Locations:
Presentations and panel sessions will take place in Logan Hall Room B17
(coded L below),
working groups and lunches will be in the IRCS suite (coded I).
For more information please see the
venues page.
| 8:00-L: REGISTRATION AT LOGAN |
Steven Bird, Gary Simons, Aravind Joshi.
Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar Dry: E-MELD: Electronic metastructure for endangered languages data
Susan Hockey: Towards a model for web-based language documentation and description: some contributions from digital libraries and humanities computing research
Helen Aguera: NEH experiences and needs
Nancy Ide, Laurent Romary: XML support for annotated language resources
Patrick McConvell: Two-way research resources for indigenous languages: Positioning Resources in the GARMA
Jonathan Amith (chair), Megan Crowhurst, Mark Liberman, Patrick McConvell, Bill Poser, and Joel Sherzer
| 12:30-I: LUNCH (provided) |
| 1:50 MOVE TO LOGAN |
Michael Nelson: The Open Archives Initiative
Steven Bird and Gary Simons: White paper on establishing an infrastructure for open language archiving
Session chair: Gary Simons
Michael Nelson: Smart Objects and Dumb Archives: Insuring the Long-Term Integrity of Digital Information
Neal Audenaert: Language Data Repository: Project abstract
Saturnino Luz, Mona Baker: TEC: a toolkit and API for distributed corpus processing
Jean Carletta, Amy Isard, David McKelvie: Linguistic data processing for everyman
Peter Wittenburg, Hennie Brugman, Daan Broeder: Annotations, formats and data types in the DOBES project
Richmond H. Thomason, Bill Poser: Representing and reasoning in computer-readable field linguistics archives
| 6:00 CLOSE |
| 8:30 ARRIVE AT LOGAN |
Session chair: Dafydd Gibbon
Anthony McEnery, Paul Baker, Mark Leisher, Rob Gaizauskas, Hamish Cunningham: Mapping multiple South Asian 8-bit character sets to the Unicode Standard
Peter Constable: Unicode Character Encoding of Archived Linguistic Data
Eric Albright: Design of an Electronic Method for Describing Writing Systems
Bill Poser: A Sorting Tool and Issues in Sorting
Sharon Correll: Extensible rendering technology for web-based data access
Peter Constable: Phonetic Fonts and Phonetic Data Encoding
Discuss requirements for the character encoding working group. Pass results directly to group.
| 12:00-I: LUNCH (provided) |
| 1:30-L: MOVE TO LOGAN |
Session chair: Steven Bird
Gary Simons: Language identification in metadata descriptions of language archive holdings
Daan Broeder, Pirkko Suihkonen, Peter Wittenburg: Developing a standard for meta-descriptions of multimedia language resources
Gary Holton: Metadata for linguistic documentation archives
Lev Michael: Creating discourse data metadata for the AILLA Project: Lessons learned and needs felt
Discuss requirements for the metadata working group. Pass results directly to group.
| 4:20 MOVE TO LOGAN |
A chance for participants to give brief advertisements for projects and initiatives which are not included in the program.
Helen Aristar Dry (chair), Megan Crowhurst, Nicholas Ostler, Doug Whalen
| 6:00 CLOSE |
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CONFERENCE DINNER AT THE PALLADIUM 6:00 HORS D'OEUVRES AND DRINKS, 7:00 DINNER (for all presenters and participants) |
[Character encoding and metadata working groups meet at IRCS, and report back to main workshop after the mid-afternoon break.]
| 8:30-L: ARRIVE AT LOGAN |
Session chair: Susan Hockey
Elena Maslova: Text corpora: grammatical queries and morphemic indices
Anne Mahoney, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, David A. Smith, Clifford E. Wulfman: Generalizing the Perseus XML Document Manager
Douglas Whalen, David Harrison, Dennis Holt: Searching for reflexes in linguistic archives: The Endangered Language Fund Algonquian Project
Steven Weinberger: Speech Accent Archive: Issues and Methods
Mike Maxwell Creating Morphological Data: From Markup to Generalizations
Session chair: Nancy Ide
Ronald Sprouse: Data types for interlinear text
Boyd Michailovsky, Michel Jacobson: A linguistic archive on the web
Kazuaki Maeda, Steven Bird: A Formal Framework for Interlinear Text
David Weber: E.g.
| 12:00-I: LUNCH (provided) |
| 1:30-L: MOVE TO LOGAN |
Session chair: Nicoletta Calzolari
Martha Palmer, Ralph Grishman, Nicolletta Calzolari, Antonio Zampolli: Standardizing Multilingual Lexicons
Dafydd Gibbon: On lexical objects and their properties
John Bell, Steven Bird: A Preliminary Study of the Structure of Lexicon Entries
Jeff Good, Ronald Sprouse: SGML markup of dictionaries with special reference to comparative and etymological data
Steve Tinney: XML and the Corpus-Based Dictionary: Development and Implementation of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
| 5:30 DINNER |
Working groups writing up
Informal demonstrations
| 9:30 CLOSE |
All Friday events will take place in the IRCS suite.
| 9:00-I: ARRIVE AT IRCS |
final writing up
| 12:00: LUNCH |
| 1:30-I: ARRIVE AT IRCS |
| 3:30: CLOSE |