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 ...