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Phrasal Proper Names in German and Norwegian (open access)

Phrasal Proper Names in German and Norwegian

Article discusses the morpho-syntax of phrasal proper names like Deutsche Bahn 'German Railway' and Norske Skog 'Norwegian Forest' in German and Norwegian. The authors document that phrasal proper names may show features of recursivity evidenced most clearly in Norwegian.
Date: September 9, 2023
Creator: Julien, Marit & Roehrs, Dorian
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
What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity (open access)

What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity

Article describes how the authors present an analysis of eight measures used for quantifying morphological complexity of natural languages. The measures they study are corpus-based measures of morphological complexity with varying requirements for corpus annotation.
Date: September 22, 2022
Creator: Çöltekin, Çağrı & Rama, Taraka
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
CoRSAL 6th Annual Planning Meeting captions transcript

CoRSAL 6th Annual Planning Meeting

Video recording of Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 6th Annual Planning Meeting which focused on collecting, organizing, and archiving materials for dictionaries.
Date: September 30, 2022
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of Linguistics.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pena Phaibok of Laihui

Video of a performance by the Laihui ensemble of pena players at Marjing Mayanglambam's weaning ceremony where the baby eats solid food for the first time. Ballads includes a portion from Moirang Kangleirol. The event was organized in Keishamthong by Mayanglambam Mangangsana.
Date: August 13, 2000
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of Lai Haraoba pena ballads and dance captions transcript

Performance of Lai Haraoba pena ballads and dance

Video of a festival featuring dance and pena performances. Elders are shown assembling the pena. Pena cholom is where a group of pena balladeers play together organized by ranks where the highest ranking balladeer plays first, and so on. The structure and components of the pena are described. Other instruments similar to the pena are shown, like tingteila of the Tangkhuls, and Laa of Kabui (Rongmei). The final segment includes a voice-over in English describing spirituality and symbolism of pena culture in Manipur, and the Lai Haraoba celebration.
Date: 1999
Creator: Audio Visual Research Centre
Object Type: Video
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
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
CoRSAL 5th Annual Planning Meeting captions transcript

CoRSAL 5th Annual Planning Meeting

Video recording of Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 5th Annual Planning Meeting which focused on increasing engagement with CoRSAL through social media.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of Linguistics.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developing Infrastructure for a Computational Resource for South Asian Languages 5

Presentation slides for the introduction of the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 5th Annual Planning Meeting which focused on increasing engagement with CoRSAL through social media.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Presentation
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
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc 2021 (open access)

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc 2021

Conference proceedings of 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. It includes 14 peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the workshop and an introduction from the workshop organizers.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Book
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
A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method (open access)

A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method

Article addressing if a new Bayesian framework can be introduced and ways to overcome subjectivity. The authors introduce a new method called Generalized Bayesian Dating (GBD) for inferring dates of language groups from lexical and phonological data. This work has implications for future performance testing in the area of linguistic dating.
Date: August 12, 2020
Creator: Kasicheyanula, Taraka & Søren Wichmann
Object Type: Article
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
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

4th Annual Meeting for Reporting and Exploring

Introductory presentation for the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Archives: Perspectives from Three Scholars of Tibeto-Burman

Presentation on the author's interviews with three scholars of Bodish languages about their experiences, materials, and preservation plans and their reflections on language archives, particularly in regards to accessibility and usability for pedagogy. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Hildebrandt, Kristine
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Presentation on Language Endangerment and Political Instability Research Processes]

This presentation touches on the author's approach to their research interests. This presentation is from the Conference on Language Endangerment and Political Instability held at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx on October 4-6, 2018.
Date: October 4, 2018
Creator: Windsor, Leah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Presentation on Research of Peter Ives]

Presentation on research interests of the author. This presentation is from the Conference on Language Endangerment and Political Instability held at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx on October 4-6, 2018.
Date: October 4, 2018
Creator: Ives, Peter
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Language Conflict & Language Rights

Presentation on the book and course created by Davies & Dubinsky. This presentation is from the Conference on Language Endangerment and Political Instability held at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx on October 4-6, 2018.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Davies, William D. & Dubinsky, Stanley
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Language Differences and Armed Conflict

A presentation that introduces language differences and armed conflict as a way to approach language endangerment and political instability research. This presentation is from the Conference on Language Endangerment and Political Instability held at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx on October 4-6, 2018.
Date: October 4, 2018
Creator: Bormann, Nils-Christian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Language Endangerment and Political Instability

The presentation introduced the Conference on Language Endangerment and Political Instability held at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx on October 4-6, 2018.
Date: October 4, 2018
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Meernik, James David & King, Kimi L.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Presentation on the Research of Miklós Kontra]

Presentation on the author's research and areas of interest. This presentation is from the Conference on Language Endangerment and Political Instability held at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx on October 4-6, 2018.
Date: October 4, 2018
Creator: Kontra, Miklós
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library