Martin Benjamin
Martin Benjamin is the founder and director of the Kamusi Project (http://kamusigold.org), an international non-profit dedicated to producing dictionary and data resources for languages worldwide that was recognized as a Big Data "lighthouse project" by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. His PhD in Anthropology, from Yale (2000), examined aid in rural Tanzania. He is a senior scientist at the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is developing methods to assemble reliable data across languages.
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Daniel Bangert
This Working Group intends to address challenges concerning the interoperability multilingual nature of SSH controlled vocabularies.
Controlled vocabularies are a major discovery tool in the digital e...
Interest Group
Linguistics Data IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Helene N. Andreassen, Lindsay Ferrara
TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe
The Linguistics Data Interest Group plans to identify, prioritize, and get to work on data challenges across the Linguistics domain. As a first step, this new group will focus P10 time on developing t...