Corpora: Deadline extension ELSNET Summer School

[Alena Bohmova]

              ===   EXTENSION OF DEADLINES  ===

9th ELSNET EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON LANGUAGE AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION
              **** TEXT AND SPEECH CORPORA *****

            Prague, Czech Republic, 16-27 July 2001


Please note the extension of deadlines for pre-registration and grant
application:

New Deadlines
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Pre-registration & grant application: May 15, 2001
Notification of registration and grants: June 1, 2001
Payment deadline: June 21, 2001

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PROGRAMME
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* Steven Bird (UPENN)- Annotation graphs in theory and practice
* Lou Burnard (Oxford) - Text encoding initiative
* Henk van den Heuvel & Eric Sanders (Nijmegen) - Validation of speech
databases
* Amy Isard (Edinburgh) & Ole Bernsen (Odense) - Dialogue corpora (MATE) +
practical
* Jan Odijk (Lernout & Hauspie) - Speech resources & industrial applications
* Uli Türk (Munich) - Speech tools for database processing
* Chalapathy Neti (IBM) - Multimodal resources (including speech etc.) +
practical
* Geoffrey Sampson (Sussex) - Annotation at the grammatical level
* Esther Grabe (Oxford) - Prosodic annotation - IVIE extensions to ToBI +
practical
* Jan Hajic (Prague) - Linguistic annotation of a large corpus: from
morphology to syntax


FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistic (UFAL)
Charles University
118 00 Praha 1, Malostranske nam. 25, Czech Republic
Phone: +420 - 2 - 2191 4278 Fax: +420 - 2 - 2191 4309
E-mail: ess2001 at ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz
Homepage: http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~ess2001




Brigitte Burger
ELSNET Assistant Coordinator


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