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-====== Working Group 4: Lexicon-corpus interface ======
+====== Working Group 4: Quantifying and promoting diversity ======
+  * **Leader**: [[https://cental.uclouvain.be/team/mcdm/|Marie-Catherine de Marneffe]] (Belgium)
+  * **Vice-leader**: [[https://www.ukr.uni-jena.de/members/olha-kanishcheva|Olha Kanishcheva]] (Germany/Ukraine)
+==== 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 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.
+==== Current Subtasks ====
+  * **Task 4.1**: Promoting low-resourced/endangered languages [co-leaders: Lucia Amoros, Abigail Walsh]
+  * **Task 4.2**: Survey of diversity measures [leader: Louis Estève]
+==== Documents ====
+  * WG4 in-person meeting 1 [[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n-yKDOws4zipOG8DekxhZygO5WZYP6AAwIYFcG6hf8o/edit?usp=sharing|slides and discussion summary]] - **16-17 March 2023**, Paris-Saclay University, France (co-located with the [[meetings:general_meetings:1st_unidive_general_meeting|UniDive 1st general meeting]])
+  * WG4 online meetings [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tBQ9oeV0tN1h5uYL3xraWItGf9Ox1TWk1vXRWKQiRaI/edit?usp=sharing|summaries]]: September 4 2023 (full day), September 29 2023 (1h30), November 10 2023 (1h30)
+  * WG4 in-person meeting 2 [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Q8CrYrTnvEieQ1lwWLkWC0aMQKnaVXw_V_Fa4ltxsk/edit?usp=sharing|summary]] - **9 February 2024**, University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy (co-located with the [[meetings:general_meetings:2nd_unidive_general_meeting|UniDive 2nd general meeting]])
+  * [[http://wp.dldp.eu/digital-language-survival-kits/|Digital Language Survival Kits]] by the [[http://wp.dldp.eu/|DLDP project]]
+  * WG4 online meetings [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ClJUY3d8WgmOclFKb-i9CrfH0ppCseXFNKqcDExYRJM/edit?usp=sharing|summaries]]: April 22 204 (1h)