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| Potentials of Language Documentation (November 3 - 4, 2011) |
| A workshop funded by the Volkswagen Foundation |
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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
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