35.2944, FYI: Looking for linguist native speakers of various languages

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-2944. Wed Oct 23 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.2944, FYI: Looking for linguist native speakers of various languages

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Date: 21-Oct-2024
From: Loretta Gasparini [lgasparini at student.unimelb.edu.au]
Subject: Looking for linguist native speakers of various languages


Dear colleagues,

A team of us at The University of Melbourne and our industry partner
Redenlab (https://redenlab.com/) are working on a pipeline for
automated parts-of-speech tagging across different languages. We are
looking for linguist native speakers of various languages.

THE LANGUAGES FOR WHICH WE ARE SEEKING NATIVE SPEAKERS: Afrikaans,
Arabic, Armenian, Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese
(Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Estonian, Farsi/Persian, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian,
Icelandic, Indonesian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Marathi, Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian,
Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof.

THE WORK: We're looking for linguists to label a 120-word passage for
its parts of speech in their native language (estimated max 2 hours),
and if available a second native-speaking linguist to double check the
labelling.

THE PROJECT: We would then compare the manually-labelled parts of
speech with available automated methods. This work will be unpaid, but
we will be writing the work into a journal article and will include
everyone who does any part-of-speech tagging as a co-author as part of
a consortium. We are aiming for the parts-of-speech tagging of the
120-word passage to be completed in the next month, to then write into
a paper ready to submit in early 2025.

If you are a linguist (Bachelor's or higher degree in Linguistics) who
is a native speaker of any of the above languages, feel free to email
me (lgasparini at student.unimelb.edu.au) with 1-2 sentences about your
degree and experience in Linguistics and any questions, and I will get
back to you with more info and next steps.

Regards,
Loretta (Lottie) Gasparini
PhD Candidate
The University of Melbourne
Email: lgasparini at student.unimelb.edu.au;
loretta.gasparini at mcri.edu.au

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics




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