Credits

APLS exists thanks to the effort of many people over many years. Above all others, credit belongs to the speakers who have generously shared their voices with us.

This page lists the individuals, funding bodies, and technological tools that have contributed to APLS, including the original data collection. Foremost among the technological tools is LaBB-CAT, which was designed and written by Robert Fromont and Jen Hay for the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB) at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Further credits for LaBB-CAT can be found on APLS’s Credits page (requires login).

On this page
  1. Contributors
    1. Corpus lead
    2. Funding PIs
    3. Fieldwork leads
    4. Fieldworkers
    5. Transcription supervisor
    6. Custom dictionary maintainer
    7. Transcription software developers
    8. New-transcriber trainers
    9. Transcribers
    10. User interface customization
    11. Documentation
    12. Beta testing
    13. Users who contributed annotations
    14. Users who contributed corrections
    15. Other user contributions
  2. Funding
  3. Technological tools

Contributors

Corpus lead

  • Dan Villarreal

Funding PIs

  • Barbara Johnstone
  • Scott Kiesling
  • Dan Villarreal

Fieldwork leads

  • Barbara Johnstone
  • Scott Kiesling

Fieldworkers

  • Jennifer Andrus
  • Barbara Johnstone
  • Anonymous (Interviewer HD)

Transcription supervisor

  • Scott Kiesling
  • Dan Villarreal

Custom dictionary maintainer

  • Alexus Brown
  • Dan Villarreal

Transcription software developers

  • Alejandro Ciuba
  • Dan Villarreal

New-transcriber trainers

  • Maya Asher
  • James Lawler
  • Emma McKibbin
  • Ian Thompson
  • Dan Villarreal

Transcribers1

  • Maya Asher
  • DeLaina Billingsley
  • Alexus Brown
  • Abby Caffas
  • Joseph Creiman
  • Mya Kwiatkowski
  • James Lawler
  • Gracie Long
  • Emma McKibbin
  • Michaela Saporito
  • Jess Strauss
  • Ian Thompson
  • Giulianna Thurman
  • Dan Villarreal

User interface customization

  • Dan Villarreal

Documentation

  • Dan Villarreal
  • Jack Rechsteiner

Beta testing

  • Jack Rechsteiner

Users who contributed annotations

Users who contributed corrections

Other user contributions

Funding

Funding for the original data collection was provided by:

  • Berkman Fund at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh
  • National Science Foundation (Collaborative Research awards BCS-0417657 and BCS-0417684)

Funding and resources for the Archive of Pittsburgh Language and Speech was/is provided by:

  • Office of Research (via Pitt Momentum Funds), University of Pittsburgh
  • Center for Research Computing, University of Pittsburgh
  • New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain, and Behaviour, University of Canterbury

Technological tools

  1. Includes everyone who completed at least one transcription on their own. This is a subset of transcribers who contributed to a transcription (i.e., the transcribers transcript attribute). ↩