13.253, FYI: Grammar Tool, Grants, Fieldwork in Africa

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Subject: 13.253, FYI: Grammar Tool, Grants, Fieldwork in Africa

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1)
Date:  Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:40:57 +0100
From:  Matthias Trautner Kromann <mtkromann at ieee.org>
Subject:  Free internet tool for grammaticality rating surveys

2)
Date:  Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:24:48 -0500
From:  "Serventi, Jennifer" <JServenti at neh.gov>
Subject:  2002 NEH Humanities Focus Grants

3)
Date:  Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:49:48 -0600
From:  "McLaughlin, Fiona" <fmcl at ku.edu>
Subject:

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

Date:  Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:40:57 +0100
From:  Matthias Trautner Kromann <mtkromann at ieee.org>
Subject:  Free internet tool for grammaticality rating surveys

We hereby invite the readers of LINGUIST List to a sneak preview of
http://www.Linguist-GRID.org, a free internet tool for conducting and
publishing grammaticality rating surveys. The purpose of Linguist-GRID
is to automate the most laborious aspects of grammaticality rating
surveys (registration of informants, data gathering, data analysis and
publication) and to facilitate resource sharing between linguists.
Thus, all you have to do to set up a grammaticality rating survey, is to
enter your sentences into the Linguist-GRID database, select one or
more scales and comment fields that you want to use (you may create
your own scales), and ask some informants to fill out your survey on
Linguist-GRID. All the rest is performed automatically by
Linguist-GRID.

The sneak preview is open to everybody, but we are particularly
interested in the following categories of people:

    * linguists who want to test the web site by conducting
      grammaticality rating surveys;

    * empirical linguists who can advise us on how to improve the
      site, and how to write guidelines that tell experimenters how to
      design better surveys and create reasonable scales for judging
      grammaticality;

    * linguists with good ideas for improving the automatic analysis
      of grammaticality rating surveys, or for giving Linguist-GRID
      the ability to perform other kinds of surveys;

    * volunteers who want to join the Linguist-GRID effort by helping
      with the documentation or contributing new features to the
      underlying Perl CGI programs (which are released under the GNU
      public license).

The web site is fully functional, although some features and
documentation are still not fully implemented. Linguist-GRID is very
far from being the answer to all problems in empirical linguistics,
though, so we hope to foster a strong community of linguists and
programmers who can extend the scope and sophistication of
Linguist-GRID to better serve the needs of empirical linguists in the
future.

The address of the Linguist-GRID web-site is:

    http://www.linguist-grid.org

For an example of automatically generated survey results, see:

    http://www.linguist-grid.org/cgi-bin/grid?view=report&test=1

For an example of a survey form, see:

    http://www.linguist-grid.org/cgi-bin/grid?view=rate+form&test=5

If you try Linguist-GRID, we are very interested in hearing about any
problems that you have encountered, any ideas for improvement, or any
offers to contribute to the Linguist-GRID development. Feel free to
email us at "mtkromann at ieee.org".

Regards,
Matthias T. Kromann

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Matthias Trautner Kromann    Dept of Computational Linguistics
Email: mtkromann at ieee.org    Copenhagen Business School
Web: http://www.id.cbs.dk/~mtk      Bernhard Bangs Allé 17B
Phone: (+45) 3321 0960       DK-2000 Frederiksberg C, DENMARK


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

Date:  Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:24:48 -0500
From:  "Serventi, Jennifer" <JServenti at neh.gov>
Subject:  2002 NEH Humanities Focus Grants

2002 HUMANITIES FOCUS GRANTS,
DIVISION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS,
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

The National Endowment for the Humanities
supports school teachers and college faculty in
the United States who wish to strengthen
teaching and learning in history, literature,
foreign languages and cultures, and other
areas of the humanities.  The Division of
Education Programs announces the next
deadline for the Humanities Focus Grants
competition.

Humanities Focus Grants, typically of one year
in duration, support collaborative study of
significant humanities topics and enable
educators to map institutional directions for
teaching the humanities. Humanities Focus
Grants are particularly appropriate and are
encouraged for first-time applicants.  The NEH
staff encourages consultation with program
staff prior to submitting an application.

Application deadline:  April 15, 2002
Funding available:  up to $25,000
Guidelines and application forms are available
from the NEH Web site at
http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html.

For more information about this grant
opportunity, or if you have ideas about
developing a project, please e-mail, write or call:

Division of Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
Room 302
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Washington, D.C. 20506
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-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:49:48 -0600
From:  "McLaughlin, Fiona" <fmcl at ku.edu>
Subject:

The West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, is organizing an
international interdisciplinary symposium on fieldwork in Africa, from June
12-15, 2002.  If you are interested in participating in a panel on
linguistic fieldwork in Africa, please contact Fiona Mc Laughlin, Department
of Linguistics, University of Kansas.  fmcl at ku.edu

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