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
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.
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 at Tampere University studies the use of temporalities in political speech, and participates in organising the summer school
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
On both Mondays we will have a get-together in the same room where the summer school is held that day (Pinni B 1029-1030), also called "The Living Room" - cosy place with sofas etc.
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.
Somewhere over the two weeks we try to arrange an excursion to Viikinsaari, and that should be done with good weather.
Week 1 (August 14–18): Introduction to GF and multilingual grammar programming
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
9am–12pm: Lectures in class
Aarne Ranta. A tour of the GF Ecosystem. Inari Listenmaa. Tutorial: small grammars in GF binder.
Aarne Ranta/Inari Listenmaa. Core linguistic constructions.
Tutorial: mini resource grammar.
Aarne Ranta/Inari Listenmaa. Systematic overview of GF concepts.
Extended mini resource grammar.
Aarne Ranta/Inari Listenmaa. Full resource grammar and its API. WordNet in GF.
Aarne Ranta/Inari Listenmaa. Design and implementation of application grammars.
Hands-on with an application grammar.
Lunch
1–5pm: Hands‑on in class
Installing GF, building small grammars
Starting mini resource in GF shell
Work on projects / TBA
Work on projects / TBA
Participant presentations: plans for summer school projects
Weekend: Excursion to Toiska, Aarne Ranta is coordinating.
Week 2 (August 21-25): Advanced work in specialised tracks
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
9am–12pm: Lectures in class
Kirsi Sandberg, Jyrki Nummenmaa. Research on political temporalities in Tampere.
Prof. Veronika Laippala from Turku will talk about her group's work on NLP.
Hans Leiss will talk on Generic Reflexive Predicates in GF. Wikimedia discussion may continue.
Laurette Pretorius: Including the Bantu languages in the mission of GF: Next Steps.
Laurette Marais: Applying resource grammars in support of low-resourced languages:
the case of isiZulu
Participant presentations: summer school projects
Lunch
2–4pm: Talks, Hands‑on, etc
Krasimir Angelov, GF Pedia
Arianna Masciolini: Feedback for language learners with UD and GF; Denny Vrandečić, Abstract Wikipedia: Bringing more knowledge to more people in their language (15:30-17:00), video lecture and discussion.
Chat GPT and GF - mini-seminar organised by Jyrki Nummenmaa
Prof Arvi Hurskainen from Helsinki Feasibility of global machine translation.
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:
Kirsi Sandberg (Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences)
Jyrki Nummenmaa (Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences)