PARSEME SC submeeting

Blois 16-17 July 2013

Mike Rosner, Agata Savary

1. Motivating new abstract submissions for September:  
	° (a colleague of) Joakim Nivre - statistical parsing and MWEs
	° Mark Steedman - CCG + statistical parsing + MWE
	° Philip Koehn - statistical MT and MWEs
	° others: Giuseppe Attardi? Josef van Genabith ?
2. Evaluating WG3 submissions and their presentation order
	° MONTI - accepted long n° 1; recommend focusing on challenges, parsing-oriented issues and evaluation measures
	° CONSTANT - accepted long N°2; recommend posisble comments on English vs. French specificities wrt. methods presented
	° KORDONI, SIMOVA - accepted long N°3; recommend stressing measures of linguistic precision and computational efficiency + evaluation measures 
	° this order may cahnge in case of new submissions
3. Aim of September WG3 meeting: expression of a draft workplan for years 1-2
4. State-of-the art survey:
	° identify the contributors
	° define deadlines (first submission before the end of May 2014 at latest)
	° choose the journal
5. How to animate the workplan discussion for WG3 on 18 Sept?
	° validating the chair and co-chair
	° tour-de-table (short presentation of previous achievements and plans related to WG3)
	° extending the current list of challenges (based on the tour-de-table)
	° redefining scope ? (including applications such as SMT, summarization, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction)
	° redefining the title ? ("Statistical and hybrid parsing of MWEs", "Statistical and hybrid processing of MWEs")
	° state-of-the-art report
	° promote STSMs within WG3

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TO DO:

Agata
- announce the preliminary dates for Athens meeting 10-11 March on the website

Mike
- propose and contact a co-chair (maybe: Matthieu.Constant@univ-mlv.fr)
- motivate new presentation submissions for September (before 26 july) - see above
- After 26 july - communicate with the other WG leaders on admitted submissions, answer to submitters
- think of industrial contacts for PARSEME (cf Albert Gatt, Antonio Branco)