LINGUIST List 13.1255

Mon May 6 2002

FYI: Lang Policy, Corpora Game

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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  • Wayne Wright, Language Policy Research Unit website
  • Rada Mihalcea, A new project: Open Mind Word Expert

    Message 1: Language Policy Research Unit website

     Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 14:48:56 -0700
    From: Wayne Wright <Wayne.Wrightasu.edu>
    Subject: Language Policy Research Unit website




    The Language Policy Research Unit (LPRU) of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University

    ANNOUNCES UPDATED WEBSITE

    http://www.language-policy.org

    LPRU, under the Direction of Terrence G. Wiley, is a unit of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University.

    Our new and recently updated website now provides:

    * Original articles by leading scholars (including James Crawford, Josue Gonzalez and Harold Schiffman), notes on recent books, and an extensive bibliography;

    * Archives of news items from leading newspapers around the world;

    * Lists of Court Cases and bibliography related to language;

    * Links to academic journals and other resources for language policy research.

    The LPRU website is rapidly expanding, and new resources are added monthly. If you wish to be informed of updates, subscribe to the LPRUNEWS listserv by sending an email letter to listservasu.edu and making the one-line contents read

    sub LPRUNEWS your-first-name your-last-name

    The Language Policy Research Unit promotes research and policy analysis on the challenges of global multilingualism through studies promoting equitable language policies in education & society; demographic studies bearing on language rights and preservation; historical & contemporary studies on language contact, conflict, and minority language accommodation; and media, legal and legislative analyses. ________________________________________________________________ The Education Policy Studies Laboratory (EPSL) at ASU offers high quality analyses of national education policy issues and provides an analytical resource for educators, journalists, and citizens. It includes the Commercialism in Education Research Unit (CERU), the Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA), the Education Policy Reports Project (EPRP), the Education Policy Research Unit (EPRU), and the Language Policy Research Unit (LPRU). The EPSL is directed by ASU Professor Alex Molnar. Visit the EPSL website at http://www.edpolicylab.org/

    Message 2: A new project: Open Mind Word Expert

     Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 02:04:09 -0500 (CDT)
    From: Rada Mihalcea <radautdallas.edu>
    Subject: A new project: Open Mind Word Expert


    We would like to inform you about a recently started project, "Open Mind Word Expert", which is part of the Open Mind initiative, and aims at creating large sense tagged corpora with the help of Internet users.

    The OMWE system is running at http://teach-computers.org.

    Since the official launch of the system at the beginning of April, we collected about 6000 tagged instances at virtually no cost. Based on previous experiences with Open Mind type of approaches, we expect a significant increase in time of the amount of labeled data collected through this site.

    We would like to point out two important features that many of you might find of interest:

    1. The site is designed such that it can be used as a teaching aid. We are already aware of several courses that had assignments or exams based on this site, where students get a good grasp on the various meanings that a word might have by tagging several word examples. The 'project' feature allows the project administrator to monitor the tagging done by the users registered with that particular project.

    2. The data collected through this site is made freely available for research purposes. You can download and use the corpus for your own experiments in Word Sense Disambiguation, Machine Learning, or any other research related experiments.

    We feel that this project can create a valuable resource for the research community. A project of this nature, however, succeeds because of its participants, not its designers. If you feel that this is a worthwhile project, please spread the word. It would be particularly helpful if you link to us from a web site you maintain.

    So far, we have been profiled at: http://coolsiteoftheday.com (May 6, 2002) http://topwebgames.com/cat.asp?name=Board http://www.gamecase.nl/strategy/index.html http://gamespotter.com/showcategory.php?Cat=9&'OrderBy=Title&Begin=177 "Open Mind Word Expert" Tim Chklovski, MIT Rada Mihalcea, UTD