JavaNLP meeting notes for 04/23/03

Most of the java jobs from last week were successfully completed. We also
got the number of classes without author tags down to a minimum. Thanks for
the effort! Still a few patches that could be further tagged, but aren't
there always...

The classifier expert group (Dan, Kristina, Joseph) agreed on a plan for
short-term implementation of the classification API and some initial
classifiers (naïve bayes, logistic regression, decision tree, perceptron).
We agreed that the current framework isn't rich enough with regards to
feature classes and feature values to fully support decision trees, but the
basic binary feature representation (i.e. list of features) is sufficient to
make progress, so that's what we want to do. Dan will present a tutorial of
the classify API at the 5/7 meeting (how to use them in applications, how to
write your own) and Kristina will update us with progress on her
implementations (porting from other work).

Chris gave a great tutorial on the previously-somewhat-daunting trees
package, and he included most of the tutorial in package comments and sample
files as part of JavaNLP. Let's continue this great tradition, since it
provides much lasting value!

We will have [had] no meeting on 4/30 because Chris is gone and everyone
else is stressed. :) See you on 5/7 at 3pm (note: one hour earlier than
normal!).

Thanks, js

PS: Please forgive the late posting of these minutes.