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FrameNet Visitor Thomas Schmidt has Completed "Kicktionary"

July 9, 2006
Just in time for the World Cup final match on July 9th, Thomas Schmidt, a visiting researcher working on FrameNet, has completed "Kicktionary", a semantically annotated dictionary of soccer terms in German, French, and English. To call it a dictionary, however, is a bit misleading. It's more like a multilingual guide to the game of soccer, which not only defines terms, but defines them relative to other soccer terms, gives sample sentences showing correct usage, and clearly illustrates the situations during a soccer match relating to each term.

20th Anniversary of ICSI's Incorporation as a California Non-Profit Corporation

June 26, 2006
June 26, 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of ICSI's incorporation as a California non-profit corporation. Planning and fundraising continued for the next two years, leading to ICSI's inauguration in 1988. We will offer a toast to ICSI's legal birthday at our annual summer picnic on June 30, and look forward to an inaugural celebration in two years.

ICSI Internet Security Experts Quoted in IBM Press Release

June 13, 2006
An IBM press release issued on July 13, 2006 quotes ICSI Internet security experts for statistics on financial damage that could be caused by a major Internet worm outbreak.

Jaron Lanier on Edge

June 10, 2006
Jaron Lanier was quoted in the New York Times business section on June 10. He had recently published an article, The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism, on Edge, which got attention from bloggers and online news sites for its criticism of Wikipedia. Dan Mitchell, a reporter for the Times, featured Lanier's article and reactions to it in a round-up of online news, So Many Airfares, So Much Data.

Professor George Lakoff Featured in Chronogram

June 7, 2006
Professor George Lakoff, of UC Berkeley and ICSI's Neural Theory of Language project, is featured in the July 2006 issue of Chronogram, a Hudson Valley, New York based magazine of "events and ideas". He was interviewed for the magazine by Loma Tychostup on his theories about the use of linguistic frames in politics.

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