This is the timetable for the DELPH-IN 2008 Summit.

Jul-31

• Short Site Updates (5-15 min: presenter bracketed)
  • UW (EmilyBender)
  • Saarbruecken (UdS & DFKI) (HansUszkoreit)
  • NICT (FrancisBond)
  • NTT (SanaeFujita)
  • Paris (FredericLaurens)
  • Oslo (StephanOepen)
• Agenda Setting

Lunch

• Tools
  • Robust, Efficient Incremental (Near) Deterministic Parsing with HPSG (YiZhang)
  • Input Preprocessing with Chart Mapping (PeterAdolphs)
  • Increasing Robustness and Efficiency of the PET Parser (RebeccaDridan)
• Grammars
  • Update: The Grammar Matrix (Scott Drellishak)
  • A preliminary report: Tense and Aspect in the Matrix (Laurie Poulson)

Aug-01

More detailed updates.

• Grammars
  • Next steps in simplifying DELPH-IN MRS representations (DanFlickinger)
  • Radical non-configurationality and semantic composition (EmilyBender)
  • The Spanish Resource Grammar (MontserratMarimon)
• Applications
  • Acquiring Rules for Japanese 竊脱 nglish Machine Translation (EricNichols)
  • Acquiring Rules for Machine Translation (MichaJellinghaus)
• Lexical Acquistion and immature grammars
  • Multilingual lexeme translation: Using mature lexicons to bootstrap immature ones (MichaelGoodman)
  • Deep Lexical Acquisition for German Grammar (ValiaKordoni & YiZhang)
  • Mining Multiword Expressions for Enhancing Performance of Parsing with the ERG (ValiaKordoni)

Lunch - Nagashi Sﾅ肯 en

• Student Session (RebeccaDridan)

  • Brief presentations of student research within DELPH-IN.

• Robustness (FrancisBond)

  • supertagger, unknown words, …

• Shared Parsing task (EricNichols)

  • An introduction to the Cathedral and the Bazaar Corpus

Aug-02

• (R)MRS comparison tools and issues (RebeccaDridan)

• (Some) Applications of MRS: (RuiWang & YiZhang)

  • Recognizing/Generating Textual Entailment
  • Semantic Role Labeling

• Means for increasing intra-DELPH-IN collaboration and communication

  • Paper exchange (EmilyBender, RebeccaDridan)
  • Use of mailing lists, wiki
  • Wiki space for sharing auxiliary scripts (RebeccaDridan, EmilyBender)

Lunch

Excursion: Nara Park and the great Buddha

Banquet at Ryozanpaku featuring Japanese harp!

Aug-03

• Parser Evaluation/Comparison
  • especially comparing resources in different formats
  • Task-oriented Evaluation of Syntactic Parsers and Their Representations (YusukeMiyao)
• Breakout planning:
  • Es-Ja MT
  • Preprocssing
  • Generatation
  • Matrix Modules

Lunch

• Briskly run meeting of the standing committee
• Breakout sessions
• Plenary session: Where do we go from here
  • Applications which showcase deep grammars
  • Assessment of current visibility of DELPH-IN in the field and means for increasing it
  • Taking stock of this year’s summit, suggestions for the future (8/2010: notes incorporated in SummitTop)
• Breakout sessions

19:00 Jazz concert in the park!

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