Scholars

Gary F. Simons

Chief Research Officer

Online Resources by Subject

Index

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Architectural forms Archiving Austronesian languages CELLAR Community infrastructure Comparative linguistics Computer programming Conceptual modeling Enterprise architecture Feature structures Language development Language documentation Language endangerment Language identification Linguistic software Literacy Markup Metadata Metaschemas Multilingual computing Multilingualism OLAC Parsing Project management Publishing Semantic web SIL International Standardization Standards TEI Text annotation Writing systems

Architectural forms

 

1997. Importing SGML data into CELLAR by means of architectural forms
Gary F. Simons. A project working paper.
[workpaper]

 

1998. Using architectural processing to derive small, problem-specific XML applications from large, widely-used SGML applications
Gary F. Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 1998-006.
[publication]

 

1999. Using architectural forms to map TEI data into an object-oriented database
Gary F. Simons. Computers and the Humanities 33:85–101.
[reprint]

Archiving

 

2000. A survey of the state of the art in digital language documentation and description
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2000. Developing an infrastructure for online linguistic archives
Gary F. Simons. A working paper of the TalkBank project.
[workpaper] [local]

 

2000. Requirements on the infrastructure for open language archiving
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2000. Supporting archive communities in the framework of the Open Archives Initiative
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2000. The seven pillars of open language archiving: A vision statement
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2003. OLAC repositories
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Standard. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]

 

2003. Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Language 79(3):557–582.
[reprint]

 

2006. Ensuring that digital data last: The priority of archival form over working form and presentation form
Gary F. Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2006-003, March 2006.
[publication]

 

2006. Good, better, and best practice: The experience of the E-MELD project
Gary F. Simons and Helen Aristar Dry. Presented at the Workshop on Language Archives: Standards, Creation, and Access, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, 22–24 Feb 2006, Bielefeld.
[presentation]

 

2006. Preservation, intelligibility, and interoperability: The E-MELD vision of digital language resources
Gary F. Simons and Helen Aristar Dry. E-MELD Workshop on Digital Language Documentation: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art, 20–22 June 2006, Lansing, MI.
[presentation]

 

2007. Ngbugu digital wordlist: A test case for best practices in archiving and presenting language documentation
Gary F. Simons, Kenneth S. Olson and Paul S. Frank. Linguistic Discovery 5(1):28-39.
[publication]

 

2008. Ensuring the sustainability of language resources
Gary F. Simons. Presented at Processing Text Technological Resources, 13–15 March 2008, Bielefeld, Germany.
[presentation]

 

2008. Toward a global infrastructure for the sustainability of language resources
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 20–22 November 2008, Cebu City, Philippines. Pages 87–100.
[preprint] [presentation]

 

2013. Requirements for implementing the AARDVARC vision
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the workshop of the Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Video and Audio Resources Community, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, 9–11 May 2013.
[presentation]

 

2015. Co-authorship as a means of crediting data creators
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the Workshop on Developing Standards for Data Citation and Attribution in Linguistics, Boulder, CO, 18-20 September 2015.
[presentation]

 

2015. Going forward with language archives
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the LSA symposium on Making the most of language archives: Automatic analysis of audio and video for enhanced linguistic analysis, Portland, Oregon, 11 Jan 2015.
[presentation]

 

2021. Towards an agenda for open language archiving
Steven Bird and Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc 2021.
[publication]

 

2022. The Open Language Archives Community: a 20-year update
Steven Bird and Gary F. Simons. The Electronic Library 40(5):507–524.
[publication] [preprint]

Austronesian languages

 

1977. A dialect survey of Santa Cruz Island
Gary F. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 3. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 41 pp.
[reprint]

 

1977. A Kwara'ae spelling list
Gary F. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 6. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 91 pp.
[reprint]

 

1977. A vocabulary of Biliau, an Austronesian language of New Guinea, with notes on its development from Proto Oceanic
Gary F. Simons and Linda L. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 2. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 54 pp.
[reprint]

 

1977. Standardized alphabets for Malaitan languages
Gary F. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 5. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 33 pp.
[reprint]

 

1977. The Ghaimuta language of interior Guadalcanal
Gary F. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 8. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 49 pp.
[reprint]

 

1980. Morphological reconstruction and change in the pronoun systems of the Malaitan languages
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the Third New Zealand Linguistics Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 3-5 September 1980.
[Unpublished]

 

1982. Word taboo and comparative Austronesian linguistics
Gary F. Simons. Pacific Linguistics C-76:157–226.
[reprint]

 

2012. Looking at Austronesian language vitality through EGIDS and SUM (Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale and Sustainable Use Model for Language Development)
J. Stephen Quakenbush and Gary F. Simons. Presented at the 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Denpasar, Bali, 2–6 July 2012.
[presentation]

 

2015. Looking at Austronesian language vitality and endangerment through EGIDS and the Sustainable Use Model
J. Stephen Quakenbush and Gary F. Simons. In I WayanArka, Ni LuhNyoman Seri Malini, and Ida Ayu Made Puspani (eds.), Language documentation and cultural practices in the Austronesian world: Papers from 12-ICAL, Volume 4, , pp. 1–17.
[publication]

CELLAR

 

1988. A Computing Environment for Linguistic, Literary, and Anthropological Research: Technical Overview
Gary F. Simons. A project working paper.
[workpaper]

 

1993. Extended objects
Marc Rettig, Gary Simons, and John Thomson. Communications of the ACM 36(8):19–24.
[reprint]

 

1997. Conceptual modeling versus visual modeling: a technological key to building consensus
Gary F. Simons. Computers and the Humanities 30(4):303–319.
[preprint]

 

1997. Importing SGML data into CELLAR by means of architectural forms
Gary F. Simons. A project working paper.
[workpaper]

 

1998. Multilingual data processing in the CELLAR environment
Gary F. Simons and John V. Thomson. In John Nerbonne (ed.), Linguistic Databases. CSLI Lecture Notes 77, pages 203–234. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
[preprint]

 

1998. The nature of linguistic data and the requirements of a computing environment for linguistic research
Gary F. Simons. In John Lawler and Helen Aristar Dry (eds.), Using Computers in Linguistics: a practical guide, pages 10–25. London and New York: Routledge.
[reprint] [appendix]

 

1999. Using architectural forms to map TEI data into an object-oriented database
Gary F. Simons. Computers and the Humanities 33:85–101.
[reprint]

 

2000. CELLAR: A data modeling system for linguistic annotation
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Architectures and Software Support for Large Corpora, pages 10-15. Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (Athens, Greece), European Language Resources Association.
[preprint] [local]

Community infrastructure

 

2000. Requirements on the infrastructure for open language archiving
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2000. Supporting archive communities in the framework of the Open Archives Initiative
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2000. White paper on establishing an infrastructure for open language archiving
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2003. OLAC process
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Standard. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]

 

2006. An e-infrastructure for language documentation on the Web
Gary F. Simons, William D. Lewis, Scott Farrar, and D. Terence Langendoen. Presented by Langendoen at the 2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 29 June 2006.
[presentation]

 

2006. GOLD as a standard for linguistic data interoperation: A road map for development
Gary F. Simons and Baden Hughes. Proceedings of the EMELD’06 Workshop on Digital Language Documentation: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. Lansing, MI. June 20–22, 2006.
[publication]

 

2007. Doing linguistics in the 21st century: Interoperation and the quest for the global riches of knowledge
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the E-MELD/DTS-L Workshop: Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources, 13–15 July 2007, Palo Alto, CA.
[publication] [presentation]

 

2007. Two foundational issues: the model of knowledge representation and the model of community
Gary F. Simons. Workshop on The feasibility of a web-based database of the syntactic structures of the world’s languages, 9-10 Nov 2007, New York University.
[workpaper]

 

2008. Toward a global infrastructure for the sustainability of language resources
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 20–22 November 2008, Cebu City, Philippines. Pages 87–100.
[preprint] [presentation]

 

2009. Interoperation: Final report of working group 5
Gary Simons (chair), with H. Aristar Dry, D. Iannucci, E. Richter, H. Sicard, N. Thieberger, P. Wittenburg. Endangered Languages Information and Infrastructure Workshop, 12–14 November 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah.
[workpaper] [presentation]

 

2009. Linguistics as a community activity: The paradox of freedom through standards
Gary F. Simons. In William D. Lewis, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley, and Scott O. Farrar (eds.), Time and Again: Theoretical Perspectives on Formal Linguistics. In honor of D. Terence Langendoen, pages 235–250. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
[preprint]

 

2012. The role of metadata in the infrastructure for archival interoperation
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the LSA Workshop on Sociolinguistic Archive Preparation, Portland, Oregon, 4–5 Jan 2012.
[presentation]

 

2013. Requirements for implementing the AARDVARC vision
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the workshop of the Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Video and Audio Resources Community, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, 9–11 May 2013.
[presentation]

 

2014. The role of metadata in the infrastructure for archival interoperation
Gary F. Simons. Language and Linguistics Compass 8(11):486–494.
[preprint] [publication]

 

2015. Going forward with language archives
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the LSA symposium on Making the most of language archives: Automatic analysis of audio and video for enhanced linguistic analysis, Portland, Oregon, 11 Jan 2015.
[presentation]

 

2017. Developing infrastructure for interoperating digital language archives
Gary F. Simons. Presented at symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages (CoRSAL), University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 17 November 2017.
[presentation] [video]

Comparative linguistics

 

1977. A dialect survey of Santa Cruz Island
Gary F. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 3. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 41 pp.
[reprint]

 

1977. A package of computer programs for the analysis of language survey word lists
Gary F. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 7. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 55 pp.
[reprint]

 

1977. A vocabulary of Biliau, an Austronesian language of New Guinea, with notes on its development from Proto Oceanic
Gary F. Simons and Linda L. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 2. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 54 pp.
[reprint]

 

1977. Phonostatistic methods
Gary F. Simons. In Richard Loving and Gary Simons (eds.), Language variation and survey techniques, pages 155-185. Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages, 21. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[reprint]

 

1977. Recognizing patterns of divergence and convergence in a matrix of lexicostatistic relations
Gary F. Simons. In Richard Loving and Gary Simons (eds.), Language variation and survey techniques, pages 107-134. Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages, 21. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[reprint]

 

1979. Language variation and limits to communication
Gary F. Simons. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University. Reformatted as Technical Report No. 3, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 228 pp.
[reprint]

 

1980. Morphological reconstruction and change in the pronoun systems of the Malaitan languages
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the Third New Zealand Linguistics Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 3-5 September 1980.
[Unpublished]

 

1982. Word taboo and comparative Austronesian linguistics
Gary F. Simons. Pacific Linguistics C-76:157–226.
[reprint]

 

1996. Toward the historical reconstruction of matrix patterns in morphology
Kenneth L. Pike and Gary F. Simons. In Kenneth L. Pike, Gary F. Simons, Carol V. McKinney, and Donald Burquest, The Mystery of Cultural Contacts, Historical Reconstruction, and Text Analysis, pp. 1-37. Georgetown University Press.
[preprint]

Computer programming

 

1977. A package of computer programs for the analysis of language survey word lists
Gary F. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 7. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 55 pp.
[reprint]

 

1977. A user's manual for PTP: The Programmable Text Processor
Gary F. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 1. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 32 pp.
[reprint]

 

1984. Data abstraction: a basic implementation for problem solving
Gary F. Simons. Byte 9(11): 130-31, 414-40.
[reprint]

Conceptual modeling

 

1990. A conceptual modeling language for the analysis and interpretation of text
Gary F. Simons. Text Encoding Initiative Committee on Text Analysis and Interpretation, Document Number: TEI AIW12.
[workpaper]

 

1997. Conceptual modeling versus visual modeling: a technological key to building consensus
Gary F. Simons. Computers and the Humanities 30(4):303–319.
[preprint]

Enterprise architecture

 

2007. Using language to gain control of enterprise architecture
Gary F. Simons. Presented at Enterprise Architecture and the next Generation Enterprise: Tales from the front lines, Information Systems Research Center seminar, 18 April 2007, University of North Texas, Denton.
[presentation]

 

2010. Enterprise architecture as language: On the verge of major business re-engineering
Gary F. Simons, Leon A. Kappelman, and John A. Zachman. In: Aiguier M., Bretaudeau F., Krob D. (eds)m Complex Systems Design & Management, pp 29–47. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer..
[preprint] [publication]

 

2010. Using language to gain control of enterprise architecture: On the verge of major business re-engineering
Gary F. Simons, Leon A. Kappelman, and John A. Zachman. In Leon A. Kappelman (ed.),The SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture, pages 127–146. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
[preprint]

Feature structures

 

1992. Feature system declarations and the interpretation of feature structures
Gary F. Simons. Text Encoding Initiative Committee on Text Analysis and Interpretation, Document Number: TEI AI1W3.
[workpaper]

 

1994. Chapter 26: Feature system declaration [SGML version]
[Gary F. Simons]. In C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and L. Burnard (eds.), TEI P3: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. Chicago and Oxford: Text Encoding Initiative.
[publication]

 

1995. A rationale for the TEI recommendations for feature-structure markup
D. Terence Langendoen and Gary F. Simons. Computers and the Humanities 29(3):191–209.
[reprint]

 

1996. Implementing the TEI’s feature-structure markup by direct mapping to the objects and attributes of an object-oriented database system
Gary F. Simons. Research in Humanities Computing 5: Selected papers from the ACH/ALLC Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, August 1995, edited by Giorgio Perissinotto, pages 220-242. Oxford University Press.
[reprint]

 

2002. Chapter 26: Feature system declaration [XML version]
[Gary F. Simons]. In C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and L. Burnard (eds.), TEI P4: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. Oxford, Providence, Charlottesville, Bergen: Text Encoding Initiative Consortium.
[publication]

 

2002. Implementing the TEI feature system declaration
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the TEI Members Meeting, 11 Oct 2002, Chicago.
[presentation]

Language development

 

2008. Toward a global infrastructure for the sustainability of language resources
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 20–22 November 2008, Cebu City, Philippines. Pages 87–100.
[preprint] [presentation]

 

2011. Ecological perspectives on language endangerment: Applying the Sustainable Use Model for language development
Co-organizer with M. Paul Lewis. A colloquium presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Chicago, 26–29 March 2011.
[presentation]

 

2011. On defining language development
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawaii, 11–13 February 2011.
[poster] [local]

 

2012. Language development versus language endangerment: Assessing the situation worldwide
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the IAS and GILLBT conference on Language and Culture in National Development, University of Ghana, Legon, 12–13 April 2012.
[presentation]

 

2013. A global profile of language development versus language endangerment
Gary F. Simons and M. Paul Lewis. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai‘i, Feb 28–Mar 3, 2013.
[presentation] [local]

 

2013. A profile of danger and development of the languages of Europe
M. Paul Lewis and Gary F. Simons. ELDIA conference on Maintaining Languages, Developing Multilingualism, University of Vienna, 10–11 June 2013.
[presentation]

 

2013. Rating the vitality of sign languages
J. Albert Bickford, M. Paul Lewis, and Gary F. Simons. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai‘i, Feb 28–Mar 3, 2013.
[presentation]

 

2014. A profile of danger and development of the languages of Europe
M. Paul Lewis and Gary F. Simons. In Johanna Laakso (ed.), Dangers and developments: On language diversity in a Changing World. Studies in European Language Diversity 34, pp. 9–23.
[preprint] [publication]

 

2014. Rating the vitality of sign languages
J. Albert Bickford, M. Paul Lewis, and Gary F. Simons. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
[preprint] [publication]

 

2015. Ecological perspectives on language endangerment: Applying the Sustainable Use Model for language development
Lewis, M. Paul and Gary F. Simons (eds.). Dallas: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2015. Sustaining language use: Perspectives on community-based language development (Preliminary edition)
Lewis, M. Paul and Gary F. Simons. Dallas: SIL International.
[preprint]

 

2016. Sustaining language use: Perspectives on community-based language development
Lewis, M. Paul and Gary F. Simons. Dallas: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2019. Assessing digital language support as a factor in language vitality
Gary F. Simons and Abbey Thomas. Presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawaii, 28 February - 3 March 2019.
[presentation] [local]

 

2022. Assessing digital language support on a global scale
Gary F. Simons, Abbey L. Thomas, and Chad K. White. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 12–17 October 2022, pages 4299–4305.
[publication] [preprint]

Language documentation

 

2003. Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Language 79(3):557–582.
[reprint]

 

2007. Ngbugu digital wordlist: A test case for best practices in archiving and presenting language documentation
Gary F. Simons, Kenneth S. Olson and Paul S. Frank. Linguistic Discovery 5(1):28-39.
[publication]

 

2008. The rise of documentary linguistics and a new kind of corpus
Gary F. Simons. Presented at 5th National Natural Language Research Symposium, De La Salle University, Manila, 25 Nov 2008.
[presentation]

 

2008. Toward a global infrastructure for the sustainability of language resources
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 20–22 November 2008, Cebu City, Philippines. Pages 87–100.
[preprint] [presentation]

 

2009. Endangered language families
D. H. Whalen and Gary Simons. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawaii, 12-14 March 2009.
[presentation]

 

2012. Endangered language families
D. H. Whalen and Gary F. Simons. Language 88(1):155–173.
[reprint]

 

2013. Requirements for implementing the AARDVARC vision
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the workshop of the Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Video and Audio Resources Community, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, 9–11 May 2013.
[presentation]

 

2015. Going forward with language archives
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the LSA symposium on Making the most of language archives: Automatic analysis of audio and video for enhanced linguistic analysis, Portland, Oregon, 11 Jan 2015.
[presentation]

Language endangerment

 

2009. Endangered language families
D. H. Whalen and Gary Simons. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawaii, 12-14 March 2009.
[presentation]

 

2010. Assessing endangerment: Expanding Fishman's GIDS
M. Paul Lewis and Gary F. Simons. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 55(2):103–120.
[publication] [local]

 

2010. Ethnologue as a global sourcebook on linguistic diversity and language vitality
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the 12th International Congress of Ethnobiology, 9–14 May 2010, Tofino, British Columbia.
[presentation] [handout]

 

2011. Ecological perspectives on language endangerment: Applying the Sustainable Use Model for language development
Co-organizer with M. Paul Lewis. A colloquium presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Chicago, 26–29 March 2011.
[presentation]

 

2011. Endangered languages and endangered language families: A global assessment
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the RELISH Symposium, University of Frankfurt, 10 Oct 2011.
[presentation] [local]

 

2012. Endangered language families
D. H. Whalen and Gary F. Simons. Language 88(1):155–173.
[reprint]

 

2012. Language development versus language endangerment: Assessing the situation worldwide
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the IAS and GILLBT conference on Language and Culture in National Development, University of Ghana, Legon, 12–13 April 2012.
[presentation]

 

2012. Looking at Austronesian language vitality through EGIDS and SUM (Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale and Sustainable Use Model for Language Development)
J. Stephen Quakenbush and Gary F. Simons. Presented at the 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Denpasar, Bali, 2–6 July 2012.
[presentation]

 

2013. A global profile of language development versus language endangerment
Gary F. Simons and M. Paul Lewis. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai‘i, Feb 28–Mar 3, 2013.
[presentation] [local]

 

2013. A profile of danger and development of the languages of Europe
M. Paul Lewis and Gary F. Simons. ELDIA conference on Maintaining Languages, Developing Multilingualism, University of Vienna, 10–11 June 2013.
[presentation]

 

2013. Rating the vitality of sign languages
J. Albert Bickford, M. Paul Lewis, and Gary F. Simons. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai‘i, Feb 28–Mar 3, 2013.
[presentation]

 

2013. The world’s languages in crisis: A 20-year update
Gary F. Simons and M. Paul Lewis. In Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), Responses to language endangerment. In honor of Mickey Noonan. Studies in Language Companion Series 142. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 3–19.
[preprint]

 

2014. A profile of danger and development of the languages of Europe
M. Paul Lewis and Gary F. Simons. In Johanna Laakso (ed.), Dangers and developments: On language diversity in a Changing World. Studies in European Language Diversity 34, pp. 9–23.
[preprint] [publication]

 

2014. Rating the vitality of sign languages
J. Albert Bickford, M. Paul Lewis, and Gary F. Simons. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
[preprint] [publication]

 

2015. Ecological perspectives on language endangerment: Applying the Sustainable Use Model for language development
Lewis, M. Paul and Gary F. Simons (eds.). Dallas: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2015. Looking at Austronesian language vitality and endangerment through EGIDS and the Sustainable Use Model
J. Stephen Quakenbush and Gary F. Simons. In I WayanArka, Ni LuhNyoman Seri Malini, and Ida Ayu Made Puspani (eds.), Language documentation and cultural practices in the Austronesian world: Papers from 12-ICAL, Volume 4, , pp. 1–17.
[publication]

 

2015. Sustaining language use: Perspectives on community-based language development (Preliminary edition)
Lewis, M. Paul and Gary F. Simons. Dallas: SIL International.
[preprint]

 

2016. Sustaining language use: Perspectives on community-based language development
Lewis, M. Paul and Gary F. Simons. Dallas: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2018. Language and identity in a multilingual, migrating world
Quakenbush, J. Stephen and Gary F. Simons (eds.). Proceedings of the Pike Center symposium, 10-15 May 2018, Penang, Malaysia.
[preprint]

 

2019. Assessing digital language support as a factor in language vitality
Gary F. Simons and Abbey Thomas. Presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawaii, 28 February - 3 March 2019.
[presentation] [local]

 

2019. Two centuries of spreading language loss
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 4.27:1-12.
[publication] [poster]

 

2022. Assessing digital language support on a global scale
Gary F. Simons, Abbey L. Thomas, and Chad K. White. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 12–17 October 2022, pages 4299–4305.
[publication] [preprint]

Language identification

 

1979. Language variation and limits to communication
Gary F. Simons. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University. Reformatted as Technical Report No. 3, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 228 pp.
[reprint]

 

2000. Language identification and IT: Addressing problems of linguistic diversity on a global scale
Peter Constable and Gary Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2000-001.
[publication]

 

2000. Language identification in metadata descriptions of language archive holdings
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the Workshop on Web-based Language Documentation and Description (12-15 December 2002, Philadelphia, PA), pages 274-282.
[reprint]

 

2002. An analysis of ISO 639: Preparing the way for advancements in language identification standards
Peter Constable and Gary Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2002-004.
[publication]

 

2002. SIL three-letter codes for identifying languages: Migrating from in-house standard to community standard
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources in Tools and Field Linguistics, Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 26-27, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. Pages 22:1-8.
[preprint]

 

2004. Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages
[Peter Constable and Gary Simons]. ISO/DIS 639-3 (Draft 5, dated 2004-09-20).
[preprint]

 

2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th edition)
Raymond G. Gordon, Jr. (editor); Gary F. Simons (executive editor). Dallas, TX: SIL International. 1272 pp.
[publication]

 

2006. Ethnologue
Gary F. Simons and Raymond G. Gordon, Jr. In Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd edition, volume 4, pages 250–253. Boston: Elsevier.
[preprint]

 

2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the world (16th edition)
M. Paul Lewis (editor); Gary F. Simons (executive editor). Dallas, TX: SIL International. 1248 pp.
[publication]

 

2013. ISO 639-3: Where are we and how did we get here?
Gary F. Simons. Workshop on Identifying Codes for Languages, Newcastle, Australia, 9 February 2013.
[presentation] [local]

 

2014. Ethnologue: Languages of the world (17th edition)
M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2014. Terminology and language aspects in language coding
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the TKE 2014 workshop on Language Codes at the Crossroads, Berlin, Germany, 21 June 2014.
[presentation] [local]

 

2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the world (18th edition)
M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2016. Ethnologue: Languages of the world (19th edition)
M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2017. Ethnologue: Languages of the world (20th edition)
Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2018. Ethnologue: Languages of the world (21st edition)
Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2018. Ethnologue as a sourcebook for mapping multilingualism: The case of Sango
Kenneth S. Olson and Gary F. Simons. Presneted at thelPike Center symposium on Language and identity in a multilingual, migrating world, 10-15 May 2018, Penang, Malaysia.
[preprint]

 

2019. Ethnologue: Languages of the world (22nd edition)
David M. Eberhard, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2020. Ethnologue: Languages of the world (23rd edition)
David M. Eberhard, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2021. Ethnologue: Languages of the world (24th edition)
David M. Eberhard, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2022. Ethnologue: Languages of the world (25th edition)
David M. Eberhard, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
[publication]

Linguistic software

 

1977. A package of computer programs for the analysis of language survey word lists
Gary F. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 7. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 55 pp.
[reprint]

 

1980. The impact of on-site computing on field linguistics: The power of man and machine in interaction
Gary F. Simons. Notes on Linguistics 16:7–26.
[reprint]

 

1988. How to use IT: A guide to interlinear text processing (revised edition)
Gary F. Simons and Larry Versaw. Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics. 329 pp. (This reprint contains Chapter 1, "Introduction," and Chapter 2, "Applications of IT.").
[reprint]

 

1998. In search of task-centered software: building single-purpose tools from multipurpose components
Gary F. Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 1998-004.
[publication]

 

1998. The nature of linguistic data and the requirements of a computing environment for linguistic research
Gary F. Simons. In John Lawler and Helen Aristar Dry (eds.), Using Computers in Linguistics: a practical guide, pages 10–25. London and New York: Routledge.
[reprint] [appendix]

 

2002. A morphological glossing assistant
Mike Maxwell, Gary Simons, and Larry Hayashi. Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources in Tools and Field Linguistics, Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 26-27, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. Pages 25-1 to 25-10.
[preprint]

 

2006. The SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer approach to morphological parsing
H. Andrew Black and Gary F. Simons. To appear in Computational Linguistics for Less-studied Languages: Proceedings of Texas Linguistics Society 10, 3–5 November 2006, Austin, TX.
[presentation] [preprint]

 

2008. The SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer approach to morphological parsing
H. Andrew Black and Gary F. Simons. In Nicholas Gaylord, Stephen Hilderbrand, Heeyoung Lyu, Alexis Palmer and Elias Ponvert (eds.), Proceedings of TTexas Linguistics Society 10: Computational Linguistics for Less-Studied Languages, 37–55. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
[publication]

 

2010. SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer: The lexicon component
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the RELISH (Rendering endangered languages lexicons interoperable through standards harmonization) workshop on Lexicon tools and lexicon standards, 4–5 August 2010, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
[presentation] [local]

Literacy

 

1980. A survey of reading ability among the To'abaita speakers of Malaita
Gary F. Simons. 'O'o: Journal of Solomon Islands studies, volume 1, pages 43–70.
[reprint]

Markup

 

1997. PTEXT: A format for the interchange of parsed texts among natural language processing applications
Gary F. Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 1997-008.
[publication]

 

1998. Using architectural processing to derive small, problem-specific XML applications from large, widely-used SGML applications
Gary F. Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 1998-006.
[publication]

 

2003. The electronic encoding of text resources: A roadmap to best practice
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the EMELD Workshop on Digitizing and Annotating Texts and Field Recordings, 11-13 July 2003, E. Lansing, MI.
[publication]

 

2004. A model for interoperability: XML documents as an RDF database
Gary F. Simons, , D. Terence Langendoen, William D. Lewis, Scott O. Farrar, Alexis Lanham, Ruby Basham, and Hector Gonzalez. Proceedings of the EMELD Workshop on Linguistic Databases and Best Practice, 15-18 July 2004, Detroit, MI.
[publication]

 

2004. The semantics of markup: Mapping legacy markup schemas to a common semantics
Gary F. Simons, William D. Lewis, Scott O. Farrar, D. Terence Langendoen, Brian Fitzsimons and Hector Gonzalez. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004), Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004, pp. 25–32.
[preprint]

 

2005. Beyond the brink: Realizing interoperation through an RDF database
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the EMELD Workshop on Linguistic Ontologies and Data Categories for Linguistic Resources, Cambridge, MA, 1–3 July 2005.
[publication]

 

2006. Ensuring that digital data last: The priority of archival form over working form and presentation form
Gary F. Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2006-003, March 2006.
[publication]

 

2007. Two foundational issues: the model of knowledge representation and the model of community
Gary F. Simons. Workshop on The feasibility of a web-based database of the syntactic structures of the world’s languages, 9-10 Nov 2007, New York University.
[workpaper]

 

2009. Third wave writing and publishing
Gary F. Simons and H. Andrew Black. SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork 2009-005.
[publication]

Metadata

 

2002. Recommended metadata extensions
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Recommendation. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]

 

2003. A query facility for selective harvesting of OLAC metadata
Gary F. Simons. Implementation note. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2003. Extending Dublin Core metadata to support the description and discovery of language resources
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Computers and the Humanities 37(4):375-388.
[preprint]

 

2003. OLAC metadata
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Standard. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]

 

2003. Specifications for an OLAC metadata display format and an OLAC-to-OAI_DC crosswalk
Gary F. Simons. Implementation note. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2003. Viser: A virtual service provider for displaying selected OLAC metadata
Gary F. Simons. Implementation note. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2004. Building an open language archives community on the DC foundation
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. In Diane I. Hillmann and Elaine L. Westbrooks (eds.), Metadata in practice, 203-222. Chicago: American Library Association.
[preprint]

 

2008. OLAC metadata metrics
Gary F. Simons. Informational note. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]

 

2008. OLAC metadata usage guidelines
Gary Simons, Steven Bird, and Joan Spanne. Informational note. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]

 

2009. Building a MARC-to-OLAC Crosswalk: Repurposing Library Catalog Data for the Language Resources Community
Christopher Hirt, Gary Simons, and Joan Spanne. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '09), 15–19 June 2009, Austin, Texas. Association for Computing Machinery. Page 393 (abstract for poster).
[reprint] [poster]

 

2011. Mining language resources from institutional repositories
Gary Simons, Steven Bird, Christopher Hirt, Joshua Hou, and Sven Pedersen. Presented at Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University, 19–22 June 2011.
[presentation] [abstract] [local]

 

2012. The role of metadata in the infrastructure for archival interoperation
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the LSA Workshop on Sociolinguistic Archive Preparation, Portland, Oregon, 4–5 Jan 2012.
[presentation]

 

2014. The role of metadata in the infrastructure for archival interoperation
Gary F. Simons. Language and Linguistics Compass 8(11):486–494.
[preprint] [publication]

 

2015. Expressing language resource metadata as Linked Data: A potential agenda for the Open Language Archives Community
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the Workshop on Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD), LSA Summer Institute, Chicago, 25-26 July 2015.
[presentation] [preprint]

 

2020. Expressing language resource metadata as Linked Data: The case of the Open Language Archives Community
Gary F. Simons and Steven Bird. In Antonio Pareja-Lora, María Blume, Barbara C. Lust, and Christian Chiarcos (eds.), Development of linguistic linked open data resources for collaborative data-intensive research in the language sciences, pp. 117-130. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press .
[publication]

Metaschemas

 

2003. Developing markup metaschemas to support interoperation among resources with different markup schemas
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the ACH/ALLC Joint Conference, 29 May to 2 June 2003, Athens, GA.
[presentation]

 

2003. SIL: A metaschema language
Gary F. Simons. A project web space.
[workpaper]

 

2003. The electronic encoding of text resources: A roadmap to best practice
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the EMELD Workshop on Digitizing and Annotating Texts and Field Recordings, 11-13 July 2003, E. Lansing, MI.
[publication]

 

2004. A model for interoperability: XML documents as an RDF database
Gary F. Simons, , D. Terence Langendoen, William D. Lewis, Scott O. Farrar, Alexis Lanham, Ruby Basham, and Hector Gonzalez. Proceedings of the EMELD Workshop on Linguistic Databases and Best Practice, 15-18 July 2004, Detroit, MI.
[publication]

 

2004. The semantics of markup: Mapping legacy markup schemas to a common semantics
Gary F. Simons, William D. Lewis, Scott O. Farrar, D. Terence Langendoen, Brian Fitzsimons and Hector Gonzalez. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004), Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004, pp. 25–32.
[preprint]

 

2005. Beyond the brink: Realizing interoperation through an RDF database
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the EMELD Workshop on Linguistic Ontologies and Data Categories for Linguistic Resources, Cambridge, MA, 1–3 July 2005.
[publication]

Multilingual computing

 

1998. Multilingual data processing in the CELLAR environment
Gary F. Simons and John V. Thomson. In John Nerbonne (ed.), Linguistic Databases. CSLI Lecture Notes 77, pages 203–234. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
[preprint]

 

2000. Language identification and IT: Addressing problems of linguistic diversity on a global scale
Peter Constable and Gary Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2000-001.
[publication]

 

2017. Measuring digital language support
Abbey Thomas and Gary F. Simons. Presented at 9th DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, Arlington, TX, 20 October 2017.
[poster]

 

2019. Assessing digital language support as a factor in language vitality
Gary F. Simons and Abbey Thomas. Presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawaii, 28 February - 3 March 2019.
[presentation] [local]

 

2022. Assessing digital language support on a global scale
Gary F. Simons, Abbey L. Thomas, and Chad K. White. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 12–17 October 2022, pages 4299–4305.
[publication] [preprint]

Multilingualism

 

2018. Ethnologue as a sourcebook for mapping multilingualism: The case of Sango
Kenneth S. Olson and Gary F. Simons. Presneted at thelPike Center symposium on Language and identity in a multilingual, migrating world, 10-15 May 2018, Penang, Malaysia.
[preprint]

 

2018. Language and identity in a multilingual, migrating world
Quakenbush, J. Stephen and Gary F. Simons (eds.). Proceedings of the Pike Center symposium, 10-15 May 2018, Penang, Malaysia.
[preprint]

OLAC

 

2000. White paper on establishing an infrastructure for open language archiving
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2001. OLAC overview
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]

 

2001. The OLAC metadata set and controlled vocabularies
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education, pp. 7-18. Toulouse, France. July 2001.
[preprint]

 

2001. The Open Language Archives Community and Asian language resources
Steven Bird, Gary Simons, and Chu-Ren Huang. Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Resources in Asia, 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS). Tokyo, November 2001.
[preprint]

 

2003. Building an open language archives community on the OAI foundation
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Library Hi Tech 21(2):210–218, Special issue on the Open Archives Initiative.
[preprint]

 

2003. Extending Dublin Core metadata to support the description and discovery of language resources
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Computers and the Humanities 37(4):375-388.
[preprint]

 

2003. The Open Language Archives Community: an infrastructure for distributed archiving of language resources
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Literary and Linguistic Computing 18(2):117–128.
[preprint]

 

2004. Building an open language archives community on the DC foundation
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. In Diane I. Hillmann and Elaine L. Westbrooks (eds.), Metadata in practice, 203-222. Chicago: American Library Association.
[preprint]

 

2005. The Open Language Archives Community: Building a worldwide library of digital language resources
Gary F. Simons. Tutorial on Archiving and Linguistic Resources, Linguistic Society of America, 6 Jan 2005, Oakland, CA.
[presentation]

 

2007. Doing linguistics in the 21st century: Interoperation and the quest for the global riches of knowledge
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the E-MELD/DTS-L Workshop: Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources, 13–15 July 2007, Palo Alto, CA.
[publication] [presentation]

 

2007. OLAC: An infrastructure for indexing endangered language documentation
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the National Science Foundation Workshop on Documenting Endangered Languages, 14-17 October 2007, Durham, New Hampshire.
[presentation]

 

2008. OLAC: The Open Language Archives Community
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the DRIVER Summit, 16–17 Jan 2008, Goettingen, Germany.
[presentation]

 

2008. OLAC metadata metrics
Gary F. Simons. Informational note. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]

 

2008. OLAC metadata usage guidelines
Gary Simons, Steven Bird, and Joan Spanne. Informational note. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]

 

2008. Toward a global infrastructure for the sustainability of language resources
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 20–22 November 2008, Cebu City, Philippines. Pages 87–100.
[preprint] [presentation]

 

2009. Building a MARC-to-OLAC Crosswalk: Repurposing Library Catalog Data for the Language Resources Community
Christopher Hirt, Gary Simons, and Joan Spanne. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '09), 15–19 June 2009, Austin, Texas. Association for Computing Machinery. Page 393 (abstract for poster).
[reprint] [poster]

 

2009. OLAC: Accessing the world's language resources
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawaii, 12–14 March 2009.
[presentation]

 

2011. Mining language resources from institutional repositories
Gary Simons, Steven Bird, Christopher Hirt, Joshua Hou, and Sven Pedersen. Presented at Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University, 19–22 June 2011.
[presentation] [abstract] [local]

 

2011. OLAC: Accessing the world’s language resources
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Poster session on Metadata in Language Documentation and Description, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, 6–9 January 2011.
[poster] [local]

 

2012. The role of metadata in the infrastructure for archival interoperation
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the LSA Workshop on Sociolinguistic Archive Preparation, Portland, Oregon, 4–5 Jan 2012.
[presentation]

 

2014. The role of metadata in the infrastructure for archival interoperation
Gary F. Simons. Language and Linguistics Compass 8(11):486–494.
[preprint] [publication]

 

2015. Expressing language resource metadata as Linked Data: A potential agenda for the Open Language Archives Community
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the Workshop on Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD), LSA Summer Institute, Chicago, 25-26 July 2015.
[presentation] [preprint]

 

2016. From community-specific XML markup to Linked Data and an abstract application profile: A possible path for the future of OLAC
Gary F. Simons. Presented at OLAC/DELAMAN Workshop, Austin, TX, 11 April 2016.
[presentation]

 

2016. From Linguistic Data Type to Language Resource Type: Laying the groundwork for a metadata application profile
Gary F. Simons. Presented at OLAC/DELAMAN Workshop, Austin, TX, 11 April 2016.
[presentation]

 

2016. Open Language Archives Community: An update on status and directions
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the Language Documentation Tools Summit, University of Melbourne, 1-3 June 2016 .
[presentation]

 

2018. Some challenges ahead for the Open Language Archives Community
Gary F. Simons. Presented at workshop on Data Archives and Languages of the Americas, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, 9 February 2018.
[presentation]

 

2020. Expressing language resource metadata as Linked Data: The case of the Open Language Archives Community
Gary F. Simons and Steven Bird. In Antonio Pareja-Lora, María Blume, Barbara C. Lust, and Christian Chiarcos (eds.), Development of linguistic linked open data resources for collaborative data-intensive research in the language sciences, pp. 117-130. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press .
[publication]

 

2021. Towards an agenda for open language archiving
Steven Bird and Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc 2021.
[publication]

 

2022. The Open Language Archives Community: a 20-year update
Steven Bird and Gary F. Simons. The Electronic Library 40(5):507–524.
[publication] [preprint]

Parsing

 

1997. PTEXT: A format for the interchange of parsed texts among natural language processing applications
Gary F. Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 1997-008.
[publication]

 

2006. The SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer approach to morphological parsing
H. Andrew Black and Gary F. Simons. To appear in Computational Linguistics for Less-studied Languages: Proceedings of Texas Linguistics Society 10, 3–5 November 2006, Austin, TX.
[presentation] [preprint]

 

2008. The SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer approach to morphological parsing
H. Andrew Black and Gary F. Simons. In Nicholas Gaylord, Stephen Hilderbrand, Heeyoung Lyu, Alexis Palmer and Elias Ponvert (eds.), Proceedings of TTexas Linguistics Society 10: Computational Linguistics for Less-Studied Languages, 37–55. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
[publication]

Project management

 

1993. A project planning and development process for small teams
Marc Rettig and Gary Simons. Communications of the ACM 36(10):45–55.
[reprint]

Publishing

 

2009. Third wave writing and publishing
Gary F. Simons and H. Andrew Black. SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork 2009-005.
[publication]

 

2015. Co-authorship as a means of crediting data creators
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the Workshop on Developing Standards for Data Citation and Attribution in Linguistics, Boulder, CO, 18-20 September 2015.
[presentation]

Semantic web

 

2003. SIL: A metaschema language
Gary F. Simons. A project web space.
[workpaper]

 

2004. A model for interoperability: XML documents as an RDF database
Gary F. Simons, , D. Terence Langendoen, William D. Lewis, Scott O. Farrar, Alexis Lanham, Ruby Basham, and Hector Gonzalez. Proceedings of the EMELD Workshop on Linguistic Databases and Best Practice, 15-18 July 2004, Detroit, MI.
[publication]

 

2004. The semantics of markup: Mapping legacy markup schemas to a common semantics
Gary F. Simons, William D. Lewis, Scott O. Farrar, D. Terence Langendoen, Brian Fitzsimons and Hector Gonzalez. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004), Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004, pp. 25–32.
[preprint]

 

2005. Beyond the brink: Realizing interoperation through an RDF database
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the EMELD Workshop on Linguistic Ontologies and Data Categories for Linguistic Resources, Cambridge, MA, 1–3 July 2005.
[publication]

 

2015. Expressing language resource metadata as Linked Data: A potential agenda for the Open Language Archives Community
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the Workshop on Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD), LSA Summer Institute, Chicago, 25-26 July 2015.
[presentation] [preprint]

 

2020. Expressing language resource metadata as Linked Data: The case of the Open Language Archives Community
Gary F. Simons and Steven Bird. In Antonio Pareja-Lora, María Blume, Barbara C. Lust, and Christian Chiarcos (eds.), Development of linguistic linked open data resources for collaborative data-intensive research in the language sciences, pp. 117-130. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press .
[publication]

SIL International

 

2016. A threefold purpose: Rediscovering the heart of SIL
Gary F. Simons (ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
[publication]

 

2018. Kenneth Pike and the making of Wycliffe Bible Translators and SIL International
Boone Aldridge and Gary Simons. Christianity Today: Christian History (February 2018).
[publication]

Standardization

 

1977. Standardized alphabets for Malaitan languages
Gary F. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 5. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 33 pp.
[reprint]

 

2002. SIL three-letter codes for identifying languages: Migrating from in-house standard to community standard
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources in Tools and Field Linguistics, Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 26-27, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. Pages 22:1-8.
[preprint]

 

2006. GOLD as a standard for linguistic data interoperation: A road map for development
Gary F. Simons and Baden Hughes. Proceedings of the EMELD’06 Workshop on Digital Language Documentation: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art. Lansing, MI. June 20–22, 2006.
[publication]

 

2007. Doing linguistics in the 21st century: Interoperation and the quest for the global riches of knowledge
Gary F. Simons. Proceedings of the E-MELD/DTS-L Workshop: Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources, 13–15 July 2007, Palo Alto, CA.
[publication] [presentation]

 

2009. Linguistics as a community activity: The paradox of freedom through standards
Gary F. Simons. In William D. Lewis, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley, and Scott O. Farrar (eds.), Time and Again: Theoretical Perspectives on Formal Linguistics. In honor of D. Terence Langendoen, pages 235–250. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
[preprint]

 

2013. ISO 639-3: Where are we and how did we get here?
Gary F. Simons. Workshop on Identifying Codes for Languages, Newcastle, Australia, 9 February 2013.
[presentation] [local]

 

2014. Terminology and language aspects in language coding
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the TKE 2014 workshop on Language Codes at the Crossroads, Berlin, Germany, 21 June 2014.
[presentation] [local]

 

2017. Developing infrastructure for interoperating digital language archives
Gary F. Simons. Presented at symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages (CoRSAL), University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 17 November 2017.
[presentation] [video]

Standards

 

2003. OLAC metadata
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Standard. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]

 

2003. OLAC process
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Standard. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]

 

2003. OLAC repositories
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Standard. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]

 

2004. Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages
[Peter Constable and Gary Simons]. ISO/DIS 639-3 (Draft 5, dated 2004-09-20).
[preprint]

TEI

 

1992. Feature system declarations and the interpretation of feature structures
Gary F. Simons. Text Encoding Initiative Committee on Text Analysis and Interpretation, Document Number: TEI AI1W3.
[workpaper]

 

1994. Chapter 26: Feature system declaration [SGML version]
[Gary F. Simons]. In C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and L. Burnard (eds.), TEI P3: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. Chicago and Oxford: Text Encoding Initiative.
[publication]

 

1995. A rationale for the TEI recommendations for feature-structure markup
D. Terence Langendoen and Gary F. Simons. Computers and the Humanities 29(3):191–209.
[reprint]

 

1996. Implementing the TEI’s feature-structure markup by direct mapping to the objects and attributes of an object-oriented database system
Gary F. Simons. Research in Humanities Computing 5: Selected papers from the ACH/ALLC Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, August 1995, edited by Giorgio Perissinotto, pages 220-242. Oxford University Press.
[reprint]

 

1998. Using architectural processing to derive small, problem-specific XML applications from large, widely-used SGML applications
Gary F. Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 1998-006.
[publication]

 

2002. Chapter 26: Feature system declaration [XML version]
[Gary F. Simons]. In C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and L. Burnard (eds.), TEI P4: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. Oxford, Providence, Charlottesville, Bergen: Text Encoding Initiative Consortium.
[publication]

Text annotation

 

1988. How to use IT: A guide to interlinear text processing (revised edition)
Gary F. Simons and Larry Versaw. Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics. 329 pp. (This reprint contains Chapter 1, "Introduction," and Chapter 2, "Applications of IT.").
[reprint]

 

1989. Proposed framework for encoding analysis and interpretation of running text
Gary F. Simons. Text Encoding Initiative Committee on Text Analysis and Interpretation, Document Number: TEI AIW01.
[workpaper]

 

1997. PTEXT: A format for the interchange of parsed texts among natural language processing applications
Gary F. Simons. SIL Electronic Working Papers 1997-008.
[publication]

 

2002. A morphological glossing assistant
Mike Maxwell, Gary Simons, and Larry Hayashi. Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources in Tools and Field Linguistics, Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 26-27, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. Pages 25-1 to 25-10.
[preprint]

Writing systems

 

1977. Principles of multidialectal orthography design
Gary F. Simons. In Richard Loving and Gary Simons (eds.), Language variation and survey techniques, pages 325-342. Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages, 21. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[reprint]

 

1977. Standardized alphabets for Malaitan languages
Gary F. Simons. Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project, number 5. Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 33 pp.
[reprint]

 

1989. The computational complexity of writing systems
Gary F. Simons. The Fifteenth LACUS Forum 1988, pages 538–553. Lake Bluff, IL: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.
[reprint]