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Elisabeth: Hello morphed anonymous...
Marc: Hello Elisabeth
[9:40] Marc: Seems we'll be alone today
[9:40] Elisabeth: Are we the only ones around ?
[9:41] Marc: Yep
[9:41] Marc: Havard and Mike are in a meeting, Erkki is on holidays in the US
[9:42] Elisabeth: I don't see much point in trying to have this meeting then, since I'm hopeless at that stage
[9:42] Kutz: I'm new to this, so I don't have much to contribute.
[9:42] Marc: But, no, we've a visitor!
[9:42] Kutz: Maybe just introduce myself: Kutz Arrieta, Linguist in the Basque Country in a research center
[9:43] Marc: Hello Kutz!
[9:43] Marc: Hello Kutz!
[9:43] Kutz: Helo evryone
[9:43] Marc: Great that you come along
[9:44] Elisabeth: Welcome Kutz
[9:44] Elisabeth: Which research center are you with ?
[9:44] Kutz: VICOMTech
[9:44] Kutz: They work mostly in visual applications
[9:45] Kutz: I'm the first linguist they hire. I've been at this job for one year
[9:45] Kutz: We are trying to open up a computational linguists department
[9:46] Elisabeth: I'm afraid I don't quite see the link...
[9:46] Elisabeth: As for myself, I spent many years as a terminologist with the CTN in Paris, then with the DGLFLF, and I'm now teaching English at Paris 7 University.
[9:47] Marc: Is VICOMTech affiliated to a university?
[9:48] Kutz: No affiliation with the university. It was founded by the EiTB (Basque television) and Fraunhofer (they are the ones who came up with mp3)
[9:48] Marc: This certainly sounds very interesting. I suspect that you work also on computational linguistics for the Basque language?
[9:49] Kutz: In VIC we have 5 departments: biomedical, toursim, industrial, digital TV, and interfaces
[9:49] Kutz: Yes, that's my link with this group or why I'm exploring it.
[9:50] Kutz: I've been away from Europe and I'm trying to ubderstand how things are done
[9:50] Kutz: I see "minority languages and Europe" and I thin "we may have something to say about that"
[9:50] Marc: We here in Worms work closely with the IDS, the Institute of the German language, amongst others one of Germany's biggest centres of corpus linguistics
[9:51] Marc: as to your comment, this certainly sounds like it
[9:51] Kutz: Makes sense
[9:52] Marc: Will your thrust in computational linguistics be towards corpus linguistics or some other area?
[9:53] Kutz: I have never worked i corpus linguistics, but one if "gforced" to nowadays.
[9:54] Kutz: I used to build generation grammars for Spanish (syntax, semantics, morphology, lexcon)
[9:56] Kutz: What do you usually talk about in this chat?
[9:56] Marc: Good! Unfortunately, very few are participating at today's chat, as you may have read in the log. Do you think you give a "presentation" of your activities at the next chat in a week?
[9:57] Marc: We normally talk about one or two subjects of interest to some members of the CDFG
[9:57] Kutz: I could explain a bit what I'm seeing in the Basque Country, what we are trying to do, etc.
[9:57] Marc: Currently, we work on an eGovernment-related proposal for eEurope on leveraging access to eGov resources
[9:57] Marc: That'd be great!
[9:58] Kutz: OK, then. I'll have something (brief) ready for next week and I'll paste it here.
[9:59] Marc: Incidentally, the next CDFG meeting will be on October 8th at the Research Centre for the Languages of Finland where (in addition to, hopefully, the CDFG meeting itself) the host might be interesting to discuss with
[10:00] Kutz: I saw that anouncement in one of Havard's emails, but I can hardly justify here financing for that meeting until I can prove that it's directly relevant.
[10:02] Marc: Let's see --- and possibly also discuss with the Research Centre for the Languages of Finland. Certainly, electronic participation only is also much possible
[10:02] Marc: So, read you all in a week from now --- and I'm looking forward to your "presentation"!