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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/12/13, 10:17 AM, maria galea
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<div>Could I just point out an issue that has come up recently
when investigating SignPuddles and using them as a tool to
extract information about the writing system for different
sign languages..</div>
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<div>You see, some reviewers have been very<span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> critical
about the</span><span
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frequency count - not in itself naturally, but with the lack
of information it provides about the inputters (writers),
their expertise and even the lack of having an exact figure
of how many people have written in a given Puddle. </span></div>
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This is a fair criticism.<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Without
such information not much can be concluded from the results,
since you would need exact figures of how many writers have
inputted into a given Puddle, dates of when they inputted,
and some information about their level of skill, whether
they are native signers or otherwise.. </span></div>
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Some of this is available.<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">it
would be a pity not to include such information (if it is
possible) for the sake of future research.</span></div>
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This would require tracking additional information.<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Just to
give an example, say you would like to investigate the writing
system of the Spanish Literature Puddle (for instance you are
investigating the symbols/glyphs used for Spanish sign
language) - without information about the number of writers,
whether they are native signers or hearing students, and dates
of when the writing was created - there is not much you can
conclude about the writing system of Spanish sign language
(because if if it was written by one person this would be much
more different than if it were written by say 15 people)...do
you see my point?</div>
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From the raw user data, I can pull this list.<br>
Anonymous: 67<br>
AndrewSutton: 16<br>
DavidCorreia: 14<br>
msutton: 346<br>
sutton: 12<br>
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However, the user who entered the data isn't the same as the
original writer.<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I have
no idea if such information can somehow be stored, as i have
no expertise with programming at all; i can also see the
problem with data-protection acts (but hey- what happened with
the boom of social-networks such as Facebook!) but it would be
great to somehow store such information for future research...</div>
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This would be an interesting and valuable addition to the SignPuddle
project, but not the core focus. <br>
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I have a few ideas that will answer some of you questions, but it
will not answer them all.<br>
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Thanks Maria for your input.<br>
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Regards,<br>
-Steve<br>
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