Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA)

Were you able to join us last week for #ResBaz Victoria at Monash University? Research Support and Training Lead Simon Musgrave had a fantastic time helping you solve 10 research challenges with the ARDC HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons, alongside the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)'s Kit Greenhill. 📷 Rosanna Smith

This week, #UQ has taken a bold step in its reconciliation journey with the launch of our second Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) on Monday 2 December 2024. This "Stretch RAP" builds upon the successes of the inaugural Innovate RAP and sets ambitious goals to deepen the university's commitment to Indigenous empowerment and inclusion. UQ Deputy Vice-Chanelor for Indigenous Engagement Professor Bronwyn Fredericks said, “We want to ensure reconciliation becomes business as usual through the implementation of this Stretch RAP, which embeds the continued development of Indigenous excellence.” See the full story ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eY6Ygrj2 UQ International Development

📣 Chief Investigator Monica Bednarek has published a new article in Discourse Studies. The article, 'Topic modelling in corpus-based discourse analysis: Uses and critiques', argues in favour of interdisciplinary collaborations and suggests that methods from corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can enhance the effectiveness of topic modelling in other fields. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dFs8tFEN The article is complemented by invited commentaries from linguists with relevant expertise, including a commentary by Chief Investigator Martin Schweinberger on 'Seeded topic modelling as a more appropriate alternative to unsupervised standard topic models'. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dKxfz6g5

📣Register now for the ARDC Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass at Summer School 2025 📆3 Feb 📍State Library of Queensland Custodians of #IndigenousData and researchers from all fields are invited to learn about applying Indigenous data governance principles. Speakers: ⭐ Robert McLellan (Gooreng Gooreng), Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA), UQ Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland ⭐ Levi Murray (Wakka Wakka, Kubi Kubi), Indigenous Data Network, University of Melbourne The Masterclass is free to attend, and travel bursaries are available to support the participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who work with community data. ✍️Seats are limited so register now: https://lnkd.in/gEkS9WBs #IDgov #FAIRdata #CARE #Brisbane #IndigenousResearch #IndigenousData #DataGovernance

🎉 Congratulations to Chief Investigator Monika Bednarek who was among the 41 scholars recently elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. This is an incredible achievement and a well-deserved recognition of Professor Bednarek's standout contributions to the field. Get the full story here 👇

The end of #ExploreYourArchive focus week is a chance to talk about #YourArchive. Though not technically an archive, our data portal provides access to collections of valuable language material, and we collaborate with existing archives like PARADISEC. We also help make data archive-ready for its permanent home. This week we've used our portal as a search tool for the growing number of corpora and other language collections which can be accessed there. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gjmc-7Xe

🚨 REMINDER: LDaCA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Commons are involved in the 6th annual conference of the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (#CAPOS) 'Commons, Platforms and Emerging Knowledge Frameworks'. 📆 Monday 2 – Tuesday 3 December 2024 📍 Flinders University, Adelaide City Campus 1️⃣ 2 December, 10 – 11 am ACDT: Keynote — ARDC's Jenny Fewster and LDaCA Program Manager Robert McLellan will speak about 'CAREful FAIRness and principles for Indigenous Data Governance'. 2️⃣ 2 December, 2 – 3:30 pm ACDT: Session 'Platforms, Approaches' — ARDC's Kit Greenhill will speak about 'Considering skills for researchers to co-create digital research infrastructure'. ✍️ Registrations open: https://lnkd.in/gdJA-G3b

Day 4 of #ALS2024 at The Australian National University: This morning, Research Analytics Lead Sam Hames and Research Support and Training Lead Simon Musgrave presented on 'Unparliamentary language in Australian Federal Parliament'.

🔎 For #ExploreYourArchive Focus Week #EYAAnimals, we found some fond animal-related recollections in the Braided Channels corpus. In the excerpt below, Joslin Eatts recalls some of her earliest memories complete with some unusual pets! "The first thing I remember – I think I must have been about four years old – and I remember my Dad had two camels. My Mum and Dad had two camels and I used to ride on them. Oh, boy oh boy, what a time. And I had pets. I had bilbies and I had a pet snake." 🔗 Find the full interview on our portal: https://lnkd.in/grvCupVw

🔎 For today's #ExploreYourArchive theme, we're revisiting mentions of #EYAfamily members in the Corpus of Oz Early English (COOEE): https://lnkd.in/gjhVzNUF 📊 Our chart is grouped by relationship and gender, with a noticeable gender imbalance in two cases: 'wife' is more frequent than 'husband' and 'son' is more frequent than 'daughter'. What is going on? More research is needed! Looking at just the most frequently mentioned family members (with at least 100 mentions): 1️⃣ The most common pronouns used before the word are, in order, 'my', 'his', 'her', 'your', 'their' and 'our'. 2️⃣ The most common adjectives used before the word are, in order, 'dear', 'affectionate', 'poor', 'dearest', 'little' and 'good'.