Final announcement: Workshop on sign language corpora

[R. J. Wolfe]

Hi Gaurav,

It's really exciting to see the program.  We are looking forward to learning 
a lot during the workshop!

Would you mind adding our fourth author to the program, please?    Here's an 
updated entry for our presentation:

Rosalee Wolfe, John C. McDonald, Jerry Schnepp (DePaul University) and Jorge 
Toro (Worchester Polytechnic Institute)
“Synthetic and acquired corpora: meeting at the annotation”

Many thanks,

Rosalee


R. J. Wolfe, PhD
Professor
School of Computing
DePaul University
243 S. Wabash Ave.
Chicago, IL 60631
312 362 6248
www.depaul.edu/~rwolfe


-----Original Message----- 
From: Gaurav Mathur
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 8:09 PM
To: SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU
Subject: Final announcement: Workshop on sign language corpora

We are pleased to announce a workshop titled _Building sign language corpora 
in North
America_.

Purpose of workshop: There are many definitions of a language corpus. One 
such
definition offered by McEnery, Xiao and Tono (2006) is a collection of texts 
in a given
language that is representative, comprehensive, accessible, machine-readable 
and
searchable. There are several ongoing language corpora projects focused on 
the
documentation of sign languages in countries like Australia, The 
Netherlands, the United
Kingdom and Germany. To date, there have been several workshops in Europe on 
various
aspects of building a sign language corpus (e.g., the SLCN series of 
workshops co-
organized by Onno Crasborn and colleagues). This workshop will provide a 
much needed
opportunity for researchers based in the US and Canada to share experiences 
from their
work in this area, as well as share ideas for future projects.

Program information: The workshop will begin on Saturday, May 21, 2011, at 
8:30 am
and take place at Gallaudet University, in the Student Academic Center 
(SAC), Room
1011. The complete list of presenters is as follows:

• Ted Supalla (University of Rochester)

• Christian Rathmann (University of Hamburg)

• Trevor Johnston (Macquarie University), Adam Schembri (La Trobe 
University), Kearsy
Cormier, Jordan Fenlon, and Ramas Rentelis (University College London)
“Type-token matching in annotated SL corpora: Examples from the Auslan and 
BSL corpus
projects”

• Rosalee Wolfe, John C. McDonald, and Jerry Schnepp (DePaul University)
“Synthetic and acquired corpora: meeting at the annotation”

• Ronnie B. Wilbur, Kadir Gokgoz and Robin Shay (Purdue University), Aleix 
Martinez
(Ohio State University)
“Mechanics and Issues in Making ASL Databases Available”

• Carol Neidle (Boston University)

• Kearsy Cormier, Jordan Fenlon and Ramas Rentelis (University College 
London), Adam
Schembri (La Trobe University), Trevor Johnston (Macquarie University)
“Multiple access levels and multiple interfaces of the BSL and Auslan 
Corpora”

• Jonathan Keane (University of Chicago), Susan Rizzo (University of 
Chicago), Diane
Brentari (Purdue University), and Jason Riggle (University of Chicago)
“Phonetic coding of fingerspelling”

• Adam Frost (Gallaudet University)
“Sign Language Corpus using SignWriting”

• Diane Lillo-Martin, University of Connecticut

In addition, on Sunday, May 22, 2011, from 9 am to noon, there will be an 
ELAN training
session by Julie Hochgesang for those who are interested.

Conference languages: We welcome presentations in ASL or International Sign 
(IS), and
will provide ASL/English and ASL/IS interpretation.

Registration information: Registration is free but required and due by May 
16, 2011. To
register, please send an email to sign.corpus.workshop at gmail.com with the 
following
information:

(i) your name
(ii) your affiliation
(iii) your email address
(iv) whether you wish to participate in the ELAN training on Sunday

There is a fee of $10 for lunch on Saturday – please bring this in cash with 
you to the
workshop.

Lodging information: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hilton Garden 
Inn, which
is located next to the New York Avenue/Gallaudet metro station on the Red 
Line and
about 8-10 minutes walking distance from the workshop venue. For workshop
participants, the hotel is offering a discounted rate of $129/night plus 
14.5% taxes. The
discounted rate is good until May 13, 2011. To make reservations, please 
call the toll-free
number 1-800-HILTONS or the hotel directly at 202-408-4870 and identify 
yourself as a
member of the Corpus Workshop group when making the reservation. 
Alternatively, you
may book online at the following link and use the booking code CORPU.

http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=DCANMGI

Co-organizers:
Julie Hochgesang, Gene Mirus, and Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University)