XIII UNL School

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== Important Dates ==
 
== Important Dates ==
*1-18/Aug/2013: Applications
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*<strike>1-18/Aug/2013: Applications</strike>
*1/Sep/2013: Notification of accepted candidates
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*<strike>1/Sep/2013: Notification of accepted candidates</strike>
 
*7-11/Oct/2013: XIII UNL School
 
*7-11/Oct/2013: XIII UNL School
  
== Languages ==
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== Program ==
The XIII UNL School will be dedicated to the development of the resources for the following languages:
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*Monday, Oct 5th:  
*Abkhaz
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**Introduction
*Albanian
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**Corpus
*Armenian
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**Normalization Rules
*Avar
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*Tuesday, Oct 6th:
*Azerbaijani
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**Dictionary
*Belarussian
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*Wednesday, Oct 7th:
*Bosnian
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**Inflectional Paradigms
*Chechen
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*Thursday, Oct 8th:
*Croatian
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**Subcategorization Frames
*Czech
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*Friday, Oct 9th:
*Georgian
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**Discussion and Evaluation
*Greek
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*Hebrew
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*Ingush
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*Kabardian
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*Kazakh
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*Kurdish
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*Kyrgyz
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*Laz
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*Macedonian
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*Mingrelian
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*Ossetic
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*Persian
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*Polish
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*Romanian
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*Serbian
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*Slovak
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*Slovene
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*Slovenian
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*Svan
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*Turkish
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*Turkmen
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*Uzbek
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== Requisites ==
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== Pre-Workshop Tasks ==
*Candidates must be native speakers of any of the languages referred to above.
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*Corpus
*Candidates must be a national resident in Balkan Peninsula, Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia or Iran. 
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*CLEA750
*Candidates must hold an undergraduate degree in Linguistics, Language Studies, Translation Studies, Computational Linguistics or related field.
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*Candidates must be approved in CLEA250 and CLEA500. (These certificates may be pursued online at [http://www.unlweb.net/valerie VALERIE - the Virtual Learning Environment for UNL]).
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*Candidates must have a good command of English.
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== Application ==  
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== Participants ==
In order to apply, candidates must fill in the form available at http://www.unlweb.net/school/registration before 23:59:59 (UTC) of August 18th, 2013.
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*Aikaterini Tsiouma (Greek)
 
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*Ali Safari (Azeri)
== Selection ==
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*Anahit Sargsyan (Armenian)
The UNDL Foundation will select up to 10 candidates, one per language, according to the following criteria:
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*Araksia Hakobyan (Armenian)
*Compliance with the requisites;
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*Grega Milharcic (Slovenian)
*Highest academic degree;
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*Lilit Paremuzian (Armenian)
*Strongest experience in natural language processing;
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*Maryam Faal Hamedanchi (Persian)
*Strongest experience in the UNLweb.
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*Mihaela Ilioaia (Romanian)
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*Oleg Kapanadze (Georgian)
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*Olga Vartzioti (Latin)
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*Ronaldo Martins (UNL)
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*Sameh Alansary (Arabic)
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*Somdev Kar (Bengali)
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*Tatevik Manukyan (Armenian)
  
 
== Venue ==  
 
== Venue ==  
 
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
 
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
 
== Support ==
 
The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Yerevan. These include:
 
*a round-trip plane, bus or train ticket from/to Yerevan
 
*6 nights at the Yerevan State University Guest House (check in on Oct 6th, check out on Oct 12th)
 
*7 per diem of USD50.00 (USD350.00 in total)
 
 
== 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 [[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.
 
  
 
== Local Organization ==
 
== Local Organization ==
 
*Lilit Paremuzyan (lili@sci.am)
 
*Lilit Paremuzyan (lili@sci.am)
 
*Aram Avetisyan (a.avetisyan@undlfoundation.org)
 
*Aram Avetisyan (a.avetisyan@undlfoundation.org)
 
== Further Information ==
 
For further information, please contact
 
*Ronaldo Martins (r.martins@undlfoundation.org)
 

Revision as of 16:34, 24 September 2013

The XIII UNL School will take place at the National Academy of Sciences Gallery, in Yerevan, Armenia, from October 7th to 11th, 2013, in conjunction with CSIT 2013.

Contents

Important Dates

  • 1-18/Aug/2013: Applications
  • 1/Sep/2013: Notification of accepted candidates
  • 7-11/Oct/2013: XIII UNL School

Program

  • Monday, Oct 5th:
    • Introduction
    • Corpus
    • Normalization Rules
  • Tuesday, Oct 6th:
    • Dictionary
  • Wednesday, Oct 7th:
    • Inflectional Paradigms
  • Thursday, Oct 8th:
    • Subcategorization Frames
  • Friday, Oct 9th:
    • Discussion and Evaluation

Pre-Workshop Tasks

  • Corpus
  • CLEA750

Participants

  • Aikaterini Tsiouma (Greek)
  • Ali Safari (Azeri)
  • Anahit Sargsyan (Armenian)
  • Araksia Hakobyan (Armenian)
  • Grega Milharcic (Slovenian)
  • Lilit Paremuzian (Armenian)
  • Maryam Faal Hamedanchi (Persian)
  • Mihaela Ilioaia (Romanian)
  • Oleg Kapanadze (Georgian)
  • Olga Vartzioti (Latin)
  • Ronaldo Martins (UNL)
  • Sameh Alansary (Arabic)
  • Somdev Kar (Bengali)
  • Tatevik Manukyan (Armenian)

Venue

National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Local Organization

  • Lilit Paremuzyan (lili@sci.am)
  • Aram Avetisyan (a.avetisyan@undlfoundation.org)
Software