NCSR “Demokritos”NCSR “Demokritos”

Institute of Informatics & TelecommunicationsInstitute of Informatics & Telecommunications

CROSSMARCCROSSMARCCROSS-lingual Multi Agent Retail CROSS-lingual Multi Agent Retail

ComparisonComparison

Costas Spyropoulos & Vangelis KarkaletsisCostas Spyropoulos & Vangelis Karkaletsis

CROSSMARC Meeting, Paris, July 5-6, 2001CROSSMARC Meeting, Paris, July 5-6, 2001

CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris 2

CROSSMARC 2nd meeting

Main Goals:Main Goals: WP1: Collection tool specification, Corpus collection WP1: Collection tool specification, Corpus collection

task, Ontologytask, Ontology WP2: NER DTD, Monolingual NER componentsWP2: NER DTD, Monolingual NER components WP4: Overall processing stagesWP4: Overall processing stages Workplan by the end of the 1Workplan by the end of the 1stst year (demo at the peer year (demo at the peer

review meeting)review meeting)

ICN participationICN participation Consortium AgreementConsortium Agreement Management issuesManagement issues

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CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP1

What has been done by month 4 (June)What has been done by month 4 (June) 11stst version of the collection tool including version of the collection tool including

ICDC module and NCSR moduleICDC module and NCSR module Domain ontology by VeltiNet and NCSRDomain ontology by VeltiNet and NCSR Corpus for English and French by ICDC (needs Corpus for English and French by ICDC (needs

to be evaluated)to be evaluated)

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CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP1 Schedule by month 7 (end of Sept. 2001)Schedule by month 7 (end of Sept. 2001)

July 15:July 15: domain typology (the way online retail stores “interface” domain typology (the way online retail stores “interface” with the user), presentation layouts of product description pages with the user), presentation layouts of product description pages (also a few statistics) - (also a few statistics) - VeltiNetVeltiNet

July 15:July 15: RTV and NCSRRTV and NCSR send urls to ICDC, send urls to ICDC, ICDCICDC sends English sends English and French corpusand French corpus

July 30:July 30: specifications of the collection tool, schedule for the specifications of the collection tool, schedule for the implementation of its components, evaluation methodology– implementation of its components, evaluation methodology– ICDC, NCSR, VeltiNetICDC, NCSR, VeltiNet

July 30:July 30: NCSRNCSR announces the 1 announces the 1stst version of the annotation tool to version of the annotation tool to the partners the partners

August 15:August 15: ICDCICDC sends Greek and Italian corpus sends Greek and Italian corpus August 30:August 30: Final version of the annotation tool – NCSR, the Final version of the annotation tool – NCSR, the

annotation task starts for the 4 languagesannotation task starts for the 4 languages September 30September 30: 2: 2ndnd version of the collection tool incl. better version of the collection tool incl. better

evaluation function, new access ways - evaluation function, new access ways - ICDC, NCSR, VeltiNetICDC, NCSR, VeltiNet September 30:September 30: NER annotation task ends NER annotation task ends

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CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP1 Schedule from month 8 to month 12Schedule from month 8 to month 12

October 15:October 15: specification of 2 specification of 2ndnd domain domain October 30October 30: report on learning techniques - : report on learning techniques - NCSRNCSR November 30November 30: 3: 3rdrd version of the collection tool (better version of the collection tool (better

performance, new access ways, products’ separation in the same performance, new access ways, products’ separation in the same page) – page) – ICDC, NCSR, VeltiNetICDC, NCSR, VeltiNet

November 30:November 30: Partners send urls for the 2 Partners send urls for the 2ndnd domain to ICDC domain to ICDC December 30December 30: Evaluation results on the 2: Evaluation results on the 2ndnd domain urls, ICDC domain urls, ICDC

sends 2sends 2ndnd domain product pages to the partners, Annotation task domain product pages to the partners, Annotation task starts starts

February 28February 28: 4: 4thth version of the collection tool (incl. some learning version of the collection tool (incl. some learning techniques), Annotation task ends techniques), Annotation task ends

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CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP2 What has been done by month 4 (June)What has been done by month 4 (June)

11stst version of NER DTD by EDIN and NCSR version of NER DTD by EDIN and NCSR Schedule by month 7 (end of Sept. 2001)Schedule by month 7 (end of Sept. 2001)

July 22:July 22: finalise NER DTD (taking into account Paris finalise NER DTD (taking into account Paris discussions)- EDINdiscussions)- EDIN

July 22: what will be included in the monolingual NER July 22: what will be included in the monolingual NER specs for D2.1 – EDINspecs for D2.1 – EDIN

August 15: partners send NER specs to EDINAugust 15: partners send NER specs to EDIN August 30: Draft D2.1 is sent to partners for comments August 30: Draft D2.1 is sent to partners for comments

– EDIN– EDIN September 30: Final D2.1 to EC – EDINSeptember 30: Final D2.1 to EC – EDIN

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CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP2 Schedule from month 8 to month 12Schedule from month 8 to month 12

October 30October 30: report on first versions of the monolingual : report on first versions of the monolingual NER componentsNER components

November 30:November 30: report on first evaluation results report on first evaluation results December 30December 30: 1: 1stst integrated version integrated version January 30January 30: 1: 1stst integrated version with wrappers (for a integrated version with wrappers (for a

small number of features)small number of features) February 28February 28: 1: 1stst demo prototype demo prototype

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CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP3

What has been done by month 4 (June)What has been done by month 4 (June) First discussions on FE DTDFirst discussions on FE DTD

Schedule by month 12Schedule by month 12 September 30: specify the limited number of September 30: specify the limited number of

features for demo features for demo December 30: 1December 30: 1stst version of wrappers version of wrappers January 30: 1January 30: 1stst integrated version with NER integrated version with NER February 28: 1February 28: 1stst demo prototype demo prototype

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CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP4 What has been done by month 4 (June)What has been done by month 4 (June)

First discussions on overall architecture and interfacesFirst discussions on overall architecture and interfaces Schedule by month 12Schedule by month 12

September 30: concrete proposal on the end-user September 30: concrete proposal on the end-user interfaces - mockupinterfaces - mockup

October 30: 1October 30: 1stst report on the architecture, Specify the report on the architecture, Specify the integration methodologyintegration methodology

November 30: 1November 30: 1stst version of the interfaces version of the interfaces December 30: 1December 30: 1stst version of D4.1 to partners for version of D4.1 to partners for

commentscomments February 28: 1February 28: 1stst demo prototype, Final version of D4.1 demo prototype, Final version of D4.1

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CROSSMARC 2nd meeting

WP5:WP5: D5.1 Project presentationD5.1 Project presentation Project web siteProject web site Partners’ progress reportsPartners’ progress reports 11stst Quarterly management report Quarterly management report

Consortium agreementConsortium agreement D5.2 Dissemination and use planD5.2 Dissemination and use plan

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CROSSMARC: budget

Total Total CostCost

Own Own

ContributionContribution

Community Community

ContributionContribution

NCSRNCSR 667.837667.837 333.920333.920 333.917333.917

VeltiNetVeltiNet 275.401275.401 137.702137.702 137.699137.699

EDINEDIN 417.941417.941 00 417.941417.941

RTVRTV 274.784274.784 00 274.784274.784

I-CDCI-CDC 648.751648.751 324.377324.377 324.374324.374

ICNICN 372.518372.518 186.259186.259 186.259186.259

2.657.2322.657.232 982.258982.258 1.674.9741.674.974

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CROSSMARC Work PackagesWPWP

LeaderLeader

StartStart EndEnd

WP1. Collection of on-line product WP1. Collection of on-line product descriptionsdescriptions

ICDCICDC 11 1818

WP2. Multilingual named-entity WP2. Multilingual named-entity recognition and matchingrecognition and matching

EDINEDIN 11 2626

WP3. Multilingual and multimedia WP3. Multilingual and multimedia fact extractionfact extraction

NCSRNCSR 1010 2828

WP4. Prototype development and WP4. Prototype development and evaluationevaluation

VeltiNetVeltiNet 11 3030

WP5. ManagementWP5. Management NCSRNCSR 11 3030

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CROSSMARC Person-months

NCSRNCSR VeltiNetVeltiNet EDINEDIN RTVRTV ICDCICDC ICNICN TotalTotal

WP1WP1 66 66 44 77 66 44 3333

WP2WP2 1212 00 1919 1717 1212 00 6060

WP3WP3 1717 00 1414 2020 1515 00 6666

WP4WP4 1010 1515 1111 55 33 1919 6363

WP5WP5 2323 22 44 88 33 22 4242

TotalTotal 6868 2323 5252 5757 3939 2525 264264