Languagesindanger.eu - Including Multimedia Language Resources to disseminate Knowledge and Create Educational Material on less-Resourced Languages

Dagmar Jung, Katarzyna Klessa, Zsuzsa Duray, Beatrix Oszkó, Mária Sipos, Sándor Szeverényi, Zsuzsa Várnai, Paul Trilsbeek, Tamás Váradi


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The present paper describes the development of the languagesindanger.eu interactive website as an example of including multimedia language resources to disseminate knowledge and create educational material on less-resourced languages. The website is a product of INNET (Innovative networking in infrastructure for endangered languages), European FP7 project. Its main functions can be summarized as related to the three following areas: (1) raising students’ awareness of language endangerment and arouse their interest in linguistic diversity, language maintenance and language documentation; (2) informing both students and teachers about these topics and show ways how they can enlarge their knowledge further with a special emphasis on information about language archives; (3) helping teachers include these topics into their classes. The website has been localized into five language versions with the intention to be accessible to both scientific and non-scientific communities such as (primarily) secondary school teachers and students, beginning university students of linguistics, journalists, the interested public, and also members of speech communities who speak minority languages.
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L14-1032
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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530–535
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Dagmar Jung, Katarzyna Klessa, Zsuzsa Duray, Beatrix Oszkó, Mária Sipos, Sándor Szeverényi, Zsuzsa Várnai, Paul Trilsbeek, and Tamás Váradi. 2014. Languagesindanger.eu - Including Multimedia Language Resources to disseminate Knowledge and Create Educational Material on less-Resourced Languages. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 530–535, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Languagesindanger.eu - Including Multimedia Language Resources to disseminate Knowledge and Create Educational Material on less-Resourced Languages (Jung et al., LREC 2014)
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