18.866, More: Than Just a Website

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-866. Wed Mar 21 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.866, More: Than Just a Website

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1)
Date: 21-Mar-2007
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Megan Zdrojkowski on becoming Assistant Project Manager 

2)
Date: 21-Mar-2007
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Conferences & LINGUIST - TILR 

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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:55:59
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Megan Zdrojkowski on becoming Assistant Project Manager 

Dear Subscribers,

This is my third year here at LINGUIST; I was a graduate assistant for two years, 
and this year I have the pleasure of staying on in the capacity of Assistant 
Project Manager while I complete my master's thesis. During my time at LINGUIST, 
I've been involved in a number of different projects and areas of the LINGUIST 
site, including co-coordinating Fund Drive 2006. During my graduate assistantship, 
I was Publications manager, and I learned an incredible amount about linguistics 
and programming through this challenging position. (Classifying hundreds of books 
and journal TOCs by the relevant subfields and languages certainly teaches you 
about all the various subfields of linguistics!) 

As I have assumed a more managerial role this past year, I have also learned a 
considerable amount about the challenges of running a non-profit academic 
organization funded mostly by subscriber donations and staffed by graduate 
students and professors. I assure you that LINGUIST is a very barebones 
operation--each one of our employees is essential, and everybody works long 
hours for little pay to keep LINGUIST up and running. 

However, even though the work here can at times be stressful and is always 
fast-paced, there are a great many benefits to working at LINGUIST. The best 
benefit of all is the training graduate assistants receive in linguistics, 
programming, and other professional skills. G.A.s leave LINGUIST fully prepared 
to take on the rigors of a top-notch Ph.D. program and to contribute valuable 
scholarly research to the discipline.

In addition to learning the skills necessary to keep the LINGUIST website and
Listserv running, our G.A.s have the chance to work on our innovative and 
exciting grants and conferences. LINGUIST is focused on collaboration with the 
linguistics community, other academic disciplines, and speaker communities, and 
our grant work and conferences reflect this focus. (You'll be hearing more about 
the LL-MAP and Multi-Tree grants and the TILR and SILS conferences later in this 
year's Fund Drive. Please scroll down to read about some of our workshops and 
conferences.) 

As Assistant Project Manager, I've had the privilege of training and working 
closely with this year's G.A.s, and I'm continually surprised by their 
intelligence and passion for linguistics. If all linguistics students are as 
talented, dedicated, and hardworking as this year's LINGUIST crew, then the 
future of linguistics is definitely in good hands.

In closing, I'm very grateful to be a part of LINGUIST, and I'd like to send a 
warm thank you to all of you who have already donated. Your contributions not 
only ensure that LINGUIST will be able to continue for another year--they also 
provide funding for the education of future linguists. For those of you who 
haven't donated yet, please consider doing so today. 

Sincerely,
Megan Zdrojkowski
Assistant Project Manager 
The LINGUIST List 

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:56:02
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Conferences & LINGUIST - TILR 

Dear Subscribers,

Some of you may be surprised to learn that in addition to maintaining a mailing 
list and website, LINGUIST is actively involved in organizing a number of 
workshops and conferences, such as the highly successful E-MELD workshops held 
each summer from 2001-2006. (Please visit http://emeld.org to learn more about 
the E-MELD grant and workshops.)

LINGUIST is focused on collaboration with the linguistics community, other 
academic disciplines, and speaker communities, and our conferences reflect this 
focus. This summer, LINGUIST is helping organize two unique conferences that 
cross disciplines and academic boundaries: the 14th Annual Stabilizing 
Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS) and Toward the Interoperability of 
Language Resources (TILR).

Conference information can be found at the following URLs:
     http://linguistlist.org/sils/
     http://linguistlist.org/tilr/

This letter focuses on TILR, but please check back tomorrow for more information 
on SILS. 

The TILR workshop will be held July 13-15 at Stanford University in conjunction 
with the 2007 LSA Summer Institute. It will capitalize on the momentum of two 
workshops held in conjunction with the 2006 LSA Summer Meeting at Michigan State 
University: the Digital Tools Summit in Linguistics (DTSL) and the E-MELD 
(Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data) workshop on digital 
language documentation: "Tools and Standards: The State of the Art."

A major aim of both E-MELD and DTSL has been to involve an interdisciplinary 
group of researchers in the resolution of pressing issues in linguistic data 
management. E-MELD has primarily stimulated the development, evaluation, and 
amelioration of guidelines and standards for annotation, computer-assisted 
lexicography, ontologies, and extant tools; DTSL focused on catalyzing the 
development of the next generation of tools for linguistic inquiry. In focusing 
on interoperability, the TILR workshop will exploit the momentum of E-MELD and 
DTSL to involve an even more diverse group of researchers in addressing a 
critical issue in the development of cyberinfrastructure for linguistics.

This meeting is intended to encourage tool developers to coordinate outputs of 
existing tools and to plan new tools that are extensible, modular, and renewable. 
If tools developed by one project can be readily adapted for other similar 
projects, this will not only conserve development time and effort, but will also 
constitute major progress towards the ultimate goal of creating sustainable and 
accessible digital resources. 

If you are interested in attending TILR, please visit the above website for more 
information. The deadline for abstracts, issue statements, and biographies has 
been extended until the end of March.  If you have any questions about this 
workshop, please feel free to contact the conference organizers, Dr. Helen 
Aristar-Dry and Dr. Arienne Dwyer at tilr at linguistlist.org.

Sincerely,
The LINGUIST Crew 

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We would like to thank all of the publishers and subscribers who
donated prizes for this year's Fund Drive games, puzzles, and 
competitions.

Publisher Prize Donors: 

Cascadilla Press 
Continuum 
Edinburgh University Press
Hodder Arnold
Mouton de Gruyter
Multilingual Matters
Sage Publications

Subscriber Prize Donors:

Rusudan Amirejibi-Mullen
Paola Attolino
Cristiano Chesi
Greville G. Corbett
Rosa J. Garcia B. Cordova
Gang Gu
Suzette Haden Elgin
Lise Menn
Claus Dieter Pusch
Sandra Thompson
Thorsten Trippel
Tom Zurinskas
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SUPERHEROES ($1000 and over)

HEROES ($100 to $1000)

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Carleton College 
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David Bowie 
Elizabeth Cowper 
Emily M. Bender 
Ernest McCarus 
Heike Behrens 
Judith Fuller 
Julie Auger 
Kanjana Thepboriruk 
Karen Davis 
Katy Carlson 
Keren Rice 
Laura Callahan 
Laura Wagner 
Manuela Noske 
Marisa Ferrara Boston 
Michael Swan 
Peter Jurgec 
Richard Meier 
Roger Shuy 
Stefan Th. Gries 
Tom Wasow 
Tucker Childs 
Ute Römer 
Victoria Muehleisen 

- Plus 2 anonymous donors

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Anke Lüdeling
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
Brian King
Britta Stolterfoht
Carl Polley
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Hsiang-Hua Chang
Jean Mulder
Jie Zhang
Jo-Anne Ferreira
Jose Camacho
Laura Downing
Laurie Zaring
Maite Taboada
Marc-Olivier Hinzelin
Maria Blume
marianne kilani-schoch
Michael Barrie
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Norvin Richards
Oliver Stegen
Scott G McGinnis
Ulrike Christofori

DONORS (Up to $50)

Ali 
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Barbara McGillivray 
Benedetta Bassetti 
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Corrine McCarthy 
Dalina Kallulli 
Daniela Müller 
Elisabeth Norcliffe 
Evelyn E. Feliciano 
iris flannery 
Jacques Jayez 
K. David Harrison 
Kathleen Currie Hall 
Kent Johnson 
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Larry LaFond 
Liberty Lidz 
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lisa levinson 
Marian Sloboda 
MARTIN 
Renae O'Hanlon 
Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi 
Seth Cable 
Shahid 
Shelley Tulloch 
Talia Bugel 
Tamina Stephenson 
Theres Grueter 
Toshihiro Sugawara 
Vieri Samek-Lodovici 
WIM VANDENBUSSCHE, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL 

- Plus 8 anonymous donors

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MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

Cascadilla Press 
http://www.cascadilla.com/ 
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd 
http://www.continuumbooks.com 
Edinburgh University Press 
http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ 
European Language Resources Association - ELRA 
http://www.elra.info. 
Georgetown University Press 
http://www.press.georgetown.edu 
Hodder Arnold 
http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk 
John Benjamins 
http://www.benjamins.com/ 
http://www.benjamins.nl/ 
Lincom GmbH 
http://www.lincom.eu 
www.lincom.eu 
Mouton de Gruyter 
http://www.mouton-publishers.com 
Multilingual Matters 
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ 
Oxford University Press 
http://www.oup.com/us 
http://www.oup.co.uk 
Pagijong Press 
http://pjbook.com 
Palgrave Macmillan 
http://www.palgrave.com 
Peter Lang AG 
http://www.peterlang.com 
Rodopi 
http://www.rodopi.nl/ 
http://www.rodopi.nl 
Springer 
http://www.springer.com 

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS
CSLI Publications 
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/ 
International Pragmatics Assoc. 
http://www.ipra.be 
Linguistic Assoc. of Finland 
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT 
http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 
SIL International 
http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 
St. Jerome Publishing Ltd. 
http://www.stjerome.co.uk

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INSTITUTIONS

BAE Systems 
Basis Technology 
Basis Technology Corporation 
BeVocal, Inc 
Boston University 
Bridgewater State College 
Butler Hill Group 
CELI s.r.l. 
City University of Hong Kong 
Comcast 
Concordia University 
Darmstadt University of Technology 
Dongduk Women's University 
English School Sunny Plus 
Grove City College 
Gyeonggi English Village 
Hablamos Juntos - UCSF 
Haskins Laboratories 
Hokkaido University 
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 
Indiana University 
Indiana University - Bloomington 
Ingenuity Systems 
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main 
Johns Hopkins University 
Kent State University 
KNOVA Software, Inc. 
La Trobe University 
LearnBalance Group 
Leibniz Universität Hannover 
Lexicon Branding, Inc. 
Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania 
Louisiana State University 
Maher Language Institute (MLI) 
McGill University 
McNeil Technologies, Inc. 
Michigan State University 
Monterey Institute of International Studies 
National Sun Yat-sen University 
National Taiwan Normal University 
Nemours/AI duPont Hospital for Children 
Nordic CoE in Microcomparative Syntax 
Northwestern University 
Nuance Communications, Inc. 
Q-go Netherlands bv 
Radboud University Nijmegen 
RiverGlass, Inc. 
RPI 
RWTH Aachen 
San Diego State University 
SDL International 
Seattle Pacific University 
Shenandoah University 
Simon Fraser University 
SOAS, University of London 
Stony Brook University 
Systran 
SYSTRAN S.A. 
SYSTRAN Software, Inc. 
The Australian National University 
The State University of New York at Buffalo 
Tuebingen University 
Tufts University 
UCSC 
University College London 
University of Aberdeen 
University of Alaska Fairbanks 
University of Alberta 
University of Arizona 
University of British Columbia 
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 
University of California, San Diego 
University of California, Santa Barbara 
University of Chicago 
University of Cologne 
University of Delaware 
University of Edinburgh 
University of Geneva 
University of Hamburg (Germany) 
University of Leeds 
University of Mary Washington 
University of Maryland 
University of Maryland University College 
University of Michigan 
University of Mississippi 
University of Missouri-Rolla 
University of Neuchatel 
University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China 
University Of Oregon 
University of Oxford 
University of Pittsburgh 
University of Potsdam 
University of Texas at San Antonio 
University of Trento (Italy) 
University of Tromsoe 
University of Utah 
University of Wales, Bangor 
University of Washington 
University of Wolverhampton 
University of York 
Université Laval 
Voice Signal Technologies, Inc, 
Wake Forest University 
Wayne State University 
Yuan Ze University

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