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Special Issue #16: Vernacular Language Processing

Prototyping

Jupyter notebooks for carrier-bag-of-notebooks (to be linked)

Date	Link
21/09/21	XP4, 5, 6 + A House of Dust
27/09/21	XP7 + NLTK1
04/10/21	XP8 + NLTK2
08/11/21	XP15

Group exercises

Date	Pad	Description	Output
22/09/21	RW&RM	Intro, first reading and writing workshop	Emoji markup with Jian, Kamo, Erica. Annotating a reader with emojis to indicate the beginning and endings of each person's side notes, questions, distractions, references, etc. Annotations became interruptions that were woven into the original reader and transformed it into reader 2.0.
28/09/21	SI16	On orientation & navigation	Text traverse + keyword geotag with Alex, Jian: selecting, combining, and rearranging texts from multiple readers to create a new one to perform with. Keyword repetition is used as a text navigation tool/method, so performance can vary (for example, start/stop reading at specific word).
05/10/21	SI16	Text processing	1.) Soliloquy slow processing with Chae, Miriam, Carmen (lines 111-156): selecting a linguistic pattern to apply to a literary device. Contribution: invisible spellcheck annotation letter ghosting / sticky spellcheck and punctuation 2.) Magic words glossary with everyone: text processing with special customized commands/incantations for a collaborative spell book
06/10/21	RW&RM	Reader prototypes	From pad to bubbles with Kamo, Alex: converting chaos to calm in the form and flow of chat bubbles
12/10/21	SI16	Transcription processes	Multilingual multitasking with Mitsa: transcribing while recording, listening, thinking, editing, then generating translations in two more languages
01/11/21	Prototyping	Custom corpora	Concrete Label (pad, tool (WIP)) with Kamo: manually filtering/annotating concrete poetry

Observations

and/or reflections, side thoughts, curiosities, rabbit holes

• processing is time and environment-based
• rejection as a vernacular processing method: masks, magnetic field, compressed directions/decisions, simultaneous selection + omission, frame rates of events/active-inactive states, physics (collision/energy)

Experiments

2.) Vernacular processing methods: archived here (for now)

Deliverables

"Learning How To Walk While Catwalking"

Phase	Description	Output (Collective)	Output (Individual)
1.) Processing	1.) Understanding: rejections, the API, SI16 subgroup work distribution	1.) Rejection as form of VLP: pad, wiki 2.) 3.) SI16 Group meetings pad	1.) Visualizing rejection as: a compressed decision-making process, a selection ↔︎ omission process via interaction with space, a force
2.) Production	1.) "Annotation Compass" subgroup project with Alex, Emma, Jian, Kamo, Kimberley 2.) "Inverse Annotations" project showcase	1.1.) "Selection Process" with Kamo, Jian, Kimberley: pad, wiki, page, tool 1.2.) "Annotation Compass" project 2.1.) "Inverse Annotations" pre-launch tryout at Varia––submitted results: 2.1.1.) Combined (click on "load"): 01 2.2.2.) Individual: 01 02 03 04 05, 06 07 08 09	1.) "Selection Process" experiments: 1.1.) Subjective map 2.) Project showcase 2.1.) Image for launch at Varia
	2.) SI16 Visual Identity with Kimberley, Alex, Kamo, Gersande	1.) Tryouts: are.na 2.) Package: guidelines, icons, pictograms, stickers	1.) Initial mockups: 1.1.) R1 01 02 03 04 1.2.) R2 01 02 03 04 05 1.3.) R3 01 02 03 04 05 06 1.4.) R4 01 02 03 1.5.) R5 (animation test) 01 2.) Communication materials for event launch: 2.1.) Instagram announcement, launch 2.2.) Facebook
	3.) SI16 Front End with Kamo, Emma, Chae	1.) Figma 2.) Website	1.) Initial mockups: 1.1.) Homepage: 01, 02 1.2.)

Next steps

1.) Reflection: See wiki
2.) Further research/developed interests: