{ "paper_id": "2021", "header": { "generated_with": "S2ORC 1.0.0", "date_generated": "2023-01-19T13:11:49.327842Z" }, "title": "ANTTI ARPPE JEFF GOOD ATTICUS HARRIGAN MANS HULDEN JORDAN LACHLER SARAH MOELLER ALEXIS PALMER LANE SCHWARTZ MIIKKA SILFVERBERG iii Organizing Committee", "authors": [ { "first": "Antti", "middle": [], "last": "Arppe", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Jordan", "middle": [], "last": "Lachler", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Alexis", "middle": [], "last": "Palmer", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Andrea", "middle": [], "last": "Berez-Kroeker", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" } ], "year": "", "venue": null, "identifiers": {}, "abstract": "", "pdf_parse": { "paper_id": "2021", "_pdf_hash": "", "abstract": [], "body_text": [ { "text": "These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 4th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered languages, held virtually March 2-3, 2021, and co-timed to immediately precede the 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC7). As the name implies, this is the fourth workshop held on the topic-the first meeting was co-located with the ACL main conference in Baltimore, Maryland in 2014 and the second and third ones in 2017 and 2019 were co-located with the 5th and 6th editions of the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) at the University of Hawai'i at M\u0101noa.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The workshop covers a wide range of topics relevant to the study and documentation of endangered languages, ranging from technical papers on working systems and applications, to reports on community activities with supporting computational components.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The purpose of the workshop is to bring together computational researchers, documentary linguists, and people involved with community efforts of language documentation and revitalization to take part in both formal and informal exchanges on how to integrate rapidly evolving language processing methods and tools into efforts of language description, documentation, and revitalization. The organizers are pleased with the range of papers, many of which highlight the importance of interdisciplinary work and interaction between the various communities that the workshop is aimed towards.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "We received 24 submissions as papers or extended abstracts. After a thorough review process, 8 of the submissions were selected for Volume 1 as long papers and 4 as as short papers, to be published in the ACL Anthology, representing a 50% acceptance rate. In addition, an additional 2 long papers and 1 short paper were accepted as resource oriented papers, alongside 5 extended abstracts (1 as a resource presentation), for Volume 2, to be published in CU Scholar.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The Organizing Committee would like to thank the Program Committee for their thoughtful input on the submissions. We are also grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada for supporting the workshop through their Partnership Grant #895-2019-1012. We would moreover want to acknowledge the support of the organizers of ICLDC7, in particular Brad McDonnell.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Preface", "sec_num": null } ], "back_matter": [], "bib_entries": { "BIBREF0": { "ref_id": "b0", "title": "Corpus for Machine Translation of the Indigenous Languages of North America Garrett Nicolai", "authors": [ { "first": "", "middle": [], "last": "Bible", "suffix": "" } ], "year": null, "venue": "", "volume": "", "issue": "", "pages": "", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "the JHU Bible Corpus for Machine Translation of the Indigenous Languages of North Amer- ica Garrett Nicolai, Edith Coates, Ming Zhang and Miikka Silfverberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1", "links": null }, "BIBREF1": { "ref_id": "b1", "title": "The language documentation quartet Simon Musgrave and Nick Thieberger", "authors": [], "year": null, "venue": "", "volume": "", "issue": "", "pages": "", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "The language documentation quartet Simon Musgrave and Nick Thieberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6", "links": null }, "BIBREF2": { "ref_id": "b2", "title": "LARA in the Service of Revivalistics and Documentary Linguistics: Community Engagement and Endangered Languages Ghil'Ad Zuckermann, Sigur\u00f0ur Vigf\u00fasson, Manny Rayner", "authors": [], "year": null, "venue": "", "volume": "", "issue": "", "pages": "", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "LARA in the Service of Revivalistics and Documentary Linguistics: Community Engagement and Endan- gered Languages Ghil'Ad Zuckermann, Sigur\u00f0ur Vigf\u00fasson, Manny Rayner, Neasa N\u00ed Chiar\u00e1in, Nedelina Ivanova,", "links": null }, "BIBREF4": { "ref_id": "b4", "title": "Fossicking in dominant language teaching: Javanese and Indonesian 'low' varieties in language teaching resources Zara", "authors": [ { "first": "", "middle": [ ". ." ], "last": "Maxwell-Smith", "suffix": "" } ], "year": null, "venue": "", "volume": "", "issue": "", "pages": "", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "Fossicking in dominant language teaching: Javanese and Indonesian 'low' varieties in language teach- ing resources Zara Maxwell-Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24", "links": null }, "BIBREF5": { "ref_id": "b5", "title": "Computational Analysis versus Human Intuition: A Critical Comparison of Vector Semantics with Manual Semantic Classification in the Context of Plains Cree Daniel Dacanay, Atticus Harrigan and Antti Arppe", "authors": [], "year": null, "venue": "", "volume": "", "issue": "", "pages": "", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "Computational Analysis versus Human Intuition: A Critical Comparison of Vector Semantics with Man- ual Semantic Classification in the Context of Plains Cree Daniel Dacanay, Atticus Harrigan and Antti Arppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33", "links": null }, "BIBREF6": { "ref_id": "b6", "title": "The Usefulness of Bibles in Low-Resource Machine Translation Ling Liu, Zach Ryan and Mans Hulden", "authors": [], "year": null, "venue": "", "volume": "", "issue": "", "pages": "", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "The Usefulness of Bibles in Low-Resource Machine Translation Ling Liu, Zach Ryan and Mans Hulden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44", "links": null }, "BIBREF8": { "ref_id": "b8", "title": "The Relevance of the Source Language in Transfer Learning for ASR Nils Hjortnaes, Niko Partanen, Michael Rie\u00dfler and Francis M", "authors": [], "year": null, "venue": "", "volume": "", "issue": "", "pages": "", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "The Relevance of the Source Language in Transfer Learning for ASR Nils Hjortnaes, Niko Partanen, Michael Rie\u00dfler and Francis M. 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