LINGUIST List 6.681

Sat 13 May 1995

FYI: Scholarship for Thai national, Vigo summer school

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1. Kingkarn Thepkanjana, Scholarship for a Thai national to studying linguistics
2. Javier Gomez Guinovart, Vigo Summer School

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, announces a competition for a
scholarship to be granted to a Thai national to further the graduate
studies in linguistics with a specialization in syntax and/or semantics in
a university internationally recognized by linguistic scholars and by the
Civil Service Commission of Thailand. The sholarship awardee, after
completing the Ph.D, is committed to come back and teach in the Department
of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. All applicants
must take the examination either in Bangkok, Thailand, or in the US. in
July 1995. Interested persons must contact the Department of Linguistics,
Chulalongkorn University, immediately at the address below.

Kingkarn Thepkanjana
Email: (kingkarnchulkn.chula.ac.th)
Phone: 66-2-2184690
Fax: 66-2-2533456

University of Vigo - Summer School 1995
COMPUTERS AND LANGUAGE
Director: Javier Gomez Guinovart
Date 4 July - 7 July
Place: University of Vigo (Rua Oporto, 1; 36201 Vigo, Galicia, Spain)
Registration Fee: 15.000 pesetas (50 % reduction for students)

For further information, please contact:

Javier Gomez Guinovart
Universidade de Vigo
Facultade de Humanidades
Apartado 874
E-36200 Vigo (Spain)
Tel.: 34-86-812360
Fax: 34-86-812380
E-mail: uvifejggcesga.es
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PROGRAM

TUESDAY, 4 JULY, 9:30
Registration and opening session

TUESDAY, 4 JULY, 9:45
"Computers and Dictionaries"
Anton Santamarina
Professor of Romance Philology (University of Santiago de Compostela).
Head of the Galician Language Institute.

TUESDAY, 4 JULY, 12:00
"Computers and Textual Analysis"
Alberto Alvarez Lugris
Lecturer of English-Galician Translation (University of Vigo).
Member of the "Ramon Pineiro" Linguistic and Literary Research Center.

WEDNESDAY, 5 JULY, 9:30
"Computers and Phonetics"
Tiago Vidal Figueroa
Lecturer of Portuguese Philology (University of Vigo).
Member of the Galician Language Institute.

WEDNESDAY, 5 JULY, 12:00
"Computers and Literary Criticism"
Manuel Forcadela
Ph. D. in Hispanic Philology (University of Santiago de Compostela).
Galician writer and specialist in Galician language and literature.

THURSDAY, 6 JULY, 9:30
"Computers and Descriptive Linguistics"
Jose Maria Garcia-Miguel
Ph. D. in Hispanic Philology (University of Santiago de Compostela).
Lecturer of Linguistics (University of Vigo).

THURSDAY, 6 JULY, 12:00
"Standards of Representation of Textual and Multimedia Information"
Fernando Magan Munoz
Degree in Computer Science, specialized in Information Systems.

FRIDAY, 7 JULY, 9:00
"Computers and Terminological Databases"
Montserrat Gomez Garnau
Linguistic Coordinator at INK Catalunya, S. A., Barcelona.

FRIDAY, 7 JULY, 10:30
"Computational Linguistics and Quantitative Sociolinguistics"
Javier Gomez Guinovart
Lecturer of Computer-Aided Translation (University of Vigo).
Technical editor of BYTE Spain.
Anxo M. Lorenzo Suarez
Lecturer of Galician Philology (University of Vigo).

FRIDAY, 7 JULY, 12:00
"Creation and Exploitation of Linguistic Corpora"
Guillermo Rojo
Professor of Hispanic Philology (University of Santiago de Compostela).

FRIDAY, 7 JULY, 14:00
Closing session and submission of diplomas.