Please join us at a picnic to welcome all participants to the Institute at 5 PM on Sunday, July 5. The picnic will be held in the Hutchinson Courtyard behind Hutchinson Commons near the corner of 57th Street and University Avenue. In case of rain, the picnic will be moved to the inside of Hutchinson Commons. Partners and families welcome. We hope to see you all there!

Stop your students from citing Wikipedia -- have them add to it instead!

Grammar with Gradient Symbol Structures

Lecture by Paul Smolensky, Sapir Professor, at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes, at 6pm. Reception to follow at 7:30pm at the Cloister Club, also in Ida Noyes.

Please come learn about safety and security on campus and in Hyde Park. We strongly recommend you attend one of these two sessions.

The sessions will be 30 minutes long each, and will start at 9:30am and 2pm.

Guided tour of the University of Chicago campus.

EACH WEDNESDAY 1-5pm

Help improve linguistics-related articles on Wikipedia!

Wikipedia is the 7th most visited site on the internet, but many of its linguistics articles are incomplete, out of date, or in need of attention from actual linguists. Editing Wikipedia has a tremendous impact on the perception of our field and is useful practice in explaining linguistics in a neutral and accessible manner.

Please come learn about safety and security on campus and in Hyde Park. We strongly recommend you attend one of these two sessions.

The sessions will be 30 minutes long each, and will start at 9:30am and 2pm.

Guided tour of the University of Chicago campus.

Many contributors to theoretical syntax and phonology, e.g. Goldsmith, Uriagereka, Vergnaud, Idsardi, Smolensky, and Prince, have used dynamical systems analysis to make sense of some fundamental computational properties of natural language. Yet, dynamical systems analysis does not usually form part of the linguistics curriculum.

EACH THURSDAY 5-7PM

Weekly gathering for all fieldworkers (and those who wish to be)!

Come join us in Rosenwald for drinks and casual conversation about linguistic fieldwork. All are welcome!

The Publishing Process (Keren Rice)

If you’re interested in attending any (or all!) of the three COSWL/COSIAC workshops (The Publishing Process, The Imposter Syndrome, and Web Presence/CV Design) during the Institute please sign up via the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8R2TXHF. Thank you!

Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology
Saturday, July 11, 2015
At the Linguistic Summer Institute at the University of Chicago

DESCRIPTION

The half-day workshop on “A corpus-based approach to building ontology of an endangered language” will be presented by the faculty and graduate students of the Yami research team at the Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University and the Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Providence University in Taiwan. The participants will learn about the linguistic issues and computer techniques in corpus linguistics from an endangered language documentation team.

The speakers and discussants in this workshop will explore the role of competition as a mainstay in the organization of linguistic systems.

A schedule and pre-registration are available at the following webpage: http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~ebakovic/competition/.

Access to large amounts of natural language from a variety of genres is vital for various aspects of modern language research: grammar and usage patterns, sense distribution, discourse analysis, and language modeling, to name a few. Sketch Engine provides access to billion-word corpora in the world’s major languages, along with smaller corpora (five million to one billion words) in sixty other languages. Sketch Engine also provides licensees with the ability to build their own corpora and access them via Sketch Engine’s built-in querying system.

MONDAY JULY 13 TO FRIDAY JULY 17, AT 5-6PM.

This workshop is about transforming linguistic data into logic puzzles for use in contests, entertainment, or education. We are focusing specifically on creating puzzles for high school linguistic Olympiad contests. The workshop is held in five evening sessions so that participants have time to debug and validate each others puzzles.

The HathiTrust (HT) is a research consortium and digital library consisting of more than 13 million volumes of digitized text, mostly from the world's foremost research libraries. A large part of this material is under copyright and hence not directly downloadable. The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has started developing facilities for non-consumptive access to the text data by providing innovative means of analytical access (without allowing download-access) to the text data. The workshop is intended for students and researchers interested in textual analytics using the HTRC corpus.

Institute-wide poster session for presenting your recent or ongoing work to other Institute participants. Sign up to present a poster by finding the link on your account page in the registration system. The link will appear when your account is marked paid in full. Please sign up by June 15.

Ancestry relationships in linguistic phylogenetics

Forum Lecture by Andrew Garrett, at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes, at 6:30pm. Reception to follow at 8:00pm at the Cloister Club, also in Ida Noyes.

EACH WEDNESDAY 1-5pm

Help improve linguistics-related articles on Wikipedia!

Wikipedia is the 7th most visited site on the internet, but many of its linguistics articles are incomplete, out of date, or in need of attention from actual linguists. Editing Wikipedia has a tremendous impact on the perception of our field and is useful practice in explaining linguistics in a neutral and accessible manner.