FYI: New List for Phonologists, Free Software/NLP

Author:

Alain Thiriault

FYI Body:

Dear All I am puting together a list of phonologists interested in the Declarative Phonology (DP) framework. This list would be available on the SIGPHON web page and, the editors permiting, on the links page of LINGUIST. The idea behind this list is to permit contacts and exchanges between phonologists interested in this framework. If you would be interested, or know anyone who would, of having your name in such a list please contact me at : theriaal@magellan.umontreal.ca. This list would mainly be a list of addresses available to those interested in DP. It could also be used as some kind of newsletter for general informations. Such a newsletter would be moderated in order to lower the risks of spaming. Thanks to you all Alain Thériaul Université de Montréal (Liaison officer for SIGPHON) theriaal@magellan.umontreal.ca As of next week all of Ergo Linguistics Tools including the newest "Roswell Teaches English" will change from free software to paid software. Those of you would like to work with these tools for free should download them before October 15th. You can get to the site at http://www.ergo-ling.com. These software products will be kept on the ergo server but will be distributed and advertised more widely and will no longer be offered for free. We are making this last time free offer for researchers and students of NLP and theoretical linguistics. All programs are written in C++ have programmer SDK's available upon reques are Windows 95/98/NT compatible. The programs include: MemoMaster -- An add on for speech recognition products that significantly increases the navigation and control abilities of those products as well as adding more sophisticated messaging and reminders and notes. BracketDoctor -- A program for linguists which provides tree diagrams and labelled bracketings for sentences in the Penn Treebank II style. Great for students who would like to include computer generated trees in their papers using this standardized framework. ChatterBox -- A product that provides sophisticated question and answer abilities that are easily added to animations (e.g Microsoft Agents) and are useful for educational and entertainment programs. Roswell Teaches English -- A stand alone product to help students of English as a Second Language practice their English using natural language questions and responses. Includes a manual and textbook. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com