XV UNL School

Revision as of 15:26, 15 July 2014

The UNDL Foundation invites applications for the XV UNL School, to take place at the UNDL Foundation office, in Geneva, Switzerland, from July 21st to 25th, 2014. The workshop is dedicated to the development of natural language grammars for information retrieval. The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Geneva.

Dates

July 21-25, 2014

Goal

The main goal of the XV UNL School is to develop the grammars for information retrieval with KEYS, the Knowledge Extraction sYStem.

Program

The workshop will take 30 hours according to the tentative schedule below:

• July 21, Monday - Introduction to UNL and to KEYS
• July 22, Tuesday - Syntax
• July 23, Wednesday - UNLization
• July 24, Thursday - NLization
• July 25, Friday - Evaluation & Discussion

Material

• Corpus
  • English
  • Arabic
  • Azerbaijani
  • Bengali
  • Bulgarian
  • Estonian
  • Greek (Modern)
  • Panjabi
  • Persian
  • Portuguese
  • Ukrainian

Participants

Selected

• Ali Safari (Azerbaijani)
• Anna Loukopoulou (Modern Greek)
• Eirini Kouvara (Latin)
• Georgia - Rengina Loukatou (Ancient Greek)
• Martin Luts (Estonian)
• Maryam Faal Hamedanchi (Persian)
• Parteek Kumar (Panjabi)
• Sergiy Prots (Ukrainian)
• Somdev Kar (Bengali)
• Yordanka Stancheva (Bulgarian)

Invited

• Ana Luisa Varani Leal (University of Macau)
• Athina Papachrysostomou (University of Patras)
• Sameh Alansary (University of Alexandria)

Venue

UNDL Foundation office in Geneva