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Marcello Federico presented the MMT project at the TAUS Annual Conference, 12-13 October 2015, San Josè, California.

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Title: Text mining for pharmacovigilance: Using machine learning for drug name recognition and drug–drug interaction extraction and classification

Authors: Asma Ben Abacha, Md Faisal Mahmub Chowdhury, Aikaterini Karanasiou, Yassine Mrabet, Alberto Lavelli, Pierre Zweigenbaum

Our students Josè Camargo de Souza, Nick Ruiz and Amin Farajian participated to the Google NLP PhD Summit 2015, held at Google Zurich on 23 - 26 September 2015.

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Marcello Federico attended the Facebook Faculty Summit that was held in London on 22 Sept 2015.  About 100 people were invited to the meeting,  including FB people from USA and Europe and externals from Europe. The meeting was organised in four separate tracks: machine learning, security, programming languages, and systems. The purpose of the meeting was to update participants about FB's research agenda and activities and to foster collaborations with the invited researchers.  MF gave a short presentation about the ideas developed in MateCat and the MMT project. 

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See press release (in Italian)

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I'm glad to announce that Nick Ruiz was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the INTERSPEECH Conference in Dresden (Germany) for the joint FBK-Microsoft research paper:

"Adapting Machine Translation Models toward Misrecognized Speech with Text-to-Speech Pronunciation Rules and Acoustic Confusability"

by Nicholas Ruiz, Qin Gao, William Lewis, Marcello Federico.

INTERSPEECH is among the world largest conferences on Speech and Language Technology (746 papers presented this year).

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Thanks to Ondrej for sending us this nice picture, taken on 27 August 2015!

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Student Ngoc Phuoc An Vo has been selected for the Google NLP PhD Summit 2015, which will be held at Google Zurich on 23 - 26 Setember 2015.

- Slogans are not forever: Adapting Linguistic Expressions to the News
- Looking at Mondrian's Victory Boogie-Woogie: What do I feel?

We are glad to acknowledge a financial gift from eBay Inc. to Marcello Federico in order to support research activities by the PhD students working in the HLT-MT research unit. 

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List of the short papers accepted at ACL 2015

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Four oral presentations (three task organization and one system description) three system description posters by HLT-NLP researchers

Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, Gözde Özbal and Carlo Strapparava. Exploring Sensorial Features for Metaphor Identification

Marco Guerini, Gözde Özbal and Carlo Strapparava. Echoes of Persuasion: The Effect of Euphony in Persuasive Communication

Our call for Summer internships has been closed!

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Title: Multitask Learning for Adaptive Quality Estimation of Automatically Transcribed Utterances

Authors: José G. C. de Souza, Hamed Zamani, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi, Falavigna Daniele

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List of the papers accepted at ACL 2015

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Carlo Strapparava and Rada Mihalcea. Affect detection in texts. In R. Calvo et al. editors, Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing. Oxford University Press, December 2014.

Octavian Popescu and Carlo Strapparava. Time corpora: Epochs, opinions and changes. Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, 69:3—13, October 2014.

Round table Time and Language at "Festival della Scienza" in Genoa