Wg/linguistics/minutes/20120430

Date
April 30, 5pm German time

Attending
John Mccrae (JMc) Judith Eckler-Kohler (JK) Christian Chiarcos (CC)

Sebastian Hellmann (SH), Sebastian Nordhoff (SN), Antonio Lora-Pareja, Dominic Jones excused

Update Internship ULEI

 * MPI data (WALS, Valency, WOLD)
 * OmegaWiki
 * Panlex
 * Wiktionary in Russian
 * Ethnologue

Typology

 * U Leipzig will get quite a lot of the MPI-EVA databases into RDF
 * Steve and Sebastian N (and Alexis Dimitriadis) are working on a general ontology to represent typoogical information in RDF
 * some detail on this in the OWLG II publication (people's web, see below)
 * collaboration with OntoWiki
 * MPI-EVA probably gets a 300k grant for, roughly, word lists in RDF

UBY 1.0 released

 * http://code.google.com/p/uby/
 * tutorials to be added
 * presented at EACL, there, especially UBY-LMF was well received
 * JMc has not forgotten the UBY - lemon conversion

JMc

 * email later this week to the list

CC

 * at the Semantic Textual Similarity workshop (March 12th-13th), both CC and Nancy Ide advertised Linked Data for NLP pipelines
 * Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery (LREC workshop): CC on OWLG and MASC corpus conversion

OWLG in general

 * parallel to the OWLG I paper, the goals of the OWLG have been slightly reformulated
 * in the wiki, a section has been added on how to add new LLOD bubbles

Upcoming publications

 * OWLG I paper (LREC poster) finished
 * OWLG II paper (people's web, focus on non-lexical-semantic resources) almost, we got an informal extension, should be finished this week, contributors CC, Steve Moran, Pablo Mendes, SN, Richard Littauer (hope I didn't forget anyone)
 * OWLG III paper (LREJ): see below
 * all in SVN

Future activities

 * OWLG III in the pipeline (8-page journal version of OWLG I, to be shortened)
 * MASC website
 * Uby2Lemon (?)

Next telco

 * real-life meeting at LREC: Michael Matuschek (?), JMc, CC, SN
 * skype dial-in

Action plan

 * Sebastian N redoes the bibliography on the web (pending from last time)
 * JMc: Uby conversion to be prepared
 * after: Uby bubbles
 * LREC poster
 * finish OWLG II
 * ? OWLG event planning (Antonio & Marieke ?)