II UNL Olympiad

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II UNL OLYMPIAD
www.unlweb.net/olympiad
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The UNDL Foundation has launched the II UNL Olympiad, which is devoted
to the development of grammars for the corpus UC-A1, comprising 100
sentences. The competition is open to any participant, and the
deadline is July 1st, 2013.

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Modalities
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The competition is organised in two modalities:
*Best UNLization Grammar for <LANGUAGE>
*Best NLization Grammar for <LANGUAGE>
Where <LANGUAGE> is one of the languages participating in this
Olympiad (see the complete list below).
Candidates may participate in one or two modalities, i.e., they may
work with the UNLization grammar, with the NLization grammar, or with
both.
Candidates may also participate in one or more languages, provided
that they belong to the list below.

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Prizes
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Prizes are awarded to the best grammars of each modality (UNLization
and NLization) for each language:
*1st place: Gold Medal
*2nd place: Silver Medal
*3rd place: Bronze Medal
Additionally, the 10 best UNLization grammars and the 10 best
NLization grammars will be awarded with USD500.00 each.

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Registration
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Candidates must upload their files to
www.unlweb.net/olympiad/registration before 23:59:59 (UTC) of July
1st, 2013. The list of files and further instructions are available at
www.unlweb.net/olympiad .

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Evaluation
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Grammars will be evaluated and ranked according to the following criteria:
*Best F-measure
*Scalability (i.e., extendibility, or the capacity of being reused to
other corpora), in case of grammars with the same F-Measure
*Date of submission, in case of grammars with the same F-Measure and
equally scalable

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Languages
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The I UNL Olympiad will be dedicated to the development of grammars
for the following languages:
*Afrikaans
*Armenian
*Assamese
*Bengali
*Bulgarian (NLization only)
*Chinese
*Croatian
*Estonian
*German
*Greek (Modern)
*Gujarati
*Hindi
*Indonesian
*Japanese
*Kannada
*Kashmiri
*Khmer
*Laotian
*Latin
*Malay
*Malayalam
*Manipuri
*Marathi
*Oriya (NLization only)
*Persian
*Punjabi
*Sanskrit
*Serbian
*Sindhi
*Sinhala
*Slovenian
*Swahili
*Swedish
*Tamil
*Telugu
*Thai
*Turkish
*Vietnamese
Candidates may participate in one or more languages above.

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Instructions
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For detailed instructions, see www.unlweb.net/olympiad .

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Further information
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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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