• The corpus of Polish Sign Language (PJM): Methodology, procedures and impact 

      Rutkowski, Paweł; Łacheta, Joanna; Mostowski, Piotr; Filipczak, Joanna; Łozińska, Sylwia
      Published 2013-01-01
      Polish Sign Language (polski język migowy, usually abbreviated as PJM) is a natural visual-spatial language used by the Polish Deaf community. It emerged around 1817, with the foundation of the first school for the deaf ...
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    • The 'reach' of Digital Language Archives: towards criteria for evaluation 

      Nathan, David
      Published 2013-01-01
      Over the last decade, and with the help of digital media and technologies, archives (with the focus here on archives for endangered and minority languages) have extended their focus from preservation to also becoming ...
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    • The Ma! Project: Crowdsourcing Software for Language Documentation 

      Birch, Bruce
      Published 2013-01-01
      The Ma! Project's (themaproject.org/‎) first app + database package is a crowdsourcing lexicon development system consisting of a smartphone/tablet app which allows users to sync audio, video, text and image data to an ...
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    • Linguistic scholarship in the data-driven 21st century 

      Musgrave, Simon; Hajek, John
      Published 2013-01-01
      Linguistic scholarship in the data‐driven 21st century Two important forces have been acting on the discipline of linguistics since late in the twentieth century: technological changes which allow the capture and dissemination ...
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    • XML technologies in language documentation workflows 

      Arkhipov, Alexandre
      Published 2013-01-01
      More and more programs use XML formats for internal data storage, not only for interchange. This includes both general-purpose tools like MS Office and OpenOffice/LibreOffice and specialized linguistic software such as ...
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