Meeting setup

• Date: 15.3.2010
• 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 10:17.

Present: Børre, Ciprian, Maja, Sjur, Thomas, Tomi, Trond

Absent: none

Agenda accepted as is.

Updated task status since last meeting

Børre

• contact Ávvir about renewed corpus cooperation
  • not done
• Jabber server and group chats: user name issues + lost chat history
  • nothing new
• implement language switch for static divvun site
  • not done
• improve XSL script to transform leaflet Forrest XDocs to an OOo Draw document
  • not done
• gt/Makefile remake
  • not done
• get translations of thank-you letter
  • not done
• make the new SL Server services functional:
  • group calendars
    • not done
• set up corpus mirroring on the XServe again
  • not done
• fix bugs!
• other:
  • made hunspell spellers for North, Lule and South sami. They had a few bugs which I’ll fix. When that’s done I’ll release them for testing later this week.

Ciprian

• infrastructure
  • make a schema/dtd description of the lexC-file (experiment with Komi and Romanian)
  • transform sme-lexC files into XML format
  • restructure and clean the script catalogue as suggested in the newsgroup
    • todo
• GT web:
  • colouring output of the disambiguation
    • ongoing
  • add a tree visualizer for the dependency trees
    • ongoing
  • add input help for special characters on the tool sites
    • ongoing
  • automatise the web statistics
  • filter (English, German, etc.) input using language detection tools
    • todo
  • put a note on the sites that these are NOT MT tools
    • todo
  • input help for generating wordforms (dropdown menus)
    • todo
• Bodø Oahpa:
  • finish the MorfaC implementation
    • done
  • finish the setup of the bdoahpa versions on victorio
    • done for the following target languages: smj, smn, sjd, sje, and yrk
• Sandbox Oahpa:
  • Numra for Skolt Sámi and Finnish
    • todo
  • finish the db installation for sb_oahpa
    • done: but to debug (docu is not up-to-date, insufficient information, no temporal order of commands, dependencies?)
• Running Oahpa:
  • add an Oahpa clock and date excercise (cf. Numra)
    • todo
  • email notification when the server goes down
    • todo
  • check the XXX?
    • todo
• dictionaries, generally:
  • synchronize the source language entries from a specific dictionary with the entries in the morphology component (now especially for sma): that means nothing then put the entries from dict that are NOT analyzed into the lexC files
    • todo (long term process)
  • the StarDict on Windows: try the HTML-plugin (that means that users can use StarDict 3.2)
    • todo
  • try to reduce the dict-size on mac: experiment with xPointer, etc.
    • todo
• Fkv:Nob - Nob:Fkv:
  • compile the dictionaries for both directions and in both formats (internal deadline for the first version: 08.03.2010)
    • todo: waiting for Trond, Verena for the data (apparently deadline not actual any longer)
  • try to implement a web version of the dictionaries (internal deadline: 20.01.2010)
    • todo: deadline not actual any longer
• KomEngFin:
  • test the automatic sorting by Komi alphabet in xsl (as discussed with Trond)
    • todo
• SmeNob:
  • incorporate the passives into the last version of the sme:nob
    • todo
• SmaNobSwe:
  • extend the smanobswe dictionary: waiting for data (incorporate the data from Maja-Lisa)
    • waiting for Maja-Lisa
• SjdRus:
  • continue the work at the Kildin-Russian dictionary, next internal deadline is the Bodø workshop in March 2010
    • ongoing
• Corpus:
  • check the processing of new corpus documents (error logging during conversion, conversion quality, documentation, etc.)
    • todo
• Lexicon workshop
  • evaluate the participants’ materials
    • todo
  • write feedback emails to each of participant with an individual electronic dictionary
    • todo
  • contact Kimberly Mäkäräinen and ask whether she might be willing to share data with us
    • todo

Maja

• add missing sma verbs
  • Done - and I´m now adding from PiaList
• check verb Umlaut for several verbs
  • Will go through th verblist when I´m looking to Pias verbs
• Prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM
  • DONE for loanwords substantives, flertall, stavelesestakter- What is left: loanwords adjectives, verbs, nomen->verb->nomen?
• more work on sma adjectives
  • check the comparation, vokalutvidelser and add from PiaList, and spelling errors
• contact authors of sma aticles in 9-10 eds. of the yearbook Åarjel-saemieh
  • write a letter to Saemien sïjte
• look at incoming loanwords
  • I´ll do this when I´m working with the SGMdocs - I dont understand this, this is the same as Norm.issue to SGL/SGM.
• make a goldstandard doc. av SÄPO-dok - korrektur
  • Not done yet
• continue gathering sma corpus texts
  • Not done yet
• fix bugs!

Sjur

• write letter to Fylkesmannen i Nordland
  • not done, and won’t do - the case is dismissed
• gold standard testing for sma
  • still no PL tools
• difftest for fst and PL speller
• @Barents: plan a meeting/seminar with potential cooperation partners
  • meeting moved to Tromsø
• @Barents: plan for The Real Thing
• @TTS: continue public tender process
  • gathered examples
• make Leif Åge send out CD’s to distribution points
• start Nordplus Sprog project
  • wrote to the NordPlus secretary and asked for a contract extension
• Write a formal letter to Davvi girji about electronic dictionaries
• make XSL script to transform leaflet Forrest XDocs to an OOo Drawer document
• name db/risten.no
• follow-up on some Polderland-related bugs: 621, 630, 652
• find and contact the correct person in SD, to get the manuscript for all Sámi teaching material now being given out to the schools
• write new build commands for make
• when the new build infrastructure works as it should, delete the old ones
• fix bugs!
• other things:
  • license discussions in news
  • dictionary and other discussions in news
  • made several of our dictionaries ($GTHOME/words/dicts/) styled with CSS, and thus readily consumable on the web, as well as directly editable in XML Editor

Thomas

• sort out words that do not follow usual Umlaut rules to specific lexica
  • continually
• change rules for vhn, vhl and similar in julev sámi hyphen-file
  • done
• prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM
  • nothing this week
• Digitalize south saami books
  • worked
• add compound tags for sma
  • worked
• fix bugs!
  • some work done

Tomi

• test that the new analysers behave as the old one (=give exactly the same res)
  • done more testing
• put together the TTS preprocessing transducers and scripts
  • not done
• write new build commands
  • working
• when the new build infrastructure works as it should, delete the old ones
  • not done
• document how compounding is controlled in the PLX conversion
  • not done
• fix double hyphen bugs
  • not done
• fix PL smj hyphenator bug
  • not done
• fix PL conversion bugs
  • not done
• fix bugs!

Trond

• fkv:nob and nob:fkv scheduled for 18.3. release:
  • content and webpage update
    • The release is postponed until April
• Northern areas
  • Progress, but slowly
• MT/Terminology
  • Some admin done.
• fix bugs!.

Oahpa!

7 different Oahpa!’s now in svn! The outcome of the Bodø seminar. It was a great exercise for our Oahpa! infrastructure, and gave a lot of input and feedback for us.

Finnish version of Oahpa ready for testing and deployment on the production site.

Meeting memos can be found at [http://giellatekno.uit.no/ped/index.html#Meeting+memos]

TODO

• Register oahpa.no (Trond)
• Generate fin/xml/{nouns|verbs|adjectives}.xml, and implement the new Leksa dropdown menu (Ciprian).
• From the start: sjd_oahpa Leksa in deu and eng as well
• clock and date for Numra (Trond, Ciprian)
• Numra for Skolt Sámi (Trond, Ciprian)
• implement the Bodø-Oahpa (Ciprian, Trond, Lene)
• email notification when the server goes down (Ciprian)
• Finding a volunteer to translate the sme Leksa lexicon to Swedish (Trond)

Corpus gathering

Trond: we have been asked to come and present our tools in the first or second week of May to the Giellagiella people. Topics: terminology, and machine translation. We need to update our corpora and our interface (see further down).

TODO:

• continue gathering sma corpus texts (Maja)
  • get sma articles in Š-bláđđi
  • the Gun Utsi book is almost there - one contract missing (Maja)
• 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)
• get the sma yearbooks from Saemien sïjhte (Maja)
• contact certain sma writers (Børre)
• contact Ávvir about renewed corpus cooperation (Børre)

Promoting Divvun

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

• License
• Dictionaries, styling and editing - > see Dictionaries further down
• Corpus interface

License

Discussion. All need to be able to read the newsgroup. New Unison licenses:

• Lene
• Maja
• Biret Ánne
• Linda?
• Upgrades:
  • Sjur, Tomi

Please read and comment in the newsgoup. Trond and Sjur will get the required licenses.

TODO:

• install & configure the Unison news reader (Sjur, Trond)

Corpus interface

Made by Lars Nygård, UiT/Tekstlabben. Based on CWB from Stuttgart. Plus: made by linguists; minus: too many bells and whistles. We need a scaled-down version made for terminologists: baseforms, translations of baseforms, …

Our corpus (that is, Oslo) is using [http://cwb.sf.net/].

A more user friendly interface is wished for before the Giellagiella presentations. Deadline: end of April. We could base a very simple search form on the code for this VISL page.

TODO:

• make a simple web search form for the UiT corpus repository (Ciprian, X)
  • before May
• check out the new version of CWB with Unicode support (Ciprian)
  • fall

Makefile + tag simplification

TODO:

1. test that the output from the new transducers is identical to the old one (Tomi)
2. working session to go through the remaining issues: 16.3. (Tomi, Sjur)
3. write new build commands (Sjur, Tomi)
4. when the new build infrastructure works as it should, delete the old ones (Sjur, Tomi)

General list

• licensing of our source code
  • the discussion goes on in news — needs to be finished soon
• fit repository:
  • maintenance issues
  • FOSS policy and communication of it
  • what do we actually want to support?
  • structure of repository

Trond will write an e-mail to the fit group explaining our situation.

To accommodate future enhancements in different directions (in rough order of importance):

1. test bench for all parts of our language technology efforts
   1. test bench enhanced, but not yet complete
2. improve Forrest i18n support with static sites
3. reorganise the documentation:
   1. differ between target groups
   2. get better grouping
   3. decide what to write in Forrest and what in wiki (cf. Apertium and [http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/apertium/]) for a similar split)
   4. update/add missing parts
4. migrate lexc lexicons to XML, splitting the task
   1. Name lexica (the Name project)
   2. Dictionaries (already in XML, task is to integrate them)
   3. At least migrate the lexc open POSes (Komi as a pilot case)
5. change the look of the documentation web
6. corpus content moved to Max Planck repositories? Norsk språkbank?
7. update infrastructure to allow content-restricted spellers for special target groups

TODO:

• make the new SL Server services functional: (Børre)
  • group calendars
• Jabber server and group chats: user name issues + lost chat history (Børre)
• set up corpus mirroring on the XServe again (Børre)
• restructure and clean the script/ directory, using subdirs to categorise the scripts (Ciprian)
  • please act as suggested, cf comments in the news group
• infrastructure remake: (Børre, Ciprian, 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:
    • SCons
    • makepp
    • Maven (for java-projects)
    • CMake - Sjur looked at it, and have started to experiment
• 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

Linguistics

North Sámi

(nothing new, see proofing bugs below)

Lule Sámi

(nothing new, see proofing bugs below)

South Sámi

TODO:

• Prepare texts about normativity issue to SGL/SGM (Maja, Thomas)
• 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.
• add compound tags (Thomas)
  • ongoing
• write letter to Fylkesmannen i Nordland (Sjur)
  • won’t happen
• check verb Umlaut for several verbs (Maja, Sjur, Thomas, Trond)
  • done
• clitics: -gih, -gan, -ge,-gænnah(most in use) (Maja, Thomas)

Name lexicon/risten.no infrastructure

TODO:

• 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)
• 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

• Dictionaries, styling and editing

Lecture on Thursday, 10.00 Norw. time.

TODO:

• fkv:nob and nob:fkv is still scheduled for 18.3. release:
  • content and webpage update (Trond, Verena)
  • compile the MacDict and StarDict versions (Ciprian)
• kom:fin-eng
  • moved the original kom-lex.xml to the inc-dir and froze it
  • split it by pos into the working_file dir, the ONLY place to work with the dictionary entries
  • now, the lexC files are generated via XSLT sheets, no perl scripts
  • adjusted the Makefile
  • prepared the pipeline for compiling the mac dict
  • todo: make a pipeline for StarDict also (as far as I know, Jaska has) a Linux machine
• 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:
  • http://pfed.info/wksite/
• Komi
  • take out the doublets to a separate file (Ciprian)
  • merge the doublets (Jaska, Trond)
  • Completing the automaton to some state (Trond, Jaska, Paula)

Proofing tools

South Sámi

TODO:

• Go through the phonrules file (Thomas)
• difftest for fst and PL speller (Sjur)
• External beta testers:
  • David
  • Jovsset
  • the Røros group
• gold standard testing (Sjur)

HFST-based proofing tools

The work with Voikko+HFST is moving forward.

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)

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:

• 621
• 630
• 652
• 656
• 676

Tag reordering for abbreviations have caused a lot of problems:

smj:
hr.
hr.	hr+ABBR+Acc
cand.philol.
cand.philol.	cand.philol+ABBR+N+Acc
Per
Per	Per+N+Prop+Mal+Sg+Attr

sme:
hr.
hr.	hr+N+ABBR+Acc
Per
Per	Per+N+Prop+Mal+Sg+Attr

Open issues based on test results:

sme

Version: Davvisámi, version 1.2, 2009-09-18

• 399 - missing numerals (plural forms) - still 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
• 461 - REGRESSION: missing suggestion (sáhkki)
• 508 - REGRESSION: accepts smj entries (most likely abbreviation missing)
• 520 - REGRESSION: r9 and š9 not defined (abbr. missing)
• 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
• 647 - numerals+NOUN - still OPEN, open case has uppercase letters
• 648 - unmotivated suggestions with numeral+noun - still OPEN
• 661 - REGRESSION: abbr. not recognized
• 709 - sámedikkeválga accepted - OPEN
• 728 - vowel shortening GenCmp+Left-tagged - still OPEN
• 779 - caseforms of pronoun okatahat - still OPEN
• 785 - does not recognize alphabet-abbr+noun - OPEN
• 802 - NEW: multiword propernouns
• 803 - NEW: FINJU- words accepted single-handed
• 804 - NEW: guovttilogát, njealjilogát
• 805 - NEW: Nouns+acronyms

smj

Version: Julevsáme, version 1.2, 2009-09-20

• 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 - polardutkamin not recognized - FIXED
• 496 - REGRESSION: unrecognised clitics
• 556 - non-existent word accepted - FIXED
• 594 - lågenanguoktáj not recognized - still OPEN
• 595 - REGRESSION: prefix+name as split comp without hyphen
• 596 - C-giellan is not accepted - still OPEN
• 600 - Gen+hyph compound - FIXED
• 627 - prefix + hyhpen does not get accepted - FIXED
• 647 - numerals+NOUN - still OPEN, open case has uppercase letters
• 648 - unmotivated suggestions with numeral+noun - still OPEN
• 650 - REGRESSION: noun prefix+name compound without hyphen
• 652 - UPPERCASE-typos only get acronym-suggestions - still OPEN
• 692 - numeral-variants - all but one fixed (gáktsalågenantjuotakta), but still OPEN
• 744 - REGRESSION: numerals + clitic
• 803 - NEW: VINJU- words accepted single-handed
• 805 - NEW: Nouns+acronyms

TODO:

• document how compounding is controlled in the PLX conversion (Tomi)

Hyphenator bugs

Open issues based on test results :

sme

Lexicon version: Davvisámi, version 1.2, 2009-09-18

No known issues!

smj

Lexicon version: Julevsáme, version 1.2, 2009-09-20

• 670 - Hard hyphen replaced with soft hyphen: 10-biejvvásattja (the word is not rec.; Bug #711) - still OPEN

sma

Command to test the hyphenator:

preprocess dev/corp/pressemelding.txt | lookup bin/hyph-sma.fst | cut -f2 | \
lookup bin/hyphrules-sma.fst | grep -v '^$' | cut -f2 | uniq | see

TODO:

• fix PL hyphenator errors (Tomi)
  • almost done - one smj bug left

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

Easter holidays

Holiday for all of us: th, fri, mon 1.4, 2.4, 4.4

Name	Vacation
Børre	29-31 of march
Cip	orthodox or non-orthodox (I celebrate them all)
Maja	29-31 of march ?
Sjur	29-31 of March
Thomas	29-31 of march
Tomi	Not sure yet
Trond	Not clear yet (but traveling the week after easter)

Thursday inhouse seminar

A short (less than 1h) seminar every Thursday at 10 AM. Possible topics:

• next time: XXE and dictionaries (etc)

Spring planning

Topics:

• speller test project -> Sjur, Børre, Thomas, X
• speech synthesis -> Sjur, Trond, BA as a starter
• risten.no -> Ciprian, Sjur, Tomi
• Barents project follow-up meeting -> Trond, Sjur
• sme and smj proofing tools, next version -> Thomas, Tomi, Sjur
• HFST-based proofing tools -> Sjur
• MT terminology project -> Trond, Linda, Fran, Kevin

Dates:

• March 1-14: Bodø (conference, program):
  • Cip in Bodø 2-5
  • Lene in Bodø 8-12
  • Trond in Bodø 2-4?
• March 23-24: SMA school conference, Trondheim - Cancelled for us
• May 4-5: Lene, Giellagiella
• May: LREC Malta: WS: 17-18, Conf. 19-21, WS 22-23
• July: ACL Uppsala

Text to speech

Tomi has familiarised himself with the code.

TODO:

• put together the preprocessing transducers and scripts (Tomi)
• refine syntax / dependency rules (Biret Ánne)
• continue public tender process (Sjur)

CAT

Autshumato ITE won’t work on the Mac because of Apple software security policies. It still works fine on Windows and Linux, and could possibly be used at the Sámi Parliament.

A-ITE seems to be released as 1.0, we will test it.

TODO:

• update and test (Ciprian, Sjur)

Next meeting, closing

The next meeting is 22.03.2010, 9.30 Norwegian time.

The meeting was closed at 12:31.

Appendix - task lists for the next week

Boerre

• contact Ávvir about renewed corpus cooperation
• Jabber server and group chats: user name issues + lost chat history
• implement language switch for static divvun site
• improve XSL script to transform leaflet Forrest XDocs to an OOo Draw document
• gt/Makefile remake
• get translations of thank-you letter
• make the new SL Server services functional:
  • group calendars
• set up corpus mirroring on the XServe again
• fix bugs!

Ciprian

• infrastructure
  • make a schema/dtd description of the lexC-file (experiment with Komi and Romanian)
  • transform sme-lexC files into XML format
  • restructure and clean the script catalogue as suggested in the newsgroup
• GT web:
  • colouring output of the disambiguation
  • add a tree visualizer for the dependency trees
  • add input help for special characters on the tool sites
  • automatise the web statistics
  • filter (English, German, etc.) input using language detection tools
  • put a note on the sites that these are NOT MT tools
  • input help for generating wordforms (dropdown menus).
• Sandbox Oahpa:
  • Numra for Skolt Sámi and Finnish
  • debug the installed sb_oahpa
  • update, correct, complete the Oapha docu site
• Running Oahpa:
  • add an Oahpa clock and date excercise (cf. Numra)
  • email notification when the server goes down
  • check the XXX?
• dictionaries, generally:
  • synchronize the source language entries from a specific dictionary with the entries in the morphology component (now especially for sma): that means nothing then put the entries from dict that are NOT analyzed into the lexC files
  • the StarDict on Windows: try the HTML-plugin (that means that users can use StarDict 3.2)
  • try to reduce the dict-size on mac: experiment with xPointer, etc.
• Fkv:Nob - Nob:Fkv:
  • compile the dictionaries for both directions and in both formats (internal deadline for the first version: 08.03.2010)
  • try to implement a web version of the dictionaries (internal deadline: 20.01.2010)
• KomEngFin:
  • test the automatic sorting by Komi alphabet in xsl (as discussed with Trond)
• SmeNob:
  • incorporate the passives into the last version of the sme:nob
• SmaNobSwe:
  • extend the smanobswe dictionary: waiting for data (incorporate the data from Maja-Lisa)
• SjdRus:
  • continue the work at the Kildin-Russian dictionary, next internal deadline is the Bodø workshop in March 2010
• Corpus:
  • check the processing of new corpus documents (error logging during conversion, conversion quality, documentation, etc.)
• Lexicon workshop
  • evaluate the participants’ materials
  • write feedback emails to each of participant with an individual electronic dictionary
  • contact Kimberly Mäkäräinen and ask whether she might be willing to share data with us
• update and test Autshumato ITE

Maja

• add missing sma verbs
• Prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM
• more work on sma adjectives
• contact authors of sma aticles in 9-10 eds. of the yearbook Åarjel-saemieh
• look at incoming loanwords
• make a goldstandard doc. av SÄPO-dok - korrektur
• continue gathering sma corpus texts
• fix bugs!

Sjur

• install & configure the Unison news reader
• FST make working session to go through the remaining issues: 16.3.
• XXE & dictionaries workshop Thursday
• update and test Autshumato ITE
• gold standard testing for sma
• difftest for fst and PL speller
• @Barents: plan a meeting/seminar with potential cooperation partners
• @Barents: plan for The Real Thing
• @TTS: continue public tender process
• make Leif Åge send out CD’s to distribution points
• start Nordplus Sprog project
• Write a formal letter to Davvi girji about electronic dictionaries
• make XSL script to transform leaflet Forrest XDocs to an OOo Drawer document
• name db/risten.no
• follow-up on some Polderland-related bugs: 621, 630, 652
• find and contact the correct person in SD, to get the manuscript for all Sámi teaching material now being given out to the schools
• write new build commands for make
• when the new build infrastructure works as it should, delete the old ones
• fix bugs!

Thomas

• sort out words that do not follow usual Umlaut rules to specific lexica
• prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM
• Digitalize south saami books
• add compound tags for sma
• fix bugs!

Tomi

• FST make working session to go through the remaining issues: 16.3.
• test that the new analysers behave as the old one (=give exactly the same res)
• put together the TTS preprocessing transducers and scripts
• write new build commands
• when the new build infrastructure works as it should, delete the old ones
• document how compounding is controlled in the PLX conversion
• fix double hyphen bugs
• fix PL smj hyphenator bug
• fix PL conversion bugs
• fix bugs!

Trond

• install & configure the Unison news reader
• fkv:nob and nob:fkv scheduled for april release:
  • content and webpage update
• Northern areas
• MT/Terminology
• fix bugs!.