25.4247, Summer Schools: PARSEME / Prague, Czech Republic

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Subject: 25.4247, Summer Schools: PARSEME / Prague, Czech Republic

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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:24:01
From: Agata Savary [agata.savary at univ-tours.fr]
Subject: PARSEME / Prague, Czech Republic

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PARSEME / Prague, Czech Republic

Host Institution: Charles University in Prague
Coordinating Institution: Charles University in Prague
Website: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/parseme-1st-training-school

Dates: 19-Jan-2015 - 23-Jan-2015
Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Focus: PARSEME COST Action IC1207 (www.parseme.eu) is dedicated to parsing and multi-word expressions (WMEs). It gathers multidisciplinary experts from 30 countries and is structured in four working groups.
Minimum Education Level: No Minimum


Description:
Program

Dan Flickinger (Stanford University, USA)
- Introduction to HPSG and challenges from MWEs

Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Introduction to dependency grammar and dependency parsing
- Graph-based and transition-based dependency parsing
- Multiword expressions in dependency parsing
- Practical lab session using MaltParser

Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel) and Manfred Sailer
(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.Main, Germany)
- Overview: linguistic properties of MWEs
- MWEs in linguistic theory (based on English/German/French)
- Challenges from other languages (Hebrew)
- Encoding in a computational lexicon; application to the participants'
languages; summary

Pavel Straňák and Jiří Mírovský (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
- Representation and annotation of MWEs in treebanks
- Prague treebank search engine and its applications to MWEs (two practical
labs)


Local Organizers
Eduard Bejček, Jan Hajič, Pavel Straňák - Charles University in Prague

Important Dates
20 November 2014: registration deadline for candidate trainees
1 December 2014: notification about the participants selected for invitation
and for funding
5 December 2014: e-COST invitations for the participants selected for funding
19-23 January 2014: Training School


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                      Lexicography
                      Syntax
                      Text/Corpus Linguistics

Financial Aid: Applications accepted until 
PARSEME will fund travel and stay for most selected participants from its member countries (http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/ict/Actions/IC1207?parties).

Financial Aid Instructions:
Register before 20 November at:
https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/parseme-winter-school-registration


Registration: 22-Oct-2014 to 20-Nov-2014

Contact Person: Agata Savary
                Email: agata.savary at univ-tours.fr

Apply on the web: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/parseme-winter-school-registration

Registration Instructions:
All interested trainees are required to fill in the registration form
(https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/parseme-winter-school-registration) until 20
November 2014.

Follow the instruction at:
https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/parseme-1st-training-school

If the number of the registered candidates is higher than the capacity of the
Training School, the PARSEME Steering Committee will select those who can be
invited to participate (young researchers and PARSEME members have priority).
Most of them will also be entitled to reimbursement of their travel and stay
(provided that they are affiliated in one of the PARSEME member countries).







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