Dear SIGUL Members,
the sixth SIGUL Newsletter is out.
The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages.
Your feedback will be welcome.
Claudia Soria
SIGUL Co-chair
SIGUL is the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Less-Resourced Languages
*Deadline extension*
The third WiNLP (“Widening NLP”) Workshop, in conjunction with ACL 2019
Florence, Italy, 28 July 2019
http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2019-workshop/
Extended submission deadline: 5 May 2019
*Job announcement*
The Expression team of the IRISA lab (France) is opening a 18-month postdoctoral position on speech synthesis and natural language processing for the Breton language, starting as soon as possible.
Detailed missions are:
Development of NLP and TTS modules for Breton:
Phonetization, grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
Text normalization
POS tagging and chunking
Adaptation of the team’s TTS engine.
This includes the use of machine learning techniques.
Profile / skills :
PhD in natural language processing, speech processing or machine learning
Good academic and publication records
Good communication skills.
The detailed description in and here : http://www.irisa.fr/fr/page/text-speech-and-natural-language-processing-breton-language
*Call for papers*
The 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019)
The Helix, DCU, Dublin, August 20, 2019
https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/
@ MT Summit XVII
Call for Papers:
https://easychair.org/cfp/LoResMT2019
Submission due on "May 24, 2019" (Abstract on "May 17"):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=loresmt2019
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22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)
University of Turku, Turku, Finland, September 30 - October 2, 2019
Submission deadline: May 31, 2019
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1st International Workshop on Semantic Web for Historical and Legacy Linguistic and Lexicographic Data
Auckland, New Zealand, October 26-27, 2019
https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~rhaque/workshop/index.html
Submission deadline: Friday, June 28 – 23:59 EST (New York City Time) [ Current EST ]
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*Call for participation*
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*Call for proposals*
Facebook is pleased to announce the call for research proposals in natural
language processing and machine translation. Grants will be awarded in three
areas:
- Computationally Efficient Natural Language Processing
https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/computational...
[1]
- Neural Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages
https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/neural-machin...
[2]
- Robust Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/robust-deep-l...
[3]
Awards will be made in amounts up to $80,000 per proposal, for projects up to
one year in duration, beginning in August 2019. Applications close May 31,
2019, 11:59 PST.
Please visit the corresponding links above for further details on each area.
Questions can be emailed to academicrelations@fb.com [4].
Read more:
[4] mailto:academicrelations@fb.com
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*Miscellaneous*
The article "Rediscovering 15 Years of Discoveries in Language Resources and Evaluation: The LREC Anthology Analysis”, published first at LREC 2014 on the occasion of the LREC 15th anniversary, has been extended to the production and analysis of the NLP4NLP corpus containing close to 65,000 articles published in major conferences and journals in speech and language processing over 50 years (1965-2015) on various aspects (publication, collaboration, citation, innovation, plagiarism,...). The results of those analyses have recently been assembled in a series of two papers published in a special issue on "Mining Scientific Papers: NLP-enhanced Bibliometrics" of the "Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics" journal :
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00036/full
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00037/full
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In the framework of the World Summit on Information Society 2019, a panel session "ICT4ALL: Indigenous languages Matter for Peace, Innovation, and Development" organized by UNESCO in the framework of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019) took place on April 10. Moderator: Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg (UNESCO), Panelists: Eirik Larsen (Sami Parliament, Norway), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France), Emily Taylor (Oxford Information Labs, UK), Rebecka Forsgren (WIPO, Geneva). The recording is available at :
https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2019/Agenda/RemoteParticipation/259
-- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor