[PLing] Invitation: Tool Gallery 8.1. Spoken Corpus Linguistics and Open Access: Usability and Technology of VOICE 3.0 Online, 28-29 April 2022

[Pitzl-Hagin, Marie-Luise]

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Dear pling members,



we would like to welcome you at the next virtual ACDH-CH Tool Gallery 8.1.: Spoken Corpus Linguistics and Open Access: Usability and Technology of VOICE 3.0 Online on 28 April 2022 and 29 April 2022.


Open access (OA) is a gold standard for any language corpus. Yet, after a project’s completion, it is often challenging to keep open-access web applications ‘alive’ long-term, despite the fact that the compilation of (spoken) corpora is time- and cost-intensive. The Tool Gallery 8.1. addresses this challenge by sharing insights of the development and usability of the new web application for the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE, first released in 2009), developed recently in the VOICE CLARIAH project<https://voice.acdh.oeaw.ac.at> (2020-2021).


The first day of the Tool Gallery is targeted at researchers, PhD candidates and advanced students interested in working with and analyzing transcribed spoken data. We will introduce VOICE, a one-million-word corpus of spoken English as a lingua franca (ELF) interactions, and then engage with its usability as an open-access tool for linguistic research. We will discuss specific properties of spoken corpora (such as field work, data collection, detailed transcription, conversational mark-up, and metadata) and provide an in-depth introduction of the new VOICE 3.0 Online<https://voice3.acdh.oeaw.ac.at> OA web interface and its functionalities through numerous hands-on activities.


The second day of this ACDH-CH Tool Gallery takes a look behind the scenes: it focuses on the OA technologies used and developed for the new VOICE 3.0 Online web interface. We introduce key properties of VOICE 3.0 XML, outline the process of setting up a local NoSketch Engine to run queries, and provide details on technology stacks and OA software packages. The second day of this Tool Gallery is targeted primarily at researchers, PhD candidates, advanced students and programmers with an interest in building OA web applications for language corpora and related resources. Some technological expertise in corpus linguistics, web design, XML technologies or software development may be advantageous, but is not a prerequisite. The ACDH-CH Tool Gallery will end with a closing panel on Day 2 where core members of the VOICE CLARIAH project team will answer questions related to project management and implementation, interdisciplinary collaboration and the challenges of planning for long-term OA availability.


Prospective participants can register for either Day 1 or Day 2, or participate in both days (two registrations required).

Please register via our ACDH-CH Event site: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/events/event-series/acdh-ch-tool-gallery-81


<https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/events/event-series/acdh-ch-tool-gallery-81>

Preliminary Programme:



Thursday, 28 April:

14.00-14.10 Welcoming words

14.10-14.40 Spoken corpora and the challenge of long-term open access: The case of VOICE

14.40-15.00 Introducing VOICE: Corpus structure and text properties

15.00-15.10 The VOICE CLARIAH project: Developing VOICE 3.0 Online

15.10-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-16.00 Introducing VOICE 3.0 Online

16.00-17.00 Hands-on activities for using VOICE 3.0: Queries, sub-corpora, etc.

17.00-17.15 Closing discussion



Friday, 29 April:

10.00-10.15 Welcome and Summary Day 1

10.15-10.45 VOICE 3.0 XML and NoSketch Engine

10.45-11.15 The technological infrastructure behind VOICE 3.0 Online

11:15-11.25 Demonstration: Applying VOICE technologies to other data

11.25–11.45 Discussion: OA technologies of VOICE and re-usability/further applications

11.45-12.15 Coffee break

12.15-13.00 Q&A and closing panel: Challenges of long-term OA for corpora, project management & interdisciplinarity

13.00 Farewell and closing



We are looking forward to welcoming you!


Feel free to forward this message to interested students.


If you have any questions, please contact Susanne Zhanial (Susanne.zhanial at oeaw.ac.at<mailto:Susanne.zhanial at oeaw.ac.at>) or myself (marie-luise.pitzl at oeaw.ac.at).



Best regards,


Marie-Luise Pitzl



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Out NOW:
Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2022. From cross to inter to trans- *cultural pragmatics on the move: The need for expanding methodologies in lingua franca research. In Ian Walkinshaw (ed.). Pragmatics in English as a lingua franca: Findings and developments, 55-80. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Open access: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501512520 <https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501512520/html> [X] <javascript:>  [X]  [X]
VOICE 3.0 Online: https://voice3.acdh.oeaw.ac.at


Priv.-doz. Mag. Dr. Marie-Luise Pitzl

FWF Elise-Richter Research Fellow

Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH) | Linguistics Department

Austrian Academy of Sciences | Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)

Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3 | 1030 Vienna


Principal Investigator: English as a Lingua Franca in Transient International Groups (FWF V747)

Project lead: VOICE CLARIAH project

Twitter: @mlpitzl<https://twitter.com/mlpitzl> | ORCID: 0000-0002-7805-6739


https://marieluisepitzl.org | https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/team/current-team/marie-luise-pitzl/
ELF in TIGs: https://marieluisepitzl.org/project/elf-tigs

VOICE CLARIAH: <https://voice-clariah.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/> https://voice.acdh.oeaw.ac.at<https://voice.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/voice-3-0-virtual-release-event/>
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