UNL symposium

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@xxx.xxx]

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.

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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!
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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
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UNL Center, October 1999