Category Archives: Other Journals

Confusing submission guidelines

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I need to use this as an illustration of confused document guidelines:

Submissions

How should a manuscript be prepared for initial submission?
As of Volume 11 of LD&C (2017), authors submitting manuscripts should follow the Generic Style Rules for linguistic publications and the LD&C Style Sheet. LD&C formerly used the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics. Authors are also expected to include a brief (no more than 200-word) abstract with their submission. Authors may use British or American English spellings as long as they are consistent within one article.

Manuscripts should be anonymised, please do not include author name(s) or email addresses, and make sure that the document properties do not include the author’s name.

A Citation Style Language (CSL) template for use in Zotero or similar tools can be found here. A very useful guide to using CSL can be found here.

What are LD&C‘s style conventions for published articles?
Language Documentation & Conservation editorial style follows The Chicago manual of style, 16th edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) and the Generic Style Rules for linguistics.

Citation of primary data
For researchers in the field working with datasets, we encourage the use of the Tromsø recommendations for citation of research data, both in the bibliography and in the text of linguistics publications.

Mixing LaTeX and Markdown

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Several ways to do this.

Latex in Markdown files, markdown in Latex files, and conversion between the two...

https://mathpix.com/markdown-to-latex
https://www.overleaf.com/learn/how-to/Writing_Markdown_in_LaTeX_Documents

Interesting to me was the ability to do syntax highlighting from markdown... it seems easier than listings and might work better than XML for use with XLingPaper

Extracting images from PDFs

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Every now and again I need to extract some images from a PDF. The best solution I have found is to use pdfimages on the command line in linux.

https://www.howtogeek.com/228796/how-to-extract-and-save-images-from-a-pdf-file-in-linux/

Get the tool in poppler set of tools as XPDF is out of date.
https://poppler.freedesktop.org/

Other helpful tools:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/easily-extract-images-from-pdf-file/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/150100/extracting-embedded-images-from-a-pdf
https://superuser.com/questions/134869/how-to-extract-image-from-pdf-file
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Extracting_images_from_PDF

Minorities in US Law

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Granted there are different parts of US Law, but I'm just reading this for the first time and find the definitions interesting and far from how linguistic departments often think of minorities...

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/edlite-minorityinst.html

These MSI's outlined in law were brought to my attention through the work the the department of homeland security... opinions aside on the role and mission of DHS, it makes me wonder if this "research" is to better serve DHS regardless of how it is directed and does that mean minorities are more severely impacted due to this research, so what is the ethical component of this "research"... though I may not be fully understanding the context of DHS's purpose...

Originally from: https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/DHS-SRTMSI-2023-FacultyApp

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Summer Research Team (SRT) Program for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) is now accepting applications from faculty at Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) interested in participating in a summer research team experience. Selected Faculty will be invited to submit a Team Application including a Research Project Proposal developed in collaboration with a DHS Center researcher and applications from one or two qualified students.

The program seeks to increase and enhance the scientific leadership at MSIs in research areas that support the mission and goals of DHS. This program provides faculty and student research teams with the opportunity to conduct research at the university-based DHS Centers of Excellence (DHS Centers). At the end of the ten week appointment, faculty collaborate with center to apply for up to $100,000 in follow-on funding to continue research during the 2023-2024 academic year at the faculty’s home academic institution.

This year’s participating Centers of Excellence are:

Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE)
Center of Excellence for Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS)
Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis (CINA)
Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI)
National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE)
Soft-target Engineering to Neutralize the Threat RealitY (SENTRY)