Eliciting Evolving Information Structure and Prosody
iLanguage Lab presented the following poster at the Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody Conference in Montreal, Canada. Eliciting evolving information structure and audienceless vs....
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Language Game Answers Revealed!!
Don't let the vocabulary fool you, despite the article talking about Thor (the god of thunder), this language is Basque, a minority language of Spain. http://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor Hope everyone...
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Ergative-Absolutive 101
Languages differ in how they overtly mark functions and their arguments, if they overtly mark at all… This month’s iLanguage game shows an example of the “Ergative-Absolutive” system, present in...
View ArticleWord Edit Distance Web Widget
If you have a spell checker, you want it to suggest a number of words that are close to the misspelt word. For humans, its easy for us to look at ‘teh’ and know that it is close to ‘the’, but how does...
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FieldDB: An on/offline cloud data entry app which adapts to its user’s...
iLanguage Lab is getting ready to launch FieldDB, a cloud based data entry app created for researchers at McGill, Concordia and University of California Santa Cruz. FieldDB is written in 100%...
View ArticleDyslexia and dying languages? There’s an app for that.
The Lab’s recent projects get featured on Concordia University’s website. What do dyslexia in children and endangered languages have in common? Concordia graduate Gina Cook combines her expertise in...
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Computational Field Workshop @McGill
On May 27th the Mi’gmaq Partnership (Listuguj, McGill, iLanguage) will be hosting its first Computational Field Workshop at McGill. Lab members Hisako, Gina, Josh and Tobin along with Louisa and Carol...
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Using Technology to Bridge Gaps @Carlton University
Hisako and Elise went to Carlton University this week to present at FEL 2013, the 17th Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Language. The theme of this year’s workshop was Endangered Languages...
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Field Testing in Bat’umi Begins!
For Winter 2014 semester Gina heads out to Batumi, Georgia where she will spent some time in the field testing some of our open source offline data collection pipelines.
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Presentation at ComputEL workshop @ ACL 2014
This week Joel and Gina presented some of the work lab members Josh, Theresa, Tobin and Gina and interns ME, Louisa, Elise, Yuliya and Hisako have done on the LingSync project as part of their 20...
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