LINGUIST List 17.3029

Mon Oct 16 2006

Confs: General Ling/Germany

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Directory         1.    Shravan Vasishth, Computational Linguistics Fall School 2007
Message 1: Computational Linguistics Fall School 2007
Date: 16-Oct-2006
From: Shravan Vasishth <vasishthacm.org>
Subject: Computational Linguistics Fall School 2007



Computational Linguistics Fall School 2007

Date: 03-Sep-2007 - 14-Sep-2007 Location: Potsdam, Germany Contact: Shravan Vasishth Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/fallschool/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

Computational Linguistics Fall School 3-14 September, 2007, Potsdam, Germany.

The Computational Linguistics Fall School was established by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft (German Linguistics Association, www.dgfs.de) as a biennial event for students who wish to widen their knowledge of techniques and methods used in natural language processing.

The Fall School will take place 3-14 September, 2007, at the Institute for Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany.

Courses to be offered:

1. Amit Dubey. Statistical Parsing: from theory to engineering, and engineering to cognitive modeling 2. Stefan Evert and Marco Baroni. Statistical programming in R for computational linguists 3. Rainer Osswald. Ontologies and Semantic Lexicon Resources

4. Manfred Stede and Stefanie Dipper. Text Structure and Text Understanding

The courses, which will be taught in English, consist of ten 90-minutes sessions and are credited with 4 ECTS credit points each by the Institute for Linguistics, University of Potsdam.

Early registration deadline is June 30, 2007. Registration fees before June 30, 2007 are 125€ (student) and 175€ (non-student). Registration after June 30, 2007, is 200€ and 250€ respectively.

Additional information on registration, accomodation, location etc. will be announced at a later date. The Fall School website is: www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/fallschool/

For previous fall school courses see the website for the Computational Linguistics section of the German Linguistic Association: www.dgfs.de/cgi-bin/dgfs.pl/coli