NLP Research at the University of Helsinki and Information about the Language Technology Programme
Sum-QE: a BERT-based Summary Quality Estimation Model, to be presented at EMNLP 2019 (Session 11, Nov, 7). In collaboration with the NLP Group at the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1909.00578
Code: github.com/nlpaueb/SumQE
The Finnish Centre for Artificial Intelligence FCAI has now a special interest group in Language, Speech and Cognition (FCAI-SIG-LSC). The SIG is also present in a new blog and welcomes new members.
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!
The Finnish Center of Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) established a special interest group (SIG) in language, speech and cognition. Language technology and our group is one of the driving forces behind this SIG. The SIG will be introduced at the AI Day on November 26 in Ottaniemi.
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.
This list is subject to change and more information about the program will be posted later
Tommi Jouhiainen is defending his PhD thesis in language technology on “Language Identification in Texts” on Tuesday, May, 28 at 12 in auditorio XII in the main building of the university. The thesis is available at http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-5131-5 and the opponent is Nikola Ljubešić from the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana and the University of Zagreb.
The purpose of this event is to arrange a meeting between students and representatives of the industry that works 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.
This list is subject to change and more information about the program will be posted later
We organise an event on representation learning from multilingual language data (FoTran2018). We have great invited speakers:
Sign up if you want to participate or even present your work! Participation is free but registration is required. More info here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/fotran-2018/
Professor Jörg Tiedemann gave a talk at the Charles University in Czech Republic on the 18th June as part of their Fred Jelinek Seminar Series.
Found in Translation – Learning to understand languages with cross-lingual grounding
Translated texts are semantic mirrors of the original text and the significant variations that we can observe across languages can be used to disambiguate the meaning of a given expression using the linguistic signal that is grounded in translation. We are interested in massively parallel corpora consisting of hundreds up to a thousand different languages and how they can be applied as implicit supervision to learn abstractions that could lead to significant improvements in natural language understanding. As a side-effect, we can also see how multilingual models can pick up essential relationships between languages building a continuous space with reasonable language clusters. I will talk about some initial results and plans for the future and I would like to get your feedback about those ideas.
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