corpora of medical discourse?

Dear colleagues,

Dr. Jim Wilce, professor of Anthropology here at NAU, is interested in corpora 
of medical discourse, and has asked me to post the following query:

"Is there a corpus of HISTORIC (e.g. late 18th through very early 20th 
century) medical and/or psychiatric discourse, including charts, grand rounds, 
and the like?"

Any help with this will be much appreciated and I will post a list of results 
if there is interest.

Best,

Federica

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Federica Barbieri
PhD Program in Applied Linguistics
Department of English
Northern Arizona University
Liberal Arts Building, BOX 6032
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6032

Office: BAA 322
Tel: (928) 523 0291
Fax: (928) 523 7074
email: Federica.Barbieri <at> NAU.EDU

Corpora of medical discourse?

**** Apologies for cross-postings ****

Dear colleagues,

Dr. Jim Wilce, professor of Anthropology here at NAU, is interested in corpora
of medical discourse, and has asked me to post the following query:

"Is there a corpus of HISTORIC (e.g. late 18th through very early 20th
century) medical and/or psychiatric discourse, including charts, grand rounds,
and the like?"

Any help with this will be much appreciated. Please CC Dr. Wilce in your 
response (jim.wilce <at> NAU.EDU) or email him directly. Thanks!

Best,

Federica

*****************
Federica Barbieri
PhD Program in Applied Linguistics
Department of English
Northern Arizona University
Liberal Arts Building, BOX 6032
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6032

Office: BAA 322
Tel: (928) 523 0291
Fax: (928) 523 7074
email: Federica.Barbieri <at> NAU.EDU

Postdoctoral fellowship in Computational Linguistics

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Postdoctoral fellowship in Computational Linguistics
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The Gaspard Monge Institute at the University of Marne-la-Vallee (France) is
seeking a candidate for a postdoctoral fellowship in Computational Linguistics.
This position is funded by the CNRS postdoctoral fellowship program. It will
start in September 2006.

Title: Processing bitexts with lemmatised concordancers
Duration: 1 year
Salary: 2150 euros per month (before tax)
Application deadline : as soon as possible and not later than June 30, 2006.

More details about the position and applications can be found at the following
URL:
http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/english/International/postDocResources.html

CNRS announcement:
http://www.k-projects.com/cnrs_postdocs/public/departement_details.php?IdDpt=5&Dep=STIC&NumOffre=14&Langue=en

Job Announcement: MT, NLP, CLIR or ML

(Apologize for cross posting) 

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Job Announcement: MT, NLP, CLIR or ML
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INSTITUTE: Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)
http://www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg
LOCATION: Singapore  

The Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) is a member of the Agency for
Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore.  The mission is to
advance infocomm technologies for the benefit of humanity and prosperity.
I2R integrates R&D in information, communications and media (ICM)
technologies to develop holistic solutions across the ICM value chain.

We are looking for 2 to 3 candidates to fill the following positions.

JOB TITLE: Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow or Research Engineer

TECHNICAL SKILLS: Specialize in Natural Language Processing, Machine
Translation or Multilingual Modeling

JOB DESCRIPTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES: The candidate shall contribute to
current and future research in language processing, in particular
multilingual information access and machine translation. The candidates are
expected to conduct in-depth study and research, and participate in
developmental projects.

**2 JOB POSTINGS**

Dictionary Writing Systems: 4th Intnl workshop, Torino, Sept 6 2006

********* 2ND ANNOUNCEMENT: SUBMISSION DEADLINE 11th JUNE *********

                Fourth International Workshop on 
                   DICTIONARY WRITING SYSTEMS 
                           (DWS 2006)
               Torino, Italy, Tues 5th September 2006
                      (pre EURALEX conference)
          Workshop website: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/dws06  

A dictionary writing system (DWS) is a piece of software for writing and
producing a dictionary. It might include an editor, a database, a web
interface and various management tools (for allocating work etc.) It
operates with a dictionary grammar, which specifies the structure of the
dictionary.

We invite submission of research papers about, and demos of, dictionary
writing systems.  Maximum length: Six A4 pages (12pt font).

Submission deadline is 

                     **** 11th June 2006 **** 

Notification of acceptance: 30th June.

A volume of proceedings will be prepared.

The workshop is relevant for: 
       • dictionary project managers 
       • lexical database users and developers 
       • lexicographers 
       • students of lexicography, lexicology, computational linguistics 

The workshop follows similar successful events in Brighton, UK in 2002 and
2003, and Brno, the Czech Republic in 2004. 

Program committee:
    • Philippe Climent, IDM, France 
    • Steve Crowdy, Longman Dictionaries/Pearson Education, U.K. 
    • Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd. and U. Sussex, U.K. (Chair)
    • Karel Pala, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 
    • Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, TshwaneDJe HLT and Ghent U, Belgium 
    • Pavel Smrz, Brno U of Technology, Czech Republic 

Fee:                            €96
Full-time Student fee:          €48

Venue will be central Torino; details to follow on website.  For travel etc
see EURALEX conference website, http://www.euralex2006.unito.it  

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Adam Kilgarriff              http://kilgarriff.co.uk  
Lexicography MasterClass   http://lexmasterclass.com 
Lexical Computing Ltd      http://sketchengine.co.uk 
University of Sussex            +44 (0)12 73 705 773
mailto:adam <at> lexmasterclass.com  +44 (0)79 71 867 845
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Conceptual Literacy

Dear Corpora Listers,

I have received a small grant to help with text/clustering analysis 
of the 50,000 entries in the Wordsmyth Educational dictionary. The 
outcome would be clusters of semantically related words, which a 
lexicographer could then take the last step toward an analysis of 
lexical-semantic relations. Does anyone  have recommendations to make 
on how to approach the task?  Someone mentioned to me Jean Veronis's 
"Hyperlex" paper.

I eventually intend to investigate the conceptual dependencies that 
occur in literacy and early learning - for example, the relation 
between the concept of "corner" in ordinary language, and "angle", in 
both math and ordinary language ("What's the reporter's angle on the 
story?"). My interest is in what I am calling "conceptual literacy" - 
the growing awareness of the relation between terms and concepts, 
that is required in order to manage relations in multiple communities 
of practice with different conceptual systems linked with shared 
vocabularies.

Thanks for whatever advice/assistance is available.

Bob

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