From: Humanist Subject: Humanist begins its 10th year Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 1 (1) Birthdays and anniversaries seem like "eternal returns", ritual moments that demand reflection on the simultaneous past and future. So I am righteous in my excuse to belabour you with editorial ruminations at the end of Humanist's ninth year and the beginning of its tenth. Humanist began on 7 May 1987 as a consequence of an inspirational moment at a conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities in Columbia, South Carolina. Its beginning was almost accidental, no more than an attempt to provide continuing conversation for a small group of frustrated individuals who met after hours at the conference to discuss the lack of support for humanities computing and what might be done about it. Philosophical investigations and meditations, as well as exchanges of information, proved more appealing than academic politics, for which we may all be most grateful. Thus the creature we now exercise. What a dismal thing Humanist would have been otherwise! Almost a decade later computing has become nearly universal, although in the humanities its application remains at a primitive level on the whole and, as Mark Olsen has famously pointed out, its effects on the disciplines are not always obvious. It seems to me that John Burrows' counsel to patience, based on the fact that change in scholarship is slow, is right, however. He and many others have shown what can be done by what they have done, and if it takes the rest of us longer, or if some of us choose non-computational methods, so what? The proof is in the pudding, and I smell delicious puddings in several corners of the house. Yes, I know, many are cruelly excluded from the house altogether. How can we use computing to ameliorate the situation? Institutionally, even amidst euphemistical "downsizing" (for this read "getting a bonus for laying off employees"), there are nevertheless hopeful signs. Let me cite just a few with which I have been directly or indirectly involved; I'm sure news of others would be very welcome. One of the hopeful events I have for you affects the near-future of Humanist; this seems a particularly apt moment to tell you about it. First, two recent meetings of considerable significance. One was the annual gathering of the American Council of Learned Societies, in Washington, DC, U.S.A., 25-27 April, where five of us participated in a panel, "Internet-accessible scholarly resources for the humanities and social sciences". The participants were Susan Hockey (Director, CETH, Princeton/Rutgers), Jennifer Trant (Imaging Initiative, Getty Art History Information Program), Charles Henry (Director of Libraries, Vassar), and Richard Rockwell (Executive Director, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research); I, representing Humanist, was the commentator. What made this event significant was, I think, the fact of its being held at all, at this annual meeting. Such recognition of computing by the ACLS follows just a few months on Humanist becoming its adjunct publication, and a few more months on ACLS President Stan Katz's address at the ACH/ALLC conference in Santa Barbara, at which he identified computing as one of the most important priorities of the academy for the next decade. The second was a special meeting convened last week at the National Humanities Center, in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.A., to discuss the role computing should have in advanced humanities research, and specifically how the NHC should support its fellows with computing, even to encouraging computing applications. This meeting was divided into seven sessions, following NHC Director Robert Connor's summary of the history and goals of his Center. Five of these sessions consisted of brief presentations based on questions set by Robert Wright, Director of Development; two others were for discussion. 1. Susan Hockey, David Seaman: Advanced technologies, resources, and access 2. Morris Eaves, George Landow, Ann Okerson: Scholarship, publication, and and scholarly publications 3. Jacqueline Brown, Janet Murray: Teaching and curricular applications 4. Larry Friedlander, Institutional, professional, and disciplinary issues 5. Willard McCarty, John Unsworth: The role of colleges and universities, research libraries, professional organizations, and institutes for advanced study Again, the significant fact to my mind was that the NHC would take such trouble to consider the nature of humanities computing before incorporating it into its mission. I expect we will be hearing much more from the NHC later. At the beginning of this message I referred to the original motivation for Humanist, which was to establish humanities computing as a scholarly field. Humanist quickly became international and so took on a much broader purpose. Meanwhile institutions, which are conservative by nature, have been slow to respond, but responses are now visible. Numerous places appear to have worked computing into new academic positions in traditional departments (reports on these would be welcome). In other cases, most notably for N. America at Oberlin College, computer science has adopted the humanities as a major focus. New positions in humanities computing itself have been slower to develop, but there are a few: at Glasgow (Dan Greenstein), at McMaster, in Ontario, Canada (Geoffrey Rockwell), for many years at Groningen, the Netherlands (Harry Gaylord) and at Tuebingen (Wilhelm Ott). Which others have I missed? I am especially happy to announce :-) one other, at King's College London, where I have just been appointed Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing, in an academic unit known as the Centre for Computing in the Humanities. Although the technical and administrative details of Humanist have yet to be worked out completely, I will be editing Humanist from London, probably as of mid August. In the interim, with help, I trust there will be few interruptions, but I suspect the chaos of a major move will occasionally intrude. Your kind patience will be appreciated. So, on the ninth anniversary of Humanist we may have reason to think that our half-full glass, like the magical wallet of folktale, is slowly filling itself up. As a child I always thought that the number 9 was a threshold, as far as one could go without stepping over into a new cycle. Since I am as good at walking on water as my cats, my personal step over the threshold is a rather large one. (Prolonged study of Milton, some of you will notice, has left its mental mark.) On the verge, my best wishes and warmest regards to fellow Humanists. Happy Birthday! WM From: "Christopher G. Fox" Subject: Request from the Assistant Editor (please post) Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 11:41:51 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 2 (2) As the summer approaches, many of you might not be checking your e-mail regularly, might be forwarding your mail to other addresses, or might be considering using an automated reply to indicate that you will be unavailable for a certain period of time. Although these three situations present few problems for personal, individual correspondance, they can be quite a headache for listserv administration and automated e-mail distribution. I therefore make the following requests: 1) If you will not be checking your e-mail, and you have a disk quota, please postpone your subscription. Once your disk quota has been exceeded, the messages we send will start being bounced back to us, and we will eventually need to delete your subscription. 2) If you are forwarding your mail to a different address, please remember that you will not be able to post messages or communicate with the ListProcessor from your new address. As far as the list is concerned, you are still subscribed at your regular address, regardless of where the mail ends up going. Anything you send with therefore be automatically rejected. If you would like to post a message or change your subscription parameters in some way, you need to telnet to the account at which you are subscribed and send mail from there. 3) If you set up your e-mail to make an automatic reply to all messages received, we will receive that reply often a dozen or more times a week. All such messages will appear as potential posts to Humanist, and we will have to delete them manually. The automated reply may be useful for individual correspondents, but it causes many problems for list administration. If you are planning to use it, please postpone your subscription. As always, if you have any questions about how to configure your subscription using listproc, that information is available on the Humanist web pages. Please feel free to ask me any questions you might have if your circumstances are not covered by the available instructions. Best wishes for the summer, Christopher G. Fox Assistant Editor--HUMANIST Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities From: "Gregory J. Murphy" Subject: Humanist Subscription Database Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 18:48:14 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 3 (3) In response to the many suggestions and complaints which we received, the on-line Humanist subscription database has been redesigned. The database contains contact and biographical information for users who subscribed via the database's WWW interface. At present, there are some 150 records in the database, representing the same number of subscribers. Improvements to the database engine and interface include: - new subscribers may now choose their own password - errors in email addresses are detected directly, before being passed on to listproc. - fields in the database are searched according to their type: character, numeric, or date. - search terms may now include most of the regular expression characters used by grep. Once the new database engine is in full swing, Humanist will accept new subscriptions _only_ via the WWW. Users who wish to join but do not have access to the web may request an email version of the subscription form. The new subscription mechanism may be accessed from the Humanist homepage. We strongly encourage members who have been around longer than the database to resubscribe with more up-to-date information. From: Subject: Re: 9.775 COLLATE? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 4 (4) & many others... from whom we learn that Peter Robinson, PeterR@vax.ox.ac.uk, is the author of Collate, and information about it may be obtained from the CTI Textual Studies Resource guide at http://info.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/resguide/analysis/collate.html Many thanks to all. From: Willard McCarty Subject: impermanence Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 21:36:18 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 5 (5) Bob Amsler, in Humanist 9.774, puts his virtual finger on a stubborn reality of electronic publication: "The basic philosophical problem of citing the Web is that it is a fundamentally transitory reference." Are we trying our best to ignore this problem because we STILL cannot quite see that the Web is not paper and print? that it has its own intrinsic tendencies which we are silly, or worse, to resist? Let me put the matter another way. Consider all the scholarship we publish that has value for the moment, for six months, a year, five years, but that we would be well rid of. (I am assuming, for purposes of argument, that everything which is published has value for some amount of time, however small.) Would this kind not be better published in "a fundamentally transitory" medium? Perhaps a more interesting question concerns the effects rapid, transitory publication might have on the humanities. What might happen if our research were more conversational, as in the social sciences? How might the academic professions be affected if paper-publication were reserved for material chosen on the basis of its long-term interest? Some years ago I was fortunate to hear a Stanford economist (whose name, alas, I have forgotten) brilliantly address the crisis in scholarly publishing. In essence what he pointed out was that scholarly publishing, as we know it, is an integral part of the academic world, that it cannot simply be changed without profound consequences, and that changes are not going to be easy because the system within which this publishing is integral will resist our efforts. Since our livelihoods and way of life depend on this integral system, should we not be examining the big picture? It seems to me that we must understand the sociology and philosophy of knowledge in order to know what to do with the new medium. Or we can just let others, such as our friends in the infotainment industry, make the decisions for us. Comments? WM Willard McCarty, Univ. of Toronto || Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~mccarty/wlm/ From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries Subject: Re: 9.774 citing Web documents Date: Tue, 7 May 96 10:44:04 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 6 (6) John Unsworth suggests avoiding the angle brackets on a citation because the sgml- or html- aware program will not know what to do with it. But this is undoubtedly the reason the form suggested by Berners-Lee includes the term URL as the initial element, as in the following citation* to, say, his home page. As has been pointed out, various software tools use the URL forms to highlight them or make automatic links out of them. --pg *http://www.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/> 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: Andrew Burday Subject: Re: 9.774 citing Web documents Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 11:23:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 7 (7) On Mon, 6 May 1996, Humanist wrote: [deleted quotation] Um, sorry, but this just isn't right. First of all, I'm not sure what you mean by an "html-aware" program. I guess the term is often used to refer to programs with heuristics to pick out URLs, but that's not html. In any case, two related points can be made. First, surely Netscape and other web browsers count as "html-aware". But any properly designed web browser will do what you describe *only* in an html context. A document's content type may be identified by the header sent to it by an http server, or by the extension if it's a local file or if the header doesn't identify it. Any of those mechanisms can create what I'm calling an "html context". If, based on one of those mechanisms, the browser "thinks" it's displaying a plain text file, it will happily display any markup that happens to appear in the file, including angle brackets, and it will not highlight anchors or do anything if you select them. Second, if the program you're using -- mail reader, news reader, or whatever it is -- is ignoring text in angle brackets *outside of an html context*, it is badly designed. All kinds of strings get put in angle brackets, for all kinds of reasons. It is just unreasonable to assume -- outside of an html context -- that every string in angle brackets is an html tag. In other words, outside the context of a document which has (implicitly or explicitly) been declared to be html, the most "html-aware" programs there are will do nothing special with material in angle brackets. That is the most reasonable behavior, outside of an html context. And the question I was originally trying to address was how to identify URLs outside of html contexts. Again, I don't think it's worth trying to adjust our practices to fit whatever the writers of some particular mail or news reader have chosen to code into their software. The point is to have a consistent, standard way to refer to URLs outside the context of html. The software authors should be supporting the standards, not the other way around. [deleted quotation] I appreciate your taking the effort to come up with three counterexamples to your own thesis, so that I don't have to! ;*> Best, Andrew Burday andy@philo.mcgill.ca http://www.philo.mcgill.ca/> From: Subject: Leiden Summer School Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 8 (8) A series of self-contained, 2-day courses at introductory, intermediate and advanced levels. The Leiden Summer School is organized for postgraduate and advanced graduate students in history, professional historians and archivists. The Summer School is organized by the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (NHDA), the Postgraduate Programme for Historical Information Science (Leiden University), Department for Social and Economic History (Leiden University) Leiden Summer School Outline of Courses: June 17-22: Introduction to New Media and Advanced Methods for Historical Research (Doorn and others) This introductory course offers a broad overview of modern information technology for historians, including lectures, demonstrations and hands-on practicals on: the Internet, historical CD-ROMs, optical reading of historical documents, multimedia applications, historical data archiving, and other electronic information resources for historians. June 17-22: Scanning and Optical Character Recognition of Historical Documents (van Horik/Sesink) In this course students will learn to apply scanners for the automatic conversion of historical sources. Attention is paid to image enhancements techniques and formatting of OCR-output. This course is repeated in the second week. June 17-22: Advanced Statistics for Historical Analysis with SPSS-PC (Doorn) The SPSS-PC package is used to explain aspects of log-linear models, multiple regression and time series analysis, using historical data. June 17-22: Historical Databases (Leenarts/De Nijs) This course explores the potential and limitations of databases for the structuring and representation of historical sources, using dBASE (for Windows). June 17-21: Quantitative Approaches to the Colonial History of South-East Asia (Lindblad) This course is about how to apply computer assisted methods to major problems in the economic and social history of colonial South-East Asia (in particular Indonesia), including foreign trade, colonial drain, and coolie labour. June 24-29: Text Analysis I: TACT (Doorn/Leenarts) The TACT system is used in this course for computer assisted textual analysis. Attention is paid to the structuring of historical textual documents using a mark-up language. June 24-29: Text Analysis II: Hypertext, SGML, HTML, TEI (Leenarts/Nauta/Van Kersen) This course pays attention to the importance of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) for electronic historical texts. The Text Encoding Initiative as an SGML-implementation is explained. It is shown how hypertexts for the World Wide Web can be structured with HTML. June 24-29: Multimedia for Historical Presentations (Luijting) In this course students learn how multimedia can be used to present historical information. The Toolbook authoring system in connection with Visual Basic will be used to prepare a presentation. June 24-29: The History of European Economic Integration: Computer Assisted Research and Electronic Information Resources (Griffiths) In this course computers are used for finding and manipulating data on the history of European integration, broadly described (EEC, EFTA, OECD, GATT). June 24-29: Preparing a Historical Dissertation with WP 6.1 for Windows (in Dutch; Doorn) This course is specifically meant for Dutch post-graduates (AIO/OIO's) who are preparing their dissertation. Many aspects of the lay-out and production of your own book are dealt with. Teaching Staff: Dr. Peter Doorn (NHDA/Leiden University) Prof. Richard Griffiths (Leiden University) Drs. Ren van Horik (NHDA) Drs. Janneke van Kersen (NHDA) Drs. Ellen Leenarts (Leiden University) Dr. Thomas Lindblad (Leiden University) Drs. Marc Luijting (Leiden University) Drs. Gerhard Nauta (Leiden University) Drs. Thimo de Nijs (Leiden University) Drs. Laurents Sesink (NHDA) Drs. Heiko Tjalsma (NHDA) More information considering registration, accomodation, social and cultural events and costs see: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nhda/education/sum_school.htm or contact: Leiden Summer School c/o NHDA P.O. Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands Fax: +31 71 5272615 Phone: + 31 71 5277040 / 5272742 E-mail: ESF2@stpc.wi.leidenuniv.nl From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: an article on encoding Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 10:56:47 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 9 (9) The readers of Humanist might be interested in knowing that I have placed in an html site: http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi/encod.html a contribution (in Italian) entitled: Teoria e prassi della codifica dei manoscritti, to be published in the Acts of the International Seminar: Gli Zibaldoni di Boccaccio: Memoria, scrittura, riscrittura (Firenze 26-28 aprile 1996). Abstract: In Decembre 1995 Sperberg-McQueen, Lancashire, Durosau, Burnard, Mller, and DeRose discussed on Humanist some important features of the problems concerning the encoding of texts and the use of SGML and TEI standards: interpretations necessary for each encoding; correct represenation of grapheme in electronic environment; relations between encoding and editorial practices; purposes of the author in graphically organizing the text; distinction of types of markup; materiality of the text and representation of connotations; allography and orthography. This contribution is an effort to trace a theoretical structure which may include all such problems and help to solve them. Such theoretical structure depends on clearing the semiotic passages through which a text (message) goes from the author to the (last) reader. To clarify such passages some concepts are taken into consideration: the competence of the author and of the encoder; the different levels of a text: physical, "virtual", ideal; meaning of features of the text outside the pure sequence of graphemes; specific features of the electronic representation of the text; representation vs. substitution. Encoding cannot be based on the physical appearence of the text, but on the "virtual" text in the mind of those who have written it, and should be able to represent each element in the text contributing to its meaning. The encoder should therefore propose a complete table of correspondences. From: John Unsworth Subject: New software from IATH Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 11:08:32 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 10 (10) The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities is pleased to announce the availability of two new software products, Inote and Mu, programmed by Mark Ratliff and Dan Ancona, respectively: Inote is a Java-based program for image annotation; it can be run through the web or stand-alone (with the Java developer's kit). Demonstrations, further information, source code, help documents, and an email/hypermail list for bug reports and developers, are all available at: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/inote/ MU is a perl-based program that builds fill-out forms for SGML editing, based on simple templates. It supports lock files (for networked workgroups), and it is distributed with a TEI-lite template. Demonstrations, source code, help files, and an email list for bug reports and developers are available at: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/mu/ Inote will work on any platform that supports Java (Windows95/NT and most Unix platforms, but not Windows 3.1, and only to a limited extent on Macs). Mu will work with any browser that supports fill-out forms, but the main program needs to be installed on machine that runs Perl (Unix Web servers, and some other platforms). If your web server is configured to permit cgi in user directories, you will not need root/supervisor access to install MU. Please download these programs, experiment with them, and report your experiences to their respective email discussion lists. We will be releasing future versions of both packages, so your feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome. John Unsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ jmu2m@virginia.edu From: Subject: NEW: electronic thesis/diss site Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 11 (11) This is to announce a new web site I have developed for on-line references and resources related to electronic masters theses and doctoral dissertations (ETDs) in the humanities, including a directory of such work currently in progress: http://osi.lib.virginia.edu/ediss/ediss.html If you are a graduate student now at work on an ETD, please stop by and fill out a short form describing your project (available off of the "currently in progress" page). The information you provide will be added to the site's on-line ETD directory, which I hope will serve as a resource for other graduate students who are in the process of seeking approval for such work. I'd also like to hear from anyone who might have other suggestions as to the content or potential uses of this site. I envision it as a sort of clearing-house for ETD materials, including pointers to on-line initiatives and guidelines, publications, services, archived mailing-list discussions, and other relevant humanities computing materials. Some of the pages are stretched a bit thin, as ETDs have not attracted as much attention as other forms of scholarly electronic publishing; if you know of any ETD resources that I have not included, please tell me about them; also, please check back from time to time as the site expands. Potential audiences include not only graduate students but also faculty who want to make informed decisions about supervising an ETD, as well as librarians, administrators, and publishers. I have tentative plans to innaugerate a mailing list devoted to this topic as well. Please forward this announcement as seems appropriate, and please excuse cross-postings. Special thanks to the University of Virginia Library's On-Line Scholarship Initiative and Special Collections Deptartment for providing server space. Comments should be sent to me at the address below. ================================================================= Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k Electronic Text Center From: Subject: Re: 10.1 happy birthday to Humanist Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 12 (12) To the established teaching positions, add: "Informatica applicata alle Scienze Umane" at the Faculty of Letters, Rome University La Sapienza, which I keep after 2 years. Information: http://cisadu.let.uniroma1.it Tito Orlandi. From: "Peter Graham, RUL" Subject: Re: 10.4 citing Web documents Date: Tue, 7 May 96 23:10:16 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 13 (13) With all respect, I think Willard McCarty's musings on the value of impermanent scholarship verge too much on trendiness to be helpful. By which I mean he appears too easily to accept what presents itself as the current reality; I think it's important to lead the parade in the right direction rather than just join it. Certainly electronic communication is not like print and we can't try to apply all print models to it; but we can try to apply models or values that we think are important. One of those values is the idea that something worth saying is something worth keeping, which we have embedded in writing and printing and other marking ("recording") techniques. There are techniques in development that will allow us to keep what has been recorded electronically, and I look forward to having them in our quiver. The fact that a quantity of scholarship (and conversation in various media) is pretty disposable doesn't warrant not trying to keep what is valuable. Baby and bathwater here. (Certainly a lot of published material deserves ephemerality; in the first place, how do we judge it any better than the publishers; and in the second place, that's not an argument for ephemerizing it all.) I think WMcC is absolutely right in citing the Stanford economist (very possibly Ed Shaw--sounds like him) on the difficulty in changing the academic culture by changing publishing patterns. Makes it all the more important to try and to do it well. --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: Marta Steele Subject: transitory/permanent Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 14:05:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 14 (14) The notion of permanence in publishing is one of my favorite subjects/obsessions; not only does a paper/internet dichotomy make sense, substituting the internet for the strictly transitory, like stock market reports of the day, etc., but we need a third category, the "aei" element, which we must preserve for the remote future: the products of our research that we let die only at the peril of remote posterity: picture those poor souls having to reconstruct Greek from nothing but the hundreds of different ways that we transliterate it into the roman alphabet (ok, that's a slight exaggeration), if that happens to be the only Greek that remains due to natural forces and unnatural bellicose forms of destruction of various types. What I'm trying to say is that we ought to carve into stone, into eternity, what we have struggled so hard to reconstruct about classical civilization in even the last 200 years. Think how hard we had to work; think what they're having to do now to try to decipher what remains of the Dead Sea Scrolls; look what they had to do to decipher Linear B. All that is timeless and should be literally preserved via a medium more durable than (forgive me, this is my livelihood) even the book. What could that be? How can we transcend future holocausts and other natural destruction and preserve this category of knowledge for all time, to avoid future dark ages? I guess we have to turn to science? I'm sure there are ways, if we agree this is an important issue and resolve to address it. Marta Steele Princeton University Press From: Subject: HLT Survey on the WWW Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 15 (15) A book entitled "Survey of the State of the Art of Human Language Technology" is now available at http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/HLTsurvey/ . The survey consists of articles by 97 authors in the following chapters: 1. Spoken Language Input 2. Written Language Input 3. Language Analysis and Understanding 4. Language Generation 5. Spoken Output Technologies 6. Discourse and Dialogue 7. Document Processing 8. Multilinguality 9. Multimodality 10. Transmission and Storage 11. Mathematical Methods 12. Language Resources 13. Evaluation Within a few months, the Survey will be published as a book by Giardini Publishers in Italy and by Cambridge University Press elsewhere. The electronic version of the Survey will remain on-line, but will be modified slightly based on copy-editing by the publishers. The Survey was funded by the National Science Foundation and the European Commission, with additional support provided by the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at the Oregon Graduate Institute and the University of Pisa. Enjoy! Editorial Board Ron Cole Editor-in-Chief Joseph Mariani Hans Uszkoreit Annie Zaenen Victor Zue Managing Editors Giovanni Battista Varile Antonio Zampolli -------------------------------------------------- Vince Weatherill Center for Spoken Language Understanding Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology vincew@cse.ogi.edu 503-690-1142 __________________________________________________ From: Stephan Khinoy Subject: Re: 10.4 citing Web documents Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 23:47:46 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 16 (16) We can already cite ephemeral sources of information: "unpublished paper," "personal communication," and the like. When we post electronically, we have to be sure to list some actual-world coordinates like academic address, and we should be considerate in citing *our* sources and how we have treated them. In that way, when someone cites us, it will be a responsible citation. -- Stephan Khinoy From: Willard McCarty Subject: leading or pulling the parade? Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 00:11:53 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 17 (17) Opposition being true friendship, I am glad for Peter Graham's critical response in Humanist 10.8 to my notion that the e-medium, now transitory, should be used for transitory things. He says that I appear "too easily to accept what presents itself as the current reality; I think it's important to lead the parade in the right direction rather than just join it." This points to the question I was attempting to raise: when are we leading this parade, and when are we stubbornly forcing it to go contrary to its own genius, pulling it along against its will? I think it's important to feel the contrary tug, the essential resistance to our insensitive commandeering of one thing to be something else that it is not. I guess what Peter would say is that it's just as important to feel the cooperative willingness to follow. I think of the exercise known as "push hands" in Tai Chi Chuan. I am raising the question: which are we doing now in our efforts to make the electronic medium more permanent? WM From: "DONALD A. COLEMAN (EXT. 2850)" Subject: Re: Impermanence Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 13:19:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 18 (18) All interests Humanists: I hope no one will be disappointed to find a message like this one in the e-mail sack; assuredly it could seem like idle fantasy rather than responsible argument. All the same, the messages I've just been reading raise again in my mind a question which I've sometimes found myself asking: what do we of this scientized era suppose that future antiquarians a re going to do whith our scientized archives when the science that alone makes them useable has long since been forgotten? I think that at present a sort of evolutionist fabrication exists--indeed, a notion fashioned out of whole cloth--to the effect that science once done cannot be undone: that people in *our* future simply *couldn't* be antiquarians and, at the same time, have chosen classical understandings and a simple life over a world fashioned in the image and under the aegis of scientific technology. We have half a chance of deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls because we've had the wisdom to preserve, at least in some measure, the crafts of reading and writing, whose dependence on science is negligible. But if we ourselves can preserve our achievements only in ways radically dependent on science, do we not run the risk of depriving future civilizations of those achievements? I think that we can use science as an invaluable aid in preserving what we judge to be valuable, but I also think that in so doing we need to use wisdom. We need to provide access to the good things we have on the broadest possible terms. From: Subject: DRH'96 Programme & Registration Form Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 19 (19) DRH 96 digital resources for the humanities A Conference to be held at Somerville College, Oxford 1st - 3rd July 1996 The conference has been sponsored by: The British Library Cambridge University Press The Centre for Humanities Computing, Oxford The Centre for Information Management and Technology for Scholarship, London Guildhall University Chadwyck-Healey Ltd The CTI Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford The Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield The Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford The Institute for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University Conference Organisation The Conference is being organised by the Continuing Professional Development Centre of the University of Oxford. For queries or further information please contact: Christine Merle CPD Centre Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford 67 St Giles Oxford, OX1 3LU Tel: +44 1865 288166 Fax: +44 1865 288163 Email: christine.merle@conted.ox.ac.uk URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh96/ Advances in computing affect all who work with the fundamental resources of humanities scholarship. Long-held paradigms of scholarly resources-their ownership, their use, their distribution-are being transformed. Archivists, librarians, scholars, and publishers have to rework their relationships in this new information world, without losing sight of the traditional values of academic discourse. This conference will provide a forum to explore these changes and to seek the best ways to exploit them together.Please note that the programme is provisional at this stage, and that some papers, or entire sessions may need to be rearranged. A final programme will be provided at the conference, together with a book of abstracts. Sessions will run in parallel strands (usually three at a time) and there will be an exhibition running throughout the conference. Delegates wishing to demonstrate software during the conference are asked to apply as soon as possible to the Conference Co-ordinator. Conference Venue The conference will be held at Somerville College, Oxford. Somerville College was founded in 1879 to promote the higher education of women. More than one century later, and numbering many famous women amongst its old members including many heads of states, the College is ideally situated for conference delegates. It is just a few minutes from the centre of Oxford with its many historic college and university buildings, museums, libraries and art galleries. Oxford, which is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, has excellent rail and road links, with frequent bus and train services to London and other major cities. For international delegates, frequent coach services are available from the bus stations situated at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The journey from Heathrow Airport takes about one hour. Accommodation Accommodation will be provided in single study bedrooms which are comfortable, if unpretentious, with washbasin and shared bathroom facilities. The cost of accommodation for two nights - 1st and 2nd July - is included in the Conference Fee. If you would like additional accommodation for any of the following nights this is available at an additional charge of 30 pounds per night for bed and breakfast. Please indicate your requirements on the Registration Form. Dinners will not be provided at Somerville College on these additional nights. However there are plenty of excellent restaurant close to Somerville College and list of restaurants will be available at the Registration Desk.=20 Registration The conference will run from lunchtime on 1st July 1996 until lunchtime on 3rd July 1996. Accommodation and meals will be provided for all delegates at Somerville College. The full cost of the conference is 275 pounds sterling. This price includes accommodation for 2 nights of July 1st and 2nd, registration fee, conference proceedings, and all meals including dinner on 1st July and the conference banquet. A non-residential rate is also available and the charge for this is 225 pounds. This price includes the registration fee, conference proceedings, all meals including dinner on 1st July and the banquet on 2nd July. Partner rates are also available at 125 pounds. This price includes two nights accommodation (1st and 2nd July), Dinner on 1st July, Welcome Reception on 1st July and the Reception and Banquet on 2nd July (lunches and daytime refreshments are not included). A limited number of bursaries are available to students and non-waged persons and will be awarded in order of application. To qualify, please apply by 5th June, stating why you want to attend and what you hope to get out of the conference. The fee with a bursary will be half the quoted conference price.=20 Bank Charges: Delegates paying with cheques drawn on non-UK banks or by credit card (VISA or MASTERCARD only), should add an additional 15 pounds t= o cover bank charges. Please indicate on your registration form if you would like to pay by Credit Card or Bank Transfer. Cancellations: Full refunds of the Conference Fee, less 25% administration costs, are payable for cancellations received in writing on or before Monday 3rd June. After this date, no fees are refundable; however, substitutions can be made at any time and at no extra cost. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME MONDAY 1ST JULY 10.00-13.00 Registration 13.00-13.30 Lunch 14.00-14.15 Welcome 14.15-14.45 Introduction, Marilyn Deegan, The International Institute for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University, on behalf of the programme committee. 14.45-15.30 Keynote address Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey 15.30-16.00 Tea 16.00-17.30 1) Critical Editing in the Digital Age Donald Broady, Royal Institute of Technology/NADA, Stockholm, 'Digital Critical Editions. The Case of the Swedish National Edition of August Strindberg's Collected Works'. David R Chesnutt, University of South Carolina, & C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago and editor, Text Encoding Initiative, 'The Model Editions Partnership: Creating Editions of Historical Documents for the Digital Age'. John Lavagnino, Women Writers Project, Brown University, 'Reference and Allusion in Scholarly Writing, and the Problems they Pose for Digital Libraries'. 2) Digital Resources for Teaching Christian Kay, STELLA Project, University of Glasgow (chair). Ann Gow, STELLA Project, University of Glasgow, 'The COMET Project'. Jean Anderson, STELLA Project, University of Glasgow, 'A Guide to Scottish literature'. Michael Fraser, CTI Centre for Textual Studies, University of Oxford, 'Digital Resources and the Teaching of the Humanities'. 3) Workshop, 'Capturing Digital Images' Andrew Prescott, Manuscript Collection, British Library (chair) Hazel Podmore, Collections and Preservation, British Library Peter Carey, Collections and Preservation, British Library David French, Collections and Preservation, British Library Richard Masters, Document and Image Processing, British Library 18.30 Drinks Reception 19.30 Dinner TUESDAY 2ND JULY 9.00-10.30 1) Resources for Medieval Studies Michael Arnott, Iain Beavan, and Jane Geddes, University of Aberdeen, 'The Online Aberdeen Bestiary: Text and Hypertext'. Martin K Foys and James Caccamo, Loyola University, Chicago, 'A Digital Facsimile of the Bayeux Tapestry'. Carolyn Schriber, Rhodes College, 'The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies'. 2) Women's Archives. Julia Flanders, Women Writers Project, Brown University, 'Gender, Anxiety, and the Electronic Text'. Lesley Gordon, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 'The Gertrude Bell Archive.' Kathryn Sutherland, University of Nottingham,' Revising the Model: Computers, Women's Writings and the Protocols of Editing'. 3) Electronic Publishing Panel Andrew Rosenheim, Oxford University Press Kevin Taylor, Cambridge University Press Colin Day, University of Michigan Press 4) Editing Traditional Texts Peter Donaldson, MIT, 'Shakespeare Electronic Archive'. Timothy Finney, Baptist Theological College of Western Australia, Murdoch, 'Transcribing New Testament Manuscripts'. Speaker to be announced 10.30-11.00 Coffee 11.00-12.30 1) Digital Resources and the Text Encoding Initiative Milena Dobreva, Institute of Maths and Science, Sofia, 'Problems in Design and Use of TEI based Repertoire of Slavic Manuscripts'. Espen Ore, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, 'Runic Inscriptions meet TEI and its WSDs'. C M Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago and editor, Text Encoding Initiative,'What TEI Means for your Project'. 2) The York Doomsday Project Meg Twycross and Paul Williams, Lancaster University. 3) Workshop, 'Making an Electronic Edition of a Text in Many Versions' Peter Robinson, The International Institute for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University. 13.00-13.30 Lunch 14.00-15.30 1) Digitizing Visual Resources Manfred Thaller, Max-Planck Institut, G=F6ttingen, 'Objects as Digital Resources'. Jennifer Trant, Getty Art History Information Program, 'The Museum Educational Site Licensing (MESL) Project: Enabling Educational Use of Digital Museum Collections'. Joseph Viscomi, University of Virginia, 'Constructing the Blake Archive: A Progress Report'. 2) Networked Resources Colin Day, University of Michigan Press, 'Designing a Networked System for Disseminating Academic Writings'. Charles Henry, Vassar College, 'The American Arts and Letters Network: An Experiment in Web Communities'. Suzette Worden and Colin Beardon, Centre for Computers and Creative Work, University of Brighton, 'The Virtual Curator: Educational Software, the Context of Collaborative Development and Authorship'. 3) First Panel on 'Resource Providers and Services' The UK Arts and Humanities Data Service Harold Short, King's College, London (chair) Lou Burnard, Oxford University Daniel Greenstein, Director AHDS Executive 15.30- 16.00 1) Retrieving Digital Resources Rachel Heery, UKOLN, University of Bath, 'Resource Discovery Tools'. Lynn F Marko, Judith A. Ahronheim, and Kevin L. Butterfield, University of Michigan Library, 'The Humanities Text Initiative: A Collaboration Among Text Producers, Editors, and Cataloguers'. Jackie Shieh, University of Virginia Library, 'Overview on Organizing the Seemingly Unorganizable: Remote Access Files'. 2) Second Panel on 'Resource Services and Providers' International Aspects Daniel Greenstein, Director AHDS Executive (chair) Peter Doorn and Annuska Graver, Netherlands Historical Data Archive, 'Providing Digital Information for Historians'. David Green, Director American National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. Lyn Elliot Sherwood, Director Canadian Heritage Information Network. 3) Workshop 'Using Digital Images ' Andrew Prescott, Manuscript Collection, British Library (chair) Clive Izard, British Library Leona Carpenter, Computing and Telecommunications, British Library Phil Barden, Document Supply Centre, British Library 19.00 Drinks Reception 19.30 Conference Banquet After-dinner speaker Ron Zweig, Tel Aviv University WEDNESDAY 3RD JULY 9.00-10.30 1) Digital Case Histories David L Gants, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, 'Commercial Printing in Early Modern London: A Digital Case History'. Mary Keeler and Christian Kloesel '"Kantinuity" and the Evolution of Pragmatism in C S Peirce's Manuscripts'. Maria Sollohub, the Wittgenstein Archives, 'Choices in the Preparation of Electronic Manuscript Resources-the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen'. 2) Editions for the Future Peter Robinson, The International Institute for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University (chair) Richard Finneran, 'The Hypermedia Yeats'. Hoyt M Duggan, 'The Parts of an Electronic Archive: Documentary and Facsimile Editions of Piers Plowman Manuscripts'. George Landow, Brown University, Title to be advised. 3) The New Dictionary of National Biography (DNB): Computation and a large Cooperative Project Colin Matthew, Elizabeth Baigent, and Robert Faber. 10.30-11.00 Coffee 11.00-12.00 Keynote address David Greetham 12.00-12.30 Close of Conference 13.00-13.30 Lunch and departure - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -= =20 Conference Registration Form [A WWW form is available at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh96] Please register the following delegate for the conference (for multiple registrations or partners please complete seperate forms): Title (Dr/Mr/Ms etc).................................................. First Name............................................................ Family Name/Surname................................................... Position/Job Title.................................................... Organisation.......................................................... 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Tel: +44 (1865) 288166=20 Fax: +44 (1865) 288163.=20 Electronic forms may emailed to christine.merle@conted.ox.ac.uk From: Subject: optimism Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 20 (20) A fellow Humanist has taken me to task, gently but firmly, for the optimism in my birthday message. He asked me not to forward the note to the group, so I am doing the next best thing, which is to paraphrase his objection and then to reply. How possibly can anyone be optimistic when so much around us is shutting down and turning inward? The optimist is perhaps always a fool, sometimes only a little foolish, sometimes a big one. Thus the spectrum of possibilities I contemplate for myself. My intention was not, however, to ignore the realities, rather it was more a call to arms for those who still have the energy to raise them. The economy may be against us, the Zeitgeist may be a crabbed and selfish spirit, but our wisdom is needed and in some places is in demand. It may be that the intellectual life will move out of the university and that to live it will mean for most a choice between the sofa and the desk chair in the evening, but there seems no question at all that humanities computing will play a growing role in how this life is lived, despite all. Not for everyone, of course, but for many. There are strong forces at work. I referred in my birthday message to recognition at high levels of the academy that we must play a central role. At the same time, one of the principal barriers, the relegation of humanities computing to the role of a mere "service", makes less and less sense, even as budgetary forces oppose its advancement. A passage I keep returning to in this regard -- forgive me, no doubt I have quoted it before -- is from Jaroslav Pelikan's book, The Idea of the University, where briefly he touches on the role of technology in the changing structure of the institution. With your indulgence I will quote it here: "Just as the reexamination of the idea of the university implies new attention to university's definition of itself as a community in its teaching, so the definition of the university as a community of research requires significant reconsideration in the light of the "sisterly disposition" of the sciences toward one another. That applies in the first instance to those departments, agencies, and personnel of the university who usually stand outside the classroom but without whom research would halt. Because of its unique position among these as the heart of the university, the university library... must be seen as a collegial part of a total university network of support services for research, and the network must be seen as a free and responsible community if it is to be equal to the complexities that are faced by university-based research. Indeed, even such a term as "providers of support services" is becoming far too limited to describe both the skills and the knowledge required of those who hold such positions. Scholars and scientists in all fields have found that the older configurations of such services, according to which the principal investigator has the questions and the staff person provides answers, are no longer valid, if they ever were; as both the technological expertise and scholarly range necessary for research to grow, it is also for the formulation and refinement of the questions themselves that principal investigators have to turn to "staff", whom it is increasingly necessary -- not as a matter of courtesy, much less a matter of condescension, but as a matter of justice and of accuracy -- to identify instead as colleagues in the research enterprise." (Yale U.P., p. 62) I suggest that we adopt the term "collegial service" to describe what now must happen, and that we equate it to the service-component common to academic jobs in N. America and the U.K. Perhaps a mere term will help to blur or in some cases to erase the often sharp boundary of privilege. All this to prove my optimism. Comments? WM From: Subject: Pronouncing the "@" sign. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 21 (21) A discussion has been going on on ExLibris about the "@" sign and its origin (probably a medieval scribal abbreviation). Also at issue is its pronunciation in different languages. What does one say in German, French, Italian, and in the many non-European languages on the internet when in English one gives an e-mail address, say "jones@exeter.ac.uk" as "jones at exeter.ac.uk" (allowing for the fact that the period is uttered as "dot")? ******************************************************************************* Germaine Warkentin warkent@chass.utoronto.ca English, Victoria College, University of Toronto ******************************************************************************* From: Subject: Optimism, etc. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 22 (22) I thank Willard for taking the time to paraphrase my objections regarding his optimistic "call to arms." (I appreciated the quote from Pelikan.) One of my original questions, however, escaped his paraphrase. With regard to assessing the impact of humanities-computing in generating new employment opportunities, I wondered if conflating the American and Canadian situations might conceal as much as it reveals. I've had numerous interviews for professional and professional-academic, humanities-computing positions in the States, but where are the positions in Canada? I *sense* that despite the "supranationalism" that "global" networking perpetuates (and, to a large degree, precipitates) we (i.e. Canadians) should not be too quick to conflate the Canadian and American situations in offering an overall assessment of the impact of humanities-computing. I may be way out in left field on this one, but I would appreciate comments and comparisons between the two situations. BTW, where can one go to find "solid data" with which to assess the impact that humanities-computing has had on North American universities? Best, Todd P.S. I apologize for focussing on North American issues in an international forum. _____________________________________________________ Todd Blayone - tblayone@peinet.pe.ca Project Coordinator, Chorus Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/blayone/todd.html From: Subject: First International Virtual Conference on Mad Science Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 23 (23) IVCMS'96 Things are getting tough for mad scientists, apparently. According to Michael Smith, in "The cyberspatial return of the mad scientist. Quick, Igor", (Mind & Matter, The Globe and Mail, 11/5/96), research grants for maniacal science are rare, and those castles in the Carpathian Mountains "now tend to be occupied by New York yuppies with their own private Learjets. The supply of spinally challenged troglodytes named Igor has all but disappeared. 'Plus', as one mad scientist put it, 'you can't get insurance.'" Thus ICVMS'96, intended "to reverse this distressing trend, put mad science back on the world agenda, and in the words of the organizer Paul Schleifer, 'replace the old drooling maniac stereotype of the mad scientist with a new drooling-maniac image that is more appropriate to the modern era.'" ICVMS'96 is taking its virtual place online, "which makes it possible to hold such an event 'without the usual overheads of building baroque laboratories, finding formaldehyde-free corpses and liberating prospective contributors from their respective institutions.'" Visiting Mr. Schleifer's Web site, at the URL http://www.ftech.co.uk/~madsite/ as the "the 7552nd aspirant delver into Things Best Left Unknown since 9 February 1996", I found the following statement of the conference theme: --------------------------------------------------------------------- THEME Mad science is a much maligned domain of human knowledge and its practitioners have for too long been relegated to B-movies and remote ancestral estates. IVCMS provides an international forum for the presentation, discussion and extension of research into these darkly powerful pseudosciences and dangerous technologies which fall beyond the scope of conventional science and good taste. The purpose of the conference is to promote a general understanding of mad topics within the broader scientific community, to encourage new researchers to dabble with things best left alone, to attract commercial sponsors to the potential benefits of mad science in the business world, and to replace the old drooling maniac stereotype of the mad scientist with a new drooling maniac image which is more appropriate to the modern era. The conference is hosted on the Web to avoid the overheads of unpredictable atmospheric conditions and revolting peasants. 44 candidate delegates are currently in attendance and available to discuss their papers in the Mad Science Masquerade. Correspondence from other mad scientists may also be viewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Schleifer and his colleagues are now evaluating these 44 contributions for inclusion in the final conference programme. He plans to set up an Internet chat line on 24 June "for live (and possibly undead) discussion of those that make the cut." Mr. Schleifer is a PhD candidate at a London university that he wisely prefers not to have named. I am very much hoping that he is doing his work at King's. Just what would a mad humanist be like? Nominations are open. WM From: Subject: Call for Papers: ANTICOMODERNO Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 24 (24) _________________________________________________________ CHORUS http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/chorus.html _________________________________________________________ Chorus (HCR) still needs reviewers for the following items: (Due June 30) 2.Web Squirrel Mac OS-based hypertext/WWW software by Eastgate 3.Cyborg: Engineering The Body Electric Mac OS/Windows, non-fiction (Storyspace) hypertext by Diane Greco, published by Eastgate 6.CorelXara CD-ROM-based, 32-bit Windows graphics application for Internet illustration (Due July 30) 2.Corel WordPerfect Suite CD-ROM-based, 16-bit Windows applications suite published by Corel 3.World History 1996 Multimedia Mac OS/Windows CD-ROM by the Bureau of Electronic Publishing, Inc. 4.Great Authors Multimedia, Mac OS/Windows 3 CD-ROM set featuring "Much Ado about Shakespeare," "Like the Dickens," and "Twain's World" 5.Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier Book edited by Robin P. Peek and Gregory B. Newby (MIT Press) Prospective reviewers should send the following information to chorus@peinet.pe.ca. (Please include "HCR Review" in your subject line.) Your Name Position/Institutional affiliation Surface address Software title Brief statement of your qualifications _____________________________________________________ Todd Blayone - tblayone@peinet.pe.ca Project Coordinator, Chorus Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/blayone/todd.html From: Fabio Ciotti Subject: Call for Papers: ANTICOMODERNO Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 02:02:02 -100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 25 (25) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: June 15, 1996 For the next issue of ANTICOMODERNO, whose topic will be the Philology from Ancients to Moderns, with a section dedicate to the application of computing to textual criticism, the editors are seeking potential contributors. Below will follow a brief description of the magazine in Italian and in English. ------------------------------------------------------------ Italian version AnticoModerno e' una collana di fascicoli a tema nata per iniziativa di alcuni dottorandi di ricerca in filologia romanza e italianistica dell'Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" accomunati dall'esigenza di approfondire lo studio di determinati fenomeni su una base temporale ampia, nel tentativo di disegnare dei percorsi che dagli antichi arrivino sino ai moderni in una prospettiva di massima apertura ideologica verso strumenti e tecniche di ricerca. Una versione elettronica della rivista e' in preparazione e sara' ospitata dalla home page del CRILet (Centro Ricerche Informatica e Letteratura) [URL:http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/crilet] e dal Progetto Manuzio [URL:http://www.liberliber.it]. Ogni numero e' strutturato in tre sezioni: parte monografica, miscellanea e di recensioni/bilanci, tutte ruotanti attorno ad un tema centrale. Il primo volume (Convergenze Testuali) si e' occupato della riprese intertestuali a distanza, con l'attenzione rivolta soprattutto alle riprese di auctoritates classiche e medievali da parte di autori contemporanei; il secondo (La metrica. La sestina e le sue derivazioni) si e' invece concentrato su una forma metrica specifica, cercando di approfondire il senso storico di un fenomeno e la sua portata generale nella prospettiva ampia della tradizione e trasformazione delle forme metriche, dal medioevo ad oggi. Nella sezione miscellanea hanno trovato spazio contributi su varie forme metriche in diverse epoche e letterature, mentre una conclusiva sezione di bilanci fa il punto su alcuni temi specifici. Il prossimo volume sara' dedicato alla Filologia degli Antichi e dei Moderni con l'intento di osservare metodi e lavoro filologico dall'eta' umanistica alle moderne sperimentazioni informatiche. Il dibattito teorico provocato dalla rapida introduzione di nuove tecnologie al servizio della ricerca filologica impone una approfondita riflessione sul senso e i modi della critica testuale oggi; articoli relativi ad esperienze di ricerca e considerazioni metodologiche sono la richiesta che rivolgiamo a tutti coloro i quali intendano collaborare con noi a definire nuovi scenari per la filologia. I contributi non dovranno superare le 20 cartelle Invitiamo ad inviare dei brevi abstract dei contributi proposti entro la data del 15 giugno 1996 ai seguenti indirizzi e:mail: ciotti@ axrma.uniroma1.it bertolo@axrma.uniroma1.it ------------------------------------------------------------ English version AnticoModerno is a periodical publication realized by some PHD students and researchers in Romance Philology and Italian Literary Studies at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Their main aim is to deepen the study of philological phenomena on a long temporal basis, to find research paths that come from Ancients to Moderns, without ideological inclination towards any methodological perspective . An electronic version of the magazine is forthcoming and will be hosted by CRILet home page (Center for Resarch in Computing and Literary Studies) [URL:http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/crilet] and by Progetto Manuzio [URL:http://www.liberliber.it]. Each issue is divided in three sections: a monographic section, a miscellaneous section and a reviews section, all addressing one central theme. First issue (Convergenze testuali), has addressed the questions of intertextuality, with a special attention to the emergence of passages from classical auctoritates in contemporary writers; second issue (La metrica. La sestina e le sue derivazioni) was centered on a particular metrical form, the sextine, in the effort to understand the historical sense of a metrical phenomenon, and is influence in the history and evolution of metrical forms from the Middle Age to today. Next issue will be dedicated to The Philology on Ancients and Moderns. The intention of the editors is to examine the methodology of philological activity from Humanism to the contemporary computational experiments. The theoretical debate caused by the rapid introduction of computing in philological and human studies requires a serious consideration on the meaning and methodology of textual criticism. The editors are seeking for contributions on these topics: proposed papers, that should not be longer than 20 pages, can be focused on methodological and theoretical problems as much as on practical experiments and applications. Abstract of proposed papers describing themes and issues of the contribution can be sent by June 15 1996 to the following e:mail addresses: ciotti@axrma.uniroma1.it bertolo@axrma.uniroma1.it From: "Peter Graham, RUL" Subject: the parade Date: Mon, 13 May 96 9:18:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 26 (26) Willard McCarty responds to my concern about the parade and whether to lead or join it with more politeness than I probably deserve. He is certainly right that we may be whipping the sea, that is resisting the natural tendency of the medium. I think what I want to suggest is that it's important we do so. I know however that at times I feel some despair in being able to preserve anything in this environment (and even at times some despair at preserving the culture in any form past a few hundred years, really.) I am reminded, and I suspect that the example works both for and against my case, of what we now know of Homeric epic. It was preserved in spite of the transitoriness of the medium--oral repetition--which arguably is even more transitory than magnetic domains on disks. The mechanisms for preserving it included the many adjectival and adverbial phrases qualifying names and places and things ("wine-dark sea" being the stereotypical example), which apparently did duty as placeholders to piece out the line, as mechanisms for jogging the speaker's memory, and as time-fillers to allow the speaker's memory to work better (I'm sure I've oversimplified and corrupted the real case here). The result was a preservation in a form that was different from the original, whatever that was or if it ever could be said to have existed; yet, it was a preservation; the need was there, felt and responded to. In Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, his leading man Septimus Hodge dismisses the loss of history as unimportant, for we will discover it all again and we only have what we need anyway. Thomasina, the young prodigy whom he tutors, is desolate at the loss of so many Greek plays and of so much history. I'm on Thomasina's side. --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: "Peter Graham, RUL" Subject: Re: 10.10 citation and impermanence Date: Thu, 9 May 96 21:49:31 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 27 (27) And do not Willard's comments in his next message on Optimism come to bear here? Is it not optimistic to assume we can save human thought in spite of the transience of the medium? Now *there's* a triumph over nature! Should we not be optimistic? 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: Marta Steele Subject: permanence Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:33:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 28 (28) The future will always rely on the past. I'm just concerned with preserving everything we have so laboriously had to rediscover, which previous generations, for one reason or another, lost. How can we demonstrate more concern for remote posterity than the past ever demonstrated for us? What is the ultimate foresight anyway? And what have we accomplished that is most important to preserve? I reread my posting yesterday and it sounded narrow because of my particular concentrations; I'm sure others in other fields may have similar, parallel concerns? That's all I want to know. Bury a time capsule, made of indelible lead? Bury several of them? Who knows? Marta Steele From: Subject: Re: 10.1 happy birthday to Humanist Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 29 (29) First, congratulations, Willard and others, on Humanist's Anniversary. And, further, special congratulations to you Willard (from a Brit who got a Master's from King's College, London) on your new appointment at King's. I wanted to pick up on your citing the ACLS panel meeting on "Internet-Accessible Scholarly Resources" held during its recent conference in DC. The panel, as you stated, certainly marks ACLS' continuing and concerted efforts at working to address the issues of computing in the humanities, that goes back several years. One thing you didn't mention, however, was that, as executive director of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (affectionately known as NINCH), I chaired and introduced the panel. This was no accident. NINCH was founded by ACLS, working co-equally with the Coalition for Networked Information and Getty AHIP, as a coalition of arts and humanities organizations to help coordinate and lead the way in preparing cultural resources for life on the Internet. ACLS has been a leader in looking at the implications of advancing technologies, especially digital technologies, for scholars in the humanities for many years, and the panel was one way of introducing NINCH to its membership. We are still very young (I came aboard in early March) but NINCH's 23 charter members, ranging from the Smithsonian and Library of Congress to the American Historical Association and the National Association of Artists Organizations, show an interest in learning about the techniques, the advancing technologies, and current projects in representing cultural resources in useful and accessible ways online. They have a lot to learn from each other and one of the challenges facing NINCH is to relate and coordinate the approaches, issues and achievements of the different sectors and disciplines of the (mostly nonprofit) cultural enterprise. One of the most interesting aspects of working on NINCH is comparing different national approaches to this immense opportunity of representing the breadth of cultural resources online in effective and usable forms. Unlike many European countries, there is, characteristically, no centralized national plan for doing this. An opportunity for comparing approaches will be afforded at the DRH 96 conference this July in Oxford. Dan Greenstein from the British Arts & Humanities Data Service will be chairing a session on Tuesday July 2 in which AHDS will be seen alongside NINCH, the Canadian Heritage Information Network (Lyn Elliot Sherwood) and the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (Peter Doorn and Annuska Graver). NINCH's strategy is still evolving: an initial plan will be available this summer. Any questions or those interested in talking further about how NINCH can best operate should e-mail me at david@cni.org. [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Call for Papers - South African Theatre Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 30 (30) On behalf of a colleague at the Open University: The Open University Post-Colonial Literatures Group CALL FOR PAPERS SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE AS/AND INTERVENTION Papers are invited for a conference on South African Theatre that aims to explore the idea of intervention. We welcome wide-ranging approaches to a re-evaluation of South African Theatre in the post-apartheid era. This is an opportunity to examine strategies of intervention among stage, audience, theatrical forms, critical methodologies, canonical and new texts, well-established and fledgling playwrights, new identities. We are especially interested in the body as a site of race, gender, class, and sexual difference. In re-thinking what we mean by South African Theatre we expect to focus on theoretical, theatrical, and/or societal issues. We anticipate papers that will: investigate the conditions of representation of theatre as intervention, stage interventions in interpretations of South African Theatre, and question the changing role of theatre as an interventionary vehicle. In addition to academic papers three playwrights from South Africa, including the Southern Arts Visiting Writer, Fatima Dike, will participate in a panel discussion and will give readings. Dr. Dennis Walder and I are negotiating the publication of selected papers and the playwrights' panel for submission by the end of 1996. Dates: 30-31st August, 1996. Conference Venue: Centre for English Studies, Seminar Room 362, Senate House, Malet Street, London. Please send abstracts of 200 words for 20-30 minute papers by May 20th, 1996 (although this date is 'negotiable' in view of the nearness of the 20th) to: Marcia Blumberg email: M.Blumberg@OPEN.AC.UK The Open University Phone: 01908 - 652092 Department of Literature Fax: 01908 - 653750 Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA United Kingdom _________________________________________________________________________ Cheers Simon _________________________________________________________________________ Simon Rae : 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 The URL for the OU's WWW home page is : http://www.open.ac.uk/ From: Dennis Cintra Leite Subject: FW: 10.8 impermanence Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 13:11:37 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 31 (31) The cost of electronic storage is falling exponentially. The space needed for this storage is becoming infinitesimal as compared to a "paper" library. There is no valid excuse for junking any bibliographical material whatsoever. I would go as far as saying that throwing away information is a crime against humanity, closely akin to book burning. As to the relevance and/or value of this material that is a matter for present and future scholars to study, judge, say and publish but never to destroy. -------------------------------------- dennis cintra leite dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br sao paulo business school (eaesp/fgv) snail mail:av.9 de julho 2029 sao paulo, sp 01313-902 brazil py2-etn From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.14 citation and impermanence Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 18:24:44 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 32 (32) First of all let me say that I am a bit outside scholarly citation and impermanence of electronic records in my work. But I am inside because I deal in public electronic records. I have been very concerned with the impermanence of electronic records with the mistakes that crop up when older backups are mistakenly put on the public systems. Files that go random. In my field we have multiple backups of electronic data, print it out hardcopy and/or microfilm off screen everything. With the worst case we can reconstruct from microfilm. If you have enough places where you have stored copies and if you keep updating the technology so you can retreve the data then you will be ok. If I know my history we have this problem everytime a new technology comes along. And things just get lost. Wars, fires, floods, ignorance all have lost infomation in the past. But so has technology. When we went from scrolls to codex's we lost many books because no one cared enough to copy them. As I recall some Roman poet's work survived in only one copy that was copied in the 14th century. An then the original copy was lost. We need to make sure that information gets spread around to everyone. That is the only way I can see that it can be saved. From: henrich@theol.unizh.ch Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 08:50:26 +0200 (MEST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 33 (33) Usually I say "at" even when speaking German (and I think this is the original meaning of the sign). In Swiss German, we call it "Affenschwanz" (which means monkey-tail). In Germany, it is called "Klammeraffe" (spider-monkey). -- 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 Switzerland http://www.unizh.ch/irg/henrich.html From: Lepine Brigitte Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 19:58:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 34 (34) What does one say in German, [deleted quotation]In French (here, in Montreal), I usually hear "a commercial" (which is of course "commercial a". B.Lepine lepineb@ere.umontreal.ca From: Attachment Research Center Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 20:50:29 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 35 (35) @ is "arroba" in Spanish; pronounced ah-'roh-bah JC Garelli ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Juan Carlos Garelli, MD, PhD Department of Early Development University of Buenos Aires From: iwml Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 01:08:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 36 (36) Never mind the "@" sign! On this side of the Atlantic, a period is a full stop in English! Ian Mitchell LAmbert University of KEnt at Canterbury From: Joseph Galron Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 20:52:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 37 (37) Concerning the"@" sign: in Israel, among many compute wizards, this sign is called "Strudel" (because of the shape of an Apfelstrudel) Joseph Galron ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph (Yossi) Galron | Internet: jgalron@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Jewish Studies Librarian | galron.1@osu.edu Ohio State University Libraries | or jgalron@aleph.lib.ohio-state.edu 308 Main Library | URL http://aleph.lib.ohio-state.edu From: kosters@rulub4.LeidenUniv.nl Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 09:15:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 38 (38) Here in The Netherlands many of us say *apestaartje* (i.e. *monkey's tail*) or *slingeraap* (i.e. spider monkey, according to the dictionary) for *@*. The habit usually stops from the moment we know what *@* really means (i.e. *at*). OnnOKosters From: "Charles C. Hadley" Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Tue, 14 May 96 12:38:28 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 39 (39) In French I sometimes say "at" (in English), sometimes "arobace" (the French name for the typographic character), sometimes "a" with circular gesticulations. the "dot" is "point", incidentally. -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- Charles C. Hadley, Doyen ! ...by these [words] be admonished: Faculte des Langues ! of making many books there is Universite Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 ! no end, and much study is a 74 rue Pasteur ! weariness of the flesh 69002 Lyon, France ! --Ecclesiates 12:12 phone (33) 72 72 20 88 ! hadley@univ-lyon3.fr ! -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- .... . From: Willard McCarty Subject: @ Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 08:03:37 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 40 (40) Perhaps someone more learned in palaeography than I will confirm that the @, "at-sign", is derived from the minuscule letter "a" by extending the terminal stroke (at the lower right-hand corner) counterclockwise up and over the top of the letter, then around it to the base-line. It is, I think, a "commercial a" in the sense that it was used by if not devised to serve those transcribing items with their prices, "5 pounds of potatoes AT 2 cents per pound". It would be interesting if in any language other than English the sense of "at" were to be used in speaking the @. WM Willard McCarty, Univ. of Toronto || Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~mccarty/wlm/ From: Dennis Cintra Leite Subject: RE: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 13:17:22 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 41 (41) In Portuguese we would say "arroba" - the reason being that the @ sign is used as notation for a measure of weight (non metric, equivalent to about 15 kilograms and somewhat obsolete) with that pronunciation. From: Subject: Annual Review online Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 42 (42) We've been mulling over doing part of our annual review process online since it currently generates such a cumbersome pile of paper which costs our department a good deal to reproduce. As a multi-campus department, moving information around on paper is a big problem. Switching to HTML annual reviews would save on material costs (of course at the expense of materially increasing the labor for the person being reviewed); but we are worried about confidentiality. Most people don't mind having their vitas on the Web, but student evaluations, work-in-progress, and a lot of other things shouldn't be there. I just realized that one could submit an electronic report on diskette, with relative links to confidential documents on the same disk and absolute links to materials mounted publically on the Web. (Our office computers all have ethernet connections to the Web.) Has anybody ever tried anything like this? How did it work? Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians From: Subject: Re: 10.19 @ = Affenschwanz, Klammeraffe, a commercial, Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 43 (43) arroba, Strudel, apestaartje, slingeraap, arobace -- FULL STOP! In Swedish, @ is called "snabel-a" (a with a trunk) or "kanelbulle" (cinnamon bun, from its similarity in shape), or, more soberly, "at" (i. e. the English word). From: Subject: Teaching and Language Corpora 96 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 44 (44) CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS TALC96 - TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA Lancaster University, UK, 9th-12th August, 1996 INCLUDED IN THIS EMAIL: General Details Provisional Programme Registration Details AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE While the use of computer text corpora in research is now well established, they are now being used increasingly for teaching purposes. This includes the use of corpus data to inform and create teaching materials; it also includes the direct exploration of corpora by students, both in the study of linguistics and of foreign languages. Talc96 will build upon the success of Talc94, which brought together researchers and teachers who are involved in such work, to take part in an international exchange of current experience and expertise. THEMES KEY THEME: Talc96 will have a special focus on evaluating the claims made for corpora in linguistics and language teaching. OTHER THEMES: which the conference is expected to cover include - 1.) The use of corpora in student led learning and investigation. 2.) Software for corpus based language and linguistics learning. 3.) Developing corpora for teaching purposes. 4.) The exploitation of corpus based teaching and learning materials. 5.) The theory and practice of corpus based teaching and learning. Papers presented at the conference will be of the typical 20 minutes talk plus ten minutes of questions format. WORKSHOPS Talc96 will also host several workshops related to teaching and language corpora. To give an example of what those workshops may be, Talc94 had a variety of workshops such as "Multilingual Corpus Building" and "Concordancing and Corpus Retrieval". Workshops will be of one to two hour duration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TALC96 - Provisional Programme. Day One (9th August): 09.00 - 13.00: Registration and Welcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.00 - 15.00: General Issues in Teaching and Language Corpora I 1. Issues in Applied Corpus Linguistics, Lynne Flowerdew, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2. Corpus Linguistics - evaluating the diffusion of an innovation, Chris Kennedy, University of Birmingham 3. Concordancing in English Language Teaching, Bernhard Kettemann, University of Graz 4. The Role of the Corpus Based 'Phrasicon' in English Language Teaching, Stephen Magee, University of St Andrews and Michael Rundell ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15.00 - 15.30: Refreshments Break ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15.30 - 17.00: Creating Materials and Tests 1. CALL Materials Derived from Integrating 'Expert' and 'Interlanguage' Corpora Findings, Lynne Flowerdew, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2. Multilingual concordance-based exercise types, Francine Roussel, University of Nancy 3. Using Corpus Word Frequency Data in the Automatic Generation of English Language Cloze Tests, David Coniam, Chinese University of Hong Kong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19.00 Dinner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Day Two (10th August) 9.00-11.00: Parallel Corpora in Language Teaching and Translation 1. Parallel Texts in Language Teaching, Michael Barlow, Rice University 2. Corpora and Terminology: Software for the Translation Programme at Goteborg University, Pernilla Danielson and Daniel Ridings, Goteborg University 3. Parallel and Comparable Bilingual Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning, Carol Peters, CNR, Pisa. 4. COSMAS - a multipurpose system for the exploitation of text corpora, F Bodmer, J Cloeren and R Neumann, Institut fur Deutsche Sprache and Royal Spanish Academy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.00 Refreshments Break ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.30 - 13.00: Teaching Languages other than English Using Corpora 1. An Experiment in the Learning of French through Corpus Linguistics, Glyn Holmes, University of Western Ontario 2. A Corpus for Teaching Portuguese, A. Berber Sardinha, University of Liverpool 3. Research into the Functions of Particles in a Corpus, Marta Fernandez-Villaneuva ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13.00 Lunch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14.30-18.00: Workshops (Parallel Sessions) Parallel Workshop Session A Michael Barlow (Rice University) "ParaConc" (14:30 - 16:00) Chris Tribble (Lancaster University): "Developing Corpora for Teaching Purposes" (14:30 - 16:00) Parallel Workshop Session B Philip King, Tim Johns, David Wools (Birmingham University): "The Lingua Project - Parallel Concordancing" (16:00 - 18:00) Knut Hofland, "The ICAME Archive & Concordancing" (Bergen University) (16:00 - 18:00) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.00: Dinner -------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Three (11th August) 9.00-11.00: Corpora in Supporting ESP/EAP 1. Encouraging Students to Explore Language and Culture in Early Modern English Pamphlets, Josef Schmied, University of Chemnitz 2. The Ideology of Science as a Collocation: how Corpus Linguistics can Expand the Boundaries of Genre Analysis, Chris Gledhill, Aston University 3. Corpora, Genre Analysis and Dissertation Writing: An Evaluation of the Potential of Corpus-Based Techniques in the Study of Academic Writing, Chris Carne, University of Reading 4. Investigating Grounding Across Narrative and Oral Discourse with Students, Tony Jappy, University of Perpignan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.00: Refreshments ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.30 - 13.00: Corpora Supporting Aspects of Language Pedagogy 1. Roberta Facchinetti: The exploration of English diachronic corpora by foreign language students 2. Paul Bowden, Mark Edwards, Peter Halstead and Tony Rose: Knowledge extraction from corpora for pedagogical applications 3. Mary-Ellen Okurowski: Using Authentic Corpora and Language Tools for Adult-Centered Learning ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.00 Lunch ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.30-16.00: Corpora and Student Writing 1. Exploiting Learner Corpus Data in the Classroom: Form Focused Instruction and Data Driven Learning, Sylviane Granger, Universite Catholique de Louvain 2. Approaching the Assessment of Performance Unit Archive of Schoolchildren's Writing from the Point of View of Corpus Linguistics, M. Shimazumi & A Berber Sardinha, University of Liverpool 3. Teaching L1 and L2 composition in a multicultural environment, Robert Faingold, University of Tulsa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.00: Refreshments ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.30-18.00: Special Session on the British National Corpus 16:30 The British National Corpus as a Language Learner Resource, Guy Aston,University of Bologna 17:00 An Introduction to Retrieval from the BNC Using Sara, Lou Burnard, OUCS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.00 Dinner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.00: Software Demonstrations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Four (12th August) 9 am-11.00: Corpus Resources and Systems 1. Teaching Terminology Using Corpora, Jennifer Pearson, Dublin City University 2. A Textual Clues Approach for Generating Metaphors as Explanations by an Intelligent Tutoring System, V. Prince & S. Ferrari, LIMSI-CNRS 3. Designing a CALL System Using Corpora for Speakers of Cantonese, John Milton, City University Hong Kong 4. Marrying VERBALIST to concordance data, John Higgins, University of Stirling ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.00: Refreshments ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.30-13.00: General Issues in Teaching and Language Corpora II 1. Evaluating Corpora - are we Asking the Right Questions?, Marina Dossena, Bergamo University 2. Corpus Linguistics as an Academic Subject, Ourania Hatzidaki, University of Birmingham 3. A Corpus Based Description of Headline Grammar, John Morley, University of Sienna ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.00-14.30: Lunch ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.30: Close of Conference ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================= TALC96 REGISTRATION. ==================== To register, you may either: 1. Send this form by surface mail to: TALC96, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YT United Kingdom 2. Or fax it to: +44 - 1524 - 843085 3. Or email it to: mcenery@computing.lancaster.ac.uk or mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk 4. Or fill in the interactive form on the World Wide Web at the URL http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/talc/ Please register BEFORE 1st June 1996, otherwise we cannot guarantee availability of accommodation. 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Special dietary requirements: None [ ] Vegetarian [ ] Vegan [ ] Other [ ] Please specify: _______________ ______________________________ Any other comments: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Local Organising Committee Gerry Knowles - Lancaster University, UK Tony McEnery - Lancaster University, UK Anne Wichmann - Central Lancashire University, UK Simon Botley - Lancaster University, UK General Organising Committee Bernhard Kettemann - Graz, AU Lou Burnard - Oxford University, UK Tim Johns - Birmingham University, UK From: Richard Bear Subject: Montagu Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 17:00:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 45 (45) Richard Bear, Admissions, has published a new WWW (html) edition of his Selected Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu at the URL: <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montagu.html>. Richard Bear rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu From: Khalid Choukri Subject: ELRA - JOB ADVERTISEMENT FOR A LANGUAGE RESOURCES CONSULTANT Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:58:52 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 46 (46) JOB ADVERTISEMENT FOR A LANGUAGE RESOURCES CONSULTANT (Please forward to whom it may concern and accept our apologies, if you receive this more than once) JOB ADVERTISEMENT FOR A LANGUAGE RESOURCES CONSULTANT The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) was established in February 1995, with the encouragement of the European Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (LR). Language Resources include all data necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and terminology. The role of the non-profit Association is to promote the production of LR and to collect, validate, and make them available to users. It will gather information on market needs and encourage the Commission and other funding bodies to support the development of the LR most urgently needed. The Association has members drawn from every country in the European Union and expects to attract subscribers from throughout the world. At present, ELRA is financed from membership fees and grants; in the future the Association will derive income from the sale of licences to users world wide. After an initial start-up period of four years, it is planned that the Association will be financially independent and self-supporting. more information about ELRA available from the web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ELRA is seeking someone to undertake a short-term (3-4 months) full-time temporary contract related to Language Resources identification. The appropriate candidate should be well-established in the field, having a thorough knowledge of the Language Resources (LRs) area. He or she should also be aware of related ongoing projects within the EU, and be willing to devote his or her time to this work. This will carried out in coordination with ELRA experts and under the ELRA's CEO supervision. (Citizenship of, or residency papers for an EU country required) The tasks to be carried out are briefly summarized below. 0. Proposition for a workplan (tasks, budget). 1. Listing the major written corpora and lexicon resources (state of the Art) 2. Contacting potential suppliers to complete / review the list 3. Identifying the technical work that is still to be done (estimating the effort of packaging the data into a marketable product) 4. Ascertaining the legal situation regarding ownership and copyright 5. Negotiating the marketing of such resources through ELRA/ELDA and estimating the revenues/costs-effectiveness. 6. Signing "letter of intent" for such marketing arrangements on behalf of ELRA/ELDA. 7. Reporting to the CEO and handling over all information for contract conclusion with priorities/hierarchies set up regarding the each resources. The work is planned for a period of three months starting by the 20th of May. A list of deliverables should be produced: D1 - A list of LRs suppliers (with identified LRs) to be approached, "letter of intent" sample due 30 May D2 - First progress Report, due 30 June D3 - Second progress Report, due 30 July D4 - Estimates for product collection D5 - Signed letters of intent D4 and D5 are due by September 10th. The sub-contract will be split onto two phases: Phase 1: Tasks 1 and 2, Deliverable D1 Phase 2: Tasks 3 to 7, Deliverables D2 to D7, Compensation: A Basic sub-contract for phase 1 will be concluded and then a second one for phase 2. Compensation will be based on the number of agreements that will be concluded ("bonus performance"). A separate budget will be allowed for Travel expenses. For more information please contact: Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA Executive Director Tel. +33 1 45 86 53 00 Fax. +33 1 45 86 44 88 87, Avenue D'ITALIE, 75013 PARIS Email: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr Web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ..................................... From: Bernhard Schroeder Subject: Autumn school of the GLDV, 1996 Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:58:42 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 47 (47) The following announcement of the autumn school of the GLDV in 1996 may be of interest for members of this list. Best wishes, Bernhard Schroeder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A N K "U N D I G U N G GLDV Herbschule '96 Herausforderungen an die Computerlinguistik: Multilingualit"at, Multimedialit"at, Multidisziplinarit"at 23. - 27. September 1996 an der Otto-von-Guericke Universit"at Magdeburg ========================================================== Kursangebot: (je Kurs 5 * 1,5 Stunden): Elisabeth Andre' (DFKI Saarbr"ucken): Intelligente multimediale Benutzerschnittstellen John Bateman (GMD Darmstadt): Multilinguale Sprachgenerierung f"ur Informationssysteme Hans Haller (IAI Saarbr"ucken): Kontrollierte Sprache und Tools Roland Hausser (Universit"at Erlangen-N"urnberg): Semantisches Parsing Chris Mellish (Universit"at Edinburgh): Angewandte automatische Generierung von Texten und Hypertexten Dietmar R"osner (Universit"at Magdeburg): Wissensrepr"asentation mit terminologischen Logiken Wir versuchen, vor allem f"ur Studenten aus Osteuropa Stipendien vergeben zu k"onnen. Bitte senden Sie Ihre Bewerbung an uns. Fr"uhanmeldungen bis 30. Juni 1996: Mitglieder der GLDV Nichtmitglieder Studenten: 80,-- DM 100,-- DM Sonstige : 120,-- DM 150,-- DM Anmeldungen nach dem 30. Juni 1996: Mitglieder der GLDV Nichtmitglieder Studenten: 120,-- DM 160,-- DM Sonstige : 140,-- DM 200,-- DM Weitere Informationen, mit u.a. einer Beschreibung der einzelnen Kurse, "Ubernachtungsm"oglichkeiten, Wegbeschreibungen und einem Anmeldeformular werden auf der Homepage der Herbstschule ver"offentlicht: http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/herbstschule96.html Wenn Sie ein Bett in der Jugendherberge reservieren wollen, vermerken Sie dies bitte im Anmeldeformular. ========================================================== Otto-von-Guericke Universit"at Magdeburg Institut f"ur Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme Prof. Dr. Dietmar R"osner Universit"atsplatz 2 D-39106 Magdeburg tel: +49/391/67-1 87 18 fax: +49/391/67-1 20 18 email: herbstschule@iik.cs.uni-magdeburg.de www: http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/herbstschule96.html From: Dr Christiane Rahner Subject: art history on the WWW Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 15:41:52 GMT +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 48 (48) To all who have been so kind to send me information: many thanks for your help! Christiane Rahner From: "A. E. B. Coldiron" Subject: X-Post: Milton Transcription Project Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 16:44:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 49 (49) Dear HUMANIST Readers, As John Milton wrote in _Areopagitica_, "a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life." THE MILTON TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT is dedicated to assuring that all of Milton's poetry and prose will be available for public access on the Internet. Although most of Milton's poetry will soon become available at the Oxford Text Archive and at the University of Richmond server, most of the English and Latin prose--along with a great deal of fascinating Miltoniana-- remains to be transcribed. We invite you to join us in providing accurate scholarly transcriptions of these texts. THE MILTON TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT (MTP), currently supported by Milton-L, _Milton Quarterly_, the Computer Writing and Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, _EMLS_, and the University of Richmond's web-server, is the joint creation of volunteers from 24 colleges and universities in three countries. Volunteers may transcribe as much or as little as they wish; each transcription will be proofread, formatted, checked, and refereed. We shall acknowledge any significant contribution, and all accepted transcriptions will be credited by name. In order to volunteer, to view test sites, or to receive other information, please contact either Professor Hugh Wilson (MTP, Editor; dithw@ttacs.ttu.edu) or Professor A.E.B. Coldiron, (MTP, Internet Liaison; aec2b@virginia.edu). The only requirements are diligence, concern for accuracy, and the ability to type with one or more fingers. Volunteer: earn the intangible reward of "those whose publisht labours advance the good of mankind" (_Areopagitica_, 1644). From: Andrea Nixon Subject: History/Philosophy of Technology Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 09:41:06 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 50 (50) Does anyone on the list know of work that is being done in the fields of either the history of technology or the philosophy of technology that directly relates to computing in the humanities? I am looking for work focused on the implications of the use of information technologies in the humanities. Sincerely, Andrea Nixon anixon@carleton.edu From: Steve Taylor Subject: TACT guides Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 11:58:43 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 51 (51) A colleague has begun using the text-analysis program TACT, but has found the documentation to be inadequate. Does anyone know of any third-party guide for using TACT? Steve Taylor Faculty Information Technology Center Emory University (404)727-8931 http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ussjt/ From: Subject: Re: 10.22 annual reviews online? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 52 (52) A query on a minor point about the on-line, html review, quoted here: [deleted quotation] Why would HTML "materially increase the labor for the person being reviewed"? Glenn Everett Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow University of Tennessee at Martin aaff@utm.edu From: Subject: hiatus Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 53 (53) Your editor will be away from his usual haunts from Friday afternoon until Monday evening, and although computers and the Internet will doubtless be within reach, he is unlikely to have the time to use them on Humanist. Your messages will of course be safe on the Princeton server, but it will not be speaking to you until sometime on Tuesday. Humanists have always been great talkers. The occasional meditative silence -- does it make the chatter more welcome? Meanwhile, for your entertainment I have put on the Web something that I found among my papers while I was sorting the transatlantic-worthy from the unworthy last night. It is an essay on how to survive contrary arguments ("factifuging", or fact-fleeing), for which I have the name of the author but no other information. If anyone recognizes the piece, I'd be grateful to know more. Enjoy Nathan S. Kline, M.D., "Factifuging", at the URL http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/misc/factifuging.html Fleeing the scene but not the facts, WM From: Gustav Bayerle Subject: Re: 10.26 the polyglot @ Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 07:48:23 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 54 (54) In Hungarian @ is called _kukac_ "worm." From: Florian T Brody Subject: Re: 10.19 @ = Affenschwanz, Klammeraffe, a commercial, arroba, Strudel, apestaartje, slingeraap, arobace -- FULL STOP! Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 20:57:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 55 (55) as much as the & sign which as everybody knows is early latin shorthand for "et" is known in German, the @-sign is unknown and was introduced but the 7-bit IBM char set which had nothing but A..Z,0..9, and a few US style special chars such as #@ | As Rainer Henrich points out @ is called "Klammeraffe" - was called "Klammeraffe" until approx a year ago - now everybody (everybody who reads at least a tabloid) knows that it is the "Internet sign" - nobody who wants to be cool can do without and logos, mugs, T-Shirts everything has an "@" instead of an "a" wherever possible. even peope who claim that they use email regularily don't know how to draw the @ - observe people who they desperately make an "a" and then try to go around clockwise - change their mind midstream and go the other way around .... Another sign: the "#" which I know as "Doppelkreuz" in German (double cross) is sometimes referred as "Kanalgitter" (sewer cover/grid - the one on street corners to let the rain water run down). And in one glossary it was explained as Octothorp - unfortunately I never found a second reference to this. I really like the word and use it whenever there is a half way reasonable chance to do so - which is not very often :) anybody who knows more about this? Florian Brody MultimediaArt, Salzburg, Austria Art Center College of Design, Pasadenas CA and currently Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria From: Subject: Orlandi on theory and practice of MS encoding Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 56 (56) Many thanks to Tito Orlandi for calling our attention (in Humanist 10.1.1 of 7 May 1996) to his paper "Teoria e prassi della codifica dei manoscritti" at http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi/encod.html. This paper is very much to the point, as regards the theory of encoding and its practical implications, and I recommend it to anyone interested in the field. If I may trespass a bit on the patience of those who are not thus interested in the field, I'd like to respond here to some issues raised by Orlandi's essay. In particular, I like Orlandi's attempt to bring order to the problem by distinguishing systematically the 'ideal text', the 'virtual text', and the 'material text' (testo ideale, testo virtuale, testo materiale), which correspond approximately with what I would call the authorial conception, the text as an abstract linguistic/cultural object, and the book or witness to the text. Orlandi usefully applies some basic semiotic thinking to the theory of encoding and the practical implications of that theory. In one point, however, I wonder whether Orlandi is not dismissing too quickly the position taken by Ian Lancashire in his postings to Humanist last December. Orlandi says in his concluding paragraph: Tuttavia, quale che sia lo scopo che ci si propone, la codifica su supporto magnetico non è la codifica del testo materiale, ma quella del testo virtuale, che si ottiene esaminando il testo materiale alla luce della competenza di chi lo ha prodotto. Solo questo permetterà di identificare tutti gli elementi singoli, atomici, che formerrano l'oggetto della codifica, e di formulare una tabella convenzionale di corrispondenza fra i codici, cioè i simboli della codifica, e quegli elementi. At any rate, whatever scope be proposed for the encoding of a text, encoding in magnetic form is not the encoding of the material text, but that of the virtual text, which is obtained by examining the material text in the light of the competence of the creator. Only the encoding of the virtual text will make it possible to identify all the individual, atomic elements which will form the object of encoding, and to formulate a conventional table of correspondences between the tags, i.e. the symbols of the encoding, and those elements. (my translation, take with grain of salt) This seems to me a perfectly acceptable approach, in many cases. But it does present some problems for those readers faced with material texts (MSS, inscriptions in the stone of ancient ruins, ...) which we do *not* wholly understand, and from which can reconstruct only partially the virtual text. Sometimes, we can understand nothing at all. In practice, it seems to me, we tend to do two things in such cases: * in editions, we record as much detail of the physical state of the original artefact as seems (a) economically feasible and (b) potentially significant -- by means of detailed transcription, or by images of the artefact, or both * we retain the original artefact in a museum, archive, or library, in order that it can be consulted in cases of need. If we can *partially* unravel the virtual text, then we need an electronic representation which will * allow us to express our understanding of the virtual text (such as it is, given the faulty state of the material text and our own faulty competence) as far as possible * allow us to record as much of the material manifestation of the text as we think *might be* significant. I believe Prof. Lancashire is concerned in part with such situations, and it is difficult to dismiss entirely the desire to record the material conditions of the text in such cases. Even in cases where we think we understand a (virtual) text satisfactorily, the historical vicissitudes of text transmission by print and manuscript do text to encourage the multiplication of text versions -- and oral tradition is even more prolific of variation. And the material transmission of the text is itself an object of study, even for those of us with an 'allographic' understanding of the text. And therefore it is necessary that scholarship possess a method of encoding which can record *both* the virtual text *and* its historically important material manifestations. In this sense, I have to agree that one of Prof. Lancashire's premises is correct, even while the other one (the claim that the TEI *requires* a focus on the virual text and *forbids* the encoding of the material text) is false. It is perhaps worth pointing out, however, that recording the material manifestation of a text when we do not understand it is fraught with risks: if we don't understand the text, then we cannot guarantee that our recording of the text's material manifestation will capture its every significant aspect. We are likely to lose something which later analysts will think bears meaning -- just as Thomas Johnson, the editor of Emily Dickinson, may possibly have lost significant distinctions in her punctuation despite his very conservative transcription policies. (At least one later scholar says the marks transcribed by Johnson as dashes are rhetorical marks for rising, sustained, or falling tones, and need to be transcribed as at least three distinct symbols.) Equally to the point, the risks of omission are not limited to texts we are conscious of not understanding. There are no detectable limits to the ingenuity of scholarship in drawing inferences from texts and the circumstances of their transmission, so there is no detectable limit to the set of features which *might* be significant in some context or other, or under some analytical microscope or other. From this I draw the inference that *any* representation of a text, like any representation of any object, is likely to lose some information: Representations are inevitably partial, never disinterested; inevitably they reveal their authors' conscious and unconscious judgments and biases. Representations obscure what they do not reveal, and without them nothing can be revealed at all. ("Text in the Electronic Age," L&LC 6.1 (1991): 34) This is one reason the notion of extensibility is built so deep into the TEI Guidelines. Under the circumstances, it is futile to expect any encoding of the physical manifestations of a text to be complete, just as it is futile to expect the physical manifestation to exhaust the significance of the virtual text, still less of the ideal text. All that can be expected by later users, and all that can be hoped for by encoders, is that an encoding capture without excessive distortion some of the features of a text the encoders believe they understand. As Orlandi says (in private correspondence): All in all: we can encode only what we understand; and what we do not understand, may be reproduced and communicated by means of analogical rather than digital devices, so photography, autopsy, etc. Or more precisely: by means of devices used analogically, including digital images etc. (Even this may be too optimistic: analogical reproductions lose information, too, because they choose some features of the original, rather than others, for reproduction.) Many thanks again for Tito Orlandi for this paper. Best regards, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen From: Paul Brians Subject: annual review in html Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 07:56:44 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 57 (57) Glenn Everett wrote: [deleted quotation] I don't know about you, but I'm pretty fluent in html and use various translation tools but it still takes me time to translate documents from Microsoft Word format to html. For someone less experienced it could be a truly daunting chore. I look forward to Microsoft Assistant for the Mac (the only thing that might persuade me to upgrade to Word 6.0). Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians From: "touched by the tangled love of poets." Subject: tact Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 14:35:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 58 (58) If I remember correctly, though TACT is freeware, the copyright for the manual is held by MLA. And they have taken their own sweet time in releasing it. However, last I heard, it is intended to come out very soon-- perhaps even this summer. -john drummond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- john garnett drummond................"Omar"*| drummojg@jmu.edu "a man is rich in proportion to the number *| help_john@jmu.edu of things he can afford to let alone" -hdt *| http://falcon.jmu.edu/~drummojg/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "C. Perry Willett" Subject: Re: 10.27 queries Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 08:08:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 59 (59) LETRS (The Library Electronic Text Resource Center) at Indiana University has a collection of guides to electronic texts and tools (including one for TACT) available on its web pages at: http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/text-tools/softwareoverview.html> Perry Willett Main Library Indiana University PWILLETT@indiana.edu From: Tom Walsh (92) Subject: Star Tribune Guest Editorial Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 60 (60) Star Tribune, May 12, 1996, p. A27 Killing tenure would be foolish Regent's plan sure to further damage U By Fennell Evans and Ellen Berscheid The University of Minnesota's Board of Regents is trying to change its employment contracts with the faculty. If it succeeds, it will do irreparable damage to the university, the state's economy, and the taxpayers. Regent Jean Keffeler claims that a change in faculty contracts to allow the dismissal of tenured faculty is necessary to give the regents greater "economic flexibility" and greater freedom to "shape" the university. The regents seem to view the university as a has-been and also-ran in the national sweepstakes the states are running to improve their research universities to fuel their economies. The attack on faculty already is "shaping" the university. Many first rate scholars have resigned, others are seeking employment elsewhere, and searches for new faculty are discovering that top scholars from other institutions are now reluctant to consider the University of Minnesota. The brain drain is a direct result of the regents' view of faculty as a financial liability-not as the economic asset most national universities believe their faculties to be. Repeated requests for detailed financial information supporting the regents' economic logic have been met with the glib statement that because personnel account for 80 percent of the university's budget, changing the standard faculty contract will help solve the university's financial problems. It is true that 80 percent of the university's budget involves personnel. But only 11 percent of personnel are faculty. Faculty not only have become few in number compared to other personnel, the faculty is significantly smaller than the faculties of comparable universities. Faculty compensation thus accounts for a relatively small portion of the university's budget. In 1994-95, the university's total budget was $1.6 billion. Total faculty compensation was $271 million, of which only $191 million came from state appropriations--the remainder was raised by the faculty themselves from research and other activities, a leveraging of faculty salaries typical of research universities. In sum, state-supported faculty compensation constitutes only 12 percent--not 80 percent--of the university's budget. In return for an investment of $191 million in their salaries, the faculty raised $350 million in external research funds alone. This money generated 10,000 Minnesota jobs and supported the university's graduate programs and other activities. It is also the faculty, of course, who bring in the lion's share of the tuition revenue and on whom the academic reputation of the university depends. This is why other national universities regard their faculties as revenue-generating engines. And it is just one reason why they make the retention and recruitment of top faculty their highest priority. The regents' careless disregard for the role of faculty in the financial survival of a national university is not only reflected in their effort to weaken tenure, but also in compensation policies that have ranked University of Minnesota faculty near the bottom of the national universities for many years. This year is typical. Community college and state university faculty are scheduled to receive a 4 percent salary increase. University civil service and other bargaining unit personnel (not Twin Cities faculty) will receive a 4.5 percent increase, resulting in a $17 million increased budgetary burden. Only a 2 percent increase has been proposed for University of Minnesota faculty, increasing the state's contribution to faculty salaries by $3.6 million. Contrast that $3.6 million to the $17 million for other personnel and to the $59 million the university spent last year on outside "consultants," including platoons of lawyers. Tougher to keep top faculty Meanwhile, the university's trajectory of decline in academic reputation has made it increasingly difficult to attract and retain top faculty. In 1975, the university was ranked 12th nationally as an academic institution. It had fallen to 16th by 1985, and, in 1995, careful analysis revealed that it had slipped into the third tier, to a rank of 21. Competitors such as the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin are sending resolutions of support for Minnesota faculty on the one hand while raiding Minnesota's faculty on the other. These universities have resisted tampering with freedom of inquiry. And they have read the forecasts showing that over the next 10 years, large numbers of faculty at all universities will retire and the fierce competition to attract top faculty will escalate. In the name of economizing, Keffeler and the regents' personnel sub-committee have lit a match to the already flammable faculty tinderbox. It has started the entire Board of Regents on a dangerous experiment to see whether a state that increasingly depends on high-technology manufacturing, value-added services and a highly educated work force can continue to prosper in the absence of a major national university. And it is inflicting another crippling blow to a once great university in its long and losing struggle against mediocrity and national oblivion. We appeal to the university's Alumni Association to rise once again to the defense of the university's future. We also appeal to the Legislature, the guardian of the state's almost 150 years of investment in the university, to protect that investment. And we appeal to the regents who have not yet formed an opinion to consider carefully the faculty's role in the financial dynamics of the university as well as the impact that a further decline in the university will have on the future of the state Fennell Evans is director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Interfacial Engineering. Ellen Berscheid is regents' professor ofpsychology in the university's College of Liberal Arts. From: Jim Marchand Subject: Affenschwanz, etc. Date: Fri, 17 May 96 14:20:25 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 61 (61) The names which we give to the squiggles we put on paper are often quite evanescent, even names of letters of the alphabet. Cf. E. S. Sheldon, "The Origin of the English Names of the Letters of the Alphabet," Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature 1 (1892), 66-87; _____, "Further Notes on the Names of the Letters," Studies, etc. II (1893), 155-171; Max Hermann Jellinek, "Der Aussprache des Lateinischen und deutsche Buchstabennamen," Wiener Sitzungsberichte, Phil.-hist. Kl. 212, vol. 2 (1932). Anyone who followed the name `haitch' for `aitch' (= h), or Harry Truman's `from a to izzard' would know this. Indeed, even today, there is little uniformity in names for such things as # (number, cross-hatch, cross-double-bar [as in Smith and Trager's `cross-double-bar-juncture']). The ampersand is in origin an etc ligature, the @ an a with a t over it (there was also an _ut_ sign for printers doing Latin). What to call ligatures was always a problem. As to @, when I worked as a clerk in Germany in the late 40's, we said Kreis-a, and I feel that Affenschwanz has a definite derogatory bent. In late 1940's German, BTW, anything preceded by Ammi- had a bad connotation, so we often called it Ammi-a (you could also spell it Ami-). Even attempts to give names to the signs of the phonetic alphabet are doomed to failure in some areas: Geoffrey K. Pullum and William A. Ladusaw, _Phonetic Symbol Guide_ (U Chicago Press, 1986), 65, call the "Gothic" sign for [hw] `H-V Ligature', which it certainly is not, and which has a long and venerable tradition of being called `The Collitz Letter,' it having been invented by Hermann Collitz, of blessed memory. I note that they call # `Number Sign', in spite of Smith and Trager. Trema they call umlaut, though it is found above e, for example. It would be nice if we had some uniformity. Maybe ISO could take it up. At present, when asked `What is @ called in X?' answer `many things'. To those who want to have _period_ used only to mean `full stop', I say vsevo khoroshiva `luck to you'. Jim Marchand. From: Jim Campbell Subject: Re: 10.31 polyglot @ and the double-crossed octothorpe Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 18:56:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 62 (62) I've found the discussion of words for @ and other signs fascinating, but most of it has wandered away from the original poster's question. A few people have told us that "at" is a common way of speaking @ in an email address, but could some of the other respondents go back to the question and tell us how an e-mail address is spoken in their languages? That is, in American English I would say campbell@virginia.edu as campbell at virginia dot e d u How would you tell a colleague your email address in your language? - Jim Campbell (campbell@virginia.edu) From: "Iain D. Brown" <100131.3564@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Now available: "Beyond the Book: Theory, Culture and the Politics of Cyberspace" Date: 18 May 96 09:24:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 63 (63) PUBLICATION NOW AVAILABLE A while ago mention was made on SHARP of "Beyond the Book: Theory, Culture and the Politics of Cyberspace" (editors: Warren Chernaik, Marilyn Deegan and Andrew Gibson), to be published by the Centre for English Studies and the Office for Humanities Communication (Oxford) following a 1995 conference organised by the CES and OHC. I am pleased to inform you all that this book is now available for purchase. Looking through my copy which I picked up yesterday, I notice there are some excellent essays, including the following: Kathryn Sutherland, "Looking and knowing: textual encounters of a postponed kind" George Landow, "We are already beyond the book" John Pickering, "Hypermedia: when will they feel natural?" Michael Allen, "Re-viewing the film (studies) text" Laura Cherniak, "The Web, semiotics, and history: Samual Delany's imagined worlds" Andrew Gibson, "Interactive fiction and narrative space" Nina Wakeford, "Sexualized bodies in cyberspace" Copies of "Beyond the Book" may be ordered direct from the Centre for English Studies, Room 363, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK. Cost per copy is L7.50 plus postage (L1, UK; 2, Europe; L3 elsewhere). Cheques, drawn in pounds sterling, should be made payable to the University of London. Further enquiries to Rebecca Dawson at the CES. Tel. (+44) (0)171 636 8000 ext. 3054 Fax (+44) (0)171 436 4533 e-mail: r.dawson@sas.ac.uk ***Also available from the CES are details of the University of London's MA in the History of the Book. This message is being cross-posted to HUMANIST. From: LDC Office Subject: Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 08:24:24 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 64 (64) Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM Radio Broadcast News Continuous Speech Recognition Corpus (Hub-4) This set of CD-ROMs contains all of the speech data provided to sites participating in the DARPA CSR November 1995 Hub-4 (Radio) Broadcast News tests. The data consists of digitized waveforms of MarketPlace (tm) business news radio shows provided by KUSC through an agreement with the Linguistic Data Consortium, and detailed transcriptions of those broadcasts. The software NIST used to process and score the output of the test systems is also included. The data is organized as follows: CD26-1: Training Data-Ten complete half-hour broadcasts with minimally-verified transcripts. The transcripts are time aligned with the waveforms at the story-boundary level. CD26-2: Development-Test Data-Six complete half-hour broadcasts with verified transcripts. The transcripts are time aligned with the waveforms at the story-and turn-boundary level. Index files have been included which specify how the data may be partitioned into 2 test sets. CD26-6 Evaluation-Test Data-Five complete half-hour broadcasts with verified/adjudicated transcripts. The transcripts are time aligned with the waveforms at the story-, turn-, and music-boundary level. An index file has been included which specifies how the data was partitioned into the test set used in the CSR 1995 Hub-4 tests. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1996 Membership Year will be able to receive a copy of the Radio Broadcast News at no additional charge, in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Nonmembers can receive a copy of this corpus for research purposes only for a fee of $2500. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc. Information is also available via ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under pub/ldc; for ftp access, please use "anonymous" as your login name, and give your email address when asked for password. From: Subject: conference announcement Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 65 (65) Institute for Social Research The University of Kent at Canterbury CONFERENCE MORALS OF LEGITIMACY - RESPONSIBILITY, AUTHORITY AND TRUST IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY 18-19 September 1996 Convenor: Italo Pardo The aim of the conference is to address the difficulty in linking legal and political responsibility to authority and trust in the exercise of power. The basic assumption is that serious handling of this issue must be based on a constructive understanding of the micro-level, as opposed to abstract thinking per se. In this belief, the conference brings together ethnographic analysis from Europe and outside it to study the significance of the different morals of legitimacy that coexist in civil society to the interplay between the production (and practice) of law - intended as a contested metaphor of social order, the establishment of legal and political authority, and the dynamics of citizens' trust in the institutions and representatives of the state. Contributions Ray Abrahams (University of Cambridge) - State jurisdiction and community morality: crime control when the state fails. John Fitzpatrick (University of Kent) - The legalization of everyday life: an exploration of the implications of the policing of neighbour disputes. Peter Fitzpatrick (University of Kent) - Appropriating Law: Hybridity and the peasant corporation. Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge) - Ethics of mass 'business' in contemporary Russia. Italo Pardo (University of Kent) - Citizens, distrusted politicians, rampant magistrates: political and jurisprudential moralities in Italy. Jonathan Parry (London School of Economics) - The moral and the corrupt: a case-study from Central India. Giuliana Prato (University of Kent) - The cherries of the Mayor: degrees of morality and responsibility in local Italian administration. Michael Rowlands (University College London) - Borders and mistrust in relation to immigrants' status in Europe. Paul Stirling (University of Kent) - Law, moral authority and social control: parables from Turkey. Further particulars are available from Dr Italo Pardo, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Eliot College, The University, Kent CT2 7NS; Tel. 01227 764000 ext 3632; Fax 01227 827289; e-mail i.pardo@ukc.ac.uk Booking forms are available from Mrs Jan Horn, The Institute for Social Research, Eliot College, The University, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NS; Tel. 01227 764000; Fax 01227 827289; e-mail dossa-office@ukc.ac.uk From: Glenn Everett Subject: Re: html-ized annual reviews Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 11:51:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 66 (66) Paul Brians wrote, in answer to my question, 'Why would HTML "materially increase the labor for the person being reviewed"?' [deleted quotation] I have some reluctance to extend this discussion of a minor point further, but perhaps some clarification is warranted. If the sole purpose is to make the text of the review documents available on the 'net, ASCII versions of word-processed files can be posted either to a gopher or web site. True, special fonts will be lost, but the text and the basic formatting can be preserved. But perhaps plain ASCII files are not satisfactory. Glenn Everett Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow University of Tennessee at Martin aaff@utm.edu From: Russon Wooldridge Subject: Re: 10.17 conference on mad science (IVCMS'96) Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 08:25:10 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 67 (67) Willard McCarty asks "what would a mad humanist be like?" One suggestion (with at least local relevance): someone who tries to persuade the university's administration to add substance to its public rhetoric about "the importance of the Humanities". Russon Wooldridge ------------ Russon Wooldridge, Department of French, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada Tel: 1-416-978-2885 -- Fax: 1-416-978-4949 E-mail: wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca Internet: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/ From: Subject: Humanist messages numbering Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 68 (68) [In response to the following, I have changed my stubborn practice. Objections? --WM] Willard, it's trivial: could you set the Humanist messages numbering so that when ordering the messages by subject they'd go in the correct sequence? Now, numbering them with 10.1, 10.2, ..., 10.10, 10.11 the ascii ordering by subject gives 10.1, 10.10, 10.11, ... 10.2, ... that's obviously wrong. Ordering the messages by date doesn't help because of non sequential messages delivery. Before that, the numbering used the template x.yyyy with trailing zeroes as needed: it was more usable. Do you think it's possible to restart with the old template? Thanks. Maurizio Maurizio Lana -- lana@cisi.unito.it -- lana@tecnetdati.it <><> My opinions are mine. Le mie opinioni sono mie. =>CISI, Universita' di Torino Via S. Ottavio 20, 10124 Torino, Italy <> http://www.cisi.unito.it/arachne/arachne.html =>Tecnet Dati, Via Legnano 27, 10128 Torino, Italy <> http://www.espero.it/tecnetdati/chitecne.htm From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 10.29 annual review; TACT Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 10:23:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 69 (69) On learning TACT: While it is not a manual for TACT, users may want to try the online workbook for TACTweb. This was designed to teach students about text analysis and prepare them for TACT should they continue to a higher level course. The URL is: http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca/tactweb/home.htm If you want your students to use this you may want to set up your own TACTweb server rather than point them at ours. We do not watch it closely except when a course is using it. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Russon Wooldridge Subject: Re 10.29 TACT Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 08:24:42 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 70 (70) john drummond asks about the latest on TACT. An official memorandum dated 9 May 1996 from the CHASS Information Office (the CHASS Facility -- Computing in the Humanities & Social Sciences -- replaced the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at the University of Toronto on 1 May 1996 [N.B. "Centre" -> "Facility"!]) informs the reader that "CHASS no longer distributes the TACT program. However, the program may be downloaded via the Internet at: http:///www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/tact.html" Thus the information given by LETRS (The Library Electronic Text Resource Center) at Indiana University (Humanist 10.29) is accurate. The same CHASS memorandum adds: "You may also contact the MLA who publishes the manual: Modern Language Association of America 10 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003-6981, U.S.A. Tel: 1-212-475-9500; Sales: 1-800-955-8275 [this number presumably works only in North-America]; Technical Support: 1-212-614-6302; Fax: 1-919-515-2682" As far as I know (I am part-author of the manual), the manual has not yet appeared. Russon Wooldridge ------------ Russon Wooldridge, Department of French, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada Tel: 1-416-978-2885 -- Fax: 1-416-978-4949 E-mail: wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca Internet: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/ From: Subject: The emperor's clothes: item for debate? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 71 (71) MN DAILY 5/20/96 EDITORIAL/OPINIONS How U professors aren't pulling their weight By Jim Gardner Reporting on the Faculty Senate meeting last month, a writer for the Star Tribune noted that the regents want to change the tenure code at the University and cut salaries when "professors aren't pulling their weight" (Metro, April 19). Like many legislators, the regents are concerned that tenure is being abused to protect unproductive faculty at the University. How can the University clear away its dead wood without jeopardizing tenure? Quite simply, it can restore the high standards of its once-famous College of Liberal Arts. The phrase "dead wood" automatically calls an image of aged professors who drone on in the classroom for six hours a week and then retreat to lakefront cabins with four months of paid vacation. But, in fact, many professors turn into dead wood as soon as they get tenure, even though some of them continue to be popular in a classroom of undergraduates. Academics die professionally when they lose their motivation for creative scholarship. Minnesotans generally understand that a university must give its professors a light course load so they can devote 50 hours a week to the teaching that matters most: disseminating their knowledge and spreading the fame of their research institution. By imparting their scholarship to colleagues internationally, professors make the whole world their classroom. To this end, tenure is indispensable. Its defenders sometimes forget, however, that tenure does not relieve professors of responsibility for communicating their research. To put it bluntly, professors who do not publish deserve to perish. They aren't pulling their weight as scholars . In CLA, most faculty accept the responsibility that University status brings, but they are wary of letting administrators tell them what research they can do. Tenure protects a scholar from the arbitrary decisions by a regent like Jean Keffeler or a provost like William Brody, both of whom apparently want to turn the University into a technical school and run it as a business. In their view, the University's mission is to train students for the workplace; therefore, any course at the University that does not lead directly to a vocation is worthless, and one is supposed to study history or nursing or music for the same reason -- to get a job. This warped measure of CLA as a vocational institute will not be rectified so long as the administrators themselves are at a loss to explain what makes a productive scholar in history or in the humanities. Even some of the deans have trouble distinguishing cultural and historical scholarship in the humanities from quantifiable, scientific research -- for example, the CLA dean who was replaced in January. This dean, a professor from the clinical sciences, was smart and fair, but hadn't a clue about to how to evaluate published research in the humanities. In physics or statistics, research gets published in the form of articles, or in papers read at national conferences. Scientists and social scientists make their contributions to "knowledge" with these papers. Biologists or economists seldom write books unless they mean to popularize the subject. The situation is exactly reversed in the humanities and history. In these fields, the sole badge of professional research is a book or a scholarly edition (of a play by Shakespeare, for example). An article barely scratches the surface of the humanities, whose timeless contents are best illuminated by the sweep and power of an original monograph. New discoveries in the humanities are few and far between. Sometimes an unknown document or artifact turns up, and it can be reported in an article, just like any scientific finding. But normally, doing research in the humanities means piecing together facts that have long been known and giving them an original interpretation. To convince colleagues that a familiar ocument makes better sense when read in a new context, a humanities professor needs full command of the established facts and their traditional interpretation. This requires lengthy argument with other scholars, a dialogue that is possible only in a book. A scholar in the humanities is rightly suspicious of articles. Their brief scope will not accommodate "cutting-edge" research. Legislators point out that CLA has lost rank in the national standings. The problem is not the quantity of the CLA's scholarship, but its quality. What seems to have happened is a growing number of CLA's professors -- perhaps 20 percent of its 500 faculty -- have taken to mimicking their colleagues in the sciences by writing articles instead of books. Quality is hurt also when a CLA professor gathers together articles that are the work of somebody else and cobbles them into a loose "publication" to swell the professor's own resume. Collective scholarship in the humanities cannot hope to imitate the team projects of the sciences and social sciences. It fails because the goal of science -- to "discover" knowledge -- clashes with the aim of the humanities, which is to "interpret" it. Interpreting history and the humanities has always been a job for the individual. That is not likely to change. When a team of humanities professors try to combine their individual interpretations, they wind up generating truisms. In the humanities, a publication that has no author lacks authority. In the typical case, a humanities professor collects articles written by others and "piggybacks" them in an anthology with a preface. Such piggybacking, if it is up-to-date, can provide a kind of forum to highlight an unresolved problem. But it cannot provide a solution -- the authoritative" interpretation that gives integrity to the best research in the humanities. The deans neglect to distinguish between original research and piggyback scholarship when they apply a quantitative yardstick to publication in CLA. They appoint bean-counting Promotion and Tenure Committees who log piggyback work as "scholarly activity" and use it to justify promotions. As a consequence, piggyback scholarship has become a professional embarrassment to the University, and CLA's reputation in the academic world has plummeted. Piggyback scholarship thrives alongside true research in the largest departments of CLA. For example, the Department of English has on its roster (excluding the professors of creative writing) 32 tenured professors. The handbook of the department's Graduate Studies Office notes that over the past 14 years, those professors have among them published 42 book-length works. Three books a year sounds very respectable, until you examine the titles. Only half of them are authored books. Of the other publications, fully a dozen are piggyback scholarship: spineless anthologies, picayune bibliographies, interviews and diaries tricked out as patchwork research. The department's authored books, on the one hand, cover a wide range of subjects: from "Beowulf" to "Brave New World," from Shakespeare to Ira Gershwin, from Chaucer and 18th century philosophy to Freud and detective fiction. These monographs bring credit to one of the stronger research departments in the college. But the piggyback titles, ranging from a bibliography on writing with word processors to collections of incest narratives and status reports on feminists in academe, serve merely to advertise the dilettantism of CLA professors. Piggyback scholarship looks specialized and sounds new, but it should not pass for research in CLA. Minnesota deserves professors who are pulling their weight, and if the administration balks at restoring national standards to the University, the Legislature should act. While preserving tenure, they ought to insist that the publication of all tenured professors be reviewed and their salaries adjusted to reflect significant scholarship: not parochial activity, but the genuine research that alone brings a university national recognition. Jim Gardner is a former Ph.D. candidate in the College of Liberal Arts and has authored several communications manuals. From: Subject: Re: 10.040 change in Humanist message numbering? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 72 (72) [The following concerns the new (or, rather, return to the old) practice of numbering Humanist messages with leading zeroes to accommodate the failures of unintelligent sorting. --WM] On Mon, 20 May 1996 22:32:40 -0400 (EDT) you said: [deleted quotation] In order to prevent your receiving *only* objections, and falling prey to a fallacious inference, let me register not objection but approval. -Michael From: Subject: Posting Literature Texts Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 73 (73) Dear Colleagues, A student of mine is just about to complete her master's thesis. This project includes a modern-spelling text of John Donne's prose satire _Ignatius His Conclave_. It occurred to me that it might be helpful to make this text accessible via the Web, especially since no other version of the text is currently available. However, I do not have a Web page myself and have little practical knowledge in posting anything to the Web. Ideally I would like to place the text on a page that features other texts from the English Renaissance, and ideally I would also like her to be mentioned in a line crediting her work. Does anyone have any suggestions about what to do next? The text is currently formatted in WORDPERFECT 5.1. Would conversion to HTML be difficult from this format? Please forgive questions that probably seem hopelessly naive to people who know much more about computing that I do. Thanks, though, for any assistance. Robert C. (Bob) Evans bobevans@strudel.aum.edu From: Brad Inwood Subject: Re: 10.036 more on tenure Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:39:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 74 (74) Jim Gardner's opinion piece on humanities scholarship is well-timed and welcome. But his views about the value of articles as opposed to books in the humanities seem extreme. Sure, scientists and social sciences publish more articles and virtually no books -- for some of the reasons he adduces. But I don't know anyone who thinks as he does that the article is an intrinsically inferior form of scholarship or that cutting edge research in the humanities cannot be accommodated in that form. In the fields I know well (Classics and History of Philosophy) such a view would be absurdly out of touch with reality, and in other areas where I am less in touch I doubt it is much different. This is an important issue: differences in disciplinary culture do distort incentives and evaluation in the humanities and do impair our standing in the modern university. But even in a newspaper opinion piece (or perhaps especially there) it is vital to present the humanities as they are. In many fields of the humanities the authoritative work is often done in articles; in many fields new evidence does come to light with regularity; and in many cases the big authoritative book builds on the foundations laid by a long series of articles which are all the better for having passed through the critical filter of peer-reviewed journals, which is often more rigorous than the appraisal and vetting to which book manuscripts are subjected. ---------------------------------------------------- Brad Inwood Department of Classics Toronto, Canada University of Toronto M5S 1A1 From: Paul Douglass Subject: Re: 10.036 more on tenure Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 09:03:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 75 (75) Thanks for the forwarded message about Minnesota. Are you aware that the story is opn the cover of the current CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION? PD. From: "Michael P. Orth (Michael Orth)" Subject: Re: 10.036 more on tenure Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:57:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 76 (76) Oh Dear, oh dear. Jim Gardner protests that professors with a six hour teaching load are being accused by the Minn. press of "not pulling their weight." It is hard for those of us with 12 teaching loads, plus the same research expectation you guys have, to keep from agreeing with the bad guys (the ignorant public) in this. The Kraken===============end of file=================/;->?9 From: David Pinaula Subject: LEXA software opinions Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 02:14:39 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 77 (77) I am looking for opinions on the functionality and performance of the LEXA textual analysis software suite, particularly regarding handling multiple texts in producing lemmatized indexes. How does it compare to TACT's feature set? I'd like some informed commentary before I invest my kroners. David Pinaula English Dept. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill pinaula@email.unc.edu From: Ian Lancashire Subject: Re: 10.037 TACT Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 00:38:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 78 (78) As the one mainly responsible now for TACT and its manual, let me assure users that CHASS at Toronto continues to support TACT, even though CHASS no longer undertakes to send TACT diskettes and materials by post in reply to written inquiries. Several of the previous messages to Humanist have been unintentionally misleading. The only TACT manual authorized by the four authors of the software is being published by MLA early this fall. At about 370 pages, and with a donated CD-ROM having 250 Mb of software and electronic texts, this manual has been over three years in the making. The final corrections to the second and last page proofs were done early this month. This maturation time is not unusual for a peer-reviewed work of scholarship, especially one produced with the help of the MLA editorial department. Any delay in the publication schedule is my responsibility; MLA has kept up its end. I cannot praise highly enough the skill and dedication of the half dozen MLA staff members who have worked with me on the manual. They have helped transform an often wordy, obscure, ill-organized, and even wrong draft into a first-rate piece of reference prose. The book designer has done a wonderful job. I would also like to thank readers of Humanist for their interest in the TACT manual. Those wishing to buy the manual should order it from MLA in New York. The full reference is as follows: Using TACT with electronic texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools Version 2.1 for MS-DOS and PC DOS. Ian Lancashire in collaboration with John Bradley Willard McCarty Michael Stairs T. R. Wooldridge Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto The Modern Language Association of America New York 1996 (c) 1996 by The Modern Language Association of America ISBN 0-87352-569-8 (paper) 1. Text processing (Computer Science) 2. TACT. I. Title QA 76.9.T48L36 1996 Published by The Modern Language Association of America 10 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003-6981 By the way, all royalties to the five authors of the manual from its sales are being donated to help support future TACT work. Ian Lancashire Professor of English, New College University of Toronto E-mail: ian@chass.utoronto.ca URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html From: "Joanne Woolway (Assoc. Editor, EMLS)" Subject: Re: EMLS Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 18:44:48 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 79 (79) EARLY MODERN LITERARY STUDIES UPDATE Dear Colleagues, You might already have seen the latest issue of EMLS (2.1) with its four articles on Shakespeare and numerous reviews. Since this issue we've added more materials to Interactive EMLS including: * An electronic post-print of John Spencer Hill's _John Milton: Poet, Priest, Prophet_ (London: Macmillan, 1979). * (With kind permission of Hardy Cook and various contributors) the SHAKSPER discussion archives, including many papers and reviews. * An electronic edition of Cawdrey's _Table Alphabeticall_ (1604) edited by Ray Siemens. * Spenser texts from Richard Bear (also at http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~rbear/index.html ). Coming shortly from iEMLS: * Conference details from "_The Faerie Queene_ in the World, 1596-1996" - a conference at the Yale Center for British Art, 26-28 September, 1996. * iEMLS is also happy to be supporting the _Milton Transcription Project_ - Watch the "current work" space! We hope that you will feel welcome to use iEMLS as a forum for work in progress and also to post papers, texts, conference details, and other resources that you think would be of use to the academic community or that you would like comment on before publishing elsewhere. If you'd like to know more about iEMLS or would like to send work for inclusion, please contact me at emls@sable.ox.ac.uk Thanks, Joanne Woolway Associate Editor, EMLS ------------------------------------------------------------------- ***ALSO FOR YOUR INFORMATION*** - EMLS's Oxford mirror site has a new URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~emls/emlshome.html Our UBC site is still at: http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/emlshome.html From: Chris Smith at Indiana University Subject: New URL for Altramar medieval music ensemble Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 15:19:18 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 80 (80) Of potential interest to readers of the list: The Home Pages for Altramar medieval music ensemble have moved, to: http://www.indiana.edu/~altramar You can reach us via email at: altramar@indiana.edu Here you can find information about the ensemble, their recordings, performances, calendar, group and individual biographies, and tons of graphical and scholarly information, as well as: * Information about medieval history and music on the Internet; * Angela Mariani's nationally-syndicated early music radio program "Harmonia" and Chris Smith's world music program "One World;" * Links to B.O.M.B., Amandla, the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, the Indiana University School of Music and Early Music Institute; and much more! If you maintain a Web site, and have already linked our pages, please do update to the above URL. If not, perhaps you would care to do so. Please feel free to visit us at the new URL. Either way, thank you! Altramar medieval music ensemble: Jann Cosart, Angela Mariani, David Stattelman, Chris Smith -- PO Box 2292, Bloomington, IN 47401-9998 (voice) 812/332-6402; (fax) 812/855-0729 http://www.indiana.edu/~altramar Recording for Dorian: "Nova Stella" (Italian Christmas music); "Francis and the Minstrels of God" (Italian laude spirituale); "Iberian Garden" (Jewish, Christian and Muslim Spain) From: Russon Wooldridge Subject: CH Working Papers: new postings Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 15:25:58 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 81 (81) CH Working Papers has recently published a number of postprints from the print series CCH Working Papers: [deleted quotation]vol. 4 "Early Dictionary Databases". Articles on TACT Design, applications of TACT to Shakespeare, Ovid and Simenon, on the dictionaries of Feraud (1787), Menage (1694), Le Ver (1440), Cawdrey (1604), Estienne and Nicot (1531-1628), and on 16th-c. French-English dictionaries. See http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/ Russon Wooldridge, Willard McCarty Editors, CHWP ------------ Russon Wooldridge, Department of French, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada Tel: 1-416-978-2885 -- Fax: 1-416-978-4949 E-mail: wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca Internet: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/ From: Subject: Re: 10.042 posting a text? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 82 (82) [deleted quotation] The text is currently formatted in [deleted quotation].... [deleted quotation] According to Laura Lemay, author of a 7-day HTML learning book, Wordperfect macros are available to automatically convert your document to HTML. WPTOHTML is listed as being available from URL: <gopher://black.ox.ac.uk/h0/ousu_dir/.html-stuff/wptohtml.html>. Also recommended is saving your document in Rich Text Format (RTF), and converting that to HTML. You didn't say you had DOS or Windows, but the RTFTOHTM filter is listed as being available from URL:<http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/RTFTOHTML.html>. Larry A. Taylor, . UCLA Computer Science Dept., Ph.D. candidate . Sometimes I do business as North Circle Software, 13104 Philadelphia St, suite 208, Whitter, CA 90601. Business phone, (310) 698-2739. Fax (310) 698-8164 if you absolutely have to. CIS 75176,1071. From: Subject: RE: 10.044 Humanist numbering scheme Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 83 (83) The leading zero idea is great except that if you happen to have more than 999 messages in this, the tenth year of the humanist, you fall back into the original problem. Why not yy.xxxx - more than 9999 messages seem improbable. Regards dennis -------------------------------------- dennis cintra leite dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br sao paulo business school (eaesp/fgv) snail mail:av.9 de julho 2029 sao paulo, sp 01313-902 brazil py2-etn -------------------------------------- From: Subject: job posting Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 84 (84) Princeton University Coordinator, Humanities and Social Sciences Information Technology Princeton University seeks an individual to help coordinate and enhance the use of information technology in the humanities and social sciences and to assist especially in the development of instructional applications. An earned doctorate in a humanities or social science field and teaching experience at the college or university level are preferred, as is familiarity with instructional uses of technology and successful use of the medium for teaching. A fundamentally technical background is not necessary for this position, but a knowledge of software useful in developing course material is desirable. Princeton enjoys an excellent technical infrastructure for computing and a number of special resources, in the areas, for example, of electronic texts and computer graphics. The successful candidate will interact well with faculty members at various levels of skill and experience with the technologies, enhancing campus-wide awareness of electronic resources at the university, assisting faculty to utilize existing capabilities effectively in their teaching and research, and also working with faculty to plan future development. This position will act as liaison between the faculty and the University departments which provide support and service related to information technologies, as well as working with faculty individually and in small groups to develop understanding and use of the resources for instruction. Especially valuable will be the ability to "translate" between current faculty needs and technical potential. The coordinator will also assist with strategic planning for the future of instructional technologies in the humanities and the social sciences, drawing on his or her creativity and vision, as well as practical experience. Salary: commensurate with experience and qualifications. Starting date: August 1, 1996 or as soon thereafter as possible. To apply, please send a cover letter and current resume to: S. Georgia Nugent Associate Provost 5 Nassau Hall Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 Screening will begin immediately; to insure full consideration, materials should be received by July 1, 1996. Princeton is an equal opportunity employer. From: Subject: RE: 10.043 research and tenure Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 85 (85) Articles in the humanities are, to extend Brad Inwood's good point, not uncommonly *better* thought of than books. The dynamics of getting tenure, and the vanity of senior scholars and some presses, not uncommonly lead to bad books being made out of decent articles, in fact. What about this formulation: what would fit as an e-posting to the Classics List should never be blown up to article size; and what would fit as an article should never be blown up into a book? (I leave aside for now the question of the books that contain slightly recycled material from old articles, which are increasingly common.) Owen Cramer Classics/Comp. Lit. Colorado College OCRAMER@cc.colorado.edu From: Subject: London accomodations Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 86 (86) My wife and I plan to be in London late June-early July and have heard from a number of parties that the London House offers attractive accomodations for scholars. Does anyone on the 'Net have a telephone number for the London House that they might pass on to me?--privately, and not across the group, of course. Thanking you in advance, David Gants *** David L. Gants ** Electronic Text Center ** Alderman Library *** *** University of Virginia ** Charlottesville, Virginia ** 22903 *** *** dlg8x@virginia.edu *** etext@virginia.edu *** (804) 924-3230 *** *** http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/ETC.html *** From: Jean Ve'ronis Subject: Soft: MtScript (Multilingual editor) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 11:45:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 87 (87) *** ANNOUNCING FREE SOFTWARE ALPHA RELEASE *** MtScript - The Multext multi-lingual text editor We are pleased to announce an alpha release of the multi-lingual text editor developed within the MULTEXT project, which provides facilities for creating and saving files in a wide variety of languages and corresponding character sets. MtScript provides the following main capabilities: o the use of several different writing systems (Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) in the same document; o interspersing left-to-right and right-to-left writing systems (e.g. : Arabic - French - Hebrew - English); o explicit association of portions of a text with a particular language; o the definition of user-modifiable writing rules for each language; o use of a standard keyboard for any language and character set; o co-mingling of one-byte and multiple-byte character sets (ISO 8859 series, GB_2312_80, BIG_5, JISX0208, KSC5601). MtScript is freely available for non-commercial, non-military purposes (see our User agreement). A compiled alpha version (v1.1) for Sun Sparc stations under Solaris 1.x or 2.x can be downloaded from the URL <http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/multext/MtScript/> Note that MtScript is an alpha version with bugs and limitations It is being distributed "as is" in order to solicit feedback. We invite the user community to send comments and advice, provide additonal fonts, help write language rules, etc. Jean Ve'ronis Multext project Coordinator_______________veronis@univ-aix.fr From: Subject: RE: 10.042 posting a text? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 88 (88) [deleted quotation] A simple and effective solution would be to deposit the text with the Oxford Text Archive. The Archive has a high profile as a provider of on-line electronic texts to the academic community. The Archive also has a large collection of English Renaissance texts (including the 1633 edition of Donne's Poems) which would complement this prose satire. You can find out about the Archive's current policies and holdings from our web page at http://ota.ox.ac.uk/ota/ The Archive is not unacquainted with the problems of format conversion... Our policy is to make the text available in its original format where possible, but (for texts likely to be of permanent and general interest, such as this one) to convert the text to a TEI-conformant form which will guarantee its continued usability. While I have your virtual ear, this is probably a good opportunity to announce that (like HUMANIST) the Text Archive is currently celebrating a landmark birthday this year, its 20th! Long-time subscribers to HUMANIST will already be familiar with the working of the Archive, but it is obvious that a new generation of scholars is now emerging. For the new generation, digital resources are both basic requirement and the normal output of study. The next five years will be a testing ground to see how their expectations can be usefully met... In order to cope with these growing needs, an Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) has been established in the UK to provide information, advice and resources to the electronic user community. In recognition of the central role the Oxford Text Archive has played in electronic scholarship, it has been appointed 'text provider' for the AHDS. We have already taken some steps towards re-shaping the Archive to meet the growing demands of users. A new Head of the Oxford Text Archive has been appointed. Michael Popham, previously Centre Manager of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies in Oxford, will take up his position at the beginning of August. We also hope to have new technical and administrative staff in position by the start of the new academic year. The exact structure of the 'new' Archive has yet to be finalised, as we will be working closely with the other Service Providers (who will cover areas such as moving/still images, sound, historical and archaeological data) but we do hope to offer a much improved service. Lou Burnard, custodian of the Text Archive for the past 20 years, will still continue to oversee its work as Manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford and his input will remain as valuable as ever. There will be a formal announcement from the Archive once the preliminaries of the AHDS structure has been worked out. Current information about the Archive can still be found at http://info.ox.ac.uk/~archive/, at our new Web address http://ota.ox.ac.uk/ota/ and from the recently-announced mirror site in Michigan ftp://ftp.hti.umich.edu/pub/ota/public Alan Morrison Information Officer Oxford Text Archive archive@ota.ox.ac.uk From: Subject: May 23 -- Today in the Historical Sciences Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 89 (89) MAY 23 -- TODAY IN THE HISTORICAL SCIENCES 1617: ELIAS ASHMOLE is born at Lichfield, England. The child of humble parents, Ashmole will study at the Lichfield Grammar School and then move to London, where he will receive training in the law. As a result of several fortunate political and social connections he will make while in London, Ashmole will receive a royal appointment in the College of Arms, eventually becoming a leading authority on the history of heraldry, and a significant collector of antiquities. His expanding interests will lead him to the study of botany, medicine, alchemy, and astrology, and he will be one of the founding members of the Royal Society in 1660. Ashmole will offer his extensive personal collections of antiquities and natural history specimens to the University of Oxford in 1675, and the Ashmolean Museum, the first public museum in England, will open at Oxford in 1683. 1707: CARL LINNAEUS is born at Sodra, Smaland, Sweden. The son of a country parson, Linnaeus will rise to be one of the most prominent figures in the history of natural history. Following study in medicine and botany at the Universities of Lund and Uppsala, Linnaeus will first spend time travelling in Lapland, and then will move to Holland where he will receive his medical degree. While in Leiden he will publish the first edition of his masterwork, _Systema Naturae_ (1735), which he will revise and expand many times over the course of his life. In 1741 Linnaeus will be appointed professor of medicine at Uppsala, and through his many students and his voluminous writings on systematics and natural history, his influence will spread throughout Europe and the world. Today in the Historical Sciences is a feature of Darwin-L, an international network discussion group on the history and theory of the historical sciences. Send the message INFO DARWIN-L to listserv@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu or connect to the Darwin-L Web Server (http://rjohara.uncg.edu) for more information. From: Subject: SGML BeLux '96 : call for contributions Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 90 (90) SGML BeLux '96 Third annual conference on the practical use of SGML October 31, 1996 - Brussels, Belgium CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS SGML BeLux vzw/asbl, the Belgian-Luxembourgian Chapter of the International SGML Users' Group, is organising its third annual conference on the practical use of SGML. As the very successful SGML BeLux '94 and '95 conferences have shown, these conferences serve as an active forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences with the use of SGML for electronic document engineering and information delivery. SGML BeLux is again seeking presenters to talk about all aspects of the practical use of SGML. If you or your company have used SGML in innovative ways in a document application, learned about some SGML problems the hard way, have a clear opinion on how SGML should be used or have valuable advice for beginners, we invite you to share your knowledge and experience with us. MAJOR TOPICS OF INTEREST Contributions to the conference can consist of a full-length paper or a collection of overhead slides dealing with a topic of interest to the conference participants. These topics include (but are not limited to): Case studies of (un)successful document applications and implementations Experiences with support tools: conversion programs, editors, browsers, on-line delivery Design of modular, reusable DTDs: development approaches, useful tips and techniques Use of databases: storage and retrieval of document components, object-oriented vs. relational Experiences with related electronic document engineering standards: HyTime, DSSSL, SPDL Internet document publishing: HTML vs. SGML, SGML viewers, generating documents on the fly INSTRUCTIONS TO PRESENTERS Presenters are invited to submit an abstract in English of approximately 250 words. The abstract should include the title of the proposed contribution with presenter names, affiliations and complete addresses. After acceptance of the abstract, the final version of the contribution must be submitted in camera-ready form according to detailed specifications available upon acceptance. Both the abstract and final version of the contribution should be submitted (in either hard copy or preferably electronic form) to: Paul Hermans, Conference chairman , BC, Interleuvenlaan 62, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32 16 40 66 81, Fax: +32 16 40 66 91, E-mail: Paul_Hermans@protext.be IMPORTANT DATES Deadline submission of abstract August 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance of abstract September 1, 1996 Deadline for camera-ready copy of contribution October 1, 1996 SGML BeLux '96 conference October 31, 1996 Paul Hermans Pro Text Interleuvenlaan 62 3001 Leuven Belgium +32 16 40 66 81 +32 16 40 66 91 (fax) From: Susan Hockey Subject: Text Analysis Software for the Humanities Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 09:27:35 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 91 (91) For some time, those of us active in humanities computing have felt the need for better and/or more widely accessible text analysis software tools for the humanities. There have been informal discussions about this at a number of meetings, but so far no substantial long-term plan has emerged to clarify exactly what those needs are and to identify what could to be done to ensure that humanities scholars have readily-available text analysis tools to serve their computing needs into the next century. In order to get something moving on this topic, the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) convened a meeting on 17-19 May 1996 at which some developers of humanities text analysis software and a number of other interested humanities computing practitioners from several countries gathered to examine the matter in more detail. The invitation to the meeting outlined the following topics which might need to be addressed in any such effort: * determine the community of users (audience) for humanities text analysis software, in terms of who they are, what facilities they have access to, and what other factors will affect their computing needs in the future * clarify what functionality exists in current tools (TACT, OCP, TUSTEP, Monoconc, Opentext, SARA, LEXA etc) * specify what functionality future scholars might need * determine whether SGML should form the basic encoding scheme for any future text analysis software development efforts * review possible architectures for a set of text analysis tools * identify what other software used in humanities computing might need to interact with text analysis software The meeting came to a consensus that something does indeed need to be done and identified the following major topics on which work is needed: (1) Analysis of the needs of humanities scholars (2) More detailed study and analysis of existing software (3) Guidelines for the interoperability of a set of platform-independent tools that would be modular and extensible For this effort to succeed, it must involve the participation of the relevant user communities as much as possible. This announcement is the first step to inviting that participation. In the next few months a form must be found for organizing work in this area, and support found to co-ordinate it and keep it moving on an international basis. For the time being HUMANIST will be used to disseminate information and act as forum for discussion related to the effort. Susan Hockey Director Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities ------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Hockey, Director, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 phone (908) 932-1384; fax (908) 932-1386 E-mail: hockey@rci.rutgers.edu From: Michael Sperberg-McQueen Subject: text analysis software planning meeting Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 09:13:29 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 92 (92) Readers of Humanist whose interest is piqued by Susan Hockey's announcement of the meeting recently held at Princeton to discuss text analysis software, and who wish to know more about the meeting, may be interested in a trip report describing it, which can be retrieved from http://www.uic.edu/~cmsmcq/trips/ceth9505.tei or http://www.uic.edu/~cmsmcq/trips/ceth9505.html The former, if you have Panorama; the latter, if you don't. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen From: Subject: public opinion Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 93 (93) "Vox populi vox dei", "the voice of the populace is the voice of god", requires one of three things: a carefully chosen populace, one trained to agree with and support your point of view, or a less comfortable, more demanding god. In Canada and the United States at least, the populace as a whole has lost its superstitious reverence for the academy, and its emergent voice is asking uncomfortable questions about the nature and purpose of the privileged entity it supports. Numerous books have addressed the crisis in higher learning, but it is now spilling out into the public realm, in major academic gatherings. What the situation demands of us may be, as Margery Fee (Univ. of British Columbia) recently suggested at the Canadian Learned Societies Congress, "to learn the skill of producing effective oppositional sound bites". Dr. Fee's remarks are reported in today's Globe and Mail by John Allemang, in "Academe confronts the sound bite: Scholars need to get the public on the side of higher learning, but it's not easy for them to make contact" (section A, p. 7). Allemang notes the obvious: "for professors of the liberal arts, those subjects that profit the mind but don't necessarily turn a profit, it's a little more difficult to reach out to a wider public. First of all, a scholarly command of language and literature is not an easily identifiable commodity like knowledge of the tax laws. Second, these are people who have earned their stripes being discerning and hypercritical: they're not sure they want to make the compromises required to reach a broader public." This much we know, but as Allemang points out, there's also a profound difference in the kind of language and rhetoric required. "Academics, at least those in the humanities, prefer nuanced, involved, allusive speech", which to the unsympathetic often communicates only the speaker's detachment from the public sphere, perhaps even contempt for it. As Ursula Franklin, renouned scientist at Toronto, remarks in Allemang's article, "As students we were warned: Only the great dare touch the commonplace." The problem, then, does not exactly lie with an ignorant rabble; there is no solution in dismissing it by disparaging the vulgar. Rather, Franklin's remark suggests, we face the great challenge of learning to communicate with those who have no reason to listen. Arguably, if we cannot do this, we shouldn't be around -- and perhaps we won't all that much longer. Personally I reflect on two situations. From my childhood I recall my paternal aunt, who had quit school early to earn a living, had not the foggiest idea of what universities were about, yet believed with ferocious conviction that a university professorship was the highest of callings, worth whatever sacrifices might be required. From my daily life here in Toronto, I think about my local baker, who works 6 days a week from very early in the morning to the night, who looks on my life with utter incomprehension and clearly wonders why he should be supporting me and all the other privileged sorts at the university. At the recent annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, 28 delegates contributed their thoughts in writing on the topic, "The Academy and the Public: What Should Scholars Expect from the Public(s)?" For example, Martin Ostwald (Swarthmore; American Philological Association), noted that the most difficult problem of persuasion is on behalf of "scholarly research and education in the arts and humanities, 'useless' pursuits, in that they yield no immediate visible results." Arguing from application (e.g. that foreign languages are valuable in business) is dangerously beside the point; the real matter, he noted, is to take the training of the mind seriously, to make the case for that, to keep "before the eyes of the public the necessity (not merely desirability as relaxation and diversion) of maintaining and fostering" these 'useless pursuits', so as to "give shape and meaning to life". At the ACLS meeting we were treated to a luncheon address by a U.S. senator from Utah, who clarified much of the conflict between scholar and public. He took the U.S. academy to task for deconstructing the American myth, e.g. by attacking George Washington for his sins against the land, for slaveholding, etc. Do this, he said, and you bite the hand that feeds you. Later on I wondered out loud what had happened to the Socratic ideal of education, what will happen if we spend our time seeking to please from a position of weakness. How do we fulfill the role of Socrates but avoid the hemlock? For good or ill -- I think for good -- computing in the humanities engages us with the world. We may be few in number, but perhaps we are part of the solution rather than the problem. Comments? WM Willard McCarty, Univ. of Toronto || Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~mccarty/wlm/ From: Subject: new project Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 94 (94) This is to announce a new project launched by the "Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare" of the "Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei" [via della Lungara, 10 - 00165 Roma] The project, named "Archivio Testuale Multimediale" (ARTEM), will pursue three main goals: 1) To build a repository of electronic texts in Italian language, selected on the basis of the best editorial reliability, and fully encoded according to the best standards available. The repository will be freely accessible in www network. 2) To link the repository to other similar ones, offering the same scientific reliability. 3) To build a catalogue of existing electronic texts in Italian language, providing a statement of their editorial reliability and encoding methodology, and stating if and how they are available. Special attention is devoted to the problems of encoding, following the SGML procedures, according to the standards proposed by TEI. The previous analysis of textual features, to obtain the full list of elements to encode, will be declared and discussed. Collaboration is evisaged with the Oxford Text Archive, Princeton's CETH, the Trsor de la Langue Franaise, the Institut fr deutsche Sprache of Mannheim, and all academic Institutions dealing with electronic texts and interested in this project. All those interested in the project, and especially those who can provide information on existing e-texts in Italian, may contact the following e-address: lincei@axcasp.caspur.it Tito Orlandi, Accademia dei Lincei, and Universit di Roma La Sapienza From: Subject: Stan Katz resigns Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 95 (95) Dear Colleagues: I pass the following press release along because it concerns a man who has been and, I hope, will continue to be important to humanities computing in the U.S. and elsewhere. Those of you who attended the Santa Barbara conference of the ACH/ALLC will recall Stan Katz's keynote address, in which he identified computing as a top priority of the academy for the next decade. It was with Stan's keen encouragement at the conference that I applied to the ACLS to designate Humanist as an adjunct publication. On behalf of Humanist, best wishes and deepest gratitude to Stan Katz for a job well done. Willard McCarty ----------------------------------------------------------------------- American Council of Learned Societies 228 East 45th Strict, New York, NY 10017-3398 PRESS RELEASE For Release: May 13, 1996 Contact: Douglas C. Bennett, Vice President 212-697-1505, ext. 124 Barbara Henning, Executive Assistant to the President 212-697-1505, ext. 123 STANLEY N. KATZ TO STEP DOWN AS PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES NEW YORK, New York. Stanley N. Katz has indicated his intention to step down as President of the American Council of Learned Societies sometime in the latter half of 1997, dependent upon when a successor is named. "It is with the deepest regret and no little sadness," said Francis Oakley, Chair of the ACLS Board and President Emeritus of Williams College, "that I accept Stan Katz's decision to step down from the presidency of ACLS next year after what will have been eleven years of notable accomplishment in that position. These years have been very good ones for ACLS, not least of all because of Stan's dedication, imagination, entrepreneurial energy, thoughtfulness and forthrightness as an advocate for the humanities. He himself has every reason to be proud of his achievement, and we, who have been the beneficiaries of his efforts, have every reason to be grateful to him." Katz became President of ACLS in July, 1986. He has been a vigorous advocate for humanistic scholarship throughout his tenure. During his decade of leadership ACLS significantly expanded its range of program activities on behalf of scholars and scholarly societies. Katz added a concern with education at all levels to the traditional ACLS concerns with scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. In 1991 the Council initiated a project working directly with K-12 teachers in the U.S. and Canada on curriculum and professional development. A succession of projects on comparative constitutionalism was a second major undertaking. Under his direction, ACLS also began work on a major new reference work, the American National Biography, which will be published in both paper and electronic forms beginning in 1999. As President, Katz also emphasized the role of ACLS as an international representative of U. S. scholarship. He promoted programs of international scholarly exchange and international studies research. He oversaw the affiliation of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars with ACLS and was deeply involved in defending and developing the Fulbright Program. Katz early identified the potential for digital, networked technology to restructure both scholarly communication and publishing. He drew ACLS into closer partnership with scholarly libraries and publishers to develop this new technology and explore its potential benefits. ACLS has recently joined with over two dozen other organizations to form the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). He refounded the ACLS publications program. The Council now publishes a newsletter, a series of Occasional Papers, and reports on scholarly issues. During his tenure he edited, with colleagues, two books which developed out of ACLS activities: Constitutionalism and Democracy, and A Life of Learning. Under Katz's leadership the number of learned societies affiliated with the Council increased from 45 to 58, and the value of the ACLS endowment increased from $15.8 million to $37.2 million. Katz will return to full-time teaching and research at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. During his presidency he has continued to teach one course each semester at Princeton. He also plans to continue his research on the role of philanthropy and non- governmental organizations in public policy. "My calling has always been that of a teacher. I have enjoyed the challenge of administering ACLS enormously, but I feel an obligation to return to my first love, the classroom," said Katz. Katz is a native of Chicago. He holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago before joining the faculty of Princeton University as the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty, and, concurrently, Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. The American Council of Learned Societies is the pre-eminent private humanities organization in the United States. A non-profit organization founded in 1919, it is a federation of 58 national learned societies in the humanities and social sciences. The purpose of the Council, as set forth in its constitution, is "the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among national societies devoted to such studies." A search committee for Katz' s successor is currently being formed and will begin its work in the Fall. Willard McCarty, Univ. of Toronto || Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~mccarty/wlm/ From: Subject: Francis Bacon and Shakespeare Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 96 (96) You may find the following site interesting: http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/outline.html From: Todd Blayone Subject: Re: 10.0057 the academy & the world Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 21:30:08 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 97 (97) [deleted quotation] I'm not sure that "computing in the humanities" automatically "engages us with the world." On my left sits a copy of _Literary & Linguistic Computing_. On my right sits a slick brochure advertising CD-ROMs (with titles like "World History" and "Great Authors"). The former exists as a direct result of "computing in the humanities." The latter appears to have a more humble origin. Nevertheless, the products advertised in the brochure will show up on home computers all over North America. BTW, how many Internet sites (produced by humanities scholars) target non-academic readers? How might "we" exploit the new medium to "engage the world"? --Todd Todd Blayone ***http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/blayone/todd.html Coordinator, Chorus ***http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/chorus.html Co-Editor, HCR ***http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/hcr/hcr.html Ph.D. Cand., McGill ***http://www.mcgill.ca From: carlyle@cats.ucsc.edu Subject: Comment on "public opinion" Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 20:41:15 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 98 (98) [The following was sent to me privately for posting on Humanist by someone not a member of the group but who is sent bits of our conversations from time to time by a friend who is. It takes a rather unexpected approach to the question I posed, suggesting that we hide from the public eye. Would this work? Would we want to live and teach in such a world? Does it make any sense to speak about the "liberal arts" surviving if they can only do so in obscurity and isolation from society? --WM] The only hope for the liberal arts lies in the public's utter ignorance of what they are. As long as the public has no concept of what humanities professors do, it can be cowed into believing that it might be important. The public is sure that science is important; the public knows that it is completely ignorant about science; therefore the public is willing to support science as such and leave it to the scientists to decide who gets the grants. The public mostly doesn't know that the humanities exist at all, and therefore it has heretofore supported humanistic studies only because supporting science entails supporting universities and (so far) universities insist on including the humanities. If humanities professors try to "reach out" to the public to explain to it what they do, they are doomed. The only strategy that holds any hope is to increase as far as possible the public's ignorance of the true content--even, if possible, the very existence--of the liberal arts. Scholars ought to take the position that has worked so well for the mathematicians: "What we do is so complex and sophisticated that you'd have to study for years before we could even begin to explain to you what our questions are." If the science departments could be sold on the idea, the best protection for the humanities would be the abolition of disciplinary and divisional categories for organizing the faculty. The object should be to return to the good old days when, as far as people who hadn't been to college were concerned, a professor was a professor, i.e., a mysterious, polymathic, absent-minded, myopic genius, the purpose of whose existence is to relieve the public of the necessity of exercising its intelligence on any topic. Mark Engel carlyle@cats.ucsc.edu From: Subject: Call for Papers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 99 (99) CALL FOR PAPERS THE MIDWEST STUDY GROUP OF THE NORTH AMERICAN KANT SOCIETY FALL MEETING LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO November 2-3, 1996 The Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society is a group, formed to advance the discussion of Kant and to promote interaction among Kant scholars. Papers on any topic in Kantian studies are welcome. The term "Kantian studies" is broadly conceived to include not only contemporary "Kantian" approaches to philosophical problems, but also the discussion of the German Idealists. Reading time should be around 30-45 minutes, leaving time for discussion. Works in progress are encouraged. Please submit a summary of the proposed paper or presentation (by U.S. post or e-mail) to: Manfred Kuehn, Department of Philosophy, Liberal Arts and Education Building, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 47907 (E-Mail: kuehn@sage.cc.purdue.edu) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 7, 1996 The program committee of the meeting will be Pauline Kleingeld (Washington University), Manfred Kuehn (Purdue University) Fred Rauscher (Eastern Illinois University), and Hans Seigfried (Loyola University From: Subject: new members Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 100 (100) Dear Colleagues: In days of old I would periodically publish on Humanist the biographies of new members so as to introduce them to everyone else and promote collegial exchange. I have been meaning to take up the practice again, but surprisingly I have had much less time to spare than I did all those years ago. Thanks now to Gregory Murphy of CETH, I have an automatic means of collecting and formatting the information from the biographies, and so I propose once again to publish biographies. As an initial trial, I include below the two latest. Please let me know what you think of my proposal to make the publication of biographies a regular feature. Note that I edit them somewhat, removing the snail-mail address but retaining the electronic one. I would appreciate any advice. WM ----------------- 1. Elkins, James R. jelkins@prodigy.com Professor of Law University - faculty I received a JD from the University of Kentucky and studied at the Yale Law School. I am interested in lawyer ethics and presently teach a course called "Practical Moral Philosophy for Lawyers." I also teacher Lawyers and Literature and have written various papers drawing on the humanities. I edit an interdisciplinary journal called the Legal Studies Forum. 2. Suga, Hiroshi suga@harenet.or.jp a senior highschool teacher Secondary School I majored in French literature at Kansai Univ. in Japan. I have taught English at high schools for more than 20 years in Japan. I have formed my own corpus with 15 million words and made a reseach how often some English expressions taught in high schools in Japan are really used. I am looking forward to exchanging information in this forum. ------------------ From: Mark Steinacher Subject: Re: 10.0060 the academy and the world Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 01:15:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 101 (101) Friends, Mark Engel's comments to the effect that the liberal arts community's best survival strategy is to make like my children's chameleons and blend into the background may well be the best advice we get. As an historian, I often have people wondering while I don't do something more "useful". One colleague even expressed surprise when I went into church history, rather than New Testament, because, and I quote: "You're SMART ENOUGH to do New Testament!" Engel's comments also bring to mind a cartoon my brother clipped for me years ago. In it were three men sitting at a bar. The little man in the middle was explaining to the two burly, heavily-tattoed, biker-gang-types parked either side of him that, "Well, actually, I get paid to stare off into space and think." They looked ready to beat him to a pulp. Is the average non-academic not feeling somewhat the same urges toward the "non-productive" academic community (read: the liberal arts)? Mark Steinacher steinach@chass.utoronto.ca From: Richard Giordano Subject: Re: 10.0060 the academy and the world Date: Tue, 28 May 96 10:42:43 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 102 (102) Mark Engle's post implies that there are humanists, and there is 'the public.' Last time I looked, we were the public. As for the comment on mathematicians, an old roommate of mine from MIT, once explained to me the research he was doing on the passage of electrons across a cell membrane. It was one of the clearest explanations I ever heard, and I was a history major. I told him so, and his reply was that if you really *understand* your subject, you can explain it to anyone. I found in my own experience that my former roommate is right. /rich From: Mike Fraser Subject: CTI Publication: Computers & Teaching in the Humanities Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 17:18:52 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 103 (103) Computers & Teaching in the Humanities Edited by Michael Popham and Lorna Hughes Oxford: CTI Centre for Textual Studies, 1996. Pp. iv+88. ISBN 0-9523301-2-1 A selection of papers given at the CATH94 conference is now available as the second volume in the CTI Centre for Textual Studies' Occasional Series. The contents include: Perspectives on Computers in Education - The Promise, the Pain, the Prospect Design and Development of Courseware * Developing Educational Software: A Generic Approach * Developing Courseware in Archaeology * Courseware Development in Higher Education * Created Annotated Poetry Editions The Electronic Classroom: Courseware in Action * Multimedia in Language Learning, an Open or Closed Case? * Encountering Digital Media * Computer Modelling and Critical Thinking * From Modes to MIDI: Methodologies for Multimedia Music Courseware * Electronic Conferencing: Pedagogy Beyond the LAN * The Development and Implementation of Software for Vocabulary Acquisition * A Hypermedia Language Program for Telematic Dissemination Assessment and Implementation Issues * Ideals and Realities: Initiating and Evaluating the Use of Technology in the Curriculum * The Enriched Lecture: Courseware by Design * From IT Skill to Postmodernism: Implementing Degree-level Humanities Computing * Assessing CAMILLE * Exploiting Potentialities: the Hypermedia Dissertation at Southampton, 1992-94 * The Paperless Exam Electronic Resources for the Humanities * Information Skills - The Hypertext Approach * Internet Textual Resources at Oxford * SGML and the Internet Courseware in Action Case Study: The STELLA Project Computers & Teaching in the Humanities: GBP 10.00 per copy Postage & Packing per copy: UK GBP 1.00 Europe GBP 2.00 Rest of World GBP 3.00 All orders should be accompanied by a cheque made out to "Oxford University Computing Services". Please send name and address together with payment to Mari Gill, CTI Textual Studies, Oxford University Computing Services. 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK From: "Peter Graham, RUL" Subject: Preserving Digital Information: Final Report Available Date: Tue, 28 May 96 14:13:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 104 (104) The final report of the Digital Archiving Task Force is now available at http://www.rlg.org/ArchTF/>. It was put up last week but announcements don't appear to have gone out. It is a very important report; following is some text describing it: "At the end of 1994 the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) and RLG created a Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information charged with investigating and recommending means to ensure "continued access indefinitely into the future of records stored in digital electronic form." The 21-member task force, co-chaired with distinction by Donald Waters, Associate University Librarian, Yale University, and John Garrett, Chief Executive Officer of CyberVillages Corporation, recently completed their final report. RLG and CPA are making this widely available online and in print." *********************************************************************** --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: Subject: Re: 10.0048 converting to HTML Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 105 (105) A footnote to Larry's remarks about rtf2html: I've written a front-end for rtf2html which allows you to process files using the file upload feature in netscape 2.0 or better. Visit http://eee.oac.uci.edu/toolbox/ This script will join rtf2html's separate endnote files to the bottom of your paper, producing a single document with footnotes as inline hyperlinks. In the same directory you'll also find file upload interfaces to 1) makemark, my program for converting Netscape bookmark files into publishable html documents, complete with hyperlinked Table of Contents. (The file upload version reflects a single document with an in-line TofC; the command line version, available at the same location, generates multiple files with 'next,' 'prev,' and 'up' links.) 2) splitlines, a program which wraps lines in a text file at the blank space closest to a user-specified number of columns. In short, this is word wrap for text files you want to upload. All of the above is 'helloware,' which is to say that it would be nice to hear from anyone who happens to use it. Eric D. Friedman friedman@uci.edu [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Re: 10.0062 new members Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 106 (106) I'd like to suggest gathering and publishing (first on Humanist and then at the Humanist Web site) the URLs of those Humanist subscribers who maintain Web pages--perhaps with some brief indication of what can be found there. Michael Hancher --------------- Michael Hancher Professor of English University of Minnesota mh@maroon.tc.umn.edu http://umn.edu/home/mh From: Ken Tompkins Subject: Comparative Politics Project Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 09:10:32 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 107 (107) I am posting this for a colleague not on this list; it would be helpful if members of this list would share it with their colleagues: ========== Instructor of undergraduate comparative politics course seeks to put his students online with their German, Japanese, and Russian peers. Any overseas colleagues that might be interested in collaborating in such a project can find more information at: http://loki.stockton.edu/~sensibaw/cpproj.htm William Sensiba SOBL Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Pomona, NJ 08240 ========= Ken Tompkins From: Charles Ess Subject: terms? Date: Tue, 28 May 96 09:09:47 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 108 (108) A colleague (from an institution which, for reasons that will become obvious, must remain unnamed) and I are searching for terms that describe the following maneuvers: 1) The Thrasymachus maneuver: in Plato's _Republic_, Book I, the archtype Sophist Thrasymachus is pictured as a "bathman," who, "after having poured a great shower of speech into our ears all at once," (344d, Bloom translation) seeks to physically remove himself from further argument with Socrates. A little more carefully: Thrasymachus interrupts the dialogue with an opening insult (Socrates needs a wet nurse to wipe his nose - i.e., he's speaking childish nonsense: 343a); bombards Socrates with a longish speech (343b-344c), and then turns to go - i.e., to close off any further debate by physically walking out. I have observed some of my more agonistic (and, indeed, sophistic) colleagues exhibit precisely this maneauver. Surely there's a term for this effort to overpower one's dialogical partner through the equivalent of mass bombardment followed by hasty retreat? Perhaps rhetoricians have a name for it? 2) the administrative maneuver: an administrator who seeks to eliminate a program begins, say, by first forbidding adjunct faculty from teaching core courses. Since, as we know, students tend to cluster around requirements, the student enrollments in the adjuncts' course go down. But since this means the enrollments in the entire program go down - the administrator can then publically point to these enrollment drops as perfectly rational reasons for eliminating the program. In sum: an initial, more or less secret and difficult to contest maneauver (adjunct faculty have no basis for fighting senior administrators) leads, apparently by design, to a publically demonstrable sign of weakness or inadequacy - i.e., a reason or ground difficult to contest in ostensibly open discussion. Machiavelli must have this down somewhere. Any candidates for a term? My thanks in advance, Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiding won't work Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 21:23:29 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 109 (109) Perhaps no one will be surprised by my strenuous opposition to the idea that humanists will survive by staying out of the picture. I have no doubt that an increased public role will prove uncomfortable for many. My original title, "the academy and the world", was meant to echo the title of Satyajit Ray's film, "The Home and the World", and so to make that point faintly. Perhaps there remains too much American idealism in me, but I do not wish to be rid of this quality. It is one of the aspects of American culture that I find myself most glad to encounter when I return to my homeland. I don't mean primarily to be autobiographical, rather to reflect personally on the ideal that I first encountered as a young sprout in California. As I recall it is Jeffersonian, but perhaps someone closer to American studies than I am would care to correct me, or to fill in the picture. In any case, this is an international forum, or as international as we can make it speaking almost exclusively a single language mostly from a single continent. Presuming it makes sense to speak of "the humanities" in such a forum (give or take a discipline or two), can we really imagine that (a) the humanities can hide out and still get funded, and (b) that we would want to live in isolation? The many religious traditions of practice in isolation clearly show that great thought, if it can be called thought, prospers in silence, but the humanities I was trained to practice have engagement with the world at their core. For a long time we have not had to sing for our supper, because our worldly neighbours would leave bits of food on our doorstep, and lately we have somehow managed to live as well as the best of them. Now these neighbours have shed their superstitious ways and no longer think we bring good luck. If I hear my colleagues in the "pure" sciences clearly, they are suffering the same fate, or so they believe. Just whose banquet table are we going to hide beneath so as to catch the crumbs and scraps? More importantly, is this where we should be? It seems to me that if all we are worried about is our jobs then we don't deserve to have them, but that if we know enough to worry about our intellectual way of life, then we are essential and can prove it. Comments? WM Willard McCarty, Univ. of Toronto || Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~mccarty/wlm/ From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0063 student contacts? terms? Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 11:06:51 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 110 (110) I always thought that this was called the Mushroom Treatment. First they plant you, then they cover your with manure, and after a while they throw you out....you get the idea. Maybe we should call this the Machivellian treatment. Because the intention is to put you on the sideline where you can't do anything but watch. Which is what happened to Machivelli and what usually happens to people of action. I am afraid that I have a very idealistic attitude toward humanistic or scientific knowledge. I belive that if a person really wants to understand something that they can if they put some time and energy into doing that. I continually have arguments with people that the general public can understand anything about politics, history, science. All you have to do is explain it correctly. I feel that if I read the liturature for six months (That's how long it takes me to read the last 10 years of the published liturature) I can understand what is happening in a field. Perhaps I should say that I think that I can understand what the specialists are saying and doing. I often find that specialists go out of their way to be esoteric and obscure in writing about what they are doing or thinking. It appears occasionally they they are only talking to about 15 people in the entire world. From: Malvernart@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0060 the academy and the world Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:13:17 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 111 (111) I like your vision of the "good old days" and its description of the way the Professors were perceived by non graduate people. I do not know if you have ever been to England, but it certainly is still like this today! Best of luck in the pursuit of you art. Don Sergio. From: Fabrizio Pregadio Subject: Electronic format for non-roman script languages Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 22:04:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 112 (112) This message from the H-ASIA mailing list could be of interest to at least some subscribers of HUMANIST. Fabrizio Pregadio -- [deleted quotation] -- ============================================================ Calle Pasubio 10 | pregadio@unive.it 30132 Venezia | http://vega.unive.it/~pregadio/home.html ============================================================ From: John Saillant Subject: Editing position at Jefferson papers Date: Wed, 29 May 96 12:57:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 113 (113) [I send this on since you may want to post it on Humanist---J Saillant] Princeton University The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University, seeks an Assistant or Associate Editor specializing in early American history to 1815. An advanced degree in American history required, Ph.D. and previous experience on a historical editing project preferred. Candidates must be computer literate and a reading knowledge of French is highly desirable. Rank and salary commensurate with qualifications. Send letter, resume, and three letters of recommendation by June 30, 1996, to John Catanzariti, Editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey 08544. Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. From: Ted Parkinson Subject: Re: 10.0062 new members Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:09:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 114 (114) On Mon, 27 May 1996, Humanist wrote: [deleted quotation] I think the publication of (auto?)biographies straight to the list would take up too much bandwidth. Making them accessible in a database might be helpful. there is just toooo much information out there! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ted Parkinson Department of English McMaster University parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Hamilton, Ontario From: "Dr. Pauline Kra" Subject: Re: 10.0062 new members Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:24:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 115 (115) Publishing the biographies is a good idea. The humanize the Humanist. Pauline From: Dennis Cintra Leite Subject: RE: 10.0066 publish URLs of members Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 17:09:04 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 116 (116) Good idea but how about including everyone's e-mail address? On Tuesday, 28 of May of 1996 22:17 Michael Hancher said: ---------- * From: mccarty[SMTP:mccarty@phoenix.Princeton.EDU] * Sent: Tuesday, 28 of May of 1996 22:17 * To: Humanist Discussion Group * * Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 10, No. 66. * Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton/Rutgers) * Information at http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/ * [1] From: Michael Hancher (60) * Subject: Re: 10.0062 new members * I'd like to suggest gathering and publishing (first on Humanist and then * at the Humanist Web site) the URLs of those Humanist subscribers who * maintain Web pages--perhaps with some brief indication of what can be * found there. * Michael Hancher * --------------- * Michael Hancher * Professor of English * University of Minnesota * mh@maroon.tc.umn.edu * http://umn.edu/home/mh -------------------------------------- dennis cintra leite dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br sao paulo business school (eaesp/fgv) snail mail:av.9 de julho 2029 sao paulo, sp 01313-902 brazil py2-etn -------------------------------------- From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: 10.0054 text analysis software for the humanities Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 13:01:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 117 (117) At 17:31 24-05-96, Susan Hockey wrote: [deleted quotation] .... [deleted quotation] This initiative will be presented at the ALLC-ACH '96 conference in Bergen. A presentation is scheduled for Wednesday June 26 at 4PM. There are rooms available for BOF-sessions, and this might be a candidate. For further information about the ALLC-ACH '96 (and a registration form for those who have not yet registered), see: <http://www.hd.uib.no/allc-ach96.html> Espen Ore ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Espen Ore Tel: + 47 55 58 28 65 Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Fax: + 47 55 58 94 70 Bergen, NORWAY Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no From: "H-CLC (BD)" Subject: COPAC: British Online Catalogue Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 08:14:37 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 118 (118) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Studentship Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 119 (119) SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND EUROPEAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON OPPORTUNITY FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDY IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE ENGINEERING The University of Wolverhampton invites applications for a PhD studentship from candidates interested in undertaking research in Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering. The project ------------- The successful applicant is expected to work on Language Engineering approaches to anaphor resolution which will complement the ongoing research on this topic at the School. Prerequisites --------------- Applicants should possess a good honours degree (or an equivalent degree if not obtained in a UK university) and will be expected to register for a higher degree (MPhil/PhD). Overseas candidates must have a good command of English. Candidates should have a background of Computational Linguistics. A good knowledge of one or more programming languages is essential. Bursary --------- The current value of the bursary is # 5, 500. In addition, up to six teaching hours a week would be possible (in consultation with the supervisor and depending on the appropriateness of the various modules on offer). Application and deadline ---------------------------- Deadline for application is 25 June 1996. The following documents are requested: (i) Application form (to be obtained from Ms. Leslie Barlow Email L.Barlow@wlv.ac.uk, tel. 44-1902-323317, fax 44-1902-323316; please cite reference RS138). (ii) Curriculum Vitae (iii) covering letter in which research interests are outlined, previous (e.g. undergraduate) and/or current projects are summarised and background in both Computational Linguistics and programming is described. Applications should be sent to: Ms. Leslie Barlow The Research Support Unit University of Wolverhampton Dudley Campus Castle View Dudley, DY1 3HR United Kingdom Enquiries ---------- Those wishing to discuss this opportunity for postgraduate study in Computational Linguistics can contact Dr. R. Mitkov Email r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk, tel. (44-1902) 322471. The appointment of a research student is part of the expansion of the Division of Linguistics in the School of Languages and European Studies and is in line with the research policy of the School which has designated Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering as areas of research excellence. Topics of active research are anaphor resolution, automatic abstracting, neural networks, natural language interfaces. From: Marco Simionato Subject: quotations sought Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 21:36:22 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 120 (120) I have found somewhere that both T.S.Eliot and W.C.Williams in their writings expressed reservations of the sonnet as a viable 20th-century poetic form, but no source was given for these statements. Any pointers? Please reply directly, thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marco Simionato Technical Translator, Software Localiser Dorsoduro 2408/b tel/fax +39 41 5225570 30123 Venezia, ITALY email: simionat@mbox.vol.it From: "Peter D. Junger" Subject: Humanist Archives and Discussion of Encrypting Texts Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 09:55:05 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 121 (121) This message relates to particular form to text encoding: text encrypting so that the unwanted cannot read one texts. I recall that some years ago--many years ago as one calculates things in cybertime--during the original avatar of Humanist we had a fairly lengthy discussion of the ways by which one could preserve the confidentiality of electronic messages, including the possibility of using compression programs and UU[en/de]CODing and obscure foreign languages. (As I recall I suggested using _Schweinfurterisch_.) I doubt that I preserved any of that discussion, though I have not checked my ``archives'' from that period, which archives, if they exist, are sitting on the ZIP disks that contain when is left of the information I collected on my old office machine running MSDOS, before I converted to a Linux system. But even if I have actual copies of those messages--which, as I just mentioned, is doubtful--I would like to be able to locate them in a public archive, if one exists, for use in a law suit I propose to bring to enjoin the enforcement of the licensing scheme under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations that makes it a felony to publish or otherwise disclose to ``foreign persons''--a term that I fear applies to many members of this list--any software, or description of such software, that is capable of preserving the confidentiality of information, without first obtaining a license from the censors in the Office of Defense Trade Controls in the United States Department of State. So my question is: Do the old Humanist archives still exist, and where are they located if they do? And I would also like to know if there are any other archives where those old discussions might be preserved. I should add that if any of you have found that you have been constrained in communicating information about cryptography--or if others have been constrained in communicating such information to you--because of the ITAR's licensing scheme, I would be very interested in hearing about it. The subject is one that should be of considerable interest to Humanists, since most schemes that can be used to sign or certify a text to attest to its accuracy can also be used for encryption, and are thus subject to the ITAR's licensing provisions. Which means that the software used for such signatures or certifications cannot be transmitted outside the United States, or disclosed to ``foreign persons'' even within the United States, without first getting a license. As I read the ITAR, even the disclosure by one foreign person to another outside of the United States of a description of cryptogaphic software would constitute a felony under the law of the United States: foreign persons cannot obtain licenses under the ITAR. (Of course the regulations are as unconstitutional as they are ridiculous; that is why I will almost certainly win my suit.) -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH Internet: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu From: Subject: URL correction Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 122 (122) It is with considerable embarrassment that I must correct an error in my earlier post on the web side for Applied Ethics. The correct URL: http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/Home/Forum/ethics.html My apologies, and thanks to S. Quigley for letting me know. Color me red... Charles Ess From: Subject: NINCH Newsletter on Web Site Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 123 (123) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT The NINCH Newsletter # 3 (October 23, 1996) can now be found on the NINCH Web site (http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/Newsletter3.html). From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 10.0360 books real and virtual Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:00:35 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 124 (124) Marta Steele writes: [deleted quotation] Yes, it does -- one major difference being that when you post _these_ marginal scrawls, others get to read them, including possibly the author of your pre-text. It's as if books were always the playground of the mind, but very much a sandbox for one until you were admitted into the company of the Big Kids and were allowed to publish. With the networked computer, anyone can join -- at least one game or another. It's true that you can write these notes on your PC and never post them, but unless the exercise is deliberately introspective (i.e. unless you drop the pretence that your words will ever reach out), such a practice gets to seem kind of idiotic (at least in a literal sense of a closed private world). (I say this not to censure, being prone to it myself.) Fundamentally, books meant that you could have your reactions, and they were privately yours. This can be great for those who work to sort things through on a personal level; but this kind of activity is also one which serves to let us indulge our prejudices without facing consequences. In e-text, we have a greater power to respond, i.e. to take responsibility -- and when we do, others tend to hold us to it. It's a moral exercise of a very different kind. -- Wendell Piez From: Francois Lachance Subject: book & crooks Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:22:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 125 (125) Willard, The following remarks will explain my question to you: how much influence does an editor/instigator have over the shaping of a debate? Some exerpts from my remarks prompted by a question from Robert Fowler There is a leap in here between periodization and comparison. Indeed an acquaintance with parallel time lines, their construction and reading, is at play in these remarks.... [deleted quotation] Answer to my own question: Only as much as you let them have. You might to cast out the question as to how the myopism of the techno-haves is aided and abetted by "codex fetischism" and its cousin "electronic reification". Francois From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 10.0360 books real and virtual Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:14:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 126 (126) Marta Steele says: [deleted quotation] Having been through the book versus computer discussion many times (Book: "I can take it to the beach, I can cuddle with it, I can read it more easily, it feels nice, it lasts, I don't have to plug it in or run it on a battery") and (PC: "I can create smart text, I can search it, I can manipulate text more easily, I can share text immediately, I can communicate quickly, I can include non-text more easily"), I wonder if we are worrying about the design of the front door when the whole house stands before us. We've grown up with futuristic visions being trotted out daily, always prefaced by "someday we will. . ." but now they are actually being created. Take a look at a group of students at MIT who have been wearing computers for several years (Steve Mann at http://www.wearcam.org/, the group at http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearable/) or for a lighter, more general idea see Negroponte's brief article on wearable computing at http://nicholas.www.media.mit.edu/people/nicholas/WIRED3-12.html. What happens to our consciousness and thinking, indeed, when putting on our shoes in the morning boots up our computer and powers it throughout the day, when our "screen" is hoovering in front of our glasses, when "networking" and passing data is done with a literal handshake, when the 'net is always there when you want it, when you can type your manuscript with a hand held device the size of a mouse and all these things interact with the computers built into the world around you? There are active prototypes for all these possibilities in use right now--not futuristic vaporware at all. So, when my 12 year old daughter goes off to college in a world where computing is more intimately bound up in what we do, when it is an ubiquitous part of our immediate environment and not an unwieldy box over there that is hard to read from, what will humanities computing be? Hmmm....I think I'll go invent the "new book," a fold out padded bit of cardboard in a variety of colors that I can focus my computer display glasses on so I have a nice calming surface to read from and that is emminently "cuddle-able." - Hope ------------ Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: TRIP10@aol.com Subject: DIGITAL CONTENT PROTECTION (long promo) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 19:04:58 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 127 (127) ******** NFAIS Special Session *********** Cosponsored with ASIS and the Washington, D.C. Chapter of SLA DIGITAL CONTENT PROTECTION: Protecting and Distributing Copyrighted Material-- Where Are We Now? Date/Time: Thursday, October 31, 1996, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location: AARP Headquarters, 611 E. Street, NW., Washington, D.C. 20049 Price: NFAIS, SLA and ASIS Members $100 each. Lunch Included. Non-Members $125 each. Lunch Included. **** Special Session Moderator: BONNIE LAWLOR (UMI) The White Paper Legislation: Where Is It Going? Presented by JOE BREMNER, Attorney at Law and Author of Guide to Database Distribution. Whatever happened to the legislation that resulted from the President's Information Infrastructure Task Force on Intellectual Property in Digital Environments? Measures designed to extend copyright protection to electronic content met with resistance. But why? And what does it mean for our future as electronic information providers? *** Database Protection: New Rules in Europe (And How They Came To Be) Presented by BARRY MAHON, Executive Director, EUSIDIC. Over a five-year period, EUSIDIC was actively involved in efforts by the European Community to hammer out guidelines for new means of protecting electronic content--beyond copyright and licensing. Hear how the resulting "Database Directive" came to be. What issues were resolved? Which are left outstanding? *** The European Database Directive: What Is The Impact Here? Presented by STEVE METALITZ, Attorney at Law. Members of the European Union will enact new laws over the next several years to protect producers of factual compilations. But many publishers in the U.S. are exempt from protection under these rules, which apply only to publishers who reside in Europe. But efforts are afoot to mirror the European Directive here. Hear the details! **** Building on the White Paper and the EC Directive: The Database Investment and Intellectual Property Act of 1996 Presented by DAN DUNCAN, Information Industry Association. IIA has been working with Congress to draft and introduce legislation that would better protect electronic content. Dan will review these legislative efforts and give a prognosis on the likelihood that these bills will be passed soon. *** Maintaining the Balance--Updating the Copyright Act Presented by PRUE ADLER, Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Recent efforts to update the Copyright Act to the digital environment were not successful during this recent congressional session. Maintaining the balance between the interests of owners and users of copyrighted resources emerged as a key theme in the congressional discussions. Prue will share the library community's views on the recent legislative debates. *** Database Protection--The Possible Downside Presented by PETER JACCZI, Professor of Law, The American University. Critics of the European Database Directive and related legislation in the U.S., fear that proposed changes could be interpreted too broadly and maybe even upset the intellectual-property-protection apple cart. Peter will discuss his concerns about the proposed legislation as written. *** Potential New Legislation and Unresolved Issues-- What Could Happen Next? Presented by JOE BREMNER. What else is happening with copyright--both from a legislative and a case-law point of view? Last year, we saw shrinkwrap licenses come into question, before the courts reversed their decision. In recent years, courts have ruled against as well as in favor of "course-pack" photocopying. Where's it all headed? What could happen next? ________________________________________________ *** To register for this event: Contact. . . The National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services (NFAIS) 1518 Walnut St., Suite 307 Philadelphia, PA 19102 215 893-1561 Fax: 215 893-1564 e-mail: chudie@aol.com or nfais@hslc.org From: "William R. Bowen" Subject: ITER Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:05:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 128 (128) A pre-release version of ITER, the online bibliography for the period 1300 to 1700, is now available to the public through the homepage www.library.utoronto.ca/www/iter. At present, the database has records for 50,000 journal articles. Please visit the site and let us know what you think. Bill Bowen Director, Iter ********************************************************************* William R. Bowen Scarborough College and Faculty of Music University of Toronto University of Toronto: bowen@chass.utoronto.ca Scarborough College: bowen@scar.utoronto.ca FICINO: editor@chass.utoronto.ca From: "William R. Bowen" Subject: RSA homepage Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:05:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 129 (129) Members of FICINO may be interested in visiting the homepage for the Renaissance Society of America at citd.scar.utoronto.ca/rsa/index.html. This release of web pages includes information about the society, its activities, publications, and membership. More will be added in the near future. ********************************************************************* William R. Bowen Scarborough College and Faculty of Music University of Toronto University of Toronto: bowen@chass.utoronto.ca Scarborough College: bowen@scar.utoronto.ca FICINO: editor@chass.utoronto.ca ********************************************************************* From: Subject: Re: 'Real' books Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 130 (130) Sorry for the delay in replying to the various postings: it's been one of those weeks. There are one or two points I'd like to clarify, and a distinction or two to make. Also, sorry for the length. To steal from Pascal, if I had more time, I'd make this shorter! 1. Technology/technology, Book/book It's probably important to distinguish two senses here. On the one hand there's big-t technology versus little-t technology, and on the other big-b book and little-b book. The first refers to the conceptual categorization of a set of tools, the second to a particular manifestation of these tools. So we can talk about the Technology of the Book, meaning sequentially bound sheets, and the technology of a book, meaning the particular stack of bound sheets in front of me just now.=20 Similarly, we can refer to the Technology of the Computer (meaning some input mechanism, some processing and some output) as well as to the particular technology of a particular computer (for example, a 486 100 Mhz machine running Windows95, with a .28 14" screen, etc.). So when Willard writes: Where I think the case for replacement is dubious is when the computer is being used to model an activity for which it is inherently unsuited, grossly overpowered, or both. If one is READING a text rather than consulting it, why use a computer, which at least now is too bulky to be very convenient, produces a low-resolution image, and costs money to run? Seems silly to me. he's talking sometimes about Technology and sometimes about technology. The same tension occurs in Marta Steele's reply: You can't pull an online publication off your shelf to show a friend the book you've just published, nor will it sport a custom-designed jacket with an artist's rendition of your theme. It will not last a hundred years or more if well tended to; maximum life of disks is at this point 25 years if you're lucky, but we're always warned to back things up, etc., so I'd be wary of that figure. When you publish something and have slaved years over it, do you want to call it up on a screen as flickering waves or admire something that is visually appealing and tangible? Yet it's crucial to keep the two senses distinct. Take the case of Book/book. The Book has an advantage over the Scroll by offering non- sequential access (compare Tape and CD). However, the Book has problems with reordering or textual manipulation. To test this, take Queneau's "Cent mille milliards de po=E8mes" out of your library. This is a book with slices of paper on each page, each of which contains a line of a poem. Different slices can be folded up giving the indicated number of total poems. This book pushes the limits of the Book; as a book, it's also likely to be torn and taped. As a Book, it manages to give some limited freedom, but doesn't allow, for example, reordering lines within the same poem. On the other hand, another Technology like hypertext does this easily, even if the technology (a six-pound laptop, for example) still has shortcomings. In short, we may have qualms about a technology, but we shouldn't let this distract us from considering the Technology it exemplifies and asking ourselves what its limits might be. 2. Reading Drawing on old work in lexicography, let's distinguish three perspectives on texts: consultative (looking up), discursive (reading sequences of text) and esthetic (textual pleasure). One doesn't exclude the others, but together, they allow us to characterize our ways of dealing with varieties of texts. Consider the following table: consult. discurs. esthet. library catalogue + - - dictionary + - - encyclopedia + + - journal article + + - scholarly book + + - novel - + + On the surface, this looks nicely clean. We consult library catalogues, but not novels. We treat novels as esthetic objects, but don't do the same for dictionaries. But wait: some people would claim that Diderot's Encyclop=E9die is an esthetic object. A number of authors of scholarly books would consider that their work has important esthetic facets. How about the numerous queries on HUMANIST itself asking which x said y, or where x said y? Is this not consulting? Or how about a collection of poetry? Do we ever consult it? So there appears to be some fuzziness here. Now, we all know that there is a technologizing wave moving along which has swallowed up library catalogues, most of dictionaries, most of encyclopedias, is working on journals, and starting on textbooks. Should we assume that this wave will be halted by the novel, or by books of poetry because they are FUNDAMENTALLY different from other sorts of text? My own expectation is that with the exception of books as art- form, as described by Matthew Kirschenbaum, novels, textbooks and scholarly works on paper will be essentially gone twenty years from now. (Ask me again in 2016!) There are already hints around. I recently stopped at a business supply store with a sideline in computing software and hardware. They were selling a CD-ROM containing 350 stories (the usual classics) for $24.95. I suspect that this will increase. 3. Attitudes Willard worries that by concentrating on the electronic book, we cater to only a fraction of the population. As he puts it: "Developed-nation myopia is a seriously debilitating condition!" I would reply that we can't change the world, but we can push or pull in one direction or another. I'm also reminded of the discussion which took place in Canada a number of years ago when the metric system was first proposed. There were three groups at least to be found: a) proponents of the new system who claimed that whatever its current shortcomings, it was essentially superior to the imperial system; b) opponents who resisted any change to a system which had worked reasonably well for a long time; c) the indifferent. Now that the metric system has been adopted, we find layers of generations. To grossly simplify, there are: - the young, who know only metric - the middle-aged, who know both metric and imperial - the old, who know only imperial I am struck by the analogy with the introduction of electronic technology in the humanities. What concerns me is that in the replies to date, I don't see much evidence of attitude a) when it comes to electronic books. Are we all too old (or at least middle-aged)? Or should we see it as our duty as computing humanists to push the limits of information Technology, which means trying it out every chance we get? After all, (1) it's fun, and (2) if we don't, who will? From: Subject: CFP: Culture and the Literary Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 131 (131) }} Call for Papers from Graduate Students in all Disciplines }} }} Culture and the Literary }} }} Annual Graduate English Conference at Radford University }} }} Saturday, March 22, 1997 }} }} }} }} What is the nature of the constant interactions between culture and the }} literary? How can academic disciplines engage the literary and still be }} mindful of culture? Through what processes have connections been made in }} the past between culture and the literary? How might we forge new }} correspondences between textual criticism and theories of culture? }} }} Papers are invited from all literary genres and periods. We especially }} invite submissions of essays which engage in current theories of gender, }} nationhood, and popular and material culture. Cross-disciplinary papers }} may involve the fields of Philosophy, Communications, History, Sociology, }} Biology, and Anthropology; other areas and perspectives are welcomed. }} Panels with representatives from diverse disciplines are strongly }} encouraged to submit. }} }} Inexpensive accomodations available for out-of-town graduate students. }} Registration fee of $20 includes a brown-bag lunch. }} }} Panel proposals and individual abstracts are due by November 22, 1996 }} }} Submissions and queries to: }} }} Rita Kranidis }} 540.831.5152. or 5614 }} English Department, Box 6935 }} Radford University }} Radford, VA 24142-6935 }} mkranidi@runet.edu }} }} Questions or concerns regarding general information about the conference: }} Libby Bradford }} 540.731.1944 }} English Department, Box 6935 }} Radford University }} Radford, VA 24142-6935 }} lbradfor@runet.edu } From: Subject: Request for information on extraction of content from Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 132 (132) email Hello, I am researching the automatic extraction of pragmatic and linguistic content of emails. I would appreciate it if anybody knows of any related work in this area. Thanks, Yours sincerely Hamid Khosravi From: Ron Tetreault Subject: Books real and virtual Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:54:19 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 133 (133) I admire Greg Lessard's chutzpah in speaking so forthrightly in favour of the computerized book, though I suspect he was pulling our virtual leg. Willard, however, has raised some serious issues about the distinction between real and virtual texts. Though a dedicated e-book maker, I'd give odds on the survival of print media. Books are portable, comparatively cheap, and usable by people all over the world. In these discussions, we always need to remind ourselves that we're not obliged to place books and e-texts in competition. Instead I prefer to emphasize the differing strengths of each. Yes, as Pamela Cohen points out, books and print are the medium of permanent record, and are likely to remain so. But it is precisely the infinite revisibility of a text in the electronic medium that gives it a capacity for growth and development that the book does not offer. Digital media only justify themselves when they do things that cannot be done any other way, so that if I make an e-text it is not to replace the book but to give the text a dimension it does not have in print. The stasis of print is valuable for some purposes, but the dynamism of electronic texts produces an almost living, organic effect whose consequences we are only beginning to realize. Even so basic a function as searching gives the e-text an aura of animation, and WWW hypertext links offer a glimpse of Ted Nelson's "docuverse" as a living organism, evolving and interdependent. Let me be so bold as to propose something I'll call the Tetreault test: If you can print out an e-text without losing something vital, it wasn't worth electrifying in the first place. --Ron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + Ronald Tetreault Tel: (902) 494-3494 + + Department of English Fax: (902) 494-2176 + + Dalhousie University Home Fax: (902) 453-4786 + + Halifax, Nova Scotia e-mail: tetro@is.dal.ca + + B3H 3J5 CANADA or Ronald.Tetreault@Dal.Ca + + http://is.dal.ca/~tetro/home/welcome.html + + learning by the (cyber)sea + From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 10.0360 books real and virtual Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:05:47 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 134 (134) I wanted to mention something that I heard from a colleague. Their graduate students are printing them out of house and home, downloading so much information over the web and printing it out on their grants and contracts that it is costing their projects too much for the paper, toner, etc. I believe this is the tip of a new iceberg. The publishing world has at its disposal a new tool that permits them to pass the cost of printing on to the consumer. I believe the whole equation may change. Journals, as middlemen, never did pay their authors; in fact, I remember cases where they charged my company for the pages of my article that they were publishing. So, authors are distributing things without journals. How this will affect libraries is an interesting issue. On the one hand, libraries currently have the paper budget to buy books and journals for the whole university, so to speak. Departments may decide this isn't working out too well as they now have more things to acquire directly and they have to pay to print them; so they may want some of that budget back--then too, departments are notoriously bad at keeping their literature organized, so they may want to pass the printed Web pages off to the library for cataloguing, storage and access. Some departments might decide that the library should be the ones to download the materials directly--i.e., by recommending web sites the way they now recommend journals. Then the library would be the one to monitor the sites for new publications. Certainly the ephemeral nature of Web files, posted by research groups, directly by the authors, by organizations of all types, screams out for someone to capture and preserve these things before they are deleted by their owners and become irretrievable suddenly. The issue of paper vs. electronic storage is also there. So far, NOBODY has told me they like to read large documents on the Web. This tends to say that while students may be forced to read things online, they will want the option to print them out, and may even be willing to pay for that (if they can afford it). The question of what happens when professors assign students to do Web-based research for a project seem to come up. If a whole class full of students needed access at one time; or toward the end of semester entire sets of classes were trying to complete reports to turn in by accessing the Web for their research--the demands on numbers of terminals available at one time would be quite high. I.e. libraries started with the terminals being the INDEX, used for a time to get references which were then tracked down in the real library; then terminals became an augmentation to the library for newspaper and other short articles; but now the prospect looms of the Web as the SECOND LIBRARY--one in which students and faculty will want to download (i.e. borrow) much larger articles and documents--or, less likely, stay in front of the terminal for the whole time while they read them; i.e. terminals will have to be as plentiful as chairs in the library or as visitors to the library building. Libraries can blunt the cost of having ample printers, administering the cost of printing, etc. by offering downloading and pushing the cost of printing off to the student's home computer; OR go into the printing role more actively by providing bigger and less expensive per page printing equipment to try and keep printing costs down (though equipment and operational costs would go up). Universities faced with the Web as an essential part of education may have to resort to university web access facilities--far more extensive than existing computer labs, probably featuring less expensive Web computer terminals, intended largely just to provide access to Web pages, printing, etc. and no "computing" as we now use the term to refer to word processing, spreadsheets, database access, etc. These times they are a changing... Robert A. Amsler Computational Linguist From: Subject: computers and children's play Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 135 (135) [deleted quotation]two stories by Clare Garner that tell a story about how we perceive the consequences of technology. In "You can't play tag on a computer. Or hopskotch. Or skipping. So kids are getting lessons in forgotten playground games", the author describes a project at the Saracen Primary School, Hamilton Hill, Glasgow. The head teacher, Evelyn Gibson, explains that "With videos, computers, CDs, and other advances, children just have to plonk themselves down and be entertained.... At the moment children become bored in the playground, which leads to mischief or rough acts, and can end in tears." So she cut the lunch-break to 20 minutes, but is now attempting to resurrect traditional games, in essence to attempt to teach children how to play, to draw them away from imitating the characters they encounter on their computers at home. As the article notes, many child-psychologists object to the notion that play can be taught. Among them is Iona Opie, whom many Humanists will know from the many books about and collections of children's literature she wrote with her husband Peter. "Nobody knows more about children's games than Iona Opie. And nobody is more appalled by the Saracen project," writes Garner in "'I never played kiss-chase and I had quite a normal sex life'". "'Children have got the instinct for making fun,' she says. 'They always do it [play], I'm absolutely certain, unless someone has gone round injecting them with some deadly dope.'" So the problem lies, Mrs. Opie says, in our failure to recognise that all around us children are at play. She does not slam computers, as the Saracen teachers do, but sees them as "the Nineties equivalent of marbles and fivestones". 'Do not interfere!' is her message, even in the face of boredom. "You've got to experience boredom and getting out of boredom on your own initiative. You've got to get into mischief and out of mischief. This goes on all your life." Indeed.... If only "mischief" were as serious as it gets. If only computers were entirely to blame. Two reflections: how difficult it is to face problems squarely; what software truly adequate to a child's inventive genius for play might look like. The first is, I'd guess, an unsolvable problem coterminous with life, but the second is a fascinating problem for research. Does anyone know what is happening in that area, and how designers of scholarly software might benefit from its findings? WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu (12) Subject: Smithsonian Institution Fellowships (fwd) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 136 (136) *************************************************** Please forward to appropriate lists and individuals. Apologies for any cross-posting. *************************************************** The Smithsonian Institution encourages access to its collections, staff specialties, and reference resources by visiting scholars, scientists, and students. 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Hudson, Academic Programs Specialist Office of Fellowships and Grants Smithsonian Institution oasbb001@sivm.si.edu phone: (202) 287-3271 From: Attachment Research Center Subject: Re: 10.0366 computers and play Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 21:28:39 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 137 (137) Children who do not engage in active play have a serious problem with socialization. Anybody who has read Bowlby knows that children who fail to engage in social interactions are detached children. And they are detached because their parents, particularly their mothers, are absent. Physically and mentally absent. Offspring of detached parents fail to trust their caregivers and so cannot construct what Bowlby calls a "secure base", whereby the infant leaves his mother for longer and longer periods, returning from time to time, to check out whether their mother is still responding (to check out whether they can trust their mother is a reliable base). Excursions into the environment and socialization with other people, other children included, is antithetical to attachment behaviour whereby the infant would tend to be near his mother. Bowlby discovered that in order that children dare explore the environment around them, including having relationships with others than their mothers, they must construct a secure base, that is, they must have a reliable, responding, connected mother. Otherwise, children tend to become clingy, excessively demanding, crying all day and night when they are at home; when they leave home the daren't embark on adventurous excursions into the environment for fear they won't find their mothers if they want them or need them on their return. That constitutes a major drawback for socialization. Many become loners, and feel at a loss when faced with social occasions, at school or playing with other children. That is why they resort to television or computer games where they avoid having to interact with another human being, one of the most fearful actions they sometimes have to suffer. Attachment Research Center Juncal 1966 1116 BA, Argentina From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 10.0366 computers and play Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:12:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 138 (138) Play can't be taught, but games can. I find both the positions cited to be one-sided ("Teaching kids playground games is GOOD"; "Teaching kids playground games is BAD"). Lately I've been reading Seymour Papert's new book, THE CONNECTED FAMILY (Longstreet, just out) -- very enlightening on the general issue. He produced the LOGO programming language for kids and a package, MicroWorlds, which serves as a LOGO "development environment"; his perspectives are helping me open up whole vistas on my own scholarly activities, computing and otherwise (but just play after all). It's only a www site, but look at http://www.ConnectedFamily.com/ -- Wendell Piez **[Editorial note: In light of the discussion we are now having about books, publishing, and related matters, Seymour Papert's "companion web site" to his new book is highly significant. It suggests to me a paradigm for combining the virtues of both publishing media -- while not involving commercial publishers (and university presses that operate in the commercial style) in otherwise costly and uncertain experiments. --WM] From: Jim Campbell Subject: Re: 10.0369 real books (part 2 of 2) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:44:15 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 139 (139) A couple of general comments: 1. All of this discussion assumes that electronic texts are delivered in 20 years in much the same way they are delivered now. The technology has changed dramatically in the last five years and I suspect it will continue to change. We can't state what the advantages and disadvantages of electronic vs. paper access in 20 years will be. 2. It also assumes stability in the publishing industry, but there are very real problems there and the survival of the book may ultimately be an economic rather than a technological question. Certainly the book will be with us for a while, I hope a long while, but I wouldn't take bets outside of 20 years. Then a few comments from a librarian on Robert Amsler's posting. How this will affect libraries is an interesting issue. On the one hand, libraries currently have the paper budget to buy books and journals for the whole university, so to speak. Well, my main quarrel with this is the tense. It is affecting libraries. We have for many years now devoted a portion of our budget to electronic resources, mostly CD-ROMs, and now are purchasing access to Internet resources for our University, including access to electronic journals and books for departments. Departments may decide this isn't working out too well as they now have more things to acquire directly and they have to pay to print them; so they may want some of that budget back--then too, departments are notoriously bad at keeping their literature organized, so they may want to pass the printed Web pages off to the library for cataloguing, storage and access. Some departments might decide that the library should be the ones to download the materials directly--i.e., by recommending web sites the way they now recommend journals. Then the library would be the one to monitor the sites for new publications. Again, all this is happening now, though I'm unclear why it's said departments are now buying more things directly - most of them have always done some duplicating of essential materials. I suspect few libraries are going to want to store paper printouts of materials or to download websites. We'd rather set up a Web page of our own that connects to key research sites for the disciplines we serve and/or make links to the sites in our Web based catalogs. And there is more stability on the Web now as more and more organizations put up materials, it's the individual sites that have been the big problem. If there's heavy local use, we'd rather have an electronic copy and put it up on a server, copyright allowing. That's what we're doing for reserve materials now. Many journal publishers, when they negotiate contracts with libraries for electronic journals, now guarantee that the library owns the years for which it subscribes, so that if the journal ceases or the library drops its subscription, it can download those issues or get a tape of them and continue to make them available locally. A real problem, incidentally, is that many of these contracts don't allow interlibrary loan, so researchers at smaller institutions may have trouble getting needed materials without paying the document suppliers. The issue of paper vs. electronic storage is also there. So far, NOBODY has told me they like to read large documents on the Web. This tends to say that while students may be forced to read things online, they will want the option to print them out, and may even be willing to pay for that (if they can afford it). The question of what happens when professors assign students to do Web-based research for a project seem to come up. If a whole class full of students needed access at one time; or toward the end of semester entire sets of classes were trying to complete reports to turn in by accessing the Web for their research--the demands on numbers of terminals available at one time would be quite high. I.e. libraries started with the terminals being the INDEX, used for a time to get references which were then tracked down in the real library; then terminals became an augmentation to the library for newspaper and other short articles; but now the prospect looms of the Web as the SECOND LIBRARY--one in which students and faculty will want to download (i.e. borrow) much larger articles and documents--or, less likely, stay in front of the terminal for the whole time while they read them; i.e. terminals will have to be as plentiful as chairs in the library or as visitors to the library building. All of this assumes that this research will be done in the library. We have in fact added a lot more terminals, but our computing center is also putting ethernet in the dormitories. Libraries can blunt the cost of having ample printers, administering the cost of printing, etc. by offering downloading and pushing the cost of printing off to the student's home computer; OR go into the printing role more actively by providing bigger and less expensive per page printing equipment to try and keep printing costs down (though equipment and operational costs would go up). Most libraries and computing centers are or soon will be charging for printing in the same way they now charge for photocopying. Universities faced with the Web as an essential part of education may have to resort to university web access facilities--far more extensive than existing computer labs, probably featuring less expensive Web computer terminals, intended largely just to provide access to Web pages, printing, etc. and no "computing" as we now use the term to refer to word processing, spreadsheets, database access, etc. Most universities are very reluctant to make that kind of investment in technology that is so quickly obsolete and are trying to figure out ways to place the burden on the students. These times they are a changing... They have done changed, at least in some places. And as with so many other things in the 90s, the trend is for them to change in ways that will be most acceptable to those who can pay. - Jim Campbell =09Acting Director, Systems and Networked Information University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA campbell@virginia.edu * Tel: 804-924-4985 * Fax: 804-924-1431 From: Maarten van der Heijden Subject: Re: 10.0369 real books (part 2 of 2) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 06:33:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 140 (140) I am very glad with this ongoing discussion on the book. Though I am mainly a reader I would like to react on what Ron wrote. At 22:02 28-10-96 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation]f [deleted quotation]h [deleted quotation] This last is a very strong point I believe in the ongoing discussion about the Book and Etext. I would mak ea slight modification to your statement.= =20 If you can print out an E-text without losing something vital, the author didn't realise which capacities this technology offered.=20 This is not true though for Email, which exists by virtue of the speed and editabillity it offers. From=20the early years of the use of the book we see that authors are looki= ng for new ways to order and make accessible their books, using indexes, footnotes, tables of contents etc.The choice to publish electronically obliges us to think about that technology as much as the early makers and users of books did. Maarten van der Heijden From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0369 real books (part 2 of 2) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 00:06:51 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 141 (141) I am going to put in my own two cents worth on this. I think that everyone makes too much of a big deal about reading etext on a computer. If you compose your papers on a computer or edit your books on one you are reading long etext. If you have a big display and the proper word processor or browser you can make the characters larger or the text scroll if you want t= o. I carry around ebooks on zip disks and read them on my laptop. I have been reading thru the "classics" for the last few years. Reading whole boo= ks rather than the selections that I read in my undergrad days. I have also been reading the children's books that I missed when I was younger as well = as reading those that I liked with my children. nightly. I must admit that I do print up some chapters per week when I read with my children. But still it isn't a big deal. This Christmas I am putting together an anthology of my favorite poems and short stories that I have enjoyed and rediscovered. I am printing up 50 copies that I am giving to friends as well as clients.=20 A far bigger problem is that fewer and fewer people read much of anything at all. And the level of their reading ability has fallen to quite low levels. My children's friends come over all the time to get etext books from my collection. Books that they need to read for school. Their teachers don't seem to expect much and the kids don't give back very much either. From: Willard McCarty Subject: books, body and soul Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:25:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 142 (142) In Humanist 10.367, Greg Lessard makes the useful distinction between=20 Technology/technology and Book/book, that is, between the conceptual=20 entity and a particular manifestation of it. He says, quite rightly,=20 that it's important to keep these distinct, and notes that I mix them=20 up, sometimes talking about one, sometimes the other. "In short," he=20 concludes, "we may have qualms about a technology, but we shouldn't=20 let this distract us from considering the Technology it exemplifies=20 and asking ourselves what its limits might be." Indeed -- a nice=20 statement of what I think Humanist is for. Then, he goes on to=20 discuss reading, distinguishing "three perspectives on texts:=20 consultative (looking up), discursive (reading sequences of text) and=20 esthetic (textual pleasure)." He finds that although these kinds are=20 useful to distinguish, the categories break down, e.g. when an=20 essentially consultative work (such as Diderot's Encyclop=E9die)=20 is treated as an aesthetic object, or when a discursive text (such as=20 Ovid's Metamorphoses) is consulted. On closer inspection he finds,=20 again quite rightly, that to be more precise about these things, we=20 have to mix up what we have distinguished. A contradiction? Apparently so, but it is the contradiction inherent=20 in our historical circumstance -- indeed, the philosopher would say,=20 inherent in our contradictory existence (and if this philosopher were=20 given the chance he or she would probably bring out the old=20 body/soul problem and take enormous pleasure in contemplating our=20 eternal return to basics). As computing humanists -- permit me to be=20 quite emphatic here -- our task is to be awake while in the middle of=20 the muddle and attempt as best we can to sort it out.=20 The stubbornness I hang on to, my rock in the storm, is the question=20 of why we should waste our time any longer in imitative modes of=20 thought. The "electronic book" is an "iron horse" we should start=20 thinking of as a "train". Forget the horse! Start asking what the=20 train can do that a horse could not, what the consequences of its use=20 are, and so forth. Then we can ask about all those liberated horses,=20 and perhaps have something to do with keeping the nutters from=20 convincing the Mighty that we should slaughter them all, or some other such wicked foolishness. The forces at work are certainly more than we can control, but we're=20 not totally without influence, and even if it is of no avail against=20 the economic typhoon, we will have understood something important=20 about the acculturation of technology -- and have refurbished an old=20 philosophical debate for the nintendo generation? Comments? WM=20 =20 ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Marta Steele Subject: real books Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:52:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 143 (143) Willard, There's a lot more to say than I, or probably anyone else, has time=20 to say on this vastly important subject. I will have more time later=20 (and hope I don't say too much then!) but right now I want to quickly=20 respond to Mr. Lessard's latest posting by saying, yes, well and=20 good, but in 2016 I hope they have figured out a way to make the=20 electronic medium far less ephemeral if it is fated to replace books.=20 I can envision electronic devices that imitate books in every way,=20 sit on our shelves, and besides that contain all the advantages we=20 currently enjoy on the bulkier, far less portable screens. It still=20 seems bizarre to me and far less esthetically pleasing than print on=20 a designed page, which, quite simply, won't flicker or fail. Just=20 yesterday I was reading from I a book I own that dates back to the late=20 1600s, an edition of Lucan's _Pharsalia_. The print on the page is=20 intact and thoroughly legible. As a matter of fact, the book shows=20 hardly a trace of wear. Of course, I haven't written in the margins=20 but they are filled with the marginalia that were current at that=20 time. I also have to add that I don't use the book every day but=20 neither do I need to encase it in glass or otherwise give it special=20 treatment. I don't mean to sound self-righteous but I consider that book my most prized and favorite material possession. I guess these paragraphs themselves place me in a specific era as a reactionary. So be it. People may read these in 100 years and laugh.=20 I reiterate, though, people are still very anxious to write books=20 rather than commit their publications to the internet. So my two=20 points are that publication on disk/screen has not yet superseded all the advantages we derive from books (longevity in addition to the "sentimental" perks) and the population is far from "sold" on the latter as a sure replacement. I'm still fascinated with the ultimate effects electronic publication=20 will have on (I'm admittedly inarticulate so early in my workday) the=20 intellectual directions our culture takes, but there are so many=20 other factors serving as roadblocks these days that perhaps the real=20 question must for its own sake put aside all these variables.=20 How will we evolve intellectually? =20 =20 From: PMC Subject: Postmodern Culture 7.1 (September, 1996) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:53:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 144 (144) POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE P RNCU REPO ODER E P O S T M O D E R N P TMOD RNCU U EP S ODER ULTU E C U L T U R E P RNCU UR OS ODER ULTURE P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER ULTU E an electronic journal P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER E of interdisciplinary POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE criticism ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Number 1 (September, 1996) ISSN: 1053-1920 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editors: Eyal Amiran Lisa Brawley Graham Hammill, guest editor Stuart Moulthrop John Unsworth Review Editor: Paula Geyh Managing Editor: Sarah Wells List Manager: Jessamy Town Research Assistants: Anne Sussman Steven Wagner Editorial Board: Sharon Bassett Phil Novak Michael Berube Chimalum Nwankwo Nahum Chandler Patrick O'Donnell Marc Chenetier Elaine Orr Greg Dawes Marjorie Perloff Lisa Douglas Fred Pfeil Graham Hammill Peggy Phelan Phillip Brian Harper David Porush David Herman Mark Poster bell hooks Carl Raschke E. 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Foti, "Representation foti.996 Represented: Foucault, Velazquez, Descartes" Special Section--Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies: Graham Hammill, guest editor Allen Meek, "Guides to the Electropolis: meek.996 Toward a Spectral Critique of the Media" Angelika Rauch, "Saving Philosophy in rauch.996 Cultural Studies: The Case of Mother Wit" Vadim Linetski, "Poststructuralist linetski.996 Paraesthetics and the Phantasy of the Reversal of Generations" POPULAR CULTURE COLUMN: David Golumbia, "Hypertext" pop-cult.996 HYPERTEXT: Matthew Miller, "TRIP" [WWW Version only] REVIEWS: Carina Yervasi, "Confessions of a Net review-1.996 Surfer: _New Chick_ and Grrrls on the Web." Review of Carla Sinclair, _Net Chick: A Smart-Girl Guide to the Wired World_. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. Samuel Collins, "'Head Out On the Highway': review-2.996 Anthropological Encounters with the Supermodern." Review of Marc Auge, _Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity_. New York: Verso, 1995. Jon Ippolito, "Whose Opera Is This, Anyway?" review-3.996 Review of Tod Machover and MIT Media Lab's interactive _Brain Opera_, performed at Lincoln Center, NYC, July 23-August 3, 1996. Thomas Swiss, "Music and Noise: Marketing review-4.996 Hypertexts." Review of Eastgate Systems, Inc. Theresa Smalec, "(Re)Presenting the review-5.996 Renaissance on a Post-Modern Stage." Review of Susan Bennett, _Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past_. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Crystal Downing, "_Multiplicity_: %Una review-6.996 Vista de Nada%." Review of _Multiplicity_, directed by Harold Ramis, Columbia Pictures 1996. Brent Wood, "Resistance in Rhyme." Review review-7.996 of Russell Potter, _Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism_. Albany: Suny, 1995. LETTERS: Selected Letters from Readers letters.996 RELATED READINGS [WWW Version only] NOTICES: Announcements and Advertisements notices.996 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACTS Steven Helmling, "Jameson's Lacan" ABSTRACT: This essay surveys Fredric Jameson's engagement with the work of Jacques Lacan. Jameson is one of the few among commentators on Lacan to foreground Lacan's cryptic and enigmatic prose style: Jameson's earliest mention of Lacan in _The Prison-House of Language_ (1971) departs from the premise that Lacan's writing offers an "initiatory" experience rather than systematic exposition; and Jameson's 1977 essay, "Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan," climaxes with a celebration of Lacan's "discourse of the analyst" as an ethic for "cultural intellectuals"--a style of utterance closer to "listening" than speaking, more a speaking-with than a speaking-to or -of. The Lacanian scriptible (to borrow a term from Barthes that Jameson favors) enacts or performs Lacan's conviction of the irreducibility of particular speech acts to a paraphraseable "meaning," an %enonce% (or "letter") dissociable from the impulse (or "spirit") of the enunciation itself--a gesture that appeals to Jameson because just such irreducibility is what Jameson stipulates for "dialectical" writing as such. The success with which Lacan's writing resists what Jameson calls "thematization," the kind of commodification or reification to which written texts are specifically liable, exemplifies (Jameson hopes) a "utopian" resistance to ideology, or break-out from "ideological closure." But in _The Political Unconscious_ (1981), "ideological closure" is a premise of the argument to an extent that presupposes the impotence of any cultural production to break out of it. In this context, the book's subtitle, _Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act_, implies the question whether "socially symbolic" must not mean "ideological": whether a "socially symbolic" protest against "ideological closure" can escape functioning as a confirmation of it. In the book's third chapter, Lacan is mobilized in ways that test this sense of "symbolic" against the specifically Lacanian evocation of "the Symbolic" as contrasted with "the Imaginary." The "Imaginary/Symbolic" binary figures, on the one hand, a fated devolution of desire and the libidinal into the "ideological closure" of "the Symbolic," on the other a more familiar ("Enlightenment") narrative of passage from irrationalism to critical reason. "Imaginary/Symbolic" transcodes in one way as "utopia/ideology," in another as "ideology/critique." In the tension between these two possibilities, Jameson maintains (one version or enactment of) "the dialectic of utopia and ideology," in which cultural production remains ever subject to ideological deformation, yet also resists and preserves the promise of deliverance from the closure of the ideological condition.--sh Veronique M. Foti, "Representation Represented: Foucault, Velazquez, Descartes" ABSTRACT: I examine Foucault's analysis of the %episteme% of representation with respect to Descartes's understanding (in the _Regulae_) of a universal %mathesis%, and to the self-representation of representation that Foucault traces in Velazquez's painting _Las Meninas_. I call into question Foucault's analysis of the painting as well as the critical observations of Snyder and Cohen, who take it for granted that Velazquez adhered to a univocal Albertian system of perspective. As to Foucault, I argue that his understanding (and assimilation) of vision and painting remains essentially Cartesian, and that he is insufficiently attentive to the materiality of painting which resists discursive appropriation. Finally, I examine what a genuine attentiveness to painting's materiality and to its irreducibility to a theoretical exploration of vision would mean for grasping the relevance of its specific order of %poiesis% to postmodern thought.--vf Allen Meek, "Guides to the Electropolis: Toward a Spectral Critique of the Media" ABSTRACT: The range of critical practices that currently circulate in academic cultural studies has yet to acknowledge the full scope of Derridean deconstruction. Now Derrida has published for the first time an extensive meditation on Marx, inviting renewed speculation about the ways that deconstruction might comment on marxian theories of the media. The figure of the specter, or ghost, that Derrida "conjures" in his tribute to Marx guides a critique of the media toward earlier encounters between marxism and psychoanalysis. These include the writings of Andre Breton and Walter Benjamin, recently discussed by Margaret Cohen as belonging to an experimental tradition which she names "Gothic Marxism." Like Breton and Benjamin before him, Derrida pursues a poetics of haunting and mourning that pervades the texts of Marx and calls for a "politics of memory" arising out of a sense of responsibility toward the ghosts of our collective histories. For Breton and Benjamin these included the ghosts of a revolutionary tradition that haunted the emergent phantasmagoria of commodity capitalism in modern Paris. Derrida addresses the collapse of Soviet communism and the "revolution" in global telecommunications. When placed in the company of Derrida's specters, can the Surrealist experiments of the 20s and 30s serve as a guide for a spectral critique of electronic media? Such a critique would call into question the legitimacy of the dominant technologies and ideologies of representation by reconstructing, in ways that owe much to psychoanalysis, their repressed histories. Anne Friedberg's study of cinema and shopping malls in Los Angeles provides a contemporary context for considering the legacies of Gothic Marxism. Like Cohen, Friedberg looks back to Benjamin's Arcades Project as a model for cultural studies. What is striking about the juxtaposition of these two recent responses to Benjamin, however, is that in Friedberg's analysis of postmodern culture we witness the disappearance of those darker social forces which it would be the project of Gothic Marxism to make visible.--am Angelika Rauch, "Saving Philosophy for Cultural Studies" ABSTRACT: This paper establishes Kant's aesthetics as a postmodern project as it expands on Kant's distinction between representative image and figure. "Figure" is the crucial term because it operates according to unconscious law's contingent resonant with rhetorical structures. From a psychoanalytic and feminist perspective, Kant's discussion of "wit" and "motherwit" appeals to the formative and creative nature of judgments on aesthetic experience. The author's thesis is that in aesthetic judgments, imagination reveals a structure of re-membrance which recreates the bond with the mother's body in the contingent feeling of pleasure. Taste is inherently a bodily faculty that, in analogy to the power of genius, translates affect into cultural images. Judgment of taste is the product of hermeneutic (i.e. mental and historical) process in which wit engages the cultural past in and through language to produce non-mimetic linguistic representations of emotional experiences: "figures" not images.--ar Vadim Linetski, "Poststructuralist Paraesthetics and the Phantasy of the Reversal of Generations" ABSTRACT: In its critique of patriarchy and logocentrism, and in its attempts to replace these with a plurality of identifications, post-structuralist theory enacts the very fantasy of the reversal of generations which, Freud explains, underpins the Oedipus complex. By developing Freud's notion of sublimation alongside both Bakhtin's notions of dialogism and Ernest Jones's theory of aphanasis, this essay argues for a genuinely psychoanalytic narratology that lies outside logocentric thought. One important significance of this argument is that it allows for an engagement with constructions of feminine sexuality without recapitulating an Oedipal paradigm.--gh David Golumbia, "Hypercapital" ABSTRACT: As relatively egalitarian, pluralist theories of hypertext (largely focusing on the medium's formal and mechanical properties) have been written in the academy, corporations have been shaping hypertext into a premier tool of capitalist development. Like many such tools, the World Wide Web is skewed toward Western ways of understanding and the Western economic base. But unlike other tools of this sort, the interplay between hypertext on the web and the varied and burgeoning mechanisms for electronic transfer of capital and credit suggests a more sinister development. For the distinction between the transfer of information and the transfer of capital is becoming blurred in the creation of what I call "hypercapital" which in certain crucial respects constitute a new form of capital itself. The body of the paper discusses the consequences of this blurring for liberal visions of information access, for the Marxian notion of circulation, and for the politics of the subject. The paper follows the recent web convention of embedding links to a variety of web sites, whose contents help to demonstrate the imminence (and the gravity) of the developments I discuss. --dg ----------------------------------------------------------------- POSTMODERN CULTURE is published by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities three times a year (September, January, and May). 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Issues of Postmodern Culture may be archived for public use in electronic or other media, as long as each issue is archived in its entirety and no fee is charged to the user; any exception to this restriction requires the written consent of the editors and of the publisher. From: David Green Subject: Program Director, National Digital Library Federation Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:26:42 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 145 (145) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT ****************** [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@cni.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0884 fax ============================================================== From: David Sisk Subject: Re: 10.0372 real books Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:58:44 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 146 (146) Perhaps I have missed the point somewhere along the line, but I'm having a hard time with the terms of the argument over books vs. e-texts being an argument about _reading_. E-texts offer several very real advantages in terms of preserving information in small amounts of space (say, rare or crumbling books), permitting rapid searching and indexing, and in making this material available more easily and quickly, copyright allowing. In my experience, the act of reading off of a computer screen "works" only for brief tidbits of information. The faculty and students I have worked with, here and at other institutions, print out nearly everything more than about three meaty paragraphs in length--including e-mail. This is especially true for those doing research, who plan to cite their sources and quote from them. The fundamental difference I see between texts in book form and texts in electronic form, as far as impact on the act of reading, is that any computer capable of receiving e-texts almost certainly has lots of other capabilities. Students and faculty tend to print material out for later perusal because there are other things to be done on the computer: other assignments or "fun" activities, such as games or e-mail. By contrast, there's not much beyond reading you can do with a book, other than making marginal comments, doodling on the endpapers and perhaps tearing out the pages to make paper sculptures . As long as computer technology continues to add more kinds of capability, I think computers will become _less_ likely to function as the primary vehicle for reading. _________________________________________________________________ David W. Sisk Assistant Director for Academic Computing Macalester College / 1600 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105-1899 sisk@macalester.edu / Voice: (612) 696-6745 / FAX: (612) 696-6778 From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Humanist reply Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:40:18 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 147 (147) Greg Lessard writes: <> WRT the question of whether we are too old (or at least middle-aged): I have a different perspective now from what I had only a few years ago. Not a philosophical consideration of the merits one way or the other, but a purely physical problem: I can't read a computer screen for very long without numerous strains -- eyes, neck, brain, . . . . I have difficulty maintaining my occupation (computer research consultant) because of these challenges despite numerous changes including special computer glasses, specially arranged furniture, larger fonts, and such. So my intellectual interest in the notion of electronic publication is tempered by my physical inability to deal with the medium. Another of the 'wise' guys viewing the elephant, I remain, Mary Dee Harris -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 202-387-0626 Language Technology, Inc. 202-387-0625 (fax) 2153 California St. NW mdharris@erols.com Washington, DC 20008 mdharris@aol.com From: Subject: Re: 10.0373 computers, play, and e-publishing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 148 (148) I was personally apalled by the posting from (presumably a person at) the "Attachment Research Center" emphasizing the need for an infant to have a stable attachment to "his mother." While most of the offense I take proceeds from the disjuncture between my own politics and the gender specificity of the posting with regards to the roles of parents and the ideal gender of and infant (male), I am moved to write to our group because of the effectively anonymous source of the posting. If we are to be a community discussing issues, including those which occasionaly stray from our common focus of electronic technologies and the humanities, let's be a community of people. _Who_ wrote from the "Attachment Research Center?" The issue of identification and anonymity is relevent beyond a tangential discussion of child-raising practices and so my request is that we be a community of people identifying ourselves by name and (but not or) institutional affiliation. John W. Marshall Princeton University jwm@princeton.edu [Editorial note. If at all possible, I publish everything sent by members of Humanist, and some things from elsewhere. So although the above might, in less generous company, provoke flaming war, my guess is that it won't here. Two points, if I may. (1) All politics make for interesting study, but in a multicultural, international setting it seems to me that one has to be willing to see one's own opinions and remarks as possibly less than universally true and so couch them in those terms. (2) Humanist usually does follow the convention that the author of a note should identify him- or herself by name. Mr. Marshall is quite right -- this is a community of individuals. I slipped up in not asking the author of the note in question for his or her identity, for which I apologise. Many current Humanists could hardly be expected to know this convention, which as far as I am aware has not been discussed in years, so the fault really is mine. Finally, allow me to return us to the reason for talking about children's play in the first place, which was to ask, what can we as computing humanists (rather than fond parents or child psychologists or whatever else) learn from studies of children's play? Can we, for example, say that all pieces of software might usefully be seen as analogous to one's mother, father, or other caring entity, and that our behaviour with software is analogous to a child's recursive process of separation from a secure base and return to it? --WM] From: Kay Broderick Subject: Thomas Hardy Computer Study Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:13:04 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 149 (149) Is anyone (or anyone you know) working on Thomas Hardy's fiction using computer analysis or other computer-related work? I am, and would like to talk with others who are. Dr. Kay Broderick Kobe College, Japan kay@gol.com From: Monique Jucquois-Delpierre Subject: rumanian html Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:04:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 150 (150) Dear humanist and computer specialist, We are searching a confortable possibility/ software/ alphabet for the rumanian writing internet via Html, especially : s cedil, t cedil, circumflexe special rumanian. Maybe you can help us Monique Jucquois-Delpierre Heinrich-Heine-Universit=E4t D=FCsseldorf Studiengang Informationswissenschaft Department of Information Science [deleted quotation] From: Subject: CFP for CALL Conference Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 151 (151) Language Teaching and Language Technology Groningen (The Netherlands) 28-29 April 1997 CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION Language Teaching and Language Technology 28-29 April 1997 University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands Call for Papers Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is enjoying a revival of interest after a disappointing first flurry of activity in the seventies. This is undoubtedly due to the broader range of tasks computers can now be put to, but it is also due to the practical success recent systems have been demonstrating. We hope that the conference may provide answers to some of the following questions: 1. How can language technology (speech recognition/synthesis, morphological and syntactic parsing/generation, semantic classification) be further harnessed in support of language learning? 2. How good is CALL compared to language learning without benefit of computer assistance? Can one measure improvements, and do these involve speed, proficiency or enthusiasm of CALL students? 3. Is computer-assisted learning always computer-assisted instruction? Isn't virtually all language-learning done under instruction? 4. What and where is the market for CALL products? How does one reach it? 5. What are the results of large-scale use of CALL in language education programs? When can it be effective? 6. What are the opportunities for long-distance learning? 7. What is the role in CALL for traditional support tools such as (analog) language labs, paper dictionaries, or hand-held grammars? 8. What are the pedagogical consequences of exploiting this technology? Are there mixed and/or partial options? 9. How may results of Corpus Linguistics be incorporated into CALL? 10. Are the different subfields of language instruction differently amenable to computer assistance--viz., reading, writing, speaking, listening, testing, translation? Although we solicit papers on all aspects of CALL, we are particularly interested in the question of matching technology to educational needs. The perspective of the program committee comes from language teaching and language technology. Language learning takes place primarily in classroom instruction, so that CALL therefore needs to convince language teachers of its value if it's to be used widely. The self-instruction market is relatively small, and CALL packages will need to allow language teachers a good deal of flexibility. On the other hand, language technology can automate irrelevant, tedious tasks in much the same way software for math education does, providing value to the language learner above drill and record-keeping. Invited Speakers (themes tentative) ---------------- Frank Borchardt, Executive Director, CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium). On Current Didactic Issues in CALL Stephen Heppell, ULTRALAB/Anglia Polytechnic University, Essex. On Educational Policy and CALL Lauri Karttunnen, Rank Xerox, Grenoble. On the Technological Horizon. Joke van der Ven, Wolters-Noordhof, Groningen. On the Publisher's Perspective. Abstracts --------- We solicit papers of 20 min (plus 10 min discussion). Abstracts of not more than 8 pp. (A4) including figures and references should be marked "Attention: CALL Conf." and submitted by Jan 15, 1997 to: Arthur van Essen, Applied Linguistics 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: CALL Conf" in the subject line and send to call-conf@let.rug.nl Publication ----------- Proceedings will be published by CSLI press, Stanford University. Papers of not more than 12 pp. in length must be submitted (on paper and on disk) at the time of the conference. Demonstrations -------------- Proposals for demonstrations of existing work are likewise welcome. A demonstration time will be reserved. We suggest prepared demonstrations of ten minutes (which might be extended privately). Please be specific about hardware/software requirements. GLOSSER and HOLOGRAM, two Groningen programs, will be demonstrated. Program Committee (still tentative) ----------------- Paul Bogaards (Computer-Assisted Instruction, Leiden) Arthur van Essen (Applied Linguistics, Groningen, co-chair) Erhard Hinrichs (Computational Linguistics, Tuebingen) Sake Jager, (English & Computer Assisted Instruction, Groningen, co-chair) Franziska de Jong (Linguistics, Utrecht & Computer Science, Twente) Tibor Kiss (IBM, Heidelberg) John Nerbonne (Computational Linguistics, Groningen, co-chair) Local Arangements: Sake Jager, call-conf@let.rug.nl. From: "Dr. David Harrison" Subject: Re: 10.0377 books and reading Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:53:14 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 152 (152) One of the main problems with e-texts is the display technology. E-texts may well soon function more like books as most folk seem to find it easier to deal with the design of the book. Remember, the book was designed as a functional artefact over a long period. Monitor screens are rather new designs by comparison. In a few years flat white-screen LCD displays with very high definition and low white luminescence (books don't glow) will make reading an e-text a lot more like reading a book, perhaps using a Newton-like virtual book. In the meantime, it amazes me that so few people design workstations with the monitor built in to the desk, so you look down on to it. Although you can increase the font size in an e-text, they just don't have that nice book smell. :-) Dr. David Harrison. Roehampton Institute, London. http://www.pncl.co.uk/~prospero/ascpart.html From: Renee Landrum Subject: Re: 10.0377 books and reading Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:24:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 153 (153) [deleted quotation] Okay, so perhaps I'm an exception, then. I'm in the process of designing a website for credit (final project in an undergraduate special-studies). For me it's just as easy to cut-and-paste an article from Netscape into a notes file. I've got a database set up to handle things like this, so that I can go look up an electronic source just like I might consult an encyclopedia. Then, when I want to quote a source in my final work, I cut-and-paste again. Works for me, but then again I'm a techno-geek. To me, the *whole point* of having electronic references is that I don't have to generate excess paper, and that I can sort and search and catalog my notes easier on disk than on paper. Then again, I have a laptop... I think that as portable-computer technology advances (and gets cheaper), workstyles like mine will probably become more common... +O-Renee Landrum, Smith College, Northampton MA---slandrum@sophia.smith.edu-O+ "Don't resent your struggles; struggle is a victory. Through struggle, change occurs, and through change, liberation occurs." -Aishah Shahidah Simmons +O------------------------------------------http://cs.smith.edu/~slandrum---O+ From: Roger Brisson Subject: books and reading Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 07:59:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 154 (154) As I follow this interesting discussion on books and reading, I am continually reminded by many of the comments made thus far just how much this current revolution in transmitting the printed word resembles aspects of the Gutenberg Revolution of the late 15th century. In discussing electronic text, we naturally use the characteristics and values of the medium we are most familiar with-- the printed book. In the late 15th century the standard of comparison was of course the handwritten manuscript. Just as we are doing now, the point of comparison then was taken on many levels-- aesthetically, economically, technologically, and so on (Perhaps the exception is the theological: if I recall correctly, it was also questioned whether it was proper to print the Bible using the printing press). For contemporaries of Gutenberg, there was much debate as to the aesthetic qualities of the manuscript vs the printed book, and this drove the early printers to do all they could to reproduce as accurately as possible the characteristics of handrwritten manuscripts. In doing this it took some time to recognize that the printed book possessed aesthetic qualities that were arguably superior to manuscripts (not to mention the practical advantages, which were more readily recognized). Recently IBM introduced not a 6 pound, but rather a one-inch thin, 4 pound laptop with a strikingly sharp, vibrant color 12-inch screen. With its one gigabyte hard disk, it can hold several hundred books; indeed, with a cellular phone one can gain access to all the resources of the Internet. With this kind of technology I must admit that I have given up most of my (aesthetic) resistance to reading an electronic book in bed. Only the most expensive 'coffee-table' books could reproduce the rich colors that this IBM possesses, and the book of course is not in a position to infinitely transform its images as the IBM can. I suspect at in the 15th century there was also some question as to whether the manuscript or the printed book was easier to read. I'm sure it took some time getting used to reading the increasingly smaller fonts of the printed book, and many with poorer eyesight (and without reading glasses) had problems with this. I'm confident that as text display continues to improve in laptops the still common view that one does not read more than a few paragraphs with a computer will quickly disappear. As an aside, I find it interesting how many Web pages now available are using 'parchment' wallpaper backgrounds, reproducing the vellum qualities of the manuscript, to add to the richness of their sites. As digital technology continues its breathtaking development, it seems inevitable that we will come to view the printed book (at least those without high-acid paper) much like how those in the Renaissance came to regard the handwritten manuscript. While we are using the printed book to structure our thoughts regarding digital text, we are in danger of not recognizing the radical nature of the revolution in electronic text. A couple of years ago I published an article that was first made available via anonymous ftp. After announcing its availability on an electronic list, within a week the article was downloaded over 400 times by individuals around the world. This kind of rapid dissemination of ideas is now a commonplace on the Internet, and it is having a profound effect on how we do research (which in turn has had a noticable influence in many areas of society). The theme has been touched on in several postings already, but when viewing the printed book strictly as a 'container,' or vessel, of the the written word, I think it is possible to recognize the liberating impulse that electronic text possesses vis a vis the written word, and hence in transmitting ideas. Seen historically, the printed book was a pragmatic, technological achievement that allowed us to disseminate our ideas more efficiently, economically, and much faster than the handwritten manuscript, and the same forces are driving the revolution in the digital realm. The interesting exercise here, of course, is to speculate how the 'vessel' of electronic text will shape our ideas (with its dynamic, hypertext qualities), for it will certainly be much different than how the vessel of the printed book has shaped our ideas. Roger Brisson Penn State University From: Ron Tetreault Subject: re: books, body and soul Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:10:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 155 (155) Willard's analogy of the iron horse vs. the train is very appropriate to where we are now in defining the nature of the e-text medium. I'd like to add another: when it became possible to make moving pictures, early directors were content to set their cameras up and film a play just as it might unfold on the stage. But when someone decided the camera could move, scenes could be edited, and close-ups had punch, the cinema was born. What can we do in the new medium that we can't in print, and that is worth all our trouble and effort? --Ron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + Ronald Tetreault Tel: (902) 494-3494 + + Department of English Fax: (902) 494-2176 + + Dalhousie University Home Fax: (902) 453-4786 + + Halifax, Nova Scotia e-mail: tetro@is.dal.ca + + B3H 3J5 CANADA or Ronald.Tetreault@Dal.Ca + + http://is.dal.ca/~tetro/home/welcome.html + + learning by the (cyber)sea + From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Future of the book, of humanities Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:45:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 156 (156) Hoorah! Greg has voiced here one aspect of the book versus computer debate that has always bothered me: [deleted quotation] Who will control your scholarly future? Computer science nerds? Bill Gates? While humanists are fiddling Rome is burning apace. Well, let's not be needlessly alarmist. But I do a slow burn when I think of the time spent arguing about whether there will be books in the future. That will probably be determined by the likes of Harlequin and (fill in your favorite multi-national publishing conglomerate here) rather than by humanities scholars. Computing is providing more and more possibilities for humanist scholars. What can we do to encourage that and see it grow. Let's put a saddle on this beast and have some control over where it takes us instead of simply getting dragged in the dust behind it. Oops...sorry, clumsy metaphorical soap box mode off...back to the main thesis: Scholars who avoid or do not embrace information technology have no opportunity to shape that technology to their current or future needs, and they shut the door for their descendants. A sad prospect, indeed. - Hope ---------- Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: Francois Lachance Subject: play and economics Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:45:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 157 (157) Willard, The play-game distinction is one of the most difficult terms to translate accurately. Its semantic field ressonates with a lot of cultural specificity even across the Indo-European group. Try it in Armenian, Latin, Greek, French, Italian and German and Irish. The tension between freedom and rule following is articulated in very many different ways on very many different occasions. Of course that tension is translated in computing and humanities terms as that between convention and creativity. .................................. Games and children and computers -- the topic reminds me of the agony of choosing teams or being chosen. It also reminds me of trading hockey cards (I grew up in Canada) and marbles. What I recall is as much actual trading of objects and forming of teams, as thinking through or dreaming about possible arrangements. I claim a good dose of modeling (play) in game behaviour be it of children or adults and especially in games that were cross-generational. Writing about agents in an economy, Deborah Vakas Duong writes in a 1995 a project report on "Computational Modeling of Social Learning" that The fuel behind this self organisation is not natural selection but symbolic interactionism. The report is available at http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Bionomics/TraderNetworkPaper Her modeling of economic behaviour of traders describes "emergent interplay of conformity and utility" In her discussion she points to the work of Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores who challenge the foundation of Artifical Intelligence in logic. She traces an analogy with the way children acquire language skills. Children invent the rules of lanuage for themselves, creating their language through experience. The agents of my simulation do the same: they make their world all together, not by an entrepreneur that is copied. They are all entrepreneurs in a changing world where utility and conformity are dynamically intertwined. Only that which is ever being created can ever change. She goes on to claim that the principles of the emergence of symbols have much to offer social science simulation and AI. What I believe may be of interest to Humanist readers is the conclusion she draws. To translate from an evolutionary program to a rational one, all that is needed is an observer. As fuzzy ideal types linearize, crisp objects could be defined to document their existence, if not to modify it. In the future, programming could become a mixture of reasoning and evolution, with simcity like environments to work with. What I want to export from this specialized discourse on genetic alogrithms is the role of the observer. This is the point where I believe logic and rhetoric converge to enhance our understanding of not only the processes of social organisation but also the interpretative moves of symbol users that inform theses processes. By the way a colleague in media studies reported that she and a high school chum when called upon to act as team captains always chose their teams starting with the poorest players. Easy to do with a finite pool of players. I want to finesse your question especially since there seems to be an assumption that child behaviour in games and play can model adult behaviour in the face of novelty. What happens in a play group when a stranger comes to play? Or in a less I-thou formulation: what happens to the activity of play when the number of players changes? I think this takes up some threads related to intellectual property, the nature of reading and modeling. What it weaves, I'm not sure. But the very basic question comes back: who gets to play (work/trade/interact) with whom and for how long. And then there is the question of who gets to refuse to play (and be spared the judgement of being anti-social or the play of name calling). observantly obediant to the call to contribute, -- Francois [Editorial note: For related material, see the superordinate page, http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Bionomics/ -- WM] From: Willard McCarty Subject: video games &c. Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:37:23 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 158 (158) Dr. Juan Carlos Garelli, in Humanist 10.373, comments that children who are deprived of a secure home will "resort to television or computer games where they avoid having to interact with another human being, one of the most fearful actions they sometimes have to suffer." His finding seems to confirm an early fear that computers would in general lead to increased social isolation. As I recall Sherry Turkle, in her popular book on the sociology of computer use, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), argues that computer-use often leads in precisely the opposite direction. (I am aware that at least some professional sociologists do not think much of this book, but it's all I have to hand or mind.) I observe that through Humanist and other such things we tend rather intensely to socialise, although arguably the interactions are safer than "real" ones. I say "arguably" because I know that these interactions can be as dangerous, or rewarding, as any in some senses. My question is, are we once again talking about the manner in which computers are used, rather than some inherent property of mediated communication? In our own sphere, this becomes the question of where instruction by computer is safer than in a face-to-face classroom, and therefore better for some students, where it is but a pale imitation of the Real Thing. The jury is still out on that one, yes? It seems to me that the answer depends very much on the circumstance. In an intelligent essay I just finished reading (as referee, so I cannot say who wrote it, &c.) the authors begin by describing the situation university teachers now face in the typical commuter-institution, with students who have jobs, families, and other strong commitments. This, they point out, is what we face, not the cloistered ideal in which there is a real choice between sustained tutorial instruction and the glowing screen. Under these circumstances, "what can we do with what we've got?" seems the right question to me. Answers? Comments? WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 10.0366 computers and play Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:59:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 159 (159) [deleted quotation] Apple is betting that what adults want kids to learn is problem solving, and what kids want to do is create games. At least that seems to be the general idea behind their soon-to-be-released program named Cocoa. Cocoa lets kids (or anyone!) program, problem solve, play, or create systems (pick your favorite buzzword) without learning complex syntax, indeed, without reading at all. It lets kids create characters (here's Wacko), animate them (make Wacko run), give them tasks (make Wacko jump a wall), extrapolate and generalize "if-then" situations (make Wacko jump a wall that grows and shrinks), all by example. You can model dynamic systems, try out "what if" situations, or just "play." You can then share your games with other Cocoa creators across the Internet. What has this got to do with humanities computing? Well, when I get my copy I'll let you know! But for right now it simply serves to reinforce the idea that computers are not television. We cannot assume that they will have the same impact (or lack of it) on the scholaraly world. That is, the joy of computing is not in the consuming, it's in the doing. - Hope ----------- Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: Subject: Lady of May/presentation of texts Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 160 (160) There is now a lightly annotated text of The Lady of May, designed for use with frames-capable browsers (Netscape 2.0+, etc.), located: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/may/mayframe.html It's currently in use in a class project comparing various print editions (1598-1962) with the three online versions that I've done, in an effort to locate and delineate some of the rhetorical issues of text presentation online. I'm interested in reactions to the *design* of the page, and to feelings about reading online, thoughts about whether this presentation would be useful as a teaching edition, etc. Though I've heard before about the limited usefulness of not working in full TEI sgml, I want to hear about that as well, and any thoughts you may have on what is considered authoritative in e-text development, who is doing the considering in the preceding clause, and thoughts on whether teaching editions will be able to happily co-exist with scholarly editions on the relatively level playing field of the WWW. Also: I have heard that some 32 research institutions are talking of developing an Internet II, where they will be able to carry on their academic work in relative peace and quiet, so to speak, far from the busy streets of the bustling megalopolis of "Internet I." If this occurs, will there be a cultural division in publishing realms, with a TEI Shakespeare in Internet II, and Project Gutenberg's Shakespeare in Internet I? To what extent is academic discourse about the social class of those discoursing, and how does class affect the presentation of texts, on paper or on electronic media? Richard Bear rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0469 English textual database =3D LOB corpus? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 161 (161) For the LOB have a look at: http://www.hd.uib.no/cd_info.html Information of how to get the corpora archived at ICAME can be found at: http://www.hd.uib.no/corpora.html Regards Elisabeth Burr At 19:23 26.11.96 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 162 (162) [deleted quotation]h [deleted quotation]--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik/Gerhard-Mercator Universitaet Duisburg GH Lotharstrasse 65/47048 Duisburg +49 203 3792605/Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de From: Subject: Re: Copyright Threat! Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 163 (163) The following message went out to the member societies of the Humanities and Social Science Federation of Canada. It seems that the threat outlined below is very real - our librarians are taking it VERY seriously, and the AUCC (Assn. of Universities and Colleges of Canada) has requested all Presidents of Canadian post-secondary institutions to make their concerns felt. I think the issue is serious enough to warrant international exposure, and a similar invitation to colleagues elsewhere to respond to those listed below. Peter URGENT - URGENT- URGENT The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has finished hearing witnesses with respect to Bill C-32 on Copyright and will proceed with a clause by clause examination this week and next week. The Federal government has repeatedly assured the educational and library communities that Phase II of te Copyright legislation would include at minimum a number of exemptions for educational and library purposes in order to provide the necessary balance between the interests of the user and the creators. We have just learned that the long awaited exemptions for educational and library purposes included in the legislation risk being eliminated. If this happens a reasonable and balanced compromise between the needs of creators and those of users of copyright material in educational and library settings will disappear. The AUCC in a letter dated November 22 to Sheila Copps states that "the government has come under enormous pressure from some creator groups to make major [last minute] changes to Bill C-32 which would either limit the applicability of exceptions to instances where no collective licensing is available, or substantially circumscribe the exceptions that are currently in the bill... [Those] changes would be totally at odds with the letter and the spirit of the commitments made to the [academic community]." Moreover, the letter also indicates that "the amendment advocated by various creator groups to limit the applicability of exceptions to instances where no collective licensing is available would constitute a fundamental change [...] and would render the exceptions in the bill virtually meaningless. ... Collective licensing complements statutory exceptions, but is not a substitute for them. " We urge you to write immediately to John Manley, Minister of Industry, and Sheila Copps, Minister of Canadian Heritage, both sponsoring the bill, and the members of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to ask that C-32 not be amended to exclude the educational and library exceptions. We would appreciate receiving a copy of your correspondence. You can E-mail it to Therese De Groote at degroote@hssfc.ca or fax it to (613) 238-6114. We thank you in advance for your quick response to this campaign. The addresses of the above-mentioned ministers and members of the Canadian Heritage Committee are the following Hon. Sheila Copps Minister of Canadian Heritage 12th fl., 15 Eddy St Ottawa-Hull K1A 0M5 Canada Fax (613) 994-5987 coppss@parl.gc.ca Hon. 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Arsenault, Lib 995-0581 996-9736 Mauril Belanger, Lib 992-4766 992-6448 Pierre de Savoye, BQ 992-2798 995-1637 Hugh Hanrahan, Reform 995-7325 995-5342 Raymond Lavigne, Lib 995-6403 995-6404 Pat O'Brien, Lib 995-2901 943-8717 Janko Peric, Lib 996-1307 996-8340 Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada 151 Slater Street, Suite 415, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5H3 Tel: (613) 238-6112; Fax: (613) 238-6114 Email: fedcan@hssfc.ca From: Joseph Wilson Subject: Re: 10.0470 wordplay (Marchand's humor) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:43:44 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 164 (164) Jim Marchand was joking when he wrote the following: [deleted quotation] joe wilson From: Jim Marchand Subject: etymologies Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 09:43:00 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 165 (165) I was surprised to find that my Isidorian (lucus a non lucendo) etymologies were not universally accepted. I am sure that avis `bird' comes from `a via' (no path), because the bird flieth the untrammeled pathways of the sky. Seriously, not to press too hard upon a point, discussions such as those about ticked off, etc. show how hard it is to nail down an `etymology' in these / those ephemeral times. Ask a friend the origin of `on the Q.T.' (meaning `on the sly'), or read what's his name in the Sunday Times, or try to make sense out of `mind your P's and Q's'. Again in a serious vein, since you cannot always use humor on the net, even if you are into those little emoticons (e.g. (|-); doesn't look humorous to me), I should be surprised if any of the Isidorian etymologies of the Middle Ages turned out to be `true', but they killed people and cats because of them, so they were serious. As to the origin of Nazi, you had to be very close and sensitive to understand what was going on, and there are few alive who lived through it. I think I could probably make a fair case for the following scenario. German had a few words in it like Schatzi `boy friend, lover' (not a real bad word), Schmutzi `dirty boy', Butzi `no-account boy'. In fact, in his review of Des Knaben Wunderhorn (a kind of sort of poem/song book), Voss wrote that Arnim and Brentano had filled it with _Allerlei schmutzige, butzige, nichtsnutzige Gassenhauer_ `all kinds of dirty, lascivious, useless street songs,' so you can see where Schmutzi and Butzi came from. When the NSDAP began to get started, it's biggest supporters were street gangs who roughed up the opposing party gatherings. They were called Nazis (Short for `national,' spelled `nazional', or perhaps for NAtional SoZIalist, etc. etc. Anyway, as often happens, the Nazis adopted the opprobrious name as their own. Voltaire is said to have said (though as far as we know he didn't): `Etymology is a field of study (une science) in which the consonants count for very little and the vowels for nothing at all.' And to trace popular expressions and abbreviations you have to have been there; even then you can argue. In the Middle Ages, where you could be censured for giving the attributes of God in the ablative rather than the nominative case, etymology was important, but how many of you watched the OJ case when Marcia censured Johnny for being a male chauvinist oinker when he called her hysterical, using the etymology of the word as her proof? Notice how many of the TV people approvingly picked up on this. Etymology is a grand tool; if Derrida can use annominatio, we all ought to be able to. Jim Marchand. From: Steve Taylor Subject: Re: 10.0470 wordplay Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:50:21 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 166 (166) Don't know if this was already mentioned, but no collection of acronym-derived words could exclude "radar," derived from "RAdio Detecting And Ranging" equipment. Steve Taylor Faculty Information Technology Center Emory University (404)727-8931 http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ussjt/ From: "Sarah L. Higley" Subject: Re: 10.0470 wordplay Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:01:08 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 167 (167) Just an addendum to David Goldsteen and Pamela Cohen-- whose posting I found very amusing: I have students who swear that our most common four- letter obscenity derives from an army term: "for unlawful carnal knowledge," and other variants of that. What you've told me about cadaver and flos would help put this in perspective for them. Sarah Higley From: David Green Subject: CONFU MEETING Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:51:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 168 (168) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT November 27, 1996 CONFERENCE ON FAIR USE MEETING - November 25, 1996 I am re-distributing Page Miller's account of the CONFU Meeting of November 25. This was expected to be the final meeting of this group, which has been meeting for two years, preparing guidelines for the fair use of digital materials in educational settings. However, to give participants time to distribute the proposed gudelines deeply into their constituencies, for discussion and endorsement (or not), the period for consideration of the guidelines was extended to May 19, 1997, when the final meeting of CONFU will be held. NINCH will be posting Peter Fowler's "Interim Report," the proposals and other contextual material on its Web Site (www-ninch.cni.org). A further announcement will be made when all materials are assembled. David Green =========== NCC Washington Update, vol. 2, #40, November 26, 1996 by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History On November 25 the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), which has for the past two years been exploring issues related to the application of fair use in the digital environment, met for what many thought would be the final meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to review the draft of a interim report on CONFU's work. Peter Fowler of the Patent and Trademark Office had prepared the draft report which summarizes the work of the last two years and which, when it is finalized, will be forwarded to Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Bruce A. Lehman. And it is envisioned that Lehman will be transmitting the report to Congress to become a part of the legislative record. An important part of the interim report is the appendices which contain not only background material, such as the participants in CONFU, but also drafts of proposed guidelines for using copyrighted material for educational and library purposes in the digital environment. The interim report includes three proposed guidelines -- educational fair use for digital images, educational fair use for distance learning, and fair use for educational multimedia use. Four issues surfaced for considerable debate at the November 25 meeting. First, the consensus of the participants was that the period for review and endorsement of the proposed fair use guidelines should be extended from the draft's date of March 31, 1997 to May 19, 1997. This will allow for more substantial consideration by interested parties. Related to this was the decision that CONFU should have one more meeting to review the endorsements and to determine if the individual proposed guidelines had received strong and broad based enough support to merit their being called a CONFU guideline. Second, there was a lengthy debate on the degree to which the educational multimedia fair use guidelines have been, under the leadership of the Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC), moving on a different track from the other CONFU guidelines. There was particular concern that CCUMC had, prior to going through the CONFU endorsement process, taken the multimedia guidelines to the House Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Judiciary Committee and received the subcommittee's endorsement. Since a number of organizations that represent user interests have expressed problems with these guidelines, there is a question as to whether they will in fact gain the broad based support of CONFU. The determination of this will be left until May when all the endorsements can be evaluated. A third topic of extended discussion was on the interim draft report's omission of the electronic reserve system guidelines, which deal with a library's creation at the request of faculty members of electronic reserves that provide supplemental material for specific courses in nonprofit educational institutions. The draft report summarized the working group's deliberations on these guidelines and stated that at the September 6, 1996 meeting there was general consensus that the electronic reserve system guidelines had not received widespread acceptance even though some organizations had indicated that they would endorse them. At a number of CONFU meetings various representatives of publishers and authors had stated firmly that they did not believe that any electronic reserve system should be permitted under fair use. Because of this impasse, Fowler had decided to omit these proposed guidelines from the appendix. Some people argued that they were part of CONFU's work and should be in the appendix. Others felt that it would be confusing to include proposed guidelines were clearly not going to achieve broad support. Thus Peter Fowler decided to uphold the decision to leave them out of the appendix. However, it should be noted that several library and educational organizations as well as the Association of American University Presses had indicated support for the electronic reserve guidelines. Finally, there was the decision to change the wording in the interim report from guidelines to proposals. The final report will include the word "guidelines" for those proposals that attain sufficient support. What comprises "consensus" or "endorsement" was an issue that reemerged throughout the day with some general agreement that it meant broad based support from all of the groups -- publishers, authors, educators, librarians, and scholars -- that have had a vested interest in CONFU. The revised interim report will soon be available on the WEB page of the Office of Patents and Trademarks with instructions for sending endorsement letters. NCC Updates will provide the specific WED page address once the report it posted. *********************************************************** NCC invites you to redistribute the NCC Washington Updates. A complete backfile of these reports is maintained by H-Net See World Wide Web: http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/ *********************************************************** From: David Green Subject: CNI Interim Exec. Director Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:13:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 169 (169) NINCH ANNOUNCMENT November 27, 1996 JOAN LIPPINCOTT APPOINTED INTERIM DIRECTOR OF CNI [deleted quotation] From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: Re: 10.0472 evidence and argument? Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:25:37 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 170 (170) I'm not sure how this will be relevant to humanities computing but here are three textbooks you might want to look at Ronald Giere, Understanding Scientific Reasoning. Now in its 4th ed. Colin Howson and Peter Urbach, Scientific Reasoning The Bayesian Approach. (These guys are at LSE in the philosophy department.) Davis Baird, Inductive Logic Probability and Statistics Leslie Burkholder From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 10.0472 evidence and argument? Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 19:18:31 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 171 (171) Willard: I see that you've already gotten some good responses to your query. Allow me to add a couple more. Drury College has been using a slim volume by Anthony Weston, _A Rulebook for Arguments_, 2nd edition, from Hackett, as an accompanying text in both our freshman-level writing/literature classes and in our sophomore-level Values Analysis classes (the latter being devoted largely to ethics and philosophical arguments there-about (?)); the Weston text is a minimal introduction to logic and argument, with a good glossary of elementary fallacies, and a series of chapters devoted to writing effective argumentative essays. The issues of argument and evidence receive good, if introductory treatment. Some instructors beyond the philosophy department do well with it - but not all find themselves prepared to use it effectively. If you want something more substantial, there are any number of critical thinking texts out there that offer good discussions. For the general undergraduate student, though, my favorite remains the very reliable Howard Kahane, _Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric_, now in its seventh edition. Kahane does nothing with sentential logic in this text (though he does have such a text under a different title) - but focuses instead almost entirely on informal fallacies and their ubiquitous presence in the media, textbooks, advertising, and political discussion. The course I've taught wrapped around this text I've characterized as a defensive thinking course - analogous to a defensive driving course: if you don't think for yourself, someone else will - and to their advantage. If you're interested in other critical thinking titles, I can come up with a few next week - they're sitting in my office, and Thanksgiving is upon us. As well, Stephen Toulmin has had considerable influence in reshaping how philosophers and others think about argument - focusing more on notions of warrant and evidence than traditional logical discussion of structure. I suspect there's an introductory text out there based on Toulmin's work - perhaps other Humanist readers know of one off the top of their heads? I'd have to check. Hope this helps. Cheers -- Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA From: "Mark Battersby (x2412)" Subject: Re: 10.0477 evidence and argument Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:52:38 PST8PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 172 (172) Willard, I was interested to note that no philosophers replied to your question. Are there none lurking around out there? I suspect that the limited participation of philosophers in this group reflects that ancient and regrettable split between rhetoric and philosophy. A split that ironically critical thinking and argumentation theory is tending to heal. Critical thinking and informal argumentation has become a minor industry in philosophy almost comparable to the status of English composition classes in English Departments. I have been teaching critical thinking/informal argument for about 20 years and would recommend Ralph Johnson's and Tony Blair's book "Logical Self Defense" as a good an intro as any. On the other hand, the classic text which is used by both philosophers and rhetoricians in Stephen Toulmin's "The Uses of the Argument". Unfortunately I could not tell from your note exactly what kind of argument/evidence you were concerned with. I suspect that you were concerned with statistical reasoning--evaluating studies on computer use etc.. If so, I think you are right that the social science folk probably have better basic texts. One I know of is Evaluating information : a guide for users of social science research / Jeffrey Katzer, Kenneth H. Cook, Wayne W. Crouch. But there may be better and newer texts. Another interesting text with the right title is Kathleen Moore's "A Field Guide to Inductive Arguments" though she covers a lot more than statistical/empirical arguments (e.g. she has an excellent section on the evaluation of arguments by analogy). Hope that helps. ****************************** Mark Battersby Dept. of Philosophy Capilano College 2055 Purcell Way North Vancouver, B.C. Canada V7J 3H5 PH 604 986 1911 L. 2412 FAX 604 983 7520 From: Subject: The Reading Experience Database (RED) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 173 (173) ************************************************************** THE READING EXPERIENCE DATABASE (RED) Laudant illa sed ista legunt - Martial (They praise those but read these) RED's Web address: http://www.open.ac.uk/OU/Academic/Arts/RED/ ************************************************************** RED launched on 23 November 1996 The Reading Experience Database (RED), run jointly by the Open University, UK and the British Library's Centre for the Book, was launched on 23 November 1996. RED will record evidence of every type of reading experience over the period 1450-1914. Initially it will be restricted to reading experience in the British Isles and reading experience of those born in the British Isles (so the reading of British travellers abroad and first generation British and Irish emigrants will be included) but later we hope to expand the range. Printed forms on which a reading experience can be recorded will be available from RED. At the same time RED will be launched on the Internet with a home page which will include an electronic version of the form (so that it will also be possible to send examples of reading experience to RED electronically). Anyone interested in a particular individual who lived at any time in Britain during the period 1450-1914 (and who left letters, diaries, annotated books, etc. which contain evidence of reading experience) should get in touch with one of RED directors listed below. RED is looking for volunteers to work their way systematically through such materials in order to record evidence of reading. We aim to keep everybody informed of developments in RED by issuing regular reports on its progress. Within a few years we hope to make the growing contents of RED available to all those who have contributed to it. Somewhat later RED will be made accessible to all interested parties. Further information and copies of the RED record form are available from either Simon Eliot or Mike Crump. Dr Simon Eliot, RED, The Open University, 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol BS1 6ND. Email address: s.j.eliot@open.ac.uk Mr Mike Crump, RED, Centre for the Book, The British Library, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. RED's Web address: http://www.open.ac.uk/OU/Academic/Arts/RED/ Cheers Simon _________________________________________________________________________ Simon Rae : S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK Academic Computing Service : The Open University, Walton Hall : phone: (01908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom : fax: (01908) 653744 The URL for the OU's WWW home page is : http://www.open.ac.uk/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0479 wordplay Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 174 (174) [deleted quotation] And, of course, SCUBA: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. I wonder if this string has not, perhaps, reached its rather frayed conclusion.... --------------------------- Matthew C. Hansen University College - Oxford Oxford OX1 4BH univ0280@sable.ox.ac.uk From: Subject: Argumentation, debate, etc. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 175 (175) According to what angle you are taking, there are many good books on the subject. My favorite textbook was always Austin J. Freeley, _Argumentation and Debate_ (San Francisco: Wadsworth, 1961), undoubtedly now out of print and date, though such things rarely change. For a philosophical approach, try C. Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, _Traite de l'argumentation_, 2 vols. (Paris: PUF, 1958). Dense but rewarding. Back when I was in the teaching business, I used to give the students a list of the medieval _argumenta_ (argumentum ad verecundiam, ad hominem, ad captandum, etc.) and let them take apart political speeches, books, others' articles, etc. This approach works fairly well, though the last election would have furnished them with information overload. There is even a netsite devoted to argumenta somewhere out there, and I posted somewhere a list of about 50 medieval argumenta. It is even useful to invent them; e.g., the argumentum more Luciae: Linus and Lucy are walking along the sidewalk and he sees something lying there. "Gack! What's that?" Lucy: "It's one of those butterflies which fly up here each year from Brazil, etc." Linus picks it up: "It's only a potatoe chip." Lucy: "How in the world did that get all the way up here from Brazil?" Never give up your presuppositions. Jim Marchand. From: Olaf Pluta Subject: Abbreviationes for Windows Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:04:50 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 176 (176) It may be interesting for you to know that Abbreviationes, the first electronic dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations, which has been originally developed for the Mac OS, can now be run on all major OS platforms including DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, and NeXTstep. For detailed information on the system requirements please refer to the Abbreviationes web page which can be found at: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/projects/abbrev.htm Best wishes, Olaf Pluta pluta@scriptorium.ping.de From: Claire Smith Subject: Brepols Publishers on Web Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:40:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 177 (177) Brepols Publishers now has a complete catalogue on the Web at: http://www.brepols.com/publishers There is information on series, periodicals and CD-ROM. Recent titles are listed as well as works in print. Claire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Claire Smith / Computing in the Humanities & Social Sciences (CHASS Facility) University of Toronto/ Robarts Library, 14th Floor / 130 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A5 / Phone: (416) 978-2535 / Fax: (416) 978-6519 Internet: csmith@chass.utoronto.ca URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~csmith/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: University Affairs survey Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:35:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 178 (178) Humanists may be interested in the results from a recent survey conducted jointly by University Affairs, a publication of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada / Association des Universite/s et Colle/ges du Canada (AUCC), and the AUCC/CARL Task Force on Scholarly Communications. A summary is to be found online, at the URL http://www.aucc.ca/english/university/carl-sum.htm (English) and http://www.aucc.ca/francais/university/carl-sum.htm (French). As Web wizards will suspect, the AUCC site itself is at the URL http://www.aucc.ca/. A nice piece of work. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: lbeltran@servidor.unam.mx Subject: Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:23:22 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 179 (179) [Unfortunately I received the following in a rather poor state; my attempt to repair it may have obscured important parts of an address or two. Apologies if anyone or anything is misled. --WM] International Meeting Logic and Mathematical Reasoning Mexico City, September 30th - October 2nd, 1997 Organized by Departamento de Matematicas de la Univ. Nac. Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico) Departamento de Filosofia de la Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana (Mexico) Centre Francois Viete dHistoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, Univ. de Nantes (France) Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA) Scientific Committee Carlos Alvarez (UNAM), Jean Dhombres (C. F. Viete), Marco Panza Daniele C. Struppa (G. Mason Univ.), Guillermo Zambrana (UAM) Our meeting will be dealing with the following general question: What makes of a reasoning a mathematical reasoning? This question might be formulated in one of the two following ways: 1) As a normative question. It would be then necessary to provide an answer, stating how a reasoning should be in order to be classified as mathematical. 2) As a historical question. The answer should then be given by stating the particular attributes of mathematical reasoning as they occur in history. A closer look at these two approaches seems to show that neither one is completely satisfactory. The first is based on the assumption that mathematical reasoning should satisfy certain conditions that finally appear as completely arbitrary. The second one requires that we should trust history as being able to provide by itself the object of our reflection. It is our belief that the two approaches should work together: the object of the epistemological research on the nature of mathematical reasoning comes out along with this same research through the possibility of finding an intrinsic characteristic which is common to all ways of reasoning displayed in texts and books considered as mathematical. This is why we think that no philosophy of mathematics is possible if it is conceived independently of the history of mathematics, and, in the same vein, no history is possible without philosophy. Therefore, the problem we address is how to recognize an intrinsic characteristic which is common to those ways of reasoning occurring in mathematical literature. It seems to us that this characteristic can be expressed as a logical structure, even if the term logic used here has to be embedded into a broader sense and refered not only to meaning it has in formal modern logic. Above all, our concern is not history of logic, nor history of the formalization of mathematical reasoning. Rather we want to study the forms of certain arguments, inferences, or discourse recognized as mathematical and investigate their differences or similarities. Participation in this meeting is open to every scholar who wishes to give a 40 minutes talk. Please send a one page abstract before April 30, 1997, with the included Registration Form. The acceptance of the manuscript will be decided by the scientific committee within a month after reception of the abstract. The abstract and the registration form should be sent to one of the following addresses: - Carlos Alvarez, Departamento de Matematicas, Fac. Ciencias, UNAM. Mexico D.F., c.p. 04510 M=E9xico; e-mail alvarji@servidor.unam.mx - Marco Panza, Centre F. Viete, Univ. Nantes, Fac. des Sciences, 2 rue de la Houssiniere, 44072 Nantes 03, France; e-mail = panza@unantes.univ-nantes.fr It is possible to send a one sheet abstract, together with the following information: Name, Institution, Adress (including electronic adress) to the conference adress: logical@hardy.fciencias.unam.mx It is also possible to connect to the meeting home page at http://hardy.fciencias.unam.mx:80/logical and submit the abstract and the registration form by using the relative links Admission fee is fixed at $50.00 U.S. ($15.00 US for students). This fee should be paid in Mexico City just before the conference. The meeting will take place in Mexico City. Participants may lodge in one of the several hotels in the city with prices ranging between $30.00 and $70.00 US A list of hotels close to the meeting center will be sent with the acceptance of the talk. The organizing committee will be in charge of reservations. It is possible to eat in Mexico City at a good restaurant, prices range between $15.00-25.00 US At the present moment, confirmed speakers for plenary lectures are: Jean Dhombres (Universite de Nantes) Solomon Feferman (Stanford University) Michel Otte (University of Bielefeld) Hourya Sinaceur (CNRS Paris) Jean Michel Salanskis (Universite de Lille) Daniele Struppa (Georg Mason University) From: Pamela Cohen Subject: call for papers Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 11:04:24 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 180 (180) [deleted quotation]__________________________________ Pamela Cohen Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 phone: (908) 932-1384 / fax: (908) 932-1386 http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu pac@rci.rutgers.edu From: Yorick Wilks Subject: 1st International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:57:54 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 181 (181) --2nd posting CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Bellagio, Italy, 14-16 July, 1997 http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Meetings/Bellagio/ We have received many expressions of interest in this workshop, both from the commercial sector and from academia. As a result we are now pleased to announce that the workshop will definitely go ahead on the above dates. Registration details soon via next mailing and on the WWW page. For the benefit of those who may have missed the earlier announcement, this workshop will survey and demonstrate techniques for practical, plausible, human-computer conversation. The workshop will be in the spirit of the Loebner Competition meetings, but will not constitute any kind of "Turing" competition under controlled deception conditions. It will, however, provide an opportunity for extensive demonstrations of working conversational systems, preferably those without domain restrictions. The meeting is not intended to be yet another get together on linguistic methods for dialogue modelling or human-computer interaction, but rather based on the assumption that, in many places, great strides are being made in real conversation simulations from a range of practical techniques and points of view, and that everyone working in this field would benefit from face-to-face interaction, as well as exploring the industrial/commercial applications of these technologies in HCI/WWW environments. In addition to the formal papers and the demonstrations of working systems there will also be panel discussions on the state of the art. CONFERENCE VENUE: The conference venue is the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, in Bellagio, Italy, on Lake Como, the legendary site of Pliny's villa where the two arms of the lake meet. Bellagio is one of the most beautiful spots in the world and is easily reached from Milan. The date, 14-16 July 1997, immediately follows the EACL/ACL in Madrid. WORKSHOP PAPERS: This announcement is the first call for papers. We are also inviting applications from those who wish to demonstrate working systems. Papers may be submitted on any aspect of human-computer conversation, ranging from "How-to-do-it" to something far more abstract. The emphasis should be on the software techniques for communication in natural language and NOT on speech recognition or speech synthesis as such, although descriptions of systems capable of intelligent speech communication would be welcomed. SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS: Contributions are invited from authors who have new ideas, results or ongoing work to report on any aspect of human-computer conversation. Papers should ideally be 3,000 to 4,000 words in length and will be refereed within 8 weeks. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions (3 hard copies or one e-mail copy) should be sent to Yorick Wilks at the address below, to arrive no later than March 29th 1997. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by May 27th 1997. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to make their contribution available in machine-readable form (Word Perfect, MS Word or ASCII formats are acceptable), to be received by June 17th 1997. DEMONSTRATIONS OF WORKING SYSTEMS Demonstrations of, and discussions about, working systems will form the mail emphasis of the workshop. Statements of intent are solicited to demonstrate working systems which permit a user to converse with a program, either in a single subject domain or on a less restricted basis. Such statements should consist of a system description in 1,000 words or less, together with a specification of what hardware will be required to demonstrate the system. (The hardware spec is not necessary for those who plan to bring their own computer.) A sample of a conversation actually conducted by the system would be helpful but is not essential. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: The workshop is being organized by Intelligent Research Ltd of London, who will assist participants with room reservations at hotels in all price categories, as well as with transportation (if required) from the nearest airports. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University, UK Bruno Alabiso, Microsoft, US Ken Colby, UCLA, US Louise Guthrie, Lockheed Martin, US Koiti Hasida, ETL, Japan David Levy, Intelligent Research, UK Livia Polanyi CSLI, Stanford University, US Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento, Italy Marilyn Walker, AT&T Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, US ********************************* Professor Yorick Wilks AI and NN Research Group, Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court 211 Portobello St., Sheffield S1 4DP UK phone: (44) 114 282 5561 fax: (44) 114 278 0972 email: yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/People/Y.Wilks ********************************* From: Subject: Re: 10.0425 Potter's Cold & al. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 182 (182) At 18:34 15-11-96 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation]If BBC didn't prove successfull: Cold Lazarus was just on TV in Holland try email www@vpro.nl best of luck Maarten van der Heijden From: Subject: pragmatics of programming Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 183 (183) Um, this is really dumb but...will all those inclined to submit useful URLs to the list please *not* put them at the end of a sentence, followed by a full stop. The point-and-click routine in Eudora 1.5.4 persists in reading the full stop as part of the URL whereupon most http servers give an error message. E.g. (just the latest): http://www.maa.org/t_and_l/ would succeed, but I got an error because it was written http://www.maa.org/t_and_l/. By the way, COBOL always struck me as aesthetically designed for bankers who were nervous about computer code. Those responsible for creating the language either were insane or had some such ulterior motive. How else to explain source code syntax like (to take a random example from my old textbook) "MULTIPLY GROSS BY .0585 GIVING FICA ROUNDED." -- Charles L. Creegan N.C. Wesleyan College ccreegan@ncwc.edu http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan From: Subject: Re: 10.0476 copyright threat Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 184 (184) Certainly efforts should be made to preserve fair use for education as exceptions in the proposed Canadian copyright legislation, but if that effort fails, librarians and individual scholars should be prepared for more direct action. Most publishers of academic and scholarly books rely on library subscription sales for their fundamental market. Scholars and academics, including course adoptions, account for the bulk of remaining copies sold. If the publishers, through their influence over legislation, insist on making new works unusable for scholarly purposes by overly restrictive copyright laws, an appropriate response would be a boycott. The day this law goes into effect, all library subscriptions should be cancelled and individuals should refuse to either purchase new works or adopt them for classes until the law is changed. As end users, scholars do have some power if only we will use it. If we don't, then how much sympathy do we deserve? William E. Grant Bowling Green State University [deleted quotation] From: Richard Caccavale Subject: The Marriage of Writers and Critics Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:05:17 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 185 (185) Please post the following Call for Papers to Humanist. Although it may not seem relevant at first, one of our considerations is the effect of hypertext on the author and reader. This is explained below. ------------------------------------------- Please reply to Cridifferences@du.edu for more information on this post. Reconcilable (In)Differences: The Marriage of Writers and Critics In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Writing Program at the University of Denver, the Creative Writing Program, in conjunction with the Academic Literature Program, is sponsoring a conference to explore the growing schism between writers and critics. Mission Statement Pressures of professionalization for writers have led to an increase in the number of degree-granting institutions for poets, essayists, dramatists, and fiction writers hoping to work in the Academy. As a result, writers in the Academy are engaging, often for the first time, with literary and philosophical theoretics sometimes at odds with their own position as would-be craftspeople. Likewise, professional critics, theorists, and academics find themselves in the position of being surrounded in the university setting by individuals who challenge much of contemporary critical perspective in favor of a return to a craft-oriented reading of a work. What does all this mean, then, for the writer, the critical theorists, and the process of hermeneutics in particular? The re-emergence of the writer/critic and the critic/writer highlights the late twentieth-century schism that seems to have widened steadily between the two disciplines. As graduate writers increasingly mix with graduate theorists, academia must turn its attention back to the roots of critical inquiry in an effort to reverse, somehow, the resulting fragmentation of its departments into scattered and often highly specialized camps. This conference will allow a continuation of recent attempts to reconcile both halves of contemporary literary thinking--affording both academics and writers an opportunity to speak to the future of textual concerns in this thickening climate of professional and pre-professional integration. The current academy, in that it plays host to both critical and creative endeavors--often originating from the same individual(s)--has become a hotbed of this type of theoretical debate. Yet as visiting writer Amitav Ghosh noted recently, "creative writers and literary critics have never been farther apart than they are today." The purpose of this conference will be to provide a forum for both critical and "creative" theoretics. The new millennium promises sweeping changes in the Academy with concomitant changes in literary theory and practice. What we are looking for are ideas which engage and further this debate, and which will illuminate, perhaps, a common ground upon which the problems of textual studies can be collectively identified and discussed. Topics for Investigation * The Role of the Writer / The Role of the Theorist in Textual Studies * Limiting or Delimiting Interpretation: Hermeneutics, Philosophy, and the Elusive Text * Narratology in the Post-Colonial and New Historical Climate * New-Formalism, Re-Formalism, and Contemporary Theoretical Investigation * Professionalization in Writing and Critical Theory * Hypertext and the Authority of the Author / Critic * Creative Works for Open Reading * Undergraduate Submissions are Encouraged Plenary Speakers and Associate Writers Confirmed Plenary Speakers: * Gerald Graff: the George M. Pullman Professor of English and Education at The University of Chicago and author of Literature Against Itself, Beyond Culture Wars, Professing Literature, and The Myth of Cultural Decline * Marjorie Perloff: the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities at Stanford University and author of Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media, and The Poetics of Indeterminacy among others. University of Denver Associated Writers: * Brian Kiteley: Director of DU Writing Program and author of: I Know Many Songs, but I Can't Sing, and Still Life with Insects * Rikki Ducornet: author of Phosphor, Dreamland, Jade Cabinet, Fountains of Neptune, Entering Fire: The Stain, and Complete Butcher's Tales * Beth Nugent: author of Live Girls!, and City of Boys * Bin Ramke: editor of Denver Quarterly and author of, Difference Between Night and Day, Erotic Light of Gardens, Language Student, Massacre of Innocents, and White Monkey * Cole Swensen: It's Alive She Says, Park, and translator of Allures Naturelles by Pierre Alferi Conference Logistics The conference will be held at the University of Denver from Friday, April 4th until Sunday, April 6th, 1997. There will be cocktail party and a banquet dinner. Registration Information Registration Fees: Thru 3/1/97, $50 faculty; $35 grad/undergrad. After 3/1/97, $75 faculty; $50 grad/undergrad. Please visit our web site at: http://www.du.edu/~rcaccava/conference.html for registration information. Call For Papers Panels will consist of a series of twenty minute papers. The Denver Quarterly has agreed to publish selected papers and creative works. Please submit one-page abstracts by January 20, 1997. Submissions should be mailed to: Department. of English Attn: Reconcilable (In)differences Pioneer Hall, Room 414 2140 S. Race, Denver CO 80208 or emailed to: critdifferences@du.edu Organizers and Advisors Faculty Sponsor: Brian Kiteley Faculty Advisory Committee: *Elenor McNees *Diana Wilson *Jan Gorak *Elizabeth Wolf *Eric Gould *Bin Ramke Contact Information For more information email: critdifferences@du.edu or write to the address above From: Peter Liddell Subject: FLEAT III Call for Participation Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:04:21 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 186 (186) INTERNATIONAL C.A.L.L. CONFERENCE The following is a short version of the Call for Participation for FLEAT III Dates: August 12 -16th 1997. Place: University of Victoria, BC Canada. The full version of this announcement, with descriptions of presentation criteria and other useful information, is available on-line at the following URL: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/fleat3 We will also be pleased to email the full version to anyone who wants a copy. Just send email to fleat3@uvic.ca and ask for the Call for Participation. On-line Registration will be available in the New Year. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FLEAT III - Languages, Resources, Cultures August 12 - 16, 1997 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada CALL FOR PARTICIPATION In 1997 the conference on Foreign Language Education and Technology (FLEAT) will be held in North America for the first time. Based on the success of the first two events - both of which were held in Japan in 1981 and 1993 - the Learning Laboratories Association (LLA) of Japan and the International Association for Learning Laboratories (IALL) decided to jointly sponsor FLEAT III in Victoria, B.C. Canada. The conference theme of Languages, Resources and Cultures echoes the role of the Language Resource Centre as provider of language learning resources, technology for language learning, and, increasingly, as centres for cultural studies. The LRC theme also revolves around people - those members of our community who teach, create and provide resources, work with technology, and keep our Centres going throughout the year. The goal of FLEAT III is to provide an international forum where we can all meet, share our professional experiences, learn from one another and extend our knowledge of technology as it relates to language learning. Topics for papers at FLEAT III may be on any aspect of Technology and Second Language Learning, such as: * management issues; * facility design; * selection of hardware and software; * distance education; * integrating software into courses; * software assessment; * authoring software; * staff training and professional development; * relations within the institution; * technology and the theory of Second Language Acquisition; * international legal issues (copyright for example); * professional development; * courseware development The FLEAT III Program Committee is looking for proposals to present workshops, roundtable discussions, demonstration/poster sessions, lectures, and panel discussions. DEADLINE: All proposals must be postmarked no later than January 31, 1997. and (except those from Japan, which go to LLA) sent to: Program Committee, FLEATIII, Language Centre, Clearihue B 045, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3045, VICTORIA, BC, Canada V8W 3P4 For more information or to request a full email version of the Call for Participation, please email fleat3@uvic.ca or point your favourite browser at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/fleat3 See you in Victoria in '97 From: Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 187 (187) This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for December, 1996 This is probabaly the last Newsletter that is going to the OLD server; at gutnberg@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu. . .if you want to delete yourself ... . .there is probably no need, but you should ask me about" listproc@ prairienet.org if you haven't changes your subscription. *** Well, my link to uiarchive is finally back up, so the November Etexts should be on all our major sites, as below, by the time you see this. I am not sure when the international sites do their mirroring but the US sites should all be ready to go. My apologies, many of our links, drive, and computers have been down, all week long. My apologies, also, for the fact that the CBC told me my interview would be on the air on Thanksgiving [Canadien OR American]. . .but they JUST called and told me it would be on the CBC and PRI tonite at 7:00 PM. . .we get PRI on PBS. . .Tuesday. . .December 3, 1996. [Canadian Broadcasting Company/Corporation] [Public Radio International] [Public Broadcasting Service/System] We shall see/hear. Wired also called today, they now say we are in the February Wired which should go on the stands in early January. Around page 90. *** In response to last month's Newsletter, we have received a moderate amount of good wishes, and offers of several more computer sites on which to post these Project Gutenberg Etexts, and hopefully enough legal support to get us into a "Project Gutenberg, Inc." phase of existence, something I definintely have an approach/avoidance thing about. However, it seems that getting any actual financial assistance to keep a roof over the head of this particular computer, and its cousins, along with myself ... . .might be on the order of having a snowball fight in the nether regions. We received about enough money to keep us running for a week. Please put us on your Holiday gift list. . .information appended. If you have ANY hope of contacting ANYone at ANY institution that could be an eventual financial supporter, please let us know. The roof is paid for, this would only pay for the power, phone, taxes and other utilities. Once again we have managed to present 32 files we hope will be of interest to the general population. We have two more months scheduled for 32 per month-- then we hope to once again double our production, this time to 64 per month-- for each of the 12 months of 1997. While this may appear as an incredible amount of work, the truth is that your volunteers at Project Gutenberg have already spend several months doing books at the rate of 64 per month, during the Spring of 1996 just to insure that in 1997 we would be capable of accomplishing our goals. However, Etexts and copyright clearances are only barely coming in for the 32 Etexts per month scheduled for 1996, and usually we would be posting the ones for December right now, rather than for November, so unless we manage more of getting volunteers, or increasing their efficiency, we might have to send out only 32 books per month in 1997. . .maybe change our name to "The Book Of The Day Project." Michael Stern Hart Executive Director Project Gutenberg Here are the 32 Project Gutenberg Etexts for November, 1996. Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ### A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work. 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Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg We need your donations desperately. Please send what you can to: Project Gutenberg P.O. Box 2782 Champaign, IL 61825-2782 [Check should be made out to "Project Gutenberg/BU"] Thanks! Happy Holidays!! Michael From: Subject: Re: humanities computing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 188 (188) A group here is considering what a possible "graduate certificate in humanities computing" might entail, and are very interested to hear about courses actual or imagined which readers think might figure in such a program. The mainstay of our beginning conception is a course on markup, but we foresee possible courses on legal issues, pertinent history, and unix editing. If "humanities computing" is to be any sort of discipline--itself a debateable proposition, as has already been noted on this list--what is the subject matter? [Please post any replies to Humanist. It would be extremely useful to all of us if anyone associated with a graduate programme in humanities computing, or indeed contemplating a programme, would share his or her thoughts, curricula, or other kinds of information. While at Toronto I began an ftp'able, then gopher'd repository of materials, but this is quite old and has not been maintained for some time. I know that the Association for History and Computing, and various members thereof, have been working away on curricula for some time. Although these would be of great interest, "history and computing" is only one variety and has, for computing humanists as such, the wrong emphasis, or at least a rather old and outdated emphasis. Might there be an historical sequence in "computing and the humanities", "computing in the humanities", "humanities computing"? But I digress. Please send news of and thoughts on graduate programmes. --WM] From: Subject: Re: schloendorff's "man on horseback" Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 189 (189) I would be extremely grateful if anyone can tell me how to get hold of the film "Man on horseback", V. Schloendorff's English version of "Michael Kohlhaas - Rebell" (preferrably on video). I have also tried to get hold of "Mother Courage" (with Glenda Jackson), performed by the National Theatre London and apparently filmed by BBC London. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance! Christiane R. From: Subject: Re: 10.0486 programming: pragmatics, with a request Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 190 (190) [deleted quotation] FWIW, I *believe* the accepted spec is to enclose URLs in angle brackets. On the Mac, the popular InternetConfig extension (and its accompanying IceTe) will correctly interpret the brackets- I assume Eudora does as well. So the example becomes <http://www.maa.org/t_andl/>. The period doesn't matter as it falls outside the brackets. John _______________________________________________________________________ John Eckman Interdisciplinary Writing Program <http://weber.u.washington.edu/~eckman> Dept. of English; Box 35-4330 University of Washington Seattle, WA 91895 _______________________________________________________________________ From: Subject: esthetics? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 191 (191) When it comes to aesthetics and the computer, there are more things there, Horatio, than one can imagine. I popped in my handy ComputerSelect CD-ROM, for example, and found that esthetics had only four hits; changing to aesthetics, however, led to more than forty. Few of them had to do with esthetics; most were on feeding ones prejudices as to platform, layout, look and feel, etc., and one was on having to give up C++ (did not live up to its promise, is clunky) in favor of JAVA. We need to break up our discussion into 1. the computer as esthetic object (I love the new curved keyboards; why don't we get rid of those ugly function keys, etc.; many of these are on ergonomics rather than esthetics). 2. The esthetics of the computer per se and the philosophy of bi-valued systems, bayesian probabilities, the whole nine yards. 3. The esthetics of the computer language one is fondest of, always better than the others; Marchandian BASIC just feels good, has a certain je ne sais quoi, etc. 4. The esthetics of the art object produced by the computer itself (I cannot stand sans-serif, it's so gauche; what an ugly screen; why don't they provide for more colors and better fonts?). 5. The esthetics of programming (I cannot abide go-to's, can you? C++ inhibits your creative instincts. 6. The esthetics of the program (BASIC, with all those numbers? Yech! Once you do one of those C++ things, even if you document (computerese for annotate) well, you can never read it again). I go back to the days before languages, even to the days when one had to slap switches, so I remember the good old days (of Eliza and the like) when esthetics in programming meant parsimony or at best elegance. If my program required less space than yours and did roughly the same thing, mine was better than yours. Then came the days in which one could get a program which would `pretty print' your program. If you wrote in BASIC, the indentation did not usually reflect your hierarchy (programs were and still are hierarchical). There was an insistence from some quarters on having all your declarations, even in BASIC, first in the program. There were a number of books and articles written on `programming style', mostly on avoiding go-to's and loops and being economical. When I program nowadays, and I do a good deal of it, all that is out the window. With the monsters we have nowadays, memory/storage presents no problem. If I need something to do something, I just steal a module from somewhere; I am even encouraged to do so. As Weizenbaum pointed out lo those many years ago, I half the time do not know what goes on in the black box of the module, but what the hey? No need to reinvent the wheel. Since I am using someone else's art object, I cannot be accused of bad esthetics. Programming nowadays in folk art. I just had an article published entitled: "The Computer in the Humanities -- Friend or Foe?" I am still not sure which it is, but I am committed. ! Jim Marchand. From: Subject: TUCOWS URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 192 (192) [For your edification. By the way, if you do not know about TUCOWS, you should check it out, at <http://www.tucows.com> and many mirrors worldwide. -- WM] Over the last 3 weeks, TUCOWS has been inundated with hundreds of letters inquiring about rumors of conflict between TUCOWS Limited and Gateway 2000, Inc. In order to try and reduce the overwhelming amount of email we are getting on this subject, and stem the wild conjecture that is being thrown about the 'net, we are releasing full disclosure of the issue as it has evolved thus far. As it stands currently, Gateway has had very little official contact with TUCOWS. In fact, our only correspondance to date is the registered letter transcribed below. We sincerely wish that we could pass on further details at this point, however, we simply just don't have any further information in our possession at this time. Gateway has not commented further on the issue. For further information as it happens, please refer to http://www.tucows.com, or keep an eye on T-MILK, our internation TUCOWS newsletter. ---- Registered Mail From Gateway 2000, Inc. ---- October 22, 1996 CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Scott Swedorski, President TUCOWS 5415 Dundas Street West Suite 301 Etobicoke, Ontario M9B 1B5 CANADA RE: Use of Holstein Cow by TUCOWS Dear Mr. Swedorski: It has come to our attention that your company is infringing on a valuable trademark of Gateway 2000, Inc. Specifically, we note that you are depicting Holstein cows on your web site to promote your company. Please be advised that Gateway 2000, Inc. owns the valid and subsisting federal Reg No. 1,725,231, marks consisting of a stylized design representing cow spots. This trademark and the Holstein cow are widely associated with Gateway 2000 and represent valuable goodwill and company assets. Gateway 2000, Inc. has promoted the Holstein cow and cow spots extensively to the consuming public and the trade, including the display of its cow spots trademark on boxes in which its products are shipped, which in 1995 amounted to almost 3.7 billion in sales. Your company's use of the Holstein cow and cow spots in connection with services relating to products of Gateway 2000 is likely to confuse and deceive the consuming public. We therefore call upon TUCOWS to cease all use of trademarks of Gateway 2000 immediately. Please contact us within ten (10) days of receipt of this letter with written assurances that TUCOWS has undertaken to cease its infringement of our registered trademarks. Absent a satisfactory response from you, we will take whatever legal action we deem appropriate without further notice to you. Sincerely, William M. Elliott Senior Vice President and General Counsel 610 Gateway Drive P.O. Box 2000 North Sioux City, South Dakota 57049-2000 Telephone 605-232-2000 Fax 605-232-2023 Toll Free 800-846-2000 From: Subject: esthetics Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 193 (193) I failed to mention that the word `intuitive' is often used for `(a)esthetically satisfying'. There are GUI freaks among us, who love to use icons and the like to enter their commands. I, on the other hand, am a Command Line Freak and like to boss the computer around. This religious difference is larger than that between those who are fond of various `platforms', e.g. DOS, WINDOWS, MAC, PC, UNIX, etc. All my GUI friends assure me that the use of a rodent with attendant mouse elbow is `intuitive', whereas use of words is not, not to mention the use of function keys, sometimes labeled as cavemannish. `Look and feel', `intuitive', `ergonomically satisfying', `elegant' are all used for `aesthetically pleasing'. I forgot also to mention `structural programming', `up/down programming' and all the others. Since aesthetics, whatever it is, is important to human beings, those involved in the man-machine dialogue ought to think about it. Jim Marchand. From: Subject: Re: 10.0496 humanities computing graduate programmes? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 194 (194) [I pass along the following message although the userid is less than informative and the message itself seems to have lost its signature. Would the sender please identify him- or herself? It looks as if the Internet provider in question has a less than fail-proof menu system... --WM] [deleted quotation] Coming from the commercial world, I approach this question from what is perhaps an academically unorthodox point of view -- first consider real world issues, then determine if and how humanities computing can fulfill a need, and finally craft / develop a course. My conclusion is that Humanities Computing may be part of the solution to one of the most pervasive problems our society faces, e.g. boredom / apathy / lack of success in the classroom. There are approximately 5 million computers installed in K-12 schools in the United States alone. By and large, these machines are used as expensive typewriters -- their potential as "teaching technology" has not yet been reached. Is it possible that searchable electronic texts, multi-media materials, the internet, etc. can be combined with a pedagogical approach that: * More effectively engages the attention of the student ... * Shows students how to construct and pursue discovery strategies of their own design ... * Imparts both knowledge and skills that are useful in life and career ... Before going further along this avenue, might I ask whether this line of thinking merits further discussion, is of interest to other members of the list, etc.? Best, From: Subject: T. Carlyle Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 195 (195) I need to find out how many times the word "Fact" is used in Carlyle's life of Fredrick II. Can anyone recommend an archive, or do a quick search. Thanks. K.Soheil@kcl.ac.uk From: Subject: Re: 10.0435 Juvenal in Ren. humanists? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 196 (196) SALVE! I would like to thank my fellow humanists who responded to my inquiry; every response has helped the research process move inexorably forward! I will email a copy of the finished paper to all those who contributed when the project is finished in a few weeks (hopefully!) AVE ET PAX VOBISCUM Mark Gardner From: Ed Hackett, NSF Subject: New NSF Interdisciplinary Program Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 197 (197) To: Members of the Science and Technology Studies Community ***NEW NSF PROGRAM IN LEARNING AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS*** There is a new NSF initiative in learning and intelligent systems: understanding and enhancing the ability to learn and create. It is a foundation-wide initiative to fund interdisciplinary, collaborative research on that topic, particularly research that would not be funded by any existing program. Basically, the research must span large areas of science--biology and computing, for example--so as to fall outside the scope of a single NSF directorate. Unfortunately, the deadlines on proposals are close. The program announcement may be found at: www.nsf.gov/lis. via George Gale/ www.umkc.edu/sci-stud. 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( / ) / / / / __. /_ __. _ / o ./__,(_/|_/ /_(_/|_\/ \/ / Dr. Tzvee Zahavy Internet email: zahavy@andromeda.rutgers.edu http://newark.rutgers.edu/~zahavy/tzvee.html From: Subject: Re: 10.0496 humanities computing graduate Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 199 (199) Hello, I wonder why everybody is persistently trying to view the positive side of humanities computing, ignoring or depreciating the negative side effects such endeavour might entail. For instance, MOO technology which is used in some Universities to create virtual worlds where one is encouraged to let one's fantasy go unrestraintedly in full fledge has turned out to be an an adverse instrument for pupils' performances. Many youngsters neglect their lessons because they spend endless long hours at the Telnet site. Since this resource is particularly directed to children or teenagers -because of its very nature: I doubt that adults would be willing to engage in such a naive entertainment- the amount and quality of damage this can cause to our next generation is unpredictable. (Some Universities have forbidden its use). Please do not misunderstand me. I am not asserting that humanities computing should be dispensed with altogether, or anything of the sort. I am merely laying emphasis on the fact that we should consider its pros and cons. Most especially nowadays where Postmodernist concept of "creativity" has gained the upper hand. I would say that the pomo movement repels anything that has to do with rigour. To their minds, "rigour" stands for "enemy of creativity". An astonishing contention. Famous counterexamples of both extreme rigour and startling creativity immediately burst into mind: Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, Sir Isaac Newton, Leibnitz, Beethoven, Einstein, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Faraday, Medelejeff, JS Bach, and so on. To delve into the depths of an inkling that might shed light on this strange phenomenon at the end of the second millennium exceeds the purposes set out for this posting. To make matters worse, the pomo movement views anything remotely resembling any of those qualities that we, the representatives of the sixties, enhanced as a valuable badge, as attacks to their basic doctrine: that of boundless creativity. The word "creativity" is in fact rather ambiguous: for to be creative may mean merely using one's imagination, devoid of any positive connotations. The way now is used and abused, arbitrarily stands for "imaginative cleverness in making or designing". Thanks for your attention, JC Garelli In a message 5 Dec 96 at 21:18, a propos of 10.0498 humanities computing viewed, Nelson Hilton says: [deleted quotation] Undoubtedly, yes, it is of my interest, at least. I think its importance cannot possibly overemphasized. Juan Carlos Garelli, MD, PhD Attachment Resarch Center Department of Early Development Mailto:garelli@attach.edu.ar From: Subject: a notable online publication Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 200 (200) In these incunabular days of e-publishing, I keep a list of anything on the Web that strikes me as significant, even when I don't quite know what it may signify. I could call these items curiosities, but that appellation might seem dismissive, and I don't mean it to be. Perhaps when we know enough, we can begin to dismiss things with impunity. In any case, I submit for your consideration the "Salt made the world go round" homepage, at <http://www.geocities.com/~salt/> It seems to me that for us observers of online activity, the mere fact that such a thing could exist so easily is the significant fact. How wonderful, especially for us old salts of the e-world (that had to come out, sorry). Allow me to suggest that you might send the URLs of your own "notable online publications" to Humanist whenever you see one. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: A new Fawcett Library : a request for support Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 201 (201) The FAWCETT LIBRARY Some members of the Humanist circle may be aware of=20 the Fawcett Libary. The Fawcett, as it is often=20 referred to, is the National Research Library for=20 Women's history. It is the oldest and most=20 comprehensive libary on all aspects of women in=20 society in the UK and is also regarded as one of the=20 best of its kind in the world. The Library is=20 primarily a research collection and includes=20 collections on feminism, work, education, health, the=20 family, law, arts, science, language, sexuality,=20 fashion and the home. The emphasis is on Britain, but=20 there are good collections from the Commonwealth and=20 the Third World and an increasing US section. =20 The Library includes the Josephine Butler Collection on=20 prostitution, sexuality and related topics, the Cavendish Bentick collection of old and rare items, over 60,000 books=20 and pamphlets, many of them first editions, dating back to=20 1600,a large audio visual collection and a fine collection=20 of suffragette banners and memorabilia, including the=20 personal effects of Emily Davidson who died for the cause=20 of women's suffrage in the famous Derby Day protest of=20 1913. =20 The Fawcett Library was established in 1926 as the Library of the London Society for Women^=D2s Service(formerly=20 Suffrage), a non-militant organisation led by Dame=20 Millicent Fawcett. In 1953 the Society was renamed=20 after her and the library became the Fawcett Library. In 1977 it was moved to its present location at =20 London Guildhall University, one of the new=20 universities in the UK, where it remains.=20 It has been an ambition of the University to develop a=20 proper home for the Library. At present, it is=20 located in a well-equipped basement with room for=20 around 15 readers and a range of appropriate facilities. =20 Nevertheless, there is little room for expansion or=20 development and no facilities for presentation and display.=20 An opportunity has now arisen to transform the=20 Library. The University has acquired an old=20 Public Washhouse, dating to the mid-19th century, with a=20 complete facade. It adjoins the main humanities and social=20 science departments and is located within a few yards of=20 Aldgate East underground station and very near to the=20 mainline Liverpool Street Station. =20 It is proposed to construct a purpose built library,=20 with 45 research places, a comprehensive range of=20 facilties for conservation and repair, an exhibition=20 gallery, seminar and conference space, an educational=20 project area and a shop and cafe. This will be an=20 imaginative building, incorporating the facade of the=20 washouse, and is has been designed by Clare Wright, a=20 celebrated architect in the UK. This will make it one of=20 the finest libraries of its kind anywhere in the world. We will be raising 5.2 million for this purpose and a=20 fundraising team has been formed with the Speaker of=20 the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd, as patron.=20 The purpose of this message however is to solicit=20 support for our application to the Heritage Lottery=20 Board.=20 Quite simply, I am asking Humanist members to email me=20 their support for the principle of this project so=20 that it can be included in the section of our=20 application relating to "public support". This is=20 pretty crucial because however good the project, there=20 must be public support for it to gain financial grant=20 from the Lottery. =20 If you are prepared to support us, simply email me on=20 hopkin@lgu.ac.uk If you want to know more, contact the Library on=20 0171 320 1189 international (+44)71 320 1189 =20 or fax 0171 320 1188 Many thanks for your help ********************************* Deian R Hopkin Vice Provost London Guildhall University 31 Jewry Street London EC3N 2EY Tel 0171 320 1129 fax 0171 320 3018 hopkin@lgu.ac.uk From: Subject: fwd:Bad Writing Contest Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 202 (202) [deleted quotation] FORWARD END -------------------------- ---------- Internet: c.koellerer@magnet.at FIDO: 2:315/3.22 Fax: ++43 662 420236 (24h) From: Subject: New additions to the American Verse Project Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 203 (203) The Humanities Text Initiative is pleased to announce the addition of 13 new texts to the American Verse Project. Works by significant African-American authors not contained in other electronic text collections have been added, including: Magnolia leaves / Mary Weston Fordham Dreams of life : miscellaneous poems / Timothy Thomas Fortune Dis, dat an' tutter : poems / Elliot Blaine Henderson Soliloquy of Satan and other poems / Elliott Blaine Henderson Ethiope lays / Priscilla Jane Thompson Gleanings of quiet hours / Priscilla Jane Thompson Other works added include: Poems. Volume I & II / H.F. Gould Idyl of work / Lucy Larcom Anarchiad : a New England poem, 1786-1787 / Humphreys, Barlow, Trumbull and Hopkins Miriam : a dramatic poem / Louisa Jane Hall Nineveh and other poems / George Sylvester Viereck Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses / Robert William Service (contributed to American Verse Project by Alan Light; encoded by HTI) The HyperBibliography of American Poetry now contains more than 1000 entries; ca. 500 major updates and revisions are to be included next semester. Christina Powell Humanities Text Intiative http://www.hti.umich.edu From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 10.0504 dark side of humanities computing? Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 22:37:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 204 (204) [deleted quotation] This criticism is, obviously, blissfully uninformed by experience with educational uses of MOOs and MUDs. MOOs do have the capacity to enthrall students, but that capacity can be used for good *or* ill, depending on the imagination, creativity, and discipline of the instructor. [deleted quotation] I know of no one except the author of this post who opposes rigor and creativity. Examples of rigor in postmodernism might burst into mind as well, if the author of this post had read any. Forgive the tone, but both of these criticisms are intellectually irresponsible. John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: Sharon Cogdill Subject: Re: 10.0504 dark side of humanities computing? Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 19:25:02 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 205 (205) Among other things, JC Garelli wrote, [deleted quotation] well, um, actually, people working in the field of, to pick one example, computers and writing/rhetoric have been working for more than a decade to think clearly about the semiotics of computer interfaces, the values inherent in the language and processes of computing, and the impact of computers and word processing on writing and on classroom practice. The large number of studies that tried for ten years to find out *if* students wrote better on computers than with pen and paper all attest to attempts not to view computers positively *or* negatively a priori, but to test our hypotheses. I can help you construct a bibliography on this, if you like, but the bibliographic overview of an established discipline like computers and writing would get you quite a long list of things to read. More instructive, perhaps, would be for you to see for yourself just how much work has been done. There's lots of stuff that *is* uncritical, of course, but lots and lots that's not. [deleted quotation] Well, as somebody who uses MOO technology with adults in educational settings, and have done so now for several years, I need to address the members of this list about what seem to me to be misconceptions and unsubstantiated claims made in Mr Garelli's posting. Like many other responsible faculty in literature and writing classes, I use MOOs to turn the discussions in some of my classes from oral activities to meetings in which we all *write* to each other, in real time, about what we think and have thought about the subject for the day. Some work has been done on MOOing (or, more precisely, MUDding) in education. The online journals _Computer-Mediated Communication_ and _Kairos_, for example, have both published articles about the use of synchronous communication software in classes. The number of conference papers presented about MOOing and MUDding increases every year. I have published in _Kairos_ on the community of computers and writing teachers who get together most Tuesday nights (on a MOO in the Media Lab at MIT) to talk about the use of computers in our classes. That is, we all telnet to MIT's computer from our own servers; most of us are from the U.S., but there are also members of the group from Australia, England, and Norway. We telnet to MIT, and then we talk about/write about issues in computers and writing. This regular Tuesday meeting is part of the Netoric Project, codirected by Tari Fanderclai and Greg Siering. (I don't have the urls here at home, so I'll suggest you begin looking at Tari's homepage - <http://ucet.ufl.edu/~tari>, and she's got links to spots that can give you more information about the Netoric Project and MUDding in education as well. I'm sure that other subscribers to Humanist also have experience, including publishing history, with MUDs, but if any of you would like to know more, please let me know and I'll be happy to construct a small list of urls, telnet addresses, and articles and email you back or post it to Humanist if there's enough interest.) (For those of you who may not have seen it yet, "MOO" is a technical acronym for something like Multi-user Object-Oriented, the last which describes a kind of programming language, of course, and the first which hints at the origins of MOO software, a certain kind of role-playing gaming software called MUD.) MUD software is communications software; email and listserv are *a*synchronous communication; MUDding (and MOOing) is synchronous - real time. While it certainly can be used for dungeons-and-dragons-type games, MUD software can also be used to facilitate real-time *written* discussion among a number of people at the same time. When a writer in a MUD finishes writing a thought and hits Return, the software sends it out to everybody else in the same "room" in the MUD. Those people then read the statement as soon as it is written and can respond to it immediately, or think about it, or ignore it and write something of their own. Many of my students find MUDding to be liberating in a classroom. Students who do not have good literacy skills - or at least literacy skills comparable to those of the rest of the class - will be silenced by MUDding, but many students who are uncomfortable speaking in class find themselves very active in a CMC classroom. Women tell me that they never worry about interrupting anyone and how much freer they feel to speak for that reason; students who are accustomed to dominating a classroom find themselves on a more level playing field. Those of us who use MUDs in class really do not prefer that our students "let [their] fantasy go unrestrainedly in full fledge," though I'd suggest that the line between fun and education may be less clear than it sometimes seems. In fact, I like my MUDding students to be thoughtful and deliberate and creative and rigorous and all those things I expect them to be in class when they address an idea orally or in a quiz. MUDs can be particularly useful when a teacher would like to make the classroom discussion a *text* in the class - that's exactly what MUD does. Students can see very clearly how a particular rhetorical strategy can have effects they did or did not intend; they can learn to distinguish intention from effect; they can see evidence and associations as material things - words on a screen or page - and not abstract things that disappear when the sound dies away. Language itself becomes something they can look at, analyze, remember (more or less) calmly, and evaluate, as can argumentation, evidence, analysis itself, and so on. Beyond mere classroom dialogue, though, MUD software can help us get at the ways in which our verbal environments become a part of our discourse, and sometimes, if we're lucky and things are very clear, we might begin to get glimmerings about the cause-and-effect relations between environment as it is verbally constructed and the discourse we use to live by. (If there are such clear-cut cause-and-effect relations; I'm still thinking about that one.) Also, I'm aware of some MOOs where faculty teaching French and Spanish to native speakers of English; and a graduate student working with me is using MOO in her English as a Second Language class. Not for fantasy and role playing, but to help the students work on their writing, their spontaneous language, and the construction of a linguistic community for them to belong to as they work on their language skills. A faculty member in German here and I have been talking about setting up a space where students working on German can meet to talk with/write with other learners of German or other speakers of German. Writing centers across the United States use MOO software to enable students to "visit" the writing center virtually. One such space, at the University of Missouri, has it set up so that the meeting (synchronous communication, MUDding) occurs in one window, the paper being discussed shows up in another, and a hypertext writing-center help sheet can show up in another. I think I won't pick at the rest of Mr Garelli's statements; my arguments and descriptions will have to stand on their own. Comments, anyone? Sharon Cogdill English Department, St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.A. scogdill@tigger.scloud.msus.edu http://condor.stcloud.msus.edu/~scogdill From: "Randall L. Jones" Subject: Walter & Sally Sedlow? Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:43:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 206 (206) I received a phone call from someone today who is trying to make contact with Walter and Sally Sedlow. I remember that they used to come regularly to meetings having to do with humanities and computing, but I have not seen them for a long time. If anyone knows anything about would they please send me a message? Thanks. Randall Jones From: BOES HENRIK L Subject: Religion and Internet Technology Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:43:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 207 (207) Greetings y'all! I am looking for information on courses, programs, texts (online and printed) dealing with the study of religion in the Internet age. I know there's quite a bit oiut there, but don't have time to do a lot of browsing/researching at the moment: I need the info for an ad hoc faculty meeting Tuesday. Any information you might have would be helpful, I'm sure. Thanks! Henrik Boes Dept. of Religious Studies University of Colorado at Boulder From: WILLARD MCCARTY Subject: prosopography? Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 18:53:14 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 208 (208) On behalf of colleagues here at King's I'd like to gather up news about any current (and computer-using) prosopography projects. Please send references and contact information to me. Thanks. Yours, WM From: Subject: CAAH Digest - 6 Dec 1996 to 7 Dec 1996 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 209 (209) [Forwarded from the CONSORTIUM OF ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS , Kelly Woestman , originally from James B. Schick _History Computer>Review_ (xpost H-Survey)] [deleted quotation]__________________________________ Pamela Cohen Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 phone: (908) 932-1384 / fax: (908) 932-1386 http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu pac@rci.rutgers.edu From: Subject: Prosopographical Projects Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 210 (210) In response to your posting about current prosopographical projects, let me mention a project that NEH funded in 1992, in case it is not in your list. Professor Ralph Mathisen of the History Department at the University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) received a grant to prepare a prosopographical database based upon the _Corpus Incriptionun Latinarum_. It covers some 12,000 individuals who lived in the Mediterranean world from 260 CE to 640 CE. Best wishes for the holidays. Helen Aguera National Endowment for the Humanities From: Subject: Re: 10.0504 dark side of humanities computing? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 211 (211) One of our correspondents wrote: [deleted quotation]Good. [...but in what sense? --WM] From: dennism@quasar.ispace.com (Dennis Merritt) Subject: Basque translators Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 11:26:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 212 (212) The Language Bank, Inc. is looking for qualified translators and interpreters to work with our company on a part time basis. Please forward this information to those interested in a part time money making oportunity. Thank You, Dennis Merritt - --- To learn more about The Language Bank, Inc. we cordially invite you to visit us at: http://www.language-bank.com/ !!! or call us toll-free at: 1-888-TLB-1444 From: Ellen Leenarts Subject: Re: 10.0509 Sedlows? religion & Internet? prosopography? Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:39:26 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 213 (213) There are many pages on Shia Islam, two pages to start with are: http://www-leland.staford.edu/~yusufali/islam/index.html http://www.icon-stl.net/~shia Greetings, Ellen Leenarts (Leenarts@Rullet.LeidenUniv.nl) Dept. of History Leiden University The Netherlands From: "Robert M. Fowler" Subject: Religion and Internet Technology Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:34:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 214 (214) The very best thing at the moment is the new Scholars Press book by Patrick Durusau, _High Places in Cyberspace: A Guide to Biblical and Religious Studies, Classics, and Archaeological Resources on the Internet_. The printed book will be kept up to date at the accompanying web site, <http://scholar.cc.emory.edu/scripts/highplaces.html>. *************************************************************** * Robert M. Fowler * * Professor and Chairperson, Department of Religion * * Baldwin-Wallace College, 275 Eastland Road, Berea, OH 44017 * * rfowler@baldwinw.edu http://www2.baldwinw.edu/~rfowler * * 216-826-2173 (office) 216-826-3264 (fax) * * NOTE NEW AREA CODE (440) EFFECTIVE JULY 1997 * *************************************************************** From: Subject: Project Gutenberg #750 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 215 (215) As has been the case for several years now, I try to publish something of particular interest on the anniversary of the death of my father. I have received permission to dedicate Project Gutenberg Etext #750 to Professory H. H. Hart, today, December 10, 1996 on the 7th anniversary of his death. He was instrumental in bringing Project Gutenberg to an even wider audience than I could have. Thanks Dad! The High History of the Holy Graal is for you. . . . Michael *** Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ### A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work. Dec 1996 The High History of the Holy Graal, Author Unknown[hhohgxxx.xxx] 750 Dec 1996 Barlaam and Ioasaph, by St. John of Damascus [bioasxxx.xxx] 749 Dec 1996 The Brother of Daphne, by Dornford Yates [bdaphxxx.xxx] 748 Dec 1996 Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, Gould/Pyle [aacomxxx.xxx] 747 Dec 1996 Burning Daylight, by Jack London [Jack London #5] [bdlitxxx.xxx] 746 Dec 1996 One Divided by Pi, To A Million Digits [math #17] [onepixxx.xxx] 745 Dec 1996 The Golden Mean, To A Million Digits [math #16] [gmeanxxx.xxx] 744 Dec 1996 Thoughts on Man, His Nature, etc, by Wm Godwin [tmnwgxxx.xxx] 743 Dec 1996 Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Brisbane [ehnabxxx.xxx] 742 Dec 1996 Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate THB#1] [thbrsxxx.xxx] 741 Dec 1996 John C. Calhoun's Remarks in the Senate[Calhoun1#][jccrsxxx.xxx] 740 Dec 1996 Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate [Clay #1][hcrhsxxx.xxx] 739 Dec 1996 The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot by Andrew Lang#5[pldlpxxx.xxx] 738 Dec 1996 The Bobbsey Twins at School, by Laura Lee Hope #2?[tbtasxxx.xxx] 737 From: Subject: Re: text analysis program Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 216 (216) [The following from DARWIN-L, recommending Perl for text-analysis applications, with a list of useful sources. --WM] I recommend that you use the Perl scripting language because of its "simplicity" in comparison with other languages. Accordingly, I have listed the essential sites and cites for you below: (1) Mac internet software http://www.msilink.com/~browning/index.html (2) MacPerl http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/~pvhp/perl/nixnix.html (3) Word counting program "Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (First Edition)" one of the few accessible books for newbies NOT brutally criticized by Perl (UNIX) gurus who (usually) love only the O'Reilly books on Perl (see http://www.perl.org/). In "Teach Yourself...", see "Day 5", page 160 "Splitting a Sting into a list" for a simple word counting program and see "Day 6", page 198 "Using Command-Line Arguments as Values" for a word search and counting program (for "counting by type"). Please note that the page numbers and "chapters" that I have given you are from the first edition; the second edition on Perl5 is currently being sold in book stores and may or may not have the same pagination. (4) Parts of speech program This is not simple (i.e., few will take the time to write this program for you) and you probably want to put your question to a more specialized list (where someone has already written it and will share it with you). For this you can write to: Subscription Address: almanac@ruby.oce.orst.edu - comp.lang.perl Submission Address: PERL-USERS@ruby.oce.orst.edu Dan Gold, Brain Link Inc., brainlink@huskynet.com ================ At 09:42 AM 12/10/96 -0500, witkowski wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Conference Announcement: please post Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 217 (217) ****************************** DRH97 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT ****************************** D R H '97 St Annes College Oxford 14-17 September 1997 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97 Bringing together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of Digital Resources in the Humanities. Mission: DRH97 aims to become a new forum for all those affected by the digitization of our common cultural heritage: the scholar producing or using an electronic edition; the teacher using digital media in the seminar room; the publisher finding new ways to reach new markets; the librarian, curator, art historian, or archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and scholarship. Format : The conference will take up three intensive days of academic papers, panel discussions, technical reports, and software demonstrations, held this year in a comfortable Oxford college. The atmosphere will, we hope, encourage a lot of energetic discussion, both formal and informal. Leading practitioners of the application of digital techniques and resources in the Humanities, from the worlds of scholarship, librarianship, and publishing will be there, exchanging expertise, experience, and opinions. Sponsors: The conference is sponsored by the British Library, the Office for Humanities Communication, the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities of Kings College London, the International Institute for Electronic Library Research of de Montfort University, the Library of University College London, and the Humanities Computing Unit of Oxford University. Timetable: Proposals are invited for academic papers, themed panel sessions and reports of work in progress. Extended abstracts (1500 to two thousand words) should be submitted by April 7th 1997. All proposals will be reviewed by an independent panel. Full versions (2 to 4 thousand words) of accepted papers will be required by July 7th 1997 for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Themes: creation of digital resources, textual, visual, and time-based; integration of digital resources as multimedia; policies and strategies for electronic delivery, both commercial and non-commercial; cataloguing and metadata aspects of resource discovery; pedagogic implications of digital resources and electronic delivery; encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding, cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms; digitization techniques and problems. Cost and accommodation: We hope to hold the conference fee at last year's level (225 pounds, covering lunches, dinners, and the whole academic programme). For accommodation, delegates can choose between ensuite rooms at 45 pounds/day or study/bedrooms with shared bathroom at 30 pounds/day for B & B. All accommodation is on campus in modern purpose-built blocks adjoining the quadrangle and within a few minutes walk of all conference facilities. The conference banquet will cost an additional 40 pounds. Further information: The conference web site at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97 will be regularly updated, and will include full details of the procedure for submitting proposals, the programme, and registration information. Bookmark it now! From: jr19 Subject: Proceedings: Biological Nomenclature in 21st Century Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:22:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 218 (218) [I pass the following along from the excellent DARWIN-L primarily because of the action taken by the Univ. of Maryland, described below. If anyone knows more about Maryland's new policy, I am sure Humanists would like to know as well. --WM] Proceedings of A Mini-Symposium on BIOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE IN THE 21st CENTURY http://www.life.umd.edu/bees/96sym.html Edited by James L. Reveal We are pleased to announce the above electronic publication. Introduction In the fall of 1995 the University of Maryland adopted a policy on electronic publications, treating them as equivalent to printed matter. This, coupled with the importance of the subject, combined to produce these Proceedings (http://www.life.umd.edu/bees/96sym.html) of a mini-symposium on biological nomenclature in the 21st century held at the University of Maryland on 4 November 1996 under the sponsorship of the BEES faculty and the College of Life Sciences (http://www.life.umd.edu/). With the assistance of seminar coordinators, Dr. Kenneth P. Sebens and Dr. Charles B. Fenster, I was permitted to invite Dr. Dan H. Nicolson, Dr. John McNeill, Dr. Richard K. Brummitt and Dr. Kevin de Queiroz to examine the importance of codes of scientific nomenclature in the 21st century. In September, abstracts of the four invited speakers were published electronically and requests were made for commentaries. Prompt publication was made possible by the timely submission of contributions from the four speakers and three individuals who sent commentaries. To the numerous biologists who took time to review each of the manuscripts rapidly, and each of the contributors who responded to the reviewer's remarks promptly - all done electronically - I am most grateful. This is particularly noteworthy because the usual payment for such labor, a copy of the final published work, is not the same in this case. The future of archieving electronic publications is uncertain. Therefore, individuals are encouraged to make hardcopies of each paper and place them in libraries for future reference. Furthermore, an electronic version is being archived by the University of Maryland, and others wishing to do so are herein granted permission. With the formal publication of the Proceedings, others wishing to present comments are urge to do so through TAXACOM. The effort has been a learning exercise. The product is not entirely satisfactory, but the task has been interesting and the technology is improving rapidly. The future of the electronic world, like nomenclature in the next century, will be intriguing even if it all seems uncertain. The included papers: *Introduction ---Opening Remarks by James L. Reveal ---Original Abstracts *Chapters ---Chapter 1. Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? by Dan H. Nicolson ---Chapter 2. The BioCode: Integrated biological nomenclature in the 21st century? by John McNeill ---Chapter 3. Quite Happy with the Present Code, Thank You by R. K. Brummitt ---Chapter 4. A Phylogenetic Approach to Biological Nomenclature as an Alternative to the Linnaean Systems in Current Use by Kevin de Queiroz *Chapter 5. Commentaries: -----Commentary 1. Biological Nomenclature by Piero Delprete -----Commentary 2. Biological Nomenclature by David Frodin -----Commentary 3. Two Codes in a Dual System? No Thanks by Gea Zijlstra ---Chapter 6. Solutions for Biological Nomenclature by James L. Reveal Papers presented here should be cited in the following manner: de Queiroz, K. 1996. "A phylogenetic approach to biological nomenclature as an alternative to the Linnean systems in current use." In: J.L. Reveal, ed. Proceedings of a mini- symposium on biological nomenclature in the 21st century. University of Maryland: www.life.umd.edu/bees/96sym.html. James L. Reveal Department of Plant Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-5815, U.S.A. 2 December 1996 jr19@umail.umd.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: an online lexicon of the humanities Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 08:29:20 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 219 (219) Humanists will likely appreciate knowing about a site attached to the homepage of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (www.sil.org), itself worthy of attention. This is "In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities", <http://www.sil.org/humanities/>, which at the moment contains material for Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, Linguistics, and something called Identity Politics. The aim is "to provide a way for scholars to cross over from one discipline to another in their studies". Contributions are solicited. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Omar Subject: Re: 10.0513 dark is good Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:41:29 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 220 (220) On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, WILLARD MCCARTY wrote: [deleted quotation] Not entirely off the subject, but close: For anyone who would like to see a great example of the interesting social phenomena that occur on (the more mature and society-based) MOOs, I highly recommend the essay "A Rape in Cyberspace" by Julian Dibbell. The essay is printed in _Flame_Wars:_the_Discourse_of_Cyberculture_ (Mark Dery, Ed. Duke UP) and discusses a socio-political revolution that occurred on a MOO the author frequented at the time. It's well written and enjoyable. In fact, I'd recommend the whole book. -john drummond http://falcon.jmu.edu/~drummojg/ 'on the thin side of evil and trying not to break through' --Toni Morrison From: Subject: HUMANIST 10.509 - Prosopography Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 221 (221) I know of a project on the prosopography of the priests in ancient Rome. A short report can be found in LLC 9 (1995) 4, pp. 320-323. They have also a web page (http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/klassphilol/srrind.htm). A further project, "Prosopographia Imperii Romani", is located at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (postal address: Jaegerstr. 22/23, D-10117 Berlin, phone: +4930-20370-256); project leader: Prof. Dr. Werner Eck; I had contact with Dr. Matthaeus Heil at the mentioned address. They planned at least to use computers; I am however not informed on the current state of computerization of their work. Best wishes, Wilhelm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott phone: +49-7071-2972933 Universitaet Tuebingen fax: +49-7071-295912 Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung e-mail: ott@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Brunnenstrasse 27 D-72074 Tuebingen From: Subject: Re: 10.0516 e-publishing: aspects and artefacts Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 222 (222) [deleted quotation] I wouldn't want to appear to quibble with trivial details in relation with the great significance of the publication itself or of how it demonstrates the growing acceptability of the medium for scolarship, but three points occur to me concerning the URL. 1) The access method ("http:") ought to be mentionned. 2) Since the URL is not delimited, the trailing full-stop (period) could be taken as belonging to it. 3) Because of this, the custom has grown of bracketting URLs with "greater-than" and "less-than" pointed brackets. This is so well established that my mail program identifies URLs in mail messages and lets me double-click on them to open up the site with Netscape. It isn't unique in allowing this, so do several others. So, I suggest that the recommended form of citation read: | de Queiroz, K. 1996. "A phylogenetic approach to biological | nomenclature as an alternative to the Linnean systems in | current use." In: J.L. Reveal, ed. Proceedings of a mini- | symposium on biological nomenclature in the 21st century. | University of Maryland: <http://www.life.umd.edu/bees/96sym.html>. Francois Crompton-Roberts From: Subject: Call For Papers: SIGIR '97 hapax8r8f2l8kj Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 223 (223) [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this.] CALL FOR PAPERS SIGIR '97 20th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval DoubleTree Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA July 27 -- July 31, 1997 In co-operation with: BCS-IRSG (UK), GI (Germany), IPSJ (Japan), (others pending) ABOUT THE CONFERENCE SIGIR '97 is the twentieth conference in the premier series of research conferences on information retrieval. SIGIR is the major forum for the presentation of new research results, and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques, in information retrieval. The conference attracts a broad range of professionals including theoreticians, developers, publishers, researchers, educators, and designers of systems, interfaces, information bases, and related applications. In 1997, SIGIR is collocated with DL '97, the Second ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, which will be held July 23-26, 1997 in Philadelphia. We anticipate substantial synergy between these two meetings. CALL FOR PAPERS SIGIR '97 seeks original contributions (i.e. never before published) in the broad field of information storage and retrieval, covering the handling of all types of information, people's behavior in information systems, and theories, models and implementations of information retrieval systems. We encourage discussions of experimental studies, tests of usability, explorations of information retrieval behavior, reports on the performance of large scale systems, and demonstrations of advanced approaches. We prefer theoretical contributions to have sufficient proof of utility to demonstrate their applicability to information retrieval problems. Similarly, reports on small scale experiments should include convincing arguments or simulations to show their likelihood of generalization. TOPICS Topics include, but are not limited to: --Information Retrieval Theory, e.g.: Statistical and Logical Retrieval Models, Data Fusion, Human-Centered Information Retrieval Systems. --User Interaction and Behavior, e.g.: Models of Information Seeking, Interface Design and Experiment, Visualization. --Multimedia Information Retrieval, e.g.: Audio, Video, and Image Retrieval, Links, Composite Documents. --Experimentation, e.g.: Test Collections, Evaluation Measures. --Natural Language Processing, e.g.: Multilingual Retrieval Systems, Summarization, Dialogue Management, Use of Linguistic Resources for Information Retrieval. --Systems and Implementation Issues, e.g.: Integration with Database Systems, Networked Systems and the Internet, Compression, Efficient Query Evaluation. --Applications, e.g.: Task-Embedded Information Retrieval, Electronic Publishing, Digital Libraries. INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS Submissions to SIGIR '97 may be completed papers, or can be proposals for posters, panels, demonstrations, tutorials, or workshops. With the exception of papers and posters, submissions may be made via e-mail (plain ASCII text). All submissions should include complete contact information including mail address, telephone, fax, and e-mail. PAPERS Papers (4 copies) should be submitted in English to the Program Co-Chair responsible for the geographic region of the first author, as indicated below. Papers should contain at most 5000 words. The first page must contain the title of the paper and an abstract of not more than 150 words, but no indication as to the author(s) or their affiliation(s). In addition, authors must provide a separate cover page 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 sent. Please 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 fulltime student at time of submission. There will also be a Best Non-Student Paper Award presented. TUTORIALS SIGIR '97 will begin with a full day of tutorials, each of which should cover a single topic in detail. Proposals are solicited for tutorials of either a half day (3 hours plus breaks) or full day (6 hours plus breaks). Submissions should be made to the Tutorials Chair and should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract. The cover sheet should specify (1) the length of the tutorial; (2) the intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced); (3) complete contact information for the contact person and other presenters; and (4) brief biographies (max. 2 paragraphs) of the presenters. The extended abstract should be 3 to 5 pages, and should include an outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the course objectives and course materials. PANELS Proposals for panel sessions should be sent to the Panels Chair by prospective moderators. Panels should address issues of interest to the general information retrieval community, and should be designed to stimulate lively debate between panelists and audience. Panel proposals (2-3 pages) must include: (1) complete contact information for the moderator; (2) the rationale for addressing this topic as a panel; (3) the names and affiliations of the panel members; and (4) a description of how the panel will be structured, with emphasis on how general participation will be encouraged. Abstracts of panel presentations will appear in the proceedings. DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations provide an opportunity for first-hand experience with information retrieval systems, whether advanced operational systems or research prototypes. Proposals (up to 3 pages) should be submitted to the Demonstrations Chair. The proposal should indicate how the demonstration will illustrate new ideas, and should describe the technical specifications of the system. The hardware, software, and network requirements for the demonstration, including the electrical requirements of the equipment, should be indicated. A list of demonstrations will be published in the proceedings. POSTERS SIGIR '97 poster presentations offer researchers an opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical format. Abstracts of posters will appear in the conference proceedings, and there will be a Best Poster Award. Three copies of an extended abstract (roughly 3-4 pages) should be submitted to the Posters Chair. The abstract should emphasize the research problem and the methods being used, and be headed only by the title of the poster. In addition, a separate cover page is required containing the title of the poster, along with the name and affiliation of the author(s), and complete contact information for the author to whom correspondence should be sent. WORKSHOPS Proposals are solicited from individuals and groups for one-day workshops to be held July 31, 1997. Submissions of up to 3 pages should be made to the {\bf Conference Chair}. They should include the theme and goal of the workshop, the planned activities, the maximum number of participants and the selection process, and a list of potential participants. Also include a CV for each organizer detailing relevant qualifications and experience. After the workshop, organizers are to provide an article summarizing the workshop for SIGIR Forum. IMPORTANT DATES IMMEDIATELY: Subscribe to SIGIR '97 mailing list by writing to sigir97@potomac.ncsl.nist.gov. Information on SIGIR '97 will periodically be sent to the mailing list as well as posted at http://www.acm.org/sigir/conferences/sigir97/index.html. January 10, 1997: Submission of PAPERS to the relevant Program Co-Chair. February 14, 1997: Submission of proposals for POSTERS, PANELS, DEMONSTRATIONS, TUTORIALS and WORKSHOPS to the relevant Chair. March 11, 1997: Notification to ALL authors. April 30, 1997: Final manuscripts for PAPERS, POSTERS and PANELS due in camera-ready and electronic forms. CONTACTS Conference Chair: Ellen Voorhees NIST Building 225 Room A-216 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA Email: ellen@potomac.ncsl.nist.gov Phone: +1 301 975-3761 Fax: +1 301 840-1357 Tutorials & Panels Chair: Susan Dumais Bellcore 445 South St. Room 1A-348B Morristown, NJ 07960 USA Email: std@bellcore.com Phone: +1 201 829-4253 Fax: +1 201 829-2645 Posters Chair: K. L. Kwok Computer Science Dept. Queens College CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY 11367 USA Email: kwok@post.cs.qc.edu Phone: +1 718 997-3482 Fax: +1 718 997-3513 Demonstrations Chair: Chris Buckley Sabir Research, Inc. 26 Triple Crown Ct. Gaithersburg, MD 20878 USA Email: chrisb@sabir.com Phone: +1 301 947-3740 Fax: +1 301 947-3684 Treasurer: Paul B. Kantor SCILS Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 USA Email: kantorp@cs.rutgers.edu Phone: +1 908 932-1359 Fax: +1 908 932-1504 Publicity Chair: David D. Lewis AT\&T Labs 600 Mountain Ave., 2A-410 Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 USA Email: lewis@research.att.com Phone: +1 908-582-3976 Fax: +1 908-582-7550 PROGRAM CHAIRS For North and South America: Nicholas J. Belkin SCILS Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 USA Email: belkin@scils.rutgers.edu Phone: +1 908 932-8585 Fax: +1 908 932-6916 For Europe and Africa: Peter Willett Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN United Kingdom Email: p.willett@sheffield.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 114-2825083 Fax: +44 (0) 114-2780300 For Asia and the Pacific: Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Institute of Systems Science National University of Singapore Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 0511 Republic of Singapore Email: desai@iss.nus.sg Phone: +65 7722002 Fax: + 65 7744990 PROGRAM COMMITTEE IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Phillips, The Netherlands Maristella Agosti, Univ. of Padua, Italy Micheline Beaulieu, City Univ., UK Peter Bruza, QUT, Australia Chris Buckley, Cornell Univ., USA Forbes Burkowski, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada James Callan, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA Raman Chandrasekar, NCST, India Yves Chiaramella, CLIPS-IMAG, France Hsinchun Chen, Univ. of Arizona, USA Mark Chignell, Univ. of Toronto, Canada Ken Church, AT\&T, USA W. Bruce Croft, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA Susan Dumais, Bellcore, USA Leo Egghe, Limburgs Univ. Centrum, Belgium David Ellis, Univ. of Sheffield, UK Jim French, Univ. of Virginia, USA Hans-Peter Frei, UBILAB, Switzerland Norbert Fuhr, Univ. Dortmund, Germany Gregory Grefenstette, Rank Xerox, France Donna Harman, NIST, USA David Harper, Robert Gordon Univ., UK Marti Hearst, Xerox, USA Bill Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences Univ., USA Haym Hirsh, Rutgers Univ., USA David Hull, Rank Xerox, France Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark Tetsuya Ishikawa, Univ. of Library and Info. Sci., Japan Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland Haruo Kimoto, NTT, Japan Judith Klavans, Columbia University ,USA Shmuel Klein, Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel Robert Korfhage, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA K. L. Kwok, Queens College, CUNY, USA Dik Lee, HKUST, Hong Kong Joon Ho Lee, KRDIC, Korea David Lewis, AT\&T, USA Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse Univ., USA Dario Lucarella, CRA-ENEL, Italy Kathy McKeowan, Columbia Univ., USA Elke Mittendorf, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland Alistair Moffat, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia Sung Hyun Myaeng, Chungnam National Univ., Korea Jan Pedersen, Verity, USA Annelise Pejtersen, National Laboratory, Denmark Keith van Rijsbergen, Glasgow University, UK Ellen Riloff, Univ. of Utah, USA Stephen Robertson, City Univ., UK Airi Salminen, Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers Univ., USA Peter Schauble, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland Fabrizio Sebastiani, IEI-CHR, Italy Alan Smeaton, Dublin City Univ., Ireland Phil Smith, Ohio State Univ., USA Craig Stanfill, Ab Initio, USA Ulrich Thiel, GMD IPSI, Germany Richard Tong, Sageware, USA Howard Turtle, West Info. Pub. Gp., USA Ross Wilkinson, RMIT, Australia Mei-Mei Wu, National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taiwan Emannuel Yannakoudakis, Athens Univ. of Economics, Greece From: Subject: holiday book donation? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 224 (224) The following message was forwarded to me. I am not certain whether it is genuine or a hoax. I sent a message, but received no response. Perhaps a fellow humanist could confirm or deny its validity? If it is true it is certainly a worthwhile endeavor. [deleted quotation]__________________________________ Pamela Cohen Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 phone: (908) 932-1384 / fax: (908) 932-1386 http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu pac@rci.rutgers.edu __________________________________ From: schubert@fhf-tue.com (Klaus Schubert) Subject: job announcement Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 09:49:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 225 (225) Die Fachhochschule Flensburg stellt, zeitlich befristet vom 1.2.1997 bis 31.7.1998 (Beschaeftigungsfoerderungsgesetz), eine LEHRKRAFT FUER BESONDERE AUFGABEN fuer den Studiengang Technikuebersetzen zur Unterstuetzung des wiedergewaehlten Prorektors im Bereich der Lehre ein. Die Lehrgebiete umfassen Sprachkompetenz Englisch, Landeskunde, Technisches Uebersetzen (Deutsch-Englisch), Uebersetzungslehre. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich ausschliesslich an englische Muttersprachler/innen mit wissenschaftlichem Abschluss in einem sprachwissenschaftlichen Fach. Verguetung: BAT II a. Schwerbehinderte Bewerberinnen und Bewerber werden bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt beruecksichtigt. Die Fachhochschule Flensburg ist bestrebt, den Anteil von Wissenschaftlerinnen in Forschung Lehre zu erhoehen und fordert deshalb entsprechend qualifizierte Frauen ausdruecklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Bewerbungen mit den ueblichen Unterlagen werden bis zum 9. Januar 1997 (Eingang) erbeten an den: Kanzler der Fachhochschule Flensburg, Kanzleistr. 91-93, D-24943 Flensburg, Deutschland Klaus Schubert schubert@fhf-tue.com Studiengang Technikuebersetzen Fachhochschule Flensburg Am Bundesbahnhof 1 Tel +49 (461) 144 97-12 D-24937 Flensburg Fax +49 (461) 2 11 25 Deutschland/Germanio/Tyskland/Duitsland/Germany From: Subject: Re: 10.0518 prosopography Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 226 (226) There is a major project going on at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC, which is constructing a database of, among other things, prosopographical material from Byzantine sources. I saw a demonstration of it recently: it combines full, accessible texts of the sources (mostly hagiographical) with a search engine for names, places, themes and lots else. It is already available for purchase for the pilot period (10th-11th centuries?) and will continue to be expanded chronologically. I don't have contact information right in front of me but can supply it if asked. I think the project deserves being included in any list of current prosopographical research projects. Larry Poos Department of History Catholic University POOS@CUA.EDU From: Willard McCarty Subject: bibliography of MUD; AltaVista in Europe Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:04:52 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 227 (227) Apropos the recent discussion of MUDs and the like, I have stumbled upon an online bibliography: Daniel Pargman, "The MUD literature reference list", at <http://miamimoo.mcs.muohio.edu/mudlit.html>. Unfortunately it appears to have last been modified on 16 Apr 1995. More recent information would be welcome, I am sure. Humanists in Europe may also like to try out the new Swedish mirror of AltaVista, at <http://www.altavista.telia.com>. You get to choose the language in which the engine speaks back to you. WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: Danilo Curci Subject: Re: 10.0507 new in American Verse Project Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:21:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 228 (228) Thank you. I and my friend Terenzio Formenti, a poet, are collecting sites and... poems on http://www.aspide.it/freeweb/librarsi/ in italian but also in several other languages. Danilo (Italy) At 14.12 11/12/96 EST, you wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Editing conference Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 229 (229) [Cross-posted from Ficino, with thanks. --WM] Can I just remind anyone interested in participating in the 'Future(s) of Editing' session at the ESSE 4 conference in Debrecen, Hungary in September that the closing date for receipt of abstracts in 31 January 1997. Proposals should relate to any issues in contemporary editorial thinking (eg, the sociology of texts; revisionism; the electronic text; editing and poststructuralism; gender and editing) and can treat of texts from any period. Proposals should be sent to the address indicated below. Please feel free to contact me if you require further details or have any queries. Dr. Andrew Murphy English Department University of Hertfordshire Watford Campus Aldenham Watford Herts AL1 3BD UK Email: litradm@herts.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 1727 864117 From: Subject: Re: 10.0525 job at Flensburg Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 230 (230) I maintain the Related Readings page, which contains a section called "Job Opporunities," for the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at UVA. I would love to post Jeff Allen's recent job anouncement [10.0525 job at Flensburg] in this section, but I do not speak or read German. Could Mr. Allen please briefly describe the job in question, so that I may categorize it correctly? Thanks, Jennifer Hoyt From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: electronic dissertations news and updates -- for Humanist Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 17:08:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 231 (231) If you haven't been by the electronic theses and dissertations site lately, you might want to take a look; there have been a number of recent additions to the ETD projects directory, and I have also just added a link to the ETD submission guidelines which UMI has recently released. In addition, I have placed on-line a draft of a paper entitled "Electronic Publishing and Doctoral Dissertations in the Humanities," which I will be presenting at the upcoming MLA. Commentary would be most appreciated. All of this is at: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ETD/ETD.html (The essay and the link to UMI are off of the "about ETDs" section.) --Matt ==================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k Electronic Text Center From: Stefania Spina Subject: New web page on italian linguistics Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 14:22:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 232 (232) [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this.] I'm pleased to announce a new Web Page concerning italian linguistics, whose name is Linguaggio e Comunicazione. You can visit it at the URL http://www.umbrars.com/lingua Its main resource is my HTML version of 1872-73 linguistics unpublished lessons of italian linguist Giovanni Flechia (1811-1892). I've been working on the original manuscript (226 pages written by a student of the University of Torino) since 1992 (I first converted it in electronic format, then I decided to put it on the Internet and offer it to all the interested linguists). The subject of these lessons (in italian) deals with latin and italian morphology, with many digressions on italian dialects. The linguistic relevance of the text is great, because Flechia was probably, in those years well known as fundamental for the birth of italian language science, the only linguist who can be "compared" to G.I. Ascoli, the father of italian linguistics. My pages are (for the moment) only in italian and contain also: a) a small archive on language-concerning articles published by italian newspapers; b) information and data on my paper about the feminine names of job in italian literature. Any comments and suggestions are welcomed. ----------------------------- Stefania Spina Perugia - Italy sspina@mbox.vol.it http://www.umbrars.com/lingua From: H-TEACH Subject: suspicious minds, or to catch a thief Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 21:45:56 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 233 (233) A post-script to yesterday's message about plagiarism from the schoolsucks.com website: The student who handed in a paper straight off of schoolsucks handed in a paper to my graduate student's class that seemed suspicious. The paper wasn't listed on schoolsucks, so I took an unusual phrase from the paper ("predetermined preference") and entered it on Alta Vista's search engine. The search took about 10 seconds. Out of 8 million web documents containing 16 billion words catalogued by Alta Vista, that phrase showed up on 2 documents. One of the two was an alternative site for term papers, and contained the precise paper this student had handed in. So, if you come across any suspicious papers as the semester runs down, you may want to pay a visit to http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/alta-vista.html One hint for search engine newbies: A search on "predetermined preference" with the quotation marks in Alta Vista brings up just two sites, both of which have that exact phrase. A search on predetermined preference without the quotation marks brings up 60,000 sites, which includes all sites that have either phrase. Sincerely, Jeffrey Segal Department of Political Science SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-4392 (516) 632-7662 fax: (516) 632-9023 From: mkreid@PLANET.EON.NET (Mary-Karen Reid) Subject: Re: 10.0522 holiday book donation? Date: 96-12-14 23:27:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 234 (234) Reply-to: mkreid@PLANET.EON.NET (Mary-Karen Reid) To: SOCWORK@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU (Multiple recipients of list SOCWORK) More on the books for hospitals message I forwarded earlier - the following just received. m-k [deleted quotation] From: Emily Rose Subject: Re: A Mitzvah (fwd) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:14:34 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 235 (235) This is the response I received from my brother about the Houghton Mifflin contribution (which I duly forwarded to him).... Lessee...I have, as of last count, received 37 copies of that message from well-meaning friends, relatives and employees. While the spirit behind it was noble, in practice the people at Hougton Mifflin ought to be taken out and shot. I sent them a lengthy note berating them for this stupid stunt last week, after about the 17th copy I received. Meanwhile, don't bother sending them any mail. Their target was was 50,000 notes (that relate to their Polar Express web site, not that you would realize that from the netspam that is circulating) by December 31st, and they have long since surpassed that number (by starting a chain that will never die, rather like the send-a-card-to-Craig-Shergold UL). But Happy Holidays anyway. [sigh] -David [Grinch] Rose At 01:18 PM 12/13/96 -0500, Emily Rose wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: NINCH Announce: Paul Peters' Radio Symposium Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 236 (236) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT Tuesday Dec 17 BROADCAST OF RECORDING OF SYMPOSIUM WITH PAUL EVAN PETERS [deleted quotation] From: PMC Subject: PMC call for peers Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:23:34 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 237 (237) PMC: Essays Currently Available for Peer Review Self-nominated peer-reviewers regularly participate in the editorial process of _Postmodern Culture_. All submissions distributed for review have been screened by the editors and will receive two other readings from members of the journal's permanent editorial board; _Postmodern Culture_ preserves the anonymity of both authors and reviewers in this process, but the comments of reviewers will be forwarded to the author. If you would like to review one of the submissions described below, and if you think you can complete that review within two weeks of receiving the essay, please send a note to the editors at pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu outlining your qualifications as a reviewer of the work in question (experience in the subject area, publications, interest), identifying the MS by number as listed below, and specifying the manner in which you would like to receive the essay (electronic mail or World-Wide Web). We will select one self-nominated reviewer for each of the works listed below, and we will notify reviewers within two weeks. Information gathered during this process about potential reviewers will be kept on file at PMC for future reference, and may be made available for online searching by PMC subscribers seeking expertise in a particular field. Please note: members of the journal's permanent editorial board should not nominate themselves in response to this call. Manuscripts for review: MS#1: An examination of a Salman Rushdie's short book on the film version of _The Wizard of Oz_, published in 1992 as part of the British Film Institute's Film Classics series. Rushdie's concluding note about the film offers an intriguing re-interpretation of the famous line, "there's no place like home," and the author takes this point as an opening to an intersection of pschoanalysis, marxism, and postcolonial studies. References include Freud and Langley. MS#2: A look at Lenny Bruce's 1962 obscenity trial, and at Bruce's role as a Jewish entertainer and lightning rod mediating San Francisco's civic structure, countercultures, and entertainment substratum. The author also looks at issues of censorship, which are equally relevant in the modern's struggle over cultural expression. References include Gates, Fischer, and Crenshaw. MS #3: This essay examines the intense yet distant humanity in Sylvia Plath's poems, using Emmanual Levinas's metaethical emphasis on the _affect_ of the other to consider the "pathos of aethetics." The author proposes that Plath's poetry provokes feeling and empathy, but not compassion or sympathy. References include Young, Rose, and Ramazani. MS #4: An examination of the relationship of truth and media, and the importance of an exterior-centered language: lies are easily pointed out but truth is identified by its absence rather than by its presence. This identification, moreover, is done by the power that controls discourse. But, the author feels, the power that tries to control this discourse between truth and lie, life and death, transforms a democracy into dictatorship. References include Couillard, Rorty, and Vattimo. MS #5: An examination of the "logic in the secret" of Deleuze-Guattari's theory of literary forms, particularly in _A Thousand Plateaux_ where the concept of the secret is placed in the classification of the tale and the novella. This is illustrated in analyses of Maupassant and Duras. References include Levinas, Hegel, and Foucault. MS #6: An essay looking at %Geschlecht% in Derrida's readings of Heidegger, in "%Geschlecht% II: Heidegger's Hand" and in his other discussions of Heidegger. The author looks at the import of the "frighteningly polysemic and practically untranslatable word" in these works and in the works in the "yet-to-come." References include Krell, McNeill, and Ulmer. MS #7: A look at interactive multilinear narrative and the possiblities for authorial collaboration in internet texts and internet textuality. It considers the problems of maintaining both coherence and the identity of a text as text on the interactive internet. References include Lyotard, Simon, and Keep. MS #8: A look at a 1966 Derrida comment on Einstein ("The Einsteinian constant is not a constant, not a center...") and its role in the recent "Science Wars." The author argues that this recent prominence reveals a deeper cluster of problems in the relationship between postmodernism and science, and seeks to examine the context of the remark and find a path for a more constructive scientific response to Derrida's work. MS #9: This essay looks at Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_, and tensions between high unities and low popular genres on the novel, and the resulting centralized and marginialized discourses. References include Bahktin, Jameson, Stallybrass, and White. MS #10: A hypertext essay on social media and self-exchange. MS #11: A essay looking at the list, which straddles the coherent and the incoherent and which groups together elements which may or may not predict the future but whose existence predicts the present. Lists also use the concept of exchange, which works across boundaries that must both limit and separate. The list is a familiar rhetorical device of postmodern writing. The author follows this path to look at postmodernism in terms of the external and internal limits of conceptualism amd to discuss the act of and concept of exchange. References include Vattimo, Marx, and Saussure, From: jager@let.rug.nl Subject: 2nd CFP - Language Teaching and Language Technology Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:25:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 238 (238) Language Teaching and Language Technology 28-29 April 1997 University of Groningen The Netherlands Second call for papers The prospects for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) today are better than ever before. This is undoubtedly due to the broader range of tasks computers can now be put to, but also to the recent success of applying language technological research (e.g. in morphological and syntactic parsing and generation, speech recognition and synthesis, semantic classification, and corpus linguistics) to practical tasks in language learning and teaching. At the same time, the new technology calls into question traditional didactic insights, asking for new learning and teaching strategies. We hope that the conference may provide answers to some of the following questions: 1.How can language technology (speech recognition/synthesis, morphological and syntactic parsing/generation, semantic classification) be further harnessed in support of language learning? 2.How may results of corpus linguistics be incorporated into CALL? 3.How good is CALL compared to language learning without benefit of computer assistance? Can one measure improvements, and do these involve speed, proficiency or enthusiasm of CALL students? 4.Are the different subfields of language instruction differently amenable to computer assistance--viz., reading, writing, speaking, listening, testing, translation? 5.What is the role in CALL for traditional support tools such as (analog) language labs, paper dictionaries, or hand-held grammars? 6.What are the pedagogical consequences of exploiting this technology? Are there mixed and/or partial options? 7.Is computer-assisted learning always computer-assisted instruction? Isn't virtually all language-learning done under instruction? 8.What are the results of large-scale use of CALL in language education programs? When can it be effective? 9.What are the opportunities for long-distance learning? 10.What and where is the market for CALL products? How does one reach it? Although we solicit papers on all aspects of CALL, we are particularly interested in the question of matching language technology to educational needs. The perspective of the program committee comes from language teaching and language technology. Invited Speakers: -Frank Borchardt, Executive Director, CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium). On Current Didactic Issues in CALL -Stephen Heppell, ULTRALAB/Anglia Polytechnic University, Essex. On Educational Policy and CALL -Lauri Karttunnen, Rank Xerox, Grenoble. On the Technological Horizon. -Joke van der Ven, Wolters-Noordhoff Publishers. On the Publisher's Perspective. Abstracts We solicit papers of 20 min (plus 10 min discussion). Abstracts of not more than 8 pp. (A4) including figures and references should be marked "Attention: CALL Conf." and submitted by Jan 15, 1997 to: Arthur van Essen, Applied Linguistics 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: CALL Conf" in the subject line and send to call-conf@let.rug.nl. Software demonstrations are also invited. Programme committee: -Paul Bogaards (Computer-Assisted Instruction, Leiden) -Arthur van Essen (Applied Linguistics, Groningen, co-chair) -Erhard Hinrichs (Computational Linguistics, Tuebingen) -Sake Jager, (English & Computer Assisted Instruction, Groningen, co-chair) -Franciska de Jong (Linguistics, Utrecht & Computer Science, Twente) -Tibor Kiss (IBM, Heidelberg) John Nerbonne (Computational Linguistics, Groningen, co-chair) For further details and registration information, please visit the conference site at http://www.let.rug.nl/~call97 or send an e-mail message to call-conf@let.rug.nl. From: Subject: Re: 10.523 citations in e-publications Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 239 (239) One more point on citations to add to what Francois Crompton-Roberts said: given the ephemeral quality of many URLs, I have seen many citations that give the exact date of download as well. Pat Galloway MS Dept. of Archives and History From: Deian Hopkin Subject: Fawcett Library Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:37:35 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 240 (240) FAWCETT LIBRARY APPEAL Just as an interim "thank you", I thought I ought to tell you that the response to the message you put out on my behalf on Humanist has elicited the most astonishing response. I have received, to date, 126 messages from all over the world, from Budapest to Adelaide, Oslo to Tokyo. Many of the messages are fullsome, which all goes to prove that everything we believed about the reputation and role of the Fawcett in the international scholarly community is borne out. It is immensely gratifying that so many people have taken time to write. But even the simple lines of support show that people really are supporting this venture, and this helps us enormously. Beyond this, the message has been passed on to other bulletin boards and this is now cascading a new wave of messages. So, coincidentally, we have demonstrated something of the proselytising power of the internet. A nice of piece of empirical evidence for the piece I am sure one of us will write about new paradigms for scholarly exchange ! A simple diagramatic representation of the networks through which this particular message travelled would be fascinating. Still, another time.... I propose to issue a bulletin from time to time,informing our friends of progress on the venture. In the meantime, may I thank you for your help With very best wishes for Christmas Deian ********************************* Deian Hopkin Vice Provost London Guildhall University hopkin@lgu.ac.uk 0171 320 1129 From: "Paul [not Brian] Brians" Subject: Houghton Mifflin campaign over Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:15:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 241 (241) [deleted quotation] **MISSION ACCOMPLISHED** With Your Help The Campaign has Reached its Goal Over 2,000 Hospitalized Children Receive Books! Thanks to you, the Internet community, we have reached our goal of 50,000 messages and HMI is currently distributing 2,000 books to hospitalized children who can't be home for the holidays. In recognition of the amazing and voluminous show of support from people all over the world, Houghton Mifflin plans to donate an additional 500 books to these children. During the campaign, we encouraged people to share messages of favorite holiday thoughts and memories with the internet community. Now that we have reached our goal, we still welcome you to post messages here by clicking the button above. However we are no longer accepting email messages at "share@hmco.com". Many thanks to all who have participated. We appreciate your support. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians From: "[ISO-8859-1] Kivim=E4ki Arto J" Subject: Advent Calendar in Latin Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 03:28:36 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 242 (242) Dies natalis Christi advenit. Quid agitur in fabrica Patris Natalis? What happens in the house of Father Christmas? Vide: http://www.yle.fi/ylenykko/natalis/index.html Arto -- LABOR FATIGAT -- Arto Kivim{ki Pitknsillanranta 7-9 b 72 00530 Helsinki Finland tel. (90) 766 350 From: James O'Donnell Subject: help with Xmas cards Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:22:27 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 243 (243) A glitch in a systems upgrade -- I let somebody else upgrade my machine and I'll never do that again -- lost my "address" directory, so Christmas cards looked pretty intimidating, until I remembered Yahoo's People Search: =09http://www.yahoo.com/search/people/ I had about twenty addresses I couldn't get any other way, and I got 19 of them from Yahoo. The one exception was the man with a *really* common first-name/last-name combination and all I remember is that he lives in a north shore Chicago suburb: about 20 people match that description, so I had to work at it by calling his office. Otherwise, it's amazingly effective and quick. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Sara Vandenberg Subject: Re: 10.0527 e-diss; Italian linguistics; plagarism Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:22:03 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 244 (244) I just checked the Shakespeare papers included on the "schoolsucks.com" list. No one I know in any university, college, or high school would give any of those papers a passing grade. Sara van den Berg University of Washington From: shlomo Subject: Windows Fonts for transliterated Hebrew Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 12:23:29 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 245 (245) Hi there! I am trying to find Windows fonts for transliterating Hebrew and other Semitic languages. Specifically, I am looking for fonts with underdotted h, z, and macrons over vowels. If you know where I could obtain such fonts, please let me know. Thank you very much for your consideration. Shlomo Sela Computer Center, Bar Ilan University. Ramat Gan, Israel From: "Jerome V. Brown" Subject: Identification of a Poem for a Former Student. Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:16:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 246 (246) Can anyone help me with this poem? The request for the author and a source for the complete text came to me a couple of months ago from a student I taught here at the University of Windsor some 30 years ago. She wrote me not because I taught her English (my field is philosophy), but because I'm still alive and still here. So far I've drawn a blank. I gather she's had some kind of difficulty in her life and is trying to pick up the pieces and get them back together, though she didn't go into much detail on that. She seemed to think that the poem was important for her recovery. "The verse of the poem which I remember," she writes, "is, You will be what you will be, Let failure find its false content With that poor work environment, But spirit scorns it, and is free." "And a subsequent verse," she continues, "goes something like, It masters Time, it conquers space, And cows that boastful Trickster, chance, ...be not impatient with delay, but wait as one who understands - When Spirit rises and commands, The gods are willing to obey." I've copied it exacly as she sent it to me. Any help will be appreciated. Jerry Brown From: Subject: Re: Prosopography Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 247 (247) Dear Willard McCarty last Saturday I was at a meeting where Anna Carolina Strasky presented her prosopographical database of all students of the Basle "Predigerschule" (1875-1915). For more informations, you can write to: Anna Carolina Strasky, lic. phil., Nonnenweg 66, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland. Best regards, Rainer Henrich 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 Switzerland http://www.unizh.ch/irg/henrich.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: Sokal's hoax Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:27:50 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 248 (248) Northrop Frye used to say, noting its lack in literary studies, that an academic field could properly be called a discipline if a coherent theory could be constructed for it. I have argued that if humanities computing has such a theory, it must be based on the idea of modeling, which is to say, the question of how we know what we know as this may be illuminated by computational methods of investigating humanities data. The difference between evidence and what we know when we think about that evidence cannot wholly or even principally be attributed to an insufficient amount of data, or to insufficiently sophisticated algorithms, as can be shown when one looks closely at a properly delimited study. There is always a gap, I would argue, between mechanical precision, no matter how fine, and the imaginative precision of language (to take just one of the natural media we have). At base this is not a particularly new argument, though its application to humanities data may be. If, then, we are defined by the discrepancy between evidence and knowledge, the ontological status of evidence is an important matter. It seems to me that as computing humanists we need to posit that objectively true conclusions about the artefacts we study are possible while at the same time realising that a computational model of them will by nature always be defective. If I am not mistaken, the postmodern argument works fundamentally against the idea that such objectively true conclusions are possible. Humanists may, therefore, be particularly interested in a piece by Paul Boghossian (Philosophy, New York Univ), "What the Sokal hoax ought to teach us", in the latest Times Literary Supplement, No. 4889 (13 December 1996), pp. 14-15. Boghossian's article is in reference to a deliberate hoax staged by Alan Sokal, a theoretical physicist at New York University. Sokal simultaneously published a bogus article about the postmodern implications of 20th-century physical theories in the premier journal Social Text and in Lingua Franca an expose of this article, a "farrago of deliberate solecisms, howlers, and non-sequiturs, sitched together so as to look good and to flatter the ideological preconceptions of the editors" of ST. Boghossian argues that at the heart of the issue raised by Sokal's hoax is "not the mere existence of incompetence within the academy, but rather that specific form of it that arises from allowing ideological criteria to displace standards of scholarship so completely that not even considerations of intelligibility are seen as relevant to an argument's acceptability." What Boghossian sees as "simple-minded relativistic views about truth and evidence that are commonly identified as 'postmodernist'" lead, he argues, to a state of mind, exemplified by the editors of ST, for which scholarly standards become irrelevant, and thus deliberate nonsense acceptable. The basic texts are on the Web. See 1. "Sokal and Social Text", <http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jwalsh/sokal/> 2. "The Sokal Affair", <http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/stt/stt/sokal.htm> 3. The online publication, Upstream, at <http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/>, "a home for the intellectually heterodox, the politically incorrect and other independent thinkers"; use the Search mechanism to find the items on "Sokal". Comments? WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: Francois Lachance Subject: possible def'n of hum.being Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:09:19 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 249 (249) Willard, As usual, your editorial asides often provoke some reflection. To be human & humane is to listen to the tale of extenuating circumstances. But a machine can select from a stock of tales... Austin somewhere has a paper on excuses where there is distinction between "accident" and "mistake". Would be interesting to apply to computer-human interaction... -- Francois From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Subject: Re: 10.0537 fonts for Hebrew? identify a poem? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:43:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 250 (250) Instead of looking for a special font for hebrew transliteration I suggest choosing a typesetting system which can apply arbitrary accents to any base letter. Of course, I have TeX in mind here, which is freely available for almost every operating system you can imagine. You can ask questions about TeX in the newsgroup comp.text.tex or in the mailing lists info-tex@shsu.edu (to subscribe: send mail to LISTSERV@SHSU.EDU containing the one line subscribe info-tex "Your full name" and ivritex@taunivm.bitnet (subscription to LISTSERV@TAUNIVM.BITNET) Yours, J"org Knappen. From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0537 fonts for Hebrew? identify a poem? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:24:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 251 (251) Corel wordperfect for system 7 has several hebrew fonts. In fact Corel system 7 has a number of fonts packaged with it. I would check some of the shareware collections on the web. I know that Simtel has hebrew fonts but that is for Dos. From: "Gregory L. Glover" Subject: Re: 10.0537 fonts for Hebrew Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:02:38 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 252 (252) There is a series of free fonts (Hebrew and transliteration) for Windows available via ftp from Scholars Press: ftp://scholar.cc.emory.edu/pub/fonts/windows/ --Greg From: Roger Brisson Subject: Sokal's hoax Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:56:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 253 (253) For Humanist: Willard, unless I misunderstand you, I'm not sure who, except the strongest critics of postmodernism, would accept your contention that postmodernists would deny that such objective truths as you mention are possible. Like that other mud-slinging epithet 'liberalism,' critics have dumped just about every intellectual evil imaginable on postmodernism, so that, just like Zelig in that classic Woody Allen film, postmodernism can take on a bewildering variety of forms. The computational model you postulate-- that data, artefacts, or conclusions we come up with can be assessed based on criteria (the model) that we ourselves devise-- is a simple construct of 'objectivity' that even the slave in Plato's Meno would have little problem accepting as valid. In truth, Sokal's hoax ought to teach us that all is not well in the world of scholarly communication. Clearly, what failed and failed miserably with the Sokal article is critical peer and editorial review. Anyone who has read his article, anyone reasonably grounded in the humanities and the social sciences, should have little problem recognizing the humorously silly intent of much of what he writes. In our assembly line, crank-those-articles-out mentality to contemporary scholarship, the standards of good journal editing and review have fallen to dangerous levels. I don't know what kind of critical review submitted manuscripts receive for the journal that published the Sokal article, but it is evident the reviewers did not carefully read the Sokal text. Because of the lack of time to carefully read submitted manuscripts, editors-in-chief typically rely heavily on the reputations of authors in assessing the quality of a work. In reality, a significant amount of trust forms the basis for keeping the edifice of contemporary scholarly publishing erect. In my opinion, it was Sokal's breach of this trust that should deserve much more public scrutiny than it has received, certainly more than his belittling postmodernism (again, I would argue that current fashion is the reason for this). Sokal's essay was published in great part because of his reputation. I'm convinced that if, say, a Carl Sagan published a carefully written 'hoax' essay for an astronomy or physics journal, filled with bogus conclusions and questionable data, the potential for it 'slipping' through and being published would be very high. Unlike Sokal, however, if Sagan were to do this astronomy or physics would not be taken to task, but rather Sagan's academic integrity. Roger Brisson Penn State University From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 10.0533 Sokal's hoax & human beings Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:35:44 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 254 (254) Well there are two sides to every story, and while I haven't seen the Boghossian piece, these brief quotations from Willard: [deleted quotation] and [deleted quotation] basically restate Sokal's own position and polemic. The best thing I've read on the whole mess is Joe Amato's "sokal text: another funny thing happened on the way to the forum" in the _electronic book review_, which argues that the exchange between Sokal and the editors of _Social Text_ should have been on-line from the outset (as was much of its fallout). I'd add though that the "effectiveness" of Sokal's actions depended precisely on the publishing conventions associated with the material properties of print media. Amato's article is at: http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr3/amsokal.html --Matt ================================================================= Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center From: Bornstein Subject: Re: 10.0533 Sokal's hoax & human beings Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:00:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 255 (255) Hi, Willard I agree that the Sokal Affair raises interesting questions for all humanists, and perhaps especially so for those of us interested in computing in the humanities. You and the list members might want to know that Sokal maintains his own website, with the original articles and lots of related info. Here's the address: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/physics/faculty/sokal/index.html Best wishes to all for the holidays. --George ********************************************************************* George Bornstein Department of English C.A. Patrides Professor of Literature University of Michigan email: georgeb@umich.edu Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109-1045 office phone: (313) 764-6330 office fax: (313) 763-3128 From: Subject: Re: 10.0537 fonts for Hebrew? identify a poem? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 256 (256) WILL. (by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler) 1 You will be what you will to be; 2 Let failure find its false content 3 In that poor word "environment," 4 But spirit scorns it, and is free. 5 It masters time, it conquers space, 6 It cowes that boastful trickster Chance, 7 And bids the tyrant Circumstance 8 Uncrown and fill a servant's place. 9 The human Will, that force unseen, 10 The offspring of a deathless Soul, 11 Can hew the way to any goal, 12 Though walls of granite intervene. 13 Be not impatient in delay, 14 But wait as one who understands; 15 When spirit rises and commands, 16 The gods are ready to obey. 17 The river seeking for the sea 18 Confronts the dam and precipice, 19 Yet knows it cannot fail or miss; 20 You will be what you will to be! Courtesy of Chadwyck-Healey's Literature Online service From: DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu Subject: Internet Latin course (fwd) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 257 (257) NOTICE! The departament of classics (Federal University of Parana, Brazil) and the departament of Sciences of Antiquity (Zaragoza University, Spain), have organizated an introductive course of latin via internet. The course starts the 9th jannuary 1996. Subscribtions are opened to 1st jannuary. Informations about this course: http://www.humanas.ufpr.br/delin/classic/latim/esp/interlat.htm clssics home-page: http://www.humanas.ufpr.br/delin/classic/classic.htm alessandro@coruja.humanas.ufpr.br pilar@coruja.humanas.ufpr.br (to 18/12/96) pilar.rivero@msf.unizar.es (from 20/12/96) Please, help us to distrubute this notice. Thanks. M. Pilar Rivero pilar@coruja.humanas.ufpr.br pilar.rivero@msf.unizar.es From: David Green Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: 2 WIPO Treaties Pass Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 258 (258) Today in Geneva two of the three WIPO treaties were approved. The database treaty (No. 3) failed, but the treaties on Internet Copyright (Treaty No. 1, for "the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works") and the so-called the "new instrument" for the "Protection of The Rights of Performers And Producers of Phonograms" (Treaty 2) were passed. The treaties were changed from the August 30, 1996 drafts which had been published on the Internet. We haven't had the opportunity to see the new language yet, but reportedly there have been a few concessions to the treaty critics. I have been told that the controversial Article 7 of Treaty No. 1, which concerns the "Right of Reproduction," was dropped at the last minute. This was the Article which deals with "direct and indirect reproduction of their works, whether permanent or temporary, in any manner or form." If this is true, this is a significant victory for the critics of the treaty. In general, we are gratified that the database treaty was rejected -- in our judgment this was the worst of the three treaties, by far. We are also deeply disappointed that Treaties 1 and 2 were approved. These both involved matters of first impression, and should not have been legislated by government employees at a meeting of a United Nations Agency before any national legislature (including our own) had addressed the most important and controversial issues. The Librarian of Congress and many others have expressed similar views. The WIPO meetings are further evidence that in a wide range of important areas, the relevant legislative body is often an International body, like WIPO or the World Trade Organization (WTO), and it is increasingly important for citizens to think AND act globally. Much of the commentary about the WIPO proceedings is available from the Union for the Public Domain (UPD) web page at http://www.public-domain.org CPT held a press conference in Geneva, and the briefing document for that press conferenc is at: http://www.public-domain.org/copyright/briefing.html CPT also joined with several groups to send an open letter to the WIPO delegates, which is at: http://www.public-domain.org/copyright/signon.html More later. jamie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Love / love@tap.org / P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 Voice: 202/387-8030; Fax 202/234-5176 Center for Study of Responsive Law Consumer Project on Technology; http://www.essential.org/cpt Taxpayer Assets Project; http://www.tap.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Willard McCarty Subject: OPSIS: interdisciplinary conference on perception Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 10:50:07 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 259 (259) The following, from the Classical Association of Canada Bulletin, should be of interest to some Humanists: b) OPSIS: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference April 4-6, 1997 Department of Classics, SUNY at Buffalo Under the theme OPSIS, the graduate students at the State University of New York at Buffalo are planning an interdisciplinary conference dealing with issues of PERCEPTION. Papers are encouraged from graduate students in a variety of disciplines: Classics, Art History, Philosophy, Anthropology, Classical Archaeology, English, Comparative Literature, Media Studies, Political Science, et alia. One of our main goals is to continue the precedent begun with last year's successful conference, TRANSLATIO (translation or transformation). This year we have chosen the theme of OPSIS, for which papers should address questions of perception relating to the ancient world - id est, interpretations of the archaeological record, women and gender, race, the individual within the collective, theatrical performance and audience, the source material for aesthetic writing in modern literature, the portrayal of ancient archetypes in popular cinema.... Papers should be 15-20 minutes in presentation. All submissions should be one-page abstracts of approximately 300 words (no full-length papers, please). Mail submissions to: OPSIS Conference c/o Department of Classics 712 Clemens Hall SUNY Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 DEADLINE: February 7, 1997 Notifications are scheduled for early March. For more information, contact: Holly An' Oyster or Melissa Considine (716) 885-3788 oyster@acsu.buffalo.edu or: Allison Glazebrook amg5@acsu.buffalo.edu Conference Co-sponsored by: Graduate Student Association, Sub Board I, Inc., Raymond Chair, Department of Classics, and Classics Graduate Student Association ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Gabriel Pereira Lopes Subject: cfp- IBERAMIA98 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:51:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 260 (260) Could you please forward this announcement to those you think may be interested in applying? IBERAMIA-98 SIXTH IBEROAMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Lisbon, Portugal, October 5-9, 1998 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence) The age of AI atlantic discoveries "The portuguese dared to engage the great oceanic sea. They entered it fearlessly. They discovered new islands, new lands, new seas, new peoples, and what is more important, new heavens and new stars ... Now it is clear that these discoveries ... were not achieved through guesswork: our seamen set off well trained and provided with instruments and rules of astronomy and geometry." from Pedro Nunes, 1537 The Sixth IberoAmerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held at Lisbon, Portugal, on October 5-9, 1998, under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), in a unique cultural environment, precisely the headquarters of Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (two museums, one for Modern Art and another for Classical Art, covering also the private collection of the founder, a library, permanent expositions, and a beautiful garden). At the same time the World Exposition (Expo'98), around the main topic of Oceans and commemorating the portuguese sea discovery of India (1498), will be open in the oriental side of Lisbon, creating a historic context for discussing the cooperation within the sciences of the artificial among the countries of the Atlantic rein, and under the theme of AI atlantic discoveries. Established in 1988 (Barcelona) by three Iberoamerican Associations of AI (AEPIA, SMIA and APPIA), after a first meeting in Morelia (Mexico) in 1986 of SMIA and AEPIA, the event was organized every two-years since then in Morelia (1990), La Habana (1992), Caracas (1994) and Cholula (1996), taking Portuguese and Spanish as oficial languages and with the aim to promote and difuse the research and development carried out in the countries associated with those two latin languages and connected by strong historical links from XVI century. Along the years, the Executive Committee of IBERAMIA was enlarged with the inclusion of AVINTA (Venezuela), SMC (Cuba) and SBC (Brazil). IBERAMIA-98 will run for the first time in a decade with a paper track in English (for submission and presentation) in order to close the links now with other AI communities where AI is more developed and explored. Structure The scientific program will be structured along two main modules, the open discussion and the paper track. October 5, a bank holiday in Portugal, may be dedicated to see the World Fair Expo'98. The first day of the Conference (tuesday) is organized with tutorials directed to informatics professionals, the formal opening, the IBERAMIA lecture delivered by a distinguished iberoamerican researcher, and the declaration of the prize Jose Negrete awarded by the Scientific Committee to the best paper submitted. Also, and in parallel, working groups will be organized in order to discuss general topics (eg. scientific and industrial joint cooperation). The open discussion track (wednesday) will be composed by working sessions devoted to the most important areas of research in iberoamerican countries, the AI Education Symposium dedicated to confront ideas about the best ways to teach AI, a session to present the best M. Sc. or Ph. D. thesis of the whole region, and a video conference panel to establish bridges between Europe and America (involving those unable to attend this panel). The paper track (thursday and friday) will be composed by invited talks and paper presentations from all over the world on the full range of AI research and covering both theoretical and foundational issues, and applications as well. Some Workshops will be organized the week before, namely one on Distributed Artificial Intelligence (following the first one in Xalapa (Mexico) in 1996, before IBERAMIA-96, and on any other topics to be proposed by those interested in activating the current research. During the Conference there will be an exposition of books written by iberoamerican researchers and academics, access to the WWW pages of the AI associations sponsering the event, and demonstrations of AI industrial products designed in eberoamerican countries. The portuguese association (APPIA) will organize the week before the Sixth Advanced School on AI (EAIA-98) adopting English as the official language. Paper presentations The first track will be held mainly in latin languages (Portuguese and Spanish), but also in English (depending on the preference of the authors). The papers may be written in English. The second track will be conducted only in English. Publication The invited lecture and the papers of the open discussion track will be published in the Proceedings of the Conference. The organizers intend to arrange the publication of the contributions to the paper track by some international publishing house. Submission Submissions are namely requested in the following topics: Agent-oriented programming Case-based reasoning Computer vision Constraint programming Database mining tools and aplications Explanation mechanisms Foundations issues Genetic algorithms Hypothetical reasoning Intelligent information retrieval Intelligent tutoring and learning environments Knowledge acquisition Knowledge representation Knowledge-based systems validation Model-based reasoning Multi-agent and distributed problem-solving Natural language processing Neural nets Robotics Temporal and spatial reasoning Symbolic learning Important Dates Deadline for submission of papers (Open Discussion and Full International tracks): February, 1, 1998 Deadline for submission of tutorials, working groups and workshops proposals: April 2, 1998 Deadline for submission of proposals for the concurse of the best thesis (M. Sc. or Ph. D.): April 2, 1998 (Chair: Dr. Jaime Sichman, Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Av. Professor Luciano Gualberto, no 158, travessa 3, CEPO 5508-900 Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil, jaime@pcs.usp.br) Notification of acceptance of papers: May 15, 1998 Notification of acceptance of tutorials, working groups, and workshops: June 1, 1998 Deadline for receipt of paper's final version: June 15, 1998 Conference site The Conference takes place in Lisbon within the installations of Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian. President and Local Chairman: prof. Gabriel Pereira Lopes (P) Departamento de Informatica Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Quinta da Torre 2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal Phone: (351 1) 294 85 36 Fax: (351 1) 294 85 41 gpl@di.fct.unl.pt Program and Scientific Chairman: prof. Helder Coelho (P) Departamento de Informatica Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade de Lisboa Bloco C5, Piso 1, Campo Grande 1700 Lisboa, Portugal Phone: (351 1) 7500087 Fax: (351 1) 7500084 hcoelho@di.fc.ul.pt 2nd DAI IBERAMIA Workshop Chair Dr. Francisco Garijo Telefonica I+D Emilio Vargas 6 28043 Madrid, Spain Phone: +34 1 337 4518 Fax: +34 1 337 4602 fgarijo@tid.es Scientific Committee: Alexis Drogoul (F) Alfred Kobsa (G) Alvaro del Val (S) Angel Puerta (S) Antonio Sanchez (M) Carlos Pinto Ferreira (P) Christian Lemaitre (M) Cristiano Castelfranchi (I) Ernesto Costa (P) Felisa Verdejo (S) Francisco Cantu (M) Gabriel Pereira Lopes (P) Guillermo Simari (A) Hector Geffner (V) Hermann Steffen (U) Jaime Sichman (B) Javier Pinto (Ch) John Self (UK) Jorge Villalobos (C) Jose Cuena (S) Jose Felix Costa (P) Jose Moreno (V) Jose Ramirez (V) Juan Carlos Santamaria (V) Leopoldo Bertossi (Ch) Luciano Garcia (Cu) Olga Padron (Cu) Pedro Barahona Fonseca (P) Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (S) Raul Carnota (A) Rosa Viccari (B) Suresh Manandhar (UK) Tarcisio Pequeno (B) Veronica Dahl (C) Werner Nutt (G) Werner DePauli-Schimanovich (A) Wilmer Pereira (V) Sponsored by: APPIA (Associacao Portuguesa para a Inteligencia Artificial), AEPIA (Asociacion Espanola para la Inteligencia Artificial), SMIA (Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial), AVINTA (Asociacion Venezolana de Inteligencia Artificial), SMCC (Sociedad de Matematica y Computacion de Cuba) and SBC (Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao). ****************************************************************************** Prof. Helder Coelho Departamento de Informatica Faculdade de Ciencias Universidade de Lisboa Bloco C5, Piso 1, Campo Grande 1700 Lisboa, Portugal telephone: 351.1.7573141 ext.2562 Telefax:351.1.7500084 **************************************************************************** ** From: Subject: Update on ACH (and other) sessions at 1996 MLA Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 261 (261) There's been some reshuffling of the ACH sessions at the 1996 Modern Language Association Convention (in Washington, DC from December 27 through 30), and new information on some other sessions as well. For the latest details, see: on the ACH sessions: http://www.ach.org/mla96/ on all computer-related sessions: http://www.ach.org/mla96/guide.html John Lavagnino Women Writers Project, Brown University From: Germaine Warkentin Subject: Keyboard problem Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 08:21:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 262 (262) This is a ridiculous problem, but in the genial spirit of the season, I submit it to HUMANIST. The letters rub off my keyboard! Since I am not a touch typist, this is a big problem. In the past I have tried replacing them: by drawing new ones with nailpolish (too thick), and by sticking on labels with the letters drawn in felt-pen (they wear off). I am deeply attached to my keyboard, which has the function keys on the left -- the only mechanical apparatus I have ever encountered which was suited to left-handers like me. I am also a rather old-fashioned person; "make it do" is my motto, and when I am told "hell, throw it out and get another," I resist. Perhaps, out there in the vast world of computer supplies there is a solution to this ludicrous dilemma, but as I prepare yet another set of labels to paste on over the ones I put on in October, I wonder, what solution, and where? Merry Christmas to all, and do please advise. ******************************************************************************* Germaine Warkentin warkent@chass.utoronto.ca English, Victoria College, University of Toronto ******************************************************************************* From: Emily Rose Subject: Re: 10.0540 poem found, thanks to Chadwyck-Healey Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 22:57:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 263 (263) Could you please tell us more about the literature on-line service, and how a friend can acquire reprint rights for the poem ? From: Subject: Solstice 1996 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 264 (264) Dear Humanists, Today is the Solstice, the depth of the solar year that many of us make into a great height of celebrations and so illuminate the gloom that follows. Since moving to London I understand a bit better what northern gloom is like, though not a few Humanists will think me light-headed to be saying that southern England has a dark winter. (After all, the sun doesn't set until after 4 p.m.!) On Thursday, due to the great kindness of a good friend, my wife and I saw a production of Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" at the National -- a wonderful performance -- so now, perhaps, I am a bit better informed about what I miss by living so far to the south. (Forgive me, northern friends, I know it was a play and not a transcription of ordinary life.) Nevertheless, we will make the most of the contrast between the bright tree in the warm house and the dark, chilly streets. My daughter and son will soon be here to help (first time in England for both of them), filling this cosy Victorian pile with noise, curiosity, and demands of all sorts. It is, nevertheless, a meditative time, and so my habit as editor of Humanist to reflect a bit on the world we share, the profession some of us practice and to which others contribute from the vantage point of related disciplines. Personally this year has been momentous for me, of course, with cultural shock-waves of quite astonishing subtlety and extent. The trivial differences, e.g. of language and social organisation, take little time to understand and assimilate except insofar as they come to represent the more profound differences in ways of thinking. As is commonly noted, learning how to understand what people do not say is the hard part. The transition from North America to England, it seems, is from a society that tends toward the explicit to one that depends more on an unspoken context. Jane Walmsley's entertaining Brit-think Ameri-think (Harrap) hardly scratches the surface, but it gives some indication. After less than four months here I can hardly claim to understand the differences that matter, and so offer any kind of guide to those who are fascinated by questions of perspective in an international seminar such as this one. Those of us in humanities computing itself are constantly dealing with (or, alas, avoiding) the discrepancy between claims for the new medium and what we can see of the realities, if they are that, emerging from the fog. What are the cultural inflections of the disembodied, contextually attenuated voices that come through Humanist and other such groups? Does this attenuation favour those who tend to be more explicit, and so work toward the N. Americanization of the world? How are our lives affected, profesionally and personally, by living a portion of them in such conversation with colleagues all over the world? It's easy to assume that space is transcended and time foreshortened, but experience quickly shows that this is not so. How our perceptions of both are changed we can, however, make some attempt to describe. Much work here for sociologists. Pointers to current research would, I'm sure, be welcome. It's 3:30 in the afternoon, most parts of the house are too dark to see well enough to do anything by. So one puts lights on, and since electricity is expensive, learns to turn them off when not needed. Like almost everywhere else in the world except N. America, local telephone calls are charged per unit time, which has to have a profound effect on the way people use the Internet from home. Consider, for example, how one's e-mail writing style is affected by the economic pressure to write offline or write only very short notes online. Consider also how the same pressure affects one's browsing of the Web, most of whose sites, I expect, are N. American, and therefore in fact expensive for a European to access from home. Might there then be a stronger tendency than we expected for cultural myopia in Internet communications as they currently exist? All this is very gloomy and melancholic, isn't it? Can't have that, not now. Time to pull out the Monte Python, switch on the lights on the tree, or light candles, or something similar, perhaps find a good bottle of something or other, or warm one's self with the satisfaction of not doing that, and enjoy the warmth and brightness of human fellowship. May Humanist give you good fellowship, as much as may be, along with the useful information, and I hope, from time to time, challenging thoughts that will help us all push the field along. Allow me to leave you with some lines of poetry, which I wish I knew in the original, but which even in translation say what I think but haven't the wit to express. "As I think of rhymes and verses, my beloved says, Think only of my form. I answer: Will you not sit beside me and rejoice, O Rhyme of my thought?... Then what are these letters that they should absorb your mind, what are they? Why, they are the thorns that surround the vine. Yes, I shall annul the letter by means of voice and language, And I shall hold with you a converse beyond all letters, Beyond all voice and language." Jalal al-Din Rumi Merry Christmas! WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: new on WWW Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 265 (265) [deleted quotation]19 December, new or newly noted on the Web: (1) Global Internet Project, <http://www.gip.org/>, "an international group of senior executives committed to spurring the growth of the Internet worldwide". Consists of representatives from 16 major companies, "primarily from the software and telecommunications segments of the Internet industry". A history of the Internet, plans for its future, etc. (2) U.S. National Information Infrastructure awards for 1996, at <http://www.gii-awards.com.>. "Sponsored by more than 60 industry, government and community leaders, the National Information Infrastructure (NII) Awards recognizes and honors superior accomplishment in applications of the Internet and information highway. The Awards program seeks out, celebrates and showcases those projects that show the world the power and potential of networked, interactive communications." 10 winning sites listed, finalists, and semi-finalists. (3) Live music webcast using RealAudio at 8 p.m. GMT each evening until Christmas. Details at <http://www.liveconcerts.com/>. Hmm. I think of an early use of the telephone, when various people were trying to figure out what it was good for: to transmit music from the concert hall into people's homes. The invention of the radio quickly made it clear that the telephone had another destiny. People are now arguing for the idea of "digital radio", which offers randomly selectable programmes. I keep wondering why we need to mess with something that does its job brilliantly already. Perhaps someone would care to explain. (4) Historical Speech Archive, at <http://www.webcorp.com/sounds/>. Chamberlain, Churchill, Martin Luther King, Ruchard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy.... (5) Telematics for Research, invitation for proposals by the European Commission, at <http://www.scimitar.terena.nl>. (6) CNet, Newsmakers, with interviews of Bill Gates and Jean-Louis Gasse/e (formerly of Apple, now developer of the Be operating system, at <http://www.news.com/Newsmakers/>. Enjoy. Like contributions welcome. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: a Windows 95 problem Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 266 (266) This is a highly technical query, but I am hoping that some Humanist may have experienced the same problem I am having and found a solution. Sometime after installing a new hard disk, and transferring Windows 95 to it from an older hard disk, I began to have problems saving and sometimes opening files in certain packages (e.g. NetScape, Programmer's File Editor), though not all. For example, after running Netscape for a while, I click on an item to download, get the dialogue box asking me what I want to do, and when I click on Save As the program quickly reports that the operation has been done -- but it hasn't. Sometimes when I attempt to open a file, nothing happens at all. The problem is always cured temporarily by exiting and reloading the program, but then recurs soon after. The fact that the problem turns up in various programs seems to point to the operating system. Any clues or suggestions would be welcome. Thanks. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: December 25 -- Today in the Historical Sciences Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 267 (267) DECEMBER 25 -- TODAY IN THE HISTORICAL SCIENCES 1642: ISAAC NEWTON is born at Woolsthorpe, England. Following study at Cambridge University, from which he will graduate in 1665, Newton will make revolutionary breakthroughs in astronomy and mathematics, and after his death in 1727 he will be remembered as the principal founder of modern physical science. Newton's work in physics, however, will constitute only a fraction of his output, and he will devote almost as much time to studies of Biblical chronology as to mathematics. Believing that the ancient Temple of Solomon was a divinely-inspired model of the cosmos as a whole, Newton will teach himself Hebrew and attempt to calculate the exact length of the ancient cubit so that he can reconstruct the Temple's plan from Ezekiel's description of it in the Bible. Among Newton's many historical writings will be _The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended: To Which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great_ (London, 1728), and also _The Original of Monarchies_: "Now all nations before they began to keep exact accompts of time have been prone to raise their antiquities & make the lives of their first fathers longer than they really were. And this humour has been promoted by the ancient contention between several nations about their antiquity. For this made the Egyptians & Chaldeans raise their antiquities higher than the truth by many thousands of years. And the seventy have added to the ages of the Patriarchs. And Ctesias has made the Assyrian Monarchy above 1400 years older than the truth. The Greeks & Latins are more modest in their own originals but yet have exceeded the truth." Today in the Historical Sciences is a feature of Darwin-L, an international network discussion group on the history and theory of the historical sciences. Send the message INFO DARWIN-L to listserv@raven.cc.ukans.edu or connect to the Darwin-L Web Server (http://rjohara.uncg.edu) for more information. From: LS54@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0547 new on WWW Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 13:47:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 268 (268) A suggestion for your 'new on WWW' recommendations: A beautiful new site devoted to both historical and contemporary Visual/Concrete Poetry: UbuWeb ViSuAL & COncReTE PoEtRy http://www.ubuweb.com/vp There are sound recordings (RealAudio needed) from various artists and the entire site is a visual delight. Browser with 'frames' capability needed. Thanks! And have a wonderful holiday! From: Stephen Pocock Subject: Re: 10.0543 keyboard problem; on-line lit service? Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:03:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 269 (269) I've replied directly to the enquiry for more info on Literature Online. For any other interested users you could put up the addresses of the Lion servers if you think it appropriate, they are: http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk http://lion.chadwyck.com Literature Online is a commercial service but you can get trial access. Full details are at the home page. From: DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu Subject: CFP: Conference on time and literary criticism (fwd) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 02:03:54 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 270 (270) THE CRITICISM OF THE FUTURE JULY 11-12, 1997, UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY An international conference seeks participants to debate the temporalities of criticism. Confirmed Speakers: Professor Geoffrey Bennington (University of Sussex) Professor Thomas Docherty (University of Kent at Canterbury) 'Every conception of history is invariably accompanied by a certain experience of time which is implicit in it, conditions it, and thereby has to be elucidated. Similarly, every culture is first and foremost a particular experience of time, and no new culture is possible without an alteration in this experience. The original task of a genuine revolution, therefore, is never merely to "change the world", but also - and above all - to "change time". (Giorgio Agamben) 'Time is everything, man is nothing; he is at most the carcass of time.' (Karl Marx) In an essay entitled "Time Today", Jean-Frangois Lyotard argues that modernity is in part predicated on a conception of time in which the "future" is always already given. The subject of modernity operates in the manner of the Leibnizian God, the "consummate archivist" who "conserves in complete retention the totality of information constituting the world". The future, for this subject, is already known, already mapped according to a narrative of progress and a project of emancipation. What is lost in this project, argues Lyotard, is precisely time itself, the openness to an *event* which has not already been anticipated and recorded in the "archive" which constitutes, for this kind of thought, the only possible future (that is, no future at all). For theory in its institutionalized forms, time is essentially an empty and homogeneous continuum which proceeds toward a future which, given the static, "archival" conception of temporality with which it operates is already a knowable and quantifiable datum. In this sense, modern criticism is "the criticism of the future", a criticism which posits and appeals to a future conceived as the final term in the static continuum: past-present-future. Time, for Western philosophical thinking, is persistently the object of a certain conserving and stockpiling impulse; it is that which must be saved or gained in the name of a posited emancipatory future. This conception of temporality informs the modern theoretical project, in terms of an impulse toward *speed*. Speed is the defining characteristic of those discourses which we have come to call theoretical, and of the criticism to which they give rise. This conference seeks to address the question of how we might begin to rethink our conceptions of theory in the light of an altered understanding of the temporality of thought and criticism, to *slow down* the critical process precisely in order that we might open ourselves to the "criticism of the future" (in the other sense of the genitive). Possible topics include: The Time of Criticism The Criticism of Time Time and History Time and Narrative Criticism and Tradition Criticism as Avant-Garde The Speed of Criticism Paul Virilio The Futures of Criticism Criticism and the Contemporary Critical Moments, Critical Events Allegory The Sublime Cinematic Time Criticism and Apocalypse Now Then Send abstracts (300-350 words) by Friday 11 April 1997, to: Brian Dillon, School of English, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX, UK. E-mail: bgd1@ukc.ac.uk Dialling code for Canterbury: 01227 (UK) or +44 1227 (international) Tel: 764000 switchboard Fax: 827001 From: Michael Scordilis Subject: EUROSPEECH'97 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 11:48:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 271 (271) Please Post or Distribute EUROSPEECH'97 5th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY RHODES, GREECE 22-25 SEPTEMBER 1997 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AIMS The Fifth biennial European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH'97, of the European Speech Communication Association (ESCA), will be held on the island of Rhodes, Greece, organized by the University of Patras, Wire Communications Laboratory. Rhodes is situated in the southern Aegean Sea, in the Mediterranean and it is famous for its natural beauty, its archeological treasures and its highly developed tourism. ESCA is the European organization that promotes research, development and applications in SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY. Host cities of the previous conferences were Paris (1989), Genova (1991), Berlin (1993) and Madrid (1995). The upcoming conference will include the latest developments in this field of major international importance, presented in oral and poster sessions . Furthermore it will include several keynote addresses by distinguished scientists. All presentations and printed material will be in English, which is the official language of the conference. In addition to the technical program, an exhibition of products, services and prototypes related to Speech and Language Communication and Technology will be held during the conference. Prospective authors are invited to propose papers in any of the listed technical areas. TECHNICAL AREAS A. Speech production and perception B. Phonetics and phonology C. Prosody D. Neurophysiology, psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics of speech E. Auditory modeling F. Speech analysis and modeling G. Neural networks for speech and language processing H. Robust speech processing, signal enhancement and noise reduction I. Text-to-speech synthesis J. Speech and audio coding and transmission K. Speech recognition and understanding L. Language modeling M. Spoken dialogue systems design N. Speaker and language recognition O. Spoken language resources, assessment, standards and human factors P. Multimodal speech and language processing Q. Technology for speech and language acquisition and learning R. Applications for speech, language and hearing disorders and aids for the communication impaired S. Speech and language engineering for the telecommunications T. Systems, hardware and architectures for speech processing U. Applications of speech technology V. Other related areas or emerging techniques and applications .... [For more information, write to EUROSPEECH'97 E-mail: Eurospeech97@wcl.ee.upatras.gr WEB-SITE The Call for Papers, Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors, all necessary forms, and continuously updated information about the Conference, as well as about Greece and Rhodes, can be found at our web site at: http://www.cti.gr/~ee-www/] From: David Hoover Subject: Re: 10.0543 keyboard problem; on-line lit service? Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 18:43:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 272 (272) On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, WILLARD MCCARTY wrote: [deleted quotation] As one who agrees that IBM's decision to move the function keys to the top is one of the most perverse ideas to torment computer users, I, too, love my left-hand function keys and refuse to buy a keyboard without them. Gatewqy 2000 still sells, I believe, the "Anykey" keyboard with function keys on the left and the top. Try <http://www.gw2k.com/product/product.htm>. David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: "Craig A. Berry" Subject: Re: 10.0543 keyboard problem Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 23:53:15 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 273 (273) You might be able to order replacement keys, although replacing all of them might cost more than replacing the keyboard. If you are worried about the letters rubbing off new keys, try different colors. Although, I don't have any information handy, I know there are companies who make many colors of keys for turnkey solutions, e.g. for cases where an operator presses the bright yellow key to process an order, red to cancel, etc. You might also try a web search for the company that made the keyboard you have and see if they still make a lefty version. Good luck. _____________________________________________________________________ Craig A. Berry Humanities Computing Academic Technologies Northwestern University phone: 847/491-4088 Evanston, IL 60208-2850 fax: 847/491-3824 USA email: craig-berry@nwu.edu From: Dennis Cintra Leite Subject: RE: 10.0543 keyboard problem Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 21:43:09 -0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 274 (274) solution: How about learning touch typing? From: Ed Haupt Subject: Re: 10.0543 keyboard problem; on-line lit service? Date: Sat, 21 Dec 96 17:45:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 275 (275) Dear Ms. Warkentin Somewhere out there, there should be transfer letters. In a stationery store, perhaps. Whole sheets of letters that will stick to a surface if you rub the back side of the sheet to which they are attached. They are a bit old-fashioned in the days of CAD-CAM, but likely they are still around. Ed Haupt From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 276 (276) Dear Humanists: Our interconnecting mechanism is alive but my local machine appears not to be. Messages may still be sent to Humanist but will not appear until the problem is solved. Best wishes for the New Year from your wandering (now in Manhattan and loving it) editor. WM From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: Computers and the Humanities Vol 30 No 3 Date: Wed, 1 Jan 97 16:25:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 277 (277) JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Volume 30 No. 3 1996 The third number of Volume 30 (1996) of Computers and the Humanities (CHum) has just been published by Kluwer Academic Press. This issue introduces a new feature of the journal entitled "Debates in Humanities Computing". This first debate in the series treats the controversial topic of statistical methods for authorship attribution, which has recently received unprecedented coverage in the international press: first, concerning the controversy over Richard Abrams' and Donald Foster's assertion of Shakespearean authorship of an obscure elegy, and later (and even more spectacularly), concerning Foster's subsequent attempt to identify the author of "Primary Colors" (Random House, 1996). To satisfy the obsession of the White House staff and the Washington and New York press corps to find out who wrote the book, Foster created an e-text archive of the principal candidates and used statistical methods to identify CBS correspondent Joe Klein as the author. After repeated denials on numerous international television shows and in the press, Klein finally admitted writing "Primary Colors", leading to unprecedented media interest in methods that have been a mainstay of humanities computing for decades. The debate presented in this number of Computers and the Humanities includes an attack by Elliot and Valenza on statistical methods used in Shakepearean authorship studies, and Donald Foster's detailed rebuttal of their claims. The regular articles in the issue also report on results of computer-assisted stylistic studies. The articles in this number of CHum are sure to fuel the continued debate over statistical methods, and is of interest to all those involved in authorship and stylistic studies as well as statistical methods for language analysis generally. --------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Volume 30 No. 3 1996 Table of Contents ----------------- DEBATES IN HUMANITIES COMPUTING: Methodology in Authorship Studies And Then There Were None: Winnowing the Shakespeare Claimants Ward E. Y. Elliot and Robert J. Valenza Response to Elliot and Valenza "And Then There were None" Donald W. Foster REGULAR PAPERS Traditional and Emotional Stylometric Analysis of the Songs of Beatles Paul McCartney and John Lennon Cynthia Whissell Tamburlaine Stalks in Henry VI Thomas Merriam *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* INFORMATION ABOUT COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Computers and the Humanities The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities Editors-in-Chief: Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Daniel Greenstein, Executive, Arts and Humanities Data Services, King's College, UK For subscriptions or information, please consult http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/ or contact: Dieke van Wijnen Kluwer Academic Publishers Spuiboulevard 50 P.O. Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 22 64 Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54 E-mail: Dieke.vanWijnen@wkap.nl From: MICHAEL NEUMAN Subject: Humanist in JASIS Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 16:41:39 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 278 (278) Willard, Greetings and a Happy New Year to you in your new home. Just a quick note that Humanist was the subject for a study reported in the January 1997 issue of the Journal for the American Society for Information Science 48 (1) 32-39: Andrew May (UNC, Chapel Hill), Automatic Classification of E-Mail Messages by Message Type. The article is based on an unpublished Master's thesis, and it's interesting to see the text strings the author used to categorize the message texts into four different groups. Cheers, Mike [The Web site of JASIS, at <http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/jasis.html> does not yet reflect the contents of the January issue. Nevertheless, those Humanists unaware of JASIS will want to know about it and will be, I suspect, strongly motivated to find the paper journal by looking at the abstracts online. One could hope for a fully online version, but publishers do somehow need to make a living, until such time as we can figure out how to beat our swords into plowshares. --WM] From: Subject: in touch again Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 279 (279) Dear Colleagues: The failure of a major router, a communications device on the Internet somewhere outside of King's College but in this country, put us out of regular touch from 27 December until about noon yesterday. Thus the problem I complained about in my improperly dressed note from the APA conference site in New York has apparently been fixed. We are reminded meanwhile that we have a long way to go until our shared virtual nervous system can reliably sustain our virtual life even in those small patches of the world to which it extends. Meanwhile as well the birthday of HAL has been celebrated, and according to yesterday's Guardian, in the useful Online section, a commemorative volume is being issued with contributions from the likes of Marvin Minsky and Roger Shank, as I recall. The article about all this announces that the AI folks have given up on attempting to realise the more difficult parts of HAL, which I hope is not true because we can continue to learn important things about ourselves from the continuing failure of AI. I was greatly encouraged by the observation of the author of the Guardian piece that the primary contribution of AI has been precisely this sort of increased self-knowledge. Forgive me for a brief ride on my favourite hobby-horse, but it does seem to me that humanities computing needs to absorb this lesson of the enlightening failures of applied computing. Which is not to say that even in retrospect I am happy about the failure of that router. If our toys don't work we cannot make them fail in interesting ways! Happy New Year. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr.Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: W Schipper Subject: Call for Paper Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 22:31:14 -0330 (NST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 280 (280) Call for Papers The Canadian Society of Medievalists is issuing a second call for papers on any topic in medieval studies for the next meeting of the society to be held during the Learned Societies Congress (4-6 June, 1997), at Memorial University, St John's, Nfld. Send proposals for papers or sessions to the President of the society, Dr Joanne Norman, Dept of English, Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec Or email to: jnorman@hera.ubishops.ca Deadline: 15 January 1997. -- Dr. W. Schipper Email: schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Department of English, Tel: 709-737-4406 Memorial University Fax: 709-737-4528 St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7 From: Paul Richard Blum <106233.1104@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Call for papers Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 03:06:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 281 (281) Der Beitrag der Orden zur Aufklaerungsphilosophie in Mittel- und Osteuropa Call for papers (*English version below*) Die Philosophie der Aufklaerung verstand sich weitgehend als Emanzipation wissenschaftlicher Forschung von religioesen und theologischen Vorgaben. Sie vollzog damit die z.B. im Westfaelischen Frieden von 1648 ausgedrueckte Unterordnung religioeser Belange unter die Interessen des Staates und der Oeffentlichen Ordnung. Die Katholische Kirche hatte im 17. Jahrhundert die Ordensgemeinschaften, allen voran die Jesuiten, zur Rekatholisierung der von der Reformation erfassten Laender eingesetzt. Dies betraf vor allem die Gebiete der damaligen Oesterreichischen Provinz des Jesuitenordens, die von Vilnius im Norden ueber Polen, Boehmen und Ungarn bis nach Ljubljana (Laibach) und Alba Julia (Karlsburg) reichte. Die Orden waren sowohl an der wissenschaftlichen Ausbildung und Forschung an Universitaeten, als auch mit Allgemeinbildung betraut. Mit der Konsolidierung des jeweiligen Staaten eruebrigte sich das gegenreformatorische Programm, andererseits verstaerkten viele Orden ihre Bildungsarbeit. Beispielsweise Benediktiner, Franziskaner, Piaristen beteiligten sich an der philosophischen Diskussion in Universitaeten, Ordenskollegien und Akademien. In Ungarn hatten die katholischen Orden bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts weitgehend ein Monopol auf die allgemeine und wissenschaftliche Bildung. Sie verstanden ihre Aufgabe doppelt: Einerseits galt es die inzwischen veraltete scholastische Philosophie auf den neuen Stand zu bringen, wie er in der Philosophie Christian Wolffs repraesentiert war, andererseits beanspruchten sie die moderne Wissenschaft aus wissenschaftlich-theologischer Sicht kritisch zu befragen, etwa in der Frage der Eucharistie im Zusammenhang mit der Mechanik und dem Atomismus, oder in der Einschraenkung des Anspruchs rationalistischer Philosophie auf natuerliche Theologie. Mehr als jemals in der Zeit der Konfessionalisierung standen die katholischen Philosophen etwa ab der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts mit Denkern aller Laender jenseits der Konfessionsschranken in Kontakt (die Korrespondenzen Mersennes und Leibniz' belegen das). Die Frage stellt sich, worin der spezifische Beitrag katholischer Gelehrter zur Philosophie in allen Verzweigungen bestanden hat. Rudjer Boscovic und Benedikt Stattler, die Benediktiner-Akademie in Bayern sind relativ gut erforschte Themen, wenig bekannt ist dagegen das Geschehen in den Laendern Mittel- und Osteuropas, also in etwa der Einflussbereich Polens und der Habsburger. Willkommen sind Beitraege zur Philosophie im engeren Sinne, zu einzelnen Autoren, zur Institutionengeschichte und zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Der Schwerpunkt sollte auf dem genannten geographischen und politischen Raum liegen, aber repraesentative Beispiele aus anderen Laendern Europas sind moeglich. Die Konferenz soll Ende 1997 stattfinden, und zwar an der Katholischen Peter Pazmany Universitaet Budapest, sie wird von dieser Universitaet in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut fuer Philosophie der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und voraussichtlich mit der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung organisiert. Fuer weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an: Dr. Paul Richard Blum Pazmany Peter Katolikus Egyetem Egyetem u. 1 H-2081 Piliscsaba Hungary Tel. (0036) 26-375375 e-mail: 106233.1104@compuserve.com ************************************************************** The Contribution of Religious Orders to Enlightenment Philosophy in Central and Eastern Europe Call for papers The Philosophy of Enlightenment intended to emancipate science and scholarship from religious and theological presuppositions, acting thus according to the political rules established in the Peace of Westphalia (1648) which submitted religious affairs to the interest of States and political order. The Catholic Church, however, had committed the religious orders, above all the Jesuits, to 're-catholizing' protestant countries during the 17th century. This was especially effective in the former Austrian Province of the Jesuit Order extending from Vilnius in the North through Poland and Bohemia south to Ljubljana (Laibach) and Alba Julia (Karlsburg). Religious Orders were engaged in education and research at universities as well as schools. After the different States had established their relationship to the denominations, the counterreformation programme was no more needed. On the other hand Benedictines, Franciscans, Piarists and others took part in philosophical debates in universities, colleges and academies. In Hungary e.g. catholic religious orders kept almost a monopoly in general and scholarly education up to the beginning of the 20th century. They had two aims: on the one hand they wanted to renovate the outdated scholastic philosophy according to the new standards set by Christian Wolff, on the other hand they claimed to raise critical questions to modern science, as regards e.g. the Eucharist face to mechanicism and atomism, or against the impact of rationalist thought on natural theology. Much more then during the age of the establishment of the denominations catholic philosophers communicated with intelectuals of all countries with no barrier of denomination (as can be seen in the corresspondances of Leibnitz and Mersenne respectivly). Now the question is: what was the specific contribution of catholic scholars to philosophy and its various branches. Rudjer Boscovic and Benedikt Stattler are rather well known, as well as the Benedictine Academy in Bavaria, little is known about the developement in Central and Eastern Europe, i.e. in the areas of Polish and Habsburg influence. Papers on philosophy in a stricter sense, as well as on individual authors, intitutions and on history of sciences are welcome. Emphasis should be laid on the geographical and political area as described, but useful examples from other European countries are also possible. The conference will be held by the end of 1997 at Peter Pazmany University Budapest, it will be organized by this University, in cooperation with the Philosophy Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and probably with Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Further information can be obtained from: Dr. Paul Richard Blum Pazmany Peter Katolikus Egyetem Egyetem u. 1 H-2081 Piliscsaba Hungary Tel. (0036) 26-375375 e-mail: 106233.1104@compuserve.com _________ From: Subject: Early days of electronic text Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 282 (282) Dear Willard I have just started the writing of my Diss on the application of TEI to historical text, but I find I know very little about the early days of e-text processing. I know that e-text has been around since the sixties, but what could be done with it? ie. how much could it be analysed, using what software etc? I have heard some whispers about SNOBOL, perhaps someone could help me out and tell me what it was and how it worked? I would be also interested to know if HUMANISTS agree with my idea that one of the primary reasons for creating browsable texts today is a desire to make difficult-to-obtain texts more accessible. It is only following this that issues such as retrieval, navigation, viewing and analysis, come into play. This in turn may change how we teach and learn. Do people have other views on this? Happy New Year! Mavis Cournane From: Subject: Re: 10.0543 keyboard problem; on-line lit service? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 283 (283) As one who agrees that IBM's decision to move the function keys to the top is one of the most perverse ideas to torment computer users, I, too, love my left-hand function keys and refuse to buy a keyboard without them. Gatewqy 2000 still sells, I believe, the "Anykey" keyboard with function keys on the left and the top. Try <http://www.gw2k.com/product/product.htm>. David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: Subject: Vewe Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 284 (284) An etext of Edmund Spenser's _A View on the Present Condition of Ireland_ may be found at <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/veue1.html>. It is in three files, to speed loading. Richard Bear rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0557 CHum 30.3; Humanist in JASIS Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 285 (285) Nancy Ide's welcome announcement about the latest issue of "Computers and the Humanities" mentions that CHum is the official journal of the Association of Computers and the Humanities, but tactfully leaves out the detail that members of ACH receive the journal at a substantial discount over the standard subscription rate. I say "tactfully" because it's TOO LATE NOW--those of you who procrastinated joining ACH for 1996 are out of luck. But it's not too late for 1997. Annual membership is $65 US ($55 for students and retirees), including a subscription to CHum for 1997. ACH also sponsors HUMANIST and co-sponsors an international conference on Computers and the Humanities with the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). See the ACH WWWeb page <http://www.ach.org> or contact me for details. Chuck Bush, Treasurer Association for Computers and the Humanities ---------- Charles D. Bush EMail: Chuck_Bush@BYU.EDU Humanities Research Center Chuck@JKHBHRC.BYU.EDU 3060 JKHB Brigham Young University Phone: 801-378-7439 Provo, Utah 84602 Fax: 801-378-7313 From: Subject: WVLC-5 CALL FOR PAPERS Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 286 (286) The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and its special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP (SIGDAT) are organizing the FIFTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-5) WHEN: August 18-20, 1997 WHERE: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (August 18, 1997) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (August 20, 1997) WVLC5 will immediately precede ROCLING '97 (Aug 22-24, Taiwan) and IJCAI '97 (Aug 24-29, Nagoya, Japan). This workshop will take place in two consecutive sessions sharing a common program committee and proceedings. Authors may specify at which session(s) they wish to present their papers. SPONSORED BY: The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) LEXIS-NEXIS, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: This workshop, like preceding ones in the series, will offer a general international forum for the presentation of new advances and applications in the area of large scale, corpus-based natural language processing. The fifth workshop will focus on the theme of: Innovative and practical uses of large corpora in real-world applications Gigabytes and terabytes of on-line unrestricted natural language text have become commonplace today. How are these resources actually being used in commercial as well as research applications? What robust and efficient techniques exist for analyzing and organizing these resources? The workshop encourages contributions that demonstrate innovative applications of corpus-based NLP to problems of practical commercial importance. The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer a focus for discussion and debate between academic researchers and industrial practitioners. We also expect and will welcome a diverse set of submissions in all areas of statistical and corpus-based NLP, including (but not limited to) Text Analysis Techniques: - part of speech tagging - term and name identification - morphological analysis - robust parsing - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology - sense disambiguation - anaphora resolution - event categorization - discourse structure Applications: - information retrieval - information extraction - text categorization and summarization - lexicography - machine translation - spelling and grammar correction - recognition: speech, OCR, handwriting, etc. PROGRAM CHAIRS: Huang Changning - Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) Ken Church - AT&T Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ, USA) Joe Zhou - LEXIS-NEXIS (Dayton, OH, USA) FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper (3500-8000 words), either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic submissions should be mailed to "WVLC5@lexis-nexis.com" and must either be (a) plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file, or (c) a single latex file following the ACL-97 stylesheet (no separate figures or .bib files). Hard copy submissions should be mailed to Ken Church (address below), and should include four (4) copies of the paper. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission. SCHEDULE: Submission Deadline: April 7, 1997 Notification Date: May 20, 1997 Camera ready copy due: July 1, 1997 CONTACT: Ken Church Joe Zhou Room 2B-421 LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier AT&T Laboratories 9555 Springboro Pike Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA Dayton, OH 45342 USA e-mail: kwc@research.att.com email: joez@lexis-nexis.com From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: RE: 10.0555 early days of e-text? Date: 3 Jan 1997 17:06:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 287 (287) Responding to Mavis Cournane about the Early days of electronic text ... [deleted quotation] A book that I was recently looking at might be of some help (in that it is now - in computing terms - quite old having been published in 1980). 'A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities' by Susan Hockey published by Duckworth in 1980. ISBN 07156 13154 (Cloth), ISBN 07156 13103 (Paper) lists many of the early applications of computing which were then contemporary but which may now be too old-fashioned for today's books. [deleted quotation] Another book to try: 'Computer Programming for the Humanities in SNOBOL4' by Eric Johnson published by Dakota State University Press. Prof. Johnson teaches a course (essentially of the same name) via the Internet - I did it one year, earned 3 credits, and learned enough about SNOBOL to wish for time and the facilities to do more with it. I also have a URL bookmarked in my browser that points to a source of information about SNOBOL (or its SPITBOL variant): http://lands.let.kun.nl/TSpublic/coppen/SNOBOL.html and lastly, figure 4.2.2 in the book 'The Macro Implementation of SNOBOL4' by Ralph E. Griswold (the creator of SNOBOL) is, to my eyes, one of the most aesthetically pleasing diagrams that I know of (just to return to an earlier topic of Humanist discussion!). Cheers Simon _________________________________________________________________________ Simon Rae : S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK Academic Computing Service : The Open University, Walton Hall : phone: (01908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom : fax: (01908) 653744 The URL for the OU's WWW home page is : http://www.open.ac.uk/ From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Snobol Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 08:00:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 288 (288) Dear Willard, I thought the following information might be of interest to members of the list as well as Mavis Courname. Mavis Cournane wrote: [deleted quotation] The SNOBOL/SPITBOL languages were very rich pattern matching languages that allow humanists to write simple yet powerful text processing programs. The SNOBOL/SPITBOL bibliography which I found at: http://feustel.mixi.net/computer/spitbol/spitbol_bib.html may be helpful. SNOBOL was succeeded by the ICON programming language, also by Griswold, and is available free of charge. For more information on ICON, see its homepage http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ . Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu (from http://feustel.mixi.net/computer/spitbol/spitbol_bib.html) Brief SNOBOL/SPITBOL Bibliography Gimpel, Algorithms in SNOBOL4 Griswold & Griswold, SNOBOL4 Primer Griswold, Poage, Polonsky, The SNOBOL4 Programming Language, 2nd Ed. Hockey, SNOBOL Programming for the Humanities Books and papers are available from Catspaw. There is a free public domain version of Macro Snobol for Dos available from the University of Arizona or from Catspaw for $10 + shipping. From: Hans Christophersen Subject: Vademecum in opus Saxonis compendium ex indice verborum Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 03:22:30 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 289 (289) Latin dictionary of Saxonian Latin Vademecum in opus Saxonis compendium ex indice verborum to be found at URL: http://www2.dk-online.dk/users/Christ_H/Latin/saxo.html Founded by Professor Franz Blatt, revised by Reimer Hemmingsen. Saxo Grammaticus (+ ca. 1220) wrote Gesta Danorum in middle age Latin. This dictionary explains middle age words in classical Latin. Feel free to make links to this site. Hans Christophersen From: Willard McCarty Subject: Athenian prosopography Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:56:24 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 290 (290) Prosopographers and classicists will be interested to know about the Web page of the Athenians Project, at <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/attica/>. The work of the Project is being published on paper, but the Web site offers the ability to search the growing database. An excellent example of online publishing where it is needed. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: The old ctrl-key position! Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 291 (291) Let me add my two cents to David Hoover's remarks about the function keys on keyboards, which I hate at the top as well! Since I use notabene, so many of my commands require the combined use of ctrl/alt/shift with the f-keys, and I will never give up my keyboard until it's collapsed. But the following is my biggest gripe, and I wonder if anybody else shares it with me: I absolutely hate the decision on the part of keyboard makers to transpose the control key and the caps lock key. I grew up on "Wordstar," believe it or not, and the very handy method it taught me of combining ctrl and a letter character for the arrow functions is with me to this day: I've customized my NB to treat ctrl/e as up one line, ctrl/x as down one line, ctrl/f as forward one word, and so forth. This means that I can type at lightening speed, correcting as I go, never taking my hands off the keyboard or my eyes off the screen to use the arrow keys. Whenever I have to use a wordprocessor that is not notabene, I feel dizzy and clumsy, shifting my hands off the board, looking around for the arrow keys. For this reason I've never been able to get a laptop. Laptops don't allow you to customize the major function keys. Will that ever change? I've been using this system for over twenty years, now, and I suppose I could try to recustomize my keyboard to use the alt key or the ctrl key in its new position, but it's like asking someone to change from qwerty to another system of typing. How many other people are griped by this switch? I use the caps lock key so seldom; I don't know why it should be in this privileged position, but the control key is like my stick shift. Will they ever allow one to customize laptop keyboards? I have been repeatedly told that this is impossible. I was hot to buy the last of the 1019 Toshiba Satellites two years ago, because it was the only laptop I knew of that had the control key in the old position. Alas, it didn't work out. Sarah Higley Associate Professor of English The University of Rochester From: Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS (RIAO97) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 292 (292) (Apologies if you receive this call more than once) ********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS RIAO'97 CONFERENCE Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet June 25-27, 1997 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada *********************************************************** Brief Description and Themes: Every third year the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris, France, along with various international affiliates, organizes the RIAO conference (RIAO is the French acronym for Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval). RIAO97 will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO85 was held in Grenoble, France; RIAO88 in Cambridge, MA, USA (MIT); RIAO91 in Barcelona, Spain; and RIAO97 in New York City (Rockefeller University). RIAO conferences, all of which have had printed proceedings, have the special feature of incorporating both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations. Both the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a rigorous selection process. While commercial displays, as such, are not promulgated, the mix of scientific expertise and state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical examination of both with the potential for advances in product development and sponsorship as well as the initiation of lines for further, critical research investigations. RIAO97 focuses on new problems in information retrieval, filtering, and dissemination resulting from the recent profusion and extensions of networks. In particular, we seek to bring together search specialists and web-based media specialists to consider how searching can best be accomplished in the context of a proliferation of web sites, content formats, browsing modalities, amount of data accessible, and number of user accesses. Toward these ends the following topics are among those sought for inclusion in conference papers and demonstrations: A: Rapid indexing and retrieval engines; automatic abstracting B: Linguistic tools in information retrieval C: Information retrieval from heterogeneous formats - Identifcation of the same document in different contexts (different languages, structures, versions, etc.) - Unification of documents from heterogeneous formats; data-wharehousing - Data-mining and knowledge discovery in large databases - Search strategies in heterogenous contexts D: Strategies for technology watch on the Web; content addressable electronic mail, newsgroups, and other WWW systems E: Architecture - How to exploit large bandwidth for information retrieval - Distributed multi-agent architectures F: Imaging - Content characterization; manual and automatic description methods - Search strategies G: Sound - Sound content characterization - Automatic indentification of sound type: speech, music, ... - Spoken language recognition; word (boundary) identification H: Multimedia Web interfaces: Iconic, navigational, and speech interfaces I: Content-based compression techniques J: Data security problems: copyright protection, internet crime K: Web-related international conventions and policies ---------------------------- PROGRAM CHAIRS : C. Chrisment (French Chair), L. Devroye (Canadian chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE : =================== J. ARAMBERRI (SP) J.C. BASSANO (F) P. BRUZA (AUS) R. CENCIONI (EEC) D.G. ELLIMAN (UK) C. FLUHR (F) G. GREFENSTETTE (F) J.C. GUEDON (CAN) J. HAN (CAN) D. HARMAN (USA) J.P. HATON (F) U. HEID (D) C. JACQUEMIN (F) G. KIKUI (J) J. KLAVANS (USA) R.R. KORFHAGE (USA) J. H. LEE (KOR) P. LOPISTEGUY (SP) R. MARCUS (USA) B. MERIALDO (F) A. MOFFAT (AUS) J. MOTHE (F) S. H. MYAENG (Kor) T. PRABHAKAR (Ind) S. ROBERTSON (UK) T. SARACEVIC (USA) P. SCHAUBLE (Switz) F. SEBASTIANI (I) A. SEFFAH (CAN) V. SEMENOVA (RUS) S. TOHME (F) R. WILKINSON (Aus) RIAO97 SUBMISSIONS AND CONTACTS: ---------------------------------- Papers should be submitted electronically as attached Postscript or ASCII (maximum 20 pages) files to: riao97@irin.univ-nantes.fr or in manuscript form to: RIAO97 C.I.D. 36 bis, rue Ballu F-75009 Paris, France or to: RIAO97 C.A.S.I.S C/O Leon Constantin 25th floor 575 Madison Ave New York, NY 10022 USA Closing date for submission: January 20, 1997 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 1997 Camera-ready copy: May 10, 1997 Conference start date: June 25, 1997 Questions, comments, and intents to attend conference or submit paper or demonstration proposals may also be sent to above addresses. Additional information will be found at conference web page at URL: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 [note: RIAO in CAPS] From: Subject: Early humanities computing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 293 (293) In reply to the inquiry from Mavis Cournane regarding early humanities (text) computing, I would like to suggest (as humbly as possible) the article that I wrote for the Encylopedia of Library and Information Science Volume 51, Supplement 14, pp. 151-189. The executive Editor was Allen Kent, and the publisher is Marcel Dekker, New York. Although the copyright is 1993, the article was actually written in the late 1980s (the latest reference is 1988 and I listed Joe Rudman as the contact person for ACH). Only some of the material pertains to text applications, but there is an extensive list of references that may be helpful historically. Bob Robert S. Tannenbaum, Ed.D. 606 / 257 - 2900 office Director, Academic Computing Services 606 / 323 - 1978 fax 128 McVey Hall rst@pop.uky.edu University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0045 From: Germaine Warkentin Subject: keyboard thanks Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:36:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 294 (294) Warmest thanks to all those who sent information about keyboards, even including those who told me to get a mouse! Germaine. ******************************************************************************* Germaine Warkentin warkent@chass.utoronto.ca English, Victoria College, University of Toronto From: David Hoover Subject: Re: 10.0560 planctus tabulae clavum Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 17:08:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 295 (295) The laptop problem may be intractable, though old DOS users have long reassigned keys using "ANSI.SYS". Unfortunately, Windows doesn't recognize the reassignments. My current Gateway keyboard has the configuration below: F1 F2 ~ ! @ # ......etc. F3 F4 Tab Q W E R T Y.... F5 F6 Caps A S D F.... Lock F7 F8 Shift Z X C V.... F9 F10 Ctrl * Alt Surely only a very strange mind could have thought this up. Fortunately, the keyboard is programmable, so I've been able to switch Ctrl to where Caps Lock was, Alt to where Ctrl was, and Caps Lock to where Alt was. Now my fingers are happy. The key is flexibility. David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: Subject: disciplined training & wild-siding Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 296 (296) "For better or for worse," writes John Van Maanen in Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography, we lack a formal apprenticeship in the trade and perhaps the proper respect for our ancestors and the comfort their representational devices might provide. Without mentors or cohorts, our appreciation and understanding of ethnography comes like a mist that creeps slowly over us while in the library and lingers with us while in the field" (p. xii). How true that last sentence rings for our own practice. One question uppermost in my mind these days is how one might define the next generation of computing humanists, whom we very much need to train, by setting forth the curriculum for a graduate programme and fitting it into the already tightly-populated space occupied by older disciplines. What do we want our successors to have under their belts, subject areas we have acquired by accident and now know the utility of, or those we failed to pick up and regret that we did not? A very useful discussion could be started by our listing the fields with which we think a *properly trained* computing humanist should have passing acquaintance. A few pages further on Van Maanen remarks on the state of anthropology and sociology. I take his remarks to be a useful caution that we understand the socially constructed nature of disciplines. "I recognize," he says, "that both fields are now so thoroughly balkanized into esoteric theory and method groups that to think of either as a single discipline in confident possession of some grail-like paradigm is at best a passing fancy or at worst a power play. The paradigm myth, however, dies more slowly than the post-paradigm reality, for there remain those fieldworkers who still salute a tattered disciplinary flag and rarely venture beyond their traditional campsites" (p. xiv). He goes on to say that to him ethnography is a project that may help unite the severely fragmented fields. Could humanities computing do the same? Another view, less interested in a unification of the disciplines, is articulated in "Semiotics on line", an editorial by Paul Bouissac (French, Toronto) in his Semiotic Review of Books, recently manifested in a well-designed Web site, at <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/srb/>. Musing on the suitability of electronic publication for semiotics, he writes, "Psychologists, linguists, philosophers, anthropologists, computer scientists, etc., have... put forward [in SRB] their arguments in favor of increased communication across the artificial boundaries of the twentieth century mapping of human knowledge. ... Some lament the fact that semiotics has not succeeded in establishing itself as a regular discipline. Some proclaim the end of the semiotic venture. But the fact that semiotics remains a vast construction site, haunted by nomads of the mind, should on the contrary be celebrated as the best possible omen for its future. Even if some models, which once were considered the beacons of a new era, lie on the ground like the discarded intellectual toys of another age, the fundamental questions which semiotics has been formulating all along this century have kept all their epistemological vigor and scientific urgency. "[In the context of the narrowly defined disciplines] the relentless curiosity of semioticians, who never felt bound by disciplinary fences, remains a precious commodity of the human mind's quest for understanding and meaning. Most semioticians were wont to 'surf' over epistemological boundaries well before the world wide web became affordable. Their multidisciplinary personal libraries and eclectic bibliographical references, their multiple cross-appointments in various academic territories, their sense of estrangement in any departmental enclosures, bear witness to this consubstantial affinity with a new mode of electronic interaction which ignores gatekeepers and protectionists in the monopolistic transmission, circulation and exchange of ideas. The sclerotic administration of knowledge, the bureaucratization of research and the intellectual confinement which often characterize modern institutions of higher learning may try to harness the resources of the electronic web by posting their complacent self-descriptions. But a click of the mouse can always send these spectres back to the carpeted offices where they have been bred over several centuries of obsessive domestication and discipline. Semiotics has grown on the wild side of the mind, in the interstices and margins of authority. The 'web' frontier provides semiotics with an ideal medium to which the characteristics of its strategies of inquiry seems to be pre-adapted and in which it will undoubtedly thrive." The whole of SRB is well worth keeping an eye on. Specifically, however, I draw much encouragement for our life of agitation on the fringe of established society, in the academic demi-monde, from Bouissac's oration to the "wild side of the mind". Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0567 Call: Internet searching Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 297 (297) UNIVERSITY OF EXETER FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS September 21 - 23 1997 Conference on Theory and Practice of MultiMedia in CALL This will be the seventh 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 en-suite accommodation in the new Postgraduate Centre, centrally situated on the University campus, for full board and Conference fee is 125 pounds sterling- 80 pounds for non-residents. Proposals are invited by February 28 1997 for papers (25 mins) on any aspect of CALL, but, in particular, topics dealing with the theory and use of MultiMedia in CALL. The papers will be considered for eventual publication in the journal, Computer Assisted Language Learning. For further information, please return the form below to : Mrs Daphne Morton, CALL'97 Conference, Department of French,, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, (UK). Tel/FAX: (0)1392 264222 e/mail D.Morton@exeter.ac.uk CALL '97, Exeter, Theory and Practice of MultiMedia in CALL NAME...................................... .......................................... ADDRESS................................... .......................................... .......................................... .......................................... *I wish to attend the CALL conference September 21-23 1997 *Please invoice me *I wish to propose a paper on: *Please send further particulars about the conference ------------- Keith Cameron Professor of French and Renaissance Studies, Editor of Computer Assisted Language Learning. An international Journal, (http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/call.html) Exeter French Texts, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/uep/french.htm) Exeter Tapes, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/staff/cameron/ExTapes.html) EUROPA-on line & European Studies Series, (http://www.intellect-net.com/europa/index.htm) Elm Bank Modern Language Series (http://www.intellect-net.com/elm-bank) Department of French, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, G.B. WWW (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/) Tel: 01392 264221 / + 44 1392 264221 Fax: 01392 264222 / + 44 (19) 1392 264222 E/mail: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk From: Subject: emblems Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 298 (298) Some Humanists may not know about the fine work with emblems going on at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. William Barker, Mark Feltham, and Jean Guthrie have put online Andrea Alciato's Emblematum liber (Book of Emblems), text in Latin with English translation, and give useful links to related sites. See <http://www.mun.ca/alciato/>. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: E-texts for Russian students Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 299 (299) Yuri Tombatsev, who has been struggling mightily during the current upheaval in Russia to both find work to support his family and to maintain contact with humanists abroad, has asked me to circulate a request for audio tapes with American English to help his students. Anyone who wishes to contribute should address him Aeroport Street 55, Apt. 57, 630021 Novosibirsk 21, Russia (tel. 383.2.28.36.75). Joseph Raben From: Subject: Windows 95 problem Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 300 (300) I express my thanks to the several people who suggested various fixes or work-arounds for my Windows 95 problem: in some applications, selecting options for opening and saving of files will after a time result in no action at all. Unfortunately, some of these suggestions were not relevant, the others have not fixed the problem. The Microsoft site does not help, and the charmingly named "Windows 95 Annoyances", at <http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/> contains no clue. So I am clueless. Those who read my earlier complaint will recall my hypothesis that my troubles have come from moving Win95 from one hard disk to another -- apparently something you're not supposed to do. Actually I like Windows 95 quite a bit, but I do think that forcing you to reinstall the operating system -- AND ALL APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE -- on the new disk is outrageous. Further ideas will be greatly appreciated. I note that as operating systems get more and more sophisticated, their problems come to resemble human psychoses. Sometimes I think my computer needs to see a psychoanalyst. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: disciplined training Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 301 (301) Re "disciplined training & wild-siding" [10.0565, MacCarty], It happens that just in these days I am trying to configure a curriculum for hum. computing in my Faculty (Roma La Sapienza, Lettere). Of course the problems in Italy are different from, say, UK or Canada, but sharing them may prove useful for others. First, we have to be independent form engineers and mathematicians, who try to monopolize the field [e.g. "analysis of literal (sic) texts" in one engineering curriculum...]; thus I avoid the term "computing" [informatica] and I prefer "multimedia", admittedly inflated but with a humanistic flavor. Multimedia means after all any kind of communication (and what is humanities if not communication with the past etc.?) _not on paper and print or ... manuscripture_. I think we also should distinguish between a hum. scholar who employs the new media and somebody whose job is to help him to use them in the best way. This latter is the target of our teaching. For what concerns us, the essential feature of the new media is _automation_. So a first group of disciplines should teach our pupils what really is automation, and how it interacts with traditional methods: one cannot avoid formal logic, Turing machines, formal languages, and all that. Then the pupil should be taught the essential methodologies in the different fields, viz. how a hum. scholar accesses and manipulates sources: texts, artifacts, paintings, etc. He should understand how to formalize such methods, therefore automatize what can be automatized. In this field he will learn encoding problems, use of corpora, DBMS, statistics, etc.; but I would insist in the principles of all this, rather than existing packages, which vary with the day, and are always outdated. Well, this is that for now. Anybody interested? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it CISADU - Fac. di Lettere Tel. 39.6.4991-3936 P.zale Aldo Moro, 5 Fax 39.6.4991-3945 00185 Roma ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mike Fraser Subject: CTI Workshop: Strategies for Studying Textual Sources Date: 7th February 1997 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 302 (302) Venue: Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford. Cost: Thirty-Five Pounds (lunch not included) TITLE: FIRST NAME: SURNAME: POSITION: DEPARTMENT: INSTITUTION: ADDRESS: POSTCODE: TELEPHONE: FAX: EMAIL: BRIEFLY DESCRIBE ANY USE YOU HAVE MADE OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS: TOTAL PAYABLE= PAYMENT BY CHEQUE ONLY. PLEASE MAKE CHEQUES PAYABLE TO "Oxford University Computing Services". WORKSHOPS ARE RESTRICTED TO 20 PLACES. EARLY BOOKING RECOMMENDED. 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For General Information on Project Gutenberg Please send us email at: dircompg@pobox.com From: LDC Office Subject: Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 13:56:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 305 (305) Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM European Language Newspaper Text The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) announces the availability of a European language text corpus. This corpus includes roughly 100 million words of French, 90 million words of German and 15 million words of Portuguese. The European Language Newspaper Text corpus is composed of news text that has been marked using SGML. The text is taken from the following sources: 1) Approximately 60 million words of text in French and German have been made available from the Associated Press (AP) World Stream. AP World Stream is a compilation of AP news reports produced in 86 bureaus in 68 countries. The Associated Press Worldstream newswire service provides articles in six languages, interleaved on a single data stream. 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It is quite distinct from the AP and AFP materials in its markup approach, because it has been prepared in compliance with the conventions of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), rather than having been based on the model of the TIPSTER collections, which were originally developed prior to the establishment of the TEI conventions. Because of restrictions imposed by the copyright holders of much of the news text, this corpus is available to 1995 and 1996 LDC members only. Members who wish to receive this corpus must sign the European Language News Corpus User agreement. This agreement is available on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/index.html. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. From: Subject: Re: Renaissance fonts Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 306 (306) [The following taken with thanks from FICINO. The font may be downloaded from <http://orathost.cfa.ilstu.edu/shakespeare/ISFfont.html>; it appears to work, although not all ligatures one might expect are there. A curiosity. --WM] Last spring, I downloaded a font based on the Shakespeare First Folio from the Illinois Shakespeare Festival site: http://orathost.cfa.ilstu.edu/isf.html Don't want to be an ingrate, but it wasn't working perfectly at the time (a few problems with ligatures and capitals, I recall); maybe these have been ironed out by now. In any case, it was free... Lawrence Manley Yale University From: Subject: Call for Papers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 307 (307) The Department of Art History at USC is pleased to announce: Expanding the Visual Field A Graduate Student Conference How has recent work on mass culture, sexuality and gender, psychoanalysis, performance, technology, consumerism, race, and colonialism shifted the terms of visual study? "Expanding the Visual Field," a one-day conference at USC, will pursue this question through a series of twenty-minute presentations. The conference will provide a forum for graduate students in art history and related disciplines (e.g. film studies, history, cultural studies, comparative literature, architecture, anthropology, etc.) to present scholarly research and engage in intellectual dialogue with colleagues at other institutions and departments. Students throughout the humanities and social sciences are invited to apply. "Expanding the Visual Field" will be held at the University of Southern California on Friday, April 4, 1997. There will be a respondent for each paper and a panel discussion following the presentations. Abstracts will be printed and available at the symposium. To apply, please submit a 500-word abstract along with a CV or brief professional bio to: Symposium Committee Department of Art History College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences University of Southern California Watt Hall 104 Los Angeles, California 90089-0293 Abstracts must be received by February 7, 1997. Partial funding for travel expenses will be available. For further information, contact: Maite Alvarez: phone (310) 230-7161, fax (310) 230-7213, e mail: MAlvarez@Getty.Edu Prof. Richard Meyer or Andrew Perchuk: phone (213) 740-9571, fax (213) 740-8971. From: David Hoover Subject: Re: 10.0568 chronic Win95 pain Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:10:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 308 (308) I believe that your supposition about the movement of Win95 being the source of difficulty is correct. I made the same sort of mistake trying to upgrade from a 1gig to a 1.6gig hard disk. I foolishly thought that I could just install both disks in my computer, copy the smaller one to the bigger one, change which one was the slave and be finished. But I got the same sorts of nasty surprises as you did. What seems to happen if one copies Win95 from one hard disk to another is that it removes itself from the first disk at the same time, leaving information on how to find various programs and documents behind. Naturally, when I removed my old hard disk, the computer would not even boot. Worse yet, it refused to recognize the CD-ROM drive, so it was not a simple matter of reinstalling from the CD-ROM. If I recall correctly, I eventually reworked CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT so that I could access the CD-ROM and reinstalled Win95 on the old disk and the new disk. The programs worked fine without reinstallation because I had duplicated all of them on both systems. Calls to Dell (which was to handle Win95 support) were unproductive. Their advice was to reinstall. It does seem exceptionally perverse (even for Microsoft, and that's saying something!) for there to be no way of adding or replacing a hard disk without completely reinstalling and reconfiguring. Best of luck, David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: "Michael P. Orth (Michael Orth)" Subject: Re: 10.0568 chronic Win95 pain Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 18:03:16 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 309 (309) Maybe we should start a thread of W95 spells and curses. I use it and find it unstable and neurotic (and I'm an ex-clinical psych person). My system rebels 'cause I play games on it--SPQR and Orion II distressed it this Winter Solstice period. Anyhow McCarty, sympathies. DON'T re-install W95; run FirstAid and ScanDisk and Uninstall 4, and when you get tired of that move to NT4. From: "Paul R. Falzer" Subject: Re: 10.0568 chronic Win95 pain Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 21:27:58 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 310 (310) Perhaps others made the same recommendation. I hope you received my email message, which contained this suggestion as well. The reinstallation hassle is mitigated considerably by installing applications from a CD ROM. Principally, what seems to be happening is that the line between hardware and software is getting fuzzy -- not by the assertion of something variously called "firmware" or "middleware," but rather by software having specific hardware requirements. So, for instance, Windows 95 wants to know what kind of hard disk you have, how much memory, what kind of video card, etc. This is part and parcel of what's called "plug and play." One underlying message is: don't be installing software that your system can't run. How many people have you heard to complain about the poor performance of Windows applications -- and when you ask them what kind of system they are using, you are amazed that they can run at all? The other message, advanced (ironically) by IBM in its OS/2 version 3.0, is that if you want smooth performance, you must match hardware with software. Microsoft, which by the way is always following someone else's lead, is doing with Windows 95 exactly what IBM tried to do with WARP and, of course, what MacIntosh has been doing for many years. What is Windows 97? It is Windows 95 plus two service packs, available only to OEM's whose hardware complies with MS's specifications. [deleted quotation]Willard, I'd say that your computer's owner needs a course of new age treatment in order to cope with a Microsoft shaped world. See you in group therapy. Paul From: Neil Randall Subject: Re: 10.0568 chronic Win95 pain Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 16:27:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 311 (311) Sorry I didn't see the original problem... I agree with your last point, but in my experience the best thing is to reinstall. The reason is Win95's registry: all the paths and variables are stored in the registry for Win95 and the apps. Installing Win95 initially, and the apps afterwards, builds the registry fine. To see the registry, go Start/Run and type regedit - it's pretty opaque. Note that, while it's best to reinstall most of the apps (not all of them - Eudora and PaintShop Pro are fine, for instance), you can install right over top the existing versions of the apps. In other words, you don't need additional disk space, you simply have to reinstall for the sake of creating the registry items. Some programs have a resinstall feature that leaves the existing files as they are and just updates what's missing, including the registry. Unfortunately, most don't, and they laboriously recopy all the files, even though they're simply copying them over top the existing ones. Neil Randall From: David Hoover Subject: Re: 10.0568 chronic Win95 pain Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:44:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 312 (312) I believe that your supposition about the movement of Win95 being the source of difficulty is correct. I made the same sort of mistake trying to upgrade from a 1gig to a 1.6gig hard disk. I foolishly thought that I could just install both disks in my computer, copy the smaller one to the bigger one, change which one was the slave and be finished. But I got the same sorts of nasty surprises as you did. What seems to happen if one copies Win95 from one hard disk to another is that it removes itself from the first disk at the same time, leaving information on how to find various programs and documents behind. Naturally, when I removed my old hard disk, the computer would not even boot. Worse yet, it refused to recognize the CD-ROM drive, so it was not a simple matter of reinstalling from the CD-ROM. If I recall correctly, I eventually reworked CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT so that I could access the CD-ROM and reinstalled Win95 on the old disk and the new disk. The programs worked fine without reinstallation because I had duplicated all of them on both systems. Calls to Dell (which was to handle Win95 support) were unproductive. Their advice was to reinstall. It does seem exceptionally perverse (even for Microsoft, and that's saying something!) for there to be no way of adding or replacing a hard disk without completely reinstalling and reconfiguring. Best of luck, David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: Jim Marchand Subject: History of humanities computing Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 09:52:22 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 313 (313) My favorite history of computing is Stan Augarten, _Bit by Bit. An Illustrated History of Computers_ (NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1984). If Ballantine ever gets on the ball, my forthcoming book, _The Use of the Computer in the Humanities_, has a chapter on the subject. If I mistake not, Bob Kraft was writing on the subject; at least, he was gathering material. I feel that Martin Joos' dissertation (U of Wisconsin, ca. 1940) offers the first real use of the computer. He typed all of Gothic (he borrowed some from Zipf), 54000 words, onto Hollerith punch-cards and counted Gothic words and letters and even syllables by electronic means (if you are old enough, you will remember the old newsreels with the picture of the FBI cards being run through). Programming those things, done by means of a breadboard, was not easy. Next would be Father Busa with the St. Thomas project, etc. etc. How many remember those cute stories of ca. 1948/49 vintage? There was a machine translating the Bible and it translated "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" as "The booze is good, but the meat's gone bad." Or, one translating Russian translated "hydraulic ram" as "water goat". Plus ca change. Jim Marchand. From: Giovanni Adamo Subject: Re: 10.0555 Early days of e-text Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 10:48:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 314 (314) Re: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 10, No. 555. Dear Willard, I would like to remind that in such cases may prove useful my Bibliografia di Informatica umanistica, (vol. 5 of "Informatica e discipline umanistiche"), Roma, Bulzoni Editore, 1994, xv-420 p. There are many references to the text analysis, from the very beginning of what we call today "humanities computing"; there are moreover several references to the history and computing, including the treatment of the historical sources. Best greetings, Giovanni Adamo ***************************************************************** Dott. Giovanni ADAMO Lessico Intellettuale Europeo - CNR Via Nomentana, 118 00161 ROMA (Italia) Tel. +39-6-86.32.05.27 Fax +39-6-49.91.72.15 adamo@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it http://www.cnr.it/CSLIE/ ***************************************************************** From: David Green Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: Conference on Copyright Management Sys= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:55:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 315 (315) tems NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 10, 1997 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Inter-operable Electronic Copyright Management Systems Friday 21 - Saturday 22 March 1997 Florence, Italy The future of IPR management in networks is currently both under discussion and under development. In Europe and the United States, as well as in Japan and the rest of the world, project groups and technology vendors is busy discussing, developing and refining systems for managing copyright transactions. Unfortunately, this vast amount of activity is largely uncoordinated, with vendors and project groups individually promoting systems that may conflict which will not be in the interests of either right holders or consumers. Specifically, right holders could find themselves dependent on technology vendors and network operators offering non-interoperable systems for the dissemination of copyright material. For the users, a multiplicity of black boxes and associated hard and software to access systems running non-interoperable copyright management systems would be an unreasonable expense. It is therefore proposed, by the COPEARMS, EVA, IESERV and IMPRIMATUR projects, that a major event be held on March 21 and 22, 1997 to address this problem. The present proposal is for an event* with two different components. WHO SHOULD COME? These meetings will be valuable to anyone interested in the technical or operational aspects of electronic copyright management systems should apply to come to these meetings. In particular, technology developers, ECMS project partners, IPR-related technology vendors and of potential users of ECMS systems are particularly encouraged to apply for registration. 1. THE OPEN CONFERENCE - SECURITY & ACCESS FOR MULTIMEDIA SERVICES This event is sponsored by the Information Engineering Programme (DGXIII) as an open concertation meeting held in conjunction with the IMPRIMATUR and COPEARMS Projects (DGIII). It is designed to be of general interest to organisations embarking on the development of multimedia information services and is intended to provide a forum for debate of key business issues in the emerging information society. Attendance is open to any interested party, not only participants in EC sponsored projects, but also the European multimedia industry in general and representatives from the US or Japan. The objective of the event is to provide a series of sessions with specific focus on security, access, and EC sponsored initiatives. Each session will be based around brief presentations and ase study examples followed by a panel discussion and questions. The whole day will be conducted in Plenary session to ensure attendees have an opportunity to gain maximum benefit from attendance. The provisional agenda for the day is as follows: 08:30 - 09:30Registration 09:30-10:30 PLENARY - Chairman Mr. G. Stephenson Chairs welcome: Keynote address: The importance of IPR & Security Case Study: 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 PLENARY - Security 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:30-15:45 PLENARY - Access: Copyright, Licensing 15:45-16:15 Coffee Break 16:15-17:00 PLENARY - EC Sponsored Initiatives 17:00 CLOSE 2. SIG ON ECMS INTEROPERABILITY This will be a by invitation only workshop. It will be for any group that has IPR hardware or software under development. This would include both participants in EC sponsored projects, the US and Japanese developers and commercial technology vendors, from Europe, the USA and Japan. The object of the workshop will be to discuss interoperability, to enable information exchange and finally to facilitate software tool trading. It is proposed that the meeting last an entire day, conducted through presentations and parallel workshops, each on specific issue (see below). The meeting should be conducted on a basis of some confidentiality to encourage developers to share information in a more liberal fashion. The SIG will in particular address issues related to data interchange between Electronic Copyright Management Systems and the real world. Indeed, the objective is to facilitate the access of the user of ECMS to different services in an open environment, while preserving security. The following issues will be dealt with: * Interoperability between ECMSs developed independently from each other on the basis of specific business models which trade off security level against cost * A standard format for describing electronic contracts. Such a format would form a common ground of clauses of electronic contracts and be valuable for any ECMS * The need for gateways for exchanging data with external payment services (e.g. e-cash) and with TTP servers (proofs of transaction, directory of names, management of public encrypting keys). To discuss this issue, organisations concerned with Standard for Electronic Transactions - SET - should be involved such as banks, credit cards companies, manufacturers of smart cards. Gateways should give access to existing or foreseeable services such as certification infrastructures. * A standard classification and codification of data tattooing techniques to be processed by an ECMS (recognition of watermarks, recognition of labels, computation of digital signatures, etc.). This would interest many vendors as a lot of products are coming to the market. The SIG agenda is as follows: 8.30-9.30 Registration 9.30-10.00 Plenary session with a keynote speaker on the interoperability topic 10.00-10.30 Coffee break 10.30-12.30 Parallel sessions - Interoperability between ECMS - Standard format for electronic contracts - Need for gateways with services and TTP - Standard classification of data tattooing techniques 12.30-14.00 Lunch 14.30-15.30 Parallel sessions (continued) 15.30-16.00 Coffee break 16.00-16.50 Plenary session: reports from parallel sessions 17.00-17.30 Plenary session: conclusion of the SIG and public presentation of EVA EC supported projects REGISTRATION DETAILS Both Days - 125 ECUs (160 US Dollars) Day 1 only - 80 ECUs (110 US Dollars) Day 2 only - 60 ECUs (80 US Dollars) DISCOUNT FOR CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Both Days - 65 ECUs (85 US Dollars) Day 1 only - 40 ECUs ( 50 Dollars) Day 2 only - 30 ECUs (40 US Dollars) (Conversion date for ECU to National Currencies - January 1 1997) DISCOUNT FOR INFORMATION ENGINEERING PROJECTS as for cultural and educational institutions Registrations forms should be sent to: Vasari Enterprises Ltd. Alexander House 50 Station Road Aldershot GU11 1BG UK Phone : 44 1252 350780 Fax : 44 1252 342039 Email :jamesrhemsley@cix.compulink.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM FLORENCE CONFERENCE ON INTER-OPERABLE ECMS Title ____________________________________________________ Surname ____________________First Name __________________ Name ____________________________________________________ Organisation _____________________________________________ Job Title __________________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Post Code _______________________ Country _________________ Phone ____________________________________________________ Fax ______________________________________________________ Email ____________________________________________________ Principal activity of your organisation (Please tick one) Commercial/Government ______________ Cultural/Educational __________________ METHODS OF PAYMENT N.B. Payments must be made in full and received by 14th March Type of Registration (Ordinary or Discount) ___________________ Both Days _________________ Day One Only _____________ Day Two Only _____________ Total Payable ______________ Cheque/Bank Draft enclosed : ________________________to VASARI ltd. Please charge my Credit Card (delete as necessary) Visa/Mastercard/American Express/ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Card Holders Name _____________________________________ Expiry Date _____________________________________ Signature _____________________________________ Card Bill Address if different from above Amount _____________________________________ *This event forms part of EVA Florence. From: David Green Subject: NINCH Newsletter #5 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:53:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 316 (316) N I N C H Networked Cultural Heritage Newsletter No. 5 January 3, 1997 www-ninch.cni.org/news/news.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D A news and information digest for those working to preserve and provide access to cultural heritage resources through networked digital technology. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D This newsletter is published through the NINCH-Announce listserv of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. You are welcome to distribute it freely, with due acknowledgments. It is also available in a hyperlinked version on the NINCH web site, within two days of publication. S U M M A R Y 1. WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION PASSES TWO COPYRIGHT TREATIES GOVERNING PROTECTION OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES Of three copyright treaties considered by WIPO, a controversial database treaty was rejected, while the other two passed, with some language changes. Library and education delegates had mixed feelings about the results while still strongly objecting to the U.S. Government's strategy of bringing digital copyright issues before a world body before domestic consensus on these issues has been reached. 2. PAUL EVAN PETERS MEMORIAL SERVICE A memorial service for Paul Evan Peters will be held in Washington D.C. on February 18, 1997. Details are forthcoming. 3. BODLEIAN LIBRARY/TOYOTA IMAGING PROJECT Oxford University's Bodleian Library has released its first digital imaging project, a collection of 8,000 images of transport and motoring material from its John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. 4. MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ENCODING A recent conference examined possible routes for developing a scheme to successfully encode medieval manuscripts. 5. NEW STANDARDS FOR WEB-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL Educom's new Instructional Management System will ensure that instructional software developers will have a technical standard that allows modules to be shared among institutions and across a wide range of technical environments. 6. NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AWARDS The Winners of the 1996 NII Awards can be seen at the Awards Web Site. Next year's awards will be global in scope. 7. MUSEUMS ON THE WEB The January/February issue of Museum News, the magazine of the American Association of Museums, has as its lead article a review by experts in the field of the best Museum Web sites. 8. CONFERENCES NINCH now has a community calendar listing conferences and other events at <http://www-ninch.cni.org/calendar.html>. Two conferences recently noted: * Digital Resources in the Humanities: Oxford, September 14-17. * Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums (ICHIM97): Paris, September 1-5 ----------------------------- WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION PASSES TWO COPYRIGHT TREATIES GOVERNING PROTECTION OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES Library and other nonprofit cultural heritage representatives returned with mixed feelings from the recent WIPO Meeting that concluded in Geneva on December 20. Most were immediately relieved that a proposed treaty for a new system of database protection (beyond copyright) was defeated. This had an extremely loose and broad definition of what a database was and was seen by many as a potential major obstacle to future free access to public domain material. The proposed protection was over and beyond copyright protection for "compilations of data or other material, in any form, which by reason of the selection or arrangement of their contents constitute intellectual creations," included in the new Copyright Treaty under Article 5. Although the two other treaties passed (for "the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works" and for the "Protection of The Rights of Performers and Producers of Phonograms") there was sufficient emendation of the treaty language to make library representatives feel there was an acceptable movement towards a fair balance of interests. A press release issued December 24 by the American Library Association cited legal counsel Adam Eisgrau's sense that the treaties recognized the necessity of the extension of limits on copyright, including fair use, into the digital environment. Although Article 10 of the Copyright Treaty allows nations signing the treaty to include limitations to copyright (e.g. the US "Fair Use" understanding), this does not change the essential objection of many groups to the strategy of considering international copyright protection of digital material before there has been any widespread discussion and successful domestic legislation of such protection. The treaties now face ratification by the United States Senate before they could be applied in the U.S. Meanwhile the domestic NII Copyright Protection Act will also be under consideration. Full text of the treaties is available on the NINCH Web site <http://www-ninch.cni.org/NEWS/NEWS.HTML#WIPO>. ----------------------- PAUL EVAN PETERS MEMORIAL SERVICE Plans are underway for a Washington D.C. memorial service for Paul Evan Peters. The service will be held on February 18, 1997, during the period when many in the field will be in Washington for the ALA Midwinter meeting. The time and location have not yet been finalized, but this newsletter will bring you details when available. ----------------------- BODLEIAN LIBRARY/TOYOTA IMAGING PROJECT Oxford University's Bodleian Library has released its first digital imaging project, a collection of 8,000 images of transport and motoring material from its John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. The Collection as a whole is one of the largest and most important collections of printed ephemera anywhere in the world, containing over a million items in 700 subject headings, from 1508 to the present. The Bodleian Library/Toyota Imaging Project <http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/toyota/> focuses on 15 boxes of Motor Car material, but much other transportation imagery is included. Bibliographic material has been encoded using SGML and is conformant to the Text Encoding Initiative's scheme; the SGML records are converted to HTML for display on the Web. Visitors can browse the material by topics as well as search by key words. ----------------------- MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ENCODING Issues and problems surrounding the question of how to encode medieval manuscripts (through the Text Encoding Initiative, the Encoding Archival Description or a combination of both?) led Peter Robinson and Hope Mayo to organize a conference this fall to consider what next to do. Lou Burnard, of the Oxford University's Computing Services, has posted an interim, personal account of the weekend conference held at Studley Priory, in the depths of the Oxfordshire countryside. His account is available at <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou/reports/9611stud.htm>. Briefly, the meeting moved from reports of current practices through demonstrations of related digital projects and presentations on MARC, TEI, EAD and the Dublin Core to a collaborative identification of a key set of descriptive categories that could be used in an SGML markup of medieval manuscripts. Next steps will involve considering whether to map these categories against MARC, TEI and EAD, for example, or to produce a new set of guidelines. Details about an official report on the meeting will be forthcoming. ----------------------- NEW STANDARDS FOR WEB-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL As part of its National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII), Educom recently announced a new project, the Instructional Management System (IMS). It will provide a set of higher-order standards and tools to enable software developers, teachers and learners, to create, manage and access the use of Web-based instructional software. The project will ensure that instructional software developers will have a technical standard that allows modules to be shared among institutions and across a wide range of technical environments. For more information see <http://www.iat.unc.edu/nlii/dcms/techmtng>. ----------------------- NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AWARDS The National Information Infrastructure Awards for 1996 can be seen at <http://www.gii-awards.com>. The awards are sponsored by government, industry and community organizations and leaders and recognize "superior accomplishment in applications of the Internet and information highway." The winning sites are: * Arts & Entertainment: CitySpace: Network Social Space of the Future <http://cityspace.org> * Business: The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition <http://wsj.com> Children: Faces of Adoption: America's Waiting Children <http://www.adopt.org/adopt> * Community: Charlotte's Web <http://www.charweb.org> * Education: The Jason VII Project Undersea Internet Site <http://aquarius.eds.com> * Government: NSF Fastlane Project <http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov> * Health: Applied Informatics--Using the NII to Coordinate Healthcare <http://www.cpmc.columbia.edu/appldinf * Next Generation: Starbright World <http://starbright.org> * ATT NII Telecollaboration: Electronic Cafe International <http://www.ecafe.com> * USPS NII Public Access: EPA.NET--East Palo Alto Gets Plugged In In 1997 this awards program will go global to recognize achievements worldw= ide. ----------------------- MUSEUMS ON THE WEB In its January/February issue, Museum News, the magazine of the American Association of Museums, gathers seven experts in the field to describe the qualities that make for an outstanding museum Web site. Maxwell Anderson, Ann Mintz, Diane Zorich, Stephen Borysewicz, Scott Sayre, Katherine Jones-Garmil and Steve Dietz describe their top five choices that exemplify those qualities. The best first call for those interested in seeing Museums on the Web is the Art Museum Network <http://www.amn.org> produced by the Association of Art Museum Directors. ----------------------- CONFERENCES Please note that NINCH now has a Calendar of relevant conferences available on its web site <http://www-ninch.cni.org/calendar.html>. Please consult the Calendar and email David Green (david@cni.org) with any additions. These two conferences are of particular note: 1. DRH'97 (Oxford, England; Sept. 14-17, 1997) Following the successful DRH'96, Digital Resources in the Humanities '97 <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97> will be held at St. Anne's College, Oxford, Sept.14-17, under the rubric of "bringing together the creators, users, distributors and custodians of digital resources in the humanities." This year it widens its catchment area by inviting not only scholars and teachers but also publishers, archivists, librarians, curators, art historians and others "wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and scholarship." Proposals are invited for papers, panels and reports on work in progress. Abstracts (1500-2,000 words) are due April 7; final versions (2-4,000 words) will be required by July 7. Themes will include: the creation and integration of digital resources; policies and strategies for commercial and non-commercial electronic delivery; cataloging and metadata aspects of resource discovery; pedagogic implications of digital resources and electronic delivery; encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding, cost-recovery and charging mechanisms; digitization techniques and problems. The conference costs =A3225, which includes lunches and dinners. On-campus accommodation will be available at =A345 for ensuite rooms and =A330 for study/bedrooms with shared bathrooms. See the website for further details and updates. 2. ICHIM97 @ LOUVRE.FR. Sept. 1-5, 1997 The Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums (ICHIM97) will be held at the Louvre in Paris, September 1-5, 1997. The focus will be on ways in which hypermedia and interactive experiences can enhance museum visits and museum publications as well as serve as the foundation for enhanced curatorship and scientific research. Proposals for papers, sessions (1.5 or 3 hours) are due January 30, 1997. Final versions are due May 15, in either French or English. Papers will be published in an edited trade paperback edition. Themes will include: Museum Content; Hypermedia Design; Interactive Publications; Installations; Museum Applications; Evaluation; Collaboration; Legal and Societal Impacts, including copyright, visual literacy & mediacy, the concept of museums, economic models, training, etc. A web site with conference details will be available in January 1997 at www.archimuse.com/ichim97. Contact David Bearman, Conference Organizer, dbear@archimuse.com ----------------------- From: Subject: Computers & Texts 13 Online & Call for Articles Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 317 (317) I am pleased to announce that Computers & Texts 13 is now available online. Computers & Texts is the journal/newsletter of CTI Textual Studies. The URL is: http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/ TABLE OF CONTENTS Alan Ford & Barbara Watson, Using Hypertext to Teach the New Testament Peter Stokes & Willim Stokes, Pedagogy, Power, Politics Joel English, Metacognition in the Computer-Mediated Classroom: A New Advantage Dan Greenstein, Arts and Humanities Data Service Toby Burrows, Using DynaWeb to Deliver Large Full-Text Databases in the Humanities Sarah Porter, CommonSpace: A Collaborative Working Environment Stuart Lee, Unreal City: A Hypertext Guide to T. S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland' Geoff Ridden, The BookWorm Student Library: Romeo & Juliet Michael Fraser, Greek and Hebrew Tutors on CD-ROM Sioban Dillon, A Field Guide to 21st Century Writing COMPUTERS & TEXTS 14: Call for Articles and Reviews Articles and reviews are invited for the next issue of Computers & Texts, the newsletter of CTI Textual Studies. Articles may concern any aspect of the use of computers in the teaching of the disciplines we support (literature in all languages, linguistics, theology, classics, philosophy, film studies, theatre arts and drama). We especially welcome reviews and case studies of computer resources currently being used in the classroom. Reviews of relevant books and conference reports are also welcome. All contributions for Computers & Texts 14 should reach the Centre by February 28th 1997. Submissions may be made by electronic mail to ctitext@oucs.ox.ac.uk or mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk. Submissions on paper should be sent to the Centre together with an electronic version of the document (and any image files) on a 3.5" disk. Articles should not normally exceed 2,500 words and reviews should be between 500-1000 words. If you feel it necessary to exceed these limits please contact the Centre prior to submitting your work. Please note that we reserve the right to shorten contributions where necessary. Contributions will appear in both the print and electronic editions of Computers & Texts. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michael Fraser Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk CTI Centre for Textual Studies Fax: +44 1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit Tel: +44 1865 283 282 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/ Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: early computing, etc. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 318 (318) I feel as though I may be speaking too soon, again, before the thought is fully formulated, but it is consistent with others that have occurred to me recently, common theme being clutteration engendered by two many different ingenious techniques contrived to accomplish the same function: in this case, to set Greek down on the computer screen. Way back in the earlier seventies, as a research assistant I keypunched the _Medea_ onto computer cards while down the coast a ways UCI hit the news with the million-dollar grant they received to begin work on TLG. Even then I was elated by the idea of being able to search through all of Greek (and Latin) literature by means of simple pressing a few keys. It's still so complicated, though, and expensive, twenty-odd years later. Perhaps because there is not enough money to invest in the research. As usual, there are other priorities and people don't understand the importance of this facility. I don't understand why it should still be so difficult to type Greek onto a computer screen, read Greek on a screen from someone else's disks, access the literature and search it (pace TLG and Perseus, etc., I'm delighted they exist). I think we need one Greek font that will work with all programs, both at the input and reception levels. If this exists, great, but why is it not in universal use? I have a feeling it would be quite easy to create, even something applicable to both PC and MAC programs. I would like to see TLG and Perseus, etc., in more accessible, less expensive forms adaptible to any PC or MAC. Just wishful thinking. With all that we've accomplished technologically, I wish we were farther along in these areas. We have progressed from the most complex programming simply to word-process a page of regular text (remember the old Tandy processing programs of the early eighties?); so it's possible in ancient Greek also. And if the work is already being done, bravo; I just haven't heard about it. Marta Steele Comments and opinions expressed are strictly my own and do not reflect the opinions, attitudes, or viewpoints of my employers. From: "Robert L. Maxwell" Subject: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:51:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 319 (319) [deleted quotation] Actually, I only just had a chance to read the "other" Barker article in the New Yorker about the San Francisco PL's extraordiary (to say the least) weeding program. It looks as though if anyone pulls the plug not only will there not be any catalogue, but no books to look at either. Someone called exlibris's attention to the Barker New Yorker article a month or so ago, but there was little discussion of it that I can remember. I understand that Barker's activities in San Francisco have been controversial and possibly his article was one-sided; however, this question of how to deal with technocrats who feel that the book is obsolete and existing examples are junk that are just cluttering up the space in libraries is a real one whatever the actual facts of the SF case (surely we have all met such people), and one which I think needs very much to be addressed and thought about by the exlibris community. I understand we had problems getting funding for an expansion of our library because "why do they need more space? everything's electronic now anyway ..." (I actually overheard this exact conversation on campus one morning. Thankfully, the much-needed space is coming, anyway.) In moments of deep paranoia I fear that future ages may look at our own time as a dark ages because (a) we junked the physical evidence of our civilization, and (b) by then the electrons will have either disappeared or will be unreadable. A professor of mine used to like to say "The only thing dark about the "Dark Ages" is your knowledge of it." Will our age appear dark because no one knows anything about it--through our own destruction of the evidence? Does anyone have any thoughts? Also, can anyone tell us more about the situation at the SF PL? Bob Maxwell =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Robert L. Maxwell Special Collections and Ancient Languages cataloger 6428 Harold B. Lee Library Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 (801) 378-5568 robert_maxwell@byu.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: "Peter C. Herman" Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:25:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 320 (320) I think that Roger Kuin is absoloutely right that we need to take this problem very seriously, and in light of my recent experience with Emory University, I doubt that his article is very much off the mark. Emory, like so many other libraries, has thrown out its card catalogue and now has everything on-line. While doing the revisions to my book, I needed to look at a copy of Tyndale's response to More that his republished in the Parker Society series. Now, I knew that Emory had this book (along with the rest of this series) as I had taken it out before. How had I found the original reference: the card catalogue. But, when I looked this up in the on-line catalogue, no such reference. So, I went up to the stacks, pulled the book out, and immediately informed the relevant authorities. I have to say that they were duly appreciative and contrite, but they also mentioned that they expected the online catalogue to miss 1% of the books (1% of two million is still alot of books) and they were relying on library patrons to find the lost books. What scares me is that if I didn't know that Emory had this book, I would have just assumed that they didn't and proceeded accordingly. What also scares me is that the people running our libraries have no committment to the preservation and increase of the written word, and furthermore, assume that on-line is the panacea to everything. One wonders if they have ever tried to read a dense, 35 p. article on-line. Further furthermore, we are increasingly reliant on a system that is anything but reliable. I don't know about anybody else, but the servers at my institution crash with alarming regularity. Peter C. Herman From: David M Levy Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:42:40 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 321 (321) Fortunately, the library reference people at the Library of Congress are *very* fond of the physical card catalog. In the last few months, technical questions about 19th c publications have been answered with "have you looked at the card catalog?" The physical card catalog is easy to access and it has information which has not been moved to the computer. Indeed, if you read the electronic catalog -- locis.loc.gov -- you'll see that PREMARC -- the e-version of the physical cards -- is not warranted to be bug free. Don Knuth pays $1 for each bug report for *Art of Computer Programming*. If LC had that policy on PREMARK I wouldn't have to pack my lunch. David M. Levy Center for Study of Public Choice George Mason University Fairfax VA 22030 703-993-2319 (fax) 703-993-2323 From: Thomas Izbicki Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:52:35 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 322 (322) As a professional librarian, I want to say a few things about the San Francisco PL doings. 1. Catalogues Frankly, I have no great use for card catalogues as such, since they involve running around the cabinets following leads; but I was really annoyed when we threw ours out - since it is the only backup which does not depend on electricity. 2. Weeding A public library may find itself forced to weed, but too often the books of enduring value get weeded to make way for pulp fiction, which is not kept long either. The public needs access to solid information & works of enduring value. One of our students started worrying about academic libraries doing the same, but most of our institutions deal with space problems by going to off-site shelving, not casually discarding volumes. 3. The future of paper I think paper is likely to stay long term, but delivery of text is likely to change - printing being done at point of use, rather than at a remote site. Tom Izbicki From: BGECKLE@UBMAIL.UBALT.EDU Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:04:35 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 323 (323) As a library employee I feel I must respond to Peter Herman's statement: [deleted quotation] It should be noted that there are different points of view within the library world concerning card catalogs and online systems. I actually am an advocate in the library where I work of maintaining a backup (shelflist cards) for our online system and have questioned other libraries who have discarded all of their printed records of their holdings. However, I believe Dr. Herman's statements are a bit extreme and feel I must defend the on-line system and library personel. I believe most of those working in this field are committed to the written word and are actually working to maintain access to it. The on-line format provides much more flexibility for patrons to find what they are looking for (e.g. word searches) and information about the items status (shelf status) as well. It is unfortunate that some holdings are not found on an online system. However, no system is perfect, including card catalogs. In addition, the use of on-line catalogs and online full-text documents are very different topics. I agree that reading on-line is difficult and I prefer text on paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Beverly J. Geckle "...thought's the slave Technical Services of life, and life time's University of Baltimore Law Library fool." bgeckle@ubmail.ubalt.edu Henry IV, part i From: "Peter C. Herman" Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:48:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 324 (324) At 03:04 PM 1/9/97 -0500, you wrote: [deleted quotation] I apologize for the over-statement. I should have written, "alot of the people running our libraries . . .," and added that much of the impetus for this comes from many within administration. Peter C. Herman From: "Heinrich C. Kuhn" Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:36:51 -0800 in the message X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 325 (325) [deleted quotation] When starting my job here, I came accross views like that as well. Heartily agreeing in principle that yes..., of course..., nobody who gets his views on developments in the world of publishing and libraries from certain daylies and weeklies would object to this..., the crystall ball looked into certainly shows the right picture..., electronic publishing *is* the future, ... and then adding some lines on the time that was necessary for the transition of the mode of difussion of texts from manuscripts to printed texts, seems to help ... . At least sometimes ... . Heinrich C. Kuhn +--------------------------------------------------------- ! Dr. Heinrich C. Kuhn (coordinator libraries &c.) ! Max-Planck-Gesellschaft / Generalverwaltung IIb3 ! Postfach 10 10 62 / D-80084 Muenchen ! T: +49-89-2108 1565 / F: +49-89-2108 1565 ! eMail: hck@ipp-garching.mpg.de, kuhn@mpg-gv.mpg.de From: David Green Subject: Re: 10.0492 Schloenforff's Man on Horseback? Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:20:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 326 (326) I would suggest as a first stop New York's Museum of Television and Radio <http://www.mtr.org./research.htm> (212) 621-6662, which has a remarkable collection of British material. They also have a co-equal institution in Los Angeles: (310) 786-1036. [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@cni.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0884 fax From: "Robert M. Fowler" Subject: chronic pain Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:41:47 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 327 (327) [deleted quotation] I don't know whether to laugh or cry. What a nightmare! And to think that 90% of the computer world is willing to put up with such nonsense! It must be pointed out that the nightmare scenario described here is all but non-existent for Mac users. With a Macintosh, you _can_ just plug an extra harddrive into your Mac and merrily copy files from one drive to the other. I'd be a little nervous about copying operating system files in this manner---I think it's best to install an OS from scratch on any computer or on any hard drive---but in general, with the Mac, you can just 'plug and play' additional harddrives, CD drives, printers, scanners, etc. Why anyone puts up with with an OS that requires editing AUTOEXEC.BAT files is beyond me. Mac users don't have to give a moment's thought to such arcane matters! I weep when people suffer chronic pain needlessly. I also weep when I awake from my own, personal nightmare, in which my beloved Mac has been taken away, and a wretched Windows machine has usurped its place. Bob Fowler *************************************************************** * Robert M. Fowler * * Professor and Chairperson, Department of Religion * * Baldwin-Wallace College, 275 Eastland Road, Berea, OH 44017 * * rfowler@baldwinw.edu http://www2.baldwinw.edu/~rfowler * * 216-826-2173 (office) 216-826-3264 (fax) * * NOTE NEW AREA CODE (440) EFFECTIVE JULY 1997 * *************************************************************** From: Subject: a Web miscellany Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 328 (328) Items noted in today's Guardian newspaper, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>, Online section, <http://online.guardian.co.uk>, that may be of interest to Humanists. Most of the following in fact is well presented at the Guardian site, so a simple bookmark to this is sufficient. Humane applications of computing (1) "The smart spec enterprise" (p. 5), about a prosthetic device now under development to help the partially sighted. It consists of a computer worn on the belt and connected to a virtual-reality headset. If the only argument we had for computing was that it extended the abilities of physically impaired individuals, it would be enough, yes? Politics and human rights (1) Arm the Spirit, an anti-imperialist group from Toronto, Canada (!), has created a Solidarity Page for the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), which is holding hostages in Peru, at <http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats/mrta.htm>. See also the news links by Mario Profaca, Zagreb, Croatia, at <http://www.hr/mprofaca/news086.html>. I think of various political events in the late 1960s and how strenuous were the efforts to distribute and to suppress information of this kind. The world will never be the same again -- unless someone very clever can figure out how to clamp down on the Internet. Technical matters (1) New security for the Web. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) has developed a tool that removes information smuggled onto a surfer's computer by a Web site the person has visited. The tool is "PGPcookie.cutter, a browser plug-in that provides greater anonymity to individuals while browsing the World Wide Web by selectively blocking Web "Cookies." Cookies are data files created by Web servers and stored on a user's computer to record the trail of Web sites visited, online purchases, electronic transactions and private information." See <http://www.pgp.com/>. (2) An attempt to address the problem of "spamming" by e-mail, described at <http://www.scot.demon.co.uk/spam-filter.html">. Curiosities (1) A cinnamon bun that looks like Mother Teresa can be viewed at <http://www.qecmedia.com/nunbun/>. It was found by chance at the Bongo Java Coffee Shop in Nashville, Tennessee, US. (2) A great Shockwave-enhanced Web site to promote the drinking of milk, at <http://www.whymilk.com/>. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: Cultural Production of Bodily Technology Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 329 (329) The following was sent to me by Scott Jordan, apparently an historian of science and technology. It raises some interesting points that at least a few Humanists will find amusing. WM ----- The Cultural Production of Bodily Technology Recent work in cultural studies has thoroughly discredited the notion that scientific and technological knowledge has an essentialist character to it. This is best expressed in the words of the French theoretician, Jacques Deraison, who recently noted, and I quote, that "the displacement of the self from the center to the periphery is actually a replacement (or "remplacement") of the decultured, and so denatured, Aristotelian essence by the Western cyborg, as exemplified by Julien Offray de Lamettrie's L'homme machine. Put another way, it is precisely the absence of the essentialist presence that transforms circumferences of techno-imaginaries into cultural perimeters." This, of course - and I need not elaborate the point for an audience such as this one - is exactly why the Greek logos is not, indeed for that very reason cannot be, an engine for the hegemonic empowerment of culturally-situated knowledges, such as the mechanically embodied powers (or "puissances") of science itself. However, and here I hope to make my own contribution to this conversazione, we have yet fully to understand that the body is in itself a construction. My aim, in the few moments available, is to rip open this partly-healed scar, to give voice to the stifled screams of an early post-modernity, to empty the effulgent chamber-pots of Western bodily denial and rejection - in short, I intend nothing less than to shake apart the cloying residues of Platonic logo-centrism in the realm of the body. In the words of the great southwestern shaman, Borna Bird, "to understand the worm you must first crawl in the dirt". I turn now to the past - to a place we can never visit, but where we all must forever live. To, in fact, London at the dawn of modernity itself, to a time when the Western body was first constructed. There, late in the 17th century, certain members of the Royal Society (itself of course a construction which embodied and transformed contemporary cultural notions of truth-telling) gave general credence to the maxim that breathing is a desideratum for social propriety. In this setting, for reasons that as yet remain unclear, but which are likely connected to the emergence of novel forms of life in Restoration society, it was widely believed that respectable existence required the provision of air. Of course, as we know from the many studies which have graced the field of cultural studies in recent years, all maxims are matters of social negotation. And so we should naturally expect that the counter-maxim must certainly have been held by some cultural groups. I have spent many years in British archives looking for textual traces of these vanished groups. Although I did uncover a set of coffee-house pamphlets, printed during a very brief period - in fact, there are indications that the pamphlets were all written during a single afternoon - for as yet unknown reasons these groups do not appear to have had a continuing influence upon Restoration culture. One naturally suspects the work here of hegemonic interests who, exercising the prerogatives of power and patronage, deprived the silenced of their voices, and may indeed actually have resorted to physical violence, since there are indications that many of the "anti-breathers", as they were pejoratively denominated, met a swift and unpleasant end. One might indeed even say that "the breath" had become, like Boyle's air pump, an actant on the agonistic field of emergent experimental discourse. Naturally, with breath activated, the body became decentered, as its existential character, qua object (or "objet"), was displaced by its functionalist behavior, qua breather. This, of course, is entirely of a piece with what Michel Foucault so wisely spoke of as "the colligation of bodily modalities in the origins of modernity". To continue, the "breather's maxim" was actually incorporated into a much broader experimental culture. As with Newton's prisms, belief in what one might call the "power of breath" colonized Europe, far beyond the confines of the Royal Society, as English "breathers" carried their skilled practices with them on "grand tours" of the Continent. Indeed, by the end of the 18th century nearly all members of the university-trained classes in England, Scotland and Northern Europe had incorporated breathing-facilitating technologies into their daily social practices and cultural beliefs. By that time, fear of tightly-closed spaces had become widespread, and Scottish fairy-tales, among others, often had cautionary sentences about securing breathing spaces in culturally contested circumstances. Whether this holds true as well for Italy and the Balkans awaits further study, to which I shall devote the remainder of my scholarly career. ----- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: John Unsworth Subject: IATH welcomes Daniel Pitti Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:08:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 330 (330) The Institute for Advanced Technology at the University of Virginia(http://www.iath.virginia.edu/) is very pleased to announce that Daniel Pitti will join the IATH staff as Project Director on April 1, 1997. Most recently, Daniel has been the Librarian for Advanced Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley where he was the author or joint author of several Department of Education and National Endowment for the Humanities grant projects working towards providing standardized access to primary resource materials in libraries and archives. In the SGML community, Daniel is well known and highly regarded for his work as coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description initiative, an international collaborative effort to develop a standard Document Type Definition for archival finding aids. He has also supervised the NEH-funded California Heritage Digital Image Access Project, digitizing, describing, and indexing over 25,000 images documenting California history and culture. Daniel is a member of the Society of American Archivists and the American Library Association. The Institute for Advanced Technology supports humanities research projects at the University of Virginia and elsewhere; its work includes substantial applications and innovations in SGML, as well as digital imaging, three-dimensional modeling, database development, and the development and distribution of software for humanities research. Daniel will be a key member of the IATH team, and we look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration. John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: Ann Okerson Subject: Web Licensing Site Announcement Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:08:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 331 (331) This message has been posted to several relevant lists. 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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION about this work: Ann Okerson Ann.Okerson@yale.edu Fax: 203-432-8527 Ann.Okerson@yale.edu http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/alo.html From: Subject: Research Positions Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 332 (332) TWO RESEARCH POSITIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON ==================================================== The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a dedicated research department whose current programme focuses on 3 areas: computational linguistics and language engineering, computer supported collaborative design, and multimedia and multimodal interfaces. We are looking for well qualified researchers to join our programme. Funding for these positions is available for 3 years. RESEARCH FELLOW IN HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES (HCI) #17,474 - #21,838 Ref: IT914 This post involves research on document design environments which include some of the advanced technologies being developed in the Institute. Examples of these include (multilingual) natural language generation, collaborative writing, guided composition of technical texts and control over constraints on document style and layout. The research fellow will collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams working in these areas and should have a masters degree, a PhD or equivalent experience in HCI. An important aspect of the job will be to help develop a research group on interface design within the Institute, and to seek external funding for continuing this work beyond the initial 3-year period and attracting more staff. RESEARCH OFFICER IN LANGUAGE ENGINEERING #13,834 - #16,739 Ref: IT915 The Research Officer will work on the ICONOCLAST project, which aims to develop a system that generates instructions on how to use software applications. This work extends previous language generation projects within the ITRI by aiming to support constraints on the layout and style of the documents generated. The main responsibility involves collecting and analysing an on-line corpus of software manuals, and meeting with professional technical authors to identify the relevant constraints on document design. A secondary activity will be the design and implementation of the user-interface to the system and possibly the implementation of the constraints. Applicants should have a good honours degree, a masters degree or equivalent experience in linguistics or computer science. This project is funded through a research grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Opportunities for undertaking an MPhil or PhD are available. More information on the work of the ITRI can be obtained on our web site at http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk Further details, including important information about the content of your CV, and application forms are available from the Personnel Department, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN2 4AT, or from our web site at http://www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/, or on our 24 hour answerphone: (01273) 642849. Please quote the reference number. Closing date: 31 January 1997 From: Subject: Re: 10.0583 reflections on progress Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 333 (333) In response to 10.0583, posted by Marta Steele: [deleted quotation] As in all things, it is a matter of demand; were there a few million native speakers of ancient Greek.... There is a universal character encoding scheme which includes ancient Greek (as well as just about every letter or glyph for all known languages, alive and dead); it's called Unicode, it is an international standard (ISO 10646-1), and there is some impetus, at least in Europe, to implement it. Software developers in the US will probably adopt Unicode if there is enough demand, which, in this increasingly global marketplace, is not a too far remote possibility. I hope. - Gregory Murphy, CETH From: Subject: Museums and the Web - Conference Program Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 334 (334) [deleted quotation] From: Fred Levy Subject: Re: 10.0584 Cultural Production Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:14:13 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 335 (335) Willard: This quite takes my breath away. Fritz Levy On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, WILLARD MCCARTY wrote: [deleted quotation] ....[remainder deleted]... From: "Michael P. Orth (Michael Orth)" Subject: Re: 10.0584 Cultural Production Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 18:56:21 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 336 (336) Huh? The Kraken===============end of file=================/;->? From: Subject: Multi HCI Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 337 (337) Willard, The design of space intrigues me because of its import for the interactions made possible and also hindered in the built environment. I recently sat in on a computer applications workshop and I was struck by the layout of the room. A language lab had been equipped with terminials all lined in up in rows. My own subjective opinion rated the quality of the interaction in this milieu as low. My comparator was the memory of settings where the terminals were placed against the walls allowing participants to form a semi-circle to face the larger screen for instruction. I have also sat in lecture halls equipped with e-presentation devices but, of course, without terminals at each place in the audience. I believe the transformed language lab given its poor site lines blocked contact between participants and workshop leader as well as between particpants themselves. I observed less interaction between participants than I did in spaces where the hands-on portion of a workshop was clearly demarcated by an actual turning of the body from the lecture or instruction session. I would like to dub this the "horseshore hypothesis". I suspect there may exist some literature on human-computer interaction in multi-user and multi machine settings. I am sure there are anecdotes to swap. You yourself have introduced many different audiences to computers in many different settings. Any insight as to the most propitious physical setting. -- Francois From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 10.0585 progress & Unicode Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:07:29 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 338 (338) George Murphy's response on progress in the area of fonts that: [deleted quotation] is correct, but fails to indicate what he means by "just about every letter or glyph for all known languages, alive and dead...." Interested humanists might want to visit: http://www.cm.spyglass.com/unicode/standard/unsupported.html for a listing of presently unsupported modern and archaic scripts. Under "archaic and obsolete scripts" the some forty-five languages appear: Ahom, Akkadian Cuneiform, Aramaic, Babylonian Cuneiform, Balinese, Balti, Batak, Brahmi, Buginese, Chola, Cypro-Minoan, Etruscan, Glagolitic, Hieroglyphic Egyptian, Hieroglyphic Hittite, Javanese, Kaithi, Kawi, Khamti, Kharoshthi, Kirat (Limbu), Lahnda, Linear B, Mandaic, Mangyan, Manipuri (Meithei), Meroitic (Kush), Modi, Numidian, Ogham (proposal pending), Pahlavi (Avestan), Phags-pa, Pyu, Old Persian Cuneiform, Phoenician, Northern Runes, Satavahana, Siddham, South Arabian, Sumerian Cuneiform, Syriac, Tagalog, Tagbanuwa, Tircul, and, Ugaritic Cuneiform. While the usefulness of the Unicode standard versus ASCII cannot be disputed, it is also a uniform display standard that may not reflect the nuances of the script in which an ancient text was written. When encoding non-modern texts, I think the better practice is to use defined entity sets (for definition guidelines see the TEI Guidelines implementation of SGML) which are then mapped to Unicode code points where they exist. This preserves the information represented in the original text while using the convenience of Unicode for display. Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu From: Jim Marchand Subject: Unicode, etc. Date: Tue, 14 Jan 97 10:02:20 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 339 (339) As Pogo put it, "We have met the enemy and he is us." There is absolutely no reason why you cannot type Greek on your computer and see it on your screen; I do it all the time, using WordPerfect 5.1 on an old 386. If you use Windows NT (not Windows 95), you will find that it is Unicode compatible. Gamma Productions, 12625 High Bluff Drive, Suite 218, San Diego, CA 92130, USA, Tel. 619-794-6399, Fax: 619-794-7294, will render your Win95 Unicode (they call theirs UniType) compatile. With Unicode, you can type anything (even Dingbats) on your screen and even send to compatible machines. If you want to know more, see _The Unicode Standard_ 2 vols. The Unicode Consortium (Addison-Wesley, 1991) [I have misplaced vol. 2 temporarily]. There are some good references out there: Peter Kahrel, _Working with Foreign Languages and Characters in WordPerfect (5.1 and WP for Windows)_ (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1992); Nadine Kano, _Developing Interational Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT_ (Microsoft Press, 1995). The problem is that there are so many platforms, programs, etc. which are incompatible each with the other, and there is no standard. If we all adopted Unicode, we could write any writing system in the world; if one is missing, we can add it. This would not be difficult to accomplish, since Unicode is in principle an addressing system. As a bunch, we are too lazy and often indifferent to the needs of other members of our community. Jim Marchand. From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 10.0585 progress & Unicode Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:42:31 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 340 (340) Some relevant news: IATH has (for some time now) been working on software tentatively called Babble, to display and manipulate Unicode text. Recent developments in the Java programming language have made it possible take what had been a Unix prototype and turn it into working Java software. Babble will *not* be a Unicode editor: instead, its purpose will be to display, search, and manipulate texts which have already been created in Unicode. Babble will provide linked scrolling, linked searching, multiple text display, and some SGML awareness (basically, it will know the difference between what's inside a tag and what's between tags, and it will be able to hide or display tags). As a java application, Babble should run on Macs, Windows95, and Unix platforms. It will use system fonts, so if you don't have a particular font installed, you'll need to get it--but at least for texts distributed from IATH, we will make the necessary fonts available. If you're wondering how to create Unicode texts in the first place, I can offer a couple of pointers. The Duke foreign language computing folks provide a software package called Wincalis, that runs on Windows machines and is a Unicode text editor. More info is at http://www.lang.duke.edu/nogfx/index.htm --but if it's ancient greek that you're interested in, you'll be frustrated by its apparent inability to deal with accented Greek. Wincalis does handle lots of languages, though, and it is reasonably priced. Another software company with Unicode software is Gamma Productions (more info at http://www.gammapro.com/). Right now, the only relevant software they ship is Unitype, which is essentially an overlay for typing alternate character sets into existing Windows word-processing software. Due out soon (watch the web site) though, is a stand-alone Unicode editor called Universe. If you're interested in being apprised of developments in Babble, and/or acting as a beta tester, send email (to me, not to Humanist) and I'll put you on the list. I expect a testable version of Java Babble some time later this semester. IATH has nothing to do with Wincalis or any GammaPro software, so I can't answer questions about Wincalis or Uni*, and the information above is purely that--not an endorsement, just information. John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0565 disciplined training & wild-siding Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 341 (341) Willard remarks: [deleted quotation] Text-encoding; digital image preparation and manipulation; fundamentals of library science and information retrieval; theory and practice of textual editing, both electronic and print; principles of graphic design; interface theory and design; electronic poetry and fiction; cyberpunk and edge culture; digital music, the digital arts; introduction to critical/theoretical debates on such matters as cyberspace/virtual reality/multimedia/hypertext/on-line communities; the history of writing; history of the book; history of media forms; history of computing, artificial intelligence, and telecommunications networks; chaos theory and fuzzy logic; practical introduction to Javascript, Java, VRML, Shockwave, and other networked multimedia standards; electronic publishing, in both commercial and academic settings; systems administration and exposure to a programming/scripting language; fundamentals of linguistics and symbolic logic; project management skills; intellectual property and copyright issues; computer-assisted pedagogies. Curriculum for the second semester to follow. --Matt ==================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center From: Subject: Re: The Ethics of Research in Virtual Communities Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 342 (342) (fwd) I thought those on this list might be interested. Ian -- Ian Graham ................................. ian.graham@utoronto.ca Information Commons Tel: 416-978-4548 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-7705 ................. http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/ ..................... [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Fawcett Library update Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 343 (343) FAWCETT LIBRARY - NEWS Many thanks for all the support we have received. Over 350 emails have arrived and we are gradually answering them. They will be edited into a continuous volume. At the same time, some 30 MPs so far have replied and only 2 have expressed no interest. The others have been amazingly supportive with some classic, highly publishable, letters of support from leading women (and men) politicians. This is all very encouraging, and we are extremely grateful to the very many correspondents who have said such wonderful things about the project. However, clouds still gather. On 13 January, as the snows melted in the UK, there was another small flood in the Fawcett. This time, it was caused by a burst water main along the street. There was nothing we could do to stop it because the water came in under the floor of the Library. The Disaster Plan worked immediately and there was absolutely no damage to the books, archives etc. But as the attached notice shows, there was disruption and the Library is, we regret, closed for at least a couple of weeks while damage to the floors are assessed and the books and other collections protected. The issue of humidity is important here, as I am sure Humanist subscribers will know. So, the Library is still intact but the service has been suspended for no longer, we hope, than the end of the month. All this strengthens the case for the new Fawcett library. I will keep you informed of further developments, but also let you know when we have arranged a special internet site for news of the development. With best wishes for 1997 Deian ********************************* Deian R Hopkin Vice Provost London Guildhall University 31 Jewry Street London EC3N 2EY Tel 0171 320 1129 fax 0171 320 3018 hopkin@lgu.ac.uk (home) hopkin@btinternet.com *********************** NOTICE REGARDING THE FAWCETT LIBRARY. The Fawcett Library has been temporarily closed to personal visitors, due to flooding caused by a burst water main in Tyne Street, the street adjacent to the Library. There has been no damage to library materials, but repairs and refurbishments to the fabric of the building will have to be carried out before we can re-open again to personal visitors. We will let you know as soon as possible when the Library will re-open. In the meantime, our enquiry service is operating normally. Please contact us as follows: The Fawcett Library London Guildhall University Calcutta House Old Castle Street London E1 7NT Telephone 0171-320 1189 Fax 0171-320 1188 Email doughan@lgu.ac.uk From: Subject: Re: 10.0392 Project Gutenberg news Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 344 (344) [The following is from a man who recently asked to be taken off Humanist. When I enquired whether there was something wrong with us, he sent this response. I pass it on to you, because I think the "you" in his message should be read as 2nd person plural. --WM] Thank you for your generous commitment of time and effort to this project. It is much appreciated. I am terribly sorry I cannot keep up. Best wishes for the near year. Don Cress ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Donald A. Cress (815)-753-1066 office voice Professor, Department of Philosophy (815)-753-7950 office fax Associate Dean, Coll. of Lib. Arts & Sci. (630)-584-5804 home voice/fax Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: "Alan B. Howard" Subject: Training computing Humanists Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:22:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 345 (345) In response to Matthew Krschenbaum's question about how we train the next generation of computing humanists: Since Matthew is a colleague of mine here at the University of Virginia and since we have plenty of opportunities to discuss this important question face to face, I'm just taking advantage of his posting to point to what I think is a small, preliminary answer to his question, AS@UVA, the virtual space for the American Studies Programs at UVA. http://xroads.virginia.edu This space reflects the attempt over the past two years to integrate learning in the humanities and the new technologies for both undergraduate and graduate (M.A.) students. For a brief history/rationale of the program linked to samples of its products go to: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~AS@UVA/virtreal.html This program certainly doesn't accomplish all of the tasks on Matthew's very long list of things that need to be done by a comprehensive training regimen, but I think it is succeeding in teaching students how to think about the humanities through the technology, student satisfaction is very high, and students are being hired as information managers, online editors, webmasters, etc. at some very respectable places -- including museums, universities, governmental agencies and not-for-profits. Alan From: Willard McCarty Subject: disciplined training Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:20:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 346 (346) In Humanist 10.592, Matt Kirschenbaum helpfully lists the subject areas with which a well-trained computing humanist should have more than passing acquaintance, to wit: 1 text-encoding; digital image preparation and manipulation; 2 fundamentals of library science and information retrieval; 3 theory and practice of textual editing, both electronic and print; 4 principles of graphic design; 5 interface theory and design; 6 electronic poetry and fiction; 7 cyberpunk and edge culture; 8 digital music, the digital arts; 9 introduction to critical/theoretical debates on such matters as cyberspace/virtual reality/multimedia/hypertext/on-line communities; 10 the history of writing; 11 history of the book; 12 history of media forms; 13 history of computing, artificial intelligence, and telecommunications networks; 14 chaos theory and fuzzy logic; 15 practical introduction to Javascript, Java, VRML, Shockwave, and other networked multimedia standards; 16 electronic publishing, in both commercial and academic settings; 17 systems administration and exposure to a programming/scripting language; 18 fundamentals of linguistics and symbolic logic; 19 project management skills; 20 intellectual property and copyright issues; 21 computer-assisted pedagogies He promises a "curriculum for second semester" with, I assume, tongue firmly in cheek. He is dreaming (aren't you, Matt?) of such students and circumstances for learning that we all dream of, or at least those of us worth our salt. I'm afraid I'm trying to be practical, and so to select from this or a longer list a subset of topics that could form a reasonable MA programme, on the assumption that most of the incoming students would have little more than wordprocessing. I'm asking, what would your selection be, and how would you organise the topics into 3-5 courses a student could complete in a year? I haven't yet asked the question of whether a PhD programme in humanities computing is a good idea and what it might look like. Let's get the MA clear first. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0589 design of space Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 347 (347) At 10:24 PM +0000 1/14/97, Francois Lachance wrote: [deleted quotation] There is a classroom at Stanford furnished with nothing but ethernet ports and beanbag chairs. Students come in, check out a laptop, and invent their own layout, which can of course be changed at will. _________________________________________________________________________ Craig A. Berry craig-berry@nwu.edu From: Subject: Lingua Multilingual Parallel Concordancer Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 348 (348) [I received this update because of a link on one of my pages to the project described on the Web page mentioned below. Those Humanists involved in language teaching and in concordancing will be interested. --WM] Update The major development work and the product in use by the partners of the consortium is the Windows 3.1 program called MultiConcord. This proogram has been in use under trial around Europe for the last 18 months and is about to be commercialised. Your current link to CRIN in France is not inaccurate in that it contains a link to Birmingham, but it gives a misleading impression of the nature of the work which has actually been undertaken by the partners in the consortium in the past two years. In particular, the view of the interface given at the French site is nothing like that which is actually in use. The searching, sorting and testing facilities are now quite extensive and the alignment is done on-the-fly using a custom-built algorithm. The link to Birmingham is http//sun1.bham.ac.uk/johnstf/lingua.htm The program has been trialled in a number of European universities and has been used for high school teaching, second language teaching at university level and for translation studies. The research corpus now stands at around 100 texts covering 7 languages and about 23 different texts. Up to date details are regularly added to the Birmingham site. The project has just received approval for a fourth year of development which will extend coverage to Spanish, Portuguese, Scnadinavian languages and Finnish. We have also experimented with other languages, Afrikaans and Zulu among them, giving us A - Z coverage! Thanks David Woolls CFL Software Development (Programmer of Windows software to partners of consortium) From: jserventi@neh.fed.us Subject: NEH Education Program Grant Opportunities Date: Wed, 15 Jan 97 16:34:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 349 (349) 1997 DEADLINE DATES FOR NEH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION GRANTS The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and college faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the teaching and learning of history, literature, foreign languages and cultures, and other areas of the humanities. TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY is a special NEH initiative to support projects that use today's rapidly evolving information technologies to improve teaching and learning in the humanities. Proposals may be submitted for all categories and deadlines. The Education Development and Demonstration Program offers the following programs: *Humanities Focus Grants* Propose a study of a humanities topic during the summer or academic year with colleagues from your school building, school district, college or university. Work with humanities scholars. Application deadlines: April 18, 1997 and September 15, 1997 Funding available: up to $25,000 *Materials Development Projects* Develop educational materials for national dissemination. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years *Curricular Development and Demonstration Projects* Design a humanities study project for teachers or college faculty. Join with scholars from nearby colleges, universities, museums, and other cultural organizations to promote an ongoing academic partnership. Prepare model courses or curricula. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years *Dissemination and Diffusion Projects* Share information on exemplary projects in humanities education through national conferences, workshops, and networks. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years For more information about these grant opportunities, or if you have ideas about developing a project, please write or call: Education Development and Demonstration Division of Research and Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 Phone: 202/606-8380 FAX: 202/606-8394 e-mail: education@neh.fed.us TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282 Guidelines and application forms may be retrieved from the NEH World Wide Web site: <http://www.neh.fed.us> From: David Green Subject: The January issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available! Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:48:06 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 350 (350) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January Issue of D-Lib Magazine [deleted quotation] From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: Re: 10.0594 disciplined training Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:57:51 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 351 (351) [deleted quotation] Yes, tongue was in cheek, though I kicked myself moments after sending the post for not adding "public relations" as a final item. The list comes out of my own experiences at Virginia, where there is no official humanities computing program (other than the American Studies M.A. Alan Howard described) but where I've the good fortune to be surrounded by colleagues with whom I can discuss both the minutiae of TEI and the metaphysics of cyberspace. That combination of theory and practice (to vulgarize the terms of what's at issue) is, I believe, vital to any humanities computing program, whatever the actual structure of its coursework might be. --Matt ==================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center From: Richard Giordano Subject: Disciplined training Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:10:47 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 352 (352) Willard, You write, [deleted quotation] I think that you're being a little old fashioned in thinking that the delivery ofan MA program should be organized in 3-5 courses over the course of a year. I've organized a Masters course at the University of Manchester, and our students went through a series of short intensive courses during the first semester. That is, we covered a lot of material intensively. Then, still during the first semester, we took a couple of weeks in seminars so that students can *begin* to reflect on what they were taught. In the second semester, again students took intensive courses, but longer in duration, and these built upon what they got in the first semester. That is, students could begin to specialize in an area (or areas) that were of most interest or importance to them. Then, as will all masters in the UK, the students wrote a thesis that was the outcome of a project. This allows them to do something individual, and to show not only that they know the material, but also that they can put it all together creatively, and to do something new. There are three aspects that concerned me when putting the program together (other than getting it through various committees at the University): (1) being true to the discipline; (2) being true to the student; (3) being true to the economy (broadly defined). That is, will the material be delivered and understood in enough depth that we are not trivializing the subject? Can a student learn both the fundamentals and then concentrate on aspects of the work that is of most interest and relevance to him or her? Finally, will my students get a job at the end of this and will their employers think, "Geeze, they do some good work at Manchester"? I found through my experience that it's not simply a list of courses or topics that makes a degree program or even a rigid notion of what my students need to know. Instead, I needed (1) an overarching philosophy of what I want to achieve with the program and (2) a creative, sensitive and flexible way of putting the pieces togethe in order to get there. I think that the list provided to us from UVa makes a lot of sense (at least to me), but what helps decide the order and structure and timing of the material is the overarching philosophy or principle of what you want the program to achieve and a means of getting there. This will come from your close analysis of the state of the discipline (or, the state of play) now, what is should be, what's missing, and a choice of means of getting to where you want to be. This is a hard decision, believe me, and there is no single answer to that question. (There shouldn't be, because if there were, all degree programs would look alike.) It goes beyond a choice of topocs that you want to cover. For instance, the delivery of the material in itself helps to shape a student's awareness of the field as well as his or her place within it. It also helps a student understand his or her strengths and weaknesses. Maybe one approach you can take is to think about who owns problems and who owns solutions. You might say something like our information, teaching and research needs are *not* our problems, and the ownership of the solutions does *not* rest with us. We should have computer scientists come in and work-up solutions for us. Give the problems to librarians and let them worry about it. If a humanities student shows an interest in building textual resources, tell him or her to go to library school. Well, what's wrong with this picture? That should give you a start, at least in describing a push. But that is not enough. You need to describe a pull, as well. Where does it appear that research and teaching in the humanities are heading? What do we need, as far as information technology is concerned--its design, deployment, configuration, evaluation of use--to get there? How does this relate to the push that I outlined already? But this, too, is not enough. Then you have to decide if what you're describing is a goosed-up vocational program or something that is built upon theory and research, and if the program you come up with has research potential. This is important for a number of reasons. First, on the ground will not have masters essays worth reading unless there is an alement of research there. Second, without a research base, your program will fall into a steady state and not move forward. Finally, I think anyone would find it hard to get an MA program approved by a faculty unless it had a research potential. How do you see if there is a research potential? One approach may be to ask yourself, "what don't we know, why don't we know it, and who cares anyway?" So, as you can see, the appeal for courses and then trying to fit them in a rigid course structure is not, in my opinion, the way to put together a graduate level program. It demands more systemic thinking that takes into account the discipline, the student and the economy. From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: Re: 10.0594 disciplined training // computing humanists Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:53:55 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 353 (353) While I've been shamefully lurking for much of this discussion, thoughts towards how we might consider training the next generation of computing humanists lead me to considerations of how this generation of computing humanists was trained. Specifically, I think of people at various stages of their careers or educations, and from various disciplines within what we define as the 'humanities', looking to the computer as a tool -- one which could assist in various parts of their teaching, research, or other aspects of their professional/educational life. What I find stunning, and positively so, about this group of individuals is that each person took from HC (in whatever incarnation they found it, depending when over the past 30 or so years they first encountered it) that which they could make use of, or that which they had the suspicion or inking they could employ gainfully; once done, it has been my experience that they have contributed back the results of their efforts -- be such results work that on the surface does not betray a debt to computing humanism or that which makes a special point of such display, perhaps pushing the boundaries of what we consider the work of the computing humanist to be. It is the work of such individuals, combined with general societal and institutional trends towards computerization, that allow us today to consider even the idea of HC as a field; many of these people, I know, are subscribers to this list, or have been involved with it even more directly. This understanding of mine, wrong though it may be (and yet I hope this is not the case), leads me to respond to Matthew Kirschenbaum's earlier post . .. . and I do so via the two posts of message 10.0594 on HUMANIST. The 'virtual space' of which Alan B. Howard speaks sounds to be an excellent example not only of what computing humanists can do towards integrating "learning in the humanities and the new technologies" but also of what such an implementation can return to HC as a discipline, by way of exemplifying tangible service (assisting educational processes, giving students marketable skills, &c.) and by way of the very process of "technologizing" the other disciplines HC serves (in this case, American Studies). Given what I see as [a] a history of computing humanists, from a variety of disciplines, who have looked to HC for what it could bring to their own discipline, [b] these same people, returning from their own individual experiences results, tools, and the like that could be added to HC itself, and [c] the 'traditional' operation of HC in relation to humanities disciplines, as exemplified in Alan B. Howard's posting, as one 'serving' the other (though I do not mean in the least to imply servitude), I wonder if it is not improper to suggest that the curriculum for an advanced degree in HC should involve also a significant grounding in one of, or a general grounding in all, the fields to which HC has relevance. While Matthew Kirschenbaum's list is indeed quite useful in its quantification of the computing skills, and others, necessary for a well-rounded computing humanist, I believe that, to it, should be added the skills expected in a _humanist_ as well. The ideal computing humanist, in my mind, who might be 'shaped' (if you will) by a program such as that suggested earlier by Willard is this: a humanist who brings to his or her specific discipline an understanding and application of the computing tools which are relevant to it, and an open mind to explore others which may be so as well. Before selecting, then, from a list such as that which has been proposed, I propose that we add to that list also the skills necessary to all humanities disciplines; and, from that larger list, a reasonable MA program might be best formed -- though, in application, this would require a significant integration of an HC program into a larger humanities curriculum. (This does not help, I know, the immediate concern that the original list be fashioned into topics that could be gathered in a manageable number of courses for a one year program; this in itself is an admirable goal, and one worthy of much support as well.) ____ R.G. Siemens siemens@unixg.ubc.ca, http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm English, University of British Columbia Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies, http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" Subject: Re: 10.0594 disciplined training Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 22:47:28 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 354 (354) [deleted quotation] ....[the remainder omitted]... This is a fine list! Tastes much like what's on the menu at San Francisco State University's *Multimedia Studies Program.* See: http://www.cel.sfsu.edu/msp/msp2.html IMHO, Matt's list wisely pushes the prospective humanities-computing expert well beyond "humanities computing" (as usually defined and practiced). I think this is a very good thing! There is not a great demand for the "traditional" computing humanist. However, one who can master a vast array of multimedia design/publishing skills (1, 4, 5, 8, 15, 16, 17 and 19) opens many windows of opportunity both inside and outside academia. (O.k., mostly outside-- but is this a bad thing?) Two related comments: 1) I would like to see this discussion include a frank analysis of potential (academic and non-academic) employment opportunities. (Significantly, Alan Howard recognizes that a graduate program should prepare students for something in addition to a tenured, academic position.) 2) I think we must broaden our perspective of education to include home/distance/online learning. For example, what current, online resources could help someone, who already has significant humanities training, acquire some of the new-media skills listed by Matt? Best, Todd Todd J. B. Blayone / webRhetor todd@cyberjunkie.com / webrhetor@bitsmart.com http://www.netforward.com/bitsmart/?webrhetor 757 Victoria Park Ave. #1609 - Toronto, ON - Canada - M4C 5N8 From: Subject: Celebrating Democracy Inaugural Site (fwd) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 355 (355) Our national cultural institutions have partnered to create a Web site, Celebrating Democracy (http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/celeb/celeb.html) in conjunction with the Inauguration. Jointly developed by The Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Institution, The National Archives, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Celebrating Democracy features online presentations of presidential memorabilia, photographs and documents from past inaugurations and inaugural balls, and up-to-the-minute photographs of the 1997 inaugural festivities. The goal of the Web site is to encourage teachers, students, and lifelong learners to connect current events with American history by tapping into the vast resources now available online from Washington's national cultural institutions. From: Subject: unknown genre? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 356 (356) Here is the sort of query that, I suppose, would be utterly elusive to an algorithm. Since there are several learned and non-algorithmic entities here, I hope for some helpful answers. I am looking for any examples of writing that start out with or are shaped by an explanation for why the author cannot say anything useful about an assigned topic but which nevertheless succeed in contributing to this topic or are otherwise worthy. For my purposes it doesn't matter whether the author is being coy; all that matters is the genre (or would it be trope?), however genuine. If this genre has a name, I'd be grateful to know it. Thanks. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: ACL'97 / EACL'97 workshop on anaphora Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 357 (357) CALL FOR PAPERS ACL'97 / EACL'97 Workshop Madrid, Spain OPERATIONAL FACTORS IN PRACTICAL, ROBUST, ANAPHORA RESOLUTION FOR UNRESTRICTED TEXTS _____________________________________________________________________ After considerable initial research in algorithmic approaches to anaphora resolution in the seventies and after years of relative silence in the early eighties, this problem has again attracted the attention of many researchers in the last 10 years, with much new and promising work reported recently. Inspired by the increasing volume of such work, this workshop calls for submissions describing recent advances in the field and focusing on "robust", "parser-free", "corpus-driven", "empirically-based", and/or other practical approaches to resolving anaphora in unrestricted texts. Strategies for algorithmic anaphora resolution---arguably among the toughest problems in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing---so far have exploited predominantly traditional linguistic approaches. A disadvantage, however, of implementing such approaches stems from the need for representation and manipulation of the variegated types of linguistic and domain knowledge, with the concomitant expense of human input and computational processing. Even so, effectiveness still tends to depend on imposing suitable restrictions to the domain. While various new alternatives have been proposed, e.g. making use of a situation semantics framework or principles of reasoning with uncertainty, there is still a strong need for the development of robust and effective methods to meet the demand of practical NLP systems (with tasks ranging from content analysis to machine translation to discourse and dialogue processing), and to enhance further the automatic processing of growing language resources (e.g. by automatically annotating corpora with anaphor-antecedent links). This need for inexpensive, practical and, possibly, corpus-related approaches suitable for unrestricted texts has fuelled renewed research efforts in the field. Several proposals have already addressed the anaphora resolution problem by deliberately limiting the extent to which they rely on domain and/or linguistic knowledge, and by moving away from the traditional domain/sublanguage restriction. Observing a very clear trend towards inexpensive, knowledge-poor, corpus-based methods---which remain robust and scale well---it is clear that there is scope for much more to be done in this direction. A core issue here is that of optimal use of a set of contributing factors: these include, for instance, gender and number agreement, c-command constraints, semantic consistency, syntactic parallelism, semantic parallelism, salience, proximity and so forth. It is possible to impose an ordering on such factors, with respect to both their overall utility to the resolution process, and the expense associated with their computation in a particular linguistic framework and processing environment. The computational linguistics literature uses diverse terminology for these, reflecting their different operational status and, hence, contributing weight in the resolution process: for instance, "constraints" tend to be absolute, and therefore "eliminating"; "preferences", on the other hand, tend to be relative, and therefore require the use of additional criteria. One of the major difficulties with scaling up the strong, linguistically derived procedures to real data stems from the lack of systematic understanding of the interactions between, and limitations of, the plethora of factors posited by the different methods under names such as "constraints", "preferences", "attributes", "symptoms", and so forth. This workshop, therefore, has a dual focus. It solicits submissions describing work which addresses the practical requirements of operational and robust anaphora resolution components. It also seeks to investigate the role of, and interactions among, the various factors in anaphora resolution: in particular those that scale well, or that translate easily to knowledge-poor environments. The following questions are for illustrative purposes only: = Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora resolution? Are there factors that we are not fully aware of? Which of these are better suited for robust approaches, and what is their dependence upon strategies? = When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"? What is the case for languages other than English? = What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential" factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical data can be brought to bear on this? = What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting the antecedent? = Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts? = Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora automatically? = Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for particular type(s) of input text? WORKSHOP ORGANISERS Dr. Ruslan Mitkov Dr. Branimir K. Boguraev, School of Languages and European Studies Apple Research Laboratories University of Wolverhampton Apple Computer, Inc. Stafford St. One Infinite Loop, MS: 301-3S Wolverhampton WV1 1SB Cupertino, CA 95014 United Kingdom USA Tel (44-1902) 322471 Tel: (1-408) 974 1048 Email r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk Email: bkb@research.apple.com WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Breck Baldwin (University of Pennsylvania) Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) David Carter (SRI, Cambridge) Megumi Kameyama (SRI, Menlo Park) Christopher Kennedy (University of California, Santa Cruz) Shalom Lappin (University of London) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Celia Rico Perez (University Alfonso X el Sabio, Madrid) Frederique Segond (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble) Sandra Williams (BT Research Labs, Ipswich) SUBMISSIONS Authors are asked to submit previously unpublished papers; all submissions should be sent to Ruslan Mitkov. A limited number of position papers could also be considered. Each submission will undergo multiple reviews. The papers should be full length (not exceeding 3200 words, exclusive of references), also including a descriptive abstract of about 200 words. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred, either in self-contained LaTeX format (using the ACL-97 submission style; see: ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/, as well as the submission guidelines for the main conference, at http://www.ieec.uned.es/cl97/), or as a PostScript file. In exceptional circumstances, Microsoft Word files will also be accepted as electronic submissions, provided they follow the same formating guidelines. Hard copy submissions should include eight copies of the paper. A separate title page should include the title of the paper, names, addresses (postal and e-mail), telephone and fax number of all authors. Any correspondence will be addressed to the first author (unless otherwise specified). Authors will be responsible for preparation of camera-ready copies of final versions of accepted papers, conforming to a uniform format, with guidelines and a style file to be supplied by the organisers. ORGANISATION OF SESSIONS Presentations will be allocated 30 minutes slots each, distributed over a morning and an afternoon sessions, including an invited talk and a (closing) general discussion. WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION Due to space constraints, workshop attendance will be limited to about 40 participants. Priority will be given to authors of submissions; the rest of the participants will be registered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Details about registration will be included in the second announcement. Please note that according to the ACL/EACL workshop guidelines, all workshop participants must register for the ACL/EACL main conference as well. SCHEDULE Submission deadline: 14 March 1997 Notification of acceptance: 14 April 1997 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due: 05 May 1997 Workshop: 11 or 12 July 1997 FURTHER INFORMATION For further information concerning the workshop, please contact the organisers. For information about the main ACL'97/EACL'97 conference, see http://horacio.ieec.uned.es/cl97/. From: EVELYN EHRLICH Subject: Job Posting Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:02:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 358 (358) Title: Reference and Collection Development Librarian for Western European Languages and Literatures Description: Subject specialist for French, Italian and German languages and literatures assigned to the General and Humanities Reference Center, Bobst Library. Selects and evaluates resources in all formats including electronic texts; and participates in the preservation efforts of the library. Responsibilities include faculty liaison; reference assistance with materials in all formats, including electronic; library instruction covering traditional, online and Internet resources. Librarians serve as partners in the educational mission of NYU by establishing strong relationships with the faculty and students, building appropriate subject collections, and acting as intermediaries to the world of information. New York University Libraries: Library facilities at New York University serve the school's 50,000 students and faculty and contain more than 3.5 million volumes. The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library houses 2.5 million of these volumes and serves as the University's principal research resource. New York University is a member of the Research Libraries Group and serves as the administrative headquarters of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan, a consortium which includes three academic institutions in Greenwich Village. Qualifications: ALA accredited MLS, subject Master's degree required for tenure. Two years of successful public service and/or collection development experience in an academic library. Advanced degree in French or Italian preferred. Proficiency in French and Italian required. Knowledge of German desirable. Experience with electronic information retrieval, electronic texts in the humanities, Internet and other networked resources. Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong service orientation. Familiarity with bibliographic instruction recommended. Salary/Benefits: Faculty status, attractive benefits package including five weeks annual vacation. Salary commensurate with experience and background. Minimum: $34,000. Apply: To ensure consideration, send resume and letter of application, including the name, address and telephone number of three references by February 28, 1997, to: Jeffrey Slemmer, Personnel Director, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. NYU ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS Evelyn Ehrlich Humanities Bibliographer, Head of General & Humanities Reference New York University, 70 Washington Sq. South New York, New York 10012 (212) 998-2568 ehrliche@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu From: EVELYN EHRLICH Subject: Job Opening Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:53:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 359 (359) Title: Librarian for Digital Collections and Services (Search Extended) Description: Coordinates the design, production and delivery of multimedia image databases, digital collections and finding aids, electronic texts, and online exhibits; recommends imaging software, hardware and access tools, delivery and distribution mechanisms. Provides development assistance and support for digital projects to all library units. Serves on the reference desk. Works closely with the Electronic and Media Resources Librarian, Electronic Text Coordinator, Preservation Librarian, Electronic Publishing Manager, Special Collections Head and Automated Services Director. New York University Libraries: Library facilities at New York University serve the school's 50,000 students and faculty and contain more than 3.5 million volumes. The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library houses 2.5 million of these volumes and serves as the University's principal research resource. New York University is a member of the Research Libraries Group and serves as the administrative headquarters of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan, a consortium which includes three academic institutions in Greenwich Village. Qualifications: ALA accredited MLS, subject Master's degree required for tenure. Two years experience with electronic information resources and services, information technology and project management. Working knowledge of programming languages, graphics and imaging technologies, digital collections design and production, HTML, SGML, EAD, TEI Guidelines and PDF. Experience working in a networked client/server and web environment. Familiarity with MAC, PC (DOS and Windows), and UNIX operating systems, multimedia applications, web development software applications and video applications over the net. Public service and/or systems experience in an academic library or comparable institution. Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills. Familiarity with digital library trends. Ability to lead in an emerging specialty. Salary/Benefits: Faculty status, attractive benefits package including five weeks annual vacation. Salary commensurate with experience and background. Minimum: $38,000. Apply: To ensure consideration, send resume and letter of application, including the name, address and telephone number of three references by February 28, 1997 to: Mr. Jeffrey Slemmer, Personnel Director, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. Preliminary interviews at ALA Midwinter Meeting. NYU ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS Evelyn Ehrlich Humanities Bibliographer, Head of General & Humanities Reference New York University, 70 Washington Sq. South New York, New York 10012 (212) 998-2568 ehrliche@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu From: Subject: Re: 10.0600 disciplined training Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 360 (360) This recent discussion of what would and should constitute a curriculum in humanities computing makes me wonder if we might not be moving too quickly toward programmatizing training in humanities computing. Shouldn't we be training humanists first who can then, or along the way, be trained in computing technology? "R.G. Siemens" responded earlier in this thread with a consideration of where today's generation of computing humanists received their training. In that retrospective, Siemens suggests the following about what such programs might "shape": [deleted quotation] This description seems to presume that the prospective computing humanist already possesses training and expertise in a discipline and brings that knowledge and perspective to their use of technology. If we offer programs in humanities computing to students who are just beginning, realistically, to become experts in their disciplines aren't we running the risk of churning out excellent cart-builders who have only rudimentary understanding of horseflesh? I suggest we examine the value of advanced training in humanities computing at the M.A. or even Ph.D. level largely from my own observations of technologists, humanists, and that hybrid creature, computing humanists. This semester I have the good fortune of working with Dr. Joseph Viscomi in a seminar studying Blake and Hypertext. One of the observations I can make about Dr. Viscomi's approach to humanities computing is that he is first a well-trained humanist and scholar who has, as R.G. Siemens suggests, approached technology to find its connections with his scholarship and not vice versa. (I'll CC Dr. Viscomi so his ears don't burn in ignorance of the invocation.) Perhaps the curriculum being suggested by Howard, Kirschenbaum, Giardano, McCarty and others might be better suited to a post-doctoral program rather than an M.A. or Ph.D. program. In this way the next generation of computing humanists will be able to bring to the table the same strong disciplined training that the current generation appears to have brought. --chad kearsley -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chad D. Kearsley Dept. of English, UNC-Chapel Hill chad_kearsley@unc.edu Institute for Academic Technology www.unc.edu/~chadk/ www.unc.edu/depts/english www.iat.unc.edu/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Claire Smith Subject: 10 Downing Street Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:39:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 361 (361) 10 Downing Street http://www.number-10.gov.uk/ Text only: http://www.number-10.gov.uk/to/index.html The British Prime Minister's Office has recently opened a web site, 10 Downing Street. Although it does contain selected Prime Minister's speeches, transcripts, and interviews, Prime Minister's biographies (back to Harold Macmillan at present), and a tour of #10, its greatest utility is as an entry point to British executive department government sites. The Cabinet Ministers' Biography section contains information on 23 ministers and links to cabinet web sites. There is also a page of government department pointers. [JS] Claire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Claire Smith / Computing in the Humanities & Social Sciences (CHASS Facility) University of Toronto/ Robarts Library, 14th Floor / 130 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A5 / Phone: (416) 978-2535 / Fax: (416) 978-6519 Internet: csmith@chass.utoronto.ca URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~csmith/ From: "Irving D. Goldfein" Subject: Encyclopaedia Judaica CD-ROM Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:39:55 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 362 (362) I am pleased to announce the forthcoming release of the CD-ROM version of the _Encyclopaedia Judaica_ (March '97.) Please contact me directly for detailed content information and/or the special pre-release sale price, ordering information, etc. *************************************************************** Irving D. Goldfein, M.Ed., Ph.D., InfoMedia Judaica, Ltd. Voice: 810-354-6415 Fax: 810-352-2665 E-mail: goldfein@ix.netcom.com Orders: 800-303-3365 *************************************************************** From: Willard McCarty Subject: not modesty Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:14:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 363 (363) My thanks to all the replies to my query in Humanist 10.602 about naming a kind of writing that seeks to explain why an author cannot address a given topic. Most of the suggestions point to the "affected modesty" topic, described for example by Curtius in European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages 5.3 (pp. 83-5). The objective, Curtius notes, is to put the listener in a favourable state of mind through a modest presence, which the orator must draw attention to, thus rendering any such modesty affected. The topic extends to writing in which the author claims that his or her language is artless, unaffected, or unschooled or assures us that the work is undertaken in fear and trembling. It can be confused with the "devotional formula", in which the author abases himself, so that submission and incapacity are identified. The author may claim, truthfully or otherwise, that the work was commanded, and so its composition or performance is compelled, merely an act of obedience. What I have in mind verges on "affected modesty" where it is a declaration of submission and incapacity, as for example when a speaker or writer agrees to undertake a topic (i.e. submits to a request and so is bound by obligation), then finds that he or she cannot comply (discovers incapacity). What is crucial to the form I am seeking to name is that the explanation of incapacity itself becomes a significant contribution to the topic. The author does not dismiss the assigned topic as nonsense but cogently studies why a satisfactory response is not possible. Any further ideas? Thanks to Michel Lenoble for the reference to Berbard Dupriez, "Gradus"; Eric Lerner for suggesting the Preface to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, Ned Muhovich for Tristram Shandy, and Marta Steele for bits from Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Met.; Craig Berry, Tom Dillingham, Sarah Higley, Fred Levy, Ted Parkinson, Gary Shawver, and Michael Sperberg-McQueen for the pointer to "affected modesty" (occupatio, praeteritio). It's been too long since I last read Tristram Shandy for me to recall how well it might fit; Wittgenstein's Preface comes close. All the replies mentioned here are included below. Thanks again. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Eric Lerner Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:02:05 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 364 (364) Willard -- Your query brings to mind the Preface to Ludwig Wittgenstein's _Philosophical Investigations_, surely one of the seminal works of 20th century philosophy, which concludes, "I make [these remarks] public with doubtful feelings. It is not impossible that it should fall to the lot of this work, in its poverty and in the darkness of this time, to bring light into one brain or another--but, of course, it is not likely ... I should have liked to produce a good book. This has not come about, but the time is past in which I could improve it." I hope this helps. Eric Lerner *********************************************************** Eric J. Lerner Extension Associate Cornell Community & Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) 48 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 voice: (607) 255-2833 email: EJL11@cornell.edu URL: <http://www.cals.cornell.edu/dept/cardi/> From: Ted Parkinson Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:18:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 365 (365) The "trope" sounds close to the medieval modesty topos. For example, at the beginning of his tale the Franklin says, "colours of rhetoric have I none" (or something like that). Explorers also use this, but they tend to say that they are not very good at writing, and not that they don't have anything useful to say. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ted Parkinson Department of English McMaster University parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Hamilton, Ontario From: Gary Shawver Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: 17 Jan 97 09:11:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 366 (366) Willard, Are we really talking genre here, or a particular type of prologue? Curtius discusses what he calls modesty topoi in Chapter 5, Section 3 of _European Lit. and the Latin Middle Ages_, but that doesn't quite seem to fit. Sincerely, --------------------------------------------------------- Gary W. Shawver E-Mail W3 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/> From: "Craig A. Berry" Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:41:37 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 367 (367) Sounds like you are looking for the trope of occupatio, also known as praeteritio. One of my favorite examples is the opening of _The House of Fame_, where Chaucer claims not to know what causes the various kinds of dreams, but in enumerating all of the different kinds of dreams whose cause he is utterly incapable of stating, he underhandedly demonstrates that he knows a great deal about dream theory and the possible causes of every kind of dream there is. A modern example would be a politician saying, "I do not know whether the charges others have made against my opponent are true, nor do I consider it appropriate for me to speculate about such shocking and disturbing allegations." Basically, it's a way to get credit for keeping one's mouth shut while still presenting something to the reader/listener. _________________________________________________________________________ Craig A. Berry craig-berry@nwu.edu From: Michael Sperberg-McQueen Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 20:41:26 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 368 (368) On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:53:27 +0000 (GMT) you said: [deleted quotation] Why? It's true that no obvious algorithm leaps to my mind; this is far from being an argument that no algorithm can exist ... Surely you are trying to mess with our minds. [deleted quotation] Do you mean other than praeteritio (which lacks the notion of contribution to a topic)? Michael From: TOM DILLINGHAM Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:36:45 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 369 (369) There is the "trope of affected modesty" which was common both in public oratory and in certain nonfiction prose--as well as pervasive in epistles dedicatory. Could that be what you mean? Tom Dillingham From: "Sarah L. Higley" Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:53:43 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 370 (370) It's called _occupatio_ in medieval rhetoric, which of course is a rhetorical term for a device or a trope, not a genre. SH From: Ned Muhovich Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:09:46 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 371 (371) Willard-- Would _Tristam Shandy_ fit that category? It's been awhile since I read it. Ned ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ned Muhovich University of Denver emuhovic@du.edu (303)871-2455 From: Fred Levy Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:03:22 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 372 (372) Willard: Is this a version of the "modesty topos"? (so-called) If so, there is (I believe) information on it in E. Auerbach. I'm sorry I can't be more specific -- I'm not near my books at the moment. Fritz Levy From: Lenoble Michel Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:36:29 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 373 (373) Willard, Have a look at Berbard Dupriez's book called "Gradus". It is about tropes, or even better, contact him directly. M.L. =================================================================== Michel LENOBLE | Tel. et fax: (514) 485-1799 From: Marta Steele Subject: the elegant "useless"? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:36:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 374 (374) Willard, Try _Aeneid_ 22.10-13 and its prototype _Od._ 7.241-43 to start with; for these I owe credit to a lecture on Virgil I attended yesterday. Beyond that, what about all of Cicero's disclaimers (I will not discuss this...) which he proceeds in his oratory to contract with long diatribes. Is that what you were after? The topic sentence contradicted by rest of "paragraph"; words contradicted by actions taken in narrative; what is the deep structure of the logic and the ultimate gestalt? Perhaps we can translate this structure into art forms as well? Where? Marta Steele (imaginative on a foggy cold afternoon) From: Loretta S Lobes Subject: American Memory Fellow Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 375 (375) January 10, 1997 Dear Colleague, The Library of Congress' National Digital Library and the EDC Center for Children and Technology are pleased to announce the American Memory Fellows Program, an exciting opportunity for outstanding teachers, librarians and media specialists to improve the teaching of American history and culture in their school, region and nationally. Fellows will participate in the National Digital Library Educators Institute, July 28 - August 1, 1997, and will develop model teaching materials around the American Memory collections, the Library's renowned primary source archives in American history and culture, now available on the World Wide Web at www.loc.gov. The Library is seeking applications from 2-member teams of master teachers, librarians, media specialists and other education professionals who: * Have frequent access to and a high level of comfort using the web, e-mail and other technologies; * Have experience using primary sources to motivate students, promote critical thinking, and help students connect history to their own lives; * Are active leaders in their fields, with the ability to disseminate their expertise to teachers and/or librarians in their community and region. If you meet these requirements, please read the enclosed materials carefully and fill out and return your application by March 1, 1997. (No e-mail, fax or disk-based applications, please.) In addition, we encourage you to copy and/or pass these materials on to appropriate colleagues in your school, organization or elsewhere. If you have any questions, please contact Bill Tally (212.807.4206 / btally@edc.org) or Nancy Rosenbaum (212.807.4216 / nrosenbaum@edc.org). The 50 educators chosen to become Fellows in 1997-98 will shape the way that the Library's uniquely rich primary source collections are used by teachers and students across the country. We look forward to receiving an application from you. Martha Dexter Bill Tally National Digital Library Center for Children & Technology The Library of Congress Education Development Center The American Memory Fellows Program Application Form and Guidelines Application must be postmarked by MARCH 1, 1997 E-mail, fax or disk-based applications will NOT be accepted. Introduction With support from the Kellogg Foundation, the Library of Congress' National Digital Library is sponsoring The American Memory Fellows Program, the first in a series of institutes to help schools make powerful educational use of the American Memory collections. Helping facilitate the institute is the EDC Center for Children and Technology, a non-profit education development firm. The American Memory collections are digitized primary source documents in American history and culture now available on the World Wide Web at www.loc.gov. The 17 collections now on-line include: BROADSIDES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA MATTHEW BRADY'S CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS AFRICAN AMERICAN PAMPHLETS FROM THE TURN OF THE CENTURY EARLY FILMS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF URBAN AMERICA ORAL HISTORIES FROM THE DEPRESSION ERA These rich primary resources offer great potential for strengthening humanities instruction, by helping students actively engage in the study of history, develop critical thinking skills, and connect history to their own lives. The American Memory Fellows Program will gather teams of middle and high school humanities teachers and library/media specialists from across the country to learn about these unique resources and to create exemplary teaching units that can be shared with other educators. Fellows will enjoy a lively professional development experience with outstanding colleagues and will shape the way the Library's unique primary source collections are used in schools across the country. American Memory Fellows Will Spend a week in Washington, DC at the Library of Congress, learning about current American Memory collections, and those that are upcoming; Learn strategies for integrating web-based archival material into classroom teaching and learning; Work with colleagues to create and publish an on-line teaching unit based on primary documents from the collections; Learn from Library staff and scholars about the historical and cultural issues surrounding the primary source collections. American Memory Fellows Are Required To Form a 2-person team with a fellow teacher, librarian, curriculum coordinator, media specialist or other educatorional professional and define a shared teaching objective in American history, English or social studies; Attend the National Digital Library Educators Institute, a 5-day summer institute in Washington DC, from July 28 to August 1, 1997; Create, test and revise a teaching unit based on the collections to be used with students in the 1997-98 academic year; Participate in weekly on-line discussions (up to 2 hours per week) during an Orientation Seminar in Spring 1997, and participate for at least 6 months in the NDL Teacher Network following the Institute; Disseminate their expertise with the American Memory materials in one or more professional forums during the spring or summer of 1997. American Memory Fellows Will Receive Transportation to Washington, DC, and a stipend of $1000 to cover lodging and dinners, with the remainder as an honorarium; Professional development in the use of web-based archival resources and the creation of model teaching materials; Opportunities to publish high-quality work on-line, as part of the American Memory Learning Page. SELECTION CRITERIA Mandatory Requirements A team of two colleagues must be proposed, one of whom has past or current classroom experience as a K-12 humanities teacher. (Humanities means primarily history, social studies and language arts, but can include art, geography or interdisciplinary subjects if these are taught so that American history and culture are prominent). Both applicants must have their own e-mail accounts, and easy access to the World Wide Web for 2-4 hours per week. The application must be complete and postmarked by March 1, 1997. An independent review panel will read and evaluate all applications meeting the mandatory requirements. The panel includes a K-12 teacher and historian, a librarian, and a curriculum and technology specialist. Applications will be evaluated on the strength of both individual and team sections. Notification letters will be mailed to all applicants during the week of April 14, 1997. Additional requirements Both Team Members: Significant involvement in professional activities (workshops, conferences, meetings, publications) as leaders who have impact on colleagues and the field, and who will be able to disseminate their work as American Memory Fellows. Either Or Both Team Members: Familiarity with and comfort using a variety of educational technology applications that may include the Internet, multimedia databases, and presentation software. Familiarity with teaching approaches that accord with recent standards in history, social studies or language arts; and in particular, strategies for using primary sources to motivate students, develop critical thinking skills, and help students connect history to their own lives. Further Guidelines Selecting a Partner -- The Team Concept Helping students use on-line historical archives for learning requires knowledge of curriculum, experience with new technologies, strategies for searching large databases and skill guiding students to understand primary sources. Teams should be formed in order to a) provide a complementary range of these skills, and b) increase the potential for disseminating project activities in your district, state or region. The team will be especially strong if both partners are active in professional networks and are able to share their work as Fellows with teachers, librarians and others throughout their region. One of the team members must have past or current classroom experience as a K-12 humanities teacher. (Humanities means primarily history, social studies and language arts, but can include art, geography or interdisciplinary subjects if these are taught so that American history and culture are prominent). School library/ media specialists are also strongly encouraged to apply, since they can play a pivotal role in helping teachers and students use new resources well. However, successful teams may include people from a variety of backgrounds: curriculum coordinators, media and technology specialists, curriculum developers and instructors in nearby colleges or universities, or other education professionals. Teams need not be based in a single school. Most important are a desire to work together, a range of complementary skills, and capacity to have ongoing impact in your district, state or region. Technology Access And Use Significant Institute work will take place on-line, both before and after the 5-day meeting in Washington. Frequent access to your own e-mail account and to the World Wide Web is therefore a strict requirement for participation. Access may be from a school lab or library, from a principal's office, or from home, but it needs to be reliable. You must be able to read and reply to e-mail at least 3 times a week, and you must be able to access the Web, using a popular browser such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, at least twice a week, for 2 to 4 hours total. (Educators who do not currently have this level of technology access are encouraged to keep in touch with the Library and register for future institutes.) Teaching Approaches Primary sources do not tell the story of history by themselves. They require active reading, questioning and further research on the part of students. Team members should be familiar with teaching strategies that encourage students to read critically, pose their own questions, locate and interpret a variety of source materials, discuss and debate issues, engage in analytical and imaginative writing, and work collaboratively with peers. INQUIRIES Inquiries About The Fellows Program: Martha Dexter, National Digital Library (202) 707-0805 mdex@loc.gov Bill Tally, EDC Center for Children and Technology (212) 807-4206 btally@edc.org Inquiries About The Application Process: Nancy Rosenbaum, EDC/Center for Children and Technology (212) 807-4216 nrosenbaum@edc.org Inquiries About The American Memory Collections: National Digital Library On-line Reference Librarian ndlpedu@loc.gov SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION Please send your completed application by March 1, 1997 to: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS National Digital Library 101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Washington, DC 20540-1320 E-mail, fax or disk-based applications will NOT be accepted. The American Memory Fellows Program Application Cover Sheet & Checklist Please Type or Print Legibly Applicant A Contact Information Applicant B Contact Information Name: ____________________ Name: ____________________ Title: ____________________ Title: ____________________ Institution: ____________________ Institution: ____________________ Address: ____________________ Address: ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Phone: (h) ____________________ Phone: (h) ____________________ (w) ____________________ (w) ____________________ Fax: ____________________ Fax: ____________________ E-Mail: ____________________ E-Mail: ____________________ SS# ____________________ SS# ____________________ (for compensation purposes) (for compensation purposes) Does Your Application Include The Following? (Please Check) ( ) APPLICATION COVER SHEET & CHECKLIST ( ) APPLICANT A INFORMATION SHEET ( ) APPLICANT B INFORMATION SHEET ( ) APPLICANT A INDIVIDUAL ESSAY ( ) APPLICANT B INDIVIDUAL ESSAY ( ) A TEAM ESSAY, COMPLETED BY BOTH APPLICANTS JOINTLY ( ) POSTMARKED BY MARCH 1, 1997 The American Memory Fellows Program APPLICANT A INFORMATION SHEET Please Type or Print Legibly Name: Home Address: City/State/Zip: Phone (home): (work): E-mail: Race/Ethnicity (Optional): ( )Asian ( )Black ( )Caucasian ( )Hispanic ( )Other: Please Indicate Whether You Are: ( ) K-12 humanities teacher Grade level(s): ___________ Subject(s): ( ) School library/media specialist Grade levels served: ( ) Other (please specify): School Or Other Institution Where Currently Employed: Institution: Address: City/State/Zip: Phone: ____________________ Principal or Supervisor: If school, please indicate: ( Public ( Private ( Parochial Years of experience as teacher/librarian/educator: __________ The American Memory Fellows Program APPLICANT B INFORMATION SHEET Please Type or Print Legibly Name: Home Address: City/State/Zip: Phone (home): (work): E-mail: Race/Ethnicity (Optional): ( )Asian ( )Black ( )Caucasian ( )Hispanic ( )Other: Please Indicate Whether You Are: ( ) K-12 humanities teacher Grade level(s): ___________ Subject(s): ( ) School library/media specialist Grade levels served: ( )Other (please specify): School Or Other Institution Where Currently Employed: Institution: Address: City/State/Zip: Phone: ____________________ Principal or Supervisor: If school, please indicate: ( Public ( Private ( Parochial Years of experience as teacher/librarian/educator: __________ GUIDELINES FOR INDIVIDUAL ESSAYS Each proposed team member should respond to the following questions in a maximum of 3 typed single-spaced pages. Please put "Individual Essay" and your name at the top, and number your responses as shown below. 1. Personal And Professional Interests Please briefly describe the personal and professional interests you will bring to the American Memory Fellows Program. Include any particular interests in American history and culture, primary sources, and new technologies. 2. Technology Access Please describe your current access to technology. Specifically, explain where, how often, and through what software and/or service provider you have access to: a) your own e-mail account; and b) the World Wide Web. Note: Minimum e-mail access required is 3x/week; minimum web access required is 2x/week for 2-4 hours total, using a popular browser such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer. 3. Technology Use Please describe yourself as a user of new technologies. Discuss how you use them a) in relation to humanities teaching and learning; and b) in your day-to-day personal and professional activities. Include any significant use of e-mail, the Internet, newsgroups and bulletin boards, multimedia programs, databases, presentation tools, etc. Indicate with examples the purposes for which you have used the technologies, and your level of proficiency with them (e.g., novice, proficient, advanced). 4. Use Of Primary Resources For Teaching & Learning Please describe a curriculum activity you have designed and conducted with students of which you are particularly proud, especially one involving primary sources of some kind. (If you are not a classroom teacher or librarian, describe an occasion in which you used primary sources to help students or colleagues discover something new.) Indicate your goal in the activity, the materials you used, the teaching and learning methods you employed, and what you learned from students' (or your own) responses. 5. Leadership And Dissemination Please describe your current involvement in professional networks, and the ways in which you have impact on colleagues and in your field. Include any relevant publications, conference presentations, staff development workshops, district-wide activities and professional meetings you help organize or lead. Do not simply list your professional affiliations or the conferences you attend. Explain how you strive to influence education practitioners or policy-makers through these activities. Attach a resume or vita if appropriate. Guidelines For Team Essay Team members should respond to the following questions jointly, in a maximum of 2 typed single-spaced pages. Explain the strengths of your team and how you will work together. Please put "Team Essay" and your names at the top, and number your responses to correspond with the questions below. 1. Shared Interests And Skills What shared interests do you bring to the project? Discuss areas of overlap, and also, areas of divergence. What skills does each team member bring? 2. Project Ideas Please describe a student project or curriculum activity you want to develop together around primary sources using the American Memory collections. What will the curriculum context be? What materials will students use, and how will they work with them? What will be the goal of the activities? 3. Collaboration Please describe how you have worked together in the past, and/or how you will work together after the Institute. What opportunities for joint work do you have? What practical challenges will you need to address in order to work together? How will you deal with these challenges? What administrative support will you have (i.e., from superintendents, school administrators, etc.)? 4. Dissemination Please describe the environments and activities through which your team will disseminate your work as American Memory Fellows in your district, state or region, both jointly and individually. (i.e., a school district? State curriculum committee? Professional organization meetings?) What audiences will you target? What partners or administrative support will you involve? ******************************** Paul Filio, Teacher, Social Studies, Hughes Center Cincinnati Public Schools email: pfilio@iac.net Home Page: http://www.iac.net/~pfilio/ ******************************** Excerpts from mail: 10-Jan-97 H-HIGH-S Digest - 8 Jan 199.. by Automatic processor@msu. [deleted quotation] From: "Peter D. Junger" Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:19:25 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 376 (376) Would not an example of your genre be Wittgenstein's Tractatus, with its famous conclusion---rather than beginning---``Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, davon muss man schweigen''? From: Francois Lachance Subject: most humble genre Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:52:37 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 377 (377) Willard, The genre you descibe sound like "sermo humilis" in the Christian tradition. Eric Auerbach offers in Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages a paper on the subject. There maybe something similar in the Taoist tradition... -- Francois From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:43:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 378 (378) "start out with or are shaped by an explanation for why the author cannot say anything useful about an assigned topic but which nevertheless succeed in contributing to this topic or are otherwise worthy." Doesn't this fall under the so-called (because usually ironic) modesty topos? Pat Galloway MS Dept. of Archives and History From: Willard McCarty Subject: humanities computing Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 16:55:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 379 (379) Chad Kearsley's message in Humanist 10.600 is indeed very helpful in thinking about how to take humanities computing seriously in the institutional sense, i.e. as an academic subject. To teach it in the form of a postdoctoral programme is a cogent proposal worth some thought; such a programme need not exclude teaching the subject earlier in a person's career. Perhaps we can take up the subject of a postdoctoral programme later, or now as a related thread. Ideally a computing humanist is someone entirely competent both in a non-technical field and in applied computing. Such competence is rarely going to be achieved at the MA level, so we should design a programme as a serious introduction to the tools and methods at the point where the student has a coherent idea about some field of application but not mastery of it. I would assume that such a programme should aim at training two kinds of students: those who plan on a non-academic career, and those who subsequently take up more advanced graduate work. I conclude from those who work or have worked outside the academy that serious training in applied computing in fact constitutes very good preparation for jobs in the business world, and that students with this training tend to be attractive to employers. I would assume that we cannot afford to ignore them in the design of an MA programme, and it seems to me that accommodating them should not be difficult at all nor should it in any way diminish its value for the other kind. For the career academic an MA programme would aim at giving students a serious methodological introduction so that they have the range of possibilities in mind as their specialised interests come into focus. In my experience over the last 6 years such introductions work best before students have done any significant amount of work on their dissertations. (Once the dissertation is underway, few students want to hear about such possibilities, or should; finishing is their chief desire.) With this training, once they settle into an area of advanced work they tend quickly to grasp where computing methods will help; they have an idea of how their research will be affected and so have a much better chance of choosing intelligently what to do. Adding applied computing into existing graduate programmes without otherwise altering them is problematic, it seems to me, because the students already have enough to do. Interest is so great that they will nevertheless attend informal courses and workshops, but they tend not to stay because the pressures on them from their home departments are considerable. If we postpone training altogether until after the PhD, how are we properly to serve the academy or how to attract sufficient students? At that point they are very busy attempting to find gainful employment and so produce the rather conventional kind of published work that they must have to their credit. Large amounts of money for postdoctoral fellowships would of course help, but we don't have this money. So, I would argue, an MA programme is a very good idea, I would think for a significant proportion of the student population. Not for all of them. To some extent, I'd suppose, computing has or will become a universal feature of scholarly work, but I cannot see that every kind of research will ever demand a consciously deep involvement. Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: Re: 10.0606 disciplined training Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 17:53:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 380 (380) I don't think I'd ever want to argue that a humanities computing program should exist in a disciplinary vacuum, but Chad Kearsley's recent post tempts me to play devil's advocate and ask why in this thread we (all) seem reluctant to imagine the computer as anything more than a supplement to fields already established in the humanities; is it not possible to conceive of the computer as an inherently humanistic instrument? Similarly, if we take "humanities computing" as a rubric for such things as the "history of writing" or the underground electronic music scene (as well as TEI and TACT), doesn't this inevitably lead on to inquiry in areas recognizable to us on their own terms? Or, to reverse the question, are not courses and curricula in the humanities -- the daily grind -- sometimes susceptible to the institutionalized abstractions which lead to what the poet and critic Don Byrd calls "statistical reality"? I'm reminded of a passage near the end of Norbert Wiener's _The Human Use of Human Beings_: "I have spoken of machines, but not only machines having brains of brass and thews of iron. When human atoms are knit into an organization in which they are used, not for their full right as responsible humans beings, but as cogs and levers and rods, it matters little that their raw material is flesh and blood. _What is used as an element in a machine, is in fact an element in the machine_. Whether we entrust our decisions to machines of metal, or to those machines of flesh and blood which are bureaus and vast laboratories and armies and corporations, we shall never receive the right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions" (emphasis in original). Which of course begs the question of what the right questions are. --Matt ==================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center From: "Alan B. Howard" Subject: Re: 10.0606 disciplined training Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:15:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 381 (381) In response to Chad Kearsley: I heartily agree that the problem is to integrate learning and teaching in the humanities. I also agree also that one danger we face is the temptation to substitute training in the technology for improved training in the disciplines; the technology will allow us to do it faster, to distribute it more widely, to reach audiences outside our normal orbits, and to do all of this with the extraordinary impacet that this technology delivers right now. But, as Thoreau remarked on the introduction of the telegraph, faster and farther reaching communication amounts to little if no one has anything worth saying. And so I'd like, again, to invite Chad and others to take a serious look at http://xroads.virginia.edu This site is dedicated to learning THROUGH the technology, not under it or beside it or in addition to it. The technology provides a new and very powerful way of doing interdisciplinary studies, not simply a novel delivery system for disseminating the same old product. It is focused on undergraduates and Masters-level students -- not on post doctoral candidates. And, while it does not yield the kind of perfect blend of Humanities Scholar and Systems Engineer some think desirable and necessary, it does yield students who go on to Ph.D. programs in the Humanities (including the American Studies Program at Chad's own UNC) as well as writers and information managers at Humanities related locations like The Chronicle of Higher Education, PoliticsUSA, Edmark, and Harper Collins. In short, I believe that the real challenge is to integrate the technology into teaching at every level. I believe that that won't be easy because it will require re-thinking how andwhy we teach on adiscipline-by-discipline basis. And this will require great imagination and courage not alone because these qualities are no more widely dispersed in academia than in the population at large, but also because the technology offers the comfortable illusion of progress that is, at bottom, little more than more attractive packaging. Alan From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 10.0606 disciplined training Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:58:27 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 382 (382) In this discussion, where I already tried to take part, if "humanities curriculum" means curriculum in the British university, then disregard what follows. Otherwise, Siemens' opinion [deleted quotation] misses the point, because it is NOT computing tools which matter, but the principles of computing. If you do not understand them, you will never be able to utilize the "tools" sensibly. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it CISADU - Fac. di Lettere Tel. 39.6.4991-3936 P.zale Aldo Moro, 5 Fax 39.6.4991-3945 00185 Roma From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" Subject: Re: 10.0606 disciplined training Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 00:38:27 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 383 (383) [deleted quotation] Your comments seem to presuppose that "the humanities" transcends particular communications technologies. Matt's program appears to recognize that cultural production and research is always bound up with particular communications technologies. In this way, his program is not an add-on, but a reconceptualization of the humanities (as traditionally understood). A student of this program would study/practice the production/mediazation, transmediazation, transmission, and reception of (traditional and non-traditional) cultural phenomena in computer media. Such a program would be wildly interdisciplinary (by current humanist standards) and would be taught by a variety of academics and other specialists (traditional literature/language scholars, new-media artists/authors, media critics, Web designers, programmers, business people, etc.) Perhaps Matt can correct me if I am simply reading my prejudices into his proposed program of study. --Todd Todd J. B. Blayone / webRhetor todd@cyberjunkie.com / webrhetor@bitsmart.com http://www.netforward.com/bitsmart/?webrhetor 757 Victoria Park Ave. #1609 - Toronto, ON - Canada - M4C 5N8 From: Subject: 10.0580 technocrats, libraries, preservation Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 384 (384) I too wish to comment on the statement made by Dr. Peter Herman about the people running our libraries. The pressure for tossing out printed materials is not from librarians, it's the technocrats and many upper level administrators who neither understand scholarly communications nor the need to preserve original works. On the contrary, librarians are the most concerned about this "head long" plunge into technocracy. Even with electronic formats preservation is a major concern for libraries and the nation. Librarians are not the culprit here! Ruth M. Jackson, Ph.D. From: Francois Lachance Subject: discipline Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:20:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 385 (385) Willard, It was Matt's almost throwaway comment about PR... Not to invoke the image of the scholar-entrepreneur but professors do profess and do promote arefacts and approaches. These activities represent a set of skills that have a place in the formation of any graduant of a programme in humanities computing. These skills are not always acquired by osmosis. It is for this reason I believe that a programme in humanities computing might profitably open some space for issues of pedagogy, ie. theorizing about the teaching of skills related to either or both computing and humanities scholarship. I say this with an eye on the job market. New postings outside the academy are asking for skill sets that marry design (desktop publishing and Web applications) and programming (running networks, servers, writing CGI scripts etc.) Very soon a third component will be added to these: the ability to teach others and even the experience of teaching teachers. Leadership & management skills development such as grant writing, project appraisal, report writing, interpersonal savoir-faire could be components integrated across the curriculum or they might be reflected in entrance requirements. They would benefit disciples. -- Francois From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" Subject: Re: 10.0608 disciplined training Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:38:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 386 (386) [deleted quotation] IMHO, the time is coming (for some, is here) when every kind of research will assume an *un*consciously deep involvement with electronic media. Moreover, the conscious struggle of the computing humanist to incorporate computers into humanistic research will give way to the "post-humanist's" struggle to incorporate traditional humanistic research into computer-mediated culture. BTW, Donald Theall has something to say about this in chapter 6 of _Beyond the word_ (University of Toronto Press, 1995). Best, Todd Todd J. B. Blayone / webRhetor todd@cyberjunkie.com / webrhetor@bitsmart.com http://www.netforward.com/bitsmart/?webrhetor 757 Victoria Park Ave. #1609 - Toronto, ON - Canada - M4C 5N8 From: Subject: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 387 (387) [deleted quotation] A rough, yet working version of the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is now up and running. It can be found at: <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs> Comments, suggestions, ideas, and contributions are welcome. The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Collaborative in nature, RCCS seeks to establish and support ongoing conversations about the emerging field, to foster a community of students, scholars, teachers, explorers, and builders of cyberculture, and to showcase various models, works-in-progress, and on-line projects. In the future, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies hopes to sponsor a number of collaborative projects, colloquia, symposia, and workshops. Presently, the site contains a collection of scholarly resources, including university-level courses in cyberculture, events and conferences, and related links. Further, the site features an extensive annotated bibliography devoted to the topic of cyberculture. David Silver American Studies University of Maryland From: "Galen K. Pletcher" Subject: 1/21/97 Daily Report from ACADEME TODAY Date: 22 Jan 1997 13:13:59 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 388 (388) [Editorial note. Galen Pletcher sent this to me with a query about the legality of circulating it. I would be grateful for advice on the extent to which direct quotation like the following is tolerated. It seems to me to be an instance of "fair use". If anyone from the Chronicle is listening, his or her word would be especially welcome. --WM] [deleted quotation] Galen K. Pletcher, Dean School of Arts and Sciences "Prayer is the contemplation Professor of Philosophy of the facts of life SUNY Potsdam from the highest 44 Pierrepont Avenue point of view." Potsdam, NY 13676-2294 (315)267-2231 Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841) FAX (315)267-3140 E-mail: pletchgk@potsdam.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: Latin forum Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 20:10:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 389 (389) Humanists (some might even be tempted to say REAL humanists, but I won't) will likely be interested in the following items from the American Philological Association Newsletter v. 19 no. 6 (December 1996): The VRoma Project, <http://hippokrene.colleges.org/~vroma/>, a "virtual community for the teaching of classics", which just received $190,000 from the Teaching with Technology Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.). It is further described as "an on-line "place" where Latin students and teachers can interact live, hold courses and lectures, and share resources. At the same time, it will serve as a filter and repository for internet-based teaching resources, which will be accessible in a variety of formats. These extendible and customizable resources will include texts, commentaries, images, maps and other materials." De imperatoribus Romanis, <http://www.salve.edu/~dimaiom/DEimprom.html>, "a web site which is an online encyclopedia of the rulers of Rome". It in turn makes reference to On-Line Text Materials for Medieval Studies, <http://orb.rhodes.edu/>. Classicists should note that in both cases the addresses given in the APA Newsletter were incorrectly written. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: Job for posting on Humanist Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 390 (390) Dear Professor McCarty, At the Mississippi Department of Archives and History we are staffing for an electronic records research grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. I don't know if it's considered kosher to post job ads on Humanist, but given the recent discussions on training I thought Humanist might be a very good place to attract the kinds of staff members we need. Anyway, I enclose the notice below, and if it is possible to post it I would like to have it posted. Many thanks, Patricia Galloway Special Projects Officer Mississippi Department of Archives and History ***************************************************** ELECTRONIC RECORDS: TWO PERMANENT POSITIONS AVAILABLE. To be assigned initially to a two-year NHPRC research grant on the retention and long-term preservation of state government electronic records at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, applying data warehousing, intranetworking, and intelligent agent technologies to management and access tasks. DP-Technical Specialist II: This is technical work, involving relational databases in a UNIX environment. The staff member will use data processing systems and electronic records management applications to prepare descriptions of electronic data in order to assist state agencies in the management and preservation of electronic records. Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor's degree with specialized training in history, library science, archives and records management, public administration, or a related field, plus two years' experience using electronic data processing systems to collect, compile, and/or analyze data. DP-Systems Analyst II: This staff member will conduct systems analysis, assisting in the preparation of documentation of information systems; gather information concerning emerging technologies affecting recordkeeping in state government; assist in developing strategies for the transfer and preservation of electronic records using TCP/IP and other Internet protocols; and help to design and maintain a computer intranetwork and website. Minimum education and experience required: BS in computer science or a directly related field with coursework in a programming language and in systems analysis AND two years of experience in programming and systems analysis; OR one year's experience as a DP-Systems Analyst I. Other substitutions for directly related education and experience may be possible. Experience with UNIX, TCP/IP internetwork communications standards, and relational databases required. Application must clearly indicate UNIX and TCP/IP experience. Both positions are available now. Persons with archives, records management, or library experience are especially encouraged to apply; specific rank and salary within job classifications will be dependent upon qualifications and experience. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is an Equal Opportunity employer. Anyone interested in applying for these positions should contact Patricia Galloway (galloway@mdah.state.ms.us; 601-359-6863) or Linda Culberson (lculber@mdah.state.ms.us; 601-359-6873) for further information about the jobs themselves or the state job application process. From: Subject: Re: 10.0611 libraries not the culprit Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 391 (391) I do not see libraries rushing to throw out the printed page. I think that they (for the most part) are very stuck in the mud of the past. Almost every time I go looking for a particular book or a journal article I find that I have to request a interlibrary loan. And the libraries that have them are fewer in number each year. Every year the journals that are available are fewer in number. No budget they keep saying to me. We can only have the essential books and journals. And the ones that you want are not "essential". But they don't seem to be putting the money into electronic media or computers. I have a policy of donating CDROMS to the libraries that I use. So that others may share in the resources that are available. But I find that they go unused much to often. From: H-CLC BD Subject: Call for Papers: Webgeist Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 22:55:44 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 392 (392) NEW CALL FOR WEBGEIST SUBMISSIONS Webgeist, an electronic magazine for the erudite websurfer, announces its third Forum issue to be published in April 15, 1997. Manuscripts of any length will be accepted until APRIL 1, 1997, which may focus on, from both pragmatic and theoretical perspectives, the present and future state of American education. Much has been written/discussed--on the Net, on teevee, in newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals and anthologies--about the present and future state of American education. What are your thoughts on this topic? We hope to compile multiple perspectives into our Forum3 issue. To view WEBGEIST and submission guidelines go to: http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/webgist.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We also invite responses to any of the previous Forum essays, and will publish your responses on an ongoing basis. Please make your responses of sufficient magnitude in order to encourage continuing dialogue on the chosen topic. Also, we continue to make our ongoing general call for stories and poems, book, music, video, film, and CD reviews. Graphic artists are encouraged to submit small (30-50K) JPG or GIF files of artwork. We accept and publish fiction, poetry, and reviews on an ongoing basis. Thanks for your interest! --patrickB Patrick Bjork, Ph.D. Dept. of English Bismarck State College ******************************************************** http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/fallsp.html * http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/webgeist.html * ******************************************************** "Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice." --Wislawa Szymborska "Nothing Twice" (1957) From: minghao@cae.wisc.edu Subject: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:05:18 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 393 (393) CALL FOR PAPERS First World Conference on Network Assurance of Computer and Communication (NACC1) May 29 - June 1, 1997 NACC1 Conference University of Wisconsin, Madison, WISCONSIN, USA ********************************************************** Sponsored by: LMH International. ********************************************************** Brief Description and Themes: The security problem of computer-communication networks has attracted some attention in past few years. The human fact of security is almost always ignored in such consideration. Due to current needs, we have to consider in the situation when computer people work in an environment where their own activity and privacy are not secured. In such case, we have to consider the security problem along with some extra networks which are created by that environment. A Star Net is one of such nets where one of the person's security is not guaranteed, or everyone else can read that person's mind any time. We are interested in the resolution of how well that computer person could possibly protect his/her intellectual property. A Galaxy Net is one of such nets where more than one person is not secured, or everyone else can read these people's minds any time. We are interested in the resolution of how well these computer people could possibly protect their intellectual properties. Generally, A Di-graph Net is one of such nets where everyone's security of mind or mind readability by others are specified by a di-graph or a reading relation. We are interested in the resolution of how well these computer people could possibly protect their intellectual properties. In particular, A Chaos Net is Di-graph Net whose corresponding di-graph is a complete di-graph. Similar resolution is in interests. In above cases, the computer nets are arbitrary and need to do case studies. Linguistic and game theory could put into consideration. ************************************************************ Submission: A copy of extend abstract (maximum 1000 words) of high quality should be send to: Minghao Lee 424 W. Wilson Madison, WI 53703 ************************************************************ ************************************************************ Tel. (608)284-1510 E-mail. minghao@cae.wisc.edu ************************************************************ ************************************************************ Groups interested in co-sponsorship are invited to send inquiry to LMH International 424 West Wilson Madison, WI 53703, USA ************************************************************ From: Subject: Story Grammar Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 394 (394) Story Grammar. I was wondering if someone of the Humanist could help me out on the following: Is there is a similarity between syntactical structures and narratology? I've heard that there have been studies and programs to this thesis (story-grammar), but I'd like to know more about it. Are there standard works? Is there literature available? And what about research projects and results? Is there a paradigma? Which programs are used to analyse texts (in both narratologic and syntactic way) and why do people prefer this program above another program? I would like to graduate on such a thesis, although I know this has a much too wide setting for a graduation. If there's anyone who could help me out on literature, websites, etcetera I'd be very thankful. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Nico. Nico Weenink Utrecht University, The Netherlands Department of Literature Department of Linguistics noki@worldonline.nl From: Ian Graham Subject: 3rd annual Women's Studies on the Net Seminar (CFP) (fwd) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:42:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 395 (395) Forwarded message: [deleted quotation] -- Ian Graham ................................. ian.graham@utoronto.ca Information Commons Tel: 416-978-4548 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-7705 ................. http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/ ..................... From: Patrick Bjork Subject: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:02:14 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 396 (396) In the recent post for Webgeist's call for Forum3 submissions, I provided an incorrect address; it should be: http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/webgeist.html Sorry!! Patrick Bjork Dept. of English Bismarck State College Patrick Bjork, Ph.D Dept. of English Bismarck State College http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/webgeist.html "An idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining" --Anonymous From: Subject: The Wizard of Menlo Park (was: cybercultural studies) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 397 (397) Help! I saw the Discovery Channel program on Thomas Edison some months ago, and I also had in my hands, in the summer of 1995, a book which featured the self-same caricature of the famous inventor--but now I can't seem to recover it: "The Wizard of Menlo Park" shows Edison in his laboratory, his head huge, and crowned with a pointed sorceror's cap. If any of you humanists with "cyberculture" interests, or interests in history of science or popular culture know of this caricature and where it's published, how I could get permissions to reproduce it, etc., I would be indebted. I'm working on the popular demonizations of famous inventors/scientists, but my study does take me into more recognizably cybercultural areas. Meanwhile, how to get this picture? Frustrated at my slippery fingers... Yours sincerely, Sarah L. Higley slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu From: Subject: Re: 10.0615 report from Academe; new Roman stuff Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 398 (398) The first item in Humanist 10.0165 quotes an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education in which Francis Morrone is cited saying [deleted quotation] The second item announces yet another new on-line development, the VRoma Project: [deleted quotation] The juxtaposition was interesting and canny. Where's the disjunction? None of the great classicists of the past, I suspect, would fail to gasp at the prospect of having all the great reference works at their fingertips, without having to weigh folios and turn pages, or of being able to communicate directly with students and colleagues in different cities through a _written_ (self-recording) medium in "real time." VRoma is wise enough to say "a variety of formats." The book will not disappear, even when the long sleep of print is over. Francis Morrone is correct to point out that a computer display is not well suited for "sustained and consecutive reading." Does that make a project like VRoma necessarily misconceived? I doubt it, although I expect VRoma, like many other such projects, will be engaged in an exciting, challenging discovery of what on-line media are really good for. Maybe not sustained and consecutive reading. But the equation between this and "research and learning" is too simplistic, and any decent scholar knows there's plenty of opportunistic, non-consecutive work as well. This is old news to readers of HUMANIST. Research and learning involves sustained and consecutive attention, as it involves contact with the insights and passions of others, as it does the creative labor of assembling bits, scraps and chunks into a coherent, personal whole which not even the wisest of teachers can make for the readiest of students (or anyone but her- or himself). The point is well taken that the automaton will fail at the task the wise teacher knows not to usurp. Will we, likewise, be able to refrain from identifying the education with the medium, either of network or bound volume? Wendell Piez Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities piez@rci.rutgers.edu ___&&__&_&___&_&__&&&__&____&__&&____&&&&___&__&_&&_____&__&__&&_____&_&&___ From: Norm Holland Subject: Re: 10.0616 story grammar? Date: Thu, 23 Jan 97 11:03:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 399 (399) The theory that people usually use for story-grammar is Vladimir Propp's (based on a phrase-structure grammar). It is not widely known that there is a much superior story-grammar by George Lakoff (based on transformational grammar). The only print reference I have is "Structural Complexity in Fairy Tales," _The Study of Man_ 1 (1972): 128-50. The essay was Lakoff's M.A. thesis at Indiana U. in 1964. To get a copy, you might ewrite to Lakoff at lakoff@cogsci.berkeley.edu Good luck, Norm Holland +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Norman N. Holland Department of English / P. O. Box 117310 | | University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611-7310 | | Tel: (352) 377-0096 Fax: (352) 392-0860 | | (352) 392-7332 INTERNET: nnh@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu | | World Wide Web: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: Gary Shawver Subject: Re: 10.0616 story grammar? Date: 22 Jan 97 18:12:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 400 (400) Gerald Prince in _A Dictionary of Narratology_ defines "story grammar" as "A grammar or series of statements and formulas interrelated by an ordered set or [sic] rules and accounting for (the structure of) a set of STORIES; a grammar specifying the "natural" constituents of (a set of) stories and characterizing their relations." His latest bibliographical entry for this is Black, John G. and Gordon H. Bower. "Story Understanding as Problem-Solving." _Poetics_ 9:223-50 1980. I'm sure there has been other work done since then. Sincerely, --------------------------------------------------------- Gary W. Shawver E-Mail W3 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/> --------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Apollon Subject: EUROLIT - INVITATION TO PARTNERSHIP - SEMIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:53:00 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 401 (401) U R G E N T Dear colleagues and and semiotic association, As some of you already know, we are launching a new Socrates project as a spin-off of Humanities II. Our new project is codde-named EUROLIT. Already, several universities have committed themselves to this new project. We are asking you to respond urgently to the following call to participate in a new SOCRATES ODL project with application deadline 01-02-1997 (NB !). I am asking you to react immediately to this invitation an fax me a letter of intent (FAX +47 55 58 48 52). Annex below: 1.Example of letter of intent 2.Project Abstract. Do not hesitate to contact me, Yours sincerely, Daniel Apollon 1996 Humanities Task Force Literature ============================================================================ Fax to: Dr.Daniel Apollon +47 55 58 52 On institution's letterhead signed by a senior official: Institution paper Name of official Adress Phone Fax Email Date LETTER OF INTENTION - PARTICIPATION IN THE EUROLIT SOCRATES APPLICATION We have contributed to and agree to this proposal. We will take part in this project subject to satisfactory negotiations and we intend to continue working with the consortium after the project completion. The above partner agree to actively collaborate with the University of Bergen and Coimbra Group, through the project coordinator. and the rest of the partners in the project called EUROLIT to be applied under the SOCRATES program,ODL Action 01-02-1997 As partner we accept the responsibility to disseminate and transfer the results of the project.The partners will be responsible for planning, coordinating and monitoring and acting as focal point for contact with partners in other countries. On behalf of Place and date Sign. and Stamp ============================================================================ NAME: EUROLIT (until we find something better) European Network for Literary Studies in a Multimedia Environment in Higher Education PROGRAMME: SOCRATES ODL Action DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 1.2.1997 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, FRENCH,GERMAN, SPANISH MAIN POINTS: 1. To carry on successful cooperation between partner initiated within the Humanities project.To capitalize on practical experiences acquired during this project and integrate further Open and Distance Learning activities, virtual mobility aspect in the day-to-day practice of students, tutors and teachers. The partners will initiate transeuropean literature workshops offered to students and teachers from member universities using state-of-the-art information technology and telematics. Teaching and learnings activities will be focused at two -levels: 1) UNDERGRADUATEs studies: partners will seek to develop a common course/workshop aimed at new beginners in literary studies. The rationale is the following: in many departments a large amount of resources are concentrated on introductory activities, each department reinventing the wheel. Activities at an undergraduate level will seek to offer partners pedagogical products that can be integrated readily at a local level at that represent reday-to-use solutions to existing challenges. 2) POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP: Thesis guidance, teaching and research practice is hampered in many universities by limited expert resources. By creating a PhD level network of experts, PhD students and resources EUROLIT will encourage "thesis guidance brokerage" and develop practical solutions (pedagogical, human,and economical). Activity within this field will concentrate on the exploitation of ODL solutions to boost the development of a European PhD among partners. 2. Special efforts will be made to progress further towards more explicit collaborative schemes emphasizing learning environments. Didactic activities will therefore seek to capitalize on the evolution within the Humanities II project from pure "teaching" approaches to "learner-centered" approaches. As part of this effort towards learner-centeredness EUROLIT will initiate a transnational survey among students of literature in Europe in order to gain among other things comparative knowledge of recruitment patterns, professional expectations, attitudes towards European cooperation, learning styles, technological skills and cultural approaches to their field of studies. Thus, matching the "mapping" of the field of literary studies as seen and defined by teachers to the "mapping" of the field by learners will be a primary goal for this project. 3. EUROLIT will initiate activities intending to produce a systematic on-line description of the state of literary studies in a representative number of European institutions and produce an "atlas" of curricula, research programmes, human resources thus offered our users a structured description of the diversity of professional and academic approaches to the field. 4. EUROLIT will give special attention to the new challenges posed to teachers in literary studies in Higher Education by the following developments in Europe: 1) the shift from a book-based culture to a media culture, 2) the shift from a mass media culture to a personal media 3) the "spread" of literariness to larger areas and the convergence of literature and "media" in diverse fields. 4) Regional specializations and alternative understanding of our common field of study 5) The diversity of origanizational treatments given to literary studies within European Academia 5. EUROLIT will develop a concerted pedagogical approach to teaching and learning issues in literary studies integrating new technologies (virtual classrooms, telematics, Internet) in dayly teaching and learning practice. To foster developments EUROLIT will "network" students and teachers in a durable and professional acceptable way to partners. 6. EUROLIT will seek to anchor in a more robust way previous initiatives within departments, faculties and centres and develop permanent institutional links encompassing curriculum development,credit recognition and exchange of teaching resources. As part of this excercise the partners will initiate a cooperation aiming at interfacing in a more visible way existing ICP within Erasmus to this activities (linking physical to virtual mobility in a more explicit way), but all the time with a stress on Open and Distance Learning approaches. 7.Several association of comparative literature and semiotic studies will be invited as partners. 8. Invited US partners in our reflection. STRUCTURE: EUROLIT will be composed of 3 groups: 1) A coordinating institution: the University of Bergen, in close cooperation with the Coimbra Group 2) University partners organized in Task Forces, having the responsability to produce several work-packages. Each Task Force will be allocated a own budget. Each partner University will be given special responsibilities to head well-defined activities. 3) A logistic and pedagogical support structure represented by the Coimbra Group of Universities 4) Technical partners assisting Task Forces in their activities BUDGET: Roughly 400.000-600.000 ECU. SOCRATES Grant 200000-3000 ECU COORDINATING INSTITUTION: University of Bergen, Norway. From: David Green Subject: CCUMC Teleconference on Fair Use Guidelines (fwd) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 17:12:46 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 402 (402) Below is the forwarded announcement of a teleconference on Proposed Multimedia Guidelines on the Fair Use of multi-media material, organized by the Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC) and the PBS Adult Learning Service. Although these Proposed Guidelines, and the process by which they were achieved, remain controversial within the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), I thought this event might interest many subscribers. Because of the controversy, NINCH has not included these proposed guidelines on its CONFU Resources page on the NINCH Web site. However, the proposal is available at <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/avs/fairuse/default.html> [deleted quotation] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VIDEOCONFERENCE TO DISCUSS IMPLEMENTATION OF FAIR USE GUIDELINES FOR EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA February 20, 1997, 1-3 pm ET Produced by the Consortium of College and University Media Centers and PBS Adult Learning Service License Fees: By January 23, 1997 Standard Fee: $350 CCUMC/ALSS/TBC Associates: $250 After January 23, 1997 Standard Fee: $375 CCUMC/ALSS/TBC Associates: $275 Questions? Call PBS Customer Support Center: 1-800-257-2578 FAX PBS Customer Support Center: 703-739-8495 or 703-739-0775 Visit the PBS/ALSS Web site: http://www.pbs.org/als/programs/vc/fairuse2.html PBS Adult Learning Service, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698 What will be covered? The Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia were adopted in September, 1996, in a non-legislative report by the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property. Prior to these guidelines, an instructor who wanted to include excerpts from multiple sources and multiple formats as part of a multimedia teaching project risked being sued by one or more copyright holders. Although the guidelines do not have the force of law, they provide guidance to educational users and encourage the creation of multimedia teaching projects while protecting the rights of copyright holders. This live satellite videoconference will explain what the final fair use guidelines for educational multimedia permit and what they prohibit by clarifying and interpreting how the guidelines can be used in real-world situations. Two panels will be available for this discussion and to answer your questions. Panel one will include six members of the Fair Use Guidelines Working Committee who, over a period of two years, met regularly to develop guidelines that balanced the interests of educators and copyright owners. Members of this panel will interpret and clarify the guidelines, shed light upon the development process, discuss the congressional validation process and the committee's relationship with CONFU (Conference on Fair Use), and field questions from the audience. Panelists: --Mary Levering, Associate Register for National Copyright Programs, US Copyright Office; --Lisa Livingston, Director of Instructional Media, City College/City University of New York, and Chair Government Regulation and Public Policy Committee, Consortium of College and University Media Centers; --Carol Risher, Vice President for Copyright and New Technology, Association of American Publishers; --Judith Saffer, Assistant General Counsel, Broadcast Music Inc., and President, Copyright Society of the United States; --Bernard Sorkin, Senior Counsel, Time Warner, Inc. ; --Joann Stevens, Vice President for Communications, Association of American Colleges and Universities; --Moderator: Paul Anthony. Panel two will include six educators and other "fair users" who will offer insight into the importance of the guidelines to the educational community, provide practical advice on implementation, and respond to call-in questions and to comments by the first panel. Panelists: --Jerri Linke, Director of Media, Willmar Senior High School, Willmar, Minnesota; --Rose Marino, Associate General Counsel, University of Kansas; --Dr. Mary Lou Mosley, Associate Dean of Instruction, Paradise Valley Community College, Maricopa Community College District, Phoenix, Arizona; --Dr. Donald Rieck, Executive Director, Consortium of College and University Media Centers; --Larry Vice, President-Elect, National Association of Regional Media Centers; --Stanley Zenor, Executive Director, Association for Educational Communications and Technology; --Moderator: Pat Boddy. Complete text of the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia may be found at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/avs/fairuse/default.html ### -- David Green Executive Director National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) 21 Dupont Circle, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 (202) 296-5346 Internet: david@cni.org From: David Green Subject: PORT: Navigating Digital Culture Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:19:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 403 (403) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 22 WHILE IN CAMBRIDGE........ I haven't seen announcement of this event in connection with the ECOMONICS OF DIGITAL INFORMATION conference in Cambridge, but for those on this list who will be in Cambridge, Mass, this weekend (for the conference or not) you may be interested in the Saturday Opening and Friday Reception of PORT: NAVIGATING DIGITAL CULTURE, an exhibition at MIT. Also see the Web Site: <http://artnetweb.com/port/> David Green [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Recent advances in NLP Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 404 (404) _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ ************************************************************* * * * CFP: Second International Conference * * "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING" * * * * 11-13 September 1997 * * Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria * * * * http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html * * * ************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The first International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Languages Processing (RANLP) was held in 1995. Given the high quality of the presented papers and the overall success of the event, we now plan to organise the conference biennially. Selected papers from the proceedings of the conference are published as a book by John Benjamins as part of their Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT) series. TOPICS OF INTEREST Papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing and Language Processing 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; electronic dictionaries; written and spoken natural language interfaces; knowledge acquisition; terminology; text summarisation; message routing, text classification; computer-aided 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 also welcomes 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 processing in view of the imminent developments in information technology. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: RANLP'97 Elisabeth Andre (DFKI, Saarbruecken) Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) Chris Brew (University of Edinburgh) John Carroll (University of Sussex) Robert Dale (Microsoft Research Institute, Australia) Rodolfo Delmonte (Universira Ca' Foscari, Venice) Steve Finch (Thomson Technology, Rockville) Guenter Goerz (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg) Eva Hajicova (Charles University, Prague) Ed Hovy (ISI/University of Southern California) Pierre Isabelle (CITI, Laval) Richard Kittredge (University de Montreal) Manfred Kudlek (University of Hamburg) Karen Kukich (Bellcore, Morristown) Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University) Susann LuperFoy (MITRE Corporation, McLean) Carlos Martin Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgilli, Tarragona) Yusi Matsumoto (Nara Inst of Science & Technology) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Nicolas Nicolov (University of Sussex) Stephen Pullman (SRI, Cambridge) James Pustejovsky (University of Brandeis) Allan Ramsay (UMIST, Manchester) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento) Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon) Harald Trost (Austrian Institute for AI, Vienna) Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest) Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo/UMIST) Atro Voutalainen (University of Helsinki) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) Zaharin Yusoff (University of Science Malaysia, Penang) Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS) PAPER SUBMISSION FORMATTING GUIDELINES: Papers should not exceed 3500 words and should be less than 10 pages. Format specifications and a LaTeX style sheet are available though the RANLP web site. HARD COPIES: Four hard copies should be sent to: Ruslan Mitkov School of Languages and European Studies University of Wolverhampton Stafford Street Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: UNIX PS files should be sent to: Nicolas Nicolov (nicolas@cogs.susx.ac.uk) INFO EMAIL: Authors should send an info email to Nicolas Nicolov (nicolas@cogs.susx.ac.uk) filing in the form below: # NAME : Name of first author # TITLE: Title of the paper # PAGES: Number of pages # FILES: Name of file (if also submitted electronically) # NOTE : Anything you'd like to add # KEYS : Keywords # EMAIL: Email of the first author # ABSTR: # Abstract of the paper # . . . . . . IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline 2 May 1997 (Hard Copy/Electronic) Paper Notification 25 Jun 1997 Camera-Ready Papers Due 15 Jul 1997 RANLP Conference 11-13 Sep 1997 INVITED SPEAKERS The invited speakers of the conference are outstanding academics including Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield). Others are expected to confirm their participation soon. LOCATION Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains surrounding the Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. ORGANISING COMMITTEE GENERAL Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair Nicolas Nicolov (University of Sussex) - Vice-Chair Manfred Kudlek (University of Hamburg) Michael Zock (LIMSI CNRS) REGISTRATION, TRAVEL, ON-SITE ARRANGEMENTS Victoria Arranz (UMIST, Manchester) Malgorzata Stys (University of Cambridge) LOCAL ORGANISATION Nikolai Nikolov (Incoma, Shumen) - Treasurer & Coordinator Iliana Raeva (Technical University, Russe) Jordan Tabov (Institute of Mathematics, Sofia) CONFERENCE INFORMATION Visit RANLP'97 home page at: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html If you need additional information contact: Nicolas Nicolov Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH, UK Tel: +44-1273 678408 Fax: +44-1273 671320 Email: nicolas@cogs.sussex.ac.uk 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 the same location. Further information on the summer school can be obtained from Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk) and Malgorzata Stys (m.stys@cl.cam.ac.uk). INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPANTS/ PUBLISHING COMPANIES/ DEMOS/EXHIBITS 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 (nicolas@cogs.sussex.ac.uk) of their intention. Likewise for people from academia who wish to make demos. Publishers wishing to exhibit/ promote books please contact Ruslan Mitkov (r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk). 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 75 km away from Tzigov Chark. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS A second call for papers, including more information on invited talks, conference location and accommodation, registration fees and bank accounts, will come out in due course. The information on the web will be kept updated: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html From: Subject: address needed Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 405 (405) Can anyone help me with an address; I need an e-mail address for this person: Monsieur Michel Becquet Directeur CPTAH/Centre de Formation des Techniciens Agricoles et Horticoles, Convention du Conseil Regional "Le Plessis" 37360 St-Antoine du Rocher France I haven't been able to find one in conventional indices, but my colleague thinks there is surely an e-mail address. Please answer off the list. Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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: Jim Marchand Subject: unknown genre/modesty Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 09:56:51 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 406 (406) Brevity is the soul of wit and I will be brief: A friend of mine kept this thread, which I had ignored, and used it to upbraid me for not having written about it out of ignorance. Not so, I should think that all the examples cited fit quite well under the term apophasis, or so I was taught as a Tennessee schoolboy, where debating was about the only good subject we had. But this leads to a twofold problem. 1. Obviously, we moderns would rather cite examples or go to Curtius or (horresco referens) Auerbach for our rhetoric. This leads to a kind of skewed view which Merton called `the palimpsestic syndrome', as if the last person one heard it from was the inventor of the concept. One even hears `Curtius' Unsagbarkeitstopos' or `Curtius' Affektierte Bescheidenheit', and, whereas Curtius is one of my heroes also, he for the most part is just trying to echo ancient rhetoric. 2. Let us suppose me to be right in calling this sort of thing apophasis or one of its subcategories. Would it do any good for me to speak of `apophasis in Hamlet'? You cannot use vocabulary which is not commonly understood in the scholarly community. As classical upbringing slowly fades from the scene, this becomes more painfully obvious. Anyone who writes on `Acyrologia in the Poems of Ausias March' is blowing bubbles at the wind. Que faire? Aegritudo senectutis garrulitas Jim Marchand. From: Steve McCarty Subject: Unknown genre or communication style? Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:56:29 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 407 (407) Dear Professor McCarty, Though the following occurs in the Japanese language, could it be a case of the unknown genre or trope you were concerned with? If not, please do not subject the list to my ingenuousness, as it may appear nepotistic when I am at best your distant relative ; - ) I had been reporting on my in situ research findings in a series for the regional vernacular newspaper. Among my surprising findings was that, over a thousand years ago in the Heian Period, pilgrims perceived a mountain range as a mandala with Buddhist divinities riding the mountaintops and the mountains themselves the bodies of gods harking back to the proto-Shintoism of over two thousand years ago. A very famous Shinto shrine was little known to have been a Buddhist temple before the Meiji Restoration of 1868. It had practiced Buddhist-Shinto syncretism, identifying folk Chinese divinities as well with the Buddhist and Shinto ones. Many readers were apparently amused by the article and the illustration I had a local artist do of the mountains over the town of Kotohira as an international intersection of the gods. But soon I received a letter from the head priest of the temple in question. He disagreed with one point I made about the history of his temple, since he should have known if it were so. But he prefaced this by saying that he had not studied enough. This is typical of the Japanese communication style, such as starting a speech with an apology where Americans often do so with a joke. Deliberately poor speaking at first also establishes rapport with the audience through sympathy or compensation. Humbling oneself and one's group while exalting the audience is embedded in the very register of the language, which constitutes a nearly ironclad protocol. Indeed, almost the only way out of it is via the ambiguity that is an equally customary part of this communication style. For more on this, see my _Webgeist_ column installment at URL http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/rim3.html Ambiguity gives them the maneuvering room that would not be afforded by enumerating all the reasons that their thesis does not make a sufficient contribution. When the priest said "not studied enough," with the subject omitted in Japanese when it is understood from the context, it also carried the subtle criticism that I had studied even less. (Anyone care to quantify the high-context languages of East Asia when nothing less than a pragmatic/cultural dictionary is necessary but not forthcoming?). Anyway, I wrote back to the priest telling him that his father had been my informant about the temple's history. Most of the elderly priests I interviewed over a decade ago are no longer with us and have taken precious lore with them, forgotten along with much else of no utility in Japan's headlong rush to modernize. In retrospect, more than the anecdote this letter itself may be partly a case of the unknown genre you are exploring. To the East-West bicultural in me this communication style has become natural. It also suggests a 'pluriculturalization' of the monocultural Western paradigm that has dominated academic discourse up to now. Yours truly, Steve McCarty steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcc_conf/bios/mccarty.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: imaging Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 21:08:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 408 (408) Many Humanists will be glad to know that the fine and beautifully produced booklet by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant, Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database, published by the Getty, has been made available on the Getty Information Institute web site, at the URL: <http://www.ahip.getty.edu/intro_imaging/0-Cover.html>. The whole site is well worth a look. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Jim Campbell Subject: The MOST - A virtual exhibit Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:08:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 409 (409) What? THE MOST OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS! An exhibit of rare books, manuscripts, and other objects in the Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library. 21 categories of the most rare, important, peculiar, or deplorable items in the collections are on display, some of them for the first time. Categories include the Most Beautiful, the Rarest, the Oldest, the Most Royal, the Naughtiest, the Most Controversial, and more. Among the items on exhibit are: -the most beautiful book ever printed -the original manuscript of a great American masterpiece written by a 22-year-old -Columbus's letter announcing the discovery of America -a naughty _Huckleberry Finn_ -special collections in cyberspace! -hair from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee's horse, and Queen Victoria's cat -first editions of six great books that were censored -the Cowardly Lion's copy of _The Wizard of Oz_, and Walt Disney's original drawing of Snow White and the Witch -a complete book small enough to fit in a thimble -the most famous cigar in history Why? "The exhibit is intended to display the unexpected breadth and depth of our holdings, and also to attract college and high school students who do not normally encounter rare books and manuscripts." --Karin Wittenborg, University Librarian Where? http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/most/ When? Now! Questions? Contact the Special Collections Department at mssbks@virginia.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: (you may leave this blank) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 21:20:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 410 (410) join ScotLangLit.c19-c20 Mary Smith stop ----------------------- _______________________________________________________ Jean Anderson STELLA, University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK email: j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980 fax: +44 (0)141 330 4537 http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 21:19:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 411 (411) [deleted quotation] We have set up an experimental email server for annotating English text with grammatical Part-of-Speech tags. 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If you do have any problems accessing this tagger or have any bugs to report, please email: sean@scs.leeds.ac.uk. Please also let us know if you find this tagger useful. (If you wish to see this help file only, please type 'help' as the subject of a blank message.) From: Joanne Woolway (Assoc. Editor, EMLS) Subject: Early Modern Literary Studies - New Issue Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:41:55 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 412 (412) The December issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (2.3) is now available at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html and at our Oxford mirror site at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/UK/emlshome.html The new issue contains material listed in the contents page below as well as links to electronic resources, interactive EMLS (including calls for papers, conference programs, work in progress and electronic papers), and to several other projects. Submissions and enquiries should be directed to Joanne Woolway Oriel College, Oxford emls@english.ox.ac.uk Raymond G. Siemens Joanne Woolway Editor Co-Editor Articles: * Popular Hermeneutics: Monstrous Children in English Renaissance Broadside Ballads. Helaine Razovsky, Northwestern State University. * Production Resources at the Whitefriars Playhouse, 1609-1612. Jean MacIntyre, University of Alberta. * "Ay me": Selfishness and Empathy in "Lycidas." Jean E.Graham, The College of New Jersey. Note: * Reflections on Milton and Ariosto. Roy Flannagan, Ohio University. Reviews: * Robert Weimann. Authority and Representation in Early Modern Discourse. Ed. David Hillman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,1995. Anthony Johnson, Abo Akademi University. * Thomas H. Luxon. Literal Figures Puritan Allegory & the Reformation Crisis in Representation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. David Gay, University of Alberta. * Rebecca W. Bushnell. A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. Charles David Jago, University of British Columbia. * Graham Parry. The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of The Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995. F. J. Levy, University of Washington. * Simon Jarvis. Scholars and Gentlemen: Shakespearean Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour, 1725-1765. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996. Bryan N.S. Gooch, University of Victoria. * Susan Bennett. Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past. New York: Routledge, 1996. Robert Grant Williams, Nipissing University. * Garry Wills. Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP / NY Public Library, 1995. Michael T. Siconolfi, Gonzaga University. * Naomi Conn Liebler. Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Rituals Foundations of Genre. New York: Routledge, 1995. Jeffrey Kahan. * Gordon Williams. A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature. 3 vols. London and New Jersey: Athlone P, 1994. Douglas Bruster,University of Texas, San Antonio. * W. S. "A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter." Compact disk recording read by Harry Hill. Dir. Paul Hawkins. Text Ed. Donald W. Foster. Montreal: Concordia University, 1996.Sean Lawrence, University of British Columbia. * Sir Thomas More. Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation. Eds. George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams and Clarence Miller.Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Romuald I. Lakowski. From: "Judith S. Sparrow" Subject: 1997 TIIAP Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:23:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 413 (413) From: Gerald Harnett Subject: The Perpetual Aristotle: Spring, 1997 Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:17:18 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 414 (414) THE PERPETUAL ARISTOTLE The Perpetual Aristotle is a series of 4 on-line seminars in Aristotelian logic commencing this spring under the sponsorship of the Aldine Press, a nonprofit organization. All 4 seminars will be repeated every year in two semesters in tandem with the normal university academic year. The Perpetual Aristotle also hosts a library of on-line information of use to students of Aristotle, including bibliographies and downloadable texts. Two seminars are currently scheduled to begin next Wednesday, Jan 27: Posterior Analytics I, moderated by James South, and Posterior Analytics II, moderated by Scott Carson. Other seminars will be scheduled if we have sufficient expression of interest by subscribers. There is a fee of $100 for participation in each seminar. This fee can be reduced if a subscriber shows evidence of financial need. It is hoped that persons who can afford to do so will contribute more generously to support the mission of the Perpetual Aristotle. To receive a copy of the mission statement of the Perpetual Aristotle and a description of the seminar in which you are interested, send an email message to: postmaster@aldinepress.com with one sentence in the body of the message. This sentence should consist of the word "info" followed by the abbreviation of the seminar in which you are interested. For example, if you are interested in information about Posterior Analytics I, the sentence should read: info anpo1 The director of the Perpetual Aristotle is Gerald Harnett, whom you may contact directly at: harnett@aldinepress.com Below is a list of the seminars: THE FOUR SEMINARS Each of the four seminars is divided into two parts, the first conducted between September and December, the second between January and May, of each year. They are listed below followed by their email addresses: CATEGORIES I categ1@aldinepress.com CATEGORIES II categ2@aldinepress.com PRIOR ANALYTICS I anpr1@aldinepress.com PRIOR ANALYTICS II anpr2@aldinepress.com POSTERIOR ANALYTICS I anpo1@aldinepress.com POSTERIOR ANALYTICS II anpo2@aldinepress.com TOPICS I topics1@aldinepress.com TOPICS II topics2@aldinepress.com *De Interpretione* will be included with either CATEGORIES or PRIOR ANALYTICS. The seminars are organized in one or the other of two formats: the survey and the thematically-oriented discussion. The former is appropriate for both intermediate and advanced students of Aristotle; the latter, for advanced students. _________________________________ The Perpetual Aristotle Gerald Harnett, Dir. The Aldine Press, Ltd. 304 South Tyson Ave. Glenside, PA 19038 EMAIL: harnett@aldinepress.com WWW: http://www.aldinepress.com Tel.: 215-884-1086 Fax: 215-884-3304 From: H-Editor Moderator Peter Knupfer Subject: Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:12:31 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 415 (415) 1997 DEADLINE DATES FOR NEH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION GRANTS The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and college faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the teaching and learning of history, literature, foreign languages and cultures, and other areas of the humanities. TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY is a special NEH initiative to support projects that use today's rapidly evolving information technologies to improve teaching and learning in the humanities. Proposals may be submitted for all categories and deadlines. The Education Development and Demonstration Program offers the following programs: *Humanities Focus Grants* Propose a study of a humanities topic during the summer or academic year with colleagues from your school building, school district, college or university. Work with humanities scholars. Application deadlines: April 18, 1997 and September 15, 1997 Funding available: up to $25,000 *Materials Development Projects* Develop educational materials for national dissemination. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years *Curricular Development and Demonstration Projects* Design a humanities study project for teachers or college faculty. Join with scholars from nearby colleges, universities, museums, and other cultural organizations to promote an ongoing academic partnership. Prepare model courses or curricula. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years *Dissemination and Diffusion Projects* Share information on exemplary projects in humanities education through national conferences, workshops, and networks. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years For more information about these grant opportunities, or if you have ideas about developing a project, please write or call: Education Development and Demonstration Division of Research and Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 Phone: 202/606-8380 FAX: 202/606-8394 e-mail: education@neh.fed.us TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282 Guidelines and application forms may be retrieved from the NEH World Wide Web site: <http://www.neh.fed.us> From: vogel@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Graduate Study in Text/Speech Processing Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:56:28 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 416 (416) UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN, TRINITY COLLEGE M.PHIL. COURSE IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING [Note: this is a reminder about a taught course which has existed for a few years now; it is also possible to register for a Ph.D. in computational linguistics at Trinity College, however that is managed through application to the participarting departments (Computer Science or the Center for Language and Communication Studies) rather than application to a taught course.] This course, which shares a common core with M.Phil. courses in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, is offered by the Centre for Language and Communication Studies. AIMS 1. To introduce students to central concepts in linguistics and to techniques of linguistic description and analysis. 2. To proceed from this basis to more advanced study of major topics in computational linguistics and speech science. 3. Via the dissertation component, to introduce students to research in computational linguistics or speech science. ADMISSION Applicants are normally required to possess a good primary degree or equivalent qualification. Previous knowledge of linguistics is not a requirement. Application for admission should be made to the Dean of Graduate Studies before 30 April 1997. DURATION The course is taken full-time in one calendar year (October to September) or part-time in two calendar years. Only the part-time option is available to students who require to remain in employment while taking their course. PROGRAMME OF STUDY The content of the course is expressed in two bands, A and B, each comprising six hours' teaching per week in Michaelmas (Fall) and Hilary (Winter) terms and four hours' teaching per week in Trinity (Spring) term. BAND A: Introduction to syntax; introduction to semantics/ pragmatics; introduction to logic and Prolog; syntax in generative grammar; semantic theory; computational linguistics; current issues in syntactic theory; linguistic pragmatics. BAND B: Introduction to phonetics and phonemics; descriptive and practical phonetics; introduction to morphology; processing of speech signals; instrumental phonetics; speech technology and applications; phonology; current issues in speech science. As well as following the above programme of study, students write a dissertation of not more than 20,000 words in computational linguistics or speech science ASSESSMENT Students are assessed on the basis of their performance in (i) six assignments of not more than 2,500 words each, related to the principal components of the course, and (ii) their dissertation. Assignments must be submitted not later than two weeks after the end of the term in which they are set; dissertations must be submitted not later than 30 September in the year in which the course is completed. Candidates who satisfy the examiners in everything but the dissertation may be awarded a diploma in Speech and Language Processing; alternatively, on payment of the prescribed fee they may be allowed to register for a further year, revise their dissertation, and re-submit it at the end of that year. FEES (1996-7 level, in Irish Pounds) EU non-EU Annual fee (first year) 1,962 5,624 Annual fee (second year, part-time) 638 1,769 FURTHER INFORMATION Further information is ). See also CLCS's pages at Trinity College's Web site (http://www.tcd.ie/CLCS) for information about staff and research interests. Informal inquiries can be made via e-mail to the CLCS secretary, Philomena McQuaid at pmcquaid@tcd.ie. From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: FW: Post Colonial Literatures Group. Date: 28 Jan 1997 09:36:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 417 (417) The Open University Post Colonial Literatures Group announces a seminar on Friday 31st, January. Speaker: Professor Jeanne Colleran, Head of English Dept., John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio. "Theatre and Technological Colonization" This talk addresses the implications for theatre of working in a public space already colonized by the spectacular images of information technology. Taking the war in the Persian Gulf as the historical starting point for the phenomena of "total television" that dominated media practices in the West, the discussion will then move to what strategic aesthetic practices are available to a political theatre forced to reside and operate within a visual culture where the accessibility, immediacy, and ubiquity of media images allow little room for alternate practices. Prof. Colleran is well known for her writings on Modern Drama, and addressed our recent conference on SA Theatre in London. Venue: 30 Russell Square, London ... meet in the foyer for room number etc. Time: I.00pm For information, please contact Dr. Marcia Blumberg - Email to: M.Blumberg@open.ac.uk phone: 0171-834-7587 From: Patrick Bjork Subject: Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 15:20:48 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 418 (418) TRENDS AND ISSUES IN ONLINE INSTRUCTION Second Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference April 1-3, 1997 The entire conference will be conducted online. Participants will "attend" presentations via the WWW, and they'll interact with presenters via email and live chat (MOO). They'll also have an opportunity to take multimedia WWW tours of Hawaii, mingle with other participants in the virtual Coconut Cafe (MOO), and discuss presentations on the special conference email list, CFORUM-L. Featured keynote speakers will be Jay Wootten, Kent State University-Salem, and Crawford Kilian, Capilano College. To register for the Second Annual TCC-L Online Conference: Trends and Issues in Online Instruction, April 1-3, 1997, sponsored by the Teaching in the Community Colleges List (TCC-L) and Kapiolani Community College, send the following one-line message: sub TCON-L YourFirstName YourLastName to: listproc@hawaii.edu There is no fee for participation, but all will be required to complete a registration form, which will be emailed when the subscription request is received. For further information, please write to Jim Shimabukuro . Patrick Bjork, Ph.D. Dept. of English Bismarck State College ******************************************************** http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/fallsp.html * http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/webgeist.html * ******************************************************** "Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice." --Wislawa Szymborska "Nothing Twice" (1957) From: Subject: hiatus Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 419 (419) Dear Colleagues, Do not adjust your set. Humanist has in effect been offline for the last few days due to technical problems at this end. These have made it impossible for me to dial in from home and so to turn to Humanist at the accustomed hour. The same problem has interfered with distribution of timely information, for which I apologise -- again on behalf of inanimate equipment that knows no better because it knows not at all. Yours, WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: Subject: unknown genre Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 420 (420) Secondary literature on the unknown genre: Tore Janson, _Latin Prose Prefaces. Studies in Literary Convention_. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Studia Latina Stockholmiensia, 13 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell), 120 ff. We might call this the inadequacy (Unzulaenglichkeits=) topos, plied well by the ancients and Sam Irwin (sp?; "I'm just an old country lawyer"). Janson, p. 124, calls it "incompetence". Sometimes one can get God to help him out. A well known treatment is: Julius Schwietering, Die Demutsformel mittelhochdeutscher Dichter (Goettingen, 1921), if one is just looking for examples of the modesty topos. If you are really interested in digging deep, look at Gertrud Simon, "Untersuchungen zur Topik der Widmungsbriefe mittelalterlicher Geschichtsschreiber," _Archiv fuer Diplomatik, etc._ 4 (1958), 52-119, passim, and especially 5 (1959), 98 ff. and passim. Of course, there are the old standbys such as Norden, to whom she and Janson refer. Perhaps self-deprecation is a better term, though it is not always ones own insufficiency. Sometimes tongue cannot utter, even for Wordsworth. Jim Marchand. From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 10.0621 story grammar Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 15:58:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 421 (421) It may be no help at all, but in my dissertation I constructed a story=20 grammar based on both the Russian formalists and Chomsky back in 1973.=20 It's called "Transaction Units: An Approach to the Structural Study of=20 Narrative..." University of North Carolina, Comparative Literature,=20 1973. I actually later constructed a parser implementing some of it=20 (partly reported in "Testing a Theory of Narrative Analysis by=20 Computer," in Ager, Knowles, and Smith, Advances in Computer-Aided=20 Literary and Linguistic Research, 53-57, published by the University=20 of Birmingham in 1979). Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: Subject: e-publishing conference Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 422 (422) ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING CONFERENCE This is to announce a conference entitled "Electronic Publishing", to take place this Friday at the Centre for English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London. Complete information for the conference is on the Web, URL: <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/ohc/9701-conference.html>. The conference is sponsored in part by the Office for Humanities Communication, recently moved to King's College London. The OHC has a new, not yet graphically sophisticated Web page with a listing of its publications, at the URL: <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/ohc/>. WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: "Judith S. Sparrow" Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: TIIAP Outreach Workshops Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:09:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 423 (423) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 30, 1997 TIIAP GRANT APPLICATION WORKSHOPS Following the announcement earlier this week of the latest round of the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP) grants, the Dept. of Commerce has released a list of its application workshops to be held between February 14 and March 6 in Alexandria, VA, Nashua, NH, Chicago, IL, New Orleans and Phoenix, AZ ****************************************************************** NTIA announces a series of regional Outreach Workshops on the 1997 TIIAP Grant Round. The following is information on the Workshops. Call 202-482-2048 for more information and a registration form. Online registration is available on NTIA's web site: http://www.ntia.doc.gov The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the 1997 Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP) grant competition in the Federal Register on January 27, 1997. TIIAP is a highly competitive, merit-based grant program that provides assistance to public and nonprofit sector organizations with creative approaches to applying information and telecommunications technologies to solve community problems and meet community needs. NTIA received a $21.49 million appropriation for the 1997 TIIAP program. The deadline for submitting applications is March 27, 1997. TIIAP has organized a series of Outreach Workshops to discuss the TIIAP program, introduce the 1997 TIIAP grant round and discuss program funding priorities and application requirements, as well as afford an opportunity to meet TIIAP Program Officers and potential TIIAP applicants in your region of the country. In addition, recipients of previous TIIAP grants will speak at the Workshops to offer insights into developing a successful TIIAP proposal. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to breakout sessions that expand on topics introduced during the morning session. This is a key opportunity for interested parties to understand the TIIAP goals and process and meet representatives of other organizations interested in the TIIAP program. The information you find at the Workshops and the relationships you form can help you build critical alliances, explore new programs, and plan your technology strategy. The Outreach Workshops will be held on: Friday, February 14, Alexandria, Virginia, Crystal Gateway Marriott, (703) 920-3230 or (800)228-9290 Wednesday, February 19, Nashua, New Hampshire, Sheraton Tara Hotel, (603) 888-9970 or (800) 843-8272 Wednesday, February 26, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Marriott, (312) 836-0100 or (800) 228-0265 Tuesday, March 4, New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans Marriott, (504) 581-1000 or (800) 228-9290 Thursday, March 6, Phoenix, Arizona, Crowne Plaza Phoenix, (602) 257-1525 or (800) 359-7253 Registration will be held from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. The workshop will be held from 9:00-5:00 p.m. Seating is limited to approximately 500 persons at each event. Registration for each workshop is strongly advised. Fax the completed registration form to (202) 501-5136 or (202) 501-8009 or email the information to tiiap@ntia.doc.gov, or visit NTIA's web site at http://www.ntia.doc.gov for online registration. Attendance at the workshops is encouraged. However, if you are unable to attend a workshop you may contact the TIIAP office with any questions you may have about the 1997 grant round. Please contact hotel and airlines or travel agent directly to make travel arrangements. Attendees are financially responsible for travel and hotel accommodations. From: "Theodore F. Brunner" Subject: TLG Survey Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:47:23 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 424 (424) In conjunction with its most recent Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Newsletter, the TLG disseminated a survey form inquiring about the field's attitudes vis-a-vis the project's CD ROM licensing and fees policies. Responses to the survey are now in hand, have been collated, and have been posted on the TLG Web site (http://www.uci.edu/~tlg/) in summary form. The TLG is currently reviewing its policies in consequence of the survey results. In the meantime, reaction is invited to the survey summary. Post you comments here, or address them to Maria Pantelia (mcpantel@uci.edu). Theodore F. Brunner, Director Thesaurus Linguae Graecae University of California Irvine, Irvine CA 92697-5550 Phone: (714) 824-6404 FAX: (714) 824-8434 E-mail: tbrunner@uci.edu TLG Home Page: http://www.uci.edu:80/~tlg/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: real-time to large amounts Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:12:47 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 425 (425) Humanists may wish to know about Idea 97, a conference to be held 7-8 July 1997 in Bath, England, on "the need for real time access to large domains of information in a distributed environment, which is triggering a wide range of new needs in organisations of all types and sizes." Additional information: <http://infonortics.com/idea97.html>. WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: OrfeO Subject: Re: SCIE97 1^announcement Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:37:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 426 (426) [deleted quotation] From: Yorick Wilks Subject: First International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation (Bellagio) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:37:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 427 (427) FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Bellagio, Italy, July 14th-16th 1997 ******************************************************************************** Usual apologies if you get this more than once! ******************************************************************************** This message contains details about registration and hotels. Its content along with previous messages about the purpose of the workshop, its program committee and how to submit papers (deadline March 29th) appear at URL: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Meetings/Bellagio/ ABOUT BELLAGIO - HOW TO GET THERE, REGISTRATION AND HOTEL ACCOMMODATION Bellagio is one of the most beautiful places we have visited in the entire world. It is located on the shores of Lake Como, the loveliest of all the Italian lakes, at the point where the three arms of the lake meet. Looking to the west, a journey of only 10 minutes by boat, one can see the small towns of Menaggio and Cadenabbia, as well as the Villa Carlotta with its famous gardens and sculpture collection. On the eastern shore lie many pretty villages, including Varenna which is also only a 10-minute boat ride away. Whatever direction one looks from Bellagio the views are exquisite. Bellagio was the summer residence of the Roman patricians and thereafter of the noble families of the region of Lombardy, who built many stupendous villas here. Poets and writers from every part of the world have visited and found inspiration in Bellagio: Pliny the younger, Longfellow, Mark Twain, Shelley, Stendhal, Flaubert, Faure, Liszt and Toscanini. The area around lake Como is famous for the production of beautiful silks. In addition local artisans offer carved olive wood, blown and decorated glass, handmade shoes and other leather goods. Among the delightful tourist sights in and around Bellagio are: VILLA SERBELLONI, which offers splendid views from its 8th century gardens; VILLA MELZI D'ERIL, a park full of azaleas and rhododendrons, as well as many interesting sculptures; VILLA CARLOTTA, built in 1747 and one of the gems of Lake Como; VILLA MONASTERO in Varenna, originally a 12th century Cistercian monastery; and the ISOLA COMACINA, a 12th century fortress which has beautiful views and a wonderful restaurant. There is also a golf course only 20-minutes away. Bellagio is an ideal place to visit as part of a vacation. The town of Como has excellent rail connections and within a few hours one can be in the Swiss alps, in Austria, in Southern Germany, or in any of the principal cities of northern Italy: Venice, Milan or Verona (where the opera festival will be in full swing before and after the workshop). Those of you who enjoy touring areas of great scenic beauty may like to visit the other Italian lakes: Garda, Maggiore and tiny Lake Orta. We have more than 40 years experience of travelling in this area and will be happy to advise anyone who needs assistance in planning their visit. HOW TO REACH BELLAGIO The best way for you to reach Bellagio will depend partly on how you intend to arrive in Northern Italy. The following information will give you the main options, but please do not hesitate to ask if you would like further advice or information. Arriving by air: The nearest useful airports to Bellagio are the two airports serving Milan. LINATE AIRPORT is mainly served by European scheduled services and is the closest to the city of Milan. From Linate one can travel into the centre of Milan (the airport bus arrives at the main railway station) from where it takes less than 1 hour by train to the city of Como. Once in Como take a taxi (a 5- minute ride) to Piazza Cavour from where the boats leave for Bellagio. The summer timetable for the boat service is not yet available but will be sent to everyone nearer the time. There are two types of boat - the Aliscarfi (express boat) which takes about 45 minutes and makes very few stops, and the slower boat which takes around 1 hour 15 minutes. My own preference is the slower boat because the journey on the lake is so beautiful it seems a pity to shorten it! MALPENSA AIRPORT is further from the centre of Milan and is served mainly by intercontinental flights and by charter airlines. From Malpensa one can also take the airport bus into Milan and then proceed as described above. We can also arrange to have a taxi or mini-bus meet you on arrival at Linate or Malpensa and drive you to Como (or to Bellagio if you do not wish to complete your journey by boat). Once we know the flight numbers and arrival times for all the delegates we will work out a taxipool schedule to minimize the cost. LUGANO AIRPORT (Switzerland) is a lesser used alternative. It is not a busy airport but if you can get a direct flight there it would be a convenient way to arrive. Travel from Lugano by taxi to Menaggio, on the western shore of Lake Como, and then take the boat across the lake. (10-minute journey, frequent sailings.) The boat from Menaggio will drop you a few feet from most of the hotels. Arriving by rail and boat: Como is about 1 hour north of Milan by rail. Or you can arrive from the north via Zurich (approx 4 hours), Geneva, etc. Once in Como we suggest that you take the boat as described above, though taxis will be happy to drive you to Bellagio. HOTEL ACCOMMODATION Bellagio offers a wide range of hotel accommodation from de-luxe 5-star down to 1-star. We are making arrangements with the following hotels but we would also try to help anyone who would prefer 2-star or 1-star accommodation. (There are no 4-star hotels in Bellagio but we have inspected the 3-star hotels listed below and believe them to offer very good value.) Below we give the rates per day for: [a] Room with breakfast; and [b] Half- board (room with breakfast and one meal). Room rates are given in Italian lira, together with the equivalent in $US calculated at today's exchange rate. All rates include tax and service. There are many pleasant restaurants in Bellagio, the best of which is at the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni. Even if you are not staying at this hotel you will certainly enjoy taking advantage of the opportunity to eat there. All of the other hotels mentioned have their own restaurants and there are many smaller restaurants spread around Bellagio. GRAND HOTEL VILLA SERBELLONI (de-luxe 5-star) The hotel was opened in 1872 and has long been regarded as one of the leading hotels of the world. Among the many famous guests who have stayed there are English Lords, Russian Princes, European royalty, and the American Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. The hotel boasts a large swimming pool, a health and beauty centre (squash courts, sauna, Turkish baths, hydromassage, etc.) It has beautiful gardens and is located a 1-minute walk from the landing piers where the lake steamers arrive. Standard Double room: Single or double occupancy, Lira 479,000 per night ($299), including breakfast. For half board add L. 95,000 ($59) per person - this is for an excellent 4-course meal. De-luxe room with lake view: Single or double occupancy, Lira 651,000 per night ($407), including breakfast. For half board add L. 95,000 ($59) per person. It is possible to have a third person in a room. The supplements for room and breakfast only are approximately: $24 for a baby cot (up to 2 years); $35 (for children from 2-8 years of age); $53 (age 9-14); and $76 for 15 years and over. Supplements for half-board are approximately $59 (2-8 years); $87 (age 9-14); and $125 (15 years and over). For those of you interested in a longer stay but at a reduced cost, The Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni also offers 13 self-contained apartments, all with 1 bedroom, 1 sitting room, kitchenette and bathroom. The apartments are located in a private park about 1-minute's walk from the hotel and are fitted with air conditioning, satellite TV and direct dial telephones. Apartments are available only by the week, with arrival and departure on Saturdays. Rates for a small apartment are approximately $900 per week, for medium sized apartments $1,075 per week and for large apartments $1,580 per week. An extra bed in one of these apartments is approximately $97 per week. HOTEL FLORENCE (3-star) This hotel has no swimming pool but the food is outstanding. The hotel overlooks the edge of the lake and is next door to the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni. Satellite TV and telephone in every room. Double room: [a] Room and breakfast L. 210,000 ($131); [b] Half-board L. 320,000 ($200). Single room: [a] Room and breakfast L. 155,000 ($97); [b] Half-board L. 200,000 ($125). HOTEL BELVEDERE (3-star) Situated on a gentle hill less than 10-minutes' walk from the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, with its own gardens, terrace, solarium, private parking area and garage, and swimming pool. It has a superb view of the lake. All rooms have satellite TV, radio, mini-bar, safe, hair dryer and telephone. Double room: [a] Room and breakfast L. 218,000 ($136); [b] Half-board L. 310,000 ($194). Single room: [a] Room and breakfast L. 135,000 ($84); [b] Half-board L. 160,000 ($100). HOTEL METROPOLE (3-star) Situated at the edge of the lake, 1-minute's walk from the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, but with no swimming pool. The hotel has satellite TV and telephone in each room. Double room: [a] Room and breakfast L. 82,000 ($51) per person; [b] Half- board L. 112,000 ($70) per person. For single occupancy add L. 20,000 ($13). For a room with a balcony and view of the lake add L. 5,000 per person ($3). A third person in the room will be given a 10% discount off the above rates. Children from 0-4 years are free. Children from 5-10 years receive a 50% discount off the above rates. OTHER HOTELS Some of the hotels in Bellagio are closed during the winter so we are unable to give room rates at the present time. BOOKING ARRANGEMENTS Mid-July is the height of the holiday season so rooms get booked up well in advance. We advise everyone to reserve their rooms as soon as possible but we will make every possible effort to find suitable accommodation for late bookers. In order to register for the workshop and to reserve your hotel rooms please fill in the following information and return it, together with payment of the workshop registration fee of 180 pounds ($300) plus the cost of 1-night's hotel accommodation to: David Levy, Intelligent Research Ltd., 89, Constantine Road, London NW3 2LP, England. Tel: +44 171 485 9146 Fax: +44 171 482 0672 e-mail: DavidL@intrsrch.demon.co.uk Please note that a no-show will not receive a refund for the hotel accommodation unless we are able to reassign the booking to another delegate. If paying by cheque please make your cheque payable to Intelligent Research Ltd. If using a currency other than pounds sterling please convert at the current rate used when selling that currency for pounds sterling. REGISTRATION AND HOTEL BOOKING INFORMATION Mr / Mrs / Ms:.......... Last name:........................................................... First name:............................................ Address:................................................................................................................ ...................................................... ................................................................................... Postcode / Zip:.......................... Country:............................... Home telephone number: .................................... Work telephone number: .................................... Fax number:....................... e-mail address:.................. PLEASE INDICATE BELOW YOUR HOTEL REQUIREMENTS: 1st choice: ................................. 2nd choice: ................................. Any other comments or requirements: .......................................... Single or double occupancy:............................................. Room and breakfast only or half-board:...................................... Arrival date in Bellagio: .......................................... Departure date (note that the workshop will finish on July 16th in time for delegates to reach Milan in the evening):.................... HOW TO PAY You may pay by credit or debit card; or by check or postal order (preferably in pounds sterling or US$). Credit Card Payment: Name:................................ Credit Card Address (if different from above):.................................................................................................................. ............................................................................................................................ Please debit my Mastercard / VISA / American Express / Diners / Switch account (delete as appropriate): Card number:......................................... Expiry Date:............................ Issue No (Switch):....................... Signature:..................................................... Check / Postal Order payment (pounds sterling): I enclose full payment by cheque/postal order for............. made payable to Intelligent Research Ltd. Please send to: David Levy, Intelligent Research Ltd., 89 Constantine Road, London NW3 2LP, England. From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: TWO ACL/EACL-97 Workshop CFPs Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:52:03 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 428 (428) Below are to Calls for Papers for ACL-97/EACL-97 associated workshops: _____________________________________________________________________ 1) CALL FOR PAPERS ACL'97 / EACL'97 Workshop 11 July, 1997 Madrid, Spain OPERATIONAL FACTORS IN PRACTICAL, ROBUST, ANAPHORA RESOLUTION FOR UNRESTRICTED TEXTS _____________________________________________________________________ After considerable initial research in algorithmic approaches to anaphora resolution in the seventies and after years of relative silence in the early eighties, this problem has again attracted the attention of many researchers in the last 10 years, with much new and promising work reported recently. Inspired by the increasing volume of such work, this workshop calls for submissions describing recent advances in the field and focusing on "robust", "parser-free", "corpus-driven", "empirically-based", and/or other practical approaches to resolving anaphora in unrestricted texts. Strategies for algorithmic anaphora resolution---arguably among the toughest problems in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing---so far have exploited predominantly traditional linguistic approaches. A disadvantage, however, of implementing such approaches stems from the need for representation and manipulation of the variegated types of linguistic and domain knowledge, with the concomitant expense of human input and computational processing. Even so, effectiveness still tends to depend on imposing suitable restrictions to the domain. While various new alternatives have been proposed, e.g. making use of a situation semantics framework or principles of reasoning with uncertainty, there is still a strong need for the development of robust and effective methods to meet the demand of practical NLP systems (with tasks ranging from content analysis to machine translation to discourse and dialogue processing), and to enhance further the automatic processing of growing language resources (e.g. by automatically annotating corpora with anaphor-antecedent links). This need for inexpensive, practical and, possibly, corpus-related approaches suitable for unrestricted texts has fuelled renewed research efforts in the field. Several proposals have already addressed the anaphora resolution problem by deliberately limiting the extent to which they rely on domain and/or linguistic knowledge, and by moving away from the traditional domain/sublanguage restriction. Observing a very clear trend towards inexpensive, knowledge-poor, corpus-based methods---which remain robust and scale well---it is clear that there is scope for much more to be done in this direction. A core issue here is that of optimal use of a set of contributing factors: these include, for instance, gender and number agreement, c-command constraints, semantic consistency, syntactic parallelism, semantic parallelism, salience, proximity and so forth. It is possible to impose an ordering on such factors, with respect to both their overall utility to the resolution process, and the expense associated with their computation in a particular linguistic framework and processing environment. The computational linguistics literature uses diverse terminology for these, reflecting their different operational status and, hence, contributing weight in the resolution process: for instance, "constraints" tend to be absolute, and therefore "eliminating"; "preferences", on the other hand, tend to be relative, and therefore require the use of additional criteria. One of the major difficulties with scaling up the strong, linguistically derived procedures to real data stems from the lack of systematic understanding of the interactions between, and limitations of, the plethora of factors posited by the different methods under names such as "constraints", "preferences", "attributes", "symptoms", and so forth. This workshop, therefore, has a dual focus. It solicits submissions describing work which addresses the practical requirements of operational and robust anaphora resolution components. It also seeks to investigate the role of, and interactions among, the various factors in anaphora resolution: in particular those that scale well, or that translate easily to knowledge-poor environments. The following questions are for illustrative purposes only: = Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora resolution? Are there factors that we are not fully aware of? Which of these are better suited for robust approaches, and what is their dependence upon strategies? = When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"? What is the case for languages other than English? = What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential" factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical data can be brought to bear on this? = What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting the antecedent? = Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts? = Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora automatically? = Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for particular type(s) of input text? WORKSHOP ORGANISERS Dr. Ruslan Mitkov Dr. Branimir K. Boguraev, School of Languages and European Studies Apple Research Laboratories University of Wolverhampton Apple Computer, Inc. Stafford St. One Infinite Loop, MS: 301-3S Wolverhampton WV1 1SB Cupertino, CA 95014 United Kingdom USA Tel (44-1902) 322471 Tel: (1-408) 974 1048 Email r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk Email: bkb@research.apple.com WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Breck Baldwin (University of Pennsylvania) Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) David Carter (SRI, Cambridge) Megumi Kameyama (SRI, Menlo Park) Christopher Kennedy (University of California, Santa Cruz) Shalom Lappin (University of London) Susan LuperFoy (MITRE Corporation, McLean) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Celia Rico Perez (Universidad Europea de Madrid) Frederique Segond (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble) Sandra Williams (BT Research Labs, Ipswich) SUBMISSIONS Authors are asked to submit previously unpublished papers; all submissions should be sent to Ruslan Mitkov. A limited number of position papers could also be considered. Each submission will undergo multiple reviews. The papers should be full length (not exceeding 3200 words, exclusive of references), also including a descriptive abstract of about 200 words. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred, either in self-contained LaTeX format (using the ACL-97 submission style; see: ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/, as well as the submission guidelines for the main conference, at http://www.ieec.uned.es/cl97/), or as a PostScript file. In exceptional circumstances, Microsoft Word files will also be accepted as electronic submissions, provided they follow the same formating guidelines. Hard copy submissions should include eight copies of the paper. A separate title page should include the title of the paper, names, addresses (postal and e-mail), telephone and fax number of all authors. Any correspondence will be addressed to the first author (unless otherwise specified). Authors will be responsible for preparation of camera-ready copies of final versions of accepted papers, conforming to a uniform format, with guidelines and a style file to be supplied by the organisers. ORGANISATION OF SESSIONS Presentations will be allocated 30 minutes slots each, distributed over a morning and an afternoon sessions, including an invited talk and a (closing) general discussion. WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION Due to space constraints, workshop attendance will be limited to about 40 participants. Priority will be given to authors of submissions; the rest of the participants will be registered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Details about registration will be included in the second announcement. Please note that according to the ACL/EACL workshop guidelines, all workshop participants must register for the ACL/EACL main conference as well. SCHEDULE Submission deadline: 14 March 1997 Notification of acceptance: 14 April 1997 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due: 05 May 1997 Workshop: 11 July 1997 FURTHER INFORMATION For further information concerning the workshop, please contact the organisers. For information about the main ACL'97/EACL'97 conference, see http://horacio.ieec.uned.es/cl97/. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 2) Call for ACL/EACL Workshop Submissions/Participation Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources for NLP Applications Organized under the auspices of the Language Engineering section of the European Commission, Directorale General XIII Luxembourg, by three recently launched projects: EuroWordNet(LE2 4003), Sparkle (LE1 2111) and Ecran Madrid, July 12th 1997 (in conjunction with ACL-97/EACL-97) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Information * What the Workshop is About * Submission Details * Workshop Participation * Important Dates * Organizing Committee * Program Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What the Workshop is About In the past years the development of high-quality and overall language resources has been the focus of many research groups. More recently also the corpus-based extraction of such resources has gained a wider interest. EuroWordNet, Sparkle and Ecran try to package some of this know-how and expertise into state- of-the-art tools and resources that can directly be applied in NLP-based services. In the EuroWordNet project a multilingual database is developed with wordnets for four European Languages linked to the existing Princeton WordNet (version 1.5). Such a database can be used in multilingual retrieval applications but it can also be seen as a starting point for automatic-translation aids, inferencing systems, and information extraction systems. Sparkle and Ecran both address the creation of language resources and technologies for real-world NLP applications in parallel. This objective is carried out through the development of software tools in the areas of shallow parsing and lexical acquisition. These tools are used to induce linguistic knowledge from text corpora and are progressively enriched by the information acquired. In all three projects the current limits of Linguistic Technology are being explored for their practical benefits. Whereas EuroWordNet aims at the broadening and extension of the Princeton WordNet to a generic multilingual resource which is the first in its kind, Sparkle and Ecran aim at the dynamic anchoring of resources and information to the data and corpora that are of a user=92s interest. The availability of these resources and tools is essential for the new generation of applications and products dealing with information in electronic form. The projects have finished their specification phase and are in the process of generating the results. In this workshop we want to discuss the scope and formats of semantic resources and information acquisition tools with scholars in the field and researchers from commercial R&D departments who have experience in developing and using them. We therefore specifically welcome papers on the following topics: 1. compatibility and standards of multilingual semantic resources and lexical acquisition tools. 2. the validation of multilingual semantic resources and lexical acquisition tools. 3. performances of semantic resources and lexical acquisition tools in NLP tasks. 4. partial or phrasal parsing of text. 5. linking text with lexical databases: sense-differentiation, sense-tagging and sense-disambiguation tasks, domain-differentiation of text and lexical resources. The workshop will be a full-day event that provides a forum for individual presentations (about 30 minutes each) and discussions. At the end of day there will be room for demos. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS: Full papers should be submitted in electronic format: either RTF or postscript. Papers should not exceed 8 pages or 4000 words. The deadline for submission is the 17th of March. The formatting should be as follows: --text follows this line-- title: authors: <authors as they appear on the title page> word count: <n> email: <email address of author to whom correspondence should be directed> ------------------- <Body of submission> Submissions should be sent to: Piek Vossen Computer Centrum Letteren University of Amsterdam Spuistraat 134 1012 VB Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31 20 525 4669 Fax: +31 20 525 4429 Email: Piek.Vossen@let.uva.nl. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION: The number of participants is limited and is restricted on a first come basis.. As the workshop takes place in conjunction with the ACL/EACL-97 conference, presenters and participants of the workshop are obliged to register for the main conference as well. Conference registration details can be obtained via WWW from the ACL/EACL-97 home page <a href="http://horacio.ieec.uned.es:80/cl97/">http://horacio.ieec.uned.es:80/cl97/</a> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: 17th of March 1997: Deadline for receipt of submissions 4th of April 1997: Notification of acceptance/rejection 1st of May 1997: Final versions due for proceedings 12th July 1997: 1-Day Workshop --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: * Piek Vossen, The Netherlands, email: Piek.Vossen@let.uva.nl * Cintha Harjadi, The Netherlands, email: Cintha.Harjadi@let.uva.nl * Horacio Rodriquez, Spain, email: Horacio@lsi.upc.es PROGAM COMMITTEE: * Piek Vossen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. * Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto Linguistics del Computazionella del CNR, Italy, glottolo@vm.cnuce.cnr.it * Antonio Sanfilippo, Sharp Laboratories, UK, Antonio.Sanfilippo@sharp.co.uk * Geert Adriaens, Novell Linguistic Development, Belgium, Geert_Adriaens@novell.com * Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK, yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk From: Abdellatif Saoudi <Abdellatif.Saoudi@irin.univ-nantes.fr> Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION (RIAO97) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:44:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 429 (429) =========================================================================== ! DEADLINE EXTENSION: ! ! The deadline for submissions for RIAO'97 (McGill University, Montreal, ! Canada,June 25-27, 1997) has been extended to February 8, 1997. ! ! <a href="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97</a> [note: RIAO in CAPS] ! =========================================================================== (Apologies if you receive this call more than once) ********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS RIAO'97 CONFERENCE Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet June 25-27, 1997 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada *********************************************************** Brief Description and Themes: Every third year the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris, France, along with various international affiliates, organizes the RIAO conference (RIAO is the French acronym for Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval). RIAO97 will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO85 was held in Grenoble, France; RIAO88 in Cambridge, MA, USA (MIT); RIAO91 in Barcelona, Spain; and RIAO97 in New York City (Rockefeller University). RIAO conferences, all of which have had printed proceedings, have the special feature of incorporating both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations. Both the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a rigorous selection process. While commercial displays, as such, are not promulgated, the mix of scientific expertise and state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical examination of both with the potential for advances in product development and sponsorship as well as the initiation of lines for further, critical research investigations. RIAO97 focuses on new problems in information retrieval, filtering, and dissemination resulting from the recent profusion and extensions of networks. In particular, we seek to bring together search specialists and web-based media specialists to consider how searching can best be accomplished in the context of a proliferation of web sites, content formats, browsing modalities, amount of data accessible, and number of user accesses. Toward these ends the following topics are among those sought for inclusion in conference papers and demonstrations: A: Rapid indexing and retrieval engines; automatic abstracting B: Linguistic tools in information retrieval C: Information retrieval from heterogeneous formats - Identifcation of the same document in different contexts (different languages, structures, versions, etc.) - Unification of documents from heterogeneous formats; data-wharehousing - Data-mining and knowledge discovery in large databases - Search strategies in heterogenous contexts D: Strategies for technology watch on the Web; content addressable electronic mail, newsgroups, and other WWW systems E: Architecture - How to exploit large bandwidth for information retrieval - Distributed multi-agent architectures F: Imaging - Content characterization; manual and automatic description methods - Search strategies G: Sound - Sound content characterization - Automatic indentification of sound type: speech, music, ... - Spoken language recognition; word (boundary) identification H: Multimedia Web interfaces: Iconic, navigational, and speech interfaces I: Content-based compression techniques J: Data security problems: copyright protection, internet crime K: Web-related international conventions and policies ---------------------------- RIAO97 SUBMISSIONS AND CONTACTS: ---------------------------------- Papers should be submitted electronically as attached Postscript or ASCII (maximum 20 pages) files to: riao97@irin.univ-nantes.fr or in manuscript form to: RIAO97 C.I.D. 36 bis, rue Ballu F-75009 Paris, France or to: RIAO97 C.A.S.I.S C/O Leon Constantin 25th floor 575 Madison Ave New York, NY 10022 USA Questions, comments, and intents to attend conference or submit paper or demonstration proposals may also be sent to above addresses. Additional information will be found at conference web page at URL: <a href="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97</a> [note: RIAO in CAPS] From: Subject: Copyright in Canada update (long) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 430 (430) Here, with the permission of the original poster - the CARL-list* moderator - is the latest salvo in our ongoing effort to achieve an equitable copyright law in Canada. PL [CARL - Can. Assn. of Research Libraries] [deleted quotation] From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Love on the Net Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:41:34 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 431 (431) I received the enclosed this morning. It says for immediate release so I'm releasing it. Some of you may know that Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey has occasionally drawn comparisons between the industry of Chadwyck-Healey and the industry of abbe Jacques-Paul Migne, best known for the Patrologia Latina and the Patrologia Graeca. I can't help feeling that there must be a parallel between the enclosed and a similar style of marketing undertaken by Migne. No doubt R. Howard Bloch's "God's Plagiarist" would be the place to find it. Michael Fraser CTI Textual Studies (mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk) PRESS INFORMATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ROMANCING THE NET: 1,000 LOVE POEMS ON THE INTERNET - FOR SWEET NOTHING <a href="http://valentine.chadwyck.co.uk">http://valentine.chadwyck.co.uk</a> The information superhighway takes a romantic turn in February with the publication on the Internet of a thousand love poems for 1997's Valentines. For the two weeks up to 14 February, One Thousand Valentine Poems will make this year's loving a lyrical experience. The service is offered for free by Cambridge-based electronic publishers Chadwyck-Healey. No Valentine need be lost for words. Prospective lovers will be able to search tens of thousands of lines of romantic verse for the perfect expression of their feelings. Just key in a name, word or phrase and the Internet - and One Thousand Valentine Poems - will provide the inspiration. Poems can be downloaded, printed out, e-mailed or adapted to suit the recipient still better, so even the tongue-tied will a-wooing go. However, this is far more than just a two-week affair. The poems which make up One Thousand Valentine Poems are all selected from Chadwyck-Healey's vast Literature Online (Lion) service, comprising more than 210,000 poems, plays and novels - one of the largest and most ambitious services yet offered on the Intemet. One Thousand Valentine Poems costs nothing to access and is available from 1 to 14 February. It can be found on the World Wide Web at: <a href="http://valentine.chadwyck.co.uk">http://valentine.chadwyck.co.uk</a> For more information, please contact Emma Rintoul on Tel: 01223 215512 Fax: 01223 215514 E-mail: rintoul@chadwyck.co.uk From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Online teaching with OTPSEUD Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:36:09 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 432 (432) I am forwarding the enclosed because a) I was asked to circulate it and b) because I think the proposal to use a combination of email forum and WWW site for teaching in a similar style to Jim O'Donnell's Augustine course might be of interest to some on the list. Of course, there might be OT Pseudipigraphers on Humanist who haven't seen this before... Mike [deleted quotation] Announcing a new discussion list on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: OTPSEUD@st-andrews.ac.uk sponsored by the Divinity School of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. The list will be active during the spring semester of 1997 (approximately February through the end of May) and will be tied directly to a course module offered at St. Andrews. This course, DI3216, "The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha," will examine the OT Pseudepigrapha, a loose collection of ancient, quasi-biblical writings that were excluded from the canons of both normative Judaism and Christianity. We shall explore the reasons for the rejection of these documents by the major canons, the problems of the mixed Jewish and Christian strata in the texts, their intertextual connections with biblical literature, and their influence after antiquity. All texts will be read in English translation. Some of the texts we will read and discuss include the Book of Jubilees, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Pseudo-Philo, the Odes of Solomon, 3 Enoch, plus other liturgical, sapiential, magical, and apocalyptic documents. There will be special "cyberlectures" on the Enoch literature, by Professor James VanderKam of the University of Notre Dame, and on the survival of the Pseudepigrapha after antiquity, by Professor John Reeves of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This list will be a virtual classroom, so it will be subject to something rather like classroom etiquette. The realtime course is set up as a seminar, with a mixture of lectures by the instructor and sessions devoted to discussion of student seminar papers. Summaries of the lectures and abstracts of student papers will be posted on the list to stimulate further discussion by the listmembers. The focus will be scholarly analysis of the texts we will be reading, of related texts of the same period (such as the Dead Sea Scrolls or other documents from the Pseudepigrapha), and of the historical background of the texts in Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and the Greco-Roman world to late antiquity. Discussion should be courteous, well-informed (i.e., familiar with the assigned materials for the realtime class and the scholarly literature in general), and to the point. Further guidelines on list etiquette and approaches will be distributed to subscribers. The content of the course will be oriented toward specialists, but nonspecialists are welcome too. I reserve the right to decide in individual cases whether a potential subscriber should be added to the list and whether a current subscriber should continue on the list. The sending of a subscription request (instructions below) indicates acceptance of the conditions given in this paragraph. To subscribe to OTPSEUD send an email message to majordomo@st-andrews.ac.uk The message text should contain the single line subscribe otpseud Futher details on the list and the course will be provided in the introductory message to new subscribers. You can also find the OT Pseud web page at <a href="http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/otpseud.html">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/otpseud.html</a> Jim Davila University of St. Andrews Scotland jrd4@st-andrews.ac.uk From: Mick Doherty <doherm@rpi.edu> Subject: Campus Diversity site Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:51:05 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 433 (433) The following may be of interest to readers of this list. Electronic resourcing in diversity and university life is the main theme of this group, to which I belong. Mick Doherty --- Forwarded mail from Laura Blasi <blasi@aacu.nw.dc.us> Thank you for visiting the DiversityWeb site (<a href="http://www.inform.umd.edu/diversityweb">http://www.inform.umd.edu/diversityweb</a>) (Some of you visited it at AAC&U's Annual Meeting in Atlanta, others of you have been highlighted as people who would make valuable contributions to these conversations and/or have expressed interest in letters and via e-mail) You probably have colleagues who would be interested in participating in on-line work rooms focused on campus diversity issues. Please forward their names (and your own if you would like to participate), e-mail addresses, title (if needed) and mailing addresses to: d-web@aacu.nw.dc.us (We will make sure you and your colleagues receive an invitation based upon your response) Feel free to forward this message to others who may be interested. Please read below for a description of the rooms, the announcement of the recent free registration drawing winner, and, for more information on AAC&U's "Diversity and Institutional Change" April meeting in Ann Arbor. Diversity Web: Work Rooms The Work Rooms are organized around the topical priorities which also structure Diversity Digest, The Leader's Guide, and the Institutional Profiles. These priorities are: *Institutional Vision, Leadership and Systemic Change *Recruitment, Retention and Affirmative Action *Curriculum Transformation *Faculty and Staff Involvement *Student Experience and Development *Campus-Community Connections *Diversity Research, Evaluation, and Impact *Political, Legislative, and Judicial Issues The Work Rooms will provide spaces in which practitioners from all parts of the U.S. can come together around these priorities to hold discussions and share resources and information. Each Work Room will allow participants to post information, and resources, as well as engage in discussions and queries. Moderators can send out monthly announcement of dates and times discussions will be held (around specific problems/ issues) or when particular ?guest? participants will join the workroom for a topic discussion (or to meet specific participants? needs). "Real time" interaction in a work room is different from listserv exchanges (which are asynchronous). The workspace is "open" 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- just as a listserv is available those times -- but, while interaction can happen anytime, in a work room it can also be scheduled in advance by the moderators. ****** We wish to extend our congratulations to Lincoln University, where Dr. Dalmas A. Taylor filled out the winning entry and will receive one free registration to AAC&U's April meeting. AAC&U's April Network meeting will be held 17th to the 20th in Ann Arbor -- titled "Diversity, Learning, and Institutional Change." You can e-mail MEETINGS@aacu.nw.dc.us for more information. Hope to see you and your colleagues there... From: "Joanne Woolway (Assoc. Editor, EMLS)" <emls@english.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Early Modern Literary Studies - New Issue Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:42:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 434 (434) The December issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (2.3) is now available at <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a> and at our Oxford mirror site at <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/UK/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/UK/emlshome.html</a> The new issue contains material listed in the contents page below as well as links to electronic resources, interactive EMLS (including calls for papers, conference programs, work in progress and electronic papers), and to several other projects. Submissions and enquiries should be directed to Joanne Woolway Oriel College, Oxford emls@english.ox.ac.uk Raymond G. Siemens Joanne Woolway Editor Co-Editor Articles: * Popular Hermeneutics: Monstrous Children in English Renaissance Broadside Ballads. Helaine Razovsky, Northwestern State University. * Production Resources at the Whitefriars Playhouse, 1609-1612. Jean MacIntyre, University of Alberta. * "Ay me": Selfishness and Empathy in "Lycidas." Jean E.Graham, The College of New Jersey. Note: * Reflections on Milton and Ariosto. Roy Flannagan, Ohio University. Reviews: * Robert Weimann. Authority and Representation in Early Modern Discourse. Ed. David Hillman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,1995. Anthony Johnson, Abo Akademi University. * Thomas H. Luxon. Literal Figures Puritan Allegory & the Reformation Crisis in Representation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. David Gay, University of Alberta. * Rebecca W. Bushnell. A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. Charles David Jago, University of British Columbia. * Graham Parry. The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of The Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995. F. J. Levy, University of Washington. * Simon Jarvis. Scholars and Gentlemen: Shakespearean Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour, 1725-1765. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996. Bryan N.S. Gooch, University of Victoria. * Susan Bennett. Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past. New York: Routledge, 1996. Robert Grant Williams, Nipissing University. * Garry Wills. Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP / NY Public Library, 1995. Michael T. Siconolfi, Gonzaga University. * Naomi Conn Liebler. Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Rituals Foundations of Genre. New York: Routledge, 1995. Jeffrey Kahan. * Gordon Williams. A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature. 3 vols. London and New Jersey: Athlone P, 1994. Douglas Bruster,University of Texas, San Antonio. * W. S. "A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter." Compact disk recording read by Harry Hill. Dir. Paul Hawkins. Text Ed. Donald W. Foster. Montreal: Concordia University, 1996.Sean Lawrence, University of British Columbia. * Sir Thomas More. Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation. Eds. George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams and Clarence Miller.Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Romuald I. Lakowski. From: Nico Weenink <noki@worldonline.nl> Subject: Existentialism and Borchert Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 05:33:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 435 (435) Dear collegues, I'm posting this message for a friend who is very interested in existentialism. She is studying German Literature and wants to write a dissertation on Borchert and Extentialism. Was there a existentialistic movement in Germany? Can anyone help her on this topic? Especially those who are familiar with Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre are asked to respond. Thanks in advance. Nico. Nico Weenink Utrecht University The Netherlands noki@worldonline.nl From: Stefan Sinclair <4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca> Subject: Electronic conferences Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:10:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 436 (436) Hello, I would be very grateful to anybody who could tell me about their experiences with electronic conferences. The graduate students here at the department of French at Queen's University in Kingston will be hosting an electronic conference on "L'informatique dans les =E9tudes fran=E7aises" in mid March. I'm familiar with various technologies (textual based multi-user shared environments, communications programs such as Cool Talk and Netmeeting, certain CGI and Java packages), but I'd like to hear first had accounts of what seems to work and what doesn't. To be a bit more specific about our needs, I'm looking for readily available, platform flexible, and preferably free software that would assure at least textual communication, and, if possible, some options for visual exchange. If people wish to answer me directly, I'll summarize the responses for the others on the list. Thanks in advance. ------------------------ St=E9fan Sinclair Address: =C9tudes fran=E7aises 4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca Queen's University <a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/</a> Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L 3N6 From: Mavis Cournane <cournane@curia.ucc.ie> Subject: Busa Date: 28 Jan 1997 14:29:43 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 437 (437) Dear Willard I was wondering if any HUMANISTS could tell me where I could find some accounts/reports of Busa's Index Thomisticus. Thanks Mavis Cournane From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Seminar in Humanities Computing Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:40:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 438 (438) I am happy to announce the Spring 1997 calendar for the Seminar in Humanities Computing, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. The entire schedule of events is available at the URL <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/seminars.html">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/seminars.html</a>>. Allow me, however, to alert you to the first seminar, by Professor John Unsworth (IATH, English, Virginia), "Copyright restrictions and freedom of speech on-line: the current debate", to be held Monday 3 February at 6pm in Room 18, South-West Block, King's, Strand. All within reach of the College are most welcome. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Good Language Software <languagesoftware@access.ch> Subject: <a href="http://www.access.ch/languagesoftware/">http://www.access.ch/languagesoftware/</a> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 06:51:24 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 439 (439) Good Language Software. languagesoftware@access.ch Information release: Software for evaluation. Dear colleague We have displayed for use and evaluation the following Natural Language Processing, Educational, Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching software for IBM and compatible, DOS or WINDOWS: Text Processing Software. - SYNTPARSE, for parsing (grammatical analysis of the sentence on the level Parts of the Sentence, incl. display of the Verbal Tense, Voice, Mood) of English texts. - SYNTCHECK, English orthographical and grammatical spellchecker designed to benefit both the student and the professional. Displays statistics of the orthographical and of the grammatical (concord, usage, verb related) errors. Displays the total number of errors, their percentage and the number of words and sentences spellchecked. Suggests corrections for the grammatical errors. Collects the unknown words in the text. - SYNTCHECK, German orthographical and grammatical spell-checker. This program has all the features described above, plus the new German spelling reform. The umlaut is used as: ae, oe, ue. Thesauri: - SOFTHESAURUS, English Electronic Thesaurus based on concepts, displays up to 18 types of word and word-group relationships to the entry word, provides a definition of the word's meaning, displays the prepositions with which the word is used and gives text examples, with an option to add translation of the word into another language and self-update the electronic dictionary. - LINGUATERM, Multilingual (English, German, French and Spanish) Electronic Thesaurus of Linguistic Terminology. Displays up to 22 types of word and word-group relationships to the entry word, incl. definitions, text examples and an option to update it and include more languages. - GEOATLAS, Multilingual (English, German, French and Italian) Electronic Lexicon of related place names. Includes all major geographical names in the world and their relationship(s), language and political information (at high-school level), with an option to expand and update it. - ENGLISH-RUSSIAN Machine Translation software program. You can download compressed (*.exe) versions of the programs at: <a href="http://www.access.ch/languagesoftware/welcome.html">http://www.access.ch/languagesoftware/welcome.html</a> The performance of the Evaluation versions matches that of the commercial versions. There is no charge for the Evaluation versions, the user is free to copy and distribute them. The Evaluation versions will be available for a limited period only. Send E-mail to: languagesoftware@access.ch P.S. If you get an error message while trying to connect to our homepage, please, try again. This happens often to everybody at busy sites and this is a busy site. If your downloading "freezes", please, try again. That could happen sometimes to anyone of us, anywhere on the net. We have no versions for other platforms. Those with Mac, who would be willing to purchase the commercial software, can send us a message, so that we see if we should develop Mac versions or not. Please, pass on this information to those who might be interested. From: Subject: Re: 10.0638 Borchert? e-conferences? Busa? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 440 (440) [On Roberta Busa's work] For a historical account, go to the volume entitled The Puzzle Master in the Time-Life series Understanding Computers (ISBN 0-8094-5741-5). The chapter entitled The Language Machine provides quite a bit of information about early computing in the humanities. Busa is dicussed in pp. 53-59. Ted Brunner =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Theodore F. Brunner, Director Thesaurus Linguae Graecae University of California Irvine, Irvine CA 92697-5550 Phone: (714) 824-6404 FAX: (714) 824-8434 E-mail: tbrunner@uci.edu TLG Home Page: <a href="http://www.uci.edu:80/~tlg/">http://www.uci.edu:80/~tlg/</a> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Subject: Re: your guide Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 441 (441) ***************************************** CFP: THE HUMOROUS RENAISSANCE ***************************************** 1997 MLA Convention December 27 - 30, 1997 Toronto, Canada A. S. Weber Abstracts Due: March 1, 1997 Dear Colleagues: I am organizing a session for the 1997 MLA Convention in Toronto, Canada on the literary and scientific discourses of humor pathology from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (circa 1400 - 1750). Suggested topics of enquiry may include: the language of specific texts such as Jonson's humor plays or Burton's ANATOMY, humoralism in literature, anti-humoral discourses (Paracelsianism), the diffusion of the Hippocratic and Galenic textual tradition and its cultural impact, the cross-cultural textual transmission of medical knowledge, astrological medicine, rhetorical aspects of humor pathology texts, etc. Please send 500 word abstract and description of research interests via regular mail or email (aweber@binghamton.edu) by March 1, 1997 to: A. S. Weber English Department SUNY Binghamton Binghamton, NY 13902. Best Regards, Alan S. Weber Assistant Professor of English English Department SUNY Binghamton, NY 13902 aweber@binghamton.edu 607 - 734 - 1659 (H) 607 - 777 - 2168 (O) 607 - 735 - 1913 (O) 607 - 777 - 2408 (FAX) From: Carol Anne Germain <CG7781@cnsvax.albany.edu> Subject: URL Citations Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 20:26:26 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 442 (442) Hello! I am a student at the State University of New York at Albany, working on a masters in library science. Currently, I am gathering information to write my final paper. This includes articles that are from print journals that contain reference citations that are Internet links. This includes http; ftp or gopher sites. I have tried citation indices but have found that they only list the homepage title rather than location. Also, I have tried to randomly browse through journals to find these. It will take me all semester if I keep that up! So, if anyone comes across any articles with URLs in the reference section, I would be most grateful if would email them to me. I will need both the article citation that cites it as well as the reference citation. My email address is as follows: cg7781@cnsvax.albany.edu Thank you, Carol Anne Germain From: pat gudridge <pgudridg@law.miami.edu> Subject: textual analysis program Date: 30 Jan 97 21:39:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 443 (443) [The following came as a private enquiry, but since I did not know the answer and one or more of you might, I pass it on. Allow me in passing to mention another text-analysis program, Tatoe, soon to be demonstrated at King's London, for which see our Seminar, announced elsewhere in this evening's Humanist. --WM] I am a Humanist subscriber, and I very much appreciate your work. At the moment I am teaching a seminar on computer analysis of legal texts, not so much because I possess any particular expertise, but because it is clear that law schools and legal academics need to do more of this work. The ultimate point of the seminar is to explore ways of bringing to bear techniques developed in humanities computing in analyzing legal texts, especially large bodies of material (decades of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, for example) which -- as such -- usually fall outside the scope of ordinary forms of legal reading. We will begin work with TACT, for example, starting next week. I have noticed a few references to a program called Alceste, apparently of French origin, used for some form of statistics-driven text analysis. None of these references, however, provides much information. Would you know of any source I might check? [...] Thank you. Pat Gudridge From: Subject: Re: 10.0527 e-diss; Italian linguistics; plagarism Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 444 (444) Dear Humanists, in Germany universities have come to the point of evaluation. This new phase has started a short while ago and we notice now that we are bare of any experience. Autonomy of the university is another problem, i.e. efficency based distribution of resources. As I know that English, British and US universities, above all, are already quite used to evaluation and therefore must be familiar with evaluating the Humanities in opposition to natural and technical sciences, I would really appreciate your help. The things I am interested are: what criteria do you think best for evaluation? Which have been used in your case? How do you cope with the financial problem? Which ways are you going to get money in? Are there experiences in the field of cooperation between industry and the humanities? Have you started new innovative courses during the process of evaluation or on the basis of the results and what are your experiences with these new courses? Are you facing the problem that pupils are less interested in universitie nowadays and that student numbers are going down? How do you cope with this? I know that my questions call for very complex answers but it would already be very helpful, if you just could enumerate some of the points which seem important to you. Thank you very much in advance Elisabeth Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik/Gerhard-Mercator Universitaet Duisburg GH Lotharstrasse 65/47048 Duisburg +49 203 3792605/Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de From: Subject: unjust sex-change Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 445 (445) My apologies to everyone, and to that great scholar Roberto Busa especially, for altering the final vowel in his first name and so changing the indication of sex. I cannot plead a slight error in keystroke, as on my QWERTY keyboard the "o" and "a" are quite far apart, nor can I plead total ignorance of Italian and its naming conventions, nor anything else I can reasonably imagine. Mea maxima culpa (which, yes, is feminine in grammatical gender throughout). I am especially embarrassed because I might seem to have attributed the error to Ted Brunner, who knows better than I, having met Busa, which cruel fortune has denied me. Perhaps years spent reading Ovid has so affected me that subconsciously in nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora..... Yikes! WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: computers and writing style Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 446 (446) I have received a query from a Montreal journalist, Patricia Bergeron, <pbergero@aei.ca>, asking about the impact of computers in contemporary litterature. She's writing a paper about the impact of the computer on the writing style of contemporary authors, the fascination and dangers of the computer for them as they see it, their experiences with e-mail and how it may have changed their writing. I could not be very helpful, but I would suppose that a number of Humanists could. May I suggest, then, that anyone with something to say on the subject write to Ms. Bergeron, with a copy to Humanist? She is not a member at the moment. Thanks. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: research assessment in the U.K. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 447 (447) In Humanist 10.643 Elisabeth Burr asks for information on academic assessment, in light of events in Germany. As I have just recently discovered, academic institutions in the U.K. are the subject of a Research Assessment Exercise, the results of which have recently been published for 1996. See <<a href="http://back.niss.ac.uk/education/hefc/">http://back.niss.ac.uk/education/hefc/</a>>, which contains information about the Higher Education Funding Councils of the U.K. in general with links to various assessments. Informed commentary on the RAE in this country, or similar exercises elsewhere, would be welcome to many, I'm sure. Here humanities computing has, I think, not yet figured into an RAE because the field is so new. Has it anywhere else? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: (Xpost) Milton Transcription Project Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 448 (448) THE MILTON TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT (MTP) is dedicated to making all of John Milton's poetry and prose available for public access on the Internet. Although most of Milton's poetry is available in modernized forms, the MTP is preparing more accurate electronic facsimiles of the early editions of Milton's poems. In addition, most of the English and Latin prose--along with a great deal of fascinating Miltoniana--remains to be done. We invite you to join us in providing accurate scholarly transcriptions of these texts. Volunteers may transcribe as much or as little as they wish; each transcription will be proofread, formatted, checked, and refereed. We shall acknowledge any significant contribution, and all accepted transcriptions will be credited by name. The MTP, currently supported by Milton-L, _Milton Quarterly_, the Department of English at Texas Tech University, the Computer Writing and Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Richmond's web-server, is the joint creation of volunteers from more than 24 colleges and universities in half a dozen countries. In order to volunteer or to receive more information, please contact either Professor Hugh Wilson (MTP Editor; dithw@ttacs.ttu.edu) or Professor A.E.B. Coldiron, (MTP Internet Liaison; coldiron@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu). The only requirements are diligence, concern for accuracy, and the ability to type with one or more fingers. Volunteer: earn the intangible reward of "those whose publisht labours advance the good of mankind" (_Areopagitica_, 1644). From: Subject: Re: 10.0646 research assessment Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 449 (449) It's a question of some discussion as to what extent the RAE by the HEFCE actually took into account humanities computing. Although the guidance issued by the HEFCE made allowance for the electronic medium, it is probable that many involved in the medium felt that the subject panels did not give sufficient appreciation. There has been some correspondence recently in _The Times Higher_ (_Times Higher Educational Supplement_). If I might hazard a further, personal feeling -- perhaps purely intuitive -- the composition of some panels in the humanities suggests that there was either little interest in or little knowledge of humanities computing (whether for research or teaching, the latter not being within the remit of the RAE, of course). Moreover, there was virtually no allowance for elucidating the nature of the involvement in electronic research, since overall departmental activities (including those of individuals) had to be described within six sides of A4. My own experience was that there was no space to explain the activity in lay terms. My own rather tangential involvement in H-Albion and H-Net was reduced to about six words, so the problem for people with deep interests in this sort of work must have been compounded. I can fully understand that some people may feel that the RAE has not fully valued this sort of work, especially since there has been no feedback apart from a letter to _The Times Higher_ from an officer of the HEFCE re-stating that the groundrules allowed for the electronic medium. -- Dave Postles Dept of English Local History, University of Leicester pot@le.ac.uk <a href="http://snowwhite.it.bton.ac.uk/proj-cgi/alt/members/DPO656">http://snowwhite.it.bton.ac.uk/proj-cgi/alt/members/DPO656</a> (under construction) From: Subject: Re: 10.0644 Busa's work Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 450 (450) There are also some interesting articles by and about Busa in the pages of "Computers and the Humanities". You might want to look at a series of articles on automated concordances and word indexes written by Delores Burton which appeared in 1981-1982. Also there's an article by Busa himself in the same journal titled "The Annals of Humanities Computing : The Index Thomisticus" (Busa 1980). This last goes over some of his motivations for undertaking the "IT" including the following: "Each writer expresses his conceptual system in and through his verbal system, with the consequence that the reader who masters this verbal system, using his own conceptual system, has to get an insight into the writer's conceptual system." p. 83. LEO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Robert Klein 70 Washington Square South Reference Associate New York, NY. 10012 General & Humanities Reference Tel.: (212) 998-2500 Elmer Holmes Bobst Library Fax: (212) 995-4383 New York University Email: kleinl@is2.nyu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Annotated Bibliography for English Studies (ABES) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 451 (451) Annotated Bibliography for English Studies (ABES) A Demo Disk containing a selection of records is now available. The official first release will be April 1997 and will be followed by six-monthly updates. Please order your free Demo from the undersigned or visit the ABES website: <a href="http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/abes/abeshome.html">http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/abes/abeshome.html</a> *********************************************************** MARTIN SCRIVENER Publisher Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers Heereweg 347B 2161 CA LISSE The Netherlands Tel: +31-252-435101 l Fax: +31-252-415888 E-mail: scrivy@swets.nl <a href="http://www.swets.nl/sps/home.html">http://www.swets.nl/sps/home.html</a> ********************************************************* [deleted quotation] From: Domenico Fiormonte <ITADFP@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk> Subject: computers & writing style Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 22:33:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 452 (452) [The following is a copy to Humanist of a note sent to the Montreal journalist who enquired about the effects of the computer on writing style. I have not passed on to Humanist Dr. Fiormonte's additional material, which I presume he would be willing to share with anyone who might write to him directly. --WM] I have been studying the influence of computer on literary writing since 1990, and I wrote my "laurea" thesis at the University of Rome on this subject. ("The Influence of Computer on Literary Writing: Case Studies of Three Italian Authors", Rome, April 19 1994). Unfortunately, all my 4 publications are written in Italian --though I studied the phenomenon of computer writing broadly, interviewing authors from Italy, Spain, USA, and now UK. I spent last year at Michigan Tech University, where I focused on the rhetoric of the electronic text (Cindy Selfe), the history of literary production and literary tools (Bill Powers), etc. This summer I won a Spanish government scholarship on Computers, Linguistics and Literature, and I had the unique opportuniy to interview some of the best Spanish contemporary authors. Currently, my PhD project at U. of Edinburgh consists in building a digital archive of textual variants from contemporary Spanish and Italian writers. I'll do two things for you: 1) I'll e-mail you my latest Italian paper (whose significant title is "The Electronic Writing Anthology (and Archeology): Three Stages of a Work in Progress") In spite of the fact that it is written in Italian, there are a number of long quotes in English (Kurt Vonnegut, etc.), Spanish, French, etc. and an International bibliography which could be helpful. 2) I'll send you a DRAFT of an English version of my first published piece "Case Studies of Computerized Writers" (be pitiful with this, it's just a draft!) IMPORTANT: BOTH files are written in Winword 2, and I am sending them through Basic-Mime encoding -- let me know if this works. Besides, you can visit my home page, where you can find also an ENGLISH (feeew!) abstract of my thesis: <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm">http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm</a> <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/case_st.htm">http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/case_st.htm</a> [this the abstract] Best wishes ****************************************************** Domenico Fiormonte University of Edinburgh, Dept. of Italian David Hume Tower, George Square EH8 9JX -- United Kingdom Fax: 131-650-6536 E-mail: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm">http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm</a> <<Si Dios no fuese Dios, seria el Rey de las Espanas, y el Rey de Francia su cocinero>> From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@mdah.state.ms.us> Subject: Re: 10.0645 computers & writing style? Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:48:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 453 (453) Some fifteen years ago I had the opportunity to wire Barry Hannah as he made the transition from typewriter to word processor, with the idea of capturing every keystroke and watching to see if his style changed. Alas, nobody was interested in funding such a project, and now it's too late. But wouldn't the literature on the teaching of composition with computers be relevant to this question? Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: Emily Rose <erose@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Subject: Re: 10.0645 computers & writing style? Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 22:29:32 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 454 (454) I recall reading an article years ago in the Wall Street Journal about exactly the issue of writing style and computers (I think it even addressed the question of MAcs versus PCs) I clipped it, but then lost it. It dealt with students and the stylistic changes of first drafts composed on a word processor rather than longhand - not email. From: "Dr. Joel Goldfield" <joel@funrsc.fairfield.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0645 computers & writing style? Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 11:28:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 455 (455) Perhaps Ms. Bergerson could contact Donald Ross since he has a specialty area in composition & computers as does Cynthia Selfe, who just won an MLA/EDUCOM award. I don't have my MLA directory handy to check on Prof. Selfe's e-mail address. The last e-address I have for Donald Ross (U. of Minnesota) is: umcomp@ux.acs.umn.edu. She might also check with John F. Burrows who probably has the fullest database and set of studies on gender and national differences among woman writers of English. He may have also looked at the impact of word-processing and the like on writing. His address is: LCJFB@cc.newcastle.edu.au. Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University Fairfield, CT USA From: "H-CLC (BD)" <bdiederi@ucsd.edu> Subject: Computers and the changing fashions of literary criticism? Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 22:37:45 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 456 (456) In his article about computers and literary criticism (_L'Ordinateur et la critique litteraire: du golem a la textualite cybernetique_ in _Litterature_ 96 (1994) pp. 6-18), Paul Delany links the use of computers in literary studies to the development of the computer, of course, but mainly to the changing fashions in literary criticism. I have been wondering about this before: why are there no recent new studies by many researchers who have published very interesting work using computer methods in the 1970s and 1980s? More generally: why do people get into literary computing, and why do they give it up? Is it the fashions of literary criticism; is literary computing just a methodology to answer one specific question, and when that question is answered, there is no further use for the methodology; or is it university politics; is it frustration with the methodology; or ...? Of course, it would also be great to hear the opposite perspective: why do people continue working in the field of literary computing, how did the computer keep up with your evolving views of literary theory, and how do you combine both in your teaching? Barbara Diederichs bdiederi@ucsd.edu From: Frances Rasmussen <frasmuss@calvin.linfield.edu> Subject: Question for HUMANIST members Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 15:26:09 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 457 (457) I am a recent subscriber and a graduate student in a MLIS program. I am working on a project which is focused on the impact of electronic publishing on academic scholars in the humanities. If anyone would like to respond, I would greatly appreciate it. I am trying to review the changes, concerns, advantages/disadvantages of the "information era" upon the humanist scholars and disciplines. Thank you for any information you can provide. ***************************************** * * * Frances Rasmussen * * Director of Resource Sharing * * Linfield College Library * * McMinnville, OR 97128 * * voice: 503-434-2534 * * fax: 503-434-2566 * * frasmuss@linfield.edu * * * ***************************************** From: Gloria McMillan <gmcmillan@east.pima.edu> Subject: My project on _Dracula_ (TEI-tagged etext) Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 13:15:35 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 458 (458) For a Grad. level class on rhetoric, I plan to run some computer comparisons over the speeches of various characters in _Dracula_. Other than Burrows' fine _Computation into Criticism_ (studies of Jane Austen) and some papers online by Eric Johnson, I have few pointers to others doing literary or rhetorical analysis on the computer. Would anyone care to enlighten me so that I can enlarge my 'works cited' page? Thanks! Gloria McMillan *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* gmcmillan@east.pima.edu <a href="http://pimacc.pima.edu/~gmcmillan/index.html">http://pimacc.pima.edu/~gmcmillan/index.html</a> VIRTUAL CLASSROOM: Diversity University MOO TELNET>mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu 8888 WELCOME SCREEN> Type: du login as: co guest Type: @go #2673 *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: agonizing Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 08:11:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 459 (459) Barbara Diederich's question in Humanist 10.651, in which she asks "why do people get into literary computing, and why do they give it up?", varies a theme prominently articulated by Mark Olsen in CHum and elsewhere and before him by Yaacov Choueka, who asked in 1988, "The tools are here, where are the results?" Mark pointed to a supposed lack of results from the application of computing to the study of literature, concluding (grossly to oversimplify) that if we were all studying literary history, as he does, we would get somewhere. At the Oxford ALLC/ACH conference John Burrows (who has published many a real result) answered Mark, saying gently that we should all be patient, that these things take time. Time, of course, is also an enemy and may suggest part of an answer to Barbara's question: people get old, they get tired; their interests change; they move past the stage of quickly obtained results, burrow into longer-term projects, and have the wisdom not to be publishing all the time. The work of humanists is like a great boulder near the top of a cliff, and the researcher like a person slowly pushing that boulder to the edge. The people below notice, chatter about it for a while, then the person above and his or her boulder become familiar and are gradually forgotten -- until one day their effects are suddenly felt. The great work has arrived. So if you see a computing humanist rubbing his or her shoulder and complaining how heavy some things are.... Is it correct to say that masses (such as they are) of computing humanists in literary studies have given up? Or is it more accurate to posit a second phase of our work, a quieter time when these masses have burrowed into their projects, heeding the widespread call for fewer promises and more results? Or should we look to some fundamental misconception, such as the pernicious notion that our research is about building bridges rather than learning from their collapse? Have we been utterly seduced by mistaking production for research? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: rgpotter@iastate.edu (Rosanne G. Potter) Subject: Date: Mon, 03 Feb 97 14:56:23 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 460 (460) Dear Barbara, I can only answer for myself. Literary computing is extremely demanding: 1. it takes a great deal of foresight to design projects so that they will lead to reportable results; 2. it creates piles of data and opens so many paths that one can easily become overwhelmed by choices; and (possibly less important, but also problematic), 3. questions about what is worth looking at, what constitutes proof, what kinds of assertions can be defended from a theoretical standpoint mean that the ground under one's feet keeps shifting. I have spent more time collecting data on reader responses to plays and designing concordances of the dialogue in those plays than I have been able to spend on writing the articles and books that should some day come out of those projects. I suspect I am not alone in spending so much time creating a dataset that is worth investigating that I have not had the time to investigate it. The early issues of _Computers and the Humanities_ are full of the relics of huge projects that were started and never completed. Computers seem, from the beginning, to have lured critics into having eyes bigger than their stomachs. I'll be interested in hearing what other people think about your very interesting question. Rosanne G. Potter Professor of English Iowa State University From: Eric Johnson <johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu> Subject: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 12:01:57 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 461 (461) Some of Barbara's questions are discussed in my published article that is now available online at <a href="http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/etextand.html">http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/etextand.html</a> --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu <a href="http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/">http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/</a> From: Austin Meredith <rchow@benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu> Subject: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:23:44 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 462 (462) Every once in awhile some scholar who has not taken the trouble to view our materials offers to dismiss our project out of hand by presuming that this Computational Linguistics approach from the 1970s and 1980s _must_ be the sort of thing that we presently do at this project -- they typically consider that they don't need to look at our work product since we are after all merely _using computers_, and since those number-cruncher people also were _using computers_, and since computers are _only useful for number crunching, tabulation, that sort of thing_. That's very frustrating, as nothing which we are doing in any way resembles the Computational Linguistics approach (we are employing hypertext and transclusion techniques), and since I have checked around from time to time and, bad news, have never sighted any piece of scholarship which I would consider has actually benefited from that sort of mindset. Various people have aimed me in the direction of various pieces of scholarship, as proof texts, but to date whenever I have actually looked at these proferred pieces of scholarship, the questions I have had to ask myself have been:"What the hey is the question they are posing?" "What the hey is the demonstrated finding which they have produced?" Where's the evidence to show that Computational Linguistics was ever anything more than an agenda, a proposal, a pronouncement, a false start? Where are their results? Where is _any_ result? At this point I have to consider it to have been merely an embarrassment, something which is sadly interfering with our own acceptance as a viable scholarly enterprise. \s\ Austin Meredith <r2chow@uci.edu>, "Stack of the Artist of Kouroo" Project From: Bornstein <georgeb@umich.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0651 queries Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 19:56:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 463 (463) In reply to Barbara Diederich's recent query about studies in computing and literary criticism, I would like to mention the new collection THE LITERARY TEXT IN THE DIGITAL AGE, edited by Richard Finneran and published recently by University of Michigan Press, which brings together some outstanding essays. ********************************************************************* George Bornstein Department of English C.A. Patrides Professor of Literature University of Michigan email: georgeb@umich.edu Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109-1045 office phone: (313) 764-6330 office fax: (313) 763-3128 From: Subject: Project Gutenberg #800. . . Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 464 (464) This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for February 4, 1997 It is going to be short because we want to get it out quickly, to get help on our start on French Etexts. If you can tell why the Stendahl and Verne are not coming out the same to many of our readers, when the look the same on my binary readers here, please let me know. It will take a few tries to get it into shape, so we are starting with low version numbers, such as xxxxx07. Those of you who can help, please do. . .our apologies while other wait to see the finished products. Those of you who think we should have done it right the first time. . .boy do you have the wrong number. . .if we waited until we could do it right a first time. . .we would never have gotten started. Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Director Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ### A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work. Feb 1997 This Side of Paradise, by F. 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Badger, Jr. [loctyxxx.xxx] 783 Jan 1997 The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Author Unknown[tosjmxxx.xxx] 782 Jan 1997 Sinking of the Titanic, et al, by Logal Marhsall [ttnicxxx.xxx] 781 12 Jan 1997 The War in the Air by H.G. Wells [H.G. Wells #8] [wrairxxx.xxx] 780 Jan 1997 Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe [Footnotes] [drfstxxx.xxx] 779 Jan 1997 Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe [No Footnotes][drfstxxa.xxx] 779 Jan 1997 Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit [E. Nesbit #2] [fivitxxx.xxx] 778 Jan 1997 The Mastery of the Air, by William J. Claxton [tmotaxxx.xxx] 777 8 Jan 1997 Hermione's Group of Thinkers, by Don Marquis DM#4 [hlgstxxx.xxx] 776 Jan 1997 When the Sleeper Wakes, by H.G. Wells [Wells #7] [wtslwxxx.xxx] 775 Jan 1997 Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde [Wilde #4] [sandlxxx.xxx] 774 Jan 1997 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime etc, by Oscar Wilde #3 [ldascxxx.xxx] 773 4 Jan 1997 Moral Emblems, by Robert Louis Stevenson [RLS#35] [moremxxx.xxx] 772 Jan 1997 Biog Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells, C. Bronte #3[brntexxx.xxx] 771 Jan 1997 The Story of the Treasure Seekers, by E. Nesbit #1[tsotsxxx.xxx] 770 Jan 1997 The Book of Tea, by Kakuzo Okakura [tboftxxx.xxx] 769 Feb 1997 This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald [#1][tsoprxxx.xxx] 805 Both of these are version 09 and are not on uiarchive, our link is down Feb 1997 A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne [senjrxxx.xxx] 804 From: Subject: Re: 10.0653 research assessment (U.K.) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 465 (465) Responding to the way RAE panels regarded humanities computing, I think the problems are more potential than actual. I was a member of the European Studies panel, which had a number of computing issues to consider. I'd distinguish between those concerning the computing-related activities reported in the contextual documents (RA5&6), and those concerning the evaluation of 'published' material declared in the RA2 list of each person's best four publications. The RA5/6 is essentially supporting material giving an impression of the general environment for research, and though it might be frustrating to have only a small space to describe computing activities, the same difficulty affects all research activities, many of which might also wish to have more opportunity to set out their achievements. It is up to the submission writer to decide how much relative prominence to give to any given area. The RA2 report does pose several problems, but like all other publications, it can be accessed and evaluated by competent panel members or by expert advisors. The problems are bound up with how to do the evaluating, and involve questions such as: - who has done the work submitted? - especially since so much IT related work is highly collaborative, and frequently has several layers of material nested into each other; - at what stage is the work considered to be completed, or alternatively, what state was it in on the census date? - especially with Web-based materials which are in a constant state of updating. - where or in what hard/soft-ware environment should the work be evaluated..... Computing based materials were a very small proportion of what my panel had to look at, but it may well be that they will assume more importance in future, and the related issues will require more elaboration. Mike Kelly ------------------------------ Prof. Michael Kelly School of Modern Languages University of Southampton, U.K. E-mail: mhk@lang.soton.ac.uk Fax: +44 1703 593288 Tel: +44 1703 592191 (direct) From: Mavis Cournane <cournane@curia.ucc.ie> Subject: COCOA/OCP Date: 04 Feb 1997 14:52:16 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 466 (466) Dear Willard I want to know more about OCP, Micro-OCP and COCOA. When were they developed, and what is the relationship between OCP and COCOA. I am a bit confused. I thought that COCOA was a concordance program but it is also a markup language. What are the implications of COCOA for OCP. thanks Mavis From: Ami Regier <aregier@bethelks.edu> Subject: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:28:41 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 467 (467) What are the possibilities for an undergraduate course in computer literacy that is keyed to the discipline of literary studies? I'm looking into the possibilities of such a course for my college and wondering what components others have considered. Ami Regier From: "Gary S. Karpinski" <garykarp@music.umass.edu> Subject: Duck-Rabbit Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:33:20 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 468 (468) I'm looking for the first appearance of the "Duck-Rabbit" in the literature. Is it by Wittgenstein? Is it in Scheidemann's _Experiments in General Psychology_? An authoritative reference to its originator would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. --Gary .............................................................................. : : : Gary S. Karpinski voice (413) 545-4229 : : Department of Music & Dance fax (413) 545-2092 : : University of Massachusetts : : Amherst, MA 01003 USA garykarp@music.umass.edu : :..........................................................................: From: Subject: Computers & contemp. authors Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 469 (469) No trends come to mind, necessarily, but one example does. A couple of years ago, a writer named Paul Kafka (a distant relation of Franz) wrote a first novel called _Love [Enter]_. It's an epistolary novel with the hook being that some of the letters are email. Hope that's of some help. Ned ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ned Muhovich University of Denver emuhovic@du.edu (303)871-2455 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Subject: Father Busa Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 470 (470) There is much written on Father Busa and his work. The fruits of his labors have been reduced to one CD-ROM, available from Editoria Elettronica Editel, Milano: Thomae Aquinatis Opera Omnia, cum hypertextibus in CD-ROM, auctore RobertoBusa, S. J. The engine is clunky, but it is all there + some extras: "The 118 writings of Thomas Aquinas, as well as 61 writings of other medieval writers belonging to the same cultural milieu". On Busa, you might like to look at his _Fondamenti di Informatica Linguistica (Milan, 1987). Jim Marchand. From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ANLP-97 Registration Brochure Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:52:12 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 471 (471) ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS FIFTH APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING CONFERENCE 31 March - 3 April, 1997 Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington D.C. INVITED TALK Government Perspectives on the Future of Language Technologies (tentative title) Ruth A. 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A ride through the thick of the cherry blossoms will begin a three-hour cruise down the legendary Potomac river, from which you will see the Washington Monument, National Cathedral, and the lights of Old Town Alexandria. Music of the river and the region will accompany the tour. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Specific inquiries regarding local arrangements may be directed to John White, (white_john@prc.com), +1-703-556-1899. For questions regarding accommodations, special needs or assistance, please contact the Washington Marriott Hotel, +1-202-872-1500. EXHIBITS AND DEMONSTRATIONS: A number of publisher exhibits and computer demonstrations have been scheduled. For information on arranging demonstrations and exhibits mail white_john@prc.com or call +1-703-556-1899. For exhibits of research systems, the charge is a nominal $40. The fee for exhibiting a commercial system (intended for sale as a product) is $250. SPONSORS: The organizers are most grateful to the following organizations for their generous offer of monetary and technical support: AT&T Labs - Research SRA International Isoquest Inc. Logos Development Corporation PRC Inc. Federal Intelligent Document Understanding Laboratory The Association is seeking additional sponsors for the conference. Please contact John White if you are interested in serving as a sponsor and to discuss types of recognition your generosity will receive. RECREATION: The Washington Marriott provides a variety of modern recreational facilities, including indoor pool, sauna, jacuzzi, exercise room with universal equipment, free weight, Stairmaster and other workout facilities. These facilities are free to hotel guests. CLIMATE AND DRESS: Early April is cherry blossom time in Washington. The temperature can vary from rather raw (highs of 50F / 10C) to quite pleasant (highs of 75F / 24C). Light rain is quite possible at some point during the conference, and it is often breezy during this time. The visitor should be prepared for all of these contingencies, to fully enjoy Washington's most beautiful time of year. SIGHTSEEING: Washington presents an intriguing blend of the driven pace of a Northeastern metropolis with the charm of a Southern coastal town. The city is, of course, legendary for the monuments and museums, of which most are near the conference site. However, it is a treat just to walk around in the urban neighborhoods in the vicinity of the Washington Marriott -- Washington Circle, Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom, George Washington University. A similarly interesting walk is the de facto financial district, along K street (NW) from about 23rd to 14th. You will find Reiter's Scientific Books just down the street, around 20th and K, which will gain your interest, time, and your book-buying dollars. The area restaurants cover an extraordinary range of culinary types, from various regions of India, to very good barbecue, to stunning vegetarian collard greens. Like most areas these days, there are several notable local breweries, including Old Heurich (D.C.) and Old Dominion (Virginia), along with many brew-pubs, mostly excellent. Virginia produces a credible wine collection, abundantly available in the DC area. There will be several events associated with the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival underway during and after the conference period, including concerts, parades, races, art exhibitions, etc. The conference site is roughly 10 blocks from the portion of the Mall that contains the Vietnam and Korean Veterans Memorials, and the Lincoln Memorial. Further toward the omnipresent Capitol dome you will pass the Washington Monument on your way to the Smithsonian, a gigantic cluster of buildings on both sides of the Mall that will capture your attention forever if you let it. Some of the best museums in the world, all free. About 8 blocks in a slightly different direction will bring you to the front of the White House at (you guessed it) 16th and Pennsylvania. Yet another trek in the opposite direction, 10 or so blocks will take you to the heart of Georgetown, a bustling, youthful area, both intellectual and outrageous. DIRECTIONS: BY AIR: Three airports serve the Washington / Baltimore area. The two most convenient for the Washington Marriott are Washington National (just across the Potomac) and Dulles International (about 20 miles inland). [deleted quotation]Parkway westbound}. Cross over the Memorial bridge. Bear to the left at the end of the bridge, and take your first left onto 23rd Street. Follow 23rd Street to I (eye) Street and make a right turn. Make your first left onto 22nd street. The hotel will be five blocks up on the right hand side. [deleted quotation]Make a left turn onto 18th Street. Make a left onto M Street. Proceed on M to 22nd Street and make a right turn. The hotel will be on the right hand side. BY CAR: From the North, follow I-95 South to I-495 West toward Silver Spring. If you are astonished by some architecture about 5 miles later, you are going the right way. Exit I-495 at the Connecticut Avenue / Chevy Chase exit. Continue on Connecticut Avenue for nine miles and make a right turn on M Street. Proceed five blocks to 22nd Street and make a right turn. The hotel is on the right. [deleted quotation]Memorial Bridge. Then follow the National Airport directions. BY METRO: The Washington Metro is a subway/bus transit system that has two stops near the hotel: Foggy Bottom / GWU (23rd near Washington Circle) on the Orange and Blue Lines; and Farragut North (K and 17th streets) on the Red Line. PARKING: Parking at the Marriott is $15 per night for hotel guests. Parking garages are available nearby for comparable prices. Street parking is hard to find. FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE: For most currencies, exchanges can be made readily either at the airports or at banks in the vicinity of the hotel. ACCOMMODATION Accommodations are made available at a special conference rate at the Washington Marriott, the site of the conference. A block of rooms has been designated for the conference at special rates, including a small number of rooms that may be reserved at the prevailing U.S. Government per diem rate. In addition, the Marriott will allow students to share rooms up to four persons, at reduced rates. Unfortunately, during the academic year, no dormitory housing is available. To make a reservation, contact the Washington Marriott Hotel, +1-800-344-4445 or +1-202-872-1500. All reservations must be guaranteed either by credit card or by a first night room deposit. Inform the hotel that you are attending the Association for Computational Linguistics Applied Natural Language Processing Conference. In order to receive conference rates, reservations must be received by March 7, 1997. Rates: Singles: $135.00 per night (plus applicable taxes of approximately 13%). Doubles-to-Quads: $140.00 per night (plus taxes). Ask about U.S. government rates, if applicable, ($124.00 inclusive -- a limited number are available). FIFTH APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING CONFERENCE 31 March - 3 April, 1997 Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington D.C. PROGRAM AT A GLANCE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last revised January 27, 1997 Time schedule subject to revision. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Ralph Grishman (Chair), New York University. Members: Chinatsu Aone, SRA Corporation, Rusty Bobrow, BBN, Martha Evens, Illinois Institute of Technology, Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corporation, Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute, Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Boyan Onyshkevych, U. S. Dept. of Defense, Tomek Strzalkowski, General Electric Corporate Research and Development, Henry Thompson, University of Edinburgh, Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, Marc Vilain, MITRE Corporation. Sunday, March 30 6:00-8:00 Tutorial Registration, 2nd Floor 6:00-8:00 Tutorial Reception, 2nd Floor Monday, March 31 Tutorials 8:00- 3:00 Tutorial Registration, 2nd Floor 9:00-12:30 Creating and Using Automatic Linguistic Annotation Software 9:00-12:30 Building Applied Natural Language Generation Systems 2:00- 5:30 Using Speech Recognition 2:00- 5:30 Building Information Extraction Systems 6:00- 9:00 Conference Registration, 2nd Floor 7:00-10:00 Conference Reception Tuesday, April 1 8:00- 5:30 Conference Registration, 2nd Floor 9:00- 9:15 Introductions 9:15-10:00 Invited Talk Government Perspectives on Ruth A. David the Future of Language (tentative title) 10:00-10:30 BREAK Track A: Track B: 10:30- 5:00 Spoken Language and Dialog Syntax and Morphology Wednesday, April 2 Track A: Track B: 9:00-11:10 Computer-Aided Language Information Extraction Learning 11:10-12:00 Text Checking and other Continued Applications 2:00- 3:30 Continued Document Management 3:30- 5:00 Demonstrations Thursday, April 3 Track A: Track B: 9:00-11:00 Text Generation Multilingual Systems 11:00- 1:30 Information Retrieval and Acquisition of Lexical Summarization Information from Corpora 1:30- 4:00 Continued Continued ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM IN DETAIL 8:30- 5:30 Conference Registration, 2nd Floor (Tues.-Thurs.) Tuesday, April 1: Track A SPOKEN LANGUAGE and DIALOG 10:30 CommandTalk: A Robert Moore, John Dowding, Spoken-Language Interface for Harry Bratt, J. Mark Gawron, Battlefield Simulations and Adam Cheyer 11:00 Natural Language in Four Kenneth Wauchope, Stephanie Everett, Spatial Interfaces Dennis Perzanowski, and Elaine Marsh 11:20 High Performance Marsal Gavalda, Klaus Zechner, and Segmentation of Spontaneous Gregory Aist Speech Using Part of Speech and Trigram Word Information A Maximum Entropy Approach 11:40 Identifying Sentence Jeffrey Reynar and Adwait Ratnaparkhi Boundaries 12:00 L u n c h 1:30 Unification-based Michael Johnston, Phil Cohen, Liang Multimodal Integration for Chen, Joshua Clow, David McGee, Distributed Simulation James Pittman, and Ira Smith 2:00 Natural Language Dialog Stephen Busemann, Thierry Declerck, Service for Appointment Luca Dini, Judith Klein, and Scheduling Agents Sven Schmeier 2:30 Insights into the Dialog Jan Alexandersson, Norbert Reithinger, Processing of Verbmobil and Elisabeth Maier 3:00 B r e a k 3:30 An Evaluation of Strategies Ronnie Smith for Selective Utterance Verification for Spoken Natural Language Dialog 4:00 Name Pronunciation in Bernd Mobius and Stefanie Jannedy German Text-to-speech Synthesis 4:30 Applying Repair Processing Yue-Shi Lee and Hsin-Hsi Chen 4:30 in Chinese Homophone Distinction Tuesday, April 1: Track B SYNTAX and MORPHOLOGY 10:30 A Non-projective Dependency Pasi Tapanainen and Timo Jarvinen Parser 11:00 Incremental Finite-State Salah Ait-Mokhtar and Parsing Jean-Pierre Chanod 11:30 Developing a Hybrid NP Atro Voutilainen and Lluis Padro Parser 12:00 L u n c h 1:30 An Annotation Scheme for Wojciech Skut, Brigitte Krenn, and Free Word Order Languages Thorsten Brants 2:00 The Domain Dependence of Satoshi Sekine Parsing 2:30 Automatic Acquisition of Pieter Theron and Ian Cloete Two-level Morphological Rules 3:00 B r e a k 3:30 Probabilistic and Rule-based Barbora Hladka and Jan Hajic Tagger of an Inflective Language 4:00 Cseg&Tag1.0: A Practical Sun Maosong, Shen Dayang, and Word Segmenter and POS Huang Changning Tagger for Chinese Texts Wednesday, April 2: Track A COMPUTER-AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING 9:00 The NLP Role in Animated Michael Schoelles and Henry Conversation for CALL Hamburger 9:30 Reading more into Foreign John Nerbonne, Lauri Karttunen. Languages Elena Paskaleva, Gabor Proszeky, 10:00 Large-Scale Acquisition Bonnie Dorr of LCS-Based Lexicons for Foreign Language Tutoring 10:30 B r e a k TEXT CHECKING & other applications 11:10 A prototype of Grammar Tomas Holan, Vladimir Kubon, Checker for Czech and Martin Platek 11:40 Techniques for Karel Oliva Accelerating a Grammar Checker 12:00 L u n c h 1:30 EasyEnglish: A Tool for Arendse Bernth Improving Document Quality 2:00 Contextual Spelling Michael Jones and James Martin Correction Using Latent Semantic Analysis 2:30 An Automatic Scoring Jill Burstein System for Advanced Placement Biology Exams 3:00 Dutch Sublanguage Peter Spyns, Eric Baert, Semantic Tagging combined Georges De Moor, Ngo Thanh Nhan, with Mark-Up Technology and Naomi Sager Wednesday, April 2: Track B INFORMATION EXTRACTION 9:00 A Statistical Profile of the David Palmer and David Day Named Entity Task 9:20 Nymble: a High-Performance Daniel Bikel, Scott Miller, Learning Name Finder Richard Schwartz, and Ralph Weischedel 9:50 Disambiguation of Proper Nina Wacholder and Yael Ravin Names in Text 10:20 B r e a k 11:10 An Information Extraction Guenter Neumann, Rolf Backoven, Core System for Real World Judith Baur, Markus Becker, and German Text Processing Christian Braun 11:40 Layout & Language: Matthew Hurst and Shona Douglas Preliminary experiments in assigning logical structure to table cells 12:00 L u n c h 1:30 Building a Generation Dragomir Radev and Kathleen Knowledge Source using McKeown Internet-Accessible Newswire DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT 2:00 Using SGML as a Basis for David McKelvie, Chris Brew, and Data-Intensive NLP Henry Thompson 2:30 Software Infrastructure for Hamish Cunningham, Kevin Humphreys, Natural Language Processing Robert Gaizauskas, and Yorick Wilks 3:00 An Open Distributed Remi Zajac Architecture for Reuse an Integration of Heterogenous NLP Components Thursday, April 3: Track A TEXT GENERATION 9:00 Customizable Descriptions Benoit Lavoie, Owen Rambow, of Object-Oriented Models and Ehud Reite 9:30 CogentHelp: NLG meets SE Michael White and Ted Caldwell in a tool for authoring dynamically generated on-line help 10:00 A Fast and Portable Benoit Lavoie and Owen Rambow Realizer for Text Generation Systems 10:30 B r e a k 11:00 Multilingual Generation and Harold Somers, Alex Rogers, Joaki Summarization of Job Adverts: Nivre, Annarosa Multari, Torbjorn the TREE Project Lager, Luca Gilardoni, Jeremy Ellman, and Bill Black 11:30 Language Generation for Kathleen R. McKeown, Shimei Pan, Multimedia Healthcare James Shaw, Desmond Jordan, and Briefings Barry A. Allen 12:00 L u n c h INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND SUMMARIZATION 1:30 Identifying Topics by Position Chin-Yew Lin and Eduard Hovy 2:00 An Automatic Extraction Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi of Key Paragraph Based Suzuki, and Jun'ichi Fukumoto On Context Dependency Building Effective 2:30 Queries in Natural Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Language Information Jose Perez-Carballo, and Retrieval Jin Wang 3:00 B r e a k 3:30 Construction and Joe Zhou and Troy Tanner Visualization of Key Term Hierarchies 4:00 Fast Statistical Checgxiang Zhai Parsing of Noun Phrases for Document Indexing Thursday, April 3: Track B MULTILINGUAL SYSTEMS 9:00 An English to Turkish Cigdem Turhan Machine Translation System Using Structural Mapping 9:30 An Interactive Translation Kiyoshi Yamabana, Kazunori Muraki, Support Facility for Shin-ichiro Kamei, Kenji Satoh, Non-Professional Users Shinichi Doi, and Shinko Tamura 10:00 An Intelligent Multilingual Chinatsu Aone, Nicholas Charocopos, Information Browsing and and James Gorlinsky Retrieval System Using Information Extraction 10:30 B r e a k ACQUISITION of LEXICAL INFORMATION from CORPORA 11:00 Semi-automatic Acquisition Philip Resnik and I. Dan Melamed of Domain-specific Bilingual Translation Lexicons 11:30 Mixed-Initiative Development David Day, John Aberdeen, Lynette of Language Processing Hirschman, Robyn Kozierok, Systems Patricia Robinson, and Marc Vilain 12:00 L u n c h 1:30 Automatic Extraction of Ted Briscoe and John Carroll Subcategorization from Corpus 2:00 Learning Subcategorization Takehito Utsuro and Yuji Matsumoto Preferences with a Hidden Variable: Coping with Case Dependencies and Noun Class Generalizations 2:30 A Workbench for Finding Andrei Mikheev and Steven Finch Structure in Texts 3:00 B r e a k 3:30 Automatic Selection of Class Paola Velardi and Clessandro Labels from a Thesaurus for Cucchiarelli an Effective Semantic Tagging of Corpora 4:00 Sequential Model Selection Ted Pedersen, Rebecca Bruce, for Word Sense and Janyce Wiebe Disambiguation FIFTH APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING CONFERENCE TUTORIAL PROGRAM March 31, 1997 Creating and Using Automatic Linguistic Annotation Software 9:00-12:30 Eric Brill, Department of Computer Science and Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University In order to perform any sophisticated natural language processing task, it is necessary to first discover the underlying linguistic structure of the input. Depending on the task, this might include information such as parts of speech, word senses, phrase structure, different types of names, etc. Recently a number of approaches have been developed for automatically training programs to provide such annotations. We will survey these approaches and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. The most accurate automatically trained systems typically require large manually-annotated corpora for training, thereby making them expensive to port across domains or languages for which such corpora are not readily available. We will describe methods that allow rapid porting, including: learning without an annotated corpus, adapting an already-trained program to a new domain with minimal resources, and methods for combining human intuitions with automatic acquisition. Building Applied Natural Language Generation Systems 9:00-12:30 Ehud Reiter, Computer Science Department, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Robert Dale, Microsoft Institute, Macquarie University, Australia Natural language generation systems produce understandable texts in English or other human languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. NLG systems combine knowledge about language and the application domain to automatically produce documents, reports, explanations, help messages, and other kinds of texts. The late 1990s is an exciting time for applied NLG. 10 years ago NLG was purely a research activity, but in 1997 there are several fielded NLG systems in everyday use, and many more systems under development. In this tutorial, we will describe some of the techniques that are being used to build practical working applications today; we will also provide pointers to leading-edge research developments in the field. The material is based around a popular architectural model of NLG that encompasses the three stages of text planning, sentence planning and linguistic realisation. We will include a case study showing how to construct an NLG system which produces textual meteorological summaries from underlying numeric data sets. The tutorial should be useful for managers, implementors, and researchers. For managers, it will provide a broad overview of the field and what is possible today; for implementors, it will provide a realistic assessment of available techniques; and for researchers, it will highlight the issues that are important in current applied NLG projects. Using Speech Recognition 2:00-5:30 Judith Markowitz, J. Markowitz Consultants Talking is a fundamental and ubiquitous mode of communication between humans. The idea of extending speech to verbal interaction with machines has produced powerful icons, such as Arthur Clark's Hal; Kit, the futuristic car; and StarTrek computers. Researchers and developers have been designing speech recognition systems for almost 50 years, and the fruit of their labor is a growing number of diverse speech-controlled systems, including speech-to-text dictation products, voice-activated dialing systems, and telephone messaging tools. The presentation addresses three major questions about speech recognition: What is speech recognition? How does it work? What is it used for? Answers to these questions include examination of speaker modeling, vocabulary creation, grammar, and input channels. The presentation will be accompanied by videotaped examples of existing systems and products. Building Information Extraction Systems 2:00-5:30 Douglas E. Appelt and David Israel, Artifical Intelligence Center, SRI International This tutorial will cover the what and the how of Information Extraction (IE) systems. First we characterize the range of tasks usually intended for IE techniques, and then describe the various approaches to implementing these techniques, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each. Most IE systems process texts in sequential steps ("phases") ranging from lexical and morphological processing, recognition and typing of proper names, parsing of larger syntactic constituents, and resolution of anaphora and coreference. Finally, IE systems have a domain phase that recognizes events and relationships relevant to the specific IE task. We shall discuss various approaches to each of these phases in turn, and examine their suitability for different types of IE problems. We will discuss the problems and advantages of incorporating various external resources into extraction systems, including large lexicons, gazetteers, and part-of-speech taggers, and conclude with a discussion of template design principles that can have a significant impact on the difficulty of the IE task. POSTCONFERENCE WORKSHOP on TAGGING TEXT WITH LEXICAL SEMANTICS: WHY, WHAT, AND HOW? SIGLEX 97 -- 4th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon Friday and Saturday, April 4-5, 1997 Friday: HAND TAGGING Invited talk Hwee Tou Ng (Defence Science Organisation, Singapore) Experience in WordNet sense tagging in the Wall Street Journal. J. Wiebe, J. Maples, L. Duan, and R. Bruce (New Mexico State U., USA and S. Methodist U., USA) Desiderata for tagging with WordNet synsets or MCCA categories. K.C. Litkowski (CL Research, USA) A frame-semantic approach to semantic annotation. J.B. Lowe, C.F. Baker, and C.J. Fillmore (U. of California, USA) A lexicon for underspecified semantic tagging. P. Buitelaar (Brandeis U., USA) LUNCH Invited talk Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton U. and Rider U.) Afternoon working sessions Saturday: AUTOMATED METHODS Measuring semantic entropy. I.D. Melamed (U. of Pennsylvania, USA) Sense tagging: semantic tagging with a lexicon. Y. Wilks and M. Stevenson (U. of Sheffield, UK) Selectional preference and sense disambiguation. P. Resnik (U. of Maryland, USA) Investigating complementary methods for verb sense pruning. H. Jing, V. Hatzivassiloglou, R. Passonneau, and K. McKeown (Columbia U., USA) Semantic bootstrapping from corpora. R. Basili, M. Della Rocca, and M. T. Pazienza (U. Tor Vergata Roma, Italy) Sense tagging in Action. A. Harley and G. Glennon (Cambridge Language Services, UK) LUNCH A perspective on word sense disambiguation methods and their evaluation. P. Resnik and D. Yarowsky (U. of Maryland, USA and John Hopkins U., USA) Afternoon working sessions PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marc Light (chair), Martha Evens, Helmut Feldweg, Michael Johnston, Doug Jones, Kevin Knight, Boyan A. Onyshkevych, Martha Palmer, Philip Resnik, Evelyne Viegas, David Yarowsky, Annie Zaenen. REGISTRATION: Registrations via email to light@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de with the Subject line "SIGLEX 96 Registration" are strongly preferred. The registration fee is US$55. Acceptable forms of payment are checks in US dollars payable to ``Marc Light'', credit card (VISA/Mastercard) payment, bank transfer in US dollars to Marc Light (account num. 19857012), Volksbank T"ubingen (routing num. 64190110) with message ``SIGLEX-97''. Please submit the following form (see also <a href="http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~light/semtag_ws.html">http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~light/semtag_ws.html</a>) regardless of payment option used: Name: Institution: <for name tag> Address: <postal address> Email: Phone and Fax: Payment: <specify check, credit card, or bank transfer> Credit card type: <Visa/Mastercard> only if paying by credit card Credit card info: <name on card, card number, expire date> Dietary requirements: <vegetarian, etc.> Please send to: Marc Light SfS-Computerlinguistik Wilhelmstrasse 113 D-72074 T"ubingen Germany email: light@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ACL/EACL-97 Workshop Call For Papers Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:51:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 472 (472) ------------------------------------ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTATIONAL PHONOLOGY Third Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology (SIGPHON 97) In conjunction with ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference Madrid, Spain, 11th [or 12th?] July 1997 ------------------------------------ A. Description of the workshop The workshop will be devoted to all areas of computation, as applied to contemporary phonology. Papers will be on substantial, original, and unpublished research on any aspect of computational phonology, including (but not limited to) finite-state, connectionist and logical techniques; formalisms, implementations and complexity results; computational, mathematical and psychological models; and the integration of phonology with grammar and speech. Theoretical and applied studies are equally welcome. The workshop will occupy the whole day, with c. 10-12 papers, and a general discussion to conclude. B. Organizing committee and program committee. The organizing committee will consist of the following members of the SIGPHON executive: John Coleman (University of Oxford) Steven Bird (University of Edinburgh) Bob Berwick (MIT) Andras Kornai (IBM Almaden Research Center) The program committee will consist of the executive plus other members whom the executive may invite to strengthen the referee pool in particular areas. External referees will be invited for any paper submitted by a member of the program committee. C. Primary contact All correspondence should be sent to: John Coleman Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory 41 Wellington Square Oxford OX1 2JF, UK Tel. +44 (1865) 270444 Fax. +44 (1865) 270445 email: john.coleman@phonetics.oxford.ac.uk D. Submission of papers Papers should describe unique work; completed work is preferable to intended work, but in any event the paper should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Papers must not exceed 10 printed A4 pages. The entire process from initial submission, to reviewing and final submission will be handled electronically. The initial submission may either be in plain ascii, compressed postscript, or else should follow the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described below) which requires TeX 3.14 or LaTeX 2.09. (La)TeX submissions that include (possibly) separate postscript figure files must be packaged using the aclpkg.script (also available from the LISTSERV). ASCII or postscript is preferred, however. Final accepted versions MUST be (la)tex files following aclsub.sty, if necessary packaged using aclpkg.script. A title page containing the title, a short abstract, author names and addresses, should be attached to the submission. Postscript figures following psfig.sty may be included. Submissions should be sent via email to: john.coleman@phonetics.oxford.ac.uk Acknowledgment of receipt will be sent to the first author of the paper. IMPORTANT DATES MARCH 31, 1997 Initial submissions due APRIL 25, 1997. Notification of acceptance MAY 25, 1997. Receipt of final accepted papers E. Registration As the costs of the workshop have not yet been finalized, registration information will be sent out later. Note that all participants must register for the main ACL/EACL conference. Information about the main conference is available from the URL <a href="http://horacio.ieec.uned.ed/cl97/">http://horacio.ieec.uned.ed/cl97/</a> There will be an additional registration fee for the workshop of approximately US $35, which will include a copy of the workshop proceedings. ACL/EACL reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the number of participants is below 25 persons. F. AUDIO-VISUAL NEEDS. An overhead projector will be available. Requests for other A/V equipment should be directed to sigphon96@research.att.com G. ACL LISTSERV LISTSERV is a facility set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. Requests for files from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to: listserv@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request com- mand. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index ACL96" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get ACL96 <file>" to get a particular file named <file> from the archive. For example, to get the ACL96 modelsub.tex file, send a message with the following body: get ACL96 modelsub.tex 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 awhile (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 cs.columbia.edu Name(cs.columbia.edu:trisha): anonymous Password:trisha@cis.upenn.edu < not echoed > ftp> cd ACL96 ftp> get modelsub.tex.Z ftp> quit $ uncompress modelsub.tex.Z From: Remi Zajac <rzajac@crl.nmsu.edu> Subject: IJCAI-97 Workshop on Ontologies and Multilingual NLP Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:45:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 473 (473) ********************************************************************** Call for Submissions Please Distribute Widely ********************************************************************** IJCAI-97 Workshop on Ontologies and Multilingual NLP Nagoya, Japan, August 23-25, 1997 (Web page: <a ref="<a href="http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/IJCAI/">http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/IJCAI/</a>"> Workshop on Ontologies and Multilingual NLP</a>) Background ========== A number of ontology-related workshops have been held in the past years (e.g., 1993 in Padua, 1995 IJCAI, 1996 ECAI, 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium, etc.). However, none of them concentrated centrally on applications of world modeling to multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP). Ontologies for knowledge-based computing and especially for Natural Language Processing are steadily reaching a level of sophistication and size which make them increasingly useful to the resolution of problems in real-world NLP applications. The recent creation of an ad hoc ANSI working group on standardization of ontologies is an indication of the maturity of the field. More and more ontology-based systems are being built for multilingual applications (e.g., multilingual machine translation, multilingual information retrieval). However, most of the language-processing oriented ontologies that have been built so far have English or another language (e.g., Japanese or Spanish) as the basis (e.g., WordNet, EDR, Pangloss, etc.). Since there is a growing need for multilingual applications of these ontologies, it is natural to ask the following questions: Are any of these ontologies actually used in a multilingual setting? Can we characterize the degree of independence of an ontology from the natural language it is based on? What are the necessary properties of a truly multilingual (or universal) ontology? Is it possible to obtain a language-neutral ontology from a language-dependent ontology? What applications truly need multilingual (or language-neutral) ontologies? How do we separate language-specific (or lexical) information from ontological knowledge? How can the depth of knowledge in the ontology be balanced with the needs of an application? What are the prospects of automating ontology acquisition? What is the relationship between an ontology as the repository of general knowledge about the world and knowledge about particular individuals - people, places, organizations, events, etc.? These and many more questions must be discussed much more widely than they have been till now. Many of the previous workshops were devoted to more formal issues in ontology building, such as the knowledge representation schemata, closures, formal properties of ontologies, and so on. Moreover, they included the discussion of small ontologies that cover a very narrow domain of problem solving; NLP typically requires a broad-coverage ontology. The hypothesis of using interlingual representations based on an ontology is at least 50 years old. It was originally formulated in the framework of machine translation. However, few systems to date have tested this hypothesis, for MT or other applications, by implementing a large-scale interlingua-based system using a language-independent ontology. This workshop will debate the benefits, costs and competitiveness of such an approach to solving semantic and cross-language problems for MT, IR, and other NLP applications. Audience ======== The workshop is open to all members of the AI and NLP community. The workshop is intended for researchers and practitioners in knowledge-based NLP, artificial intelligence and computational linguistics who have been working on large scale knowledge-based resources, ontologies, multilingual lexical semantics, interlinguas, and their applications. Reports of actual work including problems and solutions in the design, construction and use of ontologies are strongly encouraged but more theoretical work (grounded on actual work on ontologies) aimed at defining the limits, constraints and directions for large-scale practical language-neutral ontologies is welcome as well. Issues ====== Issues to be addressed include but are not limited to: - Design of language-neutral ontologies. - Acquisition problems in multilingual ontologies. - Multilingual applications of ontologies. - Multilingual ontologies and terminological knowledge bases. - Ontologies and interlinguas. - Standardization of ontologies: issues of multilinguality. - Ontologies and Lexicons. - Sharing and standardization of language-independent ontologies for NLP. - Costs and competitiveness of ontology-based solutions vis-a-vis corpus-based and transfer-based methods for multilingual NLP. Format of the Workshop ====================== The workshop will include twelve presentation periods which will be divided into ten-minute presentations of positions followed by 20-minute discussions. The attendance will be limited to 20 active participants. Papers will be circulated among participants several weeks before the workshop. Presentation will be short, under 15 minutes (10 minutes preferably) with 20 minutes reserved for exchanges. We encourage the authors to focus on the salient points of their presentation and identify possible controversial positions. We encourage authors not to repeat as is what has been already written in the paper. There will be ample time set aside for informal and panel discussions and audience participation. Please note that workshop participants are required to register at the main IJCAI-97 conference. Submission Information ====================== Timetable --------- - March 15, 1997: Deadline for reception of submissions. - May 1, 1997: Notification of acceptance. - July 1, 1997: Deadline for reception of camera-ready copy. Format ------ Submissions must not exceed 6 pages in camera-ready format. Submissions in electronic form are prefered. Authors should follow the IJCAI format. <<a href="http://www.ijcai.org/ijcai-97/CfX/cfp.html">http://www.ijcai.org/ijcai-97/CfX/cfp.html</a>> Review Process -------------- Papers will be subject to peer review. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results and the quality of the presentation. The decision of the Program Committee, taking into consideration the individual reviews, will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers selected will be scheduled for presentation. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference. Submission ---------- Electronic submission should be sent at zajac@crl.nmsu.edu. The subject line should contain "IJCAI97 workshop submission". Papers should be sent at the following address: Rimi Zajac / IJCAI-97 Computing Research Laboratory New-Mexico State University PO Box 30001 / 3CRL Las Cruces NM 88003 USA Fax: +1-505-646-6218 Schedule ======== - March 15, 1997: Deadline for reception of submissions. - May 1, 1997: Notification of acceptance. - July 1, 1997: Deadline for reception of camera-ready copy. - July 21, 1997: Publication of final list of workshop participants. - August 23-25, 1997: IJCAI-97 Workshop. Organizing Committee ==================== Rimi Zajac, CRL, New-Mexico State University, USA (Chair): zajac@crl.nmsu.edu Lynn Carlson, US Department of Defense: lmcarls@afterlife.ncsc.mil Kavi Mahesh, CRL, New-Mexico State University, USA: mahesh@crl.nmsu.edu Kazunori Muraki, NEC, Japan: k-muraki@hum.cl.nec.co.jp Nicholas Ostler, Linguacubun, Ltd., UK: nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: FAIR USE TOWN MEETING Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 11:46:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 474 (474) [Editorial note. The issues surrounding "fair use" of material in electronic form are extremely important for the future of much if not everything we do as computing humanists. Further announcements on this subject are forthcoming on Humanist, and any and all discussion most strongly encouraged. --WM] NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 5, 1997 FIRST IN SERIES OF COMMUNITY TOWN MEETINGS ON FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES Following is a press release and program for the first in a series of Town Meetings to educate and engage the community in debate about Fair Use, the ramifications of new technology and copyright legislation and new voluntary "Guidelines," especially regarding the educational use of digital images. NINCH will be a partner in the production, recording and management of resources resulting from these meetings. * * * * * * * * * * * * IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: (212) 691-1051 February 4, 1997 Katie Hollander, ext.206 Craig Houser, ext. 208 Mary-Beth Shine, ext. 210 nyoffice@collegeart.org TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Sunday, February 16, 1997, 9:30 to 4:30 Fair Use of Digital Images, the first in a series of town meetings co- sponsored by the College Art Association and the American Council of Learned Societies, will take place on Sunday, February 16, from 9:30 to 4:30 at Cooper Union's Great Hall, 1 Cooper Square. This first town meeting follows the 85th annual College Art Association conference at the New York Hilton, February 12- 15, 1997. What can artists, curators, librarians, and scholars do with digital images? Although technologies of digital networks open the door to many new possibilities, copyright law will also play a critical role in shaping what we can do. The purpose of this first town meeting is to allow wide discussion of what is "fair use" of digital images. Digital networks pose many new challenges for copyright law. This is particularly so with regard to images, which may now be easily digitized and accessed from remote locations. Who will hold the rights? What will be "fair use" (a key concept in copyright law) of such images? Who will have to pay for what? This town meeting will explore these issues, putting a particular focus on guidelines recently drafted by the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), which are proposed for wide endorsement by organizations and will have implications for all users, creators, and rights holders. In short, how can we all live together? In addition to CAA and ACLS, The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is participating in sponsoring what will be a series of town meetings around the country, which are made possible by a generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PROGRAM Town Meeting: Fair Use of Digital Images The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Sunday, February 16, 1997, 9:30 to 4:30 Great Hall Morning Session 9:30 a.m. To 12:30 p.m. Welcoming Remarks: Susan Ball, Executive Director, College Art Association Introduction to the Issues: Pat Williams and David Green, Moderators Legal Introduction to Copyright: Speaker TBA Presentation of Predicaments: Leila Kinney, Art Historian, MIT Lyndel King, Director, Weisman Art Museum Nancy Macko, Artist, Scripps College Outline of Proposed CONFU Guidelines for Fair Use of Digital Images: Cameron Kitchin, American Association of Museums Lunch - 12:30-1:30 p.m. (on your own) Afternoon Session 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Exploring the Issues: Susan Ball and Pat Williams, Moderators General Issues/Topics Copyright Education - Kenneth Crews, Indiana University- Purdue University Indianapolis Liability - Adam Eisgrau, American Library Association Artists' Rights - Ted Feder, Artists Rights Society Copy Photography - Macie Hall, Johns Hopkins University Site Licensing - Geoffrey Samuels, MLC Development Practical Use of Web Sites Annette Weintraub, Artist, City University of New York Elizabeth Schmidt, Colonial Williamsburg Kathy Cohen, Art Historian, San Jose State University * * * * * From: John D Schaeffer <tb0jds1@corn.cso.niu.edu> Subject: Position Announcement Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 09:37:06 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 475 (475) NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Coordinator-Computer Assisted Instruction Full-time position to coordinate department's Networked Writing and Research Lab. Responsible for maintaining and upgrding computer lab, web site, faculty development in computer based instruction in writing courses, and working with other university ffices to coordinate delivery of computer services to the department's Freshman English Program. Salary: $30,000 for 10 months. Send application letter, vita, and dossier with at least three letters of recommendation to John D. Schaeffer, Director of Freshman English, English Department, NIU, DeKalb IL 60115-2863. Application deadline: March 1, 1997. AA/EEO. From: Subject: Re: 10.0654 research assessment (U.K.) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 476 (476) In response to Mike Kelly, whom I thank for elucidating the activity of the European Studies panel, the declared difference between RA2 (four nominated publications) and RA5-6 ('supporting evidence') is appreciated, but panels were, admittedly within the guidelines, allowed to set their own briefs. Some of those panels seem, from their briefs, to have been operating more on a peer review system than actually on the RA2 -- of course, that's a personal impression, but one which may be borne out from the results of some panels. In this case, if the panel had a predilection for traditional publication, can we be assured that _all_ panels did actually access the material and evaluate as fully as it might a traditional publication? Moreover, in how many submissions was e-development placed in RA5-6 rather than in RA2? Finally -- and this has more to do with departmental cultures, as may the last point -- in RA5-6 might there have been a tendency to squeeze out e-developments in favour of expanding all those traditional materials which might also have wanted more space? Such faults -- if such they were -- might have originated in the departments (or units of assessment), but they were probably based on expectations and perceptions of how some panels might assess the different media -- traditional and electronic. My own feeling is that some units of assessment and the new universities have a real grievance here in some subject areas and that that issue can only be overcome by more feedback of a detailed nature. * By peer review, I should declare that I mean personal reputations rather than assessment of the actual output. -- Dave Postles Dept of English Local History, University of Leicester pot@le.ac.uk <a href="http://snowwhite.it.bton.ac.uk/proj-cgi/alt/members/DPO656">http://snowwhite.it.bton.ac.uk/proj-cgi/alt/members/DPO656</a> (under construction) From: Subject: Internet Archaeology Update 1 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 477 (477) [Editorial note. I pass along the following message, addressed to registered users of Internet Archaeology, <<a href="http://intarch.york.ac.uk/">http://intarch.york.ac.uk/</a>>, to encourage all Humanists to take a close look at this new online journal. Well worth the mouse-clicks and (if you live in Europe) also the connect charges for the local call. --WM] Dear Internet Archaeology Registered User, Thank you very much for taking the time to fill in our registration form and, since you are reading this message, putting in your email address. I am writing to you to let you know how the journal is doing at present and to give you details of the next issue. You are one of nearly 1800 people who have registered to use the journal. 8300 people have visited our web site (excluding those who have only come to browse at the Antiquity and Archaeology Data Service pages, which we host here in York). Our first issue has caused a lot of interest and there are now over 70 links to our journal from other Web sites. We are particularly pleased to have been awarded a NetGuide Platinum Site award, as one of the top 5000 web sites. Have a look at <a href="http://www.netguide.com/">http://www.netguide.com/</a> to see what they say about us. In summary, we scored five stars for overall rating, content and personality and four stars for design. One aspect of the design which has aroused adverse comment is our navigation button bars where we have links back to the main Home Page and to the particular paper's summary or table of contents. A team of graphics design students are looking at this to see if we can make the system more intuitive. Issue Two is now in preparation and we hope to have the issue published on the Web by the end of March. We have prepared four papers for publication which are now awaiting the online refereeing process and feedback from their authors. These are by David Dungworth, Roger Grace, the Heslerton Parish Project team (Dominic Powlesland, James Lyall and Daniel Donoghue) and Robert Daniels. A further paper, by Robert Mason, is well on the way and if not in Issue Two will be a certainty for Issue Three. We have decided to move our mail list from majordomo (which I found very complex to set up) to mailbase. If you want to be notified as and when papers are published and to be told of any news, forthcoming papers or reaction to those already published then please join the list. Joining intarch-interest To join intarch-interest send the command: Join intarch-interest firstname(s) lastname (substituting appropriately) as the only text in the body of a message addressed to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk For any queries relating to the list, contact the owner at: intarch-interest-request@mailbase.ac.uk If you are already a member of intarch-interest your membership will be transferred to the mailbase list automatically. Thank you once again for your support. We are always looking for innovative projects which fully utilise the new medium so if you are involved in a project that you think fits the bill then please contact the editorial staff. In addition to papers like those in Issue One we are particularly keen to have excavation reports (on sites of international importance) and catalogues of major collections of artefacts. Publication of both of these, we think, could be greatly enhanced by use of the Web. Yours, Alan Vince Alan Vince, Managing Editor, Internet Archaeology <a href="http://intarch.york.ac.uk/index.html">http://intarch.york.ac.uk/index.html</a> Email: alan@intarch.york.ac.uk From: Subject: agonizing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 478 (478) I would remind those who worry about where computing humanists have gone of Don Ross's prediction in the 70s (in the context of comments on the need for a "computing" section in the Modern Language Association) that the need for emphasis on computing in the humanities would go away as computing tools became as naturalized in the disciplines as were typewriters and printed books. It may be that less visibility simply means that computing has been much more integrated into practice and has become much less self-conscious. Certainly this is true in archivy, history, and qualitative anthropology, the areas where I have been most active over that time. Nobody in the agency where I work could do their daily tasks, which include research and analysis, without computers, which I, alas, am in charge of: maybe the computing humanists of old have become overburdened computing infrastructure providers for their modern counterparts! It seems to me I've heard that sentiment recently from Lou Burnard... Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: Subject: "Reading" web pages Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 479 (479) hello all: given the escalating popularity of the web -- and the notoriously *uneven* quality of information available in cyberspace, wouldn't it be helpful to articulate some explicit suggestions or principles for critically evaluating and using web-based information? (for my purposes i'm thinking specifically about information by or about religious groups that students are likely to find and use from the web.) do some of you provide students with suggestions on how critically to "read" the web? i'd love to hear what others have developed formally or otherwise. thanks, joel =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joel Elliott Department of Religious Studies / CB #3225 University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill, NC 27599 EMAIL: elliott@email.unc.edu URL: <a href="http://www.unc.edu/~elliott">http://www.unc.edu/~elliott</a> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Subject: Computer fiction Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 480 (480) David Foster Wallace's *Infinite Jest* (NY 1996) doesn't feature computers in its plot, except in a charming set-piece about the likely future of video phone technology and some other odds and ends. But--as I think most of its reviewers have pointed out--the book's astounding length and extensive discursive endnotes (100+ pages) seem to owe a lot to online composition and editing, in a way that other very big books (Gibbon, Proust, Musil) do not. (That said, I do like Wallace's work very much.) It seems to me many literary writers still use form in a way that was a necessary economy when one had to handwrite or manually type every word and syntax needed to be planned far in advance. Of course, I'd welcome contradiction. Kristine Haugen Department of English Princeton University klhaugen@princeton.edu From: Subject: COCOA/OCP Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 481 (481) Mavis is looking for information on COCOA and OCP. You are right that COCOA is a concordance program; the acronym is "word COunt and COncordance on Atlas"; the Atlas computer having been one of the biggies in the UK. In the late 50s and 60s, everybody wrote routines (we called the finished product a package) to count words, do concordances and the like. I remember I wrote a concordance routine which was widely (well, somebody else used it) used before Kernigan and Plauger. COCOA was the "brainchild" of D. B. Russell. Get his _COCOA Manual_ (Chilton: Atlas Computer Laboratory, November, 1967). It was a suite of programs doing all kinds of things. The idea of it as a markup language came from the fact that its divisions (sort of like WordCruncher), e.g. <A Goethe> (the author is Goethe); <T Faust> (the title of the work is Faust); <S 3> (the stanza is no. 3; oops, Faust is not really in stanzas, but you get the picture) came to be used as "markup" in OCP, Tact and a number of other places. OCP is the "baby" of Susan Hockey, and she would have been stupid to have ignored COCOA, in which she was steeped (no pun intended). In fact, OCP seems to be sort of a porting of COCOA to other venues, e.g. IBM mainframe. OCP was used on mainframes everywhere; when the PC revolution came about, it got ported to the desktop under the name Micro-OCP. Voila\! If it is important, you could get in touch with Susan Hockey, who could give you more information. She is Director of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities at Princeton. ! Jim Marchand. From: Subject: BISFAI-97 Conference Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 482 (482) ****** Call for Papers ****** ****** NOTE EXTENDED DEADLINE: Feb 20 ******** BISFAI '97 The Fifth Bar-Ilan Symposium on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence June 16-18, 1997 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel in cooperation with Israel Association for Artificial Intelligence Israeli Society for Theoretical Computer Science Gelbart Institute for Mathematical Sciences The Association for Mathematics of Language The Leibniz Center for Research in Computer Science The focus of BISFAI '97 will be on Intelligent Agents. The Symposium will, however, retain its broad scope, and welcomes high quality research papers in various areas of Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning, automated reasoning, knowledge representation, neural nets, natural language processing, etc. The concept of an agent has become important in both artificial intelligence and mainstream computer science. An agent is a hardware or software system that is automonous, interactive with and reactive to its environment and other agents. An agent can also be pro-active in taking the initiative in goal-directed behaviour. We solicit papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, and in particular in the area of Intelligent Agents. Agents have a clear and growing importance, both practical and theoretical. Because of their commercial relevance, we encourage practitioners from industry to submit papers dealing with various practical aspects. Distinguished Invited Speakers (tentative): C. Boutilier (U. of British Columbia) V. Lesser (U. of Massachusetts) J. Rosenschein (Hebrew U.) G. Shafer (Rutgers U.) Y. Shoham (Stanford U.) P. Struss (Technical University of Munich) W. Wahlster (DFKI GmbH) THE 1997 ISRAELI FEDERATED COMPUTING CONFERENCE: The Symposium will be part of the new Israeli Federated Computing Conference (IFCC). For contact points on this conference, see below). The IFCC will also include the Eighth Israeli Conference on Computer-Based Systems and Software Engineering (CBSE), which will take place on June 18-19, 1997, and the Fifth Israeli Symposium on Theory of Computing and Systems (ISTCS'97), which will take place on June 17-19, 1997. Paper Submission: Submit three hard copies of an extended abstract (4-10 pages), or full paper, by February 20nd 1997, to Leo Joskowicz Institute of Computer Science The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel E-mail: josko@cs.huji.ac.il Authors will be notified of acceptance by 20th March 1997. A final version of the accepted will appear in the conference preprints, which will be distributed to participants at the symposium. Selected refereed full length papers will be published in a special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence as a permanent record of the Symposium. These should be submitted shortly after the conclusion of the Symposium. Information on registration, accommodations, etc., will appear in future announcements, or contact: bisfai@cs.biu.ac.il. The web page site is: <a href="http://www.cs.biu.ac.il:8080/~schwart/bisfai97.html">http://www.cs.biu.ac.il:8080/~schwart/bisfai97.html</a> Symposium Chair S. Kraus (Bar-Ilan U.) Program Co-Chairs D. Lehmann (Hebrew U.) L. Joskowicz (Hebrew U.) Program Committee (tentative, in alphabetical order) Y. Choueka (Bar-Ilan U.) I. Dagan (Bar-Ilan U.) R. Dechter (UC-Irvine) R. Feldman (Bar-Ilan U.) M. Golumbic (Bar-Ilan U.) B. Grosz (Harvard U.) H. Hel-Or (Bar-Ilan U.) J. Hendler (U. of Maryland) L. Joskowicz (Hebrew U.) D. Lehmann (Hebrew U.) J-J.Meyer (Utrech U.) L. Morgenstern (IBM TJ Watson Research) J. Pearl (UCLA) S. Sagiv (Hebrew U.) E. Shamir (Hebrew U.) K. Sycara (Carnegie Mellon U.) M. Tennenholtz (Technion) IFCC CONTACT LIST: CSBE -- Ron Pinter (pinter@haifasc3.vnet.ibm.com) IFCC -- Michael Rodeh (rodeh@haifasc3.vnet.ibm.com) ISTCS -- Yishay Mansour (mansour@cs.tau.ac.il) and Baruch Schieber (sbar@watson.research.ibm.com) BISFAI -- Sarit Kraus (sarit@cs.biu.ac.il) Daniel Lehmann (lehmann@cs.huji.ac.il) From: Subject: Re: 10.0655 COCOA? course? duck-rabbit? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 483 (483) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 484 (484) [deleted quotation] In the area of Greek literature, I have team-taught such a course in the past and am always looking for an opportunity to do it again. You can probably do as much or as little as you like; one approach is just to use a good word processor for finding data and a stats program for evaluating it. What I would most like to do is a fairly demanding course that would include programming skills focused on text processing; on the light side (in the Mac world), something like Hypercard, on the heavy side C/C++. I think such an approach would not only be useful for humanities computing, but would also assist students in learning or further developing a more "marketable" skill. But I fear such a course or cluster of courses would be very hard to sell to department chairs and deans. Don Wilkins UC Riverside Don Wilkins UC Riverside From: Subject: withering away of the state? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 485 (485) Thoughts stimulated by Patricia Galloway's recent note. With all due respect to Don Ross, elder (but not old) statesman of the field, it seems to me highly unlikely that humanities computing will disappear after the older disciplines have assimilated computing into the core of what they do. This is close to the argument, advanced at Oxford (as I recall) when English was first being pushed as a discipline: since everyone reads that stuff anyhow, why should we grant a degree for reading English literature? Those who teach English, like those who teach humanities computing, know better -- unless of course they get tired and overburdened, as I very much hope my friend Lou Burnard isn't. "He or she who is sick of London is sick of life." Less eliptically, since all disciplines are centres from which to study all knowledge, humanities computing is apt to seem nothing more to a specialist in, say, French linguistics than the set of computing techniques which he or she happens to know about. Philosophy and history are examples of disciplines that devour everything and from which nothing seems much more than raw material for their particular concerns. No objection, but to understand humanities computing one has to make it one's centre. I suppose this could be done momentarily, in the imagination, but a professional commitment is certainly a powerful stimulus. Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: Re: 10.0664 computers and writing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 486 (486) A favorite of mine, though perhaps off-base in the current topic, is John Updike's "Roger's Version," which apeared, I believe, in the mid- to late '80's. (Remember when we were still _anticipating_ the "real" 1984? Gee ....) Best regards to all, Michael Metzger, Buffalo From: Subject: technological improvement Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 487 (487) [The following was extracted, at his suggestion, from a much longer message sent along to Humanist by Wendell Piez. --WM] [deleted quotation] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- [deleted quotation] NETFUTURE Technology and Human Responsibility -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue #40 Copyright O'Reilly & Associates February 5, 1997 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opinions expressed here belong to the authors, not O'Reilly & Associates. Editor: Stephen L. Talbott NETFUTURE on the Web: <a href="http://www.ora.com/people/staff/stevet/netfuture/">http://www.ora.com/people/staff/stevet/netfuture/</a> You may redistribute this newsletter for noncommercial purposes. CONTENTS: *** Editor's Note *** Quotes and Provocations Chinese Cookies Looking up to Government Businesses That Grow Unprincipled David Kline on SLT on David Kline *** Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 2) (Steve Talbott) The Worm Was Already in the APL *** About this newsletter -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [...material deleted...] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 2) (129 lines) [deleted quotation] In Part 1 (NF #38) of this series I tried to show how technical improvements in the intelligent machinery around us tend to represent a deepened threat in the very areas we began by trying to improve. This, so long as we do not recognize it, is the Great Deceit of intelligent machinery. The opportunity to make software more friendly is also an opportunity to make it unfriendly at a more decisive level. I illustrated this by citing: * telephone answering systems (improved voice recognition software will remove some of the present klutziness, but will enable a company to turn more of its callers' important business over to software agents); * speed and memory improvements (the accelerated obsolescence resulting from these improvements suggests that our frustrations in dealing with equipment that is too slow, dated, and awkward will deepen in direct proportion to the rates of improvement. Call this, if you like, Talbott's Law, and add it as a footnote to Moore's Law. Then remember that all the human significance is in the footnote); * information management tools (the technological arms race between information generators and information managers is an endless one, and the more it heats up, the harder we must work to preserve threads of meaning amid the churning data and the proliferating tools that are doing the churning). The underlying problem, I suggested, was a mismatch between the technically conceived improvements and the level at which our real problems occur. There are many other places to look in order to illustrate this mismatch. But in this installment, I have chosen to inquire whether the problem is reflected in programming languages themselves. IS TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT WHAT WE WANT? The Worm Was Already in the APL My point has been that a technical advance typically sharpens the challenge that was presented to us by the original technical limitation. It is not that our situation *must* worsen. But our predilections toward abuse of the technology, as expressed in the earlier problem, must now be reversed in the face of much greater temptation. Where we were failing with the easier challenge, we must succeed with a harder one. The company in possession of a new generation of telephone-answering software must look to its mission statement with redoubled seriousness. But the best intentions are difficult to execute when the Great Deceit is built into the software itself. We need to recognize the deceit, not only in the various software applications, but in the essence of the software enterprise. Software, of course, is what drives all intelligent machinery, and it is created through the use of programming languages. Perhaps the greatest single advance in programming occurred with the switch from low-level to high-level languages. Did this switch amount to progress, pure and simple, or can we recognize the Deceit here at the very root of the modern technological thrust? The lowest-level machine language consists of numbers, representing immediate instructions to the computer: "carry out such-and-such an internal operation." It's not easy, of course, for programmers to look at thousands of numbers on a page and get much of a conceptual grip on what's going down. But through a series of steps, higher-level languages were created, finally allowing program code that looks like this: do myexit(1) unless $password; if (crypt($password, $salt) ne $oldpassword) { print "Sorry."; do myexit(1); } Each line of such code typically represents -- and finally gets translated into -- a large mass of machine code. These more powerful lines may still look like Greek to you, but to the programmer who has struggled with low- level languages, they convey, with read-my-lips clarity, assurance of a drastic slash in the mental taxation of program writing. Obviously, high-level languages enhance the programmer's technical power. It is far easier to write code when you can employ the concepts and terminology of the human domain within which the program will function. But this heightened technical power dramatically increases the risks. The more easily we can verbally leap from a human domain to a set of computational techniques, the more easily we fall into the now more effectively camouflaged gap between the two. The telephone company programmer who writes a block of code under the label, "answer_inquiry", is all too ready to assume that the customer's concern has been answered, even if the likelihood is that it has not even been addressed. The risk here is far from obvious in all its forms. It derailed the entire discipline of cognitive science, whose whole purpose is to understand the relation between the human and the computational. The derailment finally produced one of the classic papers of the discipline, entitled "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity." In it Drew McDermott bemoaned the use of "wishful mnemonics" like UNDERSTAND and GOAL in computer programs. It would be better, he suggested, to revert to names more reminiscent of machine code -- say, G0034. Then the programmer might be forced to consider the actual relationship between the human being and the logical structures of the code. As AI progresses (at least in terms of money spent), this malady gets worse. We have lived so long with the conviction that robots are possible, even just around the corner, that we can't help hastening their arrival with magic incantations. Winograd...explored some of the complexity of language in sophisticated detail; and now everyone takes "natural-language interfaces" for granted, though none has been written. Charniak...pointed out some approaches to understanding stories, and now the OWL interpreter includes a "story-understanding module." (And, God help us, a top-level "ego loop.") McDermott wrote those words in 1976. But while the problem is now almost universa