22.4452, FYI: I UNL Grammar Workshop: Call for Applicants

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Subject: 22.4452, FYI: I UNL Grammar Workshop: Call for Applicants

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Date: 08-Nov-2011
From: Ronaldo Martins [r.martins at undlfoundation.org]
Subject: I UNL Grammar Workshop: Call for Applicants

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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:14:12
From: Ronaldo Martins [r.martins at undlfoundation.org]
Subject: I UNL Grammar Workshop: Call for Applicants

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The I UNL Grammar Workshop is dedicated to the creation of the 
language resources necessary to generate a reference corpus from 
UNL into a subset of central and eastern European languages, and 
from these languages into UNL. The UNL is an artificial language that 
has been used for several different tasks in natural language 
engineering, such as machine translation, multilingual document 
generation, summarization, information retrieval and semantic 
reasoning. It has been, since 1996, a unique initiative to reduce 
language barriers and strengthen cross-cultural communication in the 
framework of the United Nations.

The UNDL Foundation invites applications for the I UNL Grammar 
Workshop, to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from February 6th to 
10th, 2012. The workshop is dedicated to the development of the 
grammatical resources for the processing of the following languages:

Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Estonian
Finnish
German
Hungarian
Italian
Lithuanian
Norwegian
Romanian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Swedish

Activities
During the workshop the participants are expected to provide the 
dictionary entries and the morphological, syntactic and semantic 
modules of the grammar necessary to generate a reference corpus 
from UNL into their native language, and from their native language 
into UNL. The grammar is expected to comply with the formalism 
described at www.unlweb.net/wiki/index.php/Grammar_Specs, and will 
be provided through the UNLarium (www.unlweb.net/unlarium), a web-
based integrated development environment for creating and editing 
language resources for natural language engineering. The UNDL 
Foundation will provide all the training and support necessary for the 
accomplishment of the tasks.

Rrequisites
Candidates must be native speakers of any of the languages referred 
to above; should have been registered at the UNLweb ; and should 
have been approved in CLEA250, CLEA450, CLEA700 and CUP500. 
These certificates may be pursued online at VALERIE - the Virtual 
Learning Environment for UNL - available at www.unlweb.net/valerie. 
Previous experience in natural language processing, respectable 
academic records and previous experience in any of the existing 
projects at the UNLweb (such as Le Petit Prince and UNL MIR) will also 
be valued.

Application
In order to apply, candidates must send a CV to 
r.martins at undlfoundation.org until November 30th, 2011. 

Selection
The UNDL Foundation will select one candidate per language, 
according to the following criteria:
Compliance with the requisites;
Highest academic degree;
Strongest experience in natural language processing;
Strongest experience in the UNLweb.
The list of selected candidates will be published at the UNLweb until 
December 15th, 2011.

Program and Venue
The workshop will take 30 hours, from February 6th to 10th, 2012, at 
the UNDL Foundation office, in Geneva, Switzerland, according to the 
tentative schedule below:

Feb 06th, 2012 - Monday
	09:00-10:00	Introduction
	10:00-12:00	I - Corpus
	14:00-17:00	II - UNL-NL dictionary
Feb 07th, 2012 - Tuesday	
	09:00-12:00	III - Morphology (inflectional paradigms)
	14:00-17:00	IV - NL dictionary
Feb 08th, 2012- Wednesday
	09:00-12:00	V - UNL-NL grammar (I)
	14:00-17:00	V - UNL-NL grammar (II)
Feb 09th, 2012 - Thursday
	09:00-12:00	VI - NL-UNL grammar (I)
	14:00-17:00	VI - NL-UNL grammar (II)
Feb 10th, 2012 - Friday
	09:00-12:00	Evaluation
	14:00-17:00	Discussion

Support
The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation 
expenses for the selected candidates not living in Geneva, Switzerland. 
These include: 

a round-trip plane or train ticket to/from Geneva;
7 nights (from Feb 5th to Feb 11th) at the ETAP hotel Genève Petit-
Lancy;  
7 per diem of CHF60.00 (total of CHF420.00).

Pro Labore
The selected candidates will receive a pro labore of CHF1,000.00 (one 
thousand Swiss Francs) in addition to the UNLdots acquired during the 
workshop. The pro labore will only be paid to the candidates present to 
all sessions and actually engaged in producing the intended resources. 

Certification
The UNDL Foundation will issue a Certificate of Participation, upon 
evaluation, for all the participants.

The UNDL Foundation
The UNDL Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Geneva, 
Switzerland, which has received, from the United Nations, the mandate 
for implementing the Universal Networking Language (UNL). The UNL 
is an artificial language that has been used for several different tasks in 
natural language engineering, such as machine translation, multilingual 
document generation, summarization, information retrieval and 
semantic reasoning. It has been, since 1996, a unique initiative to 
reduce language barriers and strengthen cross-cultural communication 
in the framework of the UN.

Further Information
For further information, please contact:
Ronaldo Martins
Language Resources Manager
r.martins at undlfoundation.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

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