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Technical Workshops

The Technical Workshops deal with managing and processing of linguistic data, especially those obtained through original field research.

Data management is an important issue for all field linguists, for the data are their original. In the case of languages with small number of speakers, the data are especially important, because they may be the only existing linguistic data of the language. Managing data involves multiple tasks, for example, digitizing analog audio-visual, photo, or written data, providing meta-data and annotation, converting data into standard format (such as Unicode font).

The workshops introduce the use of softwares, such as the following:

  • Toolbox / Shoebox (SIL’s data management software)
  • ELAN (software for adding annotation to audio-visual data)

Previous Technical Workshops

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Field Linguistics Workshop: Technical Workshop “Why do we go to the field? Exploring the motivation behind on-site linguistic research” Date/Time: Fri 28 Jan 2022 13:30–16:30
Venue: Online meeting
  • Speakers:
  • Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate/ NINJAL)
  • Keita KURABE (ILCAA)
  • Makoto FURUMOTO (ILCAA Reseach Associate)
  • Kyosuke YAMAMOTO (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  • Programme:
  • Lightning talks (Speakers) (1 hour)
  • Group discussion (All participants) (2 hours)
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required. Please see here (in Japanese).
  • Orgnized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”
Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop/ Information Resources Center (IRC) Workshop “Digital humanities and linguistics” Date/Time: Fri 26 Mar 2021 13:30–15:00
Venue: Online meeting
  • 13:30-13:40 Kanae IWASAKI（ILCAA Research Associate）“Introduction: Some difficulties in digitizing language data”
  • 13:40-14:10 Yifan WANG（Graduate School, The University of Tokyo）“Digital data: Converting, creating, and conserving”
  • 14:10-14:40 Yuzuki TSUKAGOSHI（Graduate School, The University of Tokyo）“Structuring of text data”
  • 14:40-15:00 Discussion
  • Language: Japanese
  • Pre-registration is required.
    Please see here.(in Japanese)
  • Jointly Sponsored by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”, Information Resources Center (IRC)
Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop: How to design good presentation slides Date/Time: Fri 30 Oct 2020 13:30–16:30
Venue: Online meeting
  • Facilitator: Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
  • Lecturer: Tomoyo OTSUKI (Shizuoka Eiwa Gakuin University）
  • Main topics: Design tips of a presentation slide
  • Language: Japanese
  • Pre-registration is required.
    please see here.(in Japanese)
Technical workshop: Facilitation of online seminar Date/Time: Fri 8 May 2020 14:00–16:00
Venue: Online workshop via Zoom
  • Facilitator: Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate, National Institute for Japanese Languages and Linguistics)
  • Main topics: Facilitation of online seminar
  • Language: Japanese
  • Pre-registration is required.
    For details, please see here. (200KB)(in Japanese)
Technical workshop:“Data management for field linguistics” Date/Time: Wed 15 Jan 2020 13:00–16:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
Lecturers: Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA), Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate, National Institute for Japanese Languages and Linguistics)
Contents:

    Introductory session

  • - What is data management?
  • - Data and metadata
  • - Data publication, archiving, and sharing

    • Practical session

  • - Management of the file names
  • - Management of the metadata
  • - Data backup
  • - Paper-data and electronic data
  • - Version control
  • Language: Japanese
  • Pre-registration is required.
    For details, please see here. (225KB)(in Japanese)
  • Admission: Free
  • Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”
Technical workshop:“Text editors for editing documents: various uses of find and replace” Date/Time: Wed 23 Oct 2019 13:00–16:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
  • ・What is a text file?
  • ・Basic operations of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
  • ・Find/replace/find in files
  • ・Regular expressions
  • ・Uses of find and replace
  • Language: Japanese
  • Pre-registration is required.
    For details, please see here.
  • Jointly Sponsored by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”, Information Resource Center (IRC)
Technical workshop: How to design an effective research poster Date/Time: Wed 10 Jul 2019 13:00–16:00, Wed 17 Jul 2019 13:00–16:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
* This workshop is two days course. You would be required to attend both days.

    10 July

  • 1. Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate, NINJAL)
    “Things to keep in mind for an effective poster presentation”
  • 2. Tomoyo OTSUKI (ILCAA Research Associate)
    “Poster design tips for communicating your research effectively”

    • 17 July

  • Practical exercise
  • Language: Japanese
  • Pre-registration is required.
    For details, please see here. (200KB)(in Japanese)
Technical workshop: Field note taking (2): Methods of utilizing digital devices Date/Time: Wed 29 May 2019 13:00–16:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
  • Facilitator: Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate)
  • Main Topics: Methods of utilizing digital devices
  • Language: Japanese
  • For details, please see here.(79KB) (in Japanese)
Technical Workshop: “How to Make Your Research Appear Appealing: purpose and tips for scientific communication” Date/Time: Fri 15 Mar 2019 10:00–16:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
  • Facilitator: Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate)
  • Speakers: Yuto NIINAGA (NINJAL), Satbyul KIM (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature), Hikaru KAMOGAWA (Japan GEMS Center)
  • Language: Japanese
  • For details, please see here.(682KB) (in Japanese)
Technical Workshop: “Software for documentary linguistics” Date: Wed 12 Dec 2018, Wed 9 Jan 2019, Fri 15 Feb 2019
Time: 14:00 - 16:00 for all days.
Venue: Room 304, ILCAA(12 Dec 2018/ 9 Jan 2019), Room 306, ILCAA (15 Feb 2019)
  • Main Topics:
  • 1st workshop --- ELAN. (12 Dec 2018)
  • 2nd workshop --- FLEx. (9 Jan 2019)
  • 3rd workshop --- Using ELAN and FLEx together. (15 Feb 2019)
  • Lecturer: Dr. Timothy Brickell (ILCAA Research Fellow, University of Melbourne)
  • Language: English
  • For details, please see here. (136KB)
Technical workshop: Field note taking (1): Research purposes and field note Ⅱ Date/Time: Fri 16 Mar 2018 13:00–16:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
  • Facilitator: Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate)
  • Speaker: 　Natsuko NAKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chiba University / JSPS)
  • Language: Japanese
  • For details, please see here (in Japanese) (273KB)
Technical workshop: Field note taking (1): Research purposes and field note Date/Time: Wed 6 Dec 2017 13:00–16:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
  • Facilitator: Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate)
  • Speakers: 　Rihito SHIRATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ryukyu University/JSPS), Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)
  • Language: Japanese
  • For details, please see here (in Japanese) (273KB)
Technical workshop: Basis of the data annotation software ELAN Date/Time: Wed 5 Jul 2017 13:00–16:00
Venue: Room 306, Multimedia Seminar Room, ILCAA
Technical workshop: Two-day lecture and workshop on “linguistic fieldwork and language documentation” Date/Time: Tue 14 Mar 2017 10:30–16:00, Wed 15 Mar 2017 10:30–16:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
  • Lecturer: Dr. Sonja Riesberg (Australian National University, University of Cologne, ILCAA Joint Researcher)
  • Language: English
  • For details, please see here (18KB)
Technical workshop: Three-day lecture and workshop on data management and archive Date/Time: Mon 16 Jan 2017 10:30–16:30, Tue 17 Jan 2017 10:30–16:30, Wed 18 Jan 2017 10:30–16:30
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
  • Instructor: Nicholas Thieberger (Director of PARADISEC, the University of Melbourne)
  • Language: English
  • For details, please see here (31KB)
Video production for linguistic studies. Date/Time: Wed 7 Dec 2016 13:00–17:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
Technical Workshop: Praat Workshop for beginners Date/Time: Wed 5 Oct 2016 13:00–17:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
  • Instructor: Hayato AOI (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
  • Language: Japanese
  • For details, please see here. (103KB) (in Japanese)
Technical Workshop: Lecture on Corpus building in lesser-described languages, with specific focus on referential strategies research across diverse languages Date/Time: Wed 6 Jul 2016 14:30–15:30
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
Field linguistics workshop: Video production for linguistic studies. Date/Time: Wed 18 Nov 2015 14:00–18:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
Linguistic fieldwork training workshop: Miyako Ryukyuan Date/Time: 14–17 Jul 2015 10:30–17:00
Venue: ILCAA
The Documentary Linguistics Seminar　-Introduction to Documentary Linguistics- Date/Time: 18–21 May 2015 10:00-12:00 (18th, 19th, 21st), 10:00–17:30 (20th)
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
Instructor: Yuko ABE (ILCAA Research Associate), Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA), Toshihide NAKAYAMA (ILCAA), Hideo SAWADA (ILCAA), Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA), Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA), Umberto ANSALDO (The University of Hong Kong)
  • Language: English
Practical course in audio data processing: making a basic vocabulary with audio. Date/Time: Sun 7 Dec 2014 13:00–17:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
Instructor: Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)
Programme:
How to Draw Linguistic Maps -Drawing Maps Using MANDARA Date/Time: Sat 5 Jul 2014 13:30–17:30
Venue: Room 303, Large Conference Room, ILCAA
Instructor: Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA, TUFS), Reiko ASO (TUFS, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Programme:
Collecting Basic Vocabulary through Fieldwork Date/Time: Fri 19 Jul 2013 15:00–17:30
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
Instructor: Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA, TUFS), Reiko ASO (TUFS, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Programme:
  • Toshihide NAKAYAMA (ILCAA) “Collecting basic vocabulary of Northwest Coast American Indian Languages”
  • Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA) “Collecting basic vocabulary of Indonesian languages”
  • Tokusu KUREBITO (ILCAA) “Research on basic vocabulary of reindeer breeding in Siberia”
  • Hideo SAWADA (ILCAA) “Researching vocabulary of tone languages: the case of Lhaovo and Lacid (Tibeto-Burman languages in Northern Burma)”
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • Registration is required.
  • For details, please see here. (in Japanese)
Video data in field linguistics: why and how to utilize them? Date/Time: Sat 14 Jul 2012 13:00–17:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
Instructor: Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA, TUFS), Reiko ASO (TUFS, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Programme:
  • Case study: video data collection in fieldwork in Indonesia
  • How to annotate a video / how to superimpose a caption on the video
  • Report(Japanese): (148KB)
FLEx (FieldWorks Language Explorer) Workshop Date/Time: Mon 26 Mar 2012 13:00–17:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
Instructor: Yukari NAGAYAMA (Hokkaido University), Iku NAGASAKI (ILCAA, TUFS)
Programme:
  • Introduction to FLEx
  • Lexicon fields
  • Texts & Words fields
  • Exporting of data
  • Importing of SFM (Toolbox) lexicon data
ELAN Workshop Date/Time: Sun 25 Sep 2011 10:00–17:00
Venue: Room 304, Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA
Instructor: Reiko ASO (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Programme:
  • Introduction to ELAN
  • Import of audio files
  • Creation of tiers and text transcriptions
  • Import (addition) of video files
  • Export of annotation (srt) files
  • Adding annotation to video data
  • Report(Japanese): (86KB)
Praat Workshop for beginners Date/Time: Sat 23 Jul 2011 11:00–17:30
Venue: Room 306, Multimedia Seminar Room, ILCAA
Programme:
Instructor: Hayato AOI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
  1. Introduction
  2. Observation of waveform
  3. Analysis of formant
  4. Observation of spectrogram
Report(Japanese): (78KB)
Perl Workshop for beginners Date/Time: Sat 4 Dec 2010 10:30–17:30
Venue: Room 306, Multimedia Seminar Room, ILCAA
Programme:
Instructor: Michihisa UMEKAWA (ILCAA)
  1. 10:30 - 11:00 About Perl
  2. 11:00 - 11:30 Preparation (Installation of the software)
  3. 11:30 - 13:00 Introduction to Perl programming (1)
  4. 14:00 - 15:30 Introduction to Perl
  5. 16:00 - 17:30 Practice in text processing
Report(Japanese): (81KB)
ELAN Workshop Date/Time: Mon 19 Jul 2010 10:00–17:00
Lecturer: Anthony Jukes (La Trobe University, Joint Research Project)
Laguage: English
  1. 10:00-12:00 An introduction to ELAN for beginners
  2. 13:30-14:30 Exchanging data between Shoe/Toolbox and ELAN.
  3. 15:00-17:00 Individual practice/consultation time
Report(Japanese): (74KB)
Toolbox Workshop Date/Time: Sun 11 Jul 2010 10:30–17:00
Instructors: Toshihide NAKAYAMA (ILCAA), Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA), Iku NAGASAKI (ILCAA)
  1. 10:30-11:30 Introducing Toolbox
  2. 11:30-12:30 Preparation (Installation of the software)
  3. 13:30-14:30 Setting-up ‘language’ and ‘project’, synchronizing dictionary and text, input method for IPA symbols
  4. 14:45 - 17:00 Groupwork
Report(Japanese): (81KB)
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