LINGUIST List 8.584

Thu Apr 24 1997

FYI: Scholarship, Course, Course

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <seelylinguistlist.org>

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  • Alan Juffs, American Assoc. for Applied Lx Scholarship Amount
  • Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Lg analysis with computers course
  • Goodin, Bill, UCLA short course on "Automatic Speech Recognition"

    Message 1: American Assoc. for Applied Lx Scholarship Amount

     Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 09:26:45 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Alan Juffs <juffsverb.linguist.pitt.edu>
    Subject: American Assoc. for Applied Lx Scholarship Amount


    The American Association for Applied Linguistics is pleased to announce that the amount of the LSA scholarship will be $1000. This scholarship is for a student member of AAAL attending the LSA Summer Institute at Cornell University (Website: http://www.sce.cornell.edu/CUSS/LSA.html). Students who wish to apply for the scholarship should submit an application to the AAAL business office before May 15th 1997. For further details contact Alan Juffs. (E-mail: juffsverb.linguist.pitt.edu).

    AAAL Business Office PO Box 21686 Eagan, MN 55121-0686 Phone: 612-953-0805 Fax: 612-431-8404 E-mail: <aaalofficeaaal.org>

    Message 2: Lg analysis with computers course

     Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:44:04 +0100
    From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy <rameshcobuild.collins.co.uk>
    Subject: Lg analysis with computers course


    COMPUTERS AND TEXT: 4th-10th September 1997, DEBRECEN, HUNGARY.

    A PRACTICAL COURSE IN USING COMPUTERS FOR LANGUAGE ANALYSIS.

    Associated with the ESSE/4 conference, organized by the European Society for the Study of English.

    This is the second course of this type to be held in Debrecen (the first was in 1995). The planned course components include hands-on classes in the computer room as well as the sessions listed below. Further sessions may be added.

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    A. BELA HOLLOSY (LAJOS KOSSUTH UNIVERSITY, DEBRECEN):

    1. Available corpora and tools, corpus creation, lexical analysis, tokenization

    2. String handling, text retrieval (collocations, etc), and basic programming

    3. Working with Concordancers

    4. Lexicographic model building

    B. RAMESH KRISHNAMURTHY (COBUILD, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM):

    1. History of corpora, and corpus design considerations

    2. Lexis as a linguistic level: paradigms and syntagms

    3. The relationship between Corpora and Dictionaries

    4. Usage prototypes: collocation and syntactic patterns

    C. PATRICK HANKS (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS):

    1. `Enthusiasm' and `Condescension' - contrasting Historical (17-18th Century) and Modern corpora

    2. The Individual in Time and Space - how everyday words such as `over' and `above' are used

    3. Extremes of exploitation - `Finnegan's Wake' and the OED

    4. Cognitive prototypes - what Speakers do and what Hearers believe

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    COURSE ORGANIZER: Ferenc Rovny, CLTDC, Foreign Language Centre, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - 4010, P.O. Box 41. Email: rovnyftigris.klte.hu Website: http://www.flc.klte.hu/Course

    DEBRECEN INFORMATION: for travel, accommodation, food, etc, see: a) pp 79-80 of the European English Messenger, Volume V/2, Autumn 1996 b) the ESSE homepage: http://www.unil.ch/angl/docs/esse

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    PRE-REGISTRATION FORM ---------------------

    1. YES,I want to take part in the course described above from 4th-10th September 1997, in Debrecen,Hungary.

    REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 260, UK pounds 160

    LATE REGISTRATION (after 30.6.97): US$ 325, UK pounds 200

    2. I understand that it is a pre-condition to register with the ESSE/4 Conference as well.

    (Fill in BLOCK LETTERS, please, and send to the COURSE ORGANIZER):

    Title:

    Position/Institution:

    Surname:

    First name:

    Address:

    Country:

    Zip code:

    E-mail:

    Tel/fax:

    Date:

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    Message 3: UCLA short course on "Automatic Speech Recognition"

     Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:03:00 -0700
    From: Goodin, Bill <bgoodinunex.ucla.edu>
    Subject: UCLA short course on "Automatic Speech Recognition"


    On July 21-23, 1997, UCLA Extension will present the short course, "Automatic Speech Recognition: Fundamentals and Applications", on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles.

    The instructors are Abeer Alwan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, and Ananth Sankar, PhD, Senior Research Engineer, SRI International.

    Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has emerged as a promising area for applications such as telephone voice dialing, database access, human-computer interactions and hands-free applications such as car phones. Since speech is the most direct form of human communication, ASR can enhance the ease, speed, and effectiveness with which humans can direct machines to accomplish desired tasks. Speech recognition has become an established research area and current understanding has already produced several fielded applications.

    This course is intended to provide an understanding of the basic concepts of speech recognition including speech signal processing and feature extraction, and statistical pattern recognition and its applications in speech recognition. The course also covers recent developments in special problem areas such as the recognition of noisy speech or accented speech. The instructors assume basic knowledge of signal processing and statistical analysis, and the lectures are designed to prepare participants for development work in speech recognition. The course should also offer enough background in speech recognition theory to foster the successful development of applications, and to expose new solutions to specific problems in speech recognition.

    The course fee is $1195, which includes extensive course materials. These materials are for participants only, and are not for sale.

    For additional information and a complete course description, please contact Marcus Hennessy at: (310) 825-1047 (310) 206 -2815 fax mhennessunex.ucla.edu http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses/

    This course may also be presented on-site at company locations.