RGCL Anniversary Highlights, Day 17

Published on Aug, 30 2022 by RGCL.

Our many international conferences and workshops

A key part of RGCL’s commitment to the wider research community is our ongoing engagement with, and organising of, international research events. Over the past 25 years, RGCL has been instrumental in organising dozens of conferences, symposia, workshops and summer schools, in locations ranging from Varna and Hissar in Bulgaria, to Malaga, London, Luxembourg, and Rhodes, drawing some of the world’s best scholars and practitioners in Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, and Translation Technology.

Some of the conferences that RGCL has helped to organise and run

Most recently, we have co-organised the conference of New Trends in Translation and Technology (NeTTT 2022), including its Summer School in Neural Machine Translation; and the Quality Estimation shared task as part of the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT’22). Coming up very soon is the next instalment of the biennial Europhras conference, Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology (September 2022 in Malaga).

RGCL’s Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe delivering a session as part of NeTTT’s Summer School in Neural Machine Translation

Eminent keynote speakers at our co-organised conferences have included:

• Sylviane Granger, Université Catholique de Louvain
• Natalie Kübler, Paris Diderot University
• Kathrin Steyer, Institute of German Language
• Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and University of Essex
• Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa)
• Sabine Braun (University of Surrey)
• Sharon O’Brien, Dublin City University
• Tim Rocktäschel (University College London) - Introduction to Deep Learning for NLP
• Hinrich Schütze (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich) - Neural-based representation Learning
• Kyunghyun Cho (New York University) - Latest topics in representation learning for language
• Ken Church (Baidu)
• Tim Baldwin (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
• Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Sebastian Riedel (University College London and Facebook AI)

Our continued involvement in and organising of these vibrant research events is a key factor in RGCL’s international standing. We look forward to seeing you all at a conference soon!