UniDive COST Action CA21167

Latest news

[26 August 2024]: Paris-Saclay University, which hosts several services for UniDive, was a victim of a major cyber attack on 11 August 2024. Since then, the UniDive mailing lists are not operational. The services are being progressively restored but we do not yet know how long it will take. In the meantime, if you need to contact Agata Savary, the chair of the action, please write to agata.savary.work@gmail.com

[5 July 2024]: Our 2nd progress report is due on 22 October. By this time, we should make all the outcomes of the Action visible on the website. Please, send us information about publications, language resources, dissemination activities and other outcomes which directly benefited from UniDive.

[5 July 2024]: We now have as many as 19 ongoing tasks and subtasks within the 4 Working Groups. They are all documented on the website. If you are interested in joining one of them, please, contact the task leaders.

[5 July 2024]: The 3rd UniDive General Meeting will take place in Budapest on 29-30 January 2025 and will be preceded by a WG2 meeting on 28 Jan 2024.

[5 July 2024]: Due to the extended budget and savings from previous events, we are planning a last-minute call for STSMs late July. You may start planning your STSM already now. They should end no later than early October. For all details see the STSM page.

[5 July 2024]: The 1st UniDive training school is taking place on 8-12 July in Chișinău, Moldova. 3 courses on corpus annotation are offered. We are expecting about 60 trainees from over 20 countries, working on more than 30 languages, most of which low-resourced. We plan to record the courses and make them available after the event.

[5 July 2024]: The MWE-UD workshop took place on the 25th of May and was co-located with the LREC/COLING conference in Turin. It was the 3rd biggest satellite event of this conference (UniDive funded 23 participants). The event featured 2 invited talks and 26 archival submissions, which are available at the ACL anthology.

[5 July 2024]: In April, we received a proposal from COST to extend our budget for year 2. To be able to benefit from it, we drafted the Work and Budget amendment, which was validated by COST and by the UniDive Management Committee. This top-up budget allowed us to substantially increase the funding for the MWE-UD workshop Turin, the training school in Chișinău and the conference grants.

About UniDive

The CA21167 COST Action, UniDive, is an interdisciplinary scientific network devoted to universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology.

It main objective is to reconcile language diversity with rapid progress in language technology.

It embraces both inter- and intra-language diversity, i.e. a diversity understood both in terms of the differences among the existing languages and of the variety of linguistic phenomena exhibited within a language.

It gathers about 250 interdisciplinary experts (linguists, computational linguists, computer scientists, psycholinguists, and industrials) from almost 40 COST countries (36 of which are COST countries).

It represents dozens of languages from many different language genera.

Basic data

Duration: from 23 September 2022 to 22 September 2026

Official COST webpage: https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21167/

Detailed objectives and workprogram - to be found in the Memorandum of Understanding

4 Working Groups

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