Please join LSA President John Rickford (Stanford University) for a discussion of how the LSA can best meet the needs of the linguistics community. Breakfast courtesy of LSA.

Like other LSA focus groups at the Institute, this focus groups will be held at Stuart 216. RSVP required. Please RSVP to intern@lsadc.org no later than July 9, 2015. Please specify which date/time you plan to attend. To ensure the quality of the discussions and due to space limitations, the cut-off for these activities is 20 participants.

This workshop is free and you do not have to be registered for the Institute to attend. To register for the Engaged Scholarship workshop, please indicate that you are "going" via our Facebook events page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1551643188419686/

Extracting social meaning from language: The computational linguistics of food, innovation, and community

Lecture by Dan Jurafsky, Fillmore Professor, at the Charles M. Harper Center, room 104, at 6pm. Reception to follow at 7:30pm at the Cloister Club, in Ida Noyes Hall.

EACH THURSDAY 5-7PM

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

Come join us in Classics 110 for drinks and casual conversation about linguistic fieldwork. All are welcome! Due to the overwhelming response to the first Fieldworker Social, we have moved it to a larger location.

Experimental Pragmatics 2015 will be held from July 16 to July 18, 2015, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago. The conference is jointly hosted by Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. The invited speakers are:

David Beaver (University of Texas)
Noah Goodman (Stanford University)
Yi Ting Huang (University of Maryland)
Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh)
Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester)

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Wikipedia is the 7th most visited site on the internet, but many of its linguistics articles are incomplete, out of date, or in need of attention from actual linguists.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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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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!

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!

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.

Guided tour of the University of Chicago campus.

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.

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.