Collaborating using diagrams
The goal of this project is to discover how people help to perform a task that needs them to plan a path on a map.
SQUAD
The SQUAD project goals on the prepartion of qualitative social science data for archiving. The project will focus on providing tools to semi-automate the process of archiving data.
The LTG contribution to the SQUAD project’s aim will be to build tools to carry out tasks such as:
- Named entity recognition: people, places, locations, dates, times, occupations, etc.
- Anonymisation of entities to protect identities
- Geographical grid references
- Keyword extraction
JAST
According to the web, “JAST is an EU-funded integrated project that aims to develop jointly acting autonomous systems that communicate and work intelligently on mutual tasks in dynamic unstructured environments.
Edinburgh is most involved in two strands of the work. The first is the human-human studies of joint action involving language. These studies involve collecting data developing two eyetrackers that are wired together so that two subjects can perform a joint task. The Language Technology Group’s role in the work is to make this experimental setup work, to set up a data route for transcription and discourse annotation of the captured dialogues using the NITE XML Toolkit, and to integrate data from the eyetracker and the discourse annotation into a coherent database for analysis.
The second is the development of human-robot dialogue systems that demonstrate principles of joint action found in the human studies. For this strand, the Language Technology Group is contributing to the dialogue systems effort.”
Sources:
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/projects/Diagrams
