Meeting setup

• Date: 18.04.2005
• Time: 09.30 Norw. time
• Place: Wherever we are :-)
• Tools: Phone, iChat, SubEthaEdit

Agenda

1. Opening, agenda review
2. Vacation
3. Gathering in May
4. Reviewing the task list from a week ago
5. Documentation - divvun.no
6. Corpus gathering
7. Corpus infrastructure
8. Linguistics
9. Term db
10. Other issues
11. Summary, task lists
12. Closing

Task list since last meeting:

• All:
  • Follow up the corpus format discussion.
  • Decide upon vacation time
  • Views on physical meeting place (May meeting)
• Tomi:
  • Waiting for the corpus xml-format verification, to complete xml-conversion script(s) after that
• Børre:
  • Contact Kimmo Koskenniemi and Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld about contract
  • Follow up on the divvun.no issue, suggest tomcat and .war files
  • Work on the termdb
  • Find a solution for wiki and utf-8
  • Link problems in forrest
  • Contact Min Áigi, discuss technical details
• Maaren: tries to work with the missing list. Else?
• Thomas: work with verb transitivity
• Sjur:
  • terminology db
  • text license contract
  • divvun.no

1. Opening, agenda review, participants

Opened at 09.32. Agenda accepted as is.

Present: Maaren, Sjur, Thomas, Tomi, Trond, Børre

Main secretary: Børre

2. Vacation

• Børre: From the middle of June to the middle of July (tentatively)
• Maaren: Vacation in July, four or five weeks. From week 28 (11.7.-)
• Thomas: From the 11th of July to the 15th of august. Moving to Tromsø in the beginning of June, if he finds house where to live til then.
• Sjur: From the 20th of July to the 10th august (cirka)
• Tomi: If I can borrow vacation weeks, then 2 weeks after mihcamáraid.

Vacation table:

Name	13.-17.6	20.-24.6	27.6-1.7	4.-8.7	11.-15.7	18.-22.7	25.-29.7	1.-5.8	8.-12.8	15.-19.8
Børre	O	X	X	X	X	O	O	O	O	O
Maaren	O	O	O	O	X	X	X	X	X?	O
Thomas	O	O	O	O	X	X	X	X	X	O
Sjur	O	O	O	O	O	x	X	X	x	O
Tomi	O	O	X	X	O	O	O	O	O	O

3. Gathering in May

The meeting will last for three full days, from the 25th of May to the 27th of May.

Topics:

• Install/check 10.4
• Review of the first half year
  • Discussion of what works well and not so well
  • How/what to improve
  • The corpus gathering process
• Linguistic discussions
  • Discuss and plan the Lule-Sámi work

Place: Alternatives: Tromsø and Guovdageaidnu

We set the meeting place to Guovdageaidnu. The next meeting will be in Tromsø.

4. Reviewing the task list from the last meeting

• All:
  • Follow up the corpus format discussion.
    • New meeting today
  • Decide upon vacation time
    • Done
  • Views on physical meeting place (May meeting)
    • Done
• Tomi:
  • Waiting for the corpus xml-format verification, to complete xml-conversion script(s) after that
  • Script is ready
    • Details in meeting later today
• Børre:
  • Contact Kimmo Koskenniemi and Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld about contract
    • Delayed to this week
  • Follow up on the divvun.no issue, suggest tomcat and .war files
    • Closer discussions this week
  • Work on the termdb
    • This one’s almost done
    • How to get “title=” in to the menu.
  • Find a solution for wiki and utf-8
    • Seems to be a locale problem. We’ll see if the problems are fixed in Tiger.
  • Link problems in forrest
    • Will get done this week
  • Contact Min Áigi, discuss technical details
    • Talked to Svein Nordsletta, and they continue their corpus gathering. The technical details on how we aquire the material will be done when we have signed a contract.
  • Went to Pargas
• Maaren: tries to work with the missing list.
  • Went to Pargas, worked with the ‘missing’ list, helped Thomas
• Thomas: work with verb transitivity
  • Continued with it
  • Active discussion on the news group.
• Sjur:
  • terminology db
    • Editing complete enough to be workable
    • Editing did not work upon installation + UTF-8 problems
  • text license contract
    • Nothing done
  • divvun.no
    • Nothing done
  • Went to Pargas

5. Documentation - divvun.no

• The external pages of the univ project should be moved to forrest
  • Børre has done some work on this, Trond and Børre should review the work.
• The Lucene search works for the technically inclined.
  • The rest of us should probably index the site again.

• We should remove the old doc-pages as we proceed

• Deadline for opening www.divvun.no and reopening www.giellatekno.no.
  • Discussions with the webserver administrator will decide upon this issue.
• Continue disc on deployment options

6. Corpus gathering

We still need a license!!!

Børre has been in contact with Iđut (Åge Persen). They/he was very positive towards the project.

7. Corpus infrastructure

Topic for meeting later today.

8. Linguistics

• All said? Mostly, see above.
• The missing lists should be completed when we now have got new texts.
• There are more POS to be checked, e.g. indefinite pronouns. We need a more structured TODO-section in the documentation.

9. Term db

• Editing mostly finished, but still isssues and technical problems
• Minor issues with the skin.

10. Other issues

http://beta.visl.sdu.dk/ (Comments to follow)

Sámi sentences from Nickel’s grammar have been incorporated. An Alfa version of syntactic analysis (interactive) is available

Mouse problems

• Pointer not following – change batteries

11. Summary, task list

TODO:

• All: report vacation plans
• Trond, Børre, Sjur and Tomi
  • A session on the corpus format.
• Børre
  • Contact Kimmo Koskenniemi and Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld about contracts
  • Fix the link problems in the documentation.
  • Further discussion with web serer administrator about the divvun.no site.
  • Some minor things with termdb.
  • Review giellatekno.no site suggestion with Trond.
• Tomi:
  • continue corpus discussion
• Maaren: tries to work with the missing list. Else?
• Thomas: work with verb transitivity
• Sjur:
  • terminology db
  • text license contract
  • divvun.no

12. Next meeting, closing

02.05.2005 10.00

Closed at 11.07.