Language Technology at UiT

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

View GiellaLT on GitHub divvungiellatekno/giellalt.uit.no

Meeting setup

Agenda

Cf. one of the following, depending on context:

Opening, agenda review, participants

Opened at 10:30.

Present: Børre, Per-Eric, Sjur, Thomas, Tomi

Absent: Maaren, Trond

Agenda accepted as is.

Updated task status since last meeting

Børre

Lene

Maaren

Per-Eric

Saara

Sjur

Thomas

Tomi

Trond

Pedagogical software online

TODO:

Workshop in Tromsø

Nice workshop, very informative, several potential projects discussed with multiple attendees. At first there will be a network initiative.

Documentation

TODO:

Corpus gathering

TODO:

Infrastructure

TODO:

Linguistics

North Sámi

Hyphenation bugs still there, now properly documented by the improved test bench.

Lule Sámi

All missing lists now added. A few things missing from the bible texts.

Hyphenation: same as for sme.

TODO:

South Sámi

Tomi has added even more verbs. The corrections to Verbh are now added to the lexicon. Joseph is hunting for sma texts at SD.

TODO:

Name lexicon infrastructure

TODO:

  1. fix i18n bug in risten.no/G5 (so they will work without the proper locale request) (Sjur)
    1. it works ok locally, set-up / config needs to be checked on the G5; probably easy to fix
  2. fix display in column 3 (Sjur)
    1. it works in Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers; not in Safari and other Webkit-based browsers
      1. fixed
  3. fix bugs in lexc2xml; add comments to the log element (Saara)
  4. finish first version of the editing (Sjur)
  5. test editing of the xml files. If ok, then: (Sjur, Thomas, Trond)
  6. make terms-smX.xml <=== automatically from propernoun-sme-lex.xml (add nob as well) (the morphological section should be kept intact, in e.g. propernoun-sme-morph.txt) (Sjur, Saara)
  7. convert propernoun-($lang)-lex.txt to a derived file from common xml files (Sjur, Tomi, Saara)
  8. implement data synchronisation between risten.no and the cvs repo, and possibly other servers (ie the G5 as an alternative server to the public risten.no - it might be faster and better suited than the official one; also local installations could be treated the same way)
  9. start to use the xml file as source file
  10. clean terms-sme.xml such that all names have the correct tag for their use (e.g. @type=secondary) (Thomas, Maaren, linguists)
  11. merge placenames which are errouneously in different entries: e.g. Helsinki, Helsingfors, Helsset (linguists)
  12. publish the name lexicon on risten.no (Sjur)
  13. add missing parallel names for placenames (linguists)
  14. add informative links between first names like Niillas and Nils (linguists)

Proofing tools

Hunspell

The %> marker has been fixed, it was a bug in the homebuilt xml-parser. Derivations seem to work, but no new lexicons due to technical problems.

TODO:

  1. debug the missing > marker - the problem is on the Java side (Børre, Tomi)
  2. add smj to the soup, make sure it works roughly as good as sme
  3. fix the remaining conversion bugs for sme
  4. return to smj, and fix whatever is left to fix
  5. integrate the derivations as separate “continuation lexicons”

Testing

Spelling Error Markup

TODO:

Speller bugs

Open issues based on test results :

sme

Version: Davvisámi, version 1.0.1, 2008-01-31

smj

Version: Julevsáme, version 1.0.1, 2008-01-31

TODO:

Hyphenator bugs

Open issues based on test results :

sme

smj

InDesign tools

Near-final tools were released on Friday, Feb. 1, including working user dictionary functionality.

TODO:

Windows installer

TODO:

Releases

TODO:

Other

Corpus contracts + open source

TODO:

Easter vacation

Week 12, 20-24.3.

Name Period
Børre 10.-16.3. (winter holidays)
Sjur 18.-24.3
Jovsset 17.-24.3.
Maaren 19.-24.3.
Per-Eric ???

Next meeting, closing

The next meeting is 10.3.2008, but will potentially be delayed till Wednesday. E-mail coming.

The meeting was closed at 11:25.

Appendix - task lists for the next five days

Boerre

Lene

Maaren

Per-Eric

Saara

Sjur

Thomas

Tomi

Trond