NLPL kickoff meeting 2017-03-21

Contacts

In case of any question, please ask at Slack channel #nlpl or send enquiries to Thomas (thomas.roblitz@usit.uio.no).

Goals of the meeting

• Plan who is doing/delivers what and when during the first project year (or until the next project's annual meeting).
• Ensure everyone can start working right away after the meeting (has accounts, knows how to get one, knows peers, has collaboration tools in place, ...).
• Socializing with your colleagues.

Intended Audience

• NLPL team/staff
• NLPL steering group
• NeIC director

Dates & Location

Dates: March 21-22 2017, noon to noon

Location: Life Science Center Keilaniemi Keilaranta 14, Espoo, Finland

Once in the building, go to the reception and ask for Martin Matthiesen (+358 9 457 2376). He will pick you up and bring you to the cafeteria (lunch) or to the meeting room.

Travel Info

Please see information at CSC's website How to reach us including a list of recommended hotels.

Schedule

March 21

11:30 arrival

11:30 - 12:30 light lunch

12:30 - 13:30 Welcome & Introduction

• Logistics 5' (Thomas)
• Welcome & NeIC primer 15' (Gudmund)
• Community & NeIC partner presentations (people, vision for NLPL) 30'
  • Stephan, Joakim, Ophélie, Filip, Jörg, Tomasz
• Project overview & status 10' (Thomas)

13:30 - 14:00 coffee break

14:00 - 16:00 Getting used to available compute sites

• Resources/allocations/basic system environment for NLPL: Abel (Thomas), Taito (Martin)
• Hands-on work // Q & A session (everyone)
  • How and where to install some software?
  • How to write a module on Abel and on Taito? How to make that available for everyone in the NLPL?
  • How and where to document software or data sets?
  • How to transfer data?
  • How to run a job?
  • How to interact with the batch system?
  • ...
• (Early) user experiences on Abel and Taito (everyone)

16:00 - 16:30 coffee break

16:30 - 17:30 Activity presentations (10'-15' per activity)

• general intro, overall goals, goals for Y1+, dependencies among activities
• Activity A - Project Management and Infrastructure (Thomas)
  • Management of software stacks (devel/testbed, production)
  • Software packaging / deployment / unit tests
  • Synchronizing data
  • Versioning
  • Virtual Laboratory
  • Machine priorities
• Activity B - Statistical and Neural Machine Translation (Jörg)
• Activity C - Dependency Parsing (Joakim)
• Activity D - (Very) Large Corpora (Filip)

19:00 - 21:00 social activity / dinner at own expenses

• Ranta

March 22

09:00 - 10:30 Activity presentations (10'-15' per activity)

• general intro, overall goals, goals for Y1+, dependencies among activities
• Activity E - Embeddings (Stephan)
• Activity F - Extrinsic Evaluation (Ophélie)
• Activity G - Parallel Corpora and OPUS (Jörg)
• Activity H - Community Building (Stephan)

10:30 - 11:00 coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 Planning for next 12 months (April 2017 - March 2018): What, Who, When (everyone)

12:30 - 13:30 lunch

13:30 departure

Social Activity / Dinner at own expenses

• Ranta, Otaranta 2, 02150 Espoo, +358201234705
• Close to Radisson Blu Hotelli Espoo