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We are organising a Workshop and Shared Task on Quality Assessment for Text Simplification at LREC2016. The full description of the shared task and the training data can be found here.
Attended conferences, workshops, tutorials and summer schools
- ASSETS 2015 (The 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility). Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 October 2015.
- DL4MT 2015 (Deep Learning for Machine Translation Winter School). Dublin, Ireland, 18-24 October 2015.
- DMTW 2015 (The 1st Workshop on Deep Machine Translation). Prague, Czech Republic, 3-4 September 2015.
- SEPLN 2014 (The 30th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing). Girona, Spain, 16-19 September 2014.
- MT Marathon 2014 (The 9th Machine Translation Marathon). Trento, Italy, 8-13 September 2014.
- COLING 2014 (The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) - main conference. Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August 2014.
- ATS-MA 2014 Workshop on Automatic Text Simplification - Methods and Applications in the Multilingual Society (ATS-MA), held in conjunction with COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland, 24 August 2014.
- EACL 2014 (The 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) - main conference. Gothenburg, Sweden, 28–30 April 2014.
- PITR 2014 (The 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations), held in conjunction with EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden, 27 April 2014.
- RANLP 2013 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) - main conference, tutorials and workshops. Hissar, Bulgaria, 7-13 September, 2013.
- SLSP 2013 (The 1st International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing). Tarragona, Spain, 29-31 July 2013.
- CICLing 2013 (The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics). Samos, Greece, 24-30 March 2013.
- LxMLS 2012 (The 2nd Lisbon Machine Learning School). Lisbon, Portugal, 19-25 July, 2012.
- LREC 2012 (The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation) - main conference and workshops. Istanbul, Turkey, 20-27 May, 2012.
- RANLP 2011 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) - main conference, tutorials and workshops. Hissar, Bulgaria, 10-16 September, 2011.
- SEL 2011 (XL Simposio Internacional y III Congreso de la Sociedad Espańola de Lingüística). Madrid, Spain, 7-10 Februar, 2011.
- RANLP 2009 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) - main conference, tutorials and workshops. Borovetz, Bulgaria, 12-18 September, 2009.
Participation in Committees / Reviewing
- Reviewer for the Journal of Natural Language Engineering (Cambridge University Press).
- Reviewer for the Journal of Information Processing & Management (Elsevier).
- Reviewer for the Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science (Equinox Publishing Ltd.).
- Member of Scientific Committee for LREC 2016 (The 10th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation).
- Additional reviewer for ACL 2015 (The 53rd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).
- Reviewer for RANLP 2015 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing).
- Additional reviewer for DMTW 2015 (The 1st Workshop on Deep Machine Translation).
- Reviewer for AIST 2015 (The 4th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks, and Texts).
- Reviewer for RANLP 2013 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing).
- Reviewer for IJCNLP 2013 (The 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing).
- Additional reviewer for PITR 2013 (The Second Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, ACL 2013).
- Additional reviewer for CICLing 2013 (The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics).
- Reviewer for COLING 2012 (The 24th international conference on Computational Linguistics).
- Member of Scientific Committee for LREC 2012 (The 8th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation).
- Reviewer and student helper for RANLP 2011 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing).
- Additional reviewer for CICLing 2010 (The 11th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics).
Teaching/Seminars
- "Neural Machine Translation". University of Lisbon, Portugal, 23 November 2015.
- "Current Trends and Challenges in Text Simplification". University of Mannheim, Germany, 16 October 2015.
- "New Data-Driven Approaches to Text Simplification". University of Lisbon, Portugal, 15 May 2015.
- "New Approaches to Text Simplification". University of Wolverhampton, UK, 11 December 2013.
- "Text Simplification for People with Cognitive Disabilities". Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 25 April 2013.
- "Current Trends in Text Simplification". Autism and NLP Workshop, University of Wolverhampton, UK, 25 February 2013.
- "Text Simplification". Erasmus Mundus International Masters in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technologies, University of Wolverhampton, UK, 4 December 2013.
- "Text Simplification". Erasmus Mundus International Masters in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technologies, University of Wolverhampton, UK, 5 December 2012.