[open-linguistics] Short Presentation Proposal + Request

Fri Jun 3 09:30:22 UTC 2011

A brief post for linguistics.okfn.org would be fantastic! I'll find
out re: your OKCon submission and let you know ASAP. Hope you can make
it!

J.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Richard Littauer
<richard.littauer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks! It's been submitted, hopefully I'll be able to come.
> I've looked around, and I found this, A Pipeline for Computational
> Historical
> Linguistics: http://www.santafe.edu/research/working-papers/abstract/491863e12fdda94462bb74dfe07eff8c/
> It's only a single pipeline, but I think that there is a lot of potential,
> especially in the data management side of things, for linguistics.
> Should I write up the post for lin*.okfn.org?
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Very interesting! I'd love to see more on this. To me it sounds like
>> an interesting addition to the linguistics workshop. What do others
>> think?
>>
>> Perhaps it might also be worth writing this up into a post for
>> linguistics.okfn.org?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Richard Littauer
>> <richard.littauer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > As I said in a previous email, I'm an MA Linguistics graduate from
>> > Edinburgh. I'm very interested in Open Knowledge, and have been working
>> > for
>> > a while on a few ideas for Linguistics.
>> > Currently, I'm doing an internship with DataOne, an ecological
>> > organisation
>> > based in the US, looking at scientific workflow systems like Kepler and
>> > Taverna, trying to see if we can categorise workflows in an efficient
>> > and
>> > understandable way, to see how scientists in bioinformatics and the like
>> > do
>> > their work. I've submitted a proposal to talk about this to the main
>> > committee for the OKF, and they said they'd think about it, but I
>> > probably
>> > need to make my abstract a bit more clear. So I've written up an
>> > abstract
>> > here - any help with how I could word it better would be really
>> > appreciated,
>> > as I haven't done many professional abstracts before. The details of my
>> > internship are here. I'm working on it with my mentors as well.
>> > How does this relate to Linguistics? Well, I've been thinking that a lot
>> > of
>> > the workflow systems I've been looking at would work in the field of
>> > corpus
>> > linguistics if we merely had open source databases online that we could
>> > look
>> > at. I've thought of a few tentative uses already - data curation using
>> > outsourced human components, supplementary data checking using WALS and
>> > automated regexp searching, and particularly grabbing phonemic word
>> > lists
>> > from offline. I'd like to talk about this at the Linguistics workshop,
>> > if
>> > that'd be alright. It kind of depends on whether my rough abstract above
>> > is
>> > accepted for a talk (it's a very late submission), because that decides
>> > whether I can come or not, but if that happens, I would really love to
>> > get
>> > feedback on my ideas for open source linguistics databases that could
>> > lead
>> > to open source linguistic methodological workflows.
>> > What do you think? Apologies if this is the wrong place for this email -
>> > again, I'm new.
>> > Cheers,
>> > Richard Littauer
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>>
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