Project Members and Responsibilities

The Project Manager is responsible for day-to-day organization and coordination of the project, ensuring that tasks are completed satisfactorily and dealing with slippage in the project plan, coordination with external institutes (including NUTEK), identifying and obtaining external resources (including those which can be provided by academic institutes), budget control and presenting project status and results. Specific Tasks:

• Identification of, and initial contact with, Swedish organizations interested in the SVENSK project.
• Negotations of contracts with external resource providers.
• Preparation of web pages and project publicity
• Organization of a 1-day seminar for SVENSK users. The program will give an overview of the system, describe the basic use of it and the included components. The system will be demonstrated and the users will have a chance to try it out themselves. Finally, an open session will be held for users to feedback on specific applications they wish to tackle and specific components they would want to have integrated into the SVENSK system.
• Organize a hands-on course at SICS on the development of SVENSK components: the actual integration process.
• Organize public releases of the SVENSK system.

The Language Engineer is responsible for maintaince of the GATE platform (coordination with GATE technical support), interfaces to external components, integration of components, development of user interfaces, as well as system documentation. Specific tasks:

• Installation and testing of the GATE platform
• Integration of language engineering components into GATE.
• Supervision of integration of external components.
• Maintainence of (on-line) documentation of the system.

The position as project manager is held by Björn Gambäck since the start of phase two, while the position as language engineer is occupied by Fredrik Olsson since the start of phase three.

• The position as project manager was occupied by Scott McGlashan during phase one of the project.
• The position as language engineering consultant was occupied by Björn Gambäck during phase one, and by Christer Samuelsson during phase two. The language engineering consultant was responsible for providing consultancy on the SICS grammar, parser and compiler (DUP), how these was to be integrated with the GATE platform and with other extensions to ensure interoperability, as well as to contributing to system and user documentation.
• The position as language engineer was occupied by Mikael Eriksson during phase one and two.
• The phase one position as semantic parser developer was held by Joel Sunnehall. He was responsible for developing a robust component which provides a domain-specific semantic analysis, development and maintenance of the interface to SweCG, and a tool for extending the component to new application domains. Contribution to user documentation. Specific tasks:
  • Design and implementation of software for building graphs from EngCG/SweCG, and initial versions of software for transforming dependency graphs to semantic representations.
  • Testing within a specific application domain.