A Letter from the Editor

by Alexander König

Welcome to the brand new LAT News! On this site we, the Technical Group of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, are going to write about all the things we are doing in Language Archiving Technology. The topics will span from archiving of (endangered) languages over language documentation, data and media management to computer tools, e.g. the LAT tools we are developing at the MPI.

We deliberately chose the form of a blog because of its interactive nature. In the beginning we will probably still tinker with the form of the articles a bit until we found the type of writing that best suits you, our readers. To fine-tune this and to ensure that you are happy with what we are providing, we invite you to give us your feedback, either by commenting directly here on the blog or by writing an E-Mail to

We also warmly welcome submissions of news, reviews, and articles from anyone working in the area of language technology, language documentation or archiving. Please contact us, if you want to participate.

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