B. Activities implemented in 1998/1999

B.1 Main activities

On August 31, the main result of the current year will be published, consisting of a publication which is being written.  The book will be published in August. The analysis and recommendations are based on the previous survey, on previous analyses of the field during the past activities of the TNP (including the conference), and on additional information gathering. The working groups are each contributing a chapter covering the following: On April 19, the results of a survey on computational linguistics education in Europe were published on the web. The Working group on Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering conducted this survey in March and April by on-line questionnaire on the Web. An invitation to fill out the questionnaire was sent out to approximately one hundred persons at European departments teaching CL, as well as to several e-mail distribution lists. 59 valid responses were received. The results were published in tabular form (see http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/AcoHum/cl/cl-questresult.html).

In order to work toward these results, the following activities were undertaken:
 
May 8-9, 1999 Steering Committee meeting, to make a plan for the 4th year Bologna
April 25-26, 1999 Meeting of the working group on Non-European Languages, to write the chapter for the publication Paris
April 23-24, 1999 Meeting of the working group on Formal Methods, to write the chapter for the publication Paris
March 1-April 19, 1999 Survey carried out by the working group on Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering on computational linguistics education in Europe Bergen
February 2, 1999 Working group coordinators meeting, to make decisions on the book structure Bergen
January 8-10, 1999 Meeting of the working group on Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering, to plan the chapter for the publication and prepare a survey. Joint meeting with the TNP on Speech Communication Sciences, to cooperate on an evaluation of ODL tests. Soesterberg
December 2-3, 1998 Meeting with EEDS to carry out an evaluation of the network Bergen
November 23, 1998 Participation at the 10th EAIE conference in a session on TNPs Stockholm
November 20, 1998 Meeting with ALLC representative to discuss greater involvement of associations London
October 21-24, 1998 Meeting of the working group on Non-European Languages, to work on a European masters degree. Joint meeting with CAMEEL Brussels
September 29, 1998 Steering Committee meeting, to evaluate the conference and plan the third project year Bergen
September 26, 1998 Meeting of the working group on Textual Scholarship Bergen
September 9-12, 1998 Presentation and panel discussion at DRH '98 conference Glasgow

The organizational structure of the TNP has been maintained as in previous years. The general coordination was with the University of Bergen, where Prof. Koenraad de Smedt was scientific coordinator and Eldbjørg Gunnarson was administrator. Strategic decision making was supported by a Steering Committee. The implementation of most activities was divided over 6 working groups, each headed by a working group coordinator.

B.2 Changes

So far there are no changes to the main objectives.  However, the working group on History and historical informatics has been less active than planned. This may eventually lead to a reduction in the objectives for this working group. There are some minor changes with respect to the organization: (1) The coordinator of the working group on Computing in history of art, architecture and design resigned at the beginning of the academic year. A new person, Hazel Gardiner, was added to the working group on May 1. (2) One member of the Steering Committee has resigned and a new member has been accepted.