Topic-Oriented Sites

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Alphabetized Topics

Applied Linguistics

• Applied Linguistics WWW Virtual Library

Creoles

• Creolist Archives
• Creole in Martinique, creole lesson

Computational Linguistics

• Controlled Languages Home Page, by Willem-Olaf Huijsen of the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Input is welcome.
• ITK
• Laboratory for Computational Linguistics, Department of Computer Science, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
• Listing of Computational Linguistics Institutes
• A Logical Approach to Computational Corpus Linguistics Computational Linguistics Homepage
• Lancaster University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL), Research Centre carrying out computational linguistics research and development
• Seminario de Lingüística Informática - Universidade de Vigo, Computational Linguistics Research Group - University of Vigo (Spain)
• Systemic Meaning Modelling Group at Macquarie University, research group in Systemic Functional Linguistics; linguistic and computational modelling of language and other semiotic systems; description of research, tools for linguistic research, publications.

Endangered Languages

• The International Clearing House for Endangered Languages

Word Frequency

• Analysis of project Gutenburg Texts, searches texts from Project Gutenburg, and generates relative frequencies.

General Linguistics

• Frequently Asked Questions about Linguistics from the University of Michigan

Language Laws

• Language Policy in the U.S.
• Language Policy in Quebec

Linguistic Theories

• The Functional Grammar Information System, lists of publications, researchers, and useful addresses.
• Head-Driven Phrase-Structure Grammar, server at Ohio State University.
• Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology
• Lexical Functional Grammar
• Optimality Theory, Rutgers Optimality Archive.
• Systemic Linguistics
• Information on Systemic Functional linguistics by Mick O'Donnell.
• Systemic Functional Home Page, run by Tony Berber Sardinha
• Word Grammar, Word Grammar treats syntax, semantics, morphology and sociolinguistics as cognitive network.

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Metaphor

• Literat ur zur Metapherntheorie / Literature on the Theory of Metaphor, Bibliography on metaphor theory and related fields
• Metaphor Center
• The Metaphor and Metonymy Group
• A Metaphor Model of the Self , A visual aid showing how spatial metaphors in English unify the bodily, scientific, psychological, ethical and spiritual aspects of the self. Lesson Plans. Ages 14 up.
• Metaphor and Rational Discourse, Collection of papers from an interdisciplinary conference held in 1995 at Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland). Edited by Bernhard Debatin, Timothy R. Jackson, and Daniel Steuer
• The Rationality of Metaphor, An Analysis of Metaphor Based on the Philosophy of Language and Communication Theory by Bernhard Debatin

Natural Langage Processing

• AGFL (Affix Grammars over a Finite Lattice), at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. A formalism in which context free grammars can be described compactly. Downloadable software is available
• Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU)
• Connectionist Natural Language Processing maintained by James Hammerton.
• Dragon Systems, speech & language technology.
• Finite-State Home Page, a compiler for regular expressions; introductory texts about regular expressions and finite-state networks; examples to illustrate some natural language applications.
• Indonesian Multilingual Machine Translation System. Covers Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Malay, and Thai.
• Information Retrieval (IR) resources, maintained by Mark Sanderson. It includes test collections, collections of text, language reference works, IR systems, linguistic utilities.
• Statistical Language Learning, by Eugene Charniak.
• Statistical Natural Language Processing and Corpus-based Computational Linguistics, an annotated list of resources
• Bibliography of Connectionist Natural Language Processing
• Natural language processing in Ireland
• The Chomskybot A minor-league NPL demo
• Natural Language Processing: Penman, Pangloss Projects Home Page
• Persian (Farsi) NLP and Speech Processing.
• KOMET The KOMET department is concerned with the content-based construction of documents involving natural language. The central component of KOMET, the KOMET text generation system, produces connected, natural language texts automatically and in multiple languages.
• Microsoft Research Natural Language Processing Group, The goal of our NLP group is to design and build a computer system that will analyze, understand, and generate natural languages.
• NLP Tools, a list of the most interesting NLP tools on Internet.
• TSNLP - Test Suites for Natural Language Processing, Test suite methodology and technology together with substantial test suite fragments for (currently) English, French and German.

Non-verbal Communication

• Exploring Nonverbal Communication

Nostratic

• Nostratic Language Family - discussion of linguistics
• A Debate About Nostratic: discussion of Nostratic on the Indoeuropean-L list by Alan Bomhard and Alexis Ramer on December 13 and 14

Primate Research

• The Lagado Regional Primate Centre, a center of primate studies, including language

Semiotics

• Semiotics for beginners
• Semiotics Index maintained by the University of Colorado at Denver, School of Education.
• Semiotic Terms
• Visual Semiotics

Speech & Phonetics

• Phonetics laboratory at Umeå University, Sweden
• Signal Processing.
• Speech and phonetics on the Web from the Netherlands.
• Speech Processing Site from UCL
• Spectogram Reading Homepage at the Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU), Oregon Graduate Institute for Science and Technology.
• Stress System Database, an index of primary word stress in many languages that may be viewed by language or by stress system.

Syntax

• Interactive Syntax Tutor, intended to help first year linguistics students practice writing phrase structure grammars.

Text Encoding

• Text Encoding for Information Interchange
• A technical overview
• An introductory tutorial

Translating

• Affordable Russian Language Services, Technical Translations and Interpretations, Russian Language Services provides affordable technical translation and interpretation from and into Russian.
• Languages and Translation A collection of useful links for translators.
• LANTRA-L Home Page, Home page of LANTRA-L mailing-list for interpreters and translators
• LOGOS translation services
• Polizzi, Antonino, Italian-Japanese-Italian Technical Translations
• Talking Hand-held Electronic Translators, 250,000- 500,000 words and expressions in many languages including: Russian, Arabic, Italian, French, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Greek, Turkish, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Spanish, and Dutch.

Miscellaneous Topics

• The Chomsky archive at ZNet,which is associated with Z Magazine.(This archive is devoted to Chomsky's political writings and related material)
• Constructed Languages, an unofficial CONLANG-L Home Page with information on constructed languages, resources for linguistic study and translations
• Deafness and related issues
• Dyslexia My Life
  info on learning disabilities and dyslexia
• East Asian Studies Center, a U.S. Department of Education National Resource Center, assists in the coordination of teaching, research, and outreach activities on East Asia.
• ETHNOLOGUE - lANGUAGES OF THE WORLD, a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries.
• Etymology of Chinese Chén, by Richard S. Cook.
• Filled Pause Research Center, Virtual study hall focusing on filled pauses in spontaneous speech.
• The Etymology of First Names This site looks into the etymology and history behind common first names.
• Language generation research at MRI, Microsoft Research Institute, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics, Macquarie University, Australia
• Language and the Movies
• Linguistic Minority Research Institute at the University of California.
• Linguistics and Knowledge Science Laboratory (LINKS)
• Link Archive of the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Passau, Germany, Links to linguistic and related information
• Linse (Linguistics Server Essen)
  German Language and the New Media
• Model Declaration on University Language Policy, a model policy framework, for universities in Europe - for multilingualism
• Native American Web Pages
• Psycholinguistics Blatant Nonsense Examples
• Spatial Reasoning Resources on the Internet
• Speech Research in Japan
• A CURIOUS EARLY VISUALIZATION OF SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE, in Dutch
• Social Responses to Communication Technologies, Stanford University
• Survey of the State of the Art of Human Language Technology, Ronald A. Cole, Editor in Chief. 6/96.
• Tense Le Groupe de recherche sur la reference temporelle (Universite de Geneve)
  
  

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