] Khalifa et al., A Distributional Approach to Controlled Text Generation, In ICLR-2021 > [2] Eikema et al., Sampling from Energy-Based Models with Quality/Efficiency Trade-offs, In CtrlGen at Neurips 2021 > [3] Korbak et al., Energy-Based Models for Code Generation under Compilability Constraints, In NLP4prog at ACL2021 > [4] Korbak et al. Controlling Conditional Language Models with Distributional Policy Gradients, In CtrlGen at Neurips 2021 > > APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS > Please note that applicants must be registered students at a university or other academic institution and that this establishment will need to sign an 'Internship Convention' with NAVER LABS Europe before the student is accepted. > > You can apply for this position online at https://europe.naverlabs.com/job/energy-based-models-for-controlled-text-ge… <https://europe.naverlabs.com/job/energy-based-models-for-controlled-text-ge…>. Don't forget to upload your CV and cover letter before you submit. Incomplete applications will not be accepted. > > ABOUT NAVER LABS > NAVER is the #1 Internet portal in Korea with activities that span a wide range of businesses including search, commerce, content, financial and cloud platforms. > > NAVER LABS, co-located in Korea and France, is the organization dedicated to preparing NAVER’s future. NAVER LABS Europe is located in a spectacular setting in Grenoble, in the heart of the French Alps. Scientists at NAVER LABS Europe are empowered to pursue long-term research problems that, if successful, can have significant impact and transform NAVER. We take our ideas as far as research can to create the best technology of its kind. Active participation in the academic community and collaborations with world-class public research groups are, among others, important tools to achieve these goals. Teamwork, focus and persistence are important values for us. > > NAVER LABS Europe is an equal opportunity employer. > > For more information and application see https://europe.naverlabs.com/job/energy-based-models-for-controlled-text-ge… <https://europe.naverlabs.com/job/energy-based-models-for-controlled-text-ge…>

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CfP: SIGUL2022 Workshop, co-located with LREC2022
by Claudia Soria 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

****Apologies for cross-postings**** ***Please help disseminate**** 1st Call for Papers SIGUL 2022 Workshop <https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it/> a post-Conference Workshop of LREC 2022 Marseille (FR), 24-25 June 2022 *paper submission deadline: 11 April 2022* The 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2022) will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2022 will carry on the tradition of the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organised since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this Workshop spans the research interest areas of less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority and minoritized languages. Since this year LREC includes a track dedicated specifically to endangered and less-resourced languages, the workshop aims to be a venue for networking and discussion as much as for scientific debate. Over the last years,research in NLP for less-resourced languages has taken momentum. The multiplication of research interest makes it even more necessary for the community that revolves around less-resourced languages to find opportunities for aggregation and discussion. Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in NLP, MT and Speech Technologies for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers, and also to offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honouring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics include but are not limited to: * General research on under-resourced languages. * Transfer-learning techniquesfor under-resourced languages(use of multilingual, pretrained models, unsupervised, semi-supervised, zero-shot, few-shot training,...) in NLP, MT and Speech technologies. * We also invite position paperson methodological, ethical, or institutional issues Instructions for submission can be found here <https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it/submission/> Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: 11 April 2022 - Notification of acceptance: 3 May 2022 - Camera-ready paper: 23 May 2022 - Workshop date: 24-25 June 2022 Organizing Committee * Maite Melero - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain * Sakriani Sakti - NAIST, Japan * Claudia Soria - CNR-ILC, Italy To contact the organisers, please mail sigul2022(a)ilc.cnr.it <mailto:sigul2022@ilc.cnr.it>(Subject: [SIGUL2022]). -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Management Committee member COST Action CA19102 ‘Language In The Human-Machine Era' (LITHME) www.lithme.eu Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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[1st Call for Papers] ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages - SIGUL 2022 Workshop
by Maite Melero 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

****Apologies for cross-postings**** ***Please help disseminate**** 1st Call for Papers SIGUL 2022 Workshop <https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it/> a post-Conference Workshop of LREC 2022 Marseille (FR), 24-25 June 2022 The 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2022) will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2022 will carry on the tradition of the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organised since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this Workshop spans the research interest areas of less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority and minoritized languages. Since this year LREC includes a track dedicated specifically to endangered and less-resourced languages, the workshop aims to be a venue for networking and discussion as much as for scientific debate. Over the last years, research in NLP for less-resourced languages has taken momentum. The multiplication of research interest makes it even more necessary for the community that revolves around less-resourced languages to find opportunities for aggregation and discussion. Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in NLP, MT and Speech Technologies for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers, and also to offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honouring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics include but are not limited to: - General research on under-resourced languages. - Transfer-learning techniques for under-resourced languages (use of multilingual, pretrained models, unsupervised, semi-supervised, zero-shot, few-shot training,...) in NLP, MT and Speech technologies. - We also invite position papers on methodological, ethical, or institutional issues Instructions for submission can be found here <https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it/submission/> Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: 11 April 2022 - Notification of acceptance: 3 May 2022 - Camera-ready paper: 23 May 2022 - Workshop date: 24-25 June 2022 Organizing Committee - Maite Melero - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain - Sakriani Sakti - NAIST, Japan - Claudia Soria - CNR-ILC, Italy To contact the organisers, please mail sigul2022(a)ilc.cnr.it (Subject: [SIGUL2022]).

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Presentation of the Linguapax Review on Language Technologies and Language Diversity on March 9th 6pm CET
by Claudia Soria 01 Mar '22

01 Mar '22

To kick off the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-32, Linguapax will present the 2021 Linguapax Review special issue on Language Technologies and Language Diversity The event will take place online on 9 March 2022, at 6 pm CET, via Zoom. During the presentation, authors of the 2021 Linguapax Review will participate in a live debate. We are proud to be joined by: Andras Kornai <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAB31oBkjnx7uquXtV7tM7-w2lGSsKxbdw>, advisor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and author of "Digital Language Death" Daniel Pimienta <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAABDoo8BjE6560HaeAmfgcrAOHIqHATliMg>, mathematician, head of the Observatory of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity on the Internet Tunde Adegbola <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAABR2W0B-E35vkfUZzAJdeTL_awNeQq0oDM>, scientist, musician, engineer, linguist and culture activist, founder of African Languages Technology Initiative (Alt-i) Roland Kuhn, <https://nrc.canada.ca/en/corporate/contact-us/nrc-directory-science-profess…>PRO at National Research Council Canada and leader of the Indigenous Languages Technology project Eddie Avila <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAABGd_8BCQSXFxlgDkk4uf8jWhru9V_AbUA>, director of Rising Voices, an initiative to support peer networks of indigenous language digital activists in Latin America Subhashish P. <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAANsOmkB2pSPSzrrS0zGo0pKhFCGXY8I80s> Panigrahi, National Geographic Explorer and documentary filmmaker, founder of OpenSpeaks, a project for documenting indigenous and endangered languages The debate will be moderated by Maite Melero <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAK3E2UBEPSieDYF2HzmjZpjuAL1A-7E5tQ>, coordinator of the special issue, and will address questions such as : Why should we - all of us - care about linguistic diversity? Are new technologies a threat or an opportunity for endangered languages? What are the keys for effective language digital activism? We will open this interesting debate to the audience. Participation is free but registration is required: at: https://lnkd.in/eZMf-QcV <https://lnkd.in/eZMf-QcV>

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Fwd: Update for Event : Special Session on Low-Resource ASR Development
by Joseph Mariani 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

fyi, Joseph -------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : Update for Event : Special Session on Low-Resource ASR Development Date : Tue, 8 Feb 2022 10:21:32 +0000 De : ACL Member Portal <portal(a)aclweb.org> Pour : joseph.mariani(a)limsi.fr Greetings Mariani J Joseph, Call for Papers: Special Session on Low-Resource ASR Development at INTERSPEECH 2022 We invite submission of original results or studies on automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies for low-resource languages to the preliminarily accepted Low-Resource ASR Special Session at INTERSPEECH 2022. The special session aims to bring together researchers from all sectors working on ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) for low-resource languages and dialects to discuss the state of the art and future directions. It will allow for fruitful exchanges between participants in low-resource ASR challenges and evaluations and other researchers working on low-resource ASR development. One such challenge is the OpenASR Challenge series conducted by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) in coordination with IARPA’s (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) MATERIAL (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language) program. The most recent challenge, OpenASR21, offered an ASR test of 15 low resource languages for conversational telephone speech, with additional data genres and case-sensitive scoring for some of the languages. Another challenge is the Hindi ASR Challenge that was recently opened to evaluate regional variations of Hindi with the use of spontaneous telephone speech recordings made available by Gram Vaani, a social technology enterprise company. The regional variations of Hindi, together with spontaneity of speech, natural background, and transcriptions with varying degrees of accuracy due to crowd sourcing make it a unique corpus for automatic recognition of spontaneous telephone speech in low-resource regional variations of Hindi. A 1000 hours audio-only data (no transcription) is also released with this challenge to explore self-supervised training for such a low-resource framework. We invite contributions from the OpenASR21 Challenge participants, the MATERIAL performers, the Hindi ASR Challenge participants, and any other researchers with relevant work in the low-resource ASR problem space. Topics: Reports of results from tests of low-resource ASR, such as (but not limited to) the NIST/IARPA OpenASR21 Challenge, IARPA MATERIAL evaluations, and the Hindi ASR Challenge. Topics focused on aspects of challenges and solutions in low-resource settings, such as: Zero- or few-shot learning methods Transfer learning techniques Cross-lingual training techniques Use of pretrained models Factors influencing ASR performance (such as dialect, gender, genre, variations in training data amount, or casing) Any other topics focused on low-resource ASR challenges and solutions URL: https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/low-resource-asr-development-special-se... [1] Organizers: Peter Bell, University of Edinburgh Jayadev Billa, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute Prasanta Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore William Hartmann, Raytheon BBN Technologies Kay Peterson, National Institute of Standards and Technology Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Important dates: Initial paper submission deadline: March 21, 2022 Please see the Important Dates section of the INTERSPEECH 2022 Call for Papers for the most up-to-date paper submission, acceptance, and other relevant dates. Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/special-session-low-resource-asr-deve… [1] https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/low-resource-asr-development-special-sessi… --- This is an automatic message from the ACL Member Portal. If you want to change your alert profile, please visit https://www.aclweb.org/portal/alerts/status and login to your account using your username (Mariani J Joseph). To unsubscribe from all ACL alerts and other announcements, visit https://www.aclweb.org/portal/unsubscribe/6539/502a7792e3fd0 -- Depuis le 1er janvier 2021, le LIMSI a fusionné avec le LRI et est devenu le LISN (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique) Since January 1st 2021, LIMSI merged with the LRI lab and became the LISN (Interdisciplinary Computer Science Laboratory) - Joseph MARIANI Directeur de Recherche Émérite au CNRS LISN Rue John von Neumann Université Paris-Saclay Batiment 508 91405 ORSAY Cedex (France) Tel: +33 1 69 15 78 56 Email:Joseph.Mariani@limsi.fr Web:https://perso.limsi.fr/mariani/index Web IMMI:http://immi.cnrs.fr/

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[French Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2022] Invitation: Online Forum on Innovation, Technologies and Plurilingualism (Feb 7-9, 2022)
by ELRA ELDA Information 21 Jan '22

21 Jan '22

[Apologies if you have already received this message] Among the highlights labeled «French Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2022», the Ministry of Culture, through the General Delegation to the French language and languages of France, is organizing the online Forum on *Innovation, technologies and plurilingualism*, on February 7-9, 2022, and would like to invite you to attend this 3-day event. Today, digital transformation offers new possibilities for plurilingualism, a challenge for social cohesion and citizenship in Europe. Opened by Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, the French Minister of Culture, this forum will bring together many actors, French and European, in the domains of Translation, Language Technologies, Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence, for the benefit of multilingualism in our societies. *Innovation, promotion, technologies and multilingualism* Four themes will structure the programme (https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Media/Medias-creation-rapide/PROGRAMME-EN_Forum…): * Multilingualism and translation in a Europe of culture and knowledge facing the digital challenge; * Language learning and teaching in Europe, their promotion and attractiveness through digital innovation; * Natural Language Processing, “discoverability” of scientific content, collection, evaluation and sharing of digital linguistic resources, with stakeholders from the worlds of science, research and business; * Language technologies, at the service of the European citizen, to promote EU values and a common sense of belonging. The Forum is organized in partnership with the Hauts-de-France Region and the ARTE TV channel. To attend this event and receive the related links, you are invited to register on the platform of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union as follows: *Meeting: Forum « Innovation, Technologies and Plurilingualism » * 1- Click on the link: https://delegues.accreditation-eu2022.fr/secured/login 2- Click on : /Create a new account / 3- Fill in the form 4- You receive a message, click on the link to /Activate your account / 5- On the /Authentication/ page, fill in FORINOVPLURI.PARTICIDGLFLF (Delegation field) / ParticipaDGLFLF2022! (access code) / your email / your password (created at the first connection) Contact: soraya.loukakou(a)culture.gouv.fr <mailto:soraya.loukakou@culture.gouv.fr>

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SIGUL2022 Workshop accepted at LREC2022
by Claudia Soria 17 Dec '21

17 Dec '21

Dear All, we are happy to announce that SIGUL will have its own workshop during LREC2022: the workshop will take place on June 24 and 25. The call for papers and the list of the other accepted workshops is available here: https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/workshops-and-tutorials/ws-tut-schedule/. Please distribute! Best wishes for the upcoming Festive Season, Claudia -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Management Committee member COST Action CA19102 ‘Language In The Human-Machine Era' (LITHME) www.lithme.eu Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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UNESCO World Atlas of Languages, call to contribute to online survey on our languages.
by Claudia Soria 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

Dear friends and colleagues, I just received this call (below) from UNESCO World Atlas of Languages to contribute to their online survey on languages. Details are below in English, French and Spanish. Note that the deadline is October 10th. Best wishes, Claudia **** Dear Sir/Madam, We are pleased to inform you that on 17 September 2021, UNESCO launched a supplementary *online survey* destined to civil society to collect new data on the world’s languages. All specialized organizations, grass-root associations, and centers active in the domain of languages, and representatives of language communities from all over the world are invited to share data on their languages by *10 October 2021*. This data collection effort is aimed at feeding the new platform of the *UNESCO World Atlas of Languages*, an innovative and interactive tool that aims to document, value and support the world’s linguistic diversity. This Atlas will cover as many as possible of the more than 8,000 languages in use today. UNESCO has been working with national governments, partners, and experts to collect data on the world’s languages, and now calls on all communities across the planet to assist in this process and to ensure that all languages are represented. The World Atlas of Languages online survey is available in *English, French, Russian and Spanish* at the following link: https://forms.office.com/r/ZxUYaYsCZ9 The survey covers a variety of aspects related to language use and users in different domains of life. You are invited to submit inputs only with reference to the fields that are relevant for your work and interest. Your valuable contribution will help us to learn more about your languages and the challenges affecting their vitality, as well as to develop new solutions for the preservation, revitalization, and promotion of linguistic diversity around the world. For further information please visit: https://en.unesco.org/news/tell-us-about-your-language-play-part-building-u… Thank you very much for your interest and cooperation. *FRENCH* *Sujet :* /Parlez-nous de votre langue : participez à la construction de l'Atlas mondial des langues de l'UNESCO/ Madame, Monsieur Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que le 17 septembre 2021, l'UNESCO a lancé une *enquête en ligne supplémentaire* destinée à la société civile afin de recueillir de nouvelles données sur les langues du monde. Toutes les organisations spécialisées, les associations de base et les centres actifs dans le domaine des langues, ainsi que les représentants des communautés linguistiques du monde entier, sont invités à partager des données sur leurs langues avant le *10 octobre 2021*. Cet effort de collecte de données vise à alimenter la nouvelle plateforme de *l'Atlas mondial des langues de l'UNESCO*, un outil innovant et interactif qui vise à documenter, valoriser et soutenir la diversité linguistique mondiale. Cet Atlas couvrira le plus grand nombre possible des plus de 8 000 langues utilisées aujourd'hui. L'UNESCO a travaillé avec les gouvernements nationaux, des partenaires et des experts pour collecter des données sur les langues du monde, et appelle maintenant toutes les communautés de la planète à participer à ce processus et à s'assurer que toutes les langues sont représentées de manière égale. L'enquête en ligne de l'Atlas mondial des langues est disponible en *anglais, français, russe et espagnol* au lien suivant : https://forms.office.com/r/ZxUYaYsCZ9 . L'enquête couvre une variété d'aspects liés à l'utilisation et aux utilisateurs des langues dans différents domaines de la vie. Vous êtes invités à soumettre des contributions uniquement en référence aux domaines qui sont pertinents pour votre travail et vos intérêts. Votre précieuse contribution nous aidera à mieux connaître vos langues et les défis qui affectent leur vitalité, ainsi qu'à élaborer de nouvelles solutions pour la préservation, la revitalisation et la promotion de la diversité linguistique dans le monde. Pour de plus amples informations, veuillez consulter : https://en.unesco.org/news/tell-us-about-your-language-play-part-building-u… Merci beaucoup de votre intérêt et votre coopération. *SPANISH * *Tema:* /Háblenos de su lengua: participe en la elaboración del Atlas Mundial de las Lenguas de la UNESCO/ Estimado señor/señora, Nos complace informarle de que el 17 de septiembre de 2021, la UNESCO lanzó una *encuesta complementaria en línea* destinada a la sociedad civil para recoger nuevos datos sobre las lenguas del mundo. Se invita a todas las organizaciones especializadas, a las asociaciones de base y a los centros activos en el ámbito de las lenguas, así como a los representantes de las comunidades lingüísticas de todo el mundo, a compartir los datos sobre sus lenguas antes del *10 de octubre de 2021*. Este esfuerzo de recopilación de datos tiene como objetivo alimentar la nueva plataforma del *Atlas Mundial de las Lenguas de la UNESCO*, una herramienta innovadora e interactiva que pretende documentar, valorar y apoyar la diversidad lingüística del mundo. Este Atlas abarcará el mayor número posible de las más de 8.000 lenguas en uso actualmente. La UNESCO ha estado trabajando con gobiernos nacionales, socios y expertos para recopilar datos sobre las lenguas del mundo, y ahora hace un llamamiento a todas las comunidades del planeta para que colaboren en este proceso y se aseguren de que todas las lenguas estén representadas por igual. La encuesta en línea del Atlas Mundial de las Lenguas está disponible en *inglés, francés, ruso y español* en el siguiente enlace: https://forms.office.com/r/ZxUYaYsCZ9 La encuesta abarca diversos aspectos relacionados con el uso y los usuarios de las lenguas en diferentes ámbitos de la vida. Le invitamos a que envíe sus aportaciones únicamente con referencia a los campos que son relevantes para su trabajo e interés. Su valiosa contribución nos ayudará a conocer mejor sus lenguas y los retos que afectan a su vitalidad, así como a desarrollar nuevas soluciones para la preservación, revitalización y promoción de la diversidad lingüística en todo el mundo. Para más información, visite: https://en.unesco.org/news/tell-us-about-your-language-play-part-building-u… Muchas gracias por su interés y cooperación. -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Management Committee member COST Action CA19102 ‘Language In The Human-Machine Era' (LITHME) www.lithme.eu Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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ALPS 2022 (Online) Winter School: 1st CFP
by Laurent Besacier 16 Sep '21

16 Sep '21

FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2022 Jan, 17-22 2022 Grenoble - France ALPS2022 will take place entirely ONLINE University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe are announcing the second Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2022. Important Dates Application Deadline - Sept, 15th 2021 Notification - Oct 1st 2021 Registration Deadline - Oct, 31st 2021 Winter School - Jan, 17-22 2022 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 to 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 work together. Confirmed speakers so far: - Kyunghyun Cho (NYU, USA) - Yejin Choi (University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI, USA) - Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Colin Raffel (UNC Chapel Hill, USA and Hugging Face, France) In addition to the talks, we plan to have several labs (tba) with teacher assistants helping out. Poster sessions will be also organized for participants to present their work and interact with each other. Last year schedule is available on this link <http://alps-2021.imag.fr/index.php/schedule/index.html>. Website and online application: http://alps.imag.fr/ <http://alps.imag.fr/> Questions: alps2021(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:alps2021@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>

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Linguapax International Award call for nominations has been extended until end of July
by Maite Melero 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

The Linguapax Award is a recognition of actions carried out in different fields in favour of the preservation of linguistic diversity, revitalization and reactivation of linguistic communities and the promotion of multilingualism. Its purpose is to identify, value and disseminate successful actions and good practices around the world that serve as a reference and example to all persons, entities and groups who wish to act for languages. Please check https://www.linguapax.org/en/linguapax-opens-2021-linguapax-award/ for details. Maite ========================================= Maite Melero *Senior Researcher* *Barcelona Supercomputing Center* *Plan de las Tecnologías del Lenguaje (SEDIA)* https://www.linkedin.com/in/maite-melero-48530913/

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Summer/winter school | "First truly global /L+/ international summer/winter school on language acquisition" | 16-20 August 2021 | online
by Alex CRISTIA 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Dear colleagues, I'm writing to ask for your help to advertise the free online school on language acquisition described below. We've had very few registrations from Africa and Oceania, and with the organizers, we think it would be really important to reach out particularly to colleagues working on under-resourced languages. Thank you in advance, Alex ---------- Forwarded message --------- Dear all, We are thrilled to announce the first edition of the truly global /L+/ international summer/winter school on language acquisition. WHEN: 16-20 August 2021 (Online) at three different time zones: 1. UTC+8 (Singapore time), 2. UTC (GMT), 3. UTC-4 (Amazon time). WEBSITE: https://www.dpss.unipd.it/summer-school-2021/home REGISTRATION: https://lilia.dpss.psy.unipd.it/summer-school-2021/ AIM: The First truly global /L+/ international summer/winter school on language acquisition aims to promote knowledge about language acquisition and establish a global network of collaboration with mutually beneficial exchanges for researchers and students. Students will acquire knowledge regarding current theories and controversies in first language acquisition, and will learn basic experimental methods to implement in their research studies. MOTIVATION: Although the ability to use language is universal in human cultures, there is a long-standing debate as to whether language develops in similar ways or whether it varies across populations and, if so, why. This debate would benefit from more studies including a variety of languages. However, less than 5% of published studies deal with acquisition in non-European languages. This gap is exacerbated by the fact that many talented students, teachers and researchers in underrepresented areas do not have access to specialist literature, research equipment, or international collaborative networks. The online L+/International summer/winter school on language acquisition aims at contributing to reducing this gap. TUITION: Participation in the School is free of charge. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE: Students at all levels (BA – PhD.) and early career researchers from all regions, but particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and South and Central America, are encouraged to participate. There are no prerequisites in terms of specific knowledge or skills. TOPICS: The lecture topics are organized into four different streams: 1. Phonological development 2. Lexical development 3. Morphosyntax development 4. Effects of the environment on development Each stream will consist of five lectures that will be taught by instructors with extensive expertise in theory and methods in these different subfields of language acquisition. STRUCTURE: The activities will develop in a purely online format that will combine synchronous (live) and asynchronous (pre-recorded) events in order to encourage the participation of students and researchers in their time zone. The schedule is structured for attending two streams. When registering, participants will be asked to choose two streams. In each stream, we will also mark one lecture and discussion as our recommendation (taster) for participants who would like to get a taste of the streams that they did not choose. However, everyone is welcome to attend more than two streams. For this case, during the registration, they should indicate if there are other streams they are also interested in. APPLY: You can apply for participation with a brief motivation statement (100 words) following this link https://lilia.dpss.psy.unipd.it/summer-school-2021/ CONTACT: language1.summerschool.dpss(a)unipd.it We are looking forward to receiving your registrations! Best wishes, The Organization Team ------ - Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo (University of Ilorin) - Silvia Benavides-Varela (University of Padua) - Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of Potsdam) - Paulina Aravena Bravo (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, University of Chile) - Alex Carstensen (Stanford University) - Alejandrina Cristia (Ecole Normale Supérieure) - Margaret Cychosz (University of Maryland, College Park) - Rodrigo Dal Ben (Concordia University) - Yatma Diop (Michigan State University) - Ilse van den Dobbelsteen (Max Planck Institute-Nijmegen) - Rowena Garcia (Max Plank Institute-Nijmegen) - Mulat Asnake Goshu (Addis Ababa University) - Naomi Havron (University of Haifa) - Leticia Schiavon Kolberg (State University of Campinas) - Hiromasa Kotera (University of Potsdam) - Ronel Laranjo (University of Philippines Diliman) - Catherine Mbagaya (Maseno University) - Bhuvana Narasimhan (University of Colorado) - Ramona Kunene Nicolas (Wits University) - Paul Okyere Omane (University of Potsdam) - Jayson Petras (University Philippines Diliman) - Caroline Rowland (Max Planck Institute-Nijmegen) - Andrew Ssemata (Makerere University) - Suzy Styles (Nanyang Technological University) - Catherine Urban (Ecole Normale Supérieure) - Fei Ting Woon (Nanyang Technological University)

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'The Dawn of the Human-Machine Era': Forecast report on new and emerging language technologies
by Claudia Soria 20 May '21

20 May '21

The 'human-machine era' is coming soon: a time when technology is integrated with our senses, not confined to mobile devices. The hardware will move from our hands into our eyes and ears. Intelligent eyewear and earwear will be able to translate another person's words, and make it look and sound like they were talking to you in your language. Technology will mediate what we see, hear and say, in real time. In addition, we will be having increasingly complex conversations with smart devices. This is not science fiction or marketing hype. These devices are currently in prototype, set for widespread consumer adoption in the coming years. All this will disrupt and transform our use and understanding of language use. Are we ready? A new EU 'COST Action' (https://cost.eu <https://cost.eu/>) research network 'Language in the Human-Machine Era' (LITHME), with members from 52 countries, explores how such technological advances are likely to change our everyday communication, and ultimately language itself. As a first major collaborative effort, LITHME has published an open access report 'The Dawn of the Human-Machine Era: A Forecast of New and Emerging Language Technologies': https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1 <https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1>. Accessible to a wide audience, the report brings together insights from specialists in the fields of language technology and linguistic research. The forecast report was authored by 52 researchers, and edited by LITHME's Chair Dave Sayers (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Vice-Chair Sviatlana Höhn (University of Luxembourg), and the Chair of LITHME's Computational Linguistics working group Rui Sousa Silva (University of Porto, Portugal). It describes the current state and probable futures of various language technologies – for written, spoken, haptic and signed modalities of language. The publication is intended to be both authoritative and accessible, aimed at language and technology professionals but also policymakers and the wider public. It describes how a range of new technologies will soon transform the way we use language, while discussing the software powering these advances behind the scenes, as well as consumer devices like Augmented Reality eyepieces and immersive Virtual Reality spaces. The report also shines a light on critical issues such as inequality of access to technologies, privacy and security, and new forms of deception and crime. It is a result of unique collaboration, as LITHME brings together people from different directions in language research who would not otherwise meet or collaborate. LITHME has eight thematic working groups <https://lithme.eu/working-groups/>; and members from each working group have contributed to the report. Please share this message with anyone who may be interested, and please retweet us here: https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1394716982587662339 <https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1394716982587662339>. LITHME is a 4-year networking project, funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). It started in October 2020 and currently has members from all 27 EU states plus 25 other countries from every continent. The network seeks to bridge the gap between linguists and technology experts, so the former can benefit from better technological foresight, and the latter from better understanding of potential linguistic and societal consequences of emerging technologies. Find out more about LITHME's activities: https://lithme.eu <https://lithme.eu/>. And follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine <https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine> All the best, Claudia Soria

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