Language and Location: Map Annotation Project - A GIS-based infrastructure for linguistics information management
Yichun Xie, Helen Aristar‐Dry, Anthony Aristar, Hunter Thompson Lockwood, Josh Thompson, Dan Parker, Ben Cool · 2009
The Language and Location: Map Annotation Project (LL-MAP) has been funded by the US National Science Foundation to build a database of linguistic information integrated into a Web-based geographical information system. LL-MAP embodies several innovative concepts of computational linguistics, such as spatial data engine driven architecture, dynamic joining of linguistic information with related cultural and geographic data, multi-layered and linked visualization, real time online data harvesting, collaborative toolboxes for linguistic studies, quick search of digital gazetteers, and toponymical analysis. This paper will demonstrate these LL-MAP functions and discuss their disciplinary implications in linguistic studies.