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

06 Oct '21

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

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

16 Sep '21

FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2022 Jan, 17-22 2022 Grenoble - France ALPS2022 will take place entirely ONLINE University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe are announcing the second Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2022. Important Dates Application Deadline - Sept, 15th 2021 Notification - Oct 1st 2021 Registration Deadline - Oct, 31st 2021 Winter School - Jan, 17-22 2022 Target Audience This is a winter school covering advanced topics in NLP, and we are primarily targeting doctoral students and advanced (research) masters. A few slots will also be reserved to academics and persons working in research-heavy positions in industry. Characteristics This winter school aims to provide talks of renowned NLP researchers, as well as creating an ideal environment to work together. Confirmed speakers so far: - Kyunghyun Cho (NYU, USA) - Yejin Choi (University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI, USA) - Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Colin Raffel (UNC Chapel Hill, USA and Hugging Face, France) In addition to the talks, we plan to have several labs (tba) with teacher assistants helping out. Poster sessions will be also organized for participants to present their work and interact with each other. Last year schedule is available on this link <http://alps-2021.imag.fr/index.php/schedule/index.html>. Website and online application: http://alps.imag.fr/ <http://alps.imag.fr/> Questions: alps2021(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:alps2021@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>

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

05 Jul '21

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

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

22 Jun '21

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

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

20 May '21

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

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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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