Oahpa Seminar2014 Eng

1. Methodologies for distributed cooperation on language technology
2. What is Oahpa - the pedagogical philosophy
3. What lingustic content to include - and how to add it
4. Practical work
5. Project planning
6. How to join Oahpa development with language research

Preparing before the course

• Setting up user accounts, basic SVN.

Day 0:

• Preliminary course in Unix, svn, etc, for people not having done this before.
• All participants shall have checked out (at least) the ped catalogue and a working version of their own fst on their own machine (cf. the getting started page.)
• basic SVN course. What is it, how to update, check in, etc.

Monday:

Introduction

• Giellatekno overview (infrastructure, projects, tools, Oahpa) (Heli, Trond)
• Presentations by the participants about their languages and existing resources (textbooks a.o. teaching materials, corpora, language technology tools)
• Methodologies for distributed cooperation on language technology
  • If needed: Practical instruction divided into groups
    • Group 1: For the local guru (Heli)
    • Group 2: For the computer illiterate (Jack)
    • Installing, general help (Trond)

Eventually

Start with Leksa

Tuesday:

Leksa

• The key role of Leksa in Oahpa (these are the words we use for different purposes)
  • How to choose the vocabulary for Leksa. Textbook word lists, frequency dictionaries.
• Creating word lists in csv format.
  • Semantic set template
  • Lexicon template for nouns
  • Lexicon template for verbs
• Checking in new files and updating the existing ones.
• svn ci -> Heli updates the db -> online check.

Working versions:

• myv 124
• smn 1335
• yrk 502
• fkv 63 -- tulossa lista
• kpv 142

New versions:

• mrj 229
• bxr 396
• mdf 0 <---- lis
• olo 302

Test files 396

Format for later additions:

lemma __ vartalo __ POS __ contlex __ trans1 __ trans2 __ trans3 __ kirja __ sem

Morfa-S

• Drafting the case/number and person/number/tense forms to be included (Individuals should have this all thought out before hand ... )
• Evaluating the fsts
• Setting up the infrastructure for the respective exercises

Homework for Heli:

• Set up Morfa-S for the existing files.

• Homework by Thursday:
  • think about the productive Morfa-C frames in your language - which cases, which verbs?

Wednesday:

hands-on

Numra

• Evaluating existing Numras
• How to improve them:
  • Learning how to correct automata
  • Learning how to extend Numra to ordinal, date, clock.

Leksa, Morfa-S

• Continuing work

Thursday:

hands-on

• Setting up Morfa-S. Case list, possible additional menus.
• Writing Morfa-C frames.
• Extending Leksa: Place names. The names that are different in the indigenous language

Friday:

• General discussion
  • New ideas, thoughts that have come up while implementing Oahpa for your language.
  • Discussing how to integrate Oahpa in language courses. Presenting kursa
• Workshop: We write grant applications
  • Background: Different groups plan to get funding
  • We either do brainstorming or (if possible) work in groups on concrete proposals
• Summing up and future work
  • How to proceed with the development of your Oahpa.