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Call for applications (all areas of linguistics): funded training school, ‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’, Ávila, Spain, 4-8 October 2021 (deadline 3 May)
by Claudia Soria 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Dear all, ‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’ (https://lithme.eu/ <https://lithme.eu/>) aims to prepare the field of linguistics for imminent changes in the way we use technology to communicate. From immersive augmented reality to super-intelligent chatbots, in the near future we will be communicating in very different ways. This will present significant challenges for all areas of linguistics and language research; and so we must all adapt, whether or not we know much about technology right now! LITHME is here to raise awareness of these challenges, and to prepare linguistics and its sub-disciplines for what is to come. Our fully funded training school is open to any eligible researcher who is interested to explore how the widespread use of new and emerging technologies might influence their research. No technological expertise is required, only an interest in exploring the possible effects of these near future advances in language technology. We're currently planning for this to be held in person. We really hope the vaccination effort makes that possible! But if not, our hosts UNED (National Distance Education University of Spain) have specialist expertise in remote learning, so we can still hold a high quality online event. More information about eligibility, and the online application form, can be found at https://lithme.eu/training-school/ <https://lithme.eu/training-school/>. The deadline for applications is 3 May. Please forward this email on to anyone who may be interested, and please retweet the announcement here: https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1380067980432785409 <https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1380067980432785409>. We hope to see you in Ávila! Best wishes, Claudia Soria (on behalf of the training school organising committee)

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SIGUL New Board
by ELRA ELDA Information 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Dear All, Further to the recent election, please find below the new SIGUL Board: * Chair and ISCA liaison representative: Sakriani Sakti <mailto:ssakti@is.naist.jp> (NAIST, Nara, Japan) * Co-chair and ELRA liaison representative: Claudia Soria <mailto:claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it> (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy) * Secretary: Maite Melero <mailto:maite.melero@upf.edu> (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Best Regards, Khalid Choukri, ELRA Secretary General, in charge of supervising the SIGUL committee election

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SIGUL Elections
by ELRA ELDA Information 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

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

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

18 Feb '21

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

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

08 Feb '21

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

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

14 Dec '20

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

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

26 Nov '20

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

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

05 Nov '20

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

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

23 Oct '20

Dear Collegues,   'Language In The Human-Machine Era' (LITHME) is a research network funded by the EU COST programme (https://cost.eu). LITHME is centered around the relationship between language and machines, with the aim of forecasting the impact that future technology may have on language, and prepare research to that future. A COST Action is basically a networking mechanism that fosters exchange across researchers coming from different disciplines and countries.   During the COVID travel restrictions we sadly can't arrange large in-person meetings. But COST also funds individual 'Short-term Scientific Missions', where one researcher travels across borders to learn and share knowledge. So for the time being we're focusing on these short term individual visits where cross-border travel is allowed, and ensuring COVID safety protocols during the visit and associated travel. Intended for novel dialogue as outlined above, these visits should increase understanding and preparation for language in the human-machine era.   For eligibility criteria and further information, please see our website: https://lithme.eu/STSM Please also forward this message on to anyone who might be interested, and retweet us here: https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1318260873216012289 All the best, Claudia -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Management Committee member COST Action CA19102 ‘Language In The Human-Machine Era' (LITHME) www.lithme.eu Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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Fwd: [2020PC+Board] The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World
by Joseph Mariani 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

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

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