An educational system of UNL "UNL school" is established. The purpose of the school is to train people who are interested in participating in the collaborative works of development of UNL-related modules, tools and applications. Well-trained trainees will be selected as trainers through the courses. The role of such trainers is to assist teaching in the courses. The UNDL Foundation organizes courses for the school two or three times a year in principle. The place to have a course is decided according to where major participants are. Participants of the courses of UNL school must be members of the UNL Society and necessary agreements such as UDS and/or Universal Parser (UP) (for people who use the UP) license agreements need to be signed.
Contents of UNL school
Every participant has to understand the UNL when participating the courses. This is fundamental. Based on this, the courses are divided into different topics such as deconverter, enconverter, UW and/or MD (Master Definition), tools and applications according to the necessity.
Period of a UNL school
A school is held during a period of one to two weeks.
Events
Courses of UNL school have been organized by the UNDL Foundation:
10 - 17 July 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
6 - 10 Mar 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
28 Aug - 8 Sep 2005, Geneva, Switzerland
21 Feb - 3 Mar 2005, Alexandria, Egypt
26 Nov - 12 Dec 2004, Alexandria, Egypt
4 -13 Jun 2003, Mumbai, India
Materials
Specifications of UNL (including UW), EnCo and DeCo, and manuals of Universal Parser and UNL annotation are basically used in the courses. And, additional materials will be prepared separately every time according to the contents of each course.
Some slides of explanations and examples for exercises that ever used in the UNL school are available at http://www.undl.org/unlschool/.
UNL School