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Cardamom Seminar Series - Rolando Coto-Solano on Linguistically-informed Deep Learning [31st May, 17:00 GMT+1]
by Claudia Soria 20 May '21

20 May '21

FYI *Seminar on Linguistically-informed Deep Learning for Extremely Low-Resource Languages* Monday 31 May at 17:00 (GMT+1) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cardamom-seminar-series-tickets-151488998673 > Inizio messaggio inoltrato: > > Da: John McCrae <john.mccrae(a)insight-centre.org> > Oggetto: [elexis-all] Cardamom Seminar Series - Rolando Coto-Solano on Linguistically-informed Deep Learning [31st May, 17:00 GMT+1] > Data: 19 maggio 2021 11:30:36 CEST > A: undisclosed-recipients: ; > > Hi all, > > The Unit for Linguistic Data at Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway is delighted to welcome Rolando Coto-Solano, a professor of Linguistics at Dartmouth College as the speaker of our second talk in our seminar series, in which he will talk about linguistically informed representations to improve deep learning for extremely low-resource languages especially focusing on Chibchan Languages. > > 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 31st May. All are welcome to attend by registering at: > > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cardamom-seminar-series-tickets-151488998673 > > This seminar series is support by the IRC-funded Cardamom project. > > 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/115c56e2-577b-43e5-3d07-015a46….

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Fwd: [Corpora-List] CFP: Special Issue on on Computer Speech and Language Journal- Dravidian Languages
by Claudia Soria 06 May '21

06 May '21

FYI > Inizio messaggio inoltrato: > > Da: Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi <bharathi.raja(a)insight-centre.org> > Oggetto: [Corpora-List] CFP: Special Issue on on Computer Speech and Language Journal- Dravidian Languages > Data: 6 maggio 2021 08:24:46 CEST > A: corpora(a)uib.no > > > Apologies for cross posting > > Special Issue on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages > > Computer Speech and Language > An official publication of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) > > link: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/call-for-pap… <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/call-for-pap…> > Guest Editors > > Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, National University of Ireland Galway > (bharathi.raja(a)insight-centre.org <mailto:bharathi.raja@insight-centre.org>) > Anand Kumar M, National Institute of Technology Karnataka > Surathkal (m_anandkumar(a)nitk.edu.in <mailto:m_anandkumar@nitk.edu.in>) > Thenmozhi D, SSN College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu, (theni_d(a)ssn.edu.in <mailto:theni_d@ssn.edu.in>) > Dhivya Chinnapa, Thomson Reuters, USA > (dhivya.chinnappa(a)thomsonreuters.com <mailto:dhivya.chinnappa@thomsonreuters.com>) > Sajeetha Thavareesan, Eastern University, Sri Lanka (sajeethas(a)esn.ac.lk <mailto:sajeethas@esn.ac.lk>) > The development of technology increases our internet use, and most of the world's languages have adapted themselves to the digital era. However, many regional, under-resourced languages face challenges as they still lack developments in language technology. One such language family is the Dravidian family of languages (40+ languages). Dravidian languages are primarily spoken in south India and Sri Lanka, while pockets of speakers are found in Nepal, Pakistan, and elsewhere in South Asia. Although the Dravidian languages are 4,500 years old and are currently spoken by hundreds of millions of native speakers, their natural language processing resources and tools are limited. The Dravidian languages are divided into four groups: South, South-Central, Central, and North groups. Dravidian morphology is agglutinating and exclusively suffixal. Syntactically, Dravidian languages are head-final and left-branching. They are free-constituent order languages. In order to improve access to and production of information for monolingual speakers of Dravidian languages, it is necessary to promote the research in speech and language technologies. We particularly encourage computational approaches that address either practical application or improving resources for a given language in the field. > > NLP research in Dravidian languages is still in the initial stage compared to other high-resourced languages. This special issue is dedicated to reporting the recent development and providing an overview of the state-of-the-art speech and language technologies research in Dravidian languages. Moreover, it identifies the existing tools, resources, evaluates recent methodologies and ongoing activities. > > The broader objective of the special issue will be > > To investigate challenges related to speech and language resource creation for machine learning and deep learning for Dravidian languages. > To promote research in speech and language technology in Dravidian languages. > To adopt appropriate language technology models that suit Dravidian languages. > Our special issues welcome original/ novel work in the theoretical and empirical investigation on any Dravidian languages (Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tulu, Allar, Aranadan, Attapadya Kurumba, Badaga, Beary, Betta Kurumba, Bharia, Bishavan, Brahui, Chenchu, Duruwa, Eravallan, Gondi, Holiya, Irula, Jeseri, Kadar, Kaikadi, Kalanadi, Kanikkaran, Khiwar, Kodava, Kolami, Konda, Koraga, Kota, Koya, Kurambhag Paharia, Kui, Kumbaran, Kunduvadi, Kurichiya, Kurukh, Kurumba, Kuvi, Madiya, Mala Malasar, Malankuravan, Malapandaram, Malasar, Malto, Manda, Muduga, Mullu Kurumba, Muria, Muthuvan, Naiki, Ollari, Paliyan, Paniya, Pardhan, Pathiya, Pattapu, Pengo, Ravula, Sholaga, Thachanadan, Toda, Wayanad Chetti, and Yerukala) that contribute to research in language processing, speech technologies or resources for the same. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical application or improving resources for a given language in the field. > > We invite submissions on topics that include, but not limited to, the following: > > Code-mixing/Code-switching > Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics > Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) > Corpus Development, Tools, Analysis and Evaluation > Computational Phonology and Morphology > COVID-19 applications, NLP Applications for Emergency Situations and Crisis Management > Discourse and Pragmatics > Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion > Fake News, Spam, and Rumor Detection > Hate Speech Detection and Offensive Language Detection > Information Extraction and Information Retrieval > Knowledge Representation > Language Modelling and Embeddings > Lexicons and Machine-Readable Dictionaries > Machine Translation > Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining > Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, Entailment and Other area > Speech Technology and Automatic Speech Recognition > Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing > Question Answering and Machine Comprehension > Text Summarization > Multimodal Analysis > NLP Applications > Paper submission deadline: 30th Nov 2021 > > The submission system will be open around one week before the first paper comes in. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type “VSI: SP:DravidianLangTech”. Please submit your manuscript before the submission deadline. > > All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production, and will be simultaneously published in the current regular issue and pulled into the online Special Issue. Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular issues of the journal, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Special Issue articles. > > Please see an example here: > https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computer-speech-and-language/vol/65/s… <https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computer-speech-and-language/vol/65/s…> > Please ensure you read the Guide for Authors before writing your manuscript. The Guide for Authors and the link to submit your manuscript is available on the Journal’s homepage. > > For further information and questions, please contact > > Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, National University of Ireland Galway (bharathi.raja(a)insight-centre.org <mailto:bharathi.raja@insight-centre.org>) > > > > > > with regards, > Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, > Adjunct Lecturer at School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway > Postdoctoral Fellow at Unit for Linguistic Data, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway > https://github.com/dravidian-codemix/2021/ <https://github.com/dravidian-codemix/2021/> > https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2021/home <https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2021/home> > https://dravidianlangtech.github.io/2021/ <https://dravidianlangtech.github.io/2021/> > https://dravidian-codemix.github.io/2020/ <https://dravidian-codemix.github.io/2020/> > E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com <mailto:bharathi.raja@insight-centre.org> > Web: http://www.nuigalway.ie:83/our-research/people/engineering-and-informatics/… <http://www.nuigalway.ie:83/our-research/people/engineering-and-informatics/…> > Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en> > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bharathi-raja-asoka-chakravarthi-7a520393/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bharathi-raja-asoka-chakravarthi-7a520393/> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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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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SIGUL Elections
by ELRA ELDA Information 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Dear All, You can now vote to elect the SIGUL Board members for the new term. *Please cast your vote here: https://bit.ly/3bRKgLN <https://bit.ly/3bRKgLN>* The vote is open from today, March 16th, 2021 until March 23rd, 2021 (23:59 GMT+1). The results will be published late March 2021. We hope that you will take an active part to this election and we are looking forward to seeing you during coming SIGUL events whether virtual or onsite (ALPS virtual winter school in 2021, next joint CCURL-SLTU workshop that will be organized in 2022). Best Regards, Khalid Choukri, ELRA Secretary General, in charge of supervising the SIGUL committee election ****** Our mailing-list sigul(a)list.elra.info now gathers 334 members and we have been organizing several events or activities for the past 3 years. You can find the the last ISCA SIG reports for 2017-2018 and 2019-2020 in the SIGUL page (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/) on the ELRA web site.

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forthcoming technology and the Welsh language conference
by Delyth Prys 18 Feb '21

18 Feb '21

Dear friends, We have a few places left at our fourth biannual Technologies and the Welsh Language Conference to take place over Zoom on the 26th of February. Welsh to English interpretation will be offered for sessions given in Welsh. For details and to register, please go to http://techiaith.cymru/conferences/conference-2021/?lang=en. Feel free to pass this message on, Delyth [https://www.bangor.ac.uk/common/img/email/logo-a2b.png]<https://www.bangor.ac.uk/> Yr Athro Delyth Prys Pennaeth Technolegau Iaith Canolfan Bedwyr [https://www.bangor.ac.uk/common/img/email/iaith-gwaith-16.png]Rydw i'n siarad Cymraeg E-bost: d.prys(a)bangor.ac.uk<mailto:d.prys@bangor.ac.uk> Ffôn: 01248 382800 Prifysgol Bangor, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG [https://www.bangor.ac.uk/common/img/email/twitter-16.png]@prifysgolbangor<https://twitter.com/prifysgolbangor> [https://www.bangor.ac.uk/common/img/email/facebook-16.png] /PrifysgolBangor<https://www.facebook.com/PrifysgolBangor> Prof. Delyth Prys Head of Language Technologies Canolfan Bedwyr [https://www.bangor.ac.uk/common/img/email/iaith-gwaith-16.png]I speak Welsh Email: d.prys(a)bangor.ac.uk<mailto:d.prys@bangor.ac.uk> Phone: 01248 382800 Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG [https://www.bangor.ac.uk/common/img/email/twitter-16.png]@BangorUni<https://twitter.com/BangorUni> [https://www.bangor.ac.uk/common/img/email/facebook-16.png] /BangorUniversity<https://www.facebook.com/BangorUniversity> [FfRhA Aur] [TEF Gold] Mae croeso i chi gysylltu gyda'r Brifysgol yn Gymraeg neu Saesneg You are welcome to contact the University in Welsh or English Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig 1141565 - Registered Charity No. 1141565 Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dilewch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, rhaid i chi beidio a defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i hanfonodd yn unig ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn Prifysgol Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Bangor yn gwarantu bod y neges e-bost hon neu unrhyw atodiadau yn rhydd rhag firysau neu 100% yn ddiogel. Oni bai fod hyn wedi ei ddatgan yn uniongyrchol yn nhestun yr e-bost, nid bwriad y neges e-bost hon yw ffurfio contract rhwymol - mae rhestr o lofnodwyr awdurdodedig ar gael o Swyddfa Cyllid Prifysgol Bangor. This email and any attachments may contain confidential material and is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you must not use, retain or disclose any information contained in this email. Any views or opinions are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Bangor University. Bangor University does not guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office.

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SIGUL Elections - Call for Candidates
by ELRA ELDA Information 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Dear All, Further to the Call for candidates sent out in November 2020, we did not receive enough applications for the open positions to be able to complete the full election process. We are launching the call again. We remind you that there are 3 open positions: Chair, Vice-chair and Secretary. If you have already sent your application for one of these positions, you can send it again or send us a mail (elra-SG(a)elda.org) to confirm that your November 2020 application is still valid. The Call for candidates is open from February 8th 2021 to March 8th 2021. If you want to be a candidate, please send a message to Khalid Choukri (elra-SG(a)elda.org) before March 8th 2021 with a short bio and a statement/manifesto that explains why you want to be an elected member of SIGUL board (please write or keep ‘SIGUL election’ in the mail subject). We hope you will take an active part to this election and we are looking forward to seeing you during coming SIGUL events whether virtual or onsite (ALPS virtual winter school in 2021, next joint CCURL-SLTU workshop that will be organized in 2022). ******* The first Board was elected in January 2018 (current Board members are: Claudia Soria, Laurent Besacier and Sakriani Sakti) and according to ELRA and ISCA by-laws is in charge for two years. The end of the term being on January 2020, it is now time to organize the elections to renew the Board members. The elected members of the SIG shall consist of a chairperson, a co-chair and a secretary. All elected members should commit themselves to become individual members of either ISCA or ELRA associations. The term of all elected board members of the SIG shall be 2 years. They may be re-elected but consecutive appointments are limited to four consecutive terms. The schedule of the election can be found here: http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/ Our mailing-list sigul(a)list.elra.info now gathers 334 members and we have been organizing several events or activities for the past 3 years. You can find the the last ISCA SIG reports for 2017-2018 and 2019-2020 in the SIGUL page (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/) on the ELRA web site. Best Regards Khalid Choukri, in charge of supervising these elections for the SIGUL committee

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Fwd: [Corpora-List] CFP: Second AfricaNLP Workshop EACL2021
by "Sebastian Stüker (IAR)" 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

Apologies for cross-posting Best Sebastian > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Hady ELSAHAR <hady.elsahar(a)naverlabs.com> > Subject: [Corpora-List] CFP: Second AfricaNLP Workshop EACL2021 > Date: 14. December 2020 at 07:08:35 CET > To: <corpora(a)uib.no> > Cc: africanlp-workshop-org(a)googlegroups.com > > Dear all, > > We are excited to announce that the Second AfricaNLP workshop <https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp-workshop/home> will take place on 19th/20th April, 2020, co-located with EACL 2021 <https://2021.eacl.org/>. > > Call for Submissions > We invite submissions of long (up to 8 pages) and short (up to 4 pages) research papers, resource papers, position papers, tutorial/overview papers, and system design papers. > We emphasize the reproducibility of empirical results and accessibility of resources in assessing the quality of submissions. We grant unlimited appendix and space for the author names, as well as we encourage shorter submissions. > > In the interest of inspiring more scientific discourse in non-English languages, we invite researchers to include an abstract in their home language. > > Submissions will be non-archival. Dual submissions are allowed as well but must be indicated. The review process will be double-blind, hence paper submissions must be anonymized. > Submissions will be accepted through the softconf platform and in PDF following the official EACL LaTeX template (zip) <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/eacl-2021-proceedings-template/jpr…>: > <https://www.softconf.com/eacl2021/AfricaNLP2021>https://www.softconf.com/eacl2021/AfricaNLP2021 <https://www.softconf.com/eacl2021/AfricaNLP2021> > Paper submission deadline: February 5th > > Further workshop details, including topics and invited speakers, are available on the website <https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp-workshop/home>. > Funding is available for one speaker of each accepted paper. > > We are also working to avail opportunities for peer mentorship in the event that you are a junior researcher and/or this will be your first paper. > Take a moment to join this Slack workspace <https://join.slack.com/t/africanlpworkshop/shared_invite/zt-jo1d09g6-l375eK…> and engage in the #questions and other relevant channels. > > Best Regards, > Hady Elsahar > Research Scientist, > Naver Labs Europe > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora <http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora> > Corpora mailing list > Corpora(a)uib.no <mailto:Corpora@uib.no> > https://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora <https://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora> -------------------------------------------------- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics Research Group 3-01 'Multilingual Speech Recognition' Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Stüker research group leader Adenauerring 2, Building 50.20, Room 231 76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608 46284 Fax: +49 721 607 721 Email: sebastian.stueker(a)kit.edu http://www.kit.edu http://asr.anthropomatik.kit.edu KIT – University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association -------------------------------------------------- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Institut für Anthropomatik und Robotik Nachwuchsgruppe 3-01 "Multilinguale Spracherkennung" Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Stüker Nachwuchsgruppenleiter Adenauerring 2, Gebäude 50.20, Raum 231 76131 Karlsruhe Telephon: +49 721 608 46284 Fax: +49 721 607 721 E-Mail: sebastian.stueker(a)kit.edu http://www.kit.edu http://asr.anthropomatik.kit.edu KIT – Universität des Landes Baden-Württemberg und nationales Großforschungszentrum in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

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Fwd: [ZR21] Announcing the Zero Resource Challenge 2021: spoken language modeling from raw audio
by Laurent Besacier 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

> Début du message réexpédié : > > De: Emmanuel Dupoux <emmanuel.dupoux(a)gmail.com> > Objet: [ZR21] Announcing the Zero Resource Challenge 2021: spoken language modeling from raw audio > Date: 25 novembre 2020 à 18:51:52 UTC+1 > À: zerospeech2021(a)gmail.com > Cc: Ewan Dunbar <ewan.dunbar(a)gmail.com>, Mathieu Bernard <mathieu.a.bernard(a)inria.fr>, Maureen de S <maureen.deseyssel(a)gmail.com>, Tú Anh Nguyễn <nguyentuanh208(a)gmail.com>, Nick Hamilakis <nick.hamilakis562(a)gmail.com> > > Dear Colleague, > > We have the pleasure to announce the new iteration of the Zero Resource Speech Challenge, which is now open! It will be submitted as a challenge session to Interspeech 2021. Its aim is to build a language model from raw audio without any text or phonetic labels (Language Modelling from Speech). We take inspiration from young infants who learn to talk before they learn to read or write. Here, the task is to discover a pseudo-text (a sub-word symbolic representation internal to the machine), from raw speech, without any labels, and to use these discovered units to learn higher order representations (lexical, syntactic, semantic) and achieve good scores in simple LM tasks. > > You will find a more complete description here: https://zerospeech.com/2021/ <https://zerospeech.com/2021/> and a paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11588 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11588> > > > We would be happy to know whether you intend to participate in this challenge (this is for the calibration of our compute resources for the evaluation phase). If not it would be most useful to know what would be the major obstacle preventing you to participate (computer resources, time, etc). You can answer directly to this email: mailto:zerospeech2021@gmail.com <mailto:zerospeech2021@gmail.com> > Thank you > for the organizers > Emmanuel Dupoux > > > -- > **************************************** > Emmanuel Dupoux > Directeur d'Etudes à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales > Research Scientist, Facebook AI Research > www.lscp.net/persons/dupoux <http://www.lscp.net/persons/dupoux> > > Equipe Cognitive Machine Learning > EHESS - ENS - CNRS - INRIA > 29 rue d'Ulm, Paris 75005, France > www.syntheticlearner.net <http://www.syntheticlearner.net/>

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SIGUL Elections - Call for Candidates
by ELRA ELDA Information 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Dear All, First of all, we hope you are all safe in these difficult times. As you may already know, the joint ISCA-ELRA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL) has been created in 2017. The first Board was elected in January 2018 (current Board members are: Claudia Soria, Laurent Besacier and Sakriani Sakti) and according to ELRA and ISCA by-laws is in charge for two years. The end of the term being on January 2020, it is now time to organize the elections to renew the Board members. The elected members of the SIG shall consist of a chairperson, a co-chair and a secretary. All elected members should commit themselves to become individual members of either ISCA or ELRA associations. The term of all elected board members of the SIG shall be 2 years. They may be re-elected but consecutive appointments are limited to four consecutive terms. The schedule of the election can be found here: http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/ Currently, the *Call for candidates* is open (from now to November 30th 2020) : if you want to be a candidate, please send a message to choukri(a)elda.org before Nov 30th with a short bio and a statement/manifesto that explains why you want to be an elected member of SIGUL board (please write or keep ‘SIGUL election’ in the mail subject). We hope you will take an active part to this election and we are looking forward to seeing you during coming SIGUL events whether virtual or onsite (ALPS virtual winter school in 2021, next joint CCURL-SLTU workshop that will be organized in 2022). Our mailing-list sigul(a)list.elra.info now gathers 334 members and we have been organizing several events or activities for the past 3 years. You can find the the last ISCA SIG reports for 2017-2018 and 2019-2020 in the SIGUL page (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/) on the ELRA web site. Best Regards Khalid Choukri, in charge of supervising these elections for the SIGUL committee

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Funding opportunity for mobility provided by COST Action LITHME (Language in the Human-Machine Era)
by Claudia Soria 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Dear Collegues,   'Language In The Human-Machine Era' (LITHME) is a research network funded by the EU COST programme (https://cost.eu). LITHME is centered around the relationship between language and machines, with the aim of forecasting the impact that future technology may have on language, and prepare research to that future. A COST Action is basically a networking mechanism that fosters exchange across researchers coming from different disciplines and countries.   During the COVID travel restrictions we sadly can't arrange large in-person meetings. But COST also funds individual 'Short-term Scientific Missions', where one researcher travels across borders to learn and share knowledge. So for the time being we're focusing on these short term individual visits where cross-border travel is allowed, and ensuring COVID safety protocols during the visit and associated travel. Intended for novel dialogue as outlined above, these visits should increase understanding and preparation for language in the human-machine era.   For eligibility criteria and further information, please see our website: https://lithme.eu/STSM Please also forward this message on to anyone who might be interested, and retweet us here: https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1318260873216012289 All the best, 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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Fwd: [2020PC+Board] The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World
by Joseph Mariani 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

fyi Joseph -------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : [2020PC+Board] The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World Date : Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:40:21 +0100 De : Antonio Branco <antonio.branco(a)di.fc.ul.pt> Répondre à : LREC 2020 Program Committee plus ELRA Board <lrec2020-pc-plus-elra-board(a)list.lrec-conf.org> Organisation : University of Lisbon Pour : elra-board(a)list.elra.info, lrec2020-pc-plus-elra-board(a)list.lrec-conf.org Dear all, Hope you're all fine. Breaking our Summer holidays' radio silence, I'm sharing the paper below, with flattering news for us. My apologies if you have already stumbled upon it. It is a recent paper, published last July in ACL, in a special theme track they promoted this year, aimed at positive discrimination, namely at attracting "out of the(ir) box" papers, which would have been very likely rejected from ACL2020 otherwise. The key goals of this paper are "making the [ACL] community aware of the gap that needs to be filled before we can truly claim state-of-the-art technologies to be language agnostic"/universal, and "attempt to convince the ACL community to prioritize the resolution of the predicaments highlighted here, so that no language is left behind." One of its major, and duly emphasized, conclusion confirms (objectively) what we were (subjectively) sure about: "LREC has been more inclusive across different classes of languages" when compared to all the other top-tier NLP/CL venues (conferences and journal). All the best, António ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World Joshi et al, 2020, acl https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.560.pdf Language technologies contribute to promot-ing multilingualism and linguistic diversity around the world. However, only a very small number of the over 7000 languages of the world are represented in the rapidly evolving language technologies and applications. In this paper we look at the relation between the types of languages, resources, and their representation in NLP conferences to understandt he trajectory that different languages havefollowed over time. Our quantitative investigation underlines the disparity between languages, especially in terms of their resources, and calls into question the “language agnostic” status of current models and systems. _______________________________________________ LREC2020-PC-plus-ELRA-Board mailing list LREC2020-PC-plus-ELRA-Board(a)list.lrec-conf.org http://list.lrec-conf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lrec2020-pc-plus-elra-bo… -- Joseph MARIANI Directeur de Recherche Émérite LIMSI-CNRS Rue John von Neumann Campus Universitaire d'Orsay Batiment 508 91405 ORSAY Cedex (France) Tel: +33 1 69 15 78 56 Email: Joseph.Mariani(a)limsi.fr Web: https://perso.limsi.fr/mariani/index Web IMMI: http://immi.cnrs.fr/

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Fwd: Lacuna Fund RFP
by Laurent Besacier 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

> Début du message réexpédié : > > De: "De Wet, F [fdw(a)sun.ac.za <mailto:fdw@sun.ac.za>]" <fdw(a)sun.ac.za <mailto:fdw@sun.ac.za>> > Objet: Lacuna Fund RFP > Date: 24 septembre 2020 à 13:18:42 UTC+2 > À: Laurent Besacier <laurent.besacier(a)imag.fr <mailto:laurent.besacier@imag.fr>> > > Dear Laurent, > > This RFP may be of interest to some members of SIGUL. Could you please share it with the community? > > Thank you, > Febe de Wet > > Lacuna Fund, a collaborative effort to mobilize datasets for machine learning that solve urgent problems in low- and middle-income contexts globally, has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for datasets in language in Sub-Saharan Africa. > The full RFP and more details on eligibility, selection criteria, as well as information about the Fund and upcoming calls, can be found at <http://www.lacunafund.org/>lacunafund.org <http://www.lacunafund.org/>. Questions about the RFP are welcome through 7 October 2020. The RFP closes on 6 November 2020. > We are seeking applications to create, expand, or maintain datasets from organizations and partnerships with technical expertise in language data collection and labeling. Proposals should also demonstrate a strong understanding of the machine learning landscape and the needs of end users. > Applicants must be headquartered in Africa or have a substantial partnership with an entity headquartered in Africa. Lacuna Fund encourages collaboration between organizations to assemble a competitive proposal. > Proposals will be selected by a Technical Advisory Panel based on the Fund’s principles: transformative potential, quality, accessibility, equity, ethics, and a participatory approach. > Lacuna Fund values a collaborative and locally driven approach to data creation, expansion, and maintenance. We recognize that the continued usefulness and maintenance of open data will thrive in a community that is collectively invested in that data. > While the Request for Proposals outlines some data needs identified by our Technical Advisory Panel, proposals are not restricted to these areas, and we welcome other ideas within the domain area that have a clearly articulated benefit. > Read more about Lacuna Fund’s open RFP in language data and apply on our website here <http://www.lacunafund.org/>. You can also sign up to receive future notifications of available funding. > Lacuna Fund is a funder collaborative between The Rockefeller Foundation, Google.org <http://google.org/>, and Canada’s International Development Research Centre, with an upcoming call for proposals on underserved languages also supported by the German development agency GIZ on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The Fund is governed by a multi-stakeholder steering committee composed of technical experts, thought leaders, local beneficiaries, and end users. Collectively, the Fund’s stakeholders are committed to creating and mobilizing labeled datasets that both solve urgent local problems and lead to a step change in machine learning’s potential worldwide. > > <https://www.sun.ac.za/english/about-us/strategic-documents> > The integrity and confidentiality of this email are governed by these terms. Disclaimer <https://www.sun.ac.za/emaildisclaimer/default.aspx> > Die integriteit en vertroulikheid van hierdie e-pos word deur die volgende bepalings bereël.Vrywaringsklousule <https://www.sun.ac.za/emaildisclaimer/default.aspx>

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CfP with extended deadline: Workshop on RESOURCEs and representations For Under-resourced Languages and domains (RESOURCEFUL-2020)
by Claudia Soria 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

**Deadline extended to: 13 October** Call for Extended Abstracts Workshop on RESOURCEs and representations For Under-resourced Languages and domains (RESOURCEFUL-2020) collocated with the Eighth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC) University of Gothenburg, Sweden 25th November 2020 https://gu-clasp.github.io/resourceful-2020/ The workshop will be held online. Important dates: - Submission of extended abstracts: 29th September 2020, extended to 13 October - Notification of acceptance: 23rd October 2020 - Final version: 10th November 2020 - Workshop date: 25th November 2020 All times are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). Workshop description All areas of natural language processing have achieved visible breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. Contemporary machine learning is significantly influenced by techniques that rely on large datasets that demand substantial computational resources to solve practical problems in a tangible way (e.g. models based on transformers such as BERT, VilBERT, ALBERT, and GPT-2 that are pre-trained on large corpora of unlabelled data). However, many of the world’s languages lack the availability of linguistic description as well as of sufficiently large computer-readable corpora of linguistic material. Even those languages that are considered well-resourced have some domains where resources are scarce, for example corpora of dialogue and situated interaction. Another similarity of these domains with under-resourced languages is that since they focus on spoken or spoken-like interaction (either in a written or an audio form) they show a high variability of input data. Applying state-of-the-art deep-neural-network-based methods for the development of data-driven systems in such resource-constrained environments is a non-trivial task. For this workshop, we encourage contributions in the area of resource creation and representation learning in limited or low-resource environments that are tackling the above mentioned problems. In particular we would like to open a forum by bringing together students, researchers, and experts to address and discuss the following questions: - How can new resources be constructed or extended for languages and domains that lack standardised representations of linguistic units? - What experience from building resources for languages that have a good coverage today (for example Scandinavian languages) can be ported to building resources for under-resources languages and domains? - How to deal with the variability of data and its standardisation in machine learning approaches? - What algorithms and methods can we employ to transfer learning from related domains/languages that have good coverage? - What is the role of multi-task learning in this domain? - What representations can be learned and how effective are they in different low-resource scenarios? - How can newly created resources and learned representations be evaluated? - What ethical considerations are involved? Intended participants are researchers, PhD students and practitioners from diverse backgrounds (linguistics, computational linguistics, speech, machine learning etc). We foresee an interactive workshop with plenty of time for discussion, complemented with invited talks and short presentations of on-going or completed research. Submission We invite submissions of 2-page extended non-anonymous abstracts with any number of pages for references using the ACL/EMNLP template [1]. Papers related to our theme and already presented at other venues or have already been published elsewhere will be considered for acceptance for presentation as well. The abstracts will be reviewed by the workshop organisers and the accepted ones will be posted on the website, unless authors wish not to do so. There will be no workshop proceedings but post-proceedings may be organised depending on the interest of authors. [1]https://2020.emnlp.org/files/emnlp2020-templates.zip Extended abstracts should be submitted in the pdf format athttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=resourceful2020 Workshop organisers Tewodros Gebreselassie, University of Gothenburg Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg Barbara Plank, ITU, IT University of Copenhagen Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg resourceful2020(a)easychair.org https://gu-clasp.github.io/resourceful-2020/index.html -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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

24 Aug '20

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

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Fwd: [lift_members] [GdR LIFT] - prochaines journées LIFT - appel à contributions
by Laurent Besacier 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

> Début du message réexpédié : > > De: Yannick Parmentier <yannick.parmentier(a)loria.fr> > Objet: [lift_members] [GdR LIFT] - prochaines journées LIFT - appel à contributions > Date: 7 juillet 2020 à 16:25:54 UTC+2 > À: ln(a)groupes.renater.fr, lue-olki(a)univ-lorraine.fr, crem-sic-chercheurs(a)univ-lorraine.fr, tous_loria(a)loria.fr, lift_resp(a)inria.fr, lift_members(a)inria.fr > Répondre à: Yannick Parmentier <yannick.parmentier(a)loria.fr> > > ****************************** > Appel à communications > Journées LIFT, 10-11 Décembre > https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/ > ****************************** > > Le GdR LIFT (Linguistique Informatique, Formelle et de Terrain) organise deux journées de rencontres autour des thèmes de LIFT. Par ailleurs, deux thèmes spécifiques sont proposées pour ces journées : (i) Corpus arborés et syntaxe et (ii) Grammaire et Linguistique de terrain. L’objectif de ces journées est de favoriser les interactions entre linguistique informatique, linguistique formelle et linguistique de terrain, afin de favoriser le développement de recherches en linguistique qui tirent le meilleur parti des nouvelles technologies. > > En plus d’orateur.trice.s invité.e.s, ces journées incluent des moments d’échanges via la présentation de travaux de recherche en cours. Les personnes souhaitant présenter leurs travaux sont invitées à soumettre un résumé étendu (limité à 2 pages). Les résumés retenus pour présentation seront publiés dans les actes des journées (et téléversés dans l’archive ouverte HAL). La possibilité de passer certains résumés dans un format long pour publication dans une revue scientifique est à l’étude. > > Dates > > Soumission des résumés : 15 octobre 2020 > Notification aux auteurs : 7 novembre 2020 > Soumission des versions finales : 1er décembre 2020 > Journées scientifiques : 10-11 décembre 2020 > > Thématiques > > Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes de LIFT ainsi que sur les thèmes des deux sessions spéciales (Corpus arborés et syntaxe; Grammaire et Linguistique de terrain), incluant, de façon non limitative: > > - Retours d’expérience concernant l’emploi et/ou le développement d’outils informatiques pour l’analyse linguistique > - Linguistique informatique et Science ouverte : perspectives ouvertes par le partage des données, des outils et des publications > - Modélisation informatique et linguistique formelle (théorie des langages formels, grammaires d’unification, théorie de la preuve…) > - Mise en dialogue des modèles linguistiques et des modèles d’apprentissage automatique (de tous types : approches génératives et discriminantes, approches statistiques neuronales, approches de type encodeurs-décodeurs…) > - Méthodes non supervisées ou faiblement supervisées pour l’analyse des langues peu dotées, peu écrites ou non documentées > - Réflexions au sujet de l’automatisation des processus d’analyse et de validation > > Toutes les propositions qui entrent dans les thèmes des journées d’étude sont les bienvenues. La présentation de travaux aboutis mais aussi de travaux en cours est possible. Les journées LIFT visent aussi bien à présenter des résultats qu’à susciter des discussions, notamment autour de travaux en cours pour lesquels les auteurs aimeraient développer des collaborations (par ex., expert en TAL souhaitent appliquer un outil sur des données langagières variées ; linguiste de terrain souhaitant automatiser une tâche d’annotation, etc.). > > Format > > En pratique, les résumés feront 2 pages maximum. Les soumissions devront être conformes aux lignes directrices officielles qui sont contenues dans les fichiers de style (https://mycore.core-cloud.net/index.php/s/YI4oEOQcw0vhQWj) et être en format PDF. Les articles sélectionnés seront présentés sous forme de poster. > > Lieu > > Selon la situation sanitaire et les règles en vigueur, les journées se feront soit en présentiel, soit en virtuel, soit dans une formule hybride avec des regroupements locaux permettant des rassemblements d’un nombre autorisés de personnes. Le lieu choisi sera aussi central que possible pour faciliter la participation à la conférence. Des bourses d’aide seront disponibles pour permettre à un maximum de personnes de participer. > > Comité d’organisation > > Yannick Parmentier, LORIA/Université de Lorraine > Thierry Poibeau, LATTICE/CNRS > Emmanuel Schang, LLL/Université d’Orléans > > Comité de programme > > A venir > > Conférencier.ière.s invité.e.s > > A venir

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

13 Jun '20

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

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