Event title: PARSEME 5th general meeting

Location: Iaşi, Romania

Dates: 23-24 September 2015 (probably followed by a tour on Friday 25 September with one night at your own cost)

Invited speaker: Dr Mike Dillinger, Senior Program Manager, Machine Translation, LinkedIn, California (NEW! Mike Dillinger's invited talk "MWEs in industrial applications" unfortunately had to be canceled).

Colocated event: PARSEME WG1 hands-on workshop on lexical encoding of MWEs, 21-22 September

Hosting Institution: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iaşi, Romania

Organizing Institutions: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romanian Academy Institute for Artificial Intelligence Mihai DrƒÉgƒÉnescu, Bucharest, Romania

Local Organizers: Corina Forascu, Dan Cristea, Dan Tufiş

NEW! Several other photos from the workshop are also available.

Local information :

• here you can find information about Romania & Iasi and how to get to Iasi (updated: 16.09.2015)
  
• http://bit.do/PARSEME-TRIPS (same link, but the long string of characters - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UlrOOShRvXiBe1qDHA79ajFRHXM25tbw5eCDRaKTj0E/edit ) - about the trips you can take: please note that if you will participate in one of these trips, you are kindly asked to register using either: 
  • the form for the one day trip: http://bit.do/PARSEME-one-day-trip (or, alternative link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z_C2pmXJR_CNEO-8wecuzaEGg5WLBcw3vOqz-7H2Tac/viewform ) OR
  • the form for the TWO day trip: http://bit.do/PARSEME-TWO-days-trip  (or, alternative link - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1q-Rj0sEj3Sw1MZmg_wD75sKORslyzkKuGPKwY_ujtrE/viewform )

Posters: The list of the admitted posters (soon with downloadable abstracts, slides and poster files) and the instructions for authors are now available . See also the call for poster proposals (extended submission deadline: 26 May 2 June 2015).

Registration: If you wish to participate in the meeting, please, register before 15 July 2015 by filling out the registration form. The Steering Committee will select those registered candidates who will be entitled to reimbursement of their travel and stay. An official e-COST invitation is the formal confirmation of the reimbursement grant.

Program:

Conference venues:

• Senate Hall [S] - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, main building (A)
• Ferdinand Hall [F] - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, main building (A)
• Hall of the Lost Steps [H] - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, main building (A)

Linguistic skills: start practicing "interesting" Romanian MWE here.

Accommodation: the old city centre, at 10 minutes walking distance from the University, offers a good selection of restaurants, bars, cafes. Special PARSEME rates are negotiated with the Unirea hotel

Unirea Hotel offers special rates: 205 lei (single), 242 lei (double) ‚Äì the price includes breakfast & taxes, free WiFi, access to Unirea Spa, free parking; you can say hello to your friends at home directly through the live webcam. To book, send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and mention PARSEME and the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi special rates for this PARSEME meeting. (Reviews from TripAdvisor - http://goo.gl/nBf7TY )

Traian Hotel is almost door-to-door with the Unirea hotel, with comparable prices and offer, but fewer places

Other options – from booking.com - http://goo.gl/K72yxL - check for the period of your stay.

Reimbursement: In order to apply for the reimbursement for this meeting, please accept the invitation that will be sent to you via e-COST before the meeting. After the meeting, fill in the reimbursement form that will be available online via the COST system and send electronically all relevant signed documents to the Grant Holder, as indicated in the reimbursement form. Before making any arrangements read general rules for the reimbursement described also in the Vademecum, pp. 19-23, especially the local transport part. External members (who have not received the e-COST invitation) can also participate freely but will not be reimbursed for their travel and stay.

For both meetings in Iaşi the hotel reimbursement rate is 60 EUR per night (flat rate). The number of the reimbursed nights is equal to the number of attended workshop/meeting days plus 1 (maximum one night before and one night after the meeting).

All participants will pay meal expenses in cash at the registration desk (60 EUR per person for 2 lunches and 1 dinner provided by the local organiser) and then they will be reimbursed for all meals (lunch and dinner on each day) at flat rate of 20 EUR per meal after the meeting.

Participants attending both WG1 workshop and the general meeting, will be reimbursed for their travel with the general meeting's OTRR.