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The UNDL Foundation invites submissions to the first volume of the UNL Series, a publication dedicated to technical issues of the UNL. The volume, to be released in May 2013, will be devoted to the lexical aspects of UNL, and will include invited papers from the participants in the I UNL Panel, as well as selected papers from any researchers from inside and outside the UNL Community. The deadline for the submissions is February 15th.

The UNDL Foundation has launched the I 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 February 15th, 2013.

December 15, 2012 - Mumbai, India (associated event to COLING 2012)

The main purpose of the UNL Panel is to collect the opinion of specialists, from inside and outside the UNL Community, about technical issues of UNL, in order to prepare the ground for an in-depth revision of the current UNL specifications. The I UNL Panel, an associated event to COLING 2012, is devoted to the nature and role of Universal Words (UW's), the nodes in the UNL semantic graph.

The UNDL Foundation invites applications for the X UNL School, to take place in the Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, from October 7th to 11th, 2012. The workshop will be dedicated to the development and improvement of the grammatical resources for the UNL framework. The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Alexandria. Approved candidates will be entitled to sign a contract for the development of the language modules for their respective languages.