LINGUIST List 25.4247
Mon Oct 27 2014
Summer Schools: PARSEME / Prague, Czech Republic
Editor for this issue: Malgorzata Cavar <gosialinguistlist.org>
Date: 22-Oct-2014
From: Agata Savary <agata.savary
univ-tours.fr>
Subject: PARSEME / Prague, Czech Republic
E-mail this message to a friend Host Institution: Charles University in Prague
Coordinating Institution: Charles University in Prague
Website: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/parseme-1st-training-school
Dates: 19-Jan-2015 - 23-Jan-2015
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Focus: PARSEME COST Action IC1207 (www.parseme.eu) is dedicated to parsing and multi-word expressions (WMEs). It gathers multidisciplinary experts from 30 countries and is structured in four working groups.
Minimum Education Level: No Minimum
Description:
Program
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University, USA)
- Introduction to HPSG and challenges from MWEs
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Introduction to dependency grammar and dependency parsing
- Graph-based and transition-based dependency parsing
- Multiword expressions in dependency parsing
- Practical lab session using MaltParser
Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel) and Manfred Sailer (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.Main, Germany)
- Overview: linguistic properties of MWEs
- MWEs in linguistic theory (based on English/German/French)
- Challenges from other languages (Hebrew)
- Encoding in a computational lexicon; application to the participants' languages; summary
Pavel Straňák and Jiří Mírovský (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
- Representation and annotation of MWEs in treebanks
- Prague treebank search engine and its applications to MWEs (two practical labs)
Local Organizers
Eduard Bejček, Jan Hajič, Pavel Straňák - Charles University in Prague
Important Dates
20 November 2014: registration deadline for candidate trainees
1 December 2014: notification about the participants selected for invitation and for funding
5 December 2014: e-COST invitations for the participants selected for funding
19-23 January 2014: Training School
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Lexicography
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Financial Aid: Applications accepted until
PARSEME will fund travel and stay for most selected participants from its member countries (http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/ict/Actions/IC1207?parties).
Financial Aid Instructions:
Register before 20 November at: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/parseme-winter-school-registration
Registration: 22-Oct-2014 to 20-Nov-2014
Contact Person: Agata Savary
Email: agata.savary
univ-tours.fr
Apply on the web: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/parseme-winter-school-registration
Registration Instructions:
All interested trainees are required to fill in the registration form (https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/parseme-winter-school-registration) until 20 November 2014. Follow the instruction at: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/parseme-1st-training-school If the number of the registered candidates is higher than the capacity of the Training School, the PARSEME Steering Committee will select those who can be invited to participate (young researchers and PARSEME members have priority). Most of them will also be entitled to reimbursement of their travel and stay (provided that they are affiliated in one of the PARSEME member countries).
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