Workshop on Endangered Language Data Preservation: The Need for Standards, June 21-24, 2001, Santa Barbara, California

濒危语言数据保存研讨会：标准的必要性，2001 年 6 月 21-24 日，加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉

• 批准号: 0091713
• 负责人: Anthony Aristar
• 金额: $ 4.02万
• 依托单位: Wayne State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-01-01 至 2001-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0091713&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Endangered; Language; Data; Preservation

Members of the linguistics profession are faced with two urgent situations: the number of languages in the world is rapidly diminishing while the number of initiatives to digitize language data is rapidly multiplying as a result of the increasing availability and sophistication of web technology. The latter might seem to be an unalloyed good in the face of the former, but there are two ways things may go wrong without adequate collaboration among archivists, field linguists, and language engineers. First, a common standard for the digitization of linguistic data may never be agreed upon; and the resulting variation in archiving practices and language representation would seriously inhibit data access, searching, and cross-linguistic comparison. Second, standards may be set without guidance from the people who best know the range of structural possibilities in human language-descriptive linguists who have done fieldwork on poorly described languages. Metalanguage or metadata guidelines which are designed on the basis of well-known western languages will not be adequate to the urgent task of archiving as much linguistic data as possible in the face of widespread language attrition and loss.If linguistic archives are to offer the widest possible access to the data and provide it in a maximally useful form, consensus must be reached about certain aspects of archive infrastructure. This is the proposed topic of a 3-day workshop which will be held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America 2001 Summer Institute and will involve experienced field linguists, computational linguists, and language archivists. The objective of the workshop is to bring field linguists and computational linguists together with two primary goals: (1) to educate one other about the very different challenges field linguists and computational linguists anticipate in the establishment of an archive for endangered language data, and (2) to solicit recommendations about two essential elements of archive infrastructure: text markup and metadata.

语言学专业的成员面临着两种紧迫的情况：世界上的语言数量正在迅速减少，而由于网络技术的日益普及和复杂性，检索语言数据的举措数量正在迅速增加。在前者面前，后者似乎是一个纯粹的好东西，但是如果档案管理员、领域语言学家和语言工程师之间没有充分的合作，事情可能会有两种方式出错。首先，可能永远无法就语文数据数字化的共同标准达成一致;由此造成的存档做法和语文表示方式的差异将严重阻碍数据的获取、搜索和跨语文比较。第二，标准的制定可能没有来自那些最了解人类语言结构可能性范围的人的指导，这些人是描述语言学家，他们对描述不好的语言进行了实地考察。在语言流失和损失普遍的情况下，根据西方语言设计的元语言或元数据准则不足以完成尽可能多的语言数据存档的紧迫任务，如果语言档案要提供尽可能广泛的数据访问，并以最有用的形式提供数据，就必须就档案基础设施的某些方面达成共识。这是一个为期3天的研讨会，将与美国语言学会2001年夏季研究所一起举行，将涉及经验丰富的领域语言学家，计算语言学家和语言档案的建议主题。该研讨会的目的是将实地语言学家和计算语言学家聚集在一起，有两个主要目标：（1）教育对方了解实地语言学家和计算语言学家在建立濒危语言数据档案时所面临的非常不同的挑战，以及（2）征求关于档案基础设施的两个基本要素的建议：文本标记和元数据。