17.61, Qs: Homonymy in Morphology; Lang Technology Workflows

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Subject: 17.61, Qs: Homonymy in Morphology; Lang Technology Workflows

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1)
Date: 11-Jan-2006
From: Wayles Browne < ewb2 at cornell.edu >
Subject: Homonymy in Morphology 

2)
Date: 10-Jan-2006
From: Andrea Berez < andrea at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Developing Workflows for Language Technology 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:02:08
From: Wayles Browne < ewb2 at cornell.edu >
Subject: Homonymy in Morphology 
 


Prof. Midhat Ridjanovic (Univ. of Sarajevo, Bosnia) is writing about the
homonymy of grammatical signals, and seeks references to articles and books
in which other linguists have discussed the same topic. Examples of
homonymy: English -(e)s is for plural on nouns, for possessive on phrases,
for 3rd person singular on verbs; there is no obvious connection between
these various uses. Latin -o: is 1st person sing. on verbs, dat/abl sing.
in second-declension nouns, nom. sing. in some third-declension nouns;
again there is no obvious connection. 

His address: jasminar at bih.net.ba ; I am mentioning to him that he should
summarize the replies that he gets.

(sent in by Wayles Browne, Cornell) 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology


	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:02:11
From: Andrea Berez < andrea at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Developing Workflows for Language Technology 

	

Hello LINGUIST readers,

I am working on a project to train members of an endangered language
speaker community in making digital language teaching products. As such, we
are not trying to turn these people into computer programmers; rather, we
are trying to develop a workflow by which they can quickly and easily turn
existing non-digital language documentation into useful products.

I am looking for references on developing technology workflows;
specifically I am looking for writings about methodology for developing an
efficient flow. Helpful references will discuss topics like:

-removing as many possibilities for error from the flow
-producing high-quality results with little training and time committment
-using technology that is cheap/free
-etc...

The references don't have to be only linguistic in nature; anything from CS
will do as well.

Thanks in advance for the help. I'll post a summary.

Andrea Berez
Wayne State University, Detroit 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
 



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