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

04 Aug '22

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

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

02 Aug '22

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

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

19 Jul '22

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

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

19 Jul '22

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

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

19 Jul '22

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

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

18 Jul '22

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

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

01 Jul '22

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

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

29 Jun '22

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

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

24 Jun '22

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

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

29 Apr '22

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

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