Ecole: WSLST 2012

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 11:03:06 +0100
From: "GRLMC" <grlmc at urv.cat>
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X-url: http://grammars.grlmc.com/wslst2012/

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2012 INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES

WSLST 2012

(formerly International PhD School in Language and Speech Technologies)

Tarragona, Spain

January 23-27, 2012

Organized by:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wslst2012/

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AIM:

WSLST 2012 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures on language
and speech technologies at different levels. The students choose their
preferred courses according to their interests and
background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The
School intends to help students initiate and foster their research
career.

The previous event in this series was SSLST 2011
(http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2011/).

ADDRESSED TO:

Undergraduate and graduate students from around the world. Most
appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Linguistics. Other
students (for instance, from Mathematics, Electrical Engineering,
Philosophy, or Cognitive Science) are welcome too.

The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career
who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.

There is no overlap in the class schedule.

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

- Eneko Agirre (U Basque Country), Semantic Processing of Text: Word
  Sense Disambiguation, Entity Linking and Semantic Similarity
  [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]

- William J. Byrne (Cambridge), Weighted Finite State Transducers in
  Statistical Machine Translation [introductory/advanced, 6 hours]

- Marcello Federico (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento), Statistical
  Language Modeling [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]

- Ralph Grishman (New York), Information Extraction [intermediate, 8
  hours]

- John Nerbonne (Groningen), Using Edit-Distance to Understand
  Linguistic Variation [introductory/advanced, 4 hours]

- Geoffrey K. Pullum (Edinburgh), The Formal Properties of Human
  Languages: Description with a View to Implementation
  [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]

- Jian Su (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Coreference
  Resolution and Discourse Relation Recognition [advanced, 4 hours]

- Christoph Tillmann (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Simple and
  Effective Algorithms and Models for Non-hierarchical Statistical
  Machine Translation [intermediate, 6 hours]

- David R. Traum (U Southern California), Approaches to Dialogue Systems
  and Dialogue Management [introductory, 8 hours]

- Dekai Wu (Hong Kong U of Science and Technology), Syntactic and
  Semantic Statistical Machine Translation [introductory/advanced, 8
  hours]

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done on line at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wslst2012/Registration.php 

FEES:

They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student
takes.
The rule is:

1 hour = 

- 10 euros (for payments until November 13, 2011), 
- 15 euros (for payments after November 13, 2011). 


PAYMENT PROCEDURE:

The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: 

Uno-e Bank (Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain): IBAN:
ES3902270001820201823142 - Swift code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos
Martin-Vide GRLMC; account holder’s address: Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002
Tarragona, Spain)

Please mention WSLST 2012 and your full name in the subject. A receipt
will be provided on site.

Remarks:

- Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School.

- People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that
  they gave the bank transfer order by the deadline.

- Students may be refunded only in the case when a course gets cancelled
  due to the unavailability of the instructor.

People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in
cash.  For the sake of local organization, however, it is much
recommended to do it earlier.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation is available on the website of the
School.

CERTIFICATES:

Students will be delivered a certificate stating the courses attended,
their contents, and their duration.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Announcement of the programme: September 26, 2011
Starting of the registration: September 26, 2011
Early registration deadline: November 13, 2011
Starting of the School: January 23, 2012
End of the School: January 27, 2012 

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Florentina-Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

WEBSITE:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wslst2012/ 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

WSLST 2012
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Diputació de Tarragona
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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