6.828, Qs: Bertinetto, Statistical CL, Philippine Nat'l Lang.

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-828. Wed 21 Jun 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 108
 
Subject: 6.828, Qs: Bertinetto, Statistical CL, Philippine Nat'l Lang.
 
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 07:24:32 -0400
From: Alexis Manaster Ramer (amr at CS.Wayne.EDU)
Subject: Q: New email address for Pier Marco Bertinetto
 
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 95 15:14:51 0200
From: Joakim Nivre (joakim at ling.gu.se)
Subject: Teaching material for statistical CL
 
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 09:38:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: CBRISSON at zodiac.rutgers.edu
Subject: Philippine Nat'l Lang.
 
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 07:24:32 -0400
From: Alexis Manaster Ramer (amr at CS.Wayne.EDU)
Subject: Q: New email address for Pier Marco Bertinetto
 
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Since the old address no longer works, would anybody know
the new one?
 
Alexis MR
 
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 95 15:14:51 0200
From: Joakim Nivre (joakim at ling.gu.se)
Subject: Teaching material for statistical CL
 
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Dear all,
 
I am going to develop a course on statistical models and methods
in computational linguistics using Eugene Charniak's book
"Statistical Language Learning". I would be very grateful for
advice concerning:
 
1. Supplementary literature, especially on the mathematical
   background, probability theory, etc., but also on applications.
 
2. Material for practical exercises, mini-projects, etc., both
   written material and software if available.
 
I'd be happy to post a summary to the Linguist list if there is
interest.
 
Best regards,
 
Joakim Nivre
 
Department of Linguistics
G=F6teborg University
E-mail: joakim at ling.gu.se
 
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 09:38:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: CBRISSON at zodiac.rutgers.edu
Subject: Philippine Nat'l Lang.
 
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A local newspaper recently printed a letter to the editor that read, in
part, as follows:
"Tagalog is not a language but the second-most commonly spoken dialect
in the Philippines (next to Cebuano) out of more than 50 dialects.  The
national language is Filipino, as required by the Philippine Congress in
1989."
Does anyone out there know what Filipino is, or where I might find some
information on it and the events in the Philippine Congress in 1989?  I'd
like to use this topic as a starting-off point for a class discussion
about dialect vs. language, and prescriptivism, but I need to know more.
 
If you have some information, please reply to me directly.  Thanks.
 
--Christine Brisson
  Rutgers University
  cbrisson at zodiac.rutgers.edu
 
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