LINGUIST List 13.2897

Fri Nov 8 2002

FYI: NCOLCTL Award, M.SC. Speech/Language Processing

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  • McGinnis, Scott, Call for nominations: NCOLCTL A. Ronald Walton Award
  • Simon King, M.Sc. in Speech and Language Processing, Edinburgh, UK

    Message 1: Call for nominations: NCOLCTL A. Ronald Walton Award

     Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:17:04 -0500
    From: McGinnis, Scott <smcginnisnflc.org>
    Subject: Call for nominations: NCOLCTL A. Ronald Walton Award


    CALL FOR NOMINATIONS THE A. RONALD WALTON AWARD

    Since 2000, the National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) has annually given The A. Ronald Walton Award, in honor of the late co-founder of NCOLCTL and founding Deputy Director of the National Foreign Language Center, Dr. Ron Walton. The Award is given in recognition of a career of distinguished service on behalf of the Less Commonly Taught Languages. The first three awards have been given to James E. Alatis (2000), Teresita Ramos (2001) and Richard D. Brecht (2002).

    Beginning in 2003, the selection will be based upon an annually rotating pool of eligible Council member organizations. The organizations within each annual grouping will be asked to select a nominee or nominees from among their membership, and to send that nomination to NCOLCTL along with a brief (no more than two pages) description of the nominee's contributions to LCTLs in general and his or her organization in particular.

    For the year 2003, the following Council member organizations are eligible to submit nominations.

    American Association of Teachers of Turkic Language (AATT) Cantonese Language Association (CLA) Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools(CLASS) Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) International Association of Teachers of Czech (IATC, formerly NAATC) National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP)

    Nominations should be submitted no later than 15 January, 2003, to

    Scott McGinnis National Foreign Language Center 7100 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 300 College Park, MD 20740 Fax 301-403-1754 E-mail smcginnisnflc.org

    The recipient will be announced at the Sixth National Conference on May 2-4, 2003 at the University of California, Los Angeles.

    Message 2: M.Sc. in Speech and Language Processing, Edinburgh, UK

     Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:51:48 GMT
    From: Simon King <Simon.Kinged.ac.uk>
    Subject: M.Sc. in Speech and Language Processing, Edinburgh, UK


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    M.Sc. in Speech and Language Processing One year taught Masters course

    Theoretical and Applied Linguistics School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences University of Edinburgh, UK - ------------------------------------------------------------------

    We are now accepting applications for entry in October 2003.

    The course is aimed at students with linguistics, computing, engineering, psychology, philosophy or mathematics backgrounds, or relevant experience. It is concerned with computational methods for the automatic processing, and study, of spoken and written language systems, from phonetics to computer speech recognition, natural language understanding and beyond.

    It consists of two terms of taught modules followed by an extended project which results in a dissertation. Teaching is provided jointly by Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Informatics and Psychology.

    ******************************************************************** European Masters in Language and Speech

    The course has been approved by the EuroMasters consortium. Students who take an appropriate selection of modules may be additionally awarded a certificate endorsed by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). ********************************************************************

    The University of Edinburgh has one of the largest concentrations of language researchers, studying the formal, computational, psychological and social aspects of language. The language community includes members from different subject areas with rich collaborative links with many outside institutions. It is drawn together for research within the Human Communication Research Centre and shares M.Sc. teaching and Ph.D supervision.

    The course provides research or vocational training and can be freestanding or leading to Ph.D. study. The modular nature of the course means that it can be tailored to individual needs. Edinburgh University offers excellent infrastructure and support, including a purpose-built computer lab for this course.

    - ------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, including full details of the modules available, please visit the course website:

    http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/teaching/postgrad/mscslp/

    or contact the course organiser:

    Dr. Simon King Centre for Speech Technology Research University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Tel: +44-131-651-1725

    email: Simon.Kinged.ac.uk - ------------------------------------------------------------------