1st Call for Participation: Eurolan 2005 Summer School

[Philip Trauring]

I'm passing along this call for participation as I think others on this
list may be interested.

Philip Trauring



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First Call for Participation

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Seventh Biennial Summer School

EUROLAN 2005



THE MULTILINGUAL WEB:

RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGIES, AND PROSPECTS

http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005/



July 25 - August 6, 2005

"Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania





A truly global society will rely heavily on access to information
that can accommodate multiple cultures and languages. To enable this,
researchers in language technology are developing resources and
applications to support a multilingual web that will ensure the
requisite trans-lingual capabilities.

The EUROLAN 2005 summer school will provide two weeks of intensive
study of the technologies and resources currently under development to
support multilingual processing, as well as the applications that
exploit them to enable multilingual access to information disseminated
via the web. Internationally known scholars and researchers involved in
leading–edge work in relevant areas will serve as professors at the
school, giving half- and full-day seminars and hands-on labs to provide
students with in-depth understanding and experience. Topics to be
covered in the school include the following:



- creation and exploitation of multilingual resources, including
corpora, lexicons, wordnets, and ontologies;

- multilingual alignment of syntax, semantics, discourse, and other
language phenomena;

- annotation of various phenomena in multiple languages, including word
senses, time annotations, anaphora;

- annotation transfer, enabling importing in new languages of knowledge
encoded in the mark-up for English, etc.;

- cross-lingual applications, including machine translation, information
retrieval, extraction and summarization, document indexing, etc.;

- the multilingual "knowledge web", its philosophy, state of the art,
needs, and vision for the future.





EUROLAN 2005 Professors:



Branimir Boguraev, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA

Dan Cristea, “Al. I. Cuza” University, Romania

Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK

Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria

Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA

Martin Kay, Stanford University, USA

Bernardo Magnini, IRST-ITC, Italy

Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California, USA

Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA

Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Vivi Nastase, University of Ottawa, Canada

Nicolas Nicolov, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA

Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Marius Pasca, Google Inc., USA

Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, USA

Emanuele Pianta, IRST-ITC, Italy

Oana Postolache, Saarland University, Germany

Georgiana Puscasu, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Michael Stollberg, DERI, Austria

Valentin Tablan, University of Sheffield, UK

Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Romania

Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University, USA



The venue of EUROLAN 2005 is Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the heart
of Transylvania. An excursion to the medieval town of Sighisoara and
Bran ("Dracula") Castle is planned for the weekend at the school's
mid-point.

Whatever the venue, the EUROLAN summer schools are well known
for the degree of camaraderie that develops among students and
professors alike – just ask any previous participant! Students in the
school learn an enormous amount, but at the same time enjoy the warmth
of new friendships with both fellow students and professors.



Program Committee:

Dan Cristea, “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania

Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK

Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA

Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA

Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania



Satellite events:

1. Workshop on "Cross-Language Knowledge Induction"

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/
Eurolan2005KnowledgeInductionWorkshop.htm


Organized by:

Carlo Strapparava, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e
Tecnologica, Trento, Italy

Diana Zaiu Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada

2. to be announced



Welcome to EUROLAN 2005!