The summer school is over, but this web page will continue to give access to material created during the summer school and as a result from it.

The summer school was a collaborative effort to create grammars of new languages in Grammatical Framework, GF. These grammars are added to the Resource Grammar Library, which currently has 12 languages. Around 10 new languages are already under construction, and the School will address 23 new languages as shown in the logo above. All results will be made available as open-source software realeased under the LGPL license.

In addition, the course will serve those interested in getting an introduction to GF or an overview of on-going work. The course will begin with a 2-day GF tutorial.

The summer school is organized by the Language Technology Group at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The group is a part of the Centre of Language Technology, a focus research area of the University of Gothenburg.

A first demo of what was built during the summer school can be seen here: comment your food in 22 languages!

The code created by the school participants will be made accessible continuously in the GF darcs repository, subdirectory contrib/summerschool.

Here is a photo with most participants:

Participation

The registration was organized via the course Google group. Attending the lectures without prior registration is open to everyone.

Venue and programme

The normal day is: morning 9.30-12.30, afternoon 14-18. The lectures will take place in the EDIT room, on the 3rd floor of the ED building at Chalmers University of Technology; use the main entrance at Hörsalsvägen right after the Copper building when walking uphill. There is a map of the Campus here.

The EDIT room, as well as the group rooms 3207 and 3209, are available 8-18 for working on projects. Supervision is mainly available during the afternoon sessions.

Schedule

Sunday 16 August

• 19.00: welcome party for those who have arrived (see message at Google group)

Monday 17

• 9.30: presentation of participants (all)
• 10.00: Introduction to GF, part 1 (Aarne) Slides Example grammars
• afternoon: lab work (if many people arrive Monday morning, we can swap morning and afternoon programmes)

Tuesday 18

• 9.30: Introduction to GF, part 2 (Aarne)
• afternoon: lab work

Wednesday 19

• 9.30 survey of resource grammar structure (Aarne)
• afternoon: lab work

Thursday 20

• morning: participants' presentations of their projects
  • 9.45 Ramona, Romanian - Morphology and Syntax (partial)
  • 10.00 Rami, Portuguese Extension slides
  • 10.15 John, Features of Maltese slides
  • 10.25 Server, Features of Turkish slides
  • 10.35 Zofia, Features of Japanese (adjectives and classifiers)
  • 10.50 Sofy, Features of Farsi
  • 11.00 break
  • 11.15 Shafqat Virk, Urdu Language
  • 11.30 Kevin, FMathL- Formal Mathematical Language (our project and how it relates to GF) slides
  • 11.45 Martha, Icelandic Language slides
  • 11.55 Julia, Ancient Greek
  • 12.05 Jordi, Progress in Catalan slides
  • 12.15 Hans, TBA
  • 12.20 Yo, Unified Treatment of NPs for German, English and Japanese

• afternoon: lab work

Friday 21

• 9.30: theory of GF and parsing, hints for efficient grammars (Krasimir) slides
• afternoon: lab work

Sunday 23 afternoon: boat trip to the island of Styrsö

• 12.45 gathering at SGS entrance, Utlandagatan 24
• 13.08 dep. Korsvägen Tram 5
• 13.22 dep. Brunnsparken Tram 11
• 14.03 dep. Saltholmen ferry
• 14.21 arr. Styrsö Bratten
• walking, scrambling, swimming, eating; back in the evening

Monday 24

• 9.30: speech and dialogue applications of GF (Peter Ljunglöf) slides 1 slides 2
• 11.30 project presentations
  • 11.30 Laurette and Laurette, Afrikaans
  • 11.45 Ansu, Tswana
  • 12.00 Nyamsuren, Mongolian
  • 12.10 Inese, Latvian slides
  • 12.20 Dana, Hebrew slides

• afternoon: lab work

Tuesday 25

• 9.30: embedded grammars (Aarne) slides
• 10.30: web applications, GF and ontologies (Krasimir) web app slides ontology slides
• afternoon: lab work

Wednesday 26

• 9.30: large-scale application grammars - WebALT (Jordi) slides
• 11.30: linguistic resources of the world (Lars Borin) slides
• afternoon: lab work

Thursday 27

• 9.30: the world's languages - typology, challenges, visions (Harald Hammarström) slides
• 11.30: resource grammars and language learning and evolution (Robin Cooper) slides
• afternoon: lab work

Friday 28

• morning: status reports of participants' projects (everyone)
  • 9:30 Zofia - Mini resource grammar for Japanese
  • 9:45 Dana - Resource grammar for Hebrew
  • 10:00 Laurette & Laurette - Progress on Afrikaans in GF
  • 10:15 Ansu & Laurette - FoodsTsn.gf : Insights
  • 10:30 Kevin - C bindings for GF embedded grammars slides
  • 10:45 Femke - Dutch in progress
  • 11.00 break
  • 11:15 Inese - Progress with Latvian
  • 11:30 John - Progress with Maltese slides

  • 11:45 Rami - Progress with Portuguese slides
  • 12:00 Martha - Progress with Icelandic slides
  • 12:15 Julia - Progress with Esperanto (mini resource grammar)
  • 12:30 Server - Progress with Turkish slides

• afternoon: more status reports
  • 15:00 Sofy - Progress with Farsi
  • 15:15 Shafqat Virk - Progress with Urdu slides
  • 15:30 Gabriele - GF for natural language specifications
  • 15.45 break
  • 16.00 evaluation, discussion, continuation, conclusion
  • 17.00 lab work if wanted
  • 19.00 party (details: see Google group)

Teachers

• Krasimir Angelov, Computer Science, Gothenburg
• Lars Borin, Swedish, Gothenburg
• Håkan Burden, Computer Science, Gothenburg
• Robin Cooper, Linguistics, Gothenburg
• Ramona Enache, Computer Science, Gothenburg
• Harald Hammarström, Computer Science, Gothenburg
• Femke Johansson, Computer Science, Gothenburg
• Hans Leiß, Computational Linguistics, Munich
• Peter Ljunglöf, Linguistics, Gothenburg
• Aarne Ranta, Computer Science, Gothenburg
• Jordi Saludes, Mathematics, Barcelona

Practical information

Computers and network

The participants are expected to have their own laptops. WiFi access will be provided via the Nomad network of Chalmers University.

Meals

Here are some nearby lunch restaurants. First the favourites of the local research group:

• Konkanok, Thai, Dr Bex Gata 4
• Madras, Indian, Utlandagatan 14
• Thai Smile, Thai, Utlandagatan 2
• Plaka, Greek, Utlandagatan 14
• Jaipur, Indian, Fredriksdalsgatan 5
• Pizzeria Peperoni, Rosensköldsgatan 1
• Mossens Pizzeria, Gibraltargatan 37
• Alpa livs, sandwiches, Engdahlsgatan

Then some others:

• Kårhuset, Swedish, Chalmers campus
• Club Avancez, Swedish, Gibraltargatan 1
• Gibraltargatan: two sushi places, two pizzerias, kebab, Greek, ice cream, cafés
• Eklandagatan: a sushi place, a pizzeria, hotel Panorama

We will also arrange some common lunches and dinners.

Social events

Sunday 16 August: welcome party at 19, somewhere near SGS at Utlandagatan (to be specified)

Weekend 22-23 August: boat trip to the archipelago, pic-nic

Accommodation

The accommodation of participants coming from outside Gothenburg is at SGS, with a ten minutes walking distance from the venue.

The walk is described on a map here.

Weather forecast

Contact

Aarne Ranta, aarne at chalmers dot se

Femke Johansson, f dot v dot h dot vangeel at gmail dot com

Håkan Burden, burden at chalmers dot se