6.772, Qs: 'This', Rap, Keyword, MT, Journal

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Subject: 6.772, Qs: 'This', Rap, Keyword, MT, Journal

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Date:  Fri, 02 Jun 1995 05:56:20 +0200
From:  Kazuto MATSUMURA <kmatsum at tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject:  Q: 'this' and 'that'

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Date:  Fri, 02 Jun 1995 13:06:58 +0200
From:  panther!jaguar!mzam at relay.iunet.it (Mr. Martin Zammit)
Subject:  Analysis of rap data

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Date:  Fri, 02 Jun 1995 12:29:00
From:  EDMONDSONWH at vms1.bham.ac.uk
Subject:         RE: 6.746, Confs: TWLT9 - Updated Announcement

4)
Date:  Fri, 02 Jun 1995 15:00:34 +0200
From:  sl16wwur at rz.uni-sb.de (Uwe Reinke)
Subject:  Machine Translation: Looking for Proceedings of TMI

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Date:  Fri, 02 Jun 1995 14:49:20 -0000
From:  K Hardie <kjmh at festival.ed.ac.uk>
Subject:  International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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Date:  Fri, 02 Jun 1995 05:56:20 +0200
From:  Kazuto MATSUMURA <kmatsum at tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject:  Q: 'this' and 'that'

Dear LINGUISTs:

Some present-day 'European' languages have only one set of simple
demonstratives and the opposition of <this> vs. <that> is expressed
by the help of <here> and <there>:

   French    ceci      'this'    ce livre-ci     'this book'
             cela      'that'    ce livre-l`a    'that book'

   Swedish   det ha"r  'this'    den ha"r bilen  'this car'
             det da"r  'that'    den da"r bilen  'that car'

   Estonian  see siin  'this'    see maja siin   'this house'
             see seal  'that'    see maja seal   'that house'

My Sweidish-German dictionary (Stora tyska ordboken) gives <der hier>
and <der da> as colloquial (familia"r, umgangssprachlich) German forms
which conrrespond to <den ha"r> and <den da"r>, respectively.

How common is a demonstrative system like this?

Incidentally, Japanese has a rather sophisticated three-way distinction
here:

   kono hoN  'this book (you see here)'
   sono hoN  'that book (you see there), the book (under discussion)'
   ano  hoN  'that book (you see over there)'

So I'm afraid I will have to convince my students that the Japanese
are extravagant even in the way of using demonstratives.

Kazuto Matsumura

     Kazuto MATSUMURA
     kmatsum at tooyoo.L.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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     Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
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Date:  Fri, 02 Jun 1995 13:06:58 +0200
From:  panther!jaguar!mzam at relay.iunet.it (Mr. Martin Zammit)
Subject:  Analysis of rap data

Dear linguists,
Some time ago, there was a message posted to the list about the linguistic
analysis of data from rap music lyrics.  Would anyone pursuing this line please
get in touch with Dr. Alexandra Vella, University of Malta, on:
          avella at unimt.mt
Thank you very much.
Martin Zammit
Institute of Linguistics
University of Malta
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Date:  Fri, 02 Jun 1995 12:29:00
From:  EDMONDSONWH at vms1.bham.ac.uk
Subject:         RE: 6.746, Confs: TWLT9 - Updated Announcement

 A colleague of mine - Jeff Day - who is not a subscriber would like to
hear from anyone who knows about keyword generation and use.

Some questions to which he'd like answers are:
Are there any studies of consistency in keyword generation?
Are there any studies of psycholinguistic factors in keyword generation?
Are there any studies of the value of restricted keyword lists?
Are there any studies showing the utility of keywords in document retrieval?

Replies to Jeff, please, JXD at cs.bham.ac.uk

Thanks

William Edmondson
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Date:  Fri, 02 Jun 1995 15:00:34 +0200
From:  sl16wwur at rz.uni-sb.de (Uwe Reinke)
Subject:  Machine Translation: Looking for Proceedings of TMI

I am looking for an article by  S. Nirenburg ("Two Approaches to Matching
in Example-based Machine Translation", that was published in the
"Proceedings of TMI-93". Could anybody in the "MT community" tell me
what TMI stands for and perhaps where to get hold of  a copy of the
proceedings?

Thanks in advance for any answer.

Uwe
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Date:  Fri, 02 Jun 1995 14:49:20 -0000
From:  K Hardie <kjmh at festival.ed.ac.uk>
Subject:  International Journal of the Sociology of Language

I have been looking for the right address to write for more information
on subscriptions [student rates] for the International Journal of the
Sociology of Language..

Can anyone please tell me what the address is (snail mail or email) so i
can subscribe to the journal?

Please reply to me directly : kjmh at festival.ed.ac.uk
Thanks!!!!
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