A mini-symposium in the series Modeling Meaning and Knowledge on Monday, 8th of February at 2pm to 4pm. Guest speakers are professors Ismo Koponen and Mikko Tolonen. Prof. Timo Honkela gives a tutorial titled “Studies of Words and Concepts”. The event takes place in the main building of University of Helsinki, Auditorium IV. More information:
Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, Spring 2016.
Shared Task: Cross-lingual Pronoun Prediction
We organise a shared task on cross-lingual pronoun prediction at the first conference on machine translation (WMT2016) in connection with ACL 2016 in Berlin. All information can be found at the following website. Make sure that you don’t miss the deadlines in case you’d like to participate! The training data is out already.
Important dates are:
- Release of training data: 2nd February 2016
- Test data released: 4th April 2016
- System submission deadline: 11th April 2016
- Paper submission deadline: 8th May 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 5th June 2016
- Camera-ready deadline: 22nd June 2016
Everyone can participate! You only need to build a classifier for the given tasks!
Workshop on Cross-Lingual NLP
The language technology group organises an international workshop on multilingual and cross-lingual NLP on Thursday, 11 February, 2016. The program and further information can be found at the workshop website. Check it out!