XIII UNL School (Oct 7-11)

Monday, 22 July 2013 22:20 Ronaldo Martins
Print

The UNDL Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia invite applications for the XIII UNL School, to take place at the NAS Gallery, in Yerevan, Armenia, from October 7th to 11th, 2013. The workshop is dedicated to the development of the resources for the processing of the languages below. The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Yerevan.

IMPORTANT DATES

LANGUAGES

The workshop is dedicated to the development of the resources for the following languages:

REQUISITES

APPLICATION

In order to apply, candidates must fill in the form available at www.unlweb.net/school/registration before 23:59:59 (UTC) of August 18th, 2013.

SELECTION

The UNDL Foundation will select up to 10 candidates, one per language, according to the following criteria:

VENUE

National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

SUPPORT

The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Yerevan. These include:

WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES

During the workshop, the participants are expected to provide the morphological, syntactic and semantic modules of the grammar necessary to generate the workshop corpus 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, 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.

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.

LOCAL ORGANIZATION

Dr. Angela Manukyan

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information, please contact:
Ronaldo Martins, PhD
Language Resources Manager
UNDL Foundation
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 August 2013 15:04