Nothing new... From hybrid-list@cs.ua.edu Sat Mar 16 01:55:11 1996 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:57:46 -0600 Reply-To: jjf@mickey.jsc.nasa.gov Originator: hybrid-list@cs.ua.edu Sender: hybrid-list@cs.ua.edu Precedence: bulk From: jjf@mickey.jsc.nasa.gov To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: New Genetic Programming Web Site X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: The Hybrid Model List X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have created a new genetic programming web site. Its address is: http://tommy.jsc.nasa.gov/~jjf/gp/ If you have any problems with that URL you can also try: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~jjf/gp/ http://www.ecisa.com/users/jjf/www/gp/ Originally this site started as my own hotlist of GP related sites. But, lately word got out and I have received a lot email about it so I have decided to make it public. This site contains every URL related to GP that I know. Most of the URLs come for the GP-mail-list and other mail lists, and the rest come from searching the different web search engines. It is divided in the following categories: Other GP Related Sites People Working on GP Research Groups Working on GP GP Related Conferences GP Related Calls for Papers GP Related Papers GP Software GP Bibliographies GP Miscellaneous URLs Genetic Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Happy surfing, Jaime Fernandez ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jaime Fernandez Jr. NASA Robotics & AI Scientist Metrica, Inc. Personal mail: jjf@caesar.rice.edu Work mail: jjf@mickey.jsc.nasa.gov Mail alias: j.j.fernandez@ieee.org Personal WWW Pages: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~jjf/ http://www.ecisa.com/users/jjf/www/ Castles WWW Pages: http://www.ecisa.com/users/jjf/www/castles/ http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~jjf/castles/ Genetic Programming: http://tommy.jsc.nasa.gov/~jjf/gp/ http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~jjf/gp/ http://www.ecisa.com/users/jjf/www/gp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Tue Mar 19 20:20:08 1996 Posted-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:42:45 EST To: corpora@hd.uib.no (Corpora) Cc: ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Subject: New Release from the LDC Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:42:45 EST Reply-To: LDC Office From: LDC Office Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM SPANISH NEWS TEXT COLLECTION The Spanish News Corpus consists of journalistic text data from one newspaper (El Norte, Mexico) and from the Spanish-language services of three newswire sources: Agence France Presse, Associated Press Worldstream, and Reuters. (The Reuters collection comprises two distinct services: Reuters Spanish Language News Service and Reuters Latin American Business Report.) All text data are stored on one CD-ROM, in a standard compressed form. The fours sets of newswire data (AFP, APWS, and two Reuters services) are each organized as one data file per day of collection. The period covered by these collections runs from December 1993 (for APWS and Reuters) or May 1994 (APWS) through December 1995. (The El Norte data, provided to us by INFOSEL Mexico, are arbitrarily grouped into files of about 1 megabyte in size when uncompressed; date information is not available for individual articles, but the general period of the collection is 1993.) The approximate amounts of data per source (when uncompressed) is indicated below (in total megabytes and millions of words of text): Source MB MW ------------------- AFP 345 44 APWS 253 33 REUSL 333 41 REULA 233 23 INFOSEL 209 31 The presentation of text data in these collections is modeled on the TIPSTER corpus. Within each data file, SGML tagging is used (1) to mark article boundaries, (2) to delimit the text portion within each article, and (3) to label various pieces of information about the article that are external to the text content (e.g. headlines, bylines, and so on). The copyright holders of this text have requested that it be made available to LDC members only. Due to the release date this corpus is available to 1995 and 1996 members. In order to obtain this corpus, current LDC members must submit a signed User Agreement Form. Inquiries about the corpus or requests for it, or information about becoming members should be directed to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc. Information is also available via ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under pub/ldc; for ftp access, please use "anonymous" as your login name, and give your email address when asked for password. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Wed Mar 20 03:35:19 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 18:56:06 -0600 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.407, FYI: CSLI Publications, Tense Reference Web Page, LSA dues To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-407. Mon Mar 18 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 110 Subject: 7.407, FYI: CSLI Publications, Tense Reference Web Page, LSA dues Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:03:50 PST From: dikran@csli.Stanford.EDU (Dikran Karagueuzian) Subject: CSLI Publications Announcement 2) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 17:59:18 +0200 From: saussure@uni2a.unige.ch (Louis de Saussure) Subject: Page WEB du Groupe de recherche sur la reference temporelle 3) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:17:27 EST From: ZZLSA@gallua.gallaudet.edu Subject: LSA dues ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:03:50 PST From: dikran@csli.Stanford.EDU (Dikran Karagueuzian) Subject: CSLI Publications Announcement As of January 1995, all CSLI Publications are distributed world-wide by Cambridge University Press. For some of our overseas readers, it may be useful to know that Cambridge University Press has offices world-wide which serve the international community. Cambridge Univerity Press (United States and Canada): 110 Midland Avenue Port Chester, NY 10573-4390 Phone: 914-937-9600 Toll Free Number (U.S. and Canada) 1-800-872-7423 FAX: 914-937-4712 Toll Free Number (Mexico) 95-800-010-0200 Cambridge University Press (United Kingdom, Europe; Asia, Africa, and South America): Publishing Division The Edinbirgh Building Shaftesbury Road Cambridge CB2 2RU UK Inquiries: 44 1223 312393 FAX: 44 1223 315052 Orders: 44 1223 325970 FAX: 44 1223 325959 Cambridge University Press (Australia) 120 Stamford Road Oakleigh, Victoria 31266 Australia 61 3 568 0322 FAX: 61 3 563 1517 Please visit CSLI Publications' World-Wide-Web page at: http://csli-www.stanford.edu/publications/ for a complete and updated list of publications ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 17:59:18 +0200 From: saussure@uni2a.unige.ch (Louis de Saussure) Subject: Page WEB du Groupe de recherche sur la reference temporelle Bonjour, Le Groupe de recherche sur la reference temporelle (universite de Geneve) dispose d'une page html a l'adresse suivante: http://latl.unige.ch/tense Quelques aspects restent encore a ameliorer. Tous commentaires bienvenus. Hello, The Research group on tense reference (University of Geneva, Switzerland) has its own home-page at the following URL: http://latl.unige.ch/tense (Please note that this page is only in french) Some pages at this location are still under construction but will soon be complete. All comments welcome. saussure@uni2a.unige.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:17:27 EST From: ZZLSA@gallua.gallaudet.edu Subject: LSA dues The March issue of the LSA Bulletin is in the mail. Anyone who did not remit membership dues before 1 March will not receive the March issues of Languge or the LSA Bulletin. If you have not yet done so, please renew your membership for 1996. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-407. From kamppuri Mon Mar 25 08:19:33 1996 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:19:31 +0200 From: Kirsti Kamppuri To: all Subject: [Pekka.Isosomppi@Helsinki.FI: Apurahatiedote 2/96 ilmestynyt] X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Pekka Isosomppi" Organization: University of Helsinki To: laitostiedotus@Helsinki.FI Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:19:05 EET MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Apurahatiedote 2/96 ilmestynyt Reply-to: Pekka.Isosomppi@Helsinki.FI Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Apurahatiedote 2/96 on ilmestynyt. Kuten listalla suoritetun kyselyn tuloksista ilmeni, suuri enemmistö niistä, jotka tiedotetta tarvitsevat, osaavat ja voivat sen WWW:stä noutaa. Tiedotteen osoite on: http://www.helsinki.fi/hy-only/tura.html Huomaa, että tuolle sivulle ei pääse muilta kuin yliopiston koneilta, koska lisenssimaksujen vuoksi tiedotteen käyttö on rajattu vain yliopiston piiriin. Sen, miten yliopistolaisuus määritellään, jätän tässä tapauksessa laitosten tehtäväksi. Tiedote on saatavissa sekä WP 5.1. -muodossa että pelkkänä tekstinä niille, jotka eivät ko. tekstinkäsittelymuotoa voi hyödyntää. Hauskaa viikonloppua ja onnea apurahojen parissa ! Pekka Isosomppi Tiedotus, puh. 22956 ------- End of forwarded message ------- From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Sun Mar 24 16:59:45 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 08:53:58 -0600 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.449, FYI: IPA, Grant Information To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-449. Sun Mar 24 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 97 Subject: 7.449, FYI: IPA, Grant Information Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dseely@emunix.emich.edu (T. Daniel Seely) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:52:59 PST From: charmii@u.washington.edu (David Prager Branner) Subject: ASCII-IPA 2) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:50:57 CST From: Minchew@act.org Subject: Educational and Research Grant Information Online ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:52:59 PST From: charmii@u.washington.edu (David Prager Branner) Subject: ASCII-IPA In response to Yumiko Sasaki Alam's question about ASCII representation of the IPA, there are several competing versions. Mine is on-line. You can read it in hypertext at http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/ASCII_IPA.html or you can download a PostScript version of the paper and print it on a PostScript printer. The address of the PostScript version is: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/ASCII_IPA.ps Sincerely, David Prager Branner, Yuen Ren Society Asian L&L, University of Washington, Box 353521 Seattle, WA 98195-3521 USA Web: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:50:57 CST From: Minchew@act.org Subject: Educational and Research Grant Information Online A free online e-mail service delivering targeted research and education U.S. government funded opportunities is now operational. The service is provided by Federal Information Exchange (FEDIX) in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Energy. A consolidated data base of RFPs, grants, fellowships, scholarships, or other funding opportunities from the Departments of Energy, Agriculture, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, and AID, NASA, NIH, EPA, AFOSR, ONR, and DISA will generate an e-mail to subscribers. Registration requires subscribers to outline the type of funding opportunities to be targeted. This process can take up to 30 minutes. To subscribe, go to (note: this long address is case sensitive): and select "Registration." The FEDIX home page is simpler at http://www.fie.com and has an excellent search engine for the funding database as well as useful links to other federal sites. The gopher address is and the telnet address is . Daniel ----------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Minchew minchew@act.org Director ACT * American College Testing 202 223-2318 - Telephone One Dupont Circle, NW, # 340 Washington, DC 20036-1170 202 293-2223 - Fax ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-449. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Sat Mar 23 01:21:27 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 17:15:55 -0600 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.439, Sum: LLBA To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-439. Fri Mar 22 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 97 Subject: 7.439, Sum: LLBA Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dizdar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:46:41 +1300 From: C.H.Rand@massey.ac.nz Subject: LLBA Summary ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:46:41 +1300 From: C.H.Rand@massey.ac.nz Subject: LLBA Summary Hello! I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to Michael Bernstein, Terry Owen, Marianna Pool and Marc Picard, who provided information on a request for information I made last month relative to the availability of LLBA online. "In response to your message of 15 February concerning LLBA on CD-ROM, the Disc, titled LLBA Disc, is available from SilverPlatter Information. You can contact them directly for a free 30 day trial at the following address: SilverPlatter Information 100 River Ridge Drive Norwood, MA 02062-5043 USA (617) 769-2599 (617) 769-8763 fax info@silverplatter.com http://www.silverplatter.com Annual subscription prices for LLBA Disc are as follows: standalone $1095 1 network user $1368 2-4 network users $1642 5-8 network users $2189 9-12 network users $3010 13+ network users $7115 All prices reflect US dollars. I also want to let you know that we are in the process of moving our Web site to a new server and it will not be up and running until early April. You will be able to access it at the same URL: www.socabs.org Sincerely, Terry M. Owen Electronic Products Manager." Internet: socio@cerfnet.com In addition, the following pertaining to LINGUISTICS WORKING PAPERS ABSTRACTS was sent to me by the person named below: "The first issue came out last month (i.e. January 96), and includes almost 200 abstracts, as well as series and ordering information for 20 series. Each issue includes a floppy disk in the back containing all the abstracts in a text file. If you'd like more info, we have a web page at , or the person named below can send details by e-mail." >From Michael Bernstein, Cascadilla Press michael@cascadilla.com Best. Charles Randriamasimanana Linguistics, Massey New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-439. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Fri Mar 29 03:14:53 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:08:47 -0600 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.476, FYI: New Web site, Database system down-time, LG-SHIFT To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-476. Thu Mar 28 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 101 Subject: 7.476, FYI: New Web site, Database system down-time, LG-SHIFT Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:58:57 +0100 From: hartmut@ruc.dk (Hartmut Haberland) Subject: New Web site 2) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:12:30 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: Database system down-time 3) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:12:32 CST From: Evan.Antworth@SIL.ORG (Evan L. Antworth) Subject: LG-SHIFT mailing list ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:58:57 +0100 From: hartmut@ruc.dk (Hartmut Haberland) Subject: New Web site ROLIG papir, the linguistics preprint series of the Department of Languages and Culture at the University of Roskilde, Denmark, has a new Web site: http://babel.ruc.dk/~rolig/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:12:30 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: Database system down-time The NLLIA Database system will be off-line from Friday, March 29th (afternoon) to Monday, April 1 (afternoon), while we install a new version of the database management software. This applies to the telnet version only; the World Wide Web version will still be available. The URL is http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/nllia Please pass this message on. Thanks Peter White and Johanna Lowe, NLLIA Language and Technology Centre peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:12:32 CST From: Evan.Antworth@SIL.ORG (Evan L. Antworth) Subject: LG-SHIFT mailing list LG-SHIFT - Announcing an open, unmoderated forum for all scholars interested in Language Shift and any and all phenomena closely related to it. The International Sociolinguistics Department of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) takes great pleasure in being able to host this forum for scholarly discussion on a topic of great current interest. It is our hope to gather together in lively interaction, linguists, sociolinguists, anthropologists, social psychologists, and any others who can contribute to and profit from the exchange of information. LG-SHIFT is run as an Internet mailing list. To subscribe, send an email message to MAILSERV@SIL.ORG with the following command line only as the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE LG-SHIFT You will receive a welcome file providing further details. Please make this list known to any others who might be interested. For further information or questions contact Paul Lewis (Paul_Lewis@SIL.ORG) the current "list owner". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-476. From INTERCOM@CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU Sun Mar 31 22:08:13 1996 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 96 12:18 -0400 To: "Multiple recipients of INTERCOM" Sender: "INTERCOM hotline" Reply-to: "INTERCOM hotline" From: "CIOS/Comserve Support Staff" Subject: CIOS WEB site now available;forum on grant writing;EIU announcements Errors-To: X-HOTLINEName: INTERCOM X-ID: support56620@CIOS.llc.rpi.edu Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit InterCom: A newsletter of the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship Seven items in this issue: 1. University of Hartford, the Graduate College of West Virginia, and Brooklyn College join CIOS institutional affiliates program 2. CIOS web site now available for public access: http://cios.llc.rpi.edu 3. Annual update to journals index system underway: 10 more titles updated 4. CIOS ComGrads hotline hosts forum on grant writing 5. BU conference on language development 6. 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From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Sat Mar 30 05:45:19 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:39:33 -0600 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.483, FYI: New Web Page (metaphor), East European lg courses To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-483. Fri Mar 29 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 125 Subject: 7.483, FYI: New Web Page (metaphor), East European lg courses Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:51:37 GMT From: kzt@psyc.nott.ac.uk (Zazie Todd) Subject: New Web Page (metaphor) 2) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:34:59 -0400 From: FENYVESI@vms.cis.pitt.edu (ANNA FENYVESI) Subject: East European language courses, summer 1996 ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:51:37 GMT From: kzt@psyc.nott.ac.uk (Zazie Todd) Subject: New Web Page (metaphor) The Metaphor and Metonymy Group at Nottingham has a web page at http://www.psyc.nott.ac.uk/met/metaphor.html As well as information about the group, it includes details of conferences, abstracts of papers, and two documents by Brigitte Nerlich giving an overview of the field. We hope people interested in metaphor and metonymy (from a developmental, diachronic, cognitive, rhetorical etc. perspective) can use our web site to exchange news and views. Zazie Todd Zazie Todd "Ich stapfe durch den Dreck bedeutende Dept of Psychology Metaphern University Park Meta, Meta, Meta fuer meter Nottingham NG7 2RD mit Gesten viel zu breit UK fuer die Interimsliebenden." Tel. 0115 951 5328 (EN) email: kzt@psyc.nott.ac.uk http://www.psyc.nott.ac.uk/met/metaphor.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:34:59 -0400 From: FENYVESI@vms.cis.pitt.edu (ANNA FENYVESI) Subject: East European language courses, summer 1996 Dear LINGUISTS, Please find information concerning summer intensive courses of East European languages offered at the University of Pittsburgh this summer. NB: Please respond to the e-mail address given below, and not to my address (although I can answer questions about the content of the Hungarian course -- all other questions should be directed to the address below.) Thanks! Anna Fenyvesi Dept. of Ling., Univ. of Pittsburgh =============================================== University of Pittsburgh S U M M E R L A N G U A G E I N S T I T U T E S Six-week intensive courses in East-European languages, June 24 - August 2, 1996: - Beginning Bulgarian - Beginning Croatian - Beginning Hungarian - Beginning Romanian - Beginning Ukrainian - Beginning, Intermediate Slovak - Beginning, Intermediate Polish Eight-week intensive Russian program, June 10 - August 2, 1996: - Beginning (1st-year) Russian - Intermediate (2nd-year) Russian - Advanced (3rd-year) Russian - Fourth-year Russian * 5 hours daily, 5 days a week * Air-conditioned dormitory and classrooms * Modern coputer and audio labs * Cultural and social activities Classes are subject to minimum enrollment. A limited number of scholarships is available. Scholarship deadline: April 10, 1996. For information and application materials: Dova Wilson, Coordinator Summer Language Programs Department of Slavic Languages 1417 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (412) 624-5906 slavic+@pitt.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-483. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Tue Apr 2 21:01:21 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:41:46 -0600 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.494, FYI: New Conference List, The Finite String, LSA nominations To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-494. Tue Apr 2 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 137 Subject: 7.494, FYI: New Conference List, The Finite String, LSA nominations Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 14:45:47 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: New Conference List 2) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 15:05:47 EST From: habanero!rws@research.att.com (Richard Sproat) Subject: The Finite String 3) Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 09:08:17 EST From: ZZLSA@gallua.gallaudet.edu Subject: LSA nominations ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 14:45:47 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: New Conference List The April edition of the Conference Schedule: Linguistics and Related Topics, is now available at URL http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/nllia/conf.html This edition now features the 'mailto:' application, allowing readers to mail directly to conference organisers, when they have provided email addresses. If there are any errors, amendments, deletions or additions, please contact me on peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au Peter White Director, NLLIA Language and Technology Centre Centre for Language Teaching and Research The University of Queensland, Qld 4072 Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 15:05:47 EST From: habanero!rws@research.att.com (Richard Sproat) Subject: The Finite String The FINITE STRING is the quarterly newsletter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and is a supplement to the journal Computational Linguistics. The function of the STRING is to provide a forum for advertising events -- especially conferences and workshops - of interest to the ACL community. Starting in 1996, the STRING is published as an html document, available at the ACL website at Columbia University. The URL is: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/finstring.html There is a European mirror at: http://issco-www.unige.ch/eacl/acl/finstring.html Organizers of conferences and workshops that are likely to be of interest to the ACL membership are invited to submit a description of the conference to the STRING. Details on submission are given below. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION The following types of submission are appropriate for the FINITE STRING: - Announcements of meetings of potential interest to the membership of the ACL. - Summaries of research in progress - of particular interest would be perspectives on the activities at a particular institution. - Personal Notes (e.g., honors, moving, changes in status). - Any other items of potential interest to the ACL membership. Submissions must be sent via email to the Finite String editor. No hardcopy submissions will be accepted. Submissions should include the "Subject:" line "Finite String Submission". Particularly welcome will be documents that are already in HTML format. Even more welcome will be short descriptive texts containing a URL link to more complete descriptions elsewhere: for example, a title and short description of a conference or workshop, plus a URL link to the homepage for the meeting. For submissions that are not in HTML format I will perform the following editing operations: Add HTML commands for paragraph and line breaks where appropriate; Add HTML commands for lists where appropriate; Put strings that appear to be section headings into boldface; Add links for all http URLs. Add "mailto" links for all email addresses. Richard Sproat, Editor, FINITE STRING Speech Synthesis Research Department Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Email: rws@research.att.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 09:08:17 EST From: ZZLSA@gallua.gallaudet.edu Subject: LSA nominations The Committee on Committee and Delegate Appointments of the LSA will be nominating members for committee appointments in early May. The names of those who expressed interest in committee assignments last year will be forwarded to the Committee. Your suggestions of additional potential nominees would be most appreciated. Send names by 6 April 1996 at the latest to: LSA Secretariat, 1325 18th St, NW, Suite 211, Washington, DC 20036; zzlsa@gallua.gallaudet.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-494. From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Wed Apr 3 09:15:58 1996 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 21:35:29 PST Reply-To: barlow@crl.ucsd.edu (Michael Barlow) From: barlow@crl.ucsd.edu (Michael Barlow) To: CORPORA@hd.uib.no Subject: MonoConc for Windows -- announcement Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A brief announcement: MonoConc for Windows is a new concordance program released last week. It is designed to be easy to use and yet reasonably powerful. It provides searching, sorting and frequency information. For more details, visit http://www.nol.net/~athel/mono.html. A demo version can be downloaded from this site. If you would like more information, send mail to athel@nol.net. Michael Barlow From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Wed Mar 20 19:20:08 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:41:56 -0600 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.411, Confs: 2nd Colloquium on Deixis, Typology To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-411. Wed Mar 20 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 292 Subject: 7.411, Confs: 2nd Colloquium on Deixis, Typology Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dizdar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar) We'd appreciate your limiting conference announcements to 150 lines, so that we can post more than 1 per issue. Please consider omitting information useful only to attendees, such as information on housing, transportation, or rooms and times of sessions. Thank you for your cooperation. ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:58:53 +0100 From: Laurent.Romary@loria.fr (Laurent Romary) Subject: Reminder - new dates for the 2nd Colloquium on Deixis 2) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:10:04 +0100 From: palek@dec59.ruk.cuni.cz (UVT UK) Subject: LP96 Conf:Typology ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:58:53 +0100 From: Laurent.Romary@loria.fr (Laurent Romary) Subject: Reminder - new dates for the 2nd Colloquium on Deixis Dear all, Following the important strikes which have pertubed many events which were due to take place last December in France, the 2nd Colloquium on Deixis has been rescheduled to the 28,29 and 30 March. You will find the preliminary program, as well as any information related to the colloquium (in particular an elctrnic registration form) at the following web address: http://www.loria.fr/~romary/Deixis/ Looking forward to seeing you in Nancy. _________________________________________________ Laurent Romary Equipe DIALOGUE CRIN-CNRS & INRIA Lorraine Batiment Loria, B.P.239 F-54506 Vandoeuvre Les Nancy Tel : 83 59 20 37 Fax : 83 41 30 79 e-mail: romary@loria.fr http://www.loria.fr/~romary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:10:04 +0100 From: palek@dec59.ruk.cuni.cz (UVT UK) Subject: LP96 Conf:Typology The Department of Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies and The Institute of Phonetic Studies Faculty of Philosophy and Arts Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) under the auspice of the Rector of Charles University Professor JUDr. Karel Maly, DrSc. announce a conference LP'96: Typology: prototypes, items orderings and universals August 20-22 1996 This is the third LP (Linguistics and Phonetics) conference of the two departments within the space of six years. The first conference was held in 1990, the second in 1994. The term "item-order" served as the central theme of the LP'96 Conference. It was used to designate any linguistic unit such as the phone- me, morpheme, syllable, word, word-form, phrase, clause or sen- tence. The primary aim of LP'96 is to contribute to the clari- fication of the role of item order in linguistic typology and its interrelationship with other typological means. Topics will focus among other on following questions: 1) What are the basic building blocks of linguistic types? What parameters differentiate language from other phenomena? The topic includes among other: Biological, genetic and philo- sophical aspects of linguistic universals; function-form appro- ach to typology; the role of comparison of acoustic and percep- tion phenomena in both natural and synthetic speech signals; internal and external phonetic values; kinds of iconicity/ isomorphism/ economy at individual levels of linguistic analysis; markedness of item-orderings (e.g. is it meaningful to differentiate fixed and free word-order according to the dichotomy unmarked-marked?) 2) Which factors are relevant for classification of languages? The topic includes among other: the processses of reduction and clustering of linguistic phenomena; substruction of linguistic properties. 3) What is the foundation of typology as a linguistic discip- line? What kinds of typologies exist? The topic includes among other: traditional typologies (morpho- logical, syntactic, semantic), cognitive typologies (configura- tional vs non-configurational languages, Baker's incorporation, mirror principles, kinds of raising, etc.), classification of typologies (parameters) 4) Is linguistic typology only a theoretical discipline or has it consequences for linguistic application? The topic includes: consequences for language teaching, for linguistic databases, for development of text-editors, for mul- tilingual communication and multimedia in www in contrast with monolingual communication, etc. Organizing Committee: Frantisek Danes (Czech Academy of Sciences) Osamu Fujimura (The Ohio-State University) Laura A. Janda (The University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill) Premysl Janota (Charles University, Prague) Helena Kurzova (Czech Academy of Sciences) Jiri V. Neustupny (Osaka University) Pavel Novak (Charles University, Prague) Bohumil Palek (Charles University, Prague) - chairman Ewa Willim (Jagellonian University, Poland) Keynote speakers: Comrie B. (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) The numeral systems Osamu Fujimura (State University, Ohio) Syllable features and underspecification Ramat Paolo (University of Pavia) On classifying languages Seiler Hansjakob (University of Cologne) On the present state of language universals reseach Shibatani M. (Kobe University, Japan) Voice parameters Special session: Typology and genetic and areal comparison chairmans: K.H.Schmidt and H. Kurzova Session papers: Andor Jozsef (Janus Pannonius University, Pecs) Prototypes and the lexical representation of verbs of jumping Blazek Vaclav (Masaryk University Brno) The ethymological analysis of numerals and its typological implications Boguslawski A. (Warsaw University) Negation raising with want Bourdin Philippe (York University, Toronto) Towards a princip- led reappraisal of the sourse/goal contrast in a crosslinguist- ic perspective Casad G. (University of Northern Carolina at Chapell Hill) Ma- ny Goofs Corver Norbert and Hen van Riemsdijk (Universsity of Amster- dam) The position of the head and the domain of scrambling Cysouw Michael (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) Metagramma- ticalization Dik Bakker (University of Amsterdam) Flexibility, consistency and consequence in word-order patterns Drossard Werner (University of Cologne) Polysythesis and poly- synthetic languages in a comparative perspective Durst-Andersen Per Durst (Copenhagen) Towards a theory of lin- guistic supertypes Eguzkitza Andolina (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) Basque markers of genitive Ehala Martin (Tallinn Pedagogical University) Chance and ne- cessity in word-order typology Gatiatullina, Zaituna (Kazan Pedagogical University) Typological analysis of the lexico-grammatical structures of English and Kazan Tatar Honti L. (University of Gronningen) Zur Frage nach dem zusam- menhang zwischen der Wortfolge und der Abfolge von Suffixen Hoskovec Tomas (Charles University, Prague) Le temps comme ca- tegorie verbale et la reconstruction de l'indoeuropeen Huumo Tuomas (University of Turku) Word order and the inter- pretation of bound domains in existential vs locative structu- res Job Michael (Marburg University) Indoeuropean and Caucasian: genetic and areal aspects) Kirsanov N. (St Petersburg) A language to describe the morpho- logy of artificial and natural languages Koktova E. (Academy of Sciences, Prague) Word order and typo- logy Koptjevskaja Tamm M. (Stockholm University) Possessive Nos and their patterns of polysemy: a cross linguistic study Krasina E. (Moscow University) The dichotomy of unmarked - marked word-order in Russian sentences of characterisation and existence Marion Krause (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena) The inter- action of lexical and prosodic markers of epistemic modality Kurzova Helena (Southbohemian University) Defining Central Eu- ropean Type Kuteva Tania (University of Cologne) Indefinite Articles: Ge- nesis and typology Luraghi Silvia (3rd University of Rome) The typology of null arguments in the Ancient Indo-European languages Nekvapil J. (Charles University, Prague) Item orderings in conversation Novak P, Nebesky L. (Charles University, Prague) Different degrees of word order engagement in syntax Paleeva T.I. Moscow) Iconicity/isomorphism in the accentual structure of word-formation chain in Russian Palek B. (Charles University, Prague) Conceptual frame of item ordering in typology Podlesskaya Vera I. (University of South California) Typology of clause linkage: Grammatical marking in conditional construc- tion Roberts E, Wyn (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Recursion. linear order, and the classification of linguistic units Rylov A., Chizdenko V. (Minsk) Speaker recognition system for a forensic phonetic expertise Sadykova Aida (Kazan Pedagogical University) Typological Stydy of the semantic component of noun composites of two unrelated languages - English and Kazan Tatar Sgall Petr (Charles University, Prague) Foundations of langua- ge types Sabrsula Jan (Ostrava University) Formations pr=E9morphologiques analytiques dans le latin flexionnel Tallerman Magie (Durham ) Item ordering and markedness in Welsh Willim Ewa (Jagellonian University of Cracow) On N movement in Polish NPs Zubkova L.G. (Moscow University) The whole-systemic aproach to the phonological typology of a word APPLICATION FORM Surname: First name: Middle name: Afiliation: Position: Mailing address: Zip: Country: Phone: Fax: E-mail: The title of the submitted paper: Accompanying persons: Conference fee: 60$ (includes Abstracts, Proceedings,refreshments, conference materials) Students: 40$ Accommodation:=20 Prices: Hotel's A*de Luxe from $ 200 up (Diplomat, Forum, Palace, Atrium. etc) Cheaper hotels from $20 up 100$ Student hotels: $ 10-12 (The student hotel appartment's have their own bathrooms. They are usually situated 20 minutes from the downtown, using municipal transport. Transport 6 Crowns) Hotel A* de Luxe have to be booked by travel agencies. Student hotels can be booked by the Organizing Committee. Should you want us to arrange your accommodation, please, contact us immediately. The abstracts of papers will be available at the conference,the deadline for mailing of abstracts is April 30.1996 Programme of the Conference will be distributed at the beginning of June. Updated information concerning LP'96 Programme, accommodation, etc. is at http://www.ruk.cuni.cz/lp96 Contact address: e-mail: palek@ruk.cuni.cz or palek@ff.cuni.cz or by mail: Bohumil Palek Department of Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies 2, Jan Palach Sq., 116 38 Prague 1, Czech Republic phone: (xx422) 24491 524 fax (xx422) 24491588 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-411. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Thu Mar 21 02:16:33 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:08:06 -0600 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.417, FYI: Language Expo '96, NSF Grants, Zhonghua Scholarship To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-417. Wed Mar 20 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 207 Subject: 7.417, FYI: Language Expo '96, NSF Grants, Zhonghua Scholarship Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:23:40 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: Language Expo 1996 2) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:14:49 CST From: Minchew@act.org Subject: NSF Grants for Internet Connections 3) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:32:44 EST From: weiping@cal.org (Weiping Wu) Subject: ZHONGHUA SCHOLARSHIP (3/20/96 UPDATE) ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:23:40 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: Language Expo 1996 NLLIA LANGUAGE EXPO '96 19-21 JULY 1996 BRISBANE CONVENTION & EXHIBITION CENTRE BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA The National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia is pleased to announce that Language Expo '96 now has a World Wide Web page. Its URL is http://203.17.136.22/expo96/lang_expo.html For further details, please contact: Clare MacAdam, NLLIA Language Expo '96 Fauth Royale & Associates P/L, PO Box 895 North Sydney, NSW 2060 Australia Tel: +61 2 9954 4544; Fax: +61 2 9954 4964 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:14:49 CST From: Minchew@act.org Subject: NSF Grants for Internet Connections The National Science Foundation is offering two-year grants to assist K-12 institutions, vocational technical schools, public libraries and museums, post secondary educational institutions, and consortia of such organizations hook up to the Internet. For details contact Mark Luker, NSF, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 1175, Arlington, VA 22230, telephone 703 306-1949, or at mluker@nsf.gov and ask for instructions to submit a proposal for the Internet Connection Grants. Details are also available at web site http://www.cise.nsf.gov/cise/ncri/connect96.html GENERAL INFORMATION: For K-12 institutions, $15,000 grants for innovative technologies for Internet connections. For postsecondary institutions, $20,000 grants to establish initial access for institutions without Internet connections. For consortia to connect small colleges, K-12 institutions, two-year colleges in a novel way, negotiated awards. For high performance network connections, $350,000 grants. DEADLINES: May 15, 1996 and July 31, 1996. Daniel ----------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Minchew minchew@act.org Director ACT * American College Testing 202 223-2318 - Telephone One Dupont Circle, NW, # 340 Washington, DC 20036-1170 202 293-2223 - Fax ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:32:44 EST From: weiping@cal.org (Weiping Wu) Subject: ZHONGHUA SCHOLARSHIP (3/20/96 UPDATE) ZHONGHUA SCHOLARSHIP: UPDATE (3/20/96) This is the last update before the April 1st deadline. Please make sure your cover letter and the Application Form are mailed or faxed before or on April 1. Recommendation letters and other supporting materials can be sent in later, but should be received by WCCEC before April 20th, 1996. Here are some more general answers to questions asked: * MEDICAL INSURANCE: Every recipient is covered from September 1st, 1996 to their departure from China for ordinary and reasonable health related problems. The rules they go by are the regulations governing medical insurance for all foreigners working in the field of education in China. Some recipients may prefer to retain their insurance policy here in the States in case they have a serious problem and have to terminate the program to come back to the States for treatment. Others cancel theirs for the Scholarship period. It is an individual decision and WCCEC is not involved in this issue. * COLLEGE CREDITS: Since this is a scholarship that requires no financial responsibility from U.S. colleges and universities, it depends on the individual school to decide whether or not the credits will be accepted. It is most likely, however, to be exempted from certain courses due to the increase of proficiency in Chinese after living in China for some time. Those who would like to prove their Chinese proficiency to their home school can take a proficiency test through WCCEC, which will also provide an official letter in support of such an effort. * ARRANGEMENTS FOR APPLICANTS WITH DEPENDENTS: Recipients who are married can bring their spouses with them at their own expenses. Housing and medical insurance will be provided by the hosting institution in China, but it is the responsibility of the recipient for extra expenses. Since such expenses may differ from place to place, it is not clear at this stage how much it will be. Spouses who are also native speakers of English, if qualified, are encouraged to apply for the scholarship as well. * LOCATIONS FOR HOSTING INSTITUTIONS IN CHINA: Participating schools for the Zhonghua Scholarship Program are situated near Guangzhou(the capital city of Guangdong Province, about two hours from Hong Kong by train) and Shantou (the 2nd largest city in the province, about 200 miles from Guangzhou). * TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS AND EXPENSES It differs slightly from year to year with regards to the "US departure point". For recipients leaving in September 1996, the departure point will be the city in which the pre-departure orientation is held. Travel expenses from Hong Kong to the hosting school are also paid for. Any fees for local transportation (e.g. from airport to orientation site) and overweight luggage, however, are the responsibility of the individual. Those short-listed candidates who have difficulty paying the $500 registration fee for the Orientation should contact WCCEC to discuss the issue. * NOTE: Topics covered in the previous updates include the following: PROFILE FOR PAST RECIPIENTS; ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY; ORIENTATION PROGRAM; NUMBER OF RECIPIENTS AT ONE SITE; PROGRAM A OR B; TEACHING VS STUDY; LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION. For those who missed the first announcement and all the previous updates, please contact WCCEC for more information. ======= Attached: ZHONGHUA SCHOLARSHIP (Description) ======= Jointly established by the Cross-Culture Education Center of Washington (WCCEC) and educational institutions both in China and the United States, the scholarship is open to all native speakers of English who are interested in various aspects of China and the Chinese language. Through both of its programs (Program A: one-year; Program B: one-semester), the scholarship offers an opportunity to study Chinese or conduct a related research in China, to teach English in China and to travel in China. Every recipient is provided with round trip travel expenses from the U.S. departure point to the hosting institution in China, room and board, medical insurance as well as a monthly stipend that equals to the monthly salary of a university professor in the local area. The deadline for application is April 1st for both programs (Program A: 9/96-7/97; Program B: 9/96-2/97) but early application is encouraged. For more information, please contact: Dr. Weiping Wu, Program Director WCCEC, 9709 Kings Crown Court, #201 Fairfax, VA 22031, U.S.A. Fax:(703)934-8855; Email:weiping@cal.org ======================== End of Message ========================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-417. From lcarlson Tue Apr 9 17:00:06 1996 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 16:59:26 +0300 From: Lauri Carlson To: 100340.2435@compuserve.com In-reply-to: <960409113024_100340.2435_EHQ43-1@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Re: [lcarlson: Re: Eagles Final Report] CC: tk-kaikki X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Monika, In the course of processing your report, I came across some quite nice freeware tools for doing latex and postscript in Windows 95. What is needed is a (la)tex interpreter, optionally a dvi viewer, a dvi to postscript converter, and optionally a postscript interpreter and viewer. With the postscript interpreter you can print postscript files on a non-postscript printer and with the viewer you don't even have to print them, or you can print just selected pages, or extract the text. What you do is you edit your latex file in your text editor, run it through (la)tex to produce a .dvi file, look at that using dvi viewer, convert dvi to ps using dvips, look at the ps file with ghostview, and print it when done. Slow and complicated compared to WinWord but research people have time. The packages are miktex - (la)tex interpreter - dvips converter dviwin - dvi viewer gsview - ghostscript ps interpreter - ghostscript ps viewer After each change to the latex source file, I run latex and dvips in a batch and look at the result with gsview. I have set it up so that I can simply drop files into program icons. It all works more conveniently than I was used to in Unix. Louis des Tombe mentioned an alternative (la)tex package called emtex; I tried that first but it was nasty to install. miktex and gsview in particular were easy in comparison; gsview even had a Windows setup program. Good places to look are ftp.tex.ac.uk/ctan/tex-archive/systems and ftp.cs.wisc.edu. Greetings Lauri From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Wed Apr 10 18:47:37 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 09:32:45 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.524, FYI: PAMLA deadline, New list, Teaching materials To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-524. Wed Apr 10 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 175 Subject: 7.524, FYI: PAMLA deadline, New list, Teaching materials Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dseely@emunix.emich.edu (T. Daniel Seely) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 14:49:48 PST From: tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu (Thomas F. Shannon) Subject: PAMLA deadline extended 2) Date: 03 Apr 1996 18:27:06 CST From: TWRIGHT@ACCDVM.ACCD.EDU Subject: GB2MP 3) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 18:15:06 +0100 From: Chris.Brew@ed.ac.uk (Chris Brew) Subject: HPSG and ALE teaching materials ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 14:49:48 PST From: tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu (Thomas F. Shannon) Subject: PAMLA deadline extended Dear colleagues, As organizer of the Linguistics Session at this year's PAMLA meeting, I'm writing to let you know that I'm extending the original April 1 deadline for abstracts to accommodate (& encourage!) late submissions. The 1996 meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (formerly Philological Association of the Pacific Coast) will be held November 8-10 at UC Irvine. While the conference is mainly devoted to literature, there are sessions devoted to other topics, including ours on Linguistics. It's also a nice opportunity to meet colleagues in foreign languages from around California & the West Coast. Presentors must be PAMLA members by May 1 (dues are $20 per annum). If you are interested in making a presentation, please send me a brief abstract (50-100 words) ASAP. Since Linguistics usually comes up short at such meetings, support from linguists in language and linguistics departments would be especially appreciated. If you can't submit an abstract, please consider attending. Please also pass the word along to colleagues. Thanks in advance for your support. Best wishes Thomas F. Shannon Presiding Officer, Linguistics Session, 1996 PAMLA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thomas F. Shannon |Email: tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu Professsor of Germanic |Home phone: 1-707-745-4403 Linguistics & Dutch Studies |Dept. phone: 1-510-642-7445 Department of German |Office phone:1-510-642-2004 5317 Dwinelle Hall |Office Fax: 1-510-642-3243 University of California |Home Fax: 1-707-747-1453 Berkeley, CA 94720-3243 USA | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: 03 Apr 1996 18:27:06 CST From: TWRIGHT@ACCDVM.ACCD.EDU Subject: GB2MP ANNOUNCEMENT-GB2MP There's a new forum on line for Chomskyan syntax! GB2MP is a discussion list for issues in Chomskyan syntax of approximately the last fifteen years. Topics include issues from Government-Binding Theory to the Minimalist Program (hence the name), and everything Chomskyan and syntactic in between. Issues in morphology and semantics, as they relate to syntax, are also welcome. To sign on to GB2MP, send this message: subscribe gb2mp your-address (your name, optional) (NOTE: If you do include your name in this message, it *must* appear in parentheses, as shown, or mail delivery problems will result.) to this address: majordomo@colmex.mx (NOTE: majordomo is case-sensitive about the list name; gb2mp should be in all lower case.) Or, if you prefer to receive messages in digest form (all the postings from each day rounded up into a single message), subscribe with the following command to the majordomo address: subscribe gb2mp-digest your-address (your-name, optional) For more information, contact the moderators: Marianna Pool Tony Wright David Gohre And please help us spread the word about GB2MP to colleagues. Thanks! Tony Wright St. Philip's College San Antonio, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 18:15:06 +0100 From: Chris.Brew@ed.ac.uk (Chris Brew) Subject: HPSG and ALE teaching materials HPSG Grammars in ALE The Language Technology Group of the Human Communication Research centre is pleased to announce the release of teaching materials for HPSG grammars under Bob Carpenter's ALE formalism. A hypertext version of the document can be found at: with the sample grammars at: and LaTeX and Postscript source in: The material has been class tested and proved successful, both at masters level and in an intensive 3-day course. The main author is Colin Matheson, with substantial contributions from Suresh Manandhar and Claire Grover. The has been prepared with the aid of funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee's New Technology Initiative, under the project ``Tools for Language Education'' Alternate versions are also available on request from Colin.Matheson@ed.ac.uk. The hyperlinked version is usually the most convenient (the document is over 100 pages). We expect to be updating this document a little more in the coming weeks. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Email: Chris.Brew@edinburgh.ac.uk Address: Language Technology Group, HCRC, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland Telephone: +44 131 650 4631 Fax: +44 131 650 4587 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-524. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Thu Apr 11 10:00:54 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:00:06 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.532, Sum: Phonology software To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-532. Wed Apr 10 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 72 Subject: 7.532, Sum: Phonology software Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dizdar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 22:14:13 BST From: jacobson@msh-paris.fr (Michel JACOBSON) Subject: Summary: Phonology Softwares ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 22:14:13 BST From: jacobson@msh-paris.fr (Michel JACOBSON) Subject: Summary: Phonology Softwares Hello, All: Recently (two weeks ago) I posted a query on "Phonology softwares". I asked people to let me know if projects on automatic phonologic analyses have already been developped or are intend to be. I receved 6 answers. I thank all of them who respond to me. softwares: "FindPhone" program (for MS-DOS) developed by David Bevan, and produced by the SIL, seem to be similar to my project. FindPhone version 6.0 is available for US$38.00 from International Computer Services email: computer_sales_jaars@sil.org "LinguaLinks" is a new sil project which include phonology tools. More informations on the sil WWW site. WEB site: In sum the WEB site the most favorite seem to be the SIL WWW site http: www.sil.org. Everybody are agreed about this. No other site are mentioned but the sil WEB site contains links to others sites like EIDENBOURG university ... Books: One of you told me to take a look to MacWhinney, B. (1991). The CHILDES Project: Tools for analyzing talk. Lawrence Erlbaum. Thank you for your help, and tell me if you know something more or new about phonology softwares. Michel. Jacobson 6, rue Paul BERT 92000 Nanterre, France e-mail: jacobson@msh-paris.fr tel: 33 1 47 24 55 05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-532. From gb2mp-comite@colmex.mx Thu Apr 11 22:08:00 1996 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 12:31:03 -0600 From: owner-gb2mp-digest@colmex.mx To: gb2mp-digest@jupiter.colmex.mx Subject: gb2mp-digest V1 #8 Reply-To: gb2mp@colmex.mx Errors-To: owner-gb2mp-digest@colmex.mx Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit gb2mp-digest Thursday, 11 April 1996 Volume 01 : Number 008 Today's topics: GB2MP: Progress Report ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: twright@accdvm.accd.edu (Tony Wright) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:29:01 -0600 Subject: GB2MP: Progress Report I would like to greet all of the new subscribers we have had in the last two days (our membership must be climbing around 170 by now). GB2MP is a brand-new list, and this is our fourth day of regular operations. Hence, the traffic of mail is understandably light at this point. New members may not be aware of our Web-browseable archives where they can access what they missed from the beginning of the week. There isn't a lot there yet, of course, but there are a few linguistically-substantive posts there already: http://www.entmp.org/cgi-bin/lwgate/GB2MP/ and within that, the archive is: http://www.entmp.org/cgi-bin/lwgate/GB2MP/archives/ Welcome to GB2MP! - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Wright St. Philip's College San Antonio, Texas, USA ------------------------------ End of gb2mp-digest V1 #8 ************************* From fkarlsso@ling.helsinki.fi Tue Apr 16 23:14:27 1996 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:14:25 +0300 From: Fred Karlsson To: kkoskenn@ling.helsinki.fi, avoutila@ling.helsinki.fi, tapanain@ling.helsinki.fi, kpitkane@ling.helsinki.fi, tjarvine@ling.helsinki.fi, tlahtine@ling.helsinki.fi, jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi, klinden@ling.helsinki.fi, salmisuo@ling.helsinki.fi Subject: [vincew@cse.ogi.edu: announcement of the HLT Survey] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 96 12:18 PDT From: vincew@cse.ogi.edu (Vince Weatherill) To: whw@cs.cmu.edu, melvyn@dragon.co.uk, roukos@watson.ibm.com, furui@speech-sun.NTT.JP, Richard.Stern@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU, pprice@speech.sri.com, demori@cs.mcgill.ca, demori@univ-avignon.fr, casey@almaden.ibm.com, srihari@cedar.buffalo.edu, abelaid@loria.fr, cfaure@sig.enst.fr, isabelle@neural.att.com, ha03@music.mus.polymtl.ca, pereira@research.att.com, antonio@sharp.co.uk, fkarlsso@ling.Helsinki.FI, briscoe@xerox.fr, sgp@cam.sri.com, hovy@ISI.EDU, vannoord@let.rug.nl, bateman@darmstadt.gmd.de, sagisaka@itl.atr.co.jp, rws@research.att.com, kathy@cs.columbia.edu, cda@limsi.fr, giachin@cselt.stet.it, Donia.Scott@it-research-institute.brighton.ac.uk, pcohen@ai.sri.com, hans@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de, halvorsen@parc.xerox.com, harman@magi.ncsl.nist.gov, pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu, sparckjones@cl.cam.ac.uk, rda@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, yeshwant@csc.ti.com, kay@xerox.com, Christian.Boitet@imag.fr, fluhr@surcouf.saclay.cea.fr, awh+@speechl.cs.cmu.edu, jlf@caip.rutgers.edu, wahlster@dfki.uni-sb.de, benoit@icp.grenet.fr, goldsche@blues.mml.mmc.com, ligozat@limsi.fr, benoit@icp.grenet.fr, bellik@limsi.fr, Dirk.VanCompernolle@esat.kuleuven.ac.be, imt@inesc.pt, bsa@research.att.com, bourlard@brussels.lhs.be, Ronald_Kaplan.PARC@xerox.com, joshi@linc.cis.upenn.edu, sel@research.att.com, makhoul@bbn.com, lamel@limsi.fr, jgodfrey@unagi.cis.upenn.edu, grishman@grimm.cs.nyu.edu, ejerhed@ling.umu.se, GLOTTOLO@vm.cnuce.cnr.it, oviatt@ai.sri.com, dave@jaguar.ncsl.nist.gov, lynette@linus.mitre.org, black@as36.itl.atr.co.jp, J.HUTCHINS@uea.ac.uk, pols@fon.let.uva.nl, sundheim@cod.nosc.mil, king@divsun.unige.ch, kanaij@lazy.ISRI.UNLV.EDU, hjms@izf.tno.nl CC: ec-nsf-survey@cse.ogi.edu Subject: announcement of the HLT Survey X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Great Book Authors, The following announcement of the HLT Survey has been posted to various newsgroups. Will you please post the announcement at your institution. Thanks and best wishes, Ron A book entitled "Survey of the State of the Art of Human Language Technology" is now available at http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/HLTsurvey/ . The survey consists of articles by 97 authors in the following chapters: 1. Spoken Language Input 2. Written Language Input 3. Language Analysis and Understanding 4. Language Generation 5. Spoken Output Technologies 6. Discourse and Dialogue 7. Document Processing 8. Multilinguality 9. Multimodality 10. Transmission and Storage 11. Mathematical Methods 12. Language Resources 13. Evaluation Within a few months, the Survey will be published as a book by Giardini Publishers in Italy and by Cambridge University Press elsewhere. The electronic version of the Survey will remain on-line, but will be modified slightly based on copy-editing by the publishers. The Survey was funded by the National Science Foundation and the European Commission, with additional support provided by the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at the Oregon Graduate Institute and the University of Pisa. Enjoy! Editorial Board Ron Cole Editor-in-Chief Joseph Mariani Hans Uszkoreit Annie Zaenen Victor Zue Managing Editors Giovanni Battista Varile Antonio Zampolli ------- End of forwarded message ------- Lisää listalle http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt/japangloss.html *********************************************** From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Mon Apr 22 20:41:42 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:38:51 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.595, FYI: LATTICE lang links, On-line directory of ling confs To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-595. Mon Apr 22 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 90 Subject: 7.595, FYI: LATTICE lang links, On-line directory of ling confs Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dizdar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 15:11:25 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: Updated language links 2) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:25:18 CDT From: michael@cascadilla.com (Michael Bernstein) Subject: On-line directory of linguistics conference proceedings ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 15:11:25 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: Updated language links The LATTICE Language Links pages have been updated. Dead URLS have been removed, and new sites added (these are marked with a 'new' gif.) The URL for this site is: http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/nllia/nllia_db/langlink.htm Or, you can also access it via URL http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/nllia and then select the language links link. There are over 300 sites listed and cover a wide range of languages, and includes listings for linguistics, applied linguistics, literacy, and other related sites of interest to the language-oriented web user. Peter White peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:25:18 CDT From: michael@cascadilla.com (Michael Bernstein) Subject: On-line directory of linguistics conference proceedings We are creating an on-line directory of linguistics conference proceedings on our web site, as a public resource. It is in the early building stages, and contains information on just a couple of proceedings to provide an example of the information we are looking for. The web address is: http://www.cascadilla.com/proceedings.html If you have information on a conference proceedings, please send the info to proceedings@cascadilla.com. For each proceedings, we are looking for the title, editors, date and location of the conference, publisher of the proceedings, and if possible a table of contents (as a text file or via e-mail). We are not looking for information on edited collections of papers which originated in conferences. Those books are adequately cataloged elsewhere. We are looking for actual proceedings, where the papers are basically the same as the talks that were given at the conference itself. We will be adding information to the directory as it comes in, and we'll post an announcement to the Linguist list once the directory is larger and has become a true resource. We also expect to add a search engine to the directory in the coming weeks. Yours, Michael Bernstein Cascadilla Press michael@cascadilla.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-595. From suihkone@ling.helsinki.fi Wed Apr 24 22:24:10 1996 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:54:24 +0300 From: Pirkko Suihkonen To: kpitkane@ling.helsinki.fi cc: ptapanai.suihkone@utrio.helsinki.fi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hei! Tässä www-osoite, josta pitäisi löytyä Kohosen ryhmän töitä: http://websom.hut.fi/websom/ Terv. Pirkko From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Wed May 8 20:26:18 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 07:25:25 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.672, FYI: Web Page, Survey, Job closing date To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-672. Wed May 8 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 117 Subject: 7.672, FYI: Web Page, Survey, Job closing date Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dseely@emunix.emich.edu (T. Daniel Seely) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 15:20:29 EDT From: donna@cal.org (Donna Christian) Subject: Center for Applied Linguistics WWW 2) Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 15:45:54 BST From: mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk (Mike Fraser) Subject: The British National Corpus Survey: An Edited Letter from Lou Burnard 3) Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 11:08:12 PDT From: jejoseph@hkucc.hku.hk ("J. E. Joseph") Subject: U of Hong Kong job: Closing date ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 15:20:29 EDT From: donna@cal.org (Donna Christian) Subject: Center for Applied Linguistics WWW The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is pleased to announce its presence on the World Wide Web. Our Web site offers information about CAL's research, services, databases, publications, and multimedia products. Our site also houses home pages for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics (ERIC/CLL), and the National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE). Keyword searching and a "What's New" page are provided to make it easy to find the latest and most important information you're seeking. We hope you'll visit us soon at our new address! ******************************************************* * The Center for Applied Linguistics can be visited * * on the World Wide Web at * * http://www.cal.org * ******************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 15:45:54 BST From: mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk (Mike Fraser) Subject: The British National Corpus Survey: An Edited Letter from Lou Burnard The BNC Survey at http://www.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/bnc/ Dear Colleagues I am writing to ask your help in completing a brief survey which is addressed to European academics and researchers. Completing the survey should not take you more than a few minutes, and will enable us to take your views into account when deciding how best to make a major new teaching and learning resource available to the higher education community. The BNC has received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to seek feedback on how the BNC might be most effectively made available. The management of the survey is being undertaken by CTI Textual Studies. The BNC is a 100 million word annotated corpus of modern British English, containing 4124 extracts from a very wide range of texts, spoken and written, formal and informal, highbrow and lowbrow. It was designed to reflect as many as possible of the thousands of varieties of English language used and produced in Great Britain during the nineties. It is a very large computer-held resource which can be searched and manipulated in many ways to provide a unique perspective on the state of the language today. If you are unfamiliar with the BNC, then before completing the questionnaire you can find out more information about the BNC's production, contents, and distribution, by browsing the BNC web pages at http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/. If you have any additional comments or queries about the BNC, please send e-mail to natcorp@oucs.ox.ac.uk The questionnaire itself is located at http://www.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/service/bnc/ We hope to complete this survey by the end of May 1996, so we would be grateful if you could complete the survey before 20th May 1996. A report summarizing the findings of the survey should be available by July. Your help in responding to the survey is much appreciated. Yours sincerely Lou Burnard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 11:08:12 PDT From: jejoseph@hkucc.hku.hk ("J. E. Joseph") Subject: U of Hong Kong job: Closing date The announcement for the Directorship of the Language Centre of the University of Hong Kong which was posted last week did not include the closing date. It is June 28, 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-672. From majordom@nucleus.nectec.or.th Wed May 22 16:29:39 1996 Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 19:40:12 +0700 (GMT+0700) From: Gwyn Williams To: nlpasia-l@nucleus.nectec.or.th Subject: FYI: Grammar (fwd) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-nlpasia-l@nucleus.nectec.or.th Precedence: bulk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-719. Tue May 21 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 279 [...] 4) Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 23:01:49 PDT From: stygall@u.washington.edu (Gail Stygall) Subject: SGML Grammar Grapher I am posting for a colleague who is not a member of the LINGUIST list. All responses and questions should be directed to his address below. Thanks! Gail Stygall SYNTEXT is an SGML DTD providing elements and attributes to mark up text in English for - syntactic structure, including o X-bar based parsing, with Government and Binding-style PRO and "t" o grammatical relations a la Quirk et al. marked as attributes - cohesion - coreference - conjunctive relations as attributes of sentence specifiers - lexical cohesion as attributes of lexical items - rhetorical figures Any text marked up for these features and identifying itself as DOCTYPE SYNTEXT is an SGML document and can be browsed in a SGML browser or viewer such as SoftQuad's free Windows browser Panorama or the costwish viewer for X Window being developed by Peter Murray-Rust. SYNTEXT is an SGML application. It provides markup for the analysis of syntactic and textual structure; a marked up text can be viewed in tree and other modes and can be searched with context sensitive and contingent scans, making it very powerful for stylistic analysis (once a passage is marked up!) The DTD is easily modifiable and can be very useful as a test bed for rule writing in syntax courses. The X Window version can use Nick Ing-Simmons' Text To Speech synthesizer rsynth to speak any word, phrase, or sentence displayed by clicking on it. The X/costwish version can display nodes by catgory name, content, or grammatical relations. The SYNTEXT Home Page is at http://weber.u.washington.edu/~syntext Documentation and packages including sample marked up texts can be found there. This is a new program, very alpha. I would be delighted to get more samples, or critique/improvements of the rules. George L. Dillon (dillon@u.washington.edu) 16 May 1996 ______________________________________________________________________________ Gail Stygall (206) 685-2384 Editor, _CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric_ English, Box 354330, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-4330 ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 19:35:52 EDT From: royfcoch@clark.net ("Roy F. Cochrun") Subject: May Language Conference List Update The language conference list located on the WWW at URL http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html has been updated with over 100 changes since the mid-April edition. Half of the changes are new listings. The other half primarily consist of changes to the information source or URL link. I also tried to make the list more readable for those whose browsers do not include graphics for one reason or another. Feedback on this feature would be appreciated, as I have not yet obtained a non-graphical browser with which to test it. The list includes conferences for anyone interested in any aspect of natural language: linguists, translators, interpreters, teachers of languages (even one's own native language to native speakers, such as English in American high schools), those who are involved in natural language processing, et al. As usual, changes, updates, corrections or comments via e-mail to royfcoch@clark.net, please. --Roy Cochrun Roy's Russian Resource: http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/roy1page.html Language Conferences: http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-719. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Wed May 29 19:15:10 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:55:12 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.781, FYI: Corpus Wizard, Research position, Mirror site To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-781. Wed May 29 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 117 Subject: 7.781, FYI: Corpus Wizard, Research position, Mirror site Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dseely@emunix.emich.edu (T. Daniel Seely) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 00:23:02 +0900 From: NED30616@pcvan.or.jp (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCSU04fSEhP3IbKEI=?=) Subject: Corpus Wizard is on the Web 2) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 16:39:47 GMT From: mf.mctear@ulst.ac.uk (Professor Michael McTear) Subject: Postgraduate Research in Dialogue Systems at The University of Ulster 3) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:10:35 +0200 From: katz@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (Graham Katz) Subject: LINGUIST on the WWW in Europe ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 00:23:02 +0900 From: NED30616@pcvan.or.jp (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCSU04fSEhP3IbKEI=?=) Subject: Corpus Wizard is on the Web Corpus Wizard for Win16/Win32(Enhanced Text Find Utilities, Concordancers) and WC&FREQ for Win32 are available on the web. I have made my English home page for those who cannot read Japanese messages. http://www2.meshnet.or.jp/~htakashi/index.html (English) http://www2.meshnet.or.jp/~htakashi/indexj.html (Japanese) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 16:39:47 GMT From: mf.mctear@ulst.ac.uk (Professor Michael McTear) Subject: Postgraduate Research in Dialogue Systems at The University of Ulster Postgraduate Research in Dialogue Systems at The University of Ulster PhD applications are invited from good Honours graduates with a background in computational linguistics, ideally also in the pragmatics of dialogic interaction, to conduct research into the dialogue management component of (spoken) dialogue systems. A studentship may be available for a suitably qualified applicant for a 3-year period, starting in autumn 1996. A CV detailing relevant experience and research interests should be sent to: Professor Michael McTear School of Information and Software Engineering University of Ulster Shore Road Newtownabbey BT37 0QB Northern Ireland Tel: +44 1232 368166 FAX: +44 1232 366068 http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/staff/MF.McTear >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Professor Michael McTear School of Information and Software Engineering University of Ulster Shore Road Newtownabbey BT37 0QB Northern Ireland Tel: +44 1232 368166 FAX: +44 1232 366068 http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/staff/MF.McTear ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:10:35 +0200 From: katz@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (Graham Katz) Subject: LINGUIST on the WWW in Europe I would like to announce the existence of a LINGUIST Mirror Site in Germany. The complete contents of the LINGUIST network, including the most recent LINGUIST postings, is now available at the following address: http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/ It is hoped that European readers of LINGUIST will find this site more convenient to use (and faster) than the Eastern Michigan home site. The mirror site is supported by the Seminar fuer Sprachwissenshaft at the University of Tuebingen. Graham Katz Gradiuertenkolleg ILS Seminar fuer Sprachwissenshaft Universitaet Tuebingen katz@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-781. From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Mon Jun 3 20:17:34 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Mon, 3 Jun 1996 18:24:08 +0200 Old-Received: from mercury.bton.ac.uk (mercury.bton.ac.uk [192.173.128.39]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA14610 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 18:28:52 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: from alpha2.bton.ac.uk by mercury.bton.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:26:59 +0100 Old-Received: by alpha2.bton.ac.uk; (5.65/1.1.8.2/28Jul95-0212PM) id AA32570; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:28:38 +0100 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:28:38 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: Raphael Salkie From: Raphael Salkie To: CORPORA@hd.uib.no Subject: Parallel corpus Web site Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 18:24:10 +0200 INTERSECT, a parallel corpus project at the University of Brighton, England, now has a Web site. The URL is: http://bmserver.bus.bton.ac.uk/FormatGraphical-Normal/BusSchool/Research/LangCent/Intersect.html or on two lines: http://bmserver.bus.bton.ac.uk/FormatGraphical-Normal/BusSchool/ Research/LangCent/Intersect.html [If you copy and paste the two-line version of the URL you will have to delete the carriage return after BusSchool/. Sorry about this: my University seems to use mammoth URLs]. Please send comments and news of similar projects to me. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Raphael Salkie, Tel: (+44) 01273 643335 The Language Centre, Tel: (+44) 01273 643337 University of Brighton Tel: (+44) 01273 600900 Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH England. Fax: (+44) 01273 690710 Email: r.m.salkie@brighton.ac.uk @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ From gb2mp-comite@colmex.mx Sat Jun 1 01:15:32 1996 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 15:48:13 -0600 From: owner-gb2mp-digest@colmex.mx To: gb2mp-digest@jupiter.colmex.mx Subject: gb2mp-digest V1 #31 Reply-To: gb2mp@colmex.mx Errors-To: owner-gb2mp-digest@colmex.mx Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit gb2mp-digest Friday, 31 May 1996 Volume 01 : Number 031 Today's topics: GB2MP: Web-browseable Archives ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: twright@accdvm.accd.edu (Tony Wright) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 09:54:24 -0600 Subject: GB2MP: Web-browseable Archives Since this list has grown since the last time we announced this, I just wanted to remind everyone of our Web-browseable archives: http://www.entmp.org/cgi-bin/lwgate/GB2MP/archives/ Thanks again to James Tauber, who set this up for us. This list is only two months old, so there isn't an overwhelming amount of stuff in the archives yet, but there is some interesting material to look at already. Have a look, and see if anything sparks your interest enough to write a response to (hint, hint). - --Tony Wright (twright@accdvm.accd.edu) ------------------------------ End of gb2mp-digest V1 #31 ************************** From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Sat Jun 1 01:44:45 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 17:13:42 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.802, FYI: Multilingual Evaluation Tool To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-802. Fri May 31 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 164 Subject: 7.802, FYI: Multilingual Evaluation Tool Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 11:32:46 BST From: balka@llsun10.essex.ac.uk (Balkan L) Subject: Multilingual Evaluation Tool ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 11:32:46 BST From: balka@llsun10.essex.ac.uk (Balkan L) Subject: Multilingual Evaluation Tool Multilingual Evaluation Tool We would like to draw your attention to a multilingual evaluation tool that is now available. It consists of a database of test suites for English, French and German that have been constructed for evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems, but which may be useful for other purposes. The database consists of over 14,000 examples in English, French and German, which have been very systematically constructed with detailed annotations about various grammatical and other information. The test suites, support software, user documentation, and background documentation are available free from: http://tsnlp.dfki.uni-sb.de/tsnlp/ (WWW) tsnlp.dfki.uni-sb.de/tsnlp/ (anonymous ftp) They have been produced by the University of Essex (UK), ISSCO (Switzerland), Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) (Germany), and Aerospatiale (France) as part of LRE Project 62-089, Test Suites for Natural Language Processing (TSNLP). Here is a short report on the project, including some more information. Lorna Balkan, University of Essex ---------------------------------------------------------------- LRE Project 62-089 Test Suites for Natural Language Processing (TSNLP) TSNLP has resulted in a database of test suites in 3 languages, English, French and German with over 4000 test items in each language. The test items illustrate central syntactic phenomena and are relevant to any developer or user of systems with grammar components who wish to test, benchmark or evaluate those systems. The data have been validated in a testing phase. The project was coordinated by the University of Essex, with partners in Switzerland, France and Germany as follows: University of Essex, CL/MT Group, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, C04 3SQ, UK. Contact person: Lorna Balkan, Tel: (44) 1206 872092 Fax: (44) 1206 872085, email: balka@essex.ac.uk ISSCO, University of Geneva, CH - 1227 Geneva, Switzerland. Contact person: Sabine Lehmann, Tel. +41 22 705 79 33, Fax. +41 22 300 10 86, email: Sabine.Lehmann@issco.unige.ch Aerospatiale, Centre commun de recherches Louis-Bleriot, Departement Information-Documentation, 12, Rue Pasteur BP 76, 92152 Suresnes Cedex, France. Contact person: Sylvie Regnier-Prost, Tel: +33 1 46 97 3061 Fax: +33 1 46 97 3518, email: sylvie.regnier@siege.aerospatiale.fr Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Computational Linguistics Department, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken (Germany) Contact persons: Klaus Netter, Stephan Oepen, Tel +49 681 302 52 82 Fax: +49 681 302 53 41, email: {netter|oe}@cl.dfki.uni-sb.de Major project results are documented in a user manual, which provides a description of the test data, the methodology which underlies their construction, and the tools which were developed in the project to aid test suite construction and use. The user manual is available in three volumes: Volume1: Background, methodology, customisation and testing A description of the background to TSNLP, the methodology that underlies the TSNLP data, how the data can be customised, and how the data was used in practice to test a grammar checker. Volume 2:Core Test suite technology: A description of the annotation scheme on which the data is constructed, plus a description of the database (ANSI C and Access), and the test suite construction tool Volume 2b:Test suite technology: A description of the automatic test suite generation tool, and the lexical replacement tool Volume 3:Test Data documentation A detailed description of the data in the database. TSNLP results are being made available free of charge to the academic and industrial community, in order that they might be widely used and accepted as an evaluation tool. Users are encouraged to report back any comments or criticisms. They are also encouraged to offer any extensions they make for inclusion in possible future releases of the database. The consortium is also happy to discuss producing customised test suites for specific users, at a cost to be arranged, and developing some of the construction tools. TSNLP test data, software, and reports, including the user manual, are available from the coordinator or via the following ftp and www address: FTP access: anonymous@tsnlp.dfki.uni-sb.de/tsnlp/ World Wide Web Access: http://tsnlp.dfki.uni-sb.de/tsnlp/ Contact point: Lorna Balkan, CL/MT Group, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, C04 3SQ UK Tel: (44) 1206 872092 Fax: (44) 1206 872085 Email: balka@essex.ac.uk Project results will also shortly be available from the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) at the following address: Tel. +33 1 45 86 53 00 Fax. +33 1 45 86 44 88 87, Avenue D'ITALIE, 75013 PARIS Email: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr Web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-802. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Sat Jun 1 01:48:32 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 17:07:43 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.801, FYI: New Conference List, New Release from the LDC To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-801. Fri May 31 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 107 Subject: 7.801, FYI: New Conference List, New Release from the LDC Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 13:42:59 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: New Conference List 2) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:30:51 EDT From: ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (LDC Office) Subject: New Release from the LDC ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 13:42:59 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: New Conference List The June version of the NLLIA's Conference List is now available at URL http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/nllia/conf.html We appreciate all the input we've received from readers who have pointed out errors, and provided new conference information. If you know of a relevant conference for this list, please email me on the address below. Thanks Peter White peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:30:51 EDT From: ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (LDC Office) Subject: New Release from the LDC Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus Far Field Microphone Recordings FFMTIMIT The FFMTIMIT corpus contains the previously-unreleased secondary microphone waveforms for the TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech corpus. The primary microphone waveforms, which were recorded using a close-talking noise-cancelling head-mounted Sennheiser microphone (model HMD-414), are available from the LDC on NIST Speech Disc 1-1.1 (LDC93S1). The secondary microphone used in the recording of the TIMIT corpus was a Breul & Kjaer 1/2" free-field microphone (model 4165). While the Sennheiser microphone recordings are relatively "clean" with respect to non-speech noise, the FFMTIMIT recordings includes significant low frequency noise, which was due to the HVAC system and mechanical vibration transmitted through the floor of the double-walled sound booth used in recording. Because it is noiser than its TIMIT counterpart, the data of FFMTIMIT may be used in the development of more noise-robust speech recognition systems. In addition, this data may be of value to researchers involved in vocal tract modeling because the B&K microphone has extremely flat free-field frequency response and calibration tones are provided. Note that the B&K TIMIT data contained with this release has not been processed through any highpass filter, (e.g., the 1581-point filter described in the paper "The DARPA Speech Recognition Research Database" by Fisher, Doddington and Goudie-Marshall in "DARPA TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus CD-ROM," NISTIR 4930 / NTIS Order No. PB93- 173938.) Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1996 Membership Year will be able to receive FFMTIMIT at no additional charge, in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Nonmembers can receive a copy of FFMTIMIT for research purposes only for a fee of $100. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc. Information is also available via ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under pub/ldc; for ftp access, please use "anonymous" as your login name, and give your email address when asked for password. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-801. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Sun Jun 2 16:26:18 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 08:24:52 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.808, FYI: on-line resources, Web Address for Pragmatics Conf To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-808. Sun Jun 2 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 80 Subject: 7.808, FYI: on-line resources, Web Address for Pragmatics Conf Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dseely@emunix.emich.edu (T. Daniel Seely) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:36:27 BST From: kitao@unix.lancs.ac.uk (KENJI KITAO) Subject: update of on-line resources 2) Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 11:27:48 -0800 From: ervintr1@violet.berkeley.edu (Susan Ervin-Tripp) Subject: Web Address for Pragmatics Conference Program ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:36:27 BST From: kitao@unix.lancs.ac.uk (KENJI KITAO) Subject: update of on-line resources First Update of On-Line Resources for ELT and Linguistics We made an announcement of the above resource, and many people showed interest. In order to make this resource more valuable, we have made several changes. We have updated Chapter III. (lists of mailing l http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/kitao/onlin.htm ists) and V. Useful World Wide Web (WWW) Sites. We increased the amount of information in those chapters by more than fifty percent. We added three new sections 19. Communication, 20. Teaching English in Japan, and 21. Commercial Places (Publishers, Distributors, Software Developers, etc.) in Chapter V. Its site is http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/kitao/onlin.htm . **************************************************************** * * * Dr. Kenji Kitao E-mail k.kitao@lancaster.ac.uk * * Dept. of Linguistics Work Fax 01524-843085 * * Lancaster University Work Phone 01524-65201 Ext. 3045 * * Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Hone Phone 01524-65201 Ext. 2335 * * URL: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/kitao/kitao.htm * * * **************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 11:27:48 -0800 From: ervintr1@violet.berkeley.edu (Susan Ervin-Tripp) Subject: Web Address for Pragmatics Conference Program The CHILDES website has posted the entire program for the meeting of the International Pragmatics Association July 4-9, 1996 in Mexico City at the following web address: http://poppy.psy.cmu.edu/childes/mexico.july Susan Ervin-Tripp ervintr1@violet.berkeley.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-808. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Tue Jun 4 23:04:14 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:02:58 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.822, FYI: Transliteration, Parallel corpus Web site To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-822. Tue Jun 4 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 122 Subject: 7.822, FYI: Transliteration, Parallel corpus Web site Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dseely@emunix.emich.edu (T. Daniel Seely) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 13:52:58 GMT From: tempo@sesame.demon.co.uk (John Clews) Subject: Transliteration standards 2) Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 17:30:07 BST From: R.M.Salkie@bton.ac.uk (Raphael Salkie) Subject: Parallel corpus Web site (fwd) ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 13:52:58 GMT From: tempo@sesame.demon.co.uk (John Clews) Subject: Transliteration standards Transliteration standards I am the new chair of the International Organization for Standardization subcommittee responsible for transliteration (ISO/TC46/SC2: Conversion of Written Languages). The new secretary (Evangelos Melagrakis from Greece) and I hope to make it far more visible and far more relevant to end users than it has been in the past. To enable this, an electronic mailing list for ISO/TC46/SC2 (tc46sc2@elot.gr) has now been set up by ELOT (the Greek national standards body). We hope this list will attract researchers and scientists who can add useful information which might assist in developing standards on the Conversion of Written Languages. We also hope to have an emphasis on issues of using computers to do appropriate transformations necessary in automated transliteration, and also look forward to having regular contact with those on this list who are interested in such issues. One major advantage of email is the ability to involve far more people in the development of a common purpose than were involved before, to get user feedback, and expert opinion from various sources. Subscribing to the mailing list for ISO/TC46/SC2 In order to join the list you should be actively involved in using or developing transliteration systems, or the results of those sytems in published documents, or in computer systems, and should be prepared to contribute to the list from time to time. If you meet these criteria, and wish to join the list, send an email to converse@sesame.demon.co.uk, with a copy to eem@elot.gr. Once you are subscribed, you should also inform your national standards body to express your interest in participating in this list. I can provide some information on details of your national member body of ISO, if you send me an email requesting this. I look forward to hearing from members of this list. Also please feel free to forward this to anyone else who may be interested in transliteration standardisation issues, and to send any queries about the list to me. Yours sincerely John Clews - John Clews (Chairman of ISO/TC46/SC2: Conversion of Written Languages) SESAME Computer Projects, 8 Avenue Rd. * email: Converse@sesame.demon.co.uk Harrogate, HG2 7PG, United Kingdom * telephone: +44 (0) 1423 888 432 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 17:30:07 BST From: R.M.Salkie@bton.ac.uk (Raphael Salkie) Subject: Parallel corpus Web site (fwd) INTERSECT, a parallel corpus project at the University of Brighton, England, now has a Web site. The URL is: http://bmserver.bus.bton.ac.uk/FormatGraphical-Normal/BusSchool/Research/LangCe n t/Intersect.html or on two lines: http://bmserver.bus.bton.ac.uk/FormatGraphical-Normal/BusSchool/ Research/LangCent/Intersect.html [If you copy and paste the two-line version of the URL you will have to delete the carriage return after BusSchool/. Sorry about this: my University seems to use mammoth URLs]. Please send comments and news of similar projects to me. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Raphael Salkie, Tel: (+44) 01273 643335 The Language Centre, Tel: (+44) 01273 643337 University of Brighton Tel: (+44) 01273 600900 Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH England. Fax: (+44) 01273 690710 Email: r.m.salkie@brighton.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-822. From INTERCOM@CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU Wed Jun 5 22:36:21 1996 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 96 11:12 -0400 To: "Multiple recipients of INTERCOM" Sender: "INTERCOM hotline" Reply-to: "INTERCOM hotline" From: "CIOS/Comserve Support Staff" Subject: Rubin is new JOC ed.;EIM homepage;Media Ethics;CIOS closes office ... Errors-To: X-HOTLINEName: INTERCOM X-ID: support43900@CIOS.llc.rpi.edu Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit InterCom: A newsletter of the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship Nine items in this issue: 1. CIOS office closed June 7 - June 25 2. What to do if you stop receiving hotline mail but believe you have active hotline subscriptions (especially for past or present Bitnet users) 3. Alan Rubin assumes Journal of Communication Editorship 4. European Institute for the Media homepage 5. Media Ethics seeks sponsors 6. Fulbright scholar program deadline reminder 7. New book solicits conversational insights 8. Penn State media literacy summer seminar 9. How to cancel one or more Comserve hotline subscriptions / How to cancel your subscription to InterCom NOTE: Please do not use a "reply" function to respond to an item in this file. If you wish to respond, leave your mail reading software and address your message explicitly. For example, if you wish to send a command to Comserve, leave the environment of your mail reading software and address your message by hand to Comserve@CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU --------------------- URL address of the CIOS/Comserve Gopher server: gopher://CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU URL address of the CIOS/Comserve WWW server : http://CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU Email address of the CIOS/Comserve email interface: Comserve@CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU To access the gopher service, you must have a Gopher client program on your local computer and you must have a full service connection to the Internet (i.e., capable of telnet, ftp, etc. in addition to e-mail). Start your Gopher client program with CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU on the command line, usually like this: gopher CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU You can also access the gopher service through a WWW browser using the following URL: gopher://CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ CIOS Office Closed June 7 - June 25 The CIOS office will be closed June 7 through June 25, 1996. CIOS online systems and office email will be monitored irregularly during this period. Online systems will automatically reboot periodically to assure continuous operation. Mail and phone calls to the staff will be processed in order received beginning on the 26th. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ What to do if you stop receiving hotline mail but believe you have active hotline subscriptions This information is especially relevant if your institution at one time belonged to Bitnet or EARN and you have long standing hotline subscriptions still associated with your Bitnet/EARN address (which is never the same as your Internet address). Bitnet/EARN represented the most widely used network for academic communication from the early 1980s to approximately 1994. With the recent predominance of the Internet many universities (especially in the U.S.) are dropping their connections to Bitnet. According to recent announcements, it is likely that few if any U.S. universities will continue to connect to Bitnet beyond 1997 and Bitnet is losing many member institutions each month. If you had subscribed to CIOS/Comserve hotlines using Bitnet or EARN, unless you cancelled these services and resubscribed over Internet, when your university leaves Bitnet/EARN, your subscriptions will be cancelled automatically as your hotline mail becomes undeliverable. You will receive no notification of this process, your hotline mail will simply stop. You should take a moment to review your subscriptions and reflect on the possibility that they are still being delivered to you over Bitnet. One way to tell is to examine the address lines at the top of this InterCom issue. If you find the text "cunyvm.cuny.edu" anywhere in address lines, you have at least on hotline subscription that was set up using a Bitnet address. You can change your subscriptions over to Internet easily. Simply use Bitnet to send to Comserve@RPITSVM the command DROPOUT ALL. Send that text in email or as Bitnet interactive messages. Eventually you'll receive confirmation that your Bitnet subscriptions have been cancelled. When that happens send the following message to Comserve@cios.llc.rpi.edu in the body of email: Show hotlines This will return information about what hotlines exist and how to join them. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION Submitted by: JOC@KENTVM.KENT.EDU The Editor-elect of the Journal of Communication invites submissions of excellent scholarship in all areas of communication to be considered for publication. EDITORIAL POLICY. The Journal of Communication publishes articles and book reviews that examine a broad range of issues in communication theory and research. The Journal seeks to be a general forum for communication scholarship and is especially interested in research whose significance crosses subdisciplinary boundaries. Although the Journal has traditionally published research that considers the role and impact of public and mediated communication, it maintains a broad scholarly focus and seeks to publish the best available scholarship on all aspects of communication. Manuscripts must be conceptually meaningful, methodologically sound, interesting, and accurate. MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES. Only original work should be submitted. Manuscripts may not be under consideration by any other publication. Because manuscripts are evaluated blindly, author identification should be removed from all locations except the title page. Manuscripts must be prepared in strict accordance with the 4th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Tables and footnotes should be kept to a minimum. All parts of the manuscript should be double-spaced. Submissions are seldom longer than 30 pages, including tables and references, plus an abstract of 150 words. Authors should submit four (4) copies of their manuscripts to: Alan M. Rubin, Editor-elect Journal of Communication School of Communication Studies P.O. Box 5190 Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242-0001 USA. The Journal office can be contacted via fax (330-672-4547), telephone (330-672-4609), or e-mail (joc@kentvm.kent.edu). Manuscripts that merit review will be read anonymously by two or three referees. In most instances, authors can expect decisions on their work within 90 days of receipt of four properly prepared copies of their papers. Because manuscripts are sent out for expert review, this time may vary. No manuscripts will be returned to authors. The Journal retains the right to make changes in accepted manuscripts that, in the opinion of the editors, do not substantially alter authors' meanings. Changes are made for grammatical, stylistic, and space considerations. BOOK REVIEWS. Correspondence about book reviews should be sent to: Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Review Editor-select; Journal of Communication; Department of Communication Studies; 105 BCSB; University of Iowa; Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1498 USA. The review office can be contacted via fax (319-335-2930), telephone (319-353-2257), or e-mail (rothenbu@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu). The Journal of Communication (ISSN 0021-9916) is an official publication of the International Communication Association. It is edited in cooperation with the School of Communication Studies at Kent State University and is published quarterly by Oxford University Press. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ European Institute for the Media Homepage Submitted by: <100443.1703@CompuServe.COM> To everyone who is interested in research and other information about media and telecommunications in Europe and indeed worldwide, the European Institute for the Media now as its own Homepage which can be consulted at this URL: HTTP://WWW.AW-MEDIA.DE/MEDIA/EIM The homepage offers an introduction to as well as general information about the Institute and its various tasks and departments. After a short overview, descriptions are available of THE RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS DEPARTMENT (with a publications list) and likewise THE EAST-WEST COOPERATION PROGRAMME, THE EUROPEAN FILM AND TV FORUM (next November in AMSTERDAM) and THE DOCUMENTATION AND STATISTICAL CENTER. For more information contact by e-mail please: Monique van Dusseldorp (PR & FORUM): 100443,1705@Compuserve.Com (PC Network Administration: Jamil OUAJ: 100443,1703@Compuserve.Com) +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Media Ethics Seeks Sponsors Submitted by: MEDIA ETHICS publication, home of news, notices, commentary, and listings about events, publications, opportunities, cases, and perspectives on communication and telecommunication ethics, is seeking sponsors for future issues. Typically sponsors receive their logo on the cover, two advising editors on the masthead, a page of free non-profit advertising (if pertinent to communication ethics), l00 free copies of ME, and several other perks. Usually sponsors contribute about $4,000 per year but some sponsors have contributed as little as $1,000 and others as high as $20,000 in kind. Previous and current sponsors have included Times Mirror Company, the Univ. of Hawaii, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Emerson College, Group W Broadcasting, Silha Institute at the Univ. of Minnesota, First Church of Christ--Office of Communication, U. of ILlinois, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt, Fordham Univ., Duquesne Univ., and five others. For further information, contact Dr. Tom Cooper at coopert@hawaii.edu or at 808-956-3353 (p) or 808-956-5591 (fax). +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM: INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR U.S. FACULTY AND PROFESSIONALS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES Submitted by: cies1@ciesnet.cies.org Reminder: August 1 Deadline Approaching for the 1997-98 Competition Program information and the listing of 1997-98 opportunities can be accessed via the Fulbright Scholar Program Web site at http://www.cies.org Summary: Below is a brief description of Fulbright grants for U.S. citizens to engage in lecturing and advanced research worldwide. These grants are excellent professional development opportunities and provide funding to pursue professional interests abroad. FULBRIGHT GRANTS FOR U.S. FACULTY AND PROFESSIONALS Description: Over 800 awards for college and university faculty and nonacademic professionals to lecture or pursue advanced research and/or related professional activity abroad. For U.S. candidates, grants are available to nearly 130 countries. Application Deadline: U.S. candidates have an August 1 deadline for lecturing or research awards. Non-U.S. candidates apply in their home country for awards to come to the United States. Areas of Interest: Opportunities exist in every area of the social sciences, arts and humanities, sciences, and many professional fields. Fulbright-supported activities include undergraduate and graduate teaching, individual advanced research, joint research collaboration, and more. Basic Eligibility Requirements: Ph.D. or equivalent professional/terminal degree at the time of application and U.S. citizenship (permanent residency is not sufficient). For professionals and artists outside academe, recognized professional standing comparable to that associated with the doctorate in higher education is required, unless otherwise noted in the individual award description. College or university teaching experience is expected at the level and in the field of the advertised assignment or proposed lecturing activity for lecturing and combined lecturing/research awards. Grant Duration: Awards range in duration from two months to twelve months. Most lecturing assignments are for an academic term/semester or a full academic year. Language: Foreign language proficiency may be expected as specified in the award description or as required for the completion of the proposed lecturing or research project. The majority of teaching assignments are in English. The major exceptions are Central and South America, where Spanish is usually required, and francophone Africa, where one is expected to be fluent in French. Action: U.S. candidates may view detailed descriptions of award opportunities and request application materials via the Fulbright Scholar Program web site: http://www.cies.org Requests for hard copy of the awards booklet and application kit can be made by E-mail: cies1@ciesnet.cies.org (Requests for mailing of materials only!) Telephone: 202/686-7877 U.S. mail: USIA Fulbright Senior Scholar Program Council for International Exchange of Scholars Box INET 3007 Tilden St., NW, Suite 5M Washington, DC 20008-3009 Non-U.S. candidates must contact the Fulbright commission or U.S. embassy in their home country. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Conversational Insights Solicited for New Book Submitted by: Dan West This announcement invites you to contribute to a book tentatively titled 50 TIPS FOR IMPROVING YOUR CONVERSATIONAL ABILITY. What we want are tips, each which is explained in a two to six page chapter. A chapter should detail how you have experienced or observed a particular practice that makes conversation less confusing and manipulative or the opposite of that--more effective, persuasive, enriching, and/or enjoyable. A TIP may, but does not have to, be written in first person for the popular reader. Do not hesitate to use the word I or you. Each TIP should be briefly stated, explained and illustrated with stories and examples, supported with observation, and conclude with a few exercises to develop that particular tip. Contributors should submit a 75 word mini-biography. Chapters should be submitted typed and double spaced. We do not require but would like to receive your chapter(s) on a computer disk in Word Perfect 6.0 or an earlier version or ASCII standard. Write on topics that grow out of your daily experience, your relationships, interests, hobbies, and work. Do share both the serious and the zany. Co-editors of this project are Charles Waugh, who has had more than 100 books published which he compiled and edited, and Bill Gorden, Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication Studies at Kent State University. Requests for sample chapters can be gotten by contacting Charles Waugh, co-editor of 50 TIPS FOR IMPROVING YOUR CONVERSATIONAL ABILITY. Contributions should be mailed to: Dr. Charles Waugh 5 Merrill Street Winthrop, ME 04364 Tel. (207) 377-6769 FAX (207) 377-4158 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Penn State Media Literacy Summer Seminar July 27-31, 1996 The Penn State Scanticon Conference Center Hotel State College, Pennsylvania a continuing and distance education service of the College of Communications Visit the Media Literacy Summer Seminar web site at: http://www.cde.psu.edu/c&i/medialiteracy/ This three-day seminar for educators offers: informative presentations by experts, faculty, and curriculum design specialists facilitated, hands-on working sessions participant interaction and peer review tangible results through the creation of applicable lesson plans Every day, the media presents us with scores of carefully calculated images and messages-each with a purpose that may or may not be easily discerned. As educators, how can we help prepare our students to critically assess these images and messages? At Penn State Media Literacy Summer Seminar you will learn from experts from a wide variety of disciplines (including psychology, communications, and education), representatives from the media, as well as curriculum design specialists. The Penn State Media Literacy Summer Seminar will provide educators with the necessary background and knowledge as well as the skills and tools needed to construct curriculum that empowers students to assess and critically evaluate the broad spectrum of images and messages that they face in their daily lives. Through the use of engaging presentations and hands-on work sessions facilitated by seminar faculty, you will leave this seminar having create a lesson or series of lessons that you can use in your classroom. CEUs - 2.4 will be awarded To receive a brochure with registration materials, nationwide, call 1-800-PSU-TODAY (1-800-778-8632) or send us an e-mail with your name, address, phone number, fax number, and Internet address to ConferenceInfo1@cde.psu.edu Please be sure to reference Penn State Media Literacy Summer Seminar in all correspondence. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ How to Cancel a Comserve Hotline Subscription The CIOS/Comserve system governs access to more than 25 public hotlines and provides special commands and facilities to make it possible to treat these hotlines as subdivisions within a coherent structure. To review the status of your subscriptions, send this command to Comserve: Show subscriptions To cancel one hotline subscription, send this command to Comserve: Dropout place_name_of_hotline_here for example: Dropout InterPer To cancel all your subscriptions at once, send this command to Comserve: Dropout All When you have cancelled all your subscriptions, your subscription to InterCom will be cancelled automatically as well. For more information about commands and functions related to Comserve's hotline system, send this message to Comserve: Help Topics Hotlines To review other categories of help information, send Comserve this message: Help Topics Remember: Do not use a "reply" function to send these messages to Comserve. Leave your mail reading software and address your message explicitly. Comserve's address was given at the start of this issue, just below the table of contents. If you prefer, you can access Comserve/CIOS hotlines in read-only mode using the Comserve/CIOS Gopher server or the WWW service (see the top of this newsletter for access information). From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Thu Jul 11 01:07:09 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 17:04:23 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1003, FYI: Sprachlabor WWW site, LAGB PROGRAMME: correction To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1003. Wed Jul 10 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 246 Subject: 7.1003, FYI: Sprachlabor WWW site, LAGB PROGRAMME: correction Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 10:22:52 -0000 From: office@media-enterprise.de ("office") Subject: Sprachlabor/Speechlab WWW site information 2) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:50:34 BST From: G.Corbett@surrey.ac.uk ("G.Corbett") Subject: LAGB PROGRAMME: correction ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 10:22:52 -0000 From: office@media-enterprise.de ("office") Subject: Sprachlabor/Speechlab WWW site information EINE ENTSCHULDIGUNG - AN APOLOGY An alle InteressentInnen der SPRACHLABOR CD-ROM, die unsere WWW Seiten nicht lesen konnten: Wegen Problemen mit den Nameservern kann es noetig sein, die folgende Adresse zu verwenden: http://194.156.201.245 Wir bedauern diesen Fehler, der in einigen Tagen behoben sein sollte. Zur Information unten noch einmal der originale Artikel. To everybody who was interested in the SPEECHLAB CD-ROM and could not reach our WWW site, or only a wrong one: Due to name server problems, it may be necessary to use the following address : http://194.156.201.245 We apologize for the inconvenience. For your information we include a copy of the original posting. (Eine deutsche Version des Artikels finden Sie weiter unten, unter der ------- Trennlinie.) SPEECHLAB We are proud to announce the publication of SPEECHLAB, a multimedia CD-ROM on phonetics. Our particular thanks go to the members of the linguist list, who supported a survey we started some time ago. Your reactions encouraged and guided our work. We, that's "Media Enterprise", a young multimedia company founded by students. We appreciate your replies and comments. Especially we're looking for cooperation with institutes and authors, who are interested in the production of multimedia books. Contact us if you have ideas and are looking for a partner in the production! You find the adresses at the end of this article. On our ISDN server as well as on our WWW pages, we supply free demo versions of our programs. Seize the opportunity, have a look yourself and take part in the design of future releases by by sending your comments. We're currently thinking of an English version of the currently German 'SPRACHLABOR'. It's in your hands, give us a call... Product description Do you know the phonetic difference between a tone and a sound? How do you, phonetically speaking, define a bang? The chapter about the acoustics of speech of our latest CD-ROM publication SPEECHLAB will give you, interactively of course, the answers to these and other questions. SPEECHLAB meets the most recent requirements of schools and universities toward teaching equipment. It is an easy-to-operate multimedia teaching software which will boost the attractiveness of your lessons, seminars or lectures. The only things you need are a computer that is operable with mulitmedia applications (e.g. a Laptop with a CD-ROM drive) and either an overhead or LCD-data-projector. SPEECHLAB offers you three interesting possibilities at a time: - a tutorial called "Basics of the physiology and acoustics of speech" - a basic speech analysis program - a bibliography The first component is an eventful tutorial explaining the basics of anatomy and physiology as well as providing some insight into the acoustic foundations of human speech. The first section of our teaching program deals in particular with the spectrographical method of analyzing speech, showing, on the basis of the "Referenz der deutschen Sprachlaute", the coherence between physiological processes and the acoustic phenomena linked to them, using videos, X-rays, spectrograms, sound and more. According to the motto "learning by doing", you can switch over to a different program processing speech signals either while doing the first component or after having completed it. With this program, speech samples either existing or recorded via microphone and sound card can be visualiised and analysed. This is possible during seminars and lectures as well as in private. The acoustic structure of sound can very well be described in the form of time signals, short time spectra or spectrograms. Thus, the second component of SPEECHLAB becomes an interactive means of teaching and learning. It is important for a multimedia application like SPEECHLAB to hint at the essential sources of special literature, as the available text often contains only basic information. This problem is taken into account with an independent data base comprising the most important literature - and, yet another exceptional feature of SPEECHLAB, most of the articles from 'Phonetica', 'Language and Speech', 'Sprache-Stimme-Gehoer', 'Folia Phoniatrica' and 'Journal of Phonetics'. Every buyer of SPEECHLAB is able to continue using this data base, which can be supplemented, on their own home computer in order to manage their library at home or at university. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SPRACHLABOR Wir freuen uns, das Erscheinen des SPRACHLABORs bekanntgeben zu koennen, einer multimedialen CD-ROM zur Phonetik. Ein besonderer Dank geht dabei an die Mitglieder der linguist list, die uns vor einiger Zeit bei einer Umfrage unterstuetzt haben und damit aktiv an der Gestaltung des Produkts beteiligt waren. Wir, das ist "Media Enterprise", eine junge Multimedia-Firma, die von Studenten gegruendet wurde. Wir freuen uns ueber jede Rueckmeldung und Kommentare. Insbesondere suchen wir die Zusammenarbeit mit Instituten oder AutorInnen, die an der Produktion von multimedialen Buechern interessiert sind. Sprechen Sie uns an, wenn Sie eine Idee haben und Partner fuer die Produktion suchen! Adressen finden Sie am Ende des Artikels. Sie koennen sowohl ueber unseren ISDN-Server als auch ueber die WWW-Seite Demos unserer Programme bekommen. Nutzen Sie die Moeglichkeit, sich ein Bild zu machen und durch Ihre Kommentare kommende Veroeffent- lichungen mitzugestalten. Prouktbeschreibung Kennen Sie den Unterschied zwischen einem Ton und einem Klang? Was ist ein Knall? Im Teil 'Akustik des Sprechens' unserer neuesten CD-ROM-Publikation SPRACHLABOR finden Sie u. a. auf diese Fragen eine interaktive Antwort. Das SPRACHLABOR bietet Ihnen eine multimediale Einfuehrung in die Welt des Sprechens. Im SPRACHLABOR sind die modernsten Anforderungen, die Schulen, Fachhochschulen und Universitaeten an Lehrmittel stellen, umgesetzt. Es handelt sich um ein einfach zu bedienendes multimediales Unterrichts- mittel, das die Attraktivitaet ihres Unterrichts bzw. ihrer Vorlesungen und Seminare um ein Vielfaches steigern wird! Sie benoetigen lediglich einen multimediafaehigen Computer (z.B. Laptop mit CD-ROM Laufwerk) und Darstel- lungsgeraete (LCD-Panel fuer Overheadprojektor bzw. LCD-Datenprojektor). Gleich mit drei interessanten Komponenten kann das SPRACHLABOR aufwarten: - Das Tutorial "Grundbegriffe der Physiologie und Akustik des Sprechens" - ein einfaches Sprachsignalverarbeitungsprogramm - eine Literaturdatenbank Ein Einblick in die Grundlagen des Sprechens wird Ihnen durch unser Tutorial "Grundbegriffe der Physiologie und Akustik des Sprechens" vermittelt. Insbesondere wird hier auf das Verfahren der Spektrographie eingegangen. Dabei werden ueber eine Referenz der deutschen Sprachlaute physiologische Vorgaenge und damit verbundene akustische Phaenomene durch Videos, Roentgenbilder, Spektrogramme, Audiodateien und noch mehr dargestellt. Nach oder waehrend der Bearbeitung dieses ersten Teiles kann man im Stile des "Learning by doing" in ein Sprachsignalverarbeitungsprogramm wechseln, mit dem vorhandene oder ueber eine Soundkarte und Mikrophon aufgenommene Sprechproben untersucht werden koennen. Das ist sowohl waehrend der Seminare bzw. Vorlesungen als auch im "Stillen Kaemmerlein" zu Hause moeglich. Damit kann man die akustische Struktur eines Lautes hervorragend als Zeitsignal, Kurzzeitspektrum oder Spektrogramm dargestellt werden. Dieser zweite Teil des Sprachlabors ist somit ein aktives Lern- und Lehrinstrument. Wichtig fuer eine multmediale Applikation dieser Art ist der Verweis auf wesentliche Literaturquellen, da im vorhandenen Text nur grundsaetzliche Informationen enthalten sind. Diese Aufgabe wird durch eine eigenstaendige Literaturdatenbank geloest, die die wichtigsten Literaturangaben enthaelt - und, eine Besonderheit, auch die meisten Artikel der Zeitschriften 'Phonetica', 'Language and Speech', 'Sprache-Stimme-Gehoer', 'Folia Phoniatrica' und 'Journal of Phonetics' umfasst. Jeder SPRACHLABOR-Besitzer kann diese offene Literaturdatenbank auf seinem eigenen Computer weiter nutzen und damit seine Haus-oder Fachbereichsbibliothek verwalten. ............oooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo............ Media Enterprise Phone : 0651 / 81 009 30 Paper: Gottbillstrasse 34 a Fax : 0651 / 81 009 19 D-54292 Trier ISDN : 0651 / 81 009 301 (EuroFile) e-mail: office@media-enterprise.de WWW : http://www.media-enterprise.de WWW (alias): http://194.156.201.245 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:50:34 BST From: G.Corbett@surrey.ac.uk ("G.Corbett") Subject: LAGB PROGRAMME: correction LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN Autumn Meeting 1996: 7-9 September, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff There was an unfortunate error in the programme recently posted: the following paper was accepted by the committee but omitted from the schedule: Anjum P Saleemi (Singapore) 'Syntax learnability: the problem that won't go away' It is now scheduled for September 9 at 2pm. (Note that the paper by Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris 8) "Postnominal Possessives in English and French" has been withdrawn.) Sorry for the error, and apologies to Dr Saleemi. Greville Corbett g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk Greville G. Corbett Department of Linguistic and International Studies University of Surrey Guildford email: g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk Surrey, GU2 5XH FAX: +44 1483 302605 Great Britain phone: +44 1483 300800 ext 2849 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1003. From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Thu Jul 11 09:35:04 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from cayuga.cs.rochester.edu by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Thu, 11 Jul 1996 08:06:52 +0200 Old-Received: from vein.cs.rochester.edu (vein.cs.rochester.edu [192.5.53.112]) by cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (8.6.9/H) with ESMTP id CAA29961 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 02:06:50 -0400 Old-Received: (from heeman@localhost) by vein.cs.rochester.edu (8.6.9/K) id CAA19633 for corpora@lists.uib.no; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 02:06:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 02:06:49 -0400 Reply-To: heeman@cs.rochester.edu From: heeman@cs.rochester.edu To: corpora@lists.uib.no Subject: TRAINS Spoken Dialogue Corpus transcriptions now online Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 08:07:04 +0200 X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Trains Dialogue Corpus, which was released by the LDC last April, is now partially available online. Word transcriptions for each dialogue are available in at http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/speech/cdrom.html The corpus contains 6 and a half hours worth of human-human dialogues, which includes 55,000 words and about 5500 speaker turns. Audio files for the dialogues are available on the CD-ROM. --- Peter Heeman U. of Rochester heeman@cs.rochester.edu From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Thu Jul 11 16:41:26 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:45:13 +0200 Old-Received: from csunb0.leeds.ac.uk ([129.11.144.2]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29065 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:48:00 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: from csirisa.leeds.ac.uk (csirisa.leeds.ac.uk [129.11.144.129]) by csunb0.leeds.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA14677; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:32:19 +0100 Reply-To: E S Atwell From: E S Atwell Old-Received: from csgi74.scs.leeds.ac.uk by csirisa.leeds.ac.uk; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:32:18 +0100 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:32:18 +0100 To: CORPORA@hd.uib.no, Jon Mills Subject: Re: Corpus of Jamaican Patois needed Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:45:21 +0200 X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The International Corpus of English includes a Jamaican English component, see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/ice/ice.html - presumably this has some Patois `influence', ie vocabulary etc intermingled in the English Eric Steven Atwell, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS) Artificial Intelligence Division, School of Computer Studies The University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, Yorkshire, England TEL:0113-2335761 FAX:0113-2335468 EMAIL:eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk WWW: http://agora.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html http://agora.leeds.ac.uk/ccalas/ From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Mon Jul 15 11:46:57 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:16:00 +0200 Old-Received: from icnucevx.cnuce.cnr.it (icnucevx.cnuce.cnr.it [131.114.1.30]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA24184 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:18:50 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: from pisailc.ilc.pi.cnr.it by mailsrv.cnuce.cnr.it (PMDF V5.0-6 #9955) id <01I73JQHKHHAAC3GP8@mailsrv.cnuce.cnr.it>; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:15:41 +0100 (MET) Old-Received: from dbtficio.ilc.pi.cnr.it by pisailc.ilc.pi.cnr.it (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26673; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:20:00 +0200 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:20:00 +0200 Reply-To: Lisa Biagini From: Lisa Biagini Subject: RE : Windows concordance programs X-Sender: lisa@pisailc To: corpora@hd.uib.no Cc: jaske@abacus.bates.edu MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:16:17 +0200 In Pisa, at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazione, a query system, DBT, has been developed designed specifically for linguistic and literary text processing and analysis task. It is now a complex system consisting of many separate modules, some of very general purpose, others designed to handle the particular requirements of specific applications. Some of these modules are now fully tested and industrialised, whereas others are still in the development and testing stage. One of these components is the programm DBTConco that makes the concordances of a text or of the selected words in it. More information (and I think also the program) can be obtained by writing to Dott. Eugenio Picchi (picchi@ilc.pi.cnr.it) or visiting the web site of the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it). The main features of the core system are: total respect for the integrity of the source text; management of different character (Latin and non-Latin alphabets) and code sets; real time, interactive execution of all the typical functions of a text retrieval system; high performance in terms of flexibility and speed; optimisation of storage and memory requirements; management of very large text corpora; management and analysis of images in a text or associated with it (manuscripts, icons, etc.); management of structured text, in particular dictionaries; management of tagged and lemmatized text. Other components have been designed to run on top of the core system for the management of annotated texts and data for the POS tagging of Italian texts, and for the creation, management and interrogation of bilingual parallel and comparable text archives. When using the system, the first step is to format the texts using the DBT procedures. DBT has its own encoding system and this stage is simple rapid and, once a few preliminary instructions have been given, fully automatic. The system also has an interface which permits it to acquire textual material already encoded in SGML-TEI and in HTML. Once the texts are in DBT format, the users can use the system query procedures which provide them with a series of search functions which can be used to access a single text or a text corpus and retrieve various elements or combinations of elements. They can display all or part of the text(s) on which they are operating, search given word forms, search words containing one or a combination of given character strings or using wild cards, compute frequencies, define search functions in which words are associated in different ways and retrieve all the contexts satisfying these search conditions in the text(s), generate ordered text concordances, impose particular conditions on concordance generation, select the language of interest when several languages or language types are present in the text(s) and have been classified as such, obtain statistical data on the cooccurrences of selected words (e.g. Mutual Information Index), execute queries on annotated and lemmatised material, etc.. Another important feature of the system is that it provides procedures to manage images included in a text. An image database is associated with the text; the user can access this database dynamically and view the images. The way in which the results of the queries are displayed on the screen or printed out can be defined by the user, according to his own particular needs and preferences. The system is extremely versatile and easy to use. You can download a demo version of the DBT core system that runs on the "Divina Commedia" from our WEB site: http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/dbt/pisystem.html Sorry, but it is all in Italian. We are in the process rewriting all the documentation in english. When you are in our home page, you have to choose: "Alcune installazioni DEMO del sistema di interrogazione DBT" (Some DEMO programs of the DBT query system) Then it is sufficient that you click on "WINDBT & 'La Divina Commedia'": the demo program will be download to your computer. At this point you just have to run the file (dbtw_div.exe): the DBT demo program will be automatically installed on your system. Please do not hesitate to contact me if your require any further information. Lisa From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Thu Jun 27 06:46:46 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 22:43:46 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.936, FYI: NEH summer stipends, Hyptertext dissertation To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-936. Wed Jun 26 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 133 Subject: 7.936, FYI: NEH summer stipends, Hyptertext dissertation Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dizdar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 15:44:07 EST From: rbolin@neh.fed.us Subject: NEH Summer Stipends 2) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:34:52 BST From: roberto@unive.it (Roberto Zamparelli) Subject: Hyptertext Dissertation on the Web ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 15:44:07 EST From: rbolin@neh.fed.us Subject: NEH Summer Stipends Please disseminate the following message as widely as possible. Thank you. The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the October 1, 1996, deadline for the Summer Stipends program. NEH Summer Stipends support two months of full-time work on projects that will contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Projects may address broad topics or consist of research and study in a single field. In most cases, faculty members of colleges and universities in the United States must be nominated by their institutions for the Summer Stipends competition, and each of these institutions may nominate two applicants. Prospective applicants who will require nomination should acquaint themselves with their institution's nomination procedures well before the October 1 deadline. Individuals employed in nonteaching capacities in colleges and universities and individuals not affiliated with colleges and universities do not require nomination and may apply directly to the program. APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 1, 1996 TENURE: Tenure must cover two full and uninterrupted months and will normally be held between May1, 1997, and September 30, 1997. STIPEND: $4,000 INQUIRIES Summer Stipends Program Room 318 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 202/606-8551 stipends@neh.fed.us Application guidelines for this program are also available online at http://www.neh.fed.us ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:34:52 BST From: roberto@unive.it (Roberto Zamparelli) Subject: Hyptertext Dissertation on the Web Dear colleagues, I have recently completed the main part of ``LAYERS in the determiner phrase'', an hypertext document based on my Ph.D. dissertation in linguistics at the University of Rochester; it is located on the World-Wide Web, at the address: http://www.ling.rochester.edu/~roberto/layers/intro.html LAYERS is a experimental project on how to cast a fairly large piece of linguistics work into hypertext form on the Web, taking advantage of various features of the format, (as opposed to just placing 
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around a text originally designed for paper publication). Some of its features are pop-up references, maps, data-analysis distinction, individual feedback from each page, support for both graphic and non-graphic browsers (e.g. Lynx). The work outlines a general theory of the syntax/semantics interface within the noun phrase, assuming a broad GB framework. It also discusses copular constructions, quantifier raising and extraction from predicates. This project has been inspired by the idea that the WWW has a great potential for doing scientific research and disseminating its results, which is not fully tapped, and that linguistics is in a sense an ideal discipline for making use of the web's possibilities. See the section "On doing linguistics on the WWW". Comments on form and content are highly appreciated, as are pointers to similar work on the net. To see the hypertext: a) With LYNX: from the prompt, give: lynx http://www.ling.rochester.edu/~roberto/layers/intro.html (remember to select "NON-graphic browser" from the intro page!) b) With Netscape: open the FILE menu, the GOTO LOCATION, and type in the URL address. Enjoy! Roberto Zamparelli University of Rochester c/o via Pienza 235 00138 Roma, Italy e-mail: roberto@unive.it WWW: http://www.ling.rochester.edu/~roberto ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-936. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Mon Jul 8 10:53:26 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 21:10:29 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.992, FYI: Chinese Linguistics Web Page, Update to Lg Conference List To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-992. Sun Jul 7 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 93 Subject: 7.992, FYI: Chinese Linguistics Web Page, Update to Lg Conference List Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 13:59:53 +0800 From: chstaohy@leonis.nus.sg ("Tao, Hongyin") Subject: Announcing the Chinese Linguistics Web Page 2) Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 05:52:30 EDT From: royfcoch@clark.net ("Roy F. Cochrun") Subject: Update to Language Conference List ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 13:59:53 +0800 From: chstaohy@leonis.nus.sg ("Tao, Hongyin") Subject: Announcing the Chinese Linguistics Web Page Chinese Linguistics WWW Page URL: http://137.132.195.189/China/html.doc/linguist.htm (site in Singapore) or http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/China/linguist.html (site in USA) The Chinese Linguistics Page provides anyone who is interested in this unique language with an UNofficial place to exchange and disseminate linguistic information via modern technology. You are welcome to browse it and make contributions to it; and to communicate with its maintainers: Wenze Hu (wenzhu@magnus.ohio-state.edu) and Hongyin Tao (chstaohy@nus.sg). Thank you for you attention. Hongyin Tao Chinese Studies, National U of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260 Tel: +65 772 6005 FAX: +65 779 4167 WWW: http://137.132.195.189 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 05:52:30 EDT From: royfcoch@clark.net ("Roy F. Cochrun") Subject: Update to Language Conference List The language conference list located on the WWW at URL http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html has been updated with over 70 new conferences since the 19 April edition. The list includes conferences for anyone interested in any aspect of natural language: linguists, translators, interpreters, teachers of languages (even one's own native language to native speakers, such as English in American high schools), those who are involved in natural language processing, et al. In searching for conferences for this update, I found several Web locations that list jobs for linguists on a somewhat regular basis, so those links are included. Thank you to all who sent me conferences to add to the list. Please check to assure it is there and correct. As usual, changes, updates, corrections or comments via e-mail to royfcoch@clark.net, please. --Roy Cochrun Roy's Russian Resource: http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/roy1page.html Language Conferences: http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-992. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Fri Jul 12 14:11:55 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 06:10:14 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1017, FYI: LOGOS Dictionary, Collocations, Received Pronunciation To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1017. Fri Jul 12 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 143 Subject: 7.1017, FYI: LOGOS Dictionary, Collocations, Received Pronunciation Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: aristar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Anthony Rodrigues Aristar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 10:38:01 +0200 From: dictionary@logos.it (The LOGOS Dictionary) Subject: New important function added to the LOGOS dictionary 2) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:30:36 +1000 From: chris@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Christina Gitsaki) Subject: PhD Thesis on Collocations 3) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 10:57:47 BST From: sdl04@students.stir.ac.uk ("S.D. Luscombe") Subject: FYI: RP Phonology site at Stirling University ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 10:38:01 +0200 From: dictionary@logos.it (The LOGOS Dictionary) Subject: New important function added to the LOGOS dictionary Dear Web User, We would like to bring to your attention a new and important function, recently introduced into the LOGOS dictionary to assist you with your searches. It is now possibile to enter only the root of a term followed by an asterisk (* ) to obtain all the relative combinations. For example, inserting the string cheer* you are provided the following results: cheer cheer up cheerer cheerest cheerful ........ This new function is available in both the LOGOS dictionary as well as in the search of literary works, a recent addition to the LOGOS Multilingual Library. Thank you for your kind attention and.... saluti dall'Italia!!!! *************************ITALIAN TEXT************************* Cari Utenti, vi informo che da alcuni giorni e stata introdotta una nuova ed importante funzione che vi faciliter` nelle vostre ricerche. Ora h infatti possibile digitare solo la radice di un termine seguita da un asterisco (*) per ottenere tutti i relativi composti. Per esempio, immettendo "cheer*" si otterr` il seguente risultato: cheer cheer up cheerer cheerest cheerful ...... Questa nuova funzione e attiva sia nel dizionario multilingue LOGOS che nella ricerca dei contesti letterali, attiva da alcuni giorni nella pagina della biblioteca multilingue. Grazie e saluti da LOGOS - ---------------------------------------------------- LOGOS GROUP Stefano Gallorini Via Curtatona 5/2 Dictionary & QS Manager 41100 MODENA +39-59-412521 (voice) (ITALY) +39-59-280854 (fax) _ ___ ___ ___ ___ | |/ _ \ / _ \ / _ \ / __/ | | (_) | (_) | (_) | (___ | \_____/_\___ |\_____/_\__ \ \________|______//_____________/...non solo parole * ---> http://www.logos.it/ <--- * - ---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:30:36 +1000 From: chris@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Christina Gitsaki) Subject: PhD Thesis on Collocations Dear Colleagues, I would like to announce that my PhD thesis on the Development of ESL Collocational Knowledge is now available on the WWW. The URL is: http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/users/christina.gitsaki/ Any comments will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Christina Gitsaki ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 10:57:47 BST From: sdl04@students.stir.ac.uk ("S.D. Luscombe") Subject: FYI: RP Phonology site at Stirling University This web site has been designed to teach the basics of the phonology of RP. We were intrigued at the suitability of the WWW in delivering phonetic material; special attention had to be paid to sound and to a suitable phonetic script. Although we have done an extensive search of phonetics material available over the WWW, would it be possible for members of this list to provide us with some of their recommended phonology/phonetics related sites. Most searches seem to return computational phonology or lists of University courses. We would be happy to compile a list of interesting and useful sites. Stephen Luscombe sdl04@students.stir.ac.uk http://www.stir.ac.uk/epd/higdox/stephen/phono/phonolg.htm http://www.stir.ac.uk/epd/higdox/stephen/luscomb.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1017. From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Tue Jul 30 17:04:43 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:36:51 +0200 Old-Received: from lendal.york.ac.uk (lendal.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.21]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA02187 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:39:53 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: from ebor.york.ac.uk by lendal.york.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:33:47 +0100 Old-Received: by ebor.york.ac.uk (950511.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH526/940406.SGI) id OAA25581; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:35:46 +0100 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:35:45 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: Susan Pintzuk From: Susan Pintzuk To: Corpora List Subject: Brill's tagger and parser MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:36:58 +0200 About six weeks ago I asked for anonymous ftp sites and/or web pages for Eric Brill's tagger and parser. I'd like to thank the following people for their responses and help (I hope I haven't left anyone out): Eric Atwell Thomas Bilgram James Bullen Stephane Ferrari John Kirk Dimitrios Kokkinakis Diana Maynard Bradley Music Miles Osborne Maria Paula Santalla del Rio Jose Luis Sancho Tomoji Tabata Joel Walters Here are the sources for Brill's part-of-speech tagger that I've been able to verify: V1.14 (written in C) is available from 1. Brill's web page: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~brill/ 2. John Hopkins via anonymous ftp: ftp.cs.jhu.edu/pub/brill/Programs 3. the web page for the European Network of Repositories for Linguistics: http://www.de.relator.research.ec.org/resources/rule_based_tagger 4. the anonymous ftp site for the above: ftp://de.relator.research.ec.org/relator/resources/syn/tools/rule-based-tagger/ftp-file V1.13 (written in Lisp) is available from the Carnegie Mellon University Artificial Intelligence Repository: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/nlp/parsing/taggers/brill All of the above have links or subdirectories containing papers by Brill. I was also told that the Natural Language Software Registry and the Centre for Lexical Research distribute the tagger, but I have not been able to check these out. I have not been able to get any information about the parser. Susan Pintzuk Department of Language and Linguistic Science University of York Heslington, York YO1 5DD United Kingdom e-mail: sp20@york.ac.uk Telephone (direct line): +44 1904 432661 Telephone (department): +44 1904 432650 Fax: +44 1904 432652 From susann@azrael.mitre.org Fri Aug 2 21:41:05 1996 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 14:34:44 -0400 To: dbalta@iut.univ-metz.fr, kister@iuta.u-nancy.fr, hsaggion@dc.uba.ar, ariadne@dcc.unicamp.br, smyth@lake.scar.utoronto.ca, chambers@ling.rochester.edu, chur@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de, afzadeh@ese-metz.fr, lagunoff@ucla.edu, swilliams@bt-sys.bt.co.uk, Thorstein.Freitheim@avh.unit.no, bdgeiste@immd8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de, geurts@hal.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de, hamp@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de, anatrav@fltext.cci.org.ar, kwh@dcs.shef.ac.uk, keplicz@mimuw.edu.pl, hkim@colmex.mx, korbay@ufal.mff.cuni.cz, gj@ufal.mff.cuni.cz, evali@ling.su.se, joemayer@ims.uni-stuttgart.de, kpitkane@ling.helsinki.fi, cecile@vnet.ibm.com, ihw1009@mvs.oac.ucla.edu, mayumi@icu.ac.jp, MENUZZI@rullet.LeidenUniv.nl, r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk, MIYAMOTO@OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU, murata@pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp, y.obana@mailbox.uq.edu.au, ubjtp80@ucl.ac.uk, pum@wolf.northern.edu, ravnholt@hum.auc.dk, marco@cogs.susx.ac.uk, strube@coling.uni-freiburg.de, hahn@coling.uni-freiburg.de, stuckard@darmstadt.gmd.de, suehara@wellesley.edu, tyson@etan.ucl.ac.be, tutin@univ-lille3.fr, viegas@crl.nmsu.edu, edgdm@ssa.bris.ac.uk, renata@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, poesio@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, aexjeya@aen1.english.nottingham.ac.uk, liny@cf.ac.uk, fawcett@cf.ac.uk, not@itc.it, zancana@itc.it, linhs@lure.latrobe.edu.au, jardar@nvg.unit.no, annegret@ims.uni-stuttgart.de, bersani@philo.unibo.it, kajab@James.avh.unit.no, pmr@doc.ntu.ac.uk, r3108006@cc.ntu.edu.tw, dcohen@hum.huji.ac.il, coor@psy.gla.ac.uk, michel.cosse@linguist.jussieu.fr, saf@di.fct.unl.pt, pdoyle@britcoun.org.sg, cemmott@human.gla.ac.uk, robertg@dcs.shef.ac.uk, clare.gallaway@man.ac.uk, kicki@ling.su.se, kirsi.j.hiltunen@ling.helsinki.fi, Antonio.Branco@di.fc.ul.pt, llshuang@rdg.ac.uk, ak@nontri.ku.ac.th, brilau@alfa.avh.unit.no, loebner@ling.uni-duesseldorf.de, frlital@cbs.dk, luperfoy@mitre.org, maes@kub.nl, 100743.2246@compuserve.com, Pascal.Mouret@lim.univ-mrs.fr, nakaiwa@ccl.umist.ac.uk, kpb@psych.nott.ac.uk, paul@comp.lancs.ac.uk, f1juru@kielo.uta.fi, miyuki.sawada@st-annes.ox.ac.uk, kissing@ling.uni-duesseldorf.de, makotos@cogs.susx.ac.uk, kjetil.strand@ilf.uio.no, tomotsugu@ns.sist.ac.jp, ziv@hum.huji.ac.il, gunde003@maroon.tc.umn.edu From: susann@azrael.mitre.org (Susann LuperFoy) Subject: Discourse Resource Initiative webpages Greetings, Here is the homepage URL for the Discourse Resource Initiative. Updates to the server were made today. There may be a delay so notice, if the page comes up in green then you have not received the current version. More updates are planned for next Friday. Remember to encourage people to submit tools, data, corpora, etc. Regards and thanks for a great DARC/IndiAna conference. Susann From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Mon Jul 15 19:46:20 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:15:44 +0200 Old-Received: from raven.dcu.ie (raven.dcu.ie [136.206.1.8]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA27288 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:18:35 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: algrad1@ccmail.dcu.ie From: algrad1@ccmail.dcu.ie Old-Received: from ccmail.dcu.ie by raven.dcu.ie (PMDF V5.0-4 #12601) id <01I73YG0H0SW002OVN@raven.dcu.ie> for corpora@hd.uib.no; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 17:16:20 +0000 (GMT) Old-Received: from ccMail by ccmail.dcu.ie (SMTPLINK V2.11.01) id AA837476523; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 17:15:51 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 17:15:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Summary of Corpus Resource Information To: corpora@hd.uib.no Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Encoding: 33 Text Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:15:46 +0200 X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here is a summary of the answers I received in reply to my request for information on corpora resources for the main European languages. My advice is to check these web sites out for yourself. Many thanks to all who replied. regards, Ciara Walsh ************************************************* http://www.ids-mannheim.de/telri/telri.html This is the homepage of the trans-european language resources infrastructre (!) where you can find information about resources at the ids and a number of partner institutions. Particularly good for eastern european resources. At http://www.ruf.rice/edu/~barlow/corpus.html you will find a page maintained by Michael Barlow. This gives information on corpus resources in many languages, as well as software resources, bibliographies and pointers to other useful sites. The ACL SIGLEX at http://www.clres.com/siglex.html a wide range of resources including electronic dictionaries, corpora and treebanks. However, much of this information is still under construction. Finally, the UCREL homepage at the University of Lancaster http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel has an excellent list of resources for anyone wanting to know what's available for corpus research. From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Tue Jul 16 18:07:56 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:45:08 +0200 Old-Received: from uxmail.ust.hk (root@uxmail.ust.hk [143.89.14.30]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA04944 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:47:46 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: from SQZ171.ust.hk ([143.89.84.221]) by uxmail.ust.hk with SMTP id <18987-26619>; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 21:44:07 +0800 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 21:43:07 +0800 (HKT) Reply-To: John Milton From: John Milton To: corpora@hd.uib.no Subject: corpora & the web In-Reply-To: <9606158374.AA837476523@ccmail.dcu.ie> X-Sender: lcjohn@imap-stf.ust.hk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk Resent-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:45:13 +0200 A couple of people requested that I post any responses to my query about web searching. Ken Church sent me this and has given permission to repost: I think there is quite a bit of stuff out there that you might find useful. I'd start with the ECI CD-ROM, if you don't already have it. Here is something I'm putting together to help. Text is available like never before. Data collection efforts such as: the Association for Computational Linguistics' Data Collection Initiative (ACL/DCI), the British National Corpus (BNC), the Consortium for Lexical Research (CLR), the European Corpus Initiative (ECI), Electronic Dictionary Research (EDR) ICAME, the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), and many others have done a wonderful job in acquiring and distributing dictionaries and corpora. For more information on the ACL/DCI and the LDC, see http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc. The CLR's web page is: http://clr.nmsu.edu/clr/CLR.html, and EDR's web page is: http://www.iijnet.or.jp/edr. Information on the ECI can be found in http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/elsnet/eci_summary.html, or by sending email to eucorp@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk. Information on the BNC can be found in http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc, or by sending email to smbowie@vax.oxford.ac.uk. Information on the London-Lund Corpus and other corpora available though ICAME can be found in the ICAME Journal, edited by Stig Johansson, Department of English, University of Oslo, Norway. In addition, there are vast quantities of so-called Information Super Highway Roadkill: email, bboards, faxes. We now has access to billions and billions of words, and even more pixels. Actually, the web isn't as large as you might think. I believe that Lexis-Nexis still has quite a bit more than the entire web, though obviously they are very different kinds of texts. My guess is that Lexis-Nexis has more than a terabyte and the web is still only a few hundred gigabytes, though the web might be growing faster than Lexis-Nexis. Lexis-Nexis adds "only" a Brown Corpus an hour -- a million words per hour. I have no idea how fast the web is growing, but I could easily believe that it is much faster than that. From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Tue Jul 16 20:30:27 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:39:14 +0200 Old-Received: from csunb0.leeds.ac.uk (csunb0.leeds.ac.uk [129.11.144.2]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA06522 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:42:04 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: from csirisa.leeds.ac.uk (csirisa.leeds.ac.uk [129.11.144.129]) by csunb0.leeds.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA27835; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:28:52 +0100 Reply-To: E S Atwell From: E S Atwell Old-Received: from csgi74.scs.leeds.ac.uk by csirisa.leeds.ac.uk; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:28:52 +0100 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:28:52 +0100 To: corpora@hd.uib.no, John Milton Subject: Re: corpora & the web Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk Resent-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:39:25 +0200 X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit correction: >Information on corpora available though >ICAME can be found in the ICAME Journal, edited by Stig Johansson, >Department of English, University of Oslo, Norway. ICAME also has a WWW server http://www.hd.uib.no/icame.html (which includes an Archive of Corpora distributon list); and at ICAME 17th annual conference, Stockholm, this May, Stig Johansson handed over Editorship of ICAME Journal to Merja Kyto, Uppsala Univ, Merja.Kyto@engelska.uu.se Eric Atwell, CCALAS / School of Computer Studies, Leeds University From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Wed Jul 17 10:08:56 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:17:43 +0200 Old-Received: from cs.bilkent.edu.tr (gordion.cs.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.21.213]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12217 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:20:32 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: from hattusas.bilkent.edu.tr (hattusas.cs.bilkent.edu.tr) by cs.bilkent.edu.tr (5.65c/IDA-1.4) id AA18596; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 09:16:49 +0400 Old-Received: from hattusas by hattusas.bilkent.edu.tr (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA21018; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 09:18:11 +0300 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 09:18:11 +0300 Reply-To: Kemal Oflazer From: Kemal Oflazer Organization: Bilkent University - Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science , Ankara, Turkey X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4u) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: bildil Cc: corpora@hd.uib.no Subject: Morphologically Analyzed and Disambiguated Turkish Texts available Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk Resent-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:17:55 +0200 Morphologically analyzed and disambiguated Turkish texts are now available from URL http://www.nlp.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/. There are now two texts available comprising a total of about 12,000 words. Contrary to most tagged texts, we have represented what we think as the correct morphological parse in a hierarchical fashion with the inflectioal features after the last derived form being shown at the top-most level, and the nesting levels indicating the derivations in the lexical form. The disambiguation process also preprocesses the morphologically analyzed to group all lexicalized and non-lexicalized collocations. Any comments and/or corrections are welcome. -- Kemal Oflazer e-mail: ko@cs.bilkent.edu.tr http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~ko/ko.html Bilkent University tel: (90-312) 266-4133 (Sec) Computer Engineering Department 266-4000 x1258 (Off) Bilkent, ANKARA, 06533 TURKIYE 240-1627 (Home) fax: (90-312) 266-4126 ------------------------------------------------------------- "The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools." -- Anonymous From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Wed Jul 17 21:51:24 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 13:44:46 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1042, FYI: "Language Testing" on WWW, JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1042. Wed Jul 17 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 118 Subject: 7.1042, FYI: "Language Testing" on WWW, JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:09:49 BST From: kitao@unix.lancs.ac.uk (KENJI KITAO) Subject: "Language Testing" on WWW 2) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:24:00 GMT From: EBarham@BlackwellPublishers.co.uk (Barham Emma) Subject: JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:09:49 BST From: kitao@unix.lancs.ac.uk (KENJI KITAO) Subject: "Language Testing" on WWW "Language Testing" on WWW We have compiled "Language Testing" (URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/test.htm ). This web page includes information and links to resources such as materials in the TESL-L archives, organizations and universities, mailing lists, publications, English language tests used internationally, and non-English language tests. We also included information about organizations that administer English language tests, professional organizations related to language testing, and universities which have special projects or activities related to language testing. We included www sites of various English language tests, such as Cambridge, IELTS, TOEFL, and TOEIC. * * * * * We have moved "On-line Resources and Journals Related to ELT and Linguistics". The new URL is http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/onlin.htm . **************************************************************** * * * Dr. Kenji Kitao E-mail k.kitao@lancaster.ac.uk * * Dept. of Linguistics Work Fax 01524-843085 * * Lancaster University Work Phone 01524-65201 Ext. 3045 * * Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Hone Phone 01524-65201 Ext. 2335 * * URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/ * * * **************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:24:00 GMT From: EBarham@BlackwellPublishers.co.uk (Barham Emma) Subject: JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS Announcing an important new journal, launching in February 1997: JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS Edited by Nikolas Coupland and Allan Bell * The Journal of Sociolinguistics is a new international forum for leading research on language and society. It is open to both established and innovative approaches to sociolinguistics research. * The Journal promotes sociolinguistics as a thoroughly linguistic and thoroughly social-scientific endeavour. The linguistic and the social will both be present in all contributions. * The Journal will be hospitable to linguistic analyses which range from the micro to the macro, from the quantitative study of phonological variables to discourse analysis of texts. * Contributions from the ethnographic, variationist and sociology of language traditions are welcomed, as are papers from the social psychology of language, anthropological linguistics, critical discourse analysis, language and gender studies, pragmatics and conversational analysis. * The Journal will publish research which illuminates linguistic and communication processes, as well as applying and developing models of society and social processes. Language will be treated as not only a reflection of society but as itself constituting much of the character of social life. * Fresh approaches to the field will be encouraged through publication of commissioned articles, thematic issues, topical forums, and the opportunity for debate among contributors. * The Journal will explicitly promote the building and critique of sociolinguistic theory and encourage the application of recent developments in social theory to linguistic data and issues. 3 issues a year, published in: February, June and October For more information, or to add your name to our mailing list, please contact Emma Barham, Blackwell Publishers, E-mail: ebarham@blackwellpublishers.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1042. From owner-lang-use@VM.TEMPLE.EDU Fri Jul 19 03:34:56 1996 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.21 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:32:48 +0900 Reply-To: Language Use Discussion Sender: Language Use Discussion From: Donald Carroll Subject: Software summary To: Multiple recipients of list LANG-USE For those interested here in the summary the result of my survey regarding DA related software. I thank everyone who contributed their bit and hope that anyone who knows any other leads will chime in. WorkBench This is a MAC-based program written by Gene Lerner at UCSB. It is the only discourse specific program which I came across. Essentially it designed to help researchers store and cross-reference discourse data such as video and audio recording. It also provides a handy way of filing research notes and references. The program is currently being used in a number of important discourse research projects. You can download the Bench and/or read more details at the following site: http://alishaw.ucsb.edu/~lerner/benchHome/benchHome.hmtl Concordancers: Oxford Concordance Program (PC) WordSmith Both can be downloaded from the OUP site and the latest version of WordSmith can be downloaded from the following site: http://www.liv.ac.uk/~ms2928/wordsmit.html What you get is a fully functional demo which is limited to 25 lines of text. If you like what you see you email OUP, pay a fee, get a code and the program will "expand" itself into the full version. WordSmith is actually a nice little suite of programs with includes a concordancer, a word frequency counter and several very handy text conversion/ batch processing programs. Also form OUP is Mini-Concordance with works well for basic things. My own purpose for a concordancer would not be to do word counts but rather to place "disocurse codes" into data for later quantitative analysis. For example, tag falling intonation questions as xx. On the MAC side I've heard of Conc DATABASES I was told of the following databases but don't have any further information about them SALT and programs called CHAT and CLAN supposedly wel-liked for work on children's language. Check out the SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) site at www.sil.org I have been told that Dr. DuBois also of UCSB is working on something for the PC but that it is not yet available. Well, that's all the info I've collected so far. I would welcome any further clues. I believe Halliday stated that the tape recorder was the greatest invention in the history of linguistics (or something like this). The computer should certainly be a close runner-up. Don dcarroll@niji.or.jp From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Sat Jul 20 00:04:40 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:10:19 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1050, FYI: Web page for ESL teachers, More on Moby project To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1050. Fri Jul 19 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 82 Subject: 7.1050, FYI: Web page for ESL teachers, More on Moby project Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dizdar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:09:50 BST From: kitao@unix.lancs.ac.uk (KENJI KITAO) Subject: "Literature" on WWW 2) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:54:53 EDT From: mcovingt@aisun1.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) Subject: Re: 7.1045, FYI: Moby project, Parser available via web and ftp ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:09:50 BST From: kitao@unix.lancs.ac.uk (KENJI KITAO) Subject: "Literature" on WWW "Literature" on WWW We have compiled "Literature" (URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/literatu.htm). This web page includes three sections: general information resources for literature, information about 25 great authors, and 4 readings for EFL/ESL students. General resources include information about electronic texts, fiction, drama, poetry, the Bible, children's literature, journals, and mailing lists. This is useful for English language teachers who are interested in teaching English using literature. **************************************************************** * * * Dr. Kenji Kitao E-mail k.kitao@lancaster.ac.uk * * Dept. of Linguistics Work Fax 01524-843085 * * Lancaster University Work Phone 01524-65201 Ext. 3045 * * Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Hone Phone 01524-65201 Ext. 2335 * * URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/ * * * **************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:54:53 EDT From: mcovingt@aisun1.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) Subject: Re: 7.1045, FYI: Moby project, Parser available via web and ftp I also plan to keep a copy of the Moby distribution at: ftp://ai.uga.edu/pub/natural.language/moby At the moment it appears to be in directory "Moby-" rather than "Moby" at the Sheffield site. And I want to add my voice to the chorus of those thanking the author of these useful materials. - Michael A. Covington http://www.ai.uga.edu/faculty/covington/ Artificial Intelligence Center <>< The University of Georgia Unless specifically indicated, I am Athens, GA 30602-7415 U.S.A. not speaking for the University. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1050. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Fri Aug 2 22:50:16 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 14:48:12 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1100, FYI: Conference Index, O-Hayo Sensei #13 Now Available To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1100. Fri Aug 2 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. 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Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 11:56:09 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: Conference Index 2) Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 07:20:15 -0800 From: editor@ohayosensei.com Subject: O-Hayo Sensei #13 Now Available (Teaching in Japan) ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 11:56:09 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Peter White) Subject: Conference Index The new Conference Index, August edition, is now available on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/nllia/conf.html Thanks Peter White peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 07:20:15 -0800 From: editor@ohayosensei.com Subject: O-Hayo Sensei #13 Now Available (Teaching in Japan) In 1996 #13 (8/1/96): Thirty-One Teaching Positions Writing/Editing Jobs Advice For A Job Interview by Dennis Wilkinson Crossing Borders In Hiroshima -- JALT96 Conference The Classifieds Twenty Schools from the OH Databases (Subscriber Edition Only) Exchange Rates Airfares The complete current newsletter is available free via e-mail as a text-only document (about 40K), by sending a message with ONLY this EXACT text string in the body: get issue 1996no13 to ONLY this address: issue@ohayosensei.com O-Hayo Sensei will be e-mailed back to you in a few hours. 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SCIENCE -LEHDEN KOTISIVU http://www.aaas.org/science ------------------------------------ From susann@azrael.mitre.org Sat Aug 10 00:19:54 1996 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 17:14:59 -0400 To: dbalta@iut.univ-metz.fr, kister@iuta.u-nancy.fr, hsaggion@dc.uba.ar, ariadne@dcc.unicamp.br, smyth@lake.scar.utoronto.ca, chambers@ling.rochester.edu, chur@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de, afzadeh@ese-metz.fr, lagunoff@ucla.edu, swilliams@bt-sys.bt.co.uk, Thorstein.Freitheim@avh.unit.no, bdgeiste@immd8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de, geurts@hal.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de, hamp@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de, anatrav@fltext.cci.org.ar, kwh@dcs.shef.ac.uk, keplicz@mimuw.edu.pl, hkim@colmex.mx, korbay@ufal.mff.cuni.cz, gj@ufal.mff.cuni.cz, evali@ling.su.se, joemayer@ims.uni-stuttgart.de, kpitkane@ling.helsinki.fi, cecile@vnet.ibm.com, ihw1009@mvs.oac.ucla.edu, mayumi@icu.ac.jp, MENUZZI@rullet.LeidenUniv.nl, r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk, MIYAMOTO@OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU, murata@pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp, y.obana@mailbox.uq.edu.au, ubjtp80@ucl.ac.uk, pum@wolf.northern.edu, ravnholt@hum.auc.dk, marco@cogs.susx.ac.uk, strube@coling.uni-freiburg.de, hahn@coling.uni-freiburg.de, stuckard@darmstadt.gmd.de, suehara@wellesley.edu, tyson@etan.ucl.ac.be, tutin@univ-lille3.fr, viegas@crl.nmsu.edu, edgdm@ssa.bris.ac.uk, renata@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, poesio@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, aexjeya@aen1.english.nottingham.ac.uk, liny@cf.ac.uk, fawcett@cf.ac.uk, not@itc.it, zancana@itc.it, linhs@lure.latrobe.edu.au, jardar@nvg.unit.no, annegret@ims.uni-stuttgart.de, bersani@philo.unibo.it, kajab@James.avh.unit.no, pmr@doc.ntu.ac.uk, r3108006@cc.ntu.edu.tw, dcohen@hum.huji.ac.il, coor@psy.gla.ac.uk, michel.cosse@linguist.jussieu.fr, saf@di.fct.unl.pt, pdoyle@britcoun.org.sg, cemmott@human.gla.ac.uk, robertg@dcs.shef.ac.uk, clare.gallaway@man.ac.uk, kicki@ling.su.se, kirsi.j.hiltunen@ling.helsinki.fi, Antonio.Branco@di.fc.ul.pt, llshuang@rdg.ac.uk, ak@nontri.ku.ac.th, brilau@alfa.avh.unit.no, loebner@ling.uni-duesseldorf.de, frlital@cbs.dk, luperfoy@mitre.org, maes@kub.nl, 100743.2246@compuserve.com, Pascal.Mouret@lim.univ-mrs.fr, nakaiwa@ccl.umist.ac.uk, kpb@psych.nott.ac.uk, paul@comp.lancs.ac.uk, f1juru@kielo.uta.fi, miyuki.sawada@st-annes.ox.ac.uk, kissing@ling.uni-duesseldorf.de, makotos@cogs.susx.ac.uk, kjetil.strand@ilf.uio.no, tomotsugu@ns.sist.ac.jp, ziv@hum.huji.ac.il, gunde003@maroon.tc.umn.edu From: susann@azrael.mitre.org (Susann LuperFoy) Subject: Discourse Resource Initiative Web Pages Dear DARC/IndiAna Participant, The web page for the Discourse Resource Inititative (DRI) are now available. If you accessed the URL before today (8/9/96) you were not getting the current version. (One symptom is that the homepage comes up with a green background in case you have a color monitor.) The server has updates from 8/2/96. I'll be away until 24 August but will make more updates upon my return. Again, the URL is: http://www.georgetown.edu/luperfoy/Discourse-Treebank/dri-home.html Remember, if you have material you want to contribute, please contact me or the maintainer of the page that you think ought to point to your page. We expect the network of pages to develop rapidly. Your comments and suggestions are welcome, Susann LuperFoy From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Sun Aug 11 13:06:18 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Sun, 11 Aug 1996 11:40:34 +0200 Old-Received: from bsa2.athena.auth.gr (bsa2.athena.auth.gr [155.207.7.3]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA29204 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 11:43:31 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: from dialup.athena.auth.gr by bsa2.athena.auth.gr with SMTP id AA01977; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 12:40:01 +0300 Old-Received: by dialup.athena.auth.gr (1.38.193.4/4.7) id AA01260; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 12:40:01 +0300 To: corpora@hd.uib.no Subject: Science Lexicography Date: Sun, 11 Aug 96 12:40:01 EETDST Reply-To: Yiannis Hatzopoulos From: Yiannis Hatzopoulos Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 11:40:36 +0200 X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Sirs/ladies, those of you with interests in science lexicography might be interested in browsing the LexiGraf web page at http://egnatia.ee.auth.gr/~yhat/yiannis/ The above URL contains a quite detailed description on a multilingual natural science lexicography project currently taking place at the Aristotle University Thessaloniki Greece. Any feedback is welcomed. Please excuse the inconvenience. Yiannis C Hatzopoulos fax +30-31-798.432 From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Mon Aug 12 16:15:00 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 07:51:58 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1130, Sum: Working Dialogue Systems To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1130. Mon Aug 12 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 306 Subject: 7.1130, Sum: Working Dialogue Systems Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dseely@emunix.emich.edu (T. Daniel Seely) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 16:50:10 BST From: nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk (Nicholas Ostler) Subject: Working Dialogue Systems: Summary ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 16:50:10 BST From: nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk (Nicholas Ostler) Subject: Working Dialogue Systems: Summary On 17 June I put out a request for information as follows: >As part of my research for a lecture on the Commercial Reality of Dialogue >Systems, I would like to ask for pointers to any systems on sale to-day which >incorporate a speech or text dialogue front-end. > >Ironically, in the past (mid 1980s) these were the applications of language >technology par excellence, usually giving access to SQL databases, and names >such as Intellect, Q&A, Themis and Parlance are well known, though >surprisingly difficult to find running these days. It is much harder to find >modern instances of the species, despite the flourishing state of the >underlying theoretical field of dialogue simulation, ... >Partly perhaps, the ground has been taken over by multimodal interfaces. >("This may be dialog, Captain, but not as we know it.") But even there, there >does not seem to be a lot available in the stores as yet. > >If people would be kind enough to send me references (and indeed opinions or >anecdotes) on new systems that are beyond the research stage (preferably on >sale), or old systems that are still available, I should be happy to publish a >summary. I received about 12 responses, about half of them just expressing interest in the question and any answers I received. Thank you to the following people who materially helped me in putting together a response: Pierre Nugues, Wlodek Zadrozny, Norman Fraser, Madeleine Bates, Ken Purcell, Rene Collier, Ehud Reiter, Harald Aust, Susann LuperFoy, David Nash As I feared, the list of fully commercialized and still available dialogue systems is rather short. The most lively in the respect is the following: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My company, Philips Dialogue Systems, was established about 18 months ago in order to further develop, market, and sell natural language inquiry systems for operation over the telephone. These systems are based on the technology developed within Philips Research during the years 1992 - 1994, mostly by my colleague Martin Oerder (speech recognition, speech output, system integration) and myself (speech understanding, dialogue control). The two most important references for this system are H.Aust et al.: The Philips Automatic Train Timetable Information System. Speech Communication 17, pp. 249-262, 1995. H.Aust, M.Oerder: Dialogue Control in Automatic Inquiry Systems. Proceedings of the ESCA Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, pp. 121-124, Aalborg, Denmark, 1995. Also in: Proceedings of TWLT9, pp. 45-49, Enschede, The Netherlands. Our demonstrator has been operational and publicly available since February 1994, in German language, under the telephone number +49 241 604020. Swiss Railways commercially operates one of our systems under the number +41 157 0222. A number of systems for other customers, in a variety of languages, are close to their introduction. Note also our dialogue description language HDDL. Harald Aust Philips GmbH Dialogue Systems Kackertstr. 10 Tel. +49 241 8871 150 52072 Aachen Fax +49 241 8871 140 Germany E-mail aust@pfa.philips.de - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Others suggested accepting a wider definition of "dialogue": - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman M. Fraser, Vocalis Ltd: Ah well, it all depends what you mean by dialogue... In the world of spoken dialogue, most of the commercial action is in connection with systems having fairly small vocabularies and serving pretty mundane purposes. Telephone banking, for instance. Vocalis has supplied lots of these systems around the world, mostly offering DTMF only dialogues (customer conservatism, I'm afraid). However, we've got some speech recognition systems out there, most noteably with Abbey National in this country. Then we've done a few interactive systems for British Airways. Most of them are internal to BA (used for things like BA staff travel booking and seat availability inquiries). For a time some calls to BA's general flight information service overflowed to a Vocalis spoken dialogue system, though that is not the case at the time of writing. Then there is our Operetta `virtual operator' product which interrogates callers to find out who they wish to speak to (and such things) and acts appropriately. Call me on the number below if you want to have a go. We sell a voice dialling product called SPEECHtel which supports a certain amount of spoken dialogue in addition to the basic voice dialling function. I'm not aware of any really whizzy conversational spoken dialogue systems which have been deployed in anger, with the exception of the Philips train timetable system for Swiss Rail. Norman M. Fraser Vocalis Ltd Manager, Advanced Prototypes Chaston House Mill Court Tel: +44 (0) 1223-846177 Great Shelford Fax: +44 (0) 1223-846178 Cambridge CB2 5LD Email: norman@vocalis.com United Kingdom - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- David G Nash: I'm not sure whether you would include as a dialogue system one in which I press numbers on a phone pad to get info as digitised speech. If so, read on... I use one called DECTALK to get aviation weather. It is run by the Aussie Taxpayers' Airservices Australia, but the synthesised speech has an American accent (male for info, female for readbacks), and I'm guessing it is a commercial system. Pretty basic, but a good feature is that one can interrupt at any point and move on to another query. David.Nash@anu.edu.au - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There were no clear documentary responses from the producers of the classic systems which have been in the commercial domain: Intellect, Q&A, Themis, Parlance etc. However, I did have some enlightening responses on the current commercial view: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wlodek Zadrozny, IBM: I could give you a demo of our systems. They are not for sale yet, but work reasonably well. IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, P.O. BOX 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. tel. (914) 784 7835 e-mail: WLODZ @ WATSON.IBM.COM - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ehud Reiter, Aberdeen I saw your note about commercial dialogue systems posted to various mailing lists. I would be very interested in finding out about the results of your survey, please let me know when you have this. For what its worth, here are a few vague/random thoughts of mine on this issue: 1) Q&A is still around, indeed I saw it on sale in a software store a few months ago. Of course, it is unclear how much the NL side of Q&A is really used. 2) One might postulate that there's still a considerable amount of industrial R&D in NL interfaces to databases, its just less visible than it used to be. For example, I know that the Access group in Microsoft has some good NLP people, but they keep very quiet about what they're doing for commercial reasons. I also know people in other (US) industrial labs who are working on adopting NL dialogue ideas to multimodal interfaces - but again, this is commercially sensitive and they can't say much about this. 3) I must admit that my own experience (which is in NL Generation systems) suggests that it sometimes is easiest to make a good business case for NLP in document creation/management/processing/etc, which unfortunately does not tend to involve much dialogue. I used to work for a company which specialized in applied NLG systems, and generally found it much easier to "sell" an automatic document creation tool than any other kind of system. 4) I looked at the Web page for the Twente Conference you mentioned in your message, it seemed to mainly involve spoken language dialogue systems. I gave an invited talk last week to a workshop on the Dutch "TST" spoken dialogue system, and this seems like an interesting application area with potential for the future - but I believe that its just becoming feasible now to build such systems, so its a bit early to expect working commercial products. Ehud Reiter email: ereiter@csd.abdn.ac.uk - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Madeleine Bates of BBN: Parlance is not a currently supported product. We have turned our attention to speech-based products, notably a large-vocabulary, real-time, speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system called Hark. You can find out more about it on the BBN web page, http://www.bbn.com Since the late 80's, much of the best research done in regard to dialogue systems was done under the ARPA spoken language systems program. BBN was one of the contractors, as were MIT, SRI, and CMU. Papers on all the systems can be found in a series of workshop proceedings published by Morgan Kaufmann. The common domain that was used by all the contractors was ATIS (Air Travel Information System), and all of the systems that were developed were quite powerful and impressive. That work hasn't quite made its way into the commercial marketplace yet, but it is very close. I don't know that I have any "received wisdom" about commercial natural language interfaces, but I'll be glad to mention a few generalizations. Certainly one truism is that marketing is at least as important, perhaps more important, than technical capability. User acceptence depends heavily on many factors that have nothing to do with the linguistic capability of the system (for example, whether the time to produce an answer is predictable, or how easy the system is to configure and update). If you include speech systems in your report, you will find a lot to choose from. There are many applications that can be improved by speech recognition interfaces, without much in the way of understanding or complex dialog capabilities to support them. I expect that as speech interfaces become more common, more people will start demanding the kind of capabilities that only an "understanding" system (as opposed to a "recognition" system) can provide. It might be that this demand will be the "user pull" that will be more successful than the "technology push" in getting dialogue systems to the market. Dr. Madeleine (Lyn) Bates Assistant Manager, Speech & NL Dept. BBN Systems & Technologies voice: 1 617 873 3634 70 Fawcett St. fax: 1 617 547 8918 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA email: bates@bbn.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The final list of relevant WEB SITES I gathered is http://cs.uwp.edu:80/staff/haller/Activities/etce97.html Call for Papers, Energy Week Conference and Exhibition, Session on Natural Language in Human-Computer Interfaces, Houston, TX, January 28 - January 30, 1997 http://www-csli.stanford.edu/csli/projects/interface9495-srct.html Social Responses to Communication Technologies / CSLI / Stanford University http://www.ttt.bme.hu or else http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/elsnet/summerschool96.html The current Budapest summer school http://wwwis.cs.utwente.nl:8080/mars/ECAI96.html Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, August 96 at ECAI, the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/twlt/ University of Twente Conference on Dialogue Management in Natural Language Systems, June 1996 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are mostly relevant to conferences but there are three sites where ongoing work can be viewed, and in one case (CSLU) downloaded: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/toolkit/toolkit.html http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~kjp22/Personal.html http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~nugues - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- And my own two-penn'orth? Well, I incline to the view that economically, Dialogue is a Luxury Good within language technology: it appeals to institutions with a low marginal utility of money. Specifically, this means "the rich": e.g. successful IT and communications companies (Canon, Microsoft, British Telecom, NTT ...), military institutions (MITRE Corp.on behalf of US Dept of Defense ...), and "the disinterested" (e.g. universities, and government funding programmes - on a good day) The problem with the systems which have already made it to the marketplace, at least in text-based access to databases, seems to be that the back-end systems they access have been updated, but the natural language front-end has not: paradoxically, the NL part of the system is, over the long term, the most rigid. It seems that using a dialogue system is like J.L. Borges' view of friendship between Englishmen: it begins by excluding confidences, and ends by dispensing with conversation. Nicholas Ostler Managing Director President Linguacubun Ltd Foundation for Endangered Languages Batheaston Villa, 172 Bailbrook Lane Bath BA1 7AA England +44-1225-85-2865 fax +44-1225-85-9258 nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1130. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Mon Aug 12 16:29:10 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 08:26:57 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1133, FYI: Linguistic Enterprises, Conf List Update To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1133. Mon Aug 12 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 90 Subject: 7.1133, FYI: Linguistic Enterprises, Conf List Update Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dseely@emunix.emich.edu (T. Daniel Seely) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 19:13:54 EDT From: jfodor@email.gc.cuny.edu (Janet Fodor) Subject: Linguistic Enterprises, LSA workshop 2) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 13:34:18 EDT From: royfcoch@clark.net ("Roy F. Cochrun") Subject: Conference List Update ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 19:13:54 EDT From: jfodor@email.gc.cuny.edu (Janet Fodor) Subject: Linguistic Enterprises, LSA workshop LSA WORKSHOP: Linguistic Enterprises On behalf of the LSA I am planning a workshop to be held on Friday January 3 at the Sheraton-Chicago, 12:15 - 1:45pm. It will be the first in a series of workshops on making a living as a linguist outside of academia. We are looking for linguists who have developed successful small businesses or consultancies outside of academia but using their linguistics training. If you fit this description, and would be willing to give a brief presentation at the workshop to tell how you did it, please send a message by AUGUST 21 to: LSA@LSADC.ORG Mark it - Attention Janet Fodor, but do NOT send to me at MY email address since I will be away and won't receive it. Further information on the workshop will be posted in a few weeks. Janet Fodor Ph.D. Program in Linguistics Graduate Center City University of New York 33 West 42nd Street New York NY 10036 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 13:34:18 EDT From: royfcoch@clark.net ("Roy F. Cochrun") Subject: Conference List Update The language conference list located on the WWW at URL http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html has been updated with over 90 new conferences since the July 1996 edition. The list includes conferences for anyone interested in any aspect of natural language: linguists, translators, interpreters, teachers of languages (even one's own native language to native speakers, such as English in American high schools), those who are involved in natural language processing, et al. As usual, changes, updates, corrections or comments via e-mail to royfcoch@clark.net, please. Roy's Russian Resource: http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/roy1page.html Language Conferences: http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1133. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Fri Jul 26 02:12:00 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 10:56:42 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1072, FYI: LTRC abstracts, TESL/TEFL web site, Melbourne U url To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1072. Thu Jul 25 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 101 Subject: 7.1072, FYI: LTRC abstracts, TESL/TEFL web site, Melbourne U url Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dizdar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:52:51 +0300 From: valtanen@cc.jyu.fi (Helena Valtanen) Subject: LTRC abstracts 2) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 10:53:05 BST From: kitao@unix.lancs.ac.uk (KENJI KITAO) Subject: "Organizations and Mailing Lists" on WWW 3) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 20:48:45 +1000 From: s_nickn@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Nick Nicholas) Subject: FYI: Melbourne University Linguistics & App Linguistics Web Site ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:52:51 +0300 From: valtanen@cc.jyu.fi (Helena Valtanen) Subject: LTRC abstracts For your information Abstracts of the papers to be read at the Annual Testing Reseach Symposium in Tampere, Finland, are available at: http://www.jyu.fi/~huhta/muut/program.htm Helena Valtanen Language Centre for Finnish Universities University of Jyv{skyl{ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 10:53:05 BST From: kitao@unix.lancs.ac.uk (KENJI KITAO) Subject: "Organizations and Mailing Lists" on WWW "Organizations and Mailing lists" on WWW We have compiled "Organizations and Mailing lists in TESL/TEFL, Linguistics, and Communication" (URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/organi.htm) This web page includes information about professional organizations, institutions, and mailing lists available on WWW in TESL/TEFL, linguistics and communication. **************************************************************** * * * Dr. Kenji Kitao E-mail k.kitao@lancaster.ac.uk * * Dept. of Linguistics Work Fax 01524-843085 * * Lancaster University Work Phone 01524-65201 Ext. 3045 * * Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Hone Phone 01524-65201 Ext. 2335 * * URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/ * * * **************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 20:48:45 +1000 From: s_nickn@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Nick Nicholas) Subject: FYI: Melbourne University Linguistics & App Linguistics Web Site The Department of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne has a new web site, superceding the earlier Linguistics and Applied Linguistics web sites. The site is now: . Some last minute tidying up is still under way, and should be completed by next week. - Nick Nicholas. Linguistics, Uni. Melbourne. Dera m"e xham"e t"e larm"e, s_nickn@eduserv.its.unimelb.edu.au Dera mbas blerimit http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~nsn M"e xham"e t"e larm"e! In case you're wondering: Lumtunia nuk ka ngjyra tjera. the poem is in Albanian. (Martin Camaj) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1072. From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Tue Aug 13 18:22:34 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from alf.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:22:06 +0200 Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by alf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:22:02 +0200 Old-Received: from mailnews.kub.nl (mailnews.kub.nl [137.56.0.220]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16282 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:18:00 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: from itksuf.kub.nl (itksuf.kub.nl [137.56.0.104]) by mailnews.kub.nl (8.7.5/8.7.1) with ESMTP id QAA14188; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:12:28 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: by itksuf.kub.nl id QAA02394 (8.7.5/IDA-CLIENT-KUB-SUN for kub.nl); Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:12:27 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: Harry.Bunt@kub.nl (Harry C. Bunt, ITK) From: Harry.Bunt@kub.nl (Harry C. Bunt, ITK) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:12:27 +0200 X-Phone: (+31) 13 663060 X-Facs: (+31) 13 662537 X-Organization: ITK, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.3 5/22/91) To: comp.at.nat-lang@ucbvax.berkeley.edu, comp-phon@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, compunode@ecrc.de, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, corpora@hd.uib.no, csp-list@saturne.cert.fr, elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, fj-ai@etl.go.jp, hpsg@ling.ohio-state.edu, humanist@brownvm.brown.edu, ikbsbb@inf.rl.ac.uk, info@aaai.org, jqrqc@cunyvm.cuny.edu, linguist@tamvm1.tamu.edu, llsfonet@cms.am.rdg.ac.uk Subject: Computational Semantics 2 Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ******************************************************************** REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER ******************************************************************** Deadline for paper submission: September 15 ------------------------------------------- 2nd International Workshop on Computational Semantics IWCS - 2 January 8-10, 1997, Tilburg, The Netherlands WWW: http://tkiwww.kub.nl:2080/tki/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.html Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 12 pages and maximally 6000 words by September 15, 1996. Email a postscript version of the paper to: Computational.Semantics@kub.nl See the guidelines for paper submission below. All submitted papers will be refereed by the programme committee. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Mario Borillo Stanley Peters Harry Bunt (chair) Manfred Pinkal Robin Cooper Steve Pulman Jan van Eijck James Pustejovsky Giacomo Ferrari Allan Ramsay Erhard Hinrichs Uwe Reyle Megumi Kameyama Lenhart Schubert Daniel Kayser Jerry Seligman Paul Mc Kevitt Rohini Srihari John McCarthy Mark Steedman Reinhard Muskens Enric Vallduvi John Nerbonne Wlodek Zadrozny Martha Palmer TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop will focus on the computational aspects of formal semantic theories and on theoretical issues involved in the development of natural language processing systems. Papers are sought in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following topics: * underspecified semantic representations: definition and use * use of context in interpretation * the semantics - pragmatics interface * dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue * incremental interpretation * language and visual information * speech acts and interpretation * information packaging * computational lexical semantics * context modelling * interpretation and inference GENERAL INFORMATION: IWCS - 2, 2nd International Workshop on Computational Semantics January 8-10, 1997, Tilburg, The Netherlands The Tilburg Linguistics Department will host the Second Workshop on Computational Semantics, which will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, from 8 - 10 January 1997. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers involved in all aspects of natural language computational semantics. **************************************** * INVITED SPEAKERS * * * * Jerry Hobbs (SRI, Menlo Park) * * Manfred Pinkal (Univ. Saarbruecken) * * Lenhart Schubert (Rochester Univ.) * **************************************** ORGANISING COMMITTEE Harry Bunt Reinhard Muskens Leen Kievit Margriet Verlinden IMPORTANT DATES Submission of preliminary papers 15 September, 1996 Notification of acceptance 30 October, 1996 Final papers due 15 November, 1996 Workshop 8 - 10 January, 1997 GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS Papers should be submitted by email in Postscript form. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, which will be available at the time of the conference; we also aim at publishing a selection of the accepted papers in book form. All papers should contain: - a list of approximately 5 keywords - an abstract - a conclusion section The title page of each paper should contain the names, addresses, phone and fax numbers, and email addresses of all authors. For the production of the proceedings, final versions of accepted papers will have to be submitted in LaTeX form; it is therefore advisable to use LaTeX from the start. Please use the following LaTeX format as the basis for producing the Postscript file: \documentstyle[11pt,a4,epsf]{article} \setlength{\textwidth}{15cm} Please refer to bibliographical items using author names and year of publication, rather than by numbers, and sort the bibliography alphabetically. FURTHER INFORMATION Conference Secretariat: Anne Adriaensen Department of Linguistics Tilburg University PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands Email: Computational.Semantics@kub.nl Phone: +31-13 466 30 60 Fax: +31-13 466 31 10 WWW: http://tkiwww.kub.nl:2080/tki/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.html ******************************************************************** -- ------------------------------------------------------ Harry C. Bunt Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science ITK, Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen) 2653 (office, room B 310) Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110 Harry.Bunt@kub.nl WWW: http://itkwww.kub.nl:2080/itk/Docs/ ----------------------------------------------------- From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Thu Aug 15 17:19:03 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:50:02 +0200 Old-Received: from central.cis.upenn.edu (CENTRAL.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.12.2]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA03612 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:53:16 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: from unagi.cis.upenn.edu (UNAGI.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.8.153]) by central.cis.upenn.edu (8.6.12/UPenn 1.4) with ESMTP id JAA14068; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:47:02 -0400 Old-Received: from localhost by unagi.cis.upenn.edu id JAA26895; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:46:39 -0400 (EDT) Posted-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:46:39 -0400 (EDT) To: ldc-publicity@unagi.cis.upenn.edu cc: ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Subject: LDC-Online Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:46:39 EDT Reply-To: LDC Office From: LDC Office Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Introducing a New Service from the Linguistic Data Consortium LDC-Online is a new search and retrieval service, offering convenient WWW access to the text and speech corpora of the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). For more detailed information, or to try it out, see the LDC-Online item on the LDC's home page (http://www.ldc.upenn.edu). All LDC text and speech resources are indexed for convenient online access, as long as no copyright or other restrictions prevent it. You can browse (where the copyright owner permits), or search by word, lemma or part-of-speech, or search with (limited) regular expressions combining these elements. Statistics such as word frequency and mutual information between words are also available. Retrieved speech can be displayed or played via a Java applet (for users with Java-aware browsers). A Netscape "helper application" is also available for transferring speech to other programs such as Entropic's waves+. LDC-Online is free to researchers at current LDC member institutions. An interactive tutorial is available to members and non-members alike, as is a guest account permitting access to the Brown text corpus and the TIMIT speech corpus. From s_nickn@eduserv.its.unimelb.edu.au Sun Aug 18 16:29:24 1996 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 23:15:54 +1000 From: Nick Nicholas Subject: Web link update To: kpitkane@ling.helsinki.fi Reply-to: n.nicholas@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au Organization: University of Melbourne, Dept. of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi! Could you please update your link to our department on http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~kpitkane/kkp_info.html ? We are now the Department of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, and our home page is http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/Dept/LALX . Thanks! -- NON ME TENENT VINCVLA NON ME TENET CLAVIS STETIT PVELLA RVFA TVNICA SIQVIS Nick Nicholas http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~nsn Linguistics QVAERO MEI SIMILES ET ADIVNGOR PRAVIS EAM TETIGIT TVNICA CREPVIT EIA s_nickn@eduserv.its.unimelb.edu.au University of Melbourne ARCHIPOETAE CONFESSIO E CARMINIBVS BVRANIS From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Wed Aug 21 05:30:54 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 20:35:21 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1178, FYI: LSA Web Page, New LDC Search and Retrieval Service To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1178. Tue Aug 20 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 82 Subject: 7.1178, FYI: LSA Web Page, New LDC Search and Retrieval Service Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: aristar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Anthony Rodrigues Aristar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:44:48 CDT From: lsa@lsadc.org (LSA) Subject: LSA Web page and abstracts 2) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:15:16 EDT From: wzb@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Subject: LDC-Online: a new search and retrieval service from the LDC ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:44:48 CDT From: lsa@lsadc.org (LSA) Subject: LSA Web page and abstracts The LSA now has a World Wide Web home page. Information on the Society, the 1997 Annual Meeting in Chicago, and the 1997 Linguistic Institute is included as well as guidelines and submittal forms for abstracts. Please note that abstracts for the 1997 Annual Meeting may not be sent electronically and must be received at the Secretariat by 1 September 1996. URL: http://www.lsadc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:15:16 EDT From: wzb@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Subject: LDC-Online: a new search and retrieval service from the LDC Introducing a New Service from the Linguistic Data Consortium LDC-Online is a new search and retrieval service, offering convenient WWW access to the text and speech corpora of the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). For more detailed information, or to try it out, see the LDC-Online item on the LDC's home page (http://www.ldc.upenn.edu). All LDC text and speech resources are indexed for convenient online access, as long as no copyright or other restrictions prevent it. You can browse (where the copyright owner permits), or search by word, lemma or part-of-speech, or search with (limited) regular expressions combining these elements. Statistics such as word frequency and mutual information between words are also available. Retrieved speech can be displayed or played via a Java applet (for users with Java-aware browsers). A Netscape "helper application" is also available for transferring speech to other programs such as Entropic's waves+. LDC-Online is free to researchers at current LDC member institutions. An interactive tutorial is available to members and non-members alike, as is a guest account permitting access to the Brown text corpus and the TIMIT speech corpus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1178. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Sun Sep 1 03:22:40 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 19:20:43 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1206, FYI: Url for ling resources, Archive of unpublished papers To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1206. Sat Aug 31 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 76 Subject: 7.1206, FYI: Url for ling resources, Archive of unpublished papers Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dizdar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 19:56:05 BST From: kitao@unix.lancs.ac.uk (KENJI KITAO) Subject: resources for linguistics 2) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 20:03:04 BST From: dick@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk (Dick Hudson) Subject: unpublished papers ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 19:56:05 BST From: kitao@unix.lancs.ac.uk (KENJI KITAO) Subject: resources for linguistics Linguistics We have compiled: "Linguistics" (URL : http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/linguis.htm) We have listed such resources for linguistics as resources; conferences, events, institutes, etc.; associations, institutions, publications, publishers, mailing lists, computational and corpus linguistics; and others. **************************************************************** * * * Dr. Kenji Kitao E-mail k.kitao@lancaster.ac.uk * * Dept. of Linguistics Work Fax 01524-843085 * * Lancaster University Work Phone 01524-65201 Ext. 3045 * * Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Hone Phone 01524-65201 Ext. 2335 * * URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/ * * * **************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 20:03:04 BST From: dick@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk (Dick Hudson) Subject: unpublished papers I've just created an archive of unpublished papers (syntax, sociolinguistics and a bit of history of English) which can be collected by ftp. The papers are listed (with brief summaries) at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/papers.htm, and the archive directory is ftp://pitch.phon.ucl.ac.uk/pub/Word-Grammar. I'd much appreciate comments. Richard (=Dick) Hudson Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT work phone: +171 419 3152; work fax: +171 383 4108 email: dick@ling.ucl.ac.uk web-sites: home page = http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/home.htm unpublished papers available by ftp = ....uk/home/dick/papers.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1206. From ETHNO@CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU Mon Sep 9 19:48:21 1996 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 96 11:52 -0400 To: "Multiple recipients of ETHNO" Sender: "ETHNO hotline" Reply-to: "ETHNO hotline" From: btorode@tcd.ie Subject: Re: text and sound tracks Errors-To: X-HOTLINEName: ETHNO X-HomepageURL: http://cios.llc.rpi.edu X-ID: btorode12750@tcd.ie Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As he will doubtless mention himself, Gene Lerner developed software some years ago which linked recordings of conversations and transcripts of those conversations. It uses "Hypercard" which at one time was given away free with all new Macs. A sound file is linked card-by-card to the text. This approach suffers from some constraints, the main one being the size of the "card" (page) allowed by the software. It is inflexible: you cannot readily alter card boundaries without damaging indexing links attached to the cards. Although Gene has developed ingenious ways around this, the fact remains that this basic presentational unit, the fixed card size, bears no relation to analytical units of interest to researchers. However he may have made more improvements lately, and Hypercard itself continues to develop. * I am presently investigating Windows software called "Code-a-Text", as advertised in the notice attached below. This uses a "segment" as its analytical unit. Each segment can be as short as you like (a turn, or a fragment of a turn) or as long as you like (a "paragraph" or a whole text). While the research is in progress, and you have already done a lot of coding, you can "split" or "merge" segments (subject to some constraints): the software picks up all your hypertext index links and reassigns them appropriately. A sound file is linked segment by segment to the text. In "audio editor" mode you work exclusively within one segment at a time. You can repeatedly play back the sound of that segment only, moving back or forward, and editing your typescript as you do so. Even without the sound link, the ability to redefine segments, and to re-edit segments, constitute a huge advantage over Ethnograph and Nudist which permit no tampering with the data once analysis has commenced. In both softwares you can use fully formatted text (bold, underline, varied fonts, sizes, colours, which can be imported/exported as RTF files to or from your word processor). This is another advance over Ethnograph and Nudist which confine you to ASCI text so you cannot represent emphasis or other CA features. Code-a-Text permits many different views of your transcript: some show codes side by side with segments, others show text only. It also constructs a lexicon (index) of all words in the transcript. However this is does not work for CA transcripts, since pauses, overlaps, hesitations and emphases break up the lexical items into dissimilar fragments. * You can run Windows on a Mac using a DOS card or using "SoftWindows" software. You can convert Mac sound files to Windows using "SoundApp" or other freeware. * Despite all the new developments it is as well to be aware that software can burn up a lot of your life. A number of recent commentators (A. Coffey & P. Atkinson, _Making Sense of Qualitative Data_, Sage 1996) and Stanley & Temple in R. G. Burgess, _Using Computers in Qualitative Research_, Greenwich, CT: JAI 1996) have remarked that "word processors can carry out most of the analytical tasks that the practical researcher needs". ___________________________________________________ Code-A-Text V5 with support for audio files is now available. You can now download copies of Version 5 of Code-A-Text which has support for audio files from the CAQDAS web and ftp sites. http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/caqdas/packages.htm ftp://ftp.soc.surrey.ac.uk/pub/caqdas/pc/codatext The archives have been broken down into eight separate files to make downloading easier and the problems some people had in installing the earlier version have now been overcome. The archives contain the full getting started manual and demonstration files including a basic audio file are included. If you have difficulties in downloading you can find information about suppliers of Code-A-Text (who can supply the evaluation version on disk) at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Code_A_Text Brian Torode Sociology Trinity College Dublin, 2, Ireland ______________________________________________________________________ btorode@tcd.ie From INTERCOM@CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU Tue Sep 10 06:48:38 1996 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 96 21:06 -0400 To: "Multiple recipients of INTERCOM" Sender: "INTERCOM hotline" Reply-to: "INTERCOM hotline" From: "CIOS/Comserve Support Staff" Subject: changes to CIOS systems; call for papers and workshops announed ... Errors-To: X-HOTLINEName: INTERCOM X-HomepageURL: http://cios.llc.rpi.edu X-ID: support50316@CIOS.llc.rpi.edu Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit InterCom: A newsletter of the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship Seven items in this issue: 1. Automatic weekly file reports resume for CIOS members 2. Whitepages access now exclusively through WWW system 3. SCA online conference program database for 1996 available 4. Call for papers for MIA special issue: Panic -- Morality, Media, Culture 5. Conference announcement: Attending to Technology 6. Workshop: Formal semantics and pragmatics of dialogue 7. How to cancel one or more Comserve hotline subscriptions / How to cancel your subscription to InterCom NOTE: Please do not use a "reply" function to respond to an item in this file. If you wish to respond, leave your mail reading software and address your message explicitly. For example, if you wish to send a command to Comserve, leave the environment of your mail reading software and address your message by hand to Comserve@CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU --------------------- URL address of the CIOS/Comserve WWW server: http://CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU Email address of the CIOS/Comserve email interface: Comserve@CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Weekly File Reports Resume for CIOS Members Many CIOS members take advantage of the SET REPORTS WEEKLY option in Comserve to receive automatically a weekly report of new files added to the CIOS/Comserve resource library (this option can also be set through user profile option on the logon procedure of the WWW interface). Weekly file reports were disrupted last January as a result of the migration of CIOS services from the long-standing mainframe host to the new micro computer hosts. Happily, this feature has now been reactivated. Sign up for weekly file reports. It's a free service for CIOS members. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Whitepages Access Now Exclusively Through WWW System The email interface to the CIOS white pages service has been retired. The email system was unable to accommodate easily new features that were added after the WWW interface to the white pages came on line in May 1996. Since the focus for most CIOS database searches has shifted from the email interface to the WWW interface, support for the email interface to the whitepages has been dropped. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ SCA Online Conference Program Database for 1996 Now Available The CIOS has updated the SCA conference program database with information about the upcoming conference this November in San Diego. The SCA database can be searched by name of presenter or word in a presentation title (e.g., "conflict", "television", or "conversation"). The database can also produce itineraries for all events sponsored by CIOS divisions and program units (e.g., "Black Caucus" or "Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Division"). The CIOS has also installed a hypertext version of the SCA 1997 conference call for papers that can be accessed through the WWW interface. Select the SCA item from the CIOS WWW homepage for more information. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Media International Australia Call for Papers for Special Issue: Panic -- Morality, Media, Culture Submitted by: Peter B. White In 1972, Stanley Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics contained an analysis of the role of the media in the public panic associated with mods and rockers in provincial England. A special issue of Media International Australia on this theme is planned for November 1997, to be edited by Helen Wilson and Peter White. The editors invite proposals for papers which evaluate old perspectives, or present new perspectives on the phenomenon of the media and moral panics. Papers which deal with the role of the mass media (as technologies, cultural economies or textual practices) in the propagation of moral panics in areas such as gun control, dole bludging, pedophilia, ethnic crime and gambling would be welcome. In addition papers are sought which consider the implications of new media such as the Internet and video/computer games, and the ability of individuals and groups to generate such panics without the involvement of the established mass media. Expressions of interest with an abstract of 750 words and author's details are due by September 30, 1996. After notification of preliminary acceptance completed papers will be due May 1, 1997 in preparation for peer review. Expressions of interest should be sent to: Helen Wilson School of English, Linguistics and Media Macquarie University NSW 2109 email: hwilson@pip.engl.mq.edu.au ph 02 9850 8801 fax 02 9850 8240 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Conference Announcement: Attending to Technology Submitted by: Robert Kolker The University of Maryland presents ATTENDING TO TECHNOLOGY, Nov 7-9, at the College Park campus outside of Washington DC. ATTENDING TO TECHNOLOGY examines the intersections between technology, teaching and research. Keynoters are Ben Shneiderman, Director of the Human Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, and Martha Dexter, Director of the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. Plenary speakers include John Unsworth, Gregory Crane, Katie King, and Steve Ehrmann. For a complete program of speakers and workshops, and information on how to register, point your browser to: http://www.inform.umd.edu/CRBS/attendtech/announce.html To request more information or a printed brochure, contact crbs@umail.umd.edu +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Workshop: Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Submitted by: Jaeger Gerhard University of Munich March 10-12 1997 Invited Speakers: 1) Jonathan Ginzburg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) 2) Jeroen Groenendijk (University of Amsterdam) 3) Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam) The past years saw an increasing interest in attempts to apply formal methods from different fields to dialogue phenomena, where possible worlds semantics, DRT, situation theory, dynamic semantics, channel theory, and game theory served as starting points. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the mentioned and may be other fields. Abstracts are invited for 30 minute presentations (with 10 additional minutes for discussion) on any topic related to formal semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - The nature of the common ground in communication - Characterization of agents information states - The role and specification of extra-linguistic context - Updates of both common ground and agents information states - The interface between "dialogue syntax" and "dialogue semantics" - The interpretation of sub-sentential expressions under the perspective of dialogue - Similarities between human and non-human communication - Partiality of mutual knowledge of the dialogue participants Please send two anonymous abstracts (no more than two a4 or 8 1/2" by 11" pages in a 12 pt proportional font, possibly with an additional page for figures and references) together with a card specifying author's name, affiliation, address, phone number, e-mail address, and title of the abstract to Anton Benz & Gerhard Jager Graduiertenkolleg "Sprache, Information, Logik" Centrum fur Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung University of Munich Oettingenstr. 67 D-80853 Munich Germany Deadline: December 1, 1996 E-mail submission of abstracts written in LaTeX2.09 are welcome. They should be sent to "jaeger@cis.uni-muenchen.de". Further information may be requested from the same address. It is intended to publish a proceedings volume in the "CIS Report" series of the University of Munich. Important Dates: Deadline for submission: December 1, 1996 Notification of acceptance: January 10, 1997 Deadline for Registration: January 20, 1997 Workshop: March 10-12, 1997 URL: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/dialogwsh.html +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ How to Cancel a Comserve Hotline Subscription The CIOS/Comserve system governs access to more than 25 public hotlines and provides special commands and facilities to make it possible to treat these hotlines as subdivisions within a coherent structure. 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If you prefer, you can access Comserve/CIOS hotlines in read-only mode using the Comserve/CIOS WWW service (see the top of this newsletter for access information). From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Thu Sep 12 18:56:32 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 10:46:20 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1270, FYI: WWW lg conf list, Syntax utilities, Editorial studentship To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1270. Thu Sep 12 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 167 Subject: 7.1270, FYI: WWW lg conf list, Syntax utilities, Editorial studentship Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dizdar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 20:00:38 EDT From: royfcoch@clark.net ("Roy F. Cochrun") Subject: WWW language conference list 2) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:57:57 EDT From: meyers@ZELLIG.CS.NYU.EDU (Adam Meyers) Subject: COMLEX Syntax utilities 3) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:12:29 GMT From: Li.Wei@newcastle.ac.uk ("Li Wei") Subject: Editorial studentship ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 20:00:38 EDT From: royfcoch@clark.net ("Roy F. Cochrun") Subject: WWW language conference list The language conference list located on the WWW at URL http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html has been updated with nearly 60 new conferences since the August 1996 edition. Some other changes also have been made with this update, to include a separate page of links for linguists wishing to search for conferences themselves or for lists related to languages. The list includes conferences for anyone interested in any aspect of natural language: linguists, translators, interpreters, teachers of languages (even one's own native language to native speakers, such as English in American high schools), those who are involved in natural language processing, et al. As usual, changes, updates, corrections or comments via e-mail to royfcoch@clark.net, please. --Roy Cochrun Roy's Russian Resource: http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/roy1page.html Language Conferences: http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:57:57 EDT From: meyers@ZELLIG.CS.NYU.EDU (Adam Meyers) Subject: COMLEX Syntax utilities The Proteus Project would like to announce the availability of a utility package written in common lisp for use with COMLEX Syntax. This utility package is available by ftp or from our web site (see below). 1. What is COMLEX Syntax? COMLEX Syntax is a monolingual English Dictionary consisting of 38,000 head words intended for use in natural language processing. This dictionary has been developed by the Proteus Project at New York University under the auspices of the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). COMLEX Syntax, like other LDC products, is available for both research and commercial use to LDC members with minimal legal restrictions on its usage. The current version is COMLEX Syntax 2.2, released in January 1996. The current dictionary includes entries for approximately 21,000 nouns, 8,000 adjectives and 6,000 verbs, all of which are marked with a rich set of syntactic features and complements. Nouns have 9 possible features and 9 possible complements; adjectives have 7 features and 14 complements; and verbs have 5 features and 92 complements. Other entries identify words as adverbs, prepositions, cardinal numbers, etc. without further specification. The entries for 750 frequent verbs, contain 100 tags each, where a tag includes: a pointer to an instance of that verb in a corpus and the subcategorization appropriate for that instance. 2. What does the utility package do? The package includes programs which sort/print/format the dictionary in various ways, get all inflectional forms of head words, display citations from tags, and conduct boolean searches over the dictionary. 3. How do I get the actual dictionary and related corpus? Contact the Linguistic Data Consortium. Email Address: ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu URL: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu 4. How does one get the COMLEX utility package, and other stuff, including COMLEX manuals and related papers? Either: (A) visit our web cite at: http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/comlex or (B) Do an anonymous ftp to cs.nyu.edu and change directories to pub/html/comlex.html Please direct any questions to Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu). Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:12:29 GMT From: Li.Wei@newcastle.ac.uk ("Li Wei") Subject: Editorial studentship ABLEX EDITORIAL STUDENTSHIP The Ablex Editorial Studentship has the dual aims of promoting advanced research in the fields of bilingualism and cross-linguistic studies of language acquisition, development and impairment and assisting the Editors of the International Journal of Bilingualism (IJB), published by Ablex Publishing Corporation, in editorial and administrative matters of the Journal. Applications are invited from British or EU nationals with at least an upper second class honours degree, or equivalent, in either linguistics, psychology, or speech sciences. Relevant work and research experience, good written and oral communication skills, and familiarity with the use of the Internet and word- processing software would be an advantage. Knowledge of languages other than English is desirable, but not essential. The successful candidate will be registered for a PhD in the Department of Speech, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The Studentship covers maintenance and fees at the same level as UK research council studentships and is tenable, from 1st January, 1997, for a maximum of five years subject to annual review. For further information and application forms, please contact: Dr Li Wei or Dr Nick Miller Department of Speech King George VI Building University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK Fax: (0191) 222 6518 Telephone: (0191) 222 6760/5603 E-Mail: li.wei@ncl.ac.uk or nicholas.miller@ncl.ac.uk Closing date: Friday 18 October, 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1270. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Tue Sep 24 16:38:05 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:34:14 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1321, Sum: Standards for bibliographical references To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1321. Tue Sep 24 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 292 Subject: 7.1321, Sum: Standards for bibliographical references Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova Assistant Editors: Ron Reck Ann Dizdar Annemarie Valdez Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: dizdar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:00:53 BST From: oesten@ling.su.se (Oesten Dahl) Subject: Standards for bibliographical references: summary and proposal ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:00:53 BST From: oesten@ling.su.se (Oesten Dahl) Subject: Standards for bibliographical references: summary and proposal Two weeks ago I asked: >Is there anyone except me who feels the need for a unified way of writing >bibliographical references? I received responses from 23 people (I hope nobody has got lost). In addition, my posting has given rise to a discussion on another list, ling-tex, the discussion group of linguists that use TeX. Thanks to Martin Haase for keeping me informed about that development! Thanks also to everyone who has written to me and apologies to all those whom I haven't responded to individually. Here is the list of correspondents: Charlie Rowe Chungmin Lee Deborah D. Kela Ruuskanen Dominique Estival Donna Lillian Ellen Bard Glenn Ayres Alice Horning Ingo Plag Laurie Bauer James Jenkins Karen S. Chung Lee Hartman Martin Haase Adam Meyers meyers@acf2.NYU.EDU (meyers) Michael Covington Ocke-Schwen Bohn Jan Odijk Peter Daniels Christian Bauer Tracy Cameron Mansfield Gisela Redeker The respondents fall into three categories (with some overlaps): 1. Those who remind me of standards that already exist. 2. Those who remind me of the existence of various software which might solve the problem. 3. Those who simply support the idea. Accordingly, let's have a look at existing standards and software. EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STANDARDS The following bibliographical standards are relevant to the discussion (others that have been mentioned are in my view too far from linguistics and linguistic practice to merit serious consideration): 1. The MLA (Modern Language Association) standard. 2. The APA (American Psychological Association) standard. 3. The "Chicago Manual of Style" standard, which is really two different standards, which I shall call "Chicago I" and "Chicago II". 4. The Language Style Sheet, previously called the LSA Style Sheet. For reasons of space and typography, I shall not try to describe in detail what these different standards are like. Here are two web sites where descriptions and examples can be found of (1-3): http://www.lib.montana.edu/STYLES/index.html http://www.lib.lehigh.edu/footnote/descrip.html I think it is possible to exclude at once the MLA standard and Chicago II, which are fairly similar to each other but which deviate too much from what is common practice in our field (the main stumbling-stone being the placement of the year of publication towards the end of the record). More serious candidates are the APA and Language style sheets. The APA style sheet, as many correspondents have pointed out, is more or less universally accepted in psychology, and also in quite a number of publications on the borderline of psychology and linguistics. The Language style sheet (regrettably, I should say) never seems to have enjoyed a similar popularity. It seems that the LSA have kept a low profile on this point, mainly enforcing it in their own publications. (It is fairly similar to Chicago I.) EXISTING SOFTWARE Some of the software which has been mentioned by correspondents is - bibtex: A special program (bibtex) transforms a uniform ASCII bibliographic database into different bibliographic styles (which are defined in so called bibstyle files), so one does not have to worry at all about the final form of the bibliography, as long as there is a bibstyle. The citation within the text is also organized through style files (style sheets), the document styles (which contain other formatting information, so that the same text can easily adapted to the needs of a specific style sheet). (Martin Haase) EndNote Plus EndNote Plus 2 is a bibliographic database program that manages bibliographic references and creates bibliographies automatically in your word processor. More than 100,000 researchers, librarians, and students use EndNote Plus to maintain a personal library of references. The program assists academic writers and researchers in keeping track of bibliographic references and generating bibliographies for the books and papers that they write. EndNote Plus is available for Macintosh, Windows and DOS. EndNote Plus comes with more than 300 pre-defined bibliographic styles for the leading journals in a wide variety of disciplines, and you can easily create an unlimited number of your own styles. With Endlink, EndNote Plus's import module, you can save yourself from typing bibliographic data by hand. A variety of bibliographic databases available through online services and CD-ROMs can give you fast access to thousands of references. Using EndLink, you can import these references into your EndNote Plus library without typing a word (mentioned by Christian Bauer, info from http://www.niles.com) (Comment: the bibliographic styles do not include the Language style sheet or any other specifically linguistic ones) ProCite Use ProCite to organize references and format bibliographies in any journal style. Easily maintain databases of research collections and share data with colleagues. ProCite is available for Windows, DOS, and the Macintosh System. (mentioned by Peter Daniels, info from http://www.pbsinc.com) Blackwell Idealist (mentioned by Annabel Cormack) Seems to be a general database program (http://www.blacksci.co.uk/products/idealist/aboutide.htm). Now, what all these programs seem to be able to do is to store bibliographical information in a database and then generate formatted lists of references to be included in publications. This is all very well - actually, I think any database program with any self-respect can do that. The problem is that it does not really solve the problem, for the following reasons: 1. So far, style files are typically provided only for the major standards. Maybe we can convince the publishers who have their own idiosyncratic style sheets to supply style files, but then we have a new problem: the proliferation of software... The number of style files will have to equal the number of style sheets multiplied by the number of bibliography programs! So even assuming this solution it wouldn't hurt to introduce unified standards. 2. If the software is not seamlessly integrated with the word-processing programs people use, it will be very hard to convince them that it's a good idea. (This is, I guess, the main objection against LaTeX.) 2. Existing bibliography software seems to be quite good at GENERATING lists of references. But there are other tasks that are no less time-consuming, which those programs don't seem to be able to perform (correct me if I am wrong!): a. IMPORTING lists of references, not only ones specially formatted for the purpose (comma-separated or whatever) but all your old lists of references in various formats and various degrees of perfection b. PROOF-READING bibliographical references in text format c. CONVERTING references from one text format to another (maybe the same as a) Imagine for instance what happens when a volume of conference papers is produced. Twenty or thirty authors with varying backgrounds and varying ability and readiness to learn new standards are asked to comply with some publisher's idiosyncratic style sheet. Each paper contains between ten and fifty references. The editor of the volume (whether s/he is the person who organized the conference or someone at the publisher) has to check maybe a thousand entries. Anyone who has tried knows what I'm talking about... In this situation, no existing database will help you. THE OPTIONS If you do not believe me, half an hour in your university library will convince you that the situation with respect to writing bibliographies in linguistics cannot be characterized by any other word than chaos. There are about ten different ways of writing such a simple thing as the year of publication, which I won't bore you by enumerating. Just to give you an idea of what I am talking about, consider the following. The Journal of Pragmatics writes "Chomsky, Noam, 1957." when the Journal of Semantics has "Chomsky, N. (1957),". The prize for idiosyncrasy goes however to the Kluwer journals (Linguistics and Philosophy, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory), which write "Chomsky, N.: 1957, ". I can see no rational reason whatsoever why Kluwer Academic Publishers Group should be allowed to get away with this. It does not help that they provide a LaTeX style file on their website (http://www.wkap.nl/). In my view, there are three options: 1. Join the psychologists, adopting the APA standard. 2. Adopt the LSA/Language Style Sheet as the standard for linguistics in general. 3. Create a new standard. My personal leanings are towards the third alternative, although I realize it is a bit risky, in that it may just become a new "sectarian" style sheet used by a few people. The reason is that none of two major existing standards is quite adequate for the needs of the Internet age. (The APA style cannot, for instance, be rendered properly on the Linguist List due to the use of italics.) Below, I will describe what I call the "No Frills Style Sheet", which is my own proposal. It does have some of the look and feel of the LSA Style Sheet, but there are a number of points where it differs. THE NO FRILLS STYLE SHEET The idea behind this style sheet is that it should be maximally easy to learn and to use, both for humans and computers. The consequences are a set of simple principles: 1. A list of references should have a clear field-and-record structure, with consistent field and record delimiters. 2. Punctuation and variation in typefaces should be kept to a minimum. 3. Context-sensitive rules should be avoided - an entity, for instance a name, should be written the same way wherever it appears, as far as possible. 4. When in doubt, choose the alternative that is closest to common practice in linguistics (to the extent that it exists). Here are some examples what the application of these principles leads to: Book: Chomsky, Noam. 1957. Syntactic structures. The Hague: Mouton. Article or chapter from edited book: Traugott, Elizabeth. 1978. On the expression of spatio-temporal relations in language. In Greenberg, Joseph & Ferguson, Charles & Moravcsik, Edith, eds., Universals of Human Language, vol. 3, Word Structure, 369-400. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Article from journal: Hopper, Paul & Thompson, Sandra. 1980. Transitivity in grammar and discourse. Language 56: 251-99. The major difference from the Language Style Sheet is in the order some items are written. Names are always written as "Lastname, Firstname" - this makes sorting and searching much easier and also removes a source for typing errors. Similarly, the editors of books are written before rather than after the title. There are further details to be decided but this is the general idea of what it should look like that I would like to present at this point. WHAT NOW? I would now like to hear what people think about the alternatives. I would like to emphasize that whatever option we choose, it will be a big step forward in relieving us from a lot of totally unnecessary trouble, if we succeed in getting it generally adopted. Please write to me and tell me what you think. If this turns out be a serious business, we should probably get a discussion list of our own. But let us first see if there is enough interest in the whole thing. Oesten Dahl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1321. From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Wed Oct 16 18:01:17 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:57:53 -0500 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1449, All: WWW Virtual Library in Linguistics: New address To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1449. Wed Oct 16 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 49 Subject: 7.1449, All: WWW Virtual Library in Linguistics: New address Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova Ann Dizdar Assistant Editor: Sue Robinson Technical Editor: Ron Reck Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: aristar@tam2000.tamu.edu (Anthony Rodrigues Aristar) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:47:11 CDT From: linguist@tam2000.tamu.edu (The LINGUIST List) Subject: WWW Virtual Library in Linguistics: New address ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:47:11 CDT From: linguist@tam2000.tamu.edu (The LINGUIST List) Subject: WWW Virtual Library in Linguistics: New address Dear Subscribers: LINGUIST has now taken over maintenance of the linguistics component of the World Wide Web Virtual Library. The old address, which was: http://www.cog.brown.edu/pointers/linguistics.html is now defunct. The new address of the virtual library is now: http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/www-vl.html If you maintain any pages which contain links to the old location, please change them. Anthony, Helen & Daniel Moderators, LINGUIST ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1449. From jolaakso@cc.helsinki.fi Sat Oct 19 09:05:50 1996 Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 09:04:14 +0300 (EET DST) From: Johanna Laakso X-Sender: jolaakso@kruuna.Helsinki.FI To: univmaster@csc.fi, kpitkane@ling.helsinki.fi, blomster@raita.oulu.fi, caoimhin@smo.uhi.ac.uk, tryhanen@raita.oulu.fi, Kirsi.Luukkanen@eduskunta.FI, Matsumura Kazuto Subject: Uusi WWW-osoite - New WWW address MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Helsingin yliopiston suomalais-ugrilaisen laitoksen kotisivut muuttavat uuteen osoitteeseen: The WWW home pages of the Dept. of Finno-Ugrian Studies (Univ. of Helsinki) move to new URL: http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/sugl/ ------- Johanna Laakso ------------- ------ Helsingin yliopisto, Suomalais-ugrilainen laitos --------- -- University of Helsinki, Department of Finno-Ugrian Studies --- ------------- http://www.helsinki.fi/~jolaakso/ ----------------- --------"Jouhekas hyvä hevonen, paha nainen hapsillinen."-------- From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Mon Nov 4 20:20:26 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Mon, 4 Nov 1996 17:22:07 +0100 Old-Received: from cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (cayuga.cs.rochester.edu [192.5.53.209]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA12341 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 17:21:54 +0100 (MET) Old-Received: from slate.cs.rochester.edu (slate.cs.rochester.edu [192.5.53.101]) by cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (8.6.9/H) with ESMTP id LAA00945; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:21:48 -0500 Old-Received: from rhino.cs.rochester.edu (rhino.cs.rochester.edu [192.5.53.147]) by slate.cs.rochester.edu (8.6.9/K) with SMTP id LAA26461; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:21:42 -0500 To: Annette@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de cc: corpora@hd.uib.no Subject: Re: Corpus of spoken english In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:58:47 +0100." <9610310858.AA22083@rpool8.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 11:21:42 -0500 Reply-To: "Eric K. Ringger" From: "Eric K. Ringger" Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. Annette@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de wrote: >I am looking for a corpus of spoken English including slips of the tongue. [...] You might be interested in the TRAINS Dialogue Corpus. See: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/speech/dialogues.html --Eric --- Eric K. Ringger mailto:ringger@cs.rochester.edu Dept. of Computer Science Office: +1-716-275-0922; Lab: +1-716-275-5377 University of Rochester Fax: +1-716-461-2018 Rochester NY 14627-0226 http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/ringger/ ||||| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ||||| From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Fri Nov 22 01:37:45 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:30:01 -0600 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1640, FYI: Common Lisp Web Server, European Lg Resources Association To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1640. Thu Nov 21 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 223 Subject: 7.1640, FYI: Common Lisp Web Server, European Lg Resources Association Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova Ann Dizdar Assistant Editor: Sue Robinson Technical Editor: Ron Reck Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:28:40 EST From: jcma@ai.mit.edu ("John C. Mallery") Subject: ANNOUNCE: Common Lisp Web Server (60.57) 2) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:00:55 +0100 From: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr (Khalid Choukri) Subject: INFORMATION FROM ELRA (European Language Resources Association) ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:28:40 EST From: jcma@ai.mit.edu ("John C. Mallery") Subject: ANNOUNCE: Common Lisp Web Server (60.57) Server: A full-featured, production-quality, HTTP 1.1 Compliant Web server wholely written in Common Lisp is *freely* available from the following URL at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Information: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/cl-http/home-page.html Q: Why might you care about this? A: You might be interested in: * Minimizing the cycle time from conceptualization to market. (Cooler than being last to market!) * Generating all HTML interfaces on the fly. (Cooler than terabytes of legacy html!) * Synthesing JavaScript and Java on the fly. (Cooler than typing it in by hand!) * Creating 3D VRML worlds on the fly. (Cooler than learning OpenInventor!) * Using an extensible presentation lattice to accept input or present output. (Cooler than duplicating endless input validators, and then getting a better idea!) * Developing complex or advanced Web applications. (Cooler than serving static files!) * Creating intelligent, knowledge-based Web sites. (Cooler than even an "Active-X enchanced" site!) Language: Common Lisp is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language that is used to develop and deploy leading-edge applications in university, government, and business settings. This highly flexible and evolvable language has been typically used to develop large and complex artificial intelligence or natural languagge understanding systems. These kindsof power programming tools are becoming increasingly relevant for Web developers as ever more is required in ever less time. Platforms: The server presently runs with full source-compatibility on the following platforms: * Macintosh (MCL - Comes on the CD) * UNIX (Allegro, LispWorks, Lucid) (Many flavors, including SunOS, Solaris, SGI, OSF) * Windows NT (Allegro) (Several new Lisps currently being tuned for NT). * Lisp Machines (Symbolics 8.3, Open Genera 1.0) Additional ports are underway. Reality: This server was the first known HTTP 1.1 implementation last August, and has subsequently been through a second release cycle. Also included in the distribution are a program-level client with 1.0 persistent connections, an HTML parser, and a constraint-based web walker. Snap up this opportunity now before the next release add new modules to the learning curve. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:00:55 +0100 From: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr (Khalid Choukri) Subject: INFORMATION FROM ELRA (European Language Resources Association) INFORMATION FROM THE European Language Resources Association ELRA News -------------------------------------------- [ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ] ELRA (European Language Resources Association), was founded in Luxembourg in February 1995, as a non-profit organization, with the goal of promoting the creation, verification and distribution of Language Resources (LR). In addition to helping users and developers, government agencies, and other interested parties exploit language resources for a wide variety of use, ELRA serves as the European repository for EU-funded language resources, and interact with similar bodies in other parts of the world. Funded in the medium term by membership fees, grants from the European Commission and national governments, together with projects income, the Association will be financially self-supporting in the long run. A 12-member Board is in charge of the strategy and objectives to be adopted by the Association. Relevant LR are Spoken Databases, Lexica, Grammars, Written Corpora and Terminological Data. These are required for the development of speech and text processing systems for a large number of applications in various information technology areas. ELRA licences LR for R&D, as soon as these are made available. According to the agreements made between ELRA and its providers, resources can be either reserved for research purposes or used for the development of products and services. Licence agreements, drawn with the support of lawyers, are used for negotiations. Such contracts are available at ELRA office. Lexica, Corpora (spoken and written), Grammars and Tools are described in easy-to-understand presentation forms. All these documents can be found on the ELRA Web site. ELRA Newsletters --------------- A Newsletter is released by ELRA every Quarter. The next three issues will primarily and alternatively be devoted to each of the 3 Colleges of the Association : spoken, written and terminological resources. The October Newletter (vol.1 n.3) is already available at ELRA office. It is entirely dedicated to Terminology. The next two issues will be dedicated to written and spoken resources. The ELRA Web site ----------------- The ELRA Web site is now available in English and French. The URL addresses are: English version: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html, French version : http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/fr/home.html, ELRA Language Resources catalogue --------------------------------- A catalogue of the LR negotiated or under negotiation by ELRA can be found on our Web site. For quotation, please refer to this site or directly to ELRA office. A published version is released twice a year (together with number 1 and 3 of the Newsletter). Resources appearing in the catalogue are separated according to the three Colle ges : spoken resources, written resources (corpora, lexica and tools) and termi nological resources. The catalogue consists of : 1) Spoken resources : 30 databases (recordings from microphone, telephone, continuous speech, isolated words, several languages, etc.). 2) Written resources : * 9 monolingual and multilingual corpora * 12 monolingual lexica * Over 30 multilingual lexical * A linguistic software platform and Grammars Development platform 3) Terminological resources : over 90 databases with a wide range of domains and severallanguages (French, English, German, Spanish, Danish, Italian, Catalan, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese). ELRA Membership --------------- ELRA members are entitled to substantial discounts on public prices of the resources and other products (such as the Guide for Terminology Agreements and several commercial reports).ELRA membership is open to any organization, public or private, with full membership(including voting privileges) being available to organizations registered in Europe. Purely for organizational purposes, members will be assigned to one of the Colleges on the basis of their main area of interest. The annual membership fee has been set at a modest ECU 1,000 to encourage broad participation. You may also opt to join more than one College, in which case you will be required to pay multiple membership fees. Please ask for a membership form or download it from the ELRA Web site. For further information : ELRA/ELDA 87, Avenue d'Italie FR-75013 PARIS FRANCE Tel : +33 01 45 86 53 00 Fax : +33 01 45 86 44 88 E-mail : elra@calva.net http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1640. From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Wed Nov 20 22:23:49 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:37:18 +0100 Old-Received: from ns.calvacom.fr (ns.calvacom.fr [194.2.168.1]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA13162 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:12:38 +0100 (MET) Old-Received: from ppp2-3.calvacom.fr (ppp2-3.calvacom.fr [194.2.171.130]) by ns.calvacom.fr (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA29333; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:00:55 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:00:55 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: sca@icp.grenet.fr, cocosda@atr.co.jp, catmt@atril.com, esca_list@cristal.icp.grenet.fr, dictionary@rhino.harvard.edu, elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl, listserver@ids-mannheim.de, linguist@unix.tamu.edu, LINGUIST@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU, nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu, siggen@black.bgu.ac.il, empiricists@csli.stanford.edu, SCHOLAR%CUNYVM.BITNET@alf.uib.no, corpora@hd.uib.no, ln%frmop11.BITNET@alf.uib.no, CMP-LG@XXX.LANL.GOV, nlpeople@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, comp-phon@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, sigparse-list@nl.cs.cmu.edu, aisb@cogs.sussex.ac.uk, mol-list@cs.ucsd.edu, ikbsbb@inf.rl.ac.uk, humanist@brownvm.brown.edu, comp-speech@cs.utexas.edu, lexical@nmsu.edu, arpanet-bboard@mc.lcs.mit.edu, ectl-sub@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, corpora@hd.uib.no, jqrqc@cunyvm.cuny.edu, sidsepln@si.ehu.es, nlp-members@pluto.ai.kyutech.ac.jp, news-announce-conferences@uunet.uu.net Reply-To: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr (Khalid Choukri) From: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr (Khalid Choukri) Subject: INFORMATION FROM ELRA (European Language Resources Association) Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk INFORMATION FROM THE European Language Resources Association ELRA News -------------------------------------------- [ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ] ELRA (European Language Resources Association), was founded in Luxembourg in February 1995, as a non-profit organization, with the goal of promoting the creation, verification and distribution of Language Resources (LR). In addition to helping users and developers, government agencies, and other interested parties exploit language resources for a wide variety of use, ELRA serves as the European repository for EU-funded language resources, and interact with similar bodies in other parts of the world. Funded in the medium term by membership fees, grants from the European Commission and national governments, together with projects income, the Association will be financially self-supporting in the long run. A 12-member Board is in charge of the strategy and objectives to be adopted by the Association. Relevant LR are Spoken Databases, Lexica, Grammars, Written Corpora and Terminological Data. These are required for the development of speech and text processing systems for a large number of applications in various information technology areas. ELRA licences LR for R&D, as soon as these are made available. According to the agreements made between ELRA and its providers, resources can be either reserved for research purposes or used for the development of products and services. Licence agreements, drawn with the support of lawyers, are used for negotiations. Such contracts are available at ELRA office. Lexica, Corpora (spoken and written), Grammars and Tools are described in easy-to-understand presentation forms. All these documents can be found on the ELRA Web site. ELRA Newsletters --------------- A Newsletter is released by ELRA every Quarter. The next three issues will primarily and alternatively be devoted to each of the 3 Colleges of the Association : spoken, written and terminological resources. The October Newletter (vol.1 n.3) is already available at ELRA office. It is entirely dedicated to Terminology. The next two issues will be dedicated to written and spoken resources. The ELRA Web site ----------------- The ELRA Web site is now available in English and French. The URL addresses are: English version: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html, French version : http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/fr/home.html, ELRA Language Resources catalogue --------------------------------- A catalogue of the LR negotiated or under negotiation by ELRA can be found on our Web site. For quotation, please refer to this site or directly to ELRA office. A published version is released twice a year (together with number 1 and 3 of the Newsletter). Resources appearing in the catalogue are separated according to the three Colleges : spoken resources, written resources (corpora, lexica and tools) and terminological resources. The catalogue consists of : 1) Spoken resources : 30 databases (recordings from microphone, telephone, continuous speech, isolated words, several languages, etc.). 2) Written resources : * 9 monolingual and multilingual corpora * 12 monolingual lexica * Over 30 multilingual lexical * A linguistic software platform and Grammars Development platform 3) Terminological resources : over 90 databases with a wide range of domains and several languages (French, English, German, Spanish, Danish, Italian, Catalan, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese). ELRA Membership --------------- ELRA members are entitled to substantial discounts on public prices of the resources and other products (such as the Guide for Terminology Agreements and several commercial reports). ELRA membership is open to any organization, public or private, with full membership (including voting privileges) being available to organizations registered in Europe. Purely for organizational purposes, members will be assigned to one of the Colleges on the basis of their main area of interest. The annual membership fee has been set at a modest ECU 1,000 to encourage broad participation. You may also opt to join more than one College, in which case you will be required to pay multiple membership fees. Please ask for a membership form or download it from the ELRA Web site. For further information : ELRA/ELDA 87, Avenue d'Italie FR-75013 PARIS FRANCE Tel : +33 01 45 86 53 00 Fax : +33 01 45 86 44 88 E-mail : elra@calva.net http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From owner-linguist@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Fri Nov 29 22:31:45 1996 Approved-By: The Linguist List Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 14:29:13 -0600 Reply-To: The Linguist List Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The Linguist List Subject: 7.1687, FYI: Lang Conf. List,General Architecture for Text Engineering To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1687. Fri Nov 29 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 121 Subject: 7.1687, FYI: Lang Conf. List,General Architecture for Text Engineering Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova Ann Dizdar Assistant Editor: Sue Robinson Technical Editor: Ron Reck Software development: John H. Remmers Editor for this issue: lveselin@emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova) ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:00:06 EST From: royfcoch@clark.net ("Roy F. Cochrun") Subject: Language Conference List Update 2) Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:45:28 GMT From: K.Humphreys@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Kevin Humphreys) Subject: General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:00:06 EST From: royfcoch@clark.net ("Roy F. Cochrun") Subject: Language Conference List Update The language conference list located on the WWW at URL http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html has been updated with over 50 new conferences since the October 1996 edition. The next update probably will be after the December holidays. The list includes conferences for anyone interested in any aspect of natural language: linguists, translators, interpreters, teachers of languages (even one's own native language to native speakers, such as English in American high schools), those who are involved in natural language processing, et al. As usual, changes, updates, corrections or comments via e-mail to royfcoch@clark.net, please. --Roy Cochrun Roy's Russian Resource: http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/roy1page.html Language Conferences: http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:45:28 GMT From: K.Humphreys@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Kevin Humphreys) Subject: General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. The first release of Sheffield's General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) is now available. Details can be found at: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/gate GATE is a software environment which supports * researchers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL) * developers who are producing and delivering Language Engineering (LE) systems. GATE includes an implementation of the system architecture proposed as part of the DARPA TIPSTER Text Program. This aims to provide * a communication and control infrastructure for linking together sets of LE software modules * plug-and-play module interchangeability allowing users to select from different suppliers standard access modes to common data resources (lexica, corpora, etc). GATE also provides a sophisticated (well, we think so) interface for the addition and operation of TIPSTER compliant software modules, and for the development of systems made up of such modules, including * visualisation tools for parse trees, co-reference chains, and POS tags * support for document collection management. GATE is not specific to any theoretical approach nor to any application area within LE, NLP or CL. However, with the aim of promoting collaborative research on Information Extraction (IE) and of illustrating GATE in action, the initial distribution of the system includes a set of modules which implements a full-scale MUC-6-compatible IE system called VIE - the Vanilla IE system. VIE contains modules to do: * tokenisation * sentence-splitting * stemming * POS-tagging * named-entity identification * parsing * discourse interpretation (including co-reference resolution). To obtain GATE, please retrieve and complete a licence from: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/gate/software.html On receipt of your licence we will mail you a password which will enable you to download the system. GATE is free for research purposes to academic organisations and by arrangement for research purposes to commercial organisations. GATE is funded by the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Contact gate@dcs.shef.ac.uk for further information. Robert Gaizauskas, Yorick Wilks Hamish Cunningham, Kevin Humphreys, Pete Rodgers, Martin Stower Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1687. From empiricists-owner@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Thu Dec 5 05:22:10 1996 From: EAGLES editors Subject: EAGLES results now available To: empiricists@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 22:18:56 EST Sender: yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: EAGLES editors EAGLES Results Now Available The Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards (EAGLES) is pleased to announce that results of the EAGLES initiative are now available on the EAGLES WWW server at: http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES/home.html EAGLES (LRE-61-100) is an initiative of the European Commission which aims to accelerate the provision of standards for: * Very large-scale language resources (such as text corpora, computational lexicons and speech corpora); * Means of manipulating such knowledge, via computational linguistic formalisms, mark up languages and various software tools; * Means of assessing and evaluating resources, tools and products. Numerous well-known companies, research centres, universities and professional bodies across the European Union are collaborating under the aegis of EC DGXIII to produce the EAGLES Guidelines which set out recommendations for de facto standards and for good practice in the above areas of language engineering. Some 200 individuals are involved. The EAGLES initiative is coordinated by Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, Pisa, Italy which also manages the EAGLES WWW server. The work towards guidelines was carried out by five Working Groups: Text Corpora Computational Lexicons Grammar Formalisms Evaluation Spoken Language As may be appreciated, we are engaged in a massive collaborative exercise that is producing large volumes of documentation. The project is steadily working towards full publishable quality of the documentation and also widespread dissemination of hyperdocuments via the Web. What is made available on the EAGLES WWW server is to be understood in this light. The reader is advised to read the Editors' Introduction which gives information on the initiative in general and describes the currently available documentation. The reader is further requested to note the relative status of documents and their date of revision. This latter information is to be found by following the link 'Browse the EAGLES Guidelines' from the home page. As we are still in the process of converting documents for mounting on the Web, certain links may be inactive (particularly links between separate documents). Some documents have a low density of links. In time, these deficiencies will be rectified. At present, we beg the reader's indulgence: our primary concern is to make material available as early as possible, even if in draft or unrevised form. As revised and more densely linked material becomes available, announcements will be made via the home page and status information will be updated. Thus, it is appropriate to re-visit the EAGLES Web site at regular intervals. Indeed, a further major concern is to receive feedback from the wider community on the contents of the EAGLES Guidelines, thus the reader is actively encouraged to contribute through constructive criticism. Details of the feedback mechanism are also available from the home page. The EAGLES editorial board and coordinator would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people who have been involved in this enterprise. The reader will note that all EAGLES guidelines appear under the authorship of `EAGLES' --- this reflects the fact that numerous people have been associated with the elaboration of a document, as members of the working group, as writers recording a working group's proposals, as reviewers, as evaluators, as advisers, as editors of a working group's output and so on. We thus trust that the material offered here, being the result of the best efforts of many people, will prove of use in providing guidelines for best practice in our field. Nicoletta Calzolari Antonio Zampolli John McNaught EAGLES Coordinator EAGLES Co-Chief Editors ceditor@tnos.ilc.pi.cnr.it From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Tue Dec 10 23:04:28 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:35:26 +0100 Old-Received: from linc.cis.upenn.edu (LINC.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.12.3]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21244 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:35:52 +0100 (MET) Old-Received: from mifflin.ling.upenn.edu (MIFFLIN.LING.UPENN.EDU [158.130.16.100]) by linc.cis.upenn.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA00713 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:35:21 -0500 (EST) Old-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mifflin.ling.upenn.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA22979; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:35:19 -0500 (EST) To: corpora@hd.uib.no cc: ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Subject: Re: Lists of corpora In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Dec 1996 19:20:19 PST." <9612100320.AA16871@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:35:18 EST Reply-To: Sarah Parnum From: Sarah Parnum Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I am seeking a list of currently available corpora and > > understand that you possibly maintain one. > If by "you" you mean "ICAME", yes it does. It has the Lancaster > survey and my own survey of corpora. These are available via > anonymous ftp to nora.hd.uib.no in directory pub/corpora. ICAME > also has Bengt Altenberg's extremely useful bibliographies of > published works based on or related to computerized English text > corpora (in directory pub/icame). ICAME's website is > http://www.hd.uib.no > > In addition, there are several other websites I wanted to mention. > > The 2 websites with the most comprehensive and most recent coverage > of corpora are: > - ACL (Ken Litkowski): http://www.clres.com/siglex.html > - Michael Barlow: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html > > Several other nice ones for corpora and corpus resources are: > - Stuttgart, IMS, computational linguistics: > http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/IMS.html > - Lund, Dept. of Linguistics and Phonetics: http://www.ling.lu.se > - CLR: http://clr.nmsu.edu/clr/CLR.html > - Oxford Text Archive: http://ota.ox.ac.uk/TEI/ota.html > - ELSNET: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/elsnet/eci_summary.html > - Mannheim, IdS: http://www.ids-mannheim.de/telri/telri.html > - CETH (Humanities): http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu > > If there are others I've left out, I'd be very interested to know > of them, too. > > Best Wishes, > > -Jane Edwards > The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is an open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. The URL for the LDC home page is: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu Sarah Parnum ---------------- Sarah Parnum Member Relations Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium sparnum@unagi.cis.upenn.edu 3615 Market Street, Suite 200 ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania Tel: +1/215/898-0464 Philadelphia, PA 19104-2608 Fax: +1/215/573-2175 www: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Wed Dec 11 12:38:13 1996 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:07:36 +0100 Old-Received: from ns.calvacom.fr (ns.calvacom.fr [194.2.168.1]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA25798 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:07:49 +0100 (MET) Old-Received: from ppp5-5.calvacom.fr (ppp5-5.calvacom.fr [194.51.119.85]) by ns.calvacom.fr (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA00069 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:07:12 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:07:12 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: corpora@hd.uib.no Reply-To: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr (Khalid Choukri) From: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr (Khalid Choukri) Subject: Lists of corpora Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk ELRA catalogue contains several corpora and the URL is: English version: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html, French version : http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/fr/home.html, ELRA (European Language Resources Association), was founded in Luxembourg in February 1995, as a non-profit organization, with the goal of promoting the creation, verification and distribution of Language Resources (LR). In addition to helping users and developers, government agencies, and other interested parties exploit language resources for a wide variety of use, ELRA serves as the European repository for EU-funded language resources, and interact with similar bodies in other parts of the world. A catalogue of the LR negotiated or under negotiation by ELRA can be found on our Web site. A published version of the catalogue is released twice a year (March and October together with a newsletter). Summary of the last catalogue: 1) Spoken resources : 30 databases (recordings from microphone, telephone, continuous speech, isolated words, several languages, etc.). 2) Written resources : * 9 monolingual or multilingual corpora * 12 monolingual lexica * Over 30 multilingual lexical * A linguistic software platform and Grammars Development platform 3) Terminological resources : over 90 databases with a wide range of domains and several languages (French, English, German, Spanish, Danish, Italian, Catalan, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese). For further information : ELRA/ELDA 87, Avenue d'Italie FR-75013 PARIS FRANCE Tel : +33 01 45 86 53 00 Fax : +33 01 45 86 44 88 E-mail : elra@calva.net http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html .................................... Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA /ELDA Tel. +33 1 45 86 53 00 Fax. +33 1 45 86 44 88 87, Avenue D'ITALIE, 75013 PARIS Email: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr Web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html .................................... From owner-linguist@postal.tamu.edu Sat Feb 8 15:53:09 1997 X-Mts: smtp Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 08:52:33 -0500 Reply-To: linguist@linguistlist.org Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: linguist@linguistlist.org Subject: 8.198, FYI: Sami, Computational To: LINGUIST@postal.tamu.edu X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LINGUIST List: Vol-8-198. Sat Feb 8 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 8.198, FYI: Sami, Computational Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Review Editor: Andrew Carnie Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova Ann Dizdar Assistant Editor: Sue Robinson Technical Editor: Ron Reck Software development: John H. Remmers Zhiping Zheng Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 16:12:58 -0800 From: Carola Magnusson Subject: Sami dictionary on the net 2) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 08:18:36 -0500 From: Margaret Ann Doll Subject: Additions to the ACL NLP/CL Universe January 10 - February 01, 1997 -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 16:12:58 -0800 From: Carola Magnusson Subject: Sami dictionary on the net Arctic net has a sami-norwegian and norwegian-sami dictionary. The adress is http://www.acrticnet.no -------------------------------- Message 2 ------------------------------- Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 08:18:36 -0500 From: Margaret Ann Doll Subject: Additions to the ACL NLP/CL Universe January 10 - February 01, 1997 >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >ACL NLP/CL News #35 February 01, 1997 >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ANNOUNCEMENTS >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ACL Survey (January 1997) > >The Association for Computational Linguistics is conducting a >survey. Please participate. The URL is http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl > > List Statistics > >213 people are on the mailing list. >There are 1527 pointers in the system. >21 new URLs are included in this message. > > New listserver software (as of June 20, 1996) > >The ACL NLP/CL Universe mailing list has switched to a majordomo >listserver. This will facilitate subscription and unsubscription, as well >as the posting of messages. Send mail to majordomo@cs.columbia.edu with the >word "help" in the body of the text to see all available commands. > > About the ACL NLP/CL Universe (as of August 1, 1995) > >ACL is the Association for Computational Linguistics: acl@cs.columbia.edu >The NLP/CL Universe started on March 18, 1995. The ACL home page >http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl contains information about the association >as well as information on becoming a member. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Additions to the ACL NLP/CL Universe for the period Jan. 10 - Feb. 01, 1997 >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mpalmer/siglex2.html >ACL SIGLEX >ORGANIZATION ACL > >http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~rrh/ >Roland Hausser, Dept. of Comp. Ling., University of Erlangen/Germany >PEOPLE H >AUTHOR: Jochen Leidner >EMAIL: webmaster@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de >DATE: Fri Jan 10 09:02:03 EST 1997 > >http://tkiwww.kub.nl:2080/tki/Docs/Projects/Walter/vacancy.txt >VACANCY: Machine Learning of Language >JOB >AUTHOR: Walter Daelemans >EMAIL: walter@kub.nl >DATE: Thu Jan 16 05:18:07 EST 1997 > >http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/IJCAI/ >IJCAI-97 Workshop on Ontologies and Multilingual NLP >CONFERENCE 1997 8 >AUTHOR: Rimi Zajac >EMAIL: zajac@crl.nmsu.edu >DATE: Thu Jan 23 11:58:44 EST 1997 > >http://www.cs.tcd.ie/courses/csll/CSLLcourse.html >Trinity College, University of Dublin, Undergraduate Degree in Computational Linguistics >ACADEMIC EUROPE IRELAND >AUTHOR: Carl Vogel >EMAIL: vogel@cs.tcd.ie >DATE: Mon Jan 27 13:03:37 EST 1997 > >http://www2.tcd.ie/CLCS/courses.html >Trinity College, University of Dublin, Graduate Programs in Speech and Language Processing >ACADEMIC EUROPE IRELAND >AUTHOR: Carl Vogel >EMAIL: vogel@cs.tcd.ie >DATE: Mon Jan 27 13:10:54 EST 1997 > >http://www.speech.kth.se/ctt/ctt.html >Centre for Speech Technology (CTT), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm >ACADEMIC EUROPE SWEDEN >AUTHOR: Bjoern Gambaeck >EMAIL: gamback@speech.kth.se >DATE: Fri Jan 31 05:33:40 EST 1997 > >http://www.cyc.com >CyCorp >INDUSTRY USA > >http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/FSA/fsa.html >FSA utilities >RESOURCES SOFTWARE TOOLS > >http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html >Recent Advances in NLP, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria >CONFERENCE 1997 9 > >http://horacio.ieec.uned.es/cl97/ >ACL/EACL 1997, Madrid, Spain >CONFERENCE 1997 7 > >http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~finkler/acl97-cts/index.html >ACL/EACL 1997 Workshop: Concept to Speech Generation Systems >CONFERENCE 1997 7 > >http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/acl/ACL97/oper-call.html >ACL/EACL 1997 Workshop: Operational Factors In Practical, Robust, Anaphora Resolution For Unrestricted Texts >CONFERENCE 1997 7 > >http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/ists97 >ACL/EACL 1997 Workshop: Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization >CONFERENCE 1997 7 > >http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/imedia/workshops/mm-references.html >ACL/EACL 1997 Workshop: Referring Phenomena in a Multimedia Discourse and their Computational Treatment >CONFERENCE 1997 7 > >http://ecate.itc.it:1024/envgram.html >ACL/EACL 1997 Workshop: Computational Environments For Grammar Development And Linguistic Engineering >CONFERENCE 1997 7 > >http://www-csli.stanford.edu/users/aac/clworkshop.html >ACL/EACL 1997 Workshop: Natural Language Processing For Communication Aids >CONFERENCE 1997 7 > >http://www.let.uva.nl/~ewn/workshop.htm >ACL/EACL 1997 Workshop: Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources for NLP Applications >CONFERENCE 1997 7 > >http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/acl/ACL97/nlptech-call.html >ACL/EACL 1997 Workshop: From Research to Commercial Applications: Making NLP Technology Work in Practice >CONFERENCE 1997 7 > >http://cswww.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/mlccolt/ >Workshop on Automata Induction, Grammatical Inference, and Language Acquisition The Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-97) >CONFERENCE 1997 7 >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >-*** > > --Margaret --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-8-198 From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Tue Mar 4 22:37:01 1997 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from cs.columbia.edu by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Tue, 4 Mar 1997 20:55:10 +0100 Old-Received: from shadow.cs.columbia.edu (shadow.cs.columbia.edu [128.59.10.4]) by cs.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA08411; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:55:08 -0500 (EST) Old-Received: (from radev@localhost) by shadow.cs.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.6.6) id OAA08225; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:55:01 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: "Dragomir R. Radev" From: "Dragomir R. Radev" Subject: Re: Natural Language Software FAQ To: chrisbr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:55:00 -0500 (EST) Cc: corpora@lists.uib.no In-Reply-To: <199702260921.JAA27211@deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> from "Chris Brew" at Feb 26, 97 09:21:24 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk I maintain two documents that may be of interest to you: 1. The NLP FAQ available from the comp.ai.nat-lang newsgroup and from http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/nlpfaq.txt 2. The ACL NLP/CL Universe which contains pointers to more than 1500 Computational Linguistics (including corpora) resources on the Web. The URL is http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/cgi-bin/universe.cgi Both sites are also accessible through the Association for Computational Linguistics Web Site at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl -- Drago From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Wed Feb 26 11:54:04 1997 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (actually deacon144.cogsci.ed.ac.uk) by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:21:27 +0100 Old-Received: from cogsci.ed.ac.uk (brodie144.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.6]) by deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.6.10/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA27211 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:21:25 GMT To: corpora@lists.uib.no Subject: Natural Language Software FAQ Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:21:24 +0000 Reply-To: Chris Brew From: Chris Brew Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There's been a lot of traffic about the need for a corpora FAQ. I help maintain a Natural Language Software FAQ on http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/helpdesk/faq/index.html and there's a page of corpus pointers on http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/helpdesk/faq/Texts-html/general.html The discussion seems as if there is demand for an expanded version of this, possibly renamed as a corpora FAQ. If CORPORA subscribers are willing to send suggestions for expansion, I will collate them and post a pointer to the improved FAQ back to this list. Chris From owner-linguist@postal.tamu.edu Sat Feb 15 20:30:27 1997 X-Mts: smtp Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:45:06 -0500 Reply-To: linguist@linguistlist.org Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: linguist@linguistlist.org Subject: 8.211, Calls: Linguistics and Literature To: LINGUIST@postal.tamu.edu X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LINGUIST List: Vol-8-211. Fri Feb 14 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 8.211, Calls: Linguistics and Literature Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Review Editor: Andrew Carnie Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova Ann Dizdar Assistant Editor: Sue Robinson Technical Editor: Ron Reck Software development: John H. Remmers Zhiping Zheng Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ Editor for this issue: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar =========================================================================== Please do not use abbreviations or acronyms for your conference unless you explain them in your text. Many people outside your area of specialization will not recognize them. Thank you for your cooperation. =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 10:20:42 -0500 From: hdry@emunix.emich.edu Subject: 2nd Call: Linguistics and Literature -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 10:20:42 -0500 From: hdry@emunix.emich.edu Subject: 2nd Call: Linguistics and Literature -------------------------Call 1 of 2------------------------------------- MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION: Toronto, Dec. 27-30, 1997 Division Name: Linguistic Approaches to Literature Session Title: Explicating Reader Inferences Session Description: Contributions may focus on reference and the identification of discourse referents, as well as the use of inferencing techniques like presupposition and conversational implicature. For further information, visit the website: http://linguistlist.org/~linglit/ Preferred Submission: 1-page abstracts Deadline: March 15, 1997 (Note deadline extension) Contact information: Helen Aristar Dry, preferably via email to: linglit@linguistlist.org -------------------------Call 2 of 2-------------------------------------- MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION: Toronto, Dec. 27-30, 1997 Division Name: Linguistic Approaches to Literature Session Title: Teaching the Linguistic Analysis of Literature Session Description: Open discussion of strategies, objectives, and problems. Short (5 minute) presentations will be followed by focused discussion led by the presenters. Further information at the website: http://linguistlist.org/~linglit/ Preferred Submission: Brief (1/2 to 1 page) description of the specific topic or sample analysis to be discussed. Deadline: March 15, 1997 (Note deadline extension.) Contact Information: Helen Aristar Dry, preferably via email to: linglit@linguistlist.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-8-211 From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Thu Mar 6 18:12:17 1997 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Thu, 6 Mar 1997 15:02:20 +0100 Old-Received: from the.cobuild.collins.co.uk (root@the.cobuild.collins.co.uk [193.112.240.65]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA17084 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 15:03:18 +0100 (MET) Old-Received: from of.cobuild.collins.co.uk (ramesh@of.cobuild.collins.co.uk [193.112.240.34]) by the.cobuild.collins.co.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA08581 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 14:00:40 GMT Reply-To: Ramesh Krishnamurthy From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy Old-Received: (ramesh@localhost) by of.cobuild.collins.co.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA16430 for corpora@hd.uib.no; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 14:00:40 GMT Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 14:00:40 GMT To: corpora@hd.uib.no Subject: CobuildDirect corpus and other facilities Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Su-hsun, research student IOE, U. of London teemsht@ioe.ac.uk recently asked, in response to the message > I enjoy logging in the server of the CobuildDirect Corpus to do rese > arch via Telnet from the computer in my office. >> I would be very grateful if any experts in the list give some leads on how >> to do the job mentioned here. The various facilities offered by COBUILD are described in our webpages. The URL for our site is: http://www.cobuild.collins.co.uk Any additional queries can be addressed to me: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Corpus Manager, Bank of English COBUILD | Tel: [+44] 121-414-3931/3925 Institute of Research and Development | Fax: [+44] 121-414-6203 University of Birmingham Research Park | Email: ramesh@cobuild.collins.co.uk Vincent Drive | Cobuild/Bank of English: Birmingham B15 2SQ, ENGLAND | http://www.cobuild.collins.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From languagesoftware@access.ch Mon Mar 10 06:37:08 1997 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 05:39:52 -0800 From: Good Language Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: turk@LING.EDINBURGH.AC.UK, yuko@LING.EDINBURGH.AC.UK, dennis@LING.GU.SE, gadelii@LING.GU.SE, jens@LING.GU.SE, joakim@LING.GU.SE, jouni@LING.GU.SE, lager@LING.GU.SE, sylvana@LING.GU.SE, aairola@LING.HELSINKI.FI, avoutila@LING.HELSINKI.FI, fkarlsso@LING.HELSINKI.FI, jpiitula@LING.HELSINKI.FI, keakanga@LING.HELSINKI.FI, kkoskenn@LING.HELSINKI.FI, kpitkane@LING.HELSINKI.FI, lvilkki@LING.HELSINKI.FI, mlounela@LING.HELSINKI.FI, pkukkone@LING.HELSINKI.FI, psuihkon@LING.HELSINKI.FI, salmisuo@LING.HELSINKI.FI, seppanen@LING.HELSINKI.FI, shuttune@LING.HELSINKI.FI, tmsalmin@LING.HELSINKI.FI, wide@LING.HELSINKI.FI, jaklad@LING.HUM.AAU.DK, nost@LING.HUM.AAU.DK, sad@LING.HUM.AAU.DK, sharder@LING.HUM.AAU.DK, viralbus@LING.HUM.AAU.DK, a-kiku@LING.IS.TOHOKU.AC.JP, lesourd@LING.LING.ROCHESTER.EDU, scherer@LING.LING.ROCHESTER.EDU Subject: enquiery X-URL: file:///C|/INTACC/ENQUIRY.TXT Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; boundary="=================_Emil_Boundary_=============_6568070==_" --=================_Emil_Boundary_=============_6568070==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit file:///C|/INTACC/ENQUIRY.TXT --=================_Emil_Boundary_=============_6568070==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="ENQUIRY.TXT" TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN We would be happy to know, if you would like to have more information, than that presented at: http://www.access.ch/languagesoftware/welcome.html about our Natural Language Processing (parsing, spell-checking, thesauri) and educational software. Thank you in advance, Good Language Software team, Switzerland, languagesoftware@access.ch From owner-linguist@postal.tamu.edu Fri Apr 11 03:10:04 1997 X-Mts: smtp Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG Approved-By: The LINGUIST Discussion List Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:47:24 -0400 Reply-To: linguist@linguistlist.org Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: linguist@linguistlist.org Subject: 8.490, All: LINGUIST Web Search, Call for Support Comments: To: LINGUIST@listserv.tamu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LINGUIST List: Vol-8-490. Thu Apr 10 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 8.490, All: Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Review Editor: Andrew Carnie Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova Ann Dizdar Assistant Editor: Sue Robinson Software development: John H. Remmers Zhiping Zheng Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ ************************************************ During the month of April, you may make credit card donations to LINGUIST via the Cascadilla Press web site: http://www.cascadilla.com/linglist.html If you believe LINGUIST is a valuable service, please contribute to the LINGUIST Editorial Support Fund, which pays our student editors. *********************************************** Editor for this issue: Helen Dry =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Thu, 03 Apr 97 09:30:01 -0500 From: linguist@linguistlist.org Subject: News from LINGUIST -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 97 09:30:01 -0500 From: linguist@linguistlist.org Subject: News from LINGUIST LINGUIST has had another year of growth. And we think LINGUIST's expansion reflects the strength of the profession. Linguistics keeps growing and diversifying; and, with your suggestions and support, LINGUIST is keeping in step. Our web site is offering increasingly extensive services. We are now collecting dissertation abstracts and offering email address search, topic pages, subscriptions services via the web, and both listserv and web search of back issues. The web search, which is topic-sensitive, has just been made available. It is accessible from the LINGUIST homepage and at the URL: http://linguistlist.org/search.html We are also expanding our searchable database to include descriptions of linguistics programs and a directory of linguists, as well as a jobs database. These innovations (and others shortly to be unveiled) have been made possible in great part by the grant from the National Science Foundation, which we received last fall. The email list has also changed. Once again, our subscriber list has grown. We now have over 8700 subscribers, representing 80 different countries. And this year we introduced LINGLITE, a version of the list which gives the subjects of the messages and includes live links to the issues, allowing subscribers to easily choose which LINGUIST issues to read. In addition, this year we ran the first online conference in linguistics and became a registered domain on the Internet: linguistlist.org. We recently encountered, as you know, a serious problem with listserv distribution of issues. But, thanks to the amazing generosity of certain subscribers (to whom we will devote a separate message), it appears that the problem will soon be solved in a way advantageous to us all. Now, however, we must turn to the question of money for our graduate student staff. The NSF grant cannot be used for the ongoing expenses of maintaining the list. So once again we must ask our subscribers for donations to pay the student editors, without whom we could not possibly run a list of this size or maintain a diversified web site. As most of you know, the student editorial staff of LINGUIST is supported almost entirely by subscriber contributions. This year we are losing all 3 of our excellent student editors: Ljuba Veselinova will be moving to Sweden to write her dissertation, supported by a scholarship from the University of Stockholm; Sue Robinson will graduate this May from the masters program at Eastern Michigan and has accepted a fellowship at the University of Southern California; and Ann Dizdar has made the difficult decision to return to teaching in the fall. In the hope of recruiting others almost as good to take their places, we have promised to raise the LINGUIST stipend to $5000 in 1998-99. As you know, this is very little pay for 20 hours a week's work over 12 months and a very small stipend for a graduate student to live on in the United States. Even this, however, gives us a difficult yearly task: raising $10,000 through donations. Through the generosity of the persons and institutions listed at the end of this message, we have collected approximately $4000; so we need $6000 more to pay the 1997-98 stipends. Michael Bernstein of Cascadilla Press has offered to take credit card donations to LINGUIST during the month of April via the Cascadilla web site: http://www.cascadilla.com/linglist.html Cascadilla receives no recompense for this service. It is simply a generous act on their part, designed to serve the discipline through supporting LINGUIST. Contributions may also be sent by mail to: The LINGUIST Editorial Support Fund c/o Helen Aristar Dry Dept. of English Language and Literature Eastern Michigan U. Ypsilanti, MI 48197 USA We cannot run LINGUIST without student editors and we cannot hire them without your donations to the LINGUIST Editorial Support Fund. If you think LINGUIST is a valuable service, please continue to support our efforts with your contributions. We wish to close by offering hearty thanks to the people and institutions who have already given us their support in 1997. A special thanks goes to Deborah (Kela) Ruuskanen for valiantly assuming the editorship of the LINGUIST Cookbook. When it is finished, it will undoubtedly be a significant fundraiser for LINGUIST; and it would never have gotten off the ground without Kela's prompt and generous offer of help. In addition, we extend our heartfelt thanks to the 1997 contributors listed below. These are the persons and institutions that make it possible for LINGUIST to continue. -Helen, Anthony, Daniel LINGUIST Moderators ************************** 1997 Contributors Valued Supporters ($50 and under) Galina Alexandrova Lloyd Anderson (Ecological Linguistics) Paula Baird Mayrine Bentley R. Joe Campbell Judith Fuller Keith Goeringer Frances Ingemann Knud Lambrecht Ernest McCarus Madeline M. Maxwell Anita Mittwoch Mary Schleppegrell Antonio R. M. Simoes Roland Sussex U. 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MIT PRESS SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, DIVISION OF LINGUISTICS ROUTLEDGE --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-8-490 From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Thu Apr 17 22:07:32 1997 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:35:53 +0200 Old-Received: from gatekeeper.aptex.com (gatekeeper.aptex.com [207.211.97.10]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA01217 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:37:54 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.aptex.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA11985 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:34:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.aptex.com: smap set sender to using -f Old-Received: from tiger.aptex.com(172.16.204.2) by gatekeeper via smap (V1.3) id sma011981; Thu Apr 17 11:34:41 1997 Old-Received: from newco2.aptex.com (newco2.aptex.com [172.16.204.4]) by tiger.aptex.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA24542 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:34:41 -0700 (PDT) Old-Received: by newco2.aptex.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA16050; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:34:41 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:34:41 -0700 Reply-To: "Ted E. Dunning" From: "Ted E. Dunning" To: CORPORA@hd.uib.no In-reply-to: <33550BDF.59E2B600@lilla.unice.fr> (jolibois@lilla.unice.fr) Subject: Re: Hello everybody !!! (looking for parallel corpora) Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "sj" == Samuel JOLIBOIS writes: sj> To do an experiment, I need a sj> HUGE (200 Mo) amount of bilingual parallel corpus, in english sj> and french... the canadian hansards are the classic source for this sort of information. i note however, that they are not available from the LDC (i could have sworn they were on the ACL/DCI disk). but, researchers can look at: http://www.parl.gc.ca/english/senate/deb-e/deb-e.htm and http://www.parl.gc.ca/english/senate/deb-e/deb-f.htm and thereupon draw their own conclusions about the availability of the data. From owner-linguist@postal.tamu.edu Sat May 3 19:29:22 1997 X-Mts: smtp Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG Approved-By: The LINGUIST Discussion List Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 12:29:24 -0400 Reply-To: linguist@linguistlist.org Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: linguist@linguistlist.org Subject: 8.654, FYI: Sites of Significance for Semiotics Comments: To: LINGUIST@listserv.tamu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LINGUIST List: Vol-8-654. Sat May 3 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 8.654, FYI: Sites of Significance for Semiotics Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Review Editor: Andrew Carnie Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova Ann Dizdar Assistant Editor: Sue Robinson Software development: John H. Remmers Zhiping Zheng Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ ************************************************ Last chance! Until May 4, you may make credit card donations to LINGUIST via the Cascadilla Press web site: http://www.cascadilla.com/linglist.html If you believe LINGUIST is a valuable service, please contribute to the LINGUIST Editorial Support Fund, which pays our student editors. *********************************************** Editor for this issue: Ljuba Veselinova =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 13:12:34 -0400 From: pascal.michelucci@utoronto.ca (Pascal Michelucci) Subject: Sites of Significance for Semiotics -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 13:12:34 -0400 From: pascal.michelucci@utoronto.ca (Pascal Michelucci) Subject: Sites of Significance for Semiotics Hello, I am pleased to let you know that Sites of Significance for Semiotics has been expanded and updated. It now includes over 200 annotated links to sites related to semiotics in various ways. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/french/as-sa/EngSem1.html [0. Search on your own] [1. Metapages] [2. Encyclopedia] [3. Dictionary] [4. Periodicals] [5. Proceedings] [6. Research groups] [7. Semiotics and Cognitive Sciences] [8. Semiotics and Culture] [9. Semiotic issues] [10. People and Groups] [11. Calls for papers] [12. Fun and Beyond] [13. Lists and e-mail contacts] Pascal G. Michelucci RECALL - Applied Semiotics/S=E9miotique appliqu=E9e D=E9partement d'=E9tudes fran=E7aises University of Toronto Clover Hill 50 Saint Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 1J4 CANADA Research/Recherche: [Applied Semiotics] http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/french/as-sa/ http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/french/as-sa/ASSA-No1 [Sites of Significance for Semiotics] http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/french/as-sa/EngSem1.html http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/french/as-sa/SemFran1.html Guide pratique des =E9tudes en fran=E7ais: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/french/guide/ http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/academic/french/guide/ Le Grimoire - FRE 180Y: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/french/vale/ .....................Office/Bureau : (905) 828-3777....................... ......................Fax/T=E9l=E9copie : (416) 926-2328.................... .........e-mail/courrier =E9lectronique : pascal.michelucci@utoronto.ca..... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-8-654 From owner-linguist@postal.tamu.edu Thu May 8 07:28:25 1997 X-Mts: smtp Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG Approved-By: The LINGUIST Discussion List Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 19:23:12 -0400 Reply-To: linguist@linguistlist.org Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: linguist@linguistlist.org Subject: 8.679, Sum: Lexicology/lexicography lists Comments: To: LINGUIST@listserv.tamu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LINGUIST List: Vol-8-679. Wed May 7 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 8.679, Sum: Lexicology/lexicography lists Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Review Editor: Andrew Carnie Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova Ann Dizdar Assistant Editor: Sue Robinson Software development: John H. Remmers Zhiping Zheng Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:15:04 +0100 (BST) From: Julie Coleman Subject: Lexicology/Lexicography -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:15:04 +0100 (BST) From: Julie Coleman Subject: Lexicology/Lexicography I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my query about lexicology/lexicography discussion groups. A number of you said that you would also be interested to know what was available, so here is a summary: To subscribe to the Euralex list, send the message: subscribe euralex NAME to: majordomo@ims.uni-stuttgart.de Other lists include: lexi dictionary dictionary@rhino.harvard.edu e-lex e-lex@listserv.ACNS.NWU.EDU (this may be the same as euralex, I'm not sure) Relevant internet sites: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex http://www.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/lexico http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/lexicolo.html Thanks to: Anne Dijkstra "Izzy (Israel) Cohen (req-telaviv)" Peter HOWARTH "P.Lutzeier" Hassan Durgauhee "Peter R. Burton" Julie Coleman English Department Leicester University University Road Leicester UK LE1 7RH (44) (0116) 252 2635 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-8-679 From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Mon May 12 06:14:03 1997 Resent-From: corpora-request@lists.uib.no Old-Received: from nora.hd.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Mon, 12 May 1997 04:39:34 +0200 Old-Received: from altair.cs.titech.ac.jp ([131.112.20.17]) by nora.hd.uib.no (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA07334 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 04:41:50 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Received: by altair.cs.titech.ac.jp (8.8.1/3.5W-titmx-2.0g); Mon, 12 May 1997 11:39:08 +0900 (JST) To: Tantely cc: corpora@hd.uib.no Subject: Re: Tagger - japanese corpora In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 May 1997 13:13:38 JST." Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 11:39:08 JST Reply-To: TOKUNAGA Takenobu From: TOKUNAGA Takenobu Sender: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no Precedence: bulk X-test: TEXT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I am looking for a tagger program for japanese text, or tagged japanese > corpora. Very glad if someone can help. For Japanese tagger, refer to http://cactus.aist-nara.ac.jp/lab/nlt/chasen.html. For Japanese corpora http://cactus.aist-nara.ac.jp/lab/resource/resource.html includes a good survey. Those pages are, however, written in Japanese. -take From hybrid-list@cs.ua.edu Tue Jun 10 23:53:14 1997 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:18:34 -0500 Reply-To: Alex@aiintelligence.com Originator: hybrid-list@cs.ua.edu Sender: hybrid-list@cs.ua.edu Precedence: bulk From: Alex Goodall To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Launch of the AI Information Bank X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: The Hybrid Model List X-Mailer: Turnpike Version 3.03a **** Announcement **** THE AI INFORMATION BANK LAUNCHED 9th June 1997 ------------- AI Intelligence is pleased to announce that the AI Information Bank is now available via http://aiintelligence.com The Bank is set to become the most comprehensive resource on the Web covering commercial Artificial Intelligence (AI). 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Alex Goodall AI Intelligence PO Box 95 OXFORD OX2 7XL United Kingdom U: http://aiintelligence.com/ E: alex@aiintelligence.com T: +44 1865-791 600 F: +44 1865-791 007 From kamppuri Thu Jun 12 15:48:59 1997 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 15:48:19 +0300 From: Kirsti Kamppuri To: aairola@ling.helsinki.fi, tijarvin@ling.helsinki.fi, mlounela@ling.helsinki.fi, kkpitkan@ling.helsinki.fi, tarantal@ling.helsinki.fi, salmisuo@ling.helsinki.fi, suihkone@ling.helsinki.fi, ktossava@ling.helsinki.fi, joostman@ling.helsinki.fi, anenqvis@ling.helsinki.fi Subject: [Pekka.Isosomppi@Helsinki.FI: Kulttuuriasiamies] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Pekka Isosomppi" Organization: University of Helsinki To: laitostiedotus@Helsinki.FI Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:01:22 EET DST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Comments: Sender has elected to use 8-bit data in this message. If problems arise, refer to postmaster at sender's site. Subject: Kulttuuriasiamies Reply-to: Pekka.Isosomppi@Helsinki.FI Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.53/R1) Suomen Kulttuurirahasto hakee palvelukseensa KULTTUURIASIAMIESTÄ Tehtäviin kuuluu osallistuminen Kulttuurirahaston apurahojen jakoon ja kulttuuritoiminnan hoitoon. Hakijalta edellytämme tohtorin tutkintoa, kulttuurielämän tuntemusta sekä esiintymis- ja kielitaitoa. Hakemukseen tulee sisältyä vapaamuotoinen selvitys hakijan aikaisemmasta toiminnasta, ansioluettelo tai nimikirjanote ja palkkatoivomus. Pyydämme lähettämään hakemukset viimeistään 15.8.1997 osoitteeseen Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, PL 203, 00121 Helsinki. Lisätietoja antavat tarvittaessa yliasiamies Paavo Hohti, toiminnanjohtaja Timo Arjas, asiamies Ralf Sunell tai talouspäällikkö Juhani Putkonen, puh. (09) 602 144. Rahaston toimisto on suljettu heinäkuun. SUOMEN KULTTUURIRAHASTO Bulevardi 5 A, Helsinki http://www.skr.fi/ ------- End of forwarded message ------- From owner-linguist@postal.tamu.edu Wed Jun 4 03:58:15 1997 X-Mts: smtp Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG Approved-By: The LINGUIST Discussion List Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 16:52:08 -0400 Reply-To: linguist@linguistlist.org Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: linguist@linguistlist.org Subject: 8.830, FYI: Ling and lit, Language Australia Comments: To: LINGUIST@listserv.tamu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list LINGUIST LINGUIST List: Vol-8-830. Tue Jun 3 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 8.830, FYI: Ling and lit, Language Australia Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Review Editor: Andrew Carnie Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova Ann Dizdar Assistant Editor: Sue Robinson Software development: John H. Remmers Zhiping Zheng Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 08:29:18 -0400 (EDT) From: UnPrSouth@aol.com Subject: linguistics and literature 2) Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 09:48:12 +1000 From: Joseph Lo Bianco Subject: Rebuilding of Language Australia -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 08:29:18 -0400 (EDT) From: UnPrSouth@aol.com Subject: linguistics and literature Dear colleagues, As General Editor at University Press of the South, Inc., I would like to invite you to visit frequently our Web Page at: http://www.unprsouth.com/unprsouth.html We are considering manuscripts for possible publication in every areas of linguistics, language, and literature. Take advantage also of our 25% rebate from May 20 to September 1 on all our academic books if you order directly through us. I look forward to hearing from you, Cordially, Dr. Alain Saint-Saens General Editor University Press of the South, Inc. -------------------------------- Message 2 ------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 09:48:12 +1000 From: Joseph Lo Bianco Subject: Rebuilding of Language Australia Dear colleagues, I am writing to let you know that the rebuilding of Language Australia is in train. As you all know the Board of Directors of the Institute has taken a decision to close the National Office. In this way the Company can absorb the recent funding cuts entirely within administration and management, ie not cut research, professional development or any 'field' activity in any way. Unfortunately, this necessitates some redundancies and quite a lot of upheaval. Also it can only be done once. If the second planned cut to our funding goes ahead in 1998-99 and we have not secured alternative funding then it may be curtains all round. But these are next year's battles. For now, we must, rebuild, refocus and revitalise the organisation. All this has started. I am quite optimistic, and determined, that we will succeed. I am writing to tell you this because I have heard it said around the traps that "LA is gone" etc. Nothing could be further from the truth! Language Australia will be a landmark on the landscape for a long time yet! 1) On 2-4 July we are holding a strategic planning forum to refocus our work and restructure the company in ways that can accommodate a reduced management/administration system and maintain our core functions of research, research coordination, applied linguistic policy advice, professional development, connecting researchers and teachers and communities. If ever there was a time in Australian history for language and education policies to be based on knowledge, some reflection and a commitment to pluralism it is now. The 'restrictionist' movement which is alive and well in other English speaking countries is in full force here: One language and all that. 2) I am preparing a new corporate plan along these lines, the mission of fostering an articulate, literate, multilingual/cultural nation, and connecting local diversity to globalisation is central to our reason for exisiting. Making Australian pluralism a resource in our national planning is our job. The new mission will not change any of this. The other rumour I have heard, that there is a 'takeover' of the Organisation by "bureaucracy" is also wrong. 3) We have an extremely good chance of being supported in an increased research budget through the Commonwealth 4) We have a determined and supportive Board with business and State representatives willing to offer advice and assistance 5) We have an unrivalled network of researchers, teachers and departmental officials, as well as very strong community links and contacts. 6) The 1998 workplan will proceed exactly as planned. This is a vast program of research and pd which all parts of the education and non-education system in Australia have contributed to shaping. The collective processes of forming the workplan give us political strength. 7) We are proceeding with plans to hold Language Expo in Melbourne in early 1999. We have secured sponsorship for this and there is the same level of interest and excitement around the concept as there has been in the past. 8) We are negotiating with several institutions and agencies for a 'hosting' arrangement for the much reduced National Office. Clearly major changes will have to happen, but the identity and autonomy of operation of the Institute will remain. 9) We will submit a major proposal to State and Territory governments that they take equity in the Company. This will happen later this year. 10) On 20-21 June in Melbourne we have a seminar/conference celebrating the last 10 years of Australian language policy achievement and planning the next ten. The National Languages and Literacy Institute; Australia's main language research and planning agency, is alive and well and preparing to kick again. Joe Joseph Lo Bianco Chief Executive Language Australia: The National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong PO Box 31 BELCONNEN ACT AUSTRALIA 2616 Tel: (61) 6 253 4622 Fax: (61) 6 253 4626 email: joel@nllia.gov.au --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-8-830 From owner-linguist@LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 15 03:41:11 1997 X-Mts: smtp Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 20:13:06 -0400 Reply-To: linguist@linguistlist.org Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The LINGUIST List Subject: 8.1177, FYI: ASLLRP/SignStream URLs Comments: To: LINGUIST@listserv.linguistlist.org To: LINGUIST@LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU LINGUIST List: Vol-8-1177. Thu Aug 14 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 8.1177, FYI: ASLLRP/SignStream URLs Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. Review Editor: Andrew Carnie Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova Ann Dizdar Assistant Editor: Martin Jacobsen Software development: John H. Remmers Zhiping Zheng Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:13:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Carol Neidle Subject: URL correction for ASLLRP and SignStream sites -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:13:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Carol Neidle Subject: URL correction for ASLLRP and SignStream sites Editor's Note: We recently posted information about Web sites for the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project and SignStream. The links within the posting do not function properly. Those links follow here. http://www.bu.edu/ASLLRP/ http://www.bu.edu/ASLLRP/SignStream --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-8-1177 From ari.kurppa@invalidiliitto.fi Mon Aug 18 11:13:05 1997 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:04:06 -0700 From: ari.kurppa@invalidiliitto.fi (Ari Kurppa) Reply-To: ari.kurppa@invalidiliitto.fi Organization: VYP X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kkpitkan@ling.helsinki.fi Subject: sms-viestit netin kautta Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hei Kari, Tässä tämä netti osoite: http://www.mtn.co.za/regulars/sms/ Kuulin meidän atk-henkilöltä, että palvelu ei olisi aina käytössä, mutta sitähän ei tiedä? Hyvää työpäivää! T: Ari