!!!Meeting setup * Date: 13.11.2006 * Time: 09.30 Norw. time * Place: Where we are * Tools: SubEthaEdit, iChat !!!Agenda # Opening, agenda review # Reviewing the task list from two weeks ago # Documentation - divvun.no # Corpus gathering # Corpus infrastructure # Infrastructure # Linguistics # name lexicon infrastructure # Spellers # Other issues # Summary, task lists # Closing !!!1. Opening, agenda review, participants Opened at 09:50. Present: __Børre, Sjur, Thomas, Tomi, Trond__ Absent: __Maaren, Saara__ Agenda accepted as is. !!!2. Updated task status since last meeting !! Børre * contact writers who already have received contracts ** Not done * consider a script for automatic testing of the spell checker in Word ** Not done * consider more testing routines ** Not done * update Maaren's Forrest installation to r430284 ** Not done * {{sma}} discussions with SD (with __Sjur__, __Trond__) ** Not done * report improvements in aligner back to __Øystein__ ** Cleaned up tca2 to presentable state, sent the sources to him * add a simple password protection to risten.no in the G5 ** Not done * consider infra for testing feedback ** Not done * get an Intel Mac for testing Windows spellers; get a WinXP license from SD ** Not done * check corpus contract issue ** Not done * port all i18n work to the main branch (from the i18n branch) ** Not done * update all forrest installations, including local patches ** Not done * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla] ** Not done * other work: ** Cleaned up in forrest. Fixed broken links, helped Trond with gtuit. ** Moved Norwegian texts in Min Áigi ** Searched for documents in the Sami Parliaments archive system ** Worked on the rename script to Richard Valkeapää (NSI). Done. ** Worked on aspell ** Worked on wordlist !! Maaren * investigate the generated word form list sent to Polderland - use the command {{make wordlist TARGET=sme}} in ''victorio'' * investigate unrecognised word forms in the hyphenator * create / check the paradigm grammar as exemplified above !! Saara * add more texts to the graphical corpus interface * finalize server of the Xerox tools. ** waiting for the grammar for paradigm generator * generate parallel corpus files manually (with __Trond__) * export corpus tools to location available to all (with cron), cf news disc. ** done by copy_bin.sh and weekly cron script. * help Trond with some shell commands * plan the word form generator / data conversion script ** what was this again.. * other: ** Implement upload of multiple files with the same metainfo *** finally done, should be tested ** create better versions of the bibles *** done for smj nt, sme nt in progress, see news discussion about the format. * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla] ** done some !! Sjur * name lexicon: ** refactor SD-terms editor code ** implement missing propnouns editing functions ** implement improvements decided upon in Tromsø * hire linguist and programmer * investigate unrecognised word forms in the hyphenator ** done * decide how to specify compounding behaviour info in the lexicon ** no further discussion * {{sma}} discussions with SD (with __Børre__, __Trond__) * check why some SUB-marked entries got included in the normative transducer ** not done * remove comparation from ''-laš'' derivations ** done * plan the word form generator / data conversion script ** done * consider a script for automatic testing of the spell checker in Word * consider more testing routines * consider infra for testing feedback * get an Intel Mac for testing Windows spellers; get a WinXP license from SD * ask Julie Eira about SD employee seminar * check corpus contract issue * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla] * other: ** done a lot with the {{sme}} transducers, especially related to getting control over the derivations !! Thomas * refine {{smj}} proper noun lexica, cf. the propernoun-smj-lex.txt ** nothing done * find and study all derived words in our corpus (with __Trond__) ** done * suggest which derivations could be generated ** done * investigate unrecognised word forms in hyphenator ** done * decide how to specify compounding behaviour info in the lexicon ** nothing done * check why some SUB-marked entries got included in the normative transducer ** not done * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla] ** worked !! Tomi * continue implementation of the speller lexicon conversion ** continues * add hyphenation points to the generated output ** not done * plan the word form generator / data conversion script ** not done * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla] !! Trond * refine {{smj}} proper noun lexica, cf. the propernoun-smj-lex.txt ** Had a look at these, but not together with Thomas. Work still to be done. * get more {{sma}} texts, first the Bible / NT ** Discussed with Ove Lorentz, not yet Bible * add corpus user accounts and access issues to Bugzilla * fix the corpus tag list in the {{cwb/}} directory ** Discussed corpus tag issues in the disamb team, not ready to revise cwb/ yet * investigate unrecognised word forms in the hyphenator ** Have had problems compiling the hyphenator, concentrated first upon the generator * decide how to specify compounding behaviour info in the lexicon ** Issue still open * {{sma}} discussions with SD (with __Børre__, __Sjur__) * check corpus contract issue ** Only smj last week, and speller generation automat issues. * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla]. !!!3. Documentation TODO: * update all forrest installations, including local patches (__Børre__) ** did some * port all i18n work to the main branch (from the i18n branch) (__Børre__) !!!4. Corpus gathering __TODO:__ * continue to help NSI to get their corpus (__Børre__) ** fixed their filename renaming script * get {{sma}} Bible / NT texts (__Trond__) ** still no contact with the priest * Discussions with the Sámi Parliament about {{sma}} (__Børre, Sjur__) * send the filename renaming script to NSI; get their corpus (__Børre__) !!!5. Corpus infrastructure Nothing new on any of the sub-issues. !!User accounts and access TODO: * add the issue with subissues to Bugzilla (__Trond__) !!More texts to the graphical corpus interface: TODO: * add text to the server (__Lars__) !!Aligner __TODO:__ * report improvements in aligner back to __Øystein__ (__Børre__) ** done * gather more parallel texts (__Trond__) * try out NT alignment strategies (__Saara__) !!Language recognition TODO: * get more {{sma}} texts, first the Bible / NT (__Trond__) !!!6. Infrastructure !!Xerox tools wrapped as servers Tomi has modified the server a bit, causing it to __NOT__ work with the perl client at the moment. It should not be a big deal to fix it (three lines?). __Saara__ will fix it. __TODO:__ * improve and finish the present prototype (__Saara__) ** done, except for the paradigm generation (needs paradigm grammar) * fix the corpus tag list in the {{cwb/}} directory (__Trond__) * create / check the paradigm grammar as exemplified above (__Thomas__) ** not done !!Hyphenator TODO: * make new list of unrecognised forms (__Sjur__) * investigate unrecognised word forms (__Maaren, Thomas, Trond, Sjur__) !!!7. Linguistics !!Names and multilinguality We need a more principled approach to this. Background: the name lexicon is getting attention from the SD name/terminology sections, and they would like to use our name lexicon also for public searching. Observations: 1) Multilinguality is always optional. 2) We can observe that "foreign" names in texts follows a domination pattern: majority language forms can be found in minority language texts as real names ("Kautokeino produkter"), whereas minority language names ''almost always'' occur in majority language texts as citations. And citations should not be considered a natural part of the text. 3) When looking at our name classification, multilinguality varies according to: {{{ Ani - weak/none? (pet, myth anim. names) Fem - weak (informative) Mal - weak (informative) Obj - strong Org - strong Plc - strong for the national and country names, weak (informative) for foreign names Sur - none Tit - strong (titles) }}} Suggestion: We need to reconsider the ''all names in all languages'' policy. That policy is valid only for {{Fem, Mal,}} and {{Sur}} (and Ani and Tit?). For {{Obj, Org, Plc}} the rule should be that if they have multilingual names, each name should only be used in it's own language. Then we need a modification saying that majority language names can be included in minority language lexicons __if attested__ in our corpus. Also, the majority language varies according to country (obviously), which means that in a speller context, we might consider tailoring spellers for each country, leaving out noise relating to majority language names from another country. A further issue is whether we should reconsider our cohort policy. Today, Sur and Plc are __different__ readings. An alternative would be to have them as secondary tags, not in conflict with each other: {{{ "" "Trosterud" N Prop Sur Sg Nom <<< @HNOUN "Trosterud" N Prop Plc Sg Nom <<< @HNOUN "" "Trosterud" N Prop Sg Nom <<< @HNOUN "" "Trosterud" N Prop Sg Nom &Sur &Plc <<< @HNOUN }}} TODO: * separate meeting for discussing this issue, Tuesday 14.11 after lunch (12.30) (__Trond, Thomas, Sjur__) !!Derivation and spellers like Aspell Done all for {{sme}}, needs to be redone for (or ported to) {{smj}}. TODO: * find and study all derived words in our corpus (__Thomas__ and __Trond__) ** done * suggest which derivations could be generated (__Thomas__) ** done * lexicalise the rest (__Thomas__) ** to be done as they are found * redo the work for {{smj}}, including discussion regarding ''Actio'' (__Thomas, Sjur, Trond__) !!North Sámi The following words are included in the normative list despite being marked with !SUB: {{{ accompagnerejun ábuhuvvože ábuhuvvože ábuhit+V+TV+Pass+Pot+Prs+Du1 áccohallagođežedne }}} TODO: * investigate the generated word form list sent to Polderland - use the command {{make pl-wordlist TARGET=sme}} in ''victorio'' (__Maaren__, __Thomas__) ** done, to be redone (many times:-) * check why some SUB-marked entries got included in the normative transducer (__Thomas, Sjur__) * remove comparation from ''-laš'' derivations (__Thomas, Sjur__) ** done !!Lule Sámi TODO: * refine {{smj}} proper noun lexica, cf. the propernoun-smj-lex.txt (__Thomas, Trond__) ** __Trond__ had a short look at it, needs more work * hire new linguist (__Sjur__) !!!8. Name lexicon infrastructure Decided in Tromsø: * add logging facilities to the interface * add option to download local copies of the lexicon files directly from the db * batch editing (change all entries in the found set), should later be enhanced to allow selection of exceptions (the found set minus deselected items) * tag for excluding/including a name from certain applications * future epxansion: choose what info to display in the single language browser * display existing language entries when adding a new language to a record * add editor to change single, existing entries Details can be found in [the meeting memo.|/doc/admin/physical_meetings/tromso-2006-08-propnoun.html] TODO: * develop the needed XQueries and UI (__Sjur, Tomi__) * add a simple password protection to risten.no in the G5 (__Børre__) Postponed: * data synchronisation between risten.no and the cvs repo * new version of xml2lexc (based on ccat), should handle complex names correct: construct entries like we have now from the different parts of a complex name entry !!!9. Spellers !!Speller data generation __Tomi__ has made further improvements to the lexc2xspell code, and __Sjur__ and __Tomi__ had a short meeting on the feature set of it. We have asked for the full PLX specification to be able to output correct entries. __TODO:__ * decide how to specify compounding behaviour info for the lexicon (__Thomas, Trond, Sjur__) * make first version of the PLX data generation (__Tomi__) * add hyphenation points to the generated output (__Tomi__) !!Automatic testing of the Word spellchecker It should be possible to write a script that runs texts through Word from the command line, using a combination of shell script and AppleScript. MS Word has the needed AppleScript commands to run the spell checker. TODO: * consider a script for automatic testing (__Sjur, Børre__) * consider more testing routines (__Sjur, Børre__) * consider infra for testing feedback (__Børre, Sjur__) * get an Intel Mac for testing Windows spellers; get a WinXP license from SD (__Børre, Sjur__) !!Aspell __Børre__ has worked on the Aspell code, mainly to be able to explain how it works and help out one external, interested person. Further discussion was forgotten, will be brought up in the next meeting. TODO: * revitalize the Aspell work (__Børre, Sjur, Tomi__) !!!10. Other !!Corpus contracts TODO: * check corpus contract issue in a meeting Wednesday 9.30 (__Børre, Sjur, Trond__) * publish corpus contracts and infra on NoDaLi-sta (__Sjur__) !!Bug fixing __61__ open Divvun/Disamb bugs, and __24__ risten.no bugs Guess: 1/3 of the bugs are fixed already (?) !!Task lists as iCal entries TODO: * update Maaren's Forrest installation to r430284 (__Børre__) !!Employee seminar in Alta SD has an employee seminar in Alta 7.-8. December - should we go there? __Sjur__ will ask __Julie Eira__ if we have to go there. TODO: * ask Julie Eira about SD employee seminar (__Sjur__) !!!11. Next meeting, closing Closed at 10:33. !!!Appendix - task lists for the next week !! Boerre [iCal|/doc/admin/weekly/2006/Tasks_2006-11-13_Boerre.ics] * contact writers who already have received contracts * send file rename script to NSI; get their corpus * consider a script for automatic testing of the spell checker in Word * consider more testing routines * update Maaren's Forrest installation to r430284 * {{sma}} discussions with SD (with __Sjur__, __Trond__) * add a simple password protection to risten.no in the G5 * consider infra for testing feedback * get an Intel Mac for testing Windows spellers; get a WinXP license from SD * check corpus contract issue * port all i18n work to the main branch (from the i18n branch) * update all forrest installations, including local patches * revitalize the Aspell work * check corpus contract issue in a meeting Wednesday 9.30 * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla] !! Maaren [iCal|/doc/admin/weekly/2006/Tasks_2006-11-13_Maaren.ics] * investigate the generated word form list sent to Polderland - use the command {{make wordlist TARGET=sme}} in ''victorio'' * investigate unrecognised word forms in the hyphenator !! Saara [iCal|/doc/admin/weekly/2006/Tasks_2006-11-13_Saara.ics] * finalize server of the Xerox tools. * help Trond with some shell commands * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla] !! Sjur [iCal|/doc/admin/weekly/2006/Tasks_2006-11-13_Sjur.ics] * name lexicon: ** refactor SD-terms editor code ** implement missing propnouns editing functions ** implement improvements decided upon in Tromsø * hire linguist and programmer * make new list of unrecognised forms in the hyphenator * investigate unrecognised word forms in the hyphenator * decide how to specify compounding behaviour info in the lexicon * {{sma}} discussions with SD (with __Børre__, __Trond__) * check why some SUB-marked entries got included in the normative transducer * consider a script for automatic testing of the spell checker in Word * consider more testing routines * consider infra for testing feedback * get an Intel Mac for testing Windows spellers; get a WinXP license from SD * ask Julie Eira about SD employee seminar * check corpus contract issue * meeting discuss names and multilinguality Tuesday 14.11 12.30 * redo the derived words work for {{smj}} * revitalize the Aspell work * check corpus contract issue in a meeting Wednesday 9.30 * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla] !! Thomas [iCal|/doc/admin/weekly/2006/Tasks_2006-11-13_Thomas.ics] * refine {{smj}} proper noun lexica, cf. the propernoun-smj-lex.txt * redo the derived words work for {{smj}} * investigate unrecognised word forms in hyphenator * decide how to specify compounding behaviour info in the lexicon * check why some SUB-marked entries got included in the normative transducer * create / check the paradigm grammar * investigate the generated word form list sent to Polderland - use the command {{make wordlist TARGET=sme}} in ''victorio'' * meeting discuss names and multilinguality Tuesday 14.11 12.30 * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla] !! Tomi [iCal|/doc/admin/weekly/2006/Tasks_2006-11-13_Tomi.ics] * make first version of the PLX data generation in lexc2xspell * add hyphenation points to the generated output * revitalize the Aspell work * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla] !! Trond [iCal|/doc/admin/weekly/2006/Tasks_2006-11-13_Trond.ics] * refine {{smj}} proper noun lexica, cf. the propernoun-smj-lex.txt * get more {{sma}} texts, first the Bible / NT * add corpus user accounts and access issues to Bugzilla * fix the corpus tag list in the {{cwb/}} directory * investigate unrecognised word forms in the hyphenator * decide how to specify compounding behaviour info in the lexicon * {{sma}} discussions with SD (with __Børre__, __Sjur__) * check corpus contract issue * meeting discuss names and multilinguality Tuesday 14.11 12.30 * redo the derived words work for {{smj}} * check corpus contract issue in a meeting Wednesday 9.30 * [fix bugs!|http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla].