Research Creation

Language and Land

Forthcoming. Greening, Spencer, Daisy Rosenblum, Dana Lepofksy. Ła A’alyaga Laxyuuba Gitḵ’a’ata (The Territory of the Gitga'at Speaks): Gitga’at knowledge as expressed through Indigenous Place Names. American Anthropologist.

2019 Lyall, Andrea, Harry Nelson, Daisy Rosenblum, & Mark Turin. 2019. Ḵ̓a̱ḵ̓otł̓atła̱no’x̱w x̱a ḵ̓waḵ̓wax̱’mas: Documenting and Reclaiming Plant Names and Words in Kwak̓wala on Canada’s West coast. Language Documentation & Conservation13: pp. 401-425. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Language Reclamation

2023 Rosenblum, Daisy and T'łat'laḵuł Patricia Rosborough. Sketch of Wakashan. In Carmen Jany, Marianne Mithun and Keren Rice (eds.), Handbook of Languages and Linguistics of North America.(The World of Linguistics 13, series ed. H.H. Hock). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 1015-1054.

2023 Chew, Kari, Wesley Y. Leonard and Daisy Rosenblum. Decolonizing Indigenous Language Pedagogies. In Carmen Jany, Marianne Mithun and Keren Rice (eds.), Handbook of Languages and Linguistics of North America. (The World of Linguistics 13, series ed. H.H. Hock). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 769-790 

2019 Hemphill, Lucy and Daisy Rosenblum. Stories With Deep Roots: Cultivating Community-University Relationships to Facilitate the Creation of Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda’xw Children’s Stories. Book 2.0: 9.1: pp. 45-54. 

Language Documentation

2018 Rosenblum, Daisy and Andrea L. Berez-Kroker. Reflections on Language Documentation in North America. In Bradley McDonnell, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton (eds.), Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 15: pp. 340-353. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press

2013 Rosenblum, Daisy. Passive Constructions in Kwak̓̕wala. Survey Reports, Volume 15. UC Berkeley: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. pp. 229-278. 

2010 Berez, Andrea L., Jean Mulder and Daisy Rosenblum (eds.). Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication No. 2: Fieldwork and Linguistic Analysis in American Indigenous Languages. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 274 pp.

2010 Rosenblum, Daisy and Andrea L. Berez. Introduction: The Boasian Tradition and Contemporary Practice in Linguistic Fieldwork in the Americas. In Andrea L. Berez, Jean Mulder, and Daisy Rosenblum (eds.), Fieldwork and Linguistic Analysis in Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Journal of Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 2, 1-8. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 

Computational Strategies

2025 Agarwal, Milind, Daisy Rosenblum, Antonios Anastasopoulos. Developing a Mixed-Methods Pipeline for Community-Oriented Digitization of Kwak’wala Legacy Texts. Proceedings, 8th Workshop on the use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8).

2023 Rijhwani, Shruti, Daisy Rosenblum, Michayla King, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig. User-Centric Evaluation of OCR Systems for Kwak'wala. Proceedings, 6th Workshop on the use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-6). pp. 19-29.

2023 Harrigan, Atticus, Aditi Chaudhary, Shruti Rijhwani, Sarah Moeller, Antti Arppe, Alexis Palmer, Ryan Henke, and Daisy Rosenblum, Eds. 2023.Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. Association for Computational Linguistics, Remote, edition. 129 pp.

2021 Rijhwani, Shruti, Daisy Rosenblum, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig. Lexically Aware Semi-Supervised Learning for OCR Post-Correction. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 9: pp. 1285-1302.  MIT Press.https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00427

2020 Roland Kuhn, Fineen Davis, Alain Désilets, Eric Joanis, Anna Kazantseva Knowles, Patrick Littell, Delaney Lothian, Aidan Pine, Caroline Running Wolf, Eddie Santos, Darlene Stewart, Gilles Boulianne, Vishwa Gupta, Owennatékha Brian Maracle, Akwiratékha’ Martin, Christopher Cox, Marie-Odile Junker, Olivia Sammons, Delasie Torkornoo, Nathan Thanyehténhas Brinklow, Sara Child, Benoît Farley, David Huggins-Daines, Daisy Rosenblum, and Heather Souter. “The Indigenous Languages Technology project at NRC Canada: An empowerment-oriented approach to developing language software”. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), Online, Dec. 8-13, 2020. In the ACL Anthology athttps://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.coling-main.516/. pp. 5866-5878.

2024 Museum of Anthropology Interactive Language Map. Co-developed with Dante Cerron, Vita Chan, Lilith Charlet, Cate Ngieng, Susan Rowley, Jennifer Kramer, Karen Duffek. For MOA Reopening June 13, 2024.

2024 Vancouver Poetry Project Locative Audio app. (Phase 1 scheduled release June 2026). Co-developed with Fiona Tinwei Lam, David Gaertner, Dante Cerron, Olivia Chen, Karla Ssewakiryanga, Mohsen Movahedi) Vertical Slice: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n_Qupfw33SXM6GQGQIqlB3L5N0a-O4rQ/view

2023 Rosenblum, Daisy and Kathryn Dyck. Transcription and Translation of Language Content. Part of the Expanded Indigitization Toolkit. Part of the Expanded Indigitization Toolkit (https://www.indigitization.ca/toolkit/). Published online https://www.indigitization.ca/toolkit/language-revitalization/#transcription

2023 Draft PDF: machine readable transcript of Boas & Hunt 1921 Volume 1 & 2. Boas orthography transliterated to U'mista, with English translation, distributed to 50 community scholars, language teachers, and expert researchers for feedback. 1601 pp. Revised draft in production.

2023. CEDaR Content Management System: A system compliant with FAIR, CARE, and OCAP protocols for digital data sovereignty; designed to accommodate sensitive cultural multimedia content. Developed in Drupal 9 and React (Dante Cerron, Olivia Chen, Julia Chu, technical leads)

2022 hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ street signs Locative Audio App. Co-developed by CEDaR and EML. Geo-triggered augmented reality audio installation at UBC-Vancouver. (Beta testing with Musqueam Community)

2018-present Multimodal documentation of interactive speech in Kwak̕wala. Endangered Languages Archive. http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-B63A-1. Detailed description (PDF).

1999 Zentella, Ana Celia, and Auris Bourdón, Ida Campanella, Arlene González, Michele Marrero, Irene Molina, Elyes Pérez, Daisy Rosenblum. Would you like your children to speak English and Spanish?/Quieren que sus hijos hablen el inglés y el español?

Rosenblum, Daisy. Responsible AI and Music: Low-resource traditions, small datasets, and data sovereignty. International partnership to reduce bias in AI music generation and analysis. Invited presentation. University of the Arts, London. July 17, 2024.

Rosenblum, Daisy. Partnerships in Practice: Computational Methods, Data, and Community-led Technology Development for Indigenous North American Languages. Special panel. ComputEL-7 Workshop. March 21-22, 2024. Co-located with European Association for Computational Linguistics. Valletta, Malta

Rosenblum, Daisy. Relational Technologies: Supporting Community-Led Language Reclamation. Closing Keynote, 39th Northwest Linguistics Conference. Theme: Community-Engaged Language Research. University of Victoria: May 13-14, 2023.

Rosenblum, Daisy. Justice Through Technology: Computational Methods for Endangered Languages. Invited special panel. ComputEL-6 Workshop. March 5, 2023

Cerron, Dante and Julia Chu. “Implementing OCAP, CARE and FAIR in managing digital language data.” Special Session: Justice through Technology, ComputEL-6: Sixth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. March 5, 2023.

Campbell, Vanessa, Dante Cerron, Olivia Chen, David Gaertner and Daisy Rosenblum. “Situating hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language on Musqueam land: Geospatial Audio at UBC.” Bad Habitus Revisited: Anthropology in the Age of the Multimodal. Panel + Online Exhibition, Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Seattle, WA. November 11, 2022.

Gaertner, David and Josh McKenna. “Kinship in the Pixels: Sovereignty and Video Game Development in Sage Plains.” Indigenous Literary Studies Association, Gabriel Dumont Institute, Saskatoon, SK. June 17, 2022
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Gaertner, David and Daisy Rosenblum. “CEDaR and Relational Technologies.” UBC iSchool Colloquium. Vancouver, BC. March 3, 2022.

Rosenblum, Daisy. Automatic Speech Recognition in Native American Languages. Panel ACL Special Interest Group in Endangered Languages. October 28. (Coordinated and Moderated by Hilaria Cruz, panel presented with Jonathan Amith, Rey Castillo Garcia, Robbie Jimerson Jr., Lori Levin, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Shawn Tsosie)

Rosenblum, Daisy. Nouns, Noun Phrases, and other Referential Resources in Kʷak̓ʷala. Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. November 18 2019

Rosenblum, Daisy. q̓a̱nq̓oƛaχәnc ʔəwín̓agwis (Knowing our land): Community-Based Research for Reclamation. Symposium for Indigenous New Media. Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria. June 11 2019

Rosenblum, Daisy. ‘Widi le? Talking about space in Kwak’wala. Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria. November 30 2017

Rosenblum, Daisy. Nouns, Noun Phrases, and other Referential Resources in Kʷak̓ʷala,” International Pragmatics Association Meeting. Belfast, Ireland, July 27 2017.

Rosenblum, Daisy. Pipelines and Poetics of Place, SSHRC Connections-Funded meeting, UBC, April 29-30 2017.

Rosenblum, Daisy. Introduction to ELAN for Transcription and Translation. Workshop, BC Breath of Life Institute for Archival Research, UBC. May 19 2017

Rosenblum, Daisy. Beautiful structures: Finding Joy in Grammar. Plenary, BC Breath of Life Institute for Archival Research, UBC. May 18 2017.

Rosenblum, Daisy. Accessing Legacy Materials for Community-Based Language Documentation and Revitalization. Workshop, Indigitization Futures Forum, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. June 10 2016.

Rosenblum, Daisy. Re-imagining Language Documentation: Supporting Community-Based Language Revitalization. Musqueam 101 Series, Museum of Anthropology and the Musqueam Indian Band, Musqueam Reserve, BC. March 9 2016.

Rosenblum, Daisy. Collaborative Methods for Documenting Wakashan Dialect Diversity. Brown Bag Lunch Series, Native American Studies Department. University of California, Davis. April 22 2015.

Rosenblum, Daisy. Documenting Multimodal Interaction: Workflows, Data management, and Archiving. Part of the Tutorial “Documenting Conversation,” sponsored by the Committee on Endangered Language Preservation. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. January 2-5 2014. (With Olivia S. Cox).

Rosenblum, Daisy. Accessing Dialect Diversity Through Multi-media Documentation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Part of the Symposium "Multimedia Linguistic Documentation and Analysis," special joint session of the Linguistic Society of America and the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA. January 3-6 2013. (With Elizabeth Cadwallader).

Rosenblum, Daisy. Argument Structure and Passive Constructions in Kʷak̓ʷala. Syntax Circle, UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics. November 14 2012.

Rosenblum, Daisy. ʔəngʷaχəlasaχ Collaboration laχusKʷak̓ʷala? (How Do You Say Collaboration in Kʷak̓ʷala?): Community-external Partnerships in the Service of Language Revitalization. Fieldwork Forum, UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics. March 31 2011.

CEDaR space github repository: https://github.com/cedarspace

2022 Geospatial Media Platform. Drupal platform co-developed by CEDaR and EML.

2022 hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ locative audio app: geospatial audio tour.https://badhabitus.com/exhibition

2023 Improved Optical Character Recognition Tool for Kwak'wala legacy texts, Boas-Hunt Orthography. OCR Post Correction Model softwarehttps://github.com/shrutirij/ocr-post-correction. In collaboration with Shruti Rijhwani, Milind Agrawal (Benchmark dataset:https://tinyurl.com/2rw7mkcn.)

2023  Vetikkal, Ann. A Century Later, Columbia Excavates 'Salvage Anthropology'. Columbia Spectator: The Eye. April 30. https://www.columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2023/04/30/a-century-later-columbia-excavates-salvage-anthropology (Accessed 5/5/2023)

2021 Rosenblum, Daisy. “Virtual Visits: Indigenous Language Reclamation During a Pandemic.”  Globe and Mail. 15 March, 2021, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-virtual-visits-indigenous-language-reclamation-during-a-pandemic/

2019 Congress Researcher of the Day: Daisy Rosenblum. https://www.arts.ubc.ca/news/congress-researcher-of-the-day-daisy-rosenblum/