Endangered Languages of Eurasia

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• Goals and Scope
• People
• Publications
• Software
• Documentation
• Demos
• User Guide

The main site of this project is maintained at the Philological Faculty server of "Moscow University.
This site presents only summary information, a map, and a few demos of annotated multimedia.

Goals and Scope

This is a four-year project that began May 1, 2006. The project is supported by the NSF grant # 0553546 and by the RFBR (Russian Fond for Basic Research) grant # 05-06-80351. The initial goal was to document four languages of the Russian Federation and one language of Azerbaijan. A supplemental NSF grant in 2007 made it possible to add a sixth language. In addition to linguistic work, the project is developing innovative software for documentary linguistics.

People and Institutions

Moscow

• Alexander Kibrik (MGU; Chair)
• Alexander Arkhipov (MGU)
• Mikhail Daniel (MGU)
• Valentin Goussev (IL RAS)
• Sandro Kodzasov (MGU)
• Irina A. Muravyova.(RSUH)
• Anna Urmanchieva (IL RAS)

S. Petersburg

• Elena Perekhval'skaia (SPBU-L,ILS RAS)
• Valentin Vydrin (SPBU-O, IE RAS)

Hamilton, NY

• Tom Myers (N-Topus Software)
• Alexander Nakhimovsky (Colgate University; Project Director)

MGU: Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Moscow State University
IL RAS: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics, Moscow
RSUH: Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow.
SPBU-L: Department of Linguistics, S.Petersburg State University
SPBU-O: Department of Oriental Languages, S.Petersburg State University
ILS RAS: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistic Studies, Saint Petersburg
IE RAS: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnography, Saint Petersburg

Publications and Presentations

• "On principles of representing texts in minority languages." Paper at the round table, LENCA-3 conference, Tomsk, June 2006.
• "The Linguists Toolbox and XML Technologies" Paper presented at the E-MELD workshop, June 20-22, 2006. Hellmuth, Myers, Nakhimovsky
  http://emeld.org/workshop/2006/papers/hellmuth.html
  
• "Creating OLAC Records and Repositories in Toolbox," Note on the OLAC website, http://www.language-archives.org/NOTE/toolbox.html Myers, Nakhimovsky.
• "Modern standards in language documentation." Paper at Field Linguistics Conference, Moscow, October 2006. Arkhipov, Daniel, Kibrik, Nakhimovsky.
• "Scholars, Tools and Repositories, Working Together". Invited paper at the European Science Foundation workshop on Computational Infrastructure and Local Communities, Paris, February 2007. Nakhimovsky.
• "Archives, Websites and Workflows" Paper at the annual DELAMAN conference, Mexico-City, November 2007. Nakhimovsky
• More papers by Kibrik, Arkhipov, Daniel, and Goussev are listed at the Moscow server..

Software Projects

Software development for this project pursues these interdependent goals:

• Provide a browser-based framework for time-aligned, annotated multimedia.
• Provide a browser-based framework for searchable repositories of such multimedia.
• Provide a framework for complete workflows from field materials to searchable multimedia repositories, especially from materials created in Toolbox.

To this end, these software projects are currently under development:

• MannX multimedia Annotator and Player
• BoxReader and BoxWriter

Support is also provided for Multimedia Phonetics Databases.

Documentation

Documentation will be provided on the use of archives, phonetic databases, and the installation and use of software.