Dates: 8 — 12 July 2024
Location: Technical University of Moldova, Chișinău, Moldova
Coordinating Project: UNIDIVE (Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology)
Website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:1st_unidive_training_school

Cost: Participants selected on the basis of their application will be reimbursed, details are below.

Apply by: April 29, 2024

 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
We are happy to announce the 1th edition of UNIDIVE Summer School on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and investigators. Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and varieties are particularly welcome

SUMMER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
 - Annotation of Universal Dependencies treebank for a new language - a course by Sylvain Kahane (Université Paris Nanterre, France) and Francis Tyers (Indiana University, USA)

- Annotation of multiword expressions in a new language - course by Verginica Mititelu (Romanian Academy) and Voula Giouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and ILSP, ATHENA RC, Greece)

- Corpus annotation infrastructure (annotation platforms, format validators, Git etc.) - a course by Daniel Zeman (Charles University, Czechia), Bruno Guillaume (LORIA, France) and Agata Savary (Université Paris-Saclay, France)

- A brainstorming hackathon on topics submitted by the trainees

 - Poster sessions

APPLICATIONS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Each applicant should submit a project for a construction of a resource related to the topics of the training school (e.g. a new/enhanced UD treebank, a new PARSEME corpus, a resource adding a new annotation layer on top of a UD/PARSEME corpus, etc.). The length of the application should be 2 pages (excluding references). The application should contain:

-       The title

-       Applicant’s name and affiliation (including the country)

-       A list of 3-4 key-words

-       Description of a resource related to the topics of the training school

-       Explanation how the participation in the training school will be useful for the project

-       Open questions related to the project which could be addressed during the brainstorming hackathon

-       Short statement of the project phase (planning, started, in the process of creation)

The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview portal.

 

TRAINEE’S SELECTION CRITERIA

We can fund at least 40 trainees, the selection criteria include:

-       Trainee’s country: trainees only from COST countries[1] and Near-Neighbour Countries can be funded. See here and here.

-       Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40, are promoted

-       Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness Target Countries and others COST countries)

-       Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee

-       Status of the language on which the trainee intends to work (low-resourced languages, dialects or varieties are promoted)

If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find other financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you are also welcome to participate.

 

The authors of the selected projects may optionally present them in a poster session during the Training School.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for project submission: April 29, 2024
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024
Summer school: July 8-12, 2024

For any inquiry, please contact the organisers at: victoria.bobicev@ia.utm.md

 

Looking forward to seeing you in Moldova,
  Organizing committee