ISO/TC37/SC4 Draft Resolution

Responsibility Resolution : Renewal of the term of SC 4 chair SC 4 reconfirms that Laurent Romary serve as SC 4 chair for a 3-year term (2008 – 2011). 2ISO/TC37/SC4

WG 2 Representation Schemes WG 2-2: CD Word Segmentation of Written Texts for Mono-lingual and Multi-lingual Information Processing – Part 1: General Principles and Methods Project leaders: Maosong Sun, Gerhard Budin, Sue Ellen Wright, + Project leaders of Being circulated for the first CD ballot (Stage date: , DIS limit date exceeded, risk, DIS: ) WG 2-3: WD Word Segmentation of Written Texts for Mono- lingual and Multi-lingual Information Processing – Part 2: Word Segmentation for Chinese, Japanese and Korean Project leaders: Maosong Sun, Key-Sun Choi, Hitoshi Isahara, + project leaders of Delayed due to the incompletion of WD (Stage date: , DIS limit date exceeded, risk, DIS: ) 3 ISO/TC37/SC4

Progress on WordSeg Four Day Meeting Balancing between the Terms of Definition and the Main part on the Principles and Methods Elaboration and More Concise Editing One more editorial meeting is planned in Beijing on 1-2/Nov/ ISO/TC37/SC4

Responsibility Resolution : Appointment of editor SC 4 resolves that Jennifer DeCamp serve as editor for the work items /2 Word segmentation – Parts 1 and 2, as is required by ISO Directives. 5ISO/TC37/SC4

WG 2 Representation Schemes 2/2 WG 2-4: CD Syntactic Annotation Framework (SynAF) Project leader: Thierry Declerck In preparation for submission for registration as DIS Will be sent to DIS 6 ISO/TC37/SC4

Joint Work Resolution : NWIPs with OMG SC 4 resolves that the negotiations for the following joint activities be initiated with ISO/TC 37/SC 4 (Chair: Laurent Romary) and OMG (Liaison: Donald Chapin) under the Memorandum of Understanding between ISO and OMG and documented synchronization of their respective standardization processes provisional to the discussions at Pisa in September 2008: 7ISO/TC37/SC4

Joint Work NWIP Language resource management – Simplified natural language – Part 1: Fundamental principles for the simplification of natural languages and Part 2: Simplified natural language and symbols for SVBR notations with Kiyong Lee as WG 2 convenor and Thierry Declerck as ISO project leader, and Donald Chapin, Christian Galinski and Alex Fang and members of the OMG submission team as editors. NWIP Language resource management – Semantics and terminology of time – Part 1: Temporal ontology and reasoning 8ISO/TC37/SC4

Establishment of Liaison Resolution SC 4 resolves that the establishment of liaison of Category A with ELRA (Liaison: Nicoletta Calzorari) be initiated immediately. 9ISO/TC37/SC4

ELRA "The mission of the Association is to promote langua ge resources (henceforth LRs) and evaluation for th e Human Language Technology (HLT) sector in all t heir forms and all their uses, in a European context. Consequently the goals are : to coordinate and carry out identification, production, validation, distribution, standardisation of LRs, as well as support for evaluation of systems, products, tools, etc. - related to language resources." 10ISO/TC37/SC4

Extension of target dates Resolution : Request for the extension of target dates SC 4 resolves that the extension of target dates for the following projects be requested to ISO/CS TMB as necessitated by circumstances of each of the projects: ISO CD/WD /2 Word segmentation – Parts 1 and 2 (current state: critical) ISO CD Syntactic annotation framework (current state: to be cancelled) ISO WD Multilingual information framework (current state: warning) 11ISO/TC37/SC4

Resolution : Meetings SC 4 and its Working Groups resolve the following: /230, Pisa: That Nicoletta Calzolari host WGs meetings in Pisa, focusing on the projects LAF, SemAF/Time, SemAF/DActs, MLIF, and TDG /2, Beijing: That Yu Xinli host WG 2 meetings in Beijing, focusing on the projects Word segmentation Parts 1 and /08, Tilburg: That Harry Bunt host WGs meetings in Tilburg in conjunction with I WCS-9, focusing on the projects FSR/FSD, SemAF/DActs, TDG 3, and other NWIPs /10, Nijmegen: That Peter Wittenburg host WGs meetings, focusing on CitER a nd DCR for semantics xx/yy, tentative –Berlin: That Laurent Romary host the SC 4 plenary and WGs meetings in Berlin, focusing on the projects MLIF, TDG 6 and others (TBD) xx/yy, Bogota, Colombia: that the annual meetings of TC 37 and its SCs be held i n Bogota, Colombia. 12ISO/TC37/SC4

Planning SC4 Tutorial in the next TC37 Meeting in Bogota ISO/TC37/SC413

Acknowledgements Resolution : Acknowledgments SC 4 expresses its gratitude to Professor Alexander Kozlov, STANDARTINFORM, Moscow, Russia, and all of his staff members for hosting the various meetings of SC 4 and its WGs held at the Academy of Labor and Social Relations, Moscow, Russia. 14ISO/TC37/SC4

Status

Membership  23 P-members  7 O-members  10 Liaisons 16 ISO/TC37/SC4

Structure  WG1 Basic Descriptors  WG2 Representation Schemes  WG3 Multilingual Information representation  WG4 Lexical Resources  WG5 Workflow for Language resource management (not yet) 17 ISO/TC37/SC4

18 Projects in Progress and Resolutions 12 Projects 7 Thematic Domain Groups 2 Special Groups –Task Force for the Harmonization of Principles (Beijing 2006) –TC 37/Task Force for the Harmonization of Terminology (Provo 2007) ISO/TC37/SC4

WG1: BASIC DESCRIPTORS AND MECHANISMS FOR LANGUAGE RESOURCES Convenor: Nancy Ide 4 Projects 19 ISO/TC37/SC4

WG 1-1: WD Feature structures – Part 1: Feature structure representation (FSR) –Project leaders: Kiyong Lee, Gerald Penn revision of ISO :2006 Feature Structures Part 1: Feature structure representation (FSR:2006) –To harmonize the two parts, FSR:2006 and FSD –Being revised for the new edition (CD: ) WG 1-2: DIS Feature Structures Part 2: Feature Systems Declaration (FSD) –Project leaders: Kiyong Lee, Gerald Penn –Registered as DIS (FDIS: ) WG 1-3: CD Linguistic Annotation Framework (LAF) –Project leader: Nancy Ide –Expected to be submitted by for registration as CD and the first CD ballot (CD: ) WG 1-4: NP Citation of Electronic Resources (CitER) –Project leader: Daan Broeder –(CD: ) 20 ISO/TC37/SC4

WG2: REPRESENTATION SCHEMES Convenor: Kiyong Lee 5 Projects 21 ISO/TC37/SC4

WG 2 Representation Schemes WG 2-1: DIS Morphosyntactic Annotation Framework (MAF) Project leader: Eric de la Clergerie In preparation for a DIS-ballot (FDIS: ) WG 2-2: CD Word Segmentation of Written Texts for Mono-lingual and Multi-lingual Information Processing – Part 1: General Principles and Methods Project leaders: Maosong Sun, Gerhard Budin, Sue Ellen Wright, + Project leaders of Being circulated for the first CD ballot (Stage date: , DIS limit date exceeded, risk, DIS: ) WG 2-3: WD Word Segmentation of Written Texts for Mono- lingual and Multi-lingual Information Processing – Part 2: Word Segmentation for Chinese, Japanese and Korean Project leaders: Maosong Sun, Key-Sun Choi, Hitoshi Isahara, + project leaders of Delayed due to the incompletion of WD (Stage date: , DIS limit date exceeded, risk, DIS: ) 22 ISO/TC37/SC4

WG 2 Representation Schemes 2/2 WG 2-4: CD Syntactic Annotation Framework (SynAF) Project leader: Thierry Declerck In preparation for submission for registration as DIS WG 2-5: CD Semantic Annotation Framework – Part 1: Time and events (SemAF/Time) Project leader: Kiyong Lee Editors: James Pustejovsky, Branimir Boguraev, Harry Bunt, Nancy Ide In preparation for submission for registration as DIS (Warning: DIS ) WG 2-6: NP Semantic Annotation Framework – Part 2: Dialogue acts Project leader: Kiyong Lee Editors: James Pustejovsky, Branimir Boguraev, Harry Bunt, Nancy Ide (CD: ) 23 ISO/TC37/SC4

WG3 MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION Convenor: Nasredine Semmar 1 Project 24 ISO/TC37/SC4

WG3 Multilingual Information WG 3-1: WD Multilingual Information Framework (MLIF) –Project leader: Samuel Cruz-Lara –Warning (WD study initiated) –(Stage date: , CD: ) 25 ISO/TC37/SC4

WG 4 Lexical Resources Convener: Nicoletta Calzolari 1 Project 26 ISO/TC37/SC4

WG 4 Lexical Resources WG 4-1: FDIS Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) –Project leaders: Monte George, Gil Francopoulo –Status: FDIS registered for formal approval –(FDIS: , IS: ) 27 ISO/TC37/SC4

AD HOC THEMATIC DOMAIN GROUPS ON DATA CATEGORIES 28 ISO/TC37/SC4

TDGs on Data Categories  TDG 1 Metadata (Peter Wittenburg )  TDG 2 Morphosyntactic data categories (Gil Francopoulo)  TDG 3 Semantic Content Representation (Harry Bunt) –Activity 1 Discourse Relations: Koiti Hasida –Activity 2 Dialogue Acts: Harry Bunt –Activity 3 Referential Structures and Links: Laurent Romary –Activity 4 Logico-semantic Relations: Scott Farrar –Activity 5 Temporal Entities and Relations: Thierry Declerck –Activity 6 Semantic Roles and Argument Structures: Kiyong Lee, Harry Bunt  TDG4 Syntactic data categories (Thierry Declerk)  TDG5 Machine Readable Dictionary (Monte George)  TDG6 Multilingual Ontology (Koiti Hasida)  TDG7 Lexical semantics (Monica Monachini) 29 ISO/TC37/SC4

DCR Committee Representatives of SC 4 to the TC 37 DCR Committee. –SC 4 chair Laurent Romary, –Six TDG convenors: Peter Wittenburg (Metadata), Gil Francopoulo (Morphosyntax), Harry Bunt (Semantic content), Thierry Declerck (Syntactic data categories), Monte George (Machine readable dictionaries) and Koiti Hasida (Language resource ontologies), –WG 4 “Lexical resources” convenor Nicoletta Calzolari and –MLIF project leader Samuel Cruz-Lara 30 ISO/TC37/SC4

Special Group  SG 1 Task force for the Harmonization of principles -Chair: Nancy Ide ( ), Alex Fang ( )  SG 2 Task force for the Harmonization of Terminology -SC4 Delegates: Chu-Ren Huang ( ), Alex Fang ( ) 31 ISO/TC37/SC4

Meetings – (1) : ISO/TC 37/SC 4 Special Group meeting on Ontologies, Busan, in conjunction with ISWC, The Sixth International Semantic Web Conference ( /15) held in Busan, South Korea (2) /12: SC 4 plenary and WGs meetings, City University of Hong Kong in conjunction with ICGL (09/11) (3) /30: SC 4 plenary and WGs meetings, Marrakech, Morocco, in conjunction with LREC (04/06) 32 ISO/TC37/SC4

33 Meetings announcement (1) SC4 plenary and WG meetings Pisa, Italy, /30: (2) SC4/WG 2 meetings Beijing, China, /08 (3) SC4 plenary and WG meetings Tilburg, The Netherlands, in conjunction with IWCS-9, /09: (3) SC4 plenary and WG meetings Berlin, Germany, or Brandeis, Waltham, MA, USA, xx/yy (4) TC 37 and SCs meetings Colombia, xx/yy ISO/TC37/SC4