LINGUIST List Special Issue: LL-Map Video during Fund Drive!

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LINGUIST List Special Issue: LL-Map Video during Fund Drive! 

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	  Eric Raimy, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:34:20
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Can We Make it to $54,000 Today?


Dear Subscribers,

Thank you to all who have donated so far! We did make yesterday's daily
goal of $1,500!

We are currently at $52,622.44 and would like to try to make it to
$54,000 by the end of today! Can we do that? Can we have a little
push from our subscribers to help us get to that mark?

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

As a little encouragement, we have some donated titles from
Georgetown University Press to be given out to the first
2 donors who donate $75 or more today!

The titles are: 

Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life, edited by 
Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina, Anastasia Nylund

Arabic Sociolinguistics: Topics in Diglossia, Gender, Identity, and 
Politics, by Reem Bassiouney


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Help us reach our daily goal today and get an extra prize! You are 
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The LINGUIST Crew 



-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:54:09
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: LL-Map Project Video

Dear Subscribers,

We are very proud of the efforts that we put into our projects.
Three of these projects are:

- LL-Map
- MultiTree
- GOLDComm

To demonstrate some of the functionalities of these projects and
what they bring to the linguistics community, we have created some
videos. The videos point out some of the features of the projects
and what users can do when accessing the sites.

You can view the LL-Map video from the LINGUIST homepage at:
http://linguistlist.org

To have students learn the technology to develop and maintain these 
project sites, we need the help of all our subscribers! Supporting
LINGUIST List means supporting the students who not only learn
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that knowledge to wherever it is that they go when they leave 
LINGUIST and go into the field!

Help us support them by donating today!

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

The LINGUIST Crew


-------------------------Message 3 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:24:56
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: LEGO: Lexicon Enhancement Through the GOLD Ontology Project 
Has Progressed This Year


Dear Subscribers,

Last year, we introduced you to a new research project, 
LEGO (Lexicon Enhancement through the GOLD Ontology). We 
told you that the goal is to link lexical data to GOLD, 
the General Ontology for Linguistic Description 
(http://linguistics-ontology.org/) in order to make these 
lexicons interoperable, and create a data net that would 
allow researchers to create linguistically interesting 
queries.

Since last year we have made great progress, none of 
which would be possible without the help from subscribers 
like you. We finished the first version of an interface, 
not yet ready to go public, and succeeding in uploading a 
few lexicons to the database, which we have been testing. 
We're still working with our collaborators to digitize 
their lexicons, and the graduate students here look forward 
to bringing you more updates about this exciting project 
as it continues!

None of this would be possible without you, the subscriber. 
By clicking "donate," heading over to 
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm, 
and giving us some of your hard-earned currency, you allow 
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like this.

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Best,

Hunter Thompson Lockwood