LINGUIST List 13.253

Wed Jan 30 2002

FYI: Grammar Tool, Grants, Fieldwork in Africa

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

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  • Matthias Trautner Kromann, Free internet tool for grammaticality rating surveys
  • Serventi, Jennifer, 2002 NEH Humanities Focus Grants
  • McLaughlin, Fiona, fmclku.edu

    Message 1: Free internet tool for grammaticality rating surveys

     Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:40:57 +0100
    From: Matthias Trautner Kromann <mtkromannieee.org>
    Subject: Free internet tool for grammaticality rating surveys


    We hereby invite the readers of LINGUIST List to a sneak preview of http://www.Linguist-GRID.org, a free internet tool for conducting and publishing grammaticality rating surveys. The purpose of Linguist-GRID is to automate the most laborious aspects of grammaticality rating surveys (registration of informants, data gathering, data analysis and publication) and to facilitate resource sharing between linguists. Thus, all you have to do to set up a grammaticality rating survey, is to enter your sentences into the Linguist-GRID database, select one or more scales and comment fields that you want to use (you may create your own scales), and ask some informants to fill out your survey on Linguist-GRID. All the rest is performed automatically by Linguist-GRID.

    The sneak preview is open to everybody, but we are particularly interested in the following categories of people:

    * linguists who want to test the web site by conducting grammaticality rating surveys;

    * empirical linguists who can advise us on how to improve the site, and how to write guidelines that tell experimenters how to design better surveys and create reasonable scales for judging grammaticality;

    * linguists with good ideas for improving the automatic analysis of grammaticality rating surveys, or for giving Linguist-GRID the ability to perform other kinds of surveys;

    * volunteers who want to join the Linguist-GRID effort by helping with the documentation or contributing new features to the underlying Perl CGI programs (which are released under the GNU public license).

    The web site is fully functional, although some features and documentation are still not fully implemented. Linguist-GRID is very far from being the answer to all problems in empirical linguistics, though, so we hope to foster a strong community of linguists and programmers who can extend the scope and sophistication of Linguist-GRID to better serve the needs of empirical linguists in the future.

    The address of the Linguist-GRID web-site is:

    http://www.linguist-grid.org

    For an example of automatically generated survey results, see:

    http://www.linguist-grid.org/cgi-bin/grid?view=report&test=1

    For an example of a survey form, see:

    http://www.linguist-grid.org/cgi-bin/grid?view=rate+form&test=5

    If you try Linguist-GRID, we are very interested in hearing about any problems that you have encountered, any ideas for improvement, or any offers to contribute to the Linguist-GRID development. Feel free to email us at "mtkromannieee.org".

    Regards, Matthias T. Kromann

    - Matthias Trautner Kromann Dept of Computational Linguistics Email: mtkromannieee.org Copenhagen Business School Web: http://www.id.cbs.dk/~mtk Bernhard Bangs All� 17B Phone: (+45) 3321 0960 DK-2000 Frederiksberg C, DENMARK

    Message 2: 2002 NEH Humanities Focus Grants

     Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:24:48 -0500
    From: Serventi, Jennifer <JServentineh.gov>
    Subject: 2002 NEH Humanities Focus Grants


    2002 HUMANITIES FOCUS GRANTS, DIVISION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

    The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and college faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen teaching and learning in history, literature, foreign languages and cultures, and other areas of the humanities. The Division of Education Programs announces the next deadline for the Humanities Focus Grants competition.

    Humanities Focus Grants, typically of one year in duration, support collaborative study of significant humanities topics and enable educators to map institutional directions for teaching the humanities. Humanities Focus Grants are particularly appropriate and are encouraged for first-time applicants. The NEH staff encourages consultation with program staff prior to submitting an application.

    Application deadline: April 15, 2002 Funding available: up to $25,000 Guidelines and application forms are available from the NEH Web site at http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html.

    For more information about this grant opportunity, or if you have ideas about developing a project, please e-mail, write or call:

    Division of Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities Room 302 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 Phone: 202/606-8380 FAX: 202/606-8394 e-mail: educationneh.gov TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282

    Please see notice about delivery of US mail on the Endowment's homepage http://www.neh.gov

    Message 3: fmclku.edu

     Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:49:48 -0600
    From: McLaughlin, Fiona <fmclku.edu>
    Subject: fmclku.edu


    The West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, is organizing an international interdisciplinary symposium on fieldwork in Africa, from June 12-15, 2002. If you are interested in participating in a panel on linguistic fieldwork in Africa, please contact Fiona Mc Laughlin, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas. fmclku.edu