Workshop on community language corpora in Australia
- https://www.ldaca.edu.au/events/events/
- When: 9-10 November 2023
- Where: Engma Room (3.165 HC Coombs Building, ANU)
- Organisers: Li Nguyen & Catherine Travis
Our team is presenting the following paper:
- Vietnamese language use and maintenance in Australia
- Authors: Van Tran, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Kate Margetson
- Time: 12:35-1pm
Here is a description of the event:
Australia is a highly multilingual and multicultural society, with more than 490 languages coming from around 300 ancestries and cultural traditions (ABS, 2021, 2022). For decades, the language and cultural maintenance of various immigrant groups have been under investigation by many scholars, not only in linguistics but also in history, sociology, anthropology, and other disciplines. This work has amassed a large body of data reflecting the languages of these communities, providing information about how Australia’s immigration history has contributed to the country today. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together scholars working with language corpora from across different disciplines. The workshop is being run as part of the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA), which is working to build national research infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, facilitating sustainable access to and controlled use of digital language corpora for linguists, scholars across the Humanities and Social Sciences, and non-academics. The workshop will consist of presentations on language data collected from Australian immigrant communities for different research purposes, and will close with a panel discussion on needs and challenges around managing and archiving community language data in a way that is ethical, legal and culturally sensitive, and how LDaCA can help support that.
