I UNL Olympiad

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The UNL Olympiad is a series of competitions organised by the UNDL Foundation in order to foster the development of UNL-driven resources (dictionaries, grammars and corpora). The first edition of the Olympiad is devoted to the development of grammars for the corpus UC-A1, comprising 100 sentences. The competition is open to any participant, and the deadline is January 30th, 2013.

Contents

Important dates

  • October 30th, 2012: Call for Participation
  • January 30th, 2013: Deadline for submitting the grammars

Categories

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).

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

Prizes

Prizes are awarded to the best UNLization and NLization grammars 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.

Rules

  1. The competition is free and open to any participant.
  2. Candidates may participate in one or two modalities, i.e., they may work with the UNLization grammar, with the NLization grammar, or with both.
  3. Candidates may participate in more than one language.
  4. No previous registration is required. Registration is done by sending the following files to olympiad@undlfoundation.org until 23:59:59 (UTC) of January 30th, 2013.


Instructions

The authors of the grammars with the best F-measures for each language will receive medals. the prize of USD500.00 and the right to participate in the

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