From: Andrew Burday Subject: Re: 7.0638 Qs: History of Parks; Landscapes (1/78) Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 17:22:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 1 (1) On Thu, 5 May 1994, Elaine Brennan wrote: [deleted quotation][munch] [deleted quotation] I don't have anything to say about nationalism per se, but the following does relate to exploration, history, tourism, conservation, and national "myth-making" (at least in one sense of 'myth')... I'm afraid my citations will be vague. This is an avocation for me, and I don't have the material memorized (or present in my office). Over the past fifteen or twenty years, American landscape photography has seen a reaction against the kind of heroic myth making that is probably best exemplified in the work of Ansel Adams. Mark Klett and John Pfahl are two (out of many) photographers who have participated. Since the new landscape photographers are self-consciously trying to remake their field, their books and catalogs tend to contain essays, by the photographers or by others, explaining what they take the issues to be and what they are trying to do with their work. They tend to have a strong awareness of the history of their field, and they actively bring that awareness to bear on their own work. They are interested in how photography was used in the exploration of the American West; in how it has been used to influence political decisions, such as the decision to establish Yosemite National Park; and in how it was used to create an image -- really, a kind of myth -- of the West as a grand, uninhabited, spiritual place. Their work tends toward documenting change and the influence of people on the environment. They try to question the extent to which the land can be understood independently of the people who live, work, and play there. If this sounds at all useful to you (and you don't already know about it), a good place to start would be the issue of _Aperture_ entitled _Beyond Wilderness_. It came out in the late '80s or early '90s. You might also want to look at Klett's book _Revealing Territory_. Both of these contain useful bibliographies in addition to essays and (obviously) photographs. If you're interested in the relation to the history of the West, look for the book by the Rephotographic Survey Project, which Klett participated in. (I'm afraid I don't even remember the title. It would be in both Klett's book and _Beyond Wilderness_, though.) An important early document for this movement in landscape photography is the catalog for an exhibit called (I think) _The New Topographics_. The exhibit was at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y. That exhibit was not particularly concerned with the West, its myths and its politics, though. Again, sorry to be so vague about the citations. If anybody needs better ones, let me know and I'll look them up. I hope that posting this proves useful. As I say, it's not what I work on, so I have no sense of how well known this material is. Regards, Andrew Burday andy@philo.mcgill.ca From: Joan Michele Zenzen Subject: Re: 7.0638 Qs: History of Parks; Landscapes (1/78) Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 13:56:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 2 (2) In response to the question about works on parks, I am currently writing my dissertation on how the national parks have been promoted in the 19C-20C in the US. My central argument is that the national parks have become mythic nationalistic representations of how Americans perceive themselves in the world, how they want others to see themselves. I use as evidence advertising imagery--photos, posters, paintings that have been translated into promotional materials, souvenirs, and architecture in the parks. I am interested in learning how Finns view their own parks and if there are parallels with the American experience. If you are not on email, you may write me at 13703 Modrad Way, #22, Silver Spring, MD 20904. USA I hope to hear more about your topic. joan Joan M. Zenzen (joanz@wam.umd.edu) Department of American Studies University of Maryland From: John Slatin Subject: Re: 7.0637 Qs: Disability; E-Luther; Tenure; S/W; Editions (5/93) Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 10:06:41 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 3 (3) Re: query about Windows hypertext software similar to StorySpace: there should be a Windows version of StorySpace out this fall. John Slatin From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: FW: 7.0637 Qs: Disability; E-Luther; Tenure; S/W; Editions (5/93) Date: 6 May 1994 11:40:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 4 (4) [deleted quotation] a lot of people seem to be hacking around with the WINDOW's HELP system to provide a basic, text-based, hypertext facility. I'm no expert but I would assume that is is possible to display graphics/colours etc. There is a bit of software that provides an authoring system ... it sits on the top of MicroSoft WORD and lets you edit a 'flat' text into a hyper(help)text with pointers and links etc: Doc-To-Help by WexTech Systems, Inc, 310 Madison Avenue, Suite 905, New York, NY 10017 email (possibly): wextech@pipeline.com As I say - I'm no expert and not a user ... but I've seen it done with this software. Cheers Simon Rae The Open University, UK From: John Slatin Subject: Re: 7.0641 Ideas for Workshop to Interest Humanities Faculty (1/35) Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 09:56:29 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 2 (5) We've just held the first in what will become an annual series: a COmputer Writing and Research Lab Colloquium, in which we alternated between conference-style presentations (more or less formal papers on different aspects of computer-based instruction and/or research) and hands-on demonstrations. We spread this over a day and a half; we also served food, as a way to lure people in... There were three sessions: on pedagogical strategies for the networked classroom, on hypertext for the classroom (both courseware and student-authored texts), and on integrating internet phenomena (newsgroups, Mosaic/WWW, MUDs and MOOs) into the curriculum. The reviews were good; we'll be publishing selected parts of the proceedings in Vol. 1, #1 of our on-line journal, CWRL, in late August. John Slatin Director, Computer Writing and Research Lab Division of Rhetoric and Composition and Department of English University of Texas at Austin Austin TX 78712 jslatin@emx.cc.utexas.edu From: LKOSKI@finabo.abo.fi Subject: Emily Dickinson e-mail network Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 14:00:22 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 2 (6) I have the following query to make to the members of the Humanist network: Does anybody know if there is an Emily Dickinson e-mail network somewhere and how I could get into it in that case? I'm an assistant researcher at ]bo Akademi, Finland, working on a thesis about ED and her letters to women friends and would very much like to get in touch with other scholars doing research on ED or just interested in her poetry and her prose. Thanks! Lena Koski ]bo Akademi University Dept. of English Biskopsgatan 10 A 20500 Turku Finland email: lena.koski@abo.fi fax: 358-21-654807 From: Prof Norm Coombs Subject: Email workshop on making computers accessible to disabled persons Date: Sun, 08 May 1994 20:42:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 3 (7) Has The Americans With Disabilities Act left you confused? Does it require your institution to make accomodations to its computing facilities? Does it require your library to adapt its information technology? Does it impact how a teacher conducts his or her classroom? How reasonable are "reasonable accommodations"? ADAPT-IT: ADAPTING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTING June 8-29 1994 Online Workshop sponsored by: Rochester Institute of Technology and EASI (Equal Access to Software & Information) ***** Totally delivered via email over the internet **** Rochester Institute of Technology has developed a three-week, online workshop, in conjunction with EASI, to provide answers to these and other questions about adapting information technology and computing. The course relies on the distance learning technology of RIT and the adaptive technology resources of EAS. EASI gratefully acknowledges the development assistance of EDUCOM and the Nec Foundation. TOPICS COVERED: 1) Introduction and Background 2) Reasons to Adapt 3) Americans With Disabilities Act 4) Lab Environment 5) Alternate Output Systems 6) Alternate Input Systems 7) Computing as Compensatory Devices 8) Putting It All Together 9)Planning and Funding At the successful conclusion of the workshop, and upon completing at least three specified assignments, Rochester Institute of Technology will issue a Certificate of Completion. The workshop may also be taken to obtain K-12 In-service Credit. orkshop registration fee is $99 and includes all resource materials. Registration will begin immediately and will be limited to the first 100 confirmed registrants. Payment instructions will be mailed upon acceptance to the workshop and reservations will be held for one week until payment is received. Those who do not make the 100 cut-off will be placed on a waiting list for the next workshop in late summer or early fall. You may register for this workshop by subscribing yourself to the listserv which will run it. To do this send email to: listserv@listserver.isc.rit.edu and leave the subject line of the email blank. Put one line of text into the body of the message: sub workshop "Firstname Lastname" (Obviously that is your first name and your last name.) If you would like to review a syllabus from a previous workshop, (and it will undergo modification this time) send e-mail to listservlistserver.isc.rit.edu with no subject line but this one line of text info adapt-it Below is an article about the workshop.. ................. Adapt-it Workshop Reproduced with permission from Rochester Institute of Technology _ISC NEWSLETTER_ May 1994 Current attendees of an on-line workshop are "surfing the Internet" to participate in "Adapt-it: Adapting Information Technology & Computing," targeting access to information for the disabled or challenged. Spurred on by the American Disabilities Act, access for the disabled has become a sizzling issue among academic, government, and business facilities around the world. Attended by academic administrators and disabilities advocates in industry and business, the current session began April 4 and includes 75 participants hailing from Germany, Spain, Thailand, Australia, Canada, and more than 25 states in the U.S. The workshop is being presented as a collaborative effort between Norman Coombs, an RIT history professor who is visually impaired and Chairman of Equal Access to Software & Information (EASI); Richard Banks, a visually impaired adaptive technologist with the University of Wisconsin-Stout's library who serves as moderator for EASI's AXSLIB1 (the leading Internet discussion list on library and adaptive technology for persons with disabilities); and RIT's Educational Technology Center. It is supported by net work resources provided by Information Systems and Computing. Run on a quarterly basis, the first workshop was offered January 31 through February 12, at a cost of $99 per person. With an enrollment of 75 members from Canada, Great Britain, Puerto Rico, and the U.S., the initial workshop ran two weeks. The content included: o Reasons to Adapt o Legislative History o Americans with Disabilities Act o Lab Environment o Alternate Output Systems o Alternate Input Systems o Computing as Compensatory Devices o Planning and Funding o Review and Other Resources Designed to be accessible at the lowest connecting common denominator, Dr. Coombs chose e-mail to deliver the workshop. "I had always thought that a single stream discussion wouldn't work." Delighted to be proven wrong, e-mail allowed attendees from K-12, businesses, libraries, and Fidonet (a bulletin board that shakes hands in the middle of the night and trades messages) to connect. For the majority of participants it was their first on-line course. Heralded as "extremely successful," by Dr. Coombs, the producers of the workshop were stunned by the glowing comments they received in their post-workshop evaluations. "Well worth both the time and money spent." "This course was a great opportunity." "This has been a great workshop. I have gotten so many new resources to tap ..." "I thoroughly enjoyed the content, format, and instructors. I learned a great deal more than I expected to." "The format was a little fast-paced. I... really had to scramble to kee p up." Sensitive to the pleas of too heavy a schedule, the time frame has been extended to three weeks and the review lesson has been dropped. Subsequent workshops will be offered in June and September at a cost of $99. Information is available electronically by sending a message to listserv@listserver.isc.rit.edu with one line of text saying: info workshop. For additional information or registration contact Susan Warner, Educational Technology Center, 716-475-7186 or SMWETC@RIT.EDU -Jackie Paterson Educational Technology Center (ALL-IN-1, or JKPETC in VMS Mail) (Internet: JKPETC@RIT.EDU) From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: Toronto Archive of Course Materials Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 18:06:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 4 (8) John Slatin's discussion of his faculty workshops on computing (Humanist 8.002), in response to an earlier inquiry, inspires me to re-advertise an initiative at Toronto to collect and make available such instructional materials. The Toronto Archive for Course-Materials in Humanities Computing was officially launched on 4 April, just prior to the ALLC/ACH conference in Paris, which featured an international panel on teaching humanities computing. It may be rash to say that the panel and its gratifyingly vocal audience reached any conclusions, but as one of the members of the panel, I have. To wit: that we the people who are involved need to discuss what might be taught and how -- indeed, what the subject is that it should be taught. The motives behind the Toronto Archive are first to help out beginning instructors, by supplying them with ready-made materials, and second to advance this discussion by providing the data. The Archive is still quite small (only about 15 universities and colleges reporting), but what is there shows, I think, the value of the project. So, allow me again to invite submissions, not only of materials relating to courses, credit or otherwise, but also anything announcing, describing, documenting, or supplementing workshops, seminars, or lectures that fit the description attached below. A few submissions that were sent to me following the previous announcement I have not included because they were simply about courses in which computers have been used, rather than courses about computing. The line between these is fuzzy, and I have a liberal policy for inclusion, but a line has to be drawn or the focus and usefulness of the Archive will be lost. The Archive is visible by gopher, to gopher.epas.utoronto.ca, under Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Humanities computing resources. Since some of the materials are not held at Toronto, anonymous-ftp to ftp.epas.utoronto.ca, /pub/cch/courses/, will not access everything shown by gopher. We do not yet have a WWW-server, although we dream of it. Thanks very much. Willard McCarty -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- About toronto archive for course-materials in humanities computing ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Centre for Computing in the Humanities here maintains an online archive for syllabi and other course-materials in humanities computing. The objective of the archive is to collect and publish such materials so as to assist beginning instructors and to allow a clearer understanding of the field to develop from the evidence of individual efforts around the world. The archive is for courses whose major focus is humanities computing, computing in the liberal arts, or other interdisciplinary form, including those in computer science. It is not meant to document all applications of the computer to academic subjects, e.g. to language instruction, except if the consequences of using the computer take a prominent role in the course. The archive is also intended for descriptions of workshops in humanities computing, course proposals, essays and discussions of curricula. Submissions to the archive are most eagerly invited. They should be edited and formatted for online display, then sent by email to Willard McCarty at this address: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca Please note that only materials prepared for online display can be accepted. This means they have to be in plain-ASCII (DOS format), with hard returns at the end of each line, margins set to about 65, and all accented characters encoded according to a scheme explained at the beginning. Graphics and software, suitably compressed and encoded, are welcome, but anyone with such things should consult with me first. For materials on a computer accessible by Gopher, only the Gopher address is needed. Each file should be clearly identified as to the instructor, department, course number, and institution. WM 4 April 1994 From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: Re: 8.0001 Rs: Landscape (2); StorySpace for Windows (2) (4/143) Date: 08 May 1994 20:33:52 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 5 (9) Regarding the queries about national parks and nationalism, you might consult John Bodnar, _REMAKING AMERICA_ (Princeton UP). He discusses public commemoration and public events as ways of shaping public memory of past events and the tension between how organizers and participants viewed or understood the rituals and ceremonies in which they took part. I reviewed the book for a state journal, and I think there was material in it on national battlefield sites and commemorations of the civil war, though I cannot remember if Bodnar addresses the matter of national parks and national identity, collective memory etc. James McSwain MCSWAIN@acd.tusk.edu From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Hypertext software Date: Mon, 9 May 94 19:43:13 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 6 (10) I have had good success with Hyperties from Cognetics Corporation, especially if you are working only with text, though its graphics capabilities are also quite good. It produces a stand-alone final product which can be used without the original software. Jim Marchand. From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: Post-COLING 94 Lexical Workshop in Beijing -- Last Call for Papers Date: Wed, 11 May 94 22:41:20 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 6 (11) xxxxxxxxx POST-COLING 94 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT xxxxxxx INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DIREACTIONS OF LEXICAL RESEARCH 15-17th of August, 1994 in Beijing Co-Chairs Nicoletta Calzolari Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR Via della Faggiola 32, 56100 PISA, ITALIA Cheng-ming Guo China National Laboratory of AI Technology and Systems Tsinghua University BEIJING 100084 CHINA 1. Intentions The scholarly and scientific tradition in lexical research was given an engineering edge by three outbursts of massive lexical work that began in the last decade, the CYC project in the United States, the EDR project in Japan, and the Grosseto Workshop whose principle of reusability generated a series of EC projects including Acquilex, ET-7, Multilex, and Genelex. These projects led to, and were equalled by, world wide interest in statistics on very large corpora. The close inter-relationships between Lexicon development and Corpus analysis are increasingly accentuated. This international drive on the lexicon over a period of a decade has done the field an immense service. However, recent reflections on the lexical research over the last ten years are not always as favourable as one might expect. Wilks (1993) made a criticism of IBM's approach to Machine Translation. The main point was that there is a natural ceiling of success to PURE statistical methods. Ide and Veronis (1993) went Aso far as to ask if we have wasted our time over the last decade on extracting knowledge from machine-readable dictionaries. Another area of concern nowadays is the development of common lexical specifications, or lexical standards. Up to which level of lexical description can standards be proposed, to ensure data reusability? Furthermore, one important development in AI and Cognitive Science in recent years warrants the attention of lexical researchers. It involves the trend for the integration of NLP with various subareas of AI, e.g. computer vision (see Dennett, 1991; Mc Kevitt, 1994). The need for unified representation scheme incorporating both perceptual information and common sense knowledge poses new challenges. The proposed workshop attempts to clarify issues in current lexical research in terms of further research directions as an answer to recent challenges. Suggested topics are as follows: a) notes comparing between well-known lexical projects, particulary the EDR project, the CYC project, and the EC projects --what have we learned ? b) lexical needs for unified representations of common sense knowledge and perceptual knowledge, visual or audio --brainstorming on the design and construction of the lexicons for such integrated systems; c) lexical needs of very large knowledge bases for nuclear lexicons as the core for knowledge acquisition -- speculations and practice concerning the design and construction of such nuclei. References Amsler, R. (1980) The structure of the Merriam-Webster pocket dictionary (PhD dissertation). Austin, TX: University of Texas, Department of Computer Science. Dennett, D. (1991) Consciousness explained Harmondsworth: Penguin Ide, N. and Veronis, J. (1993) Extracting knowledge bases from machine-readable dictionaries: have we wasted our time? In: Proceedings of International Conference on Building and Sharing of Very Large-Scale Knowledge Bases, 257-266 Dec. 1-2 (Conference) /3-4 (Workshop) Tokyo, Japan Mc Kevitt, P. (1994) (Guest Editor) Integration of natural language and vision processing Special volume (Issues 1, 2, 3) of AI Review Journal Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming) Sparck-Jones, K. (1967) Dictionary Circles System Development Corporation Walker, D., Zampolli, A., Calzolari, N. (1994) (Eds.) Automating the lexicon: research and practice in a multilingual environment.Oxford: OUP. Wilks, Y. (1993) Corpora and machine Translation. In: Proceedings of the Fourth Machine Translation Summit, 137-145. July 20-22 Kobe, Japan. 2. Format This workshop is intended as an opportunity provided for the exchange of views on issues of common concern to the area of lexical research. Panel sessions and discussions are stressed rather than formal speeches. All activities at the workshop are intended as reactions to recent challenges. The workshop will take place on the beautiful Tsinghua University campus on the outskirt of Beijing. Day 1: the state-of-the-art discussion -- achievements, issues and concerns [A Day 2: lexical needs for integrated systems Day 3: lexical needs for knowledge acquisition for very large knowledge systems Each attendee of the workshop pays $100 to cover registration, preprints, local transportation from and to Beijing Airport, and hotel + food expenses for the 3-day workshop duration. Each additional night of stay costs $50. Air fare to and from Beijing rests with all attendees themselves. All correspondence concerning workshop registration should be directed to Chengming Guo by fax, e-mail, or postal mail at the Computer Science Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. Total attendances are limited to 55. 3. Submission requirements Papers or extended abstracts of no more than 6 pages should be submitted by e-mail to the co-chairs of the workshop at "glottolo@icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it" for Nicoletta Calzolari, and at "chengming%bepc2@slacmh.slac.stanford.edu" for Chengming Guo. Postal mail of three hard copies of the paper or extended abstract to Chengming Guo is also acceptable. Submissions must be printed to 8 1/2 to 11" size. Workshop preprints will be made available to all attendees. Paper or extended abstract submission by the 31st of May, 1994 Notification of acceptance by the 20th June, 1994 Camera-ready copy by the 15th of July, 1994 4. Sponsors Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa, ITALY China National Laboratory of AI Technology and Systems, Tsinghua University, Beijing China 5. Co-Chairs Nicoletta Calzolari Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR Via della Faggiola 32, 56100 PISA, ITALIA Phone: +39 50 56 04 81 Fax:+39 50 58 90 55 Email:glottolo@icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it Cheng-ming Guo Computer Science Department Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 CHINA Phone: +86 1 2594895 Fax:+86 1 2562768 Email: chengming%bepc2@slacmh.slac.stanford.edu or: chengming%bepc2@serv02.slac.stanford.edu 6. Program committee: Sue Atkins Oxford University Press, UK E-MAIL: BTATKINS@vax.oxford.ac.uk Nicoletta Calzolari Institute of Computational Linguistics, CNR, Italy E-MAIL: glottolo@icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it Kenneth Church AT&T Bell Laboratory, USA E-MAIL: kwc@research.att.com Cheng-Ming Guo Tsinghua University, China E-MAIL: chengming%bepc2@slacmh.slac.stanford.edu Judith Klavans Columbia University, USA E-MAIL: klavans@cs.columbia.edu Paul Mc Kevitt University of Sheffield, UK E-MAIL: P.McKevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk Yoshihiko Nitta Hitachi Advanced Laboratory, Japan E-MAIL: nitta@harl.hitachi.co.jp Yorick Wilks University of Sheffield, UK E-MAIL: yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk Toshio Yokoi EDR, Japan E-MAIL: yokoi@edr.co.JP Antonio Zampolli Institute of Computational Linguistics, CNR, Italy E-MAIL: glottolo@icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it Uri Zernik GE, USA E-MAIL: zernik@sol.crd.ge.com ----------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM Please type or write in capital letters Mr/Mrs _____________________________________________________________________ Family name First name Title/Position Arriving Time Departure Time ______________________________________________________________________ Affiliation: ______________________________________________________________________ Mailing address: ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Fax: Tel: ______________________________________________________________________ E-mail: ______________________________________________________________________ Accompanying Persons: Mr/Mrs ______________________________________________________________________ Family name First name Title/Position Arriving Time Departure Time ______________________________________________________________________ Mr/Mrs ______________________________________________________________________ Family name First name Title/Position Arriving Time Departure Time ______________________________________________________________________ NOTE: Each attendee pays $100 registration fee to cover local expenses for the 3-day workshop duration. Each additional night of stay costs $50. For example, an attendee arriving on the 14th and leaving before 11:00 am on the 18th (staying 4 nights) would pay $150. International airfare to and from Beijing rests with all attendees. Please make bank drafts (either wire transfer or mail transfer) payable to: Beijing Head Office, Bank of China, Account No. 71403301 (International Workshop on Directions of Lexical Research) Send completed form and payment (with a copy of the receipt from your bank) by post to: Chengming Guo International Lexical Workshop Tsinghua University Computer Science Department Beijing 100084 China Tel: + 86-1-2594895 (office) +86-1-2551731 ext 503 (home) Fax: + 86-1-2562768 E-mail: chengming%bepc2@serv02.slac.stanford.edu or: chengming%bepc2@slacmh.slac.stanford.edu A brief e-mail or fax message to Chengming Guo about the posted letter would be appreciated. Upon receipt of the completed registration form with the correct fee, a formal letter of invitation will be sent to the attendee for purposes of obtaining visa from a Chinese Embassy. From: Thomas Rommel Subject: Semiotics of music Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 19:37:28 +0200 (MET DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 7 (12) A friend of mine is looking for a discussion list on the semiotics of music or something of that sort. Any suggestions? Thanks Thomas Rommel Rommel@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de From: Helga Dyck Subject: help Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 11:51:13 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 8 (13) We are interested in purchasing a Hebrew Language module which can handle Hebrew-English text, for use with Omni-Page Version 3.0 software. If anyone can provide details on supplier and price, I would be most grateful. You may contact me directly at umih@ccu.umanitoba.ca. Helga Dyck, Univ. of Manitoba Inst for the Humanities, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. From: Lorne Hammond Subject: aseh call for papers Date: Thu, 12 May 94 09:15:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 8 (14) Recommended. I have attended two previous aseh conferences. Lorne Hammond, History, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY CALL FOR PAPERS BIANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 8-11, 1995, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA GAMBLING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT The ASEH invites paper and session proposals for its next meeting at the Alexis Park Resort in Las Vegas. While papers and sessions on all aspects of human interaction with the physical environment over time are encouraged, papers on the following topics are especially welcome: -The history of arid environments -environmental justice and equity -reflections on the last 25 years of environmentalism in the United States, since 1995 is the 25th anniversary of Earth Day, the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Environmental Policy Act. The program committee also welcomes papers and sessions that are interdisciplinary, and international in scope. Complete panels are helpful, but individual papers are also welcome. Please include the following: 1) a cover sheet with the full name and affiliation of each panel participant as it should appear in the program and an indication of whether audio-visual equipment is necessary. 2) a 100-word maximum abstract that describes the purpose of the session 3) a 250-word maximum abstract of each paper in the session 4) a one-page c.v. for each participant that includes phone numbers and addresses. Please feel free to contact members of the Program Committee for more information. Theodore Steinberg, Program Chair, New Jersey Institute of Technology, (201) 642-4177 or steinberg@admin.njit.edu; Jeffrey Stine, Smithsonian Institution, (202) 357-2058; Linda Lear, Smithsonian Archives, (202) 357-2787 or (301) 229-1136; Sally Fairfax, University of California, Berkeley, (510) 642-7627; Bill Riebsame, University of Colorado, Boulder, (303) 492-6310 Local Arrangements: Hal Rothman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (702) 895-1012 Proposals should be sent to arrive no later than September 1, 1994 to: Theodore Steinberg, Department of Humanities, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, New NJ 07102-1982 U.S.A. From: cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu (Cecilia Kullman) Subject: ICCS'94 Date: 13 May 1994 11:36:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 9 (15) Second International Conference on CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES ICCS'94 August 16-20, 1994 University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA ADVANCE PROGRAM 10th Anniversary Meeting Conceptual graphs (cgs) comprise a representational language which consists of a logic with a graph notation. It integrates several features from semantic net and frame representations. Research teams around the world are working on the application and extension of cgs theory in many domains. This conference is the forum in which cgs researchers report their progress. Domains featured this year are natural language understanding, database modeling, and knowledge representation for expert systems. Also, the conference will support three special interest workshops: PEIRCE: A Conceptual Graph Workbench; Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory; and Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling. Sponsored by: l'Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada Unisys AAAI University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland College of Library and Information Services AT & T Bell Laboratories Sun Systems WELCOME TO ICCS'94 This year we will celebrate the tenth anniversary of "Conceptual Structures" (Sowa, 1984) and ten years of conceptual graphs (cgs) development in both theory and application. ICCS'94 marks a turning point as we move into our second decade. Outstanding speakers will give a retrospective of the last ten years and their views on the future. A selection of high quality papers will be presented covering, among other subjects, general problem solving, knowledge engineering, natural language understanding, formal languages and contexts. ICCS'93, last year at Laval, signaled our coming of age. It was our first international conference following a series of workshops. It bound our European and North American communities with our Australian and Asian contingents. We hope to build on that foundation this year. We anticipate that ICCS'94 will be the cornerstone of development in the next decade. It will be an event you will not want to miss, where the future promise of cgs will be expounded and the real challenges to come will be highlighted. In line with our focus on future development, we shall place special emphasis on student and first-time participants. We look forward to welcoming you to the Washington area and to sharing with you a stimulating new-year celebration. Judith P. Dick William Tepfenhart PROGRAM COMMITTEE Honorary Chair John F. Sowa State Univ. of New York sowa@turing.pacss.binghamton.edu General Chair Judith P. Dick Univ. of Maryland dick@glue.umd.edu Program Chair William Tepfenhart AT&T Bell Laboratories bill@violin.att.com European Coordinator Pavel Kocura Loughborough Univ. of Technology P.Kocura@lut.ac.uk Peirce Workshop Chair Gerard Ellis Univ. of Queensland ged@cs.uq.oz.au Knowledge Acquisition Workshop Chair D. Lukose Univ. of New England lukose@peirce.une.edu.au Enterprise Modeling Workshop Chair Alex Bejan IBM Corporation bejan@vnet.IBM.COM Alex Bejan, IBM Corp. Barbara Brunson, Scarborough College Univ. Michel Chein, LIRMM Peter Creasy, Univ. of Queensland Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser Univ. Harry Delugach, Univ. of Alabama Bonnie Dorr, Univ. of Maryland John Eddy, AT&T Bell Laboratories Bruno Emond, Univ. du Quebec John Esch, Unisys Jean Fargues, IBM Corp. Timothy Finin, Univ. of Maryland Norman Foo, Univ. of Sydney Helen Gigley, Naval Research Laboratory James Hampton, City Univ. of London John Heaton, Loughborough Univ. of Techn. Jim Hendler, Univ. of Maryland Graeme Hirst, Univ. of Toronto Fritz Lehmann, GRANDAI Software Guy Mineau, Univ. Laval Quebec City Robert Mohr, PRC Bernard Moulin, Univ. Laval Quebec City M. L. Mugnier, LIRMM Sung Myaeng, Syracuse Univ. Peter Oehrstroem, Alborg Univ. Ghassan Qada, AT&T Bell Laboratories Stephen Regoczei, Trent Univ. Douglas Skuce, Univ. of Ottawa Dagobert Soergel, Univ. of Maryland Eileen Way, SUNY, Binghamton Amy Weinberg, Univ. of Maryland M. H. Williams, Heriot-Watt Univ. CONFERENCE OVERVIEW Tuesday, August 16 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Address 9:30 - 10:30 Opening Address - Eileen Way 11:00 - 12:00 Session 1 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Session 2 3:00 - 4:30 Session 3 4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion 5:30 Reception Wednesday, August 17 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 10:30 Session 4 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Pat Hayes 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Session 5 3:00 - 5:00 Session 6 Thursday, August 18 8:00 - 9:00 Registration/Officers Meeting 9:00 - 10:30 Session 7 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Jack Minker 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 Session 8 3:30 - 4:30 Closing Address - John Sowa 4:30 - 5:00 General Meeting 5:30 Buffet Reception Friday, August 19 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory Saturday, August 20 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling INVITED TALKS EILEEN WAY, SUNY at Binghamton "Conceptual Graphs - Past, Present, and Future" Pay Hayes, Beckman Institute, Urbana, Ill. "Aristotelian and Platonic Views of Knowledge Representation" Jack Minker, University of Maryland at College Park "Deductive Databases - A Retrospective" John F. Sowa, SUNY at Binghamton "Representations of Representations" CONFERENCE PROGRAM Tuesday August 16 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Address and Conference Opening 9:30 - 10:30 Opening Address - "Conceptual Graphs - Past, Present, and Future" Eileen Way, (USA) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 1: Rational Problem Solving 11:00 - 11:30 "A Rational Goal-Seeking Agent Using Conceptual Graphs" G. Mann (Australia) 11:30 - 12:00 "Attitudes: Keys to Problem Identification" W. Tepfenhart (USA) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Not Provided) Session 2: Natural Language I 1:30 - 2:00 "Pragmatic Semantics by Conceptual Graphs" M. Willems (The Netherlands) 2:00 - 2:30 "The Temporal Structure of a Discourse and Verb Tense Determination" B. Moulin, S. Dumas (Canada) 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break Session 3: Natural Language II 3:00 - 3:30 "Extracting Explicit and Implicit Knowledge from Natural Language Texts" J. Sykes, V. Konstantinou, P. Morse (United Kingdom) 3:30 - 4:00 "Linguistic Processing of Text for a Large-scale Conceptual Retrieval System" S. Myaeng, C. Khoo, M. Li (USA) 4:00 - 4:30 "Multilingual Analyzer of Medical Texts" A.-M. Rassinoux, R. Baud, J.-R. Scheer (Switzerland) 4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion: Conceptual Graphs in Natural Language 5:30 Reception Wednesday August 17 8:00 - 9:00 Registration Session 4: Knowledge Representation and Applications 9:00 - 9:15 "Conceptual Graphs and Manufacturing Processes" D. Boning, M. McIlrath (USA) 9:15 - 9:45 "Knowledge Visualization from Conceptual Structures" W. Cyre, S. Balachandar, A. Thakar (USA) 9:45 - 10:00 "A Cooperative Program for the Construction of a Concept Type Lattice" M. Chein, M. Leclere (France) 10:00 - 10:30 "An Object-Oriented Logic for Conceptual and Contextual Programming: The PROLOG++ Language" A. Kabbaj, C. Frasson, M. Kaltenbach, J.-Y. Djamen (Canada) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - "Aristotelian and Platonic Views of Knowledge Representation" Pat Hayes (USA) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Not Provided) Session 5: Conceptual Graph Theory 1:30 - 2:00 "Basic Conceptual Structures Theory" M. Wermelinger, J. Lopes (Portugal) 2:00 - 2:30 "Views, Mappings and Functions: Essential Definitions of the Conceptual Graph Theory" G. Mineau (Canada) 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break Session 6: Contexts and Canons 3:00 - 3:25 "Contexts and Concepts, Abstraction Duals" J. Esch (USA) 3:25 - 3:45 "Contexts, Canons, and Coreferent Types" J. Esch (USA) 3:45 - 4:15 "Using Contexts to Represent Text" J. Dick (USA) 4:15 - 4:30 "Constrained Line of Identity: An Approach to Conditional Joins" H. Delugach, T. Hinke (USA) 4:30 - 4:45 "Identification of Coreferences with Conceptual Graphs" S. Shankaranarayanan, W. Cyre (USA) 4:45 - 5:00 "Similarities of Microtheory and Conceptual Graph Contexts" J. Esch (USA) Thursday August 18 8:00 - 9:00 Registration/Officers Meeting Session 7: Data Modeling 9:00 - 9:30 "UDS: A Universal Data Structure" R. Levinson (USA) 9:30 - 9:45 "Conceptual Graphs as a Canonical Data Model" P. Creasy (Australia) 9:45 - 10:00 "Some Peircean Problems Regarding Graphs for Time and Modality" P. Oehrstroem (Denmark), J. Schmidt (Czech Republic), H. van den Berg (The Netherlands) 10:00 - 10:30 "Inference Systems for Conceptual Graphs" B. Ghosh, V. Wuwongse (Thailand) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - "Deductive Databases - A Retrospective" J. Minker (USA) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Not Provided) Session 8: Conceptual Graphs and Data Conceptual Modeling 1:30 - 2:00 "Exploiting the Induced Order on Type-Labeled Graphs for Fast Knowledge Retrieval" G. Ellis (Australia), F. Lehmann (USA) 2:00 - 2:15 "Adaptive Relational Storage for Conceptual Graphs" B. Bowen, P. Kocura (United Kingdom) 2:15 - 2:30 "A Class of Conceptual Graphs with Polynomial Iso-projection" M. Liquiere (France) 2:30 - 3:00 "Conceptual Graphs for Relational Databases Standardization" B. Carbonneill, O. Haemmerle (France) 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break 3:30 - 4:30 Closing Address - "Representations of Representations" John Sowa (USA) 4:30 - 5:00 General Meeting 5:30 Buffet Reception Friday August 19 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory Saturday August 20 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling WORKSHOPS Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench Chairperson: G. Ellis (Australia) PEIRCE is an international project, the purpose of which is to integrate conceptual graph tool and application development. We shall discuss implementation techniques for conceptual graphs, including databases, programs, language standards, workbench programming standards, dictionaries, and graphical user interfaces. Applications and requirements for natural language processing, information systems engineering, software engineering, and machine learning will be included as well. Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory Chairperson: D. Lukose (Australia) The major issues to be discussed at the workshop are when, how, and where particular knowledge acquisition paradigms work successfully. Consequently, this discussion will focus on the prototypical knowledge structures requisite for the knowledge acquisition process, the cgs operators, and the different knowledge-processing activities that will enable the encoding of the domain knowledge into knowledge base systems. A better understanding of "when," "how," and "where" questions will no doubt help to lay a solid foundation for development of new knowledge acquisition paradigms based on conceptual graph theory. 3. Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling Chairperson: A. Bejan (USA) The purpose of the Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling Workshop is to investigate the formalization, storage and management of knowledge for enterprise models. Conceptual graphs are attractive due to their semantic power, ease of use, and processability, but other systems of logic are also interesting. Participants will debate any method or technique that may bring a solution to the next generation enterprise information modeling tools. INVITED TALKS "Conceptual Graphs - Past, Present, and Future" Eileen Way, State University of New York at Binghamton. August 16, 9:30 - 10:30 It has been ten years since John Sowa's book "Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine" was first published. Since that time, the representational language known as Conceptual Graphs has been adopted by researchers all over the world for a wide variety of tasks. This tenth anniversary is an appropriate occasion to look at the growth and evolution of conceptual graphs, the changes in the field of knowledge representation, and the significance of the kind of ontological engineering involved in representing knowledge for intelligent systems. "Aristotelian and Platonic Views of Knowledge Representation." Pat Hayes, Beckman Institute, Urbana, Ill. August 17, 11:00 - 12:00 Conventional semantic accounts of knowledge representation systems use the jargon of contemporary mathematics to describe possible interpretations. While this is about as clear a language as one can hope to get for purposes of mathematical analysis, it leaves open an important philosophical question: Does mathematics describe a Platonic world of abstractions, or is it an idealized Aristotelian language for describing the actual world? For example, a "model" in model theory is defined as consisting of a set of individuals with various relational structures and certain recursive mappings from formal expressions. If one takes a Platonic view, these models are mathematical abstractions only tenuously connected to most real domains of application; but in an Aristotelian view, such a model might itself be a piece of the physical world. We hope to show that these different philosophical perspectives which have been responsible for much recent debate yield different intuitions on several technical issues, such as the significance of completeness theorems, the relationship between first-order and higher-order languages, and the relevance of "grounding" in fixing the meaning of knowledge representational formalisms. "Deductive Databases - A Retrospective" Jack Minker, University of Maryland at College Park August 18, 11:00 - 12:00 Starting approximately in 1978, deductive databases grew out of logic programming. We discuss some of the contributions that have been made to this field since that date. We emphasize the relationship between deductive databases and knowledge base systems. The role of integrity constraints, both to support updates and for semantic query optimization and cooperative answering, is discussed. Contributions to the semantics of deductive databases and implementations of such systems are also discussed. Finally, some directions for future developments are specified. "Representations of Representations" John F. Sowa, State University of New York at Binghamton August 18, 3:30 - 4:30 Since physical objects cannot be stored in computer memory, every program that interacts with the world must use abstract representations that serve as surrogates for the external objects. C. S. Peirce's theory of signs or semiotics provides an architectonic of categories for classifying and relating the various representations to the world and to each other. His three-way distinction of icon (imagelike representation that is similar to or homomorphic to some aspect of the object, index (pointer, address, or other physical mechanism for finding an object), and symbol (name or conventional association) helps to clarify many of the ongoing controversies about imagelike vs. symbolic representations. His system of interrelated signs provides the logical and philosophical foundation for the "symbol grounding" issues about how symbols are related to the world and for the metalevel issues of how symbols are related to other symbols. In this talk, we review some of the ongoing controversies in AI, summarize Peirce's theory of signs, and apply that theory to an analysis and clarification of the issues. CONFERENCE LOCATION ICCS'94 will be held at the Inn and Conference Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. Nine miles from the nation's capital, College Park sits at the doorstep of some of the country's most important landmarks, monuments and institutions - from the United States Capitol, the White House and the Smithsonian to the Library of Congress, Lincoln Memorial and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. College Park is only a short drive from Baltimore - a great historical city famed for its arts and architecture, National Aquarium and colorful Inner Harbor - and Annapolis, the state capital and home of the U.S. Naval Academy. DIRECTIONS TO UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND INN AND CONFERENCE CENTER From National (DCA) Airport: Upon leaving the airport, follow the signs to Washington, D.C., using the George Washington Parkway. Stay on the parkway until you see the I-495 Rockville exit. Follow 495 until you get to the New Hampshire Avenue exit. Take the New Hampshire/Takoma Park exit. Stay on New Hampshire Avenue and make a left at the second light onto Adelphi Road. Drive approximately three miles on Adelphi Road through two traffic lights. At the third light, make a left turn onto University Boulevard and an immediate right into the parking garage. The building is marked University College Center of Adult Education. From BWI Airport: Upon exiting the airport, follow signs for I-95 (toward Washington). I-95 will take you to 95 South. Follow 95 South approximately 30 miles. Stay on 95 South until you get to the Route 1 South/College Park exit (Exit 25B). Follow Route 1 to the first exit for the University of Maryland (Systems Administration). Take this exit (Route 193) which immediately becomes University Boulevard. Keep on University Boulevard and go through two traffic lights. At the third light (intersection of University Boulevard & Adelphi Road) make a U-turn and an immediate right into the parking garage. The building is marked University College Center of Adult Education. From Dulles (IAD) Airport: Upon leaving the airport, follow the signs towards Washington, D.C., until you see the signs for I-495. Take the exit towards Rockville. Follow 495 until you get to the exit for New Hampshire Avenue. Take the New Hampshire/Takoma Park exit. Stay on New Hampshire Avenue and make a left at the second light onto Adelphi Road. Drive approximately three miles on Adelphi Road through two traffic ligths. At the third light, make a left turn onto University Boulevard and an immediate right into the parking garage. The building is marked University College Center of Adult Education. ACCOMMODATIONS The conference facility is the Inn and Conference Center at the University or Maryland. To make a room reservation at the Inn and Conference Center, please use the registration form on the next page. Additional rooms are available at the Greenbelt Marriott at $97 - $112 for a regular room and $107 - $122 for an upgraded concierge room. Marriott Reservations: (301) 441-3700. Quality Inn has rooms for $44 - $49. Please ask for University of Maryland rates. Quality Inn Reservations: (301) 864-5820. Reservations at these facilities should be made directly. ***************************************************************************** ICCS'94 REGISTRATION FORM Name: ___________________________________________________ Affiliation: ________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Telephone: ___________________________ Tax: ________________________________ e-mail: ______________________________ ___ $325 Conference fee (excl. workshops) before 7/15/94 ___ $370 Conference fee (excl. workshops) after 7/15/94 ___ $125 Student fee (excl. workshops) before 7/15/94 ___ $175 Student fee (excl. workshops) after 7/15/94 ___ $50 PEIRCE Workshop ___ $40 PEIRCE Workshop, student ___ $35 Knowledge Acquisition Workshop ___ $25 Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, student ___ $35 Enterprise Modeling Workshop ___ $25 Enterprise Modeling Workshop, student Amount Enclosed: $________________ MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO "UMIACS-ICCS'94." 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SEND BY JULY 15, 1994 TO: Reservations The Inn and Conference Center University of Maryland University College College Park, MD 20742, USA Tel.: (301) 985-7310, Fax: (301) 985-7445 From: WIGGJD@VAX.SOUTHBANK-UNIVERSITY.AC.UK Subject: MT Conference Date: 13 May 1994 11:39:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 10 (16) Call for Papers International Conference MACHINE TRANSLATION TEN YEARS ON 12-14 November 1994 Organised by Cranfield University in conjunction with the Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (BCS-NLTSG) CALL FOR PAPERS The Conference The first Cranfield International Conference on Machine Translation, jointly organised by the BCS-NLTSG and Cranfield, was held in 1984. In view of the success of that conference, we are marking its tenth anniversary at Cranfield by holding another, similarly jointly-sponsored, international conference on Machine Translation. The title for the Conference is: Machine Translation: Ten Years On Papers are invited which centre on what has been achieved in Machine Translation (MT) and Machine Assisted Translation (MAT) in the ten years on from 1984, and also what is expected to happen in R & D of MT and MAT in the next ten years. Sessions around this theme will range from the theoretical (eg. "human translation v machine translation" or "recent work on theory of translation and its message for MT") through the more practical aspects (eg. research work on the needs for standardisation and modularisation), to possible future applications of MT (eg. its use in the telephone or television). Among other topics on which papers are invited are: evaluation of MT systems, developments in speech-related MT, translation tools, and indeed any topic relevant to MT or MAT. Emphasis in the Conference will nevertheless also be given to the latest research in MT and MAT, illustrated where possible by computer demonstrations of working systems. It is expected that the Conference will help to give an impetus for further research and development in MT and MAT in the coming ten years. We think everyone agreed how successful and enjoyable the '84 Cranfield Conference was. We are expecting the '94 Cranfield Conference to be even better. Invited Speakers Speakers who have already accepted invitations include: John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK Professor Frank Knowles, University of Aston, Birmingham, UK Veronica Lawson, Translation Consultant, London, UK Alternative Programme An alternative programme can be arranged for persons accompanying delegates. Among places which can be visited are: Milton Keynes, The Open University, Cambridge, Oxford, Blenheim Palace, Bletchley Park Museum and Stratford-upon-Avon. Fees are expected to be: Conference (covering attendance at sessions and exhibition, and receipt of proceedings): Approximately 300 GBP Residential accommodation (meals and accommodation for duration of Conference, ie. two nights and three days. This includes special Conference dinner): Approximately 120 GBP Note: 1 These prices are VAT exempt. 2 The prices include the registration fee of 40 GBP 3 Non-residential delegates may pay for individual meals separately. Organising Committee Douglas Clarke, Cranfield University. John Hutchins, University of East Anglia. Ian Kelly, GSI France, Treasurer BCS-NLTSG. Professor Frank Knowles, University of Aston, Birmingham. Veronica Lawson, Translation Consultant, London. Monique L'Huillier, Royal Holloway College, University of London. Ulla Magnusson Murray, Translation Consultant. Alfred Vella, Cranfield University. Boh Wasyliw, De Montfort University. David Wigg, South Bank University, Chairman BCS-NLTSG. Further Information For further information, please contact members of the Technological Applications of Linguistic Knowledge (TALK) Group at Cranfield: Douglas Clarke Alfred Vella SME SIMS (Bldg.50) TALK Group TALK Group Cranfield University Cranfield University Cranfield Cranfield Bedford MK43 0AL Bedford MK43 0AL England England Telephone: +44 (0)234 750111 Fax: +44 (0)234 750728 Telex: 825072 CRNUN G E-Mail: a.vella@cranfield.ac.uk Application Form: (Please complete and return.) International Conference on MACHINE TRANSLATION (Tick choices as appropriate) I propose to attend the Conference. I offer to present a paper with the title or theme: ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Abstracts in English, under 200 words, should be submitted before 10 July 1994, and accepted complete papers by 30 September 1994. 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(This will form part of the full conference fee) I shall require residential accommodation (and for ___________________________ other persons) I have the following dietary requirements, etc. ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Title and name:_______________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Position:_____________________________________________ Organisation:_________________________________________ Address:______________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Telephone number:_____________________________________ Fax number:___________________________________________ E-mail address:_______________________________________ I suggest that copies of this brochure are sent to: Please return this form to: Douglas Clarke Alfred Vella SME SIMS (Bldg.50) TALK Group TALK Group Cranfield University Cranfield University Cranfield Cranfield Bedford MK43 0AL Bedford MK43 0AL England England Telephone: +44 (0)234 750111 Fax: +44 (0)234 750728 Telex: 825072 CITECH G E-Mail: a.vella@cranfield.ac.uk Cranfield Cranfield University is a centre of post-graduate and post experience education and research, heavily involved in contract work for Government and Industry. Cranfield is about 50 miles north of London in countryside near the new city of Milton Keynes. It is easily reached by road or rail, or by air to the University's own airfield. Residential accommodation will be available, usually in individual study-bedrooms in Mitchell Hall, which is on the Cranfield Campus. From: pmb@CUNYVMS1.BITNET Subject: JAMES FAMILY DISCUSSION LIST Date: Mon, 09 May 1994 14:44:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 11 (17) NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST NEW LIST JAMESF-L: The James Family Discussion List, featuring fans, scholars, and readers of all things Jamesian: the work, times and associations of Alice, William, Henry, and Henry Sr. Modern, postmodern, interdis- ciplinary, pragmatistic, realistic, impressionistic, feminist, historical, cultural studies and cyber- punk discussants and subscribers all welcome. Unmoderated. E-pub book reviews. 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Those who use WP for Windows will know that when you "save" a file that you are working on, it adds to the top line of the screen, after the file name, the message "unmodified", so you know that you are working with something that is already on disk in exactly this form. So today, writing something fairly important, as I got up to go to check on my laundry, I found myself asking myself this question: "Oops, did I unmodified that file?" I looked at the screen, and I was satisfied: I had unmodified it. N.B. the three principal parts of this verb are all identical, and its meaning may not be correctly inferred from its etymology or morphology. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: TEI Guidelines published Date: Mon, 16 May 94 12:10:29 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 13 (19) To: Humanist Computing Support Discussion List Subscribers of this list will, I hope, be interested in the following announcement; please feel free to re-post it to other appropriate lists and groups. Thanks. -CMSMcQ ----- TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE PUBLISHES GUIDELINES On May 16, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) publishes its "Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange." This report is the product of several years' work by over a hundred experts in fields ranging from computational linguistics to Ancient Greek literature. The Guidelines define a format in which electronic text materials can be stored on, or transmitted between, any kind of computer from a personal microcomputer to a university mainframe. The format is independent of the proprietary formats used by commercial software packages. The TEI came into being as the result of the proliferation of mostly incompatible encoding formats, which was hampering cooperation and reuse of data among researchers and teachers. Creating good electronic texts is an expensive and time-consuming business. The object of the TEI was to ensure that such texts, once created, could continue to be useful even after the systems on which they were created had become obsolete. This requirement is a particularly important one in today's rapidly evolving computer industry. To make them "future-proof", the TEI Guidelines use an international standard for text encoding known as SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language. SGML was originally developed by the publishing industry as a way of reducing the costs of typesetting and reuse of electronic manuscripts but has since become widely used by software developers, publishers, and government agencies. It is one of the enabling technologies which will help the new Digital Libraries take shape. The TEI Guidelines go beyond many other SGML applications currently in use. Because they aim to serve the needs of researchers as well as teachers and students, they have a particularly ambitious set of goals. They must be both easily extensible and easily simplified. And their aim is to specify methods capable of dealing with all kinds of texts, in all languages and writing systems, from any period in history. Consequently, the TEI Guidelines provide recommendations not only for the encoding of prose texts, but also for verse, drama, and other performance texts, transcripts of spoken material for linguistic research, dictionaries, and terminological data banks. The Guidelines provide detailed specifications for the documentation of electronic materials, their sources, and their encoding. These specifications will enable future librarians to catalogue electronic texts as efficiently and reliably as they currently catalogue printed texts. The TEI Guidelines also provide optional facilities which can be added to the set of basic recommendations. These include methods for encoding hypertext links, transcribing primary sources (especially manuscripts), representing text-critical apparatus, analyzing names and dates, representing figures, formulae, tables, and graphics, and categorizing of texts for corpus-linguistic study. The Guidelines also define methods of providing linguistic, literary, or historical analysis and commentary on a text and documenting areas of uncertainty or ambiguity. The TEI Guidelines have been prepared over a six-year period with grant support from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, Directorate General XIII of the Commission of the European Union, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The effort is largely the product of the volunteer work of over a hundred researchers who donated time to share their experience in using computers and to work out the specific recommendations in the Guidelines. The project is sponsored by three professional societies active in the area of computer applications to text-based research: the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, and the Association for Computational Linguistics, which have a combined membership of thousands of scholars and researchers worldwide. Many projects in North America and Europe have already declared their intention of applying the TEI Guidelines in the creation of the large scale electronic textual resources which are increasingly dominating the world of humanities scholarship. The Guidelines are available in paper form or electronic form over the Internet. For more information contact the TEI editors by e-mail at tei@uic.edu or lou@vax.ox.ac.uk. Orders may be placed at the TEI offices in Chicago, Oxford or Chiba, addresses of which follow: In Europe: TEI Orders, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK fax +44 865 273275 In East Asia: Prof. Syun Tutiya, Department of Philosophy Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho Inage-ku Chiba 263, Japan fax: +81 43 290 2287 Rest Of World: C. M. Sperberg McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago, Academic Computing Center (M/C 135), 1940 W. Taylor, Rm. 124, Chicago IL 60612-7352, USA fax: +1 312 668 6834 From: Ann Okerson Subject: Directory of E-Journals, 4th Edition Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 19:38:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 14 (20) Please excuse all cross-postings. The editors ------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Immediate Release: May 23, 1994 To Order Contact: ARL Publications (phone) 202-296-2296 (fax) 202-872-0884 (e-mail) osap@cni.org ARL EXPANDED 4TH EDITION OF DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE The Association of Research Libraries announces publication of the Fourth Edition of the hard-copy standard reference work for serials on the Internet: the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists. The extraordinary rate of expansion of microcomputers and linked networks as vehicles for scholarly exchange, along with growth in the rate of the use of the Internet, does not abate. The number of journals, newsletters, and serial-like academic publications continues to increase daily and scholarly communication expands in exciting new ways. Although many journals, newsletters, and scholarly lists may be accessed free of charge through Internet and affiliated networks, it is not always simple to find what is available. The new edition of the Directory is a compilation of entries for nearly 1800 scholarly lists and some 440 electronic journals, newsletters, and related titles such as newsletter-digests -- an increase in size of about 70% since the third edition of April 1993 and 3.5 times since the first edition of July 1991. The directory provides instructions for electronic access to each publication. The objective is to assist the user in finding relevant publications and connecting to them quickly, even if he or she is not completely versed in the full range of user-access systems. Diane Kovacs of the Kent State University Libraries continues to lead the KSU team -- nine individuals who collaboratively created the fourth edition's scholarly discussion lists and interest groups section. Principal compiler of the journals and newsletters section is Lisabeth A. King, Research Assistant for the ARL Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing, with support from Dru Mogge, Electronic Services Coordinator. Ann Okerson of the ARL/OSAP is overall project coordinator for the printed directory. The printed directory points to the widely available Kovacs files as the free-of-charge Internet sources for the discussion lists section. According to the OSAP, it is ARL's intent to make an abridged version of the journals section available on its Internet server as well, during summer, 1994. A diskette version will be available in June. The Fourth Edition is produced in 8.5 x 11 paperbound format in 588 pages. Scholarly lists are grouped by broad subject areas, and journals and newsletters are in alphabetical order. A substantial index of keywords, titles, and institutional affiliations is provided. As in the previous three years, frontmatter of value to electronic serial readers is included. A scholarly article, Geoffrey Nunberg's (Xerox PARC) "The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Representation," reprinted with permission from the University of California Press journal Representations (Spring 1993) leads. It is followed by other commissioned articles related to electronic journals. Jean-Claude Guedon, co-editor of the electronic journal Surfaces and a specialist in the History of Science at the University of Montreal, contributes an essay on "categorizing" serials in a new medium. Birdie MacLennan of the University of Vermont has prepared a listing and assessment of sites for electronic serials that are maintained by various organizations on the Internet. Again, David Robison of NorthWestNet offers an updated annual bibliography of articles on electronic publishing. A new addition is Steve Outing's early listing of newspapers available on the Internet, a project he has begun and hopes to expand in detail. The Association of Research Libraries is a not-for-profit organization representing 119 research libraries in the United States and Canada. Its mission is to identify and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to, and effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service. These programs include annual statistical publications, federal relations and information policy, and enhancing access to scholarly information resources through telecommunications, collection development, preservation, and bibliographic control. The Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing works to identify and influence the forces affecting the production, dissemination, and use of scholarly and scientific information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pricing: $54.00, PLUS postage/shipping/handling (inquire for rates depending on country) Discount: To ARL member libraries (inquire) All orders must be prepaid in U.S. Dollars only, or we accept MasterCard and Visa. From: AU100@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: [8.0011 New List: James Family (1/30)] Date: Mon, 16 May 94 14:12:44 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 9 (21) (1) Does any body have any information about the best programme to be used for designing Stained Glass panels on the Macintosh. There may be a need for a combination of software. (2) Which is the most well known US university/institute that teaches courses (with degrees) in Stained Glass? Ahmad Ubaydli From: aseh call for papers correction Subject: Re: 8.0008 CFP: American Society for Environmental History Date: Mon, 16 May 94 10:10:15 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 10 (22) Correction to the address for sending proposals for papers, sessions and panels Send them by September 1, 1994 to: Theodore Steinberg Department of Humanities New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights Newark, NJ 07102-1982 [previous posting read New, NJ] From: "Hope A. Greenberg" Subject: Re: 8.0013 TEI Guidelines Published (1/225) Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 16:18:13 -0400 (EDT)(5) (3 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 11 (23) ...so what's the URL for the TEI guidelines??? ----------------- Hope Greenberg Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu Academic Computing "You can't have art without resistance in Univ. of Vermont the materials." - William Morris Burlington, VT 05490 From: mbathrick@VNET.IBM.COM Subject: Abductive Analysis Date: Mon, 16 May 94 13:43:56 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 12 (24) I'm looking for references regarding Abductive Analysis - including the basics: what is it, how to go about it, criticisms and limitations of the method. Can anyone help? Please reply to mbathrick@vnet.ibm.com. Mike Bathrick From: Helga Dyck Subject: Scanner Software for Hebrew Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 14:50:31 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 13 (25) We are interested in purchasing or otherwise acquiring a Hebrew Language module preferably one which can also handle Hebrew-English text, for use with our HP Scanjet IIP, running under CAERE Omni-Page Version 3.0 recognition software. If anyone can provide details on supplier and price, or suggest alternate software with these capabilities, I would be most grateful. You may contact me directly at umih@ccu.umanitoba.ca. Helga Dyck, University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Soviet writers Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 01:06:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 14 (26) What was the name given to the soviet state writers who used to chant the glory of the old communist regime in their works and were therefore well payed and well treated. Any special name given to these members of the nomenclatura? Thanks. Michel Lenoble -- Tel.: (514) 288-3916 lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca From: Joanna Johnson Subject: Job: Senior Language Preceptor (German) Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:30:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 15 (27) GERMAN LANGUAGE The Department of Modern Languages at McMaster University invites applications for a Senior Language Preceptor (German). This is a non-tenurable, contractually-limited appointment for two years, commencing August 1, 1994. This appointment will be eligible for renewal in 1996 subject to budgetary approval and a satisfactory performance. The salary for 1994-95 is $35,000. The main responsibility of the successful candidate will be to teach four full courses, supervise teaching assistants, and develop instructional materials for German language courses. This appointment involves ten months of program-related work, a month of personal professional development and a month of vacation annually. The applicant should have native or near-native command of German and a higher degree in some aspect of German Studies. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. McMaster is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and women. Applications, including curriculum vitae and letters by three referees, should be sent before June 10, 1994 to Dr. Nina Kolesnikoff, Acting Chair, Department of Modern Languages, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M2. E-MAIL: modlangs@McMaster.ca. From: Joanna Johnson Subject: Job: Senior Language Preceptor (Italian) Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:32:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 16 (28) ITALIAN LANGUAGE The Department of Modern Languages at McMaster University invites applications for a Senior Language Preceptor (Italian). This is a non-tenurable, contractually-limited appointment for two years, commencing August 1, 1994. This appointment will be eligible for renewal in 1996 subject to budgetary approval and a satisfactory performance. The salary for 1994-95 is $35,000. The main responsibility of the successful candidate will be to teach four full courses, supervise teaching assistants, and develop instructional materials for Italian language courses. This appointment involves ten months of program-related work, a month of personal professional development and a month of vacation annually. The applicant should have native or near-native command of Italian and a higher degree in some aspect of Italian Studies. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. McMaster is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and women. Applications, including curriculum vitae and letters by three referees, should be sent before June 10, 1994 to Dr. Nina Kolesnikoff, Acting Chair, Department of Modern Languages, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M2. E-MAIL: modlangs@McMaster.ca. From: Joanna Johnson Subject: Job: Senior Language Preceptor (Japanese) Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:34:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 17 (29) JAPANESE LANGUAGE The Department of Modern Languages at McMaster University invites applications for a Senior Language Preceptor (Japanese). This is a non-tenurable, contractually-limited appointment for two years, commencing August 1, 1994. This appointment will be eligible for renewal in 1996 subject to budgetary approval and a satisfactory performance. The salary for 1994-95 is $35,000. The main responsibility of the successful candidate will be to teach four full courses, supervise teaching assistants, and develop instructional materials for Japanese language courses. This appointment involves ten months of program-related work, a month of personal professional development and a month of vacation annually. The applicant should have native or near-native command of Japanese and a higher degree in some aspect of Japanese Studies. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. McMaster is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and women. Applications, including curriculum vitae and letters by three referees, should be sent before June 10, 1994 to Dr. Nina Kolesnikoff, Acting Chair, Department of Modern Languages, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M2. E-MAIL: modlangs@McMaster.ca. From: "DAN GREENSTEIN" Subject: Job announcement: Humanities computing lectureship Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 16:36:46 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 18 (30) University of Glasgow Lectureship in Humanities Computing The Lectureship will help to develop and expand the use of computing in both teaching and research among the academic departments within the Arts Faculty. He/she will contribute to the new undergraduate course 'Humanities Computing: Issues and Applications'. There may also be an opportunity to participate in honours and postgraduate teaching in those departments which use computer applications in their degree courses. Candidates should combine a strong academic background in an arts discipline with knowledge of humanities computing applications (e.g. text processing, databases, multimedia). An academic background in computing science with practical experience in humanities computing will also be considered. The post is available for one year in the first instance. Salary will be within the Lecturer Grade A scale (13,601 - 18,855 pounds). Further particulars may be obtained from the Academic Personnel Office, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, where applications (8 copies of cv and covering letter), should be lodged on or before 17th June, 1994. In reply, please quote ref.no. 8305 From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: Date: Tue, 17 May 94 15:03:46 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 18 (31) **** VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE **** **** VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE **** PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AAAI-94 Workshop on Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) Seattle, Washington, USA Tuesday/Wednesday, August 2nd/3rd, 1994 Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield, ENGLAND, EU WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Prof. Mike Brady (Oxford, England) Prof. Jerry Feldman (ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Prof. John Frisby (Sheffield, England) Prof. Frank Harary (CRL, New Mexico, USA) Dr. Eduard Hovy (USC ISI, Los Angeles, USA) Dr. Mark Maybury (MITRE, Cambridge, USA) Dr. Ryuichi Oka (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan) Prof. Derek Partridge (Exeter, England) Dr. Terry Regier (ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Prof. Roger Schank (ILS, Illinois, USA) Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England) Dr. Oliviero Stock (IRST, Italy) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany) Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England) WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991 and Mc Kevitt (Guest Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP). Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of NLP and VP there has been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not clear why there has not already been much activity in integrating these two areas. Is it because of the long-time reductionist trend in science up until the recent emphasis on chaos theory, nonlinear systems, and emergent behaviour? Or, is it because the people who have tended to work on NLP tend to be in other Departments, or of a different ilk, from those who have worked on VP? We believe it is high time to bring together NLP and VP. Already we have advertised a call for papers for a special volume of the Journal of AI Review to focus on their integration and we have had a tremendous response. There will be three special issues focussing on theory and applications of NLP and VP and intelligent multimedia systems. The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research in NLP and VP has advanced to the stage that they can each benefit from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as people in NLP and VP can gain insight from each others' work. References Dennett, Daniel (1991) Consciousness explained Harmondsworth: Penguin Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor) Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Special Volume 8(1,2,3) of AI Review Journal Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming) WORKSHOP TOPICS: The workshop will focus on these themes: * Multimedia retrieval * Multimedia document processing * Speech, gesture and gaze * Theory * Multimedia presentation * Spatial relations * Multimedia interfaces * Reference PROGRAMME: Tuesday, August 2nd, 1994 ************************* INTRODUCTION I: 8.45 `Introduction' Paul Mc Kevitt MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL: (Chair: Neil C. Rowe) 9.00 `Domain-independent rules relating captions and pictures' Neil C. Rowe Computer Science, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA, USA 9.30 `An image retrieval system that accepts natural language' Hiromasa NAKATANI and Yukihiro ITOH Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan 10.00 Break MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENT PROCESSING: (Chair: Rohini Srihari) 10.30 `Integrating text and graphical input to a knowledge base' Raman Rajagopalan Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA 11.00 `Photo understanding using visual constraints generated' from accompanying text Rohini Srihari Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), SUNY Buffalo, NY, USA 11.30 Discussion SPEECH, GESTURE AND GAZE: (Chair: Jordi Robert-Ribes) 12.00 `Audiovisual recognition of speech units: a tentative functional model compatible with psychological data' Jordi Robert-Ribes, Michel Piquemal, Jean-Luc Schwartz & Pierre Escudier Institut de la Communication Parlee (ICP) Grenoble, France, EU 12.30 Discussion 12.45 LUNCH SITE DESCRIPTION (VIDEO): (Chair: Arnold G. Smith) 2.00 `The spoken image system: on the visual interpretation of verbal scene descriptions' Sean O Nuallain, Benoit Farley & Arnold G. Smith Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, EU & NRC, Ottawa, Canada THEORY: 2.20 `Behavioural descriptions from image sequences' Hilary Buxton and Richard Howarth School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex & Department of Computing Science, QMW, University of London 2.50 `Visions of language' Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, England, EU 3.15 Discussion 3.30 Break 4.00 `Language animation' A. Narayanan, L. Ford, D. Manuel, D. Tallis, and M. Yazdani Media Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, England, EU 4.30 Discussion MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION: (Chair: Arnold G. Smith) 4.45 `Assembly plan generation by integrating pictorial and textual information in an assembly illustration' Shoujie He, Norihiro Abe and Tadahiro Kitahashi Dept of Information Systems and Computer Science, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka-shi, Japan & The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research Osaka University, Osaka, Japan 5.15 `Multimedia presentation of interpreted visual data' Elisabeth Andre, Gerd Herzog & Thomas Rist DFKI & Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany, EU 5.45 Discussion 6.00 OICHE MHAITH Wednesday, August 3rd, 1994 *************************** INTRODUCTION: 8.45 `Introduction' Paul Mc Kevitt SPATIAL RELATIONS I: (Chair: Jeffrey Mark Siskind) 9.00 `Propositional semantics in the WIP system' Patrick Olivier & Jun-ichi Tsujii Centre for Intelligent Systems University of Wales at Aberystwyth, Penglais, Wales, EU & Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester, England, EU 9.30 `Spatial layout identification and incremental descriptions' Klaus-Peter Gapp & Wolfgang Maass Cognitive Science Program, Saarbruecken, Germany, EU 10.00 Break 10.30 `Axiomatic support for event perception' Jeffrey Mark Siskind Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada 11.00 Discussion SPATIAL RELATIONS II: (Chair: Stephan Kerpedjiev) 11.30 `A cognitive approach to an interlingua representation of spatial descriptions' Irina Reyero-Sans & Jun-ichi Tsujii Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester, England, EU 12.00 `Describing spatial relations in weather reports through prepositions' Stephan Kerpedjiev, NOAA/ERL/Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA 12.30 Discussion 12.45 LUNCH MULTIMEDIA INTERFACES: (Chair: Yuri A. TIJERINO) 2.00 `Talking pictures: an empirical study into the usefulness of natural language output in a graphical interface' Carla Huls, Edwin Bos & Alice Dijkstra NICI, Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands & Unit of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands 2.30 `From verbal and gestural input to 3-D visual feedback' Yuri A. TIJERINO, Tsutomu MIYASATO & Fumio KISHINO ATR Communication Systems Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan 3.00 Discussion 3.30 Break 4.00 `An integration of natural language and vision processing towards an agent-based future TV system' Yeun-Bae Kim, Masahiro Shibata & Masaki Hayashi NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan 4.30 Discussion REFERENCE: (Chair: Lawrence D. Roberts) 4.45 `An AI module for reference based on perception' John Moulton, Hartwick College, Oneonta, N.Y. USA and Lawrence D. Roberts, SUNY, Binghamton, N.Y. USA 5.15 `Instruction use by a vision-based mobile robot' Tomohiro Shibata, M. Inaba, & H. Inoue Department of Mechano Informatics, The University of Tokyo, Japan 5.45 Discussion 6.00 OICHE MHAITH PUBLICATION: Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI Press. WORKSHOP CHAIR: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England, UK, EU. e-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk fax: +44 742 780972 phone: +44 742 825572 (office) 825590 (secretary) ATTENDANCE: We hope to have an attendance between 30-50 people at the workshop. If you are interested in attending then please send the following form to p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk as soon as possible: cut--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Affiliation: Full Address: E-mail: cut---------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ENQUIRIES FOR AAAI CAN BE MADE TO: NCAI@aaai.org REGISTRATION FEE: Incorporated into the technical registration fee except for those who are workshop attendees only. **** VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE **** **** VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE **** From: Robert Kraft Subject: OFFLINE 45 Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 21:34:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 19 (32) Attached is the electronic form of the first post-Kraft OFFLINE column, published already in hard copy, but supplied for this format as well. As usual, you may do with it as you will. It will go onto the ccat gopher, as indicated in the signoff paragraph. I hope these instructions are still operative: To access materials from the ccat gopher, University of Pennsylvania, follow these procedures: telnet gopher.upenn.edu select Gopher Servers at Penn select Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (ccat.sas) follow the menus -- for example select Electronic Publications select Offline Access is also possible from a WWW client, using the URL: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu [deleted quotation]ccat.sas.upenn.edu (port 70) Bob Kraft, UPenn ---------------------- <> Guest Coordinator: Patrick Durusau [HUMANIST, IOUDAIOS, RELIGION, etc., 16 May 1994] [Religious Studies News 9.2 (May 1994)] [CSSR Bulletin 23.?] [codes: ... titles, ... emphasis, /

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... levels of headings.] ---------------------- [Patrick Durusau, the guest coordinator for this issue, is pursuing a Masters of Theological Studies degree at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. His interests include the use of computers for the publication and analysis of religious texts, particularly those of the Ancient Near East. He may be contacted at: Patrick Durusau, P.O. Box 81126, Conyers, GA 30208 or pdurusau@crl.com.] When the Oxford English Dictionary completes its next edition in 2005, the following definition may appear for the term "computing humanist." "Computing humanist: Anachronism, original use was to designate humanists who used computers in teaching, research and analysis. Not unlike lexica, concordances and the codex form of written materials, computers are now an unremarked part of a scholars tools." Robert Kraft, through the Offline column and other efforts, has brought the seamless integration of computers into religious studies closer to reality. We thank him for introducing us to the potential and practice of humanities computing and for helping us to negotiate the passage to this new medium of research and communication. The Offline column seeks to continue that tradition, emphasizing the broad variety of tools that are now available for the scholar of religion. In order to serve the divergent audience of readers, which ranges from novice to Unix Wizard, articles will address computer topics at a full range of skill and experience levels. This issue includes: Net-News (new or important resources from the Internet), Hard-Copy (articles and reference material available in non-electronic format) and Soft-Bytes (software for scholars). Your suggestions, articles, notices, requests for specific topics and comments are always welcome. As always, Offline depends upon your support. Offline is made possible by the generous contributions of our readers who forward notices, announcements and other material for inclusion in this column. Due to space limitations, author's names accompany submitted articles only. Readers who forwarded other material for this issue of Offline include: Avi Hyman, Jeffrey Mirus, Sigrid Peterson and Dylan Tweney. Please forward comments and contributions to Beth Mackie at bmackie@unix.cc.emory.edu or at the address listed on page 2. Net-News

New List: TECHEVAL A new listserv, entitled TECHEVAL, provides an open forum for discussing the evaluation of computer related work in the humanities. The address is: TECHEVAL@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU. You may subscribe in the usual way. Send a message to LISTSERV@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU. You can leave the subject line blank. The message should read as follows: subscribe TECHEVAL your@email.address firstname lastname If you have any questions, send an e-msg to JSOSNOSKI@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU One of the purposes for instituting this list is to collect information and points of view on the evaluation of computer- related work in language and literary study for the Modern Language Association's Emerging Technologies Committee.

Project Muse: A New Venture In Electronic Scholarly Communication In one of the first joint ventures of its kind, the Johns Hopkins University Press, the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, and Homewood Academic Computing have joined forces to launch Project Muse, an initiative that enables networked electronic access to the Press's scholarly journals. This collaboration draws the Johns Hopkins University community together to move scholarly communication into the electronic age and develop an economic model that addresses rising costs and diminishing budgets. The first phase of the project, completed in February 1994, is a freely accessible prototype consisting of current issues of Configurations, MLN (Modern Language Notes), and ELH (English Literary History). The fully formatted text of these journals is now available on the Internet via on-line access to the library's server (http://muse.mse.jhu.edu). Features include subject, title, and author indexes; instant hypertext links to tables of contents, endnotes and illustrations; Boolean searches of text and tables of contents; and voice and textual annotations. Several members of the scholarly community at Johns Hopkins have already used this resource, and one professor describes it as "an intelligent, incredibly easy system to use... an actual research tool." The prototype is accessed through a networked hypermedia information retrieval system known as the World Wide Web (WWW). It can be viewed and searched using any of a number of freely available WWW readers, but runs optimally under the Mosaic reader developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. (There will be more details about Mosaic in a future column). Users of Mosaic can annotate text, record paths taken during on- line sessions, download text for printing, and create "hot lists" of frequently accessed documents. Mosaic readers are available for a variety of operating systems, including Unix, Mac, and Windows machines. Users of the prototype may send comments and suggestions with the on-line form provided in the prototype or via regular e-mail (ejournal@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu). The short-range goals of the prototype are the creation of an easy-to-use electronic-journal environment with searching and multimedia features that cannot be duplicated in print, and the collection of data on amounts and types of usage for an access and costing model. Long-range goals are to offer reasonably priced electronic journals to university libraries and to use on- line technology to make works of scholarship more widely available within individual university communities. If funding for capital costs can be raised, the project team aims to mount about forty of the Press's journals in math, the humanities, and the social sciences. These issues will appear on a prepublication basis and will be available electronically a few weeks in advance of the printed version. Beyond developing a prototype, Project Muse has enabled the university press, the library, and the computing center to engage in a meaningful dialogue about the current state of the scholarly communication process. This dialogue should not only influence the final appearance, price, and distribution method of the Press's on-line journals, but the shape of scholarly publishing in the information age. For additional information, contact Susanna Pathak, Project Muse Team, Johns Hopkins, spathak@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu.

Internet Access to SGML Textual Analysis Resources The University of Virginia Library is pleased to announce the Internet-accessibility of several of its text collections indexed with Open Text's PAT search engine. With the permission of Open Text Corporation and depositors of the texts included in this effort, they are now able to provide client/server access to several collections, including a growing body of Middle English texts, the King James and Revised Standard Versions of the Bible, and the Michigan Early Modern English Materials. Although no remote login to the University of Virginia system will be supported, access is possible through several client software packages, including Open Text's PatMotif and a freely available vt100 client developed by the University of Virginia. A full description of the client software and the textual resources offered is available via anonymous ftp from etext.virginia.edu (128.143.22.16), as /pub/announce (URL: file://etext.virginia.edu/pub/announce).

Kovacs' Directory Eight Edition As of March, 1994, the Eight Edition of Diane Kovacs' Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences has been released. Electronic conferences is used in its broadest sense and includes Internet interest groups, discussion lists, Usenet newsgroups, e- journals and e-newsletters that are of interest to scholars. This directory provides access information for each conference listed and is organized by subject areas. Since its original release, Kovacs' Directory has been available in both print format and free electronic copy. I find this dual distribution method, which provides maximum access for all readers, a useful model for the dissemination of scholarly information. The success of this model in providing scholarly information, should give pause to the advocates of access-as privilege proposals. Access information is available from the listserv@kentvm.bitnet or listserv@kentvm.kent.edu by sending the message get acadlist readme. By anonymous FTP to ksuvxa.kent.edu in the directory PUB/LIBRARY or gopher to gopher.cni.org (among others). For print editions, please contact Ann Okerson, ann@cni.org.

Ur 3 Project Texts There is now an ftp server at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania on which Sumerian texts in a standard ASCII transliteration format have been archived. This site is intended to be, amongst other things, the U.S. distribution point of the Leiden Ur 3 project. FTP to enlil.museum.upenn.edu in the directory E:\pub\Ur3. This directory contains Sumerian texts from the Ur III period. The texts were transliterated using characters from the ASCII alphabet only. The file CONVNTNS.TXT contains the list of conventions which were used in making the transliterations. As the text files will be updated at intervals, any suggestions for improving the transliterations are welcome. For questions or suggestions regarding the transliterations, please contact Remco de Maaijer and/or Bram Jagersma: JAGERSMA@RULUB.LEIDENUNIV.NL. For questions or suggestions regarding this FTP-site and related computer matters, contact Steve Tinney: STEVE.TINNEY@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU or sjt@enlil.museum.upenn.edu. Texts currently available include: texts from the Aleppo museum, P.J. Watson, Catalogue of Cuneiform Tablets in Birmingham City Museum, Vol. 1, Neo-Sumerian Texts from Drehen; L.W. King, Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum, Part XXXII (= CT 32), London 1912; and others. Hard-Copy

Infolingua Readers working with computers for the analysis of languages or texts, will be pleased to learn of the publication of this series of bibliographic reference works. These works were composed in part from contributions of scholars working in these areas or from solicitations sent over the Internet. I have not yet seen a hard copy of these works, but the volume Literary Computing contains over 500 references dealing with religious materials, with over 85% of those concerned with the Bible. These works should provide a useful reference for advanced researchers as well as those seeking a basic grounding in this area of growing importance. For further information, please contact Infolingua Inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal Qc, H3X 3T3, Canada, or email: 73651.2144@compuserve.com.

Computational Morphology: Morphological Analysis and Generation, Lemmatization: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 492p.

Computational Parsing: Syntactic Analysis, Semantic Analysis, Semantic Interpretation, Parsing Algorithms, Parsing Strategies: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 2 volumes, 1029p.

Computational Lexicology And Lexicography: Dictionaries, Thesauri, Term Banks ; Analysis, Transfer and Generation Dictionaries ; Machine Readable Dictionaries ; Lexical Semantics ; Lexicon Grammars: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 2 volumes, 1031p.

Computational Text Understanding: Natural Language Programming, Argument Analysis: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 657p.

Computational Text Generation: Generation from Data or Linguistic Structure, Text Planning, Sentence Generation, Explanation Generation: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin with a survey article by Mark T. Maybury 1994, 649p.

Natural Language Interfaces: Interfaces to Databases, to Expert Systems, to Robots, to Operating Systems, and to Question- Answering Systems: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 2 volumes, 847p.

Machine Translation: Aids to Translation, Speech Translation: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin and Laurent R. Bourbeau 1994, 2 volumes, 1168p.

Literary Computing: Style Analysis, Author Identification, Text Collation, Literary Criticism: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 581p.

Computer Assisted Language Teaching: Teaching Vocabulary, Grammar, Spelling, Writing, Composition, Listening, Speaking, Translation, Foreign Languages ; Text Composition Aids, Error Detection and Correction, Readability Analysis: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin and Elca Tarrab 1994, 2 volumes, 1066p.

Computer Mediated Communication: Computer Conferencing, Electronic Mail, Electronic Publishing, Computer Interviewing, Interactive Text Reading, Group Decision Support Systems, Idea Generation Support Systems, Human-Machine Communication, Multi- Media Communication, Hypertext, Hypermedia, Linguistic Games: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 2 volumes, 862p.

Electronic Document Processing: Document Editing, Formatting, Typesetting, Coding, Storing, Interchanging, Managing: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 551p

Computational Character Processing: Character Coding, Input, Output, Synthesis, Ordering, Conversion ; Text Compression, Encryption, Display ; Hashing ; Literate Programming: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 580p.

Quantitative And Statistical Linguistics: Frequencies of Characters, Phonemes, Words, Grammatical Categories, Syntactic Structures ; Lexical Richness, Word Collocations, Entropy, Word Length, Sentence Length: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 508p.

Mathematical and Formal Linguistics: Grammar Formalisms, Grammar Testing, Logics, Quantifiers: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 612p.

Computational Speech Processing: Speech Analysis, Recognition, Understanding, Compression, Transmission, Coding, Synthesis ; Text to Speech Systems, Speech to Tactile Displays, Speaker Identification, Prosody Processing: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 2 volumes, 1187p.

Computational Linguistics in Information Science: Information Retrieval (Full-Text or Conceptual), Automatic Indexing, Text Abstraction, Content Analysis, Information Extraction, Query Languages: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 2 volumes, 1047p.

Optical Character Recognition and Document Segmentation: Character Preprocessing, Thinning, Isolation, Segmentation, Feature Extraction ; Cursive and Multi-Font Recognition, Writer/Scriptor Identification: Bibliography, by Conrad F. Sabourin 1994, 512p. Soft-Bytes

Free Document Imaging Package Scholars have used a variety of strategies to deal with the paper-intensive nature of the scholarly enterprise. From the note-cards that contain our library research to the conference papers that we would like to find for class discussion, scholars have devised a number of ad hoc ways to file and more importantly, find, needed information. One new strategy, made possible by personal computers, is the scanning and indexing of important information for later retrieval. In the jargon of the computer world, this scanning and indexing of material is known as the "Paperless Office." In its simplest form, this approach requires that the document be scanned and that image of the document be saved and assigned the key-words that will be used to index it for retrieval. It does require an investment of time for scanning and indexing as well as storage space for the images of the documents. If you are interested in exploring this approach to the storing and retrieval of documents, Omega has a special education offer that may be of interest. For a limited time, Omega is offering special educational packages of FilePlus, The Paperless Document Image Processing and File Management System, free to all students, teachers, and educational institutions (service fee of $30.00). Contact omega@canrem.com, or Omega, 1599 Hurontario St, Suite 301, Mississauga, Ontario, L5G 4S1, Attention: Dorothy Wasiak Tel :(905)891-3478 Fax :(905)891-7757 Information also available via modem at (905)681-3213. This software requires: an IBM PC Compatible 386sx or higher, 4MB of RAM, 10MB hard disk (minimum), DOS 3.3 or later, Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher, Document scanner and Windows-compatible mouse.

TLG Workplace 3.0 and PHI Workplace 3.0 Users of the TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) and the PHI (Packard Humanities Institute) CD ROMs will be pleased to learn of the recent upgrade of one of the retrieval software packages for those collections. For those unfamiliar with these CDs, the TLG includes Greek texts from approximately 800 BCE until 600 CE, with some later texts and the PHI collection focuses on Latin literature until 200 CE. This software allows searching and printing of the texts found in these collections. A demonstration version of the TLG Workplace is available from oak.oakland.edu in the directory pub/msdos/cdrom/tlgwp301.zip. This demonstration version cannot print or copy text to the clipboard. It is otherwise fully functional. For further information on these programs, contact John Baima, Silver Mountain Software, 1029 Tanglewood, Cedar Hill, TX 755104-3019, john@ling.uta.edu.

DOS Internet Kit Dean Pentcheff (dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu) has collected public domain programs that allow PCs with Ethernet or SLIP connections to access Internet services. The package includes programs for DOS as well as Windows systems. This collection is available by anonymous FTP at tbone.biol.scarolina.edu in the directory pub/kit. Remember to use binary transfer and get disk1.exe, disk2.exe and 00readme.doc.

Desktop Internet Reference If you have questions about what resources are available on the Internet or how obtain/use those resources, there are few starting places better than the Desktop Internet Reference. This software program has collected 1,800 pages of materials on topics ranging from on-line libraries to listservs and more. It is presently available for in DOS and Windows versions, with a Mac version in the planning. This program is available by anonymous FTP at ftp.uwp.eud in the directory pub/msdos/dir as ddir10.zip (DOS file) or wdir10.zip (Windows file). Use binary transfer when obtaining these files.

TACT-Textual Analysis Computing Tools 2.1 gamma The Centre for Computing in the Humanities has recently released a major revision of TACT, its Textual Analysis Computing Tools package. As described in the readme file that accompanies the release, "(TACT)... a system of 15 programs for MS-DOS, is designed to do text-retrieval and analysis on literary works. Typically, researchers use TACT to retrieve occurrences of a word, word pattern, or word combination. Output takes the form of a concordance, a list, or a table. Programs also can do simple kinds of analysis, such as sorted frequencies of letters, words or phrases, type-token statistics, or ranking of collocates to a word by their strength of association." This collection of programs offers an inexpensive yet powerful set of tools to allow scholars to explore computer aided analysis of textual materials. One recent example of the usefulness of TACT can be found in Mapping Echoes with TACT in the Old French Epic the Charroi de Ni^mes by Edward A. Heinemann, which appears in Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 8, No. 4, at pages 191-202 (1993). Heinemann's analysis was carried out with an earlier version of TACT, but clearly illustrates the capabilities of these programs. TACT requires a standard MS-DOS platform with 640K RAM (preferably up to 16Mb additional memory); DOS 3.x or above; a large hard disk (the uncompressed installed programs occupy about 3.2Mb); and a -386 or faster processor. For those scholars who do not have a -386 or faster processor, TACT 1.2B is still available at the Gopher and FTP sites listed below. (Note, TACT 1.2 was the version used by Heinemann in the analysis noted above.)

Access to TACT 2.1 gamma: Gopher: TACT 2.1 gamma may be obtained by Gopher to gopher.epas.utoronto.ca in the following subdirectory: 5. Centre for Computing in the Humanities/ 4.Humanities Computing Resources / 6. Software /1. Textual Analysis Computing Tools /2. TACT 2.1 gamma. FTP: Use anonymous FTP to epas.utoronto.ca and move to the pub/cch/tact/tact2.1gamma directory. Type prompt to turn off the interactive prompts and then binary prior to transfer of the files. Then type mget *.* and all of the files will be sent to you. Remember to use zmodem or other error correcting transfer protoccols when downloading these files to your microcomputer. (TACT 1.2B is also available at pub/cch/tact/dist1.2B) By mail: TACT Distribution, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Robarts Library, Room 14297A, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5, CANADA. Atn.: Elke Rudman.

Stylometry Software Stylometry is an effort to assign quantitative values to the use of language by an individual. In cases of authorship, it is one tool to test the attribution of a text to one author rather than another. It does not give definitive answers to authorship questions, but does generate additional evidence to be considered by scholars concerned with questions of style and attribution of authorship. Robert A. J. Matthews and Thomas V. N. Merriam, in Neural Computation in Stylometry I: An Application to the Works of Shakespeare and Fletcher, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 8, No. 4, at pp. 203-209 (1993) develop a new stylometric method based upon the use of a neural network computation technique known as back propagation. While the limitations of space prohibit more than the mention of this new technique, the authors have offered to make .EXE files containing fully trained multi-layer perceptions using Merriam and Horton discriminators available to anyone sending a blank IBM-compatible 3.5" disk and return postage. Address your request to: Robert Matthews, 50 Norreys Road, Cumnor, Oxford OX2 9PT, UK. Correction The OFFLINE 44 column mentions that Richard Wevers has a program for helping one learn vocabulary and verb forms and declension of Greek. Unfortunately the e-mail address is listed incorrectly. The correct listing is weve@ursa.calvin.edu. <-----> [Proposals for OFFLINE: Since Robert Kraft will no longer be coordinating OFFLINE, Religious Studies News is looking for someone to continue his work as Coordinator. Proposals addressing the overall direction and scope of the column as well as proposals for a single column as guest coordinator are welcome. We are looking for ways to include sections which are helpful for readers at various levels of computer expertise and sections which cover as many aspects of academic computing as feasible. Please send proposals to Beth Mackie, Editor RSN, PO Box 15399, Atlanta GA 30333.] A complete electronic file of OFFLINE columns is available upon request (for IBM/DOS, Mac, or IBYCUS), or from the ccat.sas gopher at gopher.upenn.edu (Penn gophers). To request printed information or materials from OFFLINE, please supply an appropriately sized, self-addressed envelope or an address label to Robert A. Kraft, Box 36 College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104-6303. Telephone (215) 898- 5827. Internet address: Kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (please note that the previous BITNET address is no longer operational). //end #45// From: "Norman N. Holland" Subject: Date: Mon, 16 May 94 21:25:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 20 (33) Subject: Bibliography in literature-and-psychology: The Electronic Edition For nine years now, IPSA (the Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts at the University of Florida) has mailed its annual _IPSA Abstracts and Bibliography in Literature-and-Psychology_ to some 2200 subscribers. The 1994 edition (99 pages in all) consists of a bibliography of 1552 books and articles published in our field in 1993 and ten pages of abstracts of forthcoming work. "Our field" includes as its core, literature-and- psychology (including reader-response studies). The IPSABIB also includes, less systematically, psychological studies of the other arts (notably film) and some materials on psychoanalysis or other psychologies in themselves where they seem particularly pertinent. We are now sending the IPSABIB online to the 270 subscribers to PSYART, the literature-and-psychology LIST. Posting will begin Satruday, May 21, five days from today. If you are not a subscriber to PSYART but wish to receive this bibliography, subscribe to PSYART (at least on a temporary basis). Subscribe by sending a subscription message to this e-address: listserv@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu. The message should say, simply, SUBSCRIBE PSYART For this purpose *PLEASE DO NOT* send messages to me personally or to the list as a whole The files are large, and, in order not to clog system or mailboxes, I will send out separate sections a day or so apart. You should download these to your personal computers as soon as they come in--or discard them quickly. These are the files that will be sent to you and their approximate sizes: FRONT 94 12K Title page, table of contents, explanations and instructions EABSTRS 94 43K Abstracts of forthcoming work EBOOKS 94 50K 285 books published in 1993 EARTICLS 94 264K 1267 articles published in 1993 BACK 94 59K Index and announcements Once sent, the whole bibliography will be kept online in the PSYART files as one file, available by anonymous ftp. You can obtain a printed version if you will let me know *BY REGULAR MAIL.* Regular mail, because we ask for a contribution of $8.00 U.S. for this service. Make your check payable to GAP- IPSA. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Norman N. Holland Marston-Milbauer Professor of English | | University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611 Tel: (904) 377-0096 | | BITNET: nnh@nervm INTERNET: nnh@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: melancon@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Melancon Benoit) Subject: L'Europe des politesses. Colloque 1995 Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 16:15:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 21 (34) L'Europe des politesses et le caractere des nations. Regards croises Colloque international organise sous la haute presidence de l'Universite Blaise-Pascal Paris, automne 1995 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Le Centre de recherches sur les litteratures modernes et contemporaines (CRLMC - EA 1002) de l'Universite Blaise-Pascal a Clermont-Ferrand poursuit depuis plusieurs annees une serie d'etudes sur l'histoire des traites de savoir-vivre en Europe. Il organise un grand colloque international en automne 1995 a Paris. Le theme fondamental en est le regard porte par les uns et les autres sur le comportement social, les "bonnes manieres" de leurs voisins au cours de l'histoire (du Moyen Age a nos jours), ainsi que sur les images des caracteres nationaux. Seront ainsi pris en compte les comportements generaux et les caracteres nationaux, les us et coutumes de chacun, les habillements, les salutations, les manieres de table, les interactions hommes-femmes, les modeles nationaux (type "gentleman"), etc. Quatre grandes rubriques ont ete retenues : a) le regard des Francais sur les etrangers; b) le regard des etrangers sur les Francais; c) le regard des uns sur les autres (France exceptee; c'est-a-dire le regard de l'Anglais sur l'Italien, de l'Allemand sur l'Espagnol, du Polonais sur le Norvegien, etc.); d) une rubrique plus problematique evoquant des problemes lies a l'"imagologie", aux stereotypes, aux prejuges, aux systemes de valorisation implicites et explicites de soi-meme et de l'autre dans le cadre de l'interculturalite, ainsi que des problemes de methode, etc. Ce colloque concerne les manieres des Europeens. Les langues officielles en seront le francais, l'anglais, l'allemand, l'italien et l'espagnol. Les propositions de communication (duree maximale : 25 minutes) doivent parvenir aux organisateurs au plus tard le 31 decembre 1994. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Pour toute information : Centre de recherches sur les litteratures modernes et contemporaines Professeur Alain Montandon Universite Blaise-Pascal UFR Lettres 29, boulevard Gergovia 63037 Clermont-Ferrand cedex 1 Telecopieur : 73 34 65 44 From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: Date: Tue, 17 May 94 15:59:44 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 22 (35) **** SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AND SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AND SPEECH AND LANGUAGE **** **** SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AND SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AND SPEECH AND LANGUAGE **** PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AAAI-94 Workshop on Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) Seattle, Washington, USA Sunday/Monday, July 31st/August 1st, 1994 Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield, ENGLAND, EU WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Prof. Ole Bernsen (Roskilde, Denmark) Dr. Martin Cooke (Sheffield, England) Dr. Daniel Jurafsky (ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Dr. Steve Renals (Cambridge, England) Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England) Dr. Eiichiro Sumita (ATR, Japan) Prof. Dr. Walther v.Hahn (Hamburg, Germany) Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany) Dr. Sheryl R. Young (CMU, USA) WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991 and Mc Kevitt (Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing (SP). The aim here is to bring to the AI community results being presented at computational linguistics (e.g. COLING/ACL), and speech conferences (e.g. ICASSP, ICSLP). Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of NLP and SP we have just started to see progress on integrating these two subareas of AI. Most success has been with speech synthesis and less with speech understanding. However, there are still a number of important questions to answer about the integration of speech and language processing. How is intentional information best gleaned from speech input? How does one cope with situations where there are multiple speakers in a dialogue with multiple intentions? How does discourse understanding occur in multi-speaker situations with noise? How does prosodic information help NLP systems? What corpora (e.g. DARPA ATIS corpora, MAP-TASK corpus from Edinburgh) exist for integrated data on speech and language? The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research in NLP and SP have advanced to the stage that they can each benefit from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as people in NLP and SP can gain insight from each others' work. References Dennett, Daniel (1991) Consciousness explained Harmondsworth: Penguin Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor) Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Special Volume 8(1,2,3) of AI Review Journal Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming) WORKSHOP TOPICS: The workshop will focus on these themes: * Speech understanding * Dialogue & Discourse * Machine translation * Architectures * Site descriptions (Hamburg, JANUS-II, ATR, CMU) PROGRAMME: Sunday, July 31st, 1994 *********************** INTRODUCTION I: 8.45 `Introduction' Paul Mc Kevitt SPEECH UNDERSTANDING I: (Chair: Alberto Lavelli) 9.00 `Left-to-Right analysis of spoken language' Bernd Seestaedt, Franz Kummert & Gerhard Sagerer University of Bielefeld, Germany, EU 9.30 `An N-Best representation for bidirectional parsing strategies' Anna Corazza & Alberto Lavelli IRST, Trento, Italy, EU 10.00 Break 10.30 `Incorporation of phoneme-context-dependence in LR table through constraint propagation method' Hozumi TANAKA, Hui LI & Takenobu TOKUNAGA Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 11.00 Discussion SPEECH UNDERSTANDING II: (Chair: Karen Ward) 11.15 `On the need for a theory of knowledge sources for spoken language understanding' Karen Ward & David G. Novick Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Oregon, USA 11.45 `Misrecognition detection in speech recognition' Sheryl R. Young Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 12.15 Discussion 12.30 LUNCH SITE DESCRIPTION I: (Chair: Nigel Ward) 2.00 `An outline of the Verbmobil project with focus on the work at the University of Hamburg' J. Amtrup, Andreas Hauenstein, C. Pyka, V. Weber & S. Wermter University of Hamburg, Germany, EU ARCHITECTURES I: (Chair: Nigel Ward) 2.15 `An investigation of tightly coupled time synchronous speech language interfaces using a unification grammar' Andreas Hauenstein & Hans H. Weber University of Hamburg & University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, EU 2.45 `An approach to tightly-coupled syntactic/semantic processing for speech understanding' Nigel Ward University of Tokyo, Japan 3.15 Discussion 3.30 Break DIALOGUE & DISCOURSE I: (Chair: Jean Veronis) 4.00 `Pragmatic linguistic constraint models for large-vocabulary speech processing' Eric Atwell and Paul Mc Kevitt University of Leeds & University of Sheffield, England, EU 4.30 `SpeechActs: a testbed for continuous speech applications' Paul Martin & Andy Kehler Sun Microsystems Laboratories & Harvard University, USA 5.00 `NL and speech in the Multext project' Jean Veronis, Daniel Hirst, Robert Espesser & Nancy Ide CNRS & Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France 5.30 Discussion 6.00 OICHE MHAITH Monday, August 1st, 1994 ************************ INTRODUCTION II: 8.45 `Introduction' Paul Mc Kevitt SITE DESCRIPTIONS II & III: (Chair: Eiichiro Sumita) 9.00 `JANUS-II: research in spoken language translation' Alex Waibel Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University, USA & University of Karlsruhe, Germany, EU 9.15 `Work at ATR on spoken language translation' Dr. Eiichiro Sumita ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan MACHINE TRANSLATION: (Chair: Bernhard Suhm) 9.30 `Bilingual corpus for speech translation' Osamu FURUSE, Yasuhiro SOBASHIMA, Toshiyuki TAKEZAWA & Noriyoshi URATANI ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan 10.00 Break 10.30 `Speech-language integration in a multi-lingual speech translation system' Bernhard Suhm, Lori Levin, N. Coccaro, Jaime Carbonell, K. Horiguchi, R. Isotani, A. Lavie, L. Mayfield, C.P. Rose, C. Van Ess-Dykema & Alex Waibel Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University, USA ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan U.S. Department of Defense, & University of Karlsruhe, Germany, EU 11.00 Discussion ARCHITECTURES II: (Chair: Daniel Jurafsky) 11.30 `Towards an artificial agent as the kernel of a spoken dialogue system: a progress report' David Sadek, A. Ferrieux & A. Cozannet French Telecom, CNET, France, EU 12.00 `Integrating experimental models of syntax, phonology, and accent/dialect in a speech recognizer' Daniel Jurafsky, Chuck Wooters, Gary Tajchman, Jonathan Segal, Andreas Stolcke & Nelson Morgan ICSI and University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA 12.30 Discussion 12.45 LUNCH SITE DESCRIPTION IV: (Chair: Sheryl R. Young) 2.00 `Work at CMU on spoken dialogue systems' Sheryl R. Young Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA DIALOGUE & DISCOURSE II: (Chair: Sheryl R. Young) 2.15 `Speech recognition in multi-agent dialogue' Sheryl R. Young Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 2.45 `A study of intonation and discourse structure in directions' Barbara J. Grosz, Julia Hirschberg & Christine H. Nakatani Harvard University & AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA 3.15 Discussion 3.30 Break ARCHITECTURES III: (Chair: Mary P. Harper) 4.00 `An integrative architecture for speech and language understanding' William Edmondson, Jon Iles & Paul Mc Kevitt University of Birmingham & University of Sheffield, England, EU 4.30 `Integrating language models with speech recognition' Mary P. Harper, Leah H. Jamieson, Carl D. Mitchell, Goangshiuan Ying, SiriPong Potisuk, Pramila N. Srinivasan, Ruxin Chen, Carla B. Zoltowski, Laura L. McPheters, Bryan Pellom & Randall A. Helzerman School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, USA 5.00 Discussion 5.15 OICHE MHAITH PUBLICATION: Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI Press. WORKSHOP CHAIR: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England, UK, EU. e-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk fax: +44 742 780972 phone: +44 742 825572 (office) 825590 (secretary) ATTENDANCE: We hope to have an attendance between 25-50 people at the workshop. If you are interested in attending then please send the following form to p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk as soon as possible: cut--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Affiliation: Full Address: E-mail: cut---------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ENQUIRIES FOR AAAI CAN BE MADE TO: NCAI@aaai.org REGISTRATION FEE: Incorporated into the technical registration fee except for those who are workshop attendees only. **** SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AND SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AND SPEECH AND LANGUAGE **** **** SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AND SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AND SPEECH AND LANGUAGE **** From: melancon@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Melancon Benoit) Subject: La matiere dans l'_Encyclopedie_. Colloque 1995 Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 16:16:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 23 (36) La matiere dans l'_Encyclopedie_ 10-12 juillet 1995 Haute-Marne Colloque organise par la Societe Diderot -=-=-=-=-= Ce colloque se propose d'examiner le theme de la matiere dans l'_Encyclopedie_ et la place qu'y occupe le materialisme. 1. Le "travail" et les "usages" de la matiere : comment la matiere sous ses differentes formes (minerais, laine, soie, etc.) est-elle transformee et mise en valeur par les arts mecaniques et liberaux ? 2. La matiere en travail : on s'attachera aux representations de l'elementaire et aux processus par lesquels la matiere, dans le grand laboratoire de la Nature, se combine et se transforme : genese des formes, passage de la matiere inerte a la matiere vivante, etude du corps vivant, etc. 3. Matiere et materialisme : la matiere comme concept dans les systemes philosophiques, les differentes conceptions du materialisme, sa place dans les theories sur l'art. -=-=-=-=-= Les projets de communication, accompagnes d'un resume d'une page environ, doivent etre envoyes, au plus tard le 31 janvier 1995, a S. Albertan 9, rue d'Herbouville 76000 Rouen France ou a R. Rey 21, rue Linne 75005 Paris France From: Mary Mallery Subject: Directory of Electronic Text Centers Date: Thu, 19 May 94 11:43:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 19 (37) This message has been cross-posted to the ETEXTCTR, HUMANIST and ANE lists. If you would like to be listed in an upcoming Directory of Electronic Text Centers, please send the name of your Center, any institutional affiliation (especially note if it is part of a library), a contact person and any other information (such as URLs to Gopher sites or WWW home-pages). Anyone who responds will receive a copy of the Directory when it is completed. Please direct your responses to me, not to the list. Thank you! Mary Mallery mallery@eden.rutgers.edu From: ZODIAC::MOWDER 18-MAY-1994 12:57:30.48 Subject: A New Electronic Mailing List: E-GRAD Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 13:10:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 20 (38) To: MOWDER CC: Subj: A new mailing list: E-GRAD Announcing a new electronic mailing list: E-GRAD dedicated to the interchange of ideas and information among graduate students in English and the modern languages. E-GRAD is sponsored by the Graduate Student Caucus of the Modern Language Association, for the exchange of academic, professional, and practical information. E-GRAD is an open, unmoderated list, devoted to the concerns of graduate and post-graduate students in English and the modern languages. This list provides a forum to: [deleted quotation]publications, government and campus-based academic developments, and job opportunities (or lack thereof); [deleted quotation]notices, and other related material; [deleted quotation]specialized topics, as well as practical and personal issues related to the Ph.D. process; [deleted quotation]of the MLA, including a rapid transmission system for the Caucus Newsletter and other MLA information. While subscribers are not required to be members of the Graduate Student Caucus or the Modern Language Association, they should expect to receive postings concerning both. How to subscribe to E-GRAD: Do NOT send a message directly to the list. Send it instead to the "listserv" that handles the list. The listserv program on the mainframe computer at the other end will figure out your e-mail address from the header on your message. Send the following message to LISTSERV@RUTVM1.Rutgers.Edu or LISTSERV@RUTVM1.Bitnet Leave subject line blank. 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From: Harold Short Subject: Arts and Humanities Data Service: Feasibility Study Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 20:15:45 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 25 (39) Greetings from London Although the following announcement is perhaps most directly relevant to the British higher education community, the international dimensions of the project are very strongly recognised, and information and opinions are being widely sought outside the U.K. in Europe and North America and beyond. Responses from any Humanist subscriber would be most welcome. Best wishes Harold Short -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= U.K. ARTS AND HUMANITIES DATA SERVICE: FEASIBILITY STUDY The Information Services Sub-Committee (ISSC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils' Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is funding a feasibility study into the establishment of an Arts and Humanities Datacentre. It is intended that such a datacentre, which might in structure be highly distributed, would improve access to electronic resources in various formats, including text, image, and sound, and that it would encourage the use of electronic materials in teaching, learning and research. The creation of a datacentre for the Arts and Humanities has been recommended in a number of recent reports, including the Follett Report and the joint British Library / British Academy report _Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship_. The feasibility study is being carried out by Lou Burnard of the University of Oxford and Harold Short of King's College London, and is overseen by a Steering Group under the Chairmanship of Dr Richard Heseltine, Librarian of the University of Hull. In the course of the study it is hoped to consult as widely as possible within the Higher Education community, primarily in the United Kingdom, but also abroad. As a preliminary to this, a workshop was held at the British Academy at which an invited group of individuals with expert interests in this field discussed the proposal. Currently, a number of institutions and individuals known to have an interest are being approached directly, and paper and electronic versions of the workshop report are being made available as widely as possible. The report is available by anonymous ftp from: ota.ox.ac.uk in the directory ota/AHD (note case) under the fileame workshop.report. This message is being distributed on a number of mailing lists with the purpose of inviting comment, from anyone with Higher Education interests, on any of the issues being addressed in the feasibility study. Written submissions should be sent no later than 30 June to: AHDS@vax.ox.ac.uk The Workshop took as its key document the proposal originally submitted to the JISC, on the basis of which the present feasibility study was funded. This document may be obtained from either of the proposers: Lou Burnard Oxford Text Archive Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Email: lou@vax.ox.ac.uk Tel: 0865 273238 Fax: 0865 273275 Harold Short Computing Centre King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS Email: h.short@bay.cc.kcl.ac.uk Tel: 071 873 2739 Fax: 071 836 1799. From: stephen.parkinson@Modern-Languages.oxford.ac.uk (Stephen Parkinson) Subject: Conference Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 16:55:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 26 (40) COBRAS E SOM A COLLOQUIUM ON THE TEXT, MUSIC AND MANUSCRIPTS OF THE CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARIA Somerville College, Oxford, 8-9 July 1994 PROGRAMME Friday 8 July 10.00 Registration begins 13.00 Lunch 1400 - 16.00 Session I: Rhythm and metre David Wulstan (Aberystwyth) Rhythmic schemes and forms in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Anna Ferrari (Rome) Strutture metriche complesse nelle Cantigas de Santa Maria 16.00 Tea 1600 - 18.00 Session II: Music Manuel Pedro Ferreira (Lisbon) Andalusian Music and the Cantigas de Santa Maria Mary O'Neill (Birmingham) Problems of genre definition in the Cantigas de Santa Maria 18.30 Dinner 20.00 Reception (courtesy of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages) Saturday 9 July 08.00 Breakfast 09.00 - 10.30 Session III: Images and texts Susana Zapke (Cologne) Sch=F6nheit und Weltanschauung in den CSM (provisional title: to be presented in Spanish) Ana Domi'nguez Rodri'guez (Madrid) Ima'genes del A'rbol de Jese' en las Cantigas de Santa Maria 10.30 Coffee 11.00 - 12.30 Session IV: Texts Valeria Bertolucci Pizzorusso (Pisa) Analisi delle varianti testuali nelle Cantigas de Santa Maria Jesu's Montoya Marti'nez (Granada) Algunas observaciones sobre puntuacio'n del texto de las Cantigas de Santa Maria 13.00 Lunch 14.00 - 15.30 Session V: The manuscripts and their relationships Stephen Parkinson (Oxford) Layout and structure of the Toledo manuscript Martha Schaffer (San Francisco) The "evolution" of the Cantigas de Santa Maria: the relationships between mss T, F and E 15.30 Tea 16.00-18.00 Closing Session: Round table on manuscript studies 18.30 Dinner 20.30 Concert by Sinfonye (dir. Stevie Wishart) in Somerville College= Chapel All papers will be 30 minutes long and will be followed by 15 minutes of discussion time. Facsimiles of manuscripts and microfilms will be available throughout the Colloquium. All events will take place inside Somerville College, which was founded in 1879 and occupies a secluded position on the West side of the city, close to the Taylor Institution (home of the Modern Languages Faculty), the Ashmolean Museum and the University Press. The centre of the city, with landmarks such as the Bodleian Library and Sheldonian Theatre, and the famous bookshops, is a short walk away. All those attending the conference as residents can be accommodated in the College in single and twin bedrooms (a twin bedroom consists of two adjacent and interconnected rooms, one with twin beds and the other for use as a sitting room). Most rooms have their own washbasin; shaver adaptor plugs are available for use in the rooms upon request; communal bathrooms and W.C.'s will be found on every floor. Accommodation is available on the Thursday night preceding the Colloquium and on the Sunday night following it, for participants who wish to extend their stay in Oxford. BOOKING FORM Name ............................................................................ ................................................. Address for correspondence =20 ......................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... Please tick as appropriate and insert the correct total figure for yourself (all charges in pounds sterling) ____ Inclusive charge (for bookings received by 1 June 1994 only): conference fee, concert, tea and coffee accommodation and meals from lunch on Friday to breakfast on Sunday #100 OR ____ conference fee = =20 #5 ____ (includes tea, coffee and the concert on Saturday evening): #5 = =20 ____ ___ Bed & Breakfast on Friday night #29.50 = =20 ____ ____ Bed & Breakfast on Saturday night #29.50 = ____ ____ Lunch on Friday =20 #11.00 ____ ____ Lunch on Saturday #11.00 = =20 ____ ____ Dinner on Friday =20 #13.50 ____ ____ Dinner on Saturday #19.00 = =20 ____ Additional accommodation: ____ Bed & Breakfast on Thursday night #29.50 ____ ____ Bed & Breakfast on Sunday night #29.50 = ____ TOTAL ____ Please indicate any special accommodation or dietary requirements, e.g. twin room, vegetarian, special diet: .................................................................. methods of payment: Cheque, Eurocheque or bankers draft, payable to Cantigas Colloquium International Money Transfer to Cantigas Colloquium, a/c no. 206898, Lloyds Bank, Broad Street Oxford Branch, code no. 30-11-27 . We regret that we cannot accept any credit card payments. Please send your remittance with this booking form by 1 June 1994. We cannot guarantee availability of accommodation for bookings received after this date. For further details contact: Dr Stephen Parkinson Cantigas Colloquium 47 Wellington Square Oxford tel 0865-270496/7 fax 0865 270757 email stephen.parkinson@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk From: John Merritt Unsworth Subject: new IATH Publications on the WWW Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 17:42:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 27 (41) The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Publishes it First and Second Series of Research Reports: * * * * * * * As of May 20th, 1994, the following reports are available via the World-Wide Web, at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ Under the heading Publications: Research Reports, First Series (1993) Ed Ayers, "The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia" Overview The Archive Census Geographic Information Military Rosters Diaries Newspapers The Story Jerome McGann, "The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive" Introduction The Paintings, Drawings, and Designs The Poems The Prose Works and Fragments The Translations Context Research Reports, Second Series (1994) Ellen Contini-Morava, "Semantic Stucture of Swahili Noun Classes" Introduction The Swahili Noun Class System Methodology Preliminary Results Conclusion John Dobbins, "The Forum at Pompeii" Introduction Background Objectives Methods Significance Nature of This Report Acknowledgements The Macellum The Imperial Cult Building Introduction Date Identification Conclusions The Sanctuary of the Genius of Augustus The Eumachia Building Hoyt Duggan, "Piers Plowman" Creating an Electronic Archive of Piers Plowman The Nature of the Problem The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive Activity at IATH from July 1993-May 1994 The Electronic Archive--a sample Critical Text B Archetype Documentary Editions Manuscript Descriptions Linguistic Descriptions of Manuscripts Textual Facsimiles Sample Collations Mike Gorman, "The Bell Notebooks" Help Master Map Sound Into Visible Form Sound into Current Introduction References In addition to the research reports, the Institute also makes available the following: Staff, Technical Reports Minutes from IATH Meetings, 6/92 - present Hardware Overview Virtual Disk on Tape Songs from Naked Lunch on an RS6000 Digital Images Overview Capturing Digital Images Manipulating Digital Images An Image Annotation Tool A General Archival Format Using Autocad to Reconstruct Pompeii Using the Net Using the World-Wide Web Setting up a server Controlling access Managing Web Documents Creative Uses of Imagemapping Using Fill-out Forms ToolBook to HTML Moving Text and Images Using Ismapping Approximating ToolBook Upgrading the Server MOOS, MUDs, and Other Virtual Hangouts Standard Generalized Markup Language Overview The Rossetti Archive "The Rationale of Hypertext," by Jerome McGann Postmodern Culture: an interdisciplinary electronic journal (published with North Carolina State University and Oxford University Press) V1 N1, September 1990 V1 N2, January 1991 V1 N3, May 1991 V2 N1, September 1991 V2 N2, January 1992 V2 N3, May 1992 V3 N1, September 1992 V3 N2, January 1993 V3 N3, May 1993 V4 N1, September 1993 V4 N2, January 1994 PMC-MOO Archives of PMC-Talk And elsewhere on our World-Wide Web Server, you can find: Information about Work in Progress on the 1994-95 Research Projects: Gary Anderson, "The Life of Adam and Eve: The Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity" Ken Schwartz, "Urban Design Strategies and Housing for the City of Charlottesville" Judith Shatin, "The Hierarchical Audio Construction Kit: Composition and Design" Michael Stern, "Visions for a Sustainable City: Owings Mills, MD" Related Readings: a selection of resources available elsewhere on the internet, in the following categories: General Resources Archaeology Electronic Publishing Film History Hypermedia Legal Issues Linguistics Literary Studies Medieval Studies Music Philosophy Teaching Resources Technical Research and Information Text-Based Virtual Reality Other IBM-Supported Projects IATH Software development, demonstration, and distribution Forms-Based Demonstration of the Image Annotation Tool A Sound Driver for the RS6000 IATH-MOO: A Real-Time Multi-User Conference Facility Access to other Networked Resources at the University of Virginia Information about the Institute's History, Personnel, and Fellowship Opportunities From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: Re: 8.0016 Qs: TEI URL? Abductive Analysis; Hebrew S/W; Soviet Date: Fri, 20 May 94 16:02:53 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 16 (42) On Thu, 19 May 1994 23:57:22 EDT Hope Greenberg said: [deleted quotation] No 'official' URL at the moment, sorry. There are a couple sites which have put up unofficial (unsupported) WWW access to the Guidelines, but I haven't had a chance to look at them yet, and so can't tell you how useful they are: Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) P3 released on May 16, 1994, now on WWW ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/SGML/TEI -- Erik Naggum http://www.oulu.fi/TEI.html -- Janne Himanka http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/teip3files.html -- Lars Aronsson This information courtesy of Lars Aronsson, Lysator, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen ACH / ACL / ALLC Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago u35395@uicvm.uic.edu / u35395@uicvm From: dmccaffr@cscsun.rmc.edu (Dan McCaffrey) Subject: Mozart and quantum physics Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 16:36:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 29 (43) Dear Colleagues, A member of my college, who is not a member of this list, has asked me to pass on this inquiry to you. He has a vague recollection of someone saying or writing that whenever (s)he got depressed and discouraged about humanity, (s)he thought about Mozart and quantum physics and suddenly felt better. He wants to use the quote this weekend. Does anyone out there recognize it? Who? When? Where? You probably should reply directly to me. Thanks. Daniel V. McCaffrey Randolph-Macon College Ashland, VA 23005 USA office (804) 752-7276 fax (804) 752-7231 dmccaffr@rmc.edu From: "Neil Randall, University of Waterloo=" Subject: Job: Romantics Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 11:24:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 30 (44) The Department of English at the University of Waterloo invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level. Applications must have a Ph.D. with specialization in the British Romantics. Demonstrated strength in teaching and post-Ph.D. research accomplishments are recommended. Duties will include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. Salary negotiable. Appointment effective 1 September 1994 or 1 January 1995. Send c.v., transcripts, writing samples, and letters of reference to Dr. William Macnaughton, Chair, Department of English, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from qualified women and men, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and persons with disabilities. This appointment is subject to the availability of funds. If you wish to notify the department that you will be applying, please e-mail Neil Randall (nrandall@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca). Do not send applications materials through e-mail, however. Thank you Neil Randall (nrandall@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca) From: P.R.Denley@uk.ac.qmw Subject: AHC workshop Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 14:44:20 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 31 (45) Computing Techniques and the History of Universities An international workshop Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London 1-3 July 1994 hosted by the Humanities Computing Centre, QMW in collaboration with Association for History and Computing and History of Universities A growing number of historians of universities use computing techniques to handle and analyse large quantities of information, mostly prosopographical. The workshop will bring together international scholars working in this area in order to * examine the typology of university sources, with particular regard to computing considerations. * compare methods of handling and analysing large databases of university history which have been or are being created. * explore prospects of, and methods for, the accessing of such databases by other scholars, and the possibilities for collaborative work afforded by technology. Provisional programme -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Friday 1st July 4.00-5.00pm Registration and Tea 5.00pm Introduction and Welcome 5.00-6.30pm Session 1. Prosopography and Medieval Universities Jean-Philippe Genet (Paris), "A Computerized Paris Biographical Dictionary: a Project" Elisabeth Mornet (Paris), "Le peregrinatio academica la fin du Moyen Age: l'apport d'une base de donn es scandinave" Virginia Davis (Queen Mary & Westfield College, London), "Ordination Lists as a Source for Membership of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges in the Later Middle Ages" 6.30pm Sherry Reception (Humanities Computing Centre,QMW) 7.15pm Dinner 8.30-10.00pm Session 2. Source-Oriented Data Processing and Medieval University History Ingrid Matschinegg & Annemarie Steidl (Vienna), "Computer-Supported Mapping. Creating a Screen- Show of the Geographic Recruitment of the Viennese University in the Late Middle Ages" Thomas Maisel & Albert Mueller (Vienna), "Interpreting Social Information: Design and Management of Source-Oriented Databases on the History of the University" Peter Denley (Queen Mary & Westfield College, London), "Italian Renaissance Universities: a Source-Oriented Prosopographical Data Bank". Saturday 2nd July 8.00-9.00am Breakfast 9.00-10.30am Session 3. Medieval Universities, Intellectual History and Textual Analysis Dino Buzzetti (Bologna), "Fourteenth-Century Bolognese Philosophy and Medicine: Images and Editions" Stephen Livesey (Paris), "Unique Manuscripts and Medieval Productivity: How Shall We Count?" Jacques Verger (Paris), "Fourteenth-Century University and College Statutes as Source for Systematic Lexical Study" 10.30-11.00am Coffee 11.00-12.30 Session 4. University Databases: Design Methodology Peter Lauf (Cologne), "As Important as Problematic: Coding" Uwe Alschner (Osnabrueck), "Matriculation Registers as One Source of University History. Local and Social Origins of cives academici at the University of Helmstedt from 1576 to 1809/10" Jeroen Nilis (Leuven), "The Development of a Relational Database for Prosopographical Research of Institutions, in particular Universities (Twelfth to Eighteenth Centuries)" 12.30-2.00pm Lunch 2.00-3.30pm Session 5. University History: Major Database Projects Colin B. Burke (Columbia), "American Collegiate Populations: 24,000 Nineteenth Century Student Biographies. Was It Worth It?" Anne Crowther, Marguerite Dupree and James Bradley (Glasgow), "Micros and Medical Students: Sources and Methods for Exploring the Completion Rates and Careers of Scottish Medical Students in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" Alison Gaukroger and Leonard Schwarz (Birmingham), "Historians versus Databases: the Birmingham Experience" 3.30-4.00pm Tea 4.00-6.00pm Session 6. The Modern University: Case Studies in Database Design Carroll Brentano (Berkeley), "Designing a Database: A Case Study of the 1915 University of California Faculty" Marjory Harper (Aberdeen), "Students at the University of Aberdeen from 1860 to the 1920s" June Barrow-Green (Open University), "Mathematicians in British Universities, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" Peter Svobodny (Prague), "Biographical Lexicon of the German Medical Faculty in Prague, 1883-1945" 6.00-7.30pm Demonstrations 7.30pm Dinner Sunday 3rd July 8.00-9.00am Breakfast 9.00-10.30am Session 7. Creation and Dissemination Michael Cook (Liverpool), "University Archives: Standards for the Retrieval and Exchange of Data" John McLoughlin (King's College London), "Creating New Sources: Alumni Databases in the United Kingdom" Marc Nelissen (Leuven), "STUDIUM, University Discussion List: a First Evaluation". 10.30-11.00am Coffee 11.00-12.30 Session 8. In Progress: the Computerisation of Major Historical Resources Luciano Floridi (Wolfson College, Oxford), "The Egg, the Needle and the Compass: from the Iter Italicum to the Iter Electronicum". Discussion: "The re-computerisation of Emden's Biographical Registers?" Concluding discussion 12.30pm Lunch For further information, contact Dr Peter Denley, Department of History, Queen Mary & Westfield College (University of London), Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom. Tel. 44.71.7753148 - Fax 44.81.9808400 - Email p.r.denley@qmw.ac.uk Computing Techniques and the History of Universities Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London 1-3 July 1994 Booking Form Name ............................................................................. Address ............................................................................. ............................................................................. ............................................................................. ............................................................................. ............................................................................. Signature ............................................................................. Registration fee (including cost of morning coffee, afternoon tea, and resulting publication of conference papers) 20 pounds AND Full package of on-campus accommodation, individual room with en- suite bathroom, Friday 4.00pm to Sunday 4.00pm, full breakfast, lunch and dinner 99 pounds OR Accommodation and meals as above for a single 24-hour period (NB please state which period) 49.50 pounds Friday Dinner (including wine) 17 pounds Saturday Lunch 8 pounds Saturday Dinner (including wine) 17 pounds Sunday Lunch 8 pounds Bed & Breakfast Thursday night (subject to availability of rooms) 26 pounds Bed & Breakfast Sunday night (subject to availability of rooms) 26 pounds TOTAL Please tick here if you require vegetarian meals [ ] Payment must be by cheque, made out to "Queen Mary & Westfield College", and must be in sterling, free of bank or international exchange charges. Eurocheques made out in sterling are acceptable; we regret that credit cards cannot be accepted. Invoices and receipts can be supplied on request. Bookings involving accommodation cannot be accepted after 20th June 1994. Please sent this form to Dr Peter Denley, Department of History, Queen Mary & Westfield College (University of London), Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. Tel. 44.71.7753148 - Fax 44.81.9808400 - Email p.r.denley@qmw.ac.uk. From: P.R.Denley@uk.ac.qmw Subject: Book announcement: AHC 1992 international conference Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 15:01:09 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 32 (46) STORIA & MULTIMEDIA edited by Francesca Bocchi & Peter Denley Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of the Association for History & Computing Bologna 29.8-2.9.1992 A single volume of approximately 860 pages containing 85 papers given at the Congress, in Italian (48%), English (45%) and French (7%). Publication date: May 1994. Available in the UK at the special price of 28.00 pounds including postage and packing. Contents 1. General Subjects: Historical Research and New Structures for Historiography New technologies for public archives Edition of sources using computers Legal historiography and prosopography Archaeology Linguistics Regional and territorial history Historical demography Economic history Music 2. Methodology Abstract source structures: data modelling Hypertext and multimedia Expert systems Graphics and image processing 3. Educational Technologies Teaching with the computer STORIA & MULTIMEDIA can be ordered directly from the publisher, Grafis Edizioni, Via 2 Giugno, 4, 40033 Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna), Italy, price 70,000 Lire. It is also available within the UK at the special price of 28.00 pounds including postage and packing, from the Humanities Computing Centre, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. An order form is attached. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- STORIA & MULTIMEDIA edited by Francesca Bocchi & Peter Denley Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of the Association for History & Computing Bologna 29.8-2.9.1992 Order Form Name ............................................................................... Address ............................................................................... ............................................................................... ............................................................................... ............................................................................... Signature ............................................................................... I wish to order ....... copies of Storia & Multimedia at 28.00 pounds including p&p (to destinations within the UK). I enclose a cheque for: TOTAL............... Payment must be by cheque, made out to "Queen Mary & Westfield College". Orders should be sent to: Humanities Computing Centre, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. Invoices and receipts can be supplied on request. Persons outside the UK wishing to order the book should enquire about postal charges, or order it directly from Grafis Edizioni, Via 2 Giugno, 4, 40033 Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna), Italy, price 70,000 Lire. From: rob@PSULIAS.BITNET (Roger Brisson) Subject: journal announcement Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 09:59:46 +0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 33 (47) Journal Announcement for HUMANIST HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION ANNUAL Last year this scholarly journal moved its editorial office to The Pennsylvania State University, where it is now under the editorship of Roger L. Geiger, with associate editorship under Roger L. Williams. Published in a new, expanded format, the move to Penn State was inspired by the conviction that the history of higher education has entered a period of renewed vitality. The ANNUAL is the sole journal in the United States devoted to the study of the history of higher education. It aspires to advance the understanding and interpretation of this field through the publication of referreed articles and review essays of significant publications. It is thus intended as a resource for scholars and students in history, the history of higher education, and higher education. The latest volume (Vol. 13, 1993) is the second annual issued since moving the journal's editorial office. The articles in this volume (listed below) all deal with the theme of the modern university and its eneluctable adaptations to the proliferation of knowledge. Together, these studies deepen our appreciation of the protean nature of the modern university, surely one of its most fundamental and baffling qualities. "Backing into Sponsored Research": Physics and Engineering Amy Sue Bix at Princeton University, 1945-1970 American Universities and the Inclusion of Professional Schools Hugh Hawkins The 'German Model' and the Graduate School: The University of James Turner Michigan and the Origin Myth of the American University Paul Bernard The Chinese Scholars and the Modern University: The Xiaoqing Diana Appropriation of Foreign Educational Models, 1900-1930 Chen Nathan Glazer's "Schools of Minor Professions" and the Patricia L. Gregg Evolution of Schools of Education, Business, and Journalism The editors also welcome manuscript contributions for consideration in future volumes. Those interested in submitting a manuscript should contact the editor at the address below. Individual subscriptions to the ANNUAL are $12 in the United States and Canada, and $17 to Latin America and overseas. Institutional subscriptions are $15 in the United States and Canada, and $17 to Latin America and overseas. Individuals not wishing to subscribe personally may wish to forward this message to their university library for consideration. For further information contact: Dr. Roger L. Geiger, Editor History of Higher Education Annual The Pennsylvania State University 403 South Allen Street, Suite 115 University Park, PA 16801-5202 ************************************** e-mail inquiries: Roger Brisson Penn State University rob@psulias.psu.edu ************************************** From: "Jacqueline Brown" Subject: job opening Date: Wed, 25 May 94 13:52:59 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 34 (48) I have been asked by Ronald G. Leach, Associate Vice President for Information Services and Dean of Libraries, Indiana State University to post the following opening. It is a very nice opportunity on a campus which hasn't had strong leadership in academic computing to date, but where the president and new provost have made a significant commitment to support faculty in their uses of technology in the curriculum. Jacqueline Brown Director, Information Services Computing and Information Technology Princeton University DIRECTOR OF ACADEMIC COMPUTING & NETWORKING Indiana State University seeks applications for the newly created position of Director of Academic Computing & Networking. The Director will report to the Associate Vice President for Information Services and Dean of Libraries and be responsible for the academic computing/networking needs of the University. A staff of approximately 30 professional and support staff report to this position. RESPONSIBILITIES: The Director is expected to bring innovative vision and leadership in the effective application of computing to the academic programs of the University. The Director will exercise overall supervision of instructional support services (public computing facilities and end-user support), central support services (mainframe support, data networks and distributed computing functions such as email and office automation), and a faculty computer resource laboratory providing access to and guidance in use of applications of information technologies in the curriculum and in research. The Director will also provide leadership in developing input to the Information Services Strategic Plan for those areas that promote the enhanced use of computing and networking technology for teaching and research. The Director works closely with counterparts in Institutional Computing, Telecommunications and the University Libraries in developing and implementing coordinated and comprehensive information services for all campus constituencies. The Director also cooperates with Media and Television Services. The Director works closely with University committees that advise on academic computing and networking. QUALIFICATIONS: Experience in management of computer/information services including organizational/personnel management responsibilities, preparation and control of budgets, project management and evaluation and professional development of staff. Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to work well with all members of the academic community. Excellent communication skills. Knowledge of computer technology, networking and experience with a broad range of computing platforms, workstations, and their connectivity. A Master's degree is required. Preference for experience at the college or university level. Earned doctorate strongly preferred. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. THE UNIVERSITY: Founded in 1865, Indiana State University is a comprehensive state university with its own Board of Trustees and an annual operating budget of more than $120 million. The University has more than 600 full time faculty and a student body of 12,000 undergraduates and graduates, and offers more than 100 degree programs in a variety of disciplines and professional areas at the associate, bachelor, master and doctoral levels. The University is located in Terre Haute, a city of 60,000 which, in addition to being a hub for transportation, manufacturing and agriculture in the region, serves as the fine arts, cultural and athletic center of west- central Indiana and east-central Illinois. The campus academic computing environment includes IBM/VM-VSE, DEC/VMS, PRIME, and various UNIX multi-user platforms; Netware, Sun, and NeXTcube servers; IBM-compatible, Macintosh and NeXT workstations; a fully routed ethernet fiber backbone with an Internet connection via INDnet/CICnet which supports 2000+ ethernet-connected workstations in offices and labs. APPLICATION: Applicants should submit a resume; the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of five persons who can serve as references; and a letter of interest which includes a statement highlighting the abilities and experiences which candidates believe they can bring to the position. Send to Dr. Will Barratt, Chairperson, Director of Academic Computing and Networking Search Committee, Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, 47809 (or email to egbarra@befac.indstate.edu). Detailed screening of applications will begin on June 1, 1994. Position available July 1, 1994. ISU IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER From: "William E. Hutton" Subject: ISETL Announcement (fwd) Date: Wed, 25 May 94 10:35:25 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 35 (49) [deleted quotation] ***************** INTERNATIONAL SYMOSIUM AND EXHIBITION ********************* ************************ ON TEACHING AND LEARNING *************************** [deleted quotation] Forwarded with the permission of Dr. Buell by -- W.E.Hutton Department of G., L. & A.H. hutton@acs.ucalgary.ca University of Calgary 403-220-5070 (w) 2500 University Drive, N.W. 403-282-2973 (h) Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 CANADA ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: hcf1dahl@UCSBUXA.BITNET (Eric Dahlin) Subject: ACH Newsletter Date: Wed, 25 May 94 09:37:15 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 21 (50) I'm putting together the next issue of the _ACH Newsletter_ and would welcome any submissions of material of possible interest to computing humanists, such as conference announcements, reports on projects in progress, and new initiatives. Please send the items to me by e-mail at the address below. Eric Dahlin HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.bitnet HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu From: "Harry B. Lincoln" Subject: Journal of ACH Date: Wed, 25 May 94 15:40:36 ECT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 22 (51) I have the following run of Computers and the Humanities to donate to a library that needs them. Request $15 shipping costs and a "Gift" receipt from the library to use with the IRS. Computers and the Humanities (Association for Computers and Humanities) VOLUME {YEAR{NUMBER(S) 1 {1966 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 {Complete 2 {1967 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 {Complete 3 {1968 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 {Complete 4 {1969 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 {Complete 5 {1970 1, 2, 3, 4 { Lacks #5 6 {1971 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 {Complete 7 {1972 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 {Complete 7 {1973 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 {Complete 8 {1974 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 { Lacks #2 9 {1975 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 {Complete 10 {1976 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 {Complete 11 {1977 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 {Complete FOUR ISSUES A YEAR BEGINNING 1978 12 {1978 1/2 3, 4 {Complete 13 {1979 1, 2, 3, 4 {Complete 14 {1980 1, 2, 3, 4 {Complete 15 {1981 1, 3, 4 { Lacks #2 16 {1982 1, 2, 3, 4 {Complete 17 {1983 1, 2, 3, 4 {Complete 18 {1984 1, 3/4 { Lacks #2 19 {1985 All 1985 missing. 20 {1986 2, 4 {Lacks #1, #3 21 {1987 1, 4 { Lacks #2. #3 22 {1988 1, 4 { Lacks #2, #3 Harry B. Lincoln Prof. of Music, Emeritus Binghamton University (SUNY) Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 BG0056@BINGVMB From: Eric Crump Subject: Computers & Writing Teleconference (soon!) Date: Thu, 26 May 94 10:33:38 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 37 (52) .----------------------------------. |.--------------------------------.| || Computers and Writing: || || || || Seeing the Future by || || Knowing Our Past || || || || A Live Satelite Broadcast || || || || Thursday, June 2, 1994 || || 11:00 - 1:00 EDT || |`--------------------------------'| `----------------------------------' Presented by Ball State University -=- Sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Company ***************************** Scope of the Teleconference ***************************** The field of computers and writing has continued to develop during the last two decades, and now we find ourselves teetering on the brink of a new age--an age where students often have more experience than instructors using technology. Join us in an interactive dialogue as we explore the past, present, and future of computers and writing, further examining issues raised at the Tenth Computers and Writing Conference: o How do we redefine ourselves, our classrooms, and our pedagogy during this time? o Is there value in teaching students to navigate the Information Super Highway? _________________________ o What access is fair access? | | o Will this technology help | Who Should Participate? | students write better? | | o Does technology solve | University faculty and | problems or simply create | staff, administrators, | new ones? | students, computing | o Can we adapt old teaching | services personnel, | strategies in the computer | community college and | classroom, or do we need to | high school writing | invent new ones? | instructors | o Is new software being |_________________________| designed with writing teachers in mind? o How do we humanize the technology we use? ***************** Program Leaders ***************** Michael A. Benedict, an English teacher and Department Chair at Fox Chapel Area High School in Pittsburgh, PA, has worked developing computer mediated instruction for the last five years in his classes. Benedict was named the Christa McAuliffe Fellow by the U.S. Department of Education in 1988. Hugh Burns, Ph.D., Director of Educational Software and Technology at Smith College, is co-founder of the Daedalus Group, Inc. Burns has served on the advisory boards of NCTE, CCCC, and _The Journal of Basic Writing_, and has been recognized for his pioneering work through the creation of the annual Hugh Burns Outstanding Dissertation Award for the most promising scholar in educational computing and the liberal arts. Bill Condon, Ph.D., Associate Director for Instruction in the University of Michigan's English Composition Board (ECB), is an active proponent of using computer networks to support writing across the disciplines and the collaborative teaching of writing. Condon has also published numerous articles on portfolio-based writing assessment. Fred Kemp, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at Texas Tech University, is co-author of the Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment, and has published a number of articles on computer-based networked classrooms. Kemp is also the founder and list owner of several discussion lists, including MBU-L, WCENTER, and ACW-L, and is a co-founder and co-director of the Alliance for Computers and Writing. Cynthia L. Selfe, Ph.D., Professor of Composition and Communication at Michigan Technological University, has authored five books and numerous articles on computer use in composition classrooms and has co-edited several other collections of essays on the topic. Selfe edits the journal _Computers and Composition_ and has co-founded Computers and Composition Press with Gail Hawisher. .----------------------------------------------. | Special Offer for Satellite Sites | |______________________________________________| | | | Houghton Mifflin will sponsor 20 selected | | sites for *free* satellite downlinks. | | Community Colleges are encouraged to apply. | | Contact Kristin Peri, c/o Houghton Mifflin | | Company, 222 Berkeley St., Boston, MA | | 02116-3764 or E-mail PERI@HMCO.COM | `----------------------------------------------' - - - - - - - - - - - (print and cut here) - - - - - - - - - - - - - ************************ Site Registration Form ************************ To register for this live satellite broadcast, please contact your campus satellite downlink center and fill out this form. Please return the form via the post office, not via E-mail. Registration Fee: Because of a generous grant from the Houghton Mifflin Company, we are able to offer the satellite downlink for only $100 per site. Payment is required to receive satellite coordinates. _______________________________________________________________ Name of Institution _______________________________________________________________ Street Address _______________________________________________________________ City State ZIP Downlink Coordinator Name _____________________________________ Telephone Number ______________________________________________ Fax Number ____________________________________________________ E-mail Address ________________________________________________ Check appropriate box: [ ] C-Band [ ] Ku-Band [ ] Both Send Registration Form with Check (Payable to Ball State University) to: Department of English Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306 Attention: Teleconference Registration Fax: (317) 285-3765 ************ Questions? ************ Call Rebecca Rickly at (317) 285-8386 or e-mail to 00rjrickly@bsuvc.bsu.edu From: DEL2@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: Help on a Greek phrase? Date: Thu, 26 May 94 15:04:43 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 38 (53) I recently inherited a flagon with an inscribed silver lid. The inscription appears to be corrupt Greek, and if anyone can suggest a reasonable interpretation I'd be grateful. A TLG search suggests it's nothing classical. It is NIKW AAOS It makes no sense to me however I take it. The obvious possibilities are nikw alos, nikw laos, and simple nonsense. The flagon is not specially old, so perhaps it's the last, but it would be nice to know. Regards, Douglas de Lacey, Cambridge UK. From: "Roger S. Jones" Subject: Mysterious Greek Flagon Date: Thu, 26 May 94 22:06:24 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 23 (54) Be very careful! Because --- The flagon with the dragon has the potion with the poison, but the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true. Roger S. Jones School of Physics and Astronomy University of Minnesota 116 Church St. S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455 From: David Shaw Subject: Re: 8.0038 Q: Help with Greek Phrase (1/11) Date: Fri, 27 May 94 8:41:35 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 24 (55) Douglas de Lacey has already solved his own riddle. Surely what the inscription says is not niko laos but nikolaos i.e. Nicolaus in Latin, Nicholas in English. David Shaw University of kent at Canterbury. From: Tommaso Del Vecchio Subject: Re: 8.0038 Q: Help with Greek Phrase (1/11) Date: Fri, 27 May 94 11:51:11 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 25 (56) Couldn't it be simply the proper name Nikwlaos? From: Alan A Green Subject: Q: Help with epigram attributions Date: Thu, 26 May 94 23:26:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 40 (57) Dear colleagues, I am trying to identify the authors of seven epigrams which are the texts of a set of songs by Allen Sapp in 1952, _Seven Epigrams (Both Sweet and Sour)_. Unfortunately de did not record the attributions in the score, but remembered that they were from an anthology of works by English poets of the 16th and 17th centuries. After scouring dozens of likely anthologies, and concordances of Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe, I have come up empty. I would be grateful for any attributions for the seven epigrams printed below: I. Short epigrams relish both sweet and sour like fritters of sour apple and sweet flour II. Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. III. Weapons in peace grow hungry, and will eat themselves with rust. But war allows them meat. IV. Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall. V. Thy flatt'ring picture, Phryne, is like thee only in this: that both you painted be. VI. Who only in his cups will fight is like a clock which must be well oiled ere it strike. VII. Some men marriage do commend and all their life in wiving spend. But if that I should wives have three (God keep me from Polygamy!) I'll give the devil two for pay If he will fetch the third away. Thank you for your assistance! Alan Green Ohio State University green.200@osu.edu From: Stuart Lee Subject: CTI Subscription Charges Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 17:15:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 41 (58) [Please Distribute Accordingly] Dear Colleagues, As many of you are aware the Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) Centre for Textual Studies has for some years now been operating a policy of freely distributing all our publications. This has included six issues of our newsletter, 'Computers & Texts', and two versions of our Resources Guide (a guide to some of the software available in the area of humanities computing). However, due to financial constraints, we have had to revise this policy. Subscribers outside of the United Kingdom will have to pay a subscription charge that covers printing, postage, and packing costs (academics within the UK will still receive a copy of all our publications free of charge). This reflects our funding by the Higher Education Councils of England, Scotland, & Wales, plus the Department of Education for Northern Ireland. The subscription charge for institutions/individuals outside of the UK will be #70.00 (pounds sterling) per annum. For this you will receive a copy of our 'Resources Guide', and two issues of our newsletter 'Computers & Texts'. Subscribers will also be able to consult the CTI Staff for more specific information on related matters. For further information I enclose some details about the CTI Centre, plus information on the new Resources Guide, and a subscription form. The staff at the CTI Centre regret this change in policy but feel that with rising costs it has become inevitable. We feel we should also point out that the Centre has always been funded to support UK academics only and that our previous policy of distributing material internationally free of charge was unique in the CTI. Stuart Lee Research Officer *************************************************************************** Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) Centre for Textual Studies The Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) is a Government funded project aimed at increasing or enhancing the use of computers in University education throughout the United Kingdom. It has evolved into 20 subject specific centres, each with the same aims and objectives. The CTI Centre for Textual Studies is based at Oxford University Computing Services, but as with all CTI Centres, is funded to cover the whole of the UK. The subjects covered by the Centre are Literature, Linguistics, Classics, Theology, Philosophy & Logic, and Theatre Arts & Drama. 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DATE:........................................................................ From: "James O'Donnell" Subject: Latin for credit on the Net Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 15:19:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 42 (59) Latin on the Net for Credit I am happy to announce that arrangements have been completed to offer an advanced Latin course in the fall of 1994 to individuals who register for and take the course entirely through the Internet. Such students will pay a combined tuition and general fee of $759 to the University of Pennsylvania's College of General Studies (our established arm for extension, summer, and distance programs, which thus offers instruction at rates like this far below that of the usual Penn tuition). In return they will get individualized instruction, participation in the larger network discussion that will accompany this course, and (on successful completion of requirements) a grade and a transcript from the University of Pennsylvania awarding four semester hours of graduate-level credit. (N.B.: the seminar will also emphatically be open to the Internet audience at no charge just as was the Augustine course I offered in spring of 1994. The tuition gets you personalized instruction, a grade on a paper, and an official Penn transcript and credit.) The course will be devoted to Boethius' *Consolation of Philosophy*. The Latin text and some additional materials will be made available over the network. Students registering for the course for credit will be expected to participate in an on-line conferencing discussion at least once a week (probably using MOO software or something similar) in which they will be "called on" to "recite", and they will each write a substantial term paper at the end of the course. I should emphasize that this will create a Boethius seminar with three audiences: a classroom of students at Penn, a virtual classroom of registered students across the country or around the world, and a larger virtual common room of other interested parties who sign up for the e-mail list discussion in connection with the course. Students registered for the course will get individualized instruction in the classroom or in the virtual classroom, but they will also be actively encouraged to participate in the discussion in the larger virtual common room of the e-mail list as well. This experiment follows the success of a similar undertaking I conducted in the spring of 1994 on the work and thought of Augustine. The novelty here is that students elsewhere may register and get credit for the course. The course has been constructed with a particular view to serving the needs of secondary school Latin teachers, but all interested parties, wheresoever on the globe located, with a good basic knowledge of Latin are invited to apply. (The Latinless should not despair; you are welcome to join the general discussion for this course, and I hope to offer courses in coming terms over the net that will not require specific linguistic background.) Registration is limited to 20 students. Interested parties should get in touch with the instructor (jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu) at their earliest convenience; when I have determined that you have the minimum qualifications for the course, you will be sent official university application forms, pay a nominal fee, and be formally registered. That transaction plus the distribution (if you request it) of a transcript afterwards should be the only paper transaction in the whole exercise. NOTE: To get full advantage of the course it is best to have "full Internet connectivity", which is most readily available if you have an account through an academic institution. If you purchase Internet access from a private company, try to find one that offers "gopher" and "World-Wide Web" access. The landscape changes almost daily, but I believe "delphi.com" may be a serviceable provider at the present moment. For further information about the instructor and for a look at the archive of the Augustine course from spring 1994, use the World-Wide Web to the following address: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/jod.html PLEASE REPOST. I am particularly interested in hearing of ways to get this notice to the secondary school teaching audience in a timely way. Professor James J. O'Donnell Department of Classical Studies 720 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Voice: 215-898-8734 FAX: 215-898-0933 Internet: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu WWW: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/jod.html From: Glyn.Parry@vuw.ac.nz Subject: THREAT TO EARLY MODERN BOOKS COLLECTION Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 10:57:13 +1200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 43 (60) THREAT TO NEW ZEALAND RARE BOOKS COLLECTION It has just been revealed here in Wellington that New Zealand Treasury officials are circulating a secret discussion paper proposing to sell the thousands of early modern printed books in the Alexander Turnbull Library, a division of the National Library of New Zealand. Alexander Turnbull left about 55,000 books to the nation in 1918, including many early modern books and a particularly strong collection of John Milton's works, which has been subsequently developed and is believed to constitute the fifth-ranking Milton collection in the world. Turnbull did not establish any kind of trust for the books because he relied on subsequent Governments to respect his wishes. Later bequests by New Zealanders and overseas donors were made under similar conditions, mainly when the Turnbull Library was an independent collection before being absorbed into the National Library in 1965. It is now probably one of the finest early-modern research collections in the southern hemisphere, containing about 16,000 titles. New Zealand Treasury officials have been behind the precipitate selling of state assets for the last decade, as part of the monetarist policies pursued by successive governments of both left and right. Initially the justification, apart from economic theory, was the need to reduce high overseas debt inherited from populist attempts in the 1970s to establish import-replacement industries and fund an overly-generous state superannuation scheme. Overseas debt is now diminishing as a proportion of GDP, the government is running increasing current-account surpluses, and the economy is growing at more than 5% per annum. However, while the number of saleable assets is diminishing, the number of Treasury officials looking to sell them is not, and, apart from the prospect of realising several hundred million $, a further justification for the proposed sale is that the Turnbull collection is a 'non-New Zealand' heritage. This argument reflects the recent creation of 'Kiwi Nationalism', for in line with its new economic structure New Zealand opinion-formers are self-consciously seeking to reshape the country's identity as a Pacific and even Asian nation, independent of its previous close ties with Britain. Yet, since 80% of the population is of European origin, and a large part of that percentage can trace its origins to the British Isles, the collection is obviously an important part of New Zealand's heritage in the same way as Maori *taonga* or cultural treasures. Concerned groups are also arguing that the collection is in any case of global as well as national importance, because of the historical significance of early printed books and the ideas they contain, and that they are not ours to sell but under our stewardship for future generations. Milton's arguments against censorship and for personal freedom and liberal education are particularly ironic in this instance. At present the proposal is officially described as merely a 'discussion document', but that is of course a traditional way for governments to test the waters, to discover whether an idea generates sufficient opposition to prevent the sinister policy being subsequently implemented. Therefore I ask all scholars subscribing to this list who are concerned by the proposal to write to the Minister in charge of the National Library, Roger McClay, protesting at this act of historical philistinism. I believe that international protests will be particularly effective since a major argument of the opponents of the proposal is that selling this country's treasures will make it the laughing-stock of the international community. The Minister's address is: The Honourable Roger McClay Parliament Buildings Wellington New Zealand fax: 64-4-473-3698 You can also write to the Prime Minister of New Zealand: The Right Honourable Jim Bolger Parliament Buildings Wellington New Zealand Fax: 64-4-473-7045 I would appreciate it if those who do write to either of the above would e-mail me a copy of their letter. Many thanks in anticipation. Dr Glyn Parry, History Department, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand Fax: 64-4-471-2070, e-mail Glyn.Parry@vuw.ac.nz **************************************************************************** ** Dr Glyn Parry Tel.: (04) 472 1000 x 8363/ or 385 3509 History Department Fax: (04) 471 2070 Victoria University of Wellington 'the recognition of ignorance is the PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand beginning of education' **************************************************************************** ** From: kproddy@ucdavis.edu Subject: Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 09:15:55 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 44 (61) ANNOUNCING: Association of College and Research Libraries Bibliographic Instruction Section - College Libraries Section 1994 ALA Annual Conference Program Miami Beach Monday, June 27, 1994 2:00-5:30 p.m. Fontainebleau Hilton -- Voltaire Room Beyond the F1 Key: Thinking and Teaching the Internet within the Curriculum Critical thinking has direct and profound connections with learning outcome developments in college and university curriculums. By using the rich and varied environment of the Internet to engender critical thinking abilities, we connect our library programs to the key movement in educational reform today. We will present two conceptual frameworks and three case studies related to Internet training and use in the academic library. Related poster sessions, co-sponsored by the ACRL Science and Technology Section, will precede the program. Featured speakers: "Critical Thinking: Using It and Teaching for It" Dr. Gerald Nosich, Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans "Educational Reasons for Teaching the Internet: A Faculty Perspective" Dr. Kevin Roddy, Lecturer in Medieval Studies and Academic Coordinator of Information Technology at the University of California, Davis Case study speakers: The Library, the Curriculum, and Beyond Ilene F. Rockman, Interim Associate Dean of Library Services, California Polytechnic State University Mary Jane McDermott Cedar Face, Social Science Librarian/Cataloging Librarian at Southern Oregon State College John Stachacz, Chairperson of the Department of Library Resources at Dickinson College Followed by ACRL President's Reception From: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au (Prof. Roly Sussex) Subject: Request to identify a quotation Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 08:50:19 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 45 (62) I have lost the source (author, title) of a poem of which I can barely remember a fragment. I need this information for a good linguistic purpose. Can anyone please help to identify who wrote the poem of which the following are (roughly) the last four lines? But as for you, my language fails, Go out and govern New South Wales. [?at this the peer....] and died, And gracious! How Lord Lundey cried! I thought it might be G.K. Chesterton or Hillaire Belloc, but a quick scan of their collected works hasn't turned up anything. Replies to me personally, please. Roly Sussex Centre for Language Teaching and Research The University of Queensland Australia From: Edoardo Tortarolo Subject: Call for papers: Time Perception in the Historical Writing Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 18:53:58 +0100 (GDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 46 (63) Notions and concepts of time belong to the core of history writing: without recurring to some form of time reckoning and time shaping no historiography is possible at all. Therefore, historians have always conceptualised the succession and connection of events according to their= idea of time. A consistent concept of time characterises the historical writing as such, even if it is seldom made explicit in the narrative. The choice of events and situations deemed appropriate to be narrated in a historical text depends to a very great extent indeed on the prevailing notion of time. It is clear that different cultures have elaborated different and sometimes extremely heterogeneous concepts of time. The notion of time is of paramount importance in the formative stages of a historiographic tradition when a canon is set and the underlying notion of time assumes a normative function which subsequent historians are likely to abide by. From the interpretation of the time structure a historiographic tradition derives its peculiarity as an expression of a cultural setting and its legitimacy as a means of collective identity. Some questions therefore arise. What is the dominant notion of time expressed in a historiographical tradition? What is the connection between the beginning of a narrative and its conclusion? Is the prevailing time structure entirely progressive or is the narrative based on a cyclical, genealogical, or ecological time? Is the historiographical tradition open-ended or is the narrator's age seen as the conclusion of a time process? What is the connection between the notion of time operating in the historiographical text and its religious, political, and cultural setting? We invite scholars interested in these topics to submit papers to the journal AEStoria della StoriografiaAE (Dipartimento di storia, Universita di Torino, via S. Ottavio 20, 10124 Torino, Italy; storstor@rs950.cisi.unito.it). A monographic issue on Time Perception in the Historical Writing is due to appear in 1995. Contributions dealing with Ancient Greece and with the Chinese, Japanese, African, Islamic, and Latin American historiographical traditions are particularly welcome. The editors Georg G. Iggers Edoardo Tortarolo From: traiger@oxy.edu (Saul Traiger) Subject: Position: Director, Office of International Programs Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 10:17:47 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 47 (64) Position: Director, Office of International Programs Institution: Occidental College Beginning: as soon as possible Qualifications: B.A. required; advanced degree preferred. Experience with international programs administration, foreign language study and travel. Responsibilities: promotion and administration of overseas study programs in Asia, Europe, Russia, and Mexico; coordination with faculty program advisors; administration of international fellowship programs; liaison with international student advisor in Student Services Office. Application Deadline: June 30, 1994 Include: letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of three people who are sending letters of recommendation. Apply To: Prof. Louise Yuhas, Associate Dean of the Faculty, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles, CA 90041. Phone (213) 259-2748; Fax (213) 259-2930; Email yuhas@cheshire.oxy.edu Occidental College is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate against employees or applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or disability. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: Gopher help Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 14:39:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 26 (65) Perhaps one of my more technically adept colleagues can advise on a small but frustrating gopher problem. When I use as the "Host" a legal adress in numerical foorm (e.g., 192.54.81.76), gopher appears to put a period (full-stop) at the end and, as a result, cannot recognize the address as legal. What can I do, assuming that the non-numerical form of the address is not available? Thanks. WM -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: John Price-Wilkin Subject: TEI Guidelines online at UVa: http://etext.virginia.edu/TEI.html Date: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 16:41:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 27 (66) The University of Virginia Library is pleased to make the TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (P3) available via WWW. This is NOT an HTML version of the Guidelines. Instead, it is the fully validated TEI-conformant SGML version of the Guidelines, made browseable and searchable through PAT, and rendered as HTML on-the-fly by perl. (My perl filtering is sometimes less than satisfying, but I'll continue to work on improving it. The process by which the interaction with PAT was done will eventually be incorporated in the ongoing documentation of the WWW-to-PAT gateway at http://sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu/pub/www-to-pat/.) Chapters, sections, sub-sections, etc. are delivered by PAT's structure search and retrieval. Hypertext links created in the original SGML are rendered as HTML anchors, which in turn initiate structure searches. We are very grateful to Open Text, who allowed us to provide Internet-wide access to PAT. We are also extremely grateful to everyone involved in creating the Guidelines for making such an invaluable resource freely available in SGML. John Price-Wilkin jpw@virginia.edu From: "BarryM.Dank " Subject: consent Date: 3 Jun 94 21:43:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 49 (67) Humanist onliners: We thought that you might be interested in learning about a new netwrok that is presently forming. A statement of purpose of CASE is upcoming. Unfortunately, there has been little overt opposition expressed to the increasing institutional intrusion into the intimate aspects of the lives of academics. CASE has been created to attempt to change this situation. Persons to date who have become affiliated with CASE cover the academic spectrum with heavy representation from psychology and sociology. What "unites" us is our opposition to authoritarianism; of course, the authoritarians are opposed to the very existence of CASE CASE's creation was based on what we believe is firmly humanistically grounded- that free autonomous adult human beings should not be treated/judged in impersonal categorical terms. If you have any degree of interest in the issues that we are raising, do post us, and we will send you more information as well as informing you when our e mail network will be available for subscription. Barry Dank for CASE ************************************************************************* CONSENTING ACADEMICS for SEXUAL EQUITY Consenting Academics for Sexual Equity(CASE) is an association of academics, and those with prior academic affiliations, committed to the principle of consent regarding intimate relationships. In advocacy of this principle, CASE rejects the principle advocated by some academics that academics in asymmetrically related positions be banned from having intimate relationships. Specifically, we regard it as an inappropriate intrusion for universities to ban consenting intimate relationships between students and professors; students and administrators; junior professors and senior professors, etc. While CASE is opposed to academic banning of intimate relationships, we do not endorse or encourage particular types of intimate relationships. In terms of student-professor relationships occurring while a class is ongoing, we hold that such relationships are often fraught with potential difficulties; however, we feel that it is inappropriate for authority to coercively repress such relationships. Whether relationships be inside or outside of academia, we encourage all involved persons to fully and responsibly explore the ethical ramifications of their behavior. CASE rejects the concept that consenting adult sexual relationships can fall under the rubric of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment cannot occur unless there is UNWANTED sexual attention. CASE regards the attempts of universities to coerce the behavior of consenting academics as a form of sexual harassment in itself. In this regard, we are also concerned that such banning policies may also be employed as a guise to regulate and demean persons who are involved in same sex or interracial or inter-age relationships. Our concern also includes the effects of academic banning on all kinds of academic relationships, such as non-sexual friendships and mentoring relationships. CASE is particularly concerned with the cartoon caricatures of professor as predatory lecher and the student as innocent victim. Such caricatures deny the diversity and heterogeneity of university life and function to denigrate and degrade fellow academics, both students and professors. In terms of dealing with such caricatures, CASE provides speakers, both men and women, who will openly address ethical issues relating to asymmetric academic relationships and the banning of such relationships. CASE has been created by academics and former academics who are or have been involved in long-term committed relationships that originated in an academic context. Some of us are married; some of us are parents; some of us are gay. Whatever your personal situation may be, please do consider joining us and helping us secure the right of intimate association for adults in academia. For more information about CASE,and becoming associated with CASE, contact Professor Barry M. Dank, Ph.D., Coordinator, CASE, Department of Sociology, California State University, Long Beach, Calif.90840. Or voice mail at 310-985-4236. Or e mail at case@beach1.csulb.edu From: "Betsey B. Price" Subject: INFO: Conference Date: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 09:06:52 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 50 (68) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- CONFERENCE Ancient and Medieval Economic Thought M.I.T. Cambridge, MA Friday, June 10 9:15-5:15 Four plenary sessions Papers by: W. Klever, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam S. Ambirajan, Indian Institute of Technology S.T. Lowry, Washington and Lee University L. Baeck, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven E. Kleiman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem S.M. Ghazanfar, University of Idaho S.A. Epstein, University of Colorado - Boulder A. Lapidus, Universite de Paris M. Grice-Hutchinson, Malaga For more information, contact Price@MITVMA.MIT.EDU directly From: John Lavagnino Subject: Society for Textual Scholarship conference Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 12:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 28 (69) The deadline for submission of papers for the 1995 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship has been extended to July 15, 1994. The conference will take place on April 6-8, 1995, in New York City; conference papers may be on any aspect of the discovery, enumeration, transcription, description, editing, or annotating of texts, in any discipline. The following general topics have been suggested by the program committee: text and technology, text and performance, text and cultural constraint, the editor as ideologue, canonicity, teaching textual criticism, text and ephemerality, adapt or die. Among those speaking at the conference will be James Beck on reading Michelangelo, Joel Berkowitz on Shakespeare on the American Yiddish stage, George Bornstein on editorial theory for non-editors, Kelvin Everest on editing Shelley, John Kidd on the Joyce wars, Marilyn Lavin on teaching art history, Leah S. Marcus on orality and literacy in the Renaissance playhouse, Catherine Maubon on the construction of the autobiographical writings of Michel Leiris, Jerome J. McGann on text and technology, Donald H. Reiman on facsimile editions, Wayne D. Shirley on censored and uncensored Cole Porter, Thomas Staley on John Rodker, Ann Thompson on Hamlet and canonicity, Steven Urkowitz on players and editors in Shakespearean school texts, Brian Vickers on editing Shakespeare, and Marta Werner on Emily Dickinson. One-page abstracts should be submitted to the conference chair, Edward Burns, Department of English, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ 07470 (fax 212 673-6390). Session plans may also be submitted, in which case the proposer is responsible for organizing and confirming the speakers. [Don't write to this address if you have questions, write to Edward Burns. I'm just a messenger. No, I don't have an e-mail address for him.] From: Helen Ostovich Subject: SECOND NOTICE CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 16:36:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 29 (70) SECOND NOTICE CALL FOR PAPERS "Expanding the Canon: New Dimensions in English Renaissance Studies", this year's McMaster University English Association Conference, will be held on November 18, 1994. Scholars are invited to submit papers which rediscover and explore neglected areas of English writings, 1560-1625, such as lesser known dramatic, poetic, and prose works, travel literature, emblem books, women's writing, masques, and popular culture. Plenary speaker: Jean Howard (Columbia). Respondent: Paul Stevens (Queens). Send completed 10-page/20-minute papers by OCTOBER 3, 1994, to Dr Helen Ostovich or Dr Mary Silcox, Dept of English, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L9 e-mail inquiries: ostovich@mcmaster.ca From: Hansje Braam Subject: Recogniter Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:14:12 +0200 (MET DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 30 (71) I am trying to locate the manufacturers / sellers of the Hungarian OCR program Recogniter(A MS-Windows program). Can anybody help? thanks. hansje braam, Dep. Oriental Languages & Cultures, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. braam@let.ruu.nl From: fujii%mackay@cs.umass.edu (Hideo Fujii) Subject: TUSCUMBIA? Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 20:03:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 31 (72) Hello evrybody. Recently I watched a movie of "A Miracle Worker" showing the story of Hellen Keller and Anne Sullivan, and I was very impressed how the language ignites the humanity, or vice versa. I have the following question. Could someone please answer to me? In the movie, it was a name of place (a train station), TUSCUMBIA where the Kellers were living. I have checked the name in my AAA Travel Guide Book, but I couldn't find. Where is it? Is there a musium to commemorate her life? If so, where? I would like to visit it in this summer vacation, if possible. Hideo Fujii (fujii@cs.umass.edu) From: Jeremy Parzen Subject: flatlandia Date: Mon, 06 Jun 94 11:39 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 32 (73) Do you know by any chance what the word 'flatlandia' refers to? Could it be perhaps a fumetto degli anni '20? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeremy From: Phyllis Wright Subject: Bibliotheque Nationale Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 14:17:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 33 (74) Is it possible that someone could provide me with the summer hours for the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. I am particularly interested in the time between July 27 and August 15, 1994. Many thanks Phyllis Wright From: Paul Brians Subject: Looking for Rhetoric Info on the Internet Date: Tue, 07 Jun 94 13:06:12 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 34 (75) For a colleague, I am looking for any document that might exist out there which would serve as a guide to resources dealing with rhetorical studies on the Internet, or composition generally. Any suggestions? Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020 From: "Tze-wan Kwan, Hongkong (twkwan@cuhk.hk)" Subject: Re: 8.0048 Net Resources: Gopher Question; TEI online (2/47) Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 14:23:25 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 53 (76) Willard McCarty complained about the extra period (fullstop) appended and misinterpreted by the Gopher client. I tried it on my Gopher client but cannot see where the problem lies! I used IP addresses as argument to the gopher command and always got through to where I wanted to land. So I think the problem Willard encountered might be one owing to wrong installation of the gopher client! But in case it helps if the corresponding "domain address: is available I can then suggest one way to work around the trouble. In UNIX , there is a well-known program called nslookup which helps find out the IP address from a given domain address. However, it is less well- known that we can use nslookup to do the opposite: namely, to find out the domanin address from a givee n IP address. To do this, you first enter the "nslookup" command without any argument. You'll then be returned a > prompt. Now from this >prompt issue the command: set type=ptr When you see the > prompt again, you can then enter the IP address you have at hand while the nslookup program will return you domain address as well as all possible aliases associated with the given IP information! Tze-wan Kwan Philosophy Department, The Chinese University of HongKong From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 8.0049 CASE: Consenting Academics for Sexual Equity (1/84) Date: Mon, 06 Jun 94 10:01 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 54 (77) Dear B Dank: I think you have a difficult matter in hand, as it were, since the principal of privacy and protection from State or Private authority is most im portant, in this century, in particular. (Chaucer's Summonour "hadde in hys con trole al the yonge girls of hys parishe," girles meaning all adolescents; so th e problems of lechery and subornation of sexuality to power is not new, of cour se in hierarchical institutions, and the corruption of power and morality that underlies it, as it were.) At any rate it is a problem that Orwell and Wilhelm Reich before him understood: Sex and the Totalists. I am of course as a writer interested in the issues, even if I have seen terrific abuses over the years , including Gay harassers. There are more incontinent sexual nuts out there than there are blue papers to grade, it sometimes seems. The young TAs at U of Michigan in 1950s were warned by the Chair to keep their office doors always open, since they were subject to seduction by young women (harassment), and that was surely the case. Ever read Malamud's very comic satire, A NEW LIFE? It says it all, and more. Jascha Kessler (IME9JFK@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU) From: Robert Glendinning Subject: Query re Piccolomini Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 16:08:56 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 35 (78) I am working on Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini's _Historia de duobus amantibus_. Most scholars agree that it is a _roman a clef_ in which classical names (e.g., Lucretia, Euryalus, Menelaus, Nissus, Achates) refer to historical persons in Siena in 1432-33. However, one name, Catharina Petrusia, seems to be an exception, and this could be significant for my research. Does anyone know how I could find out whether a Petrusia family existed in 15th century Siena (short of going there myself), and of course, more particularly a Catharina Petrusia? Please reply to me privately. Thanks. Bob Glendinning, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada From: Paul Brians Subject: Lists dealing with Postcolonial Lit? Date: Thu, 09 Jun 94 11:10:28 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 36 (79) Does anyone know of a Listserv that deals regularly with postcolonial literature and related topics? Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020 From: "Hill, Joan" Subject: Upcoming conference Date: Fri, 10 Jun 94 09:43:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 56 (80) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joan Hill Research Journals National Research Council Tel. (613) 993-9093 Fax. (613) 952-7656 E-mail: joan.hill@nrc.ca Accuracy and Accountability in Scholarly Information: A Symposium VENUE The Accuracy and Accountability in Scholarly Information: A Symposium will be held on the McGill University Campus, Bronfman Building, 1001 Sherbrooke Street in Montreal, August 12-13, 1994. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM August 12 and 13, 1994 08:30 - 17:00 h During this Symposium we will be exploring the issue of validation of research information. We will be examining the role of the various players: researchers, editors, publishers, and the media. We will try to look, as well, at the role that publication plays, be it to ensure the continuity of grants or for career advancement. These issues have become more pressing because of the speed and ease with which information is transmitted through the use of such things as electronic mail and the Internet. Plenary Sessions Keynote Speaker David Johnston Chair, Information Highway Advisory Council Dealing with delusion and duplicity: What is the editor's role? Ensuring the quality of peer review Lee N. Miller Managing Editor Editor-in-Chief, Ecology and Ecological Monographs Managing Editor, Ecological Society of America Quality and electronic publishing: An oxymoron? Old values in new settings: How do you preserve quality in electronic journals? David L. Rodgers Research Scientist, School of Information and Library Studies University of Michigan Is quality an outmoded concept in the electronic age? The effect of diminishing resources on quality Patricia A. Morgan Director of Publications, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Associate Publisher, The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials Electronic (online) publishing: What have we learned so far? Lessons from case studies Mar a L. Lebrcn Associate Publisher, The American Physical Society Former Managing Editor, The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials Orthodoxy and research Implicit and explicit ways in which orthodoxy shapes research Robert Martin Professor of Law and Journalism University of Western Ontario How much is enough? Is more less? Does quality or quantity affect reward? Bruce P. Dancik Editor-in-Chief NRC Research Journals Afterwords: A moderated discussion A second look at the issues Bruce Squires Editor-in-Chief Canadian Medical Association Publications Workshops Please rank two choices in priority order on the Registration form. We will do our utmost to ensure that you get your first choice, but some of the sessions have limited space. W1 Small journal publishing operations Rosemary J. Mackay, Editor, Journal of the North American Benthological Society Anne Marie Corrigan, Journals Manager, University of Toronto Press Inc. Rosemary Mackay will address the issue of how to maintain high editorial standards and still keep a timely production schedule when the flow of manuscripts is erratic. Anne Marie Corrigan will discuss the business issues focussing on the areas of production, distribution, and promotion. W2 An Internet tutorial Peter Deutsch President, Bunyip Inc. Perhaps you've heard the words Gopher, Mosaic, netsurfing, and WAIS, but do not have a clear picture of what they mean or how the Internet operates. In this workshop Peter Deutsch will give you an overview of the technology and lead you on a voyage of exploration so that you can better understand the information that is available on the Internet. W3 The ethics of human studies Stephen Prudhomme, Director Bruce Squires, Editor-in-Chief Canadian Medical Association Publications How do we safeguard ourselves as physicians, scientists, editors, and publishers when carrying out studies on humans? What are the rights and obligations of each party? W4 Electronic journal creation and distribution Andrea Keyhani Manager, Electronic Publishing OCLC Online Computer Library Center What is the status today? What issues need to be addressed before a journal goes electronic? How should a publisher prepare for electronic distribution? What options are available and what are the pros and cons? These topics and others will be addressed in this session. W5 Publication policies and guidelines Taylor Steeves Chair, Advisory Board on Scientific and Engineering Communications National Research Council This will be a facilitated discussion group where participants will be asked to share their questions and answers, problems and solutions on such issues as copyright transfer, responsibilities of editors, conflict of interest, handling breaches of ethical behaviour, etc. Registrants will be asked to forward samples of their current guidelines (if available) so that these may be distributed to the other participants in advance. TRANSLATION Simultaneous translation to French or English will be available for the Symposium sessions. There will be no simultaneous translation services for the Saturday afternoon workshops. LUNCH Lunch will be provided to all registrants on Friday, August 12 at the McGill University Faculty Club. RECEPTION The Symposium reception will be held Friday, August 12 from 18:00 to 19:00 h at the Delta Hotel, a few minutes from McGill University. ACCOMMODATION A block of rooms has been reserved in the McGill University residences on Sherbooke Street and in nearby hotels. To make room reservations, please call or fax the information and indicate AASI: A Symposium to the following: McGill University Residences - Royal Victoria College, 3425 University Avenue Tel: (514) 398-6363 Fax: (514) 398-6770 Rate: $36.50 per night (including taxes). Delta Hotel - Tel: (514) 286-1986 Fax: (514) 284-4306 Rate: $105.00 per night, single or double (taxes not included) Cantlie Hotel - Tel: (514) 842-2000 Fax: (514) 844-7808 Rate: $85.00 per night, single or double (taxes not included) NOTE: Please make your reservation by, but no later than, July 5, 1994. Thereafter the block of rooms will be released. REGISTRATION To participate in the Symposium, you must complete the enclosed registration form and forward it to: Accuracy and Accountability in Scholarly Information: A Symposium National Research Council of Canada Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6 Canada Tel: (613) 993-9009 Fax: (613) 957-9828 REGISTRATION ON SITE The Registration Desk will be located in the lobby outside the Auditorium, Room 151, in the Bronfman Building at McGill University. The Desk will be open at the following hours: Friday, August 12 07:30 - 17:00 h Saturday, August 13 08:00 - 15:00 h FEES Before July 15 $225.00 After July 15 $250.00 The registration fee includes, upon payment of the registration fee, attendance at the Symposium sessions, workshops, lunch on Friday, the reception, and refreshments. OFFICIAL RECEIPT An official receipt will be mailed and should be presented at the Registration Desk upon arrival. CANCELLATION AND REFUNDS Registrants may withdraw in writing before July 19, 1994. All refunds are subject to a $30.00 handling fee. SECRETARIAT AASI: A Symposium Mr. L. Forget National Research Council of Canada Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada Tel: (613) 993-9009 Fax: (613) 957-9828 88905FCB291 Accuracy and Accountability in Scholarly Information: A Symposium McGill University, Montreal, Quebec August 12 & 13, 1994 REGISTRATION FORM Please complete and return this form, together with your payment to the Symposium Secretariat, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada. PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT NAME __________________________________________________________ AFFILIATION _____________________________________________________ ADDRESS _______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _____________________________ Postal Code _________________ Telephone _____________________ Fax _______________________ Registration Fees: $225.00 before July 15, 1994 $_______ $250.00 after July 15, 1994 $_______ Note: Taxes included Total $________ Total Remittance, made payable to: AASI-94 (NRC). Workshops (Please rank two choices in priority order) Workshop No. 1 ________ Workshop No. 4 _________ Workshop No. 2 ________ Workshop No. 5 _________ Workshop No. 3 ________ Method of Payment: ____Cheque ______Credit Card: _____MasterCard _____VISA ONLY Card No: ___________________ Expiry Date: Month/Year___________ Signature: ___________________ Date: ___________________ From: vcgw@mail.backbone.olemiss.edu (Gerald W. Walton) Subject: Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 10:53:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 37 (81) Subject: [deleted quotation] From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" Subject: Re: 8.0052 Looking for Rhetoric Info on the Internet Date: Thu, 9 Jun 94 09:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 38 (82) In HUMANIST 8.0052, Paul Brians asks for Internet discussions of Rhetoric. There are several, spanning rhetorical studies in English and in Speech, as well as some that are broadly cross- disciplinary. For a general list that includes rhetorical studies along with communication studies generally, try CRTNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU. A recently initiated list on the history of rhetoric is H-RHETOR@UICVM.BITNET. You might also try RHETORIC@RPIECS These lists should quickly lead you to others. Tom Benson t3b@psuvm.psu.edu Penn State University From: Eric.Rabkin@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: Flatland inquiry Date: Thu, 9 Jun 94 07:10:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 39 (83) [deleted quotation] _Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions_ by Edwin A. Abbot (writing as A Square), 1884, available now as a Dover pprbk. Very amusing. From: Gerard Gautier Subject: Re: 8.0052 Qs: Recogniter; Flatland; Libraries; Rhetoric Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 21:16:22 +0800 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 40 (84) To my knowledge, it is from a Science-Fiction book of Edwin E. Abbott I remember the title (in french translation) but know no more, Gerard Gautier in Taiwan From: Joseph Jones Subject: Flatland Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 08:53:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 41 (85) The reference desired is probably: Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926 - Flatland : a romance of many dimensions First published in the 1880s and many times since. I don't see your friend's e-address, Maurizio Lana, so I just cc to you. Joseph Jones jjones@unixg.ubc.ca University of British Columbia Library From: John Merritt Unsworth Subject: Re: 8.0052 Qs: Recogniter; Flatland; Libraries; Rhetoric Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 12:00:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 42 (86) _Flatland, Or a Romance of Many Dimensions_, with Illustrations by the Author, A. Square (Edwin A. Abbott), second edition 1884. To The Inhabitance of SPACE IN GENERAL And H.C. IN PARTICULAR This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland In the Hope that Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries Of THREE DIMENSIONS Having been previously conversant With ONLY TWO So the Citizens of that Celestial Region May aspire yet higher and higher To the Secrets of FOUR FIVE or EVEN SIX Dimensions Thereby contributing To the Enlargment of THE IMAGINATION And the possible Development Of that most and excellent Gift of MODESTY Among the Superior Races Of SOLID HUMANITY A veronica search will turn up flatlant.txt, 197Kb file that contains the whole text of the book. John Unsworth From: Maurizio Lana Subject: thanks for Flatland query Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 20:14:34 +0100 (GDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 43 (87) Many many thanks to you all Humanists who helped me and Jeremy ! The messages were flowing, almost submerging us... Nearly impossible to say thanks to everyone. Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI, Universita' di Torino lana@cisi.unito.it fax: 39 11 899 5577 From: s_natale@VENUS.TWU.EDU Subject: Texas Women's History List Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 16:09:23 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 59 (88) TexWoHist-L via texwohist-l-request@venus.twu.edu TexWoHist-L provides a forum for individuals who are interested in locating or sharing information by and about Texas women. It is a place for Notes & Queries; Discussion of Research in Progress; Notices of Special Library Collections, New Books & Articles, Conferences & Workshops, and Exhibits. To subscribe to this list send a message to the following username and address: texwohist-l-request@venus.twu.edu Leave the subject line blank. The text of the message should be SUBSCRIBE texwohist-l Firstname Lastname Owner: Elizabeth Snapp a_snapp@twu.edu Director of Libraries Texas Woman's University Denton, Texas 76204 From: NEHRES@GWUVM Subject: NEH Reference Materials Announcement Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 14:13:18 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 60 (89) Please feel free to cross-post this announcement to any relevant lists. Reference Materials Awards: The National Endowment for the Humanities Reference Materials Program supports projects to prepare reference works that will improve access to information and resources. Support is available for the creation of dictionaries, historical or linguistic atlases, encyclopedias, concordances, reference grammars, data bases, text bases, and other projects that will provide essential scholarly tools for the advancement of research or for general reference purposes. Grants also may support projects that will assist scholars and researchers to locate information about humanities documentation. Such projects result in scholarly guides that allow researchers to determine the usefulness or relevance of specific materials for their work. Eligible for support are such projects as bibliographies, bibliographic data bases, catalogues raisonnes, other descriptive catalogues, indexes, union lists, and other guides to materials in the humanities. In both areas, support is also available for projects that address important issues related to the design or accessibility of reference works. The application deadline is September 15, 1994 for projects beginning after July 1, 1995. Guidelines are not yet available electronically. Print copies of guidelines may be requested by sending a message with your regular mail address to NEHOPA@GWUVM.GWU.EDU. Potential applicants with questions regarding specific projects should contact program staff at (202) 606-8358 or NEHRES@GWUVM.GWU.EDU. From: Donald Spaeth Subject: TILT research assistant Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 15:26:50 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 61 (90) UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW TILT PROJECT RESEARCH ASSISTANT POST JOB DESCRIPTION Applications are invited for a new research assistant post for the University's Teaching with Independent Learning Technologies programme. The post will involve the evaluation of text and image base software and the development of courseware using the selected package(s) to manipulate the scanned materials. The post requires a knowledge of historical sciences and courseware development or relevant experience. The successful candidate will be appointed on Research Assistant scale 1B (12,828 - 15,186 pounds), depending on experience and qualifications. The post is tenable until the end of 1994, with an extension probably available until the end of 1995. Further particulars : 1. Ability to work independently to test and experiment with text analysis applications in a PC environment. Prior familiarity with textual analysis software is not essential, but the successful applicant would need to evaluate standard applications like BRS search, Mosaic, Microcosm and others, as well as non-commercial packages like TACT, to see how far they could be used to develop suitable teaching modules. 2. A knowledge of history would be an advantage, since the module under development would in the first instance be designed for undergraduate history students. An interest in the history of language, in the interpretation of textual historical source material and in basic historical methodology would therefore be helpful. 3. Whilst advanced programming skills are not required, there is no doubt that some applications-language development of a front end (e.g. Visual Basic) for the chosen piece of software would be necessary in order to facilitate general undergraduate accessibility. 4. The successful applicant would work in close consultation with members of staff in the DISH historical computing laboratory, and would pilot the modules in the PC environment there in the first instance. For further information, contact *before 8 July 1994*: Dr. T. Munck Department of Modern History University of Glasgow 1 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QQ email: TMUNCK@dish.gla.ac.uk From: Allan Ramsay Subject: EACL-95 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 14:53:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 62 (91) EACL-95 CALL FOR PAPERS 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 27--29, 1995 University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin, Ireland Topics of Interest: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. Requirements: Papers should describe unique work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work; and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the EACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Format for Submission: Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Papers should be headed by a title page containing the paper title, a short (5 line) summary and a specification of the subject area. Since reviewing will be "blind", the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead, use references like "Smith previously showed (1991) ..." Care should be taken to mask identity in the bibliography by referring to the author's own papers as anonymous. This is especially applicable of unpublished in-house technical reports which are certain to reveal the identity of the author(s). To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied, containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses, a short (5 line) summary, a word count, and a specification of the topic areas. Submission Media: Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to the Program Chair: Erhard W. Hinrichs Universitaet Tuebingen Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Abt. Computerlinguistik Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany email: eacl95@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de phone: +49--7071-294279 Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source or plain text. LaTeX submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described below) and should not refer to any external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. A model submission modelsub.tex is also provided in the archive, as well as a bibliography style acl.bst. (Note however that the bibliography for a submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file.) Hard copy submissions should consist of four (4) copies of the paper and one (1) copy of the identification page. 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Conference Information: The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by: Allan Ramsay, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (phone: (353)-1-7062479, FAX: (353)-1-2687262, email: allan@monkey.ucd.ie) ACL Information: For other information on the ACL more generally, contact Judith Klavans (global) or Mike Rosner (for Europe): Judith Klavans, Columbia University, Computer Science, Room 724, New York, NY 10027, USA; phone: +1-212-939-7120, fax: +1-914-478-1802; email:acl@cs.columbia.edu; Michael Rosner, IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland, email: mike@idsia.uu.ch. General information about the ACL AND electronic membership and order forms are available from the ACL LISTSERV. Information on the ACL is also available through www URL http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html Participants from Eastern Europe: There may be subsidies to enable participants from Eastern Europe to attend the conference. Contact Allan Ramsay at the address above for more information. ACL Listserv: LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to listserver@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get acl-l " to get a particular file named from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a message with the following body should be sent: get acl-l membership-form.txt Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user type-in is in bold): $ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous Password: pereira@research.att.com << not echoed ftp > cd acl-l/Information ftp > get 94.membership.form.Z ftp > quit $ uncompress 94membership.form.Z From: Nicolas Nicolov Subject: CompLing Summer School Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 09:09:48 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 63 (92) *PLEASE POST* First Announcement International Summer School "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" ____________________________________________________________________ 1 - 6 Sept 1994 Tuzlata, Black Sea Coast, BULGARIA UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF: European Association for Machine Translation and ECCAI-European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence DATES: 1 - 6 Sept 1994, (arrival 31 Aug, departure 7 Sep) LOCATION: Bulgaria, Black Sea Coast, Tuzlata, SBA Motel (60km to the north of Varna, 10km to the north of Balchik). The motel is 30m from the beach and has been chosen to allow for a creative environment. It has a lecture hall, two restaurants, one bar, two swimming pools. PROGRAMME: TUTORIALS: Margaret King (ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland) Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems Sergei Nirenburg (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Latest Developments in Machine Translation Pieter Seuren (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Introduction to Semantic Syntax Michael Zock (LIMSI - CNRS, Paris, France) The meanings in the language, in the world, in our minds Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Multilingual Natural Language Interfaces Harold Somers (CCL, UMIST, Manchester, UK) Introduction to Machine Translation Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice, Italy) Discourse Structure and Reference resolution Zaharin Yusoff (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia) Machine-Aided Translation SHORT COURSES: Manfred Kudlek (University of Hamburg, Germany) Models for Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Languages Carlos Martin-Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain) Mathematical Linguistics: Its relevance for Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science Benjamin T'sou (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Automatic Abstraction Ruslan Mitkov (IAI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Anaphora resolution in Machine Translation Dan Cristea (University "Al. I. Cuza" of Iasi, Romania) How to synthesize words: the problem of multilingual word-form generation COSTS: REGISTRATION FEE: USD 460 industrial participants USD 350 academic participants USD 280 students The registration fee covers attendance at the lectures, materials, accommodation, meals, reception, and coffee breaks. TRAVELLING: The nearest airport to the location of the summer school is Varna. Varna can be reached from the capital (Sofia) by plane, train or bus. Another close international airport is Bourgas (south coast). Foreign nationals might need a valid entry permit (visa). ORGANISERS: R.Mitkov Institute of Mathematics BULGARIA M.Zock LIMSI, Orsay FRANCE M.Kudlek University of Hamburg GERMANY N.Nikolov Incoma-TD Co, Ltd, Shumen BULGARIA FURTHER INFORMATION: People wishing to participate should contact one of the people mentioned below. Please use the attached registration form. Ruslan Mitkov E-mail: ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de Nicolas Nicolov E-mail: nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk Nikolai Nikolov E-mail: nikolov@incoma-td.bg Tel: +359-54 56948 Fax: +359-54 56881 REGISTRATION REPLY FORM: International Summer School "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" Name: (Last)_________________________ (First)_______________________ Affiliation:________________________________________________________ Address:____________________________________________________________ Country:_____________________________ Phone:_______________________________ Fax :_______________________________ Email:_______________________________ * Mail Registration Reply Form to: Mr. Nikolai Nikolov P.O. Box 20, Incoma, 9700 Shumen BULGARIA *PLEASE POST* From: "Robert J. Westwood" Subject: John Wesley's Journal Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 16:53:23 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 44 (93) Dear All, I'm after an on-line copy of John Wesley's Journal. Does anyone now whether such a thing exists, and if so, where? Many thanks in advance, Robert Westwood. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 45 (94) From: TOTARO@CESIT1.UNIFI.IT Subject: iter italicum Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 11:07:42 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 46 (95) I have read of a conference on history and computing which is taking place in London at the beginning of July, and of a paper presented by L. Floridi on the "Iter Italicum and Iter Electronicum". Some time ago I have seen in Florence an electronic demo of the "Iter", elaborated by a Florentine group with which Floridi collaborated as well; and I knew that Brill - the publisher of the "Iter" - had decided not to go ahead with the electronic edition of this work. As I will not be able to come to London, I would like to know whether L. Floridi is now publishing the Florentine project or what else, thus making us hope in a reconsideration by Brill, and in an early availability of the "Iter". Luigi Totaro Universita' di Firenze Storia Moderna Totaro@cesit1.unifi.it tel. 39 55 2757919 fax 39 55 219173 From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Spearin carole Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 16:58:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 47 (96) A friend of mine is looking for Carole Spearin's book: "Computers and Creativity." New-York: Preager publications, 1974. Any clue whether the publisher still exists? M.L. -- Michel Lenoble -- Tel.: (514) 288-3916 lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca From: vieu@irit.irit.fr (Laure Vieu) Subject: ECAI WS on Parts and Wholes Programme Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 19:21:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 65 (97) Please post ** Please post ** Please post ** Please post ** Please post ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement - Preliminary Programme ECAI Workshop #2, Monday August 8th, Amsterdam (NL) PARTS AND WHOLES: CONCEPTUAL PART-WHOLE RELATIONS AND FORMAL MEREOLOGY Organizers: Nicola Guarino (Padova, Italy) Simone Pribbenow (Hamburg, Germany) Laure Vieu (Toulouse, France) Programme Committee: Michel Aurnague (Toulouse, France), Harry Bunt (Tilburg, NL), Roberto Casati (Aix, France), Carola Eschenbach (Hamburg, Germany), David Israel (Stanford, USA), Amedeo Napoli (Nancy, France), Barry Smith (Buffalo, USA), Barbara Tversky (Stanford, USA), Achille Varzi (Trento, Italy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.00 Introduction 9.15 - 10.35 Ontology Gert Schmeltz Pedersen (DASY, Denmark): Conceptual modelling without the distinction between Individuals and Singleton Sets. Barry Smith (Buffalo, USA): Fiat Objects 11.00 - 12.20 Linguistic topics Peter Gerstl (Heidelberg, Germany): Genitive Constrictions as a Means for Communicating Part-Whole Information. Friederike Moltmann (UCLA, USA). New Notion of Part Structure for the Semantics of Natural Language. 13.50 - 15.10 Modeling complex objects Geoffrey Simmons (Hamburg, Germany):Shapes, Part Structures and Object Concepts. Luca Pazzi (Univ. of Modena, Italy): Dynamically-Based Complex Objects: [deleted quotation] 15.30 - 16.50 Applications Bernauer (Hildesheim, Germany): Modelling Formal Subsumption and Part-Whole Relation for Medical Concept Descriptions. Mike Uschold (Edinburgh, UK): The Use of Ontology to Guide Naive Users in Representing Substructure 16.50 - 17.50 Panel: Part-Whole Relations in Description Logics (short paper presentations) A. Artale , F. Cesarini, E. Grazzini, F. Pippolini and G. Soda (Firenze, Italy): Modelling Composition in a Terminological Language Environment. Pascale Hors (Orsay, France): Description logics to specify the part-whole relations. Piet-Hein Speel (Twente, NL) and Peter Patel-Schneider (AT&T, USA): A Physical Whole-Part Extension for Description Logics. 17.50 Conclusions ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Participants having sent position papers: Harmen van den Berg (Twente, NL): On incommensurability of primitive relations Anthony Cohn and Brandon Bennett (Leeds, UK): (title to be announced) Michel Cosse (Paris 7, France): Mereology and Text Generation Ivan Derzanski (Edinburgh, UK): On the Atomarisation of Mass Terms Don Dwiggins (Mark V Systems, CA): The Role of Part-Whole Relations within Commercial Software Development Tools Josef Meyer-Fujara (Bielefeld, Germany): Decomposition at Restricted Granularity Sebastian Shaumyan (Yale, USA): Part-Whole Relations, Dependency and Mereological Variability in Syntax Other expected participants include: Mario Borillo, Aviv Cohen, C. Djeraba, Mike Halper, Martine Magnan, M. Maybury, James Pustejovsky, K.-H. Schmidt, Hiroshi Tanaka, Shusaku Tsumoto, Klaus Wimmer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A few places are still left. If you'd like to participate, please send a request to the organizers (email: GUARINO@ladseb.pd.cnr.it, pribbeno@informatik.uni-hamburg.de, vieu@irit.fr) as soon as possible. If you send it before June 20 (via email), you may add a position paper (1 to 3 pages) which will be included in the workshop notes. Notice that registration to the main ECAI conference is required to attend the workshop (ECAI conference secretariat: Tel: +31 10 408 2302, Fax: +31 10 453 0784, E-mail: M.M.deLeeuw@apv.oos.eur.nl). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Loss Glazier Subject: Miami ALA Conference Announcement: Internet Resources Date: Mon, 13 Jun 94 20:59:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 66 (98) _________________________________________________________________ SCHOLARLY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET: BEYOND THE BASICS Monday, June 27th, Lafayette Room, Fontainebleau Hilton ACRL/Science & Technology Section, ALA Annual Conference, Miami ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00-9:30 Clare Dunkle Chinese Language "Chinese Language Resources on the Internet" 9:00-10:00 Jack Fritts Bibliographic Instruction "Bringing the Library Staff Online: A Discussion on Using the Internet to Enhance Library Services" 9:00-10:00 Elizabeth Thomsen Literature "The Literary Lists: A Unique Resource for Scholars, Librarians & Readers" 9:00-10:00 Marty Courtois Biology "Biological Resources Available through Gopher" 9:00-10:30 Kwan Lam Education "Around the World of Education Resources on the Information Superhighway" 10:00-10:30 Angela Lee Anthropology "Anthropology Internet Resources" 10:00-11:00 Michael Gold Judaica "Judaica Internet Resources" 10:00-11:00 Marcus Zillman Bibliographic Instruction "Using Veronica, JUGHEAD & WAIS to Identify and Locate Scholarly Resources on the Internet" 10:00-11:15 Keith Morgan Economics "Economic Resources on the Internet" 10:30-11:00 Janet Ormes Astronomy "STELAR (Study of Electronic Literature for Astronomical Research)" 11:00-12:00 Marty Courtois Biology "Biological Resources Available through Gopher" 11:00-12:00 F. Cobb & T. Mack Chemistry "Chemistry Resources on the Internet" 11:00-12:30 Gail Junion-Metz Education "K-12 Resources on the Internet" 11:30-12:00 Kris Voegel Political Science "Locating White House Resources/Publications" 11:30-12:30 Paul Wright Business "Business Internet Resources" 12:00-1:00 Michael Gold General Interest "Job Searching on the Internet" 1:00-2:00 Julia Gelfand Sciences "How to Tailor Internet Instruction for the Sciences Using an Interdisciplinary Approach & Access" 1:00-2:00 Marie Garrett Bibliographic Instruction "Planning Internet Presentations for Faculty" 1:00-2:00 Dorothy Smith Computer Science "Computer Sciences Internet Resources" 1:00-2:00 Paul Wright Bibliographic Instruction "Library Applications of HTML/Mosaic" 1:00-2:30 Kwan Lam Education "Around the World of Education Resources on the Information Superhighway" 2:00-3:00 Jack Fritts Bibliographic Instruction "Bringing the Library Staff Online: A Discussion on Using the Internet to Enhance Library Services" 2:00-3:00 Marcus Zillman Bibliographic Instruction "Using Veronica, JUGHEAD & WAIS to Identify and Locate Scholarly Resources on the Internet" 2:00-3:00 Jill Morrissey Women's Studies "Women's Studies and Feminist Internet Resources" 2:30-3:30 Patricia Thurston Slavic & Eastern Europe "Slavic & East European Internet Resources" 3:00-4:00 Gladys Smiley-Bell Bibliographic Instruction "Using FTP, Gopher & Veronica to Explore the Internet" 3:00-4:00 Elizabeth Thomsen Literature "The Literary Lists: A Unique Resource for Scholars, Librarians & Readers" 3:00-4:00 Rob McGeachin Agriculture "Agricultural Information Resources on the Internet" 3:00-4:30 Gail Junion-Metz Bibliographic Instruction "Reference Resources on the Internet" 3:30-4:00 Kris Voegel Political Science "Locating White House Resources/Publications" 4:00-5:00 Keith Morgan Economics "Economic Resources on the Internet" 4:00-5:00 Loss Glazier Literature "Literary Electronic Journals and Texts" 4:00-5:00 F. Cobb & T. Mack Chemistry "Chemistry Resources on the Internet" From: Andrew Burday Subject: Text databases Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 21:14:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 48 (99) Hello All. I'd like to start using my computer for most of my note-taking activities; in particular, keeping notes on the articles and books I've read. I've got too many notebooks lying around, and it's too hard to find things in them. (I've never been a fan of index cards.) So what I'm looking for is a good way to keep databases of text, in such a way that they can be searched and displayed in whatever form is most useful for the moment. What I need is DOS or MS Windows software that will let me conveniently enter and flexibly manipulate my notes. Ideally each record would have multiple fields for author, title, journal, etc., plus a variable-length field for the actual notes. I've had several ideas and suggestions. I would be very grateful for any feedback or further suggestions. I'd also appreciate any suggestions about where to look for further information: perhaps comp.text, or one of the c.os.dos.apps or comp.os.ms-windows.apps groups? Any other suggestions? Here's what I've come up with so far. (1) Get a copy of DOS PERL (apparently there is such a thing) and just write the database entry forms and search routines myself. Frankly, this is a lot more work than I want to put in right now. I don't even know PERL yet. (2) Get WordPerfect 6 and rely on its file indexing capacities. Two problems: first, there would be no way to create multiple-field records. And second, I just don't like what I've read and heard about WP 6, and the couple of times I've tried it I've been distinctly underwhelmed. (3) Get a product called "ZyIndex". The person who told me about this didn't seem to know very much about it except that it does approximately the same thing as the NeXTSTEP Digital Librarian: ie, it takes plain text files and indexes them to allow for quick searches. Can anyone tell me more about it? Does it allow multiple fields to be associated in a single record? Any idea what it costs? Has anyone used it -- if so, did you like it? (4) Get a product called 'AskSam'. This is briefly described in the latest _PC Magazine_. Based on the description, this sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. The description is brief, though. Does anyone know how flexible the search options are? Any opinions on the DOS versus (brand-new) Windows versions? I hope this isn't too much of a FAQ. I've been reading Humanist for about a year and I don't think I've seen a question like this one, although it seems like a natural question for this list. I'd be happy to summarize the responses I receive if there's interest. I have a hardware platform that would be adequate for any of these solutions: 486sx/25, 8 megs, doublespaced 80 meg hdd -- probably a larger hdd in the near future. Thanks in advance. Andrew Burday andy@philo.mcgill.ca From: anixon@carleton.edu (Andrea Nixon) Subject: Looking for information on search engines for use with TLG and PHI Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 09:39:59 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 49 (100) I am in the market for a search engine for use with the TLG and PHI (TLL) data on CD-ROM. Any platform will do. Does anyone know of a review of the various products available? What have your experiences been with these search engines? Which do you prefer? Please send all replies to me directly. I would be glad to summarize them for the list if there is interest. Sincerely, Andrea Nixon Academic Computing Coordinator - Humanities and Languages Carleton College anixon@carleton.edu From: David J Birnbaum Subject: Orthography and Palaeography Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 12:25:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 68 (101) I am currently elaborating an inventory of early Cyrillic characters needed for electronic text processing, for which I am trying to distinguish characters (informational units) from glyphs (presentational units). As a modern example, changing letters means changing characters, while changing typefaces means changing glyphs. My encoding should represent all character information, but should exclude glyphic information. [deleted quotation]orthographic interest (pertaining to the distribution of signs) are character data, while items of palaoegraphic interest (pertaining to variation in the shapes that may represent the same sign) are glyph level. But individual decisions turn out to be subjective: if I think the scribe knew that two signs were different, I regard them as characters, while if he didn't, they are glyphs. The equation of characters and letters of the alphabet is tempting, but it doesn't provide sufficient granularity, since certain units that are not considered independent letters are nonetheless traditional objects of orthographic study. For example, some Slavic manuscripts distinguish narrow and broad omicron (in addition to omega, and sometimes other o-type letters), and their distribution can be orthographically (and even linguistically) significant. Yet narrow and broad omicron have never been considered separate letters of the alphabet. The comparison to phonemes (= characters) and phones (= glyphs) is also seductive, but characters don't necessarily influence meaning. For example, medieval Slavic manuscripts traditionally spell the sound [u] as either a single letter or an digraph. Their distribution is sometimes governed by orthographic rules (e.g., write at the beginning of a word and elsewhere), and the rules are not always carried out with complete regularity. One thing Slavic philologists study is the orthographic norms of individual manuscripts and the deviations from these norms, which means that unifying and as a single character during input would prohibit such analysis. I should add that I'm not talking about font design: fonts are inventories of glyphs, not of characters. (For example, the English ff ligature is a glyph but not a character. I would expect an early Cyrillic font to contain many more symbols than an early Cyrillic character set.) One can most safely err on the side of overinclusion (and normalize during analysis, rather than input), but I'd like to avoid that if possible. Has anyone tackled a similar problem who can offer some guidance? (For more information on character / glyph differences, interested persons may consult "The Unicode Standard," volume 1, Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1991, ISBN 0-201-56788-1.) Thanks, David Professor David J. Birnbaum djbpitt+@pitt.edu The Royal York Apartments, #802 3955 Bigelow Boulevard voice: 1-412-687-4653 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA fax: 1-412-624-9714 From: gpl@fct.unl.pt Subject: Call for papers: Fifth International Workshop on Natural language Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 15:25:12 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 69 (102) Fifth International Workshop on Natural language Understanding and Logic Programming NLULP5 CALL FOR PAPERS Conference dates: May 29 (Mon) --- 31 (Wed), 1995 Conference place: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal Chairman: Gabriel Pereira Lopes Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science and Technology Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, 2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal Phon. +351-1-295 3220 Fax. +351-1-295 56 41 Email. gpl@fct.unl.pt Program Committee: Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara) Harvey Abramson (Aizu) Charles Grant Brown (Stockholm) Veronica Dahl (Vancouver) Sandiway Fong (NEC, Princeton) Mark Johnson (Providence, RI) Martin Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto) Gregers Koch (Copenhagen) Michael C. McCord (IBM Yorktown) Fred Popowich (Vancouver) Patrick Saint-Dizier (Toulouse) Luis Moniz Pereira (Lisbon) Helder Coelho (Lisbon) Ryoichi Sugimura(Matsushita Electric Ind.,Osaka) Gabriel P. Lopes (Lisbon) (chair) The Organizing Committee of the Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Logic Programming invites the submission of papers for NLULP5, in Lisbon, Portugal. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Logic Programming applications to computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, the followings. - syntax - parsing - semantics - generation - phonetics - language understanding - phonology - speech analysis/synthesis - morphology - computational lexicons - discourse - electronic dictionaries - pragmatics - terminology - quantitative/qualitative linguistics - text database and retrieval - mathematical linguistics - documentation - contrastive linguistics - machine translation - cognitive linguistics - machine aids for translation - large text corpora - natural language interface - text processing - dialogue systems - hardware/software for NLP - multimedia systems It will be nice to have in Lisbon Practical Applications of PROLOG in the area of NLU, for demonstrating Prolog's attractiveness for this area. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION: Papers should have a maximum fifteen pages in final format, should be written in English, and describe original work. They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of preliminary versions of their papers with the page limits above, on A4 paper with the title, author(s), addresses (including email if possible), affiliation across the page top, a short (five to ten line) summary, and a specification of the topic area preferably drawn from the list above. As well, authors are strongly urged to email the title page information by the deadline date. Send the papers and emails to the chair. IMPORTANT DATES: Preliminary paper submission due: December 19, 1994 Notification of paper arrival: December 31, 1994 Inquiries for lost papers: January 20, 1995 Acceptance notification: March 1, 1995 Camera-ready copies due: April 1, 1995 REVIEW SCHEDULE: Preliminary papers are due by 19 December 1994. Papers received after that date will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt by 31 December 1994. All inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by January 20, 1995. Designated authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 1995. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared according to the publisher requirements, must be received by 1 April 1995 by the chair along with a signed copyright release statement. Papers received after that date may not be included in the proceedings. OTHER ACTIVITIES: (1) Invited talks and panels will be included in the program. Proposals and suggestions for invited talks and panels should be sent to the chair as soon as possible. (2) Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief description, together with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to the chair. (3) An attractive social program will be organized for people willing to know more about Portugal, Lisbon and its surroundings. (4) At that time of the year the weather is quite worm and unpolluted beaches are nearby Lisbon, at Costa da Caparica. From: Ted.Briscoe@xerox.fr (Ted Briscoe) Subject: Workshop Anouncement Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 11:22:44 --100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 70 (103) `THE FUTURE OF THE DICTIONARY' A workshop co-sponsored by Rank Xerox European Research Centre (Grenoble) and ESPRIT BR Project Acquilex-II. 17-19 October 1994 Grand Hotel Uriage-les-Bains Nr. Grenoble, France CALL FOR PAPERS, SOFTWARE/PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS AND PARTICIPATION With the widespread introduction of computational techniques in traditional lexicography and the growing development in lexical tools for computational applications, the "dictionary" is becoming an increasingly heterogeneous notion. The object of this conference is to try to discern some pattern in the various visions of the dictionary of the future that are beginning to emerge. How will the conventional dictionary be changed through the use of computerized textual corpora, lexical databases, and other new compiling tools? How will it respond to new forms of publication that technology makes available: CD-ROM, handheld devices (e.g. PDAs), vastly expanded electronic networking infrastructure (the information `superhighway'), and so forth, which make possible new ways of displaying, distributing, and updating lexical information? At the same time, we want to know how the notion of the dictionary will change once it is thought of, not primarily as a reference tool in which users can look up meanings or other kinds of lexical information, but as a tool to aid in systems developed for machine-aided translation, information retrieval, software "localization," spelling and grammar checkers, and so on. At present, the use of machine-readable versions of conventional printed dictionaries in the development of these systems seems to imply that many people think of them as extensions or emendations of the conventional dictionary, but it is fair to ask whether over the course of time these lexical tools may develop in ways that make them wholly different from the human user-oriented works that have shaped the concept of the dictionary. At the limit, we may ask whether "the dictionary" has any future at all as a coherent category, or whether we will wind up with an array of distinct tools and texts that have little more than the name "dictionary" in common. To address these questions, this workshop aims to bring together lexicographers, linguists and computing professionals from both industry and academia, including people working in (computational) lexicography, (computational) linguistics and artificial intelligence, as well as in the commercial production of conventional and `electronic' dictionaries, and of machine-aided translation and other software systems containing a natural language processing component. We are asking participants to provide not simply a report of current research and development or market conditions that may bear on dictionaries or lexical tools, but an articulated vision of how continuing developments will shape the future of these tools, and what steps we must take to realize these visions. We ask participants, too, to speak to the question of what relations there will be among the various "dictionaries" that are likely to emerge, as well as between practictioners in the various fields -- lexicography, linguistics, computer science, and so forth -- who will be engaged in making them. The workshop will attempt to provide participants with an up-to-date survey of the both research and commercial activity uniting lexicography and dictionary-making with linguistic software development and research through six (1 hour) presentations, and via papers and software demonstrations selected from those proposed by prospective participants. ********* Preliminary Programme and Schedule: Monday (17 Oct) 9.00 Opening (5min) + Geoff Nunberg (Research Scientist, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) Title: The Past and Future of the Dictionary 10.15 -11.15 Outside papers Coffee break 11.30 Paul Procter (Senior Lexicographer CUP) Title: The Cambridge Language Survey 12.15 Lunch break 14.00 -- 14.30 Outside Paper 14.30 Session: Representing Information about Words Bran Boguraev (Manager NLP Lab, Apple Computers) Title: Lexical Semantics via Knowledge Representation Ted Briscoe (Advanced Research Fellow, University of Cambridge) Title: From Lexical Database to Lexical Knowledge Base 16.15 Tea Break 16.45 -- 18.15 3 Outside Papers 18.15 -- 19.30 Software Demonstrations 20.30 Dinner Tuesday (18 Oct) 9.00 -11.00 4 Outside papers Coffee break 11.30 Jean Veronis (Universite de Provence) Title: From dictionaries to knowledge bases... and back. 12.15 Lunch break 14.00 -- 14.30 Outside Paper 14.30 Session: Multilingual Aspects of Lexical Database Development Annie Zaenen (Area Manager MLTT, Rank Xerox Research Centre) Title: The Compass Project [Speaker to be confirmed] 16.15 Tea Break 16.30 -- 18.30 4 Outside Papers 18.30 -- 19.30 Software Demonstrations 20.30 Dinner Wednesday (19th Oct) 9.00 -- 12.30 Acquilex-II Project Review Presentations (all welcome) 14.00 -- 16.00 Acquilex-II Project Formal Review (Closed Session) 14.00 -- 16.00 Round Table / Open Discussion (Organiser, Annie Zaenen): `Future of Collaboration on Dictionary Development' 16.00 -- 17.30 Site Visit and Software Demonstration (RXRC, Grenoble Laboratory) End of workshop *********************** IF YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE, PLEASE SEND US A FEW LINES OUTLINING YOUR EXPERIENCE, OR SEND US A 1000-2000 WORD ABSTRACT FOR A TALK, OR SEND US A SIMILAR LENGTH DESCRIPTION OF A SOFTWARE / PRODUCT DEMONSTRATION YOU WOULD LIKE TO OFFER. DEADLINE 19th AUGUST 1994. (Please indicate the resources you would require for presentations.) CONTRIBUTORS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO WRITE AN ABSTRACT OF APPROXIMATELY 1000 WORDS IF THEIR PAPER IS ACCEPTED AND TO PRODUCE A WRITTEN VERSION OF THEIR PAPERS AFTER THE WORKSHOP FOR SUBSEQUENT PUBLICATION IN AN EDITED VOLUME. ENGLISH WILL BE THE LANGUAGE OF THE WORKSHOP. ********************** There is no registration fee. All participants will receive a book of abstracts. The cost of the accommodation and all meals will be 2200 FF. (Sunday night until Wednesday afternoon inclusive.) Contributors' accommodation and meals will be paid for by the co-sponsors. Participants will be invited by the organising committee on a `first-come-first-served' basis up to the workshop limit of 35, subject to appropriate experience and research interests. Contributions will be selected by the organising committee on the basis of the quality and relevance of the submitted abstracts and contributors will be notified by 31st August 1994 and asked to submit an extended abstract by 30th September 1994. THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Sue Atkins Ted Briscoe Nicoletta Calzolari Jean Veronis Annie Zaenen PLEASE SEND RESPONSES TO: briscoe@xerox.fr From: stephen@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: Request for m/r version of Emden's `Biographical Register Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 12:09:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 50 (104) Does anyone have or know of a machine-readable text or a d/b of Emden's `Biographical Register of Cambridge'? Stephen Miller National Academic Typesetting Oxford University Computing Services stephen.miller@oucs.ox.ac.uk From: "Friedrich Heberlein" Subject: TACT Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 19:11:59 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 51 (105) Could somebody please tell me where i could ftp the newest version of TACT? Thanks, Fritz Heberlein sla019@ku-eichstaett.d400.de From: LynnAnn Wojciechowicz Subject: Humanities CD-ROMs Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 11:48:00 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 52 (106) I am looking for CD-ROM software in the areas of the integrated humanities for use with students. Included in the integrated humanities are art, architecture, drama, history, literature, music, philosophy, and religion. I am especially interested in multimedia programs. Because I am not a member of this list, I would appreciate your sending me directly information regarding commercial packages or applications being developed by teachers related to any of the above areas. Please send directly to me at wojciechowic.smc.maricopa.edu Thanks! LynnAnn Wojciechowicz English & Humanities Faculty South Mountain Community College 7050 So. 24th St., Phoenix. AZ 85040 Phone (602) 243-8022 From: Subject: Folger Library address Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 10:03:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 53 (107) Could somebody give me the email address of someone who can give me some general information about the Folger Library? I shall be visiting Washington DC in July and would like to visit the library. If you wish, please respond to me privately at SXSUBBAR@OCC.BITNET. Thanks, Suba From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Q: Word Cruncher Demo Disk Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 07:54:52 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 54 (108) I recall a posting some time ago mentioning that Word Cruncher was available (in crippled form) on a demo disk. Would anyone know how one might go about obtaining this? I've searched gopher and several large ftp sites, but have turned up nothing. Thanks in advance, Ray Siemens University of British Columbia siemens@unixg.ubc.ca From: REGGIE@beattie.uct.ac.za Subject: Bruce Chatwin Date: 22 Jun 94 12:04:24 SAST-2 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 55 (109) Hi, Is there anybody out there who is doing some kind of research on Bruce Chatwin, or someone who has read his books? I'm doing my M.A. on him and there's very little info locally available (in South Africa). I'd appreciate any feedback - on individual books, on reviews, on the movies that have been made of his books _Utz_, _The Viceroy of Ouidah_ and _On the Black Hill_? I would like to get hold of video-copies of these films - anybody know where I could ask? Local video-shops are VERY unhelpful. _Utz_ is on the local cinema- circuit at the momen, so I may be lucky! I'd like to correspond with other admirers of Chatwin, wherever they are, exchange notes or thesis-chapters, discuss critical approaches, etc. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | REGGIE HEUSCHNEIDER | | | | Home Address: UCT Address: | | ------------- ------------ | | 6 Winston Court Department of English | | Belle Ombre Road University of Cape Town | | Tamboerskloof Rondebosch | | 8001 Cape Town 7700 Cape Town | | SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH AFRICA | | | | E-mail: Reggie@Beattie.UCT.AC.ZA | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From: Subject: Re: 8.0066 ALA Session: Internet Resources (1/113) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 08:30:24 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 56 (110) Will any of this conference be available on-line for those of us who cannot afford to travel to Miami? Dene Grigar aca102@utdallas.edu From: akeller@sol.uvic.ca Subject: Query: autobiographical competency Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 16:37:21 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 57 (111) A electronically-challenged colleague asks to have this passed on to the list: "Does anyone out there know the exact reference for the term 'autobiographical competency'? It is a psychoanalytic term, and that is about all I've found out. Help much appreciatied!" Thanks echoed. Arnie Keller Director of the Writing Program Department of English University of Victoria Victoria, BC akeller@sol.uvic.ca From: Donald Spaeth Subject: Temp Research assistant required (Archaeology) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 10:17:23 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 73 (112) TLTP Archaeology Consortium Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Bristol Temporary Research Assistant Post (6 months). Applications are invited for immediate employment as a Research Assistant to provide the basic programming and support in the development of the structure of a teaching module, ArchGIS, in the TLTP Archaeology Consortium programme. The module is designed to demonstrate in a self-directed tutorial at the first-year undergraduate level the application of Geographical Information Systems and associated spatial analysis in Archaeology. Examples will be drawn int. al. from recent research in Italy and France. The tutorial is expected to be useful for both Archaeology and Classics courses. The module will be constructed using Authorware software to bring together text and images from a number sources. The programming and construction of the interface to Consortium guidelines will be the sole responsibility of the research assistant. Experience in the development of PC-based courseware and an understanding of the principles of GIS and Archaeology are required. Familiarity with Authorware authoring package would be a distinct advantage. The successful applicant will be appointed for a total of six months, being employed for three months in Cambridge and three in Bristol, on Research Assistant 1B scale (12,828 - 15186 pounds), depending on qualifications and experience, and will be subject to the Universities' regulations for short term employment. Applications with a CV including details of relevant experience and the names of two people who have agreed to act as referees on their behalf should be sent to reach before 1 July 1994 either: Dr C.A. Shell or Dr S.K.F. Stoddart Department of Archaeology Department of Classics & Archaeology Downing Street 11 Woodlands Road Cambridge CB2 3DZ Bristol BS8 1TB email: CAS4@cus.cam.ac.uk email:S.K.Stoddart@bris.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computers in Teaching Initiative Support Service 13 Banbury Road Phone: +44 865 273273 Oxford OX2 6NN Fax: +44 865 273275 United Kingdom Email: ctiss@vax.ox.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ferstel John W Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 22:11:34 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 74 (113) CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL PROPOSALS SWACS will have its biennial meeting February 23 - 25, 1995, at the University of North Texas, in Denton (just north of Dallas and Ft. Worth). Proposals are sought for panels and papers on any and all subjects related to Canadian Studies - Arts, Business, Economics, History, Political Science, Public Policy. Prefgerence will be given to early proposals, but in no case should be postmarked later than October 1. Please send them to: Frank Feigert Department of Political Science University of North Texas Denton, TX 76203-5338 (or, by e-mail, to Feigert@wooten.unt.edu) (or, via fax, to 817-565-4818) Abstracts and titles of paper proposals should not exceed 100 words. Panel proposals should indicate names and addresses of likely paper- givers and tentative paper titles. Proposals will receive responses by October 15, or within 15 days of receipt, whichever is earlier. The conference will feature a plenary address on the 1993 Election by Professor Harold Clarke. A field trip to nearby Fort Worth is also planned. From: Ed Haupt Subject: notetaking software Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 23:27:24 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 58 (114) I am a happy, if low-end user of Libmaster. I have not much history in taking notes, but I am happily churning away getting material for some history of psychology work together. So far, my general solution has been to take notes, then use the program to make an annotated report in WordPerfect format. I then work with my paper in one window and my annotated report in the other. If I need to use more than one of my sets of notes, I guess I will have to use WordPerfect 6 with more windows. Edward J. Haupt snail: voice: 1(201) 655-4327 Department of Psychology internet: haupt@pilot.njin.net Montclair State University bitnet: haupt@njin 1 Normal Ave. fax: 1(201) 655-5455 Upper Montclair, NJ 07043-1624 USA From: F.Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.D400.DE Subject: Re: askSam Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 11:17+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 59 (115) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I have been working with askSam for over 5 years and i can higly recommend it for searching both formatted and unformatted texts. However, to take full atvantage of it's superb searching capabilities you will have to learn its rather "counter intuitive" program language. Don't buy the Windows version: it doesn't have the full set of features you might be interested in. You can download a demo version from their BBS: 904-584-8287 / 5413 Fritz Heberlein, Uni Eichstaett, Bavaria From: Subject: Re: 8.0067 S/W Qs: Text Databases; Search Engines Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 08:28:25 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 60 (116) In regards to your request for a program to allow you keep notes (etc.), you may wish to investigate the new Storyspace for the PC, which may be out shortly. I use this software on my Mac for all sorts of tasks. For example, I used it to organize my annotated bibliography for my Ph.D. qualifiers and have been using it recently to keep the 10+ translations of the Odyssey at my fingertips. The programming is minimal, and it is very easy to learn. Dene Grigar aca102@utdallas.edu From: martinmueller@nwu.edu (Martin Mueller) Subject: Re: 8.0067 S/W Qs: Text Databases; Search Engines (2/85) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 09:37:15 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 61 (117) Re Andrew Burday's question about note taking and sorting programs, I recall a memo from Willard McCarthy some time ago who said that Endnote Plus was a wiser program than its manual suggested. Endnote Plus is a bibliography program, and a very good one, but it can easily be adapted to note taking purposes. It has many fields, each of which up to 32 K long, it has quite powerful and fast search capabilities, and you can search in any or all fields. I have followed McCarthy's advice for some time and with good success. I don't know whether it will slow down a lot if you have thousands of notes with substantial comments, but it is supposed to handle thousands of bibliographical entries. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= Martin Mueller Professor of English and Classics Department of English Northwestern University Evanston IL 60208 martinmueller@nwu.edu 708-467-1065 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: "Mary Dee Harris, Language Technology" Subject: ASKSAM -- a good option Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 15:21:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 62 (118) My comments are based on an older version of the program; I haven't seen a recent implementation: ASKSAM is a good DBMS for text information. It allows unlimited flexibility in defining fields and formats. Its search capability is strong but requires some encoding of commands that can get tricky sometimes, but I found it worth the effort for note taking or other free form text. Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 202/387-0626 (voice) Language Technology, Inc. 202/387-0625 (FAX) 2153 California St. NW mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu Washington, DC 20008 mdharris@aol.com From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: WordCruncher Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 17:41:45 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 63 (119) A crippled version of WordCruncher is indeed available in numerous places, including the PC-SIG CD-ROM. Ray Siemens ought to try archie. You can also get a copy from the Houston-based Public software Library or download it from WU Archives. Jim Marchand. From: hahne@epas.utoronto.ca (Harry Hahne) Subject: Re: 8.0067 S/W Qs: Text Databases Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 19:49:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 64 (120) Andrew Burday asks: [deleted quotation] I wrote a program called Library Master, which was specifically designed as a bibliographic and note-taking database. All the fields are variable length, up to 65,000 character, you can set up the database structure any way you like, and it will format bibliographies in any style. It handles mixed European language materials very nicely. A new version coming this Fall formats bibliographic footnotes in your word processor documents and even takes care of the nasty differences between first and subsequent citation styles. I will be glad to send a demonstration disk and some information if you wish. There is a Library Master discussion list called LibMastr@acadvm1.uottawa.ca. It is available through Balboa Software, 5845 Yonge St., Box 69539, Willowdale, Ontario M2M 4K3 Canada 416-730-8980 [deleted quotation] This is a very powerful indexing program, but it is best with static documents. If you plan to change things a lot, such as research notes for work in process, it would not be practical, since you would have to constantly run the indexing routine to get the indexes up to date. [deleted quotation] This might also work for your application, though it does not have the flexible report capability of Library Master. Harry Hahne hahne@epas.utoronto.ca From: Onno Boonstra Subject: AHC 94 Conference Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 11:45:52 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 76 (121) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = == = =IX International Conference of the Association for History & Computing= = -=-=-=-=-=-=- = = 'STRUCTURES AND CONTINGENCIES IN COMPUTERIZED HISTORICAL RESEARCH' = = -=-=-=-=-=-=- = =August 30 - September 2, 1994, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands= = == = -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ===> PRELIMINARY PROGRAM <=== ==> REGISTRATION FORM AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE <== Preliminary program == Monday, August 29 == 9.00-18.00 * HiDES/Microcosm Workshop Hosted by Frank Colson Only for those who have registered separately for this workshop Tuesday, August 30 9.00-10.00: Registration 10.00-10.30: Opening session O.W.A. Boonstra, P.M.M. Klep, J.A.H. Bots, Th. Lindblad, M. Thaller 10.30-11.00: Key-note speech W. Frijhoff 11.30-12.30 * AHC Workshop 1: The curriculum P. Denley * Computers, software and historical research 1: Hypertext Y. Skramm (Oslo), Hypertext: historical structure or research tool? O. Signore, G. Fresta, A. Cimbalo and S. Di Lecce (Pisa), A Methodology for Hypertext Design: a Case Study * Structuring historical data 1: Prosopographies J. Nilis (Leuven), Proposal for a standardisation of prosopographical databases for institutions D. Erlach and M. Reisenleitner (Wien), A relational approach to computer-based studies of genealogy, family patterns and social bonding 14.00-15.30 * AHC Workshop 2: Data archives H. Tjalsma and H.J. Marker * Structuring historical data 2: Text analysis R. Vos (Groningen), Automatic text-based reconstruction of historical developments in science and technology. A socio-cognitive history of developing patterns in pharmaceutical research A. Bozzi and A. Sapuppo (Pisa), Word-image linkage in the computerized analysis of old printed dictionaries P. Peebles (Kansas City), Text Analysis of Robert Knox, `An Historical Relation of Ceylon' * HISMA 1: The methodology of social mobility analysis A. Miles (Birmingham), The consistent flux: social mobility and the dynamics of British industrialism revisited D. Vincent (Keele), Shadow and reality in social mobility: Britain in the first half of the twentieth century L. Borodkin and M. Svishchov (Moscow), Computer-Assisted Simulation of Social Mobility in the NEP Period (1920s): using Markov chains 16.00-17.30 * AHC Council meeting Computers, software and historical research 2: Graphic modelling M. Daru (Eindhoven), Graphical explorative modelling of historical data P. Alkhoven (Glasgow), Interactive urban historical models H. de Tollenaere (Leiden), A simple historian, a text, maps, diagrams and pictures * Structuring historical data 3: Large databases C. Mandemakers (Amsterdam), Historical sample of the Netherlands. Database and software H.J. Marker (Copenhagen), Collaborating with amateur historians to collect census G. Benda and L. Turi (Budapest), The reconstruction of a small-town community * HISMA 2: Urban stratification J. Igartua (Montreal), Uncovering patterns of sociability: residential structures in a company town, Arvida, Canada, 1925-1940 K. Shamra (New Delhi), Patterns of urban- industrial social stratification in India I. Yushin (Moscow), The integral classification of the disfranchised people in Moscow E. Koster (Groningen), Urban morphology and social stratification 17.30-19.00 Reception offered by the University of Nijmegen == Wednesday, August 31 == 9.00-10.30 * Plenary session: The end of history and computing Ch. Steinmark (Copenhagen), Problems and questions in historical computing P. Doorn (Leiden), The end of history and computing Referents: G. Welling, L. Borodkin 11.00-12.30 * AHC Workshop 3: Maps M. Goerke * Structuring historical data 4: The dynamics of historical structures W. Levermann (G ttingen), The dimension of time in historical databases I. Garskova (Moscow), A set of dBASE language programs for studying social dynamics C. Steckner (K ln), Measure and weight along the Rhine. Structuring data with free format relational database systems * HISMA 3: Elites M. Duijvendak and M. Peterzon (Groningen), Friends, relations, relatives. Comparing two regional elites on structural properties. The Dutch provinces Groningen and Noordbrabant, 1800-1925 N. Selounskaya (Moscow), Structural changes in the composition of the Russian legislative eite in the beginning of the XXth century M. Kopczynski, A. Maczak and J. Maczak (Warsaw), The gray and the crimson: the social structure of the Polish gentry in the 16th and 17th centuries 14.00-15.30 * AHC Workshop 4: Image processing * Structuring historical data 5: Standardization G. Bloothooft (Utrecht), Corpus-based name standardization G. Welling (Groningen), Prices, prices, prices : Posthumus revisited P. Adman, not yet submitted * HISMA 4: Peasants I. Yushin (Moscow), Russian peasant households and market S. Kashchenko (st. Petersburg), Realization of the peasants reform (1861) in the Russian North-West provinces: computerized analysis of economic consequences for different social groups of peasants I. Rafi-zade (Baku), The social stratification of Azerbejani peasantry V. Vladimirov and I. Yakimova (Barnaul), Social relations of Altai peasants: using computerized classification methods T. Moiseenko (Moscow), Hidden structures of the Russian peasantry (an application of multidimentional statistical analysis) 16.00-17.30 * AHC Workshop 5: Statistical software L. Borodkin * Computers, software and historical research 3: Computerized qualitative analysis of historical data P. Craven (Toronto), A general-purpose conceptual clustering engine E. Belova (Moscow), Qualitative data analysis with QualiDatE software S. Ross (London), Knowledge modelling: formalising the processes of historical interpretation * Structuring historical data 6: History and art history C. Cieri Via (Roma), ICONOS Project: Iconographic index with data retrieval M. Dobreva (Sofia), Computer supported image processing of medieval Bulgarian manuscripts W. Weusten (Nijmegen), Arthistorical data-input, a practical approach M. Bitter-Rijpkema (Heerlen), Design and development of multimedia learning materials: a strategy 18.00-19.00 * Reception offered by the Mayor of Nijmegen == Thursday, September 1 == 9.00-10.30 * AHC Workshop 6: The classification of occupations H. Diederiks and K. Schurer * Computers, software and historical research 4: Multimedia A. van Steenderen (Utrecht), Open and closed hypermedia systems: comparing TOOLBOOK with MICROCOSM L. Hughes (Oxford), Removing the structures in historical research: Oxford University's Initiative in Postgraduate Multimedia Research D.A. Spaeth and A. Wissenburg (Glasgow), In search of a metaphor for hypermedia: the enriched lecture * Structuring historical data 7: Databases V. Lazarev (Moscow), Intentionally ordered lists: the source type and applicable analytical procedures L. Breure (Utrecht), "Universal" Data Entry Software For Historical Sources V. Tikhonov (Moscow), An application of the sampling and the mathematical technique for elucidation of the source information abilities 11.00-12.30 * AHC Workshop 7: Bibliography P. Denley and S. Paslau * AHC Workshop 8: Universities P. Denley * Structuring historical data 8: Maps T. Maroy (Oslo), A large scale database system for regional statistical data G. Lind (Odense), Historical concepts of space and computer-based maps E. Wattel and P. van Reenen (Amsterdam), Visualisation of extrapolated geographical data * HISMA 5: Social mobility R. Federspiel (Berlin), Change in employment structures and social mobility of women in historical perspective M. van Leeuwen (Utrecht) and I. Maas (Berlin), Intergenerational occupational mobility in Utrecht in the 19th century L. Mysyrowicz (Geneva), The PC as a kitchen maid in a qualitative study on social mobility 12.30-19.00 * Lowlands excursion == Friday, September 2 == 9.00-10.30 * Structuring historical data 9: Data modelling T. Schijvenaars (Utrecht), Datamodelling of historical sources V. Tikhonov (Moscow), A KLEIO datamodel as recipe for revelation of inherent controverses in the source S. Neri and S. Travasoni (Bologna), A project to elaborate computer tools and help with publishing and cataloguing sources on order to have a better use of the index and to guard the philological rigour V. Tjazhelnikova (Moscow), Extracting the most of reliable information from a limited portion of a large data array: an algorithm based on the analysis of the KLEIO data model * Computers, software and historical research 5: Networking S. Lariccia (Roma), The Anchors project V. Skraamm (Fetsund), The Viking Network H. Tjalsma and M. Graver (Leiden), Online retrieval of historical information 11.00-12.00 * AHC Workshop 9: Electronic information resources S. Ross and R. Zweig * Structuring historical data 10: Reconstructing information acquiring processes Ch. Jeurgens (Den Haag), Unlocking governmental information-acquiring processes in the Batavian-French period (1795-1813) in Dutch archives J. a Campo and N. Penning (Rotterdam), Numbers and clauses. Structuring semi-standardized text sources for quantitative analysis; the case of political contracts between colonial state and indigenous states in Indonesia * HISMA 6: Transport P. Staudacher (Salzburg), Motion and persistence. Techno-economic structures of transport in Austria, 1918-1938 G. Milne (Gloucester), Trading networks on the early-modern River Severn: Evidence from the Gloucester Port Books Database 12.00-13.00 * History and education E. Balykina, V. Komlitchenko and V. Sidortzov (Minsk), Hypertext in databases and learning programs M. Luijting (Leiden), The postdoctoral course historical information technology * Computers, software and historical research 6: OCR R. van der Zwan (Leiden), The possibilities of post-processing OCR output S. Laflin (Birmingham), Generation of Gothic handwriting R. van Horik (Leiden), Some digital image processing techniques to manipulate the bitmap of historical sources * HISMA 7: Migration analysis S. Fogelvik (Stockholm), Changing migration patterns in a dynamic urban setting - Stockholm 1880-1920 G. Thorvaldsen (Tromso), A study of migration in the province of Troms 14.30-15.30 * Plenary session M. Thaller (G ttingen), Virtual reality? The mind of the historian and the conflict between 'data' and 'reality' 16.00-17.30 * Annual general meeting of the AHC * HISMA general meeting 17.30-19.30 * Farewell party, thrown in by the VGI -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= == REGISTRATION PROCEDURES == The normal registration fee for the Conference is Dfl. 325. However, there is a discount for students, for members of the AHC and for members of the VGI. When payment is made before July 1, an additional discount will apply. The Conference registration fee will cover: - Admission to all Conference meetings - Conference volume of abstracts - Coffee and tea during conference breaks - Daily 3-course meal at luncheon - The latest publications of the `Halbgraue Reihe f r historische Fachinformatik', covering the work done by AHC-working groups. 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Notice: ACM SigDoc '94 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 08:35:07 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 77 (122) SIGDOC'94 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM TECHNICAL COMMUNICATORS AT THE GREAT DIVIDE: FROM COMPUTING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACM 1994 SIGDOC CONFERENCE OCTOBER 2 - 5, 1994 THE BANFF CENTRE FOR CONFERENCES In 1982, SIGDOC held its first meeting. A respectable computer, in those days, was still a mainframe or perhaps a minicomputer. Microcomputers were just appearing on the scene. WordStar and VisiCalc were coming into the vocabulary. A new breed of technical writers was writing third-party manuals to explain to computer neophytes what the vendor manuals didn't tell. Twelve years later we convene in a vastly different world - a world in which * millions of microcomputers, mainframes, minis, and supercomputers of many different makes and models are expected to work together * people believe they should be able to use a computer the way they use their other toys and appliances - easily * everyone who can afford a computer may not have the skills to read about them * people want more than the keyboard and mouse as primary accesses to computers The 80s brought us chunking, usability, ease-of-use, graphical interface design, user friendly. The 90s' jargon includes interoperability, device independence, virtual reality, the information highway, and electronic document distribution. The 1994 conference theme, "Technical Communicators at the Great Divide: From Computing to Information Technology," gives us a context to explore how we fit into this turn-of-the-century world; to talk about the change and continuity in our roles as documentors of information technology, and to share our experiences as we stand at a watershed in our profession. SIGDOC OFFICERS Nina Wishbow, Bell Northern Research, Chair Stephanie Rosenbaum, Tec-Ed, Vice Chair Barbara Mirel, DePaul University, Secretary Kathy Haramundanis, DEC, Treasurer R. John Brockmann, U. of Delaware, Past Chair SIGDOC'94 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Susan B. Jones, MIT, Chair Paul Beam, U. of Waterloo John Brockmann, U. of Delaware Stanley Dicks, Bellcore Phyllis Galt, MIT Barbara Mirel, DePaul University Mimi Saffer, SAS Institute Ray Siemens, UBC Angela Patrick, Mead Data Central, Chair, Tutorials Cathy Kincaid, Nova Corp. of Alberta, Chair, Banff Logistics Chris Hallgren, Canadian PrePress Institute, Chair, Posters GETTING TO BANFF Banff is about an hour's drive from Calgary city limits, and about an hour and 45 minutes from the Calgary International Airport. When you leave the airport, follow the signs for Barlow Trail South. Once you're travelling south on Barlow, take the 16th Avenue/Highway #1 West exit. Follow the signs for Banff/Lake Louise (#1 Highway West). The Conference Centre is in the Banff National Park. If you are driving, you will be charged a $20 CDN entrance fee (per car) when you enter the park. This fee is good for one week. SPECIAL AIRFARES Air Canada (and its connectors) is SIGDOC's official air carrier. For special airfares, call 1-800-361-7585 to make your reservation. Be sure to use our registered event number: CV941218. CAR RENTALS In conjunction with Air Canada, AVIS Rental cars is providing us with special conference rates. Discount number is B835539. BUS SCHEDULES Brewster Transportation runs daily bus trips from Calgary International Airport to Banff at 3 pm and 6 pm. Fares are adult $28.00 CDN (one way), child $14.00 CDN (one way). Buy tickets at the Brewster counter in the airport. CONFERENCE HOTEL SIGDOC'94 has reserved the Banff Centre: Mountain Campus for our annual conference. The Centre is really four centres in one: the Centre for the Arts, the Centre for Conferences, the Centre for Management, and the International Institute for Innovation. Any profits made from the Conference Centre go directly back to the performing arts programs at the Banff Centre. A room in the Banff Centre includes three meals and two nutrition breaks a day, and access to a recreation centre (pool, whirlpool, sauna, aerobics classes, gymnasium, racquetball and squash courts, running track, weight-lifting equipment) all for $106 CDN (single), or $167 CDN (double). Please book your room before August 1, 1994. After August 1, 1994, rooms are on an "as-available" basis. If you stay at another hotel, the Banff Centre will arrange a lunch and nutrition break package for no more than $20.00 CDN for each day that you attend. You can arrange this at the registration desk. OTHER HOTELS The Banff Park Lodge (222 Lynx Street, P.O. Box 2200, Banff, Alberta, Canada T0L 0C0) has been selected as the conference overflow hotel. To get special conference rates, call 1-800- 661-9266 and mention you are attending the SIGDOC conference. Please note, rooms are on an "as-available" basis. The Banff Park Lodge is a 15-minute walk from the conference centre. VIRTUAL REALITY & MULTIMEDIA TOUR On Tuesday afternoon, October 4, the Banff Centre for the Arts has arranged a tour of the Virtual Reality and Multimedia labs. Stop by the registration desk to find out the times and to sign up. A TASTE OF BANFF/LAKE LOUISE The Second Annual "A Taste Of Banff/Lake Louise" is October 1 and 2. Only 10 minutes from the conference centre, over 25 of Banff and Lake Louise's finest restaurants will be waiting f or you in heated festival tents. Great food and free entertainment! Here's a sample from last year's menu: baked tiger prawns with goat cheese and prosciutto with sun dried tomatoes ($3.00), steamed Arctic Char in Chinese cabbage with orange ginger sauce and brown basmati rice pilaf ($3.00), escallop of venison with Black Pepper and Guinette Cherries ($3.00), . the list goes on and on. All week you and your family can enjoy a variety of free activities such as nature hikes, and art walk tours. (You may need to arrange those a few days in advance). DAY TOUR OF THE ICEFIELDS Stay an extra day and join other conferees on the Highway and Snocoach tour of the Columbia Icefield. THE PROGRAM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1994 TUTORIALS TUTORIAL #1: Contextual Inquiry: Grounding Your Design in User's Work TIME: Full day, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm INSTRUCTORS Mary Beth Raven, Ph.D., Dennis Wixon, Ph.D., Digital Equipment Corporation's Usability Expertise Center CONTENT: Introduces new, proven alternatives to traditional interviewing through hands-on exercises. This tutorial will particularly benefit those who are taking on the responsibility of integrating documentation into a product. OBJECTIVE Participants will learn the fundamentals of the contextual inquiry research approach, which involves conducting field research with customers and incorporating what is learned into product development. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Designers, programmers, managers, writers, and course developers. FORMAT: Lecture, videotape demonstrations, and hands-on exercises. TUTORIAL #2: Human Factors in Multimedia Communications TIME: Half-day, morning, 8:30 am - noon INSTRUCTORS Arlen Michaels, scientist and electronic communications advisor, Bell-Northern Research Limited CONTENT: Introduces the considerations involved when developing information products that incorporate additional human sensory stimulation through sight and sound. This is based on Arlen's SIGDOC'92 tutorial on Human Factors in Multimedia. OBJECTIVE Participants will learn the benefits and limitations of multimedia communication from a psychological perspective and explore new approaches to interactive communication. This tutorial is not about using multimedia tools, nor is it a detailed prescription of multimedia design methods. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Writers, editors, document planners, and other technical communicators. FORMAT: Lecture and audio/video presentation. TUTORIAL #3: Tour of the Internet: Getting Up To Speed on the Information Highway TIME: Half-day, afternoon, 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm INSTRUCTORS Joanne Costello, Manager, Network Support Services, Christi-Anne Castro, Network Consultant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology CONTENT: A fast-forward jump into the Internet and its invaluable sources of information. OBJECTIVE Participants will learn the background and benefits of the Internet, how to navigate it, and its social and ethical implications (such as copyright laws, plagiarism, and intellectual property laws). WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Professionals who have or will have access to the Internet and wish to use it to enrich their work. FORMAT: Lecture and hands-on exercises. REGISTRATION: All day EVENING: Welcome to SIGDOC'94 Reception MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1994 CONFERENCE PROGRAM 9am - 10am Plenary Session: Greetings 10:30am - noon Session 1: An Overview and Introduction to Mosaic and the World Wide Web Mosaic/World Wide Web presentation, Chris Hudel, Hewlett Packard Canada Session 2: On-line Help Timing the Development of a Quality On-line Help System to Minimize Panic and Save Costs, Bruce W. Knorr, Ann Norton, WordPerfect Corp. Changing the Documentation Paradigm: Design for On-line First, Karl Smart, Matt Whitting, WordPerfect Corp. Session 3: Models for Documentation and Training, Part 1 Writers and Trainers Unite! Experiencing a Paradigm Shift in Technical Communication, Rob Houser, AT&T Global A Combined Project Planning Model for Documentation/ Training at BNR, Glenn C. Russell, Bell Northern Research Luncheon Rigo Award: John M. Carroll, speaker: "Making History, Giving Reason: Technical Communicators at the Great Divide." 1:30pm - 3pm Session 4: Behind the Scenes of Networked Information Untangling the (World-Wide) Web, Tony Cahill, Michael G. Hinchey, Liam Relihan, University of Limerick Implementing an Interface to Networked Services, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Brian Gay, Aston University Multi-Level Documentation of Organizational Architectures and Processes, Rudolf K. Keller, Anuraag Garg, Amin Noaman, Tao Tao, Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal (CRIM) Session 5: Visual Design Tools Object Help for GUIs, David Freeman, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Technology Center Session 6: Development and the Customer Engineer/Customer Communication Practices: A Study of Software Engineering, John K. Horberg, RPI Electric Rhetoric: Toward a Rhetoric of Electronic Documents, Kara Heinrichs, University of Michigan 3pm - 5pm Session 7: Documentation in a Distributed Environment Interoperability: Rethinking the Documentation Paradigm, Robbie Beam, Jaelyn Williams, WordPerfect Corp. Implementing On-line Methods and Procedures in a Distributed Client-Server Graphical User Interface Environment, Kenneth R. Ohnemus, CSC Consulting and Diana F. Mallin, AT&T Bell Labs Session 8: Information Design and Multimedia, Part 1 Leading the Design Team, Steven J. Reilly, David C. Woomer, Intelligent Controls, Inc. Multimedia: Towards an Electronic Performance Support System, Ann Rockley and Desiree Sy, Information Design Solutions, Inc. Session 9: Multi-Site/Multi-Culture Issues Conducting Multi-Site Documentation Projects: What Works, What Doesn't, Katherine Drew, Legent Corp. Preparing for the Global Market, Susan Goodall, Powersoft Corp. Evening Poster Session TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1994 8:30am - 10am Session 10: Creating a CD-ROM Creating a CD-ROM Publication from Scratch: A Case Study, Brian J. Thomas, SPIE Session 11: CAL (Computer-Aided Learning) Go Ahead, Help Yourself! User-Interactive On-line Help in a CAL Authoring Environment, Paul Beam and Diane Burke, University of Waterloo CAL, Empowerment and the "Average User," Paul Beam, The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Session 12: Models for Documentation and Training, Part 2 Integrating On-line Help, Documentation, and Training, R. Stanley Dicks, Bellcore Zen and the Art of Learning Support: Combining Documentation, Training, and On-line Help Functions for a Unique Organizational Approach to Information Development, Karen Goeller, Bellcore 10:30am - noon Session 13: Information Design and Multimedia, Part 2 Creating Large Multimedia Titles, Rich Helms, Mark Ryan, IBM Canada Session 14: Information Design Perspectives ConTextualizing the Environment: Narratives of Use in On-line Documentation, Edward Barrett, James G. Paradis, MIT A Theory of Organization, Joseph I. B. Gonzales. Shelton, CT Session 15: Virtual Reality and Multimedia Tour Luncheon Diana Award: John Seely Brown, Xerox PARC, speaker 1:30pm - 3pm Session 16: Knowledge-Level Support of Scholarly Communities Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Techniques in Scholarly Communication, Brian R. Gaines, University of Calgary Groupware Concept Mapping Techniques, R. Kremer, University of Calgary Active Documents Combining Multimedia and Expert Systems, Mildred L. G. Shaw, University of Calgary Session 17: Enhancing the Usability of System Interfaces A Unified Approach to Indexing and Retrieval of Information, Kevin Cox, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong The Fate of Indexes in an On-line World, Mary Jane Northrop, University of Michigan The Work Flow in HyperText Modeling, Chris Hallgren, Canadian PrePress Institute Session 18: Designing Writers Joining the GUI Design Team - One Writer's Experience, Leslie A. Johnson, NeuralWare, Inc. Virtual Reality, AI, and Instructional Text: Meeting Demands for Realistic, Transparent, and Forgiving Environments, Scott DeLoach, Atlanta, GA 3:30pm - 5pm Session 19: Designing Information Services for Specific Communities Building an Internet Resource for the Optical Engineering Community, Rick Hermann, SPIE Press, Rich Donnelly, On-line SPIE- The International Society for Optical Engineering The Sephardic Electronic Archive - A Technological Leap in the 1990s, Yitzchak Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel Session 20: Collaborating to Create Usable Products Technical Writers and System Developers Collaborating in Usability-Oriented Systems Development: A Case Study, Par Carlshamre, Linkoping University A New Vision of Help: Rhetorical Considerations for the Humanization of Help, Patricia L. Brooksbank Bridging the Communication Gap in the Workplace with Usability Engineering, Desiree Sy, Information Design Solutions, Inc. Session 21: Virtual Reality and Multimedia Tour (Repeat) Banquet Diana Patterson, Past SIGDOC Chair, speaker WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1994 8:30am - 10am Session 22: "Virtual" Communities Multi-User Domains and Virtual Campuses: Implications for Computer-Mediated Collaboration and Technical Communication, Brad Mehlenbacher, Beth Hardin, Chris Barrett, and Jim Clagett, North Carolina State University Information Ecologies and System Design: The Israeli Mass Multimedia Network, Menahem Blondheim, Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Changing Roles of Educators: Using E-mail, CD-ROM, and On-line Documentation in the Technical Writing Classroom, Lynette, R. Porter, The University of Findlay Session 23: Using On-line Help Development Tools Creating Helplus(TM): A Cooperative Method of GUI Design, Carla Merrill, Phil Herold, SAS Institute Inc. Creating On-line Help the Easy Way, Susan Goodall, Powersoft Corp. Session 24: Roundtable ACM Journals: Online or Paper? 10:30am - noon Session 25: Facing the Future - A Panel Traversing the Divide: Documentation Challenges of the 90s, Karl Smart, moderator, Freda Husic - Apple, Peter Orbeton - Lotus, Delanie Alcorn-Jones - Microsoft, Matt Whitting - WordPerfect Session 26: Roundtable SIGDOC Home Page: What should we do with it? How should we tend it? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= BONUS OFFER: TWO conferences - ONE trip! The week preceding SIGDOC '94 is IPCC 94, the IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference, September 28-30. Its theme is "Scaling New Heights in Technical Communication." Contact Nancy C. Corbin, Publicity Chairman, PCS at or call (703) 367-6013 for more information or to register for free workshops on Saturday October 1. And join us all on Saturday evening for a SIGDOC/IPCC joint reception. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=a Complete the attached Registration form. All registration fees include a copy of the proceedings and an invitation to the SIGDOC'94 welcoming party on Sunday night. Fees are in CANADIAN DOLLARS. Send completed forms to: Elsa Biswurm Banff Centre for Conferences Box 1020 - Station 11 Banff, Alberta, Canada T0L 0C0 Tele: (403) 762-6312 Fax: (403) 762-6388 ------------------------------------------------------------------ PER # of PERSON PEOPLE ACM members $375.00 _____ SIG members $375.00 _____ IEEE/IPCC members $400.00 _____ Non-members $450.00 _____ Full-time students $75.00 _____ Full-day tutorial (members) $200.00 _____ Half-day tutorials (members) $100.00 _____ Full-day tutorial (non-members) $220.00 _____ Half-day tutorials (non-members) $110.00 _____ Banquet ticket $30.00 _____ Additional proceedings $35.00 _____ Icefields Highway Tour $40.00/adult _____ Snocoach tour* $27.50/child _____ (maximum 47 people, minimum 30 people)* Please reserve a single room $106.00 _____ a double room $167.00 _____ at the Banff Conference Centre from: _____________ to: _____________ Make check or money order for $___________ (CDN) payable to SIGDOC'94. Fees are in CANADIAN DOLLARS. Cancellations and no shows A $35.00 charge will be levied for cancellation or no shows. If you do not give the Centre a 24-hour cancellation notice you will be charged for that night's accommodation. Name: Title: Organization: Address: City/State: Zip/Country: Phone: Fax: Email: Ray Siemens University of British Columbia siemens@unixg.ubc.ca From: mlbizer@mail.utexas.edu (Marc Bizer) Subject: Text Databases Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 20:16:30 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 65 (123) Hello everyone, Has anyone thought of Claris FileMaker Pro for note-taking? I know of at least one person who uses it for this purpose. I believe that it is available in both Mac and Windows versions. Yours truly, Marc Bizer From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: note-taking Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 22:28:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 66 (124) As noted in Humanist 8.75, I have sniffed out the intelligence of EndNote Plus and turned it to good advantage in taking notes on large and complex projects. The important point to be made, I think, is that with a suitable bib manager, and some clever application of a wordprocessor, one can produce a fairly decent note-taking and displaying system. By a "suitable bib manager" I mean one that will allow you to define the kind of entity you are recording (i.e., a note) and the formats in which you want it delivered. Of course the bib manager has to be able to represent properly the language in which you are working. The input and output formats depend on what the user finds most convenient. What I do is to enter for each note a headword, a summary of what is said, then an exact transcription, followed by a brief reference to the work; the usual output format I use gives the summary and hides the exact quotation in a footnote. Thus I can survey a screen-full of notes in one window of my wordprocessor while I keep the essay in progress in the other window; if I want to see the exact words, I open a footnote window. The exact transcriptions are practical for me to record because I scan them in, then cut the interpreted text from the OCR software into the bib manager. All this may sound hopelessly complicated, but when the subject under investigation is complex and the amount of material large, then the advantages arising from the resulting database more than justify the effort. In other words, I use the above proceedure selectively. One part of the procedure I have never been able to automate is the classification of notes into categories. For that, I have found, nothing beats Sir James Murray's sorting of paper slips into piles. I sit on the floor of my study and "play solitaire", as Roberto Busa once called it. WM -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: Scott Stebelman Subject: INTERNET Guides Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 11:00:22 -0300 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 79 (125) This announcement is being sent to several lists. My apologies for the inconvenient but necessary duplication. The second edition of "Electronic Communication and the Humanities Scholar" is now available for anonymous ftp. It's new title is "Electronic Communication on the UNIX." It has been significantly revised to include advanced as well as basic INTERNET functions. Intended as a detailed guide for faculty INTERNET workshops, it includes the following chapters: What is the INTERNET? Logging on to the UNIX System Sending Mail Reading Mail Subscribing to Electronic Lists and Electronic Journals Saving, Printing, and Downloading Connecting to Remote Sites (Telnet) Retrieving Files Stored in Another Computer (FTP) Archie Gopher and Veronica Creating and Managing Files Logging Off Discussion Group Lists: Humanities Electronic Journals The guide is approximately 60 pages, and was designed to illustrate why the INTERNET is valuable for humanities research. It contains the e-mail addresses and names for over 200 humanities lists, hierarchically arranged by subject. A complementary guide was written to train faculty on our campus wide information system (known as GWIS). Similar guides have been written for social science faculty. The anonymous ftp address for these guides is: gwuvm.gwu.edu The individual file names are: "Electronic Communication on the UNIX" bitwork.fac "Humanities Databases and Resources on GWIS" gwis.hum "Advanced INTERNET Functions: A Guide for Social Scientists" internet.ss "Social Science Databases and Resources on GWIS" gwis.ss All of these files were composed in WordPerfect and have detailed charts, graphics, and boxes. Hence it cannot be ftp'd as an ASCII file. You must issue the "binary" command before the "get" command, and have software on your campus mainframe to transfer it intact as a binary file to your pc. If you have any questions or suggestions for future editions, please let me know. Scott Stebelman Gelman Library George Washington University 2130 H Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20052 scottlib@gwuvm.gwu.edu From: jslatin@mail.utexas.edu (John Slatin) Subject: Computer-based courses in English/Rhetoric Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 08:39:08 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 67 (126) A request for help from my colleagues, wherever they may be: I'm working on a study of the impact of computers (and other information technologies) on English studies, and would like information about computer-based and computer-assisted courses in English and/or Rhetoric and Composition at your institutions. By "computer-based" I mean a course that does all or most of its work, including discussion, via computer; by "computer-assisted" I mean a course in which some work isspecifically designed to be done with computers, but where the major thrust is elsewhere. I'm also interested in courses *about* computers and some aspect of English studies, e.g., courses in Rhetoric and Computers, courses in textual analysis, etc. Respond to me off-list (jslatin@mail.utexas.edu), please. I'll be happy to summarize the results and post the summary here. Thanks very much; apologies if you see this request more than once. John Slatin Director, Computer Writing & Research Lab Division of Rhetoric and Composition and Department of English University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 (512) 471-8743 From: Maurizio Lana Subject: scanner for microfiches (q) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 21:54:14 +0100 (GDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 68 (127) Does anyone know if it exists any scanner specifically made to scan microfiches? It seems to me that I saw an ad some time ago about something like that, but don't recall anything else. Or, alternatively: any viable, tested way to go from microfiches to OCR of the text they contain Many thanks for the help. Maurizio Lana - CISI, Universita' di Torino lana@cisi.unito.it fax: 39 11 899 5577 From: Tamara Subject: Re: New Subscription in Special Area of Travel Lit Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 16:13:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 69 (128) Tamara M Teale Department of Comparative Studies Graduate Program in Comparative Lit State University of New York Stony Brook NY 11794-3355 home phone 516-732-7230 Dear Madam or Sir, I am interested in communicating with anyone interested in or familiar with my dissertation topic: Tocqueville and Baudrillard in America. I am focusing on Baudrillard's references to Native Americans in light of Tocqueville's more systematic study in his chapter "the present state and probable future" of the First Americans. I will drive to Colorado in a week or two in search of my own "astral" America and to visit relatives. Please communicate with me in the next week or in August on my return. With regards, Tamara From: petersen@epas.utoronto.ca (Eric Petersen) Subject: Subway poems Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 18:11:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 70 (129) I would like to have the following posted on Humanist. Thank you. I am beginning a project on the depiction of the New York City subway in poetry. I already have a large number of poems about the subway by the poets Paul Blackburn, Jim Carroll, Edwin Denby, Ferlinghetti, Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Frank O'Hara, Charles Reznikoff, and Allen Tate's "The Subway." I would appreciate it if the members of Humanist would inform me if they know of any poets (or individual poems) I have missed, particularly by lesser-known poets or poems written before 1953. It is possible that this study will be expanded, so information on poems about Chicago's El or the London Underground would also be appreciated. Replies can be sent either to Humanist or directly to me. Thank you, Eric Petersen petersen@epas.utoronto.ca From: Michael Butler Subject: Grammar Questions Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 15:58:33 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 71 (130) Please post the following message. Thank you. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am doing research on the differences between the following three question for ms. If you have any suggestions on where I could go for more information I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me. 1. How long does/did/will it take to..........(or how long does it take John to...) 2. How much time does/did/will John spend...... 3. How long did/do/will you.... From: OLAF Subject: Need price of 1991 German book Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 09:29:39 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 72 (131) Can anyone help me find the price of a book published in Germany? I need the information for a review that I am preparing. I assume that out there, somewhere, there is the German equivalent of BOOKS IN PRINT with this information. The book is: Michael Epkenhans. DIE WILHELMINISCHE FLOTTENR STUNG 1908-1914; WELTMACHTSTREBEN, INDUSTRIELLER FORTSCHRITT, SOZIALE INTEGRATION. M nchen: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1991. xi + 488 pp., bibliography, tables, figures, index. cloth; ISBN 3-486-55880-3. If you know, or can find out, the price of this book, I would be most grateful. Thanks in advance, Olaf Janzen Department of History Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Corner Brook, Newfoundland A2H 6P9 tel: (709) 637-6282 FAX: (709) 639-8125 e-mail: olaf@kean.ucs.mun.ca From: Subject: Venician - English Dictionary Wanted Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 9:07 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 73 (132) Can someone please point me to a Venician - English dictionary? I have come across some 16th century texts [Hebrew, 1565, published in Venice] with clearly Venician comments and need the help. Thanks. Please write to me at: rwerman@vms.huji.ac.il __Bob Werman From: Andrew Burday Subject: Text Databases Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 20:13:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 74 (133) I recently posted a query on Humanist regarding programs for creating and manipulating databases of text. I have received several useful responses, along with some requests for summaries. I will post a summary to Humanist within a week or two. The reason for my present post is that, due to some problems upgrading the operating system on our mail server, I lost all my mail that arrived between Wednesday night and Thursday late afternoon. I imagine that there probably were some responses to my query among the mail that was lost. I have responses from the following people. If you sent me a response, are not on this list, and still have a copy of your response lying around somewhere, I'd be very pleased if you could send me another copy. If you ARE on this list (or you sent your response to Humanist rather than directly to me), I have your response, thank you very much, and please DON'T send me another copy. 1 Jun 21 Nicholas Heer (5,435) Text Databases 2 Jun 22 Mr A.P. Berber Sar (2,494) databases 3 Jun 22 Cheryl Malone (1,698) organizing notes 4 Jun 22 WALLACHP@CSUSYS.CT (580) Information Manager 5 Jun 22 Michael Ossar (1,776) text bases 6 Jun 22 David Beer (3,235) your request for info on computer sof 7 Jun 22 Lia Michelle Hotch (1,379) Note-taking software 8 Jun 22 PERSHEYE@aspen.uml (767) notetaking on PC 9 Jun 22 Robert Davis (975) INDEX PROGRAMS 10 Jun 21 Elaine Brennan (5,664) 8.0067 S/W Qs: Text Databases; Search 11 Jun 22 Kristy Miller (4,218) Re: taking notes on a PC 12 Jun 22 Elaine Brennan (9,988) 8.0075 Rs: Text Databases;WordCrunch 13 Jun 22 Harry Hahne (18,513) Library Master 14 Jun 23 Elaine Brennan (4,598) 8.0078 Rs: More on Text Databases and 15 Jun 23 BESTONE@utxvms.cc. (2,650) PC Databases Again, thanks to all who responded, and I will post a summary of the private responses fairly soon. Best, Andrew Burday andy@philo.mcgill.ca From: "Robert L. Jarrett @ University of Houston--Downtown" Subject: Re: 8.0078 Rs: More on Text Databases and Note-Taking (2/56) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 16:32:24 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 75 (134) Regarding the postings on note-taking, particularly McCarthy's thoughtful rponses, for scholars working on the Windows platform, I have a suggestion. I currently use Ecco, a PIM (personal information manager) for note-taking. Based on an outline metaphor and including various templates for various types of work, the program (at least the "professional" version) allows the use of additional "column", as many as the user needs. For my own use, I enter quotations or summaries in an outline page, which is collapsible, allowing you to see as much detail as you desire. Each individual note is assigned to a subject or topic folder, keyed to column designated for topics (you can set this up as a pull-down list to the right of the page, enter a note, then click on as many topic key terms as appropriate for the not. The quotation or summary, then, is assigned to as many topic folders as terms clicked. Then I add columns for all the entries appropriate to bibliography entries (basically, I adapted Ecco's " "Research" template. I add each individual author also to a pulldown list, so further notes can be assigned to authors by pulling down the column list and clicking. The advantage of Ecco is that one can look at a database from a series of views--by topic, by author, by year, etc.--or one can use a filtered searcor the outlining controls to see as much or as little information as one desires. The result is an extremely flexible note-taking database or databases; I cut and paste from Ecco notes into Microsoft Word for Windows, which I use to write articles, etc. The downside is that one must spend several days poring over the Ecco manual, studying the research or other template, and setting up your own customized template for notetaking. For large projects, however, I've found the effort worthwhile; less experienced Windows users may well not. For those with scanners, the reviews on Page-Keeper (program by one of the OCR makers, either Caere or Calera) might be worth a look, though I can't speak from experience. Another, perhaps easier route for Windows users, is to take notes on WordProcessing documents, then use an indexing program like Eclipse Find, to find all documents containing a key term or set of key terms, for an instant database or your word-processing files. Eclipse Find (like the old Lotus Magellan, which I formerly used) allows one to search by key term and returns a list of files on the left of the screen, with a view of the document (key-term highlighted) on the right. Like Magellan, it also allows you to open the document or "launch" the program which created the document by double-clicking on the document me. A few years previous, I used Magellan to create a kind of database out of all my text files created by WordStar, importing these notes into my article. Sorry for the length; I thought my use of these two methods might be useful to scholars like myself interested in adapting old methods to the advantages of "new" technology. I'd be glad to discuss my experiences with any of you by "direct" e-mail. Rob Jarrett University of Houston--Downtown From: Glenn Everett Subject: Re: 8.0075 Rs: Text Databases Date: Sun, 26 Jun 94 10:36:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 76 (135) [deleted quotation]This is exactly what NotaBene's _Orbis_ (formerly _Textbase_) does easlily and elegantly in connection with _Notabene_, the word processing package developed for the Modern Language Association. Add _Ibid_, and you have also a convenient bibliography program. Available through The Technology Group, Baltimore, MD. Glenn Everett English Department University of Tennessee at Martin ivaa@utmartn.bitnet geverett@utm.edu From: BOLTON@ZODIAC.BITNET Subject: Note-takers Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 14:08:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 77 (136) I heartily recommend Papyrus, a note-taker with ample room for comments and great flexibility of input, searching, and output: see _Computers and the Humanities_ 26 ('92), 162 ff. Whitney Bolton, Department of English Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5054 bolton@zodiac.rutgers.edu/bolton@zodiac.bitnet Office (908) 932-7633, Home (609) 924-8654 From: DR_HOPKIN@tower-vax.london-guildhall.ac.uk Subject: RE: 8.0067 S/W Qs: Text Databases; Search Engines (2/85) Date: Mon, 27 JUN 94 13:34:36 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 78 (137) Re Text Databases and notetaking (Andrew Burday's enquiry) For some years I have been using, with increasing satisfaction, various versions of ideaList, the highly flexible text retrieval package produced by Blackwell Scientific of Oxford. A free version of the Windows versin was given away with Personal Computer World last November. In very crude terms, ideaList is an information manager, enabling you to more or less replicate the old 6x4 record card system - each fie (that should read file) can contain a mixture of record types, with a large capacity for indexed or non-indexed characters, plus in the Windows verson images, etc. etc. By using different types of fields, one can handle numerical sorting and even export values for processing in a spreadsheet etc. What is most important is that altering the structure of any record or field is extremely simple, which means that the package is perfect for taking notes in unpredictable situations. I am sure there are other ideaList users among the Humanist community. It would be interesting to hear their reactions. Deian Hopkin London Guildhall University DR_Hopkin @uk.ac.lgu.tvax From: Harry Gaylord Subject: Re: 8.0078 Rs: More on Text Databases and Note-Taking (2/56) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 05:43:39 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 79 (138) If you want something off the shelf, probably you could use Nota Bene for this sort of thing with their ibid for bibliography and orbis for textbase things. If you want something for in the future, wait a little while until the TEI people recover from exhaustion a bit. Harry From: Subject: Re: 8.0078 Rs: More on Text Databases and Note-Taking (2/56) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 21:32:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 80 (139) While I do not use it myself, I understand that Nota Bene represents a very acceptable combination of scholarly word processor and data base/bibliography engine. It appears to be preferable to ad hoc combinations (e.g., WordPerfect and Endnote) precisely because the two parts are designed to work as an integrated whole. Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-2107 FAX (510) 642-6957 cbf@garnet.berkeley.edu From: John Merritt Unsworth Subject: scanning microfilm Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 09:03:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 81 (140) In re: the request for information about scanning microfilm... At the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, we have done some of this, and we've used a company called Accessible Archives, in Malvern, PA (contact John Nagy, 215-296-7441). They've scanned rolls of microfilm and returned them as fax-compressed tiff images. Incidentally, tiff seems to be the best format for preserving digital images of text--the images can be doubled several times without the letters pixellating. There's more information about our experience at the Web URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/iath/treport/scanfilm.html which is a technical report on capturing digital images. John Unsworth Director, IATH From: Allan Ramsay Subject: EACL-95 Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 15:52:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 84 (141) REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED EACL-95 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 27--31, 1995 University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin, Ireland Topics of Interest: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. Requirements: Papers should describe unique work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work; and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the EACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Format for Submission: Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Papers should be headed by a title page containing the paper title, a short (5 line) summary and a specification of the subject area. Since reviewing will be "blind", the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses. 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General information about the ACL AND electronic membership and order forms are available from the ACL LISTSERV. Information on the ACL is also available through www URL http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html ACL Listserv: LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to listserver@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get acl-l " to get a particular file named from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a message with the following body should be sent: get acl-l membership-form.txt Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user type-in is in bold): $ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous Password: pereira@research.att.com << not echoed ftp > cd acl-l/Information ftp > get 94.membership.form.Z ftp > quit $ uncompress 94membership.form.Z From: Mark Olsen Subject: ARTFL WWW Server extensions Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 17:35:18 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 85 (142) ARTFL is moving into multilingual hyper-document full text retreival and analysis. To this end, I have been experimenting with several small non-French databases in HTML (an SGML DTD), including a German Bible, Italian texts with hypertext cross references, and other resources. You can run searches on these experimental databases through my experiment page: http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/ARTFL.experiments.html which is also referenced at the bottom of my ARTFL home page. Users in North America may also run full queries on the ARTFL database at this time, since I am still running in test mode. The URL to the ARTFL home page is: http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html Comments, complaints, suggestions, etc are welcome. Mark Mark Olsen Assistant Director ARTFL Project University of Chicago (312) 702-8687 Gopher: gopher.uchicago.edu/11/uscholarly/artfl WWW: http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html From: Stuart Lee Subject: CALL post (Oxford) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 08:54:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 86 (143) Please X-post accordingly. Replies should be directed to the Language Centre, not to me! Stuart Lee ******************************************************************** Oxford University Language Centre Computing Officer Academic-related Research Grade IA Salary pounds 13,601 - 20,442 This is a new post which is available from October 1994 for one year in the first instance, renewable for a further year, subject to funding. The Officer will be responsible for setting up computer-assisted language learning facilities and helping users of the Centre,and will take part in research and developmental work in this field. A degree in computing and an interest in languages are needed, or a language degree with proven experience in computer-assisted language learning. Further particulars can be obtained from the Director, Oxford University Language Centre, 12 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HT (phone 0865 83360) to whom applications, naming two referees, should be sent by 8 July 1994. From: HOKE ROBINSON Subject: Re: 8.0078 Rs: More on Text Databases and Note-Taking (2/56) Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 11:37:20 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 87 (144) I'm looking for something to take notes with at the library, something like a "sub-notebook" or memopad. It needs to be big enough for touch typing, run ideally on flashlight batteries, and be downloadable into my PC. It doesn't need to be able to hold more than 50-100kB or so, doesn't need a hard drive or floppy drive, doesn't need fancy software (ASCII is fine), but it does have to be cheap. I know Sharp has these little memorandum devices with little screens with 12 lines of text or so, but the ones I've seen have too small a keyboard for touch typing. Any ideas? -- Hoke Robinson, Philosophy, U of Memphis ROBINSONH@MSUVX1.MEMPHIS.EDU From: Howard Gaskill Subject: BCLA Conference Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 10:17:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 88 (145) BRITISH COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION Second Announcement and Last Call for Papers Seventh International Conference 12-15 July 1995 University of Edinburgh `CITIES, GARDENS, WILDERNESSES' Plenary Speakers: Anne Barton, Robert Crawford, John Dixon Hunt, Frank Kermode, Edwin Morgan Programme: The Conference, which runs from Wednesday 12 July 1995 (lunchtime) till Saturday 15 July (before lunch), consists of five sections, grouped around the following broad themes: Section 1 Labyrinths Labyrinthine Texts. Narrative Metaphors: Threads, Weaving, Building, Paths Texts about Labyrinths. Mazes and Jungles (Natural and Artificial) Labyrinthine Minds. Psychoanalysis; Order and Organization; Underworlds and Otherworlds Section 2 Translation/Transplantation Translation and Appropriation; Intertextuality and Influence Cultural Transfers: Meeting and Conflict, History and Discourse East and West/Europe and the Americas/Ancient and Modern Section 3 Culture and Civilization Multitudes and Solitudes/Crowds and Individual Consciousness. Experience and Experiment: Ways of Seeing the City and Problems of Urban Form The Urban and Urbane: the Poor and the Rich Images and Realities/Visible and Invisible Cities Gender and Identity in City Space Modernism, Postmodernism and the City Section 4 Paradises Paradises Lost, Sought, Regained; Retreats, Illusions, Idylls Paradises Constructed, Imagined, Fought for Deceptive, Hollow paradises; Subjective Edens; Innocence and Loss of Innocence Section 5 Travel Travel Writing as an Exploration (in Language) of the Meeting or Conflict of Cultures Discovery of City, Garden or Wilderness as a Place of Otherness Travel from `Centre' to `Periphery', or from `Periphery' to `Centre' Offers of Papers (including 300-word abstract) should be sent by the end of September at the latest to the BCLA Secretary: Dr Howard Gaskill, Department of German, University of Edinburgh, David Hume Tower, George Square, GB - Edinburgh EH8 9JX; [from early July to mid- December 1994] Bei Mayer, Dr. Remeis-Str. 8, 96049 Bamberg, Germany (Email throughout: H.Gaskill@ed.ac.uk). Registration: In order to avoid a possible surcharge please register before 1 January 1995 with the Conference Services Manager from whom registration forms (including information about accommodation, meals, fees etc.) may be obtained: Mr W.F. Johnston, Accommodation Services, University of Edinburgh, St. Leonard's Hall, 18 Holyrood Park Road, GB-Edinburgh EH16 5AY (Email: Willie.Johnston@ed.ac.uk). From: henrich@theol.unizh.ch (Rainer Henrich) Subject: Q: Quote (promissa contra deum) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 14:43:14 +0100 (MEST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 82 (146) The following principle was quoted in letters written by Martin Bucer and Johannes Zwick (both in 1536): - Novimus omnes contra deum nulla stare promissa posse. - Novimus nulla promissa tenere contra dominum. (i.e.: A promise is not obliging, if God's will is different.) I was not able to track down this quote. Any suggestions? -- Rainer Henrich, lic. theol. Bullinger-Briefwechsel-Edition Phone: xx41 1 257 67 54 Kirchgasse 9 FAX: xx41 1 262 14 12 CH-8001 Zuerich e-mail: henrich@theol.unizh.ch From: tvs@etal.ucl.ac.be (Thierry van Steenberghe) Subject: Query: texts about [against] the sentence to death. Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 15:38:59 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 83 (147) I would like to collect short texts [excerpts, and/or references] expressing the feelings one can have about [i.e., I actually hope, against] the sentence to death, whatever the origin and the language. Many thanks already. Thierry J. van Steenberghe GENESE Research Group UCL=University of Louvain Institute of Linguistics UCL Place Blaise Pascal, 1 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve [Belgium] Tel.: +32 10 47 4034 Fax : +32 10 47 2579 From: Michael Butler Subject: Date: Wed, 29 Jun 94 14:41:00 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 84 (148) Because my last message was too brief and some of you asked for further elabora tion, I've expanded on my query below.. I'm trying to understand how we use the following phrases in everyday speech (i n the present, past and "future" tenses). 1. How long 2. How long does it take... 3. How much time do you spend... The first is used widely, but there are, I sense, places it shouldn't be used. For example: *How long did you go(fly, travel, drive) to America? *How long did you write the letter? *How long did you make your bed? *How long do you make a cake? I sense on the other hand that, How long does(did, will) it take you to... is especially reserved for jobs that need finishing or tasks that require compl eting. In short, for endenvors in which there is a clear beginning and a clear end. *How long does it take you to do your homework? I also sense that, How long does it take to... differs from How much time do yo u spend... in the following regards. Whereas How long does it take...implies t that the action is a habit or a form of recreation. *How much time do you spend reading everyday? Unfortunately a fair amount of overlap seems to characterize these last but two constructions. If you could shed any additional light on this subject, I would appreciate your help. hat th From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: Site Proposal Call for 2001 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 20:31:18 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 90 (149) PROPOSALS FOR SITES FOR IJCAI-2001 SOLICITED International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Inc. (IJCAII) hereby invites proposals for cities in the United States to host the 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001), to be held in the year 2001. Draft proposals are due by 15 June 1994. The final selection of the site for IJCAI-2001 will be made at IJCAI-95 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in August, 1995. Because of the size and complexity of IJCAI conferences, it is necessary to plan some years ahead. The selection process is also fairly complicated. As a result, it is important for cities that would like to host IJCAI-2001 to submit detailed proposals describing their plans for the meeting and to prepare thorough budget estimates in advance. The process for 2001 is somewhat simpler than it is when conferences are held outside of North America, because the AAAI will be responsible for local arrangements and will help prepare the proposal. IJCAI conferences are held every two years, usually in August. Every third conference is now held in North America, with IJCAI-2001 planned for the United States. IJCAI-95 will be in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; IJCAI-97 will be in Yokohama, Japan; IJCAI-99 will be in Stockholm, Sweden. Proposals will be evaluated in relation to a number of site selection criteria: 1. National, regional, and local AI community support. 2. National, regional, and local government and industry support. 3. Accessibility, attractiveness, and desirability of proposed site. 4. Appropriateness of proposed dates. 5. Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants (currently 2000-3000 for North America; 1000-2000 or more elsewhere, depending on the location). 6. Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in a range of price categories and close to the conference facilities. 7. Adequacy of budget projections. 8. Balance with regard to the geographical distribution of previous conferences. Prospective hosts should request a detailed list of the site information required and a set of budget categories. Initial draft proposals should be submitted by 15 June 1994; site visits may be scheduled during the following months; final proposals must be available for distribution to the Executive Committee by 15 June 1995. Direct requests for proposal information to the IJCAII Secretary-Treasurer: Ronald J. Brachman IJCAII Secretary-Treasurer AT&T Bell Labs, Room 2T-416 600 Mountain Avenue, POB 636 Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 rjb@research.att.com fax: +1-908-582-7550 From: anixon@carleton.edu (Andrea Nixon) Subject: Search Engines for TLG and PHI data -- Summary Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 15:46:43 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 91 (150) Thanks to all that responded to my query earlier this month on search engines for the TLG and PHI data! The question I posted was: [deleted quotation] To date there have been five responses. Of the 5, all are using Pandora on the Mac platform. The results were mixed on the Intel/DOS side of things. Products mentioned explicitly were: Musaios and TLG/PHI Workplace. Pointers to further information included: TLG Literature (paper) Ian Lancashire's Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989-90 (paper) ccat.sas.upenn.edu (gopher) Electronic Publications and Resources -> The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae The text of the responses are as follows. 1. If IBM/DOS, you have several options including some that can be explored on the internet (e.g. John Baima, Randall Smith). If Mac, the most popular option is PANDORA, and you can learn more also on the net. For basic information, consult the TLG literature or Ian Lancashire's Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989-90 (Oxford, 1991). 2. I use Pandora (Hypercard-based for the Mac) with the PHI Latin disk and I've been happy with it. It lets you construct flexible searches and it seems very stable. It seems to take a long time to load, but that may have more to do with Hypercard than anything else. 3. Oxford has just installed pandora on a mac and musaios and TLG /PHI Workplace on a pc (running off the hard disk, not the CDRom, for speed). Both Pandora and the workplace products are good: I'm a pc person, so prefer the latter, but there is nothing wrong with pandora (though you need a wordprocessor to print decently). Musaios I am a bit nervous of - I think it is still buggy. 4. I use Pandora 2.5 on a Macintosh. Since this is a Hypercard stack, it operates rather slowly. Perhaps if and when a new "native" version of Hypercard is released for the Apple PowerPCs, we will see a marked improvement. Until then, I would appreciate hearing about other scholars' experiences. 5. If you gopher to ccat.sas.upenn.edu and go to the right place on the menu (I think it's electronic journals and resources), y ou can get to the TLG's own gopher, where there is a rundown of most of the software available for DOS and Mac platforms, quite helpful. We use Pandora here, latest form (costs an indiv. $50 I think $150 for a site license), on the Macs in the Keck lab, where the CD drives are affiliated with Macs anyhow; and it does fine. (PHI is harder to work with, but possible too: having been designed for Ibycus) I hope that others on the list find this information of help also. Andrea Nixon Academic Computing Coordinator - Humanities and Languages Carleton College anixon@carleton.edu From: rob@PSULIAS.BITNET (Roger Brisson) Subject: Re: 8.0078 Rs: More on Text Databases and Note-Taking (2/56) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 15:23:28 +0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 85 (151) [deleted quotation] I've owned a Tandy (Radio Shack) Portable Wordprocessor, model WP-2, for some three years now, and for the kind of use you're describing here, I find it much superior to my laptop. It has a full keyboard with a small 8 line/90-100 character wide screen. With a memory card it holds around 50 pages of text (as I recall), and I transfer work to my PC via a null-modem cable. It's very easy to use, runs several weeks (even months, depending on use) on four flashlight batteries, and weighs about 2 pounds. The text editor is very serviceable, and it has all sorts of additional features like a ROM-based spell-checker, thesaurus, search and replace features, modem functions, even a calendar. All in all, I consider a real gem of a working tool for those of us who like to write in odd places (in hammocks, while camping, on flights, yes, even in hotel rooms). I paid $250 for it, but as I said that was about three years ago, so I'm not sure what it costs (or even if it's still available) now. Good luck! Roger Brisson Penn State University rob@psulias.psu.edu From: jslatin@mail.utexas.edu (John Slatin) Subject: Re: 8.0081 Qs: Travel lit; Subway poems; Grammar; German Books; Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 08:15:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 86 (152) [deleted quotation] What comes immediately to mind is William Carlos Williams, "Rapid Transit," in _Spring and All_ (1923), an Americanist reply perhaps to Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" (it's in the Collected Poems, vol. 1). Also-- though the subway isn't exactly *depicted*-- I've argued that Marianne Moore's "The Steeple-Jack" (1932) was prompted in part by her dismay at the damage to her local church caused by the extension of the subway into Brooklyn c. 1931. John Slatin Director, Computer Writing & Research Lab Division of Rhetoric and Composition and Department of English University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 (512) 471-8743 From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 8.0079 Internet Guides Available for FTP (1/62) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 11:41 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 87 (153) For Petersen of Toronto, who wants poems re Subways of NYC, et al. He should re ally go back to the turn of the 20s at least. Poems that are in the subway, som e anthologized in elementary books in the 30s. Hart Crane has events in the sub way in THE BRIDGE. There is Paul Goodman. There is Fearing. To begin with this past half century's writers is to begin with belated ones, nachtragers, 2nd ha nd imitators. He should also do fine writers, Henry Miller has interesting pass ages on sex in the subways. They were once exciting places, in the 20s, people cheek by jowl for the first time in our history, but for ferries and buses. I m ean sexually exciting. They are trips through hell now. I know a little, havin g grown up riding subways in the 30s and 40s...after which...forget it. Jascha Kessler From: cies1@ciesnet.cies.org Subject: Announcement Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 15:40:58 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 93 (154) Announcement: Please Post/Disseminate To Lists Fulbright Scholar Program - Professional Opportunities For Faculty And Professionals (Note: August 1 deadline approaching for U.S. applicants) What follows is a description of Fulbright grants for lecturing and advanced research worldwide. These grants are excellent professional development opportunities and provide funding to pursue professional interests abroad. Fulbright Grants for Faculty and Professionals Description: 1,000 awards for college and university faculty and nonacademic professionals to lecture or pursue advanced research and/or related professional activity abroad. For U.S. candidates, grants are available to nearly 148 countries. Application: U.S. candidates have an August 1 deadline for lecturing or research awards. Non-U.S. candidates apply in their home country for awards to come to the United States. Areas of Interest: Opportunities exist in every area of the social sciences, arts and humanities, sciences, and many professional fields. Range of Consideration: Undergraduate and graduate teaching; research collaboration; field and laboratory research; creative and performing arts endeavors; professional collaboration in library management, business/ government capacity building; and much more. Eligibility: Most awards are at the postdoctoral level. Ph.D. is the typical requirement. Opportunities also exist for professionals who have comparable professional qualifications or individuals in the arts, library science, law, etc., who hold the normal terminal degree in the field. Masters in TESOL/TEFL is also appropriate for some awards. Successful candidates have been two and four-year faculty, lawyers, journalists, academic administrators, government officials, independent artists and scholars, nonacademic scientists, etc. Grant Duration: Awards range in duration from two months to a full academic year. Language: Required in certain countries for certain areas of activity. The majority of teaching assignments are in English. Action: U.S. candidates may receive detailed descriptions of award opportunities and application materials via cies1@ciesnet.cies.org (requests for mailing of materials only). Non-U.S. candidates must contact the Fulbright Commission or U.S. embassy in their home country. Reply: cies1@ciesnet.cies.org (application requests only) From: Hanna Kahana Subject: Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 07:59:44 +0200 (WET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 88 (155) Subject: Dear editors, I've no idea whether the following should be addressed to you at all, but here goes: I have been informed by Professor Muraoka that somebody at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, is working on LXX Esther, on which I myself am currently preparing a PhD proposal. I need to get in touch with this lady, or with West.Theol. Sem. but don't know their e-mail address. Would you be willing to post this so that I could get the address? Thank you. Hanna Kahana From: Domingo Arroyo Fernandez Subject: AHC list? Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 17:22:17 UTC+0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 89 (156) Hello, I have heard about an electronic list of the Association of History and Computing. Could anybody tell me, if exist, the way of subscribe to it. Gracias, Domingo Arroyo Dept. Historia Contemporanea, Univ. Complutense de Madrid From: martinmueller@nwu.edu (Martin Mueller) Subject: ipsa verba Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 14:04:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 90 (157) Could somebody illuminate me on the origin of the phrase 'ipsa verba' and its superlative and presumably ironic version 'ipsissima verba'? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= Martin Mueller Professor of English and Classics Department of English Northwestern University Evanston IL 60208 martinmueller@nwu.edu 708-467-1065 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Joseph Jones Subject: subway poem Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 09:04:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 91 (158) Don't miss "The Leg in the Subway" by Oscar Williams. Joseph Jones - University of British Columbia Library From: wu10@cornell.edu (Ted Underwood) Subject: Re: 8.0089 Qs: Quotes; Sentence to Death; Grammar (3/75) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 18:24:45 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 92 (159) Michael Butler asks for observations on the usage of these different question-phrases: [deleted quotation] He continues, [deleted quotation] There are a lot of possible explanations for this, but the most likely one seems to me to be simply that "How long ... ?" can be an ambiguous formation in certain cases. "How long did you write the letter?" could easily be answered "four pages"; likewise, "How long do you make a cake?" could be answered "eighteen inches." There's less ambiguity in "How long do you cook a cake?" which is probably why we don't feel the necessity to add any additional specifying words like "does it take to." Ted Underwood wu10@cornell.edu From: Lorne hammond Subject: Re: 8.0092 Rs: Note-Taking; Subway Poems (3/85) Date: Sat, 02 Jul 94 09:35:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 93 (160) Re subway poems. Write Ginsberg. he was on the board that chose the poems for the New York subway poem project. Also read THE MECHANICAL MUSE. Regards Lorne Hammond From: Michael Metzger Subject: death sentence texts Date: Fri, 01 Jul 1994 20:48:25 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 94 (161) John Grisham's _The Chamber_. 486 pp. New York: Doubleday, 1994, $24.95 seems worthy of mention as an important contribution to the discourse. From: tgb2@po.CWRU.Edu (Thomas G. Bishop) Subject: Re: 8.0089 Qs: Quotes; Sentence to Death; Grammar (3/75) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 21:23:38 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 95 (162) [deleted quotation] sundry lines cut [deleted quotation] I was once in the main railway station in Madras, India where I heard the following conversation between an English woman and the ticket clerk: She: One first class ticket to Tanjore, please. He: 135 rupees, Madam. (or some such) She: Excuse me, how long will the train be from Vellore? He: Excuse me? She: Yes, how long will the train be from Vellore? He: (pause to check timetable) The train from Vellore, Madam, will be six carriages long. She: No, please, excuse me, how _long_ will the train take? He: (triumphantly) Oh, Madam, the _duration_ of the _trip_ will be two hours and thirty-five minutes. Hope this helps. :-) -- Tom Bishop "Look, here comes a walking fire!" Dept of English Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 44106.(tgb2@po.cwru.edu) From: Lou Burnard Subject: Wanted: TEI journos... Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 22:30:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 96 (163) At the invitation of editor Eric Johnson, I've agreed to guest-edit a special issue of the journal Text Technology. The plan is to produce a varied collection of user-friendly pieces describing the impact of the recently-published TEI Guidelines on the world of electronic scholarship, which will complement the more academic and detailed coverage in the forthcoming special issue of Computers and the Humanities, and maybe provide some evidence that the TEI is not just for seriouly committed technoids. I'm looking for short, accessible, and (preferably) enthusiastic essays containing any of the following: -- case studies derived from real life experience of applying the Guidelines in any area -- analysis of the long term significance of the Guidelines -- critical discussion of weakness or inadequacy in the current TEI proposals -- suggestions for future TEI developments -- "how to get started" style introductions to the use of the Guidelines in particular application areas Just to get you thinking, here are some suggestions: -- using a simple TEI-conformant dtd to prepare essays, articles, theses etc. -- marking up literary texts for stylistic or linguistic analysis -- marking up texts in non-Roman alphabets -- using public domain software to convert TEI-conformant texts for use with popular analysis packages such as TACT, Wordcruncher or OCP -- use of the TEI scheme in corpus linguistics -- word-processing of TEI-conformant texts -- use of the TEI in preparing critical editions -- using TEI texts on the World Wide Web -- building interchangeable hypertexts with the aid of the TEI -- loading TEI-conformant texts into databases -- the role of the TEI in building the digital library -- TEI-capable software and how to use it If you've an idea you'd like to develop, experience you'd like to share, or advice you wish you'd received yourself -- now's the time to reach for your keyboard. I'd like to get the basic contents of the issue sorted out before I go on holiday in August, so please let me know if you're interested as soon as possible. I'm very happy to discuss any suggestions or rough drafts you want to send me. I hesitate to propose a deadline, but it would be really good to get this issue out before the start of next academic year, so, if you're planning to go away yourself this summer, don't forget to pack your laptop... Lou Burnard p.s. Sorry, there's no money in it. Just fame! From: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au (Prof. Roly Sussex) Subject: request to post job advertisement Date: Sun, 3 Jul 1994 08:48:14 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 96 (164) THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND (Brisbane, Australia) Centre for Language Teaching and Research Lectureship (tenurable) in Computers, Technology and Language Learning and/or Teaching English as a Second Language The Centre for Language Teaching and Research, as part of its program development plan, is seeking to make an appointment to support the postgraduate coursework and research programs in Applied Linguistics, with special reference to Computers, Technology and Language Learning and/or Teaching English as a Second Language Additional expertise which would be an advantage, as appropriate to the major specialization, includes: Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and language learning Audio-visual technology and multimedia in language learning and teaching Computational linguistics Language teaching methodology Language testing The linguistics of one or more Asian languages Applicants should have postgraduate qualifications in one or both of the major fields, and an established record in teaching and research. The position is available from January 1995. Salary: $A41,574 - $A49,370 per annum. Further information is available from Professor Roland Sussex, Director, CLTR: telephone: +61 7 365 6896 fax: +61 7 365 7077 email: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au. Application forms are available from Personnel Services at the University. Original + 8 copies of the application form and resume, quoting reference number 29394, should be addressed to the Director, Personnel Services, The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia and should arrive no later than 24th August, 1994. "Equal opportunity in employment is university policy." From: KLC1@PSUADMIN (CONNELLY.KAREN) Subject: Bulletin Board Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 14:46 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 97 (165) Please post to Bulletin Board PENN STATE. Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies. Department Head The College of the Liberal Arts invites applications from established scholars to guide the expansion of its existing Classics Department into a Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies. The position is open as of July 1, 1995. The Department of Classics now has five full-time Classicists and other associated faculty. The new Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies will be an interdisciplinary unit encompassing linguistic and cultural aspects of Classical and Near Eastern antiquity, as well as other areas relevant to the history and culture of the Mediterranean basin. The Head will assume responsibility for the development of this new department, and will be expected to establish curricular and intellectual linkages with other programs, such as Religious Studies and Ancient History. The disciplinary specialization of the Head is open, but a significant record of scholarly accomplishment is required. Expertise in Greek and/or Latin is essential, and expertise in a Near Eastern language is a definite asset. Administrative experience is desirable but not a requirement. Send letter of application, c.v., and the names of three references by November 1, 1994 to Ronald L. Filippelli, Chair, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Search Committee, 111 Sparks Building, Box L, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802. An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Thank you. From: Peter Lafford Subject: Announcment of Vacancy Date: Fri, 08 Jul 94 15:03:01 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 98 (166) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please post and repost to appropriate listserves. Thank you. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ANNOUNCEMENT OF VACANCY Assistant Research Specialist, Humanities Computing Facility Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona 85287 Academic Professional position, will serve as the Director for ASU's Humanities Computing Facility. Responsible for providing professional support for all aspects of academic computing for the Humanities units housed in the Language & Literature Bldg.: the Depts. of Languages & Literatures, English, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. Will install and maintain computer equipment in a primarily DOS/Windows environment, and provide appropiraite training for faculty and students. Requires Master's degree with demonstrated experience in humanities computing applications, familiarity with Microsoft Windows and a minimum of one year's experience interacting with faculty in a computer support role. Desire Humanities degree, experience in preparing grant proposals, professional activity in humanities computing and evidence of individual initiative and creativity. Application Deadline: July 15, 1994, and every Friday thereafter until the position is filled. To apply, submit a letter of application, current vita and names, addresses and phone numbers of three references, to: Peter Lafford Languages & Literatures Arizona State University Box 870202 Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 Telephone: 602/965-4524 AA/EOE -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: charp/ID@cbs.dk Subject: ESSLLI '94 in Copenhagen August 8 - 19 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 12:17:36 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 98 (167) REMINDER SIXTH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION August 8 - 19, 1994 Copenhagen Business School Dalgas Have 15, DK-2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Tel: +4538153138 * Fax: +4538153820 * E-mail: charp/id@cbs.dk The programme for this year's European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is available on our server. You can get it using FTP (File Transfer Program) following the instructions below: ****************************************** * * * 1. FTP 129.142.156.14 * * * * 2. userid = esslli94 * * * * 3. password = esslli94 * * * * 4. get ESS94.DOS localfilename * (localfilename * * means: path and * 5. bye * filename on your * * pc/workstation) ****************************************** For further information and registration forms please contact Ann June Sielemann Secretary to the local organizing committee Copenhagen Business School Department of Computational Linguistics Dalgas Have 15 DK-2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Tel: +45 38 15 31 38 Fax: +45 38 15 38 20 e-mail: charp/id@cbs.dk From: PERSHEYE@aspen.uml.edu Subject: LIBRARY MASTER Program Information Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 11:23:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 99 (168) I've not used AskSam, but have talked with at least one person (academic historian) who used the original DOS version. He raved about it. From the reviews that I've seen, I think that it is indeed what you want. You are gonna want a larger HD, no doubt about it. Good luck. Ed Pershey persheye@woods.uml.edu [I hope everyone paid close attention to that last comment -- now, which of you wants to donate a 1 gig SCSI disk + controller to a worthy grad student? =;*>] From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: ipsissima verba Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 08:51:57 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 99 (169) The students of Pythagoras had the custom when pronouncing a truth or even lying, of adding a confirmatory autos epha (note dialect) `he himself said', meaning `I heard it from the horse's mouth (= Pythagoras)'. This led to the Latin ipse dixit, ipsa verba (I am quoting verbatim), ipsissima verba (I am really quoting verbatim). There are a large number of these confirmatory floscules (German = Bekraeftigungsformel) found in languages, e.g. Jack Paar's `I kid you not', but this one has a history. Jim Marchand. From: George Welling Subject: Re: 8.0094 Qs: AHC-list Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 09:08:11 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 100 (170) [deleted quotation] AHC-L@GWDG.DE send a message to the LISTSERV at the same adres (LISTSERV@GWDG.DE): in the message: sub AHC-L -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | George M. Welling || welling@let.rug.nl fax: + 31 50 63 49 00 | | phone: +31 50 63 54 74 || department of ALFA-INFORMATICA Faculty of Arts| | History & Computing || University of Groningen, The Netherlands | | || http://www.let.rug.nl/~welling/welcome.html | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 8.0095 Rs: Subway Poems; Death Sentences (5/110) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 11:51 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 101 (171) reply to Hammond. If Ginsberg selects, he selects only Ginsberg buddies and suc h. He is only for his period and pals. That is long known everywhere. Kessler From: Stuart Lee Subject: HUMBUL - The Humanities Bulletin Board Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 10:59:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 101 (172) HUMBUL - The Humanities Bulletin Board (Report) For some years now the Office for Humanities Communication has been maintaining an electronic Bulletin Board for the Humanities, known as HUMBUL (now based at Oxford). When established it was seen that there was a need for a central location at which humanities academics could access (remotely) information on various associations, institutions, projects, etc, of interest to humanities computing. Such a central resource was clearly lacking in the mid-eighties and HUMBUL was designed to fill this gap. Written under the USERBUL software (designed at Leicester University) HUMBUL ran successfully for nearly eight years. For the last three years it has been my responsibility to edit and maintain the various sections. At its peak it attracted over 5,000 subscribers and was accessed nearly 1,000 times a month. However, due to the substantial increase in electronic resources, gopher sites, world-wide-web pages, and software to aid the accessing and searching of the Internet, HUMBUL began to look like a bit of a dinosaur. This, coupled with the fact that USERBUL was no longer operational with the installation of new software at Oxford University, has meant that the policy of maintaining such a large resource has had to be reviewed. Before considering the possibility of moving HUMBUL to a gopher site I researched the resources available to academics through the Internet. It was clear that whereas in the mid-eighties HUMBUL was a good central point for most scholars, now, with the advent of WWW, Gopher, VERONICA, etc, the gap that needed to be filled all those years ago was no longer there. Consequently, the decision has been taken to close down HUMBUL as of July, 1994. Nevertheless, the name still lives on. As part of the growing need for gateways to other resources, I have established the HUMBUL Gateway which provides a means of accessing international resources applicable to the humanities with relative ease. The time and effort spent on maintaining the old bulletin board will now be diverted to the updating of this web service. To access this you need a WWW viewer such as Mosiac, Lynx, etc. The address is: http://www.ox.ac.uk/depts/humanities/ I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have helped in the running of HUMBUL for so long, be they support staff, or contributors. Particular thanks to the following without whom HUMBUL would not have been the success it clearly was: Paul Bryant, Marilyn Deegan, Dave Hastings, Susan Hockey, May Katzen, Jim Morris, and Chris Mullings. Stuart Lee HUMBUL Editor, 1991-1994 **************************** Dr Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221/283282 Fax:0865-273221 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk From: Stuart Lee Subject: Oxford Humanities Computing WWW Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 12:23:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 102 (173) [Please cross-post accordingly] Centre for Humanities Computing, Oxford University, WWW Address The CHC in collaboration with the CTI Centre for Textual Studies is pleased to announce the establishment of a World-Wide-Web Home Page at the address 'http://www.ox.ac.uk/depts/humanities/'. As well as containing information on the Centre, Staff, Other Services at Oxford University, and the HUMBUL Gateway to International Resources (see below), the archive also holds a complete version of the CTI Centre's Resources Guide (1994, see below) converted into HTML. This electronic version of the publication will be updated on a regular basis. The HUMBUL Gateway For some years now the Office for Humanities Communication has been maintining an electronic Bulletin Board for the Humanities, known as HUMBUL (now based at Oxford). Written under the USERBUL software (designed at Leicester University) HUMBUL ran successfully for nearly eight years. For the last three years it has been my responsibility to edit and maintain the various sections. At its peak it attracted over 5,000 subscribers and was accessed nearly 1,000 times a month. However, due to the substantial increase in electronic resources, gopher sites, world-wide-web pages, and software to aid the accessing and searching of the Internet, HUMBUL began to look like a bit of a dinosaur. This, coupled with the fact that USERBUL was no longer operational with the installation of new software at Oxford University, has meant that the policy of maintaining such a large resource has had to be reviewed. Consequently, the decision has been taken to close down HUMBUL as of July, 1994. Nevertheless, the name still lives on. As part of the growing need for gateways to other resources, I have established the HUMBUL Gateway which provides a means of accessing international resources applicable to the humanities with relative ease. The time and effort spent on maintaining the old bulletin board will now be diverted to the updating of this web service. To access this you need a WWW viewer such as Mosiac, Lynx, etc. The address is: http://www.ox.ac.uk/depts/humanities/ CTI Centre Resources Guide As mentioned above the WWW site at Oxford also holds a complete version of the CTI Centre's Resources Guide (eds. L. Hughes and S. Lee). This will be updated on a regular basis. 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DATE:........................................................................ From: mlbizer@mail.utexas.edu (Marc Bizer) Subject: History and Macintosh Society Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 13:15:22 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 103 (174) Dear Scholars, I am writing to inform you of the existence of a unique Macintosh Users group whose members are academics in the social sciences and humanities: the History and Macintosh Society. The group's title was bestowed by its founder, Joe Coohill, a historian, but in reality HMS can focus on uses of the Macintosh and Macintosh software in most fields except the sciences. Our main activity is the composition of a quarterly newsletter with articles on Macintosh news, software reviews, academic computing information, etc. While originally there were membership dues which covered the costs of printing and mailing a quarterly newsletter, this newsletter is now distributed electronically at no cost to all who desire to receive it. This is one of the advantages of membership in HMS; another is that we can request free copies of software for review by HMS members. We urgently need active members who will contribute articles to the newsletter, which is suffering because I am the only one who writes for it! These can be on any topic concerning the use of the Macintosh in academic life. I am currently eager for contributions on how people use their Macintosh to take notes and on the applications of hand-held scanners in research libraries. Please feel free to to forward this message to people who might be interested, and to contact me (preferably by e-mail) for further information. Yours truly, Marc Bizer .......................................................................... mlbizer@mail.utexas.edu Department of French and Italian | Marc Bizer University of Texas at Austin | 1603 Woodlawn Blvd. Apt. 4 Austin, TX 78712-1197 | Austin, TX 78703-3350 (512) 471-5531 | (512) 322-9845 .......................................................................... From: Michael Metzger Subject: Vaclav Havel's speech 7/4/94 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 11:05:44 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 104 (175) Can anyone help me find an e-version of Vaclav Havel's speech of 7/4/94 when he was awarded the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia? I tried Veronica, but no such item was listed. The needle might just be too small or the haystack too large, or maybe I'm just expecting to find it too soon after the event. Thanks for your attention. Michael Metzger - MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU From: "Rollmann,Hans;RelStud;Hu1024" Subject: NEW LIST: NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR RESEARCH FORUM Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 12:51:17 +0200 (IST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 105 (176) INVITATION FOR SUBSCRIPTION: NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR RESEARCH FORUM (NLRF) The Newfoundland and Labrador Research Forum (NLRF) is an unmoderated list for scholars and students of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. It is intended as a forum for the free exchange of ideas and information on all topics pertaining to Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. In addition, the list owners hope to keep subscribers informed of archival and bibliographical developments. While NLRF is not an official organ of Memorial University, it is maintained at Memorial University of Newfoundland by Dr. Hans Rollmann (HROLLMAN@MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA) and Dr. Melvin Baker (MELBAKER@MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA). Dr. Rollmann, a professor in the Department of Religious Studies, has served for several years as coordinator of the inter-disciplinary Newfoundland Studies Minor at Memorial and has an on-going research and teaching interest in the religious and intellectual history of Newfoundland and Labrador. Dr. Baker is the University Records Archivist at Memorial. Both have published extensively in the area of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. Besides providing a forum for discussing Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, the list owners of NLRF intend to maintain eventually a GOPHER subdirectory with a number of bibliographical and archival guides. We also plan to provide periodic updates on new developments in Newfoundland and Labrador Studies at Memorial University and in the wider scholarly community. This news section will inform subscribers, for instance, of recent publications and upcoming conferences and lectures. Here we invite vigorous participation from all list subscribers. THE ONLY REQUIREMENT TO JOIN THE LIST IS A BRIEF INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY FOR YOUR FELLOW SUBSCRIBERS, WHICH SHOULD CONTAIN YOUR RESEARCH INTERESTS, HOPES, AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS. In order to subscribe to the list, mail a letter to the following address: listserver@morgan.ucs.mun.ca In the body of the letter type only the following line: subscribe nlrf Do not include the angular brackets and insert instead the name you usually use. From now on you can contribute to the discussion forum by mailing your queries and contributions to the following address nlrf@morgan.ucs.mun.ca From: phil-preprints-admin@phil-preprints.L.chiba-u.ac.jp Subject: News from the IPPE (19 Jul 94) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 94 20:10:04 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 106 (177) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-` N e w s f r o m t h e I P P E -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 18 July 1994 ------------------ Summer renovations ------------------ The International Philosophical Preprint Exchange staff is taking advantage of the slow summer season to implement some big changes for the coming academic year. In October, the IPPE will be opening a World Wide Web (Mosaic) server, making possible hypertext links between documents on the system. In October we will also be renovating our Gopher support, in order to provide more friendlier and more informative menus (Gopher techies may be interested to know that we will be running our own Gopher server, rather than using Gopher as a front-end to our ftp server). The current ftp and mail-server based access to the IPPE will remain available, although there may be some reorganization to accomodate the new Web and Gopher services. (Please see the end of this message for access information.) ---------------------------- More journals coming on line ---------------------------- By September several more journals will join the roster of those journals and book series making their abstracts and tables of contents available on the IPPE. We have plenty of space to accomodate yet more journals, series, and conferences, and we encourage the staffs of these organizations to contact us. ---------------------------------- IPPE well represented at workshops ---------------------------------- Several members of the IPPE staff were among the most prominent participants in the workshop on philosophy and electronic communications at the Canadian Philosophical Association conference held this past June in Calgary. Present were Carolyn Burke (administrator), Richard Reiner (coordinator), and Istvan Berkeley, who was also one of the organizers of the workshop. Richard Reiner and George Gale of the IPPE staff will also be participating in the round-table on computer mediated communication at the joint PSA/SSSS/HSA conference to be held in New Orleans in October. ----------------------------------------------------- Submission rates fluctuate, but readership stays high ----------------------------------------------------- The end of the academic year saw a steep climb in the rate of preprint submissions to the IPPE. As we move into the summer season, however, submissions have slowed to a trickle. Usage rates, on the other hand, have remained relatively constant at approximately one hundred accesses per day (this does not include usage of the dozens of mirror sites through which the IPPE collection, in association with Project Gutenberg, is available). Anyone with a good explanation of these apparently contradictory phenomena is invited to communicate with the IPPE staff. ---------------- IPPE Usage Study ---------------- A study of the effects on academic communication due to emerging technologies such as the IPPE is being conducted by Charles Schwartz, Social Sciences Bibliographer at the Fondren Library, Rice University, in conjunction with IPPE administrator Carolyn L Burke. We hope to better understand the emerging changes in the structure of communication within the philosophical community. Results of this study will be made available in the new year. Accessing the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By gopher: "gopher apa.oxy.edu" or "gopher kasey.umkc.edu". By ftp: "ftp Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp", or "ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu". By email: "mail phil-preprints-service@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp". By www: "http://csmaclab-www.uchicago.edu/philosophyProject/philos.html" To place a paper or comment on the IPPE: see pub/submissions/README. If you have questions: send mail to . From: John Hilton Subject: Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 14:39:06 +0200 (SAST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 107 (178) Subject: Members of Humanist may be interested in the following anouncement. Apologies for those who have seen this before. **************** SCHOLIA REVIEWS Scholia aims to provide critical reviews of publications in the field of ancient Greek and Roman art, archaeology, history, literature and philosophy as soon as possible after they appear. The editors also believe that reviews should be as detailed, informative and comprehensive as possible. In order to make it possible for the journal to provide reviews of this kind, given the constraints under which it is produced, reviews will be published over the international electronic network to registered subscribers. Subscription to the electronic reviews is free and without restriction. Once published, the reviews will be archived at the University of Natal, Durban and the University of Pennsylvania, USA, from which they can be retrieved by Gopher or FTP. Instructions on how to retrieve reviews electronically will be published in the journal itself along with a list of books received. The editor reserves the right to publish the full text of a review in the journal itself. Contributors of reviews are therefore requested to submit an abstract (300-500 words) together with the full text of their review. Contributions should preferably be sent by e-mail or on disk followed by one clearly printed copy by air mail. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO SCHOLIA REVIEWS In order to receive electronic reviews from Scholia simply send a request to Scholia@owl.und.ac.za. Your e-mail address will be added to the distribution list of Scholia Reviews. HOW TO OBTAIN SCHOLIA REVIEWS BY GOPHER Gopher to OWL.UND.AC.ZA and follow the path Campus Information System Faculty Information Classics Scholia Reviews The reviews are classified by the year in which they appeared e.g 1 (1992) and are listed by number, author, title and reviewer e.g. (1) Perkell, Vergil's Georgics (Davis). HOW TO OBTAIN SCHOLIA REVIEWS BY FTP (File Transfer Protocol) FTP to OWL.UND.AC.ZA. When you are asked for your name type: ANONYMOUS When asked for a password type in your email address and press ENTER. You do not have to use upper case letters. Then type: CD PUB/UND/CLASSICS/REVIEWS You can then list the contents of the directory by typing: LS To read a file type MORE followed by the filename (these are UNIX commands). Files are listed by year, number and author e.g. 92-1-Perkell = Review number 1, 1992, review of Perkell, Vergil's Georgics. SCHOLIA REVIEWS AT PENNSYLVANIA Scholia is pleased to announce that the reviews of the journal are now available on the ccat gopher at the University of Pennsylvania. We hope that access to the reviews will be more convenient at this location. We are grateful to Professor James O'Donnell and the University of Pennsylvania for making this possible. GOPHER ACCESS Gopher to ccat.sas.upenn.edu and look under menu item 8 (Electronic Publications and Resources). Scholia Reviews appear as item 19. GOPHER BOOKMARK The gopher bookmark that will let you or anybybody else add this to their own gopher menu is: Type=1 Name=Scholia Reviews (Classical Studies) Path=1/scholia Host=ccat.sas.upenn.edu Port=5070 URL: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:5070/11/scholia FTP ACCESS The ftp address is also ccat.sas.upenn.edu, login as anonymous, then cd pub cd scholia ls J.L. Hilton Reviews Editor: Scholia 20 July 1994 From: jgp@ukc.ac.uk Subject: GDR Lit. Conference Date: Wed, 20 Jul 94 13:07:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 108 (179) Would you please post this in HUMANIST for my colleague, Dr. Martin Kane, Reader in Modern German Studies, School of European and Modern Language Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, to whom all queries should be addressed? Phone ++44 227 764000, fax ++44 227 475476, e-mail bmk@ukc.ac.uk. Thanks, John Partridge. Retrospect and Review Aspects of the Literature of the GDR 1976 - 1989 Scholars from Denmark, France, Germany (East and West), Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, the USA, as well as Great Britain, will be contributing papers to a conference on the literature of the former GDR being organised by the German Section of the School of European and Modern Language Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK from 27-30 September 1994. Under the title Retrospect and Review, and with generous financial support from the Goethe Institut, London, the British Council and the Faculty of Humanities, the conference will examine the period which began with the expatriation of the dissident song writer Wolf Biermann in 1976, culminated in the collapse of the GDR in 1989, and saw the emergence of some of East Germany's most critical and artistically resourceful writing. Among the wide range of topics to be discussed are: GDR women's writing, narrative strategies in a totalitarian system, ecology literature, and the heated debate about how GDR literature is to be viewed and evaluated in the light of unification. Several of those who will contribute papers in September attended the GDR literature conference held at the University of kent at Canterbury at Easter 1989 and which resulted in Socialism and the Literary Imagination. Essays on East German Writers, was edited by Martin Kane and published by Berg, New York and Oxford, in 1991. A highlight of the conference will undoubtedly be the reading from his current work to be given by Volker Braun - along with Christa Wolf and Heiner M ller, one of the three best-known East German writers. Throughout the 1980s he was an increasingly acerbic observer of developments in the GDR. The prospect of discovering what literary shape he is giving to his observations on a unified Germany promises a fascinating evening. Further details and programme from: Dr Martin Kane, Reader in Modern German Studies, School of European and Modern Language Studies, Cornwallis Building, The University, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF From: Stuart Lee Subject: Oxford ITTI Products Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 18:29:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 109 (180) I thought this may be of interest to humanities academics. As the project is funded by the UK government, and therefore the programs are distributed at minimum costs, I hope this does not contravene the strict (and justifiably so) rules of net-advertising. Please cross-post accordingly, Stuart Lee ********** Dr Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221/283282 Fax:0865-273221 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk ***************************************************************************** Oxford ITTI Products ***************************************************************************** The Poetry Shell Do you teach foreign language poetry? Are you interested in computer-based learning packages but can't find one suitable for your subject? Would you develop such materials if the amount of time to do so and the necessary computing expertise were minimized? The Poetry Shell is a tool for producing hypermedia poetry editions. 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From: cnycllINFO@SNYCORVA.BITNET (CNY Conference on Language & Literature) Subject: Call For Papers (Cooper; American Transcendentalism) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 13:38:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 110 (181) The following is a re-posting of a call for papers related to the 4th Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature SUNY College at Cortland Cortland, NY 13045 October 16-18, 1994 Chairs of the following sessions indicate they would like to extend the deadline for submitting preliminary abstracts for their sessions: Dimensions of Cultural Multiplicity in the Works of James Fenimore Cooper: Current Interpretations Chair: Michael J. Pikus Department of English D'Youville College 320 Porter Avenue Buffalo, NY 14201 Deadline: August 1, 1994 New England Transcendentalism: (Transcendentalism and 19-Century American Art) Chair: C.T. Walters Department of Art/Art History Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg, PA 17815 Deadline: August 1, 1994 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** NOTE: Those interested in presenting papers at CNYCLL should contact directly the session chairs listed above and offer preliminary abstracts by the dates specified. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** The Fourth Annual CNYCLL (scheduled October 16-18, 1994) will feature approximately 55 sessions on a variety of issues related to literature, language, and composition studies. As in previous years, this conference's range of sessions is very broad-- encompassing both traditional and non-traditional topics (sessions on cultural diversity, non-canonical writers, etc.). CONFERENCE GUIDELINES Generally speaking, participants should deliver only one paper or chair only one session. Session chairs shall consider all papers submitted in response to the general call for papers and shall not have pre-selected panelists. Papers should have a 15-18 minute reading time. This year we plan to disseminate abstracts of all papers accepted for the conference. IF YOUR PAPER IS ACCEPTED FOR A CNYCLL SESSION, YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO SUBMIT A FINAL ABSTRACT (maximum 200 words) BY 1 SEPTEMBER 1994. Procedures for submitting final abstracts for conference papers are explained in the document "Submitting Final Abstracts" (available via GOPHER, WWW, or e-mail to the addresses listed below). Abstracts will be made available to conference participants in print and electronic-text (via e-mail, WWW, and GOPHER). FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THIS CONFERENCE: E-mail Address: send requests for information to CNYCLLinfo@snycorva.cortland.edu (or to CNYCLLinfo@snycorva.bitnet) GOPHER Address: obtain information regarding abstracts, schedule of sessions, conference registration by GOPHERing to: orchard.cortland.edu World Wide Web Address: obtain information regarding abstracts, schedule of sessions, conference registration by connecting to the following URL: http://orchard.cortland.edu/welcome.html *** End of abridged Call for Papers (7/94)*** Virtually yours, the CNYCLLinfo Committee From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Malcolm Brown) Subject: Position Opening Date: 22 Jul 94 09:25:28 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 102 (182) Dear fellow Humanists, I have a position available, as described below. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact me (malcolm.brown@dartmouth.edu) Thanks, Malcolm *********************************** Academic Information Resources Consultant Computing Services We seek an enthusiastic, resourceful person to provide leadership in developing on-line information resources in support of instruction and research. The initial focus will be full-text databases, tagged using SGML and delivered via the campus information system. Gradually, this work will expand to include audio, image and digital video resources. This person will work directly with faculty to conceive and implement specific academic projects that will increase our on-line resources and expand the capability of the information system. This person must coordinate closely with staff in other areas, such as Humanities computing, the Library, and the information system programming staff. Must have excellent interpersonal skills and the experience to supervise a small support staff. Requirements. Master's degree with 6 or more years of relevant experience in the preparation and deployment of digital resources, particularly full texts, for research and instruction. A successful record of working with faculty on projects involving the use of on-line resources is essential. Extensive experience with applications for the preparation and implementation of large volumes of digital information. Excellent organizational, teaching, and communication skills. Familiarity with BRS, PAT (Open Text Systems) and SGML is a strong plus. Send letter, resume, and three references (please include phone numbers) to: Malcolm Brown, Director of Academic Computing, Kiewit Computation Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, attn: Information Consultant Search. No submissions via email or fax. Review of resumes will begin on August 1, 1994. An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer Women and minorities are encouraged to apply From: Otmar.K.E.Foelsche@Dartmouth.EDU (Otmar K. E. Foelsche) Subject: Position/Mgr. Hum. Comp. Dartmouth College Date: 21 Jul 94 10:52:06 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 103 (183) Position: "Manager, Humanities Computing" Location: Dartmouth College Salary Range: 25,909 - 28,499 (US$) Acts as the Manager of the Humanities Computing Office. Provides a variety of hardware, software, training, consultation, and documentation services directed at supporting the Humanities faculty, staff, and graduate students in their interaction with computer technology and related electronic systems. Manages text scanning services for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Bachelor's degree in a humanities discipline and at least three years of relevant experience; or the equivalent. Excellent interpersonal communication skills. Experience in supervision and in running a computer support facility. Knowledge of computer systems, systems software, and commercial and special purpose software and how they interact. Ability to teach lay people in tutorial and group settings. Strong technical writing, editing, and organizational skills. Maturity, judgment, and ability to work with frequent interruptions. Background and interest in education and the humanities. Familiarity with Dartmouth preferred. Please submit resume and cover letter to Manager Search Committee, Dartmouth College Humanities Computing, 6192 Bartlett Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-3530. Otmar K.E. Foelsche (otmar@dartmouth.edu) Director, Language Resource Center From: PROF NORM COOMBS Subject: Information Hungry and the Electronic Highway Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 16:49:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 112 (184) Those of us with various disabilities have long been starved for adequate access to information, and modern information technology has provided a break-through. When this is coupled with the electronic highway, we are often leaders in using these new and rapidly expanding services. One result of this is that the Symposium on Educational Applications of Technology for Persons with Sensory Disabilities held in Rochester NY July 20-22 has used thiese technologies to broadcast its plenary presentations by satellite telecast across the US and by internet around the world. The texts were sent out in email within 2 hours of presentation, and the satellite telecasts occured the night of the presentation. The texts are also available via gopher from sjuvm.stjohns.edu where, at the main menu, you select "Disabilities and Rehabilitation Resources" and from that menu select "EASI" Then, you will find Symposium listed as number 17. The National Technical Institute for the Deaf and the Rochester Institute of Technology have supported these innovations. We know of no other information technology conference making such immediate and extensive use of information technology to disseminate its deliberations. It is a case of disabilities leading the way for information technology. From: mstrange@fonorola.net (Micheal Strangelove) Subject: Please Post if Appropriate Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 13:50:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 113 (185) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Freedom of Speech on the Internet: Journalist Seeking Stories Has the Internet enabled you to express yourself and your experiences and opinions? Did the Internet enable you or your organization to bypass censors? Did you get the attention of the mass media through using the Internet? I am writing a story for ONLINE ACCESS (Oct 94) on how the Internet enables freedom of speech and circumvents censorship. Please let me know if you have in some way bypassed traditional censors (whether they be official censors, community censorship, or self-censorship) through the Internet. This includes expressing yourself on the Internet in a way that you have not been able to do so otherwise (such as participating in erotica online discussion groups, or assuming a different persona). Anonymity will be preserved if requested. Please reply to Michael Strangelove at mstrange@fonorola.net (do not send your reply to Usenet newsgroups, as I may miss your comments). Deadline approaching so please do not delay in responding. From: TBrunner@uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner) Subject: TLG, Archaeology, and Art History Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 12:29:10 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 104 (186) The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae is currently in the process of ascertaining to what degree its texts are being utilized by various disciplines. In particular, we are interested in learning if/how the TLG's resources have exerted an impact upon the fields of archaeology and art history. We would appreciate a brief note from anyone who can provide information this subject. Ted Brunner =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Theodore F. Brunner Phone: (714) 856-6404 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae FAX: (714) 856-8434 University of California Irvine Irvine, CA 92717-5550 USA E-Mail: TLG@UCI.EDU =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: marcus.banks@anthropology.oxford.ac.uk Subject: Americanism desired Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 13:03:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 105 (187) Forgive the apparent triviality of this request... I am looking for one or more commonly used expressions in North American English to describe the land mass south of the US/Mexico boder (ie. all of Central and South America). I'm particularly interested in hearing about a term or phrase - such as 'south of the border' - that would only make sense within an assumed North American context (ie. 'south of the border' spoken in Scotland would mean England). Many thanks, Marcus Banks, University of Oxford From: Paul Brians Subject: Mesopotamian Hymn Source Needed Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 16:24:34 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 106 (188) I am editing a reader which will include a Hymn to the Sumerian moon God, Nanna, beginning, "Father Nanna, lord, conspicuously crowned." It is printed in The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion, by Thorkild Jacobsen, but he cites as his source H. C. Rawlinson, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, 4, 2nd ed., ed. T. G. Pinches, London, 1891: pl.9, lines 7-14. It is not clear to me whether Jacobsen or Rawlinson actually made the translation. Our library doesn't own the latter book. Would someone out there kindly check the Rawlinson volume to see whether what he printed was an English translation? It would save me considerable trouble. Thanks, Paul Brians, Washington State University, brians@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu From: W Schipper Subject: Du Cange Date: Sat, 23 Jul 94 20:25:24 GMT-3:30 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 107 (189) [Cross-posted on ANSAX-L, MEDTEXTL and HUMANIST, with apologies for duplication] If anyone is interested in acquiring a full Du Cange, in original bindings, and including both supplements, please write to me PRIVATELY for details. Bill -- ....................................................................... W. Schipper Email: schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Department of English, Tel: 709-737-4406 Memorial University Fax: 709-737-4000 St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7 ........................................................................ From: Paul Brians Subject: Need help with original source of Gary Snyder piece Date: Sun, 24 Jul 94 09:46:13 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 108 (190) I am editing a reader in which I want to include Gary Snyder's "Buddhism and the Coming Revolution" from Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries To Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries (New York: New Directions, 1969). I'll be writing soon for permission and may be able to get my question answered then, but I would like to know now, if anyone has a handy source, when this essay was first published and where. Paul Brians, Washington State University, brians@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu From: pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Jacobs) Subject: Preliminary program/info for ANLP-94 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 94 15:10:18 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 115 (191) Preliminary Program and Registration Information 4th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing Stuttgart, Germany October 13-15, 1994 sponsored by Association for Computational Linguistics PURPOSE Like previous ACL Applied conferences, this meeting will bring together researchers and developers from around the world to focus on the application of natural language processing to real problems. The program will include invited and contributed papers, an industrial exhibition, and demonstrations. This year's conference will aim especially to promote participation from both industry and academia and to feature work with potential business impact. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE Susan Armstrong, ISSCO Harry Bunt, Tilburg University Jim Cowie, NMSU/CRL Ido Dagan, AT&T Bell Labs Robert Ingria, BBN Paul Jacobs, GE (Chair) Richard Kittredge, Univ. of Montreal Kazunori Muraki, NEC Peter Norvig, Sun Microsystems Hans Joachim Novak, IBM Martha Palmer, Univ. of Penn. Manny Rayner, SRI Donia Scott, Univ. of Brighton Oliviero Stock, IRST Annie Zaenen, Xerox ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Uwe Reyle, Univ. of Stuttgart Christian Rohrer, Univ. of Stuttgart TUTORIAL COORDINATOR Uwe Reyle, Univ. of Stuttgart PROVISIONAL PROGRAM Thursday, October 13 9.00-9.45 Registration 9.45-10.00 Conference Opening 10.00-11.00 Text Generation Bilingual Generation of Job Descriptions from Quasi-Conceptual Forms D. Caldwell and T. Korelsky CoGenTex, Inc. Practical Issues in Automatic Documentation Generation K. McKeown, K. Kukich and J. Shaw Columbia University, Bell Communication Research 11.00-11.30 Break 11.30-12.30 Document Image Understanding Language Determination: Natural Language Processing from Scanned Document Images P. Sibun and A. L. Spitz Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory Content Identification from Image T. Nakayama Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory 12.30-14.00 Break 14.00-15.30 Machine Translation (Methods) Machine Translation of Sentences with Fixed Expressions N. Katoh and T. Aizawa NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories TERMIGHT: Identifying and Translating Technical Terminology I. Dagan and K. Church AT&T Bell Laboratories Symmetric Pattern Matching Analysis for English Coordinate Structures A. Okumura and K. Muraki NEC Corp. Information Technology Research Lab 15.30-16.00 Break 16.00-17.30 Tagging models Tagging Accurately - Don't Guess if you Know P. Tapanainen and A. Voutilainen Rank Xerox Research Centre Does Baum-Welch Re-estimation Help Taggers? D. Elworthy Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd. Improving Language Models by Clustering Training Sentences D. Carter SRI International 17.45-19.15 Demonstrations and Videos Friday, October 14 8.30-9.30 Invited Talk - To Be Announced 9.30-10.00 Break 10.00-12.00 Text processing Probably Correct Inference Rules and Linguistic Annotation S. Finch University of Edinburgh Combination of Symbolic and Statistical Approaches for Grammatical Knowledge Acquisition M. Kiyono and J. Tsujii Univ. of Manchester Institute of Science & Tech. Adaptive Sentence Boundary Disambiguation D. Palmer and M. Hearst University of California, Berkeley Acquiring Knowledge from Encylopedic Texts F. Gomez, R. Hull and C.Segami University of Central Florida 12.00-13.00 Demonstrations and Videos 13.00-14.00 Break 14.00-15.30 Machine Translation (Systems) A Successful Case of Computer Aided Translation M. Filgueiras Universidade do Porto Three Heads are Better than One R. Frederking and S.Nirenburg Carnegie Mellon University Real-Time Spoken Language Translation using Associative Processors K. Oi, E. Sumita, O. Furuse, H. Iida and T. Higuchi ATR and Electrotechnical Laboratory 15.30-16.00 Break 16.00-17.00 Robust parsing Yet Another Chart-Based Technique for Parsing Ill-Formed Input T. Kato NTT Network Information Systems Laboratories Recycling Terms into a Partial Parser C. Jacquemin IUT de Nantes 17.15-19.15 Posters Improving Chinese Tokenization with Linguistic Filters on Statistical Lexical Acquisition D. Wu and P. Fung University of Science & Technology and Columbia University Reference Resolution in Newspaper Articles T. Wakao University of Sheffield Automatic Acquisition of Semantic Attributes for User Defined Words in Japanese to English Machine Translation S. Ikehara, S. Shirai, A. Yokoo, F. Bond and Y. Omi NTT Network Information Systems Labs Degraded Text Recognition using Word Collocation and Visual Inter-word Constraints T. Hong and J. Hull State University of New York at Buffalo Using Syntactic Dependencies for Word Alignment F. Debili, E. Sammouda and A. Zribi CNRS English Adverb Generation in Japanese to English Machine Translation K. Ogura, F. Bond and S. Ikehara NTT Network Information Systems Labs A Practical Evaluation of an Integrated Translation Tool during a Large Scale Localisation Project R. Schaeler University College Dublin Spelling Correction in Agglutinative Languages K. Oflazer and C. Guzey Bilkent University Integration of Example-based Transfer and Rule-based Generation S. Akamine, O. Furuse and H. Iida ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories An Evaluation of a Method to Detect and Correct Erroneous Characters in Japanese Input through an OCR using Markov Models T. Araki, S. Ikehara, N. Tsukahara and Y. Komatsu Fukui University and NTT Communications Science Laboratories Multifunction Thesaurus for Russian Word Processing I. Bolshakov Russian Academy of Science Representing Knowledge for Planning Multisentential Text J. Coch and R. David GSI-Erli Guided Sentence Composition for Disabled People R. Pasero, N. Richardet and P. Sabatier CNRS An Interactive Rewriting Tool for Machine Acceptable Sentences H. Hirakawa, K. Nomura and M. Nakamura Toshiba Corporation TECHDOC: Multilingual Generation of Online and Offline Instructional Text D. Roesner and M. Stede FAW Ulm An Inheritance-based Lexicon for Message Understanding Systems L. Cahill University of Sussex Industrial Applications of Unification Morphology G. Proszeky MorphoLogic Sublanguage Engineering in the FOG System R. Kittredge, E. Goldberg, M. Kim and A. Polguere Universite de Montreal, Env. Canada, CoGenTex, Inc. and National University of Singapore 20.00 Banquet Saturday, October 15 8.30-9.30 Invited Talk - To Be Announced 9.30-10.00 Break 10.00-12.00 Interface Applications Resolving Anaphora in a Portable Natural Language Front End to Databases F. Barros and A. DeRoeck University of Essex Upholding the Maxim of Relevance During Patient-Centered Activities A. Gertner, B. Webber and J. Clarke University of Pennsylvania The Delphi Natural Language Understanding System M. Bates, R. Bobrow, R. Ingria and D. Stallard BBN Systems and Technologies, Inc. Understanding Location Descriptions in the LEI System D. Chin, M. McGranaghan and T. T. Chen University of Hawaii 12.00-13.00 Demonstrations and Videos 13.00-14.00 Break 14.00-15.30 Lexical Processing Tagging and Morphological Disambiguation of Turkish Text K. Oflazer and I. Kuruoz Bilkent University A Robust Category Guesser for Dutch Medical Language P. Spyns Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Handling Japanese Homophone Errors in Revision Support System for Japanese Texts; REVISE M. Oku NTT Network Information Systems Laboratories 15.30-16.00 Break 16.00-17.30 Text categorization and retrieval A Probabilistic Model for Text Categorization: Based on a Single Random Variable with Multiple Values M. Iwayama and H. Tokunaga Hitachi Ltd. Robust Text Processing in Automated Information Retrieval T. Strzalkowski New York University May a Semantic Lexicon Support Hypertextual Authoring? R. Basili, F. Grisoli and M. Pazienza Universita di Roma TUTORIALS (Oct. 11-12) Corpus Hacking Mats Rooth and Oliver Christ, University of Stuttgart Tuesday We will introduce a family of programs for representing and computing with text corpora in a Unix/C environment. The first session will be devoted to representation of the corpus and linguistic markup and to an associated query language. In the second session, we will look at statistical computations and applications to linguistic and computational linguistic problems. MATS ROOTH obtained a Phd in linguistics from UMass Amherst after studying mathematics at MIT. He has worked at CSLI/Stanford, AT&T Bell Labs, and the Universities of Stuttgart and T\"ubingen. His research interests include statistical parsing, the semantics of intonation, and methodologies for employing corpus data in theoretical linguistics. OLIVER CHRIST studied computer science at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His thesis work, finished in late 1992, dealt with the design and implementation of a CLIM-based graphical user interface for the TFS system. Since late 1992, he is working as a research assistant in a project which aims at the development of tools for the exploration of large text corpora, where he developed numerous corpus management and access tools. Partial Parsing Steven Abney, University of T\"ubingen Tuesday Efficient, accurate parsing of unrestricted text is not within the reach of current techniques. Standard algorithms are too expensive for use on very large corpora, and relatively fragile. Partial parsing aims to buy speed and robustness of processing by sacrificing depth of analysis. Partial parsing can be seen as an application of the principles that motivate stochastic tagging. Namely, tagging illustrates how low-level processing can be sliced out of the parsing problem and solved independently; shallow parsing represents the ``next slice''. Partial parsing is generally useful as a preprocessing step, either for bootstrapping---extracting information from corpora for use by more sophisticated parsers---or for end-user applications such as data extraction. In the tutorial, we will discuss partial-parsing methods, including finite-state recognition, cascaded finite-state recognizers, and HMM's. Generally, techniques used in tagging can be readily applied to shallow parsing: in addition to HMM's, regression techniques, including regression trees, are applicable. We will also touch on grammatical inference techniques, and techniques for recognizing low-level phrases without grammars, on the basis of word-level statistical properties such as mutual information. Finally, we will discuss methods for assembling low-level phrases into complete parse-trees. To do so, we require something like case-frame relations. If a domain model provides semantic frames, it is possible to do semantic interpretation directly on a stream of low-level phrases, making partial parsing useful as a technique for cleaning up after traditional parsers. Where domain models are not available, methods have been developed for inducing syntactic and semantic frames from a corpus, using partial parsing as a preprocessing step. STEVEN ABNEY; PhD, MIT Department of Linguistics, 1987. 1987-1993: Member of Technical Staff, Bell Communications Research. 1993-present: Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics, University of T\"ubingen. Areas of research: parsing unrestricted text, stochastic methods, psycholinguistic modelling, phrase structure. Machine Translation Louisa Sadler, University of Essex UK Tuesday/Wednesday The goal of achieving high quality automatic translation has long provided an impetus for work in NLP. There has been much activity in the field in recent years, with a number of developments (such as the use of statistical or mixed approaches) promising significant progress in the development of practical working systems. This tutorial is directed towards those who would like to be made aware of current research in Machine Translation. The focus will mainly be on the architecture of machine translation systems, surveying the major current approaches (rule-based, statistical, mixed), although issues such as controlled input, user interaction, translation aids, multilingual generation and the evaluation of MT systems will also be touched~on. In looking at approaches based on the formulation of explicit linguistic rules, we will start by considering the traditional distinction between interlingual and transfer. We will consider the issue of how an interlingua may be defined and the problems this raises, looking at some proposed interlinguas. We will briefly examine traditional transfer systems, focussing on the problem of how (or whether) bilingual equivalences can be established, before discussing more recent proposals permitting a more flexible view of translational equivalence (flexible transfer, (multilingual) type hierarchies, translation by abduction, correspondence and negotiation). We will also look at statistical and mixed (hybrid) approaches to MT (translation by analogy, example based translation, etc), considering, inter alia issues such as quality of translation, robustness and the acquisition and use of large data sets in such systems. This part of the tutorial will also briefly review work on the automatic acquisition of terminological, lexical and grammatical resources for MT. LOUISA SADLER teaches Computational Linguistics and syntax at the University of Essex UK. She has worked on a number of MT and related projects since 1985 and is currently interested in flexible and correspondence based approaches to MT. She is author/co-author of a number of articles and a recent introductory book on MT. Context, Information Structure, Focus and Ellipsis Stephen Pulman, SRI Cambridge and University of Cambridge Wednesday This tutorial will examine some recent approaches to the interpretation of constructs that are sensitive to context and information structure, in particular intonational focus, focus-sensitive particles, and ellipsis. I will describe some influential linguistic theories of ellipsis and focus, and also survey some recent computationally inspired approaches using notions like `higher order unification', discourse grammar and `most specific common denominators' Finally, I will look at how some of these theories might be implemented so as to achieve reasonable analysis coverage of sentences involving ellipsis or focus. I will also look at how to generate sentences involving ellipsis or focus in appropriate contexts. STEPHEN PULMAN is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and is Director of SRI International Cambridge Computer Science Research Centre. His current research interests are in computational semantics and dialogue in the context of spoken language understanding systems. NLP meets Multimedia: Coordinating Language, Graphics, and Gestures Wolfgang Wahlster and Elisabeth Andr'e, German Research Center for AI (DFKI) Saarbr\"ucken Wednesday The goal of this tutorial is to survey a new generation of intelligent multimedia human-computer interfaces with the ability to interpret some forms of multimedia input and to generate coordinated multimedia output. The tutorial is organized into four sections: from images to text, from text to images, coordinating gestures and language, and integrating multiple media in adaptive presentation systems. Over the past years, researchers have begun to explore how to translate visual information into natural language. A great practical advantage of natural language image description is the possibility of the application-specific selection of varying degrees of condensation of visual information. There are many promising applications in medical technology, remote sensing, traffic control and other surveillance tasks. Work in the inverse direction, the generation of images from natural language text, has shown how a physically based semantics of motion verbs and locative prepositions can be seen as conveying spatial, kinematic and temporal constraints, thereby enabling a system to create an animated graphical simulation of events described by natural language utterances. There is an expanding range of exciting applications for these methods such as advanced simulation, entertainment, animation and CAD systems. The use of deictic gestures parallel to verbal descriptions is of great importance for multimedia interfaces, because it simplifies and speeds up reference to objects in a visual context. However, natural pointing behavior is possibly ambiguous and vague, so that without a careful analysis of the discourse context of a gesture there is a high risk of reference failure. We will discuss the state of the art of gesture interpretation and generation and show how explicit meanings can be given to pointing behavior in terms of a formal semantics of the visual world. In the fourth section of this tutorial, we will present a new generation of intelligent multimedia systems that goes beyond the standard canned text, predesigned graphics and prerecorded images and sounds typically found in commercial multimedia systems of today. Intelligent multimedia presentation systems include a number of key processes: content planning (determining what information should be presented in a given situation), medium selection (apportioning the selected information to text and graphics), presentation design (determining how text and graphics can be used to communicate the selected information), and coordination (resolving conflicts and maintaining consistency between text and graphics). We will show that it is possible to adapt many of the fundamental concepts developed to date in computational linguistics in such a way that they become useful for text-picture combinations as well. We will address key applications such as multimedia helpware, information retrieval and analysis, authoring, training, monitoring, and decision support. WOLFGANG WAHLSTER is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saarbr\"ucken, Germany where he currently serves as a Scientific Director of DFKI. He received his diploma and doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Hamburg. Since 1975 he has been working in the field as a principal investigator in various natural language projects, including HAM-ANS, WISBER, SC, XTRA, VITRA, PRACMA, WIP, and VERBMOBIL. He has published more than 150 technical papers on natural language processing and AI. His current research includes intelligent multimodal interfaces, user modeling, natural language scene description, intelligent help systems, deductive plan recognition, and speech translation. He is a AAAI Fellow and a recipient of the Fritz Winter Award for his research on cooperative user interfaces. Prof. Wahlster served as the Conference Chair for IJCAI-93 in Chambery and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of IJCAII from 1991 - 1993. He is currently the Chair of the Association of German AI Institutes (AKI). ELISABETH ANDR\'E studied computer science at the University of Saarbr\"ucken, Germany. Her thesis work dealt with the generation of natural language scene descriptions in the project VITRA. Since 1988, she has been working as a research scientist in the Intelligent User Interfaces group at DFKI on the WIP and PPP projects. Her current research focuses on multimedia communication, intelligent user interfaces and knowledge-based presentation systems. She is the author of over 40 scientific papers on natural language generation and multimedia communication. In January 1994, she was elected European Representative of the ACL Special Interest Group on Multimedia Language Processing (SIGMEDIA). REGISTRATION INFORMATION: To make your registration and/or hotel reservation, please complete the registration form (available through ACL LISTSERV, see below) and send it to: ANLP-94 Sabine Schmid Institut f\"ur Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Universit\"at Stuttgart Azenbergstr. 12 70174 Stuttgart Germany phone: +49-711-121-1379 fax: +49-711-121-1366 Registration includes one copy of the conference proceedings. People who did not pay ACL-membership for 1994 have to register at the non-member rate. They will automatically get ACL-membership for 1995. The same holds for students, who pay 50%. Registration fees before 20 August DM 530 (ACL members) DM 580 (non-members) after 20 August DM 660. 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We welcome your postings to this moderated list. The postings in turn inform our database. We thank the many contributors and commentators who make this project possible. Ann Okerson Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing Association of Research Libraries Washington, DC ann@cni.org From: Judy Koren Subject: RE: 8.0095 Rs: Subway Poems; Death Sentences (5/110) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 13:36:59 +0300 (EET-DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 117 (193) Re: how long... The interesting point about the discussion, to me, is that as a still-resolute speaker of British English despite the constant Atlantic surge washing over me, I wouldn't allow the "how long..." variant to be grammatical when used to specify *time*: I would say, "for how long...", eg "how long do you bake a cake for?" -- which could not possibly be answered "18 inches" :-) I would regard "for how long does one do x?" as synonymous in some *but not all* circumstances with "how long does it take to do x?" ; the construction "how long do you fly to America?" strikes me as simply ungrammatical; (but "for how long do you fly to America?" I would regard as a foreigner's attempt at "for how long have you been making trips to America?", inviting the answer, "oh, for about the last six years..."; it wouldn't immediately occur to me that it meant "how long does it take to fly to America?") And "how long is x?" is clearly, to me, asking for a physical measurement of x. So I would interpret the question about the train the same as the ticket clerk did: [deleted quotation] -- and what really bothers me is that the original question, "how long will the train be?" was attributed to an English (ie British) woman. Are you sure she was a British-English speaker and not an Indian-English speaker? I would have said: "how long will the train take?" or "how long does the trip take?" Judy Koren, Haifa, Israel. From: Jane Rodgers Siegel Subject: APHA's 20th Anniversary Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 11:15:12 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 118 (194) A posting which may be of interest to HUMANIST subscribers. Jim Kelly, Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (202) 994-6848 ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- APHA CELEBRATES TWENTIETH YEAR The American Printing History Association (APHA) celebrates its two decades with a conference to be held in New York, Friday through Sunday, October 7th to 9th, 1994. Participants will attend an opening reception Friday evening at the Grolier Club, hear a roster of five speakers on Saturday at the Pierpont Morgan Library followed by a reception at the Union League Club, and may choose among a series of exhibitions at institutions around the city on Sunday. This year's conference, entitled "APHA at Twenty: Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future," will feature the following lectures: "Three (Possibly Four) Ages of APHA" by Terry Belanger, University Professor at the University of Virginia; "The Art Preservative: From the History of the Book Back to Printing History" by Michael Winship, Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin; "The Temper of the Present" by W. Thomas Taylor, publisher and antiquarian book dealer of Austin, Texas; "Type in the Modern Book" by Cynthia Hollandsworth, U.S. Type Marketing Manager at the Agfa Division of Miles Inc.; and "Ink vs. Electrons: Comments from the Field" by Wendy Richmond, independent consultant in interactive media of Cambridge, Massachusetts. A special boxed portfolio of broadsides designed and printed by many of America's most distinguished printing practitioners is being created in an edition of 200 to mark the anniversary. The result of this collaboration, "A Type Miscellany," will be available for purchase at the conference, or by mail order at the address below. The conference, part of APHA's continuing series of annual conferences held in cities around the country, is open to the public. Registration brochures may be obtained by writing APHA, P.O. Box 4922, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163. The American Printing History Association was founded in 1974 to encourage the study of printing history and its related arts and skills, including calligraphy, typeface design and type-founding, papermaking, illustration, binding and publishing. From: vickers@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: Ashmolean announcement Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 16:35:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 119 (195) Dear Colleague, Would you please include the following announcement on your bulletin board? Many thanks. Yours, Michael Vickers Department of Antiquities Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford Special Notice [deleted quotation]will be major building operations in the Museum. One immediate consequence will be that substantial parts of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman galleries, as well as reserve collections, will be inacessible even to the staff. Great improvements are anticipated as a result of the structural alterations; in the meantime, however, there will inevitably be a good deal of disruption. We hope that scholars everywhere will understand. From: Michael Kliffer Subject: Windows dead-key macros Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 15:19:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 109 (196) Hello All, I'd be grateful to hear from people who have found a Windows equivalent to the DOS keyboard reconfiguration programme SMARTKEY, whose California distributors went defunct several years ago. The best feature of Smartkey was the SuperShift, the ability to designate any key as a dead key, thus doubling the number of characters that can be produced easily, i.e. with a maximum of 2 strokes. I am still using Smartkey for DOS applications within Windows, but this TSR is impossible to activate with Windows programs. I've already tried out shareware like MacroManager and Accents, but have found nothing with the flexibility of Smartkey. Thanks in advance for any leads. Mike Kliffer kliffer@mcmaster.ca From: leeww@klee (Lee Wan Wai) Subject: RUMBA Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 07:38:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 110 (197) Does anyone here know how can I write to WallData to inqure on the technical aspect of their Rumba products? .-- Lee Wan Wai .-------------------------------. : ____ ,__o : leeww%klee%linuxpub@csah.com : : ____ _-\_<, : Fido: King Lee at 6:600/230.0 : :_______(*)/'(*)_:___oooO___(o o)___Oooo_________' From: traiger@oxy.edu (Saul Traiger) Subject: Computing and Philosophy Conference Program Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 12:51:17 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 121 (198) Ninth Annual Computing and Philosophy (CAP) Conference August 10-13, 1994 Occidental College Wednesday, August 10th 6-7 pm Reception 7-8 pm Special Presentation: Saul Traiger, Occidental College Surfing the Internet in the 90's Thursday, August 11th 8:00 - 9:00 am Coffee 9:00 - 10:00 Opening and Keynote Address Chair: Jim Moor Mark Bedau (Reed College) The Philosophical Implications of Artificial Life 10:00 - 11:10 Session I: Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence Chair: Mark Bedau (Reed College) Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) - Are People Infinite Computers? Ricardo Flores (University of California, San Diego) - Proposed Philosophical Framework for the Search of and Development of Artificial Intelligence 11:10 - 11:20 Break 11:20 - 12:00 pm Session II Teaching Ethics Using Multimedia Chair: Terry Bynum Robert Cavalier (Carnegie-Mellon University) - Teaching Ethics and Aesthetics Using Multimedia 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:40 Session III The Information Superhighway Chair: Fred Portoraro E. A. Laidlaw-Johnson (Wells College) - The Ethics of Information Transfer in the Electronic Age: Scholars Beware! Victoria White & Mzamo Mangaliso (University of Massachusetts) Societal Ramifications of the "Information Highway" segment of the Clinton AdministrationTechnology Initiative 2:40 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:30 Session IV Computing and Logic Chair Martin Fricke (University of Otago) James Bode (Ohio State Univesity) - ArguDraw Fred Portoraro (University of Toronto) - Fitch-style Peano Arithmetic with Symlog 4:30 - 5:30 Software Fair Friday, August 12th 8:00 am - 9:00 Coffee 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Address Chair: Saul Traiger Brian Skyrms (University of California, Irvine) - Sex and Justice: Computer Models of Evolutionary Dynamics 10:00 - 11:10 Session V New Perspectives on the Turing Test Chair: R. 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We hope to provide shuttle bus service to Old Town Pasadena. On-campus meals can be purchased in the north dining hall, upstairs Freeman Union as follows: Lunch weekdays and weekends 11:00-1:00 p.m. Cost $6.60 plus tax Dinner weekdays 5:00-6:30 p.m.; weekends 5:00-6:00 p.m. Cost $8.15 plus tax A brunch is served on Sundays only from 10:30 - 11:30; cost $7.50 plus tax Free tickets are available for summer evening performances of the Occidental College Summer Theater Festival as follows: (Please contact Carolyn Adams if you are interested) Friday, August 12, "The Fantasticks" Time: 8:00 p.m. Location: The Keck Theater Saturday, August 13. "Charley's Aunt" Time: 8:00 p.m. Location: The Remsen Bird Hillside Theater On Thursday evening, August 11, there will be a conference barbecue banquet located in the College Faculty Club. Cost is $16.50/person. Please contact Carolyn Adams as soon as possible if you are interested in attending. 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REGISTRATION FORM Name_____________________________________________________________ Institution/Company______________________________________________ Surface Address______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ E-Mail Address_________________________ Early registration is $75. Registrations postmarked after July 31st are $90. Student registration is $25. Registration fees are waived for attendees from areas outside the continental US and Canada who come specifically for the conference. Make checks payable to 'Occidental College.' E-mail registrations (to traiger@oxy.edu) received before August 1st may pay the early registration rate at the door. Accommodations are provided through Occidental College's Conference Services. Dormitory rooms are available for all participants at the rate of $30 per person per night, single occupancy, $25 per person, per night, double occupancy. To guarantee a room in the dorm, please call or write Carolyn Adams, Department of Philosophy, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles, CA 90041, (213) 259-2792, e-mail: caradams@oxy.edu, by July 15, 1994. A conference rate of $108 per night is available at the nearby Doubletree Hotel in Pasadena. Call (818) 792-2727 and mention the Computing and Philosophy Conference at Occidental College. Registration forms and checks should be sent to Saul Traiger, Department of Philosophy, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles, CA 90041. Programs and logistical information will be mailed to all those who register early. For more information about the conference, contact Saul Traiger at (213) 259-2901 or traiger@oxy.edu. Special note (7/27/94): Dorm space is still available. From: "Doug Kincade" Subject: Job Listing, Princeton UP Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 16:10:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 122 (199) Please pardon the cross-posts--but feel free to forward this. ASSISTANT EDITOR IN THE HUMANITIES--Entry-level publishing position available for recent Ph.D. or ABD in the humanities (particularly literary studies or classics). The position will involve assisting acquisitions editor with clerical support while training for an eventual position as an acquisitions editor. Some publishing experience preferred. Please send letter and resume to: Walter H. Lippincott, Director, Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540. Only final candidates will be acknowledged. Doug Kincade Publisher, Electronic Products Princeton University Press 609/258-2167, fax -6305 From: tgb2@po.CWRU.Edu (Thomas G. Bishop) Subject: Re: 8.0117 R: British (?) English (1/42) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 10:30:35 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 123 (200) [deleted quotation] Indeed, I am quite sure that the speaker was an Englishwoman as she had one of the relevant accents. On the other hand, I am by no means sure that the question she was asking ("How long will the train be from Vellore?") wasn't actually the question: "How long will I have to wait for the train from Vellore?" i.e. How many minutes from now is it due to arrive? In either case, as I recall, she didnt indicate particular satisfaction with the clerk's answer. Tom Bishop -- Tom Bishop "Look, here comes a walking fire!" Dept of English Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 44106.(tgb2@po.cwru.edu) From: OLAF Subject: Q: 18th Century ship's cargo (textiles) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 11:51:49 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 111 (201) I am working on the part of the cargo manifest of an early eighteenth-century (1726) Scottish merchantman trading to Newfoundland; the manifest is part of a collection of business papers, journals, instructions, etc. related to one specific voyage. My intention is to transcribe and annotate the documents, with the possibility of eventually having the lot published. However, I am having a problem identifying some of the goods that were carried -- even the Oxford English Dictionary failed me on this one, though the problem may stem from the idiosyncratic spelling used in the original documents (i.e., the word may be in the dictionary somewhere, but because the term is unfamiliar to me, I am unable to recognize what the proper or modern spelling might be). The cargo consisted predominantly of biscuit, but there was also a variety of other goods, mostly textiles. For instance, in the cargo were "4 Ps of Mussilburgh Stuffs qt 63 ells p. peice 60 pble at 20s p pe". I've been able to figure out what this means: "four pieces of Mussilburgh Stuffs, quantity 63 ells, purchased at a cost of 60 ells payable priced per piece 20 shillings" (i.e., an agreed price of 20 shillings charged on 60 ells rather than on 63). But what is "Mussilburgh Stuffs"? That's where my problem lies. Several of the terms used to identify some of the textiles are unique, and I would be most grateful for any assistance in identifying what kind of fabrics or materials these were (alternatively, can anyone point me to a reference book where these terms are defined?). I am confident in the spelling --the cargo invoices were quite legible. Specifically, I need help with the following terms: - Mussilburgh Stuffs - Bongall - Camblet - Tyken - Dornick - tweeld tape - Iodelegsat (measured by the dozen) - Cockernony needles - Shizar cases (a dozen) [scissor cases?] - inkhorns (two dozen) There were also several "peapers of pins"; does this mean "papers of pins"? I thought perhaps that in the eighteenth century, pins were stuck in fixed quantities into sheets of paper for purchase and for shipping. Can anyone shed light on this? Even if you can explain or identify only one or two of these terms, I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance for any help. Olaf Janzen Department of History Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Corner Brook, Newfoundland A2H 6P9 tel: (709) 637-6282 FAX: (709) 639-8125 e-mail: olaf@kean.ucs.mun.ca From: fbrody@pop.tuwien.ac.at (Florian Brody) Subject: Electronic Tractatus Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 21:05:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 112 (202) Could you please help locate an electronic version of L. Wittgensteins Tractatus Logico Philosophicus? - German or English. thx Florian Brody Academy for the Future, Vienna FBRODY@pop.tuwien.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF THE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: for those who just changed my e-mail in their data bases - it changed again!!! 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From: HOKE ROBINSON Subject: Kant Congress Announcement Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 17:55:14 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 126 (204) EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL KANT CONGRESS with "Kant and the Problem of Peace" March 1 - 5, 1995 Memphis, Tennessee USA The Kant-Gesellschaft e.V. (Bonn) has authorized the University of Memphis, in collaboration with the North American Kant Society, to host the Eighth International Kant Congress. The congress will be held March 1 - 5, 1995 in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, in conjunction with the featured conference series, "Kant and the Problem of Peace." OPENING SESSION WELCOMING CEREMONIES: Representatives of the Kant-Gesellschaft, the North American Kant Society, the University of Memphis, the city of Memphis, the state of Tennessee, the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany. OPENING ADDRESSES: Mary Gregor (San Diego State); Jules Vuillemin (Paris). 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From: Jeremy Parzen Subject: Marinetti and the automobile Date: Fri, 29 Jul 94 13:59 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 113 (205) I am looking for a bilbliography (or any suggestions) regarding Marinetti and the Futurists' relationship with the automobile. Any ideas? thanks Jeremy From: gerhard obenaus Subject: Art Programs in Florence Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 15:17:17 -0600 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 114 (206) I'm posting this message for a friend without access to the Internet. The lady is an art student and was wondering how she should go about studying art in Florence, Italy. If anybody is aware of US graduate programs which offer courses in Florence or has an address of a local school in Florence, please drop me a note. It will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Gerhard Obenaus ******************************************************************* Gerhard Obenaus Translation Laboratory University of Iowa W615 SSH Iowa City, IA 52242 gerhard-obenaus@uiowa.edu ******************************************************************* From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: Windows dead-key macro Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 12:25:40 +0100 (GDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 115 (207) Is it possible to post the SMARTKEY on any ftp server if it is so old, so useful and the developer is no more in business? Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI, Universita' di Torino lana@cisi.unito.it fax: 39 11 899 5577 From: "Marc Eisinger (+33 (1) 49 05 72 27)" Subject: Painting and painters Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 11:41:54 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 116 (208) Bonjour, I'd like to know if any of you is aware of a list dealing with painting and painters. Specifically, I'm interested in XIX European painting. Any hints will be welcomed. Thanks, Marc From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 117 (209) [deleted quotation]I need help with the following terms: [deleted quotation] Here is may be one clue for this one: The belgian town of Tournai, in the province of Hainaut, used to be a weaving center in the past centuries. They still have a tapestry museum. The flemish translation of Tournai is Doornik. This is the equivalent of Dornick (pre-spelling reform spelling). Michel L. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michel Lenoble -- Tel.: (514) 288-3916 lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: Paul.F.Schaffner@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: re: 18th-cent. cargo (textiles) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 94 11:02:16 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 118 (210) I am no expert in textiles, but some of the items listed by Olaf Janzen seem to be reasonably common words, to be found in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) or, with more detailed discussion, in _The Draper's Dictionary_ of William Beck (London: Warehousemen & Drapers' Journal Office, n.d.) (DD). Since the merchantman in question was Scottish, it might not hurt to check the _Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue_, _The Scottish National Dict'ry_, and Jamieson's _Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language_ as well. These seem to be the easiest identifications: Camblet = OED s.v. "camlet"; DD s.v. "camlet, camblet." Tyken = OED s.v. "ticken" and "ticking"; DD s.v. "tick, ticking." Dornick = OED s.v. "dornick"; DD s.v. "dornock." Tweeld tape: is this not likely "twilled" tape (OED s.v. "twilled")? Cockernony needles: perhaps hairpins? See OED s.v. "cockernony." Inkhorns: why should these not be ordinary inkhorns? (OED s.v. "inkhorn.") Mussilburgh Stuffs are presumably associated with Musselburgh, but I will let others declare what that might entail. No idea on the others. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Schaffner usergfnk@umichum (BITNET) Middle English Dictionary pfs@umich.edu From: zzaasvk@cs6400.mcc.ac.uk (V.H.Knight) Subject: Re: 8.0124 Qs: 18th c. ship's cargo; E-Tractatus (2/91) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 09:48:55 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 119 (211) I suggest you look at a dictionary of Scots as this would help with many of the unfamiliar spellings. Also, there are many Scots words which do not occur in standard English; in this lexical area I would expect the French influence (a consequence of the 'Auld Alliance') to be strong. One of your items is named after Musselburgh (a town in the lowlands of Scotland). -- Virginia Knight email: zzaasvk@cs6400.mcc.ac.uk From: Eric.Rabkin@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: Papers of Pins Date: Fri, 29 Jul 94 08:35:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 120 (212) Olaf Janzen, studying an 18th cargo manifest, asks if pins were once stuck in paper for purchase. I think so, given the folksong that starts, "I'll give to you a paper of pins/ For that's the way our love begins/ If you will ma-arry me, me, me,/ If you will ma-arry me." I don't know the title, but a folklorist ought to be able to track it from those lyrics--and then date it. (The song continues with each verse offering what are clearly ever more valuable gifts, ending, if I recall, with the singer's heart, so a paper of pins must have been worth something, but not something terribly costly, perhaps like a bunch of long-stem roses today.) I hope this helps. Eric Eric Rabkin esrabkin@umich.edu Department of English esrabkin@umichum.bitnet University of Michigan office : 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 deptl fax : 313-763-3128 voice msgs: 313-763-3130 From: u2re9toh@crrel41 (Tim Horrigan) Subject: Re: 8.0123 R: British English (1/27) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 08:30:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 121 (213) At 22:10 7/28/94 -0400, Tom Bishop wrote: [deleted quotation] Another factor (and I apologize for ethnic steroptyping here) in this incident may be the typically wry Indian sense of humor. The clerk may have been dseliberately pretending to misunderstand the English woman's question as a means of enlivening his otherwise dreary workday. We northern New Englanders love to tease tourists in a similar fashion (e.g., "Excuse me. How far is it to Hanover from here?" "Oh, about 25,000 miles the way you're going. About 2 miles if you turn around and head the other way.") ************************************************************ TIM HORRIGAN, Climate Data Lab, USACRREL, Hanover, NH 03755 internet: horrigan@hanover-crrel.army.mil u2re9toh@hanover-crrel.army.mil horrigan@crrel41.crrel.usace.army.mil u2re9toh@crrel41.crrel.usace.army.mil Timothy.Horrigan@bbsmail.magpie.com ph: (603) 646-4432 (603) 646-4100 ************************************************************ From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: RE: 8.0124 Qs: 18th c. ship's cargo; E-Tractatus (2/91) Date: 29 Jul 1994 10:09:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 122 (214) [deleted quotation] Try the philosophy Project based at UCHICAGO ... the subject of a recent HUMANIST mailing (Vol 8 No 0106 - 24 Jul 1994) their WWW 'address' is: http://csmaclab-www.uchicago.edu/philosophy Project/philos.html - their Email address is: phil-preprints-service@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp I 'went' there via the World-Wide Web and noticed a section called Wittgenstein's Tractatus - don't know if that's what you want ... but it might be worth a try. Cheers Simon From: S50786@BC750 Subject: Re: 8.0123 R: British English (1/27) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 10:26 +08:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 123 (215) As a U.S. citizen who has lived in England for seven years and in a British territory for another seven, I can attest to being well acquainted with the convention of using "How long will x be?" to mean roughly (in American) "How much time do I have to wait until x happens?" Steve Palmquist S50786@bc750.hkbc.hk From: Andrew Burday Subject: Tractatus; correcting an error Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 13:47:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 124 (216) Someone recently asked if there was an electronic version of Wittgenstein's Tractatus available. In fact, there is. Simon Rae was kind enough to respond with the name of a site that has a pointer to the electronic Tractatus. Unfortunately, he made an error with respect to the e-mail address of the administrators of that site. The e-mail address of the administrators of the Chicago Philosophy Project may be found by connecting to their Web server at http://csmaclab-www.uchicago.edu/philosophyProject/philos.html (Note that there is no space between 'philosophy' and 'Project'.) Phil-Preprints-Service@phil-preprints.l.chiba-u.ac.jp has nothing to do with the Chicago project, however. It is the address of the IPPE's mail server. Mail sent to that address automatically gets fed to a program that is designed to reply with files from an archive. Anyone who sends an ordinary inquiry to that address is going to get a very perplexing series of error messages in reply! The IPPE mentions the Chicago Philosophy Project in its messages because you can use the CPP to connect to the IPPE. There is no further connection between the two. They are administered by completely different groups. I do recommend that anyone interested in the field have a look at the electronic Tractatus. Use your favorite Web browser to connect to http://midas.thphys.ox.ac.uk:8001/the_tractatus That will give you a hypertext version of the Tractatus. Instead of reading through the work linearly, you are first presented with the seven basic propositions. You can click on each of them to get the further comments from the relevant section. For instance, if you click on "1. The world is all that is the case", you get "1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not things", and "1.2 The world divides into facts." You can then click on each of these to read 1.11, 1.12, 1.13; and so on. (To read the rest of the work, you just carry on in the same way ;*>) I found this a very interesting way to read the Tractatus (or part of it -- I didn't try to read the whole thing). It obviously wouldn't do for some purposes. On the first page of the hypertext version is the name and email address of the person who prepared it. He could probably tell you where to find a plain etext of the Tractatus. Presumably that's what he started with. Best, Andrew Burday andy@philo.mcgill.ca On Mon, 1 Aug 1994, Elaine Brennan wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 125 (217) [deleted quotation] From: bill.jenkins@chrysalis.org Subject: 8.0124 TRACTATUS Date: Mon, 01 Aug 94 23:26:49 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 126 (218) [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------38---- [deleted quotation] fbrody@pop.tuwien.ac.at (Florian Brody) > Subject: Electronic Tractatus ED> Could you please help locate an electronic version of L. Wittgensteins [deleted quotation] ED> thx ED> Florian Brody [deleted quotation] I'm probably a couple of days late on this, but try the URL: http://midas.thphys.ox.ac.uk:8001/the_tractatus When I found the address, it was accompanied by a note to the effect that in the event of difficulty you should look in the directory "/hypertext_intro.html." I did not find this necessary. --- ~ OLX 2.1 TD ~ bjenkins@netcom.com/bill.jenkins@chrysalis.org From: Allan Ramsay Subject: EACL 95 Student Sessions Call for Paper Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 12:22:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 130 (219) EACL-95 STUDENT SESSION CALL FOR PAPERS 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 27--31, 1995 University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin, Ireland PURPOSE: The goal of this session is to provide a forum for students and PhD-students to present work in progress and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. The session will be workshop-style, consisting of short paper presentations by student authors; students and senior researchers who are not presenting are invited to participate in the discussion. A committee of students will organize the session, review submitted papers and decide on acceptance. The accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. Papers submitted to the main conference will not be considered for the student session. Students may of course submit DIFFERENT papers to both. Note that having a student session for the presentation of ongoing work in no way influences the treatment of student-written papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the student session will provide an entirely separate track emphasizing students' "work in progress" rather than completed work. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Preference is given to e-mail submission. Student authors should submit papers limited to 3 pages (including references, figures, and appendices), with typeface no smaller than 10pt. LaTeX, Postscript and plain ASCII formats are acceptable. LaTeX submissions must be self-contained LaTeX source and should not refer to any external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. An extra identification page should be sent SEPERATELY by electronic mail, containing the title, author(s), address(es) and topic area(s). Hard copy submissions should be made only if no e-mail access is available. Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Those submissions which are accepted will be published in a special section of the EACL conference proceedings. Papers should be submitted to: Thorsten Brants Universitaet des Saarlandes Computerlinguistik, Geb. 17 Postfach 1150 D-66041 Saarbruecken, Germany phone: +49 / 681 / 302-4682 FAX: +49 / 681 / 302-4700 email: eaclstud@coli.uni-sb.de STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION: If you have questions about the student session, contact Thorsten Brants by e-mail, phone, FAX or post (cf. above). SCHEDULE: Authors must SUBMIT THEIR PAPERS BY OCTOBER 20, 1994. Papers received after this date will not be considered. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be NOTIFIED OF ACCEPTANCE BY DECEMBER 23 1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be RECEIVED BY 31 JANUARY 1995, along with a signed copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format is available through the ACL LISTSERV. The paper presentations will take place on MARCH 29-31. MAIN CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For information on the main conference contact the Program Co-Chairs: or the Local Arrangements Chair: Steven Abney and Erhard W. Hinrichs Allan Ramsay Universitaet Tuebingen Department of Computer Science Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft University College Dublin Abt. Computerlinguistik Belfield, Dublin 4 Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 Ireland D-72074 Tuebingen, phone: (353)-1-7062479 Germany FAX: (353)-1-2687262 email: eacl95@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de email: allan@monkey.ucd.ie ACL LISTSERV: LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to listserver@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get acl-l " to get a particular file named from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a message with the following body should be sent: get acl-l membership-form.txt Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP: $ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous Password: pereira@research.att.com << not echoed ftp > cd acl-l/Information ftp > get 94.membership.form.Z ftp > quit $ uncompress 94membership.form.Z From: SAILLANT@BROWNVM Subject: 1995 IEAHC Annual Conference Date: Wed, 03 Aug 94 11:05:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 131 (220) FIRST ANNUAL IEAHC CONFERENCE, 1995 The Institute of Early American History and Culture's first annual conference will be held on June 2-4, 1995, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This meeting is intended to provide a forum for the creative diversity of scholarship characterizing early American studies. Proposals for papers and/or panels, not to exceed three pages, should be sent in triplicate to Professor Carol F. Karlsen, Chair, IEAHC Annual Conference, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045, by September 30, 1994. A one-page vita for each participant should accompany proposals. This conference is being planned to be broadly inclusive in terms of regions, topics, and disciplinary orientations and to include scholars at all stages of their careers. To encourage the participation of younger scholars in particular, no conference fee is required and reasonably priced accommodations will be available at the University of Michigan in addition to lodging at local hotels. Details on these and other meeting specifics will follow at a later date. Since this is the first Institute conference arranged exclusively by calls for papers and proposals, the Program Committee appreciates all individual efforts to publicize the event. We especially hope that historians will encourage colleagues and graduate students in early American literature, art history, anthropology, and other related disciplines to submit proposals. Although we anticipate that most papers will focus on the pre-1815 period, we assume that some proposals may extend beyond these years, especially those that are comparative or discuss regions like the Caribbean, Southwest, or Pacific. The Committee welcomes suggestions on how to make this first annual early American conference a dynamic and exciting event. We have deliberately not determined the structure of the conference in advance; rather, we invite you to help shape it by organizing the kinds of sessions you want. Questions we have considered include: Should all sessions be organized along traditional lines (two or three papers, one or two commentators, a brief question/answer period)? Or do we want some sessions structured along other lines? Should we, for example, have work-in-progress sessions, organized thematically, with several presenters speaking for roughly fifteen minutes on the central questions and findings of their research, followed by an extended audience participation period? Should we have workshops, defining a broad problem or ongoing controversy, with a few individuals presenting and again, a lengthy audience response period? Do we want sessions that are highly focused--on an especially influential author, a particularly gifted teacher, a path-breaking book or article, or a new direction in the field? Do we want sessions organized around teaching--for example, on developing "the survey" or alternatives to it, defining "colonial America," or incorporating interdisciplinary materials? Do we want a keynote speaker or a summary session? The Committee's decisions on these and other questions will be based largely on the kinds of proposals we receive, so please let us know your preferences. Individual papers will, of course, be considered, but we encourage submission of proposals for complete panels. IEAHCNET will serve two main purposes in the planning for the conference. First, we hope that subscribers will take advantage of IEAHCNET to reach out to others with whom they might collaborate on panels. If you are thinking about proposing a paper, you might make an announcement on IEAHCNET in search of co-panelists or commentators. Remember that even if you use the public forum of IEAHCNET to make an initial contact for planning a panel, you can use e-mail to correspond privately with those with whom you are planning a proposal. Second, Subscribers can take advantage of IEAHCNET for more formative discussion. Subgroups can be established on particular topics--for instance, religion, republicanism, Southern politics, or Amerindian-French relations--out of which sessions could develop. Or subgroups could address the structure and final shape of the conference, dealing with the kinds of sessions they find most useful or the individuals they would recommend as commentators or principal speakers. It will be especially useful to the Program Committee to receive group-generated proposals and recommendations. The months of August and September should allow IEAHCNET subscribers to communicate on the Internet and make timely proposals and recommendations to the Program Committee by September 30, 1994. Moderator John Saillant (Saillant@Brownvm.Brown.EDU) is willing to give advice on the use of IEAHCNET for discussion of the conference. If you need advice on how to move from the public forum of IEAHCNET to a private discussion among possible collaborators, reach him by e-mail with your questions. If you are reading this announcement in a forum other than IEAHCNET, and you wish to subscribe in order to learn about the conference or to add to the discussion, reach him by e-mail, fax (401-863-1040), or mail at Department of History, Brown University Box N, Providence, RI 02912. From: osxdr01@MAILSERV.ZDV.UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE(Hans-Bernhard Drubig) Subject: job in English lit Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 13:05:15 +0200 (MET DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 127 (221) The University of Tuebingen announces a position in the English Department of the Faculty of Modern Languages as University Professor (BesGr. C3 BBesG) of Modern English Literature to begin as soon as possible. The candidate should have a broad base in English literature, specializing in: either 1) Literature of the 18th and 19th centuries and English-language literatures and cultures of Commonwealth countries or 2) Literature of the 18th and 19th centuries and theory of the sociology of literature (with emphasis on gender studies). Prerequisite: Habilitation or equivalent academic qualification. The University is making an effort to increase the number of women in research and teaching and urges qualified women to apply. Candidates are requested to submit their applications (curriculum vitae, diplomas, list of publications, list of courses given) to The Dean, Prof. Dr. Juergen Schroeder, Neuphilologische Fakultaet, Universitaet Tuebingen, Wilhelmstr. 50, 72074 Tuebingen 1, Germany, by August 31, 1994. No e-mail applications please. From: Stuart Lee Subject: Centre for Humanities Computing Vacancy, Oxford Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1994 14:04:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 128 (222) Please cross-post accordingly, Stuart Lee ********************************************************************* OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES Humanities IT Support Officer Centre for Humanities Computing The Centre for Humanities Computing at Oxford University is seeking to appoint a Humanities IT Support Officer. This is a newly established post, and the holder will be expected to liaise with the faculties in the humanities to provide high level IT support. This post will also co-ordinate and teach humanities computing courses; run Postgraduate Training Days; support computer-based learning projects; support postgraduate multimedia research; provide training and support in the Humanities Computing Resources Room, run specialist workshops. This person would also have some responsibility for running a humanities resources server which is about to be set up and for maintaining a humanities information system which has just been set up on a World-Wide Web server. The Centre has expanded considerably in recent years, and has a number of teaching and research projects and units incorporated in it, including the CTI Centre for Textual Studies, the Office for Humanities Communication, and the Computers and Variant Texts Project. The person appointed should have a degree in a humanities subject, and wide experience in the software and techniques of humanities computing. He or she should also have some teaching experience, preferably in a higher education context, and should have proven writing and presentation skills. The appointment will be for a fixed term of 5 years in the first instance, on the academic related Research Support grade RSIA (salary range #13,941 - #20,953 p.a.) according to age and experience, with membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme. Further details and application forms can be obtained from The Personnel Officer, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN (Tel: 0865-273230). The closing date for the submission of application forms is 24 August 1994. From: Thomas La Porte Subject: Research Travel Grants Date: Thu, 4 Aug 1994 08:48:56 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 133 (223) This announcement has been posted to several listservs. John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History Special Collections Library Duke University TRAVEL-TO-COLLECTIONS GRANTS 1994-95 Four or more grants of up to $750 are available to (1) graduate students in any academic field who wish to use the resources of the Center for research toward M.A., Ph.D., or other postgraduate degrees, (2) faculty members working on research projects, or (3) independent scholars working on nonprofit projects. Funds may be used to help defray costs of travel to Durham and local accommodations. The major collection available at the Hartman Center at the current time is the extensive Archives of the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT), the oldest advertising agency in the U.S. and a major international agency since the 1920s. The advertisements (1932+) and a moderate amount of agency documentation from D'Arcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) will be available for research by autumn 1994. The Center holds several other smaller collections relating to 19th and 20th century advertising and marketing. REQUIREMENTS: Awards may be used between December 1, 1994 and December 31, 1995. Graduate student applicants (1) must be currently enrolled in a postgraduate program in any academic department and (2) must enclose a letter of recommendation from the student's advisor or project director. Please address questions and requests for application forms to: Thomas A. La Porte John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History Special Collections Library Duke University Box 90185 Durham, NC 27708-0185 Phone: 919-660-5827 Fax: 919-684-2855 E-mail: laporte@mail.lib.duke.edu DEADLINES: Applications for 1994-95 awards must be received or postmarked by October 15, 1994. Awards will be announced by mid-November. From: John Saillant Subject: Future of multimedia research? Date: Fri, 05 Aug 94 17:27:41 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 134 (224) I'd like to hear opinions on the future use of multimedia material in research and scholarship, as opposed to teaching. At the moment, we have CD-ROMs like _Who Built America?_, which is a multimedia textbook. I'm curious to know, however, how scholars think they will use multimedia material in their research, perhaps in publishing CD-ROM "essays" or "books" or files available on the World Wide Web? A few questions come to mind. Just to make a short, spontaneous list, what would you do if you had access to photographic-quality images of clocks, buildings and building plans, furniture, paintings, title pages of first editions, and quilts and could use these images in a computerized work? How do you think scholarship will change when we store vast amounts of data, say a painter's entire oeuvre, in a CD-ROM or a WWW file? How would scholarship in music, say, be affected by the ability to include performances in sight & sound, along with images of the instruments used or the place in which the music was performed? What is the scholarly value of a computer file that can show the differences among a number of similar objects, such as a collection of clocks or clothing or firearms or shackles? How do you think work on, say, broadsides would be different if the scholar could display a large collection of broadsides in an essay, instead of the one or two or three we might use in a journal article or book? I don't intend this to be an exhaustive list of questions, and they are surely conditioned by my own interests in early America. But it's evident from CD-ROMs &, even more so, from the WWW, that computers are creating new opportunities. I don't have answers to those questions, of course, or even really know if computers will result in real differences in scholarship. I would like to hear from others, particularly in early American studies but also in any area of the humanities. John Daniel Saillant Moderator, IEAHCNET Visiting Assistant Professor, History Brown University, Box N Providence, R.I. 02912 Saillant@Brownvm.Brown.EDU From: "Marc Eisinger (+33 (1) 49 05 72 27)" Subject: Robert Pougheon (1886-1955) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 94 14:55:05 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 129 (225) I'd like to know if anyone is aware of any printed study on the French painter Robert Pougheon (1886-1955). Thanks, Marc From: gfgf@math.ias.edu (Gary Forsythe) Subject: mail readers Date: Sat, 6 Aug 94 07:58:13 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 130 (226) Can someone out there recommend to me a mail reading program to run on an IBM DOS system which emulates exactly the standard mail reading Unix program used by many systems? I would like to be able to download my mail files and then use the mail reading program to read my mail from my hard disk, but I would like the mail reader to look and to operate just like the standard Unix mail reading sytem, so that I would not have to learn new commands. Gary Forsythe gfgf@math.ias.edu Institute for Advanced Study From: "George Fowler h(317)726-1482 o(812)855-2829" Subject: Russian corpora available by ftp/gopher/www Date: Thu, 11 Aug 94 18:46:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 136 (227) Recently I have been spending a lot of time distributing Russian text corpora that I have collected; I have about 14 MB of various literary and non-literary texts, and word has gotten out. I'm happy to do this, but one-by-one distribution is not very efficient! I have now found a home for them on the ftp/gopher/www server at infomeister.osc.edu. Via ftp, they are in the directory pub/central_eastern_europe/russian/corpora; explicit directions for retrieval by all three methods are given below. Along with the texts I have posted an inventory of files (which will be updated periodically as I acquire and post more texts), an ascii character map of the Cyrillic coding used, and a set of bitmapped Mac fonts that I use to display these files. Questions about the texts and their preparation should be addressed to me; technical questions about the server and file retrieval can be addressed to the person handling the /russian directory, Dr. Jan Labanowski, at jkl@osc.edu. I would be delighted to receive any and all additional Russian corpora, or news of where more can be found. Explicit directions for retrieval: 1. ftp ftp infomeister.osc.edu Name: anonymous Password: Your_e-mail-address ftp> cd /pub/central_eastern_europe/russian/corpora ftp> get asja.txt [for example] ftp> quit 2. gopher gopher infomeister.osc.edu 73 russian corpora asja.txt 3> e-mail. Send a message: select russian size 1MB limit 60KB cd corpora get asja.txt quit to MAILSERV@osc.edu. The files may arrive in several parts (you need to splice the parts in order and delete mail headers with editor) and may be uuencoded (you need to use uudecode program before restoring original files). If you need more information on how the e-mail retrieval works, send the following message: help get help encoders help filters help size help limit help to MAILSERV@osc.edu and instructions will be sent back to you automatically after a few hours. 4. World Wide Web: http://www.osc.edu/welcome.html then choose Other OSC Gophers, then Central & East European Gopher, and then follow gopher instructions. -------------------------------- George Fowler GFowler@Indiana.Edu [Email] Dept. of Slavic Languages (812) 855-2829 [office] Ballantine 502 (317) 726-1482 [home] Indiana University (812) 855-2624/-2608/-9906 [dept.] Bloomington, IN 47405 USA (812) 855-2107 [dept. fax] From: J C Meister <120MEIS@witsvma.wits.ac.za> Subject: Job description: Humanities Comp.Lab - Director/Administrator Date: Thu, 11 Aug 94 21:08:56 RSA X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 137 (228) The Arts Faculty at Wits University wants to establish a Computer Lab for the Humanities. For this purpose we intend to create the post of a director/supervisor/administrator. Since a number of universities have advertised similar posts on HUMANIST in the past, I wonder if colleagues might be able to help with the relevant job descriptions or ads - unfortunately I didn't keep them at the time. I would be very grateful if anybody with access to such information could post it to me directly at 120MEIS@WITSVMA.WITS.AC.ZA. Thanks a lot! Jan Christoph Meister Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa From: "Evelyn Ehrlich" Subject: German Federal Election Seminar Date: 11 Aug 94 12:54:16 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 138 (229) A friend with no e-mail access asked me to post the following announcement. Thanks, Evelyn Ehrlich, Bobst Library, New York University. GERMAN FEDERAL ELECTION SEMINAR BERLIN / LEIPZIG / POTSDAM / BERLIN OCTOBER 12 - 18, 1994 The year of 1994 is election year in Germany culminating in the BUNDESTAGSWAHL on October 16. Americans with an interest in hands-on experience during this event are invited by the DEUTSCH-NORDAMERIKANISCHE GESELLSCHAFT to participate. The Deutsch-Nordamerikanische Gesellschaft is a non-profit, educational organization working for bettering relations between Germany and North America. PRELIMINARY AGENDA October 12 / Wednesday / BERLIN afternoon arrival until 6:00 pm evening welcome get-together with buffet and briefing October 13 / Thursday / BERLIN morning lecture on German electoral process afternoon city tour; meet with party representatives evening participate in election meeting October 14 / Friday / LEIPZIG morning Forschungsgruppe Wahlen e.V. (Public Opinion Institute); depart for Leipzig afternoon city tour incl. Nikolai Church ('89 Peace Prayers + Monday rallies); meet with party representatives evening participate in local political event October 15 / Saturday / LEIPZIG / POTSDAM / BERLIN morning Battle of the Nations Monument; depart for Potsdam afternoon meet with party representatives evening depart for Berlin; political cabaret/concert/opera October 16 / Sunday / ELECTION DAY / BERLIN morning visit local polling stations afternoon talk to candidates/voters/mayors evening visit election HQ, talk to activists, participate in election parties October 17 / Monday / BERLIN morning free afternoon evaluation of election results evening farewell party at Berlin pub October 18 / Tuesday / DEPARTURE morning breakfast OBJECTIVE To explore recent political, intellectual and sociological trends in Germany with special foc us on the New Federal States in the final days before the election. To witness the 1994 Federal Election whose outcome will decisively determine the direction of the political agenda in the last decade of the 20th century. PROGRAM CONTENT AND SPEAKERS Officials from the different political parties, representatives of the local communities, and academics will examine the current situation and political trends in Germany. By attending political meetings, participating in hands-on discussions and talking to people in the street seminar participants will get thorough insight into the German condition. To be discussed are the political developments in the last four years and intellectual/cultural changes in that period. WHO SHOULD ATTEND professors of political science, history, German studies political analysts lournalists professionals with an interest in Germany TUITION AND TRAVEL INFORMATION Tuition is $990. This fee includes all transportation on private coach, accomodation (double occupancy; there is an extra $300 charge for single occupancy), half board, taxes and gratuities, events and tours, background reading material for the seminar, interpreter and guide. More detailed information will be provided after registration. Knowledge of the German language is not required as professional translation services will be available. DEPOSIT AND CANCELLATION POLICY A deposit of $250 is due upon registration (nonrefundable after September 10); the balance of $740 is due September 10, 1994. Mail the completed registration form (see below) to: Thomas Simon Deutsch-Nordamerikanische Gesellschaft Am Koellnischen Park 6/7 D - 10179 Berlin tel. + 49-30-238 06 644 fax + 49-30-238 06 813 or to: Dr. Michael Richards Sweet Briar College Department of History Sweet Briar, VA 24595 tel. (804) 381-6174 fax (804) 381-6173 GERMAN FEDERAL ELECTION SEMINAR REGISTRATION FORM Name Title Institution Position Mailing Address Business Phone FAX Number Date of Birth female / male Knowledge of German fluent good some none From: WALLACHM@CSUSYS.CTSTATEU.EDU Subject: Help with identifying quotes by Kierkegaard, Thomas Mann & Boell Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 10:06:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 131 (230) Where did Kierkegaard refer to Antigone as the "bride of grief"("Braut der Trauer"in German) and say that she puts the "fruit of grief into the bowl of pain"("die Frucht der Trauer in die Schale des Schmerzes" in German)? Where did Thomas Mann speak of the "identity of the typical and the mythical" ("Identitaet des Typischen und des Mythischen" in German)? Where did Heinrich Boell write "Our task is rememberance" ("Erinnerung ist unsere Aufgabe" in German)? I am editing the essay of a German friend who is unable to identify these herself. Identification in German, English, French or Danish would be greatly appreciated. Martha K. Wallach, Central Connecticut State University From: Bruce Chase Subject: Foreign language tutorial via CD-ROM Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 16:47:46 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 132 (231) Are you aware of any CD-ROM tutorial software (including sound) to assist in the teaching of foreign languages, specifically modern Greek? bachase@cwis.unomaha.edu From: Subject: Seeking information concerning Art Lists Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 12:22 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 133 (232) I am looking for the names and e-addresses of lists dealing with art education. Any information would be appreciated. Thank you, ********************************************************* John Smurthwaite, Ph.D. University of Hartford smurthwai@hartford.bitnet International Languages smurthwai@uhavax.hartford.edu and Cultures Phone:(203) 768-4317 200 Bloomfield Ave. Home: (203) 953-6799 West Hartford, CT 06117 ********************************************************** From: Ann Okerson Subject: Symposium on Scholarly E-Publishing Announced Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 18:11:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 140 (233) THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PRESSES THE ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES And their collaborators: the University of Virginia Library, the Johns Hopkins University Press, and the American Physical Society ANNOUNCE Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks: The Fourth Symposium Filling the Pipeline and Paying the Piper NOVEMBER 5-7 Washington, DC Including: Demonstrations of Current Scholarship and Projects For the complete program and registration information on the Internet: GOPHER as follows: yourprompt> gopher arl.cni.org Menu: Scholarly Communication, Then: ARL/AAUP Symposia This three-day symposium, the fourth in a series sponsored by the AAUP and ARL, with a great deal of help from our many friends, is specifically aimed at university presses, learned and professional society publishers, librarians, and academic faculty and researchers interested in beginning electronic publications, particularly on for distribution via electronic networks. The Symposium's objective is to promote information-sharing and discussion among people interested in developing the potential of the networks, particularly for formal publishing, with particular emphasis on not-for-profit models. Anyone interested in this topic is eagerly welcomed to join us. Presenters will discuss some of the latest research and development from the not-for-profit sector, including faculty, societies, presses, and libraries. The Symposium has established itself as a place where different not-for-profit stakeholders and supporters talk to each other about their work and confront vexing issues together. This year, in particular, we will focus on the controversial areas of cost recovery in an electronic environment and electronic fair use. The program committee, encouraged by registrants' comments, hopes that symposiasts can help to build understanding and progress in these topics, which are critical to a robust, organized future for scholarly communications. Optional tours on November 8th include "A Day at the Press," sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University, and "A day in the Academical Village," by the University of Virginia Library. Programs will be mailed out on Friday to those on our paper mailing lists. If you would like to receive a printed program, contact Lisabeth King, lisabeth@cni.org E-mail address for general inquiries: symposium@e-math.ams.org E-mail for registration inquiries: Lisabeth King (lisabeth@cni.org) Proceedings of previous symposia available. E-mail allyn@cni.org ------------ Ann Okerson/Association of Research Libraries ann@cni.org From: "Gregory J. Murphy" Subject: On-line help for the TEI DTD Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 14:59:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 141 (234) I am posting this to your list in the hope that it may be of interest to some of your subscribers. ************************************************************************ On-line help with the TEI DTD. Thanks to a number of Perl routines (of which the most important was developed by Earl Hood) I have put together a web navigator for the TEI DTD. Paths include a list of elements and element hierarchies for each of the base tag sets, and a list of element classes for the TEI as a whole. The navigator is designed to provide practical help to people who are marking up texts, and have questions of the sort: what elements are valid here? to what other elements does this element belong? There is a separate HTML document for each element, which includes a list of links to its children elements, to its parent elements, and its attributes, and a content declaration and short description. The descriptions were extracted from the p3 guideline. The URL is: HTTP://CETHMAC.PRINCETON.EDU I would appreciate any comments/criticisms/suggestions etc. - Gregory Murphy Text Systems Manager CETH, the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities e-mail: GJMURPHY@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU web: HTTP://WWW.PRINCETON.EDU/~GJMURPHY phone: (609) 258-2460 From: Helen Ostovich Subject: McMaster Conference (fwd) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 13:50:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 142 (235) FINAL CALL CALL FOR PAPERS "Expanding the Canon: New Dimensions in English Renaissance Studies", this year's McMaster University English Association Conference, will be held on November 18, 1994. Scholars are invited to submit papers which rediscover and explore neglected areas of English writings, 1560-1625, such as lesser known dramatic, poetic, and prose works, travel literature, emblem books, women's writing, masques, and popular culture. Plenary speaker: Jean Howard (Columbia). Respondent: Paul Stevens (Queens). Send completed 10-page/20-minute papers by OCTOBER 3, 1994, to Dr Helen Ostovich or Dr Mary Silcox, Dept of English, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L9 e-mail inquiries: ostovich@mcmaster.ca Registration packages will be sent out in September. If you wish to register for the conference, and have not received a previous mailing of the call for papers, please contact Mary Silcox by snail-mail, or phone, 905-525-9140, ext. 27314, or send an e-mail request to ostovich@mcmaster.ca The full programme for the conference will be available after October 15. If you wish to receive a posting by e-mail, send a brief request in October. From: nomi shir Subject: Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion U. Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 17:06:38 +0300 (IDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 143 (236) August 8, 1994. Dear Colleagues and Friends, Half a year ago the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev faced an uncertain future owing to the fact that the administration had frozen all appointments and had threatened to take away two positions. We were very heartened by the letters of support we received and are happy to inform you that this threat to the department has been removed, mainly due to a timely change within the administration. The department has been given the go-ahead to make two new appointments and we are confident that we will now be able to enact our long overdue plans for development. Sincerely, Haim Finkelstein, Outgoing Chair Nomi Shir, Chair From: "Hope A. Greenberg" Subject: Re: 8.0134 Future of Multimedia Research? (1/40) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 10:48:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 134 (237) [deleted quotation] There are many threads in your message as there are many possibilities in hypermedia, computing, and interconnectivity. I'll start the ball rolling by focusing on the question quoted above. Your question highlights what is, to me, one of the most exciting possibilities of this electronic realm. It is not feasible (or affordable) to include many images or examples in a journal or book. Yet most students and scholars would probably agree that it would be desirable to do so. Hypermedia with its ability to create multi-layered documents and computers with their large storage capacity, make the inclusion of many examples or images a simple reality. This inclusion adds depth and dimension to the subject being discussed. No longer need we say "Here is such-and-such and here is an example." Now we can say "here is such-and-such, here is an example, here is another example, here is a derivative example, here is a conflicting example, etc." This is even more useful in a field where providing examples has traditionally been difficult or where one must rely on the reader's having a broad and in depth knowledge of the examples, such as music history. With a multimedia document one need no longer say "Here is such-and-such, now go out and listen to this entire recording so you can ferret out the example" which may be a brief passage in a large work. One can simply provide the excerpted passage. ----------------- Hope Greenberg Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu Academic Computing "Lonc tans me sui tenu de chanter, Univ. of Vermont Mes or ai raison de joie mener..." Burlington, VT 05490 - anon. From: ocramer@cc.colorado.edu Subject: RE: 8.0134 Future of Multimedia Research? (1/40) Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 09:21:06 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 135 (238) So far, it looks as JDS says, as though multimedia is more a snazzy style of textbook than a research tool; in humanities, the traditional sorts of conaisseurship (using original materials, going to sites, attending performances/performing for oneself) are still powerful, and we're content to wow our students with multimedia displays. Plus, there's the copyright issue in case we wanted to *publish* stuff: bad enough with traditional photos (in the case of archaeology collections, e. g.). Maybe the Dead Sea Scrolls show us the way to the next phase? Owen Cramer Classics, Colorado College From: Edoardo Tortarolo Subject: Re: 8.0134 Future of Multimedia Research? (1/40) Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 18:58:50 +0100 (GDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 134 (239) Dear colleagues and friends, my name is Guido Abbattista (Professor of Modern History in the University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy, and co-editor of Storia della Storiografia) and I am answering to Dr. Saillants questions regarding the impact of CD Rom material in teaching and research. As I am concerned at the present with teaching basic Italian history to young people coming from all over the world and without any historical notions and, as it were, historically-minded approach, I consider dramatically important the employment of audio-visual material, which is however not available in large quantities (at least as far as Italian history is concerned), not even in more traditional forms. My own experience confirms that a combination of speech and image amd action and sound may convey many more durable historical and historico-geographical notions than a simple communication based merely on spoken discourse. With CD ROM there is evidently a problem of a large availability of PC or terminals and of production of high-quality teaching tools. I would be extremely interested to be informed about any example of historical and historico-geographical materials on CD ROM produced in any part of the world. Particularly I would like to ask nDr. Saillant more information on Browns "Who built America ?". As far as research is concerned, I am extremely favourable to the diffusion of collection of sources of any kind on CD ROM: let us think of the project in progress at the British Library for cataloguing and storing manuscripts on CD ROM. I would like to add that I am concerned myself in the production of eighteenth century political and historical texts by scanning procedures. Our journal has started a project for a library of these texts on diskette or CD ROM. Thank you very much for any information and replies to: abba@rs950.cisi.unito.it On Sun, 7 Aug 1994, Elaine Brennan wrote: [deleted quotation] From: TRIEBWASSER@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU Subject: Workshop on Interactive Video in Political Science Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 17:05:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 145 (240) INTERACTIVE VIDEO IN POLITICAL SCIENCE 1994 APSA Annual Meeting Short Course Wednesday, August 31 9:30 am to 4:00 pm New York Hilton The convergence of video and computer technology has led to the development of interactive video. Interactive video uses either a personal computer or a Macintosh to control a laser videodisc so that one has random access to the various video clips and stills on the disc. This multimedia technology allows the computer to be useful in teaching value-oriented, as well as behavioral, courses. This full-day workshop on interactive video will be led by Marc Triebwasser of Central Connecticut State University. It will include: a general introduction to interactive videodiscs for the beginner; how interactive video can be used in teaching; a survey of available interactive videodiscs and other video materials in political science; how you can create your own interactive videodiscs on campus; the prospects for digital video and recordable CD-ROMs (CD-R), especially MPEG video; and sources for video clips on disk and on video tapes. Lab sessions will be conducted so that participants can gain hands-on experience. No prior knowledge of computers or video technology is required. Because of the equipment needs for the hands-on portion of the workshop, it is important to register as soon as you can. No same day registration will be possible. For further information contact Marc Triebwasser at (203) 525- 8397 or (203) 832-2970; FAX: (203) 832-3140; INTERNET: "TRIEBWASSER @CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU". To register, send the following form and a check for $45.00 made out to "APSA Computers & Multimedia" to: Marc A. Triebwasser, Treasurer APSA Computers and Multimedia Section Political Science Department Central Connecticut State University New Britain, CT 06050. Name _________________________________________ University ___________________________________ Address ______________________________________ ______________________________________________ Work Phone ___________________________________ Home Phone ___________________________________ Fax __________________________________________ Internet _____________________________________ After the short course, a letter confirming your participation will be sent to the academic dean of your institution. Please list the name, title and address of the person to whom the letter should be sent. Name _________________________________________ Title ________________________________________ Institution __________________________________ Address ______________________________________ ______________________________________________ From: dlatane@hibbs.vcu.edu (David E. Latane) Subject: Victorians Institute Conference Program Date: Mon, 8 Aug 94 9:40:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 146 (241) The Victorians Institute will hold its annual conference Sept. 30 - October 1 at the University of Richmond, Virginia. The topic is the lively one of "Crime" in all its manifestations. Information and addresses will be found at the end of the program draft. For information about the Victorians Institute itself, contact David Latane' President Victorians Institute dlatane@hibbs.vcu.edu [deleted quotation]Settlers': [deleted quotation]and [deleted quotation] From: Jon Butler Subject: 1995-96 Fellowships from Pew Program in Religion & American History Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 11:50:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 147 (242) 1994-1995 National Fellowships for Ph.D. Dissertations and First Books Pew Program in Religion and American History sponsored by Yale University funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts PLEASE NOTE THE APPLICATION DEADLINE OF _October 14, 1994_ FOR ALL FELLOWSHIPS Through a generous $1.5 million grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, Yale University has established a nationally competitive fellowship program to stimulate and sustain scholarship in religion and American history between 1600 and 1980. Awards are available to scholars in the early stages of their careers who are completing Ph.D. dissertations or first books. The Pew Program in Religion and American History emphasizes direct aid to scholars through fellowships and conferences. The awards are intended to foster a sense of community and purpose among beginning scholars and to stimulate a new body of historical literature on crucial interrelation- ships between religion and America's historical evolution between 1600 and 1980. The program represents a major partnership between The Pew Charitable Trusts and Yale University to provide national leadership in better understanding the dynamics of American history, particularly the role religion may have played in its unfolding. Scope The program is thoroughly non-sectarian and non-denominational. Attention may be directed to the many varieties of religion practiced in the United States throughout its history, including native American religion, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and occultism, among others, and to their interrelationships with any and all aspects of American life before 1980. The program especially welcomes proposals that address causal relationships between religion and Ameri- can history. These might include relationships between religion and politics, economics, foreign policy, popular culture, intellectual life, family life, public policy, education, and public and private morality, just to name a few. Graduate Student Awards 1995 Summer Fellowships The program will award six $5000 fellowships for summer 1995. Applicants must have completed all oral and/or written examinations and have begun dissertation research by the application deadline. The fellowships are intended to allow students to use the summer in dissertation research and writing. Applications must be postmarked by October 14, 1994. 1995-1996 Dissertation Fellowships The program will award eight one-year dissertation fellowships of $12,000 each for the 1995- 1996 academic year. The fellowships are intended as "final year" awards, and applicants should explain why and how they expect to complete their dissertations during the term of the fellowship. Applications must be postmarked by October 14, 1994. Graduate students may apply for both the 1995 Summer Dissertation Fellowship and the 1995-1996 Dissertation Fellowship. Faculty Awards 1995-1996 Faculty Fellowships The program will award six fellowships of $32,000 for the 1995-1996 academic year to faculty members completing first books. Faculty members are expected to devote full time to final research and writing and to be free from all teaching and administrative responsibilities during the term of the fellowship. Applications cannot be taken from candidates who held academic year postdoctoral research or writing fellowships after July 1993 or who completed Ph.D. dissertations after July 1994. Applications must be postmarked by October 14, 1994. Conferences Yale Regional Faculty Conferences The Pew Program in Religion and American History sponsors a brief conference for faculty members interested in the relationship between religion and American history each fall. This year, the conference will be held Thursday evening, Dec 1 and Friday morning, Dec. 2. The featured speakers will be R. Laurence Moore, who will discuss his new book, _Selling God_, and Jan Shipps, well-known author of _Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition_, who will discuss teaching religion in American history. The program assumes the costs of overnight lodging and meals for all participants; participants arrange their own transportation to Yale. Fellows Conferences Recipients of fellowships awarded by the Pew Program in Religion and American History will attend a conference at Yale University in the spring of 1996. Both graduate student and faculty fellows will make presentations based on the work undertaken during their fellowship and will discuss problems and opportunities in teaching issues relating to religion and American history. Travel, room, and meal expenses for the Fellows Conference will be assumed by the program. Applications Applications for fellowships offered by the Pew Program in Religion and American History are available at the Yale address below. Completed applications for all fellowships must be postmarked by October 14, 1994. Awards will be announced by mid-December 1994. Faculty members living in the northeast area of the United States should receive announcements of the Yale Regional Faculty Seminar during the early fall. Faculty members who wish to attend the seminar should write the office of the Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale for information. The conference is open to all interested faculty members teaching American history. Fellowship stipends will be paid directly to recipients following certification of their status and other requirements. Eligibility Fellowships are awarded on a nationally competitive basis to graduate students and faculty throughout the United States. Fellowship recipients may do their work wherever it suits them, and there is no requirement for residence at Yale. Yale University eagerly makes its libraries and many other facilities available to all scholars. Yale graduate students do not participate in this national award competition and apply instead for special fellowships available for them at Yale. For applications and information write: Pew Program in Religion and American History Yale University P. O. Box 208287 New Haven CT 06520-8287 e-mail: pew_yale@quickmail.yale.edu telephone: (203) 432-2849 The Pew Program in Religion and American History is directed by Professors Jon Butler and Harry S. Stout. The program's project assistant is Scott Cormode. From: DEBA3603G@UNIVERSITY-CENTRAL-ENGLAND.AC.UK Subject: Info on Drama in Education Centre Date: Wed, 24 Aug 94 12:14:02 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 136 (243) Aug 25, 1994 My name is David Davis and I am the Director of the International Centre for Studies in Drama in Education, Faculty of Education, University of Central England in Birmingham, Westbourne Road, Birmingham, England B15 3TN. I am a key activist in the area of Drama in Education, I would like to take this opportunity to inform Humanist / Internet readers about our International Centre of Studies in Drama in Education. It is our hope that you will be able to assist us by displaying two pieces of information for us on your HUMANIST Discussion List in the hopes that interested parties may contact us: 1) Information about our Drama in Education Centre for Studies 2) Information about our Drama in Education Video Archive which I will send as a separate file for your convenience. Any assistance you may give us will be much appreciated. The Internet is a wonderful tool and we are hoping to make use of it. David Davis ********************************** The Centre has been founded to develop the uses of drama in the service of children's education. It seeks to do this through a combination of research, study and practice, particularly building on and developing the innovatory work of Dorothy Heathcote and Gavin Bolton. This orientation is chosen deliberately against a background nationally and internationally of diminishing arts in education provision, and is dedicated to preserving and developing the enormous gains already made in the field of learning through drama. To this end the centre has brought together a team of consultants to guide the work of the Centre. There are opportunities for study at M. Phil. and Ph. D. level and the Centre will be looking to appoint research assistants and Visiting Fellows. The Centre will undertake a wide range of research, curriculum development and publication activities. A major research project into the nature of learning and development in the arts is under way at present titled "Knowing in the Arts" and has drama, dance, music and art and design groups working nationally and in Ireland towards a 1995 publication and national conference. A second project is linking local schools with schools in ten other countries to share drama methods and life experience, working towards an International Sharing Day in 1995. There is an open invitation to anyone in any school, youth or university groups to join this project. All will be more than welcome. Contact me by mail or Ideanet. For those interested we offer a modular MA in Drama in Education (1 year full-time; 2-3 year part-time) course of study at our institution as well as a Certificate Course: Drama in Education (1 year part-time). Complete course details are available upon request. The AIMS of our Centre are: 1) To provide a national and international centre for studies in drama in education 2) To promote research and curriculum development in key areas of drama in education 3) To publish outcomes of such investigations in a form most useful to teachers, advisers/consultants and teacher-educators both nationally and internationally 4) To provide an international journal and abstract service 5) To offer national and international short courses in drama in education David Davis - Director International Centre for Studies in Drama in Education Faculty of Education University of Central England in Birmingham Westbourne Road Birmingham, England B15 3TN 021-331-3041 Internet: DEBA3603G@UCE.AC.UK Janet: DEBA3603G@UK.AC.UCE Centre Consultants: Prof. Gavin Bolton Prof. Dorothy Heathcote Prof. John Fines Our International Centre for Drama in Education Studies currently houses "The Dorothy Heathcote Video Archive at UCE". The mini-archive at UCE is separate from the main archive at Lancaster University but is intended to augment it. It contains unedited videos of Prof. Dorothy Heathcote teaching MA, Certificate and PGCE drama students over a period of four years. During this time, she teaches infants, juniors, and secondary children and the video shows the preparation, teaching and evaluation of each session in schools. In the other videos, they show all her latest thinking in teaching drama, including Mantle of the Expert, Rolling Role, Frame Distancing, and the Development of the Self Spectator. The archive is supplemented by copies of all the tapes of her teaching held personally by Dorothy Heathcote and copies of all the tapes she has made with Newcastle University. It is available for use at the University of Central England Upper Library, Westbourne Road. Persons interested in seeking further information about the Video Archive are welcome to contact me directly. As well, the Heathcote Video Archive tapes are currently being catalogued on our UCE On-line Library Catalogue to make their accessibility more convenient. For those interested, I will be posting a complete title listing of the Archive contents directly to follow this message. It is my hope that by spreading word of our centre and our Heathcote Video Archive, people may be made aware of the current practices on-going in the field of Drama in Education and may support the continuing development of DIE locally, nationally and internationally. If you or anyone you know would like any further information please feel free to contact me, David Davis at above address or through e- mail at DEBA3603G@UCE.AC.UK D. Davis ************************************************ From: JSLACK2@ONONDAGA Subject: NEW: Bible-l -- Discussion List on the Bible Date: 11 Aug 94 20:34 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 137 (244) Bible-l on LISTSERV@GITVM1.BITNET or LISTSERV@GITVM1.GATECH.EDU Bible is an open, un-moderated discussion list on the Bible. Any questions or comments are welcome. There will be no Archivesfor Bible-l To subscribe send the following command in the body of E-Mail to LISTSERV@GITVM1 or LISTSERV@GITVM1.GATECH.EDU : Sub Bible-l yourfirstname yourlastname Example: Sub Bible-l Jason Slack Owner: Jason Slack -- jslack2@onondaga.bitnet or jslack2@ocmvm.onondaga.boces.k12.ny.us Owner of list AP-L@GITVM1 -- Advanced Placement Teachers List Co/Own of list CHEMCOM@UBVM -- Chemcom Discussion List Co/Own of list GLBL-HS@ONONDAGA -- Global History Disc. List From: Claire Kramsch Subject: Opening UCAL-Berkeley- LangCtr. Director - search re-opened Date: 15 Aug 94 15:26:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 149 (245) Please post to all relevant lists... thanks Associate Director Berkeley Language Center University of California at Berkeley The University of California at Berkeley seeks an individual with a broad vision of the goals and methods of language pedagogy and the application of technology to foreign language learning for the new full-time staff posi tion of Associate Director of the Berkeley Langauge Center, being developed in collaboration with language faculty and the language laboratory. This position (classified as Principal Administrative Analyst 1) pending final approval by the Univ.of California at Berkeley, will begin on January 1, 1995, or as soon thereafter as possible. The Berkeley language Center (BLC) will serve as the central forum for service, development, teaching and research relating to the application of technology to foreign language instruction, language pedagogy research and its dissemination, and professional development of language instructors. Resources include audiotape materials in 100 languages, audio- and video-equip pped classrooms and listening facilities, a recording studio, an audiotape duplication facility, technical shop, library, audiotape archive, and a new language microcomputer facility,. The Associate Director reports to the half-time faculty Director. He/she provides involved, hands-on management of the Berkeley Language Center and has overall administrative and managerial responsibility for BLC programs, activities, and resources - translating ideas and plans into practical applications and facilities. He/she manages the professional staff of the six service areas: administrative, classroom, duplication, library, recording and technical. The Associate Director, in collaboration with the Director and independently, pursues intramural and extramural grants and contracts to expand and diversify the Center's programs and facilities; assist the Director in advocating new paradigms of language pedagogy and the po tential for the application of technology to language instruction; keeps informed of advances and innovations in instructional technology and language pedagogy; oversees outreach and training activities in new methods and approaches to language teaching the in the use and utility of instructional technology. The Associate Director consults proactively with the BLC staff, language instructors, faculty, and administrators to determine and analyze needs, resources, and goals; oversees the acquisition, evaluation, development and utilization of courseware, equipment, and facilities; coordinates BLC programs with those of the growing number of units on campus concerned with technology and instruction. Qualifications: management experience in an organization of similar size and complexity. Knowledge of foreign language pedagogy and familiarity with the applications of instructional technology to the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Organizational, administrative, and communication skills. Experience working with equipment relevant to language learning/ teaching; experience obtaining and administering grants and contracts; language teaching experience and/or competence in one or more languages other than English. Salary range: $40,400 - $60,000. Applicants should submit a cover letter,a complete resume, three letters of reference, copies of relevant publications, and samples of instructional materials which have been developed. Deadline for recept of application and supporting materials is SEPTEMBER 21, 1994. Address: University of CAlifornia at Berkeley Job Number: 08-300-30 2200 University Avenue, 7G Berkeley, CA 94720. From: EACL 95 Student Session Subject: EACL-95 Student CfP (ASCII-Version) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 16:45:20 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 150 (246) EACL-95 STUDENT SESSION CALL FOR PAPERS 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 27--31, 1995 University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin, Ireland PURPOSE: The goal of this session is to provide a forum for students and PhD-students to present work in progress and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. The session will be workshop-style, consisting of short paper presentations by student authors; students and senior researchers who are not presenting are invited to participate in the discussion. A committee of students will organize the session, review submitted papers and decide on acceptance. The accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. Papers submitted to the main conference will not be considered for the student session. Students may of course submit DIFFERENT papers to both. Note that having a student session for the presentation of ongoing work in no way influences the treatment of student-written papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the student session will provide an entirely separate track emphasizing students' "work in progress" rather than completed work. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Preference is given to e-mail submission. Student authors should submit papers limited to 3 pages (including references, figures, and appendices), with typeface no smaller than 10pt. LaTeX, Postscript and plain ASCII formats are acceptable. LaTeX submissions must be self-contained LaTeX source and should not refer to any external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. An extra identification page should be sent SEPERATELY by electronic mail, containing the title, author(s), address(es) and topic area(s). Hard copy submissions should be made only if no e-mail access is available. Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Those submissions which are accepted will be published in a special section of the EACL conference proceedings. Papers should be submitted to: Thorsten Brants Universitaet des Saarlandes Computerlinguistik, Geb. 17 Postfach 1150 D-66041 Saarbruecken, Germany phone: +49 / 681 / 302-4682 FAX: +49 / 681 / 302-4700 email: eaclstud@coli.uni-sb.de STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION: If you have questions about the student session, contact Thorsten Brants by e-mail, phone, FAX or post (cf. above). SCHEDULE: Authors must SUBMIT THEIR PAPERS BY OCTOBER 20, 1994. Papers received after this date will not be considered. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be NOTIFIED OF ACCEPTANCE BY DECEMBER 23 1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be RECEIVED BY 31 JANUARY 1995, along with a signed copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format is available through the ACL LISTSERV. The paper presentations will take place on MARCH 29-31. MAIN CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For information on the main conference contact the Program Co-Chairs: or the Local Arrangements Chair: Steven Abney and Erhard W. Hinrichs Allan Ramsay Universitaet Tuebingen Department of Computer Science Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft University College Dublin Abt. Computerlinguistik Belfield, Dublin 4 Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 Ireland D-72074 Tuebingen, phone: (353)-1-7062479 Germany FAX: (353)-1-2687262 email: eacl95@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de email: allan@monkey.ucd.ie ACL LISTSERV: LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to listserver@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get acl-l " to get a particular file named from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a message with the following body should be sent: get acl-l membership-form.txt Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP: $ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous Password: pereira@research.att.com << not echoed ftp > cd acl-l/Information ftp > get 94.membership.form.Z ftp > quit $ uncompress 94membership.form.Z From: rob@PSULIAS.BITNET (Roger Brisson) Subject: Re:Future of Multimedia Research? Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 09:38:57 +0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 151 (247) I think we are already moving beyond the phase where multimedia/CD-ROM products are just simply 'wowing' us as snazzy textbooks. As I'm sure those who have worked on these projects know, putting together the thousands of pieces of primary source material (be it visual or textual) that typically make up one of these products takes tremendous amount of time and effort. The past few years have been devoted to laboriously getting these materials together to produce the CD-ROM products now being made available. But the onslaught of announcements of new or upcoming products that we're now receiving attests to the rapid development that this field is experiencing. While many are still hesitating to use such superlatives, I believe that having this primary source material at one's fingertips will revolutionize scholarly research in the humanities and social science. This revolution will be experienced by student and researcher alike. When I first began exploring Eli Mylonas's Perseus, I thought back on my years as a student studying Ancient History, tediously looking for some Theran vase, for some passage in Euripides, or a plan of the temple site on Delos. It didn't take long to recognize what Perseus would do to the study of Classical Greece! At the very least it will allow us to find material much more quickly than in the past, But it will also do more: as searching software becomes more sophisticated, as Windows allows us to organize and structure this material in an increasingly complex manner, we will be able to compare material and to establish relationships that no one previously suspected. We will be able to visualize the past in ways that could only have been dreamt of by earlier generations of scholars. I don't see this as happening in some still distant future; with the release of Windows 4.0 (based on 32-bit architecture), the already competitive market for Pentium-based machines, and of course the growing body of CD-ROM based primary source material, multimedia/CD-ROM will continue to undergo rapid development and to quickly mature as an vital resource in humanities-based research. Roger Brisson Penn State University rob@psulias.psu.edu From: Jim Campbell Subject: Re: 8.0139 Qs: Quotes; Language Tutorials; Art Lists (3/44) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 09:26:39 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 138 (248) The database of the Institut fuer deutsche Sprache in Mannheim may be of some help in identifying the quotes from Mann and Boell. They have most of Thomas Mann online and there are a number of Boell works included in their sample databases of postwar texts, e.g., Ansichten eines Clowns is in MK1, though I don't know if it's complete. Other databases include Goethe (Hamburger Ausgabe) and Marx/Engels (MEGA and other recensions). Ability to use ISO-Latin1 and changing to a German keyboard layout will be helpful in using COSMAS. Here are instructions on Internet access, taken from an issue of NEDER-L. ******************************************************************** * On-line access to the 30 million collection of German corpora * * at the Institut fuer deutsche Sprache, Mannheim (IDS), Germany * * is now available for non-profit institutions. * * * * The collection contains lemmatized written and spoken German * * texts including literature, novelettes, scientific texts, * * dialogues, interviews, autobiographies, magazines and newspapers.* * * To run the demo version (full text access, no file transfer, no * * user-specific environment, access time limited to 30 minutes per * * session) of the COSMAS retrieval software in Mannheim: * * * * $telnet IDSserver.IDS-Mannheim.DE * * login: cosmas-demo * * Password: * * * * The software runs e.g. on vt100(-emulated) terminals using the * * German version of the ISO-646 for keyboard and display coding. * * Further details (on permanent access, contact persons, ...) are * * given in the demo version. * * * * Cyril Belica (Belica@IDS-Mannheim.DE) * ******************************************************************** - Jim Campbell (campbell@virginia.edu) From: erodgers@whale.st.usm.edu (Elizabeth Rodgers) Subject: Re: 8.0135 Off-line Mail Readers Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 11:21:32 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 139 (249) Gary Forsythe asked if anyone knew of an offline mail reader which would let you download your mail, read it off your hard disk, and then upload your responses. He wanted something that operated just like unix mail. Well, I can't say that i have exactly what he asked for, but I have something that is very close. The only difference is that this program, YARN, operates like the unix News readers (trn, rn) and not the mail program. There is a newsgroup that focuses on these sorts of questions and answers, however: alt.usenet.offline-reader If you can't get to the newsgroup, let me know, and I'll look up the ftp site information. -Liz Rodgers ---------------Forwarded Message------------------------ [deleted quotation] -Liz From: cbf@garnet.berkeley.edu Subject: Electronic Scholarly Editions Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 22:50:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 153 (250) The MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions has decided to tackle the job of drafting Guidelines for the Preparation of Electronic Scholarly Editions. These would be similar to the existing guidelines for scholarly printed editions, spelling out in some detail the considerations which editors should take into account when preparing an electronic scholarly edition. Given the rapidity with which both hardware and software is changing, this is a challenging task, but with the recent release of the _Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange_ by the Text Encoding Initiative, the moment seems propitious for such an effort. CSE member Peter Shillingsburg, whose CASE program (Computer-Assisted Scholarly Editing) is one of the most successful applications of the computer to scholarly editing, wrote a set of Principles for Electronic Scholarly Editions which were distributed at the MLA meeting in December of 1993. Both these and the Guidelines for Printed Scholarly Editions are available in electronic form. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SEEING OR COMMENTING UPON THEM, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I WILL FORWARD THEM TO YOU (SIZE: 30 K). On the basis of responses to Peter's Principles, the CSE will circulate draft Guidelines for comment, and then revise them on the basis of those comments. We'll keep up this process until we arrive at something that seems workable and has the consensus of the scholarly community. Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-2107 FAX (510) 642-6957 cbf@garnet.berkeley.edu From: rob@PSULIAS.BITNET (Roger Brisson) Subject: Re:Future of Multimedia Research? Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 09:38:57 +0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 151 (251) [...] I believe that having this primary source material at one's fingertips will revolutionize scholarly research in the humanities and social science. [...] It didn't take long to recognize what Perseus would do to the study of Classical Greece! At the very least it will allow us to find material much more quickly than in the past, But it will also do more: as searching software becomes more sophisticated, as Windows allows us to organize and structure this material in an increasingly complex manner, we will be able to compare material and to establish relationships that no one previously suspected. We will be able to visualize the past in ways that could only have been dreamt of by earlier generations of scholars. ----- Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University (CT) From: Robert Kraft Subject: Musaios Upgrade CD-ROM Access Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 01:02:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 155 (252) This will be of general interest to Windows users. MUSAIOS is the updated form of the earlier PHAROS and SEARCHER programs. Please pardon the duplication caused by cross-posting. Bob Kraft, UPenn Forwarded message: [deleted quotation] From: Michael Metzger Subject: Bennington College Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 16:15:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 140 (253) Does anyone know more about the current situation of Humanities faculty at Bennington College (VT)? I have heard that in June (!) 26 of 41 English/ForLang faculty, most with tenure, were dismissed, given a choice of immediate severance with sevpay or 1 more year of teaching. They were to be replaced with people who had been "successful in the creative area," artists, writers, etc., but not necessarily teachers. The pretext appears to be financial exigency, and the president appears to have had the concurrence of the board of trustees. Comments/verification/denials/discussion would be appreciated and appropriate, as this list has been concerned with analogous situations overseas that have been small compared to what sounds like a wholesale bloodletting and may be a portent of things to come at other institutions. Are there other lists where this topic would be more suitable? Has this hit CHE yet? Michael Metzger From: SCHOCHET@ZODIAC.BITNET Subject: for Humanist -- Cardinal Newman on the Net??? Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 18:52:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 141 (254) A colleague of mine here at BSU seeks some sort of net venue (list, bbs, newsgroup, I guess whatever) for stuff on John Henry Cardinal Newman. Anyone out there know of one? XAIPE, Brian R. Donovan / English Dept. / Bemidji State U. / Bemidji MN 56601-2699 E-mail: BDonovan@vax1.Bemidji.MSUS.edu / phone [218] 755-2838/759-0867 From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) Subject: SIGIR95 Call for Papers Date: 26 Aug 1994 08:51:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 157 (255) CALL FOR PAPERS SIGIR'95 18th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval The Sheraton, Seattle, WA, USA July 9 - July 13, 1995 Sponsored by ACM and in co-operation with: AICA-GLIR (Italy) BCS-IRSG (UK) CEPIS-EIRSG (Europe) DD (Denmark) GI (Germany) IPSJ (Japan) IMPORTANT DATES E-mail to to be added to mailing list: Today Submission of papers to relevant Program Co-chair: JANUARY 6, 1995 Submission of proposals for tutorials, panels, demonstrations, posters, and workshops to the relevant Chair: FEBRUARY 10, 1995 Author notification: MARCH 10, 1995 Final manuscript due in camera ready and electronic forms: APRIL 3, 1995. For additional information contact the Conference Chair or ABOUT THE CONFERENCE SIGIR'95 is an international research conference on information retrieval theory, systems, and applications. The ACM SIGIR conference occurs annually, alternating between locations in North America and elsewhere (e.g., Europe). This conference will interest a broad spectrum of professionals including theoreticians, developers, publishers, researchers, educators, and designers of systems, interfaces, information bases, and related applications. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the First Society in Computing, is a major force in advancing the skills and knowledge of IT professionals and students throughout the world. ACM serves as an umbrella organization offering its 90,000 members a variety of forums in order to fulfill its members' needs -- the delivery of cutting-edge technical information, the transfer of ideas from theory to practice, and opportunities for information exchange. Providing high quality products and services -- world-class journals and magazines; dynamic special interest groups; numerous "main event" conferences; tutorials; workshops; local special interest groups and chapters; and electronic forums -- ACM is the resource for life-long learning in the rapidly changing IT field. TOPICS Though we look for all good, innovative submissions in the broad field of information storage and retrieval (IR), the following list of topics may make clearer some of the areas that are of particular interest: 1. IR FUNDAMENTALS (focusing on one or combinations of the following): A. Types: text, hypertext, multimedia (including audio, images, video) B. Representations: source, conversions, storage, presentation C. Information structures, interaction, time-based issues D. Processing: indexing, analysis, compression, retrieval, rendering, publishing E. Systems: design, implementation, measures, evaluation, architectures, scalability, integration with DBMS F. Theories and models, evaluation G. Reasoning: logic, case-based F. Standards: SGML (and HTML), HyTime, MPEG, Z39.50, HTTP 2. USERS AND IR INTERACTION: A. Modeling, empirical studies B. Interface design, human-computer interaction, visualization C. IR tasks, including query formulation and expansion D. IR and information seeking behavior 3. IR AND COGNITIVE APPROACHES: A. Natural language processing, linguistic resources, multilingual systems B. Knowledge bases and their use C. Learning: genetic algorithms, neural nets D. Pattern matching, uncertainty, data fusion 4. DEDICATED IR APPLICATIONS: A. Digital libraries: architectures, prototypes, studies, issues B. Networked information (e.g., WAIS, WWW): infrastructure, tools, systems, protocols, collections, interfaces, case studies, intellectual property rights 5. EDUCATION IN IR: A. Curriculum, training B. Tools, systems PAPERS SIGIR'95 seeks papers about significant contributions to the broad field of information storage and retrieval, which covers: handling of all types of information; its applications; information systems; and underlying theories, models, and implementations. We encourage discussions of experimental studies, tests of usability, explorations of information-retrieval behavior, reports on large scale system performance, and demonstrations of advanced approaches. We prefer: that contributions that discuss theory have sufficient motivation and proof of utility; that designs have been proven by a prototype; that reports on small-scale experiments include convincing arguments or simulations to show their likelihood to generalize; and that writing is carefully copy edited and well organized. All papers shall provide a concise message to the audience about how the work relates to previous research or experience, what aspects of the work are new, and the "lessons learned." Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, quality of research, and quality of writing. Papers shall be submitted in English to the relevant Program Co-chair. Specific submission requirements: (a) Papers shall be submitted in four copies. (b) Papers must include an abstract of not more than 100 words. (c) Papers must be 20 pages or less (double spaced), including abstract, figures, and references. Final versions of accepted papers may require further trimming to meet publication standards. (d) Authors shall provide a separate cover page (not included in the length limitations) with the title, the author name(s), and the author affiliation(s), plus complete contact information (mailing address, telephone, FAX, and e-mail) for the author to whom correspondence should be send. (e) Show the word count for the paper on the cover page. (f) Indicate if the paper is to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. This Award requires that the first and primary author be a full-time student at time of submission. TUTORIALS SIGIR'95 will begin with a full day of tutorials, each of which is intended to cover a single topic in detail. Proposals are solicited from people willing to give tutorials. Tutorials may be either a half day (4 hours) or full day in length and can cover topics at an introductory or advanced level. Submissions shall be made to the Tutorials and Panels Chair and shall consist of: (a) An extended abstract outlining the exact content of the tutorial. This should be approximately 3 to 5 pages in length. Sample slides would also be helpful. (b) Tutorial Length: half-day or full day. (c) A description of the intended audience outlining what attendees are expected to know, the technical level of the tutorial and the objectives of the tutorial. (d) A CV for each presenter detailing relevant qualifications and experience. Some biographical details may also be helpful. (e) A complete description of A/V and computer equipment required for the tutorial. (f) Complete address for the presenter(s), including phone, FAX and e-mail addresses. E-mail submissions shall be in plain ASCII text. PANELS SIGIR'95 will include a small number of panel sessions. These are intended to examine issues of interest to the research and development community and stimulate lively debate between panelists and audience members. Presentations by panel members should lay the groundwork and open the debate. Ideally the panel shall consist of 4 members, with very divergent views on the topic. The moderator shall referee the debate, ensuring a good balance in the discussion without presenting a position. Proposals are solicited from moderators and/or panelists. Submissions shall be made to the Tutorials and Panels Chair and shall consist of: (a) An extended abstract outlining the proposed topic, including the questions likely to arise. (b) A list of panel members and the name of a moderator. (c) A CV for each panelist and the moderator, detailing relevant qualifications and experience. Some biographical details may also be helpful. (e) Complete addresses for the moderator and panelists, including phone, FAX and e-mail addresses. E-mail submissions shall be in plain ASCII text. DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations provide an opportunity for first-hand, interactive experience with information retrieval systems. Researchers and developers have the opportunity to present their new systems, and conference participants have the opportunity to interact directly with creators of the systems demonstrated. We invite proposals for demonstrations of information retrieval systems and applications. Demonstrations should focus on aspects of the system that are novel and important. Demonstrations are not limited to experimental systems only. IR researchers participating in the NIST/ARPA sponsored TREC, MUC, TIPSTER projects and the European Community research initiatives are encouraged to participate. Presenters of the systems must be individuals who have been directly involved with the development of the system, and who are aware of the differentiating and interesting ideas embodied in their system. All presenters are expected to register for the conference. Presenters shall submit a proposal of at most three pages, describing the planned demonstration, to the Demonstration Chair. The proposal shall include: (a) A description of noteworthy and distinguishing ideas or approaches the demonstration will illustrate. (b) An explanation of how the demonstration will illustrate these ideas or approaches. (c) Complete contact information (mailing address, telephone, FAX, and e-mail) and affiliation of the person(s) who will present the demonstration, including their relationship to the project (e.g., principal investigator, developer, project manager, architect). (d) A 100-word summary for inclusion in the conference's preliminary program. (e) A description of the technical specifications of the system. The selected presenters shall provide a description that is modeled after the TREC technical specification descriptions. An electronic form will be available via e-mail. (f) A bibliography of published and unpublished materials that relate to the system, its algorithms and underlying theories as well as any evaluations that have been undertaken. (g) The hardware, software, and network requirements for the demonstration, including the electrical requirements of the equipment. No FAX submissions; e-mail submissions preferred. POSTERS SIGIR '95 will include poster presentations to enable researchers an opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or research that is best communicated in conversational mode. Poster presenters will have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Posters will be reviewed by appropriate subject specialists as well as the Program Committee, and will be selected on the basis of their contribution to research-focused discussion. Posters will be accepted a full month later than papers in order to provide an opportunity for submitting very current work that need not be written up in a full paper. Abstracts of posters will appear in the conference proceedings. There will be a specific time during the conference when authors will be expected to be present at their posters to describe their work and answer questions, but posters will also be accessible for informal viewing throughout the day. Doctoral students are encouraged to consider poster submission as a viable means for discussing ongoing dissertation research. Submissions shall be made to the Posters Chair and shall consist of: (a) Abstract, submitted in three copies. (b) An extended abstract of approximately three to four pages. (c) Abstract shall emphasize the research problem, the approach or methodology being used, and why the work is important. (d) A separate cover page with the title of the poster, the name and affiliation of the author(s)/presenter(s), as well as complete contact information to include postal address, email address, phone number and FAX number of the author(s). WORKSHOPS Proposals are being solicited from both individuals and groups for one-day workshops to be held on July 13. Workshops bring together researchers to share information and discuss a topic that relates to their expertise. Submissions shall be made to the Workshops Chair and shall be limited to 3 pages. They shall contain: (a) The theme and goal of the workshop. (b) The planned activities. (c) A CV for each organizer detailing relevant qualifications and experience (not included in the length limitations). Some biographical details may also be helpful. (d) Maximum number of participants. (e) Process for selecting participants. (f) List of potential participants. After the workshop, organizers will provide an article summarizing the workshop for SIGIR Forum. No FAX submissions. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- General Conference Chair: Raya Fidel GSLIS, FM-30 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195, USA fidelr@u.washington.edu Tel: +1-206-543-1888 Fax: +1-206-685-8049 Program Co-chairs: (N and S America, Asia) Edward A. Fox Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0160, USA fox@vt.edu Tel: +1-703-231-5113 Fax: +1-703-231-6075 (Europe, Africa, Australia) Peter Ingwersen Royal School of Librarianship Birketinget 6 DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark biskpi@unidhp.uni-c.dk Tel: +45 31 58 60 66 Fax: +45 32 84 02 01 Tutorials and Panels Chair: Joan Morrissey School of Computer Science University of Windsor Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada joan@cs.uwindsor.ca Tel: +1-519-253-4232 ext 2992 Fax: +1-519-973-7093 Posters Chair: Elizabeth D. Liddy School of Information Studies Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244, USA liddy@mailbox.syr.edu Tel: +1-315-443-2911 Fax: +1-315-443-5806 Demonstrations Chair: Efthimis N. Efthimiadis GSLIS University of California Los Angeles, CA 20024, USA efthimis@gslis.ucla.edu Tel: +1-310-825-8975 Fax: +1-310-206-4460 Workshops Chair: Katie Hover Research Librarian Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052, USA katieh@microsoft.com Tel: +1-206-936-8082 Fax: +1-206-936-7329 Local Arrangements Chair: Michael Crandall Boeing Technical Libraries P.O. Box 3707, MS 8K-38 Seattle, WA 98124, USA crandall@atc.boeing.com Tel: +1-206-237-3238 Fax: +1-206-237-3491 Publicity Chair: Edie Rasmussen SLIS University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA emr1@vms.cis.pitt.edu Tel: +1-412-624-9459 Fax: +1-412-648-7001 Sponsorship Chair: Jill McKinstry Library Systems, FM-25 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195, USA jillmck@u.washington.edu Tel: +1-206-685-3933 Fax: +1-206-685-8727 Program Committee: Ijsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Phillips, USA Maristella Agosti, U. Padua, Italy Richard K. Belew, UC San Diego, USA Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers U., USA Abraham Bookstein, U. Chicago, USA Christine Borgman, UCLA, USA Giorgio Brajnik, U. Udine, Italy Peter D. Bruza, QUT, Australia Forbes Burkowski, Waterloo U., Canada Yves Chiaramella, LGI-IMAG, France W. Bruce Croft, U. Massachusetts, USA Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, UCLA, USA Hans-Peter Frei, UBILAB, Switzerland Norbert Fuhr, U. Dortmund, Germany Richard Furuta, Texas A&M U., USA Micheline Hancock, City University, UK Donna Harman, NIST, USA David Harper, Robert Gordon U., UK Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Tetsuya Ishikawa, ULIS, Japan Kalervo Jarvelin, U. Tampere, Finland Haruo Kimoto, NTT, Japan Shmuel T. Klein, Bar-Ilan U., Israel Robert Korfhage, U. Pittsburgh, USA Ray Larson, UC Berkeley, USA David Lewis, AT&T, USA Elizabeth D. Liddy, Syracuse U., USA Paul Lindner, DCS, USA Clifford Lynch, U. California, USA Gary Marchionini, U. Maryland, USA Yasushi Ogawa, RICOH, Japan Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Risoe, Denmark Keith van Rijsbergen, Glasgow U., UK Gerard Salton, Cornell U., USA Peter Schauble, ETH, Switzerland Fabrizio Sebastiani, U. Glasgow, UK Alan Smeaton, Dublin City U., Ireland Phil Smith, Ohio State U., USA Craig Stanfill, Thinking Machines, USA Ulrich Thiel, GMD, Germany Richard Tong, Verity, USA Howard Turtle, West Publishing, USA Ellen Voorhees, Siemens, USA Ross Wilkinson, RMIT, Australia Peter Willett, U. Sheffield, UK E.J. Yannakoudakis, Athens U., Greece From: PROF NORM COOMBS Subject: Have You Hugged Your Computer Today?" Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 06:02:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 158 (256) People always talk about computers being cold and depersonalizing, but, after more than 30 years of teaching, my use of computers in education resulted in my being hugged by a coed. I am totally blind, and the student is deaf. We used the computer to communicate. To read the full story, you'll have to also read the intervening material on the importance of making computers and information technology accessible to persons with disabilities. . . . EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) is dedicated to disseminating information on adaptive computing. It can open new worlds for faculty, staff and students. Besides providing better access to education, it can open doors to employment. EASI and RIT (The Rochester Institute of Technology) provide a three-week, online workshop called adapt-it to provide a wealth of information about disabilities, adaptive computing and the Americans With Disabilities Act. The fee for the workshop is $125. All materials are delivered using email. Besides providing carefully researched and written information, this provides ample opportunity for participants to share experiences and ask questions. Members learn as much from one another as from their instructors. The next presentation of adapt-it will begin on September 19. There will also be workshops in November, January and April. To get more information about the adapt-it workshop, send email to: listserver@listserv.isc.rit.edu with these two words of text: info adapt-it To see a syllabus of the adapt-it workshop, send email to the same address, but with these two words: info workshop To join the workshop, send email to the same address with the following text: sub adapt-it (and your name in quotes). In return, you will receive information on payment and participation. Please forward this mail to as many people as you know who are or should be interested in taking such a workshop. . . . As Paul Harvey says: "and now for the rest of the story: I make increasing use of computer mediated communication in most of my history classes. My students submit their work in email, and my computer reads it to me. I return grades the same way. I often use it to engage students in group discussions where they are usually less inhibited. The discussions also permit more reflection by the students and often produce a better quality discussion. One deaf girl in my class was ready to drop the course on hearing of the computer use. I had her come to my office and we swapped the keyboard back and forth using the computer to communicate. I wrote, and she read. She wrote, and my computer talked to me. By the end of the course, she returned to chat and check that she had completed all her work. Then, she thanked me for forcing her to learn the use of the computer and said it had really been beneficial to me. At this point, she put her head on my shoulder and gave me a hug. (OH, yes, the office door was wide open!) Still, it was my first coed hug since I quit being a student. To learn more about EASI, send email to EASI@EDUCOM.EDU From: Subject: Quality and Quality Improvement for Teachers, Students Date: 26 Aug 94 10:43 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 159 (257) Quality judgments and continuous quality improvement opens Pandora's box for many classroom teachers: * How do you motivate students to recognize and desire top quality in their work? * How can you continuously raise the standards of quality by which their learning can be nudged upward and judged fairly? * Can you involve students in evaluation without going soft and superficial? * Can you give grades without appearing autocratic? feeding their hunger for approval? or soliciting their dependency on your sole, authoritative, hard- nosed judgments? Whether your subject is writing, music, painting, mathematics, or marketing, these problems often confuse the relationships between learners, teachers, objectives, and the quality of individual achievement. In a word: Can you effectively measure and quantify the quality of creative work done by creative people? After 25 years of thought and experiment, I am convinced the answer is yes, but not with traditional tools. Instead, I'd like to introduce THE QUALITY EVALUATOR (QE for short). QE is a Macintosh-HyperCard, network compatible, group-ware program that involves students (as well as instructors) in the cooperative evaluation of their academic work by intrinsic standards and consolidated group judgment. The program has been developed over a two year period with support from the Weeg Academic Computing Center of the University (and is copyrighted by the University of Iowa). It has been class-room tested on local campuses in diverse situations and disciplines. Now I'd like to recruit a larger group of teacher-users for QE. Consequently I will send to the first 100 persons who request them copies of the DOCUMENTATION (66 pages, with illustrations, explanation of concepts and procedures, and instructions for using the HyperCard windows) and a DISKETTE of the program. Or I can send the compressed data over the Internet. QE does not require computers or networks, however. If you don't have a lot of student computers available, paper, pencil, and the Xerox machine can also be used to gather participant judgments, assemble the results, and distribute feedback. The concepts are more useful than the machinery than enables this new approach to group evaluation by center-outward discrimination of relative quality. All I ask in return is feedback from you and your students: your responses, suggestions for improvement, problems, etc. And if you have questions about the evaluation procedure during this test period, I will also answer them directly and personally by e-mail. I'd like to hear of your reactions by next December or January, i.e., the end of the Fall semester, 1994. If you are interested, please-- e-mail to: john-huntley@uiowa.edu or snail-mail to: John Huntley Dept. of English, 308 E.P.B. Univ. of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Office phone: (319) 335 0468 From: N330009@UNIVSCVM Subject: Date: Sun, 28 Aug 94 13:08:22 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 160 (258) ************************NEW LIST ANNOUNCEMENT******************************* * * * LT-ANTIQ (LATE ANTIQUITY) * * * * LT-ANTIQ is an unmoderated list that provides a discussion forum for * * topics relating to Late Antiquity (c. AD 260-640). For the purposes * * of this discussion list, "Late Antiquity" includes the Late Roman, * * Early Byzantine, Early Medieval, and Early Islamic periods. Geograph- * * ical coverage extends from western Europe to the Middle East, and * * from the Sahara to Russia. Cross disciplinary interaction is particu- * * larly encouraged. Along with the usual scholarly interchange, users * * also are invited to post notices relating to upcoming conferences, * * new and on-going projects, and job openings. * * * * Potential Audience: Historians, Classicists, Medievalists, Byzantinists,* * Art Historians, Theologians, Archaeologists, Historians of Religion * * * * To subscribe, send a note to: LISTSERV@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU * * with message: SUBSCRIBE LT-ANTIQ your name * * * * For more information, contact * * Ralph W. Mathisen, Dept. of History, * * Univ. of S. Carolina, Columbia SC 29280 * * email: n330009@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu * * ************************************************************************** From: GURT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: Conference Announcement, GURT '95 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 16:00:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 142 (259) ***MARK YOUR CALENDARS*** The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, GURT '95, will be held March 8-11, 1995. The theme of GURT '95 will be "Linguistics and the Education of Second Language Teachers: Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects." Presessions will take place Monday, March 6, to Wednesday, March 8, and the main sessions will begin on the evening of Wednesday, March 8, and conclude on Saturday, March 11. Plenary and concurrent sessions will be held in Gaston Hall and the ICC Auditorium on the Georgetown University campus. To be placed on our mailing list, please send a message to the address above, or call (202) 687-5726. We expect to get our first informational flyer out by mid-October. From: N330009@UNIVSCVM Subject: COnference Announcement - Late Antiquity Date: Tue, 30 Aug 94 10:46:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 143 (260) **********************Conference Announcement************************** Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (AD 260-640) The Department of History and the Program in Late Ancient and Medieval Studies at the University of Kansas announce a conference on "Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity" to be held in Lawrence, Kansas, March 22- 24, 1995. The conference will examine geographical, topical, and meth- odological aspects of the ways in which Late Antiquity serves as a frontier. Those desiring additional information, or interested in participating or attending, should contact Hagith S. Sivan, Dept. of History, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, or Ralph W. Mathisen, EMAIL: N330009@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU From: feld@CC.UManitoba.CA Subject: Re: 8.0156 Qs: Faculty at Bennington College Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 09:51:32 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 144 (261) Re Bennington College: for an enlightening, depressing, savagely-written recap, see the recent survey in _Lingua Franca_. -- Michael Feld | E-mail: Dept. of Philosophy | FAX: (204) 275-2411 University of Manitoba | Voice: (604) 733-8134 Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2M8, Canada From: Larissa MacFarquhar <76200.414@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: 8.0156 Qs: Faculty at Bennington; E-Cardinal Newman (2/27) Date: 29 Aug 94 16:59:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 145 (262) For the story on Bennington, you might want to check out the last issue of LINGUA FRANCA (July/August), where Roger Kimball gives his opinion of what has transpired. (He's an alumnus.) LINGUA FRANCA has received letters reacting strongly to the article, including one from Bennington's president, Elizabeth Coleman, which it will be printing in the September/October issue, coming out in mid-September. Best, Jeffrey Kittay Publisher, LINGUA FRANCA From: "John J Hughes" Subject: Date: Tue, 30 Aug 94 14:49:00 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 146 (263) SUBJECT: Three Questions I have three questions with which I would appreciate receiving help. (1) What are some reliable OCR programs for scanning typeset material (with a flatbed scanner) that consists primarily of English but that contains some Hebrew, Yiddish, and Greek? The program needs to be trainable, needs to be able to insert user-specified formatting codes, and needs to provide an extremely high degree of accuracy. (2) I am looking for articles that explore the topic of defining "context" in concordances of modern English texts, especially articles that discuss designing computer algorithms to define contexts. (3) I am looking for articles about or lists of the most commonly used stop words in concordances of modern English texts, for example, "a," "an," "of," "the." Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. John J. Hughes BITNET: XB.J24@Stanford.BITNET From: LKOSKI@finabo.abo.fi Subject: request to the humanist network Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 22:24:48 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 147 (264) Dear Editors, Please would you place the following quest in the humanities network for members to respond to: Hello! I have managed to lose an article which I use extensively in my thesis. I have tried all the usual means of tracing an article and drawn a blank. Can anyone recognise it from the following quote: The oral tradition remained the internal model for literate storytelling, which sought to reproduce the communicative strategies and stylistic features typical of oral poetry. In other words, literate storytelling obeyed the rules of stylistics. As Walter Benjamin said, "Among those who have written down the tales, it is the great ones whose written version differs least from the speech of the many nameless storytellers" (Benjamin 1982 (1968): 84). Consequently, the same stylistic principles apply, to a certain extent, to oral and literate storytelling alike. All stories should, for instance, be easy to remember; this is the only way they can be memorized and passed on. (EWERS 1992: 172) I have no other details other the surname, the year, and the odd quote like this one. If you can help, please send any details to: lena.koski@abo.fi Many grateful thanks! From: v1z0gdav@cecomm.co.uk (Profesor Graham Davies - EuroCALL - October 1993) Subject: Text reading aids for the blind Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 20:53:58 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 148 (265) <> Graham Davies 31-AUG-94 20:53 v1z0gdav@cecomm From Graham Davies, Thames Valley University To CTITEXT 31.8.94 This is a general request for information on any known computer aids for helping the blind read or access textual information. I have had a request from a blind student studying Spanish, Geography and American Studies, who is having problems keeping up with her reading on a BA Humanities course at TVU. Any information or contacts will be much appreciated. From: J.A.Law@newcastle.ac.uk (John Law) Subject: English tour de force (!) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 10:02:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 149 (266) Does anyone know the author of a poem which has just been posted to the Macintosh archives [in order to test out the Macintosh's Speech Manager!], which begins as follows ... [deleted quotation] ... it goes on for several verses, and exercises even an excellent English reader's pronunciation. Before propagating it to other groups, I would like to acknowledge the author (nay - I would like to find out if it's copyright!). The person who sent it to the Mac archives says that it appeared anonymously at a NATO conference some time back. But *somebody* wrote it - and a jolly clever somebody, at that! John Law University Computing Service Information Officer University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne Phone: +44 91 222 8115 NE1 7RU Fax: +44 91 222 8765 United Kingdom From: tbrunner@uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner) Subject: TLG and Pandora Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 10:06:58 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 164 (267) Hayden Pelliccia writes: "I discovered a problem in TLG and Pandora today, and I thought members of the list might like to know about it if they don't already. The fault lies with TLG, but is exacerbated by a limitation in Pandora. Pandora explicitly states that "two words are only within a certain number of lines of one another if they are in the same reference unit -- section, chapter, verse, etc." So that in a search of all Herodotus for Aiguptioi semnoun within 4 lines of meta Pandora will tell you "nothing found", even though the words are consecutive, the one phrase ending Hdt. 3. 16 and the other opening 3. 17. The real problem is that TLG has been inconsistent and careless in dividing up "reference units... (etc.)" The TLG is not accustomed to being faulted with inconsistency and (especially) carelessness, and P's comments come as somewhat of a surprise. We will look into the matter, and respond in good time. For the moment, however: the TLG takes no responsibility for the performance of any software developed for use with its CD ROMs. Theodore F. Brunner From: brenda danet Subject: Call for Papers: Language, Play and Performance Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 08:21:49 +0300 (WET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 165 (268) This is a Call For Papers for a special issue of the new _Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication_, on LANGUAGE, PLAY, AND PERFORMANCE. There is a surprising return to playful, expressive "orality" in digital writing, especially in synchronous modes like Internet Relay Chat and Muds or MOOs, but even in ordinary email, list discussion groups, Usenet newsgroups, etc. People play with typography and orthography, with their identities (nicknames, role-playing), with language, and with cultural content, from real-world experience to fantasy, folklore, the comics, and films. Aspects of "performance" traditionally associated with genres of face-to-face communication such as storytelling, joke-telling, verbal dueling, etc., are flourishing on the Net. We find not only unscripted improvisational performance, but even instances of scripted performance. This special issue of _JCMC_ will gather papers which engage in ethnographic description and interpretive analysis of playful phenomena. Appropriate topics may include (1) digital playfulness as a postmodern phenomenon; (2) flaming as "performance;" (3) nicknames on IRC, personas on MUDs and MOOs; (4) improvisation in real-world theater vs. the Net; (4) Net culture and the norms and practices of essayist literacy. Papers may focus on a single mode of CMC, or compare two or more. _JCMC_ is a multimedia electronic, peer-reviewed journal, and is edited by Margaret McLaughlin, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, and Sheizaf Rafaeli, School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and offers exciting new possibilities for scholarly publication. Articles may include color graphics, photographs, video, sound, etc. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 1995. For further information, write to: Brenda Danet, Guest Editor of the special issue Dept. of Communication and Journalism Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mt. Scopus Jerusalem, Israel 91905 Email: msdanet@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il Fax: 972-2-827069 From: Michael Metzger Subject: Reading aids for the blind Date: Thu, 01 Sep 1994 20:18:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 150 (269) I tried to answer Graham Davies directly, but the message came bakc as undeliverable. It would be best if the student could get access to a Kurzweuil reader, whose optical character recognition program is linked to a converter that produces the appropriate phonemes, thus "reading" the printed text to the user. I understand that one can also feed digitized ASCII texts into it, with the same result, perhaps faster. Your campus's office for students with disabilities should be able to help here, or one of the associations for the aid of the blind, perhaps even the National Health Service. Good luck, Michael Metzger From: "_NAME MICHAEL B. PATE" <9566PATEM@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU> Subject: Re: 8.0163 Qs: OCR; Context; Stop Words; Article Sought; Reading Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 11:35:51 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 151 (270) This is in response to Graham Davies question for assistance to a blind student. The well known equipment is the Kurzweil Reader made and sold by Xerox Imaging Systems. This uses DECtalk. there is other equipment available and two books may be of help: Adaptive Technologies for Learning and Work Environments by Joseph Lazzaro. American Library Assoc., 1993 Computers and the Americans with Disabilites Act: A Manager's Guide by John McCormick. Windcrest, 1994. ADA has stimulated much movement in this field and one of your local libraries may be of help. Michael Pate Marquette University 9566patem@vms.csd.mu.edu From: Eric Johnson Subject: Re: 8.0163 Stop Words Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 06:38:00 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 152 (271) In reply to John Hughes' posting, I have developed a list of 125 stop words that I use with indexing and concordance programs. My list contains the very frequently used English words (articles, pronouns, forms of "to be" and "to have," etc.) that most users would not want indexed. I would be glad to share my list with anyone wanting it (send me email), and I would like to compare my list with stop-word lists that others may have (please email me a copy). -- Eric Johnson JohnsonE@columbia.dsu.edu johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu From: Tom Davey Subject: Submission attached Date: Sat, 03 Sep 94 13:19 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 153 (272) In Humanist 8.0163, John J. Hughes writes: [deleted quotation] Try the preface to Marvin Spevack's 1973 _Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare_, vii-viii. Spevack gives a fairly complete description of the computer algorithm that extracted the contexts for his massive work. The slightly earlier (1967?), multi-volume edition of his _Concordance_ may give an even fuller explanation. Tom +---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ | | _/_/ _/ _/_/ | | Tom Davey | _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ | | University of California | _/ _/ _/ _/ | | Los Angeles | _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ | | Dept. of English | _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ | | izzyom8@mvs.oac.ucla.edu | _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ | | | _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ | +---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ From: Dorothy Day Subject: RE: 8.0163 Qs: OCR; Context; Stop Words; Article Sought; Reading Airds Date: Mon, 5 Sep 94 22:27:36 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 154 (273) [deleted quotation] Ewers, Hans-heino Children's Literature and the Traditional Art of Storytelling. Poetics today. Sprg 1992 v 13 n 1 169 Dorothy Day, Indiana University Bitnet: DAY@IUBACS Internet: day@indiana.edu From: Peter Graham Subject: Re: 8.0162 Rs: Faculty at Bennington (2/27) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 94 13:37:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 155 (274) [deleted quotation]savagely-written recap, see the recent survey in _Lingua Franca_.< This so accurately describes the contents of Lingua Franca so often that I discontinued my subscription. I don't feel it's credible any more. --pg Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)445-5908; fax (908)445-5888 WWW URL:http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/pghome.html PHONES CHANGED 7/1 932>445; from (908)932-xxxx to (908) 445-xxxx (not all of Rutgers changed)...8/20/94. From: W Schipper Subject: Edmund Spenser Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 8:31:11 GMT-3:30 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 156 (275) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Does anyone know of a discussion list devoted to Edmund Spenser? I know of SHAKSPER and FICINO, not to mention RENAISSANCE. Bill -- ....................................................................... W. Schipper Email: schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Department of English, Tel: 709-737-4406 Memorial University Fax: 709-737-4000 St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7 ........................................................................ From: Douglas Killam Subject: Oxford Companion to African Literatures Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 10:09:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 157 (276) I am editing an Oxford Companion to African Literatures and would like to hear from colleagues who are interested in contributing to the project. From: Tzvee Zahavy Subject: Carnegie report: Academic profession Date: 5 Sep 1994 07:10:01 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 158 (277) I need a copy of "The Academic Profession: An International Perspective" published by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching referenced on page 45 of the Almanac of the Chronicle for Higher Education, Sept. 1, 1994. Does anyone have an electronic version or know where I could get a copy quick? Or does someone have an e-mail address or phone number for the Foundation? Any help on this much appreciated. Professor Tzvee Zahavy University of Minnesota *************************************************************** Bitnet: MAIC@UMINN1 Internet: MAIC@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU Land-Mail: University of Minnesota 2717 Lynn Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55416 From: KAKARALA@elenov1.auckland.ac.nz Subject: Chaucer CD Date: Tue, 06 Sep 1994 14:02:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 159 (278) I would like to create a multimedia CD introducing the Canterbury Tales and things medieval to high-school and college level audiences. Do you know of anyone who would be interested in publishing something like this? I'd be grateful for suggestions. Lara Ruffolo ------------ Ramakrishna Kakarala, Ph.D. Lecturer Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Eng. The University of Auckland Private Bag, Auckland New Zealand Fax: +64-9-373-7461 Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext 8198 ------------ Ramakrishna Kakarala, Ph.D. Lecturer Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Eng. The University of Auckland Private Bag, Auckland New Zealand Fax: +64-9-373-7461 Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext 8198 From: jernudd@ctsc.hkbc.hk (ENG) Subject: content analysis Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 14:15:39 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 160 (279) Please help identify content-analysis-software for use by novice to explore evaluations referring to [unnamed] Asian country compared with evaluations referring to the "West". I also intend to list the specific vocabulary and phraseology actually used in collocations, and to exploit those lists for qualitative analysis. Data are speeches and programmatic articles [mainly on communications, values, individual and group behavior]. If there is one source of information on content-analysis-software that I can reach into that'd be especially convenient. Thanks. Bjorn H Jernudd From: Germaine Warkentin Subject: Final call: De-centring Renaissance Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 21:29:09 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 168 (280) FINAL CALL; PLEASE CROSS-POST TO RELEVANT LISTS: CALL FOR PAPERS: DE-CENTRING THE RENAISSANCE: Canada and Europe in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective 1350-1700 On March 7 - 10, 1996, the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, will host an innovative conference bringing together the fields of Early Modern and Canadian Studies. The occasion is the 500th anniversary of Henry VII's grant of letters patent to the Italian explorer John Cabot on March 5, 1496. Cabot was given "full and free authority . . . to set up our aforesaid banners and ensigns in any town, city, castle, island or mainland whatsoever, newly found by them." Intellectually, those banners have flown for a long time. But the transformation in our concepts of discovery and exploration during the past decade has shown how unfruitful it is to confine the study of the "newly found" lands within traditional conceptual boundaries. This conference will challenge such boundaries even further by addressing the extent to which Canada, in the period roughly 1350-1700, was not merely an arena of European operations - - whether Renaissance, Reformation, or Early Modern -- but an authentic historical sphere interacting with forces and events from within and without. To do this will involve bringing together specialists from a variety of fields: students of Italian Humanism with those in Native North American studies, investigators of the Bristol trade with those studying Jesuit learning, economists working on French financial policy with students of Mohawk culture, of the lives of women and working people, of English courts from Henry VII to Charles II, of Huron land-use, and juxtaposing the work of researchers working on Basque and Portuguese fishing practices with those studying the life of aboriginal nations living far in the interior and in the north. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University PLENARY SPEAKERS: Oliva Dickason (Alberta) on aboriginal history and the law; Selma Barkham (England) on the Portuguese and Basques in the North Atlantic; Luca Codignola (Genoa) on Italians and early Canada; Gilles Th'erien (Montr'eal) on Renaissance rhetoric and the _Jesuit Relations_. The Organizing Committee will be looking for papers which are solidly based in ongoing research and at the same time framed in interdisciplinary ways which reflect this broad representation of fields. Format: The conference programme will include invited plenary sessions, sessions for which the papers will be circulated ahead of time, and "Work-in-Progress" sessions structured around a problem rather than presenting formal papers. We hope that confirmed acceptances can be issued by January, 1995. Proposals for Papers: proposals of 300 words maximum, accompanied by a one-page CV should be submitted by October 1, 1994 to the address below. Papers may be in English or in French. The Organizing Committee may ask to see completed papers before confirming acceptance. Note that papers will be circulated ahead of time and the Committee must therefore receive them in finished form by December 1, 1995. Proposals for sessions: A 500-word position paper outlining the purpose of the session should be submitted along with the CVs of chair and participants. Sessions may be in English or French, or in both languages. Organizing Committee: Germaine Warkentin, English, Victoria College, University of Toronto (Chair) Jennifer S. H. Brown, History, University of Winnipeg Jane Couchman, French Studies, Glendon College, York University, Toronto Deborah Doxtator, Graduate student, History, University of Western Ontario Franc,ois Pare`, Department of French, University of Guelph Krystyna Sieciechowicz, Anthropology/Canadian Studies, University College, University of Toronto Conference Sponsors: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto Canadian Studies Programme, University College, University of Toronto Rupert's Land Research Centre, University of Winnipeg Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/Soci'et'e Canadienne d'Etudes de la Renaissance Please send proposals by October 15, 1994 to: Germaine Warkentin Victoria College University of Toronto Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7 Canada. E-mail: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca Fax: (416) 585-4584 From: RALBRIT@WAYNEST1 Subject: AFRITECH '95 List and Electronic Conference Date: Wed, 07 Sep 94 06:43:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 169 (281) This announcement has been posted to several lists; my apologies for duplications. The AFRITECH List is now available for use by prospective registrants for the AFRITECH '95 ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE. The List will serve as the point of registration for the conference, keep prospective participants up to date, and provide a forum for input into the development and administration of the conference, scheduled for January 20-22, 1995. See Announcement below for details on the conference and for joining the List. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- AFRITECH '95: AN ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE "SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS: PERSPECTIVES AND ISSUES FOR CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DEBATE" An Electronic International Conference, AFRITECH '95: AN ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE - "Science, Technology, and African-Americans: Perspectives and Issues for Cross Disciplinary Debate and Research," will be held January 20-22, 1995. AFRITECH '95 will provide an opportunity for participants to engage in two-and-a-half days of cross disciplinary debate and discussion on a variety of topics related to technology and the African American experience. Researchers, educators, and practitioners will be able to interact with participants from around the world by signing on to different discussion groups within the conference, from home or office. This Conference is sponsored by the Planning Committee for the Mid-Year Electronic Conference of the "Technology and the African-American Experience Workshop Group." The First Annual International Workshop on "Technology and the African-American Experience" was held last May 20-22, 1994, at Howard University, Washington, DC. The Workshop was planned to bring together those who were doing research, or interested in doing research on the following topics: Workplace Technology and Workers; Urban Infrastructure and Transportation Engineering; Environmental Justice; Health and Medicine; Engineering and Engineering Education; Computers, Communication and Information Technologies; Inventors and Inventing; Unexplored Research Frontiers in Technology; Issues of Public Policy, Politics; and Government Involvement with Technology. The Mid-Year Electronic Conference will focus on these same topics and registrants will be able to present papers and/or participate in the conference at the following levels: Area Chair, Panel Chair, Panelist or Discussant, Presenter of a Paper, or to just Attend. The AFRITECH List will serve as the communication source keeping prospective participants informed and up-to-date on the development of panels for the conference, registration, and provide a forum for input into the development and administration of the conference. Joining the List will also establish a Preregistration list for participating in the conference. Please feel free to notify your colleagues of this list and invite them to subscribe. In addition to subscribing to the list, participants will also need to decide ona preferred level of participation for the electronic conference. Papers, Abstracts and Levels of Participation should be submitted according to the following deadline dates, after subscribing to the List: Area and Panel Chairs: Committed by September 24, 1994 Presenters of Papers: Submit topics by October 7, 1994 Discussants (Panelists): Committed by October 7, 1994 Abstracts of Papers: Submitted by December 10, 1994 Other Attendees: Late Registration Ends, December 20, 1994. To subscribe to the List and receive further details on both the Conference and the List, send an e-mail message to: LISTSERV@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU with the message: SUBSCRIBE AFRITECH as the only line in the body of the message (without the brackets). If you have questions about the List of the Electronic Conference send an e-mail message to Rosie L. Albritton (List-Owner and Chair of the Planning Committee for the Electronic Conference) at RALBRIT@WAYNEST1 (or) RALBRIT@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU, or see phone and FAX numbers listed below. Rosie L. Albritton, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Library & Information Science Kresge Library 106 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan 48202-3939 Phone: (313) 577-6203 FAX: (313) 577-4172 From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: NEACH 9/23 MUSICOLOGY Date: Wed, 7 Sep 94 14:21:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 170 (282) NEACH: Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities invites you to hear MUSICOLOGY VIA MODEM: POTENTIALS AND PITFALLS A symposium presented by The Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1994, 2:00 p.m. CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Room 1400 33 West 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. Robert Kosovsky: "Internet Resources Available to Musicologists" (Music Division, New York Public Library) Theresa Muir: "Recent Discussions & Controversies on AMSLIST: A Review" (CUNY Graduate School & University Center Shaugn O'Donnell: "Cybermusic: Exploring the World of Music-Related Lists" (Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College) Thanks to e-mail and the Internet, musicology, like the other humanities, is crossing the threshold of a new era in the way research is conducted. Information is being disseminated and shared at an amazing yet sometimes alarming rate. Catalogues for many libraries and archives are now on-line, at our fingertips. New, electronic "clubs" of musicologists with shared interests are forming. "Electronic journals" are already available in other fields. How can musicologists use the Internet efficiently? What are the advantages and disadvantages of electronic bulletin boards like the AMSLIST? What are the legal ramifications in what we send on the Internet? These topics, questions, and related issues will be discussed at this symposium. There will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion from the membership. The speakers are CUNY doctoral candidates who are active, experienced users of the Internet for musical purposes. For information about the program or the AMS, contact Bruce Macintyre, Brooklyn College, Conservatory of Music (bcmbc@cunyvm.cuny.edu). Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu From: ALISON SWAFFORD Subject: Nautilus Shell Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1994 08:44:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 171 (283) What is the classical symbolism regarding the nautilus shell? I am involved in a project and this would helpful in settling an in-house dispute. From: "Elizabeth S. Cziffra" Subject: Re: 8.0167 Qs: E-Spenser; African Lit; Carnegie Report; Date: Tue, 06 Sep 94 17:59:33 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 161 (284) Re: Carnegie Report. The US Postal address for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is: 5 Ivy Lane Princeton, NJ 08540 Phone: 609-452-1780. Lisa Cziffra, Data Librarian Princeton University From: jbaima@Onramp.NET (John Baima) Subject: Re: 8.0164 R: TLG and Pandora (1/23) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 17:20:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 162 (285) [deleted quotation] I would not presume to speak for the TLG, but there is nothing wrong with the TLG here. I think that everyone who has worked with the TLG for awhile knows that they have been very careful. While I have found a few, small anomalies in the PHI disks, I have never found one in the TLG. It is a true scholarly resource. [deleted quotation] Yes, we make mistakes all by ourselves! I would like to note that my TLG Workplace matches these words even as an "exact phrase." John Baima Silver Mountain Software jbaima@onramp.net From: zeitlyn@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: Mambila documentation on WWW Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 12:42:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 173 (286) Introduction to Hyper -Meek

Introduction


David Zeitlyn

8 August 1994


I am writing to announce that a further part of the documentary history of the Mambila of Cameroon and Nigeria can now be found on the World Wide Web server of the Radcliffe Science Library in Oxford (the URL is http://rsl.ox.ac.uk/isca/meek/meek-intro.html). The document is a digital version of 34 pages from Chapter IX of C.K. Meek's "Tribal Studies in Northern Nigeria Volume 1" 1931 London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. It is the first major documentary source on the Mambila with whom my own field research has been conducted. Apart from the challenge of producing an electronic version the purpose of doing this was to present and preserve the marginal notes made by Professor Farnham Rehfisch during his fieldwork in 1953.
In addition to the marginal notes I have also included the sections of Rehfisch's fieldnotes in which he mentions Meek. These fieldnotes have been archived in Rhodes House Library Oxford, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London with the kind permission of Mrs Rehfisch and with the help of a grant from the Nuffield Foundation for which I am very grateful. Digitisation of the main text and the photographs from Meek has been conducted as part of a pilot project with pump-priming funding from the University of Oxford. Routledge kindly gave copyright permission for digitisation and circulation of this chapter to interested parties.

There are a variety of ways in which annotations can be included. For the present they are included in two different ways since I have yet to be persuaded about the best way of doing it, and would be most grateful for comments from readers.

The text of each annotation has been typed up and is included as a footnote (different from the original footnotes which have been included in the main text) at the end of the document. As an alternative the annotations have been transformed into graphics (using an appropriate handwriting-like font) and these have been included in the text. These graphics also serve as HTML links which will take the reader from Meek's text to the note.

Why have I typed the annotations and not scanned them? They are in faint pencil which would be tricky (but not impossible) to scan. Rehfisch's handwriting is not the easiest to read. I have therefore used my experience with his writing to help decipher the annotations.

Since the document with the graphics has become quite big each page has been made into a separate file. This has the advantage of replicating the individual pages of the book, and a WAIS index will soon allow searching of the whole document. Finally, a link has been made between one of the plates (on p. 552) and some of the photographs I took in Nigeria in April 1993 (there are more to come).

It is hoped that this will be but the first of a variety of background documents pertaining to the Mambila connected into a hypertextual web that will illuminate rather than befuddle the interested reader.

zeitlyn@vax.ox.ac.uk

anthro-l@ubvm.BITNET, museum-L@unmvma.BITNET Dr David Zeitlyn, British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 51 Banbury Rd, Oxford, OX2 6PE, UK Tel. 44-1865-274685 FAX 44-1865-274630 From: mfsweany@mtu.edu (Margaret Faler Sweany) Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: COMPUTERS AND ETHICS Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 10:31:25 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 174 (287) Dear Moderator: Would you be kind enough to post this to your list so we may contact those in the Humanities who might be interested in the ethical implications of technologies in the Humanities? Thank you, Margaret FalerSweany. CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTERS AND ETHICS For those of you who are not familiar with _Computers and Composition_, I would like to say that despite the limitation in audience and scope suggested by the journal's title, the journal has historically dealt with a rather broad range of issues in computer use. Thus, we feel that it is an appropriate forum for the discussion of computers and ethics that is described in this announcement. We would like to make clear that this invitation to submit papers stands for all scholars who have integrated computer-assisted communication or discussions thereof into their courses, regardless of the primary course content. So please, read, submit, pass it on. Thank you. CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTERS AND ETHICS W. J. Williamson and David James Miller of Michigan Technological University are seeking articles that focus across the range of ethical issues that come into play when computers are used in classrooms having writing components for a special issue of _Computers and Compsition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing_ (edited by G. E. Hawisher and C. L. Selfe). Of special interest are arguments that render problematic the ethics of the practice of such teachers, that probe beneath the characterization of "codes of ethics" or descriptions of ethcal dilemmas, or that move beyond the too-simple acceptance of new technologies as unproblematic. Articles in this forum might, for example, consider the relationships of ethics to the socio-economic factors involved in implementation of computer technology, the importance of gender, race, and ethnicity in computer-assisted professional and pedagogical settings, the implications of professional and pedagogical theory in computer-assisted settings, and the teacher's faith or distrust in computer technology as an educational tool. Interested authors should submit by 1 March 1995 the following materials: -> A cover page providing the author's name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and the title of the manuscript. -> Two copies of a 3000-7000 word manuscript that are titled but do not provide the author's name or other identifying features. All authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their manuscript by 1 June 1995. Manuscripts should be sent to the following address: Computers and Composition Attn: Computers and Ethics Special Issue Department of Humanities Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931-1295 phone: (906) 487-3234 e-mail: wjwillia@mtu.edu Prospective authors who have any questions about this process may contact W. J. Williamson at the above e-mail address. *************************************************** The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. -----P. Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, p. 188 *************************************************** Ms. Margaret L. FalerSweany Associate Editor CCCC Bibliography on Rhetoric and Composition Humanities Department Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931 mfsweany@mtu.edu %&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&% From: Jack Kolb Subject: (COPY) 8.0156 Qs: Faculty at Bennington; E-Cardinal Newman Date: Wed, 07 Sep 94 22:56 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 163 (288) I don't know whether anyone has responded to Brian Donovan's request (for information about Cardinal Newman): the two obvious lists are VICTORIA and CHRIST-L. Of the two, I think VICTORIA might be able to answer inquires more assiduously. I'd be glad to provide specific information on subscribing to either via private mail. Jack Kolb IKW4GWI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU From: "DONALD A. COLEMAN (EXT. 2850)" Subject: Re: 8.0166 Rs: Reading Aids; Stop Words; Context; Article; Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1994 15:13:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 164 (289) To whomever this may concern: There are several reading systems for the blind out there. As a blind person who uses two very different types of reading aid, I know. The one mentioned by Michael is one of the best of them, if not the best. On the other hand, there is a system that works with the IBM computers of the 486 and higher levels; it's called Arkenstone. If by any chance I can supply anyone with helpful information about equipment for blind academics, students, etc., please let me know. Don Coleman From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: review of the EPFTD Date: Thu, 8 Sep 94 21:40:59 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 176 (290) HUMANISTs may be interested to note the review of The English Full-Text Poetry Database by John Sutherland, "When in Rom", in the London Review of Books for 9 June 1994, pp. 7-8. Most of it is a mild celebration of the commercial venture, "the kind of alliance between profit-driven entrepreneurs and institutions of learning that Tory theorists foresee as the salvation of Britain's higher-education sector". Whether salvation is the likely result, and whether we are actually better off for various scholarly concerns having been overlooked, are questions some here may wish to debate. My eyebrows were raised, however, by a prediction at the very end of Sutherland's review: The whole idea of critical brilliance will come more and more to depend on the ability to devise elegant algorithms as the databases become larger, more interactive, with subtler tagging and search facilities. This is an interesting claim. Let us assume for the purposes of argument that devising these algorithms can "by the end of the century" -- the millenary moment of Sutherland's prediction -- be done using some computing language congenial to literary scholars. (In less than 6 years?) Let us further assume that these databases have continued to grow beyond the size at which no scholar can have read through the resource he or she is using. Will we be wanting to define the elegance of literary algorithms as our colleagues in the sciences do, "pleasing by ingenious simplicity and effectiveness" (OED)? How will effectiveness be determined? The realm of literary data is rather different from the realm of physical data. I don't mean to dismiss Sutherland's notion that algorithms will be important, or more generally, that empirical modeling of literary theories will. In a lecture Northrop Frye delivered here in Toronto a few years ago he noted that were he writing Anatomy of Criticism now he would pay a great deal of attention to computational modeling, as some of us are doing now. What seems to me to need more thought is the interaction between elegant algorithms and unaided human insight into imaginative literature -- or more accurately, between algorithmic and intuitive thinking, both equally human but profoundly different. Only a believer in the myth of progress will fail to see that the latter is not finite and thus doomed to be conquered by the former. Shouldn't our attention be directed to the moving intersection of these two rather than to the silly contest between academic generations, "the old buffers pitted against the new virtuosi of the virtual library"? Willard McCarty Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: gpl@fct.unl.pt Subject: Call for papers: Fifth International Workshop on Natural language Date: Thu, 8 Sep 94 15:50:19 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 177 (291) PLEASE POST PLEASE POST PLEASE POST PLEASE POST Fifth International Workshop on Natural language Understanding and Logic Programming NLULP5 CALL FOR PAPERS Conference dates: May 29 (Mon) --- 31 (Wed), 1995 Conference place: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal Chairman: Gabriel Pereira Lopes Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science and Technology Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, 2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal Phon. +351-1-295 3220 Fax. +351-1-295 56 41 Email. gpl@fct.unl.pt Program Committee: Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara) Harvey Abramson (Aizu) Charles Grant Brown (Stockholm) Veronica Dahl (Vancouver) Sandiway Fong (NEC, Princeton) Mark Johnson (Providence, RI) Martin Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto) Gregers Koch (Copenhagen) Michael C. McCord (IBM Yorktown) Fred Popowich (Vancouver) Patrick Saint-Dizier (Toulouse) Luis Moniz Pereira (Lisbon) Helder Coelho (Lisbon) Ryoichi Sugimura(Matsushita Electric Ind.,Osaka) Gabriel P. Lopes (Lisbon) (chair) The Organizing Committee of the Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Logic Programming invites the submission of papers for NLULP5, in Lisbon, Portugal. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Logic Programming applications to computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, the followings. - syntax - parsing - semantics - generation - phonetics - language understanding - phonology - speech analysis/synthesis - morphology - computational lexicons - discourse - electronic dictionaries - pragmatics - terminology - quantitative/qualitative linguistics - text database and retrieval - mathematical linguistics - documentation - contrastive linguistics - machine translation - cognitive linguistics - machine aids for translation - large text corpora - natural language interface - text processing - dialogue systems - hardware/software for NLP - multimedia systems It will be nice to have in Lisbon Practical Applications of PROLOG in the area of NLU, for demonstrating Prolog's attractiveness for this area. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION: Papers should have a maximum fifteen pages in final format, should be written in English, and describe original work. They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of preliminary versions of their papers with the page limits above, on A4 paper with the title, author(s), addresses (including email if possible), affiliation across the page top, a short (five to ten line) summary, and a specification of the topic area preferably drawn from the list above. As well, authors are strongly urged to email the title page information by the deadline date. Send the papers and emails to the chair. IMPORTANT DATES: Preliminary paper submission due: December 19, 1994 Notification of paper arrival: December 31, 1994 Inquiries for lost papers: January 20, 1995 Acceptance notification: March 1, 1995 Camera-ready copies due: April 1, 1995 REVIEW SCHEDULE: Preliminary papers are due by 19 December 1994. Papers received after that date will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt by 31 December 1994. All inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by January 20, 1995. Designated authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 1995. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared according to the publisher requirements, must be received by 1 April 1995 by the chair along with a signed copyright release statement. Papers received after that date may not be included in the proceedings. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS Accepted papers will appear in the conference "Proceedings". Springer-Verlag of Berlin, AI series, will probably publish the Proceedings. OTHER ACTIVITIES: (1) Invited talks and panels will be included in the program. Proposals and suggestions for invited talks and panels should be sent to the chair as soon as possible. (2) Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief description, together with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to the chair. (3) An attractive social program will be organized for people willing to know more about Portugal, Lisbon and its surroundings. (4) At that time of the year the weather is quite worm and unpolluted beaches are nearby Lisbon, at Costa da Caparica. From: HOKE ROBINSON Subject: Kant Congress announcement as of 9/10/94 Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 11:36:26 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 178 (292) EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL KANT CONGRESS with "Kant and the Problem of Peace" March 1-5, 1995 Memphis, Tennessee USA The Kant-Gesellschaft e.V. (Bonn) has authorized the University of Memphis, in collaboration with the North American Kant Society, to h ost the Eighth International Kant Congress. The congress will be held March 1-5, 1995 in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, in conjunction with the featured conference series, ``Kant and the Problem of Peace.'' Opening Session Welcoming Ceremonies: Representatives of the Kant-Gesellschaft, the North American Kant Society, the University of Memphis, the city of Memphis, the state of Tennessee, the United States of America and the F ederal Republic of Germany. Opening Addresses: Mary Gregor (San Diego State); Jules Vuillemin (Paris). Kant and the Problem of Peace Symposium Topics: Freedom; Religion; History; Law; Government; Soci ety; Morality; Politics. Speakers Include: Henry Allison (San Diego), Shlomo Avineri (Jerusalem), Reinhard Brandt (Marburg), Sharon Byrd (Augsburg), Jean Ferrari (Dijon), George Fletcher (Columbia), Georg Geismann (Munich), Volker Gerhardt (Berlin), Paul Guyer (Pennsylvania), Joachim Hruschka (Erlangen), `Jan Joerden (Frankfurt/Oder), Leonid Kalinnikov (Kaliningrad), Wolfgang Kersting (Hannover), Pauline Kleingeld (St. Louis), Pierre Laberge (Ottawa), Bernd Ludwig (Munich), Rudolf Makkreel (Emory), Jeffrey Murphy (Arizona State), Onora O'Neill (Cambridge), Francoise Proust ( Paris), Patrick Riley (Wisconsin/Harvard), Ludwig Siep (Muenster), Ernest Weinrib (Toronto), Reiner Wimmer (Tuebingen), Allen Wood (Cornell). Kantian Themes Symposium Topics: Mathematics; Psychology; Logic; Deduction; Pre-History; Dialectic; Science; Opus postumum; Phenomenology; Kantians; Ethics; Aesthetics; Teleology; Space; Hegel; 3rd Critique; Critical Theory; Kant Research Today. Speakers Include: Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame), Richard Aquila (Tennessee), John Atwell (Temple), Marcia Baron (Illinois-Urbana), Manfred Baum (Wuppertal), Graham Bird (Manchester), James Bohman (St. Louis), Daniel Breazeale (Kentucky), Vladimir Bryushinkin (Kaliningrad), Jill Buroker (San Bernardino), Robert Butts (Western Ontario), Mario Caimi (Buenos Aires), Wolfgang Carl (Goettingen), Martin Carrier (Heidelberg), Bernd Doerflinger (Mainz), Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh), Eckard Foerster (Stanford), Christel Fricke (Heidelberg), Michael Friedman (Chicago), Ludg er Honnefelder (Bonn), Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Munich), Stephen Houlgate (DePaul), Fumiyasu Ishikawa (Sendai), Klaus Kaehler (Cologne), Patricia Kitcher (San Diego), Jane Kneller (Colorado State), Manfred Kuehn (Purdue), Rudolf Langthaler (Vienna), Claudio La Rocca (Pisa), Beatrice Longuenesse (Princeton), Rudolf Malter (Mainz), Francois Marty (Paris), Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern), Ralf Meerbote (Rochester), J. N. Mohanty (Temple), Susan Neiman (Yale), Frederick Neuhouser (Harvard), Jean Petitot (Paris), Robert Pippin (Chicago), Carl Posy (Duke), Gian-Carlo Rota (MIT), Walter Schaller (Texas Tech), Dennis Schmidt (Villanova), Sally Sedgwick (Dartmouth), Thomas Seebohm (Mainz), Nancy Sherman (Georgetown), David Stern (Toledo, Ohio), Dieter Sturma (Lueneburg), Roger Sullivan (South Carolina), Burkhard Tuschling (Marburg), James Van Cleve (Brown), Michael Young (Kansas), Guenter Zoeller (Iowa). The Rawls Legacy Speakers Include: Barbara Herman (Southern California), Thomas Hill (Chapel Hill), Christine Korsgaard (Harvard), Susan Neiman (Yale), John Rawls (Harvard), Andrews Reath (Raleigh). Kant Reception in Eastern Europe Speakers Include: Karol Bal (Wroclaw), Leonid Kalinnikov (Kaliningrad), Rado Riha (Ljubljana), Leonid Stolovich (Tartu), Andrei Sudakov (Moscow). Kant Reception in Asia Speakers Include: Arindan Chakrabarti (Delhi), Golam Dastagir (Dhak a), Steven Palmquist (Hong Kong), Terence Hua Tai (Taipei), Shin-Chi Yuas a (Kyoto). Kant Dissemination Speakers Include: Paul Guyer (Pennsylvania), Manfred Kuehn (Purdue) , Winfried Lenders (Bonn), Rudolf Malter (Mainz), Nellie Motroschilova (Moscow), Werner Stark (Marburg), Miroslav Zelazny (Torun). Current Work on the Philosophy of Kant This section consists of a series of colloquia containing c. 100 refereed contributions on all aspects of Kant's work and influence. * * * --For registration information please contact: Organizing Committee, Eighth International Kant Congress, Department of Philosophy, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38152 U. S. A. (Tel: +901-678-3356; Fax: +901-678-4365; E-mail: ROBINSONH@MSUVX1.MEMPHIS.EDU ) --For hotel reservations, contact Crowne Plaza Hotel (specifying "Kant Congress rate"), 250 N. Main, Memphis, Tennessee 38103 U.S.A. (Tel: +901-527-7300; Fax +901-526-1561). --For special air fares and other travel arrangements, contact Ann Scobie, Hanover Travel, 0 N. Evergreen St., Memphis, Tennessee U.S.A (Tel: +901-276-4404; Fax +901-276-4494).1A Please excuse the delay in sending out registration forms. Some of the information to be included on the form is unfortunately still not available, but we hope to obtain it and have the forms sent out in the next two weeks. From: Marc Nelissen Subject: distribution list Date: Fri, 09 Sep 94 16:52:34 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 165 (293) As editor of STUDIUM, a distribution list for university history, I would like to evaluate the functioning of this list. I am looking for information about membership, participation, topics treated ... of other lists, but until now I have not found a single evaluation report of another list, be it published in printed or electronic form. I am also interested in more general reflections about the usefullness and the use of this kind of discussion lists in the academic world. Is anybody aware of a reference ? Many thanks, Marc Nelissen ...................................................................... : : : Marc Nelissen E-mail: FFAAI01@blekul11 : : University archives KULeuven FFAAI01@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be : : Mgr. Ladeuzeplein 21 : : B-3000 Leuven Tel: 32 16 28 46 32 : : BELGIUM Fax: 32 16 28 46 91 : : : : For joining STUDIUM, the university history discussion list, : : please contact me. : : : :....................................................................: From: Alan Cooper and Tamar Frank Subject: Home History Library Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1994 11:54:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 166 (294) I just received a solicitation to purchase a set of cd-rom discs called the "Home History Library." It is a product of a company called the Bureau of Electronic Publishing, Inc, in Parsippany, NJ. The set includes US History, History of the World, Countries of the Worls, and Great Literature, all for $100. I would be grateful to hear from anyone who has experience with these discs, as well as any advice about whether or not they are worth acquiring. Many thanks, Alan Cooper From: franchet%ccvax.hepnet@Csa4.LBL.Gov (PAULO FRANCHETTI) Subject: Plato's 7th letter. Date: Fri, 9 Sep 94 15:47:47 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 167 (295) Does anyone know in which volume could I find a text I saw referred as "the seventh letter" of Plato? Thank you. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = * Paulo Franchetti * = = franchet@ccvax.unicamp.br = =---------------------------------------------= = Institute for Language Studies = = State University at Campinas (UNICAMP) = = FAX: 55-192-391501 - Po Box 6045 = = 13081-970 - Campinas - Sao Paulo - BRAZIL = -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: PO1::"USERHEEM@UMICHUM.BITNET" 16-AUG-1994 01:40:11.98 Subject: Reminder: Michigan Slavic Colloquium "Slavistics and Ideology" Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 09:15:18 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 180 (296) To: gfowler@ucs.indiana.edu Subj: Colloquium announcement COLLOQUIUM ANNOUNCEMENT Distribute locally Slavistics and Ideology A Michigan Slavic Colloquium The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor September 16-17, 1994 Friday, September 16 East Conference Room, Rackham Bldg., 4th floor 4:00 Opening KEYNOTE ADDRESS Horace Lunt, Harvard University: On Nationalist Bias in Slavic Studies: Facts, Assumptions, Opinions, and Consequences Saturday, September 17 Lane Hall Conference Room 10:00 Ladislav Matejka, University of Michigan: On Roman Jakobson's Interpretation of Proglas as the First Czechoslovak Poem 10:40 Jindrich Toman, University of Michigan: Scholarship and Its Grand Causes: Jakobson's Controversy With Egon Hostovsky, New York, 1943 11: 20 Bohumila Ferencuhova, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava: Co-Creating Central Europe: French Slavists and France's Foreign Affairs, 1914-1918 (presentation in French) 12:00-2:00 LUNCH BREAK 2:00 Benjamin Stolz, University of Michigan: Language and Nationalism in Yugoslavia 2:40 Patrick Seriot, Universite Lausanne: Marr's Linguistics and Trubetzkoy's Eurasianism: A Conflict of Metaphors 3:20 V. M. Alpatov & F. D. Asnin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow: Slavists and Stalinism: 1930s-1950s 4:00-4:15 COFFEE BREAK 4:15 Round Table Discussion For information contact: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 3040 Modern Languages Building, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275, phone: (313) 764-5355 The colloquium is co-sponsored by the following divisions of the University of Michigan: Center for Russian and East European Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, The International Institute. *************************** From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Home History Library on CD-ROM Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 20:05:06 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 168 (297) The Bureau of Electronic Publishing is a reputable organization, and I have dealt with them many times. Whether you like the products listed depends on you. For me, I find Great Literature very useful. It contains probably more pieces of literature than any of the other "Books" "Literature" etc. on CD-ROM. De gustibus ... Jim Marchand. From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Plato's Seventh Letter Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 07:27:23 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 169 (298) Plato's Seventh Letter, the stuff scholarly romances are made of. It was one of the first works athetized by use of computer stylistics, by the doughty A. Q. Morgan. The authenticity of it (and other of Plato's letters) has been challenged many times. A running bibliography of items on it can be found in Richard D. McKirahan, Jr., Plato and Socrates. A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1958-1973 (NY: Garland, 1978), 182-185 and (better) in Wilhelm Totok, Handbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie, vol. 1 (Altertum) (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1964), 209-210. If you are looking for the original, most editions of the Letters will contain the seventh, e. g.: Lettere, A cura di A. Maddalena (Bari, 1948). If you are looking for a translation, you can find them into many different languages. A convenient English version is Epistles, transl. with crit essays and notes by G. R. Morrow. Library of Liberal Arts, 122 (Indianapolis, 1962). The Reclam library puts out an inexpensive German version. There is even a concordance to the Letters, produced back in the days when computer stylistics was in flower. ! Jim Marchand. From: "David A. Hoekema" Subject: Reply: Plato letter Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 10:07:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 170 (299) [deleted quotation] The "Seventh Letter" of Plato can be found in the Hamilton and Cairns _Collected Dialogues_ (Princeton Press, Bollingen Series), and I presume in other collected editions, though my edition of Jowett's translations contains none of the letters. When I have wanted to use it in classes not wholly devoted to Plato (and not being a Platonic specialist, my colleagues have known better than to assign me such a course), I have ordered the Hamilton translation of the _Phaedrus_ and Letters VII and VIII in the Penguin Classics series. [deleted quotation]Letter, once regarded as spurious, is now accepted by most scholars as genuine; most of the other letters, I think, are still under a rather heavy cloud. The seventh is very interesting philosophically: Sheldon Wolin and some others make a great deal of Plato's response there to the repeated failure of his attempts to put sound philosophy of the _polis_ into practice through his pupil and purported protege Dion. It is possible to use the letter as a link between the _Republic_ and the _Laws_, particularly in light of the discussion in the _Laws_ itself to the effect that government by the best individuals is a regrettable compromise with human nature, which cannot achieve the ideal of government by the best state. || David Hoekema, Academic Dean, Calvin College (Grand Rapids MI 49546) || || tel. 616 957-6442 || fax 616 957-8551 || || From: Subject: Next Conference Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 18:17:15 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 182 (300) Dear colleagues, thanks for the interest you showed in the "Virtual Reality Vienna'93". We are now proud to present a new conference, slightly moved from Vienna (Austria) to Stuttgart (Germany), bigger and hopefully of even more quality! This conference is actually the fusion of the three biggest Virtual Reality conferences in Europe. Expect the best... Any suggestion and proposal is welcome. Yours, Christian Bauer c/o Christian Bauer & Freunde Hoettinger Gasse 8 A-6020 Innsbruck Austria / Europe Tel +43 512 29 57 60 Fax +43 512 28 16 98 Email chris@well.sf.ca.us (if the above adress doesn't work...) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Information on the "VIRTUAL REALITY WORLD 1995" 21st to 23rd February of 1995 in Stuttgart, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------- The "Virtual Reality World 1995 (VRW'95)" is an international conference on Virtual Reality, with speeches, tutorials, exhibits and social events. VRW'95 is a fusion of the three main Virtual Reality events in Europe: 1. "Virtual Reality Forum '93 and '94" organised by the FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTES IAO and IPA 2. "Virtual Reality Conference" in London sponsored by MECKLERMEDIA 3. "Virtual Reality Vienna '93" sponsored by IDG AUSTRIA Main Sponsor for the VRW'95 is IDG CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS / COMPUTERWOCHE Verlag GmbH,Germany. Mecklermedia is organizing the exhibit and the two Fraunhofer Institutes do the scientific supervision. The agenda is organized by the Fraunhofer Institutes IAO and IPA and Christian Bauer, the initiator and agenda- coordinator of the "Virtual Reality Vienna '93". Some figures: The organizers of the VRW'95 plan to have 500 conference attendees from about 25 countries and more than 3000 visitors of the exhibition. On the first day, the 21st of February 1995, tutorials will be offered, on the follwoing two days there will be about 50 speeches from international experts. The VRW'95 claims to be the leading European event. More Information on the VRW'95 will follow in the next weeks. The chairmen of the programme committee are: Prof. H.-J. Bullinger, IAO Prof. R.-D. Schraft, IPA Finally some persons, who already agreed to speak on the VRW'95: Prof. Nat Durlach, MIT Prof. Ken Kaplan, Harvard Dr. Sandra Helsel, Virtual Reality World Ben Delaney, CyberEdge Journal Dr. Ian Hunter, MIT Prof. Edouard Bannwart, Art + Com Dr. Robert Stone, AARL Prof. Gerd Hirzinger, German Aerospace Establishment Prof. Nadja Thalmann, University of Geneva Dr. Lew Hitchner, Xtensory Howard Rheingold, Writer end. From: "Gina L. Greco" Subject: Spanish and German discussion lists Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 13:13:00 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 183 (301) I will be teaching a kind of Introduction to Graduate Studies course for the M.A. program in Foreign Langauges and Literatures at Portland State University. Our program includes French, German and Spanish at the M.A. level. I would like to introduce the students to discussion groups in their various fields of interest, which at PSU include a mixture of literature, linguistics, and language pedagogy. I am familiar with a number of French lists, since that is my field. Could anyone suggest gGrman and/or Spanish lists that might be of interest to my students? You can respond to me directly, and I'll post a summary of the suggestions to Humanist. My address is: BNGG@psuorvm.cc.pdx.edu Thank you in advance, Gina L. Greco From: LKOSKI@finabo.abo.fi Subject: request: letter writing as a genre Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 12:34:51 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 171 (302) I would like to place the following request for the members of the Humanist network: I am working on Emily Dickinson and her letters, and would like to know more about letter writing as a genre. I can't seem to be able to find theoretical works about that subject. The only ones I have managed to find are Smith-Rosenberg: "Disorderly Conduct" and Faderman: "Surpassing the Love of Men", both excellent books, but I would like to find more about letter writing as a genre. I would very much appreciate any information you could provide me with! Many thanks in advance, Lena Koski ]bo Akademi University F{nriksgatan 3 A 20500 Turku Finland e-mail: lena.koski@abo.fi From: Robert OBrien Subject: Q: mournful celebrations Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 10:33:51 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 172 (303) Can anyone tell me about a festival or celebration that turned mournful because the participants believed the event might be the one of last? I'm especially interested in occasions when the people involved feel their culture is threatened. I'd like to hear about literary works, personal experiences, ethnographies, or folktales that contain such events. Thanks, Robert O'Brien robrien@oavax.csuchico.edu From: "David A. Hoekema" Subject: Correction: Plato letter Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 11:59:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 185 (304) The transposition of two words in my posting of September 12 made it appear that, having read and digested the REPUBLIC and the LAWS of Plato, I had mistaken the one for the other. Service in academic administration has not yet so thoroughly corrupted my intellect as that. Here is what I meant to say: one can read the REPUBLIC as offering the ideal of government by the wisest and most virtuous men, the LAWS as a compromise with human nature establishing a framework of laws which is less amenable to corruption, and the Seventh Letter as the sad tale of Plato's education in the school, so to speak, of hard knocks. This is an oversimplification, but one I find useful. || David Hoekema, Academic Dean, Calvin College (Grand Rapids MI 49546) || || tel. 616 957-6442 || fax 616 957-8551 || || From: Lou Burnard Subject: Text of Article published in Economist, aug 27th 94 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 18:47:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 186 (305) [ There follows the text of an article published in the British Weekly, The Economist, issue dated 27 August 1994, which I think many on this list will find interesting and encouraging LB ] The Lays of Ancient ROM Databases are transforming scholarship in the most conservative comers of the academy, forcing technological choices even on to the humanities IN 1987 a budding classicist from the University of Lausanne finished four years of labour. She had spent them scouring ancient Greek tomes searching for the classical sources of 2,000 anonymous fragments of medieval text. Then, just when she was getting down to writing her doctoral dissertation, all that effort was eclipsed. In a few dozen hours working with a new database she found every one of her 600 hard-won sources again -- and 300 more that had passed her by. That database, the Thesaurus Linguae Grecae, was the first of the tools that is transforming the staid world of what used to be bookish learning. When computers were mere calculating machines, only the sciences had need of them. Now that they can be easily used to scan vast memories at inhuman speeds, the humanities have every reason to catch up. Whole libraries are vanishing into the digital domain, where their contents can be analysed exhaustively. The changes in the practice of scholarship may be greater than any since Gutenberg. The process seems now to have been inevitable, but even the inevitable has to start somewhere. In the 1970s a group of classicists at the University of California, Irvine, thought up a then extraordinary goal: having every extant word of ancient Greek literature in a single database; 3,000 authors, 66m words, all searchable, accessible and printable. With the help of nearby computer companies, this idea became the Thesaurus Linguae Grecae. There are now 1,400 places around the world where a classicist can use it to do a lifetime's worth of scanning for allusions or collecting references just for a single essay. On compact disc, the whole thesaurus costs about $300. Scholars using the growing electronic- text archives at such places as Oxford University, the University of Virginia and Rutgers University, New Jersey, have more than the classics to play with. There are at least five different competing software bibles, some with parallel texts that provide Greek and Hebrew, and several with full concordances and indexing. Shakespeare's words have been done as well as God's; indeed, the entire canon of British poetry prior to this century is now digitised. So is Aquinas. Wittgenstein's unpublished fragments -- 20,000 pages of them -- are expected soon; so are 221 volumes of Migne's Patrologia Latina, a collection of theological writings that date from between 200 AD and the Council of Florence in 1439. Some of this is the work of governments and charities: half the $7m needed for the Thesaurus Linguae Grecae came from America's National Endowment for the Humanities, the other half from foundations and private patrons. Some of it is done for profit, just like traditional publishing. The English Poetry Full-Text Database (EPFID), released in June on four compact discs by Chadwyck Healey, a company in Cambridge, England, costs #30,000 ($46,500). It took four years to assemble from roughly 4,500 volumes of verse; it is easy to use, and is poised to become an in- dispensable research tool. Chadwyck Healey says it has sold more than 100 copies. The company is now working on an index to the entire runs of more than 2,000 scholarly journals. Typing in every word of a nation's literary heritage is a time-consuming and expensive task, even when the work is exported to take advantage of cheap labour in Asia, as it almost always is. Another approach is to record the appearance of books and other writings, ratherthan their contents, by scan ning in images of them. The Archive of the Indies in Seville has used IBM scanners and software to put near-perfect facsimiles ofthe letters of Columbus, Cortes and their contemporaries on to the screen. Years of scanning by a full-time staff of 30 people has put more than 10m handwritten pages -- one-seventh of the total -- into the archive's memory banks. The computers store the pages as images, not text, so they cannot be searched and compared in the way that the EPFID can. They offer scholars other compensations, though. Scanners like those originally designed for medical imaging provide extremely detailed and subtle digitisation. This can then be fed through image- enhancement software, so ancient smudges and ink-spills can be filtered out. And since the users cannot damage the copies as they might the originals, humble students can have access to documents previously available only to a handful of elite scholars. The Seville project is proving so successful that IBM and El Corte Ingles, a big Spanish retailer, have founded a company to market the tech- niques used. Half-a-dozen ventures are already under way, including a proposal to digitise the gargantuan (and recently- opened) Comintern archives in Moscow. Logos and log-ons It is possible to combine the image of a page with searchable electronic text, simply by having both stored in the same system with cross-references. A Chaucer archive that of- fers multiple manuscripts and searchable texts is being released one Canterbury tale at a time ("The Wife of Bath" comes first). Of course, putting both together costs even more than a straight text database, and those can be pretty expensive. The EPFTD works out at a quite reasonable $10-or-so per volume -- but that still makes it a pricey proposition when bought, as it must be, all at once. The cost of such commercially compiled databases worries some scholars, not to mention librarians. It is not their only worry. The difference between a printed page and the text it contains is not just one of aesthetics; there can be meaning in the way typefaces are chosen, in how pages are laid out, in the indentations before lines and the gaps between them. There are data on the title page that apply to the whole text. A good database has to encode all this information somehow, and has to offer ways in which it can be used in searches. That is why databases have "mark-up languages", which allow the text and the spaces within it to be tagged with particular meanings. Mark-up languages tell the computer, for example, that a title is a title and a footnote is a footnote; the computer can then display them as such, with typefaces to taste, and the interested user can search the text for titles and footnotes. The more complex the search, the more extensive the mark-up required. The mark-up for the EPFTD allows the computer to identify things like stanzas, verses, dates and names. In a perfect world mark-ups would be neutral and descriptive, capable of applying equally well to almost any texts. In practice individual mark-up languages have sprung up like mushrooms. There is now a move to concentrate on using the Standard Generalised Mark-up Language (SGML) to define the codes that tag text. It was developed at IBM for lawyers, and adopted by the Pentagon for its mountains of manuals. At present SGML is probably the most widely used mark-up language; officially, it is an international standard. But it is not necessarily ideal for academics, who are aware that the way a text is marked up will have far-reaching implications for the kind of research that is possible. Marking up is an invisible act of interpretation; the scholars want the interpreting left to them. That is why so much effort has gone into a specific way of using SGML for prose, verse, drama and other forms of text that are pored over by scholars. The Text Encoding Initiative is the sort of huge multinational research effort that nuclear physicists are used to but that scholars in the humanities can still be shocked by. After six years of work, supported financially by the American government, the European Union and others, the TEI published its guidelines in May -- all 1,300 pages of them. More than 100 TEI scholars have had to decide everything from how poetry should be distinguished from prose to whether footnotes to footnotes are admissible in conforming texts. Their peers seem happy with the work. Standardised formats will enable electronic texts to move on-line. That will make them available from any computer hooked up to a telephone line, not just from a dedicated terminal devoted to a single database and nothing else. That is good for the far- flung; the University of Dubrovnik, its library destroyed, has just been given a networked computer terminal that puts it on-line to a host of foreign databases. It is also good for the independent researcher. Texts will be freed from academia's grip, just as books before them were freed from the church and the wealthy by printing. More research; different research, too. Speculative hypotheses about influence or style will be rigorously testable by textual comparisons as cheap and plentiful as the numerical calculations in a computer model of the weather. Critics still raise the spectre of great literature passing under the die-stamp of conformity, but some degree of conformity may be a price of new forms of access. The first die-stamp for literature was a printing press. The passing of the illuminated manuscript made the world a slightly poorer place; the coming of print made it a far, far richer one. ------------------------------------ From: "Jeannet, Paula" Subject: Last hurrahs Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 08:59:03 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 173 (306) In response to Robert O'Brien's inquiry: wouldn't it be worthwhile to look for representations of "mournful celebrations" in such movies as "On The Beach"? I think there are such scenes in that film. There must be many other instances in apocalyptic films, but I can't think of them right now -- haven't had my coffee yet! Paula pjeannet@acpub.duke.edu From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: letter writing Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 09:38:52 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 174 (307) There is a huge literature on letter writing, and it depends on the angle you want to take. On epistolary novels, for example: G. F. Singer, _The Epistolary Novel_ (1933); C. E. Cany, _The Beginnings of the Epistolary Novel in France, Italy, and Spain (Berkeley, 1937); F. G. Black, _The Epistolary Novel in the Late 18th Century_ (Eugene, OR, 1940). There are grand collections of letters and letter formularies, such as that of L. Rockinger, Ueber Briefe und Formelbuecher, etc.; cf. also J. Robertson, _The Art of Letter Writing_ (Liverpool, 1942); M. Rouszan, _La lettre_ (Paris, 1902). And I haven't even gotten started. There are books on letters from heaven, from hell, fictional letters, poetic letters (Donne, Dryden, Pope, Keats). Some of the medieval artes dictaminis are quite instructive on how to get money from your parents when you are off at school, etc. I hope I am not wandering too far afield, but I just pulled down from the shelf behind my head: Epistolographi latini minores, vol. 1, Aetatem anteciceronianam amplectens, 2 vols. (Turin: Paravia, 1970). Even the Romans worried about how to write letters, and Cicero sure wrote a lot of them. Jim Marchand. From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: 9/29 JJS: Joyce & Music Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 23:58:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 188 (308) Please post and share this announcement: forgive any cross postings. THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY presents "Music as Narrative Technique in Joyce" A talk and musical peformance by MARGARET ROGERS Thursday, Sept. 29, 1994 at 8:00 p.m. Second floor of the Gotham Book Mart, 41 West 47th Street, New York, N. Y. 10036. Ms. Rogers will illuminate the decoding theory and other ideas behind the use of music in such Joyce texts as "The Dead," "Sirens" in _Ulysses_, and "ALP" in _Finnegans Wake_. Further, she will illustrate her talk with live and taped music examples. Active with orchestras and choruses in Chicago and Milwaukee, Ms. Rogers has presented musical talks and performances at many Joyce conferences. Berni Benstock Memorial: On Wednesday, October 26, the James Joyce Society will present a memorial meeting in honor of the late Berni Benstock. Murray Beja and Ellen Carol Jones will speak. The meeting will follow Shari Benstock's previously scheduled book signing for her biography of Edith Wharton. The James Joyce Society, now in its fifth decade, meets four times a year at the Gotham Book Mart in New York City. Annual membership is $7.50. Guests admissions are $2.50 at the door. For additional information about the James Joyce Society, or to join or renew, write Philip Lyman, Gotham Book Mart, 41 W. 47th St., New York, N. Y. 10036. Telephone: (212) 719-4448. -Sid Feshbach -President of the James Joyce Society From: Paul Brassey Subject: Books in Print? Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 11:39:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 189 (309) Does anyone know whether Books in Print, or an equivalent, is available via the Internet? Thanks in advance. Paul Brassey Harvard Divinity School brassey@fas.harvard.edu From: fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be (Francis Heylighen) Subject: Interdisciplinary Conference: "Einstein meets Magritte" Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 16:14:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 190 (310) FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Einstein meets Magritte An interdisciplinary reflection on science, nature, human action and society Conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel May 29 / June 3, Brussels, Belgium Never before has humanity made such an attempt as now to take its fate into its own hands (science and technology). The increasing speed of current global changes, however, leads to a sense of disorientation. Need this paradox be resolved, and if so, can it be dealt with from a perception that knowledge and actions lead to ever larger fragmentation? Different attitudes prevail, involving respectively; (1) an attempt to reconstitute a form of unity, often projecting the hope that the alleged unwanted effects of scientific and technological progress will become comprehensible and eventually controllable; (2) a relativist attitude, depicting the modern worldview, with its instruments and products (western science and technology), as one among many conceivable,and probably not the most desirable, course for humanity. Each of these attitudes tends to portray the other as a caricature. 'Relativists' stigmatize attempts at unification as dictatorial, unfeasible and naive. Relativism, in its turn, is said to lead anywhere and nowhere at all. The aim of the conference is to gather scholars from different domains, inviting them to set up a dialogue between the above attitudes, and integrate the more relevant insights of both into a new perspective on global change. We have taken up the two myths of Albert Einstein and Rene Magritte, because we believe that where they 'meet' some significant clues might be revealed. How does science (producing knowledge and technology) confront art (producing revelations and sensations)? Do we have to oppose life 'within object' (the conscious ordering of the physical and social world, symbolized in 'Einstein') to a form of life 'beyond object' (symbolized in the imagery of Magritte)? Tentative list of invited speakers: ----------------------------------- Zygmunt BAUMAN, Leeds University, United Kingdom. Rosi BRAIDOTTI, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Bob EDWARDS, Cambridge University. United Kingdom. Murray GELL-MANN, Caltech and Santa Fe Institute, USA. Adolf GRUNBAUM, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Jurgen HABERMAS, University of Frankfurt, Germany. Douglas HOFSTADTER, Indiana University, USA. Julian JAYNES, Princeton University, USA. Daniel KOSHLAND, University of California, Berkeley, USA Niklas LUHMAN, University of Bielefeld, Germany. Constantin PIRON, University of Geneva, Switserland. Michel SERRES, Sorbonne-Stanford, France. Isabelle STENGERS, University of Brussels, Belgium. Zeev STERNHELL, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Bas VAN FRAASSEN, Princeton University, USA. =46rancisco J. VARELA, Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. James WATSON, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA Four workshops will be held during the conference on the following themes: 1. Science, society and the university. 2. The nature of life (and death). 3. A world in transition. 4. Worldviews and the problem of synthesis. Conference proceedings "Einstein meets Magritte : An interdisciplinary reflection on science, nature, human action and society", will be published, including contributions of participants. Anyone wishing to take part in the conference, or to receive a second announcement containing a more complete programme, should fill in the reply form and return it to us. Organising committee: -------------------- Diederik Aerts, Paul Devroey, Patrick De Wilde, Christiaan Sybesma, Jeffrey Tyssens, Jozef Van Bellingen, Luc Van Langenhoven, Ludo Veny. Conference secretary: --------------------- Linda Dasseville DINF, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. tel: 32 2 629 34 90, fax: 32 2 629 34 95, e-mail: einmag@vub.ac.be For more information concerning the 'scientific aspect' of the conference contact: Diederik Aerts TENA,Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium tel: 32 2 629 32 39 or 32 15 22 07 05 fax: 32 2 629 22 76 or 32 15 22 51 98 E-mail: diraerts@vub.ac.be or: Christiaan Sybesma, BIOF,Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium tel: 32 2 629 32 69 E-mail: csybesma@vnet3.vub.ac.be The conference is part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the 'Vrije Universiteit Brussel', which was founded in 1969 as a separate university from the 'Universite Libre de Bruxelles'. 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I wish (yes\no) to submit a paper, and if 'yes' include with this form an abstract (not more than 1 page) I prefer to present the paper as : (1) contributed talk ( ) (2) poster ( ) (indicate preference) Tentative title of the talk :...................................... ................................................................... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All correspondence should be sent to "Einstein meets Magritte", TENA, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium e-mail: einmag@vub.ac.be More info is available on the World-Wide Web, at URL: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Conf/EinmagAn.html From: "Warren G. Frisina" Subject: Re: 8.0186 The Lays of Ancient ROM (1/162) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 14:31:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 175 (311) Is the Economist text that was attached to the message described by the above subject heading currently in public domain, and can it be reprinted in learned society newsletters? Warren G. Frisina Associate Executive Director American Academy of Religion From: "David M. Seaman" Subject: Re: 8.0186 The Lays of Ancient ROM (1/162) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 17:36:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 176 (312) People interested in the article on electronic texts in The Economist of August 27th 1994 -- "The Lays of Ancient ROM", pp. 71-2 -- will also be interested in the leader in the same issue (p. 14): "Keeping libraries alive." Both the leader and the article are on-line with the permission of The Economist at the following address: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/articles.html David Seaman, Coordinator 804-924-3230 (phone) Electronic Text Center 804-924-1431 (fax) Alderman Library email: etext@virginia.edu University of Virginia http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/ETC.html Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 From: jsl001@chief.morningside.edu (Lawrence) Subject: Re: 8.0189 Q: Books in Print online? (1/7) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 16:50:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 177 (313) Based on what I know, Books in Print is only available electronically on a cost metered basis--usually $24 per hour. The source I us is Knowledge Index, a nighttime, weekend subset of DIALOG. One handy place to get it is Compuserve , where you have to be a member. Electronic BIP is also available on CD-Rom, probably in one or more library reference rooms on the harvard Campus. John Lawrence, Philosophy Morningside College JSL001@chief.morningside.edu From: u2re9toh@crrel41.crrel.usace.army.mil (Tim Horrigan) Subject: Re: 8.0189 Q: Books in Print online? (1/7) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 08:04:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 178 (314) Books in Print is a commercial product which is (as far as I know) available, as a multivolume book, on microfiche, and as a CD-ROM. All of these cost money. If you're looking for free info via the Internet, you'll have to settle for the Library of Congress records. The LOC's holdings of course are mostly comprised of out-of-print volumes, but the catalog does tell you everything you need to know to order an in-print book (except for the street address of the publishers, which is in BOP, and which you normally don't actually need anyway.) You can telnet to the LOC's catalog server at the address "locis.loc.gov"--- or you can probably use the Harvard library server (or some other major university's library server) as a gateway to the LOC. *** TIM HORRIGAN, Climate Data Lab, USACRREL, Hanover, NH 03755 internet: horrigan@hanover-crrel.army.mil horrigan@crrel41.crrel.usace.army.mil [or whatever weird crap turns up as my return address UNLESS it implies that I'm at "@crrel41.BITNET", which is a nonexistent Bitnet domain!!!!] alt internet: Timothy.Horrigan@bbsmail.magpie.com ph: (603) 646-4432 (603) 646-4100 *** From: viden@trubaduren.hum.gu.se Subject: mournful celebrations Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 09:44:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 179 (315) What about that film 15-20 years ago, about a group of young people in the sixties who celebrate leaving high school? I think it was called "American graffiti", but I am not certain; the Swedish title was different. Gunhild Viden ---------------------------------- Gunhild Viden University of Goteborg, Sweden Tel: +46 31 7734691 Fax: +46 31 138030 From: Tzvee Zahavy Subject: Tenure code question Date: 09/14/94 18:26:28 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 193 (316) A tenure code at a major university stipulates that one of the grounds for termination of tenure is: "Unprofessional conduct which severely impairs a faculty member's fitness in a professional capacity." I need to know what cases my colleagues believe would come under this rubric. I have much more than a passing interest in this question. Please respond to me personally. If you know of other lists that might provide access to a wider academic readership, please bring them to my attention. Thanks for the help. Tzvee. *************************************************************** Bitnet: MAIC@UMINN1 Internet: MAIC@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU Land-Mail: University of Minnesota 2717 Lynn Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55416 ÿÿ g Tenure code question A From: David Allan Snyder Subject: H-MAC List Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 20:47:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 194 (317) The History and Macintosh Society has gone on-line. All humanists who use Macintosh computers are invited to subscribe to H-MAC, the H-Net list devoted to the History and Macintosh Society. To subscribe, send the following one-line message to LISTSERV@MSU.EDU (leave the subject line blank): SUB Firstname Lastname, Yourinstitution Example: SUB Jane Schmidt, State U David Snyder, Co-Moderator, H-MAC das3050@tamsun.tamu.edu From: HAYRYNEN@FINUH.BITNET Subject: I hope you may find room for the following Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 00:36:11 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 195 (318) LANDSCAPE AND NORTHERN NATIONAL IDENTITY Seminar in Helsinki, 11--12 of November 1994 Time: Friday, November 11th (10.00--17.00) and Saturday, November 12th (9.00--14.00) 1994. Friday: Session 1 and 2, Reception. Saturday: Session 1 and 2, Dinner. Place: Auditorium XIV (Fri), XIII (Sat), University of Helsinki Main Building (Unioninkatu 33). Forms of work: panel groups, general discussions. Organizers: the Nordic Studies Programme at the Renvall Institute of Historical Research, Helsinki University, the Nordic Project and the Finnish Network of Landscape Researchers, together with the Degree Programme of Landscape Architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology, the Research Institute and the Institute of Photography at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki and the Universities of Joensuu and Lapland (Rovaniemi). The Seminar will be essentially Nordic, however individual contributions from their countries, e.g. North America are also welcome. The principal aims are: - to view the present state of research in the intersecting areas of environmental studies and history of ideas in the Nordic countries and elsewhere; - to establish contacts between scholars representing various fields of arts and science, working on themes concerning landscape and national identity; - to provide a training event for the postgraduate and international students from the participating universities; - to prepare ground for an international conference on landscape and national identity to be held in the near future, in connection with a publication project. The programme will consist of four panel groups with invited contributions of varying lengths (10 to 30 minutes). The topics for the sessions will be: 1) The Conceptualization of Nordic Landscape - Nature as a basis for national identity - National sets of landscapes Speakers: Joan M. Zenzen, University of Maryland (Promoting National Parks 1864-1991); Orvar Lo"fgren, Lund; Maunu Ha"yrynen, Helsinki University of Technology (The National Landscape); Allan Tiitta, Helsinki University (Topelius and his Landscape). 2) The Shaping of National Landscapes - Protection and conservation - Landscape architecture Speakers: Ilmo Massa, Helsinki (The Problems of the Plundering Economy); Heikki Simola, University of Joensuu (The Koli movement); Tom Simons, Helsinki University of Technology (The National in Landscape Architecture); Riitta Nikula, Helsinki University (Is there a Finnish Urban Tradition?). 3) Borderland / Frontier - Disputed land: the Eastern border of Finland - Manifest Destiny: the colonization of the Arctic Speakers: John Lind, Copenhagen (The Medieval Eastern Border between Sweden and Russia); Berit Noekleby, Oslo (The Border between NATO and Eastern Europe in the north); Ari Lehtinen, University of Joensuu (The National Identity and the Borderland); Petri Raivo, University of Oulu (The Limits of Tolerance: the Orthodox milieu as part of Finnish Landscape). 4) The Idea of North - The Receding North - North as an Other Speakers: Gunnar Broberg, Lund; Neil Kent, Cambridge (The North in the Art); Lennart Lundmark, Umea; Lassi Heininen, University of Lapland (Lapland as the Other Finland); Karl-Erik Michelsen, Helsinki University (The Technological Conquest of the North). Participants and Contributors: Pirkko-Liisa Ahponen (University of Joensuu); Pauline von Bonsdorff (Helsinki University); Harri Hautaja"rvi (Oulu); Matti Klinge (University of Helsinki); Rainer Knapas (Helsinki University); Pellervo Kokkonen (Helsinki University); Osmo Kontturi (University of Joensuu); Pekka Korvenmaa (University of Art and Design, Helsinki); Anto Leikola (Helsinki University); Bo Lo"nnqvist (Helsinki University); Petri Rannikko (University of Joensuu); Mikko Saikku (Helsinki University); Yrjo" Sepa"nmaa (University of Joensuu). Other action: An exhibition on landscape and Nordic identity (arr. Licentiate of Arts Taneli Eskola, University of Art and Design, Helsinki), University Main Building (lobby). Rector's reception, Friday evening 11.11.94; Dinner party at Renvall Institute, Saturday evening 12.11.94. Organizing committee: Taneli Eskola, Lassi Heininen, Maunu Ha"yrynen, Pekka Korvenmaa, Lars Landgren, Henrik Stenius. Inquiries and registration: Dr. Henrik Stenius and Lic.Phil. Lars Landgren Renvall Institute of Historic Research P.O. Box 4 FIN-00014 Helsinki University Tel. +358-0-191 2985 Fax +358-0-191 3107 Lic.Phil. Maunu Ha"yrynen Degree Programme for Landscape Architecture Helsinki University of Technology Otakaari 1 FIN-02150 ESPOO Tel./fax +358-0-135 9213 E-mail: hayrynen@csc.fi From: "David M. Seaman" Subject: Re: 8.0191 Rs: Q and A on The Lays of Ancient ROM (2/32) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 20:59:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 180 (319) [deleted quotation] No -- it is absolutely not in the public domain -- it is a copyrighted article and the owner is The Economist. I went through the procedures necessary to secure permission to put the article on a Web site at Virginia, but in extending this courtesy the copyright holder is not giving up intellectual or commercial rights to the material. David Seaman Electronic Text Center University of Virginia etext@virginia.edu http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/ETC.html From: "BarryM.Dank " Subject: RE: 8.0192 Rs: Books in Print Online; Celebrations (3/71) Date: 15 Sep 94 15:37:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 181 (320) Books in print is online. It is part of the BRS Colleague Databases. Its access code is BBIP. If your univ ersity subscribes to BRS Colleague, you have BBIP. Barry Dank From: SCHOCHET@ZODIAC.BITNET Subject: cd rom Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 19:02:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 182 (321) Generally, everything that I have heard about this operation suggests that one Generally, everything that I have heard about this operation suggests that one should stay away from the Parsippany disk peddlers. The quality of their disks is so-so (I'm told), but the contents are even less worthwhile: often old stuff that is available because it is out of copyright. It seems to be something like a garage operation of low quality. On the whole, most of what is available on cd-rom of that ilk is not very good: more amusing than useful. The OED, on the other hand, is quite another matter, but that's not what you asked about. Gordon Schochet schochet@zodiac.rutgers.edu From: MARCPIF@IVEMARC.BITNET Subject: LINGUA FRANCA? Date: 16 Sep 1994 09:53:52 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 197 (322) I am just wondering if a discussion list called HUMANIST could invite its subscribers to communicate in English as a *lingua franca*. I am Italian, and I can read several languages, but I would prefer very much to _write_ in Italian. I think that for a French or a German subscriber it would be much better to write in French or in German, even if they can speak, read and write in other languages. Il serait impossible d'ecrire une lettre pareille a une liste de discussion de mathematique ou de chirurgie, mai je crois che una lista che si chiama HUMANIST non possa privilegiare die englische Sprache. Invito omnes ad responsionem Piero Falchetta From: CRAIG BRANHAM Subject: TLS Reviews Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 19:15:32 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 198 (323) I am very interested in the Transparent Language Software package for the Macintosh, but I have never come across any professional/popular reviews of the software. Can anyone point me toward some reviews of the package, and/or some articles that might explain the pedagogical value of CALL software like TLS? Craig Branham BRANHACC@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU From: Francisco Marcos Marin Subject: Letters, bibliography Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 22:32:28 HOE X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 199 (324) The aim of this note is to collect some bibliographical references to letters, ars dictandi or ars dictaminis from a series of books and papers devoted to Spanish Literature. The references, though, are nor exclusive to this peculiar branch of Latin culture, they point to a general set of treatises which quite often do not include any reference to Spanish or Portuguese. As departing points I've chosen: Go'mez Moreno, A'ngel 1994 Espanna y la Italia de los humanistas. Primeros ecos<\it> Madrid: Gredos, pp. 179-196. Guille'n, Claudio 1988 El primer siglo de oro. Estudios sobre ge'neros y modelos<\it> Barcelona: Cri'tica, pp. 15-48. Prieto, Antonio 1986 La prosa espannola del siglo XVI. I<\it> Madrid: Ca'tedra, pp. 59-98. Rivers, Elias L. 1954 "The Horatian Epistle and its Introduction into Spanish Literature", Hispanic Review<\it> XXII/3, 175-193. Yndura'in, Domingo 1988 "Las cartas en prosa", Literatura en la e'poca del emperador<\it> Universidad de Salamanca, pp. 53-79. For a discussion of the theoretical problem, see Rene' Wellek and Austin Warren, Theory of Literature<\it> N.Y. 1949, Chaps. XVII & XIX, esp. p. 268. On the form, E.P. Morris, "The form of the Epistle in Horace", Yale Classical Studies<\it>, II, 1931, 79-114. For the epistolary novel: Charles E. Kany The Beginnings of the Epistolary Novel in France, Italy, and Spain<\it> University of California Press, 1937. Terminology in Silvia Rizzo Il lessico filologico degli umanisti<\it> Roma: ed. di Storia e Letteratura, 1973. On medieval letters, see the remarks by Curtius and the collections by Lausberg or Faral, and add: Langlois, C.V. 1890-1897 Formulaires de lettres du XII, du XIII et du XIV siecles<\it> Paris. Lanham, Carol Dana 1975 Salutatio. Formulas in Latin Letters to 1200: Syntax, Style and Theory<\it> Munich. Vasio, Pasquale 1975 La lettera nella storia e nell arte<\it> Roma. More references: Clough, Cecil H. "The cult of Antiquity: letters and letters collections" in his ed. Cultural aspects of the Italian Rennaisance<\it> 33-67. Thomson, Patricia 1964 Sir Thomas Wyatt and his Background<\it> London, chapters VI and VII. Zippel, G. 1958 "La lettera del diavolo al clero, dal secolo XII alla Riforma" Bulletino dell'Istituto storico italiano per il medio evo e Archivio Muratoriano<\it> 70, 125-179. FRANCISCO A. MARCOS MARIN Ap. 46348 E-28080 Madrid, Spain PHONE: (34-1) 397 4529 / 4109 / 5250 FAX: (34-1) 535 2463 NEW E-MAIL: MARCOS@VM1.SDI.UAM.ES ALTERNATIVE E-MAIL: MARCOS@CCUAM3.SDI.UAM.ES From: Neil Bishop Subject: APFUCC-L : Presentation; Mode d'emploi Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 07:37:57 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 200 (325) ********** L'Association des Professeurs de francais des universites et colleges du Canada (APFUCC) vient de creer la liste APFUCC-L. APFUCC-L se destine a tout membre de l'APFUCC souhaitant prendre contact avec l'ensemble des membres de notre Association. Cette liste peut servir a disseminer des annonces de colloques ou de postes, des demandes de renseignements, des messages d'ordre general, ou a animer une discussion sur l'APFUCC elle-meme. Pour s'abonner, envoyer a listserver@morgan.ucs.mun.ca le message Subscribe APFUCC-L Votre Nom Reel en remplacant les mots "Votre Nom Reel" par vos prenom et nom reels, et non pas votre nom d'utilisateur electronique. Exemple: Subscribe APFUCC-L Dominique Dupont Pour faire part de tout probleme technique ayant trait a la liste, envoyer un message au gerant de liste: nbishop@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Les membres de l'APFUCC pourront d'ores et deja envoyer leur demande d'abonnement. Les personnes souhaitant devenir membres de l'APFUCC pourront contacter le Bureau de l'APFUCC a l'adresse apfucc@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (APFUCC-L ne sera accessible qu'aux membres de l'APFUCC). Neil Bishop Gerant de liste From: Michael Chase Subject: Re: 8.0197 The Language of Humanist (1/10) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 15:23:22 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 197 (326) On Fri, 16 Sep 1994 17:55:14 EDT you said: [deleted quotation] A Ya govoryu: Khoroscho! Ladno! Kogda my nachinaem? Sincerely, Michael Chase Dept. of Classics University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada. From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Letter writing Date: Sat, 17 Sep 94 09:43:23 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 183 (327) By a strange coincidence, the art of letter writing has been the subject of a thread on the Mediber list, where you can find lots of bibliography on the artes dictaminis in medieval and renaissance Spain. There, I found the following item, which may be of interest: Dear sister : medieval women and the epistolary genre / edited by Karen Cherewatuk and Ulrike Wiethaus. Philadelphia, Univ. of Penn. Press, c1993. 215 p. LC93-20024. Incl. bibl. refs. and index. Jim Marchand. From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Re: 8.0198 Q: Transparent Language Software? (1/10) Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 13:59:35 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 184 (328) Transparent Language itself has assembled a small, sprial-bound book of perhaps a dozen reviews from professional journals & computer magazines. There was one in _Computers and the Humanities_ by David Graham, June 1992 (26:3), pp. 223-225. I have also seen some in _Electronic Learning_, _Boston Computer Currents_, _PC Magazine_, _MacWorld_, _CALICO Journal_ and elsewhere. You can reach TL at 800-752-1767. Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University (CT) Plymouth State College (NH) From: bizer@clipper.ens.fr (Marc Bizer) Subject: artes dictamini Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 21:52:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 185 (329) Dear Humanists and Ficinians, Would you have any advice to give me on how to go about unearthing some Renaissance treatises (French, Italian) on letter-writing in the Bibliotheque Nationale and other Parisian libraries? I'm interested in particular in the verse epistle. Yours truly, Marc Bizer From: bizer@clipper.ens.fr (Marc Bizer) Subject: manuals on how to become a secretary Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 21:52:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 186 (330) Dear Humanists, Does anyone have advice to give me on how to find in the Parisian archives some of the many treatises (Italian, French) on the role of the Renaissance secretary? The sole copy of the only French treatise I know of, Gabriel Chappuy's, *Le Secretaire* (1588), is in Wolfenbuttel, Germany. Many thanks. Yours truly, Marc From: Jack Kolb Subject: (COPY) 8.0201 Rs: Language of Humanist; Letters; TLS Date: Mon, 19 Sep 94 00:48 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 187 (331) Re: letter writing: I highly recommend Bruce Redford's _The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-century Familiar Letter (University of Chicago Press, 1986). Bruce, of course, is currently editing Dr. Johnson's letters. Jack Kolb IKW4GWI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Off-line Mail Readers Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 15:27:35 +0100 (GDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 188 (332) Sorry for being so late, but I only today am able to read the mail of August. A beautiful off-line reader (both commercial and PD version) is Eudora by Qualcomm, for Win and Mac. It works with normal phone lines (the commercial version). Try their ftp site (ftp.qualcomm.com) for docs and pd version. Hope this helps. Maurizio Lana - CISI, Universita' di Torino lana@cisi.unito.it fax: 39 11 899 1648 From: "DONALD A. COLEMAN (EXT. 2850)" Subject: Re: 8.0198 Q: Transparent Language Software? (1/10) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 10:00:16 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 189 (333) And while you're at it (whoever is minded to answer the question about "trans- parent foftware") could you please tell this neophyte what in the world it is? It sounds interesting; also I would need a version for PC, if there is one--w hatever it is. Don Coleman From: Gerard Baltussen Subject: RE: 8.0197 The Language of Humanist (1/10) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 08:29:05 +0100 (CET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 190 (334) === Generally this looks like a good idea, but as there are so many different languages around the world, I personally think the only way to communicate will be by using one language. As for which language this will have to be you can suggest a list of them for different reasons: Chinese because many people use the language, although not yet on the Internet, or even Esperanto for being a choise for nobody's own benifit. On the whole I'd say let's keep using English as our 'lingua franca'. Contributions in other languages can be put on this and other lists, but will have a less widespread audiance than the English-language contributions. Gerard Baltussen G. Baltussen * Utrecht University Library * Wittevrouwenstraat 7-11 * 3512 CS Utrecht * tel: 030-536576 * You can't always get what you want! fax: 030-539292 * e-mail: g.baltussen@ubu.ruu.nl * From: viden@trubaduren.hum.gu.se Subject: The Language of Humanist Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 11:47:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 191 (335) Jag instaemmer till fullo med Michael Chase! (This question pops up with a certain regularity, doesn't it?) Gunhild Viden ---------------------------------- Gunhild Viden University of Goteborg, Sweden Tel: +46 31 7734691 Fax: +46 31 138030 From: "Robert S. Kirsner" Subject: (COPY) 8.0197 The Language of Humanist Date: Wed, 21 Sep 94 08:25 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 192 (336) I think that the only PROPER tongue for Humanist is Erasmus' mother tongue, namely Dutch. Not only would this put the shoe on the other foot, but all those folks in the run-of-the-mill ordinary European languages would be forced to confront their agonizing two ignorances. First, they are ignorant of the work of such writers as Couperus and Van Eeden and Hermans and Du Perron and Multatuli. Second they are ignorant of that very selfsame ignorance. Thus burdened, they waddle around University campuses projecting themselves as the bearers of European culture when they are at best only the bearers of a meagre subset of it. From: LANJH1@VAXA.HERIOT-WATT.AC.UK Subject: ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN RUSSIAN Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 11:40 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 193 (337) Are there any Humanists who have experience in working with electronic Russian texts? The questions that particularly interest me are: sources of texts; software used; and problems encountered. Any assistance in this area would be much appreciated. Jim Halliday. From: l.m.fosse@easteur-orient.uio.no (Lars Martin Fosse) Subject: The address of Emmanuel Todd Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 10:40:11 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 194 (338) Would anybody on Humanist happen to know the address of the French demographic historian and politologist Emmanuel Todd? Best regards, Lars Martin Fosse Lars Martin Fosse Department of East European and Oriental Studies P. O. Box 1030, Blindern N-0315 OSLO Norway Tel: +47 22 85 68 48 Fax: +47 22 85 41 40 E-mail: l.m.fosse@easteur-orient.uio.no From: Michael Metzger Subject: Help with Mosaic? Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 11:33:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 195 (339) Can anyone recommend a manual on how to access/use MOSAIC? I have the software, but it contains no effective documentation, and my campus gurus are unusually closemouthed, saying I should find a good book on it. Which are the best of the current Internet help books? Michael Metzger, Buffalo (MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU) From: Yorick Wilks Subject: Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 13:08:50 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 206 (340) Please post -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science TWO RESEARCH POSTS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING Two research associate posts are available in the Natural Language research group from January 1995. These posts are associated with a grant from the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council on 'Large Scale Information Extraction from Text'. Both appointments will be for 36 months. Post 1: The candidate will be involved in the development of a general architecture for text extraction (GATE) which will support the integration, testing, and enhancement of existing language processing components to produce evaluable information extraction systems. The candidate should have a strong background in computational linguistics or artificial intelligence, including good programming skills, and should have a PhD or equivalent research experience in a relevant area. The post will be on the UK RA1A scale, with a starting salary of around 15K pounds p/a. Post 2: The candidate will be required to liaise with UK and international research sites to obtain, install and evaluate language processing components, corpora, and lexical resources in the context of GATE. The candidate should have a good degree in computer science or related area, with knowledge of computational linguistics and should have good Unix/Internet skills. The post will be on the UK RA1B scale, with a starting salary of around 13K pounds p/a. The candidate may have the opportunity to register for a PhD. Informal enquiries to Yorick Wilks (y.wilks@dcs.shef.ac.uk) or Rob Gaizauskas (r.gaizauskas@dcs.shef.ac.uk). Further particulars from: Director of Human Resource Management, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN Tel: +44 (0)742 824144 Closing date for applications: 15 October 1994. Ref: B2321. An Equal Opportunity Employer From: "L.LITVACK" Subject: Conference announcement -- Gender & 19th-century Ireland Date: Mon, 19 Sep 94 13:36 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 207 (341) Gender and Nineteenth-century Ireland CONFERENCE The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-century Ireland 28-30 April 1995 All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. From: melancon@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Melancon Benoit) Subject: Poste en XVIIIe siecle Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 13:49:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 208 (342) UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL FACULTE DES ARTS ET DES SCIENCES DEPARTEMENT D'ETUDES FRANCAISES Le Departement d'etudes francaises de l'Universite de Montreal sollicite des candidatures pour un poste de professeur adjoint, menant a la permanence, en litterature francaise du XVIIIe siecle, avec comme champ secondaire la creation litteraire, l'enseignement de la langue ou l'ecriture des femmes. -=-=-=-=-=Description du poste : Enseignement dans les programmes du departement aux trois cycles; encadrement d'etudiants de 2e et de 3e cycles; activites de recherche importantes. -=-=-=-=-=Exigences : Doctorat en litterature dans le domaine vise par ce poste. Excellente connaissance de la langue francaise. -=-=-=-=-=Traitement : Selon la convention collective. -=-=-=-=-=Date d'entree en fonction : 1er juin 1995. -=-=-=-=-=Date de cloture des candidatures : 30 octobre 1994. Priere de faire parvenir un curriulum vitae accompagne de vos publications et de trois lettres de recommandation au plus tard le 30 octobre 1994 a : M. Robert Melancon, directeur Departement d'etudes francaises Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville Montreal, Quebec Canada H3C 3J7 L'Universite de Montreal souscrit au Programme d'acces a l'egalite dans l'emploi. Conformement aux exigences prescrites en matiere d'immigration au Canada, cette annonce s'adresse en premier lieu aux citoyens canadiens et aux residents permanents au Canada. From: 6500lzim@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Leon E. Zimlich) Subject: Re: Help with Mosaic Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 15:06:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 196 (343) This fall O'Reilly and Associates is publishing a number of books on Mosaic for different platforms. I don't have the details before me but a good place to look is the O'Reilly gopher at gopher.ora.com. Good luck, Leon E. Zimlich Department of the History of Art and Architecture University of California, Santa Barbara 6500lzim@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu zimlich@humanitas.ucsb.edu From: CHRISTENSEN@MEDLIB.HSCBKLYN.EDU Subject: RE: 8.0204 Rs: The Language of Humanist (3/53) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 21:56:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 197 (344) While on the one hand, a lingua franca, is a logical and practical idea, there is also the issue of things being most aptly said in their own tongue, at least the own tongue of the speaker. I'm on other lists and occasionally things come in in other languages. I don't see a problem with that. IMHO of course.wl. From: FRN373B@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au Subject: Job announcement - Spanish Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 17:47:56 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 210 (345) MONASH UNIVERSITY Department of Romance Languages Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia Fax (61) (3) 905 2137 ASSISTANT LECTURER IN SPANISH $A29,117-$39,495 The successful applicant will be expected to teach and coordinate elementary and intermediate levels of the Spanish language program and Latin American literature subjects. Applicants should normally have a postgraduate degree, and native-speaker command of the language. Tertiary teaching experience, strong research interests (preferably in Latin American Studies) and publications in refereed journals would be an advantage. Appointment for 3 years. Start date: 1 January 1995 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications (2 referees) to: Professor Brian Nelson (address as above) Deadline: 10 November 1994 From: krshnbtt Subject: Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 06:44:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 211 (346) A friend is looking for the story by Borges about the map that is in a one to one relationship with its territory. The title is something like "The Great Map." Bibliographic info would be appreciated. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett krshnbtt@acf2.nyu.edu FAX: 212-254-7885 TEL: 212-998-1628 Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th fl, New York, NY 10003 From: Dorothy Day Subject: RE: 8.0205 Qs: Russian E-Texts; Address; Mosaic (3/42) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 94 00:08:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 212 (347) [deleted quotation] The following document is available from the University of Houston gopher: gopher info.lib.uh.edu choose articles e-journals uhlibrary pacsreview v5 n6 and Save the file as; morgan.5n5 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Morgan, Eric Lease. "The World-Wide Web and Mosaic: An Overview for Librarians." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5, no. 6 (1994): 5-26. To retrieve this file, send the following e- mail message to listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu: GET MORGAN PRV5N6 F=MAIL. Or, use the following URL: gopher://info.lib.uh.edu:70/ 00/articles/e-journals/uhlibrary/pacsreview/v5/n6/morgan.5n6. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dorothy Day, Indiana University Bitnet: DAY@IUBACS Internet: day@ucs.indiana.edu From: "Rita Wilson" <099RITA@muse.arts.wits.ac.za> Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 12:29:05 GMT + 2:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 214 (348) Please post: IX CONGRESS OF THE ASSOCIAZIONE PROFESSORI D'ITALIANO UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA 13-19 SEPTEMBER 1995 THEME: POWER AND ITALIAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE Contributions may be in Italian or in English. Contributions dealing with non-Italian authors may be accepted, at the discretion of the Executive Committee, as long as the topic has some relevance to Italian literature or culture. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: 28 FEBRUARY 1995 ADDRESS: Rita Wilson Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of the Witwatersrand P.O. WITS 2050 South Africa TEL (27) (11) 716 3270/3306 FAX (27) (11) 403 7289 E-MAIL 099RITA@MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA From: ISEA 95 MONTREAL Subject: ISEA 95 Montreal Call For Proposals Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 18:31:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 215 (349) ISEA 95 Montreal International Symposium on Electronic Art September 17 - 24 1995 The International Symposium on Electronic Art will take place in Montreal Sept 17 - 24 1995. It will be the sixth edition of ISEA, which has been presented previously at Utrecht (1988), Groningen (1990); Sydney (1992); Minneapolis (1993) and in Helsinki in August, 1994. ISEA 95 - WHO AND WHY Artists, scientists, scholars and educators from throughout the world will come to ISEA 95 Montreal to report on and demonstrate the latest developments in the field of Electronic Art, focussing on the conference theme Emergent Senses / Sens emergents. They will discuss the emerging new art forms, the social, cultural and ethical implications of these developments, and the new partnerships that are being created between artists and technology. THEME The theme Sens Emergents / Emergent Senses captures several of the deepest currents now flowing through electronic culture. Through one eye, it points to the emergence of the new sensorium under construction by today's experimenters in media arts and science: new ways of combining seeing, hearing, and feeling in virtual environments, and new ways of extending our senses through electronic technology. Through another eye, "Emergent Senses" highlights the unfolding of meaning - the emergence of sense - from the characteristics of software-based art. Finally, "Emergent Senses" refers to the powerful attraction of biological and evolutionary metaphors in many fields today. PROGRAMME A conference including invited speakers, panel discussions, and artists' presentations. Exhibitions of new visual and media artworks in various museums and galleries. Workshops, on a variety of topics, including robot sculpture, virtual reality, copy-art, multimedia and hypermedia, network-art, etc. Music and performance art. An "electronic cafe". An evening of electronic cinema and on-demand screenings. A market for new media art productions, offering publications, artist books, tapes, CD-ROMS, etc. (Please see the attached forms for complete instructions on participating in the symposium.) MONTREAL, A CITY OPEN TO THE WORLD Montreal, the host city, sits at the crossroads of two cultures, French and North American. One of the oldest cities on the continent, it is a modern metropolis where all the great tendencies of art and lifestyles meet, and where the welcome is warm and the ambiance, distinctly "montrealaise". CALENDAR December 31, 1994 Deadline for proposals: Exhibitions, Performances, Network projects, Workshops. March 1, 1995 Deadline for papers, panels and poster sessions. April 24, 1995 Deadline for Electronic Cinema. June 1, 1995 Deadline for the "new media market". ------------------------------------------------------------------ International Program Committee / COMITE INTERNATIONAL Roy Ascott , Paul Brown, Hank Bull, Marc Caro, Sara Diamond, Anne-Marie Duguet, Vera Frenkel, Craig Harris, Theo Hesper, Derrick de Kerckhove, Robin King, Roger Malina, Simon Penny, Rejane Spitz, Minna Tarkka, Wim van der Plas, Gary Warner ISEA95 Organizing Committee /COMITE D'ORGANISATION Organizing Committee Louise Poissant (President), Henry See (Vice-president), Alain Mongeau (Secretary), Michael Century, Luc Courchesne , Louis-Philippe Demers, Greg Garvey, Denis Martineau, Eric Mattson, Bruce Pennycook, Don Ritter, Cynthia Beth Rubin ------------------------------------------------------------------ ENDORSEMENT: ISEA 95 Montreal is endorsed by ISEA (The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts). ISEA 95 Montreal est parraine par ISEA (The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts). ------------------------------------------------------------------ ADDRESS - To receive a copy of the application form, contact: ISEA 95 Montreal 307, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest bureau 515B Montreal, Quebec Canada H2X 2A3 Tel.: 514-990-0229 Fax: 514-842-7459 Email: isea95@er.uqam.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Conference Papers, Roundtables, Debates, and Artist Presentations Artists, scientists, scholars and educators from throughout the world will come to ISEA 95 Montreal to discuss the emerging new art forms, thesocial, cultural and ethical implications of these developments, and thenew partnerships that are being created between artists and technology. ISEA Montreal is working to find innovative means of promoting this dialogue. Proposals from individuals or teams interested in presenting and coordinating discussions are welcomed for topics for roundtables, debates, and artist presentations, as well papers and panels. Interested Individuals or Teams should send the following: 1. Application Form 2. A 500 word abstract of the proposal 3. A curriculum vitae 4. Technical Requirements Form Submissions for Papers and Panels must include: 1 Application Form 2 A 500 word abstract of the paper or panel proposal 3 A curriculum vita, 4 Technical Requirements form. Poster Sessions Poster sessions will provide an opportunity for artists to present and discuss their work, using video, slides or other forms of documentation. Maximum duration: 20 minutes. Submissions for Poster Sessions must include: 1 Application Form 2 The title and short description of the proposed session 3 A curriculum vita, 4 Technical Requirements form 5 Slides, video, sound or other audiovisual documentation. Workshops The Organizing Committee will present 6 workshops, in co-operation with Canadian companies and educational institutions. In addition, artists wishing to offer workshops are invited to submit proposals on topics of their choice. Submissions for Workshops must include: 1 Application Form. The title and short description (300 words) of the proposed workshop 2 A curriculum vita, 3 Indication of the number and level (beginning, intermediate or advanced) of enrollees. 4 Technical Requirements form 5 The duration of the workshop (1/2 or 1 day). FESTIVAL ISEA 95 will present a wide selection of exhibitions, concerts, performances, and network art projects, selected from the call from proposals. Exhibitions (visual and media art) The exhibitions are one of the central activities of the event, providing an opportunity for artists to present their most recent work, and for the public to enter into direct contact with works which frequently require a physical presence, as many new electronic works are interactive, engaging the spectator simultaneously as a user and a partner in the creative process. All works which demonstrate the creative use of the electronic media will be considered, regardless of medium. Submissions to the Exhibtion Program must include: 1 Application Form 2 The title and short description (300 words) of the proposed work. 3 Slides, photographic, or tape (video/audio) documentation 4 Technical Requirements form 5 A description and diagram of the space requirements. Artists proposing to exhibit new work may submit examples of completed projects. ISEA 95 is particularly interested in work that has not been previously exhibited. Concerts and Performances In coproduction with the ACREQ (Association pour la creation et la recherche electroacoustiques du Quebec). A varied program of musical and multimedia performance works will be presented, both in concert and using network transmission. Priority will be given to those which make a particular use of interactive media technologies and which involve new ways of collaboration between humans and machines. Submissions to the Concerts and Performances Program should include: 1 The title and short description (300 words) of the proposed work. 2 A Curriculum Vitae 3 Audio or video recording of the proposed work 4 A detailed description of all technical requirement (stage size, sound equipment, lightning, electrical needs) and specification of all other material needs (accessories, dressing room, setup length, and all other particular needs). 5 A list of personnel required for the performance (performers, technicians)/ or credits of contributors to the recording. Artists of the accepted projects should expect to work close with the Organizing Committee. Electronic Cinema Artists working in computer animation and video may submit works for exhibition at ISEA 95. All computer animation entries will be considered for recognition in the Ninth International Computer Animation Competition, organized by the Cite des arts et des nouvelles technologies de Montreal. Productions in the competition must contain at least 60% computer images, and entries must be sent directly to the Cite des arts, which will acknolwedge receipt and provide further instructions. All other video productions will be considered for an on-demand screening program that will run continuously throughout ISEA 95. Submissions to the electronic Cinema must include: 1 A VHS version (PAL, NTSC, SECAM) for jury pre-selection 2 Credits and technical documentation: contributors, duration, master format 3 A curriculum vitae. All entries must be sent exclusively by mail, and marked "No Commercial Value, Film for A Festival". Network Art/ Other Projects Artists who wish to present a project that does not fit in one of the previous categories are invited to complete a form including : 1 The title and short description of the project (including audio and visual documents or any other material necessary to the good understanding of the project) 2 A curriculum Vitae 3 Technical Requirement form 4 A detailed description of the project and its dimensions 5 Any relevant document. Marketplace for New Arts The Marketplace for New Art will offer an opportunity for all the artists involved to put their creations at the disposal of each other and the general public in Montreal. At once a bookstore, video center, art gallery, music store, software and CD-ROM store, a multi-media demonstration center, the Market is the perfect place to browse and encounter the avant-garde; it is the prototype for a new kind of arts and culture marketplace. Artists wishing to participate in the Marketplace must deposit their works for the duration of the event. Profits on sales will be split between artists and the organization of the Symposium. People who would like to deposit their publications are invited to complete a participation form including : 1 Title and short description of the product 2 Format of the publication (CD-ROM, CD-I, CD-Audio, videodisk, etc.). BILINGUALISM All proposals may be submitted in English or in French. Simultaneous translation (French-English) will be be provided for the keynote speakers, paper and panel presentations. DEADLINES Applications must be received by the following dates: December 31, 1994 Exhibitions, performance/music, network art and workshops. March 1, 1995 Papers, Panels, Poster sessions. April 24, 1995 Electronic Cinema. June 1, 1995 Marketplace of New Art. ADDRESS For all submissions: (except the International Computer Animation Competition) ISEA 95 Montreal : 307, Sainte-Catherine West, bureau 515B, Montreal, (Quebec) H2X 2A3, Telephone: 514-990-0229, Fax: 514-842-7459 Email: isea95@er.uqam.ca International Computer Animation Competition: c/o Mario Tremblay La Cite des arts et des nouvelles technologies de Montreal : 15, rue de la commune West, bureau 101, Montreal (Quebec) Canada H2Y 2C6 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Traduction francais HISTORIQUE Le symposium international des arts electroniques (ISEA) aura lieu a Montreal, du 17 au 24 septembre 1995. Ce sera la sixieme edition, apres Utrecht (1988), Groningen (1990), Sydney (1992) Minneapolis (1993) et Helsinki (ete 1994). QUI ET POURQUOI ISEA 95 Artistes, scientifiques, universitaires et educateurs du monde entier convergeront vers ISEA 95 pour faire le point et partager les derniers developpements dans le domaine de l'art electronique, en se concentrant sur le theme, Sens emergents / Emergent Senses. Ils discuteront des formes d'art en emergence, de ce qu'elles impliquent sur les plans social, culturel et ethique, de l'esthetique nouvelle et des liens qui se tissent entre les artistes et la technologie. THEME Le theme englobe plusieurs des courants les plus profonds de la culture electronique actuelle. D'une part, il indique l'emergence d'un nouveau sensorium que batissent les experimentateurs de la science et des arts mediatiques : de nouvelles facon de combiner la vue, l'ouie et le toucher dans des environnements virtuels, de nouvelles manieres de prolonger nos sens par la technologie electronique. D'autre part, il denote la signification qui surgit de l'utilisation artistique des logiciels. Enfin, Sens emergents / Emergent Senses renvoie a la grande attraction qu'exercent actuellement les metaphores biologiques et evolutionnistes dans de nombreux domaines. PROGRAMME Un colloque comportant des seances speciales, des tables-rondes, et des presentations d'artistes. Des expositions d'oeuvres et d'installations d'art mediatique dans plusieurs musees et galeries. Des ateliers : sur la robot-sculpture, la realite virtuelle, la copigraphie, le multimedia, les hypermedias, les experiences reseaux, etc. De la musique et des performances. Un "Cafe Electronique". Un cinema electronique, et aussi des visionnements sur demande. Un marche des arts offrant des publications, livres d'artistes, bandes videos et sonores, CD-ROMs, etc. Veuillez consulter les formulaires ci-joints pour les directives concernant les modalites de participation au symposium. MONTREAL, VILLE OUVERTE SUR LE MONDE La ville qui recoit se situe a la croisee de deux cultures, francaise et nord-americaine. Montreal, une des plus vieilles villes d'Amerique du Nord, est aussi une metropole ou se rencontrent toutes les grandes tendances des arts et des modes de vie, ou l'accueil est chaleureux et l'ambiance, tout a fait "montrealaise". CALENDRIER 31 decembre 1994 Date limite de presentation : Expositions, Performances, Art mediatique, Art reseau, Ateliers. 1 mars 1995 Colloque (exposes, tables rondes, seance d'affichage). 24 avril 1995 Cinema Electronique. 1 juin 1995 Marche des arts nouveaux. APPEL POUR PARTICIPATION COLLOQUE Communications et tables rondes Des artistes, des scientifiques et des theoriciens de partout dans le monde traiteront au colloque des plus recents developpements en matiere d'art electronique. On y discutera des nouvelles formes d'art et de leurs effets socio-culturels, de la nouvelle esthetique et des collaborations entre les artistes et la technologie. Les presentations se feront sous forme de communications, de tables rondes et de "seances d'affiches" (poster sessions) de maniere a favoriser la discussion et le debat. Les formulaires de participation doivent inclure : 1 Le titre et le resume (500 mots), 2 Un curriculum vita, 3 La formule technique. Seances d'affiches (poster sessions) Les seances d'affiches sont un moment privilegie pour les artistes de presenter leurs travaux et d'en discuter avec les participants. C'est aussi l'occasion de presenter des diapos, des videos et des enregistrements d'oeuvres qui ne sont pas presentees ailleurs dans le Symposium. Les formulaires de participation doivent inclure : 1 le titre et une courte description de la presentation 2 Le materiel et l'equipement necessaire 3 Quelques diapositives ou un court video, un enregistrement sonore ou autre, 4 Un curriculum vita. Ateliers Le Comite organisateur entend mettre sur pied six ateliers impliquant des entreprises canadiennes, des universites et des cegeps. En plus de ces six ateliers, les artistes sont invites a soumettre des propositions d'atelier sur des themes specifiques. Les formulaires de participation doivent inclure : 1 Le titre et un resume (300 mots) expliquant le deroulement de l'atelier propose 2 Le niveau de connaissance exige des participants 3 Le nombre maximum de participants (20 personnes en general). 4 Le materiel et l'equipement necessaires 5 La duree de l'atelier (1/2 ou 1 journee). FESTIVAL Le Festival est un programme d'evenements qui comprend des expositions, des concerts, des performances et des projets interactifs et de l'art reseau. Le Comite organisateur presentera un grand choix d'evenements en musique, en arts visuels et en art mediatique, selectionnes a partir des reponses faites a l'appel de propositions. Expositions d'art visuel et mediatiques Les expositions constituent l'une des activites les plus importantes d'ISEA 95. Elles seront l'occasion pour les artistes de presenter leurs oeuvres les plus recentes et permettront au public d'interagir et de cotoyer des oeuvres qui exigent la presence du spectateur. La nature meme des oeuvres interactives force le spectateur a depasser son role passif et a prendre part activement au processus de creation. Toutes les oeuvres demontrant une utilisation creative des nouvelles technologies seront considerees independamment du medium artistique utilise. Les formulaires de participation doivent inclure : 1 Le titre et un resume (300 mots) du projet. 2 Un curriculum vita 3 Des diapositives, photographies ou cassettes (video ou audio) 4 Un devis technique specifiant l'equipement necessaire et un plan de l'espace souhaite. 5 Une description detaillee 6 Tout autre materiel pertinent a la presentation. Les artistes qui desirent presenter une oeuvre recente peuvent soumettre un exemple exhaustif de leur projet. ISEA95 est tout particulierement interesse par les oeuvres qui n'ont jamais ete exposees auparavant. Concerts et performances en Co-production with ACREQ (Association pour la creation et la recherche electroacoustiques du Quebec). Plusieurs oeuvres musicales seront presentees, soit en concert ou "en direct" en mettant l'accent sur celles qui utilisent les technologies mediatiques interactives et presentent de nouveaux modes de collaboration entre l'humain et la machine. Les artistes qui desirent presenter un concert ou une performance sont invites a completer le formulaire de participation en incluant : 1 Le titre et une courte description de l'oeuvre, collaborateurs, duree, etc. 2 Un curriculum vitae 3 Quelques enregistrements sonores ou videos, traitant de l'oeuvre proposee 4 Une description detaillee des besoins techniques (grandeur de la scene, equipement sonore, eclairage, electricite), accessoires, loges, autres besoins particuliers, duree du montage du spectacle, etc. 5 Une description detaillee 6 Une liste du personnel requis pour la performance (interpretes, performeurs, techniciens) / ou credits pour les gens ayant participe a l'enregistrement. Les artistes retenus devront s'attendre a travailler de pres avec le Comite organisateur. Cinema electronique (en coproduction avec Images du Futur). Les artistes utilisant la video et l'animation par ordinateur peuvent presenter leurs travaux pendant l'evenement ISEA 95. Toutes les oeuvres d'animation par ordinateur seront considerees lors de la tenue de la neuvieme competition internationale d'animation par ordinateur, organisee en collaboration avec Images du Futur. Les productions devront contenir au moins 60% d'images de syntheses. Les soumissions doivent etre envoyees directement a la Cite des arts, qui accusera reception de l'envoi et fera toute correspondance ulterieure. Toutes les autres productions video seront considerees pour des visionnements sur demande qui se derouleront tout au long d'ISEA 95. Les soumissions pour le cinema electronique doivent inclure: 1 Une version VHS PAL, NTSC, SECAM) pour la preselection. 2 Credits et la documentation technique : participants, duree , copie maitresse 3 Un curriculum vitae. Les documents doivent etre expedies exclusivement par la poste avec la mention "Sans Valeur Commercial / Film pour Festival. Art mediatique, art reseau Les personnes qui desirent faire une presentation qui ne correspond a aucune des categories precedentes sont priees de completer le formulaire de participation en incluant: 1 Le titre et une courte description du projet et des documents audiovisuels ou autres necessaires a la bonne comprehension du projet 2 Un curriculum vitae 3 L'equipement et le materiel necessaire a la presentation 4 Une description detaillee. 5 Toute autre documentation pertinente. MARCHE DES ARTS NOUVEAUX Le Marche des arts nouveaux offre a tous les artistes qui participent a ISEA 95 l'occasion de mettre leurs publications a la disposition des participants et du public montrealais. A la fois librairie, comptoir video, galerie d'art, magasin de musique, de logiciels, de CD-ROM et de "demos" d'installations multimedia, ce marche est le lieu tout designe pour "bouquiner" et se mettre au parfum de l'avant-garde de l'art et des publications electroniques; il est le prototype d'un nouveau marche de l'art et de la culture. Les artistes qui desirent participer au Marche des arts nouveaux deposeront leurs oeuvres en consignation pour la duree de l'evenement. Les profits des ventes seront partages entre les artistes et l'organisation du Symposium. Les personnes qui desirent deposer leurs publications sont priees de completer le formulaire de participation en incluant: 1 Le titre et une courte description de la publication 2 Le format de la publication (3-DO, CD-ROM, CD-I, CD- Audio, videodisque, videocassette, disquette, livres affiches objets divers, etc.). BILINGUISME Tous les projets et les textes de presentation peuvent etre presentes en francais ou en anglais. Il y aura traduction simultanee (francais-anglais) pour les exposes et les tables rondes de meme que pour les conferences avec invites speciaux. LE CALENDRIER Les formulaires de participation doivent etre recus au plus tard aux dates limites suivantes : 31 decembre 1994 Expositions, performances, art mediatique, art reseau et ateliers. 1 mars 1995 Colloque (communications, tables rondes, affiches). 24 avril 1995 Competition internationale d'animation par ordinateur. 1 juin 1995 Marche des arts nouveaux. ADRESSES Pour toutes soumissions : sauf le Competition Internationale d'Animation Par Ordinateur ISEA 95 Montreal : 307, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Bureau 515B, Montreal (Quebec) H2X 2A3, Telephone: 514-990-0229, Fax: 514-842-7459 Courrier electronique : isea95@er.uqam.ca Competition Internationale d'Animation Par Ordinateur : c/o Mario Tremblay La Cite des arts et des nouvelles technologies de Montreal, 15, rue de la commune ouest, bureau 101, Montreal (Quebec) Canada H2Y 2C6 From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Malcolm Brown) Subject: Nietzsche discussion list Date: 27 Sep 94 21:47:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 217 (350) Dear fellow Humanists, I've started a Nietzsche discussion list, run using the usual LISTSERV apparatus. Below is a brief description of the list. To subscribe, send a one line note with: SUB NIETZSCH to LISTSERV@DARTMOUTH.EDU I'll be moderating the list, at least to start with. Apologies for cutting off the final "e"! No doubt FWN himself would have been appalled. Malcolm Brown NIETZSCH-L This discussion list, hosted at Dartmouth College, is a forum for scholarly and interdisciplinary discussions of the philosophy of and literature of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Topics include all aspects of Nietzsche studies, including discussion of subjects closely related to Nietzsche (such as Schopenhauer and Wagner). Scholarly societies concerned with Nietzsche's thought are encouraged to post announcements here. List moderator: Malcolm Brown, Dartmouth College malcolm.brown@dartmouth.edu From: leinwand@vax.museum.upenn.edu (Nancy Leinwand) Subject: Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 00:36:17 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 218 (351) Please post the following fellowship announcements to your list HUMANIST, if appropriate. Thank you. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY 1995-1996 ARIT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM* The American Research Institute in Turkey will offer a number of fellowships for research in Turkey for the academic year 1995-1996. Increased doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships will be available in a range of tenures (two to twelve months) and amounts. Scholars and advanced graduate students engaged in research on ancient, medieval or modern times in Turkey, in any field of the humanities and social sciences are eligible. Applicants are expected to be affiliates of educational institutions in the United States or Canada. Research permission is required by the Turkish government. Application Deadline: November 15, 1994 *The fellowship program of the American Research Institute in Turkey is supported in part by a grant from the United States Information Agency. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1995-1996 ARIT-NEH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The American Research Institute in Turkey takes pleasure in inviting applications for two or three post-doctoral fellowships made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The fields of study cover all periods in the humanities including prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history. The fellowships may be held from four to twelve months. The stipends range from $10,000 to $30,000. Application Deadline: November 15, 1994 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND APPLICATION MATERIALS CONTACT: American Research Institute in Turkey, c/o University of Pennsylvania Museum, 33rd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324 Telephone: (215) 898-3474 PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COPY AND DISTRIBUTE OF THESE NOTICES Nancy Leinwand ARIT Administrator From: Joseph Pentheroudakis Subject: AMTA-94: Final Program Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 19:00:41 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 219 (352) TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS FOR CROSSING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER First Conference of the ASSOCIATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE AMERICAS Columbia Inn Columbia, Maryland October 5-8, 1994 Sponsored in part by Globalink, Inc., and Logos Corporation For registration information, please contact Jane Zorrilla, AMTA-94 registrar (fax: (407) 624-2703, phone: (407) 624-8211). WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tutorials: 9:00-noon - Choosing an MT System Karin Spalink, Claudia Gdaniec, Marjorie Leon, Veronica Lawson, Muriel Vasconcellos - Intellectual Property Rights and MT Leighton Chong 2:00-5:00 pm: - MT in the 1990s Muriel Vasconcellos - Interlingual MT Sergei Nirenburg, David Farwell, and Boyan Onyshkevych 7:00-9:00 Welcoming Reception THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 9:00--9:05 Opening Muriel Vasconcellos 9:05--9:50 Keynote: Partnerships in Machine Translation Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University 9:50-10:35 Invited Talk: The Current Status of Machine Translation in Europe Maghi King, ISSCO, University of Geneva 10:35-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 (parallel sessions A and B) (A) PANEL 1: Is MT Research Doing Any Good? (B) SPECIALIZED APPLICATIONS: - Demo: SPANAM (tm) and ENGSPAN (tm) Marjorie Leon and Julia Aymerich - Demo: CompuServe: Machine Translation on CompuServe Forums Mary Flanagan - Demo: The Klingon Machine Translation Project: The Klingon Language Analyzer d'Armond Speers 12:30--1:30 Lunch 1:30--3:30 (parallel sessions A and B) (A) ISSUES IN EVALUATION: - The ARPA MT Evaluation Methodologies: Evolution, Lessons, and Future Approaches John S. White, Theresa A. O'Connell, Francis E. O'Mara - Technical Evaluation of MT Systems from the Developer's Point of View: Exploiting Test-Sets for Quality Evaluation H. Isahara, H. Uchino, S. Ogino, T. Okunishi, S. Kinoshita, S. Shibata, T. Sugio, Y. Takayama, S. Doi, T. Nagano, M. Narita, H. Nomura - Error Classification for MT Evaluation Mary Flanagan - PaTrans - An MT System: Development and Implementation of and Experiences from an MT-system Viggo Hansen (B) GENERAL SYSTEMS: - Demo: SIETEC: The METAL System Lutz Graunitz - Demo: Globalink, Inc.: Power Translator Tom Knupp - Demo: Logos Corporation: Logos Intelligent Translation System Winfield Scott Bennett - Demo: SYSTRAN: Demonstration and Company Profile Stephen Dakis 3:30--4:00 Break 4:00--5:30 Panel 2 The Role of MT Evaluation Evening: Harbor Cruise (depart Columbia Inn at 6:00 pm; return at 10:00 pm) FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 9:00-10:30 (parallel sessions A and B) (A) TRANSLATABILITY: - The Logos Translatability Index Claudia Gdaniec - Internationalization and Translatability David Kumhyr, Carla Merrill, Karin Spalink - Using Bi-textual Alignment for Translation Validation: the TransCheck system Elliott Macklovitch (B) SPEECH TRANSLATION: - An Adaptation of Lexical Conceptual Structures to Multilingual Processing in an Existing Text Understanding System Bonnie Glover Stalls, Robert Belvin, Alfredo Arnaiz, Christine Montgomery, Robert Stumberger - Demo: Language Systems, Inc.: Machine-Aided Voice Translation (MAVT): Advanced Development Model Christine Montgomery, Bonnie Glover Stalls, Robert Stumberger, Naicong Li, Robert Belvin, Alfredo Arnaiz, Susan Hirsh Litenatsky - Demo: ATR: Transfer-Driven Machine Translation Osamu Furuse 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 (parallel sessions A and B) (A) PANEL 3: The Economics of MT (B) PANGLOSS: - Integrating Translations from Multiple Sources within the PANGLOSS Mark III Machine Translation System Robert Frederking, Sergei Nirenburg, David Farwell, Steven Helmreich, Eduard Hovy, Kevin Knight, Stephen Beale, Constantine Domashnev, Donalee Attardo, Dean Grannes, Ralf Brown - PANGLYZER: Spanish Language Analysis System David Farwell, Steven Helmreich, Wanying Jin, Mark Casper, Jim Hargrave, Hugo Molina-Salgado, Fuliang Weng - Demo: PANGLOSS Jaime Carbonell, David Farwell, Robert Frederking, Steven Helmreich, Eduard Hovy, Kevin Knight, Lori Levin, Tom McGinnis, Sergei Nirenburg 12:30--1:30 Lunch 1:30--3:00 (parallel sessions A and B) (A) PANEL 4: The Voices of Experience: MT in Operational Settings (B) KNOWLEDGE-BASED MT: - Interlingua vs. Transfer? Knowledge Sharing Across Projects Nadia Mesli - Representing Text Meaning for Multilingual Knowledge-Based Machine Translation Lynn Carlson, Elizabeth Cooper, Ronald Dolan, Steven Maiorano - Demo: KANT: Knowledge-Based, Accurate Natural Language Translation Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Jaime Carbonell 3:00--3:30 (parallel sessions A and B) (A) Q & A on PC-Based MT: Commercial PC-Based Machine Translation Software Packages L. Chris Miller (B) Demo: LogoVista E to J John Richards 3:30--4:00 Break 4:00--5:00 (parallel sessions A and B) (A) SUBLANGUAGES: - Reengineering Linguistic Resources for Machine Translation in Medical Applications G. Deville, E. Herbigniaux, P. Mousel and G. Thienpont - Towards Text-Based Machine Translation Joerg Schuetz and Baerbel Ripplinger (B) FRONT-END EDITING SYSTEMS: - Carnegie Group, Inc.: ClearCheck Demonstration Peggy Andersen - Demo Smart Systems John Smart 5:00--6:00 AMTA Business Meeting, Ellicott Room Evening: Banquet (Depart Columbia Inn at 6:30; return at 10:00) SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 9:00-10:30 (parallel sessions A and B) (A) USING STATISTICS: - Aligning Noisy Parallel Corpora Across Language Groups: Word Pair Feature Matching by Dynamic Time Warping Pascale Fung and Kathleen McKeown - Using Partially Aligned Parallel Text and Part-of-Speech Information in Word Alignment Jyun-Sheng Chang and Huey-Chyun Chen - Integrating Knowledge Bases and Statistics in MT Kevin Knight, Ishwar Chander, Matthew Haines, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Eduard Hovy, Masayo Iida, Steve K. Luk, Akitoshi Okumura, Richard Whitney, Kenji Yamada (B) RESOURCES 1: GRAMMAR - Korean to English Translation Using Synchronous TAGs D. Egedi, M. Palmer, H.S. Park, A. Joshi - Complex Verb Transfer Phenomena in the SLT System Bjorn Gamback and Ivan Bretan - A Parameter-Based Message-Passing Parser for MT of Korean and English Dekang Lin, Bonnie Dorr, Jye-hoon Lee, and Sungki Suh 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 (parallel sessions A and B) (A) VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE: - Stylistic Choice in Machine Translation Chrysanne DiMarco - A Hybrid Approach to Multilingual Text Processing: Information Extraction and Machine Translation Chinatsu Aone, Hatte Blejer, Mary Ellen Okurowski and Carol Van Ess-Dykema - From Machine Translation to Automatic Spoken Language Interpretation Dieter Huber (B) RESOURCES 2: LEXICON - Lexicon-to-Ontology Concept Association Using a Bilingual Dictionary Akitoshi Okumura and Eduard Hovy - The Case for a MT Developers' Tool with a Two-Component View of the Interlingua Bonnie Dorr and Clare Voss - Learning an English-Chinese Lexicon from a Parallel Corpus Dekai Wu and Xuanyin Xia 12:30--1:30 Lunch 1:30--3:00 Panel 5: Future Directions in MT 3:00--3:15 Break 3:15--4:00 Invited Talk: Past, Present, and Future of MT Developments John Hutchins, University of East Anglia 4:00--4:05 Close ----------------------------------------------------- Registration fees: Conference: Active Member, AMTA: $150.00 Assoc. Member, AMTA: $200.00 Member of EAMT or AAMT: $200.00 Nonmember: $220.00 Tutorials: Active or corp/inst member, AMTA: $95.00 Others: $120.00 ---------------------------------------------------- The Site Situated on 10 wooded acres along the shore of Lake Kittamaqundi, the Columbia Inn offers opportunities for recreation and is also close to first-class restaurants and entertainment. Participants should make their reservations directly with the Columbia Inn (Wincopin Circle, Columbia, Maryland 21044, 800/638-2817 or 410/730-3900). From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Malcolm Brown) Subject: Job announcement Date: 27 Sep 94 21:50:41 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 220 (353) Below is a brief description of a new position at Dartmouth College. Questions etc. should be directed to me at "malcolm.brown@dartmouth.edu". best, malcolm ****************************************** Associate Director for Academic Information Resources Computing Services Computing Services' Academic Computing division seeks an enthusiastic and resourceful person to work directly with faculty and students to develop text and multimedia materials for instruction and research. Other areas of activity include: providing assistance and advice on "publishing" these resources using network resources such as the Dartmouth College Information System (DCIS) and the World Wide Web; overseeing a faculty resource development lab; teaching faculty and students about the Internet and how to use its resources; working proactively to expand the resources in DCIS. Reports to the director of academic computing and supervises two staff positions. Requirements. College degree with 6 or more years of relevant experience in academic computing. A successful record of working with faculty on projects involving the use of on-line resources is essential. Extensive experience with multimedia manipulation and authoring applications and in the use of the Internet. Experience with HTML, Gopher servers and SGML. Excellent organizational, teaching, and communication skills. Experience with Unix and writing grant proposals a plus. Degree in a Humanities or Social Science discipline a plus. Send letter, resume, and three references (please include phone numbers) to: Malcolm Brown, Director of Academic Computing, Kiewit Computation Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, attn: Associate Director Search. No submissions via email or fax. Review of resumes will begin on October 17, 1994. For the complete job description, send email to "malcolm.brown@dartmouth.edu". An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer Women and minorities are encouraged to apply From: Itzcovich Oscar Subject: Re: 8.0211 Q: Borges Story (1/9) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 23:09:33 +0200 (DFT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 198 (354) The title of the story is "Del rigor en la ciencia" and it is a part of the collection "El hacedor". Oscar Itzcovich Universita' di Genova From: ZBHU002@CCS.BBK.AC.UK Subject: RE: 8.0211 Q: Borges Story (1/9) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 11:26 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 199 (355) The Borges story about the map appears in a collection called _Labyrinths_ published by Penguin. I can look up the exact title of the story and more publication details if requested. Ezri Carlebach Birkbeck College, University of London From: Gerard Baltussen Subject: RE: 8.0204 Rs: The Language of Humanist (3/53) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 08:20:00 +0100 (CET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 200 (356) In message Wed, 21 Sep 1994 11:59:15 EDT, Robert S. Kirsner writes: [deleted quotation]+++==== Erasmus mothertongue was Dutch, or more correctly a medieval form of Dutch, but he never wrote in Dutch, only in Latin. Nevertheless I am surprised by this suggestion and even more by the fact that people elsewhere are familiar with modern Dutch authors. I could add a large list of 17th-century authors like Spinoza and Grotius. Maybe we should use Latin as the lingua franca? (I hope not, because my Latin is very poor after 30 years). Gerard Baltussen ,, G. Baltussen * Utrecht University Library * Wittevrouwenstraat 7-11 * 3512 CS Utrecht * tel: 030-536576 * You can't always get what you want! fax: 030-539292 * e-mail: g.baltussen@ubu.ruu.nl * From: Gary Shawver Subject: Citing E-Texts Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 18:40:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 222 (357) Does anyone out there know what is the procedure for citing an electronic text of a print edition? What kind of credit should those who proofed and tagged a text get? As many of you may know, preparing an e-text can be an intellectually demanding exercise, especially if one is tagging it. What kind of acknowledgement should this activity get in scholarly citation? If this is a FAQ which has been archived, please send me the archive address. Many thanks in advance. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-====== Gary W. Shawver "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six C.M.S. impossible things before breakfast." (416)922-9733 gshawver@epas.utoronto.ca _Through the Looking-Glass_ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-====== From: "Suzanne M. Volpe" Subject: Who Owns History? Date: Fri, 30 Sep 94 11:11:19 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 223 (358) The National Endowment for the Humanities and Smithsonian Institution are sponsoring a symposium and reception titled "Who Owns History?" on Thursday, October 6, 1994 at 7 p.m. Location: National Museum of Natural History, Baird Auditorium, 10th Street & Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC. Panelists: Cary Carson, Colonial Williamsburg, Barbara Fields, Columbia University, James O. Horton, George Washington University, William Styron, Author RSVP 202/606-8361 by October 5, 1994 PLEASE POST THIS. THANK YOU. From: Daniel Traister Subject: BSA Fellowships Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 13:01:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 201 (359) PLEASE CROSS-POST TO OTHER INTERESTED LISTS! Bibliographical Society of America P.O. Box 397 Grand Central Station New York, NY 10163 (212) 647-9171 Organized 1904 -- Incorporated 1927 Fellowship Program 1995-96 The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) invites applications for its annual short-term fellowship program, which supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Eligible topics may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical evidence. Such topics may include establishing a text or studying the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Enumerative listings do not fall within the scope of this program. BSA fellowships may be held for one or two months. The program is open to applicants of any nationality. Fellows will be paid a stipend of up to $1,000 per month in support of travel, living, and research expenses. In 1994 the BSA awarded twelve months of support to nine scholars from a variety of disciplines. Applications, including three letters of reference, for this program will be due on January 31, 1995. Prospective applicants are invited to contact the BSA Executive Secretary, P.O. Box 397, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, for application forms and additional information about the program. From: Stephen Ferguson <0629212@PUCC> Subject: PUL Fellowships Date: Mon, 03 Oct 94 14:16:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 202 (360) PLEASE CROSS-POST TO OTHER INTERESTED LISTS! VISITING FELLOWSHIPS 1995-1996 Princeton University Library The Friends of the Princeton University Library are sponsoring several short-term Visiting Fellowships in order to promote scholarly use of the research collections of the Library. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, housed in the Harvey S. Firestone Library, has substantial holdings of materials pertaining to the western world and the Middle East from antiquity to the present. The Rare Book Division is especially strong in classical Latin texts, American history and literature, English history and literature, and French, German, and Latin American literature. The Manuscript Division holds Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and codices, and American and English literary and historical manuscripts. The Visual Materials Division services the Graphic Arts Collection, the Collection of Historic Maps, the Theatre Collection, and the Numismatic Collection. The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library holds the Public Policy Papers and the University Archives. The Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology and the Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections are also located on the University campus. The Fellowships, which have a value of $1500 each, are meant to help defray expenses in traveling to and from Princeton and residing in Princeton during the tenure of the Fellowship. The length of the Fellowship will depend on the applicant's research proposal, but is normally one month. Fellowships are tenable from May 1995 to April 1996. There is no special application form. Applicants are asked to submit a rsum and a brief research proposal to Fellowship Committee, Princeton University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544. The proposal should address specifically the relevance of the Princeton University Library Collections to the proposed research. The applicant should also arrange for two confidential letters of recommendation to be sent to the Committee. The deadline for applications is 31 January 1995. This announcement contains all the information necessary to complete the application process. From: Jean-Claude Carron Subject: Job: Chair UCLA Dpt. of French Date: Sat, 01 Oct 94 23:49 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 203 (361) Department of French University of California, Los Angeles The UCLA Department of French seeks a recognized scholar to take on the administrative duties of chairing the Department (pending final budgetary approval). Field and rank open. Previous departmental administrative experience preferred. Please send CV with list of publications, names of three references and a letter detailing administrative background to Jean-Claude Carron, Chair, Department of French, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1550. Screening of applications will begin November 15, but candidates are encouraged to apply until position is filled. UCLA is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. From: Vince Liesenfeld Subject: JOB: Comp/Rhet/Lit Date: Sun, 02 Oct 94 20:32 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 204 (362) JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Composition, Rhetoric and Literacy. Area open. Preferred: twentieth-century; cultural studies; women's writing; computers and writing. Position to begin August 15, 1995. Ph.D. required. Dissertation in the field required. Publications desirable. Teaching assignments in our graduate program in Composition, Rhetoric and Literacy, and in our three-track undergraduate program (Writing; Literature; Critical Theory/Cultural Texts). Send vita, dossier, and writing sample to Eve Bannet, Chair, English Dept., 760 Van Vleet Oval, Room 113, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019-0240. Screening will begin December 1, 1994 and continue until position is filled. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. From: AEVANS@DEPAUW.EDU Subject: Job opening Date: 03 Oct 1994 13:32:35 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 205 (363) Assistant Professor of Spanish. Tenure track. Ph.D. or ABD required, for fall 1995. Native or near-native fluency. Generalist with a commitment to and excellence in undergraduate teaching of language, literature, and culture at all levels. Interest and experience in US Latino Studies preferred. Must be willing to participate in the development of a new Latin American Studies program. AA/EOE. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Send a cover letter, cv, and names of 3 references to: Dr. Arthur B. Evans, Chair, Dept. of Romance Languages, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135. Deadline: November 25, 1994. From: John Merritt Unsworth Subject: PMC 5.1 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 04:34:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 226 (364) Now Available: Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism Volume 5, Number 1 (September, 1994) ISSN: 1053-1920 In This Issue: Abstracts Deepika Bahri, "Disembodying the Corpus: Postcolonial Pathology in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions" Robert Kolker, "The Moving Image Reclaimed" (Hypermedia) Marie-Laure Ryan, "Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory" Allan Stoekl, "'Round Dusk: Kojeve at the End" John Walker, "Seizing Power: Decadence and Transgression in Foucault and Paglia" Charles Bernstein, Three Poems (Hypermedia) James Boros, "Cheered by Battleship" Michael Evans, Two Poems Lidia Yuknavitch, "Differentia" Jeff Bell, "Response to Jonathan Beller's Essay, 'Cinema: Capital of the Twentieth Century'" Popular Culture Column: Andrew Levy, "Prehistory and Postmodernism" Reviews: Russell A. Potter, "Black Modernisms/Black Postmodernisms" Review of: Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Wesleyan UP/ UP of New England; and Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness. Harvard UP. Jeffrey Nealon, "Theory That Matters" Review of Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex". New York & London: Routledge, 1993. Jonathan Markovitz, "Blurring the Lines: Art on the Border" Review of La Frontera/The Border: Art About the Mexico/United States Border Experience. Organized by the Centro Cultural de la Raza and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Thomas Benson, "Permanence and Change in the Global Village" Review of Garry, Patrick M. Scrambling for Protection: The New Media and the First Amendment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. Kevin J.H. Dettmar, "Postmodern Jeremiad: Kruger on Popular Culture" Review of Barbara Kruger. Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. Christian L. Pyle, "The Superhero Meets the Culture Critic" Review of Reynolds, Richard. Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology. Studies in Popular Culture. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1994. Notices ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACCESS: WWW: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html Gopher: Text-only users without ready access to Lynx, the text-only WWW client, may use gopher to contact jefferson.village.virginia.edu on port 70, the standard gopher port: choose item 9 on the first menu, "Lynx session to the IATH WWW Server," where they will find PMC under "Publications" Listserv, FTP, and plain text gopher versions coming soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _Postmodern Culture_ is published three times a year by Oxford University Press (September, January, and May). This issue is published with support from North Carolina State University and the University of Virginia. From: raskin@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Victor Raskin) Subject: The New Yorker Phonology Primer Date: Sat, 1 Oct 94 18:53:51 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 227 (365) In his peculiar lecture on Robert Frost (The New Yorker, September 26, 1994, p. 73), Joseph Brodsky writes that "the opposition [between the words 'dusk' and 'dark' in Frost's poem "Come In"] is but the matter of substitution of just two letters: of putting "ar" instead of "us" between "d" and "k." THE VOWEL SOUNDS REMAINS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME [emphasis is mine--V.R.). What we've got here is the difference in just one consonant." That the Nobel Prizes are not awarded for recognizing the difference between letters and characters is no surprise to anybody. That to Brodsky's ear, the two vowels do sound "essentialy the same" is not surprising to anybody who has heard him confidently substituting his native Russian [a] for both of them. (And the quote above probably pales before quite a few other astonishing statements in the lecture by the notorious autodidact.) But that the sophisticated editors of The New Yorker can overlook the fact that the two different phonemes of English, which distinguish dozens of words, could not have possibly sounded the same to Robert Frost illustrates a pretty sorry state of affairs in the humanities, in which the ignorance of the most basic linguistic facts seems perfectly acceptable. -- Victor Raskin raskin@mace.cc.purdue.edu Professor of English and Linguistics (317) 494-3782 Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics 494-3780 fax Coordinator, Natural Language Processing Laboratory Purdue University W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1356 U.S.A. From: "E. Candy Held" Subject: Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 10:58:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 228 (366) Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS, MUSIC COMPOSITIONS, PRESENTATIONS, ARTWORKS, CHOREOGRAPHY, DANCE STUDIES AND INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS CONVERGENCE: THE FIFTH BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY, MARCH 2-5, 1995 The Connecticut College Center for Arts and Technology, in collaboration with the departments of Academic Computing, Art, Art History, Chemistry, Dance, English, Library, Mathematics/Computer Science, Music, Physics, Physical Education, Psychology, and Theater, is pleased to announce CONVERGENCE: The Fifth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, March 2-5, 1995. The Symposium will consist of paper sessions, panel discussions, art exhibitions, concerts of music, mixed media works, video, dance and experimental theater. Selected papers and presentations will be published by the Center as both printed and interactive multi-media CD-Rom Proceedings. Papers and Presentations: A detailed two-page abstract including audio-visual requirements should be sent to the address below no later than November 15, 1994. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by December 1, 1994. Finished papers must be submitted in camera-ready form by January 15, 1995. In order for material to be considered for inclusion in the CD-Rom version of the Proceedings, it must also be submitted on disk in one of the following formats: Word or Wordperfect. The Center encourages research papers and presentations in all areas of the arts and technology, but is particularly interested receiving papers concerned with Interactivity, Virtual Reality, Cognition, Information Technologies, Applications in Video and Film, Music (composition, performance, theory, interactivity, etc.), Experimental Theater, Compositional Process, Speculative Use of Technology in Education, Computer Simulations of Physical Phenomena, Scientific Visualization and Social and Ethical Issues in Arts and Technology. Music Compositions: Works for instruments and tape, or tape alone, or interactive compositions are being solicited at this time. Available instruments are: flute (doubling on piccolo), oboe, clarinet (doubling on bass clarinet), bassoon, trumpet, horn, trombone, percussion (two players), piano, and strings (2,1,1,1). Works should not exceed 15 minutes in length and should be submitted with accompanying score, where appropriate. Tapes for selection purposes should be on cassette or 1/2 inch VHS. Tapes for performance should be 15 i.p.s. stereo or quadraphonic, or DAT. Video works should be 3/4 inch Umatic or 1/2 inch VHS. A self- addressed, preposted envelope should be included for the return of materials within the U.S.A. Foreign materials will be returned at our expense. Artworks: Works of computer-generated or computer-aided art, or computer -controlled interactive art are encouraged. Animations, Video or other works of computer art on tape will be shown in concert settings and in less formal settings throughout the Symposium. Slides or video (VHS) and complete descriptions of works should be submitted by the general deadline of November 15, 1994. Black and White photographs for publicity and for possible reproduction in a printed insert to the Proceedings must be sent by January 15, 1995. Reproductions of accepted works for the CD-Rom Proceedings must be sent on disk (Pict, Tiff, PCX) by Jan 15, 1995. Funds for the shipping of artworks are extremely limited. Call or write the address below for more information on the shipping of artwork. Choreography and Dance Studies: Computer-generated or computer-aided choreography is being solicited for live performance or for videotaped presentation. Specially produced dance videos are of particular interest, as opposed to concert tapes or other archival uses of video for dance. Also of interest are proposals for demonstrations of software for dance notation, choreographic analysis, or for interactive studies in dance. Workshop proposals are also welcome. Videotapes or complete descriptions of performance works (not longer than 20 minutes), demonstration or workshop proposals should be submitted by the general deadline of November 15, 1994. Tapes for selection purposes should be VHS. Panels: Proposals for panels are welcome. The proposals should include prospective panelists, and should be directed to topics which fit the general description of the Symposium. Of particular interest for 1995 are panels on the general topic of =D2Convergence=D3 which might include explorations of cross-disciplinary approaches to arts and technology issues. GENERAL INFORMATION ON SUBMISSIONS Please include a self-addressed preposted envelope envelope for the return of materials within the US. Foreign materials will be returned at our expense. The Center encourages email submissions for text materials. Material should be sent to: Center for Arts and Technology Box 5365 Connecticut College 270 Mohegan Avenue New London, CT 06320-4196 tel: [203] 439-2001 email: cat@conncoll.edu .................................. Please send your email address to us at cat@conncoll.edu so that we may update our files. From: "Hanna E. Kassis" Subject: Conference Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 09:18:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 229 (367) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Faculty of Arts Committee on Medieval Studies THE TWENTY-FOURTH MEDIEVAL WORKSHOP 18-19 November 1994 PROGRAMME Friday, 18 November 1994 9.30-10.30 Session 1 9.30-10.00 ELM, Susanna "Anti-Montanist attacks in the fourth century" 10.00-10.30 BURRUS, Virginia "Orthodoxy, heresy, and the rhetoric of gender in the writings of Ambrose of Milan" 10.30-11.00 Break 11.00-12.00 Session 2 11.00-11.30 MAIER, Harry O. "Denouncing the Manichee: Leo the Great and the Orthodox Panopticon" 11.30-12.00 EVANS, Allan "The Monophysite persecution under Justin I: The Eastern View" 12.30-1.20 Session 3 Koerner Lecture PETERS, Edward M. "The prosecution of heretics and the emerging criminal law of twelfth and thirteenth-century Europe" 1.30-2.30 Lunch 2.45-3.45 Session 4 2.45-3.15 MCLYNN, Neil "From Palladius to Maximinus: Passing the Arian Torch" 3.15-3.45 VESSEY, Mark "Obelus and Anathema: The forging of orthodoxy in Late Latin antiquity" 3.45-4.00 Break 4.00-5.00 Session 5 4.00-4.30 BRENON, Anne "Les he're'sies de l'An Mil: aux sources du catharisme?" 4.30-5.00 HAGMAN, Ylva "Unity and diversity within the catharo-bogomil movement" Concert of Medieval Music -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SATURDAY, 19 November 1994 9.30-10.30 Session 6 9.30-10.00 PHAN, Chantal "Translating Marguerite Porete's (heretical?) passages on annihilation: Philosophical and philological implications of grammatical ambiguities" 10.00-10.30 WATSON, Nicholas "`A Book of Scarcely Believable Subtlety Composed By A Woman': Subtilitas, Heresy, and Marguerite Porete's Mirouer des Simples Ames" 10.30-11.00 Break 11.00-12.30 Session 7 11.00-11.30 FISHMAN, Talya "Medieval rabbinic civilization and its discontents" 11.30-12.00 KUBARYCZ, Brian "The Precious Object and the Pearl: The Gothic ideologeme of the Jew(el)" 12.00-12.30 SAHAS, Daniel "Islam as a heresy in the Byzantine anti-Islamic literature" 12.30-1.45 Lunch 2.00-3.30 Session 8 2.00-2.30 KELLY, Andy "Wyclif and Hus: Heresy Trials in Oxford and at the Council of Constance" 2.30-3.00 KLASSEN, John "Women and gender in the Hussite revolution" 3.00-3.30 BAK, Janos "Heresy and vernacular in Central Europe" 3.30-4.00 Break 4.00-6.00 Session 9 4.00-4.30 DOBSON, Barrie "Lollardy and the English peasants' revolt of 1381" 4.30-5.00 JUSTICE, Steven "Doctrinal Genealogy and the Study of Medieval Dissent: A Case from England" 5.00-5.30 DONATELLI, Joseph "Extinguishing the Fires of Rhetoric: De spiritu Guidonis and Late Medieval Heresies about Purgatory" 5.30-6.00 GUTH, DeLloyd "Judicializing heresy: Teamwork in Late-Medieval common and canon laws for controlling correct thinking" Reception (Registered participants) To register, please contact me by mail, fax or e-mail Information on accommodation available upon request ____________________________________________________________________________ Hanna E. Kassis Department of Religious Studies Tel. (604) 822-6523 (voice) University of British Columbia Fax (604) 224-6279 Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z1 E-mail: kassis@unixg.ubc.ca From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Aristotle and "space" Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 10:45:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 206 (368) A colleague of mine wants to know whether Aristotle mentions or speaks about "space" in his "Poetics". References to the english or french versions of Aristotle's text are welcomed. Please answer to me directly, and if need be, I'll summerize for the list. Thanks. M.L. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee Universite de Montreal -- Tel.: (514) 288-3916 lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: CD Jane Austen Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 20:23:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 207 (369) A colleague of mine is looking for address and phone or e-mail called TPFL Publishing, which is supposed to have published a (critical?) edition of Jane Austen's texts on CD. Any info on the subject welcomed. Thanks - M.L. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michel Lenoble -- Tel.: (514) 288-3916 lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: Steven Totosy Subject: Re: 8.0221 Rs: Borges Story; Langauge of Humanist (3/54) Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 09:26:44 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 231 (370) The note about why Dutch and Dutch authors should be read in Dutch raises an interesting question I have been pointing to for some time now. This is that North-Americans more often than not speak about Europe as if it were a homogeneous matter (remember the Euro-centrism debate!). Of course, in fact Europe was never homogeneous and it is not and more attention should be paid in our discussions to that, especially in the constant arguments about literary theory. And true, "marginal" European cultures such as Dutch or Hungarian could teach us much. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, Comparative Literature, University of Alberta From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: Date: Tue, 4 Oct 94 16:45:21 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 232 (371) CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS AISB-95: Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Monday 3rd -- Friday 7th April 1995 Halifax Hall of Residence & Computer Science Department University of Sheffield Sheffield, ENGLAND The Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour Programme Chair: John Hallam (University of Edinburgh) Programme Committee: Dave Cliff (University of Sussex) Erik Sandewall (University of Linkoeping) Nigel Shadbolt (University of Nottingham) Sam Steel (University of Essex) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Local Organisation: Paul Mc Kevitt (University of Sheffield) The past few years have seen an increasing tendency for diversification in research into Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Artificial Life. A number of approaches are being pursued, based variously on symbolic reasoning, connectionist systems and models, behaviour-based systems, and ideas from complex dynamical systems. Each has its own particular insight and philosophical position. This variety of approaches appears in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. There are both sybmolic and connectionist natural language processing, both classical and behaviour-based vision research, for instance. While purists from each approach may claim that all the problems of cognition can in principle be tackled without recourse to other methods, in practice (and maybe in theory, also) combinations of methods from the different approaches (hybrid methods) are more successful than a pure approach for certain kinds of problems. The committee feels that there is an unrealised synergy between the various approaches that an AISB conference may be able to explore. Thus, the focus of the tenth AISB Conference is on such hybrid methods. We particularly seek papers that describe novel theoretical and/or experimental work which uses a hybrid approach or papers from purists, arguing cogently that compromise is unnecessary or unproductive. While papers such as those are particularly sought, good papers on any topic in Artificial Intelligence will be considered: as always, the most important criteria for acceptance will be soundness, originality, substance and clarity. Research in all areas is equally welcome. The AISB conference is a single track conference lasting three days, with a two day tutorial and workshop programme preceding the main technical event, and around twenty high calibre papers will be presented in the technical sessions. It is expected that the proceedings of the conference will be published in book form in time to be available at the conference itself, making it a forum for rapid dissemination of research results. SUBMISSIONS: High quality original papers dealing with the issues raised by mixing different approaches, or otherwise related to the Conference Theme, should be sent to the Programme Chair. Papers which give comparative experimental evaluation of methods from different paradigms applied to the same problem, papers which propose and evaluate mixed-paradigm theoretical models or tools, and papers that focus on hybrid systems applied to real world problems will be particularly welcome, as will papers from purists who argue cogently that the hybrid approach is flawed and a particular pure approach is to be preferred. Papers being submitted, whether verbatim or in essence, to other conferences whose review process runs concurrently with AISB-95 should indicate this fact on their title page. If a submitted paper appears at another conference it must be withdrawn from AISB-95 (this does not apply to presentation at specialist workshops). Papers that violate these requirements may be rejected without review. SHEFFIELD: Sheffield is one of the friendliest cities in the UK and is situated well having the best and closest surrounding countryside of any major city in the UK. The Peak District National Park is only minutes away. It is a good city for walkers, runners, and climbers. It has two theatres, the Crucible and Lyceum. The Lyceum, a beautiful Victorian theatre, has recently been renovated. Also, the city has three 10 screen cinemas. There is a library theatre which shows more artistic films. The city has a large number of museums many of which demonstrate Sheffield's industrial past, and there are a number of Galleries in the City, including the Mapping Gallery and Ruskin. A number of important ancient houses are close to Sheffield such as Chatsworth House. The Peak District National Park is a beautiful site for visiting and rambling upon. There are large shopping areas in the City and by 1995 Sheffield will be served by a 'supertram' system: the line to the Meadowhall shopping and leisure complex is already open. The University of Sheffield's Halls of Residence are situated on the western side of the city in a leafy residential area described by John Betjeman as ``the prettiest suburb in England''. Halifax Hall is centred on a local Steel Baron's house, dating back to 1830 and set in extensive grounds. It was acquired by the University in 1830 and converted into a Hall of Residence for women with the addition of a new wing. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT SHEFFIELD: Sheffield Computer Science Department has a strong programme in Cognitive Systems and is part of the University's Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH). ILASH has its own machines and support staff, and academic staff attached to it from nine departments. Sheffield Psychology Department has the Artificial Intelligence Vision Research Unit (AIVRU) which was founded in 1984 to coordinate a large industry/university Alvey research consortium working on the development of computer vision systems for autonomous vehicles and robot workstations. FORMAT AND DEADLINES: Four copies of submitted papers must be received by the Programme Chair no later than 24 OCTOBER 1994 to be considered. Papers should be at most 12 pages in length and be produced in 12 point, with at most 60 lines of text per A4 page and margins at least 1 inch (2.5cm) wide on all sides (default LaTeX article style is OK). They should include a cover sheet (not counted in the 12 page limit) giving the paper title, the abstract, the authors and their affiliations, including a contact address for both electronic and paper mail for the principal author. Papers should be submitted in hard-copy, not electronically. Papers that do not adhere to this format specification may be rejected without review. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by 7 DECEMBER 1994 and full camera-ready copy will be due in early JANUARY 1995 (publishers' deadlines permitting). CONFERENCE ADDRESS: Correspondence relating to the conference programme, submissions of papers, etc. should be directed to the conference programme chair at the address below. John Hallam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, SCOTLAND. Phone: + 44 31 650 3097 FAX: + 44 31 650 6899 E-mail: john@aifh.edinburgh.ac.uk Correspondence concerning local arrangements should be directed to the local arrangements organiser at the following address. Paul Mc Kevitt, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, ENGLAND. Phone: + 44 742 825572 FAX: + 44 742 780972 E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk From: Paul Brians Subject: Help needed interpreting Rumi poem Date: Tue, 04 Oct 94 08:22:38 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 233 (372) I'm looking for help tracking down some of the references in the following poem by Rumi, the Persian sufi mystic. My queries about non- Western literature have met with scant success on this list, but perhaps someone here knows someone who might be willing to help. The original poem is in Farsi, but I do not have the original, only a translation. Clearly the poem as a whole envisions a deeper spiritual reality that lies beneath the externals of religion. But who is the "Beloved?" And what's the meaning of "the revelation of the tip of the Beloved's tress?" What means the reference to the "idol-house"-- probably not the pre-Muhammad Kaaba since that is referred to later. What are the mountains of Herat and Kandahar? Mt. Qaf is the location of the cave of the seven sleepers, but I don't know what the 'Anqa is. And what is the reference of "the two bow-length's distance?" Any help would be much appreciated. I was, on the day when the heavens were not; no hint was there that anything with a name existed. Through us named and names became apparent on the day when no "I" or "We" were there. A hint came in the revelation of the tip of the Beloved's tress when the tip of the Beloved's Tress was not. Cross and Christianity from end to end I traversed. He was not in the Cross. To the idol-house I went, the ancient cloister; in that no tinge of it was perceptible. I went to the mountain of Herat and Kandahar; I looked. He was not in the depths or the heights there. With purpose I ascended to the summit of Mount Qaf; in that place was nought but the 'Anqa. I turned the reins of search towards the Ka'ba; He was not in that place to which old and young aspire. I questioned Avicenna1 about him; He was not within Avicenna's range. I journeyed to the scene of "the two bow-lengths' distance"; He was not in that sublime Court. I looked into my own heart. There I saw him; He was nowhere else. Translated by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson Footnote: Ibn Sina (980-1037), Persian philosopher and physician. His interpretation of Aristotle and his works on medicine were widely influential in both the Muslim and Christian worlds during the Middle Ages. Paul Brians, Washington State University, brians@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu From: John Eby Subject: MEMSOP Conference Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 14:10:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 234 (373) This is being cross-posted, please excuse duplicates. Graduate Student Conference Call for Papers Abstracts are welcome for the annual MEMSOP (Medieval to Early Modern Student Organizations of the Pacific) conference to be held February 17th-19th, 1995, at the University of Washington in Seattle. The subject of the conference will be medieval to early modern "Communities" in an interdisciplinary forum (literary, linguistic, historical, religious, archaeological, etc.). This conference is being co-organized and co-funded by the University of Washington, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California at Los Angeles. The keynote speaker on Saturday night will be Dr. Patrick Geary of UCLA. Presentions will be 20 minutes each and interested persons should send abstracts to one of the following by November 1st, 1994: John Eby Britta Simon Linda Wright History, DP-20 Germanics, DH-30 Classics, DH-10 Univ. of Washington Univ. of Washington Univ. of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Seattle, WA 98195 Seattle, WA 98195 jeby@u.washington.edu lwright@cac.washington.edu Questions may also be sent to any of the above. From: Eric Johnson Subject: Re: 8.0230 Jane Austen CD (2/37) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 06:00:59 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 235 (374) In answer to a question by Michel Lenoble: I do not know of a CD-ROM edition of the works of Jane Austen, but there is an *excellent* edition published on disk by Oxford University Press: the Oxford Electronic Text Library edition of The Complete Works of Jane Austen. It contains very useful SGML tags. I could send more information to anyone interested. -- Eric Johnson JohnsonE@columbia.dsu.edu johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu From: edwards@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Jane A. Edwards) Subject: Re: The New Yorker Phonology Primer Date: Tue, 4 Oct 94 16:54:45 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 236 (375) [deleted quotation] While Raskin may well be right about Brodsky's misrepresentation of Frost's phonology, and about the absurdity of having the New Yorker serve as an arbiter of linguistic facts, there was a statement in his posting which I think came across more strongly than he must have intended, and I wanted to mention it, as I think that such things can lead to even more misunderstandings between us and the popular press, i.e., to actually exacerbate the problem he so rightly wishes to resolve. In the above, he states that: "two different phonemes of English, which distinguish dozens of words, could not have possibly sounded the same to Robert Frost". This is a strong claim - in fact, too strong. Just because a difference exists which *could* be exploited for differences in meaning doesn't mean that it necessarily is in all varieties of that language. For example, New Yorker pronounce "merry", "Mary" and "marry" as three different-sounding words, but in some varieties of American English (e.g., mine) they're all three pronounced the same ("neutralization" of the contrast). Similarly, British speakers may pronounce "caught" and "cot" differently, but many Americans don't. Raskin may well be right that Brodsky was wrong and that Frost did indeed distinguish those two phonemes, but if so, he must be basing it on an examination of Frost's phonology per se - perhaps through the tape recordings of his readings, which would be fun and easily possible - and not on the more general principle quoted above. -Jane Edwards (edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu) From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Router or relay address? Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 18:52:50 +0100 (GDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 208 (376) And, more interesting: is there somewhere a relay or router such that if you send to it some mail for a .bitnet address (xxxx@yyyyy.bitnet%clever.relay), it knows how to route correclty the message in the new Internet way? Many thanks to anyone can help me. If possible CC: your message directly to me. Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI, Universita' di Torino lana@cisi.unito.it fax: 39 11 899 1648 From: stan kulikowski ii Subject: the variety and frequency of signs and portents? Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 11:14:32 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 209 (377) i am interested in the variety of omens and prodigies which the romans and maybe other civilizations have interpreted in their histories of themselves. are there scholarly lists of the variety of omens seen, their dates and reference sources? here is an example of what i am seeking: lightning strikes Temple of Hope 218 BC Livy XXI.62 Flaminius' sacrificial calf misbehaves 217 BC Livy XXI.63 in my slight reading concerning auguries, it seems that lightning striking some public monument and the behavior of sacrificial animals or wild birds were high in frequency. this is understandable if these things are near or dear to gods. however, i would like to see the variety of more unique events which were reguarded as portents of historic significance. stan stankuli@UWF.cc.UWF.edu . === god created time so everything would not happen at once º º god created space so everything would not happen to me --- -- lament of the overburdened From: gwp@dido.caltech.edu (G. W. Pigman III) Subject: Tenure-track job in literature at Caltech Date: Thu, 6 Oct 94 15:02:39 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 210 (378) The California Institute of Technology would like to advertise the following job. Assistant professor in American literature excluding 19th-century. Candidates with special interest in race and ethnicity are encouraged to apply. Tenure-track position beginning fall 1995. (Ph.D. must be in hand by 9/1/95.) Letter of application, vita, dossier, thesis abstract and chapter from thesis to: Literature Search Committee, Caltech, 101-40, Pasadena, CA 91125. Deadline: November 16, 1994. AA/EO employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and disabled persons are encouraged to apply. -G. W. Pigman III gwp@dido.caltech.edu From: Franklin Steen Subject: job listing Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 18:30:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 211 (379) Here is a job that may be of interest to humanist readers: Job Description Humanities Computing Support Specialist, Grade 56/57 Support faculty, staff and some graduate students in the use of computers in humanities. Assist with computer support in other faculty/staff areas. Over 50% of the time spent on this job will consist of consultation with faculty and graduate students on the use of humanities specific software in research and instruction. This support includes direct assistance with hypertext and hypermedia, text analysis software, linguistical analysis, foreign language word processing, authoring environments, collaborative writing, concordance building and text annotation packages. Additional support also includes help with hardware selection and configuration as well as help with network connections and usage. Recuit, hire and supervise humanities graduate students to assist with software support. Be a part of grant proposal writing teams. Consult on the development of new humanities facilities. Work on teams with other computer professionals on computing projects. Minimum Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree in a humanities discipline. Two years experience using at least four packages from among the following list in research and instruction: Hypercard, Supercard, Story Space, Aspects, Annotext, Nisus, Multilingual Scholar, Transparent Language, SoundEdit Pro, SuperMacLang/MacLang, NCSA Mosaic (html, forms, and more). Two years experience in computer support in an academic environment including experience with support of humanities specific software, as well as data base packages and general hardware and software support on the Macintosh, DOS, Windows and UNIX platforms. Experience with lans and the Internet. Near fluency in at least one foreign language. Advanced degree in a humanities discipline, teaching experience, statistics background and previous experience in humanities support preferred. The salary range for this job is $31,400 to $57,800. The generous benefits package includes 20 vacation days, 3 personal days, 12 sick days, medical, dental and retirement benefits. Harvard University is an equal opportunity employer. Please send a resume and salary history to: Laura Pearl Assistant to the Director FAS Computer Services Harvard University Science Center 121 1 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138 posted by: Frank Steen Director Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services Harvard University fsteen@husc.harvard.edu 1-617-495-1266 From: Karla Kitalong Subject: Visiting scholars invited Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 10:06:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 212 (380) +----------------------------------------------+ | Visiting Research Scholars | | in Rhetoric and Technical Communication | | Michigan Technological University | | 1995-1996 | +----------------------------------------------+ The Department of Humanities, Michigan Technological University, invites applications for Visiting Research Scholars in Rhetoric and Technical Communication for the 1995-1996 academic year. The Department is nationally-recognized for programs in rhetoric and technical communication, composition studies, computers and composition studies, writing across the curriculum, writing center studies, and international and intercultural communication, among others. The Department of Humanities offers both the M.S. and the Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication, the B.S. and B.A. in Scientific and Technical Communication, and B.A. degrees in English and Liberal Arts. Scholars with interests in interdisciplinary humanities studies or research projects in one or more of the following areas are encouraged to apply: - any aspect of technical communication research or pedagogy; - discursive or rhetorical dimensions of science or technology, from the perspectives of feminist studies, cultural studies, composition theory, theories of visual representation, communication theory, computer studies, policy development, foreign languages, literary studies, philosophy, psychology, or linguistics. The Scholars' positions will appeal to faculty on sabbatical leave and to holders of research grants. Applicants must have an earned doctorate or the equivalent in experience, research, and publications. The Scholars' positions are available for a period of three months to one year. No stipend is attached; however, limited teaching may be available, depending upon expertise and departmental need. The Department of Humanities will provide office space, university affiliation, library privileges, access to e-mail and a fully- equipped computer classroom, and the opportunity to participate in a rich, interdisciplinary environment conducive to research and collaboration with faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Application packets should include a curriculum vitae, letter of introduction, detailed description of the research project to be undertaken while in residence, and the names of three references. Send applications to: Dr. Cynthia L. Selfe, Head Department of Humanities Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931 Michigan Technological University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Karla Saari Kitalong kitalong@mtu.edu Department of Humanities Michigan Technological U. 1400 Townsend Drive "One needs to study what kind of Houghton, MI 49931 body the new society needs." (906)487-3262 - Foucault, _Power/Knowledge_ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: "Donna J. Spindel" Subject: POSITION--MIDDLE EAST Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 11:16:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 213 (381) Middle East. Marshall University invites applications for a tenure track position in Middle East with ability to teach upper division courses in modern Middle East at rank of assistant or associate professor of History beginning August 1995. Ability to teach world civilizations surveys essential. Candidates with interest in Sub-Saharan Africa may be given preference. Responsibilities include teaching surveys, upper division, graduate courses. Teaching experience, evidence of scholarship desirable. Ph.D. in History preferred. Send letter of application, transcript, c.v., 3 letters of support to Dr. David Woodward, Chair, Search Committee, Dept. of History, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755. (E-Mail: HST002@marshall.wvnet.edu) Application deadline January 15, 1995, or until position filled. Women and minority applicants especially encouraged to apply. AA/EEO From: Eric Johnson Subject: Electronic Jane Austen Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 06:03:58 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 214 (382) I have received a number of requests for additional information about the electronic edition of the novels of Jane Austen that I mentioned in a previous posting. The Oxford Electronic Text Library edition of The Complete Works of Jane Austen is an SGML-conformant text available for PCs or Macs for $95.00 from Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Ave., New York NY 10016. (BTW, I have no connection with OUP.) I have written two reviews of this edition. The longer and more- detailed review will be published in _Computers and the Humanities_, Vol. 28, no. 4/5. From a somewhat different standpoint, the Austen edition is also covered in my "Electronic Jane Austen and S. T. Coleridge," _TEXT Technology_, vol 4, no. 2 (Summer, 1994), 93-100. Questions about how the electronic edition may be used are best answered in my reviews. -- Eric Johnson JohnsonE@columbia.dsu.edu johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu From: Elizabeth Kirk Subject: Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 10:59:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 215 (383) Subject: In regard to citing electronic editions of printed works, or electronic resources in general, let me suggest the following style sheet: Li, Xia and Nancy B. Crane._Electronic Style: A Guide to Citing Electronic Information_. Westport: Meckler, 1993. isbn: 088736909X. My library's paperback copy does not show a price. Elizabeth E. Kirk Resource Services Librarian for Romance Languages and Literatures Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University From: u2re9toh@crrel41.crrel.usace.army.mil (Tim Horrigan) Subject: Re: 8.0236 R: Phonology (1/40) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 10:11:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 216 (384) Jane Edwards wrote: [deleted quotation] I haven't heard any of Frost's recordings in a few years (even though they are numerous and readily available.) Basically, Robert Frost was an upper-middle-class guy from the Boston area who affected the persona of a crusty old New Hampshire farmer. Frost's situation in life would lead to a manner of speech where "Dusk" and "Dark" could sound very much alike. "Dusk" would be pronounced something "Dohwwwhhhs-kuh?" and "Dark" like "Dahwwwaahruk"--- not exactly indistinguishable but reasonably similar, especially if you mumble. --------------------------------------- TIM HORRIGAN, Climate Data Lab, USACRREL, Hanover, NH 03755 internet: horrigan@hanover-crrel.army.mil horrigan@crrel41.crrel.usace.army.mil [or the gibberish shown as my return address UNLESS it implies I'm at "@crrel41.BITNET"] alt internet: Timothy.Horrigan@bbsmail.magpie.com ph: (603) 646-4432 (w) (603) 643-8926 (h) --------------------------------------- "This is the place for the pretentious quote." --T. Horrigan ---------------------------------------- From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Mosaic book Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 09:36:42 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 217 (385) I remember that we were looking for a book on Mosaic. I don't know why, since the NCSA at UIUC offers all the guidance you might need and online help is available. Anyway, I was browsing through the bookstore shelves and ran across: Gareth Branwyn, _Mosaic Quick Tour for Windows_. Accessing and Navigating the Internet's World Wide Web (Chapel Hill, NC: Ventana Press, 1994; ISBN 1-56604-194-5). I did not buy it, since I did not need it, but a quick look-through revealed it as a competent, somewhat surface guide. It is inexpensive. Jim Marchand. From: u2re9toh@crrel41.crrel.usace.army.mil (Tim Horrigan) Subject: Re: 8.0233 Q: Rumi Poem (1/48) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 08:24:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 218 (386) [deleted quotation] Well, the Ka'aba is not an idol-house because it isn't a house: it's a cube of solid rock, with no idols inside it. There are any number of temples scattered around the Middle East and the Mediterranean which could be the "idol-house": the Parthenon in the Acropolis in Athens is the first which springs to my mind. (It was built to house a huge statue of Pallas Athene which has long since been destroyed.) [deleted quotation] What was the background of the translator R.A. Nicholson? --------------------------------------- TIM HORRIGAN, Climate Data Lab, USACRREL, Hanover, NH 03755 internet: horrigan@hanover-crrel.army.mil horrigan@crrel41.crrel.usace.army.mil [or the gibberish shown as my return address UNLESS it implies I'm at "@crrel41.BITNET"] alt internet: Timothy.Horrigan@bbsmail.magpie.com ph: (603) 646-4432 (w) (603) 643-8926 (h) --------------------------------------- "This is the place for the pretentious quote." --T. Horrigan ---------------------------------------- From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Rumi Date: Wed, 5 Oct 94 09:19:06 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 219 (387) I have a feeling that narrow intertextuality is not the right way to approach a poet like Ru:mi:, that it really makes no difference where Aq is. Avicenna is only introduced to show that a learned scholastic cannot help you. Does it help to know who Sennacherib is in Byron's Destruction of Sennacherib? Anyway, you are on the right track to cite Nicholson, who is THE authority on Ru:mi:. Look at Ru:mi:, _Mathnavi-yi ma'navi_, tr. and ed. by R. A. Nicholson, 8 vols. (London, 1924-40). He also has a nice one-volume introduction to Ru:mi:, _Ru:mi:, Poet and Mystic_ (London, 1950). I have the feeling that Ru:mi: may have made up half of his references and allusions, here and elsewhere. One small bit of nit-picking. I would hesitate to refer to Ru:mi: Persian as Farsi, but, as in the case of all things, ca depend.! Jim Marchand. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: Texte 13/14 Date: Sun, 9 Oct 94 09:24:58 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 240 (388) Many Humanists will be interested to know about the contents of combined volumes 13 and 14 of the journal Texte: Revue de Critique et de The/orie Litte/raire, a special issue called "Texte et Informatique": Michel Bernard, "Hypertexte: la troisie\me dimension du langage" Alain Vuillemin, "Informatique et textes poe/tiques" Jean-Pierre Balpe, "Les Tentations de Tantale" Michel Lenoble, "Une Ge/ne/ration perdue" E/tienne Brunet, "Quand le temps change avec le temps" William Winder, "A New Notation: Towards a Theory of Interpretation for the Electronic Medium" Willard McCarty, "Encoding Persons and Places in the Metamorphoses of Ovid: 1. Engineering the Text" Ian Lancashire, "Uttering and Editing: Computational Text Analysis and Cognitive Studies in Authorship" Donald Bruce and Terry Butler, "Towards the Discourse of the Commune: Characteristic Phenomena in Jules Valle\s's Jacques Vingtras" Jean Cle/ment, "Hypertexte et e/dition critique: l'example des romans de Ce/line" Jean-Jacques Hamm et Gregory Lessard, "Informatique et interpre/tation: pre/sences et absences textuelles dans les romans de Stendhal" Terrence Russon Wooldridge, "Le Flou en informatique textuelle" Andrew Oliver, "Du bon usage des textes e/lectroniques: lesquels?" Michel Lenoble et Conrad Sabourin, "Informatique et litte/rature: panorama et e/volution" Jack Kessler, "A Resource List of French Materials Online" WM Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: NEACH Talks Oct. 24 & Oct. 25 Date: Sat, 8 Oct 94 12:13:37 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 241 (389) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NEACH: Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities invites you to two events, free to the public, on two consecutive days, Mon., Oct. 24 and Tues., Oct. 25, 1994, in two locations, New Brunswick, N. J. and New York, N. Y. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DAVID ROBEY (Manchester University): "The Divine Comedy: Computer Analysis of Language and Style" MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1994, 1:30 P.M. Pane Room, Alexander Library, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N. J. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- JOEL GOLDFIELD (Plymouth State College): "The Impact of Computing on Language & Literature Careers" TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1994, 1:30 P.M. Room 1400, CUNY Graduate Center, 33 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DAVID ROBEY: "THE DIVINE COMEDY: COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE & STYLE": (Mon., Oct, 24, Pane Room, Alexander Library, New Brunwick, N. J.) The talk will focus on the work David Robey has been doing over a number of years in applying computer analysis to the language and style of the Divine Comedy, particularly its sound and meter. He will also take up theoretical and methodological issues raised by the computer analysis of literary texts. David Robey is Professor of Italian and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manchester, England. He is editing the Oxford Companion to Italian Literature together with Peter Hainsworth. His talk is sponsored by the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH). The Pane Room of Alexander Library is located on the Rutgers University Campus at 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. For New Brunswick travel and parking information or to receive a map by FAX, please telephone (908) 932-1384, send a FAX to (908) 932-1386, or send E-mail to ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JOEL GOLDFIELD: "THE IMPACT OF COMPUTING ON LANGUAGE & LITERATURE CAREERS." (Tues., Oct. 25, Room 1400, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City) Drawing on personal experiences as well as documents advocating university support of research and teaching activities requiring computers, Goldfield will examine the consequences for tenure, promotion and retention, and how the profession is handling old fogeys, upstarts and other adventurers. Dr. Goldfield, Professor of French at Plymouth State College (NH), is Visiting Associate Professor at Fairfield University (CT). He serves on the MLA Executive Committee for Computers and Emerging Technologies, the Executive Council of ACH, and is an editor of Computers and the Humanities. His talk will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 33 W. 42nd Street, New York, N. Y., opposite Bryant Park, between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NEACH is a regional affiliate of ACH: Association for Computing and the Humanities. All NEACH events are free and open to the public. For NEACH membership information, please contact Nan Hahn, NEACH Treasurer. Write to 322 Second Street Dunellen, N. J. 08812 USA, or send e-mail to 72066.644@compuserve.com or telephone (908) 752-5841. For New Brunswick travel and parking information or to receive a map by FAX, please telephone (908) 932-1384, send a FAX to (908) 932-1386, or send E-mail to ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu. --Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President Dept. of English, Rutgers Univ., Newark, N. J. 07102 (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FASOLD@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: Linguistics Research Survey Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 09:05:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 242 (390) I wonder if some of you would be willing to help me out by returning your ans- wers to the following four questions for some research I'm doing. I'd be pleased to describe what it's all about to anyone who sends me answers. If you think you already know what it's about, please don't respond. Your opinions might be influenced by what you think about the issue involved. I've repeated the examples only at the end of this in the hope that they might all be on your screen at once so you can REPLY. My great appreciation in advance to anybody who answers these. Ralph Fasold 1. Suppose there is a man named John who talks out loud when nobody else is around. Which of following sentences could naturally be used to describe what he does? Answer "a", "b" or "both". a. John always talks to himself. b. John always talks to him. 2. Suppose a woman named Mary pulled a blanket up until it covered her body. Which of following sentences could naturally be used to describe what Mary did? Answer "a", "b" or "both". a. Mary pulled the blanket over her. b. Mary pulled the blanket over herself. 3. Suppose there are two men, Rupert and Peter. Peter thinks Rupert is a jerk, but Rupert doesn't care what Peter thinks. Which of following sentences could naturally be used to describe Rupert's attitude? Answer "a", "b" or "both". a. Rupert was not unduly worried about Peter's opinion of himself. b. Rupert was not unduly worried about Peter's opinion of him. 4. Which of the following would be more plausible in a conversation. Answer "a","b" or "neither one is plausible". a. Sandy believes he should finish a book and Kim believes she should too. Of course, Sandy means he should finish READing one and Kim means she should finish WRITing one. b. Sandy believes he should finish a book and Kim believes it too. Of course, Sandy means he should finish READing one and Kim means she should finish WRITing one. 1. a. John always talks to himself. b. John always talks to him. Answer "a", "b" or "both". 2. a. Mary pulled the blanket over her. b. Mary pulled the blanket over herself. Answer "a", "b" or "both". 3. a. Rupert was not unduly worried about Peter's opinion of himself. b. Rupert was not unduly worried about Peter's opinion of him. Answer "a", "b" or "both". 4. a. Sandy believes he should finish a book and Kim believes she should too. Of course, Sandy means he should finish READing one and Kim means she should finish WRITing one. b. Sandy believes he should finish a book and Kim believes it too. Of course, Sandy means he should finish READing one and Kim means she should finish WRITing one. Answer "a", "b", or "neither( is plausible)" From: Eric Crump Subject: MU English Grad Student Conference Call Date: Thu, 06 Oct 94 13:58:00 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 243 (391) The English Graduate Students Association of the University of Missouri presents . . . The Fourth Annual English Graduate Student Conference University of Missouri-Columbia *-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----* Text, Texture and Context February 17-19, 1995 Poetry Reading and Plenary Lecture by: Sandra M. Gilbert University of California, Davis *-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----* This year's theme, Text, Texture and Context, encourages exploration of all aspects of the creation and study of texts. Definitions of *text* have persistently changed, and this conference will be a forum for graduate students to examine the discipline's developing understanding of texts themselves and how we view them through various critical lenses. We are interested in the study of texts as physical objects, in how our perceptions are evolving as influenced by the proliferation of electronic media, and in the continually shifting role of the author in the creation of the text. We invite abstracts and panel proposals in the following areas: --> Rhetoric and Composition --> Literary Criticism --> Folklore and Oral Tradition --> Manuscript Studies --> Electronic Media --> Creative Writing --> Literary Theory --> Pedagogy of Writing and Literature --> Book Arts and History The conference hopes to provide a forum for book artists and writers to discuss and show their small press and book design projects. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the book as artifact and maker of meaning. The 1995 conference will also feature expanded roundtable discussions on graduate study and the discipline in general, a banquet, and receptions to follow the plenary readings. Please submit 1-2 page abstracts. Panel proposals may be slightly longer and should include abstracts for individual papers where appropriate. We solicit readings in fiction, poetry, and creative non- fiction. Writers should submit 1-2 short stories or essays (under 50 pages) or 3-7 poems. Submit Proposals or Questions: By mail or e-mail: Pennie Pflueger c623162@mizzou1.missouri.edu 107 Tate Hall University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 *** Deadline: Abstracts, panel proposals, and creative work must be postmarked no later than October 31, 1994 *** From: Ray Perrault Subject: Call for Nominations for IJCAI-95 Awards Date: Fri, 7 Oct 94 6:17:29 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 244 (392) INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INC. *** Call for Nominations for IJCAI-95 Awards *** THE IJCAI AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given at an IJCAI to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality yielding several substantial results. If the research program has been carried out collaboratively, the Award may be made jointly to the research team. Past recipients of this award are John McCarthy (1985), Allen Newell (1989), Marvin Minsky (1991), and Ray Reiter (1993). The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of US$ 2,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The recipient will be invited to deliver an address on the nature and significance of the results achieved and write a paper for the conference proceedings. Primarily, however, the Award carries the honour of having one's work selected by one's peers as an exemplar of sustained research in Artificial Intelligence. We hereby call for nominations for The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, which will be presented at IJCAI-95 in Montreal, Canada, 20 August - 25 August 1995. The accompanying note on Selection Procedures provides the relevant details. THE COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD The Computers and Thought Lectures are presented at IJCAI conferences by outstanding young scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Past recipients of this honour have been Terry Winograd (1971), Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger (1975), Douglas Lenat (1977), David Marr (1979), Gerald Sussman (1981), Tom Mitchell (1983), Hector Levesque (1985), Johan de Kleer (1987), Henry Kautz (1989), Rodney Brooks (1991), Martha Pollack (1991), and Hiroaki Kitano (1993). The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of US$ 2,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The lecture is given one evening during the conference, and the public is invited to attend. The lecturer is encouraged to publish the lecture in the conference proceedings. The lectureship was established with royalties received from the book Computers and Thought, edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman; it is currently supported by income from IJCAII funds. We hereby call for nominations for the Computers and Thought Award, which will be presented at IJCAI-95 in Montreal, Canada, 20 August - 25 August 1995. The accompanying note on Selection Procedures provides the relevant details. SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR IJCAI AWARDS Nominations for the IJCAI Research Excellence Award and the Computers and Thought Award are invited from everyone in the international Artificial Intelligence community. There should be a nominator and a seconder, at least one of whom must not be from the same institution as the nominee. Nominees for the Computers and Thought Award cannot be older than 35 at the start of the conference. There are no other restrictions on nominees, nominators or seconders. Nominating and seconding statements for an award should be submitted on the Nomination and Reference Forms for the award. The forms are available via http, gopher, or anonymous FTP at the following addresses, or directly from the Conference Chair at the address below. http://ijcai.org/awards/forms.txt gopher://ijcai.org/0/awards/forms ftp://ijcai.org/pub/ijcai/awards/forms An IJCAI Awards Committee has been established to encourage high quality nominations for IJCAI Awards and to propose winners to the Board of Trustees. It consists of five members: the three most recent past IJCAI conference chairs (Wolfgang Bibel (convenor), Barbara Grosz and Wolfgang Wahlster), and two senior members of the AI community. The IJCAI Awards Committee will be advised by the IJCAI Award Review Committee, which is the union of the former Trustees of IJCAII, the Advisory Committee of IJCAI-95, the program chairs of the last three IJCAI conferences, and the past recipients of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award, with nominees excluded. Nominations should be sent to the Conference Chair for IJCAI-95 at the address below. The deadline for nominations is 25 November 1994. To avoid duplication of effort, nominators are requested to submit the name of the person they are nominating by 1 November 1994 so that people who propose to nominate the same individual may be so informed and can coordinate their efforts. C. Raymond Perrault Conference Chair, IJCAI-95 Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (415) 859-6470 Fax: (415) 859-3735 email: perrault@ai.sri.com From: Ralph Mathisen Subject: Numismatics list Date: Thu, 06 Oct 94 09:48:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 245 (393) ******************************NEW LIST********************************** * * * NUMISM-L (ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL/BYZANTINE NUMISMATICS) * * * * NUMISM-L is an unmoderated list that provides a discussion forum for * * topics relating to the numismatics of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. * * It is not a collector's list, nor is it exclusively scholarly; but * * it is for serious students of coinage up to c.1454. It also offers * * an opportunity to announce the discovery of new coin hoards, newly * * discovered varieties (as well as newly identified forgeries), new * * books, recent thefts, and upcoming conferences. Coin shows and * * coin sales also may be announced, but sales of specific coins are * * absolutely forbidden, and anyone offering specific coins for sale * * will be summarily removed from the list. * * Potential Audience: Historians, Classicists, Medievalists, Byzan- * * tinists, Art Historians, Archaeologists, Economists, and Numisma- * * tists. * * * * To subscribe, send a note to: LISTSERV@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU * * with message: SUBSCRIBE NUMISM-L your name * * * * List owners: * * * * Ralph W. Mathisen, Dept. of History, * * Univ. of S. Carolina, Columbia SC 29208 * * email: n330009@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu * * (for information on technical matters: subscribing, settings, etc.) * * * * William E. 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International Research & Exchanges Board 1616 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 Tel: (202) 628-8188 Fax: (202) 628-8189 E-mail: irex%irexmain@irex.org gopher: info.irex.org, port 70 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Application deadline: November 1, 1994 Research placement and access for predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars at institutions in the host country for a period of 2-12 months. Regions: Baltic States, Central & Eastern Europe, Mongolia, Newly Independent States. Research Residencies Application deadline: November 1, 1994 Research Residents spend 9-12 months in the host region/country pursuing individual research and improving language skills. IREX requires Research Residents to submit quarterly reports on developments in the local academic and policy communities. Regions: Albania, Baltic States, Croatia, Macedonia, Newly Independent States, Slovenia, Slovakia. Bulgarian Studies Seminar Application deadline: November 1, 1994 One-month fellowships for American scholars wishing to improve their knowledge of the Bulgarian language and culture. The seminar, held in Sofia during the month of July, consists of lectures on Bulgarian language, history, culture, and literature. Topics vary each year to complement the needs and interests of each group of scholars. Region: Bulgaria. Special Projects in Library and Information Science Application deadline: January 15, 1995 Opportunities for support of librarians, archivists, and information specialists pursuing projects relating to Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Regions: Baltic States, Central & Eastern Europe, Newly Independent States. Special Projects Application deadline: March 1, 1995 Financial support for collaborative projects in the study of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Proposals from all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are welcome. All projects must involve American and non-American participants from one or more of the eligible countries. Regions: Baltic States, Central & Eastern Europe, Newly Independent States. Short-Term Travel Grants Application deadlines: October 1, 1994; February 1, 1995; and June 1, 1995 IREX offers travel grants for scholarly projects focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Mongolia. Support is available for brief visits (1-2 weeks) for individuals who do not require administrative assistance from IREX. Regions: Baltic States, Central & Eastern Europe, Mongolia, Newly Independent States. US Host Universities for Graduate Students from Eurasia and the Baltics [Edmund S. Muskie and Freedom Support Act Fellows] Application Deadline: January 27, 1995 These Fellowships are funded through the US Information Agency and administered by IREX and three other organizations to bring graduate students from the countries of Eurasia and the Baltics for one- and two-year, degree and non-degree programs in professional fields. IREX accepts proposals from US universities with masters-level programs in economics, journalism/mass communications, and library and information science to serve as host universities for approximately 90 fellows. US Host Institutions for Teaching Assistants from Russia (Russian Teaching Assistants Program-RTAP) Application deadline: October 7, 1994 RTAP, a new program funded by the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Branch of the US Information Agency, matches Russian Teaching Assistants with US two- and four- year academic institutions. US host institutions may apply to receive teaching assistants for either a six- or eight- month program. Russian participants are recent graduates of pedagogical institutes and primarily specialists in the field of English. The TAs may also serve as resource persons in departments of Russian language and culture, either as occasional lecturers in courses related to Russian language, society, and culture. In addition to serving as a TA, the Russian participants will enroll in two to three courses per semester to broaden their understanding of their fields of specialization and/or American culture and society. From: abosley@ott.hookup.net (Aneurin Bosley) Subject: Internet Business Journal Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 11:08:37 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 247 (395) The September issue of the Internet Business Journal was a special focus issue on Internet training, guest edited by Lindsay Fraser, Training Director for Strangelove Internet Enterprises, Inc. It contains articles about training, information about online training courses, and resources for trainers. Get your complementary sample copy of The Internet Business Journal today by sending email to John Curtin (subscription manager) at at380@freenet.carleton.ca. Coming up in the October-November issue, a special double issue on shopping on the Internet, just in time for Christmas shopping (yes, its that time again). For more information about The Internet Business Journal, gopher to fonorola.net. Under the Internet Business Journal directory, users will find useful articles, indexes and directories, as well as some essays by Michael Strangelove. Aneurin Bosley /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Aneurin Bosley || abosley@ott.hookup.net Editor The Internet Business Journal "Commercial Opportunities in the Networking Age" published by Strangelove Internet Enterprises Inc., gopher to fonorola.net, or Email John Curtin at at380@freenet.carleton.ca for Electronic Sample Copies /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: new bibliography of humanities computing Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 18:30:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 248 (396) eHumanists will be interested to note the publication of a new bibliography, Giovanni Adamo, Bibliografia di informatica umanistica, Informatica e discipline umanistiche (Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 1994), 420 pp. It is organized by author but has indexes by subject, by person, and interestingly, a chronological index. According to the copy I have, it costs L. 58.000. Work done in the major languages is recorded. It looks very good. 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Tompkins" Subject: James gang Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 06:16:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 220 (398) I have lost the address of the list dealing with William and Henry James. Can someone post it? Thanks, Dan Tompkins From: Judy Reynolds Subject: Francehs Date: Tue, 11 Oct 94 07:33:42 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 221 (399) Hi, I'm trying to locate the listserv for French history. It is no longer at uwavm.u.washinton.edu and I would like to know if it has moved or ceased. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Judy Reynolds //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Judy Reynolds (408) 924-2725 Library judyr@sjsuvm1.bitnet San Jose State University judyr@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu 1 Washington Sq. San Jose, Ca. 95192-0028 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From: "Paul Spillenger" Subject: Concordance Software Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:08:17 CST6CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 222 (400) I am looking for the best available Windows- or DOS-based software for generating concordances from text files. I am aware of Word Cruncher and TACT, but would be interested to hear users' experience with them as well as any information about other programs. Vendor information, if available, would also be welcome. Many thanks. Paul Spillenger ___________________________________ 431 Irby Hall Department of English University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 (501) 450-5131 pauls@cc1.uca.edu From: Michael.Clark@cyber.Widener.EDU Subject: Anecdotes Wanted Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:08:24 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 251 (401) For a book to be published next spring by Prentice Hall--an introduction to the Internet for Humanists--I am seeking anecdotes from individuals detailing the ways that the Internet was a valuable tool for your teaching, research, professional, or personal activities. --How did the Internet allow you to accomplish a task in a way that was faster or more effective than before? --How did the Internet make something possible that was not possible before? --How has the Internet changed your life for the better? --What activity on the Internet do you now consider an essential part of your life? These stories might entail any aspect of Internet usage: e-mail, ftp, gopher, Archie, Veronica, Jughead, lists, www, Usenet news, etc. I am looking for both commonplace and unusual stories from a broad range of people from any area of the humanities. Please send your responses to Michael.Clark@cyber.widener.edu Thank you. From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Subject: Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature Date: Tue, 11 Oct 94 14:32:38 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 252 (402) The Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature will be announced on WWW server Thursday the 13th of October at 13.00 MET (GMT+1), immediately after the Permanent Secretary has made his announcement. The prize citation and press release in English and Swedish will also be published. URL=http://logos.svenska.gu.se/academy.html -- Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Humanistiska fakultetens dataservice tel: +46 (0)31 773 4553 G|teborgs universitet fax: +46 (0)31 773 4455 From: "Rita Wilson" <099RITA@muse.arts.wits.ac.za> Subject: Job advertisement Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 13:06:51 GMT + 2:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 253 (403) The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, seeks to fill a full-time, career- track lectureship in French Studies from 1 February 1995. Preference will be given to applicants with qualifications and experience in foreign language teaching. Candidates should be in possession of a Higher Degree and must be bilingual (English/French) and be able to conduct language and literature classes at all levels. A special interest in 20th Century/francophone literature would be an added advantage. Submit applications , including a detailed CV with two written referee's reports to: University of the Witwatersrand Personnel Office (Academic) Private Bag 3 WITS 2050 OR FAX (27-11) 339 2223 CLOSING DATE: 30 NOVEMBER 1994 QUOTE REF: WM 11382 From: Alexandre Khalil Subject: Re: 8.0237 Qs: E-mail router; Signs and Portents (2/42) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 23:41:21 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 254 (404) [deleted quotation] user%site.bitnet@pucc.princeton.edu works for me. Note the respective position of % and @. -- alex khalil iskandar@tamu.edu Texas A&M Univers. Arabic script software mailing list, maintainer ftp rama.poly.edu (128.238.10.212) in pub/reader ftp.u.washington.edu (140.142.56.1) in public/reader From: Paul Brians Subject: D'Alembert preface to Encyclopedie needed in French--quick! Date: Tue, 11 Oct 94 19:46:02 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 255 (405) I'm trying to put the final touches on a set of readings for a class and had planned to use a short excerpt from the D'Alembert preface to the Diderot Encyclopedie, but the publishers of our translation wanted absurdly big bucks so we decided to make our own translation, only to find that our library seems to lack a copy of the piece in French. I'm looking for a good Samaritan out there who would be willing to locate the passage and fax us the relevant pages. In return you'd get a copy of our translation, free to use as you see fit and our eternal gratitude. There's no time left for an Interlibrary Loan, helas! But if you know of an unexpected place in which we might find the text in our own library, let me know. The Washington State University catalogue is available via Gopher and is very easy to use (it's called Cougalog). The selection is about two or three pages long. Paul Brians, Washington State University, brians@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu From: Evelyne Tzoukermann Subject: Date: April 1, 1995 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 256 (406) Place: Dublin, Ireland Submission deadline: Jan 23 Notice of acceptance/rejection: February 10 Final papers due: March 1 The papers will be published as workshop notes. With the growing amount of multilingual corpus data becoming available, there is a pressing need to explore issues in representation and analysis of these texts. Although extensive and leading work has been accomplished for languages such as English, for the most part many theoretical and concrete issues need to be resolved in the representation and tagging of other languages. The focus of this workshop is on multilingual text analysis, from the level of text itself, e.g. tokenization, sentence separation, etc, to morphosyntactic analysis, specifically tagging. We intend to focus on tagging since it appears to be the case that, from a computational point of view, part of speech tagging is often an important prerequisite to further structural analysis. Additionally, many NLP systems can make use of tagged corpora for various applications. However, tasks such as tokenization and tagging continue to raise serious challenges in multilingual text analysis, due to differing types of morphological characteristics across languages. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - tokenization and segmentation - interfaces between morphological analysis and part-of-speech tagging - size and choice of tagset - defining and refining new tag sets - mapping between tag sets - universal vs. language specific tags - multilingual approaches to tagging We invite submissions on topics that in general reflect an awareness of differences and similarities in working on multilingual text. We also welcome substantive descriptions of newly started and ongoing projects. Co-organizers: Evelyne Tzoukermann Susan Armstrong-Warwick AT&T Bell Laboratories ISSCO University of Geneva Room 2D-448, P.O. Box 636 54 route des Acacias 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ, 07944-0636 CH-1227 Geneve USA Switzerland tel. +1-908-582-2924 +41-22-705-7113 fax +1-908-582-7308 +41-22-300-1086 email evelyne@research.att.com susan@divsun.unige.ch From: Subject: Job in C20 French Date: Tue, 11 Oct 94 22:45 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 223 (407) The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma is pleased to announce a tenure-track position in Twentieth-Century French Literature Deadline for applications is December 15, 1994; appointment will begin August 15, 1995 Rank: Assistant Professor Mimimum requirements include Ph. D. in hand by the time of appointment and native or near-native fluency in French. Preferred qualifications include demonstrated excellence in research, publication and teaching. Inquiries to Luis Cortest, Chair, MLL&L, The University of Oklahoma, 780 Van Vleet Oval, Room 202, Norman, OK 73019. Phone: (405) 325-6181 Fax: (405) 325-0103 The University of Oklahoma is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer From: Radd Ehrman Subject: Jop Opening Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 15:23:48 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 224 (408) The Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, Kent State University, will hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin August 1995. We are looking for Ph.D's (as specified below) who are excellent teachers and hold potential for research, publication and grantsmanship. Send letter of application, CV, graduate transcripts and three confidential letters of recommendation NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 30, 1994 to: Rick M. Newton, Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242. An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. FOREIGN LANGUAGE METHODOLOGY Will supervise student teaching and coordinate BA and MA programs in language pedagogy. Ph.D in Spanish (preferred), French, German or Russian or in language education plus expertise in second-language acquisition. Must meet Ohio Board of Education Teacher Certification standards (reciprocity with many states). From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: Uses of CMC in Humanities Higher Education Date: 12 Oct 1994 14:28:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 258 (409) My name is Simon Rae, I am working at the Open University based in Milton Keynes, UK. Although employed full-time in Academic Computing Services, I am also working on a small research project, funded by the OU's Institute of Educational Technology, reviewing the "Uses of CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) by Teachers and their Students in Humanities Higher Education". A large part of this research will involve gathering examples of and references to such uses before I can begin to categorise, analyse and, hopefully, evaluate them. Please, if anyone has knowledge of any such uses would they send me a brief note about it ... just enough to contact the people involved or to look up any printed report. Rather than burden the HUMANIST list please send direct to: s.a.rae@open.ac.uk At this stage in my research I am not limiting myself by defining either the humanities or CMC too narrowly - that phase of my work will come later. The disciplines covered by The Humanities Computing Yearbook and computing facilities/techniques like Conferencing, Email, IRC, LISTSERV lists, MUDs, MOOs, Usenet Netnews and the WWW will be my starting point. I will be producing a report of my research which I intend to make available via the Internet. Thanking you in anticipation. Simon -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Simon Rae, User Services Officer, | S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK (Internet) | | Academic Computing Service, | | | The Open University, Milton Keynes, | phone: (01908) 652413 | | United Kingdom. MK7 6AA | fax: (01908) 653744 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Michael L. Hall" Subject: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 14:31:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 259 (410) Subject: Please post the following: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 1995 DISSERTATION GRANTS GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION MATERIALS ON INTERNET The 1995 NEH Dissertation Grants guidelines and application materials are now available at the University of Pennsylvania gopher. To get the Dissertation Grants materials either: (a) gopher to ccat.sas.upenn.edu, select "11. Other Services and potpourri/," then "3. National Endowment for the Humanities," then "4. NEH Dissertation Grants guidelines/application materials (1995)" or (b) point your World Wide Web browser toward the URL "gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/11/Special/neh/neh-dggl-1995" [no quotation marks or spaces]. The ASCII text file containing the Guidelines and all necessary application materials is approximately 90 Kb. Michael L. Hall From: ROBERT VAN DER ZWAN Subject: Cal-application on textual analysis for history students Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 15:21:15 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 260 (411) My name is Robert van der Zwan. Since the beginning of September I am working on a TILT project (Teaching with Independent Learning Technology) at Glasgow University. We are looking at the development of a CAL application to be used by undergraduate history students, which focuses on textual analysis. We will use 17th century texts on political philosophy. We are thinking of using authoring software (Toolbook, Guide Authorware) seperately or in combination with software for textual analysis (Tact, OCP). We are also looking at the possibilities of software for qualitative analysis used in the social sciences (Atlas-i, Nudist, Textbase Alpha). The use of Microcosm is also one of our options. We have recently started the evaluation and would like to know if you have any experiences in this field which could be use to us. More specifically we would like to know: 1. to what extent do authoring software packages allow other software to be launched. (for example combination of tact en toolbook) 2. do you have information on the possibilities of software for qualitative analysis compared to those of software for textual analysis. 3. to what extent do authoring software packages allow textual analysis (word frequencies, concordances, searches for words or related terms, statistical analysis). What about for example the newest version Toolbook. 4. do you know of similar or related projects that might be of use for us. Please sent your replies to my e-mail address: rzwan@dish.gla.ac.uk Thanks, Robert van der Zwan From: Watt, James T. Subject: RE: 8.0251 Intro to the Internet for Humanists (1/39) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 15:01:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 261 (412) I don't know if you want/need this, but I thought an Intro to Internet would be a wonderful book for me because (a) I hate reading things on a computer screen and (b) the internet has been of only limited use to me because, [unlike the post office or telephone company which do not demand any more than either (a) a reasonably legible address and stamp or (b) a mere eleven or twelve digit number sequence, to connect to another human being] it is so damn complicated. Indeed, I dropped all my internet subscription lists almost immediately (I keep the humanist list only because out of about every 150 messages received one or two are of marginal interest to me) because i was innundated by wonk trivia on a level I previously understood to be limited to oenophiles, philatelists and collectors of what they so quaintly describe as 'military miniatures.' In other words, there's no way to stem the tide of junk-e-mail; I spent too much time deleting diliatory arguments re bosnia and hilary and other non-vital couplings to have any left. I guess for people who don't have real lives, virtual reality is an acceptable substitute, but pity, in my case, doesn't extend to empathy. Ta. The above is, of course, an effort to prove my point by illustrating it. If you didn't get it, forget it. If you did forgo it please. From: Robin LaPasha Subject: Re: 8.0250 Qs: E-Lists (James; French History); Concording (3/47) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 22:47:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 225 (413) (First message to list; please excuse me if I'm sending to the wrong place...) --- Re: a previous poster's request for information about WordCruncher - I have been attempting to contact the makers of WordCruncher with no success on the telephone. (Their 801-756-1111 number, supposedly working this summer, has been disconnected, and the followup numbers given are for completely unrelated companies.) Does anyone have a current phone number or email address for Johnston and Co., makers of WordCruncher? I'd hoped to avoid the delay of paper mail, but I guess I'll try that next... Robin LaPasha Soviet Literature Scanning Project ruslan@raphael.acpub.duke.edu Duke University From: goulandr@sociologie.ens.fr (Nikos Goulandris) Subject: Re: 8.0255 Q: D'Alembert preface needed (1/18) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 10:21:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 226 (414) Please let me know the passage of the D'Alembert preface you need (and your fax number). Regards, Nikos.Goulandris@ens.fr From: GURT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: GURT 1995 (long posting) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 11:59:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 263 (415) *************************************************************** Preliminary Conference Announcement - GURT 1995 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ROUND TABLE ON LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS 1995 Conference and Pre-sessions: March 6 - 11, 1995 "Linguistics and the Education of Second Language Teachers: Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects" Chaired by James E. Alatis, Dean Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Modern Greek School of Languages and Linguistics Georgetown University, Washington, DC ***************************************************************** SPEAKERS: Main Sessions: March 8 - 11, 1995 David Andrews, Georgetown University Cathy Ball, Georgetown University Leslie M. Beebe, Teachers College, Columbia University Gillian Brown, Cambridge University Isolda Carranza, Georgetown University Marianne Celce-Murcia, University of California, Los Angeles Anna Uhl Chamot, Georgetown University Kenneth Chastain, University of Virginia Virginia Collier, George Mason University Jeff Connor-Linton, Georgetown University Barbara A. Craig, Georgetown University JoAnn Crandall, University of Maryland Baltimore County Bessie Dendrinos, University of Athens, Greece Nadine O'Connor DiVito, The University of Chicago Madeline E. Ehrman, U.S. Department of State, FSI Mary El-Khadi, Old Dominion University Aviva Freedman, Carleton University, Ottawa Eugene Garcia, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Affairs William C. Hannas, Georgetown University Elaine K. Horwitz, University of Texas at Austin Kurt R. Jankowsky, Georgetown University Adam Jaworski, University of Wales Cardiff Christina Kakava, Mary Washington College Steve Krashen, University of Southern California Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University Diane Larsen-Freeman, School for International Training Ronald Leow, Georgetown University Don Loritz, Georgetown University Steve Loughrin-Sacco, Boise State University Joan Morley, University of Michigan David Nunan, The University of Hong Kong Linju Ogasawara, Japanese Ministry of Education (ret.) Anne Pakir, National University of Singapore Yuling Pan, Georgetown University Sophia C. Papaefthymiou-Lytra, University of Athens, Greece Martha Pennington, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong Terry Pica, The University of Pennsylvania Guy Spielmann, Georgetown University John J. Staczek, Georgetown University Charles Stansfield, Center for Applied Linguistics Steven Sternfeld, University of Utah Earl Stevick, Independent Researcher G. Richard Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University Bill VanPatten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Monique Wong, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece Shelley Wong, University of Maryland, College Park Dolly J. Young, University of Tennessee Gen-Yuan Zhuang, Hangzhou University Elizabeth Zsiga, Georgetown University For more information, please contact: Carolyn A. Straehle, Coordinator, GURT 1995 School of Languages and Linguistics 303 Intercultural Center Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1067 e-mail: gurt@guvax.bitnet or gurt@guvax.georgetown.edu phone: (202) 687-5726 fax: (202) 687-5712 GURT registration information and detailed program flyer available from late December 1994 (will be sent automatically to individuals already on mailing list). Proceedings of the Round Table are published annually and are available from Georgetown University Press (410) 516-6995. Annual Meeting of the INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION (ILA) also to be held at Georgetown, Friday, March 10 - Sunday, March 12. The theme of the 1995 ILA meeting is Discourse and Text Analysis. For more information, contact Ruth Brend, 3363 Burbank Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48105. Tel: 313/665-2787; Fax: 313/665-9743; E-mail:Ruth.Brend@um.cc.umich.edu. Deadline for abstracts submitted to ILA is January 4, 1995. Abstracts relevant to theme or any other linguistics topic invited. ***************************************************************** Pre-Conference Sessions: March 6 - 8, 1995 The pre-conference sessions will be held in the Intercultural Center of Georgetown University. Please contact the individual organizers for more information. Teaching and Learning Spoken Arabic Organizer: Dr. Margaret Nydell G.U. Department of Arabic Washington, DC 20057-1068 (202) 687-5743 Spanish Linguistics Organizers: Dr. H ctor Campos, Mr. Eric Holt, and Ms. Norma Catalan G.U. Department of Spanish Washington, DC 20057-0989 (202) 687-6134 hcampos@guvax.bitnet hcampos@guvax.georgetown.edu History of Linguistics Organizer: Dr. Kurt R. Jankowsky G.U. Department of German Washington, DC 20057-1068 (202) 687-5812 African Linguistics VI Organizer: Rev. Solomon Sara, S.J. G.U. Department of Linguistics Washington, DC 20057-1068 (202) 687-5956 ssara@guvax.bitnet ssara@guvax.georgetown.edu Portuguese Linguistics Organizer: Dr. Clea A. Rameh G.U. Department of Portuguese Washington, DC 20057-0991 (202) 687-5705 Innovative Audio and Looking at Multimedia (two sessions) Organizer: Jackie Tanner, Director G.U. Language Learning Technology Washington, DC 20057-0984 (202) 687-5766 jtanner@guvax.georgetown.edu Issues in Slavic Linguistics Organizer: Dr. David Andrews G.U. Department of Russian Washington, DC 20057-0990 (202) 687-6108/6147 Discourse and Agency: Responsibility and Deception Organizer: Dr. Patricia E. O'Connor G.U. Department of English Washington, DC 20057-1068 (202) 687-5956/6226 oconnorpe@guvax.bitnet oconnorpe@guvax.georgetown.edu Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis Organizer: Dr. Susan Herring Program in Linguistics University of Texas Arlington, TX 76019 (817) 273-3133 susan@utafll.uta.edu Celebration of Bilingual Immersion Programs Organizer: Prof. Dorothy Goodman Friends of International Education P.O. Box 4800 Washington, DC 20008 (202) 363-8510 Issues in Foreign Language Program Direction Organizer: Dr. Ron Leow G.U. Department of Spanish Washington, DC 20057-0989 (202) 687-6134 rleow@guvax.bitnet rleow@guvax.georgetown.edu Workshops: Criterion-Referenced Curriculum and Test Development for Language Teachers and Administrators Presenter: Dr. Jeff Connor-Linton G.U. Department of Linguistics Washington, DC 20057-1068 (202) 687-6156 Authentic Documents in the Language Class: Theoretical Perspectives and Didactic Applications Presenter: Dr. Guy Speilmann G.U. Department of French Washington, DC 20057-1054 (202) 687-5717 Language Acquisition and Language Education: A Review of Research and Theory and Current Issues Presenter: Dr. Steve Krashen School of Education University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031 ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** From: John Nerbonne Subject: CFP: Linguistic Databases Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 11:45:07 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 264 (416) Call for Papers: Linguistic Databases 23-24 March 1995 University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands A database is simply a declarative representation of information which is designed to make data entry and retrieval easy, but is not optimized for other processing. Databases have long been standard repositories in phonetic research, but they are finding increasing use not only in phonology, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics and dialectology but also in areas of applied linguistics such as lexicography and computer-assisted language learning. Normally, they serve as a repositories for large amounts of data, but they are also important for the organization they impose, which serves to ease access for researchers and applications specialists. The purpose of a workshop specifically on this topic to provide a forum for the exchange of information and views on the proper use of databases within the various subfields of linguistics. We hope to include papers addressing the following questions: 1. Databases vs. annotated corpora, pros and cons. 2. Needs wrt acoustic data, string data, temporal data. Existing facilities. 3. Developing (maximally) theory-neutral db schemas for annotation systems. 4. Commercially available systems vs. public domain systems. What's available? 5. Uses in grammar checking, replication of results. 6. Needs of applications such as lexicography. 7. Making use of CD-ROM technology. 8. Existing professional expertise: Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), TEI. Invited Speakers Jan Aarts, Prof. of English, Nijmegen, leader of TOSCA, Linguistic Database: "Annotation of Corpora: General Issues and the Nijmegen Experience" Natalie Granger, Prof. of English, Louvain (tentative) "Corpora and Computer-Assisted Language Learning" Mark Liberman, Prof. of Linguistics & Computer Science, Pennsylvania; Director, Ling. Data Consortium "The Linguistic Data Consortium" (tentative title) Abstracts We solicit papers of 20 min (plus 10 min discussion). Abstracts of not more than 2 pp. (A4) should be marked "Attention: Ling-DBs" and submitted by Dec 15 to: John Nerbonne, Alfa-Informatica Postbus 716 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen NL 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands Email submissions are likewise welcome. They must meet the same length requirement, must be|either in plain ASCII or in postscript. Include "Attention: Ling-DBs" in the subject line and send to nerbonne@let.rug.nl Proposals for demonstrations of existing work are likewise welcome. Please be specific about time and hardware/software requirements. Publication: We plan no unrefereed publication. Given sufficient interest, we shall discuss publication at the workshop. Submitting an abstract is NOT a promise to participate in publication. Program Committee: Tjeerd de Graaf (Phonetics), Tette Hofstra (Historical Ling.), John Nerbonne (Computational Ling., Program Chair), and Herman Wekker (Descriptive Ling.). Local Arangements: Duco Dokter d.a.dokter@let.rug.nl From: Allan Ramsay Subject: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 16:38:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 265 (417) EACL-95 REMINDER AND CALL FOR PAPERS 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 27--31, 1995 University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin, Ireland Topics of Interest: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. Requirements: Papers should describe unique work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work; and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the EACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Format for Submission: Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Papers should be headed by a title page containing the paper title, a short (5 line) summary and a specification of the subject area. Since reviewing will be "blind", the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead, use references like "Smith previously showed (1991) ..." Care should be taken to mask identity in the bibliography by referring to the author's own papers as anonymous. This is especially applicable of unpublished in-house technical reports which are certain to reveal the identity of the author(s). To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied, containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses, a short (5 line) summary, a word count, and a specification of the topic areas. Submission Media: Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to the Program Co-chairs: Steven Abney and Erhard W. Hinrichs Universitaet Tuebingen Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Abt. Computerlinguistik Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany email: eacl95@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source or plain text. LaTeX submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described below) and should not refer to any external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. A model submission modelsub.tex is also provided in the archive, as well as a bibliography style acl.bst. (Note however that the bibliography for a submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file.) Hard copy submissions should consist of four (4) copies of the paper and one (1) copy of the identification page. For both kinds of submissions, if at all possible, a plain text version of the identification page should be sent separately by electronic mail, using the following format: title: < title > author: < name of first author > address: < address of first author > ... author: < name of last author > address: < address of last author > abstract: < abstract > content areas: first area >, ... ,< last area > word count: Schedule: Authors must submit their papers by October 20, 1994. Papers received after this date will not be considered. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by December 23rd 1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 31 January 1995, along with a signed copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format is available through the ACL LISTSERV. The paper sessions, including student papers, will take place on March 29-31. Student Sessions: There will again be special Student Sessions organized by a committee of (E)ACL graduate student members. (E)ACL student members are invited to submit short papers in any of the topics listed above. The papers will be reviewed by a committee of students and faculty members for presentation in workshop-style sessions and publication in a special section of the conference proceedings. There will be a separate call for papers, available from the ACL LISTSERV or from the chair of the program committee for the student sessions: Thorsten Brants, Universit"at des Saarlandes, Computerlinguistik, D-66041 Saarbr"ucken, Germany, email: thorsten@coli.uni-sb.de. Other Activities: The meeting will include a program of tutorials coordinated by John Nerbonne, Alfa-informatica, Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, Postbus 716, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL-9700 AS Groningen; email: nerbonne@let.rug.nl. Proposals for tutorials may be sent to him. There is no special form. Tutorials are scheduled for March 27-28; registration for tutorials will take place on March 26. Some of the ACL Special Interest Groups may arrange workshops or other activities. Further information may be available from the ACL LISTSERV. Conference Information: The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by: Allan Ramsay, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (phone: (353)-1-7062479, FAX: (353)-1-2687262, email: allan@monkey.ucd.ie) ACL Information: For other information on the ACL more generally, contact Judith Klavans (global) or Mike Rosner (for Europe): Judith Klavans, Columbia University, Computer Science, Room 724, New York, NY 10027, USA; phone: +1-212-939-7120, fax: +1-914-478-1802; email:acl@cs.columbia.edu; Michael Rosner, IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland, email: mike@idsia.ch. General information about the ACL AND electronic membership and order forms are available from the ACL LISTSERV. Information on the ACL is also available through www URL http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html ACL Listserv: LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to listserver@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get acl-l " to get a particular file named from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a message with the following body should be sent: get acl-l membership-form.txt Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user type-in is in bold): $ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous Password: pereira@research.att.com << not echoed ftp > cd acl-l/Information ftp > get 94.membership.form.Z ftp > quit $ uncompress 94membership.form.Z EACL-95 STUDENT SESSION CALL FOR PAPERS 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 27--31, 1995 University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin, Ireland PURPOSE: The goal of this session is to provide a forum for students and PhD-students to present work in progress and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. The session will be workshop-style, consisting of short paper presentations by student authors; students and senior researchers who are not presenting are invited to participate in the discussion. A committee of students will organize the session, review submitted papers and decide on acceptance. The accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. Papers submitted to the main conference will not be considered for the student session. Students may of course submit DIFFERENT papers to both. Note that having a student session for the presentation of ongoing work in no way influences the treatment of student-written papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the student session will provide an entirely separate track emphasizing students' "work in progress" rather than completed work. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Preference is given to e-mail submission. Student authors should submit papers limited to 3 pages (including references, figures, and appendices), with typeface no smaller than 10pt. LaTeX, Postscript and plain ASCII formats are acceptable. LaTeX submissions must be self-contained LaTeX source and should not refer to any external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. An extra identification page should be sent SEPERATELY by electronic mail, containing the title, author(s), address(es) and topic area(s). Hard copy submissions should be made only if no e-mail access is available. Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Those submissions which are accepted will be published in a special section of the EACL conference proceedings. Papers should be submitted to: Thorsten Brants Universitaet des Saarlandes Computerlinguistik, Geb. 17 Postfach 1150 D-66041 Saarbruecken, Germany phone: +49 / 681 / 302-4682 FAX: +49 / 681 / 302-4700 email: eaclstud@coli.uni-sb.de STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION: If you have questions about the student session, contact Thorsten Brants by e-mail, phone, FAX or post (cf. above). SCHEDULE: Authors must SUBMIT THEIR PAPERS BY OCTOBER 20, 1994. Papers received after this date will not be considered. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be NOTIFIED OF ACCEPTANCE BY DECEMBER 23 1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be RECEIVED BY 31 JANUARY 1995, along with a signed copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format is available through the ACL LISTSERV. The paper presentations will take place on MARCH 29-31. MAIN CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For information on the main conference contact the Program Co-Chairs: or the Local Arrangements Chair: Steven Abney and Erhard W. Hinrichs Allan Ramsay Universitaet Tuebingen Department of Computer Science Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft University College Dublin Abt. Computerlinguistik Belfield, Dublin 4 Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 Ireland D-72074 Tuebingen, phone: (353)-1-7062479 Germany FAX: (353)-1-2687262 email: eacl95@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de email: allan@monkey.ucd.ie ACL LISTSERV: LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to listserver@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get acl-l " to get a particular file named from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a message with the following body should be sent: get acl-l membership-form.txt Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP: $ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous Password: pereira@research.att.com << not echoed ftp > cd acl-l/Information ftp > get 94.membership.form.Z ftp > quit $ uncompress 94membership.form.Z From: pregadio@aegis.org (Fabrizio Pregadio) Subject: Unicode Project Date: Sun, 16 Oct 94 18:33:51 JST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 266 (418) Does anybody know an e-mail address to get in touch with the Unicode Project? I tried which I found on a report dated to a couple of years ago, but the mail bounced back ("host unknown"). I'm looking for updated information on that project. If someone knows how to get it, in printed or electronic form, that would also be very fine. -- Fabrizio Pregadio Kyoto From: "Tibbo, Helen" Subject: Faculty opening Date: Fri, 14 Oct 94 11:08:08 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 267 (419) This announcement is being posted to several groups. Please excuse any duplication. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announces a tenure-track position (assistant/associate professor) in the School of Information and Library Science. The School seeks applications from scholars whose research and teaching interests address telecommunications and networking, and/or multimedia/hypermedia systems. Faculty members are expected to engage in research and to report new insights through publication and teaching. Faculty members also advise masters and doctoral students and serve on School and University committees. Minimum qualifications include an earned doctorate by the starting date, a research agenda, and evidence of teaching competence. Minimum salary is $40,000 for assistant; $45,000 for associate. The review process will begin Jan. 15, 1995; preliminary interviews are planned for the following conferences: ASIS (Alexandria, VA, October 1994); ALISE (Philadelphia, February 1995); and ACM Computer Science Conference (Nashville, TN, February 1995). Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Preferred starting date is August 1995. Send letter of application, resume, and names of three references to: Barbara M. Wildemuth, Chair, Faculty Search Committee, School of Information and Library Science, CB # 3360, 100 Manning Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360. Phone: 919-962-8366; Fax: 919-962-8071; email: wildem@ils.unc.edu. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Dr. Helen R. Tibbo (search committee member) Assistant Professor School of Information and Library Science 100 Manning Hall CB# 3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 (919) 962-8063 FAX: (919) 962-8071 Tibbo@ils.unc.edu From: Antoine Marcel Compagnon Subject: Rabelais Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 06:50:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 268 (420) Rabelais 500 Years Later 1494-1994 A colloquium organized by The Department of French and Romance Philology and the Maison Francaise Columbia University Saturday, October 29, 1994 9:00 am-6:00 pm The colloquium has been made possible by a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation Saturday Morning 9:00-9:30 am Registration 9:30 am Michel Jeanneret, University of Geneva Corps flexibles et structures mobiles 10:15 am Jean-Yves Pouilloux, University of Paris VII Sens agile? L'instabilite du lecteur, l'instabilite du texte 11:15 am Mireille Huchon, University of Paris IV Les mythologies pantagrueliques: jeux de textes 12:00 noon Edwin Duval, Yale University Interpreter Rabelais en la perfectissime partie Saturday Afternoon 2:30 pm Francois Rigolot, Princeton University Rabelais et l'equivoque dionysiaque 3:15 pm Gerard Defaux, Johns Hopkins University Rabelais a "plus hault sens": l'exemple du Quart Livre 4:00 pm Michel Simonin, University of Tours Le Cinquieme Livre: premiere lecture de Rabelais 5:00-6:00 pm Round Table: Editer Rabelais aujourd'hui 6:00-8:00 pm Cocktail Reception Moderator: Antoine Compagnon, Columbia University Coordinator: Jacqueline Desrez, Director, Maison Francaise The colloquium will be held at the Maison Francaise in Buell Hall, Broadway at 116th Street, New York, NY 10027 Registration: Name: Home address: Affiliation: Telephone: Fax: Registration by October 19: $15 Students and Columbia University faculty admitted free of charge Please make checks payable to: Maison Francaise, Buell Hall Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 Telephone: 212-854-4482 Fax: 212-854-4803 Hotel reservation recommended: Hotel Beacon, 2130 Broadway at 75th Street, New York, NY 10023 Telephone: 212-787-1100 Fax: 212-724-0839 From: Elaine M Brennan Subject: ACH-ALLC '95 Call for Papers Date: Thu, 20 Oct 94 08:15:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 269 (421) ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING 1995 JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC 95 JULY 11-15, 1995 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA CALL FOR PAPERS This conference -- the major forum for literary, linguistic and humanities computing-- will highlight the development of new computing methodologies for research and teaching in the humanities, the development of significant new computer-based resources for humanities research, especially focusing on the issues and problems of networked access to materials, and the developing applications, evaluation, and use of traditional y scientific and computing techniques in humanities disciplines. TOPICS: We welcome submissions on topics and applications focused on the humanities disciplines, defined as broadly as possible: languages and literature, history, philosophy, music, art, linguistics, anthropology and archaeology, creative writing, and cultural studies. We are interested in receiving technical proposals that focus on the cutting edge issues of the application of scientific tools and approaches to humanities disciplines; discipline-based proposals that focus on some of the more traditionally defined applications of computing in humanities disciplines, including text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, statistical models, and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other forms of text analysis; broad library and research-based proposals that focus on significant issues of text documentation and information retrieval; and tools-focused proposals that offer innovative and substantial applications and uses for humanities-based teaching and research, throughout the academic and research worlds. The deadline for submissions is 15 DECEMBER 1994. REQUIREMENTS: Proposals should describe substantial and original work. Those that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities (e.g., a study of the style of an author) should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Abstracts of 1500-2000 words should be submitted for presentations of thirty minutes including questions. SESSIONS: Proposals for sessions (90 minutes) are also invited. These should take the form of either: (a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 1000-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or (b) A panel of up to 6 speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS ACH-ALLC '95 will include poster presentations and software and project demonstrations (either stand-alone or in conjunction with poster presentations) to give researchers an opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, well-defined problems, or research that is best communicated in conversational mode. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters will have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Posters are actually several large pieces of paper that present an overview of a topic or a problem. Poster presenters are given space to display two or three posters, and may provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Poster presenters must be present at their posters at a specific time during the conference to describe their work and answer questions, but posters will remain up throughout the conference. Specific times will also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. Further information on poster presentations is available from the Program Committee chair. Posters proposals and software and project demonstrations will be accepted until February 15, 1995 to provide an opportunity for submitting very current work that need not be written up in a full paper. Poster or software/project demonstration proposals should contain a 300 to 500 word abstract in the same format described below for paper proposals. Proposals for software or project demonstrations should indic ate the type of hardware that would be required if the proposal is accepted. Doctoral students are encouraged to consider poster submission as a viable means for discussing ongoing dissertation research. FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to the deadline. All submissions should begin with the following information: TITLE: title of paper AUTHOR(S): names of authors AFFILIATION: of author(s) CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address E-MAIL: electronic mail address of main author (for contact), followed by other authors (if any) FAX NUMBER: of main author PHONE NUMBER: of main author (1) Electronic submissions These should be plain ASCII text files, not files formatted by a wordprocessor, and should not contain TAB characters or soft hyphens. Paragraphs should be separated by blank lines. Headings and subheadings should be on separate lines and be numbered. Notes, if needed at all, should take the form of endnotes rather than footnotes. References, up to six, should be given at the end. Choose a simple markup scheme for accents and other characters that cannot be transmitted by electronic mail, and include an explanation of the markup scheme after the title information and before the start of the text. Electronic submissions should be sent to Elaine Brennan with the subject line " Submission for ACH-ALLC95". (2) Paper submissions Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. Six copies should be sent to ACH-ALLC95 (Paper submission) Elaine Brennan ATLIS Consulting Group 6011 Executive Boulevard Rockville, MD 20852 USA EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a Kodak slide projector, a data projector which will display Macintosh, DOS/Windows, and video (but not simultaneously), a computer which will run Macintosh OS programs or DOS/Windows programs, and a VHS (NTSC) videocassette recorder. PAL format will be available; if you anticipate needing PAL, please note this information in your proposal. It will be possible to transfer programs and data from removable media (floppy disks, SyQuest 44MB cartridges, and Bernoulli cartridges) to the presentation computers. Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizer; requests for special equipment should be directed to the local organizer no later than December 31, 1994. DEADLINES Proposals for papers and sessions December 31, 1994 Proposals for poster presentations February 15, 1995 Notification of acceptance March 15, 1995 PUBLICATION A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in the series Research in Humanities Computing edited by Susan Hockey and Nancy Ide and published by Oxford University Press. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Program Committee comprised of: Chair: Elaine Brennan, ATLIS Consulting Group (ACH) Marilyn Deegan, Oxford University (ALLC) Gordon Dixon, Manchester Metropolitan University (ALLC) Marianne Gaunt, Rutgers University (ACH) Susan Hockey, Rutgers and Princeton Universities (ALLC) Nancy Ide, Vassar College (ACH) Espen Ore, University of Bergen (ALLC) Willard McCarty, University of Toronto (ACH) Local Organizer: Eric Dahlin, University of California, Santa Barbara (ACH) LOCATION UC Santa Barbara, one of the nine campuses of the University of California, has an enrollment of some 18000 graduate and undergraduate students and is situated on a scenic 500 acre seashore campus 10 miles north of the city of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, a Southern California coastal community of 80,000 population, lies about 100 miles north of Los Angeles on Highway 101, the principal coast highway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A popular tourist center, it offers the visitor a wide range of accommodations and a great variety of recreational and cultural attractions. It is readily accessible by road, and is served by the major airlines. Economically priced accommodation for those attending the conference will also be available on the campus itself. It is expected at this time that the fee for early registration for the conference will be in the $125 to $150 range, with an additional fee for late registration. Detailed information about the conference will be made available in January or February of 1995. For further information please communicate with: Eric Dahlin Local Organizer, ACH/ALLC '95 Office of the Provost College of Letters and Science University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106 USA Phone: 805/687-5003 E-mail: HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu From: "Jeannet, Paula" Subject: Mazzoni Project Announcement (long) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 94 16:45:33 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 270 (422) October 18, 1994 COMPLETION OF GUIDO MAZZONI PAMPHLET PROJECT AT DUKE UNIVERSITY Scholars of European and Italian studies will be interested to note that the Special Collections Library at Duke University has completed a two-year federally funded project to provide greater access to the Guido Mazzoni Pamphlet Collection. Acquired in 1948 as part of Mazzoni's larger library (including approximately 20,000 books), the Pamphlet Collection comprises almost 50,000 pamphlets, newspapers, clippings, librettos, epithalamia, and small volumes. Imprints range from the late sixteenth century to 1943. Many private libraries in Italy were broken up when they were sold, but Guido Mazzoni's heirs refused this option; thus, this collection may very well be the largest intact private Italian library of its kind in the United States. Many of its pieces are very rare and difficult to find in the United States and even in Italy. Born in Florence in 1859, Mazzoni studied at Pisa and the University of Bologna. There he developed his literary tastes and writing style under the influence of Giosue` Carducci. Mazzoni was appointed Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Padua in 1887, at only 28 years of age. In 1894 he accepted the same position at the University of Florence and remained there for 40 years. As an academic, his interests focused mainly on Dante and his contemporaries; but Mazzoni also devoted himself to Ariosto, Tasso, Machiavelli, and many other Italian writers such as Parini, Leopardi, D'Annunzio and Manzoni. Guido Mazzoni also wrote several volumes of poetry. He married Nella Chiarini, the daughter of another humanist academic, in 1897, and they raised four children together. Mazzoni died in 1943 in Florence at the age of 84. The scope and quality of Mazzoni's library reflect the span of his career, not only as professor of Italian literature, but also as Senator of Italy (from 1910), and President of the Societa` Dantesca Italiana and the Reale Accademia della Crusca, a society devoted to the study of Italian language and culture. From literary criticism to philology, from politics to religion to science, Mazzoni's writings were prolific as well as varied in subject, and his collecting interests as a bibliophile ranged just as widely. His students and colleagues sent him many of their own writings in the form of off-prints. He also acquired whole libraries owned by other academics, either by purchasing them or receiving them as gifts from their owners, usually his own close friends. He had at his disposal the rare book markets of Padua and Florence, where he found many of the sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century pieces. His collection of over 20,000 books and 50,000 pamphlets is a testament to a man who loved life and the variety of human ingenuity. The collection's most important areas of strength include materials on the Napoleonic era; the Unification of Italy; the history of nineteenth-century Italian literary criticism and production; eighteenth-century; the history of "per nozze" publications; French and Italian theater; Italian poetry from the middle ages to World War II; nineteenth-century Italian pedagogy; women's history and suffrage movements (primarily late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries); and Italian twentieth-century political history, especially World War I and early Fascism. The collection is rich in periodicals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, popular as well as literary, and contains collections of newspapers from the same period, some of them quite valuable as documents of the Risorgimento period and of early Fascism. Among one of the most interesting sub-groups are the ballet and opera libretti, some reaching back to the seventeenth century. Many items in the collection are rare and difficult to locate. A sample of these titles follows: "Opposizioni secessioniste: La questione morale dopo le risultanze dell'istruttoria De Bono -- presso l'Alta Corte di Giustizia: documento pubblicato a cura del le Opposizioni secessioniste." Rome, 1925. Important statement by parliamentary faction. Balbo, Cesare. _Lettere politiche di Cesare Balbo._ 1847. 35 pp. May be only hard copy in the United States. Barbieri, Nicolo` (Beltrame). _Discorso famigliare di Nicolo` Barbieri detto Beltrame, intorno alle commedie moderne._ 1628, Venetia appresso Antonio Pinelli. 96 pp. Carducci, Giosue`. _Le nozze: idillio di Giosue` Carducci._ Bologna: Tipi Fava e Garagnani, 1864. Many be only copy in the United States. Foscolo, Ugo. _Poesie._ Milano, 1803. First edition. One of only 260 exemplars printed; may be only copy in the United States. D'Annunzio, Gabriele. [A very rare collection of newspapers, bulletins, and leaflets printed under D'Annunzio's command in Fiume -- now in the former Yugoslavia] Comando di Fiume D'Italia: Bollettino Ufficiale (n.1, anno I, 12 settembre 1 919 - n.32, anno I, 3 settembre 1920) [seems to be a complete run]. La vedetta d'Italia (n. 97, anno II, 25 aprile 1920 - n. 129, anno II, 3 giugno 1920) [in complete, five issues, full newspaper size]. Leaflets and propaganda from Fiume and some from Florence, some in brilliant colors; a few examples printed during the "Natale di Sangue" as events unfolded. Menzini, Benedetto. _Satire di Benedetto Menzini cittadino Fiorentino._ Amsterdam, 1718. Scathing anti-papal satire banned by the Church in 1720. Monti, Vincenzo. _La palingenesi politica: canto..._ 1809. First edition, dedicated to Napoleon. One of many valuable works by Monti in the collection. Piccolomini, Alessandro. _Il libro della poetica d'Aristotele: tradotto di Greca lingua in volgare, da M. Alessandro Piccolomini, con una sua epistola ai lettori del modo di tradurre._ Siena, 1572. Many of the "per nozze" are also rare: these items were occasional pieces published on a couple's wedding day, and often privately printed in runs of only 50 to 100 copies. Their subjects run the gamut from medieval cookery treatises, to regional folk songs, to unpublished correspondence between famous personages, to academic articles on such topics as Dante's _Divina Commedia_. At approximately 3,000 titles, the Mazzoni "per nozze" collection is one of the largest in the world, complementing those in Berlin and Florence. Through a grant designed to support the processing of library collections, the Department of Education provided $81,096 for the two-year Mazzoni Project , with Duke University contributing $15,058, 16% of the total grant budget of $96,154. One of the project's goals is improved bibliographic access to the collection. As of November 31st patrons will be able to locate collection-level records for the Guido Mazzoni Pamphlet Collection and 30 related subject areas on OCLC and on the Duke Libraries on-line catalog, accessible through the Internet. Available immediately through the Special Collections Library is a unique electronic item-level finding aid that is keyword-searchable and through which custom bibliographies can be created and printed out. Though it is free-standing at the time, eventually this database will be available world-wide on the Internet. The staff at the Special Collection Library at Duke University hopes the faculty, students, and researchers at your institution -- whether in romance languages, history, political science, or any other relevant discipline -- take advantage of the riches to be discovered in the Mazzoni Pamphlet Collection. Please direct all inquiries to the reference staff by mail at Research Services, Special Collections Library, Box 90185, Duke University, 27708, or by phone at (919) 660-5822. Patrons may also contact the reference staff by electronic mail at specoll@mail.lib.duke.edu Paula Jeannet Supervisor, Mazzoni Project From: Alexandre Khalil Subject: Re: 8.0266 Q: Address for Unicode? (1/13) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 08:26:15 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 227 (423) [deleted quotation] Unicode, Inc. (UNICODE-DOM) 1965 Charleston Road Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Domain Name: UNICODE.ORG You can also ftp to unicode.org and login as anonymous. -- alex khalil iskandar@tamu.edu Texas A&M Univers. Arabic script software mailing list, maintainer ftp rama.poly.edu (128.238.10.212) in pub/reader ftp.u.washington.edu (140.142.56.1) in public/reader From: Ken Laws Subject: Re: 8.0266 Q: Address for Unicode? (1/13) Date: Tue 18 Oct 94 09:33:24-PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 228 (424) [deleted quotation] Try unicode-inc@hq.m4.metaphor.com or info@unicode.org. I believe there are also ASCII files that can be FTP'd from pub/TechReports on unicode.org. -- Ken Laws Dr. Kenneth I. Laws; (415) 493-7390; laws@ai.sri.com. Ask about my weekly AI/IS/CS online news service. ------- From: lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it (maurizio lana) Subject: WordCruncher e-mail address Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 23:07:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 229 (425) For the distributor of WordCruncher you could try johnstonj@attmail.com I have some doubts about giving the address of a person that could not like to know that I did it; but I think that this is some sort of place-of-business address. So excuse me, James Johnston; and hope this will help anyone interested in WordCruncher. Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI Universita'di Torino Via S. Ottavio 20, Torino - Italy fax 39 11 8991648 From: SParkinson@Getty.Edu (Susan Parkinson-Wiberg) Subject: Cultural Heritage Crucial to Development of NII Date: October, 1994 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 272 (426) For Immediate Release: CULTURAL HERITAGE CRUCIAL TO DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAYS SAY NATIONAL LEADERS IN NEW REPORT Washington, DC -- An alliance of major humanities and arts organizations has issued a report calling on the federal government to recognize the crucial value of the American people's cultural heritage in planning the National Information Infrastructure (NII). "Humanities and Arts on the Information Highways - a Profile," coincides with the release of a related position paper by the White House Information Infrastructure Task Force at a Council on Competitiveness conference (September 7-8, 1994). The federal paper, "The Information Infrastructure: Reaching Society's Goals," presents strategies for applying information technologies to the cultural sector. The alliance, led by the Getty Art History Information program, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Coalition for Networked Information, has issued its "Profile" to stimulate and guide response to the Administration's call for public comment. "The coming information highway has the potential to revolutionize the way we study and appreciate our cultural heritage," said Eleanor Fink, director of the Getty Art History Information Program. "Making the complex resources of the humanities and arts accessible on the networks would contribute profoundly to the most difficult technological challenges in computing." The "Profile" is the result of an ongoing process aimed at meeting the urgent need for the humanities and arts to gain a voice in the planning and development of the NII. Created by working groups of nationally recognized experts, the report defines the special challenges and opportunities associated with digitizing cultural heritage information. The "Profile" highlights ways in which a fully interactive and exploratory environment would transform the NII from a link between computers to a link between people. Speaking for the American Council of Learned Societies, president Stanley Katz observed that "Electronic technologies have the potential to transform information from a scarce, inequitably distributed and fragmented commodity into a true public good." Paul Evan Peters, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, expressed the hope that "our community-based process -- the "Profile" being the first outcome -- will generate the type of lively and open exchange of visions and needs that the Clinton administration is seeking." With the completion of this landmark document, the alliance plans to expand its base of organizational partners to encompass the full breadth of the cultural heritage sector. # # # (Note: electronic copies of the Profile are available upon request from the Coalition for Networked Information. Electronic copy can be accessed via FTP, Gopher, or the World Wide Web [see below]. Hard copies are available free of charge from Publications, Getty AHIP, 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1100, Santa Monica, CA 90401 or . Editors, please note the attached description of the Profile sponsors and names of individuals available for interviews or comment.) To access via FTP URL: ftp://ftp.cni.org/CNI/projects/humartiway/humartiway-rpt.Word.hqx URL: ftp://ftp.cni.org/CNI/projects/humartiway/humartiway-rpt.ps URL: ftp://ftp.cni.org/CNI/projects/humartiway/humartiway-rpt.txt ftp ftp.cni.org login: anonymous [send e-mail address as password] cd /CNI/projects/humartiway get humartiway-rpt.Word.hqx [Microsoft Word - BinHexed] get humartiway-rpt.ps [Postscript] get humartiway-rpt.txt [ASCII text] To access via Gopher URL: gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/00/cniftp/projects/humartiway/humartiway-rpt.Word.hqx URL: gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/00/cniftp/projects/humartiway/humartiway-rpt.ps URL: gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/00/cniftp/projects/humartiway/humartiway-rpt.txt gopher gopher.cni.org Coalition FTP Archives (ftp.cni.org) Coalition Projects (/CNI/projects) Humanities and Arts on the Information Highway (Final Report) To access via WWW URL: http://www.cni.org/docs/humartiway/www/humartiway-rpt.intro.html # # # Sponsors of "Humanities and Arts on the Information Highways - a Profile" The Getty Art History Information Program The Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), one of six operating programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust, seeks to make art- historical information more accessible to scholars and researchers through the use of advanced computer technology. It does so by promoting common perspectives and standards among international institutions and organizations on projects in four general areas: working to affect policies that will enhance access to electronic information; coordinating vocabularies to facilitate consistent data entry and retrieval; providing bibliographic services; and assembling art historical databases. Among AHIPUs projects are the Art & Architecture Thesaurus, the Art Information Task Force, the Image and Information Standards Initiative, the Bibliography of the History of Art, the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, the Provenance Documentation Collaborative, the Witt Computer Index, the Union List of Artist Names, and the Thesaurus of Geographic Names. The Getty Art History Information Program, Director, Eleanor Fink, 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1100, Santa Monica, California 90401-1455, (310) 395-1025, ext. 1164, (310) 451-5570 fax, e-mail: efink@getty.edu The American Council of Learned Societies The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a private non-profit federation of 52 national scholarly organizations. The purpose of the Council, as set forth in its constitution, is "the advancement of humanities studies and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies." Included in the program of the Council are awards to individual scholars to advance research in the humanities and humanistic aspects of the social sciences, support for international scholarly research and exchanges; activities concerned with the identification of present and future needs of humanistic scholarship, and planning and development to meet these needs; and organizational functions. In addition, the Council has fiscal and administrative oversight for the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), which administers the Fulbright program. The American Council of Learned Societies, President, Stanley Katz, 228 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017-3398, (212) 697-1505, (212) 948-8058 fax, e-mail: snkatz@pucc.princeton.edu The Coalition for Networked Information The Coalition for Networked Information was founded in March 1990 to help realize the promise of advanced networks and high-performance computing for information access and delivery. The Coalition was established by three associations: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), CAUSE and EDUCOM. ARL is an association promoting equitable access and effective use of recorded knowledge supporting teaching, research and scholarship. CAUSE and EDUCOM are dedicated to introducing, using and managing information technology and related sources in research in general and higher education. The Coalition of Networked Information promotes the creation of access to information resources in networked environments in order to enrich scholarship and enhance intellectual productivity. A Task Force of institutions and organizations able and willing to contribute resources and attention to the mission of the Coalition was created in 1990 and continues to grow. This Task Force now provides a common vehicle by which more than 200 institutions and organizations pursue a shared vision of information management and how it must change in the 1990s to meet the social, educational and economic opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Members of the Task Force include higher education institutions, publishers, network service providers, computer hardware, software, and systems companies, library networks and organizations, and public and state libraries. The Coalition for Networked Information, Executive Director, Paul Evan Peters, 21 Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, (202) 296-5098, (202) 872-0884 fax, e-mail: paul@cni.org From: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk Subject: Call for Papers Date: Thu, 20 Oct 94 16:03:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 273 (427) I would be very plesed if you would put out the following CALL for papers notice over the network. KCC UNIVERSITY OF EXETER First Notice CALL FOR PAPERS September 10 - 12 1995 Conference on CALL AND THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT This will be the sixth conference to be held in Exeter on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Previous conferences have allowed not only experts in the field, but all interested parties, to meet and discuss problems and progress in CALL in a relaxed atmosphere. The proceedings have been published and bear witness to the important discoveries and research into this important area of modern education. If we are to work together and share our knowledge, an occasion such as the next conference provides a wonderful forum for us to do so. The estimated cost, with residence in the new Postgraduate Centre, centrally situated on the University campus, for full board and Conference fee is 99 pounds sterling- 70 pounds for non-residents. Proposals are invited for papers (25 mins) on any aspect of CALL, but, in particular, topics dealing with CALL and the learning environment. The papers will be considered for eventual publication in Computer Assisted Language Learning. For further information, please return the form below to : Mrs Daphne Morton, CALL'95 Conference, Department of French,, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, (UK). CALL '95, Exeter, CALL and the Learning Environment NAME...................................... ........................................... ADDRESS................................... ........................................... ........................................... ........................................... *I wish to attend the CALL conference September 10-12 1995 *Please invoice me *I wish to propose a paper on: *Please send further particulars about the conference ------------- Keith Cameron Department of French, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, G.B. Tel: 0392 264221 / + 44 19 392 264221 Fax: 0392 264377 / + 44 19 392 264377 E/mail: K.C.Cameron@uk.ac.exeter K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk From: Marco Simionato Subject: French-English wordlist sought Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 11:12:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 230 (428) I am looking for a basic French wordlist with English (or German or Italian) equivalents - I need it for use with a barebone vocabulary drill program I wrote. Please reply to me directly, thanks. Marco Simionato Dorsoduro 2408/B 30123 Venezia, Italy ph/fax 39 41 5225570 simionat@unive.it From: wu10@cornell.edu (Ted Underwood) Subject: New Econ. Criticism conference Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 11:15:57 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 231 (429) Dear Editors, I'm interested in attending the New Economic Criticism conference in Cleveland, OH (Oct 20-23). The problem is that I've lost my copy of the program, so I don't know exactly where the conference will take place or when it will begin. Would it be possible to query Humanist readers for this information? Thanks, Ted Underwood wu10@cornell.edu From: Edward Haupt Subject: Scanning 19th-century German Date: Thu, 20 Oct 94 10:32:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 232 (430) I am scanning and editing an 1878 academic book published in Berlin. Much of the spelling is different, and there are some characteristic error patterns which I'm learning to handle. Does anyone have experience is scanning such stuff? I'm using Omnipage and WP51 and creating a supplemental dictionary. Ed Haupt haupt@pilot.njin.net temporarily haupt@vm1.yorku.ca From: Don Keefer Subject: Query: Software for Learning Classical Greek Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 11:32:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 233 (431) Given the advent of CD-ROM, sound cards, I would imagine great strides have been made in ability to turn one's home computer into a language lab. I hesitate to betray my ignorance in these matters as I am sure there must be something close to ocean of possibilities to chose from out there. In particular, I am interested in learning what software is available for the learning of Greek, particularly for use in studying the classic sources. I would welcome resources in virtually any format--dos, mac, unix, on floppy or cd-rom. Contact me directly, if you like. Thanks in advance. _________________________________________________________ Don Keefer Dept. of History, Philosophy dkeefer@risd.edu and Social Sciences (o) 401 454-6263 Rhode Island School of Design (h) 401 351-7436 2 College St., Providence, RI 02903 From: PROF NORM COOMBS Subject: Email-delivered workshop on Adapting Computers for Disabled Persons Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 09:40:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 275 (432) EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information), in cooperation with the Rochester Institute of Technology, is providing an email-delivered workshop on making computing facilities and information technology more readily accessible to individuals with physical disabilities. All materials are delivered over the Internet, and the course lasts for three weeks. Workshops are scheduled to begin Nov. 9, 1994, Jan. 30, 1995 and April 17, 1995. Registration is $125, and RIT grants a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the course. Below is an edited version of an article describing the workshop from the RIT Information Systems and Computing Newsletter. -< Adapt-it Workshop >- Current attendees of an on-line workshop are "surfing the Internet" to participate in "Adapt-it: Adapting Information Technology & Computing," to find information about access to information for people with disabilities. Spurred by the American Disabilities Act, access for people with disabilities has become an important issue at academic, government, and business facilities around the country. Attended by academic administrators and disability advocates in industry and business, participants have come from Germany, Spain, Thailand, Australia, Canada, and more than 25 states in the U.S. The workshop is being presented as a collaborative effort between Norman Coombs, an RIT history professor and chair of EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information), Richard Banks, an adaptive technologist at the University of Wisconsin-Stout's library and moderator of EASI's AXSLIB1 (the leading Internet discussion list on library and adaptive technology), and RIT's Educational Technology Center. The workshop is supported by network resources provided by Information Systems and Computing. Run on a quarterly basis, the first workshop was offered in January 1994. The content includes: o Reasons to Adapt o Legislative History o Americans with Disabilities Act o Lab Environment o Alternate Output Systems o Alternate Input Systems o Computing as Compensatory Devices o Planning and Funding o Review and Other Resources So the course would be accessible to the greatest number of people, Dr. Coombs chose e-mail to deliver the workshop. "I had always thought that a single stream discussion wouldn't work." Delighted to be proven wrong, e-mail allowed attendees from K-12, businesses, libraries, and Fidonet tojoin the course, which was a first-time experience for the majority of attendees. Dr. Coombs called the course "extremely successful," and the comments of people submitting post-workshop evaluations echoed his feeling. "Well worth both the time and money spent." "This course was a great opportunity." "This has been a great workshop. I have gotten so many new resources to tap." "I thoroughly enjoyed the content, format, and instructors. I learned a great deal more than I expected to." "The format was a little fast-paced, I really had to scramble to keep up." Due to students comments that claimed too much material in too little time, the workshop has been expanded to three weeks, and a review lesson has been dropped. To see a current syllabus for the workshop, send e-mail to listserver@listserv.isc.rit.edu with this one line of text: info workshop The fee for the workshop is $125. To register, send e-mail to listserver@listserv.isc.rit.edu with this one line of text: sub adaapt-it (and your first and last names in quotes.) You will receive an automatic reply informing you that you are part of the discussion list and also providing full payment information. For more information, write to either: Norman Coombs nrcgsh@rit.edu or Dick Banks rbanks@uwstout.edu From: TB0WPW1@NIU.BITNET Subject: Graduate Conference Date: Wed, 19 Oct 94 12:15 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 276 (433) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS I would like to call your attention to the 1995 Northern Illinois University Graduate Conference on Language and Literature scheduled for Saturday, March 25 and Sunday, March 26, 1995. Organized by graduate students at Northern Illinois University, the objective of this conference is to promote graduate student participation in the academic profession. Susan Gubar, the keynote speaker, will be speaking on the following topics: "Feminist Criticism Revisited: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?" (Saturday) and "White Skin, Black Face: Representation of Racechange in Twentieth-Century Culture" (Sunday). There will also be a special session on Film and Literature. THE CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ENDS ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1995. Topics include all periods of American and British literature, creative writing (submit entire work), critical theory, film, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, ethnic studies, gay and lesbian literature, and textual criticism and bibliography. Send abstracts to: Conference Director, Department of English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. Fax: (815)753-0606 From: GURT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: GURT 1995 - corrections Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 09:48:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 277 (434) GURT - Corrections/additions to preliminary announcement: Please note the following corrections to the GURT 1995 program: 1) Pre-Conference session Discourse and Agency: The contact numbers for Dr. Patrician E. O'Connor were listed incorrectly. THE CORRECT NUMBERS are tel: (202) 687-7622 fax: (202) 687-5445 2) The title for Dr. Jeff Connor-Linton's workshop has been revised to: "Criterion-Referenced Curriculum and Test Development for Language Teachers and Administrators." Also, since many of you have inquired -- for the past several years, there has been no call for papers for the GURT conference. Instead, speakers have been invited by the Chair. There may be changes to this policy for conferences beyond 1995, though this is uncertain. My best advice at this point is therefore to stay in touch with GURT staff. Carolyn Straehle Coordinator, GURT 1995 From: SRICHMOND@icarus.physics.utoronto.ca Subject: RE: Humanist Guide Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 13:48:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 278 (435) As you know, Karl Popper died last month. I conjecture that he has had a greater impact on people outside academic philosophy rather than on those inside academic philosophy. Please respond to these two questions: 1. How, if at all, has Popper's writings influenced your thinking? 2. How, if at all, has your personal acquaintance with Popper influenced you? Many thanks.... Sheldon Richmond From: R.B.Hardy@ukc.ac.uk Subject: acad.netpals Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 15:01 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 279 (436) I am currently teaching an introductory computer course for first year humanities students at the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK). These students are intending to major in a variety of humanities subjects, from Latin to Communications and Image Studies. There are about 110 of them. I am trying to set them up with netpals interested in the same areas of academic study. I have available 1) a list of the courses which they are presently taking, concurrently with my computer course, and 2) a list of the students, their e-mail names, their intended majors, and the codes of the courses which any one student is taking. (And I'm working on an awk program to wrap the whole thing up into one `humanly readable' file. Anyone out their in net-land interested in setting some exchanges up? Roger Hardy Lecturer in English and American Literature University of Kent at Canterbury Canterbury, UK email: R.B.Hardy@ukc.ac.uk From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: 16/17c Opening at Rutgers Date: Fri, 21 Oct 94 0:39:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 280 (437) I am posting the following notice of a job opening in 16th and 17th century English literature on behalf of my department chair. It has already been posted to the MLA job service. Please reply directly to him in writing. Pending budgetary approval. Asst. Prof. Tenure track beginning Sept. 1995. (Ph.D. in hand by 9/1/95) to teach 16th and 17th cent. Englist Lit. Publications preferred. Send letter and _vita_ to Gabriel Miller, Chair, by Nov. 1. Prof. Gabriel Miller, Chair Department of English Faculty of Arts & Sciences Rutgers University Newark, NJ 07102 --Posted by Heyward Ehrlich (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) From: raskin@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Victor Raskin) Subject: Re: 8.0278 Influence of Karl Popper? (1/9) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 94 11:43:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 234 (438) Elaine Brennan writes: [deleted quotation] In my own field, theoretical linguistics, I adopted Popper's view of theories as yet unfalsified hypotheses and his postulate that each valid candidate for a new theory should come with a built-in possibility of being falsified. I have a feeling that this apporoach is pretty universal among my colleagues in linguistics, perhaps more unconsciously so among the younger ones, many of whom conform to Popper without knowing the name. [deleted quotation] I have never met Popper but I attended a public lecture he gave to an audience of several thousand at the University of Michigan in Spring 1978, when I was a visiting professor there. The audience was predominantly undergraduate, with just a sprinkling of awe-struck fans like myself. It was standing room only, and my wife and I sat on some stairs. The lecture was very simple: Basic Popper--nothing else. The audience was quite attentive but increasingly restless--and still listening. It was not until an awful thing happened some 25 minutes into the lecture that the budding humor researcher in me got one of the best pieces of hard evidence about humor: no public speaker in America can continue speaking without a joke for more than 5 minutes or so. The students had missed an opening, usually self-deprecating joke, and they were simply dying for one after almost half an hour. Then Popper made a slip of the tingue, and the audience burst out laughing. The great man was truly shocked and offended, and my wife's and my memory is that he simply left the stage and never came back. We both have told the story several times, including to our students, and I cannot help wondering if our memories did not contribute a more dramatic ending than had really happened. Is there anybody else among the HUMANISTs who was there at the time and can correct our memories. We are sure about the no-laughter--->inappropriate laughter situation, but did he really leave and never come back? In any case, here exit the last great philosopher of the past! (But the tradition of humor-free presentations in philosophy--and many other disciplines--lives.) -- `ictor Raskin raskin@mace.cc.purdue.edu From: jslatin@mail.utexas.edu (John Slatin) Subject: Re: 8.0258 Uses of CMC in Humanities Higher Education (1/38) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 11:35:43 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 235 (439) Dear Simon Rae, I'm belatedly respondig to your Humanist posting requesting information about uses of CMC in higher education. Here at the University of Texas at Austin we have an extensive program for instruction in Rhetoric and English and American literature. We use a wide variety of applications, especially the InterChange module of the Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment (real-time, LAN-based conferencing); Usenet newsgroups; Mosaic/HTML; and MOOs. We also use HyperCard, ToolBook, and Storyspace to develop hypertext and multimedia texts for classroom use; student and instructors frequently collaborate on these. This semester we're offering 21 classes in 3 networked computer rooms. The classes include: -first-year writing (Rhetoric) -a graduate seminar in Electronic Discourse -second-year literature surveys, English and American - intermediate writing course called Computers and Writing, for which we have developed a multimedia text called *This Is Not a Textbook* - courses in autobiography, world literature, and victorian literature The Computer Writing and Research Lab has been in operation since 1986. I would be happy to provide additional information if you're interested. John John Slatin Director, Computer Writing & Research Labs Division of Rhetoric & Composition and Department of English University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 NEW email address: jslatin@mail.utexas.edu Phone: (512) 471-8743 Fax: (512) 471-4353 From: Marco Simionato Subject: etexts of Camus and Yourcenar Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 15:01:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 282 (440) I would like to know if any PD version of Camus' "L'Etranger" and M.Yourcenar "Nouvelles Orientales" are available. I need those for personal use - I'm a beginner student of French and would use the text in a word processor to add personal notes and to build lists of selected words. Please reply to me directly, thanks. Marco Simionato simionat@unive.it From: R.B.Hardy@ukc.ac.uk Subject: netpals-facial egg Date: Mon, 24 Oct 94 11:56 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 283 (441) In a paroxysm of early morning efficiency I moved some responses to my recent netpals message, posted here on Humanist, to my Unix filestore. [He beats his forehead with the heel of his hand.] In so doing I used the command which strips the header off a message. [More head beating.] With the headers went the e-mail addresses. The names of the files I created are: burdick, hakeem, jablonski, jankie, jernudd, logan, muhlestein, paramskas, roberts, roget, and simone. I would be most appreciative if the people to whom my filenames refer could e-mail me; an empty message would be fine. [Looks at egg on heel of hand.] Roger Hardy (R.B.Hardy@ukc.ac.uk) Thanks. From: "Int. Congress of Phon. Sci." Subject: Reminder: Abstracts for ICPhS 95 Date: Mon, 24 Oct 94 08:54:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 284 (442) REMINDER ICPhS 95 - XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Stockholm, Sweden August 13-19, 1995 !!!! The deadline for submitting abstracts is Nov. 1, 1994.!!!!! The second announcement of ICPhS 95 is available on our WWW server (http://www.speech.kth.se/) including a copy of the registration form. From: Edward B Liebow Subject: Job Announcement to post on Humanities Lists Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 16:42:26 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 285 (443) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Job Announcement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Executive Director Washington Commission for the Humanities The Board of Trustees seeks an Executive Director to lead the Commission in its many statewide activities, including the Inquiring Mind Speakers Bureau, the Governor's Writers Awards, and the awarding of grants. The Commission, which receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and private donors, is an independent, nonprofit organization that seeks to enhance the quality and depth of public discourse and to cultivate a reflective and informed life for all citizens. The Executive Director supervises a staff of five, is responsible to a board of fourteen, and maintains close liaison with the Wash- ington Endowment for the Humanities and the Friends of the Humanities, an active support group. The Executive Director must take an active and enthusiastic role in fund-raising, work creatively with staff and board, represent the Commission to the public, and maintain liaison with NEH and Federation of State Humanities Councils. Candidates should be able to demonstrate a commitment to support the humanities in public life and the ability to articulate a direction for the Commission. They should have a minimum of five years' experience in nonprofit orga- nizations, including fundraising and development and the ability to work harmoniously with a dedicated staff. The beginning salary range is $45,000 - $50,000. Applications received by January 15, 1995 are assured of consideration. Send letter of interest, resume, and three references to: Linda Capell, Acting Director Washington Commission for the Humanities 615 Second Avenue, Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98104 The Commission is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. From: Elaine Brennan Subject: Addresses and Subscription Administrivia Date: Mon, 24 Oct 94 21:35:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 286 (444) As many of you know, Humanist's subscription list has been undergoing a rite of listserv, otherwise known as subscription renewal. Approximately 600 addresses (many of them moribund) were deleted from the Humanist list this morning; some 90 people re-subscribed over the course of the day today. If you re-subscribed today, please let me know if your name got mangled in my re-adding you to the list (typing is sometimes difficult with a cat between you and the keyboard ....) or if you have somehow ended up with duplicate subscriptions. Elaine From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: avoiding both neglect & the hemlock Date: Sun, 30 Oct 94 14:55:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 287 (445) Nigel Spivey begins and ends a review in the TLS for 21 October [*] by addressing the current dilemma of archaeology: "to attempt seriousness in the face of demands to strut its glitzy treasures". His conclusion is, I think, worth the attention of us all. Referring to the books under review, he writes, The wider public, whom these studies ought to concern, is not privy to the seminar or the conference hall, and will not have its nose pressed against maps covered in black dots. The risk is not that academic archaeology may end itself by compromising with the public appetite for objects, but quite the opposite -- that we lose all support in the trails of our own jargon. We must prove that we can turn to the world without capitulating to it. Are we not in a position to help here? It seems to me that computing humanists are at that point in the revolutionary cycle of scholarship where the data (text, picture, or other kind) once again predominates and fresh explanations are called for. In the newness of what we are attempting, do we not have a significant opportunity to address matters so basic and important that even those "not privy to the seminar or conference hall" will want to hear about them? Furthermore, humanities computing is distinguished (or tainted, depending on your point of view) by a necessary connection to the "real world", which produces the systems, drives their primary applications, and is the destination for most of our students, increasingly even those with advanced degrees. It is arguable that when we are doing our job well, we bridge the worlds. Comments? Willard McCarty mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca *rev. of Ian Morris, ed., Classical Greece: Ancient histories and modern archaeologies (Cambridge); and Colin Renfrew and Ezra B. W. Zubrow, eds., Elements of cognitive archaeology (Cambridge), p. 11. From: D.J.Thompson@french.hull.ac.uk (June Thompson) Subject: Re: EUROCALL 95 AND EUROCALL 96 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 13:10:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 288 (446) EUROCALL 95 Technology Enhanced Language Learning: Focus on Integration First Announcement and Call for Papers Over the past decade, EUROCALL has held a number of widely acclaimed conferences throughout Europe. In 1993, with the aid of funding under the EC LINGUA programme, EUROCALL was establishsed as an official association of practitioners and researchers in the sphere of computer assisted and technology enhanced language learning. The 1995 EUROCALL Conference and Annual General Meeting will be held at Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 September 1995 The conference will aim to provide a forum for the discussion of the pedagogy and methodology of CALL and TELL - with special focus on integration into the curriculum - and the presentation of examples of good practice. Papers and presentations on the following themes are invited: =09 =04 integrating CALL and TELL into the curriculum =04 innovation in classroom applications =04 software tools and resources =04 new developments in multimedia =04 telematics, self-access, and distance learning The conference is open both to EUROCALL members and to any individual interested or working in the field. If you would like to present a paper at EUROCALL 95, please send a proposal title and a brief abstract (300 words maximum) to the address below by 15 January 1995.=20 Enquiries from commercial exhibitors are welcome. EUROCALL and CALICO members, and participants registering before 15 May 1995 qualify for a reduced conference fee. For further details and registration forms please contact DR ANA GIMENO Departamento de Idiomas, Universidad Polit=82cnica de Valencia Camino de Vera s/n 46071 Valencia, SPAIN Tel: +34 6 387 7530 Ext 5300/5301 Fax: +34 6 387 7539 Email: agimeno@idm.upv.es EUROCALL 96 will be held in Szombathely, Hungary, 29-31 August. Further details available early in 1995. Contact: June Thompson, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX. EUROCALL@Hull.ac.uk [deleted quotation]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June Thompson =20 CTI Centre for Modern Languages Tel 0482 466373 University of Hull Fax 0482 473816 Hull HU6 7RX, UK Email CTI.Lang@hull.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: fellowships at Princeton? Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 23:50:06 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 236 (447) A friend, now in France and without steady connection to the Internet, has asked me to find out if there are fellowships of 4 to 6 weeks in duration at Princeton University that would be suitable for a lexicographer/philologist of French (with strong background in Greek and Latin). I have checked the appropriate WWW pages without luck. Please send any news to me directly. Many thanks. WM Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: "LAUZON,MARTINE,MME" Subject: LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ABOUT A FRENCH AUTHOR Date: Mon, 24 Oct 94 22:23:04 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 237 (448) MY NAME IS MARTINE LAUZON. I'M A FRENCH CANADIAN STUDENT WHO IS INTERESTED IN MAKING A RESEARCH ABOUT AN ALMOST UNKNOWN FRENCH AUTHOR FOR MY MASTER'S DEGREE "MEMOIRE". HER NAME IS CONSTANCE MARIE DE THEIS, PRINCESSE DE SALM-DYCK (NANTES,1767-PARIS,1845). A BIOGRAPHY HAS BEEN WRITTEN (BY DE PONGERVILLE, VILLENAVE, MME ACHILLE COMTE, ETC.), BUT I CAN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE. I'M INTERESTED IN ANYTHING THAT CONCERNS HER. PLEASE HELP ME! MARTINE LAUZON E-MAIL ADDRESS: BNCB@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA THANK YOU From: Paul Brians Subject: Columbia University Press email address? Date: Thu, 27 Oct 94 09:46:16 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 238 (449) I am desperate to get the attention of Columbia Univ. Press. My reader is going to press in a week, and after trying since July to get permissions from them for several crucial items, they have not responded. A professional permissions-seeker has left daily phone messages and faxes and no response whatsoever. Sometimes people answer email better. Anyone have an address for someone at the Press? Paul Brians, Washington State University, brians@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu From: gaichele@adrian.adrian.edu Subject: Karen Rasco? Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 13:58:25 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 239 (450) I need an address or phone # or email address for the contemporary artist Karen Rasco. Please reply privately. Thanks for any help. George Aichele GAICHELE@adrian.adrian.edu 0004705237@mcimail.com From: "Robert M. Fowler" Subject: Karen Rasco query Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 13:56:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 240 (451) I trying to track down the artist and/or copyright holder for an art work. The sum total of the information I have is as follows: Artist: Karen Rasco (American, born 1956) Work: "Moses Descending Mount Sinai," 1982, photo collage, 7" x 9" Any further information on the artist or the work would be appreciated. *************************************************** * Robert M. Fowler * * Department of Religion, Baldwin-Wallace College * * 275 Eastland Road, Berea, OH 44017 // U.S.A. * * rfowler@rs6000.baldwinw.edu * * 216-826-2173 (office) 216-826-3264 (fax) * *************************************************** From: ussjt@unix.cc.emory.edu (Steve Taylor) Subject: MIDI on the Web? Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 14:24:25 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 241 (452) A music prof here would like to make MIDI files available on the WWW. The idea is that the user would need to configure his or her web browser (e.g. Mosaic) to open a certain MIDI application when a link to a certain kind of filename is made. Our first problem is that we don't have such an application. Does anyone know of a public-domain Macintosh program that would render at least a minimal interpretation of a MIDI file? Steve Taylor Faculty Information Technology Center Emory University From: Marco Simionato Subject: Time newsmagazine goes Internet: info needed Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 09:42:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 242 (453) I have read in an Italian newspaper that Time newsmagazine is going to be available free on Internet - supposedly on WWW. I would like to know more on this since the article didn't say whether the service was running already neither did it give any pointers to this resource (IP number, URL or gopher). Thanks. Marco Simionato From: Richard Giordano Subject: Information Systems Job for Computational Linguist Date: Fri, 28 Oct 94 13:33:16 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 243 (454) The Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester is recruiting a Reader in Information Systems. We are interested in recruiting someone who has experience with very large databases, particularly someone with copora (or, preferably, multi-lingual corpora) with database experience. We are looking for people who already have an international reputation, and a strong theoretical orientation. We are interested in the retrieval problems that large corpora (especially multi-lingual corpora) pose to computer science. For non-British recipients of this announcement, a Reader is the rough equivalent to a tenured associated professor--someone is about halfway to being a Full Professor. About the position: We have a broad definition of information systems. We currently cover such areas as HCI, databases, AI (as it related to information retrieval), natural language processing (again, the retrieval aspects of it), organizational behavior, and process modelling. We are closely associated with the AI Group, the Medical Informatics Group, the Department of Psychology and the School of Management at UMIST as well as the Manchester Business School. About the Department: I won't bore you with the hardware we have around here, but suffice it to say that we are one of the largest Sun installations in Europe. We also have a range of parallel and supercomputers. The Computer Science Department is composed of about 60 academic staff and as many full-time research staff. Our research covers every area of computer science, and then some--including computer eithics, and the social aspects of computing. The salary is about #35,000 a year. To sort-out what you'd make as an American, multiply this figure by 1.55. About 30% to 36% of your gross salary will be eaten up in *all* direct taxes. Although you won't have automatic contributions made to TIAA/CREF, the pension plan here is transferable to TIAA. This means that you contribute to the University Superannuation Scheme while you're here, and when you return home, (if that's what you want to do later in life), you can shift your contributions to TIAA. Of course, you can contribute to TIAA individually. Great Britain has a health system that is free at the point of delivery. As you might have expected, I'm an American teaching over here (there are more than a few of us here), so if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at rich@cs.man.ac.uk. If you want more information about the position itself, please contact me or Professor Brian Warboys at brian@cs.man.ac.uk /rich ----- End Included Message ----- From: "Jan Christoph Meister, Subject: Visiting Lecturers/ Professors - Humanities Computing Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 10:39:43 GMT + 2:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 244 (455) Visiting Lecturer/Professor in Humanities Computing University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg - South Africa As some of you might have learnt from the job advertisement distributed on HUMANIST the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the Faculty of Arts is busy setting up a new Arts Computer Laboratory. We have advertised a lecturer position for this, but would furthermore like to kick-start the project by having one or two eminent visitors here who could 1.) help us to get the thing going from a technical point of view (e.g., give an introduction to applications in CALL (including, if possible, English as a Second Language) and textual analysis (TACT etc.) 2.) advise on the design of teaching modules 3.) give a couple of public talks in order to promote the development within our University. We have limited funds available to pay for an airfare+accomodation - it's nothing to make a killing on, but then, as a Humanist you don't really care about money and simply crave for peanuts anyway, don't you? Time: ideally during the first half of 1995 Duration: 2-3 weeks If you're interested please fax us a CV and a brief outline of what you would like to present. If you need more information kindly contact me directly. Our fax no.: (0027)-11-403 7289 Thanks! Jan Christoph Meister Prof. Jan Christoph Meister Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg/South Africa Tel: (0027)11-716 3804 Fax: (0027)11-403 7289 From: "Jan Christoph Meister, Subject: Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 10:26:38 GMT + 2:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 245 (456) Subject: The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg / South Africa Faculty of Arts Open position: Co-ordinator Humanities Computing Project Candidates for this tenured position in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (DMLL) will require substantial experience in Humanities teaching at university level. He/She will ideally be familiar with some of the relevant computing applications, particularly in the area of CALL. In addition, administrative skills are an essential requirement for this position. Reporting to the governing body of DMLL and the Dean of the Faculty, the Co-ordinator will assume responsibility for the development, administration and professional support of academic computing for the Humanities, centred around the newly established Arts Faculty Computing Laboratory. He/She will be required to develop teaching modules in selected areas, focussing on language related applications, particularly for Academic Development Programmes and Modern Languages courses, and work towards the full utilisation of the Laboratory's facilities as prescribed. This will include: * investigating * implementing and actively promoting computer applications for teaching and research within the Faculty of Arts * administering the Computer Laboratory * and supporting academic staff in their use of the Laboratory. Salary: R 43 152 - R 72 195 + University benefits. To apply submit a detailed CV with names and addresses of 3 referees + certified copies of degrees / diplomas to : University of the Witwatersrand, Personnel Office (Academic), Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa or fax (0027)-11-339 2223. Closing date: 30 November 1994 WITS UNIVERSITY IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Prof. Jan Christoph Meister Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg/South Africa Tel: (0027)11-716 3804 Fax: (0027)11-403 7289 From: John Sandys-Wunsch Subject: Date: Sat, 29 Oct 94 09:04:03 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 291 (457) Call for papers for two special issues of Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses: Computers in the Study of Religion - a call for articles: Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses is proposing a special issue on the use of computers in the study of religion. The theme is whether - and if so, to what extent - computers have made a qualitative difference to the study of religion; i.e., apart from their speed and convenience, have computers made it possible to know anything we could not have found out by other means, albeit slower ones? Fundamentalism - a call for articles: It has become a clich in journalism (a pleonastic statement if there ever were one) to refer to emerging fundamentalism in the discussion of many religions. However it is an open question whether the use of this term as a blanket description is always appropriate or illuminating. Therefore while each article should concern a particular religion or group, attention should also be paid to how the sort of fundamentalism discussed differs from or is related to fundamentalism elsewhere. Articles should be in the format set out in the "protocol to contributors" found at least once in each volume of SR. Articles in English should be sent to Dr. John Sandys-Wunsch, 825 Alget Road, R.R. #1, Mill Bay, B.C., V0R 2P0. Articles in French should go to Dr. Monique, Dumais, Universit du Qu bec, Rimouski, PQ, G5L 3A1. From: UHLG008@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK Subject: Date: Wed, 26 OCT 94 16:13:11 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 292 (458) YVAN GOLL CLAIRE GOLL A Symposium at the Institute of Germanic Studies 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP Thursday 1 and Friday 2 December 1994 CO-ORDINATORS: ERIC ROBERTSON AND ROBERT VILAIN (ROYAL HOLLOWAY, LONDON) The following papers will be presented: Margaret Rogister (Durham) Yvan Goll: His First Exile Eric Robertson (London) `Notre il quadruple': Yvan Goll and the Visual Arts Karen Leeder (Oxford) `J'aime et je chante': Yvan Goll Liebesgedichte, Love Poems and Po mes d'amour Robert Vilain (London) `Orpheus' Unterschrift faksimiliert': Yvan Goll's bilingual poetry Andreas Kramer (Oxford) `Basis f r alle neue Kunst ist das Kino': Iwan Goll und das Medium Film Karsten Witte (Berlin) Golls Chaplinade (Filmdichtung) Moray McGowan (Sheffield) Black and White? Claire Goll's Der Neger Jupiter raubt Europa Rodney Livingstone (Southampton) Claire Goll: Eroticism and Feminism Margaret Littler (Manchester) Claire Goll: Between Surrealism and Ecriture f minine Jeremy Stubbs (Manchester) The Battle for `Surrealism': Goll vs. Breton Dugald Sturges (Bonn) Methusalem: Goll and the Absurdist Tradition John White (London) Yvan Goll's Relationship to Futurism and Orphism The conference fee is 12.50 (standard rate) or 9.50 (fully paid-up Friends of the Institute of Germanic Studies & students with proof of status only). Registration forms are available from: The Administrative Secretary Institute of Germanic Studies 29 Russell Square LONDON WC1B 5DP and should be returned to reach the Institute not later than 21 November 1994. Alternatively, e-mail R.VILAIN@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAX and I'll send you a form direct. From: Eric Johnson Subject: Index for TEXT Technology Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 15:42:36 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 293 (459) Following is a list of the contents of the 1994 volume of _TEXT Technology_. Anyone wishing information about the journal should contact me. -- Eric Johnson JohnsonE@dsuvax.dsu.edu TEXT Technology The Journal of Computer Text Processing Contents of Volume 4 Spring 1994 Column One Comparing texts and identifying authors Eric Johnson Icon in the Humanities Another useful language for humanities computing Ralph Griswold Perfect Techniques A review of WordPerfect 6.0 (DOS) Guy Pace Using DeScribe Word processing for OS/2 David Birnbaum Collating variant texts Computer collation of variant texts for literary study Mark Hawthorne TEXTechography Annotated Bibliography Art Molitierno Contents of Volume 3 Summer 1994 Editors' notes The electronic texts we want and need Eric Johnson Column One Electronic Jane Austen and S.T. Coleridge Eric Johnson Explorations in computational text analysis A report on FOX and TreeCAD Manfred Jahn Perfect Techniques WordPerfect for Windows, version 6.0 Guy Pace WordPerfect Mac 3.0 How does the Mac version stack up against the PC? Ian Richmond Learning LaTeX -- pros and cons Alan D. Corre Maintaining a personal reference library A word processor and a scanner are all you need Kai A. Olsen and David Dubin TEXTechography Annotated bibliography Art Molitierno Autumn 1994 Editors' notes Humanists and programming Eric Johnson Column One SPITBOL-386: The language for non-numeric computing Eric Johnson FrameMaker 4.0 A review of this powerful page layout software Graeme Forbes Textual collation software for the PC PC-CASE, UNITE, and the Donne Variorum Program Ray Siemens Babel on A review of current translation software Ian Richmond TEXTechography Annotated bibliography Art Molitierno Winter 1994 Editors' notes The winds of change: the end of power users and professional advice Eric Johnson Column One How Jane Austen's characters talk Eric Johnson Word processing in review Dagesh and Accent: multilingual word processors Alan D. Corre Notebuilder A tool for creating a bibliographical database George Christakes and George M. Kren Applying similarity measures to texts A different approach for analyzing texts David Dubin Directory of electronic text centers Information about electronic text centers, humanities computing facilities, and text archives Mary Mallery TEXTechography Annotated bibliography Art Molitierno From: Jesse Foley Brink Subject: New List: HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART (again. sorry.) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 18:54:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 294 (460) Hello! I am writing today to announce a new list that may be of interest to you. Its topic is the History of Medieval Art. Medieval Art is here rather loosely confined by a temporal range of about 100 CE to 1500 CE and no geographical range. Some may groan at "yet another specialized mailing list," but I believe that this list can provide a valuable service in allowing people interested in the History of Medieval Art to delve into topics with a level of detail that probably would not interest a general audience. It certainly will not hurt you to try it, so sign up! 1) Send a message to: LISTSERV@UTORONTO.BITNET 2) Leave the Subject line blank 3) Type the following line (and nothing else) in the body: SUB MEDART-L Your_Full_Name That is all there is to it. If you have any questions or comments, do drop me a line. If you are so inclined, send me a message describing your interests and experiences so that I can tailor the list's resources to the users' benefit. Have fun. Jesse Foley Brink jbrink@epas.utoronto.ca P.S. I apologize for all the cross-posting. From: Dale Jarvis Subject: Culture and Tradition (fwd) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 16:27:55 -0230 (NDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 295 (461) please post and/or forward this notice. dj CALL FOR PAPERS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The editors of "Culture and Tradition" are now accepting submissions for issue 17. Your manuscript should be of interest to folklorists, Canadian in focus, and should conform to the guidelines outlined below: Culture and Tradition is published annually and with cooperation of Etudiants en Arts et Traditions Populaires de l'Universite Laval de Quebec and the Folklore Students Association of Memorial University of Newfoundland. The editors welcome manuscripts on any subject of interest to folklorists. These should be scholarly articles of ten to twenty typed, double-spaced pages, and may be accompanied by photographs or drawings. Articles submitted on disk in Wordperfect format would be greatly appreciated. Our range of topics includes the traditional arts, music, cuisine, architecture, values, beliefs, cultural psychology and sociologic structure of regional, ethnic, religious, and industrial groups in Canada. Studies based on original fieldwork in Eastern Canada are especially welcome. We also accept book, record and film reviews, and brief notes appropriate to the journal's focus. Submission Deadline: 31 March, 1995. Papers, subscriptions or any correspondance may be sent to: Culture and Tradition Department of Folklore Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland Canada A1C 5S7 From: Richard Bear Subject: Re: 8.0278 Influence of Karl Popper? (1/9) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 09:05:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 296 (462) Most of my graduate work was done on Philip Sidney, whose Defence of Poesy struck me as bearing the seeds of a linguistic theory in which all speech acts are metaphorical; those for which literality is claimed being as meta- phorical as any others, but carrying an implicit request for suspension of disbelief. Led to study of Saussure, Derrida, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Stanley Fish, Gregory Bateson, etc. Had a wonderful time, kept a notebook full of quotes/citations; went back to the notebook after reading request for Popper anecdotes and realized once again that Popper is the central figure in the notebook. Everything he says seems to illuminate the others and encourage in me the belief that a "unified theory" might be possible, in the direction pointed to by C.S. Peirce, among others. My favorite, not deep, but telling, considering the self-immolation of academia on the pyre of administrative politics: "There are no disciplines; there are only problems and the urge to solve them." Richard Bear University of Oregon rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu From: Alan Cooper and Tamar Frank Subject: fellowship opportunity Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 15:41:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 297 (463) I am forwarding this notice to Humanist at the request of Dr. Daniel Frank of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. The Jerusalem Trust Visiting Fellowship, 1995-96 The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies invites applications for a Visiting Fellowship in the field of Jewish- Christian relations. The Fellowship is open to scholars working primarily in the field of Christianity (e.g. New Testament, Church History, Christian Thought) who wish to carry out research on some aspect of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism. Two awards will be made, each of five months duration (September - January, February - June). In exceptional circumstances the Centre will consider applications for a ten-month period. The successful candidate will be provided with accommodation on the Yarnton Manor Estate and will receive the sum of 1,000 pounds per calendar month of the tenure. Applications, including a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, and a short statement of the research which would be undertaken, should be sent to: Ms. Joan Sinclair, Personal Assistant to the Bursar Yarnton Manor Yarnton Oxford OX5 1PY Applicants should also arrange for two academic references to be sent directly to the same address. All papers should reach the Centre by 15 January 1995. It is also possible to fax applications, and send the originals by post if it is close to the deadline. 28 October 1994 From: Alan Cooper and Tamar Frank Subject: Skirball Fellowships Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 15:43:35 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 298 (464) I am forwarding this fellowship announcement to Humanist at the request of Dr. Daniel Frank of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. SKIRBALL FELLOWSHIPS, 1995-96 The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies invites applications for a Visiting Fellowship in the following fields: Jewish-Christian relations in the modern period; Jewish history in the English-speaking world; Jewish-Muslim relations in the modern period; and modern Hebrew literature. The Fellowships, which are intended primarily for senior scholars from the United States, will each be of five months duration. Under exceptional circumstances the Selection Committee may consider proposals for the entire academic year. The successful candidates will be provided with accommodation on the Yarnton Manor Estate and will receive the sum of 1,000 pounds per calendar month of the tenure. Applications, including a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, and a short statement of the research which would be undertaken, should be sent to: Ms. Joan Sinclair Personal Assistant to the Bursar Yarnton Manor Yarnton Oxford OX5 1PY Applicants should also arrange for two academic references to be sent directly to the same address. All papers should reach the Centre by 25 November 1994. 28 October 1994 From: Alan Cooper and Tamar Frank Subject: Clore Fellowships Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 15:47:26 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 299 (465) I am forwarding this for posting on Humanist at the request of Dr. Daniel Frank of the Oxford Centre. CLORE FELLOWSHIP IN MODERN JEWISH HISTORY The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies invites applications for the Clore Fellowship in Modern Jewish History, the appointment to start in autumn 1995. The candidate must possess broad expertise in Jewish history during the early modern and modern periods and be competent to teach the subject at undergraduate and graduate levels. A sound knowledge of Hebrew and/or Yiddish as well as the relevant European languages is required. In addition to pursuing research in his or her areas of scholarly interest, the successful candidate will be expected to offer undergraduate tuition, organise a postgraduate seminar, and supervise doctoral students. He or she will also be expected to assume an active role within the Centre and the University. Scholars of all ranks will be considered for this position. The appointment will be made for a five year period, renewable after review to retiring age. Applications, including a curriculum vitae should be submitted by December 1, 1994 to: Ms. Joan Sinclair Personal Assistant to the Bursar Yarnton Manor Yarnton Oxford OX5 1PY ENGLAND Applicants should also ensure that letters of recommendation from three referees are sent directly to the Centre by the same date. Founded in 1972, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies has become a leading institution in Europe for the study of Jewish history, literature, religion, and culture. An independent research centre, it maintains close ties with Oxford University and provides most of the University's teaching in Jewish Studies. The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is an equal opportunity employer. 28 October 1994 From: Eric Johnson Subject: _TEXT Technology_ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 05:02:22 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 300 (466) The following provides information about _TEXT Technology_ that is commonly requested in response to my posting the contents of the journal's volume 4 on HUMANIST. Readers who still have questions after reading this information should, of course, send me email. -- Eric Johnson johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu TEXT Technology The Journal of Computer Text Processing With volume 4 (1994), TEXT Technology has continued its unanticipated level of success in a new format with perfect binding and 7-by-9-inch pages. Now published four times each year, the journal includes articles and reviews about all facets of using computers for the creation, processing, communication, and analysis of texts. It is designed for academic and corporate researchers, writers, editors, and teachers. The quarterly journal contains timely reviews of books and software, discussions of applications for the analysis of literary works and other texts, bibliographic citations, and much more. Recent issues of TEXT Technology have contained articles about analyzing the novels of Jane Austen, collating variant texts, programming in Icon and SPITBOL-386, as well as a directory of electronic text centers, and reviews of FrameMaker and of five new word processors including WordPerfect for DOS, for Windows, and for the Macintosh. Submissions of articles are welcome. They should be sent to the Editor as ASCII files via email to JohnsonE@columbia.dsu.edu. Writers of book or software reviews are encouraged to contact the Editor before submitting reviews. Authors will normally receive notices of acceptance and referees' comments promptly via email. Yearly subscription rates remain unchanged: in the U.S., Individuals: $45.00; Institutions: $72.00. Canadian orders add $7.00; all other nations add $15.00 (all prices U.S. funds). To subscribe using a MasterCard or Visa credit card, send name and address, card number and expiration date via email to LangnerS@columbia.dsu.edu. To subscribe by regular mail, send credit card information, check, or institutional purchase order to TEXT Technology 114 Beadle Hall Dakota State University Madison, SD 57042-1799 USA. From: Subject: Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 03:56:35 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 301 (467) I believe that the future of archeology and the rest of the humanities and the arts will involve, dare I say it, more interactive applications. Our fate will not be to simply develop remote education stations to teach services courses. I strongly believe that the humanities-based disciplines will be instrumental in implementing new technologies like virtual reality and telepresence. Indeed, we will eventually go beyond these scientific and military technologies to develop and implement our own. We will responsible for not only creating knowledge; we will be responsible for facilitating the access to that knowledge and how it will be presented. A peek at the potential of the Net, computer applications, and telepresence can be found at USC. The Departments of Archeology and Computer Science have set up a World Wide Web site where you can control a robotic arm through the W3. Using an interface like Mosaic, you can position the arm over what amounts to a sandbox and use a blower to uncover objects that are buried in the sand. The arm has a camera that sends you a picture of what you have"found". Users are then asked to comment on their experience after their time on the system has expired. These comments are then archived so that other users can read about the experience of other users. The whole system is somewhat limited because of the technology, but this will change as interfaces and bandwidth are improved. But imagine the possibilities in terms of theatre, dance, media studies, et cetera. And factor in the ways in which we can utilize VR for both research and teaching (I'm just finishing an article on this subject). I believe that the the humanities and arts have the potential to not only avoid neglect. They have the the ability to bring more attention and (gasp!) respect to them. I do not want to make it seem that there are not dangers inherent by taking this approach. Questions about VR and access to technology are very real issues (Marie Laure-Ryan has a very interesting article on VR and literary theory in the latest issue of Postmodern Culture). But while some of us will take the role of chorus to remind us of the dangers, others will go on to push the technology and its application in the humanities. Indeed both will have to exist if there is to be any real progress. Stephen Naoyuki Matsuba Is't real that I see? Graduate Programme in English --William Shakespeare York University 4700 Keele Street North York, Ontario CANADA M3J 1P3 bitnet: engl5105@nexus.yorku.ca From: TB0WPW1@NIU.BITNET Subject: BRITISH LIBRARY Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 18:38 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 302 (468) I am posting the following message from the British Library Regular Readers' Group (RRG) to several lists since the information it contains may be of general interest (apologies for the duplication in advance); mentions of the library's problems have been turning up in various academic/scholarly newsletters and journals such as the +East-Central Intelligencer+ and the newsletter of the Johnson Society of the Central Region. For those who have not been following the saga but are interested, this is a brief (and obviously over-simplified) outline: the grand original 1978 plan has been so cut that despite the unfortunate, disaster-prone new library's cost (450 million pounds so far), its storage will be full when it opens, whenever that may be, and there will be only 73 more seats for readers--a high price to pay for the loss of the Round Reading Room and the King's Library. What follows is a digest of the material contained in the October 1994 +Newsletter+ of the RRG. ---------------------------------------------------- The British Library's new St. Pancras building is perhaps even further from completion: various essential elements of the building are either defective, already out of date, or subject to disputes between the contractors and the Department of National Heritage. There remains NO PROJECTED OPENING DATE. The RRG has published a revised edition of its report: +The Great British Library Disaster+ (copies can be obtained either by sending 5.00 pounds to the RRG or by sending $5.00 to me for a photocopy of the report--addresses at the end of this posting). On 30 June the Commons Select Committee for National Heritage held a hearing and called witnesses (among these were the RRG, Brian Lang and Sir Anthony Kenny of the British Library, and Peter Brooke, then Secretary of State for National Heritage). In the end the Select Committee called for: the retention of the Round Reading Room as an integral part of the British Library "in perpetuity"; an inquiry, chaired by an Ombudsman, to investigate what has gone wrong at St. Pancras; the retention of the rest of the St. Pancras site for use by the British Library in the future. The RRG has been consulted by the National Audit Office about the framework for their own enquiries. The RRG has also attempted to meet with the new Secretary of State for National Heritage, Stephen Dorrell, but has been turned down. The RRG has had talks with Labour MP Mo Mowlam (Shadow spokesman on National Heritage) and Robert McClennan (President of the Liberal Democrats). The month of November will be crucial. Gerald Kaufman, MP (Chairman of the Select Committee) has made it clear he plans to pursue the matters; the government, through the Department of Heritage, must make a response to the Select Committee's recommendations by the end of the month. The RRG urges that you write to Stephen Dorrell as soon as possible, no matter where you live (The Rt. Hon. Stephen Dorrell, Secretary of State for National Heritage, 2-4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5DH). If you live in the UK, the RRG urges you also to write to your MP. Finally, the RRG is very short of funds and all donations will be gratefully received. Cheques drawn on sterling accounts or other foreign accounts should be made payable to The Regular Readers' Group and sent to the London address. Checks drawn on US dollar accounts should be made payable to W. P. Williams, with the Memo line indicating RRG, and sent to the DeKalb, IL address. --------------------------------------------------- That is the end of the digest. If you have further questions or want further information, please do not hesitate to contact me by e-mail, snail mail, or telephone. In London RRG officers are: Etrenne Lymbery, Chairman, and Brian Lake, Secretary. 46 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3PA; Telephone 071 631 4220; Fax 071 436 6544. In North America: William Proctor Williams, President for North America. Department of English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115; Telephone (815)753-6608; Fax (815)753-0606; e- mail TB0WPW1@NIU.BITNET. Thanks for your patience with this long posting and WRITE STEPHEN DORRELL SOON! From: Bryn Mawr Reviews Subject: Mellon Grant for BMCR/BMMR/BMAR Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 17:43:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 303 (469) Bryn Mawr College is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further its innovative work in the field of scholarly publishing over the electronic Internet. *Bryn Mawr Classical Review* was founded in 1990 by Richard Hamilton, Paul Shorey Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr, and by James J. O'Donnell, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. It publishes well over 150 reviews a year of current work in the field of Greco-Roman classical studies, distributing them around the world to a rapidly growing subscriber base who receive them by "e-mail". In 1993, the *Bryn Mawr Medieval Review* was added to the project, and a *Bryn Mawr Archaeological Review* is now planned with support from this Mellon grant. The grant is intended to enhance the technical production and distribution of the journal; to study the economics of cost and use that underpin it; and to take steps to make the model -- low- cost publishing of high quality scholarly discourse -- available to other scholars and institutions who wish to enter this important field. As the cost of traditional library materials skyrockets and access contracts, electronic publication offers the possibility of reducing costs and sharply enhancing access, not only for scholars, but for the general reading public beyond. The prospect of making what scholars do more accessible to the general public will be good for both communities -- readers will appreciate better what scholars do, and scholars will be stimulated to pay more attention to a reading public beyond their collegial common rooms. The grant will support activities at all three journals for a period of five years and should leave the journals in a position to continue to grow and exercise their influence as pioneers in this field. For further information: bmcr@cc.brynmawr.edu From: nomi shir Subject: Re: BGU position Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 08:50:46 +0200 (IST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 246 (470) Could you please post the following add on HUMANIST? Thanks -- Nomi Shir -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Senior position opening in English literature beginning fall 1995 in The Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev. The appointment is anticipated at the Full Professor level, but outstanding candidates at a lower level with good teaching and publishing records will be considered. Preferred area of specialization: pre-1700 British literature with a strong interest in theory. Commitment to living in Israel essential. Send cv and list of referees: Nomi Shir, Chair The Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev P.O.Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel. FAX: 972-7-472907. e-mail: shir@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Applications received by January 1, 1995, will be given preference in the screening process. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics is a dynamic expanding department which offers full programs in English literature and linguistics. From: Tharon Howard Subject: Job Opening at Clemson University Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 13:43:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 247 (471) Dear Colleagues: Members of the Master of Arts in Professional Communication faculty at Clemson are seeking a colleague to work with us in continuing to build our program. Below is a description of the position, the program, and the university. Please forward this message to interested parties, and apologies to those who receive multiple copies. Tharon Howard -----------forwarded file follows: October 17, 1994 We will have one or two openings at the rank of assistant professor beginning August 1995. Fields of specialization include rhetoric and professional communication. Clemson's English department has 60+ full-time faculty, 40 of whom are tenured or tenure-track. Faculty in rhetoric, technical communication, and visual communication have the opportunity to teach, direct student projects, and direct theses in our M.A. program in Professional Communication. The MAPC program is two years old, enrolling 12-15 new students annually. Resources include the Document Design Lab with current technology for DTP and multimedia, the Usability Testing Facility, and the Pearce Center for Professional Communication, which assists the program via its Corporate Advisory Board. Through the Pearce Center and the Campbell Chair in Technical Communication, students and faculty participate in communication across the curriculum workshops and projects. The program draws on the University's resources in engineering, agriculture, computer science, graphic communications, and architecture. We also have a small but expanding technical writing minor program. All faculty teach general education courses, including first-year composition, second-year literature surveys, and third-year advanced communication such as business or technical writing. Since 1965 the Department of English has also offered a traditional M.A. in English that focuses on literary study. More information about the department and the MAPC program is available via Gopher. Point your gopher to GOPHER.CLEMSON.EDU. Clemson University is a land-grant, publicly assisted institution that enrolls 16,000 students, of whom 3000 are graduate students. The 1,400-acre campus is located on the shores of Lake Hartwell in northwestern South Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Clemson area offers a wide variety of outdoor recreational activities. Water and mountain sports are enjoyed year round and include swimming, sailing, boating, water skiing, whitewater rafting, camping, and hiking. Cultural activities include concerts, lectures, and art exhibits. The University hosts nationally known dramatic companies, entertainers, writers, and scholars during its two annual festivals on Shakespeare and on African-American literature and arts. The campus is approximately 2.5 hours by car from both Atlanta, GA, and Charlotte, NC, via I-85. The town of Clemson is also served by rail, as a scheduled stop on the Southern Crescent Amtrak route, and by air via Greenville/Spartanburg Airport, 45 miles away. Positions carry a 3 course per semester teaching load; salary is competitive; PhD required by appointment date. The application deadline is 4 November for SAMLA interviews, 2 December for MLA interviews. Send letter of application and vita to: Professor Frank Day, Head Department of English Clemson University, Box 341503 Clemson, SC 29634-1503 ----------end forwarded message ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tharon Howard e-mail: tharon@hubcap.clemson.edu Clemson University Voice: (803)656-3488 | FAX: (803)656-1345 From: jsmith@deans.umd.edu (John F. Smith) Subject: Position Announcement Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 16:49:10 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 248 (472) POSITION AVAILABLE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES TITLE: Coordinator, Digital Imaging and Electronic Media DESCRIPTION: The Coordinator will occupy a position in the College of Arts and Humanities, reporting to the College's Director of Academic Computing Services. The Coordinator will manage the College's electronic media laboratory and will provide training, information, and project support to campus faculty, staff and students in the use of digital imagery and multi-media technologies as these pertain to scholarly, creative and instructional activity in the visual arts. CATEGORY: Associate Staff RESPONSIBILITIES: The coordinator is responsible for developing the use of electronic media in the College, for operating appropriate facilities, and for providing technical assistance in these areas. Development: Taking initiative for digital technology, assisting in short and long term planning, supporting faculty, staff and students in the effective and imaginative use of technology. Liaison with various committees and other campus and area resources. Demonstrating and arranging for demonstrations of, existing and new technologies. Assistance: Providing help and training to faculty and other interested users regarding hardware, software and related technologies. Recommending appropriate equipment and software purchases to the Director of Academic Computing Services. Maintenance: Hiring, scheduling and supervising student facility monitors. Monitoring and maintaining inventory of equipment and supplies. Arranging for repairs and initiating equipment purchases. Maintaining security system. QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's Degree (Master's preferred) plus three to five years experience with an array of electronic imaging equipment and software across several platforms. Familiarity with computer network systems. Must demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills. Candidate must be well-organized and eager to take initiative. Background in an arts or humanities field preferred. Knowledge of multi-media authoring packages and related technologies desired. Experience in a higher- education environment also desirable. The University of Maryland at College Park has a strong commitment to the principle of diversity. We are interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of people, including women, members of ethnic minorities, and disabled individuals. SALARY: Mid thirties to low forties. POSITION AVAILABLE: Immediately TO APPLY: Send letter of application (NO EMAIL PLEASE), resume, and the names, addresses and phone numbers of three references by November 22, 1994 to: Chair, Digital Imaging Search Committee University of Maryland Department of Music 2114 Tawes Fine Arts Building College Park, MD 20742 The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. From: Stuart Lee Subject: CTI Textual Studies Job, Oxford University Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 17:28:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 249 (473) Please cross-post accordingly. Stuart Lee **************************************************************************** Dr Stuart Lee Humanities Computing Officer Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221 Fax:0865-273221 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Http://www.ox.ac.uk/depts/humanities/ **************************************************************************** JOB ADVERTISEMENT Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services The CTI Centre at Oxford University is seeking to appoint a Research Officer from 1 January 1995 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Centre's role is to promote, encourage and support the use of computers in the teaching of a range of text-based subjects in higher education throughout the UK. The Centre also has strong international links. The major responsibilities of this post will include editing our varied series of publications, both electronic and paper-based, evaluating software useful in the teaching of textual subjects in higher education institutions, giving presentations at workshops, conferences, and university departments. The person appointed should have a good degree in a Humanities subject, in particular: modern languages and literatures, classics, drama, philosophy, theology, or media studies. He or she should also be computer-literate. Experience in one or more of the following areas would also be useful: publishing (conventional and/or on-line), teaching (HE), internet resources, humanities computing applications. Good writing and presentation skills are essential. The appointment will be made in the lower end of the RS1A scale: #13,941-#15,566 per annum (pounds sterling) according to qualifications and experience. The CTI is funded until July 1999 subject to annual confirmation by the Higher Education Funding Councils. Further details are added below and an application form can be obtained from Sally Matthews, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (tel: 0865-273230; e-mail: sally.matthews@oucs.ox.ac.uk). The closing date for submission of application forms is 2nd December 1994. Interviews are scheduled for the week commencing 12th December 1994. ************************************************************************** The Computers in Teaching Initiative The Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) was established in 1984 and the first phase (1984-1988) funded 139 software development and dissemination projects. In phase two of the Initiative (1989 onwards) twenty subject-specific CTI Centres were established to promote, support, and encourage the use of computers in the teaching of all subjects taught at higher education level in the UK. The Initiative has just started a new period of funding which will last until the end of July 1999, and the new post is offered until that time, subject to funds being confirmed by the Higher Education Funding Councils. Four of the CTI Centres represent humanities subjects: the Centre for History with Archaeology and Art History, based at the University of Glasgow; the Centre for Modern Languages (with Classics), based at the University of Hull; the Centre for Music, based at the University of Lancaster; and the Centre for Textual Studies, based at the University of Oxford. The Centre for Textual Studies The Centre is part of the Centre for Humanities Computing at Oxford University which exists to support students and academics in the humanities at Oxford University in the use of computers in their academic research and teaching by introducing them to the latest techniques and methods in humanities computing; to establish the Centre for Humanities Computing as a Tcentre of excellenceU both within the UK higher education system and world-wide; to promote the uses of computing by the encouragement of leading edge research by members of the Centre for Humanities Computing; to operate a print and electronic publication programme to disseminate the work of the Centre. The CTI Centre deals with the use of computers in the teaching of literature in all languages, from all periods; philosophy and logic; linguistics; theology; drama and theatre studies; film and media studies. The Centre publishes a newsletter, Computers and Texts, a Resources Guide, and also regularly updates a humanities World Wide Web service. It also runs workshops, conferences, and seminars; evaluates software and hardware; runs a general advisory service; visits academic departments; and deals with large numbers of visitors. The Office for Humanities Communication (OHC) The CTI Centre works very closely with the British Library-funded OHC which is also part of the Centre for Humanities Computing in Oxford. The OHC carries out survey and research work on general topics relevant to the use of information technology in all areas of the humanities and together with the CTI Centre organizes the CATH (Computers and Teaching in the Humanities) series of conferences. Staff of the CTI Centre The Centre has a Director, Dr Marilyn Deegan; a Deputy Director, Dr Stuart Lee; a Centre Manager, Mr Michael Popham; an Administrative Secretary, Mrs Mari Gill. The new appointment will report directly to the Centre Manager. The New Appointment The main responsibilities of this post will be to run our ever-growing series of publications, liaising with contributors, editors, copy-editors, printers, designers, etc, and also to update regularly the various electronic publications which the Centre manages. He or she will also help at workshops, visit academic departments, attend conferences, and answer enquiries. A willingness to travel around the UK and occasionally overseas is essential. From: "Michael L. Hall" Subject: NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 10:30:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 305 (474) Please post the following announcement: The list of 1995 Summer Seminars for College Teachers is available on Internet. By gopher they can be retrieved at the following address: gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu Then select #11. Other Services and potpourri/ Then # 3. National Endowment for the Humanities Then # 6. NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers, 1995 By WWW browser: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/00/Special/neh/neh-ssct-1995 The NEH directory address is: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/11/Special/neh/ Summer Seminar Participant guidelines and application forms are also available on this gopher server, but applicants are strongly advised to correspond with seminar directors before completing applications to participate in seminars. Michael L. Hall From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: university presses Date: Wed, 2 Nov 94 22:36:06 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 306 (475) The New York Times Book Review for 30 Oct. 94 contains an interesting article on university presses and electronic publishing, "At Cyberspace University Press, Paperless Publishing Looks Good", by Leigh Hafrey (pp. 32-4). Several things in it are worth mentioning, but allow me to point to just a few: -- Gregory Crane's ambition, briefly cited, to use the technology to narrow the gulf between the discourse of academics and ordinary people, and his distinction between mere access to information, for which the professor is increasingly less needed, and the skills required to manage and understand the data, which can and must be taught. -- the "developed-nation myopia" in our enthusiasm for digital information. -- the effects of electronic media on the kinds of books we write: "As scholars begin to write for the computer, they find the electronic media change the whole concept of what their books will be". -- (at last!) the realisation that "we are not replacing technologies but adding on to what we already have", so that there should be no more talk about "the end of the book", and other such silliness. "The best-case scenario," Hafrey concludes, "is that coping with a little more stress now by investing in the new technologies will indeed guarantee [for the university presses] economic survival later on. Even the optimists in the profession seem inclined to pause before acting on that assumption, but, in the best tradition of the scholarly community, they remain enthralled with the development of digital publishing for its intellectual importance; and that, more than anything else, is the most likely guarantee of the presses' survival." WM Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: Mary Mallery Subject: Report on CETH Workshop on Documenting Electronic Texts Date: Thu, 10 Nov 94 13:13:49 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 250 (476) CETH Workshop on Documenting Electronic Texts CETH Technical Report Number 2 In May 1994, the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities sponsored an invitational workshop on documenting electronic primary source materials in the humanities. The goal of the workshop was to work toward a clearer understanding of the relationship between the TEI header, the MARC record, and the current international cataloging rules, with an objective of establishing how far they meet the needs of scholars, librarians, publishers and software developers who work with these materials. A report on this workshop written by Lisa R. Horowitz is currently available as part of a series of Technical Reports published by CETH addressing various issues of electronic texts in the humanities. Also available is Technical Report Number 1, Guidelines for Cataloging Monographic Electronic Texts at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, by Annelies Hoogcarspel. This document describes the procedures developed at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities for cataloging electronic texts of primary source humanities material on RLIN, the Information Network of the Research Libraries Group. Reports are available for $15 each ($20 international orders). Please send a check payable to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, to: CETH Technical Reports CETH 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08903 U.S.A. The reports are also available for anonymous FTP as postscript files at ceth.princeton.edu. The Cataloging Guidelines are archived as catguid.ps, and the Workshop Report is techrpt2.ps. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * Mary Mallery | E-Mail: * * Center for Electronic Texts | Phone: (908) 932-1384 * * in the Humanities | * * 169 College Avenue | * * New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA | * * | * -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: Jim Campbell Subject: Univ. of Virginia puts Rita Dove poem on Web Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 11:03:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 251 (477) The Libraries of the University of Virginia celebrate the acquisition of their four-millionth volume, "Lady Freedom Among Us," a poem by Rita Dove, United States Poet Laureate and Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. The volume was designed and published by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press. To mark the changing nature of our collections and to share with you our pleasure in this work of art, the Libraries are also making "Lady Freedom Among Us" available on the World Wide Web. This version was adapted by Rick Provine and David Seaman of the University Library. It includes images from the book and a sound recording of the poet and is tagged in Standard Generalized Markup Language, which is then converted to html using a filter developed at the University Library. The Library's home page is http://www.lib.virginia.edu/ The poem was written in honor of the return of the restored statue "Freedom" to the dome of the U.S. Capitol on 23 October 1993. It was selected as the four-millionth volume to honor Ms. Dove, the youngest and first African-American U.S. Poet Laureate, and to reflect the University Library's extraordinary holdings in American literature and extensive collection of the Janus Press. Ms. Van Vliet, the proprietor of the Janus Press, is a MacArthur Prize Fellowship recipient (1989 - 1994). An exhibit, "Freedom and Other Great Gifts," in the McGregor Room of Alderman Library includes a display of the Janus Press edition of "Lady Freedom Among Us" and celebrates the role of gifts in building the Library's collections. The exhibit will run from 28 October 1994 to 28 February 1995 and is open to the public from 9AM to 5PM Monday through Friday and from 9AM to 1PM on Saturday. From: DAYM@indiana.edu "Mark T. Day" 14-NOV-1994 10:12:12.49 Subject: NEW INDIANA UNIVERSITY LETRS FACILITY OFFICIALLY OPENS Date: Mon, 14 Nov 94 12:52:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 252 (478) Subj: LETRS to post on Humanist NEW INDIANA UNIVERSITY LETRS FACILITY OFFICIALLY OPENS: OED & ENGLISH POETRY FULL-TEXT DATABASE ON IU CAMPUS NETWORK Contact: Mark Day or Dick Ellis, Co-Directors Perry Willett, Collection Coordinator Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS) Indiana University, Main Library, 10th & Jordan Bloomington, IN 47405 LETRS@ucs.indiana.edu 812/85LETRS (812/855-3877) During the week of September 19-23, the Indiana University Bloomington Main Library held a 25th Anniversary celebration that included a Ribbon-Cutting and Open House for the new LETRS facility located in the Main Library. The ceremonies began with brief remarks from representatives of organizations involved in the development of LETRS: Lee Caldwell (Associate Vice President, Office of Information Technologies), James Neal (Dean of Libraries), William Farquhar (Director, Contracts and Grants Administration, Research and the University Graduate School), Jeanne Peterson (Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences), and Ann Savers (Vice President, Editorial, Chadwyck-Healey). The new LETRS facility provides a central location on campus where humanities students and faculty may go for assistance in locating and using primary source texts in electronic formats plus associated literary and linguistic tools. During the Open House that followed the Ribbon-Cutting, LETRS consultants and staff introduced those in attendance to a variety of such texts and tools, including the premiere of campus-wide access to the _Oxford English Dictionary_ and Chadwyck-Healey's _English Poetry Full-Text Database_. Using a VT100 Open Text client, these Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) databases are now accessible via "lowest common denominator" hardware from office or home. For those finding the VT100 client limiting, Open Text's Xwindow clients are also available for use at LETRS on UNIX, IBM PC, and Macintosh workstations. Begun in September 1992 by the Main Library Reference Department, LETRS became a joint program of the University Libraries and University Computing Services in May 1993. The new facility was funded by a Research Facilities Fund grant from IU's Research and the University Graduate School and was completed in January 1994. It includes: 1) a public computing room with six IBM and six Macintosh computers; 2) a seminar room with a large screen computer for demonstrations; 3) three research carrels for private extended research; and 4) administrative offices. The public area provides access to a wide variety of locally mounted resources and connects via the campus network to various off-site, on-line resources. It is staffed by humanities graduate student consultants. Additional texts and tools are being added to the collection in line with our main mission of providing access for the IU scholarly community to electronic versions of full-text primary sources in the humanities. Within this overall mission, emphasis is placed on making available texts that have been acquired by IU fund managers and are in SGML format. LETRS also works with IU Library fund managers on a case by case basis to provide texts that are not available in SGML format. Finally, because many different types of software may be needed to take full advantage of electronic text resources, LETRS makes available selected demonstration software tools of special interest to scholars and students in the humanities. Examples of such software include: programs for various levels of text analysis, management, markup, production and retrieval; computational linguistic and language learning programs; and multi-lingual word processing programs. *************************************************************** * For additional, updated information about LETRS and for * * on-line author/title indexes to its text resources, choose * * the LETRS option from: GOPHER://LIB-GOPHER.LIB.INDIANA.EDU * *************************************************************** From: Stuart Lee Subject: CFP: Computers and Texts 8 Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 11:14:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 253 (479) ****************************************************************************** Please cross-post accordingly. Computers & Texts # 8 CALL FOR PAPERS Newsletter of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies Computers & Texts has now been running for three years and is the newsletter of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies, based at Oxford University Computing Services. The subjects covered by the Centre include literature, linguistics, classics, theology, philosophy (& logic), theatre arts, and media studies. The newsletter has a selection of short articles relating to computer-aided learning in textual studies, a section devoted to the Office for Humanities Communication, and has a mailing of over 2,000 world-wide. Articles relating to projects dealing with electronic text centres and editions are particularly welcome. Format: Submissions should be of approximately 1000-1500 words although this is open to discussion with the editors. Footnotes should be limited and placed at the end of the article. References to published works should be of the form (Smith, 1992) with full bibliographic details given at the end of the article. Screen dumps are accepted, preferably in TIFF or PICT format for the Macintosh. Deadline: 25 November, 1994 Send all details to: Lorna Hughes or Mike Popham Research Officers CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221 Fax:0865-273221 E-mail: CTITEXT@vax.ox.ac.uk From: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au (Prof. Roly Sussex) Subject: request to distribute Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 23:18:25 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 254 (480) CALL FOR PAPERS (Third Circular and extended submission date) ********************************************* PACLING '95 Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics 2nd Conference April 19-22 (Wed-Sat) 1995 The University of Queensland Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ******************** * HISTORY AND AIMS * ******************** PACLING (= Pacific Association for Computational LINGuistics) has grown out of the very successful Japan- Australia joint symposia on natural language processing (NLP) held in November 1989 in Melbourne, Australia and in October 1991 in Iizuka City, Japan. The first meeting of the retitled PACLING, a name designed to express the wider membership, took place in Vancouver, Canada in April 1993. PACLING '95 will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop- oriented meeting whose aim is to promote friendly scientific relations among Pacific Rim countries, with emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange showing openness towards good research falling outside current dominant "schools of thought," and on technological transfer within the Pacific region. The conference is a unique forum for scientific and technological exchange, being smaller than ACL, COLING or Applied NLP, and also more regional with extensive representation from the Western Pacific (as well as the Eastern). ********** * TOPICS * ********** Original papers are invited on any topic in computational linguistics (and strongly related areas) including (but not limited to) the following: Language subjects: text, speech; pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, lexicon, morphology, phonology, phonetics; language and communication channels, e.g., touch, movement, vision, sound; language and input/output devices, e.g., keyboards, menus, touch screens, mice, light pens, graphics (incl. animation); language and context, e.g., from the subject domain, discourse, spatial and temporal deixis. Approaches and architectures: computational linguistic, multi-modal but natural-language centred; formal, knowledge-based, statistical, connectionist; dialogue, user, belief or other model-based; parallel/serial processing corpora and large-text linguistics Applications: text and message understanding and generation, language translation and translation aids, language learning and learning aids; question-answering systems and interfaces to multi- media databases (text, audio/video, (geo)graphic); terminals for Asian and other languages, user interfaces; natural language-based software. ************************ * SUBMISSION OF PAPERS * ************************ Authors should prepare full papers, in English, not more than 5000 words including references, approximately 20 double- spaced pages. The title page must include: author's name, postal address, e-mail address (if applicable), telephone and fax numbers; a brief 100-200 word summary; and some key words for classifying the submission. Please send four (4) copies of each submission to: Christian Matthiessen Department of Linguistics University of Sydney Sydney 2006 AUSTRALIA tel: +61 2 692 4227 fax: +61 2 552 1683 email: cmathies@extro.ucc.su.oz.au ************ * SCHEDULE * ************ NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ EXTENDED DEADLINE +++++++++++++++++ In order to overcome some problems of information distribution, the deadline for the submission of papers has been extended by 4 weeks. Submission deadline: November 30th, 1994 Notification of acceptance: January 16th, 1995 Camera-ready copy due: March 1st, 1995 ******************************************** * BACK TO BACK COGNITIVE SCIENCE CONFERENCE* ******************************************** The annual meeting of the Australian Cognitive Science Society will be held at the University of Queensland from April 18-20. Arrangements are being made with the organizers of that conference for Pacling delegates to attend sessions of the Cognitive Science Conference, and we are negotiating with them about joint sessions and a coordinated program. On the afternoon of Thursday 20 April CogSci95 will hold a workshop on the applications of cognitive science. Pacling delegates who would like to demonstrate software, or who would like to offer a contribution, should contact Roly Sussex as soon as possible. ******************************* * CONFERENCE COMMITTEE CHAIR * ****************************** The Conference Committee Chair of PACLING'95 is Roland Sussex Centre for Language Teaching and Research The University of Queensland Queensland 4072 Australia telephone: +61 7 365 6896 fax: +61 7 365 7077 email: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au ************************************ * PUBLICITY AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS * ************************************ The conference will take place at the Centre for Language Teaching and Research of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. We are negotiating preferential rates from downtown hotels. Delegates may wish to visit attractions like the Barrier Reef, Australia's desert centre or tropical rain forests before or after the Conference, and we shall be negotiating with travel companies to provide tour and travel information. For further information on the conference and on local arrangements, contact Hongliang Qiao Centre for Language Teaching and Research The University of Queensland Queensland 4072 Australia tel: +61 7 365 6897 fax: +61 7 365 7077 email: qiao@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au ************************************ * PACLING '95 COMMITTEES * ************************************ Organizing Committee Chair: Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Members: Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Christian Matthiessen (University of Sydney, Australia)* Nick Cercone (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Charles Fillmore(University of California, Berkeley, USA) Conference Committee: Chair: Roland Sussex (University of Queensland, Australia) Members: Dan Fass(Simon Fraser University, Canada) Randy Goebel(University of Alberta, Canada) Kiyoshi Kogure(NTT, Japan)* Paul McFetridge(Simon Fraser University, Canada) Jun-ichi Nakamura(Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Minako O'Hagan(Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand) Fred Popowich(Simon Fraser University, Canada) Hiroshi Sakaki(KDD, Japan) Akira Shimazu (NTT, Japan) Stanley Starosta(University of Hawaii, USA)* Roland Sussex(University of Queensland, Australia) Masami Suzuki(KDD, Japan) * Program Coordinator From: Nicolas Nicolov Subject: CFP - RECENT ADVANCES IN NLP Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 12:34:08 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 309 (481) ______________________________________________________________________ * Please post: Call For Papers INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING" 14-16 September 1995 Velingrad, Bulgaria TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing and Language Engineering are invited, including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP, machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; written and spoken natural language interfaces; knowledge acquisition; text summarization; computer-assisted language learning; language resources; evaluation, assessment and standards in language engineering; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. The conference welcomes also new results in NLP based on modern alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connectionist as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches. In general, the conference especially welcomes any contribution to the area of language engineering in view of the imminent developments in information technology. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: B. Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) C. Boitet (IMAG, Grenoble) K.S. Choi (KAIST, Taejon) A. DeRoeck (University of Essex) R. Delmonte (University of Venice) S. Fincher (University of Edinburgh) E. Haijcova (Charles University, Prague) J. Haller (IAI, Saarbruecken) P. Jacobs (SRA, Arlington) A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) L. Kartunen (Xerox Grenoble) M. Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto) R. Kittredge (University of Montreal) K. Kukich (Bellcore, Morristown) J. Mariani (LIMSI, Orsay) C. Martin-Vide (University Rovira i Virgili) Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) K. McKeown (Columbia University) R. Mitkov (IAI/Institute of Mathematics) S. Nirenburg (New Mexico State University) H. Somers (UMIST, Manchester) P. Seuren (University of Nijmegen) O. Stock (IRST, Trento) B. Tsou (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong) J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester) D. Tufis (Romanian Academy of Sciences) M. Zock (LISMI, Orsay) INVITED SPEAKERS: A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester). PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers not exceeding 3500 words should be submitted via Email (preferably as plain text) not later than 20 April 1995 to: ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de The first page should also contain the surface and Email address(es) of the author(s), as well as the topic area. SUBMISSION MEDIA: Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to: Ruslan Mitkov IAI Martin-Luther str. 14 D-66111 Saarbruecken GERMANY If electronic submission is problematic (e.g. due to non-standard format, characters, graphics) not possible, 4 copies of the paper should be sent. SCHEDULE: Authors must submit their papers by 20 April 1995. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 20 June 1995. Camera-ready versions of the accepted papers, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 20 July 1995. LOCATION: The town of Velingrad is situated in a picturesque valley in the Western Rhodope mountains and is only 130km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organizers will provide a daily shuttle bus/ conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. Sofia is easily accessible by plane from most of the major European cities (e.g. daily flights or several flights per week from London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Vienna and other European cities). There are also direct flights to Sofia from North America (Washington) and Asia (Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Ruslan Mitkov IAI Saarbruecken/Institute of Mathematics, Sofia Michael Zock LIMSI, Orsay, France Manfred Kudlek University of Hamburg, Germany Nikolai Nikolov Incoma/School of Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria Nicolas Nicolov Dept. of AI, University of Edinburgh, UK CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For further information contact: Nicolas Nicolov Dept of Artificial Intelligence University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk Tel: +44-131 650 2727 Fax: +44-131 650 6516 Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief description together with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to the above address. The organisers can provide PCs and Macintoshes. WWW and FTP: Information about the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" is available via: - WWW at URL: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/misc/NLP_Conf.html - anonymous FTP from ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk in file: pub/user/adv_nlp.ps Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user input is underlined): $ ftp ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Name (ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk: nicolas): anonymous ^^^^^^^^^ Password: <- Type in your email here! ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> cd pub/user ^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> get adv_nlp.ps <- PostScript version ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> get adv_nlp.txt <- Plain Text File ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ RELATED EVENTS: Conference participants are also invited to take part in the International Summer School "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics", which will take place just before the conference in Tzigov Chark, Batak Lake, only 20 km from Velingrad. Further information about the summer school can be obtained from Prof. R. Mitkov or Nicolas Nicolov INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPANTS / PUBLISHING COMPANIES: Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP- related products as well as publishing companies to exhibit their new books on NLP. Company representatives should inform Nicolas Nicolov of their intention and publishing houses should contact Dr.R.Mitkov . ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM: An alternative program can be arranged for persons accompanying delegates. Among the places which can be visited is Plovdiv, the second largest and oldest Bulgarian city, beautifully situated on 7 hills 80 km away from Velingrad. ______________________________________________________________________ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: A second call for papers, including more information on invited talks, conference location and registration fees is due to come out in January 1995. The address of the Local Arrangements Committee will be given in due course. The information about the conference will be kept updated on the ftp site and on the WWW (mentioned above). --- From: Pascal AMSILI Subject: Call for Papers to Post Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 18:02:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 310 (482) Title : Time, Space and Movement Date : 23-27 June 1995 Location : Gascony (near Toulouse), France ------------ Cut Here --------------------------------------------------------- 5th Toulouse International Workshop TIME, SPACE and MOVEMENT ----- Meaning and Knowledge in the Sensible World Organized by the ``Langue, Raisonnement, Calcul'' Group IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse ERSS, Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail CNRS URA 1399, URA 1033 Gascony (near Toulouse), France 23-28 June, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR PAPERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This workshop will be the fifth one in a series which began in 1989. Like previous editions, it aims at gathering researchers from a variety of fields around the themes of the semantics of Time, Space and Movement, in a castle in the middle of the beautiful landscape of Gascony. Unlike previous ones, though, next year's workshop will not gather only invited researchers, but will be open to participants submitting a contribution. Wishing to preserve the friendly and cheerful atmosphere that characterized the series, we will limit the number of participants to 50, and will achieve a balance between invited talks and submitted contributions. MOTIVATIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~ When natural language utterances are about sensible world, the computation of the spatial and spatio-temporal reference plays a major part in the construction of their formal representation. If the understanding of a discourse is the ability to infer adequate answers to questions about its informational content, the ability to deduce properties of the discourse objects (like their localisation, their structure or their shape) from the discourse representation, allows the cognitive validation of these representations. The most recent works in discourse theory (DRT, SDRT) clearly show the necessity to take into account, in addition to linguistic and pragmatic information, common knowledge about the universe of discourse. In its whole generality, the formal representation of this component of the meaning can very well be hopeless. We propose to focus the attention on a specific category of discourses, namely discourses which refer to the sensible world. In this case, common knowledge reflects the structure and the properties of mental representations of space, movement and time, these representations being available not only through the analysis of linguistic expressions but also through the analysis of different forms of reasoning and decision-taking associated with perception. TOPICS OF INTEREST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We propose to discuss the possible contributions of spatial and spatio-temporal knowledge representation and reasoning to discourse interpretation; as well as the possible contributions of the analysis of time, space and movement in language to the comprehension of the organization of the perceived objects, and to the identification of their cognitively relevant properties. Contributions are invited on substantial and original research on various aspects of time, space and movement, including, but not limited to, the following. A. Semantics of time, space and movement in natural language - Lexical semantics : from linguistic and conceptual description to formalisation - From lexicon to sentence and discourse: role of the spatial and spatio-temporal (S & ST) common-sense knowledge in discourse interpretation - Logics and deductive mechanisms: * for the computation of the S & ST reference * for the cognitive validation of discourse representations B. Knowledge representation and S & ST reasoning - Ontology of S & ST entities : philosophical analysis and formalisation - Mental representations of space, time and movement - Mathematics of the sensible world - Naive physics, qualitative S & ST reasoning - Logics and visual reasoning - Contributions to discourse representation C. Relations between language and perception - Imaginal and/or propositional structures of mental representations - From language to visual perception: from propositional to numerical structures (image synthesis) - From visual perception to language: from numerical to propositional structures (image interpretation) - Mathematical and logical problems of hybrid reasoning INVITED SPEAKERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nicholas Asher, Linguistics and Philosophy, Austin Patrick Blackburn, Logic and Computational Linguistics, Saarbruecken Mimo Caenepeel*, Linguistics, Edinburgh Anthony Cohn, Artificial Intelligence, Leeds John Etchemendy, Philosophy, Stanford Luis Farinas del Cerro, Logics and Computer Science, Toulouse Christian Freksa*, Cognitive Science, Hamburg Christopher Habel*, Cognitive Science, Hamburg Patrick Hayes*, Artificial Intelligence, Urbana Gerd Herzog, Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruecken Hans Kamp*, Linguistics and Philosophy, Stuttgart Manfred Krifka, Linguistics, Austin Carlota Smith, Linguistics, Austin Barbara Tversky*, Psychology, Stanford Claude Vandeloise, Linguistics, Baton-Rouge Achille Varzi, Philosophy, Trento Henk Verkuyl, Linguistics, Utrecht Co Vet, Linguistics, Groningen (*) to be confirmed PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chair : Mario Borillo, Artificial Intelligence, Toulouse Nicholas Asher, Linguistics and Philosophy, Austin Patrick Blackburn, Logics and Computational Linguistics, Saarbruecken Andree Borillo, Linguistics, Toulouse Anthony Cohn, Artificial Intelligence, Leeds John Etchemendy, Philosophy, Stanford Patrick Hayes, Artificial Intelligence, Urbana Carlota Smith, Linguistics, Austin Barbara Tversky, Psychology, Stanford Achille Varzi, Philosophy, Trento Co Vet, Linguistics, Groningen Laure Vieu, Artificial Intelligence, Toulouse FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submitted papers should be at most 12 pages in length and be produced in 12pt (default LaTeX article style is OK). Submissions should provide the affiliation, full postal address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address (if any) of the author(s). A few words stating the position of the paper with respect to the topics of interest would be useful, as well as a 100-200 word abstract. Electronic submission (plain ASCII, LaTeX, uuencoded PostScript, or BinHex Mac Word files) is recommended. They should be sent to tsm@irit.fr before 10 February 1995. Hard-copy submissions (4 copies) should reach the Programme Chair no late than 10 February 1995. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by 10 April, 1995, and final versions (camera-ready) will be due by 15 May, 1995. These will be compiled as Workshop Notes to be distributed to the participants. SCHEDULE ~~~~~~~~ Papers Submission............... 10 February, 1995 Notification of acceptance...... 10 April, 1995 Final version due............... 15 May, 1995 Workshop........................ 23-28 June, 1995 ORGANIZATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Organizing Committee: Pascal Amsili, IRIT Michel Aurnague, ERSS Andree Borillo, ERSS Mario Borillo, IRIT Myriam Bras-Grivart, IRIT Pierre Sablayrolles, IRIT Laure Vieu, IRIT Contact: TSM'95 c/o Mario Borillo IRIT - Universite Paul Sabatier 118, route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex FRANCE Tel: (+33) 61.55.60.91 Fax: (+33) 61.55.83.25 E-mail: tsm@irit.fr WWW: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_LRC/tsm95.html From: Mary Mallery Subject: 1994 MLA Sessions on E-Texts Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 10:42:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 255 (483) The following are sessions on electronic texts and related topics to be discussed at the 1994 Modern Language Association Convention, in San Diego, California from 27-30 December. The Session Numbers cited below correspond to the numbers listed in the November 1994 _PMLA_ Program for the 110th Convention. ELECTRONIC TEXTS, HYPERTEXTS, AND THE STUDY OF LITERATURE Session 7 (Tues., Dec. 27, 3:30-4:45PM, 8, San Diego Convention Center) Program arranged by the Association for Computers in the Humanities. Presiding: Joel D. Goldfield, Fairfield University. 1. "Is There a Class in this Text? Creating Knowledge in the Electronic Classroom, Part 2," John Slatin, U. of Texas, Austin 2. "Re-presenting Renaissance Dialectic in Hypertextual Poetic," Margaret Downs-Gamble, Virginia Tech 3. "The Author, the Law, and Technology in America," Catherine Taylor, Duke University. USING ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN CLASSES: ITS IMPACT ON PEDAGOGY AND STUDENTS Session 204 (Wed., Dec. 28, 10:15-11:30AM, San Diego Ballroom C, San Diego Marriott) Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research. Presiding: Joel D. Goldfield, Fairfield Univ. 1. "The Space of Literary Discourse: Using StorySpace in the Literature Classroom," Ed Madden, Univ. of South Carolina; Gregory VanHoosier-Carey, Univ. of Texas, Austin 2. "Video Films and Reading Comprehension: Getting Foreign Language Environments Hyper," Rosa Volpe, Vanderbilt Univ. 3. "Virtual Immersion: Internet Resources and Second Language Acquisition," Maurizio Oliva and Yvette Pollastrini, University of Utah From: "Suzanne M. Volpe" Subject: NEH Bulletin Board Service Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 14:44:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 256 (484) The National Endowment for the Humanities is proud to announce its stand alone electronic bulletin board service. Your subscribers will be interested to know that guidelines, applications, deadlines, recent grant list, and more are on the NEHBBS. The phone number for the BBS is 202/606-8688. It's available 24 hours daily. We can accommodate Baud rates ranging from 300 to 28,800. The modem settings are: Full duplex, no parity, 8-bit datalength, and 1 stop bit. You may want to set your terminal emulation for ANSI. The modems being used are Hayes Accura 288s V.FC. Please have your subscribers email me if they have any questions. Thank you for your assistance. From: Maurizio Oliva Subject: Gopher server on Internet resources in Italian Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 12:12:31 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 257 (485) ANNUNCIO: GOPHER SERVER SULLE RISORSE INTERNET IN ITALIANO # ANNOUNCEMENT: GOPHER SERVER ON INTERNET RESOURCES IN ITALIAN Il gopher server Italia e' situato nel Dipartimento di Lingue della University of Utah. Lo scopo e' quello di raccogliere e mettere a disposizione degli utenti Internet tutte le risorse in italiano che esistono in rete. Cosi' il menu' e' tutto in italiano a parte poche eccezioni. L'inglese e' la koine' di Internet tuttavia crediamo che ci sia ancora spazio e interesse per altre lingue e culture: noi, con questo gopher, intendiamo servire la comunita' italiana in rete. Abbiamo associato un accesso FTP anonymous al gopher server e invitiamo chiunque voglia condividere qualcosa di interessante e' invitato a metterlo su questo server. Suggerimenti per link a risorse in italiano sono benvenuti. # This Gopher server is located in the Department of Languages and Literature of the University of Utah. Its scope is to list and make readily available to Internet users all the existing resources in the Italian language. The menu is entirely in Italian and so are all the texts with only a few exceptions. English is the well established koine' of the Internet but we believe that there is still room and interest for other languages and cultures and we are determined to be of service to the Italian virtual community. An Anonymous FTP server has been associate with the gopher server, we encourage everybody to contribute to the building of Italia. Suggestions for links to Italian resources are welcome. Type=1 Name=Humanities (Italia) Path= Host=italia.hum.utah.edu Port=70 URL: gopher://italia.hum.utah.edu:70/1 Maurizio =---=-=====-=- Maurizio Oliva, Adjunct Instructor, U. of Utah, Dept. of Lang. and Lit. OSH 153, (801) W 581-4058, H 537-7016, FAX 581-7581, moliva@cc.utah.edu From: "Daniel P. Tompkins" Subject: H O T S Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 09:28:37 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 258 (486) Here is an acronym--for "higher order thinking skills"--that is getting more and more common. E.g. a Yankelovich survey shows that one reason business leaders claim to respect liberal arts training is that it helps inculcate these skills. I want to learn more about the concept of higher order skills. Is it linked with any particular contemporary writer, or is there some good source for information about it? Another nice demi-acronym that pops up and that I don't need info about: HUMINT, the term the CIA uses to describe humanly attained information--e.g. it was recently argued in congress that humint is far more useful than technologically attained data. Thanks, Dan Tompkins Dept. of Greek and Roman Classics Temple U. Pericles@astro.ocis.temple.edu From: "Daniel P. Tompkins" Subject: TA training Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 04:52:04 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 259 (487) For some institutional research I'm involved in, I would appreciate information (offlist) about how Teaching Assistants are trained and supervised at other universities. The particular topics I would like to learn about are: 1. When in their graduate careers do Teaching Assistants begin teaching their own classes (i.e. not running sections of a professor's course)? 2. What sorts of training do other departments or universities provide for Teaching Assistants? 3. How is their teaching monitored? 4. What stipends (per annum) are provided? 5. What is the course load? 6. Can you refer me to an administrator at your institution or department who's particularly involved with these activities? 7. Can you refer me to any good local or national research on the use of Teaching Assistants? I'm involved on a committee reviewing use of TA's at Temple. We've completed our research here, but I'm interested in learning what I can about practices elsewhere. So I'd appreciate any information folks can send me. Thanks, Dan Tompkins Temple University Pericles@astro.ocis.temple.edu From: smurthwai%uhavax.dnet@ipgate.hartford.edu Subject: Q: Lists dedicated to opera; catholic church Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 15:29:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 260 (488) A student of mine is interested in learning what discussion lists exist that deal with Opera and (not together!) the Catholic Church. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, ********************************************************* John Smurthwaite, Ph.D. University of Hartford smurthwai@hartford.bitnet International Languages smurthwai@uhavax.hartford.edu and Cultures Phone:(203) 768-4317 200 Bloomfield Ave. Home: (203) 726-9538 West Hartford, CT 06117 ********************************************************** From: Dolors Folch Subject: None Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 14:07:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 261 (489) I'm the dean of the Faculty of Humanities of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Our undergraduate courses are interdisciplinary in the field of humanities. We'll have our first graduates in June 1996 and they are going to work in a world which can provide an enormous amount of information - through Internet, CDRoms, etc - which the faculty courses don't enable them to use. So, we are thinking of starting a graduate course of computing, adapted to the needs of humanists, and of internet facilities, which gives them access to the kind of documentary information that a humanist will need to master in the very near future. We don't want a strictly technical course, rather one specially oriented to people who have already a general education in humanities and want to get skills in new technologies and internet services in order to develop their cultural capacities. I think that many other universities will have started this kind of postgraduate courses already and I'ld like to benefit from their experience in the field. I'ld like to get in touch with anyone who has planned and done one of those courses. Thank you Dolors Folch folch@upf.es From: F.Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.D400.DE Subject: Old French E-Text wanted Date: Fri, 4 Nov 94 15:01+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 262 (490) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A colleague of mine is looking for an electronic version of: Anonymous, Le Roman de Thebes. She would be grateful for any info. Fritz Heberlein From: lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it (maurizio lana) Subject: address for lost (?) lists Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 00:46:34 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 263 (491) I wonder where the lists Classics and Contex did go. I tried to subscribe to them but got error messages, and a search with =ABli= st global /classic=BB or =AB/contex=BB retrieved nothing. Any help? Please, if possible, CC: your answer directly to me. Many many thanks to anyone. Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI Universita'di Torino Via S. Ottavio 20, Torino - Italy fax 39 11 8991648 From: Barbara Diederichs Subject: Query: Cluster Analysis Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 11:55:11 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 264 (492) Please post on Humanist: Does anybody here have experience with Cluster Analysis? I am working on a paper about "Kafka, Propp and Statistics"--the question whether narrative functions are stylistically marked in Kafka's stories. I analysed repetition rates of phonemes and words, alliterations and assonances, word and sentence length statistics etc. for each paragraph in three Kafka stories and wanted to see whether paragraphs that represent the same function cluster together. Working with "MacDendro", I experimented with different methods to compute distances and hierarchies, and the results were quite diverging. In fact, I could find a tree for pretty much any point I could want to make. To do that and just pick the one I like would certainly not be very 'scientific'. The other solution I can see would be to discard the whole analysis because the results are too inconsistent, but for some reason I am resisting that. Is this a common problem with Cluster Analysis? Thanks! Barbara Diederichs. From: Hanna Kahana Subject: Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 07:55:07 +0200 (WET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 265 (493) Subject: A friend of mine asked me to try and find out for her where in Israel manuscripts of Kafka are to be found. Could anybody help me? thanks. From: "Gunther Gottschalk" Subject: Baudelaire title Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 13:01:18 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 266 (494) Would some kind soul please give me the meaning of "HEAUTONTIMOROUMENOS" from the Flowers of Evil? Please send me the information directly unless you think it might be of interest to the list. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gunther Gottschalk Phelps Hall 6219 Germanic,Slavic,Semitic Studies Office Phone/Fax: (805) 893-7627 UC Santa Barbara, CAL 93106-4130 Email:gs01gott@humanitas.ucsb.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "ian steadman, johannesburg" <130DEA%WITSVMB@witsvma.wits.ac.za> Subject: Conference on theatre and performing arts, 1996 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 94 16:09:58 RSA X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 267 (495) Would appreciate receiving contact addresses or other information on conference s in the USA during 1996 in the field of theatre and performing arts. Send to me at 130dea@witsvmb.wits.ac.za From: DMANLEY@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU Subject: Wagner and Nietzsche Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 23:43:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 268 (496) I am currently beginning a close reading of Nietzsche's text: The Case of Wagner.A question which has arisen in this project is how Nietzsche's criticisms of Wagner were initially received by both academia and the public. It would be most helpful to have suggestions as to where this information or associated bibliographies might be located. I would appreciate any response to this question. David B. Manley From: CLopresti Subject: Query-Thinking as translation Date: Sat, 05 Nov 94 12:56:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 269 (497) Forgive the glib subject heading. I am researching, in historical perspective, key studies to date on: 1) contrastive analysis (within and beyond the confines of modern theoretical & contrastive linguistics); 2) language transfer (including the influence of native language on interpretation, transmission & reception of ideas, etc. originating in another [written or spoken] language); 3) varieties of interpretations (&/or applications) of 1) & 2) above; 4) other, not necessarily theoretical, approaches relating to notions 1) and 2) above. Any suggestions, recommended references, information on related studies, insight, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. -- Cora Lopresti, CUNY/Hunter, New York, NY (COLHC@CUNYVM or COLHC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU). From: Bernhard Kelle Subject: eating at humanist-hall Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 11:01:01 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 270 (498) Dear colleagues, acedemic life doesn't solely consist of wisdom and literacy: employees of a 28.000 students-university like the University of Freiburg have to eat and up to now therefore had the possibility to eat in a staff-room of the humanities-hall. This hall feeds 6000 students every day but it was built for 3000 only. So the management had the idea that the staff-room should be opened for students too and all the employees are now forced to queue up for half an hour or stay hungry. We are arguing with the management about this matter and I'd like to hear of you how the employees situation is in your part of the academic world. Have you got a hall? Is there a separate staff-room? Do you have to queue up and how much time does it take? Can you choose between several meals and vegetables? What's the average price? Next week we have a hearing and i'd like to tell them what's the minimal worldwide standard in this point - please send me your answers directly: KELLE@SUN1.RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DE Thank you for your help! B. Kelle -- Dr. Bernhard Kelle Universitaet Freiburg, Deutsches Seminar I, 79085 FREIBURG Tel. 0761/203-3265, Fax 0761/203-2006 From: Kathleen Margaret Lant Subject: Positions Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 08:35:32 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 315 (499) ETHNIC STUDIES, CAL POLY UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA POSITION: Assistant or Associate Profesor, tenure-track, Ethnic Studies (recruitment #53012). Beginning Sept. 1995. Rank and salary contingent on qualifications and experience. Concentrations in Asian-American Studies. Successful candidate should show strong commitment to teaching and scholarship. Duties include teaching (normal load, 12 hours per quarter), scholarship, curriculum development, advising, and committee service. Assigned time possible for research and course preparation and development. QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies or comparable interdisciplinary program. University teaching experience and evidence of some publishing record expected. Course work in Asian-American Studies, aspects of gender analysis, and other interdisciplinary approaches preferred. HOW TO APPLY: Interested applicants are requested to send the following information: 1) A letter of Application (reference recruitment #53012) 2) A Curriculum Vita 3) An Example of Recent Scholarship 4) Three (3) Letters of Recommendation SEND TO: Dr. Zaf Iqbal, Chair Ethnic Studies Search Committee Ethnic Studies Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 (805) 756-1707 CLOSING DATE: 12/15/94 DEPARTMENT: Ethnic Studies at Cal Poly is a developing program with new departmental status. At present the department offers a minor in Ethnic Studies. It is a university-wide program which seeks to offer courses and develop curricula for the interdisciplinary study of ethnicity, culture, and technology as they relate to the areas of study of the six colleges of the university: Agriculture, Architecture, Business, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Science and Math, as well as the Center for Teacher Education. ******************************************************************** ETHNIC STUDIES, CAL POLY UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA POSITION: Assistant or Associate Profesor, tenure-track, Ethnic Studies (recruitment #53011). Beginning Sept. 1995. Rank and salary contingent on qualifications and experience. Concentrations in Chicano/Chicana, Mexican-American, and/or Latino/Latina Studies. Successful candidate should show strong commitment to teaching and scholarship. Duties include teaching (normal load, 12 hours per quarter), scholarship, curriculum development, advising, and committee service. Assigned time possible for research and course preparation and development. QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies or comparable interdisciplinary program. University teaching experience and evidence of some publishing record expected. Course work in Chicano/Chicana, Mexican-American, and/or Latino/Latina Studies, aspects of gender analysis, and other interdisciplinary approaches preferred. HOW TO APPLY: Interested applicants are requested to send the following information: 1) A letter of Application (reference recruitment #53011) 2) A Curriculum Vita 3) An Example of Recent Scholarship 4) Three (3) Letters of Recommendation SEND TO: Dr. Zaf Iqbal, Chair Ethnic Studies Search Committee Ethnic Studies Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 (805) 756-1707 CLOSING DATE: 12/15/94 DEPARTMENT: Ethnic Studies at Cal Poly is a developing program with new departmental status. At present the department offers a minor in Ethnic Studies. It is a university-wide program which seeks to offer courses and develop curricula for the interdisciplinary study of ethnicity, culture, and technology as they relate to the areas of study of the six colleges of the university: Agriculture, Architecture, Business, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Science and Math, as well as the Center for Teacher Education. From: "John R. Porter" Subject: The Classical Tradition in English Literature Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 11:37:36 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 316 (500) There is increasing concern among Classicists these days regarding the future of our discipline. In an attempt to build some bridges the Department of Classics here at the University of Saskatchewan has proposed a joint undergraduate major in Classics and English, a four year degree in "The Classical Tradition in English Literature", with a minimum requirement of 30 credit units (5 full-year courses) in each discipline, including at least one senior special studies course devoted to the student's particular field or author of specialization. The design of such a major is a tricky matter since it requires accommodating students whose interests (on the English side) range from Beowulf to 20th century literature. Our fundamental difficulty, however, concerns the potential worth of such a major beyond general edification or as a useful degree for potential public school teachers (both of which deserve to be taken seriously). The average student who was a product of such a program probably would not have sufficient grounding in the languages to enter a graduate program in Classics. How would such a student be likely to fare in applying to graduate programs in English or Comparative Literature? (I.e., would they be spread too thinly? We assume, of course, as with any major that those who are more serious would go beyond the minimum requirements. On the other hand, the program is unlikely to attract students if too many additional courses are required for them to proceed to graduate studies.) Is such a program intellectually sound in the first place (given the limited amount of language and the fact that it does not address other influences on the English tradition)? If intellectually sound, is it simply too out of tune with the temper of our times (the DWEM factor): i.e., would it be a help or a hindrance in applying for grad studies? Finally, if the program is thought to be viable, do others on the list have advice regarding its design? We are assuming that a fair proportion of students who opted for this program would be serious about continuing beyond the undergraduate level. It is important, therefore, that we make some attempt to insure that we are not leading them down a blind alley. I would appreciate any and all responses (positive and negative) off list and will be happy to report on the results if others on the list are interested. John Porter Dept. of Classics Univ. of Saskatchewan porterj@herald.usask.ca From: phil-preprints-admin@phil-preprints.L.chiba-u.ac.jp Subject: News from the IPPE (04 Nov 94) Date: Wed, 09 Nov 94 20:10:03 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 317 (501) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= N e w s f r o m t h e I P P E -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 6 Nov 1994 ----------------------------------- World Wide Web access now available ----------------------------------- Access to the preprints and all other materials in the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange's collection, including the abstracts and tables of contents of an increasing number of philosophical journals, is now available via Mosaic and the World Wide Web. Our WWW server is still under development and is changing rapidly, and at the moment there are still several rough spots, but access to all the IPPE materials is in place. Due to the rich interface provided by the Web, browsing the IPPE via Mosaic (or any other Web browser) is now the preferred access method. Mosaic and other Web browsers allow easy access to the multiple formats in which the IPPE stores each paper, allowing users to as easily browse an abstract or an ASCII version of a paper online as to download or print a fully-formatted version. In addition, we have provided navigation aids such as a colorful graphical map of the IPPE (not to mention the attractive new graphical IPPE logo). In addition, much of the IPPE's structure, and many of our informational documents, are being redesigned to take full advantage of the hypertext capabilities of the Web. Expect further announcements soon. 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From: E303GT@tamvm1.tamu.edu Subject: HIV Conference Date: Thu, 10 Nov 94 12:27:19 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 318 (502) Reversing the Trend: Strategies for HIV Prevention Among Minority Women April 6-7, 1995 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute at Texas A&M University and Brazos Valley Community Action Agency are pleased to announce a two day conference entitled "Reversing the Trend: Strategies for HIV Prevention Among Minority Women." We invite researchers in the Behavioral & Medical Science, practitioners, educators, and community members to join us us in the development of these strategies. Funding and technical assistant for this conference has been provided for by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). PRIMARY GOALS: * Increase undestanding of the cultural, socio-economic, and psycho-social barriers to HIV prevention among minority women. * Facilite the development of research-informed HIV prevention strategies through directed discussion between researchers and practitioners. * Enable community providers to complete and implement population-specific prevention strategies. CALL FOR PAPERS PROPOSALS: The format for this conference will include a series of panels addressing the major barriers to effective HIV prevention followed by interactive prevention planning workshops. A brief sample of panelist discussion may include: * Cultural,Psycho-social,Socio-economic and Gender Barriers/Strategies * HIV and childbearing. * The role of gangs in HIV transmission. * Adolescent development and HIV prevention education. * Reframing the language and images of Machismo. * Trust and communication in the African American Community. * Women in the sex industry. * The political challenges to effective HIV prevention. * Sexual Abuse, Self-Steem & HIV * Prevention project or research for migrants, the Border population (US-Mexico), rural, handicapped, adolescents, & runaway. We invite submissions for presentations on these topics. If interested, please provide us with ONE-PAGE, typed, double-spaced proposals for papers that will be presented during the panel sessions. Please include TWO copies of your proposal. One copy should include your name, address, phone number, fax, e-mail address, and any audio-visual equipment needs. The second copy should not contain any identifying information. The deadline for receipt proposals is December 2, 1994. Please send to: Attn: S. Griswold, Conference Coordinator BVCAA: Health 401 S. Washington Bryan, TX 77803 Phone: 409/ 260-AIDS Fax: 409/ 775-3475 E-mail: k211nl@tamvm1.tamu.edu. WHEN: April 6-7, 1995. WHERE: Rudder Tower, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. WHO: Researchers in the Medical & Behavioral Sciences,Hospitals/clinic Health Research Centers, social workers, physicians,administrator pharmacists,community representatives,outreach workers, educators counselors,, mental health providers, and clergy. COST: Before March 1, 1995 $40.00, after $60.00 late registration. REGISTRATION PACKAGE AVAILABLE AFTER DECEMBER 15, 1994. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT: S. Griswold, Conference Coordinator BVCAA: Health 401 S. Washington St. Bryan, TX 77803 phone: (409) 260-AIDS e-mail: k211nl@tamvm1.tamu.edu. From: Joseph Galron Subject: Workshop on Thesaurus Design Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 00:39:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 319 (503) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= St. John's to Offer Workshop on Thesaurus Design in New York City New York, N.Y. (Oct. 14, 1994)-- "Thesaurus Design for Information Systems" is the theme of a Professional Development Seminar to be taught by Dr. Bella Hass Weinberg, Professor, Division of Library and Information Science, St. John's University, On Friday, May 12, 1995, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Sixty East Club, 60 East 42nd St., New York City (the Lincoln Building, opposite Grand Central Station, 27th floor). The fee for the Seminar is $110, including lunch, coffee breaks, and handouts. There will be discounts for preregistration and students. The seminar will introduce the design of controlled vocabularies, covering concepts of formulation of descriptors, term relationships, thesaurus format, and screen display. Computer-assisted techniques of thesaurus development will also be discussed. Continuing Education Units (.6 CEU) will be available to those attending. Information scientists, librarians, and indexers should benefit from the seminar. Dr. Weinberg chaired the committee of the National Information Standards Organization that developed the revised American National Standard on thesaurus construction. She is a Past President of the American Society of Indexers, and is active in the American Society for Information Science. Prof. Weinberg teaches graduate courses in Information Science as well as Indexing and Abstracting at St. John's, and consults on the design of indexes and thesauri. She has done research on thesaurus structure under a grant from the National Science Foundation and has published extensively on linguistics and information science. For further information, contact: James A. Benson, Director Division of Library and Information Science St. John's University Jamaica, NY 11439 Phone: (718) 990-6200; Fax (718) 380-0353 From: fbrody@pop.tuwien.ac.at (Florian Brody) Subject: Re: 8.0301 R: The Future of Humanities and Arts (1/48) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 08:49:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 271 (504) Thx for the info in regarding the robot arm at USC - please include the URL when refering to places in the net - makes life much easier when checking it out. thx ------------------------------------------------------------------- Florian Brody New Media Consulting Lerchenfelderstrasse 63 Tel: +43 1 526 43 03 A-1070 Vienna, Austria Fax: +43 1 526 04 69 FBRODY@POP.TUWIEN.AC.AT ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 8.0301 R: The Future of Humanities and Arts (1/48) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 11:33 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 272 (505) It is all very exciting and fascinating, virtual teaching, etc. Will it be help ful in teaching medical students how to dissect a corpse? Fingertips experienc e, "spitzengefuehl," seems fundamental. I would hope that all initiates be aske d to ponder Heidegger's late essays on Poetry, and Technology, in which he reac ted after WWII to technology, which 30 years earlier, Freud had welcomed. H ask ed,"We can come nearer (via technology, to matter; x-rays, spectrascopy, tom-co res, etc), but do we approach any closer? It is a basic problem of philosophy, first examined extensively in Plato's SOPHIST. It wont go away because we hav e surrogate senses, which others prepare for us, mind you, and are different fr om our senses, which require group discipline to correct, too. Jascha Kessler From: Bernhard Schroeder Subject: Annual conference of the GLDV Date: Tue, 22 Nov 94 12:46:31 MEZ X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 321 (506) Could you please redistribute the following conference announcement. Thank you very much! Sincerely, Bernhard Schroeder 9. GLDV Jahrestagung 1995 30. - 31. 3. 1995 Universitaet Regensburg Aufruf zur Teilnahme Die GLDV wurde vor genau zwanzig Jahren unter dem Namen ldv-fittings gegruendet. Die Ziele des Vereins waren damals die Foerderung der Linguistischen Datenverarbeitung v.a. durch den Austausch von EDV-know-how und Programmen. Mit der Etablierung der Computerlinguistik als Wissenschaftsgebiet wurde die GLDV zum Fachverband der Computerlinguisten. Jubilaen sollten auch dazu dienen, sich kritisch damit auseinanderzusetzen, ob die bei der Gruendung des Vereins gesteckten Ziele sinnvoll waren, ob und wie sie erreicht wurden und wie weit eine Revision notwendig und wuenschenswert ist. Im Rahmen einer Podiumsdiskussion mit Gruendungsmitgliedern sollen dieser kritische Rueckblick diskutiert und Perspektiven furr die zukuenftige Arbeit entwickelt werden. Ein zweiter Schwerpunkt der Tagung soll auf die Angewandte Computerlinguistik gelegt werden. Dabei geht es um die Bedeutung, die NLP-Systeme im Kontext graphischer und multimedialer Anwendungen haben koennen. Beispiele dafuer sind neuere Entwicklungen im Information Retrieval incl. Hypertext, Hilfesysteme, Anwendungsperspektiven von NLP-Systemen, Evaluierung u.ae. Diese Thematik wird in vier Sektionen vertieft werden: Sektion: Fuzzy Linguistik (Organisation: Ch. Womser-Hacker) Sektion: gesprochene Sprache v.a. Anwendungen und Oberflaechen (Organisation: E. Noeth) Sektion: NLP - Anwendungen (Organisation: G. Thurmair) Sektion: Grammatik und Implementation (Organisation: R. Hausser) Zeitplan: September 94 Call for Papers 14. Jan. 95 Deadline: Einreichen von extended abstracts 7. Feb. 95 Benachrichtigung ueber Annahme der Vortraege 30.-31.Maerz 95 Tagung in Regensburg 8. April 95 Abgabe der druckfertigen Fassung der Beitraege fuer den Tagungsband. Der Tagungsband erscheint nach der Tagung im Verlag Georg Olms. Programmkomitee: Haller (Saarbruecken) Hausser (Erlangen) Heyer (Leipzig) Hitzenberger (Regensburg) Krause (Regensburg) Lenders (Bonn) Lutz (Koblenz) Puetz (Kiel) Seewald (Hannover) Thurmair (Muenchen) Organisationskomitee: J. Krause L. Hitzenberger Ch. Womser-Hacker Tagungsort: Universituet Regensburg Inst. fuer Allg. und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft FG: Informationswissenschaft Auskuenfte: L. Hitzenberger Universitaet Regensburg Phil. Fak. IV Universitstsstrasse 31 93040 Regensburg e-mail: Ludwig.Hitzenberger@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de Tel.: 0941/943-4195 Fax: 0941/943-3585 URL: http://rsls8.sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de/gldv.html From: rjbeun@prl.philips.nl Subject: CMC/95 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 94 11:09:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 322 (507) PLEASE POST AND FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO YOUR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES. Thank you. ----------------------------------------------------- CMC/95 International Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication, Theory and Applications ********* Sponsored by the Universities of Brabant Joint Research Organization (SOBU) Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 24-26 May 1995 ********* FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS ********* The Eindhoven University of Technology, in collaboration with the Institute for Perception Research in Eindhoven and the Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Tilburg, will host an international conference on the theory and applications of COOPERATIVE MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION to take place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 24-26 May 1995. The aim of the conference is to bring together scientists involved in research concerning the design, implementation, and application of forms of cooperative human-computer communication where natural language (typed or spoken) is used in combination with other modalities, such as visual feedback and direct manipulation. TOPICS OF INTEREST ********* The conference will focus on formal, computational, and user aspects of building cooperative multimodal dialogue systems. Papers are sought in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following topics: * cooperativity in multimodal dialogue * natural language semantics in a multimodal context * formal and computational models of dialogue context * incremental knowledge representation and dialogue * interacting with visual domain representations * collaborative problem solving * constraint-based approaches to animation and visual modelling * effective use of different interactive modalities * modelling temporal aspects of multimodal communication * type theory and natural language interpretation * knowledge sharing technologies All submitted papers will be refereed by an international programme committee. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ********* Authors are asked to submit an extended abstract of their paper of minimally 4 and maximally 7 pages, including references and keywords, by December 15, 1994. Only electronical submission will be possible. Submitted extended abstracts should be emailed to denk@kub.nl; they should preferably be in standard LaTeX format. If, for whatever reason, electronic submission is not possible, please contact the organization committee secretariat (phone +31-13.66.23.80, fax +13 - 13.66.29.48). IMPORTANT DATES ********* Submission of extended abstracts 15 December, 1994 Notification of acceptance 1 February, 1995 Final papers due 15 March, 1995 ORGANIZATION ********** Programme Committee: Harry Bunt (ITK, Tilburg) (chair) Norman Badler (UPenn, Philadelphia) Jeroen Groenendijk (UvA, Amsterdam) Walther von Hahn (Hamburg) Dieter Huber (Mainz) Hans Kamp (Stuttgart) John Lee (EdCAAD, Edinburgh) Joseph Mariani (LIMSI, Paris) Mark Maybury (MITRE, Bedford) Paul McKevitt (University of Sheffield) Rob Nederpelt (TUE, Eindhoven) Kees van Overveld (TUE, Eindhoven) Ray Perrault (Stanford) Donia Scott (Brighton) Wolfgang Wahlster (Saarbruecken) Bonnie Webber (UPenn, Philadelphia) Kent Wittenburg (Bellcore) Organization Committee: Robbert-Jan Beun (chair) Tijn Borghuis Harry Bunt Rob Nederpelt Marianne Wagemans FURTHER INFORMATION ********** CMC/95 is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in 1995, week 21. These dates have been chosen in view of the fact that two other, somewhat related conferences will take place elsewhere in Europe between Monday, May 29 and Saturday, June 3; one in Montpellier, France (on virtual reality and human-computer interaction), and one in Hanstholm, Denmark (on spoken dialogue systems). It will thus be possible to combine participation in CMC/95 with that of (one of) the other conferences. The participation fee for CMC/95 is expected to be around Dfl 250, or $ 150. Registration information will be provided in the forthcoming Call for Participation. Further information: For questions concerning the scientific content: Harry Bunt ITK Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg Phone +31 - 13.66.30.60, fax +31-13.66.25.37 email: Harry.Bunt@kub.nl For questions concerning the organization: Robbert-Jan Beun IPO P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven Phone +31 - 40.77.38.73, fax +31 - 40.77.38.76 email: rjbeun@prl.philips.nl For general questions: SOBU Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg Phone +31-13.66.23.80, fax +13 - 13.66.29.48. email: denk@kub.nl From: "Gina L. Greco" Subject: Date: Sat, 19 Nov 94 10:41:39 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 273 (508) A colleague has asked me to post the following query: Where does Michelet write about Ronsard's deafness? Thank you in advance, Gina Greco From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: myth-criticism Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 08:23:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 274 (509) A colleague in France without the ability to connect to Humanist has asked me to pose the following question: [deleted quotation]european >languages or even chinese, japanese, arabic, etc. [deleted quotation] I will forward replies to him. WM Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: Lalita Subject: Research in literary text translation Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 09:46:17 +0800 (MYT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 275 (510) [deleted quotation]want to [deleted quotation] Any suggestions/ideas would be most welcome. Thank you. Lalita Sinha Computer Aided Translation Unit Universiti Sains Malaysia Penang, Malaysia From: Yorick Wilks Subject: Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 16:50:28 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 324 (511) ************************************************ * University of Sheffield * * Department of Computer Science * ************************************************ RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING The department seeks to recruit a postgraduate student to start in January 1995 in the area of natural language processing, preferably in lexicon construction, or computational pragmatics or semantics. Candidates should have a good honours degree in a relevant discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), and preferably some NLP experience. The award is for three years and is at the standard rate (just under 5K pounds a year) but there may be opportunities for additional income within the university's regulations on graduate student employment. A brochure on the work of the NLP group can be obtained from liz@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk. Enquiries and applications should be addressed to: Professor Yorick Wilks, Director of Research, phone +44(0)114-282 5563, email yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk From: Yorick Wilks Subject: Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 16:32:01 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 325 (512) ************************************************ * University of Sheffield * * Department of Computer Science * * RESEARCH IN COMPUTER SCIENCE * ************************************************ The department seeks to recruit postgraduate students to start in September 1995 in its principal areas of research. Successful applicants will work towards an M.Phil or Ph.D within research teams working in the following areas: Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks Natural Language Processing, Knowledge and belief representation, Computer Graphics, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Computer Argumentation, Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction, Robotics, Connectionist Natural language processing, Neural Nets: Theory, analysis and applications. Speech and Hearing Computational Models of Hearing, Speech Technology. Formal Methods and Software Engineering Theory of Computer Science, Software and systems engineering, Communication Networks, Object-Oriented Programming. Parallel Systems Safety Critical Systems, Parallel Databases, CASE Tools for Parallel Systems, Neural Networks and Parallel Hardware, Transport management systems. There will be some scholarships available: EPRSC studentships and Sheffield University Research Bursaries. Candidates for admission and for these awards should have a good honours degree in a relevant discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), or should attain such a degree by October 1995. EPSRC awards are available only to EU citizens. Application forms and further particulars are available from The Graduate Secretary, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP, England. Email: d.daly@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk Informal enquiries may be addressed to: Dr. P.D. Green, Director of Research Admissions, phone (0)114-282 5578, email p.green@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk, or Prof Yorick Wilks, Director of Research, phone (0)114-282 5563, email yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: Re: 8.0320 Rs: The Future of Humanities and Arts (2/34) Date: 17 Nov 1994 20:45:13 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 276 (513) Self-interest aside, I propose that the flaw in the vision of teaching long distance across fiber optics, large screen graphics displays, exotic software + multi-media is that it is merely an extension of capitalist commodification of culture and consciousness. It removes students from the immediacy of learning by substituting dazzling technology for a human being. It will not make students more fulfilled; in fact it will only add to their alienation, because they will discover one more empty place in their experience, that the automobile, air conditioning and tv have already evacuated; students need to interact with other humans, not machines or impressive technical displays, because only a human can communicate to them the pain, tension, frustrations and joys of exploring one's existence, of aiding students in embarking on the journey to discover their true self. I may be pensioned off early, or just told to leave the building as some have been told in the business world, but I will take my humanity with me, and no set of machines, software or empty-headed MBAs in the administration buildings can duplicate it authentically; I take the education with me, and one day, I hope, we can rid our schools, colleges and universities of the money-makers, heroes, semi-professional sports programs, expensive pointless research labs, and other distractions, and come back to our basic task of learning - and it will be human to human. James McSwain From: Subject: Re: The future of Humanities Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 19:28:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 277 (514) The URL for the USC site is http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/story/index.html You need to pass a test to get an "account" to actually use the robot. But if you read the introduction to the system, you'll have all the information you need. Hope you enjoy your turn on the arm. Regards, Stephen Stephen Naoyuki Matsuba Is't real that I see? Graduate Programme in English --William Shakespeare York University 4700 Keele Street North York, Ontario CANADA M3J 1P3 bitnet: engl5105@nexus.yorku.ca From: Eric Johnson Subject: Call for Articles Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 05:36:11 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 327 (515) TEXT Technology The Journal of Computer Text Processing With volume 5 (1995), _TEXT Technology_ will continue to publish articles and reviews about all facets of using computers for the creation, processing, communication, and analysis of texts. It is designed for academic and corporate researchers, writers, editors, and teachers. Each of the quarterly issues of the printed journal has about eighty 7-by-9-inch pages and perfect binding. Submissions of articles and reviews are welcome. MLA style should be followed. Writers of book or software reviews are encouraged to contact the Editor before submitting reviews. Manuscripts (in the form of ASCII files) and inquiries should be sent by email to the Editor at JohnsonE@columbia.dsu.edu Writers will normally receive notices about acceptance and referees' comments promptly via email. There are no page charges. Recent issues of the quarterly journal have contained articles about text analysis, examination of the novels of Jane Austen, collation of variant texts, programming in Icon and SPITBOL-386, teaching writing using computers, as well as a directory of electronic text centers. Reviews have been published of bibliography and translation software, of Framemaker and of five new word processors including WordPerfect for DOS, for Windows, and for the Macintosh. Plans for future issues of _TEXT Technology_ include articles on text encoding (SGML and the TEI) and reviews of writing software and of Microsoft Word for Windows and for the Macintosh. To receive subscription details and information about the price of the printed journal, send an email message to LangnerS@columbia.dsu.edu From: Mary Mallery Subject: Sessions on E-Texts at the '94 MLA Conference Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 10:43:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 328 (516) For those of you who have asked, here is the list of MLA Sessions on Electronic Texts, which was originally posted to the ETEXTCTR list. Thanks to Joel Goldfield for the additions! ***** The following are sessions on electronic texts and related topics to be discussed at the 1994 Modern Language Association Convention, in San Diego, California from 27-30 December. The Session Numbers cited below correspond to the numbers listed in the November 1994 _PMLA_ Program for the 110th Convention. ELECTRONIC TEXTS, HYPERTEXTS, AND THE STUDY OF LITERATURE Session 7 (Tues., Dec. 27, 3:30-4:45PM, 8, San Diego Convention Center) Program arranged by the Association for Computers in the Humanities. Presiding: Joel D. Goldfield, Fairfield University. 1. "Is There a Class in this Text? Creating Knowledge in the Electronic Classroom, Part 2," John Slatin, U. of Texas, Austin 2. "Re-presenting Renaissance Dialectic in Hypertextual Poetic," Margaret Downs-Gamble, Virginia Tech 3. "The Author, the Law, and Technology in America," Catherine Taylor, Duke University HYPERTEXT AND THE RHETORICAL CONTRACT Session 12 (Tues., Dec. 27, 3:30-4:45PM, 6C, San Diego Convention Center) Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. 1. "Text/Hypertext and the Myths of Reading and Writing," Jonathan L. Price, Univ. of New Mexico; Scott P. Sanders, Univ. of New Mexico 2. "Hypertext: Redefining the Reader," Nancy L. Bayer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. 3. "Links as Sources of Narrative Sequence in Technical Communication Hypertexts," Henrietta Nickels Shirk, Boise State Univ. 4. "Worldwide Web and the Virtual Document: A New Rhetorical Contract," William Dennis Horn, Clarkson Univ. AN OPEN FORUM: EVALUATING COMPUTER-RELATED WORK FOR RETENTION, TENURE, AND PROMOTION Session 111 (Tues., Dec. 27, 7:00-8:15PM, Manchester Room, San Diego Marriott) Programs arranged by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research Alternative Educational Environments. Presiding: James J. Sosnoski, Miami Univ., Oxford An open discussion at which committee members will seek feedback to draft guidelines dealing with the evaluation of computer-related work during hiring and promotion decisions. For copies of draft guidelines, send an electronic request to elaine_brennan@brown.edu USING ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN CLASSES: ITS IMPACT ON PEDAGOGY AND STUDENTS Session 204 (Wed., Dec. 28, 10:15-11:30AM, San Diego Ballroom C, San Diego Marriott) Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research. Presiding: Joel D. Goldfield, Fairfield Univ. 1. "The Space of Literary Discourse: Using StorySpace in the Literature Classroom," Ed Madden, Univ. of South Carolina; Gregory VanHoosier-Carey, Univ. of Texas, Austin 2. "Video Films and Reading Comprehension: Getting Foreign Language Environments Hyper," Rosa Volpe, Vanderbilt Univ. 3. "Virtual Immersion: Internet Resources and Second Language Acquisition," Maurizio Oliva and Yvette Pollastrini, University of Utah THE IMPORTANCE AND CHALLENGE OF PRESERVING RESEARCH MATERIALS IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORMS Session 254 (Wed., Dec. 28, 1:45-3:30PM, 6E&F, San Diego Convention Center) A forum. Presiding: G. Thomas Tanselle, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1. "The Importance of Physical Evidence," G. Thomas Tanselle 2. "Searching for Glimpses of the Post-Electronic Age: Texts, Technophoria, and the Gee-Whiz Factor," Paul Mosher, Univ. of Pennsylvania 3. "What Use Are Books in an Electronic Age," J. Hillis Miller, Univ. of California, Irvine 4. "Part Two: Object Lessons," Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. 5. "Digitally Seeking Shakespeare; or, Why We Still Need Card Catalogs," Peter Donaldson, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. and more talks on Archives, etc. For coordinated workshops, see Session 459 (Thurs., Dec. 29: "Teaching in the Library: A Workshop on Using Primary Matierals in the Classroom") and 499 (Thurs., Dec. 29: "Draft MLA Statement on the Preservation of Research Materials in Their Original Form"). PLAGIARISM 2000: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON OLD PROBLEMS Session 316 (Wed., Dec. 28, 3:30-4:45PM, Coronado Room, San Diego Marriott) A special session; Session Leader: David Gewanter, Harvard Univ. 1. "Plagiarism and Postmodern Appropriation," Marilyn Randall, Univ. of Western Ontario 2. "Intellectual Property in Technoculture: Retro Texts and Positive Plagiarism," Cynthia Haynes-Burton, Univ. of Texas, Arlington 3. "Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement: Bad Borrowings Between Academia and the Law," Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve Univ.; Peter Jaszi, American Univ., Washington Coll. of Law VIRGINIA WOOLF IN THE AGE OF COMPUTERS AND MICROFORM Session 327 (Wed., Dec. 28, 3:30-4:45PM, 4, San Diego Convention Center) Program arranged by the Virginia Woolf Society. Presiding: James M. Haule, Univ. of Texxas, Pan American 1. "A Bloomsbury Multimedia Hypertext," Joan Benson, Univ. of Iowa; Laurie Dickinson, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities 2. "Computer Collation and Censorship Issues in _Roger Fry_," Diane F. Gillespie, Washington State Univ., Pullman 3. "The Virginia Woolf Manuscripts on Microfilm," Lorie Freed, Research Publications Inernational 4. "Arts Computing," Phil Smith, Jr., Univ. of Waterloo 5. "_Roger Fry_: Biography and Bibliography in the Age of Microfilm," Panthea Reid Broughton, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge GERMANIC PHILOLOGY, LINGUISTICS, AND THE COMPUTER Session 369 (Wed., Dec. 28, 7:15-8:30PM, Manchester Ballroom H, Hyatt Regency San Diego) Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Germanic Philology. Presiding: Evelyn S. Firchow, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1. "The Philologist and the Internet," James Marchand, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana 2. "Electronic File Transfer: Some Obstacles to Long-Distance Collaboration in the Electronic Age and Some Solutions," Geoffrey B. Muckenhirn, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana 3. "Wood Gatherers and Cottage Builders: Old Words and New Ways at the Dictionary of Old English," Antonette diPaolo Healey, Univ. of Toronto, Saint George Campus 4. "Computer Analysis of the Lexicon of Modern Spoken German," Randall Jones, Brigham Young Univ., UT STRATEGIES OF DISCOURSE IN CYBERSPACE Session 374 (Wed., Dec. 28, 7:15-8:30PM, Point Loma Room, San Diego Marriott) A special session: Session Leader: Charles J. Stivales, Wayne State Univ. 1. "Transitional Realms: Using Internet Lists and MOO Spaces to Foster Creative Discourse Communities," Leslie D. Harris, Susquehanna Univ.; Cynthia A. Wambeam, New Mexico State Univ. 2. "'A Great Flame Follows a Little Spark': Metaflaming and Functions of the 'Di' in the Rhetoric of a Discussion List," William B. Millard, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick 3. "Cyberqueen Speaks: Female Discursive Power on the IRC," Jennifer L. Holberg, Univ. of Washington 4. "The Indeterminability of Points of Perception; or, A Short Stay in a Small Hotel in Cyberspace," Micahel Joyce, Vassar Coll. MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE Session 404 (Thursday, Dec. 29, 8:30-9:45AM, 1B, San Diego Convention Center) Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Literature. Presiding: Claire Kramsch, Univ. of California, Berkeley 1. "The Poetic M(o)use: Teaching the Hyperpoem," Ruth V. Gross, Univ. of Texas, Arlington 2. "Teaching Symbolism with Multimedia Technology," Scott Mills, Northwestern Univ.; William Nelles, Northwestern Univ. 3. "Multimedia Technology and the Teaching of Shakespeare," Randall Louis Anderson, Yale Univ. THE ROLE OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS ARCHIVES IN THE STUDY OF LITERATURE Session 548 (Thurs., Dec. 29, 1:45-3:00PM, 4, San Diego Convention Center) Program arranged by the Association for Computers in the Humanities. Presiding: Paul A. Fortier, Univ. of Manitoba 1. "A Chronological Common-Words Vector in a Corpus of English Renaissance Tragedy," David Hugh Craig, Univ. of Newcastle 2. "Developing Electronic Text Archives for Literary Research," Gina L. Greco, Portland State Univ.; Toby Paff, Princeton Univ. EDITING BEOWULF Session 562 (Thurs., Dec. 29, 3:30-4:45PM, 6C, San Diego Convention Center) Program arranged by the Division on Old English Language and Literature. Presiding: Roberta Frank, Univ. of Toronto, Saint George Campus 1. "Old Philology, New Philology, and Trends in the Editing of _Beowulf_," Peter S. Baker, Univ. of Virginia 2. "Editing the Prose Texts of the _Beowulf_ Manuscript: Implications for a New Edition of the Poem," Joseph McGowan, Univ. of San Diego 3. "The Electronic _Beowulf_," Kevin S. Kiernan, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington PRACTICE AND IDEAL IN ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY EDITIONS Session 581 (Thurs., Dec. 29, 3:30-4:45PM, Manchester Ballroom F, Hyatt Regency San Diego) Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions. Presiding: Peter L. Shillingsburg, Mississippi State Univ. 1. "Vellum to Video: The _Piers Plowman_ Electronic Archive," Hoyt Duggan, Univ. of Virginia 2. "Two Contrasting Electronic Editions: _The Collected Voltaire_ and the _Canterbury Tales_," Peter Robinson, Oxford Univ. 3. "Editing Renaissance Electronic Texts," Ian Lancashire, Univ. of Toronto, Saint George Campus 4. "Publishing Electronic Scholarly Editions," John Unsworth, Univ. of Virginia EDITING AND PEDAGOGY Session 626 (Thurs., Dec. 29, 7:15-8:30PM, 10, San Diego Convention Center) Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research. Presiding: Philip Cohen, Univ. of Texas, Arlington 1. "Teaching Textual Criticism," Michael Groden, Univ. of Western Ontario 2. "Beyond Editing: Textual Ontology, Literary Interpretation, and Pedagogy," David Holdeman, Univ. of North Texas 3. "Editorial Theory for Undergraduates? What Will They Think of Next?" George Bornstein, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor 4. "Future Programs in English Studies: Incorporating Technology in the Pursuit of Text-Knowledge," Susan Lang, Emory Univ. 5. "Textual Scholarship in the Classroom," Philip Cohen CONTRIBUTIONS OF COMPUTER METHODS TO THE STUDY OF LITERATURE Session 723 (Friday, Dec. 30, 10:15-11:30AM, Manchester Room, San Diego Marriott) Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature. Presiding: Paul A. Fortier, Univ. of Manitoba 1. "Computer-Aided Approaches to Prosodic Styles in German Literature," David H. Chisholm, Univ. of Arizona 2. "Computer-Aided Analysis of German Records of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries," Annegret Fiebig, Freie Universitat, Berlin 3. "Statistics and Authorship Attribution," Joseph Rudman, Carnegie Mellon Univ. ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY EDITIONS Session 736 (Friday, Dec. 30, 10:15-11:30AM, 5B, San Diego Convention Center) Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions. Presiding: Charles B. Faulhaber, Univ. of California, Berkeley 1. "Before the Computer: The Search for Non-linearity," Charles B. Faulhaber 2. "Electronic Critical Editions: How Do People Use Them?" Susan Hockey, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 3. "Textual Criticism and the Text-Encoding Initiative," Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Mary Mallery | E-Mail: * * Center for Electronic Texts | Phone: (908) 932-1384 * * in the Humanities | * * 169 College Avenue | * * New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA | * * | * From: "DONALD A. COLEMAN (EXT. 2850)" Subject: Re: 8.0312 Qs (Part 1): HOTS; TA Training (2/61) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 10:45:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 278 (517) on "HOTS:" I don't know anything about the use of the word "hots," but it does strike me that, just perhaps, it might be useful to note that "higher order thinking" might mean thought of a sort that can be brought to bear profitably on matters which, before they come to light, could not have been predicted. Anyone who doesn't think that such thought exists doesn't, in my opinion, under- stand the liberal education at all. Don Coleman, Asst. Prof. of phil. From: lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it (maurizio lana) Subject: Cluster analysis Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 15:40:26 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 279 (518) Barbara, the problem you described is quite common: this is the reason why statistics and their analyses should be read and accepted carefully ... =ABWorking with "MacDendro", I experimented with different methods to= compute distances and hierarchies, and the results were quite diverging. In fact, I could find a tree for pretty much any point I could want to make.=BB The= fact is that if you submit 30 items to the program and ask: make a hierarchy of them, the program can't do anything but insert *all* those items into the hierarchy! it can't at all "decide" that -say- 4 items belongs to a completely different tree; it can only show that a certain branch of the tree is very different and very apart of the tree with the other branches. So the researcher must read the trees and give an interpretation of them, discarding those which are wrong, and describing those (or that one) that are (is) interesting. Or, conversely: the many hierarchies you get, show that the data you are studying are much more complex than one could have supposed. I understand that perhaps my poor english isn't the best tool to describe these subtle matters, but hope I managed to al least give you some hints. Best wishes Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI Universita'di Torino Via S. Ottavio 20, Torino - Italy fax 39 11 8991648 From: Linda Wright Subject: CLASSICS List Relocated Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 17:01:39 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 330 (519) A recent posting on Humanist asked about the missing CLASSICS list. In June of 1994 the CLASSICS list at the University of Washington, switched from LISTSERV software to LISTPROC. As a result, the subscription address and the list address have changed. Several major providers of discussion group information were notified of this change in June, but outdated files still exist. The correct information for joining the CLASSICS list is provided here. Access: CLASSICS@U.WASHINGTON.EDU on Internet All requests to be added to this list should be sent to: listproc@u.washington.edu with the one-line message: SUBSCRIBE CLASSICS your-full-name To unsubscribe, send: UNSUB CLASSICS to listproc@u.washington.edu CLASSICS is an unmoderated list for discussing ancient Greek and Latin subjects. This list is open to everyone interested in Classics; membership is approximately 1,050 as of 11/17/94. The discussions assume a background in ancient Greek and/or Latin and postings are expected to remain within the confines of these subjects. Only list-members are permitted to post or reply to CLASSICS messages, and this list does not appear on Usenet. -Linda Wright University of Washington Listowner, Lwright@u.washington.edu From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Kovacs list of e-lists Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 14:21:27 +0000 (CUT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 280 (520) I lost my copy of the mail annuoncing the new release of Kovacs list of lists. Could someone help me about the ftp address for the files, and (but not necessary) their contents? Many thanks. Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI, Universita' di Torino lana@cisi.unito.it fax: 39 11 899 1648 From: aca102@utdallas.edu Subject: source of quote Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 07:59:37 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 281 (521) For the last year I have been looking for the text from which this quote by Coleridge comes, concerning Homer's Penelope: "Penelope does not interest us in an equal degree with her husband. She is chaste and prudent; but as Ulysses scruples not to accept the favors of Calypso and Circe, so she evidently goes considerable lengths in the way of coquetry with her suitors. . . ." I have looked at his essays, particularly those discussing Homer, but to no avail. Does anyone know? Thank you, Dene Grigar, aca102@utdallas.edu From: rajones@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Robert Alun Jones) Subject: help with 2-bit characters Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 08:03:25 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 282 (522) I received this message from a colleague at the University of Illinois. I'm afraid this problem is not one with which I'm familiar. Can anyone out there provide some assistance? Reply either to me, or directly to Peter. Thanks very much in advance. [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Alun Jones Professor of Sociology, History and Religious Studies Director, Advanced Information Technologies Laboratory University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801 Home: (217) 367-3899 Office: (217) 333-4969 Fax: (217) 333-5225 E-mail: rajones@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu From: Markus Hundt Subject: computer-readable textcorpora (1500-1750) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 17:09:53 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 283 (523) Hello, my name is Markus Hundt (e-mail address hundt@ruf.uni-freiburg.de). I am looking for computer-readable German texts of the period 1500-1750 for a research project. I am interested in all types of texts (literature, legal writing, sermons, texts from the bible, pamphlets, press etc.) If you have got any such texts or know of somebody who has such texts and are/ is willing to share them please contact me under my e-mail address above. Thanks a lot! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Markus Hundt Deutsches Seminar I D-79085 Freiburg/Br. Germany e-mail: hundt@ruf.uni-freiburg.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "ED HARRIS, ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, SCSU" Subject: October's bright blue what? Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 11:50:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 284 (524) A couple of my acquaintance, who have disagreed rarely in more than 50 years of marriage, is about to come to metaphorical blows over the words to a poem his mother used to recite to him regularly when he was a boy. He recalls the line, "October's bright blue sky," while she recalls (I know, but remember they've been married a _long_ time) "October's bright blue weather." Can anyone help with a reference? Thanks in advance. Ed Southern Connecticut State U, New Haven, CT 06515 USA Tel: 1 (203) 392-5350 / Fax: 1 (203) 392-5355 From: Claire Smith Subject: Vulgate Bible Query Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 16:33:16 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 285 (525) This query is on behalf of Caroline Lund. Please forward answers to Ms. Lund directly at: lund@epas.utoronto.ca Ms. Lund would like to know if anyone knows where she may obtain The Vulgate Bible, and Dante's Works both preferably on CD-ROM, but could also be on floppy disk or magnetic tape. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Claire Smith / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / University of Toronto 130 St. George Street / Robarts Library, 14th Floor / Toronto, ON / M5S 1A5 Internet: csmith@epas.utoronto.ca / Tel.: (416) 978-2535 / Fax: (416) 978-6519 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Paul Brians Subject: Standardized language proficiency tests? Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 15:10:45 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 286 (526) In our English graduate program we have for some years been using standardized tests sold by the Educational Testing Service. They have told us they are withdrawing the tests, so we need something new. We do NOT want to go back to one-on-one faculty-administered reading/ translation tests. Standardized PLACEMENT tests are useless because they test at too low a level (i.e. does this student belong in French 101 or 102, whereas we want to know if the student can read an article about Byron published in French). Does anyone have a solution for us? Another vendor? A home-made standardized test you'd be willing to share/sell? Paul Brians, Washington State University, brians@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu From: John Saillant Subject: CFP IEAHC Seminar: Constructing Race, 1400-1700 Date: Sat, 26 Nov 94 15:21:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 287 (527) CALL FOR PROPOSALS--Constructing Race: Differentiating Peoples in the Early Modern World, 1400-1700. The Institute of Early American History and Culture will hold a working seminar in spring 1996 on the construction of race and racism in Europe and the Americas, 1400-1700. Scholars in European, African, Latin American, and North American history, anthropology, literature, cultural studies, and related disciplines are invited to submit proposals describing the substance of their subject. Papers expanding these proposals and presented at the seminar may be published in the _William and Mary Quarterly_. Deadline for proposals is October 1, 1995. For full information contact Michael McGiffert, editor, at the Institute, P.O. Box 8781, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781. Tel.: 804-221-1125. Fax: 804-221-1047. E-mail: mcgiff@mail.wm.edu. From: "Warren G. Frisina" Subject: NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 13:59:04 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 288 (528) Announcing a NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, "Bible and Literature in Bakhtinian Perspective: The Sacred, the Secular and the Profane" to be offered by Michael Holquist (Yale) and Walter Reed (Emory) at Yale University, New Haven, CT, June 19 - August 4, 1995. Using the theory of dialogue developed by the Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin, the seminar will investigate writings from the Bible, literary texts that engage the Bible in provocative ways or that assert a sacred authority of their own, and theories of literature and culture that address the relations among sacred, secular and profane texts. The seminar aims to attract teachers and scholars from diverse fields, esp. religion, literature, philosophy and anthropology. Participants receive a stipend of $3,600 for the 7-week seminar. For information and materials, contact: Michael Holquist or Walter Reed c/o Diane Pendleton Yale Summer and Special Programs/ NEH Summer Seminars 246 Church St./ Suite 101 New Haven, CT 06510-1722 tel: (203) 432-2432 e-mail: holquist@minerva.cis.yale.edu From: Stuart Lee Subject: CTI Post, Oxford: Last call Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 12:31:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 333 (529) The deadline for this is now nearly upon us. This is a last call for applications, Stuart Lee *************** PLEASE CROSS-POST ACCORDINGLY *************** JOB ADVERTISEMENT Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services The CTI Centre at Oxford University is seeking to appoint a Research Officer from 1 January 1995 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Centre's role is to promote, encourage and support the use of computers in the teaching of a range of text-based subjects in higher education throughout the UK. The Centre also has strong international links. The major responsibilities of this post will include editing our varied series of publications, both electronic and paper-based, evaluating software useful in the teaching of textual subjects in higher education institutions, giving presentations at workshops, conferences, and university departments. The person appointed should have a good degree in a Humanities subject, in particular: modern languages and literatures, classics, drama, philosophy, theology, or media studies. He or she should also be computer-literate. Experience in one or more of the following areas would also be useful: publishing (conventional and/or on-line), teaching (HE), internet resources, humanities computing applications. Good writing and presentation skills are essential. The appointment will be made in the lower end of the RS1A scale: #13,941-#15,566 per annum (pounds sterling) according to qualifications and experience. The CTI is funded until July 1999 subject to annual confirmation by the Higher Education Funding Councils. Further details are added below and an application form can be obtained from Sally Matthews, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (tel: 0865-273230; e-mail: sally.matthews@oucs.ox.ac.uk). The closing date for submission of application forms is 2nd December 1994. Interviews are scheduled for the week commencing 12th December 1994. ************************************************************************** The Computers in Teaching Initiative The Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) was established in 1984 and the first phase (1984-1988) funded 139 software development and dissemination projects. In phase two of the Initiative (1989 onwards) twenty subject-specific CTI Centres were established to promote, support, and encourage the use of computers in the teaching of all subjects taught at higher education level in the UK. The Initiative has just started a new period of funding which will last until the end of July 1999, and the new post is offered until that time, subject to funds being confirmed by the Higher Education Funding Councils. Four of the CTI Centres represent humanities subjects: the Centre for History with Archaeology and Art History, based at the University of Glasgow; the Centre for Modern Languages (with Classics), based at the University of Hull; the Centre for Music, based at the University of Lancaster; and the Centre for Textual Studies, based at the University of Oxford. The Centre for Textual Studies The Centre is part of the Centre for Humanities Computing at Oxford University which exists to support students and academics in the humanities at Oxford University in the use of computers in their academic research and teaching by introducing them to the latest techniques and methods in humanities computing; to establish the Centre for Humanities Computing as a Tcentre of excellenceU both within the UK higher education system and world-wide; to promote the uses of computing by the encouragement of leading edge research by members of the Centre for Humanities Computing; to operate a print and electronic publication programme to disseminate the work of the Centre. The CTI Centre deals with the use of computers in the teaching of literature in all languages, from all periods; philosophy and logic; linguistics; theology; drama and theatre studies; film and media studies. The Centre publishes a newsletter, Computers and Texts and a regularly updated Resources Guide, and also regularly updates a humanities World Wide Web service. It also runs workshops, conferences, and seminars; evaluates software and hardware; runs a general advisory service; visits academic departments; and deals with large numbers of visitors. The Office for Humanities Communication (OHC) The CTI Centre works very closely with the British Library-funded OHC which is also part of the Centre for Humanities Computing in Oxford. The OHC carries out survey and research work on general topics relevant to the use of information technology in all areas of the humanities and together with the CTI Centre organizes the CATH (Computers and Teaching in the Humanities) series of conferences. Staff of the CTI Centre The Centre has a Director, Dr Marilyn Deegan; a Deputy Director, Dr Stuart Lee; a Centre Manager, Mr Michael Popham; an Administrative Secretary, Mrs Mari Gill. The new appointment will report directly to the Centre Manager. The New Appointment The main responsibilities of this post will be to run our ever-growing series of publications, liaising with contributors, editors, copy-editors, printers, designers, etc, and also to update regularly the various electronic publications which the Centre manages. He or she will also help at workshops, visit academic departments, attend conferences, and answer enquiries. A willingness to travel around the UK and occasionally overseas is essential. From: "Filip J.R.C. Dochy" Subject: 2nd EUROPEAN E CONFERENCE ON A&E: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 16:51 +0000 (N) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 334 (530) Subj: 2nd Electronic EARLI-AE conference: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS FIRST CALL for participation 2nd EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE ON ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION: RECENT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS ********************************************************************** EARLI European Association for Research into Learning and Instruction SIG Assessment & Evaluation ********************************************************************** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * EARLI-AE LIST February 6-7-8-9-10 1995 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ##################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS / INVITED ADDRESSES IF YOU HAVE A INTERESTING PAPER (A RESEARCH REPORT OR AN OPINION PAPER) ON AN ACTUAL TOPIC IN THE AREA OF ASSESSMENT OR EVALUATION, WHICH WOULD FIT FOR AN GOOD DISCUSSION AMONG SCHOLARS AND PRACTITIONERS, SEND IT BEFORE DECEMBER 15 TO DRS. G. MOERKERKE AT GMOatOUH.NL IF YOU KNOW ANY COLLEAGUES WHO COULD BE INVITED TO ENTER A SUBSTANTIVE PAPER ON AN A&E TOPIC, PLEASE INFORM DR. F. DOCHY ON OICFDO@OUH.NL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE (before december 1). ************************************************************** INVITED ADDRESSES 1994 conference: Prof. Alan Schoenfeld Prof. Jim Ridgway Prof. Richard Shavelson ******************************** If you want to attend the conference, print this file. Organizing committee and program board -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=- Dr. Gudrun Balke, Department of Educational Research & Development, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Dr. Richard Shavelson, School of Education, Stanford University, USA Dr. David Nevo, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Israel Dr. Filip Dochy, Centre for Educational Technology and Innovation, University of Heerlen, The Netherlands EC Management and Secretary of the EECAE Drs. George Moerkerke Dr. Filip Dochy Centre for Educational Techology and Innovation, Heerlen, The Netherlands The E.E.C.A.E. is a world-wide, distributed, electronic conference focused on issues of importance to assessment and evaluation related to learning and instruction. Conference Procedure The conference will last for 5 days. Participants should schedule during these days one or two different moments each day for active participation. For example each day between 9 am and 10 am and between 4 pm and 5 pm you can attend the conference interactively. The conference will be running along the EARLI-AE list. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%% If you want to attend the conference (and you are not yet a member of the EARLI-AE list, you should send the message Subscribe EARLI-AE yourfirstname yourlastname to the listserv management (listserv@nic.surfnet.nl) or (listsrv@hearn.bitnet)) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If you are a member of the list and you do not want to attend the conference then send the message set EARLI-AE nomail to the listserv management on Februari 18 1995 and send the message set EARLI-AE mail to the same address on Februari 25 1995 for receiving the normal list postings again. One week before the conference you will receive the abstracts and papers of the three invited addresses. In this way, each discussion will be introduced by an internationally known 'first speaker'. Anyone can act as a 'second speaker' before the conference. The conference will be discussing three discussion group topics. The board will select the topics. Any list member is asked to send in topics and one screen abstracts to be proposed as conference topic. Suggestions for invited addresses on a given topic are welcome (if including the Email address). During the conference all messages will go over the same EARLI-AE list. However, each topic will get its own subject line. In this way anyone will be able to take part in one, two or three discussions by reading the mail with the corresponding subject lines. For example PREFASS for perfomance assessment. Two chairpersons for each topic discussion group will moderate when necessary. They will be on line during the whole conference. One will be from the American continent, the other one from the European continent in order to be able to moderate across time differences. CONFERENCE RATE As there are no costs for becoming an EARLI-AE member, there will be no cost for participation other then that for normal access to any of the distribution networks. There is no formal registration process, other than keeping your list on the 'mail' mode. PUBLICATION After the conference, the board will consider the invited addresses, the entries and discussions for publication as a whole on each topic. If publication is considered worthwhile the board will contact editors for an appropriate outlet. One can think of the EARLI journals L&I or EARLI-news or the SIG book series. The EECAE discussions The quality of the conference will depend upon quality discussion, skilful porters and efficient electronic distribution on the networks. For this reason it is important to read the discussion guidelines beforehand. AIM The EECEA is directed towards all scholars, students and practitioners who are interested in new developments concerning A&E. TOPICS and CHAIRS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% TIME SCHEDULE February 1 Distribution of 'invited addresses - first speakers' February 6 - 10 Conference - topic discussion groups From: John Merritt Unsworth Subject: New Software and Essays from IATH Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 14:00:54 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 335 (531) The http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/home.html"> Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce new publications and software, in addition to an on-going series of http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/reports.html"> research reports. New http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/software.html"> software includes: an image viewer for X-windows that is faster than XV and provides a panner for large images; a sound driver for the IBM rs6000, that provides a control panel to record and play; a Perl script that helps a user add reference line numbers that relate one SGML-marked text to another. New http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/generalpubs.html"> general publications include: a museum installation developed from Edward Ayers' Civil war project under development at IATH; two essays by Jerome McGann about using hypertext in critical editing; two essays by John Unsworth about use of the Internet by humanitites scholars. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: CD-ROM "jukeboxes" Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 22:46:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 336 (532) Two questions related to computer-assisted language learning. (1) What are typical performance characteristics of a CD-ROM "jukebox" used to support computer-assisted language learning? I am particularly interested in any problems with the response of such a unit to multiple demands for materials contained on different CDs. (2) Given a lab that uses only off-the-shelf software, what kinds of people are needed for a successful operation, apart from the instructors? Is it practical to employ one full-time person for each physical site, and if so what abilities should this person have? In general is it possible to do without programming skills and still successfully cover a wide variety of modern languages? Thanks very much for any help. WM Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: meta-text? Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 08:30:20 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 289 (533) It is interesting to me that although the OED 2nd edn. recognizes that the prefix "meta-" is "Prefixed to various classificatory words to designate concern with the ulterior or underlying principles peculiar to that classification, as metacriterion, metacriticism, (hence metacritical adj., -ally adv.)" (s.v. meta- prefix 1b), it cites no instances of "meta-text" or "metatext". I would be very grateful if any Humanist could cite occurrences of my verbum desideratum -- other than in this note! Thanks. WM Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: RIVR@ccmail.sunysb.edu Subject: cliche Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:33:03 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 290 (534) I am a reference librarian hoping that a reader of this list may be able to help me with a question. A library patron found the term "the tie that binds" in an English translation of Aristophanes' THE FROGS. This brought to mind the protestant hymn "Jesus is the Tie that Binds" by John Fawcett. Patron wants to know the history of this saying. I have tried the quotation books, the Bible Concordances, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (current and penultimate editions). Is the phrase "the tie that binds" an allusion, or merely a cliche? Please e-mail me directly, if it's not an inconvenience, and thanks for your help. Edana McCaffery Cichanowicz rivr@ccmail.sunysb.edu From: Tzvee Zahavy (Professor Tzvee Zahavy) Subject: Baker story Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 10:05:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 291 (535) A friend asked me for the source of the story of the baker who wanted to charge the town for the aroma of his baking and the rabbi collected the money and paid him by letting him hear the jingling of the coins. I thought this was a Yiddish short story that might have earlier antecedents in the Midrash. Any help on locating the sources would be appreciated. Thanks. Professor Tzvee Zahavy University of Minnesota 2717 Lynn Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55416 612-920-4263 Fax: 612-920-2559 From: Marco Simionato Subject: Computer-aided programming courses Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 10:20:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 292 (536) I would like to know if programming courses are available in electronic format - something like CALL (computer-aided language learning) programs. In Italy there is a series I know of for TurboPascal, Clipper and C++. Perhaps in English there might be something better. If I get a good response to my query, I will summarise. Thanks. Marco Simionato Dorsoduro 2408/b 30123 Venezia, ITALY tel/fax 39 41 5225570 simionat@unive.it From: emls@arts.ubc.ca (R. G. Siemens, Editor, EMLS) Subject: Announcing EMLS: A Journal Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 20:50:20 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 338 (537) *** Would you please forward the following announcement to HUMANIST participants? Thank you. *** [This message will be cross-posted; please excuse duplication] EARLY MODERN LITERARY STUDIES: A JOURNAL OF SIXTEENTH- AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE Announcing Early Modern Literary Studies, a refereed journal in electronic form which intends to serve both as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS will examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from a variety of perspectives; well- considered responses to published papers will also be published as part of a Readers' Forum. Reviews in EMLS will evaluate recent work in the area as well as academic tools of interest to scholars in the field. Our Internet site will also gather and maintain links to useful on-line resources. EMLS (ISSN 1201-2459) will be published three times a year for the on-line academic community by the University of British Columbia's English Department, with the support of the University's Library and Arts Computing Centre. Our first issue will appear in Spring 1995. AVAILABILITY EMLS will be available free of charge in hypertextual format on the World Wide Web at http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/emlshome.html It will also be available in ASCII format for retrieval using GOPHER at edziza.arts.ubc.ca /english/emls Our site on the World Wide Web will be active, though still under construction, as of December 1, 1994. EDITORIAL GROUP The EMLS Editorial Group is representative of the on-line academic community as a whole and includes scholars with wide- ranging interests and experience, from junior to well-established senior academics. Senior Editorial and Advisory Board: Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester Hardy M. Cook III, Bowie State University Roy Flannagan, Ohio University W. L. Godshalk, University of Cincinnati Ian Lancashire, New College, University of Toronto Graham Parry, University of York, England Paul G. Stanwood, University of British Columbia Advisory Editors: Richard W. Bailey, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ronald Bond, University of Calgary Luc Borot, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Elisabethaines, Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier, France Douglas Bruster, University of Chicago Thomas Corns, University of Wales, Bangor Peter Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology A. S. G. Edwards, University of Victoria Jane Finnan, University of Toronto Antonia Forster, University of Akron John K. Hale, University of Otago, New Zealand Robert S. Knapp, Reed College F. J. Levy, University of Washington Lawrence Manley, Yale University John Manning, Queen's University of Belfast Stephen Naoyuki Matsuba, York University, Canada Mark Morton, University of Winnipeg Jim Nielson, University of British Columbia Stephen Orgel, Stanford University Milla Riggio, Trinity College, CT Alan Rudrum, Simon Fraser University Robert Wiznura, University of British Columbia Editor: Raymond G. Siemens, University of British Columbia Review Editor: Joanne Woolway, Oriel College, Oxford Editorial Assistant: Gretchen E. Minton, University of British Columbia Electronic Editors: Joseph Jones, University of British Columbia Jeff D. Miller, University of British Columbia David Thomson, University of British Columbia SUBMISSIONS EMLS invites contributions, primarily those of critical essays on literary topics and of interdisciplinary studies which centre on literature and literary culture in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Contributions, including critical essays and studies, bibliographies, notices, letters to the Editor, and other materials, may be submitted to the Editor by electronic mail at EMLS@arts.ubc.ca or by regular mail at Early Modern Literary Studies, Department of English, University of British Columbia, #397 - 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z1; reviews and materials for review may be sent to the Review Editor at Review_Editor_EMLS@arts.ubc.ca or by regular mail at the same address, above. Brief hard-copy correspondence may be sent by fax to (604) 822-6906. Electronic mail submissions are accepted in ASCII format. Regular mail submissions of material on-disk are accepted in ASCII, Wordperfect, or Microsoft Word format; hard-copy submissions must be accompanied by electronic copies, either on- disk or via electronic mail, and will not be returned. All submissions must follow the current Modern Language Association Handbook, in addition to the following conventions used by EMLS for ASCII text: *bolded text* is denoted by asterisks, %italicized text% by percent signs, _underlined text_ with the underscore, ^superscript^ is denoted with the caret and is used for note numbers in the text, and notes themselves appear at the end of the document. A document outlining the representation of non-ASCII characters is available on demand. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION . . . For more information, or to join our mailing list, send a message to Ed_Asst_EMLS@arts.ubc.ca. Raymond G. Siemens Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies, Department of English, University of British Columbia. From: Jeff Lawrence Schwartz Subject: conference stuff (fwd) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 22:15:21 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 340 (538) Attn. Graduate Students: CULTURE IS ORDINARY "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another." Walter Benjamin, _Theses_on_the_Philosophy_of_History_ National Graduate Student Conference in Cultural Studies 21-22 April 1995 Bowling Green State University Keynote address: Jane Caputi, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico Seeking papers for the following panels://Performance Art & Censorship//Postmodern American Culture: Artistic Practices in the Society of the Spectacle//Construction of Desire: Sex & the Body Politic//Feminism Inc.: Incorporatiing Feminism into Hegemonic Discourse//Architecture & Cultural Space//Popular Music & Critical Theory//Meida & the Politics of Representation//Critical Interrogations of Sport//Spectacularizing the Sixties//Intellectuals, Ethics & Social Change//Distributed Selves, Virtual Communities: Networking, Internetworking & Critique//The Machine in the Garden: The Dialectical Interface of Homo Sapiens &the Environment//Transcending Essential Violence: Women As Warriors//Multiculturalism: Communicating the Concept Send 250-word abstracts by December 16, 1994 to: Graduate Student Conference American Culture Studies, 211 Moseley Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 (419) 372-2231 or (419) 353-5719 or email to: swilbur@dad.bgsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Users: Conference organizers are also planning distributed, realtime sessions on the Internet, using (at least) MOO & IRC. If you have a particular network project involving cultural studies which you would like to have included in a virtual extension of the conference, please send a brief proposal/explanation to Shawn P. Wilbur (aka bookish) via email . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - From: "Eric S. Rabkin" Subject: October's Bright Blue Weather Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 07:34:04 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 293 (539) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 294 (540) [deleted quotation] There's a fairly sappy poem called "October's Bright Blue Weather" by Helen Hunt Jackson (d. 1885). From: D.J.Thompson@french.hull.ac.uk Subject: Re: 8.0331 Qs: Quotes; E-Texts; E-Lists; Language Tests (7/146) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 14:55:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 295 (541) Re: Language Tests You may be interested in Itembanker, which was the subject of a paper at the EUROCALL 94 conference in Karlsruhe recently. This program draws on a database of questions used for testing over a period of time, and allows teachers to devise their own tests very quickly, at an appropriate level, using appropriate subject-matter. Currently only for English, but being developed in other languages. The contact is John Arnold, Eurocentres Learning Service, Seestrasse 247, CH-8038 Zurich, Switzerland, tel +41 1 482 1065, fax +41 1 482 5054. June Thompson, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull. From: Mark Olsen Subject: Re: 8.0331 Qs: Quotes; E-Texts; E-Lists; Language Tests (7/146) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 09:22:24 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 296 (542) [deleted quotation] I have a copy of the Vulgate running on the World Wide Web. The URL for the Vulgate (and some other Bibles) is: http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/BIBLES.html Mark Mark Olsen Assistant Director ARTFL Project University of Chicago (312) 702-8687 Gopher: gopher.uchicago.edu/11/uscholarly/artfl WWW: http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. --- Samuel Johnson From: "Del Tycer" Subject: New discussion list Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 22:57:25 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 342 (543) (PLEASE POST TO YOUR LIST) NEW EMAIL LIST DISCUSSES DISSERTATIONS AND THESES The Association for Support of Graduate Students, publishers of Dissertation News and Thesis News, is going online in December. ASGS is initiating a moderated discussion list, free to all interested persons, entitled, "doc-talk." The list will provide information of value to graduate students (and faculty) involved in doing master's and doctoral theses; it will make available articles on how to do a thesis, reviews of resources, and answers to students' questions pertaining to their theses, as well as providing current notices of deadlines for thesis-related grants and conferences at which students can present thesis research. If you would like to receive distributions to this list, send an email message to "listserv@netcom.com" and in the body of the message (not the subject line) put the following: subscribe doc-talk Del Tycer Executive Vice President Association for Support of Graduate Students (ASGS) 585 Fallen Leaf Way Incline Village, NV 89451 Phone (702) 831-1399 Fax (702) 831-2199 From: Mark Olsen Subject: Digital Book Experiment Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 14:13:48 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 343 (544) I am running a small experiment on digitizing books over WWW. To begin, I scanned two French Revolutionary pamphlets, from 1789 and 1791. I would be interested in comments, complaints and suggestions regarding the legibility of the inline images. To have a look, you will need a WWW browser that supports inline images, such as Mosaic, Netscape, or MacWeb. The first text is: M. Dufourny de Villiers, Cahiers du quatrieme ordre celui des pauvres journaliers, des Infirmes, des Indigens... ([Paris], 25 avril, 1789). http://tuna.uchicago.edu/images/cahier/contents.html The average image size is 120KB The second is: [Sylvain Mare'chal], Dame Nature a` la Barre de l'Assemble'e Nationale. (Paris, Chez les Marchands de Nouveautis, 1791. http://tuna.uchicago.edu/images/DN/contents.html The average image size is 54KB, with some additional enhancements. My impression is that the display quality depends significantly on the pixel size of various monitors. Please include the browser, type of computer, graphics display and monitor type (IMPORTANT), so that I can modify future experiments accordingly. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide. Please send your comments to me directly. I will summarize and post to this group if I get enough feedback. Mark Mark Olsen Assistant Director ARTFL Project University of Chicago (312) 702-8687 Gopher: gopher.uchicago.edu/11/uscholarly/artfl WWW: http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html From: "Steven G. Mullaney" Subject: HUMANIST Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 15:40:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 344 (545) NEH SUMMER SEMINAR FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS: "Inventing The New World: Texts, Contexts, Approaches." An interdisciplinary approach to Spanish, English, and French encounters with the Americas in the sixteenth century, this seminar welcomes applications from historians, anthropologists, art historians, and teachers of literary and cultural studies. Individuals teaching undergraduate courses at two or four year colleges and universities are eligible to apply, as well as those not currently teaching but who hold a Ph.D. The seminar will be held at the University of Michigan from June 12 to August 4, 1995. Participants will receive a $4000 stipend. Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 1995. For application materials and information, contact Professor Steven Mullaney, Dept. of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045 (mullaney@umich.edu) Thanks again for your help with this. Yours truly, Steven Mullaney E-mail: mullaney@umich.edu Associate Professor of English Phone: 313-764-2274 G609 Haven Hall Messages: 313-763-3130 University of Michigan Fax: 313-763-3128 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045 From: Richard S Abowitz Subject: Contemporary American Poetry Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 16:09:36 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 345 (546) Please note in _Humanist_: A new list, dedicated to discussing contemporary American poetry, has just started. To subscribe to the list (CAP-L) send your request to listserv@vm1.spcs.umn.edu The request should say SUBSCRIBE CAP-L and, if new to the system, . From: D.J.Thompson@french.hull.ac.uk Subject: Re: 8.0341 Rs: October; Language Tests; Vulgate (3/73) Date: Fri, 02 Dec 1994 14:08:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 346 (547) The Dartmouth Dante project is also on WWW, via BUBL, I think. This gives the whole of the Divina Commedia text, plus a bibliography of all relevant publications. June Thompson, CTI Modern Languages ,University of Hull, UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June Thompson CTI Centre for Modern Languages Tel 0482 466373 University of Hull Fax 0482 473816 Hull HU6 7RX, UK Email CTI.Lang@hull.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: HALEYD@axe.humboldt.edu Subject: Norse Mythology Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 13:22:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 297 (548) Can anyone suggest a good text on Norse Mythology? I've begun researching 19th C. poets and mythology, and I could really use the resource. I apologize if you have already received a similar request. My keyboard has a mind of its own. thank you D. Haley From: Claire Smith Subject: Computers in Teaching Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 16:29:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 298 (549) Could subscribers send replies about the following question to the address below. Thanks. What is known, and what work is being done on the effectiveness of computers in teaching the subjects of the humanities? Claire Smith -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Claire Smith / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / University of Toronto 130 St. George Street / Robarts Library, 14th Floor / Toronto, ON / M5S 1A5 Internet: csmith@epas.utoronto.ca / Tel.: (416) 978-2535 / Fax: (416) 978-6519 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Burr) Subject: Spanish text analysis program Date: Fri, 2 Dec 94 13:11:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 299 (550) I am looking for a Spanish text analysis program which does concordances, word lists etc. more or less like TACT. Does anyone know whether such a program exists and where I could get hold of it? I would prefer a pro- gram running under Windows, but am interested, too, in programs running under DOS. Thank you in advance for your help. Dr. Elisabeth Burr FB3/Romanistik Gerhard Mercator Universitaet Duisburg Lotharstrasse 65 47048 Duisburg Tel.: +49 203-3792605 Fax.: +49 203-3793333 Email: he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de From: lana@cisi.unito.it (maurizio lana) Subject: PHI/TLG cdrom software Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 13:43:42 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 300 (551) I wrote to Mr. Burckhardt Meissner who, supposedly, wrote a program to manage TLG and PHI cdroms and to do +stylistic analyses;. I got his address (snail mail address) from the TLG newsletter, wrote to him at that address, but got no answer. Does someone know if he changed his address, or anything else? Many thanks. If possbile CC: directly to me your answer. Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI Universita'di Torino Via S. Ottavio 20, Torino - Italy fax 39 11 8991648 From: LONDON Subject: One-man Play Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1994 14:38:39 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 301 (552) I am at the final stages of a Ph D program at King's College, London. I should be gratefulfor any information on history/characteristics of the One-man play. I have not found it as a term of reference. My interest is primarily in any 19th cent. examples. The closest I have come is the "Monodrama", which was a mixture of panto., ballet, and monologue, popular in France during the ancient regime. By the time it entered England in the late 18th cent.it had turned into what we would recognize as a one-man show (there were instances of music and non-speaking parts). I have come across plays by Sayers and Wharton around the 1800s, and "Maud", of course, is subtitled "a monodrama". I have traced it farther back to the Greek practice of sasoriae (sp?), epistolary monologues (Ovid), and death-bed monologues. If anyone can add to this, help, or direct me in any manner, I should be most anxious to return the favour. Thank you. Kian Soheil udle084@bay.cc.kcl.ac.uk From: "Kizer Walker" Subject: German Studies syllabi Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 08:24:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 348 (553) **The DAAD Prizes for the Best Syllabi in German Studies and The DAAD Syllabi Data Base** The 1995 Prize: $1000 in prizes for innovative interdisciplinary or comparative approaches to the teaching of German Studies (including language, politics, history, literature, cinema, anthropology, culture, art, music, Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, etc.) will be awarded in 1995. All syllabi submitted for the competition will be included in an on-line, multi-year data base of teaching materials for German Studies. Complete and detailed syllabi, including detailed references, sources, and pedagogical goals, should be submitted as hard copy and on computer disk clearly labeled to indicate computer (PC/Mac), author, and software by March 1, 1995 to Kizer Walker, Department of German Studies, 194 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853. *Accessing the Data Base* The DAAD Syllabi database at present consists of over 170 syllabi in fields ranging from architecture to Women's Studies. The database will continue to expand as new syllabi are submitted for inclusion. *The Data Base can be accessed electronically* ! It is available in two formats: ! as Microsoft Word files, and ! as ASCII text files ! To access the data use the FTP protocol. (The user needs to inquire at her/his location for the particulars of the FTP protocol there). ! Connect to server ftp.cit.cornell.edu (128.253.232.116 if your FTP software does not support domain name resolution). Use anonymous as the account and your logon with domain name as the password. Professor Gilman would enter slg3@cornell.edu, for example. ! Once connected, issue the command: cd/pub/special/DAADsyllabi ! From there, retrieve the readme .txt file using the command get readme.txt. Follow the instructions in readme.txt. ! If you have any problems, please consult the computer support staff at your university! *If you do not have access to electronic mail, we will process limited searches manually* ! Send your requests (with at least two descriptors) to the data base project ! together with an unformatted 3.5 HD disk to Kizer Walker at the above address. ! and we will send you files (specify a format; we will assume Word for Macintosh) From: Elaine Brennan Subject: Humanist Sea Changes Date: Tue, 07 Mar 95 19:39:16 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 349 (554) Humanist has been subjected to a lengthy and unwelcome hiatus while I struggled to wrap my mind around the fact that space and time being limited entities, I am seriously over-committed, and it's time for Humanist to find a new home and a new editor. I value the friends and colleagues I have met because of Humanist, and hope and expect that Humanist, the thinking-and-computer-using-humanities'- community's-e-coffeehouse, will thrive in different ways under new leadership. There are a lot more academic lists in cyberspace than there were when Willard began Humanist in 1987, or even than there were when Allen Renear and I moved Humanist to Brown. But I believe strongly that there's still a place for enlightened discussion of the broader issues implied by the use of computers within the humanities' scholarly world, and I look forward to watching those discussions here. Watch this space for an announcement of Humanist's new situation -- and until then, we'll return you to what used to be reguarly scheduled programming. Elaine From: Stuart Lee Subject: CFP: Computers and Teaching the Humanities (CATH 95) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 08:22:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 350 (555) Please x-post accordingly ************************************* Dr Stuart D Lee Humanities IT Support Officer Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-283403 Fax: 01865-273221 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.ox.ac.uk/depts/humanities/ ****************************************** CATH '95 (Computers and Teaching in the Humanities) ADVANCE NOTICE and CALL for PAPERS The CATH '95 conference will be held at Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, from 5th-7th September 1995. The conference is organized by the Office for Humanities Communication and the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies (both at the University of Oxford), and the English Department, Royal Holloway. The theme of this year's conference is Computers and the Changing Curriculum. We would like to encourage proposals which include practical experiences of the use of computers in teaching, and approaches taken by the teacher in integrating computing into courses, describing problems as well as successes, plus examples of student feedback. Experiences are sought from a wide mix of humanities disciplines. Contemporary topics and new developments are always welcome, for example, use of resources on the Internet. Contributions are invited for individual formal papers (30 minutes inclusive of 10 minute question time), panel sessions comprising three related papers, or workshops. Workshops should be about 2-hours in length and should involve hands-on tuition as well as time for discussion; the level of experience aimed at should be indicated (and may be from novice to more experienced). For individual papers, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words (500 for each paper in a panel session) no later than March 30th. This should include a summary paragraph of the main points covered in your paper which will be used in the programme to describe the session. For workshops, a descriptive paragraph of aims and means will suffice. The proposals will be refereed by a programme committee and all authors will be notified of the outcome by April 30th. We are also interested in proposals for other forms of presentation such as poster sessions, and demonstrations at the software fair. Further information including a draft programme and costs is expected to be available in May. All participants at the CATH '94 conference will be sent these details. Please submit your proposal by March 30th (also any enquiries) to: Christine Mullings Office for Humanities Communication Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-273221 Fax: 01865-273221 email: cath95@oucs.ac.uk Format for submission: paper copy plus copy on 3.5" disk (standard wordprocessor files or plain ASCII files will be accepted). Electronic submissions are welcome (plain ASCII files please). Details should include title of contribution, your full name and contact address, and telephone, fax, and email address. From: alex@CompApp.DCU.IE Subject: Call For Papers Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 15:40:47 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 351 (556) PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! Call for Papers for the Fourth International Conference on The COGNITIVE SCIENCE of NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Dublin City University, 5-7 July 1995 Subject Areas: This is a non-exclusive list of subjects which fall within the scope of CSNLP. It is intended as a guide only. * Corpus-based NLP * Connectionist NLP * Statistical and knowledge-based MT * Linguistic knowledge representation * Cognitive linguistics * Declarative approaches to NLP * NLG and NLU * Dialogue and discourse * Human language processing * Text linguistics * Evaluation of NLP * Hybrid approaches to NLP Submissions may deal with theoretical issues, applications, databases or other aspects of CSNLP, but the importance of cognitive aspects should be borne in mind. Papers should report original substantive research. Theme: The Role of Syntax There is currently considerable debate regarding the place and importance of syntax in NLP. Papers dealing with this matter will be given preference. Invited Speakers: The following speakers have agreed to give keynote talks: Mark Steedman, University of Pennsylvania Alison Henry, University of Ulster Registration and Accommodation: The registration fee will be IR#60, and will include proceedings, lunches and one evening meal. Accommodation can be reserved in the campus residences at DCU. A single room is IR#16 per night, with full Irish breakfast an additional IR#4. Accommodation will be "First come, first served": there is a heavy demand for campus rooms in the summer. There are also several hotels and B&B establishments nearby: addresses will be provided on request. To register, contact Alex Monaghan at the addresses given below. Payment in advance is possible but not obligatory. Please state gender (for accommodation purposes) and any unusual dietary requirements. Submission of Abstracts: Those wishing to present a paper at CSNLP should submit a 400-word abstract to arrive not later than 10/4/95. Abstracts should give the author's full name and address, with Email address if possible, and should be sent to: CSNLP Alex Monaghan School of Computer Applications Dublin City University Dublin 9 Ireland Email submissions are preferred, plain ASCII text please to: --------- alex@compapp.dcu.ie (internet) Completed papers should be around 8 pages long, although longer papers will be considered if requested. Camera-ready copy must be submitted to arrive in Dublin by 19/6/94. No particular conference style will be imposed, but papers should be legible (12pt laser printed) and well-structured. Deadlines: 10th April --- Submission of 400-word abstract 1st May --- Notification of acceptance 19th June --- Deadline for receipt of camera-ready paper (c.8 pages) 26th June --- Final date for registration, accommodation, meals etc. From: jbutler@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Jon Butler) Subject: Religion issue of William & Mary Quarterly 1997 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 21:40:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 302 (557) Call for Manuscripts Special Issue of the William and Mary Quarterly Religion in Early America In 1997, the William and Mary Quarterly plans to publish a topical issue on religion in early America. The purpose is to highlight the diverse cultural roles of religion and present fresh perspectives in an area of interest that has long been central to early American studies. Preference will be given to papers that address previously undeveloped dimensions of spiritual and social life or offer new ways of comprehending religious expression and experience. Article manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words. Notes and documents will also be considered. Jon Butler will serve as guest editor. The issue will be juried by a panel of scholars. Manuscripts should be submitted in four copies to Prof. Butler, American Studies Program, Yale University, P. O. Box 208236, New Haven CT 06520-8236. The deadline is January 1, 1996. Manuscripts will not be returned. Direct inquiries to Prof. Butler by e-mail at jbutler@minerva.cis.yale.edu or by telephone at 203-432-1378. From: Guido Abbattista Subject: Storia della Storiografia: "Call for papers" Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 23:03:17 +0000 (CUT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 303 (558) Storia della Storiografia, an international journal of history of historiography, based in University of Turin, Dept. of History, wishes to announce a call for papers on modern and contemporary Italian history. Scholars and researchers engaged are cordially invited to make proposals and submit papers on any aspect of Italian history. Every specific field of research may be taken into account: economic, social, political history, history of ideologies, intellectual history, history of institutions, particular problems (Risorgimento, the building of the liberal State, Fascism, anti-fascist resistance, the building of the Republic, the post-WWII period), questions of periodization etc. Our journal is particularly interested in some reflections on foreign contributions to Italian history, or the interpretations of Italian history elaborated by non-Italian historiographical traditions. Proposals should reach our Journal by June 1995, and papers, not exceeding 30 single-line pages, should be submitted by Spring 1996, in order to be published at the end of 1996-beginning 1997. Please reply to: Storia della Storiografia, Dipartimento di Storia, Universita' di Torino, fax: 011-8174911, email: storstor@RS950.cisi.unito.it Thank you for your kind attention: Guido Abbattista (Managing Editor) From: Critical Mass Subject: Call for Papers Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 01:58:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 353 (559) CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Now inviting submissions for CRITICAL MASS vol. 5.1 _Critical Mass_ is in its fifth year. We continue to publish the critical and creative work of graduate students of English: innovative essays on literature and theory, book reviews, poetry, short fiction, etc. We also welcome opinion pieces on the job market, pedagogy, graduate programs and other topics of interest to graduate students of English. Issue 4.2 contains: Cynthea Masson, "Desire Waiting for a Response: Fantasizing Theories of the Lesbian Love Letter" Sharon Hamilton, "Kissing Clarissa" Nancy Pearson, "The Edenic Myth in Stephen Friesen's _The Shunning_" Fiction by Michael Kohn; poetry by Kathy Mac; and reviews by Julia Swan and Michael Greene. Submissions to should follow MLA format. To facilitate our process of anonymous reading, the author's name should not appear on the manuscript. Please include a self-addressed, self-stamped return envelope. Send your submissions to: Critical Mass Department of English Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 3J5 You can also send e-mail inquiries and abstracts (or, if you feel up to it, the entire document) to CRITMASS@AC.DAL.CA. *** We welcome submissions at any time, but the deadline for our next issue *** is May 15, 1995. From: "Patrick J. SINCLAIR" Subject: Tenure-track position: Classics/TLG Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 07:37:45 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 304 (560) In early December 1994 the Department of Classics and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae at the University of California at Irvine advertised a tenure-track position. The deadline for that position has been extended to March 20, 1995 and the description somewhat modified, as follows in the next paragraph. Applicants who have already submitted materials will still be considered for the position. The University of California, Irvine, announces a tenure-track position in Classics. The individual recruited for the position will be appointed full time in the Department of Classics and will be released from teaching responsibilities at least 50% time to provide administrative and technical support to UCI's Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. It is anticipated that the appointee will ultimately assume the directorship of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Requirements: Ph.D. in Classics with an emphasis in Greek. Extensive expertise in computer application to Classical literature is essential. The specific level at which the individual will be appointed will correspond to the individual's qualifications, background, and experience. Letters of application should be submitted to the chair of the search committee, Professor Patrick Sinclair, Department of Classics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-2000. Application deadline: March 20, 1995. UCI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to excellence through diversity. From: cgarcia@cc.colorado.edu Subject: JOB OPENING IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT THE COLORADO COLLEGE Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 13:10:20 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 305 (561) One year appointment for 1995-1996, instructor or assistant professor, to teach American literature before the Civil War, including the American Renaissance. Possible secondary interests: Native-American literature, queer theory/gay studies, post-colonial theory. Opportunity to teach courses in these areas as well as in broad undergraduate liberal arts curriculum. ABD or PhD. Commitment to undergraduate teaching essential. Salary competitive. Send letter, c.v., and dossier by March 31 to Prof. Thomas Mauch, Chair, English Department, Colorado College, 14 E. Cache la Poudre, Colorado Springs, CO 80903. Colorado College is an EOE, and especially encourages women and minorities to apply. The COllege and the English Department particularly welcome applicants who can provide the persepctives of women and minorities on their subject matter. PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE*PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE*PLEASE FORWARD From: Michael Gamer Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 21:37:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 355 (562) Michigan Feminist Studies, an interdisciplinary journal edited by graduate students at the University of Michigan, is calling for submissions for its 10th (1995-96) issue. The theme of this upcoming issue is "Differences Among Women." Please submit manuscripts of 4000-6000 word length and double spaced. Please be sure your footnotes (no endnotes) follow the MLA stylesheet. All submissions should include: --3 copies --A 150-200 word abstract --Institutional affiliation --Address, phone number, and e-mail address --A brief biographical note Please send materials to: Michigan Feminist Studies Women's Studies Department 224 West Engineering Building University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092 Deadline: March 15, 1995 Our e-mail address is: michigan feminist studies@um.cc.umich.edu Note: The theme for the next issue is meant to be interpreted broadly. We apologize for any duplication of this notice on this or any other list. From: Arthur Carmichael Subject: [Arthur Carmichael : Operation Crossroads Africa, Icn] Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 11:52:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 357 (563) This post is for students who are interested in traveling to and Learning about and from Africa, professors whothink that some of theier students would be interested in learning about and from Africa, people over the age of 26 who would like to take on the responsibility of being a group leader in the crossroads program, or anyone else who feels that they would benefit from traveling to and learning from africa. OPERATION CROSSROADS AFRICA, INC. 1995 SUMMER PROGRAM 37 YEARS OF CROSS CULTURAL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FROM AFRICA participation in an Operation Crossroads Africa project will give you a hands- on opportunity to learn about and from Africa. THE CROSSROADS PROPOSAL Invest seven weeks of service as a volunteer with a Crossroads international development project in an African commmunity. Return to the U.S.A. with a greater understanding about Africa, an understanding which can increase your self awaerness and value to your community. WHAT IS THE CROSSROADS AFRICA EXPERIANCE LIKE? As a crossroads volunteer, you will spend six weeks at a workcamp project designed to provide maximum interaction, learning opportunities, and cultural awareness. you will be a part of an international team of eight ot ten women and men of various racial, cultural, and educational backrounds, working on a development project your African hosts have initiated. You may be assigned to school construction, an inoculation drive, an archeological dig, installation of a water system, reforestation of an area, or some other useful work. On a crossroads project, everyone puts in several hours of manual labor each day and takes part in communal maintenance. You will live in a simple workcamp environment with the basic amenities, minus many modern conveniences we take for granted. You will enjoy meaningful exposure to the Languages, music, history, and customs of your host country. Each team includes one group leader. You will help create group-oriented solutions, incorporating ideas of people whose assumptions may be very different from your own. Crossroads Volunteers do not go to Africa to impose thie r own values on Africans. They go to render service and to learn as much as possible from the experience. The project includes six work weeks and one travel week. Crossroads Africa is not a tour or recreational activity. It Is a challenging experience. Like most post-high school educational experiences, it is not free. The fee for participation is $3,500 which many participants successfully raise through religious organizations, schools unions, social or civic groups. The raffle which OCA sponsors each year has been a major fund raising vehicle for many participants. Also, the Crossroads staff can offer applicants advice and assistance in raising funds. WHO SHOULD APPLY? In its recruitment, diversity is one of crossroads' primary goals. Successful participation in Crossroads requires, above all, communication skills and a strong and sincere desire to establish contact with people of other cultures. A willingness to appreciate different patterns of thought and modes of behavior is essential. Flexibility, Patience, and a willingness to contribute to the communal lifeof the group will be paramount. we urgwe you to carefully comsider the nature of the Crossroads program, our philosophy, and our objective before applying. "Since my Crossroads summer, I appreciate life differently. I feel like I've gained spiritually. Although it's hard to articulate, I feel a lot more relaxed about myself. Part of it is that I'm more comfortable in the world as a whole." Julious Park, Ghana '91 TENTATIVE HOST COUNTRIES Cape Verdi (P), Ethiopia (E), Madagtascar (F), Namibia (E), Tanzania (E), Zambia (E), Zimbabwe (E), Cote d'Ivoire (F), The Gambia (E), Guinea-bissau (P)< Mali, (F), Senegal (F), Togo (F), Uganda (E), South Africa (E), and Ghana (E). Language Key: (P) Portuguese, (F) french, (E) english PROGRAM DATES (tentative) june 25 - August 13, 1995 "What I took home with me was the pride that Africans have in themselves..." Karen Nance, The Gambia '77 "Crossroads provided the practical or realistic dimension to studies which had been...limited to bookd and accasional social contacts with African students...The Crossroads experience...made me feel certain and confident that I wanted to specialize in African Affairs." Yvonne Williams, Togo '60 CROSSROADS: 37 YEARS OF CROSS-CULTURAL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT In 1995, Crossroads Africa, which was founded by the Reverend James H. Robinson in 1958, celebrates 37 years of service. As a personal friend of many leaders in African nations which won independance in the 1950's and 1960's, Reverend Robinson knew the importance of getting involved in learning about and from a free Africa. The Peace Corps, which began in 1961, is modeled after Crossroads. Because of its highly successful organizational model, Crossroads Continues to be a prototype for broadening international understanding and cooperation while tangibly contributing to the process of developmemnt. "These past two months have made sense out of the last twenty-one years of my life." Fred Smith, Botswana, '81 send application requests to: Operation Crossroads Africa, Inc. 475 Riverside Drive, suite 830 New York, New York 10115-0050 include you r name, address, and whether you are applying as a participant or as a leader (you must be at least 26 years of age to be a group leader) or call (212) 870-2106 if you call tell LaVerne art Carmichael says hi. If you would like to know more about the experience of being a crossroads participant, or if you would like to know how I went about raising the $3,500 dollars, or if you are a former crossroader and want to swap stories or if you feel that this post should not have been submitted to this list and feel the need to send a "flame", or if you just feel the need to send a "flame" my E-mail address is carmicha@clam.rutgers.edu also please feel free to repost this posting on any list that you feel would benefit from it, or e-mail it to anyone who you feel might be interested. sincerely, ABC III Arthur B. Carmichael III 1100 Haral Place Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08034-3605 U.S.A Ph# (609) 354-0831 carmicha@clam.rutgers.edu P.S. sorry about my horrid typing. From: Nicolas Nicolov Subject: Comp Ling Summer School Date: Sun, 26 Feb 95 23:39:58 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 306 (564) * Please post: Second Announcement International Summer School "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" ____________________________________________________________________ 9 - 13 Sept 1995 Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria DATES: 9 - 13 Sept 1995 (arrival 8 Sept) LOCATION: Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains surrounding the Batak Lake. Tzigov Chark is 150km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME: A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Lexicalized tree-adjoining grammars J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Knowledge acquisition from corpora J. Haller (IAI, Saarbrucken, Germany) Unification-based Machine Translation J. Schutz (IAI, Saarbrucken, Germany) Language Engineering J. Hutchins (University of East Anglia, UK) Machine translation: history, current status and possible future developments W. von Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany) Knowledge-based Machine Aided Translation Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Lexical knowledge acquisition A. Ramsey (University College Dublin) Interpretation in context Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon, Korea) English-to-Korean Machine Translation Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice, Italy) Referring expressions in sublanguages C. Martin-Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgilli, Tarragona, Spain) Mathematical Linguistics: its relevance for Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science Other speakers are expected to confirm their participation. A more complete list will be given in the next announcement. SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION: For further information please contact: Nicolas Nicolov or Prof. Ruslan Mitkov RELATED EVENTS: The summer school participants are also invited to take part in the Int. Conference "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING", which will take place immediately after the summer school in Velingrad, 20 km from Tzigov Chark. Further information about the conference can be obtained from: Nicolas Nicolov or Prof. R. Mitkov NB Prof. Ruslan Mitkov's NEW email is: THIRD ANOUNCEMENT: A more complete tutorial program, information about registration fees, and accommodation will be posted in due time. * Please post * From: Bernhard Schroeder Subject: autumn school of the GLDV Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 20:18:29 MEZ X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 307 (565) The following announcement may be of interest to members of your list. Sincerely, Bernhard Schroeder ****************************************************************************** * * * * * * * Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische Datenverarbeitung * * * * * * * * **************************** HERBSTSCHULE 1995 ******************************* Moderne Methoden der Corpusanalyse 11.-15. September 1995 Universitaet Bonn Psychologie/Informatik-Zentrum, Roemerstrasse 164 Programm: Kurs 1: Methoden der Standardisierung - Eine Einfuehrung in SGML und TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative) (Dr.Peter Scherber, Goettingen) Kurs 2: Morphologie und Tagging (Prof. Dr. Roland Hausser, Erlangen) Kurs 3: Fachsprachliche Korpora (Prof. Dr. Bergenholtz, Aahus) Kurs 4: Statistischer Zugriff auf Korpora: Disambiguierung und Tagging (Dr. Robert Neumann, Cyril Belica und Doris al-Wadi, Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim) Kurs 5: Textmodellbasierte Korpusanalyse (Dr. Karin Haenelt, GMD Darmstadt) Kurs 6: Korpora gesprochener Sprache (Prof. Dr. Randall Jones, Brigham Young University, Provo). Naehere Informationen zu den einzelnen Kursen wie Inhaltsnagabe, Literatur, Zeiten etc. sowie zur gesamten Herbstschule werden an die angemeldeten Teilnehmer ab ca. 1. Juni 1995 versandt. EXKURSION: Mittwoch, 13. September, Besichtigung von Forschungslabors der Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) in St. Augustin- Birlinghoven, anschliessend Wanderung im Siebengebirge und Weinabend in Oberdollendorf/Koenigswinter. Plenarvortraege: Prof. Dr. H. Schnelle, Bochum: "Wortvernetzungen in Computer und Gehirn" Prof. Dr. Manfred Bierwisch, Berlin: Thema vorauss.: "Universalien und Idiosynkrasien im Lexikon" Gebuehren: Bei Anmeldung VOR dem 15. Juni 1995 Studenten Sonstige Mitglieder der GLDV: 60,-- 100,-- Nichtmitglieder: 80.-- 130,-- Bei Anmeldung NACH dem 15. Juni 1995: Studenten Sonstige Mitglieder der GLDV: 100,-- 140,-- Nichtmitglieder: 120,-- 170,-- Die Teilnehmergebuehr ist mit der Anmeldung auf das im Anmeldeformular (siehe unten) angegebene Konto zu ueberweisen. Unterbringung: Jugendgaestehaus Bonn-Venusberg (Bus-Transfer): 4-Bett-Zimmer, mit Fruehstueck, 31.50 p.P./Nacht Gaestehaus d. Internationalen Jugendforum Bonn: 2-Bett-Zimmer, mit Fruehstueck, 63,oo p.P./Nacht 1-Bett-Zimmer, mit Fruehstueck, 95,00 DM p.P./Nacht Studentenwohnheim: Sammelunterbringung (Kueche, Bad, WC), 10,00 DM p.P./Nacht Verpflegung: Mensa, Cafeteria unmittelbar im Tagungsgebaeude Schwimmbad: Roemerbad, um die Ecke des Tagungsgebaeudes Anmeldeformular: ************************************************************* Verbindliche Anmeldung zur Teilnahme an der GLDV-Herbstschule vom 11.-15.September 1995 in Bonn Name................................................. Vorname.............................................. Strasse.............................................. Wohnort.............................................. Student an Universitaet/Hochschule................... Gewuenschte Unterbringung (bitte ankreuzen): Jugendgaestehaus Bonn-Venusberg (Bus-Transfer): ( ) 4-Bett-Zimmer, mit Fruehstueck, 31.50 p.P./Nacht Gaestehaus d. Internationalen Jugendforum Bonn: ( ) 2-Bett-Zimmer, mit Fruehstueck, 63,oo p.P./Nacht ( ) 1-Bett-Zimmer, mit Fruehstueck, 95,00 DM p.P./Nacht Studentenwohnheim: ( ) Sammelunterbringung (Kueche, Bad, WC), 10,00 DM p.P./Nacht ( ) besorge Unterbringung selbst Die angebotenen Unterbringungsmoeglichkeiten koennen nur bei einer Anmeldung bis zum 15.6.1995 gewaehrleistet werden. Spaeter eingehende Unterbringungswuensche werden erfuellt, so gut es dann noch geht. Zahlung der Gebuehren: Teilnehmergebuer: DM ........ Unterbringung: Garantiebetrag fuer 1 Uebernachtung: DM ........ Den Gesamtbetrag von DM ........ ueberweise ich auch das Konto N. 502199013 bei der Volksbank Bonn, BLZ 380 601 86 unter Angabe des Verwendungszwecks "GLDV-Herbstschule 1995". Unterschrift: ................................. Anmeldung bitte schicken an GESELLSCHAFT fuer LINGUISTISCHE DATENVERARBEITUNG e.V. * 1. Vositzender * Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders * Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik * der Universitaet Bonn * Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 * D-53115 Bonn * * Tel. +49 (228) 735646 * * Fax +49 (228) 735639 * * e-mail: Lenders@uni-bonn.de * *********************************************************** From: bd498@freenet.buffalo.edu (Kizer Walker) Subject: German Studies syllabi Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:07:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 359 (566) **********************DEADLINE EXTENDED********************* for the DAAD BEST SYLLABI IN GERMAN STUDIES competition *** Submissions will be accepted up to APRIL 1, 1995 *** ***$1000 in prizes*** for innovative interdisciplinary or comparative approaches to the teaching of German Studies (including language, politics, history, literature, cinema, anthropology, culture, art, music, Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, etc.) will be awarded in 1995. All syllabi submitted for the competition will be included in an on-line, multi-year database of teaching materials for German Studies. Complete and detailed syllabi, including detailed references, sources, and pedagogical goals, should be submitted as hard copy and on computer disk clearly labeled to indicate computer (PC/Mac), author, and software by **APRIL 1, 1995** to Kizer Walker, Department of German Studies, 194 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853. The DAAD Syllabi database at present consists of over 170 syllabi in fields ranging from architecture to Women's Studies. The database will continue to expand as new syllabi are submitted for inclusion. Information on accessing the database electronically can be had by contacting Kizer Walker at the address above, or at kw33@cornell.edu. -- *************************************************** Kizer Walker bd498@freenet.buffalo.edu --or-- kw33@cornell.edu *************************************************** From: jose@gril.univ-bpclermont.fr (Jose L. Rodrigo) Subject: appel - congreso espan5ol de Ame1rica Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 18:06:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 360 (567) jose@gril.univ-bpclermont.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE "EL ESPAN5OL DE AME1RICA" UNIVERSIDAD DE BURGOS (ESPAN5A) 6 - 10 de noviembre de 1995 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ PRIMERA CIRCULAR / PRIMARY CALL FOR PAPERS---------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- nota sobre la codificacio1n de los caracteres del espan5ol; ACENTO = vocal seguida del nu1mero uno ; filologi1a DIE1RESIS = vocal seguida del nu1mero cuatro; lingu4i1stica TILDE = ene seguida del nu1mero cinco; espan5ol CODIFICATION FOR THE SPANISH CHARACTERS: The character "tilde " like "espanol" is codified with "n5": "espan5ol" The character "accent" like in "cancion" is codified with "o1": "cancio1n" The character "Diaeresis" like in "linguistica" is codified with "u4": "lingu4i1stica" _____________________________________________ PATROCINADORES / SPONSORS _____________________________________________ Junta de Castilla y Leo1n Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Burgos Excma. Diputacio1n Provincial de Burgos Caja de Burgos El a1rea de Filologi1a Espan5ola - Lingu4i1stica de la Universidad de Burgos, convoca a la celebracio1n del V Congreso Internacional de "El espan5ol de Ame1rica", que se celebrara1 en Burgos (Espan5a) durante los dias 6 a 10 de noviembre de 1995. Burgos y la Casa del Cordo1n volvera1n a recibir a viajeros procedentes del otro lado del mar para ensen5ar, discutir, y comentar con los del viejo continente noticias y aspectos de las hablas de Ame1rica: The departement "Spanish Philology - Linguistics" of the University of Burgos (Spain) invites for the celebration of the 5th International Congress on "El espan5ol de Ame1rica" (The Spanish language of America) which will take place in Burgos (Spain) from the 6th to 10th november 1995. The city of Burgos and the "Casa del Cordo1n" (House of the Cordon) will receive again travellers from overseas to show, to discuss and to comment news and aspects of the languages of America _____________________________________________ SEDE / THE BUILDING: _____________________________________________ La "Casa del Cordo1n", propiedad de la Caja de Burgos. Es un magni1fico palacio del siglo XV en cuya fachada una la1pida recuerda: "En esta casa de los Condestables de Castilla recibieron los Reyes Cato1licos a Cristo1bal Colo1n, que volvi1a de su segundo viaje al Nuevo Mundo" y le confirmaron todos sus privilegios, el di1a 23 de abril de 1497" The "Casa del Cordo1n" belongs to the bank "Caja de Burgos". It is a magnificent palace from the XV century. In its front a memorial stone remembers us: "In this house belonging to the Constables of Castile the Catholic Monarchs received Christhopher Columbus who returned from his second tour to the New World and they confirmed all his privileges the 23th april 1497" _____________________________________________ COMUNICACIONES / SUBMISSION REQUERIREMENTS _____________________________________________ Los interesados en presentar una comunicacio1n debera1n enviar el ti1tulo y un resumen de un folio antes del 31 de mayo de 1995. indicando: Authors are invited to submit an abstract (1page) to reach us not later than 31th May 1995. The title page of the abstract should contain a 5-7 line summary as well as a list of keywords. Ti1tulo de la comunicacio1n / Title of the paper Nombre(s) y apellidos del autor (es) / Name(s) of the author(s) Resumen / Summary Palabras clave / Keywords Una comisio1n cienti1fica valorara1 y seleccionara1 las comunicaciones que se presentara1n en el Congreso. Las comunicaciones tendra1n una duracio1n de 20 minutos, seguidos de 10 minutos de dia1logo y discusio1n. A scientific comittee will select the papers which will be presented in the congress. The presentation of the papts will last 20 minutes and the following discussion 10 minutes _____________________________________________ MESAS REDONDAS / WORKSHOPS _____________________________________________ EL ESPAN5OL EN AME1RICA DESDE AME1RICA Presidente: Dr. Humberto Lo1pez Morales participara1n representantes de las academias americanas de la lengua espan5ola EL ATLAS LINGU4I5STICO DE AME1RICA Presidente: Dr Manuel Alvar Lo1pez participara1n colaboradores en el Atlas lingu4i5stico de Ame1rica La lengua de trabajo del congreso sera1 el espan5ol The congress will be hold in Spanish _____________________________________________ SECCIONES / SUBJECTS _____________________________________________ Dialectologi1a y sociolingu4i1stica / Dialectology and Sociolinguistics Etnolingu4i1stica / Ethnolinguistics Lenguas en contacto / Languages coming into contact Psicolingu4i1stica / Psycholinguistics Historia del espan5ol americano / History of the Spanish language of America Fone1tica, fonologi1a y morfosintaxis /Phonetics, Phonology and Morphosyntax Sema1ntica y lexicografi1a / Semantics and Lexicography Analisis lingu4i1stico de textos literarios / Linguistic analysis of literary texts _____________________________________________ VIAJES Y ALOJAMIENTO / TRIPS AND ACCOMODATION _____________________________________________ Las personas interesadas en asistir al Congreso recibira1n oportunamente informacio1n sobre viajes y alojamiento, con tarifas especiales. The persons who will be present at the congress will recive appropiate information about special prices of trips and accomodation _____________________________________________ OTRAS ACTIVIDADES / OTHER ACTIVITIES _____________________________________________ Durante el congreso habra1 un abundante programa de actividades culturales y sociales para todos los congresistas. During the congress there will be an abundant programm of cultural and social actitivies for all the membres of the congress _____________________________________________ PLAZO DE INSCRIPCIO1N / DEADLINE FOR THE REGISTRATION _____________________________________________ 19 de septiembre 1995 _____________________________________________ CUOTAS DE INSCRIPCIO1N / REGISTRATION FEE: _____________________________________________ normal: 12000 pts (90 $ USA) estudiantes y licenciados en paro students and unemployed bachelors 6000ptas (45 $ USA) Para ma1s informacio1n: For more information: ANTONIO ALVAREZ TEJEDOR "V congreso internacional de "el espan5ol de ame1rica" UNIVERSIDAD DE BURGOS Facultad de Humanidades c/ Villadiego s/n 09002 BURGOS ESPAN5A(SPAIN) telfno: + 47 25 87 62 / + 47 25 87 69 fax : + 47 25 87 23 Complete y envi1e el boleti1n de inscripcio1n Please complete the following details for Registration at "V CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE "EL ESPAN5OL DE AME1RICA"" -------------------- Cortar por aqui / Please cut here ------------------- _____________________________________________ BOLETI1N DE INSCRIPCIO1N _____________________________________________ APELLIDOS (Name):........................................... NOMBRE(Surname):............................................ INSTITUCION.(Institution)................................... CATEGORIA PROFESIONAL....................................... DIRECCIO1N(Address):........................................ .................................................... .................................................... PAI1S (Country):............................................ TELE1FONO (Telephone):...................................... FAX:....................... Presentare1 comunicacio1n al congreso (I am a speaker) : si/yes (__) no/no (__) Ti1tulo de la comunicacio1n /Title of the paper:............ .................................................... FORM OF PAYMENT: ---------------- (__) Acompan5o cheque o giro postal correspondiente a derechos de inscripcio1n I add a cheque for postal order to pay the registration fee Cheques and money orders in pesetas currency to be made payable to the ``V congreso internacional de "El espan5ol de Ame1rica'' (__) Abonare1 los derechos de inscripcio1n por transferencia bancaria a la cuenta corriente c/c n: 3020017605 de la CAJA DE BURGOS c/ Santander, 2 09002 BURGOS - ESPAN5A Payment by bank transfer may be made to: Account name: V congreso internacional de "El espan5ol de Ame1rica" Bank name: CAJA DE BURGOS Bank address: c/ Santander 2, 09002 BURGOS (SPAIN) Account number: 3020017605 (__) Abonare1 los derechos de inscripcio1n personalmente en la sede del Congreso I will pay the registration fee personally in the congress Fecha(Date) .......................Firma(Signature)....................... Please send completed form and Registration Fee to: "V CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE "EL ESPAN5OL DE AME1RICA"" UNIVERSIDAD DE BURGOS Facultad de Humanidades c/ Villadiego s/n 09002 BURGOS ESPAN5A(SPAIN) All registrations must be confirmed by post. From: Evelyne Tzoukermann Subject: PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR EACL SIGDAT WORKSHOP Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 11:18:19 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 361 (568) FROM TEXTS TO TAGS: ISSUES IN MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS Dublin, Ireland - March 27, 1995 8:30-9:00 Registration 9:00-9:10 Welcome 9:10-9:35: D. Elworthy Tagset Design and Inflected Languages 9:35-10:00 J. Hughes, C. Souter & E. Atwell Automatic Extraction of Tagset Mappings from Parallel-Annotated Corpora 10:00-10:25 K. Gojenola Different Issues in the Design of a Lemmatizer/Tagger for Basque 10:25-10:55 COFFEE 10:55-11:35 G. Leech (invited speaker) 11:35-12:00 S. Teufel A Support Tool for Tagset Mappping 12:00-12:25 S. Armstrong, G. Russell, D. Petitpierre, G. Robert An Open Architecture for Multilingual Text Processing 12:25-12:55 C. Thielen An Approach to Proper Name Tagging for German 12:55-14:00 LUNCH 14:00-14:25 H. Feldweg Implementation and Evaluation of a New German HMM Model for POS Disambiguation 14:25-14:50 H. Schmid Improvements in Part-of-Speech Tagging with an Application to German 14:50-15:15 E. Tzoukerman, D. R. Radev & W. A. Gale Combining Linguistic Knowledge and Statistical Learning in French 15:15-15:40 J.-P. Chanod & P. Tapanainen Creating a Tagset, Lexicon and Guesser for a French Tagger 15:40-16:00 TEA 16:00-16:25 R. Sproat A Finite-State Architecture for Tokenization and Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion in Multilingual Text Analysis 16:25-16:50 E. Giguet Multilingual Sentence Categorization According to Language 16:50-17:15 T. McEnery & Oates Cognate Extraction in the Crater Project: Methods and Assessment 17:15-17:30 Conclusion/Discussion --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration Information for EACL-95 is available from the ftp file server: <ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/Eacl95/registration.txt.Z> $ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous Password: yourname@address [not echoed] cd acl-l/Eacl95 ftp> get registration.txt.Z ftp> quit $ uncompress registration.txt.Z --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION REGISTRATION: Registration fees are 27 Irish pounds (or the equivalent in US dollars) for participants who register by March 1rst 1995. Late registration will be 33 Irish pounds (or the equivalent in US dollars); it includes a copy of the proceedings, lunch, and refreshments during the day. ************************************************************************* ****************************IMPORTANT************************************ ************************************************************************* * * * ALL PAYMENTS IN US DOLLARS ARE TO BE SENT ONLY TO EVELYNE TZOUKERMANN;* * ALL PAYMENTS IN OTHER CURRENCIES SHOULD BE SENT TO SUSAN ARMSTRONG. * * * ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* - US DOLLARS: acceptable forms of payment are US$ checks payable to "ACL" or credit card (VISA/Mastercard) payment. - OTHER CURRENCIES: checks payable to "ACL" can be send to Susan Armstrong; no credit card payment is acceptable in this case. Evelyne Tzoukermann; Susan Armstrong AT&T Bell Laboratories ISSCO University of Geneva Room 2D-448, P.O. Box 636 54 route des Acacias 600 Mountain Avenue CH-1227 Geneve Murray Hill, NJ, 07944-0636 Switzerland Please submit the following form along with payment: name:_________________________________________________________________ institution: (for name tag)___________________________________________ address: (postal address)_____________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ email:________________________________________________________________ payment: (specify cheque or credit card)______________________________ credit card info: (name on card, card number, expiration date)________ ______________________________________________________________________ dietary requirements: (if they can be met by the organizers)__________ From: Glyn Morrill Subject: Conference call Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 17:02:30 UTC+0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 362 (569) -------------please post-------------- ` PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS FORMAL GRAMMAR Barcelona August 12-13, 1995 in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information In 1995 the Seventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is to be held in Barcelona. As on previous occasions this meeting will serve as a forum for areas including computational linguistics, formal linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar formalisms. This year the programme includes a conference on formal grammar open to all participants to present contemporary research in this domain. Themes of interest include formal and computational phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. Ten copies of anonymous abstracts of not more than 800 words (on one two-sided sheet) should be sent to the address below to arrive not later than April 21st, 1995. Please provide a separate sheet detailing title, author(s) and institution(s), and address, e-mail, telephone and fax of one author for communication purposes. Indicate on both the abstract and the identification sheet whether you require 20 minutes or 40 minutes for presentation. Notification of acceptance will be by May 22nd. Final versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a proceedings to be distributed at the time of the Summer School. Address for correspondence: Committee of the ESSLLI Conference on Formal Grammar c/o Glyn Morrill Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Pau Gargallo, 5 08028 BARCELONA e-mail: morrill@lsi.upc.es Programme Committee: Elisabet Engdahl, Ewan Klein, Glyn Morrill, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Carl Pollard, Richard Sproat, Susan Steele, Rich Thomason, Annie Zaenen. For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (14th-25th August) contact: ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax +43 3 2054656; e-mail: esslli95@gilcub.es \documentstyle[11pt]{article} \pagestyle{empty} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0in} \begin{document} \begin{center} \rule{1in}{.01in}please post\rule{1in}{.01in}\\ \medskip {\large PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS}\\ \bigskip {\Large \bf FORMAL GRAMMAR}\\ \medskip Barcelona \\ August 12-13, 1995 \\ in conjunction with the \\ {\bf European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information} \end{center} \medskip \noindent In 1995 the Seventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is to be held in Barcelona. As on previous occasions this meeting will serve as a forum for areas including computational linguistics, formal linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar formalisms. This year the programme includes a conference on formal grammar open to all participants to present contemporary research in this domain. Themes of interest include formal and computational phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. Ten copies of anonymous abstracts of not more than 800 words (on one two-sided sheet) should be sent to the address below to arrive not later than April 21st, 1995. Please provide a separate sheet detailing title, author(s) and institution(s), and address, e-mail, telephone and fax of one author for communication purposes. Indicate on both the abstract and the identification sheet whether you require 20 minutes or 40 minutes for presentation. Notification of acceptance will be by May 22nd. Final versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a proceedings to be distributed at the time of the Summer School. \medskip \noindent Address for correspondence: \medskip \begin{tabular}{l} Committee of the ESSLLI Conference on Formal Grammar\\ c/o Glyn Morrill \\ Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Inform\`{a}tics \\ Universitat Polit\`{e}cnica de Catalunya \\ Pau Gargallo, 5 \\ 08028 BARCELONA \\ \\ e-mail: {\sf morrill@lsi.upc.es} \end{tabular} \medskip \noindent Programme Committee: Elisabet Engdahl, Ewan Klein, Glyn Morrill, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Carl Pollard, Richard Sproat, Susan Steele, Rich Thomason, Annie Zaenen. \medskip \noindent For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (14th-25th August) contact: ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax +43 3 2054656; e-mail: {\sf esslli95@gilcub.es} \end{document} From: "David Hoekema" Subject: Conference announcement and invitation Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 18:08:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 363 (570) CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE IN THE CROSSFIRE: CONFERENCE AT CALVIN COLLEGE APRIL 27-29 The so-called "culture wars" have engaged the interest of many observers both inside and outside the academy. Yet there has been comparatively little serious discussion of the bearing of Christian commitment on the disputed questions of relativism, feminism, cultural diversity, and post-modernist approaches. This situation is doubly unfortunate. On the one hand, the relative silence of thoughtful Christian voices in the debate has impoverished national discussion of these matters. A tradition that has profoundly influenced the current state of American intellectual culture, and within which questions of truth and justice have been vigorously debated for two millenia, has too often been ignored, or reduced to irresponsible oversimplifications, by the officers leading the cultural battle on both sides. On the other hand, even where recent writings about community, gender, and the social bases of knowledge have direct bearing on issues of Christian faith and practice, leaders in the community of Christian higher education have given them too little consideration or dismissed them without serious examination. A conference sponsored by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, to be held at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on April 27-29, 1995, will bring together the responses of a diverse group of scholars to questions such as these: --Is there a "culture war" being waged in the academy today and, if so, who are the warring parties? --What do feminist and post-modernist critics of the Enlightenment have to say about the nature of knowledge and the world? --Do these critical movements undermine Christian approaches, or can they instead create a space for faith and for intellectual inquiry grounded in faith? --Is knowledge generated by a community, not simply by an individual? Do communitarian moral values demand a communitarian theory of knowledge? --Can Christian social thought and practice provide a communitarian perspective that escapes the dangers of authoritarianism? --What place do race and ethnicity have in a community shaped by Christian values? Conference speakers and topics will include: Martin Marty, "Cross-Multicultures in the Crossfire: The Humanities and Political Interests" Elizabeth Minnich, "If You Want Truth, Work for Justice" Miroslav Volf, "Truth, Deception, and Cultural Difference" Paula Brownlee, "I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me: Bridging Between Languages" Jean Hampton, "Feminism, Moral Objectivity, and Christianity" Nicholas Wolterstorff, "Suffering Power and Privileged Cognitive Access" Wayne Booth, "Deconstruction as Religious Revival" Mark Schwehn, "Christianity and Postmodernism: Uneasy Allies" Jacob Neusner, "Christmas and Israel: How Secularism Turns Religion into Culture: The Case of Judaism" Peter Paris, "Conflicting Spiritualities in the Struggle for Racial Justice" Conference organizers David Hoekema (Academic Dean, Calvin College) and Bobby Fong (formerly Academic Dean, Hope College, and Dean-elect of the Faculty, Hamilton College) cordially invite readers of this list to consider attending. For a conference brochure and registration materials, contact Donna Romanowski at the Calvin Center, telephone 616 957-7162 (or by e-mail at romnd@calvin.edu). Registration fee $30; limited on-campus housing available. Conference is limited to 300 registrants. /David Hoekema, Academic Dean, Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI 49546\ \\ tel. 616 957-6442 || fax 616 957-8551 || // From: krshnbtt Subject: Two requests Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:43:04 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 308 (571) I am trying to track down the citation for a quotation from Raymond Williams: "A culture can never be reduced to its artifacts while it is lived." Thank you. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett krshnbtt@acf2.nyu.edu FAX: 212-254-7885 TEL: 212-998-1628 Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th fl, New York, NY 10003 From: ENPOTTS@MERLIN.NLU.EDU Subject: Bennington problems Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 10:57:44 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 309 (572) Do you have information on the status of the humanities faculty at Bennington? I would like to know what has transpired since an inquiry by Michael Metzger dated 25 Aug 1994 addressed to Elaine Brennan [?]. I have found references to LINGUA FRANCA but that publication is not available to me. Any information? Suggestions? Thanks Jim Potts Northeast Louisiana Monroe, LA From: he229bu@rs1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Burr) Subject: research possibility sought at a Spanish and/or French university Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 12:48:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 310 (573) Please reply directly to Dr. Elisabeth Burr Gerhard Mercator Universitaet-GH FB3/Romanistik Lotharstrasse 65 47048 Duisburg Tel.: +49 203 3792605 Fax: +49 203 3792612 e-mail: he229bu@uni-duisburg.de From: Yuichi Simomura Subject: Alexander Berg, an antisemitist in JGermany: request for info Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 19:33:50 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 311 (574) Dear colleagues, I would appreciate any information on Alexander Berg, a German antisemitist, in the late 19th century. Please send the info or pointers to the info to the following address: simomura@zeami.ll.chiba-u.ac.jp I have been working on the history of antisemitism in Germany for the last 30 years and would lilke to share info with those with the same interests. So please contact me if you are interested in sharing the infomation of the relevant kind, even if you do not know Alexander Berg. Thanks a lot. Yuichi From: krshnbtt Subject: NYU In Cracow Summer Program on East European Jews Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 15:05:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 365 (575) NYU in Cracow is a 5 week summer program on The Modern History and Experience of Jews in Eastern Europe, organized in conjunction with the Jagiellonian University (founded in 1364). Both undergraduate and graduate students can choose from a selection of courses that include Introduction to Yiddish Folklore and Ethnography (taught by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett), East European Government and Politics (Jan Gross), Modern History of East European Jewry (David Engel), The Holocaust: Destruction of European Jewry (Lucjan Dobroszycki), Yiddish Literary Landscapes (David Roskies), language courses in Yiddish and Polish, and others. The faculty also includes Christopher Browning and Piotr Wrobel. The program runs from July 3 to August 4, 1995. Four weeks are spent in Cracow and there is a one week study tour of Jewish Galicia. Students take two courses for 8 points of undergraduate or graduate credit. They will be housed in the modern dormitories provided by the Jagiellonian University, Classes will be held in a beautifully renovated nineteenth-century prayer house in the old Jewish quarter of Cracow. Special excursions to the ancient Wieliczka salt mine (a UNESCO designated cultural treasure) and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp have been arranged. For further information, please contact: Jonathan Lipman 6 Washington Square North 998-8018 lipmanj@acfcluster.nyu.edu From: Nicolas Nicolov Subject: CFP - RECENT ADVANCES IN NLP Date: Sun, 26 Feb 95 23:38:50 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 366 (576) * Please post: Second Call For Papers International Conference "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING" _______________________________________________________________________ 14-16 September 1995 Velingrad, Bulgaria TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing and Language Engineering are invited, including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP, machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; written and spoken natural language interfaces; knowledge acquisition; text summarization; computer-assisted language learning; language resources; evaluation, assessment and standards in language engineering; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. The conference welcomes also new results in NLP based on modern alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connectionist as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches. In view of the recent explosion of the use of on-line language resources the conference especially welcomes contributions in the area of language engineering. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: B. Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) C. Boitet (IMAG, Grenoble) E. Charniak (Brown University) K.S. Choi (KAIST, Taejon) A. DeRoeck (University of Essex) R. Delmonte (University of Venice) S. Finch (University of Edinburgh) G. Goerz (University of Erlangen) E. Hajicova (Charles University, Prague) J. Haller (IAI, Saarbruecken) P. Jacobs (SRA, Arlington) A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) L. Kartunen (Xerox Grenoble) M. Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto) R. Kittredge (University of Montreal) K. Kukich (Bellcore, Morristown) J. Mariani (LIMSI, Orsay) C. Martin-Vide (University Rovira i Virgili) Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) K. McKeown (Columbia University) R. Mitkov (IAI/Institute of Mathematics) S. Nirenburg (New Mexico State University) M. Pinkal (University of Saarland, Saarbruecken) A. Ramsey (University College Dublin) H. Somers (UMIST, Manchester) P. Seuren (University of Nijmegen) O. Stock (IRST, Trento) B. Tsou (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong) J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester) D. Tufis (Romanian Academy of Sciences) D. Yarowsky (University of Pennsylvania) M. Zock (LISMI, Orsay) INVITED SPEAKERS: A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester) C. Boitet (IMAG, Grenoble) PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers not exceeding 3500 words should be submitted via Email (preferably as plain text or in LaTeX format) not later than 20 April 1995 to: mitkov@informatik.uni-hamburg.de The first page should also contain the surface and Email address(es) of the author(s), as well as the topic area. SUBMISSION MEDIA: Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to: Ruslan Mitkov Department of Computer Science University of Hamburg Vogt Koelln St. 30 22527 Hamburg GERMANY If electronic submission is problematic (e.g. due to non-standard format, characters, graphics) not possible, 4 copies of the paper should be sent. SCHEDULE: Authors must submit their papers by 20 April 1995. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 20 June 1995. Camera-ready versions of the accepted papers, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 20 July 1995. LOCATION: The town of Velingrad is situated in a picturesque valley in the Western Rhodope mountains and is only 130km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organizers will provide a daily shuttle bus/ conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. Sofia is easily accessible by plane from most of the major European cities (e.g. daily flights or several flights per week from London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Vienna and other European cities). There are also direct flights to Sofia from North America (New York) and Asia (Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Ruslan Mitkov IAI Saarbruecken/Institute of Mathematics, Sofia Michael Zock LIMSI, Orsay, France Manfred Kudlek University of Hamburg, Germany Nikolai Nikolov Incoma/School of Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria Nicolas Nicolov Dept. of AI, University of Edinburgh, UK REGISTRATION FEE Academic staff - USD 140 Full-time students - USD 100 Researchers in industry - USD 180 The registration fee includes attendance at the conference, a copy of the proceedings, refreshments and a reception. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For further information contact: Nicolas Nicolov Dept of Artificial Intelligence University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN Nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk Tel: +44-131 650 2727 Fax: +44-131 650 6516 Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief description together with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to the above address. The organisers can provide PCs and Macintoshes. WWW and FTP: Information about the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" is available via: - WWW at URL: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/misc/NLP_Conf.html - anonymous FTP from ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk in file: pub/user/adv_nlp.ps Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user input is underlined): $ ftp ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Name (ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk: nicolas): anonymous ^^^^^^^^^ Password: <- Type in your email here! ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> cd pub/user ^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> get adv_nlp.ps <- PostScript version ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> get adv_nlp.txt <- Plain Text File ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ RELATED EVENTS: Conference participants are also invited to take part in the International Summer School "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics", which will take place just before the conference in Tzigov Chark, Batak Lake, only 20 km from Velingrad. Further information about the summer school can be obtained from: Prof. R. Mitkov or Nicolas Nicolov INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPANTS / PUBLISHING COMPANIES: Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP-related products as well as publishing companies to exhibit their new books on NLP. Company representatives should inform Nicolas Nicolov of their intention and publishing houses should contact Dr.R.Mitkov . NB Prof. Ruslan Mitkov's NEW email is: ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM: An alternative program can be arranged for persons accompanying delegates. Among the places which can be visited is Plovdiv, the second largest and oldest Bulgarian city, beautifully situated on 7 hills 80 km away from Velingrad. ______________________________________________________________________ THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS: A third call for papers, including more information on invited talks, and conference location will be posted in due time. The information about the conference will be kept updated on the ftp site and on the WWW (mentioned above). ___ From: Nancy Schiller Subject: Internet Colloquium Date: Fri, 03 Mar 95 14:10:13 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 367 (577) The Convergence of Science and the Humanities: Internet Technologies and Scholarly Resources Friday, March 24, 1995 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Buffalo Marriott 1340 Millersport Highway Amherst, NY 14221 This conference is sponsored by the Conversations in the Disciplines Program of the State University of New York with support from the University Libraries and Computing & Information Technology, Academic Services, of the State University of New York at Buffalo Program, papers, and bios are available at URL: gopher://wings.buffalo.edu/hh/internet/library/ e-journals/ub/rift/documents/conversations About the Program The Internet's impact on scholarly research and communication is the subject of this Conversations in the Disciplines program, which brings together a group of people involved in applying Internet technologies and resources to studies in the humanities, social sciences, arts and letters, and the sciences. The colloquium will include a demonstration of MOSAIC, Internet radio, and the UB Electronic Poetry Center, as well as an RIF/T poetry reading. Program Schedule 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. "'Our Words Were the Form We Entered': Toward a Theory of the Net," Loss Glazier, University at Buffalo 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Paper: "Electronic Scholarship," John Merritt Unsworth, University of Virginia 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Demonstration: MOSAIC, Jim Gerland, University at Buffalo 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. Paper: "Gender and Democracy in Computer- Mediated Communication," Susan Herring, University of Texas at Arlington 11:30 - 11:45 a.m. Event: "Internet/Radio/Communities: Social Relations and the New New Media," Martin Spinelli, Independent Radio Producer 11:45 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. Paper: "I Don't Take Voice Mail," Charles Bernstein, University at Buffalo 1:30 - 1:45 p.m. Demonstration: UB Electronic Poetry Center and "Textual Spaces: The Formal Structure of Published On-line Writing," Kenneth Sherwood, University at Buffalo 1:45 - 2:15 p.m. Event: Poetry Reading, Charles Bernstein, Loss Glazier, Kenneth Sherwood, Katie Yates 2:15 - 3:00 p.m. Afternoon Coffee and Electronic Poster Sessions: "An Integrated Multimedia Network for Scholarly Discovery, Pedagogical Authoring, and Professional Presentation in the Field of Music," Nancy Nuzzo and Michael Long, University at Buffalo "Creativity & the Computer," Katie Yates 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Paper: "E-Journals and Preprint Servers in Mathematics and Science," Neil Calkin, Georgia Institute of Technology 3:30 - 4:15 p.m. "Continuing the Conversation: Internet Issues & Concerns," Stuart Shapiro and Valerie Shalin, University at Buffalo, and the Audience 4:15 - 4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks About the Main Speakers Charles Bernstein is David Gray Chair in Poetry and the Humanities at the University at Buffalo and co-editor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, a literary magazine often credited with founding a well-known and highly visible school of contemporary poetry. He has recently been influential in founding the Poetics Program in the English Department at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of twenty books, including _A Poetics_, published by Harvard University Press, and has given papers in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He is the editor of the Poetics listserv on the Internet, one of the most vital electronic discussion groups in contemporary literary theory. Neil Calkin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, before earning a Ph.D. in Combinatorics and Optimization from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1988. He was Zeev Nehari Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon from 1988 to 1991. Since 1991 he has been a member of the mathematics faculty at Georgia Tech. He is co-founder and managing editor of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, one of the first World Wide Web journals in mathematics. He was recently featured in the December 1994 issue of _Scientific American_ in an article by Gary Stix entitled "The Speed of Write: Trends in Scientific Communication." Susan Herring is Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC-Berkeley in 1991. Since 1991 she has been investigating the language of discussion groups on the Internet. She is the author of eight papers on the subject, the best know of which is "Gender and Democracy in Computer-Mediated Communication," and has given talks on gender differences in on-line communications in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She is editor of an interdisciplinary collection entitled _Computer Mediated Communication_ to be published by John Benjamins of Amsterdam, and guest editor of a forthcoming special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication devoted to linguistic approaches to CMC. She is currently investigating the discursive practices of male and female "hackers" on Usenet and the Internet. John Merritt Unsworth is Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is co-founder and co- editor of Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism (published by Oxford University Press) and editor of the acclaimed IATH Research Reports. He has taught "Theory and Practice of Hypertext," "The Information Superhighway: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to the Internet," as well as courses in contemporary literature and literary theory. He is currently working on "Postmodernism and Information Theory," a book-length study of information theory in the context of postmodern literature, literary theory, and social history. His paper, "Electronic Scholarship," will appear in the forthcoming collection _The Literary Text in the Digital Age_, edited by Richard Finneran (University of Michigan Press) _________________________________________________________________ Registration Form The Convergence of Science & The Humanities: Internet Technologies & Scholarly Resources Name ____________________________________________________________ Discipline ______________________________________________________ Institution _____________________________________________________ Address _________________________________________________________ City ____________________ State ______________ Zip ______________ Telephone __________ Fax __________ E-mail ______________________ Registration Fee: $30.00 (For students: $15.00) Make checks payable to: UB Foundation Mail registration and payment to: Convergence of Science & The Humanities Office of Conferences & Special Events 314 Crofts Hall University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-7015 For additional information concerning registration, call (716) 645-2018 Registration Deadline: March 10, 1995 From: Richard Bear Subject: Defence of Poesie Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 13:35:00 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 368 (578) An HTML edition of the Ponsonby printing of Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesie is now available via WWW at the Stony Run home page: http://www-vms.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu Richard Bear From: phil-preprints-admin@phil-preprints.L.chiba-u.ac.jp Subject: News from the IPPE (08 Mar 95) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 95 20:10:03 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 369 (579) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= News from the IPPE -- 7 Mar 95 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -------------------------------- World Wide Web access redesigned -------------------------------- In support of the mission of the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange to facilitate the exchange of working papers between philosophers world-wide, Carolyn Burke of the IPPE has recently redesigned our World Wide Web access, making it much easier to use, and enabling philosophers to locate papers of interest to them in the IPPE's collection with greater ease than ever before. The IPPE's World Wide Web service supplements the previous methods of access via Gopher, ftp, and automated email (see the end of this newsletter for details on all these access methods). The IPPE's WWW service is available by opening the URL http://phil-preprints.L.chiba-u.ac.jp/IPPE.html using Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx, or any other WWW browser (we recommend Netscape). ------------- Status Report ------------- The IPPE continues to enjoy a rate of access of over 100 users per day at our main site in Japan. Additional accesses to the many North American and European sites mirroring the IPPE collection probably greatly exceed this number, but are difficult to quantify. In addition, the rate of submissions to the IPPE has climbed steeply in recent weeks. We are delighted by this trend, and encourage all philosophers to submit their manuscripts to the IPPE in order to benefit from the commentary of their peers. ------------------- Call for Volunteers ------------------- The IPPE seeks motivated and enthuiastic volunteers to assist in the areas of administration, publicity, and technical support. We especially seek persons able to carry out some or all of the following tasks: - liason with the IPPE's international user population of professional philosophers, graduate students, the editorial staffs of philosophical journals, and the staffs of other on-line projects in the humanities and social sciences - editorial work on the newsletter and publicity materials - administrative activities (regarding funding, etc.) - computer support work: UNIX and CGI scripting and related activities. -------------- The IPPE Staff -------------- Coordinators: Dr. Syun Tutiya (Chiba University) and Dr. Richard Reiner (visiting in '95 at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh). Adminstrator: Carolyn L Burke (CMU). Board members: Dr. George Gale (University of Missouri, Kansas City), Andrew Burday (McGill University), Istvan Berkeley (University of Alberta), Stephen Rice (York University). ------------------ Accessing the IPPE ------------------ To access the IPPE, proceed as follows: By www: Open the URL http://phil-preprints.L.chiba-u.ac.jp/IPPE.html By gopher: Use Gopher to go to either apa.oxy.edu or kasey.umkc.edu By ftp: ftp to either Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp, or mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu By email: Mail to phil-preprints-service@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp To place a paper or comment on the IPPE: see pub/submissions/README. If you have questions: send mail to Carolyn Burke at the address . From: David Porter Subject: Internet Culture: Papers Wanted Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 21:39:02 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 370 (580) CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNET CULTURE Urgently Needed: Articles on various aspects of internet culture for inclusion in an anthology to be published by Routledge in 1996. Topics will include issues of gender, identity, pedagogy, community, politics, discourse, and textual representation as they arise in e-mail, newsgroups, MOOS, and the Web. The project is already well underway, but several more solid articles are still needed. I am looking for original, thoughtful essays of approximately 5000-7500 words in length that provide a critical analysis (and/or historical or theoretical contextualization) of some aspect of internet communication. Completed manuscripts are needed by the middle of April. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you'd like more details about the project or if you'd like to get preliminary feedback on a proposed topic. David Porter Stanford Humanities Center Stanford, CA 94305-8031 (415) 725-1535 dporter@leland.stanford.edu From: abell@ula.cam.ac.uk Subject: Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature On-Line Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 08:51:59 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 371 (581) *************************************************************************** *MHRA's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature available * * for searching on-line * *************************************************************************** Colleagues may be interested to know that the Modern Humanities Research Association is making the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) openly available for searching on-line until 30 April 1995 for evaluation purposes. The database currently contains more than 20,000 records of articles, doctoral dissertations, books and reviews in the field of English studies from the report years 1991 and 1992, and is searched by using Cambridge University Library's CATS software. To access the database, use Telnet to connect to vaxf.lib.cam.ac.uk, enter GUEST at the username prompt, and then follow the instructions which appear on screen. Alternatively, visit ABELL's Home Page on the World Wide Web at :- http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/FR_Web/abell.html Apologies for cross-posting. Gerard Lowe Telephone: +44 (0) 1223 333058 Editor, ABELL E-mail: abell@ula.cam.ac.uk University Library West Road Cambridge CB3 9DR UK From: Ian Budden Subject: James Baldwin Archives Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 11:23:18 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 312 (582) Could anyone please give me any ideas as to where there might be any archives of James Baldwin's work (especially but not only in manuscript)? Please excuse cross-posting of this message. Ian Budden, email: i.d.budden@sussex.ac.uk Information Services, University of Sussex Library, Tel: +44 (0) 1273 678440 Brighton, Fax: +44 (0) 1273 678441 United Kingdom, BN1 9QL. From: viden@trubaduren.hum.gu.se Subject: Classicists in Chicago Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 12:25:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 313 (583) A friend of mine, professor of classical philology in Oslo, Norway, is going to visit Chicago in the end of May and would like to get in contact with classicists there. It is not a big undertaking: he would like to visit the classics dept. and perhaps have somebody who would be interested in explaining about the curriculum, state of research etc for an hour or so. Is there anyone out there who works at / knows someone at the Chicago University and would suggest a name? (Is there more than one university, by the way? Sorry about my ignorance!) Answer directly to me, please. Thanks in advance, Gunhild Viden ---------------------------------- Gunhild Viden University of Goteborg, Sweden Tel: +46 31 7734691 Fax: +46 31 138030 From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" Subject: Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 09:49 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 373 (584) The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition July 12-15, 1995 The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, now in its 14th year, offers a generous mixture of plenary and specialinterest sessions in a relaxed atmosphere. A fourday gathering of teachers and scholars, the conference provides occasion to reflect on composition and rhetoric and opportunity to discuss professional concerns with nationally known speakers and interested colleagues. The program committee invites proposals for papers and entire sessions on any current topic in rhetoric and composition. Especially welcome are extensions, applications, and critiques of the work of our featured speakers. Please submit a onepage proposal and identify each proposal as one of the following: a 20minute conference paper. a 10minute position paper. Position papers declare and pointedly defend an assertion on a current professional, institutional, pedagogical, or research issue in rhetoric and composition. a 60 or 90minute panel. In addition to the descriptions of each talk, please include a cover page briefly describing the relationships among the papers. a 90 or 120minute workshop. We especially welcome workshops on innovative pedagogical techniques and on stateoftheart applications of educational computing. Strong preference will be given to workshop proposals that clearly incorporate handson, interactive involvement of the participants. Contribution to a SpecialTopics Session. SpecialTopics Sessions give participants the opportunity to present their ideas and get responses from our featured speakers. This year's specialtopics sessions include: Gender and Writing, Miriam Brody and Sharon Crowley, respondents. We invite 20minute papers on gender in research and teaching in rhetoric and composition. Rhetorics of Disciplinary and Professional Authority, John Angus Campbell, Susan Peck MacDonald, and James Boyd White, respondents. We encourage 20minute papers on the rhetorical creation and criticism of authoritative voices in academic and professional discourse. Current Situations of Composition, Jacqueline Jones Royster and Kurt Spellmeyer, respondents. We encourage 10minute position papers declaring a position on a current issue on the professional, institutional, pedagogical, or research agenda of composition. On each proposal, please include (for each speaker): presentation title speaker's name speaker's professional affiliation speaker's home address (current and after June 1) speaker's home phone number (current and after June 1) speaker's electronic mail (email) address (if available) speaker's fax number (if available) Send your proposals by April 17 to Don Bialostosky, 117 Burrowes Building, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802-6200; phone (814) 8633069; email to alg5@psuvm.psu.edu; fax to (814) 8637285. We will announce this year's program in early May and notify all who have submitted proposals. We receive many more proposals than we can accept; so please let us know if you would be willing, if your proposal is not accepted, to chair a session. Plenary Session Speakers Sharon Crowley, professor of rhetoric at University of Iowa, has written extensively on the history of rhetoric, deconstruction, and composition theory and pedagogy. She is particularly interested in freshman English textbooks and classrooms as sites for the construction of political values and gender roles. She has published widely in such journals as College English, College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, and PRE/TEXT and is the author of Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students (Macmillan, 1993), The Methodical Memory: Invention in CurrentTraditional Rhetoric (Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), and A Teacher's Introduction to Deconstruction (NCTE, 1989). Jacqueline Jones Royster is associate professor of English at Ohio State University and Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Her scholarship focuses on literacy and women's studies. She has collaborated with the editorial team of SAGE on Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters (Beacon Press, 1991) and coauthored, with Jerrie Cobb Scott, Classroom Environments: Multidirectional Relationships Between Theory and Practice (Boyton/Cook, forthcoming). Her current work includes a study of writer and activist Ida B. WellsBarnett. At Ohio State she teaches courses in literacy, writing across the curriculum, and African American women writers. James Boyd White is Hart Wright professor of law, professor of English language and literature, and adjunct professor of classical studies at University of Michigan where he has been on the faculty since 1983. His books on the history and theory of rhetoric include Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics (University of Chicago Press, 1994), Justice as Translation: An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism (University of Chicago Press, 1990), Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of Law (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), and When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community (University of Chicago Press, 1984). Featured Speakers Miriam Brody is associate professor in the Writing Program at Ithaca College. Her book, Manly Writing: Gender, Rhetoric, and the Rise of Composition (Southern Illinois University Press, 1993), explores the use of gender metaphors in texts that offer advice to writers. These metaphors, she argues, have functioned as ideology serving the development of capitalist British and American society, and they still inform the assumptions at work in contemporary composition textbooks. John Angus Campbell, associate professor of communication at the University of Washington, investigates how scientific revolutions depend upon continuity with an existing cultural grammar and the rhetorical means by which this continuity is created as exemplified in Darwin's On the Origin of Species. His work on Darwin's use of conventional language and religious categories, prudential reason, and other rhetorical strategies has been published in Speech Monographs, Western Journal of Speech Communication, and Quarterly Journal of Speech. Susan Peck MacDonald is the assistant coordinator of the Dimensions of Culture Program at the University of California, San Diego. In her new book, Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Southern Illinois University Press, 1994), she examines how professional academic discourse both reveals and constructs disciplinary knowledge. Her essays on academic and basic writing have appeared in Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines (MLA, 1992) as well as College English, College Composition and Communication, Written Communication, and Writing Instructor. Kurt Spellmeyer is associate professor of English and Director of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Rutgers University. His recent book, Common Ground: Dialogue, Understanding, and the Teaching of Composition (PrenticeHall, 1993), argues that the essay genre, by engaging students in a continuous process of selfformation through dialogue with others, can establish the cultural practice of negotiation necessary for democratic public discourse. His writings on composition theory and pedagogy, particularly their relations to philosophy, postmodernism, and politics, have also appeared in College English and the Journal of Advanced Composition. Social Occasions In addition to good papers and good talk, the Penn State Conference includes several convivial occasions. On Wednesday evening, July 12, you are invited to nightcaps on campus. An outdoor barbecue dinner with live music is planned for Thursday, July 13, in the mountains near State College. A reception will be held after the concluding plenary session on Friday, July 14. Meal contracts in the conference dormitories will give participants additional opportunities to meet and talk. The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, one of the largest annual events of its kind in the country, runs through Sunday, July 16, in downtown State College. More than four hundred juryselected exhibitions line the streets of State College, and numerous performing groups will be on hand. Leisure Activities The Penn State campus and surrounding Nittany Valley offer facilities for camping, swimming, fishing, hiking, tennis, and golf. Within an hour's drive of State College are boating at Stone Valley, swimming at Whipple Dam State Park, fishing at Black Moshannon State Park, and hiking at Alan Seeger State Forest. History buffs will enjoy nearby Bellefonte, a town of fine nineteenthcentury stores and houses, and Curtin Village, a reconstruction of an iron foundry. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: CCH Homepage & HTML publication Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 09:53:14 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 374 (585) Allow me to take the opportunity of Humanist's revival to announce the homepage for the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, at the URL http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/cch.html. Like all such things, it is alive so long as it is changing, which it does almost daily. Its architect and chief builder is learning and will welcome suggestions for improvement. One of the sources from which he is learning is the author of a new book that will interest many of you: Ian Graham, The HTML Sourcebook (John Wiley and Sons, March 1995), 411 pp. Graham is at Toronto. A link to a hypertextual edition of some parts of this new book will be found in the CCH Web. WM Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: ESSLLI 96 Subject: Call for proposals (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 10:22:21 +0100 (NFT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 375 (586) CALL FOR COURSE, WORKSHOP AND SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS FOR ESSLLI96 - PRAGUE, August 12-23, 1996 - The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is an annual event offering around 50 courses, workshops, and symposia on a wide variety of topics in the following fields: Language Language & Logic Logic Logic & Computation Computation Computational Linguistics. The previous Summer Schools were highly successful, typically attracting around 500 students from Europe and further afield. Moreover, they have developed into an important meeting place, and forum of discussion, for researchers and students interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. The 8th Summer School will be held in Prague on August 12-23, 1996. The program committee consists of: Language & Logic: Patrick Blackburn, Chair (Saarbruecken) patrick@coli.uni-sb.de Language: Anne Abeille (Paris) Anne.Abeille@linguist.jussieu.fr Language & Computation: Ted Briscoe (Cambridge) ejb@linc.cis.upenn.edu Computation: Luis Damas (Porto) luis@ncc.up.pt Logic & Computation: Dov Gabbay (London) dg@doc.ic.ac.uk Logic: Petr Hajek (Prague) hajek@uivt.cas.cz To help it select a balanced program of courses, workshops, and symposia, the program committee is issuing this call for proposals. If you are interested in lecturing, or organising a workshop or symposium at the summer school, please read the following information carefully, and send (by email) a copy of your proposal to both the program chair, and the committee member in charge of the relevant section, before April 21st, 1995. COURSES Two types of courses are offered at the ESSLLI schools: introductory and advanced. Introductory courses for the three basic fields should provide introductions to the field for non-specialists (an introductory course on logic, for instance, should address linguists and computer scientists, not logicians). The introductory courses in the interactive fields, on the other hand, can build on knowledge of the respective sub-fields (for example, an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation). Advanced courses should assume a higher level of background knowledge. Indeed, especially in the three core fields, they may well be of a highly specialised nature. Roughly speaking, prospective lecturers should assume that advanced courses address PhD students actively working towards gaining mastery of the field in question. Courses are taught by 1 or (maximally) 2 lecturers. They consist of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course), where a session lasts either 45 or 90 minutes. The most common formats are ten 45-minute sessions or five 90-minute sessions; the two other combinations are less usual, but not impossible. WORKSHOPS The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for PhD students to present and discuss their work, both with colleagues and with senior researchers. A workshop has a theme and an organiser; the organiser should be a specialist in the theme of the workshop and give a general introduction in the first session; (s)he is also responsible for the programme of the workshop (that is, for finding speakers). A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop) or ten sessions (a two-week workshop) where each session lasts 45 or 90 minutes. SYMPOSIA The aim of the symposia is to provide a forum for in-depth discussion to specialists in a given field; a symposium has one organiser, who should be a senior researcher in the field, and who is responsible for the programme. In order to reduce costs the organisers of symposia are kindly requested to recruit the speakers as much as possible from the teaching staff or provide a supplementary budget from other sources than ESSLLI. This means that symposium organisers will have to work closely with both the program committee and the organising committee. Symposia have a maximum of 5 sessions (no two-week symposia!) and each session lasts 45 or 90 minutes. FINANCIAL ASPECTS Prospective lecturers and workshop/symposium organisers should be aware that all teaching and organising at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible. Lecturers and organisers are not paid for their contribution, but are reimbursed for travel and accommodation. (However please note that the organisers appreciate it if whenever possible lecturers/organisers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses.) Workshop organisers get a maximum amount of money to be used for the expenses of the speakers in their workshops (typically about 500 ECU). Workshop speakers do not get free registration. The organiser of a workshop provides the Summer School organiser with a budget (before the Summer School) and with a statement of accounts afterwards. Symposia should as far as possible be self-financing (for instance through sponsorship by projects or research groups). The organiser is responsible for coming up with a budget, in collaboration with the Organising Committee. Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School can only afford the travel costs for a small number of lecturers/organisers from outside Europe. FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION Prospective lecturers unfamiliar with the ESSLLI schools should consider consulting the program of the 7th Summer School, which is being held in Barcelona from August 14th to 25th, 1995. Information about the Barcelona school can be obtained from: ESSLLI95 GILCUB Avda. Vallvidrera 25 08017 Barcelona Spain Fax: +43 3 2054656 Phone: +43 3 2033597 E-mail: esslli95@gilcub.es PROPOSALS Please submit your proposal in the following format: Name: --- Name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser. --- Address: --- Contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser. Where possible, please include phone and fax numbers. --- Title: --- Title of proposed course/workshop/symposium. --- Type: --- State whether this is a workshop, a symposium, and introductory course, or an advanced course. --- Section: --- Which of the six sections (Language, Logic, Computation, Logic and Computation, Computational Linguistics, or Language and Logic) does it belong to? While it may be difficult in some cases to decide which section is the most appropriate, please just name one. --- Description: --- A description of the proposed contents. Not more than 150 words. --- Please email copies of your proposal to both the Program Chair and the relevant member of the Program Committee (that is, the committee member in charge of the section named in your proposal) before April 21st, 1995. When you email your proposal, please use the following subject line: ESSLLI96 PROPOSAL. From: kfguest@la.shizuoka.ac.jp (Michael Guest) Subject: English as official US language, Senate proposal Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 20:21:10 -0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 376 (587) I would greatly appreciate any information concerning a proposal before the US Senate that English be instituted as the official language of the US (and so used on all official documents etc.). I am particularly interested in the implications for bilingual education, minority ethnic groups, and any further social implications. I would like to know the name of the bill and the name of the Senator who has proposed it. I would be very interested to see any quotation from it, along with your assessment of the specific implication. I would further appreciate direction to Internet addresses where I might obtain relevant current material. Thanks very much Michael Guest kfguest@la.shizuoka.ac.jp From: "Rita Wilson" <099RITA@muse.arts.wits.ac.za> Subject: English Translation Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 13:05:03 GMT + 2:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 377 (588) Does anyone out there know if there is an English Translation of Bernard Riemann's Complete Mathematical Works? Please reply directly to Rita Wilson at 099rita@muse.arts.wits.ac.za I would appreciate it if this query could be forwarded to other (more) appropriate lists. Many thanks in advance. From: HuntleyJ@epb-po.epb.uiowa.edu Subject: InfoBook needs field-testers Date: Thu, 9 Mar 95 09:54 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 378 (589) InfoBook is a note-taking & bibliography-formatting program for Macintosh computers. It uses its own hierarchical filing system for organizing notes by categories that reflect your information universe. It provides separate cards for bibliography, notes, and file folders. Information on any card can be cross- referenced to other cards. Cards can be aliased or duplicated for double filing. Notes filed in different locations can be referenced to a single bibliographic source. A concordance of significant words assures you of quick recovery. Citations are automatically formatted. Ideas, quotations, and footnotes for an article or book can be gathered in sequence to help plan and then draft the text. InfoBook has been designed, coded, and tested at the Univ. of Iowa to make information management easier for people whose work involves constantly collecting, accurately filing, and quickly recovering information so it can be arranged in new, meaningful patterns. I'm now looking for teachers, administrators, researchers, professional writers and writing instructors, and research-oriented students to field-test the program. To the first 100 persons who respond to my request for help, I will supply a fuller description of what InfoBook does and instructions for receiving your personal copy. John Huntley Prof. of English, 305 EPB, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA (319) 335-0468 john-huntley@uiowa.edu From: John Merritt Unsworth Subject: New IATH software Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 20:04:09 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 379 (590) Inote, an X-windows, Motif-based image annotation program, is now available as source and binaries (Sun, RS6000), from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. Sherrie Albrecht is the developer. More information can be found on the Institute's software page, at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/software.html, or at the Institute's anonymous ftp site, jefferson.village.virginia.edu, in pub/software/iath. Babble, a unicode-based synoptic text viewer, is also available for web-based demonstration, for those with X-windows or X-emulation and with Web clients that support fill-out forms. See the software page, at the URL given above, for more information on this and other IATH software projects. John Unsworth From: PROF NORM COOMBS Subject: Next E-mail workshop on adaptive computing for persons with Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 15:47:05 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 380 (591) The seventh e-mail workshop on adaptive computing and access to information technology delivered by EASI and RIT will begin April 17. "This is the most valuable workshop I have ever attended" "Learning how to find material on disabilities on the internet for myself was the most helpful part of the workshop." "Hearing what is happening at other schools from other people in my situation was invaluable" These comments are typical of workshop participants in the November 1994 internet e-mail delivered workshop on making computing and information technology accessible for persons with disabilities. ** Next e-mail workshop begins April 17. Subscribe now! Future workshops will beging on July 10, September 25, November 29, January 29 1996 and April 15, 1996. EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information), in cooperation with the Rochester Institute of Technology, is providing an email-delivered workshop on making computing facilities and information technology more readily accessible to individuals with physical disabilities. All materials are delivered over the Internet, and the course lasts for three weeks. Registration is $125, and RIT grants a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the course. Below is an edited version of an article describing the workshop from the RIT Information Systems and Computing Newsletter. -< Adapt-it Workshop >- Current attendees of an on-line workshop are "surfing the Internet" to participate in "Adapt-it: Adapting Information Technology & Computing," to find information about access to information for people with disabilities. Spurred by the American Disabilities Act, access for people with disabilities has become an important issue at academic, government, and business facilities around the country. Attended by academic administrators and disability advocates in industry and business, participants have come from over a dozen foreign countries including Germany, Spain, Thailand, Australia, Canada, and almost all 50 states. The workshop is being presented as a collaborative effort between Norman Coombs, an RIT history professor and chair of EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information), Richard Banks, an adaptive technologist at the University of Wisconsin-Stout's library and moderator of EASI's AXSLIB1 (the leading Internet discussion list on library and adaptive technology), and RIT's Educational Technology Center. The workshop is supported by network resources provided by Information Systems and Computing. Run on a quarterly basis, the first workshop was offered in January 1994. The content includes: o Reasons to Adapt o Legislative History o Americans with Disabilities Act o Lab Environment o Alternate Output Systems o Alternate Input Systems o Computing as Compensatory Devices o Planning and Funding So the course would be accessible to the greatest number of people, Dr. Coombs chose e-mail to deliver the workshop. "I had always thought that a single stream discussion wouldn't work." Delighted to be proven wrong, e-mail allowed attendees from K-12, businesses, libraries, and Fidonet tojoin the course, which was a first-time experience for the majority of attendees. Dr. Coombs called the course "extremely successful," and the comments of people submitting post-workshop evaluations echoed his feeling. "Well worth both the time and money spent." "This course was a great opportunity." "This has been a great workshop. I have gotten so many new resources to tap." "I thoroughly enjoyed the content, format, and instructors. I learned a great deal more than I expected to." "The format was a little fast-paced, I really had to scramble to keep up." To see a current syllabus for the workshop, send e-mail to listserver@listserv.isc.rit.edu with this one line of text: info workshop The fee for the workshop is $125. To register, send e-mail to listserver@listserv.isc.rit.edu with this one line of text: sub adapt-it (and your first and last names in quotes.) You will receive an automatic reply informing you that you are part of the discussion list and also providing full payment information. For more information, write to either: Norman Coombs nrcgsh@rit.edu or Dick Banks rbanks@uwstout.edu From: Robert OBrien Subject: cfp: American Epics of Conquest Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 15:33:00 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 314 (592) Readers of this list might be interested in the following special session of the 1995 MLA convention: American Epics of Conquest. Papers exploring either actual epics (e.g., La Araucana, O Uruguai) or the use of epic form in other representations of the European conquest of the Americas. Abstract and c.v. to Robert O'Brien by 20 Mar.; robrien@oavax.csuchico.edu. From: Glyn Morrill Subject: Conference Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 17:16:40 UTC+0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 315 (593) -------------please post-------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FORMAL GRAMMAR Barcelona August 12-13, 1995 in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information In 1995 the Seventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is to be held in Barcelona. As on previous occasions this meeting will serve as a forum for areas including computational linguistics, formal linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar formalisms. This year the programme includes a conference on formal grammar open to all participants to present contemporary research in this domain. Themes of interest include formal and computational phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. Ten copies of anonymous abstracts of not more than 800 words (on one two-sided sheet) should be sent to the address below to arrive not later than April 21st, 1995. Please provide a separate sheet detailing title, author(s) and institution(s), and address, e-mail, telephone and fax of one author for communication purposes. Indicate on both the abstract and the identification sheet whether you require 20 minutes or 40 minutes for presentation. Notification of acceptance will be by May 22nd. Final versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a proceedings to be distributed at the time of the Summer School. Address for correspondence: Committee of the ESSLLI Conference on Formal Grammar c/o Glyn Morrill Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics Facultat d'Informatica de Barcelona Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Pau Gargallo, 5 08028 BARCELONA e-mail: morrill@lsi.upc.es Programme Committee: Elisabet Engdahl, Ewan Klein, Glyn Morrill, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Carl Pollard, Richard Sproat, Susan Steele, Rich Thomason, Annie Zaenen. For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (14th-25th August) contact: ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax +43 3 2054656; e-mail: esslli95@gilcub.es **********Cut here for LaTeX version below********** \documentstyle[11pt]{article} \pagestyle{empty} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0in} \begin{document} \begin{center} \rule{1in}{.01in}please post\rule{1in}{.01in}\\ \medskip {\large SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS}\\ \bigskip {\Large \bf FORMAL GRAMMAR}\\ \medskip Barcelona \\ August 12-13, 1995 \\ in conjunction with the \\ {\bf European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information} \end{center} \medskip \noindent In 1995 the Seventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is to be held in Barcelona. As on previous occasions this meeting will serve as a forum for areas including computational linguistics, formal linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar formalisms. This year the programme includes a conference on formal grammar open to all participants to present contemporary research in this domain. Themes of interest include formal and computational phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. Ten copies of anonymous abstracts of not more than 800 words (on one two-sided sheet) should be sent to the address below to arrive not later than April 21st, 1995. Please provide a separate sheet detailing title, author(s) and institution(s), and address, e-mail, telephone and fax of one author for communication purposes. Indicate on both the abstract and the identification sheet whether you require 20 minutes or 40 minutes for presentation. Notification of acceptance will be by May 22nd. Final versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a proceedings to be distributed at the time of the Summer School. \medskip \noindent Address for correspondence: \medskip \begin{tabular}{l} Committee of the ESSLLI Conference on Formal Grammar\\ c/o Glyn Morrill \\ Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Inform\`{a}tics \\ Facultat d'Inform\`{a}tica de Barcelona \\ Universitat Polit\`{e}cnica de Catalunya \\ Pau Gargallo, 5 \\ 08028 BARCELONA \bigskip\\ e-mail: {\sf morrill@lsi.upc.es} \end{tabular} \medskip \noindent Programme Committee: Elisabet Engdahl, Ewan Klein, Glyn Morrill, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Carl Pollard, Richard Sproat, Susan Steele, Rich Thomason, Annie Zaenen. \medskip \noindent For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (14th-25th August) contact: ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax +43 3 2054656; e-mail: {\sf esslli95@gilcub.es} \end{document} From: Claire Smith Subject: Arabic Script Program Search Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:09:09 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 316 (594) This query is placed on behalf of Professor Richard Blackburn (Middle East & Islamic Studies, U of T), who does not yet have e-mail. Please forward replies to me, Claire Smith (csmith@epas.utoronto.ca), and I will forward them. Thank-you. Prof. Blackburn asks: I have an Apple Macintosh Powerbook 145b running Microsoft Word Version 5.1. I also have a Personal LaserWriter 300 printer. I am looking for an Arabic script program that is interactive with English (i.e. on the same page), principally for the purposes of editing an Arabic ms. (with apparatus criticis, footnotes, etc) and regular production of Arabic language tests. I have been warned to avoid software that might threaten my Microsoft Word (version 5.1) program. Otherwise, this in a nutshell is what I have and what I would like to have. N.B.: Professor Blackburn has heard about Nisus as one option. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Claire Smith / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / University of Toronto 130 St. George Street / Robarts Library, 14th Floor / Toronto, ON / M5S 1A5 Internet: csmith@epas.utoronto.ca / Tel.: (416) 978-2535 / Fax: (416) 978-6519 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: John Merritt Unsworth Subject: English as the Official Language Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 15:18:44 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 383 (595) Mr. Guest, In answer to your question: Declaration of Official Language Act of 1995 (Introduced in the House) HR 739 IH 104th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 739 To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of the Government of the United States. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 30, 1995 Mr. Roth (for himself, Mr. Packard, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Parker, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Coble, Mr. Archer, Mr. Callahan, Mr. Bunning of Kentucky, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Stump, Mr. Inglis of South Carolina, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Royce, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Ney, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Solomon, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Oxley, and Mr. King) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities A BILL To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of the Government of the United States. ----------------------------------------------- The above information, plus full text of the bill, text of the congressional record relevant to the bill, etc. is available via the World-Wide Web at Thomas, the legislative information server of the US Congress, at: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html John Unsworth Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia From: OCRAMER@CC.COLORADO.EDU Subject: Comp. Lit. Job Open at Colorado College Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 11:37:06 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 384 (596) One year appointment for 1995-1996, Maytag Chair instructor or assistant professor, to co-teach (in 3 1/2-week intensive block format) intro. course "Theory and Practice of Literature", topics course(s) according to interests ("Studies in Translation" desirable) and thesis course (supervising approx. 9 graduating seniors from fall through intensive block of writing in March-April). ABD or PhD. Commitment to undergraduate teaching essential. Salary competitive; Maytag endowment provides additional research and travel funds. Program is under review and a tenure-track appointment may be made for 1996-97. Send letter, c.v., and dossier by March 31 to Prof. Owen Cramer, Chair, Comparative Literature Program, Colorado College, 14 E. Cache la Poudre, Colorado Springs, CO 80903. Colorado College is an EOE, and especially encourages women and minorities to apply. The College and the Comp. Lit. Program particularly welcome applicants who can provide the perspectives of women and minorities on their methods and subject matter. PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE*PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE*PLEASE FORWARD From: Dr DR de Lacey Subject: Help with classical epithet? Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:55:54 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 317 (597) Calvin quotes what he calls an ancient & widely used saying/dicterium: `ineptum est culpam deprecari, qua potuerim carere, si voluissem'. He may be freely translating from Greek, or quoting from memory: we have completely failed to identify the citation. Anyone recognise the source? Many thanks, Douglas de Lacey, Cambridge UK. From: Phyllis Wright Subject: Biography needed Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 10:50:14 +0001 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 318 (598) Hi: I have been trying to obtain biographical material on the following two people without success: Jacques Mathieu He has published at least three books: 1) Les Memoires quebecoises. Laval, 1991 2) La Nouvelle-France: les francais en amerique du nord, Laval, 1991 3) Les Plaines d'Abraham: Le Culte de l'ideal, publisher not known Kessler-Harris, Alice She has also published three books. The most recent is: A Woman's wage: historical meaning and social consquences. Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1990. I have checked all the Who's Who directories and the Biography Master Index. Anything, however brief would be most welcome. Thank you. Phyllis Wright Supervisor, ILL/DD & Reference Librarian Brock University Library St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2S 3A1 (905) 688-5550, ext. 3961 From: Peter Lafford Subject: CALL: RMMLA Computers in Literary & Linguistic Research Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 22:45:41 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 386 (599) RMMLA CALL FOR PAPERS ROCKY MOUNTAIN MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE SPOKANE, WA., OCTOBER 19-21, 1995 Session on "Computers in Literary & Linguistic Research" Have you developed an interesting application of computer technology in your own research or teaching in languages and literature. Consider sharing your work and experiences with your colleagues at the RMMLA conference in Spokane, October 19-21, 1995. Topics might include: the World-Wide Web and other on-line resources for doing research in languages and literature, the INTERNET and the language scholar, computer assisted instruction, humanities computer labs, using e-mail systems for collaboration or instruction, electronic dictionaries and translation tools, interactive programs for foreign language instruction, special software for the language scholar, etc. Share your expertise and help introduce the power of this technology to our eager colleagues in a 20-minute presentation. To submit a proposal you must be a member of RMMLA or willing to join by April 1 (about $25.00 per year, no geographical restrictions). You must read your paper in person and may read only one paper at the conference. Submit (by e-mail, if possible) a one page proposal with title by the March 24 deadline to: Peter Lafford E-mail: PLafford@asu.edu Snail mail: Department of Languages & Literatures Arizona State University Box 870202 Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 TEL: 602-965-4524 FAX: 602-965-0135 You will be notified of acceptance by April 1. From: Judith Klavans Subject: AAAI Symposium on the Lexicon - March 27-29 Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 16:28:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 387 (600) ===>>> Registration is still possible. Information is appended. <<======= AAAI Symposium - March 27-29, 1995 REPRESENTATION AND ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE: POLYSEMY, AMBIGUITY, AND GENERATIVITY Monday, March 27, 1995 9:00-9:20 Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides Metaphor in Discourse 9:20-9:40 William B. Dolan Metaphor as an Emergent Property of Machine-Readable Dictionaries 9:40-10:00 Sergei Nirenburg Apologiae Onotologiae 10:00-10:20 Lucy Vanderwende Ambiguity in the Acquisition of Lexical Information 10:20-10:30 General Discussion 10:30-11:30 Coffee Break 11:00-11:20 Fumiyo Fukumoto and Jun'ichi Tsuji Representation and Acquisition of Verbal Polysemy 11:20-11:40 Graeme Hirst Near-synonymy and the Structure of Lexical Knowledge 11:40-12:00 Antonio Sanfilippo Lexical Polymorphism and Word Disambiguation 12:00-12:20 Richard F.E Sutcliffe, Donie O'Sullivan, Liam Sheahan, and Annette McElligott The Automatic Acquisition of a Broad-Coverage Semantic Lexicon 12:20-12:30 General Discussion 12:30-2:30 Lunch 2:30-3:30 INVITED TALK: Charles Fillmore The Responsibilites of the Compleat Lexicographer 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break 4:00-4:20 Bonnie Dorr and Martha Palmer Building a LCS-Based Lexicon in TAGs 4:20-4:40 Jacques Jayez and Daniele Godard Principles as Lexical Methods 4:40-5:00 Thomas Roeper and Ana Perez-Leroux The Acquisition of Inherent Binding 5:00-5:20 Annie Zaenen and Mary Dalrymple "Polymorphic" Causatives: Complex Predicates in French 5:20-5:30 General Discussion Tuesday, March 28, 1995 9:00-9:20 Masahiko Haruno A Case Frame Learning Method for Japanese Polysemous Verbs 9:20-9:40 Inderjeet Mani An Integrative, Layered Approach to Lexical Semantics and its Application to Machine Translation 9:40-10:00 Patrick Saint-Dizier Generativity, Type Coercion and Verb Semantic Classes 10:00-10:20 Clare R. Voss and Bonnie J. Dorr Defining the Lexical Component in Interlinguas 10:20-10:30 General Discussion 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-11:20 Ann Copestake Representing Lexical Polysemy 11:20-11:40 Alex Lascarides The Pragmatics of Word Meaning 11:40-12:00 Michael Johnson, Branimir Boguraev, and James Pustejovsky The Acquisition and Interpretation of Complex Nominals 12:00-12:20 Ellen Riloff Dictionary Requirements for text Classification: A Comparison of Three Domains 12:20-12:30 General Discussion 12:30-2:00 Lunch 2:00-2:20 R. Basili, M.T. Pazienza, and P. Velardi Integration of Probabilistic and Symbolic Methods for Semantic Categorization 2:20-2:40 Rebecca Bruce and Janyce Wiebe Towards the Acquisition and Representation of a Broad Coverage Lexicon 2:40-3:00 Ted Pedersen and Weidong Chen Lexical Acquisition via Constraint Solving 3:00-3:20 Mats Rooth Two-Dimensional Clusters in Grammatical Relations 3:20-3:30 General Discussion 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break 4:00-5:30 First Breakout Wednesday, March 29, 1995 9:00-10:30 Second Breakout 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-11:20 Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, and Ralph Grishman Tagging as a Means of Refining and Extending Syntactic Classes 11:20-11:40 Geoffrey Nunberg Meanings and Theories 11:40-12:00 Nicholas Ostler Speech Act Vocabulary: Does Hyponymy Recapitulate Polysemy? 12:00-12:20 George A. Miller Building Semantic Concordances: Disambiguation vs. Annotation 12:20-12:30 General Discussion ***************REGISTRATION INFORMAION********************************************** AAAI 1995 Spring Symposium Series March 27 - 29, 1995 Stanford University, California Registration Brochure Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025 (415) 328-3123 sss@aaai.org The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University's Department of Computer Science, presents the 1995 Spring Symposium Series, to be held Monday through Wednesday, March 27 - 29, 1995, at Stanford University. The highlights of each symposium will be presented at a special plenary session. Working notes will be prepared and distributed to participants in each symposium, but will not otherwise be available unless published as an AAAI Technical Report or edited collection. Each symposium will have limited attendance. Participants will be expected to attend a single symposium throughout the symposium series. In addition to participants selected by the program committee of the symposia, a limited number of other interested parties will be allowed to register in each symposium on a first- come, first-served basis. To register, please fill out the enclosed form, and send it along with payment to: 1995 Spring Symposium Series AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (415 328-3123* Fax: (415) 321-4457* Email: sss@aaai.org* *Credit card orders only, please. Please note that there are security issues involved with the transmittal of credit card information over the internet. AAAI will not be held liable for any misuse of your credit card information during its transmittal from you to AAAI. This document is available as http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/las/aaai/sss-95/sss-95-registration.html ********************************************************************** REPRESENTATION AND ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE: POLYSEMY, AMBIGUITY, AND GENERATIVITY The lexicon is at the core of many NL, MT, IR, and KR systems, and thus can play a central role in determining the success or failure of a system. Nonetheless, points of sharp controversy have arisen concerning the most flexible and powerful way to represent the extensive variety of lexical information required to drive robust applications. We intend this symposium to provide a forum to discuss problematic issues of lexical representation, and ways to solve difficult and complex questions. The symposium will maintain a balance between theoretical and applications oriented papers. There will be two ``special events'' at the Workshop: one is an invited talk by Professor Charles Fillmore on the future of lexical research, with some visionary thoughts from a pioneer in the field of lexical semantics. The other is a set of break-out sessions to involve workshop participants, focusing on ``burning issues'' such as limits of corpus analysis, machine-readable dictionaries, thematic roles, linking rules, and other ``limits'' to be set by the participants. This section of the workshop involves ``pushing the limits'', and we plan to push our own limits together in focussed discussions on how to solve such persistent problems. Organizing Committee: Bran Boguraev, Apple Computer; Judith Klavans (chair), Columbia University, klavans@cs.columbia.edu; Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University; James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University. *********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** Registration Information ALL ATTENDEES MUST PREREGISTER. Each symposium has a limited attendance, with priority given to invited attendees. All accepted authors, symposium participants, and other invited attendees must register by February 22, 1995. After that period, registration will be opened up to the general membership of AAAI and other interested parties. All other registrations must be postmarked by March 8, 1995. Your registration fee covers your attendance at the symposium, a copy of the working notes for your symposium, and the reception. Checks (drawn on US bank) or international money orders should be made out to AAAI. 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Rates: $48-56 (S), $58-68 (D) Riviera Motor Lodge 15 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: 415/321-8772 Fax: 415/321-2137 Rates: $65 (S), $75 (D) The Cardinal Hotel 235 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Phone: 415/323-5101 Fax: 415/325-6086 Marguerite shuttle stop nearby Rates: $65 (S & D) Hotel California 2431 Ash Street Palo Alto, CA 94306 Phone: 415/322-7666 (No fax). Marguerite shuttle stop nearby Rates: $52-$63 (S and D) (Continental breakfast included) Travelodge 3255 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306 Phone: 415/493-6340 Fax: 415/424-9535 Marguerite shuttle stop nearby Rates: $45 (S), $54 (D) Air Transportation and Car Rental San Francisco/San Jose - Get there for less! Fly into San Francisco or San Jose on American Airlines or United Airlines and save 5% on lowest everyday fares, some restrictions apply. Or save 10% on lowest unrestricted fares, with 7 day advance purchase. Travel between March 19 and June 1, 1995. 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Because AAAI has no control over the personnel, equipment or operations of providers of accommodations or other services included as part of the Symposium program, AAAI assumes no responsibility for and will not be liable for any personal delay, inconveniences or other damage suffered by symposium participants which may arise by reason of (1) any wrongful or negligent acts or omissions on the part of any Supplier or its employees, (2) any defect in or failure of any vehicle, equipment or instrumentality owned, operated or otherwise used by any Supplier, or (3) any wrongful or negligent acts or omissions on the part of any other party not under the control, direct or otherwise, of AAAI. Ground Transportation This information is the best available at time of printing. Fares and routes change frequently. Please check by telephoning the appropriate numbers below for the most up-to-date information. Van Supershuttle--24 hour van service to and from San Francisco Airport. 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Train CalTrain runs between San Francisco and Palo Alto station starting at 5:00 am with the last train leaving San Francisco at 10:00 pm (weekdays), 12:00 midnight (Friday and Saturday nights). The fare is $6.50 round trip for same-day travel, or $3.25 one way. For up-to-date fare information and time tables, call toll free 800/660-4287. Tentative Program Schedule (subject to change) Monday, March 27: 9:00 am-5:30 pm Symposia sessions 6:00 pm-7:00 pm Reception, Faculty Club Tuesday, March 28: 9:00 am-5:30 pm Symposia sessions 7:30 pm-9:00 pm Plenary session, Cubberley Auditorium Wednesday, March 29: 9:00 am-12:30 pm Symposia sessions ***************************************************************************** AAAI Spring Symposium Series REGISTRATION FORM ALL ATTENDEES MUST PREREGISTER. Please complete in full and return to AAAI no later than February 22, 1995 (invited attendees), or by March 8, 1995 (general registration). Please print or type. 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Credit Card #: Expiration Date: Name (as it appears on card): Please send your completed registration form to SSS-95, AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025; fax 415-321-4457; sss@aaai.org. Please note that there are security issues involved with the transmittal of credit card information over the internet. AAAI will not be held liable for any misuse of your credit card information during its transmittal [deleted quotation] Please note: Requests for refunds must be received in writing by March 15, 1995\ . A $25.00 processing fee will be levied on all refunds granted. Thank you for your registration! From: RWERMAN@vms.huji.ac.il Subject: GOLDA-WERMAN-ON-_MILTON-AND-MIDRASH_ Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95 10:04 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 388 (601) Golda S. Werman _MILTON AND MIDRASH_ The use of Jewish nonbiblical sources (Midrash) in _Paradise Lost_ has never been so thoroughly examined as in this volume, in which Golda S. Werman combines esoteric scholarship with interesting facts and insightful commentary to answer questions that have perplexed literary scholars for decades. At the beginning of the twentieth century, when literary scholars first discovered the midrashic elements in _Paradise Lost_, one school of critics responded with skepticism and disbelief -- why, they asked, would a Puritan poet dig through ancient Hebrew and Aramaic texts for material to be used in a Christian epic on the fall of man? They insisted that Milton could not read difficult midrashic texts and that everything not taken from Christian or classical sources is a product of the poet's own rich imagination. Another school regarded Milton's use of Midrash as proof of his profound knowledge of Talmud, Midrash, the Zohar, and other Hebrew/Aramaic texts. In _Milton and Midrash_ Werman effectively demonstrates that both camps err: Milton did indeed use midrashic sources, but he did not read the difficult midrashic texts in the original languages. She shows, in a detailed analysis of the nonbiblical Judaic materials included in the prose works, that Milton's limited understandinbg of Midrash rules out any possibility of his having read the sources in the original. Yet her investigation revealed that Milton uses midrashim on almost every page of the epic, and that many of these midrashim come from the eighth-century Midrash Pirkei de- Rabbi Eliezer. Further research showed that this Midrash had been translated into Latin in 1644, just before Milton began _Paradise Lost_. At last the puzzle was solved -- Milton's midrashic materials were taken from translations made by Christian Hebraists. Indeed, Milton had many Latin translations by Christian Hebraists of midrashic works available to him, and here Werman surveys the contemporary intellectual climate in which these translations flourished. These findings have revolutionized Milton scholarship, correcting much that has been written about the poet's Hebraism. All future source studies of the poem will make use of the book's Appendix, which provides an invaluable line- by-line gloss of _Paradise Lost_ that matches passages from the epic with their analogues in the midrashic literature. Golda S. Werman was educated in the U.S. and now lives in Jerusalem. Her other field of interest is Yiddish, and she has published several important English translations of Yiddish literature, including most recently S. Ansky's _The Dybbuk and Other Writings_. Advance praise for Milton and Midrash "This is a book not only for Milton scholars but for academics writing in the recently active field of literature and Midrash (and literature and the Bible). There are deep reserves of learning behind it; unlike Saurat, Fletcher, and Baldwin, Dr. Werman reads the Hebrew sources expertly. She provides a wealth of new information which less scholarly academics will probably exploit." Jason P. Rosenblatt, Professor of English, Georgetown University "Werman's study corrects much that has been written about Milton's Hebraism and adds significant new information. The appendix is enormously valuable and will assist future scholars in pursuing more specifically detailed study of Milton's use of Midrash." James H. Sims, Distinguished Professor of English, The University of Southern Mississippi From: chorus@peinet.pe.ca (Todd J. B. Blayone) Subject: Announcing Chorus Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 19:05:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 389 (602) ____________________________________________________________ Introducing CHORUS A WWW Resource for Academic and Educational Computing in the Arts/Humanities Sponsored by PEINet, Canada http://www.peinet.pe.ca:2080/Chorus/home.html ____________________________________________________________ CHORUS is a WWW resource for academic and educational computing in the arts/humanities. It is aimed primarily at academics, educators, information professionals, and students (in higher education). A home-computing and Internet-tools section, however, will appeal to a broader audience with a less formal interest in using computers to teach, learn or acquire humanities-related information. CHORUS is a highly collaborative venture which brings together an international team of academics and professionals. CHORUS is NOT a "packaged" electronic serial. Rather, it is an evolving hypermedia resource continually shaped by a team of editors and writers/reviewers into an ever more complex web of information. ______________________________________________________________ CHORUS FEATURES: * Essays (from a variety of humanistic perspectives) introducing computer-related and/or network-accessible tools and resources, or discussing the impact of IT on research and education * Single and comparative (humanities-oriented) reviews of PC and Macintosh software of special interest to academics and educators in the humanities * Links to humanities-related resources around the Net and a form-based search facility. * An Internet-tools section providing links and reviews of various shareware and commercial packages for PC and Macintosh computers * A home-computing section presenting thoughtful reviews of popular educational/entertainment software with a humanities-oriented content (note: under construction) ______________________________________________________________ CHORUS can be fully accessed by anyone with a dedicated or SLIP/PPP connection to the Internet, and a Web browser. For more information about Internet connections and the World Wide Web, please contact your local computer-support staff. Please note that we are currently expanding our team of editors and reviewers. Please contact Todd Blayone (Project Coordinator, McGill University) at chorus@peinet.pe.ca for more information. _______________________________________________________________ Todd J. B. Blayone McGill University Project Coordinator, Chorus chorus@peinet.pe.ca http://www.peinet.pe.ca:2080/Chorus/People/Todd_B/toddhome.html ________________________________________________________________ From: The Moderators Subject: NewJour Searchable Archive Available Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 21:20:09 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 390 (603) NEWJOUR, the on-line service reporting new electronic (Internet) journals and newsletters to the academic community, is almost two years old and has reported on over 200 different publications. After the New Year, the list moved from its first site at the American Mathematical Society to the University of Pennsylvania. The new list mechanism at the University of Pennsylvania is stable and running smoothly now (reminders below how to unsubscribe and subscribe). We are happy to announce that we now have a searchable archive of all NEWJOUR postings since the list began in 1993. The archive is available by gopher (bookmark and somewhat lengthy URL below) from the server of the Center for Computer Analysis of Texts and has been made possible by the wizardry of Michael Nenashev, sysop at CCAT. The archive itself was prepared by the tireless Lisabeth King of the Association of Research Libraries. There is a WAIS-indexed search function, via which you can ask for all the reports with a particular word (e.g., psychology, and get a quick listing of titles to view. Please feel free to add this link to your gopher and WWW pages; it will continue to grow with each new NEWJOUR posting. (Postings for NEWJOUR may be sent to me directly or to the list address nj@ccat.sas.upenn.edu -- all postings moderated.) Ann Okerson ann@a.cni.org Type=1+ Name=NewJour (A Listing of New Electronic Journals) Path=1/Journals, Newsletters and Publications/newjour Host=ccat.sas.upenn.edu Port=70 Admin=Gopher Admin +1 215-898-9892 ModDate=Tue Mar 14 15:59:16 1995 <19950314155916> URL: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:70/11/Journals%2c%20Newsletters%20and%20Publications /newjour +++++++++++++++++++ To subscribe to NEWJOUR, send e-mail to majordomo@ccat.sas.upenn.edu with nothing on the Subject: line and the simple message SUBSCRIBE NEWJOUR. To unsubscribe, do likewise, but the message should read UNSUBSCRIBE NEWJOUR. Do NOT put your NAME or ADDRESS anywhere in the message: it confuses the majordomo program and slows processing of your request. In case of list-management difficulties, send e-mail to Jim O'Donnell: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. From: gwp@dido.caltech.edu (G. W. Pigman III) Subject: Re: 8.0385 Help with classical epithet? Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 21:50:32 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 319 (604) Douglas de Lacey asks about the source of a quotation in Calvin: `ineptum est culpam deprecari, qua potuerim carere, si voluissem'. Calvin is alluding to a story Aulus Gellius (11.8) tells about M. Cato's rebuke of Aulus Albinus, who asked pardon in advance for any errors in Greek he may have made in a work on rebus Romanis: 'Ne tu,' inquit 'Aule, nimium nugator es, cum maluisti culpam deprecari, quam culpa uacare. Nam petere ueniam solemus, aut cum inprudentes errauimus aut cum compulsi peccauimus. Tibi,' inquit 'oro te, quis perpulit, ut id committeres, quod, priusquam faceres, peteres, ut ignosceretur?' -- G. W. Pigman III gwp@dido.caltech.edu From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Re: bios needed Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 11:16:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 320 (605) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 321 (606) [deleted quotation] You could find more info on UdM's library server telnet 132.204.55.40 username: public -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michel Lenoble Universite de Montreal -- Tel.: (514) 288-3916 lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: Alan A Green Subject: Ethnomusicology position announcement Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 01:32:32 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 392 (607) SCHOOL OF MUSIC COLLEGE OF THE ARTS THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY POSITION Ethnomusicology (African and African-American music). A joint appointment in the School of Music (tenure-initiating unit) and the Department of Black Studies. RANK AND SALARY Assistant Professor (with Ph.D.) or Instructor (ABD). If the doctorate has not been awarded by September 1, 1995, the appointment will be made at the Instructor level. A nine-month tenure-track position available Autumn Quarter, 1995. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. QUALIFICATIONS Ph.D. or ABD in Ethnomusicology. Field work experience in Africa and training in African-American music required. Record of success as a teacher and demonstrated potential as a scholar required. RESPONSIBILITIES Teach undergraduate and graduate courses for both majors and non-majors; advise theses and dissertations in African and African-American music. Maintain creative/scholarly and service contributions appropriate for a faculty member at a major research university. GENERAL INFORMATION The Ohio State University is located in Columbus, Ohio, a metropolitan area of over 1,385,000. The School of Music, a unit of the College of the Arts, has over 60 faculty members and approximately 350 undergraduate and 200 graduate students and offers a comprehensive selection of degrees from the baccalaureate to the doctoral level. The Department of Black Studies offers course work leading to the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees. The full-time faculty of 19 includes specialists from a wide variety of humanities disciplines. APPLICATION Send a letter of application, complete curriculum vitae, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three current references to: Dr. Charles Atkinson, Chair Ethnomusicology Search Committee The Ohio State University School of Music 1866 College Road Columbus, Ohio 43210-1170 DEADLINE April 12, 1995 or until position is filled The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified women, minorities, Vietnam-era veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. From: Bulley Alan David Subject: Humanities Canada Project Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 19:59:07 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 393 (608) * What is the Humanities Canada Project? The Canadian Federation for the Humanities (CFH) invites you to visit and explore an ambitious project that will be of real benefit to the entire humanities community in Canada. The bilingual project, entitled Humanites Canada / Humanities Canada (HC), is designed as an electronic information service that will perform several important functions for Canadian humanists. First among these functions will be the creation of a window on humanities resources available on the "Information Highway." Scholars in the humanities have begun to reap some of the benefits of the emerging "Highway," but it is still a common complaint that materials pertinent to humanities studies are difficult to locate and access. Humanities Canada will make a significant contribution at just this point by making possible simple and rapid connections to the resources of major libraries, government departments, on-line text archives, electronic journals, archives of digitised art and sound, academic job announcements, and many other services. * The Role of CFH Member Societies CFH member societies have the opportunity not only to exploit the resources already available on the world-wide computer networks, but also to make distinct contributions in their areas of interest and specialisation. Space is being reserved on the project servers for each member society to "publish" materials of use to its members and to others working in the same discipline. One society, the Canadian Association for Translation Studies (Association canadienne de traductologie), has already taken advantage of the Humanities Canada project to make available information regarding their goals, information on membership in CATS, a directory of the CATS executive and contact people, a call for papers for their Annual Congress at the 1995 Learneds at the UQAM, invitations to participate in two special seminars to be held at the Montreal Learneds, and a detailed description of the society's journal (_TTR_) including the Tables of Contents of previous issues. Another society, the Canadian Association of Classicists, is using the project facilities to publish on-line their electronic newsletter and to archive its back-issues. The Humanities Canada project will also be an ideal place to disseminate discussion documents and position papers related to annual meetings, to archive documents related to the society or its field of interest, to "publish" academic writing, to display art, and to seek out potential members from a world-wide audience. * How Does One Connect to Humanities Canada? Humanities Canada is presently under construction and exists in both "gopher" and World-Wide Web (WWW) formats: gopher://fceh-cfh.umontreal.ca:7071 http://137.122.12.15/HumCanada.html Contributions to HC are made available at both sites to ensure maximum access to the project's contents and offerings. In addition to the two server sites, an e-mail discussion list (HUMCAN-L) is also being launched in order to provide a forum where one can ask questions related to HC and about how to contribute to it. It will also be the perfect place to post announcements and comments related not only to the HC project, but also to questions touching on information technology and the humanities in the Canadian context. To subscribe to HUMCAN-L, send e-mail to LISTPROC@CC.UMONTREAL.CA with the following line in the letter body (not in the subject line): Subscribe HumCan-L You will receive a confirmation of your subscription and a welcome message explaining all you need to know to interact with the list and post your messages and questions. * Anything Else? Further information related to the Humanities Canada project is available from the project co-managers who may be reached at the following e-mail addresses: Christian Allegre allegre@ere.umontreal.ca Alan D. Bulley bulleya@ere.umontreal.ca The Executive of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities may be reached at the following e-mail address: cfhxt@acadvm1.uottawa.ca Humanites Canada / Humanities Canada (HC) is the Electronic Information Service of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities (CFH). Alan D. Bulley bulleya@ere.umontreal.ca Co-Manager, Co-gestionnaire, HUMANITIES CANADA HUMANITES CANADA Electronic Information Service Service d'Information electronique of the Canadian Federation de la Federation canadienne for the Humanities (CFH) des Etudes humaines (FCEH) via Gopher -- gopher://gopher.fceh-cfh.umontreal.ca:7071 via WWW -- http://137.122.12.15/HumCanada.html From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: IEE COLLOQ. LONDON (MAY): GROUNDING-REPRESENTATIONS (Sharkey/ Mc Date: Wed, 15 Mar 95 17:44:53 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 394 (609) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS: Integration of sensory information in Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks IEE COLLOQUIUM IEE Computing and Control Division [Professional group: C4 (Artificial Intelligence)] in association with: British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems and The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) MONDAY, MAY 15th, 1995 ********************** at the IEE Colloquium Savoy Place London, ENGLAND Chairs NOEL SHARKEY and PAUL MC KEVITT Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield, England WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the most famous criticism of traditional Artificial Intelligence is that computer programs use symbols that are arbitrarily interpretable (see Searle, 1980 for the Chinese Room and Harnad, 1990 for the symbol grounding problem). We could, for example, use the word "apple" to mean anything from a "common fruit" to a "pig's nose". All the computer knows is the relationship between this symbol the others that we have given it. The question is, how is it possible to move from this notion of meaning, as the relationship between arbitrary symbols, to a notion of "intrinsic" meaning. In other words, how do we provide meaning by grounding computer symbols or representations in the physical world? The aim of this colloquium is to take a broad look at many of the important issues in relating machine intelligence to the world and to make accessible some of the most recent research in integrating information from different modalities. For example, why is it important to have symbol or representation grounding and what is the role of the emerging neural network technology? One approach has been to link intelligence to the sensory world through visual systems or robotic devices. Another approach is work on systems that integrate information from different modalities such as vision and language. Yet another approach has been to examine how the human brain relates sensory, motor and other information. It looks like we may be at long last getting a handle on the age old CHINESE ROOM and SYMBOL GROUNDING problems. Hence this colloquium has as its focus, "grounding representations. The colloquium will occur over one day and will focus on three themes: (1) Biology and development; (2) Computational models and (3) Symbol grounding. The target audience of this colloquium will include Engineers and Scientists in Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Developmental Psychologists, Cognitive Scientists, Philosophers of mind, Biologists and all of those interested in the application of Artificial Intelligence to real world problems. PROGRAMME: Monday, May 15th, 1995 ************************ INTRODUCTION: 9.00 REGISTRATION + SUSTENANCE 10.00 `An introduction' NOEL SHARKEY (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, ENGLAND) BIOLOGY: 10.30 `The neuronal mechanisms of language' VALENTINO BRAITENBERG (Max Plank Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, GERMANY) COMPUTATIONAL MODELS: 11.00 `Natural language and exploration of an information space' OLIVIERO STOCK (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Technologica, IRST) (Trento, ITALY) 11.30 `How visual salience influences natural language descriptions' WOLFGANG MAASS (Cognitive Science Programme) (Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, GERMANY) 12.00 DISCUSSION 12.30 LUNCH GROUNDING SYMBOLS: 2.00 `On grounding language with neural networks' GEORG DORFFNER (Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, AUSTRIA) 2.30 `Some observations on symbol-grounding from a combined symbolic/connectionist viewpoint' JOHN BARNDEN (Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico, USA) & (Department of Computer Science, University of Reading, ENGLAND) 3.00 Sustenance Break 3.30 `Grounding symbols in sensorimotor categories with neural networks' STEVAN HARNAD (Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, ENGLAND) PANEL DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS: 4.00 `Grounding representations' Chairs + Invited speakers S/IN S/IN: 4.30 `De brief/comments' PAUL MC KEVITT (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, ENGLAND) 5.00 O/ICHE MHA/ITH ***************************** PUBLICATION: We intend to publish a book on this Colloquium Proceedings. ADDRESSES IEE CONTACT: Sarah Leong Groups Officer The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Savoy Place GB- WC2R OBL, London England, UK, EU. E-mail: SLeong@iee.org.uk (Sarah Leong) E-mail: mbarrett@iee.org.uk (Martin Barrett) E-mail: dpenrose@iee.org.uk (David Penrose) WWW: http://www.iee.org.uk Ftp: ftp.iee.org.uk FaX: +44 (0) 171-497-3633 Phone: +44 (0) 171-240-1871 (general) Phone: +44 (0) 171-344-8423 (direct) LOCATION: The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Savoy Place GB- WC2R OBL, London England, UK, EU. ACADEMIC CONTACT: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court 211 Portobello Street University of Sheffield GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England, UK, EU. E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ WWW: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ Ftp: ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk FaX: +44 (0) 114-278-0972 Phone: +44 (0) 114-282-5572 (Office) 282-5596 (Lab.) 282-5590 (Secretary) REGISTRATION: Registration forms are available from SARAH LEONG at the above address and should be sent to the following address: (It is NOT possible to register by E-mail.) Colloquium Bookings Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) PO Box 96 Stevenage GB- SG1 2SD Herts England, UK, EU. Fax: +44 (0) 143 874 2792 Receipt Enquiries: +44 (0) 143 876 7243 Registration enquiries: +44 (0) 171 240 1871 x.2206 PRE-REGISTRATION IS ADVISED ALTHOUGH YOU CAN REGISTER ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. ________________________________________________________________________ R E G I S T R A T I O N COSTS ________________________________________________________________________ (ALL FIGURES INCLUDE VAT) IEE MEMBERS 44.00 NON-IEE MEMBERS 74.00 IEE MEMBERS (Retired, Unemployed, Students) FREE NON-IEE MEMBERS (Retired, Unemployed, Students) 22.00 LUNCH TICKET 4.70 MEMBERS: Members of the IEEIE, The British Computer Society and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour and Eurel Member Associations will be admitted at Members' rates. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Mark Calkins Subject: Myrtles: Virgil Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 22:02:06 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 395 (610) Proust wrote: a Ce qui me console c'est que Baudelaire a fait les poemes en prose et les Fleurs du Mal sur les memes sujets, que Girard de Nerval a fait en une piece de vers et dans un passage de Sylvie le meme chateau Louis XIII, le myrte de Virgile etc. (65) I am consoled that Baudelaire wrote the poemes en prose and the Fleurs du Mal on the same subject, that Girard de Nerval wrote about the same Louis XIII chateau in verse and in a passage in Sylvie, Virgil's myrtle, etc. Does anyone have any idea as to which two (or more) myrtles in two (or more) different generic forms in Virgil Proust is alluding to? Thank much--M.C. From: "Paul J. Constantine" Subject: Position Vacancy--Yale University Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 10:05:01 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 322 (611) [deleted quotation] From: Susan Hockey Subject: Position available at CETH Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 15:06:55 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 323 (612) The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) is seeking a humanities computing specialist. Please see the position description below. Susan Hockey Director, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities --------------------------------------------------------------------- HUMANITIES COMPUTING SPECIALIST Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities RESPONSIBILITIES: Develops and maintains information services for Center, including World Wide Web Server, newsletter, and planned series of guides to electronic text resources and applications. Provides research support for humanities computing and electronic texts on a national basis. Gives presentations and seminars on electronic texts in the humanities. Coordinates electronic text center at Rutgers University including supervision of student assistants. Assists participants at CETH Summer Seminar. QUALIFICATIONS: Strong background in the humanities with PhD preferred. Experience with computer applications in humanities research required, with at least two years preferred. Reading knowledge of some foreign languages preferred. Knowledge of TEI SGML and experience with Internet, PCs (DOS and Windows), Macintosh and Unix preferred. Good oral and written communication skills required. SALARY: Negotiable, dependent upon experience and qualifications, for a grant funded appointment equivalent to assistant professor rank; possibility of renewal. STATUS/BENEFITS: Faculty status, non-tenure track, calendar year appointment, TIAA/CREF pension, life/health insurance, prescription drug, dental and eyeglass plans, tuition remission, one month vacation. CENTER PROFILE: The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) is sponsored jointly by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and Princeton University. The Center's administrative headquarters are located in the Archibald Stevens Alexander Library, the main humanities and social sciences research library of Rutgers on the College Avenue Campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey. CETH acts as a national focus for the creation, dissemination and use of electronic texts in the humanities with emphasis on scholarly applications and primary source materials. CETH's activities include an Inventory of Electronic Texts in the Humanities, research into methods of providing Internet access to collections of SGML-encoded material in the humanities, an international summer seminar on methods and tools for electronic texts in the humanities and general information services for humanities computing. CETH is also developing associated projects in partnership with other institutions and research groups. A consortium of member institutions is planned to start in July 1995. CETH is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. TO APPLY: Resumes received no later than April 10, 1995 will receive first consideration. Submit resume, cover letter, and names of three referees to: Sandra Troy (APP.112) Libraries Personnel Officer Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08903 FAX #908-932-7637 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey upholds a commitment to affirmative action and equal opportunity. From: hcf1dahl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Eric Dahlin) Subject: Please Post Date: Tue, 21 Mar 95 13:06:25 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 397 (613) ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING 1995 JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC 95 JULY 11-15, 1995 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA ************************************************************************ IMPORTANT CONFERENCE INFORMATION *** IMPORTANT CONFERENCE INFORMATION ************************************************************************ Those of you who have submitted abstracts for this year's ACH/ALLC Joint International Conference will be aware that the announced date for notifying applicants was March 15, 1995. Due to unforeseen circumstances, however, we are obliged to move the this date ahead to APRIL 20, 1995. The Association for Computers and the Humanities, as primary organizer of this year's conference, apologizes for the delay. We understand that some potential contributors to the conference program may need to be notified earlier than April 20, in order to secure travel funds, etc. If for such a reason you must know as soon as possible, we ask that you contact hcf1dahl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu so that we may expedite the processing of your abstract. Please do not contact us unless your need is serious. We received a strong response to this year's call for papers, and we have every expectation that the conference program will be excellent. I look forward to seeing you in Santa Barbara this summer, and thank you for your patience and understanding. Nancy Ide, President Association for Computers and the Humanities From: Judith Klavans Subject: Re: AAAI Lexicon Symposium - March 27-29 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 07:43:50 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 398 (614) ===>>> Registration is still possible. Information is appended. <<======= AAAI Symposium - March 27-29, 1995 REPRESENTATION AND ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE: POLYSEMY, AMBIGUITY, AND GENERATIVITY Monday, March 27, 1995 9:00-9:20 Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides Metaphor in Discourse 9:20-9:40 William B. Dolan Metaphor as an Emergent Property of Machine-Readable Dictionaries 9:40-10:00 Sergei Nirenburg Apologiae Onotologiae 10:00-10:20 Lucy Vanderwende Ambiguity in the Acquisition of Lexical Information 10:20-10:30 General Discussion 10:30-11:30 Coffee Break 11:00-11:20 Fumiyo Fukumoto and Jun'ichi Tsuji Representation and Acquisition of Verbal Polysemy 11:20-11:40 Graeme Hirst Near-synonymy and the Structure of Lexical Knowledge 11:40-12:00 Antonio Sanfilippo Lexical Polymorphism and Word Disambiguation 12:00-12:20 Richard F.E Sutcliffe, Donie O'Sullivan, Liam Sheahan, and Annette McElligott The Automatic Acquisition of a Broad-Coverage Semantic Lexicon 12:20-12:30 General Discussion 12:30-2:30 Lunch 2:30-3:30 INVITED TALK: Charles Fillmore The Responsibilites of the Compleat Lexicographer 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break 4:00-4:20 Bonnie Dorr and Martha Palmer Building a LCS-Based Lexicon in TAGs 4:20-4:40 Jacques Jayez and Daniele Godard Principles as Lexical Methods 4:40-5:00 Thomas Roeper and Ana Perez-Leroux The Acquisition of Inherent Binding 5:00-5:20 Annie Zaenen and Mary Dalrymple "Polymorphic" Causatives: Complex Predicates in French 5:20-5:30 General Discussion Tuesday, March 28, 1995 9:00-9:20 Masahiko Haruno A Case Frame Learning Method for Japanese Polysemous Verbs 9:20-9:40 Inderjeet Mani An Integrative, Layered Approach to Lexical Semantics and its Application to Machine Translation 9:40-10:00 Patrick Saint-Dizier Generativity, Type Coercion and Verb Semantic Classes 10:00-10:20 Clare R. Voss and Bonnie J. Dorr Defining the Lexical Component in Interlinguas 10:20-10:30 General Discussion 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-11:20 Ann Copestake Representing Lexical Polysemy 11:20-11:40 Alex Lascarides The Pragmatics of Word Meaning 11:40-12:00 Michael Johnson, Branimir Boguraev, and James Pustejovsky The Acquisition and Interpretation of Complex Nominals 12:00-12:20 Ellen Riloff Dictionary Requirements for text Classification: A Comparison of Three Domains 12:20-12:30 General Discussion 12:30-2:00 Lunch 2:00-2:20 R. Basili, M.T. Pazienza, and P. Velardi Integration of Probabilistic and Symbolic Methods for Semantic Categorization 2:20-2:40 Rebecca Bruce and Janyce Wiebe Towards the Acquisition and Representation of a Broad Coverage Lexicon 2:40-3:00 Ted Pedersen and Weidong Chen Lexical Acquisition via Constraint Solving 3:00-3:20 Mats Rooth Two-Dimensional Clusters in Grammatical Relations 3:20-3:30 General Discussion 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break 4:00-5:30 First Breakout Wednesday, March 29, 1995 9:00-10:30 Second Breakout 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-11:20 Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, and Ralph Grishman Tagging as a Means of Refining and Extending Syntactic Classes 11:20-11:40 Geoffrey Nunberg Meanings and Theories 11:40-12:00 Nicholas Ostler Speech Act Vocabulary: Does Hyponymy Recapitulate Polysemy? 12:00-12:20 George A. Miller Building Semantic Concordances: Disambiguation vs. Annotation 12:20-12:30 General Discussion ***************Program Committee ********************************************** Judith Klavans, Columbia University, chair Bran Boguraev, Apple Computer Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University Address any questions to klavans@cs.columbia.edu. ***************REGISTRATION INFORMATION********************************************** AAAI 1995 Spring Symposium Series March 27 - 29, 1995 Stanford University, California Registration Brochure Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025 (415) 328-3123 sss@aaai.org The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University's Department of Computer Science, presents the 1995 Spring Symposium Series, to be held Monday through Wednesday, March 27 - 29, 1995, at Stanford University. The highlights of each symposium will be presented at a special plenary session. Working notes will be prepared and distributed to participants in each symposium, but will not otherwise be available unless published as an AAAI Technical Report or edited collection. Each symposium will have limited attendance. Participants will be expected to attend a single symposium throughout the symposium series. In addition to participants selected by the program committee of the symposia, a limited number of other interested parties will be allowed to register in each symposium on a first- come, first-served basis. To register, please fill out the enclosed form, and send it along with payment to: 1995 Spring Symposium Series AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (415 328-3123* Fax: (415) 321-4457* Email: sss@aaai.org* *Credit card orders only, please. Please note that there are security issues involved with the transmittal of credit card information over the internet. AAAI will not be held liable for any misuse of your credit card information during its transmittal from you to AAAI. This document is available as http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/las/aaai/sss-95/sss-95-registration.html ********************************************************************** REPRESENTATION AND ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE: POLYSEMY, AMBIGUITY, AND GENERATIVITY The lexicon is at the core of many NL, MT, IR, and KR systems, and thus can play a central role in determining the success or failure of a system. Nonetheless, points of sharp controversy have arisen concerning the most flexible and powerful way to represent the extensive variety of lexical information required to drive robust applications. We intend this symposium to provide a forum to discuss problematic issues of lexical representation, and ways to solve difficult and complex questions. The symposium will maintain a balance between theoretical and applications oriented papers. There will be two ``special events'' at the Workshop: one is an invited talk by Professor Charles Fillmore on the future of lexical research, with some visionary thoughts from a pioneer in the field of lexical semantics. The other is a set of break-out sessions to involve workshop participants, focusing on ``burning issues'' such as limits of corpus analysis, machine-readable dictionaries, thematic roles, linking rules, and other ``limits'' to be set by the participants. This section of the workshop involves ``pushing the limits'', and we plan to push our own limits together in focussed discussions on how to solve such persistent problems. Organizing Committee: Bran Boguraev, Apple Computer; Judith Klavans (chair), Columbia University, klavans@cs.columbia.edu; Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University; James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University. *********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** Registration Information ALL ATTENDEES MUST PREREGISTER. Each symposium has a limited attendance, with priority given to invited attendees. All accepted authors, symposium participants, and other invited attendees must register by February 22, 1995. After that period, registration will be opened up to the general membership of AAAI and other interested parties. All other registrations must be postmarked by March 8, 1995. Your registration fee covers your attendance at the symposium, a copy of the working notes for your symposium, and the reception. Checks (drawn on US bank) or international money orders should be made out to AAAI. 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Because AAAI has no control over the personnel, equipment or operations of providers of accommodations or other services included as part of the Symposium program, AAAI assumes no responsibility for and will not be liable for any personal delay, inconveniences or other damage suffered by symposium participants which may arise by reason of (1) any wrongful or negligent acts or omissions on the part of any Supplier or its employees, (2) any defect in or failure of any vehicle, equipment or instrumentality owned, operated or otherwise used by any Supplier, or (3) any wrongful or negligent acts or omissions on the part of any other party not under the control, direct or otherwise, of AAAI. Ground Transportation This information is the best available at time of printing. Fares and routes change frequently. Please check by telephoning the appropriate numbers below for the most up-to-date information. Van Supershuttle--24 hour van service to and from San Francisco Airport. San Francisco Airport-Palo Alto rates are: $23.00 for one person one way; $23.00 plus $7.00 for two persons going to the same address. Cash and major credit cards accepted. For reservations call 415/558-8500. Airport Connection--Van service $20.00 one way to and from San Francisco Airport to Palo Alto. From San Jose Airport, shared ride service (no vans) is $35.00 to Palo Alto. Cash, major credit cards, or checks accepted. Call 415/363-1500 within California, or 800/247-7678 in other areas. White courtesy telephone available at San Francisco Airport. Stanford Shuttle The Stanford University Marguerite Shuttle Bus service provides service [deleted quotation]surrounding locations to the Stanford Oval as well as transportation around the Stanford campus. Complete Marguerite schedules will be included in registration packet. Train CalTrain runs between San Francisco and Palo Alto station starting at 5:00 am with the last train leaving San Francisco at 10:00 pm (weekdays), 12:00 midnight (Friday and Saturday nights). The fare is $6.50 round trip for same-day travel, or $3.25 one way. For up-to-date fare information and time tables, call toll free 800/660-4287. Tentative Program Schedule (subject to change) Monday, March 27: 9:00 am-5:30 pm Symposia sessions 6:00 pm-7:00 pm Reception, Faculty Club Tuesday, March 28: 9:00 am-5:30 pm Symposia sessions 7:30 pm-9:00 pm Plenary session, Cubberley Auditorium Wednesday, March 29: 9:00 am-12:30 pm Symposia sessions ***************************************************************************** AAAI Spring Symposium Series REGISTRATION FORM ALL ATTENDEES MUST PREREGISTER. Please complete in full and return to AAAI no later than February 22, 1995 (invited attendees), or by March 8, 1995 (general registration). Please print or type. First Name: Last Name: Affiliation: Address (Indicate home or business): City: State: Zip or postal code: Country: Daytime telephone: Email: **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** FEE AAAI Member: $215.00 Student Member: $100.00 Nonmember: $275.00 Student Nonmember: $125.00 (Students must send legible proof of full-time student status.) Temporary Stanford University parking permit: March 27-29: $15.00 TOTAL FEE (Please enter correct amount): ****************************************************************************** METHOD OF PAYMENT All email and fax registrations must be accompanied by credit card information. AAAI accepts MasterCard, Visa, and American Express. Checks will also be accepted through the regular mail. Prepayment is required. No PO's will be accepted. 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From: LDC Office Subject: New Corpus from LDC Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 18:03:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 399 (615) Announcing A New Corpus from the Linguistic Data Consortium 1994 Benchmark Speech Test Collection for the ARPA Continuous Speech Recognition Program (CSR-III Speech) The third ARPA Continuous Speech Recognition (CSR) Benchmark Speech Test Collection is a three CD-ROM set that contains complete development test and evaluation test suites for speaker-independent, large-vocabulary speech recognition systems. The development and evaluation tests share a common structure, consisting of two core test components ("hubs") and seven specialized test components ("spokes"). The hub tests, which were mandatory for all ARPA CSR participants in the November '94 evaluations, provide a base- line for ASR performance, while the spokes provide the means for assessing the impact of particular speaking conditions or processing strategies in relation to baseline performance. Participants were free to take any combination of spoke tests according to their research interests). Taken together, the collection encompasses 180 speakers, each producing twenty to forty sentences. These are organized into two complete development test sets and one evaluation set. The collection also includes complete documentation on the test specifications, data collection procedures, transcriptions, and scoring protocols, together with the latest available version of NIST software for scoring ASR results and managing SPHERE waveform files. All speech data is accompanied by both the prompting texts and the detailed orthographic transcriptions of the utterances. This was the first ARPA CSR Benchmark Test in which prompting texts were drawn from a variety of news sources. Whereas earlier benchmarks were based on Wall Street Journal excerpts (from the period 1987-89), CSR-III prompts come a variety of North American Business News Services: Reuters News Service, New York Times, Wahington Post and Los Angeles Times as well as WSJ; all texts are drawn from financial news articles written during the period of April through June, 1994. (NAB stands for "North American Business", in contrast to earlier benchmarks and training collections labeled "WSJ".) An important companion to the 1994 Benchmark Speech data collection is the 4-disk CSR-III Text Collection, which includes the ARPA CSR 1994 Standard Language Model. The collection comprises both source text data (prepared by LDC and BBN) and derived statistical tables (compiled by CMU) of unigram, bigram and trigram word frequencies. The sources include all available WSJ texts, spanning 1987 through March 1994, and all AP and San Jose Mercury news data from the three TIPSTER volumes. (Some of the WSJ data, from 1992 through 1994, appears here for research use for the first time.) This corpus is also available from the LDC as a 1995 release. Because of restrictions imposed by the copyright holders of much of the NAB text, both the speech and text collections are available to LDC members only. For more information on how to join, send email to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. Information on other LDC databases is available via anonymous ftp, including a complete catalog, details on corpora, membership and other licensing forms, and some samples of data. Connect to ftp.cis.upenn.edu, login as anonymous, give your email address as password, and go to directory pub/ldc. The LDC's WWW Home Page holds the LDC catalog and all "readme" files from each of the corpora released. It can be accessed at URL ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/ldc_www/hpage.html From: Joseph Galron Subject: WORKSHOP: Thesaurus Design for Information Systems Date: Friday, May 12, 1995 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 400 (616) Place: Sixty East Club, 60 East 42nd Street, New York City (The Lincoln Building, opposite Grand Central Station, 27th floor) Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm 9:00 - 9:30 Registration and Coffee 9:30 - 10:40 Formulation of Descriptors 10:40 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:30 Term Relationships 12:30 - 1:45 Lunch 1:45 - 3:00 Thesaurus Format 3:00 - 3:20 Break 3:20 - 4:40 Thesaurus Management 4:40 - 5:00 Questions and Answers Registration Fees $110 covers the seminar, lunch, coffee breaks, and handouts $ 65 for students and St. John's University staff $ 5 for .6 Continuing Education Units (optional) Preregistration fees (until April 24, 1995) $100 regular $ 60 students and SJU staff Seminar Instructor Bella Hass Weinberg chaired the committee of the National Information Standards Organization that developed the revised American National Standard on thesaurus construction, published in 1994. She is a Past President of the American Society of Indexers, and is active in the American Society for Information Science. As a Professor in the Division of Library and Information Science at St. John's University, she teaches graduate courses on indexing and abstracting as well as information science. Dr. Weinberg consults on the design of large-scale indexing and thesaurus projects. She has done research on thesaurus structure under a grant from the National Science Foundation and has published extensively on linguistics and information science. __________________________________ For further information, contact: James A. Benson, Director Division of Library and Information Science St. John's University Jamaica, New York 11439 Email: BensonJ@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU Fax: (718) 380-0353 Tel: (718) 990-6200 ____________________________ Receipts will be mailed only upon request. Cancellation and refund requests will be honored if made by May 5, 1995, and are subject to a $10 processing fee. 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JOHN'S UNIVERSITY and mailed by May 5, 1995 to: THESAURUS SEMINAR Division of Library and Information Science St. John's University Jamaica, New York 11439 From: Stuart Lee Subject: CFP: CATH '95 (Reminder) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 11:47:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 401 (617) Please distribute accordingly, Stuart Lee *************************************************** CATH '95 (Computers and Teaching in the Humanities) ADVANCE NOTICE and CALL for PAPERS The CATH '95 conference will be held at Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, from 5th-7th September 1995. The conference is organized by the Office for Humanities Communication and the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies (both at the University of Oxford), and the English Department, Royal Holloway. The theme of this year's conference is Computers and the Changing Curriculum. We would like to encourage proposals which include practical experiences of the use of computers in teaching, and approaches taken by the teacher in integrating computing into courses, describing problems as well as successes, plus examples of student feedback. Experiences are sought from a wide mix of humanities disciplines. Contemporary topics and new developments are always welcome, for example, use of resources on the Internet. Contributions are invited for individual formal papers (30 minutes inclusive of 10 minute question time), panel sessions comprising three related papers, or workshops. Workshops should be about 2-hours in length and should involve hands-on tuition as well as time for discussion; the level of experience aimed at should be indicated (and may be from novice to more experienced). For individual papers, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words (500 for each paper in a panel session) no later than April 14th. This should include a summary paragraph of the main points covered in your paper which will be used in the programme to describe the session. For workshops, a descriptive paragraph of aims and means will suffice. The proposals will be refereed by a programme committee and all authors will be notified of the outcome by early May. We are also interested in proposals for other forms of presentation such as poster sessions, and demonstrations at the software fair. Further information including a draft programme and costs is expected to be available in May. All participants at the CATH '94 conference will be sent these details. Please submit your proposal by April 14th (also any enquiries) to: Christine Mullings Office for Humanities Communication Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-273221 Fax: 01865-273221 email: cath95@oucs.ox.ac.uk Format for submission: paper copy plus copy on 3.5" disk (standard wordprocessor files or plain ASCII files will be accepted). Electronic submissions are welcome (plain ASCII files please). Details should include title of contribution, your full name and contact address, and telephone, fax, and email address. From: kfguest@la.shizuoka.ac.jp (Michael Guest) Subject: ISBNs Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 19:20:51 -0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 324 (618) Do any members know of any online resource for obtaining the ISBNs of books from various publishers, when author/title are known? I wonder whether there is an online "Books in Print" type resource? Thanks very much and best wishes Michael Guest From: Alessandro Obino Subject: Lost in the Mud: I need some psycological help Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 12:31:07 +0000 (CUT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 325 (619) I'm working on a hypertext on the psycological and sociological effects of the interaction in the cyberspace. I'm really lost. I need some help to get a clue.Please if have any material that could of interest for don't wait to much because I'm run out of time. I will be grateful till the end of the end of the world. Riccarda From: Subject: Request for Information from HUMANIST subscribers Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 12:35:55 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 326 (620) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON COMPUTER- AIDED PROJECTS IN GERMAN STUDIES I am preparing a report on computer-aided projects in German Studies since 1985, with particular emphasis on the last 5 years. This report will include both teaching and research applications in various areas of German language, literature and culture from the early periods to the present. If you are working on such a project, or if you know of others working on computer-aided German Studies proje cts, I would appreciate your sending me some information either via e-mail or fax. This may be as brief or detailed as you wish, but it would be helpful if some or all of the following points are included: (1) Title and brief description of the project. (2) When did you begin (or do you plan to begin) the project and when do you expect it may be completed? (3) List of texts or other materials used (e.g. computer- related video and audio), plus any encoding information you consider relevant. (4) Commercial software, databases and hardware used for your project. (5) Non-commercial programs or databases used. (6) Any recent or planned publications based on the project. Are they or will they be available via e-mail or from a Website? Thank you for your help, and please forward this to anyone (not on H-CLC or Humanist) working on computer-aided German Studies projects. David H. Chisholm German Studies, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 E-mail: chisholm@ccit.arizona.edu Fax: (602) 621-7385 [or (520) 621-7385 after March 19] From: Eglal Henein Subject: Database for French texts + Windows Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:15:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 327 (621) Last year, thanks to HUMANIST, we read a lot about note taking. Some of you recommended NOTEBUILDER. Could you share your experience with this free form data base? How does it handle French characters? Is there a version compatible with Windows? Is the report format flexible? Is it really compatible with Wordperfect? Thank you very much Eglal Henein (Ehenein@pearl.tufts.edu) Romance Languages Tufts University From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: security and daily practice with e-mail Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 13:25:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 328 (622) I have been asked to comment on the possible use of e-mail to discuss private or sensitive matters, such as draft questions for final examinations in university. How risky is this in practice? Any wisdom would be appreciated. WM Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: Christian Allegre Subject: Humanities Canada Project : ERROR Correction Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:23:12 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 329 (623) Dear Editor, In the Announcement posted by my collegue Alan Bulley about the Humanities Canada Project, an error has occurred in the address of the Gopher site. The word "gopher" is missing before "fceh-cfh". The correct URL is as follows : [deleted quotation] ^^^^^^ [deleted quotation] -- Christian B. Allegre allegre@ere.umontreal.ca Co-gestionnaire, Co-manager, HUMANITES CANADA HUMANITIES CANADA Service d'Information electronique Electronic Information Service de la Federation canadienne of the Canadian Federation des Etudes humaines (FCEH) for the Humanities (CFH) via Gopher -- gopher://gopher.fceh-cfh.umontreal.ca:7071 via WWW -- http://137.122.12.15/HumCanada.html From: hraham@awinc.com (Helen Raham) Subject: Re: 8.0393 Humanities Canada Project (1/111) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 20:34 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 393 (624) David suggested a reform project. You know, that's not a bad idea! maybe we shoul begin to toss around some ideas that might be written up as a proposal? Who would fund such a project?? Government? Private enterprise? Foundations? The exciting support for school reform measures happening in other jurisdictions to stimulate innovation keyed to better school practices makes me envious. Washington DC has just taken on a major role promoting education reform. Many states have state sanctioned and financed Charter Agencies to support the charter movement, and a few states have State Superintendents assigned to School Reform, and universities have Education Reform Institutes. It seems here in Canada that most Education Ministries have been dragged kicking into real reforms and have inexcusably protected the status quo of non-performance oriented schooling for too long. Back to the question David raised: Could we, should we think about research project proposals??? [deleted quotation] From: "Shari L. Landes" Subject: WordNet Version 1.5 Now Available Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 16:56:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 404 (625) *** WordNet Version 1.5 is now available *** WordNet is an online lexical reference system. Word forms in WordNet are represented in their familiar orthography; word meanings are represented by synonym sets (synset) - lists of synonymous word forms that are interchangeable in some context. Two kinds of relations are recognized: lexical and semantic. Lexical relations hold between word forms; semantic relations hold between word meanings. To learn more about WordNet, read "Five Papers on WordNet", available via anonymous ftp and in printed form. WordNet is available in several different packages, based on computer platform. WordNet is available via ftp, or you may use and/or ftp WordNet using a World Wide Web browser such as Mosaic or Netscape. Our URL is: "http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/". This message contains basic information about obtaining the WordNet system and "Five Papers on WordNet". View the README at our Web site, or ftp using the information below, for complete ftp and ordering information. 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From: espross@neh.fed.us Subject: NEH Guidelines Update Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 15:04:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 405 (626) Please circulate and/or repost: The Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, has updated its guidelines. The full publication of the new guidelines will be available sometime in April 1995. Included in the changes are new deadlines for the receipt of applications to some programs in the Education division. Program |Apply |Grant Can Begin ------------------------+-------------------+--------------- Humanities Focus |September 15, 1995 |December 1995 |January 15, 1996 |April 1996 ------------------------+-------------------+--------------- Higher Education in |October 1, 1995 |April 1996 the Humanities |February 1, 1996 |August 1996 ------------------------+-------------------+--------------- Science and Humanities |February 1, 1996 |August 1996 ------------------------+-------------------+--------------- Elementary and Secondary|October 1, 1995 |April 1996 Education in the |February 1, 1996 |August 1996 Humanities | | ------------------------+-------------------+--------------- Requests for the new guidelines may be addressed to: Division of Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities Room 302 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 202/606-8377 E-mail inquiries may be addressed to: emanza@neh.fed.us If you use e-mail, please include the words, "Request for Guidelines" in the subject line, and include your full mailing address. The guidelines are not yet available in electronic form. From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: REACHING FOR MIND: WKSHOP. AISB-95 (PROG + PART) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 15:54:41 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 406 (627) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-== -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-== PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AISB-95 Workshop on REACHING FOR MIND: FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE April 3rd/4th 1995 ******************** at the The Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science (AISB-95) (Theme: Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions) Halifax Hall University of Sheffield Sheffield, England (Monday 3rd -- Friday 7th April 1995) HOSTED BY The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) and The Department of Computer Science (University of Sheffield) Chair: SE/AN /O NUALL/AIN Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland & National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada Co-Chair: PAUL MC KEVITT Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield, England WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: John Barnden (New Mexico State University, NM, USA) (& University of Reading, England) Istvan Berkeley (University of Alberta, Canada) Mike Brady (Oxford, England) Harry Bunt (ITK, Tilburg, The Netherlands) Peter Carruthers (University of Sheffield, England) Daniel Dennett (Tufts University, USA) Eric Dietrich (SUNY Binghamton, NY, USA) Jerry Feldman (ICSI, UC Berkeley, USA) Stevan Harnad (University of Southampton, England) James Martin (University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA) Eoghan MacAogain (Instidiud Teangeolaiochta/ Irish Linguistics Institute, Dublin, Ireland) John Macnamara (McGill University, Canada) Mike McTear (Universities of Ulster and Koblenz, Germany) Ryuichi Oka (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan) Jordan Pollack (Ohio State University, OH, USA) Zenon Pylyshyn (Rutgers University, USA) Ronan Reilly (University College, Dublin, Ireland) Roger Schank (ILS, Northwestern, USA) NNoel Sharkey (University of Sheffield, England) Walther v.Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, England) WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: The assumption underlying this workshop is that Cognitive Science (CS) is in crisis. The crisis manifests itself, as exemplified by the recent Buffalo summer institute, in a complete lack of consensus among even the biggest names in the field on whether CS has or indeed should have a clearly identifiable focus of study; the issue of identifying this focus is a separate and more difficult one. Though academic programs in CS have in general settled into a pattern compatible with classical computationalist CS (Pylyshyn 1984, Von Eckardt 1993), including the relegation from focal consideration of consciousness, affect and social factors, two fronts have been opened on this classical position. The first front is well-publicised and highly visible. Both Searle (1992) and Edelman (1992) refuse to grant any special status to information-processing in explanation of mental process. In contrast, they argue, we should focus on Neuroscience on the one hand and Consciousness on the other. The other front is ultimately the more compelling one. It consists of those researchers from inside CS who are currently working on consciousness, affect and social factors and do not see any incompatibility between this research and their vision of CS, which is that of a Science of Mind (see Dennett 1993, O Nuallain (in press) and Mc Kevitt and Partridge 1991, Mc Kevitt and Guo 1994). References Dennett, D. (1993) Review of John Searle's "The Rediscovery of the Mind". The Journal of Philosophy 1993, pp 193-205 Edelman, G.(1992) Bright Air, Brilliant Fire. Basic Books Mc Kevitt, P. and D. Partridge (1991) Problem description and hypothesis testing in Artificial Intelligence In ``Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science '90'', Springer-Verlag British Computer Society Workshop Series, McTear, Michael and Norman Creaney (Eds.), 26-47, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Also, in Proceedings of the Third Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AI/CS-90), University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, EU, September and as Technical Report 224, Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, GB- EX4 4PT, Exeter, England, EU, September, 1991. Mc Kevitt, P. and Guo, Cheng-ming (1995) From Chinese rooms to Irish rooms: new words on visions for language. Artificial Intelligence Review Vol. 8. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer-Academic Publishers. (unabridged version) First published: International Workshop on Directions of Lexical Research, August, 1994, Beijing, China. O Nuallain, S (in press) The Search for Mind: a new foundation for CS. Norwood: Ablex Pylyshyn, Z.(1984) Computation and Cognition. MIT Press Searle, J (1992) The rediscovery of the mind. MIT Press. Von Eckardt, B. (1993) What is Cognitive Science? MIT Press WORKSHOP TOPICS: The tension which riddles current CS can therefore be stated thus: CS, which gained its initial capital by adopting the computational metaphor, is being constrained by this metaphor as it attempts to become an encompassing Science of Mind. Papers are invited for this workshop which: * Address the central tension * Propose an overall framework for CS (as attempted, inter alia, by O Nuallain (in press)) * Explicate the relations between the disciplines which comprise CS. * Relate educational experiences in the field * Describe research outside the framework of classical computationalist CS in the context of an alternative framework * Promote a single logico-mathematical formalism as a theory of Mind (as attempted by Harmony theory) * Disagree with the premise of the workshop Other relevant topics include: * Classical vs. neuroscience representations * Consciousness vs. Non-consciousness * Dictated vs. emergent behaviour * A life/Computational intelligence/Genetic algorithms/Connectionism * Holism and the move towards Zen integration The workshop will focus on three themes: * What is the domain of Cognitive Science ? * Classic computationalism and its limitations * Neuroscience and Consciousness PROGRAMME: MONDAY, APRIL 3RD, 1995 ************************* INTRODUCTION: 9.00 `Introduction' Se/an /O Nuall/ain and Paul Mc Kevitt COMPUTATION AND INTENTIONALITY: (Chair: Brian C. Smith) 9.30 `The foundations of computation' Brian C. Smith Xerox Parc Palo Alto Research Centre and Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 10.30 Break 11.00 `Machines and consciousness' Yorick Wilks Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, EU DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS: (Chair: F.G. Winkler) 11.30 `Meaningful representations? a dynamical systems approach and some implications for cognitive science' F.G. Winkler Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, EU 12.00 `Remembering, rehearsal and empathy' K. Dautenhahn and T. Christaller German National Research Centre for Computer Science Germany, EU 12.45 LUNCH SEACHING-FOR-MIND: (Chair: Se/an /O Nuall/ain) 2.00 `Is cognition an autonomous subsystem?' M.B. Bickhard, Dept of Psychology, Lehigh University Department of Psychology Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA 2.30 `Crisis? what crisis?' Paul D. Scott Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, England, EU 3.00 `The search for mind' Se/an /O Nuall/ain School of Computer Applications Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, EU 3.30 Panel Discussion led by Se/an /O Nuall/ain MEMBERS: Bickhard, Guzeldere, Mc Kevitt, Scott, Smith, Wilks 4.00 Break COGNITION AND MIND: (Chair: Guven Guzeldere) 4.30 `Cartesian modularism' Guven Guzeldere Xerox Parc Palo Alto Research Centre and Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 5.00 'Redescription, information and access' Terry Dartnall Computing and Information Technology Griffith University, Nathan Brisbane, Australia 5.30 Poster session 6.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION 6.30 DINNER AGUS O/ICHE MHA/ITH TUESDAY, APRIL 4TH, 1995 *************************** INTRODUCTION II: 9.00 `Introduction' Se/an /O Nuall/ain and Paul Mc Kevitt ARCHITECTURES FOR CONSCIOUSNESS: (Chair: Y. Wilks) 9.30 `A neurocognitive model for consciousness' Newman, B. Baars and S-B Cho. 10.00 `Consciousness and natural language understanding' Gerard Sabah LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France, EU 10.30 Break 11.00 `Idle Thoughts' B.F. Katz and N.C. Riley School of Cognitive and computing Sciences, University of Sussex, England, EU COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE PERSON: 11.30 `Cognitive Science and two images of the person' A. Brook, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 12.00 `Cognitive science, consciousness and selfhood' Se/an /O Nuall/ain School of Computer Applications Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland COGNITIVE SCIENCE EDUCATION: 12.30 Panel discussion with (self-selecting) participants invited to present a five-minute summary of a program in the area which they have established followed by general discussion. `Not what is cognitive science rather what is a cognitive scientist?' Austin et al. Division of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, England, EU 12.45 LUNCH EPISTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY: (Chair: Terry Dartnall) 2.00 `The lion, the bat and the wardrobe' Stuart Watt The Open University, England, EU 2.30 `Foundational anti-representationalism' Craig Delancey Indiana University, Illinois, USA (Chair: Karl MacDorman) 3.00 `Reinventing the square wheel' P. Kime University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, EU 3.30 `The role of the systematicity argument' K. Aizawa Dept of Philosophy, Central Michigan University, Michigan, USA 4.00 Poster session/Break 4.30 'How to ground symbols adaptively' Karl MacDorman Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, EU 5.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION ON REACHING FOR MIND 6.00 DINNER & O/ICHE MHA/ITH *********************** OTHER SELECTED PAPERS: `Separability Hypothesis' B. Chandrasekaran and S. G. Josephson Laboratory for AI Research, Ohio State University, Columbis, Ohio, USA `Mind and the Geometry of Systems' William Hoffman Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona at Tucson, Tucson, Arizona, USA `Computational Philosophy' Serge Sharoff Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence Georgia, Russia SELECTED POSTERS: `The limits of AI: a plea for a culturally mediated alternative' Alison Adam Department of Computation UMIST, Manchester, England, EU `Not what is cognitive science rather what is a cognitive scientist?' Austin et al. Division of Psychology University of Hertfordshire, England, EU `Biomolecular cognitive science' Ajit Narayanan Department of Computer Science University of Exeter, England, EU `Situated computation or situated cognition?' Tom Routen Department of Computer Science, De Montford University, Leicester, England, EU `Cognition, content and the inner code' Terry Dartnall Computing and Information Technology Griffith University, Nathan Brisbane, Australia `Cognitive science by any other name' Guven Guzeldere Xerox Parc Palo Alto Research Centre and Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA PUBLICATION: Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AISB. We intend to publish a book with IOS Press on this Workshop Proceedings. ADDRESSES WORKSHOP CHAIR: Se/an /O Nuall/ain School of Computer Applications Dublin City University, IRL- Dublin 9, Dublin Ireland, EU WWW: http://www.compapp.dcu.ie Ftp: ftp.vax1.dcu.ie E-mail: Sean.Onuallain@CompApp.DCU.IE FaX: 353-1-7045442 Phone: 353-1-7045237 AISB-95 WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS CHAIR: Dr. Robert Gaizauskas Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street Regent Court Sheffield S1 4DP U.K. E-mail: robertg@dcs.shef.ac.uk WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ WWW: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ Ftp: ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk FaX: +44 (0) 114 278-0972 Phone: +44 (0) 114 282-5572 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIR: (AISB-95 CONFERENCE/LOCAL ORGANISATION CHAIR) Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court 211 Portobello Street University of Sheffield GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England, UK, EU. E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ WWW: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ Ftp: ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk FaX: +44 (0) 114-278-0972 Phone: +44 (0) 114-282-5572 (Office) 282-5596 (Lab.) 282-5590 (Secretary) AISB-95 REGISTRATION: Alison White AISB Executive Office Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS) University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton England, UK, BN 1 9QH Email: alisonw@cogs.susx.ac.uk WWW: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/aisb Ftp: ftp.cogs.susx.ac.uk/pub/aisb Tel: +44 (0) 1273 678448 Fax: +44 (0) 1273 671320 AISB-95 ENQUIRIES: Gill Wells, Administrative Assistant, AISB-95, Department of Computer Science, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, University of Sheffield, GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK, EU. Email: g.wells@dcs.shef.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0) 114-278-0972 Phone: +44 (0) 114-282-5590 Email: aisb95@dcs.shef.ac.uk (for auto responses) WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/aisb95 [Sheffield Computer Science] Ftp: ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk (cd aisb95) WWW: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ [Sheffield Computing Services] Ftp: ftp.shef.ac.uk (cd aisb95) WWW: http://ijcai.org/) [IJCAI-95, MONTREAL] WWW: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/aisb [AISB SOCIETY SUSSEX] Ftp: ftp.cogs.susx.ac.uk/pub/aisb VENUE: The venue for all conference events is: Halifax Hall of Residence, Endcliffe Vale Road, GB- S10 3DE, Sheffield, UK, EU. FaX: +44 (0) 114-266-3898 Tel: +44 (0) 114-266-3506 (24 hour porter) Tel: +44 (0) 114-266-4196 (manager Norma Taylor) SHEFFIELD: Sheffield is one of the friendliest cities in Britain and is situated well having the best and closest surrounding countryside of any major city in the UK. The Peak District National Park is only minutes away. It is a good city for walkers, runners, and climbers. It has two theatres, the Crucible and Lyceum. The Lyceum, a beautiful Victorian theatre, has recently been renovated. Also, the city has three 10 screen cinemas. There is a library theatre which shows more artistic films. The city has a large number of museums many of which demonstrate Sheffield's industrial past, and there are a number of Galleries in the City, including the Mapping Gallery and Ruskin. A number of important ancient houses are close to Sheffield such as Chatsworth House. The Peak District National Park is a beautiful site for visiting and rambling upon. There are large shopping areas in the City Sheffield is served by a 'supertram' system: the line to the Meadowhall shopping and leisure complex is already open. The University of Sheffield's Halls of Residence are situated on the western side of the city in a leafy residential area described by John Betjeman as ``the prettiest suburb in England''. Halifax Hall is centred on a local Steel Baron's house, dating back to 1830 and set in extensive grounds. It was acquired by the University in 1830 and converted into a Hall of Residence for women with the addition of a new wing. The Botanical Gardens and BROOMHILL area are a stone's throw away. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT SHEFFIELD: Sheffield Computer Science Department has a strong programme in Cognitive Systems and has a large reseach group (AINN) studying Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks. It is strongly connected to the University's Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH). ILASH has its own machines and support staff, and academic staff attached to it from nine departments. Sheffield Psychology Department has the Artificial Intelligence Vision Research Unit (AIVRU) which was founded in 1984 to coordinate a large industry/university Alvey research consortium working on the development of computer vision systems for autonomous vehicles and robot workstations. Sheffield Philosophy Department has the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies, founded in 1992, which runs a workshop/conference series on a two-year cycle on topics of interdisciplinary interest. (1992-4: 'Theory of mind'; 1994- 6: 'Language and thought'.) The Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering is conducting research into Neural Networks for Medical and other applications. AI and Cognitive Science researchers at Sheffield include Guy Brown, Peter Carruthers, Malcolm Crawford, Joe Downs, Phil Green, John Frisby, Robert Gaizauskas, Rob Harrison, Mark Hepple, Zhe Ma, John Mayhew, Jim McGregor, Paul Mc Kevitt, Bob Minors, Rod Nicolson, Tony Prescott, Peter Scott, Steve Renals, Noel Sharkey, and Yorick Wilks. ATTENDANCE: Currently attendance in predicted at approx. 30 people. If you are interested in attending then please send the following form to p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk as soon as possible: cut--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Affiliation: Full Address: E-mail: WWW: cut---------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ENQUIRIES FOR AISB-95 CAN BE MADE TO: aisb95@dcs.shef.ac.uk ________________________________________________________________________ R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M ---- A I S B--9 5 ________________________________________________________________________ LATE REGISTRATIONS Registrations postmarked after 28th FEBRUARY 1995 count as late registrations. Figures in parentheses are for full-time students (send photo copy of ID). 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Y/N Address ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ WWW ___________________________________________ Email ___________________________________________ Phone __________________ Fax __________________ I wish to register for the events indicated, and enclose a cheque in pounds sterling, drawn on a British clearing bank and payable to the `University of SUSSEX' (NB: NOT SHEFFIELD OR AISB) for ..... Signed _________________________ Date ___________ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-== -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-== From: gwp@dido.caltech.edu (G. W. Pigman III) Subject: Re: 8.0395 Q: Myrtles (1/14) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 21:05:29 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 330 (628) Mark Calkins asks about Proust's allusion to Virgil's myrtles: Ce qui me console c'est que Baudelaire a fait les poemes en prose et les Fleurs du Mal sur les memes sujets, que Girard de Nerval a fait en une piece de vers et dans un passage de Sylvie le meme chateau Louis XIII, le myrte de Virgile etc. Two likely candidates are: accipiat cingens materna tempora myrto (Georgics 1.28) Sic fatus uelat materna tempora myrto (Aeneid 5.72) In the first passage Virgil is wondering whether the earth will be the realm of the deified Augustus; in the second, Aeneas is wreathing his head after announcing the anniversary celebration for his father's death. The first materna alludes to the descent of the Julian gens from Venus; the second, to Venus as Aeneas's mother. -- G. W. Pigman III gwp@dido.caltech.edu From: JOHNSTON@BRANDEIS.BITNET Subject: Vergil's Myrtles Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 12:52:27 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 331 (629) Although I am not familiar with the passage in Proust et al, there are several passages in which Vergil refers to the myrtle tree In the second Eclogue, wherein the lovelorn shepherd Corydon sings of his love for Alexis (modelled on Theocritus 11, wherein the youthful, loverlorn Cyclops, Polyphemos, sings of his love for Galatea), Corydon is promising an array of rustic offerings, including quinces, chestnuts, etc., and he includes laurel and myrtle: "et vos, o lauri, carpam, et te, proxima myrte/ sic positae quoniam suavis miscetis odores." (Ec. 7.54-55) (I shall also gather you, laurel, and you, myrtle, since you mingle your sweet scents when placed next to each other.) In the seventh eclogue the myrtle again appears (Ec. 7.6,62,66). This context is an 'exchange song' between two shepherds. Here Corydon sings "myrtle is dear to Venus, laurel to Phoebus (Apollo); but Phyllus loves hazels; as long as Phyllis loves hazels, neither myrtle nor laurel will surpass hazels." In Vergil's Georgics, they are mentioned several times. Since the myrtle was sacred to Venus, from whom Julius Caesar was said to have been descended, his adoptive son, Octavian/Augustus would also share that association. In G.1.28, Vergil refers to the crown of myrtle that Octavian will wear when he becomes a god. Pat Johnston (johnston@binah.cc.brandeis.edu) From: weil@bred.univ-montp3.fr ( =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mich=E8le?= Weil) Subject: myrte de Nerval Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 16:52:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 332 (630) [deleted quotation] Je crois possible un malentendu dans la question meme et dans la premiere reponse diffusee, mais j'ecris sur mes reserves et ma memoire de culture generale, pas du tout en erudite, donc mille excuses d'avance si je suis a cote. Proust ne fait-il pas allusion au myrte dans les poemes et nouvelles de Nerval meme? Certes Virgile parle des myrtes a la fois dans l'Eneide (epopee) et dans les Georgiques (pastorale et didactique). Mais je suis troublee, n'ayant pas le texte complet de Proust sous les yeux, par des souvenirs forts : Gerard de Nerval parle souvent du myrte dans ses merveilleux poemes des Chimeres, souvent lies au laurier de ... Virgile: Dans Myrtho "Toujours, sous les rameaux du laurier de Virgile //Le pale hortensia s'unit au myrte vert". Dans Delfica "la connais-tu Dafn=E9, cette ancienne romance, /= / Au pied du sycomore, ou sous les lauriers blancs, //Sous l'olivier, le myrte ou les saules tremblants" Et dans Silvie du meme Nerval, oui certes l'intertextualite avec les Chimeres est forte. Silvie est souvent comparee a un personnage virgilien. Le "troene de Virgile" y apparait dans un morceau de bravoure. D'ou ma suggestion : le myrte nervalien est "de Virgile" comme le chateau nervalien est "de Louis XIII". Ou bien une contamination poetique dans les souvenirs litteraires de Proust ? il faudrait verifier dans Proust et je n'ai aucun texte sous les yeux. Michele Weil, professeur de litterature francaise =E0 l'Universite Paul Valery - Montpellier 3, Route de Mende, 34032 Montpellier. Adresse privee : Impasse des tamaris, F 34200 SETE. - weil@bred.univ-montp3.fr - tel centre XVIIe 67 14 24 62 - FAX 67 14 24 26 From: Teodor.Flonta@modlang.utas.edu.au Subject: New Ejournal and Epublisher on the Web Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 03:53:44 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 408 (631) Hi, [deleted quotation]I would be really very very grateful if you could spread the news through your list. [deleted quotation] 1. "De Proverbio: An Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies", Volume 1 - Number 1 - 1995 (ISSN 1323-4633) is edited by Dr. Teodor Flonta at the Department of Modern Languages-Italian (University of Tasmania, Australia) (email: Teodor.Flonta@modlang.utas.edu.au) and it is a scholarly refereed journal. The first issue contains articles on a variety of issues concerning paremiology (proverb studies) ranging from the perception of proverbiality to proverb use in Hitler's 'Mein Kampf', which can be of interest for non scholars also. "De Proverbio" can be viewed at the following URL http://info.utas.edu.au/docs/flonta/ 2. "De Proverbio: An Electronic Book Publisher" is located momentarily in De Proverbio Database of "De Proverbio: An Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies", Volume 1 - Number 1 - 1995. Two books are published there already: 'Lettera in proverbi'-ISBN 1 875943 01 3 - written in the sixteen century by an Italian humanist (edited by T. Flonta) and a second edition of "English-Romanian Dictionary of Equivalent Proverbs"- ISBN 1 875943 00 5 - (T. Flonta). "De Proverbio" can be viewed at the following URL http://info.utas.edu.au/docs/flonta/ For "Lettera in proverbi", the complete URL is http://info.utas.edu.au/docs/flonta/letter.html and for "English-Romanian Dictionary of Equivalent Proverbs http://info.utas.edu.au/docs/flonta/dictionary.html I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks. Ciao, Teodor Teodor Flonta Tel. (002) 202321 Department of Modern Languages (Italian) International +61 02 202321 University of Tasmania Fax. (002) 207813 GPO Box 252C International +61 02 207813 Hobart TASMANIA 7001 Australia e-mail: Teodor.Flonta@modlang.utas.edu.au URL: http://info.utas.edu.au/docs/flonta/ From: John O'Brien Subject: Re: Security and e-mail Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 8:09:05 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 333 (632) As a long time user of e-mail, it my personal opinion that the email part of the transmission is relatively secure. Most machines which mail travels through only have your mail for a matter of seconds before passing it on to the next machine. It certainly is possible for any system administrator to retain copies of specific addresses or for that matter, all mail. The like- lyhood of that happening is pretty low. The greatest risk is at the originating and/or terminating ends of the transmission. Especially if you or your correspondent(s) retain copies of the mail. I subscribe to an internet provider which has virtually no security for users. I can browse through 99% of the other users accounts on the machine, if I was so inclined. (I'm not). You can learn to protect your data by learning how to use the (in most cases) UNIX chmod command. Also, learn how to use the encryption facilities which are usually available. Finally, if you are worried about intruders, get your data of off the machine and onto paper (or floppies) as soon as possible. John -- ~ John O'Brien ~~~~~~~~~~~~ john@empire.interstate.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ john@para.interstate.net O'B-wan Computer Services (816)229-7648 ~ From: ltaylor@CS.UCLA.EDU Subject: Books in Print Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 14:14:37 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 334 (633) A HUMANIST list reader inquired about a "Books In Print" resource. I have used Books in Print on Compuserve, and it may be available from other commercial services. LAT From: Marco Simionato Subject: email address of Blackwells, Oxford (UK) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 08:48:48 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 335 (634) I have seen that Blackwells Bookstore in Oxford, England has an email address for mail orders at sales@blackwell.co.uk I have sent a message but got no reply, and I have no evidence that such an email address is actually working - X500 and FINGER failed to find this address. Has anybody been using this address? I'll be using the fax in the meantime... Thanks. Marco Simionato From: Charles L. Creegan Subject: Q: contemporary Iconoclasm Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 13:33:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 336 (635) A colleague in the arts, having agreed to speak on this subject, is seeking information on contemporary instances of iconoclasm (in a fairly literal sense--i.e., defacement of works). -- Charles Creegan NC Wesleyan College ccreegan@uncecs.edu From: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk Subject: Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:01:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 411 (636) Would you please advertise the following notice over the network. KCC UNIVERSITY OF EXETER CALL 1995 10 - 12 SEPTEMBER 1995 CALL and the Learning Environment PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME Albanese, Ottavia & Belloro, Angelo, Universita degli Studi di Milano Linguistic Software and Children's Sentence Production Allen, John, Mast Learning Systems, London "Up to Standard" CALL package Borraccino, Antonio, University of Westminster, London Creation of an Automatic System for Marking Students' Work Braithwaite, Keith, University of Perpignan, France Using the Internet in Language Teaching Crosby, Martha, University of Hawaii Evaluation of Multimedia Interfaces in Transcription: A Case Study Daugherty, Jill, UNISA, South Africa Development and testing of a CALL program to teach indirect speech in French in a distance learning environment De Fazio, Teresa, Victoria University of Technology, Australia Using the Computer to Alleviate Writer's Apprehension Donaldson, Randall, Loyola College, USA Technology to the Rescue: using Libra on the MacIntosh to make students better and more motivated readers Fox, Jeremy, University of East Anglia, UK A pragmatic approach to multimedia language courseware design Hamburger, Henry and Schoelles, Michael, George Mason University, USA Tools for Cognition-based Language Pedagogy Haworth, William and Sansot, Evelyne, John Moores, Liverpool, UK Practical suggestions for exploitation of the Internet Hewison, Richard, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia Elaborative Modification or Reading Passages: Applying CALL to Applied Linguistics Research Holland, Melissa, US Army Research Institute, Alexandria, VA Designing a Voice-Interactive Language Tutor Holmes, Glyn, Univeristy of Western Ontario, Canada Electronic Corpora and Language Learning Inman, David and Zhang Qing-gang, South Bank University, London Experiments and Experiences of Integrating Concordance with Hypercard for Readers of EFL Jones, Christopher, Carnegie Mellon University, USA The Oral Language Archive: An Introduction Jones, Christopher, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Teaching Foreign Language Business Correspondence with IT King, Kathleen, Idaho State University, USA Reaching Out to Online Students Kuettner, Paul R, Washington and Lee University, USA Oral Skill Development Made Possible Through Phonetics and Visible Voice Patterns Levison, Michael, Lessard, Greg, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Using a Language Generation System for Second Language Learning Levy, Mike, University of Queensland, Australia The CALL materials development process Ma, David, City University, Hong Kong CALL Revisited McEnery, Tony, Lancaster University Corpus based Computer Aided Instruction Mak, Linda, Chinese University of Hong Kong Creating an Appropriate Environment for Language Learning Metcalfe, Peter, Open University, UK French is not a language - it's a subject: verb learning and CALL in a mixed ability environment Pennington, Martha, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong Writing the Natural Way: on computer Richmond, Ian, Universite Sainte-Anne, Canada CALLing From Home Royall, Frederic and Conacher, Jean, University of Limerick, Ireland Research and practice in learner autonomy: CALL inside and outside the classroom St John, Elke, Cash, Dave, University of Sheffield, UK Email as a language learning aid : Demonstrable success with German Schulze, Mathias, Manchester Metropolitan University Textana - a hypertext as a learning environment for text reproduction Sebillot, Pascale and Danna, Federic, Universite de Beaulieu , France A Formalization of Student Modeling Van Peteghem, Michiel, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Brussels BITS2: The introduction of CALL (IC English, French and Dutch) in 50 secondary schools in Brussels: Strategy, Implementation and Results Yazdani, Masoud, University of Exeter Intelligent Multimedia Any late proposals should be addressed as soon as possible to: Daphne Morton Department of French University of Exeter Queen's Building Exeter EX4 4QH Tel: 01392 264222 E/mail: dmorton@exeter.ac.uk UNIVERSITY OF EXETER CALL 1995 10 - 12 SEPTEMBER 1995 CALL and the Learning Environment This will be the sixth conference to be held in Exeter on Computer Assisted Language Learning. In previous years experts and interested parties have been drawn from all over the world and the proceedings have been published. Accommodation will be provided in the recently built Post-Graduate Centre situated on the main campus of Exeter University If you are interested in attending please complete and return the slip attached. Invoices will be issued on 1 May 1995 and, for administrative reasons, we expect payment by 28 May 1995. If you wish to pay in advance of this date you may do so making your cheque/money order payable to the University of Exeter CALL and the Learning Environment September 10 - 12 1995 NAME ........................................................................... .............. ADDRESS ........................................................................... .............. ........................................................................... .............. ........................................................................... .............. ........................................................................... .............. I wish to attend the CALL Conference on September 10-12 1995 Resident / Non-Resident Please invoice me Total cost for full board and conference fee 99 pounds sterling Total cost for meals only and conference fee 70 pounds sterling Please return to: Daphne Morton, CALL 95 Department of French University of Exeter Exeter EX4 4QH Tel: 01392 264222 E/mail: dmorton@exeter.ac.uk ------------- Keith Cameron Professor of French and Renaissance Studies, Editor of Computer Assisted Language Learning. An international Journal, EUROPA, Exeter French Texts, Exeter Tapes, Intellect European Studies, Department of French, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, G.B. Tel: 01392 264221 / + 44 (19) 1392 264221 Fax: 01392 264377 / + 44 (19) 1392 264377 E/mail: K.C.Cameron@uk.ac.exeter K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk From: tbrunner@uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner) Subject: Request for information Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 07:51:53 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 412 (637) The following persons hold TLG licenses, but have moved without any forwarding address. We list the name and the last known address. If anyone has a more recent address, the project would much appreciate the intelligence. 1. Pantelis Basakos Panteion University 15 Kefallinias St 11361 Athens GREECE Letters to the University proper are returned as undeliverable at this address (!) 2. Ross GR Caldwell #3-198A Main Street So. Newmarket Ontario L3Y 3Z2 Canada Also received no reply from letter sent to Classics & Religious Studies, York University, Toronto-Downsville, Ontario 3. Ulrike Hirsch Thieshof 14 Hannover 51 D-3000 Germany No known institutional affiliation 4. Alfredo Morselli Pontifico Collegio Russicum via C. Cattaneo 21A Rome I-00185 Italy Letter to the Pont. Coll. Russ. secretariat received no reply 5. Sheryl L. Ross 1221 Westwood St. Redwood City Ca 94061 No known institutional affiliation 6. Monika Schnoerrer Fritz Schwerdtfeger-Weg 6 D-3000 Hannover 51 Germany No known institutional affiliation =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Theodore F. Brunner, Director Phone: (714) 824-7031 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae FAX: (714) 824-8434 University of California Irvine Irvine, CA 92717-5550 USA E-Mail: TBRUNNER@UCI.EDU =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: HORN_A@usp.ac.fj Subject: Blackwell's Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 08:52:46 +1200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 413 (638) The Blackwell's Book Sale Catalogue before me says that the email address is "blackwells.extra@blackwell.co.uk". They offer a subscription to their catalogue by contacting "darrylm@cix.compulink.co.uk" with the message "SUBSCRIBE ACADEMIC BOOKSALE". The Web address they suggest is "http://www.cityscape.co.uk/bookshop/booksale.html". I hope this is of some use to those seeking contact with Messrs Blackwell. Andrew Horn Department of Literature and Language The University of the South Pacific Suva Republic of FIJI From: Arjan.Loeffen@LET.RUU.NL Subject: SGML technical workshop in Holland Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 16:33:13 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 414 (639) ----------------------***------------------------- This message is distributed over COMP.TEXT.SGML, SGML-L, TEI-LIST, HUMANIST, ECOLL and ETEXT. The message is in English (part 1) and in Dutch (part 2). ----------------------***------------------------- --part 1: English-- Workshop: SGML DESIGN ISSUES RELATED TO APPLICATIONS Tilburg University, May 10, 1995 (1 day) In close cooperation with the Dutch SGML Users Group, the Universities of Utrecht and Tilburg will be organizing a limited attendance workshop on the theoretical foundations and the practical implications of SGML design. The workshop has a highly interactive form: selected presentations serve as the starting point of a discussion. Audience The intended audience is that of SGML professionals - with a more than average insight in the ins and outs of using SGML/DSSSL/HYTIME in a day to day production environment - and researchers in the field. We will have to impose limits to the number of participants, in order to ensure that discussion remains possible. The workshop is open for non-Dutch speaking attendants. A full report will be publicly available afterward. Subjects The topics for the workshop will be compiled by the attendants through electronic mail, such that the discussion at the workshop itself is initiated. Examples of the topics to be discussed: ambiguities in content models, use and weaknesses of the CONCUR and LINK features, structuring mechanisms using general and parameter entities, expressive power of the language, application of character sets, and so on. We are inclined to separate the discussion on SGML as a standard from discussions on related standards such as DSSSL and HyTime, and on application software (the problem of assessing the quality and validity of the software that is on offer). Second workshop It is our intention to organize a second, more internationally oriented workshop (part of the SGML user's group conference?) later this year. This workshop will be more practically oriented, where the findings of this first workshop will be presented and open for discussion by a broader public. Key issues here could be the availability of SGML software, their adherence to the standard, validation and quality assessment, and applicability in daily use. This applies, among others, to HyTime engines, SGML editors, parsers, databases and document bases, publishing-on- demand, archiving, security, et cetera. Preliminary Programme 09:30 -- 10:00 Registration and coffee 10:00 -- 10:30 Introduction and finalizing of the agenda 10:30 -- 12:30 First session 12:30 -- 13:30 Lunch 13:30 -- 15:30 Second session 15:30 -- 16:00 Break 16:00 -- ?? Evening session Registration Deadline for registration: May 1st, 1995. A registration form will be sent through regular or electronic mail. To register, send an e-mail to SGMLTW@LET.RUU.NL (preferred). If no access to the internet, contact A. Loeffen, C&L, Achter de Dom 22-24, 3512JP Utrecht, The Netherlands The attendance fee is Dfl. 75,- for students and scolars, and members of the Dutch SGML users group. Dlf. 150,- for all other attendants. These low fees have been made possible by a grant from the Dutch SGML users group. Organizing Committee Arthur van Horck KUB-University, Tilburg, The Netherlands Phone: +31 13 662232 (office), +31 13 438488 (home) Arjan Loeffen University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Phone: +31 30 536417 (office), +31 20 6656463 (home) --part 2: Dutch-- Workshop: SGML ONTWERP EN TOEPASSINGVRAAGSTUKKEN Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, 10 mei 1995 (1 dag) In nauwe samenwerking met de nederlandse SGML Gebruikersgroep organizeren de Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht en de Katholieke Universiteit Brabant een workshop met betrekking tot theoretische principes en praktische implicaties van op SGML gebaseerd software ontwerp. De workshop heeft een sterk interactief karakter: geselecteerde presentaties dienen als aanzet tot gedachtenwisseling. Publiek Het beoogde publiek bestaat uit professionele SGML gebruik(st)ers en ontwerp(st)ers met een meer dan gemiddelde kennis van de taal SGML en gerelateerde standaarden in een dagelijkse productieomgeving, en onderzoekers op dit gebied. Noodzakelijkerwijs moet er een limiet worden gesteld aan het aantal deelnemers. Centraal staat, zoals gesteld, de vrije discussie, welke baat heeft bij een beperkt aantal participanten. De workshop is toegankelijk voor niet-Nederlands sprekende deelnemers. De voertaal is, wanneer mogelijk, nederlands. Een volledig rapport van de dag wordt nadien aan de deelnemers beschikbaar gesteld; een officieel rapport wordt internationaal gepubliceerd. Onderwerpen De lijst van onderwerpen van de workshop wordt samengesteld door de deelnemers middels (bij voorkeur) electronische post. Als voorbeeld van de behandelde onderwerpen mogen dienen: Ambiguiteiten in content models, toepassing en beperkingen van CONCUR en LINK, modularizatie middels general en parameter entities, beschrijvende kracht van de taal, ed dergelijke. De organisatoren zijn geneigd de discussie rond SGML enigzins gescheiden te houden van die rond gerelateerde standaarden en die rond applicatie- software. Tweede workshop Wanneer deze eerste workshop aanslaat, ligt het in de bedoeling van de organizatoren een tweede, meer internationaal georienteerde workshop te organiseren. Deze workshop zal in dat geval meer praktisch georienteerd zijn. De bevindingen van de eerste workshop zullen worden gepresenteerd aan, en bediscussieerd kunnen worden door een breder publiek. Typische onderwerpen zijn in dit geval: de beschikbaarheid van SGML software, hun relatie met ISO 8879, en toepasbaarheid in dagelijks gebruik. Dit betreft ook, onder andere, HyTime engines, SGML tekstverwerkers, parsers, databases en document bases, publishing-on- demand, archivering, veiligheidsaspecten. Voorlopig programma 09:30 -- 10:00 Inschrijving, koffie 10:00 -- 10:30 Introductie en vastlegging agenda 10:30 -- 12:30 Eerste sessie 12:30 -- 13:30 Lunch 13:30 -- 15:30 Tweede sessie 15:30 -- 16:00 Onderbreking 16:00 -- ? Avondsessie Registratie, kosten Uiterlijke inschrijfdatum: 1 mei 1995. Een inschrijfformulier wordt via reguliere, dan wel electronische post toegezonden. De kosten voor deelname bedragen Dfl. 75,- voor studenten, docenten aan HBO en academische instellingen, en leden van de Nederlandse SGML gebruikersgroep, Dfl. 150,- voor alle anderen. De lage inschrijvingskosten zijn mogelijk gemaakt door een subsidie van de Nederlandse SGML gebruikersgroep. Inschrijving, inlichtingen - (Bij voorkeur) E-Mail naar: SGMLTW@LET.RUU.NL - (Wanneer geen toegang tot electronische postdienst) Reguliere post naar: A. Loeffen, C&L, Achter de Dom 22-24, 3512JP Utrecht Organizatoren Arthur van Horck Inst. voor Taal- en Kennistechnologie, KUB, Tilburg Telefoon: +31 13 662232 (werk), +31 13 438488 (prive) Arjan Loeffen Vakgroep Computer & Letteren, RUU, Utrecht Telefoon: +31 30 536417 (werk), +31 20 6656463 (prive) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Arjan Loeffen Achter de Dom 22-24 ++31+30536417 voice work Faculty of Arts 3512JP Utrecht ++31+206656463 voice home University of Utrecht The Netherlands ++31+30539221 fax work ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rjbeun@prl.philips.nl Subject: Intl. Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication (CMC/95) Date: ................. Signature: ................. X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 415 (640) *******************************please cut here***************************** \documentstyle[12pt]{article} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} %\documentstyle[a4wide,12pt]{article} %\documentstyle[wijdem,12pt]{iwcs} %\documentstyle[a4wide,12pt]{iwcs} \noindent {\Large\bf List of Speakers} \\ \\ {\large\bf Invited Speakers} \\ \\ {\it Mark MAYBURY} (The MITRE Corporation, McLean) \\ {\it Wolfgang WAHLSTER} (DFKI, Saarbr\"ucken) \\ {\it Bonnie WEBBER} (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) \\ {\it Kent WITTENBURG} (Bellcore, Morristown) \\ \ \\ \ \\ {\large\bf Papers} \\ \\ {\it Rene AHN, Harry BUNT and Robbert-Jan BEUN} (ITK, Tilburg and IPO, Eindhoven) \\ {\sf The DenK-system: A Fundamental Approach to User Interfaces} \\ \ \\ {\it Tijn BORGHUIS } (Eindhoven University of Technology) \\ {\sf Contexts in Dialogue }\\ \ \\ {\it Patrick BOURDOT, Mike KRUS and Rachid GHERBI } (LIMSI, Orsay) \\ {\sf Management of Non-Standard Devices for Multimodal User Interfaces under UNIX/X11 }\\ \ \\ {\it M.C. BRESSOLLE, B. PAVARD and M. LEROUX} (ARAMIIHS/CENA) \\ {\sf The Role of Multimodal Communication in Cooperation and Intention Recognition: The Case of Air Traffic Control }\\ \ \\ {\it Adam CHEYER and Luc JULIA } (SRI International, Menlo Park) \\ {\sf Multimodal Maps: An Agent-based Approach }\\ \ \\ {\it Laurel FAIS, Kyung-Ho LOKEN-KIM and Young-Duk PARK } (ATR, Kyoto) \\ {\sf Speakers' Responses to Requests for Repetition in a Multimodal Cooperative Dialogue }\\ \ \\ \newpage \noindent {\it Yi HAN and Ingrid ZUKERMAN } (Monash University, Clayton, Australia) \\ {\sf A Cooperative Approach for Multimodal Presentation Planning }\\ \ \\ {\it Carla HULS and Edwin BOS } (NICI, Nijmegen University) \\ {\sf Studies into Full Integration of Language and Action }\\ \ \\ {\it Tsuneaki KATO and Yukiko I. NAKANO } (NTT, Kanagawa, Japan) \\ {\sf Referent Identification Requests in Multimodal Dialogs }\\ \ \\ {\it John LEE and Keith STENNING } (HCRC, University of Edinburgh) \\ {\sf Anaphora in Multimodal Discourse }\\ \ \\ {\it J.C. MARTIN, R. VELDMAN and D. BEROULE } (LIMSI, Orsay and TELECOM, Paris) \\ {\sf Towards Adequate Representation Technologies for Multimodal Interfaces }\\ \ \\ {\it Fergal McCAFFERY, Michael McTEAR and Maureen MURPHY } (University of Ulster, Newtonabbey) \\ {\sf Designing a Multimedia Interface for Operators Assembling Circuit Boards } \\ \ \\ {\it Katashi NAGAO } (Sony, Tokyo) \\ {\sf Anthropomorphic Agents: A Multimodal Approach }\\ \ \\ {\it Catherine PELACHAUD, Justine CASSELL, Norman BADLER, Mark STEEDMAN, Scott PREVOST and Matthew STONE} (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) \\ {\sf Synthesizing Cooperative Conversation }\\ \ \\ {\it N.J. SALES and R.G. EVANS } (Imperial College, London) \\ {\sf An Approach to Solving the Symbol Grounding Problem: Neural Networks for Object Naming and Retrieval }\\ \ \\ %\newpage %\noindent {\it J. SIROUX, M. GUYOMARD, F. MULTON and C. REMONDEAU } (IRISA, Lannion, France) \\ {\sf Modeling and Processing of the Oral and Tactile Activities in the GEORAL Tactile System } \\ \ \\ \ \\ {\large\bf Posterpresentations} \\ \ \\ {\it Anita CREMERS } (IPO, Eindhoven) \\ {\sf Object Reference during Terminal Dialogues }\\ \ \\ {\it Massimo FASCIANO and Guy LAPALME} (University of Montreal) \\ {\sf Automatic Generation of Statistical Graphics} \\ \ \\ {\it Igor KOTENKO and Dmitry KRECHMAN} (Telecommunication Academy and Electrotechnical University, St.-Petersburg) \\ {\sf Computer-Aided Negotiation Support in Hypermedia Multi-Agent Systems} \\ \ \\ {\it Susann LUPERFOY and David DUFF} (The MITRE Corporation, McLean) \\ {\sf Multimodal Dialogue Semantics Against a Dynamic World Model} \\ \ \\ {\it Olga MARCHENKO} (Institute of Psychology, Moskou) \\ {\sf Two Basic Orientations of Subject in World and in Human-Computer Communication} \\ \ \\ {\it Mieke RATS } (ITK, Tilburg University) \\ {\sf Topic Management in Information Dialogues }\\ \ \\ {\it Gerrit RENTIER} (ITK, Tilburg) \\ {\sf Constraint-Based Grammars and Lingual Interfaces} \\ \ \\ {\it Marco ROCHA} (University of Sussex, Brighton) \\ {\sf Anaphora Processing in Human-Machine Dialogues: A Cross-Linguistic Discussion} \\ \ \\ {\it Wlodek ZADROZNY} (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) \\ {\sf Internalized Contexts in NL Semantics} \end{document} *******************************please cut here***************************** \documentstyle[a4wide,12pt]{article} \pagestyle{empty} %\documentstyle[wijdem,12pt]{iwcs} %\documentstyle[a4wide,12pt]{iwcs} \begin{document} {\sf \begin{center} {\Huge\bf CMC/95 \\ ----------- \\ } {\large\bf International Conference on \\ \ \\ COOPERATIVE MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION } \\ \ \\ {\large Theory and Applications } \\ \ \\ {\it Sponsored by the Universities of Brabant Joint Research Organization (SOBU) \\ and the ACL Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMEDIA) } \\ \ \\ % \vspace{-10mm} % \vspace{-25mm} {\large 24-26 May 1995, Eindhoven, The Netherlands } \end{center} \ \\ Eindhoven University of Technology, in collaboration with the Institute for Perception Research IPO in Eindhoven and the Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence ITK in Tilburg, will host an international conference on the theory and applications of cooperative multimodal communication that wil take place in Eindhoven from 24-26 May 1995. \\ \ \\ The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers involved in the design, implementation, and application of forms of cooperative human-computer communication where natural language (typed or spoken) is used in combination with other modalities, such as visual feedback and direct manipulation. The conference will focus on formal, computational, and user aspects of building cooperative multimodal dialogue systems. Papers are sought in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following topics: % \vspace{-5mm} \begin{itemize} \item cooperativity in multimodal dialogue \item natural language semantics in a multimodal context \item formal and computational models of dialogue context \item incremental knowledge representation and dialogue \item interacting with visual domain representations \item collaborative problem solving and knowledge sharing \item constraint-based approaches to animation and visual modelling \item effective use of different interactive modalities \item modelling temporal aspects of multimodal communication \item type theory and natural language interpretation % \item knowledge sharing technologies \end{itemize} % \vspace{-5mm} \noindent {\bf Paper submission requirements: } \\ Authors are asked to submit an extended abstract of their paper of minimally 4 and maximally 7 pages, including references and keywords, by December 15, 1994. Only electronical submission in standard LaTeX will be possible, to be sent to denk@kub.nl. \\ \ \\ % \vspace{-5mm} {\bf Time schedule: } \\ \begin{tabular}{lrl} Submission of extended abstracts & 15 & December, 1994 \\ Notification of acceptance & 1 & February, 1995 \\ Final papers due & 15 & March, 1995 \\ \end{tabular} \\ \ \\ {\bf Programme Committee:} \\ \begin{tabular}{ll} Harry Bunt (ITK, Tilburg) (chair) \\ Norman Badler (Philadelphia) & Jeroen Groenendijk (Amsterdam) \\ Walther von Hahn (Hamburg) & Dieter Huber (Mainz) \\ Hans Kamp (Stuttgart) & John Lee (Edinburgh) \\ Joseph Mariani (Parijs) & Mark Maybury (Mitre) \\ Paul Mc Kevitt (Sheffield) & Rob Nederpelt (Eindhoven) \\ Kees van Overveld (Eindhoven) & Ray Perrault (Stanford) \\ Donia Scott (Brighton) & Wolfgang Wahlster (Saarbruecken) \\ Bonnie Webber (Philadelphia) & Kent Wittenburg (Bellcore) \\ \end{tabular} \\ \ \\ {\bf Organization Committee:} \\ \begin{tabular}{ll} Robbert-Jan Beun (IPO, Eindhoven) (chair) \\ \multicolumn{2}{l}{Tijn Borghuis, Harry Bunt, Rob Nederpelt, Marianne Wagemans} \end{tabular} \\ \ \\ \ \\ % \vspace{-5mm} % \vspace{-1mm} \noindent %\footnotesize{ {\bf Information: } \\ WWW at {\tt http://itkwww.kub.nl:2080/itk/Docs/DenK.html}. \\ For questions about the program contact {\tt Harry.Bunt@kub.nl}; \\ for questions about the organization contact {\tt rjbeun@prl.philips.nl}. \\ For all other matters contact the SOBU Secretariat, Tilburg University, \\ P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE TILBURG, The Netherlands, \\ phone: +31 13 662380; fax: +31 13 662948; email: {\tt denk@kub.nl}. % } %end footnotesize } % end \sf \end{document} From: LANJH1@VAXA.HERIOT-WATT.AC.UK Subject: Software for Dictionary Compilation Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 12:08 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 416 (641) A former student who has become involved in compiling a small specialised dictionary has asked me if any software is available which has been designed specifically for this task. This is an area of which I have no particular knowledge, as I have always managed by using the facilities on my word-processing package or a simple data-base. If any Humanists have experience in working with software intended for dictionary-building I would be pleased to hear from them. The language concerned is Russian. J. Halliday Department of Languages Heriot-Watt UNiversity Edinburgh Scotland. From: Subject: WVU Summer Seminar Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 14:14:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 417 (642) The following notice is being cross-posted on a number of lists, and therefore, I apologize for any duplication. Please email to the address below with your postal mailing address if interested since this is an administrative account which is not directly subscribed to this list. Thanks. **************************** Announcement ************************************* West Virginia University Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies presents RADIANT TEXTUALITY: HUMANE STUDIES IN VIRTUAL SPACES Seminar Leader: Jerome J. McGann Commonwealth Professor of English University of Virginia June 8-11, 1995 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV For seminar rates and more information, contact: Dr. David C. Stewart Department of English West Virginia University PO Box 6296 Morgantown, WV 26505-6296 304-293-3107 WVSSLCS@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU From: Peter-john Byrnes Subject: Online Scholarship Initiative at the University of Virginia Date: Fri, 24 Mar 95 13:57:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 418 (643) The following may be of interest to HUMANIST subscribers: Announcement of a New Library Service at the University of Virginia: UVa Faculty Scholarship on the Internet Starting in March 1995, the University Library's Electronic Text Center will offer a new service to UVa faculty (limited initially to a selection of humanities and social science departments). The Online Scholarship Initiative will enable UVa faculty to make available on the Internet pre-print copies of articles to be published, and post-print copies of articles already published. The Initiative is both a new service at UVa and a national pilot project, growing out of meetings held by the Association of American Universities and the Association of Research Libraries. UVa was a clear choice for an initial site, given the pioneering work already accomplished by the Electronic Text Center. It is hoped that the Online Scholarship Initiative will serve as a model for other universities and colleges, with the eventual aim of creating an online, searchable, national archive of faculty scholarship. Among the many benefits made possible through this new scheme are: * rapid access to scholarship because a copy of an article can be made available electronically long before it comes out in print * more convenient access to scholarship, because the means to both find and read an appropriate article are contained within a single electronic service * an eventual electronic archive of published articles, made possible through partnerships with established academic publishers * the ability to include material in an electronic version that cannot be included in a print journal (including multiple color illustrations, sound, and "hypertext" connections to other articles or resources on the Internet) * increased visibility for scholarly output written at UVa In practice, the Online Scholarship Initiative will: * create, maintain, and publicize an online searchable archive of UVa scholarship, with particular emphasis on availability through the World Wide Web * provide tools for converting word-processing files to a suitable format for inclusion in the online archive * help clarify the different issues and publication possibilities that are associated with electronic publishing * work with publishers to secure electronic publication rights for electronic pre- and post-prints * work with UVa-based scholarly journals to explore the options for publishing online versions of their material For more information, or to offer an article for inclusion in this service, contact Peter-john Byrnes at 924-3169; David Seaman at 924-3230; or e-mail us at osiuva@virginia.edu. From: Nicolas Nicolov Subject: Comp Ling Summer School Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 10:59:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 419 (644) * Please post: Third Announcement International Summer School "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" ____________________________________________________________________ 9 - 13 Sept 1995 Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria DATES: 9 - 13 Sept 1995 (arrival 8 Sept) LOCATION: Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains surrounding the Batak Lake. Tzigov Chark is 150km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME: A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Lexicalized tree-adjoining grammars J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Knowledge acquisition from corpora J. Haller (IAI, Saarbrucken, Germany) Unification-based Machine Translation J. Schutz (IAI, Saarbrucken, Germany) Language Engineering J. Hutchins (University of East Anglia, UK) Machine translation: history, current status and possible future developments W. von Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany) Knowledge-based Machine Aided Translation Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Lexical knowledge acquisition A. Ramsey (University College Dublin) Interpretation in context Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon, Korea) English-to-Korean Machine Translation R. Delmonte (University of Venice, Italy) Referring expressions in sublanguages C. Martin-Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgilli, Tarragona, Spain) Mathematical Linguistics: its relevance for Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science Other speakers are expected to confirm their participation. A more complete list will be given in the next announcement. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Ruslan Mitkov IAI Saarbruecken/Institute of Mathematics, Sofia Manfred Kudlek University of Hamburg, Germany Michael Zock LIMSI, Orsay, France Nikolai Nikolov Incoma, Bulgaria Victoria Arranz CCL, UMIST, Manchester, UK Nicolas Nicolov Dept. of AI, University of Edinburgh, UK SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION: For further information please contact: Nicolas Nicolov or Prof. Ruslan Mitkov RELATED EVENTS: The summer school participants are also invited to take part in the Int. Conference "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING", which will take place immediately after the summer school in Velingrad, 20 km from Tzigov Chark. Further information about the conference can be obtained from: Nicolas Nicolov or Prof. R. Mitkov or you can have a look at the conference WWW page at URL: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/misc/NLP_Conf.html NB Prof. Ruslan Mitkov's NEW email is: NEXT ANOUNCEMENT: A more complete tutorial program, information about registration fees, and accommodation will be posted in due time. * Please post * From: Nicolas Nicolov Subject: CFP - RECENT ADVANCES IN NLP Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 10:54:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 420 (645) * Please post: Third Call For Papers International Conference "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING" 14-16 September 1995 Velingrad, Bulgaria TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing and Language Engineering are invited, including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP, machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; written and spoken natural language interfaces; knowledge acquisition; text summarization; computer-assisted language learning; language resources; evaluation, assessment and standards in language engineering; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. The conference welcomes also new results in NLP based on modern alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connectionist as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches. In view of the recent explosion of the use of on-line language resources the conference especially welcomes contributions in the area of language engineering. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: B. Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) C. Boitet (IMAG, Grenoble) E. Charniak (Brown University) K. S. Choi (KAIST, Taejon) A. DeRoeck (University of Essex) R. Delmonte (University of Venice) J. P. Descles (University Paris Sorbonne) S. Finch (University of Edinburgh) G. Goerz (University of Erlangen) E. Hajicova (Charles University, Prague) J. Haller (IAI, Saarbruecken) P. Jacobs (SRA, Arlington) A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) L. Kartunen (Xerox Grenoble) M. Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto) R. Kittredge (University of Montreal) K. Kukich (Bellcore, Morristown) J. Mariani (LIMSI, Orsay) C. Martin-Vide (University Rovira i Virgili) Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) K. McKeown (Columbia University) R. Mitkov (IAI/Institute of Mathematics) S. Nirenburg (New Mexico State University) M. Pinkal (University of Saarland, Saarbruecken) A. Ramsey (University College Dublin) H. Somers (UMIST, Manchester) P. Seuren (University of Nijmegen) O. Stock (IRST, Trento) B. Tsou (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong) J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester) D. Tufis (Romanian Academy of Sciences) D. Yarowsky (University of Pennsylvania) M. Zock (LISMI, Orsay) INVITED SPEAKERS: A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester) C. Boitet (IMAG, Grenoble) PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers not exceeding 3500 words should be submitted via Email (preferably as plain text or in LaTeX format) not later than 20 April 1995 to: mitkov@informatik.uni-hamburg.de The first page should also contain the surface and Email address(es) of the author(s), as well as the topic area. SUBMISSION MEDIA: Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to: Ruslan Mitkov Department of Computer Science University of Hamburg Vogt Koelln St. 30 22527 Hamburg GERMANY If electronic submission is problematic (e.g. due to non-standard format, characters, graphics) not possible, 4 copies of the paper should be sent. SCHEDULE: Authors must submit their papers by 20 April 1995. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 20 June 1995. Camera-ready versions of the accepted papers, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 20 July 1995. LOCATION: The town of Velingrad is situated in a picturesque valley in the Western Rhodope mountains and is only 130km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organizers will provide a daily shuttle bus/ conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. Sofia is easily accessible by plane from most of the major European cities (e.g. daily flights or several flights per week from London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Vienna and other European cities). There are also direct flights to Sofia from North America (New York) and Asia (Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Ruslan Mitkov IAI Saarbruecken/Institute of Mathematics, Sofia Michael Zock LIMSI, Orsay, France Manfred Kudlek University of Hamburg, Germany Nikolai Nikolov Incoma, Bulgaria Nicolas Nicolov Dept. of AI, University of Edinburgh, UK REGISTRATION FEE Full-time students - USD 100 Academic staff - USD 140 Researchers in industry - USD 180 The registration fee includes attendance at the conference, a copy of the proceedings, refreshments and a reception. Participants will be informed of the conference bank account in May and will be asked to send their registration fee by international money order before 15 July 1995. On site payment by credit card, cheque or cash will be possible, but with a surcharge of USD 30. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For further information contact: Nicolas Nicolov Dept of Artificial Intelligence University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN Nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk Tel: +44-131 650 2727 Fax: +44-131 650 6516 Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief description together with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to the above address. The organisers can provide PCs and Macintoshes. WWW and FTP: Information about the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" is available via: - WWW at URL: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/misc/NLP_Conf.html - anonymous FTP from ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk in file: pub/user/adv_nlp.ps Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user input is underlined): $ ftp ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Name (ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk: nicolas): anonymous ^^^^^^^^^ Password: <- Type in your email here! ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> cd pub/user ^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> get adv_nlp.ps <- PostScript version ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> get adv_nlp.txt <- Plain Text File ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ RELATED EVENTS: Conference participants are also invited to take part in the International Summer School "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics", which will take place just before the conference in Tzigov Chark, Batak Lake, only 20 km from Velingrad. Further information about the summer school can be obtained from: Prof. R. Mitkov or Nicolas Nicolov INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPANTS / PUBLISHING COMPANIES: Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP-related products as well as publishing companies to exhibit their new books on NLP. Company representatives should inform Nicolas Nicolov of their intention and publishing houses should contact Dr.R.Mitkov . NB Prof. Ruslan Mitkov's NEW email is: ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM: An alternative program can be arranged for persons accompanying delegates. Among the places which can be visited is Plovdiv, the second largest and oldest Bulgarian city, beautifully situated on 7 hills 80 km away from Velingrad. ______________________________________________________________________ NEXT CALL FOR PAPERS: The next call for papers, including more information on invited talks, and conference location will be posted in due time. The information about the conference will be kept updated on the ftp site and on the WWW (mentioned above). ___ From: "S.A.Rae " Subject: RE: 8.0410 Qs: E-Blackwells?; Iconoclasm (2/27) Date: 24 Mar 1995 09:48:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 421 (646) Marco Simionato asks about an email address of Blackwells, Oxford (UK) ... I don't know about an Email address for Blackwell in Oxford, UK - but they are available on the WWW. The URL for their homepage is: http://www.bookshop.co.uk/ it's just like walking into one of their shops ... sale offers, promotions, mailing lists, glossy pictures - this months offer etc and ordering facilities. But if you delve down you can uncover the basement rooms with the really interesting books in! Cheers Simon Rae The Open University MILTON KEYNES, UK From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: McGann at WVU Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 16:44:16 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 422 (647) The following notice is being cross-posted on a number of lists, and therefore, I apologize for any duplication. Please email to the address below with your postal mailing address if interested since this is an administrative account which is not directly subscribed to this list. Thanks. **************************** Announcement ************************************* West Virginia University Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies presents RADIANT TEXTUALITY: HUMANE STUDIES IN VIRTUAL SPACES Seminar Leader: Jerome J. McGann Commonwealth Professor of English University of Virginia June 8-11, 1995 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV For seminar rates and more information, contact: Dr. David C. Stewart Department of English West Virginia University PO Box 6296 Morgantown, WV 26505-6296 304-293-3107 WVSSLCS@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Patrick W. Conner o phone:(304) 293-3107 Department of English | P.O. BOX 6296 x e-mail: U47C2@wvnvm.wvnet.edu West Virginia University | Morgantown, WV 26506-6296 o fax:(304) 293-5380 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Alexander Bisset Subject: The label "Humanist" Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 22:24:40 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 423 (648) I have already sent a message to the listserv to signoff this list, however I thought I would take a moment to explain my reasons for joining & signing off so soon. I understand HUMANISM to be the view that morality is an attitude of mind and stems from within the individual and not from man-made rules of some mystical supreme being for whom we hold no belief. Humanism is a philosophy. A way of viewing the world, seeing humans as being responsible for their own destiny and rejecting the idea that a mystical being that some choose to call god (note the lower case) in some fashion controls our actions. I subscribed to this list in the belief that I would find a home on the net with fellow humans who believe that to be moral and a good citizen DOES NOT require the belief in a supreme being. Instead I find a list that specialises in, it would appear, the roots of words, their application, & the use of computers in such. Indeed the talk.philosophy.humanism seems to fit my definition of humanism. Since this appears to be the purpose of this list perhaps you could explain how the word humanist could have such wildly different uses. It would appear that this would be an excellent place to ask such a question. -- Alexander Bisset ... Don't worry, I'm fluent in weirdo... From: hcf1dahl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Eric Dahlin) Subject: ACH/ALLC '95 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 95 12:30:12 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 424 (649) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PLEASE POST AND REDISTRIBUTE =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING 1995 JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC 95 JULY 11-15, 1995 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA On behalf of the Executive Councils of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, we cordially invite you to attend the seventh annual joint international conference, to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, July 11-15, 1995. This conference is the major forum for discussion of the preparation, encoding, and use of character-based electronic text and for computer-based research in literature, linguistics, and related humanities disciplines. It will include presentations on the development of new computing methodologies for research and teaching in the humanities, on the development of significant new materials and tools for humanities research, and on the application and evaluation of computing techniques in humanities subjects. The Association for Computers and the Humanities is a professional society for scholars working in computer- related research in literature and language studies, history, philosophy, and other disciplines of the humanities. The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing was founded in 1973 as an international association to promote the development of literary and linguistic computing. Overview: --------- As a preliminary event, an optional tour of the city of Santa Barbara has been scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday, July 11, from 1pm to 4pm. The conference will officially begin in the late afternoon and evening of Tuesday, July 11, with a reception, opening addresses, and an optional banquet. Concurrent sessions will begin on the morning of Wednesday, July 12, and continue through to closing at noon on Saturday, July 15. An optional beach barbecue will be held on the evening of Friday, July 14. An optional winery tour will take place on the afternoon of Saturday, July 15, after the closing of the conference. Room and board accommodations are available in campus dormitories at economical rates, and rooms are available at special conference rates at a variety of area motels and hotels. Details are given below. Air Transportation to Santa Barbara: ------------------------------------ The Santa Barbara/Goleta Airport provides jet service by United Airlines from major international airports in San Francisco and Denver. Several forms of transportation are available between Los Angeles International Airport and Santa Barbara, including commuter flights, rental cars and bus service, particularly the Santa Barbara Airbus, which has several scheduled pick-ups daily from LAX. Please phone them directly at (805) 964-7759 for more information. Or, you can send them a fax at (805) 683-0307. Complimentary Shuttle Service: ------------------------------ UCSB Campus Conference Services will provide complimentary Shuttle Service to campus from the Santa Barbara Airport ONLY. The shuttle vehicle will be marked "UCSB Conferences." Pick-up will be in front of the terminal or near the baggage area. If you do not see the shuttle vehicle, call the Anacapa Residence Hall Desk at 893-2189. Please make sure to write this number down so that you can easily access it upon your arrival. Bus: ---- Bus service to Santa Barbara is provided by Greyhound. The Greyhound terminal is located in downtown Santa Barbara. Taxi service is available from the terminal to campus. Train: ------ Train service to Santa Barbara is provided by Amtrak. The Amtrak terminal is located in downtown Santa Barbara. Taxi service is available from the terminal to campus. Car: ---- UCSB is readily accessible from US 101. When driving north on US 101 (from LA), travel through Santa Barbara and, about 10 miles north of Santa Barbara, take the Airport/UCSB Highway 217 exit which leads directly onto campus. When driving south on US 101 (from San Francisco), take the Storke Rd./UCSB exit, travel about 1 mile on Storke turning left onto El Colegio Road which leads directly onto campus. When entering campus, stop at the campus gate and request directions to Anacapa Residence Hall; however, if you will be arriving on Wednesday and especially if you are NOT residing on campus, you may wish to ask for directions to the University Center, where registration will continue to take place and the conference sessions will be held. Parking: -------- Parking at UCSB is by permit only. When you arrive at UCSB you can receive directions and a temporary parking permit from the gate attendant by identifying yourself as an ACH/ALLC attendee. This temporary permit will need to be replaced with the permit you will receive either when you check-in at the Residence Hall or during Registration if you are staying off-campus. Parking is complimentary for those residing in the Residence Hall. Please indicate with the Desk Staff at check-in if you will be needing a permit. Attendees residing off-campus may purchase a weekly parking permit by indicating this on the Registration Form. There is a substantial savings in purchasing a weekly pass, as the daily parking rate is $5.00. Parking citations are issued for failure to display permits and/or parking in incorrect areas. The Santa Barbara Area: ----------------------- The city of Santa Barbara, founded by the Spanish in the 18th Century, is considered to be one of the jewels of the California coast. It lies approximately 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, nestled against the Santa Ynez mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean. In July, the days are warm (75 degrees F) and the nights are cool (55 degrees F) with occasional morning fog. Nearby are excellent ocean beaches, lakes, forests and mountains with varied hiking trails. Daily excursions can be made to the Hearst Castle, the flower fields of Lompoc and the Old World Village of Solvang. In Santa Barbara you can visit the Mission, our famous Court House or the Botanical Gardens. Dress: ------ Casual clothing is in order with a sweater or light jacket occasionally needed for the evenings. UCSB is essentially a walking campus, so be sure to wear comfortable shoes. Registration: ------------- On-site registration will be held from 2 to 7 pm on Tuesday, July 11 in the Anacapa Residence Hall. Registration will resume in the University Center on Wednesday, July 12, from 8 am to 3 pm. On-Campus Housing Information: ------------------------------ Plan A includes lodging Monday through Friday nights and the following meals: breakfast and lunch on Tuesday (the Welcoming Reception Tuesday evening is included in the registration fee; there is an additional charge for the Banquet Tuesday evening); breakfast, lunch and dinner on Wednesday; breakfast, lunch and dinner on Thursday; breakfast and lunch on Friday (there is an additional charge for the Beach BBQ Friday evening; if you prefer a dining commons meal Friday night, you will need to purchase a ticket at the door of the commons); breakfast and lunch on Saturday. Plan A Cost: $315.00 (Single Occupancy) $249.00 (Double Occupancy) Plan B includes lodging Tuesday through Friday nights and the following meals: lunch on Tuesday (the Welcoming Reception Tuesday evening is included in the registration fee; there is an additional charge for the Banquet Tuesday evening); breakfast, lunch and dinner on Wednesday; breakfast, lunch and dinner on Thursday; breakfast and lunch on Friday (there is an additional charge for the Beach BBQ Friday evening; if you prefer a dining commons meal Friday night, you will need to purchase a ticket at the door of the commons); breakfast and lunch on Saturday. Plan B Cost: $268.00 (Single Occupancy) $215.00 (Double Occupancy) If you wish to stay in the dormitories for the extra night of Saturday, July 15, you may do so for a lodging fee of $42, single occuppancy, or $29, double occupancy. No meals are included in this fee. Commuter Lunch Packages are available for those residing off-campus or in University Apartments. Four and Five-lunch packages are available, depending on your length of stay. Cost: $33.00 (4 lunches) $42.00 (5 lunches) University Apartments: A limited number of off-campus two bedroom apartments are available on a weekly basis only, Sunday through Saturday. The apartments could easily accommodate those traveling with families. Meals and campus parking are not included. Cost: $454.00 (weekly rate) Off-Campus Accommodations: -------------------------- Blocks of rooms have been reserved, at special conference rates, for the hotels listed (except for Fess Parker's Red Lion Resort, where reservations will be based on availability only). Rooms will be released June 9, 1995. Thereafter, reservations can be obtained only on a space available basis. The conference takes place during the heavy tourist season and rooms may not be available if you do not act prior to the release date. Please contact the hotel directly as soon as possible. To obtain the special rate, please identify yourself clearly as an attendee of the 1995 Joint International Conference--ACH/ALLC. (You will need to ask for the UCSB special rate if you choose to stay at Fess Parker's Red Lion Resort.) The special rates given below will not necessarily apply to Friday or Saturday night stayovers; please check with the individual hotel should you need additional accommodation. None of the hotels listed below are within walking distance of the UCSB campus. Rates do not include 10% tax. You will be asked for either first night payment in advance or a current major credit card account number to hold the room. [The following hotels offer morning and evening shuttle service to and from UCSB. You MUST indicate your needs at the time you check-in.] Pacifica Suites 5490 Hollister, Goleta, CA 93117 (805) 683-6722 $85 (Single); $95 (Double) Rate includes up to two complimentary cooked-to-order breakfasts, two rooms, two TVs, microwave, stereo, refrigerator, pool and Jacuzzi. Complimentary beverages served from 5 - 7 p.m. Best Western South Coast Inn 5620 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117 (805) 967-3200 $73 (Single/Double) Continental Breakfast included. Holiday Inn 5650 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117 (805) 964-6241 $63 (Single/Double) Free airport shuttle service also provided. Best Western Pepper Tree Inn 3850 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 (805) 687-5511 $120 - $136 range Located mid-way between downtown Santa Barbara and the UCSB campus. Free shuttle service also provided to and from the Santa Barbara Airport. [The following hotels do NOT offer shuttle service to UCSB. You must provide your own transportation.] El Encanto Hotel 1900 Lasuen Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 (805) 687-5000 $90.00 Located in the foothills of Santa Barbara, with a 15 minute drive to campus, the historic El Encanto Hotel features garden villas and cottages with spectacular views of the ocean. Fess Parker's Red Lion Resort (Reservations based on availability only) 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd., Santa Barbara, CA 93103 (805) 564-4333 $119.00 Located directly across from the ocean near Stearn's Wharf and downtown shopping. Airport shuttle service available. Please contact the resort ahead of time to inquire about the service. You must ask for the UCSB special rate when making your reservation. Tour Information: ----------------- Santa Barbara City & Shopping Tour: Tuesday, July 11, 1995 (1:00 - 4:00 pm) Cost: $24 per person (3 hours) A scenic driving tour will feature a stop at the Santa Barbara Mission, with its dramatic twin towers and lovely inner courtyard and garden. A stop at the courthouse, one of the most beautiful public buildings in the country, along with a ride to the top of the clock tower for a 360 degree view of the city is included. Time will be devoted to sampling the wonderful modern and antique shops, galleries and boutiques in the downtown area, as well as at the new mall "Paseo Nuevo." Winery Tour: Saturday, July 15, 1995 (1:00 - approximately 5:30 pm) Cost: $28 per person (4.5 hours) Enjoy a scenic drive from Santa Barbara through the Santa Ynez Mountains and over San Marcos Pass. Once in the Santa Ynez Valley, a visit to one of Santa Barbara County's award-winning wineries will be made for a tour and wine tasting. A stop at the Danish village of Solvang where Danish architecture, windmills, charming shops and interesting outlet stores is also planned. ****************************** cut here *********************************** Registration Form ACH/ALLC '95 July 11-15, 1995 University of California, Santa Barbara =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Name: name tag should read: Affiliation: Address: Phone: Fax: E-mail: Special Needs (including dietary): Payment of Fees: ---------------- Payment in U.S. Dollars may be made by: Personal Check Money Order Bank Check [Checks must be drawn on a U.S. Bank and should be made payable to U.C. Regents.] Credit Card: VISA or MASTERCARD International Wire Transfer (in U.S. Dollars) from your bank to: Bank of America San Francisco Commercial Banking, Office (#1499) 555 California Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Account #07805-00030 Regents of University of California Santa Barbara. Reference: ACH/ALLC [If using this latter method of payment; please add an additional $10 to the total to cover the bank's fee for this service.] Payment (please check appropriate box): ___ Personal Check ___ Money Order ___ Bank check is enclosed ___ Wire Transfer [please enclosed a copy of the wire transfer receipt with your registration] Please charge to my credit card: ___ MasterCard ___ Visa Credit Card #: Expiration Date: Signature: Date: Please complete and return this form with your remittance to: ACH/ALLC '95, c/o Campus Conference Services University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6120 Phone: (805) 893-3072 Fax: (805) 893-7287 E-mail: hr03conf@ucsbvm.ucsb.edu Refunds, less a $25 administrative charge, will be given to registrants whose written requests are received prior to June 19, 1995. For questions regarding accommodations and registration, please contact: Sally Vito Phone: (805) 893-3072 E-mail: hr03vito@ucsbvm.ucsb.edu Please check applicable items below ------------------------------------ Registration fees: ___ $150 (ACH/ALLC members) Prior to June 5, 1995 $ ______ ___ $175 (ACH/ALLC members) Postmarked after June 5, 1995 $ ______ ___ $170 (non-members) Prior to June 5, 1995 $ ______ ___ $195 (non-members) Postmarked after June 5, 1995 $ ______ ___ Guests $45 $ ______ name: ___ Graduate Students $45 $ ______ ___ One-day rate (specify day & date) $75 $ ______ On-campus Housing: ___ Plan A, Single Occupancy, $315.00 $ ______ ___ Plan A, Double Occupancy, $249.00 $ ______ For double occupancy, name of person you want to share with, if known: ___ Plan B, Single Occupancy, $268.00 $ ______ ___ Plan B, Double Occupancy, $215.00 $ ______ For double occupancy, name of person you want to share with, if known: Stay over Saturday night, July 15, no meals included: ___ Single Occupancy, $42 $ ------ ___ Double occupancy, $29 $ ______ ___ University Apartment, $454.00 $ ______ Parking: ___ Parking Permit (off-campus attendees) $10 $ ______ (covers Monday through Saturday) Commuter Lunch Package: ___ 4-lunch package $33 $ ______ ___ 5-lunch package $42 $ ______ Optional Events ___ Banquet (Tuesday) $40 x ___ number of people $ ______ ___ Beach BBQ (Friday) $26 x ___ number of people $ ______ ___ Santa Barbara City & Shopping Tour $24 per person $ ______ [Tuesday, July 11] ___ Santa Ynez/Winery/Solvang Tour $28 per person $ ______ [Saturday, July 15] TOTAL $________________ ***************************** cut here ************************************ International Program Committee: Chair: Elaine Brennan ATLIS Consulting Group (ACH) Marilyn Deegan Oxford University (ALLC) Gordon Dixon Manchester Metropolitan University (ALLC) Marianne Gaunt Rutgers University (ACH) Susan Hockey Rutgers and Princeton Universities (ALLC) Nancy Ide Vassar College (ACH) Espen Ore University of Bergen (ALLC) Willard McCarty University of Toronto (ACH) Local Organizer: Eric Dahlin University of California, Santa Barbara HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: database manager for Mac Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 22:09:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 425 (650) I would appreciate recommendations for a Macintosh relational database manager with sufficiently versatile programming language that the results of queries might be returned as diagrams. The application in question is an anthropological study of kinship relations, involving both those before and after a designated couple or individual. If necessary the colleague here who is interested in such research could do with a relational dbms capable of outputting data in such a format that diagram-constructing software could then be applied. Is there any available software for Mac that already fits the bill? I have been advised that genealogical software simply isn't good enough for anthropological studies of the sort I describe. My informant being proved wrong would make my colleague's day. Thanks. WM Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: Richard Bear Subject: Sterne Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:29:20 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 426 (651) A new WWW edition of Laurence Sterne's _A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy_ is now available from Stony Run, Richard Bear's home page. It makes heavy use of entities, nested font commands, and
, so it may not look quite right, especially in the French passages, if you are not using Netscape. Stony Run: http://www-vms.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ Sterne: http://www-vms.uoregon.edu/~rbear/sterne.html Richard Bear rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu From: Peter Bryder Subject: Re: 8.0425 Q: Database manager for Macintosh (1/22) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:34:15 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 337 (652) There is such a beast, it is called 4D (Fourth Dimention), it is a relational database manager with heavy scriptable possibilities and any output you could dream abaout. It might not be so easy to handle on the other side, but it has power. yours Peter Dr. Peter Bryder Lund University Department of History of Religions Allhelgona Kyrkogata 8 S-223 62 Lund Sweden Fax:+464647277 e-mail:weng@gemini.ldc.lu.se From: guedon@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Guedon Jean-Claude) Subject: Re: 8.0425 Q: Database manager for Macintosh (1/22) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:30:47 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 338 (653) [deleted quotation] I believe 4D and Fox-Pro can do that, but I am not an expert on relational databases, even though I did dabble once with earlier versions of 4D (it is a French product that was improved for the US market. The original company is ACI, and the American counterpart is ACIUS, logically enough) :-) Jean-Claude Guedon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Claude Guedon Tel. 514-343-6208 Professeur titulaire Fax: 514-343-2211 Departement de litterature comparee Surfaces Universite de Montreal Tel. 514-343-5683 C.P. 6128, Succursale "A" Fax. 514-343-5684 Montreal, Qc H3C 3J7 ftp ftp.umontreal.ca Canada guedon@ere.umontreal.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Glyn Morrill Subject: Formal Grammar Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 13:15:13 UTC+0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 428 (654) -------------please post-------------- LAST CALL FOR PAPERS FORMAL GRAMMAR Barcelona August 12-13, 1995 in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information In 1995 the Seventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is to be held in Barcelona. As on previous occasions this meeting will serve as a forum for areas including computational linguistics, formal linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar formalisms. This year the programme includes a conference on formal grammar open to all participants to present contemporary research in this domain. Themes of interest include formal and computational phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. Ten copies of anonymous abstracts of not more than 800 words (on one two-sided sheet) should be sent to the address below to arrive not later than April 21st, 1995. Please provide a separate sheet detailing title, author(s) and institution(s), and address, e-mail, telephone and fax of one author for communication purposes. Indicate on both the abstract and the identification sheet whether you require 20 minutes or 40 minutes for presentation. Notification of acceptance will be by May 22nd. Final versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a proceedings to be distributed at the time of the Summer School. Address for correspondence: Committee of the ESSLLI Conference on Formal Grammar c/o Glyn Morrill Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics Facultat d'Informatica de Barcelona Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Pau Gargallo, 5 08028 BARCELONA e-mail: morrill@lsi.upc.es Programme Committee: Elisabet Engdahl, Ewan Klein, Glyn Morrill, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Carl Pollard, Richard Sproat, Susan Steele, Rich Thomason, Annie Zaenen. For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (14th-25th August) contact: ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax +43 3 2054656; e-mail: esslli95@gilcub.es **********Cut here for LaTeX version below********** \documentstyle[11pt]{article} \pagestyle{empty} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0in} \begin{document} \begin{center} \rule{1in}{.01in}please post\rule{1in}{.01in}\\ \medskip {\large LAST CALL FOR PAPERS}\\ \bigskip {\Large \bf FORMAL GRAMMAR}\\ \medskip Barcelona \\ August 12-13, 1995 \\ in conjunction with the \\ {\bf European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information} \end{center} \medskip \noindent In 1995 the Seventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is to be held in Barcelona. As on previous occasions this meeting will serve as a forum for areas including computational linguistics, formal linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar formalisms. This year the programme includes a conference on formal grammar open to all participants to present contemporary research in this domain. Themes of interest include formal and computational phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. Ten copies of anonymous abstracts of not more than 800 words (on one two-sided sheet) should be sent to the address below to arrive not later than April 21st, 1995. Please provide a separate sheet detailing title, author(s) and institution(s), and address, e-mail, telephone and fax of one author for communication purposes. Indicate on both the abstract and the identification sheet whether you require 20 minutes or 40 minutes for presentation. Notification of acceptance will be by May 22nd. Final versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a proceedings to be distributed at the time of the Summer School. \medskip \noindent Address for correspondence: \medskip \begin{tabular}{l} Committee of the ESSLLI Conference on Formal Grammar\\ c/o Glyn Morrill \\ Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Inform\`{a}tics \\ Facultat d'Inform\`{a}tica de Barcelona \\ Universitat Polit\`{e}cnica de Catalunya \\ Pau Gargallo, 5 \\ 08028 BARCELONA \bigskip\\ e-mail: {\sf morrill@lsi.upc.es} \end{tabular} \medskip \noindent Programme Committee: Elisabet Engdahl, Ewan Klein, Glyn Morrill, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Carl Pollard, Richard Sproat, Susan Steele, Rich Thomason, Annie Zaenen. \medskip \noindent For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (14th-25th August) contact: ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax +43 3 2054656; e-mail: {\sf esslli95@gilcub.es} \end{document} From: glyn.parry@vuw.ac.nz Subject: Conference announcement (please x-post) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:11:34 +1200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 429 (655) The New Zealand Historical Association announces its annual conference, to be held 8-11 February 1996 in the Hunter Building, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The Conference Title is : "History Here and Now/ He Korero Tawhito He Korero Hou" 20 or 40 minute papers, workshops, and round table discussions, are invited on the following themes: I: 'Constructing ourselves through history/ Nga tini korero o te whakatutangata' (The different forms history is taking through different media). II: 'Locations and identity: contrasting and competing identities/ Turangawaewae e: takiri atu takiri mai. Aue. aue !' (Colonialism and imperialism, collective and competing group identities, views of New Zealand in and from the Pacific). The chronological span of the conference is envisaged as very broad, from early Pacific migrations through the first appearance of Europeans in the region and up to the present day. Conference enquiries to: Charlotte Macdonald, History Department, Victoria University of Wellington (charlotte.macdonald@vuw.ac.nz) Manuka Henare, School of Maori Studies, Victoria University of Wellington (manuka.henare@vuw.ac.nz) and for enquiries relating to pre-1800 European topics: Glyn Parry, History Department, Victoria University of Wellington (glyn.parry@vuw.ac.nz) Organised by the New Zealand Historical Association and Te Pouhere Korero, in conjunction with the Archives and Records Association (ARANZ), the Professional Historians' Association (PHANZA), the National Oral History Association (NOHANZ) and the New Zealand Early Modern Studies Association ******************************************************************* Glyn Parry Office: (04) 472 1000 x 8363 History Department Home: (04) 385 3509 Victoria University of Wellington Fax: (04) 471 2070 PO Box 600 Wellington, New Zealand 'The recognition of ignorance is the beginning of education' ******************************************************************* From: John Merritt Unsworth Subject: IATH job opening Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 17:03:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 430 (656) University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Responsibility: The Technical Director will participate in and manage the Institute's academic software development and design efforts, its support of humanities research activities, and its systems administration. The position is a non-teaching faculty position which will report to the Director of the Institute. Qualifications: A master's degree or equivalent training/experience and five years experience in programming or systems administration are required. Applicants must be able to work well with a variety of academic and professional staff, manage the Institute's technical staff, and present the Institute's work to the public. Applicants should also have previous management experience and a strong background in networking, Unix (AIX), and C. Other desired qualifications include: previous research or support experience in the humanities, familiarity with Macintosh and DOS/Windows platforms, knowledge of SGML, Motif, and object-oriented programming. Salary/Benefits: Negotiable dependent upon experience and qualifications; state health and retirement benefits. IATH Profile: The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities was established in 1991 with a major grant from IBM Corporation and a multi-year commitment of support from the University of Virginia. The Institute is devoted to supporting excellence in Humanities scholarship through the use of advanced technology. Scholarly projects from the University of Virginia and other Universities have been and will continue to be supported at IATH with access to a wide array of computer equipment, intensive technical advising, and funds for research expenses. To Apply: Send a resume and a letter of interest, including salary requirements, by May 1st to: Technical Director Search Committee Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 To find out more about the Institute, see our WWW site at: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/home.html The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. From: "Donald Spaeth" Subject: Wellcome Trust Studentships in History and Computing Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 15:45:27 +0001 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 339 (657) University of Glasgow School of History and Archaeology Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Wellcome Trust Studentships MPhil in History & Computing, with emphasis on the History of Medicine The Wellcome Trust has generously made available *three* Studentships for full-time students pursuing the one-year MPhil in History and Computing at Glasgow University. Students will take courses in the application of computers to history and in the history of medicine in Britain since 1800, and will write a dissertation on a topic in the history of medicine. The Wellcome Trust MPhil Studentships are intended for students whose aim is to pursue a PhD in the history of medicine. The Studentships cover living expenses and all fees, calculated at home student rates; non-EC students would need to make up the difference in fees. Further particulars and application forms may be obtained from the Graduate School Secretary, Social Sciences Faculty Office, Adam Smith Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RT. Completed applications forms should be returned to the same address. The closing date for completed applications for the Studentships for 1995-6 is *9 June 1995*. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dr Donald A Spaeth, Deputy Director CTI Centre for History, Archaeology and Art History 1 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom Tel: 0141 330-4942 Fax: 0141 330-5518 Office: ctich@glasgow.ac.uk Personal: dspaeth@dish.gla.ac.uk One of 23 Computers in Teaching Initiative subject centres working to encourage the use of computers to improve teaching. From: "Donald Spaeth" Subject: ESRC Studentship in History and Computing Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 15:48:32 +0001 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 340 (658) University of Glasgow School of History and Archaeology ESRC One-Year Studentship MPhil in History & Computing The Economic and Social Research Council has generously made available one Studentship Award for a full-time student pursuing the one-year MPhil in History and Computing at Glasgow University. The student will take a core course in the application of computers to history and a select course in an historical subject, and will write a dissertation. The Studentship covers fees, calculated at home student rates, and provides a maintenance grant. Further particulars and application forms may be obtained from the course convener, Dr Donald Spaeth, School of History and Archaeology, 1 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ. The deadline for applications is *1 May 1995*. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dr Donald A Spaeth, Deputy Director CTI Centre for History, Archaeology and Art History 1 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom Tel: 0141 330-4942 Fax: 0141 330-5518 Office: ctich@glasgow.ac.uk Personal: dspaeth@dish.gla.ac.uk One of 23 Computers in Teaching Initiative subject centres working to encourage the use of computers to improve teaching. From: M.G.Farringdon@swansea.ac.uk Subject: Queries for HUMANIST Discussion Group Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:20:24 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 341 (659) I would be most grateful if you would post the following two "queries" on HUMANIST for me: (1) Having tried for several months now to locate & borrow via Inter-Library Loan the following book/proceedings, I wonder if anyone on HUMANIST can point me to a copy--I would willingly pay all cost of borrowing and am prepared to purchase: 'Computers for the Humanities? A Record of the Conference Sponsored by Yale University on a Grant from IBM, January 22-23, 1965', Yale University Press, 1965. x, 170 pp. (2) I have come across two behavioural psychologists who apparently express an interest in Authorship Attribution, though they don't seem to have done any work in the area. My query is: Do members of HUMANIST have any experience (or maybe are) of (behavioural) psychologists who have done solid work in authorship attribution? Michael Farringdon, EBMS, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK Fax: +44 1792 295626 e-mail: m.g.farringdon@swansea.ac.uk From: Ari Solovyova Subject: Romance and Old English Word Lists Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 18:43:21 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 342 (660) Dear subscribers, I'm looking for Latin, French, Italian, and Old English word lists for a project on historical phonetics. Please tell me if you know of any place that might have some of those (or if you can recommend any other lists to ask this question on)! I can post a summary to the list if there are enough answers. Very thankful in advance, Ari Solovyova, Library Electronic Text Resource Service, Indiana University From: Marco Simionato Subject: source of quote sought Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:48:41 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 343 (661) I would be grateful if anybody could help find out the source of this quotation from a poem: The light aerial gallery, golden rail'd Burnt like a fringe of fire. Possibly contained in "Palace of Art" - no more information on this. Thanks. Marco Simionato University of Venice, Italy From: cbf@lola.lllf.uam.es ( Charles Faulhaber ) Subject: Pro-Cite, EndNote Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 17:37:07 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 344 (662) I would be very grateful if someone could provide the mailing addresses and/or FAX numbers of the companies which make the bibliographical data base packages, Pro-Cite and EndNote. Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber cbf@lola.lllf.uam.es From: "Richard L. Lavallee" Subject: No man is an Island entire unto itself Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 12:23:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 345 (663) Can anyone please provide for me the text to John donne's essay which contains the above line? I'd appreciate it. Thanks. -- Richard Lavallee Electronic Book Technologies Inc. One Richmond Square Providence, RI 02906 work: (401) 421-9550 x285 fax: (401) 421-9551 "If you don't embrace change ... it'll strangle you." From: "C.H. Adams" Subject: Poetics listserv Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:18:17 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 346 (664) Can anyone tell me how to subscribe to the Poetics listserv mentioned in a message awhile back? I haven't found it on any of the lists of listservs. Thanks much. Cheryl Adams School of Library and Information Science University of Iowa (cheryl-h-adams@uiowa.edu) From: Ron Kuzar Subject: E-library for Articles Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 14:02:26 +0200 (WET) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 347 (665) I have misplaced/deleted some very important info. Please help if you know: There is a library which allows you to search articles and then enter a fax number and credit card number, and within a day you have the article faxed to you. To avoid clogging the list, please send info to me, and I will inform the list. Thanks. Ron Kuzar rhle702@research.haifa.ac.il From: Stuart Lee Subject: Correction: CATH95 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:26:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 433 (666) Apologies. The correct e-mail address for CATH95 is in fact: cath95@oucs.ox.ac.uk I was forwarding on a note from someone else who had mistyped the address leaving out the 'ox'. Foolishly I forgot to proof-read the original. Stuart Lee ************************************* Dr Stuart D Lee Humanities IT Support Officer Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-283403 Fax: 01865-273221 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.ox.ac.uk/depts/humanities/ ****************************************** From: cbf@lola.lllf.uam.es ( Charles Faulhaber ) Subject: Conversion of print bibliographies Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 17:46:26 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 434 (667) I would be very grateful for the names, addresses (mail/electronic), phone, and FAX numbers of persons who have been involved in the conversion of print bibliographies into electronic data base format. The Fundacion MAPFRE America (Madrid), is currently performing such a conversion on the Handbook of Latin-American Studies, the chief bibliographical research tool for the study of Latin America. The personnel involved are extremely interested in comparing notes. Current plans are to prepare a CD-ROM running the BRS data base in a Windows interface. I know of the conversion of the Annee Philologique, MLA, and the Nueva Revista de Filologia Espannola, but lack specific contacts. Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber cbf@lola.lllf.uam.es From: sjd@ebt.com (Steven J. DeRose) Subject: Re: 8.0423 On the meaning of HUMANIST (1/28) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 13:45:14 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 348 (668) [deleted quotation] That is one meaning of the word "Humanist", but as with most words in human languages (especially the important ones!), there are other meanings. The meaning relevant to this list is summarized nicely by the American Heritage Dictionary as "A classical scholar" and "A student of the liberal arts". At least from my point of view, an uncritical committment to atheism as the base premise for one's philosophy makes a poor mix with such scholarship, which requires a more open mind. While there are list members who are humanists in Mr. Bisset's sense, there are also many who are not. Certainly the theologians on this list would have some problem with making that sense of humanism a tacit assumption, as would a goodly share of the philosophers (who might also wish to call that point of view a 'worldview' rather than a 'philosophy', but that's another lexical issue). I think it fair to assert that the question whether it is possible to define a consistent ethical philosophy without recourse to some form of supreme authority is still vigorously debated, as it has been since long before the dialog with Euthyphro. But in any case, the question is moot for this list, as that sense of "humanist" is not the one of interest. Best wishes in finding the list you seek. [deleted quotation] Indeed that is a question of some interest here. The phenomenon is called "polysemy", and is remarkable only for its ubiquity. In general, the more common a word is, the more meanings it has. Opening a dictionary at random reveals this quickly. One of the many processes that operates to create polysemy is extension of a word's meaning to related areas: two communities may choose different related meanings to extend to. In this case, one meaning extends 'human' to 'human as opposed to immortal', while the other extends 'human' to 'the works of humans' (such as literature); both then add "-ist" to indicate a student of the notion in question. Both are reasonable but unrelated extensions of meaning, presumably made by people with different interests. Another process is phonological neutralization, whereby distinct words come to be pronounced similarly or identically, and eventually become one "word" with two "meanings". In pre-literate settings certain techniques must be used to reconstruct such cases, because no distinction of spelling remains as evidence. This process is probably not in operation for the present case. Many other factors also exist, and operate to produce other cases of polysemy. Steve DeRose From: REBECCA WINTERS Subject: Re: 8.0423 On the meaning of HUMANIST (1/28) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 06:20:48 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 349 (669) In response to Alexander's message, I too was confused as to the purpose of this list. I am an athiest looking for interesting philosophical discussions and for intelligent people to correspond with. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: the meaning of "Humanist" Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:10:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 350 (670) Alexander Bisset asks "how the word humanist could have such wildly different uses" as to be applied both to humanism and to this online group. Perhaps I may be permitted to answer. When I set up Humanist in May 1987, my purpose was primarily to establish a voice for those who "supported" humanities computing at universities throughout the world. The scope of the group quickly enlarged to include the practitioners and administrators of humanities computing, in fact anyone who was interested enough to submit a biographical statement and then learn to cope with the volumes of mail that followed. The name of the thing seemed very important, so I devoted considerable thought to it. The constraints, however, were -- and still are -- severe: 8 characters. In my mind, those 8 characters had to constitute an English word, not an acronym, so that the name would communicate something close to our mark immediately, with minimal need for decoding. First impressions, and all that. "Humanist" was the best I could do. Please understand that at the time the idea of an online group to discuss humanism per se would have been more than just mildly exotic. Not so now. Nearly 8 years after Humanist began, it is now common to find electronic seminars devoted to topics in the humanities. Then, I suspect, most people seeing the name would have said to themselves, "What the devil? Humanists using Bitnet?" The main subject, or set of subjects, would have been more or less obvious. In fact, as far as I can recall, Mr. Bisset is the first to raise his question. As it has turned out, however, the suggestion of humanism is not entirely misleading. In a broad sense, it is "Devotion to those studies which promote human culture" (OED s.v. 4), with the emphasis on rational, analytical understanding. Amidst the wash of technical information and practical questions on Humanist has always been a persistent concern with the human, scholarly implications of the technology, the philosophical component, if you will, of technological practice. I have always been particularly fond of the term "liberal arts", used primarily in the U.S. instead of "humanities". These the OED, speaking still in its 19th century voice about an older sense, defines as "the distinctive epithet of those 'arts' or 'sciences'... that were considered 'worthy of a free man'; opposed to servile or mechanical" (s.v. 1). Translating this definition into the modern idiom, as "studies worthy of a liberated human being", seems to me not a bad goal for those of us who use the computer as a means of understanding our cultural artifacts. Perhaps Mr. Bisset's question indicates that we need to raise our level of discussion, to readjust the balance of the technical and the philosophical better to serve that goal. The interesting thing to me about Humanist is the interpenetration of theory and practice, without either of which the seminar would be something else entirely. WM Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: MCSWAIN@TUSK.BITNET Subject: Re: 8.0423 On the meaning of HUMANIST (1/28) Date: 28 Mar 1995 17:01:49 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 351 (671) Read the major works of the late medieval period and the Renaissance; if you still fail to see the link between theism or Christianity and using the label 'humanist' discussion will then be appropriate, though contemporary usage probably follows your claims . . . . James McSwain From: kfguest@la.shizuoka.ac.jp (Michael Guest) Subject: Re: 8.0423 On the meaning of HUMANIST (1/28) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:59:20 -0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 423 (672) At 3:40 AM 95.3.28 -0500, Alexander Bisset wrote: [deleted quotation] I wouldn't have thought that to subscribe to Humanist interests necessarily excluded the possibility of belief in a divine being. I am not surprised that Alexander's requirement's were not met: his seems to be a quirky and individualistic definition of the word humanism to say the least, with his stated "fluency in weirdo" smacking equally of a naive brand of anti-intellectualism. But I can't understand, anyway, why he would sign off and *then* ask the list a question. Michael Guest From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: electing a new editor Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 21:39:20 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 436 (673) ELECTING A NEW EDITOR OF HUMANIST. As you will know, Elaine Brennan, current Editor of HUMANIST, has announced her intention to step down as editor as soon as a new home for the seminar can be found. The editorial Advisory Board of HUMANIST wishes to express the profound gratitude of all its members to Elaine for her long and faithful service. She has been at her virtual desk daily since Spring 1990, when HUMANIST came to Brown University from Toronto. We all owe her a great deal. Our immediate task, then, is to find this new home. After some discussion, the Advisory Board has decided to invite proposals and nominations from the membership at large. Information about submission is given below. The objective is to have HUMANIST under its new management by 7 May 1995, eight years to the day since it began. Up to now the job of editor has more or less included all tasks concerned with the daily and other operations of HUMANIST. (After its move to Brown, several people helped with such things as the biographies, but overall the editor has shouldered the whole burden.) We think that under the new dispensation the task may need to be divided into editorial, development, and maintenance functions and that at least two, possibly three individuals may be required to carry them out. Because of the medium, those involved need not be at the same institution or even on the same continent, although experience suggests that one locus for HUMANIST is strongly preferable. THE EDITOR. The editor obviously plays the single most important role in the success of HUMANIST. As in the past, he or she will be crucial to what HUMANIST becomes and how well it responds to the developing needs of its complex, world-wide community. The Advisory Board therefore particularly encourages proposals centred on the editorship rather than the development, maintenance, or background operations of the seminar. The Advisory Board agrees unanimously that the core function of HUMANIST, for which the editor is responsible, is discussion. The Web offers us an attractive and flexible means of providing information as such, but nothing we have yet seen allows us to think publicly about humanities computing as a whole better than HUMANIST. One of the most important needs we see in the field is for the level of discussion and thinking to be raised. This is of course done in part by existing journals, but HUMANIST has demonstrated that the online medium has an essential, irreplaceable role to play. Like the ancient forum or modern piazza, HUMANIST also crucially unites its community by providing, as an Advisory Board member commented, "ONE place where humanities computing scholars can go, as a first step, to get... top-level and current information... (even if that information is often just pointers to other information sources)". Its broad focus ensures that the methodological emphasis of the field, which is interdisciplinary by nature, will be served in a way no other discussion group appears able to do. Thus HUMANIST brings people together through the affinity of their ideas, sometimes surprisingly. The editor's role in seeing and articulating the potential for broad interest concealed within apparently specialized problems is basic to the unifying function of the seminar. So is his or her diplomatic abilities on occasion. The new editor will have the opportunity for exerting strong influence on humanities computing world-wide, both directly and by facilitating and shaping the thoughts of others. Indeed, experience suggests that the most helpful and long-lasting influence has more to do with the ability to recognize good ideas when they emerge, from whatever source, than with a pre-existing plan or programme of action, however cogent. Hence we think that the new editor need not have experience moderating an online discussion group, although that might help; more important are the rhetorical skills and an active involvement in humanities computing. Note that by "humanities computing" we mean here the intersection of computing with scholarship in the traditional disciplines, not merely the office or function that provides computing support to academics. HUMANIST is not a technical help-desk. The editor should therefore be a scholar by training, vocation, and practice, whatever his or her job-description may be. At the same time, thorough familiarity with computing, preferably across a wide range of disciplines, is essential. HUMANIST is also not merely a forum for discussion of academic and scholarly issues. "The charisma of the list," as another one of us commented during recent discussion, "has been its synergy of the two [humanities and computing], with almost all of the 'computing' talk accessible to non-techies, and at least *most* all of other 'humanities' talk in one way or another tied to the specific conditions of doing humanities in a post-Gutenberg environment. Keeping that synergy is both the important thing and the difficult thing." The editor's prime responsibility is to foster this synergy. In practical terms, the editor's job consists of receiving messages, sorting them according to stated or perceived subject, removing unwanted headers and the like, sending them to the ListServ server, and occasionally intervening in the discussion. He or she need not intervene frequently -- indeed, a light touch is best -- but it is essential that HUMANIST have a definite persona and a human will behind it. DEVELOPMENT. The new management of HUMANIST should spend some energy on adapting current technologies, such as the Web, to the information needs of its community as well as to the running of HUMANIST itself. As much of the editor's task as possible should be automated, and subscription, maintenance of biographies, and the like considerably improved. Development might take place for a time, then not be needed until new opportunities arise. Someone other than the editor, however, should be continuously in charge of development to make sure it happens when the need arises. Programming skills are required. Development offers someone the chance to experiment with and perhaps to improve the capabilities of the Internet. MAINTENANCE. The institutional home of HUMANIST must of course have the facilities to run and maintain a ListServ list or similar device. The software maintainer should be able quickly to pay attention to any problems that occur and to help the others involved whenever the need arises. Although maintenance is a relatively quiet function, the institution that houses HUMANIST benefits considerably by having its name attached, through the e-mail address, to every message HUMANIST sends out. Public honour to the institution is therefore not a trivial return on the investment it must make. SUBMISSIONS. Anyone intending to submit a proposal should write immediately to the undersigned indicating as many of the details as possible. Only the formal proposals will be considered by the Advisory Board, however. Each submission should identify what roles are proposed and indicate personal and institutional qualifications. Each submission should describe the extent of the explicit institutional commitment, which we regard as a necessary pre-condition to a successful future for HUMANIST. Development can proceed more or less informally, but the editor must be able to commit time to his or her work, and the maintenance of the list must be absolutely dependable. Submissions should be sent to the undersigned by 14 April. I will circulate them to the Advisory Board, which will choose a new editor and institutional home for HUMANIST shortly thereafter. Willard McCarty Founding Editor of HUMANIST, 1987-90 Chair of the Advisory Board mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Advisory Board of HUMANIST udaa400@BAY.CC.KCL.AC.UK Harold Short ALLEN@BROWNVM Allen Renear ELAINE@BROWNVM Elaine Brennan ELLI@BROWNVM Elli Mylonas GBILDER@BROWNVM Geoff Bilder randall_jones@BYU.EDU Randall Jones jod@CCAT.SAS.UPENN.EDU James J ODonnell kraft@CCAT.SAS.UPENN.EDU Bob Kraft dgd@CS.BU.EDU David Durand ide@CS.VASSAR.EDU Nancy Ide sjd@EBT.COM Steve DeRose s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK Sebastion Rahtz mccarty@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA (Willard McCarty) jlmoure@FILOL.UBA.AR Jose Luis Moure marcos@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU Francisco A. Marcos-Marin g.dixon@MANCHESTER.AC.UK Gordon Dixon elaine@NETCOM.COM Elaine Brennan FAFKH@NOBERGEN Knut Hofland orlandi@RMCISADU.CISADU.UNIROMA1.IT Tito Orlandi u35395@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU Michael Sperberg-McQueen ide@UNIV-AIX.FR Nancy Ide GHOLMES@UWOVAX.UWO.CA Glyn Holmes marchand@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU John Marchand MAY@VAX.LEICESTER.AC.UK May Katzen LOU@VAX.OX.AC.UK Lou Burnard marilyn@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Marilyn Deegan a79@VM.TAU.AC.IL David Sitman marcos@VM1.SDI.UAM.ES Francisco A. Marcos-Marin U47C2@WVNVM Patrick Conner smason@YORKU.CA Steve Mason hockey@ZODIAC.RUTGERS.EDU Susan Hockey ----------------------------------------------------------------- Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: johnston@ansel.intersource.com (James W. Johnston) Subject: WordCruncher for Windows is shipping Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 11:31:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 438 (674) WordCruncher for Windows is shipping. For more information, please contact Johnston & Company. Please note that we have moved our offices to: Johnston & Company Electronic Publishers & Consultants P.O. Box 6627 Bloomington, IN 47407 (812) 339-9996 (812) 339-9997 (fax) e-mail: johnston@ansel.intersource.com The response to the new product has been great. It has many new features including collocation, filters, enhanced frequency distribution reports, and much more. We will have a demo version and promo info on an ftp server within two weeks. I look forward to hearing from you. James Johnston "I am old, I am bent, I am cheated Of all that youth urged me to win, But name me not with the defeated; Tomorrow again, I begin. From: artist1@interport.net (David Blair) Subject: WAXWEB 2.0: INTERACTIVE 3D CINEMA ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:24:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 439 (675) ********** FOR RELEASE ON APRIL 3, 1995 ************* WAXWEB 2.0: INTERACTIVE 3D CINEMA ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONTACT: DAVID BLAIR email: artist1@interport.net WAXWEB 2.0, THE FIRST INTERACTIVE FEATURE FILM ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB, IMPLEMENTS A DYNAMIC VERSION OF VRML, THE NEW GRAPHICS INDUSTRY STANDARD FOR VIRTUAL REALITY ON THE INTERNET, TO DELIVER REALTIME 3D NARRATIVE "VISUALIZATION" OVER THE EXISTING INTERNET BACKBONE. The WWW address for Waxweb 2.0 is http://bug.village.virginia.edu With a VRML browser: http://bug.village.virginia.edu/vrml WHAT IS WAXWEB 2.0? Created by DAVID BLAIR, Waxweb 2.0 is: The first interactive, intercommunicative FEATURE FILM on the WORLD WIDE WEB (Variety, 2.16.95). The first NETWORK-DISTRIBUTED narrative to offer REAL-TIME 3-D NAVIGATION through a story. The first LARGE-SCALE, DYNAMIC implementation of the VIRTUAL REALITY MODELING LANGUAGE (VRML), the 3-D METAFILE format for the INTERNET endorsed TODAY (4.3.94) by Silicon Graphics, TGS, Netscape, Digital, NEC, and many others. Waxweb is a project of the Brown University Graphics Laboratory, headed by Andries VanDam, with Tom Meyer serving as the technical director of the project. Based on David Blair's electronic feature film "WAX or the discovery of television among the bees" (85:00, 1991, distributed by FIRST RUN FEATURES), Waxweb is the LARGEST hypermedia narrative document on the World Wide Web. "WAX" itself was the first feature film sent over the Internet ("Historic First", Markoff, NYTimes, 4.93). In May, Waxweb 2.0 will become a CROSS-PLATFORM, NETWORK SYNCHRONIZED CD-ROM available from First Run Features. Available for Mac/Windows/Unix, it will run as a standalone on non-networked computers, and in synchronization with the Web site, for those who wish to publicly ADD TO THE STORY. Waxweb 2.0 Online contains: 3000 Web pages with approx. 25,000 hyperlinks; 85 minutes of digital video (the entire feature film); 5000 color stills; soundtrack in English, French, German, Japanese. Plus: MORE THAN 250 3-D VRML SCENES, FILLED WITH THOUSANDS OF HYPERLINKED PARTS. Every part of every object in the virtual world is an active button, triggering access to other 3D scenes, to the movie, to pictures, or to hypertext. WAXWEB IS DYNAMIC: Network users of Waxweb 2.0 can add to the narrative with their own immediate, publicly visible hypermedia: hypertext, pictures, audio, video, and hyperlinked VRML. In addition, all VRML objects in the network Waxweb database have their attached hyperlinks changed ON THE FLY, dependent on user interaction. In the near future, custom scenes dynamically recombining internal and user-added objects will allow the synthetic creation of a DYNAMIC, 3-D INTERSTORY on the network. WHAT IS THE VIRTUAL REALITY MODELING LANGUAGE? VRML 1.0 (VIRTUAL REALITY MODELING LANGUAGE, 10.94) was the result of a grassroots, Internet-wide effort, initiated by Mark Pesce, to define the standard for a 3-D metafile format which would allow DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL REALITY over the existing Internet. VRML allows users of World-Wide Web browsers to view and interact with computer generated 3D models, scenes and virtual "worlds". The most distinctive attribute of VRML is that 3-D VRML objects can have hyperlinks attached to their different parts. Users can move around 3-D VRML scenes, clicking objects or parts of objects, to either "travel" to new 3-D scenes, or load other types of data (from hypertext to video) into their World Wide Web browser (e.g Netscape, Mosaic). ENDORSEMENT for VRML as the 3D graphics metafile standard for the Internet was announced TODAY (4.3.94) by Silicon Graphics, Netscape, Digital, Template Graphics (TGS), NEC, and many other companies. Viewers based upon the established 3D graphics standards OpenGL and Open Inventor will be available in 30 days from TGS for the SGI, Sun, IBM, Windows 3.1,and Windows NT systems, with support for Apple and HP 9000 platforms by summer. Netscape Communications has announced support of the VRML standard and outlined plans to integrate the new VRML products from Silicon Graphics and TGS into the upcoming release of Netscape 1.1. Viewers based on Rendermorphics from Microsoft will be also available from the Community Community within 30 days. VRML ON WAXWEB 2.0 Users can enter the 3-D VRML world from a great many places in the 2D text/picture WAXWEB 2.0 WWW document, which is served from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. Text links or picture buttons on the flat page can take the reader to a 3-D scene. Once "in" the VRML world, users press 3D hyperlinks to travel through that world, or to automatically change the page on their electronic "book" (the Web browser), or even cause a part of the feature-length movie to play. This is the "third" interface to Waxweb, which is meant to be readable (hypertext), visual (all 5000 pictures are buttons, allowing visual navigation), and flyable (VRML). HOW WAXWEB 2.0 IS UNIQUE: Waxweb is an Internet-based, distributed, interactive and intercommunicative 3-D narrative environment. Waxweb uses MOO technology to dynamically serve hyperlinked 3D VRML objects/scenes. What's a MOO? MOO's are network-based tools for computer supported collaborative work (and play), which allow realtime intercommunication in an multi-room virtual space, as well as the sharing of network information resources... they are text-based virtual realities. By combining VRML with MOO technology on the WORLD WIDE WEB, WAXWEB 2.0 allows 3D narrative content to be shared, examined, added to, and reconfigured. Waxweb's implementation of dynamic VRML gives it the ability to efficiently serve VRML from the MOO, and dynamically auto-assemble objects/scenes and auto-insert hyperlinks (URL's) dependent on user interaction. This allows flexibility in the use of the existing large 3D database, and in addition will let users easily add to that 3D world. WAXWEB 2.0: TOWARDS A PRACTICAL, GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED, INTERCOMMUNICATIVE, SCALABLE, FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT HYPER-NARRATIVE SERVER The facts: on Feb. 18th, Digicash was implemented in the MOO (Waxweb is the first Digicash MOO). On the same day Waxweb also became a Sesame server, capable of handling Ubique's Web client for the Sun platform (and soon PC), the first publicly available system for realtime chat through a Web client. Media mirroring has also been established with Sunsite at UNC, and Internationale Stadt in Berlin. Visitors to Waxweb from Germany receive text, VRML, and control information from the Waxweb server in Virginia, but are pointed to Internationale Stadt for pictures, audio, and video. These three experimental implementations point to a practical, globally distributed, intercommunicative, scalable hyper-narrative server, based on an open system, and capable of being financially self-sufficient. THE PRINCIPALS: David Blair is an electronic cinemamaker based in New York City. He is currently at work on a second feature, set in the US and Japan. He is the author of both the film and the WWW versions of Wax. Tom Meyer is a virtual reality specialist in the Brown University Graphics Laboratory. He has written the MOO/WWW/VRML code. Suzanne Hader has provided coding for much of the user interface, and also contributed some graphic elements. Dave Klaphaak has assisted Tom and Suzanne. Florence Ormezzano executed many of the 3-D models for the film version of WAX. Anna Youseffi digitized the stills and MPEG video. Melynda Barnhardt executed some linking and checking for the hypertext. Additional written material in a separate section of Waxweb has been contributed by invited authors. Waxweb is an official project of the Brown Graphics Lab, headed by Andries VanDam. Waxweb has been made possible by networked associate fellow status generously extended to the members of the Waxweb project by IATH, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, headed by John Unsworth. Waxweb has received partial funding from the New York State Council for the Arts, with both finishing fund and distribution grants, the latter administered by the Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WAXWEB 2.0 IS UNIQUE BECAUSE: First Film Multicast on the Internet (NYTimes) First Feature-Length Interactive Film on the World Wide Web (Variety) First Large Scale Implementation of VRML First Dynamic VRML server (WWW/VRML/MOO ) First Web-Synchronized Cross-Platform CDROM First Large Scale WWW/MOO server First Digicash MOO First Internet Videoserver Project to utilize Media Mirroring (additional information available on all the above) QUOTE from David Blair: "VRML is the beginning of a public virtual reality cinema... one that leverages existing content and distribution to bring VR across an open system to the entire world. It is extraordinarily exciting to work in this now generally-accepted, and soon-to-be extended standard... one that links top and bottom-end computers, 3-D and 2-D data, and scalable connectivity, clearly pointing to our practical future as media-multicasters thriving in an international network 3-space." -------------- Waxweb 2.0 is an experiment toward the production of David Blair's second electronic feature (now in pre-production) ********** FOR RELEASE ON APRIL 3, 1995 ************* ************************************* David Blair artist1@interport.net -------- Waxweb 2.0: regular access: http://bug.village.virginia.edu VRML (3D) access: http://bug.village.virginia.edu/vrml MOO access: telnet to: bug.village.virginia.edu 7777 From: SIRARD VALERIE Subject: NEW LIST: MEDIEVALE (fwd) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 13:19:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 352 (676) ***This announcement has been cross-posted to several lists. Please excuse the repetition*** Welcome to Medievale ******************** Medievale, a new french electronic forum for all aspects of medieval history Bienvenue a Medievale ********************* Nous sommes heureux de vous apprendre la naissance d'un nouveau forum de discussion electronique de langue francaise sur le reseau Internet. 1. Qu'est-ce que Medievale ? **************************** Le but premier de Medievale est de permettre et de favoriser les echanges sur tous les aspects de l'histoire medievale. Medievale diffuse egalement des informations concernant les collections virtuelles d'archives et de manuscrits, les catalogues de bibliotheques, les gophers, les conferences, et toute autre information pertinente et d'interet pour les membres de la liste. La langue de travail de cette liste est le francais. Cependant, les interventions dans une autre langue sont les bienvenues. 2. Pour vous inscrire a Medievale ********************************* Il suffit d'envoyer une commande d'abonnement a l'adresse suivante: listproc@uqam.ca - Vous devez ecrire dans le corps du texte : SUBSCRIBE Medievale Prenom Nom La ligne "Subject" doit rester vide. - par exemple : SUBSCRIBE Medievale Jean Froissard Medievale est un forum ouvert a tous. Toute personne s'adressant au serveur de liste peut y adherer, et tous sont invites a participer aux discussions. ******** Medievale a ete creee par des professeurs et des etudiants de deuxieme et troisieme cycles du departement d'histoire de l'Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM). Pour toute information ou commentaire concernant Medievale, veuillez vous adresser a l'une ou l'autre des personnes suivantes: Valerie Sirard: m254354@er.uqam.ca Jean-Luc Bonnaud: k22070@er.uqam.ca John Drendel: R21750@er.uqam.ca ******** From: W Schipper Subject: Call for Interscripta topics and moderators Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 21:54:52 -0230 (NDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 353 (677) Call for Moderators and Topics Anyone who would like to act as moderator for a discussion on Interscripta, please get in touch with one of us at the addresses given below. The moderator will first post a position paper to be distributed to all subscribers. Additional material may be posted on a Web site such as Labyrinth, or on an ftp site. The moderator will then host a discussion that can take as long as six or eight weeks. Just how this is done is up to the moderator: some have added commentary to each message posted, others have posted summaries at regular (e.g. weekly) intervals, yet others have combined various postings, then posted them with commentary. When the discussion has ended the moderator is invited to write a concluding statement, and eventually to turn the discussion into a paper that will be published in electronic form. Any topic in medieval studies is welcome. -- W. Schipper D. Everhart schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca everhart@gusun.acc.georgetown.edu From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: addresses Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 20:16:10 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 354 (678) Pro-Cite is from: Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc. PO Box 4250 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-4250 313-996-1580 EndNote: Niles & Associates 800 Jones St. Berkeley, CA 94710 800-554-3049; 510-559-8592 FAX: 510-559-8683 ! Jim Marchand. From: brassey@ccsnet.com Subject: 8.0432 Qs: Quotes; Listservs; S/W; Articles (7/1 Date: Sat, 01 Apr 95 11:04:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 355 (679) For the person who wanted the address for EndNote: Niles and Associates, Inc. 800 Jones Street Berkeley, CA 94710 510-649-8176 fax: 510-649-8179 internet: nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us America Online: NilesAssoc Compuserve: 71172,653 Good luck. Paul Brassey brassey@ccsnet.com From: "S.A.Rae " Subject: RE: 8.0432 Qs: S/W (Pro-Cite, EndNote) Date: 3 Apr 1995 11:51:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 356 (680) Re: the request from Charles Faulhaber about Pro-Cite, EndNote: I just got this message from another list: * To: Multiple recipients of list BIBSOFT * Hi, * I just wanted to let people know about our coverage of bibliographic * software in Chorus. You may check out the following URL: * http://www.peinet.pe.ca:2080/Chorus/Mega/m001.html. * * Todd J. B. Blayone McGill University * Project Coordinator, Chorus Montreal, Quebec, Canada * Chorus related e-mail: chorus@.peinet.pe.ca * General e-mail: cxfw@musica.mcgill.ca if you have access to a WWW browser this source seems to give all the details that you require (and more!). Cheers Simon Rae The Open University From: ICSC konferenssi Subject: Call for Papers Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:37:28 +0300 (EET DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 442 (681) *********************************************************************** CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES An International Conference July 1-4, 1996, Tampere, Finland *********************************************************************** FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Cultural studies is not a one-way street between the centre and peripheries. Rather, it is a crossroads, a meeting point in between different centres, disciplines and intellectual movements. People in many countries and with different backgrounds have worked their way to the crossroads independently. They have made contacts, exchanged views and gained inspiration from each other in pursuing their goals. The vitality of cultural studies depends on a continuous traffic through this crossroads. Therefore the conference organizers invite people with different geographical, disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds together to share their ideas. We encourage international participation from a wide range of research areas. The conference is organized by the Department of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Tampere, and Network Cultural Studies. The organizing committee represents several universities and disciplines. Organizing committee International advisory board Pertti Alasuutari (chair) Ien Ang (Australia) Marko Valo (secretary) Jostein Gripsrud (Norway) Pirkkoliisa Ahponen Lawrence Grossberg (USA) Katarina Eskola Kim Schroder (Denmark) Pasi Falk Marja-Liisa Honkasalo Eeva Jokinen Mikko Lehtonen Kaisu Rattya Matti Savolainen Annika Suoninen Soile Veijola SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE: Ien Ang * Pasi Falk * Paul Gilroy * Jostein Gripsrud * Jaber F. Gubrium * Lawrence Grossberg * Eeva Jokinen * Sonia Livingstone * Anssi Perakyla * Kim Schroder * Soile Veijola CALL FOR PAPERS AND COORDINATORS As you will see below, many people have already volunteered to organize sessions on a wide variety of topics, but there is still the opportunity to add to the list. So please complete the preliminary abstract form if you would like to give a paper or offer to organize a session. There will also be a book exhibition, and publishers are requested to contact the organizers. The second announcement and invitation programme, including more information about the conference, its side-events, and a registration form will be available in September. At this stage we assume that the conference fee - including lunch and coffee - will be about 1000 FIM ($210) and hotel accommodation double $70 and single $60 (with breakfast included). The Conference will be held in Tampere Hall that is the largest congress and concert centre in the Scandinavia. Opposite to the University of Tampere, Tampere Hall is within easy walking distance from the centre of the city and its many services. The unique architecture clearly reflects the activities for which the building was built: conferences, exhibitions, concerts and ballet. LIST OF SESSIONS: Anthropology and Cultural Studies: Influences and Differences Body in Society Cultural Studies and Space Cultural Encounters in Mediterranean Cultural Approaches to Education Diaries and Everyday Life Encountering with Otherness in Cultural Border-Crossings Ethnography and Reception: Dilemmas in Qualitative Audience Studies Feminist and Cultural Approaches to Tourism History and Theory of Cultural Studies (Inter)Net Cultures and New Information Technology Life Stories in European Comparative Perspective Media Culture in the Everyday Life of Children and Youth New Genders: The Decay of Heterosexuality Post-Socialism and Cultural Reorganization Risk and Culture Social Theory and Semiotics Study of Institutional Discourse The Culture of Cities The Narrative Construction of Life Stories Voluntary Associations as Cultures Youth Culture _______________________________________________________________ REPLY FORM To make sure you will receive the Invitation Programme and the registation form and to ascertain a speedy decision on your proposed paper, would you kindly return the reply form before August 31, 1995. Name: Organization: Address: Country: Tel: Fax: E-mail: Please send me the Invitation Programme I would like to organize a session on: I would like to present a paper at the session on: Preliminary Abstract (No more than 100 words, please type, or send a separate sheet): _____________________________________________________________ Please complete and return to: Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Tampere, Department of Sociology and Social Psychology, P.O. Box 607, FIN-33101, Tampere, Finland; tel: +358 31 2156949, +358 31 368 1848; fax: +358 31 2156 080; e-mail: iscsmail@uta.fi. NOTE: This document is also made available in gopher and WWW (World Wide Web) -systems. You can always find the updated version from the following addresses: * with WWW-browser (for example Lynx, Mosaic, NetScape) use the following URL (Universal Resource Locator): http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sosio/culture/ * with GOPHER you can execute the following command: gopher -p 1/information_in_english/university/Departments/sosio_sosiopsyk/ culture vuokko.uta.fi 70 or if the command above fails, connect your gopher to address: vuokko.uta.fi 70 and follow the path starting by: "16. Information in English/" From: "Malcolm Hayward, English, IUP, Indiana PA 15705" Subject: CFP: Translation Theory Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 07:31:11 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 443 (682) STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES will publish a special number on Translation. Articles are invited on such topics as: * Translation theory * The cultural impact of translations * Cultural and ideological factors in translation * Translation of sensitive texts * Literary theory and translation * Historical studies of translation * Studies of individual translations as translations Articles should show a scholarly and/or theoretical awareness of the issues involved in translation. (Purely technical articles or actual translations are not solicited.) Works should be original, not previously published. The special number is planned for December 1995. Completed work must be received by September 1995 for consideration in this issue. STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES is a biannual scholarly journal publishing studies in literature, film, aesthetics, and literary theory. We follow the latest MLA style, using in-text citations whenever possible. The average paper length is 4,000 words. Three copies of the paper (hard copies of the paper are required) should be submitted to: Malcolm Hayward, Editor Studies in the Humanities 110 Leonard Hall Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705 Submissions will be peer reviewed in a blind review process. Authors who wish copies returned should include the appropriate postage. Queries may be sent to: mhayward@grove.iup.edu. STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES also publishes book reviews; proposals for reviews for this issue are solicited. From: cmv@astor.urv.es (Carlos Martin Vide) (by way of cmv@fll.urv.es (Carlos Subject: XI Congreso LLNN & LLFF Date: Mon, 3 Apr 95 17:35:54 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 444 (683) The XI Congreso de Lenguajes Naturales y Lenguajes Formales will take place on September 25-29, 1995 at Tortosa (Spain). It is being organized by the Research Group in Mathematical Linguistics and Language Engineering (GRLMC) of the Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain). The languages of the conference are Spanish, Catalan and English. The current list of invited people includes J. Busquets (Austin), V. Gomez-Pin (Barcelona), L. Martin-Mingorance (Cordoba), C. Martin-Vide (Tarragona), J.C. Martinez-Alonso (Barcelona), J. Miquel-Verges (Tarragona), R. Ortega-Robert (Tarragona), Gh. Paun (Bucharest), G. Rozenberg (Leiden), E. Vallduvi (Edinburgh) and J. Vidal (Tetuan). The deadline for submissions is July 22, 1995. Detailed information can be obtained from: Carlos Martin-Vide Apartado de Correos 32.077 08080 Barcelona Spain E-mail: cmv@astor.urv.es Fax: 34-77-559597 From: AthAlFLB@aol.com Subject: Re: 8.0435 Rs: On the Meaning... Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 03:32:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 357 (684) As someone who has written several articles on the disparity between the academic usage of "humanist" and usage within the freethought community, I must agree that persons seeking the discourse in the domain of the non-theisti c definition are on the wrong list. The list you are seeking is SECHUM-L; subscribe via LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU by sending "SUBSCRIBE SECHUM-L " I must make one comment on the previous message, that being the phrase "uncritical committment to atheism." In my quite extensive experience in the freethought community, I've rarely met anyone with such an attitude. Indeed, it is far more often the case that an uncritical committment is made to a religion. The vast majority of atheists, agnostics, humanists (of that definition) and freethinkers became so precisely because their critical mindset led them to examine, and reject, one or all religions. A significant percentage are former clergy; a far greater number are Ph.D.'s than would be found in an equivalent sampling of religionists. Thus, assumptions that those seeking a different definition of humanism have an "uncritical committment to atheism" merely demonstrate that the closed minds exist here, perhaps in a greater number than SECHUM-L. However, I didn't join this list to debate theology, and if Steve DeRose's comments had been restricted to an explanation of the dual definitions of the term, instead of slipping in an insult that exposed a personal prejudice, I would have simply passed along the information on SECHUM-L. Brent Yaciw From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 8.0435 Rs: On the Meaning of Humanist (5/161) Date: Sat, 01 Apr 95 10:40 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 358 (685) Dear Willard, Why not try HUMANISM...? These guys who pick cavils like nits; a sign of the fanatical times we live in. Has he not head of Xtian Humanism, etc ? Where was he when the Existentialists routed most folks after the death human ity, aka WW II? For it may be possible to say the world ended in 1945, and sin ce the nuclear age we live over, not beside, the edge of the unfathomable abysm of the Void. Jascha K. Best wishes, Willard, to you, and all. From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Carl Uncover Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 20:21:26 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 359 (686) "I have misplaced/deleted some very important info. Please help if you know: There is a library which allows you to search articles and then enter a fax number and credit card number, and within a day you have the article faxed to you." This would be Carl Uncover, a great service. You can telnet them at: CSI.CARL.ORG or DATABASE.CARL.ORG. Jim Marchand. From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Donne quote Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 20:18:09 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 360 (687) The e-text of Donne's Devotions, which contains this quotation (No man is an Island ...) is available on www: URL: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~planting/books/donne/devotions/devotions.html Jim Marchand. From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Word lists Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 20:30:08 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 361 (688) You need to be more specific as to wordlists, Ari. There are many lists, such as those put out by the American and Canadian Committees on Modern Languages (German, French, Spanish, later Italian and Portuguese) or by the various associations, such as Wadepuhl-Morgan's _Minimum Standard German Vocabulry_, prepared for the American Association of Teachers of German (NY: Crofts, 1934). Lynn Nelson's cite (UKansas) even has a Latin list online, and such lists are available also for, e.g. German. For the four `standard' languages, Helen Eaton has published a one volume word-count. One needs to know what you are looking for. A Swadesh list? Jim Marchand. From: harnett@DOLPHIN.UPENN.EDU Subject: Hellas Submissions Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 18:19:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 447 (689) HELLAS Call for Submissions HELLAS, A Journal of Poetry and the Humanities, is a literary and scholarly semiannual devoted to a rationalist reform of the arts. Of the 160 pages of each issue, 40 are devoted to poetry, especially metrical, that avoids prosaism and meaninglessness. The remainder is devoted to prose of different kinds, including not only serious scholarship, but a sprinkling of learned entertainement. Some general remarks on submissions: 1) Every submission must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. 2) It is advisable to query first by email or regular mail with an abstract and a copy of the essay's first page. 3) Footnotes should follow Chicago style. 4) Submissions MUST appeal to the non-specialist. Please note that, although the "maximum length" of each section may occasionally be exceeded, brevity will aid a submission's chances of acceptance. Queries and abstracts, but not essays or poems, may be emailed directly to the address of Gerald Harnett, the editor-in-chief: HARNETT@ALUMNI.UPENN.EDU ESSAYS Finely written and rigorously coherent studies of modern poetry, Renaissance literature and ancient literature. One essay in each of these three areas, and another in philosophy, is used in each issue. Essays in other areas, such as medieval or Enlightenment literature, are also occasionally taken. Especially sought are studies of classicism, neoclassicism and the relations between ancient and modern literatures. Include SASE. Maximum length: 10,000 words. HISTORY Hellas would like to publish essays in ancient, medieval and Renaissance history, preferably with some pertinence to literary studies, of interest to the general reader. These may be scholarly or casual, but MUST be readable. Maximum length: 10,000 words. ARS POETICA Essays on technical matters such as meter, poetic diction and trope. Maximum length: 5,000 words. DIVERTIMENTI Amusing essays on literary subjects. Maximum length: 3,000 words. FORUM Opinion on issues stirring the world of arts and letters. Maximum length: 3000 words. ULTIMA THULE A forum wherein the enlightened opposition, such as there is, may display higher nervous system functions and vocalization skills. Both serious and humorous essays are welcome. Maximum length: 5,000 words. EDITORIAL BOARD Renaissance Studies: William Kerrigan and Gordon Braden Classical Studies: Barry Baldwin Modern Poetry Studies: Christopher Clausen Philosophy: John Ellis and Eva Brann Ars Poetica: David Rothman Forum: Joseph Aimone Poetry: Gerald Harnett Advisory Board: Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, X.J. Kennedy, Molly Peacock Editor-in-chief: Gerald Harnett HELLAS is published by the Aldine Press, Ltd., a nonprofit corporation. Contributions in cash or kind are tax-deductible. SUBSCRIPTIONS: 1 yr.: $14. 2 yrs.: $24. Foreign subscriptions: $4 extra per year. Issued semiannually. ISSN 1044-5331. Send payment with subscription order to: HELLAS 304 South Tyson Avenue, Glenside, PA 19038 About HELLAS Honored by the Conference of Editors of Learned Journals in 1991 with a Best New Journal award, Hellas is a unique, Miltonic wedding of paideia and poiesis, instruction and delight, engaging scholarship and original poetry. Hellas and its remarkable new generation of poets critics and theorists have yoked the energy of the contemporary imagination to the verbal elegance, moral seriousnessness and good order of neoclassical tradition. "Hellas is a most worthy journal, and I recommend it highly." Paul Kristeller "Hellas is beautiful, strong and original. Congratulations!" Fred Turner "I have been reading through Hellas with interest, amusement and old-fashioned pleasure. Provocative and innovative, Hellas offers a very welcome liveliness and debate." Anthony Hecht "Hellas is full of vigor, sass and interest. It is well- launched and praiseworthy." Richard Wilbur From: Christian Allegre Subject: 1995 IFTR Conference : Announcement Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 12:03:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 448 (690) ************************ ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR THEATRE RESEARCH FIRT / IFTR <<<<<<< ACTOR, ACTRESS ON STAGE >>>>>>> BODY / ACTING / VOICE Montreal - Valleyfield May 22 - 27 1995 The IFTR Conference of 1995 is jointly organized by the Departement de Theatre of Universite du Quebec a Montreal and the Programme ofArts and Letters of College de Valleyfield.=20 ******** PROGRAM ~~~~~~~ * MONDAY MAY 22 9 AM TO 10:30 AM Keynote Speaker : EUGENIO BARBA 11 AM TO 12:30 PM Demonstration : Larry Tremblay (Canada) Title : Corps en jeu Speaker : Alain Knapp Speaker : Nichola Savarese 2 PM TO 3:30 PM Demonstration : Werewere Liking (Ivory Coast) Title : TBD Session : Specific Practices of Acting Session : Acting Body Session : Voice on Stage 4 PM TO 5:30 PM Demonstration : Jacques Lessard (Canada) Title : Les cycles Repere. Session : Specific Practices of Acting Session : Acting Body Session : Voice on Stage * TUESDAY MAY 23 9 AM TO 10:30AM Speaker : Jacques Lassalle Speaker : Anne Ubersfeld 11 AM TO 12:30 PM Demonstration : Jane Baldwin (USA) Title : Au-dela du naturalisme. La biomecanique theatrale de V.E. Meyerhold Speaker : Marco de Marinis Speaker : Franco Ruffini 2 PM TO 3:30 PM Demonstration : Joseph Rouleau (Canada) Title : La voix : l'artiste lyrique est-il au service du theatre ou l'inverse ? Session : Actor-Director relationships Session : Identity, Part, Character Session : Theory of Acting 4 PM TO 5:30 PM Demonstration : Pol Pelletier (Canada) Title : Les lois de la presence Session : Actor-Director relationships Session : Identity, Part, Character Session : Theory of Acting 6 PM TO 7:30 PM Professional Theatre Schools Theatre Research in Quebec * WEDNESDAY MAY 24 9 AM TO 10:30AM Speakers : Panel Mariann Ackerman - Andre Brassard - Gilles Maheu - Denis Marleau - Lorraine Pintal - Yves Sioui 11 AM TO 12:30 PM Demonstration : Kailash Pandya (India) Title : The Natyshastra Sanskrit Acting Style Speaker : Jean-Claude Germain Speaker : Richard Rose 2 PM TO 3:30 PM Demonstration : Jean Asselin (Canada) Title : TBD. Session : Preparation and Training of the Actor Session : Asia and Occident Session : From Text to Acting 4 PM TO 5:30 PM Demonstration : Johannes Birringer (USA) Title : Obscene/Off-Screen Body Session : Preparation and Training of the Actor Session : Asia and Occident Session : From Text to Acting * THURSDAY MAY 25 9:30 AM TO 11:30AM Francophones Meeting Discussion Groups 1 PM TO 9 PM Trips : Biodome - Pointe du Buisson - Sugarbush * FRIDAY MAY 26 10 AM TO 12 PM Demonstration : Nesta Jones (United Kingdom) Title : The English Acting Tradition Working Group : Performance Analysis Prof. Eli Rozik Working Group : Historiography of the Theatre Prof. Frank Peeters Working Group : Feminist Theatre / Women in the Theatre Profs. Olga Taxidou et Tiina Rosenberg Working Group : Cultural Identities Prof. Helen Peters Working Group : Theoritical Models of Analysis Prof. Hans Van Maanen Working Group : Specific Practices : Body/Acting/Voice Prof. Henri Schoenmakers 1:30 PM TO 3 PM Demonstration : William Lau (China) Title : Les personnages et la technique theatrale de l'Opera de Pekin Working Group : Performance Analysis Prof. Eli Rozik Working Group : Historiography of the Theatre Prof. Frank Peeters Working Group : Feminist Theatre / Women in the Theatre Profs. Olga Taxidou et Tiina Rosenberg Working Group : Cultural Identities Prof. Helen Peters Working Group : Theoritical Models of Analysis Prof. Hans Van Maanen Working Group : Specific Practices : Body/Acting/Voice Prof. Henri Schoenmakers 3:15 PM Memory of Memory (play) 4:30 PM Reception by the Major and the Director General 8 PM Theatre * SATURDAY MAY 27 10 AM TO 12 PM Demonstration : Kinneret Roy (USA) Title : Les techniques traditionnelles du jeu theatral japonais Working Group : Performance Analysis Prof. Eli Rozik Working Group : Historiography of the Theatre Prof. Frank Peeters Working Group : Feminist Theatre / Women in the Theatre Profs. Olga Taxidou et Tiina Rosenberg Working Group : Cultural Identities Prof. Helen Peters Working Group : Theoritical Models of Analysis Prof. Hans Van Maanen Working Group : Specific Practices : Body/Acting/Voice Prof. Henri Schoenmakers 1:30 PM TO 3:30 PM Demonstration Carlo Pasi (Italy) Title : L'ombre parlee. Fantasmes feminins sur scene Working Group : Performance Analysis Prof. Eli Rozik Working Group : Historiography of the Theatre Prof. Frank Peeters Working Group : Feminist Theatre / Women in the Theatre Profs. Olga Taxidou et Tiina Rosenberg Working Group : Cultural Identities Prof. Helen Peters Working Group : Theoritical Models of Analysis Prof. Hans Van Maanen Working Group : Specific Practices : Body/Acting/Voice Prof. Henri Schoenmakers 4 PM TO 6 PM Speaker : PETER SELLARS *********************** Complete information about the IRFT Conference can be retrieved at the following URL : URL : gopher://gopher.Litteratures.Umontreal.ca:7070/1/annonces/firt *********************** * Contacts: Josette Feral (Uqam) Jean-Marc Larrue (Valleyfield college) r36254@er.uqam.ca jmlarrue@grics.edupac.qc.ca FIRT / IFTR 1995 Departement de Theatre Universite du Quebec a Montreal C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3C 3P8 Tel: (514) 987-3255 / (514) 373-9441 Fax: (514) 987-7881 / (514) 377-6048 From: PROF NORM COOMBS Subject: Web page re education and persons with disabilities Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 15:59:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 449 (691) New web site devoted to information technology and its access by persons with disabilities has been established by EASI: Equal access to Software and Information. http://www.rit.edu/~easi EASI is an affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education, and EASI's mission is to serve as a resource to the higher education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities. We stay informed about developments and advancements within the adaptive computer technology field and spread that information to colleges, universities, K-12 schools, libraries and into the workplace. If you have a web home page related to the uses of information in education, business or recreation, your readers may benefit from learning about ways that adaptive computing can facilitate the use of such information by persons with disabilities. We hope you will add a pointer on your home page to our resources. If you believe that EASI's friends and members would benefit from knowing of your home page, please send us your url, and we will be happy to check you out. EASI's information has special areas devoted to problems related to science, engineering and math for persons with disabilities: library access for patrons with disabilities and also an area devoted to back issues of the electronic journal, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES. For further information write either: Dick Banks, rbanks@uwstout.edu or Norman Coombs nrcgsh@rit.edu Our membership is composed of people from colleges, universities, businesses and other institutions. They include computing staff, disabled student services staff, faculty, administrators, vendors, representatives of professional associations, private consultants, heads of both non-profit and for-profit organizations, faculty and staff from K-12 schools, and students. From: cbf@lola.lllf.uam.es ( Charles Faulhaber ) Subject: CHum reviews Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 14:35:16 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 362 (692) I would be grateful for the name and e-mail address of the current review editor for Computing and the Humanities. Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber cbf@lola.lllf.uam.es From: krshnbtt Subject: QUERIES: Raymond Williams and Balzac Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 14:21:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 363 (693) Can someone identify where Raymond Williams wrote something to the effect that while a culture is lived (or alive), it can never be reduced to its artifacts? Can someone tell give me the citation for Balzac's history of the 13th arrondisment in Paris? In French and if there is an English translation, also in English. Thank you. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett krshnbtt@acf2.nyu.edu FAX: 212-254-7885 TEL: 212-998-1628 Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th fl, New York, NY 10003 From: Ralph Mathisen Subject: Society for Late Antiquity Date: Sun, 09 Apr 95 09:24:24 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 451 (694) SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY The "Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity" Conference, held at the University of Kansas March 23-26, attracted over 75 participants from eight countries. During the final discussion it was universally agreed that the tradition of such meetings needed to continue, and that it would be worthwhile to identify additional ways of exchanging information about the many facets of the study of Late Antiquity. Future conferences on other thematic themes relating to Late Antiquity already have been tentatively scheduled. The group also initiated a collaborative effort with the European "Transformation of the Roman World" program. Other suggestions included the creation of a Society for Late Antiquity and the distribution of a hard-copy newsletter fo- cusing on Late Antiquity that would complement the electronic discus- sions on the LT-ANTIQ discussion list. What we would like to do now is to ascertain the degree of interest that there is in initiating a loosely affiliated group, a "Society for Late Antiquity", of those interested in furthering the study of Late Antiquity as very broadly conceived. So we ask those who would be interested in participating in, or even organizing, future confer- ences on Late Antiquity, or who would like to receive a Late Antiquity newsletter, or who have other ideas about cooperative endeavors of this nature, please to contact either Ralph Mathisen, N330009@UNIVSCVM.CSD. SCAROLINA.EDU (EMail), or Hagith Sivan, Dept. of History, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66044 (snail mail). Please include both EMAIL and snail mail addresses. Thank you. For those of you who would like to join the Late Antiquity discussion list, the address is LISTSERV@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU and the com- mand is SUBSCRIBE LT-ANTIQ first-name last-name. N.B. This posting is being made to several lists that deal with ancient and medieval history; our apologies for duplication to those of you sub- scribed to several lists. Cross postings to other relevant lists not on the master list are welcome. From: Nicolas Nicolov Subject: Comp Ling Summer School Date: Fri, 7 Apr 95 21:15:59 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 452 (695) * Please post International Summer School "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" ____________________________________________________________________ 9 - 13 Sept 1995 Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria DATES: 9 - 13 Sept 1995 (arrival 8 Sept) LOCATION: Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains surrounding the Batak Lake. Tzigov Chark is 150km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME: A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Lexicalized tree-adjoining grammars J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Knowledge acquisition from corpora J. Haller (IAI, Saarbrucken, Germany) Unification-based Machine Translation J. Schutz (IAI, Saarbrucken, Germany) Language Engineering J. Hutchins (University of East Anglia, UK) Machine translation: history, current status and possible future developments W. von Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany) Knowledge-based Machine Aided Translation Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Lexical knowledge acquisition A. Ramsey (University College Dublin) Interpretation in context Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon, Korea) English-to-Korean Machine Translation R. Delmonte (University of Venice, Italy) Referring expressions in sublanguages C. Martin-Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgilli, Tarragona, Spain) "Grammar systems" ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Ruslan Mitkov IAI Saarbruecken/Institute of Mathematics, Sofia Manfred Kudlek University of Hamburg, Germany Michael Zock LIMSI, Orsay, France Nikolai Nikolov Incoma, Bulgaria Victoria Arranz CCL, UMIST, Manchester, UK Nicolas Nicolov Dept. of AI, University of Edinburgh, UK SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION: For further information please contact: Nicolas Nicolov or Prof. Ruslan Mitkov RELATED EVENTS: The summer school participants are also invited to take part in the Int. Conference "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING", which will take place immediately after the summer school in Velingrad, 20 km from Tzigov Chark. Further information about the conference can be obtained from: Nicolas Nicolov or Prof. R. Mitkov or you can have a look at the conference WWW page at URL: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/misc/NLP_Conf.html NB Prof. Ruslan Mitkov's NEW email is: NEXT ANOUNCEMENT: A more complete tutorial program, information about registration fees, and accommodation will be posted in due course. * Please post * From: Nicolas Nicolov Subject: LAST CFP: RECENT ADVANCES IN NLP Date: Fri, 7 Apr 95 21:14:17 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 453 (696) * Please post: *** FINAL REMINDER *** *** EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 25 April 1995 *** International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" 14-16 September 1995 Velingrad, Bulgaria TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing and Language Engineering are invited, including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP, machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; written and spoken natural language interfaces; knowledge acquisition; text summarization; computer-assisted language learning; language resources; evaluation, assessment and standards in language engineering; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. The conference welcomes also new results in NLP based on modern alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connectionist as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches. In view of the recent explosion of the use of on-line language resources the conference especially welcomes contributions in the area of language engineering. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: B. Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) C. Boitet (IMAG, Grenoble) E. Charniak (Brown University) K. S. Choi (KAIST, Taejon) A. DeRoeck (University of Essex) R. Delmonte (University of Venice) J. P. Descles (University Paris Sorbonne) S. Finch (University of Edinburgh) G. Goerz (University of Erlangen) E. Hajicova (Charles University, Prague) J. Haller (IAI, Saarbruecken) P. Jacobs (SRA, Arlington) A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) L. Kartunen (Xerox Grenoble) M. Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto) R. Kittredge (University of Montreal) K. Kukich (Bellcore, Morristown) J. Mariani (LIMSI, Orsay) C. Martin-Vide (University Rovira i Virgili) Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) K. McKeown (Columbia University) R. Mitkov (IAI/Institute of Mathematics) S. Nirenburg (New Mexico State University) M. Pinkal (University of Saarland, Saarbruecken) A. Ramsey (University College Dublin) H. Somers (UMIST, Manchester) P. Seuren (University of Nijmegen) O. Stock (IRST, Trento) B. Tsou (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong) J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester) D. Tufis (Romanian Academy of Sciences) D. Yarowsky (University of Pennsylvania) M. Zock (LISMI, Orsay) INVITED SPEAKERS: A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester) C. Boitet (IMAG, Grenoble) PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers not exceeding 3500 words should be submitted via Email (preferably as plain text or in LaTeX format) not later than *25 April 1995* to: mitkov@informatik.uni-hamburg.de The first page should also contain the surface and Email address(es) of the author(s), as well as the topic area. SUBMISSION MEDIA: Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to: Ruslan Mitkov Department of Computer Science University of Hamburg Vogt Koelln St. 30 22527 Hamburg GERMANY Email: mitkov@informatik.uni-hamburg.de AND to: Nicolas Nicolov If electronic submission is problematic (e.g. due to non-standard format, characters, graphics) not possible, 4 copies of the paper should be sent. SCHEDULE: Authors must submit their papers by *25 April 1995*. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) after 26 April 1995. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 20 June 1995. Camera-ready versions of the accepted papers, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 20 July 1995. LOCATION: The town of Velingrad is situated in a picturesque valley in the Western Rhodope mountains and is only 130km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organizers will provide a daily shuttle bus/ conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. Sofia is easily accessible by plane from most of the major European cities (e.g. daily flights or several flights per week from London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Vienna and other European cities). There are also direct flights to Sofia from North America (New York) and Asia (Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Ruslan Mitkov IAI Saarbruecken/Institute of Mathematics, Sofia Michael Zock LIMSI, Orsay, France Manfred Kudlek University of Hamburg, Germany Nikolai Nikolov Incoma, Bulgaria Nicolas Nicolov Dept. of AI, University of Edinburgh, UK REGISTRATION FEE Full-time students - USD 100 Academic staff - USD 140 Researchers in industry - USD 180 The registration fee includes attendance at the conference, a copy of the proceedings, refreshments and a reception. Participants will be informed of the conference bank account in May and will be asked to send their registration fee by international money order before 15 July 1995. On site payment by credit card, cheque or cash will be possible, but with a surcharge of USD 30. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For further information contact: Nicolas Nicolov Dept of Artificial Intelligence University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN Nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk Tel: +44-131 650 2727 Fax: +44-131 650 6516 Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief description together with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to the above address. The organisers can provide PCs and Macintoshes. WWW and FTP: Information about the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" is available via: - WWW at URL: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/misc/NLP_Conf.html - anonymous FTP from ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk in file: pub/user/adv_nlp.ps Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user input is underlined): $ ftp ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Name (ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk: nicolas): anonymous ^^^^^^^^^ Password: <- Type in your email here! ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> cd pub/user ^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> get adv_nlp.ps <- PostScript version ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp> get adv_nlp.txt <- Plain Text File ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ RELATED EVENTS: Conference participants are also invited to take part in the International Summer School "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics", which will take place just before the conference in Tzigov Chark, Batak Lake, only 20 km from Velingrad. Further information about the summer school can be obtained from: Prof. R. Mitkov or Nicolas Nicolov INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPANTS / PUBLISHING COMPANIES: Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP-related products as well as publishing companies to exhibit their new books on NLP. Company representatives should inform Nicolas Nicolov of their intention and publishing houses should contact Dr.R.Mitkov . NB Prof. Ruslan Mitkov's NEW email is: ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM: An alternative program can be arranged for persons accompanying delegates. Among the places which can be visited is Plovdiv, the second largest and oldest Bulgarian city, beautifully situated on 7 hills 80 km away from Velingrad. *** Authors who have submitted papers between March 24-30 are kindly *** requested to resubmit. ______________________________________________________________________ From: LDC Office Subject: Penn Treebank, Release 2 Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 13:15:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 454 (697) Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM: THE PENN TREEBANK PROJECT Release 2 The Penn Treebank Project Release 2 CDROM features the new Penn Treebank II bracketing style, which is designed to allow the extraction of simple predicate/argument structure. Over one million words of text are provided with this bracketing applied, along with a complete style manual explaining the bracketing, and new versions of tools for searching and treating bracketed data. This CDROM also contains all the annotated text material from the earlier Treebank Preliminary Release, including the Brown Corpus. While these materials have not all been converted to the newer bracketing style, they have been cleaned up to remove problems that had appeared in the earlier release. The contents of Treebank Release 2 are as follows: * 1 million words of 1989 Wall Street Journal material annotated in Treebank II style. * A small sample of ATIS-3 material annotated in Treebank II style. * 300-page style manual for Treebank II bracketing, as well as the part-of-speech tagging guidelines. * Tools for processing Treebank data, including a new version of tgrep (a tree-searching and manipulation package). * The contents of the previous Treebank CDROM (Version 0.5), with cleaner versions of the WSJ, Brown Corpus, and ATIS material (annotated in Treebank I style). In addition, the Penn Treebank Project will be providing updates, announcements and a discussion forum for users. A file of updates and further information available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cis.upenn.edu, in pub/treebank/doc/update.cd2. This file will also contain pointers to a gradually expanding body of relatively technical suggestions on how to extract certain information from the corpus. Detailed questions about the corpus may be sent to treebank@unagi.cis.upenn.edu, while questions and requests for obtaining Treebank Release 2 should be sent to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. From: "James O'Donnell" Subject: e-postprint announcement Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 01:36:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 455 (698) The full text of my first book, *Cassiodorus* (Berkeley: U.C. Press, 1979), now out of print and the rights reverted to me, is now available in hypertext form (footnotes as links) at: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/cassiodorus.html I would suggest that there must be many other worthy books whose economic life has expired in the eyes of their publishers but which can still be useful and instructive, especially if made available widely and freely on the net. If the original was composed on computer, preparing for HTML is really quite simple; in this case, it took a bit more work to scan and proofread the print book. (NOTE: I should emphasize that I can do this because I have a legal right to do so under the terms of the contract with my publisher. If you were to post on the net text whose rights you had signed over to a publisher, the results could be quite unpleasant.) Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Arthur Carmichael Subject: [Arthur Carmichael : Crossroads-mailing list] Date: Thu, 6 Apr 95 15:39:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 456 (699) d ATTENTION ALL FORMER CROSSROADERS Operation Crossroads Africa is attempting to compile a mailing list of all former Crossroads participants, 1958-present for future fund raising events. Please forward your name and address to: Operation Crossroads Africa, Inc. 475 riverside Drive, Suite 830 New York, New York 10115-0050 U.S.A. We are trying to compile this list before April 20th so please reply soon. ^^^^^^ Also, if you are in contact with any former Crossroaders, Please inform them of this request. Please feel free to post this message to any other list. Operation Crossroads apoligizes for any multiple postings. From: Claire Smith Subject: Conference/Listserv Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 10:29:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 457 (700) To HUMANIST Subscribers, The following is a conference announcement cited by the Listserv, NAC (News Announce Conferences) which announces calls for papers and conferences. You can subscribe to NAC by sending the single-line message: Subscribe NAC yourfirstname yourlastname to: Listserv@VM1.NODAK.EDU Once subscribed, postings/queries may be sent to: NAC@VM1.NODAK.EDU Note: As you will see below, NAC mentions the conference announcement index which is a WorldWideWeb page announcing conferences for a range of areas, including education. New postings here are welcomed too. Claire Smith, CCH Information Officer, University of Toronto. csmith@epas.utoronto Forwarded message: [deleted quotation]index: [deleted quotation]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= [deleted quotation] -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Claire Smith / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / University of Toronto 130 St. George Street / Robarts Library, 14th Floor / Toronto, ON / M5S 1A5 Internet: csmith@epas.utoronto.ca / Tel.: (416) 978-2535 / Fax: (416) 978-6519 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Invisible Seattle Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 18:31:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 364 (701) I so far have not been able to gather specific information on the collective writing project held in 1984, called "Invisible Seattle". I would welcome any bibliographical reference of texts published within this project or any comments, critique, articles on the subject. Who was the designer of the project, who were the people involved or the "institution", group responsible for it? Thanks. M.L. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee Universite de Montreal -- Tel.: (514) 288-3916 lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: Images of US mills Date: 12 Apr 1995 16:14:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 365 (702) I wonder if you could help ... a colleague here at The UK Open University is working on a BBC/OU TV programme for a forthcoming Maths/Statistics course. She is making a TV programme (about asthma) which she would like to open with pictures of linseed oil/ castor oil/ cotton seed mills in the late 1920s/ early 1930s in the States (actual location - Toledo, Ohio). She would like pictures (or film footage) of people working in the mills as well as of the mills themselves. IDEALLY she would like to get hold of a photo of Dr Karl Figley who worked as a doctor in that area in the 30s treating asthma patients and researched the connection between his patients' illness and the local castor oil mills. She started searching for images at the end of last year through her 'normal' channels but has not found very much and, as is always the case, it has all become VERY urgent now ... so if there's anyone out there who could help either directly or indirectly (i.e. point her in the direction of a possible source) she would be very grateful. She is Pip Surgey and can be reached at the following Email address: PipS@oupc.bbc.co.uk Thanking you in anticipation, ________________________________________________________________________________ Simon Rae, User Services Officer, | S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK (Internet) Academic Computing Service, | The Open University, Walton Hall, | phone: (01908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. | fax: (01908) 653744 From: Bronwen Heuer Subject: Slide cataloging software for the Mac Date: Wed, 12 Apr 95 12:49:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 366 (703) I have a client who would like to scan in and catalog photographic slides. Can anyone recommend a software package on the Macintosh for doing this? bronwen heuer phone (516) 632-8054 instructional computing frank melville, jr. memorial library s1460 stony brook, ny 11794-3350 bronwen@ccvm.sunysb.edu From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Germany e-address Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 21:25:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 367 (704) I am looking for the e-address of two german researchers involved in computer text generation round 1960, namely - Theo Lutz (Stuttgart Polytechnic School) - Rul Gunzenhauser ------- Could those having Carole Spearin's book (Computers and Creativity - 1974) at their university library contact me? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee -- Tel.: (514) 288-3916 lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: gpl@fct.unl.pt Subject: NLULP'95 preliminary programme and registration forms Date: / / Signature: _____________________________ X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 460 (705) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming Accompanying Person's Programme Please complete this form and return it to: Meeting Point Travel Agency Quinta de Santa Marta, sala 18 Largo Comandante Augusto Madureira ALGES - 1495 LISBOA PORTUGAL Fax: 351 1 4120204 Phone: 351 1 4120888/4108294 Date Price per person number of persons Lisbon and Discoveries May 29/14h00 3 000 Pte ________ Sintra/Cape of Roca/Estoril May 30/09h00 8 000 Pte ________ Last name: First name: The above tours are subject to a minimum of 20 persons. Kindly contact the "Hospitality Desk" of Meeting Point at the Congress Centre on Monday morning, May 29th in order to collect your tickets and to make the payment. For further information concerning the above or for any other suggestions please contact the Meeting Point Travel Agency. * Lisbon and Discoveries -- (Half-Day) Departure from the Congress Centre - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - at 14h00 to the quarter of Bel\'em, which is famous for its monuments. Stop near the Tower of Bel\'em - built between 1515 and 1521 - and the Monument to the Discoveries, which is comprised of a stylized caravel with various historical figures. Not very far away, we will find the Jer\'onimos Monastery, built in 1514, which is a good example of the Gothic-Manueline style. Continue to the downtown and visit the Cathedral of Lisbon, built in the 2nd half of the XII century in Romanesque style. Return to the Hotels. * Sintra/Cape of Roca/Estoril -- (Full-Day including lunch) Departure from the Congress Centre - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - at 09h00 to the delightful village of Sintra, immortalized by the world famous poet Lord Byron as "Glorious Eden". Visit to the National Palace, former royal residence, dated from the XIV century with beautiful tiles, painted ceilings and centuries old walls, as well as an unusually huge kitchen. Free time for visiting this romantic village. Lunch in a typical Restaurant. After lunch the tour proceeds to the Cape of Roca which is the western-most point of Europe. Return to Lisbon along the shore via Cascais, well known resort and Estoril with its famous Casino. From: johnston@ansel.intersource.com (James W. Johnston) Subject: WordCruncher Newsletter Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 16:43:35 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 461 (706) Elaine, I have had many inquiries about WordCruncher for Windows. Here is the text of WordCruncher Views, our newsletter. Thanks for your inquiry about WordCruncher for Windows. The following is the full text of the Spring Issue of WordCruncher Views, our newsletter. This issue is dedicated solely to WordCruncher for Windows. OF SAILING SHIPS & E-TEXTS Reflections on progress With the release of WordCruncher for Windows, we continue our quest to provide the tools necessary to navigate, explore, and analyze electronic texts. As the flood of information increases, new tools and techniques emerge to cope with the deluge. In 1945, Dr. Vannevar Bush, President Roosevelt's Science Advisor, foresaw the problem we now call `information overload.' He wrote, in an Atlantic Monthly article titled "As We May Think:" "Professionally, our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now totally inadequate for their purpose . . . The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square rigged ships." Years later, Randall Jones, now Dean of Brigham Young University's College of Humanities, observed, "While it is true that we are living in the Information Age, it is equally true that we are more adept at generating information than we are at keeping track of it." Perhaps Messrs. Jones and Bush would agree that WordCruncher is a tool which `threads through the maze,' `helps cut through the summation of human experience,' and finds what is important. What is important? While driving home after dropping our children off early one morning, the radio announcer was recounting the daily gloom and doom story. I turned it off and noticed the world about me -- the ever-changing beauty of an Indiana sunrise, the early red bud and daffodils -- even managing to slow down and let a rabbit cross the road. Though these things are admittedly far away from text retrieval and analysis, they were momentarily most important. WordCruncher was created to help find what you are looking for and to reveal what you might not otherwise have known. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. Tell us how you use the software, or how you would like to use it. Send us papers, reports, and books that are the result of your research. And we'll keep improving and upgrading= WordCruncher! WORDCRUNCHER - WINDOWS It's shipping! WordCruncher for DOS has earned a loyal following that spans the globe. The Windows version will likely expand our constituency. Beta tester Dr. Erroll Rhodes comments, "The View program goes beautifully. There is considerable carry-over from the DOS version, and the enhancements provided by Windows are great." New features include 10 indexing levels, collocation, graphics, hyperlinks, expert and user notes, synchronous scrolling, (awarded a U.S. patent), filters, enhanced frequency distribution reports, and more. FILE COMPATIBILITY & SIZES WordCruncher for DOS The first questions asked is, `Will it work with my BYB files?' Of course. Your WordCruncher for DOS files can be reindexed with WCIWIN. Simply add one line to the beginning of a file, rename it, create an ETX, and reindex. The whole process should take less than ten minutes per file (exclusive of indexing time). Indexing Time: Indexing time is dependent of your personal setup. System performance depends on variables like processor and hard disk speed, caching, controller, ad nauseam. However, as a benchmark, a 4.8 MB file takes approximately 20 minutes on a Gateway 2000 486DX/50. File Size: WordCruncher for Windows indexes files of any size. Although the `linker' is still available for updates, you can index large files in one step. MORE INDEXING LEVELS Up to ten! WordCruncher for DOS allowed only 3 hierarchical levels of indexing. WordCruncher for Windows allows up to 10. These can be either hierarchical (Act, scene, line) or non-hierarchical (character). Non-hierarchical index levels can be particularly useful when examining documents which include multiple speakers (plays, novels, interview data), locales or correspondents (diaries), etc. SEARCHING LIBRARIES Search several documents concurrently As our electronic libraries expand, it is handy to be able to search several books at the same time. WordCruncher allows you to select books from the Bookshelf, create a search argument, and then apply it to the books you have chosen. Results will be displayed on a per book basis. Then go to the Reference List to view your hits. Of course, WordCruncher for Windows still supports string, substring, single word and multiple word searches with both default and user controlled boolean logic,= including: =95 And, Or, Not =95 Before, After, Before or After =95 Within of 1 to 65536 words. Though search results are still displayed in the Reference List Window, there are new and improved analysis tools with which to consider results. FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION A few new analytical options WordCruncher for Windows has expanded its frequency distribution analysis features. They now include: Table of Contents: Search results are shown with counts for each reference code in each reference level. You can `zoom in' on Hierarchical levels. Percentile: Search results are shown in percentile levels. They can be viewed in increments of from .001% to .10% of the entire document. Index Level Ranges: Search results are shown by reference code ranges. All of the matching reference codes for a given index level can be used to create a range. If a document contains writings of many authors, this feature can be used for word print analysis. User edited ranges: These user-defined ranges can consist of unlimited sets of begin/end points within the text. FILTERS & COLLOCATION New features, new tools Filters: Filters allow you to confine your search to one or several parts of a file. For example, if you are examining questionnaires, you may wish to confine your search only to responses to `question one'; in a play, you may want to examine only the dialogue of specific character(s), etc. Note that filters can include either contiguous or scattered sections. Collocation: Collocation automatically extends your search by analyzing words found around your search word, and then showing you other words you may want to search= for. When searching for a concept, you don't always know every word which describes it. 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Box 6627 Bloomington, Indiana 47407-6627 United States of America (812) 339-9996 (Voice) (812) 339-9997 (Fax) johnston@ansel.intersource.com From: Subject: No Subject Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 14:20:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 462 (707) WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS FELLOWSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 1996-97 Located in the heart of Washington, D.C., the Center awards approximately 35 residential fellowships each year for advanced research in the humanities and social sciences. Men and women from any country and from a wide variety of backgrounds (including government, the corporate world, the professions, and academe) may apply. Applicants must hold a doctorate or have equivalent professional accomplishments. Fellows are provided offices, access to the Library of Congress, computers or manuscript typing services, and research assistants. The Center publishes selected works written at the Center through the Woodrow Wilson Center Press. Fellowships are normally for an academic year. In determining stipends, the Center follows the principle of no gain/no loss in terms of a Fellow's previous year's salary. However, in no case can the Center's stipend exceed $61,000. Travel expenses for Fellows and their immediate dependents are provided. The application deadline is October 1, 1995. For application materials write to: Fellowships Office, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1000 Jefferson Drive S.W., SI MRC 022, Washington, DC 20560. Tel: (202)357-2841. º ************************Patricia B. Wood*********************** WWICS/The Fellowships Office VOICE: (202) 357-2841 1000 Jefferson Drive, S.W. FAX: (202) 357-4439 MRC 022 - 3rd Floor Washington, DC 20560 From: hink@berlin.snafu.de (Wolfgang Hink) Subject: Guide to Literature on the Internet Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 18:05:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 368 (708) For those who are interested in literature: I have done a new and comprehensive "Guide to Literature on the Internet", which is monthly posted in some Usenet Newsgroups. It lists pointers to all kinds of literary resources: FAQs, mailing lists, e-texts, journals, zines, libraries, book shops, wais sources and more. A current version of this guide is available: - by e-mail to with message in body: "send usenet/news.answers/internet/literary-resources" - ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet/ literary-resources - http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/text/faq/usenet/internet/ literary-resources/faq.html Hope you find it useful. Wolfgang Hink ----- Dr. Wolfgang Hink Muthesiusstrasse 34 12163 Berlin (Germany) From: bouchnib@poly.polytechnique.fr (ali) Subject: a French African Mailing List Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 17:00:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 369 (709) Hello A FRENCH Africain Mailing list called : afrique@univ-lyon1.fr has just been created. For subscription, drop a note at: listserv@univ-lyon1.fr with No subject and u shall type this in the message body : SUB afrique surname name Please tell anyone who is interested in serious discussions about Africa and African people, in French, to join us. Thank you --------------------------- Bonjour Une mailing liste africaine francophone ( la liste etant non moderee, tous les articles sont les bienvenus quelque soit la langue ) vient d'etre creee. Les discussions DOIVENT porter, bien evidemment, sur les africains et le continent africain. Comment s'inscrire ? -------------------- Envoyez a listserv@univ-lyon1.fr la commande suivante dans le corps de votre message (pas de Subject:) : SUB afrique prenom nom Comment ecrire a la liste ? --------------------------- En ecrivant a afrique@univ-lyon1.fr . Precisez toujours le sujet de votre courrier grace au champ "Subject:". IL appartient a chacun de nous d'assurer la survie de la liste et d'en augmenter le nombre d'inscrits ce qui deboucherait eventuellement sur la creation d'un newsgroup fr.soc.afrique. -- Ali BOUCHNIBA Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, France. bouchnib@poly.polytechnique.fr From: Harry.Bunt@kub.nl (Harry C. Bunt, ITK) Subject: IWPT'95 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 17:49:21 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 464 (710) +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | IWPT'95: | | | | FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PARSING TECHNOLOGIES | | | | 20 - 23 September 1995 | | Prague/Karlovy Vary | | Czech Republic | | | | ********* | | | | Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE | | Association for Computational Linguistics, | | Special Interest Group on Parsing | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | REGISTRATION INFORMATION | | | | and second call for abstracts | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ LOCATION The Fourth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies IWPT'95, taking place this year on September 20 through 23 in the Czech Republic in the heart of Europe, will continue the tradition established by IWPT'89 (Pittsburgh/Hidden Valley) and IWPT'93 (Tilburg/Durbuy) of taking place partly on the premises of a university and partly in a secluded conference resort. The first part of IWPT'95 will take place in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, the "hundred towered" or "golden" city on the Vltava river (Moldau). The site of the conference will be the historical building of Charles University (founded in 1348 as the oldest University North of the Alps and East of Paris) in the heart of the Old Town. The second part of the conference will be located in the most fashionable "fin de siecle" hotel in Karlovy Vary (also known as Carlsbad), a pleasant Czech spa about 130 km to the North of Prague, famous for its hot water springs, original crystal glass and procelain, and a special herb liquer called Becherovka. ACCOMODATION A standard package is offered including accommodation in Prague in hotel Krystal, 30 minutes from the centre of the Old Town (3 nights) and in Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary (2 nights), breakfasts and lunches for 4 days, a dinner and the conference banquet in Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary. This arrangement costs USD 310 USD for single occupancy and USD 230 for shared occupancy of hotel rooms. We can also arrange for accommodation in Prague in a more centrally located hotel, but the additional cost would be at least 80-100 USD per night (for a single occupancy) - Prague is a touristic centre and September is still high season. Hotel Krystal is a quite resonable hotel and city transportation is comfortable, clean and fast (the centre of the city can be reached from the hotel by tram and subway). TRAVEL Arrivals and departures: arrival date at Prague Tuesday, September 20, 1995, conference programme in Prague September 21-22, departure for Karlovy Vary September 22 late afternoon, conference programme in Karlovy Vary September 23-24, departure for Prague September 24 after lunch. Departure from Prague Sunday September 25. The Conference fee of USD 130 includes a copy of the proceedings and bus transportation from Prague to Karlovy Vary and back. REGISTRATION Participants should send the registration form appended at the end of this message before APRIL 30 1995 to the following address (preferably by e-mail): UFAL MFF UK c/o Mrs L. Brdickova Malostranske n. 25 11800 Praha 1 Czech Republic e-mail: brdickov@ufal.mff.cuni.cz fax: ++42-2-532742 phone: ++42-2-2451 0286 Payment by bank transfer should be made before JUNE 30, 1995 to the following bank acount: Account No. 38330-021/0100, var. symbol 844 (important!) Bank: Komercni banka pobocka Praha-Mesto Vaclavske nam. 42 11000 Praha 1 Czech Republic The account is on the name of Matematicko-fyzikalni fakulta Karlovy university (address of the account holder: Ke Karlovu 3, Praha 2). All payments should be made net of bank charges. After this deadline of June 30, a supplement of USD 50 will be charged. Payment by credit card can, at present, not be accepted. To complete your registration and confirm your room requirements an advance payment of the registration fee and the hotel package is required. PLEASE SEND THE BANK TRANSFER RECEIPT PROVIDED BY YOUR BANK TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS. SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Submissions are invited from all areas of parsing technology. These areas include, but not limited to, theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences, and speech, as well as multidimensional (pictorial) language, and parsing issues arising or viewed in a multimodal context. Authors who intend to submit a paper are invited to submit an abstract of approximately 300 words. Authors will be then notified how to submit a full paper, which will be reviewed by the program committee for acceptance. Time schedule: April 21, 1995: Abstract Due May 26, 1995: Full Paper Due June 26, 1995: Notification of Acceptance August 14, 1995: Final Manuscript Due Submission: abstracts should be submitted via email to: Harry.Bunt@kub.nl either in plain ascii format, in standard LaTeX, or in Postscript. Authors having any difficulty with electronic submission are advised to contact the general chair by phone: +31 13 66 30 60 or by fax: +31 13 66 25 37 (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), if not by email. General Chair: Harry Bunt Workshop Chair: Eva Hajicova Program Committee: Bernard Lang (chair) Makoto Nagao Robert Berwick Anton Nijholt Harry Bunt Yves Schabes Bob Carpenter Mark Steedman Ken Church Henry Thompson Eva Hajicova Masaru Tomita Arvind Joshi K. Vijay-Shanker Ronald Kaplan Yorick Wilks Martin Kay Kent Wittenburg --------------------------------------------------------------------- IWPT'95 REGISTRATION FORM --------------------------------------------------------------------- Name (family name): First name: Affiliation: Mailing address: E-mail: Telephone: Fax: I intend to submit a paper: yes no I want the accomodation package with single occupancy (310 USD) - double double occupancy (230 USD) - (please mark the required package by X) Comments: Date: Signature: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Participants should please send this registration form before APRIL 30 by email to brdickov@ufal.mff.cuni.cz, or else by fax or ordinary mail to: UFAL MFF UK c/o Mrs L. Brdickova Malostranske n. 25 11800 Praha 1 Czech Republic fax: ++42-2-532742 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- *-------------------------- Harry C. Bunt ------------------------+ * + * ITK, Instituut voor Taal- en Kennistechnologie * * Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence * * Tilburg University * * P.O. Box 90153 * * 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands * * Phone: +31 - 13 66.30.60 Fax: +31 - 13 66.25.37 * * bunt@kub.nl * +----------------------------- ITK -----------------------------+ From: Judy Koren Subject: Answer to your query on Humanist Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:41:13 +0300 (EET DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 465 (711) The library you're looking for is the Uncover database of CARL (the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries) -- telnet to database.carl.org, choose a terminal (usually vt100 = no.5 on their list), choose Uncover (no. 1 on the database list), press in reply to the next 4 questions, and you can search for free. Articles cost $8.50 plus whatever the copyright fee is, you need a fax machine that uses normal paper (not thermal) for good results if the article you order has any figures/graphs/graphics etc. in it. ------------------- Great service! Ron Kuzar, Haifa University, rhle702@research.haifa.ac.il From: MARCBRUN@IVEMARC.BITNET Subject: Date: 10 Apr 1995 14:27:30 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 466 (712) Subject: C O M U N I C A T O S T A M P A La Biblioteca Marciana di Venezia (Italia) e' presente alle celebrazioni per il nono centenario della riconsacrazione della basilica di san Marco con una mostra di libri di straordinario pregio e interesse. La mostra si tiene nel Salone e nell'Antisala della Libreria Sansoviniana (Piazza S. Marco, Venezia) ora parte della Biblioteca stessa. All'iniziativa partecipano la procuratoria della Chiesa di San Marco, l'Archivio di Stato di Venezia, il Capitolo di San Marco, l'Archivio Storico del Patriarcato di Venezia e il Civico Museo Correr. I libri esposti sono quelli che una recente ricerca ha consentito di riconoscere come appartenenti alla basilica di san Marco. In essi e' racchiusa la liturgia propria della basilica, in uso sino alla caduta della Repubblica di Venezia. Gli eventi del 1797 e degli anni successivi determinarono l'abbandono del rito marciano e la dispersione dei manoscritti che lo testimoniavano. Ora, grazie alle ricerche di Giulio cattin, il rito e' rivissuto, sia nella parte musicale che in quella piu' propriamente liturgica. Di grande importanza anche i risulutati della ricerca condotta da Giordana Mariani Canova e Susy Marcon circa la miniatura e la scrittura, le caratteristiche codicologiche e storico stilistiche dei manoscritti ritrovati. MOSTRA "I LIBRI DI SAN MARCO. I manoscritti liturgici della basilica marciana dal XII al XIX secolo". Inaugurazione: sabato 22 aprile alle ore 11.30. Aperta dal 24 aprile al 30 giugno 1995, orario: 9-13 (giorni feriali). Tel.041-5208788. Per avere il comunicato stampa completo, chiedere dell'Ufficio stampa: Dr.ssa ANNALISA BRUNI (interno:241). Oppure telefax: 041- 5238803. From: ene@argo.gslis.ucla.edu (Efthimis N. Efthimiadis) Subject: SIGIR-95: Revised Prelim. Program Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 09:37:28 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 467 (713) revised April 3, 1995 --------------------------------------- SIGIR '95 18th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval --------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Seattle, WA, USA July 9 - July 13, 1995 Sponsored by ACM SIGIR in cooperation with DD (Denmark) CEPIS-EIRSG (Europe) GI (Germany) AICA-GLIR (Italy) IPSJ (Japan) BCS-IRSG (UK) ------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: What follows is an abbreviated version of the conference program and registration information. FULL information, including descriptions of tutorials and workshops and all technical sessions, is available via anonymous ftp from: ftp.u.washington.edu (\public\sigir95\program) or via WWW at URL: http://info.sigir.acm.org/sigir/conferences/ SIGIR_95_adv.pgm.txt; or contact sigir95@u.washington.edu to request a copy of the program by mail. -------------------------------------------------------------- SIGIR'95 is an international research conference on information retrieval theory, systems, practice and applications. IR groups within the computing societies of Denmark, Europe, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom are cooperating sponsors. The conference will be valuable to those interested in the theory of information retrieval as well as those responsible for system design, testing and evaluation. Topics include distributed IR and the Internet, efficiency techniques, text summarization, natural language processing, fusion strategies, user studies, search interfaces, and education in IR. Attendees will learn about the underlying foundations for the emerging Global Information Infrastructure, which depends upon searching, browsing, publishing, indexing and other processing of text and multimedia information collections. Six pre-conference tutorials will cover both beginning and advanced topics. The main program consists of 40 contributed papers as well as two panel discussions, poster sessions, and demonstrations. The conference will be followed by five post-conference research workshops on topics of great current and general interest: visual information retrieval interfaces; Z39.50; IR and databases; curriculum development for IR; and automatic construction of hypermedia. ---------------------------------------- SIGIR'95 PROGRAM SYNOPSIS ---------------------------------------- SATURDAY July 8 A tour to Mount Rainier SUNDAY July 9 Tutorials: Introduction to Information Retrieval (Peter Willett and Peter Ingwersen) Query-Document Symmetry and Duality (Stephen Robertson) What Differences Are Significant? Statistical Analysis of IR Tests (Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, James Blustein, Paul Kantor) Evaluation of IR Systems (William Hersh, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu) Designing Information for the Computer Screen (Paul Kahn) Data Fusion in IR (Paul Kantor) Welcome reception MONDAY July 10 Newcomers breakfast Opening session (Chair: Raya Fidel) Opening remarks: Edward Fox Keynote address: Terry Winograd Six sessions of contributed papers: Distributed IR and the Internet (Chair: Paul Lindner) Efficiency Techniques (Chair: Peter Willett) Advanced Systems (Chair: IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg) Text Summarization (Chair: Karen Sparck-Jones) Integrating Structured and Unstructured Information (Chair: E. J. Yannakoudakis) Natural Language Processing (Chair: Haruo Kimoto) Poster session and demonstrations Evening reception TUESDAY July 11 Keynote address: Tefko Saracevic Panel session: Funding for IR Research (Chair: Efthimis Efthimiadis) Five sessions of contributed papers User Studies (Chair: Phil Smith) Fusion Strategies (Chair: Richard Tong) Search Interfaces (Chair: Maristella Agosti) Cognition and Association (Chair: Rik Belew) Automatic Classification (Chair: Ray Larson) Banquet at Microsoft campus WEDNESDAY July 12 Panel session: Education for IR (Chair: Kazem Taghva) Four sessions of contributed papers Text Categorization (Chair: Elizabeth D. Liddy) Retrieval Logic (Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani) Term Statistics (Chair: Donna Harman) Feedback Methods (Chair: Howard Turtle) ACM Sigir Annual General Meeting A tour and dinner at Tillicum Village THURSDAY July 13 Post-conference research workshops: VIRI: Visual Information Retrieval Interfaces Z39.50 and the IR Research Community Information Retrieval and Databases Curriculum Development in Computer Information Science IR and Automatic Construction of Hypermedia A tour to the University of Washington FRIDAY July 14 A tour to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada -------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION --------------------------------------- Conference Chair: Raya Fidel Graduate School of Library and Information Science, FM-30, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Program Chairs: (N and S America, Asia): Edward A. Fox Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106, USA. (Europe, Africa, Australia): Peter Ingwersen Royal School of Librarianship, Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. --------------------------------------- SIGIR'95 IN SEATTLE --------------------------------------- CONFERENCE HOTEL All sessions will be held at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel & Towers, 1400 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101. The hotel offered a special conference rate: Single occupancy $119.00 Double occupancy $139.00 Additional person $ 25.00 Room tax is 15.2% Reservations can be made by calling 1-800-204-6100 (or 1-206-621-9000) within the U.S., or by faxing a request for reservation to 1-206-621-8441. Reservation should be made by June 17 for the ACM/SIGIR'95 group rate. Reservations made after the deadline are subject to availability and may be billed at a higher rate. Cancellations made less than 48 hours prior to arrival will incur a charge for one night's lodging. Reservations need to be guaranteed by sending a first night's deposit or by a credit card. AIR TRAVEL TO SEATTLE Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is served by most major international airlines. Bus transportation and taxi service from the airport to the Seattle Sheraton are readily available. SIGIR'95 has secured a special discount agreement with United Airlines unavailable to the general public. An additional 5% discount off the lowest applicable fare for domestic flights will be offered when you or your travel agent call 1-800-521-4041 and refer to the Meeting ID Number 590TR. A 10% discount off the unrestricted mid-week coach fares is available when purchased 7 days in advance. The same discounts apply on "Shuttle by United." Reservations clerks are on duty 7 days a week, 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. EST. These convention discounts are valid between July 6 and July 16, 1995. GROUND TRANSPORTATION FROM SEATTLE-TACOMA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Readily available taxi service to the Seattle Sheraton costs approximately $30.00. Gray Line Airport shuttle costs $7.00 one way and $12.00 round-trip. The shuttle departs from the north and south end of the Baggage Claim level, approximately every 15 minutes, from 5:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight daily. --------------------------------------- SIGIR'95 REGISTRATION INFORMATION --------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FEES Conference Before May 29 After May 29 ACM or SIGIR Members $275.00 $325.00 Non Members (*) $330.00 $380.00 Full Time Student $110.00 $150.00 One Day Registration $125.00 $150.00 ___________________________________________________________ Tutorials ACM Members One tutorial $150.00 $225.00 Two tutorials $250.00 $440.00 Non Members One tutorial $200.00 $275.00 Two Tutorials $350.00 $500.00 Full Time Student One tutorial $100.00 $150.00 Two tutorials $150.00 $250.00 ____________________________________________________________ Workshops $ 45.00 $ 55.00 ____________________________________________________________ Additional Banquet Ticket $ 50.00 $ 50.00 ____________________________________________________________ Student Banquet Ticket $ 25.00 $ 25.00 ____________________________________________________________ Mount Rainier Tour $ 48.00 $ 48.00 ____________________________________________________________ Tillicum Village Tour and Dinner $ 52.00 $ 52.00 ____________________________________________________________ Victoria, BC Tour $ 98.00 $ 98.00 ____________________________________________________________ (*) You may join ACM and/or SIGIR now and receive the member registration rate. This will reduce your registration fee and make you a member for a year. Just add in the appropriate membership dues on the SIGIR'95 Registration Form _____________________________________________________________ Membership Dues ACM members: To add SIGIR to membership $ 20.00 Non members: To join ACM only (as an associate member) $ 82.00 To join SIGIR only $ 65.00 To join both ACM and SIGIR $102.00 Students: To join ACM only $ 25.00 To join both ACM and SIGIR $ 35.00 REGISTRATION INFORMATION -- Full Conference Registration (ACM Members, SIGIR members or Non Members) includes attendance at all technical sessions, proceedings, conference banquet, lunch at the SIGIR Annual General Meeting, and two receptions. Student registration does not include the conference banquet. Additional banquet tickets are available for $50.00. A limited number of banquet tickets are available to full-time student attendees for $25.00. Additional copies of the proceedings and the tutorial notes will be on sale at the conference. -- Conference registration does not include tours. -- Conference registration does not include participation in tutorials or workshops. -- The ACM member rate is available to members of ACM, SIGIR, and the European and Japanese co-operating societies. The student rate is available to full-time students only. -- All payments must be made in U.S. funds or charged to Visa, MasterCard or American Express. -- No refunds for cancellations after June 9. A $25.00 handling fee will be charged for cancellations received before June 9. -- Hotel reservations should be made directly with the Seattle Sheraton Hotel & Towers. Details are provided above. Cut here: _____________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------- SIGIR'95 REGISTRATION FORM --------------------------------------- 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Seattle, July 9 - July 13 Please use block letters or type, and tick where appropriate __ Mr. __ Ms. __ Dr. __ Prof. Other: ______ LAST NAME:________________ FIRST NAME:_______________________ BADGE NAME (if different): __________________________________ COMPANY/ORGANIZATION:________________________________________ ADDRESS:_____________________________________________________ CITY:__________________ STATE:______ ZIP CODE: __________ COUNTRY:_______________ PHONE: ( ___ )____________________ FAX: ( ___ ) _______________ EMAIL: ________________________ __ Check if this will be your first SIGIR conference CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: FEES: __ ACM Member __ Nonmember __ Student __ One Day Registration: M T W (please circle one) REGISTRATION: $ ________________ Membership: __ ACM __ SIGIR MEMBERSHIP: $_________________ Tutorials: AM: __ Intro __ Query __ Statistics PM: __ Eval __ Design __ Fusion TUTORIALS: $ ________________ Workshops: __ VIRI __ Z39.50 __ IR & DB __ Curriculum __ Hypermedia WORKSHOPS: $ ________________ Special Events: Additional banquet tickets (how many): ___ For (Names): ________________________ BANQUET: $ _______________ Mount Rainier Tour (how many):___ Tillicum Village Tour (how many): ___ Victoria, BC Tour (how many): ___ TOURS: $_________________ TOTAL $ ________________ DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL NEEDS? Please explain: ___________________________________________________________ METHOD OF PAYMENT (US Currency only): __ Check payable to ACM/SIGIR95 __ Credit card (Visa, MC, AMEX) ____________________________________ Credit card number, expiration date ______________________________________ Signature, date (I authorize to charge my account fees indicated above) Return Registration Form by May 29 to qualify for early registration. Use fax or email (credit card payment) or mail (check or credit card) to: SIGIR95 c/o Convention Services Northwest 1809 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1414 Seattle, WA 98101 USA Fax: +1 206-292-0559 Email: SIGIR95@aol.com Registration queries to: +1 206-292-9198 (Ask for Sarah Amendola) ______________________________________________________________ Efthimis N. Efthimiadis Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Graduate School of Education & Information Studies University of California at Los Angeles 241 GSE&IS Building, 152003 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 tel: 310-825-8975; fax: 310-206-4460; email: efthimis@gslis.ucla.edu From: CDAVIS@brookes.ac.uk (Caroline Davis) Subject: M.A. in Electronic Media, Oxford Brookes University, UK Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 11:21:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 468 (714) ******************************************* *** All replies to CDAVIS@BROOKES.AC.UK *** ******************************************* M.A. in Electronic Media The School of Visual Arts, Music and Publishing, Oxford Brookes University has an international reputation for its expertise in electronic media. Students in the School have access to state-of-the-art technology on a wide range of courses from electronic music and computer generated art to electronic publishing. From September 1995 the School will be operating from new premises with purpose-designed studios and other excellent facilities. With technology playing an ever more important role in all forms of the creative arts and publishing, the School is therefore delighted to announce the launch of an exciting and innovative new M.A. in Electronic Media, starting in September 1995. About the Course -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Designed in response to feedback from students, academics and industry, this course is intended to enable students successfully to integrate electronic media in their chosen studies and profession -- whether as publisher, artist or musician. The course, the first of its kind in the UK, will enable students to: * Demonstrate an understanding of theory relevant to electronic media * Master the concepts and practices of digital text, image and sound manipulation, and multimedia and hypertext authoring * Practise as an artist, composer or publisher, exploring the potential for the integration of the existing and emerging technology The full M.A. course will require the student to undertake ten units of study. There are six compulsory units. Two are taught courses: an introductory unit of Concepts and Applications of Electronic Media and a single unit on Integrating Electronic Media. Additionally students must complete a dissertation which also counts as a single unit and a research project which counts as a triple unit. The remaining four units will be chosen from taught modules on Electronic Music, Electronic Text, The Digital Image, Multimedia Publishing, Principles and Practices of Multimedia Design, Computer Music and Time-based Media. The course may also be taken as a Postgraduate Diploma, in which case students will undertake the two compulsory taught units and four of the optional units. Modes of Study -=-=-=-=-=-=-= The M.A. and PgDip can be studied full-time over one year (48 weeks) or part-time over two years. Entrants to the course will normally be graduates who have knowledge and understanding of fields or disciplines relevant to the course. Entry to the course will be possible if applicants who are not graduates in a relevant area can demonstrate through interview and portfolio submission that they have experience and knowledge at an appropriate level. All entrants must also demonstrate an appropriate level of computer literacy. Course Fees -=-=-=-=-=-=- Provisional fees are as follows:- Full-time student: #3950 (a number of bursaries of #1000 are available for students who are not receiving any external financial support) Full-time overseas student: #5950 Further details and applications -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=- The course is currently subject to validation by the University and all information is therefore provisional. For further information please contact: The Course Administrator - Electronic Media School of Visual Arts, Music & Publishing Oxford Brookes University Gipsy Lane Oxford OX3 0BP Great Britain Tel: 01865-483461 Fax: 01865-483013 E-Mail: CDAVIS@BROOKES.AC.UK From: chopin@world.kaist.ac.kr (Chopin) Subject: call for papers Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:05:12 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 469 (715) --------------------------- CFP ------------------------------------------ NLPRS '95 - CALL FOR PAPER Third Natural Language Processing Pacific-Rim Symposium Seoul, Korea December 4-6, 1995 NLPRS'95, which will be held from December 4-6, 1995 in Seoul, Korea, is the third forums to bring together NLP researchers in the Pacific-Rim area for scientific exchange and presentation. The program will include tutorials, invited talks, and demonstrations as well as tracks for paper and video presentations. NLPRS95 is organized jointly by: SIG-KLC(Korean Language Computing) of KISS (Korean Information Science Society) SIG-NLP of IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) In cooperation with The Linguistic Society of Korea The Korean Society for Cognitive Science TOPICS OF INTEREST: Submissions are solicited on original and previously unpublished research in all aspects of NLP, including, but not limited to: phonetics generation phonology parsing morphology machine(-aided)translation syntax linguistic models of natural language semantics natural language interface and dialog systems pragmatics language-oriented information retrieval discourse corpus-based language modelling PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers of no longer than 6 pages in the double-column conference format should be submitted by 20th June, 1995. We strongly encourage papers to be electronically submitted. In this case, they should be in either LaTeX format or plain text, and should be emailed to : nlprs95@cair.kaist.ac.kr If electronic submission is not possible, three hard copies of the paper should be sent to: Mr. J.M. KIM NLPRS'95 Secretariat Foreign Tourist Dept II Hanjin Travel Service Co.,Ltd.(Conference Agency) 132-4, 1-ka, Bongrae-dong, Chung-ku, 100-161, Seoul, Korea Phone:+82-2-726-5540, Fax:+82-2-773-1623 DEADLINES: Paper Submission: June 20, 1995 Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 1995 Camera Ready Copy Due: September 30, 1995 ACCOMMODATIONS: Hotel Sofitel Ambassador is designated for the Symposium accommodation. Room rate is specially reduced as US$100.-/night approximately for single, double or twin type. The above rate includes 10% service charge & 10% VAT, but it does not include breakfast. Hotel reservation should be made through the Secretariat. The WWW version of this CFP is also avaiable at: URL:http//cair.kaist.ac.kr/~nlprs95/NLPRS95.html From: Bryn Mawr Reviews Subject: the listowner's life Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 21:42:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 370 (716) As editor of BMCR/BMMR, I see a lot of mail about undeliverable issues, subscription requests, etc. Today I had a rather testy note from somebody saying, please let me off this list, I don't even know how I got here! So I fixed the problem and sent him a note discreetly pointing out that he must have sent a subscribe message to our server. Here's his reply: [deleted quotation] A free lifetime subscription to e-BMR to anybody who can figure out how unsubbing Queernation gets you onto BMR! From: "Dr. Mary A. Burke, DepLIS, UCD" Subject: Definition of Humanities Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 15:01:50 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 371 (717) Hello Humanist Members, I am interested in hearing your definition of the Humanities, as I am examining the extent to which "Library and Information Studies" is a humanities subject. I would welcome both personal views and references to formal published statements. Many thanks for your interest. Mary Burke |-------------------------------------------------------- | | Dr. Mary A. Burke | Head of Department | Department of Library and Information Studies (DepLIS) | University College Dublin (UCD) | Belfield | Dublin 4 | Ireland | | Tel. +353 1 7067799; Fax. +353 1 7061161 | Internet Email Address: MABURKE@OLLAMH.UCD.IE | |-------------------------------------------------------- From: cbf@lola.lllf.uam.es ( Charles Faulhaber ) Subject: Re: 8.0458 Qs: Invisible Seattle; US Mills; Mac S/W; German E-Mail Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 09:47:13 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 471 (718) Re Slide Cataloguing Contact the Museum Informatics Project at UC Berkeley. Unfortunately I have no e-mail address, but I expect that information can be found through gopher. Charles Faulhaber From: Harry Hahne Subject: Library Master 3.0 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 20:04:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 472 (719) LIBRARY MASTER 3.0 is here! Simplify your writing with automatic bibliographies and footnotes, duplicate detection, global search and replace and much more! LIBRARY MASTER 3.0 is a powerful, flexible and easy to use bibliographic and textual database manager. It automatically produces bibliographies, footnotes and citations for your paper, thesis or book. Organize research notes and project records. Manage catalogs of books, periodicals and audio-visuals. LIBRARY MASTER 3.0 now provides automatic footnote and citation formatting, duplicate record detection, global search and replace, advanced sorting, abbreviation tables and importing from dozens of new sources. Over 100 new features will save you days on your next writing project. Create Bibliographic Footnotes and Citations Effortlessly LIBRARY MASTER 3.0 automatically formats the footnotes or in-text citations in your book, thesis or article. It reads your document and creates a final bibliography of the works you actually cite. LIBRARY MASTER can format documents for most Windows and DOS word processors, including WordPerfect, Ami Pro, Microsoft Word, Nota Bene, WordStar, XYWrite and PC Write. For footnote users, LIBRARY MASTER 3.0 will save you hours on every paper you write. Never again worry about the differences between citation styles for footnotes and bibliographies. LIBRARY MASTER 3.0 formats the first and succeeding references to a work differently and even uses "ibid." if your style manual requires it. Save Data Entry Time and Hassle LIBRARY MASTER 3.0 makes it easier to maintain the information in your database: * Global Search and Replace quickly changes the contents of a group of records. * Copy an entire record as a model for another record. It is easy to enter several articles in an anthology or several books in a series. * Abbreviations are automatically converted into full entries. Simply type "JACS" and "Journal of the American Chemical Society" is entered in the periodical field for you! * Find duplicate records in your database. Combine abstracts and subjects from several records. You can specify the combination of fields that qualify as duplicate records. * Press a single key to copy a citation to the Windows clipboard. Paste it into your document with your word processor. * Easy-to-use named macros simplify repetitious tasks. Dozens of predefined macros save you time. A macro editor makes it easy to modify and debug the most complex macros. * New Record Types let you catalog proceedings, patents, maps and musical scores. * Mark a group of records while browsing to create a bibliography on the fly. Create Accurate and Flexible Bibliographies Version 3.0 expands the powerful report creation flexibility of LIBRARY MASTER even further: * Create bibliographies in dozens of styles, including new styles such as American Antiquity, American Institute of Physics, IEEE, Journal of Marketing, Nature, Science and Society of Biblical Literature. * Report use abbreviation tables to automatically change field entries to standard abbreviations. Define your own abbreviations or use thousands of predefined journal abbreviations. Use abbreviations on any fields you choose: journal, author role, publisher and more. * Bibliographies are properly formatted down to the fine details: Add a letter to the year (1994a) for citations with the same author and date. Abbreviate or use the full author role: "ed." or "editor". Page numbering is converted to the proper form. * Sort reports more accurately: Use up to 5 sort fields. Sort anonymous works properly. Sort on Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal call numbers. * Group books, journal articles, patents and other materials in separate separate sections of your bibliography. Import from Dozens of New Sources LIBRARY MASTER 3.0 makes importing even more versatile and accurate: * Importing is integrated into the main LIBRARY MASTER program. Easily browse and edit new records as soon as they are imported. * Import filters are provided for dozens of new CD-ROMs, online services and online library catalogs. Import from nearly 100 sources at no extra cost! * Automatically move subfields to the appropriate LIBRARY MASTER fields with supplied macros. For example, move the journal, volume, issue, date and pages from the SO field in DIALOG into separate fields. LIBRARY MASTER 3.0 runs on any IBM PC-compatible computer with 512K memory. Microsoft Windows compatible. The network version runs on most networks, including Novell Netware, Lantastic and Windows NT Advanced Server. Introductory Discounts on LIBRARY MASTER 3.0 For a limited time you can purchase the single-user version of LIBRARY MASTER 3.0 for only $149.95 U.S. ($199.95 Cnd). Students can purchase a copy for personal use for only $124.95 ($174.95 Cnd), with proof of student status. You can purchase the 5-user network version for only $524.95 U.S. ($734.95 Cnd). This special offer ends May 31, 1995. For a more detailed information or a free demonstration version of LIBRARY MASTER 3.0, send email to hahne@epas.utoronto.ca or contact: Balboa Software 5845 Yonge St., P.O. Box 69539 Willowdale, Ont. M2M 4K3 Canada ORDERS: 800-SOFT-LIB (800-763-8542) SUPPORT: 416-730-8980 FAX: 416-730-9715 EMAIL: hahne@epas.utoronto.ca LISTSERV: libmastr@acadvm1.uottawa.ca FTP: uwovax.uwo.ca in the directory \LIBSOFT\LIB_MASTER From: traister@pobox.upenn.edu (Daniel Traister) Subject: Irish research fellowship Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:30:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 473 (720) The following announcement is cross-posted at the request of the ASECS trustees whose names appear in it just before the application form. It may be cross-posted again to any list in which there may be an interested audience. Please contact *the trustees*--*NOT ME*--for any additional information you may require. Daniel Traister Department of Special Collections Van Pelt-Dietrich Library University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 American Society for 18th-Century Studies IRISH-AMERICAN RESEARCH TRAVEL FUND 1995-1996 award At the annual meeting next spring in Austin, ASECS will announce the winner of its inaugural Irish research fellowship, carrying a stipend of $1000. Applications are solicited. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 1 Nov. 1995 PURPOSE: To support documentary research in Irish repositories, both in the Republic of Ireland and the North, by American-based scholars of Ireland in the period 1691-1800. (In future the award will alter- nate with Irish-based scholars seeking to travel to North America.) RESTRICTIONS: None by age, sex, race, religion, or academic rank. None by academic discipline or sub-period of specialization within 18th-century Ireland. Winner must be a member of ASECS and resident in North America. The fellowship is meant for documentary scholars whose research centers on primary sources from the 18th century (printed matter, manuscripts, buildings, works of art, or other artifacts) rather than on the secondary literature already extant. -------------------------------------------------------------------- G R A N T A P P L I C A T I O N F O R M Please complete, print out in triplicate, and return before 1 Nov. 1995 to either of the trustees listed below. Allow some amplitude in answering questions 6 and (especially) 7, but keep overall printout length within 2 or 2 1/2 pages single-spaced. At this stage, NO further documentation should be forwarded. Alexandra Mason A. C. Elias, Jr. Spencer Librarian 318 West Highland Avenue Kenneth Spencer Research Library Philadelphia, PA 19118-3731 University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045-2800 1. NAME: 2. ADDRESS: (Include phone, e-mail, fax.) 3. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: 4. CURRENT POSITION: 5. PUBLICATIONS: (Include dissertation topic when appropriate.) 6. CURRENT RESEARCH: (Please describe the project for which you seek support. How far advanced is it? Is it a collaborative venture?) 7. DETAILS OF PROPOSED VISIT TO IRELAND: (Please give itinerary, indicate the libraries, archives, or other repositories to be visited, and detail the print, MS, or other materials to be consulted. How did you learn they are there?) 8. REFERENCE: (Please give the name, title and address, including phone, e-mail and fax details when known, of one or two references who may be approached to support this application.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: electronic publishing: how is it done? Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 12:10:34 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 474 (721) This is a fact- and opinion-gathering query about electronic publishing. Lately I have been thinking about how electronic publishing might best be done within academic institutions. I would very much like to hear from anyone with actual experience and some ideas about the immediate future. The most difficult question, it seems, is what kind of model to use: what are the institutional pieces and how are they put together? Clearly there are pieces that usually fall within the domain of computing centres (software tools, technical support); others usually belong to university presses and outside publishers; others are administrative (coordination, legal advice, negotiations); still others involve the faculty, where the things to be published tend to originate. Anyone who looks around the Internet these days can spot some good examples. Most of these, I suspect, have come into being through a great deal of ad hoc effort from individuals who have seen that something needs doing, so they have simply done it. Now that we are all convinced this is a good thing, how do we institutionalize it in a way that preserves the revolutionary and very positive aspects of autonomous online publication while not overburdening the few people who know how and care that it is done? If I am manifesting great ignorance and naivete, please be patient and send along your wisdom. I will be most grateful. I guess that replies would be of interest to many people, so perhaps they should all be sent directly to Humanist rather than only to me. Thanks very much. WM Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Joseph Jones Subject: Academic Electronic Publishing Date: Sat, 22 Apr 95 12:30:07 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 372 (722) Willard McCarty's query about academic electronic publishing mentions (in the order given here) four "institutional pieces": computing centres, university presses, administrative support, faculty. This focus on means of production and distribution seems rooted in present print culture. I find it odd that the library receives no mention whatsoever. Whether the medium is paper or plastic or electrons, the content will have to be acquired, organized, stored, preserved, and made available. Disintermediation may be contemplated, but libraries have been around considerably longer than computing centers or university presses. Sorry I do not have any kind of receipe to put forward. I just wanted to get in a word for a missing ingredient. Joseph Jones jjones@unixg.ubc.ca University of British Columbia Library From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: e-publishing: the missing Library Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 16:32:19 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 373 (723) My thanks to Joseph Jones for sending me separately his note in which he points out my striking omission of the Library in the equation for cooperative e-publishing. I was actually wondering how the Library might put all the other existing pieces together. I agree, it is the natural centre for such activity. Any other obvious omissions? I'd be happy to get some working formulas, though I suspect there is no one formula that will work everywhere. A number of them might, however, give us some ideas about what we could try. Precedents are also useful in convincing those who need convincing. WM Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: PROF NORM COOMBS Subject: Adaptive Telecast Deadline is Approaching Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 15:34:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 476 (724) The satellite telecast described below on the topic of adaptive computer technology is rapidly approaching. May 4 is the deadline after which you will be charged a late registration fee. Our program development is moving ahead, and I am pleased at our progress. I believe you will find this a worthwhile investment of your time and your institution's funds.20 2E................... Norman Coombs, Ph.D. 20 Professor of History Rochester Institute of Technology Chair, EASI Equal Access to Software and Information EASI www url http://www.rit.edu/~easi 2E................... ****** Note: For further information, contact PBS in the ways listed below. ****** "CREATING A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES: Liberating People with Disabilities Through Adaptive Technology" Live Via Satellite and Closed Captioned May 18, 1995 2:30-4:30 pm ET Standard Fee: $295 ALSS/TBC: $195 Late fee: 09 $25 (after May 4, 1995) Produced by: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Sponsored by: RIT, PBS, AAHE Project EASI Printed program resource materials are included in fee. Registration info follows at the end of this message. Adaptive technology has the potential to remove obstacles to social access and employment for persons with disabilities. Such equipment can empower People to help themselves, yet fear of disabilities and ignorance of technology can hinder the use of adaptive technology. This videoconference will not only review the hardware and software that is now or soon to be available, but will also examine ways to overcome barriers to their use. New ADA regulations make this topic a must for all who are trying to comply. Given the constant changes and updates in the technology available for persons with disabilities, this direct satellite telecast can bring the latest information to your community like no other medium. Users and providers of adaptive technology will gain information about new government regulations relative to the ADA and will learn how to plan and fund acquisition of equipment, the reasons to adapt, and what the future holds for adaptive technology. Those who will want to attend include: A5 personnel directors, managers and staff A5 ADA compliance managers and staff A5 special services coordinators and staff A5 computing managers and computer lab assistants librarians and library staff legal counselors higher education faculty principals and administrators k-12 special education teachers anyone interested in how the technology can help persons wi= th ANY 09 09kind of disability PANELISTS Norman Coombs has been teaching history at the Rochester Institute of Technology since 1961 and is a leader in using computer mediated communication to mainstream physically disabled teachers and learners. Professor Coombs, who is blind, was recently named chair of Project EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information, a project of the American Association for Higher Education. Deborah Kaplan is vice president of the World Institute on Disability and director of its Division on Technology Policy. Under her leadership, the agency has initiated WIDnet, a national computer-based bulletin board and database service on disability policy. In 1976 Ms. Kaplan founded the Disability Rights Center in Washington, D.C. and served as executive director for four years. Harry J. Murphy is founder and director of the Center on Disabilities at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). He is the former assistant director of the National Center on Deafness and former director of the Office of Disabled Student Services at CSUN. He also founded and directs the world's largest conference on "Technology and Persons with Disabilities", held each March in Los Angeles. Lawrence Scadden is senior program director for the National Science Foundation's Program for Persons with Disabilities. This program develops and supports research and educational projects that promote full inclusion and participation of individuals with disabilities in science, math, engineering, and technology education. Ramon Rodriguez is director/liaison officer for theOffice of Special Institutions in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. He is responsible for program analysis, evaluation and improvement; policy interpretation; adult continuing education; and programs for children and youth with disabilities. Gregg Vanderheiden is director of the Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a rehabilitation engineering research center focusing on access to communication, computer, and information systems. He is also an associate professor in the industrial engineering department and past president of RESNA. Bob Smith, moderator, is a host and producer of two WXXI radio talk shows in Rochester, NY: "1370 Connection with Bob Smith" and "Computers and Technology." OBJECTIVES This videoconference will give your participants a chance to: Find out how adaptive technology can empower persons with disabilities in school, work and personal life. Discover how institutions, organizations and corporations deliver better services for people with disabilities through adaptive technology Understand the benefits of adaptive technology for their organizations. Understand the laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, that could affect their organization's use of adaptive technology. Learn how to plan and fund acquisition of adaptive technology. Discuss some of the social barriers to the use of technology. Find out about resources for learning about adaptive technology. Hear about cutting-edge research and development projects that indicate the near future of adaptive technology. REGISTRATION To receive information on how to register and obtain a license agreement, please contact: PBS Adult Learning Satellite Service 1320 Braddock Place Alexandria, VA 22314-1698 1-800-257-2578 (phone) 703-739-8495 or 703-739-0775 (FAX) From: krshnbtt Subject: Please post: NYU in Cracow, application deadline extended (fwd) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 15:26:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 477 (725) NYU IN CRACOW APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 15 NYU in Cracow is a 5 week summer program on The Modern History and Experience of Jews in Eastern Europe, organized in conjunction with the Jagiellonian University (founded in 1364). Both undergraduate and graduate students can choose from a selection of courses that include Introduction to Yiddish Folklore and Ethnography (taught by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett), East European Government and Politics (Jan Gross), Modern History of East European Jewry (David Engel and Stephen Zipperstein), The Holocaust:Destruction of European Jewry (Christopher Browning), Yiddish Literary Landscapes (David Roskies), History of Jews in Poland (Piotr Wrobel), and language courses in Yiddish and Polish, The program runs from July 3 to August 4, 1995. Four weeks are spent in Cracow and there is a one week study tour of Jewish Galicia. Students take two courses for 8 points of undergraduate or graduate credit. They will be housed in the modern dormitories provided by the Jagiellonian University, Classes will be held in a beautifully renovated nineteenth-century prayer house in the old Jewish quarter of Cracow. Special excursions to the ancient Wieliczka salt mine (a UNESCO designated cultural treasure) and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp have been arranged. An open house for prospective students will be held on Monday May 8, 1995 at 6 Washington Square North, Room 101, at 5:00 pm. To request a brochure or RSVP for the Open house call 212 998-8175. For further information, please contact: Jonathan Lipman, 6 Washington Square North 212-998-8018 * lipmanj@acfcluster.nyu.edu From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries Subject: Re: 8.0474 Opinions Sought: E-Publishing (1/35) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 12:47:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 478 (726) Electronic publishing in academic institutions: two obvious beginnings to check out are Project Muse at Johns Hopkins Univ., and the MIT pilot project between the Press, computing and libraries to publish an ejournal (no print) in computing science research. --pg Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)445-5908; fax (908)445-5888 http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/pghome.html> From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: e-publishing: cautionary tales Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 17:54:02 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 374 (727) The New York Times for 25 April, page B10, features a funny and interesting review article by Stephen Manes, "User-Friendliness: Book vs. Disk", comparing a Sierra Club book, "Material World: A Global Family Portrait" with its CD counterpart, "Material World" from Starpress Multimedia. The CD comes out the worse: apparently its fatal flaw is the not uncommon marriage of highly imitative design with unsupportable claims for the superiority of the medium over the book. I would likely get in trouble with the Times were I to reproduce the article in full here, so I must urge you to read it on paper. The reviewer compares the two media, feature for feature, concluding with the remark that, "The book does not come with a number you can call for technical help." Of course we have a long way to go with the technology. Perhaps one day we will have a machine with which one can curl up in bed comfortably or on which one can peruse a novel while soaking in the tub. We should all be prepared to admit that technology does progress, and if we want badly enough to have a mechanical reading assistant that is good in bed or in the tub, we will probably get one. (Anyone familiar with the history of automata will know that such assistants, though for different purposes, have been available for many centuries.) The real point here, however, is the stupidity of blind imitation exacerbated by these jump-on-the-bandwagon claims. Ok, so now our nextdoor neighbours as well as our academic colleagues have awoken to the machine. No more need for exaggerations, if there ever was. To quote Yaacov Choueka (1988, ALLC Jerusalem): "The tools are here. Where are the results?" Today I was in a meeting with a major publisher and some former students, whose multimedia project is being seriously considered. The publisher remarked, after our assurance that we were aware of the problem, that he now regularly receives and rejects CD and multimedia projects of the kind reviewed in the Times. Good sign. All of this is certainly not to suggest that any of us would attempt thoughtlessly to imitate the book. Rather the opposite. Our projects in electronic publishing, of which there are not a few, are badly needed as examples of what can be done well. Humanists are people of the book and word and picture. It's time to go public with our publications, give lectures, write letters to editors, and so forth. Comments? WM Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: cbf@lola.lllf.uam.es ( Charles Faulhaber ) Subject: Re: 8.0478 R: Academic E-Publishing (1/10) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 01:25:07 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 375 (728) Peter Graham's note reminds me of another similar project, Red Sage, at UC San Francisco, which is a collaborative effort with several leading publishers of scientific journals, in particular. The project is also centered in the UCSF library. Charles Faulhaber From: "CLAIRE GABRIEL" Subject: Academic E-Publishing Date: 25 Apr 95 10:06:51 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 376 (729) An additional site to investigate regarding academic e-publishing is one I recently saw demonstrated by Gail McMillan at the ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) conference: the Scholarly Communications Project at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. This site allows access to nine journals, most of which are also distributed in traditional paper format, as well as other publications, including the Virginia News Archive and a Digital Image Collection from the University Libraries Special Collections. Text files are available in HTML, ASCII, or Adobe Acrobat and can be searched via WAIS for full-text access. URLS are as follows: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ gopher://scholar.lib.vt.edu:70/ ftp://scholar.lib.vt.edu ------------------------- Claire Gabriel Bobst Library New York University (212) 998-2514 gabriel@is.nyu.edu From: "S.A.Rae " Subject: electronic publishing: how is it done? Date: 28 Apr 1995 12:32:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 377 (730) I got this note from owner-newjour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu about a new Ejournal to be called HyperJournal - useful perhaps? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ANNOUNCING HYPERJOURNAL ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WHAT IS HYPERJOURNAL? Hyperjournal is a discussion list devoted exclusively to electronic journals, especially those which publish on the World Wide Web. It is concerned with all aspects of the production and publication of electronic journals, particularly those managed by academics themselves. WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF HYPERJOURNAL? Electronic journals are in the vanguard of the electronic publishing revolution and the pace of change is rapid. Hyperjournal will provide information on the latest developments and act as a forum for the discussion of new ideas. Its overall aim is to promote the development and use of electronic journals among Higher Education professionals. The list is based in the UK and will provide a European perspective. WHO SHOULD SUBSCRIBE TO HYPERJOURNAL? Academics Computing Personnel Learned Societies Librarians Multimedia Specialists Publishers Researchers In short ... anyone interested in electronic publishing in an academic environment. WHAT SORT OF TOPICS WILL BE DISCUSSED? This is up to the list members, but obvious topics for consideration include: -pros and cons of electronic publishing -practical questions about how to set up and run an electronic journal -editorial considerations -the concept of the academic "paper" in a hypermedia environment -peer review -copyright -cutting the cost of periodicals in libraries -archiving, retrieval, and access for the end user -electronic journals and the Research Assessment Exercise etc etc HOW DO I SUBSCRIBE? Send an email message as follows: To: Mailbase@mailbase.ac..uk Subject: ------------------------------------------ Join hyperjournal-forum Firstname Lastname Example: Join hyperjournal-forum Michael Fox [End of Announcement] From: emls@arts.ubc.ca (R. G. Siemens, Editor, EMLS) Subject: EMLS 1.1 Now Available! Date: Mon, 1 May 95 14:55:03 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 480 (731) *** Would you please forward the following announcement to HUMANIST participants? Thank you. *** May 1, 1995. [This message will be cross-posted; please excuse duplication] EMLS 1.1 Now Available! We are pleased to announce the release of Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Volume 1, Number 1 (April 1995). The journal is available now on the WWW via our home page, at http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/emlshome.html On May 5, an ASCII text version of EMLS will be made available to our electronic mail subscribers and those readers using GOPHER. EMLS 1.1 will be available via GOPHER at edziza.arts.ubc.ca /english/EMLS To subscribe to the version of EMLS that is distributed through electronic mail, please send a message including your name, affiliation, and electronic mail address to Subscribe_EMLS@arts.ubc.ca. ----------- Contents of EMLS Volume 1, Number 1 (April 1995): - Frontmatter: - Publishing Information, Journal Availability, EMLS Contact Addresses - Editorial Group - Submission Information - Citing Materials Appearing in EMLS - Foreword: - Early Modern Literary Studies: An Editor's Prefatory Statement. [1]. Raymond G. Siemens, University of British Columbia. - Articles: - Skelton and Barclay, Medieval and Modern. [2]. David R. Carlson, University of Ottawa. - King Lear in its Own Time: The Difference that Death Makes. [3]. Ben Ross Schneider, Jr. Lawrence University. - "This innocent worke": Adam and Eve, John Smith, William Wood and the North American Plantations. [4]. Graham Roebuck, McMaster University. - Milton and the Jacobean Church of England. [5]. Daniel W. Doerksen, University of New Brunswick. - Reviews: - Christopher Marlowe. The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Vol. 3): Edward II. Ed. Richard Rowland. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. [6]. Robert Lindsey, Oriel College, Oxford. - John Gillies. Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 4. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. [7]. Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia. - Nigel Smith. Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1994. [8]. Christopher Orchard, Lynchburg College, VA. - Alison Findlay. Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance Drama. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994. [9]. Sonia Nolten, Oriel College, Oxford. - Harold Love. Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993. [10]. Margaret Downs-Gamble, Virginia Tech, VA. - World Wide Web Resources for Early Modern Studies, 1500-1700: A Survey of Select Textual Resources. [11]. Perry Willett, Indiana University. - Reviewing Information and Books Received for Review - Professional Note: - A Textbase of Early Tudor English. [12]. Greg Waite (Editor in Chief), University of Otago. ----------- Early Modern Literary Studies is a refereed journal in electronic form which serves both as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from a variety of perspectives; well-considered responses to published papers are also published as part of a Readers' Forum. Reviews in EMLS evaluate recent work in the area as well as academic tools of interest to scholars in the field. Our Internet site also gathers and maintain links to useful on-line resources. EMLS (ISSN 1201-2459) is published three times a year for the on-line academic community by the University of British Columbia's English Department, with the support of the University's Library and Arts Computing Centre. Raymond G. Siemens Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies, Department of English, University of British Columbia, #397 - 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z1. From: lngmec@admin.ac.edu (Margaret Cheney) Subject: Writers' Conference Featuring Galway Kinnell Date: Fri, 28 Apr 95 0:11:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 481 (732) 20th Annual Sandhills Writers' Conference May 11-13, 1995 Augusta College, Augusta, GA, USA Keynote Speaker: Poet Galway Kinnell Keynote Address: 11 a.m., Thursday, May 11, Performing Arts Theater, Augusta College--free and open to the public Other participating writers: Angela Ball Suzanne Comer Bell William Bloodworth Janice Daugharty Scott Ely Anthony Kellman Amadou Kone' Nick Taylor Ellen Bryant Voigt This writers' conference combines workshops in fiction, poetry, children's literature, non-fiction, and playwriting, with readings by the featured authors and poets. The featured writers will also hold individual conferences with attendees to give evaulations of the attendees' submitted manuscripts. All readings are free and open to the public. Conference registration is still open. For more information, a fee schedule, and a conference brochure by snail mail, contact the Augusta College Division of Continuing Education at (706) 737-1636. Margaret E. Cheney Instructor Department of Languages, Literature and Communications Augusta College Augusta, GA mcheney@admin.ac.edu From: elinorl@mcn.org (Elinor Lindheimer) Subject: meeting announcement Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 13:43:02 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 482 (733) ANNOUNCEMENT: INDEXING IN A SHRINKING WORLD The American Society of Indexers (ASI) and the Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada/Societe canadienne pour l'analyse de documents (IASC/SCAD) announce a three-day conference to be held jointly, June 8-10, 1995, at the Delta Montreal Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This will be the 27th annual meeting of ASI and the 17th annual meeting of IASC/SCAD. Information about workshop, roundtable and conference prices and registration information appear at the end of this announcement. The conference will consist of the following: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS (limited 40 participants each) THURSDAY JUNE 8, 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. 1. BASIC PERIODICAL INDEXING Susan Klement, Freelance Indexer and Indexing Instructor, Tucson, Arizona; Past President, IASC/SCAD Designed for beginning or intermediate indexers, this workshop will present basic techniques for open-system indexing, emphasizing differences from closed-system (back-of-the-book) indexing. Hands-on practice will feature the NEW YORK TIMES. 2. CONSTRUCTION OF BILINGUAL THESAURI Michele Hudon, Freelance Indexer and Thesaurus Designer; Toronto, Ontario; Past President, IASC/SCAD The workshop will include techniques and practice in constructing thesauri for use in bilingual situations, no matter what the language. THURSDAY JUNE 8, 1:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. 1. WHAT MAKES A WILSON-AWARD QUALITY INDEX? Dorothy Thomas, Past President, ASI; New York One of the original Wilson Award Committee will lead you through the elements of judging quality indexes. Discussion will include current standards, reviews of indexes good and bad, and suggestions for revision of standards. For intermediate and advanced indexers. 2. SMOOTH SAILING: CHARTING THE WATERS OF INDEXER-PUBLISHER RELATIONS Alexandra Nickerson, Freelance Indexer, ASI Board Member; Cincinnati, Ohio AND Mary Rose Muccie, Managing Editor, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania This workshop will cover strategies for finding new clients, editors' expectations of indexers, negotiating rates and schedules, maintaining a positive working relationship, problem resolution, and other aspects of indexer-editor communication. It will be valuable to indexers and editors will all levels of experience. FRIDAY JUNE 9, 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. 1. THE INTERNET: MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU Phyllis Levine, Team Leader/Technical Information Specialist, Reference and Retrieval Division, Defense Technical Information Center, Alexandria, Virginia This workshop will introduce you to the Internet, highlight some of the resources available, and demonstrate the tools necessary to locate and retrieve valuable information. 2. CROSS REFERENCES IN INDEXES (9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.) Bella Hass Weinberg, Professor, Division of Library and Information Science, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York AND Enid L. Zafran, Chief of Indexing Services, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, D.C. This workshop, which is intended for intermediate to advanced indexers, will focus on various issues relating to cross-references: (1) rationale--the need for cross-references; (2) structure--selection of type of cross-reference and its relationship to the structure of the index; (3) format--the position, typography, and punctuation of references; and (4) control--recordkeeping, pruning, and editing. Examples will come from book, serial, and electronic indexes, with some attention to thesauri. Attendees are encouraged to bring "thorny" problems they have encountered for discussion. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS FRIDAY JUNE 9, 1:30 to 3:30 Each roundtable will be limited to 15 participants, and will be facilitated by professionals working in the field. This will be an invaluable opportunity to network and learn with colleagues who work in the same field as you do, or who face similar problems. ACADEMIC/SCHOLARLY INDEXING Diana Witt, Freelance Indexer, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Past President, ASI Jean Mann, Freelance Indexer, Forestville, California; Vice President, ASI Golden Gate Chapter Jeanne Moody, Reston, Virginia, Freelance Indexer; Wilson Award Winner COMPUTER-MANUAL INDEXING Julie Kawabata, Freelance Indexer, Portland, Oregon Lynn Moncrief, Freelance Indexer, TECHindex & Docs, Tustin, California HANDLING THE FREELANCE LIFE Noeline Bridge, Freelance Indexer, Bridgework; Edmonton, Alberta; IASC/SCAD Regional Representative Vicki Agee, Freelance Indexer, Albuquerque, New Mexico INDEXING AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS Christine Jacobs, C. M. Jacobs Information Management Services; National Film Board of Canada, A/V Librarian; Montreal, Quebec; IASC/SCAD Regional Representative Ruth Pincoe, Indexer and Editor specializing in music and theater; Toronto, Ontario; President, Editor's Association of Canada INDEXING SCIENTIFIC MATERIALS Marilyn Rowland, Freelance Indexer, Falmouth, Massachusetts Vakil Siddiqui, Freelance Indexer, Scarborough, Ontario LEGAL INDEXING David Thompson, Manager, Indexing Department, Research Institute of America, New York, New York Mary McLean, B.A., Ll.B., Freelance Indexer, North York, Ontario MEDICAL INDEXING Donna Balapole, Editorial Resources Manager, Churchill Livingstone, New York, New York Heather Ebbs, Editor's Ink, Carleton Place, Ontario Katherine Pitcoff, Freelance Indexer, Mendocino, California THE NEED FOR BOOK INDEXES (FRENCH-LANGUAGE ROUNDTABLE) Michele Hudon, Freelance Indexer and Thesaurus Designer; Toronto, Ontario; Past President, IASC/SCAD Christiane Talbot, A/V Librarian, National Film Board of Canada, Montreal, Quebec CHAPTER LEADER GET-TOGETHER FRIDAY JUNE 9, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. SPECIAL FRIDAY EVENING RECEPTION HOSTED BY IASC/SCAD JUNE 9, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the Delta Montreal Hotel All conference participants are invited to join in the reception hosted by IASC/SCAD. Snacks will be provided, and there will be no-host bar. Please indicate on the registration form if you plan to attend. ALL-DAY CONFERENCE, SATURDAY JUNE 10, 1995 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Christine Maxwell, Research on Demand, Berkeley, California INDEXING REGIONAL HISTORY MATERIALS (Panel Discussion) Moderator: Barbara E. Cohen, Freelance Indexer; ASI Secretary,, Champaign, Illinois Patricia Aslin, Indexing and Administrative Assistant, Indexing Research, Rochester, New York Barbara Ann McAlpine, Information Librarian, Local History Collection, Oakville Public Library, Oakville, Ontario INDEXING NON-ART PICTURES James M. Turner, Professeur adjoint, Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l'information, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec THE INTERNET AND INDEXERS Julius Ariail, University Librarian, Georgia Southern Univeristy, Statesboro, Georgia Charlotte Skuster, Science Reference Librarian/Health Science Bibliographer, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York; Moderator, Index-L; Board Member, ASI INDEXING CD-ROM PRODUCTS: BNA'S EXPERIENCES Michael G. Bernier, Manager, Indexing Services, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, D.C. Enid L. Zafran, Chief of Indexing Services, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, D.C. THE ONLINE WORLD: NEW ROLES FOR INDEXERS Laura Fillmore, Editorial, Inc. and the Online BookStore (OBS). Editorial, Inc. produced THE INTERNET COMPANION: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO GLOBAL NETWORKING." Ms. Fillmore travels the world speaking and consulting about online publishing. ORAL HISTORIES, PART TWO Interviews with ASI and IASC/SCAD personalities Dorothy Thomas, Past President, ASI To register, you may select and copy this form, and fax or mail it to ASI if you are registering in the U.S., or IASC/SCAD if you are registering in Canada. (See addresses at end of form.) REGISTRATION FORM Name Organization Address City State/Province Country & Postal Code Phone ____Please check here if you wish to be on a list of attendees seeking roommates for your conference stay. The list will be circulated only among those whose names and phone numbers appear on it. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS Registration fees for each workshop: postmarked before May 5, 1995: U.S. $50 members/$60 nonmembers; Canadian $65 members/$75 nonmenbers postmarked after May 5, 1995: U.S. $60 members/$70 nonmembers; Canadian $75 members/$85 nonmembers Thursday morning, June 8, 1995 [ ] Basic Periodical Indexing [ ] Construction of Bilingual Thesauri Thursday afternoon, June 8, 1995 [ ] What Makes a Wilson-Award-Quality Index? [ ] Smooth Sailing: Charting the Waters of Indexer-Publisher Relations Friday morning, June 9, 1995 [ ] The Internet: Making It Work for You [ ] Cross References in Indexes (please note later starting and ending time) ROUNDTABLES Registration fees: postmarked before May 8, 1995: U.S. $12 members/$15 nonmembers; Canadian $15 members; $18 nonmembers postmarked after May 8, 1995: U.S. $18 members/$21 nonmembers; Canadian $21 members; $24 nonmembers Please indicate your first, second, and third choices by putting numbers in the appropriate boxes. We will try to give you your first choice, but since the number of participants is limited, we may not always be able to. Register early! [ ] Academic/Scholarly Indexing [ ] Computer-Manual Indexing [ ] Handling the Freelance Life [ ] Indexing Audio-Visual Materials [ ] Indexing Scientific Materials [ ] Legal Indexing [ ] Medical Indexing [ ] The Need for Book Indexes (French-language roundtable) ALL-DAY CONFERENCE Registration fees (includes continental breakfast and complete luncheon): postmarked before May 5, 1995: U.S. $90 members/$105 nonmembers; Canadian $120 members/$135 nonmembers postmarked after May 5, 1995: U.S. $100 members/$115 nonmembers; Canadian $130 members/$145 nonmembers [ ] I will attend the all-day conference. [ ] Please check here if you will be attending the Friday-night reception hosted by IASC/SCAD. ________Total amount enclosed. Payment Information: All registration fees must be paid in full at the time of registration. Payments must be received by the dates indicated below in order to qualify for reduced rates. U.S. attendees: Please enclose a check or money order in U.S. funds, made payable to the American Society of Indexers. To register by Visa or Mastercard, please call (512) 749-4052, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Central Standard Time, Monday-Friday. Mail check or money order and this form to: American Society of Indexers 1995 Conference P.O. Box 386 Port Aransas, Texas 78373 U.S.A. Phone: (512) 749-4052 Email: asi@well.sf.ca.us Canadian attendees: Please enclose a check or money order in Canadian funds, made payable to the Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada. Mail payment and this form to: Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada c/o C. M. Jacobs Information Management Services 5430 MacMahon Avenue Montreal, Quebec H4V 2B9 Canada Phone: (514) 487-9204 Email: incj@musicb.mcgill.ca Refunds: Requests for refunds will be honored only if received in writing no later than May 5, 1995. No refund requests will be accepted after this date. All refunds will be subject to a $25 processing fee. Checks for refunds will be issued within six weeks after the conference. CONFERENCE HOTEL The Delta Montreal 450 Sherbrooke ouest Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T4 Canada (514) 286-1986 FAX: (514) 284-4306 RESERVATIONS: (800) 877-1133 (from the U.S.) (800) 268-1133 (from Canada) Conference Rates: Standard room: Canadian $121.00 (U.S. $89.00 approx.) Deluxe room: Canadian $136.00 (U.S. $100.00 approx.) Junior suite (1 bedroom + living room) : Canadian $245 (U.S. $181 approx.) Hospitality suite (1 bedroom, living room, kitchenette, bar, sofa-bed): Canadian $600 (U.S. $444 approx.) You must book directly with the hotel, rather than through a travel agent, in order to get these rates, and state that you are attending the ASI meeting. Rooms must be booked by May 8, 1995, after which any available rooms will be priced at the hotel's regular rates. The Delta is located near the downtown shopping and restaurant area, and a short walk from McGill University. It is not far from the Convention Center where the Special Libraries Association will be meeting following our conference. A Metro station is nearby. Most of the hotel rooms have a small balcony with views of Mount Royal and downtown. A health club with indoor pool is available to guests, and the hotel has a restaurant and coffee shop. If you plan to bring work with you, ask in advance for a room with a special telephone connection for a laptop computer (no extra charge). For those on a limited budget, dormitory rooms are available at McGill University. These are single rooms only, with shared bath facilities. Bed linens and towels are supplied, but no other amenities. The residence halls are located near the top of a steep hill, about a five- to ten-minute walk from the Delta Montreal Hotel. Estimated room rates for June 1995 will be Canadian $38 (U.S. $28 approx.). To reserve, write to McGill University, 550 Sherbrook Street West, West Tower, Suite 490, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B9, Canada. Or telephone (514) 398-6367. These low rates are available only directly through McGill, not through a travel agent. Make your reservations early, as the demand is great and the supply is limited. All lodging rates for ASI are guaranteed in Canadian dollars. The U.S. exchange rate will vary. Prices do not include Canada's GST (Goods and Services Tax) of 7%, or the Quebec sales tax (QST). The GST tax on lodging (and on certain merchandise purchased for export) can be rebated to non-Canadian visitors within one year, and rebate forms are available at Canadian Customs offices, tourist information locations, duty free shops, and other retail outlets. You can reach Montreal by auto, plane, or bus. To cross the border from the U.S., all you need is a valid driver's license--a passport is only necessary if you are arriving from another country. Transportation from the airport is available by shuttle, at a cost of Canadian $15 each way. Montreal is the world's second-largest French-speaking city, a cosmopolitan blend of many cultures. The city is especially known for art and architectural treasures, and for its culinary excellence. Underground pedestrian walkways link downtown office buildings, hotels, apartments, restaurants, and shops. For those who prefer the outdoors, the Old Port is a waterfront park and the former Expo '67 site is a resort-like destination a short subway ride from downtown. Or you can climb Mount Royal, take a jet boat tour or a romantic cruise, walk through the woods, or visit the 180-acre Botanical Garden-Insectarium complex. The Biodome is a natural science museum of living environments: tropical forest, St. Lawrence marine, Laurentian forest, and polar. Sports fans will want to see the Olympic Stadium, home of the Montreal Expos. The Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada/Societe canadienne pour l'analyse de documents and the American Society of Indexers invite you to join in an information-packed convention for information professionals! Elinor Lindheimer elinorl@mcn.org Mendocino, CA From: Mark Calkins Subject: traductions diverses Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:55:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 483 (734) Chers collegues, Deux choses: #1: Je cherche une exemplaire de la traduction de _Der Fall Wagner_ de Nietzsche de la part de Daniel Halevy et Robert Dreyfus, _Le Cas Wagner_ (1893). Je cherche leur traduction francaise d'une toute petite phrase qui se trouve dans le paragraphe numero sept (7): "Disagregation des Willens." Si quelqu'un peut trouver et me transmettre la traduction de cette phrase par Halevy et Dreyfrus, aussi bien que les faits bibliographiques de cette traduction (date, editeur, page ou se trouve cette phrase), je serais tres tres reconnaissant et je vous remercie en avance. #2: Pour les latinistes: j'ai besoin d'une traduction de la phrase d'Horace "materium superabat opus" Merci a tous-- Mark R. CALKINS eahg273@ea.oac.uci.edu From: imt@elis.inesc.pt (Isabel Trancoso) Subject: call for papers Date: Wed, 26 Apr 95 09:48:45 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 378 (735) ESCA - NATO Tutorial and Research Workshop on SPEECH UNDER `STRESS' =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lisbon - 14-15 September, 1995 The European Speech Communication Association (ESCA) in association with the NATO Research Study Group on Speech Processing (NATO/AC243/Panel 3/RSG10) is pleased to announce a two-day workshop on the important topic of `speech under stress' which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal on the 14th and 15th of September 1995. The workshop will cover all aspects of the civil and military environment which affect speech production and perception in a way which might degrade the performance of speech-based systems. WORKSHOP THEMES The workshop will be concerned with current progress and understanding in the following broad areas: Mechanical Stress - acceleration, G, vibration Acoustical Stress - Lombard effect Workload Stress - cognitive load, multi-tasking Emotional Stress - acoustic correlates Analysis Techniques - instrumentation, measures Compensation Algorithms - recognition/synthesis FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP It is intended that the workshop should permit the maximum interchange between all participants. This will be achieved by means of tutorial presentations, directed discussions and poster presentations. All accepted papers (apart from the tutorials) shall be presented as posters. VENUE The workshop will take place at RUMOS, R. Dona Estefania 167A, 1000 Lisbon. WHO MAY ATTEND Attendance at this tutorial and research workshop is open to all interested parties. However, in order to ensure an effective and productive atmosphere, numbers may be limited. Applications will therefore be dealt with on a first-come first-served basis, so early registration is recommended. TRAVEL Travel to and from the workshop is the responsability of the individual attendee. The workshop venue is conveniently located ten minutes from Lisbon international airport and within five minutes walk of the hotel. EUROSPEECH'95 Prospective attendees should note that it is easily possible to combine attendance at this workshop with attendance at the ESCA EUROSPEECH'95 conference which is being held in Madrid, Spain over the period 18-21 September 1995. For further information about EUROSPEECH'95, please contact CONGHRISA, C/. Serrano 240, Madrid 28016, Spain. Tel. (+34) 1 577 66 45. Fax: (+34 ) 1 457 01 73. ACCOMMODATION A block of rooms has been reserved at the nearby Holiday Inn hotel at the following special rates: Single Room 13000 PTE Double Room 14500 PTE Reservations should be made directly with the hotel at the following address before 31st July 1995: Holiday Inn, Av. Antonio Jose de Almeida, 1000 Lisbon, Portugal. Tel: (351 1) 893 5222/6018. Fax: (351 1) 793 6672. Please mention 'INESC' when booking. Alternative accommodation arrangements are the responsability of the individual attendees. REGISTRATION FEES The fee for the workshop is 40000 PTE (1352 FF) which includes lunch and dinner on Thursday 14th September and lunch on Friday 15th September. The fee for ESCA members is 35000 PTE (1183 FF). Certified students can participate for the special rate of 20000 PTE (676 FF). These rates apply before 31st July 1995; late registrants will be charged an additional fee of 9000 PTE (304 FF). Payment may be made by cheque or credit card, and should accompany the completed registration form. EUROPEAN SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (ESCA) The European Speech Communication Association (ESCA) is a non-profit organisation for promoting speech communication science and technology in a European context. For membership and other information, please contact the ESCA secretariat at: ICP-Universite Stendhal, BP 25, 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. Tel. (+33) 76 82 43 36. Fax: (+33) 76 82 43 35. E-mail: esca@icp.grenet.fr http://ophale.icp.grenet.fr/esca/esca.html. NATO RESEARCH STUDY GROUP ON SPEECH PROCESSING (RSG10) The NATO Research Study Group on Speech Processing has been conducting international collaborative research projects in various areas of speech processing since 1978. For further information, please contact the Chairman of RSG10: Dr. H.J.M. Steeneken, Institute for Human Factors TNO, PO Box 23, 3769 ZG Soesterberg, Netherlands. Tel: (+31) 3463 53977. E-mail: hjms@tm.tno.nl. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Prof. Roger K. Moore DRA Speech Research Unit, St. Andrews Road, Malvern, Worcs., UK Tel: (+44) 684 894091. Fax: (+44) 684 895103. E-mail: moore@dra.hmg.uk. Prof. Isabel Trancoso INESC-Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores R. Alves Redol 9, 1000 Lisbon, Portugal Tel: (+351) 1 3100 268. Fax: (+351) 1 525843. E-mail: imt@inesc.pt Jim Cupples Rome Laboratory, Griffiss AFB, Rome NY13441, USA Tel: (+1) 315 330 4024. Fax: (+1) 315 330 2728. E-mail: laurief@lonex.rl.af.mil. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE C. Baber (UK) J.L. Hansen (USA) B. Harmegnies (Belgium) J-P. Haton (France) J-C. Junqua (USA) H.J. Kunzel (Germany) C. Legros (France) I. Murray (UK) D. Poch (Spain) WORKSHOP SECRETARIAT For all correspondence concerning the workshop, please use the following address: Mrs. Ilda Ribeiro INESC-Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, R. Alves Redol 9, 1000 Lisbon, Portugal Tel: (+351) 1 3100 268, Fax: (+351) 1 525 843, E-mail: stress@speech.inesc.pt Up-to-date information about the workshop can be obtained via WWW (http://speech.inesc.pt/stress) and ftp (ftp://speech.inesc.pt/pub/stress). CANCELLATION Registrations cancelled by letter or telefax will be honoured if received before 31st July 1995. Substitutions may be made at any time, but the workshop organisers must be informed in advance of the workshop. PROCEEDINGS The registration fee covers one copy of the workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES 12 May 1995 Submission of abstracts 16 June 1995 Notification of acceptance 31 July 1995 Deadline for booking Holiday Inn 11 August 1995 Camera-ready papers due REGISTRATION FORM Name:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Title: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Affiliation: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Alves Redol 9, 1000 Lisbon, Portugal Phone: (+351) 1 3100 268 Fax: (+351) 1 525843 E-mail: stress@speech.inesc.pt From: Mark Calkins Subject: Open Sesame Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:58:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 379 (736) Dear collegues-- Does the "sesame" in "open sesame" refer simply to the sesame seed? And if so, what does a sesame seed have to do with magic? opening caves? etc.? In other words, is there any symbolism or mythology associated with the sesame seed? Thanks much. Mark R. Calkins eahg273@ea.oac.uci.edu From: "James O'Donnell" Subject: reaching human bosses at aol Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 11:52:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 380 (737) I need to make contact with responsible parties at AOL.COM about the way they present to their subscribers an Internet resource for which I am responsible. I can find neither 800 nor local phone number, and the addresses from which they originally wrote to me to set up our arrangement do not answer mail. Could anyone supply either phone or e-mail guidance to reaching them? Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Michael Wolf Irmscher Subject: texts by Charles Dickens online? Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 11:22:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 381 (738) Dear electronic text searcher: Does anybody know of a site (or sites) where texts by Charles Dickens (espec. "Bleak House" and "Hard Times") are electronically stored and accessible via the Internet? It would already help to know whether there exists a general directory of literay texts stored on-line. Thanks for your time. Michael Irmscher Dept. of German Studies Stanford Univeristy irmscher@leland.stanford.edu From: George Byrnes Subject: Public Domain Query Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 07:53:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 382 (739) I'm preparing a hypertext supplement for a two-year college level humanities course that will contain mostly portions of works that are in the public domain, e.g., Hobbes' introduction to "Leviathan." The idea is to augment discussions of key historical figures and concepts with original materials. Our course examines five themes: 1) Why are we the way we are? 2) What is the nature and implications of social change? 3) What is the relationship of individual to collective. 4) What is the role of science? 5) What is the role of the arts? I would appreciate any suggestions of public domain materials that speak to these themes. Recommendations of specific sections of longer works, say, of a scene in a play, would also be very helpful. Thank you. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= George Byrnes / Liberal Arts and Sciences / Humber College 3199 Lakeshore Blvd. W., Toronto, ON. Canada M8V 1K8 BITNET: Byrnes@Humber.Bitnet INTERNET: Byrnes@Admin.HumberC.ON.CA WWW: http://www.interlog.com/~gbyrnes/ PHONE: (416) 675-6622 X3324 FAX: (416) 252-8842 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Judy Reynolds Subject: Clipart for history Date: Mon, 01 May 95 07:29:56 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 383 (740) Hi, I'm looking for clipart that illustrates events or historical periods. Most of the clipart I've seen is either too juvenile, directional or has to do with the military or medicine. I would especially like to find illustrations of the colonial period of US history and pictures of women. Thanks for any suggestions. Judy //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Judy Reynolds (408) 924-2725 Library judyr@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu San Jose State University judyr@sparta.sjsu.edu 1 Washington Sq. San Jose, Ca. 95192-0028 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From: alex@CompApp.DCU.IE (Alex Monaghan) Subject: Date: Tue, 2 May 95 13:12:25 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 486 (741) PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! Call for Participation in the Fourth International Conference on The COGNITIVE SCIENCE of NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Dublin City University, 5-7 July 1995 Theme: The Role of Syntax There is currently considerable debate regarding the place and importance of syntax in NLP. Papers dealing with this matter will feature strongly in the programme. Invited Speakers: The following speakers have agreed to give keynote talks: Mark Steedman, University of Pennsylvania Alison Henry, University of Ulster Other areas addressed will include: Machine Translation Connectionism Semantic inferencing Spoken dialogue Prosody Hybrid approaches Assessment tools and methods This is a small conference, limited to about 40 delegates. We aim to keep things relatively informal, and to promote discussion and debate. With two dozen contributed papers and two invited talks, all outstanding, there should be plenty of material to interest a wide range of researchers. Registration and Accommodation: The registration fee will be IR#60, and will include proceedings, lunches and one evening meal. Accommodation can be reserved in the campus residences at DCU. A single room is IR#16 per night, with full Irish breakfast an additional IR#4. Accommodation will be "First come, first served": there is a heavy demand for campus rooms in the summer. There are also several hotels and B&B establishments nearby: addresses will be provided on request. To register, contact Alex Monaghan at the addresses given below. Payment in advance is possible but not obligatory. Please state gender (for accommodation purposes) and any unusual dietary requirements. CSNLP Alex Monaghan School of Computer Applications Dublin City University Dublin 9 Ireland Email registrations are preferred, please mail alex@compapp.dcu.ie (internet) --------- Deadlines: 26th June --- Final date for registration, accommodation, meals etc. A provisional programme will be sent out in due course. From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: IEE COLLOQ. LONDON MAY 15TH: GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS (MURPHY) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 95 11:45:39 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 487 (742) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE: Please note that there has been a programme change below and a new speaker (Elisabeth Andr/e: DFKI, Germany and Sheffield, England) added in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS: Integration of sensory information in Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks IEE COLLOQUIUM IEE Computing and Control Division [Professional group: C4 (Artificial Intelligence)] in association with: British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems and The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) MONDAY, MAY 15th, 1995 ********************** at the IEE Colloquium Savoy Place London, ENGLAND Chairs NOEL SHARKEY and PAUL MC KEVITT Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield, England WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the most famous criticism of traditional Artificial Intelligence is that computer programs use symbols that are arbitrarily interpretable (see Searle, 1980 for the Chinese Room and Harnad, 1990 for the symbol grounding problem). We could, for example, use the word "apple" to mean anything from a "common fruit" to a "pig's nose". All the computer knows is the relationship between this symbol the others that we have given it. The question is, how is it possible to move from this notion of meaning, as the relationship between arbitrary symbols, to a notion of "intrinsic" meaning. In other words, how do we provide meaning by grounding computer symbols or representations in the physical world? The aim of this colloquium is to take a broad look at many of the important issues in relating machine intelligence to the world and to make accessible some of the most recent research in integrating information from different modalities. For example, why is it important to have symbol or representation grounding and what is the role of the emerging neural network technology? One approach has been to link intelligence to the sensory world through visual systems or robotic devices such as MURPHY. Another approach is work on systems that integrate information from different modalities such as vision and language. Yet another approach has been to examine how the human brain relates sensory, motor and other information. It looks like we may be at long last getting a handle on the age old CHINESE ROOM and SYMBOL GROUNDING problems. Hence this colloquium has as its focus, "grounding representations. The colloquium will occur over one day and will focus on three themes: (1) Biology and development; (2) Computational models and (3) Symbol grounding. The target audience of this colloquium will include Engineers and Scientists in Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Developmental Psychologists, Cognitive Scientists, Philosophers of mind, Biologists and all of those interested in the application of Artificial Intelligence to real world problems. PROGRAMME: Monday, May 15th, 1995 ************************ INTRODUCTION: 9.00 REGISTRATION + SUSTENANCE 10.00 `An introduction' NOEL SHARKEY (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, ENGLAND) COMPUTATIONAL MODELS: 10.30 `From visual data to multimedia presentations' ELISABETH ANDR/E (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Saarbr"ucken, GERMANY) & (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, ENGLAND) 11.00 `Natural language and exploration of an information space' OLIVIERO STOCK (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Technologica, IRST) (Trento, ITALY) 11.30 `How visual salience influences natural language descriptions' WOLFGANG MAASS (Cognitive Science Programme) (Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, GERMANY) 12.00 DISCUSSION 12.30 LUNCH GROUNDING SYMBOLS: 2.00 `Grounding symbols in sensorimotor categories with neural networks' STEVAN HARNAD (Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, ENGLAND) 2.30 `Some observations on symbol-grounding from a combined symbolic/connectionist viewpoint' JOHN BARNDEN (Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico, USA) & (Department of Computer Science, University of Reading, ENGLAND) 3.00 Sustenance Break 3.30 `On grounding language with neural networks' GEORG DORFFNER (Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, AUSTRIA) PANEL DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS: 4.00 `Grounding representations' Chairs + Invited speakers S/IN S/IN: 4.30 `De brief/comments' PAUL MC KEVITT (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, ENGLAND) 5.00 O/ICHE MHA/ITH ***************************** PUBLICATION: We intend to publish a book on this Colloquium Proceedings. ADDRESSES IEE CONTACT: Sarah Leong Groups Officer The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Savoy Place GB- WC2R OBL, London England, UK, EU. E-mail: SLeong@iee.org.uk (Sarah Leong) E-mail: mbarrett@iee.org.uk (Martin Barrett) E-mail: dpenrose@iee.org.uk (David Penrose) WWW: http://www.iee.org.uk Ftp: ftp.iee.org.uk FaX: +44 (0) 171-497-3633 Phone: +44 (0) 171-240-1871 (general) Phone: +44 (0) 171-344-8423 (direct) LOCATION: The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Savoy Place GB- WC2R OBL, London England, UK, EU. ACADEMIC CONTACT: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court 211 Portobello Street University of Sheffield GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England, UK, EU. E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ WWW: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ Ftp: ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk FaX: +44 (0) 114-278-0972 Phone: +44 (0) 114-282-5572 (Office) 282-5596 (Lab.) 282-5590 (Secretary) REGISTRATION: Registration forms are available from SARAH LEONG at the above address and should be sent to the following address: (It is NOT possible to register by E-mail.) Colloquium Bookings Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) PO Box 96 Stevenage GB- SG1 2SD Herts England, UK, EU. Fax: +44 (0) 143 874 2792 Receipt Enquiries: +44 (0) 143 876 7243 Registration enquiries: +44 (0) 171 240 1871 x.2206 PRE-REGISTRATION IS ADVISED ALTHOUGH YOU CAN REGISTER ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. ________________________________________________________________________ R E G I S T R A T I O N COSTS ________________________________________________________________________ (ALL FIGURES INCLUDE VAT) IEE MEMBERS 44.00 NON-IEE MEMBERS 74.00 IEE MEMBERS (Retired, Unemployed, Students) FREE NON-IEE MEMBERS (Retired, Unemployed, Students) 22.00 LUNCH TICKET 4.70 MEMBERS: Members of the IEEIE, The British Computer Society and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour and Eurel Member Associations will be admitted at Members' rates. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: marcus.banks@anthropology.oxford.ac.uk Subject: Ethnographic Film Catalogue Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 15:32:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 488 (743) Dear HUMANIST subscribers, I hope the following announcement is of interest. The message is being cross-posted to a number of lists, so please forgive any duplication. HADDON: an on-line catalogue of archival ethnographic film -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), I am currently compiling a catalogue of archival ethnographic film footage for the period 1895-1945. The catalogue is named after AC Haddon, the British anthropologist and pioneer in the use of film in ethnographic research; HADDON should go on-line through the World-Wide Web in late 1996. At this stage I would be grateful of your help with two things: (i) any suggestions of sources of archival film footage of non-European and indigenous peoples (museums, archives, and so forth). I do not need the films themselves, simply access to catalogue data; (ii) volunteers who would be willing to participate in a small number of 'field trials' of remote electronic databases. The trials will take place at the end of this year and during 1996; volunteers can be anywhere in the world, but should have access to the Internet and preferably the World-Wide Web. If you can offer hep with either of these I would very much like to hear from you. Further information about the HADDON project can be found at the following URL: http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/isca/haddon/HADD_home.html This page also leads through to a electronic form which can be submitted directly to me. Alteratively you can email me directly (*not* to the list please) for further information or to volunteer for the trials: marcus.banks@anthro.ox.ac.uk Many thanks, Marcus Banks Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Oxford, UK From: Yorick Wilks Subject: Research in CS, AI, NLP and Speech Date: Tue, 2 May 95 18:18:44 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 8 Num. 489 (744) University of Sheffield, UK Department of Computer Science RESEARCH DEGREES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE ************************************ This department intends to recruit a number of postgraduate research students to commence studies in October 1995. Successful applicants will be registered for an M.Phil or Ph.D. The department has four research groups, with interests as follows: Formal Methods and Software Engineering --------------------------------------- Telematics, Formal Specification, Verification and Testing, Object-Oriented Languages and Design, Proof Theory. Parallel Processing ------------------- Parallel Database Machines, Parallel CASE Tools, Safety-Critical systems. Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks ------------------------------------------- Natural Language Processing (including corpus and lexically based methods, information extraction and pragmatics), Neural Networks, Computer Graphics, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Computer Argumentation. Speech and Hearing ------------------ Auditory Scene Analysis, Models of Auditory Perception, Automatic Speech Recognition. It is expected that a number of (British Government) EPSRC awards will be available to UK residents, in addition to the University's own studentship and bursary schemes, some of which are open to all. Candidates for these awards should have a good honours degree in a relevant discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), or should attain such a degree by October 1995. Part-time registration is also possible. We especially welcome applications from (non-British) EU citizens elegible for support under the EU's Research Training Grants schemes (with application deadlines in May and September). Application forms and further particulars are available from The Departmental Secretary, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP. More details can also be obtained from world-wide-web address http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr. Phil. Green, phone 0114-282-5578, email p.green@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk Prof Yorick Wilks, phone 0114-282-5563, email yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk