X UNL School

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.

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 (Corpus UC-A2)

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>_rca2t1.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 Corpus UC-A2.

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 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.

Program

Oct 07th, 2012 - Sunday

09:00-10:00 Introduction

10:00-11:00 Sentence 1

11:00-11:30 Coffee-break

11:30-13:00 Sentence 3

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Sentence 8

16:00-16:30 Coffee-break

16:30-18:00 Sentence 12

Oct 08th, 2012 - Monday

09:00-11:00 Sentence 2

11:00-11:30 Coffee-break

11:30-13:00 Sentence 13

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Sentence 7

16:00-16:30 Coffee-break

16:30-18:00 Sentence 6

Oct 09th, 2012- Tuesday

09:00-11:00 Sentence 9

11:00-11:30 Coffee-break

11:30-13:00 Sentence 10

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Sentence 5

16:00-16:30 Coffee-break

16:30-18:00 Sentence 5

Oct 10th, 2012 - Wednesday

09:00-11:00 Sentence 11

11:00-11:30 Coffee-break

11:30-13:00 Sentence 11

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Sentence 4

16:00-16:30 Coffee-break

16:30-18:00 Sentence 4

Oct 11th, 2012 - Thursday

09:00-11:00 Evaluation

11:00-11:30 Coffee-break

11:30-13:00 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 Kumar
• Rehab Arafat Rashwan

Material

Samples

• English Transformation Grammar
• English Generation Grammar

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 UC-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 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