Workshop "Exploring data from language documentation"

[Kilu von Prince]

Dear all,

registration is now open for the upcoming workshop "Exploring data
from language documentation", to be held in May at ZAS Berlin --
details are given below. Since we might have a few spare slots, we are
also inviting proposals for a 20-minute presentation on problems and
solutions concerning the standard tools and formats used in language
documentation. Abstracts of around 250 words can be sent to  me
(prince at zas.gwz-berlin.de) until the end of February.

Best,
Kilu


Web site: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_edla.html
Dates: 10.05.2013 - 11.05.2013
Venue: ZAS Berlin
Languages: English, German

Description: Language documentation has produced a large amount of
extensive spoken language corpora. These corpora consist of
time-aligned and annotated audio and video recordings of endangered
and often lesser known languages. The typological diversity and the
variety of these data pose new and interesting technological and
methodological challenges. Moreover, in the last ten years, a
considerable infrastructure has been developed to create and archive
larger corpora of time-aligned and annotated primary data. This
infrastructure involves digital archives such as the TLA at the MPI in
Nijmegen and tools such as ELAN, Toolbox, FLEX, praat and Transcriber.

But to unlock the full potential of spoken language corpora,
researchers often face unique challenges: Depending on the properties
of the documented language, the primary research questions, and the
nature of the workflow, the tools listed above might not fully
correspond to the researchers' needs. Also, in studies working with
data from different documentation projects, it may be difficult to
integrate a variety of formats and standards. This workshop, which is
funded by the CLARIN-D project (F-AG3), invites experts from language
documentation and linguistic typology as well as language technology
and corpus linguistics to present and discuss problems and solutions
posed by the analysis of typologically diverse spoken language corpora
as well as relevant practices and technologies of related fields.

Invited speakers:
Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne)
Ciprian Gerstenberger (University of Tromsø)
Roland Meyer (University of Regensburg)
Taras Zakharko (University of Zurich)

Organizers:
Felix Rau
Kilu von Prince