This session will have Zoom auto-captioning available.The collaborative Yucatec Maya corpus Cocoyum: a model corpus architecture for indigenous language corpus collections (Nico Lehmann, Elisabeth Verhoeven, Frederic Blum):
•We argue for the necessity of easily accessible, searchable, re-usable and flexible corpus collections for indigenous languages with combined efforts from speakers and researchers. Cocoyum (CCY), a collaborative, cooperative corpus collection of Yucatec Maya, showcases a way to create a holistic, flexible corpus architecture for all types of indigenous language data. [
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Working with More Than One Dialect in FLEx (Beth Bryson):
•This presentation demonstrates an approach to multidialect information in FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) using separate Writing Systems (as opposed to the more traditional Variant relationship) and shows how to set up a project for both text glossing and producing a multidialect dictionary. [
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Circle of Indigenous Languages website: A shared journey (Charlotte Ross, Joan Greyeyes):
•We will share our journey of building a website based on establishing critical relationships of trust and respect with Indigenous community members who had a mutual interest in preserving and sharing historical recordings. Technology provided a way to share the language recordings on a publicly accessible website. [
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