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Overview

The 9th DELPH-IN summit will be held from Monday, July 29, to Friday August 2, 2013 (the week before ACL 2013 in Sofia), in St. Wendel, a small town in northeastern Saarland.

The meeting will take place at the Angel's Hotel (am Fruchtmarkt) located in the heart of the town. We have blocked 30 standard-double rooms (for single guest use) for 74 EUR (tax included) per room per night, including free wifi and buffet breakfast. Please make your booking with the hotel (email to [email protected] mentioning "DELPH-IN/DFKI") before June 19th.

Travel info

• To St. Wendel

  • From Frankfurt International Airport (FRA), the regional express (RE) direct connection to St. Wendel runs every two hours (options of indirect connections more frequent). The journey takes exactly 2 hours. You can find the connection timetable online.

  • From Saarbruecken, the train connections to St. Wendel run multiple times per hour. The journey takes 30~45 minutes.

  • Driving from FRA to St. Wendel takes about 1h40m (~160KM).

• To the Angel's Hotel am Fruchtmarkt: the hotel is only 500m away from the St. Wendel train station, ~7 minutes by walking (map).

Aims of the Meeting

The purposes of this meeting are to:

• update each other on recent developments and current activities;
• discuss more what we actually expect from DELPH-IN (and each other);
• create the opportunity for contentful exchange on computational grammar research in the DELPH-IN spirit.

Some possible ideas for content

These ideas are basically just brainstorming at this stage, and should not be considered official in any way at all.

• Maybe try a couple of documentation sprints (like minor book sprints)

  • something on chart mapping?
  • something on language modelling?
  • something on unspoken MRS conventions?

• Work towards releasing MRS Testsuite treebanks as a parallel treebank resource

Discussion topics:

• core.smi for Matrix/general crosslinguistic sharing? What can we normalize here?
• How has the SEM-I been used in the past? How might it be used in the future?

And more light-heartedly:

• DELPH-IN t-shirt design proposals (suggested slogan: "Slow and steady wins the race")