LINGUIST List 10.621

Thu Apr 29 1999

FYI: HSEI, Malay workshop, NEH deadline, Corpus ling

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

Directory

  • Vincent DeCaen, Hebrew syntax encoding
  • David Gil, Workshop on Malay / Indonesian Acquisition
  • Aguera, Helen, Deadline for Applications to the NEH Division of Preservation & Access
  • Fiona J. Tweedie, Corpus Linguistics and Digitisation Summer School

    Message 1: Hebrew syntax encoding

     Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:05:30 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Vincent DeCaen <decaenchass.utoronto.ca>
    Subject: Hebrew syntax encoding


    Friends, a reasonably ultimate draft of the proof of concept of the Hebrew Syntax Encoding Initiative together with documentation (four working papers) is now ready for peer review at the site in the signature below. critical comment and suggestions will be very much appreciated.

    sholom, V.

    Dr Vincent DeCaen <decaenchass.utoronto.ca> c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Ave., 2d floor University of Toronto, Toronto ON, CANADA, M5S 1A1 Hebrew Syntax Encoding Initiative, www.chass.utoronto.ca/~decaen/hsei/

    Message 2: Workshop on Malay / Indonesian Acquisition

     Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 02:48:21 +0200
    From: David Gil <gileva.mpg.de>
    Subject: Workshop on Malay / Indonesian Acquisition


    MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY, LEIPZIG WORKSHOP ON MALAY / INDONESIAN FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

    22 September Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

    Confirmed participants:

    Peter Cole, University of Delaware Michael Garman, University of Reading David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Gabriella Hermon, University of Delaware Soenjono Dardjiwidjojo, Universitas Katolik Atma Jaya, Jakarta Uri Tadmor, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Jakarta

    For further information, contact David Gil

    Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

    email: gileva.mpg.de fax: 49-341-9952119 or check out the workshop webpage: http://monolith.eva.mpg.de/~gil/workshop.html

    Related Links: Department of Linguistics Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua.html

    Third Symposium on Malay / Indonesian Linguistics 24-25 August 1999, Amsterdam http://www.ling.udel.edu/pcole/MalayIndonesian3/index.htm

    Message 3: Deadline for Applications to the NEH Division of Preservation & Access

     Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:17:43 -0400
    From: Aguera, Helen <HAgueraneh.gov>
    Subject: Deadline for Applications to the NEH Division of Preservation & Access


    The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is a grant-making agency of the U.S. federal government that support projects in the humanities. Eligible applicants are: U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations, as well as U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the United States for a period of at least the three years immediately preceding the submission of the application. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that will create, preserve and increase the availability of resources important for research, education, and public programming in the humanities. Support may be sought to preserve the intellectual content and aid bibliographic control of collections; to compile bibliographies, descriptive catalogs, and guides to cultural holdings; to create dictionaries, encyclopedias, databases, and other types of research tools and reference works; and to stabilize material culture collections through the appropriate housing and storing of objects, improved environmental control, and the installation of security, lighting, and fire-prevention systems. Applications may also be submitted for national and regional education and training projects, regional preservation field service programs, and research and demonstration projects that are intended to enhance institutional practice and the use of technology for preservation and access. Projects may encompass collections of books, journals, newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, and objects of material culture held by libraries, archives, museums, historical organizations, and other repositories. The Division has a single, annual DEADLINE for applications, JULY 1. Final decisions will be announced the following March. Guidelines and instructions can be downloaded from the NEH Web site: http://www.neh.gov/html/guidelin/preservation.html A list of recent awards is also available at that site under "What's New".

    http://www.neh.gov/html/awards/preserv99.html

    To obtain a print version of the Guidelines or to address a question to the NEH staff, e-mail us at

    preservationneh.gov Postal address: Division of Preservation and Access NEH, Room 411 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 Telephone: 202/606-8570

    Message 4: Corpus Linguistics and Digitisation Summer School

     Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 22:44:10 +0100 (BST)
    From: Fiona J. Tweedie <fionastats.gla.ac.uk>
    Subject: Corpus Linguistics and Digitisation Summer School


    SOCRATES Intensive Programme in CORPUS LINGUISTICS and DIGITISATION

    University of Glasgow, Scotland

    June 21 - July 2 1999

    10 ECTS available

    An EU-funded two-week summer school in Corpus Linguistics and Digitisation will be held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland from 21 June to 2 July 1999. 10 ECTS credits are available on successful completion of the course which is open to students attending universities in countries participating in the SOCRATES scheme.

    The teaching staff is drawn from the particpating institutions; the Universities of Bergen, Cork, Glasgow, Joensuu, Nijmegen and Roma. Students will follow a common track in the first week, before following a track in either Corpus Linguistics or Digitisation in the second week. The course will cover the following areas:

    Corpus Linguistics: * Introduction to Corpus Linguistics * Building a Corpus * Text from the Internet, copyright * TEI for corpus linguistics * Tagging and Parsing * Parallel and Specialised Corpora * Quantitative methods and Tools

    Digitisation:

    * Introduction to Digitisation * Technical considerations, TEI, OCR, etc * Textual material * Spoken material * Images * Standards, platforms and conversions

    Students will also complete a project based on the materials covered in the course.

    The course itself is completely funded by the SOCRATES scheme, however, students are asked to find their own travel, accommodation and subsistence funding.

    For more information, see the web site at http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/SocIP/ or contact Fiona Tweedie (fionastats.gla.ac.uk).