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Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation in Portugal

Submitted by pbouda on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 08:12

The Centro Interdisciplinar de Documentação Linguística e Social (CIDLeS) is an interdisciplinary non-profit centre dedicated to the documentation and preservation of the linguistic (and cultural) heritage in Europe. It was founded in January 2010 as a result of the work of a number of researchers at the Institute of General Linguistics and Language Typology at the University of Munich and at the Department of Portuguese Studies at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

New annotation tool: DiscoverText

Submitted by dan.mccloy on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 12:58

Stuart Shulman recently gave a workshop at UW on a new annotation tool he is developing: DiscoverText. It has some limitations that make it unsuitable for some linguistic purposes, but is powerful in other ways and might be a good choice for certain types of tasks.

A Grand Challenge for Linguistics: Scaling Up and Integrating Models

Submitted by ebender on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 10:57

In response to NSF's call for White Papers in the SBE 2020 Initiative, Jeff Good and I have submitted a paper outlining our take on Cyberinfrastructure for Linguistics, why its necessary, and how it can come about. The abstract:

Conference on Electronic Grammaticography—Location Change

Submitted by jcgood on Sun, 08/15/2010 - 11:40

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.

Workshop on Advanced Corpus Solutions, PACLIC 24

Submitted by ebender on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 08:38

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.

NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI**2)

Submitted by terry on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 13:05

On March 16, the National Science Foundation announced the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI**2) Program Solicitation 10-551 at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10551/nsf10551.pdf. This is an NSF-wide solicitation, led by the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI).

Focus on applications

Submitted by rmalouf on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 18:41

A lot of digital ink has been spilled in recent years laying out standards and best practices for language documentation and archiving, and rightly so. Coherent standards greatly improve the usefulness and longevity of archived data, and getting standards right is a difficult process. And, measures like the recent LSA resolution and the requirements of funding agencies are an important step towards getting researchers to use these standards.

LSA Data Sharing Resolution

Submitted by jcgood on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 08:21

At the recently concluded Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in Baltimore, the following resolution on Data Sharing was passed by those at the Business Meeting. It will soon be sent along to the whole membership of the Society for their vote. The resolution was put forth by the LSA's Technology Advisory Committee.

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New NSF-OCI Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) solicitation

Submitted by terry on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 13:49

On Thursday, November 19, the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) announced a new Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) solicitation, with a full proposal deadline of February 28, 2010. It expects to make 25 to 30 awards totaling $15,000,000 over three years. The program synopsis reads as follows.