Software Development for the LINGUIST Network

这笔拨款将用于为语言学家网络开发软件，这是一个由东密歇根大学和德克萨斯农工大学制作的学术语言学家的电子讨论论坛。在其5年的运作中，LINGUIST已成为与语言学有关的信息的中央国际交流中心。它的最新一期和1万期后刊提供了关于语言、语言学方法论和该学科社会学的丰富数据来源。然而，LINGUIST已经开始需要额外的软件来支持其不断扩展的服务列表，并适应在过去5年中发生的互联网技术的巨大变化。这样的软件将使LINGUIST能够开发其新的万维网网站，从而提供通常不具备的功能，并实现其最终目标：为该学科提供一个存储和检索网络上迅速增长的语言信息的中心位置。

This grant will be used in developing software for The LINGUIST Network, an electronic discussion forum for academic linguists produced at Eastern Michigan University and Texas A&M University. In its 5 years of operation, LINGUIST has become the central international clearinghouse for information relevant to linguistics. Its current issues and 10,000 back issues represent a rich source of data about languages, linguistic methodology, and the sociology of the discipline. However, LINGUIST has come to need additional software to support its expanding list of services and to accommodate the dramatic changes in Internet technologies that have occurred during the last 5 years. Such software will enable LINGUIST to develop its new World Wide Web site in such a way as to provide functionalities not commonly available and to accomplish its ultimate goal: offering the discipline a central location for storage and retrieval of the rapidly expanding amount of linguistic information on the Web.