Nordic Treebank Network Internal Workshop

Lovik, 5-7 March 2004

Day 1: Workshop Presentations

Tools and Resources

• Eckhard Bick: TIGERizing Arboretum - feeding VISL to the beast
• Joakim Nivre: Converting MALT XML to TIGER XML
• Matthias Trautner Kromann: Converting the Danish Dependency Treebank to TIGER XML
• Martin Volk: The ANNOTATE tree editor
• Sofia Gustafson-Capkova: Discourse annotation
• Jens Allwood: Spoken language annotation and resources at Göteborg University
• Koenraad de Smedt: The TREPIL project and resources at the University of Bergen

Parallel Treebank

• Eckhard Bick: Miss Sophie: Same procedure as for every (Danish) VISL-forest
• Matthias Trautner Kromann: The annotation principles behind the Danish Dependency Treebank
• Joakim Nivre: Annotating the Swedish translation of "Sophie's World" with dependency trees
• Martin Volk: German annotation decisions
• Heli Uibo, Kadri Muischnek:  The treebank of Estonian: first steps
• Janne Bondi Johannessen: Annotating the Norwegian original "Sofies verden" with a phrase structure grammar
• Lauri Carlson: Sofian mailmaa

Day 2: Planning

General

• The second general network meeting will be held in Tartu, 8-10 September 2004.
• The second international workshop (TLT 2004) will be held in Tübingen, 11-12 December 2004 (possibly with a pre-meeting 10 December).
• The network will write a white paper on the utility of treebanks to be used in support of project applications. The paper will be a contribution to the Yearbook of the Nordic Language Technology Program for the year 2004.

Working Groups

• Resources and tools (Coordinator: Matthias Trautner Kromann)
• Parallel treebank (Coordinator: Martin Volk)
• Harmonization of terminology and notation (Coordinator: Eckhard Bick)
• Discourse and spoken language treebanks (Coordinator: Jens Allwood)

Participants

Pictures

• Pictures (thanks to Koenraad de Smedt)