16.414, Qs: Internet Chat Corpora; Typology Island Constraints

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Subject: 16.414, Qs: Internet Chat Corpora; Typology Island Constraints

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1)
Date: 09-Feb-2005
From: Stuart McCaul < mccauls at tcd.ie >
Subject: Internet Chat Corpora

2)
Date: 09-Feb-2005
From: Inbal Arnon < inbalar at stanford.edu >
Subject: The Typology of Island Constraints

	
-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:32:34
From: Stuart McCaul < mccauls at tcd.ie >
Subject: Internet Chat Corpora


My project is to implement an Internet chatroom text-filter based on
Bayesian maths, which will categorise chat-room conversations. The filter
must be trained on pre-categorised text and I am having trouble finding a
categorised corpus of chat-room conversations.

Do you know of such a corpus? Or do you have any other advice for me?

In the event that such a collection of conversations is not available, I
will use the Reuters corpus or similar collection to train my filter.

I am a 4th year undergraduate student at Trinity College, Dublin, studying
for a bachelor's degree in Information and Communications Technology.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (ENG)



	
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:32:37
From: Inbal Arnon < inbalar at stanford.edu >
Subject: The Typology of Island Constraints

	

I am part of a research group that is investigating island constraints and
their relation to processing difficulty.  We are currently gathering
information about cross-linguistic differences in island constraints and
the effects of finiteness, lexical choice (e.g. bridge verbs), etc. on
extraction difficulty, e.g. contrasts like: ( >/ = `at least as acceptable as')

Which book were they wondering whether or not to read? >/
Which book were they wondering whether or not they should read? >/
Which book were they wondering whether or not he had read?

Which symphony did Schubert die before finishing? >
Which symphony did Schubert die before he finished?

We'd welcome pointers to relevant data from any language or literature
discussing cross-linguistic differences in island phenomena.  We're
interested in cross-linguistic variation of all sorts, including subjacency
or superiority effects, violations of the coordinate structure constraint, left
branch condition, etc.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Typology






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