Establishing a Dynamic Language Infrastructure Community of Science

以濒危和文件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，语言文档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和初级学者和知识持有者，以产生定义、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。这些专家制定新的研究问题和方法，并制定协作工作计划，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。方案编制加强了跨越学科界限的语言研究基础设施的能力，还加强了学院和社区之间的联系，促进了语言科学方面的变革性知识。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不同的经验、技能和观点，说明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。这些方法包括反复举行会议，以调查现有工作，界定或重新界定研究问题和研究问题，统一不同学科的术语，应对有关道德操守和社区参与的挑战，以及确定语文文件的更广泛影响。该项目的成果通过一份立场文件和同行评议的“最新技术”(SOTA)评论文章传播，所有这些文章都是由项目参与者共同撰写的。SOTA综述文章提供了融合工作所推进的研究问题和方法的例子。该计划还创建了可操作的建议，帮助来自多个学科的学者在语言文献研究中产生可资助的建议。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.