28.2217, FYI: NSF Webinar, Computational & Endangered Languages

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-2217. Mon May 15 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.2217, FYI: NSF Webinar, Computational & Endangered Languages

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Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 15:04:24
From: Colleen Fitzgerald [cfitzger at nsf.gov]
Subject: NSF Webinar, Computational & Endangered Languages

 
May 23, 2017 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

The Documenting Endangered Languages Solicitation (16-576) includes a
partnership with the Robust Intelligence Program at NSF and encourages
computational submissions that address the goals of the DEL and the RI
programs.  The solicitation can be found at
https://nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16576/nsf16576.htm . This webinar will provide
information for the preparation of proposals to be submitted to the
Documenting Endangered Language Program (DEL) Computational Methods stream of
funding for the September 15, 2017 deadline.  NSF's Colleen Fitzgerald and
Terry Langendoen will be running this webinar.

The webinar is scheduled for 2 pm EST, Tuesday May 23. It will last an hour
and a half and there will be time for questions.

Registration required. 

Register at: 

https://nsf.webex.com/nsf/onstage/g.php?MTID=ec07bd6dc091c2ccd43fb4431f2fc9145

Meeting number (access code): 746 308 734
Meeting password: DELComput2017#
Contact: Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald, Program Director for Documenting Endangered
Languages cfitzger at nsf.gov 

Agenda for the Webinar
- Overview of the DEL program and eligibility
- Computational Area of Emphasis 
- Submissions and proposal processing
- Merit review of proposals 
- Intellectual merit
- Broader Impacts
- Making a competitive proposal
- DEL solicitation specific elements (Data Management Plans, Statement of
Consultation)
- Sample Funded Projects
- Questions and answers

More information about DEL's stream of funding for Computational Methods
projects:

''to further develop standards and databases to make this documentation of a
certain language or languages widely available in consistent, archivable,
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
                     Language Documentation





 



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