CHILDES renewal support letter

[Aliyah MORGENSTERN]

Dear Brian,
I am really eager to support the continuation of the CHILDES project.
I have written a kind of draft. Please let me know if I should use a  
different tone, make it longer or shorter, give more detail or less,  
if you need specific arguments. It is not that easy to know what you  
expect and what the jury needs to give you the grant!
My very best,
Aliyah

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Le 4 f?vr. 08 ? 18:37, Brian MacWhinney a ?crit :

> Dear Child Language Colleague,
>
> This letter is addressed to researchers who have made use of the  
> data and programs of the Child Language Data Exchange System  
> (CHILDES). The grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)  
> that has supported the CHILDES Project for the last five years will  
> end in 12 months, and the Competing Continuation renewal  
> application is due March 1. The new proposal will focus on:
> ?      continued expansion of the database,
>
> ?      web-distributed screen-shot-video user tutorials,
>
> ?      creation of a new, user-friendly interface for CLAN,
>
> ?      more powerful search programs that operate with the new  
> interface,
>
> ?      fully automatic computation of IPSyn and DSS,
>
> ?      extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more  
> languages,
>
> ?      fuller support for coding of sign language with links to ELAN,
>
> ?      fuller support for Conversation Analysis (CA) coding,
>
> ?      computer-assisted methods for very rapid first-pass  
> transcription,
>
> ?      extended support for video-based transcription,
>
> ?      extended interoperability with other major computer  
> programs, and
>
> ?      a first generation system for collaborative commentary  
> (blogging) on transcripts over the web.
>
> To support this proposal, I need to ask all users to send me a  
> letter (email to macw at cmu.edu is fine) detailing their use of  
> CHILDES over the last six years.   The success of the three  
> previous proposals for funding of CHILDES was due in large measure  
> to the letters you provided. In your letter, please include  
> citations for articles, conference presentations, talks, teaching  
> activities, or student papers based on the use of CHILDES programs  
> or data. I will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB  
> that is on the web, as well as in the proposal.   Also, please  
> mention any new features that you would like to see included in the  
> programs and the database. If several people work together in a  
> team or workgroup, it would be fine if I could receive separate  
> letters from each person.  If it is more convenient for you to  
> write in a language other than English, that is fine too, perhaps  
> with just an introductory sentence in English.
>
> I need to receive these letters by March 1 at the latest. However,  
> it would make it much easier on me, if I could receive your letter  
> in the next week or two.  You can just email your letter to  
> macw at cmu.edu.  I will acknowledge each email, as I receive it.
>
> I think you all understand how vital your letter is at this time.   
> Let me thank you in advance for your continuing support for this  
> important component of the scientific infrastructure for the study  
> of child language development.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU
>
> macw at cmu.edu
>
>
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