PARSEME Training School, 19-23 January 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

[Agata Savary]

CALL FOR INTEREST

PARSEME COST Action IC1207
Training School
19–23 January 2015
Prague, Czech Republic
https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/parseme-1st-training-school

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.
PARSEME organizes its first Training School in Prague on 19-23 January 2015.

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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) & 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 & Jiří Mírovský (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
    Representation and annotation of MWEs in treebanks
    Prague treebank search engine and its applications to MWEs (2 practical labs)

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LOCAL ORGANIZERS

Eduard Bejček, Jan Hajič, Pavel Straňák - Charles University in Prague

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REGISTRATION AND REIMBURSEMENT

All interested trainees are required to fill in the registration form (https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/parseme-winter-school-registration) until 20 November 2014.
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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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