transcription estimate and best practices inquiry

[David Kaufman]

Hey Bryan,

John B. sent a request for papers awhile back that has the conference info.  I've attached it below:


CALL FOR PAPERS
The 30th
Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference
in
 conjunction with
The Workshop on Comparative Siouan Syntax

June
 2-5, 2010

Hosted by
The Linguistic Department at Northeastern Illinois University,
at the 
Northeastern Illinois University Main Campus


We invite papers
 that focus on any aspect of
Siouan and Caddoan languages and linguistics:

Descriptive
 or Theoretical Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Language 
Maintenance and Preservation
Language Pedagogical

Papers: 
 
   Abstracts are due May 14th by 4:00 PM.  Individuals who wish to 
present
a paper should e-mail a paper title, an abstract (no longer 
than 500 words),
the author¹s name and any affiliation to <jp-boyle at neiu.edu>
 or mail a hard
copy with the  above information to:

        Dr. John P. Boyle
        
Department of Linguistics
        5500 North St. Louis Ave.
 
       Chicago, IL. 60625

Presentations:
     Notification of 
acceptance will be sent via e-mail by May 17, 2010.
Presenters will 
be allotted a maximum of 30 minutes but shorter papers and
informal 
and exploratory works are welcome.  If presenters would like a
double
 time slot, please contact Dr. Boyle. Students and Native Peoples are
encouraged
 to participate.  If any special AV equipment is needed please
contact
 Dr. Boyle in advance.

Registration:
    Conference 
registration is free and the public is welcome.  Please
contact us if
 you plan to attend.  A preliminary program and additional
information
 will be sent out by May 21st 2010.

Accommodations: 
    A 
block of rooms will be reserved at:
         The Holiday Inn Chicago,
 North Shore
        5300 Touhy Ave.
        Skokie, IL
       
 847-679-8900


--- On Thu, 3/25/10, Bryan James Gordon <linguista at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Bryan James Gordon <linguista at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: transcription estimate and best practices inquiry
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:08 AM

Liz Kennedy here at UA is involved with a grant from Georgia to develop transcription/translation protocols for a program down in South America. Working with native speakers trained in writing and teaching their language and with linguists fluent in the language, they allotted 20 hours to the transcript/translation of each individual story. This seemed generous to me, but I know sometimes variation and garbled recordings can slow you down.


Any word yet on the dates of the conference this year?

- Bryan

2010/3/8 Mark J Awakuni-Swetland <mawakuni-swetland2 at unlnotes.unl.edu>

Aloha all,
I need some guidance! I am pulling together a grant proposal to begin field checking the 20K JODorsey slip lexicon that is emerging from my NEH Omaha and Ponca Digital Dictionay project.
 Catherine Rudin and I will work with Omaha speakers to confirm lexemes, fill in inflected forms, elicit contemporary-context sample sentences, and other cultural information. We will concentrate on digitally audio recording the sessions.
 Video remains problematic for my speakers. As we all know, a one hour session will have many false starts and other chit chat. 1) What are your thoughts about editing out that material prior to transcription?
 Rory Larson and I worked with our UNL speakers last year to test out the field checking process. We captured some very rich materials. However, the majority of clock time was in English, less in Omaha.
 My thoughts are to hire one or more GTAs to do the first pass of transcription for the English while flagging the Omaha for me to handle. I am investigating the ELAN software program and appreciate David Rood and Iren Hartmann's input on that.
 I expect we would do a simple 'first pass' of straight transcription at this point. 2) What have been your experiences with estimates of time required to do a 'simple' transcription of English?
 3) What about the Native language transcription time? Many thanks for considering this. Mark
 Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
and Ethnic Studies (Native American Studies)
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0368

http://omahalanguage.unl.edu

http://omahaponca.unl.edu
Phone 402-472-3455
FAX: 402-472-9642







      
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