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Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of Alexis Palmer giving a presentation on "A View from CL/NLP" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. The photo is taken from behind several seated members of the audience; Palmer is standing behind a podium and projected slides are visible to her right, on a screen mounted to a brick wall.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of Shobhana Chelliah standing behind a podium at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages and smiling broadly. A part of a projection screen and partial slide are visible behind her on the left, against a brick wall.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of Sadaf Munshi standing behind a podium with her palms held up, during her presentation "Ethics in Data Sharing" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. A presentation slide titled "Ethics in data sharing" is projected on a screen in the center of the image, against a brick wall. An audience member is partially visible in the far left part of the image.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of Shobhana Chelliah standing behind a podium and gesturing with both hands held out toward her left, while at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Behind her, the final slide of a presentation with the title "Ethics in data sharing: major questions" is projected on a screen against a brick wall. The slide includes contact information for Sadaf Munshi and links to the Burushaski Language Resource and Kashmir Oral History.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attributive Constructions in Saanich (open access)

Attributive Constructions in Saanich

This paper gives a descriptive sketch of the various structures of the Saanich dialect of North Straits Salish has to express attribution and to look at structures similar to those designated relative clauses in other Salishan languages from a cross-linguistic and pan-Salishan point of view.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Montler, Timothy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Auxiliaries and other grammatical categories in Klallam (open access)

Auxiliaries and other grammatical categories in Klallam

This paper describes a close look at the distribution in constructions of the closed class of complex predicate forming stems in Klallam traditionally called 'auxiliaries.'
Date: August 2001
Creator: Montler, Timothy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining Event Durations: Models and Error Analysis (open access)

Determining Event Durations: Models and Error Analysis

This paper presents models to predict event durations.
Date: June 1, 2018
Creator: Vempala, Alakananda; Blanco, Eduardo & Palmer, Alexis
Object Type: Paper
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
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
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
Prenominal possessives in Yiddish: mayn khaver versus mayner a khaver (open access)

Prenominal possessives in Yiddish: mayn khaver versus mayner a khaver

Article provides a systematic comparison and detailed analysis of two prenominal possessive constructions in Yiddish, the familiar mayn khaver ‘my friend’ and the less well-known mayner a khaver ‘a friend of mine.’
Date: February 21, 2022
Creator: Roehrs, Dorian
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Klallam Demonstratives (open access)

Klallam Demonstratives

This paper updates and expands upon the componential analysis provided by Thompson and Thompson 1071 of the Klallam language's set of demonstrative determiners.
Date: 2007
Creator: Montler, Timothy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Klallam from A to B (open access)

Klallam from A to B

This paper describes a typology of paths.
Date: August 2004
Creator: Montler, Timothy
Object Type: Paper
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
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
Some Klallam Paradigms (open access)

Some Klallam Paradigms

This paper presents the various transitive and intransitive paradigms of Klallam to make this data and grammatical information available preliminary to a thorough descriptive treatment.
Date: August 1996
Creator: Montler, Timothy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthetic data for annotation and extraction of family history information from clinical text (open access)

Synthetic data for annotation and extraction of family history information from clinical text

This article investigates the use of synthetic data for the annotation and automated extraction of family history information relating to cases of cardiac disease from Norwegian clinical text. This work assesses the validity and applicability of the annotated synthetic corpus using machine learning techniques. The methodology outlined in this article may be useful in other situations where limited availability of clinical text hinders NLP tasks.
Date: July 14, 2021
Creator: Brekke, Pål H.; Kasicheyanula, Taraka; Pilán, Ildikó; Nytrø, Øystein & Øvrelid, Lilja
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Serial Verbs and Complex Paths in Klallam (open access)

Serial Verbs and Complex Paths in Klallam

This article describes and illustrates the construction of complex paths and discusses the place of Klallam in a typology of motion events.
Date: 2008
Creator: Montler, Timothy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time (open access)

Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time

This paper presents a new corpus of Wikipedia articles annotated with temporally-oriented possession or tracking concrete objects as they change hands over time.
Date: January 2019
Creator: Chinnappa, Dhivya; Palmer, Alexis & Blanco, Eduardo
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
WikiPossessions: Possession Timeline Generation as an Evaluation Benchmark for Machine Reading Comprehension of Long Texts (open access)

WikiPossessions: Possession Timeline Generation as an Evaluation Benchmark for Machine Reading Comprehension of Long Texts

Article presents WikiPossessions, a new benchmark corpus for the task of temporally-oriented possession (TOP), or tracking objects as they change hands over time. In addition to the corpus, the authors release evaluation scripts and a baseline model for the task.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Blanco, Eduardo; Palmer, Alexis & Chinnappa, Dhivya
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
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

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
Traditional Personal Names in Klallam (open access)

Traditional Personal Names in Klallam

This paper describes the phonology, morphology, and syntax of personal names in Klallam, and includes a description of the importance of personal names in Klallam.
Date: January 7, 2012
Creator: Montler, Timothy; Smith, Adeline & Charles, Beatrice
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classifying Semantic Clause Types: Modeling Context and Genre Characteristics with Recurrent Neural Networks and Attention (open access)

Classifying Semantic Clause Types: Modeling Context and Genre Characteristics with Recurrent Neural Networks and Attention

This paper introduces an attention mechanism that pinpoints relevant context not only for the current instance, but also for the larger context.
Date: August 2017
Creator: Becker, Maria; Staniek, Michael; Nastase, Vivi; Palmer, Alexis & Frank, Anette
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library