[open-linguistics] Short Presentation Proposal + Request

Sebastian Hellmann hellmann at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Tue Jun 14 16:27:48 UTC 2011 

Richard, could you send me a title of your presentation.
Sebastian

Am 10.06.2011 15:38, schrieb Richard Littauer:
> An update: My main talk was accepted, which means I am officially 
> coming to OKF2011. I'm still working on that post for the Open 
> Linguistics blog.
>
> Would I be able to give a second talk at the Open Linguistics 
> workgroup, targeting the possibility of application of (open) 
> workflows to linguistics?
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org 
> <mailto:jonathan.gray at okfn.org>> wrote:
>
>     A brief post for linguistics.okfn.org
>     <http://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 <mailto: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 <http://okfn.org>?
>     > Cheers,
>     > Richard
>     >
>     > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Jonathan Gray
>     <jonathan.gray at okfn.org <mailto: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 <http://linguistics.okfn.org>?
>     >>
>     >> All the best,
>     >>
>     >> Jonathan
>     >>
>     >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Richard Littauer
>     >> <richard.littauer at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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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