The UNDL Foundation has launched the official competition phase of the III UNL Olympiad. The third edition of the Olympiad is devoted to the development of grammars and dictionaries for UNLizing (with IAN) and NLizing (with EUGENE) the corpus derived from the project UGO-A1. In addition to the prizes, the 10 best UNLization grammars and the 10 best NLization grammars will receive USD500,00 each. The III UNL Olympiad is open to any participant, but it is limited to the set of languages that completed the preparatory phase (below).
Important dates
- Deadline for uploading the grammars and dictionaries: Mar 30, 2014
- First results: Apr 15, 2014
- Open discussion of the results: Apr 16-22, 2014
- Final results: Apr 30
Goals
The III UNL Olympiad has two main goals:
- To prepare the dictionaries and grammars for UNLizing, with [[IAN]], the corpus UGO-A1; and/or
- To prepare the dictionaries and grammars for NLizing, with [[EUGENE]], the corpus UGO-A1.
UNLization is the process of representing, into UNL, the information conveyed by a natural language document. NLization, conversely, is the process of representing, in natural language, the information conveyed by a UNL document. These are done, respectively, with IAN and EUGENE, which are engines available at the UNLdev.
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 official list.
Prizes
Prizes are awarded to the best grammars of each modality (UNLization and NLization) for each language:
- 1st place: Gold Medal
- 2nd place: Silver Medal
- 3rd place: Bronze Medal
Additionally, the 10 best UNLization grammars among all languages and the 10 best NLization grammars among all languages will be awarded USD500.00 each.
Corpus
The official corpus is available for download at UNLWEB>UNLARIUM>CORPUS>UGO-A1>EXPORT.
Languages
The languages participating in the III UNL Olympiad are the following:
- Afrikaans
- Bulgarian
- Chinese
- Estonian
- Georgian
- Greek (Modern)
- Hindi
- Kannada
- Khmer
- Malay
- Nepali
- Panjabi
- Persian
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Sinhala
- Slovenian
- Telugu
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
Instructions
For instructions, manuals and samples, go to www.unlweb.net/olympiad
Further Information
For further information, please contact:
Ronaldo Martins, PhD
Language Resources Manager
UNDL Foundation
48, Route de Chancy - Petit-Lancy
CH-1213 - Geneva - Switzerland
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www.undlfoundation.org
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