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ai.mit.edu>Server: A full-featured, production-quality, HTTP 1.1 Compliant Web server wholely written in Common Lisp is *freely* available from the following URL at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Information: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/cl-http/home-page.html Q: Why might you care about this? A: You might be interested in: * Minimizing the cycle time from conceptualization to market. (Cooler than being last to market!) * Generating all HTML interfaces on the fly. (Cooler than terabytes of legacy html!) * Synthesing JavaScript and Java on the fly. (Cooler than typing it in by hand!) * Creating 3D VRML worlds on the fly. (Cooler than learning OpenInventor!) * Using an extensible presentation lattice to accept input or present output. (Cooler than duplicating endless input validators, and then getting a better idea!) * Developing complex or advanced Web applications. (Cooler than serving static files!) * Creating intelligent, knowledge-based Web sites. (Cooler than even an "Active-X enchanced" site!) Language: Common Lisp is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language that is used to develop and deploy leading-edge applications in university, government, and business settings. This highly flexible and evolvable language has been typically used to develop large and complex artificial intelligence or natural languagge understanding systems. These kindsof power programming tools are becoming increasingly relevant for Web developers as ever more is required in ever less time. Platforms: The server presently runs with full source-compatibility on the following platforms: * Macintosh (MCL - Comes on the CD) * UNIX (Allegro, LispWorks, Lucid) (Many flavors, including SunOS, Solaris, SGI, OSF) * Windows NT (Allegro) (Several new Lisps currently being tuned for NT). * Lisp Machines (Symbolics 8.3, Open Genera 1.0) Additional ports are underway. Reality: This server was the first known HTTP 1.1 implementation last August, and has subsequently been through a second release cycle. Also included in the distribution are a program-level client with 1.0 persistent connections, an HTML parser, and a constraint-based web walker. Snap up this opportunity now before the next release add new modules to the learning curve.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
calvanet.calvacom.fr>INFORMATION FROM THE European Language Resources Association ELRA News -------------------------------------------- [ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ] ELRA (European Language Resources Association), was founded in Luxembourg in February 1995, as a non-profit organization, with the goal of promoting the creation, verification and distribution of Language Resources (LR). In addition to helping users and developers, government agencies, and other interested parties exploit language resources for a wide variety of use, ELRA serves as the European repository for EU-funded language resources, and interact with similar bodies in other parts of the world. Funded in the medium term by membership fees, grants from the European Commission and national governments, together with projects income, the Association will be financially self-supporting in the long run. A 12-member Board is in charge of the strategy and objectives to be adopted by the Association. Relevant LR are Spoken Databases, Lexica, Grammars, Written Corpora and Terminological Data. These are required for the development of speech and text processing systems for a large number of applications in various information technology areas. ELRA licences LR for R&D, as soon as these are made available. According to the agreements made between ELRA and its providers, resources can be either reserved for research purposes or used for the development of products and services. Licence agreements, drawn with the support of lawyers, are used for negotiations. Such contracts are available at ELRA office. Lexica, Corpora (spoken and written), Grammars and Tools are described in easy-to-understand presentation forms. All these documents can be found on the ELRA Web site. ELRA Newsletters --------------- A Newsletter is released by ELRA every Quarter. The next three issues will primarily and alternatively be devoted to each of the 3 Colleges of the Association : spoken, written and terminological resources. The October Newletter (vol.1 n.3) is already available at ELRA office. It is entirely dedicated to Terminology. The next two issues will be dedicated to written and spoken resources. The ELRA Web site ----------------- The ELRA Web site is now available in English and French. The URL addresses are: English version: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html, French version : http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/fr/home.html, ELRA Language Resources catalogue --------------------------------- A catalogue of the LR negotiated or under negotiation by ELRA can be found on our Web site. For quotation, please refer to this site or directly to ELRA office. A published version is released twice a year (together with number 1 and 3 of the Newsletter). Resources appearing in the catalogue are separated according to the three Colle ges : spoken resources, written resources (corpora, lexica and tools) and termi nological resources. The catalogue consists of : 1) Spoken resources : 30 databases (recordings from microphone, telephone, continuous speech, isolated words, several languages, etc.). 2) Written resources : * 9 monolingual and multilingual corpora * 12 monolingual lexica * Over 30 multilingual lexical * A linguistic software platform and Grammars Development platform 3) Terminological resources : over 90 databases with a wide range of domains and severallanguages (French, English, German, Spanish, Danish, Italian, Catalan, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese). ELRA Membership --------------- ELRA members are entitled to substantial discounts on public prices of the resources and other products (such as the Guide for Terminology Agreements and several commercial reports).ELRA membership is open to any organization, public or private, with full membership(including voting privileges) being available to organizations registered in Europe. Purely for organizational purposes, members will be assigned to one of the Colleges on the basis of their main area of interest. The annual membership fee has been set at a modest ECU 1,000 to encourage broad participation. You may also opt to join more than one College, in which case you will be required to pay multiple membership fees. Please ask for a membership form or download it from the ELRA Web site. For further information : ELRA/ELDA 87, Avenue d'Italie FR-75013 PARIS FRANCE Tel : +33 01 45 86 53 00 Fax : +33 01 45 86 44 88 E-mail : elraMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue