Natural Language
Computer Assisted Language Learning :: Linguistics

UC Davis News: General Interest

Symposium to Explore Economic Impact of Patent Reform
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Top patent law experts will explore the probable effects of patent law reform on innovation and the economy during a daylong symposium at the UC Davis School of Law. The symposium, titled "The Perfect Storm of Patent Reform?," will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, on the UC Davis campus. All panel discussions will be free and open to the public; the luncheon will be $15 for students and $25 for others. To reserve a seat, register by Oct. 29 at http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/events/fenwickwest/PerfectStormProgram.shtml. Speakers will outline patent law developments under way in Congress, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the courts, and examine potential effects of proposed reforms on both small companies that use patent protection to attract investment and large companies concerned with inappropriate or frivolous assertions of patent rights. Panelists will include: Barbara Caulfield, partner, Dewey & LeBeouf, East Palo Alto Colleen Chien, assistant professor of law, Santa Clara University Mark Lemley, professor of law, Stanford University Doug Luftman, associate general counsel, intellectual property, Palm Inc., Sunnyvale Chip Lutton, chief patent counsel, Apple Inc. Robert Merges, professor of law and technology, UC Berkeley Paul R. Michel, chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Lynn Pasahow, partner, Fenwick & West Sanjay Prasad, head, enterprise software licensing, Intellectual Ventures Jerry Selinger, partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and former director, American Intellectual Property Law Association Andrew Serafini, partner, Fenwick & West Jay Thomas, professor of law, Georgetown University Stratton Sclavos, former CEO, VeriSign Inc., Mountain View (luncheon keynote speaker) "The Perfect Storm of Patent Reform?" is the first in a five-year Technology, Entrepreneurship, Science and Law lecture series co-sponsored by the UC Davis School of Law and Fenwick & West, a law firm serving technology and life sciences clients through offices in Mountain View, San Francisco, Seattle and Boise.
UC Davis Improves Handling of 9-1-1 Calls From Cells
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Emergency help is closer for many cell phone users who make a 9-1-1 call on the University of California, Davis, campus. Cell sites around the Davis campus will now route wireless 9-1-1 calls to the public safety dispatch center at UC Davis, instead of to the California Highway Patrol. The new system -- for those using wireless service providers Verizon, AT&T, Nextel and T-Mobile -- is designed to get emergency police, fire or medical assistance to callers sooner. The wireless 9-1-1 service is among other recent steps to enhance safety, security and emergency response at UC Davis. At one time, most cell phones were mounted in vehicles, so 9-1-1 calls from cell phones throughout California were routed to the CHP's regional call centers -- sometimes miles away -- and callers could experience long delays before their call was answered and help directed to them. "Many students and other members of our campus community use cell phones," said Annette Spicuzza, chief of the UC Davis Police Department, which is responsible for the university's public safety dispatch center. "With this wireless 9-1-1 system, we can better get emergency help to them when they're on campus." The university police department worked with CHP and wireless phone carriers so that wireless 9-1-1 calls are routed according to the cell site receiving and transmitting the signal, and local cell site antennas are directed toward the campus dispatch center. Calls from sites that are aimed at state patrolled highways and roadways are still routed to the California Highway Patrol. Service providers Wireless service providers that have been tested and work with the UC Davis dispatch center are: Verizon, AT&T, Nextel and T-Mobile. Cellular customers who do not have these providers should program (530) 752-1230 into their cell phone and use it for emergency calls on the Davis campus. Wireless call routing has proved effective, Spicuzza said, and many municipalities already have the capability. The city of Davis implemented its wireless 9-1-1 system about a year ago. The university has its own full-service police and fire departments and has a comprehensive emergency management program. The dispatch center at the police department is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week by certified public safety dispatchers. It manages police and fire communications for the Davis campus. To learn more about the 9-1-1 wireless program, call the UC Davis Police Department at (530) 752-1727. About UC Davis For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has 31,000 students, an annual research budget that exceeds $500 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges -- Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science -- and advanced degrees from five professional schools -- Education, Law, Management, Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine.
Faculty Panel: Government Reaction to the Economic Crisis
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Oct. 10, Friday -- UC Davis faculty members from the fields of law and economics will discuss the recent turmoil in the financial markets and the government's responses to it from noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in room 2011 of King Hall on the UC Davis campus. The panel discussion is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, so please arrive early. Panelists are economics professor Peter Lindert, a specialist in economic history and international economics, and law professors Joel Dobris, a specialist in fiduciary duty, Tom Joo, an expert in corporate governance, and Evelyn Lewis, a specialist in business transactions. The panel discussion is sponsored by the UC Davis School of Law. For more information, contact Brigid Jimenez at (530) 754-4339.

 

Subscribe to Social_Sciences RSS feed

A Language of Metaphors - A theory that suggests that metaphors are based in mathematical truths, and may be key to both brain structure and artificial intelligence.
Meta Description: [ Metaphor resources including examples, essays and teacher aids. Metaphor is demonstrated as a teaching/learning/inventing tool and for its significance in computational linguistics. ]

An Algorithmic Approach to English Pluralization - Research paper by D.M. Conway of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University. (1998).

Andersen, Peter Bøgh - Professor at the University of Aalborg in Denmark, whose research focuses on computational semiotics. Papers and descriptions of current research.

British National Corpus - A balanced synchronic text corpus containing 100 million words with morphosyntactic annotation.

500 Computational Morphology - An introduction to the challenges which computational morphology poses for the programmer. By Harald Trost.

Computational Morphology and Phonology - A list of online resources related to computational morphology and phonology.
Meta Description: [ Resources related to computational morphology and phonology ]

Corpus-Based Computational Linguistics Resources - An annotated list of resources in this field and the allied discipline of statistical natural language processing. Corpora, tools, literature and other resources.

Dan Jurafsky's Computational Psycholinguistics Research - Publications pursuing probabilistic models of psycholinguistic phenomena.

Data Oriented Semantics - A thesis project, presenting many of the issues facing computational semantics and some experimental solutions.
Meta Description: [ The Computational Linguistics Department of the University of Amsterdam ]

Definition of Computational Semiotics - A concise outline of this field from the perspective of defining knowledge units for artificial intelligence systems.

EuroWordNet - A project to compile compatible wordnets for seven European languages. Documentation, project reports, and downloadable database samples.

Frequently Asked Questions About Computational Linguistics - Geared to people who are unfamiliar with the field.

Global Wordnet Association - A society dedicated to the collection and standardization of wordnets, corpora, and other basic language processing tools. List of current and pending wordnets.

Hermit Crab - A morphological parser and generator, developed for classical generative phonology and morphology. Download, documentation, background information and computational morphology research.
Meta Description: [ Hermit Crab, a morphological parser and generator for classical generative phonology and morphology. ]

500 Human Language Technology - An European internet clearinghouse for language engineering research.

ILK: Induction of Linguistic Knowledge - A research program at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, aimed at using inductive learning technology to advance both language engineering and the understanding of linguistic knowledge. Publications, downloadable software, and text analysis demos.

404 InDiGen: Integrated Discourse Generation - A research project which aims to bring about an integrated approach to discourse and sentence planning which captures the interaction of discourse marker selection, ellipsis, and discourse structure. Includes related publications, web-based demo.

International Committee on Computational Linguistics - Organizes the worldwide COLING conference. Information on the nature of COLING, past COLING proceedings, and hosting future COLINGs.

Introduction to Computational Phonology - Brief course on the fundamentals of this field, by Dafydd Gibbon. Includes basics of computing phonotactics and phonological parsing.
Meta Description: [ Dafydd Gibbon: Introduction to Computational Phonology ]

Introduction to Language Technology Research - Introductory information and a directory of resources in theoretical and applied computational linguistics.
Meta Description: [ An index and metaindex to WWW information on topics, organizations, literature, funding, resources in theoretical and applied computational linguistics ]

Jurafsky, Daniel - University of Colorado professor whose research includes machine learning, parsing and computational psycholinguistics. Current research, syllabi, and archive of publications in PostScript and PDF formats.
Meta Description: [ Old Home of Dan Jurafsky at the University of Colorado, Boulder ]

Learning Computational Grammars - A European research project which ran from 1998 to 2001, exploring the possibility of expanding computational grammars through machine learning. Publications, demos, project information.

Morphological Parsing - Downloads and documentation for the PC-KIMMO morphological parser, as well as background information and research in computational morphology.
Meta Description: [ PC-KIMMO, a morphological parser ]

Rieger, Burghard Publications - A list of papers in computational semiotics and computational semantics. Many are downloadable in PDF format.

SIGdial: Special Interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue - A subgroup of the Association for Computational Linguistics which supports empirical, standardized research in the computational analysis of spoken discourse, including standard corpora. Organizational information, events, and resources.

SIGNLL: Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning - A subgroup of the Association for Computational Linguistics, dedicated to research on the machine learning of natural language.

SIGPHON: Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology - A subgroup of the Association for Computational Linguistics which supports computer-based research in phonology and morphology. Organizational information, bibliography.

Speech Prosody at Bell Labs - Current research on non-lexical aspects of speech and paralinguistic communication. General information, downloadable papers, and multilingual text-to-speech demo.
Meta Description: [ Prosody Research at Bell Labs ]

404 Statistical Natural Language Processing - A web-based course in statistical natural language processing from Göteborg University, Sweden. Includes a basic reading course, set of student projects and inventory of useful resources.

The Association for Computational Linguistics - International professional society dedicated to research throughout the field of natural language processing.
Meta Description: [ aclweb.org - the online home of the association for computational linguistics ]

The Computation and Language E-Print Archive - A fully automated archive of papers in computational linguistics, natural language processing, speech processing etc.

The Xtag Project - Aims to develop a wide-coverage grammar of the English language, using a lexicalized tree adjoining grammar formalism. The current version of Xtag, as well as general resources for tree adjoining grammars.

What is Computational Linguistics - A concise introduction to the field, by Hans Uszkoreit.

404 WordNet Bibliography - A comprehensive list of research publications involving the WordNet lexical database.