Yearly Archives: 2022

Blog Post on the 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge

Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK) aims at bringing together researchers from across disciplines concerned with the acquisition, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. With the advent of the Web and digital technologies, an ever increasing amount of language data is now available across application areas and industry sectors, including social media, digital archives, company records, etc. The efficient and meaningful exploitation of this data in scientific and commercial innovation is at the core of data science research, employing NLP and machine learning methods as well as semantic technologies based on knowledge graphs.

Blog Post on the STSM “Towards a multilingual lexicon of discourse markers” by Purificação Silvano at Mozaika, Sofia, Bulgaria

The two main objectives of the STSM were to: (i) work on the construction of a multilingual semantic vocabulary of discourse markers as LLOD, and (ii) prepare a roadmap for future research.

Blog Post on the “Terminology and Specialized Knowledge” conference held at the University of Rijeka

The international conference “Terminology and Specialized Knowledge Representation: New Perspectives on User Needs” (TESK) was held on 9-10 June 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka in Croatia. It was organized as a hybrid event with over 60 participants from 15 European countries, the majority of whom attended the conference in person.

Blog Post on the Short Term Scientific Mission at the Centre of Linguistics of the University of Porto

Giedre Valunaite Oleskevicienė, Mykolas Romeris University, Institute of Humanities, Vilnius, Lithuania, completed a STSM “Researching integrated explicit and implicit offensive language taxonomy” held during the period from 05/07/2022 to 10/07/2022 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto.

Blog Post on the Short Term Scientific Mission at the Dutch Language Institute

Ilan Kernerman (K Dictionaries) completed a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the Dutch Language Institute in Leiden. The objective of the STSM was to explore linking lexicographic data to difficulty graded vocabularies.

Blog Post on the “DiSLiDaS Workshop”

DiSLiDaS Workshop at Jerusalem NexusLinguarum Meeting enjoyed audience from 18 countries around the world

Blog Post on the Taxonomy and Annotation of Offensive Language Workshop

On the 23rd of May, a workshop on Taxonomy and Annotation of Offensive Language: Implicitness was organized by Use Case 4.1.1 (Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Slavko Žitnik, Anna Bączkowska, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė, Chaya Liebeskind,  Kristina Despot, Ana Ostroški Anić), within the framework of COST Action 18209 NexusLinguarum. The workshop was a hybrid event with the on-site part hosted at the Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel. It attracted close to 30 participants both from WG4 and other NexusLinguarum WGs.

Blog Post on the “Nexus Workshops Days in Jerusalem”

Announcing the upcoming Nexus Workshops Days in Jerusalem (23-24 May 2022),with the strong local support by Chaya Liebeskin, Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem. Those workshops have the goal to strengthen the cooperation between the WGs of NexusLInguarum, also with external contributions!

Blog Post on “The Working Group 2 journey so far”

Presenting the actual work of WG2 “Linked data-aware NLP services” of NexusLanguarum.