[Sigwac] Call for discussion: The SIGWAC crisis (instead, of an announcement of WAC-XI)

[Miloš Jakubíček]

Hi,

On 1 August 2017 at 19:43, Roland Schäfer <roland.schaefer at fu-berlin.de>
wrote:

>
>
> "Private ontologies" – I'm going to use this NP more often ;) What I
> meant was fundamental linguistic problems of corpus composition
> assessment, corpus quality evaluation, etc., which necessarily IMO have
> to be discussed with linguists prominently involved (plus corpus
> creators and – if they are interested – other CL people). Whether I said
> that in the first email or made it clear later (maybe in my reaction to
> Christ' contribution), I'm not sure. See also CfP of WAC-XI.
>

corpus composition, similarity, homogeneity, heterogeneity -- something we
are all in,
and committed to investigate further what Adam started

I think we might want to make these things more explicit in further CfPs


> Anyway, my suggestion remains to focus more intensely on linguistics in
> the development of a new WAC agenda, starting with a CleanerEval first
> round where definitions are discussed with folks with deep linguistic
> knowledge about things like text structure, etc., if we can get them to
> contribute at all.
>

yes, though there are "old" topics still relevant - we had a brief talk
about a Clean(er)Eval last Monday, mainly with regard to spam -- which
still continues to be the top "unclean" issue


>
> I'll be on vacation starting tomorrow, but I hope the discussion
> continues, regardless of the direction it takes. Big thanks to everyone
> so far!
>

I think we can safely pause spamming people's inboxes until you get back.
Enjoy your vacation;)

Best
Milos