NLP4CALL
In the past 10 years, NLP4CALL workshop has been a meeting place for researchers and company representatives working on automatic solutions for language learning and for research on language learning. This year, the workshop attracted more than 200 registrations. We enjoyed an invited talk by Cambridge Assessment researchers, Mark Brenchley and Kevin Cheung; and another invited talk by professor Johanna Monti. We celebrated the 10th anniversary by introducing a new session on Research Notes for those who want to discuss their projects/ideas without a publication - a format that turned out to be a success.
For further information, see the workshop website:
<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/research/themes/icall/nlp4call-workshop-series/nlp4call2021>
Sustainable language representations for a changing world
In this workshop we discussed how language representations or language models can be built to be sustainable, in a very general sense. The topics ranged from how to adapt to minority languages and language varieties, to ethical and legal concerns about privacy, copyright and questions of liability. We had 75 participants who followed and actively took part in the discussions, as well as invited talks by Linda Mannila (Digismart, Finland), Elisabet Lobo (Chalmers University) and Stanley Greenstein and Peter Wahlgren (Stockholm University).
For further information, see the workshop website:
<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/aktuellt/konferenser-och-workshopar/sustainable-language-representations>