Category Archives: Projects

Projects hosted by The LINGUIST List

Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Audio and Video Resources Community

The first AARDVARC workshop will take place 9.-11. May, 2013 on the premises of Eastern Michigan University, in Ypsilanti, MI. We plan a series of invited plenary talks, software/tools/project presentations, and discussions in working groups. AARDVARC: Automatically Annotated Repository of … Continue reading

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A Day in the Life of Rebekah McClure, Graduate Student and LINGUIST List Editor

In this series of blog posts, we’ve asked some LINGUIST List staff members to share what it’s like to work at LINGUIST. This post was written by Rebekah McClure. She is currently finishing her first year in the Master’s program in … Continue reading

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LINGUIST Around the World: A Report from Cameroon

Editor’s Note: Our ELCat Team Leader, Anna Belew, attended a workshop and conference in Cameroon during the summer of 2012. This article was taken from our archives. Ever since I started studying documentary linguistics, my passion has been working with … Continue reading

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Green Thumbs at LINGUIST List: MultiTree Keeps on Growing!

The MultiTree team has been at it again! They have been planting, shaping, and pruning 21 trees this semester. Not just any type of tree: language trees. The goal of the MultiTree project is to provide a freely-accessible online library of trees representing language relationships that have been proposed scholars. The team takes … Continue reading

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Dig Your Claws Into ELCat

The ELCat team will be holding office hours at the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) at the Hawai’i Imin International Conference Center on the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa campus. We will be in the Kaniela Room … Continue reading

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Linguistic Survey of India now available at LL-MAP

The LL-MAP team is happy to announce the completion of the digital adaptation of the Linguistic Survey of India map collection. This important series of maps was a survey of the languages of British India, conducted in the first several decades of the 20th century … Continue reading

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MultiTree Project in Bloom

An impressive fourty-four new trees were added to the MultiTree database this summer, from language groupings including SinoTibetan, Niger-Congo, Khoisan, Tai-Kadai, Trans New Guinea, Austronesian, Indo-European, and language families in the Americas. The details of the new trees are given below, … Continue reading

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LL-MAP around the world

The LL-MAP project has  been a hub of activity this summer. Our team of graduate students conducted internal training workshops in May and June to train incoming interns on mapmaking using Global Mapper and the LL-MAP uploader, and our team … Continue reading

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A Compendium of ELCat Press Coverage

The Endangered Languages Project, home of LINGUIST List and University of Hawai’i’s Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project, has been getting far more press than we here at LINGUIST are accustomed to.  We’re very excited at the prospect of so much … Continue reading

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The new Quick Reference Guide to LL-MAP

In preparation for the 2012 Language Mapping Workshop, the LL-MAP team realized that we needed an answer to the question–”How do I use the most basic features of the LL-MAP Map Viewer?” As a quick (and visual) answer to this question, … Continue reading

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