WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR LINGUISTIC VARIATION

University of Oslo 17. and 18. September 2009


The RILiVS initiative will arrange its first open workshop on language infrastructure 17. and 18. September.
An excursion will be aranged on Saturday 19. September. The workshop hotel is Thon Hotel Astoria.

 

       • WORKSHOP PROGRAM WITH PRESENTATION SLIDES AND ABSTRACTS      

       • PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR SPEAKERS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS     

       • PARTICIPANTS

       • WORKSHOP PHOTO (Photo: Ram Gupta)

       • ARTICLE IN THE DEPARTMENT NEWSPAPER ILNytt (Browse down to middle of page!)
              • Norwegian version

Invited speakers:
       • Hans-Jörg Bibiko (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
       • Steven Krauwer (ELSNET / CLARIN / Utrecht University)
       • Bert Vaux (University of Cambridge)
Selected speakers:
       • Patrik Bye (University of Tromsø)
       • Hanne Eckhoff, Dag Haug, Anders Nøklestad and Eirik Welo (University of Oslo)
       • Harald Hammarström (Chalmers University)
       • Janne Bondi Johannessen (University of Oslo)
       • Jan Pieter Kunst and Franca Wesseling (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam)
       • Therese Leinonen (University of Groningen)
       • Christian-Emil Ore (University of Oslo)
       • John Pritchard, Eric Atwell, Mark Newman, Danny Dorling, Fabien Hall
         (University of Sheffield, University of Leeds, University of Michigan)
       • Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Anton Karl Ingason and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson (University of Iceland)
       • Diana Santos (Linguateca, SINTEF ICT)
       • Wolf Dieter Syring (University of Copenhagen)
       • Xavier Villalba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Selected, reviewed papers will be published in the Oslo Studies of Language series.

The workshop is part of a series of explorative workshops financed by NOS-HS under the heading "Research Infrastructure for Linguistic Variation Studies" (RILiVS). RILiVS is based on the networks Scandinavian Dialect Syntax (ScanDiaSyn), Nordic Centre of Excellence in Microcomparative Syntax (NORMS) plus the Medieval Nordic Text Archive (Menota), SweDia 2000, and a newly established network for the documentation of Sami languages led from the University of Tromsø.
The RILiVS collaboration is led by Dr. Øystein A. Vangsnes (University of Tromsø).



Eilert Sunds hus

         
         Workshop on research infrastructure
         for lingustic variation          

         17. and 18. september 2009
         Eilerts Sundts hus A, Auditorium 5

         Local organising committee:
         
         • Janne Bondi Johannessen
         (chair, professor of language
         technology and linguistics)
         • Karl-Gunnar Johansson
         (associate professor of Old Norse)
         • Oddrun Grønvik
          (chief editor of Norsk Ordbok)
         • Anders Nøklestad
          (language engineer)
         • Kristin Hagen
          (language engineer)