- August 1 is the abstract submission deadline for the LSA's 2009 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Technology Advisory Committee
2008
Background
At its January 2006 meeting, the LSA Executive Committee reviewed the mandates of the Computing and Web Advisory Committees and determined that these two committees should be combined and renamed the Technology Advisory Committee (TAC).
Responsibilities
- To advise the LSA Executive Committee and other advisory committees on what digital products and services to provide the
membership and how to provide them, including reviewing recommendations from the Committee on Membership Services and Information
Technology (COMSIT) regarding the LSA website.
- To serve as liaison between the LSA and digital standards bodies (e.g., ISO and the Unicode Consortium) and to coordinate
this work with the LSA's sister societies, both within linguistics and other disciplines, in order to ensure that the interests
of the field of linguistics are represented in the development and maintenance of digital standards.
- To advise the LSA Executive Committee on what actions to take with respect to the development of new digital modes of
dissemination for scholarly linguistic work.
- To assess the role of new technologies in linguistics instruction and support efforts for such technologies to be used by instructors.
Committee Activities
LSA Letter to ANSI about Open Document Standards
Membership
At least 6 members, serving staggered three-year terms; also the Executive Director, the editor of eLanguage, and the LSA delegate to ACL serve as ex officio; technical contacts are asked to serve as necessary.
Committee Members (all terms run through the end of the year in parentheses)
Jeff Good, Chair, University of Buffalo (2010)
Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan University, liaison - LINGUIST List, ex-officio (2010)
Emily Bender, University of Washington, liaison - Association of Computational Linguistics, ex-officio (2010)
Heidi Johnson, liaison - DELAMAN, ex officio (2008)
Brian Joseph, Ohio State University, Editor of Language, ex officio (2008)
Steve Moran (student member), University of Washington (2010)
Bill Poser, University of British Columbia (2010)
Ivan Sag, Stanford University, liaison - Association of Computational Linguistics, ex-officio (2007)
Steven Sams (student member), Georgia State University (2008)
Dieter Stein, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Editor-in-Chief of eLanguage, ex officio (2010)
