UNL symposium

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

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!
   ______________________________________________________________________
   
                            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