8th GF Summer School 2023

Tampere, Finland
14^th – 25^th August 2023

Fresh news: Thursday 24 August at 19 you are invited to the celebration of 25 years of GF at Restaurant Tillikka https://www.tillikka.fi/english/, one of the most traditional restaurants of Tampere in one of the best locations. The dinner will be sponsored by Digital Grammars AB https://www.digitalgrammars.com/. We will collect a list of participant confirmations and food preferences during the summer school.

About

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.

The following 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.

Registration

Please register via this form. If the attendance stays on the normal level, then there is no need to limit the number of registrations. It is beneficial, though, that people register early.

There is no registration or participation fee. However the participants need to support their own travel and stay, including accommodation and meals.

At the moment, there is no information about grants/stipends to participants. Such information will be published if stipends become available.

Special themes

Temporality

The POLTE project will present challenges to the summer school participants, related to temporalities in political speech.

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:

• (Optional) lectures and hands-on sessions during the second week of the summer school;
• Possibility to choose a summer school project and get expert guidance in these areas.

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

Programme

Social program and special events

Thursday 24 August at 19 you are invited to the celebration of 25 years of GF at Restaurant Tillikka https://www.tillikka.fi/english/, one of the most traditional restaurants of Tampere in one of the best locations. The dinner will be sponsored by Digital Grammars AB https://www.digitalgrammars.com/. We will collect a list of participant confirmations and food preferences during the summer school.

Over the weekend of August 19th and August 20th there is a chance to visit a very nice Finnish summer place, Toiska. Aarne Ranta is coordinating that. There is a major rap and hip hop festival (Blockfest) on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th in Tampere, so if that's not your cup of tea, then you might want to consider tourism elsewhere in Finland those days. Accommodation will be much more expensive over that weekend in Tampere. It is possible to stay the night in Toiska.