9.639, Qs: Part-of-Speech,Diacritics,Terminology,Winnebago

Fri May 1 16:59:19 UTC 1998

LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-639. Fri May 1 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.639, Qs: Part-of-Speech,Diacritics,Terminology,Winnebago

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1)
Date:  Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:36:46 +0800 (SST)
From:  Ji Donghong <dhji at krdl.org.sg>
Subject:  what's behind Part-of-speech (II)?

2)
Date:  Wed, 29 Apr 1998 20:21:10 +0000
From:  lewisohn <lewisohn at globalnet.co.uk>
Subject:  Diacritics on the web

3)
Date:  Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:32:39 +0200
From:  SEVERINE <valman at easynet.fr>
Subject:  Company database - Terminology

4)
Date:  Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:50:19 +0200
From:  Elischa Ben-Ezra <uzs5ke at uni-bonn.de>
Subject:  Winnebago language

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:36:46 +0800 (SST)
From:  Ji Donghong <dhji at krdl.org.sg>
Subject:  what's behind Part-of-speech (II)?

Several days ago, I posed a query "what's behind part-of-speech?", up
to now, more than 10 researchers have replied me. Now I would like to pose
another query on the topic before presenting a summarization:

    Q: Is the part-of-speech based on syntactic distribution a
       WELL-FORMED concept?

where I mean "WELL-FORMED" by the following condition 1) and 2):

    1) For a particular language, we can select, based on some resonable
       principles, some distribution information among all as criteria
       for POS definition.

    /* NOTE to 1): For a particular language, there may be too much
                   syntactic distribution information, and we cannot
                   list all. */

    2) We can select, based on some principles, some among all possibly
       produced classes as part-of-speech categories.

    /* NOTE to 2): Given a fixed set of distribution information as
                  constraints, there will produce many many classes based
                  on the constraints, or combinations of the constraints.
                  For example, given only two constraints, c1 and c2, we
                  may get the following conditions, with one condition
                  corresponding with one class:

                  c1, c2, c1 AND c2, c1 OR c2, NOT_c1, NOT_c2, ...

                  It seems difficult that we don't think they are classes
                  based on distribution. */

THE AIM OF THIS QUERY:

     1) if the answer to the query is YES, we should face the difficulties
        in Chinese POS definition, and try to find what really lead to
        them.

     2) if the answer to the query is NO, we should not seek POS based on
        distribution again, especially for the languages with few affixes,
        e.g., Chinese, and turn to other criteria.

Any comments or information will be highly appreciated. I will present a
suumarization.

Ji Donghong

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Email: dhji at krdl.org.sg
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Fax: 65-7744998
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-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 29 Apr 1998 20:21:10 +0000
From:  lewisohn <lewisohn at globalnet.co.uk>
Subject:  Diacritics on the web

Does anyone know of fonts that can be used with te mack os and can also
be used on web pages which have the diacritical marks needed to
transliterate Persian and Arabic into English., other than Middel East
Times?

-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:32:39 +0200
From:  SEVERINE <valman at easynet.fr>
Subject:  Company database - Terminology

We are a company in the steel industry and thinking about establishing a
database of our own to resolve our tranlsation problems. We would like
to contact other companies which have recently created such a
terminological database in at least 2 languages -  in order share
experiences and to know which problems they have encountered.
Who can give further information or advice on such a project?
Thank you in advance.
valman at easynet.fr

-------------------------------- Message 4 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:50:19 +0200
From:  Elischa Ben-Ezra <uzs5ke at uni-bonn.de>
Subject:  Winnebago language

My name is Elisha and I am a student at the Bonn university, Germany.
I am looking  for any (and all) Winnebago language materials
...books, papers, articles, tapes and videos!
Is it possible to send to me the information which you have?

Thank you very much, in advance.

Elisha Ben-Ezra

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