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acd.ufrj.br>________________________________________________ FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS SYMPOSIUM: LANGUAGES IN THE AMAZON AND ITS NEIGHBOURING AREAS/ LENGUAS AMAZONICAS Y DE LAS AREAS ADYACENTES This symposium will take place in Warsaw, July 2000, within the context of the 50th International Congress of Americanists. The following types of papers will be especially welcome: (i) papers in which grammatical properties of individual languages or group of languages are described; (ii) papers which aim to explain phenomena in individual or in group of languages; (iii) papers exploring the genetic relationships between languages and languages families; (iv) papers dealing with "areal" properties of Amazonian and neighbouring languages. Registration for this symposium should be made by sending the tittle and abstract of the presentation until December 31, 1999 through e-mail, regular mail or fax to the Secretariat of the symposium. Registrations for the 50 ICA should be made by filling a registration form that is available at the ICA Second Circular (50ICAMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
unagi.cis.upenn.edu>LINGUISTIC EXPLORATION New Methods for Creating, Exploring and Disseminating Linguistic Field Data http://www.talkbank.org/exploration.html Thursday 6 January 2000, 9am-6pm Held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Palmer House Hilton, Chicago The new NSF TalkBank Project [http://www.talkbank.org] is sponsoring a workshop on computational support for linguistic fieldwork. The workshop will bring together linguists and computational linguists committed to empirical research on large datasets, through the combination of traditional field methods and new technologies for exploring and visualizing complex datasets. The languages under study may range from the undescribed to the well-studied, and the fieldworker may operate in a village or a laboratory. The focus is the exploratory mode of research, where elicitation, analysis and hypothesis-testing form a tight loop. The workshop will contribute to the evaluation and evolution of methodologies that integrate traditional practices with new technologies, leading to increased accessibility, accountability, and stability of empirical linguistic research. The workshop will address a selection of the following issues: Representation - what are good data models for interlinked, heterogeneous, multimodal linguistic field data, including lexicons, (interlinear) texts, field notes, (annotated) recordings, paradigms, grammar sketches, maps, photographs, folios, course notes and problem sets? Tools - what are the existing and new tools for manipulating linguistic field data, and what are their strengths and weaknesses vis-a-vis creating, browsing, searching, querying and transforming this data? How well do the tools accomodate the fieldworker's continuously evolving conception of the data? What statistical corpus-analysis methods are suitable for datasets whose items number in the hundreds rather than the hundreds of thousands? Collaborative knowledge discovery - how can a geographically distributed network of linguists and native speakers cooperate on the construction, validation and enrichment of multimodal field data? How do we bridge the gap between the field and the laboratory? Online repositories - how can a collection of online multimodal field data covering many languages be archived and curated? What are the corpora that people are currently willing to share? What are the confidentiality issues, and what mechanisms exist to protect privacy? Dissemination and citation - how are datasets to be accessed by researchers, native speakers, language learners, field-methods students, and so on? How can we facilitate durable citations to shared linguistic resources, and track the provenance of a data item from a published transcription, through any intermediate databases, right back to a digitized speech recording? TALKS Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University The NSF TalkBank Project Bill Poser, Yinka Dene Language Institute Databases for Carrier: Current Status, Desiderata, and Issues Jonathan Amith, Yale University What's in a Word? The Why's and What For's of a Nahuatl Dictionary Chris Cieri, University of Pennsylvania Issues and tools for creating and annotating a corpus of sociolinguistic field data Larry Hayashi, Summer Institute of Linguistics Discovering and testing linguistic generalizations using interactive concordances Ronald Sprouse, University of California at Berkeley Two approaches to linguistic field work on the web: The TELL and Ingush projects Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania Exploring and disseminating field data using HyperLex Michel Jacobson, CNRS/LACITO XML tools for managing linguistic data: The LACITO Archives Project Lev Michael, University of Texas at Austin Plans for a worldwide web archive of the indigenous languages of Latin America David Nathan, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Data design for endangered languages: increasing the ``Linguistic Bandwidth'' Wallace Hooper, Indiana University An integrated multimedia dictionary and text processor for the documentation of endangered languages Chris Manning, Stanford University Kirrkirr: Experiences with a flexible software interface to indigenous dictionaries Ron Zacharski, New Mexico State University Boas: A Field Linguist in a Box Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania TBA Dafydd Gibbon, University of Bielefeld The Bielefeld-Abidjan documentation project: Information types and dissemination media Robert Neumann, Association for the Promotion of Yiddish Language and Culture A New Approach to Exploring the Archive of the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry David Weber, Summer Institute of Linguistics Reference grammars for the computational age: From Gleason files to sci-fi grammar Richmond Thomason, University of Michigan Towards computerized support for empirical linguistics: some ideas from computer science Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania Multidimensional exploration of linguistic databases For full details of the program plus online abstracts, see http://www.talkbank.org/exploration.html - Steven.BirdMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue