XV UNL School

Revision as of 09:57, 28 May 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.

Important Dates

• Application deadline: June 22, 2014
• Notification of accepted candidates: June 29, 2014
• XV UNL School: 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.

Requisites

In order to apply, candidates must comply with ALL the following requisites:

• Candidates must have completed CLEA1000; and
• Candidates must have concluded the UNLization exercise described at Exercise1.

Application

In order to apply, candidates must fill in the form available at [1] until the deadline. Don't forget to include the results of the exercise at the end of the CV to be uploaded.

Selection

The UNDL Foundation will select up to 12 candidates, one per language, according to the following criteria:

• Strongest experience in the UNLweb
• Strongest experience in natural language processing
• Highest academic degree

Venue

UNDL Foundation office in Geneva

Support

The UNDL Foundation will pay the following travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Geneva

• a round-trip plane, bus or train ticket from/to Geneva;
• 6 (six) nights at a budget hotel in Geneva; and
• 6 (six) per diem of CHF50.00 (total of CHF300.00), to cover any other expenses, including meals and transportation.

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

Certification

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