[Qirg] An attempt at terminology
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Hi QIRG, Once again, the topic of terminology for the QIRG was mentioned. I am pretty sure this gets brought at every (or every other) meeting for several years now. However, writing a terminology document is a lot of work, getting the definitions right is a lot of discussion and most of us have lots of other things to do. Inspired by https://pypi.org/project/ietf-llm/ which I was using to prepare for today’s QIRG session, I thought that maybe we can use an LLM to craft a terminology document based on a select few input documents which represent the group’s consensus. So, I made an attempt: https://github.com/wkozlowski-surf/qirg-glossary/blob/main/qirg-glossary.md. I started with just the two published RFCs and left out all other drafts. It’s not perfect and I did make it iterate on itself a few times, but I’m just trying to see if the community is willing to consider an LLM-generated and maintained glossary and if people think it’s good enough. Also, would somebody be interested in helping me? I’m not very good with prompting so if somebody who is at the IETF meeting feels more confident about it perhaps we can sit down and work out a good method for using the LLMs to supplement the group and help us with terminology. Maybe have a generic prompt so that the glossary can be updated on a regular basis. Maybe extract terminology from the RFCs but supplement definitions with content from textbooks or papers. I’m not really an expert on using LLMs. Unifying the control plane / data plane architectural terminology between the architecture drafts would be the next step but that part would have to be much more interactive. Let me know what you think and if you’re around to sit down with me to and see if we can have a better attempt at an LLM-generated glossary. Many thanks, Wojciech Kozlowski Quantum Communication Lead | SURF | wojciech.kozlowski@surf.nl<mailto:wojciech.kozlowski@surf.nl> | M +31 6 39 24 31 10 SURF<http://www.surf.nl/> is the collaborative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research
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