Call for Papers<br /><br />Deadline: 31 March 2006<br /><br />The DTS-L
(Digital Tools Summit for Linguistics, http://www.ku.edu/pri/DTSL/) is a
one-time workshop on digital tools and cyberinfrastructure development
in linguistics, for language software engineers and computational
linguists, as well as linguists. The workshop aims to facilitate new
interdisciplinary collaboration to design and create digital tools
specifically for linguistic analysis, and thereby stimulate new funding
initiatives. During the workshop, participants will prioritize and draft
tools and data structures. They will work largely in interest groups
(e.g. in data annotation, migration, visualization, and resource
interoperation) and for each interest area will prepare design sketches
of and implementation plans for at least one tool. We particularly want
to address the needs of non-technologically-oriented language
researchers, simulating the development of truly useful, stable,
cross-platform, open-source tools that are both small (e.g. Unicode
conversion scripts) and large (e.g. a modular suite of linguistic
data-analysis tools) in scope. <br /><br />The Summit will take place
June 22-23, 2006 at Michigan State University, in association with both
the summer Linguistic Society of America meeting
(http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-summer06-cfp.cfm) and the E-MELD
[Electronic Metastructures for Endangered Language Data] meeting
("Tools and Standards: The State of the Art,"
http://emeld.org/workshop/2006/); DTS-L and E-MELD will meet together
on the morning of 22 June.<br /><br />We encourage submissions from
Indigenous/First Nations language workers and graduate students, for
whom a limited number of travel and housing subsidies will be
available, pending funding. <br /><br />Selection<br /><br
/>Participants will not submit abstracts or make individual oral
presentations of their own projects. Instead, since this summit is
based on discussions in small working groups, participants are
requested to submit one-page issue statements, which will form the
basis for the working group themes for the first conference day. In
these issue statements, we urge applicants to present one issue or idea
which would serve to improve linguistic scholarship. Submissions should
consider and explicate one or more of the following issues:<br /><br
/>1. What are the most pressing needs among possible
cyberinfrastructure and/or digital tools for linguistics?<br /><br />2.
What are some enduring challenges in creating cyberinfrastructure and/or
digital tools for linguistics?<br /><br />3. Which existing resources
can be leveraged to create digital tools for linguistics? <br /><br
/>4. How can documentation tools make language resources (e.g. text,
lexical or morphological corpora) more readily available for
historical, typological, and other theoretical analyses? <br /><br
/>Each issue paper must be accompanied by a short (half page or less)
biography. <br /><br />Submissions address: pri@ku.edu<br
/>Deadline: Issue statements and biographies are due on 31
March 2006. <br />Length. Issue statements: one page.
Biographies: one half-page.<br /><br />