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the SESQUIPEDALIAN Volume VII, No. 31
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Constitution Day (Denmark) June 5, 1997
-/-\-/ LOOK WHO'S TALKING /-\-/-
-- The LFG97 conference takes place at the University of California,
San Diego, June 19-21. Department, ex-department, and pre-department
affiliates who will be presenting include Mary Dalrymple and Ronald
Kaplan, John Fry, Hye-Won Choi, Tracy King, Miriam Butt, Adams Bodomo,
Cathryn Donohue, Joan Bresnan, Rachel Nordlinger, and Louisa Sadler.
-/-\-/ CALL FOR PAPERS /-\-/-
-- Computer-Mediated Communication, Language and Society:
Socio-Linguisitcs Symposium 12 (University of London Institute of
Education), 26-28 March 1998. This colloquium represents and follow
up to and development of the successful session on the
socio-linguistics of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) held at
SS11 - organised by Dr. Lynn Pemberton. Despite the growing use of
computers as communications media (from Internet Relay Chat,
MUD's/MOO's, e-mail, and computer/video conferencing to the numerous
WWW technologies) and the impacts of digital representations upon
language use, the number of conferences focusing upon these issues
still remains limited. The proposed colloquium, like the previous
SS11 workshop, will provide an opportunity for researchers in this
field to present and discuss current theories and findings. The focus
of the session will be upon the relationship between contemporary
society, contemporary language use and the various forms of CMC.
Possible subjects to be covered could include (in no order of
preference/importance): Language, CMC and globalisation; Language, CMC
and the workplace; Language, CMC and politics; Language, CMC and
identity; Language, CMC and gender; Language, CMC and genre.
Submission - Abstracts by 31st August 1997. If you are
interested in participating in the colloquium abstracts of paper
proposals are needed by 31st of August 1997. To make co-ordinating
things easier if you could send your abstracts to me (see address
details below) before this date I will forward them on to the
organisers along with the final plan for the colloquium. All
abstracts have to go through the refereeing process (see note below
from the organisers). If for any reason you can't send the abstract
to me before the 31st of August please let me know that you are
submitting then I can include you in the plans, but do remember to
send an abstract by the 31st either to me or the organisers address
below - marking it as a submission to the Computer-Mediated
Communication, Language and Society Colloquium. Contributions to the
colloquium will undergo the normal refereeing process, and abstracts
for each one will also need to be individually submitted to the
Organising Committee (via the Conference Organiser (SS12), Institute
of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAL [email:
c.bird@ioe.ac.uk]) NO LATER THAN 31 AUGUST 1997.
Dr. Simeon J. Yates
Discipline of Sociology
Faculty of Social Sciences
Open Univeristy
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
UK
Tel: +44 1908 654508/4458
Fax: +44 1908 654488
mailto:s.j.yates@open.ac.uk
http://socsci.open.ac.uk/simeon/simeon_yates.html
-/-\-/ TRUE BURNOUT /-\-/-
Top Nine Signs You Are Suffering from Burnout
9. You're so tired, that you now answer the phone, "Hell."
8. Mom calls to ask how you've been, and you immediately scream,
"Get off my back!!"
7. When your parents inquire about your grades, you sing the Cookie
Monster song: "C is for cookie, that's good enough for me..."
6. You wake up to discover your bed is on fire, but go back to sleep
because you just don't care.
5. Just to take a break from studying, you actually exit your
dormitory when the nightly fire alarm goes off.
4. You sleep more in class than at home.
3. You leave for a party and instinctively bring your briefcase.
2. Visions of the upcoming weekend help you make it through Monday.
1. You think about how relaxing it would be if you were in jail
right now.
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(REDUNDANCY NOTICE: For fuller listings of these and other jobs, don't
forget to check the Jobs binder in the Greenberg Room, and the file
'jobslist.txt' on the CSLI directory /user/linguistics.)
-- PERSPECTA, INC: Linguistics Engineer. Perspecta, Inc. will
dramatically enhance the way people navigate and experience
information on the Web and corporate intranets. Founded in January
1996, Perspecta is based in San Francisco with 18 employees. Major
investors in Perspecta include venture partners Applied Technology and
Sifinnova, and corporate investor Informix Software, Inc. (IFMX).
More information on Perspecta can be found on Perspecta's World Wide
Web site at http://www.perspecta.com
The person filling this position will design, develop, and
integrate linguistic processing algorithms for Prospecta's proprietary
client/server technology.
Key Selection Criteria
advanced degree in CS or Computational Linguistics
expert knowledge in contemporary natural language processing:
-empirical and experimental /theoretical methods
-statistical and knowledge-based approaches
-superficial processing and deep parsing/semantic analysis
experience with knowledge representation issues, developing
semantic networks/ontologies
very strong algorithm design and implementation skills
experience with machine translation
experience with summarization
experience with morphological processing
industry/product experience
well versed in object-oriented design/programming, C++, Java
Windows, Unix literacy
Self-motivated, creative, "Can-do" engineer who knows how to
complete projects on time in a high intensity
start-up environment
Contact:
Andrew Deitz
415-788-7800 ph
415-788-7710 fax
mailto:adeitz@ji.com email
(REDUNDANCY NOTICE: For fuller listings of these and other jobs, don't
forget to check the Jobs binder in the Greenberg Room, and the file
'jobslist.txt' on the CSLI directory /user/linguistics.)
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