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Overview & Update

Helen Aristar DryThe LINGUIST List & Eastern Michigan University

EMELD Workshop onThe Digitization of Lexical Data

Aug. 2-5, 2002

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What Is E-Meld?

“Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data”

5 year collaborative project, begun Sept. 2001 Participants:

The LINGUIST List (Eastern Michigan U., Wayne State U., U. of Arizona)The Linguistic Data Consortium (University of Pennsylvania)The Endangered Languages Fund (Yale University, Haskins Laboratories)

Funded by NSF

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The LINGUIST List

• 16,500 subscribers

• 106 different countries

• 4 European mirror sites:

Tübingen | Stockholm

Edinburgh | Moscow

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…the preservation of Endangered Languages data and documentation

…the development of infrastructure for linguistic archives

To aid in …

Objectives

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Components

Metadata server facilitating access to language resources Promulgation of best practice in:

Language identification Resource description Markup or annotation

Involvement of linguistic community in deciding best practice

Query Room, where questions can be addressed to native speakers

Demonstration project: texts and lexicons from 10 EL’s marked up according to best practice

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Languages

Mocovi (Guaicuruan)7000 speakers [Grondona]

Biao Min (Mienic)21,000 speakers [Solnit]

Ega (Kwa) 300 speakers[Gibbon, Connell

Cambap (Mambiloid)30 speakers [Connell]

Lakota (Macro-Siouan)[Whalen]

Tofa (Turkic) [Harrison]

Two from: Alamblak, Dadibi, Mapos Buang, Takaulu Kalagan, Tuwali Ifugao - [SIL]Two from Post-Docs as yet to be determined.

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Outreach

Workshops 2001 – Santa Barbara, CA:

focus: metadata, markup, language codes

2002 – Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, MI focus: lexicon markup & metadata

2003, 2004: workshops 2005, 2006: “digital institutes”

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Project Emphasis: Breadth

Widest access to informationWeb-based tools Open standardsSimple interfaces

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2001-2 Progress

Metadata Collection: Search facility Metadata editor

Language Identification Query Room Markup Ontology (U. of

Arizona)

ORE

Ethnologue + LL Codes:used throughout LL site

OLAC Service Provider

(ELF & Rosetta)

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Markup

Focus: morphosyntactic markup Objective: a system which allows:

Field workers to submit data in different markups Searcher to retrieve all relevant data despite

varying markups

No “gold standard” in linguistic markup Instead: ontology to serve as “interlanguage”

for translation among markups

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Markup

Tool to translate common markup formats (RDF, Shoebox, Word) into XML

Tool to help linguist identify aspects of markup with concepts in the ontology

More on this today from Langendoen, Lewis, and Farrar

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Data Input Tool

Web-based Potentially portable Creates database input– to be output as xml Can be customized to fit individual language More on this tomorrow from Martha Ratliff &Zhenwei Chen

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Affiliation w/OLAC

Resource identification OLAC Service Provider

OLAC = Open Language Archives Community Part of Open Archives Initiative Multi-disciplinary initiative to promote

multi-archive searching via http protocols

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OLAC Metadata Set

Contributor Coverage Creator Date Description Format Identifier Language

Publisher

Relation Rights Source Subject Title Type

Based on Dublin Core Set of 15 Elements

With 2 refinements

Subject.language

Type.linguistic

Type.linguistic: Draft of controlled vocabulary

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Data Provider 2: Individual

Data Provider 3

(Archive)

OLAC Service Provider

http: GET or POST

Data Provider(Archive)

Metadata

LINGUIST List

Data Provider 2: Individual

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On LINGUIST

OLAC Search: http://linguistlist.org/olac/ 18 archives, 30,000+ records

Metadata Editor (ORE): http://linguistlist.org/olac/ore/ Form-based editor Creates OLAC metadata in xml Makes it available to OLAC search engine

Language Lookup: http://linguistlist.org/languages