Surf the web and answer the following questions: (your answer should include the URL where this information is found.)

Question	Answer	Source
How do you say "skunk" in Ojibwe?	zhigaag	URL0a URL0b
Who invented the Klingon language (hint: think Star Trek)?	Marc Okrand (UCB linguistics graduate)	URL1
If you wanted to send a "snail-mail" letter to Prof. Noam Chomsky or William Labov, where would you send it?	20D-219 MIT, Cambridge MA 02139, USA	URL2a
	Department of Linguistics Univ. of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305	URL2b
What is Prof. Noam Chomsky's/Prof. William Labov's email address?	chomsky@athena.mit.edu and labov@central.cis.upenn.edu, respectively	URL3
Oh, that reminds me, I wanted to read Prof. Labov's paper on African-American English which is going to appear in Mufwene, J. Rickford, J. Baugh & G. Bailey (eds.). The Structure of African-American English . Can I get a copy of this article on the internet?	Yes. It's called Coexistent Systems in African-American English .	URL4
Some emailed me the LSA's (Linguistic Society of America's) recent resolution on Ebonics, but I accidentally deleted it. Think I can find it on the web?	Yes!	URL5a URL5b
I missed the interview that Prof. John McWhorter (UCB) and John Rickford (Stanford) had about Ebonics on Talk of the Nation the NPR (National Public Radio) program (in December 1996). Is it too late for me to listen to it?	Nope. You could listen to it on your computer via RealAudio...	URL6
Where is Sáliba spoken?	Columbia and Venezuela.	URL7a URL7b
You want to print some text using a phonetics font. Is there a good free phonetics font you can download?	Depends on what you call good!	URL8a URL8b URL8c
Extra Credit: Can you find a good introductory text for Computational Linguistics (either an online version or an online reference to a printed one)?	References 1. Computational and Mathematical Linguistics, by Prof. Mark Hubey. The first edition is available in postscript format until the second edition is printed. 2. Computational Linguistics: An Introduction, by Grishman, Ralph	URL9a URL9b

Write a short essay (1/2 - 1 page) on your experiences.

• A creative, witty, pithy note about what's good and bad about the WWW is preferred. Failing this, you may merely write a few paragraphs which includes "answers" to the following questions.
• Given that you were mainly looking to sources of linguistic information, evaluate the quality (or range of quality) of those sources.
• I would be interested to see if there are estimated of the percentage of links that are dead on the web as a whole. I suspect it is a disturbingly large number.
• Recall and precision are inversely related to each other. (the more precise your search is, the more relevant material is not included; as you recall more material, the relevance of the material you find goes down).