Date: November 3 - 4, 2011 (Thursday-Friday)

Place: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)

Organized by:

• Frank Seifart (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology)

Panels coordinated by:

• Peter Wittenburg, Frank Seifart, Anna Margetts, Geoffrey Haig, Nikolaus Himmelmann, Dagmar Jung, and Paul Trilsbeek

Local organizer:

• Claudia Schmidt (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Short description:

This workshop will discuss the threefold potentials of language documentation:

• how computational methods can efficiently enhance the annotations and improve the analyses of linguistic data
• how language documentation data can change important aspects of analyses in linguistics and related disciplines
• how language documentation data can be utilized for research, language maintenance, and to raise awareness of linguistic diversity

Further information

frank_seifart[>>> Please replace the brackets with an AT sign! <<<]eva.mpg.de
cschmidt[>>> Please replace the brackets with an AT sign! <<<]eva.mpg.de

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany