LINGUIST List 12.1124

Tue Apr 24 2001

FYI: Connectionist Models, British National Corpus

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Paolo Frasconi, Connectionist Models for Learning in Structured Domains
2. Lou Burnard, British National Corpus - BNC World Edition

The members of this list may be interested in the most recent issue of
the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering which is a
Special Issue on Connectionist Models for Learning in Structured
Domains. 

	 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
		 Vol. 13, No. 2, March/April 2001

	 SPECIAL SECTION ON CONNECTIONIST MODELS FOR
		 LEARNING IN STRUCTURED DOMAINS

Abstracts can be found at http://www.dsi.unifi.it/neural/tkde-datas.html

Full text is available to subscribers from the IEEE TKDE home page
http://computer.org/tkde/index.htm

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section 
P. Frasconi, M. Gori, and A. Sperduti 

Simple Strategies to Encode Tree Automata in Sigmoid Recursive Neural
Networks 
R.C. Carrasco and M.L. Forcada 
 
Integrating Linguistic Primitives in Learning Context-Dependent
Representation 
S.W.K. Chan 
 
Symbolic vs. Connectionist Learning: An Experimental Comparison in a
Structured Domain 
P. Foggia, R. Genna, and M. Vento 

Generalization Ability of Folding Networks 
B. Hammer 
 
Hierarchical Growing Cell Structures: TreeGCS 
V.J. Hodge and J. Austin 
 
Incremental Syntactic Parsing of Natural Language Corpora with Simple
Synchrony Networks 
P.C.R. Lane and J.B. Henderson 

Learning Distributed Representations of Concepts Using Linear
Relational Embedding 
A. Paccanaro and G.E. Hinton 

Clustering and Classification in Structured Data Domains Using Fuzzy
Lattice Neurocomputing (FLN) 
V. Petridis and V.G. Kaburlasos 

Representation and Processing of Structures with Binary Sparse
Distributed Codes 
D.A. Rachkovskij 
 

[Sorry, I can provide no hardcopies - for electronic copies, please
contact the authors directly].

 BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS - WORLD EDITION

After many delays (a postal strike being the latest) Oxford's
Humanities Computing Unit is now shipping the revised second edition
of the British National Corpus, which we are calling BNC-WORLD to
indicate that the corpus is now available under licence world wide.

For background information on the BNC, a one-hundred million word
snapshot of the English language at the end of the 20th century,
please visit our website at http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc

A licence to use BNC World is available in two flavours: under the single
user licence (cost 50 pounds) you can install the whole corpus and the
SARA software on a single machine for personal use; alternatively, for
250 pounds you can set up the corpus for networked access by up to 50
people. Alternatively, for the same prices, you can install just the
corpus itself and use whatever software you like. The corpus is supplied
in compressed format as a single tar archive containing over 4000 files of
SGML data. Full documentation of the linguistic and structural tagging is
included. 

The part-of-speech tagging in the new edition has been extensively
revised at Lancaster University. Large numbers of errors and
inconsistencies in the tagging and markup have been removed, and the
encoding has been brought into conformance with recent standards. Several
enhancements and corrections have been made in the metadata attached to
each text. The SARA software now includes facilities for lemmatized searching,
improved handling of collocation searching, and the ability to build
and use arbitrary subcorpora. 

For ordering information, please visit 
http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/getting/ordering.html

Lou Burnard

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