Hotel Information Workshop Location Schedule Relevant Links Contact Information

Hotel and Transportation Information Local hotels: Westin Waltham-Boston 70 3rd Ave Waltham, MA 02451 (781) 290-5600 Cost: $189-$229 per night Courtyard Marriott Waltham 387 Winter Street Waltham , MA 02451 (781) 419-0900 A block of rooms has been reserved at the Courtyard Marriott for $149/night under the name First Workshop on Unified Linguistic Annotation. Reservations must be made by February 5th. The Westin and Courtyard hotels are both about a 10 minute taxi ride away from Brandeis. Marriott Boston Newton 2345 Commonwealth Ave Auburndale, MA 02466 (617) 969-1000 Cost: $209-$239 The Marriott Boston Newton is about 5 minutes away from Brandeis via taxi. Getting to the hotels: None of the hotels located near Brandeis have shuttle service to or from Logan Airport. The easiest way to reach the hotels is to take a taxi from the airport to the hotel, which will cost around $40-$50. The cheaper but longer way is to take the Logan Airport shuttle to the Airport Station stop on the Blue subway line. From there, get on the blue line going towards Bowdoin (make sure to get on going the right direction), and get off at the Government Center stop. From there, go up the stairs and get on a Green D line train. Take that train all the way to the end (Riverside station). From there, catch a taxi to your hotel--it'll be from 5-10 minutes. Total fare: $10-$15, time: 90 minutes The MBTA is Boston's public transportation service and will probably be able to help you plan your trip if you want to stay at hotels other than the ones listed. Here is a link to phone numbers of cab companies in Boston. Workshop Location The workshop will take place in the multi-function room in the Shapiro Campus Center at Brandeis University (415 South Street, Waltham, MA). A map of the campus with the Shapiro Center highlighted can be seen here. Schedule/Agenda A full schedule will be made available in the next few days. In the meantime, here is the skeleton structure for help with your trip planning: 2/13 8:30- 9:15 - coffee and bagels 9:15 - opening remarks 12:15 - lunch 7:00 - dinner 2/14 8:30 - coffee 9:00 - start 12:00 - lunch 4:30 - end Agenda Goals of the Unified Linguistic Annotation Effort Presentations on Individual Annotation Efforts PropBank NomBank TimeML Opinion Corpus Penn Discourse TB Progress on Pairwise integration: NYU annotation merging effort Colorado's work linking PropBank to TimeML via event id's Brandeis Linking PDTB with TimeML Brandeis Linking PropBank Time Adjuncts and TimeML U. of Pittsburgh Linking Opinion Annotation and TimeML U. of Pittsburgh Linking Opinion Annotation and PDTB Brandeis XBank Browser Overview of OntoNotes and its treatment of eventive nominals UIMA as an environment and/or platform for integration Integration with Treebanking efforts Multilingual Annotation Issues American National Corpus Integration of all Ontonotes annotations Adjustments to the schedule will be made to accommodate people's travel needs. Relevant Links The X-bank Browser is a browser containing the merged annotations from PropBank, NomBank, Discourse TreeBank and TimeBank. Contact Any questions about the ULA workshop should be directed to Amber Stubbs (astubbs AT cs.brandeis.edu)