New Methods for
Creating, Exploring and Disseminating
Linguistic Field Data
Thursday 6 January 2000, 9am-6pm
Held in conjunction with the
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago
The new NSF TalkBank Project [www.talkbank.org] is sponsoring a
workshop on computational support for linguistic fieldwork. The
workshop will bring together linguists and computational linguists
committed to empirical research on large datasets, through the
combination of traditional field methods and new technologies for
exploring and visualizing complex datasets. The languages under study
may range from the undescribed to the well-studied, and the
fieldworker may operate in a village or a laboratory. The focus is
the exploratory mode of research, where elicitation, analysis and
hypothesis-testing form a tight loop. The workshop will contribute to
the evaluation and evolution of methodologies that integrate
traditional practices with new technologies, leading to increased
accessibility, accountability, and stability of empirical linguistic
research. Full details, including the provisional program, are
available at [http://www.talkbank.org/exploration.html].