===== Malá Skála 2012 =====

==== Thursday, September 20 ====
//12:30-13:30	lunch//

**14:00-16:00** 

  * Bára Vidová: Čapek (ca 30 min)
  * Loganathan: tba  (ca 30 min)
  * Manh-Ke Tran: tba (ca 30 min)
  * Lucie Poláková: Genre specification for the PDT - a topic for discussion (ca 15 min)
  * Michal Novák: Utilization of context in Machine Translation (ca 15 min)
                
//16:00-16:30 	tea & coffee//

**16:30-18:30**

  * short personal and project presentations {{:short_presentations_mala_skala_2012.pdf|pdf}} 	

//18:30-19:30 	dinner//

**20:00-21:30     UFAL BEST PAPERS**

  * Green Nathan David: Effects of Noun Phrase Bracketing in Dependency Parsing and Machine Translation. ACL Student Session 2011
  * Mírovský Jiří, Mladová Lucie, Zikánová Šárka: Connective-Based Measuring of the Inter-Annotator Agreement in the Annotation of Discourse in PDT. Coling 2010
  * David Mareček and Zdeněk Žabokrtský: Exploiting Reducibility in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing. EMNLP-CoNLL 2012

  * Majliš Martin: Yet Another Language Identifier. EACL Student Session 2012 (will not be presented)
  * Alber Kim, Jana Strakova: Concurrent effects of lexical status and letter-rotation during early stages of visual word recognition: evidence from ERPs. Brain Research. 1468, 52-62, 2012 (presented last year)
  * Silvie Cinková, Martin Holub, Vincent Kriz: Managing Uncertainty in Semantic Tagging. EACL 2012 (will not be presented)

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==== Friday, September 21 ====
//8:00-9:00	breakfast//

**9:00-10:00** 

  * Bára Vidová: A Survey of Tools for NLP from UFAL (BH: //This slot is intended to be a discussion on tools available at UFAL, mainly how to present them outside research institutions. I'll get ready a list of topics not to miss. If you have topics to discuss as well, please let me know. I'm sure that not everyone will be interested in. So don't be guilty to sleep till 10 and join us for a coffee break:-))// 

//10:00-10:30	tea & coffee//

**10:30-12:30** 

  * PhD program in Mathematical Linguistics (Zdeněk Žabokrtský)

//12:30-13:30	lunch//


//16:00-16:30	tea & coffee//

**16:30-18:30** 

  * Authors' rights, licensing, ... (Honza Hajič, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Pavel Straňák)

//18:30-19:30 	dinner//

**20:00-21:30**

  * New ÚFAL Website

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==== Saturday, September 22 ====
//8:00-9:00	breakfast//

**9:00-11:00** 

  * PDT - the present and the future (Jarmila Panevová, Honza Štěpánek)
  * PDT 3.0 - inside info

//11:00-11:30	tea & coffee//

**11:30-12:30** 

  * Grants and finance - TAČR, new system of research funding (Honza Hajič)

===== Arrival, accomodation, meals, and other practical issues =====
Venue: Hotel Kavka at Mala Skala, Cesky Raj (the same place as last 
September)
Arrival: Thursday September 20, before lunch
Departure: Sunday September 23, 2012
Working days: Thu, Fri, Sat morning

As usual, the institute covers accommodation and meals (lunch on Thu - lunch on Sat; tap water with each meal) for all employees and students. 
Unless otherwise stated, the institute will cover the hotel invoice, i.e. 
* accomodation for all participants (including family members) Thu-Sat
* meals for all participants (lunch on Thu - lunch on Sat)
Ms. Brdickova will kindly ask you for reimbursement for your family members in arrears.

You can prolong your stay till Sunday, the hotel is booked - in such case, please cover costs from Sat dinner yourselves.