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.

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.

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.

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.

Video recording from Day 1 of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. In this video, Will de Reuse, Vincent Randall, Chairwoman Jane Russell-Winiecki, and Wilhelm Meya welcome everyone to the conference and report on the current state of some of the varieties of Dene/Athabaskan languages.

This video continues from the Day 1 Part 1 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Wilhelm Meya continues his discussion and is followed by Sally Rice’s announcement of the second Dene Migration Workshop and reports on previous symposia.

This video continues from the Day 1 Part 2 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Ramon Riley reports on the state of White Mountain Apache, and Velma Hale presents on the DNA model from a Dine perspective.

This video continues from the Day 1 Part 3 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Beatrice Lee and Cordella Moses, with Althea Antonio and Pam Harvey, report on their efforts to teach Apache in a school setting.

This video continues from the Day 1 Part 4 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Bernadette SantaMaria discusses attitudes about Apache language and how to revitalize it.

This video continues from the Day 1 Part 5 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Oscar Rodriguez and David Gohre report on the state of Lipan Apache of West Texas.

This video continues from the Day 1 Part 6 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Joyce McDonough presents. Crystal Lightfoot describes the language revitalization efforts of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma.

This video continues from the Day 1 Part 7 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Crystal Lightfoot finishes up her discussion of revitalization efforts of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma. Terrill Goseyun explains generational differences in Apache language loss.

Video recording from Day 2 of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. McKinley Alden describes the articulatory and acoustic phonetics of back consonants in Southern Haida.

This video continues from the Day 2 Part 1 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Sally Rice reports on the current state of the Pan-Athapaskan Comparative Lexicon (PACL).

This video continues from the Day 2 Part 2 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Theodore Fernald describes efforts to teach the structure of Navajo in Philadelphia. Sharon Hargus details blends in Witsuwit’en.

This video continues from the Day 2 Part 3 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Jasmine Spencer describes bird-talk in Dene stores. Siri Tuttle begins her discussion of vocables and vowel inventories in Lower Tanana Dene.

This video continues from the Day 2 Part 4 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Siri Tuttle finishes her discussion of vocables and vowel inventories in Lower Tanana Dene. Josh Holden explains semantics.

This video continues from the Day 2 Part 5 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Justin Spence, Ying Liu, and Tyler Lee-Wynant describe syntactic annotation of a Hupa text corpus. Bill Poser describes how to wonder in Carrier.

This video continues from the Day 2 Part 6 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Michael Krauss discusses Apachean in the broadcast perspective. Kevan Joe considers the lexical semantics of Navajo classificatory verbs.

Video recording from Day 3 of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Various conference participants speak in memory of linguist Keith H. Basso

This video continues from the Day 3 Part 1 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Conference participants break down into smaller groups to discuss the various topics relating to the current state of Apachean linguistics and languages.

This video continues from the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop Day 3 Part 2. Conference participants continue to discuss Apachean linguistics and languages in small groups and come back together to report on what they discussed.

This video continues from the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop Day 3 Part 3. Conference participants wrap up their reports about what they discussed in their groups. The conference is closed with a prayer led by Don Decker and Terrill Goseyun.

This paper introduces an attention mechanism that pinpoints relevant context not only for the current instance, but also for the larger context.