LisbonRepositoryDiscussion

Designing and creating a DELPH-IN repository (systems, tools, data, lingware)

LisbonRepositoryDiscussion is the transcript of Discussion I on Thu 2005-08-18 (11:00-11:45) in the LisbonTop meeting.

Stephan introduces motivation for the discussion.

[http://www.delph-in.net DELPH-IN] is a community effort
central is the common repository
internal goal: exchange not only ideas, but also tools and resources
external goal: increase visibility, marketing (this is closely related to Discussion IV: Visibility in the afternoon)
- attract new contributors and funding
- give the consortium a visible platform with a name

Start with what's on the current webpage on [http://www.delph-in.net/index.php?page=3 Systems & Grammars]

Core components
- [http://www.delph-in.net/lkb/ LKB]: development environment
- [http://www.delph-in.net/pet/ PET]: fast parser
- [http://www.delph-in.net/itsdb/ [incr tsdb()]]: evaluation and benchmarking tool for both
Lingware
- [http://www.delph-in.net/matrix Matrix] : starter kit for new grammars / bottom-up crosslingual
- [http://www.delph-in.net/erg ERG] : English Resource Grammar
- [http://www.delph-in.net/jacy Jacy] : Japanese Grammar
- [http://www.delph-in.net/mgrg Modern Greek]
- [http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/forskning/norsource NorSource] : Norwegian Grammar
- German grammar to be available as open source in 2006 (already available for DELPH-IN members now)
- plus more candidates: Korean, French, Spanish, Catalan, ... ?
Architecture, language technology
- [http://www.delph-in.net/heartofgold Heart of Gold] : framework for hybrid processing applications
Treebanks: [http://redwoods.stanford.edu Redwoods], Eiche, Tiger 700, ...

Questions