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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EUROLAN-2003
~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>
<BR>
Summer School on<BR> The Semantic Web and Language Technology
-
<BR>
Its Potential and
Practicalities<BR> <BR>
28 July - 8 August
2003<BR>
Bucharest -
Romania<BR>
<A
href="http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan">http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan</A><BR> <BR>~~~~~~~~~~
Last Call For Participation ~~~~~~~~~</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Eurolan series of summer schools was
established in 1993, schools having been held every other year, with the goal of
stimulating young scientists from all over the world to pursue high-level
research in natural language processing and language
technology.<BR> <BR>~~~~~~~<BR>~Theme~<BR>~~~~~~~<BR> <BR>The sixth
EUROLAN in the series has as topic all aspects of the developing Semantic Web
technology, considering its potential and practicalities of applying it to
enhance language processing applications.<BR> <BR>The promise of the
Semantic Web has evoked enormous interest within the community developing
language technologies. On the one hand, it offers the potential to exploit
ontological descriptions of language data in order to enable inferencing
capabilities, which may not only drastically enhance semantic processing, but
also alter our conceptions of the ways in which knowledge is represented and
exploited in language processing applications. On the other hand, to take full
advantage of this evolving technology, researchers and developers will need to
understand the potential as well as the limitations of the Semantic Web and
master a range of new technologies that have been designed to enable it.
Finally, the language technology community must be ready to contribute to
Semantic Web development in order to ensure that it meets the requirements for
language processing applications.<BR> <BR>The so-called "Semantic Web
community" encompasses several research communities that have previously worked
independently of one another, including researchers in knowledge representation,
ontology development, and "knowledge exploitation"; web developers (including
developers of standards such as XML, RDF, OWL, etc.); and those who directly
need to exploit knowledge in applications. Linguistic knowledge used in language
processing at its various levels (morphological, syntactic, lexical, discourse,
etc.) includes a substantial part of general knowledge and poses a significant
challenge to Semantic Web developers in order to handle the precision and
complexity required for language processing applications. Whatever the Semantic
Web may evolve to be, researchers and developers in language technology clearly
need to learn what it is and how it can be exploited for language processing,
and at the same time, work with semantic web developers to ensure that the
semantic web infrastructure is maximally usable for language processing
applications.<BR>EUROLAN-2003 will provide two weeks of intensive study of
semantic web technology and its application to natural language processing.
Internationally known scholars and researchers involved in leading-edge work in
relevant areas will serve as professors at the school, providing half- and
full-day seminars and hands-on labs to provide students with in-depth
understanding and experience.
<BR> <BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>~Topics to be
covered in the school include the
following:~<BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR> <BR>* What is
the Semantic Web?<BR>* Potential and limitations of the semantic web<BR>*
Supporting web technologies (XML, RDF)<BR>* Ontologies, ontology design and
development<BR>* Ontology exploitation via inferencing<BR>* Description logics
and other approaches to inferencing<BR>* Lexical semantics and the semantic
web<BR>* Use of the semantic web and related technologies in language processing
applications<BR> <BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>~The list of
invited personalities is as
follows:~<BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR> <BR>* Dan Cristea, "Al.
I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania<BR>* Thierry Declerck, DFKI Saarbruecken,
Germany<BR>* James Hendler, University of Maryland at College Park, USA<BR>*
Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, USA<BR>* Nancy
Ide, Vassar College, USA<BR>* Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy<BR>*
Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium<BR>* Srini Narayanan,
ICSI, Berkeley, USA<BR>* Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico University, USA<BR>* Dan
Tufis, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania<BR>* Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI and
University of Saarbruecken, Germany<BR>* Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University
of Saarbruecken, Germany<BR>* Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield,
England<BR> <BR>~~~~~~~~~~<BR>~Programme~<BR>~~~~~~~~~~<BR> <BR>Eurolan-2003
will take place between 28 July and 8 August 2003 in Bucharest -
Romania.<BR> <BR>The summer school will be organized to allow for both
lectures and hands-on experience for each of the areas covered. Morning sessions
will be devoted to tutorials, followed by afternoon sessions at which students
will work in collaboration with professors on practical applications. The school
will also include the workshop on "Ontologies and Information Extraction" (<A
href="http://ic2.epfl.ch/~pallotta/ontoIE/)">http://ic2.epfl.ch/~pallotta/ontoIE/)</A>,
an ad-hoc organized student workshop, a preliminary meeting for an FP6 project
(CROLIMUS) as well as a working meeting for the BALKANET European project (<A
href="http://is.dblab.upatras.gr">http://is.dblab.upatras.gr</A>).
<BR> <BR>On Sunday, 3 August, a trip to significant Romanian landmarks will
be organized.<BR> <BR>The summer school programme can be found at:<BR><A
href="http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/program">http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/program</A><BR> <BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>~Registration
and Fees~<BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>The early registration was extended till
the 30th of June.<BR></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Information about registration and fees can be
found at:<BR><A
href="http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/schoolform">http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/schoolform</A><BR> <BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>~Program
Committee~<BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR> <BR>Dan Cristea<BR>Nancy Ide<BR>Jerry
Hobbs<BR>Dan Tufis<BR>Hans Uszkoreit<BR> <BR>Information on previous
Eurolan events can be consulted at the address: <A
href="http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/previous">http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/previous</A><BR> <BR> </FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>