BerlinFrontiers

Discussion -- Pushing the Frontiers: Expanding our research to new languages and applications and setting new research goals - Strategies for Dissemination (Moderator: HansUszoreit)

Shared tasks and resources:

- common benchmark for base coverage: parallel corpora treebanks for the participating languages

- shared tasks for HPSG processing: a. abstract processing exercises, b. processing with respect to concrete applications

- shared tasks for applications

- cross-framework evaluations

Applications:

- information management (relation extraction, incl. event and opinion detection)

- machine translation (in combination with other checking methods)

- grammar checking (in combination with other checking methods)

- dialogue systems (e.g., for web agents and computer games)

- Others?

Steps towards applications:

HU: generation, exploitation of application semantics for getting to the meaning of applications;

AC: we should work on resource semantics for different applications

Steps towards shared tasks and resources:

Shared corpora:

• -- Europarl -- parallel corpora based on touristic brochures, guides, etc., which are already translated in many languages, but which will also have to be translated to many more languages
  • AC: we should start with setting up the necessary machinery, even with smaller treebanks