Meeting setup

• Time: 10.00 Norw. time
• Place: Wherever we are:-)
• Tools: Phone, iChat, SubEthaEdit

1. Opening
2. Last week/since last meeting - short summary from each of us
3. Linguistic priorities ahead - discussion
4. Corpus work:

   collecting

   infrastructure

5. Terminological db
6. Other issues
7. Closing

1. Opening

Meeting opened at 10.43 due to technical problems with SEE and the telephones at Tromsø.

2. Last week/since last meeting

Short summary from each of us:

• Maaren:
  • hasn’t had time, it’s hard to prioritize among other tasks
  • has considered going to Tromsø for a week
• Thomas:
  • Has had problems with CVS, could be network problem.
  • Studied commandline UNIX.
  • Looked at Bugzilla. Too short error messages.
  • talked to Lantmäteriverket, they have started to code place names for language, thus making it possible to extract all and only the Sámi names. Work finished the coming summer.
• Børre:
  • worked on the documentation system (Forrest)
  • ready to run now
  • HTML docs still available. To be evaluated next week (whether we can move the old docs to the attic)

3. Linguistic priorities ahead

Discussion: We need lots of lexicalisation, but we also need systematic testing, checking and development of different parts of the linguistic models. On my (incomplete) list I have:

• inflection for all POSes (under-/overgeneration)
• noun compounding (overgeneration wrt case used for comps - assumption: compounding case does NOT follow from inflectional class; if true, what implications does it have?)

We need a systematic testing plan. To be discussed further in the newsgroup. Thomas to be responsible for the discussions.

4. Corpus work:

• collecting
  • Børre is responsible
  • telephone contact first to people already informed about the project
  • contact Sámi municipalities, the parliaments, author organisations, NSI, Sámi Allaskuvla, Nasjonalbiblioteket i Norge.
  • use Per Edvard Klemetsen (Sjur to clear with Anne Britt first)
  • NSI - what do they have? Min Áigi, Áššu, reports, MA theses
• infrastructure
  • corpus repository and structure
  • internal XML format
  • conversion to internal format, incl. lang id and text struct. markup
  • conversion from int. format to input to preproc.

5. Terminological db

• Committed to cvs
• Tomi has implemented Sámi sorting

6. Other issues

• CVS commit to mail a group of selected people (all?)
  • Trond to check it out(!)
• how to edit the new docs in XML
  • status check next meeting
• new discussion group, new participants:
  • Trond to set up new group
  • Sjur to invite when the group is running
• Lule Sámi:
  • Thomas to contact Anders Kintel, to ask for entry words + infl codes (at best the whole dict.)
• new project members (Trond’s project): Ilona - what should she do?

7. Closing

Closed at 12.47