150416

Meeting April 16 2015

Antti, Megan, Lene

  1. Implementation on the gtoahpa server
  2. Morphological feedback/hints
  3. Work with csv-files
  4. More Morfa tasks
  5. Audio files
  6. Next meeting

Implementation on the gtoahpa server

Heli has not so much time for Cree, Antti will look at the possibility of using Ryan.

Todo:

  • Lene will write an email to Ryan about finishing implementation of nêhiyawêtân

Morphological feedback/hints

Lene has made a start of the nouns http: //giellatekno.uit.no/ped/crkdoc/oahpa/feedback.html

Todo:

  • Antti will talk to Atticus about this.
  • Lene will make a start for the verbs also

Work with csv-files

Megan has done some work with the csv for verbs and particles (added semantic class using rapid words).

Todo

  • Remove HUMAN_V
  • Improve English translations (especially IN vs AN)
  • Remove the question marks (talk to Atticus)
  • Sum semantic sets up in ped/crk/meta/semantic_sets.xml
  • Lene will generate xml files from the csv-files (Megan will tell when the files are ready)
something is black, it is black, IN is black
s.o. is green
someone is green, s/he is green, he is green, she is green
oskâtâsk (carrot AN) is green
so. verbs smth.
AN sees IN
AN sleeps
someone/thing (animate) verbs someone/thing (animate)

Altogether 1267 semantic classes according to RW in the Maskwacis Dictionary (though these are subcategories)

 871 move_something
 755 move
 667 quality
 436 communication
 413 food
 382 time
 315 sense_perceive
 302 body
 298 arrange
 270 quantity
 261 healthy
 256 animal
 248 behavior
 240 emotion
 223 big
 210 relationships
 206 divide_into_pieces
 200 social_activity
 190 think
 184 work
 169 want
 165 finance
 165 clothing
 164 occupation
 158 location
 152 sky
 149 conflict
 143 water
 138 life
 134 posture
 131 say
 131 physical_impact
 111 prosperity_trouble
 108 move_something_in_a_direction
 108 have_be_with
 107 world
 106 hunt_and_fish
 105 cleaning
  93 working_with_buildings
  93 semantic_constituents_related_to_verbs
  88 tool

More Morfa tasks

Lene will look at these (hasn't done it yet)

  • II verbs (for Leksa?)
  • TI verbs in MorfaS and MorfaC

Audio files

We need more audio files. Antti will look at these:

  • look for overlap with the words in the recordings done already
  • extract words from the CD's for the intr. course book?
  • recording more audio files with the words from the course book => Leksa
  • use words from the course book with different vowel length => vowel length task
crk$ ls media/
atim.wav     kokos.wav    mostos.wav   napew.wav    ohow.wav     pisim.wav
iskwesis.wav misit.wav    moswa.wav    nisit.wav    osi.wav      sisip.wav

<l pos="N" animacy="AN" rime="0" gen_only="Pl,Sg" audio="kohkos">kohkôs</l>

Next meeting

Next week Antti is in Ottawa. Megan can invite Lene for meeting on Wednesday, if desirebly.