Deadline Sept 15, 2015: Documenting Endangered Languages Grant

Sponsor: Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences/NSF

SYNOPSIS: This funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly half of the approximately 7000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Funding will be available in the form of one- to three-year senior research grants as well as fellowships from six to twelve months and doctoral dissertation research improvement grants for up to 24 months.

Deadline(s): 09/15/2015
Established Date: 05/06/2015
Follow-Up Date: 05/01/2016
Review Date: 05/06/2015

Contact: Shobhana Chelliah

Address:
Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230
U.S.A.

E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: 703-292-4381

Web Site: http://www.grants.gov/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276370
Program URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15567/nsf15567.htm

Deadline Ind: Receipt
Deadline Open: No

Award Type(s):
Dissertation
Fellowship
General Project
Research Grants/R & D

Citizenship/Country of Applying Institution:
Any/No Restrictions

Locations Tenable:
U.S.A. Institution (including U.S. Territories)

Appl Type(s):
Individual, Non-Specific
Colleges/Universities
Indian Tribes/Governing Orgs.
Non-Profit
Researcher/Investigator

Target Group(s): NONE
Funding Limit: $0
Duration: 3 YEAR(s)
Indirect Costs: No
Cost Sharing: No
Sponsor Type: NONE

Geo. Restricted: NO RESTRICTIONS

CFDA#: 99.999

OBJECTIVES: Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) is a joint funding program of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly half of the approximately 7000 currently used human languages, DEL seeks not only to acquire scientific data that will soon be unobtainable, but to integrate, systematize, and make the resulting linguistic findings widely available by exploiting advances in information technology. Principal Investigators (PIs) and Applicants for Fellowships (Applicants) may propose projects involving one or more of the following three emphasis areas: Language Description — to conduct fieldwork to record in digital audio and video format one or more endangered languages; to carry out the early stages of language documentation including transcription and annotation; to carry out later stages of documentation including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases; to conduct initial analysis of findings in the light of current linguistic theory. Infrastructure — to digitize and otherwise preserve and provide wider access to such documentary materials, including previously collected materials and those concerned with languages which have recently lost all fluent speakers and are related to currently endangered languages; to create other infrastructures, including workshops and conferences to make the problem of endangered languages more widely understood and more effectively addressed. Computational Methods — to further develop standards and databases to make this documentation of a certain language or languages widely available in consistent, archivable, interoperable, and Web-based formats; to develop computational tools for endangered languages, which present an additional challenge for statistical tools (taggers, grammar induction tools, parsers, etc.) since they do not have the large corpora for training and testing the models used to develop those tools; to develop new approaches to building computational tools for endangered languages, based on deeper knowledge of linguistics, language typology and families, which require collaboration between theoretical and field linguists and computational linguists (computer scientists).

ELIGIBILITY
Proposals may only be submitted by the following: Universities and Colleges – Universities and two- and four-year colleges (including
community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in, the US acting on behalf of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions; Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with educational or research activities; Unaffiliated Individuals: Scientists, engineers or educators in the U.S. who are U.S. citizens; and Tribal organizations and other American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian serving organizations. NEH does not reimburse grantee U.S. academic institutions for the indirect costs associated with fellowship research.

FUNDING
Funding is as follows: Senior Research Grants: From $12,000 to $150,000 per year, for one to three years. DDRIGs: The maximum allowable budget is $15,000 in direct costs. Indirect costs are in addition to this maximum direct cost limitation and are subject to the awardee’s current Federally negotiated indirect cost rate. The direct costs requested in a DDRIG proposal must be allowable costs that will improve the conduct of dissertation research. Student stipends, tuition expenses, assistantships, and the doctoral advisor’s travel expenses are NOT eligible for support. Travel to one domestic conference to disseminate the results of research (and obtain constructive feedback prior to completion of the dissertation) may be included in the proposal, but DDRIGs recommended by the DEL Program should not have direct conference travel costs that exceed $1,000. Fellowships: A monthly stipend of $4,200 per month for awards lasting from six to twelve months. CFDA #’s: 47.050; 47.070; 47.075.
Source: Grants.gov (07/08/14). (cas)

KEYWORDS: Linguistics/Philology
Data Acquisition
Archival Programs
Languages
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