NEPOMUK(Research Project)http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org NEPOMUK brings together researchers, industrial software developers, and representative industrial users, to develop a comprehensive solution for extending the personal desktop into a collaboration environment which supports both the personal information management and the sharing and exchange across social and organizational relations. Duration: from 01/2006 to 12/2008 Heads: Harald C. Gall, Members: Gerald Reif, | ||||||||||||||
Linguistically Supported Editing(Research Project)http://www.lingured.info While software developers have various “power tools” at their disposal that make the writing of computer programs more efficient, authors of texts do not have the support of such tools. Text processors still operate on the level of characters and strings rather than on the level of word forms and grammatical constructions. This forces authors to constantly switch between low-level, character oriented, editing operations and high-level, conceptual, verbalization processes. We suggest the development of language-aware text editing tools that simplify certain frequent, yet complex editing operations by defining them on the level of linguistic units. Pluralizing an entire noun phrase plus the verb forms governed by it would be an ambitious example, swapping the elements of a conjunctive construction a more modest one. We propose a taxonomy for revising and editing operations with respect to revising and editing as such as well as engineering desiderata. We implementation functions for German as proof of concept where these operations are seamlessly integrated with the standard functions of an existing open-source editor (XEmacs). The operations can be invoked on demand and do not intrude on the authoring process. Changes can be performed locally or globally, thus simplifying the writing process considerably, and making the resulting texts more consistent. Duration: ongoing | ||||||||||||||
