This course will consider computational approaches to facilitating endangered language documentation, with a particular focus on the methods developed in the AGGREGATION Project. Term projects will center on extending AGGREGATION's inference to be able to extract additional types of information out of interlinear glossed text for more complete answers to the Grammar Matrix customization system questionnaire.
Prereqs: 566/567 are not prereqs for this class, though they may be helpful background. Programming is required. (The AGGREGATION codebase is in Python.)
Note: To request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact Disabled Student Services, 448 Schmitz, 206-543-8924 (V/TTY). If you have a letter from Disabled Student Services indicating that you have a disability which requires academic accommodations, please present the letter to the instructor so we can discuss the accommodations you might need in this class.
| Date | Topic | Reading | Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/1 | Introduction, organization AGGREGATION |
Bender et al 2013 Bender et al 2014 AGG Phase II grant proposal (on CommonView) |
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| 4/8 | Grammar Matrix, MOM | Bender et al 2002 Bender et al 2010 (on CommonView) Wax 2014 |
KWLA: K and W due |
| 4/15 | AGG repository (EMB out) | Check out AGG repository; run scripts | |
| 4/22 | IGT, Leipzig Glossing Rules, RiPLes/intent, Xigt | Bow et al 2003 Bickel et al 2008 Xia & Lewis 2007 Goodman et al ip (on CommonView) |
Initial project proposals due |
| 4/29 | Discussion: Term projects | [prepare slides] | |
| 5/6 | Related Work | See: RW reading assignment | |
| 5/13 | Discussion: Evaluation | ||
| 5/15 | Evaluation plans due | ||
| 5/20 | Discussion | Hands dirty (i.e. start coding) | |
| 5/27 | Error Analysis | Initial working prototype | |
| 6/3 | Error Analysis | ||
| 6/5 | KWLA papers due | ||
| 6/11 | Final projects due 11pm |