Meeting_2009-01-26

Meeting setup

  • Date: 26.1.2009
  • 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: 47.

Present: Børre, Ciprian, David, Jovsset, Maja Lisa, Sjur, Thomas, Tomi, Trond

Absent: none

Agenda accepted, with one addition under Other.

Updated task status since last meeting

Børre

  • Implement new version of giellatekno front page without ToC
    • Not done
  • meeting on Friday 23rd 09: 30 AM to discuss further sma corpus gathering
    • done
  • improve OOo instructions for leaflet
    • Not done
  • work on and debug compounds in Hunspell
    • Some work done
  • leaflet: add Linux info
    • Not done
  • gt/Makefile remake
    • Not done
  • fix bugs!
  • other
    • Set up giza++ and friends on the xserve

Ciprian

  • close the open SVN repository at requested paths
    • todo
  • improve processing of new corpus documents
    • todo
  • make the pipeline of StarDict dictionary generation running on the Mac
    • ongoing
  • update the Makefile for generating dictionaries
    • done
  • take care of the error logging during conversion process
    • todo
  • look at the xml conversion quality
    • todo
  • make a list of (general and special) problems related with converting docs into xml-forat and adding them to the corpora
    • todo
  • continue the search and testing of an appropriate tool for lexicon working (no xml-file editing via text editors!)
    • ongoing
  • build the intelligent sma: nob dict in mac-format
    • ongoing
  • build the sami-week-version of sme: nob in all formats
    • ongoing
  • infrastructure remake - news discussion
    • todo
  • fix bugs!
    • todo

David

  • continue gathering sma corpus texts
    • ongoing
  • prepare a workshop on South Sámi orthography and grammar (David)
    • prepare data for each topic (with Sjur and Trond)
      • ongoing
  • stay in touch with UmU about c-thesises in south sami
    • not done
  • Translate light version contract to swedish
    • not done
  • find a conference location for our sma seminar in Trondheim
    • not done
  • contact the sami radio about older manuscrips
    • not done
  • call Anne-Grethe Bientie and Bierna Bientie about bible texts
    • not done
  • call Š-blađđi about south saami texts
    • not done
  • call Anna-Sööfe about permission for Åarjelsaemien 1-6
    • not done
  • reupload the Dejpeladtje muvhth vätnoeh jih vuekie text, which is corrected, into the corpus repository
    • not done
  • send a mail/letter to SGM about hotell rooms
    • not done
  • make list of the peaple who have confirmed participation
    • done
  • prepare to go to Røyrvik and promote Dåvvome
    • not done
  • meeting on Friday 23rd 09: 30 AM to discuss further sma corpus gathering
    • done

Jovsset

  • get the list of verbs from the auhtors of Verbh.
  • Find a suitable infrastructure for the distribution of the CD version. Possible through the library bus, the language centres and common sami centres in all of Sápmi.
    • Not done.
  • write formal letter to translator of Gåessie dah jeatjebh åerieminie
    • Not done
  • leaflet: review the Windows pictures, and usage instructions for MS Office. Review especially the select sami language part.
    • Not done
  • Write installation instructions for word 2003
    • Not done
  • better Windows usage descriptions, with emphasis on the pitfalls
    • Not done
  • work with missing lists
    • Not done
  • Write a short summary of meeting with John-Marchs Kuhmunen considering the promotion of Divvun.
    • Not done
  • meeting on Friday 23rd 09: 30 AM to discuss further sma corpus gathering

Per-Eric

  • transfer the smj texts by Kurt Tore and Ulf Stefan Winka to our corpus repository
  • follow-up contract from Lena Davidsson
  • fix bugs!

Maja

  • contact NRK Nord-Trøndelag about recordings in sma and broadcast manuscripts
    • Contact NRK Sameradio
  • follow up contact with Fylkesmannen i Nordland about sma material
    • OK
  • call Fritz Jakobssen to get permission to use Anna's manuscripts
    • Ok
  • meeting on Friday 23rd 09: 30 AM to discuss further sma corpus gathering
    • Ok
  • adjective meeting Wednesday 9: 30 this week
    • OK
  • order meeting rooms
    • Not done

Saara

  • map oahpa.uit.no to gtsvn.uit.no/oahpa/
  • add new XSL/XML headers for proofing test docs
  • Set up ways of adding meta-information for proofing correct corpus docs (source info, used in testing or not, added to lexicon or not)

Sjur

  • name db/risten.no
  • follow-up on some Polderland-related bugs: 621, 630, 652
  • InDesign documentation
  • continue the dictionary infrastructure discussion (with Ciprian, Trond)
  • Contact Davvi Girji about cooperation on electronic dictionaries
  • subcontractor work for sma proofing tools, MS and Adobe versions
    • continued
  • support and maintenance contract for sme and smj, MS+Adobe tools
    • continued
  • Sámi languages as part of Norsk språkbank
    • continued
  • contact MS Nordic, and ask them to include the Divvun tools in the next Office releases
  • prepare data for each topic at sma workshop (with David and Trond)
    • somehow continued
  • leaflet: add link to OOo installation and usage instructions
  • leaflet: add InDesign text
  • meeting on Friday 23rd 09: 30 AM to discuss further sma corpus gathering
    • done
  • adjective meeting Wednesday 9: 30 this week
    • done
  • fix bugs!

Thomas

  • work on and debug compounds in Hunspell
    • not done
  • look at test cases still not behaving properly
    • nothing this week
  • remind Per-Eric about transferring documents from Ulf Stefan Winka
    • done
  • fix bugs!
    • worked

Tomi

  • document how compounding is controlled in the PLX conversion
    • not done
  • fix double hyphen bugs
    • nothing this week
  • fix PL hyphenator bugs
    • worked with
  • fix PL and Hunspell conversion bugs
    • worked a bit
  • infrastructure remake
    • not done
  • make a Mac installer for the InDesign Divvun tools
    • not done
  • replace InstallShield with an open-source alternative
    • not done
  • fix bugs!

Trond

  • Implement new version of giellatekno front page without ToC (with Børre)
    • Not done
  • prepare data for each topic at sma workshop (with David and Sjur)
    • Not done
  • Register oahpa.no
    • Not done
  • fix bugs!.
    • Worked on bugzilla, yes.

Pedagogical software online

Added a place-name fst to be able to provide corrections to Norwegian names that should have been in Sámi, and vice versa, and the rest of the world, and Lule, and South.

Usage: 

makeall.sh
lookup -flags mbTT words/dicts/smi/geo/bin/geo.fst

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

TODO

  • Register oahpa.no (Trond)
    • We will go for the uit version by now.
  • Beta test at lib and give feedback (all)

Corpus gathering

TODO:

  • continue gathering sma corpus texts (David, Jovsset)
    • Sámi Radio texts from the last two years added
    • older texts would be very welcome as well (David)
    • Maja: NRK Nord-Trøndelag has a lot of recordings in sma, possibly also manuscripts - we should call them (Maja)
    • David: called Fylkesmannen i Nordland about sma material, but could not get hold of the relevant person, Maja will follow up
    • we should call Fritz Jakobssen, husband of Anna Jakobssen, to get permission to use her manuscript (Maja)
    • Š-bláđđi has some articles in sma, we should ask for permission to use it ( David)
    • follow up on the sma Bible translations (David)
    • meeting on Friday 23rd 09: 30 AM to discuss further sma corpus gathering ( Børre, David, Jovsset, Maja, Sjur)
      • done
  • transfer the smj texts by Kurt Tore and Ulf Stefan Winka to our corpus repository (Per-Eric)
    • remind him (Thomas)
      • done, it seems like all the texts that P-E has, are transfered
  • other contacts: Lena Davidsson, daughter to Lars-Matto Tuolja
  • make a 1-page, light version of the contract, also in Swedish ( Børre, David, Sjur, Trond)
    • Bokmål and Northern Sami versions are commited at xtdoc/sd/src/documentation/content/xdocs/adm/legal/short-contract.(nb|se).xml
    • meeting to go through the 1-page version Feb. 11, at 9: 30 Norw. time
  • discuss infra improvements for corpus rep administration (Børre, Ciprian)
    • delayed till we are done with the gt/Makefile improvements

Promoting Divvun

TODO:

  • chron task for updating download log once a month (week?) (Børre)
  • make leaflet to inform about the project (Jovsset, David)
    • better Windows usage descriptions, with emphasis on the pitfalls ( Jovsset)
    • add link to OOo installation and usage instructions (Sjur)
    • improve OOo instructions (Børre)
    • add Linux info (Børre)
    • add InDesign text (Sjur) - requires installer
    • review the Windows pictures, and usage instructions for MS Office 2003 ( Jovsset)
      • text (Jovsset)
  • 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, Jovsset)
  • contact MS Nordic, and ask them to include the Divvun tools in the next Office releases (both Windows and Mac). The integration can/should be done by Polderland, which is an official MS subcontractor/integrator. It could be used by MS as part of their advertising for the next releases, and it will make it much easier for people to get access to the tools. (Sjur)
  • write a short memo from the meeting with John Marcus ( Jovsset)
  • prepare to go to Røyrvik and promote Dåvvome (David)

Future plans, directions and ideas

See a separate document in plan/strat/5year.jspwiki.

Infrastructure

Børre has installed giza++, mosesdecoder, srilm, mkcl etc on the XServe, which will facilitate statistically based machine translation. There are experiments with the two ways of doing MT:

  • rule-based machine translation
    • based on apertium: sme2smj
    • based on cg?
  • statistical machine translation - ideas/plans for the future:
    • sme2smj (for comparison),
    • sme2nob (gist translation),
    • nob2sme (OpenOffice.org localisation etc.)

To accomodate 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 complet
  2. set up the Leopard Server features for collaborative support:
    1. permanent chat rooms
    2. stored (and indexed) chat transcripts of the chat rooms
    3. iCal server / group calendars
    4. wiki
  3. wiki? on G5 (is part of Leopard Server) or other web-based documentation
  4. improve Forrest stability and i18n support ( the divvun crashes)
    1. Sjur has been working on better i18n and pdf rendering
    2. Børre has some ideas for getting back to serving static html files
  5. 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
  6. 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)
  7. change the look of the documentation web
  8. sfst?
    1. replacement for xfst -> see omorf , omorf wiki and omorfi
    2. replacement for hunspell/open-source proofing tools
  9. investigate the NSIS installer, potentially replacing the InstallShield package from Polderland
  10. corpus content moved to Max Planck repositories? Norsk språkbank?
  11. update infrastructure to allow content-restricted spellers for special target groups

SVN issues:

  • http access not yet available (https only at the moment, but it works as anonymous checkout if the user is not specified)
  • read access to the whole repo is working, BUT:
    • gt/*/polderland should be protected
    • plan should be protected
  • certain users need to be on the UiT VPN to be able to commit (bug #705)
  • UTF-8 problem in svn commit mails: the commit log text is garbled

SVN mail issue - solved.

TODO:

  • 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
  • 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
  • follow-up migration to svn:
    • close the open SVN repository at requested paths (Ciprian)
      • completely closed at the moment, until we have solved the path-based control
    • prepare and discuss with external users: Jack Ruether (Trond)
  • 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

TODO:

  • step two for adjectives (David, Maja, Trond, Sjur)
    • meeting Wednesday 9: 30 last week (Maja, Sjur, Trond)
      • done
    • new meeting Wednesday 9: 30 this week (David, Maja, Sjur, Trond)
  • finish reformulating the proper noun grammar like the verbs (Sjur, Trond)
  • Missing list (focus on closed class words and addition on missing nouns, adjectives and verbs) (David, Jovsset)
    • David made a new missing list from an OCR-ed book
  • prepare a workshop on South Sámi orthography and grammar (David)
    • date: last week of February (23.-27.) seems to work fine with SGL/South Sámi branch
    • Place: Trondheim, no meeting rooms ordered (Maja, Sjur)
      • call our travel agency - DONE
      • call the Univ. - travel agency did it
    • we'll cover travel and hotel expenses
    • work on the agenda (David, Sjur)
      • not yet long enough to fill the week
    • prepare data for each topic (David, Sjur, Trond)
    • make a list in svn of people coming (David)
  • clean the smanob data (Trond with some help)

Possible linguists to be invited:

  • Håkan Rydving
  • Ove Lorentz - loan word standardisation in Snåsa Oct. 2006
    • (decision made: 26. july 2006)
  • Michael Rießler
  • Eino Koponen
  • Torbjörn Söder

Name lexicon/risten.no infrastructure

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:

  1. fix i18n bug in risten.no/G5 (so they will work without the proper locale request) (Sjur)
  2. fix bugs in lexc2xml; add comments to the log element (Saara)
  3. finish first version of the editing (Sjur)
  4. test editing of the xml files. If ok, then: ( Sjur, Thomas, Trond)
  5. 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)
  6. convert propernoun-($lang)-lex.txt to a derived file from common xml files ( Sjur, Tomi, Saara)
  7. 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)
  8. start to use the xml file as source file
  9. clean terms-sme.xml such that all names have the correct tag for their use (e.g. @type=secondary) (Thomas, linguists)
  10. merge placenames which are errouneously in different entries: e.g. Helsinki, Helsingfors, Helsset (linguists)
  11. publish the name lexicon on risten.no (Sjur)
  12. add missing parallel names for placenames (linguists)
  13. add informative links between first names like Niillas and Nils ( linguists)

Dictionaries

Status: Ciprian has redone the makefile and the build process, generalized and standardised.

The scripts in gt/smX/testing/ should go to a more general and shared location.

The dictinary build command: 

dicts$ make wordform_macdict S_LANG=sme T_LANG=nob

When will we have a Mac and PC dictionary to use and test? Wednesday.

Documentation (link below) must be written and translated, at least into Norwegian.

Tomcat, eXist are needed in order to make the dictionaries accessible on the web, as well as svn check-out and testing.

The www.divvun.no setup is appr 1 1/2 year old. The question is to what extent this setup will work with the present eXist version.

  • http: //giellatekno.uit.no/dict.eng.html
  • http: //www.divvun.no: 8889/index.html

TODO:

  • Set up the apache server for the risten.no beta on the linux box + Xserve. ( Børre)
  • set up Tomcat and eXist (latest svn) on 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)
  • make simple installer applications?
  • make a public release
    • Make a homepage with instructions for dictionary use: xtdoc/gtuit/src/documentation/content/xdocs/dict.eng.xml
    • Clarify the difference between local and online dictionaries:
      • Plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer (online dictionaries)
  • Contact Davvi Girji about cooperation on electronic dictionaries ( Sjur)
  • short meeting to go through missing points before a release - Wednesday 13: 00 ( Ciprian, Sjur, Trond, Børre)

Proofing tools

Hunspell

Børre did some investigations on compounding syntax - it does not look good.

TODO:

  • work on and debug compounds (Børre, Thomas)

OpenXSpell

Working everywhere (almost) in MacOS X applications, provides Sámi spell checking system-wide through a hunspell back-end. OpenXSPell

There are two issues:

  • strings with non-ASCII chars are always flagged
  • asking for suggestions on words with non-ASCII chars crashes OpenXSpell

Another option could be CheckSpell. Seems to be more stable and developed. See http://web.mac.com/heidi17/Heidikowa_witryna/CheckSpell.html.

Testing

Spelling Error Markup

TODO:

  • Set up ways of adding meta-information (source info, used in testing or not, added to lexicon or not) (Saara)
  • 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)

Speller bugs

List of bugs returned from Polderland: 621, 630, 652, 656, 676.

Open issues based on test results:

sme

Version: Davvisámi, version 1.1, 2008-12-17

  • 425 - X not recognized; single letters were left out - 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
  • 581 - consonant doubling - still OPEN
  • 595 - prefix+name without hyphen (ovdaLot instead of ovda-Lot) - still OPEN
  • 603 - suomabealdi accepted - still OPEN
  • 606 - REGRESSION: compound-tags LEXICON VUOHTA
  • 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 - still OPEN
  • 647 - numerals+NOUN - still OPEN, open case has uppercase letters
  • 648 - unmotivated suggestions with numeral+noun - still OPEN
  • 728 - vowel shortening GenCmp+Left-tagged - still OPEN

smj

Version: Julevsáme, version 1.1, 2008-12-17

  • 435 - roman number - single letter numbers now recognised
    • we should pregenerate 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
  • 595 - prefix+name as split comp without hyphen - still OPEN
  • 596 - REGRESSION: C-giellan is not 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 - still OPEN
  • 652 - UPPERCASE-typos only get acronym-suggestions - still OPEN
  • 692 - numeral-variants - all but one fixed (gáktsalågenantjuotakta), but still OPEN
  • 711 - REGRESSION: numeral compounds and cases (10-biejvvásattja)

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:

  • make a Mac installer for the InDesign Divvun tools (Tomi)
  • replace InstallShield with an open-source alternative (Tomi)
  • meeting Tuesday 12.30 to go through the present installers (Sjur, Tomi)

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

Sámi week in Tromsø

Antti Suni is coming => meetings with at least Biret Ánne, Trond and Patrik Bye and Ove Lorentz. On Friday there will be a university strategy seminar - should somebody go there?

Schedule:

  • Monday: 13.00 Library presentation (Trond)
  • Tuesday: 11.00 European Charter for regional languages will have a meeting ( Jovvset, Trond are going there
  • Thursday 14: 15: Release of Oahpa + dict + release party in Árdna, directly afterwards ( Biret Ánne, Ciprian, Lene, Saara, Trond)

Text to speech

Antti has hinted at the possibility of doing beta versions of other languages as well. We are thus now recording Greenlandic sentences. A further possibility would be smj, sma, this would require phon-smX.xfst files for these languages as well (a couple of days' work for smj, more for sma), plus recording.

TODO:

  • meeting with Antti Suni during the Sámi week ( Maja, Ove Lorentz, Thomas, Trond)

TNC, rikstermbanken and Sámi terms

  • Mekanihkartearbmat
  • Pedagogalaš ja psykologalaš tearbmat (?)

It should be ok, but they need to send a formal request, to samediggi@samediggi.no. From there it will be forwarded to the relevant person.

Corpus contracts + open source

Postponed until the svn repository is fully functional (it is too open now).

Other issues

  • svn mail not working for David -> Børre, Ciprian
  • Maja is still not receiving mail on her computer -> Børre
  • Maja would like to have a bigger monitor -> coming soon (it is ordered)

Next meeting, closing

The next meeting is 2.2.2009, 9.30 Norwegian time.

The meeting was closed at 11: 56.

Appendix - task lists for the next five days

Boerre

  • Implement new version of giellatekno front page without ToC
  • improve OOo instructions for leaflet
  • work on and debug compounds in Hunspell
  • leaflet: add Linux info
  • gt/Makefile remake
  • meeting to go through the 1-page version Feb. 11, at 9: 30 Norw. time
  • Set up the apache server for the risten.no beta on the linux box + Xserve.
  • set up Tomcat and eXist (latest svn) on XServe
  • short meeting to go through missing points before a release - Wednesday 13: 00
  • Maja is still not receiving mail on her computer
  • svn mail not working for David (with Ciprian)
  • fix bugs!

Ciprian

  • close the open SVN repository at requested paths
  • improve processing of new corpus documents
  • make the pipeline of StarDict dictionary generation running on the Mac
  • take care of the error logging during conversion process
  • look at the xml conversion quality
  • make a list of (general and special) problems related with converting docs into xml-forat and adding them to the corpora
  • continue the search and testing of an appropriate tool for lexicon working (no xml-file editing via text editors!)
  • build the intelligent sma: nob dict in mac-format
  • build the sami-week-version of sme: nob in all formats
  • infrastructure remake - news discussion
  • end user documentation (how to download and install) - dictionaries
  • short meeting to go through missing points before a release - Wednesday 13: 00
  • svn mail not working for David (with Børre)
  • fix bugs!

David

  • continue gathering sma corpus texts
  • prepare a workshop on South Sámi orthography and grammar (David)
    • prepare data for each topic (with Sjur and Trond)
  • stay in touch with UmU about c-thesises in south sami
  • Translate light version contract to swedish
  • find a conference location for our sma seminar in Trondheim
  • contact the sami radio about older manuscrips
  • call Anne-Grethe Bientie and Bierna Bientie about bible texts
  • call Š-blađđi about south saami texts
  • call Anna-Sööfe about permission for Åarjelsaemien 1-6
  • reupload the Dejpeladtje muvhth vätnoeh jih vuekie text, which is corrected, into the corpus repository
  • send a mail/letter to SGM about hotell rooms
  • meeting to go through the 1-page version Feb. 11, at 9: 30 Norw. time
  • prepare to go to Røyrvik and promote Dåvvome
  • adj meeting Wednesday 9: 30, Jan 28

Jovsset

  • get the list of verbs from the auhtors of Verbh.
  • Find a suitable infrastructure for the distribution of the CD version. Possible through the library bus, the language centres and common sami centres in all of Sápmi.
  • write formal letter to translator of Gåessie dah jeatjebh åerieminie
  • leaflet: review the Windows pictures, and usage instructions for MS Office. Review especially the select sami language part.
  • Write installation instructions for word 2003
  • better Windows usage descriptions, with emphasis on the pitfalls
  • work with missing lists
  • Write a short summary of meeting with John-Marchs Kuhmunen considering the promotion of Divvun.
  • meeting on Friday 23rd 09: 30 AM to discuss further sma corpus gathering

Per-Eric

  • transfer the smj texts by Kurt Tore and Ulf Stefan Winka to our corpus repository
  • follow-up contract from Lena Davidsson
  • fix bugs!

Maja

  • contact NRK Nord-Trøndelag about recordings in sma and broadcast manuscripts
  • adj meeting Wednesday 9: 30, Jan 28
  • meeting with Antti Suni during the Sámi week (with Trond)

Saara

  • map oahpa.uit.no to gtsvn.uit.no/oahpa/
  • add new XSL/XML headers for proofing test docs
  • Set up ways of adding meta-information for proofing correct corpus docs (source info, used in testing or not, added to lexicon or not)

Sjur

  • name db/risten.no
  • follow-up on some Polderland-related bugs: 621, 630, 652
  • InDesign documentation
  • continue the dictionary infrastructure discussion (with Ciprian, Trond)
  • Contact Davvi Girji about cooperation on electronic dictionaries
  • subcontractor work for sma proofing tools, MS and Adobe versions
  • support and maintenance contract for sme and smj, MS+Adobe tools
  • Sámi languages as part of Norsk språkbank
  • contact MS Nordic, and ask them to include the Divvun tools in the next Office releases
  • prepare data for each topic at sma workshop (with David and Trond)
  • leaflet: add link to OOo installation and usage instructions
  • leaflet: add InDesign text
  • meeting to go through the 1-page version Feb. 11, at 9: 30 Norw. time
  • adj meeting Wednesday 9: 30, Jan 28
  • set up risten.no on eXist/XServe (as a beta version site)
  • set up required infra for smenob on risten.no/XServe
  • short meeting to go through missing points before a release - Wednesday 13: 00
  • meeting Tuesday 12.30 to go through the present installers
  • fix bugs!

Thomas

  • work on and debug compounds in Hunspell
  • look at test cases still not behaving properly
  • meeting with Antti Suni during the Sámi week (with Trond)
  • fix bugs!

Tomi

  • 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
  • make a Mac installer for the InDesign Divvun tools
  • replace InstallShield with an open-source alternative
  • meeting Tuesday 12.30 to go through the present installers
  • fix bugs!

Trond

  • prepare data for each topic at sma workshop (with David and Sjur)
  • Register oahpa.no
  • meeting to go through the 1-page version Feb. 11, at 9: 30 Norw. time
  • adj meeting Wednesday 9: 30, Jan 28
  • end user documentation (how to download and install) - dictionaries
  • short meeting to go through missing points before a release - Wednesday 13: 00
  • meeting with Antti Suni during the Sámi week
  • fix bugs!.