Instructors:
Alan W Black, Robert Frederking, Lori Levin, Laura Tomokiyo
We are pleased to announce a new seminar, being offered now, Fall 2010. The purpose of this seminar is to allow students to better understand the linguistic, social and political issues when working with language technologies for endangered languages. Often in LTI we concentrate on issues of modeling with small amounts of data, or designing optimal strategies for collecting data, but ignore many of wider practical issues that appear when working with endangered languages.
This seminar will consist of reading books and papers, and having participants give presentations; a few invited talks (e.g. from field linguists, and language advocates) will also be included. It will count for 6 units of LTI course credit. It may be possible for interested students to also carry out a related 6-unit project as a lab.
Weekly meetings will be 1.5 hours, at a time suitable for attendees;
our initial [Fall 2010] meeting was 3:00-4:30pm on
Tuesday, August 24, in GHC 5510.
Future [Fall 2010] class meetings will be 10:30am-noon on Tuesdays.
Grade will be based on presentations
and class participation.
The announcement below lists the topics to be covered, possible guest speakers, and our initial list of possible readings.
Please contact AWB, LSL, LMT, or REF if interested, or if you have any questions.
Future [Fall 2010] class meetings will be 10:30am-noon on Tuesdays.
Updated initial announcement of class/reading list/etc: sel-announcement v2.doc
Additional possible readings:
Ong,
Walter. (1982). Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the
Word. New Accents. Cited in Sherwani's PhD thesis.
Almasude, Amar. The New Mass Media and the Shaping of Amazigh Identity.
From D. Adamson email.
Suggestions from Steven Bird
Class dates and material covered:
Date | Material | Presenter |
---|---|---|
08/24/2010 | Sem on ELs session 1.ppt | REF |
08/31/2010 | crystal1-5.ppt | AWB |
09/07/2010 | dadamson.html | dadamson |
09/14/2010 | aasish.html | aasish |
09/21/2010 | gabeos.html | gabeos |
09/28/2010 | bird.html | LSL |
10/05/2010 | Field Linguistics | David Mortensen, Pitt |
10/12/2010 | surana.html | surana |
10/19/2010 | Gigapan | LMT |
10/26/2010 | nathan.html | nathan |
11/02/2010 | dmills17.html | dmills17 |
11/09/2010 | mdenkows.html | mdenkows |
11/16/2010 | levin-eamt-09.pptx | LSL |
11/23/2010 | thelinguists | PBS film |
11/30/2010 | harshit-aasish.html | surana/aasish |