[Corpora-List] Corpora Digest, Vol 77, Issue 19

Sun Nov 17 17:22:37 UTC 2013

2013/11/17 <corpora-request at uib.no>

> Today's Topics:
>
>    1.  video recordings of multi-party conversation
>       (Christoph Ruehlemann)
>    2.  2 open positions in Digital Humanities, FBK (Sara Tonelli)
>    3. Re:  i feel difficulities to learn ipa chart especially 20
>       vowels sounds as well 24 comsonant sounds. plz tell me the        way
>       which would be helpful in learning ipa chart and tell me  the best
>       software for transcripition thanks (Angus B. Grieve-Smith)
>    4. Re:  video recordings of multi-party conversation (Andrey Kutuzov)
>    5.  Dictionary or tool that has classification of POS
>       information especially nouns (kiran)
>    6.  Free machine translation tool/library (Olivier Austina)
>
>
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>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:12:35 +0100
> From: Christoph Ruehlemann <chrisruehlemann at googlemail.com>
> Subject: [Corpora-List] video recordings of multi-party conversation
> To: corpora <corpora at uib.no>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Is anybody aware of a collection of video recordings of multi-party
> conversations (3+ participants) that is available for free and preferably
> also transcribed?
>
> Best
> Chris
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 17:59:51 +0000
> From: Sara Tonelli <satonelli at fbk.eu>
> Subject: [Corpora-List] 2 open positions in Digital Humanities, FBK
> To: "corpora at uib.no" <corpora at uib.no>
>
> The ?Digital Humanities? Research group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler
> (Trento, Italy) is seeking two candidates for the following positions:
>
> 1. Software developer
>
>
> Job description:
>
> The Digital Humanities group is looking for a software developer to
> support research activity in the area of text analysis, crowdsourcing of
> semantic annotation, implementation and exploration of digital collections.
> The developer will be in charge of the processing pipeline implemented
> within the DH group for storing, analyzing, retrieving and annotating
> digital collections, including historical sources, literary texts and
> cultural heritage collections.
>
> The activities will focus on the following topics:
>
> - requirements elicitation, design, development and testing of online
> platforms for the exploration of textual documents, esp. historical
> sources, literary documents, cultural heritage collections;
>
> - integration of natural language processing and data visualization tools
> into modular pipelines to support research in digital collections.
>
>
> Type of contract: collaboration contract (Including meal vouchers or work
> canteen and welcome office support for visa formalities, accommodation,
> social security, etc.)
>
> Annual gross salary: around 30,400 ?
>
> Start date: from January 2014
>
> Duration: 2 years
>
> Place: Povo, Trento (Italy)
>
> Further details on the candidate's requirements are available at
> http://dh.fbk.eu/open-positions
>
>
> To apply online, please send to jobs at fbk.eu your detailed CV including
> the names of at least two reference contacts and a cover letter. Please
> include in your CV your authorization for handling of your personal
> information as per the Italian Personal data Protection Code, Legislative
> Decree 196/2003.
>
> Emails should have the following reference code: DHsd_2013
>
> Application deadline: 8 December 2013
>
> 2. Junior researcher
>
> The Digital Humanities group is looking for a junior researcher to conduct
> research mainly in the area of text analysis for digital humanities (esp.
> in the History and Literary domain) and for the creation of digital
> archives of cultural heritage collections. The candidate will work in
> collaboration with other students and researchers of the group, as well as
> with partners involved in current and future DH projects (universities,
> museums, companies, other research institutions). The candidate is also
> expected to contribute to writing project proposals and to mentor interns
> and master students occasionally involved in the group activities. The
> candidate is expected to advance state-of-the-art research in (at least one
> of) the following topics:
>
> - development of techniques and methodologies for adapting text analysis
> tools to new domains, especially historical and literary ones;
>
> - development of techniques and methodologies to reduce expert annotation
> effort, esp. combining crowdsourcing and active learning.
>
>
> Type of contract: collaboration contract (Including meal vouchers or work
> canteen and welcome office support for visa formalities, accommodation,
> social security, etc.)
>
> Annual gross salary: around 26,500 ?
>
> Start date: January 2014
>
> Duration: 2 years
>
> Place: Povo, Trento (Italy)
>
> Further details on the candidate's requirements are available at
> http://dh.fbk.eu/open-positions
>
>
> To apply online, please send to jobs at fbk.eu your detailed CV and cover
> letter (pdf. format), including a list of publications and the names of at
> least two reference contacts. Please include in your CV your authorization
> for handling of your personal information as per the Italian Personal data
> Protection Code, Legislative Decree 196/2003.
>
> Emails should have the following reference code: DHjr_2013
>
> Application deadline: 8 December 2013
>
>
> DH group website: http://dh.fbk.eu<http://hlt.fbk.eu>
>
>
> Contact person:
> Sara Tonelli, satonelli at fbk.eu
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 13:07:19 -0500
> From: "Angus B. Grieve-Smith" <grvsmth at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] i feel difficulities to learn ipa chart
>         especially 20 vowels sounds as well 24 comsonant sounds. plz tell
> me
>         the     way which would be helpful in learning ipa chart and tell
> me    the
>         best software for transcripition thanks
> To: corpora at uib.no
>
> My favorite is Richard Ishida's IPA Picker:
>
> http://rishida.net/scripts/pickers/ipa/
>
> On 11/14/2013 11:30 AM, WHITELOCK, Pete wrote:
> >
> > Shazma,
> >
> > If you want to be able to type IPA, I suggest you download UCL?s
> > phonetic keyboard from here:
> >
> > http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/phonetics/
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Angus B. Grieve-Smith
> grvsmth at panix.com
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 22:21:46 +0400
> From: Andrey Kutuzov <akutuzov72 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] video recordings of multi-party
>         conversation
> To: corpora at uib.no
>
> 16.11.2013 21:12, Christoph Ruehlemann wrote:
> > Is anybody aware of a collection of video recordings of multi-party
> > conversations (3+ participants) that is available for free and preferably
> > also transcribed?
> For Russian - http://www.ruscorpora.ru/search-murco.html
>
>
> --
> Solve et coagula!
> Andrey
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:03:56 +0530
> From: kiran <kiran.sarvabhotla at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Corpora-List] Dictionary or tool that has classification of
>         POS information especially nouns
> To: corpora at uib.no
>
> Dear All,
>
> Is there any dictionary or tool that is available freely that contains POS
> information at a very deep level.
>
> For example, the tool/dictionary should tell me the word "scientist" is
> just not a noun,it is a COMMON noun. The word "three" is a countable noun.
>
> I have explored wikitionary and wordnet but they seem to contain
> information at a more surface level, not deep.
>
>
> --
> Thank you
> Kiran Sarvabhotla
>
> -----Even a correct decision is wrong when it is taken late
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 09:05:45 +0100
> From: Olivier Austina <olivier.austina at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Corpora-List] Free machine translation tool/library
> To: corpora at uib.no
>
> Hi,
> I would like to translate phrases from French to English in a program
> (written in C++). I am looking for a machine translation tool or library
> without having to train the tool or the library before using it. Any
> suggestion is welcome.
> Regards
> Olivier
>

Hello Olivier,

Apertium machine translation platform might be the tool you are looking
for: www.apertium.org

Best,

Ilnar

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