2nd Trondheim Workshop in Language Description and Documentation
September 10th - 13th, 2012
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© Dorothee Beermann
The focus of this year's workshop is Grammar Writing and Tools. We will have a special lecture on Linguistic Anthropology.
Contents
PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP PROGRAM
September 10th-13th | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
9:30-12:00
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9:30 - 10:00 arrival and coffee 10:00-10:10 Opening of the Workshop by the Dean for the Humanities Kathrine Skretting 10:10 - 12:00 Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics Ulrike Mosel and Dorothee Beermann room tba |
9:30 - 12:00
Grammar Writing Ulrike Mosel room tba |
9:30-12:00
Tools for linguists - Regular Expressions Pavel Mihaylov room tba
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9:30-12:00
Grammar Writing Ulrike Mosel room tba
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13:15 - 15:30
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ELAN
Han Sloetjes room tba |
Linguistic Anthropolgy
Ingjerd Hoëm room tba |
Annotations Dorothee Beermann room tba |
Round Table
tba |
17:15-19:00 | Round Table
room tba |
Hands-on
ELAN & TypeCraft Language Lab |
Hands-on
ELAN & TypeCraft Language Lab |
sponsored Workshop Dinner |
GRANTS
If you are a student and wish to attend the workshop, and your institution cannot (or can only partially) cover your travel costs, you may apply for a travel grant of NOK 1500 to help you to cover travel expenses within Scandinavia. We can subsidize a maximum 5 participants.
For travel grants from outside Scandinavia, please keep yourself updated on this website.
In order to apply, you will need to supply your name and address as well as the name of your academic institution and some information about the study program that you follow. Please send your details to the following e-mail address:
Email: More information soon
VENUE
Reaching Trondheim from the airport
After arrival in Trondheim you will find an airport bus called 'flybuss', waiting in front of the terminal building. All flights are connected to airport buses that will take you directly to Trondheim where they stop at several central locations.
The prize of the bus ticket is NOK 100,00.
For those booked in a hotel, please follow the announcements in the bus.
For those booked in the Youth Hostel, please ask the driver to stop at Lademoen kirke ( Lademoen church).
The google map under STUDENT ACCOMMODATION shows you how to get from the Lademoen-kirke bus stop to the Youth Hostel.
Meals and Workshop Dinner
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Welcome Evening - Sunday 9th
We have reserved a table from 18:00 on for a welcome meeting at the pub Den Gode Nabo. The pub has the largest selection of beer in Trondheim and serves small meals in the Pizza-Hamburger category.
Hope to see you on Sunday for a welcome drink!
Conference Dinner
We hope that the workshop dinner can again take place at the Trondheim Festning. It was a real success at our first LDD workshop.
Student accommodation
The Trondheim Youth Hostel...Reviews of the Youth Hostel
If you prefer to book a room in one of the many hotels in Trondheim you find more information at Trondheim's Offical Website
The way from the flight busstop Lademoen kirke to the Youth Hostel(vandrerhjem)
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Workshop location
The LDD workshop is located at Dragvoll the campus of the Humanities (Det humanistiske fakultet (HF)) and the Faculty of Samfunnsvitenskap and Teknologiledelse (SVT) of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
At the Dragvoll campus you find next to the University library also a book store, a kiosk with a post service, a Mensa, and a coffee shop.
Find workshop rooms
rooms to be announced
Campus plan: media:DragvollCampus.pdf
MORE ABOUT THE LECTURES AND THE LECTURERS
Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics
Ulrike Mosel and Dorothee Beermann
What distinguishes the activities of documentary and descriptive linguists from those of other linguists? Why is it still important to stress the rights of the individuals and communities contributing to language documentation? What is the role of language documentation and descriptive linguistics in Scandinavia? How does our methodology different from that of other linguistics and what it the contribution of Language Documentation and Description (LDD) to the linguistic enterprise?
The new fields of data driven linguistics have contributed substantially to the archiving of the World's endangered languages and to Digital Humanities with the standardization and exchange of linguistic research data. It has also sparked a new interest in data-driven linguistic inquiries.
LDD is world-wide a success. Documenting linguists open doors for interdisciplinary research, and new collaborations between anthropologists, computational and classical linguists become possible, leading to new methodologies and new tools.
In our talk we will introduce the field, discuss its role in Scandinavia, and present some of the new activities connected to this vibrant field of inter-cultural and interdisciplinary research.
Grammar Writing
ABOUT THE LECTURE
ELAN
ELAN is an annotation tool for digital (or digitized) audio and video recordings. It is a generic annotation tool that is being used in several research areas.
The lecture consists of two parts:
A. A brief introduction to the tool and an overview of its main functionalities. (Presentation)
B. Practical training in working with the tool. A step-by-step approach will guide the user through the basic functions of ELAN, with an emphasis on features that are relevant for Language Documentation projects. (Hands-on)
Linguistic Antropology
ABOUT THE LECTURE
Regular Expressions
ABOUT THE LECTURE
Text Annotation
The processing of field data is one of the most important linguistic tasks. It lays the fundamentals for documentary linguistics and for data-driven linguistic description and analysis. We will start with a survey of a range of interlinear glossed texts, focusing on format and function of the annotations. We will discuss linguistic standards and their use in an incremental and explorative annotation process. We will discuss the creation and maintenance of individual and collaborative research corpora using the online database TypeCraft.
Our lecture goes hand in hand with the practical training in the "Hands-on ELAN & TypeCraft" evening classes. Related to text annotation, we will give a brief introduction to the TypeCraft online Glosser and an overview of its main functionalities. Also in the evening classes, prrofessional video and audio anntoation with ELAN with be presented by Han Sloetjes.
The presentations will be followed by practical training in working with the tools. A step-by-step approach will guide the user through the basic functions of TypeCraft and ELAN with an emphasis on features that are relevant for Language Documentation projects and data-driven language description and analysis.