The Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies
Saami languages have been researched and taught at the Department of Scandinavian Studies on a regular basis since 2008. The Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies was created in 2013 under the direction of Michael Rießler as a result of new externally-funded linguistics projects. The group is also affiliated with a number of other projects dealing with languages, literatures and other aspects of indigenous cultures in the Arctic regions of Northern Eurasia and indigenous studies in general.
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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
michael.riessler@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de
joshua.wilbur@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de
Members
Top | Click here for previous members- Dr. Michael Rießler (head of the research group)
- Dr. Joshua Wilbur (currently visiting lecturer, University of Tartu)
Projects
Top | Click here for previous 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
Top | Click here for previous eventsWorkshops 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
Top | Click here for previous presentations2018
- 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
Top | Click here for previous publicationsDatabases
2009+
2008+
2005+
- Kola Saami (Kildin, Ter, Akkala und Skolt)
- The Language Archive (TLA) at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
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
Top | Click here for previous teachingSoSe 2021
- VORLESUNG (Michael Rießler): Saamische Literatur
Programm für die Einführungswoche zum Wintersemester 24/25