Jag höll en presentation om språkteknologi och maskinöversättning på svenska på Gumtäkt. Förhoppningsvis kan det leder till nya samarbeten och studentutbyten. Mina presentationsbilder finns här: MT-seminar-slides
Welcome to our new PostDoc Yves Scherrer
Timo Honkela presents the Peace Machine Concept
Don’t miss our next seminar in language technology with a presentation by Timo Honkela: “Machine Learning and Language Technology in the Peace Machine Concept”
- Time: Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 2:15 p.m.
- Place: Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Lecture hall 25
More about the Rauhankone project:
and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rauhankone
7 tenure track positions at HELDIG and more …
There are seven open tenure track professor positions related to
Helsinki’s Center for Digital Humanities (HELDIG)
Tenure track positions (deadline: February 15):
computer-science-pertaining-to-algorithmic-data-science-with-focus-on-ssh-applications
russian-big-data-methodology
digital-learning-at-work
big-data-learning-analytics
digital-humanities
law-and-digitalization
digital-learning-at-schools
Professor in English Language and Digital Humanities (deadline: February 27)
There are also 5-10 PostDoc positions in the UH Humanities Programme:
(deadline: February, 20) Note that language technology is part of humanities in Helsinki!
Furthermore the position of the HELDIG Research Coordinator (1.3.2017–31.12.2020)
General information about open positions at the University of Helsinki
BAULT 2016
We organised a 2-day symposium on December 1-2, 2016 within the framework of BAULT – a research community on Building And Using Language Technology. Links to slides and projects are added to the website of the symposium.
Miikka Silfverberg’s doctoral defense
Miikka Silfverberg is defending his PhD thesis in language technology on Saturday, October 22 at 10 AM. The public defenes will take place at the University of Helsinki.
Porthania, Lecture Hall P674,
Yliopistonkatu 3, 6th floor.
The title of the thesis is “Morphological Disambiguation using Probabilistic Sequence Models”
The opponent is professor Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) and the custos is professor Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki). The language of the defense will be English.
Everyone is welcome!
Seminar course by Curious AI
The Curious AI company organises a seminar course in the field of artificial intelligence. Students at the University of Helsinki may get credits for participating in the seminars. You may also vote for the topics to be covered. Look at this link.
Efficient MCMC word alignment
We have published an article on efficient word alignment:
- Robert Östling and Jörg Tiedemann: Efficient Word Alignment with Markov Chain Monte Carlo. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics (PBML), Number 106, pp. 125–146
The software is available at github: efmaral
Workshop on Machine Translation for Finnish
BAULT organises a one-day workshop on machine translation for morphologically-rich languages and Finnish in particular. The event is free of charge (space limits may apply) and you are welcome to attend. Please, register here.
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!