Welcome to the UNLWEB

XII UNL School (June 17-21, 2013)

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.

II UNL Olympiad (July 1st, 2013)

The UNDL Foundation has launched the II UNL Olympiad, which is devoted to the the development of grammars for the corpus UC-A1, comprising 100 sentences. The competition is open to any participant, and the deadline is July 1st, 2013.

I UNL Olympiad (Results)

The UNDL Foundation is proud to announce the results of the I UNL Olympiad. We had 38 submissions, of which 20 reached the minimum F-measure (0.8) required for evaluation. The general results and the results by language pair are presented below.

Internship Program in Computational Linguistics

The Internship Program in Computational Linguistics is devoted to training students for the creation and development of linguistic resources (dictionaries, grammars, knowledge bases, translation memories and corpora) for UNL-driven projects. The participation is open to students enrolled in any undergraduate or graduate program in the field of Languages, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Switzerland and abroad, and may be pursued from distance (online) or at the UNDL Foundation office in Geneva.

Call for Participation in the UNL Programme

The UNDL Foundation searches language specialists to provide dictionary entries and grammar rules for the UNL program in their native language. Tasks are distributed upon availability and are carried out in a distance-working environment through a specific web interface. Entries are paid through PayPal according to the expertise. Candidates are not required to have any previous experience in natural language processing but are expected to have some acquaintance with Linguistics and a good knowledge of English. Undergraduate and graduate students of Linguistics, Language Studies and Translation Studies from all over the world are especially welcome.

How to participate

The UNL^web is a community of people and organizations who share a common interest or passion for the Universal Networking Language (UNL). It is open and free. See here how to participate.

Getting started

The following instructions provide a guide for newcomers to the UNL^web. They answer the most frequently asked questions concerning how to start and what to do and indicate the basic steps for creating entries in the UNL^arium and gaining UNL^dots.

Road Map

The UNL^web is a long and often winding road to UNL-based applications. The itinerary may be bedazzling and dizzy, but the travel is always enlightening. And the destination is definitely worthwhile. A tentative map is presented here.

UNL

The Universal Networking Language (UNL) is an artificial language for representing, describing, summarizing, refining, storing and disseminating information in a natural-language-independent format. It is a kind of mark-up language which represents not the formatting but the core information of a text. As HTML annotations can be realized differently in the context of different applications, machines, displays, etc., so UNL expressions can have different realizations in different human languages.