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eWAVE -- the electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English

Submitted by Bernd Kortmann on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 06:25

Dear members of the Cyberling community,

upon the kind invitation by Emily Bender, this is to inform you that

FRIAS -- the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies -- and the Max-Planck-Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) proudly announce the availability of a fascinating new OPEN ACCESS online tool which can be exploited both in research and teaching on the grammars of varieties of English worldwide:

eWAVE -- the electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English

Submitted by Bernd Kortmann on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 06:07

Dear members of the Cyberling community,

upon the kind invitation by Emily Bender, this is to inform you that

New book on language variation infrastructure

Submitted by Janne Bondi Johan... on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 13:34

Dear colleagues,

You may want to learn about the book "Language Variation Infrastructure. Papers on selected projects" (2011) based on some talks from Workshop on research infrastructure for linguistic variation (RiLiVS) arranged at the University of Oslo. I think most of you will find the papers interesting.

The book is freely downloadable from the web site of the OSLA Oslo Studies in Language:
https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/osla/issue/view/6
You can choose to download the whole book or just individual chapters.

This is the list of contents:

Invitation from NSF/SBE for white papers describing grand challenges

The NSF Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) released last week a Dear Colleague Letter inviting members of the research community (individuals and groups) to submit by September 30th, 2,000-word-maximum white papers outlining what they think are "grand challenge" questions in the fields supported by SBE "that are both foundational and transformative". These contributions will be used to help the Directorate make plans to support research over the coming decade and beyond.

LiLT Special Volume: Implementation of Linguistic Analyses against Data

Submitted by Emily M. Bender on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 13:03

We are pleased to announce that Linguistic Issues in Language Technology Volume 3, Implementation of Linguistic Analyses against Data has appeared. This volume, edited by Terry Langendoen and Emily Bender, contains papers by presenters at the LSA 2009 invited symposium "Computational Linguistics in Support of Linguistic Analysis".

Table of contents:

A "data problem"

Submitted by Emily M. Bender on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 18:24

On Jan 8, Fritz Newmeyer gave a very interesting talk at the University of Washington about the lack of evidence for a particular parameter from Principles and Parameters theory.