Corpora: Fall School: Empirical Linguistics and Natural Language Processing

[Sandra Kuebler]

                 Fall School 2002 in Sozopol, Bulgaria 
       Empirical Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.

                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION  
                     

International Doctoral Program in Empirical Linguistics and Natural
Language Processing is inviting applications to a fall school in
Sozopol, Bulgaria, this fall.

Dates: September 9th - 20th 2002 (days of arrival and departure)

Place: Resort town of Sozopol (Black Sea), Bulgaria

Language: English

Participants:

Participants should be doctoral students who research the interfaces
between Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and formal
approaches to grammar. In exceptional cases, postdoctoral researchers
as well as outstanding students in the final year of masters level
studies who intend to pursue a doctorate will also be considered. The
fall school is limited to 24 students. Admission to the school is
competitive and is based on the research interests of the applicants
and the perceived benefits of these interests to the school as a
whole. Participants must be proficient in English.

Stipends: 

The Volkswagen-Foundation will provide stipends for participants from
Central and Eastern Europe. This will comprise travel costs (up to 400
Euro), and room and board for the duration of the fall school. In
special circumstances, students may apply for additional support with
travel costs.

Costs:

Participants who are not sponsored by a Volkswagen-Foundation stipend
should anticipate approximately Euro 90 for room and board per
day. Costs for transportation to and from the fall school are not
included in this estimate.

Applications:

Applications with a completely filled in registration form (available
from www.uni-tuebingen.de/IZ/Linguistics2002.doc), a curriculum vita,
and a short (maximum three pages) summary of relevant past and present
research and education must be submitted to the Office of the
International Centre at Tuebingen by April 1st 2002. Applicants should
indicate whether they are applying for a stipend.

Stipend applications must include a letter of recommendation with
their application.

Internationales Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit
Universitaet Tuebingen
Keplerstr. 17
D - 72074 Tuebingen
Tel.: (0049) 7071 / 29 - 77352 or /29 - 74156
Fax: (0049) 7071 / 29 5989
e-mail: iz at uni-tuebingen.de
WWW: www.uni-tuebingen.de/IZ/02_3.html

Content and Goals

Corpus Linguistics is of increasing importance in Computational
Linguistics and related research areas. Located at the interface of
machine-based Natural Language Processing and Empirical Linguistics
(which is concerned with the structure of particular languages), the
increasing importance of Corpus Linguistics is mainly due to its
contribution to practical applications in Computational
Linguistics. Currently, initiatives in Corpus Linguistics exist in
practically all European countries, and it is particularly worth
stressing the significant advances in Eastern and Central European
countries in this area.

The international doctoral program "Empirical Linguistics and Natural
Language Processing" aims at bringing together a larger group of PhD
students from Eastern and Central European countries who are concerned
with questions of Computational Linguistics and of adjacent
disciplines, and providing intensive support for a small group of PhD
students.

Preliminary Course Program

Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen: Computational Tools for Corpus Linguistics
Tilman Berger, Tübingen:   Corpus-Based Investigation of Issues in
Pragmatics.
Marek Swidzinski, Warsaw:  Formal Description of Polish in the
Metamorphosis 
                           Grammar Formalism. 
Adam Przepiorkowski, Warsaw: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar for
Slavic.
Kiril Simov, Sofia:        XML-based Corpus Linguistics. 
Vladimir Petkevic, Prague: Morphological and Syntactic Tagging of
Slavonic 
                           Languages.
Anatolij N. Baranov, Moscow: Applications of Text Corpora to
Lexicography.

Student Sessions 

Student sessions of the fall school will provide participants a chance
to discuss their current work with lecturers and other participants of
the school.

Contact for further information:

Kiril Ivanov Simov (Sofia):   kivs at bgcict.acad.bg
Julia Trushkina (Tuebingen):  jul at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de

WWW: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/vw_fallschool02/