NLP Research at the University of Helsinki and Information about the Language Technology Programme
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”
More about the Rauhankone project:
and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rauhankone
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
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 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!
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.
We have published an article on efficient word alignment:
The software is available at github: efmaral
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.
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.
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:
Everyone can participate! You only need to build a classifier for the given tasks!
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!
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