WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR LINGUISTIC VARIATION

 

       Program


         Thursday 17. September Eilerts Sundts hus A, Auditorium 5 (map)

         08.45 - 09.15        Registration and coffee
         09.15 - 09.25        Janne Bondi Johannessen: Welcome
         09.25 - 09.45        Øystein Vangsnes: On RILiVS (PRESENTATION)   
         09.45 - 10.45        Hans-Jörg Bibiko: WALS online – WALS offline by using R
         10.45 - 11.00        Short break
         11.00 - 11.30        Therese Leinonen: Vowel pronunciation in Swedish dialects analyzed with RuG/L04                                     (PRESENTATION)
         11.30 - 12.00        Patrik Bye: The Origin of Double-Peaked Accent in North Germanic: Towards a Spatially
                                    Integrated Approach to Language, Culture and History in Central Scandinavia
         12.00 - 12.30        Hanne Eckhoff, Dag Haug, Anders Nøklestad, and Eirik Welo: Representing Information                                     Structure in Corpora of Ancient Languages
         12.30 - 13.30        Lunch in Kafe Sverdrup
         13.30 - 14.00        Janne Bondi Johannessen: The Nordic Dialect Corpus (PRESENTATION)
         14.00 - 14.30        Jan Pieter Kunst and Franca Wesseling: The Edisyn Search Engine
                                    (PRESENTATION)
         14.30 - 15.00        Diana Santos: Linguateca's infrastructure for Portuguese and how it allows the detailed                                     study of language varieties (PRESENTATION)
         15.00 - 15.30        Coffee break
         15.30 - 16.30        Steven Krauwer: Sharin' through CLARIN - some first reflections

         19.00                   Workshop dinner in the Opera house at Sanguine Brasserie

         Friday 18. September Eilerts Sundts hus A, Auditorium 5

         09.15 - 10.15        Bert Vaux: Dynamic mapping of linguistic variation and automated isogloss generation
         10.15 - 10.30        Coffee break
         10.30 - 11.00        Xavier Villalba: The HISPACAT comparative database of syntactic constructions and its                                     applications to syntactic variation research   (PRESENTATION)
         11.00 - 11.30        Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Anton Karl Ingason, and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson: Coping with                                     variation in the Icelandic Diachronic Treebank (PRESENTATION)
         11.30 - 12.00        Christian-Emil Ore: Menota and research infrastructures for medieval languages
         12.00 - 13.15        Lunch in Kafe Sverdrup
         13.15 - 13.45        Harald Hammarström: Annotation for Descriptive Studies on Languages of the World
         13.45 - 14.15        Wolf Dieter Syring: Production and Presentation of Historical Text Data
         14.15 - 14.45        John Pritchard, Eric Atwell, Mark Newman, Danny Dorling, Fabien Hall: Mapping Language:                                     From data to diaspora
         14.45 - 15.15        Coffee break
         15.15 - 16.00        Janne Bondi Johannessen and Øystein Vangsnes: Discussion and closing


         Saturday 19. September
         Excursion
         09.30                   Meet at the City Hall Quay (in front of the City Hall), pier 3 (see small map)

         09.45                   We take The Bygdøy Ferry to Dronningen (first stop) then a short walk (approx. 15 min)                                     to The Viking Ship Museum
         10:15 - 11.15       We will be given a tour of the museum by archaeologist Jørgen Bøckmann. Afterwards a                                     saunter down to the restaurant Lanternen for lunch
         12:00                   Lunch at Lanternen. The restaurant is beside the jetty for the ferry back to town.
         After lunch:           We will take the ferry back to town and visit Forskningstorget - the Oslo Science Fair

 

 

 

 
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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)