LINGUIST List 13.1643

Mon Jun 10 2002

FYI: East Africa Corpus, Electronic Archive

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  • Gerald Nelson, ICE East Africa Corpus now available
  • CogSci WWW Account, Cogprints

    Message 1: ICE East Africa Corpus now available

    Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 10:22:17 +0800
    From: Gerald Nelson <ganelsonhkucc.hku.hk>
    Subject: ICE East Africa Corpus now available


    The ICE East Africa corpus (ICE-EA) is now available. ICE-EA is a lexical corpus, containing one million words of spoken & written English from Kenya & Tanzania. This release includes a version for use with Wordsmith, and full documentation.

    The corpus is available FREE (postage & packing only) under Licence.

    For more information, go to:

    <http://www.hku.hk/english/research/ice/avail.htm>

    Apologies for cross-postings.

    Gerry Nelson



    - -------------------------- Dr Gerald Nelson, Research Assistant Professor, Department of English, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR.

    Email: ganelsonhkucc.hku.hk Phone: (852) 2241-5141 Fax: (852) 2559-7139 <http://www.hku.hk/english/staff/ganelson.htm>

    Coordinator, The International Corpus of English (ICE) <http://www.hku.hk/english/research/ice/index.htm>

    - --------------------------

    Message 2: Cogprints

    Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 16:04:06 +0100 (BST)
    From: CogSci WWW Account <cogscicogprints.soton.ac.uk>
    Subject: Cogprints




    There is an easy to use, free, electronic self-archiving service, Cogprints, created by Stevan Harnad, where you can archive your own papers, whether published or not, refereed or not, and, where you can, of course, read or download the papers of others.

    Cogprints has no competitor in its domain and is complementary to academic institutions' electronic archives. It describes itself as follows:

    CogPrints is a service to two consituencies:

    For AUTHORS, it provides a way to make their pre-refereeing preprints and their refereed, published reprints available to the world scholarly and scientific community on a scale that is impossible in paper.

    For READERS, it provides free worldwide access to the primary scholarly and scientific research literature on a scale that is likewise impossible in paper

    CogPrints is an electronic archive for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition

    It has a Pragmatics category with 45 archived papers at present, but I am, I believe the only one from this list to have put papers there. Just think of this: If all the researchers on this list would archive a copy of their own papers (past, present and future) at Cogprints (whether or not they are already archived at another institutional or personal site), Francisco Yus' bibliographic service on RT would be complemented with a de facto relevance theory archive. Moreover all our papers would reach a larger readership and be easily accessible to everyone, researchers, students etc. around the world.

    Go to http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/ , look at the FAQ page http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/faq.html and the help page http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/help/ , register and start uploading! (Once you have learnt the routine, which may take you a good half hour, uploading a paper takes, in my experience, about 10 minutes.)

    Cheers, Dan

    - --------------------------- Dan Sperber Institut Jean Nicod http://www.institutnicod.org 1bis avenue de Lowendal 75007 Paris, France

    web site: http://www.dan.sperber.com - ----------------------------