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?
LKB (X11)
- ... ?
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 ...