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ELIC team members gave presentations at LREC-COLING 2024 (May 20-25) and at Field Matters 2024 (August 16). Shulin Zhang, John Hale, Margaret Renwick, Zvjezdana Vrzić, and Keith Langston. 2024. An Evaluation of Croatian ASR Models for Čakavian Transcription. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 1098–1104,Continue reading “LREC-COLING and Field Matters 2024”

As part of the NSF-funded ELIC project, PI Keith Langston and Co-PI Zvjezdana Vrzić organized two workshops at the University of Rijeka and Juraj Dobrila University of Pula in July. Project team members worked to further refine the annotation system for the different varieties included in the corpus and were trained in the use ofContinue reading “ELIC Workshops at the University of Rijeka and University of Pula, July 8-11, 2024”

Members of the ELIC research team gave two presentations at international conferences in August and September, 2023. 18th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-18)Bratislava, SlovakiaAugust 24–26, 2023 Langston, Keith, Silvana Vranić, and Zvjezdana Vrzić. “Language variation and contact between closely related varieties: Čakavian dialects in the Istria-Kvarner region of Croatia” (photo by Silverije)Continue reading “Conference presentations in August-September, 2023”

As part of the NSF-funded project “Endangered languages in contact in Istria and Kvarner, Croatia (ELIC)”, Dr. Keith Langston (PI) and Dr. Zvjezdana Vrzić (NYU, Co-PI) led two workshops in Croatia at the University of Rijeka and University of Pula in June, assisted by Dr. Silvana Vranić (University of Rijeka) and Dr. Ivana Lalli-Paćelat (UniversityContinue reading “ELIC Workshops at the University of Rijeka and University of Pula, June 12-20, 2023”

The first (hopefully annual) CresSSLing was a big success. We had a great group of young scholars, and I was really impressed by their passion and their ideas for their own research projects. Congratulations to the organizers, Dr. Silvana Vranić (University of Rijeka) and Dr. Zvjezdana Vrzić (New York University). I’m already looking forward toContinue reading “Cres Summer School in Linguistic Fieldwork and Documentation”

I’ll be teaching a course, An introduction to Praat and ELAN for field linguists, in CresSSLing 2022, July 4-8. The summer school will be held in the University of Rijeka’s educational center in the Moise Palace in the town of Cres. It will include courses taught by instructors from the University of Rijeka and UniversityContinue reading “Cres Summer School in Linguistic Fieldwork and Documentation”