JavaNLP meeting notes for 04/09/03

This was our first meeting of the quarter. We will be meeting every
Wednesday this quarter at 4pm in Gates 459. With most paper deadlines
passed, we hope to give JavaNLP a more serious focus this quarter than last
quarter. The main new project will be a robust classification API with
several implemented classifiers. At a medium-level, we will perform some
code re-organization and re-use. We also have several small tasks that need
doing. With that in mind:

Everyone:
- send me suggestions for re-organization ASAP and I will try to come up
with a coherent plan for next meeting.
  - general package for Word/Label/etc?
  - redo subclass system for Label/Word etc?
  - ...
- add @author tags to any classes/packages without them (use Dan's script in
bin)
- look at I/O use and use Readers instead of Files when possible
  - you can get a Reader for a File using DocumentReader's static method(s)

Dan:
- comment classifier code so we can see how to use/extend it
- investigate alternatives/replacements to IClassifier framework
- clean up Counter stuff (after the 17th)
  - like Map to int/double/Collection
  - what do we do with IndexedSet?

Kristina:
- add more classifier implementations
- investigate alternatives/replacements to IClassifier framework
- use single archive/file for tagger files

Sep:
- convert remaining doc subclasses to DocumentReaders

Roger:
- parser internationalization

Joseph:
- manage reorganization effort
- swing package for utils (like loading icons etc)

Thanks, js