MHC Languages

A guide to qualitative data analysis, including explanations and suggestions about analysis methods for beginners, lists of software features and reviews to assist with QDA, and strategies for more advanced researchers

The International Corpus of Learner English (Version 2) is a corpus of writing by higher intermediate to advanced learners of English. It contains 3.7 million words of EFL writing from learners representing 16 different mother tongue backgrounds (Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Tswana). It differs from the first version published in 2002 not only by its increased size and range of learner populations, but also by its interface, which contains two new functionalities: built-in concordancer allowing users to search for word forms, lemmas and/or part-of-speech tags and breakdown of the query results according to the learner profile information.

Simulations in Higher Education (SHE) is a focus for these initiatives at UWE. It is part of the E-learning Development Unit, which works with colleagues across the university to help with developments in curricula and delivery that use ICT. This SHE website describes the projects, technologies and underpinning pedagogies that these initiatives draw upon, and develop.

Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian Following the success of Evalita 2007, we are pleased to announce Evalita 2009, the second evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing tools for Italian, supported by the NLP working group of AI*IA. The general objective of Evalita is to promote the development of language and speech technologies for the Italian language, providing a shared framework where different systems and approaches can be evaluated in a consistent manner. This year in conjunction with AISV (the Italian Association of Speech Science), Evalita will also hold the first speech input technology evaluation for Italian.

The room is nothing less than a state of the art information dump, a physical manifestation of the all too pervasive yet narrow and naïve assumption that to learn is simply to acquire information, built for teachers to effectively carry out the relatively simple task of conveying information. Its sheer size, layout, and technology are testaments to the efficiency and expediency with which we can now provide students with their required credit hours.

This web journal is dedicated to publishing research in the fields of TESOL and Applied Linguistics. We encourage readers to sign up for the publishing notification service for this journal.

In Windows, the Polytonic Greek support is a combination of a special Greek keyboard layout (Greek Polytonic) and a few fonts containing all the additional characters (diacritical and punctuation marks). This downloadable whitepaper outlines the steps you need to take to use Polytonic Greek from fonts to necessary keyboard layout.

Clickers have been quietly marching over the horizon of attention for several years. Only early adopters, however, and schools with enough money and vision to try them have come to understand that, far from being simply the latest new gadget, they offer students a pedagogically powerful blend of intimacy and anonymity that can move them from passive to active learning with the click of a button (and a battery of well-crafted questions).

iPhone/iPod app that connects with computer and allows user to draw characters on phone for input on computer.

Arboreal for Mac and ArborWin (Arboreal for Windows) are available for purchase from Kagi. These are the Cascadilla Press fonts that let you create professional-looking syntactic trees right in your word processor. Put the text of the tree in any font you like, and use Arboreal or ArborWin to do the rest.

This wordnet spans over 17,200 manually validated concepts/synsets, that are made of over 21,000 word senses/word forms and 16,000 lemmas from both European and American variants of Portuguese.These concepts are aligned with the translationally equivalent concepts of the English Princeton WordNet and, transitively, of the MultiWordNets of Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Romanian and Latin.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have now genetically engineered a strain of mice whose FOXP2 gene has been swapped out for the human version. In a region of the brain called the basal ganglia, known in people to be involved in language, the humanized mice grew nerve cells that had a more complex structure. Baby mice utter ultrasonic whistles when removed from their mothers. The humanized baby mice, when isolated, made whistles that had a slightly lower pitch, among other differences, Dr. Enard says. Dr. Enard argues that putting significant human genes into mice is the only feasible way of exploring the essential differences between people and chimps, our closest living relatives.

Both for individual researchers as for research groups or projects, it is of major importance to organize the literature one has read. A well organized bibliography is a powerful instrument. It speeds up the search for publications one has already read and supports the user in structuring information. Aigaion provides a bibliography management software environment that supports a user in just this: Organizing and managing a complete bibliography, from small bibliographies to bibliographies for a complete research department.

A library of how-to videos in French. Much of user interface is in English.

TiP is one of European natural language research and software development leaders! With 18 years of expertise in language parsing, summarizing, disambiguation and machine translation TiP delivers linguistic components to the biggest names in the IT field. Our experts have qualifications in linguistics, statistics, terminology, knowledge discovery in documents as well as excellent technical skills related to multiplatform computing. A company wholly dedicated to natural language research and software development, TiP was established in 1991 in Katowice, Poland. In 1992, with COR™ and CorWin™ stand-alone spell checkers TiP became the leader in the computer linguistic technology in Poland. TiP's Polish proofing applications were recognized in 1993 as the Software of the Year by PC Kurier magazine and were awarded the Gold Medal at Softarg '92 Fair in Katowice.

News videos in French, freely available.

Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS): Free, online lectures covering a wide-range of topics related to education and technology, presented by thought leaders and innovators from around the world, delivered LIVE to your desktop.

VOICE comprises naturally occurring, non-scripted face-to-face interactions in English as a lingua franca (ELF). The recordings made for VOICE are keyboarded by trained transcribers and stored as a computerized corpus. Currently VOICE comprises 1 million words of spoken ELF interactions, equalling approximately 120 hours of transcribed speech. The speakers recorded in VOICE are experienced ELF speakers from a wide range of first language backgrounds. So far, VOICE includes approximately 1250 ELF speakers with approximately 50 different first languages (disregarding varieties of the respective languages). In the initial phase, VOICE focuses mainly, though not exclusively, on European ELF speakers. The ELF interactions recorded cover a range of different speech events in terms of domain (professional, educational, leisure), function (exchanging information, enacting social relationships), and participant roles and relationships (acquainted vs. unacquainted, symmetrical vs. asymmetrical).

The Personal Librarian (PL) Program is designed to introduce students entering Yale College to the collections and services of the Yale University Library. As a Yale freshman you will be matched with a Librarian when you matriculate, a relationship that will continue through your freshman and sophomore years, or until you declare a major, whichever comes first. At that point, your PL will introduce you to your subject specialist, a librarian with an advanced degree in your discipline, who will help you with the research you do for your major.

This site provides access to a corpus of over 900 text samples gathered from test subjects at Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, in 2006 and 2007. Twenty-one subjects provide a completely correlated corpus in which each subject provided their opinion in each of six predetermined topics in each of six genres: blog, chat, discussion, email, essay, and interview. We hope this corpus will be useful to researchers in the fields of natural language processing and computational linguistics.