EUROLAN'97 Summer School on Corpus Linguistics

Dan Cristea (dcristea@infoiasi.ro)
Mon, 17 Mar 97 11:05:30 -0500

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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-Bucharest
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 student 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

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REGISTRATION FORM

also accessible on-line at the URL:
http://www.infoiasi.ro/eurolan/applicat.html


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I would like to be registered with a short paper presentation (title):

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in the workshop on (Lexicon and Corpora / Discourse Corpus Linguistics /
Grammar engineering and grammar learning):

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I would like to be registered with a demo: (title)

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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.

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