SC meeting 2011.04.29

Agenda

1. status report
2. news :) happy news
3. other issues WP3 meeting Confirm dates of next project meeting in Sept.

Participants: OC, AR, LC, JS, BP, SN

Status report

AR: extension of MOLTO (great review points) but now there are some issues and extension is not so sure. We should know in the first days of May. Extension would mean 2 new case studies. Adam Slaski was extended to work 4 months, Adam and Ramon worked on the grammar for the patent case study, they will present on Tuesday. You can join by Skype. AR contacted Patrizia Biani and reply was hopeful that the corpus will be made available soon. LC: we decided people would concentrate on text, leaving chemical compound names aside. Is that what is happening? AR: yes, this is what is happening. LC: good because we have an interest in that wrt to lexicon. AR: TH has developed further the editor, next version will have improved server connection and better feedback. I myself worked on WP6 related issues, in rendering logical connectives. WP8 work on grammars has also started but I have not seen any concrete result yet.

LC: we had few demos of the term factory system and we are moving it to the uni server so it will be available to the public. Combination with mediawiki and semantic wiki is interesting for our contact with Lea Laitinen (?) from a project funded by the Academy of Finland. Term factory basic tools are embeddable in platform like mediawiki, and we are planning to try it on Drupal. Full Ontology editor for the MOLTO translation tool is ready and will be integrated as lexicon editor.

BP: finishing deliverable on data models and alignments, with aspects related to the museum use case, the EN-FI wordnet, and also more general aspects. It is a document. Afterward we will load the same mappings, once we get the new server going. In the end we will have 1 repository with all the data sets loaded. We worked on the query infrastructure on top of DBpedia. PM is now in Academia, he comes to meet once a month, and we have now several people working on MOLTO. We are trying to recruit a new person with a different profile.

OC: remind to BP and LC that there are revision of deliverables due, D4.1 and D9.1. Please take a look.

JS: cannot report about status of WP5 but we have new recruit. XSD has stopped because of his work load, he cannot work day to day. MG, Aris is new person working on WP6, operations layers is going on. OM layer is working and we need to test and evaluate it. Current Treebank is 140 productions in English, local experts have said it is ok. We have to add all other languages. Main task for Aris is to fix bugs - can you guys (local experts) fix your own bugs in the meantime?

LC: WP9 has to define how to do the testing and debugging of WP6 layer done.

AR: treebank is a great starting point. we should think of a tool allowing to annotate the translations. we could start with few languages to define the methodology and then scale up.

JS: for deadline 1st June, we do 4 languages in our core.

OC: MOLTO project will be at EAMT 2011, 30-31 May 2011.

LC: we suggest 31 May 2011. 26 May 2011 in Helsinki - try to agree.

News

MOLTO extension is probable but not sure yet.

Other issues

Date was 31 Aug - 2 Sep. 2011. This is now fixed and UHEL will make reservations. If extension goes thru we will have 2 new nodes. Invited speakers should be decided. UHEL will contact several groups and people for the Open Day.