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.

Modalities

The competition is organised in two modalities:

• Best UNLization Grammar for <LANGUAGE>
• Best NLization Grammar for <LANGUAGE>

Where <LANGUAGE> is one of the languages participating in this Olympiad (see the complete list below).

Candidates may participate in one or two modalities, i.e., they may work with the UNLization grammar, with the NLization grammar, or with both.

Candidates may also participate in one or more languages, provided that they belong to the list below.

Prizes

Prizes are awarded to the best grammars of each modality (UNLization and NLization) for each language:

• 1st place: Gold Medal and USD500.00
• 2nd place: Silver Medal
• 3rd place: Bronze Medal

Additionally, the authors of the three best UNLization Grammars among all languages and the authors of the three best NLization Grammars among all languages will also be invited to participate in the next intermediate-level grammar workshop, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 2013.

Registration

Candidates must be registered at the UNLweb. Participation is open and free, and the registration to the Olympiad is done by sending the corresponding files to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it until 23:59:59 (UTC) of February 15th, 2013. The list of files is available at www.unlweb.net/wiki/Olympiad.

Evaluation

Grammars will be evaluated and ranked according to the following criteria:

• Best F-measure
• Scalability (i.e., extendibility, or the capacity of being reused to other corpora), in case of grammars with the same F-Measure
• Date of submission, in case of grammars with the same F-Measure and equally scalable

Languages

The I UNL Olympiad will be dedicated to the development of grammars for the following languages:

• Assamese
• Baatonum
• Bengali
• Bulgarian
• Chinese
• Croatian
• Dutch
• German
• Gujarati
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Kashmiri
• Malayalam
• Marathi
• Oriya
• Persian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Russian
• Sanskrit
• Sindhi
• Slovak
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

Candidates may participate in one or more languages above.

Instructions

For detailed instructions, see www.unlweb.net/wiki/Olympiad.

Further information

For further information, please contact:

Ronaldo Martins, PhD

Language Resources Manager

UNDL Foundation

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