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XI UNL School - Macau 2013
www.unlweb.net/school
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The UNDL Foundation and the University of Macau invite applications
for the XI UNL School, to take place at the University of Macau, in
Macau, from March 11th to 15th, 2013. The workshop is dedicated to the
development of the grammatical resources for the processing of the
languages below. The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and
accommodation expenses for the selected candidates not living in
Macau.
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IMPORTANT DATES
03/Feb/2013: Deadline for the applications
10/Feb/2013: Notification of accepted candidates
11-15/Mar/2013: XI UNL School
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LANGUAGES
The workshop is dedicated to the development of the grammatical
resources for the processing of the languages below:
*Bahasa Indonesia
*Bengali
*Burmese
*Cantonese
*Chinese
*Japanese
*Khmer
*Korean
*Laotian
*Malay
*Mongolian
*Nepalese
*Portuguese (Macau)
*Sinhalese
*Tagalog
*Tetum
*Thai
*Vietnamese
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REQUISITES
Candidates must be native speakers of any of the languages referred to
above and must be approved in CLEA250, CLEA500 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.
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APPLICATION
In order to apply, candidates must send a CV to
r.martins@undlfoundation.org before February 3rd, 2013.
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SELECTION
The UNDL Foundation will select only one candidate per language,
according to the following criteria:
*Compliance with the requisites;
*Highest academic degree;
*Strongest experience in natural language processing;
*Strongest experience at the UNLweb.
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VENUE
University of Macau, Macau.
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SUPPORT
The UNDL Foundation will pay the travel and accommodation expenses for
the selected candidates not living in Macau. These include:
*a round-trip plane, bus or train ticket from/to Macau
*7 nights at a mid-range hotel in Macau
*7 per diem of USD50.00 (USD350.00 in total)
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WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES (11-15/Mar/2013)
During the workshop, the participants are expected to provide the
syntactic and semantic modules of the grammar necessary to generate
the workshop 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 UNLdev, a web-based integrated development environment for
creating and editing dictionary entries and grammar rules for natural
language processing. The UNDL Foundation will provide all the training
and support necessary for the accomplishment of the tasks.
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CERTIFICATION
The UNDL Foundation will issue a Certificate of Participation, upon
evaluation, for all the participants.
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THE UNL AND 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.
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LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Ana Luísa Varani Leal
Assistant Professor
University of Macau - FSH - Department of Portuguese
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FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact:
Ronaldo Martins, PhD
Language Resources Manager
UNDL Foundation
r.martins@undlfoundation.org

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 automatic 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.

REQUISITES
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 â€" the Virtual Learning Environment for UNL â€" 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@undlfoundation.org until November 30th, 2011.

SELECTION
The UNDL Foundation will select one candidate per language, according to the following criteria:
a) Compliance with the requisites;
b) Highest academic degree;
c) Strongest experience in natural language processing;
d) 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 â€" Corpus
14:00-17:00 II â€" UNL-NL dictionary
Feb 07th, 2012 - Tuesday
09:00-12:00 III â€" Morphology (inflectional paradigms)
14:00-17:00 IV â€" NL dictionary
Feb 08th, 2012- Wednesday
09:00-12:00 V â€" UNL-NL grammar (I)
14:00-17:00 V â€" UNL-NL grammar (II)
Feb 09th, 2012 - Thursday
09:00-12:00 VI â€" NL-UNL grammar (I)
14:00-17:00 VI â€" 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@undlfoundation.org

Переходность - синтаксический критерий, к семантике отношения не имеющий. В другом языке то же значение может выражаться непереходным глаголом или вообще не глаголом.

Цитата: Alone Coder от апреля 26, 2011, 12:05
Как я понял, проект собирается семантику выражать. При чём тут тогда Хомский?

Синтаксические сети Хомского используются для описания субкатегоризационных правил (S-rules), в т.ч. для описания составных выражений.
Например, конструкция VS(NP); указывает на непереходность глагола, а VS(NP)VC(NP); на его переходность.
+VA([home],AJ1)VC("the bacon",AJ2); описывает порядок слов в составном выражении bring home the bacon   

Я вообще там ничего не понял.
Как, например, извлечь семантику конкретного предложения?

Как я понял, проект собирается семантику выражать. При чём тут тогда Хомский?

Le Petit Prince in UNL
Monday, 15 March 2010 07:43    Ronaldo Martins   

The UNDL Foundation has released a version in UNL of "Le Petit Prince" (The Little Prince), the famous novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, published in 1943. The corpus is available under an Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) Creative Commons license at the UNLarium, and may be used for researchers and developers interested in semantic annotation of natural language texts.
What is UNL?

The UNL is a knowledge representation 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 originally proposed by the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University, in Tokyo, and has been currently promoted by the UNDL Foundation, in Geneva, Switzerland, under a mandate of the United Nations. [read more about UNL]
Why Le Petit Prince?

Le Petit Prince is one of the best-selling books ever (more than 80 million copies), and has been translated to more than 180 languages, providing thus the possibility of contrasting and evaluating a wide range of UNL-based translations. Additionally, the text offers the chance of experimenting UNL in three situations that have not been explored so often: French original, narrative and literature. Our main goal is to "UNL-plicate" the text in at least three different directions: replication, summarization and simplification, in as many languages as possible. [read more about UNLplication]
How the text was UNLized?

The integral version of Le Petit Prince, which has been released under public domain in Canada, was obtained from http://wikilivres.info/wiki/Le_Petit_Prince. The whole text comprises 15,513 word forms (tokens) and 1,684 sentences. The UNLization of the text was carried out in a fully-manual way through the UNL Editor, a graph-based authoring tool developed by the UNDL Foundation. The sentences have been divided into two main different groups: a) the training corpus, which comprises the first 53 sentences of the book (dedication and first chapter), including the title; and b) the application corpus, which comprises the remaining 1,548 sentences. The training corpus was addressed collectively by a group of four human UNLizers in order to synchronize and normalize the UNLization strategies. The application corpus was organized according to the similarity of sentences (and not to the order of appearance) and was addressed from December 2009 to February 2010 according to the guidelines resulting from the training exercise (and which are available at http://www.unlweb.net/wiki/index.php/UNLization_Guidelines).
Further information

For further information, please contact
Ronaldo MARTINS
Language Resources Manager
UNDL Foundation
48, route de Chancy, CH-1213, Petit-Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland
+41 22 879 8090
About

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 Programme is a collaborative effort to create natural language resources and technology to reduce language barriers and strengthen cross-cultural communication in the framework of the United Nations. Participation in the Programme is free and open to individuals and institutions, either as researchers or as developers. Special funds are available for some languages.

Проект UNL MIR финансирует следующие языки:zh,fr,de,hi,ja,pt,ru,es,sw. Они завершены/завершаются.
Проект Le Petit Prince финансирует все языки. Уже сделаны или в процессе завершения, кроме вышеуказанных, следующие языки: bn,bg,hr,et,el,id,it,pa,fa,sl,ur,ta,tr,nl,uk,gr,la,sk.
Остальные вакантны. До 2000 дол. США за каждый.