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Aikuma: A Mobile App for Collaborative Language Documentation

Year: 2014

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Proliferating smartphones and mobile software offer linguists a scalable, networked recording device.This paper describes Aikuma, a mobile app that is designed to put the key language documentation tasks of recording, respeaking, and translating in the hands of a speech community.After motivating the approach we describe the system and briefly report on its use in field tests.

Source: Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL)

DOI: 10.3115/v1/w14-2201

Authors: Steven Bird, Florian R. Hanke, Oliver Adams, Haejoong Lee

Institutions: The University of Melbourne, University of Pennsylvania

Language: English

Topic: Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W2251408482

FWCI: 68.44

Cites: 7

Cited by: 162

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