From 592fca98bec8a6b39b809c9ddef8459f8620a7c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: aarne Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:12:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] on-line course announced on the summer school page --- doc/gf-summerschool.html | 101 ++++++++++++++++++------------------- doc/gf-summerschool.txt | 17 +++++-- src/GF/Command/Commands.hs | 12 ++--- 3 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/gf-summerschool.html b/doc/gf-summerschool.html index 8699bf5c8..977a16735 100644 --- a/doc/gf-summerschool.html +++ b/doc/gf-summerschool.html @@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ GF Resource Grammar Summer School - - +

GF Resource Grammar Summer School

Gothenburg, 17-28 August 2009
@@ -16,29 +15,30 @@ Aarne Ranta (aarne at chalmers.se)

@@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ Aarne Ranta (aarne at chalmers.se) red=wanted, green=exists, orange=in-progress, solid=official-eu, dotted=non-eu

+

News

+

+An on-line course GF for Resource Grammar Writers will start on +Monday 20 April at 15.30 CEST. The slides and recordings of the five +45-minute lectures will be made available via this web page. If requested, +the course may be repeated in the beginning of the summer school. +

+

Executive summary

GF Resource Grammar Library is an open-source computational grammar resource @@ -100,7 +108,7 @@ Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Word alignment produced by GF from the resource grammar in Bulgarian, English, Italian, German, Finnish, French, and Swedish.

- +

Introduction

Since 2007, EU-27 has 23 official languages, listed in the diagram on top of this @@ -146,7 +154,7 @@ syntax works as an interlingua. Thus GF has been used as a framework for building translation systems in several areas of application and large sets of languages.

- +

The GF resource grammar library

The GF resource grammar library is a set of grammars usable as libraries when @@ -181,7 +189,7 @@ without knowing low-level linguistics. The idea is much the same as when a programmer builds a graphical user interface (GUI) from high-level elements such as buttons and menus, without having to care about pixels or geometrical forms.

- +

Missing EU languages, by the family

Writing a grammar for a language is usually easier if other languages @@ -235,7 +243,7 @@ Slavonic: Slovak Slovenian

- +

Applications of the library

In addition to translation, the library is also useful in localization, @@ -267,7 +275,7 @@ support has also been developed for translating GF grammars to language models used in speech recognition (GSL/Nuance, HTK/ATK, SRGS, JSGF).

- +

The structure of the library

The library has the following main parts: @@ -288,7 +296,7 @@ The library has the following main parts: The goal of the summer school is to implement, for each language, at least the first three components. The latter three are more open-ended in character.

- +

The summer school

The goal of the summer school is to extend the GF resource grammar library @@ -315,7 +323,7 @@ language. They will do 1 months' worth of home work, followed by 2 weeks of summer school, followed by 4 months work at home. Who are these participants?

- +

Selecting participants

Persons interested to participate in the Summer School should sign up in @@ -337,10 +345,10 @@ school itself later. The participants are recommended to learn GF in advance, by self-study from the tutorial. This should take a couple of weeks. An on-line course will be -arranged in April to help in getting started with GF. +arranged on 20-29 April to help in getting started with GF.

-After the on-line course, a programming assignment will be published. +At the end of the on-line course, a programming assignment will be published. This assignment will test skills required in resource grammar programming. Work on the assignment will take a couple of weeks. Those who are interested in getting a travel grant will submit @@ -351,7 +359,8 @@ The Committee then decides who is given a travel grant of up to 1000 EUR.

Notice: you can participate in the summer school without following the on-line course or participating in the contest. These things are required only if you -want a travel grant. +want a travel grant. If requested by enough many participants, the lectures of +the on-line course will be repeated in the beginning of the summer school.

The summer school itself is devoted for working on resource grammars. @@ -367,7 +376,7 @@ be published at GF website and licensed under LGPL.

The participants are encouraged to contact each other and even work in groups.

- +

Who is qualified

Writing a resource grammar implementation requires good general programming @@ -388,7 +397,7 @@ But it is the quality of the assignment that is assessed, not any formal requirements. The "typical participant" was described to give an idea of who is likely to succeed in this.

- +

Costs

The summer school is free of charge. @@ -407,7 +416,7 @@ Special terms will apply to students in GSLT and NGSLT.

- +

Teachers

A list of teachers will be published here later. Some of the local teachers @@ -431,13 +440,13 @@ we can discuss your involvement and travel arrangements. In addition to teachers, we will look for consultants who can help to assess the results for each language. Please contact us!

- +

The Summer School Committee

This committee consists of a number of teachers and informants, who will select the participants. It will be selected by April 2009.

- +

Time and Place

The summer school will @@ -449,7 +458,7 @@ Time schedule:

  • February: announcement of summer school -
  • April: on-line course, work on the contest assignment +
  • 20-29 April: on-line course
  • 12 May: submission deadline for assignment work
  • 31 May: review of assignments, notifications of acceptance
  • 15 June: registration deadline @@ -458,7 +467,7 @@ Time schedule:
  • December: release of the extended Resource Grammar Library
- +

Dissemination and intellectual property

The new resource grammars will be released under the LGPL just like @@ -468,7 +477,7 @@ with the copyright held by respective authors.

The grammars will be distributed via the GF web site.

- +

Why I should participate

Seven reasons: @@ -488,7 +497,7 @@ Seven reasons:

  • free trip and stay in Gothenburg (for travel grant students) - +

    More information

    Course Google Group @@ -505,7 +514,7 @@ Seven reasons:

    Resource-HOWTO document

    - +

    Contact

    Håkan Burden: burden at chalmers se @@ -513,7 +522,7 @@ H

    Aarne Ranta: aarne at chalmers se

    - +

    Selected publications from earlier resource grammar projects

    K. Angelov. @@ -622,14 +631,4 @@ To appear in the proceedings of CNL 2009. - - - diff --git a/doc/gf-summerschool.txt b/doc/gf-summerschool.txt index 34a233a0d..0acf9177d 100644 --- a/doc/gf-summerschool.txt +++ b/doc/gf-summerschool.txt @@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ Aarne Ranta (aarne at chalmers.se) //red=wanted, green=exists, orange=in-progress, solid=official-eu, dotted=non-eu// +==News== + +An on-line course //GF for Resource Grammar Writers// will start on +Monday 20 April at 15.30 CEST. The slides and recordings of the five +45-minute lectures will be made available via this web page. If requested, +the course may be repeated in the beginning of the summer school. + + ==Executive summary== GF Resource Grammar Library is an open-source computational grammar resource @@ -275,9 +283,9 @@ school itself later. The participants are recommended to learn GF in advance, by self-study from the [tutorial http://digitalgrammars.com/gf/doc/gf-tutorial.html]. This should take a couple of weeks. An **on-line course** will be -arranged in April to help in getting started with GF. +arranged on 20-29 April to help in getting started with GF. -After the on-line course, a **programming assignment** will be published. +At the end of the on-line course, a **programming assignment** will be published. This assignment will test skills required in resource grammar programming. Work on the assignment will take a couple of weeks. Those who are interested in getting a travel grant will submit @@ -287,7 +295,8 @@ The Committee then decides who is given a travel grant of up to 1000 EUR. Notice: you can participate in the summer school without following the on-line course or participating in the contest. These things are required only if you -want a travel grant. +want a travel grant. If requested by enough many participants, the lectures of +the on-line course will be repeated in the beginning of the summer school. The summer school itself is devoted for working on resource grammars. In addition to grammar writing itself, testing and evaluation is @@ -374,7 +383,7 @@ Sweden, on 17-28 August 2009. Time schedule: - February: announcement of summer school -- April: on-line course, work on the contest assignment +- 20-29 April: on-line course - 12 May: submission deadline for assignment work - 31 May: review of assignments, notifications of acceptance - 15 June: **registration deadline** diff --git a/src/GF/Command/Commands.hs b/src/GF/Command/Commands.hs index 625573545..7534554de 100644 --- a/src/GF/Command/Commands.hs +++ b/src/GF/Command/Commands.hs @@ -134,8 +134,8 @@ allCommands cod env@(pgf, mos) = Map.fromList [ options = [ ], flags = [ - ("format","format of the visualization file (default \"ps\")"), - ("view","program to open the resulting file (default \"gv\")") + ("format","format of the visualization file (default \"png\")"), + ("view","program to open the resulting file (default \"open\")") ] }), @@ -569,8 +569,8 @@ allCommands cod env@(pgf, mos) = Map.fromList [ ("nocat","don't show categories but only functions") ], flags = [ - ("format","format of the visualization file (default \"ps\")"), - ("view","program to open the resulting file (default \"gv\")") + ("format","format of the visualization file (default \"png\")"), + ("view","program to open the resulting file (default \"open\")") ] }), ("wf", emptyCommandInfo { @@ -645,8 +645,8 @@ allCommands cod env@(pgf, mos) = Map.fromList [ Just ty -> ty Nothing -> error ("Can't parse '"++str++"' as type") optComm opts = valStrOpts "command" "" opts - optViewFormat opts = valStrOpts "format" "ps" opts - optViewGraph opts = valStrOpts "view" "gv" opts + optViewFormat opts = valStrOpts "format" "png" opts + optViewGraph opts = valStrOpts "view" "open" opts optNum opts = valIntOpts "number" 1 opts optNumInf opts = valIntOpts "number" 1000000000 opts ---- 10^9