WP11: ACE wiki

inari.listenmaa

Multilingual Online Translation

1. Practical things

ACEwiki is at github. GF version of ACE: code is at grammaticalframework.org darcs repo. Let's not move them to MOLTO svn.

MOLTO semantic wiki -- New branch of ACEwiki in github. Development will be public.

https://github.com/Attempto/ACE-in-GF/tree/master/grammars/acewiki_aceowl - Grammars

https://github.com/Attempto/ACE-in-GF/blob/master/words/acewiki_aceowl/ - Test lexicon

2. Properties of the wiki

  • Dynamically created articles

    • user wants to know everything about word -> they click the word
    • a query is performed to extract all trees that have the word

    • trees are linearized = an article is created

      • users can only click content words; so there wouldn't be an article about "the"
      • how?

  • two views

    • query, dynamic pages
    • pages structured by the user

  • articles written in different grammars - distinct spaces? scope?

  • could we combine facts from different grammar to one dynamic article?
  • searches over text and over trees
  • Decision: Postponed

3. ACE in GF

GF version of ACE doesn't match coverage and precision of the current version of ACE 6.6. (Initial GF ACE was of ACE 6.0.)

  • In progress: ACE to RGL by using the same functor with regular English
  • In progress: Multilingual ACEowl-ACEwiki (subset of ACE) GF grammar

(Size of ACE around half of RGL)

Problems in multilinguality:

  • More general rules to anaphora (rule "latest NP" doesn't work multilingually, different word orders; gender agreement)
    • disambiguation grammar for pronouns, show possible antecedents
    • no pronouns at all?
  • Negative determiners in other languages "no planet is a dwarf-planet"
    • combined negatives "no man loves no woman"
    • have to add manual work, hard to do with functor
  • Decisions: Postponed

4. Promises for the deliverable at the end of May

  • Multilinguality: English, German, Finnish, Urdu, Italian, French, Swedish (, Hindi, Spanish, Catalan?)
  • Simple forms of anaphoric references: definite noun phares, no pronouns. Only one possible antecedent.
  • Geowiki ported to GF
  • Links from cloud-based GF editor to Acewiki and back. Lexicon extension with the editor.