Pyalveo is the Python module that interfaces to the Alveo web API to allow automation of any task relating to Alveo. I have just made a new version (0.5) available on PyPI, the Python package repository (you can also find it on Github). […]
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Alveo Workshop – Perth, June 2016
Hosted by the Big Data Processing and Mining Group at UWA, 13 researchers, including 6 members of the Alveo Steering Committee met for 2 days to discuss further improvements to the platform and how they will use Alveo in their own research. Several researchers and post-graduate students from UWA and Curtin University participated in the […]
Report from SocioPhonAus 2016 Brisbane
I was invited to give a presentation on Alveo and Austalk at First workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in the English Varieties of Australia held at Griffith University in Brisbane in June. The workshop, organised by Gerry Docherty and Janet Fletcher, was supported by the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language was attended […]
Accessing AusTalk in Alveo
AusTalk is a large collection of spoken Australian English collected in the last few years at sites around Australia. When the collection is complete it will have close to 1000 speakers each with a range of recordings from isolated words to interview and map task recordings. Alveo contains most of the data and will have […]
Using Alveo in teaching
Students at Monash University used Alveo as part of an introductory course in computational linguistics this year. The students completed an assignment which used basic techniques of corpus linguistics to compare one phenomenon in varieties of English. […]
Alveo Interview from NeCTAR
NeCTAR have just published a story on their news page about the Alveo Launch including the video above where I am interviewed about the work that is supported by Alveo. […]
Alveo Launch Video
A brief tour of Alveo made for the official launch on 1 July 2014. […]
Alveo presentation, Open Repositories 2014
Alveo presentation, Open Repositories 2014 by Steve Cassidy,Dominique Estival, Peter Sefton, Jared Berghold & Denis Burnham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Presentation delivered by Peter Sefton at Open Repositories 2014 in Helsinki […]
Alveo Hackfest
Preceding the official launch of Alveo on July 1 we will be holding a Hackfest for a hands-on day with Alveo. We hope the outcome of the day will be some exciting ideas and maybe even the start of some interesting research outcomes using data from the Alveo repository. […]
LREC2014: The Alveo Virtual Laboratory: A Web Based Repository API
The Alveo Virtual Laboratory is an eResearch project funded under the Australian Government NeCTAR program to build a platform for collaborative eResearch around data representing human communication and the tools that researchers use in their analysis. The human communication science field is broadly defined to encompass the study of language from various perspectives but also […]
