LINGUIST List 15.1119

Mon Apr 5 2004

Qs: English Idioms/Arabic; Journals/Urdu Ling

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  • sala salem, Support an MA researcher
  • Dr Mirza, Suitable research topic and research collaboration

    Message 1: Support an MA researcher

     Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 04:35:31 +0000
    From: sala salem <salasalem40hotmail.com>
    Subject: Support an MA researcher


    Dear All ,

    I am an MA student at An-Najah University / Nablus in the Occupied Territories of Palestine and I am doing a resarch on the Problems of translating English idoms to Arabic and vice versa. Could any linguist help me in getting dictionaries or any references on the subject as we lack them at our univresity . Thank you all.

    Susu

    Message 2: Suitable research topic and research collaboration

     Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 13:06:28 +0500
    From: Dr Mirza <jsmirza15hotmail.com>
    Subject: Suitable research topic and research collaboration


    From: Dr Mirza (jsmirza15hotmail.com)

    Dear Linguist

    The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan as well as our university desire to introduce Master and Ph.D. level research in the domain of Information Technology/ Computer Science.

    We have a number of students who have finished M.Sc. (computer Science) from our university and are very enthusiastic to pursue post-graduate research. Their research will be funded by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.

    My research has been in the area of recognition of basic-sounds (vowels and some consonants), speech synthesis etc. I would like to continue in the same area especially for Urdu (Pakistani Language). Unfortunately I have been out of touch with research for some time.

    I would like suggestions from the Linguists on RECENT topics of research in Urdu recognition and synthesis WHICH IS PUBLISHABLE IN STANDARD JOURNALS. TEXT-TO-TEXT MACHINE TRANSLATION (URDU TO ENGLISH) IS ALSO IN MY INTEREST. I WOULD ALSO LIKE RESEARCH COLLABORATION. I will be having four to five research students in Oct this year. THANKS.

    May I have some suggestions on Journals we should subscribe to.

    Dr J S Mirza jsmirza15hotmail.com Associate Professor Punjab University College of Information Technology Punjab University Lahore, Pakistan