XII UNL School

Revision as of 18:52, 4 July 2013

The UNDL Foundation invites applications for the XII UNL School, to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 17th to 21th, 2013. This is an intermediate-level workshop dedicated to the improvement of grammatical resources already existing in the UNL framework. The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Geneva.

IMPORTANT DATES

• 12/05/2013: Deadline for the applications
• 20/05/2013: Notification of accepted candidates
• 1-5/07/2013: XII UNL School
• 30/09/2012: Deadline for the post-workshop tasks

GOALS

1. To compile the corpus NC-A1
2. To prepare the basic modules for the UNLization of the corpus NC-A1
3. To prepare the basic modules for the NLization of the corpus NC-A1

PROGRAM

• 1/07/2013: Normalization Grammar
• 2/07/2013: Closed-Class Dictionary
• 3/07/2013: Open-Class Word List
• 4/07/2013: Grammar NC-A1
• 5/07/2013: Evaluation and discussion

MATERIAL

• 1/07/2013
  • Presentation
  • Exercise #1 (text to be normalized)
  • Exercise #2 (normalization grammar for English)
• 2/07/2013
  • Presentation
  • Exercise #3 (English Closed-Class Dictionary)
• 3/07/2013
  • Presentation
  • Exercise #4 (Open-Class Word List)
• 4/07/2013
  • Presentation
• 5/07/2013
  • Presentation

PARTICIPANTS

• Kim Sokphyrum (Khmer)
• Marwa Saber (Arabic)
• Muhammad Zulhelmy Bin Mohd Rosman (Malay)
• Ofelia Hovhannisyan (Armenian)
• Parameswarappa S (Kannada)
• Parteek Kumar (Panjabi)
• Ronaldo Martins (UNL)
• Sameh Alansary (Arabic)
• Serhii Prots (Ukrainian)
• Suos Samak (Khmer)
• Teng Wei Min (Chinese)
• Yordanka Stancheva (Bulgarian)

VENUE

UNDL Foundation Office, Geneva

POST-WORKSHOP TASKS

Deadline = 30/09/2013

• Open-Class Word List (3,000 word forms)
• Corpus NC-A1
  • Original corpus: 5-10 original articles from the Wikipedia about culture-specific subjects (minimum of 2,500 words), in separate files, in plain text format with UTF-8 encoding
  • List of noun phrases appearing in the corpus (length of the NP >= 2, and NP's must not contain verbs). Ignore nesting (i.e., consider only the wider NP's, see example below)

The completion of the post-workshop tasks is not mandatory but any intermediate-level workshop will only accept candidates having finished all A1 activities described in FoR-UNL.

FOLLOW-UP

The following projects will be open upon the accomplishment of the post-workshop tasks

• BRUNO-A1 (open only for languages where number of subcategorization frames (all languages) > 15 and number of paradigms (inflectional languages) > 15): 2,000 entries (around 4,000 UNLdots)
• NC-A1: 1,000 entries (3,000 UNLdots)

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Open Class Word List

Extract from the most frequent words in Wikipedia

NP Examples

SSS Examples

UNL Simplified Examples