Varia: 3 annoucements
Philippe Blache
pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr
Sat Mar 4 16:29:00 UTC 2000
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1/ From: kilgarriff <A.Kilgarriff at bton.ac.uk>
Subject: SENSEVAL
2/ From: "Linguistic Studies" <linguistic.studies at insead.edu.sg>
Subject: Stats on Linguistic Groups
3/ From: JA/AM <mance at elda.fr>
Subject: ELRA/ELDA On-line Survey
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1/ From: kilgarriff <A.Kilgarriff at bton.ac.uk>
Subject: SENSEVAL
SENSEVAL 2
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Following the success of the first SENSEVAL in 1998, we are now
beginning the planning for SENSEVAL-2. As before, it will proceed as
an ACL-SIGLEX activity. The evaluation will take place over a year,
concluding with a workshop in Pisa in Spring 2001.
Last time, there were evaluations for English, French and Italian.
We are keen to encourage evaluations for further languages, so would
particularly like to hear from people who are interested in setting up
evaluations for the language they work in.
If you wish to join the discussion group that works out how the
evaluation should proceed (and were not on the mailing list for the
first SENSEVAL) please let me know and I will add you to the list.
Adam Kilgarriff
SENSEVAL co-ordinator
adam at itri.bton.ac.uk
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2/ From: "Linguistic Studies" <linguistic.studies at insead.edu.sg>
Subject: Stats on Linguistic Groups
I thought you might find my recent monograph of interest:
Linguistic Cultures of the World: A Statistical Reference (Greenwood
Press)
The book gives over 150,000 stats covering 500+ language groups worldwide
(demographics,
economics, geography, etc.). I would be glad to send to you an EXCEL
spreadsheet of the
raw data (or to any researcher who may find it of interest). Otherwise, the
link below
to Amazon gives more qualitative details; the book, however, is largely
covered in the
spreadsheet which is complementary to researchers/scholars.
Regards,
Phil Parker
Professor of Economics and International Studies
UCSD & INSEAD
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031329769X/icongroupinterna
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3/ From: JA/AM <mance at elda.fr>
Subject: ELRA/ELDA On-line Survey
GEMA Users’ Survey
The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is conducting
another user needs survey within the framework of the European Commission
funded GEMA (Gates for an Enhanced Multilingual resource Access) project
(http://www..linglink.lu/hlt/projects/GEMA-M2/ and
http://www.elda.fr/proj/gema.html). We encourage all people who use the
internet
for locating and accessing terminological data (for example, linguists,
lexicographers, terminologists, technical writers, translators,
documentation
specialists, and others) to participate.
An on-line version of the survey can be found at the following page:
http://www.elda.fr/proj/gemasurv.html
This survey is conducted in cooperation with SALT project (see
http://www.ttt.org/salt or
http://www.linglink.lu/hlt/projects/salt/summary.asp)
Thank you in advance for your participation.
Best,
The ELDA team
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All specific answer will remain confidential. Only statistics from this
study
will be reproduced in project reports.
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Please place an x in the boxes below that are relevant to you or your
organisation
and return your completed questionnaire to <mance at elda.fr>
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Your name:
Your organisation:
E-mail:
1. About Yourself
1.1. Are you :
[ ] A translator
[ ] A technical writer
[ ] A terminologist
[ ] A lexicographer
[ ] A linguistic tools developer
[ ] A localizer
[ ] Other - please specify ______________________
1.2. Do you work in a
[ ] free-lance position?
[ ] in-house position? [ ] linguistic department of a company /
organisation?
[ ] documentation department?
[ ] localization department?
[ ] translation agency?
[ ] publishing house?
[ ] Other - please specify ____________________
[ ] academia? [ ] research
[ ] teaching
[ ] Other - please specify ______________
1.3. What fields do you work in?
[ ] Administrative
[ ] Aeronautics
[ ] Agriculture
[ ] Architecture/construction
[ ] Arts
[ ] Automobile
[ ] Biology
[ ] Business
[ ] Chemistry
[ ] Computing and Information technology
[ ] Economics & finance
[ ] Education & pedagogy
[ ] Electrical engineering
[ ] Electronics
[ ] Food sciences
[ ] Geography
[ ] Geology
[ ] Heavy-machinery
[ ] History
[ ] Insurance
[ ] Law
[ ] Leisure
[ ] Medicine
[ ] Navigation
[ ] Pharmaceutical
[ ] Physics
[ ] Psychology
[ ] Sociology
[ ] Sports
[ ] Tourism
[ ] Telecommunications
[ ] General (any domain)
[ ] Other - please specify ________________
1.4. What languages do you work in?
[ ] Arabic
[ ] Chinese
[ ] Danish
[ ] Dutch
[ ] English
[ ] Finnish
[ ] French
[ ] German
[ ] Greek
[ ] Italian
[ ] Japanese
[ ] Polish
[ ] Portuguese
[ ] Russian
[ ] Spanish
[ ] Swedish
[ ] Other- please specify __________________
2. The language resources you use
2.1. What types of language resources do you use?
[ ] dictionaries
[ ] glossaries [ ] monolingual glossaries
[ ] bilingual glossaries
[ ] multilingual glossaries
[ ] lexicographical databases
[ ] monolingual corpora
[ ] multilingual corpora (non parallel, but same domain)
[ ] terminological databases [ ] monolingual databases
[ ] bilingual databases
[ ] multilingual databases
[ ] translation memories / parallel texts
2.2. How do you currently obtain language resources?
[ ] purchases
[ ] exchanges with other producers
[ ] consulting of experts / technicians
[ ] free-of-charge consulting (via Internet, libraries)
[ ] in-house
2.3. On what media are these resources available?
[ ] CD
[ ] Internet
[ ] Intranet
[ ] Paper
[ ] Other - please specify _______________________
2.4. What are they used for?
[ ] to provide information on specific fields for translation and domain
understanding
[ ] to elaborate glossaries, dictionaries, databases
[ ] to be integrated in machine translation systems
[ ] to be integrated in translation memory systems
[ ] to supply a terminology management system with data
[ ] to be incorporated in a Language Engineering system - please specify
______________
3. In the case of in-house resources
3.1. What types of language resources do you produce?
[ ] glossaries
[ ] terminological databases
[ ] dictionaries
[ ] corpora [ ] monolingual
[ ] multilingual
[ ] Other - please specify __________________
3.2. What tools do you use to store your data?
[ ] ACCESS
[ ] DBase
[ ] WORD
[ ] EXCEL
[ ] Multiterm
[ ] Other - please specify _______________________
3.3. What interchange formats do you use?
[ ] GENETER
[ ] IIF
[ ] MARTIF
[ ] MATER
[ ] OLIF
[ ] In-house, SGML-based format
[ ] Other - please specify ________________________
3.4. Would you be willing to make your resources available to others
according
to a negotiated standardised distribution agreement?
[ ] Yes [ ] for consultation only
[ ] for sale
[ ] No
3.5. If no, what are the reasons for not distributing your resources?
[ ] technical
[ ] commercial (pricing policy)
[ ] legal (Copyright, Industrial / intellectual property rights)
[ ] strategic
[ ] Other - please specify _________________
3.6. If Yes, whom would you be ready to sell your resources to?
[ ] end-users
[ ] tool developers
[ ] researchers
3.7. Would you be ready to provide data samples for format conversion?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
3.8. Would you be ready to provide documents describing your data’s
structure?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
4. Language resources on the Internet
4.1. For consulting resources on the Internet, what sites do you use?
[ ] linguistic sites / portals with general information
[ ] linguistic sites with links to glossaries and lexicons
[ ] linguistic sites dedicated to specific fields (economics, sciences...)
[ ] non linguistic sites dedicated to specific fields (economics,
sciences...)
[ ] non linguistic sites with links to glossaries and lexicons
[ ] non linguistic but reference sites (from companies / industries /
organisations)
[ ] terminological databases
[ ] Other - please specify _____________
4.2. Why do you consult these sites (please, select only 3 propositions)?
[ ] They cover the fields you work in
[ ] The data are provided by official terminology centres or international /
national organisations
[ ] The data are provided by technical / scientific organisations or
companies
/ industries
[ ] They are accessible free of charge
[ ] Resources or tools can be downloaded
[ ] The interface is user-friendly
4.3. How do you find your language resources on the Internet?
[ ] by doing your own search with search engines (Altavista, Yahoo...)
[ ] by using portals dedicated to language(s)
4.4. In the case of portals, what services do they systematically offer?
[ ] Language / terminological Resources [ ] on-line-consultation
[ ] on-line acquisition
[ ] On-line acquisition of linguistic tools
[ ] Value-added services [ ] validation or consolidation of existing
tools / resources
[ ] resource creation support
[ ] Information [ ] newsgroups
[ ] forum
[ ] technical / scientific / business information (reports,
articles)
[ ] job offers
[ ] Other - please specify ____________________
4.5. What services would you like to find more often on these portals?
[ ] Language / terminological Resources [ ] on-line-consultation
[ ] on-line acquisition
[ ] On-line acquisition of linguistic tools
[ ] Value-added services [ ] validation or consolidation of existing
tools / resources
[ ] resource creation support
[ ] Information [ ] newsgroups
[ ] forum
[ ] technical / scientific / business information (reports,
articles)
[ ] job offers
[ ] Other - please specify ____________________
4.6. How valuable are Language Resources on the Internet?
[ ] very valuable
[ ] valuable
[ ] poorly valuable
4.7. Rank the following scenarios in order of preference, with 1 as highest
preference and 3 as lowest preference:
[ ] a paying access to a site without advertising
[ ] access at a lower cost, with advertising for linguistic-related products
[ ] an access free of charge, with a significant amount of advertising
4.8. What type of subscription is reasonable for you to access language
resources?
[ ] A set fee for:
[ ] less than 100 searches (please, suggest a
price___________Euro)
[ ] between 100 & 1 000 searches (please, suggest a
price___________Euro)
[ ] between 1 000 & 10 000 searches (please, suggest a price___________Euro)
[ ] Payment per view
[ ] Annual subscription (please, suggest a price___________Euro)
5. Contact details
5.1. Are you member of any association related to Language Resources,
Translation, Terminology...? If Yes, which one(s)?
5.2. Do you wish to be kept informed of any further developments concerning
this project?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
5.3. Would you like to be contacted for other surveys in relation to
language
resources/terminology and this particular project?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
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Please return this questionnaire to mance at elda.fr
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Jeff Allen
mail: jeff at elda.fr
GEMA: http://www.linglink.lu/hlt/Projects/GEMA-M2/
GEMA - USERS' SURVEY: http://www.elda.fr/proj/gema.html
ELRA/ELDA
tel.: 33 1 43 13 33 33
fax: 33 1 43 13 33 30
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