XV UNL School (Geneva, July 21-25, 2014)

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XV UNL SCHOOL
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21-25 July 2014
UNDL Foundation Office
Geneva, Switzerland
www.unlweb.net/unlversity
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The UNDL Foundation invites applications for the XV UNL School, to
take place at the UNDL Foundation office, in Geneva, Switzerland, from
July 21st to 25th, 2014. The workshop is dedicated to the development
of natural language grammars for information retrieval. The UNDL
Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the
selected candidates not living in Geneva.
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IMPORTANT DATES
*Application deadline: June 22, 2014
*Notification of accepted candidates: June 29, 2014
*XV UNL School: July 21-25, 2014
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GOAL
The main goal of the XV UNL School is to develop the grammars for
information retrieval with KEYS, the Knowledge Extraction sYStem.
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REQUISITES
In order to apply, candidates must comply with ALL the following requisites:
*Candidates must have completed CLEA1000 (available at
www.unlweb.net/valerie); and
*Candidates must have concluded the exercise available at
www.unlweb.net/wiki/exercise1
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APPLICATION
In order to apply, candidates must fill in the form available at
www.unlweb.net/unlversity until the deadline.
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SELECTION
The UNDL Foundation will select up to 12 candidates, one per language,
according to the following criteria:
*Strongest experience in the UNLweb
*Strongest experience in natural language processing
*Highest academic degree
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VENUE
UNDL Foundation office in Geneva
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SUPPORT
The UNDL Foundation will pay the following travel and accommodation
expenses for the selected candidates not living in Geneva
*a round-trip plane, bus or train ticket from/to Geneva;
*6 (six) nights at a budget hotel in Geneva; and
*6 (six) per diem of CHF50.00 (total of CHF300.00), to cover any other
expenses, including meals and transportation.
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PROGRAM
The workshop will take 30 hours according to the tentative schedule below:
*July 21, Monday - Introduction to UNL and to KEYS
*July 22, Tuesday - Syntax
*July 23, Wednesday - UNLization
*July 24, Thursday - NLization
*July 25, Friday - Evaluation & Discussion
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CERTIFICATION
The UNDL Foundation will issue a Certificate of Participation, upon
evaluation, for all the participants.
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THE UNL AND THE UNDL FOUNDATION
The UNDL Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Geneva,
Switzerland, which has received, from the United Nations, the mandate
for implementing the Universal Networking Language (UNL). The UNL is
an artificial language that has been used for several different tasks
in natural language engineering, such as machine translation,
multilingual document generation, summarization, information retrieval
and semantic reasoning. It has been, since 1996, a unique initiative
to reduce language barriers and strengthen cross-cultural
communication in the framework of the UN.
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FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact:
Ronaldo Martins, PhD
Language Resources Manager
UNDL Foundation
r.martins@undlfoundation.org
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Ronaldo MARTINS
Language Resources Manager
UNDL Foundation
48, route de Chancy
CH-1213 - Geneva - Switzerland
+41 22 879 8090
www.undlfoundation.org
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