My colleagues and I would like to establish contact with
Canadian specialists in corpus analysis with a view to
e-mail exchanges, the possible establishment of a
discussion group as well as possible cooperation in
furthering specific research objectives, all depending, of
course, on the number of respondents to our query. We are
searching, in particular, for Canadian researchers with
expertise in one or more of the following areas who have
used that expertise for corpus analysis:
1. (Partially) automated techniques for transcribing and
analyzing digitized speech recorded in natural (as opposed
to studio) settings.
2. Grammatical analysis (tagging and parsing) of unedited
texts representing a wide variety of text types, both
spoken and written.
3. (Partially) automated techniques for evaluating the
output of grammatical analyses.
4. Programming for NLP.
5. Relational database management systems for corpus
annotation.
6. (Partially) automated techniques for SGML markup
and/or TEI conformant encoding.
7. Statistics (especially sampling and probability
matrices)
If you give your permission, we will, at the very least,
include your name, with basic information about you, in a
list which we'll then distribute to all who replied to our
query. To that end, could you send us the following
information:
1. Name, affiliation and how to reach you
2. Relevant expertise, including the language or
languages you have worked with
Hope to hear from you!
N. Belmore
Research Prof. of Applied Linguistics
TESL Centre
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve West
Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
Tel.: (514)848-2457; Fax: (514)848-4295
belmore@vax2.concordia.ca