Meeting setup
- Date: 14.9.2009
- Time: 09.30 Norw. time
- Place: Internet
- Tools: SubEthaEdit, iChat
Agenda
Cf. one of the following, depending on context:
- the upper bar of the SEE window (provided you use the JSPWiki syntax mode)
- the TOC in Forrest-rendered output, like HTML and PDF
Opening, agenda review, participants
Opened at 09:55.
Present:
Børre, Ciprian, Maja, Sjur, Thomas (text only), Tomi, Trond
Absent: none
Agenda accepted as is.
Updated task status since last meeting
Børre
- update online download log statistics page
- improve XSL script to transform leaflet Forrest XDocs to an OOo Draw document
gt/Makefile
remake
- Set up the apache server for the risten.no beta on the linux box + Xserve.
- get translations of thank-you letter
- fix bugs!
- other:
- checked that Majas screensharing works
Ciprian
- MT: test Autshumato Alpha version on Windows using Launcher
- transform the Sami Law Terms DB (SLT-DB) into an eXist-usable format
- make eXist running with the SLT-DB
- make a schema/dtd description of the lexC-file (experiment with
Romanian)
- transform sme-lexC files into XML format
- Bodø Oahpa:
- generalize for semantic classes and pos
- implement a login mechanism
- implement a upload data mechanism
- setup the Bodø version on victorio
- Sandbox Oahpa:
- setup the Sandbox version on victorio
- Running Oahpa:
- Check for IP numbers in the Oahpa! log
- add an Oahpa clock excercise
- Generate fin/xml/{nouns|verbs|adjectives}.xml, and implement the new Leksa
dropdown menu
- Komi
- transform the source format into GT-dict format and generate the first
dictionary
- done a lot of preprocessing: before generating the dict, input files should be usable for that
- restructure and clean the script catalogue, using subdirs
- check the processing of new corpus documents (error logging during conversion,
conversion quality, documentation, etc.)
- continue the search and testing of an appropriate tool for
lexicon working (no xml-file editing via text editors!)
- incorporate the passives into the last version of the sme:nob
- continue the work at the Kildin-Russian dictionary
- check all bug in the sma:nob-swe dictionary
- extend the smanobswe dictionary
- fix the bug with the string length in the popup window (sma:nob)
- try to reduce the dict-size on mac: experiment with xPointer, etc.
- fix bugs!
Maja
- Prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM
- working on it, high prio!
- more work on
sma
adjectives
- working on it - Working good with Tåamma
- Send Lena Kappfjell and Harald Gaski a contract
- Send Josef an e:mail - question about book signature from this summer
- done, sending an e:mail again right now!
- Send formal letter to Gerd Pärsson about the book Eahperestujmie
- OK! will forward it to Gerd Pärsson
- digitize southsámi books
- work with missing lists- southsámi
Sjur
- @Barents: plan a meeting/seminar with potential cooperation partners
- @Barents: plan for The Real Thing
- @TTS: start public tender process
- not started, but had a meeting with Biret Ánne and Trond
- make Leif Åge send out CD’s to distribution points
- start Nordplus Sprog project
- send eXist log files to Ciprian
- finalise formal letter to Laila Mattsson-Magga with Maja
- Write a formal letter to Davvi girji about electronic dictionaries
- package and deliver
sma
proofing tools (with Tomi)
- make XSL script to transform leaflet Forrest XDocs to an OOo Drawer document
- continue to write a proofing API & implementation specification
- name db/risten.no
- follow-up on some Polderland-related bugs: 621, 630, 652
- support and maintenance contract for
sme
and smj
, MS+Adobe tools
- Sámi languages as part of Norsk språkbank
- set up risten.no on eXist/XServe (as a beta version site)
- set up required infra for smenob on risten.no/XServe
sma
umlaut / derivation work
- sma work on normativity documents with Maja, but no umlaut/derivation
- fix bugs!
- other things:
- a lot of bureaucracy cleanup last week
- worked on the budget for the permanent Divvun organisation
- installed Snow Leopard
- some preparations for making the task list to iCal forrest plugin “official”
Thomas
- prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM
sma
adjectives
- Digitalize south saami books
- finish reformulating the proper noun grammar like the verbs
- fix bugs!
Tomi
- add missing Finnish translations in sme/xml/nouns.xml
- Still 39 open entries
- some added, not uploaded
- fix screen sharing problem on Maja’s computer
- were not at office same time with Maja
- fixed (Børre checked, it was most likely a network issue)
- package and deliver
sma
proofing tools (with Sjur)
- not done, worked with sme and smj
- document how compounding is controlled in the PLX conversion
- fix double hyphen bugs
- fix PL hyphenator bugs
- fix PL and Hunspell conversion bugs
- infrastructure remake
sma
umlaut / derivation work
- fix bugs!
- other
Trond
- add missing Finnish translations in sme/xml/nouns.xml
- @Barents: plan a meeting/seminar with potential cooperation partners
- @Barents: plan for The Real Thing
- @TTS: kick-off lunch at wednesday
- Not done, still not bought any cake…
- make Lene et al run the gtsetup.sh script
- Lene will get her computer today
- Mikogo for Lene and Linda
- Lene will get her computer today
- Komi
- merge the doublets
- Jaska is on this issue.
- Completing the automaton to some state
- So far, the Komi time has been spent on file layout and doublets.
sma
proper noun grammar (with the rest of the sma gang)
- fix bugs!.
Oahpa!
No problem to get the IP address of the users (client computers). Will give us
valuable info about the user geography spread.
Trond made a transucer for numbers to dates and back for tts (sme-num.txt).
These could be added to Oahpa, along the lines of the clock addition. The result
would be 3 Numra:
- basic: number words to arabic 3 - three (sme-num.txt)
- clock: 3:30 - half past four (clock-sme.txt)
- date: get a date, spell it out, or the other way: 3.12. - december 3rd
(sme-num.txt), perhaps also with years.
Other areas of improvements:
- Consider implementing the VISL Killerfiller login regime (part of forthcoming
project)
- Remember mastered and failed words in vocabulary tasks, follow-up on the
failures
Meeting memos can be found at
[http://giellatekno.uit.no/ped/index.html#Meeting+memos]
TODO
- Register oahpa.no (Trond)
- Check for IP numbers in the log (Ciprian, Trond)
- no problem to get it, still to be made use of
- Add the 37 missing Finnish translations in sme/xml/nouns.xml (Trond, Tomi)
- Generate fin/xml/{nouns|verbs|adjectives}.xml, and implement the new Leksa
dropdown menu (Ciprian).
Corpus gathering
Maja: another source of corpus material is the sma
yearbooks. There are
usually 1-3 articles in sma
pr book, which over the years builds up to a
sizeable text body.
Suggestion from Maja: Get all the now free teaching material from Sámediggi, the electronic manuscripts.
TODO:
- Which books are digitized?
- These books should be OCR’ed/digitized: Anna Jacobsens books
Don jih dan bïjre I-III, Jupmele rïjhke lea gietskesne,
Luste lohkedh, Duedtie Novrlaantesne, Naestie-tjoevkesne,
Gullie-tjååtsele.
- Its not digitized yet, should do it this week.
A. Jacobsen: Goltelidh jih soptestidh and Mojhtesh are already
in electronic form
- use the corpus gathering document to keep track of each book
- continue gathering
sma
corpus texts (Maja)
- get
sma
articles in Š-bláđđi
- the Gun Utsi book is almost there - one contract missing (Jovsset)
- will meet with the translator in July, and get the signature then
- check with Jovsset whether he succeeded (Maja)
- read formal letter to Laila Mattsson-Magga by David (Sjur)
- write formal letter to Davvi Girji (Sjur)
- send a copy of the signed contracts back to the authors, translators and
publishers, accompanied by the thank-you letter
- find and contact the correct person in SD, to get the manuscript for all Sámi
teaching material now being given out to the schools (Sjur)
Question about the download log. Do we have it? yes, but the public listing
isn’t up-to-date. Børre will update it.
TODO:
- make leaflet to inform about the project (Børre)
- add InDesign text (Sjur)
- make XSL script to transform Forrest XDocs to an OOo Drawer document
(Børre, Sjur)
- distribute CD version through the library bus, the language centres and common
sami centres in all of Sápmi. Gaaltije in Östersund for example.
(Leif Åge, Sjur)
- make him send out CD’s accordingly (Sjur)
- update online download log statistics page (Børre)
Future plans, directions and ideas
See a separate document in plan/strat/5year.jspwiki
.
Northern areas project
TODO:
- Attend a beginners’ course in Russian (priority: the alphabet!) near you..
- plan a meeting/seminar with potential cooperation partners (Trond, Sjur)
- plan for The Real Thing (Trond, Sjur)
Infrastructure
To accomodate future enhancements in different directions (in rough order of
importance):
- test bench for all parts of our language technology efforts
- test bench enhanced, but not yet complet
- set up the Leopard Server features for collaborative support:
- permanent chat rooms
- stored (and indexed) chat transcripts of the chat rooms
- iCal server / group calendars
- wiki
- wiki? on G5 (is part of Leopard Server) or other web-based documentation
- improve Forrest stability and i18n support ( the divvun crashes)
- Sjur has been working on better i18n and pdf rendering
- Børre has some ideas for getting back to serving static html files
- reorganise the documentation:
- differ between target groups
- get better grouping
- decide what to write in forrest and what in wiki
(cf. Apertium and
[http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/apertium/]) for a similar split)
- update/add missing parts
- migrate lexc lexicons to XML, splitting the task
- Name lexica (the Name project)
- Dictionaries (already in XML, task is to integrate them)
- At least migrate the lexc open POSes (Komi as a pilot case)
- change the look of the documentation web
- use HFST as alternative to XFST
- corpus content moved to Max Planck repositories? Norsk språkbank?
- update infrastructure to allow content-restricted spellers for special target
groups
Snow Leopard: Sjur has installed it, here are some observations:
- “feels” faster (well, it is real, but no hard figures)
- several command line utilities are updated to recent (newest?) version
- 64-bit all around!
TODO:
- ask Lene, Linda to install Mikogo (Trond)
- fix screen sharing problem on Maja’s computer (Tomi)
- fix remaining issues in the gtsetup.sh script (Sjur)
- restructure and clean the script catalogue, using subdirs to categorise the
scripts (Ciprian)
- see posting in the news group
- infrastructure remake: (Børre, Ciprian, Saara, Sjur, Tomi, Trond)
- more modularised make / build infra (prepare for smn, sms, sjd, others)
- merge gt, kt and st into one
- modularised preprocess and spellrelax
- alternatives to make:
- make a test-all target that runs all tests we have (Ciprian, Sjur, Trond)
- delayed until we have restructured the make/build process
- define and document testing routines (Ciprian, Sjur, Trond)
- delayed until we have restructured the make/build process
- test iCal Server (on G5) (Børre)
- remove TOC from the giellatekno home page by using dispatcher (Trond)
Linguistics
North Sámi
(nothing new, see proofing bugs below)
Lule Sámi
(nothing new, see proofing bugs below)
South Sámi
Adj->verb derivations is the next topic.
Verb -> adj -derivations (some) already written in, tentatively.
This topic probably needs more consideration than A -> V.
Maja had a meeting with Ove Lorentz about loan words in sma, and their
proper orthography. It is a complex issue.
TODO:
- reformulate the proper noun grammar according to the Trondheim discussions
(Maja, Sjur, Thomas, Trond)
- Prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM (Maja, Thomas)
- placenames (Maja)
- other issues
- finish the umlaut / derivation work (Thomas, Sjur, Tomi)
- adjectives (Maja with Thomas, Trond, Sjur)
- two competing naming conventions of continuation lexicons
- One naming goes ATTRSUFF-PREDSUFF-STEMTYPE
- One follows the sme convention of naming key adjectives
- There are duplicate lexica
- The comparative issue open here and there
- The ATTRSUFF-PREDSUFF-STEMTYPE lexica now go to EVENCOMP and
ODDCOMP only.
Name lexicon/risten.no infrastructure
Tomi has played with couchdb as a replacement
for eXist in risten.no and general dictionary-related work. Seems much lighter
and easier to work with.
Instead of building our own webforms and back-end update scripts, use XForms
with a premade connection to our xml db. Orbeon XForms is such a tool (open
source).
From the meeting with the terminology and IT teams last week:
- no major rework on the present search interface now
- no work on the editing section; instead:
- add existing lists of sanctioned terminology as separate term entities
- add a dictionary if we can make one with sufficient quality
This means the following tasks:
- find already approved lists, in paper or electronic form (term team)
- convert paper lists to electronic lists (term team)
- convert lists to standard XML (Sjur, Tomi)
- add prepared lists to risten.no (Sjur, Tomi)
TODO:
- send eXist log files to Ciprian (Sjur)
- fix i18n bug in risten.no/G5 (so they will work without the proper locale
request) (Sjur)
- fix bugs in lexc2xml; add comments to the log element (Saara)
- finish first version of the editing (Sjur)
- test editing of the xml files. If ok, then: (Sjur, Thomas, Trond)
- 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)
- convert propernoun-($lang)-lex.txt to a derived file from common xml files
(Sjur, Tomi, Saara)
- 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)
- start to use the xml file as source file
- clean terms-sme.xml such that all names have the correct tag for their use
(e.g. @type=secondary) (Thomas, linguists)
- merge placenames which are errouneously in different entries: e.g. Helsinki,
Helsingfors, Helsset (linguists)
- publish the name lexicon on risten.no (Sjur)
- add missing parallel names for placenames (linguists)
- add informative links between first names like Niillas and Nils
(linguists)
Dictionaries
Ciprian did a lot of work on Komi. The light is coming… :)
TODO:
- Set up the apache server for the risten.no beta on the linux box + Xserve.
(Børre)
- set up risten.no on eXist/XServe (as a beta version site) (Sjur)
- set up required infra for smenob on risten.no/XServe (Sjur)
- Continue the dictionary infrastructure discussion (Ciprian, Sjur, Trond)
- end user documentation (how to download and install) (Ciprian, Trond)
- Contact Davvi Girji about cooperation on electronic dictionaries
(Sjur)
- developing the mobile phone version of smenob:
- Komi
- take out the doublets to a separate file (Ciprian)
- merge the doublets (Jaska, Trond)
- start looking at the komfin and komeng MacDicts (Ciprian)
- Completing the automaton to some state (Trond, Jaska, Paula)
TODO:
- continue to write an API specification, and an implementation specification
(Sjur)
Hunspell
Børre has released beta7, with working clitics, negation verb and copula.
Testing
Spelling Error Markup
TODO:
- test new and nested error markup (Sjur)
- nesting still needs to be tested, depends on new
ccat
feature
Speller testing
TODO:
- test the error type selection feature in ccat (Sjur)
- package and deliver
sma
proofing tools (Sjur, Tomi)
- add South Sámi DLL’s to the svn repository (Sjur)
Testing open-source Norwegian spellers
Sjur has invited the open-source group to test their spell-checker using our
test bench. The response has been positive, we’ll see what happens.
We should go to their developer meetings, and present our work and how to work
with language technology.
Speller bugs
List of bugs returned from Polderland:
Open issues based on test results:
sme
Version: Davvisámi, version 1.1, 2008-12-17
- 399 - missing numerals (plural forms) - OPEN
- 425 - X not recognised; single letters were left out - still OPEN
- 435 - roman numbers - inflection of single letter numbers
rejected, as well as some complex numbers (but is ok in
smj
) - still
OPEN
- we should pregenerate all numbers once and for all, and store them in a
separate lexicon file
- 595 - prefix+name without hyphen (ovdaLot instead of ovda-Lot) - still
OPEN
- 603 - suomabealdi accepted - still OPEN
- 606 - compound-tags LEXICON VUOHTA - still OPEN
- 613 - short gen. as second compound part - still OPEN
- 619 - numerals and pronouns to NAMÁK and SASJ fails - vihttasoarttat
remaining - still OPEN
- 629 - a taking part in compounding without hyphen - still OPEN
- only open case has word A-finálaid compounded
- 642 - noun/adj/proper + hyphen + ain - FIXED
- 647 - numerals+NOUN - still OPEN, open case has uppercase letters
- 648 - unmotivated suggestions with numeral+noun - still OPEN
- 709 - REGRESSION: sámedikkeválga accepted
- 728 - vowel shortening GenCmp+Left-tagged - still OPEN
- 779 - caseforms of pronoun okatahat - OPEN
- 785 - does not recognize alphabet-abbr+noun
smj
Version: Julevsáme, version 1.1, 2008-12-17
- 435 - roman number - single letter numbers now recognised
- we should pre-generate all numbers once and for all, and store them in a
separate lexicon file
- please note that inflection of single letter numerals is fine in
smj
, as opposed to sme
- 482 - REGRESSION: polardutkamin not recognized
- 556 - REGRESSION: non-existent word accepted
- 594 - lågenanguoktáj not recognized - OPEN
- 595 - prefix+name as split comp without hyphen - FIXED
- 596 - C-giellan is not accepted - still OPEN
- 600 - REGRESSION: Gen+hyph compound
- 627 - REGRESSION: prefix + hyhpen does not get accepted
- 647 - numerals+NOUN - still OPEN, open case has uppercase letters
- 648 - unmotivated suggestions with numeral+noun - still OPEN
- 650 - noun prefix+name compound without hyphen - FIXED
- 652 - UPPERCASE-typos only get acronym-suggestions - still OPEN
- 692 - numeral-variants - all but one fixed (gáktsalågenantjuotakta), but
still OPEN
TODO:
- document how compounding is controlled in the PLX conversion (Tomi)
Hyphenator bugs
Open issues based on test results :
sme
Lexicon version: Davvisámi, version 1.1, 2008-12-17
- 468 - Márkomeanu - still OPEN
- 547 - hyphen in front of vowel: Lotnolasealáhusas - still OPEN
- 548 - mid syllable hyphenation: Háliidivččen - still OPEN
- 549 - division without hyph: Váccedettiin - still OPEN
smj
Lexicon version: Julevsáme, version 1.1, 2008-12-17
- 547 - hyphen in front of vowel: Jienastimnjuolgadusá and Orgánajs -
still OPEN
- 670 - Hard hyphen replaced with soft hyphen: 10-biejvvásattja (the word is
not rec.; Bug #711) - still OPEN
TODO:
- fix PL hyphenator errors (Tomi)
Installer changes
TODO:
- test InDesign installer (Sjur)
User documentation
TODO:
- InDesign documentation (Sjur)
- Norwegian translation received from Davvi Girji
1.2 release
Content:
- several smj bug fixes
- lexicalisations
- InDesign Mac & Win
- new OOo beta
- improved installers, at least for Mac, preferably also for Windows
Other
New “employee”
Employed by Kvensk institutt, Verena Schall, but working with us (“us” in the
broad sense). Starting today, she will have her office in Tromsø, probably not
at the Univ.
She will work mainly on the kven dictionary, but also a bit on a kven analyser,
at least to the extent that we can produce a decent inflecting dictionary.
Autumn planning
- divvun/sma -> all
- Sjur in Tromsø 28.9-2.10 -> Divvun & MT week
- speller test project -> Sjur, Børre, Thomas, X
- speech synthesis -> Sjur, Trond, BA as a starter
- dictionaries: smanob, komfineng -> Ciprian, Sjur, Trond
- risten.no -> Ciprian, Sjur
- Barents project followup meeting
- Arctic conference - September 24-26 (Formal linguistics meets the north)
- Forskingstorget - September 18-19
- Francis Tyers in town appr. 24.9-1.10 (Lule Saami MT workshop week 39)
- sme and smj tools, next version -> Thomas, Tomi, Sjur
- HFST-based proofing tools -> Sjur
- sma langauge experts meeting, incl. Pia Persson & SGM/SGL
Text to speech
TODO:
- kick-off lunch at wednesday (Trond)
- refine syntax / dependency rules (Biret Ánne)
- start public tender process (Sjur)
MT and CAT
TODO:
- make A-ITE compile and run on Windows (Ciprian)
Open source
The repository is properly closed/open now, and the availability of the source
code should be announced.
TODO:
- announce the availability of our repository on relevant linguistic lists
(Sjur)
Next meeting, closing
The next meeting is 21.9.2009, 9.30 Norwegian time.
The meeting was closed at 11:33.
Appendix - task lists for the next five days
Boerre
- update online download log statistics page
- improve XSL script to transform leaflet Forrest XDocs to an OOo Draw document
gt/Makefile
remake
- get translations of thank-you letter
- fix bugs!
Ciprian
- MT: test Autshumato Alpha version on Windows using Launcher
- transform the Sami Law Terms DB (SLT-DB) into an eXist-usable format
- make eXist running with the SLT-DB
- make a schema/dtd description of the lexC-file (experiment with
Romanian)
- transform sme-lexC files into XML format
- Bodø Oahpa:
- generalize for semantic classes and pos
- implement a login mechanism
- implement a upload data mechanism
- setup the Bodø version on victorio
- Sandbox Oahpa:
- setup the Sandbox version on victorio
- Running Oahpa:
- add an Oahpa clock and date excercise
- Generate fin/xml/{nouns|verbs|adjectives}.xml, and implement the new Leksa
dropdown menu
- Komi
- transform the source format into GT-dict format and generate the first
dictionary
- test the automatic sorting by Komi alphabet in xsl (as discussed with Trond)
- ask Sjur why it is the drawback of splitting a dict into pos
- restructure and clean the script catalogue, using subdirs
- check the processing of new corpus documents (error logging during conversion,
conversion quality, documentation, etc.)
- continue the search and testing of an appropriate tool for
lexicon working (no xml-file editing via text editors!)
- incorporate the passives into the last version of the sme:nob
- continue the work at the Kildin-Russian dictionary
- check all bug in the sma:nob-swe dictionary
- extend the smanobswe dictionary
- fix the bug with the string length in the popup window (sma:nob)
- try to reduce the dict-size on mac: experiment with xPointer, etc.
- fix bugs!
Maja
- Prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM
- more work on
sma
adjectives
- Send Lena Kappfjell and Harald Gaski a contract
- Send Josef an e:mail - question about book signature from this summer
- Send formal letter to Gerd Pärsson about the book Eahperestujmie
- forward the contract about “Gosse dah jeatjebh åerieh”. David has the contract from the writer in Sweden and he would send it, when he came back to Norway - send David an e:mail about that.
- 9-10 årbøker “Åarjel-saemieh” -2-3 artikler written in southsámi- ask to use theese.
- digitize southsámi books
- work with missing lists- southsámi
Sjur
- @Barents: plan a meeting/seminar with potential cooperation partners
- @Barents: plan for The Real Thing
- @TTS: start public tender process
- make Leif Åge send out CD’s to distribution points
- start Nordplus Sprog project
- send eXist log files to Ciprian
- finalise formal letter to Laila Mattsson-Magga with Maja
- Write a formal letter to Davvi girji about electronic dictionaries
- package and deliver
sma
proofing tools (with Tomi)
- make XSL script to transform leaflet Forrest XDocs to an OOo Drawer document
- continue to write a proofing API & implementation specification
- name db/risten.no
- follow-up on some Polderland-related bugs: 621, 630, 652
- support and maintenance contract for
sme
and smj
, MS+Adobe tools
- Sámi languages as part of Norsk språkbank
- set up risten.no on eXist/XServe (as a beta version site)
- set up required infra for smenob on risten.no/XServe
sma
umlaut / derivation work
- find and contact the correct person in SD, to get the manuscript for all Sámi
teaching material now being given out to the schools
- fix bugs!
Thomas
- prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM
sma
adjectives
- Digitalize south saami books
- finish reformulating the proper noun grammar like the verbs
- fix bugs!
Tomi
- add missing Finnish translations in sme/xml/nouns.xml
- package and deliver
sma
proofing tools (with Sjur)
- document how compounding is controlled in the PLX conversion
- fix double hyphen bugs
- fix PL hyphenator bugs
- fix PL and Hunspell conversion bugs
- infrastructure remake
sma
umlaut / derivation work
- fix bugs!
Trond
- add missing Finnish translations in sme/xml/nouns.xml
- @Barents: plan a meeting/seminar with potential cooperation partners
- @Barents: plan for The Real Thing
- @TTS: kick-off lunch
- make Lene et al run the gtsetup.sh script
- Mikogo for Lene and Linda
- Komi
- Completing the automaton to some state
sma
proper noun grammar (with the rest of the sma gang)
- fix bugs!.