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udel.edu>The Department of Linguistics of the University of Delaware is pleased to announce a new Doctoral concentration in Field Linguistics and Language Documemtation. Students in the program will take courses in linguistic field work and language typology, and will engage in field work on a (relatively) underdescribed language. It is exected that the results of their research will contribute both to the description of the language in question and to some area of linguistic theory. For further information, please contact Prof. Satoshi Tomioka, Director of Graduate Study. We hope to have information about the concentration on our website in the near future.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
indiana.edu>Second North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information NASSLLI-2003 June 17-21, 2003, Bloomington, Indiana http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The NASSLLI Steering Committee is pleased to announce the Second North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, to be held in Bloomington, Indiana, June 17-21, 2003. The event follows on from the successful first school at Stanford in June, 2002. The school is focussed on the interfaces among linguistics, logic, and computation, broadly conceived, and on related fields. Our sister school, the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, has been highly successful, becoming an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. We hope that the North American schools will follow in this tradition. PROGRAM --------- Marco Aiello, Guram Bezhanishvili, and Darko Sarenac Reasoning about Space (Workshop) Alexandru Baltag Logics for Communication: reasoning about information flow in dialogue games. Roman Bartak Foundations of Constraint Satisfaction Patrick Blackburn and Johan Bos Computational semantics for natural language Gerhard Jaeger and Reinhard Blutner Linguistic and computational issues in Optimality Theory Edward Keenan and Edward Stabler A Mathematical Theory of Grammatical Categories Daniel Leivant Logic of Programs Dov Monderer Games in Informational Form Yiannis Moschovakis Referential intensions: a logical calculus for synonymy John C. Paolillo Statistical models for language: structure and computation Dirk Pattinson An Introduction to the Theory of Coalgebras Ron van der Meyden Algorithmic Verification for Epistemic Logic Courses consist of five sessions of 90 minutes each. NASSLLI courses are aimed at graduate students or advanced undergraduates in computer science, linguistics, logic, philosophy, and related areas. Course abstracts are available from http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/program.html In addition, there will be evening lectures and a session of student papers. A Call for Papers for the Student Session will be distributed separately. RELATED EVENTS: NASSLLI'03 will be co-located with TARK'03, the 9th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Knowledge and Rationality (see http://www.tark.org ). In addition, NASSLLI'03 will be co-located with MoL'03, the 8th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language (see http://grail.let.uu.nl/mol8/ ). Both of these conferences will take place June 20-22, 2003. INFORMATION ON REGISTRATION, ACCOMODATIONS, and SUPPORT should be available from our web site in January, 2003. WEB SITE FOR NASSLLI'03, to be held at Indiana University in June 2003: http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/ NASSLLI STEERING COMMITTEE (list in formation) David Beaver Barbara Grosz Phokion Kolaitis Larry Moss Stuart Shieber Moshe Vardi Contact: nasslliMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ldc.upenn.edu>The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the availability of three new corpora. ** 1997 HUB5 Spanish Evaluation ** ** 2000 Communicator Evaluation ** ** Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms ** 1. The 1997 Hub-5 Spanish evaluation is part of an ongoing series of periodic evaluations conducted by NIST. This evaluation focused on the task of transcribing conversational speech into text. Each conversation is represented as a "4-wire" recording, that is, with two distinct sides, one from each end of the telephone circuit. Each side is recorded and stored as a standard telephone codec signal (8 kHz sampling, 8-bit mu-law encoding). The 1997 HUB5 Spanish Evaluation contain 426 Mbytes or hours of sphere data. For further information, including a link to additional documentation on the NIST web site, please visit: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2002S25 Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2002 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge. Nonmembers may purchase this publication for $1000. 2. The original goals of the Communicator program were to support the creation of speech-enabled interfaces that scale gracefully across modalities, from speech-only to interfaces that include graphics, maps, pointing and gesture. The original vision of the Communicator systems included the ability of a user, during one ten-minute session, to plan a three-leg trip, with the three flights/legs on three different days, with rental car and hotel in each of the two "away" cities, plus dictating/sending a voice-mail message. The actual research that led to the data collections in 2000 and 2001 explored ways to construct better spoken-dialogue systems, with which users interact via speech-alone to perform relatively complex tasks such as travel planning. During 2000 and 2001 two large data sets were collected, in which users used the Communicator systems built by the research groups to do travel planning. The 2000 Communicator Evaluation publication consists of all the data from the 2000 collection. For the 2000 evaluation, each user called the nine different automated travel-planning systems to make simulated flight reservations. All audio files are in SPHERE format, recorded in 8 bit ulaw and pcm, at 8 KHZ. The two-channel sphere files total ~62 hours of audio (3415 MB), representing ~317K words in transcription. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2002 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge. Nonmembers may purchase this publication for $900. 3. Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms contains tone paradigms of the language Ngomba, a Bamileke (Grassfields Bantu) language spoken by some 63,000 people in the Western Province of Cameroon. Ngomba's tone system is undescribed, but it has many similarities with the closely related Y�mba language (also known as Bamileke Dschang). This publication contains 755 audio files. The files in rawdata are 21 extended audio and laryngograph recordings with ESPS xlabel files; each one of the raw sound files contains the complete recording of one of the tenses. Transcriptions are provided for the audio clips using the IPA-based orthography, and using phonetic and tonological transcription systems. The verbal tone paradigms are also accessible over the internet, along with an interface for browsing and editing transcriptions, at http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/grassfields For further information, please visit: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2001S16 This publication is free of charge to 2001 and 2002 members. The cost of the first 100 copies of this publication (not counting the copies distributed to LDC members) is covered by NSF Grant Number 9983258. These copies are, therefore, free of charge to qualified researchers; a $30 shipping and handling fee applies. After these first 100 copies are distributed, additional copies will be available for the production cost of $150 per CD-ROM. ** If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email to <ldcMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue