LINGUIST List 8.360

Thu Mar 13 1997

FYI: Cookbook, Summer school, PhD student

Editor for this issue: Susan Robinson <suelinguistlist.org>

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  • Deborah D K Ruuskanen, Re: The COOKBOOK
  • LOT (Annette Nijstad), ***! LOT Summer School 1997 !***
  • Antoinette Renouf, PhD student

    Message 1: Re: The COOKBOOK

     Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 20:36:05 +0200 (EET)
    From: Deborah D K Ruuskanen <druuskancc.helsinki.fi>
    Subject: Re: The COOKBOOK


    Remember the Linguist Cookbook? Well, with the Easter Break coming up in the predominantly Christian countries, there may be time for many of you to find a recipie for me. I fear you were put off by the grandiose template, so that is OUT. Just send me a recipie, in any format, in any language. I've upgraded my system so it will take just about anything - except don't send appended word-files, save them in text-only format, or better yet COPY and PASTE into your email msg. Why am I asking? Well, fellow linguists, I got less than fourty recipies (36, to be exact) and you can't hardly make a cookBOOK out of 36 recipies. THANKS very much to those people. I understand there are some eight THOUSAND of you lurking out there - couldn't we come up with at least a hundred recipies, to make the cookbook a reality? Culinary Cheers, Kela - Deborah D. Kela Ruuskanen \ You cannot teach a Man anything, Leankuja 1, FIN-01420 Vantaa \ you can only help him find it druuskancc.helsinki.fi \ within himself. Galileo

    Message 2: ***! LOT Summer School 1997 !***

     Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:27:15 +0100
    From: LOT (Annette Nijstad) <lotlet.ruu.nl>
    Subject: ***! LOT Summer School 1997 !***


    ========== First Announcement ============

    LOT SUMMER SCHOOL 1997

    The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) hereby announces that the LOT Summer School 1997 will be held at the

    University of Amsterdam The Netherlands June 16 - 27

    => Preliminary Program: <=

    Week 1:

    Rens Bod & Remko Scha (U. of Amsterdam) Data-oriented Language Processing

    Marcel den Dikken (Free U. of Amsterdam) Predicates and their Movements

    Vincent van Heuven (U. of Leyden) Laboratory Phonology with Emphasis on Stress and accent

    Silvia Kouwenberg (U. of The West Indies) Creole Linguistics: The State of the Art

    Jean Lowenstamm (U. of Paris) Government Phonology

    Alice ter Meulen (U. of Stanford) Meaning and Grammar

    Tim Stowell (U. of California) Clausal Architecture and Functional Categories

    Juergen Weissenborn ( U. of Potsdam) Language Acquisition

    Ronnie Wilbur (U. of Perdue) Sign Language Structure: Functional and Formal

    Week 2:

    Rene Appel (et al.) (U. of Amsterdam) Lexicon in Second Language Acquisition

    Juergen Broschart (U. of Koeln) The Structure of Tongan

    Frans van Eemeren (et al.) (U. of Amsterdam) Analyzing Argumentative Discourse

    Marinel Gerritsen (U. of Nijmegen) Sociolinguistics

    Kees Hengeveld (U. of Amsterdam) Language Typology

    Sieb Nooteboom (U. of Utrecht) Sound Continuity and Speech Perception: between Auditory Decay and Prosodic Function

    Deadline for enrollments: May 1st 1997

    Course descriptions (as soon as they are available) and further details can be found on web page

    http://wwwots.let.ruu.nl/LOT/zs97.html

    A booklet with more information will be sent to you on request.

    For further information: E-mail: LOTlet.ruu.nl Phone: +31-30-2536006 Fax: +31-30-2536000

    - ------------------------------------------------------------ LOT

    Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

    Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht Phone: +31 30 2536006 Fax: +31 30 2536000 - ------------------------------------------------------------

    Message 3: PhD student

     Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:06:29 GMT
    From: Antoinette Renouf <antrdues.liv.ac.uk>
    Subject: PhD student


    Research and Development Unit for English Studies University of Liverpool

    Dear Teaching Colleagues

    In July, we are embarking on a three-year, EPSRC-funded research project which concerns the classification of rare words in the lexicon. More precisely, we will record the items occurring for the first time, in the lower frequency ranges only, across successive years of electronic journalistic text. The aim is to develop a system of automated classification, accounting qualitatively and quantitatively for the features found in huge amounts of text, and to be able to extrapolate from this to predict the structure of the future lexicon. The system is intended to be of benefit to NLP researchers and to all in academia and industry who need to fine-tune textually-derived or textually-applied knowledge bases.

    Among other things, this will clearly involve a close study of the morphology at this productive level of the lexicon. We would like to add to the human resources and expertise already available to the project by recruiting a PhD student, again hopefully to be funded by EPSRC, who has a good undergraduate or other grounding in morphology (or computational morphology) and who would be interested in the topic.

    Have you an outstanding undergraduate finalist (UK-based, with UK or EU nationality) who fits this category, and whom you would be ready to relinquish?

    The ideal starting date would be July 1st, but we could cope with an element of delay if necessary.

    Thank you for your attention Antoinette Renouf

    - --------------- Antoinette Renouf Director Research and Development Unit for English Studies University of Liverpool 19 Abercromby Square Liverpool L69 7ZG

    tel sec unit: +44 (0)151 794 2289 tel: +44 (0)151 794 2286 fax: +44 (0)151 794 2298 email: ajrenoufliv.ac.uk