Challenges to Representing Personal Names and Language Names in Language Archives: Examples from Northeast India (open access)

Challenges to Representing Personal Names and Language Names in Language Archives: Examples from Northeast India

Article reviewing one particular challenge to data management relevant to South Asia, which is the complexity of names (of individuals, groups, and languages). It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives (open access)

Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

This is the hierarchical coding scheme used for qualitative analysis of interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: June 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
User needs in language archives: Findings from interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users (open access)

User needs in language archives: Findings from interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users

This article is an exploratory study providing empirical data on language archive user needs and supports some anecdotal evidence of known issues facing language archive end-users, depositors, and managers in primarily academic contexts.
Date: April 2022
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Presentation describing the ongoing CoRSAL (Computational Resource for South Asian Languages) project, including background on the UNT Digital Library infrastructure and metadata schema, specific fields that have presented issues or areas of discussion for language data records (language, creator/contributor, and relation), and final conclusions about the collaboration so far.
Date: September 30, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks (open access)

STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks

This paper describes the use of Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns by designing tasks that are compelling to speech and natural language processing researchers while addressing technical challenges in language documentation and exploiting growing archives of endangered language data.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Levow, Gina-Anne; Bender, Emily M.; Littell, Patrick; Howell, Kristen; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Crowgey, Joshua et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

A partial example of a Data Management Plan, with post-project comments

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an example of a data management plan for a linguistics archiving project.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: de Reuse, Willem
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork (open access)

Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork

Book chapter defining descriptive linguistic fieldwork, explores tasks that fall under this definition, outlines goals of descriptive linguistic fieldwork, and identifies aspirations and limitations of linguistic fieldworkers.
Date: 2011
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & de Reuse, Willem
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Archive and database architecture and usability

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation discusses the use of a database for language archiving through the example of Himalayan Tibeto-Burman languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Caplow, Nancy J.; Khular, Sumshot & Willis Oko, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Harmonized Annotation and Data Formats

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation asks the authors various questions regarding harmonized annotation and data.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Simons, Gary F.; Aristar-Dry, Helen; Palmer, Alexis & Kung, Susan Smythe
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

A View from CL/NLP

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an overview of the data structures needed for computational linguistics and natural language processing.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Palmer, Alexis
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Major Processes Affecting Klallam Vowels (open access)

The Major Processes Affecting Klallam Vowels

This paper provides a more detailed description of the major processes affecting the Klallam vowels.
Date: August 1998
Creator: Montler, Timothy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reproducible Research in Linguistics: A Position Statement on Data Citation and Attribution in Our Field (open access)

Reproducible Research in Linguistics: A Position Statement on Data Citation and Attribution in Our Field

This article is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues.
Date: December 6, 2017
Creator: Berez-Kroeker, Andrea; Gawne, Lauren; Kung, Susan Smythe; Kelly, Barbara F.; Heston, Tyler; Holton, Gary et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Language and Dialects in Straits Salishan (open access)

Language and Dialects in Straits Salishan

This paper compares the Klallam and Northern Straits languages within the Straits Salishan group of languages and dialects.
Date: August 1996
Creator: Montler, Timothy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library