<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>-----------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 6, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City">
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<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Hi Valerie and
friends ... <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Congratulation
Adam to be one of the presenters ... This is great! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Stefan <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0cm"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">We are pleased to
announce a workshop titled _Building sign language corpora in <st1:place w:st="on">North
America_</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">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 <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, The Netherlands, the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>. To date, there have been
several workshops in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> 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 <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>
to share experiences from their work in this area, as well as share ideas for
future projects.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Program
information: The workshop will begin on Saturday, May 21, 2011, at 8:30 am and
take place at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Gallaudet</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, in the
Student Academic Center (SAC), Room 1011. </span></font><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">The
complete list of presenters is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">• Ted
Supalla (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Rochester</st1:placename></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">• Christian
Rathmann (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Hamburg</st1:placename></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">• Trevor
Johnston (<st1:placename w:st="on">Macquarie</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>), Adam Schembri (La Trobe University), <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Kearsy Cormier</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Jordan</st1:country-region></st1:place> Fenlon, and Ramas Rentelis
(University College London) “Type-token matching in annotated SL corpora:
Examples from the Auslan and BSL corpus projects”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">• Rosalee
Wolfe, John C. McDonald, and Jerry Schnepp (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">DePaul</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>)
“Synthetic and acquired corpora: meeting at the annotation”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">• Ronnie B.
Wilbur, Kadir Gokgoz and Robin Shay (<st1:placename w:st="on">Purdue</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>), Aleix Martinez (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Ohio</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>)
“Mechanics and Issues in Making ASL Databases Available”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">• Carol
Neidle (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Boston</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">• Kearsy
Cormier, Jordan Fenlon and Ramas Rentelis (University College London), Adam
Schembri (La Trobe University), Trevor Johnston (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Macquarie</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>)
“Multiple access levels and multiple interfaces of the BSL and Auslan
Corpora”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">• Jonathan
Keane (University of Chicago), Susan Rizzo (University of Chicago), Diane
Brentari (Purdue University), and Jason Riggle (University of Chicago)
“Phonetic coding of fingerspelling”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">• Adam Frost
(Gallaudet University)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">“Sign
Language Corpus using SignWriting”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">• Diane
Lillo-Martin, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Connecticut</st1:placename></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Conference
languages: We welcome presentations in ASL or International Sign (IS), and will
provide ASL/English and ASL/IS interpretation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Registration
information: Registration is free but required and due by May 16, 2011. To
register, please send an email to <a href="mailto:sign.corpus.workshop@gmail.com">sign.corpus.workshop@gmail.com</a> with the
following<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">information:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">(i) your name<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">(ii) your
affiliation<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">(iii) your email
address<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">(iv) whether you
wish to participate in the ELAN training on Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">There is a fee of
$10 for lunch on Saturday – please bring this in cash with you to the
workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=DCANMGI"><span lang="EN-GB">http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=DCANMGI</span></a></span></font><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New""><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Co-organizers:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Julie Hochgesang, Gene
Mirus, and Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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