MLFN "The Plan"

1. Changes to MLFN Tool:
   1. Add Comment field to each annotation set
   2. Add dedicated field to select extra-thematic FEs from list from the Book or “Other” to each annotation set
      1. Add “See Comment/ET FE” label to mark the part of the string to which a comment or extra-thematic FE refers.
   3. Try to implement basic annotation flow control
   4. Try to implement a connection between the comment field and Github’s “Issues” bug-tracking function
2. Joint Annotation Task:
   1. Other teams should upload files to github ICSI-Berkeley/ multilingual_fn/parallelAnno
      1. TED Talk text split into sentence per line
      2. Word form POS lemma for all lemmas in text
      3. Layers and labels needed for that language
3. Next texts to be annotated: (in the order of attack)
   Note: The texts in Boldface will be annotated first, under the “no changes to FN 1.7” policy. In addition to the texts listed here, there was also discussion of annotating fInancial domain texts, and the WikiHow text “” was suggested as a first step.
   1. TED Talk: Do schools kill creativity? (~270 sentences) (closest translation)
   2. Sherlock Holmes:
      1. The Adventure of the Speckled Band (~100 sents) (medium translation)
   3. Wikipedia article on Germany (lead) (~50 sents) (most distant, basically independently written)
   4. Firefox Support text: Search suggestions in firefox (lead) (close translation)
   5. Sherlock Holmes:
      1. The Adventure of the Dancing Man (medium translation)
   6. Wikihow: How not to procrastinate (somewhat distant—partially translated)
4. Possible next meetings:
   1. ACL 2017 (Vancouver) Collocated meeting —-Collin will run the When is good pool again and report back
   2. EMNLP (Copenhagen) Sept 7-11
   3. LSA (Salt Lake City) early Jan 2018?
   4. LREC May 2018 (Miyazaki, Japan)?
   5. ICCG 10 Jul 2018 (Paris)?
   6. Austin Fall 2018?
5. Knowledge Exchange
   1. FN (Mothership) training material will be uploaded to Github
   2. Results of survey will be posted on the wiki
6. Possible Funding Sources:
   1. Bloomberg et al. – financial news
   2. Existing users
   3. cost.eu