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============================== XV UNL SCHOOL ============================== 21-25 July 2014 UNDL Foundation Office Geneva, Switzerland www.unlweb.net/unlversity ============================== The UNDL Foundation invites applications for the XV UNL School, to take place at the UNDL Foundation office, in Geneva, Switzerland, from July 21st to 25th, 2014. The workshop is dedicated to the development of natural language grammars for information retrieval. The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Geneva. ============================== IMPORTANT DATES *Application deadline: June 22, 2014 *Notification of accepted candidates: June 29, 2014 *XV UNL School: July 21-25, 2014 ============================== GOAL The main goal of the XV UNL School is to develop the grammars for information retrieval with KEYS, the Knowledge Extraction sYStem. ============================== REQUISITES In order to apply, candidates must comply with ALL the following requisites: *Candidates must have completed CLEA1000 (available at www.unlweb.net/valerie); and *Candidates must have concluded the exercise available at www.unlweb.net/wiki/exercise1 ============================== APPLICATION In order to apply, candidates must fill in the form available at www.unlweb.net/unlversity until the deadline. ============================== SELECTION The UNDL Foundation will select up to 12 candidates, one per language, according to the following criteria: *Strongest experience in the UNLweb *Strongest experience in natural language processing *Highest academic degree ============================== VENUE UNDL Foundation office in Geneva ============================== SUPPORT The UNDL Foundation will pay the following travel and accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in Geneva *a round-trip plane, bus or train ticket from/to Geneva; *6 (six) nights at a budget hotel in Geneva; and *6 (six) per diem of CHF50.00 (total of CHF300.00), to cover any other expenses, including meals and transportation. ============================== PROGRAM The workshop will take 30 hours according to the tentative schedule below: *July 21, Monday - Introduction to UNL and to KEYS *July 22, Tuesday - Syntax *July 23, Wednesday - UNLization *July 24, Thursday - NLization *July 25, Friday - Evaluation & Discussion ============================== 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 communication in the framework of the UN. ============================== FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, please contact: Ronaldo Martins, PhD Language Resources Manager UNDL Foundation r.mart...@undlfoundation.org ============================== _______________________________________________ Mt-list site list Mt-list@eamt.org http://lists.eamt.org/mailman/listinfo/mt-list
