LINGUIST List 22.3045 Thu Jul 28 2011 FYI: Funding for Documenting Endangered Languages Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Joan Maling , Funding for Documenting Endangered Languages Message 1: Funding for Documenting Endangered Languages Date: 28-Jul-2011 From: Joan Maling <jmalingnsf.gov> Subject: Funding for Documenting Endangered Languages E-mail this message to a friend Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) Data, Infrastructure and Computational Methods http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11554/nsf11554.pdf Program Solicitation: NSF 11-554 Replaces Document(s): NSF 06-577 Due Dates: Full Proposal Deadline Date: September 20, 2011 Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): September 20, 2011 September 15, 2012 September 15, Annually Thereafter Synopsis of Program: This funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly half of the approximately 7000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Funding will be available in the form of one- to three-year project grants as well as fellowships for up to twelve months and doctoral dissertation research improvement grants for up to 24 months. Principal Investigators (PIs) and Applicants for Fellowships (Applicants) may propose projects involving one or more of the following three emphasis areas: 1. Language Description To conduct fieldwork to record in digital audio and video format one or more endangered languages; to carry out the early stages of language documentation including transcription and annotation; to carry out later stages of documentation including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases; to conduct initial analysis of findings in the light of current linguistic theory. 2. Infrastructure To digitize and otherwise preserve and provide wider access to such documentary materials, including previously collected materials and those concerned with languages which have recently died and are related to currently endangered languages; to create other infrastructure, including workshops and conferences to make the problem of endangered languages more widely understood and more effectively addressed. 3. Computational Methods To further develop standards and databases to make this documentation of a certain language or languages widely available in consistent, archiveable, interoperable, and Web-based formats; to develop computational tools for endangered languages, which present an additional challenge for statistical tools (taggers, grammar induction tools, parsers, etc.) since they do not have the large corpora for training and testing the models used to develop those tools; to develop new approaches to building computational tools for endangered languages, based on deeper knowledge of linguistics, language typology and families, which require collaboration between theoretical and field linguists and computational linguists (computer scientists). Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 28-Jul-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.