In the past 10 years, intensive documentation activities, i.e.
compilations of large, multimedia corpora of spoken endangered
languages, much of it within the DobeS framework, have
contributed to documenting important linguistic and cultural
aspects of dozens of languages. The rich experience gained
through these initiatives has provided us with a far better
understanding of the enormous potentials of language
documentation. These potentials are threefold: - Given that
modern, DobeS language documentations are cast in a sufficiently
standardized, well-structured electronic format, computational
methods can efficiently enhance the annotations and improve the
analyses of language documentation data in many ways. The
combination of state-of-the-art computational methods and
electronic language documentation corpora has the potential to
significantly impact the way linguistic data in general is
handled and analyzed. - The additional data available through
language documentation provides a much better understandin