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Welcome from the LangArc-2025 Workshop Organizers

Description: Proceedings introduction for the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives (LangArc-2025). It provides an overview of the workshop and proceedings which focus on a wide range of issues related to digital language archives. The workshop was held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025.
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Burke, Mary
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Advancing Language Revitalization Goals Through Community-based Archiving

Description: Article examining how community-based archiving initiatives reflect language revitalization goals through a case study of an archival collection created by community members engaged in revitalization efforts. Understanding the decision-making and intentions behind such collections provides insight and guidance for future community-based archiving projects. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint C… more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Burke, Mary
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Profile of a Language Documentation Project

Description: Video recording of Sadaf Munshi discussing the process of documenting endangered languages in Northern Pakistan. She discusses the realities of documenting languages in areas restricted from the world, but also how important it is. Presented at the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 8th Annual Planning Meeting.
Date: October 4, 2024
Duration: 21 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Findings from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives

Description: This white paper comprehensively describes the insights that emerged from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives. Key topics include a typology of language archives, the perspectives of stakeholder groups, and improving access to language archives.
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives: Video 9

Description: This NSF-funded workshop initiated a research trajectory that brings the fields of language archives and user-centered design (UCD) into dialogue, with the goal of improving users’ experiences with language archives and making them more accessible and useful to diverse user groups. The workshop documented perspectives of key stakeholder groups and generated initial conceptual frameworks to guide further research. This video continues from Video 8 in documenting discussion on the second day of t… more
Date: February 21, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary; Alexander, Edward; Baldwin, Daryl; Basapur, Santosh; Berez-Kroeker, Andrea et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Transcript Summary 5: Conclusions

Description: This document provides a transcript summary of the fifth and final part of Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains a detailed summary of the concluding discussion at the end of the workshop.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Transcript Summary 2: Individual Presentations by Workshop Participants: Perspectives of Stakeholder Groups

Description: This document provides a transcript summary of the second part of Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains a detailed summary of individual presentations by all workshop participants on the perspectives of stakeholder groups.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Transcript Summary 3: Saturday Discussion

Description: This document provides a transcript summary of the third part of Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains a detailed summary of discussions on the first day of the workshop.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Transcript Summary 4: Sunday Discussion

Description: This document provides a transcript summary of the fourth part of Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains a detailed summary of discussions on the second day of the workshop.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Transcript Summary 1: Introduction and Background

Description: This document provides a transcript summary of the first part of the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains an overview of language archives by Gary Holton and an overview of user-centered design by Christina Wasson.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences

Cross-Language Comparison of Mismatched Annotation in Interlinear-Glossed Texts

Description: This presentation explores the variation in interlinear-glossed text (IGT) in 5 closely related South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages with verb stem alternation, reduplicated adverbial modifiers, and pre-verbal directionals. While IGT is a rich representation of language, IGT for even closely related languages can look markedly different due to individual linguists’ divergent analyses. In comparing the discrepancies between representations of such features, we gain insight into the underlying a… more
Date: January 8, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop Day 2 Part 3

Description: This video continues from the Day 2 Part 2 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Theodore Fernald describes efforts to teach the structure of Navajo in Philadelphia. Sharon Hargus details blends in Witsuwit’en.
Date: June 28, 2017
Duration: 18 minutes
Creator: Ross, Chasen & Sisk, Trevor
Partner: UNT College of Information

CoRSAL Collection @ UNT Digital Library

Description: Presentation given at the third Computational Resource for South Asian Languages symposium in 2019 at the University of North Texas, in Denton, Texas. This presentation describes the activities of the UNT Libraries to provide infrastructure and support for language documentation archiving and preservation via the CoRSAL Collection.
Date: October 29, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries

Archive and database architecture and usability

Description: Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation discusses the use of a database for language archiving through the example of Himalayan Tibeto-Burman languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Caplow, Nancy J.; Khular, Sumshot & Willis Oko, Christina
Partner: UNT College of Information
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STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks

Description: This paper describes the use of Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns by designing tasks that are compelling to speech and natural language processing researchers while addressing technical challenges in language documentation and exploiting growing archives of endangered language data.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Levow, Gina-Anne; Bender, Emily M.; Littell, Patrick; Howell, Kristen; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Crowgey, Joshua et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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