Special Issue: Fund Drive

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Subject: Special Issue: Fund Drive

-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:03:00
From:  linguist [[log in to unmask]]
Subject: Cambridge University Press Contest is On!

Dear Subscribers,

Cambridge University Press has done it again! CUP is bringing
a new challenge to YOU! Are you ready?

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm


CUP is offering one of the following titles to the person who
donates the most today between 9am and 4pm (Eastern Time). If
you are the winner, you will be able to choose from the following
list of incredible titles:

- The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language, Edited by Edith
L. Bavin
- The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, Edited by Paul de Lacy
- The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, by R.
Huddleston and G. K. Pullum
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, by
David Crystal
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, by David Crystal


How can you resist? These are terrific prizes! Donate now to
be able to win one of these books!

We want YOU to win! So come to the LINGUIST site now and
donate to help the LINGUIST List grad students AND win an
incredible prize!

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

The LINGUIST Crew


-------------------------Message 2 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:12:00
From:  linguist [[log in to unmask]]
Subject: A Year to Constantly Learn More

Dear Subscribers,

The last year here at LINGUIST List has been a wonderful
and challenging experience for me, full of opportunities to
apply my knowledge, to bring in my ideas, and to constantly
learn more. My special interest is in computational linguistics,
but gaining any kind of practical programming experience was
difficult before I arrived here. Within a few weeks at LINGUIST,
however, I learned Cold Fusion, CSS and Javascript and wrote
two parsers in Perl for the LINGUIST List Cookbook
(http://linguistlist.org/cookbook/) and for checking about
200 language trees for MultiTree (http://multitree.linguistlist.org/).

Today I am the intranet team leader. In this position, I can
frequently apply my programming knowledge for fixes and expansions
and can help my colleagues learn website programming and understand
relational databases. While programming is certainly not equivalent
to computational linguistics, the programming skills I have learned
at LINGUIST are an essential basis in dealing with computational
linguistic concepts and models in my PhD in the future.

Editing is also part of my LINGUIST responsibilities. Many of us
spend a considerable amount of our work time on editing incoming
submissions, even during the weekends. As the dissertations and
paper abstracts editor, I do not only correct spelling errors and
check URLs, but I also classify submissions as best I can, so that
the abstract you are looking for will be at your fingertips in just
a simple search. Thus, editing has helped me become very thorough
and detail-oriented, and it has increased my knowledge about language
classification and the differentiation of linguistic subfields.
Additionally, correspondence with submitters has improved my
professional letter writing skills considerably which will definitely
prove invaluable for my future career.

I have ample reason to be deeply grateful for being able to work
here at LINGUIST List. I would like to use this opportunity to
thank Helen Aristar-Dry and Anthony Aristar who devote all their
time and energy to training us and whose trust and encouragement
have accompanied me through the past year here. At the same time,
I would like to thank all of you for your submissions and your
donations. Without your submissions and donations, LINGUIST List
could not provide services for open information interchange in
the linguistic community throughout the world. Without your
submissions and donations, we students would not have the
opportunities for academic and personal growth which we get here.
Please donate today to help support us students for another year
(https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm).


Sincerely,
Evelyn Richter



-------------------------Message 3 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:27:00
From:  linguist [[log in to unmask]]
Subject: LINGUIST Has Provided Me With Day-to-Day Challenges



Dear Subscribers,

At LINGUIST over the past two years, I have had the
opportunity to learn a great deal about web technologies
and programming for interoperability.  While attending
grad school at Eastern Michigan University for Artificial
Intelligence, LINGUIST has provided me with day-to-day
challenges that have allowed me to hone my skills as a
programmer and a computer scientist.  LINGUIST has provided
a social and work experience component to my education
that I believe has no match in any computer science program
in the world.  It is through donations from subscribers and
supporters like yourselves that allows LINGUST to provide
this excellent learning experience.

My Projects at LINGUIST have included LL-MAP, Job Announcements
Submission and Editing Facilities, GOLD, The LINGUIST List
Jobs Bulletin, and the newly released static language map
feature available from the LINGUIST List Language Description
pages.  Many projects that I have worked on at LINGUIST have
required the learning of new programming languages and web
technologies.  A few of the Technologies that I have learned
at LINGUIST include XSLT, Perl, ColdFusion, PHP, Advanced
JavaScript toolkits, ESRI Web mapping technologies as well as
JSP and ORACLE.  I can't think of anywhere else that I could
have gained the hands-on experience of working on/with all of
these technologies and more.

LINGUIST is a very friendly environment to work in, and has
provided me with a warm and welcome home for over two years
thanks to the donations of subscribers.  Continued donations
to LINGUIST every year ensure that there is always a place for
students from many disciplines to work together toward the
betterment of the field of linguistics through cooperation and
communication. Please help us continue our efforts by donating
today:

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Thank you for your support,


Benjamin J. Cool



-------------------------Message 4 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:35:31
From:  linguist [[log in to unmask]]
Subject: LINGUIST List Has Provided Me With Some Remarkably Interesting
Projects to Work On


Dear Subscribers,

I've been a programmer at the LINGUIST for a year now and have
really enjoyed my time here working with our crew of knowledgeable
linguistics students. As a humble code monkey looking for work
more stimulating than your average dot-com store front, the
LINGUIST List has provided some remarkably interesting projects
to work on as well as a group of highly intelligent and curious
individuals as guides for my venture into the fascinating world
of linguistics.

I'm currently working on an amazingly ambitious project with my
fellow LINGUIST team members called LEGO (Lexicon Enhancement
via the GOLD Ontology). The goal of this project is to transform
discreet lexical data sets into a uniformly marked up RDF graph.
This project is exciting to me due to its parallel design goals
with the perceived evolution of how information should be shared
through the internet. We're using advanced technologies which
allow an interoperatable exchange of data with documents marked
up in RDF. We are also imbuing our data with a common linguistic
ontology by referencing GOLD (General Ontology for Linguistic
Description) so that it can be accessed and related to by others
who adhere to the same terminology. I believe that this project
symbolizes The LINGUIST List's endeavor in exploring methods for
sharing linguistic data as well as providing a model for other
organizations to share their data in a highly accessible manner.

The LINGUIST List is a unique organization in the way that it
selflessly contributes an enormous amount of data and services
to the linguistic community as well as the greater world of
academia. Though we are ecstatically fueled by your appreciation
for our services, we can not achieve our ambitious goals, nor
employ our nutritionally deprived grad-students, without
contributions through our annual fund drive. Please consider
donating today at
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm.


Thank you for your support,

Dwight VanTuyl



-------------------------Message 5 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:05:31
From:  linguist [[log in to unmask]]
Subject: Each day is full of new challenges


Dear Subscribers,

I've been at LINGUIST List for six months now - and what
a ride it's been! I often feel that for big parts of our
linguistics community, The LINGUIST List is an important
intersection, a crossroad or a hub. Everyone comes here
for one reason or other - to tell others about new books,
to look for interesting articles for their journals, to
discuss their latest thoughts on the many mailing lists,
to manage their conferences, to look for a new job or to
search our immense databases for language information. To
be at the center of all is exhilarating.

Each day is full of new challenges - the LINGUIST site and
all our different services to the linguistic community are
very complex and require a lot of attention, and I interact
daily with many linguists from across the globe. On top of
that, we have several projects that are all at the cutting
edge of applied computational linguistics. I get to be part
of a dynamic multicultural team of experienced as well as
beginner researchers that sets out to tackle such problems
as accurate language mapping with GIS, the future	
interoperability of all language lexicons or how different
hypotheses of language relationships can best be compared
and evaluated using new technology.

I post journal Calls for Papers, information on new,
interesting journals, and am responsible for continuously
updating our growing list of freely available corpuses on a
multitude of languages, speech analysis software, automatic
text taggers, automatic document summary applications and
many other exciting tools. I can see every week how the
Computational Linguistics field is growing, and get to talk
with many innovative researchers.

None of this would be possible without your economic support.
All the services The LINGUIST List provide are dependent on
the international group of graduate students gathered here.
We need money for tuition and rent, and every once in a while
we have to eat something too. Please consider donating today:

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Thanks again, for your continued support and donations,

Susanne Vejdemo