LINGUIST List 10.1305

Tue Sep 7 1999

Qs: "Kayor", NLP Techniques

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  • Stephen Helmreich, "kayor"
  • Gang Liu, NLP techniques

    Message 1: "kayor"

     Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:28:56 -0600 (MDT)
    From: Stephen Helmreich <shelmreicrl.nmsu.edu>
    Subject: "kayor"


    A friend of mine has the following question. You may respond to me or directly to him:

    The word "kayor" [2nd syllable tonic] in Yiddish means "dawn." It does not appear to come from either German or Hebrew, to the best of my knowledge. Also, though it does appear in Yiddish dictionaries, it is not widely known among the Yiddish speakers I've talked with. The word appears in a famous song ("Zog nit keinmol az du geyst dem letzten veg") which is attributed to Hirsh Glik of the Vilna Ghetto in WW2. Is the word of Lithuanian or Latvian origin?

    It also does not appear in Hungarian or Finnish dictionaries, nor in a vocabulary list from a Lithuanian grammar. It is not Latvian, according to one speaker.

    Steve Helmreich Computing Research Laboratory New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA

    Gabriel Lampert gabrielnmsu.edu





    Message 2: NLP techniques

     Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 12:55:42 -0700
    From: Gang Liu <gang_liubc.sympatico.ca>
    Subject: NLP techniques


    Dear All,

    I am working on an information extraction/retrieval project with some NLP technology (respectively) and looking for public domain resources (shareable source code in C/C++ or Java for example) in parsing and finite state techniques such as (unification based or general) chart parsing, finite state transducer etc.

    I would be grateful for any pointers to existing resource/research on these issues. I also welcome judgments on the respective techniques.

    Thank you very much in advance,

    Peter Liu p.s. I'll provide a summary if there are enough responses.