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
• 30/09/2012: Deadline for the post-workshop tasks

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
• 5/07/2013
  • Presentation

PARTICIPANTS

• Kim Sokphyrum (Khmer)
• Marwa Saber (Arabic)
• Muhammad Zulhelmy Bin Mohd Rosman (Malay)
• Ofelia Hovhannisyan (Armenian)
• Parameswarappa S (Kannada)
• Parteek Kumar (Panjabi)
• Ronaldo Martins (UNL)
• Sameh Alansary (Arabic)
• Serhii Prots (Ukrainian)
• Suos Samak (Khmer)
• Teng Wei Min (Chinese)
• Yordanka Stancheva (Bulgarian)

VENUE

UNDL Foundation Office, Geneva

POST-WORKSHOP TASKS

Deadline = 30/09/2013

• Open-Class Word List (3,000 word forms)
• Corpus NC-A1
  • Original corpus: 5-10 original articles from the Wikipedia about culture-specific subjects (minimum of 2,500 words), in separate files, in plain text format with UTF-8 encoding
  • List of noun phrases appearing in the corpus (length of the NP >= 2, and NP's must not contain verbs). Ignore nesting (i.e., consider only the wider NP's, see example below)

The completion of the post-workshop tasks is not mandatory but any intermediate-level workshop will only accept candidates having finished all A1 activities described in FoR-UNL.

FOLLOW-UP

The following projects will be open upon the accomplishment of the post-workshop tasks

• BRUNO-A1 (open only for languages where number of subcategorization frames (all languages) > 15 and number of paradigms (inflectional languages) > 15): 2,000 entries (around 4,000 UNLdots)
• NC-A1: 1,000 entries (3,000 UNLdots)

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Open Class Word List

Extract from the most frequent words in Wikipedia

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

NP Examples

original text

NP

Geneva is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zurich) and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated where the Rhone exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. The municipality (ville de Genève) has a population (as of March 2013) of 194,245, and the canton (République et Canton de Genève, which includes the city) has 472,530 residents. In 2007, the urban area, or agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise (Great Geneva or Grand Genève in French) had 1,240,000 inhabitants in 189 municipalities in both Switzerland and France.

Geneva (length = 1) the second most populous city in Switzerland Zurich (length = 1) the most populous city of Romandy the French-speaking part of Switzerland (verb) the Rhone Lake Geneva the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva The municipality ville de Genève (foreign language) a population the canton République et Canton de Genève (foreign language) the city 472,530 residents the urban area agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise (foreign language) Great Geneva or Grand Genève in French (foreign language) 1,240,000 inhabitants both Switzerland and France

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;John)
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 Simplified Examples

sentence	UNL
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)