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The UNDL Foundation invites applications for the X UNL School, to take place in the Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, from October 7th to 11th, 2012. The workshop will be dedicated to the development and improvement of the grammatical resources for the UNL framework. The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Alexandria. Approved candidates will be entitled to sign a contract for the development of the language modules for their respective languages.
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The X UNL School will be dedicated to the development and improvement of the grammatical resources for the UNL framework. It will take place in the Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, from October 7th to 11th, 2012.
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== Call for Participation ==
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The CFP, already expired, is available at [http://www.unlweb.net/unlweb/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74:x-unl-school&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=60].
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== Important dates ==
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*<strike>01/09/2012: Deadline for the applications</strike>
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*<strike>10/09/2012: Notification of accepted candidates</strike>
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*30/09/2012: Deadline for the pre-workshop tasks (corpus translation and dictionary preparation)
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*07-11/10/2012: X UNL School
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*15/01/2013: Deadline for the post-workshop tasks (CorpusA2)
  
 
== Pre-workshop tasks (to be completed before 30/09/2012)  ==
 
== Pre-workshop tasks (to be completed before 30/09/2012)  ==
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The Text 1 and further instructions are available at [[CorpusA2]].
 
The Text 1 and further instructions are available at [[CorpusA2]].
  
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== Important dates ==
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== Workshop (Oct 7-11, 2012) ==
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*<strike>01/09/2012: Deadline for the applications</strike>
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During the workshop, the participants are expected to provide the syntactic and semantic modules of the grammar necessary to generate the Text 1 from the Corpus A2 from UNL into their native language, and from their native language into UNL. The grammar is expected to comply with the formalism described at the [[Gramar Specs]], 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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*10/09/2012: Notification of accepted candidates
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*30/09/2012: Deadline for the pre-workshop tasks (corpus translation and dictionary preparation)
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*07-11/10/2012: X UNL School
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*15/01/2013: Deadline for the post-workshop tasks (CorpusA2)
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== Requisites ==
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=== Program ===
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The UNDL Foundation will only consider applications complying strictly with the three requisites below:
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;Oct 07th, 2012 - Sunday
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# Candidates must have successfully completed the grammars to UNL-ize and NL-ize the [[Corpus500]];
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:09:00-10:00 Introduction
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# Candidates must have completed CLEA250, CLEA500 and CLEA750; and
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:10:00-12:00 Sentence 1
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# Candidates must have an university degree in Linguistics, Computer Science or related field.
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:14:00-17:00 Sentences 3, 8 and 12
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[[Corpus500]] is a set of 500 structures that cover the most frequent semantic structures of UNL.<br />
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;Oct 08th, 2012 - Monday
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[[CLEA]] is the Certificate for Language Engineering Aptitude and may be pursued online at [[VALERIE]] - the Virtual Learning Environment for UNL.
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:09:00-12:00 Sentences 2 and 13
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:14:00-17:00 Sentences 7 and 6
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;Oct 09th, 2012- Tuesday
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:09:00-12:00 Sentences 9 and 10
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:14:00-17:00 Sentence 5
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;Oct 10th, 2012 - Wednesday
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:09:00-12:00 Sentence 11
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:14:00-17:00 Sentence 4
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;Oct 11th, 2012 - Thursday
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:09:00-12:00 Evaluation
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:14:00-17:00 Discussion
  
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== Application ==
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=== Participants ===
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In order to apply, candidates must send a CV to r.martins@undlfoundation.org before September 1st, 2012. Candidates must also prove their aptitude for natural language processing in the UNL framework by sending the following files in plain text format with UTF-8 encoding (LID should be replaced by the ISO 639-2 three-character code for the intended language). All the instructions are available at [[Corpus500]].
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*Alshaimaa  Ahmed Gaber
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# LID_corpus500.txt, with the human translation, to the target language, of the sentences of the Corpus 500;
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*Athanasios Karasimos
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# LID_ana_dic.txt, with the natural language analysis dictionary used to UNL-ize the translated version of the Corpus 500 (with IAN);
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*Grega Milharcic
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# LID_ana_tgrammar.txt, with the transformation grammar used to UNL-ize the translated version of the Corpus 500 (with IAN);
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*Israa El-Sayed El-Hosiny
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# LID_ana_dgrammar.txt, with the disambiguation grammar used to UNL-ize the translated version of the Corpus 500 (with IAN), if any;
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*Martin Luts
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# LID_gen_dic.txt, with the natural language generation dictionary used to NL-ize the UNL version of the Corpus 500 (with EUGENE);
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*Marwa Saber Arafat
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# LID_gen_tgrammar.txt, with the transformation grammar used to NL-ize the UNL version of the Corpus 500 (with EUGENE), including the morphological module (inflectional paradigms);
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*Milica Denic
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# LID_gen_dgrammar.txt, with the disambiguation grammar used to NL-ize the UNL version of the Corpus 500 (with EUGENE), if any.
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*Nahla Mohamed Mahmoud
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*Ofelia Hovhannisyan
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*Olga Vartzioti
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*Omneya Hosni Zayyan
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*Parameswarappa S
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*Parteek Bhatia
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*Rehab Arafat Rashwan
  
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== Selection ==
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=== Certification ===
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The UNDL Foundation will select 15 candidates, one per language, according to the best F-measure (weighted average of the precision and recall) of the analysis and generation modules. In case two or more candidates provide modules equally good in terms of analysis and generation, the selection process will consider, in this order: 1) previous participation in any UNL School; 2) strongest experience (in terms of UNLdots) in the UNLweb; 3) strongest experience in natural language processing; and 4) highest academic degree.
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The UNDL Foundation will issue a Certificate of Participation, upon evaluation, for all the participants.
  
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== Venue ==
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=== Venue ===
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Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt.
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Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
  
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== Support ==
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=== Local Organization ===
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The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Alexandria. These include:
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Prof. Dr. Sameh Alansary (University of Alexandria, Library of Alexandria)
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# a round-trip plane, bus or train ticket from/to Alexandria
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# 7 nights at a hotel in Alexandria
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# 7 per diem of EGP300.00 (total of EGP2,100.00)
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== Workshop activities (7-11/10/2012)==
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During the workshop, the participants are expected to provide the 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_Specs, 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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== Post-workshop tasks (to be completed before 15/01/2013) ==
 
== Post-workshop tasks (to be completed before 15/01/2013) ==
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== Follow-up ==
 
== Follow-up ==
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The participants who accomplish the post-workshop tasks before January 15th, 2013, will be invited to sign a contract for the development of the grammar modules for their respective languages. This contract will be based on Corpus50000 and will include:
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The participants who accomplish the post-workshop tasks before January 15th, 2013, will be invited to sign a contract for the development of the grammar modules for their respective languages. This contract will be based on Corpus1000 and will include:
 
# Lemmatization of all word forms appearing in the corpus (USD0.10 per lemma, up to USD1,000.00 total, i.e., 10,000 lemmas)
 
# Lemmatization of all word forms appearing in the corpus (USD0.10 per lemma, up to USD1,000.00 total, i.e., 10,000 lemmas)
 
# The development of a grammar for the analysis of the 1,000 most frequent syntactic structures of the source language, extracted from the corpus (USD2,000.00)
 
# The development of a grammar for the analysis of the 1,000 most frequent syntactic structures of the source language, extracted from the corpus (USD2,000.00)
 
# The development of a grammar for the generation of the 1,000 most frequent semantic structures of UNL (USD2,000.00)
 
# The development of a grammar for the generation of the 1,000 most frequent semantic structures of UNL (USD2,000.00)
 
# The participation in the Advanced Level Grammar Workshop in 2013
 
# The participation in the Advanced Level Grammar Workshop in 2013
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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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== Local organization ==
 
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Prof. Dr. Sameh Alansary (University of Alexandria, Library of Alexandria)
 

Revision as of 15:10, 10 September 2012

The X UNL School will be dedicated to the development and improvement of the grammatical resources for the UNL framework. It will take place in the Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, from October 7th to 11th, 2012.

Contents

Call for Participation

The CFP, already expired, is available at [1].

Important dates

  • 01/09/2012: Deadline for the applications
  • 10/09/2012: Notification of accepted candidates
  • 30/09/2012: Deadline for the pre-workshop tasks (corpus translation and dictionary preparation)
  • 07-11/10/2012: X UNL School
  • 15/01/2013: Deadline for the post-workshop tasks (CorpusA2)

Pre-workshop tasks (to be completed before 30/09/2012)

The following files must be sent to r.martins@undlfoundation.org before 30/09/2012:

  1. <LID>_ca2t1.txt, with the human translation, to the target language, of the sentences of Text 1;
  2. <LID>_ana_dic.txt, with the natural language analysis dictionary corresponding to the translated version of Text 1;
  3. <LID>_gen_dic.txt, with the natural language generation dictionary corresponding to the UNL version of the Text 1.

Where <LID> is to be replaced by the three-character code of the ISO 639-2 of the participant's language.
The Text 1 and further instructions are available at CorpusA2.

Workshop (Oct 7-11, 2012)

During the workshop, the participants are expected to provide the syntactic and semantic modules of the grammar necessary to generate the Text 1 from the Corpus A2 from UNL into their native language, and from their native language into UNL. The grammar is expected to comply with the formalism described at the Gramar Specs, 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.

Program

Oct 07th, 2012 - Sunday
09:00-10:00 Introduction
10:00-12:00 Sentence 1
14:00-17:00 Sentences 3, 8 and 12
Oct 08th, 2012 - Monday
09:00-12:00 Sentences 2 and 13
14:00-17:00 Sentences 7 and 6
Oct 09th, 2012- Tuesday
09:00-12:00 Sentences 9 and 10
14:00-17:00 Sentence 5
Oct 10th, 2012 - Wednesday
09:00-12:00 Sentence 11
14:00-17:00 Sentence 4
Oct 11th, 2012 - Thursday
09:00-12:00 Evaluation
14:00-17:00 Discussion

Participants

  • Alshaimaa  Ahmed Gaber
  • Athanasios Karasimos
  • Grega Milharcic
  • Israa El-Sayed El-Hosiny
  • Martin Luts
  • Marwa Saber Arafat
  • Milica Denic
  • Nahla Mohamed Mahmoud
  • Ofelia Hovhannisyan
  • Olga Vartzioti
  • Omneya Hosni Zayyan
  • Parameswarappa S
  • Parteek Bhatia
  • Rehab Arafat Rashwan

Certification

The UNDL Foundation will issue a Certificate of Participation, upon evaluation, for all the participants.

Venue

Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Local Organization

Prof. Dr. Sameh Alansary (University of Alexandria, Library of Alexandria)

Post-workshop tasks (to be completed before 15/01/2013)

After the workshop, the participants will be invited to extend their experimental grammars (for both analysis and generation) for the whole Corpus A2.

Follow-up

The participants who accomplish the post-workshop tasks before January 15th, 2013, will be invited to sign a contract for the development of the grammar modules for their respective languages. This contract will be based on Corpus1000 and will include:

  1. Lemmatization of all word forms appearing in the corpus (USD0.10 per lemma, up to USD1,000.00 total, i.e., 10,000 lemmas)
  2. The development of a grammar for the analysis of the 1,000 most frequent syntactic structures of the source language, extracted from the corpus (USD2,000.00)
  3. The development of a grammar for the generation of the 1,000 most frequent semantic structures of UNL (USD2,000.00)
  4. The participation in the Advanced Level Grammar Workshop in 2013
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