Accessing, Managing, and Mobilizing an ELAN-Based Language Documentation Corpus: The Kwaras and Namuti Tools

Autor/inn/en	Caballero, Gabriela; Carroll, Lucien; Mach, Kevin
Titel	Accessing, Managing, and Mobilizing an ELAN-Based Language Documentation Corpus: The Kwaras and Namuti Tools
Quelle	In: Language Documentation & Conservation, 13 (2019), S.63-82 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1934-5275
Schlagwörter	Computational Linguistics; Documentation; Language Research; Users (Information); Generalization; Language Maintenance; Cooperation; Activism; Computer Software; Malayo Polynesian Languages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Dokumentation; Sprachforschung; Benutzerprofil; Nutzer; Sprachpflege; Co-operation; Kooperation; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest
Abstract	This paper introduces "Kwaras" and "Namuti," two new tools for building, managing, accessing, and mobilizing ELAN-based language documentation corpora. Kwaras integrates WAV files, ELAN annotations, and document metadata into a web-based corpus, allowing immediate access to annotations and recordings. Namuti builds from Kwaras and enables different uses of language documentation products for different audiences and provides links from linguistic analyses to language documentation corpora. The main goal of these new tools is threefold: (i) to facilitate the use of language documentation in linguistic analysis; (ii) to increase transparency of documentation-based analyses, providing interested users full access to the data on which generalizations are based and contextualization of the projects that generated the data; and (iii) to enable uses of language corpora that may serve the interests of multiple stakeholders, including academic researchers and community members interested in language maintenance and revitalization. We provide a basic overview of how Kwaras and Namuti work, lay out instructions on how to download and use Kwaras, and discuss what uses it currently supports. This article also issues a call for increased collaboration between linguists, community members, language activists, and software developers to further develop these and other similar resources. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	National Foreign Language Resources Center at University of Hawaii. Department of Linguistics, UHM Moore Hall 569, 1890 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822. Fax: 808-956-9166; e-mail: ldc@hawaii.edu; Web site: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01