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Overview

The 9th DELPH-IN summit will be held from Monday, July 29, to Friday August 2, 2013 (the week before ACL 2013 in Sofia), in St. Wendel, a small town in northeastern Saarland.

The meeting will take place at the Angel's Hotel (am Fruchtmarkt) located in the heart of the town. We have blocked 30 standard-double rooms (for single guest use) for 74 EUR (tax included) per room per night, including free wifi and buffet breakfast. Please make your booking with the hotel (email to reservierung@angels-dashotel.de mentioning "DELPH-IN/DFKI") before June 19th.

Please register for the 2013 DELPH-IN Summit on the SaarlandParticipants page.

Travel info

• To St. Wendel

  • From Frankfurt International Airport (FRA), the regional express (RE) direct connection to St. Wendel runs every two hours (options of indirect connections more frequent). The journey takes exactly 2 hours. You can find the connection timetable online.

  • From Saarbruecken, the train connections to St. Wendel run multiple times per hour. The journey takes 30~45 minutes.

  • Driving from FRA to St. Wendel takes about 1h40m (~160KM).

• To the Angel's Hotel am Fruchtmarkt: the hotel is only 500m away from the St. Wendel train station, ~7 minutes by walking (map).

Aims of the Meeting

The purposes of this meeting are to:

• update each other on recent developments and current activities;
• discuss more what we actually expect from DELPH-IN (and each other);
• create the opportunity for contentful exchange on computational grammar research in the DELPH-IN spirit.

Some possible ideas for content

These ideas are basically just brainstorming at this stage, and should not be considered official in any way at all.

• Maybe try a couple of documentation sprints (like minor book sprints)

  • something on chart mapping?
  • something on language modelling?
  • something on unspoken MRS conventions?

• Work towards releasing MRS Testsuite treebanks as a parallel treebank resource

Discussion topics:

• core.smi for Matrix/general crosslinguistic sharing? What can we normalize here?
• How has the SEM-I been used in the past? How might it be used in the future?

And more light-heartedly:

• DELPH-IN t-shirt design proposals (suggested slogan: "Slow and steady wins the race")

Tutorials

• Jargon-guide/systems overview for newcomers (at start of first day)