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	Encyclopedia: John McCarthy (linguist) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		John McCarthy (born 1953 in Medford, Massachusetts) is a linguist and professor of phonology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
		Alan Prince is a professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University.
		Optimality theory or OT is a linguistic theory proposed by the linguists Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky in 1993.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-McCarthy-(linguist) (256 words)

	John McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John McCarthy (computer scientist), inventor of the term "artificial intelligence" and much more.
		John McCarthy (journalist), British journalist, kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon during the late 1980s.
		John McCarthy (Combat Veteran), U.S. Army Special Forces Captain John J. McCarthy Jr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_McCarthy (107 words)

	What's Happening In South College 1:7 (December 25, 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		LINGUISTICS IN THE HISTORY OF The Science Book, edited by Peter Tallack (2001, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson), a book about the major discoveries in science, recognizes 1957 as the year that Chomsky set out to "show that language is a skill that human beings are innately predisposed to acquire".
		In the UCSC Department of Linguistics, they are rightly proud of the fact that their faculty collaboration graph is connected: from any tenured professor in the department, there is a path to any other tenured professor in the department that consists entirely of UCSC-Linguistics-tenured-professor links.
		NOTE: It might be that all linguists are excluded from having Erdös numbers, on the grounds that these numbers hold only where the authors along the path collaborated on mathematics papers.
	people.umass.edu /potts/whisc/whisc-2003-12-25.html (1063 words)

	CBOLD NSF proposal excerpts 1994-1997
		Second, linguistically, the PI will: (i) participate in evaluating "Narrow" and "Wide" Proto-Bantu reconstructions; (ii) conduct specific studies in the historical phonology of the Bantu consonant, vowel and tonal systems; and (iii) produce theoretical work based on the phonology and morphology of Bantu.
		Given also the PI's general and Bantu linguistic concerns, as well as the pilot studies that have been done or are in progress, the Berkeley project will be able to produce a steady flow of published research from its initiation throughout the three-year period.
		In addition, all concerned hope that CBOLD will encourage a wide range of linguists (including Bantuists who may not have had a comparative or historical orientation in their work) to use the data base to enter into the significant issues that the database will allow to be studied in a systematic way.
	www.linguistics.berkeley.edu /CBOLD/Docs/NSF94-97.html (7419 words)

	Chronology of Artificial Intelligence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		John von Neumann introduced the minimax theorem, which is still used as a basis for game-playing programs.
		John von Neumann designed the basic computer architecture still used today, in which the memory stores instructions as well as data, and instructions are executed serially.
		John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	crl.ucsd.edu /~elman/Courses/cog202/Papers/ai-history.html (4478 words)

	EMail Msg <9412110300.AA23035@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
		Linguists and philosophers have already studied similar notions of context.
		However, these theories usually lie embedded in the analysis of specific linguistic constructions, so locating the exact match with AI concerns is itself a research challenge.
		However, survey papers which focus on contexts from other points of view, such as philosophy, linguistics, or natural language processing, or which apply contexts in other areas of AI, are also encouraged.
	www-ksl.stanford.edu /email-archives/srkb.messages/413.html (581 words)

	In Defense of the Unjustly Attacked-Some of whom are Innocent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We have ``The linguist's first task is therefore to write grammars, that is, sets of rules, of particular languages, grammars capable of characterizing all and only the grammatically admissible sentences of those languages, and then to postulate principles from which crucial features of all such grammars can be deduced.
		The outside observer should be aware that to some extent this is a pillow fight within M.I.T. Chomsky and Halle are not to be dislodged from M.I.T. and neither is Minsky - whose students have pioneered the AI approach to natural language.
		However, some assistant professorships in linguistics may be at stake, especially at M.I.T. Allen Newell and Herbert Simon are criticized for being overoptimistic and are considered morally defective for attempting to describe humans as difference-reducing machines.
	www-formal.stanford.edu /pub/jmc/reviews/weizenbaum/node5.html (2199 words)

	John McCarthy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		(additional info and facts about John McCarthy (computer scientist)) John McCarthy (computer scientist), inventor of the term " (The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively) artificial intelligence" and much more.
		(additional info and facts about John McCarthy (journalist)) John McCarthy (journalist), (additional info and facts about British) British (A writer for newspapers and magazines) journalist, kidnapped by terrorists in (An Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean) Lebanon during the late (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s.
		(additional info and facts about John McCarthy (linguist)) John McCarthy (linguist), phonologist.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_mccarthy1.htm (119 words)

	LINGUIST List 12.2550: Dekkers, et al, Optimality Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		McCarthy argues, principally from reduplication and infixation data, that a theory of prosodic faithfulness, which is independently required, eliminates the need for operational prosodic circumscription (McCarthy and Prince, 1990).
		linguistic primitives) of their versions of OT and the extent of interaction between different grammatical subsystems (phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.).
		It is also commonly assumed that the set of linguistic inputs is universal, due to richness of the base (Prince and Smolensky, 1993).
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/12/12-2550.html (5061 words)

	LINGUIST List 7.95: Optimality theory, DIALOGUE'96 (extension to 1/31) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Invited speakers: Luigi Burzio (John Hopkins University) John McCarthy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Paul Smolensky (John Hopkins University) (Not yet confirmed) Bruce Tesar (Rutgers University) Abstracts should be restricted to two pages, including examples and references.
		DIALOGUE'96 International Conference on computational linguistics and its applications We are happy to inform you that DIALOGUE'96, an international workshop on computational linguistics and its applications, will take place May 4-9, 1996 in the scientific park Puschino (100 km from Moscow).
		The conference title means that it is a meeting place for a dialogue a) between researchers from different fields that are related to computational linguistics (linguists, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists); b) between researchers from the former USSR and from the international community in computational linguistics.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/7/7-95.html (738 words)

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		John McCarthy mccarthy@cs.umass.edu Replies should be addressed to me directly, since I do not read this bulletin board usually.
		Yet, since the claim being tested is correlation between linguistic structure and nonlinguistic behavior, the relevant population is languages (not individual speakers), and you cannot seriously talk about correlations for populations of two (or three or whatever small number is involved).
		However, cases like 'you linguist', where the noun is neutral in terms of evaluation, seem to have a negative connotation without a full context.
	www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.2/no.701-750 (15938 words)

	What's Happening In South College 2:22 (July 1, 2004)
		South College linguists have begun sending in postcards and greetings from their summer adventures.
		I'll be going there twice a year for a month or so, and hope to have a chance to stop over in Amherst on the way.
		John McCarthy has been selected to deliver a lecture in the 2004-2005 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series.
	www.umass.edu /linguist/about/whisc/whisc-2004-7-1 (1008 words)

	John McCarthy
		The theory of Prosodic Morphology is an attempt to give independent, general explanations for the properties of reduplication, root-and-pattern morphology, and other phenomena at the interface between phonology and morphology.
		Optimality Theory is a general theory of constraint interaction, with applications to many areas of linguistics but with particular relevance to Prosodic Morphology.
		Taught at 1987, 1991, and 1997 LSA Summer Institutes.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~jjmccart (334 words)

	Barbara Partee
		Browne, Wayles, Ji-Yung Kim, Barbara H. Partee, and Robert A. Rothstein, editors, (2003) Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics #11: The Amherst Meeting 2002.
		Linguistics, May 3-5, 2002, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
		Workshop on the Semantics/Syntax of Possessive Constructions, May 5-7, 2002, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~partee (709 words)

	THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2005
		This year, researching the languages of Indonesia for an upcoming book, I happened to find out about a few very obscure languages spoken on one island that are much simpler than one would expect.
		While the skeletons date back 13,000 years ago or more, local legend recalls "little people" living alongside modern humans, ones who had some kind of language of their own and could "repeat back" in modern humans' language.
		The legends suggest that the little people only had primitive language abilities, but we can't be sure here: to the untutored layman who hasn't taken any twentieth-century anthropology or linguistics classes, it is easy to suppose that an incomprehensible language is merely babbling.
	www.edge.org /q2005/q05_9.html (5008 words)

	WHISC 2:38 (December 2, 2004)
		On Monday (November 29), John McCarthy delivered his Distinguished Faculty Lecture to a packed house.
		The talk's rich overview of Massachusetts dialects, past and present, had all the locals yukking it up, and John merged this material elegantly with personal experiences, and even some OT-style analysis.
		At the fancy dinner that followed the reception that followed the lecture, our deep-cover source learned that John delivered his distinguished lecture in a designer sport coat that he found at a thift store.
	www.umass.edu /linguist/about/whisc/whisc-2004-12-02 (569 words)

	LINGUIST List 4.269: NELS, ACH-ALLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		NELS 24 University of Massachusetts, Amherst November 19-21, 1993 Featured Talk by John McCarthy and Alan Prince CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts are invited for twenty minute talks in all areas of theoretical linguistics (including phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics, semantics, historical linguistics, and syntax).
		Send all material to: NELS 24 Department of Linguistics South College University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 USA Abstracts must be received by: MONDAY AUGUST 16, 1993 Please no email or fax submissions and only one abstract per person (including co-authoring).
		ACH-ALLC93, the joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, will be held at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, June 16-19, 1993.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/4/4-269.html (338 words)

	Ling 730 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 27, ed.
		In University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, ed.
		College Park, MD: Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland.
	courses.umass.edu /ling730 (364 words)

	translatortips.com helping translators do better business
		John McCarthy wrote a particularly nice article which I am including in this edition.
		So, if you can write informative and fun articles like John's, and you are interested in getting paid for writing regular or occasional interesting articles relating to the translation industry, please send an email to...
		Christian Faucheux runs META the spiritual linguist newsletter which contains a lot of language and translation related jokes http://www.all-languages.com/bulletin.html
	www.translatortips.com /tranfreearchive/tf16.html (1380 words)

	Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History
		IPL provided pointers between related pieces of information to mimic associative memory; and catered to creating, changing, and destroying interacting symbolic structures on the fly.
		John McCarthy names the new discipline, "Artificial Intelligence" in a proposal for the Dartmouth conference.
		IBM released the 701 general purpose electronic computer, the first such machine on the market.
	www.stottlerhenke.com /ai_general/history.htm (4495 words)

	LINGUIST List 2.158: Phonology Rule Simulator; Phonology Conference
		It is 'freeware': anyone can give away copies as long as they do not charge for the copies and as long as they give all the distribution files in unmodified form.
		It should be noted that Frank is not affiliated with SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics), and Fonol is not distributed or supported by SIL.
		Invited speakers will present their current research in an environment conducive to the lively exchange of ideas.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/2/2-158.html (499 words)

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		When asked how the symbol is pronounced, he responded (in either a Vibe or Rolling Stone interview) "You don't." He is also reported to have claimed that Prince has retired or died.
		While the symbol (also appearing as the new name of his group, formerly known as New Power Generation or, later, as NPG, and as their eponymous--if that term can be felicitously used here--album) is not itself pronounced, the human drive for reference is a stubborn thing.
		A documentation and the sources are available per ftp from: ftp.Uni-Trier.DE get /pub/local/parsing/punktdisamb.tar.Z I am sorry, but practically all of the NL-parts of the documentation are written in German.
	umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.5/no.801-850/5-837 (810 words)

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		%.bib file from Greg Grefenstette 3 Dec 97 % my additions at the end @string{jacm={Journal of the ACM}} @string{ compling = "Computational Linguistics" }, Susan Armstrong, in: Lexikon und Text, Sonderdruck aus Lexicographica, Series Maior, Band 73, Max Niemeyer Verlag.
		(p.12)" } @INPROCEEDINGS{hindleNP91, author = "Donald Hindle and Mats Rooth", title = "Structural Ambiguity and Lexical Relations", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics", year = 1991, pages = "229--236", annote = "[whether] the association revealed by textual distribution..
		Chapter from Ph.D. dissertation \emph{The Articulatory Basis of Locality in Phonology}" } @incollection{gajek:1983, author = "Oliver Gajek and Hanno T. Beck and Diane Elder and Greg Whittemore", year = 1983, title = "{LISP} Implementation", booktitle = "Texas Linguistic Forum, Vol.
	www2.parc.com /istl/members/karttune/publications/esslli-2001/fs.bib (300 words)

	John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		2001 John Phillips, singer, the Mamas and the Papas, dies at 65
		1996 John Gorman, printer/socialist historian, dies at 66
		1992 John Cage, avante-garde composer, dies of a stroke at 79
	www.brainyhistory.com /topics/j/john.html (7696 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Today, computer communications networks, such as the Internet, are technical innovations which make moving towards a true participatory democracy more realistic.
		James Mill, a political theorist from the early nineteenth century, and the father of John Stuart Mill, wrote about democracy in his 1825 essay on "Government" for that year's Supplement for the Encyclopedia Britannica.
		Mill argues that democracy is the only governmental form that is fair to the society as a whole.
	www.ais.org /~jrh/acn/Back_Issues/Back_Issues[1993-1997]/ACN7-1.txt (19513 words)

	Knowledge: Theory and Practice
		CogNet Library lots of books on linguistics and cognitive science
		The LINGUIST List an on-line forum for linguistics, useful tools etc.
		How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab
	www.cs.umd.edu /~chiu/knowledge (62 words)

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