LINGUIST List 9.620

Tue Apr 28 1998

FYI: Symposium, Linguistik online, GATE software

Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill <brettlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. David Prager Branner, Symposium on Chinese Rime Table Phonology
2. Elke Hentschel, Linguistik online
3. Hamish Cunningham, GATE: new version available

The Institute of Linguistics and Asian and Slavic Languages and
Literatures presents

	A Symposium on

New Views on The Linguistic Philosophy 
Underlying the Chinese Rime Table

Saturday, 2 May, 1998
Nolte Library
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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	First Panel, 10 AM. Chair: David Prager Branner, University of
		Minnesota

Chun-juo Liu, University of Minnesota (Emerita)
	"The Avatamsaka Syllabic Wheel and Wen-shu chih-nan t'u-tsan"

W. South Coblin, University of Iowa
	"Thoughts on the Shoouuen Fragments"

R. VanNess Simmons, Rutgers University
	"How Rime Book Based Analyses Can Lead Us Astray"

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	Second Panel, 2 PM. Chair: Wen-Chao Li, University of Minnesota

An-King Lim, Salt Lake City Community College
	"On Turkic Sound Harmony and the Vocalic Divisions of the
	Yun4-jing4"

Abraham Chan, University of Hong Kong
	"On the Principle of the Four Grades"

Jerry Norman, University of Washington
	"Mandarin and the Rime Tables"

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There is no admission charge, and the symposium is open to the public.
However, seating in the library is quite limited. 

For more information, please contact David Prager Branner,
(612)-917-8235 or <yuen.ren.societybigfoot.com>

Dear colleagues,

the pilot issue of the internet-journal _Linguistik online_ is now
available:

 http://www.euv-frankfurt-o.de/~wjournal/

or (this will get you immediately to the table of contents):

 http://www.euv-frankfurt-o.de/~wjournal/inhalt1_98.html

I hope you'll enjoy the journal!

Regards,

Elke Hentschel

GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering): new version available
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GATE is an architecture and development environment for language 
processing R&D, and comes bundled with an advanced Information 
Extraction system for English.

GATE 1.5.1 is now available for download. This release includes
Java support, better SGML support, a manual annotation tool, an
annotation comparison tool and various other goodies. Please see the
web site for further details, and follow the "download" link there.

 http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/gate/

The system is free for research purposes, and comes in source and 
binary form for common platforms.

Regards

Hamish Cunningham
Research Fellow in Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/