The Midwest Speech and Language Days 2013 at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago are happening on the 2nd and 3rd of May 2013.

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Tags: Speech, Language Technologies, NLP, Chicago

The course material for the LSA Summer Institute 2013 course Python 3 for Linguists will be made available at:

Python for Linguists Wiki (LTL, EMU)
Python 3 for Linguists (Dropbox)

There is a (currently not so full) Github repository Py3L with the (future) source code.

We are using the Komodo Edit 8.x (the free editor) and Python 3.3 in the course. We will be able to help you installing the necessary software components.
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Tags: Python3, Py3k, LSA, UoM, 2013

AARDVARC - Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Audio and Video Resources Community

NSF sponsored workshops at ILIT/EMU and CUNY.

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Tags: AARDVARC, Conference, Workshop, EMU, ILIT, The LINGUIST List

I am moving code and project folders to GitHub. I don’t know, whether this is a good idea, it just turns out to be easier to use…

This port includes the SNLTK code, all kinds of Python 3 projects, Java code, some of the C(++) code for FSTs and some NLP tasks, corpus and TEI XML utils. Some of that I limited to pull-only and push-access exclusively for collaborators. If you were involved in some of that, let me know, send me your GitHub-ID is and I can add you to the collaborators group of the particular repos.

In particular, my course material will be migrated to GitHub completely. For example, the course material for the LSA Summer Institute course in summer 2013 will be placed there:
Python 3 for Linguists

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Tags: GitHub, Python3, Scheme, Java, Course material, C

Since I was asked many times about this MA program and the original text that went to the accreditation committee in Croatia (where we got one very nasty and absolutely irrelevant review, if I find it, I’ll post it here; but also a very good and constructive review), here are the files, the Croatian and English text about the MA program in Linguistics that we submitted for accreditation within the Bologna system back in 2008 at the University of Zadar. I think, this is the corrected version. It was not the best possible program, developed under time pressure and in a very difficult situation, and its was building on the growing wave of computational linguistics, speech and language technology, as well as theoretical linguistics. We would do a lot of things differently nowadays. If you can use any of this for your inspiration or personal attempts to apply for a program or other support, let us know. I can forward you the editable version for some Office package.

English version:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

• Croatian version:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

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Tags: University of Zadar, Linguistics, MA, Program, Bologna

If you want to batch convert a lot of files to some more accessible format (for example ODT or DOCX to HTML or TEI XML), you can use first of all LibreOffice.

Here is a brief introduction how to batch convert files to some LibreOffice output format or TEI XML.
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Tags: LibreOffice, XSLT, TEI, Corpus

If you write out a stack (or network) in XFST to a prolog file:

write prolog > mymorph.plg

and you want to convert it to DOT and visualize it in Graphviz, here is a Python 3.x script to do so:

Download zipped Python source
View Python code

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Tags: XFST, DOT, Python

I’ll give a talk on corpora and relevant technologies at Wayne State University in Detroit on the 19^th of October at 11 AM. Here are some links, papers and slides that might be interesting for colleagues and students to follow and post process:

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Tags: Corpora, WSU, Philologic, LLC, Gutenberg Project, XML, TEI, Lucene, CoreNLP, JavaScript

Date: April 13th, 2012
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: Cooper Building, Suite 104, EMU, 2000 Huron River Drive, Ypsilanti

Directions: Take Washtenaw heading east from Ann Arbor toward Ypsilanti. Go past Hwy 23, turn left on Golfside, then turn right on Huron River Drive. The Cooper Building will be on the left, across from Rynearson Stadium, and there is free parking right out front. If you reach Superior St. you have gone too far.

Title: On the influence of L1 on the L2 perception: The case of tenseness contrast in American vowels
Author: Malgorzata E. Cavar

Abstract:
One obvious difficulty in foreign language learning is the production of foreign sounds. What is less obvious is the fact that the perception of foreign categories by L2 learners differs from that of the native speakers and in itself might be and often is a hurdle in the acquisition of the phonetic/phonological system of the foreign language. In this talk, I will present the results of a series of experiments pertaining to the perception of the English vocalic contrast in high vowels by learners with different L1 backgrounds. The goal of this and similar studies is to determine how perceptual strategies of L2 learners differ from those of English native speakers and what these differences depend on. In the long run, the aim is to predict “customized” areas of difficulty for learners with different backgrounds and to help develop curricula and teaching aids that would actually respond to learners’ needs.
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Tags: Talk, LINGUIST List, ILIT, Cooper Building, Phonetics, Phonology, EMU