Minutes NGSLT Board 9th Feb 2006

Minutes of the 4th meeting of the board of

the Nordic Graduate School of Language Technology (NGSLT)

 

Time: 9th Feb 2006, at 13.00 - 14.30 (Swedish time)

 

Place: Netmeeting

 

http://meetme.it.gu.se:8000/launch.jsp?sid=7

 

The meeting was interrupted due to technical problems with the Marratech-system before all items on the agenda were addressed.

 

Present:

 

Robin Cooper                        (chairmen)

Kimmo Koskenniemi

 

Eir’kur R¿gnvaldsson

Mietta Lennes

Ruta Marcinkeviciene

Mare Koit

Ola Bjšrklund

Vera Evdokimova

Pavel Skrelin

Inguna Skadina

 

Ylva HŒrd af Segerstad          (secretary)

 

 

1. Formalia

Prof. Robin Cooper opened the meeting and was elected chairman and Ylva HŒrd af Segerstad secretary of the meeting.  The agenda which was distributed in advance was accepted as the agenda of the meeting.

 

2. Information

Information regarding student and supervisor lists on the web page and mailing lists.

Actions:  add information about supervisors@ngslt.org to web site

                include Kristoffer Johannisson in alumni list on website and add him to the alumni mailinglist.

 

Gšteborg University has installed a new Marratech server

 

NGSLTÕs report to NordForsk for 2005 has been submitted. (See http://ngslt.org/docs/rekvisition_av_medel_2005.pdf)

 

NGSLTÕs wiki will be secured.

 

3. Minutes of last meeting

http://ngslt.org/board/minutes051004.html

 

4. Student issues (student representatives)

 

Vera Evdokimova put forward the following questions from students:

 

What is the procedure for offering new courses?

 

There are several ways to influence the offerings of new courses: students may write to info@ngslt.org with course suggestions, suggest courses that they wish to take in their application form, raise suggestions at the board meetings, use the wiki to post suggestions for courses.

 

E-literature on the net?

There is currently no literature on the wiki, but a working group

 

The problem with the availability of courses at GSLT

 

A voting system for courses?

Gintare Grigonyte suggested that a list of possible courses should be posted so that students could then request courses that they need/wish. The wiki can be used for this.

 

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This is as far as the meeting proceeded, due to technical problems with Marratech.

The agenda originally also included the following items which will be addressed at the next meeting:

 

5. Budget issues (Ola, Robin)

6. Courses (Ylva)

 

7. Reports from working groups

                          LT curriculum (Kimmo)

                          Electronic LT Literature (Robin)

 

8. Information on LT in participating countries

 

9. Progress report on Northern European Association for LT

                           (including journal)

10. Role of an advisory board, involvement of industry

 

11. Date of next meeting 18th May 13.00?

 

12. Any other business