Meeting_2006-02-20

Meeting setup

Date: 21.02.2006
Time: 09.30 Norw. time
Place: Wherever we are : -)
Tools: iChat, SubEthaEdit

Agenda

Opening, agenda review
Reviewing the task list from two weeks ago
Linguistics
name lexicon infrastructure
Spellers
Other issues
Summary, task lists
Closing

1. Opening, agenda review, participants

Opened at 09: 44.

Present: Børre, Maaren, Sjur, Thomas, Tomi

Absent: Maaren, Saara, Trond

Main secretary: Børre

Agenda shortened substantially due to time constraints.

2. Reviewing the task list from the last meeting

Børre

send out contracts with accompanying letter
- Anders Kintel
Gather public texts, preferrably also parallel ones
- Gathered some from samediggi, will add them soonish
Continue converting text from input format to our xml
- Not done
convert nob and nno bible texts to be used as part of a parallel corpus
- Not done
review the paratext2xml converter
- Not done
convert smj NT to paratext
- not done, we don't have the nny and nob NT paratexts
Call Ove Sæth and Olavi Korhonen
- Not done
Correct Forrest integration for new projects and project ideas
- Helped Sjur a bit
Move complex name lexicon issue to bugzilla
- Not done
fix bugs!

Maaren

work with risten.no
- Not done. Worked with top ten missinglist
discuss with relevant people regarding seminar on proofing tools, normativity and SGL in February/March, including place.
- waiting for an answer from SGL when and where is best to hold normativity seminar.

Saara

continue discussion on the new lexicon format
Move the issue "Refine language detection for Finnish" to Bugzilla
- done.
Move the issue "Finnish the review of the hyphenation detection" to Bugzilla
- done.
Add version information of the tools to part of the corpus infra.
- done.
Fix the preprocess script and optimize it.
finalize an improved working version of the CGI and command line scripts for corpus additions
- done.
update conversion from lexc to xml (proper names) with the latest refinements
- not done.
Try to add numeral treatment as part of the analyzator.
- not done.
Look at crontab ga/ directory issue with Trond.
- not done. I will move the gt2ga.sh -script to darwin this week, because it is way too slow in cochise. The more extensive test routines are postponed for now.
fix bugs!
- Changed the status of some corpus infra bugs to fixed.

Sjur

Follow up the lawyer treatment of the contracts
Lule Sámi twol problems, with Thomas and Trond
project planning with Trond, continued
Follow up on place names from Norge Digitalt
Evaluate SFST as speller (and analyzer) lexicon
write a background document on the corpus contracts
public tender:
- review draft tender document from Finnut
  - almost ready, to be published next Monday or Tuesday
smj G3 issue with Thomas and Trond
sme G3 issue with Thomas and Trond
call EDD/ Christian Emil Ore about national place name lexicon
risten.no/proper noun lexicon development: fix bugs, continue development
- more work
fix bugs!

Thomas

work on North Sámi compounding and derivation
- nothing due to sickleave
review corpus usage documentation
- nothing due to sickleave
smj G3 issue with Sjur and Trond
- nothing due to sickleave
sme G3 issue with Sjur and Trond
- nothing due to sickleave

Tomi

move aspell UTF-8 suffix bug to Bugzilla
corpus infrastructure:
- dtd location (both public and internal)
Document aspell infrastructure: finish doc/proof/spelling/X-spell/aspell.xml (it's almost done, but there are a couple of loose ends)
new proper name lexicon
- discuss the new lexicon format and other issues in the newsgroup
- Look into data synchronisation of proper nouns between risten.no and CVS
- new version of xml2lexc (based on ccat), should handle complex names correct: construct entries like we have now from the different parts of a complex name entry
fix bugs!
Other
- On sick leave

Trond

Work on corpus texts with Børre.
Contact the Finnish and Swedish Bible societies to get Bible texts.
Look at ga/ directory issue with Saara.
News group discussion followup.
Do a bug report (if not done) on commandline (mis)behaviour in the Xerox tools
Ask IT guys for an e-mail adress for corpus upload script: corpus@giellatekno.uit.no (forwarded to Børre)
fix bugs!.

3. Linguistics

North Sámi

Maaren has been adding words from the top-ten missing list.

Lule Sámi

We need to get a working version of the Lule Sámi lexicon by Monday next week. The lexicon doesn't need to be "complete" in any way, but should approach 6-7000 lemmas.

Børre, Thomas and Trond will convert the material to lexc, in cooperation with Sjur.

4. Other

SGL Seminar

SGL has now been elected, with the folowing members:

Rolf Olsen (Else Turi)
Tor Magne Berg (Marit Breie Henriksen)
Elle Marja Vars (-)
Lena Kappfjell (Albert Jåma)
Heidi Andersen (-)

SGL/normativity seminar:

all members = potentially/likely all languages
- not all languages, only North Sámi
date? As early as possible, end of February/beginning of March
place? Maaren will investigate
- I am waiting for the answer from Laila. Place? Do you have ideas? Karasjok, Helsinki, Kautokeino? Date: end of March?

Leaves and vacations

Maaren will be away from the end of March and three weeks.
Sjur is on winter holidays this week, as well as Maaren from Wednesday
Børre will be in Karesuando in two weeks, but will be working (some, at least: -)

5. Summary, task list