[Sigdl-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Digital Tools Summit - Last Call for Papers

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded.  Dick Hill

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Richard B. Hill
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Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Digital Tools Summit - Last Call for Papers

*Call for Papers*

*Deadline: * *13 April 2006*

The DTSL (Digital Tools Summit for Linguistics, 
http://www.ku.edu/pri/DTSL/) is a one-time workshop on digital tools 
and cyberinfrastructure development in linguistics, for language 
software engineers and computational linguists, as well as linguists. 
The workshop aims to facilitate new interdisciplinary collaboration to 
design and create digital tools specifically for linguistic analysis, 
and thereby stimulate new funding initiatives. During the workshop, 
participants will prioritize and draft tools and data structures. They 
will work largely in interest groups (e.g. in data annotation, 
migration, visualization, and resource interoperation) and for each 
interest area will prepare design sketches of and implementation plans 
for at least one tool. We particularly want to address the needs of 
non-technologically-oriented language researchers, simulating the 
development of truly useful, stable, cross-platform, open-source tools 
that are both small (e.g. Unicode conversion scripts) and large (e.g. a 
modular suite of linguistic data-analysis tools) in scope.

The Summit will take place June 22-23, 2006 at Michigan State 
University, in association with both the summer Linguistic Society of 
America meeting (http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-summer06-cfp.cfm) and 
the E-MELD [Electronic Metastructures for Endangered Language Data] 
meeting ("Tools and Standards: The State of the Art," 
http://emeld.org/workshop/2006/); DTS-L and E-MELD will meet together 
on the morning of 22 June.

We encourage submissions from Indigenous/First Nations language workers 
and graduate students, for whom a limited number of travel and housing 
subsidies will be available, pending funding.

Selection
Participants will not submit abstracts or make individual oral 
presentations of their own projects. Instead, since this summit is 
based on discussions in small working groups, participants are 
requested to submit *one-page issue statements*, which will form the 
basis for the working group themes for the first conference day. In 
these issue statements, we urge applicants to present one issue or idea 
which would serve to improve linguistic scholarship. Submissions should 
consider and explicate one or more of the following issues:

1. What are the most pressing needs among possible cyberinfrastructure 
and/or digital tools for linguistics?

2. What are some enduring challenges in creating cyberinfrastructure 
and/or digital tools for linguistics?

3. Which existing resources can be leveraged to create digital tools 
for linguistics?

4. How can documentation tools make language resources (e.g. text, 
lexical or morphological corpora) more readily available for 
historical, typological, and other theoretical analyses?

Each issue paper must be accompanied by a short (half page or less) 
biography.

*Submissions address*:              pri at ku.edu <mailto:pri at ku.edu>

*Deadline*:                                Issue statements and 
biographies are due on *13 April 2006*.

*Length*.                                   Issue statements: one page. 
Biographies: one half-page.


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