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

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: Grammar 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

WORD FORMS

Material for the Exercise #4

Language	File
Arabic	ar_words.xls
Armenian	hy_words.xls
Bulgarian	bg_words.xls
Chinese	zh_words.xls
Kannada	kn_words.xls
Khmer	km_words.xls
Malay	ms_words.xls
Punjabi	pa_words.xls
Ukrainian	uk_words.xls

SSS Examples

sentence	SSS
book	NH(book)
the book	NS(book;the)
beautiful book	NA(book;beautiful)
book of John	NA(book;:01) PC:01(of;John)
the book of John	NS(book;the) NA(book;:01) PC:01(of;John)
the beautiful book of John	NS(book;the) NA(book;beautiful) NA(book;:01) PC:01(of;John)
the book of Math of John	NS(book;the) NA(book;:01) PC:01(of;Math) NA(book;:02) PC:02(of;Math)
the book about the construction of Babel	NS(book;the) NA(book;:01) PC:01(about;:02) NS:02(construction;the) NA:02(construction;:03) PC:03(of;Babel)

UNL Examples

sentence	SSS
book	book
the book	book.@def
beautiful book	mod(book;beautiful)
book of John	pos(book;John)
the book of John	pos(book.@def;John)
the beautiful book of John	mod(book.@def;beautiful) pos(book.@def;John)
the book of Math of John	cnt(book.@def;Math) pos(book.@def;John)
the book about the construction of Babel	cnt(book.@def;:01) obj(construction.@def;Babel)