meeting_2006-09-05

Meeting with Polderland 5.9.2006

Participants:

  • Peter Beinema
  • Thomas Omma
  • Tomi Pieski
  • Sjur Moshagen

Agenda

  • questions and answers
  • normativity and data samples

Divvun tasks

Data examples from Divvun was sent last week, with more this week.

Question: Does the delivered data set need to be normative at this point? Or is a limited amount of (descriptive) overgeneration acceptable? It is ok for now.

Divvun will soon be able to deliver normative-only datasets, but not yet. The difference is quite small, only PxSg1 + some other forms generate non-normative variants in addition to the normative ones. Example: 

beakkán+A+Pl+Ill+PxSg1
beakkániiddásam - not norm
beakkániiddásan - norm

Received so far (including derivations):

  • even-syllable stems: verbs, nouns, adjectives
  • odd-syllable stems: verbs, nouns, adjectives
  • contracted stems: verbs, nouns, adjectives

PL will receive more even-syllable stem types, to cover all variants of this type.

Polderland tasks

PL will split up the words (L, R, possibly middle parts), add PLX tags and regenerate the word forms. The results will be sent to Divvun, which should evaluate whether the output is correct word forms, and whether the approach seems feasible.

Exclusion lists

PL has Perl scripts for generating exclusion list candidates, and is willing to give the scripts to Divvun. - Yes, please: -)

The script looks for both/all parts of a compound, and compares them with existing words in the lexicon that are *almost* like the compound stems:

Dutch example1: (capitalization) Moskou is allowed, moskou is not but can be compounded: mos+kou

Geminates at compound borders: 

kerk=church
klok=bell
lok=piece of hair
kerkklok = legal compound, church bell
kerklok = legal compound but very probably not intended

zeemeeuw=seagull
zeem+meeuw = probably not what was intended

Hyphenation

PL is looking for a recent CodeWarrior to compile Universal binaries for InDesign.

TODO

  • send more data sets to PL (Thomas)
  • send perl script for generating exclusion list candidates to Divvun ( Peter)