University of Helsinki Language Technology group at NoDaLiDa 2019

The University of Helsinki Language Technology group has a number of papers at The 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa’19). Here’s where you can find us. See you in Turku!

Monday September 30:

NLP4CALL workshop:

  • 13:15. Mathias Creutz, Eetu Sjöblom: “Toward automatic improvement of language produced by non-native language learners”

Constraint Grammar – Methods, Tools, and Applications workshop:

  • 14:15. Anssi Yli-Jyrä: “Constraint Grammar Is a Hand-Crafted Transformer”

Tuesday 01 October:

Oral presentations:
Parallel session B: Morphology and Syntax.

  • 13:45. Ilmari Kylliäinen and Miikka Silfverberg: “Ensembles of Neural Morphological Inflection Models”

Posters:

  • 16:45. Jeff Ens, Mika Hämäläinen, Jack Rueter and Philippe Pasquier: “Morphosyntactic Disambiguation in an Endangered Language Setting”

Demos:

  • 16:45. Mikko Aulamo and Jörg Tiedemann: “The OPUS Resource Repository: An Open Package for Creating Parallel Corpora and Machine Translation Services”

Wednesday 02 October

Oral presentations:
Parallel session B: Speech.

  • 14:50. Aarne Talman, Antti Suni, Hande Celikkanat, Sofoklis Kakouros, Jörg Tiedemann and Martti Vainio: “Predicting Prosodic Prominence from Text with Pre-trained Contextualized Word Representations”

Meet the LT Industry 2019

  • Place: Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40), Sali I
  • Date: Friday October 11, 2019
  • Time: 14:15 – 15:45

The purpose of this event is to arrange a meeting between students and representatives of the industry that work with language technology in one way or another. The event is open to anyone who is interested in getting information about career opportunities. We will have short presentations of relevant companies and their business and leave time for questions and discussions. There will also be the opportunity to informally speak to the industry representatives face to face.

We have invited various language service providers and LT businesses and the preliminary list of confirmed participants is listed below.

  • AlphaSense
  • Insider Solutions
  • Kielikone
  • Lingsoft
  • Sanoma
  • Silo.AI
  • Semantix
  • Utopia Analytics

 

This list is subject to change and more information about the program will be posted later