LINGUIST List 13.352

Sat Feb 9 2002

Qs: Speech & Composition, CL/LT in Nordic CALL

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  • Roderick A. Jacobs, Speech and Composition
  • Lars Borin, CL/LT in Nordic CALL

    Message 1: Speech and Composition

     Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:44:22 -0500
    From: Roderick A. Jacobs <rjacobstownesquare.net>
    Subject: Speech and Composition


    I'm interested in finding out who, if anyone, has done empirical research into connections between speech and composition. I'm aware of some work back in the 1960's by Jimmy Britton and others in London but know of little more current dealing with intonation, etc. Rhetoricians and composition scholars like Peter Elbow frequently refer to "voice" in writing, a notion that is sometimes related to speech features, as also do literary critics--I'm thinking of Reuben Brower for instance on Dryden.

    I'll be happy to summarize for the list what I learn. -

    Roderick A. Jacobs, Ph.D. Author/Language Consultant Formerly Dean of College of Languages, Linguistics, & Literature Emeritus Professor of Linguistics & Second Language Studies University of Hawai'i 225 East Ponce de Leon Ave, #523 Decatur, GA 30030

    rjacobstownesquare.net

    Message 2: CL/LT in Nordic CALL

     Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 10:11:29 +0100
    From: Lars Borin <Lars.Borinling.uu.se>
    Subject: CL/LT in Nordic CALL


    Dear all,

    For two different, but related research projects http://www.informatics.sintef.no/projects/CbLTCallNordicLang/squirrel.html http://www.nada.kth.se/theory/projects/xcheck/ we need to make a survey of other research projects, as well as finished products, where Computational Linguistics (CL) or Language Technology (LT) resources are used in systems for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) of Nordic languages.

    For the purposes of this survey, the Nordic languages are all languages with some official recognition in the Nordic area, i.e. the national languages Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian-Bokm�l, Norwegian-Nynorsk and Swedish, the official regional languages Faroese and Greenlandic Inuit, and the recognized regional or minority languages Me�nkieli, Romani, S�mi and Yiddish (please do not think too harshly of me if I have got the terminology wrong or left out some language).

    The CL/LT resources we have in mind are both software (POS taggers, parsers, machine translation systems, speech recognizers, etc.) and data (corpora, lexical resources such as wordnets, etc.).

    So, if you are involved in such an endeavour, or know about one, please send me as much information as you can about it. Pointers to publications and web sites are especially welcome. Please reply to me directly, and not to the list. I will provide a summary to the list if there is a sufficient number of replies. BTW: In addition to English, replies in any of the continental Scandinavian languages or Finnish will be understood.

    Lars Borin Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm University, SWEDEN Dept. of Linguistics, Uppsala University, SWEDEN email: <lars.borinling.su.se>, <lars.borinling.uu.se> WWW: <http://www.ling.uu.se/lars/>;