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"text": "Welcome to NSURL2021, the second International workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL 2021) co-located with ICNLSP 2021, held on November 14th 2021. NSURL is an opportunity and a forum for researchers and students to exchange ideas and discuss research and trends in the field of Natural Language Processing and Speech Processing by organizing shared tasks for solving NLP problems. This year, the task was on Semantic Relation Extraction in Persian. 10 papers have been submitted to NSURL 2021. 6 of them have been accepted. All the papers have been presented orally. The attendance beneficiated from the keynotes presented at ICNLSP 2021. The first keynote was held by Dr. Ahmed Abdelali -QCRI-who presented his talk about understanding Arabic transformer Models. The second keynote entitled Figurative language analysis was given by PD Dr. Valia Kordoni -Humboldt University-followed by Dr. Hussein Al-Natsheh -Beyond limits-who gave interesting thoughts on AI technology commercialization and how to move from research to product innovation. The last talk was presented by Dr. Kareem Darwish -Aixplain-on one of the challenged topics which is Arabic diacritic recovery under the title Bring All Your Features: Arabic Diacritic Recovery Using a Feature-Rich Recurrent Neural Model. We would like to acknowledge the support provided by University of Trento, and KnowDive group(University of Trento), and Datascientia (University of Trento). We would like also to express our gratitude to the organizing and the program committees for the hard and valuable contributions. ", |
