Started a new research to study the universality of metonymy, featured at CogSci 2022.

We are delighted to announce that ICNLSP 2022, the 5th edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, hosted by DataScientia (University of Trento) for the third time, will be held online, on 16-17 December 2022. We look forward to welcoming you to ICNLSP 2022 that will be an opportunity to get acquainted with the latest …

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We are happy to announce that our paper Language Diversity: Visible to Humans, Exploitable by Machines was accepted to the Demo Track of the ACL 2022 conference. See you in Dublin!

We are proud to announce the LiveLanguage data catalogue where we are gradually making the contents of the entire database available for download. You can access the catalogue from the menu bar but also from individual lexicon pages. In terms of UKC database improvements, we have extracted and imported over 500k words from Wiktionary, increasing our language …

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A lot has changed since the previous update. We updated the lexical data, improving quality and extending the coverage of lexical gaps at the same time. New projects have been added to the projects page. The look and feel of the site has been improved. Last but not least, check out the cool new visualisation tools on lexical …

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The fourth edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ICNLSP 2021, will be organized by the university of Trento. ICNLSP aims to attract contributions related to natural language and speech processing in basic theories and applications as well. Regular and posters sessions will be organized, in addition to keynotes presented by senior international researchers.The …

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We extended the coverage of languages, and now are displaying lexical gaps!

I found the lexical distance map fascinating but the closer I studied it the more things bothered me. Thus trawling through the net I found Tishchenko Cyrillic versions. So I sat down this weekend and translated, adjusted, combined and updated to create my own version here: Read more

English and a handful of other languages dominate the internet, but this is leaving indigenous cultures without a voice online. Now they are fighting to get their own languages on the web. Imagine your favourite social media platform does not let you post in English. Now think of a keyboard that won’t allow you to …

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A talk from Fausto Giunchiglia with Title “From language diversity to Bias (what about under-resourced languages)”. In this talk, Fausto provides a general overview of the problem of under-resources languages, and of how we could deal with this problem by uniformly handling the diversity which is intrinsic in any language. Trento April 5th, 2020. (duration: …

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Fausto Giunchiglia explaining Live Schema.Datascientia plenary meeting at the University of Trento, Italy. Dignitaries from around the world attended and presented even during catastrophe conditions in Italy.

A diversity-aware internet, when technology works for people “So far technology has provided us with an increasing access to diversity, but failed short at providing the instruments for individuals and communities to cope with the social challenges that arise with diversity.” Fausto, what is WeNet project about and which is the context it aims to …

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Gábor Bella, head of the Language Diversity Lab of the KnowDive group, was kindly invited by the University of Bayreuth, Germany, to speak at the conference of the project Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies. The talk, entitled Diversity-Aware Resources for Under-Resourced Languages, focused on the problem known as the Digital Language Divide. It examined state-of-the-art …

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Fausto Giunchiglia, will give a keynote talk at the Conference FRUCT, held on Sept. DD, 2020 on the Digital Language Divide and on how DataScientia is trying to address this problem

Article by Laura Schelenz and Ahmed Hamdy, International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. DIVERSITY is an integral part of our daily lives. We are diverse in our behavior, looks, cultural and social backgrounds, beliefs, religious affiliations, political opinions, and more. While diversity can be beneficial to human interaction, it can also …

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PYMNTS interviews Dr. Fausto Giunchiglia, project coordinator for  WeNet project. Bigger, better, faster — those are often the guiding principles for innovation, disruption and change in the digital and mobile worlds. What about smarter, and more diverse? Those traits could find their way into more social media and online research interactions — and the payments …

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For more details, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csyddy?fbclid=IwAR2OoELNDZy8xHAEx2tvvF_ xOsN-B42utZ8HKjInyBiW9izn5TOfisALSJE

1. What is the Datascientia plenary meeting? DataScientia plenary meetings are a good opportunity for new and established members alike to meet, get to know each other, discuss the exciting work and achievements done since the last meeting, and also plan ahead for future collaborations and breakthroughs. Multiple categories are proposed to help organize the …

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We Teach A.I. Systems Everything, Including Our Biases Researchers say computer systems are learning from lots and lots of digitized books and news articles that could bake old attitudes into new technology. SAN FRANCISCO — Last fall, Google unveiled a breakthrough artificial intelligence technology called BERT that changed the way scientists build systems that learn how …

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Hey, guys check out the podcast on Diversity from Matthew Syed. https://player.fm/series/dont-tell-me-the-score/diversity-matthew-syed

The 3rd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (www.icnlsp.org/icnlsp2019), was held on 12-13 September 2019, at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of the University of Trento, Trento. The conference was an opportunity and a forum for researchers and students to exchange ideas and discuss research and trends in the field of …

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For more details, http://labs.theguardian.com/digital-language-divide/

ICNLSP 2019, an IEEE technically co-sponsored event and the third edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, will be held this year at the university of Trento. ICNLSP aims to attract contributions related to natural language and speech processing in basic theories and applications as well. Regular and posters sessions will …

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The CONTEXT conference series has brought together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and industries to present their work related to issues of context, contextual reasoning and context-awareness to discuss commonalities and diversities in the different disciplinary approaches. It is unique in focusing on context as a subject of study in its …

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We are happy to announce that the our group is now a partner in the CyCAT H2020 Project for next two years.  The main goal of the CyCAT is to address the emerging research problem of Algorithmic Transparency, and establish a network of researchers from European countries including Cyprus, England, Israel, Italy, and Scotland. Know …

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The Horizon 2020 funded WeNet research project officially started in January with a kick-off meeting in snowy Trento, Italy. WeNet is a multidisciplinary project– using computer science, sociology and engineering – that will create a platform that enables people to support each other in a way that transcends geographical and cultural backgrounds. Diversity is a …

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Led by the University of Trento in Northern Italy, in collaboration with six other partner institutions from Europe, China, India, Mongolia, Mexico, South Africa and South America, researchers from these institutions have announced the launch of the new initiative DataScientia aiming at studying and connecting the diversity and unity of the world’s languages, with a …

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Abdelhakim Fraihat from University of Trento visited Tshwane University of Technology and conducted a five days research training workshop programme on the topic “Computational Linguistics: Lexical Semantics and Natural Language Processing.” Download the program information

The workshop aims to draw the attention of researchers in the under resourced languages  communities and encourage them to cooperate and intensify efforts to provide solutions and  resources for such under resourced languages. To achieve this goal, the workshop offers the possibility for researchers to organize competitions for solving NLP tasks. These tasks are usually provided with training and …

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On 27th of June 2018, Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia from University of Trento is addressing a keynote on the topic: “One world – seven thousand languages”. Download the program information

International workshop on Advances on Machine learning, Zhuhai (China), May 26, 2018. Fausto Giunchiglia presents the results of the 2017 Smart University project in Trento.

We organized our first AfriKiD workshop with a motto “Unity and Diversity”.  The event was organized by the Tshwane University of Technology. Download the Program infromation

The aim of the workshop is to bring together professionals and practitioners from academic, business, and government communities from all over the world interested in exploring how diversity affects data and knowledge, and discuss applications, supporting methodologies and tools. The event is the follow-up of the first three editions, held in Bangalore and Trento, in …

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This talk will present our going work, started more than 6 years ago, whose goal is to enable data integration among data collected in different cities, about different but related topics, in different languages, thus enabling cross-language data management. The first part will present the theoretical foundations. The second part will discuss the concrete steps …

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We organized our first KiDF workshop with a motto “Unity and Diversity”. Professors from various leading universities in India, China, Mongolia and Trento participated in the event.