XII UNL School

The UNDL Foundation invites applications for the XII UNL School, to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 17th to 21th, 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

REQUISITES

The UNDL Foundation will only consider applications complying strictly with the three requisites below:

• Candidates must have successfully completed the grammars to UNL-ize and NL-ize the 400 sentences of corpora UC-A (= UCA1+UCA2).
• Candidates must have completed CLEA250, CLEA500 and CLEA750, available at VALERIE; and
• Candidates must have an university degree in Linguistics, Computer Science or related field.

APPLICATION

In order to apply, candidates must fill in the form available at [1] before 23:59:59 (UTC) of May 12th, 2013.

SELECTION

The UNDL Foundation will select 10 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.

VENUE

UNDL Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland

SUPPORT

The UNDL Foundation will pay the following expenses for the selected candidates not living in Geneva.:

• a round-trip plane, bus or train ticket from/to Geneva in economic class
• 6 (six) nights at Ibis Budget Genève Petit-Lancy (June 16-21)
• CHF300.00 (three hundred Swiss francs) for other general expenses

CERTIFICATION

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

THE UNL AND THE UNDL FOUNDATION

The UNDL Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, which has received, from the United Nations, the mandate for implementing the Universal Networking Language (UNL). The UNL is an artificial language that has been used for several different tasks in natural language engineering, such as machine translation, multilingual document generation, summarization, information retrieval and semantic reasoning. It has been, since 1996, a unique initiative to reduce language barriers and strengthen cross-cultural communication in the framework of the UN.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information, please contact:

Ronaldo Martins, PhD
Language Resources Manager
UNDL Foundation
r.martins@undlfoundation.org