III UNL Olympiad (Preparatory Phase)

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Dear All,

The UNDL Foundation has launched the preparatory phase for the III UNL
Olympiad, which consists in preparing the corpus to be used in the
competition. In this third edition of the UNL Olympiad, the UNDL
Foundation will distribute USD500,00 for the 10 best UNLization
grammars, and USD500,00 for the 10 best NLization grammars. The UNL
Olympiad is free and open to any participant, but it is limited to the
set of languages participating in the preparatory phase.

== Important dates ==
Preparatory phases
*Corpus elaboration (Project UGO-A1): until Jan 15, 2014
*Open discussion: from Jan 16 to Jan 30, 2014
*Official release of the corpus: Feb 15th, 2014
Competition
*Deadline for the grammars and dictionaries: Mar 30th, 2014
*Results: Apr 15th, 2014

== Preparatory Phases ==
Participation in preparatory phases is open to all candidates and is
not compulsory, provided that at least one candidate of the working
language provides the corpus, i.e., the results for the project
UGO-A1.

=== UGO-A1 ===
The first phase of the III UNL Olympiad is the project UGO-A1, which
is open and funded for all languages. This project will set the corpus
and the reference for UNLization and NLization. It consists of 250 UNL
graphs that must be NLized (i.e., generated into natural language,
manually). This process must be done only once for each language. The
project UGO-A1 must be carried out at the UNLarium. For further
information, refer to www.unlweb.net/wiki/UGO

=== Open Discussion ===
The second phase of the III UNL Olympiad will consist in an open
discussion of the results of the project UGO-A1. All users will be
able to propose the inclusion, suppression or modification of the
NLizations proposed to the UNL graphs, in order to avoid any biases
and privileges to specific candidates.

=== Oficial Release ===
The official corpus and set of languages, resulting from the
preparatory phases, will be released on Feb 15th, 2014.

== Competition ==

=== Goals ===
The III UNL Olympiad has two main goals:
*To prepare the dictionaries and grammars for UNLizing, with IAN, the
corpus UGO-A1; and/or
*To prepare the dictionaries and grammars for NLizing, with EUGENE,
the corpus UGO-A1.
UNLization is the process of representing, into UNL, the information
conveyed by a natural language document. NLization, conversely, is the
process of representing, in natural language, the information conveyed
by a UNL document. IAN and EUGENE are engines used to automatic
UNLization and NLization, respectively. They are available at the
UNLdev.

=== Modalities ===
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).<br />
Candidates may participate in one or two modalities, i.e., they may
work with the UNLization grammar, with the NLization grammar, or with
both.<br />
Candidates may also participate in one or more languages, provided
that they belong to the list below.

=== Prizes ===
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 in general (i.e., among
all languages) and the 10 best NLization grammars in general will be
awarded with USD500.00 each.

=== Corpus ===
The corpus will be extracted from the results of the project UGO-A1
and will be officially released on Feb 15th, 2015.

=== Further Instructions ===
Further instructions are available at www.unlweb.net/wiki/III_UNL_Olympiad

== 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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