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liia.u-strasbg.fr>EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute on "Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources" 30 July - 11 August 2001 Romania The Eurolan series of summer schools was established in 1993 and has been held every other year, with the goal of stimulating young researchers from all over the world to pursue high-level research in natural language processing and language technology. Theme The goal of Eurolan 2001 is to provide participants with a background in the theory, methodology, and technology for creating and using annotated language resources for language engineering research. Tutorials on a variety of topics will be accompanied with hands-on experience using tools for resource annotation, as well as techniques for using these resources to augment the performance of language engineering applications such as IR, IE, MT, speech understanding etc. The main topics will be: Annotation formalisms and standards for NLP (XML, XCES) Sub-syntactic annotation (tokenization, part of speech tagging, shallow-parsing - chunking) Annotation of syntax (tree banks) Annotation of semantics, word sense disambiguation, semantic roles of verbs Annotation of discourse (structure, co-reference, deep understanding) Symbolic and qualitative approaches Exploitation for information extraction and information retrieval Exploitation for summarization, discourse interpretation and data mining Exploitation for machine translation Creation and exploitation tools in cross-lingual application Invited Lecturers Eurolan 2001 tutorials and practical work will be delivered/conducted by a series of prestigious professors and researchers from all over the world: Catalina Barbu - Universities of Iasi & Wolverhampton Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbr�cken Dan Cristea - University of Iasi Hamish Cunningham - University of Sheffield Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science - Tokyo Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto Eduard Hovy - University of Southern California Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Adam Kilgarriff - University of Brighton Daniel Marcu - University of Southern California Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University Massimo Poesio - University of Edinburgh Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy Valentin Tablan - Universities of Iasi & Sheffield Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken Piek Vossen - Sail-labs, Antwerp-Berchem Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield Program Eurolan 2001 will take place between 30 July and 11 August 2001. The summer institute will be organized to allow for both lectures and hands-on experience for each of the areas covered. Morning sessions will be devoted to tutorials, followed by an afternoon session at which students will work in collaboration with professors on practical applications. The institute will also include workshops and round tables on topics of particular interest. On Sunday, 5 August, a trip to significant Romanian landmarks will be organized. Registration and Fees Information about registration and fees will be posted at a later date and will also be available at http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001 Organizing Committee Nancy IDE - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Dan CRISTEA - University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" of Iasi Dan TUFIS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest Laurent ROMARY - LORIA laboratories, Nancy Daniel MARCU - University of Southern California Information on previous Eurolan events can be consulted at the address: http://www.infoiasi.ro/eurolan/ann.htmlMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue