Language Documentation

Language documentation is a subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with creating comprehensive, representative records of the linguistic practices characteristic of a given speech community through systematic recording, transcription, and contextualized preservation of discourse.

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2017–2026

460

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Documentary Linguistics

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Linguistics

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AnnotationArchivingAudio RecordingCommunity CollaborationCommunity-based DocumentationDictionary CompilationDiscourse DocumentationElicitation TechniquesEndangered Language DocumentationGrammatical Description

Publications

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10.1162/153244303322753616

Applied Physics Letters · 2000 · 3.6K citations · Full text

Humanities, Biomedical Informatics, Digital Humanities +10

10.1162/jmlr.2003.3.4-5.993

Applied Physics Letters · 2000 · 3K citations · Full text

Humanities, Biomedical Informatics, Language Documentation +7

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Edith C. Rinehart · The Journal of Higher Education · 1970 · 2.2K citations

Language Studies, English, Linguistics +10

The Oxford English Dictionary and Its Philosophy

J. Arol Simpson · Philosophy & Technology · 2013 · 2.1K citations

Language Studies, English, Philosophy +8

Contextual correlates of synonymy

Herbert Rubenstein, John B. Goodenough · Communications of the ACM · 1965 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Language Studies, Decision Sciences, Linguistics +9

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Henning Bergenholtz
Aarhus University, Denmark
13 publications · 423 citations
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Steven Bird
The University of Melbourne, Australia
14 publications · 786 citations
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Sven Tarp
Aarhus University, Denmark
14 publications · 414 citations
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Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Ghent University, Belgium
13 publications · 650 citations
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Nick Thieberger
The University of Melbourne, Australia
10 publications · 701 citations
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Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 80 publications · 8.8K citations
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Communications of the ACM
79 publications · 9.6K citations
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Notes and Queries
72 publications · 6.7K citations
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Language
62 publications · 4.5K citations
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International Journal of Lexicography
IJL · 55 publications · 2.3K citations
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See also Language Documentation
Core Methods	Speech Recognition Morphological Analysis Digitization Data Curation Linguistic Annotation Forced Alignment Finite-state Transducers Elicitation Video Recording Transcription Protein Translation Metadata Creation Electronic Archiving
Ethical Practices	Access Control Consent Accountability Data Sovereignty Language Sovereignty Reciprocity Data Use Oral Consent
Archiving Standards	Annotation Extensible Markup Language Digital Archives Data Portability Dublin Core Metadata Open Document Formats Xml Schema Design Open Archives Infrastructure
Data Types	Metadata Multimodal Corpora Video Recording Multi-party Conversation Lexical Database Design
Documentation Outputs	Annotation Early Literacy Digital Archives Multimodal Corpora Audio-visual Corpora