Preliminary Program

Preliminary program:

Friday, 22nd November 2013

Block I: Achieving the Goals of Linguistic Documentation: Past, Present and Future

• Peter Austin (London):
  "Theory and practice of language documentation – from the 20th to the 21st century"
• Ola Wennstedt (Umeå):
  "Moving traditional archives into the digital age"

Block II: Technical Interfaces to Documentary Linguistics

• Trond Trosterud (Tromsø):
  "Computational and documentary linguistics for endangered languages"
• Sabine Stoll (Zurich):
  "Annotating and analyzing a longitudinal corpus to study the acquisition of an endangered language"

• Daniel Alcón (Freiburg):
  "Corpus access to primary linguistic data"

Workshop Dinner

Saturday, 23rd November 2013

Block III: Applying Language Documentation in Linguistics and other Disciplines

• Florian Stammler (Rovaniemi):
  "Documenting oral history of the Soviet Arctic coastal inhabitants: how anthropologists embed life histories as oral texts in wider field contexts"
• Johanna Domokos (Bielefeld):
  "Investigating literacy genres of orally transmitted indigenous languages"

• Alexandra Lavrillier (Versailles):
  "Language documentation and applied anthropological research: experience from Evenk nomadic schools"

Block IV: Optimizing language documentation corpora

• Christian Mair (Freiburg):
  "Development of digital infrastructures and language documentation: Perspectives in CLARIN-D"
• Rolf Kailuweit (Freiburg):
  "tba"
• David Nathan (London):
  "Archiving 2.0 and social media"

Final discussion