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cc.helsinki.fi>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **Registration possible until the start of the event** 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2001 University of Helsinki FINLAND August 13-24, 2001 http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli GENERAL INFORMATION The 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'01) takes place at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, during two weeks in August, from August 13 until 24. The ESSLLI Summer Schools are organised under the auspices of FoLLI ( http://www.folli.uva.nl ), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. The main focus of the Summer School is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses, workshops and special events cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: * Logic * Language * Computation * Logic and Language * Logic and Computation * Language and Computation The number of courses offered is over 50. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students, researchers and IT professionals interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. In addition to courses, workshops and evening lectures, there will be a Student Session and a social program. COURSE PROGRAM The full scientific program can be found at our home page http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/ Evening Lectures are given by * Edward L. Keenan "Spinoza Lecture" (UCLA) * Yannis Moschovakis "Vienna Circle Lecture" (UCLA) * Keith Devlin (Saint Mary's College, California) * Jaakko Hintikka (Boston & Helsinki) * Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh) "Twenty Years of Finite-State Methods", special event organised by Lauri Karttunen, Kimmo Koskenniemi and Gertjan van Noord. WORKSHOPS Logic: "Logic and Games" (Gabriel Sandu and Marc Pauly) http://www.cwi.nl/~pauly/GameLogic/esslli-workshop.html Language: "Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics" (Ivana Kruijff-Korbayov� and Mark Steedman) http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~korbay/esslli01-wsh/index.html Computation: "Automata and Finite Model Theory" (Lauri Hella, Juhani Karhum�ki and Kerkko Luosto) http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/workshops/AFMT.html Language and Logic: "Choice Functions and Natural Language Semantics" (Klaus von Heusinger, Ruth Kempson and Wilfried Meyer-Viol) http://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/heusinger/konf-proj/ESSLLI/ Logic and Computation: "Coordination and Action" (Peter K�hnlein, Alison Newlands and Hannes Rieser) http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~pkuehnle/HELSINKI/ Language and Computation: "Semantic Knowledge Acquisition and Categorisation" (Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni and Vito Pirrelli) http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/~esslli/ "Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing" (Lauri Karttunen, Kimmo Koskenniemi and Gertjan van Noord) http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/alp/esslli_fsmnlp/ "Mathematics of Language" (Larry Moss and Dick Oehrle) http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/workshops/MoL.html TRAVEL AND LOCAL INFORMATION By plane to Helsinki airport and then a 35-minute nonstop coach or taxi service to the main railway station. From the railway station 5-minute walk to the university. A gateway between East and West, the city of Helsinki (population 1M) is the capital of Finland and one of the nine European Cities of Culture for the millennium. It is located at the south coast of Finland, within an easy reach from the main airports worldwide, or inside Europe by car or regular train services, or using the ferry services operating within the Baltic region. The scientific program of ESSLLI'01 will be held in the University Main Building, located on the University city campus at the centre of Helsinki. ACCOMMODATION The accommodation organised by ESSLLI is fully booked now. Please go to http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli to try alternative options. REGISTRATION Please go to http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli and complete the on-line registration form. GRANTS The ESSLLI'01 grant scheme is closed now. SPEACIAL EVENTS In the weekend preceding ESSLLI, a "Finnish for Foreigners" language course is organised. During ESSLLI, there will be excursions and other social events. Helsinki Summer School ( http://summerschool.helsinki.fi ) offers special deals for ESSLLI participants who want to choose some of their courses and earn credits. SATELLITE EVENTS The Association for the Mathematics of Language will stage its annual meeting (MoL7) in conjunction with ESSLLI, in the weekend preceding ESSLLI (August 10-12). The Formal Grammar Conference will be held in conjunction with the Mathematics of Language Conference. The registration fee is 50 euros. Conference Description and Program: http://sfinx.let.uu.nl/users/fgmol01prog.pdf PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marcus Kracht (Chair) <krachtMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
phonetics.oxford.ac.uk>New speech data base available on CD ROM: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IViE Corpus: English Intonation in the British Isles ESRC grant R000237145 Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge 1997-2002 Principal investigators: Esther Grabe (also University of Oxford), Francis Nolan Research associate: Brechtje Post - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IViE corpus contains directly comparable data from nine urban dialects of English spoken in the British Isles in five speaking styles. The data allow for acoustic and other investigations of cross-varietal and stylistic variation in English intonation and they can be used for teaching purposes. IViE = Intonational Variation in English Varieties of English: Belfast English, Bradford Punjabi English (Punjabi-English bilingual speakers), Cambridge, Cardiff (Welsh-English bilinguals), Dublin, London (speakers of West Indian descent), Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle Speaking styles: Conversations, map task, read text & retold version of the same text, controlled sentences Speakers: 12 speakers from each variety, 6 male, 6 female. 16 years of age. Data recorded in local secondary schools. Total duration: 36 hours of speech Format: .wav The corpus is distributed as a pack of 5 CDs, on request, and it is available free of charge to the research community. A booklet with information about the corpus (e.g. speakers initials, filenames, maps used in the map task etc.) is included. For more information, see our web-site: http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~esther/ivyweb If you would like to receive a copy of the corpus, mail esther.grabeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue