The UNDL Foundation invites applications for the Indian Chapter of the UNL Grammar Workshop – Level A1, to take place in the Indian Institute of Technology of Bombay (IIT-Bombay), from June 11th to June 15th, 2012. The workshop will be dedicated to the development of the grammatical resources for the processing of the following languages:
- Assamese
- Bengali
- Bodo
- Dogri
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Kannada
- Kashmiri
- Konkani
- Maithili
- Malayalam
- Manipuri
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Oriya
- Punjabi
- Sanskrit
- Santhali
- Sindhi
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Urdu
ACTIVITIES
During the workshop the participants are expected to provide the dictionary entries and the morphological, syntactic and semantic modules of the grammar necessary to generate an experimental corpus of 50 sentences 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_Specs, 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.
REQUISITES
APPLICATION
In order to apply, candidates must send a CV to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it until May 1st, 2012.
SELECTION
The UNDL Foundation will select only one candidate per language, according to the following criteria:
- Compliance with the requisites;
- Strongest experience in natural language processing;
- Strongest experience in the UNLweb;
- Highest academic degree.
PROGRAM AND VENUE
The workshop will take 30 hours, from June 11th to June 15th, at the IIT/Mumbai, according to the tentative schedule below:
09:00-10:00 Introduction10:00-12:00 I – Corpus14:00-17:00 II – UNL-NL dictionary
09:00-12:00 III – Morphology (inflectional paradigms)14:00-17:00 IV – NL dictionary
09:00-12:00 V – UNL-NL grammar (I)
14:00-17:00 V – UNL-NL grammar (II)
09:00-12:00 VI – NL-UNL grammar (I)14:00-17:00 VI – NL-UNL grammar (II)
09:00-12:00 Evaluation14:00-17:00 Discussion
SUPPORT
The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Mumbai. These include:
- a round-trip plane, bus or train ticket from/to Mumbai*
- 7 nights at a hotel in Mumbai*
- 7 per diem of Rs1,500.00 (total of Rs10,500.00).
CERTIFICATION
The UNDL Foundation will issue a Certificate of Participation, upon evaluation, for all the participants.
BONUS
After the workshop, the participants will be invited to extend their experimental grammars (for both analysis and generation) for a reference corpus comprising 500 sentences. Those who accomplish this task before the deadline (October 1st, 2012) will receive an additional bonus of Rs25,000.00 (twenty-five thousand Rupees) and will be entitled to participate in the A2-level workshops.
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 is an artificial language that has been used for several different tasks in natural language engineering, such as machine translation, multilingual document generation, summarization, information retrieval and semantic reasoning. It has been, since 1996, a unique initiative to reduce language barriers and strengthen cross-cultural communication in the framework of the UN.
LOCAL COMMITTEE
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FURTHER INFORMATION
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