Info_Otros-Programas-Internacionales_PhysSEng

OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND FOUNDATIONS

**EREF Environmental Research and Education Foundation**
Summary	A foundation that Funds and directs scientific research and educational initiatives for waste management practices to benefit industry participants and the communities they serve.
Objetive	The objective of this foundation is to finance projects relating to environmental engineering, management, and education in the areas of waste minimization, recycling, waste conversion, landfills, etc.
Modality	Project funding ranges from US$15.000-500.000. There are two annual pre-proposal deadlines on January 6 and July 1. Selected applicants from the pre-proposal phase will be invited to submit full proposals.
Link	http://erefdn.org/index.php/grants/proposal

**Simons Foundation**
Summary	Mathematical, physical, and biological sciences
Objetive	The mission of the Simons Foundation is to advance the frontiers of mathematics and basic sciences. The foundation funds high-risk basic research in mathematics and physical sciences, life sciences, autism, and education and outreach.
Modality	There are a variety of open calls for proposals throughout the year. Here are some examples: Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences • Up to five years of funding for high-risk projects • Applications may be submitted at any time. Targeted Grants to Institutes for Mathematics and Physical Sciences • Financing of US$100.000-200.000/year is available for up to five years to support centers of excellence in the mathematical and physical sciences. • Open calls are available each summer. Autism Research Initiative • This fund supports research on the mechanisms of autism and on potential therapeutic approaches. • One-year projects will be funded for up to US$70.000. • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Link	https://www.simonsfoundation.org/

Engineering Information Foundation (EIF)
Summary	The mission of the foundation is to improve worldwide engineering education and practice through information technology and the recruitment of women.
Objective	The EIF funds work on communication in engineering, women in engineering, and developing countries. It has deadlines in February and August of each year.
Modality	• Enhancing Communication and Use of Information in Engineering • Women in Engineering: Directed by Engineering Educators • Developing Countries
Link	http://www.eifgrants.org/info/apply.html

Google Foundation
Summary	Google is seeking long-term faculty relations to impact how future generations will use technology.
Objective	Google is interested in proposals about natural language processing, linguistics, software development, and many other fields. Their foundation generally has 2-3 deadlines per year for each program.
Modality	• Global Faculty Research Awards • Earth Engine Awards (remote sensing) •Others
Link	http://research.google.com/research-outreach.html#/research-outreach/faculty-engagement

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Physical Sciences & Engineering Projects

Learning Interlingual Representations of Words and Concepts

Specific programme: Google Global Faculty Research Awards
UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary
UPV/EHU PI: Eneko Agirre
Project start: 01/03/2016
Project end: 28/02/2017

Brief description: Recent developments in word representation have shown that distributional semantic representations derived from text corpora effectively capture word similarity notions, and allow for improvements across many applications. Despite the widespread success, there is still room for further improvements: moving into concepts in order to distinguish between different meanings of ambiguous words (bank as financial institution vs. bank as river shore); Linking to Knowledge Graphs (KG) like WordNet or DBpedia to allow further inference capability; and exploiting complementarity between languages at the concept level. The goal of this project is to build an interlingual concept based representations which combines information from KG and corpora.

Contrary to previous work which adds a limited number of restrictions from KGs to preexisting distributional representations, we build powerful knowledge based representations and combine them head to head with distributional representations. The project will show that the technique can be used to build concept representations in the same embedding space, and that it can be easily extended to accommodate multilingual information from parallel corpora and multilingual KGs, yielding interlingual representations of words and concepts in the same embedding space.

The new techniques will open research on interlingual meaning representation across languages, exploring other KG such as DBpedia or Freebase, enabling interlingual disambiguation for concepts and instances, and across the board improvement of mono and cross lingual NLP applications including information retrieval, extraction and organization.