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1st UniDive Training Summer School 2024
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===== LATEST NEWS AND CLARIFICATIONS =====
- Due to recently *extended budget*, UniDive can now fund more than 50
trainees.
- The *funding* covers travel and stay for 6 nights
- The project submission deadline is extended to *Monday 6 May* (or until
budget exhaustion)
- One does not have to be a UniDive member to apply.
- Gradate research master students are eligible
- Eligibility for funding depends on the *affiliation* (not the
nationality). The eligible countries are:
* COST countries <https://www.cost.eu/about/members/>
* Near-Neighbor Countries (Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Egypt, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and
Tunisia)
- Please, *circulate this call* to all potential candidates to help us
enhance the coverage of low-resourced languages
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Dates: *8 — 12 July 2024*
Location: *Technical University of Moldova*, Chișinău, Moldova
Coordinating Project: UNIDIVE
<https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=start> (Universality,
Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology)
Website:
https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:1st_unidive_training_school
Cost: *Participants selected on the basis of their application will be
reimbursed, details are below.*
*Apply by:* *May 06, 2024*
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
We are happy to announce the 1st edition of UNIDIVE Summer School on
Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is
dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and
investigators. Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and
varieties are particularly welcome
SUMMER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
- Annotation of Universal Dependencies treebank for a new language - a
course by Sylvain Kahane (Université Paris Nanterre, France)
- Annotation of multiword expressions in a new language - course by
Verginica Mititelu (Romanian Academy) and Voula Giouli (Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki and ILSP, ATHENA RC, Greece)
- Corpus annotation infrastructure- a course by Daniel Zeman (Charles
University, Czechia), Bruno Guillaume (LORIA, France) and Agata Savary
(Université Paris-Saclay, France)
- A brainstorming hackathon on topics submitted by the trainees
- Poster sessions
APPLICATIONS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Each applicant should *submit a project* for a construction of a resource
related to the topics of the training school (e.g. a new/enhanced UD
treebank, a new PARSEME corpus, a resource adding a new annotation layer on
top of a UD/PARSEME corpus, etc.). The length of the application should be
2 pages (excluding references). The application should contain:
- The title
- Applicant's name and affiliation (including the country)
- A list of 3-4 key-words
- Description of a resource related to the topics of the training
school
- Explanation how the participation in the training school will be
useful for the project
- Open questions related to the project which could be addressed
during the brainstorming hackathon
- Short statement of the project phase (planning, started, in the
process of creation)
The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview
<https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2024/Training_School> portal.
TRAINEE'S SELECTION CRITERIA
We can fund at least 40 trainees, the selection criteria include:
- Trainee's country: trainees only from COST countries[1]
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and Near-Neighbour Countries can be funded. See here
<https://www.cost.eu/about/members/> and here
<https://www.cost.eu/about/strategy/international-collaboration/>.
- Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40,
are promoted
- Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness
Target Countries and others COST countries)
- Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee
- Status of the language on which the trainee intends to work
(low-resourced languages, dialects or varieties are promoted)
*If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find
other financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you
are also welcome to participate. *
*The authors of the selected projects may optionally present them in a
poster session during the Training School. *
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for project submission: May 6, 2024
Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2024
Summer school: July 8-12, 2024
For any inquiry, please contact the organisers at:
[email protected]
Looking forward to seeing you in Moldova,
Organizing Committee
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