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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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