1. NCSR “Demokritos” Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications CROSSMARC CROSS-lingual Multi Agent Retail Comparison Costas Spyropoulos & Vangelis Karkaletsis CROSSMARC Meeting, Paris, July 5-6, 2001

2. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris2 CROSSMARC 2nd meeting Main Goals:  WP1: Collection tool specification, Corpus collection task, Ontology  WP2: NER DTD, Monolingual NER components  WP4: Overall processing stages  Workplan by the end of the 1 st year (demo at the peer review meeting)  ICN participation  Consortium Agreement  Management issues

3. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris3 CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP1 What has been done by month 4 (June) What has been done by month 4 (June)  1 st version of the collection tool including ICDC module and NCSR module  Domain ontology by VeltiNet and NCSR  Corpus for English and French by ICDC (needs to be evaluated)

4. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris4 CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP1 Schedule by month 7 (end of Sept. 2001) Schedule by month 7 (end of Sept. 2001)  July 15: domain typology (the way online retail stores “interface” with the user), presentation layouts of product description pages (also a few statistics) - VeltiNet  July 15: RTV and NCSR send urls to ICDC, ICDC sends English and French corpus  July 30: specifications of the collection tool, schedule for the implementation of its components, evaluation methodology– ICDC, NCSR, VeltiNet  July 30: NCSR announces the 1 st version of the annotation tool to the partners  August 15: ICDC sends Greek and Italian corpus  August 30: Final version of the annotation tool – NCSR, the annotation task starts for the 4 languages  September 30: 2 nd version of the collection tool incl. better evaluation function, new access ways - ICDC, NCSR, VeltiNet  September 30: NER annotation task ends

5. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris5 CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP1 Schedule from month 8 to month 12 Schedule from month 8 to month 12  October 15: specification of 2 nd domain  October 30: report on learning techniques - NCSR  November 30: 3 rd version of the collection tool (better performance, new access ways, products’ separation in the same page) – ICDC, NCSR, VeltiNet  November 30: Partners send urls for the 2 nd domain to ICDC  December 30: Evaluation results on the 2 nd domain urls, ICDC sends 2 nd domain product pages to the partners, Annotation task starts  February 28: 4 th version of the collection tool (incl. some learning techniques), Annotation task ends

6. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris6 CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP2 What has been done by month 4 (June) What has been done by month 4 (June)  1 st 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: finalise NER DTD (taking into account Paris discussions)- EDIN  July 22: what will be included in the monolingual NER specs for D2.1 – EDIN  August 15: partners send NER specs to EDIN  August 30: Draft D2.1 is sent to partners for comments – EDIN  September 30: Final D2.1 to EC – EDIN

7. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris7 CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP2 Schedule from month 8 to month 12 Schedule from month 8 to month 12  October 30: report on first versions of the monolingual NER components  November 30: report on first evaluation results  December 30: 1 st integrated version  January 30: 1 st integrated version with wrappers (for a small number of features)  February 28: 1 st demo prototype

8. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris8 CROSSMARC 2nd meeting – WP3 What has been done by month 4 (June) What has been done by month 4 (June)  First discussions on FE DTD Schedule by month 12 Schedule by month 12  September 30: specify the limited number of features for demo  December 30: 1 st version of wrappers  January 30: 1 st integrated version with NER  February 28: 1 st demo prototype

9. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris9 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 interfaces Schedule by month 12 Schedule by month 12  September 30: concrete proposal on the end-user interfaces - mockup  October 30: 1 st report on the architecture, Specify the integration methodology  November 30: 1 st version of the interfaces  December 30: 1 st version of D4.1 to partners for comments  February 28: 1 st demo prototype, Final version of D4.1

10. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris10 CROSSMARC 2nd meetingWP5:  D5.1 Project presentation  Project web site  Partners’ progress reports  1 st Quarterly management report  Consortium agreement  D5.2 Dissemination and use plan

11. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris11 CROSSMARC: budget Total Cost OwnContributionCommunityContribution NCSR667.837333.920333.917 VeltiNet275.401137.702137.699 EDIN417.9410417.941 RTV274.7840274.784 I-CDC648.751324.377324.374 ICN372.518186.259186.259 2.657.232982.2581.674.974

12. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris12 CROSSMARC Work Packages WPLeaderStartEnd WP1. Collection of on-line product descriptions ICDC118 WP2. Multilingual named-entity recognition and matching EDIN126 WP3. Multilingual and multimedia fact extraction NCSR1028 WP4. Prototype development and evaluation VeltiNet130 WP5. Management NCSR130

13. CROSSMARC 2nd Meeting, July 5-6, 2001, Paris13 CROSSMARC Person-months NCSRVeltiNetEDINRTVICDCICNTotal WP166476433 WP2120191712060 WP3170142015066 WP4101511531963 WP5232483242 Total682352573925264