XII UNL School

Latest revision as of 19:01, 15 July 2013

The UNDL Foundation invites applications for the XII UNL School, to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from July 1st to 5th, 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: 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 5,000 words), in separate files, in plain text format with UTF-8 encoding
  • List of at least 1,000 noun phrases appearing in the corpus with the following characteristics:
    • the length of the NP must be equal or greater than 2 words (one-word NP's must be excluded): Geneva
    • NP's must not contain foreign words: the city of Genève (note that "the city of Geneva" is OK)
    • NP's must be continuous (there cannot be any extra-content, e.g., parentheses, inside the NP): the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zurich) (note that the NP will be "the second most populous city in Switzerland")
    • NP's must not contain verbs, even when used as nouns, adjectives or adverbs: French-speaking part of Switzerland, numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many of the agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross (in the latter case, there will be 2 NP's: "numerous international organizations" and "the headquarters... Red Cross")
    • NP's must be original (no change should be made to the original text from the Wikipedia)
    • NP's must ignore nesting (only the longest NP must be considered): "the headquarters of many of the agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross" must be treated as a single NP (the inner NP's, such as "the agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross" must not be extracted from the longer NP)
    • NP's must be unique (repetitions must be ignored)
    • NP's must be provided one per line in a plain text file, with UTF-8 encoding.

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

Extracted from the most frequent words in Wikipedia

NP Examples

SSS Examples

UNL Simplified Examples