Parsing – Ixa Group. Language Technology.

14th International Conference on Parsing Technologies in Bilbao

Kepa Sarasola — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:00:26 +0000

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).

Talk. Tegau Andrews. An overview of Welsh language technologies. (2011/11/02)

Kepa Sarasola — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:52:23 +0000

Ixa Group has often collaborated with Bangor University in the development of language technology for less resourced languages. Mainly for Basque and Welsh and in the frame of SALTMIL.
Briony Williams, Delith Prys and Gruff Prys are our Welsh contacts.
Tegau Andrews from Bangor University will be with us next week, and we have programmed this talk:

Speaker: Tegau Andrews (Bangor University, Wales)
Uned Technolegau Iaith / Language Technologies Unit
Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University

When: November 2, Wednesday
Where: Room 3.2
Time: 15.00
Title: From terminology standardization systems to machine translation: An overview of Welsh language technologies

Abstract:

An endangered language will progress if its speakers can make use of electronic technology” so postulates Wales-based linguistics professor David Crystal (Language Death, 2000: 141). Welsh, spoken by 20.8% of the population of Wales (Census 2001), is classed a vulnerable language by UNESCO, yet it is the Welsh Government’s stated aim to make Wales a truly bilingual nation.

This talk will focus on the progress being made in developing language technologies for Welsh speakers. It will range over topics such as Welsh machine translation, computer-aided translation tools, text-to-speech technology, terminology portals and e-learning resources, and present an overview of the work being done at the Terminology and Language Technologies Unit at Bangor University. The aim of such work is to enable and encourage Welsh speakers to use electronic technology in their own language.

Invited talk: Computational Semantics and Pragmatics (Rodolfo Delmonte, 2011/01/17,18

Kepa Sarasola — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:20:34 +0000

Speaker: Rodolfo Delmonte, (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy).
Date: January 17 and 18, 2011
Time: 16:00 – 19:30
Where: Computer Science Faculty

ABSTRACT
These two sessions cover some of the most important aspects of Computational Semantics and Pragmatics including:
* Lexical Representations and Argument Structure
* Parsing with constituency or dependency structure
* Co-reference resolution
* Underspecified arguments
* Argumentative structure, subjectivity, factuality and sentiment analysis
* Textual Entailment
The talks follow a linguistically motivated approach with the use of ontologies and similar resources to deal with co-reference or textual entailment tasks. The talks are accompanied by several applications and demonstrations.

SHORT BIO
Rodolfo Delmonte is Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Venice where he is in charge of the corresponding course at BA, MA and Ph.D. level. Specialist in experimental phonetics and computational linguistics he presents his research work at major international conferences and publishes articles in international journals. He is referee for and publishes in Speech Communication, International Journal of Speech Technologies, Journal of Natural Language Engineering and international conferences every year. He has been invited speaker in a number of conferences, teacher at international schools, and invited professor in the last five years in Boulder, Colorado at the CLSR, in Besançon at the Centre Tesnière, in Dallas at UTD. Hot topics of his latest research include the following: Implicit entities and antecedents of omitted and underspecified arguments; Argumentative Analysis, Subjectivity, Factuality and Sentiment Analysis.

project.cgm.unive.it/delmonte.html

Maite Oronoz develops new system to detect and correct syntactic mistakes (2009/09/21)

Kepa Sarasola — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:51:39 +0000

The new system called Saroi is a general tool which, apart from dealing with errors, can be used to make consultations about syntactic structures in the trees of analysis and to make searches for linguistic structures in such trees.

Maite Oronoz has analysed the existing tools for the detection and correction of syntactic mistakes. To detect context errors such as concordance errors, it is necessary to analyse the tree structure of the sentences. The researcher did not find a suitable tool for this purpose so she created Saroi, which not only deals with mistakes in syntax but can also be used for consulting tree structure analyses and for carrying out searches for linguistic structures in such trees.