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-====== Working Group 4: Lexicon-corpus interface ======
+====== Working Group 4: Quantifying and promoting diversity ======
+  * **Leader**: [[https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/demarneffe.1/|Marie-Catherine de Marneffe]] (Belgium)
+  * **Vice-leader**: [[https://www.adaptcentre.ie/experts/abigail-walsh/|Abigail Walsh]] (Ireland)
+==== Workplan ====
 This WG is transversal to WGs 1-3 and will focus on how the Action serves inter- and intra-linguistic
 diversity. Its activities will overlap with the 3 other WGs in:
- Networking for diversity: (i) bringing together pre-existing groups dedicated to NLP-applicable
+  - **Networking** for diversity:
-universality, (ii) integrating experts of (notably low-resourced) languages not yet covered by these
+     * bringing together pre-existing groups dedicated to NLP-applicable universality,
-groups, (iii) integrating experts in linguistic typology;
+     * integrating experts of (notably low-resourced) languages not yet covered by these groups,
- Quantifying diversity: (i) designing measures of inter- and intra-linguistic diversity in language
+     * integrating experts in linguistic typology;
-resources and tools, (ii) using these measures to quantify diversity in UD and PARSEME corpora;
+  - **Quantifying** diversity:
- Promoting diversity: (i) procedures for better use of the existing resources, based on their
+     * designing **measures of inter- and intra-linguistic diversity** in language resources and tools,
-estimated diversity, (ii) selecting new data to be annotated, so as to favour intra-linguistic diversity,
+     * using these measures to quantify diversity in UD and PARSEME corpora;
-(iii) designing evaluation scenarios which favour tools performing well on rare and diverse
+  - Promoting diversity:
-phenomena and low-resourced languages, (iv) integrating and training new experts dedicated to
+     * procedures for **better use of the existing resources**, based on their estimated diversity,
-low-resourced and endangered languages, (v) validating the unified annotation guidelines (WG1)
+     * **selecting new data** to be annotated, so as to favour intra-linguistic diversity,
-and lexicon formats (WG2) against newly included languages and defining new language-specific
+     * designing **evaluation scenarios** which favour tools performing well on rare and diverse phenomena and low resourced languages,
-categories and extensions, if needed, (vi) coordinating of the creation and enhancement of annotated
+     * integrating and **training** new experts dedicated to low-resourced and endangered languages,
-corpora and lexica for low-resourced languages, (vii) discovering and analysing rare linguistic
+     * validating the unified annotation **guidelines** (WG1) and **lexicon formats** (WG2) against newly included languages and defining new language-specific categories and extensions, if needed,
-phenomena, and describing them in resources and tools, (viii) coordination of the development of
+     * coordinating of the creation and enhancement of annotated **corpora** and **lexica** for low-resourced languages,
-NLP tools (WG3) for low-resourced and endangered languages.
+     * discovering and analysing **rare** linguistic **phenomena**, and describing them in resources and tools,
+     * coordination of the development of NLP **tools** (WG3) for low-resourced and endangered languages.
+==== Documents ====
+TBA