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The ecology of documentary linguistic software development
No full textWhile computational tools for language documentation and revitalization have contributed substantially to current practice in both areas, the development of such software has received comparatively little attention. This paper considers practical challenges facing linguistic software development, adopting as a case study a software package first demonstrated at ICLDC 2009
From technical to teachable: Teaching morphology without templates
Get PDFFor some languages with complex inflectional morphology, linguists have proposed morphological templates to account for regularities in the forms and orders in which morphemes appear (Good 2011, McDonough 2000, Rice 2000). From a linguistic perspective, templates provide a layer of abstraction over word structure, representing recurring inflectional patterns as sequences of underlying morphemes and accompanying morphophonemic adaptations. From a pedagogical perspective, morphological templates offer both advantages and disadvantages. While bringing attention to meaningful parts of complex words, their level of abstraction is not always learner-friendly. In many cases, teachers and learners of templatically-analyzed languages face a dilemma. Abandoning templates leaves few resources that highlight commonalities between word-forms, encouraging rote memorization and lessening emphasis on productive language use. On the other hand, adopting templatic representations can prove difficult for both learners' production and comprehension.
One alternative to morphological templates is found in paradigms which group together sets of related words in their fully-inflected forms. This surface-oriented approach to words and the regularities among them has several benefits for language pedagogy and documentation:
1. Paradigms present a means of representing regularities across words that does not require deep morphological analysis. Such sets of whole-word forms can help organize observations about recurring inflectional patterns without tremendous abstraction, making such information more accessible for language learning and teaching;
2. Paradigms provide support for adapting existing language resources for use in new teaching contexts. For instance, drawing on paradigms with the necessary inflectional forms, third-person narratives (e.g., storybooks) can be adapted into first and second-person response routines that can be used as language activities;
3. For L2 teaching methods that emphasize the repetition of constructions across multiple contexts of use, paradigms can help in finding words that ‘fit’ inflectionally in the given frames, making reinforcement teaching methods easier to implement.
With this in mind, this paper considers how paradigmatic approaches to word structure may benefit both language pedagogy and documentation. Drawing examples from Dene (Athapaskan) languages, which are often upheld as prototypical examples of templatic verbal morphology, this paper assesses the viability of paradigm-based approaches to inflection in these languages. It then proceeds to consider how these approaches are being applied in pedagogical resource development, L2 teaching, and documentation. Based on these observations, this paper argues that surface-based approaches are not only feasible, but have a valuable role to play in language teaching and documentation.
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Good, Jeff. 2011. The typology of templates. Language and Linguistics Compass 5/10: 731–747.
McDonough, Joyce. 2000. Athabaskan redux: against the position class as a morphological category. In Dressler, Wolfgang, Oskar Pfeiffer, Markus Pöchtrager, and John Rennison (eds.), Morphological analysis in comparison. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 155–178.
Rice, Keren. 2000. Morpheme order and semantic scope: word formation in the Athapaskan verb. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Basic and other measurements of radiation at station Alert (ALE), reference list of 115 datasets (2004-08 to 2014-02)
No full textAppropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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