Working Group 4: Quantifying and promoting diversity

Leader: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (Belgium)

Vice-leader: 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:

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 of 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.

Documents

WG4 Meeting 1 slides and discussion summary - 16-17 March 2023, Paris-Saclay University, France (co-located with UniDive 1st general meeting,