26.5644, Calls: Computational Ling, Phonetics, Phonology, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Subject: 26.5644, Calls: Computational Ling, Phonetics, Phonology, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:37:43
From: Kathleen Currie Hall [kathleen.hall at ubc.ca]
Subject: Tools for Big Data in Laboratory Phonology

 
Full Title: Tools for Big Data in Laboratory Phonology 
Short Title: BigPhon 

Date: 13-Jul-2016 - 13-Jul-2016
Location: Ithaca, NY, USA 
Contact Person: Kathleen Currie Hall
Meeting Email: kathleen.hall at ubc.ca
Web Site: http://mlmlab.org/bigphon/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 26-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

This workshop will give participants hands-on experience with up to six tools for working with large datasets in Laboratory Phonology. These may include tools for constructing, organizing, and searching phonetic and phonological corpora (e.g. forced aligners, database systems), automating phonetic and textual annotation (e.g. prosodic structure, VOT, part-of-speech tags), or deriving and extracting acoustic- or transcription-based measures (e.g. F0, formants, neighborhood densities, phoneme distributions). These tools will be introduced by their developers, and participants will have extensive time to get the tools working on their own laptop computers, and discover their functions based on sample data, with technicians to help throughout. The workshop will also provide an opportunity to discuss the utility and future development of these tools.

Organizers: 

Kathleen Currie Hall (Univeristy of British Columbia)
Michael McAuliffe (McGill University)
Morgan Sonderegger (McGill University)
Yvan Rose (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Call for Papers: 

Research in laboratory phonology is increasingly scaling up to large datasets, from diverse sources, such as speech corpora, crowd-sourced data, or experiments carried out across multiple laboratories. The size and complexity of these datasets make technical tools (e.g. for forced aligners, database systems, automatic phonetic measurement) crucial for working with them. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together the users and the developers of such tools, and to meet the needs of both groups. Users (workshop participants) will gain knowledge about a range of state-of-the-art tools, have hands-on experience using them, and be able to access real-time help from the tools' developers (workshop presenters), who will in turn have a platform for the dissemination of their tools and feedback on ways to improve them for increased use in the LabPhon community. The workshop will also provide an opportunity to discuss the utility and future development of existing or additional tools.

We invite proposals from tool developers who would like to present in this workshop. We welcome submissions on tools that might be useful for any aspect of working with large datasets in Laboratory Phonology, including (but not limited to): constructing, organizing, and searching phonetic and phonological corpora (e.g. forced aligners, database systems); automating phonetic and textual annotation (e.g. prosodic structure, VOT, part-of-speech tags); deriving and extracting acoustic- or transcription-based measures (e.g. F0, formants, neighborhood densities, phoneme distributions).

Before the workshop, developers will provide access to their tools, including basic documentation and a sample dataset; these will be linked from the workshop web page. During the workshop, developers will give a tutorial on their tool, introducing its purpose and capabilities and illustrating its usage through examples. Developers will also be present for unstructured time where participants practice using the tool(s) of their choice on their own projects, with individualized help from developers as needed.

We anticipate accepting no more than six proposals in the interest of providing sufficient time for developers to showcase their tool and for participants to gain hands-on experience using it.

Proposals no longer than two pages, including figures and references, should be submitted to Kathleen Currie Hall at kathleen.hall at ubc.ca. Each proposal should include a description of the tool to be presented, its utility for working with large phonetic/phonological datasets, and an explanation of the kinds of hands-on examples that could be provided during the workshop.




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