Charter for the NLIWoD Community Group [via Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data Community Group]

Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data (NLIWoD) Community Group Charter
(V1.0.0)
The mission of the NLIWoD Community Group is to provide standards to analyze,
model, unify, test, benchmark and enhance natural language interfaces for the
Web of Data. The core goal is to improve the reusability of systems as well as
benchmark datasets and to increase as well as measure their quality and
performance in an effective and efficient way.

The group will develop at developing modules, benchmarks and test standards as
well as unified data vocabularies and ontologies to foster a growing interface
landscape. Topics relevant to the community group include all topics related to
question answering, information retrieval, keyword search, answer
verbalisation.

Furthermore, the NLIWoD CG will incubate a wide and collaborative environment
for researchers, companies and practitioners. The group hopes that research as
well as industry projects will support and benefit from this community group’s
activity.

Join the NLIWoD Working Group.

  Start date : 17th November 2015
  End date : Unlimited
  Chairs : Ricardo Usbeck
  Public mailing list

Meeting Schedule

  Teleconferences: bi-monthly telcos to align work
  Face-to-face: TBA; additional face-to-face meetings may be scheduled by
consent of the participants, no more than 3 ordinary per year.

Scope
The scope of this CG is threefold:

  It seeks consensus for best practices pertaining to the publication of natural
language interfaces in the Web of Data.
  The CG will collaborate to enhance testing and benchmarking environments for
natural language interfaces for the Web of Data.
  The core goal is to improve the reusability as well as quality and efficieny
of NLIWoD systems by introducing best practices.

Out of Scope
The following features are out of scope, and will not be addressed by this
working group.

  The CG will not develop new NLIWoD systems.

Criteria towards Recommendation Proposals
In order to advance to Proposed Recommendation, each specification is expected
to have at least two independent implementations of each of feature defined in
the specification.

Each specification should contain a section detailing any known security or
privacy implications for implementers, Web authors, and end users.
Deliverables
More detailed milestones and updated publication schedules are available on the
group publication status page.

  Milestone 1 (Q4/2016)

  Draft for a first test suite including various datasets as well as benchmark
queries
  Draft for a first specification of benchmarking methods
  Collection of existing interfaces for NLI systems on the Web


  Milestone 2 (Q2/2017)

  Requirements for NLI Benchmarks
  First test suite including various datasets as well as benchmark queries
  First specification of benchmarking methods
  Draft for best practices for publishing natural language interfaces (and
modules) on the web which unifies different approaches




  Milestone 3 (Q4/2017)

  Best practices for publishing natural language interfaces (and modules) on the
web to tackle heterogeneous machine-interfaces
  Second test suite extending datasets and benchmark queries
  Improved specification of benchmarking methods



Coordination
The elicitation will follow the group discussions (telcos) and external input
from research projects as well as industry statements.
External Organizations and Projects
External organizations can enhance the work of this CG by providing input via
the mailing list, participation in telcos and face-to-face meetings. They are
also invited to join the CG directly.
Organizations

  The Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Group
(http://aksw.org/About.html)

Projects

  Eurostars project QAMEL (http://qamel.eu/)
  Eurostars project DIESEL (http://diesel-project.eu/)
  WDAqua ITN Answering Questions using Web Data
(http://wdaqua.informatik.uni-bonn.de/)
  HOBBIT - Holistic Benchmarking of Big Linked Data (http://project-hobbit.eu/)
  OKBQA - Open Knowledge Base and Question-Answering community
(http://www.okbqa.org/)

Mailinglists

  Question Answering Interest Group qaig@googlegroups.com, founded in 2014 to
accomplish a unification of German QA research

Participation
The group encourages questions, comments and issues on its public mailing lists
and document repositories, as described in Communication.

The group also welcomes non-Members to contribute technical submissions for
consideration, with the agreement from each participant to Royalty-Free
licensing of those submissions under the W3C Patent Policy.
Communication
Meeting minutes from teleconference and face-to-face meetings will be archived
for public review, and technical discussions and issue tracking will be
conducted in a manner that can be both read and written to by the general
public. Working Drafts and Editor's Drafts of specifications will be developed
on a public repository, and may permit direct public contribution requests.

Information about the group (including details about deliverables, issues,
actions, status, participants, and meetings) will be available from the NLIWoD
Community Group home page.

Most NLIWoD Community Group teleconferences will focus on discussion of
particular specifications, and will be conducted on an as-needed basis.

This group primarily conducts its technical work on the public mailing list
public-nli@w3.org (archive). The public is invited to post messages to this
list.

The group may use a Member-confidential mailing list for administrative purposes
and, at the discretion of the Chairs and members of the group, for member-only
discussions in special cases when a participant requests such a discussion.
Decision Policy
This group will seek to make decisions through consensus and due process, per
the W3C Process Document (section 3.3). Typically, an editor or other
participant makes an initial proposal, which is then refined in discussion with
members of the group and other reviewers, and consensus emerges with little
formal voting being required.

However, if a decision is necessary for timely progress, but consensus is not
achieved after careful consideration of the range of views presented, the Chairs
may call for a group vote, and record a decision along with any objections.

To afford asynchronous decisions and organizational deliberation, any resolution
(including publication decisions) taken in a face-to-face meeting or
teleconference will be considered provisional. A call for consensus (CfC) will
be issued for all resolutions (for example, via email and/or web-based survey),
with a response period from one week to 10 working days, depending on the
chair's evaluation of the group consensus on the issue. If no objections are
raised on the mailing list by the end of the response period, the resolution
will be considered to have consensus as a resolution of the Working Group.

All decisions made by the group should be considered resolved unless and until
new information becomes available, or unless reopened at the discretion of the
Chairs or the Director.

This charter is written in accordance with the W3C Process Document (Section
3.4, Votes), and includes no voting procedures beyond what the Process Document
requires.
Patent Policy
This Community Group operates under the W3C Patent Policy (5 February 2004
Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, the group seeks to
issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a
Royalty-Free basis. For more information about disclosure obligations for this
group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Implementation.
Licensing
This Community Group will use the W3C Software and Document license for all its
deliverables.
About this Charter
This charter has been created according to section 5.2 of the Process Document.
In the event of a conflict between this document or the provisions of any
charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.



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