Language Data Commons of Australia
Australian Text Analytics Platform
Day of Activities before ALS2022 (Tuesday 29/11)
Time | Activity | People |
09:00 - 10:00 | Introduction to notebooks What are Jupyter notebooks and why are they useful? | Sara King Simon Musgrave |
10:00 - 10:30 | Break | |
10:30 - 11:00 | General progress report An overview of the projects and of progress to date | Michael Haugh Robert McLellan Simon Musgrave Jenny Fewster (ARDC) |
11:00 - 12:00 | Introducing the LDaCA Portal How will I find data in LDaCA? Your chance to tell us whether we are meeting your needs! | Peter Sefton Kathrin Kaiser |
12:00 - 01:00 | Lunch | |
01:00 - 02:00 | Data and access How is access to data managed in LDaCA and how can I access data? | Peter Sefton Kathrin Kaiser Catherine Travis |
02:00 - 02:30 | Auslan project update Report on work by the team at Monash University | Louisa Willoughby Trevor Johnston |
02:30 - 03:00 | Break | |
03:00 - 03:30 | Text analytics for corpus linguistics Selected ATAP tools showcase | Sydney Informatics Hub with Sydney Corpus Lab (Sony Jufri, Kelvin Lee) |
03:30 - 05:00 | Discursis workshop How to get started with this tool for tracking topics in conversations | Ben Foley Sam Hames |
The Australian Text Analytics Platform and the Language Data Commons of Australia are projects supported by the Australian Research Data Commons to develop infrastructure for Australian researchers who work with language data. This day of activities organised by the projects will give ALS conference delegates (and anyone else who is interested) the opportunity to learn more about this work. The day will include:
- an overview of the projects and the work to date
- reports on specific sub-projects
- introductory workshops on the tools and resources being developed
- a workshop on using Discursis, a tool for tracking topics in interactive use of language
- the opportunity to influence future work by exploring and providing feedback on the data interface which we are building.
The activities will be of interest to anyone who conducts research which includes language data, especially those who use or would like to use computational tools in their research. Participants should bring their own computer; no software is required beyond a web browser.
Catering is provided and therefore a registration fee is being charged for this event to partially cover the cost ($25 full rate and $15 discount).
The Australian Text Analytics Platform and the Language Data Commons of Australia received investment from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The ARDC is funded by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).