Data Providers

Page Index

• Nicholas Evans
• Baden Hughes
• Cathy Bow
• Steven Bird
• Follow the path of the Kayardild data

Nicholas Evans

• Position(s) currently held: Reader and Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.
• Specialties: Australian Aboriginal languages, grammatical and semantic typology, intonation, historical linguistics, contact and areal linguistics, the effects of culture on the emergence of language structure, the pragmatics/semantics interface, and the use of linguistic evidence in native title claims
• Other projects: Reciprocals across languages, documenting Iwaidja and other languages of the Cobourg Peninsula
• Additional information: website - http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/evans.html

Baden Hughes

• Position(s) currently held: Research Fellow with the Language Technology Group in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne
• Specialties: Formal and computational models of human language; statistical natural language processing; digital libraries; web data mining; documentary linguistic;, computer-assisted language learning.
• Other projects: The World's Biggest Book: Inscriptions of the Pali Canon at Kuthodaw Pagoda, Myanmar; Natural Language Engineering: Integrating Parallel and Parametric Processing; Australian Child Language Acquisition Database; Querying Linguistic Databases; AIATSIS Indigenous Language Database; NSW ALRRC Database.
• Additional information: website - http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~badenh

Cathy Bow

• Position(s) currently held: Research Fellow with the Language Technology Group in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne.
• Other projects: Australian Child Language Acquisition Database; Querying Linguistic Paradigms; Multitrans documentation.

Steven Bird

• Position(s) currently held: Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne; Senior Research Associate for the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Specialties: Human language technology

Follow the path of the Kayardild data

1. Get Started Summary of Kayardild conversion
2. Digitize Audio: Audio page (Classroom)
3. Interlinearize Text: IGT page (Classroom)
4. Build Lexicon: Lexicon page (Classroom)
5. Collect Metadata: Metadata page (Classroom)