Author: perezparedes

Research Associate position University of Cambridge PheneBank project

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We are inviting applications for a 33 month Research Associate position in the University of Cambridge, working with Nigel Collier (PI) on the PheneBank project. The deadline for applications is the 2nd August 2015 with the successful candidate expected to start at the end of September/early October 2015.

The project is funded by the UK’s Medical Research Council (MRC) and aims to develop natural language processing techniques for learning to recognize and encode biomedical concepts (i.e. phenotypes, diseases and genes) and their relationships in the scientific literature.

Responsibilities of the successful candidate include but are not limited to research into innovative machine learning and text/data mining techniques that address the challenge of understanding phenotypes and their relationships in the free text literature. The project will also require the post holder to take part in system architecture design and implementation, performance evaluation, paper/proposal/document/report writing and presentation of research findings.

The project will involve close collaboration with colleagues at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the European Bioinformatics Institute, the University of Colorado and within the University of Cambridge. The project will take place in the Language Technology Lab at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: http://ltl.mml.cam.ac.uk/ and the larger community of NLP researchers within the University of Cambridge. This arrangement provides an excellent environment for research and career development, as the post holder will benefit from the expertise of both NLP and domain partners in this multidisciplinary project.

For further information including application details please see: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/7346/

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Nigel Collier
Principal Research Associate
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
University of Cambridge, UK
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/nhc30

#CFP Learner Autonomy and Web 2.0 @CALICOnsortium


Provisional Book Title: Learner Autonomy and Web 2.0

Call for Abstracts

The 2017 CALICO Monograph, published by Equinox, aims to explore how the notion of learner autonomy is being reshaped within Web 2.0 environments. In early definitions, dating from the 1980s,learner autonomy was largely conceived of in terms of individuals working in ‘self-access’ mode, selecting the learning resources and methods they saw as effective, in pursuit of personal goals, perhaps with the aid of a learning adviser (Holec 1981). Other theorists of learner autonomy – such as Dam (1995), Little (2012) or Trebbi (1989) – viewed the concept as having a social dimension, rather than being purely individualistic. This second view of learner autonomy is more and more relevant given the advent of social media, where students have unprecedented opportunities for collaborative learning (Lamy & Zourou 2013). Consequently, social theories of learning (e.g. sociocultural theory, communities of practice, connectivism) have increasingly informed research into learner autonomy in foreign language learning (see Murray 2014). Of equal importance is the opportunity afforded by Web 2.0 of using multiple modes for making meaning, in learning to communicate online. This has enabled some to suggest a possible recasting of learner autonomy in the digital world as ‘the informed use of a range of interacting resources in context’ (Palfreyman, 2006; Fuchs, Hauck and Müller-Hartmann, 2012). Others may feel that being digitally literate alone does not constitute learner autonomy in the online world. The question is: ‘What does?’

In this monograph, we welcome chapters grounded in sound theoretical frameworks and/or analyzing empirical data which investigate how learner autonomy intertwines with the social and/or the modal affordances of Web 2.0 environments. The questions raised for educational users of Web 2.0 environments about the relationship between CALL and learner autonomy include, but are not restricted to:

• Do online learners require or acquire learner autonomy in practising CMC?

• What affordances of CALL environments, and more particularly Web 2.0 environments, could help develop the different facets of learner autonomy?

• How do (a) digital literacy and (b) L2 proficiency relate to learner autonomy in online environments?

• What space exists for individuals to exercise learner autonomy in Web 2.0? How does individual autonomy relate to group autonomy in Web 2.0?

• How can online learning tasks be designed to foster both individual and group autonomy?

• How can individual learning gain be monitored and assessed in Web 2.0?

• With such questions at stake, what is the expected role of language centers?

• Which (new, or existing) forms of counselling may foster students’ learning-to-learn skills within Web 2.0 environments?

Interested authors should send a chapter abstract (200-300 words, plus references) and an author biography (100 words) to calico2017monograph@gmail.com before Monday July 15, 2015.

Timeline

Deadline for submission of abstracts 15 July 2015

Notification of contributors 31 August 2015

First draft of papers to be submitted 1st Dec 2015

Second draft of papers to be submitted 15 Apr 2016

Special Issue to be published April 2017

 

Editors

Tim Lewis, Open University

Annick Rivens Mompean, Lille3 University

Marco Cappellini, Lille3 University

#cfp @fetlt2015 Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technologies

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Workshop on Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technologies

Universidad de Sevilla, 19-20 November 2015

http://www.glc.us.es/fetlt2015/

 

The Workshop ‘Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology‘ has been conceived as a meeting point where experts and professionals in the fields of language technologies and other converging areas will discuss the state of the art, as well as the emerging trends in this sector. The main objective of this workshop is to serve as a bridge between academia and industry, as well as representatives of agencies that coordinate research and innovation policies. The workshop thus guarantees a multidisciplinary identical spirit in which experts will be able to present and analyze the trends that will shape the immediate future in this sector.

Following this approach, the organization of the workshop welcomes the reception of papers under the following categories:

NEW APPLICATIONS OF KEY CONSOLIDATED APPROACHES: Authors can submit their paper on new strategies, models and consolidated techniques at the academic or industrial level that are being used right now to tackle any issue in the field of Language Technology. Papers under this category must provide a brief explanation of the foundations of the approaches proposed and the areas and applications for which those techniques are useful in the present.

EMERGING RESEARCH: Authors can submit their paper under this category when they have preliminary results obtained from ongoing research projects. Papers must describe the motivation of the approach, as well as the scientific, methodological and/or technological approach chosen. Papers must also analyze the advantages and benefits derived from such approaches for a broad application in the field of Language Technology.

CHALLENGE PAPERS: Authors can submit a paper on different fields and convergent areas related to Language Technology describing the occurrence of new and constant challenges for both the academic and the industrial areas. These papers must indicate which areas and specific problems are currently posing a concrete technological and/or methodological challenge. Papers under this category must include the reasons why present-day techniques should be considered insufficient to tackle the issues at hand by the presentation of preliminary research/development results as a justification. Additionally, articles in this section should propose research strategies that can be considered promising to provide sound solutions to the problems defined, with a sound and clear scientific and technical argumentation.
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LIST OF TOPICS
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Topics should be related to any area of Speech Technology, including those studies that can be considered coming from convergent areas or even industrial applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Core areas of interest

A.1) Speech recognition:
Speech assistants, Voice search
A.2) Information retrieval,
Information extraction and Text mining
Topic spotting and classification
Entity extraction
Spoken document retrieval
A.3) Semantics and Ontologies
A.4) Dialog Modelling and Management
Open domains, Incrementality, Statistical DM,
Hybrid models, World knowledge, Metacognition
A.5) Machine Translation
Fully-automated MT services in Global Business and
Government Services
Speech-to-speech MT
A.6) Development Frameworks
A.7) Multimodality
A.8) Multilinguality
A.9) Mathematical foundations
A.10) Language resources and Evaluation
Multilingual resources
Metadata, annotation, tools

Convergent areas of interest:
B.1) Mobile Devices
B.2) Robotics and Vision
B.3) Machine Learning
B.4) Games & Social Networks
B.5) Brain-computer Interfaces
B.6) Technology background: Mobile, Cloud,
Social Media, and Big Data
B.7) The Internet of Things (IoT)

Industrial areas of interest:
Integration of state-of-the-art LT in support of multilingual global business applications:
C.1) Speech-to-Speech Translation
C.2) Cross-lingual Information Retrieval
C.3) Multilingual global marketing
C.4) Sentiment analysis
Applications to industrial sectors
C.5) Healthcare and BioMedicine NLP
C.6) Social Media
C.7) Smart Cities
C.8) Opinion mining
C.9) Public Administration
C.10) Instruction & Teaching
C.11) Communications
LT in the Web World
C.12) Crowdsourcing for LT

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline 25th July 2015
Acceptance notification 15th September 2015
Paper final version submission 1st October 2015
Early Registration Deadline 1st October 2015
Workshop dates 19th – 20th November 2015

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LOCATION
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FETLT-2015 will be held at the University of Seville, Spain.
For more information, please visit: http://www.glc.us.es/fetlt2015/
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SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research, not currently submitted elsewhere.

Regular papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Files must be sent via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fetlt2015

Papers submitted must identify the category as well as up to 3 of the main topics aforementioned.

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Nuria Bel (University Pompeu Fabra)
Asunción Gómez, Polytechnic University of Madrid
Sebastian Moeller, TU Berlin, Telekomm
Steve Renals, University of Edinburg
Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento
Pierre-Paul Sondag, European Commission
Steve Young, University of Cambridge

PROGRAM COMMITTEE AND ADVISORY GROUP

Alex Acero (Apple)
Roberto Basili (University of Rome)
Nuria Bel (University Pompeu Fabra)
Johan Bos (University of Groningen)
Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC)
Khalid Choukri (ELDA)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Thierry Declerck (DFKI)
Marc Dymetman (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
Antonio Ferrandez (University of Alicante)
Ana García-Serrano (UNED)
Jesús Giménez (Nuance Communications)
Xavier Gómez-Guinovart (University of Vigo)
Gregory Grefenstette (Inria)
Veronique Hoste (University of Ghent)
Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University)
Rebecca Jonson (Artificial Solutions)
Alon Lavie (Carnegie Mellon University)
Ramón López-Cózar (University of Granada
Teresa López-Soto (University of Seville)
Roberto Manione (AlliumTech)
Daniel Marcu (USC)
Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS and IMMI)
Patricio Martí­nez-Barco (University of Alicante)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Antonio Moreno-Sandoval (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Sergei Nirenburg (Rensselaer Poytechnic Institute)
Mirko Plitt (Modula Language Automation)
Massimo Poesio (University of Essex; U. of Trento)
Andrei Popescu-Belis (Idiap Research Institute)
Jose F. Quesada (University of Seville)
Manny Rayner (University of Geneva)
Steve Renals (University of Edinburg)
Giuseppe Riccardi (University of Trento)
Francisco J. Salguero (University of Seville)
Kepa Sarasola (University of the Basque Country)
Javier Sastre (Ateknea Solutions)
Marc Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
David Suendermann-Oeft (ETS)
Khiet Truong (University of Twente)
Alfonso Ureña (University of Jaen)
Jason D. Williams (Microsoft Research)
PROGRAM CHAIR
Jose F Quesada, University of Seville

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Joaquín Borrego-Díaz (University of Seville)
Juan Galán-Páez (University of Seville)
Diego Jiménez (University of Seville)
Teresa López-Soto (University of Seville)
Francisco J. Martín-Mateos (University of Seville)
Ángel Nepomuceno (University of Seville)
José F. Quesada (University of Seville)
Francisco J. Salguero (University of Seville)

 

New Directions in Corpus-based Translation Studies

Through the Corpora List

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The “Language Science Press” has just published the following open access book in their series “Translation and Multilingual NLP”:

“NEW DIRECTIONS IN CORPUS-BASED TRANSLATION STUDIES” by Claudio Fantinuoli & Federico Zanettin (eds.)

Please download your free copy from http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/76

ABSTRACT

Corpus-based translation studies has become a major paradigm and research methodology and has investigated a wide variety of topics in the last two decades. The contributions to this volume add to the range of corpus-based studies by providing examples of some less explored applications of corpus analysis methods to translation research. They show that the area keeps evolving as it constantly opens up to different frameworks and approaches, from appraisal theory to process-oriented analysis, and encompasses multiple translation settings, including (indirect) literary translation, machine(-assisted) translation and the practical work of professional legal translators. The studies included in the volume also expand the range of application of corpus applications in terms of the tools used to accomplish the research tasks outlined.

Let’s talk, Hawking says

 

Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

Stephen Hawking