9.620, FYI: Symposium, Linguistik online, GATE software

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-620. Tue Apr 28 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.620, FYI: Symposium, Linguistik online, GATE software

Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Review Editor:     Andrew Carnie <carnie at linguistlist.org>

Editors:  	    Brett Churchill <brett at linguistlist.org>
		    Martin Jacobsen <marty at linguistlist.org>
		    Elaine Halleck <elaine at linguistlist.org>
                    Anita Huang <anita at linguistlist.org>
                    Ljuba Veselinova <ljuba at linguistlist.org>
		    Julie Wilson <julie at linguistlist.org>

Software development: John H. Remmers <remmers at emunix.emich.edu>
                      Zhiping Zheng <zzheng at online.emich.edu>

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1)
Date:  Sun, 26 Apr 1998 20:10:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:  David Prager Branner <yrs at netcom.com>
Subject:  Symposium on Chinese Rime Table Phonology

2)
Date:  Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:18:50 +0200
From:  Elke Hentschel <eloufjdb at zrz.tu-berlin.de>
Subject:  Linguistik online

3)
Date:  Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:44:28 +0100 (BST)
From:  hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Hamish Cunningham)
Subject:  GATE: new version available

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Sun, 26 Apr 1998 20:10:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:  David Prager Branner <yrs at netcom.com>
Subject:  Symposium on Chinese Rime Table Phonology

The Institute of Linguistics and Asian and Slavic Languages and
Literatures presents

	A Symposium on

New Views on The Linguistic Philosophy
Underlying the Chinese Rime Table

Saturday, 2 May, 1998
Nolte Library
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

********************************************

	First Panel, 10 AM.  Chair:  David Prager Branner, University of
		Minnesota

Chun-juo Liu, University of Minnesota (Emerita)
	"The Avatamsaka Syllabic Wheel and Wen-shu chih-nan t'u-tsan"

W. South Coblin, University of Iowa
	"Thoughts on the Shoouuen Fragments"

R. VanNess Simmons, Rutgers University
	"How Rime Book Based Analyses Can Lead Us Astray"

********************************************

	Second Panel, 2 PM.  Chair:  Wen-Chao Li, University of Minnesota

An-King Lim, Salt Lake City Community College
	"On Turkic Sound Harmony and the Vocalic Divisions of the
	Yun4-jing4"

Abraham Chan, University of Hong Kong
	"On the Principle of the Four Grades"

Jerry Norman, University of Washington
	"Mandarin and the Rime Tables"

********************************************

There is no admission charge, and the symposium is open to the public.
However, seating in the library is quite limited.

For more information, please contact David Prager Branner,
(612)-917-8235 or <yuen.ren.society at bigfoot.com>


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:18:50 +0200
From:  Elke Hentschel <eloufjdb at zrz.tu-berlin.de>
Subject:  Linguistik online

Dear colleagues,

the pilot issue of the internet-journal _Linguistik online_ is now
available:

    http://www.euv-frankfurt-o.de/~wjournal/

or (this will get you immediately to the table of contents):

    http://www.euv-frankfurt-o.de/~wjournal/inhalt1_98.html

I hope you'll enjoy the journal!

Regards,

Elke Hentschel


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:44:28 +0100 (BST)
From:  hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Hamish Cunningham)
Subject:  GATE: new version available


GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering): new version available
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

GATE is an architecture and development environment for language
processing R&D, and comes bundled with an advanced Information
Extraction system for English.

GATE 1.5.1 is now available for download. This release includes
Java support, better SGML support, a manual annotation tool, an
annotation comparison tool and various other goodies. Please see the
web site for further details, and follow the "download" link there.

      http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/gate/

The system is free for research purposes, and comes in source and
binary form for common platforms.

Regards

Hamish Cunningham
Research Fellow in Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/

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