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3rd GF Summer School 2013
Scaling up Grammatical Resources

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Frauenchiemsee island, Bavaria
18th–30th August, 2013

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About

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+Grammatical Framework (GF), grammaticalframework.org, 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. +

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+The GF Resource Grammar Library (RGL) implements the morphology (inflection) and basic syntax +(phrase structure) of some 26 languages: + +Bulgarian, +Catalan, +Chinese, +Danish, +Dutch, +English, +Finnish, +French, +German, +Hindi, +Interlingua, +Japanese, +Italian, +Latvian, +Nepali, +Norwegian bokmål, +Persian, +Polish, +Punjabi, +Romanian, +Russian, +Sindhi, +Spanish, +Swedish, +Thai, and +Urdu. + +These resources are freely available as open-source software. More languages are under construction, +in both in-house and external projects (Greek and Maltese forthcoming by the summer school). +

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+We are constantly welcoming new languages, especially from new language families, as well as +EU languages not yet covered by the Resource Grammar Library +(Estonian, 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. +

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+This year's special theme of “Scaling up Grammar Resources” means +extending the existing resource grammars with the ultimate goal of +dealing with any text in the supported languages. Lexicon extension is +an obvious part of this work, but also new grammatical constructions +are of interest. Porting resources from other open-source approaches, +such as WordNets and Apertium, is one method of doing this. And +reciprocally, we want to make GF resources easily reusable in other +approaches. +

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Schedule

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First week (18-23 August):
Introduction to GF and multilingual grammar programming

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+Tutorials will be given in morning sessions; supervised exercises in the +afternoon will make the attendants familiar with programming in GF. +

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Second week (25-30 August):
Advanced work in specialized tracks

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+In the mornings, each day is dedicated to a special track, with plenary +talks attended by all participants. +For the afternoons we want to organize group work on the various tracks, +and have the participants choose which group they join. On the last day, +results of these groups will be presented to all participants. +

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Teachers

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The following list is still to be confirmed and completed.

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Venue

+Frauenchiemsee island +

+The summer school will take place at the Frauenwörth Monastery, +on Frauenchiemsee island in Chiemsee lake, Bavaria, Germany (map). +

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Getting to Frauenwörth

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By plane

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  1. Fly to Munich Airport.
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  2. Take S-Bahn line 8 to Munich East Station (Ostbahnhof), then the train to Prien at Lake Chiem. (S-Bahn/train timetable: Munich Airport - Prien)
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  3. From Prien train station to the lake harbour Prien-Stock you can walk (1.8 km, 20 min), or go by bus, taxi or Chiemsee-railway (8 min).
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  4. At Prien-Stock, take the boat to the Fraueninsel (about 30 min. ride, roughly every 45 minutes). The last boat for the island leaves Prien-Stock at 19.30 (boat timetable).
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  5. The nunnery is next to the landing pier, to the left.
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+ +Alternatively, fly to Salzburg, Austria, take bus or taxi to Salzburg Main Station and then the train to Prien and go on as above. + +

By train

+ +Use the line Munich-Salzburg; the trains run every hour. Schedules can be found here. Get off at Prien, then proceed as above. + +

By car

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  1. Autobahn A8 from Munich into the direction of Salzburg; exit "Bernau", via Prien into the direction of Rimsting/Breitbrunn to Gstadt.
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  2. Park your car (no cars allowed to the island), there is sufficient parking space.
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  3. Take the ship to the Fraueninsel (about 10 min. ride).
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Accomodation and travel costs

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+Accomodation will be in the Benedictine abbey of Frauenorth on Frauenchiemsee island. +There are some rooms in categories A (€55/night), B (€45/night), and C (€30/night, no showers). + +Approximate costs breakdown: +

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Accomodation (category B)€45/night x 12€ 540
Breakfast, lunch & dinner€35/day x 12€ 420
Local travel costs (from Munich airport)€36 x 2€ 72
Total:€ 1032
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Registration

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+We have now opened a registration for those of you who wish to express your interest in attending. +Precise details about costs/payments will follow soon. +

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+Registration form » +
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To receive updates about the event, kindly join the Google Group.

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Contact

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+If you have any questions about the summer school you can contact us below: +

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Sponsor

+ +VolkswagenStiftung + + +

Previous summer schools

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