Re: [ISSUE-109]: disambiguation ITS 2.0 requirements w.r.t Indian [Indic] languages [ACTION-418]

(Just forwarding so that this reaches the list - Felix)

Am 07.02.13 11:06, schrieb Somnath Chandra:
> Hello Lewis,
> Thanks a lot for your feedback. We have studied the NIF encoding 
> and Indian Languages requirements for Hierarchical Annotation need to 
> be incorporated in details in NIF.
>
> As defined in NIF Version 
> (http://nlp2rdf.org/nif-1-0#toc-part-of-speech-tags ) , Part of speech 
> tags should make use of Ontologies of Linguistic Annotations (OLiA) . 
> OLiA connects local annotation tag sets with a global reference 
> ontology. Therefore it allows to keep the specific part of speech tag 
> at a fine granularity, while at the same time having a coarse grained 
> reference model.
>
> OLiA defines OLiA Annotation Models for morphology, morphosyntax and 
> syntax for multilingual.
>
> However there are three Multilingual Annotation Models for 
> morphological, morphosyntactic and syntactic annotation for Indian 
> langauges i.e L-POSTS tagset Baskaran et al. (2008) , AnnCorra,Bharati 
> et al. (2006), IIIT tagset,IIT (2007).
>
>       We are in  process of defining a common POS tagset for Indic 
> languages , based on W3C Internationalization best practices. The 
> draft standard has been developed and is under process of testing and 
> evaluation. Once finalized, the above three POS tagsets would be 
> replaced by this national standard , which may be incorporated in NIF.
>
>      We would definitely actively participate in developing the best 
> practices for use of ITS with external NIF models with the W3C team.
>
>      With regards,
>
> Dr. Somnath Chandra
> Scientist-E & Dy. Country Manager W3C India
> Dept. of Electronics & Information Technology
> Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
> Govt. of India
> Tel:+91-11-24364744,24301856
> Fax: +91-11-24363099
> e-mail :schandra@mit.gov.in
>
> On 02/04/13, *Dave Lewis *<dave.lewis@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Somnath,
>> I wanted to follow up on this comment also. Do you have any comments 
>> on our response, was it satisfactory? If we hear from you to the 
>> contrary we will assume you are satisfied and aim to close ISSUE-109 
>> on the 11th February.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Dave
>>
>> On 28/01/2013 00:46, Dave Lewis wrote:
>>> Hi Somnath,
>>> I wanted to update you of the status of ISSUE-109, related to 
>>> disambiguation.
>>>
>>> We discussed this at the WG face to face meeting last week, see:
>>> http://www.w3.org/2013/01/23-mlw-lt-minutes.html#item37.
>>>
>>> The consensus was that hierarchical annotation for disambiguation 
>>> was difficult to achieve technically. As you point out, ITS override 
>>> rule mean that any hierarchical annotation has to be supported 
>>> explicitly with special attributes. However, doing this in a generic 
>>> way is difficult  as we may also need to support multiple different 
>>> annotations of the same text, and therefore map sub-annotations to 
>>> specific parent ones.
>>>
>>> You may have seen that there has been extensive discussion on 
>>> potentially merging the terminology and disambiguation data categories:
>>> http://www.w3.org/2013/01/24-mlw-lt-minutes.html#item03
>>> and
>>> https://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/track/issues/68
>>>
>>> At the meeting we asked the experts involved is considering 
>>> technical solutions to this to also address your hierarchical 
>>> annotation requirement, but this yielded no usable technical solution.
>>>
>>> We therefore propose to reject this suggested change.
>>>
>>> We would however point out  that the external NIF encoding (see 
>>> http://nlp2rdf.org/) would be better suited to capturing such 
>>> hierarchical annotations. We would welcome you input therefore in 
>>> formulating best practice for the use of ITS with external NIF models.
>>>
>>> Please let us know if you are satisfied with this response.
>>>
>>> I look forward to hearing from you.
>>> Regards,
>>> Dave Lewis
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21/01/2013 15:02, Dave Lewis wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> To speed the resolution of the different issues in your original 
>>>> post I'll restricted ISSUE-84 to comments about the translate data 
>>>> category and raised two new issues:
>>>> ISSUE-108: locNote ITS 2.0 requirements w.r.t Indian [Indic] languages
>>>> ISSUE-109: disambiguation ITS 2.0 requirements w.r.t Indian [Indic] 
>>>> languages
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>> On 18/01/2013 12:46, Dr. David Filip wrote:
>>>>> Hi all, this comment is now associated with Issue-84
>>>>> Rgds
>>>>> dF
>>>>>
>>>>> Dr. David Filip
>>>>> =======================
>>>>> LRC | CNGL | LT-Web | CSIS
>>>>> University of Limerick, Ireland
>>>>> telephone: +353-6120-2781
>>>>> *cellphone: +353-86-0222-158*
>>>>> facsimile: +353-6120-2734
>>>>> mailto: david.filip@ul.ie <mailto:david.filip@ul.ie>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org 
>>>>> <mailto:fsasaki@w3.org>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Forwarded on behalf of Somnath Chandra (by permission), with
>>>>>     CC to Somnath and Svaran Lata.The comments are not yet in
>>>>>     tracker. See also new comments (also not in tracker yet) on
>>>>>     the www-international list at
>>>>>     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2013JanMar/0065.html
>>>>>
>>>>>     If you have input for replying to the comments, please provide
>>>>>     it on our comments list (but feel free to put others in CC to
>>>>>     speed up the process).
>>>>>
>>>>>     Best,
>>>>>
>>>>>     Felix
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>>>>>     Betreff: 	Fwd: ITS 2.0 requirements w.r.t Indian languages
>>>>>     Datum: 	Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:46:52 +0530
>>>>>     Von: 	Somnath Chandra <schandra@deity.gov.in>
>>>>>     <mailto:schandra@deity.gov.in>
>>>>>     An: 	Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org> <mailto:fsasaki@w3.org>
>>>>>     Kopie (CC): 	slata <slata@mit.gov.in> <mailto:slata@mit.gov.in>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     Dear Dr. Felix Sasaki,
>>>>>     W3C India has compiled the Indic Languages requirements for
>>>>>     ITS 2.0. Kindly find enclosed the draft document developed for
>>>>>     the purpose.
>>>>>     Submitted for kind perusal. Please feel free to contact me for
>>>>>     any further clarifications / discussions.
>>>>>     With best regards,
>>>>>     Somnath , W3C India
>>>>>     Dr. Somnath Chandra
>>>>>     Joint Director and Dy. Country Manager , W3C India
>>>>>     Dept. of Electronics & Information Technology
>>>>>     Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
>>>>>     Govt. of India
>>>>>     Tel:+91-11-24364744,24301811 <tel:+91-11-24364744,24301811>
>>>>>     Fax: +91-11-24363099 <tel:%2B91-11-24363099>
>>>>>     e-mail :schandra@mit.gov.in <mailto:schandra@mit.gov.in>
>>>>>     -------- Original Message --------
>>>>>     From: *Prashant Verma *<vermaprashant1@gmail.com>
>>>>>     <mailto:vermaprashant1@gmail.com>
>>>>>     Date: Jan 10, 2013 2:20:32 PM
>>>>>     Subject: ITS 2.0 requirements w.r.t Indian languages
>>>>>     To: schandra@mit.gov.in <mailto:schandra@mit.gov.in>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     -- 
>>>>>
>>>>>     Prashant Verma I  Sr. Software Engineer
>>>>>     W3C India
>>>>>     New Delhi
>>>>>     Cell : +91-8800521042 <tel:%2B91-8800521042>
>>>>>     Website : http://www.w3cindia.in <http://www.w3cindia.in/>
>>>>>     --
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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