Computational Tools for Linguists

being
a list of WWW sites containing things of use or interest to linguists

prepared by

John B. Lowe
jblowe@garnet.berkeley.edu
Linguistics 158
University of California at Berkeley

Caution advised!

Surfing the Web can burn up a lot of time and energy! Pace yourself...
A cautionary tale...

Other Finding Aids

"Web crawlers"

AltaVista: Main Page The best!
MetaCrawler Searching Second best: search many other crawlers; but is therefore a bit slower.
Inktomi Web Services Third place : locally brewed.
Yahoo Runner up. Too trendy...
ANU - Coombsweb Social Sciences Server 
ANU - Register of WWW Search Engines 
Internet Search Engines 
World Wide Web Search Engines 

Other Finding Aids

How to find a Linguist 
Internet Address Finder 
UC Berkeley Directory Information 
SIL "Linguistics Resources" 
The Human-Languages Page 

WWW tools (server software, WWW conferences, etc.)

INFOSYS 190: Research using the WWW 
Digital Library Tools (Berkeley SunSITE) 
Institute on Digital Library Development (DL SunSITE) 
Digital Library SunSITE Project Proposals 
Internet Search Tool Details (Digital Library SunSITE) 
Fourth International World Wide Web Conference 
Fifth International World Wide Web Conference 

Bibliography

MELVYL Systemwide online catalog
GLADIS Berkeley local catalog
Socrates Stanford Online Catalog
UCB Collections in Linguistics 
WebSPIRS: Login to WebSPIRS  (currently not available without paying)
The LINGUIST Network  Wonderful resource for everything linguistic
CSLI Publications: Lecture Note Series 
Museum and Non-Book Collections at the University of California, Berkeley 

Speech

Computational Phonology 
Commercial Speech Recognition 
comp.speech Frequently Asked Questions - part 1/3 
Welcome to Berkeley Speech Technologies! 
Speech 

Fonts, Font software, Character sets, Transliteration tools, Standardization, etc.

Unicode Home Page 
STEDT font 
International Phonetic Alphabet 
Linguist's Software Inc. 
Popchar, etc. 
Phonetic Fonts 

Dictionaries, Thesauri, and other lexical resources

Hypertext Webster Interface CMU version
Hypertext Webster Interface ARTFL project version U. Chicago.
Roget's Thesaurus ARTFL project version U. Chicago.
Wordnet 1.5 "old" WWW interface
Writing tools English-based writing tools (online dictionaries, etc.)
On-line Dictionaries 
On-line dictionaries (local version of above)
List of Dictionaries 
STEDT 
Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon (TELL) 
CBOLD WWW Home Page 
The Dictionary of the Future 
Electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 
Japanese <-> English Dictionary Server 
The Home Page of CELEX, the Dutch Centre for Lexical Information 

Corpora, Corpus tools, E-texts

The Consortium for Lexical Research 
Consortium For Lexical Research - Catalog 
Project Gutenberg Home Page 
Berkeley Construction Grammar 
CMU English Server Clip Art 
Directory of /leftjust/textlib Assorted constitutions, famous speeches, etc.
lang.html 
Linguistics: Welcome 
Resources on Statistical NLP/corpus-based computational linguistics 
The HCRC Map Task Corpus 

Administration

ACADEMIC CALENDAR, 1995-96 
Computer Facility Use Agreement 
DCNS IP Network Information 
hosts.local 
Popchar 
TSW Home Page 
Data Communication & Network Services Home Page 

Make WWW pages

HTML Workshop 
How to Create Your Own Web Page 
NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML Home Page 
Create Your Own 

Text editing, etc.

Working with MS Word...

Wrap up

Guided exploration of the internet
Questions and answers