This digest for list nlp-l has been created on Tue Feb 2 09:51:03 1999 ------- THIS IS A RFC934 COMPLIANT DIGEST, YOU CAN BURST IT ------- From daemon Tue Feb 2 09:50 MET 1999 Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 09:45:13 +0100 From: Borys Czerniejewski Subject: Dwa spotkania Szanowni Państwo, Uprzejmie informuję, że w najbliższym czasie odbędą sie dwa spotkania informacyjne dotyczące 5PR, a w szczególności programu "Przyjazne społeczeństwo informacyjne". Pierwsze sptkanie organizowane jest przez Komitet Badań Naukowych, Fundację na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej (koordynatora FEMIRC) i Fraunhofer Management Gesselschaft mbH w dniu 10 lutego br., w godz. 10.30 - 15.30 w sali E Instytutu Biochemii i Biofizyki PAN w Warszawie, ul. Pawinskiego 5a. Spotkanie będzie poświęcone prezentacji programu "User Friendly Information Society" i innych programów tematycznych (key actions) i przekrojowych (horizontal actions) 5. Programu Ramowego. Eksperci unijni udzielą praktycznych rad, jak przygotować wnioski o dofinansowanie (proposals) i przedstawią proces oceny i negocjacji przedsięwzięć. Zaprezentowane zostanie również działanie punktu informacyjnego i kontaktowego dla potencjalnych partnerów, działającego na Politechnice Śląskiej w ramach programu IDEALIST-EAST. Spotaknie jest bezpłatne. Zgłoszenia przyjmuje Agnieszka Suska-Buława, Departament Systemów Informatycznych KBN, tel. 022/625-42-25, fax. 022/628-09-22, e-mail: asuska@kbn.gov.pl Drugie spotaknie organizowane jest przez Instytut Podstawowych Problemów Techniki PAN i Komisję Europejską DG-XIII, pod patronatem Komitetu Badań Naukowych w dniu 2 marca br., o godz. 10.30 - 15.30 w sali 100 IPPT PAN w Warszawie, ul. Świetokrzyska 21. Spotkanie będzie poświęcone prezentacji programów tematycznych, przekrojowych, integracyjnych, towarzyszących i sieciowych 5. Programu Ramowego ze szczegónym uwzględnieniem programu "User Friendly Information Society", dat poszczególnych konkursów i innych informacji praktycznych. W trakcie spotkania bedzie można uzyskać informacje o partnerach do projektów poszukiwanych przez partnerów z UE. Opłata za uczestnictwo w tym spotkaniu wynosi 500,- zl od osoby. Zgloszenia przyjmuje dr Andrzej Siemaszko, IPPT PAN, tel. 022/826-12-81 w.216, fax. 022/826-88-02, e-mail: idealist@ippt.gov.pl Na oba spotkania serdzecznie zaprzaszam. Z poważaniem, Borys Czerniejewski Dyrektor Departamentu Systemow Informatycznych KBN ------- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT ------- From daemon Wed Feb 3 09:37 MET 1999 From: "Ryszard Gubrynowicz" Subject: PD: International Workshop Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:37:30 +0100 - ---------- > Od: Sandro Pedrazzini > Do: bopp@wim.let.vu.nl; tenhacken@ubaclu.unibas.ch; tschichold@ubaclu.unibas.ch; elsnet-forum@let.uu.nl > Temat: International Workshop > Data: 3 lutego 1999 08:06 > > > I was asked to distribute it. > Please forward it to potentially interested groups. > > Sandro > > > > ================================================== > > > Call for the Third International Workshop on the Foreign Language Teaching > for Specific Purposes (TELEFE´99). > > The Language Department at the "José Antonio Echeverría" Technical > University (ISPJAE) calls teachers, researchers and specialists on foreign > language teaching for the Third International Workshop on Foreign Language > Teaching For Specific Purposes (TELEFE´99) to be held in Havana City, Cuba, > from July 6th- 8th, 1999. > > One of the objectives is to exchange experiences in a friendly atmosphere > leading to a debate on the different methods and approaches used in the > teaching of foreign languages. > The workshop will be held at the university campus. The topics to be > discussed will be: > … Methodology > … Applied Linguistics > … Applied Research > … Application of Computer to Language Teaching > > Papers are requested to be no more than 10 pages long in DIN A4 format > written in fount size 12, including photos, graphics and tables and may be > handed in to the committee during the days of the workshop. The papers must > be presented in 3,5 inch diskettes in WordPerfect text and in hard copy. A > summary of no more than 500 words must be sent. It should include: title of > the paper, full name of the author(s) and the speaker, institution, > country, e-mail, fax number, topic of presentation and technical means > needed for the presentation. Summaries must be e-mailed before February 15, > 1999 and the Scientific Committee will analyze them for approval before > April 15, 1999. > > The registration fee is US$100 for delegates and US$75 for companions. This > fee includes participation in workshops, and a certificate of > participation. > > Accommodation: > > For the event, MERCADU proposes accomodation for 8 days in double rooms at > the University Hotel for US $260 which includes: > ® Transfer > ® Accomodation for 7 nights/8 days (MAP) > ® City Tour > Class A Tourist Hotels can be booked through Cuban travel agencies or > through MERCADU- ISPJAE tourism bureau. > > To confirm your participation and for the e-mailing of your summaries, > please contact: > > Lic. María del Carmen Batista > Secretary of the Organizer Committee > Departamento de Idiomas > Facultad de Arquitectura > ISPJAE > Calle 114 y 127 s/n > Marianao. Ciudad de La Habana. Cuba. > Tel: 20- 69 97 > E-mail: graciela@tesla.ispjae.edu.cu > mary@arquitectura.ispjae.edu.cu > For additional information about lodging, please contact: > Mrs. María Antonia Cruz Vázquez > Mercadu-ISPJAE Travel Agency Manager > Fax: (537) 271574 > E-mail: Btur@tesla.ispjae.edu.cu > > ------- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT ------- From daemon Thu Feb 4 09:12 MET 1999 From: "Ryszard Gubrynowicz" Subject: PD: [E-Sftware] Software release: Timbl 2.0 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:11:50 +0100 - ---------- > Od: Jakub.Zavrel@kub.nl > Do: Timbl@kub.nl > Temat: [E-Sftware] Software release: Timbl 2.0 > Data: 6 stycznia 1999 15:31 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Software release: TiMBL 2.0 > Tilburg Memory Based Learner > ILK Research Group, http://ilk.kub.nl/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > (sorry if you get this more than once) > > The ILK (Induction of Linguistic Knowledge) Research Group at Tilburg > University, The Netherlands, announces the release of a new version of > TiMBL, Tilburg Memory Based Learner (version 2.0). > > TiMBL is a machine learning program implementing a family of > Memory-Based Learning techniques. TiMBL stores a representation of the > training set explicitly in memory (hence `Memory Based'), and > classifies new cases by extrapolating from the most similar stored > cases. > > TiMBL features the following (optional) metrics and speed-up > optimalizations that enhance the underlying k-nearest neighbor > classifier engine: > > - Information Gain weighting for dealing with features of differing > importance (the IB1-IG learning algorithm). > - Stanfill & Waltz's / Cost & Salzberg's (Modified) Value Difference > metric for making graded guesses of the match between two > different symbolic values. > - Conversion of the flat instance memory into a decision tree, > and inverted indexing of the instance memory, both yielding > faster classification. > - Further compression and pruning of the decision tree, guided > by feature information gain differences, for an even larger > speed-up (the IGTREE learning algorithm). > > The current version is a complete rewrite of the software, and > offers a number of new features: > > - Support for numeric features. > - The TRIBL algorithm, a hybrid between decision tree and nearest > neighbor search. > - An API to access the functionality of TiMBL from your own C++ > programs. > - Increased ability to monitor the process of extrapolation from > nearest neighbors. > - Many bug-fixes and small improvements. > > > TiMBL accepts commandline arguments by which these metrics and > optimalizations can be selected and combined. TiMBL can read the C4.5 > and WEKA's ARFF data file formats as well as column files and compact > (fixed-width delimiter-less) data. > > > -[download]----------------------------------------------------------- > > You are invited to download the TiMBL package for educational or > non-commercial research purposes. When downloading the package you > are asked to register, and express your agreement with the license > terms. TiMBL is *not* shareware or public domain software. If you have > registered for version 1.0, please be so kind to re-register for the > current version. > > The TiMBL software package can be downloaded from > > http://ilk.kub.nl/software.html > > or by following the `Software' link under the ILK home page at > http://ilk.kub.nl/ . > > The TiMBL package contains the following: > > - Source code (C++) with a Makefile. > - A reference guide containing descriptions of the incorporated > algorithms, detailed descriptions of the commandline options, > and a brief hands-on tuturial. > - Some example datasets. > - The text of the licence agreement. > - A postscript version of the paper that describes IGTREE. > > The package should be easy to install on most UNIX systems. > > -[background]--------------------------------------------------------- > > Memory-based learning (MBL) has proven to be quite successful in a > large number of tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) -- MBL of > NLP tasks (text-to-speech, part-of-speech tagging, chunking, light > parsing) is the main theme of research of the ILK group. At one point > it was decided to build a well-coded and generic tool that would > combine the group's algorithms, favorite optimization tricks, and > interface desiderata. The current incarnation of this is now version > 2.0 of TiMBL. > > We think TiMBL can make a useful tool for NLP research, and, for that > matter, for any other domain in machine learning. > > For information on the ILK Research Group, visit our site at > > http://ilk.kub.nl/ > > On this site you can find links to (postscript versions of) > publications relating to the algorithms incorporated in TiMBL and on > their application to NLP tasks. > > The reference guide ("TiMBL: Tilburg Memory-Based Learner, version > 2.0, Reference Guide.", Walter Daelemans, Jakub Zavrel, Ko van der > Sloot, and Antal van den Bosch. ILK Technical Report 99-01) can be > downloaded separately and directly from > > http://ilk.kub.nl/~ilk/papers/ilk9901.ps.gz > > For comments and bugreports relating to TiMBL, please send mail to > > Timbl@kub.nl > > Please also send a mail to this address if you do not wish to receive > further mail about Timbl. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > : ELSNET European Network in Language and Speech - http://www.elsnet.org/ : > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT ------- From daemon Mon Feb 22 09:24 MET 1999 From: "Ryszard Gubrynowicz" Subject: Odp: fridai "chisteziyo" or Joke: EuroEnglish Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 09:24:25 +0100 > -----Original Message----- > From: xavier@lsi.sel.sony.com [mailto:xavier@lsi.sel.sony.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 20, 1999 4:22 AM > To: speech@sony.de; sjslt@lsi.sel.sony.com > Subject: fridai "chisteziyo" or Joke: EuroEnglish > > > > ----- Begin Included Message ----- > > >From owner-iberia-mas@lists.Stanford.EDU Fri Feb 19 15:45:04 1999 > Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:35:45 -0800 (PST) > From: Carlos Garcia Sacristan > To: iberia-mas@lists.Stanford.EDU > Subject: EuroEnglish > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Id: > > > > > The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been > reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European > communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. > > As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English > spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year > phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). > > In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, > sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will > be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but > typewriters kan have one less letter. > > There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the > troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like > "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter. > > In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted > to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments > will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a > deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of > silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. > > By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" > by "z" and "w" by " v". > > During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining > "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of > leters. > > After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no > mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech > ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru. >> > > > > ----- End Included Message ----- ------- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT --- CUT -------