The UNDL Foundation has released the first edition of the Certificate of Proficiency in UNL (CUP500). The certification is open and free, and can be pursued on-line at VALERIE, the VirtuAl LEaRnIng Environment for UNL. CUP is a series of certificates issued by the UNDL Foundation to prepare linguists and language specialists to represent natural language phenomena in the Universal Networking Language (UNL). They are required to create UNL resources, such as dictionaries and corpora, within the UNLarium framework.
What is CUP?
CUP (Certificate of Proficiency in UNL) is a series of certificates issued by the UNDL Foundation to prepare linguists and language specialists to represent natural language phenomena in the Universal Networking Language (UNL). They are required to create UNL resources, such as dictionaries and corpora, within the UNLarium framework. The first edition of CUP (CUP500) is divided in 40 levels and 500 exercises, which are evaluated automatically by the system. The certificate is not time-constrained, and may be stopped and resumed at any time.
Further information
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UNDL Foundation
48, route de Chancy
CH-1213 – Geneva - Switzerland
+41 22 879 8090
What is UNL?
The UNL is an artificial language that has been used for several different tasks in natural language processing, such as machine translation, multilingual document generation, summarization, information retrieval and semantic reasoning. It was originally proposed by the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University, in Tokyo, and has been currently promoted by the UNDL Foundation, in Geneva, Switzerland, under a mandate of the United Nations. [read more]
The UNDL Foundation
The UNDL Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, which has received, from the United Nations, the mandate for implementing the Universal Networking Language (UNL). The UNL Programme is a collaborative effort to create natural language resources and technology to reduce language barriers and strengthen cross-cultural communication in the framework of the United Nations. Participation in the Programme is free and open to individuals and institutions, either as researchers or as developers. Special funds are available for some languages.
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