32.3486, FYI: BigScience Data Sourcing Hackathon

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-3486. Thu Nov 04 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.3486, FYI: BigScience Data Sourcing Hackathon

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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:00:47
From: Francesco De Toni [francesco.detoni at uwa.edu.au]
Subject: BigScience Data Sourcing Hackathon

 
BigScience is a year-long open scientific collaborative workshop of 600
researchers from 50 countries and more than 250 institutions who collaborate
on creating a very large multilingual neural network language model trained on
a very large multilingual text dataset. During the workshop, the participants
plan to investigate the dataset and the model from all angles: bias, social
impact, capabilities, limitations, ethics, potential improvements, specific
domain performances, carbon impact, general AI/cognitive research landscape.

The BigScience Data Sourcing working group has launched a hackathon to
document and collect a multilingual dataset of language sources in accordance
with the BigScience open-research governance principles. We are looking to
gather a wide variety of resources that represent different kinds of language
use: different regions, different contexts, and different audiences. In order
to collect as many examples of these variations as possible, we need to look
for a variety of data types and formats such as books and formal publications,
audio formats including radio and podcasts, and others, in addition to
traditional web sources.

Read about the hackathon and join here:
https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/data_sourcing/wiki
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 



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