ELL: Re: in support of Transparent Language Systems' offer

[Jeff ALLEN]

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					   At 17:26 26/03/99 -0500, David
					   Harris wrote:
					   >Here's an example of how global
					   computing can help:
					   >
					   >Because of the internet, I have
					   finally been able to obtain
					   information on
					   >the Rhaeto-Romance dialects of
					   Switzerland
					   <snip>
					   >1- Through the internet, I located
					   a Swiss bookseller
					   <snip>
					   >2- In addition, many of the
					   official Swiss government webpages
					   are in RR
					   >(one of four official languages of
					   Switzerland) as well as French,
					   German,
					   >and Italian (the other three
					   official languages) and English.
					   <snip>
					   >3- Better still has been on-line
					   access to the RR journal 'Punts'
					   (Bridges)
					   <snip>

					   The Internet also allows us to be
					   in communication with one another.
					   In the past, it took me weeks, if
					   not months, to track down
					   language-specific articles, theses,
					   dissertation, handouts, etc and
					   the authors via letter, fax, phone,
					   etc.  Now it
					   can be done in a few minutes.

					   David, you should contact Christine
					   Kamprath at Caterpillar Inc (one
					   of my former colleagues when I
					   worked on the translation system
					   there).  Her speciality in
					   linguistics before getting into
					   computational linguistics was in
					   fact Rhaeto-Romance dialects
					   of Switzerland.  To my knowledge,
					   she continues to edit journal
					   articles that deal with RR.
					   Her e-mail is kamprck at cat.com  &
					   ckkz8d1 at cat.com

					   Just tell her that Jeff sent you
					   along since you had mentioned
					   that you were interested in RR
					   dialects.

					   Best,

					   Jeff


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