BerlinDissemination

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)

    • MoriV

    • ERG online demo

    • SProUTput applet

    • ... ?

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 ...