Tweets by JohannesBjerva

Event Organisation

• Lab Monitor at the 8th Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS 2018)
• The Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2018) at NAACL 2018, Publicity Chair.
• Mini-symposium on Multilingual Learning in connection with my PhD defence, Organiser and Session Chair.
• The 35th International Taalbulletin conference (TABUDAG 2014), Organiser and Session Chair.

Programme Committee / Reviewing

• EMNLP 2018
• VarDial 2018
• COLING 2018 (mentoring and reviewing)
• ACL 2018
• SemEval 2018 - Task 1
• Learning with Limited Data (LLD) Workshop at NIPS
• IJCNLP 2017
• CoNLL 2017 (EMNLP overlap)
• EMNLP 2017
• SemEval-2017 Task 1
• ACL 2017
• NoDaLiDa 2017
• VarDial 2017 (shared task papers)
• EACL 2017
• VarDial 2016 (shared task papers)
• COLING 2016
• SemEval 2017 Task 8
• Handbook of Linguistic Annotation (Springer)
• SemEval 2017 Task 1
• 35th TABU Dag Conference

Scholarships, awards, and grants

• AdeptMind scholarship (USD 20,000) to work on multilingual modelling.
• Titan Xp GPU -- Nvidia GPU Grant programme (2017).
• Accepted and all expenses paid – Google NLP Summit, Zürich, Switzerland (2017).
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Best short paper award – Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (2017).
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EUR 300 best system award – PAN International Competition on Author Profiling (2016).
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Accepted to LxMLS – Lisbon Machine Learning School, 40% acceptance rate (2015).
• Best system (shared w/two teams) – SemEval Semantic Textual Similarity (2014).
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USD 445 travel grant to Hong Kong – Acoustical Society of America Scholarship (2012).
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EUR 300 travel grant to Hong Kong – Int’l. Phonetic Assoc., Gösta Bruce Fund (2011).

Outreach

• University of Groningen to start Master’s degree programme in Digital Humanities, University of Groningen Unifocus film (17-02-2016)
• De oudheid. . . digitaal! (Ancient history. . . digitally!) University newspaper article (06-10-2015) (in Dutch)