[open-linguistics] Steiner et al.

Fri Jun 3 10:00:06 UTC 2011

Ha! Hello, Michael.

Love the paper - glad to have you on board, here. I hope you're coming to
the OKF? I would love to talk to you about future work.

Do you know of anything else, in this field?

Richard

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Michael Cysouw <cysouw at eva.mpg.de> wrote:

> Please check the free online final version at
>
> http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/ldc/pre-prints/ldc001ft003
>
> I just in time joined the list to notice this email :-)
> 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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