Seventh GF Summer School 2021

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Singapore & Online
26th July – 6th August 2021

About

Grammatical Framework (GF) is a grammar formalism and a programming language for multilingual computational grammars. It is 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. Learn more at the RGL status page. The summer school is an excellent place to get started with a new language.

A recent Google TechTalk gives an overview of the GF technology and its many applications:

You will find the GF book a very good companion to your studies (available also as an e-book). However, the book is not a requirement for successful participation in the summer school.

Special themes

Computational law

The summer school is co-organised by Singapore Management University's Centre for Computational Law. The interests of the research centre lie at the intersection of logical formalisation, knowledge representation and natural language generation.

Abstract Wikipedia

Our second theme is Abstract Wikipedia: an effort in multilingual natural language generation at a large scale, targeting a diverse set of languages and language families.

The special themes are present in two ways:

The summer school is pefectly suitable for a student who is interested in other aspects of grammar engineering.

Programme

GitHub repository for the Summer School material, such as slides and code: github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gfss-2021

Recordings of the all the talks given during the Summer School are available here: Lecture Recordings on YouTube

Teachers and invited speakers

Name Affiliation Topic
Aarne Ranta University of Gothenburg
Digital Grammars
GF tutorial, GF-UD
Alexandre Rademaker IBM Research HPSG Portuguese Grammar based on the grammar MATRIX
Arianna Masciolini Digital Grammars Concept alignment for multilingual machine translation
Denny Vrandečić Wikimedia Abstract Wikipedia
Inari Listenmaa Singapore Management University
Digital Grammars
GF tutorial;
various
Jan Frederik Schaefer Friedrich–Alexander University Prototyping natural language understanding with GF: Adding Semantics and Inference
John J. Camilleri Digital Grammars Linearisation-only PGF
Krasimir Angelov Chalmers Univ. of Technology
Digital Grammars
Application grammars, lexical semantics, sense disambiguation
Laurette Marais Meraka Institute Application grammars in resource scarce environment;
Zulu resource grammar
Laurette Pretorius University of South Africa Zulu resource grammar
Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar Federal University of Ceará Nheengatu grammar
Meng Wong Singapore Management University
Legalese
Controlled Natural Language in computational law
Michal Měchura Masaryk University Re-inventing the phrasebook with rule-based language technology
Warrick Macmillan University of Gothenburg Modeling Formal Languages in GF
Žygimantas Medelis Tokenmill Accelerated Text: a low code data to text platform and how it works with GF

Venue

The summer school will take place in Singapore, home to Singapore Management University.

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is possible to participate in the summer school fully online. Read more in Logistics.

Logistics

We aim to make the summer school as smooth as possible for people on different time zones.

Other than the hybrid online/offline nature, the program of the summer school will be like in the previous years. The first week is a GF tutorial, and the second week is more specialised tracks.

Duplicate talks

The first week's talks will be given to a live audience in Singapore at 9-12 SGT, and streamed live—if you're in Asia, or otherwise awake at this time, you can follow them live and ask questions on Zoom.

On the first day of the summer school, Aarne Ranta will give a duplicate of the morning talk at 20 SGT, which is 14 CEST -- this is afternoon in Europe and Africa, and morning in most of the Americas. We will evaluate the format after the first lecture and decide if and how to do rest of the duplicate talks. If you would like to participate, but can't make it on the first day, please contact the organisers.

Contacts

The GF mailing list is a great place to ask about anything GF, including the summer school. If you have a more specific question, you can contact us directly:

Administrative & Registration Matters:

Ms Raven Zhang (Centre Administrator at CCLAW)
Email: ravenzhang@smu.edu.sg
HP: 96458215

Ms Regina Cheong (Researcher at CCLAW)
Email: reginacheong@smu.edu.sg
HP: 81888420

Summer School Content & Technical Information:

Dr Inari Listenmaa
Email: ilistenmaa@smu.edu.sg
HP: 82119525

Mr Tristan Koh
Email: tristankoh@smu.edu.sg
HP: 96219123

Group photos

Week 1

Group photo from week 1

Week 2

Group photo from week 1

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