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September 2nd, 2013 by flowit.
The AVATecH project (http://mpi.nl/avatech) had numerous interesting
outcomes, including organization of workshops, publications at leading
conferences and the release of audio and video
processing recognizers for free use by the research community. Recently
the results of the project have been recognized once more ... Read More
July 8th, 2013 by flowit.
The TLA has been heavily involved in the European iCORDI project.
After the, very positive, first evaluation by the commission it was decided to change the name of iCORDI to RDA/Europe.
We have been very busy in several areas.
We have been ... Read More
June 18th, 2013 by flowit.
A new version of Lamus (1.1.7.7) has been deployed, please see the list below for new features, changes and fixes:
New features:
- an option to keep the unlinked files when deleting the workspace
- visual distinction between nodes of different types ... Read More
June 10th, 2013 by flowit.
Stimulation by funding-agencies to open access to literature and to make outcomes of research more transparent should be embraced by scientists
04 June 2013
Open access to published papers in research has become a main goal of the world’s research-funding agencies, ... Read More
May 21st, 2013 by flowit.
This is to announce the release of ELAN 4.6.0.
Here is a short list of new features, changes and fixes.
New features:
- export to Fieldwork's FLEx format (.flextext)
- time alignment and speaker information are retained
- automatic or manual mapping of tier ... Read More
May 13th, 2013 by flowit.
We are please to announce that there is a new and improved version 1.2 of KinOath Kinship Archiver available. This can be downloaded from the usual location:
Some of the improvements in this version are:
The table now has an ... Read More
May 3rd, 2013 by flowit.
The 3rd ICLDC, held on the campus of the University of Hawai‘i in Mānoa earlier this year, was an important event and a great success. The conference continues to grow, with more than 120 oral, over 30 poster and ... Read More
April 17th, 2013 by flowit.
The Language Archive (TLA) of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics recently had a presence at the ICLDC 2013 conference and one of the things presented was the new features in Arbil. For those of you who are not ... Read More
March 26th, 2013 by flowit.
Since May 2009 MPI is an official partner of large-scale CLARIN pan-European project. This initiative is aimed at making already existing language resources and technologies available for the whole European Humanities and Social Sciences communities. For more detail the ... Read More
March 12th, 2013 by flowit.
The work undertaken in the REPLIX project provided a solid basis for our participation within the EUDAT project Safe Replication service. Where REPLIX was aimed towards a replication solution for LAT archives, the EUDAT Safe Replication service is aiming ... Read More
February 14th, 2013 by Alexander König.
Sebastian Drude has been appointed as the new head of the The Language Archive. He succeeds Peter Wittenburg, who is acting as TLA’s senior advisor from now on.
The succession of Peter Wittenburg has been approved in December 2012 by ... Read More
February 11th, 2013 by Alexander König.
by Dieter Van Uytvanck
An ice cold morning, somewhere at the begin of January 2013. Sea gulls are circling around the IJ lake in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, in one of the snow-covered tall buildings nearby, people have gathered to discuss issues ... Read More
February 8th, 2013 by Alexander König.
There is a lengthy article about TLA (in German) in the newest edition of the magazine of the Volkswagen Foundation Impulse. The magazine can be downloaded as a PDF on the website of the Volkswagen Foundation. The article mainly ... Read More