Overview

The third DELPH-IN internal working meeting will be held between August 20 - 24, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. Details of the meeting are to be found below. Suggestions about the program are welcome.

Location

The meeting will take place in rooms 1.404 and 1.405 at the

Institute of German Language and Linguistics (Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik)

Humboldt University in Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin (Main Entrance from: Hegelplatz 2)

The meeting rooms are equipped with wireless internet access.

We do thank Prof. Manfred Krifka very kindly for making these rooms in his institute available to us and for all his help and support with various aspects of the Summit organisation.

Organisational (including info on transportation) and Accommodation

The participation fee for this year’s Summit has been set to 50 EURO, which can be paid at the beginning of the meeting or upon your arrival at the venue.

From the Art’Otel (see below; the Metro station, which is directly outside the hotel, is the ‘Märkisches Museum’ station) to the venue at the Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin (Main Entrance from: Hegelplatz 2; see above; the closest station is the ‘Friedrichstrasse’ station) it is a 10 to 15-min ride, or a 20-min walk (map).

For service timetables/”journey planners” and all info you might need about public transportation in Berlin, please, visit the EXCELLENT webpage of the Berlin Transportation Organisation.

Detailed information about single tickets, day passes, as well as 7-day passes, can be found at Tickets and Fares Overview.

Please, do not hesitate to contact me (kordoni@coli.uni-sb.de; and (+49 0)172 7689722 (mobile phone number)) for all questions, problems, etc.

A sufficient number of rooms for the participants has been reserved at the hotel

Art’Otel Berlin Mitte, Wallstrasse 70-73, D-10179 Berlin, Germany (http://www.artotel.de/berlin_mitte/berlin.html).

Single Room Price: 92 EURO per room and night / Double Room Price: 107 EURO per room and night

The above prices include breakfast and wireless internet access 24/7. VAT is also included in the prices.

You are kindly requested to make a room reservation directly with the hotel in one of the following ways:

1. by calling +49 30 400 557 700 and giving the passwd “delph-in 2007” for your reservation;

2. by sending a fax to +49 30 400 557 777 with your reservation request. Also with this option, you need the “delph-in 2007” passwd;

3. by sending an email to: aobmres@artotels.de with your reservation request and the passwd “delph-in 2007”.

Unfortunately, the aforementioned prices are not available for reservations made over the hotel’s web page. So, please, choose one option from 1-3 above. The deadline for reservations is July 9, 2007. Free-of-charge reservation cancellations are accepted up to 72 hours before the arranged arrival date.

Feedback needed

In order for the preliminary schedule below to get more substance and become more specific, we would like to ask you to send us and the standing committee as soon as possible now and not later than June 30, 2007, your preferences and suggestions on the following:

1. topics that you’d like to see discussed at the summit;

2. topics that you’d like to present at the summit;

3. the type of your presentation: to be more specific, we are currently thinking of including in the program (a) shorter status reports on the research carried out in our various DELPH-IN participating institutions, (b) longer detailed presentations on specialised DELPH-IN research issues, and (c) demos of systems, tools, lingware and resources;

4. your preference on tutorials; should we have a couple in this year’s summit, as well?

Please send proposals, queries and other mail relating to the Summit to kordoni@coli.uni-sb.de

Schedule (preliminary)

Below you will find the preliminary schedule for the meeting.

This schedule has been based on your feedback, your expressed interests, the topics you have indicated that you would like to see presented and discussed throughout the week, as well as the time restrictions you have inserted on the ParticipantsGroup for your presence in Berlin. We tried to take all these into account.

Please, do check and indicate to me (kordoni@coli.uni-sb.de), till Thursday, August 16, all mistakes, omissions, conflicts, problems, etc., that the schedule still contains.

NB: On the schedule of Thursday, August 23, and Friday, August 24, we have included the topics that you have proposed for discussion during the Summit. BUT the schedule for Thursday and Friday is still open to re-adjustment on the basis of the talks we will be hearing from Monday through Wednesday. We will have the chance to discuss the schedule of the last 2 days and possible re-adjustments in the last pre-lunch Wednesday slot (12:00-13:00).

NB2: Please, consider volunteering as scribes for the various discussion sessions. It is really important that the discussions we will be having in Berlin get documented for future reference and for enabling our colleagues who are not going to be present in the Summit to follow the latest developments and decisions.

Monday, August 20


14:00-14:30	Introduction	HansUszkoreit
14:30-16:00	“Teaser” short presentations on what’s going to follow during the week	N.N.
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:00	New Libraries for the Matrix (case and person/number/gender)	ScottDrellishak
17:00:17:30	Norsource: Recent Developments on Semantic Resources, Compound Analysis, and the Norsource deep Test Suites	LarsHellan
17:30-18:30	Time for break-out sessions

Tuesday, August 21


9:30-10:00	German Grammar (GG): the past, the present and the foreseeable future	BertholdCrysmann
10:00-10:30	Spanish Grammar: status report	MontserratMarimon
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:30	La Grenouille: status report and the implementation of verb conjugation in the French grammar	JesseTseng
11:30-11:45	Modern Greek Resource Grammar (MGRG): recent developments and future plans	ValiaKordoni
11:45-12:00	New Developments in the ERG	DanFlickinger

12:00-14:00	Lunch break

14:00-14:30	New Developments in the Heart of Gold (HoG)	UlrichSchaefer
14:30-15:00	Integrating General-Purpose and Domain-Specific Components in the Analysis of Scientific Text	CjRupp
15:00-15:30	Swedish grammars and MT: status report	SaraStymne
15:30-16:30	Break-out session + Coffee break at 16:00
16:30-17:00	Automatic Acquisition of Transfer Rules	MichaelJellinghaus
17:00-17:30	LXGram: status report	FranciscoCosta
17:30-18:30	Parallel Demos of
	a. Norsource: Norwegian-Japanese MT System + Norsource compound analyser and deep test suite format	LarsHellan
	b. University of Washington 10x10 MT System	ScottDrellishak
	c. Heart of Gold (HoG)	UlrichSchaefer
	d. LXGram	AntonioBranco
17:30-18:30	Time for break-out sessions

Wednesday, August 22


9:00-9:30	Topics on Robust Deep Processing: automated acquisition of MWEs and Partial Parse Selection	YiZhang
9:30-10:00	Efficient parsing with supertagging and CFG-filtering	MatsuzakiTakuya
10:00-10:30	Deep Parsing with Shallow Dependency Constraints	SagaeKenji
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:30	Enhancing deep parsing with input annotation from shallow tools	RebeccaDridan
11:30-12:00	Theory neutral evaluation of deep parsing results	YusukeMiyao
12:00-13:00	Session to decide on the discussion topics and schedule for Thursday and Friday

13:00-14:30	Lunch

14:30-19:00	Excursion The ‘Sanssouci’ Castle in Potsdam (cf. BerlinPhotos)

19:30- open end	DELPH-IN Dinner: to take place in the Christosaal and the Fechhelmsaal of the Art’Otel Berlin Mitte

Thursday, August 23

Proposed discussion topics:


9:30-11:00	Pushing the Frontiers: Expanding our research to new languages and applications and setting new research goals - Strategies for Dissemination	Moderator: HansUszkoreit, Scribe: ValiaKordoni
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:30	Availability of DELPH-IN Tools for Online Demos / Dissemination / Modes of cooperation among the DELPH-IN Partners	Moderators: LarsHellan and HansUszkoreit, Scribe: UlrichSchaefer

12:30-14:00	Lunch break

14:00-16:00	Across_Framework_Evaluation_Metrics	Moderator: YusukeMiyao, Scribe: RebeccaDridan
16:00-16:30	Coffee break

Friday, August 24