SignWriting Presentation at Gallaudet University - Charles Butler

Fri May 20 22:58:36 UTC 2011

Congratulations, Adam! I'm glad you will be able to share this presentation.
I hope it goes well! :)

Stuart

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I am so excited that my transliteration of Lucinda Batch's encyclopedia
> articles are part of this presentation. I remembered struggling with
> shifting perspectives from receptive to expressive writing and being able to
> get a good series of articles for the SignWriting community.
>
> Charles Butler
>
>
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> *From:* Valerie Sutton <sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG>
> *To:* SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU
> *Sent:* Thu, May 19, 2011 10:18:55 AM
> *Subject:* Re: SignWriting Presentation at Gallaudet University
>
> SignWriting List
> May 19, 2011
>
> Adam's presentation at Gallaudet University is our new Special Feature on
> our SignWriting web site:
>
> Special Feature May 18, 2011
> http://www.signwriting.org/
>
> "Sign Language Corpus Using SignWriting"
>
> You can download the Abstract for the presentation on the front page of our
> site, or here is the direct link:
>
>
> http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs7/sw0650_Sign_Language_Corpus_using_SignWriting_Frost_May2011.pdf
>
> Have a great time, Adam!
>
> Val ;-)
>
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>
>
>
> On May 19, 2011, at 6:47 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>
> SignWriting List
> May 19, 2011
>
> Adam Frost will be presenting his paper "Sign Language Corpus Using
> SignWriting" at Gallaudet University on May 21st ...just two days from
> now....
>
> I hope some of you can attend... Here is information about the Workshop:
>
> -----------
>
> *From: *"Gaurav Mathur" <gaurav.mathur at GALLAUDET.EDU>
> *Date: *May 5, 2011 6:09:12 PM PDT
> *To: *SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU
> *Subject: **Final announcement: Workshop on sign language corpora*
> *Reply-To: *"linguists interested in signed languages" <
> SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU>
>
> We are pleased to announce a workshop titled _Building sign language
> corpora in North
> America_.
>
> Purpose of workshop: There are many definitions of a language corpus. One
> such
> definition offered by McEnery, Xiao and Tono (2006) is a collection of
> texts in a given
> language that is representative, comprehensive, accessible,
> machine-readable and
> searchable. There are several ongoing language corpora projects focused on
> the
> documentation of sign languages in countries like Australia, The
> Netherlands, the United
> Kingdom and Germany. To date, there have been several workshops in Europe
> on various
> aspects of building a sign language corpus (e.g., the SLCN series of
> workshops co-
> organized by Onno Crasborn and colleagues). This workshop will provide a
> much needed
> opportunity for researchers based in the US and Canada to share experiences
> from their
> work in this area, as well as share ideas for future projects.
>
> Program information: The workshop will begin on Saturday, May 21, 2011, at
> 8:30 am
> and take place at Gallaudet University, in the Student Academic Center
> (SAC), Room
> 1011. The complete list of presenters is as follows:
>
>  Ted Supalla (University of Rochester)
>
>  Christian Rathmann (University of Hamburg)
>
>  Trevor Johnston (Macquarie University), Adam Schembri (La Trobe
> University), Kearsy
> Cormier, Jordan Fenlon, and Ramas Rentelis (University College London)
> „Type-token matching in annotated SL corpora: Examples from the Auslan and
> BSL corpus
> projects‰
>
>  Rosalee Wolfe, John C. McDonald, and Jerry Schnepp (DePaul University)
> „Synthetic and acquired corpora: meeting at the annotation‰
>
>  Ronnie B. Wilbur, Kadir Gokgoz and Robin Shay (Purdue University), Aleix
> Martinez
> (Ohio State University)
> „Mechanics and Issues in Making ASL Databases Available‰
>
>  Carol Neidle (Boston University)
>
>  Kearsy Cormier, Jordan Fenlon and Ramas Rentelis (University College
> London), Adam
> Schembri (La Trobe University), Trevor Johnston (Macquarie University)
> „Multiple access levels and multiple interfaces of the BSL and Auslan
> Corpora‰
>
>  Jonathan Keane (University of Chicago), Susan Rizzo (University of
> Chicago), Diane
> Brentari (Purdue University), and Jason Riggle (University of Chicago)
> „Phonetic coding of fingerspelling‰
>
>  Adam Frost (Gallaudet University)
> „Sign Language Corpus using SignWriting‰
>
>  Diane Lillo-Martin, University of Connecticut
>
> In addition, on Sunday, May 22, 2011, from 9 am to noon, there will be an
> ELAN training
> session by Julie Hochgesang for those who are interested.
>
> Conference languages: We welcome presentations in ASL or International Sign
> (IS), and
> will provide ASL/English and ASL/IS interpretation.
>
> Registration information: Registration is free but required and due by May
> 16, 2011. To
> register, please send an email to sign.corpus.workshop at gmail.com with the
> following
> information:
>
> (i) your name
> (ii) your affiliation
> (iii) your email address
> (iv) whether you wish to participate in the ELAN training on Sunday
>
> There is a fee of $10 for lunch on Saturday ˆ please bring this in cash
> with you to the
> workshop.
>
> Lodging information: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hilton
> Garden Inn, which
> is located next to the New York Avenue/Gallaudet metro station on the Red
> Line and
> about 8-10 minutes walking distance from the workshop venue. For workshop
> participants, the hotel is offering a discounted rate of $129/night plus
> 14.5% taxes. The
> discounted rate is good until May 13, 2011. To make reservations, please
> call the toll-free
> number 1-800-HILTONS or the hotel directly at 202-408-4870 and identify
> yourself as a
> member of the Corpus Workshop group when making the reservation.
> Alternatively, you
> may book online at the following link and use the booking code CORPU.
>
> http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=DCANMGI
>
> Co-organizers:
> Julie Hochgesang, Gene Mirus, and Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University)
>
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>
>
>
> Val ;-)
>
> Valerie Sutton
> SignWriting List moderator
> sutton at signwriting.org
>
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