Hi everyone,
'Language In The Human-Machine Era' (LITHME) is a research network funded by the EU
COST programme (https://cost.eu). We are here to prepare linguistics and its various
subfields for a time - probably just a few years away - when “many millions of people
will be … wearing relatively unobtrusive … devices that offer an immersive and
high-resolution view of a visually augmented world”
(https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7466746). This along with other technological
advances - like highly intelligent chatbots, improved machine translation, and
automated text and speech generation - will bring major challenges to the entire
field of linguistics.
If you're a linguist who is not currently interested in technology, then now is the
time to learn! Meanwhile if you're a technologist working on these technologies, then
you and your creations will be much better for understanding linguistics! We can all
learn from each other, which is where LITHME comes in. An equal mix of computational
linguists and other linguists from a broad range of subfields, we will be arranging a
series of meetings, events, and networking opportunities for what lays ahead.
During the COVID travel restrictions we sadly can't arrange large in-person meetings.
But COST also funds individual 'Short-term Scientific Missions', where one researcher
travels across borders to learn and share knowledge. So for the time being we're
focusing on these short term individual visits where cross-border travel is allowed,
and ensuring COVID safety protocols during the visit and associated travel. Intended
for novel dialogue as outlined above, these visits should increase understanding and
preparation for language in the human-machine era.
For eligibility criteria, deadline & further information, please see our website:
https://lithme.eu/STSM
Please also forward this message on to anyone who might be interested, and retweet us
here:
https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1318260873216012289
All the best,
Dave
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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
Senior Lecturer, Dept Language & Communication Studies, Uni. of Jyväskylä, Finland |
www.jyu.fi
Chair, EU COST Action CA19102 'Language in the Human-Machine Era' | www.lithme.eu
Communications Secretary, BAAL Language Policy group | www.langpol.ac.uk
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