AG/Workshop #6

Raum / Room: U2-232

It happens quite frequently that linguistic data which has been collected, recorded and processed with great expenditure of time and effort disappear in the linguist's desk drawer or are only accessible to former project scientists. In order to improve this situation, several initiatives started in the 1990s with the goal of archiving linguistic data and making them accessible to other linguists. Examples are CHILDES, ISLE/IMDI und OLAC. The language archives which have been created by these and subsequent initiatives include DoBeS, PARADISEC, HRELP, AILLA and E-MELD. They permit access to data which have already been prepared, and will thereby permit many linguistic projects to omit the phases of data collection and preparation and start directly with the analysis phase. This economises on money and time, and makes the project work more efficient. Some of the data offered by language archives are annotated, and are relevant for several research areas, including for instance language acquisition and sign languages. A further domain of archiving is the documentation of endangered languages, which require long term archiving for many reasons. In this connection the interoperability of language resources, both data and tools, is especially important in order to guarantee long-term re-usability even when technologies change. The Working Group will treat the following aspects of archive design: (a) archive standards (data formats and working techniques, portability), (b) ethical and legal aspects of archiving (long-term access), (c) access methods (internet and other media) and software for data access and data manipulation (data browsers, analysis software), (d) archive use for purposes of language revitalisation. Working Group contributions which describe existing and functioning archives will be preferred. With this strategy the Working Group aims to offer linguists concrete support in the search for accessible data. The languages of the Working Group are German and, preferably, English.

Liste der Vorträge

• Peter Berck, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Marc Kemps-Snijders, Albert Russel, Peter Wittenburg:
  Language Archive Utilization
• Daan Broeder, Andreas Claus, Freddy Offenga, Romuald Skiba, Paul Trilsbeek, Peter Wittenburg:
  Language Archives at MPI
• Stefanie Dipper, Michael Götze, Stavros Skopeteas:
  A Typological Language Archive for Reseraching Information Structure
• Mirjam Keßler, Thierry Declerck:
  Data Categories as the link between Langauge archives and NLP tools
• Jost Gippert:
  The TITUS text archive: 10 years of Unicode application revisited
• Kathrin Kirsch:
  Working Cross-Platform: a case Study in Coding, Sharing and Analyzing Corpora
• David Nathan:
  Protocol and the language data life-cycle at ELAR
• Jochen Rehbein, Kai Wörner:
  Mehrsprachige Korpora geschriebener und gesprochener Sprache(n) am Sonderforschungs-bereich Mehrsprachigkeit - Modelle, Werkzeuge und Daten
• Adam Saulwick, Rob Godemans, Alexis Dimitiradis, Menzo Windhouwer:
  Architecture and procetures for the integration of linguistic databases in the Typological Database System
• Monika S. Schmid:
  The Language Attrition Research Project
• Gary Simons, Helen Aristar-Dry:
  E-MELD: openness, ontologies and interoperability
• Mihaela Vela, Silvia Hansen-Schirra:
  The CroCo Translation Archive
• Ulrike Zeshan:
  Archiving sign languages