FYI: Summer schools: EUROLAN'97, ESSLLI'97
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Apologies if you get this announcement more that once! ============================================================================ EUROLAN'97 Summer School on Corpus Linguistics Tusnad - Romania 13-26 July 1997 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT also accessible on-line at the URL: http://www.infoiasi.ro/eurolan/ann.html 1. Theme The theme of Eurolan'97 is "Corpus Linguistics" - the use of language corpora to develop tools and resources for automated language processing and to test linguistic theories. As well as lectures by distinguished international faculty members, there will be workshops that build upon the lectures and aim specifically at stimulating discussion and further collaboration. Lectures and workshops will be organized in three thematic tracks: 1) Lexicon and Corpora - The aim of this track is to confront Summer School participants with the state-of-the-art in using machine readable dictionaries and other on-line linguistic resources in Natural Language research and with research on extracting these resources directly from corpora, and to engage participants in further collaboration. 2) Discourse Corpus Linguistics - This track is aimed at presenting a new trend in Natural Language Processing research that tries to base progress in discourse theories upon intensive corpus analysis. We hope that this will follow up on a workshop held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 on discourse-coding and corpus-based discourse analysis. 3) Grammar engineering and grammar learning - This track will focus both on work being done on formalizing the Romanian language using HPSG in connection with research in formalizing other Romance languages and on methods for inferring grammars from corpora. It is expected that the researchers that announced or begun their work on Romanian HPSG at the ACM Summer School in Belis-Fintinele, Romania in July 1996 to report their progress with this occasion. 2. Venue Tusnad is a holiday resort situated at about 200 km North from Bucharest and 67 km from Brasov in the Carpathian mountains. More about Tusnad you can find at the URL: http://www.infoiasi.ro/eurolan/tusnad.html 3. Participants The Summer School is designed for graduate students and researchers in Natural Language Processing, including computer scientists and linguists interested in corpus research. The Eurolan'97 faculty members will be: Nicoleta Calzolari - University of Pisa Jean-Pierre Chanod - Xerox Grenoble Dan Cristea - University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" of Iasi Tomaz Erjavec - Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana Nancy Ide - Vassar College and University of Aix-en-Provence Aravind Joshi - University of Pennsylvania Paola Monachesi - University of Tuebingen Massimo Poesio - Centre for Cognitive Science - University of Edinburgh John Sinclair - University of Birmingham Mark Steedman - University of Pennsylvania Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy and ICI-Buchares Hans Uszkoreit - DFKI and University of Saarbruecken Bonnie Lynn Webber - University of Pennsylvania Zarin Yusoff - Universiti Sains Malaysia Michael Zock - LIMSI-Orsay, University of Paris-Sud 4. Background The Eurolan series of Summer Schools was established in 1993 to stimulate young researchers to progress towards the highest levels of Natural Language Processing and Language Technology research in their own countries. The first Eurolan summer school was held in 1993 in Iasi (Romania), with the theme "Natural Language and Logic Programming". It was jointly supported by the French government and the University of Iasi. Seven invited faculty members gave lectures to 45 students from Russia, Moldavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. The second Eurolan summer school was held in 1995, again in Iasi, with the theme "Language and Perception: Representations and Processes". This time there were eight faculty members giving lectures to 55 students from six different countries. The second summer school was jointly funded by the European Union, the Romanian Ministry for Research and Development, and the University of Iasi. 5. General information The second announcement will contain the titles of the lectures. All lectures will be given to all participants. Each of the three workshops will last for one day. A workshop day will have a studen session in the morning and a round table and/or a working session in the afternoon. The applicants are encouraged to register to one of the workshops and also to submit proposals for presentations (short papers - 10-15 minutes) and demos. As of 14 March 1997, fees for Eurolan'97 are estimated to be as follows: Tuition: US$ 215 Accommodation and meals: US$ 325 Accompanying adult (accommodation and meals): US$ 325 Accompanying child (accommodation and meals): US$ 160 The fees also include the transport (Bucharest-Tusnad, on 13 July and Tusnad -Bucharest, on 26 July) and may change depending on the status of outside funding. We hope to be able to offer a number of grants to people having difficulties in attending the School. These grants and the application procedure will be announced at a later date. 6. Organization The Eurolan'97 Summer School is jointly organized and co-sponsored by: ACM, ACL - European Chapter, The University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Iasi, Romanian Academy, Romanian ACM Chapter. The organizers expect support from the European Union - Directorate XIII, the Romanian Ministry of Research and Technology, the Soros Foundation for an Open Society, the American CoBase program, the British Council at Bucharest and Iasi and the French Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Bucharest. A number of local sponsors will also be announced later. The Program Committee includes: Liviu Ciortuz (University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Iasi) Dan Cristea (University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Iasi) Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest) Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Saarbruecken) Bonnie Lynn Webber (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) The Organizing Committee includes: Non-local members: Cristina Peti (POLITEHNICA University, Bucharest) Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest) Claus Unger (ACM, University of Hagen) Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Saarbruecken) Bonnie Lynn Webber (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Local members(from University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iasi): Dan Cristea Amalia Todirascu The accommodation, meals, travel and entertainment are organized by the NET Agency - Iasi, Romania. More about NET you can find at the URL: http://www. nordest.ro ============================================================================ REGISTRATION FORM also accessible on-line at the URL: http://www.infoiasi.ro/eurolan/applicat.html Name:----------------------------------------------------------------------- (last) (first) Sex: Female [ ] Male [ ] Status (Professor/Academic Researcher/Graduate Student/Undergraduate Studen ) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Affiliation: University: ---------------------------------------------------------- Department: -------------------------------------------------------- Country: -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact address at which you can be reached from now up to mid-July 1997: - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Email address:------------------------------------------------------ Tel:---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fax:---------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to be registered with a short paper presentation (title): - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- in the workshop on (Lexicon and Corpora / Discourse Corpus Linguistics / Grammar engineering and grammar learning): - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to be registered with a demo: (title) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- for which I need the following equipment: - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please send this filled-in application form, by e-mail to dcristea@infoiasi. ro or by regular mail at the address: Dr. Dan CRISTEA University "A. I. Cuza" of Iasi Department of Computer Science 16, Berthelot St. RO-6600 - IASI, Romania Phone: +40. 32. 146141 Fax: +40.32. 213 330 Registration form submission deadline: 30 April 1997. ============================================================================ |
