6.327 FYI: E. H. Tuttle, ASL on CD-ROM, Workshop, Grants-in-aid

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Subject: 6.327 FYI: E. H. Tuttle, ASL on CD-ROM, Workshop, Grants-in-aid
 
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 01:45:22 +0100 (MET)
From: hartmut at ruc.dk (Hartmut Haberland)
Subject: Re: 6.280 Sum: About E. H. Tuttle
 
2)
Date: 24 Feb 95 11:29:17 CST
From: TWRIGHT at ACCDVM.ACCD.EDU
Subject: E.H. Tuttle
 
3)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 07:26:52 -0700
From: wilcox at alcor.unm.edu (Sherman Wilcox)
Subject: Re: 6.282 Sum: ASL dictionary on CD-ROM
 
4)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 95 14:52:31 +0100
From: hoole at sun1.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de (Phil Hoole)
Subject: workshop announcement  ARTICULATORY DATABASES
 
5)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 08:13:18 -0600 (CST)
From: "K. Heilenman" (kheilenm at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu)
Subject: Grants-in-aid available
 
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 01:45:22 +0100 (MET)
From: hartmut at ruc.dk (Hartmut Haberland)
Subject: Re: 6.280 Sum: About E. H. Tuttle
 
The publisher in Rutland, VT and Tokyo is called Charles E. Tuttle,
publisher, among other fine books, of Andrew N. Nelson's Japanese-English
Character Dictionary. My copy of Nelson is from 1975, and I have also a copy
of K. G. Henshall, A guide to remembering Japanese characters, with an
imprint of 1990. So the publisher still exists today, and has not just
existed until the 1960s.
Hartmut Haberland
 
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Date: 24 Feb 95 11:29:17 CST
From: TWRIGHT at ACCDVM.ACCD.EDU
Subject: E.H. Tuttle
 
Xulio Sousa wrote:
 
)E. H. Tuttle and Co.: Publisher located in Tokyo and Vermont,
)specialized in books on Japan. Existed at least into 1960s.
 
They still existed at least as of last year.  They publish
such things as Vietnamese-English dictionaries.
 
Tony Wright (twright at accdvm.accd.edu)
St. Philip's College
San Antonio, Texas
 
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 07:26:52 -0700
From: wilcox at alcor.unm.edu (Sherman Wilcox)
Subject: Re: 6.282 Sum: ASL dictionary on CD-ROM
 
I'd like to point out that two of the dictionaries of ASL on CD-ROM
mentioned in Bernard Comrie's recent message, namely:
 
--Multimedia Dictionary of ASL (MM-DASL), release planned for Summer of
1995.
 
--ASL Dictionary on CD-ROM developed by Dennis Cokely at Linstok Press,
 
are in fact the same dictionary. I am the grant author and director of this
project and would be happy to answer any questions. We do plan a summer
1995 release. The MM-DASL will allow searching from English to ASL, and
(critcally, in our opinion), directly via ASL phonological parameters. All
information in the MM-DASL (definitions, grammatical category, etc.) are of
the *ASL* word (not its English gloss, as is the case, I am told, for the
HarperCollins dictionary).
 
 
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Sherman Wilcox                  wilcox at mail.unm.edu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Linguistics            (505) 277-6353 v/tty
University of New Mexico        (505) 277-6355 fax
Albuquerque, NM 87131
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 95 14:52:31 +0100
From: hoole at sun1.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de (Phil Hoole)
Subject: workshop announcement  ARTICULATORY DATABASES
 
                   WORKSHOP ON ARTICULATORY DATABASES
                               Munich
                 Thursday 25th and Friday 26th May, 1995
 
We are currently starting the preparations for a two-day
workshop on articulatory databases. This will be  the third in
the series of workshops organized by the ACCOR working group
(a consortium of phonetic institutes financed by the European
Community's ESPRIT programme) and and follows the
Electromagnetic Articulography meeting in Munich (April,
1992), and the Tongue Modelling meeting in Barcelona (December
1993).
 
A few words on the aims of a meeting devoted to such an
apparently dry topic:
 
The basic premise is that the free availability of
articulatory data could provide benefits in several partly
overlapping areas:
 
     In basic research it could allow investigators to test
     hypotheses formulated in articulatory terms on a much
     wider range of data than the individual worker would
     normally be able to acquire or access unaided.
 
     It could promote the development and testing of
     algorithms for deriving articulatory representations from
     acoustic data - relevant both for basic understanding of
     speech production as well as in potential applications
     such as speech displays for training the speech impaired.
 
     It could promote the development and testing of
     algorithms for speech synthesis/recognition using an
     articulatory level of representation.
 
The aim of the workshop would be to generate an exchange of
ideas among people active in these areas in order to identify,
for example (further suggestions welcome):
 
1)   What articulatory data is in existence that it would be
     beneficial to make more freely available
     (archival/retrospective approach)?
 
2)   What standards should freely available data meet?
     - Specification of recording conditions
     - Anatomical frames of reference
     - Levels of accuracy/reliability
     - Linguistic specification of the speech samples
     - Preferred data structures for distribution.
     - Any other issues relevant to the data being used
     without risk of misinterpretation by people not actually
     involved in the the details of acquisition
 
     Articulatory data can come in many guises depending on
     the speech subsystem tapped into and the transduction
     technique used. Thus, it is possible to monitor position
     (1, 2 or 3 dimensions), force, EMG, airpressure/flow with
     techniques that may be static or dynamic, may involve
     imaging or point-tracking etc. etc. We think that people
     directly involved in acquisition can also benefit from
     considering how techniques can be standardized to promote
     maximum comparability of recordings made at different
     sites and with different hardware.
 
3)   In analogy to acoustic databases (where unlabelled data
     is of only the most limited use), what segmentation and
     labelling information (and tools for the exploitation
     thereof) could/should be made available with the raw data
     to facilitate flexible access for different purposes?
 
4)   For future recordings, what categories of data and
     corpora would be potentially of most widespread use?
 
If you are interested in participating please contact Phil
Hoole (preferably by Email) at the address below as soon as
possible. Further information on registration and format for
presentations will be distributed early in 1995.
 
Please also draw this letter to the attention of any
colleagues you think might be interested.
 
Phil Hoole and Hans Tillmann
 
Institut fuer Phonetik
Munich University
Schellingstr. 3
D - 80799 Munich
Germany
Fax: + 49 89 2800362
Email : HOOLE at SUN1.PHONETIK.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE
 
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 08:13:18 -0600 (CST)
From: "K. Heilenman" (kheilenm at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu)
Subject: Grants-in-aid available
 
Five $400.00 grants-in-aid are available from the Text and Academic
Authors Association.  You have to join to be eligible (#35.00 special for
new members for first year).  Monies can be used to defray almost any
expenses associated with academic writing (including travel).  Deadline
is March 30 and applications should include 1)brief description of work
incl. background, objectives and methodology (3 pp max double spaced). 2)
budget and completion schedule 3) CV.  Send to Norma Hood, TAA, PO Box
535, Orange Springs, FL 32182-0535. 904/546-5419.
 
L. Kathy Heilenman
Dept. of French & Italian
U. of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242
(l-heilenman at uiowa.edu)
 
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