LINGUIST List 14.794

Wed Mar 19 2003

FYI: Computing Workshops, International Olympiad

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Bill Kretzschmar, Humanities Computing Workshops at ACH/ALLC 2003

Ivan A Derzhanski, Call for Participation: International Olympiad in Linguistics

Message 1: Humanities Computing Workshops at ACH/ALLC 2003

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:34:11 -0500
From: Bill Kretzschmar <billkatlas.uga.edu>
Subject: Humanities Computing Workshops at ACH/ALLC 2003

A full program of humanities computing training workshops will be offered this year in conjunction with the annual joint meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, to be held at the University of Georgia, May 27-June 2, 2003. See the conference web site at http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/ for the full program and registration information. The workshop program and fee schedule appear below:

Tuesday, May 27 9:30AM to 6PM Introduction to XML and the TEI I

Tuesday, May 27 9:30AM to 6PM Creating an Image Gallery Database I

Wednesday, May 28 9:30AM to 6PM Introduction to XML and the TEI II

Wednesday, May 28 9:30AM to 6PM Creating an Image Gallery Database II Wednesday, May 28 9:30AM to 6PM TEI Training I Thursday, May 29 9:30AM to 6PM Introduction to XSLT Thursday, May 29 9:30AM to 6PM Intro to Document Type Definitions (DTDs) Thursday, May 29 9:30AM to 6PM TEI Training II

Workshop instructors will plan activities within the time slot available; participants should plan to be available throughout the day of the workshop.

Instructors include a team from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities led by Susan Schreibman for the XML/TEI, XSLT, DTD, and Image Gallery sessions, and a team of well-known TEI experts (Julia Flanders, Terry Catapano, Syd Bauman, and Brett Barney) for the TEI Training sessions. Full information about the workshops is available http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/workshops.html.

Costs for Workshops Any single workshop: TEI Members, $250; Not yet a Member of TEI, $275 Any two workshops: TEI Members, $400; Not yet a Member of TEI, $450 Any three workshops: TEI Members, $500; Not yet a Member of TEI, $575

All workshops are open to the general public as well as to conference registrants. Participants who wish to become members of TEI (there are institutional, project, and individual options) should consult the TEI Consortium Web site: http://www.tei-c.org/

Registration Deadline

In order to plan appropriately for workshops, we need to know the number of registrants well in advance: please register by April 15th. Late registrations for workshops will be accepted only on a space-available basis.

Bill Kretzschmar Professor of English and Linguistics Dept. of English Phone: 706-542-2246 University of Georgia Fax: 706-583-0027 Athens, GA 30602-6205 Atlas Web Site: us.english.uga.edu

Message 2: Call for Participation: International Olympiad in Linguistics

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:45:10 +0200
From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iadmath.bas.bg>
Subject: Call for Participation: International Olympiad in Linguistics

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the First International Olympiad in Theoretical, Mathematical and Applied Linguistics for secondary school students.

The Olympiad will take place from 7 to 13 September 2003 in Bulgaria, in the resort Borovetz on the mountain Rila that is a most attractive venue for a summer holiday.

We invite the participation of teams of 4 contestants each who should be aged 15-19 and either be students of a school for secondary education or have graduated from one in 2003. Teams may represent cities as well as countries. The hosts will provide the team members and the accompanying adults (one for each team) with accommodation and board free of charge. There will be a registration fee of USD 10 per contestant. Those requiring a visa to enter Bulgaria will receive assistance with the formalities.

The problems that will be offered at the International Olympiad will require no special knowledge. They will tend to be devoted to some interesting phenomenon in one or several languages. The conditions of the problems will be handed out to each team in a language of their choice. The Organising Committee can provide those interested with a sample set of problems with solutions for use in the preparation of the teams or in elimination contests.

Teams can register for participation in the International Olympiad by writing to <iadmath.bas.bg> (Ivan Derzhanski) and <lingnarod.ru> (Boris Iomdin) no later than 15 May 2003. Indicate the class, age, place of residence and native language of each contestant, as well as the language in which the team would like to receive the conditions of the problems.

The idea of holding an International Olympiad in Theoretical, Mathematical and Applied Linguistics stems mainly from the experience with the Olympics in Linguistics and Mathematics in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Since 1965, some three to five hundred secondary school students have been participating annually in the Moscow Linguistic Olympics, many of them subsequently going on to study linguistics in college and becoming professional linguists. A detailed account of the history of the Moscow Olympics and a selection of problems from past instalments is available (in Russian) at the address < http://ling.narod.ru >.

Since 1984, linguistic contests have also been held regularly in Bulgaria. In recent years similar events have been organised in the United States and the Netherlands. Furthermore, teams of Linguistic Olympics champions from Moscow have successfully competed in Bulgaria and vice versa, demonstrating the potential for international cooperation in the field. Several other countries, including Byelorussia, the UK, Latvia, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine, have likewise shown interest.

The Organising Committee also welcomes assistance in obtaining financial and media coverage support of the International Olympiad from academic, educational and commercial institutions, as well as linguists interested in attracting young talent from all over the world into this discipline.

Sincerely,

the Organising Committee of the First International Olympiad in Theoretical, Mathematical, and Applied Linguistics for secondary school students:

Professor Alexander E. Kibrik, MSU*, Moscow, Russia (Chairman) Professor Vladimir M. Alpatov, Institute for Oriental Studies, RAS**, Moscow, Russia Alexander S. Berdichevsky, MSU*, Moscow, Russia Dr Ivan A. Derzhanski, IMCS--BAS***, Sofia, Bulgaria Dr Sergey Yu. Dmitrenko, Institute for Linguistic Research, RAS**, St. Petersburg, Russia Dr Grigoriy A. Durnovo, Institute for Oriental Studies, RAS**, Moscow, Russia Dmitry V. Gerasimov, SpbSU****, St. Petersburg, Russia Professor Wlodzimierz Gruszczynski, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland Dr Xenia A. Guiliarova, MSU*, Moscow, Russia Stanislav B. Gurevich, Anichkov Lyceum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Dr Richard Hudson, University College London, London, UK Dr Boris L. Iomdin, Institute for Russian Language, RAS**, Moscow, Russia Dr Ilya B. Itkin, Institute for Oriental Studies, RAS**, Moscow, Russia Academician Petar S. Kenderov, IMCS--BAS***, Sofia, Bulgaria Professor Maxim A Krongauz, RSUH*****, Moscow, Russia Svetlana O. Mayskaya, RSUH*****, Moscow, Russia Dr Ruslan V Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK Dr Elena V Muravenko, RSUH*****, Moscow, Russia Dr Thomas E. Payne, University of Oregon, Eugene (OR), USA Iliana P. Raeva, Angel Kunchev University of Rousse, Rousse, Bulgaria Maria L. Rubinstein, RSUH*****, Moscow, Russia Professor Vladimir A. Uspensky, MSU*, Moscow, Russia Dr Valentin F. Vydrine, Museum of Anthropology, RAS**, St. Petersburg, Russia Academician Andrey A. Zaliznyak, Institute for Slavic Studies, RAS**

* MSU = Mikhail V Lomonosov Moscow State University ** RAS = Russian Academy of Sciences *** IMCS--BAS = Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences **** SPbSU = St Petersburg State University ***** RSUH = Russian State University for the Humanities