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Evaluation of a language documentation project in Nagaland
No full textSumi is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Nagaland, North East India that has recently been the focus of a documentation project that looks at traditional agricultural songs and stories. This presentation offers an evaluation of the project. We assess the data collected for the project, in light of the different priorities of the language community (as represented by the Sumi Cultural Association) and those of academic research. We demonstrate how some of these different priorities have influenced the type and quality of the data that have been collected.
Just as importantly, we examine the ways that this project has affected the identities of both the native and non-native researcher, and how these may have impacted on the various accomplishments and shortcomings of the project. More specifically, we consider the native researcher’s position as a younger woman in cultural settings that are typically dominated by older men, comparing her experience with that of other researchers who are also ‘insiders’ in their respective communities (e.g. Chavez, 2008). We also consider the non-native researcher’s position as a foreigner who is often mistaken for a local, comparing his experience with those of other foreign researchers who physically resemble people in the communities they work with (Fadzillah, 2004). Finally, we consider the assumptions the two researchers have made about each other in terms of identity and how this has led to communication successes and failures.
We feel that an understanding of the effects on the identities of the researchers is relevant to an evaluation of the current project, and that it also has significant implications for future projects with the language community. We also hope that an understanding of these issues will help inform other similar community-based language documentation projects.
References
Chavez, Christina. (2008). Conceptualizing from the inside: Advantages, complications and demands on insider positionality. The Qualitative Report, 13(3), 474-494.
Fadzillah, Ida. (2004). Going beyond “The West” and “The Rest”: Conducting non-Western, non-native ethnography in Northern Thailand. In L. Hume & J. Mulcock (Eds.), Anthropologists in the field: Cases in participant observation. (pp 32-45). New York: Columbia University Press
Gamification of rapid word collection
No full textWe can use creative interactive methods to engage speakers in language documentation and the development of language materials. Friendly competition keeps speakers involved in what could otherwise be a dull task of listing words. New participants seek out the opportunity to be involved in the future as participants when positive engagement attitudes are developed. To this end, we applied principles of gamification (Hamari et al. 2014) to the Rapid Word collection phase of the Dictionary Development Program (DDP) (Shore & van den Berg 2006; Moe 2004).
We present the outcomes of applying gamification to the DDP in an effort to collect and verify words in a narrow set of semantic domains for the Mòòré language [mos]. Mòòré is widely spoken, underdocumented Gur language primarily spoken in Burkina Faso. Data was collected by native speakers of Mòòré on a university campus.
The basic procedure for the game is as follows:
In round 1, two teams of 3-4 speakers compete with each other in attempt to accumulate more words than the other team in each semantic domain as it is presented. Each team appoints a scribe equipped with paper and pen who records words in the existing Mòòré orthography; other team members participate verbally. Points accrue for words that are collected that are distinct from the other team, i.e. unique words will score points. In round 2, the teams exchange sets of words and must use the words compiled by the other team in round 1 to make sentences in the language that exemplify the meaning of the word. Round 2 verifies the words and offers some idea that shared meaning exists between the speakers on the two competing teams.
We present a methodology involving multiple speakers that appears to be effective and efficient, compared to elicitation of terms with one speaker in the same time frame. At the same time, we show the possibility of collecting discourse data as participants negotiate amongst themselves key definitions and example sentences. In post-game interviews with participants, we also asked speakers about their reactions to the task, and the likelihood of them participating again, though it remains to be seen if they will participate again.
References:
Hamari, Juho, Jonna Koivisto, & Harri Sarsa. 2014. Does Gamification Work? – A Literature Review of Empirical Studies on gamification. In Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, USA, January 6-9, 2014.
Moe, Ronald. 2003. Compiling dictionaries using semantic domains. Lexicos 13: 215-223. http://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/731
Shore, Susan, and Rene van den Berg. 2006. A new mass elicitation technique: the Dictionary Development Program. Paper presented at Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. 17-20 January 2006. Puerta Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines. http://www.sil.org/asia/philippines/ical/papers.htm
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
Appropriate 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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