DelphinNews

• FEB-06 [http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/JerezTop Delphin Developers Meeting] (Jerez, Spain)

• AUG-06 Inaugural Delphin Meeting (Lisbon, Portugal)

• OCT-04 The [http://www.project-deepthought.net/ Deep-Thought Consortium] holds its Final Project Review in Lido di Camaiore (Italy) and receives high acclaim for its [http://www.delph-in.net/hog/ Heart of Gold] integration and innovative applications; the project has used and improved DELPH-IN resources and prepares to contribute additional technology to the open-source repository. Following the review, the consortium organizes a Roadmap Workshop on future applications of hybrid text understanding with some 20 participants from both academia and industry.

• SEP-04 As part of an on-going effort to harmonize distribution and documentation of DELPH-IN resources, the infrastructure relocates to a new server provided by the Oslo University [http://www.emmtee.net/ MT Research Group]. New services go on-line, including a unified [http://lists.delph-in.net/ mailing list manager], [http://traffic.delph-in.net/ concise web access statistics], and a [http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/ wiki forum] for collaborative publishing.

• SEP-04 The EU-funded [http://www.project-deepthought.net/ Deep-Thought Consortium] (coordinated at Saarland University by Hans Uszkoreit and Melanie Siegel), completes the integration of its [http://www.delph-in.net/hog/ Heart of Gold] core architecture framework, an ensemble of ‘shallow’ and ‘deep’ NLP engines for (currently) six major languages; see the on-line demonstration.

• AUG-04 As part of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, DELPH-IN members organize the 5th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-04) in Geneva (Switzerland). Reflecting the large number of high-quality presentations at the workshop, the organizers prepare a follow-up publication as a journal special issue.

• AUG-04 DELPH-IN members organize a workshop on Semantics in Grammar Engineering in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar in Leuven (Belgium).

• SEP-03 As part of the Second International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theory, Stephan Oepen gives an invited overview presentation of the LinGO Redwoods treebank initiative: Treebanks versus Linguistic Theory. — Anyone Need Grammars?

• AUG-03 DELPH-IN members organize the International Workshop on Multilingual Grammar Engineering during the European Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information 2003 in Vienna (Austria).

• JUL-03 NTT Communications Research Laboratories launches a project on parsing Japanese dictionary definitions using the DELPH-IN JaCY grammar in conjunction with the LKB, PET, and [incr tsdb()]; based on the LinGO Redwoods approach, the project expects to treebank several tens of thousands of definitions and use the analysis results for knowledge acquisition.

• APR-03 The LinGO Laboratory at CSLI Stanford (re-)activates its on-line web interface to the English Resource Grammar.

• JAN-03 The Norwegian LOGON Consortium, a machine translation effort funded by the Norwegian government and (proportional to capita) twice the size of Verbmobil starts a four-year grant; LOGON has decided to use MRS for meaning representation and the LKB and LinGO ERG for transfer and generation.

• OCT-02 The EU-funded IST consortium Deep-Thought starts a two-year grant for research into the use of ‘deep’ processing in innovative information extraction, email management, and creative authoring applications.

• SEP-02 Edinburgh and Stanford Universities start a joint three-year grant on Robust Semantic Interpretation (ROSIE), using the LKB, LinGO ERG, and Reedwoods treebank for research on the integration of discourse-level modelling and stochastic and active learning approaches to disambiguation.

• AUG-02 Hans Uszkoreit presents an invited presentation on DELPH-IN research and resources to the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Taipei (Taiwain).