TILR 2009 Participants

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	61 Registered Participants
	Deborah Anderson
	Affiliation:   UC Berkeley
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	Michael Appleby
	Affiliation:   Eastern Michigan University
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	Helen Aristar-Dry
	Affiliation:   Institute for Lang Info & Tech, Eastern Michigan Univ.
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	Heriberto Avelino
	Affiliation:   Stanford University
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	Howard Beck
	Affiliation:   University of Florida
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	Position Paper:    Contextual Archiving with Linguistic Analysis: An Ontology-Based Approach to Developing a Linguistic Database
	Participant URL:    http://orb2.at.ufl.edu/ObjectEditor
	Project Name:   Aymara on the Internet
	Project URL:    http://orb2.at.ufl.edu/Aymara
	Arendse Bernth
	Affiliation:   Independent researcher
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	Position Paper:    Challenging Standards*
	Steven Bird
	Affiliation:   U of Melbourne
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	Dunstan Brown
	Affiliation:   Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey
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	Position Paper:    Canonical Typology: a prerequisite to substantive interoperability
	Participant URL:    http://www.surrey.ac.uk/cmc/staff-profiles/brown-dunstan.htm
	Phillip Cash Cash
	Affiliation:   University of Arizona
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	Damir Cavar
	Affiliation:   University of Zadar, IHJJ, and Indiana University
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	Position Paper:    Interoperability and flexibility with language resources
	Project Name:   Croatian Language Repository
	Project URL:    http://riznica.ihjj.hr/en/
	Debbie Chang
	Affiliation:   Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
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	Khalid CHOUKRI
	Affiliation:   ELRA/ELDA
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	Christopher Cieri
	Affiliation:   Linguistic Data Consortium
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	Michael Cochran
	Affiliation:   SIL International
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	Position Paper:    Click here
	Project Name:   SIL is currently working on several programs to help field linguists do their work. See full software catalog. Key products include: FieldWorks - Support for data management of cultural and language data, lexical and text tools, and a simple word processor for complex non-Roman scripts. (see http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=89) ToolBox - Previous lexical and text tools product (see http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=79) PalmSurv/WordSurv - Suvey tools for a palm device and PC (see http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=88, and http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=67) respecively Lexique Pro - Dictionary formatting tool for MDF data (output from both FieldWorks and Toolbox/Shoebox) (see http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=92) Lingualinks Library - Knowledge database of information on how to do language program tasks. (see http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=25)
	Project URL:    http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/index.asp
	Greville Corbett
	Affiliation:   University of Surrey
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	Position Paper:    Canonical Typology: a prerequisite to substantive interoperability
	Participant URL:    http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/gcorbett%20apr07.htm
	Project Name:   The project on Grammatical Features is funded by the ESRC (UK), and involves Dr Anna Kibort and myself, with collaboration from other members of the Surrey Morphology Group. Features are a central notion in attempting to understand language. They have proved invaluable for analysis and description and have a major role in contemporary linguistics, right across the range of the discipline from the most abstract theorising to the most applied computational applications. Yet little is firmly established about features: we have no readily available inventory of which features are found in the world's languages, no generally agreed account of how they operate across different components of language, and no certainty on how they interact. Features are widely used, but are little discussed and poorly understood. This is a central gap in the conceptual underpinning of much linguistic investigation. The project aims to give a coherent account of features. The research proposed includes a synthesis of new work on the formal properties of features, particularly in morphology and syntax, and of recent progress in typology, which has provided substantial evidence on the diverse content of features. A workshop in September (www.lagb.org.uk/circulars/2007_1kclcirc.pdf) will we bring together linguists who have grappled with features as a component of theoretical models with others who have considered the range and variability of features in the world's languages.
	Project URL:    http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/group_projects.htm
	Michael Cysouw
	Affiliation:   Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzi
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	Position Paper:    Codifying Linguistics: LingRDF as an interchange format
	Östen Dahl
	Affiliation:   Stockholm University, Sweden
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	Alexis Dimitriadis
	Affiliation:   Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS
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	Position Paper:    Managing differences: The TDS approach
	Project Name:   Tamas Biro Menzo Windhouwer Rob Goedemans Kees Hengeveld
	Project URL:    http://languagelink.let.uu.nl/tds/
	Arienne Dwyer
	Affiliation:   University of Kansas
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	Naomi Fox
	Affiliation:   University of Utah
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	Jeff Good
	Affiliation:   University at Buffalo
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	Position Paper:    Whose interoperability?
	Project Name:   Rosetta Project
	Project URL:    http://www.rosettaproject.org/
	Stephen Grimes
	Affiliation:   Indiana University
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	Position Paper:    Beyond primary documentation: facilitating exchange of linguistic data
	Participant URL:    http://mypage.iu.edu/~stgrimes
	Project Name:   Indiana Dictionary Database; Automated Text Processor
	Project URL:    http://www.indiana.edu/~aisri/projects/research.shtml
	MJ Hardman
	Affiliation:   University of Florida
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	Position Paper:    Contextual Archiving with Linguistic Analysis: An Ontology-Based Approach to Developing a Linguistic Database
	Participant URL:    http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/
	Project Name:   Aymara on the Internet Free-access self-taught language course using materials from a two-year language course adapted to e-learning, including complete linguistic information of every form, including audio, visual and database.
	Project URL:    http://orb2.at.ufl.edu/Aymara/
	Erhard Hinrichs
	Affiliation:   University of Tuebingen
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	Position Paper:    The Heterogeneity of approaches to Linguistic Annotation is the main obstacle for interoperability of Linguistic resources
	Participant URL:    www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~eh
	Project Name:   The project
	Project URL:    www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/c2/index-engl.html
	J.R. Isadore
	Affiliation:   Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey
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	Michel Jacobson
	Affiliation:   CNRS - LACITO
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	Position Paper:    Interlinear Text Editor . Using W3C standards
	Tyler Kendall
	Affiliation:   Duke University & NC State University
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	Anna Kibort
	Affiliation:   University of Surrey
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	Position Paper:    Canonical Typology: a prerequisite to substantive interoperability
	D Terence Langendoen
	Affiliation:   National Science Foundation
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	Sue Legg
	Affiliation:   University of Florida
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	Position Paper:    Aymara on the Internet
	Dan Loehr
	Affiliation:   MITRE
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	Elizabeth Lowe
	Affiliation:   University of Florida
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	Position Paper:    Aymara on the Internet
	Participant URL:    http://www.latam.ufl.edu
	Project Name:   Aymara On The Internet The Aymara on the Internet project builds on a series of 1969-1990 U.S.Department of Education Title VI grants to the University of Florida that funded the development of classroom-based Aymara teaching materials developed by Dr. M.J. Hardman, one of the world's foremost Aymara linguists. The current grant (2004-2007) from the DOE Title VI International Research and Studies Program builds on the t ext materials developed in the 1970's and converts them into a high quality, flexible and easily accessed web-based delivery format in 3 languages: Aymara, Spanish and English. The website consists of self-contained instructional modules about Aymara language and culture derived from the primary materials; the second feature is an ontology-based linguistic database which offers users the ability t o access the program's language and culture content for specific purposes. The third feature is a repository of photographs, art work, documents, grammars, dict ionaries and other linguistic materials that will be preserved in the electronic database.
	Project URL:    http://56conference.latam.ufl.edu/abstracts/aymaralnternet.asp
	Christopher Manning
	Affiliation:   Stanford University
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	Michael Maxwell
	Affiliation:   University of Maryland
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	Michael McCord
	Affiliation:   IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
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	Steve Miller
	Affiliation:   SIL
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	Position Paper:    Issue Statement: Data Interoperability Issues
	Participant URL:    steve_miller@sil.org
	Project Name:   SIL FieldWorks, a suite of software tools to help language teams manage language and cultural data, with support for complex scripts.
	Project URL:    http://fieldworks.sil.org
	Jens Mittelbach
	Affiliation:   Goettingen State and University Library, Germany
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	Steve Moran
	Affiliation:   University of Washington
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	Position Paper:    Toward the Operability of Language Resources
	Participant URL:    staff.washington.edu/stiv/
	Basem Narmok
	Affiliation:   DePaul
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	Alexis Palmer
	Affiliation:   University of Texas at Austin
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	Position Paper:    Ways of thinking about interoperability
	Participant URL:    http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/apalmer
	Jung-ran Park
	Affiliation:   College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University
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	Position Paper:    Enhancing semantic interoperability for language resources
	Participant URL:    http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/jpark/index.html
	Project Name:   Dr. Park is currently the principal investigator of a three-year (2006-2009) grant ($440K) entitled “Metadata Creation and Metadata Quality Control across Digital Collections: Evaluation of Current Practices” from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This research project aims to evaluate the current practice of metadata creation and concomitant quality control measures employed by libraries. The overarching research questions of this project are derived from issues surrounding the metadata creation process, the employment of controlled vocabulary schemes, metadata quality control measures, and new competencies and skill sets faced by cataloging professionals in the digital era with associated consequences to library and information science education.
	Dan Parker
	Affiliation:   Eastern Michigan University
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	Cambell Prince
	Affiliation:   SIL
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	Position Paper:    Position Paper
	Project Name:   Solid - A Tool for improving SFM data quality in lexicon creation.
	Project URL:    http://projects.mseag.org/solid
	James Pustejovsky
	Affiliation:   Brandeis University
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	Position Paper:    Interoperability of Syntactic and Semantic Annotation Schemes
	Participant URL:    pustejovsky.org
	Project Name:   1. TimeML 2. TARSQI (Temporal Awareness and Reasoning Systems for Question Interpretation 3. ULA (Unified Linguistic Annotation)
	Project URL:    timeml.org, tarsqi.org, unified-annotation.org
	Elizabeth Pyatt
	Affiliation:   Penn State University
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	Position Paper:    Issue Statement
	Participant URL:    http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10
	Project Name:   The Penn State
	Project URL:    http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/
	Ronald Schroeter
	Affiliation:   The University of Queensland
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	Position Paper:    Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources
	Alexandre Sevigny
	Affiliation:   McMaster University
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	Position Paper:    Legacy Code, Web 2.0 and Preserving Indigenous Languages
	Participant URL:    http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~sevigny
	Gary Simons
	Affiliation:   SIL International
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	Position Paper:    Issue Statement
	Project Name:   Open Language Archives Community
	Project URL:    http://www.language-archives.org/
	Han Sloetjes
	Affiliation:   Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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	Justin Spence
	Affiliation:   UC Berkeley
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	Shane Stephens
	Affiliation:   Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
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	Position Paper:    A Development Perspective on Interoperable Tools
	Project URL:    www.annodex.net
	Terrence Szymanski
	Affiliation:   University of Michigan
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	Jeremy Taylor
	Affiliation:   Eastern Michigan University
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	Nicholas Thieberger
	Affiliation:   Univeristy of Melbourne
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	Position Paper:    Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources
	Participant URL:    http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/thieberger/
	Project Name:   Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC); EOPAS
	Thorsten Trippel
	Affiliation:   Universität Bielefeld
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	Position Paper:    Filtering lexical noise to resolve issues of field linguistic lexicons
	Participant URL:    http://www.spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de/~ttrippel
	Imelda Udoh
	Affiliation:   University of Uyo
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	Position Paper:    Position Paper
	Ljuba Veselinova
	Affiliation:   Stockholm University
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	Position Paper:    Issue Statement
	Participant URL:    http://www.ling.su.se/staff/ljuba
	Project Name:   GIS in Linguistics (GISLI)
	Project URL:    http://ling-map.ling.su.se/website/
	Briony Williams
	Affiliation:   University of Wales, Bangor
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	Position Paper:    Speech databases for phonetic research and speech synthesis development: presentation and critique of a possible suite of tools
	Participant URL:    http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/cb/index.php.en
	Project Name:   WISPR: Welsh and Irish Speech Processing Resources
	Project URL:    http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/cb/wispr.php.en
	Andreas Witt
	Affiliation:   University of Tuebingen
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	Position Paper:    The Heterogeneity of approaches to Linguistic Annotation is the main obstacle for interoperability of Linguistic resources
	Participant URL:    http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/~andreas/
	Project Name:   1. Nachhaltigkeit linguistischer Daten (Sustainability of Linguistic Data), Tübingen University 2. Sekundäre Informationsstrukturierung und vergleichende Diskursanalyse (Secondary structuring of information and comparative analysis of discourse), Bielefeld University
	Project URL:    http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/c2/index-engl.html
	Heejong Yi
	Affiliation:   Defense Language Institute
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	Megan Zdrojkowski
	Affiliation:   Eastern Michigan University
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