The Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies

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Contact

Address

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Skandinavisches Seminar
Platz der Universität 3
D-79098 Freiburg

Office location

Belfortstr. 16, 3rd floor, room 3005

Telephone

+49(0)761/203-3219

E-mail

michael.riessler@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de
joshua.wilbur@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de

Members

• Dr. Michael Rießler (head of the research group)
• Dr. Joshua Wilbur (currently visiting lecturer, University of Tartu)

Projects

• Language Documentation meets Language Technology: The Next Step in the Description of Komi (at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Uppsala)
• funded by: Koneen Säätiö / Kone Foundation
• Principal investigators: Michael Rießler [with Rogier Blokland (project administrator), Niko Partanen]
• Planned duration: 3/2017-12/2021
• The changing environment of the North: Cultural representations and uses of water (CEN) (at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Tampere)
• funded by: Academy of Finland
• Affiliated researcher: Michael Rießler
• Planned duration: 9/2017–8/2021
• Grammatical Descriptions, Corpora, and Language Technology for Indigenous Northern Eurasian Languages (at the Department of Uralic Studies and HZSK, University of Hamburg)
• funded by: Academies' Programme at The Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
• Second applicant: Michael Rießler [with Beáta Wagner-Nagy (first applicant and project administrator)]
• Planned duration: 1/2016-12/2033
• Book series Samica
• Editors: Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur together with Thomas Mohnike (Strasbourg)
• funded by:
• Finnish Literature Exchange (FILI) (first volume)
• Duoddara Ráfe Pite Saami Center and Arjeplog municipality (second volume)
• Østsamisk museum (third volume [in preparation])
• Duration: since 10/2014

Events

Workshops and Conferences

2018

• Michael Rießler [with Benjamin Fagard, Niko Partanen, Thierry Poibeau] Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description, 1-2 February, Paris
• Michael Rießler [with Jack Rueter, Tommi A. Pirinen, Trond Trosterud, Francis M. Tyers] Fourth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, 8-9 January, Helsinki

Presentations

2018

• Michael Rießler, Niko Partanen [with KyungTae Lim, Thierry Poibeau]: "Dependency parsing of code-switching data with cross-lingual feature representations" (Poster), Fourth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic languages, 8-9 January 2018, Helsinki

Publications

Databases

2009+

• Komi-Iźva
• The Language Archive (TLA) at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

2008+

• Pite Saami
• Endangered Languages Archiveat the School of Oriental and African Studies, London

2005+

• Kola Saami (Kildin, Ter, Akkala und Skolt)
• The Language Archive (TLA) at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Print

Forthcoming

• Michael Rießler: Kildin Saami. Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages, ed. by Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso and Elena Skribnik. Oxford: OUP.

2017

• Joshua Wilbur [with Erich Kasten, Katja Roller (eds.)]: Oral History Meets Linguistics. Fürstenberg: Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien.
• Michael Rießler, Joshua Wilbur: "Documenting endangered oral histories of the Arctic. A proposed symbiosis for language documentation, language technology, and oral history research" In: E. Kasten, K. Roller, J. Wilbur (eds), Oral History Meets Linguistics. Fürstenberg: Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien.
• Michael Rießler [with Tommi A. Pirinen, Trond Trosterud, Francis M. Tyers (eds.)]: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic languages. (ACL Anthology).
• Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler, Joshua Wilbur [with Ciprian Gerstenberger]: "Instant annotations. Applying NLP methods to the annotation of spoken language documentation corpora." In: Tommi A. Pirinen, Michael Rießler, Trond Trosterud, and Francis M. Tyers (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic languages. 25-36.

Teaching

SoSe 2021

• VORLESUNG (Michael Rießler): Saamische Literatur