LINGUIST List 7.1716

Thu Dec 5 1996

FYI: Book for review, New web site, Dec. Conference list

Editor for this issue: Susan Robinson <robinsonemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. FRAFICICESIT1.UNIFI.IT, Definitite - Indefinite in Slavic
2. Lauri Karttunen, New web site for Xerox linguistic research in Europ
3. Peter White, December Conference list

The volume Determinatezza e Indeterminatezza nelle Lingue Slave contains
articles on Definite \ Indefinite in Russian, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian,
Lituanian, Bosnian (sic). The articles are in Italian, Russian, English.
If you are interested for a review, ask a copy of the volume to:
Francesca Fici (one of the editors), fraficicesit1.unifi.it
The title is: Determinatezza nelle lingue slave, a cura di R:Benacchio,
F.Fici, L.Gebert, Padova, Unipress, 1996.
Best wishes, Francesca Fici

The MLTT group at the RXRC (Grenoble, France) has a new web site:

 http://www.rxrc.xerox.com/research/mltt/.

MLTT stands for Multilingual Theory and Technology, RXRC for
Rank Xerox Research Centre. From the MLTT home page you can access
demos that illustrate some of the research at the Grenoble site.
The demos include:

finite-state calculus
 compiles a regular expression into a finite-state network and
applies
 the resulting network to strings.
morphological analyzers
 for English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, and
Portuguese.
part-of-speech taggers
 for the seven languages listed above.
language guesser
 knows about thirty languages. A sample text of five words is
usually
 enough for correct identification.

The finite-state page also includes articles about regular expressions
and
finite-state networks written for the benefit of a novice user. Examples
are provided to illustrate some applications.

Please update any obsolete links that you might have to RXRC web pages.

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Rank Xerox Research Centre phone: +33-4 76 61 50 96
6, chemin de Maupertuis fax: +33-4 76 61 50 99
38240 Meylan, France lauri.karttunengrenoble.rxrc.xerox.com
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The December 1996 edition of the Conference List is now available at URL
http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/conf.html

Please note the new URL and bookmark accordingly.

Regards
Peter White
peterwlingua.cltr.uq.oz.au