{"id":282255,"date":"2010-02-05T08:17:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T13:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2010-02-05T08:17:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T13:17:59","slug":"so-many-languages-so-much-technology%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/282255","title":{"rendered":"So many languages, so much technology\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you had 100 digital recorders and 800 small languages, all in a country the size of California, but in one of the remotest parts of the planet.\u00a0 What would you do?\u00a0 What would it take to identify and train a small army of language workers?\u00a0 How could the recordings they collect be accessible to people who don&#8217;t speak the language?\u00a0 My answer to this question is linked below &#8211; but spend a moment thinking how you might do this before looking.\u00a0 One inspiration for this work was Mark Liberman&#8217;s talk <a href=\"http:\/\/uts.cc.utexas.edu\/%7Etls\/2006tls\/abstracts\/pdfs\/liberman.pdf\">The problems of scale in language documentation<\/a> at the Texas Linguistics Society meeting in 2006, in a workshop on <a href=\"http:\/\/uts.cc.utexas.edu\/~tls\/2006tls\/program.php\">Computational Linguistics for Less-Studied Languages<\/a>.\u00a0 Another inspiration was observing the enthusiasm of the remaining speakers of the Usarufa language to maintain their language (see <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1528\">this earlier post<\/a>).\u00a0 About 9 months ago, I decided to ask Olympus if they would give me 100 of their latest model digital voice recorders.\u00a0 They did, and the <a title=\"BOLD:PNG\" href=\"http:\/\/boldpng.info\/\">BOLD:PNG Project<\/a> starts next week.\u00a0 <em>Please sign the guestbook on that site, or post a comment here, if you&#8217;d like to encourage the speakers of these languages who are getting involved in this new project.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you had 100 digital recorders and 800 small languages, all in a country the size of California, but in one of the remotest parts of the planet.\u00a0 What would you do?\u00a0 What would it take to identify and train a small army of language workers?\u00a0 How could the recordings they collect be accessible to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}