KyotoSchedule

This is the timetable for the [wiki:KyotoTop DELPH-IN 2008 Summit].

Jul-31

• Short Site Updates (5-15 min: presenter bracketed)

  • [http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/DELPHIN08-UWupdate.pdf UW] (EmilyBender)

  • Saarbruecken (UdS & DFKI) (HansUszkoreit)

  • NICT (FrancisBond)

  • NTT (SanaeFujita)

  • Paris (FredericLaurens)

  • Oslo (StephanOepen)

• Agenda Setting

Lunch

• Tools

  • [http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~yzhang/files/kyoto-zhang.pdf Robust, Efficient Incremental (Near) Deterministic Parsing with HPSG] (YiZhang)

  • [http://www.dfki.de/~padolphs/DELPH-IN/Chart-Mapping.pdf Input Preprocessing with Chart Mapping] (PeterAdolphs)

• Grammars

  • [http://students.washington.edu/sfd/Drellishak%20-%20DELPH-IN%202008%20-%20Matrix%20Update.pdf 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)

  • [http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Bender-DELPHIN08.pdf 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 (MischaJellinghaus)

• 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 - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sﾅ肯en Nagashi Sﾅ肯en]

• Student Session (RebeccaDridan)

  • Brief presentations of student research within DELPH-IN.

• Robustness (FrancisBond)

  • Increasing Robustness and Efficiency of the PET Parser (RebeccaDridan)

  • 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)

• [http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~rwang/slides/delphin2008Wang.pdf (Some) Applications of MRS]: (RuiWang & YiZhang)

  • Recognizing/Generating Textual Entailment

  • Semantic Role Labeling

• [wiki:/InterDelphinNotes 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 [http://www3.to/ryozan 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 into small groups to work on issues raised during the

  • summit (Morning and Afternoon)
  • Es-Ja MT
  • Preprocssing
  • Generatation
  • Matrix Modules

• Briskly run meeting of the standing committee

Lunch

• 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

19:00 Jazz concert in the park!