III UNL Olympiad (Competition Phase)

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III UNL Olympiad (Competition Phase)
www.unlweb.net/olympiad
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The UNDL Foundation has launched the official competition phase of the
III UNL Olympiad. The UNL Olympiad is a series of competitions
organised by the UNDL Foundation in order to foster the development of
UNL-driven resources (dictionaries, grammars and corpora). The third
edition of the Olympiad is devoted to the development of grammars and
dictionaries for UNLizing (with IAN) and NLizing (with EUGENE) the
corpus derived from the project UGO-A1. In addition to the prizes, the
10 best UNLization grammars and the 10 best NLization grammars will
receive USD500,00 each. The III UNL Olympiad is open to any
participant, but it is limited to the set of languages that completed
the preparatory phase (below).

== Important dates ==
*Deadline for uploading the grammars and dictionaries: Mar 30, 2014
*First results: Apr 15, 2014
*Open discussion of the results: Apr 16-22, 2014
*Final results: Apr 30

== Goals ==
The III UNL Olympiad has two main goals:
*To prepare the dictionaries and grammars for UNLizing, with IAN, the
corpus UGO-A1; and/or
*To prepare the dictionaries and grammars for NLizing, with EUGENE,
the corpus UGO-A1.
UNLization is the process of representing, into UNL, the information
conveyed by a natural language document. NLization, conversely, is the
process of representing, in natural language, the information conveyed
by a UNL document. These are done, respectively, with IAN and EUGENE,
which are engines available at the UNLdev (www.unlweb.net).

=== Modalities ===
The competition is organised in two modalities:
*Best UNLization Grammar for <LANGUAGE>
*Best NLization Grammar for <LANGUAGE>
Where <LANGUAGE> is one of the languages participating in this
Olympiad (see the complete list below).
Candidates may participate in one or two modalities, i.e., they may
work with the UNLization grammar, with the NLization grammar, or with
both.
Candidates may also participate in one or more languages, provided
that they belong to the official list.

=== Prizes ===
Prizes are awarded to the best grammars of each modality (UNLization
and NLization) for each language:
*1st place: Gold Medal
*2nd place: Silver Medal
*3rd place: Bronze Medal
Additionally, the 10 best UNLization grammars among all languages and
the 10 best NLization grammars among all languages will be awarded
USD500.00 each.

=== Corpus ===
The official corpus is available for download at
UNLWEB>UNLARIUM>CORPUS>UGO-A1>EXPORT.

=== Languages ===
The languages participating in the III UNL Olympiad are the following:
*Afrikaans
*Bulgarian
*Chinese
*Estonian
*Georgian
*Greek (Modern)
*Hindi
*Kannada
*Khmer
*Malay
*Nepali
*Panjabi
*Persian
*Portuguese
*Russian
*Sinhala
*Slovenian
*Telugu
*Ukrainian
*Vietnamese

=== Instructions ===
For instructions, manuals and samples, please visit www.unlweb.net/olympiad

=== Further Information ===
For further information, please contact:
Ronaldo MARTINS, PhD
Language Resources Manager
UNDL Foundation
48, route de Chancy
CH-1213 - Geneva - Switzerland
r.martins@undlfoundation.org
www.undlfoundation.org


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Ronaldo MARTINS
Language Resources Manager
UNDL Foundation
48, route de Chancy
CH-1213 - Geneva - Switzerland
+41 22 879 8090
www.undlfoundation.org
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