Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 761.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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[1] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (31)
Subject: BNC World Edition now available
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (122)
Subject: Book: Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:49:32 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: BNC World Edition now available
>> From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS - WORLD EDITION
After many delays (a postal strike being the latest) Oxford's
Humanities Computing Unit is now shipping the revised second edition
of the British National Corpus, which we are calling BNC-WORLD to
indicate that the corpus is now available under licence world wide.
For background information on the BNC, a one-hundred million word
snapshot of the English language at the end of the 20th century,
please visit our website at http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc
A licence to use BNC World is available in two flavours: under the single
user licence (cost 50 pounds) you can install the whole corpus and the
SARA software on a single machine for personal use; alternatively, for
250 pounds you can set up the corpus for networked access by up to 50
people. Alternatively, for the same prices, you can install just the
corpus itself and use whatever software you like. The corpus is supplied
in compressed format as a single tar archive containing over 4000 files of
SGML data. Full documentation of the linguistic and structural tagging is
included.
The part-of-speech tagging in the new edition has been extensively
revised at Lancaster University. Large numbers of errors and
inconsistencies in the tagging and markup have been removed, and the
encoding has been brought into conformance with recent standards. Several
enhancements and corrections have been made in the metadata attached to
each text. The SARA software now includes facilities for lemmatized searching,
improved handling of collocation searching, and the ability to build
and use arbitrary subcorpora.
For ordering information, please visit
http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/getting/ordering.html
Lou Burnard
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:51:14 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Book: Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology
>> From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis@newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 15
Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis
INTONATION
Analysis, Modelling and Technology
edited by
Antonis Botinis
University of Sk=F6vde, Sweden, and University of Athens, Greece
The volume Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology covers the
main=20 aspects of intonation, written by international researchers in the
field.=20 Following the Introduction, fourteen chapters are organised into
five=20 thematic sections: Overview of Intonation, Prominence and Focus,
Boundaries= =20 and Discourse, Intonation Modelling and Intonation Technology.
Each chapter is basically autonomous within a thematic section, but the=20
subject of several chapters extends over more than one thematic section.=20
The combination of a wide range of research areas, as well as=20
interdisciplinary approaches in the study of intonation, makes this volume=
=20 a unique contribution to the international scientific community.
Basic knowledge of Intonation and Prosody is assumed in the context of=20
linguistic and computational backgrounds. Readers may range from
students=20 of advanced undergraduate to postgraduate and research levels
as well as=20 individual researchers within a variety of disciplines such
as Experimental= =20 Phonetics, General and Computational Linguistics,
Computer Science, and=20 SpeechLanguage Engineering.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0
October 2000, 408 pp.
NLG 320.00 / USD 156.00 / GBP 99.00
Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5
October 2000, 408 pp.
NLG 110.00 / USD 54.00 / GBP 34.00
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CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
List of contributors.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction; A. Botinis.
SECTION I: OVERVIEW OF INTONATION.
2. Intonation: Past, Present, Future; M. Rossi.
SECTION II: PROMINENCE AND FOCUS.
3. Acoustic-phonetic Analysis of Prominence in Swedish; G. Fant, et al.
4. Prosodic Disambiguation in English and Italian; J. Hirschberg, C.=
Avesani.
5. Contrastive Tonal Analysis of Focus Perception in Greek and Swedish; A.=
=20
Botinis, et al.
SECTION III: BOUNDARIES AND DISCOURSE.
6. Phonetic Correlates of Statement versus Question Intonation in Dutch;=20
V.J. van Heuven, J. Haan.
7. Pitch Movements and Information Structure in Spontaneous Dutch=20
Discourse; M. van
Donzel, F. Koopmans-van Beinum.
8. Discourse Constraints on F0 Peak Timing in English; A. Wichmann, et al.
SECTION IV: INTONATION MODELLING.
9. Automatic Stylisation and Modelling of French and Italian Intonation; E.
Campione, et al.
10. A Phonological Model of French Intonation; S.-A. Jun, C. Fougeron.
11. A Declination Model of Mandarin Chinese; C. Shih.
12. A Quantitative Model of F0 Generation and Alignment; J.P.H. van Santen,=
B.
M=F6bius.
SECTION V: INTONATION TECHNOLOGY.
13. Modelling of Swedish Text and Discourse Intonation in a Speech=20
Synthesis Framework; G. Bruce, et al.
14. A Prosodic Model for Text-to-speech Synthesis in French; A. Di Cristo,
et al.
15. Prosodic Parameters of French in a Speech Recognition System;
K. Bartkova.
Subject index.
Index of names.
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Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
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Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
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Volume 4: Exploring textual data
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Volume 5: Time Map Phonology:
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Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
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Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
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Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics
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Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
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Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons
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Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
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Volume 13: Parallel text processing:
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