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Special Issue #16: Vernacular Language Processing

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

1.) Prototyping 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

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

Deliverables

"Learning How To Walk While Catwalking"

Phase	Output
1.) Processing	1.) Understanding rejections (see also: collective rejection pad, wiki) 1.1.) Visualizing rejections 1.1.1.) As a compressed decision-making process 1.1.2.) As a selection ↔︎ omission via interaction with space 1.1.3.) As a force 2.) Understanding the API 2.) Understanding the "Selection Process"
2.1) Production: "Annotation Compass"	1.) Initial meeting for SI16 subgroup project distribution 2.) "Selection Process" with Kamo, Jian, Kimberley (see also: pad, wiki,tool) 2.1.) Experiments: 1.1.) Layer 1: Individual 1.2.) Layer 2: Combined 2.1.) Collective filtering/labeling 2.2.) Filter overview 3.) "Inverse Annotations" Subverting the tool/annotation process 4.) "Annotation Compass" with Alex, Emma, Jian, Kamo, Kimberley
2.2) Production: SI16 Visual identity	With Kimberley, Alex, Kamo, Gersande (see also: are.na) 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) 2.) Visual identity package 2.1.) Guidelines 2.2.) Stickers
2.3) Production: SI16 Front end	With Kamo, Emma, Chae (see also: Figma) 1.) Initial homepage mockups: 01, 02 2.)
3.) Launch	1.) Tryout at Varia 1.1.) "Annotation Compass" 2.) Communication materials 2.1.) Instagram: announcement, launch 2.2.) Facebook

In detail:

Reflection

See wiki.