30.712, Summer Schools: SCOSYA Data Hack/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-712. Wed Feb 13 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.712, Summer Schools:  SCOSYA Data Hack/United Kingdom

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:28:50
From: E Jamieson [e.jamieson at glasgow.ac.uk]
Subject: SCOSYA Data Hack/United Kingdom

 

SCOSYA Data Hack

Host Institution: University of Glasgow
Website: https://scotssyntaxatlas.ac.uk/workshops/data-hack/

Dates: 10-Jun-2019 - 11-Jun-2019
Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Focus: This 2-day data hack offers postgraduate students the first opportunity to work with the Scots Syntax Atlas, a major new online resource for the study of language use across time and space.
Minimum Education Level: MA


Special Qualifications:
Participants must be current PhD students.


Description:
Calling all linguists, statisticians, human geographers, computer scientists,
creative writers: we have a rich language data source and we’d like you to
come and work on it.

Participants in the SCOSYA data hack will have access to:

- around 300 hours of recorded and transcribed conversational data, from
communities across Scotland from Shetland to Stranraer, amounting to over 3
million words
- Likert scale judgment data on over 250 linguistic features from over 550
speakers in 140+ communities across Scotland, giving a total of 110,000+
judgments
- raw .csv data on the linguistic forms used across geography and generations
- an online atlas which visualises these speech patterns

Working with such data will allow participants to produce collaborative
outputs as well as gaining experience in working with a large data set.
Potential data hack projects will be proposed by the atlas team, but
participants will also be able to propose their own projects. These may
involve addressing research questions about language variation and change;
developing visualisations or tools for data analysis, or creating works
incorporating the range of diverse voices across time and space.

The hack will be facilitated by a number of experts across a range of fields:

- Dr Tam Blaxter (University of Cambridge – data visualisation + dialectology)
- Dr Amanda Thomson (Glasgow School of Art – mapping/printing + Scots in art)
- Dr Andrew Weir (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology –
theoretical syntax + semantics)

In addition to the hack, we will run a series of masterclasses with these
facilitators where they share their research methodologies and findings.


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                      General Linguistics
                      Language Documentation
                      Morphology
                      Sociolinguistics
                      Syntax
                      Text/Corpus Linguistics


Subject Languages: English
                    Scots

Tuition: 0 GBP

Tuition Explanation: Participating in the data hack is free.


Financial Aid: Applications accepted until 
Each participant will be able to claim up to £300 in travel and accommodation expenses.

Financial Aid Instructions:



Registration: 12-Feb-2019 to 29-Mar-2019

Contact Person: E Jamieson
                Email: e.jamieson at glasgow.ac.uk

Apply on the web: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCilVQSRKOTfGE43ABgtobv3vKnJTw7L0e8E0JKJTz-NFPIw/viewform

Registration Instructions:
Selection for participation will be based on your answers to the two 100 word
questions on the Google form.

The deadline for applications is 29th March 2019. We will let you know if you
have been selected w/c 8th April 2019.




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