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To: doddington@email.msn.com (George Doddington)
From: Jennifer Alabiso <alabiso@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: Summary of TDT2 Meeting at NIST on May 7-8 1998
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 16:37:42 -0400 (EDT)
Hello, all. I've got a little amendment to make to George's notes about
> the TDT2 corpus:
>
> TDT2 CORPUS
>
> The specification of topic definitions has changed. A topic definition now
> has five parts:
> · Title. This is a mneumonic handle, especially as a memory aid for the
> annotators.
> · Identification of the seminal event in terms of its specifying triple –
> what/where/when.
> · Link to the reference story from whence the topic was derived.
> · Reference to the principles of interpretation used to define the topic.
> · Explicit topic description and summary.
>
Actually, this last piece is NOT going to be part of each list, but
rather will evolve over the course of the corpus based on meetings with the
annotation team and feedback and the development of the topic over time.
The FINAL (i.e. reference corpus) delivery will include this. Also, lists
1 and 2 will stay in the format they are in...they will not be modified,
but will be subject to the same evolution as 3-5. Also, I will reference
the principle of interpretation, and actually GIVE some examples of the
principle as applied to the particular seminal event. This is the topic as
I understand it.
> Annotation schedule – LDC will make and supply a quantitative estimate of
> annotation effort and schedule.
Done. It looks like meeting the June deadline will require
11 FTE's, which we've about got. Meeting the October deadline will require
13 FTE's so come August or September I'll begin a cycle of hiring. I will
send George the numbers we drew up for his evaluation... if other's would
like to see them, holler.
Hope folks are feeling good about the progress.
-Jennifer
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