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PARSEME COST Action IC1207<br>
<b>Training School</b><br>
<b>19–23 January 2015</b><br>
<b>Prague, Czech Republic</b><br>
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href="https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/parseme-1st-training-school">https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/parseme-1st-training-school</a><br>
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PARSEME COST Action IC1207 (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.parseme.eu">www.parseme.eu</a>) is
dedicated to parsing and multi-word expressions (WMEs).<br>
It gathers multidisciplinary experts from 30 countries and is
structured in four <a
href="http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/index.php/organization/working-groups">Working
Groups</a>. <br>
PARSEME organizes its first Training School in Prague on 19-23
January 2015. <br>
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PROGRAM<br>
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<b>Dan Flickinger</b> (Stanford University, USA)<br>
Introduction to HPSG and challenges from MWEs<br>
<b>Joakim Nivre</b> (Uppsala University, Sweden)<br>
Introduction to dependency grammar and dependency parsing<br>
Graph-based and transition-based dependency parsing<br>
Multiword expressions in dependency parsing<br>
Practical lab session using MaltParser<br>
<b>Shuly Wintner</b> (University of Haifa, Israel) & <b>Manfred
Sailer</b> (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.Main, Germany)<br>
Overview: linguistic properties of MWEs<br>
MWEs in linguistic theory (based on English/German/French)<br>
Challenges from other languages (Hebrew)<br>
Encoding in a computational lexicon; application to the
participants' languages; summary<br>
<b>Pavel Straňák</b> & <b>Jiří Mírovský</b> (Charles
University in Prague, Czech Republic)<br>
Representation and annotation of MWEs in treebanks<br>
Prague treebank search engine and its applications to MWEs
(2 practical labs)<br>
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LOCAL ORGANIZERS<br>
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<b>Eduard Bejček</b>, <b>Jan Hajič</b>, <b>Pavel Straňák</b>
- Charles University in Prague<br>
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REGISTRATION AND REIMBURSEMENT<br>
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All interested trainees are required to fill in the <b>registration
form</b> (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/parseme-winter-school-registration">https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/parseme-winter-school-registration</a>)
until <b>20 November 2014</b>.<br>
If the number of the registered candidates is higher than the
capacity of the Training School, the PARSEME <a
href="http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/index.php/organization#SC">Steering
Committee</a> will select those who can be invited to
participate (young researchers and <a
href="http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/index.php/participants">PARSEME
members</a> have priority). Most of them will also be
entitled to <b>reimbursement</b> of their travel and stay
(provided that they are affiliated in one of the PARSEME <a
href="http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/ict/Actions/IC1207?parties">member
countries</a>)<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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<b>20 November 2014</b>: registration <b>deadline</b> for
candidate trainees<br>
1 December 2014: notification about the participants selected
for invitation and for funding<br>
5 December 2014: e-COST invitations for the participants
selected for funding<br>
19-23 January 2014: Training School<br>
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