Meeting 3.5.2017

General

Responsibilities (refined):

Rogier - Administration
Rogier - Syntactic description
- Marina, Micha, Niko contribute
- Marina serves also as native speaker linguist and informant
Micha - Project documentation
Micha - FST/CG description
- Niko contributes
- Marina serves as native speaker linguist and informant
Niko - Liaison with Syktyvkar
Niko - Infrastructure
- Micha contributes

Micha informed about progress in the HZSK project.

Niko informed about his NLP work with LaTTiCe.

Rogier learned how to use "issues" in GitHub.

Rogier started drafting the syntactic description
We discussed whether the description should be more or less variationalist descriptive and decided to leave the answer open for now, but
- Description will not be restricted to the Izhva dialect, but include all (spoken, written, dialectal, etc.) data we have available
- Linguistic examples in the text will not only refer to the actual corpus, but also include functional hyperlinks

We stick to the currently used "dialectal orthographic transcription" in the ongoing transcription work for the sake of consistency.
More normalized versions will be derived outside ELAN using rules in our preprocessing pipeline.
There are issues in the current transcripts, which have to be fixed, e.g. white spaces before punctuation marks, inconsistencies in punctuation marks, etc.

ALL check the possibility to arrange a working meeting with Micha, Niko, Rogier in Paris before the summer.
MICHA prepares a new repo for FRibliography.
MICHA makes a list of issues to fix in current ELAN files.
NIKO prepares an example md-file (incl. linguistic examples, references, indices, etc.) for Rogier.
NIKO learns how the Giellatekno proprocessing pipeline works and builds an additional preprocessor for orthography conversion rules.
ROGIER writes to Marina and sends an update.