That's great! There are some influential scholars participating - I'm glad Adam will be able to bring SW to their attention!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Charles Butler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chazzer3332000@yahoo.com">chazzer3332000@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><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 face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1">
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Stefan Wöhrmann <<a href="mailto:stefanwoehrmann@GOOGLEMAIL.COM" target="_blank">stefanwoehrmann@GOOGLEMAIL.COM</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU" target="_blank">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU</a><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><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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Adam to be one of the presenters ... This is great! </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">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"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">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"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">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 face="Courier New" size="2"><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"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">• Ted
Supalla ( University
of Rochester )</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">• Christian
Rathmann ( University
of Hamburg )</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">• 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"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">• 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"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">• 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"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">• Carol
Neidle ( Boston
University )</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">• 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"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">• 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"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">• Adam Frost
(Gallaudet University)</span></font></p>
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Language Corpus using SignWriting”</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">• Diane
Lillo-Martin, University
of Connecticut</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">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"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">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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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" target="_blank">sign.corpus.workshop@gmail.com</a> with the
following</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">(i) your name</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">(ii) your
affiliation</span></font></p>
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address</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">(iv) whether you
wish to participate in the ELAN training on Sunday</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">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"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB">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
<a href="tel:202-408-4870" value="+12024084870" target="_blank">202-408-4870</a> 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"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Co-organizers:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Julie Hochgesang, Gene
Mirus, and Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University)</span></font></p>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway<br>Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br>Oberlin College<br>