Fifth GF Summer School 2017

About

Grammatical Framework (GF) is a multilingual grammar formalism based on the idea of a shared abstract syntax and mappings between the abstract syntax and concrete languages. GF has hundreds of users all over the world. The GF Resource Grammar Library (RGL) implements the morphology (inflection) and basic syntax (phrase structure) of more than 30 languages: Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Interlingua, Japanese, Italian, Latvian, Maltese, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian bokmål, Nynorsk, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sindhi, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Urdu. These resources are freely available as open-source software. We are constantly welcoming new languages, especially from new language families, as well as EU languages not yet covered by the Resource Grammar Library (Lithuanian, Irish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, and Portuguese). Learn more at the RGL status page. The summer school is an excellent place to get started with a new language.

Schedule

The summer school starts with a GF tutorial aimed to be suitable for absolute beginners and bring them to the level where they can do independent work and follow the rest of the talks. But the tutorial should also make sense to experienced GF users, as it gives an update about some recent developments. The tutorial will be followed by talks on various topics around GF and multilingual technology. These talks will be accessible even to the beginners who have followed the tutorial. They will usually not build on each other, so that, even if you find some of them difficult to follow, this will not compromise your understanding of the later talks. Morning talks are intended for everyone, whereas afternoon work is in smaller groups. In the afternoons, guided tutoring will be given in small groups and to individuals, with detailed exercises and possibility for feedback. The afternoons also contain specialized tutorials and workshops, aimed for those interested in their topics; other people can focus on their own projects in the meantime. Their duration can be anything from 30 minutes to 3 hours. Practical work in the afternoons is an essential part of the summer school. The participants are expected to bring their own laptop computers and work on them. The tutors will help everyone to install the GF software and other relevant tools. The GF software should work without problems on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.

Teachers

The key teachers are the key developers of GF:

• <link http: www.cse.chalmers.se>Aarne Ranta, Professor at University of Gothenburg
• <link http: www.cse.chalmers.se>Krasimir Angelov, Assistant Professor at University of Gothenburg
• <link http: www.cse.chalmers.se>Thomas Hallgren, Principal Research Engineer at University of Gothenburg

Teachers will be assisted by experienced PhD students. Lectures on specialized topics will be given by invited international experts.

Venue

The summer school will take place in Rīga, the capital city of Latvia. All lectures and afternoon sessions will be held at the Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia, Raiņa blvd. 19, which is located in the very centre of Rīga.

Registration

Applications are subject to approval.

Scholarships

Students, academic and research staff of foreign higher education institutions can apply for Latvian state scholarships, 711 EUR each, for participation in the summer school. State Education and Development Agency of the Republic of Latvia provides scholarships for 10 participants. The scholarships, however, do not cover travel expenses. Also note that there is a limited list of 38 countries, citizens of which are eligible to apply for the scholarships.

Travel grants

In addition to the scholarships, Digital Grammars AB provides travel grants, 300 EUR each, for 5 participants to attend the summer school.

Summer school projects

To be eligible for a scholarship and a travel grant, you must do some preliminary work on a GF-related project before the summer school. You must also submit your CV and a motivation letter. The deadline for project and document submission is 30 April 2017. More information: school.grammaticalframework.org/2017/

Credits

After successful completion of the summer school, students will receive certificates of 3 ECTS credits which correspond to 2 weeks of full-time studies.

Local organizer

Normunds Grūzītis (normunds.gruzitis at lu dot lv) University of Latvia, Faculty of Computing / Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science