10.1987, Qs: Machine Translation, AAVE Code-switching, NLP

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Subject: 10.1987, Qs: Machine Translation, AAVE Code-switching, NLP

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Date:  Sat, 18 Dec 1999 08:46:59 -0800
From:  John Kovarik <kovariks at worldnet.att.net>
Subject:  Machine Translation: Attempo controlled English

2)
Date:  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:21:22 +0100
From:  "Luisanna Fodde" <fodde at unica.it>
Subject:  African American Vernacular and Spanish Code-switching

3)
Date:  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:08:32 -0500
From:  "Mary D. Taffet" <mdtaffet at mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject:  Online Demo tools for NLP?

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Date:  Sat, 18 Dec 1999 08:46:59 -0800
From:  John Kovarik <kovariks at worldnet.att.net>
Subject:  Machine Translation: Attempo controlled English

I have read of an attempt to semantically and syntactically control
English in order to make it more tractable for automatic machine
translation into other languages. I understand Attempo Controlled
English was a 1995 attempt by the computer science department of a
Swiss university in Zurich. This is all I know about it. I want to
know more about this particular experiment. Where should I search?

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Date:  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:21:22 +0100
From:  "Luisanna Fodde" <fodde at unica.it>
Subject:  African American Vernacular and Spanish Code-switching

I am looking for some general studies on code-switching (English to Dialects
of English) within a historical framework, with particular reference for
African American Vernacular English and Spanish.

Thanks
Luisanna Fodde

English Department
FAculty of Economics
University of Cagliari
Italy

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Date:  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:08:32 -0500
From:  "Mary D. Taffet" <mdtaffet at mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject:  Online Demo tools for NLP?

Hello,

I am helping to prepare the syllabus for a Spring 2000 course in Natural
Language Processing.  We would like to have our students do some
assignments involving online demos, so I have been trying to locate as
many as possible.

I have done some searching, and have found a number of tools that
currently have online demos available, including the following:

Name: COBUILD Direct
Type: Concordance, Collocation
Author: Cobuild, Department of English, University of Birmingham
Demo URL: http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html

Name: Conexor (EngCG2, EngLite, English FDG)
Type: Morphological Analysis Tools
Author: Conexor
Demo URL (not functional at this time, should be in January):
        http://www.conexor.fi/testing.html

Name: INTERARBORA
Type: Diagrammer
Author: Language Technology Group at the University of Edinburgh
Demo URL 1: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~jo/interarbora/
Demo URL 2: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~jo/interarbora/general.html

Name: LT CHUNK
Type: Parser
Author: Language Technology Group at the University of Edinburgh
Demo URL (combined w/LT POS):
	http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/posdemo.html

Name: LT POS
Type: POS Tagger
Author: Language Technology Group at the University of Edinburgh
Demo URL (combined w/LT CHUNK):
	 http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/posdemo.html

Name: LT THISTLE
Type: Diagrammer
Author: Language Technology Group at the University of Edinburgh
Demo URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/thistle/demos/index.html

Name: Q-Tag
Type: POS Tagger (automated e-mail service)
Author: Corpus Research Group at the University of Birmingham
Demo URL: http://clg1.bham.ac.uk/tagger.html

Name: RRECKTEK Verb alternation engine
Type: Verb analysis based on Beth Levin's verb classes
Author: RRECKTEK
Demo URL: http://rreck.sealsoft.com/cgi-bin/levin.pl
URL for Index to Beth Levin's Verb Classes:
	http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/levin.html

In my search for additional online demos, I have checked out the links
from the following web pages, but found no additional online demos
available (though I did find lots of tools available for download):

1) Natural Language Processing Tools --
http://www.aaai.org/Resources/Education/Repository-Mirror/nlp-tools.html

2) The Natural Language Software Registry --
http://www.dfki.de/lt/registry/

3) Consortium for Lexical Research - Catalog of Tools --
http://crl.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/Tools/CLR/clrcat

4) Language Technology Group at Edinburgh
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/index.html

5) NLP Sites list -- contains pointers to tools as well as other
resources --
http://cslp.comp.nus.edu.sg/CS6207/course/nlpres.html

What have I missed?  What other online demo tools are available?  I
would particularly like to find demos of stemmers, part of speech
taggers and parsers, but would welcome any additional tools I can find.
If you would be so kind as to inform me of the URL for any online demos
(based on English) that I have missed, I would appreciate it very much.

I will post a summary of responses to the list.

-  Thank you,
   Mary Taffet
   mdtaffet at syr.edu
   Ph.D. Student
   School of Information Studies
   Syracuse University
   Syracuse, NY USA

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