NATO
ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE
ON
LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES
July 3 - 14, 2000
BILKENT UNIVERSITY
ANKARA, TURKEY
Co-directors: Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University), Sergei Nirenburg (New
Mexico State University), Oleg Kapanadze (Tbilisi State University).
NEW
Important Information about travel support for Greek, Portugese, Turkish
and US Participants is available at the end of the announcement.
We are pleased to announce that the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on
Language Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages will be held on the campus
of Bilkent University in Turkey, July 3rd through July 14th, 2000. The ASI
program will comprise the following courses on the state-of-the-art in
various aspects of language engineering. Currently, the following courses
are planned:
* Introduction to languages and language engineering,
Nicholas Ostler (Linguacubun, UK)
Sergei Nirenburg (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA)
* Text processing ecology,
Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU, USA)
* Computational tools and resources,
Remi Zajac (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU, USA)
* Computational morphology and finite state methods,
Ken Beesley (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble,
France)
* Statistical methods and corpus linguistics,
Christer Samuelsson (Xerox Research Centre Europe,
Grenoble, France)
* Lexical acquisition,
Victor Raskin (Purdue University, USA)
Sergei Nirenburg (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU, USA)
* Grammar and grammar writing,
Svetlana Sheremetyeva (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU,
USA)
* Machine translation,
Harold Somers (CCL,UMIST, UK)
* Information extraction,
Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA)
* Information retrieval.
Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA)
The ASI will feature a number of participant workshops. These workshops will
provide a forum for participants to present their work on language
engineering and receive feedback from colleagues. Applicants are strongly
suggested to submit an abstract of their presentation in their application.
Abstracts will be selected for presentation in the workshops after a review
process. Full versions of these presentations will be expected to be
submitted before the ASI starts.
The ASI will also feature discussion panel which will enable participants to
discuss specific issues in language engineering with experts in the field.
The ASI will admit a limited number of qualified participants from NATO
countries (1) Partner countries (2), and Mediterranean dialogue countries
(3). Depending on the specific circumstances, funding for living and lodging
expenses of such participants will be available. Participants from
commercial/industrial institutions may attend provided they cover their
travel and living expenses. Please inquire with natoasi@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
for the details of such participation.
Since there are a limited number of participant slots, admission to the ASI
will be strictly on a competitive basis taking into account the
participants' background, their potential contribution and the benefit they
may draw from the meeting.
All courses and presentations will be conducted in English.
We acknowledge the additional support provided by Bilkent University,
Computing Research Lab, NMSU, and EACL- European Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics.
This information and the application form can be found at
http://www.nlp.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/ASI
and on mirror sites listed there
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APPLICATIONS TO THE ASI
Please fill out the application form and send by electronic mail to
natoasi@cs.bilkent.edu.tr. Application by fax or mail will only be
considered in exceptional circumstances. The deadline for applications is
March 15, 2000. Applicants will be notified of the results of their
application by April 17, 2000.
Applicants are expected to secure financial support for travel to/from
Ankara, Turkey, from outside sources. Support for living and lodging
expenses during the ASI will be available to qualified applicants on a case
by case basis.
TRAVEL SUPPORT FOR GREEK, PORTUGESE, TURKISH AND U.S. PARTICIPANTS
NATO provides limited additional funds to ensure the participation of some
young scientists from Greece, Portugal and Turkey, who might otherwise be
prevented from NATO Advanced Study Institutes. These funds are administered
on NATO's behalf, by a National Administrator in each of the three
countries. These funds are requested by the ASI on behalf of the accepted
participants and not by individual participants, but individuals looking for
further information regarding these funds can contact:
in Greece:
Mrs. M. Bofakou,
Ministry of Industry, General Secretariat of Research and Technology
International Organisations Departments,
Messogion, 14-18, 11527 Athens Tel: 30-1 775 2222, Fax: 30-1 775 3872
in Portugal
Dr. L. Floxo
Instituto de Cooperaçao Cientifica e Tecnologica Internacional
Rua Castilho, 5-4,
1250-066 Lisbon Tel: 351-1, 358 5303, Fax: 351-1 315 4065
in Turkey
Prof.H. Arici,
The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, TÜBITAK
Atatürk Bulvari, 221, Kavaklidere, Ankara Tel: 90-312-426 6846,
Fax: 90-312- 427 2382
The US NSF may also provide travel awards for a limited number of US student
participants in selected Advanced Study Institutes conducted in NATO
countries other than Canada and US. The awards consist of round trip
tickets issued directly to participants by a travel agency acting for NSF.
The ASI Organization will contact the NSF on behalf of the selected US
Participants.
Citizens of Greece, Portugal, Turkey and the US may indicate that they would
like to apply for these additional grants on their application forms.
After the participants are selected, the relevant national offices will be
contacted by the NATO ASI Organization in due time with the names of the
participants from the respective countries for additional travel support.
----(1) NATO Countries: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and USA.
(2) Partner Countries eligible for support: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzistan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tadjikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (*), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. ((*) Turkey recognizes the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name.)
(3) Mediterranean Dialogue Countries eligible for support: Egypt, Israel. ------ ------ NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES
July 3 - July 14, 2000 Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey
APPLICATION FORM
Please use as much space as necessary. Send completed form by electronic mail to natoasi@cs.bilkent.edu.tr. Do not send a hardcopy by mail or fax. Please take as much space as you feel is necessary.
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NAME OF THE APPLICANT:
STREET ADDRESS:
CITY/STATE/COUNTRY:
CITIZENSHIP:
E-MAIL:
WEB URL:
TELEPHONE:
FAX:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND BACKGROUND Please summarize your educational and work background and experience especially pointing out experience and publications (if any) relevant to language engineering.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ STATEMENT OF PURPOSE Please give a short summary of why you would want to attend the NATO ASI and what do you expect to gain from it.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ PARTICIPANT WORKHOP SUBMISSION Would you like to submit a paper for consideration for presentation in Participant Workshops? If so, please provide a title, and an abstract. Please note that submitting a paper does not have any impact on the criteria to be used in selecting participants.
TITLE:
AUTHOR(S):
ABSTRACT:
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