FYI: Cookbook, Summer school, PhD student

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Deborah D K Ruuskanen

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Remember the Linguist Cookbook? Well, with the Easter Break coming up in the predominantly Christian countries, there may be time for many of you to find a recipie for me. I fear you were put off by the grandiose template, so that is OUT. Just send me a recipie, in any format, in any language. I've upgraded my system so it will take just about anything - except don't send appended word-files, save them in text-only format, or better yet COPY and PASTE into your email msg. Why am I asking? Well, fellow linguists, I got less than fourty recipies (36, to be exact) and you can't hardly make a cookBOOK out of 36 recipies. THANKS very much to those people. I understand there are some eight THOUSAND of you lurking out there - couldn't we come up with at least a hundred recipies, to make the cookbook a reality? Culinary Cheers, Kela - Deborah D. Kela Ruuskanen \ You cannot teach a Man anything, Leankuja 1, FIN-01420 Vantaa \ you can only help him find i druuskan@cc.helsinki.fi \ within himself. Galileo ========== First Announcement ============ LOT SUMMER SCHOOL 1997 The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) hereby announces tha the LOT Summer School 1997 will be held at the University of Amsterdam The Netherlands June 16 - 27 => Preliminary Program: <= Week 1: Rens Bod & Remko Scha (U. of Amsterdam) Data-oriented Language Processing Marcel den Dikken (Free U. of Amsterdam) Predicates and their Movements Vincent van Heuven (U. of Leyden) Laboratory Phonology with Emphasis on Stress and accen Silvia Kouwenberg (U. of The West Indies) Creole Linguistics: The State of the Ar Jean Lowenstamm (U. of Paris) Government Phonology Alice ter Meulen (U. of Stanford) Meaning and Grammar Tim Stowell (U. of California) Clausal Architecture and Functional Categories Juergen Weissenborn ( U. of Potsdam) Language Acquisition Ronnie Wilbur (U. of Perdue) Sign Language Structure: Functional and Formal Week 2: Rene Appel (et al.) (U. of Amsterdam) Lexicon in Second Language Acquisition Juergen Broschart (U. of Koeln) The Structure of Tongan Frans van Eemeren (et al.) (U. of Amsterdam) Analyzing Argumentative Discourse Marinel Gerritsen (U. of Nijmegen) Sociolinguistics Kees Hengeveld (U. of Amsterdam) Language Typology Sieb Nooteboom (U. of Utrecht) Sound Continuity and Speech Perception: between Auditory Decay and Prosodic Function Deadline for enrollments: May 1st 1997 Course descriptions (as soon as they are available) and further details can be found on web page http://wwwots.let.ruu.nl/LOT/zs97.html A booklet with more information will be sent to you on request. For further information: E-mail: LOT@let.ruu.nl Phone: +31-30-2536006 Fax: +31-30-2536000 - ------------------------------------------------------------ LOT Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics Trans 10 3512 JK Utrech Phone: +31 30 2536006 Fax: +31 30 2536000 - ------------------------------------------------------------ Research and Development Unit for English Studies University of Liverpool Dear Teaching Colleagues In July, we are embarking on a three-year, EPSRC-funded research project which concerns the classification of rare words in the lexicon. More precisely, we will record the items occurring for the first time, in the lower frequency ranges only, across successive years of electronic journalistic text. The aim is to develop a system of automated classification, accounting qualitatively and quantitatively for the features found in huge amounts of text, and to be able to extrapolate from this to predict the structure of the future lexicon. The system is intended to be of benefit to NLP researchers and to all in academia and industry who need to fine-tune textually-derived or textually-applied knowledge bases. Among other things, this will clearly involve a close study of the morphology at this productive level of the lexicon. We would like to add to the human resources and expertise already available to the project by recruiting a PhD student, again hopefully to be funded by EPSRC, who has a good undergraduate or other grounding in morphology (or computational morphology) and who would be interested in the topic. Have you an outstanding undergraduate finalist (UK-based, with UK or EU nationality) who fits this category, and whom you would be ready to relinquish? The ideal starting date would be July 1st, but we could cope with an element of delay if necessary. Thank you for your attention Antoinette Renouf - --------------- Antoinette Renouf Director Research and Development Unit for English Studies University of Liverpool 19 Abercromby Square Liverpool L69 7ZG tel sec unit: +44 (0)151 794 2289 tel: +44 (0)151 794 2286 fax: +44 (0)151 794 2298 email: ajrenouf@liv.ac.uk