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Time and place 2.-6. June 2009. (Participants are expected to stay the whole period, and arrive the night before.) Fefor Høifjellshotell, 3 hours by train from Oslo airport Gardermoen to Vinstra station. NEW: Practical information Below you will find practical information about reading list, your travel, the weather at Fefor, activities, packing list etc. This information will be updated regularly. Reading list You will find the reading list for the course here. Print out and bring it to Fefor. Paper Those of you who want or need ECTS (European Credit Transfer Scheme) points should write the following paper (worth 5 points): Please answer all three questions. 1) How can linguists make use of infrastructure tools in their research? 2) What methods are used by computational linguists for POS tagging? 3) What challenges exist w.r.t. transcription of spoken language? Total length of paper: 12-15 pages (including figures and references) The deadline for submission is 15. August, and you'll get a diploma stating your course work and your points by 15 September. Please send your submissions to Janne Bondi Johannessen. Travel Our train is the one that goes from Oslo to Trondheim (with our stop being Vinstra - about half way between those two towns). You will not get an ordinary ticket for the train, but your seat number will be sent to you by email. Remember that you must keep ALL receipts, stubs of tickets, boarding cards etc. to get the journey reimbursed (for those of you who are eligible for funding). After the course you have to fill in the form(s) below. Look at the example below for how to fill in the travel expenses form. For those of you having a Norwegian bank account: fill in your bank account number. Others have to fill in the bank form as well. Send the form(s) and receipts to Kristin Hagen, ILN, Pb. 1102 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway • Travel expenses form • Example: Travel expenses form • Bank form Weather It is likely to be somewhat colder at Fefor than in Oslo, given its altitude. At the moment (May 22) it is around 10 degrees Celsius. The snow has melted now. Two important sources of information about the weather: The Fefor webcam: http://www.robaxe.com/webcam/webcam.jpg Weather forecast for Fefor, in English: http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Oppland/Nord-Fron/Fefor/ Activities Given the nice location, the course program has a break at lunch time with various activities to get some fresh air and enjoy the scenery. You should therefore be prepared to have footwear that is comfortable for walking, ideally sturdy and with a high sole (in case the ground is soggy). There is also a swimming pool at the hotel. Packing list: Clothes A warm sweater Good walking shoes (trainers or mountain boots) A rain proof coat Woolen hat and gloves (just in case) Swimming trunks/bathing suit Other things Lap-top Ear-phones/head set Reading list Sun lotion Corpora links that will be used at the course Who can attend the course The course aims at PhD and research students in language studies and linguistics. Applicants will be selected according to these criteria: position/degree, research project and country of home institution. Application deadline is 15. April, and notification will be given by 25. April 2009. Course contents Its main aim is to highten the awareness of future researchers in the importance of a thorough and scientific sound use of empirical data. The course will offer lectures in principles and methods of data collection, and the students will learn to do annotation ranging from transcription to grammatical tagging. The course will further show examples of how good data collections, corpora, have been used for language research, and in particular, for syntax. The staff are top scholars in linguistics and language technology, plus technical staff from the UiO Text Laboratory. Cost Students from the Nordic countries can participate in the course for free and get their costs for travelling covered; those from the Baltic countries can participate in the course for free and have to cover 30% of the costs for travelling themselves. Course participants from other countries can participate in the course for free and have to cover the costs for travelling themselves. Course credits can be arranged.
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Time and place
2.-6. June 2009. (Participants are expected to stay the whole period, and arrive the night before.) Fefor Høifjellshotell, 3 hours by train from Oslo airport Gardermoen to Vinstra station.

NEW: Practical information
Below you will find practical information about reading list, your travel, the weather at Fefor, activities, packing list etc. This information will be updated regularly.

Reading list
You will find the reading list for the course here. Print out and bring it to Fefor.

Paper
Those of you who want or need ECTS (European Credit Transfer Scheme) points should write the following paper (worth 5 points):

Please answer all three questions.
1) How can linguists make use of infrastructure tools in their research?
2) What methods are used by computational linguists for POS tagging?
3) What challenges exist w.r.t. transcription of spoken language?
Total length of paper: 12-15 pages (including figures and references)
The deadline for submission is 15. August, and you'll get a diploma stating your course work and your points by 15 September. Please send your submissions to Janne Bondi Johannessen.

Travel
Our train is the one that goes from Oslo to Trondheim (with our stop being Vinstra - about half way between those two towns). You will not get an ordinary ticket for the train, but your seat number will be sent to you by email.

Remember that you must keep ALL receipts, stubs of tickets, boarding cards etc. to get the journey reimbursed (for those of you who are eligible for funding). After the course you have to fill in the form(s) below. Look at the example below for how to fill in the travel expenses form. For those of you having a Norwegian bank account: fill in your bank account number. Others have to fill in the bank form as well. Send the form(s) and receipts to Kristin Hagen, ILN, Pb. 1102 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway

• Travel expenses form
• Example: Travel expenses form
• Bank form

Weather
It is likely to be somewhat colder at Fefor than in Oslo, given its altitude. At the moment (May 22) it is around 10 degrees Celsius. The snow has melted now. Two important sources of information about the weather:
The Fefor webcam: http://www.robaxe.com/webcam/webcam.jpg
Weather forecast for Fefor, in English: http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Oppland/Nord-Fron/Fefor/

Activities
Given the nice location, the course program has a break at lunch time with various activities to get some fresh air and enjoy the scenery. You should therefore be prepared to have footwear that is comfortable for walking, ideally sturdy and with a high sole (in case the ground is soggy). There is also a swimming pool at the hotel.

Packing list:

Clothes
A warm sweater
Good walking shoes (trainers or mountain boots)
A rain proof coat
Woolen hat and gloves (just in case)
Swimming trunks/bathing suit

Other things
Lap-top
Ear-phones/head set
Reading list
Sun lotion

Corpora links that will be used at the course

Who can attend the course
The course aims at PhD and research students in language studies and linguistics. Applicants will be selected according to these criteria: position/degree, research project and country of home institution. Application deadline is 15. April, and notification will be given by 25. April 2009.

Course contents
Its main aim is to highten the awareness of future researchers in the importance of a thorough and scientific sound use of empirical data. The course will offer lectures in principles and methods of data collection, and the students will learn to do annotation ranging from transcription to grammatical tagging. The course will further show examples of how good data collections, corpora, have been used for language research, and in particular, for syntax. The staff are top scholars in linguistics and language technology, plus technical staff from the UiO Text Laboratory.

Cost
Students from the Nordic countries can participate in the course for free and get their costs for travelling covered; those from the Baltic countries can participate in the course for free and have to cover 30% of the costs for travelling themselves. Course participants from other countries can participate in the course for free and have to cover the costs for travelling themselves.

Course credits can be arranged.

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