FeforProcessors

Processing session

To take place on the 13th and the morning of the 14th, with small group activities (see FeforSmallGroups) proceeding throughout the week at Fefor. FeforRmrs will take place on the afternoon of the 14th and morning of the 15th. The emphasis in the processing sessions is intended to be on practical activities that are best done face-to-face and where we can achieve concrete results while at Fefor. In particular, getting existing resources working more widely and improving the wiki documentation. We also hope to make progress on ongoing collaborative activities, especially those that require negotiations of interface standards and so on.

Participants should feel free to add additional information to sessions (obviously large scale additions are best done with new pages), but should email AnnCopestake with suggestions of changes to schedule and topics. Names below are of presenters and also of proposers of discussion topics: leaders of discussions and scribes will be added when we can work out load. Please email AnnCopestake to volunteer.

Preliminary timetable

Morning of the 13th	Plenary meeting to discuss organisation, working groups etc.
	Initial working group meetings over coffee
	Session on testing for developers
Afternoon of the 13th	Interfaces, preprocessors and standoff annotation
	Small group activities
Morning of the 14th	Tools
	Lexicon building

Testing (technology and practice for developers)

• Automated testing (FrancisBond, UlrichSchaefer, cf. also TestingWithAnt)

Interfaces, preprocessors and standoff annotation

• Standoff Annotation Interface / SMAF (BenWaldron and UlrichSchaefer)

• Preprocessors (FrancisBond)

• PET API (proposal, discussion) (UlrichSchaefer)

• Grammar interfaces: clear interface for robustness-related grammar elements (paths/types/pos-tags/expected tokenization/punctuation etc.) e.g. specified in the inline documentation in such a way that it could be processed/extracted automatically from grammar sources. Initial discussion here: later discussion in plenary session if appropriate.

Tools

• Presentation/Demonstration: Trollet: tool for multilingual grammar engineering - a wrapper around the LKB (PavelMihaylov)

Discussion on lexicon building

• Requested by FrancisBond and NTNU: details to be decided. (Note that there will be at least two talks about this in the plenary session and that some issues need to be discussed with the grammarians, so this session would be for processing issues and technology development.)