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2001 - Second Call for Participation<BR><BR>Summer School on<BR>"Creation and
Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources"<BR>5th in the series of Eurolan
Schools<BR>30 July - 11 August 2001<BR>Iasi, Romania<BR><BR><BR>Theme<BR><BR>The
goal of EUROLAN 2001 is to insert into the participants' minds data on<BR>the
theory, methodology, and technology for creating and using annotated<BR>language
resources for language engineering. Experienced brainwashers will<BR>spend all
mornings trying to convince you, and all afternoons trying to test<BR>the effect
of their previous efforts. In translation, tutorials on a variety<BR>of topics
will be accompanied with hands-on experience using tools for<BR>resource
annotation, as well as techniques for using these resources to<BR>augment the
performance of language engineering applications such as<BR>information
retrieval, information extraction, machine translation,<BR>summarization, deep
understanding, etc.<BR><BR>In case you are wondering what will really happen,
the list of main topics<BR>should give you an idea:<BR><BR>Annotation formalisms
and standards for NLP (XML, XCES)<BR>Sub-syntactic annotation (tokenization,
part of speech tagging,<BR>shallow-parsing - chunking)<BR>Qualitative and
quantitative approaches to analysis of corpora<BR>Annotation of semantics, word
sense disambiguation, semantic roles of verbs,<BR>meaning relationships,
linguistic chains<BR>Annotation of discourse (structure, co-reference, deep
understanding)<BR>Exploitation for anaphora resolution<BR>Exploitation for
information extraction and information retrieval<BR>Exploitation for
summarization, discourse interpretation and data mining<BR>Exploitation for
machine translation<BR>Creation and exploitation tools in cross-lingual
application<BR><BR><BR>Invited Lecturers<BR><BR>Your endeavors to understand
something of what is going on will be guided<BR>by:<BR><BR>Catalina Barbu -
Universities of Wolverhampton & Iasi<BR>Paul Buitelaar - DFKI,
Saarbrücken<BR>Dan Cristea - University of Iasi<BR>Hamish Cunningham -
University of Sheffield<BR>Chuck Fillmore - University of California,
Berkeley<BR>Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science -
Tokyo<BR>Ulf Hermjakob - University of Southern California<BR>Graeme Hirst
- University of Toronto<BR>Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie<BR>Adam
Kilgarriff - University of Brighton<BR>Daniel Marcu - ISI, University of
Southern California<BR>Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton<BR>Sergei
Nirenburg - New Mexico State University<BR>Laurent Romary - LORIA
Nancy<BR>Valentin Tablan - Universities of Sheffield & Iasi<BR>Dan
Tufis - Romanian Academy, Bucharest<BR>Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of
Saarbrucken<BR><BR>Program<BR><BR>Eurolan 2001 will take place between 30 July
and 11 August 2001 in Iasi,<BR>Romania and will be hosted by the "Al. I. Cuza"
University, Faculty of<BR>Computer Science. As the best way to avoid trouble
with people is to keep<BR>them busy, the summer school will also include two
workshops (Multi-layer<BR>corpus based analysis: <A
href="http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html">http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html</A>
and<BR>Modular Programming Applied to Natural Language Processing:<BR><A
href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/)">http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/)</A>,
intended to let us<BR>hear your voices, and two round tables on topics of
particular interest<BR>(hopefully, you will not fall asleep): linguistic data
consortia and<BR>industrial applications in response to market
requirements.<BR><BR>Don't panic! We have not forgotten the best part: a welcome
party, a<BR>farewell party, a trip on Sunday, 5 August, to the Bucovina
Monasteries<BR>(UNESCO Cultural Heritage in northern Romania), and many
more!!!<BR><BR><BR>Registration and Costs<BR><BR>As usual, you can register
on-line. This time at:<BR><A
href="http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/fees.html">http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/fees.html</A><BR>If
you make up you mind before 30 April, we have a special tuition fee for<BR>you:
250 USD. It will become 350 USD between 1 and 31 May 2001. Afterwards,<BR>we
cannot guarantee that you find any more seats available in the
conference<BR>room and computer labs.<BR>As you can see, we have tried to keep
tuition fees low. If you still think<BR>these figures are high for your pocket,
don't hesitate to contact us at:<BR><A
href="mailto:eurolan@infoiasi.ro">eurolan@infoiasi.ro</A>. You never know what
wonderful solutions we might find.<BR><BR>In case you plan to get also some
sleep during this period, you may choose<BR>among the options below and we will
make the reservation for you:<BR><BR>Student hostel - double room: 10 USD/night
or single room: 18 USD/night.<BR>nice rooms, with bathrooms, TV, fridge, coffee
makers, breakfast for 2<BR>bucks, close to the University (3 minutes walk
downhill).<BR><BR>City hotels (**) - double room: 16 USD/night or single room:
22 USD/night.<BR>nice rooms, with bathrooms, breakfast included, telephone and
other hotel<BR>facilities, central location, 10 minutes walk uphill to the
University.<BR><BR>City hotel (***) - double room: 40 USD/night or single room:
55-65<BR>USD/night.<BR>very nice rooms, with bathrooms, breakfast included,
telephone and other<BR>hotel facilities, quiet and peaceful, somehow far away,
15 minutes by taxi<BR>or by your car, no other way to get to the
University.<BR><BR>We hope to gather everybody for lunch and dinner at an
approximate price per<BR>day of 10-15 USD, depending on the diet. However lonely
souls have the<BR>possibility to choose other arrangements in the city for a
maximum of 20<BR>USD.<BR><BR>Don't forget to fill in your registration form and
send it to us before 30<BR>April 2001 (early registration) or 31 May 2001 (late
registration).<BR>These deadlines also apply to the receipt of the tuition fee
to the account<BR>below:<BR>. Bank name: BCR Iasi (Romanian Commercial Bank,
Iasi branch)<BR>. Bank address: Str. Palat 11, Iasi 6600 - ROMANIA<BR>. Swift
code: RNCBROBUIS<BR>. Account number: 2511.31-418.94<BR>. Owner: "Al.I.Cuza"
University of Iasi - please specify: "for EUROLAN"<BR>Please take into account
that bank transfer costs should be paid in addition<BR>to the tuition
fee.<BR><BR>Organizing Committee<BR><BR>For anything that goes wrong, you may
blame:<BR><BR>Nancy IDE - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie<BR>Dan CRISTEA -
"Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi<BR>Dan TUFIS - Romanian Academy,
Bucharest<BR>Laurent ROMARY - LORIA Laboratories, Nancy<BR>Daniel MARCU - ISI,
University of Southern California</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>