The UNDL Foundation invites applications for the XV UNL School, to take place at the UNDL Foundation office, in Geneva, Switzerland, from July 21st to 25th, 2014. The workshop is dedicated to the development of natural language grammars for information retrieval. The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Geneva.

IMPORTANT DATES

GOAL

REQUISITES

In order to apply, candidates must comply with ALL the following requisites:

• Candidates must have completed CLEA1000 (the certificate is available at www.unlweb.net/valerie); and
• Candidates must have concluded the exercise available at www.unlweb.net/wiki/exercise1.

APPLICATION

In order to apply, candidates must fill in the form available at www.unlweb.net/unlversity until the deadline. Don't forget to include, at the end of the CV to be uploaded, the results of the exercise.

SELECTION

The UNDL Foundation will select up to 12 candidates, one per language, according to the following criteria:

• Strongest experience in the UNLweb
• Strongest experience in natural language processing
• Highest academic degree

VENUE

UNDL Foundation office in Geneva

SUPPORT

The UNDL Foundation will pay the following travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Geneva

• a round-trip plane, bus or train ticket from/to Geneva;
• 6 (six) nights at a budget hotel in Geneva; and
• 6 (six) per diem of CHF50.00 (total of CHF300.00), to cover any other expenses, including meals and transportation.

PROGRAM

The workshop will take 30 hours according to the tentative schedule below:

• July 21, Monday - Introduction to UNL and to KEYS
• July 22, Tuesday - Syntax
• July 23, Wednesday - UNLization
• July 24, Thursday - NLization
• July 25, Friday - Evaluation & Discussion

CERTIFICATION

The UNDL Foundation will issue a Certificate of Participation, upon evaluation, for all the participants.

THE UNL AND 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 acommunication in the framework of the UN.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information, please contact:

Ronaldo Martins, PhD

Language Resources Manager

UNDL Foundation

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