LINGUIST List 9.1109

Fri Aug 7 1998

FYI: Software, Qur'anic Studies, Portuguese

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

Directory

  • Jo Calder, Thistle: parameterizable diagram editor
  • AY7soas.ac.uk>, Journal of Qur'anic Studies:
  • Signe.Oksefjell, Portuguese Resources on the Web

    Message 1: Thistle: parameterizable diagram editor

     Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:25:24 +0100
    From: Jo Calder <J.Caldered.ac.uk>
    Subject: Thistle: parameterizable diagram editor


    The Language Technology Group of the Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5 of the diagram display engine and editor `Thistle'.

    Thistle is a novel design for a parameterizable diagram display engine and editor. Instances of the Thistle scheme allow editing of diagrams associated with the following linguistic theories/formalisms:

    - HPSG (all of the theory-internal diagrams from Pollard and Sag '94) - DRT - some CG variants - PATR II - metrical trees (as per Hogg and McCully) - analysis and type trees from Dowty, Wall and Peters' exposition of Montague's PTQ

    The page of demonstrations (see below) contains a pointers to a number of other diagram classes and applications, including step-time animations of diagrams. New classes of diagram can be created by writing simple grammar rules.

    Here are some of the more conspicuous changes from version 1.4beta:

    - a few more diagram classes are available - textual elements of a diagram may be constrained by regular expressions - there is now a tutorial

    There have also been numerous minor improvements and corrections to programming errors, and enhancements or additions to existing diagram classes.

    More detailed descriptions of Thistle and many example pages are available from

    http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/thistle/index.html

    and pages reachable from there. The demo pages require a Java-enabled browser.

    Thistle is available free-of-charge for non-commercial purposes. Completion of a registration form is required. Existing registered users may upgrade to 1.5 following the access instructions already communicated to them.

    Happy Drawing,

    Jo Calder

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Calder

    Language Technology Group, Human Communication Research Centre and Centre for Cognitive Science University of Edinburgh 2/6B2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9LW

    Phone: (0131) 650 4656 Fax: (0131) 650 4587

    WWW: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~jo

    Message 2: Journal of Qur'anic Studies:

     Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:24:53 GMT
    From: AY7soas.ac.uk> <AY7soas.ac.uk>
    Subject: Journal of Qur'anic Studies:


    In my message of 24 July re. the new Journal of Qur'anic Studies, the email address given for info. had attached to it my automatic signature, making a nonsense of the address. You might want to note the email for Professor M. Abdel Haleem is : ha4soas.ac.uk

    You can also contact me at: ay7soas.ac.uk

    Apologies, thanks and in anticipation

    A Yusuf, Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS

    Message 3: Portuguese Resources on the Web

     Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 13:38:06 +0200
    From: Signe.Oksefjell <Signe.Oksefjellinformatics.sintef.no>
    Subject: Portuguese Resources on the Web


    We have just compiled a catalogue of NLP resources for Portuguese, listing corpora, dictionaries, terminological databases, tools and other possible pointers of interest, at http://www.oslo.sintef.no/portug/recursos.html We welcome additions and suggestions for improvement.

    Diana Santos and Signe Oksefjell projectoinformatics.sintef.no ************************************************************** Computational processing of Portuguese

    SINTEF Telecom and Informatics Forskningsveien 1 Box 124 Blindern N-0314 Oslo, Norway Fax. +47 22 06 73 50 Email: projectoinformatics.sintef.no URL: http://www.oslo.sintef.no/portug ***************************************************************