search/data aggregation

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:

Abney & Bird's Grand Challenge: The Human Language Project

Submitted by ebender on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 22:24

Steven Abney and Steven Bird published a provocative paper (.pdf) at ACL 2010 calling on the computational linguistics community to work to create a "Universal Corpus", an undertaking that they compare in both scale and potential impact to the Human Genome Project. Here is the abstract:

RELISH Meeting in Nijmegen

Submitted by jcgood on Sun, 08/15/2010 - 11:33

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.

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).

A "data problem"

Submitted by ebender on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 18:24

On Jan 8, Fritz Newmeyer gave a very interesting talk at the University of Washington about the lack of evidence for a particular parameter from Principles and Parameters theory.

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.

Endangered Languages Information and Infrastructure Project (ELIIP)

Submitted by jcgood on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 21:11

Last week the Center for American Indian Languages at the University of Utah hosted a workshop going under the acronym ELIIP (for Endangered Languages Information and Infrastructure Project) as the first step towards a larger project "intended to produce an authoritative catalogue, database, and updatable website of information on endangered languages and enrich the infrastructure of the discipline by integrating accurate EL information into a network of digital information and research facilities".