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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap">(Interesting to those working on the language side of interaction. Please, redistribute among your relevant
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap">'Language In The Human-Machine Era' (LITHME) is a research network funded by the EU COST programme (https://cost.eu).
We are here to prepare linguistics and its various subfields for a time - probably just a few years away - when “many millions of people will be … wearing relatively unobtrusive … devices that offer an immersive and high-resolution view of a visually augmented
world” (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7466746). This along with other technological advances - like highly intelligent chatbots, improved machine translation, and automated text and speech generation - will bring major challenges to the entire field
of linguistics.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap">If you're a linguist who is not currently interested in technology, then now is the time to learn! Meanwhile
if you're a technologist working on these technologies, then you and your creations will be much better for understanding linguistics! We can all learn from each other, which is where LITHME comes in. An equal mix of computational linguists and other linguists
from a broad range of subfields, we will be arranging a series of meetings, events, and networking opportunities for what lays ahead.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap">During the COVID travel restrictions we sadly can't arrange large in-person meetings. But COST also funds
individual 'Short-term Scientific Missions', where one researcher travels across borders to learn and share knowledge. So for the time being we're focusing on these short term individual visits where cross-border travel is allowed, and ensuring COVID safety
protocols during the visit and associated travel. Intended for novel dialogue as outlined above, these visits should increase understanding and preparation for language in the human-machine era.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap">For eligibility criteria and further information, please see our website:
</span><a href="https://lithme.eu/STSM"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;white-space:pre-wrap">https://lithme.eu/STSM</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap">Please also forward this message on to anyone who might be interested, and retweet us here:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap">https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1318260873216012289</span></p>
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<td><span style="color:#222222">Researcher/Investigador Juan de la Cierva</span></td>
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