LINGUIST List 10.310

Wed Feb 24 1999

FYI: Linguistic humor, Canadian corpus analysis

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  • Chapin, Paul G, Linguistic humor
  • Nancy Belmore, Canadian specialists in corpus analysis

    Message 1: Linguistic humor

     Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:20:18 -0500
    From: Chapin, Paul G <pchapinnsf.gov>
    Subject: Linguistic humor




    **************** I highly recommend to all linguists the February 8, 1999 issue of the "Frank and Ernest" comic strip. You can see it on-line at http://www.frankandernest.com/cgi/view/recent.pl?99-02-08.

    Paul Chapin ****************

    Message 2: Canadian specialists in corpus analysis

     Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:49:49 +0000
    From: Nancy Belmore <belmorevax2.concordia.ca>
    Subject: Canadian specialists in corpus analysis


    Dear Subscribers,

    My colleagues and I would like to establish contact with Canadian specialists in corpus analysis with a view to e-mail exchanges, the possible establishment of a discussion group as well as possible cooperation in furthering specific research objectives, all depending, of course, on the number of respondents to our query. We are searching, in particular, for Canadian researchers with expertise in one or more of the following areas who have used that expertise for corpus analysis:

    1. (Partially) automated techniques for transcribing and analyzing digitized speech recorded in natural (as opposed to studio) settings. 2. Grammatical analysis (tagging and parsing) of unedited texts representing a wide variety of text types, both spoken and written. 3. (Partially) automated techniques for evaluating the output of grammatical analyses. 4. Programming for NLP. 5. Relational database management systems for corpus annotation. 6. (Partially) automated techniques for SGML markup and/or TEI conformant encoding. 7. Statistics (especially sampling and probability matrices)

    If you give your permission, we will, at the very least, include your name, with basic information about you, in a list which we'll then distribute to all who replied to our query. To that end, could you send us the following information:

    1. Name, affiliation and how to reach you 2. Relevant expertise, including the language or languages you have worked with

    Hope to hear from you!

    N. Belmore Research Prof. of Applied Linguistics TESL Centre Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve West Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada Tel.: (514)848-2457; Fax: (514)848-4295 belmorevax2.concordia.ca