PaNoLa

PaNoLa is a cross-language initiative to build or enhance Constraint-Grammar parsers for the Nordic languages, and to integrate other Nordic languages with the existing Danish VISL teaching site. The project has been funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers for two years (2002-2003). The original project plan can be read here. Administration and central programming is done by VISL staff at ISK, Southern Denmark University. Research-wise, the PaNoLa project involves 4 institutions (responsible researcher in parenthesis):

Institute of Language and Communication, Southern Denmark University (Eckhard Bick), Phase 1+2
The Text Laboratory, University of Oslo (Janne Bondi Johannesen), Phase 1+2
Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University (Torbjörn Lager), Phase 1
Department of Linguistics, Helsinki University (Fred Karlsson), Phase 1
Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Tromsø (Trond Trosterud), Phase 2
Iceland University of Education (Jóhanna Karlsdóttir), Phase 2
Oqaasileriffik Language Secretariat (Per Langgård), Phase 2
Faculty of Faroese Language & Literature, University of the Faroe Islands (Zakaris Svabo Hansen), Phase 2

PaNoLa has organized 4 workshops in phase 1:

Odense, 19.-21. May 2002
Ustaoset, 25.-27. October 2002
Reykjavik, 1.-2. June 2003
Göteborg, 24.-25. October 2003

A follow-up project, PaNoLa-plus, 2004-2006, has been funded by the Nordplus Sprog initiative and focuses on the minor Nordic languages Icelandic, Faeroese, Samic and Greenlandic, hoping to use Danish and Norwegian as template systems, while at the same time addressing parallelity issues.

Odense, 23.-26. September 2004
Fefor, 11.-13. March 2005

The following workshop contributions are available as pdf-files: Icelandic resources(Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson).

Some published PaNoLa results are available, for instance in NorFa's yearbooks 2002 and 2003 (forthcoming), as listed below. For further relevant publications, see the individual project participants' homepages.

Bick, Eckhard (2003): PaNoLa - The Danish Connection, In: Henrik Holmboe (red.), Nordic Language Technology, Årbog for Nordisk Sprogteknologisk Forskningsprogram 2000-2004 (Yearbook 2002) p.331-349, Museum Tusculanum, Copenhaguen University
Hagen, Kristin & Johannesen, Janne Bondi (2003): Parsing Nordic Languages (PaNoLa) norsk versjon, In: Henrik Holmboe (red.), Nordic Language Technology, Årbog for Nordisk Sprogteknologisk Forskningsprogram 2000-2004 (Yearbook 2002) p.89-96, Museum Tusculanum, Copenhaguen University
Lager, Torbjörn (2001) Transformation-Based Learning of Rules for Constraint Grammar Tagging. Paper presented at The 13th Nordic Conference in Computational Linguistics, Uppsala, May 21-22, 2001. (.ps)