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The XIII UNL School will take place at the National Academy of Sciences Gallery, in Yerevan, Armenia, from September 23rd to 27th, 2013, in conjunction with [http://www.csit.am/2013/ CSIT 2013].
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The XIII UNL School will take place at the National Academy of Sciences Gallery, in Yerevan, Armenia, from October 7th to 11th, 2013, in conjunction with [http://www.csit.am/2013/ CSIT 2013].
  
 
== Important Dates ==
 
== Important Dates ==
*18/Aug/2013: Deadline for the applications
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*<strike>1-18/Aug/2013: Applications</strike>
*26/Aug/2013: Notification of accepted candidates
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*<strike>1/Sep/2013: Notification of accepted candidates</strike>
*23-27/Sep/2013: XIII UNL School
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*7-11/Oct/2013: XIII UNL School
  
== Languages ==
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== Program ==
The XIII UNL School will be dedicated to the development of the resources for the following languages:
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*Monday, Oct 7th:  
*Abkhaz
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**Introduction
*Albanian
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**NLization (UGO)
*Armenian
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*Tuesday, Oct 8th:
*Avar
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**UNLization (CORNELIA)
*Azerbaijani
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*Wednesday, Oct 9th:
*Belarussian
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**Grammar (Morphology): inflectional paradigms and subcategorization frames
*Bosnian
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*Thursday, Oct 10th:
*Chechen
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**Dictionary (MIR, BRUNO and NADIA)
*Croatian
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*Friday, Oct 11th:
*Czech
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**Discussion and Evaluation
*Georgian
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*Greek
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*Hebrew
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*Ingush
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*Kabardian
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*Kazakh
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*Kurdish
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*Kyrgyz
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*Laz
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*Macedonian
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*Mingrelian
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*Ossetic
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*Persian
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*Romanian
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*Serbian
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*Slovak
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*Slovene
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*Slovenian
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*Persian
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*Polish
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*Svan
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*Turkish
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*Turkmen
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*Uzbek
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== Requisites ==
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== Environment ==
*Candidates must be native speakers of any of the languages referred to above.
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[http://www.unlweb.org/sandbox UNLsandbox]
*Candidates must be a national resident in Balkan Peninsula, Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia or Iran. 
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*Candidates must hold an undergraduate degree in Linguistics, Language Studies, Translation Studies, Computational Linguistics or related field.
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*Candidates must be approved in CLEA250, CLEA500 and CLEA750. (These certificates may be pursued online at [http://www.unlweb.net/valerie VALERIE - the Virtual Learning Environment for UNL]).
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*Candidates must have a good command of English.
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== Application ==  
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== Material ==
In order to apply, candidates must fill in the form available at http://www.unlweb.net/school/registration before 23:59:59 (UTC) of August 18th, 2013.
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Slide presentations
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*[http://www.unlweb.net/school/yerevan2013/day1.pdf Day #1]
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*[http://www.unlweb.net/school/yerevan2013/day2.pdf Day #2]
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*[http://www.unlweb.net/school/yerevan2013/day3.pdf Day #3]
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*[http://www.unlweb.net/school/yerevan2013/day4.pdf Day #4]
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*[http://www.unlweb.net/school/yerevan2013/day5.pdf Day #5]
  
== Selection ==  
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== Pre-Workshop Tasks ==
The UNDL Foundation will select up to 10 candidates, one per language, according to the following criteria:
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*Corpus ([[CORNELIA|CORNELIA-A1]])
*Compliance with the requisites;
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*Word list ([[BRUNO|BRUNO-A1]])
*Highest academic degree;
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*[[CLEA750]]
*Strongest experience in natural language processing;
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*Strongest experience at the UNLweb.
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== Participants ==
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*Aikaterini Tsiouma (Greek)
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*Ali Safari (Azeri)
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*Anahit Sargsyan (Armenian)
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*Araksia Hakobyan (Armenian)
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*Avaq Avaqyan (Armenian)
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*Grega Milharcic (Slovenian)
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*Karen Khachatryan (Armenian)
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*Levon Hakobyan (Armenian)
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*Lilit Paremuzian (Armenian)
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*Maryam Faal Hamedanchi (Persian)
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*Mihaela Ilioaia (Romanian)
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*Oleg Kapanadze (Georgian)
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*Olga Vartzioti (Latin)
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*Ronaldo Martins (UNL)
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*Sameh Alansary (Arabic)
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*Samvel Hovsepyan (Armenian)
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*Setrak Grigoryan (Armenian)
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*Somdev Kar (Bengali)
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*Tatevik Manukyan (Armenian)
  
 
== Venue ==  
 
== Venue ==  
 
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
 
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
  
== Support ==
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== Local Organization ==
The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Yerevan. These include:
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*Lilit Paremuzyan (lili@sci.am)
*a round-trip plane, bus or train ticket from/to Yerevan
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*Aram Avetisyan (a.avetisyan@undlfoundation.org)
*6 nights at the Yerevan State University Guest House (check in on Sep 22, check out on Sep 28)  
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*7 per diem of USD50.00 (USD350.00 in total)
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== Workshop Activities ==
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During the workshop, the participants are expected to provide the morphological, syntactic and semantic modules of the grammar necessary to generate the workshop corpus from UNL into their native language, and from their native language into UNL. The grammar is expected to comply with the formalism described at www.unlweb.net/wiki/index.php/Grammar, and will be provided through the UNLdev, a web-based integrated development environment for creating and editing dictionary entries and grammar rules for natural language processing. The UNDL Foundation will provide all the training and support necessary for the accomplishment of the tasks.
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== Certification ==
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The UNDL Foundation will issue a Certificate of Participation, upon evaluation, for all the participants.
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Latest revision as of 08:26, 11 October 2013

The XIII UNL School will take place at the National Academy of Sciences Gallery, in Yerevan, Armenia, from October 7th to 11th, 2013, in conjunction with CSIT 2013.

Contents

Important Dates

  • 1-18/Aug/2013: Applications
  • 1/Sep/2013: Notification of accepted candidates
  • 7-11/Oct/2013: XIII UNL School

Program

  • Monday, Oct 7th:
    • Introduction
    • NLization (UGO)
  • Tuesday, Oct 8th:
    • UNLization (CORNELIA)
  • Wednesday, Oct 9th:
    • Grammar (Morphology): inflectional paradigms and subcategorization frames
  • Thursday, Oct 10th:
    • Dictionary (MIR, BRUNO and NADIA)
  • Friday, Oct 11th:
    • Discussion and Evaluation

Environment

UNLsandbox

Material

Slide presentations

Pre-Workshop Tasks

Participants

  • Aikaterini Tsiouma (Greek)
  • Ali Safari (Azeri)
  • Anahit Sargsyan (Armenian)
  • Araksia Hakobyan (Armenian)
  • Avaq Avaqyan (Armenian)
  • Grega Milharcic (Slovenian)
  • Karen Khachatryan (Armenian)
  • Levon Hakobyan (Armenian)
  • Lilit Paremuzian (Armenian)
  • Maryam Faal Hamedanchi (Persian)
  • Mihaela Ilioaia (Romanian)
  • Oleg Kapanadze (Georgian)
  • Olga Vartzioti (Latin)
  • Ronaldo Martins (UNL)
  • Sameh Alansary (Arabic)
  • Samvel Hovsepyan (Armenian)
  • Setrak Grigoryan (Armenian)
  • Somdev Kar (Bengali)
  • Tatevik Manukyan (Armenian)

Venue

National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Local Organization

  • Lilit Paremuzyan (lili@sci.am)
  • Aram Avetisyan (a.avetisyan@undlfoundation.org)
Software