LINGUIST List 7.643

Wed May 1 1996

FYI: Studentships at ITRI Brighton, Bilingual list, Quechua

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <dizdartam2000.tamu.edu>

Directory

1. Roger Evans, PhD Studentships at ITRI Brighton
2. Peter GU Dept of Education HKU, The BILINGUAL List
3. Sabine Dedenbach, Quechua language

Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
University of Brighton


The ITRI invites PhD applicants with good Honours degrees (or
equivalent) in artificial intelligence, computer science, computational
linguistics, anthropology, sociology, design studies or related fields.
Studentships are available for a 3-year period to work on the following
areas:

- computational lexicography and lexical engineering
- computer supported collaborative design
- computer supported writing
- constraint satisfaction
- discourse analysis
- ethnographic analysis of design and engineering groups
- information extraction
- lexical representation
- multilingual language engineering
- natural language generation

Application forms are available from:
 Research Administrator
 ITRI
 Mithras Annex
 University of Brighton
 Lewes Road
 Brighton BN2 4AT
 email: adminitri.brighton.ac.uk

Applications deadline: 15th May 1996

This document may also be found at
 http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/posts/studentships.html
For more information about the ITRI see
 http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk

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Hello!
This is an addition to my mail about the Quechua language.
With respect to what we were told at our Quechua anniversary meeting 
in Bonn about the plan to forbid the Quechua language in Peru I have 
just had a reliable message from a colleague in Cuzco who says that 
the following happened: Some people in Cuzco presented a project for a 
law that would have made the teaching of Quechua obligatory in the 
whole of Peru. This project was not supported by Parliament. On the 
other hand, this year a programme for training teachers in intercultural
bilingual education has been initiated on the national level. 
- So, things have turned out not as bad as one might have feared.
Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar
dedenbacvoelk.uni-bonn.de
30 April 1996