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EUROLAN'97 Summer School in Corpus Linguistics
13-26 July 1997
Iasi - Romania
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
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 develop and 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
Machine-Readable Dictionaries - 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.
Discourse Corpora 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.
Romanian HPSG - This track will focus on work being done on formalizing the
Romanian language using HPSG, in connection with research in formalizing
other Romance languages. Many of the researchers working in this area either
began their research or reported progress on their research at the ACM
Summer School in Belis-Fintinele, Romania in July 1996.
2. Location
Iasi is an old universitary city, but also an ancient capital of the County
of Moldavia, situated about 400 km away from Bucharest, near the North-
Eastern frontier with the new Republic of Moldavia. It hosts four mai
universities: University "A.I.Cuza", University of Medicine, Technical
University and the Agronomic University, but also a number of private
universities. The interested tourist can find old monuments of architecture,
as the Trei Ierarhi Church dated XVIIth century or the two monasteries
situated on the surrounding hills and that can be visually located from
within the city - Galata and Cetatuia. The palace situated in the centre of
the city, an ancient Justice's Palace, hosts now a number of museums.
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:
Ted Briscoe - Cambridge University
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 - University of Vasar and University of Aix-en-Province
Aravind Joshi - University of Pennsylvania
Paola Monachesi - University of Tuebingen
Massimo Poesio - University of Edinburgh
John Sinclair - University of Birmingham
Mark Steedman - University of Pennsylvania
Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy and ICI-Bucharest
Hans Uszkoreit - DFKI and University of Saarbruecken
Bonnie Lynn Webber - University of Pennsylvania
Zarin Yusoff - University of Sciences Malaysia - Penang
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. 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 Reseach and Development, and the University of Iasi.
5. Organization
The Eurolan'97 Summer School is joinly organized and co-sponsored by: ACM,
the European Union - Directorate XIII, ACL - European Chapter, University
"Alexandru Ioan Cuza" of Iasi, Romanian Academy, Romanian ACM Chapter,
Romanian Ministry of Research and Technology, Romanian Ministry of Education
.
The Program Committee includes:
Dan Cristea (University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Iasi)
Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest)
Hans Uskoreit (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
Bonnie Webber (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
The organizing committee includes:
Dan Cristea (University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Iasi)
Cristina Peti (POLITEHNICA University, Bucharest)
Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest)
Claus Unger (ACM, University of Hagen)
Hans Uskoreit (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
Bonnie Webber (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
Grazyna Wojceszko (EU - Luxemburg)
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