Archive for the 'Technology and Software' Category

Jabref, bibtex and Word

April 21, 2007

Here’s a page which might be useful to people who swap between Word and LaTeX for writing documents and who prefer to keep all their references in BiBTeX. It describes (and provides links to) a macro which will allow you to insert citation information stored in Jabref. (I haven’t tried it yet but assuming it [...]

Linguistic Prozac

April 20, 2007

Not really. Very useful, though. It’s a free program called Prorec, which I rediscovered while trawling my del.icio.us bookmarks this evening. It’s a program that allows you to present word or image stimuli on a laptop and record the answers. Highly cool.

A note on the importance of backup

March 22, 2007

This story really speaks for itself. Räwaktjina.

Google scholar and BibTeX

February 26, 2007

I came across this by chance this morning. Google scholar can output BibTeX references! It’s right at the bottom of the advanced preferences page. You can export bibliographic information in a variety of formats, from the cool to the evil. (I’m compiling the references for my field methods book in BibTeX/Jabref and exporting the results [...]

Elan Templates

February 2, 2007

I’ve got around to cleaning up some Elan templates and I’ve put them online. There are (at this stage) two files:

MasterElicitation.etf: A template which can be used for transcribing elicitation sessions. It contains a transcription tier, a tier whichyoucan “tokenize” with individual words from the transcription tier, a gloss tier, and a few annotation tiers. [...]

Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork

December 15, 2006

I just wanted to draw everyone’s attention to some links on Ozpapers: Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork was a fantastic conference held recently at the University of Sydney. I’ve put up a few links in this post.

Comparison of Noise Reduction Features

December 6, 2006

I’ve been playing around with noise reduction features of different software programs, to remove hiss, fans, air conditioners and wind noise. Here’s a very impressionistic report on the programs I tried.
I should mention first off that I won’t be doing any acoustic analysis on the doctored files, at least at this stage. I was doing [...]