Call for Papers (fwd)

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Call for Papers
Deadline:  31 March 2006
The DTS-L (Digital Tools Summit for Linguistics, http://www.ku.edu/pri/DTSL/)
is a one-time workshop on digital tools and cyberinfrastructure development in
linguistics, for language software engineers and computational linguists, as
well as linguists. The workshop aims to facilitate new interdisciplinary
collaboration to design and create digital tools specifically for linguistic
analysis, and thereby stimulate new funding initiatives. During the workshop,
participants will prioritize and draft tools and data structures. They will
work largely in interest groups (e.g. in data annotation, migration,
visualization, and resource interoperation) and for each interest area will
prepare design sketches of and implementation plans for at least one tool. We
particularly want to address the needs of non-technologically-oriented language
researchers, simulating the development of truly useful, stable, cross-platform,
open-source tools that are both small (e.g. Unicode conversion scripts) and
large (e.g. a modular suite of linguistic data-analysis tools) in scope. 
The Summit will take place June 22-23, 2006 at Michigan State University, in
association with both the summer Linguistic Society of America meeting
(http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-summer06-cfp.cfm) and the E-MELD [Electronic
Metastructures for Endangered Language Data] meeting ("Tools and Standards: The
State of the Art," http://emeld.org/workshop/2006/); DTS-L and E-MELD will meet
together on the morning of 22 June.
We encourage submissions from Indigenous/First Nations language workers and
graduate students, for whom a limited number of travel and housing subsidies
will be available, pending funding. 
Selection
Participants will not submit abstracts or make individual oral presentations of
their own projects. Instead, since this summit is based on discussions in small
working groups, participants are requested to submit one-page issue statements,
which will form the basis for the working group themes for the first conference
day. In these issue statements, we urge applicants to present one issue or idea
which would serve to improve linguistic scholarship. Submissions should consider
and explicate one or more of the following issues:
1. What are the most pressing needs among possible cyberinfrastructure and/or
digital tools for linguistics?
2. What are some enduring challenges in creating cyberinfrastructure and/or
digital tools for linguistics?
3. Which existing resources can be leveraged to create digital tools for
linguistics? 
4. How can documentation tools make language resources (e.g. text, lexical or
morphological corpora) more readily available for historical, typological, and
other theoretical analyses?  
Each issue paper must be accompanied by a short (half page or less) biography. 
Submissions address:      pri at ku.edu
Deadline:            Issue statements and biographies are due on 31
March 2006. 
Length.             Issue statements: one page. Biographies: one
half-page.
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