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ISCApad #234 |
| Monday, December 11, 2017 by Chris Wellekens |
4 Academic and Industry Notes
| 4-1 | New Masters in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing at Cambridge University, UK New Masters in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing
This is a new twelve-month full-time MPhil programme offered by the Computational and Biological Learning Group (CBL) and the Speech Group in the Cambridge University Department of Engineering, with a unique, joint emphasis on both machine learning and on speech and language technology. The course aims: to teach the state of the art in machine learning, speech and language processing; to give students the skills and expertise necessary to take leading roles in industry; to equip students with the research skills necessary for doctoral study.
UK and EU students applications should be completed by 9 January 2015 for admission in October 2015. A limited number of studentships may be available for exceptional UK and eligible EU applicants.
Self-funding students who do not wish to be considered for support from the Cambridge Trusts have until 30 June 2015 to submit their complete applications.
More information about the course can be found here: http://www.mlsalt.eng.cam.ac.uk/
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| 4-2 | Communication from ELRA Press Release ? Immediate The Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) adopts the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) initiative The Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) is now a certified provider to the ISLRN system. This means that IULA can apply for ISLRNs on behalf of the developers of the data that is managed and distributed via the IULA network. IULA has already submitted 107 language resources to the ISLRN. These include monolingual and multilingual written corpora and lexica for the languages spoken in Spain (Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Galician), as well as other European languages (English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Romanian), and Esperanto. The meta-information for these language resources is also available on the ISLRN website with a broad international audience. Background About IULA To find out more about IULA and UPF, please visit the following websites: http://www.iula.upf.edu/ and https://www.upf.edu/web/universitat About ELRA Contact: info@elda.org
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| 4-3 | Master Informatique en Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique de la Langue : ATAL. Universités du Maine et de Nantes France Les Universités du Maine et de Nantes propose un parcours conjoint de Master Informatique en Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique de la Langue : ATAL !
Le parcours ATAL forme des étudiants issus de filières informatiques à un ensemble de techniques d'apprentissage automatique et de traitement automatique de la langue qui sont au c?ur des applications en ingénierie des langues telles que la traduction automatique, la fouille d?opinions, la recherche d?information, la reconnaissance de la parole et du locuteur? Il s'agit donc de former des étudiants hautement spécialisés qui seront capables de mettre en ?uvre des applications prenant en compte des masses de données complexes et hétérogènes. Au terme de la formation les étudiants seront reconnus comme DataScientist, Chef de projet en ressources linguistiques, Cadre en technologies et services de l?information? La formation s?appuie sur des chercheurs issus des laboratoires du LS2N (Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes) et du LIUM (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Maine) et sur des acteurs économiques dont les applications nécessitent des connaissances sur le traitement de données langagières. En outre, la formation est très ancrée dans son écosystème régional et les étudiants seront invités à participer à des Meetup et sensibilisés au monde de l?entrepreneuriat. Il est possible d?accéder à la formation en M1 comme en M2 selon les acquis du candidat. - le M1 peut être indifféremment réalisé au Mans ou à Nantes selon la préférence de l?étudiant.
- l?ensemble des cours du M2 sont mutualisés entre les Universités du Maine et de Nantes et l?étudiant peut librement s?inscrire au Mans ou à Nantes. Le M2 peut être réalisée en présentiel ou en alternance.
Information ---------------- - Nantes : http://www.master-info.univ-nantes.fr/00542841/0/fiche___pagelibre/&RH=1403710895111 - Le Mans: http://www-info.univ-lemans.fr/?page_id=10 Modalités d?accès -------------------------- - Nantes : http://www.sciences-techniques.univ-nantes.fr/72621571/0/fiche___pagelibre/ - Le Mans : http://www-info.univ-lemans.fr/?page_id=211 Contacts ------------- - Nantes : Emmanuel.Morin@univ-nantes.fr - Le Mans : Yannick.Esteve@univ-lemans.fr 
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| 4-4 | Enquête AFCP: Ecole d'hiver 2018 sur l'analyse statistique des données phonétiques L'AFCP (Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée) souhaite organiser une école d'Hiver en Janvier 2018 sur le thème de l'analyse statistique des données phonétiques. Nous menons une enquête pour évaluer la population intéressée par cette proposition. Si c'est votre cas, merci de prendre 2mn pour remplir le questionnaire suivant :
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| 4-5 | Creation of Yajie Miao Memorial Student Travel Grants Creation of Yajie Miao Memorial Student Travel Grants
As many readers might already know, Yajie Miao, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon?s Language Technology Institute, successfully defended his thesis on ?Incorporating Context Information into Deep Neural Network Acoustic Models? in August 2016.
He had accepted a position at Microsoft in Redmond, and was set to start work there in October 2016. It is with a heavy heart that we announce that he died tragically, while visiting his family in China, before he was able to do so.
In fond memory of Yajie and his work, his colleagues and friends at Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft, in consultation with his family, have decided to set up a Memorial Student Travel Grant, which will support additional student travel to Interspeech and other speech conferences in the coming years.
More information on Yajie and the opportunity to support these travel grants can be found at https://www.youcaring.com/iscainternationalspeechcommunicationassociation-815026.
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| 4-6 | Communication from ELRA/ELDA Can you develop new tools for eInvoicing or Open Data? Learn how to get EU support at CEF Telecom online Info Day! Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom virtual Info Day will take place on Tuesday 12 September 2017.
Four priorities of the 2017 CEF Telecom call will be presented:
The event will also explain the policy context of the calls. It will give information about the evaluation process and will provide valuable tips & tricks on writing a good proposal.
The eventwill take place via live web streaming and participants can register here.
The draft agenda and further information is available on the event's page. Interested stakeholders are advised to already mark the date and time in their agendas and to regularly monitor the event pageand @inea_eu or the hashtag #CEFTelecomDay on Twitter for updates. The web streaming link as well as the procedure for the Q&A sessions will be published at a later stage. The event will be tweeted live with the same hashtag.
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| 4-7 | Press release: ReTeLe & ELRA join forces Press Release ? Immediate ReTeLe & ELRA join forces The European Language Resource Association (ELRA) is pleased to announce its support for the Spanish Network of Excellence ReTeLe, the Network of Resources for Language Technologies. ReTeLe aims at promoting all activities around language resources (LRs) for the languages in Spain (Basque, Catalan, Galician and Spanish). This network of excellence supports the production and availability of multilingual language resources for language technology developers. ReTeLe coordinates providers of LRs, identifies needs for covering the languages in Spain and promotes the sharing of LRs as open linked data, thus encouraging their re-usability. ReTeLe contributes to the full deployment of language technology applications. For that purpose, ReTeLe has collaborated with the Spanish Plan de Impulso de las Tecnologías del Lenguaje (Plan for the Advancement of Language Technology) and the European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) (http://www.lr-coordination.eu/), an action whose objective is to identify and collect language data from the public administration in the EU Member States to fuel MT@EC, the Machine Translation developed by the EC, and improve its performance. Among the network?s different activities, there is also the support to existing catalogues of language resources for the languages in Spain, as well as their interoperability through the creation of a portal for describing LRs (http://catalogo.retele.linkeddata.es/). This description is done according to agreed metadata standards, which comprises the recommendation of using the ISLRN (International Standard Language Resource Number) for the identification of language resources. These initiatives encourage LR providers to maximize the visibility of language resources in a simple manner so as to support potential users in their search for data. The metadata used will be available as linked data and exportable to other European catalogues, such as that of META-SHARE (http://metashare.elda.org/) and ELRC-SHARE (https://elrc-share.ilsp.gr/). ELRA, also involved in these initiatives, supports ReTeLe?s work and engages in collaborations towards the dissemination of ReTeLe?s activities. Through its long experience in the world of LRs and, in particular, in their cataloging (http://catalog.elra.info/), ELRA can provide guidance and help so as to achieve the objectives of the network. Founding Members ReTeLe is coordinated by Prof. Asunción Gómez Pérez, from the Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and is financed by the Ministry of Finances and Competitivity in Spain. The network comprises 14 members coming from academic and research institutions in Spain. For further information on the ReTeLe network, please visit the following website: http://retele.linkeddata.es/ Contact: http://retele.linkeddata.es/web/guest/contact About ELRA The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit-making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the mission of providing a clearing house for Language Resources and promoting Human Language Technologies. To find out more about ELRA, please visit the website: http://www.elra.info Contact: info@elda.org
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| 4-8 | Nominations for the prize Antonio Zampolli In 2004, the ELRA Board has created a prize to honour the memory of its first President, Professor Antonio Zampolli, a pioneer and visionary scientist who was internationally recognized in the field of Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies (HLT). He also contributed much through the establishment of ELRA and the LREC conference. To reflect Professor Zampolli's specific interest in our field, the ELRA Antonio Zampolli Prize is awarded to individuals and small groups whose work lies within the areas of Language Resources and Language Technology Evaluation with acknowledged contributions to their advancements. Nominations should be sent to the ELRA President Henk van den Heuvel at AntonioZampolli-Prize@elra.info no later than February 1st, 2018.
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