ComputEL: A workshop to explore the use of computational methods in the study of endangered language; Baltimore, MD - June 2014

当代记录世界濒危语言的努力取决于现代录音技术的广泛普及，特别是数字音频和视频录制设备以及为这些设备制作的录音添加注释的软件。然而，尽管十多年来专门资助计划旨在记录濒危语言，支持参与这项工作的人的活动的技术景观仍然支离破碎，新技术的承诺在很大程度上仍未实现。此外，总体而言，计算机科学家的工作与文献语言学家的日常工作基本脱节，因此很难将各自的知识传递给对方。ComputEL研讨会将通过将实地语言学家和计算机科学家聚集在一起，探讨如何创建计算技术和工具，以更好地帮助分析濒危语言，从而解决这一问题。一个特别的重点将是如何促进这一领域的研究成果可以开发成软件，这是很好的支持，为那些在该领域的濒危语言的文件使用的过程。该研讨会将与计算语言学协会年会在巴尔的摩在2014年6月共同举办。这将使它能够接触到比其他方式更广泛的受众，同时利用其东海岸的位置，让附近地区的参与者参与进来。第一天将包括作为ACL会议一部分的研究报告。第二天，与会者将参加讨论，旨在制定一个近期议程，以改善计算方法在濒危语言研究中的应用。研讨会的论文将发表在计算语言学协会会议记录中，并将编写一份补充报告，总结非公开会议的结论。 世界各地较小的讲者社区将受益于这些结果，这将有助于更好地记录和保护濒危语言。

Contemporary efforts to document the world's endangered languages are dependent on the widespread availability of modern recording technologies, in particular digital audio and video recording devices and software to annotate the recordings that such devices produce. However, despite well over a decade of dedicated funding programs aimed at the documentation of endangered languages, the technological landscape that supports the activities of those involved in this work remains fragmented, and the promises of new technology remain largely unfulfilled. Moreover, the efforts of computer scientists, on the whole, are mostly disconnected from the day-to-day work of documentary linguists, making it difficult for the knowledge of each group to inform the other.The ComputEL workshop will address this state of affairs by bringing together field linguists and computer scientists to explore how computational techniques and tools can be created to better aid in the analysis of endangered languages. A particular focus will be on how to facilitate the process through which research results in this domain can be developed into software that is well-supported for use by those documenting endangered languages in the field.The workshop will be co-located with the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting in Baltimore in June 2014. This will allow it to reach a wider audience than would otherwise be possible, while taking advantage of its East Coast location to involve participants from nearby areas. Its first day will consist of research presentations scheduled as a part of the ACL meeting. On the following day, participants will take part in discussions designed to lay out a near-term agenda for the improved application of computational methods to the study of endangered languages.The papers from the workshop will be published in the Association for Computational Linguistics conference proceedings, and an additional report will be produced summarizing the conclusions of the closed meeting. Smaller speaker communities worldwide will benefit from the results which will support better documentation and preservation of endangered languages.