Establishing a Dynamic Language Infrastructure Community of Science

建立动态语言基础设施科学共同体

• 批准号: 2301800
• 负责人: Kristine Hildebrandt
• 金额: $ 22.76万
• 依托单位: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-15 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2301800&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Establishing; Dynamic; Language; Infrastructure; Community

The human heritage and knowledge encoded in endangered and under-documented languages constitutes scientific data that must be preserved. To meet this need, language documentation research must include perspectives and best practices from a diverse array of experts, approaches, and stakeholders. This project brings together established and junior scholars and knowledge-holders from fields such as Anthropology, Arctic Studies, Geography, Language and Health, Linguistics, Political Science, Social Psychology, and Information Sciences, to create outputs that define, exemplify, and promote sustainable and impactful cross-disciplinary language documentation research. These experts formulate new research questions and methodologies, and build collaborative work plans that bridge language documentation with areas such as computational infrastructure, data management, and convergence research more generally. The programming strengthens capacity in language research infrastructure that crosses discipline boundaries and also strengthens connections between those in the academy and communities, advancing transformative knowledge in the language sciences. This project includes participation by junior scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and representatives of Indigenous communities, diversifying the field of language documentation and training the next generation of researchers in this area.The participants in this project represent diverse experiences, skill sets, and perspectives about how language documentation can ethically and impactfully converge with, and benefit from, other fields. The methods include repeated meetings to survey existing work, to define or re-define research problems and research questions, to align terminology from different disciplines, to address challenges regarding ethics and community participation, and to identify broader impacts of language documentation. The outcomes of this project are disseminated through a position paper and through peer-reviewed “State of the Art” (SoTA) review articles, all co-authored by project participants. The SoTA review articles present examples of research questions and methods that convergence work advances. This programming also creates actionable recommendations that help scholars from multiple disciplines to generate fundable proposals in language documentation research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

以濒临灭绝和记录不足的语言编码的人类遗产和知识构成了必须保存的科学数据。为了满足这一需求，语言文献研究必须包括来自不同专家、方法和利益相关者的观点和最佳实践。该项目汇集了来自人类学、北极研究、地理学、语言与健康、语言学、政治学、社会心理学和信息科学等领域的知名学者和初级学者以及知识持有者，以创造定义、例证和促进可持续和有影响力的跨学科语言文献研究的成果。这些专家制定了新的研究问题和方法，并制定了协作工作计划，将语言文档与计算基础设施、数据管理和更广泛的融合研究等领域联系起来。该计划增强了跨学科边界的语言研究基础设施的能力，并加强了学术界和社区之间的联系，推进了语言科学领域的变革性知识。该项目包括初级学者、研究生和本科生以及土著社区代表的参与，使语言文献领域多样化并培训该领域的下一代研究人员。该项目的参与者代表了关于语言文献如何在道德上和影响力上与其他领域融合并从中受益的不同经验、技能和观点。这些方法包括反复召开会议来调查现有工作，定义或重新定义研究问题和研究问题，统一不同学科的术语，解决有关道德和社区参与的挑战，并确定语言文献的更广泛影响。该项目的成果通过立场文件和同行评审的“最先进”（SoTA）评论文章进行传播，所有这些文章均由项目参与者共同撰写。 SoTA 评论文章提供了融合工作所推进的研究问题和方法的示例。该计划还提出了可行的建议，帮助来自多个学科的学者在语言文献研究中提出可资助的提案。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。