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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
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
An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics (open access)

An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics

Article presents a fully automated workflow for phylogenetic reconstruction on large datasets, consisting of two novel methods, one for fast detection of cognates and one for fast Bayesian phylogenetic inference.
Date: 2019
Creator: Kasicheyanula, Taraka & List, Johann-Mattis
Object Type: Article
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
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
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

Computational Resource for South Asian Languages

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an overview of the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages project.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Computerized Concordance/Dictionary (open access)

A Computerized Concordance/Dictionary

This paper illustrates an example of how the linguist's data organization burden can be greatly alleviated with the help of a computer.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Montler, Timothy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Corpus of Negations and their Underlying Positive Interpretations (open access)

A Corpus of Negations and their Underlying Positive Interpretations

Article presenting a corpus of negations and their underlying positive interpretations using negations from Simple Wikipedia, automatically generating potential positive interpretations, and collecting manual annotations that effectively rewrite the negation in positive terms. This article was presented at the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (SEM 2019) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 6-7, 2019.
Date: June 2019
Creator: Sarabi, Zahra; Killian, Erin; Blanco, Eduardo & Palmer, Alexis
Object Type: Article
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
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

Ethics in Data Sharing

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation discusses the ethics involved in data management and data sharing.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
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
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
Illegal is not a Noun: Linguistic Form for Detection of Pejorative Nominalizations (open access)

Illegal is not a Noun: Linguistic Form for Detection of Pejorative Nominalizations

This paper focuses on a particular type of abusive language, targeting expressions in which typically neutral adjectives take on pejorative meaning when used as nouns.
Date: August 2017
Creator: Palmer, Alexis; Robinson, Melissa & Phillips, Kristy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
It’s not a Non-Issue: Negation as a Source of Error in Machine Translation (open access)

It’s not a Non-Issue: Negation as a Source of Error in Machine Translation

Article investigates whether translating negation is an issue for modern MT systems using 17 translation directions as test bed and provides a linguistically motivated analysis that explains the majority of the findings. The authors release their annotations and code to replicate analysis here: https://github.com/mosharafhossain/negation-mt.
Date: November 2020
Creator: Hossain, Md Mosharaf; Blanco, Eduardo; Palmer, Alexis & Anastasopoulos, Antonios
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

The Lamkang Community Uses for CoRSAL

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation looks at language archiving needs and issues from the perspective of the Lamkang community.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Presentation
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

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
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
Neural classification of Norwegian radiology reports: using NLP to detect findings in CT-scans of children (open access)

Neural classification of Norwegian radiology reports: using NLP to detect findings in CT-scans of children

This article trained machine learning techniques to classify Norwegian radiology reports of pediatric CT examinations according to their description of abnormal findings. The developed models are robust with respect to different contexts, and may be used in quality assurance processes.
Date: March 4, 2021
Creator: Dahl, Fredrik A.; Rama, Taraka; Hurlen, Petter; Brekke, Pål H.; Husby, Haldor; Gundersen, Tore et al.
Object Type: Article
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