<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 excited that my transliteration of Lucinda Batch's encyclopedia articles are part of this presentation. I remembered struggling with shifting perspectives from receptive to expressive writing and being able to get a good series of articles for the SignWriting community.</div><div><br></div><div>Charles Butler</div><div><br></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> Valerie Sutton <sutton@SIGNWRITING.ORG><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> Thu, May 19, 2011 10:18:55
AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: SignWriting Presentation at Gallaudet University<br></font><br>
SignWriting List<div>May 19, 2011</div><div><br></div><div>Adam's presentation at Gallaudet University is our new Special Feature on our SignWriting web site:</div><div><br></div><div>Special Feature May 18, 2011</div><div><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.signwriting.org/">http://www.signwriting.org/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>"Sign Language Corpus Using SignWriting"</div><div><br></div><div>You can download the Abstract for the presentation on the front page of our site, or here is the direct link:</div><div><br></div><div><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs7/sw0650_Sign_Language_Corpus_using_SignWriting_Frost_May2011.pdf">http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs7/sw0650_Sign_Language_Corpus_using_SignWriting_Frost_May2011.pdf</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Have a great time, Adam!</div><div><br></div><div>Val
;-)</div><div><br></div><div>------------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 19, 2011, at 6:47 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;">SignWriting List<div>May 19, 2011</div><div><br></div><div>Adam Frost will be presenting his paper "Sign Language Corpus Using SignWriting" at Gallaudet University on May 21st ...just two days from now....</div><div><br></div><div>I hope some of you can attend... Here is information about the Workshop:</div><div><br></div><div>-----------</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica;"><span style="color:#7f7f7f;"><b>From: </b></span>"Gaurav Mathur" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:gaurav.mathur@GALLAUDET.EDU" target="_blank"
href="mailto:gaurav.mathur@GALLAUDET.EDU">gaurav.mathur@GALLAUDET.EDU</a>></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica;"><span style="color:#7f7f7f;"><b>Date: </b></span>May 5, 2011 6:09:12 PM PDT</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica;"><span style="color:#7f7f7f;"><b>To: </b></span><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU" target="_blank" href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU</a></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica;"><span style="color:#7f7f7f;"><b>Subject: </b></span><b>Final announcement: Workshop on sign language corpora</b></div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica;"><span style="color:#7f7f7f;"><b>Reply-To: </b></span>"linguists interested in signed languages" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU" target="_blank" href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU</a>></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">We are pleased to announce a workshop titled _Building sign language corpora in North </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">America_.</div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">Purpose of workshop: There are many definitions of a language corpus. One such </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">definition offered by McEnery, Xiao and Tono (2006) is a collection of texts in a given </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">language that is representative, comprehensive, accessible, machine-readable and </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">searchable. There are several ongoing
language corpora projects focused on the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">documentation of sign languages in countries like Australia, The Netherlands, the United </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">Kingdom and Germany. To date, there have been several workshops in Europe on various </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">aspects of building a sign language corpus (e.g., the SLCN series of workshops co-</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">organized by Onno Crasborn and colleagues). This workshop will provide a much needed </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">opportunity for researchers based in the US and Canada to share experiences from their </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">work in this area, as well as share ideas for future projects.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">Program information: The workshop will begin on Saturday, May 21, 2011, at 8:30 am </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">and take place at Gallaudet University, in the Student Academic
Center (SAC), Room </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">1011. The complete list of presenters is as follows:</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;"><span style="font:16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"></span> Ted Supalla (University of Rochester)</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;"><span style="font:16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"></span> Christian Rathmann (University of Hamburg)</div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;"><span style="font:16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"></span> Trevor Johnston (Macquarie University), Adam Schembri (La Trobe University), Kearsy </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">Cormier, Jordan Fenlon, and Ramas Rentelis (University College London)</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">„Type-token matching in annotated SL corpora: Examples from the Auslan and BSL corpus </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;">projects‰</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;"><span style="font:16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"></span> Rosalee Wolfe, John C. McDonald, and Jerry Schnepp (DePaul University)</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">„Synthetic and acquired corpora: meeting at the annotation‰</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;"><span style="font:16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"></span> Ronnie B. Wilbur,
Kadir Gokgoz and Robin Shay (Purdue University), Aleix Martinez </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">(Ohio State University)</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">„Mechanics and Issues in Making ASL Databases Available‰</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;"><span style="font:16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"></span> Carol Neidle (Boston University)</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;"><span style="font:16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"></span> Kearsy Cormier, Jordan Fenlon and Ramas Rentelis (University College London), Adam </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">Schembri (La Trobe University), Trevor Johnston (Macquarie University)</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">„Multiple access levels and multiple interfaces of the BSL and Auslan Corpora‰</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;"><span
style="font:16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"></span> Jonathan Keane (University of Chicago), Susan Rizzo (University of Chicago), Diane </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">Brentari (Purdue University), and Jason Riggle (University of Chicago)</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">„Phonetic coding of fingerspelling‰</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;"><span style="font:16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"></span> Adam Frost (Gallaudet University)</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">„Sign Language Corpus using SignWriting‰</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;"><span style="font:16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"></span> Diane Lillo-Martin, University of Connecticut</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">In addition, on Sunday, May 22, 2011, from 9 am to noon, there will be an ELAN training </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">session
by Julie Hochgesang for those who are interested.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">Conference languages: We welcome presentations in ASL or International Sign (IS), and </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">will provide ASL/English and ASL/IS interpretation.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">Registration information: Registration is free but required and due by May 16, 2011.
To </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">register, please send an email to <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sign.corpus.workshop@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:sign.corpus.workshop@gmail.com">sign.corpus.workshop@gmail.com</a> with the following </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">information:</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">(i) your name</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">(ii) your affiliation</div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">(iii) your email address</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">(iv) whether you wish to participate in the ELAN training on Sunday</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">There is a fee of $10 for lunch on Saturday ˆ please bring this in cash with you to the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">workshop.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal
16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">Lodging information: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hilton Garden Inn, which </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">is located next to the New York Avenue/Gallaudet metro station on the Red Line and </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">about 8-10 minutes walking distance from the workshop venue. For workshop </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">participants, the hotel is offering a discounted rate of $129/night plus 14.5% taxes. The </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">discounted rate is good until May 13, 2011. To make reservations, please call the toll-free </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">number 1-800-HILTONS or the hotel directly at 202-408-4870 and identify yourself as a </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">member of the Corpus Workshop group when making the reservation. Alternatively, you </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">may book online at the following link and use the booking code CORPU. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal
normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=DCANMGI">http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=DCANMGI</a></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">Co-organizers:</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial;">Julie Hochgesang, Gene Mirus, and Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University)</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal
normal 16px/normal Arial;min-height:18px;"><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div>-------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br><div>
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