LINGUIST List 13.210

Sun Jan 27 2002

FYI: Text Semiotics, Acronym Server, Grammar Website

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

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  • Rossitza Kyheng, Web site "Text Semiotics" : call for contributions
  • Jose Castano, Acronym Database Server
  • Mirjam Fried, Construction Grammar website announcement

    Message 1: Web site "Text Semiotics" : call for contributions

     Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:07:01 +0100
    From: Rossitza Kyheng <Rossitza.Kyhengtext-semiotics.org>
    Subject: Web site "Text Semiotics" : call for contributions


    Subject : Web site "Text Semiotics" : call for contributions

    Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the Text Semiotics web site is now available at: http://www.text-semiotics.org

    As you know, semiotics is largely represented on the Net. The semiotic field grows richer and richer every day; its domains take their own dimensions as the fast progression of online publications goes along. Professionals are increasingly concerned with being able to direct their browsing through specialized portal sites. So the aim of this site is to specify the domain of Textual Semiotics on the web by allowing access to a large inventory of online resources. The utility of this site would be to target the research for those who are particularly interested in textual studies from the semiotic point of view.

    The Web site "Text Semiotics" is an open and voluntary international project. In accordance with the multinational and multilingual environment on the Internet, the site is democratic and open to all those who wish to refer or present their publications on line. The proportion of researchers in the field of textual analysis who use electronic publishing media is increasing worldwide. It is obvious that this polyglot situation of the electronic resources imposes constraints which make it impossible to aspire to unconstrained exhaustiveness, (moreover, it would be contrary to the dynamic nature of hypertext). However, we feel justified in aspiring to maximum information, which could be reached only by a broad collaboration from all of us. Together, we can create the web site of Textual Semiotics by our common contribution and for our common profit.

    To this purpose you are kindly invited to add links, to announce events, to indicate or to suggest your electronic publications as well as the online publications of your institution (department, university, association, group, etc.) concerning Textual Semiotics.

    The site " Text Semiotics " is conceived as a multilingual tool. Currently it is available in English, French, and Russian. Pages in other languages will be added progressively to the collection of information. To carry out this project the site needs an international team composed of various section coordinators. Coordinators for the Russian, Italian, German, English, French and Spanish sections are required urgently.

    Looking forward to your suggestions and comments, Best regards, Rossitza Milenkova-Kyheng Rossitza.Kyhengtext-semiotics.org

    P.S. Please forward this call for contributions to other people concerned.

    Message 2: Acronym Database Server

     Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:41:26 -0500 (EST)
    From: Jose Castano <jcastanocs.brandeis.edu>
    Subject: Acronym Database Server


    We announce the release of Acromed 1.0, a publicly available acronym server for literature in the biomedical domain. It was constructed automatically, using NLP techniques developed at Brandeis University, from last year's Medline Abstracts Database (>500,000 abstracts). Acromed contains over 120,000 unique acronym-definition pairs along with probable assignment of their semantic type. The system disambiguates the acronym to allow query expansion directly into the PubMed Search Server. It can be accessed at http://medstract.org.

    Jose M. Castano

    Message 3: Construction Grammar website announcement

     Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:30:49 -0500 (EST)
    From: Mirjam Fried <mfriedPrinceton.EDU>
    Subject: Construction Grammar website announcement


    Construction Grammar has its own, independent website now!

    The site is meant as a source of up-to-date information about what goes on within the program of 'constructional linguistics', making the work of scholars inspired by Construction Grammar, both in linguistics and in related fields, more readily accessible to the general research community.

    The URL is http://www.constructiongrammar.org

    Any inquiries should be addressed to cgconstructiongrammar.org

    - --------------------------------- Mirjam Fried Princeton University Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures