26 June 2014 | |
9:00–9:10 | Introduction |
Paper Session 1: Computational Tools for Endangered Languages Research | |
9:10–9:30 | Aikuma: A Mobile App for Collaborative Language Documentation Steven Bird, Florian R. Hanke, Oliver Adams and Haejoong Lee |
9:30–9:50 | Small Languages, Big Data: Multilingual Computational Tools and Techniques for the Lexicography of Endangered Languages Martin Benjamin and Paula Radetzky |
9:50–10:10 | LingSync & the Online Linguistic Database: New Models for the Collection and Management of Data for Language Communities, Linguists and Language Learners Joel Dunham, Gina Cook and Joshua Horner |
10:10–10:40 | Modeling the Noun Morphology of Plains Cree Conor Snoek, Dorothy Thunder, Kaidi Lõo, Antti Arppe, Jordan Lachler, Sjur Moshagen and Trond Trosterud |
10:40–11:00 | Coffee Break |
Paper Session 2: Applying Computational Methods to Endangered Languages | |
11:00–11:30 | Learning Grammar Specifications from IGT: A Case Study of Chintang Emily M. Bender, Joshua Crowgey, Michael Wayne Goodman and Fei Xia |
11:30–12:00 | Creating Lexical Resources for Endangered Languages Khang Nhut Lam, Feras Al Tarouti and Jugal Kalita |
12:00–12:20 | Documenting Endangered Languages with the WordsEye Linguistics Tool Morgan Ulinski, Anusha Balakrishnan, Daniel Bauer, Bob Coyne, Julia Hirschberg and Owen Rambow |
12:20–2:00 | Lunch |
2:00–3:00 | Poster and Tool Demonstration Session |
Estimating Native Vocabulary Size in an Endangered Language Timofey Arkhangelskiy | |
InterlinguaPlus Machine Translation Approach for Local Languages: Ekegusii & Swahili Edward Ombui, Peter Wagacha and Wanjiku Ng’ang’a | |
Building and Evaluating Somali Language Corpora Abdillahi Nimaan | |
Additional demonstrations of tools presented in paper session 1 | |
Paper Session 3: Infrastructure and Community Development for Computational Research on Endangered Languages | |
3:00–3:30 | SeedLing: Building and Using a Seed corpus for the Human Language Project Guy Emerson, Liling Tan, Susanne Fertmann, Alexis Palmer and Michaela Regneri |
3:30–4:00 | Coffee Break |
4:00–4:20 | Short-Term Projects, Long-Term Benefits: Four Student NLP Projects for Low-Resource Languages Alexis Palmer and Michaela Regneri |
4:20–4:50 | Data Warehouse, Bronze, Gold, STEC, Software Doug Cooper |
4:50–5:20 | Time to Change the "D" in "DEL" Stephen Beale |
5:20–5:30 | Concluding Remarks |