Written by Alexander Raginsky We are living through one of the most decisive moments in machine translation history. The funding landscape in Europe is changing dramatically: the MosesCore project concluded the series of support projects for the Moses system funded by the European Commission. Now the project has come to an end, Moses as a commercial MT solution is
Written by Alexander Raginsky We are delighted to announce that application for Master of Human Interface Technology and its scholarships are open for July intake in 2015. The Master of Human Interface Technology (MHIT) programme aims to teach students Human Interface Technology skills and how they can be applied in a research or industry setting. The programme directly engages
Written by Alexander Raginsky The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD 2015) will take place on September 7 of 2015, in Porto Portugal (http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/). The conference includes a PhD session that provides an environment for students to exchange their ideas and experiences with peers and senior researchers in machine learning,
Written by Alexander Raginsky It is my pleasure to announce the release of the Autodesk Post-Editing Data corpus with the ISLRN 290-859-676-529-5 (http://www.islrn.org/resources/identify_islrn/). This resource contains parallel English source–MT/TM target segments post-edited into several languages (Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) with between 30000 and 410000 segments per language.
Written by Alexander Raginsky The Computational Linguistics Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton is offering a Master of Arts in Language and Information Processing (MA LIP). The duration of study is one year full time, or between two and four years part time. Graduates of MA LIP will become specialists in language and information processing. As the teaching
Written by Alexander Raginsky Doctoral Consortium @ EUROLAN-2015 Summer School 13 – 17 July 2015, Sibiu, Romania a satellite event of the 12th EUROLAN Summer School on Linguistic Linked Open Data 13 – 25 July 2015 “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania The Doctoral Consortium at EUROLAN-2015 will provide a good opportunity for graduate students (PhD and MSc heading
Written by Alexander Raginsky Google is making a major update to its mobile search algorithm that will change the order in which websites are ranked when users search for something from their phone. The algorithm will start favoring mobile-friendly websites (ones with large text, easy-to-click links, and that resize to fit whatever screen they’re viewed on) and ranking them
Written by Alexander Raginsky We seek a limited number of student volunteers for the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technology. Volunteers are assigned one full day’s work. The work will be divided, probably into two half-day shifts, and the shifts will be scheduled to maximize volunteer access to
Written by Alexander Raginsky First Machine Translation Marathon in the Americas, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 10th-15th, 2015 Grants For Students We are pleased to be able to offer a limited number of student bursaries to enable students new to the field to attend the marathon. These bursaries are aimed principally at first year PhD students or equivalent, who don’t have
Written by Alexander Raginsky 1st Summer School on Integrating Vision and Language 2015 (iV&LSS 2015) 1?4 June 2015, University of Leuven, Belgium Organised by ICT COST Action IC1307 The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net) – Combining Computer Vision and Language Processing For Advanced Search, Retrieval, Annotation and Description of Visual Data About iV&L Net: The
