FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION / REGISTRATION
The 12th ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech
Communication
INFORMATION FUSION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS
3 - 14 July 2006
hosted by the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Additional information about the summer school can be obtained from
the web-site at
http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/view/ELSNET06/WebHomeCOURSES
- Information fusion for command and control, Pontus Svenson
(FOI Stockholm, Sweden)
- Audio visual speech recognition, Rainer Stiefelhagen
(University Karlsruhe, Germany)
- XML integration of natural language processing components,
Ulrich Sch?fer (DFKI, Germany)
- Hybrid Parsing, Kilian Foth and Wolfgang Menzel
(University of Hamburg, Germany)
- Ontologies for information fusion, Luciano Serafini
(ITC-IRST Trento, Italy)
- Syntax semantics integration in HPSG, Valia Kordoni,
(DFKI Germany)
- Hybrid approaches in machine translation, Stephan Oepen
(University of Oslo, Norway)
- Ensemble based architectures, Hans van Halteren,
(University of Nijmegen, Holland)
- Information fusion in multi-document summarization, Ani Nenkova
(Stanford University, USA)
Courses will have the duration of one week. Some of them will
include practical exercises
IMPORTANT DATES
- Extended deadline for registration: 10.06.2006
- Notification of acceptance: 15.06.2006
- Payment deadline 30.06.2006
- Summer school: 3.7. - 14.7.2006
REGISTRATION
In order to register candidates are requested to send a
statement of interest for participating in the summer school, a
curriculum vitae and a title for a contribution to the "student"
session as well as their courses of interest to:
elsnet06@nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.deFEES
The registration fee will cover tuition, course notes, coffee and
tea breaks the welcome and the farewell parties.
Students: 125 euro
Academic Staff 250 euro
Employees of Industry 500 euro
The registration fee does not include accommodation or meals.
Participants from ELSNET sites receive a 20% reduction.
The organisers can provide accommodation in student campus for
prices between 280 - 300 Euro/ 2 weeks. Registration for only
part of the school is not possible.
A small number of scholarships (full or partial) will be
available. Please indicate if you intend to apply . When applying
please keep in mind that full-cost scholarships (including
travelling and accommodation) will be granted only in very well
motivated cases
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Walther v. Hahn
Wolfgang Menzel
Cristina Vertan
University of Hamburg, Dept. of Informatics
Natural Language Systems Division
Vogt-K?lln Str. 30
D-22527, Germany
e-mail:
{vhahn, menzel, vertan} at informatik dot uni-hamburg dot de
Tel: +49 40 428832533
Fax: +49 40 428832515