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
<http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/index.php/organization/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-UniversitÀt 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 MírovskÃœ* (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
<http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/index.php/organization#SC> will select those who can be invited to participate (young researchers and PARSEME
members <http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/index.php/participants> 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 <http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/ict/Actions/IC1207?parties>)

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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