LINGUIST List 2.117

Friday, 5 Apr 1991

Qs: Nameserver, Tone, Swahili, Preprocessing of ASCII texts

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1. Joe Giampapa, Reaching the nameserver
2. Cari Spring, linguistic studies of emotions in tone languages
3. nikki keach, Swahili native speakers
4. Jean Veronis, splitting a text in sentences and words

Re: linguist nameserver:

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554 linguistalf.let.uva.nl... Host hp4nl not known within the UUCP domain

Is anybody else having these difficulties? This message arrived from 
postmastercarla.dist.unige.it, the Italian UUCP gateway.

-Joe Giampapa
garofsixcom.sixcom.it

[Moderators' Note: Norval Smith has informed us that the .nl domain is 
 not a genuine domain on the internet, but is simply an MX address
 for mail-exchange. If you are having difficulty getting to it,
 sending mail via the CUNY gateway usually works. So try the
 address:
 linguists%alf.let.nlcunyvm.cuny.edu
 This should solve the problem.]

A student at Ohio State is looking for references to studies
concerned with linguistic correlates of emotions in tone languages. If anybody
knows of such references, or anybody working on this topic, please e-mail 
information over LINGUIST, or to panshs.ohio-state.edu. :-D

I'm trying to locate native speakers of Swahili who're e-mail accessible.
If you know any, please e-mail me directly. Thanks.

The following message has appeared on the LN list, but I think it belongs
here too --jv
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 11:56 N
From: LTMATTHECNEDCU51.BITNET

Hello everyone!

My name is Alain Matthey and I am a computer scientist. I am
working as a research assistant in the Laboratory of Speech and
Language Processing of the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland).

The members of this laboratory are working now on a research
project which consists to develop a kind of spell and grammar
checker like Grammatik, IBM's Critique, Mac Proof, Hugo or Sans
fautes but for French native speakers who write in English.

In this project, I will have to implemant the "preprocessing step" which
consists to recognise and delimit the sentences and the words of a text.

How to find and delimit automatically sentences and words in any kind of
ASCII texts? That's the problem!!!

So I am looking for some informations (bibliography,
papers, etc.) about "preprocessing of ASCII texts".

For any more informations or for an answer, please contact me at
the address above:

Alain Matthey
Laboratoire de traitement du langage et de la parole
UNIVERSITE DE NEUCHATEL
Avenue du Premier-Mars 26
CH-2000 NEUCHATEL
SWITZERLAND

Phone: 038 25 38 51 (int. 27)
Fax: 038 25 18 32
E-mail: LTMATTHEYCNEDCU51.BITNET

Thank you very much for your help!

Best regards.

Alain Matthey

P.S. It is not forbidden to write in French!!!

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