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Upcoming Events

Graduate level intensive courses on Language Description and Analysis

The University of Education Winneba, Ghana.

University of Education Winneba

The FLE/Department of Linguistics Education of the University of Education, Winneba offers 2 graduate level intensive courses on Language Description and Analysis in January 2011, one in morpho-syntax and one in computational methods.

The course in morpho-syntax has the title:

Introduction into Lexical-Functional Grammar. The course reviews the basic principles of Generative Grammar with emphasis on the framework Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), and gives practical training in applying the theory and its formalism to language data, predominantly from Ghanaian languages.

Instructor: Prof. Lars Hellan, NTNU, Norway.

Time: Jan 10, 11, 12, 13, with sessions in the morning and afternoon, including training sessions.

The course in computational methods has the title:

Language Description and Analysis - digital linguistic tools and their use.

The course will focus on creating and managing of small research corpus and text annotation. The participants will learn to start a linguistic research project in the domain of language documentation and learn about linguistic methodology and themes in language documentation.

Instructor: Prof. Dorothee Beermann, NTNU, Norway.

Time: Jan 17, 18, 19, 20, with sessions in the morning and afternoon, including training sessions.

The course is open to graduate students and staff from all Ghanaian institutions involved in Linguistics. All prospective participants in the course should register with the Faculty of Languages Education from today through January 8, 2011.

Previous Events

TypeCraft developers' Meeting, Trondheim, Late October/November 2010

The TypeCraft developers' meeting took place at the beginning of November. You probably have already noticed that a new box has appeared on your TypeCraft navigation bar. The *TypeCraft corpus --> New Corpus* special wiki page will help you to create a research corpus. Using a wiki template format it will allow you to encode metadata for different text types. Please try this out!

As usual we will first test the wiki-corpus function in TypeCraft classes. Think of the corpus wiki pages as a first step towards an integration of annotated texts with a research corpus. Often we want a repository of texts of different types, such as newspaper article, short stories, transcribed audi-material, but we only want to annotated parts of the material. Annotated part of texts should be related to the source texts. This will be possible in the near future, but first we would like your feed-back:

• How much text and what type of texts would you like to store?
• What are your ideas about the relation between annotated parts of text and source text?
• Is it feasible to work with Infoboxes to encode metadata?

At present the corpus texts that you create are visible to the general public, something that you should take into consideration when you test the new TC-wiki corpus interface.

Notice also that we added automatic transliteration of Telugu text to the system. When inspecting texts from Telugu in the TC-Text Editor you find *Phrase View translit* as one of the options on the drop-down menu of *Phrases*. Enjoy!

COLING 2010

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Demo Session 1 - Language Processing, Data Annotation

Cloud Computing for Linguists

Dorothee Beermann, Pavel Mihaylow

The Trondheim Workshop in Language Description and Documentation

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim September 6th - 9th, 2010

For more information follow the link above.

• Mini-Workshop on TC, organized by the Relikwa Team,

University of Cocody (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire),

Dates: 14th (10°30'- 15°30') and 15th (9° - 14°) January 2010.

Place: At the "Wireless Place"!

Contact: Joseph BOGNY (ILA, Bureau 4,joseph.bogny@ltml.ci).

• Digital methods for speech and text processing,

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Institute for Language and Communication Studies, Spring Semester 2010.

Dates: Semesterstart: 13th January 2010.

Place: Dragvoll, Building 4,level5, LINGLAB

Contact: Wim van Dommelen and Dorothee Beermann

Short Course Description

This course gives an introduction to the use of digital methods for processing spoken and written speech. As main tools for speech analysis the Praat and Typecraft software will be used. The analysis involves transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), segmentation and annotation of speech recordings. Text material will be analyzed morphologically and words and morphemes will be annotated using several tiers of annotation. The build-up and management of small corpora and develop and understanding of standards for text analysis and their implementation is part of the pensum.

16 - 19 November 2009, Toolbox-TypeCraft workshop at the University of Ghana, Legon, Department of Linguistics. For more information go to the TCwiki page --> Technology for Linguistics. For details about the recently held Toolbox-TypeCraft workshop, go to Toolbox-TypeCraft_Workshop_Legon_2009.

The workshop consist of a series of separate sessions focusing on computational lexicography and interlinear glossing and digital language documentation on-line.

October 29th - November 1st 2009, Fall developers' meeting in Trondheim, Norway.

Bugs fixed:

• Login expiration -- login shouldn't expire any more unless you are idle for more than an hour.
• File upload -- updating existing uploaded files and deleting uploaded files works now.

New:

• MediaWiki updated to the latest stable version, 1.15.1.

Upcoming goodies:

• New search interface (to use Google Web Toolkit)
• Offline client (downloadable from our wiki)
• Alternative ways of exporting data to MS Word and OpenOffice.org
• Integration with GOLD
• New online editor (again Google Web Toolkit)

TypeCraft participates in a workshop on a Cyberinfrastructure for Linguistics:

Cyberling 2009: Towards a Cyberinfrastructure for Linguistics

Workshop on linguistic Tools (existing and future "killer apps")

Friday 17 July — Sunday 19 July, Berkeley University, USA.

Small Tools for Cross-Linguistic Research. Workshop at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. June 15th - 16th 2009.

Dorothee Beermann, Pavel Mihaylov. TypeCraft - linguistic data and knowledge sharing. - Open Access in linguistic methodology.

April 15 - April 22 2009 TYPECRAFT DEVELOPERS' MEETING

Language Technologies for African Languages, March 31 2009, Athens, Greece.

Workshop at the annual meeting of the European Association for Computational Linguistics

Dorothee Beermann, Pavel Mihaylov Interlinear glossing and its role in theoretical and descriptive studies of African and other lesser­-documented languages

TypeCraft at the International Student Festival - ISFITovation in Trondheim, 26 february 2009

When: 26 February 2009, 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm Where: Realfagbygget, R7, Gloshaugen campus, NTNU. Chairman: Arne Sølvberg, Dean, Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, NTNU

Typecraft, Software for minority languages Lulesamisk and Edo. Ota Ogie and Ass. prof. Dorothee Beermann, Department of Language and Communication Studies

University of Surrey, Institute of Advanced Studies Creating Infrastructure for Canonical Typology, 9 January 2009 - 10 January 2009

Dorothee Beermann: From interlinear glossing to standard annotation.

23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, October 1, 2008, Uppsala University

Dorothee Beermann and Pavel Mihaylov: TypeCraft: Language annotation for human beings

SEPT 2 - SEPT 5 2008 TYPECRAFT DEVELOPERS' MEETING

COLING 2008 Manchester, August 24, 2008

Lars Hellan, NTNU: From Grammar-Independent Construction Enumeration to Lexical Types in Computational Grammars at COLING Workshop Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks 2008 (GEAF 2008).

WALC 2008 - July 28 - August 3, 2008

Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu, University of Ghana. The Construction label project: a tool for typological study.

Completed Projects

2008

Annotation and Documentation of LuleSámi between the Institute for Language and Communication Studies at NTNU, Trondheim Norway and the LuleSámi Center Árran