XIII UNL School

The XIII UNL School will take place at the National Academy of Sciences Gallery, in Yerevan, Armenia, from September 23rd to 27th, 2013, in conjunction with CSIT 2013.

Important Dates

• 18/Aug/2013: Deadline for the applications
• 26/Aug/2013: Notification of accepted candidates
• 23-27/Sep/2013: XIII UNL School

Languages

The XIII UNL School will be dedicated to the development of the resources for the following languages:

• Abkhaz
• Albanian
• Armenian
• Avar
• Azerbaijani
• Belarussian
• Bosnian
• Chechen
• Croatian
• Czech
• Georgian
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Ingush
• Kabardian
• Kazakh
• Kurdish
• Kyrgyz
• Laz
• Macedonian
• Mingrelian
• Ossetic
• Persian
• Romanian
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Slovene
• Slovenian
• Persian
• Polish
• Svan
• Turkish
• Turkmen
• Uzbek

Requisites

• Candidates must be native speakers of any of the languages referred to above.
• Candidates must be a national resident in Balkan Peninsula, Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia or Iran.
• Candidates must hold an undergraduate degree in Linguistics, Language Studies, Translation Studies, Computational Linguistics or related field.
• Candidates must be approved in CLEA250, CLEA500 and CLEA750. (These certificates may be pursued online at VALERIE - the Virtual Learning Environment for UNL).
• Candidates must have a good command of English.

Application

In order to apply, candidates must fill in the form available at http://www.unlweb.net/school/registration before 23:59:59 (UTC) of August 18th, 2013.

Selection

The UNDL Foundation will select up to 10 candidates, one per language, according to the following criteria:

• Compliance with the requisites;
• Highest academic degree;
• Strongest experience in natural language processing;
• Strongest experience at the UNLweb.

Venue

National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Support

The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Yerevan. These include:

• a round-trip plane, bus or train ticket from/to Yerevan
• 6 nights at the Yerevan State University Guest House (check in on Sep 22, check out on Sep 28)
• 7 per diem of USD50.00 (USD350.00 in total)

Workshop Activities

During the workshop, the participants are expected to provide the morphological, syntactic and semantic modules of the grammar necessary to generate the workshop corpus from UNL into their native language, and from their native language into UNL. The grammar is expected to comply with the formalism described at www.unlweb.net/wiki/index.php/Grammar, 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.

Certification

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