ESSLLI 2004 - Deadline Extension

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                 Early Registration Extension

                          ESSLLI 2004

                Nancy, France 9-20 August, 2004
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We are pleased to announce a one week extension of the early
registration date till

                    ******** 7 May 2004 ********

That is, all registrations received before this date will still
qualify for the lower price.  To register go to:

   http://esslli2004.loria.fr

click on the registration button, fill out the online form, print out
the result, and fax (or surface-mail) it in.  As well as registering,
you can use the same form to reserve student accommodation and book
lunch tickets (the lunch menu is available on the ESSLLI 2004
website).

Note that the website has been changed to allow you to track the
progress of your registration. To check the status of your
registration, simple go the the ESSLLI 2004 website and click on

information about Corpus non Standard

EURALEX 2004 : Appel à participation

information about Corpus non Standard

Three PhD Positions in Amsterdam and Delft

Three PhD Vacancies in Amsterdam and Delft
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The Adaptive Information Disclosure (AID) project is part of a
larger effort aimed at the creation of a Virtual Lab environment
for e-science (VL-E).  In the context of AID we will be building
a suite of dynamic, model driven information and knowledge
extraction tools on top of an architecture for grid-based
distributed data analysis.  Keywords are: semantic models, agent
technology, formal concept analysis, datamining, text mining,
grid mining, grammar induction, information extraction, question
answering, and the dynamic maintenance of ontologies.

Within the AID project we have three PhD positions available:

1. Operations on Ontologies (at TNO-TPD, Delft/the Free University
of Amsterdam)
2. Semantic Learning with Specific Application to Ontologies (at
the University of Amsterdam)
3. Ontology-based Retrieval (at the University of Amsterdam)

Further information about these vacancies is available at
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Projects/AID/index.html

Prospective candidates should apply with a cover letter, CV,
statement of research interests and accomplishments, and names
and email addresses of 3 references.  The ability to proactively
cooperate with fellow researchers and good written and oral
English language skills are prerequisites for this position.

Please send the required information, by email only, by Monday
May 17, 2004 to:

  Ms. Fransje Enserink
  Informatics Institute
  University of Amsterdam
  Email: enserink <at> science.uva.nl

Candidates should indicate which of the three positions they are
primarily interested in.

The starting date for these positions can be as early as July 1,
2004, and the duration is four years.

Short message service (SMS) corpus publicly available

Dear researchers:

	We are pleased to make publicly available a small corpus of short
message service (SMS) messages.  

**** National University of Singapore Short Message Service Corpus ****

These messages were collected and used in a final year undergraduate project
analyzing the efficiency of SMS input.  The corpus contains messages mostly
in English.  The message contributors were mainly university students in
Singapore.

Over 10,000 messages were collected, representing over 100 different users.
The corpus is made available under a modified Open Directory Project
license.  Please see the webpage for the corpus for more details.  More
comprehensive documentation on the (on-going) project will be made available
as time and demand allow.

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~rpnlpir/downloads/corpora/smsCorpus/

We hope the community with find this corpus useful as a small benchmark for
gauging the efficiency of SMS message entry as well as for SMS / chat log
language analysis.  These messages are provided as an XML file that
validates against a document-internal DTD.

Regards,

Min-Yen KAN
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, School of Computing
National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543
Office: S15-05-05
Tel: ++ (65) 6874-1885
Fax: ++ (65) 6779-4580
kanmy <at> comp.nus.edu.sg
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy

Knorpora 1.0

Dear All,

A while ago, I sent a message to the Corpora list asking for advice on 
what to put on a remastered version of the Knoppix live CD for students 
of corpus-based computational linguistics.

I finally prepared the first edition of Knorpora, my corpus-work 
oriented version of the Knoppix live CD.

For information and for downloading the iso image, please visit:

http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/welcome_to_knorpora.html

I would like to thank all those who replied to my initial query or 
helped me in other ways. I could not install all the programs and data 
y'all suggested (nor all the things I originally planned to install), 
but I hope that some of you will find the CD useful, nevertheless.

Any feedback on Knorpora will be very much appreciated!

Regards,

Marco

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Marco Baroni
University of Bologna
http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni

Reminder: AAACL Symposium on Corpus Linguistics

        The Fifth North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics

                               sponsored by

         The American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics

                              May 21-23, 2004
                         Montclair State University
                              Montclair NJ USA

Pre-registration ends May 14

For further information, check: www.chss.montclair.edu/linguistics/aaacl/

Seeking electronic versions of Latin texts

We are beginning a pilot study to investigate the feasibility of 
linking sentences in Old English translations of Latin texts to their 
Latin originals. We are working with an annotated electronic Old 
English Corpus (the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English 
Prose, the YCOE), and we plan to annotate electronic versions of the 
Latin texts with the YCOE sentence IDs. This will enable linguists and 
other scholars to investigate the influence of Latin on Old English 
word order. However, we are having trouble finding electronic versions 
of most of the Latin texts. The ones we want are listed below. If you 
have electronic versions of these Latin texts, or if you know where 
they can be obtained, we would very much like to hear from you. We 
will seek copyright permission where necessary, and we will gratefully 
acknowledge owners of the texts where appropriate.

Susan Pintzuk and Ann Taylor
University of York (UK)
sp20 <at> york.ac.uk and at9 <at> york.ac.uk

Alexander's Letter to Aristotle
Apollonius of Tyre
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Benedictine Rule
Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae
Byrhtferth's Manual
The Life of Saint Chad
Rule of Chrodegang of Metz
Gregory’s Cura Pastoralis
Distichs of Cato
Gregory's Dialogues
Herbarium
Medicina de quadrupedibus
Lacnunga
Bald's Leechbook
Ælfric's Letter to Sigefyrth
Ælfric's Letter to Wulfgeat
Ælfric's First Letter to Wulfstan
Ælfric's Second Letter to Wulfstan
Saint Margaret
Marvels of the East
The Gospel of Nichodemus
Orosius
Heptateuch
The History of the Holy Rood-Tree
St Augustine's Soliloquies
De Temporibus Anni
Vindicta Salvatoris
West-Saxon Gospels