<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Charles Butler</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Stefan Wöhrmann <stefanwoehrmann@GOOGLEMAIL.COM><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, May 6, 2011 4:55:54 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Adam will present signwriting at Gallaudet University<br></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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! </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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 North
America_ .</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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
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.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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 Gallaudet
University , 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:</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">• Ted
Supalla ( University
of Rochester )</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">• Christian
Rathmann ( University
of Hamburg )</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">• 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”</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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 (
DePaul University )
“Synthetic and acquired corpora: meeting at the annotation”</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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 ( Purdue
University ), Aleix Martinez (
Ohio State
University )
“Mechanics and Issues in Making ASL Databases Available”</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">• Carol
Neidle ( Boston
University )</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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 (
Macquarie University )
“Multiple access levels and multiple interfaces of the BSL and Auslan
Corpora”</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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”</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">• Adam Frost
(Gallaudet University)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">“Sign
Language Corpus using SignWriting”</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">• Diane
Lillo-Martin, University
of Connecticut</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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 sign.corpus.workshop@gmail.com with the
following</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">(i) your name</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">(ii) your
affiliation</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">(iii) your email
address</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">Co-organizers:</span></font></p>
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Mirus, and Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University)</span></font></p>
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