Surafel | ሱራፌል

Research @awscloud ፨ Graduated @FBK_MT @UniTrento ፨ 💚💛❤️

[Prashant Mathur @_mathur]

Proceedings for IWSLT shared task are now online https://t.co/6ZuOeFFqt6

[Surafel | ሱራፌል @surafelml]

We show how self-learning is crucial to control the output of translation models.

Discover how we applied the proposed approach in an automatic dubbing use case. #AmazonScience

[Surafel | ሱራፌል @surafelml]

Our #ICASSP paper, Isometric MT: Neural Machine Translation for Automatic Dubbing is out.

https://t.co/01DCDabdPF

[Surafel | ሱራፌል @surafelml]

Working on #Neural #Machine #Translation

Consider participating in this year @iwslt Isometric translation task. More details 👇

[Prashant Mathur @_mathur]

We are organizing Isometric MT shared task in @iwslt 2022 https://t.co/owJXVuPAoW

What's the problem?
Generate translations which are similar in length to source.

(1/3)

[Surafel | ሱራፌል @surafelml]

Happy New year y'all!
Wishing all the best in #2022 🎉🥂

[Masakhane @MasakhaneNLP]

The ✨ 2nd AfricaNLP Workshop ✨ will be taking place at #EACL2021! They have a magnificent programme 🤩

Please do submit 🌠 So we can build together 🌍

📅 Submission date: 5 Feb 2021
📝 Short (4pg) or long (8pg) papers

👇🏿All details within👇🏿
https://t.co/KC7b33t4lU

[Alina Karakanta @karakanta]

The 3rd Workshop on technologies for Low Resource languages #LoResMT starts in a few hours.
Check out the rich program here: https://t.co/k9Fx6bLDLt
And join us: https://t.co/3LyMSMpLBK
@chstoneliu @surafelml @ffFlammie @alienelf

[BeatriceSavoldi @BeatriceSavoldi]

Biased gender representations can be a matter of stylistic nuance. Can they be automatically rewritten to ensure more agency and power?

From my #EMNLP2020 highlights, "PowerTransformer: Unsupervised Controllable Revision for Biased Language Correction"
https://t.co/qrw1BT72xN

[Masakhane @MasakhaneNLP]

Masakhane is excited to present the keynote at WMT at #EMNLP2020 tomorrow! 🤩 We're on at 13h00 UCT. Join us for our talk, Q&A & a panel on low-resourcedness.

🌍✨Low-resourcedness Beyond Data✨🌍

workshop:
https://t.co/r74jWiumok

paper:
https://t.co/sIWdwc6ssa

[MT Group at FBK @fbk_mt]

Working on speech translation?
Tired of the same old target languages? 🥱

New version of MuST-C now available!

📌 Extended with 6 new directions:
English➡️Arabic/Chinese/Czech/Persian/Turkish/Vietnamese

https://t.co/8EhWUA3pI6

#nlproc #machinetranslation #speechtranslation

[Masakhane @MasakhaneNLP]

With overwhelming excitement that we can finally share with you "Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages" to be published at ✨Findings of @emnlp2020 ✨💕🌍💪🏾

Preprint: https://t.co/r01i7C9jFs

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[Surafel | ሱራፌል @surafelml]

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[Amazon Science @AmazonScience]

REMINDER: October 11th is the deadline for the 2020 Amazon Research Awards. Call for proposal areas include:

1. AI for Information Security
2. Alexa Fairness in AI
3. AWS AI
4. AWS Automated Reasoning
5. Robotics

Apply here: https://t.co/GL1EvEGZXL

#AmazonResearchAwards

[Surafel | ሱራፌል @surafelml]

@alienelf Happy Birthday! Jade 🥳🎉

[Surafel | ሱራፌል @surafelml]

@DX89B @MohitIyyer @UniTrento_DISI Congrats Daniele 🥳🎉

[Surafel | ሱራፌል @surafelml]

Working on low-resource languages? don't miss this opportunity, highly recommend!

Get your proposals ready! ✍️

[Lacuna Fund @LacunaFund]

We’re excited to announce Lacuna Fund’s second RFP, focusing on datasets for language in sub-Saharan Africa. If you know somebody who’s #ClosingDataGaps to build better #NLProc #AI tools in African languages, please share! Learn more at https://t.co/fKJtJIGoId

[Masakhane @MasakhaneNLP]

We're overwhelmingly excited to announce our work✨ Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages✨ is to be published at "Findings of @emnlp2020 " 🌍

Our paper boasts 50 authors from across African soil and beyond 🤩🌻💪🏿 /1

[Alina Karakanta @karakanta]

LoResMT deadline extended to Sept. 18th. We are looking forward to your submissions! #MT #LoRes
https://t.co/TU7KCnqfbI

[Surafel | ሱራፌል @surafelml]

@fitsumkifetew same here! Got to change now, visualizing how authors spent sleepless nights to write these papers - you know as a motivation

[Surafel | ሱራፌል @surafelml]

A tip (or not) -- on reviewing am witnessing these days:

> reading a paper & making an immediate decision may not be the best of my decisions. As in most important decisions, am keeping the judgment for next morning :)