I just got back from attending the Chicago Colloquium for Digital Humanities and Computer Science (21-22 of November). I presented the paper “Language Preservation: A case study in collecting and digitizing machine-tractable language data.” The paper was about work I have done with Jim Cowie and Steve Helmreich of New Mexico State University on our collection efforts to collect resources for lesser-studied languages. It reported on work we have done on the Paraguayan indigenous language Guarani, and Uighur, an Altaic Turkic language spoken in the Xinjiang province of China.
Monthly Archives: November 2010
THATCamp Chicago
I was an invited participant at THATCamp Chicago (The Humanities and Technology Camp), “a user-generated unconference where humanists and technologists work together for the common good” which was held on November 20th. I participated in a number of great sessions. Of particular interest to me was the GeoTools/GIS session. Jo Guldi, a historian at Harvard, was interested in what she calls ‘geo-parsing’– identifying place names in text. She is interested in detecting subaltern agency in Britain by analyzing books published between 1848 and 1919. It sounds like a fun named entity extraction task and I volunteered to help her. I also attended sessions on GIT and XML/TEI.
topiCS paper – revised
Jeanette Gundel, Nancy Hedberg, and I just finished a revision of our paper: Underspecification of Cognitive Status in Reference Production: Some Empirical Predictions and resubmitted it to the journal, Topics In Cognitive Science.