20.1031, I: Have Gained a Unique Experience at LINGUIST

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Subject: 20.1031, I: Have Gained a Unique Experience at LINGUIST

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1)
Date: 23-Mar-2009
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Current Technologies and Computational Methodologies as Part of My Education
2)
Date: 23-Mar-2009
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Got Maps? LL-Map Team Update

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:33:33
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Current Technologies and Computational Methodologies as Part of My Education

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Dear Subscribers,

I have been a member of the LINGUIST crew since the fall 
of 2006, and it has been a great experience so far. As a 
Graduate Assistant for The LINGUIST List, I have learned 
more about the discipline of linguistics and the professional 
infrastructure than I could have ever imagined so early in 
my career. This job has been challenging in so many ways, 
however working for LINGUIST has been the most rewarding 
experience I have ever had. While I have gained the unique 
experience of developing and using advanced technologies 
that are so important to the developing cyber-infrastructure 
of the discipline, what is most important for me is the fact 
that I have found a new home in the linguistics community. 

Through my work on several major research projects at The 
LINGUIST List, I have come to realize how much the future 
of linguistic research relies on the ability of the discipline 
to take full advantage of current technologies and computational 
methodologies that encourage not only a wider-ranging empirical 
investigation of linguistic phenomena, but also more careful 
and insightful research through data-sharing and 
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	In closing, I am extremely grateful to be part of 
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:33:36
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Got Maps? LL-Map Team Update

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Dear Subscribers,

The study of geolinguistics (the study of language in 
relation to geography) has been invigorated with a 
renewed interest in this digital era. Many linguists 
are discovering that new spatial social sciences technology 
in the form of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) 
can organize their data in a highly transparent and flexible 
way to form new hypotheses about language relationships. 
And who better to bring you free access to these cutting 
edge technologies than The LINGUIST List? As the electronic 
hub of the discipline, The LINGUIST List would like to 
introduce to you our distributed GIS language mapping 
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(LL-MAP).  But first, we would like to remind you that your 
generous donations are necessary to keep The LINGUIST List 
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The LL-MAP facility integrates language information with 
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relevant to the language. Through a link to the Multi-Tree 
project (http://multitree.linguistlist.org), information 
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Through this unique project, LL-MAP is intended to establish 
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- A database of geospatially referenced language information 
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- Flexible tools for querying, annotating, discussing, 
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- The tools to layer information drawn from multiple maps 
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- The facilities to establish collaborative projects

The LL-MAP system will encourage collaboration between 
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geneticists, as they explore the relationships between 
language and cultural adaptation and change. We hope it 
will elicit new insights and hypotheses, and that it will 
also serve as an educational resource. As the first project 
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LL-MAP is just one of the many major projects at The 
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Sincerely,

The LL-MAP Team 

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