Gary F. Simons
Online Resources by Year
This page lists my online papers and presentations in reverse chronological order. (See also the listing by subject.)
Key to link types
- Publication links to an online publication.
- Preprint links to a prepublication version of a conventionally published work.
- Reprint links to a digital reprint of a conventionally published work.
- Poster links to a poster presented at a conference.
- Presentation links to a set of presentation slides.
- Workpaper links to a working paper that has not been reviewed or published.
- Local links to a local copy of the same resource.
2013
A global profile of language development versus language endangerment
Gary F. Simons and M. Paul Lewis. A presentation made at the 3rd International
Conference on Language Documentation
and Conservation, University of Hawai‘i, Feb 28–Mar 3, 2013.
[presentation]
Ethnologue: Languages of the world (17th edition)
M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
[publication]
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]
2012
Endangered language families
D. H. Whalen and Gary F. Simons.
Language 88(1):155–173
.
[publication]
Language development versus language endangerment:
Assessing the situation worldwide
Gary F. Simons. A presentation made at the IAS and GILLBT conference
on Language and Culture in National Development,
University of Ghana, Legon, 12–13 April 2012.
[presentation]
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. A paper presented at the 12th International Conference
on Austronesian Linguistics, Denpasar, Bali, 2–6 July 2012.
[presentation]
The role of metadata in the infrastructure for archival interoperation
Gary F. Simons. A presentation made at the LSA Workshop on Sociolinguistic Archive Preparation,
Portland, 4–5 Jan 2012.
[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 Ammerican Association for
Applied Linguistics, Chicago, 26–29 March 2011.
[presentation]
Endangered languages and endangered language families: A global assessment
Gary F. Simons. A presentation made at the RELISH Symposium, University of Frankfurt, 10 Oct 2011.
[presentation] [local]
Mining language resources from institutional repositories
Gary Simons, Steven Bird, Christopher Hirt, Joshua Hou, and Sven Pedersen. A paper presented at Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford
University, 19–22 June 2011.
[presentation] [abstract] [local]
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]
On defining language development
Gary F. Simons. A poster presented at the 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and
Conservation, University of Hawaii, 11–13 February 2011.
[poster]
The world’s languages in crisis: A 20-year update
Gary F. Simons and M. Paul Lewis. A paper presented at the 26th Linguistics Symposium:
Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation, and Revitalization,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 20–22 October 2011.
[workpaper]
2010
Assessing endangerment: Expanding Fishman's GIDS
M. Paul Lewis and Gary F. Simons. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 55(2):103–120.
[publication] [local]
Ethnologue as a global sourcebook on linguistic diversity and language vitality
Gary F. Simons. 12th International Congress of Ethnobiology, 9–14 May 2010, Tofino, British Columbia.
[presentation] [handout]
SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer: The lexicon component
Gary F. Simons. Rendering endangered languages lexicons interoperable through standards
harmonization RELISH). Workshop on Lexicon tools and lexicon standards, 4–5 August
2010, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
[presentation]
Using language to gain control of enterprise architecture: On the verge of major
business reengineering
Gary F. Simons, Leon A. Kappelman, and John A. Zachman. In The SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture, Leon A. Kappelman (ed.), pages
127–146. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
[preprint]
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]
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]
Ethnologue: Languages of the world (16th edition)
M. Paul Lewis (editor); Gary F. Simons (executive editor). Dallas, TX: SIL International. 1248 pp.
[publication]
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]
Linguistics as a community activity: The paradox of freedom through standards
Gary F. Simons. In Time and Again: Theoretical Perspectives on Formal Linguistics. In honor of D.
Terence Langendoen. William D. Lewis, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley, and Scott O.
Farrar (eds.), pages 235–250. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
[preprint]
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]
Third wave writing and publishing
Gary F. Simons and H. Andrew Black.
SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork 2009-005.
[publication]
2008
Ensuring the sustainability of language resources
Gary F. Simons. Presented at Processing Text Technological Resources, 13–15 March 2008,
Bielefeld, Germany.
[presentation]
OLAC: The Open Language Archives Community
Gary F. Simons. Presented at the DRIVER Summit, 16–17 Jan 2008, Goettingen, Germany.
[presentation]
OLAC metadata metrics
Gary F. Simons. Informational note. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]
OLAC metadata usage guidelines
Gary Simons, Steven Bird, and Joan Spanne. Informational note. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Good, better, and best practice: The experience of the E-MELD project
Gary F. Simons and Helen Aristar Dry. A paper presented at the Workshop on Language Archives: Standards, Creation, and
Access, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, 22–24 Feb 2006, Bielefeld.
[presentation]
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]
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.
[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]
Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th edition)
Raymond G. Gordon, Jr. (editor); Gary F. Simons (executive editor). Dallas, TX: SIL International. 1272 pp.
[publication]
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]
2004
A model for interoperability: XML documents as an RDF database
Gary F. Simons, Brian Fitzsimons, 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]
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]
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]
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 XMLNLP Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics,
Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.
[preprint]
2003
A query facility for selective harvesting of OLAC metadata
Gary F. Simons. Implementation note. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]
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]
Developing markup metaschemas to support interoperation among resources with different
markup schemas
Gary F. Simons. A paper presented at the ACH/ALLC Joint Conference, 29 May to 2 June 2003, Athens,
GA.
[presentation]
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]
OLAC metadata
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Standard. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]
OLAC process
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Standard. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]
OLAC repositories
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Standard. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]
Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description
Steven Bird and Gary Simons.
Language 79(3):557–582.
[preprint]
SIL: A metaschema language
Gary F. Simons. A project web space.
[workpaper]
Specifications for an OLAC metadata display format and an OLAC-to-OAI_DC crosswalk
Gary F. Simons. Implementation note. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]
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]
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]
Viser: A virtual service provider for displaying selected OLAC metadata
Gary F. Simons. Implementation note. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]
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]
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]
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]
Implementing the TEI feature system declaration
Gary F. Simons. A paper presented at the TEI Members Meeting, 11 Oct 2002, Chicago.
[presentation]
Recommended metadata extensions
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Recommendation. Open Language Archives Community.
[publication]
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]
2001
OLAC overview
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Developing an infrastructure for online linguistic archives
Gary F. Simons. A working paper of the TalkBank project.
[workpaper]
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]
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]
Requirements on the infrastructure for open language archiving
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]
Supporting archive communities in the framework of the Open Archives Initiative
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]
The seven pillars of open language archiving: A vision statement
Gary Simons and Steven Bird. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]
White paper on establishing an infrastructure for open language archiving
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. Working paper. Open Language Archives Community.
[workpaper]
1998
In search of task-centered software: building single-purpose tools from multipurpose
components
Gary F. Simons.
SIL Electronic Working Papers 1998-004.
[publication]
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]
The nature of linguistic data and the requirements of a computing environment for
linguistic research
Gary F. Simons. In Using Computers in Linguistics: a practical guide, edited by John Lawler
and Helen Aristar Dry, pages 10–25. London and New York: Routledge.
[preprint] [appendix]
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]
1997
Conceptual modeling versus visual modeling: a technological key to building consensus
Gary F. Simons.
Computers and the Humanities 30(4):303–319.
[preprint]
Importing SGML data into CELLAR by means of architectural forms
Gary F. Simons. A project working paper.
[workpaper]
PTEXT: A format for the interchange of parsed texts among natural language processing
applications
Gary F. Simons.
SIL Electronic Working Papers 1997-008.
[publication]
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]
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]
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]
1993
A project planning and development process for small teams
Marc Rettig and Gary Simons.
Communications of the ACM 36(10):45–55.
[reprint]
Extended objects
Marc Rettig, Gary Simons, and John Thomson.
Communications of the ACM 36(8):19–24.
[reprint]
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]
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]
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]
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]
1988
A Computing Environment for Linguistic, Literary, and Anthropological Research:
Technical Overview
Gary F. Simons. A project working paper.
[workpaper]
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]
1984
Data abstraction: a basic implementation for problem solving
Gary F. Simons. Byte 9(11): 130-31, 414-40.
[reprint]
1982
Word taboo and comparative Austronesian linguistics
Gary F. Simons.
Pacific Linguistics C-76:157–226.
[reprint]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]