The 2021 International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Identifying and Fostering Relationships to Overcome Critical Challenges

2021年国际语言文献会议

• 批准号: 1937611
• 负责人: Bradley McDonnell
• 金额: $ 6万
• 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: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1937611&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2021; International; Conference; Language; Documentation

This project will bring together leading scholars from across the world to explore how developing new strategic partnerships (and fostering ongoing ones) can help overcome critical challenges in documentary linguistics and language revitalization research as part of the 2021 International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC). 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. Given the magnitude of this endangered language crisis, linguists and language communities must seek out strategic partnerships to overcome the most critical challenges, including among others the enormous task of producing (at least some) documentation for the vast number of endangered signed and spoken languages that have little to no documentation, the massive gap between the amount of audiovisual documentation collected, and the amount of transcriptions of these data that are available (i.e., the so-called "transcription bottleneck"). Despite these large-scale challenges, there are still relatively few partnerships that aim to address them. Thus, this project will open a dialogue between linguists, language community members, and scholars from other disciplines to forge robust and reliable solutions for addressing critical challenges in language documentation and conservation. NSF support will enable a series of targeted workshops and roundtable discussions devoted to bringing stakeholders together around various aspects of initiating and fostering strategic partnerships. The conference will also feature a special interactive plenary event with the express purpose of bringing together participants to create a dialogue about how a renewed focus on identifying and fostering strategic partnerships can be leveraged to meet critical challenges.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 has also included 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 one of the broader impacts of this conference. 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. 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.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将汇集来自世界各地的领先学者，以探讨建立新的战略伙伴关系（以及促进持续的战略合作伙伴关系）如何帮助克服纪录片语言学和语言振兴研究中的关键挑战，这是2021年2021年国际语言文献与保护国际会议（ICLDC）的一部分。目前，全球7000种语言中有一半以上有被消失的风险（仅在美国中至少有170种），迫切需要既需要创建濒临灭绝的语言的持久纪录记录，又需要支持这些语言的教学和学习。鉴于这种濒临灭绝的语言危机的规模，语言学家和语言社区必须寻求战略伙伴关系来克服最关键的挑战，包括在其他范围内为大量濒临灭绝的签名和口头语言制作（至少某些）文档的巨大任务，而这些文档和没有文档的文档几乎没有文档，以及可听取的渠道数量，这些文档的数量是这些数量的渠道。所谓的“转录瓶颈”）。尽管存在这些大规模的挑战，但旨在解决这些问题的伙伴关系仍然相对较少。因此，该项目将从其他学科之间开放语言学家，语言社区成员和学者之间的对话，从而为解决语言文档和保护中的关键挑战提供强大而可靠的解决方案。 NSF的支持将使一系列有针对性的研讨会和圆桌讨论致力于将利益相关者围起来围绕启动和促进战略伙伴关系的各个方面。该会议还将举办一项特殊的互动全体活动，其明确目的是将参与者汇集在一起​​，以就如何利用重新识别和促进战略合作伙伴关系来进行对话，以应对关键挑战。由于其在2009年成立，ICLDC成为了文档，维护，维护和恢复性的副业的旗舰奖学金。参加者包括本科生，研究生和语言学，人类学，生物学，计算机科学和其他学科的教师。 ICLDC还包括来自历史上代表性不足群体的大量公民科学家，例如美洲原住民，阿拉斯加人，阿拉斯加人，夏威夷原住民和其他太平洋岛民，为扩大语言科学的参与提供了机会，这是本次会议的广泛影响之一。 ICLDC为非正式的科学教育和培训提供了高度多样性的受众机会，其中包括新的方法和最佳实践，并跨越了传统的纪律界限。此外，这次会议是传播语言文档和保护和相关学科研究结果的最重要的场所之一。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。

项目成果

Supporting small languages together: The history and impact of the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation series

共同支持小语言：国际语言文献会议的历史和影响

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Language documentation and conservation
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L.;Handley, Noella;Rentz, Bradley;Yoshioka, Jim;Anderson, Victoria;McDonnell, Bradley
• 通讯作者: McDonnell, Bradley

Leveraging supplementary text data to kick-start automatic speech recognition system development with limited transcriptions

利用补充文本数据启动有限转录的自动语音识别系统开发

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
• 作者: San, Nay;Bartelds, Martijn;Billings, Blaine;de Falco, Ella;Feriza, Hendi;Safri, Johan;Sahrozi, Wawan;Foley, Ben;McDonnell, Bradley;Jurafsky, Dan
• 通讯作者: Jurafsky, Dan