Publicado:
Domingo, 25, octubre 2020, 05:00 p.m.
This year’s Engaged Scholar Symposium at UTRGV was hosted virtually October 21-23, 2020.
Our Engaged Scholar & Artist Award awardees Ms. Madeline (Maddie) Hernández and Mr. José (Freddy) Jiménez were live presenters on Fri. Oct 23rd.
Their presentation entitled “Creating Digital Resources About Languages in the RGV and Studying Their Impact” was their second academic presentation about their project. '
In their...
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Publicado:
Sábado, 10, octubre 2020, 03:00 p.m.
As a part of the Engaged Scholar & Artist Award entitled "Digital Resources for the Public: Virtual Community Engagement and its Impact," Ms. Madeline Hernández created two different Adobe Spark pages about the CoBiVa. The Spark pages are explain the project to community members and those outside of the field of sociolinguistics.
An Adobe Spark is a presentation platform that can be viewed by scrolling down the page. This platform was chosen as it was...
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Publicado:
Lunes, 28, septiembre 2020, 04:00 p.m.
During this year's LASSO 2020 Virtual Conference, three different groups of students and researchers from UTRGV connected to the Corpus Bilingüe del Valle (CoBiVa) presented.
First, our Engaged Scholar & Artist Award awardees Ms. Madeline Hernández and Mr. José Jiménez did a phenomenal job presenting at their first ever academic conference. Their presentation entitled "Digital Resources for the Public: Virtual Community Engagement and its...
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Publicado:
Viernes, 25, septiembre 2020, 04:00 p.m.
After the testing transcription methods trials in the Fall, the research team performed a preliminary analysis of the findings, in particular the speed and ease of use for each of the transcription methods: ExpressScribe, SpeechNotes, and Stream.
Speed
We tabulated the overall average speed of each transcription method over the course of the four interview audios by each research assistant (RA). Certain RAs (such as student E) took more time than others who were quicker across the board (such...
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Publicado:
Martes, 1, septiembre 2020, 04:00 p.m.
Congratulations to Ms. Madeline Hernández and Mr. José Jiménez who have been awarded the prestigious Engaged Scholar & Artists Award by UTRGV for their project Digital Resources for the Public: Virtual Community Engagement and its Impact. They will be working on this project during 2020-2021, and it's a great fit for our current situation.
The purpose of this research is bifold: 1) to create digital materials/resources based on the research of...
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Publicado:
Viernes, 21, agosto 2020, 04:00 p.m.
During July, the PI and co-PIs on the project, funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities, met often to determine the design and organization of the trials for the transcription methods.
The PI and co-PIs met worked with six (6) research assistants (RAs). The three (3) students from the University of Arizona (UA) were all PhD students, while the three (3) students from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) included: two students who completed their BA and were starting...
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Publicado:
Martes, 4, agosto 2020, 05:30 p.m.
This summer, we are so thankful for our amazing CoBiVa team, funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities. Our 4 wonderful research assistants from Spring 2020 stayed on with us, and we added 4 new research assistants to the team!
Learn a little about our wonderful new RAs below:
Madeline (Maddie) Hernandez is an undergraduate English major with a concentration in Linguistics. She is currently in her last year and plans to graduate Spring 2021 and continue to a...
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Publicado:
Viernes, 10, julio 2020, 04:00 p.m.
In this blog post, we further review the features of Stream, SpeechNotes and ExpressScribe, which we chose for further testing. (Refer to previous blog post for details on the other 27 options and our process for this decision.)
We chose three different technologically-aided transcription methods: Stream, SpeechNotes, and ExpressScribe. We further explain these below.
Stream
Stream is part of the Microsoft Suite, and many universities have access to this software. To use Stream, you first...
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Publicado:
Viernes, 26, junio 2020, 04:00 p.m.
As a first step in our research project on technologically-aided transcription methods, the research team reviewed 27 different technologically aided transcription methods.
Due to our purposes and those of the NEH grant, we needed to fulfill two major criteria:
It needed to work with both Spanish and English
It needed be sustainable, meaning it was open-source or free to us at our institutions.
Of the 27 transcription methods reviewed, 21 had the ability to work with both Spanish...
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Publicado:
Lunes, 8, junio 2020, 10:00 a.m.
On Sunday June 6, the CoBiVa was featured in the Brownsville Herald! We're very thankful to Ms. Erin Sheridan and The Brownsville Herald for the article, which made the front page.
We're very excited about the opportunity to share with the community about the beauty and value of code-switching and bilingualism!
The news article covered the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) grant awarded to Dr. Katherine Christoffersen...
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Publicado:
Domingo, 20, mayo 2012, 05:00 p.m.
On Tues. Apr. 7, 2020, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Dr. Katherine Christoffersen (UTRGV, Project Director/Principal Investigator (PI), Dr. Ana Carvalho (University of Arizona, co-PI), and Dr. Ryan Bessett (UTRGV, co-PI) a Humanities Collections and References Resource grant for their project entitled “Bilingual Voices in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands” in the amount of $59,975. This multi-site project will document language in the Rio Grande...
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Publicado:
Martes, 27, abril 2010, 03:00 p.m.
Join us in welcoming our wonderful research assistants who have been working hard to make progress on the Corpus Bilingüe del Valle (CoBiVa). Read below to learn a bit more about our Spring 2020 CoBiVa Team.
Rene Cabrera Ríos is an undergraduate student in his last semester in his BA in English with a concentration in linguistics. His is interested in sociolinguistic research and the documentation and preservation of endangered languages. He plans to start the MA...
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