[ln] Ecole: Eurolan 2005 Summer School - The Multilingual Web: Resources, Technologies, and Prospects

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:20:25 +0200
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   First Call for Participation

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Seventh Biennial Summer School

EUROLAN 2005


THE MULTILINGUAL WEB:
RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGIES, AND PROSPECTS

http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005/


July 25 - August 6, 2005

"Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania


    A truly global society will rely heavily on access to information
that can accommodate multiple cultures and languages. To enable this,
researchers in language technology are developing resources and
applications to support a multilingual web that will ensure the
requisite trans-lingual capabilities.

    The EUROLAN 2005 summer school will provide two weeks of intensive
study of the technologies and resources currently under development to
support multilingual processing, as well as the applications that
exploit them to enable multilingual access to information disseminated
via the web.  Internationally known scholars and researchers involved
in leading-edge work in relevant areas will serve as professors at the
school, giving half- and full-day seminars and hands-on labs to
provide students with in-depth understanding and experience. Topics to
be covered in the school include the following:



- creation and exploitation of multilingual resources, including
corpora, lexicons, wordnets, and ontologies;

- multilingual alignment of syntax, semantics, discourse, and other
language phenomena;

- annotation of various phenomena in multiple languages, including
word senses, time annotations, anaphora;

- annotation transfer, enabling importing in new languages of
knowledge encoded in the mark-up for English, etc.;

- cross-lingual applications, including machine translation,
information retrieval, extraction and summarization, document
indexing, etc.;

- the multilingual "knowledge web", its philosophy, state of the art,
needs, and vision for the future.




EUROLAN 2005 Professors (more to be announced):



Branimir Boguraev, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Dan Cristea, "Al. I. Cuza" University, Romania
Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK
Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria
Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
Martin Kay, Stanford University, USA
Bernardo Magnini, IRST-ITC, Italy
Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California, USA
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Vivi Nastase, University of Ottawa, Canada
Nicolas Nicolov, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Marius Pasca, Google Inc., USA
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, USA
Emanuele Pianta, IRST-ITC, Italy
Oana Postolache, Saarland University, Germany
Georgiana Puscasu, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Michael Stollberg, DERI, Austria
Valentin Tablan, University of Sheffield, UK
Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Romania
Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University, USA



        The venue of EUROLAN 2005 is Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the
heart of Transylvania. An excursion to the medieval town of Sighisoara
and Bran ("Dracula") Castle is planned for the weekend at the school's
mid-point.

        Whatever the venue, the EUROLAN summer schools are well known
for the degree of camaraderie that develops among students and
professors alike - just ask any previous participant! Students in the
school learn an enormous amount, but at the same time enjoy the warmth
of new friendships with both fellow students and professors.



Program Committee:

Dan Cristea, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania
Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania



Satellite events:

1. Workshop on "Cross-Language Knowledge Induction"
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/Eurolan2005KnowledgeInductionWorkshop.htm


Organized by:
   Carlo Strapparava, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e
Tecnologica, Trento, Italy

   Diana Zaiu Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada

2. to be announced


Welcome to EUROLAN 2005!

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