Availability of DELPH-IN Tools for Online Demos, Modes of Cooperation among the DELPH-IN Partners, Dissemination

Moderators: LarsHellan and HansUszkoreit

Scribe: UlrichSchaefer

Thu, 23 Aug 1135-1300

Tools for Online Demos

  • Intro by LH:
    • online presentation of grammars to outside world and among grammar writers
    • selected demo sentences showing coverage of grammar, specific phenomena
    • display “small” feature structures with interesting part of parse result, e.g. details interesting to MT/IE
    • morphology, syntax, semantics
  • Discussion on motivation:
    • Oe: market to community, have more semantics, but show less?
    • BC: online demos important for internal, development purposes (show co-developers changes, progress on specific phenomena)
    • VK: online demos are also important for teaching
    • DF: show simplified, flattened result, tools exist, partly grammar-specific
  • Discussion on filtering and displaying specific parts of parse result differently
    • BC: parse selection not shown in LKB interface
    • AC/DF/Oe: showing treebanked parse selection is possible
    • US/BC: ERG+GG online demo only displays tree + MRS
    • AC: XSLT is not for linguists, computer scientist necessary in addition
    • SD/RB: useful generic tree transformation language
    • Oe, LH: LKB avm button greyed out, configurable filtering important, but is end-user or grammar-writer specific
    • AC: display sub-FS under paths
    • AC/LH/Oe: not only hiding/showing sub-FSes, but also displaying differently
    • Oe: XSLT stylesheets to display in browser (HTML)
    • AC: TFS DTD, ISO could be implemented in LKB
    • US: applet in Heart of Gold, TFS DTD in documentation
    • Oe: what tools do exist?

Modes of cooperation

  • HU: Common applications
    • groups that are interested in / working on information management, information extraction, event and relation extraction: Tokyo, Cambridge, Saarbrücken, Oslo, Melbourne
  • AC: paraphrase task (as proposed in the session before): interesting task with nice properties:
    • take existing machinery to showcase (using parser + generator + some simple idioms)
    • types of phenomena in paraphrasing (example): light verbs
    • demo system: type in sentences, let system paraphrase, let people judge whether OK or not to get training data
    • set as common task?
    • information extraction in chemistry/medical domain is too special as common task
  • HU: currently event/relation detection corpus-based
    • if with deep processing: make sure that it works with paraphrasing
    • paraphrasing as support for MT
  • AC: learning paraphrase is learning semantic equivalences
    • also in grammar, style checking
    • JC: text to text paraphrasing, summarization, compression as generic applications, maybe too generic?
    • AC: rewrite rules; learn or hand-write
    • HU: semantic entailment is also related
  • HU, AC: DELPH-IN as forum for seeing which groups are interested
    • learn about preferences of the groups (e.g. dialogue)
    • interest in dialogue, question answering: Lisbon, Saarbrücken, Trondheim
    • Oe: research interest (also) depends on funding opportunities
  • Discussion on funding for DELPH-IN members
    • Oe: getting funding depends on whether application-oriented or scientific vision
    • HU: DELPH-IN as a whole did not and (because of missing formal frame) can not get funding (compared to ACE, CLEF), but groups individually got funding with the help of DELPH-IN in background, e.g. Lisbon (national, twice), Saarbrücken (PIRE)
    • gain reputation and credibility
    • bilateral grants (e.g. NSF, BMBF, …) possible for DELPH-IN partners
    • AC: what could DELPH-IN do specifically to help people get funding?

Dissemination

  • HU: various ways of dissemination to increase DELPH-IN visibility
    • common evaluation tasks
    • connection with both large companies and SMEs
    • visibility at international conferences (thank DELPH-IN in papers)

  • Discussion on DELPH-IN web page

    • mention DELPH-IN on homepage of members
    • automatically gather DELPH-IN-related bibliography data from member web pages?
    • official maintainer of DELPH-IN web page?
    • Oe: facelift, content management system?, distributed responsibility?
    • Google visibility: PARGRAM vs. DELPH-IN
    • web page: color scheme, content, news, publications
    • cf. Fefor 2006 discussion …

Last update: 2011-10-09 by anonymous [edit]