Meeting_2010-02-15

Meeting setup

  • Date: 15.2.2010
  • 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: 00.

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

Absent: none

Agenda accepted as is.

Updated task status since last meeting

Børre

  • Jabber server and group chats: user name issues + lost chat history
    • Sjur and I tried to investigate the reason for this, but found no solution.
  • 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
    • nothing new
  • make the new SL Server services functional:
    • Wiki, group calendars
      • wikis and blogs are available, calendars are missing
  • set up corpus mirroring on the XServe again
    • not done
  • 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
      • todo
  • 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).
      • todo
  • Bodø Oahpa:
    • generalise for semantic classes and pos
      • not relevant now
    • implement a login mechanism
      • not relevant now
    • implement an upload data mechanism
      • not relevant now
    • setup the Bodø version on victorio
      • ongoing
  • Sandbox Oahpa:
    • implement and test the Finnish lemmata (and if it works transfer it to the official OAHPA implementation: very important for the Bodø experiment)
      • done
    • Numra for Skolt Sámi and Finnish
      • todo
    • finish the db installation for sb_oahpa
      • ongoing
  • Running Oahpa:
    • add an Oahpa clock and date excercise (cf. Numra)
    • Generate fin/xml/{nouns|verbs|adjectives}.xml, and implement the new Leksa dropdown menu (but first run the sb_oahpa test)
      • ongoing
    • email notification when the server goes down
      • 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
    • 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.
      • todo
  • KomEngFin:
    • generate the first StarDict version of komeng and komfin dictionary
      • not relevant now (Jaska has Mac)
    • 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
      • todo
  • Corpus:
    • check the processing of new corpus documents (error logging during conversion, conversion quality, documentation, etc.)
      • todo (Sjur already started with it)
  • 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
      • todo
  • Linearization workshop
    • make slides for the GfDS conference in Berlin
      • todo

Maja

  • Prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM/ look at incoming loanwords
    • ongoing
  • more work on sma adjectives
    • to do
  • contact authors of sma aticles in 9-10 eds. of the yearbook Åarjel-saemieh
    • has to wait- not prioritized yet
  • make a goldstandard doc. av SÄPO-dok - korrektur
    • not done yet
  • continue gathering sma corpus texts
    • has to wait- not prioritized yet
  • fix bugs!
  • other things:
    • Work on verbs the last week
      • done and almost
  • SmaNobSwe:
    • extend the smanobswe dictionary: waiting for data (incorporate the data from Maja-Lisa)
      • Will not prioritize this yet - mai/juni

Sjur

  • gold standard testing for sma
    • still missing Polderland tools
    • the corpus conversion bug that spoiled some of our gold standard documents have been fixed, but the corrected version of text_cat is not yet installed
  • difftest for fst and PL speller
  • @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
    • finally done!
  • 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
    • found the correct point in our svn history for the current official website
    • made a branch from that point, to do some maintenance work and bring risten.no up to date wrt the eXist version - that should improve stability etc.
  • follow-up on some Polderland-related bugs: 621, 630, 652
  • Sámi languages as part of Norsk språkbank
  • 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

  • work with ^-marking
    • done
  • prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM
    • nothing this week
  • Digitalize south saami books
    • some work done
  • add compound tags for sma
    • have not had time yet
  • fix bugs!
    • nothing this week

Tomi

  • convert comment etc tags to real lexc tags when the tag discussion is over
    • not done yet
  • 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!
  • other
    • helped Sjur and Børre with jabber problem

Trond

  • Northern areas
    • Progress.
  • MT/Terminology
    • Progress.
  • Bodø Oahpa
    • Progress.
  • Finding a volunteer to translate the sme Leksa lexicon to Swedish
    • Found.
  • fix bugs!.

Oahpa!

A lot of work for the Bodø version, but MorfaC needs more work.

Now all the Oahpa dev is done in $GTPRIV, it should be done in $GTHOME. The move might be delayed till after the Bodø seminar.

A swedish-speaking guy would like to do the LexC translations into Swedish.

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

Børre talked to Ávvir two years ago. They had changed their publishing system to an Adobe-based one which doesn't give direct access to articles as individual files. Now the articles are stored in a database.

We should contact Ávvir to find out how to get text cooperation working again, both regarding their article database (corpus) and their user dictionaries for the spellers.

We also need to tighten the routines regarding the SD protocols, so that we get all new protocols regularly.

Which books are digitized?

  • These books should be OCR'ed/digitized: Anna Jacobsens books 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

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)

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

Makefile + tag simplification

TODO:

  1. convert comment tags to real lexc tags when the discussion is over (Tomi)
    1. done
  2. adjust gt/Makefile to grep on the new tags such that the old make targets work ( Tomi)
    1. done (works without changes)
  3. add the new tags to the tags-not-save.regex file (this will remove them from the regular analyzer) => the transducers and their output should be identical to the earlier versions (Tomi)
    1. done, but not tested
  4. write new build commands (Sjur, Tomi)
  5. when the new build infrastructure works as it should, delete the old ones ( Sjur, Tomi)

General list

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)
  • Jabber server and group chats: user name issues + lost chat history ( Børre)
  • set up corpus mirroring on the XServe again (Børre)
    • not yet done - have a look at the script Saara made earlier
  • 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, 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

Linguistics

Hyphenation of loan words: Thomas would like to have a meeting about this with Maja, Trond, Lene. He will send an e-mail about it.

North Sámi

(nothing new, see proofing bugs below)

Lule Sámi

(nothing new, see proofing bugs below)

South Sámi

Many words do not not follow Umlaut-rules:

Analyser output: 

håjjedh+V+Ind+Prs+Pl3 (jamre, klage)
hejjieh
håjjoeh (- > hujjieh, according to Maja)
håjjah
  • håjjedh e1 - hojjedh in use
  • vearedh e1 - vïeredh in use

jmf: these are according to Umlaut-rules:

  • bonnedh e1
  • vïeredh e1 - v

Umlaut in derived verbs in adjectives does not not follow Umlaut-rules

Lexc solution:

  1. one contlex for umlautverbs (for each class)
  2. one contlex for nonumlautverbs
  3. one contlex for directing to both (or merging to both) (for verbs with variation)

The third contlex could also be used to monitor behaviour, with tags +Uml +Nouml.

Numerals:

  • Bergsland, and Spiik for smj as well: gøøkte luhkie gøøkte
  • Majja, and Nickel for sme: gøøkteluhkiegøøkte
  • Tronds interpretation: Bergsland and Spiik do not reflect the norm, but a pedagogical convention to make it easier for readers to understand

Three types of problem areas:

  • missing closed POSes: errors in transducer, or in PL conversion
  • missing words found in the smanob dictionary: 110 verbs, 80 adjectives, all core sma words (Cip: this statistics is NOT complete, as far as I know Trond has forgotten to take the Swedish verb file into account!)
  • missing list from corpus

We also seem to have problems with derivations: 

jealadehtedh   jieliedehtedh	jieledh+V+Der1+Der/dehte+V+Inf
galmadehtedh   galmedehtedh	galmedidh+V+Der2+Der/ehte+V+Inf

About the sma school conference: we'll ask them about their promise from last year, and decide what to do based on their response. Initial decision is to go there.

TODO:

  • Prepare text´s 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)
  • write letter to Fylkesmannen i Nordland (Sjur)
  • check verb Umlaut for several verbs (Maja, Sjur,Thomas, Trond)

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:

  1. send eXist log files to Ciprian (Sjur)
    1. done
  2. fix i18n bug in risten.no/G5 (so they will work without the proper locale request) (Sjur)
  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, 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)

Dictionaries

All Oahpa! now - no dictionaries: )

fkv: nob and nob: fkv is scheduled to be released at March 18th. The doublet-removal work is ongoing (appr. 200 left), thereafter 225 pos=x should be added, so there might be more doublets.

What will be released is a two-way dictionary without morphology. The nice-to-have feature would be a web interface in addition to the StarDict and MacDict ones, but really as an extra, eventual bonus only.

TODO:

  • fkv: nob and nob: fkv 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 slowly 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

Thursday inhouse seminar

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

  • Ciprian on dictionary compilation (already done)
  • Trond on a project inventory (aka "A little bit about everything")
  • last time: next session will be about grep and its closest friends (fgrep, egrep)

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:

  • Feb. 15: ACL Deadline
  • March 1-14: Bodø
  • March 23-24: SMA school conference, Trondheim
  • May : LREC Malta
  • July: ACL Uppsala

Text to speech

We need to put the preprocessing pieces together, ie all the bits that will turn regular texts into decent input for the synthesizer.

Files:

  1. sme/src/sme-num.txt for numeral to text
  2. ... for abbreviation to text (not done(?))
  3. sme/src/phon-sme.xfst for text to IPA/Sampa

Present output of sme-num.fst: 

3
3	golbma

23.2.
23.2.	 guovvamánu guoktelogigoalmmát beaivi 
23.2.	guoktelogigolbma čuokkis nubbi

23.02.2010
23.02.2010	 guovvamánu guoktelogigoalmmát beaivi guokteduhátlogi

10:32
10:32	logi kolon golbmalogiguokte

We would like to have POS tagging as well, and perhaps intonation grammar (focus phrase detection)

First POS tagging and text processing The last step: conversion to Sampa.

TODO:

  • put together the preprocessing transducers and scripts (Tomi)
  • refine syntax / dependency rules (Biret Ánne)
  • start public tender process (Sjur)
    • started
  • find appropriate voices (Biret Ánne)
    • done

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.

Next meeting, closing

The next meeting is 22.2.2010, 9.30 Norwegian time.

Next week: Ciprian is in Berlin next week, and returning on the following Sunday. Sjur is taking winter holidays, but will try to work in the afternoons.

The meeting was closed at 11: 58.

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).
  • Bodø Oahpa:
    • test the DB feeding of word forms from files (i.e., statically - vs. by generating paradigms)
    • finish the MorfaC implementation
    • finish the setup of the bdoahpa versions on victorio
  • Sandbox Oahpa:
    • Numra for Skolt Sámi and Finnish
    • finish the db installation for sb_oahpa
  • Running Oahpa:
    • add an Oahpa clock and date excercise (cf. Numra)
    • email notification when the server goes down
  • 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: 20.01.2010)
    • 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
  • Linearisation workshop
    • make slides for the GfDS conference in Berlin

Maja

  • add missing sma verbs
  • check verb Umlaut for several 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

  • write letter to Fylkesmannen i Nordland
  • check verb Umlaut for several verbs
  • 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
  • Sámi languages as part of Norsk språkbank
  • 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
  • change rules for vhn, vhl and similar in julev sámi hyphen-file
  • add missing sma verbs
  • prepare text´s about normativity issue to SGL/SGM
  • Digitalize south saami books
  • add compound tags for sma
  • fix bugs!

Tomi

  • 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

  • check verb Umlaut for several verbs
  • fkv: nob and nob: fkv scheduled for 18.3. release:
    • content and webpage update
  • Northern areas
  • MT/Terminology
  • Bodø Oahpa
  • Finding a volunteer to translate the sme Leksa lexicon to Swedish
  • fix bugs!.