LINGUIST List 12.1961

Thu Aug 2 2001

FYI: News/Russian Academy of Sciences, NWCL Workshop

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

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1. igor_ets_ru, News - Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS IPPI)
2. Patrick Honeybone, NWCL Postgraduate Training Workshop, UK

 2001-06-19 
 The Institute of Information Transfer Problems of the Russian 
Academy of Sciences (RAS IPPI) and the Publishing House ETS, signed a 
contract about scientific and practical cooperation in the field of 
creation and publication of scientific and technical dictionaries, 
terminological dictionaries and collections of the normative 
terminology, and also other dictionaries and thesaurus-reference 
publications on various areas of a science and engineering in hard and 
virtual release

THE NEWS

June 19, 2001

Moscow
The Institute of Information Transfer Problems of the Russian Academy of 
Sciences (RAS IPPI), on behalf of the director, RAS academician Nicolai 
A. Kuznetzov, the Chairman of the Scientific Terminology Committee in 
the field of fundamental sciences, and the Publishing House ETS, on 
behalf of the director Igor V. Fagradjanz, signed a contract about 
scientific and practical cooperation in the field of creation and 
publication of scientific and technical dictionaries, terminological 
dictionaries and collections of the normative terminology, and also 
other dictionaries and thesaurus-reference publications on various areas 
of a science and engineering in hard and virtual release.

The contract provides also cooperation in the field of creation, 
conducting and distribution of terminological databanks, terminological 
bases of knowledge, terminological collections and terminological 
recommendations.

The parties plan:

1. To ensure access to the all available in this area dictionaries of 
the Scientific and Technical Terminology Committee of the Russian 
Academy of Sciences, in particular to the Terminological Collections and
to the Collections of recommended terms ## 001:119 of the Technical 
Terminology Committees of the USSR Academy of Sciences, to that of 
Scientific and Technical Terminology Committees of the USSR Academy of 
Sciences and to that of the Fundamental Science Terminology Committee of 
the Russian Academy of Sciences

The Collections in electronic form are available at

http://www.ets.ru/

2. To expand considerably the list of such editions by creating new 
collections of a normative terminology in new scientific areas and 
branches of knowledge.

In particular, in a near future is planned to develop the collections of 
the recommended terms under the Internet Communications, Internet 
Commerce, Up-to-Date Communication Units, M-commerce, the theory of 
Information Transfer, Data Protection etc.

The interested persons and organizations of any patterns of ownership 
are invited to cooperation.

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The Publishing House ETS and the RAS Scientific Terminology Committee in 
Fundamental Sciences signed a contract about the edition by the 
Publishing House ETS all the 119 Terminological Collections and 
Collections of Recommended Terms of the USSR Academy of Sciences 
Technical Terminology Committees, the USSR Academy of Sciences 
Scientific and Technical Terminology Committee and the RAS Scientific 
Terminology Committee in the field of fundamental sciences
issued for all history of existence of the USSR Academy of Sciences 
Terminological Commission and that of Academy of Sciences of Russian 
Federation.

The terminological Collections were issued of three types:
- In Russian (term and definition);
- In Russian and English (Russian term; English translation of the term; 
interpretation in Russian);
- In Russian, English, German and French (term in Russian; English, 
German, French translation of the term; interpretation in Russian)

The Publishing House ETS and the Terminological Commission of an Academy 
of Sciences of Russian Federation have signed the contract about a 
publishing plan preparation for release of the New Terminological 
Collections.

The Publishing house ETS (Igor V. Fagradyanz, the director) and
the RAS Scientific Terminology Committee in the Fundamental Sciences 
(academician Nicolai A. Kuznetzov, the Committee Chairman; academician 
Juri I. Kryukov, the scientific secretary; Prof., Doct. Sergey D. 
Shelov, the Program Responsible) invite to cooperation all the interested 
organizations and persons, and also announce about the preliminary 
subscription for the Terminological Collections.

Estimated cost of a complete set of the Collections (##001:119) 
(electronic books as pdf or tif format) US $890 (for Russian ONLY users 
and organizations 8500 RRub.)
Delivering - Internet (download) or at CDR (W) (US $12 extra to post).

For the RAS Scientific and Technical Terminology Committee
Prof., Doct. Sergey D. Shelov, the Program Responsible

tel. 7 095 200 1560
sheloviitp.ru
http://www.iitp.ru/

For the Publishing House ETS Electronic and Traditional Dictionaries 
Igor V. Fagradjanz, the Director

tel/fax 7 095 917 2160
etsets.ru
http://www.ets.ru

NWCL Postgraduate Training Workshop

First call for registration

The North-West Centre for Linguistics is happy to announce its third annual 
Postgraduate Research Training Workshop. The title of the two-day workshop is 
'Researching talk: principles, practice and problems in the collection and 
analysis of spoken language data'. It will be held on 1st-2nd November 2001 
at Edge Hill College, which is just north of Liverpool, England. The workshop 
is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is organised 
in co-operation with LOT (the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics). 
This funding means that registration for the workshop, accommodation and food 
for up to 40 participants will be free; details of the funding are given below.

The workshop will offer postgraduate researchers the chance to meet with other
postgraduates working in similar areas and also with nationally and 
internationally renowned specialists who work on several different aspects of 
the study of spoken language and in a range of social settings. The focus of 
the workshop will be on the processes of collection and analysis of spoken 
language data, and the activities are intended to be of benefit to 
postgraduate research students in the planning, conduct and evaluation of 
their projects. 

Invited speakers include: Michael Hoey (University of Liverpool), Marilyn 
Martin-Jones (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Mark Sebba (University of 
Lancaster), Dominic Watt/Paul Foulkes (University of York), Ann Williams 
(Goldsmiths, University of London). Speakers will address methodological 
issues in the gathering and interpretation of such data and the resolution of 
problems which can confront researchers. Topics will include techniques for 
the transcribing of spoken language, ethnographic approaches to language 
research, the interpretation of bilingual data, the analysis of conversation, 
phonetic approaches to language research, working with children as informants,
and elicitation techniques in language variation research. 

Postgraduate participants will be invited to present their own research in 
the form of a poster and a session will be set aside for discussion of these. 
The NWCL book-token prize will be awarded to the presenter of the best poster,
as judged by the invited speakers. 

40 ESRC-funded places are available to PhD students at a UK university who 
are in the second, third or fourth year of their PhD study (as of November 
2001). The places will be awarded on a first-come-first-served basis, so 
early registration is encouraged. The funding does not cover travel to and 
from the workshop, and we advise participants to apply to their home 
institution for such costs. LOT has agreed to contribute towards the costs of 
participants from LOT institutions - please contact the workshop organisers 
directly for further details. Accommodation will be in a hotel in Liverpool 
city centre and transport will be provided from the hotel to the workshop 
venue.

The final deadline for registration is Friday 5th October, and registration 
will be possible until all the places are taken. The organisers are Jo Arthur 
and Patrick Honeybone. Feel free to contact us if you have any queries. Send 
emails to both of us, please: arthurjedgehill.ac.uk and 
honeybopedgehill.ac.uk. 

To register, send an email to honeybopedgehill.ac.uk with your:
NAME 
EMAIL AND POSTAL ADDRESSES 
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION 
WORKING TITLE OF YOUR PHD PROJECT
YEAR OF STUDY (2ND, 3RD ETC.)

A second call for participation will follow in due course and further details 
of the arrangements and programme will be sent out to those who register. 
They will also be available on the NWCL's website, at 
www.art.man.ac.uk/linguist/reswork.htm.