X-Digest-Num: 274 Message-ID: <44114.274.1537.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:44:10 +0100 (CET) From: PILCH Hartmut Subject: UNL symposium X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1537 Content-Length: 3808 Lines: 111 The Universal Network Language people are hosting another conference. Last time the UN in New York was targeted, this time it is the EU in Brussels. The meeting will be on Nov 18th, the agenda is below. UNL is supposed to be an intermediary language which can be automatically translated to any human language. Unfortunately, the UNL people have so far clouded their work in mystery and apparently not even produced a language spec. Their website http://unl.ias.unu.edu makes only claims about the great things that this language is to achieve and the number of people involved in creating it. If enough people are interested in the Brussels conference, maybe we could have a Lojban meeting there. --- Call for Participation UNL'99 Symposium - Introduction to the UNL World - Organized by UNU/IAS November 18 Brussels, Belgium The fourth Universal Networking Language (UNL) Symposium, organized by the United Nations University / Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS), will be held at Brussels 18 November 1999. UNU/IAS invites all who are interested in any aspect of language processing to break language barrier - researchers, developers, providers, and users - to participate in the symposium. The aim of the symposium are the followings. 1) Introduction of the UNL. 2) Invitation to the UNL world. 3) Tutorial for establishing the UNL world. This symposium is free of charge, and open for public and official language is English. To register, please get "registration form" and send it to the secretariat of UNL Center whose address is on the top of the form. We hope to see you in Brussels! ______________________________________________________________________ Program (tentative) Thursday, 18 November Introduction to UNL 9:40 10:00 Welcome Remarks: 10:00 10:20 General Presentation on UNL: The Idea of the UNL and Its Historical Opportunity 10:20 10:40 Statement on UNL: Background and Potential Users for cultural, scientific, economic and social applications 10:40 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 11:15 Technical Presentation of the UNL System: The mechanism of the UNL system: How the UNL operates through the Internet 11:15 12:00 Demonstration of the UNL World 12::00 14:00 Lunch Invitation to the UNL World 14:00 14:45 Application of the UNL system * Information Service * E-commerce 14:45 15:30 Development of the UNL information * Input system * Input method direct, word by word, tagged language, interactive, graphical, etc. 15:30 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 16:40 UNL Society * UNL Developers Society * UNL Providers Society * UNL Research Society 16:40 17:00 UNL Language Center * role * functions * organization 17:00 17:30 Extension and Maintenance of the UNL system * introducing new languages * dictionary development * etc. 17:30 18:00 Conclusion ______________________________________________________________________ UNL Center, October 1999