LINGUIST List 11.956

Wed Apr 26 2000

FYI: Summer - Comp/Cogn Ling, New Lang Resources

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  • Frank Richter, Summer School/Comp Ling - CLaRK'2000, Bulgaria
  • Valerie Mapelli, New Language Resources/ ELRA

    Message 1: Summer School/Comp Ling - CLaRK'2000, Bulgaria

     Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:30:52 +0200 (MET DST)
    From: Frank Richter <frsfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
    Subject: Summer School/Comp Ling - CLaRK'2000, Bulgaria


    Second announcement: Summer School 2000 in Bulgaria - CLaRK'2000

    The Tuebingen-Sofia International Graduate Programme in Computational Linguistics and Represented Knowledge (CLaRK) is inviting applications to a summer school in Sozopol, Bulgaria, this summer. Please note the slight change of dates since the first announcement.

    *NEW* Dates: August 25th - September 8th 2000 (days of arrival and departure)

    Place: Resort town of Sozopol (Black Sea), Bulgaria

    Language: English

    Participants:

    Participants should be doctoral students who research the interfaces between computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, mathematics and philosophy. In exceptional cases, postdoctoral researchers as well as outstanding students in the final year of masters level studies who intend to pursue a doctorate will also be considered. The summer school is limited to 25 students. Places are competitively allocated on the basis of the research interests of the participants and the perceived benefits to those interests of attending the summer school. Participants must be proficient in English.

    Stipends:

    Via the CLaRK Program, the Volkswagen-Foundation will provide stipends for up to 6 students from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and 6 further students from Bulgaria. The stipends will be awarded on a competitive basis. The stipends will comprise travel costs (up to DEM 600), and room and board for the duration of the summer school. At the discretion of the CLaRK Program, the stipends may include additional support for travel costs above DEM 600.

    Costs:

    Participants who are not sponsored by a CLaRK stipend should anticipate approximately DEM 125 for room and board per day. Costs for transportation to and from the summer school are not included in this estimate.

    Applications:

    Applications with a completely filled in registration form (available from www.uni-tuebingen.de/IZ/application.rtf), a curriculum vitae, and a short (maximum three pages) summary of relevant past and present research and education must be submitted to the Office of the International Centre at Tuebingen by 30th April 2000. Applicants should indicate whether they are applying for a CLaRK stipend. The event number that the registration form asks for is 5.

    CLaRK stipend applications must include a letter of recommendation with their application.

    Internationales Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit Universitaet Tuebingen Keplerstr. 17 D - 72074 Tuebingen Tel.: (0049) 7071 / 29 - 77352 or /29 - 74156 Fax: (0049) 7071 / 29 5989 e-mail: izuni-tuebingen.de WWW: www.uni-tuebingen.de/IZ/starte.html

    Content and Goals

    Computational linguistics and knowledge representation are two distinct disciplines that share a common concern with what knowledge is, how it is used, and how it is acquired. However, though knowledge representation and computational linguistics clearly address broadly similar research problems, research within each of these fields has hitherto been largely ignorant of research in the other. Moreover, the ignorance the two fields have of each other both fosters and is fostered by a wide gulf between the educations received by students of knowledge representation and students of computational linguistics. The goal of the summer school is to help bridge this gulf by introducing the summer school students to recent developments in the interdisciplinary field of computational linguistics and knowledge representation. The summer school will take the form of courses in various topics. The program provisionally includes courses in computational morphology, corpus linguistics, declarative knowledge representation, natural language semantics, Slavic syntax and psycholinguistics.

    Preliminary Course Program

    Erhard Hinrichs, Sandra Kuebler: Computational Tools for Corpus Linguistics Valia Kordoni/Frank Richter: A Comparison of LFG and HPSG Anna Kupsc: Slavic in HPSG Detmar Meurers: Introduction to HPSG Janina Rado: Introduction to Psycholinguistics Kiril Simov/Gergana Popova: Computational Morphology Kiril Simov/Atanas Kiryakov: Declarative Knowledge Representation Kiril Simov/Atanas Kiryakov: WordNets: Principles and Applications

    A short description of the courses can be found on the CLaRK webpages, http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/clark/

    The expected guest speakers include Nicola Guarino from the University of Padova, Italy (www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/people/Guarino.html).

    Contact for further information:

    Kiril Ivanov Simov (Sofia): kivsbgcict.acad.bg Frank Richter (Tuebingen): frsfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de

    WWW: http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/clark/

    Message 2: New Language Resources/ ELRA

     Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:34:19 +0200
    From: Valerie Mapelli <mapellielda.fr>
    Subject: New Language Resources/ ELRA


    ___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ___________________________________________________________

    *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES ***

    We are happy to announce new resources available via ELRA:

    ELRA-S0083 ISLE Speech Corpus ELRA-W0015 "Le Monde" Text Corpus - Year 1999

    A description of each database is given below.

    _______________________________________ ELRA-S0083 ISLE Speech Corpus _______________________________________

    This corpus contains approximately 20 minutes of speech (per speaker) from 23 German and 23 Italian intermediate learners of English. Each speaker recorded sentences from several blocks of various types (reading simple sentences, using minimal pairs, giving answers to multiple choice questions). The prompts were of varying perplexities.

    About 2/3 of the data for each speaker was annotated by a team of linguists. The files were corrected first at the word level, and an automatic recogniser was then used to produce phone-level annotations. The annotator then re-annotated each sentence to mark phone and stress errors (e.g., substitutions, insertions, or deletions).

    Corpus details: a total of 46 speakers (23 German and 23 Italian) 11484 utterances 1.92 gigabytes of WAV files (4 CDs) 17 hours, 54 minutes, and 44 seconds of speech data

    A much more detailed explanation of the ISLE corpus will be available in the proceedings of LREC 2000. An electronic copy of this paper may be obtained at ELRA (Reference: W. Menzel, E. Atwell, P. Bonaventura, D. Herron, P. Howarth, R. Morton, and C. Souter (in preparation). "The ISLE corpus of non-native spoken English", Proc. Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation).

    _______________________________________ ELRA-W0015 "Le Monde" Text corpus - Year 1999 _______________________________________

    Electronic archiving of "Le Monde" articles started on 1 January 1987. Some 200 articles are added every day, making it the biggest of its kind for all French daily newspapers.The corpus is available in an ASCII text format. Each month consists of some 10 MB of data (circa 120 MB per year). Data ranging from 1987 until 1999 are available through ELRA (each buyer may purchase up to 5 years of data).

    For further information, please contact:

    ELRA/ELDA Tel +33 01 43 13 33 33 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin Fax +33 01 43 13 33 30 F-75013 Paris, France E-mail mapellielda.fr

    or visit the online catalogue on our Web site:

    http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr