Language Technology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

The Divvun and Giellatekno teams build language technology aimed at minority and indigenous languages

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Meeting setup

Agenda

  1. Opening, agenda review, participants
  2. Reviewing the task list from a week ago
  3. Documentation - divvun.no
  4. Corpus gathering
  5. Corpus infrastructure
  6. Linguistics
  7. Term db
  8. Other issues
    1. Alta employee seminar
  9. Summary, task lists
  10. Closing

Task list since last meeting:

1. Opening, agenda review, participants

Opened at 10.07. Agenda accepted.

Present: Maaren, Sjur, Thomas, Tomi

Away: Trond, Børre

2. Reviewing the task list from the last meeting

3. Documentation - divvun.no

Tomi has added Lucene search facilities in his copy, found some broken links that caused problems for Lucene and fixed them. Lucene requires a patch in our Forrest installation, which Tomi will make available, either via subversion or as a patch he will bring to Alta.

Further discussion postponed due to Børre’s absence.

4. Corpus gathering

Maaren: We’ve received an e-mail from Metsähallitus in Finland, and we will receive material from them.

Further discussion postponed due to Børre’s absence.

5. Corpus infrastructure

Prioritized discussion:

  1. XML format
  2. storage format/organisation
  3. conversion and processing tools

Using this priority, continue the discussion in news and elsewhere.

6. Linguistics

Thomas has finished the general verb walk-through, going through impersonal and modal verbs. Discussion regarding modals to be continued in the newsgroup.

7. Term db

Sjur has been doing a lot, still some tasks, but close to a wrap-up and less activity from Sjur on this job.

8. Other issues

8.1 Alta employee seminar

Everyone bring their computer. Don’t know whether we will have some time, but at least we have the possibility to do technical clean-ups or resolve technical problems if any.

9. Summary, task lists

TODO:

10. Next meeting, closing

Next meeting: 11.04.2005

Closed at 10.55