I will lead the discussion next week on a theme I'm calling "Agile
Methods for Computational Linguistic Data Collection." This includes
web mining, active learning, and tools for eliciting information from
non-linguists/non-technical experts.

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Here are the papers I expect to cover.note that the focus will be on
the parts most relevant to the theme, which will likely mean glossing
over some technical details.

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Alexis Palmer, Taesun Moon, Jason Baldridge, Katrin Erk, Eric
Campbell, & Telma Can (2010). Computational strategies for reducing
annotation effort in language documentation. Linguistic Issues in
Language Technology, 3(1).
<BR>
<A HREF=http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/lilt/article/view/663>
http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/lilt/article/view/663</A>

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Fei Xia & William Lewis (2007). Multilingual structural projection
across interlinear text. NAACL-HLT.
<BR>
<A HREF=http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N07-1057>
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N07-1057</A>

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Marelie Davel & Etienne Barnard (2004). The efficient generation of
pronunciation dictionaries: human factors during bootstrapping.
INTERSPEECH. 
<BR>
<A HREF=http://www.is.cs.cmu.edu/SpeechSeminar/Papers4Review/FrA2702p.20_p864.pdf>
http://www.is.cs.cmu.edu/SpeechSeminar/Papers4Review/FrA2702p.20_p864.pdf</A>

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John Kominek & Alan W. Black (2006). Learning pronunciation
dictionaries: language complexity and word selection strategies.
HLT-NAACL. 
<BR>
<A HREF=http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N06-1030>
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N06-1030</A>

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John Kominek, Sameer Badaskar, Tanja Schultz, & Alan W. Black (2008).
Improving speech systems built from very little data. INTERSPEECH.
<BR>
<A HREF=http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.151.3270&rep=rep1&type=pdf>
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.151.3270&rep=rep1&type=pdf</A>


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Related:

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Vamshi Ambati, & Stephan Vogel (2010). Can crowds build parallel
corpora for machine translation systems? NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on
Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
<BR>
<A HREF=http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W10-0710>
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W10-0710</A>

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cf. Vamshi's slides from September's Crowdsourcing Lunch:
<BR>
<A HREF=http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vamshi/Vamshi/Publications_files/vamshi_crowdlunch.pdf>
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vamshi/Vamshi/Publications_files/vamshi_crowdlunch.pdf</A>

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John Kominek (2009). TTS From Zero: Building Synthetic Voices for New
Languages. Ph.D. dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University.
<BR>
<A HREF=http://www2.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Thesis/john_kominek.pdf>
http://www2.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Thesis/john_kominek.pdf</A>