====== 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:
     * bringing together pre-existing groups dedicated to NLP-applicable universality, 
     * integrating experts of (notably low-resourced) languages not yet covered by these groups, 
     * integrating experts in linguistic typology; 
  - **Quantifying** diversity:
     * designing **measures of inter- and intra-linguistic diversity** in language resources and tools,
     * using these measures to quantify diversity in UD and PARSEME corpora; 
  - Promoting diversity:
     * procedures for **better use of the existing resources**, based on their estimated diversity,
     * **selecting new data** to be annotated, so as to favour intra-linguistic diversity, 
     * designing **evaluation scenarios** which favour tools performing well on rare and diverse phenomena and low resourced languages, 
     * integrating and **training** new experts dedicated to low-resourced and endangered languages,
     * validating the unified annotation **guidelines** (WG1) and **lexicon formats** (WG2) against newly included languages and defining new language-specific categories and extensions, if needed, 
     * coordinating the creation and enhancement of annotated **corpora** and **lexica** for low-resourced 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)