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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 20:53:34 -0800 From: edwards(a)cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Jane A. Edwards) Dear CHILDES Colleagues, Several people inquired about Corpora, Prosody and the other lists I mentioned in my posting about the Amsterdam list of linguist email addresses. I'm appending the relevant details. The information below is mostly from "Chapter 10: Survey of Corpora and Corpus-Related Resources" of Edwards, Jane A. & Martin D. Lampert (eds). TALKING DATA: TRANSCRIPTION AND CODING IN DISCOURSE RESEARCH. London and Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 336 pp. 0-8058-0349-1 [ppr] US $27.50; 0-8058-0348-3 [hdbk] US $59.95; Transcription and coding systems from contrasting approaches to spoken language situated in their theoretical frameworks with sample analyses. Overview chapters present global design principles. Includes a large compilation of computerized corpora and related resources. To order in US: 1-800-926-6579 The rest of the chapter is available via anonymous ftp from nora.hd.uib.no (the International Computer Archive of Modern English in Bergen, Norway), in directory pub/corpora, in the file called corpora.survey.edwards. I would greatly appreciate corrections or additions so that I can include them in a future update, also to be submitted there. Best Wishes, -Jane Edwards (edwards(a)cogsci.berkeley.edu) --------------- [...] 1. Begun in 1992, CORPORA is an international email discussion list for information and questions about text corpora, such as availability, aspects of compiling and using corpora, software, tagging, parsing, bibliography, and related matters. To join the list, send the following one-line command to LISTSERV(a)UIB.NO: sub corpora firstname lastname To submit a contribution to the list, send it to CORPORA(a)hd.uib.no. The list administrator is Knut Hofland, NCCH, Humanistisk Datasenter, Harald Haarfagres gt. 31, N-5007 Bergen, Norway; Tel: +47 (55) 212954; FAX: +47 (55) 322656; email: knut.hofland(a)hd.uib.no, or CORPORA-REQUEST(a)HD.UIB.NO. 2. HUMANIST is an international email discussion list for issues relating to the application of computers to scholarship in the humanities. This includes linguistics, comparative literature, philosophy, Biblical studies, and several other fields. Begun in 1987 under joint sponsorship of the ACH, the ALLC and the University of Toronto's Centre for Computing in the Humanities, it is currently housed at Brown University and moderated by Elaine Brennan and Allen Renear. It has over 600 members in 24 countries. To subscribe, mail "SUB <your email address>" to listserv(a)brownvm.brown.edu; to post articles, mail them to humanist(a)brownvm.brown.edu. Articles submitted to HUMANIST are archived on a file server and can be searched remotely by means of one-line listserv commands. 3. LINGUIST is an international list intended as a place for discussion of issues of concern to the academic discipline of linguistics and related fields. It is moderated by Anthony Aristar (Texas A&M University) and Helen Dry (Eastern Michigan University). It explicitly welcomes discussion of any linguistic subfield. To subscribe to LINGUIST, send email to the LINGUIST listserver (listserv(a)TAMVM1.tamu.edu), containing the following one-line message: SUBSCRIBE LINGUIST <Your Name> for example, "subscribe linguist john smith." To submit a posting to the list, email it to linguist(a)TAMVM1.tamu.edu. The LINGUIST fileserver contains contributed files of interest to language researchers, such as the LSA or Georgetown lists of corpora, and linguists' email addresses and these are similarly obtainable by one-line commands. For more information, send the one-line command "help linguist" via email to linguist-request(a)TAMVM1.tamu.edu. For questions requiring human attention, send a message to: linguist-editors(a)TAMVM1.tamu.edu. 4. LN, Langage Naturel, is an international list for computational linguistics, sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). Its goal is to disseminate calls for papers, conference and seminar announcements, requests for software, corpora, and various types of data, project descriptions, and discussions on technical topics. The list is primarily French-speaking, but many items are circulated in English. The list owners and editors are Philippe Blache, Jean Veronis, and Pierre Zweigenbaum. To subscribe to LN, send the following one-line message to listserv(a)FRMOP11.cnusc.fr: SUBSCRIBE LN firstname lastname To post a message to the list as a whole, email it to LN(a)frmop11.cnusc.fr. If you have question about the LN list, write to the list owners at the generic address: LN-request(a)FRMOP11.CNUSC.FR. 5. PROSODY is an international list with members representing a broad spectrum of approaches including linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computer science. It serves a vital function of disseminating information concerning available resources in a technologically rapidly expanding area. To subscribe, send: "subscribe prosody <your name>" to LISTSERV(a)msu.edu. To post a message to the list as a whole, send to prosody(a)msu.edu. To contact the list owners, write to PROSODY-request(a)MSU.EDU. The list is managed by George Allen, Michigan State University, who also owns the list, "HYPERCARD." 6. FUNKNET, headed by Talmy Givon and Paul Hopper, is a discussion list concerned with various aspects of human language, communication, cognition, socioculture, neuropsychology, and other facets of cognitive and communicative behavior, viewed from what might loosely be called the functionalist perspective, that is, language viewed as an instrument of communication, coding experience, an evolved neurobiological phenomenon, a sociocultural phenomenon, or a combination of these, with an emphasis on empirical language study, including especially corpus data. For further information, contact Talmy Givon at: funknet-request(a)oregon.uoregon.edu. To post to the entire list, send to: funknet(a)oregon.uoregon.edu. 7. EMPIRICISTS is a list for corpus-based computational linguistics, with over 800 subscribers. It originated from the empiricist/rationalist machine translation debate at TMI-92. While similar to CORPORA, the list is filtered to minimize volume. It is currently moderated by David Yarowsky (yarowsky(a)unagi.cis.upenn.edu). To subscribe, send email to empiricists-request(a)unagi.cis.upenn.edu. Send contributions to empiricists(a)unagi.cis.upenn.edu. 8. INFO-CHILDES is an international email distribution list moderated by Brian MacWhinney, Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, which circulates information concerning corpus-related child language research. To subscribe, send email to brian+(a)andrew.cmu.edu. To post to the list as a whole, send to info-childes(a)andrew.cmu.edu. 9. INFO-PSYLING is an international email distribution list, moderated by Kerry Kilborn, Psychology Department, University of Glasgow, which circulates information on psycholinguistics. To subscribe, send email to kerry(a)psy.gla.ac.uk. To post to the list as a whole, send to info-psyling(a)psy.gla.ac.uk. 10. COGLING is a discussion list for Cognitive Linguistics, and the study of metaphor. To subscribe, send the following command to listserv(a)ucsd.edu: ADD yourloginaddress cogling To post to the entire list, send to cogling(a)ucsd.edu. For additional questions, the list owners can be reached at: owner-cogling(a)ucsd.edu. 11. Comserve is an electronic information service for professionals and students interested in human communication studies. It is located at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and coordinated by Timothy Stephen and Teresa Harrison, both of whom are professors in communication studies. Comserve keeps archives of bibliographies, course materials, job announcements, text transcripts, and other materials, with the author retaining the rights and the copyright. It coordinates a number of hotlines on communication, which can be subscribed to via the listserver. To subscribe to the Ethnomethodology hotline, send the following one-line message to comserve(a)rpiecs.bitnet: Join Ethno Your_name To obtain a long list of useful bibliographic information, send the following one-line message to comserve(a)rpiecs.bitnet: send compunet biblio Send materials to be posted to the net to ethno(a)rpiecs.bitnet and materials to be archived to support(a)rpiecs.bitnet. 12. ASLING-L is a list for linguistic study of signed languages, including all linguistic areas, including syntax, acquisition, phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics, and cognition. To subscribe, send: SUB ASLING-L <your name> to listserv(a)yalevm.bitnet. The listowner is Christine Romano (cromano @uconnvm.bitnet). 13. Applied linguistics lists. From Ken Willing at Macquarie University, I learned of the following four lists and their listserver addresses: TESL-L (Teaching English as a Second Language) Listserver address: listserv(a)cunyvm.bitnet SLART-L (Second Language Acquisition Research and Teaching) Listserver address: listserv(a)psuvm.bitnet MULTI-L (Language and Education in Multicultural Settings) Listserver address: listserv(a)barilvm.bitnet LTEST-L (Language Testing Research and Practice) Listserver address: listserv(a)UCLACN1.bitnet To subscribe, send a one-line email message to the indicated address, containing: subscribe XXXXXX john smith where XXXXXX is the list-name (e.g. TESL-L), and John Smith is your name. 14. The List of Language Lists (LoLL) describes a large number of electronic discussion groups devoted primarily to the linguistic study of individual languages and groups of languages (though a couple of others, in particular lists for language learners, have been included as well). The LoLL was compiled by Bernard Comrie and Michael Everson and is available by anonymous ftp at midir.ucd.ie (137.43.1.13) in /pub/everson. For further questions, contact Michael Everson, School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire, email: everson(a)irlearn.ucd.ie. 15. List of lists. A very lengthy list of Bitnet and Internet discussion lists (presently over one megabyte long) can be obtained via anonymous ftp to ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.22) in the directory netinfo as "interest-groups.Z" or by sending the following one-line message to mail-server(a)nisc.sri.com, making sure in advance that your system has sufficient space to receive it: SEND NETINFO/INTEREST-GROUPS A related list can be obtained by sending email to listserv(a)ndsuvm1.bitnet with the following one-line message: sendme interest package For further information concerning electronic discussion lists, see the ARL Directory of Electronic Publications (below). [...] -------------------------------