Re: OT: Utterly shameless self-promotion

I am new to this list, so I have not been following previous posts and may
misinterpret some until I become more familiar with everyone.

I am interested in machine translation of languages and am particularly
interested in your computer translation of compounds.  Would this apply to
constructed languages such as earth language where visual symbols are
combined?  Examples of combinations can be found on the Earth Language
website  www.earthlanguage.org

Hala



----- Original Message -----
From: "taliesin the storyteller" <taliesin-conlang@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 12:49 PM
Subject: OT: Utterly shameless self-promotion


> Having been ordered by several who wish me all the best to beat my own
> drum more, I hereby announce that I've finished my Master's degree in
> Computational Linguistics. Since Master's degrees are a new animal in
> Norway I have no idea how mine measures up to international ones. A
> normal Master here is a two year run/course/study, with (nominally) one
> year of taking classes and one year of research/writing a thesis. I've
> yet to meet anyone who have managed it in only two years though. The old
> system would have given me a cand. philologiae instead of an M-something
> to go with my name.
>
> It's not of particular interest to conlangers AFAIK, being about machine
> translation of compounds and the use of search engines (like Google and
> Yahoo! Search) in linguistics; the funniest part to research was the
> search engine stuff. The dream would of course have been to study
> typology but that isn't really done much at my uni. (If anyone *do* want
> to study typology I suggest the university in Leipzig, Germany; that's
> where Bernard Comrie and several other typology greats are teaching/
> researching these days.)
>
>
> t., who thinks studying is much easier than job-hunting

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