Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 371.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." <bralich@hawaii.edu> (43)
Subject: Jobs for 1 Linguist and 2 ESL Curriculum
[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (48)
Subject: dialect
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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 08:12:44 +0000
From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." <bralich@hawaii.edu>
Subject: Jobs for 1 Linguist and 2 ESL Curriculum
Ergo Linguistic Technologies currently has job openings for one linguist
(full-time) and 2 full-time or 4 part-time (80 hours per week) ESL
curriculum developers to work on Software and Internet ITS (Interactive
Tutoring Systems) tools. To learn more about the company and the tools you
will be working with go to http://www.ergo-ling.com. The Ergo working
environment is comfortable and a little casual but it is working with state
of the art NLP tools and software. Located at the Manoa Innovation center
in Honolulu we are convenient to the University of Hawaii for those with
on-going research interests. We also have a beautiful location as well as
access to restaurants and shopping. We cannot pay a relocation allowance
but the lifestyle in Hawaii is worth the effort to work here. Job
descriptions follow:
Linguist:
Knowledge of Syntax and a knowledge of English Grammar required. Must also
be proficient in standard software applications (Word Processors, Internet,
Spread Sheets, etc.) Experience teaching ESL grammar classes a plus. Job
will entail working with programmers and curriculum developers to improve
lexicographical, syntactic, and standard grammar tools made from the Ergo
parser. The main project is the development of interactive tutors which
use a 3-D character to do interactive question and answer exchanges with
users in the areas of ESL, Geography, and Biology. The use of in-house
tools as well as standard software required. Temporary for now (six to
twelve month project), perhaps long term.
ESL Curriculum Developers:
Experience teaching ESL and in Curriculum development. Must have a good
eye for English grammar. The position entails designing and writing
curriculum for Interactive tutors. Job will entail working with
programmers and linguists to improve lexicographical, syntactic, and
standard grammar tools made from the Ergo parser. The main project is the
development of interactive tutors which use a 3-D character to do
interactive question and answer exchanges with users in the area of ESL for
a stand alone software product and for the Internet.
Contact me by email or at the following numbers. Resumes may be sent by
email, fax, or regular mail but all jobs start as soon as possible.
Phil Bralich
Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Ergo Linguistic Technologies
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808)539-3920
Fax: (808)539-3924
bralich@hawaii.edu
http://www.ergo-ling.com
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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 08:13:31 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: dialect
You may enjoy playing with Samuel Stoddard's The Dialectizer,
<http://rinkworks.com/dialect/>, for the accidental/serendipitous
misrenderings of certain words from (may I say without being shot?)
STANDARD English into one of the dialects his page purports to produce.
Alas the technology behind it is far too unsophisticated to render, say,
the introductory blurb on Humanist's homepage into REAL Cockney -- though,
admittedly, I cannot quite imagine getting any of my Cockney neighbours to
render that blurb out loud. The statement is as follows:
>Humanist is an international electronic seminar on the application of
>computers to the humanities. Its primary aim is to provide a forum for
>discussion of intellectual, scholarly, pedagogical, and social issues and
>for exchange of information among members. Humanist is allied with the
>Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for
>Literary and Linguistic Computing. It is an affiliated publication of the
>American Council of Learned Societies and a publication of the Office for
>Humanities Communication (U.K.).
The Dialectizer renders it thus:
>Humanist is an international electronic seminar on the chuffin'
>application of French Tutors ter the chuffin' humanities. Its primary aim
>is ter provide a forum for chat of intellectual, right, scholarly,
>pedagogical, and social issues and for exchange of information among
>members. Humanist is allied wiv the Association for French Tutors and the
>Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computin'. It
>is an affiliated publication of the a septic tank Council of Learned
>Societies and a publication of the Office for Humanities Communication
(U.K.).
Curiously, our auto-Cockney is particularly chuffed about what we do (dial.
f. "chuff", "pleased, satisfied, happy") and thinks we're right. Well,
then.... Quite how the machines we use became French Tutors I am not sure,
but perhaps if you are one (a French tutor, that is) you should start
getting worried. The real hoot is, of course, what has happened to our many
"American" friends, but not only those honoured colleagues in the ACLS -- I
tried the adjective on its own, and guess what? The Dialectizer apparently
has one and only one opinion of my native land. No other dialect in The
Dialectizer does that. I must say that my experience of Cockney speakers
and other East Enders is that they have rather the opposite opinion of
America -- streets paved with gold and all that. (I have numerous times
been asked by my genuinely puzzled neighbours, "Why did you move from a
place like that to a place like THIS????" I recall one particularly
memorable occasion, sitting in a moldy shoe shop in Brick Lane, charmed to
the gills by the delightfully reticent attitude of the owner, whom I had to
persuade to sell me a pair of very nice shoes. Now there's a high mark for
an AI-powered dialectizer to aim for.)
Yours,
WM
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