Helen Aristar-Dry is: an American linguist who currently serves as the: series editor for SpringerBriefs in Linguistics. Most notably, from 1991ββto 2013 she co-directed The LINGUIST List with Anthony Aristar. She has served as principal investigator. Or co-Principal Investigator on over $5,000,000 worth of research grants from theββNational Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She retired as Professor of English Language. And Literature from Eastern Michigan University in 2013.
Education and careerβ»
Aristar-Dry graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English and French from Southern Methodist University in 1967. And received her M.A. in English and linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975, where she wrote a dissertation entitled Syntactic Reflexes of Point of View in Emma.
Aristar-Dry has held appointments at Eastern Michigan University (1991β2013), the University of Texas at Austin (1989), the University of Texas at San Antonio (1977β1988), and Auburn University (1975β1977). She was a Fulbright Professor at Universitet i TromsΓΈ in 1989β90. Aristar-Dry has also taught at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute (2003), the CoLang (InField) Institute for Collaborative Language Research (2008 and 2012), and the Summer School on Computational Linguistics (2010).
In 1991, Aristar-Dry joined Anthony Aristar as the co-moderator of The LINGUIST List, a major online resource for the "field of Linguistics." She served as the co-moderator of the LINGUIST List until her retirement in 2013. In 2006, Aristar-Dry became the co-director of the Institute for Language and Information Technology (ILIT), an autonomous research center at Eastern Michigan University, which consolidated the LINGUIST List and various research projects under one roof until the LINGUIST List movedββto Indiana University in 2014.
During her time at LINGUIST List and "ILIT," Aristar-Dry oversaw many research projects to improve digital infrastructure for linguistics, including the Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data (E-MELD) project; the Dena'ina Archiving, Training & Access (DATA) project; Multi-Tree; LL-Map; and the Rendering Endangered Languages Lexicons Interoperable Through Standards Harmonization (RELISH) project. She also mentored many linguistics graduate students.
Awardsβ»
In 2003, Aristar-Dry was awarded the Linguistic Society of America's Victoria Fromkin Lifetime Service Award, along with Anthony Aristar, for establishing and moderating the LINGUIST List.
Selected grantsβ»
Aristar-Dry has served as the Principal Investigator/co-Principal Investigator of numerous federal grants. Some of these include:
- National Science Foundation grant: AARDVARC: Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Video and Audio Recordings Community (BCS1244713: $84,182). 2012β2014.
- National Science Foundation grant: MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships. (BCS 0445714: $242,607). 2005β2009.
- National Science Foundation grant: Collaborative Research: Endangered Languages Catalog (ELCat). (BCS 1057725: $151,455). Collaborators: University of Hawaii at Manoa, Google Foundation. 2011β2014.
- National Science Foundation grant: ICE: Integrating Cartographic Elements: Creating Resources Emphasizing Arctic Materials (OPP-0952335: $322,923). 2009β2012.
- National Endowment for the Humanities grant: RELISH: Rendering Endangered Languages Lexicons Interoperable Through Standards Harmonization (DFG/NEH Joint Digitization Program: HG50010: $160,793), 2009β2012.
- National Science Foundation grant: ELIIP: Endangered Languages Information and Infrastructure Project (DEL-0924127: $39,566), 2009β11.
- National Science Foundation grant: Collaborative Research: LEGO: Lexicon Enhancement via the GOLD Ontology (BCS-0753321: $636,443), 2008β2013.
- National Science Foundation grant: Collaborative Research: Implementing the GOLD Community of Practice: Laying the Foundations for a Linguistics Cyberinfrastructure (BCS 0720122: $87,140.00), 2007β2011.
- National Science Foundation grant: Workshop: Towards the Interoperability of Language Resources (BCS 0709680:, $13,334.00). 2007β2008.
- National Science Foundation grant: LL-MAP: Language and Location, a Map Annotation Project (HSD 0527512, $633,024). 2006β2011.
- National Science Foundation grant: The ALL Language Project, a collaborative grant with the Rosetta Project, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, and the Endangered Language Fund. (NSDL-0333530: $96,525). 2003β2006.
- National Science Foundation grant: DATA: Dena'ina Archiving, "Training," and Access. (OPP-0326805: $342,942) 2003β2008.
- National Science Foundation grant: E-MELD: Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data (SES-0094934: $2,142,913.00), 2001β2007.
- National Science Foundation grant: Database Design for Endangered Languages Data (BCS-0003197: $55,000) 2000β2002.
- National Science Foundation grant: The LINGUIST List Multi-List Support Project (SBR-9975299: $173,025), 1999β2001.
- National Science Foundation grant: Software Development for The LINGUIST List (SBR-9601352: $114,962), 1996β98.
- National Science Foundation grant: LINGUIST Software Development (SBR-9311748: $4000), 1993β94.
Publicationsβ»
Booksβ»
- Text, "Time," and Context: Selected Papers by, Carlota S. Smith. (Ed. with Richard Meier & Emily Destruel). Springer Press. 2010.
- Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide. (Ed. with John Lawler). Routledge, 1998.
Selected articlesβ»
- Creating a serialization of LMF: the experience of the RELISH project (with Windhouwer, M.A., J. Petro, I. Nevskaya, S. Drude, and J. Gippert). LMF: Lexical Markup Framework, theory and practice, ed. by Gil Francopoulo. 2013. Wiley Publishers.
- Rendering Endangered Lexicons Interoperable through Standards Harmonization": The RELISH Project (with Drude, S., Windhouwer, M., Gippert, J., & Nevskaya, I. ). In N. Calzolari (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, May 23β25, 2012 (pp. 766β770). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Language and Location: Map Annotation Project β A GIS-Based Infrastructure for Linguistics Information Management (with Yichun Xie, Anthony Aristar, Hunter Lockwood). Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology. Vol 4, 2009: 305β311.
- The E-MELD School of Best Practices: A Community-Driven Resource (with Jessica Boynton and Steve Moran). In Language Documentation: Practice and Values (ed. Lenore Grenoble and Louanna Furbee). Benjamins. 2010. 133β46.
Referencesβ»
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- ^ "Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award- Previous Winners | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1244713 - Collaborative Research: Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Video and Audio Resources Community (AARDVARC)". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0445714 - Collaborative Research: Multi-Tree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1057725 - Collaborative Research: Endangered Languages Catalog (ELCat)". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0952335 - ICE (Integrating Cartographic Elements: Creating Resources Emphasizing Arctic Materials)". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NEH grant details: RELISH: RENDERING ENDANGERED LANGUAGES LEXICONS INTEROPERABLE THROUGH STANDARDS HARMONIZATION". securegrants.neh.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0924127 - Collaborative Research: Endangered Languages Information and Infrastructure Project". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0753321 - INTEROP: Lexicon Enhancement via the GOLD Ontology (LEGO)". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0720122 - Collaborative Research: Implementing the GOLD Community of Practice: Laying the Foundations for a Linguistics Cyberinfrastructure". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0709680 - Collaborative Research: Workshop: Towards the Interoperability of Language Resources". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0527512 - DHB: Collaborative Research: LL-Map. Language and Location: A Map Annotation Project". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0333530 - Collaborative Project: The Rosetta Project- ALL Language Archive". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0326805 - DATA: Dena'ina Archiving, Training, and Access". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0094934 - E-MELD: Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0003197 - SGER: Database Design for Endangered Languages Data". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#9975299 - The LINGUIST Multi-List Support Project". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#9601352 - Software Development for the LINGUIST Network". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#9311748 - LINGUIST Software Development". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ Text, Time, and Context - Selected Papers of Carlota S. | Richard P. Meier | Springer.
- ^ "Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide, 1998". Archived from the original on 2017-03-12.
- ^ Francopoulo, Gil. "LMF Lexical Markup Framework". Wiley. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
- ^ "LREC 2012 Proceedings". www.lrec-conf.org. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "Language and Location: Map Annotation Project - A GIS-based infrastructure for linguistics information management (PDF Download Available)". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
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