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  Table of Contents
  E-MELD Proposal
 
  Workshop Reports
 
  Symposia
 
  Papers
  2007 and Forthcoming
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen. Forthcoming. 'Preserving Digital Language Materials: Some Considerations for Community Initiatives.' Language and Poverty ed. by Wayne Harbert, Sally McConnell-Ginet, and Amanda Lynn Miller. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen, Jessica Boynton, & Steve Moran. Forthcoming. 'The E-MELD School of Best Practices: A Community-Driven Resource.' Endangered Languages and Their Documentation ed. by Lenore Grenoble and Louanna Furbee. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  2006
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen, and Gary Simons. 2006. 'Good, Better, and Best Practice.' Proceedings of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft, Bielefeld, 2006. [Bielefeld-Dry-Simons.pdf]
 
  • Helen Aristar-Dry. 2006. 'E-MELD and GOLD.' Presentation for the Surrey Morphology Group, Surrey, England. February 20.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen & Gary Simons. 2006. 'Good, Better, and Best Practice: Lessons from the E-MELD Project.' Workshop on Language Resource Archives - 0. Standards, Creation and Access. Presentation for the 28th Annual Convention of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS). Bielefeld, Germany. February 22-24.
 
  • Boynton, Jessica, Steve Moran, Helen Aristar-Dry & Anthony Aristar. 2006. 'E-MELD and the School of Best Practices: An Ongoing Community Effort.' Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork Conference, Sydney. December 4-6.
 
  • Langendoen, D. Terence, Scott Farrar, & William D. Lewis. 2006. 'An Infrastructure for Linguistic Data on the Web.' In the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Social Science 2006, Manchester, UK, June 28-30.
 
  • Alvarez, Alison, Lori Levin, Robert Frederking, Erik Peterson & Simon Fung. 2006. 'Tools for Elicitation Corpus Creation.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [alvarez.doc]
 
  • Anderson, Deborah. 2006. 'Endangered Languages in Unicode, Software, Fonts and Keyboards.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [anderson.doc]
 
  • Aristar, Anthony. 2006. 'Toward Implementation of Best Practice: Other E-MELD Outcomes.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [EMELD2006.ppt]
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen & Gary Simons. 2006. 'Preservation, Intelligibility, and Interoperability: E-MELD Vision of Digital Language Documentation.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [aristar-dry-simons.pdf]
 
  • Berez, Andrea & Gary Holton. 2006. 'Designing Community-Tech Workflows: A Field Linguist's Guide to Putting Good Practice Language Technology into the Hands of Speakers.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [berez-holton.pdf]
 
  • Ekpenyong, Moses, Nnamso Umoh, Mfon Udoinyang, Golden Ibiang, Eno-Abasi Urua, & Dafydd Gibbon. 2006. 'Infrastructure to Empowerment: An OSWA+GIS Model for Documenting Local Languages.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [ekpenyong.doc]
 
  • Farrar, Scott. 2006. 'A Universal Data Model for Linguistic Annotation Tools. 'Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [farrar.pdf]
 
  • Gibbon, Dafydd. 2006. 'Fieldwork Computing: PDA Applications. 'Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [gibbon.pdf]
 
  • Good, Jeff & Hendryx-Parker, Calvin . 2006. 'Modeling Contested Categorization in Linguistic Databases.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [GoodHendryxParker-Modelling.pdf]
 
  • Hellmuth, Chris, Alexander Nakhimovsky & Myers, Tom. 2006. 'Linguist's Toolbox and XML Technologies.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [hellmuth.doc]
 
  • Johnston, Trevor & Crasborn, Onno. 2006. 'The Use of Annotation Software in the Creation of Signed Language Corpora.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [johnston-crashborn.pdf]
 
  • Lewis, William D., Scott Farrar, & D. Terence Langendoen. 2006. 'Linguistics in the Internet Age: Tools and Fair Use.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [lewis.pdf]
 
  • Noske, Manuela & Laura A. Otaala. 2006. 'A Database of Interlinear Glossed Ateso Texts.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [noske-otaala.doc]
 
  • Schmidt, Thomas, Christian Chiarcos, Timm Lehmberg, Georg Rehm, Andreas Witt & Erherd Hinrichs. 2006. 'Avoiding Data Graveyards: From Heterogeneous Data Collected in Multiple Research Projects to Sustainable Linguistic Resources.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [schmidt.doc]
 
  • Simons, Gary F., & Baden Hughes. 2006. 'GOLD as a Standard for Linguistic Data Interoperation: A Road Map for Development.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [SimonsHughes.doc]
 
  • Trippel, Thorsten. 2006. 'The Missing Links in Documentary Linguistics: An Approach to Bridging the Gap Between Annotation Tools.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2006: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. East Lansing, Michigan. June 20-22. [trippel.pdf]
  2005
 
  • Chebotko, Artem, Yu Deng, Shiyong Lu, Farshad Fotouhi, & Anthony Aristar. 2005. 'An Ontology-Based Multimedia Annotator for the Semantic Web of Language Engineering.' International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Vol. 1(1). Pp. 50.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen. 2005. 'E-MELD Update.' Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archive Network (DELAMAN). Austin, TX. November 20-22.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen. 2005. 'The Digital Dark Age.' Workshop on Deploying Technology in Language Documentation, CELCNA (Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of North America), University of Arizona and the Center for American Indian Languages. April 7-10.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen. 2005. 'Workshop on Technology for Language Documentation in Speaker Communities (with Ian Maddieson).' Cornell Conference on Language and Poverty, Cornell University. October 13-16.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen. 2005. 'The GOLD Ontology.' Presented at the E-MELD Workshop on Ontologies and Data Categories in Language Description 2005. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. July 1-3.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen. 2005. 'The E-MELD School of Best Practices in Digital Language Documentation, A Tutorial on Archiving Digital Language Resources.' Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 4-hour workshop organized by the Open Language Archives Community Committee on Outreach, January 6.
  2004
 
  • Simons, Gary F., William D. Lewis, Scott O. Farrar, D. Terence Langendoen, Brian Fitzsimons & Hector Gonzalez. 2004. 'The Semantics of Markup: Mapping Legacy Markup Schemas to a Common Semantics.' Proceedings of the XMLNLP Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. [SOMFinal1col.pdf]
 
  • Lu, Shiyong, Dapeng Liu, Farshad Fotouhi, Ming Dong, Robert Reynolds, Anthony Aristar, Martha Ratliff, Geoff Nathan, Joseph Tan, & Ronald Powell. 2004. 'Language Engineering For The Semantic Web: A Digital Library For Endangered Languages.' International Journal of Information Research.
 
  • Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues. 2004. 'E-MELD Goals & 2004 Update.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2004: Workshop on Linguistic Databases and Best Practice. Detroit, MI. July 15-18.
 
  • Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues. 2004. 'The School of Best Practice.' Presentation at E-MELD Symposium on Endangered Data vs. Enduring Practice, LSA, 2004. Boston, MA. January 8-11.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen. 2004. 'The E-MELD Project.' Poster Presentation for Session on Endangered Languages 2004, at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, CA. January 6-9, 2005.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen. 2004. 'E-MELD School of Best Practices in Digital Language Documentation.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2004: Workshop on Linguistic Databases and Best Practice. Detroit, MI. July 15-18.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen. 2004. 'E-MELD Archive Access Procedures.' DELAMAN (Digital Endangered Languages and Music Archive Network) Workshop on Archive Access, 2004. Nijmegen, Netherlands, November 29-30.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen. 2004. 'Metadata.' Presentation at E-MELD Symposium on Endangered Data vs. Enduring Practice. LSA, 2004. Boston, MA, January 8-11.
 
  • Farrar, Scott & D. Terence Langendoen. 2004. 'A Semantic Web for Linguistics.' Conference on Modeling Linguistic Information, 2004. University of Bielefeld, Germany, January 14-16.
 
  • Farrar, Scott & D. Terence Langendoen. 2004. 'Comparability of Language Data and Analysis.' Presentation at E-MELD Symposium on Endangered Data vs. Enduring Practice. LSA, 2004. Boston, MA, January 8-11.
 
  • Lewis, William. 2004. 'Resource Conversion.' Presentation at E-MELD Symposium on Endangered Data vs. Enduring Practice. LSA, 2004. Boston, MA, January 8-11.
 
  • Simons, Gary F., William D. Lewis, Scott Farrar, D. Terence Langendoen, Brian Fitzsimons & Hector Gonzalez. 2004. 'The Semantics of Markup: Mapping Legacy Markup Schemas to a Common Semantics.' Presentation at 4th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004. Barcelona, Spain. July 25-28.
 
  • Simons, Gary F., Brian Fitzsimons, D. Terence Langendoen, William D. Lewis, Scott Farrar, Alexis Lanham, Ruby Basham, & Hector Gonzalez. 2004. 'A Model for Interoperability: XML Documents as an RDF Database.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2004: Workshop on Linguistic Databases and Best Practice. Detroit, MI. July 15-18.
 
  • Simons, Gary F. 2004. 'Ensuring that Digital Data Last.' Presentation at E-MELD Symposium on 'Endangered Data vs. Enduring Practice.' LSA, 2004. Boston, MA, January 8-11.
  2003
 
  • Farrar, Scott & D. Terence Langendoen 2003. 'A Linguistic Ontology for the Semantic Web.' GLOT International Vol. 7(3). Pp. 97-100. [GLOT LinguisticOntology.pdf]
 
  • Bow, Catherine, Baden Hughes & Steven Bird. 'A Four-Level Model for Interlinear Text.' Submitted to Literary and Linguistic Computing. December 2003.
 
  • Hughes, Baden, Steven Bird & Catherine Bow. 2003. 'Encoding and Presenting Interlinear Text Using XML Technologies.' Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop, December 10, University of Melbourne, Australia. Pp. 105.
 
  • Stefan, Jeffrey, Robert Reynolds, Farshad Fotouhi, Anthony Aristar, Shiyong Lu, & Ming Dong. 2003. 'Evolution Based Approaches to the Preservation of Endangered Natural Languages.' Proceedings of the IEEE International Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2003). Canberra, Australia, December. Pp. 1980.
 
  • Grosky, W.I., F. Fotouhi, A. Aristar, M. Dong, H. Jamil, S. Lu, & R. Reynolds. 2003. 'A Digital Library for Endangered Languages.' Proceedings of the 2003 Nara Symposium for Digital Silk Roads. Nara, Japan. December. Pp. 85.
 
  • Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues. 2003. 'The School of Best Practice.' SOAS Workshop on Archives for Endangered Languages, 2003. London, England. November 21-22.
 
  • Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues. 2003. 'FIELD.Lex.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2003: Digitizing & Annotating Texts & Field Recordings. East Lansing, Michigan. July 11-13.
 
  • Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues. 2003. 'Language Codes & Language Families: Building a Dynamic Internet Resource for Linguistics.' Invited paper with honorarium, Department of Linguistics, University of California, April 29.
 
  • Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues. 2003. 'A Best Practice Infrastructure for the Preservation of Endangered Language Data.' Invited paper with honorarium. Department of Linguistics, University of California, April 28.
 
  • Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues. 2003. 'The FIELD Lexicon Tool: Ontologically based Linguistic Input.' ISO Preparation Workshop on Computational Lexica 2003, Max Planck Institute. Munich, Germany. February 23-26.
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen and Gayathri Sriram. 2003. 'The Showroom of Best Practice.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2003: Digitizing & Annotating Texts & Field Recordings. East Lansing, Michigan. July 11-13. [helengayathri-summary.ppt]
 
  • Bird, Steven, Cathy Bow, & Baden Hughes. 2003. 'Towards a General Model of Interlinear Text.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2003: Digitizing & Annotating Texts & Field Recordings. East Lansing, Michigan. [bowbadenbird-paper.pdf]
 
  • Farrar, Scott. 2003. 'New ways of thinking about lexical resources: A Proposal for the Semantic Web.' ISO Preparation Workshop on Computational Lexica, 2003. Munich, Germany. February 27.
 
  • Grosky, W.I., F. Fotouhi, A. Aristar, M. Dong, H. Jamil, S. Lu, & R. Reynolds. 2003. 'A Digital Library for Endangered Languages.' Proceedings of the 2003 Nara Symposium for Digital Silk Roads. Nara, Japan, December. Pp. 85-92.
 
  • Langendoen, D. Terence & Scott Farrar. 2003. 'Markup and the GOLD Ontology.' Presentation at the E-MELD Conference 2003: Digitizing & Annotating Texts & Field Recordings. East Lansing, Michigan, July 11-13. [langendoen-paper.pdf]
 
  • Lewis, William. 2003. 'Mining and Migrating Interlinear Text.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2003: Digitizing & Annotating Texts & Field Recordings. East Lansing, Michigan. July 11-13. [Lewis-paper.pdf]
 
  • Simons, Gary F. 2003. 'Roadmap to Best Practice for Texts.' Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2003: Digitizing & Annotating Texts & Field Recordings. East Lansing, Michigan. July 11-13. [paper-simons.html]
  2002
 
  • Aristar, Anthony. 2002. 'Managing LINGUIST Codes for Ancient and Constructed Languages.' OLAC Working Group on Language Codes. [HTML]
 
  • Aristar, Anthony. 2002. 'LINGUIST Codes for Ancient and Constructed Languages.' OLAC Working Group on Language Codes. [HTML]
 
  • Aristar, Anthony, Michael Appleby & Gayathri Sriram. 2002. 'Searching and Language Classification.' International Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics, 2002. Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. May 26-27. [lrec-pap-23-lrec-2002.pdf]
 
  • Aristar-Dry, Helen. 2002. 'E-MELD: Overview and Update.' International Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics. Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. May 26-27. [LREC-DOBES-Workshop.doc]
 
  • Farrar, Scott, William D. Lewis & D. Terence Langendoen. 2002. 'An Ontology for Linguistic Annotation.' Semantic Web Meets Language Resources: Papers from the AAAI Workshop, Technical Report WS-02-16. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. Pp. 11-19.[AAAI-OntologyLinguisticAnnotation.pdf]
 
  • Farrar, Scott, D. Terence Langendoen & William D. Lewis. 2002. 'Bridging the Markup Gap: Smart Search Engines for Language Researchers.' Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Tools for Field Linguistics, 2002. Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. [LREC-BridgingMarkupGap.pdf]
 
  • Farrar, Scott, William D. Lewis & D. Terence Langendoen. (2002). 'A Common Ontology for Linguistic Concepts.' Proceedings of the Knowledge Technology Conference. Seattle, WA, March. [KnowTech-CommonOntology.pdf]
 
  • Simons, Gary F. 2002. 'The Electronic Encoding of Lexical Resources: A Roadmap to Best Practice.'
    Presentation at E-MELD Conference 2002: Workshop on Digitizing Lexical Information. Ypsilanti, MI. August 2-5. [roadmap.htm]
  2001
 
  • Lewis, William D., Scott Farrar & D. Terence Langendoen. 2001. 'Building a Knowledge Base of Morphosyntactic Terminology.' Proceedings of the IRCS Workshop on Linguistic Databases. Philadelphia: Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. University of Pennsylvania. Pp. 150-156. [IRCS-BuildingKnowledgeBase.pdf]
 
  • Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues. 2001. 'Language Classification and Codes.' Presentation at Workshop on Linguistic Databases, 2001. Santa Barbara, CA. June 21-24.
 
  • Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues & Helen Aristar-Dry. 2001. 'The E-MELD Project: Language coding.' Presentation at Workshop on Linguistic Databases, 2001. Philadelphia, PA. December 1-13.
 
  • Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues & Helen Aristar-Dry. 2001. 'The E-MELD Project.' Presentation at Max Planck Symposium on Metadata, 2001. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. March 1-3.
 
  • Langendoen, D. Terence, William D. Lewis & Scott Farrar. 2001. 'Building a knowledge base of Morphosyntactic Terminology.' Presentation at IRCS Workshop on Linguistic Databases, 2001. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December.

 

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