Turkic Interlingua (TIL)

A community of researchers, engineers, linguists and community activists working on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Turkic languages

[MRL @mrl2024_emnlp]

Shared task status: 🥳submission system released! 🤑 prizes for winners! 🤑

⛔deadline extended - August 22nd
☝data repo - https://t.co/B55hR3nWZ8
✌google group - https://t.co/FftEgAzUco
🖖website - https://t.co/0Md7BN5kq7
🤟submission system - https://t.co/PEbopucRJ0

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[Duygu Ataman @_dataman_]

If you are interested in being a member of the newly founded ACL SIGTURK feel free to fill out the form with your details: https://t.co/UvauE6qArn

[Turkic Interlingua (TIL) @til_nlp]

Anyone interested in joining SIGTURK, please fill in this short form! This way you will be added to a mailing list and receive updates about community-wide announcements and initiatives: https://t.co/0GjvHFm66k

[Turkic Interlingua (TIL) @til_nlp]

Special Interest Group on Turkic Languages (SIGTURK)! 🥳🥳🥳

[Duygu Ataman @_dataman_]

It is great pleasure to share that ACL has confirmed the establishment of the Special Interest Group on Turkic Languages (SIGTURK). Thanks to innovative leadership by @SardananIvanova and huge support of @til_nlp community

[Turkic Interlingua (TIL) @til_nlp]

Please sign up here if you are interested and you will get an email when we start having meetups: https://t.co/JCWw6IQxKC

[Turkic Interlingua (TIL) @til_nlp]

We want to share some important announcements with everyone regarding a new community initiative! As you may have seen or heard in the past, we have worked hard to release a comprehensive benchmark in Machine Translation for many Turkic languages. [1/n]

[Turkic Interlingua (TIL) @til_nlp]

So far, the project is very young and many details are not set yet. We would like to organize weekly meetings with everyone involved to create a plan, break up tasks, involve more people and organizations, etc.

[Ali Safaya @ali_safaya]

🚀Mukayese: Turkish NLP Strikes Back 🚀

Our paper on bringing the State-of-the-art to Turkish NLP will appear in the Findings of ACL 2022.

For now, the ArXiv preprint: https://t.co/qrGrcjN1PM
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[Diversity in AI @ IJCAI 2025 @DiverseInAI]

@WiNLPWorkshop @MasakhaneNLP @AmericasNLP @til_nlp and #semantics/#CompLing ECRs currently at #AAAI2022 and soon to be at #ACL2022

@RealAAAI @aclmeeting @coling2022 @naaclmeeting @aaclmeeting #NLP

[Turkic Interlingua (TIL) @til_nlp]

A member of the community, Alexander Antonov, just released a large parallel corpus for Chuvash-Russian ( >1M human-aligned) and Chuvash-English (>200k auto-aligned). You can find and use the dataset on @huggingface!

https://t.co/560NjhoPmn

[Turkic Interlingua (TIL) @til_nlp]

Turkic languages included are:
Azerbaijani (az)
Bashkir (ba)
Karakalpak (kaa)
Kazakh (kk)
Kirghiz (ky)
Turkish (tr)
Sakha (sah)
Uzbek (uz)

[Turkic Interlingua (TIL) @til_nlp]

Hello, #NLProc! Our human-translated MT evaluation set focused on Turkic languages is now available on @huggingface! Currently supports multiway translations between English/Russian and 8 Turkic languages:
https://t.co/Jy7RoHxzYk

Credits to @mirzakhalov98 for the upload!

[Masakhane @MasakhaneNLP]

If you're attending #NeurIPS2021, please join @vukosi and @davlanade's tutorial:

✨A Journey Through the Opportunity of Low Resourced Natural Language Processing — An African Lens ✨

"Participation is key"💕💪🏿🌍

No registration needed, just login! 🤩
https://t.co/DldEdwyTET

[Duygu Ataman @_dataman_]

Looking for Turkish students in the UK for a small paid annotation project. Please dm for more info.

[Turkic Interlingua (TIL) @til_nlp]

@jalilnkh @emnlpmeeting Hey! You can download the specific corpora from the github page: https://t.co/mlrFUSz1qk

Simply put the language codes "az" and "en" and that's all!

[Turkic Interlingua (TIL) @til_nlp]

We will be presenting our paper titled "Evaluating Multiway Multilingual NMT in Turkic Languages" at #WMT2021 co-hosted @emnlpmeeting! Come check out the paper and talk: https://t.co/Fwrb77PH2w

[Turkic Interlingua (TIL) @til_nlp]

On Thursday, November 4th, at 10:00 AM (UTC-4) we are going to have a general zoom meeting for the TIL community to discuss current and future initiatives. Please join the mailing list to receive emails about this and future events: https://t.co/x1rkrANMD1

[Common Voice - Türkçe @CVTurkce]

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Bugün 1 Kasım, Harf Devrimi’nin 93. yılında Türkçe'nin desteğimize ihtiyacı var! Gelecekte teknoloji ile temel iletişimimiz konuşarak olacak.

Hemen başlayın!
🎙https://t.co/oShKv0s198

#CommonVoice #CommonVoiceTurkce

[Duygu Ataman @_dataman_]

It was exciting to meet the TURKLANG community and discuss collaborations. We hope our corpus can soon reach full coverage of the Turkic languages so that it can allow more rapid progress in Turkic NLP.