Digital Tools Summit for Linguistics

Announcing an interesting call for position statements for a Digital Tools Summit for Linguistics. The summit will run from June 22nd to the 23rd, 2006 at Michigan State University. The deadline is March 31st, 2006. For more information see DTS-L web site.

Submissions should consider and explicate one or more of the following issues:

1. What are the most pressing needs among possible cyberinfrastructure and/or digital tools for linguistics?

2. What are some enduring challenges in creating cyberinfrastructure and/or digital tools for linguistics?

3. Which existing resources can be leveraged to create digital tools for linguistics?

4. How can documentation tools make language resources (e.g. text, lexical or morphological corpora) more readily available for historical, typological, and other theoretical analyses?