12.967, FYI: ELSNET Summer School, LOT-NWCL Summer

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Subject: 12.967, FYI: ELSNET Summer School, LOT-NWCL Summer

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1)
Date:  Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:14:13 +0200
From:  Brigitte Burger <elsnet at let.uu.nl>
Subject:  ELSNET Summer School 2001

2)
Date:  Fri, 06 Apr 2001 09:23:01 +0200
From:  LOT <lot at let.uu.nl>
Subject:  LOT-NWCL Summer School

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:14:13 +0200
From:  Brigitte Burger <elsnet at let.uu.nl>
Subject:  ELSNET Summer School 2001

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

Prague, Czech Republic, 16-27 July 2001
Homepage: http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~ess2001/
Organized by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics and
Center for Computational Linguistics at Charles University in Prague

PROGRAMME

* 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 T=FCrk (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

The ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication is
one of the most successful annual training courses in Europe. For the year
2001 the topic of Text and Speech Corpora has been selected. The school
provides courses on the collection of data (text, speech, dialogue,
multimodal), validation, annotation, and use. State of the art techniques
and tools (hands-on experience included) will be presented by eminent
teachers. The target audience of the Summer School are advanced
undergraduate students, PhD students, postdocs and academic and industrial
researchers and developers.

GRANTS will be available from the EU Improving Human Potential programme
and will cover a substantial part of total costs for young European
researchers. Check the summer school homepage for the application details.
The ISCA grant scheme is open for applications related to this summer
school as well.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for pre-registration & grant application: April 15, 2001
Notification of registration and grants: May 1, 2001
Payment deadline: June 1, 2001

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, DE)
Christoph Draxler (Munich University, DE)
Gerrit Bloothooft (Utrecht University, NL)
Koenraad de Smedt (University of Bergen, NO)
Eva Hajicova (Charles University, Prague, CZ, local organiser)

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT

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

European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies
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mailto:elsnet at elsnet.org
mail:      Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS,
              Trans 10, 3512 JK, Utrecht, The Netherlands
tel:        +31 30 253 6039
fax:       +31 30 253 6000
www:     http://www.elsnet.org

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Date:  Fri, 06 Apr 2001 09:23:01 +0200
From:  LOT <lot at let.uu.nl>
Subject:  LOT-NWCL Summer School

Dear all,

We are very pleased to present the programme for the LOT-NWCL
Summer School 2001, to be held in Utrecht from July 9 to July 20.
Below is a short summary of the program; detailed information on
each of the courses can be found on our website:
	http://wwwlot.let.uu.nl/zs2001/
You can now register electronically and make lodging arrangements
via this site. Deadline for both is May 8.

Week 1:
Harald Baayen (University of Nijmegen & MPI Nijmegen):
	Morphology in the mental lexicon
Huub van den Bergh (Utrecht University):
	Statistics, tailor made
Peter Cole (University of Delaware & MPI Leipzig)
	Reflexives
Samuel Epstein (University of Michigan)
	Prospects for Derivational Syntactic Explanation
Janet Fodor (City University of New York)
	Setting syntactic parameters
Francis Katamba (Lancaster University)
	Contemporary approaches to Phonology
David Lightfoot (University of Reading/University of Maryland)
	Local causes for language change
Frans Plank (University of Konstanz)
	Typology and Diachrony
Neil Smith (University College London)
	The savant syndrome
Andrew Spencer (University of Essex)
	Morphosyntax
Hans Van de Velde (University of Brussels)
	Language Change in apparent and real time
Edwin Williams (Princeton University)
	Representation Theory

Week 2:
Sergey Avrutin (Utrecht University)
	Development of the syntax-discourse interface
Paul Bennett (UMIST)
	Machine Translation
Diane Blakemore (University of Salford)
	Non-truth conditional meaning
Nigel Duffield and Ayumi Matsuo (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
	Comparative Issues and Methods in First and Second Language Acquisition
Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Groningen)
	Polarity Phenomena and Temporal/Aspectual Structure
Charlotte Hoffmann (University of Salford)
	Aspects of Multilingualism
Alec Marantz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
	Distributed Morphology (provisional title)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
	Introduction to corpus based language study
David Poeppel (University of Maryland)
	Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
Eric Reuland (Utrecht University)
	Binding: The interaction of syntax, lexicon and interpretive processes
Jacques Terken (Eindhoven Technical University)
	Speaking styles in speech synthesis
Wim Zonneveld (Utrecht University)
	Three Generative Approaches to Phonology

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               LOT

Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

             Trans 10
             NL -  3512 JK  Utrecht
             email: lot at let.uu.nl
             Phone: +31 30 253 6006
             Fax: +31 30 253 6000

http://wwwlot.let.uu.nl/scholen.html
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