CLARIN-NL: Dealing with ISOcat

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CLARIN-NL Dealing with ISOcat

• Ineke Schuurman

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ISOcat and CLARIN

• Projects call 1 CLARIN-NL
• Joint Flemish/Dutch pilot
• Whenever relevant, elements are to be defined in
  ISOcat
• (PoS, syntax, audio, coreference, )
• Turned out to be rather problematic

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ISoCat and CLARIN (2)

• More recent projects
• Projects call 2, 3 (Netherlands)
• Call B-projects (Flanders)
• gt Need for ISOcat-coordinator
• Organisational issues (who is doing what)
• Practical issues (workshops/tutorials, help
  desk, guidelines-booklet (dos donts))
• ISOcat issues (ISOcat being work-in-progress!)

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ISOcat coordination

• Practical issues
• Series of workshops/tutorials (English)
• At start
• introduction in ISOcat itself
• Guidelines (dos and donts)
• After /- 5 months
• discussion of ISOcat issues in the respective
  projects

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(cont.)

• Examples of Dos / donts
• General description should be
  language/theory/project neutral (dont mention
  Dutch, HPSG, D-Coi)
• Use note/explanation/language/linguistics
  sections for such remarks
• Should not be too vague (empty) gt useless for
  CLARIN !
• Describe ALL elements (also values, notions
  used in description, etc)

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ISOcat issues

• (taken care of by Menzo Windhouwer)
• ISOcat Work in progress gt several kinds of
  technical issues
• Additions in pipeline
• RELcat in need of mechanism to relate DCs
• (VNW , pers personal pronoun)
• Search facilities (Google)
• SCHEMAcat

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Future

• We would like to collaborate with other
  CLARIN-groups in order to solve all kinds of
  ISOcat issues, so please contact me!
• ineke.schuurman_at_ccl.kuleuven.be

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Near future

• decided during the discussion after the
  ISOcat presentation
• CLARIN-NL will organize a new tutorial for the
  international CLARIN community in October 2011
• We will also make our dos and donts guide
  available for the whole CLARIN community
  (September/October 2011)