LINGUIST List 15.668

Sun Feb 22 2004

Qs: Lang/Gender Textbook; Conceptual Modeling/NL

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  • Johanna Rubba, Language-and-gender textbook query
  • Rocco Georgi, Master Thesis "Conceptual Modelling of NL Texts"

    Message 1: Language-and-gender textbook query

     Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:54:47 -0800
    From: Johanna Rubba <jrubbacalpoly.edu>
    Subject: Language-and-gender textbook query


    Hi all,

    I'm teaching a Language and Gender course in the spring. I have been using Mary Talbot's book 'Language and Gender' as the core text (with supplemental readings), but am wondering if any good new textbooks have come out that are introductions to the field rather than anthologies. Please reply directly to me and I will post a summary of recommended titles to the list.

    Thanks!

    Johanna Rubba Associate Professor, Linguistics English Department, California Polytechnic State University One Grand Avenue San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 E-mail: jrubbacalpoly.edu Home page: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba

    Message 2: Master Thesis "Conceptual Modelling of NL Texts"

     Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 03:30:01 -0500 (EST)
    From: Rocco Georgi <linguistg-roc.com>
    Subject: Master Thesis "Conceptual Modelling of NL Texts"


    Hello Linguists,

    I'm a student of Lingistics and Computer Science and currently doing research to prepare my master thesis on ''Conceptual Modelling of Natural Language Texts'' (topic not final yet).

    What I am looking for are general methods, but also tools to create such conceptual models (e.g. ontologies) automatically from NL. I found a quite interesting tool called TextToOnto which is (was?) developed at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. This tool seems to apply lots of different linguistic methods (stemming, term extraction, substitution etc.) in the process of creating an ontology and is using a (pos/semantically-tagged) corpus.

    What I am looking for are similar AND other approaches and tools to the problem of creating a (computer-understandable) conceptual model of a given NL text.

    So if you are in a project dealing with this or ever came across something in this field, please let me know! Any suggestions are welcome (mailto:linguistg-roc.com)! Thanks.

    Subject-Language: English; Code: ENG