XIV - Sectia de Stiinta si Tehnologia Informatiei (Eurolan 2005 Summer School)

EUROLAN 2005 Summer Schoool THE MULTILINGUAL WEB: RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGIES, AND PROSPECTS
	July 25 - August 6, 2005, "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

	REGISTRATION NOW OPEN http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005/

	Organisers: Section for Information Science and Technology of Romanian Academy, Bucharest "Al.I.Cuza" University of Iasi "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca

	A truly global society will rely heavily on access to information that can accommodate multiple cultures and languages. To enable this, researchers in language technology are developing resources and applications to support a multilingual web that will ensure the requisite trans-lingual capabilities.
	The EUROLAN 2005 summer school will provide two weeks of intensive study of the technologies and resources currently under development to support multilingual processing, as well as the applications that exploit them to enable multilingual access to information disseminated via the web. Internationally known scholars and researchers involved in leading-edge work in relevant areas will serve as professors at the school, giving half- and full-day seminars and hands-on labs to provide students with in-depth understanding and experience.
	Topics to be covered in the school include the following: creation and exploitation of multilingual resources, including corpora, lexicons, wordnets, and ontologies; multilingual alignment of syntax, semantics, discourse, and other language phenomena; annotation of various phenomena in multiple languages, including word senses, time annotations, anaphora; annotation transfer, enabling importing in new languages of knowledge encoded in the mark-up for English, etc.; cross-lingual applications, including machine translation, information retrieval, extraction and summarization, document indexing, etc.; the multilingual "knowledge web", its philosophy, state of the art, needs, and vision for the future.
	EUROLAN 2005 Professors:
	Branimir Boguraev, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Dan Cristea, "Al. I. Cuza" University, Romania Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK Dieter Fensel, DERI, University of Innsbruck, Austria Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Martin Kay, Stanford University, USA Bernardo Magnini, ITC-IRST, Italy Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California, USA Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK Vivi Nastase, University of Ottawa, Canada Nicolas Nicolov, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK Marius Pasca, Google Inc., USA Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA Emanuele Pianta, ITC-IRST, Italy Oana Postolache, Saarland University, Germany Georgiana Puscasu, University of Wolverhampton, UK Dumitru Roman, DERI, University of Innsbruck, Austria Michael Stollberg, DERI, University of Innsbruck, Austria Valentin Tablan, University of Sheffield, UK Ioan Toma, DERI, University of Innsbruck, Austria Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Romania
	The venue of EUROLAN 2005 is Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the heart of Transylvania. An excursion to the medieval town of Sighisoara and Bran ("Dracula") Castle is planned for the weekend at the school's mid-point.
	Whatever the venue, the EUROLAN summer schools are well known for the degree of camaraderie that develops among students and professors alike - just ask any previous participant! Students in the school learn an enormous amount, but at the same time enjoy the warmth of new friendships with both fellow students and professors.
	Program Committee:
	Dan Cristea, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
	Organizing Committee:
	Vladiela Ciobotariu, "Babes-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Dan Cristea, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania Corina Forascu, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania Angela Ionita, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania Dana A. Lupsa, "Babes-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Dragos Petrascu, "Babes-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Horia F. Pop, "Babes-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Doina Tatar, "Babes-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
	Satellite events:
	Workshop on "Cross-Language Knowledge Induction" http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/Eurolan2005KnowledgeInductionWorkshop.htm Organized by: Diana Zaiu Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada Carlo Strapparava, ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy Workshop and Kick-off Meeting on Romance FrameNet http://ic2.epfl.ch/~pallotta/rfn/ Organised by: Vincenzo Pallotta (EPFL, Switzerland) Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Romania)
	*Welcome to EUROLAN 2005!*