WG3 1st Meeting Minutes - 2023-03-17

Session 1

10.45–11.00 Introduction to WG3 (slides)

11.00–11.30 Brainstorming on ideas and expectations

Discussion questions:

What is most important for you in multilingual and cross-lingual NLP?

What activities do you think we should prioritize?

How can we work together to make progress towards our goals?

Points raised:

Large language models are most important

Articulating linguistic theories underlying tools

Defining idiosyncrasy and diversity

The user perspective is important

Supporting low-resource languages through cross-lingual technology

Supporting low-resource languages through annotation tools

Supporting low-resource languages through data collection

Supporting low-resource languages with semantics

Tools for all languages – start with morphology

Low-resource language is not a homogeneous concept

Building resources for specific languages (Serbian)

Linking corpus resources between languages

Standardized tools applicable to different languages

Evaluation of tools – coordinate with other WGs

Tracking evaluation status for different types of tools

Improved benchmarking and experimental design

Organize shared tasks