Meeting between Polderland and Divvun (and UiTø project)

Participants

Polderland:

• Frank Nusselder (dev.)
• Inge de Mönnink sales manag. - did not participate in the meeting)
• Peter Beinema (project manager)

Divvun/Saami Parliament:

• Sjur Moshagen (project manager, speller & technical issues)
• Børre Gaup (everything-man: testing, corpus)
• Maaren Palismaa (North Saami linguist, working on mondays and tuesdays)
• Thomas Omma (North and Lule Saami linguist)
• Tomi Pieski (softw. eng.)

University/disambiguation project:

• Trond Trosterud (project manager, computational linguist)
• Saara Huhmarniemi (soft. eng.)

Communication channels

Mail

E-mail addresses available upon request (to reduce spam).

AIM

Also AIM screen names are available upon requests (but the Divvun screen names can be found on other pages on this site).

News

• server: news.uit.no
• group: uit.samiskspraak.giellateknologiija

The news server requires username and password, and does only allow connections from selected domains.

Bugzilla

[http://giellatekno.uit.no/bugzilla/] where you may register yourself

Documentation

To be found at: [http://www.divvun.no/]

Agenda:

• presentation
• proj. schedule
• linguistic questions:
  • samples of full paradigm or derivates from one stem
• technical questions:
  • conversion from Divvun format to PLX(?)
  • will PLX be the target format?
  • finite state or “traditional” Polderland solution?
• formalities:
  • publicity of shared documents

Schedule

Planned drop dates:

• alpha: 2006-11-01
• beta: 2007-04-01
• final: 2007-09-01 latest

Project issues

Coordination meetings every Tuesday morning, 9:30 unless agreed otherwise.

	Project phases
	Project Progress measurement
	Testing (including acceptance testing)
	Risk management
	Lexical sample material
	Cooperative development (e.g., form of lexical material)
	Staff availability


	Spelling Checker:
		* can internal spelling lexicon be based on Polderland PLX format,
			or is an extension with e.g. automata necessary?
		==> requires analysis of sample material:
			- level of agglutination
			- sound / letter changes in agglutination
			- agglutination vs. compounding


	Hyphenator:
		* are lists of hyphenated words available?
		* there are rule sets in the XFST formalism that will insert
		  hyphenation points in the input string

	Mac applications:
		* PowerPC vs. Intel? - both
		* XCode vs. CodeWarrior?

Linguistic issues

Basic grammar information can be found at: [http://www.risten.no/bakgrunn/gram/sme/index_no.html]

Tags for derivation

These tags will get a common prefix (+Der/ replacing +) in a near future.

+adda +ahtti +alla +asti +easti +aš +d +eaddji +eamoš +amoš +eapmi +g +geahtes +gielat !better: +Der/NuA

+h +heapmi +hudda +huhtti +huvva +halla +j +l +laš +las +hat

+meahttun +muš +n +st +stuvva +upmi +supmi +us +vuohta +lágan

+Dimin +viđá +viđi +veara +duohke +duohkai +vuolle +vuollai +vuolde +š <== Dim +goahti <== inchoative

Output from the disambiguator

"<gulle>"
        "gullat" V TV Ind Prt Pl3 @+FMAINV
"<álggu>"
        "álgu" N Sg Gen @GP>
"<rájes>"
        "rájes" Po @ADVL
"<girkoeiseválddiide>"
        "girkoeise#váldi" N Pl Ill @ADVL
"<,>"
        "," CLB
"<bismmaide>"
        "bisma" N Pl Ill @ADVL
"<,>"