The 2019 International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Connecting Languages, Communities, and Technology

2019年国际语言文献会议

• 批准号: 1745711
• 负责人: Gary Holton
• 金额: $ 5.99万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1745711&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2019; International; Conference; Language; Documentation

With more than half of the world's 7000 languages currently at risk of disappearing -- at least 170 of them in the United States alone -- there is an urgent need both to create an enduring documentary record of endangered languages and to support teaching and learning of those languages. Technology offers great promise to accelerate both the documentation and revitalization of endangered languages, since tools developed for major languages can in theory be repurposed to support small, endangered languages. However, this promise of technology has yet to yield significant results. Linguists continue to use ad-hoc and antiquated tools, some developed in the 1980's. Apps for language learning are popular but too often have no grounding in research on language acquisition. Additionally, software development proceeds in a top-down fashion, with little input from stakeholders. To address this disconnect, this project will open a dialogue between linguists, language community members, and software developers to forge robust and reliable solutions for supporting language documentation and conservation. This will be done through a series of targeted workshops and roundtable discussions devoted to bringing stakeholders together around various aspects of language technology. The conference will also feature an Exhibitor Fair with the express purpose of connecting language communities to interested software developers, leading to new collaborations and new science that closely aligns with community goals. Broader impacts include the potential to develop new technology tools and language infrastructure for use by both citizen scientists and linguists; the fostering of relationships with industry through the Exhibitor Fair; and the public online availability of the conference presentations. In addition, conference attendees typically include a large number of citizen scientists from historically underrepresented groups in the sciences, such as Native Americans, Native Alaskans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, offering opportunities for broadening participation in the language sciences as another broader impact.This project will bring together leading scholars from across the world to explore connections between language and technology as part of the 2019 International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), hosted by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Since its inception in 2009, ICLDC has become the flagship venue driving scholarship in the documentation, maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages. Participants include undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty from linguistics, anthropology, biology, computer science, and other academic disciplines. ICLDC offers its highly diverse audience opportunities for informal science education and training that includes new methodologies and best practices in cutting edge language documentation and that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. A recognized need among linguists is to better integrate and extend these tools as well as develop new ones for data management, and this conference has the potential to increase digital support for the language sciences, for archiving and for open access more generally. In addition, this conference serves as one of the foremost venues for the dissemination of research findings in language documentation and conservation and related disciplines.

目前，世界上 7000 种语言中有一半以上面临消失的危险——仅美国就有至少 170 种语言——因此迫切需要为濒危语言创建持久的文献记录，并支持濒危语言的教学和学习。那些语言。技术为加速濒危语言的记录和振兴提供了巨大的希望，因为为主要语言开发的工具理论上可以重新用于支持小型濒危语言。然而，这一技术承诺尚未产生显着成果。语言学家继续使用临时且过时的工具，其中一些是 20 世纪 80 年代开发的。用于语言学习的应用程序很受欢迎，但往往没有语言习得研究的基础。此外，软件开发以自上而下的方式进行，利益相关者的投入很少。为了解决这种脱节问题，该项目将在语言学家、语言社区成员和软件开发人员之间展开对话，以打造强大而可靠的解决方案来支持语言文档和保护。这将通过一系列有针对性的研讨会和圆桌讨论来完成，这些研讨会和圆桌讨论致力于将利益相关者聚集在一起，围绕语言技术的各个方面进行讨论。会议还将举办参展商博览会，其明确目的是将语言社区与感兴趣的软件开发人员联系起来，从而形成与社区目标密切相关的新合作和新科学。更广泛的影响包括开发供公民科学家和语言学家使用的新技术工具和语言基础设施的潜力；通过参展商博览会培养与业界的关系；以及会议演讲的公开在线获取。此外，与会者通常包括大量来自历史上在科学领域代表性不足的群体的公民科学家，例如美洲原住民、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和其他太平洋岛民，这为扩大语言科学的参与提供了机会，这是另一个更广泛的影响。作为夏威夷大学主办的 2019 年国际语言文献与保护会议 (ICLDC) 的一部分，该项目将汇集来自世界各地的顶尖学者，探讨语言与技术之间的联系。马诺阿。自 2009 年成立以来，ICLDC 已成为推动濒危语言记录、维护和振兴方面奖学金的旗舰场所。参与者包括来自语言学、人类学、生物学、计算机科学和其他学科的本科生、研究生和教师。 ICLDC 为其高度多样化的受众提供非正式科学教育和培训的机会，其中包括前沿语言文档方面的新方法和最佳实践，并且跨越了传统学科的界限。语言学家们公认的需求是更好地集成和扩展这些工具，并开发新的数据管理工具，本次会议有可能增加对语言科学、存档和更广泛的开放获取的数字支持。此外，该会议还是传播语言文献和保护及相关学科研究成果的最重要场所之一。