[open-linguistics] Steiner et al.

Fri Jun 3 09:44:16 UTC 2011

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Michael Cysouw

On 3 Jun 2011, at 11:24, Richard Littauer 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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