COCOSDA Meeting

- summing up some impressions after a very dense week –

- on one hand the “big and slightly smaller” challenges of the discipline- highly competitive area- much to do from experts to achieve real steps

- on the other hand we need to open up the field in a number of dimensions - it is a huge effort as well- it is an area where only large scale collaboration will help

- what are we addressing when we say “opening up”- it’s not per se about solving industrial, commercial, cultural heritage

problems now- there are agendas and we need experts

- it’s to a large extent about strategic plans and boosting research- example taken from Ontolex meeting

solving problems in semantic processing and language understanding

• excellent talk from the Framenet people • describe a certain framework to formalize semantics• huge effort of experts to create useful content• framework makes a number of assumptions + defines constraints

according to a certain theory (Fillmore etc)• a couple of other interesting talks using other specialized frameworks• do we really belief that this will scale up?

• on the other side• what happens in our institute and what will VWS do (other places??)• researchers (young) are starting to use the possibilities of a huge

archive full of interesting resources• they start commenting, drawing relations ... -> enrichment • they are eager to create rich knowledge basis and “ontologies”• yet we don’t know what they all will do• what should we do?

• should we now tell them to first learn about the Framenet formalism• NOOOO – give them flexible frameworks • ask experts later to work on it – get essentials etc

• this is just one example

Opening up

• need to get a momentum and a boost for research • my beliefs obviously shared by many CLARIN, DELAMAN, LangWeb, ...• my beliefs went into the CLARIN proposal for the ESFRI process

(will make it openly available next week, was written by Steven, Martin, Tamas and myself with many contributions from a Pan-European community)

• it is all about a stable and persistent infrastructure/services for a broad community• getting LR&T out of the domain of the experts (aligner example)• opening to the individual researcher, to the humanities, to the young, ...

• making resources and technology visible• making resources and technology accessible • making resources freely available to researchers -> Open Access• solving the integration problems (Grid/DL stuff – see also DAM-LR)• solving the interoperability problems at different layers• asking for open commentaries etc – learn from the Wiki folks

(take care that we filter the good stuff, let people built on good stuff etc)• open the “archives” for all sort of contributions (80% rule)• create a rich domain of services• allow for aggregate services• etc etc etc

RI Workshop on Monday

• a number of talks going about different areas• political process and EC position• international perspective (Linda Barwick, Sadaoki Furui)• state of the community• organizational models • relevance of standards (ISO, ...)• some concrete contributions about Grid/DL and small RI

• open discussion • obviously very much support• HERA• quality issue• rights issue

• closed members meeting• little bit of formalization • need to push the “national formation process” • for stable services we need a number of “centers/archives” who take care

• certainly forgot a lot – leave it to the discussion