Computational Linguistics and Documentary Linguistics

Computational linguistics and documentary/descriptive linguistics can both benefit from working together. This intersection is one of our lab’s research interests.

• EARL – Efficient Annotation of Resources using Learning
• EMELD
• EthnoER - Ethnographic Eresearch
• GOLD – General Ontology for Linguistic Description
• NLTK - the Natural Language Toolkit, which includes a Python interface for Toolbox data.

• SALTMIL 2008 – Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages
• TLSX, 2006 – The Texas Linguistics Society conference that focused on the application of techniques from computational linguistics to descriptive linguistics and the analysis of less-studied languages.

• AILLA - The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
• HRELP - The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at SOAS
• OKMA - La Asociación Oxlajuuj Keej Maya’ Ajtz’iib’

• FLEX - Fieldworks Language Explorer
• ITE - Interlinear Text Editor
• Shoebox - The Linguist’s Shoebox
• Toolbox - Field Linguistics Toolbox

• Jason Baldridge - Linguistics, UT Austin
• Steven Bird - Computer Science and Software Engineering, Melbourne
• Katrin Erk - Linguistics, UT Austin
• Scott Farrar - Linguistics, Washington
• Jeff Good - Linguistics, Buffalo
• Michel Jacobson - CNRS
• Taesun Moon - Linguistics, UT Austin
• Alexis Palmer - Linguistics, UT Austin
• Nicholas Thieberger - Linguistics, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

• igt-anno - group for discussing annotation of interlinearized glossed text
• SALTMIL SIG - group for the SALTMIL special interest group