12.317, FYI: LOT-NWCL Summer School, Software - SignStream

Tue Feb 6 22:48:06 UTC 2001

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Subject: 12.317, FYI: LOT-NWCL Summer School, Software - SignStream

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1)
Date:  Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:29:32 +0100
From:  LOT <lot at let.uu.nl>
Subject:  LOT-NWCL Summer School in Linguistics, The Netherlands

2)
Date:  Sun, 4 Feb 2001 14:59:30 -0500 (EST)
From:  Carol Neidle <carol at louis-xiv.bu.edu>
Subject:  SignStream - New Release of Software and ASL Data Sets

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

Date:  Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:29:32 +0100
From:  LOT <lot at let.uu.nl>
Subject:  LOT-NWCL Summer School in Linguistics, The Netherlands

>>From 9-20 July 2001 the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT)
in cooperation with the North West Centre for Linguistics (NWCL) at the
Universities of  Bangor, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Salford and
UMIST & Edge Hill College, is organizing a

		LINGUISTICS SUMMER SCHOOL
		in UTRECHT, The Netherlands

The Summer School will offer 24 one week courses, 12 per week.

TOPICS:
Bilingualism, Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics,
First & Second Language Acquisition, Language Change, Lexicon-
Syntax interface, Morphology, Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology,
Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Statistics/
Methodology, Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Typology

TEACHERS:
Sergey Avrutin (Utrecht University)
Harald Baayen (University of Nijmegen & MPI)
Paul Bennett (UMIST)
Huub van den Bergh (Utrecht University)
Diane Blakemore (University of Salford)
Peter Cole (University of Delaware)
Nigel Duffield (McGill & MPI)
Samuel Epstein (University of Michigan)
Janet Fodor (CUNY)
Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Groningen)
Kenneth Hale (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Charlotte Hoffmann (University of Salford)
Francis Katamba (Lancaster University)
David Lightfoot (University of Maryland/Reading)
Ayumi Matsuo (MPI Nijmegen)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Frans Plank (University of Konstanz)
David Poeppel (University of Maryland)
Eric Reuland (Utrecht University)
Neil Smith (University College London)
Andrew Spencer (University of Essex)
Jacques Terken (Eindhoven Technical University)
Hans Van de Velde (University of Brussels)
Edwin Williams (Princeton University)
Wim Zonneveld (Utrecht University)

REGISTRATION
You will soon be able to enroll via our website, where
you can also find information about tuition fees.

LODGING
On-campus housing is available. See our website for more
information.

GRANTS
Students/faculty who are residents of a developing country
can apply for a grant (=tuition fee waiver) with LOT.
More information will be available from our website soon.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Please look at our website:

http://wwwlot.let.uu.nl/zs2001/

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               LOT

Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

             Trans 10
             NL -  3512 JK  Utrecht
             email: lot at let.uu.nl
             Phone: +31 30 253 6006
             Fax: +31 30 253 6000

http://wwwlot.let.uu.nl/scholen.html
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-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Sun, 4 Feb 2001 14:59:30 -0500 (EST)
From:  Carol Neidle <carol at louis-xiv.bu.edu>
Subject:  SignStream - New Release of Software and ASL Data Sets

      **** SignStream version 2.0 now available ****

We are pleased to announce the release of SignStream version 2.0,
a MacOS application that facilitates the linguistic analysis of visual
language data (e.g., the study of signed languages and gesture),
developed with support from the National Science Foundation.
Further information about the program, which is distributed on
a non-profit basis to students, educators, and researchers, is
available at http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/SignStream/ .

We urge all users to upgrade to the new version, which registered
users may do at no cost.  All registered users should already have
received information via e-mail about downloading the upgrade
materials from our Web site.  If you are a registered user but have
not received this information, please send e-mail to carol at bu.edu.
We will no longer be supporting earlier versions of the program.

The new version contains several improvements and enhancements.
SignStream now supports multiple synchronized movie files as
well as sound files. There is also a new script capability,
which makes it possible to select specific subsets of utterances
to be viewed in a specific order. Further details about the
new version are available at the SignStream web site
( http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/SignStream/ ).

    **** New SignStream data sets now available ****

On the CD-ROM that contains the new SignStream release, there are
several new SignStream database files, including over 250 utterances
(signed by native ASL signers).  One of these database files contains
data collected in our new state-of-the-art digital video collection
facility (see http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/ncslgr.html ), and includes
synchronized views of the signing from different angles (including
a close-up of the face).

In addition, we are releasing another CD-ROM that has SignStream
databases corresponding to several excerpts of stories distributed by
DawnSignPress.  These database files require SignStream version 2.0.

For more information about materials distributed by the American Sign
Language Lingiustic Research Project on CD-ROM, see:
http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/cd.html

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Carol Neidle                                   Boston University, MFLL
carol at bu.edu                                     718 Commonwealth Ave.
http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/carol.html                  Boston, MA  02215
phone and fax: 617-353-6218

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