The NSF Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) released last week a Dear Colleague Letter inviting members of the research community (individuals and groups) to submit by September 30th, 2,000-word-maximum white papers outlining what they think are "grand challenge" questions in the fields supported by SBE "that are both foundational and transformative". These contributions will be used to help the Directorate make plans to support research over the coming decade and beyond.

The location for the Conference on Electronic Grammaticography, previously announced on this blog, has been moved to the University of Hawaii so that it can be held under the umbrella of the 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation.

Abstracts are due on 31 August 2010.

On 4–5 August, the RELISH project held a workshop on lexicon tools and lexical standards. Slides from many of the presentations are posted on the workshop site.

NYTimes: Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&hp

The LSA announced today that both resolutions on the May 31 ballot (the Resolution on Cyberinfrastructure and the Resolution Recognizing the Scholarly Merit of Language Documentation) have passed!

Edit: this post on (legal aspects of) data sharing by Creative Commons' Kaitlin Thaney is also highly recommended.

Dates: 11-Feb-2011 - 12-Feb-2011
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Contact Person: Sebastian Nordhoff
Meeting Email: sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de
General Web Site: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/11-grammaticography2011
Call for Papers: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/11-grammaticography2011/files/ca...
Abstract deadline: 1-Oct-2010

This meeting will bring together field linguists, computer scientists, and publishers with the aim of exploring production and dissemination of grammatical descriptions in electronic/hypertextual format.

The LSA resolution on cyberinfrastructure for linguistics is now up for a vote of the membership. LSA members can vote here. (Information on joining LSA.)

Call for papers: http://www.hf.uio.no/tekstlab/paclic/index.html

Submission deadline: June 14, 2010
Workshop date: November 4, 2010

This workshop invites papers on advances in corpus types and corpus tools in support of linguistic research.

We are pleased to announce that Linguistic Issues in Language Technology Volume 3, Implementation of Linguistic Analyses against Data has appeared. This volume, edited by Terry Langendoen and Emily Bender, contains papers by presenters at the LSA 2009 invited symposium "Computational Linguistics in Support of Linguistic Analysis".

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