HimalCo - Himalayan Corpora
This project funded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche proposes to build parallel corpora for three sub-groups of the Sino-Tibetan family, covering a total of 8 little-described oral languages. These...
View ArticleAbout Exploratory Field Trips
These days, the project team is busy finalizing administrative issues. One slight difficulty is that the funding agency, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, does not have a separate category for...
View ArticleOn the notion of parallel corpora
We borrowed this idea from the field of translation studies, where translation equivalents are aligned and then stored as translation memory to be used during later translation tasks. What interested...
View ArticleTalking dictionaries for Himalayan languages
In addition to parallel corpora, the main objective of this research project (HimalCo) is to create a set of online talking dictionaries, in particular from Japhug Rgyalrong, Khaling, Thulung and...
View ArticleKhaling verb dictionary
I came back lack week from a short stay in Kathmandu, where I worked with my main collaborators (in particular Dhana, Dhan Maya, Yadav Kumar and Eka Prasad) on the draft of the Khaling...
View ArticleIncentives for publishing text corpora and multimedia documents: About a...
In-depth language documentation is clearly a priority duty for linguists of our generation. This is what will remain as our most important legacy. It is also a major driving force for real advances in...
View ArticleVictor Segalen: an explorer who gave a bad name to foreign scholars in China
A Chinese friend doing archaeological work once asked me, 'Have you heard about Victor Segalen?' (謝閣蘭) And then, 'What do you think about him?' Before our discussion, my impression was positive. I...
View ArticleOngoing fieldwork on Yongning Na -- Lijiang, China
A new fieldtrip to Yunnan has begun. Despite a declining health, my teacher/consultant gives me some time every day to continue research on Yongning Na (Mosuo). The main objective is to make headway in...
View ArticleWelcoming a computing engineer to the HimalCo team: Céline Buret
Technical aspects are central in the HimalCo project. This project allows us to hire a computing engineer for a duration of 2 years. The selection procedure took place from June to early September. We...
View ArticleThird Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Sichuan: a brief report
Last month our team organised the third edition of the Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Sichuan, which followed a first workshop in Taipei organised by Jackson T.-S. Sun, and a second one in...
View ArticleArticle on Associated Motion in Japhug Rgyalrong
The article Jacques (2013) has been recently published. While the HimalCo project has already produced several presentations at various conferences, this is the first published article of the project....
View ArticleProject currently developing on GitHub, out of public view
The project blog has gone quiet in the past 5 months, as texts and dictionaries are in the making in a (nonpublic) GitHub repository. Tools for data migration from Toolbox / MDF format to XML and LaTEX...
View ArticleFieldwork in Yongning (language: Na), August 2014
Here is a short report on a field trip to Yongning that took place this month. This time, three students of Dr. Yang Liquan 杨立权 (on the right in the picture) asked to come along to learn more about...
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