10.1977, Calls: Amazonian Languages, Linguistic Exploration

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Subject: 10.1977, Calls: Amazonian Languages, Linguistic Exploration

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Date:  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:44:25 -0200 (EASTBRDT)
From:  marilia lopes da costa faco soares <marilia at acd.ufrj.br>
Subject:  Symposium on Amazonian Languages and Neighbouring Areas

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Date:  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:14:55 EST
From:  Steven Bird <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject:  Linguistic Exploration Workshop

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:44:25 -0200 (EASTBRDT)
From:  marilia lopes da costa faco soares <marilia at acd.ufrj.br>
Subject:  Symposium on Amazonian Languages and Neighbouring Areas

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

 SYMPOSIUM: LANGUAGES IN THE AMAZON AND ITS NEIGHBOURING AREAS/
            LENGUAS AMAZONICAS Y DE LAS AREAS ADYACENTES

This symposium will take place in Warsaw, July 2000, within
the context of the 50th International Congress of Americanists.

The following types of papers will be especially welcome:

(i) papers in which grammatical properties of individual languages or
group of languages are described;

(ii) papers which aim to explain phenomena in individual or in group of
languages;

(iii) papers exploring the genetic relationships between languages and
languages families;

(iv) papers dealing with "areal" properties of Amazonian and neighbouring
languages.

Registration for this symposium should be made by sending the tittle
and abstract of the presentation until December 31, 1999 through
e-mail, regular mail or fax to the Secretariat of the symposium.
Registrations for the 50 ICA should be made by filling a registration
form that is available at the ICA Second Circular
(50ICA at cesla.ci.uw.edu.pl; http://www.cesla.ci.uw.edu.pl/50ICA)

Marilia Faco Soares - convenor (Museu Nacional/ Universidade Federal
                                 do Rio de Janeiro)

Jose Alvarez (Universidad del Zulia/ Maracaibo, Venezuela) y
Hein van der Voort (Universidade de Amesterdam) - co-convenors

Secretariat (address):

Dr. Marilia Faco Soares
Departamento de Antropologia (Linguistica)
Museu Nacional/UFRJ
Quinta da Boa Vista, Sao Cristovao
20940-040  Rio de Janeiro, RJ     BRASIL
Tel: (55-21) 568-9642
Fax: (55-21) 254-6695
E-mail: marilia at acd.ufrj.br

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Date:  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:14:55 EST
From:  Steven Bird <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject:  Linguistic Exploration Workshop

			LINGUISTIC EXPLORATION

			   New Methods for
		Creating, Exploring and Disseminating
			Linguistic Field Data

	       http://www.talkbank.org/exploration.html

 	          Thursday 6 January 2000, 9am-6pm

		     Held in conjunction with the
	 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
		     Palmer House Hilton, Chicago

  The new NSF TalkBank Project [http://www.talkbank.org] is sponsoring a
  workshop on computational support for linguistic fieldwork.  The
  workshop will bring together linguists and computational linguists
  committed to empirical research on large datasets, through the
  combination of traditional field methods and new technologies for
  exploring and visualizing complex datasets.  The languages under study
  may range from the undescribed to the well-studied, and the
  fieldworker may operate in a village or a laboratory.  The focus is
  the exploratory mode of research, where elicitation, analysis and
  hypothesis-testing form a tight loop.  The workshop will contribute to
  the evaluation and evolution of methodologies that integrate
  traditional practices with new technologies, leading to increased
  accessibility, accountability, and stability of empirical linguistic
  research.

  The workshop will address a selection of the following issues:

   Representation - what are good data models for interlinked,
   heterogeneous, multimodal linguistic field data, including
   lexicons, (interlinear) texts, field notes, (annotated) recordings,
   paradigms, grammar sketches, maps, photographs, folios, course
   notes and problem sets?

   Tools - what are the existing and new tools for manipulating
   linguistic field data, and what are their strengths and weaknesses
   vis-a-vis creating, browsing, searching, querying and transforming
   this data?  How well do the tools accomodate the fieldworker's
   continuously evolving conception of the data?  What statistical
   corpus-analysis methods are suitable for datasets whose items
   number in the hundreds rather than the hundreds of thousands?

   Collaborative knowledge discovery - how can a geographically
   distributed network of linguists and native speakers cooperate on
   the construction, validation and enrichment of multimodal field
   data?  How do we bridge the gap between the field and the laboratory?

   Online repositories - how can a collection of online multimodal
   field data covering many languages be archived and curated?
   What are the corpora that people are currently willing to share?
   What are the confidentiality issues, and what mechanisms exist
   to protect privacy?

   Dissemination and citation - how are datasets to be accessed by
   researchers, native speakers, language learners, field-methods
   students, and so on?  How can we facilitate durable citations to
   shared linguistic resources, and track the provenance of a data
   item from a published transcription, through any intermediate
   databases, right back to a digitized speech recording?

			       TALKS

  Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University
    The NSF TalkBank Project

  Bill Poser, Yinka Dene Language Institute
    Databases for Carrier: Current Status, Desiderata, and Issues

  Jonathan Amith, Yale University
    What's in a Word? The Why's and What For's of a Nahuatl Dictionary

  Chris Cieri, University of Pennsylvania
    Issues and tools for creating and annotating a corpus of
    sociolinguistic field data

  Larry Hayashi, Summer Institute of Linguistics
    Discovering and testing linguistic generalizations using
    interactive concordances

  Ronald Sprouse, University of California at Berkeley
    Two approaches to linguistic field work on the web:
    The TELL and Ingush projects

  Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania
    Exploring and disseminating field data using HyperLex

  Michel Jacobson, CNRS/LACITO
    XML tools for managing linguistic data: The LACITO Archives Project

  Lev Michael, University of Texas at Austin
    Plans for a worldwide web archive of the indigenous languages of
    Latin America

  David Nathan, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
    Islander Studies
    Data design for endangered languages: increasing the ``Linguistic Bandwidth''

  Wallace Hooper, Indiana University
    An integrated multimedia dictionary and text processor for the
    documentation of endangered languages

  Chris Manning, Stanford University
    Kirrkirr: Experiences with a flexible software interface to
    indigenous dictionaries

  Ron Zacharski, New Mexico State University
    Boas: A Field Linguist in a Box

  Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
    TBA

  Dafydd Gibbon, University of Bielefeld
    The Bielefeld-Abidjan documentation project: Information types
    and dissemination media

  Robert Neumann, Association for the Promotion of Yiddish Language
    and Culture
    A New Approach to Exploring the Archive of the Language and
    Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry

  David Weber, Summer Institute of Linguistics
    Reference grammars for the computational age:
    From Gleason files to sci-fi grammar

  Richmond Thomason, University of Michigan
    Towards computerized support for empirical linguistics:
    some ideas from computer science

  Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania
    Multidimensional exploration of linguistic databases

For full details of the program plus online abstracts, see

    http://www.talkbank.org/exploration.html

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Steven.Bird at ldc.upenn.edu  http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb
Assoc Director, LDC; Adj Assoc Prof, CIS & Linguistics
Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
3615 Market St, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2608

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