Adam will present signwriting at Gallaudet University

[Erika Hoffmann]

That's great! There are some influential scholars participating - I'm glad
Adam will be able to bring SW to their attention!

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I am so sorry that I will not be able to be there as I have prior
> commitment.  Please make sure that Rachel Channon gets this opportunity to
> interact.
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> Charles Butler
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> *From:* Stefan Wöhrmann <stefanwoehrmann at GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
> *To:* SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU
> *Sent:* Fri, May 6, 2011 4:55:54 PM
> *Subject:* Adam will present signwriting at Gallaudet University
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>  Hi Valerie and friends ...
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> Congratulation Adam to be one of the presenters ... This is great!
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> We are pleased to announce a workshop titled _Building sign language
> corpora in North America_ .
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> • Ted Supalla ( University of Rochester )
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> • Christian Rathmann ( University of Hamburg )
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> • 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”
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> • Rosalee Wolfe, John C. McDonald, and Jerry Schnepp ( DePaul University )
> “Synthetic and acquired corpora: meeting at the annotation”
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> • Ronnie B. Wilbur, Kadir Gokgoz and Robin Shay ( Purdue University ),
> Aleix Martinez ( Ohio State University ) “Mechanics and Issues in Making ASL
> Databases Available”
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> • Carol Neidle ( Boston University )
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> • 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”
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> • Jonathan Keane (University of Chicago), Susan Rizzo (University of
> Chicago), Diane Brentari (Purdue University), and Jason Riggle (University
> of Chicago) “Phonetic coding of fingerspelling”
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> • Adam Frost (Gallaudet University)
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> “Sign Language Corpus using SignWriting”
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> • Diane Lillo-Martin, University of Connecticut
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> 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.
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> Conference languages: We welcome presentations in ASL or International Sign
> (IS), and will provide ASL/English and ASL/IS interpretation.
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> 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
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> (ii) your affiliation
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> (iii) your email address
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> (iv) whether you wish to participate in the ELAN training on Sunday
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> There is a fee of $10 for lunch on Saturday – please bring this in cash
> with you to the workshop.
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> 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.
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> http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=DCANMGI
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> Co-organizers:
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> Julie Hochgesang, Gene Mirus, and Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University)
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-- 
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
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