AWeb-AccessibleDictionaryofSoutheasternPomo课件.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Connectionism, Charter and Christiansen A Web-Accessible Dictionary of Southeastern Pomo Charles B. Chang, Shira Katseff, Russell Lee-Goldman, Marta Piqueras-Brunet, and Yao Yao 18th International Congress of Linguists 21 July 2008 University of California, Berkeley * Outline Background Dictionary structure Behind the scenes: mySQL, XML, XSL Searches: words, audio, texts Future work * Background: Southeastern Pomo (SEP) Southeastern Pomo (Northern Hokan, Pomoan) is an acutely endangered language historically spoken in the area around Clear Lake, CA (Moshinsky 1974, Gordon 2005). Speakers/learners are mostly affiliated with the Elem Pomo Tribe. Only two fluent speakers remain. Haynie (2007) * Background: Southeastern Pomo (SEP) Revitalization efforts are underway, led by Loretta Kelsey and Robert Geary (cf. Shavelson 2006, Fagan 2007), and have resulted in: community orthography teaching materials language camps print dictionary with pictures of flora fauna Another component of documentation and revitalization work: a web-accessible dictionary. * Background: online dictionaries As resources for linguistic analysis have entered cyberspace, so have the products of linguistic documentation (cf. Babel et al. 2006, Dick Haynes 2006). Online dictionaries have been created for a number of languages native to the Americas (e.g. Yurok, Hupa, Northern Paiute, Washo). These online dictionaries make the information gathered through fieldwork on these languages accessible to researchers, tribe members, and in particular, young learners. * Outline Background Dictionary structure Behind the scenes: mySQL, XML, XSL Searches: words, audio, texts Future work * Dictionary structure Three main parts: 1. lexicon entries for individual affixes, words, and fixed expressions entry displays the following information about an item: transcription part of speech gloss links to sound clips in the audio dictionary (if available) different le