Website Design

For this website for collaborative generation of a linguistic corpus and ontology, I'm thinking about a drag and drop based UI, where users can work with sentences and, using gestures, enter the knowledge obtained from reading them.

I downloaded phalanger for PHP integration into Visual Studio and .NET (they also have one for Mono). I'm looking at prototype and mootools for the javascript library. Also found this extension to mediawiki that adds web services to wiki (SOAP, WSDL) — I'll probably code some web services into it.

I'm thinking that the site will show articles with entities (nouns) as draggable objects that can be manipulated in the environment to allow users to easily provide the knowledge they obtain from reading (sentence by sentence). This will include anaphoric resolution and semantic relations between entities. By processing entire articles, context will be obtainable from the dataset. Hopefully the interface will be intuitive enough to encourage users to provide an ever-improving downloadable resource comparable to penn treebank and redwoods.

WikiOntology Idea

I'm envisioning a web-deliverable system for the PropBank and FrameNet data that allows users to modify or ammend relations between the arguments for purposes of getting as many of these binary subpredicates into place as possible. Considering there's thousands, some sort of wiki-tech might be useful, allowing users to download the up-to-date dataset. Basically, there would be a UI that indicated the arguments for each n-ary predicate or frame and would allow users to ammend relationship types between them. Users would be able to use URI from other domains or create new ones onto the project's domain.

Given the sentence "The boy went to the store on his bike.", we might obtain from some parsers a predicate resembling "went(the boy, to the store on his bike)". The idea is to allow user input to get a dataset matching that sentence to a set of predicates also including "utilized(the boy, his bike, [to go] to the store)", "owns(the boy, [a] bike)". Some sort of XML output would capture this and a UI allowing pairwise connections between noun arguments would allow users to add all the knowledge contained in a sentence. Ideally, these predicates would be further simplied until only simple nouns were interrelated. The idea is to use wiki-collaboration to create a dataset for SRL algorithms.