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WHASC is the weekly electronic newsletter of the UCSC Linguistics Department. We welcome your news items, comments and feedback.
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COLLOQUIUM APRIL 30
The Department is pleased to welcome
Christian Rathmann
University of Texas at Austin
speaking on
"Situation Type and Viewpoint Aspect in American Sign Language"
Friday, April 30, 2004
4:00 p.m.
Bay Tree Conference Room D
Located in the Bay Tree Bookstore Building, 3rd Floor
Reception following the talk at Joe's Pizza, Quarry Plaza - everyone is welcome!
Mr. Rathmann's visit is co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research.
To view the abstract, please visit: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/colloquia/index.htm
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RECEPTION AND READING BY WILLIAM SHIPLEY
Saturday, April 24, 2004
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
McHenry Library, Special Collections and Archives
Reception and reading to celebrate the publication of the second bilingual volume of the Maidu creation myth, The Adversaries. This limited edition is translated by UCSC professor emeritus William Shipley and illustrated with hand-pulled lithographs by Daniel O. Stolpe.
The magical images illustrate the mythic tale of adversaries Coyote and Earthmaker, as they struggle for the role as earth's creator, and provide a strong visual complement to the beautiful translation, presented on facing pages with the original Maidu text.
Professor Shipley will give a reading in the original Maidu, and Dan Stolpe will speak about the creative process of producing the lithographs. Abe Holston will comment on assisting with typesetting and design.
Sponsored by Special Collections and Archives and Friends of the UCSC Library
For more information, contact Liz Sandoval, 459-5870, lsand@ucsc.edu
http://library.ucsc.edu/friends
Free parking is available in the Hahn Student Services parking lot.
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UNDERGRAD CONFERENCE
This year's Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference will also include a Poster Session. All students doing a senior thesis or project, or any other research project, in Linguistics or Languages Studies, are invited to present their main results in form of a poster. The conference will take place in the Silverman Room at Stevenson College on Wednesday, June 2 from 2:30-5:15 p.m., followed by a reception. This year's invited speaker is Jason Riggle, UCLA (BA in Linguistics and Psychology, UCSC, 1998 and MA in Linguistics, UCSC, 1999).
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REMINDER TO GRADUATE STUDENTS
The deadline to apply for an Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) Graduate Student Summer Study Fellowship or for Research and Travel Grants is Friday, May 7 by 5 p.m. Apply electronically to ihrstaff@ucsc.edu. For further information on the activities and programs of the Institute, visit their web site: http://humanities.ucsc.edu/ihr
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The UCLA phonetics laboratory has ceased publishing hard copies of their Working Papers in Phonetics, and so they are now offering a number of back issues at special sale prices of 8 issues for $10!. Many of their research papers are also available in downloadable electronic formats at : http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/uclaplab.html
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NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Call for participation
HLT-NAACL 2004 Workshop
on
Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems
and
Higher Level Linguistic Information for Speech Processing
Friday, May 7, 2004
Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, USA
http://www.research.att.com/~dtur/NAACL04-Workshop/
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Call for Participation
NAACL-Supported Two-Week Summer School in Human Language Technologies
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/naacl/summer-school/04/
From the website:
The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) is again offering an exciting summer school opportunity for a limited number of graduate and undergraduate students interested in the field of Human Language Technology.
The summer school will be held June 21-July 2 at The Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) at Johns Hopkins University in conjunction with the pre-workshop classes of the CLSP 2004 Summer Workshop on Language Engineering. Five to ten students will be selected to attend two weeks of lectures and hands-on laboratories that will include general introductions to the major areas of study within the field of Human Language Technology (e.g. Natural Language Processing, Automatic Speech Recognition, Machine Translation, Information Retrieval) as well as sessions on specialized research topics of current interest in the field.
The application deadline is May 12, 2004.
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3rd NASSLLI Reminder
(North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information)
UCLA, 21 - 25 June 2004
NASSLLI typically has first-rate linguistics, and it is a terrific place to find out what's going on in the neighboring fields of logic and theoretical computer science.
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/nasslli04/index.html
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GOING ROMANCE 2004
18th Symposium on Romance Linguistics
Leiden University, The Netherlands
December 9-11, 2004
For more information, check http://www.ulcl.leidenuniv.nl under Events.Tthe abstracts should be sent by e-mail to j.e.c.v.rooryck@let.leidenuniv.nl no later than September 1, 2004.
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LAB Phon 9
The Ninth Conference on Laboratory Phonology
"Change in Phonology"
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
June 24-26, 2004
http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/labphon9