SPRING 2000
Questions about hardware or software compatibility?
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Just say no to multiple choice!
SBP's interactive exercises stress learner production. Click Ejercicios for an overview.
Internet-enabled multimedia?
Spanish for Business Professionals allows you to download daily news and financial updates over your internet connection. Bookmark our web site for details in the near future!
Wouldn't it be nice if students could e-mail assignments to instructor without leaving a tutorial?
The educational version of SBP comes with built-in e-mail window. Check out our Noticias page from time to time for more info.
Real-time, peer-to-peer communication via the internet.
This is one of the technologies in SBP. Visit our Noticias site for updates on our progress.
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SPANISH FOR BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS is an interactive, intelligent, multimedia tutorial in Spanish for international business professionals currently under development through the U.S. Department of Education's International Research and Studies Program. Below are some links to web sites related to the forthcoming SBP CD-ROM series.
The NAFTA Home Page:This site is maintained by the United States Department of Commerce. You will find an impressive store of information on the North American Free Trade Agreements, as well as an abundance of links to related sites. Learn about new business opportunities in the growing international markets of Latin America.
Incwell DMGIncwell develops and distributes SuperCard, SBP's multimedia development environment. SuperCard supports a wide array of graphic, video and audio formats, as well as its own object-oriented, event-driven scripting language (called SuperTalk). Click here to visit Incwell's site and learn more about our development platform.
Nuevo León's capital is SBP's host city. Click here to go to City.Net's Monterrey site for information on México's
second largest industrial center. Monterrey is also México's third largest city,
ranking just behind Guadalajara in population. This site provides a wealth of
information on tourism and business opportunities in Monterrey and Nuevo Léon, as
well as links to other related sites.
CALICOThe Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) has moved to Southeast Texas! Its new home is at Southeast Texas State University in San Marcos, TX, just down Interstate 10 from SBP headquarters. For more information on computer-based language instruction, visit the CALICO web site by clicking here.
HEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR
(HPSG)
The Natural Language Processing technology used in SBP's interactive unit was heavily influenced by Pollard & Sag's Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). HPSG is a formal theory of syntax and natural languages which grew out of research at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information. Click here to visit the HPSG Home Page. There you can find out more about computational linguistics, and how HPSG works.
L. Kirk Hagen, Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Houston-Downtown, is SBP's Project Director. His C.V. and information is kept here, at his home page.
HUMANITIES 2305: Computing for Humanities and Social Sciences
Click here for syllabus and course description for course offering this semester.
HUMANITIES 3302: Foundations of Western Culture II
Click here for syllabus and course description for course offering this semester.
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON-DOWNTOWN
Click here to visit UH-D's home page for news, information on academic programs, and research centers.
WE SUPPORT ALTERNATE OPERATING
SYSTEMS!
