A major condition for the take-off of the field of Language Resources and Language Technologies is the creation of a shared policy for the next years. FLaReNet aims at developing a common vision of the area and fostering a European strategy for consolidating the sector, thus enhancing competitiveness at EU level and worldwide. By creating a consensus among major players in the field, the mission of FLaReNet is to identify priorities as well as short, medium, and long-term strategic objectives and provide consensual recommendations in the form of a plan of action for EC, national organisations and industry. Through the exploitation of new collaborative modalities as well as workshops and meetings, FLaReNet will sustain international cooperation and (re)create a wide Language community.
Our pick of the week by @DennisFucci: "Encoding of lexical tone in self-supervised models of spoken language" by @linguisticshen, @Phonologician
@afraalishahi, @AriannaBisazza, and @gchrupala, NAACL 2024.
#Speech #SpokenLanguageModels #ToneEncoding #Interpretability #Phonology
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Last on our power panel: none other than @HelenaMoniz5 🤩 President of @EAMTee and the International Association of Machine Translation. Currently Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Center for Responsible AI (https://centerforresponsible.ai/) with @Unbabel You don't want to miss this!
Our pick of the week by @beomseok_lee_: "UniverSLU: Universal Spoken Language Understanding for Diverse Tasks with Natural Language Instructions" by @Sid_Arora_18, @emonosuke, @pengyf21, @RoshanSSharma2, @shinjiw_at_cmu, et al., 2024.
#SLU #languageunderstanding #speech