The European project EFA 227/16/LINGUATEC “Development of cross-border cooperation and knowledge transfer in language technologies” organizes the workshop open to all researchers, with the aim of disseminating the work carried out within the project and presenting some of the advances made for Basque and Occitan. This project is co-financed by the European Regional [...]]]>

The European project EFA 227/16/LINGUATEC “Development of cross-border cooperation and knowledge transfer in language technologies” organizes the workshop open to all researchers, with the aim of disseminating the work carried out within the project and presenting some of the advances made for Basque and Occitan.
This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

Free registration. Please, use this registration form

Several international projects are being carried out in this field and some of these experiences will [...]]]> [EN]
The collection, tagging, analysis and recovery of historical corpora are basic tasks in the quantitative research on linguistic and cultural evolution. Collaboration between the areas of linguistics, history and technology is necessary for the success of these processes.

Several international projects are being carried out in this field and some of these experiences will be presented at this workshop. In the Basque Country there are also projects in progress but in an atomized manner.

Date: June 11th. 11.00 a.m. (Ada Lovelace hall)
Place: Informatics Faculty UPV/EHU. Manuel Lardizabal 1, 20018 Donostia (map)
Language: English
Program:

11.00-11.30: Ricardo Etxepare: BIM project, Basque in the making (Sintaktikoki Etiketatutako Euskarazko Corpus Historikoa)
11.30-12.15: Martin Reynaert: Text-Induced Corpus Clean-up: current state-of-the-art
12.15-13.00: Eckhard Bick: Automatic Grammatical Annotation of Historical Brazilian Portuguese

Sponsors: UPPA  –  UPV/EHU  –  Clarin

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PROCESADO DE CORPUS HISTÓRICOS
Jornada abierta. 11 de Junio.

La recopilación, etiquetado, análisis y consulta de corpus históricos son tareas fundamentales en la investigación cuantitativa de la evolución lingüística y cultural. La colaboración entre las áreas de lingüística, historia y tecnología es necesaria para el éxito de los procesos mencionados.

Diversos proyectos internacionales se están llevando a cabo en este ámbito y en esta jornada se expondrán algunas de estas experiencias. En Euskal Herria también hay proyectos en marcha pero de forma atomizada.
Fecha: 11 de junio de 2018, 11.00. (Sala Ada Lovelace)
Lugar: Facultad de Informática UPV/EHU. Manuel Lardizabal 1, 20018 Donostia (mapa)
Idioma: inglés
Programa:

11.00-11.30: Ricardo Etxepare: BIM project, Basque in the making (Sintaktikoki Etiketatutako Euskarazko Corpus Historikoa)
11.30-12.15: Martin Reynaert: Text-Induced Corpus Clean-up: current state-of-the-art
12.15-13.00: Eckhard Bick: Automatic Grammatical Annotation of Historical Brazilian Portuguese

Patrocinadores: UPPA  –  UPV/EHU  – Clarin

The third generation of machine translation systems is currently under active development. After initially dominating the field, rule-based machine translation (RBMT) systems have been gradually replaced by data-driven approaches in the last two decades, with statistical [...]]]> Neural Machine Translation
Open workshop with Kyunghyun Cho
Donostia, 2017-05-29

Trends in Neural Machine Translation (Olof Mogren, 2016)

The third generation of machine translation systems is currently under active development. After initially dominating the field, rule-based machine translation (RBMT) systems have been gradually replaced by data-driven approaches in the last two decades, with statistical machine translation (SMT) systems prevailing as the main paradigm. In the last two years, deep learning approaches have significantly impacted the field, with the rise of neural machine translation (NMT) as the new state-of-the-art in automated translation. This event presents advanced results in the field, in particular for machine translation of Basque.
Context:

The MODELA project was created to advance research and development in deep-learning approaches to machine translation and to address the many challenges of Basque machine translation. The project is financed by the Basque Government and is being carried out by the following entities: Ametzagaiña, Elhuyar, ISEA, UPV/EHU (IXA group) and Vicomtech-IK4.

Guest:

The main speaker will be Kyunghyun Cho (Center for Data Science, New York University), who is an eminent researcher in the area, the most referenced on NMT, a field in which he has obtained a Google prize. Additionally, he is a a brilliant speaker.

Date: May 29, 2017, 11:00
Place: UPV/EHUko Informatika Fakultatea, Manuel de Lardizabal 1, 20018 Donostia (map)
Schedule:

• 11.00-11.15: Introduction and presentation of the project
• 11.15-12.30: Neural Machine Translation (Kyunghyun Cho)
• 12.30-13.15: First results in the Modela project

Sponsor: Modela project and University of the Basque Country

Next day, on Tuesday May 30, at 15:00 he will be with the students of our Master on Language Technology

This hackathon was organized in the context of “4 Years From Now” (4YFN), the bussines platform [...]]]> Yesterday, Mikel Artetxe was awarded in Barcelona with the second prize in the First Hackaton on Language Technologies organized by Red.es in collaboration with  the Spanish Plan to promote Language Technology managed by the Spanish Government’s SESIAD agency.

This hackathon was organized in the context of  “4 Years From Now” (4YFN), the bussines platform created by Mobile World Capital Barcelona to promote technological startups. Several IXA members participated as organizers (German Rigau, Iñaki Alegria and Rodrigo Agerri).

Eight projects participated in the final session yesterday in Barcelona. Mikel developed a free alternative that allows the automatic creation of  bilingual dictionaries offering examples with real uses of words (an application similar to Linguee).

The International Translation Summer School SummerTrans, was founded in Innsbruck in 2004. From 11 to 20 July 2016 the University of Innsbruck hosted the 7th International Translation SummerSchool “SummerTrans VII: [...]]]> Our colleague Nora Aranberri has been the lecturer in the workshop on “Machine Translation for Translators: Taking Advantage of the New Technology” at SummerTrans 2016.

The International Translation Summer School SummerTrans, was founded in Innsbruck in 2004.  From 11 to 20 July 2016 the University of Innsbruck hosted the 7th International Translation SummerSchool “SummerTrans VII: Quality and Competence in Translation”. Addressing trainee translators, professional translators and translation researchers alike, its varied programme featured cutting-edge courses and workshops aiming to advance participants’ theoretical knowledge of and practical skills in translation and interpreting, including state-of-the art translation technology and human-machine interaction in translation.
SummerTrans VII welcomed more than 60 participants from 16 countries spanning from Tunisia over half of Europe to India and China.
Michael Ustaszewski, one of our students in Eramus Mundus LCT master2014-2016, now is a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck and one of the organizers of SummerTrans 2016 
Michael told us that now the participants in the workshop know the state-of-the art translation technology and human-machine interaction in translation.

Donostia / San Sebastian 2016 European Capital of Culture represents an enormous opportunity to turn the focus on culture and dialogue as the roads towards improved coexistence. Thus, Donostia / San Sebastian aims to become a benchmark in the sphere of creative processes and culture.

Inside the programme, we are organising Codefest: Coding [...]]]>

Donostia / San Sebastian 2016 European Capital of Culture represents an enormous opportunity to turn the focus on culture and dialogue as the roads towards improved coexistence. Thus, Donostia / San Sebastian aims to become a benchmark in the sphere of creative processes and culture.

Inside the programme, we are organising Codefest: Coding for Language Communities event, that will take place from 4th to 8th of July 2016 in Donostia / San Sebastián.

Codefest summer-lab, aims to revitalise resource scarce languages by providing them with effective tools for electronic communication and by teaching their communities how to use them. http://dss2016.eu/en/dss2016eu/voices/codefest

This one-week long hands-on course will give participants the opportunity to become acquainted with the latest language-based technologies and to develop different apps based on them. Partakers will work in a multidisciplinary coding bee that will team up linguists, software-engineers and students.
http://dss2016.eu/en/dss2016eu/voices/codefest/project-proposals-codefest

Registration and Important Dates

Registration to attend Codefest is now open. You can register online and you will receive information about the payment procedure. If you are staying in Donostia – San Sebastian we will also collect information to arrange your accommodation.

Early registration: May 10 , 2015 at 11:59pm PDT
2nd Registration (if empty places): June 18
http://dss2016.eu/en/dss2016eu/voices/codefest/sign-up-codefest

Fees
•    Basic registration (5 day participation, official dinner, welcome bag): 40€.
•    Full registration (5 day participation, accommodation, 6 nights in a double room, official dinner, welcome bag): 260€.
•    Full + Wikipedia edit a thon ( 5 day Codefest participation, 1 day Wikipedia edit a thon, accommodation, 7 nights in a double room, official dinner, welcome bag): 260€.

This workshop seeks to build [...]]]> Eneko AGIRRE and Nora ARANBERRI, Ixa Group from University of the Basque Country,  together with Deyi Xiong (Soochow University), Kevin Duh (Johns Hopkins University), and HoufengWang (Peking University), are the organizers of the 2nd Workshop on Semantics-Driven Machine Translation (SedMT)  San Diego, California, USA; June 16, 2016 (co-located with NAACL).

This workshop seeks to build on the success of its precursor S2MT 2015, which was held in conjunction with ACL 2015 in Beijing. This workshop will continue efforts of promoting the shift of interest from syntax to semantics in machine translation, exploring new horizons and cultivating ideas of cutting-edge models and algorithms for semantic machine translation.

QTLeap project Best Paper Award

This year SedMT will award a best paper award among papers which advance MT using lexical emantics and deep language processing.ward is sponsored by the European Union QTLeap project.

IXA talde is a partner in QTLeap (Quality Translation by Deep Language Engineering Approaches),  a project that is run by an European consortium with other seven partners: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Charles University in Prague, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Higher Functions Lda., Humboldt University in Berlin, University of the Basque Country, University of Groningen and University of Lisbon. For more information and contact details please visit: qtleap.eu.

 Important Dates

Paper submission: March 8, 2016
Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2016
Camera-ready papers due: April 7, 2016
Workshop: June 16, 2016

Sumbissions: http:// hlt.suda.edu.cn/workshop/s2mt/index.html

Recently, at the beginging of June, this project succesfully organized in Denver, Colorado, the SSST-9 – Ninth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation collocated with NAACL 2015, June 4, 2015.

IXA Group is the local organizer of IWPT 2015 and Koldo Gojenola is its Organizing Chair. The ACL Special Interest [...]]]> 14th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2015)
Wednesday, July 22, to Friday, July 24, 2015
University of the Basque Country (Bilbao)
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
(May 8, 2015: Deadline for paper submission)

IXA Group is the local organizer of IWPT 2015 and Koldo Gojenola is its Organizing Chair. The ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Parsing (SIGPARSE) invites submissions to its biennual conference on parsing technologies. IWPT 2015 will be the 14th conference in a series that started in 1989. The conference will be held between July 22 and July 24, 2015, in the city center of beautiful Bilbao (Spain), hosted by the University of the Basque Country. There will be two invited keynotes:

• Large-scale Semantic Parsing as Graph Matching. Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Towards Universal Syntactic Processing of Natural Language. Slav Petrov, Google, USA

Interleaved with the main conference, there will be the 6th Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SPMRL).