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.
FCAI hosted Research Insight Event at Aalto university. The purpose of the day was to bring together FCAI’s academics and partners to discuss shared problems and to workshop future research ideas for the center.
Found in translation (FoTran) was presented by Jörg Tiedemann.
“Natural Language Processing is not only an important component of intelligent systems that interact with users but also develops into a core discipline of AI that aims at learning world knowledge from human communication. The goal of our research is to use translations to pick up essential semantics of natural language. Combining multilingual signals with multimodal grounding we aim at improved models for natural language understanding.”
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
Our research group successfully participated in this year’s WMT machine translation tasks, taking the shared first place in both the English-Finnish and Finnish-English news translation tasks.
We also participated in the Multimodal Machine Translation task as part of the MeMaD project, taking the first place in English-German and in English-French translation.
In both the news and multimodal translation tasks, the best systems from the Language Technology group utilised state-of-the-art neural machine translation models.
System papers describing the models will be presented at EMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18) later this year.
Congratulations to our team!
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