FYI: Summer schools: ELSNET, Lg. diversity
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Yvonne van Holsteijn
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ELSNET's 5TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON LANGUAGE AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION ************************************************************************ LEXICON DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Centre for Computational Linguistics 14-25 July 1997 SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT ******************* ELSNET's fifth European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication will be organised at the Centre for Computational Linguistics in Leuven, Belgium. The central theme of the summer school will be 'Lexicon development for Language and Speech Processing'. The event is sponsored by ELSNET and Erasmus, and supported by ESCA and EACL. Language and speech processing applications with a reasonable coverage need large lexicons. The construction and maintenance of lexical resources is a costly and complex task. Consequently, decisions abou notation, format, structure, content and acquisition of lexical knowledge require careful consideration, while keeping in mind specific requirements of applications on the one hand and reusability on the other. For students and staff interested in the development of systems for speech and language communication it is of prime importance to be familiar with the latest developments in this field. Structure and Content of the Programme - Week I =============================================== MONDAY 14/7 - FRIDAY 18/7 09.00 - 10.45 Plenary Computational lexicography for speech and language Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld, Germany) 10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break 11.15 - 13.00 Parallel 1 Lexical knowledge representation Gerald Gazdar (University of Sussex, UK) 11.15 - 13.00 Parallel 2 The use of lexica in text-to-speech systems Silvia Quazza (CSELT, Italy) 13.00 - 14.15 Lunch 14.15 - 16.00 Parallel 1 Constraint-based lexicons Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) Dan Flickinger (CSLI Stanford, USA) Frank Van Eynde (University of Leuven, Belgium) 14.15 - 16.00 Parallel 2 Speech databases Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld, Germany) Henk van den Heuvel (Univ. of Nijmegen, the Netherlands) 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 - 17.30 Student presentations Structure and Content of the Programme - Week II ================================================ MONDAY 21/7 - FRIDAY 25/7 09.00 - 10.45 Plenary The mental lexicon Harald Baayen (MPI Nijmegen, the Netherlands) Ardi Roelofs (MPI Nijmegen, the Netherlands) 10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break 11.15 - 13.00 Parallel 1 Multilingual lexicography Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland) 11.15 - 13.00 Parallel 2 Automatic learning of lexical structure Walter Daelemans (University of Tilburg, the Netherlands) Gert Durieux (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 13.00 - 14.15 Lunch 14.15 - 16.00 Parallel 1 Recognizing lexical units in tex Gregory Grefenstette (Rank Xerox, Grenoble, France) Anne Schiller (Rank Xerox, Grenoble, France) Salah Ait-Mokhtar (Rank Xerox, Grenoble, France) 14.15 - 16.00 Parallel 2 The use of lexica in automatic speech recognition Lori Lamel (LIMSI, Orsay, France) Martine Adda-Decker (LIMSI, Orsay, France) 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 - 17.30 Student presentations REGISTRATION ============ The Summer School is open to advanced undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students, as well as to postdocs and staff members from academia and industry. Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of language and/or speech processing, but no prior experience in the area of lexicon development will be assumed. The courses are taught in English. In order to facilitate the acquistion of hands-on experience the number of participants will be limited to 90. Since it is expected that the summerschool will be oversubscribed, early registration is strongly recommended. For registration, use the form from our WWW-pages a http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/ess97/ess97.html or http://www.elsnet.org DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: MAY 1, 1997 ====================================== Notices of acceptance will be sent (by email or fax) during the firs week of May. Applicants who are accepted will then be asked to pay the registration fee and -if applicable- the accommodation costs. DEADLINE FOR PAYMENT: JUNE 1, 1997 ================================== The other applicants are placed on a waiting list. They will be given notice of (non)acceptance by June 15. REGISTRATION FEES ================= The registration fee covers the tuition, the lecture notes of the courses which you will attend, consumptions during coffee breaks, and the welcome and farewell parties. It does not include accommodation nor meals. Students 5.000 BFr (= 125 ECU) Academic staff members 10.000 BFr (= 250 ECU) Employees of industry 20.000 BFr (= 500 ECU) Participants from ELSNET sites get a 20% reduction and pay 4.000, 8.000 and 16.000 BFr, respectively. MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FORM ====================================== More information and a registration form can be obtained from our WWW-pages a http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/ess97/ess97.html http://www.elsnet.org or from the Summer School secretariat at: ELSNET Summer School Secretaria c/o Centre for Computational Linguistics Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Maria-Theresiastraat 21 B-3000 Leuven tel: +32-16-32.50.88 fax: +32-16-32.50.98 email: ess97@ccl.kuleuven.ac.be European Network in Language and Speech ____________________________________________________________ email: elsnet@let.ruu.nl mail : Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK, Utrecht, The Netherlands tel : +31 30 253 6039 fax : +31 30 253 6000 www : http://www.elsnet.org |
