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23 December Meeting

• Participants:
  • Furkan Akkurt (Turkish)
  • Bermet Chontaeva (Kyrgyz)
  • Soudabeh Eslami (Azerbaijani)
  • Gulnura Jumalieva (Kyrgyz)
  • Aida Kasieva (Kyrgyz)
  • Büşra Marşan (Turkish)
  • Jonathan Washington (Kyrgyz)
  • Balkız Öztürk (Turkish)
  • Suzan Üsküdarlı (Turkish)
• Date: 23/12/2023 15:00 (UTC+3)
• Place: Zoom
  • Link: https://zoom.us/j/94784185477
  • Meeting ID: 947 8418 5477
  • Passcode: 985109

Agenda

• Discussing problems further that occurred during annotations, and translations
• 2nd UniDive General Meeting (7–9 Feb) Submission and Presentation

Discussion

• Azeri: Soudabeh mentioned they're discussing linguistic issues with Çağrı Hoca.

• Kyrgyz: Aida эже (eje) will finish the annotation.

• Turkish: Büşra will push her annotations of the Turkish sentences soon.

• Bermet & Soudabeh mentioned 2 workshops to send a full paper.

  • SIGUL 2024 (3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages)
    • Link
    • Position paper (8 pages)
    • Deadline: Feb 26
  • EURALI (2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia)
    • Link
    • Full paper (8 pages)
    • Deadline: Feb 23

• We checked the UD validation report for Kyrgyz and Kazakh.

• We set the deadline for completing the annotations to the end of January.

• We want to meet 3-4 weeks from now to talk about the paper: what will be the sections, who should work on which section, etc.

  • Volunteering is open for working on sections.

• We talked about how we can expand on the abstract. We have close to half a page, the limit is 2.5 pages. Deadline for revision is 2024-01-12.

  • Oblique-object distinction (selected to be expanded with an example)
    • Jonathan wants to add a non-Turkish example: Kyrgyz.
    • We talked about "Ben inandım / inanıldım" cases in Kyrgyz.
    • Büşra will start with Turkish examples, which Jonathan will translate and feed into the abstract.
    • During the discussion of what sentence it could be, we talked further.
      • Jonathan mentioned the distinction between adposition and case.
      • Balkız Hoca mentioned the causative construction: "I made Furkan read the book." / "The book was read by Furkan."

Actions

• Ask Dan Zeman about multilingual treebanks (Furkan, Büşra) ; #16
• Start Overleaf project for the full paper (Furkan) ; #24
• Work on the example for the oblique-object distinction in the abstract (Büşra, Jonathan) ; #25
• Finish annotations by Jan 31 ; #14