From: Willard McCarty Subject: mind no mind Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 20:50:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1 (1) The latest TLS, for 16 May 1998, is a particularly interesting issue from our perspective. The theme is psychology. The cover is graced, if that's the word, with a digital image from the Internet, apparently of Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult who went to the space-ship traveling behind Hale-Bopp. The items of particular interest for us, other than the origins of the digital image, are reviews by (1) Jerry Fodor, of Jeffrey L. Elman, et al., Rethinking Innateness, (2) Daniel C. Dennett, of Andy Clark, Being There: Putting brain, body, and the world together again, (3) Mark S. Micale, of Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical epidemics and modern culture. Other things as well, but those three are the main ones. Fodor, in his typical style, demolishes the dodges of Rethinking Innateness in particular and the purely empirical approach to knowledge in general. "Whether mental content can be reduced to experiential content is what the present argument in cognitive science is really about." He finds the empiricist programme hidden in the connectionist approach, and in that programme nothing but failure. What I find interesting is driving in the other direction -- beginning with the empirical data, then trying to get to what one knows about e.g. poetry, asking how, and spotting the interesting failures of empirical analysis. Dennett gives high marks to Andy Clark's book, "a unified, judicious vision of the progress that has actually been made [in cognitive science], a survey of the state of play today that [captures] what is powerful and promising in these new ideas without succumbing to the hype." Required reading, it seems. Showalter's book has already been mentioned here in the context of how electronic communication has aided the spread of hysterical diseases, from scares about computer viruses to maladies of the mind and flesh. This book should outrage many people because it presumes to question the scientific nature of how medical science conducts itself, pointing out how a sense of personal frustration can translate into recognition of a new disease, thence to a new medical subspeciality with all the trappings. "These are acutely communicable diseases. As a result, vulnerable and impressionable viewers exposed to the illness model engage in a kind of psychogenic self-fashioning. The mental-health establishment, responding to what it sees as a new psychopathology (and an emerging patient population), adds the diagnosis to its list of official diagnoses.... The Internet instantaneously disseminates information across the world. (The World Wide Web lists dozens of on-line publications and organizations for survivors of psychological traumata.)...." It should be noted that Showalter does not deny that people genuinely suffer, rather she turns a strong light on how they get sick. The Internet plays a role! 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: Christian HENRIOT Subject: Re: 11.0043 Sexuality and Culture Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 09:44:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 2 (2) Merci. C'est en effet dans mes cordes! Et j'ai un papier qui est pret. Ton message tombe à pic. Bien cordialement Christian --------------------------------------------------------- Christian HENRIOT Directeur Institut d'Asie Orientale Maison Rhone-Alpes des Sciences de l'Homme 14, Avenue Berthelot 69363 LYON cedex 07 --------------------------------------------------------- Tel : 72 72 65 40 Fax : 72 72 64 90 e-mail : Christian.Henriot@mrash.fr --------------------------------------------------------- Plus d'informations sur l'I.A.O. sur : http://web.mrash.fr More on the Institut d'Asie orientale at : http://web.mrash.fr --------------------------------------------------------- From: Willard McCarty Subject: possible hiatus Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 20:52:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 3 (3) Dear Colleagues: I am about to depart for N. America, eventually to attend the ACH/ALLC in Kingston, as a result of which there may be some delays in the publication of Humanist. I'll be connected in one way or another in my ports of call, but the connections will be at the convenience of friends and family, not at my own. Apologies for any inconvenience. Yours, 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: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: British Library catalogue on the web Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 11:32:07 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 4 (4) I received this announcement which, I imagine, would be of interest to many subscribers to _Humanist_. Francois C-R ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- The British Library's on-line catalogue is now, as of today, available on the WWW at http://opac97.bl.uk/ You can search for books and periodicals in a variety of ways. There's also plenty of information about the collections. You can order photocopies of periodical articles on line, but you will have to pay. Portico (http://portico.bl.uk/), the BL's information server, gives lots of information about the BL, its collections, services etc. Gabriel (http://portico.bl.uk/gabriel/en/welcome.html) gives access to Europe's national libraries. Liz Mailer, Arts Librarian, Library, Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London), Mile End Road, London E1 4NS Tel: 0171-775-3327 From: "Michael P. Orth (Michael Orth)" Subject: Re: 11.0001 now we are 10 Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:20:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 5 (5) You done good. Keep it going. The Kraken===============end of file=================/;->? [Many thanks to those who just thought this. I noted that along with Orth's kind message today were half a dozen successful resignations from Humanist -- a flurry for this sort of thing.... :-( In any case, my hat's off to the many who have helped, prodded, inspired, complained, nagged, and humoured us along. --WM] From: "James W. Johnston" Subject: Re:The Virtual Macbeth Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 14:16:09 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 6 (6) ++++++++++++++++++ The Virtual Macbeth ++++++++++++++++++ If this activity is of interest to you or your colleagues, please visit http://www.wordcruncher.com for additional information: WordCruncher Publishing Technologies and Mike LoMonico, a nationally renowned expert in using electronic tools to teach Shakespeare, are teaming up to provide students from throughout the United States with a unique opportunity. By using an electronic version of Macbeth in combination with WordCruncher, our proprietary text retrieval and analysis program, we help students craft discovery strategies of their own design, and enable them to explore Shakespeare's language in ways that are simply impossible without the computer. The techniques we use were pioneered and tested at The Folger Shakespeare Library, and we are confident that both teachers and students will find this approach to be an enjoyable, thought provoking activity that lends a new dimension to education and learning. The course takes place between May 12th and May 26th, and entails several exercises:=20 Lesson 1, Part 1 - Thou Marvel'st at My Words: Helps students understand what archaic words mean and how they are used.=20 Lesson 1, Part 2 - Thou Marvel'st at My Words (con't): Helps students understand that modern words have archaic meanings. Lesson 2 - The Like to You - Helps students understand how Shakespeare used simile. Lesson 3 - Look to the Lady ^=D6 Helps students understand how Shakespeare approached the ideas of women, wives, and motherhood in Macbeth. Lesson 4 - 'Tis Time, 'Tis Time ^=D6 Teaches students about the concept of "time" in Macbeth. If you, your class or a few of your students would like to participate in or audit the Virtual Macbeth, please send us an e-mail message to johnston@wordcruncher.com and we will forward=20 instructions on how to prepare, what kind of computer you will need, and so on.=20 Details on the first assignment will be posted on Monday, May 12th at 7:00 am, eastern standard time (US). We will have a chat forum up all the time, so that students from across the country (and even the world) will be able to participate. We will be posting additional information as this week (May 5-9) proceeds, so please check back often.=20 There is no charge for participation in this course. James W. Johnston WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc. johnston@wordcruncher.com http://www.wordcruncher.com P.S. Please cross post as deemed appropriate. From: James O'Donnell Subject: Arachnet? Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 08:01:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 7 (7) Happy birthday, Humanist. I address here the old timers among you, from the days when there were giants on the earth, Kessler and Paramskas and Brown and Flanagan, to say nothing of Sire Willard the Prime Mover. One of Humanist's spinoffs somewhere around 1990 was ARACHNET, a separate list for discussion of scholarly publishing, a sort of meta-list for talking *about* things like Humanist but e-journals as well. I'm on a small self-assigned mission to track down that list and its archives, if they exist, to recover a sense of what people thought possible and desirable back at the dawn of recorded history, this at a moment when a list I co-moderate, NewJour, reports over 3700 existing e-journals and we know that we are scrambling just to keep from falling further behind in reporting them. An Alta Vista search on Arachnet shows mainly that Willard was once again prescient, and that the *word* "arachnet" is a coinage that has been made repeatedly and for many and diverse purposes lately, but I do not find that it leads to anything from the old list. Willard reminds me that Diane Kovacs took it up when he had to let it go, but she seems no longer associated with Kent State, and there are too many homonyms in Yahoo People Search. Humanists, aux secours! Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Judy Subject: Teaching the MLA International Bibliography Date: Mon, 07 Apr 97 13:25:13 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 8 (8) Last Opportunity to Respond to the Survey on Teaching the MLA ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am gathering information to write an article about teaching students how to use the Modern Language Association International Bibliography. I would appreciate you taking the time to participate in this survey and returning it to me. Thanks, Judy Reynolds judyr@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu This message has been cross-listed on Bi-L, EALSL and Humanist, please excuse any duplication. 1. Do you think that students search MLAIB differently in the electronic and paper forms? 2. Has the evolution of the database and the growing familiarity with electronic indexes changed the way you teach. Do you think that students have a more detailed mental map and/or grasp of the vocabulary or is it just different? Explain? 3. What changes do you make to target diffent audience levels? Do you teach undergrads alternative resources such as the Humanities Index because they are mainly interested in locally available resources? 4. Have Stephen Wiberley's findings that humanists to use concrete nouns in their searches more often than has been generally thought alterned your approach to emphasize only specific writers/works? Or, do find that students need to learn how to use the thesaurus to locate subjects headings to find works on genre, theme subjects? 5. Do you find topics where the MLA has a unique perspective? 6. Where do you turn for teaching materials? Do you make all your own? If you adapt or borrow from others, what sources do you find most helpful? 7. What about linguistics or folklore, film or theatre research classes? What role and special techniques do you suggest and use in teaching them? What other databases do you teach? 8. Have you introducted new modes of teaching such as live demonstrations, hands-on instruction, Internet or Web based instruction or other forms? What techniques continue to be useful? //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Judy Reynolds (408) 924-2725 Library judyr@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu San Jose State University judyr@email.sjsu.edu 1 Washington Sq. San Jose, Ca. 95192-0028 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From: James O'Donnell Subject: the oldest University WWW site ever Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 23:00:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 9 (9) Recommended reading: http://www.upenn.edu/AR/1830/index.html Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Online Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 21:26:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 10 (10) Extracted from the Guardian Online this week (see <http://online.guardian.co.uk/> for many of these items): (1) Adrian Mars, "Keys to the plague", on viruses, their makers, etc. Having myself passed on news of bogus viruses, I was particularly caught by the brief discussion of these. "Alan Solomon, founder of the anti-virus company bearing his name, notes that a 'considerable amount of harm is in fact caused by over-reacting to both real viruses and false alarms. An Australian bank, for example, using now unavailable anti-virus software, reacted to a virus warning that later turned out to be a false alarm. They shut down their entire foreign exchange dealing system for 24 hours at a cost of around 3 [million pounds]." To what degree, I wonder, does this happen with supposed biological diseases and health threats generally? Improved communications systems, as we have noted here before, make raising a scare (for ill as well as for good) increasingly easier. In the end do we really want faster and easier communications systems? Do we have a choice? (2) Tim Radford, "The coil can't help it", on an artifical giant Anaconda, 40 feet long, constructed for the forthcoming horror movie, Anaconda. The creature has 140 vertebrate joints hydraulically controlled within the body, with a computer system that is essentially a processor for each joint to control the movements. Students of automata will take notice. Is anyone watching the match between Gary Kasparov and Deep Blue? Is there a web site for the match? (3) The Albert Einstein Archives, bequeathed to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, which has begun to construct a site to display them, at <http://www2.huji.ac.il/~jnul/einstein/>. (4) Converse, a program written by the London software house Intelligent Research, just won the Loebner Prize in Artificial Intelligence for out-talking, in a Turing Test, contenders from the US, Canada, and Australia! See George McMurdo, "Stone age babies in cyberspace", <http://www.qmced.ac.uk/cis/staff/cimmu/jisew/ewv22n1/default.htm>, on "Emulating a Turing Machine". 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: Francois Lachance Subject: unfair use: copyright and spamming Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 19:44:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 11 (11) Willard, Geoffrey Rockwell quotes from Cyberpromo's page and suggestes we might rethink how we sign WWW pages [deleted quotation] Now I ask the legal beagles among us would not copying (witout permission) someone's e-mail address from a site constitute an infringement of copyright? Seems like something the Electronic Frontier Foundation might want to mull over in the safeguarding of citizen privacy. But then by analogy with the telephone directory, the question might arise as to whether an e-mail address belongs to the user or the servicer provider. Whatever the case, the conjunction of public display and private profit use of e-mail addresses is most likely subject to the same provisions that protect telephone subscribers from certain types of automated telemarketing (all this depending upon where one lives on the planet). It will be interesting to see how the case law and he ethical (self) regulation of the industry develops on a global scale. I wonder how far the trick of posting a fee schedule for any would-be harvesters collecting an address from one's WWW site could be pushed. After all magazines and newspapers sell their subscription lists for a handsome return. If the bot or agent cannot read the contract is the bot user still liable for the charges? Gives computer literacy a new meaning... Finally, the spamming issue poses, for some jurisdictions, the inverse of a freedom of assembly. In the digital world the right not to be associated with a group in database may be as fundamental as the obligation to be recorded as a subject of the state in census records and voting lists. It is a question of guaranteeing a modicum of civil society for the all moral persons be they individuals or corporate bodies. In the pursuit of privacy in public, decorum rules as it does in all true good commerce -- Francois -------- Any harvesting of this e-mail address subject to payment in Cuban currency. From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: 11.0003 spamming & how to avoid it Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 09:55:52 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 12 (12) Geoffrey Rockwell wrote a well researched note about fighting spamming. I would just like to add some ideas. If you look at the full headers in a spam message, you can at least find which was the last host that sent this to your own mail host. So one can send a message to their postmaster informing him or her that they are helping a spammer. There are also some spammers that have *real* URLs to their sites as part of the message. Do a traceroute on those URLs and send a message to the postmasters closest to it. As for filtering, I have set Eudora up so that if "cyberpromo" is mentioned in any part of the header, the message is automatically rdirected to "abuse@cyberpromo.com". espen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Espen S. Ore Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no University of Bergen Tel: +47 55 58 28 65 alt. tel: +47 91390748 Fax: +47 55 58 94 70 From: mathew Subject: Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 10:25:55 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 13 (13) At 19:42 -0400 on 1997-05-07 Larry Taylor wrote: [deleted quotation] Many spammers put in this information as a means of obtaining confirmation that e-mail addresses are active. Others put in bogus "remove" information to try and mollify people who would otherwise complain. In particular, I tried this approach with one spammer, submitting all my e-mail addresses for removal, and simply got four times as much spam. The only thing that actually works is complaining to the ISP providing the spammer with service. I set up an auto-forwarder to bounce every piece of spam from the aforementioned individual, and I got an apology and he removed me a week later. In general, having each spammer run a separate "remove" offer is useless as a means of avoiding spam, as new sources pop up every day. CyberPromo recently managed to sign an account with WorldNet, by duping a salesman in their office in NY. When UUnet found out about it, they tore up the contract and said that they would not have any dealings with CyberPromo, now or in the future. mathew -- "It's fixed in R4." From: Bill Schultz Subject: Re: spamming & how to avoid it Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 23:57:28 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 14 (14) [snip] [deleted quotation] Direct_Marketing/Direct_Email/Cyber_Promotions/Consumer_Opinion/. This morning's Los Angeles Times carried two articles about Cyber Promo. [LAT -- I found them at <http://www.latimes.com/. I had to use their site search to find them.] 1. Earthlink Networks, Inc. received an injunction against Cyber Promo using its servers to distribute junk e-mail to ANYONE. Apparently Cyber Promo was spamming through the SMTP server at Earthlink. 2. Cyber Promo settled a similar suit brought by Compuserve. Cyber Promo agreed not to send any more junk e-mail to Compuserve and to purchase advertising through the "normal" Compuserve offerings if it wanted to offset its judgment of $65,000 payable to Compuserve. Hopefully the larger ISPs will continue to prosecute jerks like Cyber Promo. My hat is off to both Compuserve and Earthlink for making it expensive for those jerks to keep it up..... -- Bill Schultz JOIN THE AGNOSTIC CHURCH: | agnostic@crl.com pope@agnostic.org http://www.agnostic.org/ | bill@freethought.org http://www.freethought.org/org/singles/ | Internet Infidel: http://www.infidels.org/ ------------- End Forwarded Message ------------- From: "F. Heberlein" Subject: Re: 11.0001 now we are 10 Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 00:05:00 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 15 (15) Vielleicht erlaubt dieses Datum einmal, von der Benutzung der lingua franca von HUMANIST abzusehen - denn Empfindungen, ob unfreundliche oder, wie hier freundliche und dankbare, lassen sich im eigenen exotischen Dialekt allemal besser ausdruecken: Als ich im Spaetherbst 1987 zufaellig von der Existenz von Humanist erfuhr und darum bat, in die Subskribentenliste aufgenommen zu werden, hatte ich keine Ahnung, was das schliesslich fuer mich bedeuten sollte. Heute muss ich feststellen, dass Humanist fuer mich das Tor zu einer neuen Welt aufgetan hat und das er?/es? meinen Horizont in unschaetzbarer Weise erweitert hat. Es sind spezialisierte Mailing-Listen nachgewachsen, viel davon von exzellenter Qualitaet wie "Linguist", aber keine von denen, die ich kenne, hat die universelle Spannweite und Tiefe von Humanist. Ich erinnere mich noch, dass vor etlichen Jahren die Frage auftauchte, ob angesichts der Tatsache, dass "Humanist has lost somehting of ist initial vividness" (so aehnlich lautete die Formulierung, die Liste nicht eingestellt werden sollte; gottlob stellte sich heraus, dass die Fragestellung falsch war: die Existenz vieler loci ist kein Ersatz fuer eine globale Theorie der inventio. Herzlichen Glueckwunsch an den Gruender und Herausgeber - und vor allem: herzlichen Dank. Fritz Heberlein From: Schumacher Johann Subject: congratulations Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 12:47:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 16 (16) Cher Colle\gue, Dear Willard, toutes mes felictations a l'occasion du dizieme anniversaire de HUMANIST. Vous avez ete et, j'espere, serez encore longtemps un moderateur remarquable. Je ne sais plus tres bien depuis quand je suis abonne a HUMANIST mais je crois me souvenir que je l'etais deja lorsque je suis venu a TORONTO en 1989 pour le ACH/ALLC meeting ou j'ai pu vous rencontrer et ou vous avez tout fait pour que je reusisse a etablir une connexion a distance sur l'ordinateur de Louvain-la-Neuve. La communaute des personnes interessees en "Humanities and computing" existait bien, deja a\ cette epoque, et elle continue d'exister aujourd'hui. Je partage entierement votre suggestion relative a la formation d'une generation suivante; bien souvent, en effet, tout un pan de recherche s'ecroule au depart ou a la mort de son promoteur. Je felicite chaleureusement le moderateur que vous etes et il me plairait beaucoup de recevoir, chez moi, le colle\gue que vous etes des votre prochain detour a Louvain-la-Neuve. Un grand Bonjour de Belgique Jean Schumacher From: Dennis Cintra Leite Subject: RE: 11.0001 now we are 10 Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 19:36:48 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 17 (17) Keep up the good work and good cheer! dennis cintra leite py2-etn the sao paulo school of management (eaesp/fgv) dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br From: Gloria McMillan Subject: RE: 11.0008 birthday wishes Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 14:46:45 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 18 (18) [deleted quotation] I'm still here. Keep up the good work! Gloria *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* gmcmillan@east.pima.edu http://pimacc.pima.edu/~gmcmillan/index.html VIRTUAL CLASSROOM: Diversity University MOO TELNET>128.18.101.106 8888 login as: co guest Type: @go #2673 From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: 11.0001 now we are 10 Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 01:32:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 19 (19) For nostalgia sake, I checked my archive of OFFLINE columns to see when HUMANIST first appeared. Apparently I became acquainted with the new opportunity in the summer of 1987, since the following note is included in OFFLINE 15, dated September 1987: Another type of information exchange is the new HUMANIST group coordinated by Willard McCarty at Toronto for persons on electronic networks. A query or comment sent to the HUMANIST BITNET address immediately goes out to the HUMANIST participants, any of whom might choose to respond directly to the originator, or more generally to the network. It is all without specific charge to the user, as a service of the Toronto Humanities Computing Centre, for those fortunate enough to be on BITNET or a compatible network. Contact MCCARTY@UTOREPAS. This is a valuable complement to the monthly BITNET ONLINE NOTES edited by John Abercrombie, director of CCAT. The same issue announces the plans for the Humanities Computing Yearbook, among other things. Memories, memories. Congratulations to HUMANIST for its decade of service and transformation, and to Willard for his longsuffering vision. "All without specific charge to the user." Thanks! Bob Kraft, UPenn From: Gregory Crane Subject: Renaissance source materials Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 19:45:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 20 (20) A New Library of Renaissance Source Materials Preliminary Notice: May 9, 1997 Send comments to: shake@perseus.tufts.edu PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REPOST WHERE APPROPRIATE For an HTML version of this announcement and the preliminary list of source materials, see: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/sources.html The Perseus Project has spent the last ten years developing a digital library of ancient materials. In the past year, we have begun to work on Latin and English texts as well. We are currently in the process of putting all of the work of Marlowe onto the WWW. Given our familiarity with Latin and nonstandardized English spelling, we are looking to work more generally on English Renaissance source materials. We are planning to create a large WWW database of sources that will include Holinshed, North's Plutarch and other texts, such as those that appear in Geoffrey Bullough's eight volume collection of Shakespeare's sources. This database will include classical and Renaissance contemporary sources, as well as Renaissance resources, such as critical books or essays (i.e. George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie). A number of key sources for this period have been entered. Our goal will be to extend what has been done and to begin systematic entry of a wide range of texts. Please help us to develop the following wish-list of texts. We have broken down the list into subsets, but feel free to offer suggestions that do not appear to fit under any one of our headings. We would not, for instance, be limited to Shakespeare's sources alone. What textual resources would you like to see made available on-line that we have not included here? If the source is particularly obscure, let us know in a word why it is significant. Please write us with your suggestions [shake@perseus.tufts.edu]. The list itself is available at: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/sources.html From: John Bradley Subject: Designing a scanning service Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 11:37:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 21 (21) I have been asked to develop a technical specification for a scanning service which would be principally used by the Humanities community here at King's College, London. This service would supplement a walk-in-and-use scanning facility which is developing here. I am assuming that OCR would be the main focus, with perhaps some image scanning services available. Operator supported image scanning is perhaps unnecessary except when the highest quality of results are needed. For high quality results one needs a high powered computer, high quality image software, a powerful scanner, and an operator trained in issues of image quality and manipulation. For text OCR scanning I expect (particularly given the current state of the field), one has more modest goals and requrements: a mainstream PC or Mac (there seems to be a larger range of specialized OCR software products for the PC), a mainstream scanner (perhaps with a sheet feeder), software and a trained operator. I'd be very pleased to talk to those of you who currently run such a service for your views. I'd be interested in your thoughts on: (a) the nature of the materials that one actually is asked to scan. Is there much need for operator supported image scanning? For OCR what materials are currently practical? (b) the suitability of current software to deal with these materials. It seems to me that the mainstream development in OCR software these days is taking it in directions that add features that are not of much interest to humanities scholarship. New features or enhancements that would be useful (such as improvements in training strategies to allow for the scanning of a range of writing systems) are not being developed. (c) what type of hardware would most likely be appropriate. There is some tension between the needs for operator-assisted image scanning and OCR. Is my model of what machine and peripherals are needed for OCR correct? How about operator skills? My sense is that any discussion on this needn't be carried out directly on HUMANIST, but I'd propose rather that anyone with comments could send them to me directly and if there is an expressed interest on HUMANIST, I can post a summary of these back in a week or so. Best wishes. ... john bradley ---------------------- John.Bradley@kcl.ac.uk From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 11.0009 Arachnet? MLA Bibliography? Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 11:52:33 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 22 (22) yes, I had joined arachnet at the time (1991-1993), and I HAVE some archival material backed-up. If you are interested, I shall be pleased to let you have what my recording mania has saved [hope the tape does not fail...] ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi From: James O'Donnell Subject: NewJour Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 20:19:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 23 (23) My mention on this list last night of NewJour, the list co-moderated by myself and by Ann Okerson of the Yale University Library, which reports news of new electronic journals, prompted one reader to write to me to ask for subscription instructions. They follow, along with the address of the web site on which the 3700+ currently listed items can be searched, browsed, and marveled at. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu NewJour To subscribe to NewJour (the on-line reporting service for new ventures in networked electronic journals), send e-mail to: majordomo@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Put nothing on the Subject: line and in the message space type *only*: subscribe NewJour DO NOT put your name or address in the message: majordomo prefers to extract them from the header and in case of even a small disparity will reject the message. The list is a busy one. If you prefer to reduce the number of messages, you may prefer to subscribe to the "digest" option, which sends one message (usually before dawn) with a whole day's messages gathered together under on header. To subscribe to that list, proceed as above but say: subscribe NewJour-Digest If you are already a subscriber and wish to change options, then your message should read: unsubscribe Newjour subscribe NewJour-Digest The archive (searchable by title or full text) for all past NewJour messages is available at http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour, thanks to the generosity of James Jacobs of the library of the University of California at San Diego. For list business, please write to nj@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Editorial questions may go to newjour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu or to ann@a.cni.org (Ann Okerson, Yale University). From: Larry Taylor Subject: Deep Blue IBM site; Re: 11.0007 online Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 19:02:37 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 24 (24) WM asks, Is anyone [deleted quotation] Heavily promoted by sponsor IBM: <http://www.chess.ibm.com/home/html/b.html> And "blue" is as in IBM.. You can watch a replay of every move in Java. LAT From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Re: 11.0007 online Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 17:27:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 25 (25) [deleted quotation] http://www.chess.ibm.com/ and there is also coverage in the on-line edition of the New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/partners/microsites/chess/ Lorna From: Willard McCarty Subject: WELL Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 20:32:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 26 (26) In the May edition of Wired magazine is a fascinating account of the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), in Katie Hafner, "The Epic Saga of The Well: The World's Most Influential Online Community". According to a notice on the corresponding Web page, <http://wwww.wired.com/wired/5.05/well/>, the full-text of this article will be available 20 May. Fascinating reading. The WELL was the creation (in 1985, two years before Humanist) of two visionaries, Larry Brilliant and Stuart Brand, the fons et origo of The Whole Earth Catalog and similar works. Very Californian, and specifically San Franciscan. What's most remarkable about the WELL, I suppose, is the degree of emotional and imaginative intensity and commitment it evoked. "The Well is, after all, a boiled-down, concentrated essence of what people love and hate about the Net: community and intelligent discourse on the one hand, wackos, poseurs, and flamers on the other.... [E]ven if The Well itself should disappear, its mystique will continue to exist in the minds of people searching for a reason to venture into cyberspace. Forty years from now, The Well may be remembered only dimly, or not at all. But it will have left behind a lasting imprint on our culture, as we will be left with the lush promises it whispered into our ear." It hardly reached us in Toronto, which is not all that far from the U.S., or at least it hardly reached me, and I wonder if the imprint Hafner talks about isn't rather hard to see beyond the borders of that great country. The glimpse of Eden (if I may wax biblically mythological for a moment) is certainly something we all can understand, and have seen in various ways, even on Humanist, in these early days of computer-mediated communication. I cannot help but wonder if, as in so many other things, this most important glimpse will not get increasingly harder to discern as our medium enters every more deeply into ordinary life. The trick is, I suppose, not to forget. .... Such is our hold on the future -- Eight days, eight years, or eight decades, a handful of air accumulating in the palm, grasped from the window of a moving car, is all we have, a stretch of time we cram into our hungry mouths as if it were something solid: as if enough of it could be good food... (Alastair Elliot, "Looking Out") Electronic communications are not quite yet the stuff of everyone's daily life, however, and certainly not in every household in my neighbourhood. Just today I was discussing with a colleague the rather odd sensation I have had repeatedly, here and in Toronto, after spending early mornings online, writing to friends and colleagues around the world, fiddling with the Web, and so forth, suddenly to emerge onto the streets of my city like a being from another world, among people who have no idea whatever where I've been, though virtually, and what I've been doing. Did people feel like this in the early days of the telephone? And what now do we make of the rage for the cellular phone, which in London has reached the proportions of a plague, turning us all into performers and evesdroppers. 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: "Gary W. Shawver" Subject: Re: 11.0007 online Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 18:14:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 27 (27) [deleted quotation] Chack out John Katz's article on the Elaine Showalter book _Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media_ <http://www.netizen.com/netizen/97/18/katz2a.html> then chck out the book own Web page at <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/features/hystories/hystoriesfeature.html>. Part of the Web page blurb is below. It seems very much relevent to the topic at hand. Quoted material: This provocative book charts the surprising persistence of a cultural epidemic. Tales of alien abduction, chronic fatigue, Gulf War syndrome, and the resurgence of repressed memories in psychotherapy are but some indications that we live in an age of hysterias. As Elaine Showalter demonstrates, the triumphs of the therapeutic society have not been able to prevent the appearance of hysterical disorders, imaginary illnesses, rumor panics, and pseudomemories that mark the end of the millennium, and which pose a threat to those very virtues--reason, courage, skepticism--we need most. Like the witch-hunts of the 1690s or the hypnotic cures of the 1890s, the hysterical syndromes of the 1990s reflect the fears and anxieties of a culture on the edge of change. Showalter connects contemporary syndromes to earlier times and settings, showing that hysterias mutate and are re-named; under the right circumstances, everyone is susceptible. Today hysterical epidemics are not spread by viruses or vapors but by stories, narratives Showalter calls hystories that are created "in the interaction of troubled patients and sympathetic therapists ... circulated through self-help books, articles in newspapers and magazines, TV talk shows, popular films, the Internet, even literary criticism." -end quoted material. [deleted quotation] Try <http://www.chess.ibm.com/home/html/b.html> -- Sincerely, ________________________________________________ Gary W. Shawver <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~gshawver/> ________________________________________________ From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 11.0011 and we'll stay 10 forever and ever? Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 23:31:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 28 (28) Colgo l'occasione per unirmi alle felicitazioni: humanist essenziale per ognuno che si interessa all'informatica umanistica. anche tempo che l'interesse internazionale di humanist si concreti, come ora succede, nell'uso di una pluralit di linguaggi, a costo di perdere il significato di qualche intervento. Ad maiora! ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi From: Elisabeth.Burr@unidui.uni-duisburg.de Subject: birthday Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:30:55 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 29 (29) Happy birthday and thanks for the good work. Humanist means a lot to me. I've learnt such so much through it and I am glad to be a member of this comunity Elisabeth --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH Geibelstrasse 47048 Duisburg +49 203 3791957 Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de From: Willard McCarty Subject: Deep Blue and human intelligence Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 07:56:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 30 (30) This from the Deep Blue FAQ. Note in particular Kasparov's statement, "Chess gives us a chance to compare brute force with our abilities." Also the commentator's remark that "Kasparov isn't playing a computer, he's playing the ghosts of grandmasters past. That Deep Blue can organize such a storehouse of knowledge -- and apply it on the fly to the ever-changing complexities on the chessboard -- is what makes this particular heap of silicon an arrow pointing to the future." "Does Deep Blue use artificial intelligence? The short answer is "no." Earlier computer designs that tried to mimic human thinking weren't very good at it. No formula exists for intuition. So Deep Blue's designers have gone "back to the future." Deep Blue relies more on computational power and a simpler search and evaluation function. The long answer is "no." "Artificial Intelligence" is more successful in science fiction than it is here on earth, and you don't have to be Isaac Asimov to know why it's hard to design a machine to mimic a process we don't understand very well to begin with. How we think is a question without an answer. Deep Blue could never be a HAL-2000 if it tried. Nor would it occur to Deep Blue to "try." "If you go back to HAL in 1968," says Deep Blue development team member Joe Hoane, "2001 came out and a lot of people were introduced to the idea that well, you could have a relationship with a computer. HAL in the movie had a personality and, in 1968, people started to realize that computers are getting interesting, that maybe we've reached another milestone where computers are getting really interesting... solving really interesting problems that we couldn't otherwise solve." Deep Blue's strengths are the strengths of a machine. It has more chess information to work with than most computers and all but a few chess masters. It never forgets or gets distracted. And its orders of magnitude are better at processing the information at hand than anything yet devised for the purpose. "There is no psychology at work" in Deep Blue, says IBM research scientist Murray Campbell. Nor does Deep Blue "learn" its opponent as it plays. Instead, it operates much like a turbocharged "expert system," drawing on vast resources of stored information (For example, a database of opening games played by grandmasters over the last 100 years) and then calculating the most appropriate response to an opponent's move. Deep Blue is stunningly effective at solving chess problems, but it is less "intelligent" than the stupidest person. It doesn't think, it reacts. And that's where Garry Kasparov sees his advantage. Speaking of an earlier IBM chess computer, which he defeated in 1989, Kasparov said, "Chess gives us a chance to compare brute force with our abilities." Deep Blue applies brute force aplenty, but the "intelligence" is the old-fashioned kind. Think about the 100 years of grandmaster games. Kasparov isn't playing a computer, he's playing the ghosts of grandmasters past. That Deep Blue can organize such a storehouse of knowledge -- and apply it on the fly to the ever-changing complexities on the chessboard -- is what makes this particular heap of silicon an arrow pointing to the future. The worlds of science and enterprise are full of problems with so many variables they can't be solved in real time. A system like Deep Blue that can accelerate solutions by powers of 10 is going to make a difference far beyond the chessboard. (And P.S. - That so much of Deep Blue's innards are "general-purpose" industry-standard hardware is good news to any organization faced with a 7-figure problem on a 6-figure budget.) The way that the PowerPC chips inside Deep Blue work in parallel to break down and solve a chess-board problem is a pretty good analog for the way many scientists, working independently, advance our total understanding of the universe, or genetics... Or the way business people confront the complexities of, say, running an airline. Figuring THE best way to schedule 570 planes of 25 different types to 150 destinations for best passenger revenue and most efficient fueling, maintenance, crew deployment, and turnaround servicing is a towering problem. On that scale, the difference between a pretty good solution and the best solution is measured in billions. The shifting complexities of the chessboard are the airline problem in miniature. For computer scientists, chess is a laboratory benchmark. Back in computing's Jurassic age, in 1950, Claude Shannon, the chief architect of information theory, put it this way: "The chess-playing problem is sharply defined, both in the allowed operations and in the ultimate goal. It is neither so simple as to be trivial, nor too difficult for satisfactory solution." Satisfactory solutions - to problems far beyond the chessboard - are closer than ever before as a result of the research that has gone into the Deep Blue system. And who knows? As more possibilities open before us, some of those science fiction predictions may come true. But it won't be because of any artificial intelligence. It will be because systems like Deep Blue helped us make better use of the real thing. (Quoted with thanks from <http://www.chess.ibm.com/meet/html/d.3.3a.html>) Compare Herbert Simon in the online NY Times article, Bruce Weber, "A Mean Chess-Playing Computer Tears at the Meaning of Thought", <http://www.nytimes.com/partners/microsites/chess/archive8.html>. Having designed a program to emulate the human thinking of a grandmaster, "today he says he did not understand it would be brute force as opposed to selectivity that would bring a chess computer to an equal footing with men and women. But that does not diminish the accomplishment of Deep Blue, he said, which with its powerful amalgam of brute force and selectivity, is not unlike what humans do, if different in the ratio of its elements...." John Searle disagrees: '"From a purely mathematical point of view... chess is a trivial game because there's perfect information about it. For any given position there's an optimal move; it's solvable. It's not like football or war. It's a great game for us because our minds can't see the solution, but the fact that we will build machines that can do it better than we can is no more important than the fact that we can build pocket calculators that can add and subtract better than we can." Paul Saffo (Institute for the Future, Menlo Park, Calif.): "People who fear machines don't need to lose any sleep just yet.... To me, the match was interesting as a cultural event. Chess, whereas it's a difficult problem to solve for computer scientists, is just a constrained formal problem. O.K., a computer beat a grandmaster, but computers aren't any smarter than they were the day before. The question I'd ask, now that this Rubicon has been passed, is What's the new arbitrary measure? Maybe it's a computer that plays go... or a computer that can fill in an I.R.S. form without getting an audit." All this would seem to me to imply that in applied computing our efforts are best directed at the development of digital resources (such as the massive database of chess moves) rather than clever algorithms, i.e. that the best situation is one in which trivial operations are repetitively applied to sophisticated data. This in turn suggests that the future is in good markup. 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: Ian Lancashire Subject: do we edit for computers to read? Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:28:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 31 (31) Recently at a meeting of an editorial advisory committee, an earnest colleague stated that we must edit etexts so that a computer can read them. I think we should edit etexts so that people can read them. E.g., (what may have risen rise to the remark), if a poet numbers stanzas with roman numerials, are editors of etexts obliged to convert them to arabic form? or should the writers of software be obliged to make software that can read roman numerals, as people can? Pre-computing editors "tagged" texts in many ways--by assigning line numbers, variant readings, commentary, titles, etc. Should we not ask for browsing software that recognizes human tagging conventions, rather than require humans to recast such "tags" in a "computer-readable" form? Ian Lancashire University of Toronto E-mail: ian@chass.utoronto.ca URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html From: "by way of Willard McCarty " Subject: Deadline for Applications to NEH (Preservation and Access) Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 18:10:16 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 32 (32) The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is a grant-making agency of the U.S. federal government that support projects in the humanities. Eligible applicants are: U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations, as well as U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the United States for a period of at least the three years immediately preceding the submission of the application. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that will create, preserve and increase the availability of resources important for research, education, and public programming in the humanities. Support may be sought to preserve the intellectual content and aid bibliographic control of collections; to compile bibliographies, descriptive catalogs, and guides to cultural holdings; to create dictionaries, encyclopedias, databases, and other types of research tools and reference works; and to stabilize material culture collections through the appropriate housing and storing of objects, improved environmental control, and the installation of security, lighting, and fire-prevention systems. Applications may also be submitted for national and regional education and training projects, regional preservation field service programs, and research and demonstration projects that are intended to enhance institutional practice and the use of technology for preservation and access. Projects may encompass collections of books, journals, newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, and objects of material culture held by libraries, archives, museums, historical organizations, and other repositories. The Division has a single, annual DEADLINE for applications, JULY 1. Final decisions will be announced the following March. Guidelines and instructions can be downloaded from the NEH Web site: <http://www.neh.fed.us/html/guidelin/preserva.html> A list of recent awards is also available at that site under "What's New". To obtain a print version of the Guidelines or to address a question to the NEH staff, e-mail us at . Postal address: Division of Preservation and Access NEH, Room 411 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 220506 Telephone: 202/606-8570 FAX: 202/606-8639 From: Mick Doherty Subject: Last Call: Kairos 2.2 CFH Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 09:22:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 33 (33) The deadline for inquiries regarding submissions for the next issue of _Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_ is Thursday, May 15. Please refer to the attached Call For Hypertexts for further details. Apologies for the cross-postings! __________________________ CALL FOR HYPERTEXTS _Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_ Issue 2.2 (Fall 1997) _Kairos_ is a hypertext journal exploring all aspects of the pedagogical and scholarly uses of hypertext, written in hypertextual format(s). It is designed to serve as a resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing, including : Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, Literature and a wide variety of humanities-based scholarship. We are interested in receiving submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following: *hypertexts designed to help ground pedagogical theory in classroom praxis; *reports on empirical research conducted in and related to networked writing environments; *editorials from teachers regarding classroom experiences; *sample syllabi, with notes and commentary from teachers and students; *additional material in categories listed below. Please see our most recent issue at: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/ Inquiries for the Fall 1997 issue are due no later than May 15, 1997. Completed texts for review are due by September 1, 1997. Target publication date for the Fall 1997 issue is October 15, 1997. Address questions and inquiries to Editor Mick Doherty at: mick@rpi.edu ******** Special Calls for contributions to Kairos 2.2 ******** COVERWEB The Coverweb project is a multi-vocal, multi-linear hypertext collaboratively written and reviewed for each issue of the journal. The Coverweb topic for issue 2.2 is "Gender and the Web." The actual implementation of this topic is open to interpretation; all proposals will be considered. Proposals are also sought for future Coverweb topics. Contact: Coverweb Editor Douglas Eyman, eymand@wilmington.net NEWS & REVIEWS We are seeking news articles/webtexts that focus on Distance Education or Virtual Universities; "E-List" reviews of Distance Education listservs, listprocs or newsgroups; Conference wrap-up reports for CCCC, C&W, NEACW, MAACW and other related events; Software and website reviews of teaching tools and resources; Reviews of "PaperTexts" in any of three categories: *internet "classics" like Landow, Nelson, Lanham; *internet pedagogy texts like _English Online_, _Online!_ and _Writing the Information Superhighway_; *important new scholarly texts. Contact: Sections Editor Claudine Keenan, cgk4@psu.edu _Kairos_ is sponsored by the national Alliance for Computers and Writing: http://english.ttu.edu/acw/ From: Larry Taylor Subject: Re: 11.0017 Deep Blue and human intelligence Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 12:14:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 34 (34) ... [deleted quotation].... [deleted quotation] The short response is, "Ridiculous. Of course it's A.I. There have been few problems more directly identified with A.I. since the fifties than playing chess. Now that "we" -- ich bin ein A.I. researcher! -- have WON, don't take it away from us!" Prediction made about 1957: Unless they are excluded from competition, a computer will be the world champion in chess within ten years (it may have been Simon. My books are still packed, and I can't easily look it up). A.I. has endured years of disappointment, booms and busts, the early chess programs being horrible players, but gradually improving. We have known all along that a fast enough computer would achieve any given level of chess expertise. Earlier computer designs that [deleted quotation] We knew it could work. I wish I could say I knew that that particular line of investigation would be better than the others, but many could have guessed. [deleted quotation] ... true enough ... and [deleted quotation]....[more about HAL] Modeling of human thought is only one goal of Artificial Intelligence. Engineering problems with complicated domains -- as it is with chess -- is another important goal, which "we" have just won big. Let's give the little machine a round of applause. [deleted quotation] Repeat after me: Since May 11, 1997, a computer is the best chess player in the universe. It can't talk, think about anything other than chess, or tie its shoes, but it is better at what it was engineered to do than ANY HUMAN ALIVE. To say this achievement is not artificial intelligence, but it relies on different principles than humans use, is like saying that the Wright brothers' airplane did not achieve artificial flight because it wasn't very much like a bird. [deleted quotation] This seems to contradict the assertion above that Deep Blue does not use artificial intelligence. What the writer means here is not clear to me, but he or she seems to say that natural intelligence is involved, which makes no sense. I think that we should agree that Deep Blue's triumph is a feat of engineering, and has little to do with A.I.'s pretensions to psychology. Think about the 100 years of [deleted quotation] .... hardware notes... [deleted quotation] THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! (American baseball, c. 1951) Particularly significant was Kasparov's whining after his loss, which showed that his ego has been crushed. LAT From: Selmer Bringsjord Subject: Deep Blue vs. Kasparov Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 18:09:55 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 35 (35) Hi. My paper on Deep Blue vs. Kasparov for the upcoming annual meeting of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence is available on the web through that organization, and also directly from my space (postscript): http://www.rpi.edu/~brings/BLUE/ from here the paper is kasparov.ps Title: "Chess Isn't Tough Enough: Better Games for Mind-Machine Competition" Yrs, //Selmer From: "Gary W. Shawver" Subject: Re: 11.0018 editing for computers? Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 15:42:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 36 (36) Ian Lancashire wrote: [deleted quotation] Do people read etexts? The main advantage of machine-readable texts is that they are, well, machine readable. But this is not your point, is it? --snip-- [deleted quotation] You're right to insist that we should have higher expectations for text-analysis software, but whence is this to come? Does any software presently available even read line numbers like people do? How does such software know that an italicized word is foreign word, a book title, or a case of emphasis? I'm afraid this is asking too much of present technology. Could we not simply insist on browsers which display or not heavily marked-up texts? -- Sincerely, ________________________________________________ Gary W. Shawver <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~gshawver/> From: John Roper Subject: Re: 11.0018 editing for computers? Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 10:03:47 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 37 (37) I wholeheartedly agree with Ian that etexts or any other form of text should be in a form that people can read. I would go further and say that the structure and implied meaning of a poem or a piece of text should be preserved as the author intended. It may be inconvenient (or currently impossible) for an editing package to cope with Roman numerals, Cyrillic text, etc. but it just means that 'we' have to develop better tools. My experience goes back to the days of a single upper case alphabet and simple numerals. We had to compromise then, but I feel it is a pity that we still have to compromise to the degree we have to. But who can find the time and effort to manufacture a solution? Who can even specify the solution? John Roper On Sat, 10 May 1997 19:06:36 +0100 (BST) Humanist Discussion Group wrote: ================================================= John P.G. Roper, Director, Computing Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, England. Tel. +44(0) 1603 592382 Fax. +44(0) 1603 593467 Email: j.roper@uea.ac.uk From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 11.0018 editing for computers? Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 08:27:48 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 38 (38) Non capisco perch, trattando di simili argomenti, si debba ricorrere a metafore, pi o meno pertinenti, e comunque adatte al cosiddetto vasto pubblico, e non a professionisti quali si suppone siano i corrispondenti di Humanist. Non ho mai visto un computer che legge o che scrive; ho solo visto stream di bit che vanno e vengono, ed i bit non sono "romani" n "arabi". Se poi si vuole porre la questione della codifica, si tratta semplicemente di stabilire (dal momento che la codifica sempre interpretativa, come hanno spesso sottolineato Sperberg e McQueen ;-) se si interpreta la forma materiale di una lista o il suo valore logico, eccetera; e si tratta di dichiararlo con precisione. Le conseguenze saranno tratte dagli utenti. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi From: Willard McCarty Subject: editing for whom? Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:00:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 39 (39) In Humanist 11.18, Ian Lancashire asks for whom we should be editing (or, more broadly, preparing) texts -- for computers or for humans? An interesting question. What makes it especially so is the silent assumption that these two classes of entities are completely different. Of course they are different, but.... the computer is the product of the human imagination, a cultural artefact, which as a kind of automaton has a very long human-centred history indeed, and has a great deal to tell us about ourselves. In the preparation of my own text, I find that all the important computing happens in my head, in response to the requirements of the machine, which in turn is a response to a large set of very human requirements. In other words, yes, wetware and hardware are different, but that makes their identity meaningful, and vice versa. Many of us, including Ian, earned our stripes fighting against technocentrics who told us, in essence, to alter the nature of what we wanted to do so that existing hardware and software could process our data. Like get rid of accented characters, or Roman numerals, or whatever. Infuriating, and clearly wrong, and a great impetus for the foundation of more than one humanities computing centre. As progress has borne its fruits, however, the fundamental limitations of computing have for us emerged out of the general mass of technical infelicities and cast fascinating light on our scholarly problems. Is this not where humanities computing itself emerges out of step'n'fetchit support to become something worth pursuing in its own right, for the collegial support of everyone? Then there's the question of whether e-texts should be read by people at all, or whether they should be tagged so that however one wants to see them for reading, software can generate the appropriate version. But since there are Humanists here who know much more about this part of the topic than I do, I'll stop here and wait for one of them to carry it forward. Yours, 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: Willard McCarty Subject: bloopers and memory Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 16:39:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 40 (40) Rumour (from the discussion group Ficino) has it that Lewis Lapham's article on student bloopers in the April issue of Harper's Magazine, "The Spanish Armadillo", contains a good discussion of the effects of technology on cultural memory. Perhaps someone here who happens to have this issue to hand might be moved to report on Lapham's analysis? 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: Claire Warwick Subject: proposed hypertext course Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 09:27:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 41 (41) I work for the English Faculty at Oxford, and Dr Stuart Lee (Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing) and I are hoping to run a course on electronic text and hypertext in theory and practice. We are at the very early stages of planning at present, but the Faculty has some questions about the proposed course, and not having run a course of this type yet, we can't answer them from our own experience. We are aware of a few similar types of courses being run at present, but there must be some others that we haven't heard of. So we wondered if the members of Humanist who have run such a course would be willing to share some of their insights with us. We envisage that the course would consist of lectures on theoretical issues, as well as classes on the practical side of producing HTML, text analysis and hypertext design. Students would then be assessed on a project produced in hypertext accompanied by a paper detailing the rationale behind the production of their site. This plan gives rise to a number of questions with which we'd like some help. Firstly, how should we go about assessing student projects, especially those in hypertext? Does anyone have any guidelines that they might pass on to us? At the moment the students doing the equivalent paper to the one we propose submit essays of 6,000 words. How much hypertext would you feel is equivalent, given that we will also want them to produce a written essay about the rationale behind their site? How should we ensure that students reach similar academic standards to those doing more 'conventional' paper-based work? Has anyone experienced any particular problems with ensuring that there is no plagiarism? If so, how were they solved? Any help that anyone can provide on these matters, or any that we haven't thought of, would be very welcome. Claire Warwick and Stuart Lee Faculty of English and Humanities Computing Unit Oxford University **************************************************************************** Dr Claire Warwick phone 01865 273280 Resource Development Officer Fax 01865 273275 British National Corpus Oxford University Computing Services email BNC: natcorp@oucs.ox.ac.uk 13 Banbury Road claire.warwick@oucs.ox.ac.uk Oxford OX2 6NN http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc From: Willard McCarty Subject: CIEC Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 12:04:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 42 (42) The U.S. Supreme Court is due to hand down its decision on the infamous Communications Decency Act in June or July of this year. Meanwhile, information about the hearings on 19 March of this year are available from the Web site of the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC), "a broad group of Internet users, library groups, publishers, online service providers, and civil liberties groups", <http://www.ciec.org/>. Further pointers and comments 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 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Mick Doherty Subject: Monday MOO: Tic-Toc Goes the Tenure Clock **C-FEST 5/12** Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 09:21:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 43 (43) "If it works, it's obsolete." -- Marshall McLuhan Monday @ 7:00 PM CDT (8:00 PM EDT) in LinguaMOO C-Fest: Summer Session #1 Come @join us in MOOspace as several members of the forthcoming "TicToc" (Teaching in Cyberspace Through Online Courses) Symposium hosted by the University of Illinois-Chicago gather to discuss issues surrounding the electronic-izing of the writing curriculum and the the realities of professional recognition. Fore more about TicToc, visit <http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/projects/tictoc/main.htm> Our discussion this week will begin with the ideas outlined by TicToc consultants Joe Amato and Mick Doherty available at <http://www.rpi.edu/~doherm/tictoc/> ... if you can read these documents ahead of time, that'd be great, but if not, come anyway and shoot from the hip! Additional texts from TicTockers such as Cynthia Haynes, Jan Holmevik, and Eric Crump will also be introduced during this C-Fest session as we pursue authoring ... "The Technorhetorician's Bill of Rights." *************************************************************** The Latest Installment in the 1997 C-FEST MEETING SERIES at LINGUA MOO "Delivering Ourselves to/in the Academy" ..Be part of a C-FEST Event and share in the drafting of our Statements In the C-FEST Forum at LINGUA MOO [telnet to: lingua.utdallas.edu 8888] or [WWW: http://lingua.utdallas.edu] LOGS ARE AVAILABLE FROM OUR PREVIOUS SESSIONS: Spring Session 1: "Asking the Big Questions" Wednesday, April 2nd, 7pm CST (8pm EST) Hosted by Mick Doherty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Spring Session 2: "Models of Evaluative Tools and Technology" Thursday, April 10th, 7pm CST (8pm EDT) Hosted by Dr. Dene Grigar, Texas Woman's University Spring Session 3: Writer's Workshop: Building "Story Spaces" Tuesday, April 15th, 8pm CST (9pm EDT) Hosted by Dr. Susan Lang, Southern Illinois University Spring Session 4: "Come Play, Come Write, Come MOO! A Virtual Text-Raising" Thursday, April 24, 7pm CST (8pm EDT) Hosted by Cynthia Haynes, University of Texas at Dallas Special Guest: Lisa Guernsey, Assistant Editor of Electronic Projects The Chronicle of Higher Education *************************************************************** Other sites to visit regarding the issues at hand are gathered at: <http://www.rpi.edu/~doherm/recognition/> Also ... We need volunteer facilitators for each meeting. It's not a hard job :) Just show up and help guests new to MOO, help to keep the discussion flowing, and keep track of key ideas and post them on the C-FEST Ideas Board. These meetings will also involve collaboration on the position statements, so the transcripts and Ideas Board will need to reflect as much as possible as we craft the statements. To volunteer as a facilitator, please email Cynthia Haynes at cynthiah@utdallas.edu. *************************** Our meetings are informal and productive. In the C-FEST Forum at Lingua MOO participants may post ideas and suggestions to the C-FEST ideas board and obtain instructions for subscribing to the C-FEST email discussion list. We invite everyone to join in these discussions this spring and summer. As always, our meetings are recorded and the transcripts made available on the Lingua MOO Archive and Resource page, or by email (see instructions in the C-FEST Forum at Lingua). If you need help telnetting to Lingua or help with MOO basic commands, iew the Lingua MOO Beginner's Guide to MOOing: URL address: http://lingua.utdallas.edu or, email Cynthia Haynes at cynthiah@utdallas.edu or Jan Rune Holmevik at jan.holmevik@hedb.uib.no From: Jeff Finlay Subject: American Studies Opportunities & News, Week Ending May 11 Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:43:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 44 (44) AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS Week Ending May 11, 1997 (581-656) American Studies Opportunities & News is a weekly index produced by the American Studies Crossroads Project (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads) and sponsored by the American Studies Association. The Opportunities list, which generates the index, posts ASA news, calls for papers, conference programs, fellowships, jobs, bibliographical & online resources, book reviews and tables of contents. The Opportunities archive and search engine is on the web at http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html To submit a posting, or to subscribe to the index, contact the Crossroads Administrator The following items appeared on American Studies Opportunities & News from May 4-11, 1997. To order any one of them, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES followed by the item number to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (example: to get the first job posting listed below, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 626 to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM; to get the the first and second job posting, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 626 587 to LISTSERV.HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM). [Special Note: To get details of the Crossroads Project's June Workshop, "Teaching American Culture with Technology," at Georgetown University, June 25-28, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 625] Jobs ==== 626 Af Am Litt/Generalist, American U (non-tenure, deadline 5/15) 587 Am Litt/Latino/a Studies, Penn State (tenure, deadline 5/29) 628 Am Studies, Henan Normal University, China (suit sabbatical) 588 Am Studies/Post-1865 History, U Leicester UK (deadline 5/30) 627 Ethnic Studies, Goddard College (non-tenure, May 31) 595 Folklife Specialist, Library of Congress (deadline, June 4) 596 Folklife Specialist, Oregon Historical Soc (deadline, May 30) 629 Humanities, Capital U/Cleveland (non-tenure, deadline 6/1) 589 Material Culture, University College London 645 Women's Studies/Af Am Studies, U. Mich (senior, deadline, 9/2) 655 Women's Studies, N. Arizona Univ (director, deadline 10/1) Fellowships & Prizes ==================== 598 AFS Folklore & Education Prize (Deadline, July 1) 585 Campbell Fellowship, Hist of Agriculture/Montana (May 15) 640 Fellowships, Inst of Advanced Studies, United Nations Univ. 590 Judicial Fellows, US Supreme Court (Deadline Nov 17) 632 NEH Preservation & Access Grants (Deadline, Aug 1) 623 Postdoc, Contemporary Policy Research, Abe Fellowships 608 Spencer Dissertation Fellowships (research on education) 644 Spencer Foundation Grants, 1997-1998 (research on education) Calls for Contributions to Journals/Books ========================================= 599 Canadian Folklore canadien, issue on Witches/Wicca 642 Citizenship in Latin America, for Social Politics Journal 602 Contemporary Girls' Culture (anthology) 649 Feminism Issue, Method & Theory in Study of Religion Journal 631 Folklore Forum Journal 606 Heaven's Gate Cult Articles for Millenial Prophecy Report 653 Lesbians Talking Sex, for Journal of Lesbian Studies 616 Recording Oral History (pamphlet), for Oral History Assoc 581 Review Essayists Sought on Books By/About Women Photographers 601 Sage Book Series in Family Studies 634 US Historical Statistics, for Historical Methods Journal 651 Women & Power issue, for Sociological Spectrum Journal Calls for Papers for Conferences ================================ 624 American Conversations, Mid America ASA, Iowa, Apr 98 593 Architecture & Culture, Cornell U, Oct 24-25 97 650 Bodies of Evidence, Normal IL, Oct 2-4 97 622 Cultural Studies Conf, Tampere, Finland, June 98 643 European Assoc of American Studies, Lisbon, Apr 98 583 Latina Visions for Transforming the Americas, New Haven Oct 97 603 Memory/Landscape/Identity, Great Lakes ASA, March 98 600 Oral Culture of Children, Sheffield UK, Apr 98 630 Portraiture in Age of Photography, Washington DC Nov 97 614 SW Hist Assoc/SW Soc Sci Assoc, Texas, Mar 98 607 Teaching Multi-Ethnic Litt in Am Litt, New Orleans, Nov 98 641 Young Adult Literature, Youngstown OH, May 98 Calls for Conference Panels =========================== 604 American Art History & the Art Market, CAA, Toronto 1998 615 American Food & Culture, Mid-Atl PCA/ACA, Baltimore, Oct 97 638 Architecture & Ethnic Communities, Los Angeles, Apr 98 643 European Assoc of American Studies, Lisbon, Apr 98 Programs for Forthcoming Conferences (listed chronologically) ============================================================= 654 Claiming Women's Political Power, Washington DC, May 29-30 582 History of Photography, Rochester NY, Oct 17-19 605 Soc for Hist of Am Foreign Relations, Georgetown U, June 19-22 Programs for Forthcoming Events, Institutes & Seminars ====================================================== 646 Newberry Seminar, Race & Housing in Chicago 1900-1950, May 21 635 Newberry Seminar, Legal Culture of Work in Early Am, May 29 591 Obituary, Paulo Freire (1921-1997) 633 Open Letter - Support NEH Documentary Publications Projects 613 Skyscraper Museum Opens, New York City 597 Summer Institutes: Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers & Students 619 Western Art Exhibits, Southern Methodist U (to June 22) 625 Crossroads Workshop, Teaching Am Studies with Technology, June 25-28 Bibliographical & Online Resources ================================== 656 Directory of Gender-Related Info Sources Website 618 Film & History Journal 1970-1996 Now on CD-ROM 637 Finding Info on the Internet -- UC-Berkeley Web Tutorials 594 Language/Bilingual Education Policy Website 586 Plurabelle Am Studies Antiquarian/Second-Hand Books (catalog) 652 Readers for Intro Women's Studies Courses (resource books) 636 Red Hot Jazz Archive Website 584 Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (online org) 647 USIA Website for Declassified US Govt Documents 592 Valley of the Shadow Civil War Project on CD-ROM & Web Book Reviews (abbreviated/by subtitle for clarification purposes) ================================================================= 611 Balboni, Italian Americans & Las Vegas (Duncan H-PCAACA) 617 Hill, Dallas: The Making of a Modern City (Summers H-URBAN) 620 Peterson del Mar, History of Violence against Wives (Bisson H-WOMEN) 612 Prochnau, Young War Correspondents in Vietnam (Patterson H-PCAACA) 621 Shokeid, A Gay Synagogue in New York (Balka H-URBAN) Tables of Contents ================== 648 Passages, Journal of Transnational & Transcultural Studies 639 Sources 2 (European cultural studies journal) From: David Wilson-Okamura Subject: fight spam (unsolicited email ads) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 19:18:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 45 (45) X-POSTED to: FICINO, MEDTEXTL, Mantovano Like most of you, I am tired of unsolicited email ads (AKA spam). I received the following this morning from a graphic design firm in California where my brother works. Essentially, it's a spam filter for Eudora. Free, too. Looks pretty good. Details below: _________________________________________________________________ EXPOSURE Internet Marketing News ~~~ Special Announcement ~~~ Friday May 9th, 1997 - Noon PDT "For the busy Internet Marketing Professional" _________________________________________________________________ In terms of Spam (Unsolicited Bulk email advertising), you are either part of the problem or part of the solution. John Audette (I-Sales Digest Moderator) and myself have decided to be part of the solution. We have gathered from various sources, specific domains that are known to generate bulk unsolicited email on a daily basis, and have placed them as a clickable text file on the Web, along with step by step instructions on how to insert this file, "filters.pce" directly into any Eudora program so that all email received from these domains is deposited directly into a Spam folder or into your trash can. As more domains are purchased by rhogue ISP's and known spammers, we will be continually updating this file, so all you'll have to do is change the file or refresh it every so often. We have found that filtering these domains allows us to get rid of 98% of all bulk unsolicited email as it is downloaded. It is an incredible timesaver. Bulk unsolicited email is a problem that is not likely to go away any time soon, but we hope that this site will provide people with the information they need to deal with this problem, and at the same time provide those new to online marketing with an incentive to investigate other more constructive ways to promote their businesses online, rather than use bulk unsolicited email. If you are a listowner, please put this information out to your readers if you think it will assist them in their online endeavors. http://www.mmgco.com/nospam/ We now return you to your regularly scheduled program, Exposure Internet Marketing News. --Warmest regards, Adam Boettiger, Editor, EXPOSURE __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ EXPOSURE Internet Marketing News is: Edited by Adam Boettiger mailto:ab@mmgco.com (503) 699-6939 http://www.exposure-usa.com/exposure/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura david@wilsoninet.com University of Chicago http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/dswilson/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: avigail oren Subject: Re: 11.0021 memory? advice for a course? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 09:23:26 +0300 (IDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 46 (46) Claire Warwick asked about a design of a hypertet course. I have not developed yet such a course but I am engaged in r&d related to hypertext educational environment. A main problem for teachers is the assesment process. From my experience, as the linkage is the main point in hypertext writing, you should examine the width and the depth of the links students produced in their hypertext article. Students should explain the links they define as part of the article (like footnotes for each link). The assesment should take into account the quantity aspect (number of links) as well as the quality (through students explanations and content significance). Avigail Dr. Avigail Oren Knowledge Technology Lab School of Education Tel-Aviv University From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 11.0021 memory? advice for a course? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:26:43 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 47 (47) Re: Advice for a course and te question: [deleted quotation] As I am planning a similar course I would be very interested in this topic as well. - Hope -------- Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: Ian Lancashire Subject: Re: 11.0019 editing for computers Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:37:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 48 (48) Writing a program that can convert between roman and arabic numbers, someone in language technology writes, is a typical first-year problem for computer-science undergraduates. The task shouldn't be beyond a browser, let alone a tagger. I wrote harder programs for my first-year computer science course in 1980. If we tag our texts semi-automatically with sed or perl scripts, why can't a program manage the job? I'm not suggesting semantic disambiguation, lemmatization, or literary interpretation. Most tagging handles simple textual features that can be recognized by their format. Again, my question: why should we tag for computers as if they are in need of help? One just whipped a chess grandmaster. Let the computers be taught to recognize our texts. Let tools do jobs for us, rather than vice versa. I think you all could spend your time more wisely if the humanities took advantage of 50 years of computer science and turned to generate better software. Ian Lancashire From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 11.0019 editing for whom/what? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:13:01 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 49 (49) Call me greedy, but I want e-texts that are readable, no useable, by ME! That means, if such a thing exists, I want: - to see a reasonable facsimile of the original as the author created it - to see a reasonable facsimile of the published version, including all the original technologies applied to that version--things like line numbers and page numbers - to see a transcription of it in a manipulatable form, by which I mean something I can reformat, take apart, reassemble, read comfortably on screen, and otherwise muck about with - to toss it into my "text stewpot" with all the other texts and analyse it in a variety of ways (rather more than just plain "machine readable") - to hear and/or see a reading of the work by the author, especially if it is poetry, or, if the author is no longer living, to hear a historically informed rendition. (By the way, we have had audio recordings for close on a century now. Try listening to speeches from several decades. It is a fascinating look at how speaking changes.) - to follow up on a text in a variety of ways, by connecting with information about the author(s), the historical/cultural setting, the critical setting - and I want all of this from wherever I am: at the office, in the classroom, in the library, out of town, or curled up in my favorite rocking chair with a very large cup of tea nearby. - Hope (who is very grumpy this morning, having spent last night doing something grandiosely called "research" that, if it had been online, would have taken seconds instead of three wasted hours) --------- Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 11.0019 editing for whom/what? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:27:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 50 (50) What is interesting about this discussion is that e-texts by their very nature require computer software to be read. You can stare at your disk drive, floppy disk, or a CD-ROM very intently, but will see nothing resembling "text" except on the packaging label. E-text editing assumes the existence of an e-text editor that can figure out how to read the bits and interpret them as characters. What else it does is entirely up to the software. If you feed an e-text into a file dump utility, it might portray the text as carefully arranged columns of 0's and 1's; or as Hexadecimal characters. If the e-text is the output of a commercial software editor, it will have to be read and interpreted by a comparable software package that can remove all the machine instructions, redundant coding, etc. which the commercial software inserts. The moral here is that editing e-texts is ALWAYS the result of applying a creatively designed e-text interpreting software package to the text. What the software does or doesn't do is a matter of what is possible and what was implemented by the software designer. You can filter OUT information, but you cannot readily ADD information to the e-text. That is, if there are no font codes or layout information in the text; they can only be guessed at by clever software or else the text will appear as plain characters. In this regard you clearly want a LOT of information in an e-text making possible a very clever editing presentation software package which can use that information. If you have a lot of information in an e-text, but no clever software to use it; it is not the fault of the information in the e-text. From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 11.0022 Deep Blue, human intelligence and AI Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 09:11:47 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 51 (51) [deleted quotation]working in Natural Language Processing for many years and having to defend it as a field of Artificial Intelligence, I learned to point out that AI is not necessarily modelling human thought. It can be instead developing a capability that requires human thought. Language is such an example: no one knows how we humans are able to use language but we do. Teaching a computer to use language then is artificial intelligence. I don't know how to compare winning one set of games in computer chess to a level of capability in a computer's language manipulation. Language hasn't had the precise scorability of chess! Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 512-477-7213 Language Technology, Inc. 512-477-7351 (fax) 2415 Griswold Lane mdharris@acm.org Austin, TX 78703 mdharris@aol.com From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 11.0017 Deep Blue and human intelligence Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:24:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 52 (52) The results from Deep Blue beating Garry Kasparov are indeed a fitting subject for Humanist to discuss. In and of itself, one can dismiss this particular incident as atypical--another Grand Master may undoubtedly defeat THIS version of Deep Blue, but the handwriting is on the wall... The days when human beings can play better chess than a computer are drawing to a close. This is no more horrific than it was when steam engines were running in races with horses. Or rather, it is JUST as horrific; for that day ended the era of animal motor power being able to compete with machinery and claim victory. To be sure there are particular terrains which only an animal can carry a human--but earthmoving equipment is now the undisputed victor for work. What Computers Can't Do... the debate unfortunately never really got off to a great start. The answer is simple. Computers can reason. They just can't think. Chess is one of the reasoning tasks humans have elected to elevate to higher significance than many others which are in fact far harder to perform; but it seems to be a matter of scale. Humans like chess because of its human dimensions. Great mathematicians used to spend time calculating the orbits of planets in their head; some even suggested "wasted" their time doing so given the likelihood that calculating devices would be invented that would perform the same task faster and more accurately; but now nobody would deem to devote their hours to trying to use their brain like a calculating machine.... We delegated the task to the computer. People play chess, however, because they like to, and therein lies the rub. I suppose this is the fragile human ego. Because we LIKE to do something, we take offense when a machine takes the job over and does it better. Does this mean we have to stop playing chess? Well... we could invent a harder game if we really wanted to... but the issue is really just whether we can get used to the computer as a chess game judge and trainer and get back to doing what we do best---delegating reasoning tasks to the machines so we can create new ideas. From: "Steven J. DeRose" Subject: Re: 11.0022 Deep Blue, human intelligence and AI Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 12:06:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 53 (53) At 10:14 PM 05/12/97 +0100, Larry Taylor wrote: [deleted quotation] Agreed. But this is hardly new. Every time AI succeeds in some special domain, that domain becomes "no longer AI". C'est la vie. [deleted quotation] Again, true. But hardly significant by itself. Many a simpler machine has been "better at what it was engineered to do than ANY HUMAN ALIVE". For example, your everyday electric drill. Or a pencil. Deep Blue is a superb accomplishment, but a comparison to human intelligence is like comparing apples to poetry (one might entertain a comparison to an idiot savant). Optimizing for any single purpose is relatively easy. [deleted quotation] If Deep Blue had a sound chip, would it have whined last year? Steven J. DeRose Chief Scientist Inso EPS (formerly EBT) From: "Sarah L. Higley" Subject: Einstein's Brain Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 12:51:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 54 (54) Given the recent discussions of Deep Blue, chess-players, and AI, I thought I'd come in again from left field and ask another question about getting a famous picture of a famous scientist, since you were all so helpful about Edison as Wizard. This time, I'm looking frantically to get permission to reproduce that well-known photo of Albert Einstein, lying prone, his head hooked up to electrodes. This was taken apparently during an experiment conducted to see whether the brain waves of a genius would register differently from that of ordinary mortals. I've seen the picture a million times on posters, Roland Barthes describes it in "The Brain of Einstein," but I need to know who owns this photograph so that I can write to get permission to reproduce it. Again, please respond privately. slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu Many thanks! ********************************************************************* Sarah L. Higley slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu Associate Professor of English office: (716) 275-9261 The University of Rochester fax: (716) 442-5769 Rochester NY, 14627 ********************************************************************* Py dydwc glein / O erddygnawt vein? "What brings a gem from a hard stone?" Book of Taliesin ********************************************************************* From: Richard Epstein Subject: SEMCOM: Ph.D. programs in Lx & Lit (fwd) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:26:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 55 (55) A short time ago, I posted a query on behalf of a grad student of mine seeking information about Ph.D. programs in the US which have specializations in Linguistics and Literature (Stylistics, Literary Pragmatics, etc.). Several English departments were mentioned as possibilities: U. of North Texas Ball State U. Texas A & M (http://engserve.tamu.edu/files/graduate/gprogram.html) U. of Wisconsin-Madison U. of Minnesota U. of South Carolina (Linguistics Program) U. of Southern California Several people also mentioned that there are more opportunities to pursue this line of research in Britain and Ireland (Lancaster, Strathclyde, Queen's U. in Belfast). Thanks again to all those who responded, Rich Epstein From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: AI-97 (Ireland) (Call For Papers) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:50:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 56 (56) AI IN "CRISIS"? AI IN "CRISIS"? AI IN "CRISIS"? AI IN "CRISIS"? <> <> <> Ninth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97) (http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97) in tandem with: Irish Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP-97) (http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/imvip97) AI IN "CRISIS" ? Has the field been in `crisis'? --- some argue we've been in the wilderness with no breakthroughs for decades except minor shifts towards connectionism and neural networks, artificial life, data collection/corpora, and hybrid systems. Others say the move towards integration (e.g. Intelligent MultiMedia integrating language/vision), PersonKommunikation, mobile and remote computing, more and more engineering and a focus on the significance or otherwise of the self, mind and consciousness is emphasizing the successes of AI... Ireland hosts AI conferences usually annually since 1988. This ninth AI-97 conference will continue the tradition of emphasising presentations of Irish and International original research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science including Computer Science, Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Neuroscience and related disciplines on the obvious problems of speech, NLP, and vision processing, robotics, learning, reasoning, knowledge representation and mobile/remote computing. Papers which address whether or not the field has been in `crisis' and its failures/successes are particularly welcome! Ever since George Boolean Logic (Cork), James Joyce's advances on streams-of-consciousness (see Dennett's Joycean machine), Claude Shannon found Information Theory and John McCarthy made LISP and gave the field its name (Dartmouth, US, 1956) we have been into Artificial Intelligence. Ninth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97) (http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97) [material deleted] From: Geert-Jan Kruijff Subject: VILEM MATHESIUS LECTURE SERIES (Nov.'97 and Mar.'98 in Prague) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:50:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 57 (57) ANNOUNCEMENT VILEM MATHESIUS LECTURE SERIES 11 and 12 Prague, Czech Republic, November 1997 and March 1998 The Vilem Mathesius Teaching and Research Center in Linguistics and Semiotics (Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague), will organize its eleventh Lecture Series in November 1997, and its twelfth Lecture Series in March 1998. Below you will find more detailed information on the programmes of these series, and on how to contact us. LECTURE SERIES 11 The eleventh lecture series will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from *November 10 until 21*, 1997. The venue will be the Krystal hotel. The following prominent scholars will lecture at the eleventh series (usually three 90 minutes lectures): * Sue Atkins, Great Britain: Frame-based lexicography * Charles J. Fillmore, USA (Berkeley): Frame semantics and the lexicon * Barbara Grosz, USA (Boston): Issues of discourse analysis * Aravind Joshi, USA (Philadelphia): Lexicalized grammars: Linguistic, logical, computational and processing issues * Jacob Mey, Denmark (Odense): Pragmatic acts * Paolo Ramat, Italy: Linguistic categories and linguists' categorizations * John R. Ross (Canada): Poetics and the grammar of space * Helmut Schnelle (Germany): to be announced * Arnim von Stechow (Germany): to be announced * Mark Steedman, USA (Philadelphia): to be announced * Dean Worth, USA (Los Angeles): Diachronic interaction of related languages: Diglossia, bilingualism, or? Among the invited Czech teachers there are Frantisek Cermak, Jan Hajic, Eva Hajicova, Oldrich Leska, Jarmila Panevova, Jaroslav Peregrin, Vladimir Petkevic, Petr Sgall. There is a limited number of grants available for students from CEE countries. These grants cover accommodation, breakfast, and lunches for the duration of the series. Normal registration is US$ 350, covering the tuition fee, acommodation, breakfast, and lunches. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION: July 15, 1997 For applications for grants, see below. LECTURE SERIES 12 The Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 12 will be held from March 9 until 20, 1998, in Prague. The venue will be the Krystal hotel, as for the lectures; the special conference "Bridges and Interfaces" (see below) will take place in the old centre of Prague. The invitation to lecture at the Lecture Series 12 has already been accepted by V. Borschev, W. Dressler, C.J. Fillmore, K. von Fintel, L. Karttunen, F. Kiefer, J.D. McCawley, W. Noth, B.H. Partee, J. Pierrehumbert, H. Riemsdijk, I. Sag, H. Schnelle, J. Toman, and A. Zaenen. In connection with the twelfth lecture series there will be the international linguistic conference "Bridges and Interfaces: Form, Meaning, and Function" held at the occasion of the 650th Anniversary of Charles University. The conference will take place on March 12 until 14, 1998, and it will focus on the relationships between form, meaning and function of linguistic items from the perspective of different theoretical approaches providing thus a fruitful basis for a discussion of bridges and interfaces between different linguistic theories. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION: November 30, 1997 GRANTS Applications for grants for students from CEE countries should be accompanied by a recommendation of the student's professor from his home university or country. DEADLINES for applying for grants are as follows: - Lecture Series 11: May 31, 1997 - Lecture Series 12: November 30, 1997 Applications should be sent to the address below. CONTACT INFORMATION For further information, please contact: Vilem Mathesius Center MFF UK - Linguistics e-mail: brdickov@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Malostranske nam. 25 (cc: hajicova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz) 118 00 Praha 1 fax: +420-2-2191 4309 Czech Republic tel.:+420-2-2191 4278 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Re: 11.0027 course on hypertext Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 17:38:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 58 (58) [deleted quotation] I suggest also to look up Michigan Tech pages (RTC and STC syllabi, on-line course and students' materials, etc.). A good start would be: http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~kitalong/syllabi.html http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~awysocki/ Hope this helps From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Deep? Blue Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 12:04:15 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 59 (59) HennyPenny, the sky is falling! Not so, perhaps. It seems to me, and I have remarked on this phenomenon before, but seem not to have succeeded in getting my observations posted, ever...that... the first time one of our species flaked a flint cat meat from a bone, instead of tearing it with the teeth, we, yes we, were on the road that leads to comuter chess games and beyond. the wheel didnt remove the necessity for infants to learn to walk and run, and dance, etc. Why do "Humanists" get upset by machines? Edgar Allan Poe would have loved this all. He had a dwarf inside his chess playing machine! Who are the dwarfs behind Deep Blue? Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Chris Floyd Subject: Deep Blue, human intelligence, AI and Larry Taylor Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 10:12:37 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 60 (60) [deleted quotation] Artificial intelligence is a contradiction in terms. That is the dilemma of the Turing test. Intelligence is assumed to be the separation between animals and humans. When computers reproduce human intellectual capacity, the question is begged whether the intelligence duplicated is of nature. There is little computer power required to renact the thought processes of an amoeba (as distinct from its genetic construction) and many computer viruses are more sophisticated than their natural counterpart. If the development of intelligence is an evolutionary continuum then the break between animal behaviour and human thought is artificial, with language (and the manifest infrastructure of 'civilisation'), being the qualitative difference. If the break is an artificial construct, then equally so is our perception of what is intelligent. Do we know ourselves enough to define intelligence? So we digress to a semantic tangent. Given that intelligence is a part of evolution, then the intelligence of computers is not so much artifical as it is an extension of human intellectual ability. It is at one with the world since its becoming. We don't have artificial books. Books exist despite writing originating with humans. [deleted quotation] 1997-1957 [deleted quotation] There is a plethora of games people play with computers. For the beginner user, often there is a choice of levels, from novice to expert, and grand master. Some people search around for the good oil on the best tactics to play them, to get 'cheats' to win. But would I really want to play against Deep Blue? Is Deep Blue the best chess player for me? People choose different levels. There is more to chess than winning, as there is in other games. People also play for enjoyment and camaraderie. Does Deep Blue know any good jokes? Bobby Fischer was a world champion. A significant part of his game was 'psyching out' the opponent. I am not sure that Deep Blue would be susceptible to this. I am not convinced this makes Deep Blue (sex unknown) a more intelligent and 'better' chess player. Deep Blue might be proficient at winning chess games, as it so has been engineered to do, but I wouldn't invite it home to play chess. I wouldn't enjoy playing chess with it. I like making extempore moves against an intelligent fallible human. [deleted quotation] Who wins? The humans who engineered Deep Blue. If Deep Blue was intelligent, it would do something more important than tie shoes, it would realise the pointlessness of winning at all costs. [deleted quotation] Sounds like hardware. [deleted quotation] No, Kasparov's ego remains. It is his ongoing consciousness of the world. Deep Blue has no ego. But then I am not sure if Larry is a computer. Maybe Larry is Deep Blue. The Turing test is such a problem. Cheers, Chris. Dr Chris Floyd Oral: +61 9 339 8632 Ink: +61 9 385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 11.0022 Deep Blue, human intelligence and AI Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 09:25:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 61 (61) I quote from Larry Taylor's comments: "Particularly significant was Kasparov's whining after his loss, which showed that his ego has been crushed." Let us appreciate the marvelous feat of human engineering and electronic speed that Deep Blue's victory was; but let us acknowledge that if the computer didn't consider it an analogue to war, the engineers certainly did. Interesting that the *computer* isn't crowing (note the loaded word "whining" here) about the "crushing" of cultural constructs like egos; in fact the computer has no "interest" in victory at all. This would seem to imply that inside this scenario (engineers against chess masters) the computer is itself a pawn....Does anyone remember George Steiner's essay about music, chess, and mathematics? Pat Galloway MS Dept of Archives and History From: Patricia Galloway Subject: spamming Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:24:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 62 (62) Sorry to come in late on this, as I was out of town; but in the "internet press" lately we have all been reading huge amounts of hype about "push technology" (which IMHO just looks like cleverly targeted spam) like Pointcast that people will supposedly "want"---surely the reason we all are turning to the Internet is because we are tired of having things pushed into our faces and are enjoying the (very ancient!) challenge of going out and looking for what we want? I thought it was the "pull" model that made the Internet so attractive to people. If we hate the deluge of junk mail pouring through our letter slots and causing our mailboxes to fall off the wall every day, why would marketers think we could be made to want spam? Pat Galloway MS Dept of Archives and History From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: Re: 11.0026 editing for whom/what? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 22:16:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 63 (63) Everything on Hope's wish list here is curently within our technical reach, albeit to greater or lesser extents. But, while the medium will never be as friction-free as we'd like it, the real issue here is not technology -- it's time. It takes time to do the various things Hope describes, and it takes even more time to do them well. Scholars are protective of their time, and with good reason; few of us have the luxury of expending it without adequate institutional support, a euphemism that translates most immediately, it seems to me, into funding for research and rewards when promotion and tenure decisions come around. Electronic editing, and humanities computing more generally, cannot be abstracted from the institutional culture in which the technology is deployed. I don't mean to imply that Hope or anyone here is suggesting otherwise, but, in order to "take advantage of 50 years of computer science" (as Ian Lancashire has it in a separate post) we will need . . . time. --Matt ====================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ The Blake Archive | IATH From: Willard McCarty Subject: computer science Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 14:55:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 64 (64) The question of dialogue between computer science and the humanities is an interesting and challenging one. Recently I attended a meeting in Washington DC organised by NINCH in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) on the relationship between the humanities and computer science. There were very few humanists there, as we usually define the kind, but several computer scientists. I found it curious and encouraging that the CS people were so interested in the question of this relationship. My thought at the time, perhaps too self-flattering, was that they had at last realised how very interesting our material is, and so were seeking out some way to get connected with it.... :-) The two chairs of the meeting, Bill Wulf (Virginia) and Stan Katz (Princeton), certainly represented the view that there has not been much of a dialogue and that one is urgently needed. So the question of why we have not taken advantage of the achievements in computer science, and I would think vice versa, is at least in the U.S. very much on some people's agenda. There are, I suppose, many reasons. It would be good indeed to have some comments on this question from CS people who happen to be here. One reason, I would suppose, is that in general computer scientists are interested in computer science, which seems to have rather different objectives from the applied fields. Like most if not all other disciplines, serving interests outside its own is not high on the list of priorities. So, one tends to hear about things that might be quite useful in the humanities, but these devices, which are constructed for research purposes in CS, seldom are translated into a form that most of us would find accessible. It's easy to understand why: the researchers, having milked them for their own purposes in CS research, are not interested in spending the enormous amount of labour required to put these into a robust form, with a user-friendly interface, for one of the platforms that humanists tend to use. Humanists, on the other side, have too much of their own work to do to have the time for all that is required to get the translation done, providing of course that somehow they can find out about what's happening in CS, penetrate the differences in terminology, etc., so that they can decide whether the translation would be worth the effort. To mount and manage a project for something we need rather badly, e.g. the "son of TACT and daughter of OCP", poses an enormous problem in organisation and resourcing, although I would suppose that from a computer science point of view the problems involved are not anywhere near the cutting edge of research, and so difficult to get exercised about. If we were as well funded as the computational linguists apparently are, then perhaps one of us would be willing to give up his or her entire career to raising funds and administering a centre at which such software could be written. But we aren't. What to do? To open up the dialogue between the humanities and CS, humanities computing would seem to be the right place in general, and perhaps Humanist in particular. I'm sure that a long conversation between the two disciplinary areas would be very welcome. Would someone like to take charge of this and see that it happens? As far as our making it on our own, I can think of two things we might do, one public and communal, the other private. The first would be for us somehow to organise our cottages into an industry that makes good software for humanists. We have lots of little hands, each of which could be making small bits of something large if only they could be coordinated. Humanist could be the place to agitate for the communal effort. The second is simply to go on as we are, doing what we can with what we have. That sounds selfish or blinkered, perhaps, but it isn't all bad. Actually some very fine work can be done with computing mostly in one's own head, with a few easily available pieces of software when these are needed. It may be our fate, as it were -- and I mean here only an historical description of what happens, not a rigid formula for what must happen -- to sit well back from the leading edge of computing as such, on another leading edge, and use what happens to be available, poor as it may seem, old as it may be, to do what we can. I recall once attending a seminar at the Semiotics Institute in Toronto, with many thanks to Professor Paul Bouissac, given by an Indian computer scientist (from Bombay) who got us to design a computing system that could not possibly be built, at least for the next several generations, based on current theories of how children learn. A brilliant seminar that taught me what one does with computing when one does not have the resources of an MIT to tempt one down a different path. We are so easily dazzled by what we perceive science to be, so easily envious. Indeed, reports from the other side can be quite arresting. As I continue to read Carl Djerassi's autobiography, The Pill, Pygymy Chimps, and Degas' Horse -- a fascinating story -- I often am deeply envious of his scholarly/industrial environment, where abundant money can power very fine research, allow for those who are good teachers to teach, attract the best minds around by being able to offer them jobs, all that. Oi. I guess, as a teacher of mine once exhorted me, "do what you can do with all your might"! This is certainly not a call to complacency. I hope we never stop kvetching about the real problems we face. If we did, then Humanist would fall silent! 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: EVELYN EHRLICH Subject: Librarian for Digital Technologies -- NYU Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 12:15:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 65 (65) NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Librarian for Digital Technologies Provides technical development for the library's digital programs, including multimedia image databases, digital collections and finding aids, online exhibits, electronic text applications and web services. Works with library staff to develop and implement programming solutions to support digital projects and web content, including scripts and forms; multimedia applications; authoring tools and document viewing methods. Serves on the reference desk. Keeps current with advances in web technology and digital libraries. Works closely with other librarians working on digital projects. Requires experience with electronic information resources and services, imaging, website management and configuration, networked client/server and web environments, working knowledge of graphics and imaging technologies, digital collections production, HTML, SGML, CGI, PERL, Java and C++ programming; familiarity with Internet architecture and technologies involved in running a website; ability to work with multiple platforms, e.g., PC, Unix, Macintosh. Excellent communication, analytic and problem-solving skills. ALA accredited MLS, master's degree for tenure. Faculty status, attractive benefits package. Minimum: $36,000. To ensure consideration send resume and letter of application, including names, addresses and telephone numbers of 3 references by June 30, 1997 to Mr. Jeffrey Slemmer, Library Personnel Director, NYU Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. PRELIMINARY INTERVIEWS AT ALA Annual conference. NYU encourages applications from women and members of minority groups. From: David Green Subject: CNI's New Executive Director Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 16:09:26 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 66 (66) ****************************************************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 15, 1997 I am delighted to be able to forward this announcement of the appointment of Cliff Lynch as the new executive director of CNI. I am very much looking forward to working closely with him. David Green ------------------------------------------------------ Forwarded from cni-announce CNI APPOINTS CLIFFORD LYNCH AS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CNI announced today that Clifford A. Lynch will become the Coalition's new Executive Director beginning in July 1997. Lynch, who is currently the Director of Library Automation at the University of California Office of the President, succeeds Paul Evan Peters, CNI's founder and Executive Director, who died suddenly in November 1996. "Cliff is uniquely gifted to lead the Coalition," said Duane Webster, Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries. "His intimate and long-standing relationship with CNI provides the background to help us all move the Coalition smoothly into the new environment we face." Robert C. Heterick, Jr., Educom President concurred, "Cliff Lynch is well known to, and much respected by, many members of the Educom community. His scholarly research in the general subject area of networked information is truly remarkable and often quoted." Heterick added, "His leadership of the Melvyl effort at the University of California was groundbreaking for scholars not only at the University of California but all across this nation and the world. I couldn't be more pleased to find that he has accepted our challenge to provide leadership for the very important work of the Coalition for Networked Information." Jane Ryland, CAUSE President, offered similar remarks, "I've had the pleasure of knowing and working with Clifford for years, well before we conceived of the concept of CNI. I'm truly delighted that we'll now have even more of his prodigious talents and energies working to help create a networked information environment for the 21st century." Lynch has been at the University of California since 1979 where he oversees university-wide library automation and internetworking activities. M. Stuart Lynn, Associate Vice President of Information Resources and Communications at the University of California commented regarding the announcement: "Whereas I and his many colleagues and friends at the University are sorry to see him leave after so many years of extraordinary service, we are delighted for him and for CNI as he takes on this new challenge in an important national policy position. UC - as a founding member of CNI - and I personally as a member of the CNI Steering Committee - are pleased that CNI will be moving forward under Cliff's inspirational leadership." Internationally known for his development of Melvyl, an information system which serves all of the campuses of the University of California, Lynch has played a key role in the development of information standards. Especially noteworthy is his work on Z39.50, which addresses the need for interoperability among information retrieval systems. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and currently is a member of NISO's Standards Development Committee, and is also active within the Internet Engineering Task Force. Lynch, who is the immediate past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has received several awards recognizing his contributions, including the American Library Association's LITA/Gaylord award, an ASIS Dissertation Award, and the American Society for Engineering Education's Homer Bernhardt Award. A prolific author, Lynch recently wrote an article that appears in the March 1997 issue of Scientific American. He has been involved in a wide range of national initiatives in areas ranging from preservation of electronic information to research programs for digital libraries. He has also taught at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley for a number of years, and played an active role in the committee that defined the program for the new school. Lynch holds a Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science from Columbia College; a Master of Sciences in Computer Science from the Columbia University School of Engineering; and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Regarding his appointment as CNI's Executive Director, Lynch said "It's a great honor to be able to build on the work that my friend and colleague Paul Peters has done on behalf of our whole community, and to be able to lead CNI into the 21st century. My belief is that CNI is the most important program that we have to chart the course for the development and exploitation of the possibilities of networked information to serve scholarship. As a community, we face enormous but often confusing opportunities that can be addressed only by working together on a national and international basis, and I will work to ensure that CNI continues to be a powerful vehicle for sorting through the confusion, fostering dialog, and engaging the opportunities before us." * * * From: Irish Corpus of Electronic Texts Subject: Irish Electronic Texts on the Internet Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 17:19:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 67 (67) Irish Electronic Texts on the Internet A new Web project called CELT is being launched by University College Cork to make text material of Irish interest widely available in computerised form. The project will cover contemporary and historical topics from many areas, including literature and the other arts. It aims to provide the material to the greatest possible range of readers, researchers, academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public. UCC decided to create the new initiative when the Royal Irish Academy informed them last week that they were pulling out of the earlier joint project, CURIA, because the Academy's funding had been cut off by the major project sponsor for undisclosed reasons. Contact for further information: CELT Project Office: +353 21 902609. The project pages start at http://www.ucc.ie/celt/ The address of the former CURIA project (http://curia.ucc.ie) will remain valid for an interim period to allow users to update their records. Revised and updated texts from this project will be transferred to the CELT address shortly. ///Peter Flynn UCC Computer Centre University College Cork, Ireland From: Charles Ess Subject: Computers and Philosophy Conference Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 07:16:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 68 (68) Computing and Philosophy Conference Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA August 7 - 9th, 1997 The CAP conference, which is co-sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers and the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, has become a central meeting place for all aspects of computing and philosophy. This year's program will consist of a series of invited panel discussions and demonstrations. The presentations will revolve around topics covered by Bynum and Moor's publication of How Computers are Changing Philosophy. The CAP program includes speakers and panels addressing: The APA report on how computers are affecting Philosophical Research, Teaching and Professional Cooperation; utilizing the World Wide Web in Philosophy; Multimedia in teaching and research; Logic Software ; Epistemology and Artifical Intelligence; and Computer Ethics. Information on the conference, including on-line registration can be found on the CAP web-site: http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/CAP/CAPpage.html From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 11.0031 editing, the humanities, and CS Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 19:51:23 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 69 (69) I would like to believe that the reasons behind CS and the humanities not communicating well over the years has many grand and noble reasons but some of it just plain shortsightedness -- largely on the part of the CS folks, I'm afraid. As a humanist turned computer scientist but maintaining a foot in each camp, I think both sides are a bit responsible. We as humanists do not always express our problems in the sort of rational, logical, and formalistic manner that the CS community is used to. But the CS folks often are not looking for problems to solve outside their labs, as well. I am reminded of an amazing comment that I heard from the then President of the Association for Computational Linguists (one would assume an organization that lay somewhere between CS and HC) -- and Nancy Ide was there at the time and can vouch for my memory. While trying to discuss cooperation between ACH and ACL, Nancy and I mentioned that the two fields overlapped considerably. The reply from this (unnamed) ACL official was "What do the humanities have to do with computational linguistics?" I am happy to say that further effort on our part convinced ACL that there was in fact a BIT of overlap, and cooperation between the two organizations improved considerably. Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 512-477-7213 Language Technology, Inc. 512-477-7351 (fax) 2415 Griswold Lane mdharris@acm.org Austin, TX 78703 mdharris@aol.com From: Larry Taylor Subject: Re: 11.0030 Deep Blue, human intelligence, and AI Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 14:10:29 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 70 (70) On Deep Blue, there's been many words, And some of them have been for the birds. I'll agree with this switch: It's not a "who," but a "which;" And it's less, "Frankenstein," and more, "Revenge of the Nerds." LAT From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 11.0036 CS, the humanities and AI Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 17:05:01 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 71 (71) Mary Dee Harris said: [deleted quotation] I'd like to put in a word for what may be an unusual instance of collaboration, but one that needs to be documented in this context. The University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities exists because Bill Wulf and Alan Batson, of UVa's CS department, took an opportunity with IBM and steered it in the direction of humanities computing. This opening, and the continuing support of the Institute at UVa and beyond, has a great deal to do with Alan's practical support (at the time the Institute was set up, Alan was the head of UVa's Academic Computing division, and continues as a faculty member in the Computer Science Department, and an informal advisor to IATH), and with Bill's conviction that the humanities will raise the most interesting CS problems over the next decade or two. Many humanists will not be familiar with Bill's name, so I should add that Mr. Wulf is former Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation, a fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, AT&T Computer Science professor at UVa, and President of the National Academy of Engineering. I guess the lesson would be that meaningful collaboration and cross-disciplinary understanding is possible, but (as with all good things) it depends more on the character and vision of individuals than on institutional structures or formal initiatives. John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: spam wars (fwd) Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 13:33:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 72 (72) Given the recent discussions of spam here, this ought to be of interest. --Matt [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Virtual Museum of Computing Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 08:42:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 73 (73) Humanists will likely enjoy a visit to The Virtual Museum of Computing, which "includes an eclectic collection of World Wide Web (WWW) hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world." URL: <http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/computing.html>. 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: David Green Subject: May issue of D-Lib Magazine Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 09:00:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 74 (74) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 16, 1997 The May issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at <http://www.dlib.org>. In addition to our usual collection of notices and announcements, we are pleased to feature the following stories: CONTENTS The New Zealand Digital Library MELody inDEX Rodger J. McNab, Lloyd A. Smith David Bainbridge and Ian H. Witten University of Waikato Across Languages, Across Cultures: Issues in Multilinguality and Digital Libraries Carol Peters Eugenio Picchi Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Just-in-Time Conversion, Just-in-Case Collections: Effectively Leveraging Rich Document Formats for the WWW John Price-Wilkin Digital Library Production Service University of Michigan Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Assuring Convenient Security and Data Quality Henry M. Gladney J. B. Lotspiech IBM Almaden Research Center Data Modeling for News Clip Archive: A Prototype Solution Robert C. Plotkin Michael S. Schwartz IBM T.J. Watson Research Center D-Lib Magazine is produced by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on behalf of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative. William Y. Arms, Vice President Amy Friedlander, Editor, D-Lib Magazine ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| R.E.B. Arnold, Editorial Assistant Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 20191-5434 The Phone: (703) 620-8990 The Fax: (703) 758-5913 The Net: reba@cnri.reston.va.us The Web: http://www.cnri.reston.va.us The Web: http://www.dlib.org The Web: http://www.handle.net |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| From: David Green Subject: Digitizing Photo Collections WORKSHOP (June 7-9, Rochester, NY) Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 09:00:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 75 (75) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 16, 1997 DIGITIZING PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS WORKSHOP June 7-9, 1997 Rochester, NY A colloquium for the exchange of information among those actively involved in photograph digitizing projects, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities' Division of Preservation and Access and the Image Permanence Institute (IPI), will be held June 7-9, 1997, at IPI, Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology. Participants will discuss such questions as: How will institutions use digital images? What image quality is required? Do we need standards? And, if so, who should define them? The colloquium is part of a two-year NEH-sponsored project to investigate the key technical issues and problems of digital imaging for use in library and archive photographic collections. IPI's project is examining the issue of image quality requirements and their relationship to institutional policies and purposes. Speakers and panelists will include managers of preservation and digitizing projects from libraries and archives, imaging consultants, and representatives of industry. Photohistorians are encouraged to attend, to bring a scholarly perspective to the discussions. Contact: Jane Pestke, Image Permanence Institute Phone: (716) 475-5199. Fax: (716) 475-7230 E-mail: cjppph@rit.edu From: Barry Dank Subject: Call for Papers Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 15:40:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 76 (76) CALL FOR PAPERS The 1998 volume of SEXUALITY & CULTURE: An Interdisciplinary Journal will deal primarily with a central theme: sex work and sex workers. Theoretical and empirical articles dealing with any aspect of prostitution, pornography and other commercialized avenues of sexuality should be submitted to Professor Roberto Refinetti, Managing Editor, SEXUALITY & CULTURE, Department of Psychology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187. Four copies of the ms should be submitted. Deadline for submission is January 12, 1998. Professor Refinetti can also be contacted via e-mail at refine@facstaff.wm.edu For other information pertaining to this issue or the journal, contact Professor Barry M. Dank, Editor-In-Chief, Department of Sociology, California State University, Long Beach, CA 90840 or via e-mail at case@csulb.edu Contributors should check the journal web page for possible changes of address prior to sending manuscripts. Journal web page address is http://www..csulb.edu/asc~/journal.html ________________________________________________________________________ Subscription Information and information on the 1997 issue of the journal follow. SEXUALITY & CULTURE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL VOLUME 1 (1997) THEMATIC ISSUE: SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SEXUAL CONSENT EDITORIALS Sexuality & Culture: An interdisciplinary journal by Barry M. Dank (Department of Sociology, Cal State Long Beach) Sexual harassment, sexual consent, and beyond by Roberto Refinetti (Department of Psychology, College of William & Mary) THEORETICAL ARTICLES Sexual harassment in organizations: A critique of current research and policy by Christine L. Williams (Department of Sociology, University of Texas) "Academia's dirty little secret": Deconstructing the sexual harassment hysteria by Klaus de Albuquerque (Department of Sociology, College of Charleston) Sexual harassment policies as all-purpose tools to settle conflicts by Heinz-Joachim Klatt (Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario) Forbidden love: Student-professor romances by Barry M. Dank (Department of Sociology, Cal State Long Beach), and Joseph S.Fulda ( Philosophy, New York City) On prohibiting relationships between professors and students by Peg Tittle (Department of Philosophy, Nipissing University) EMPIRICAL ARTICLES Gender-specific differences in evolved mating "strategies": The evolutionary basis of sexual conflict by Peggy La Cerra (Psychology, Santa Barbara, California) College students' perceptions of the relationship between sex and drinking by Gwendell W. Gravitt, Jr. and Mary M. Krueger (Health Science Center, Emory University) Sexual harassment on a South African university campus: Reverberations from Apartheid by Gillian Finchilescu (Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town) REVIEW ESSAYS Pornography by any other name by Warren Farrell (Gender Psychology, Encinitas, California) The making of a social problem: Sexual harassment on campus by Daphne Patai (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts) The next wave in rape law reform: Criminalizing bad sex by Wolfgang P. Hirczy de Mino (Department of Political Science, (Oklahoma State University) ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY References examining assaults by women on their spouses/partners by Martin S. Fiebert (Department of Psychology, Cal State Long Beach) BOOK REVIEWS The rules, by E. Fein and S. Schneider, and The power of beauty, by N. Friday by Cathy Young (Cato Institute, Washington, DC) Moral panic: Biopolitics rising, by J. Fekete by Louis Marinoff (Department of Philosophy, City College of New York) Bound and gagged: Pornography and the politics of fantasy in America, by L. Kipnis by Robyn E. Blumner (American Civil Liberties Union of Florida) Intimate terrorism: The crisis of love in an age of disillusionment, by M. V. Miller by Rhoda Estep Macdonald (Department of Sociology, Cal State Stanislaus) Fair new world, by L. Tafler by Joseph S. Fulda (New York City) Copyright (c)1997 by Transaction Publishers. All rights reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sexuality & Culture is published by Transaction Publishers. Publication frequency is one issue per year (Volume 1 in 1997). Issues may be purchased separately or by subscription at $21.95 per issue. Shipping costs are added to orders from outside the United States ($8 surface, $16 air mail). Please send all orders to: Transaction Periodicals Consortium Subscription Department Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Phone: (908) 445-2280 [Anyone who wonders what this has to do with computing hasn't been online for very long.... --WM] From: Jeff Finlay Subject: American Studies Opportunities & News, Week Ending May 18 Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 20:36:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 77 (77) AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS Week Ending May 18, 1997 (657-714) American Studies Opportunities & News is a weekly index produced by the American Studies Crossroads Project (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads) and sponsored by the American Studies Association. The Opportunities list, which generates the index, posts ASA news, calls for papers, conference programs, fellowships, jobs, bibliographical & online resources, book reviews and tables of contents. The Opportunities archive and search engine is on the web at http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html To submit a posting, or to subscribe to the index, contact the Crossroads Administrator The following items appeared on American Studies Opportunities & News from May 11-18, 1997. To order any one of them, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES followed by the item number to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (example: to get the first posting listed below, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 657 to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM; for the first and second posting, your message will be GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 657 682). Jobs ==== 657 Am History/Humanities, Franklin Pierce College (non-tenure) 682 Am Litt, Northwestern State U, Louisiana (tenure, due 5/30) 661 Am Studies/Litt, U. Washington-Bothell (non-tenure, due 5/28) 684 Women's Studies/Am Politics, Columbia U (tenure, due 5/31) 685 Women's Studies, Columbia University (tenure, due 5/31) Fellowships & Prizes ==================== 714 Fulbright Senior Scholars Program (due Aug 1) 700 Internships in Chicago-Area Community-Based Orgs 681 Irvine Visiting Fellows Program, Pepperdine University 706 Postdoc, Comparative Studies of Millennialism, Yale U 711 Postdoc, Japan-related Research, SSRC (due Dec 15) 663 Postdoc, Killam Fellowships, Dalhousie U, Canada (due Oct 15) Calls for Contributions to Journals/Books ========================================= 687 Essays in Living Differently Gendered (anthology) 703 History News Service (historically informed journalism) 659 National Minority Career Journal Calls for Papers for Conferences ================================ 708 19th Century Body, C19 Studies Assoc, Huntsville AL, Apr 98 668 Cultural Studies Assoc of Australia, Melbourne, Dec 97 680 Documenting the Midwest, St Louis, Oct 97 686 Mexico-US Border Region Historiography, Tijuana, Nov 97 694 Toxic Towers -- Women in Academe, Akron OH, Aug 97 664 Women in Higher Education, San Francisco, Jan 98 688 Women's Voices in Policy & Politics, Kentucky, Mar 98 Calls for Conference Panels =========================== 690 Gender in 1950s, Pacific Coast AHA, San Diego, Aug 98 666 Gossip in Academic Life, SCMLA, New Orleans, Nov 97 712 Work in Lives of Academic Women with Children, Conf in Aug 97 Programs for Forthcoming Conferences (listed chronologically) ============================================================= 709 America in Depression & War 1929-1945, Netherlands, Jun 25-27 702 American Library Assoc Preconferences, San Francisco, Jun 27 669 PCA/ACA National & Regional Meetings -- Schedule Events, Institutes, Seminars & Special Notices ============================================== 693 Book Arts Members Exhibition, San Francisco, through Jun 28 665 Futures of American Studies Conf, Dartmouth NH, Aug 10-17 710 Japanese Americans in Baseball Exhibit, California, to Aug 8 692 Mexhostel Mexican Cultural Tourism Program, Oct 97-Apr 98 Bibliographical & Online Resources ================================== 683 African-American Contributions to Mainstream Art (website) 660 Economists & Regulation in Gilded Age/Progressive Era (essay) 672 Electrical History Review Online Journal 689 French Association for American Studies Database (website) 667 New List, Literata, for discussion of British/Am Litt 696 New List, PGPC, Australian Discission of Postcolonialism 699 Okinawa, The American Years, 1945-1972 (website) 679 Online Bibliography of Women's History in Journals (website) 695 Charles Colson Papers, at Billy Graham Center (archive) 713 Photography Resource & Photography Listservs on Web 678 Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (online org) 691 Webpage for Minerva Center (study of women & war) 670 Website of Archival Management & Historical Editing 671 Website of Rare Books & Special Collections, Tarlton Law 705 Website on Teaching Anthropology in Second-Level Education Book Reviews (abbreviated/by subtitle for clarification purposes) ================================================================= 674 Carlos Fuentes, A New Time for Mexico (Lucy H-LATAM) 704 Eicher, The Civil War in Books (Parrish H-CIVWAR) 698 Jeffries, World War II Home Front in America (Reagan) 675 Kammen, Gilbert Seldes & US Cultural Criticism (Berkeley) 658 Marvel, The Sailor's Civil War (Schneller H-CIVWAR) 707 McGreevy, Catholic Encounter with Race in Am Cities (Pacyga) 697 Mulholland, Pennsylvania Volunteers in Civil War (Sanders) 701 Ogle, American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890 (Elkind H-URBAN) 662 Winship, Puritan Providentialism (Errington OIEAHCNET) Tables of Contents ================== 677 Ayaangwaamizin, Journal of Indigenous Philosophy (Spring 97) 676 Role of Critic in Postcolonial Studies, Acolit (Spring 96) 673 Workers in Racially Stratified Societies, ILWCH (Spring 97) From: Mark Olsen Subject: Dictionnaire de L'Academie francaise, 5th Edition, 1798 Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 13:36:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 78 (78) Dictionnaire de l'Académie, 5th Edition, 1798 (Year VII). As part of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française Database Project (<http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/academie/>) directed by R. Wooldridge and I. Leroy-Turcan, Professor Douglas Kibbee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago, are collaborating to perform data capture, required editing, and development of a search engine for the 5th Edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, published in 1798 (Year VII). We are pleased to announce an ALPHA release of this resource, accessible to all users at: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/academie/ This is a preliminary release, using a very simple headword search engine, so we are expecting some problems. We are developing a more sophisticated search scheme for this, and other documents, such as our Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert. Please feel free to examine this resource and let me know about bugs, typos, mis-identified structures, and anything else that seems to be a problem. Data entry of the first edition of the Dictionnaire (1695) is underway and should be completed in a month or so. Work on other editions, including the edition of 1765, is under way or being planned. Thus, your comments, complaints, and suggestions are quite important, since we can alter our proceedures and systems as we get this project underway. Thanks in advance!! Mark Mark Olsen Assistant Director ARTFL Project University of Chicago (773) 702-8687 WWW: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. --- Samuel Johnson From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 11.0039 CS and the humanities Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 19:41:35 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 79 (79) John Unsworth writes: [deleted quotation] Yes, John is right that there are exceptions (thank goodness) to my complaint! And Bill Wulf is an exceptional person in many ways including having the foresight to assist in building such a strong program as UVA's. And there is also a new generation of humanists and computer scientists so we should hope for the best in the future. Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 512-477-7213 Language Technology, Inc. 512-477-7351 (fax) 2415 Griswold Lane mdharris@acm.org Austin, TX 78703 mdharris@aol.com From: "Robert S. Tannenbaum" Subject: Re: 11.0036 CS, the humanities and AI Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 10:50:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 80 (80) [deleted quotation] Mary Dee's note brought to mind a recent provocative article (Peter Wegner. "Why Interaction is More Powerful than Algorithms." Communications of the ACM. 40(5), May, 1997, pp. 80-91), which I just read. An interesting redefinition of computer science, which could be of considerable importance to humanities computing, may be forming around the concept of interactions, as opposed to algorithms. Wegner asserts that "interaction is a more powerful paradigm than rule-based algorithms for computer problem-solving, overturning the prevailing view that all computing is expressible as algorithms." He explains that much of modern computing cannot be modeled in terms of a Turing machine, that is, a prespecified set of instructions that will eventually come to a halt when completed. Rather, interactive systems are dependent upon their history (the sequence of interactions) and they can "learn" and adapt over time based upon their "experience." Humanists have know this for several decades, but have been constrained by the prevailing computer science paradigms. 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: Steve McCarty Subject: Ideological Spamming vs. Academia in Cyberspace Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 15:17:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 81 (81) Greetings again from Japan. In the brief time that my college has been online I've learned what a great need there is for reliable knowledge about East Asia in particular, as well as for East-West mutual exchange of knowledge though academic listservers. And yet I have also seen both rightists and leftists in institutions of higher education destroy unmoderated discussion lists with their ideological spamming. In both cases they also harrassed minorities as well as intellectual leaders of the lists, while sending sexually harrassing personal messages to female list members. Others have avoided ostracism by embedding their biases in frequent populist posts, advertising their extremism subliminally in small doses. They all subordinate tried-and-true academic standards and ethics to ideology, which may represent a more direct assault on Academia than commercially motivated spam. On 18 May 1997 Matt Kirschenbaum forwarded "spam wars," replete with bellicose cyberspace versions of terrorism, bombs, hijacking, extortion and other threats of harm, plus the informant victim's offer of a reward and determination to have the spammer punished. An unmoderated discussion list that I founded in the wake of the Knowledge and Discourse Conference at the University of Hong Kong was hijacked by a cyber-terrorist after I reported on the reaction of the Japanese vernacular media to the release of the real-life hostages in Peru. "Che lives" slogans combined with attacks on multiculturalism, many cross-posts from other lists plus hate mail to individuals with different views, in effect murdered off the fifty hostages who unsubscribed. A minority woman at Harvard Divinity School objected to the obscenities, while Peruvian and Brazilian women blasted the spammer's cowardly tactics. I forwarded some of it to the public university from which the spam originated, but though the spammer was harassing the school administration along with many academic lists, its policy was that First Amendment rights allow anything to be posted to open lists. But this list had members from about 30 countries including China and Singapore where receivers of obscene mail could be subject to arrest. The fine print on university diplomas also speaks not only of entitlements but also of obligations. Academia is being reconstituted in cyberspace, and it is not humanistic to surrender unmoderated lists to the 'spammability' of the medium. For academic lists to be forced to be closed and moderated to avoid destruction suggests a sort of "Waterworld" society. Moderated lists have a bulwark not enjoyed by open lists, but there is no common ground--such as a consensus as to what constitutes a general liberal arts education--on which to grow anything in this floating world. Academia ought to be like a network of beacons among the worldwide community of scholars. But if those beacons shine only on the interior of walls behind double-locked doors of paid admissions and bouncer software, with knowledge hoarded along with wealth by the privileged, then Academia is locked in its Ivory Tower without a mission in society. This is a plea to computing humanists who may be able to approach this issue from both sides, by narrowing the spammability of cyberspace while widening its educational role. Best regards, Steve McCarty steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/pub/apexj/mccarty.html http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: info spamming Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 21:55:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 82 (82) This may be to put an incautious foot on the slippery slope of metaphor, but I also have a form of spamming that has annoyed me more than a little. I call this "info-spamming". For the editor of a discussion group such as this one, info-spamming consists of VERY long announcements for conferences, usually in areas only tangentially related to the interests of the group, that are obviously sent everywhere the organiser can think of, especially (I guess, uncharitably) to those groups that said organiser does not have to suffer from the consequences of. Not atypically these announcements describe everything from the keynote speaker to the T-shirts and parking facilities, ignoring the fact that all such information can be kept on a Web page. What's worse, they're usually in exotic locations I'd love to go to but cannot afford. Where these people get the funding is more than I can fathom. My response? Delete those that seem furthest from our ken, publish the few that I think might be of some interest. I am reminded of the many crises of volume that occurred in the early days of Humanist and how often I puzzled over what exactly people were objecting to. An interesting question, actually, if you think about it. What do we mean when we say "too much!" The digesting practice I began then, which persists to this day, remains the best response I know of, other than pulling the plug. Yours, 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: csmr98@aguirre.ing.UNIFI.IT Subject: CFPs: 2nd Euromicro Work.Conf. on Soft.Maint. & Reeng., Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 13:36:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 83 (83) Florence Call for Papers --------------- 2nd EUROMICRO WORKING CONFERENCE on SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND REENGINEERING Florence, Italy -- March 9-11, 1998 The purpose of the working conference is to promote discussion and interaction about a series of topics which are yet underrepresented. We are particularly interested in exchanging concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other results which could contribute to the academic arena and also benefit business and industrial community. Researcher, practitioners, technology transition experts, project managers, developers and users of tools, are all welcome. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: Maintenance and Reengineering Tools (CARE-Tools), Reverse Engineering Tools, Support of Reengineering Tasks by CASE-Tools, Software Reusability, Tele-Maintenance (Concepts, Experiences, Use of New Technologies), Maintainability of Programming Languages (e.g., OOPLs), Models and Methods for Error Prediction, Measurement of Software Quality, Maintenance Metrics, Formal Methods, Maintenance and Reengineering of KBS, Reengineering and Reverse Engineering Concepts, Experiences from Redesign and Reengineering Projects, Millennium Problem (Year 2000), Euro Problem, Organizational Framework and Models for "RE"-Projects, Software Evolution, Migration and Maintenance Strategies, Design for Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Personnel Aspects of Maintenance (Motivation, Team building), Third Party Maintenance, Empirical Results about the Maintenance Situation in Businesses, Version and Configuration Management, Legal Aspects and Jurisdiction, Organization and Management of Large Maintenance Projects, Software Offloading, Related Areas such as Software Documentation. Program Committee: V.S. Alagar, USA; A. Ambriola, I; G. Bakker, NL; K. Bennett, UK; A. Bertolino, I; F. Brito e Abreu, P; G. Bucci, I; M. Campanai, I; A. Cimitile, I; I. Classen, D; L. da F. Costa, BR; J.A. de La Puente, S; A. Fantechi, I; J.-L. Hainaut, B; J. Harauz, CA; B. Henderson-Sellers, AU; M. Hinchey, USA; F. Lehner, D; E.-A. Karlsson, S; T.M. Khoshgoftaar, USA; P. Laplante, USA; S. Liu, J; M. Loewe, D; M. Marchesi, I; T.J. Marlowe, USA; E. Miller, USA; J.-M. Morel, F; D. Natale, I; P. Nesi, I; S. Nocentini, I; M. Pezze`, I; P.T. Poon, USA; L. Richter, CH; D. Rombach, D; G. Sechi, I; J. Sommerville, UK; A. Stoyen, USA; J. Taramaa, SF; H. Toetenel, NL; G. Tsai, USA; Y. Yamaguchi, J; SUBMISSIONS: There are two types of papers: full length papers (not exceeding 4000 words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract) and short papers (not exceeding 2000 words in length and including a 75-100 word abstract). Authors are strongly encouraged to send a PostScript version of their paper by anonymous ftp to ftp.dsi.unifi.it and put this file into the directory pub/CSMR98/incoming (in order to avoid overwritings, the PostScript file should be named:.ps). In addition, they should send by e-mail to CSMR98@ozon180.ing.unifi.it the title of the paper, full names, affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses of all authors, fax and telephone numbers. Alternatively, the paper can be sent by postal mail. In that case, five copies of all the above items should be sent to a program chairman. Proceeding will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Full papers exceeding 8 pages (short papers 4 pages) will be charged for pages in excess.For more information please contact the organization at the addresses: csmr98@ozon180.ing.unifi.it http://www.isst.fhg.de/csmr http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/csmr98.html The DEADLINE for submissions is Sept. 15, 1997. Authors will be notified of acceptance by Nov.25, 1997. The camera ready version of the paper will be required by Dec. 25, 1997. The following signed information should be included in the submission: All necessary clearances have been obtained for the publication of this paper. If accepted, the author(s) prepare the camera-ready manuscript in time for inclusion in the proceedings, and will personally present the paper at the working conference. SPECIAL SESSIONS: Sessions of special interest proposed by delegates will be welcome. Please send suggestions to a program chairman before the closing date of submissions. Program Chair: Paolo Nesi Dip. Sistemi e Informatica, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze Via S. Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy Tel: +39-55-4796523 Fax: +39-55-4796363 email: nesi@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it csmr98@ozon180.ing.unifi.it Program co-Chair: Franz Lehner Institute for Business Informatics, University of Regensburg Universitatsstr, 31, D-93040 REGENSBURG, Germany Tel.: +49-941-943-2734 Fax: +49-941-943-4986 email:Franz.Lehner@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de Organizing Chair: Alessandro Fantechi Dip. di Sistemi e Informatica, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze Via S. Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy Tel: +39-55-4796265 Fax: +39-55-4796363 email: fantechi@dsi.dsi.unifi.it Local Chair: Maurizio Campanai CESVIT (High-Tech Agency), Fortezza da Basso Viale F. Strozzi 1, 50129 Firenze, Italy Tel: +39-55-4619154 Fax: +39-55-485345 email: campanai@cesvit.it General information The conference will take place at Palazzo degli Affari, in the center of Florence. Enquiries about the working conference arrangements should be directed to the organizing chairman or to the local chairman. Preregistration is suggested for the authors. From: Special Issues Project Subject: first call for papers Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 21:11:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 84 (84) CALL FOR PAPERS: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Computer-mediated communication (CMC) networks, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, offer tantalizing possibilities of global communications. If such communications facilitate dialogues which both cross and preserve irreducible cultural and political boundaries, they may contribute immeasurably to greater global understanding and democratization. But diverse cultural attitudes towards technology and communication also issue in culturally distinctive ways of implementing and using CMC technologies. Some of these culturally-grounded differences in implementation and use frustrate, rather than facilitate, hopes for greater global communication. Our thematic question: how do diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of CMC technologies? We seek to respond to this question by bringing together, in a special issue and international conference, papers which articulate the connections between specific cultural values and present and/or possible future communicative practices involving CMC technologies. We seek articles which, taken together, will help readers, researchers, and practitioners of "electronic democracy" better understand the role of diverse cultural attitudes as hindering and/or furthering the implementation of global computer communications systems such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers. The special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue electronique de Communication (EJCReC) will appear in the third quarter of 1998. For additional information on this project, visit our Web sites: <http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/index.html> <http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac/index.html> Submissions to the special issue with an abstract, are due to the guest editor, Dr. Charles Ess, by November 1, 1997. For more information, please contact Dr Charles Ess, . Submissions to the conference are due to the co-chair, Fay Sudweeks, by 1 November 1997. For more information, please contact Fay Sudweeks, . From: "J. Trant" Subject: ICHIM 97: PRELIMINARY PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:07:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 85 (85) Archives & Museum Informatics, Europe presents ICHIM 97 in partnership with le Mus=E9e du Louvre The Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums will be held 1-5 September 1997 at Le Musee du Louvre, Paris, France. Two days of pre-conference workshops and events are followed by three days of presentations by over 60 experts from around the world. Theme days feature Multimedia Publications, Geographic Information and the World Wide Web. Three days of rotating exhibits include dozens of demonstrations by developers of museum projects and commercial firms active in museum computing and cultural publication. Numerous opportunities will be provided for social interaction. The Preliminary Program and Registration details for ICHIM 97 are available at: www.archimuse.com/ichim97 See you there! -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museums Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232-1455 fax + 1-412-683-7366 From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" Subject: CFR: Computing Workshop, Glasgow, UK. Sept '97. Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 17:57:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 86 (86) WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute Department of Statistics =20 University of Glasgow, UK 11, 12 September 1997 Announcement and Call for Registration In recent years techniques from disciplines such as computer science, articficial intelligence and statistics have found their way into the pages of journals such as the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Literary and Linguistic Computing and Computers and the Humanities. While this influx may bring more advanced methods of analysis to the fields of quantitative linguistics, stylometry and stylistics, the demands upon researchers to understand and use these new techniques are great. Familiarity with the appropriate software and the ear of a sympathetic expert are pre-requisites without which the technique may seem out of reach to the average researcher. The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute and the Department of Statistics of the University of Glasgow are hence supporting this practical workshop in Computationally-Intensive Methods in Quantitative Linguistics. The workshop is designed to introduce the participants to four such techniques in a practical environment. Each half-day session will be divided into an introductory session in a lecture theatre and a longer period spent working with software and practical examples. All of the speakers have published papers using the analyses they will present and their aim in this workshop is to enable the participants to return to their home institutions able to carry out these techniques in the course of their own research. The sessions and speakers are as follows: Deconstructing texts with electronic dice: Monte Carlo methods in lexical statistics. Harald Baayen; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Fitting probability distributions to linguistic data. Deductive and explorative methods in synergetic linguistics. Reinhard Koehler; University of Trier, Germany. Evolutionary Computing and Text Categorization. Richard Forsyth; University of the West of England, Bristol,=20 United Kingdom. Neural Nets, Principal Component Analysis, Marlowe and Shakespeare. Thomas Merriam; United Kingdom. The workshop will be held in the Boyd Orr Building of the University of Glasgow, commencing on Wednesday 10 September with a reception in the Hunterian Art Gallery. The four workshop sessions will take place on Thursday 11 September and Friday 12 September. There will also be a half day to Loch Lomond and the Glen Goyne whisky distillery on the morning of Saturday 13 September. Accommodation has been arranged in university accommodation with some en suite facilities. Tea and coffee, lunches and evening meals on 11 and 12 September are included in the registration fee. The registration fee is GBP150.00 and GBP100.00 for students. For more information about the workshop and to register, please consult the web site at http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql, or send email to the conference organisers at cimql@stats.gla.ac.uk. From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy Subject: Computers and Text, a practical course Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 21:10:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 87 (87) Dear Colleague, Over the past few years, many colleagues have commented that they would like to use computational techniques in their own research and teaching, or would like to encourage their students to do so, but that they lack some of the basic knowledge and skills. This is true for colleagues in various fields of study, such as language, literature, culture, and history. In order to assist such colleagues, a group of us are arranging `Computers and Text', a practical course in using computers for language analysis, which will take place in Debrecen, Hungary from 4th-10th September 1997. We hope that the Course will enable colleagues to get a better idea of the benefits that computer-based methods can offer them in their work and study. Although the focus of this course will be on the English language, most of the principles and techniques involved are broadly applicable to other languages, for many of which corpora and computer tools already exist or are currently being developed. We will certainly be willing to advise and assist people working on other languages. As we are a self-funding course, we would appreciate anything you can do to publicize this event. Please copy this email to your colleagues and relevant departments in your institution, or to any newsletters, bulletins, or journals you contribute to or subscribe to. Or print out the email and pin it up on your noticeboards. Thanks in advance for your support. Best wishes. =20 Ramesh Krishnamurthy, COBUILD, University of Birmingham. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS AND TEXT: 4th-10th September 1997, DEBRECEN, HUNGARY. A PRACTICAL COURSE IN USING COMPUTERS FOR LANGUAGE ANALYSIS. Associated with the ESSE/4 Conference, organized by the European Society for the Study of English. (For further information about the ESSE/4 Conference, visit the home page of ESSE: http://www.unil.ch/angl/docs/esse). This is the second course of this type to be held in Debrecen (the first was in 1995). The planned course components include hands-on classes in the computer room as well as the sessions listed below. Further sessions may be added. A. BELA HOLLOSY (LAJOS KOSSUTH UNIVERSITY, DEBRECEN):=20 1. Available corpora and tools, corpus creation, lexical analysis, tokenization 2. String handling, text retrieval (collocations, etc), and basic programming 3. Working with Concordancers 4. Lexicographic model building B. RAMESH KRISHNAMURTHY (COBUILD, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM): 1. History of corpora, and corpus design considerations 2. Lexis as a linguistic level: paradigms and syntagms 3. The relationship between Corpora and Dictionaries 4. Usage prototypes: collocation and syntactic patterns C. PATRICK HANKS (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS): 1. `Enthusiasm' and `Condescension' - contrasting Historical (17-18th Century) and Modern corpora 2. The Individual in Time and Space - how everyday words such as `over' and `above' are used 3. Extremes of exploitation - `Finnegan's Wake' and the OED 4. Cognitive prototypes - what Speakers do and what Hearers believe REGISTRATION: Fill in the pre-registration form electronically at http://www.flc.klte.hu/Course if you can. Otherwise, fill in the Registration form at the end of this announcement, and post it to the Course Organizer. Applications must be received by 30th June 1997, otherwise late registration fees will apply. Once your Registration form has been received, a booking confirmation will be issued to you within 5 working days by e-mail, or 21 working days by post, if you have not given us an e-mail address. 6 Extra Practical Classes are available, at a fee of UK Pounds 50, or US $ 80, per person. If you wish to join these classes, please fill in the relevant section on the Registration form below. TIMETABLE: As the Course timetable depends partly on the ESSE/4 Conference timetable, details will be issued after the Conference timetable is published.=20 IMPORTANT: If you are taking part in any of the ESSE/4 Conference events, please tell us which events in the relevant section of the Registration form below, and we will try to organize the Course program to avoid clashes with your ESSE/4 commitments. COURSE ORGANIZER: Ferenc Rovny, CLTDC, Foreign Language Centre, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - 4010, P.O. Box 41= =2E Email: rovnyf@tigris.klte.hu =09=09 Website: http://www.flc.klte.hu/Course DEBRECEN INFORMATION: for travel, accommodation, food, etc, see: a) pp 79-80 of the European English Messenger, Volume V/2, Autumn 1996 b) the ESSE homepage: http://www.unil.ch/angl/docs/esse --------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM ----------------- 1. YES, I want to take part in the `Computers and Text' Course described above from 4th-10th September 1997, in Debrecen, Hungary. REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 260, UK pounds 160 (before 30th June 1997) LATE REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 325, UK pounds 200 (after 30th June 1997) 2. I understand that it is a pre-condition to register with the ESSE/4 Conference as well. =20 (Fill in BLOCK LETTERS, please, and send to the COURSE ORGANIZER: Ferenc Rovny, CLTDC, Foreign Language Centre, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - 4010, P.O. Box 41.) Title (Prof/Dr/Mrs/Mr/Miss/Ms): Position/Institution: Surname: First name: =20 Address: Country: =20 Zip code: E-mail: Telephone: Fax: EXTRA PRACTICAL CLASSES: (Delete 1. or 2. as appropriate) 1. YES, I wish to join the 6 extra practical classes at an additional fee = of UK Pounds 50 or US $ 80. 2. NO, I do not wish to join the 6 extra practical classes. ESSE/4 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION: I will be taking part in the following lecture(s), seminar(s) and roundtable(s): From: David Green Subject: Roundtable PRESS RELEASE Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 21:08:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 88 (88) WASHINGTON, DC Spring 1997 COMPUTING AND THE HUMANITIES: PROMISE AND PROSPECTS A National Arts and Humanities Computing Roundtable A national effort to foster programmatic interaction between the humanities and the computer science communities could significantly enrich both disciplines. This was the unanimous sentiment of a recent roundtable involving a diverse group of researchers and executives from the arts, humanities and computing and communications communities on March 28, 1997, held at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C. This lively brainstorming meeting was hosted by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council and convened by an extraordinary collaboration of the Board with the Coalition for Networked Information, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, and the Two Ravens Institute. Unequivocally, participants urged further and wider multi-disciplinary discussions as a prelude to possible practical action. The Computing and the Humanities roundtable confirmed the organizers' expectations that further progress requires mutual focus on several key issues: DIGITIZING CULTURAL WORKS Understanding the intrinsic qualities of arts and humanities material to enable appropriate conversion to electronic media; the development of a critical mass of electronic works; and the encouragement of the generation of new material that may only be possible via electronic media; INTEROPERABILITY Developing cross-disciplinary and cross-media interoperability of systems and formats to enable researchers and the general public to search, find, and appraise a wide selection of humanities material in disparate physical locations, and to do so easily and creatively; PRESERVATION & ACCESS Facilitating the preservation of and access to relevant information resources over time and across a range of systems and media; PLANNING Planning for the new capabilities and new organization of resources that newer technology will continue to make possible; INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES Understanding the need for institutional support for the deployment and maintenance of technical infrastructure, including networks, libraries of electronic material, and computer-based tools for working with humanities materials, as well as the nurturing of relevant human infrastructure, such as the support for cross-disciplinary collaboration; and COLLABORATION Identifying mutually satisfying mechanisms enabling humanists to work more effectively with industry and academic technologists to generate software and systems of value to humanists that also challenge computer scientists. A summary report on the Roundtable proceedings will be published in the fall of 1997 by the National Research Council. The report will also be distributed by the American Council of Learned Societies as an ACLS occasional paper. AGENDA AND DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZERS AVAILABLE AT <http://www-ninch.cni.org/projects/C&H/roundtable.html> =============================================================== 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 ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== From: Gloria McMillan Subject: Paper on TEi-SGML _Dracula_ (need comments)...) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 18:28:11 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 89 (89) [deleted quotation] *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* gmcmillan@east.pima.edu http://pimacc.pima.edu/~gmcmillan/index.html VIRTUAL CLASSROOM: Diversity University MOO TELNET>128.18.101.106 8888 login as: co guest Type: @go #2673 *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* From: Willard McCarty Subject: pre-conference virtual paper Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 07:55:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 90 (90) Continuing to experiment with our common medium, I have put online my paper for the upcoming ACH/ALLC conference, "Theft of fire: meaning in the markup of names". This paper is meant to accompany the online tutorial for my research project, "Ovid in the metatext: an exercise in close reading through tags". This paper is my attempt, however feeble or strong you may judge, to come to terms with the implications of markup for literary critical research as a whole and Ovidian studies in particular. Much of it necessarily has to introduce the project itself, and being designed for presentation within a narrow slot of time it is quite cursory. Nevertheless, I would appreciate all comments on the form as well as content. See, and I hope enjoy, at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/Onomasticon/theft/> (Europe) <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~mccarty/Onomasticon/theft/> (the Americas & beyond) One of my objectives is to stir up debate on how its sort of thing might be done most effectively. I realise that it is, as it stands, very fiddly, requiring too many mouse-clicks and, alas, demanding a browser on the relatively high end of things. But the paper and tutorial demand nothing more than frames and a little Java script running on freely available, cross-platformed software -- nothing at all proprietary, nothing that anyone likely to be interested has not already downloaded. So, please, treat it as a prototype -- both form and content! 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: Greg Lessard Subject: Last reminder: ACH-ALLC97 - Humanities Computing Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:03:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 91 (91) ***Please distribute widely*** ***LAST REMINDER*** ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC'97 June 3-7, 1997 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97 Registration form available on the web page or by email to: achallc97-admin@qucis.queensu.ca ---> Check out the PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS on the web page <--- PAPERS AND SESSIONS (sorted by name of first author or session organizer) Melina Alexa, Lothar Rostek, Pattern concordances - TATOE calls XGrammar Jean Anderson, New developments from STELLA: Software for Teaching English Andrea Austin, David Halsted, Perry Willett, Labour Issues in Humanities Computing. (Session) Johanne Bénard, Cocteau multimédia Nancy Belmore, Sabine Bergler, The International Corpus of English (ICE)-Canada David J. Birnbaum, In Defense of Invalid SGML Florence Bruneseaux, Laurent Romary, Codage des références et coréférences dans les dialogues homme-machine Nicoletta Calzolari, Antonio Zampolli, Ulrich Heid, Towards standards for lexicons and the linguistic annotation of texts. (Session) David R. Chesnutt, The Model Editions Partnership--Towards a National Database Sung-Kwon Choi, Tae-Wan Kim, Soo-Hyun Lee, Dong-In Park, Korean Analysis and Transfer in Unification-based Multilingual Machine Translation System Lise Desmarais, Mee-Lian Chung, Lise Duquette, Delphine Renié, Michel Laurier, L'évaluation des apprentissages et des interactions dans un environnement multimédia en L2. (Session) Merlin Donald, Symbolic Technologies: Challenges and Dangers for the Humanities. (Keynote address) Arienne M. Dwyer, Hand-to-Hand Wrestling with Small Linguistic Corpora Michal Ephratt, Authorship attribution - the case of lexical innovations Tomaz Erjavec, Nancy Ide, Dan Tufis, Encoding and Parallel alignment of linguistic corpora in six Central and Eastern European Languages Robert Fischer, Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Multimedia Authoring for Foreign Language Faculty: The Libra Authoring System Julia Flanders, John Lavagnino, Carol Barash, The Epistemology of the Electronic Edition. (Session) Julia Flanders, Sydney Bauman, Mavis Cournane, Willard McCarty, Aara Suksi, Applying the TEI: Problems in the classification of proper nouns. (Session) Richard S. Forsyth, Short substrings as document discriminators Richard S. Forsyth, Towards a text benchmark suite Paul A. Fortier, Luc Fortier, Semantic Fields and Polysemy: A Correspondence Analysis Approach Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Tracing the net of intra- and intertextual references within the scenic play "Simson faellt durch die Jahrtausende" by Nelly Sachs Penelope J. Gurney, Lyman W. Gurney, Multi-authorship of the Scriptores Historiae Augustae: Analysis of Vocabulary Richness from a Disambiguated Text Hans van Halteren, The Feasibility of Incremental Linguistic Annotation Shoichiro Hara, Hisashi Yasunaga, A Digital Library System for Japanese Classical Literature Susan Hockey, Terry Butler, Patricia Clements, Susan Brown, Sue Fisher, Orlando Project: Humanities Computing in Conversation with Literary History. (Session) Roz Horton, Richard Giordano, A Virtual Barbeque: A Corpus Linguistics Approach to Studying an Emergent Community Tatjana Janicijevic, Derek Walker, NeoloSearch: Automatic detection of neologisms in French Internet documents Hanmin Jung, Sanghwa Yuh, Taewan Kim, Dong-In Park, Compound Unit Recognition for Efficient English-Korean Translation Dorothy Kenny, Creatures of Habit? What collocation can tell us about translation Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Ed Fox, Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities Ian Lancashire, Christopher Douglas, Dennis G. Jerz, Adapting Web Electronic Libraries to English Studies Greg Lessard, Michael Levison, Clothing Meaning in Syntax: Aspect and Applications of Multilingual Generation Michael Levison, Greg Lessard, Towards a Paperless Conference. (Introduction to the Conference Abstracts) Willard McCarty, Lou Burnard, Marilyn Deegan, Jean Anderson, Harold Short, Root, trunk, and branch: institutional and infrastructural models for humanities computing in the U.K. (Session) Tony McNeill, Charlie Mansfield, The Design & Authoring of Internet-based Study Materials Ingrid Meyer, Douglas Skuce, Judy Kavanagh, Laura Davidson, Integrating Linguistic and Conceptual Analysis in a WWW-Based Tool for Terminography Inge de Mönnink, Combining corpus and experimental data: methodological considerations Elli Mylonas, Todd Hettenbach, The ACH/ALLC Abstract Review Database Nelleke Oostdijk, Tailoring a formal grammar for efficiency without compromising its linguistic motivation Espen S. Ore, Claus Huitfeldt, Øystein Reigem, Franz Hespe, Wittgenstein's Nachlass - Bergen Electronic Edition (WN-BEE) Rochdi Oueslati, A corpora-based environment for linguistic knowledge Pierre du Prey, Blair Martin, Daniel Greenstein, Writing, Publishing and Preserving Electronic Documents related to the Visual Arts. (Session) Hong Liang Qiao, A Corpus-Oriented Parser Geoffrey M. Rockwell, Joanna Johnson, Rocco Piro, MILE: A Markup Language for Interactive Drill Courseware Thomas Rommel, A reliable narrator? Adam Smith may say so Lothar Rostek, Marking up in TATOE and exporting to SGML - Rule development for identifying NITF categories. Joseph Rudman, David I Holmes, Fiona J. Tweedie, R. Harald Baayen, The State of Authorship Attribution Studies. (Session) Carolyn P. Schriber, The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies David Seaman, The Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction (1775-1850) Gary F. Simons, Mapping from objects to markup: a springboard for multiple-strategy electronic publishing Stéfan Sinclair, L'HyperPo: Exploration des structures lexicales à l'aide des formes hypertextuelles C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Tim Bray, Extensible Markup Language (XML) Ronald Tetreault, Electrifying Wordsworth--A Progress Report Ismail Timimi, Analyse du discours assistée par ordinateur - Version 3AD95 Frank Tompa, Capitalizing on Text Structures. (Keynote address) Jonathan J Webster, Martin S.P. Chiu, Developing a web-based dictionary database Merna Wells, Welcome to the Carnival: A Play of Electronic Discourse Eve Wilson, Peter D. Shepton, SGML as a vehicle for porting hypertext applications between systems William Winder, Michel Lenoble, Ray Siemens, Theories of Meaning and the Electronic Text. (Session) Robert E. Wright, Willard McCarty, Susan Saltrick, Institutional Support in the Advancement of Technology in the Humanities: Roles, Models, and Collaboration. (Session) Ronald W. Zweig, Digitizing Historical Newspapers: New Approaches to a Complex Problem From: Khalid Choukri Subject: ELRA New Language Resources Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:28:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 92 (92) [ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION (ELRA) *** NEW CATALOGUE & NEW RESOURCES *** The new release of ELRA catalogue (vol2N1) has grown up and currently consists of: 1) Spoken resources: 37 databases in several languages (recordings from microphone, telephone, continuous speech, isolated words, phonetic dictionaries, etc.). 2) Written resources: * 14 monolingual and multilingual corpora * 28 monolingual lexica * Around 60 multilingual lexica * A linguistic software platform and grammars development platform 3) Terminological resources: over 360 databases with a wide range of domains and several languages (Catalan, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish). Since our last news on this electronic list, new resources have been negotiated by ELRA and are now available. These are: SPEECH AND RELATED RESOURCES ELRA-S0035 Phonolex (BAS/DFKI): PHONOLEX consists of a simple list of word forms (666,237 inflected words) with a set of features e.g. orthography (German 'Umlauts' in LaTeX format, capital nouns, old German spelling rules), linguistic information (nouns, verbs, etc.), pronunciation and a list of empirical pronunciations. Language: German Format: ASCII Mark-up: extended SAM-PA (PhonDat-Verbmobil) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-S0036 Speri-Data AG Basic dictionaries (colloquial= language): These dictionaries contain a daily-life vocabulary. They include phonetic transcriptions with related phoneme lists. The following languages are available: Language Entries Danish 8,000 Dutch 12,000 English (UK) 8,000 Finnish 10,000 French 19,000 German 13,000 Italian 23,000 Norwegian 8,000 Portuguese 9,000 Spanish 13,000 Swedish 10,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-S0037 Speri-Data AG Technical dictionaries: All dictionaries contain phonetic transcriptions, with related phoneme lists. The following dictionaries are available (the label basic dictionary refers to the above ELRA-S0036): Domain Entries Banking French 10,200 Banking German 10,200 Banking Italian 10,200 Banking Spanish 10,200 Radiology German 42,000 (including basic dictionary) Radiology English 16,000 Medical German 130,000 (including basic dictionary) Jurisprudence German 31,000 Jurisprudence German 55,000 (including basic dictionary) Insurance German & English 37,000 A peculiarity of medical dictionaries in German speaking countries has to be taken into consideration: doctors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland may not use the original technical terms in Latin but the Latin word in a spelled manner or a German technical term (see examples below). Medical dictionaries therefore have to contain three different terms. Technical term Technical term Technical term in Latin in German spelling in German Appendicitis Appendizitis Blinddarmentz=FCndung Eccema Eczema Ekzem Diarrhoe Diarrh=F6 or Diarrh=F6e Durchfall, Durchfluss Carbunculus Karbunkel Geschw=FCr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-S0038 Siemens VoiceMail (American English) VoiceMail consists of 17,5 hours of read acoustic speech divided into 9,5 hours of transliterated speech and 8 hours of non-transliterated speech recorded over the digital telephone network (ISDN) with 921 speakers originated from the USA. It contains orthographic transliteration for about 25,000 utterrances (of 34,912 utterances in total). Language: American English Standard in use: headerless, one separate transliteration file comprising all utterances of all speakers Sampling rate: 8 kHz Speakers: 377 males and 544 females Size: 17,5 hours Medium: 2 CD-ROM WRITTEN RESOURCES - MONOLINGUAL LEXICA ELRA-L0021 Dictionary of French verbs - CORA: This dictionary contains 25,610 verbs with usage domains, level of language (familiar, popular, literary, Quebec and Swiss terms, etc.), conjugation, auxiliary, verbal adjectives in -able, -ant or -, encoded syntactical constructions (subject, direct & indirect object, adverb), sample phrases, synonyms, operators enabling semantic-syntactic classification, encoding of derived forms in -age, -ment, -tion, -oir, -ure, deverbal nouns, base words from which verbs can be derived, a scale of usage ranging from 1 to 6, like those used by commercial dictionaries (basic vocabulary, extended, specialised, etc.). Codes enable automatic production of conjugation forms, derived nouns and adjectives and, if necessary, the production of potential forms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0022 Dictionary of words - CORA: This dictionary is composed of 126,844 words, with usage domains, grammatical category, gender, number, uncountable, collective, adjectival, nominal, verbal, adverbial derived forms according to the type of words. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0023 Dictionary of affixes - CORA: 4,286 suffixes and prefixes, plus information on their verbal, nominal or adjectival bases or on the verbal basis of greco-latin items. This dictionary does not include the suffixes contained in the dictionary of French verbs (ELRA-L0021) and words (ELRA-L0022) such as -age, -ment, -if,= -oir. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0024 Dictionary of verb phrases - CORA: Dictionary of 3,480 entries based on the model of the dictionary of French verbs (ELRA-L0021). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0025 Dictionary of invariable forms and phrases - CORA: Dictionary of 4,783 entries based on the model of the dictionary of words (ELRA-L0022). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0026 Dictionary of exclamatory stereotyped phrases - CORA: Dictionary of 1,901 entries based on the model of the dictionary of invariable forms and phrases (ELRA-L0025). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0027 Dictionary of French local authorities - CORA: 38,965 entries in lower cases with accents, controlled on the guide Michelin, without localities; A link can be made to the dictionary of words (ELRA-L0022) which contains inhabitants' names and their correspondence with town names. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0028 Dictionary of noun phrases and plural-only words -= CORA: 2,138 compound names and 1,397 entries of plural-only words. For further information, please contact : ELRA/ELDA 87, Avenue d'Italie FR-75013 PARIS FRANCE Tel : +33 01 45 86 53 00 Fax : +33 01 45 86 44 88 E-mail : info-elra@calva.net WWW: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ...................................... Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA /ELDA 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: Greg Lessard Subject: Last reminder: ACH-ALLC97 - Humanities Computing Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:03:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 93 (93) ***Please distribute widely*** ***LAST REMINDER*** ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC'97 June 3-7, 1997 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97 Registration form available on the web page or by email to: achallc97-admin@qucis.queensu.ca ---> Check out the PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS on the web page <--- PAPERS AND SESSIONS (sorted by name of first author or session organizer) Melina Alexa, Lothar Rostek, Pattern concordances - TATOE calls XGrammar Jean Anderson, New developments from STELLA: Software for Teaching English Andrea Austin, David Halsted, Perry Willett, Labour Issues in Humanities Computing. (Session) Johanne Bénard, Cocteau multimédia Nancy Belmore, Sabine Bergler, The International Corpus of English (ICE)-Canada David J. Birnbaum, In Defense of Invalid SGML Florence Bruneseaux, Laurent Romary, Codage des références et coréférences dans les dialogues homme-machine Nicoletta Calzolari, Antonio Zampolli, Ulrich Heid, Towards standards for lexicons and the linguistic annotation of texts. (Session) David R. Chesnutt, The Model Editions Partnership--Towards a National Database Sung-Kwon Choi, Tae-Wan Kim, Soo-Hyun Lee, Dong-In Park, Korean Analysis and Transfer in Unification-based Multilingual Machine Translation System Lise Desmarais, Mee-Lian Chung, Lise Duquette, Delphine Renié, Michel Laurier, L'évaluation des apprentissages et des interactions dans un environnement multimédia en L2. (Session) Merlin Donald, Symbolic Technologies: Challenges and Dangers for the Humanities. (Keynote address) Arienne M. Dwyer, Hand-to-Hand Wrestling with Small Linguistic Corpora Michal Ephratt, Authorship attribution - the case of lexical innovations Tomaz Erjavec, Nancy Ide, Dan Tufis, Encoding and Parallel alignment of linguistic corpora in six Central and Eastern European Languages Robert Fischer, Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Multimedia Authoring for Foreign Language Faculty: The Libra Authoring System Julia Flanders, John Lavagnino, Carol Barash, The Epistemology of the Electronic Edition. (Session) Julia Flanders, Sydney Bauman, Mavis Cournane, Willard McCarty, Aara Suksi, Applying the TEI: Problems in the classification of proper nouns. (Session) Richard S. Forsyth, Short substrings as document discriminators Richard S. Forsyth, Towards a text benchmark suite Paul A. Fortier, Luc Fortier, Semantic Fields and Polysemy: A Correspondence Analysis Approach Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Tracing the net of intra- and intertextual references within the scenic play "Simson faellt durch die Jahrtausende" by Nelly Sachs Penelope J. Gurney, Lyman W. Gurney, Multi-authorship of the Scriptores Historiae Augustae: Analysis of Vocabulary Richness from a Disambiguated Text Hans van Halteren, The Feasibility of Incremental Linguistic Annotation Shoichiro Hara, Hisashi Yasunaga, A Digital Library System for Japanese Classical Literature Susan Hockey, Terry Butler, Patricia Clements, Susan Brown, Sue Fisher, Orlando Project: Humanities Computing in Conversation with Literary History. (Session) Roz Horton, Richard Giordano, A Virtual Barbeque: A Corpus Linguistics Approach to Studying an Emergent Community Tatjana Janicijevic, Derek Walker, NeoloSearch: Automatic detection of neologisms in French Internet documents Hanmin Jung, Sanghwa Yuh, Taewan Kim, Dong-In Park, Compound Unit Recognition for Efficient English-Korean Translation Dorothy Kenny, Creatures of Habit? What collocation can tell us about translation Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Ed Fox, Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities Ian Lancashire, Christopher Douglas, Dennis G. Jerz, Adapting Web Electronic Libraries to English Studies Greg Lessard, Michael Levison, Clothing Meaning in Syntax: Aspect and Applications of Multilingual Generation Michael Levison, Greg Lessard, Towards a Paperless Conference. (Introduction to the Conference Abstracts) Willard McCarty, Lou Burnard, Marilyn Deegan, Jean Anderson, Harold Short, Root, trunk, and branch: institutional and infrastructural models for humanities computing in the U.K. (Session) Tony McNeill, Charlie Mansfield, The Design & Authoring of Internet-based Study Materials Ingrid Meyer, Douglas Skuce, Judy Kavanagh, Laura Davidson, Integrating Linguistic and Conceptual Analysis in a WWW-Based Tool for Terminography Inge de Mönnink, Combining corpus and experimental data: methodological considerations Elli Mylonas, Todd Hettenbach, The ACH/ALLC Abstract Review Database Nelleke Oostdijk, Tailoring a formal grammar for efficiency without compromising its linguistic motivation Espen S. Ore, Claus Huitfeldt, Øystein Reigem, Franz Hespe, Wittgenstein's Nachlass - Bergen Electronic Edition (WN-BEE) Rochdi Oueslati, A corpora-based environment for linguistic knowledge Pierre du Prey, Blair Martin, Daniel Greenstein, Writing, Publishing and Preserving Electronic Documents related to the Visual Arts. (Session) Hong Liang Qiao, A Corpus-Oriented Parser Geoffrey M. Rockwell, Joanna Johnson, Rocco Piro, MILE: A Markup Language for Interactive Drill Courseware Thomas Rommel, A reliable narrator? Adam Smith may say so Lothar Rostek, Marking up in TATOE and exporting to SGML - Rule development for identifying NITF categories. Joseph Rudman, David I Holmes, Fiona J. Tweedie, R. Harald Baayen, The State of Authorship Attribution Studies. (Session) Carolyn P. Schriber, The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies David Seaman, The Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction (1775-1850) Gary F. Simons, Mapping from objects to markup: a springboard for multiple-strategy electronic publishing Stéfan Sinclair, L'HyperPo: Exploration des structures lexicales à l'aide des formes hypertextuelles C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Tim Bray, Extensible Markup Language (XML) Ronald Tetreault, Electrifying Wordsworth--A Progress Report Ismail Timimi, Analyse du discours assistée par ordinateur - Version 3AD95 Frank Tompa, Capitalizing on Text Structures. (Keynote address) Jonathan J Webster, Martin S.P. Chiu, Developing a web-based dictionary database Merna Wells, Welcome to the Carnival: A Play of Electronic Discourse Eve Wilson, Peter D. Shepton, SGML as a vehicle for porting hypertext applications between systems William Winder, Michel Lenoble, Ray Siemens, Theories of Meaning and the Electronic Text. (Session) Robert E. Wright, Willard McCarty, Susan Saltrick, Institutional Support in the Advancement of Technology in the Humanities: Roles, Models, and Collaboration. (Session) Ronald W. Zweig, Digitizing Historical Newspapers: New Approaches to a Complex Problem From: Mike Fraser Subject: Computers & Texts 14 Online & Call for Articles Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 21:35:20 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 94 (94) I am pleased to announce that Computers & Texts 14 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 A. Thomas Kraabel, Learning Greek with Accordance David Silver, Multimedia, Multilinearity, and Multivocality in the Hypermedia Classroom Kari Boyd McBride, Tailoring the Textbook to Fit the Student Body Sarah Porter & Michael Fraser, Computer-Assisted Film & Drama Studies Jakob Fix, Computer-Aided Processing of Old German Texts Stephen Clark, Review: A Right to Die? An Ethical Case Study on CD-ROM Don Fowler, Review: Literature Online Julia Briggs, Review: Major Authors on CD-ROM: Virginia Woolf Michael Fraser, Review: High Places in Cyberspace Lou Burnard, Review: Research in Humanities Computing COMPUTERS & TEXTS 15: 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 HE 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 (especially within UK higher education). Reviews of relevant books and conference reports are also welcome. All contributions for Computers & Texts 15 should reach the Centre by July 18th 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 800-1,500 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 edit 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, OUCS Tel: +44 1865 283 282 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/ Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Green Subject: NINCH CONFU Report--Pt One Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 17:52:14 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 95 (95) ******************************************************* NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT - NEWS BRIEF May 23, 1997 CONFU CONTINUES? Is it time to re-group? -David Green What in the world is CONFU (and how is it perceived around the rest of the world)? This was one of the hotly debated questions during the advertised "final meeting" of the Conference on Fair Use on May 19, 1997. The winning answer is that CONFU is a loosely constructed framework called for in 1995 by the President's Information Infrastructure Task Force's Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights to enable copyright proprietors and the educational users of copyright material to develop guidelines for the fair use of copyrighted digital works. CONFU, we heard emphasized, was not a Congressionally-mandated body (indeed was not a body at all); the results and the forthcoming CONFU Report would certainly not have the force of law or even the status of being read into legislative history. CONFU is simply a discussion process, that is open to all. Its Working Groups, which produced three sets of guidelines, are similarly open to any who wanted (and could afford frequent travel to DC) to attend. So what occurred during the final meeting of this informal, non-legislative, non-binding "conference"? 1. Proposed guidelines, shared broadly since the previous final meeting of CONFU among the constituencies of those represented, were presented to the group as a whole with a list of those participating groups, which, after two years of working together, had endorsed, rejected or had no position on the guidelines (see list of organizations below). Of 100 participants, only 60 registered a position on the guidelines and only 25 had commented on the Digital Images or Distance Learning Guidelines. Interestingly the commercial proprietary community only registered comments on the Multimedia Guidelines, which were the most hotly contested. The mostly nonprofit user community objected in particular to the Multimedia Guidelines use of specific portion limitations in the fair use of copyrighted materials. This was not felt to be in the spirit of the four fair use factors, where context and circumstance play a large part in determining whether a use is fair. 2. It was clarified that CONFU--as a mere facilitating framework--would not endorse or "adopt" any set of guidelines. Peter Fowler, facilitator of the process, should only include in his Report to the Commissioner of the Patents and Trademarks Office what the resultant guidelines were and the level and quality of support they had received. 3. It was clarified that Recommendation number 5 of Peter Fowler's December 1996 Interim Report would be dropped. That recommendation was "That the Final Report be submitted to Congress by the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights at an appropriate time as part of legislative history, so that it can be referenced in connection with the Copyright Act provisions on fair use." This would not now take place. 4. It was determined that CONFU--the Framework--would continue beyond this "final meeting." The framework had produced a certain body of results but there was a determination to go "all the way" and see if consensus could be achieved in creating generally acceptable guidelines. A date was set for another plenary meeting a year ahead (May 19, 1998 at the Mumford Room at the Library of Congress). An expanded Steering Committee (see Appendix Two) would be formed to guide the process and determine the role of the 1998 meeting. In the interim, the working groups were encouraged to convene and discuss further steps. The process and the working groups were encouraged to be as inclusive as possible. 5. A Report would be published this summer. For those who had withheld their positions and statements on the guidelines, the deadline was extended to June 30. 6. The Guidelines (mostly endorsed by a minority of participants) were thus accepted as interim documents, place-holders. Some advocated testing or field use of the guidelines so that more concrete data might be gathered on how fair, useable or burdensome they might prove to be. 7. Except for Multimedia Guidelines. The Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC), chief organizer and facilitator of the Multimedia working group, maintained that these guidelines were fixed and would not be re-opened for "between 3 and 5 years." From the beginning, the multimedia guidelines were seen by many as something of a wild child. CCUMC had begun organizing guidelines before the CONFU process itself had started; some took issue with the purported inclusivity of the group; and the organizers had solicited the approval of members of Congress and other external groups that no other working group had sought. In the words of John Vaughn, the multimedia guidelines had been artificially reified by an unprecedented and astonishing media blitz by the proponents. Although some were figuratively horsewhipped for suggesting that CONFU itself was confusing and that it had brought with it much unhelpful political baggage from the IITF era, it seems clear to this writer that CONFU clearly has been confusing to many and that its continuation or resurrection under the same name might cause further misunderstanding or misrepresentation of its authority. Many within the nonprofit educational and cultural community are now thinking that it is time to step back and clarify what our community values are in the arena of production, management and use of intellectual property. What are some bedrock principles that could serve the nonprofit community in the place of broadly accepted guidelines? Perhaps now is the time for the educational community to more actively engage in a national debate about principles and values as far as the production , management and use of intellectual property is concerned. Some internal discussion and agreement might be good for our collective spirit and to foster more unified collective action when we next engage with the commercial proprietors. We should perhaps also consider whether, in the context of upcoming Congressional action in ratifying the WIPO Copyright Treaty and pursuing further digital copyright legislation, having attempted to play fair through CONFU, it is time to reassert Fair Use at the legislative level. This Report, available in hypertext with appendices, is available at <http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/Confu_Report.html> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From: David Green Subject: NINCH CONFU Report--Pt Two Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 17:58:55 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 96 (96) ******************************************************* NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT - NEWS BRIEF May 23, 1997 CONFU CONTINUES? Is it time to re-group? --PART TWO: A P P E N D I C E S ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ APPENDIX ONE NOTIFICATIONS RECEIVED FROM ORGANIZATIONS ON THE PROPOSALS FOR FAIR USE GUIDELINES ORGANIZATION Digital Distance Multimedia Images Learning Agency for Instructional Technology -- -- Yes American Association of Community Colleges No position No position Yes American Association of Law Libraries No Yes No American Association of Museums Yes -- -- American Association of State Colleges & Universities No No No American Council of Learned Societies No Yes No American Council on Education No No No American Historical Association No No No American Library Association No No No American Society of Composers Authors and Performers -- -- -- American Society of Journalists and Authors No position Yes Yes American Society of Media Photographers -- -- Yes Art Libraries Society of North America No No No Association for Educational Communications and Technology -- -- Yes Association for Information Media and Equipment -- -- Yes Association of American Colleges and Universities -- -- Yes Asociation of American Publishers -- -- Yes Association of American Universities No No No Association of American University Presses -- -- Yes Association of Architecture School Librarians No -- -- Association of Research Libraries No No No Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) -- -- Yes College Art Association No No No Consortium of College and University Media Centers -- -- Yes Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries No No No Creative Incentive Coalition -- -- Yes Educational Technology Officers Association of State University of New York -- -- Yes Educational Testing Service -- -- Yes Houghton Mifflin Company -- -- Yes Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education -- No -- Indiana University Institute for the Study of Intellectual Property and Education -- -- No Information Industry Association -- -- Yes Instructional Telecommunications Council -- -- Yes Iowa Association for Communication Technology -- -- Yes John Wiley and Sons -- -- Yes Johns Hopkins University No No No Maricopa Community Colleges -- -- Yes McGraw-Hill Companies -- -- Yes Medical Library Association No No No Motion Picture Association of America -- -- Yes Music Publishers Association -- -- Yes National Association of College and University Attorneys No Position No Position No Position National Association of Regional Media Centers -- -- Yes National Association of Schools of Art & Design -- -- Yes National Association of Schools of Dance -- -- Yes National Association of Schools of Music -- -- Yes National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges No No No National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History No No No National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Yes Yes Yes Northern Illinois Learning Resource Consortium -- -- Yes OhioLink No No No Recording Industry Association of America -- -- Yes Software Publishers Association -- -- Yes Sonneck Society for American Music No position Yes No position Special Libraries Association Yes Yes Yes Tennessee Board of Regents Media Consortium -- -- Yes Time Warner -- -- Yes Visual Resources Association No No No 5/16/97 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Signatories to Letter to Orrin Hatch, 1/13/97, not included in above listing: American Association of School Administrators -- -- No National Association of Elementary School Principals -- -- No National Association of Independent Schools -- -- No National Association of Secondary School Principals -- -- No National Education Association -- -- No National School Boards Association -- -- No U.S. Catholic Conference -- -- No +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ APPENDIX TWO EXPANDED CONFU STEERING COMMITTEE *Chris Dalziel, Instructional Telecommunications Council Adam Eisgrau, American Library Association Mary Levering, Copyright Office *Lisa Livingston, Consortium of College and University Media Centers *Victor Perlman, American Society of Media Photographers Carol Risher, Association of American Publishers Mark Traphagen, Software Publishers Association *John Vaughn, Association of American Universities * new members From: Subject: Humanist Archives Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 97 (97) The archives of Humanist, going back to 1987, are now available via the Web as browsable and searchable hypertext, from the Humanist home page, <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> and <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>. The archives themselves are housed at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, constructed and updated using hypermail (free Unix software available from www.eit.com), and indexed for searching with Excite. I encourage Humanist's members to experiment with the search function--you will find a wealth of accumulated wisdom, and maybe some amusing anachronisms too. Thanks to the folks at CETH and the Oxford Text Archive for saving and providing the raw material for this, and thanks to you all for creating it. John Unsworth From: Subject: Request of informations. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 98 (98) I'm beginning a study on suicide from a philosophical point of view. Please, could somebody help me and give me some informations? Thank you. Raffaele Rizzello Sto iniziando uno studio sul suicidio da un punto di vista di filosofia morale. Sarei grato a chi volesse darmi indicazioni bibliografiche sull'argomento. Grazie. Raffaele Rizzello - sub signo angeli Raphaelis From: Jeff Finlay Subject: Ametican Studies Opportunities & News, Week Ending May 25 Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 09:45:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 99 (99) AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS Week Ending May 25, 1997 (715-796) American Studies Opportunities & News is a weekly index produced by the American Studies Crossroads Project (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads) and sponsored by the American Studies Association. The Opportunities list, which generates the index, posts ASA news, calls for papers, conference programs, fellowships, jobs, bibliographical & online resources, book reviews and tables of contents. The Opportunities archive and search engine is on the web at http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html To submit a posting, or to subscribe to the index, contact the Crossroads Administrator The following items of interest to Humanist subscribers appeared on American Studies Opportunities & News from May 18-25, 1997. To order any one of them, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES followed by the item number to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (example: to get the first posting listed below, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 749 to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM; for the first and second posting, your message will be GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 749 796). Calls for Contributions to Journals/Books/Media =============================================== 749 Cultural Attitudes towards Tech & Communication (essays) 796 Neo-Pragmatism & New Romanticisms, for Parallax Journal 745 New Cultural Theory & Techno-Politics, for Angelaki Journal Programs for Forthcoming Conferences (listed chronologically) ============================================================= 758 Ethnography & Qual Research in Postmodern Era, CA, June 20-22 720 Interpreting Edison, New Jersey, June 25-27 Events, Institutes, Seminars & Special Notices ============================================== 779 Future of Fulbright Program Study (essay) 792 Obituary, Paulo Freire, from Instituto Paulo Freire 790 Proposal for a National Anthropology Network From: Donna Thompson, American Social History Project Subject: New Media Classroom Institute, NYC, July 20-26 Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 09:46:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 100 (100) THE NEW MEDIA CLASSROOM BUILDING A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON NARRATIVE, INQUIRY AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE U.S. HISTORY SURVEY National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Institute American Social History Project and Center for Media & Learning, The City University of New York American Studies Association Crossroads Project (Georgetown University) ******************************************************************** * * * This notice contains application & information about: * * * * The ASHP/CML Summer Institute, New York City, July 20-26 * * (deadline: May 30, 1997) * * * * The ASHP/CML Year Long Professional Development Program, 1997-98 * * * ******************************************************************** The American Social History Project and the American Studies Association Crossroads Project (Georgetown University) are pleased to announce a year-long professional development program supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, focused on advancing the use of new technology in humanities education. THE NEW MEDIA CLASSROOM: BUILDING A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON NARRATIVE, INQUIRY AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE U.S. HISTORY SURVEY offers high school and college educators nationwide an opportunity to join with historians and multimedia designers on the ASHP/CML staff, along with Randy Bass of Georgetown University, Robin D.G. Kelley of New York University, Lynne Adrian of University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, Roberta Matthews of Marymount College, and Roy Rosenzweig of George Mason University, to advance the dialogue on issues of narrative and inquiry as they pertain to historical synthesis, prepare faculty as technology leaders, and further the use of new media resources to enrich classroom learning. Building on an already-successful project, the New Media Classroom program will begin with a week-long summer institute (July 20-26, 1997) in New York City, which will enable participating faculty to: a) advance teaching strategies using a range of new history resources available on CD-ROM and the World Wide Web; b) work with scholars and producers who have pioneered the development of new media applications; and c) prepare themselves as teaching- with-technology leaders. During the 1997-98 school year, faculty will use new media tools to teach a U.S. History survey (or an interdisciplinary American history & literature course) at their home campus. Faculty will take part in a year-long on-line seminar, exchanging and deepening experiences and insights. And with the assistance of project staff, participating faculty will coordinate on-campus workshops for colleagues in their home communities. We see this outreach effort as a key step in deepening faculty learning and building an informed national conversation about new media education. The program will pay for summer institute housing and travel costs (for out-of-town participants) and purchase of selected new media materials; participants' schools will provide a small honoraria to recognize participants' year-long contributions to their schools' efforts to integrate the use of new educational technology. In 1998-99, NMC will offer interested schools an opportunity to take roles as centers of new media learning. Participating faculty and their schools will be able to apply to NMC for funds to host regional New Media Classroom programs, including regional summer institutes. Experienced faculty participants will be invited to serve as co-leaders for these regional programs. The New Media Classroom program will involve a diverse group of history and humanities educators, including high school and college faculty. We believe secondary and post-secondary educators have much to gain from collective conversation about curriculum and teaching. The program will involve leaders in the field of new media education and those at an intermediate level, who have at least one year's experience using new media as part of classroom instruction. Our goal is to work together to deepen collective expertise in new media-based instruction and help humanities faculty prepare as technology leaders, building a national conversation about the new media classroom and extending its promise to a broad range of teachers and students nationwide. GUIDELINES FOR CANDIDATES The New Media Classroom program is open to high school and college educators who teach the U.S. history survey. American Studies faculty will also be considered for participation. Candidates will be selected on the basis of their demonstrated interest and experience in: 1) Teaching the U.S. History Survey (or comparable interdisciplinary or American Studies courses); 2) Using inquiry-based and learner-centered classroom pedagogies; 3) Exploring new media tools and resources; 4) Expanding their professional knowledge and teaching repertoires; 5) Preparing for role as teaching with technology leaders. Candidates must commit themselves to attending a summer institute July 20-26, 1997 held in New York City, and to participating in follow-up activities including classroom testing, school-based workshops, and on-line seminar. The New Media Classroom program considers classroom implementation to be essential to professional growth and the development of a broader understanding of the educational potential of new media. A candidate's eligibility and successful participation will depend upon the willingness of his/her school or college to make a commitment to facilitate such implemen tation, including these steps: A) Schedule the candidate to teach the U.S. history survey (or comparable interdisciplinary course) in Fall 1997 (option to continue in Spring 1998). B) Schedule the candidate's U.S. history survey courses for classrooms or computer labs equipped to provide students with ready access to new media resources; C) Facilitate the candidate's individual access to on-line systems for program communication and participation in on-line seminars; D) Provide the candidate with a $600 professional development stipend to recognize and support faculty's work in new media. E) Host outreach workshops to expose humanities faculty to new media-based instruction. The New Media Classroom will continue in 1998-99. Faculty participants will be offered the opportunity to apply to extend their participation serving as co-leaders for a national network of regional programs. APPLICATION PROCESS Applications, which are due by May 30, 1997, include: 1) a completed application form; 2) an accompanying letter from the school or college administration (signed by the high school principal or college department chair) addressing the school's commitment to items A-E (above); and 3) two letters of reference describing the candidate's qualifications for successful participation. Selection will be finalized by June 10. Submit applications to: Dr. Bret Eynon, ASHP Education Director 99 Hudson Street, Third Floor New York, New York 10013 tel: 212-966-4248 fax: 212-966-4589 E-mail: BEynon@aol.com THE NEW MEDIA CLASSROOM: BUILDING A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON NARRATIVE, INQUIRY, AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE U.S. HISTORY SURVEY National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Institute APPLICATION should include responses to the following: Name: Address (home): Address (work): Telephone (home): Telephone (work): On-line address: School or College Name: School or College Address: Public or private institution? Please answer the following questions: 1. Please outline your experience teaching U.S. History (or related interdisciplinary humanities courses). 2. How would you describe your current teaching strategies? What has been your experience with inquiry-based and learner-centered approaches to teaching and learning? 3. Please outline your classroom use of new media resources and on-line communications systems (email, Internet, World Wide Web, CD-ROM, etc.). Please attach samples of class lessons using new media resources. 4. What do you see as the advantages and challenges that are encountered when implementing new media-based instruction? 5. What electronic discussion groups (listservs) are you subscribed to? 6. Please rank the following topics of interest to you: _____World Wide Web (WWW) _____CD-ROM _____Games and Simulations _____New Technology and Issues of Narrative _____Hypertext Writing and Electronic Papers _____Producing Your Own Multimedia Materials for Presentation _____Rethinking the Survey Class _____Making a Classroom Web Page _____Other suggestions: 7. Please sketch your long-term goals as an educator. How would participation in the New Media Classroom program help you address these goals? 8. What is your experience and interest in leading faculty development programs? 9. Please help us get a clear picture of the school where you teach. Please describe your school, including information that you think would be helpful to us. If possible, include: the numbers of students enrolled in the schools; some sense of the student demographics; and an estimate of the number of students in a typical U.S. history survey course. 10. What kind of computer facilities (including platform) are available at your school? Do your students have on-line access in your classroom? computer laboratory? the library? Do you and your students have access to computers with CD-ROM drives? 11. Please assess your school's commitment to hosting new media workshops for humanities faculty. 12. Where did you hear about the New Media Classroom program? From: Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow Subject: KineJapan Announcement Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 11:22:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 101 (101) Apologies for cross-posting. NEW E-MAIL DISCUSSION LIST: KINEJAPAN A DISCUSSION LIST FOR JAPANESE FILM AND IMAGE STUDIES The members of Kinema Club (http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html), the internet's only site devoted to the study of Japanese film and moving image media, are pleased to announce the inauguration of KINEJAPAN, the first e-mail list of its kind specializing in discussions on Japanese cinema and other image media. Anyone interested in Japanese moving image media, from scholars to film fans, is welcome to join KineJapan and participate in our talks. Anything related to Japanese image media is open to discussion: feature film, television, magic lanterns, anime, documentary, experimental film and video, as well as the social, economic, and historical factors that are deeply intertwined with these media. (For those only interested in discussing anime, however, we remind you that there are already lists devoted to that.) We also encourage the posting of announcements about new films, conferences, publications, film festivals, and other events relating to Japanese image media that might be of interest to our subscribers. KineJapan is a discussion group with members from countries all over the world. While most of the discussion will be in English, we welcome postings by subscribers in their native tongues and in particular encourage Japanese subscribers to post in Japanese if that is what feels most comfortable. KineJapan is an unmoderated list, which means we leave it up to subscribers to moderate themselves. In the end, we conceive of all subscribers as fellow scholars working together to achieve a greater understanding of Japanese film and image culture. With recent triumphs at Cannes and other international film festivals, Japanese film is again becoming the center of international attention. We hope KineJapan will become an important means of understanding such new works and their predecessors as well as their their place in Japan, Asia, and the world. To SUBSCRIBE to KineJapan, send an e-mail, leaving the subject line blank, to: listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu In the text of your message (not the subject line), write: subscribe kinejapan firstname lastname Example: subscribe kinejapan Matsunosuke Onoe You can also subscribe by accessing the KineJapan home page on the Kinema Club site: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Kine.html Kinema Club was formed several years ago with the goal of providing greater access to information on Japanese film and moving image media. The site already contains an extensive bibliography of non-Japanese writings on Japanese film, reviews of recent Japanese films, a list of currently rentable 16mm films, guides to internet resources for Japanese cinema, and other resources. We are also looking for members who are willing to help us expand and up-date the site. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the list owner: Aaron Gerow onogerow@gorilla.or.jp [It would be helpful to know in particular what computing offers film studies. I can certainly guess, but a brief summary from someone actually involved in the field might help those of us in other fields. --WM] From: Peter Liddell Subject: Re: New Copyright Law in Canada Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 15:29:42 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 102 (102) The new law, which caused so much consternation among educators in the committee stage, was proclaimed on April 25th, apparently little changed from that proposed. The texts are available in both official languages, at: (English) http://www.parl.gc.ca/bills/government/C-32/C-32_4/C-32TOCE.html (French) http://www.parl.gc.ca/bills/government/C-32/C-32_4/C-32TOCF.html From: "Dr. Pauline Kra" Subject: Re: 11.0065 suicide philosophically considered? Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 12:06:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 103 (103) I am also very much in need of information on the subject for the annotation of Montesquieu's Persian letters on suicide. Any pointers will be warmly appreciated. Pauline Kra kra@ymail.yu.edu On Sun, 25 May 1997, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] From: "Gary W. Shawver" Subject: Spam, Spam, Spam ... Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 12:39:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 104 (104) Given the recent conversations on HUMANIST about spamming, thougt some of you might be interested in a spam filter maker for Eudora. Right now it's Mac only, but a Win port is in the works. The url is <http://www.public.usit.net/nwcs/Spam/Spam.html>. This url also contains a link to an AOL compiled list of spam addresses. -- Sincerely, ________________________________________________ Gary W. Shawver <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~gshawver/> ________________________________________________ From: Harold Short Subject: Press Release: Textual Monopolies Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 13:41:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 105 (105) Textual Monopolies: Literary copyright & the public domain This important and ground-breaking volume of essays edited by Patrick Parrinder and Warren Chernaik, is published on 28 May 1997. It is a joint publication of University of London's Centre for English Studies (CES) and the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC), based at King's College London. Textual Monopolies is published in the same OHC/CES series as Beyond the Book and The Politics of the Electronic Text. The essays are based on papers at a conference at CES in December 1994, occasioned by changes in copyright law brought about by a 1993 European Directive, and have been brought up to date to reflect significant developments since that time. According to John Sutherland's preface, 'the London conference on copyright proved extraordinarily educative for those attending. It enlarged horizons and created points of intellectual connection between traditionally separated sectors of the book world and the academic community, publicising an issue of cultural importance that was in danger of passing into law without anyone noticing'. Contributors to the volume include legal and literary scholars, publishers, and authors, expressing both practical and political concerns, in a searching consideration of changing ideas of intellectual property in the electronic age. According to Richard Morrison in the Times, May 17, 1997, this collection of essays is a 'real gem', 'compulsive reading'. 'a brilliant anaylsis': 'I have been riveted, enthralled, consumed to the exclusion of all other matters, by the marvellous Textual Monopolies ... If you want to glimpse human nature, red in tooth, claw, and legal fees, then Textual Monopolies ... is required reading'. Contents include: * Foreword by John Sutherland. * Introduction by Patrick Parrinder: Literary copyright and the public domain. * Brad Sherman and Lionel Bently: Balance and harmony in the duration of copyright: the European Directive and its consequences. * Kate Pool: Authors and the European Directive. * Clive Reynard: The impact of the European Directive on inexpensive reprint editions. * Patrick Parrinder: Licensing scholarship: some encounters with the Wells Estate. * Warwick Gould: Predators and editors: Yeats in the pre- and post-copyright era. * John Worthen: D.H. Lawrence and copyright. * Charles Oppenheim: Copyright in the electronic age. * Fiona Macmillan Patfield: Legal policy and the limits of literary copyright. * Christopher Scarles: Quote and be blessed. Copies can be ordered now from the OHC at a cost of 12.50 pounds sterling plus postage and packing. Orders should be sent to the Office for Humanities Communication, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, enclosing a cheque made payable to 'King's College London'. Addition for postage and packing per copy: UK - 1 pound, Europe - 2 pounds, and outside Europe - 3 pounds. (Payment is accepted in EU currencies, and in US or Canadian dollars. Please convert at current exchange rate.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Short, Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK Harold.Short@kcl.ac.uk; Tel: +44 (0)171 873 2739; Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 From: Khalid Choukri Subject: ELRA Press release Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:32:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 106 (106) ELRA European Language Resources Association Press release ===================================== *** Non European organisations may become subscribers to ELRA now *** ELRA (European Language Resources Association), a non-profit association registered in Luxembourg, was established in 1995. Its mission is to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and terminology) within the Language Engineering field. 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From: Maureen Donovan Subject: Re: 11.0071 KineJapan; Canadian copyright law Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 12:34:19 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 107 (107) [deleted quotation] Well, that's a big question, but I will respond by giving some background about how I became involved working with Kinema Club, the group that is initiating the KineJapan discussion list. For the period 1994-96 I directed a US Dept of Education Title II-A and Japan-US Friendship Commission funded project called: East Asian Libraries Cooperative World Wide Web. (http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/ ) The project aimed at establishing web sites at East Asian Studies library collections so that librarians could scan tables of contents of materials in their collections or create specialized bibliographies and post them to the web, thereby promoting resource sharing, enchancing remote access to research collections, increasing interdependence, etc. The funded phase of the project extended to ten university libraries. Now that funding has ended, the project continues to evolve in various ways. Early on in the process of implementing the project I "bumped into" some Japanese film scholars on the Internet - mainly (at that time) advanced graduate students - who were at different universities. Since the research materials they needed were scattered around at various libraries, they had formed a "club" for sharing tables of contents with each other. In the Fall of 1994 I met with some of them at a conference and offered them a web site to use for sharing information. We also set up a small mailing list for communication among the group developing the web site. Gradually the mailing list became a place to discuss Japanese films and film studies. Now they've decided to expand to a public list which will be archived at the web site. The smaller mailing list will continue, as will the development of the web site. The URL for the Kinema Club site is: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html In the meantime, I have become interested in this as a model. As a librarian, I see the project as a dynamic electronic resource that has been "acquired" (= is supported ) by the library. The "library" that these scholars are using is not physically at any one place (although there are some collections that have particular strengths on Japanese cinema) and the "field" that they represent is scattered across almost as many disciplines as their own numbers (or their universities). However, the "resource" that they are creating by participating in the project has lots of potential for further expansion. In the meantime, everyone involved vascillates between doing a bit for the project and then getting down to the work that (hopefully) will lead to academic employment/tenure. (The web work is not seen to have much benefit in that regard.....) Well, to summarize: I think that computing can help film studies develop as an academic field. But then, I am not in that field..... I'm interested in knowing of other projects that support scholarly collaboration through use of a small mailing list and a web site -- or any other means, for that matter. I see this as the equivalent of an electronic reference book -- or as a whole shelf of electronic reference books. I suppose that it might evolve into a whole area of the stacks eventually, with a journal, a newsletter, monographs, etc -- but by that time I wonder what kind of "support" would be needed. As I librarian, I would like to see academic libraries play a role in this kind of scholarly communication. Maureen Donovan Japanese Studies Librarian/Associate Professor The Ohio State University Libraries donovan.1@osu.edu Tel: 614-292-3502 Fax: 614-292-7859 From: "Kristen L. Abbey" Subject: 1997 CETH Summer Workshop == Extended Application Deadline Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:10:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 108 (108) 1997 CETH Summer Workshop on SGML and the TEI: Making Text Work July 27 to August 1, 1997 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Due to continuing demand, the application deadline for the 1997 CETH Summer Workshop has been extended to Monday, June 2. Applications continue to be accepted on a rolling basis, but space is limited, please do not delay. "The CETH Summer Workshop will have both an introductory and an advanced track. Plenary sessions will concentrate on topics that (we believe) are worth coming to even for people who have heard them discussed before. Breakout sessions in the advanced track will cover topics that make no sense to beginners but which may be useful to active users of TEI or other SGML tag sets. We think this will be the first systematically planned *advanced* TEI instruction anywhere." --Gregory Murphy CETH The 1997 CETH Summer Workshop is an intensive, one-week course of study that focuses on the application of SGML (the Standard Generalized Markup Language) and the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) encoding scheme in the humanities. The Workshop is open to beginning and advanced users alike. The goal is to provide in-depth coverage of the fundamentals of electronic document markup, and issues related to the use of SGML and the TEI in practice. There will be opportunity for beginners to learn the basics of document markup using SGML. A number of topical sessions aimed at all levels of expertise will cover the use of the TEI core and additional tag sets, document analysis, project management, and on- and off-line delivery. Advanced users will have the opportunity to explore other subjects, including, but not limited to: modifying and extending the TEI DTD; designing hypertext and other forms of linking; working with different character sets; and writing programs to support SGML. Sessions will be evenly divided between lecture and hands-on work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue work on their own projects in supervised labs. Time will be allotted for one-on-one consultations between participants and instructors. There will be a wide range of commercial, free- and share-ware SGML software used in the classroom and available for experimentation in the laboratory. Facilities The CETH Summer Workshop will be held in the new Scholarly Communications Center located in Alexander Library, on Rutgers' historic College Avenue campus. The SCC's facilities include two labs of 25 workstations each, and a lecture hall equiped with digital video projection. Accommodation will be provided in Rutgers University student housing facilities. All rooms are air conditioned, have private bathrooms, and are a short walking distance from Alexander Library. Instructors. Gregory Murphy, Text Systems Manager, CETH Wendell Piez, Humanities Computing Specialist, CETH Michael Sperberg-McQueen, editor-in-chief, Text Encoding Initiative; senior research programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago; co-coordinator, Model Editions Partnership Cost. $595 nonstudents $395 students Fee includes tuition, use of computer facilities, workshop documentation, opening reception, lunches (Monday-Friday), and a closing banquet. Scholarships. A limited number of scholarships will be available for graduate students to defray the cost of tuition. These scholarships will not cover accommodations. Unless you specify otherwise, all graduate student applications will be considered for scholarships. Accommodation. Accommodation is available in Rutgers University student housing facilities at a cost of $25 per day for bed and breakfast. Applications. Applications should consist of a cover sheet and a statement of interest. Students applying for the reduced rate must include a photocopy of their valid student ID. Email submissions are encouraged, and must have the subject line "Summer Workshop Application." The cover sheet must include: *your name *your position *current institutional affiliation *postal and email addresses *telephone and fax numbers *brief summary of computing experience Your statement of interest should include: *a synopsis of the project you would like to pursue during the workshop *how your participation in the workshop would be beneficial to your teaching, research, advising or administrative work *the extent of your computer experience Application deadline: May 19, 1997 Notification of acceptance on a rolling basis Send or fax applications to: ceth@phoenix.princeton.edu CETH Summer Workshop 169 College Avenue New Brunswick NJ 08903 Fax: (908) 932-1386 __________________________________ 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: "Irving D. Goldfein" Subject: EPI-Centre (BRS Software Products) Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:38:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 109 (109) Since having been in touch with them about 16 months ago, we have been unable to re-establish contact with EPI-Centre (BRS Software Products,) the (U.K.) publisher of the CD-ROM, "Bibliography of the Hebrew Book." We have also exhausted all obvious means of finding any inheritors or new owners of their rights. Dataware, the current owner of BRS, were not able to provide any helpful information. Would appreciate any help in tracking down any individual who might be familiar with the current status. Irv Goldfein Infomedia Judaica, Ltd. *************************************************************** 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: "Gregory J. Murphy" Subject: Re: 11.0069 suicide philosophically Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:39:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 110 (110) I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on the theme of Stoic "willing death" in early French tragedy. Below are some excerpts from the bibliography thatP. Kra and R. Rizzello may find useful. Sorry about the French bias. Most discussion of suicide in the early modern period derives from the Stoic arguments, and especially, from Seneca. Montesquieu is an interesting case, since his comments about suicide in the _Persian Letters_ are also intended to mock Neo-Stoicism, still in vogue at the turn of the 17th century. Extracts: Arnold, Edward Vernon. Roman Stoicism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1911. Baechler, Jean. Les Suicides. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1975. Bayet, Albert. Le suicide et la morale. New York: Arno Press, 1975. Bels, Jacques. "La mort volontaire dans l'oeuvre de saint Augustin." Revue de l'Histoire des Religions 187 (1975): 147-180. Benz, Ernst. Des Todesproblem in der Stoischen Philosophie. Tübinger Beïtrage zur Alterumswissenschaft, 1929. Bodson, Arthur. La morale sociale des derniers stoïciens, Sénèque, Epictète, et Marc Aurèle. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1967. Cleary, James J. "Seneca, suicide and English Renaissance Tragedy." Ph.D., Temple University, 1969. Daube, David. "The Linguistics of Suicide." Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (1972): 387-437. Donaldson, Ian. The Rapes of Lucretia: A Myth and it's Transformations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. Droge, Arthur and James Tabor. A Noble Death: Suicide and Martrydom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity. San Francisco: Harper, 1992. Dubruck, Edelgard. The Theme of Death in French Poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Hague: Mouton, 1964. Durkheim, Emile. Le suicide. 2 ed. Paris: F. Alcan, 1912. Faber, Melvin D. Suicide and Greek Tragedy. New York: Sphinx Press, 1970. Fehrle, Rudolf. Cato Uticensis. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983. Galinsky, Hans. Der Lucretia-Stoff in der Weltliteratur. Breslau: Priebatsch, 1932. Goar, Robert J. The Legend of Cato Uticensis from the First Century B.C. to the Fifth Century A.D. Vol. 197. Collection Latomus, Bruxelles: Latomus, 1987. Griffin, M. F. "Philosophy, Cato and Roman Suicide, I." Greece and Rome 33 (1 1986a): 64-77. ---. "Philosophy, Cato and Roman Suicide, II." Greece and Rome 33 (2 1986b): 192-202. Grisé, Yolande. Le Suicide dans la Rome antique. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1982. Hamer, Mary. "Cleopatra: Housewife." Textual Practice 2 (2 1988): 159-179. Hirzel, R. "Der Selbstmord." Archiv für Religionswissenschaft 11 (1908): 75-104, 243-84, 417-76. Hooff, Anton J. L. van. From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-Killing in Classical Antiquity. New York: Routledge, 1990. Hoven, René. Stoïcisme et Stoïciens face au problème de l'au-del Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1971. Hughes-Hallet, Lucy. Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions. New York: Harper and Row, 1990. Leech, Clifford. "Le dénouement par le suicide." Le Théâtre tragique Ed. Jean Jacquot. 179-189. Paris: CNRS, 1962. Lefkowitz, Mary. Women in Greek Myth. London: Duckworth, 1986. Monferier, Jacques. Le suicide. Paris: Bordas, 1970. Rist, John M. Stoic Philosophy. London: Cambridge UP, 1969. Rose, A. R. "Seneca and Suicide: The End of the Hercules Furens." Classical Outlook 60 (1983): 109-11. Spanneut, Michel. Permanence du stoïcisme, de Zénon à Malraux. Gembloux: Duculot, 1973. Tadic-Gilloteaux, Nicole. "Sénèque face au suicide." L'antiquité classique 32 (1963): Thiel, M. A. La figure de Saül et sa représentation dans la littérature dramatique française. Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1926. White, Monique Chantal Boissier. "The Dido Fable in French Tragedy: 1560-1693." Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1975. Wilie, R. "Views on Suicide and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy and Some Related Contemporary Points of View." Prudentia 5 (1973): 15-32. Williamson, Marilyn L. Infinite Variety: Antony and Cleopatra in Renaissance Drama and Earlier Tradition. Mystic, Connecticut: Lawrence Verry, 1974. From: Susan Hockey Subject: ALLC Session at ACHALLC97 Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:12:17 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 111 (111) All are invited to participate in this ALLC-sponsored session at ACHALLC97. ---------------------------------------------------------- Humanities Computing in the Graduate Curriculum Session sponsored by the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing ACHALLC97, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Tuesday 3 June 1997 Stirling Hall Theatre D Chair: Susan Hockey, University of Alberta Speakers: Harold Short, Kings College, London Espen Ore, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Willard McCarty, Kings College, London Geoffrey Rockwell, McMaster University The session will include European and North American perspectives on the development of graduate programmes in the humanities in which a computing component has a significant role. A major Europe-wide project will be described whose objectives are not only to gather information about the current situation in European universities, but also to promote collaborative curriculum development. Other panelists will describe initiatives under way in individual British and North American universities. All the panelists will be emphasizing the issues that are shaping the development of new graduate curricula rather than describing particular programmes in detail. The main focus of the session is on general discussion, in which members of the audience will be encouraged to contribute their experience and concerns. Anyone whose home institution has or is contemplating a graduate programme with a strong computing component is urged to attend and participate. Here are some issues which the session will address: What should be the scope of an MA programme in humanities computing? What should be taught? And how? What would be the optimum format for an MA programme in humanities computing? What would be the appropriate balance between course work, project work and dissertation? Should a graduate programme be closely allied with one discipline, for example English? Or should it attempt to fit the needs of several humanities disciplines? How can project work be encouraged and also examined? What factors are important in the assessment of a project? What are the crucial topics and issues to be discussed in a graduate programme in humanities computing? How can these be related to "critical thinking" in humanities scholarship? What institutional factors are important to encourage the development of humanities computing in the graduate curriculum? What would be the typical components of a PhD in humanities computing? What kinds of thesis topics would be appropriate and how might they be examined? What would attract students to a graduate programme in humanities computing? ------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Hockey, Professor, Department of English, 3-5 Humanities Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5, Canada Phone: 403 492 1029 E-mail: Susan.Hockey@UAlberta.ca ------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nelson Hilton Subject: "(electro)poetics" issue of EBR (fwd) Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 12:19:59 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 112 (112) The following recent posting of Robert Kendall's to ht_lit is forwarded here with his permission: The current "(electro)poetics" issue of the Electronic Book Review (http://www.altx.com/ebr/) should be of interest to people on this list. Below is a partial table of contents. Those of you unfamiliar with the Review may also want to check out its premiere issue, "the electronic muse" (contents also listed below). ------------------------------------------------- Electronic Book Review, ISSUE 5: (electro)poetics ------------------------------------------------- Harry Mathews . . . . . . . . Oulipo poetics and the art of translation Stephanie Strickland. . . . . on the translation of poetry from print to screen Issa Clubb. . . . . . . . . . on the ghost in the machine: the font as spiritual medium in CD-ROM poetry design John Cayley . . . . . . . . . a "cybertext" on Copeland, Gibson, and Dewdney Eduardo Kac . . . . . . . . . on holographic poetry Robert Kendall. . . . . . . . on the present and future of hypertext poetics Wendy Battin . . . . . . . . a performative show and tell at the interface of poetry and html related reviews Chris Funkhouser. . . . reviews Charles O. Hartmann's _Virtual Muse_ and Eduardo Kac's _Visible Language_ John Cayley . . . . . . a view of the British hypertext conference, complete with his own view of present and potential web politics 1997 ---------------------------------------------------- Electronic Book Review, ISSUE 1: the electronic muse ---------------------------------------------------- A Review of Books in the Age of Their Technological Obsolescence [Joseph Tabbi on media theory, book reviewing, Bruce Sterling's dead media project, and Richard Powers's _Galatea 2.2_ ] Notes from the Digital Overground [Mark Amerika on establishing Alternative-X in the no-man's land between commercial, academic, and underground media] Cyborg Ideology [N. Katherine Hayles discusses what happens when postmodern writers theorize in a void ] The Maul of America [liquid architect Marcos Novak on William Mitchell's _City of Bits_] Sleepless in Seattle [Paul Harris explores IN.S.OMNIA's technographies] Cyberinthian Ways [Linda Brigham imagines what a hypertext philosophy might be] My Body the Library [Michael Joyce looks at experimental hypertext, body art, body piercing, and web culture] Bugging the Net [Peter Krapp riffs on the philosophy underlying his web site, foreign body] Carolyn Guyer checks in on the Telematik Workgroup in Hamburg, Germany Walter Vannini investigates the effects of hypertext publishing in Italy's literary marketplace ----------------------------------------- Robert Kendall e-mail: rkendall@wenet.net home page: http://www.wenet.net/~rkendall From: "A.J.M.Colson" <102765.1440@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies Date: 29 May 97 12:14:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 113 (113) My name is Alicia Colson and as the administrator of the Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies I am posting the following information. It would be of interest to both graduates and faculty members who use computing as part of their research tool in their literary research. URL: http://www.lakeheadu.ca/~lusiaswww/lusias.html LUSIAS Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada In July of 1997 Lakehead University will be offering graduate courses in the research application of multimedia and hypertext techniques to the humanities and social sciences. This program is offered in collaboration with the Mackenzie Ward Heritage Trust. It addresses the method and theory of applying multimedia techniques to integrate text, still and video images and sound as a research tool. Students enrol in an introductory course, and then select a maximum of two special topics courses from a list of three offered. These courses may be taken for academic credit, or as non-credit training/skills upgrading courses. The 1997 course offering includes: Graduate Studies 5511 Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning For more information regarding this program please view the LUSIAS homepage or enquire for information via email LUSIAS HOMEPAGE http://www.lakeheadu.ca/~lusiaswww/lusias.html EMAIL LUSIAS@lakeheadu.ca Graduate Studies 5511 Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems This course provides an introduction to the application of multimedia computer systems for analyzing large data bases consisting of text, video, audio, graphics and animation files. While specific computer methodologies are introduced, the emphasis is upon exploring the critical implications of transforming conventional text, numeric data, sound and graphic images into electronic form. This includes the process of digitally rendering the original source information without modifying its contextual meaning, and establishing logical linkages between related pieces of data. Credit: .5 FCE Course Coordinator: Jean Colson Course Duration: July 7 to July 15, 1997 Contact Hours: 8:00 am to 12:00 pm and 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm. Structure and Method: Knowledge accumulation in this course is intensive and cumulative. Unless competence is continuously assessed, students will not derive full benefit from the Special Topics courses, nor be able to successfully complete the program of study. Individual assessment will be based upon demonstrated competence during session 0. During Day 2 students will be allocated to groups for remedial instruction. Subsequent days will consist of 1-2 hour lectures, followed by hands-on `workshops' supervised by the course staff. The workshops will utilize materials prepared previously by the respective tutors. Days [9] and [10] will be used for specific `remedial' tuition. Students will also prepare their essay during this period. Materials and Library: Workshop materials will be furnished based upon the demonstration materials prepared for the various Special Topics courses. Mini-manuals and working materials have been written, some of which will draw upon local archives. Facsimiles of documents from the Hudson's Bay Company Archives plus other local archives will be featured as part of the example exercises. Method of Assessment: Assessment methods are twofold: A.Daily diagnostic tests in the last session of each course module. An average of at least 70% is required for successful completion of this course. B.An essay of ca. 2,500 words on a topic to be defined at the beginning of the course. The essay will address basic issues in the field, and will have to indicate understanding of at least one of the applications addressed. It can also review or critique the pertinent literature. Topics must be approved by the Course Co-ordinator. The essay will be graded by LUSIAS staff. Pass level is 70%. The essay contributes 80% to the final grade. Prerequisite: Completion of initial test and any remedial work required by the Director of Studies, graduate qualification or equivalent as approved by the LUSIAS Council. Content: Day 1 - July 7th [0] Diagnostic tests which indicate student's understanding of basic operational procedures. [Jean Colson] [1] General introduction to computer systems [hardware storage and scanning] software and operating systems [Jean Colson] Day 2 - July 8th [2] `Editing' and `Reading' images of evidence [text, landscape, artifact] [Jean Colson] [3] `Working' with MS Windows - attaining a working knowledge [Hugh Davies] Day 3 - July 9th [4] Introduction to databases: structure and utility. [MS ACCESS used as example] [Jean Colson] Day 4 - July 10th [5] Introduction to markup languages [TACT] [Jean Colson] Day 5 - July 11th [6] Introduction to HTML and the WWW [Jean Colson] Day 6 - July 12th [7] Introduction to Electronic Maps and GIS [LU staff, Scott Hamilton] Day 7 - July 14th [8] Introduction to Image Processing [Manfred Thaller] Day 8 - July 15th [9] Introduction to sound and video [Hugh] [10]Project management - case studies - [Scott Hamilton, Paddy Reid] Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities This course introduces students to the use of open hypermedia systems for organizing and retrieving multimedia information. It will concentrate on using Microcosm Plus for Windows, but will also consider the use of other delivery systems such as the World Wide Web, Toolbook and Hyper-G. During the course the students are expected to create a large digital resource of materials related to their subject, and this application will form the basis of the formal assessment. Credit: .5 FCE Instructor: Hugh Davies Course Duration: July 16 to July 26, 1997 Contact Hours: Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find they need additional lab time to complete the required material and develop sufficient expertise. The course will run 6 days per week. The course will be taught with each student having individual machines, each of which runs the requisite software (Microcosm Plus for Windows). Students will attend a presentation on the topic,followed by `hands on' laboratory sessions using both new and prepared examples. Assessment: 20% observation, and 80% through the `multimedia application' to be built during the course and completed by day 10 of the course. Content: Day 1 - Wed July 16 Introduction to hypertext and navigation in Microcosm using exemplar materials provided by MWT. Day 2 - Thur July 17 Building resource-based applications in Microcosm using exemplar materials provided by MWT Day 3 - Fri July 18 Organizing your resources: working with texts using exemplar materials provided by MWT Day 4 - Sat July 19 Information Retrieval working with multimedia using exemplar materials provided by MWT Day 5 - Mon July 21 Working with Third Party applications (including Netscape, Toolbook and Word) using exemplar materials provided by MWT Day 6 - Tue July 22 The Multimedia Essay- building trails of association using exemplar materials provided by MWT Day 7 - Wed July 23 Working with the World Wide Web- authoring and using Webcosm (Microcosm on the Web). Comparing Microcosm to the World Wide Web and other systems, using new and archival materials (MWT) and focusing on the integration of the Web in an application Day 8 to 10 - Thur July 24, Fri July 25 and Sat July 26 Building links automatically- and identifying the `openness of a Microcosm application 1) demonstrating student applications 2) oral presentation of media data. Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems Rapid improvement in computer technology has enabled electronic storage and presentation of pictorial and manuscript materials at resolutions that rival conventional photographic reproduction. New cost-effective publishing and distribution systems have also developed using CD ROMs and computer networks. Thus, it is now possible to create digital archives containing upwards of 50,000 to 100,000 digital objects (pages of manuscript, photographs, etc.). This course explores some of the practical and theoretical issues involved in the development of digital archives. Credit: .5 FCE Instructor: Manfred Thaller Course Duration: July 16 to July 26, 1997 Contact Hours: Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find they need additional lab time to complete the required material and develop sufficient expertise. The course will run 6 days per week. Objectives: This course will provide students with a comprehensive survey of the existing technologies used to develop digital archives, by participation in a "teaching project". Theoretical issues underlying digital archive design are also emphasized in the lecture component. Participants will be led through all stages in the creation of a small digital archive. This will culminate in the production of a CD ROM, and rendering it available through a local area network. The substance of these practical exercises will be decided in accordance with the preferences of the participants. Assessment: 20% observation, 40% on a written test which discusses the theoretical principles involved, 40% through the `digital archives to be built during the course and completed by day 10. Content: Day 1 - Wed July 16 Different types of archival systems. General considerations for the design and implementation of archival and museum systems Day 2 - Thur July 17 General considerations underlying the design and implementation of "private systems" Day 3 - Fri July 18 The interfaces used for digital editions and archives and the availability of basic tools. Day 4 - Sat July 19 The creation of interfaces which make the largest possible amount of source material available in a cost-effective fashion. Day 5 - Mon July 21 The issue of longevity of digital collections will be discussed as will the strategies for insuring the physical survival of the data. This session will also discuss techniques for making data immune from problems associated with hardware and software obsolescence. Day 6 - Tue July 22 The issue of data security will be discussed. Digital publications and/or archives must be created in a way which makes them safe from illicit copying. This issue includes concerns with protecting digital data from malevolent modification. Day 7 to 10 - Wed July 23 to Sat July 26 The final three days will be taken up with the development of the students' own "digital archives", and examination of students' comprehension of the principles that underlie such activity. Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning. This course focuses upon issues associated with preserving and interpreting "meaning" implicit in source materials as they are developed as electronic media. While ambiguity of meaning is evident in textual sources, it is particularly apparent when the analyst addresses graphic and audio-visual data. Exploration of these semantic networks within multimedia datasets is the primary focus of this course. It reviews how multimedia technologies enable researchers to move beyond the constraints of conventional textual data, and rigorously explore subtle meanings expressed in the use of language and gesture, and preserved in audio-visual media. Credit: .5 FCE Instructor: Jean Colson Course Duration: July 16 to July 26, 1997 Contact Hours: Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find they need additional lab time to complete the required material and develop sufficient expertise. The course will run 6 days per week. Objectives: Traditionally, scholars within the Humanities select representative textual data to illustrate interpretations derived from a larger body of literature. The limitations of conventional writing and publication has constrained the analysis, presentation and justification of such interpretation. However, with multimedia technologies, scholars are in a position to present a large corpus of primary documentation and simultaneously demonstrate the interpretative process using text, sound and images. This course reviews the theoretical and analytical implications of research in an electronic environment by demonstrating the process using Microcosm to draw upon textual, graphical, sound and video sources. Method: Daily 1 hour exposition followed by `hands-on' work with text, images, sound and video as necessary for the analysis of meaning in images. The first five sessions would be taken up with theoretical and practical techniques, including readings of relevant approaches. A selection of texts will be made available. The second five sessions will involve the construction of an application bearing in mind the theoretical perspectives offered. The final session will involve an oral exposition by the student drawing on the application which has been constructed. Assessment: Continuous assessment - 20% observation, 50% through the multimedia application, 30% oral exposition. Content: Day 1 - Wednesday 16th July 1. Beyond Illustration - what is an image as `source' using an application constructed for the purpose. Day 2 - Thursday 17th July 2. How do we derive meaning - the questions which might be asked: - who?, what? why, when? - markup and the boundaries of an image. Day 3 - Friday 18th July 3. Exploiting an exemplar image. 4. A workshop session - in which students `mount' their `own' image and explore the ways in which meaning might be `tapped' : This will entail the exploration of the notion of different `voices' and imposed `views'. The students should also explore the issues involved in the identification of `views' and `signs - symbols' or metaphors. Day 4 - Saturday 19th July 5. Modelling `views' and the establishment of interpretation. Students are encouraged to `model' their views in the software provided by Microcosm. The addition of `comment' and `alternative images' or `argument'. Day 5 to 9 - Monday 21st July to Friday 25th July 6. The students will be building their own application, providing systematic exploitation of their sources and short oral expositions of their plans and completed work. Day 10 - Saturday 26th July 7. Student presentations - students will talk to their application. An oral exposition will take not less than 20 minutes. This includes a `live' demonstration. LUSIAS Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies LUSIAS offers graduate courses in the application of computing technologies to research in the humanities and social sciences. These courses address the method and theory of multimedia techniques to integrate text, still and video images, and sound. The program of study emphasizes multimedia as a tool for research and to aid the development of digital archives, and is less concerned with conventional multimedia applications such as presentation tools. Each summer (July) we offer an intensive 3 week program of study that encompasses about 170 hours of lecture and laboratory instruction time. Students must enroll in GS 5511 (Intro.), and can chose a maximum of 2 out of 3 Special Topics courses. Each course is valued as .5 FCE (full course equivalent). They may be taken for academic credit, or as non-credit training/skills upgrading courses. The courses use a "case study" approach to teaching. These case studies include European and Canadian examples. Examples deriving from North America Aboriginal culture will form an integral part of the curriculum. As part of the curriculum, students are strongly encouraged to bring their own data and research problems to develop as multimedia applications. LUSIAS is joint research and education initiative of the Mackenzie Ward Heritage Trust and Lakehead University. The 1997 courses descriptions and study schedule: Graduate Studies 5511 Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning Instructor Biographies Jean MacKenzie Ward Colson born 1944 Academic career: 1966 B. A [Art and Anthropology]. University of California at Davies, California, U.S.A. 1970 M.A. in Symbolic Anthropology, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. 1971 Diploma in Social Anthropology, Oxford, England 1971-76 Southampton University 'Extra-mural' Lecturer in Social Anthropology. 1977-79 Lecturer in Historical Anthropology at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarine (state), Brazil. 1980-95 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Southampton University, Hampshire, U.K. 1986-94 Research Assistant History Department, University of Southampton: responsible for the development of the HiDES Project. and the teaching of research techniques using advanced hypermedia systems - developed the Arts Computing course "Questioning the Image". 1994-96 Research Assistant Digital Libraries Research Centre (DLRC): responsible for the development of hypermedia systems in Humanities Research, and the "Introduction to Humanities Computing" taught at the Schools of Research and Graduate Studies. Academic Projects in the Field of Arts/Humanities Computing: 1977-79 Field work in a small fishing village, artesanal fishing, and lace-making , Lagoa de Conceicao, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil. (Brazilian Fishing Village/Lace Making) Research in State and Federal archives - Florianopolis, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil. - Property and inheritance in leading families of the 18th and 19th century Ilha de Santa Catarina. 1979-96 Viana Project, Demographic History of the City of Viana do Castelo, 1750 - 1931. Project work funded by:- 1996 - present HiDES Project, A major project designed to introduce computing into the teaching of history in the UK 1989-94 The Winchester Project - a local history project involving major conversion of data structures from SIR, designing Kleio data structures. Database and data representation work 1989-94 "Questioning the Image" The use of advanced multimedia in the teaching of history. 1993-96 "Chicago 1919" , Project sponsored by the Newberry Library, Chicago "Multimedia History of a year in Chicago" 1993 - present The Technology in the Teaching and Learning Process, History Consortium "Core Resources for Historians" Teaching: 1972-76 Introduction to Social Anthropology Social Anthropology of Indigenous Peoples of North America Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Art of North America 1977-79 "Parentesco, Casa, e a Familia Brasileiro", Florianopolis, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil (Taught in Brazilian-Portuguese) 1986-90 Visiting researcher in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Courses in conjunction with that department in Latin American Social History 1989-96 Developed a course called 'Questioning the Image'. which introduces students how to analyze images as sources. They are asked to implement this analysis in a multimedia application. They create the application and at the same time as writing a mini-thesis analyzing the meaning and the context of the images that they have chosen to study. I 'run' the DLRC's weekly internal Seminar called The Wishgroup which discusses the theoretical and methodological issues of text and image processing. I help to supervise Ph.D. students who are working with images in their own research. Since 1995 I have co-ordinated the 'IT' component of a yearly course entitled 'Humanities Research Skills' to all incoming M. A. Students - it argues the issues which arise when database management systems, mark-up languages and HTML are used in the course of research. I also teach a course entitled 'Historical Computing' which is a workshop course. Students either learn Kleio - a object/source oriented environment for the analysis of text and images, or create an multimedia research application of their own using Microcosm. Summer Institutes: I organize the annual "Microcosm Summer School" at the Annual Conference of the International Society History and Computing, and an annual DLRC "Colloquium". As part of the DLRC, I am engaged in research and design of large Multimedia applications. I build multimedia applications. I am interested in the implications of hypertext implementations and applications. I am concerned with the theoretical issues which arise when one uses textual and image sources in research. I work closely with the MMRG Group in Electronics and Computing Science at Southampton. Publications: Colson, Jean, 1996 'CASE STUDY H : Community Reconstruction and the Viana do Castelo database' In Charles Harvey and Jon Press, eds., Databases and the Historian, Macmillan Basingstoke. J. Colson, and F. Colson, H. C. Davies and W. Hall, 1994 'Questioning "Authority". The Challenge of Multimedia' In Storia & Multimedia, Atti de Settimo Congresso Internazionale Association for History and Computing, eds. Francesca Bocchi and Peter Denley (Grafis, Bologna 1994), pp 597-605. Colson, J. M. 1992 "The Quartim - an Exemplar", in, Fischer, M.,(ed.), Bica (Bulletin of Information on Computing and Anthropology), The University of Canterbury, Kent, issue no. 8 , June 1992 (on-line. electronic publication). Colson, Jean, Roger Middleton, and Peter Wardley, 1991 Annual Review of Information Technology Developments for Economic and Social Historians, Economic History Review, XLIV, 2 (1991), pp. 343-393. Colson, F., Colson, J. M. and Doulton, D., 1990 "In search of the Individual. Brazil, Portugal and London, 1841-1915', Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 5, no. 4, pp 279- 296. (Oxford University Press.) Colson, F. , Colson, J. M. and Doulton, D. 1990 'Anatomy of a Rupture. Miguelismo, Petty Aristocracy and Liberal Centralism in Portugal, 1820-1834', in, History and Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Oxford, 1990). pp. 1-13. Colson Jean, and Frank Colson, 1990 "Mercantile Migration - The Case of Viana do Castello and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil", in Oliveira Martins, Herminio, (ed.), Portuguese Studies Workshop, St. Antony's College, Oxford, Spring. Hugh C. Davies born 1958 Academic Career: 1981 B.Sc. (Hons) in Ship Science, University of Southampton, Hampshire, U.K. 1982 Further Education Teachers Certificate, IOWCAT, Teacher. 1988 British Computer Society Part 1, BCS 1988 M.Sc. in Computer of British Society, ICS 1992 Membership of British Computer Society, BCS 1995 Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southampton, Hampshire, U.K. 1992 - present Lecturer, Multimedia Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, U.K. Founder of the Multimedia Research Group in 1987, and one of the inventors of the Multimedia open hypermedia system. Since 1990 I have been transferring the technology that comes from our lab into industry. I am a director of Multicosm Ltd., which has been set up the University to manage this technology transfer. My research areas are open hypermedia systems, open protocols, the applications of hypermedia in industry and education. I am currently working on document management systems within the digital library. I am research team manager within our research group. I have been heavily involved in the hypermedia research community for some years. I have been involved with dozens of firms, including Boeing, IBM, HP, Glaxo Welcome, Shell, Unichem, concerning the applications of hypermedia technology Academic Projects within the field of hypermedia computing: 1990 - present working with a large number of applications germane to Arts/Humanities Computing. 1992 Bath University/Sainsburys Microcosm Applications in GIS. 1993 JISC Implementation of Research Version of Microcosm 1993 SERC Remote systems application for Microcosm 1994 JISC Implementation of Research Version of Microcosm. 1994 Glaxo Microcosm Applications 1994 JISC Implementation of Academic Version of Microcosm. 1995 Unichem Microcosm Applications 1995 EPSRC Web Applications for Microcosm. 1996 EPSRC Microcosm Architecture for Video Information Systems. 1996 E.U. Memoire Project - Microcosm Information Management Systems in Digital Libraries. 1996 EPSRC Search instruments in hypermedia environments. 1997 Co-chair of ACM Hypertext 97, which will be held at Southampton , Member of Southern Committee of British Computer Society Teaching: Teaching one regular introductory and advanced course in Computer Science and Hypermedia. Within Southampton I am in charge of our modular M.Sc. in Information Engineering, which is unique in that it uses the Internet as its primary method of distributing information. Summer Institutes: I have given invited seminars at many major UK universities, including the Open University. I have given courses introducing and using Microcosm at many UK and EU universities. Other Professional Information: I have been a regular reviewer and referee for ACM and IEEE journals and conferences; an invited speaker at many conferences and workshops including "Learning Technology in Higher Education Conference", September 1993, DDG XIII B, OII REFMOD Hypertext and Hypermedia workshop on producing an OII reference model. January 1993., " Status User Conference", Oct. 1993, the "Workshop on Open Hypertext Systems" at the University of Konstanz, May 1994. The "Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems" at the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology, ECHT'94., the 21st IAMSLIC Conference (International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centres), the 2nd Workshop on "Open Hypermedia Systems" at the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology, April 1996. Recent Publications: Andrew Fountain, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath and Hugh Davies. 1990 "Microcosm An Open Model for Hypermedia with Dynamic Linking". In: A. Rizk, N. Streitz and J. Andre eds. Hypertext: Concepts, Systems and Applications. The Proceedings of the European Conference on Hypertext, INRIA, France, November 1990, Cambridge University Press Gillian Lovegrove and Hugh Davies. 1991 "Experimenting with Object-Orientated Programming in the Curriculum". University Computing, 13 pp 163-170. Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath, Gary Hill and Rob Wilkins. 1992 Towards an Integrated Information Environment with Open Hypermedia Systems. In: D. Lucarella, J. Nanard, M. Nanard, P. Paolini. eds. The Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext, ECHT'92, Milano, ACM, 1992. Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall, and Ian Heath. 1993 Media Integration Issues within Open Hypermedia Systems. The Proceedings of the International Symposium on Multimedia Technologies and Future Applications. IEEE, 1993. Hugh Davies, Gerard Hutchings and Wendy Hall. 1993 A Framework for Delivering large-scale Hypermedia Learning Material. In: Hermann Maurer. ed. Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Annual 1993, of ED-MEDIA'93, Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 115-122. AACE. 1993. Les Carr, Hugh Davies and Wendy Hall. 1993 Experimenting with HyTime Architectural Forms for Hypertext Interchange. Journal of Information Services & Use 13(2) pp. 111-119, 1993 Hall, W., Hill, G. J. & Hall, W. Why Use HyTime?. EP-ODD, Vol. 7 No. 1. 1994. Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall and Ian Heath. 1994 Media Integration Issues within Open Hypermedia Systems. In: R. I. Damper, W. Hall & J. Richards: eds. Multimedia Technologies and Future Applications. Pentech Press Ltd. ISBN 0-7273- 13207, 1994. Hutchings, G. A., Hall, W., Davies, H. C. & White, S. 1994 "Resource Based Learning: Creating Reusable Hypermedia for Education" In: The Proceedings of MediaActive, Liverpool, May 1994. Carr, L. A., Hall, W., Davies, H. C. & Hollom, R. J. 1994 The Microcosm Link Service and its Application to the World Wide Web. in: Cailliau, R., R. Nierstrasz, O. & Ruggier, M. eds. The Proceedings of the First International World Wide-Web Conference. Geneva, May 1994 pp 25-34. CERN 1994. Hall, W. & Davies, H. C. 1994 Hypermedia Link Services and Their Application to Multimedia Information Management. Journal of Information and Software Technology. pp. 197-202, 36(4). Davies, H. C., Knight, S. J. Hall, W. Light 1994 "Hypermedia Link Services" In: The Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology. ECHT'94. Edinburgh. ACM Press 1994. Davies, H. C. & Hey, J. M. R. 1995 "Automatic Extraction of Hypermedia Bundles from the Digital Library" In: Shipman, F. M. III, Furuta, R., & Levy, D. M. The Proceedings of Digital Libraries `95. Texas A&M University, June 1995. Davies, H. C. 1995 "To Embed or Not to Embed..." Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38(8), pp 108-109. August 1995. Lewis, P. H., Davies, H. C., Griffiths, S. R., Hall, W. & Wilkins, R. J. 1996 "Media-based Navigation with Generic Links" In: Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext, Hypertext `96, pp. 215-223, ACM, March 1996. Davies, H. C., Lewis, A. J. & Rizk, A. 1996 "OHP: A Draft Proposal for Standard Open Hypermedia Protocol" In: Wiil, U.K. & Demeyer, S. (eds). The Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems, at Hypertext' 96, Washington D.C. UCI-ICS Tech Report 96- 10, University of California, Irvine, April 1996. Hall, W. Davies, H.C., & Hutchings, G. A. 1996 Rethinking Hypermedia : The Microcosm Approach. ISBN 0-7923-9679-0. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Manfred Thaller born 1950 Academic career: 1970 History (originally History and Ancient Oriental Studies) at the University of Graz, Austria. 1975 Ph.D. in Modern History "Studien zum Europaischen Amerikabild. Darstellung und Beurteilung der Politik und inneren Entwicklung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in Deutschland, Gro3britannien und Osterreich zwischen 1840 und 1941 im Vergleich." Postgraduate study of (empirical) sociology as "scholar" of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna; special interest, study of historical mobility studies. Participation in research projects on the history of the family, study of the daily life of the Middle Ages and interlocking directorates of German and Austrian companies. 1978 - present Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte, Goettingen. Responsible for the design and implementation of a general database oriented programming system for history "Kleio". At the same time research on a general methodology of historical computer science. 1995 - present Part-time Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. Responsible for development of M.A. / Ph.D. program in "Historical Computer Science". Visiting professorships at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1987), Queen Mary and Westfield College, London (1993) and the European University Institute, Florence (1993). Academic Projects in the field of Arts/Humanities Computing: 1987-88 Project director: "WORM's als Editionsmedium fur historische Datenbanken", (funded: IBM Germany) 1988-92 "Entwicklung fachspezifischer Software fur die Historischen Wissenschaften", (Grant support - VW Stiftung) 1996-99 "Digitale Archive", (Grant support -VW Stiftung) 1991 Project co-ordinator:- "Sicherstellung der Archive in Auschwitz" 1992 "Autumn School for New Historical Methods at the Moscow State University" 1995 "Technology, Skills and Resources for Historians of the Former Soviet Union" 1991-94 President of the International Association for History and Computing Teaching: 1979 - present Historical Computer Science at the Universities of Gottingen (since 1984) and Munich (since 1985); lectures and seminars at the Universities of Graz, Hamburg, Salzburg, Siegen and Vienna. Intensive courses, primarily on the usage of various software packages at the Universities of Freiburg, Koln, Odense, Utrecht, the Institute of Historical Research, London., Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Summer Institutes: Summer school "Neue Methoden in der Geschichtswissenschaft"; originally at the University of Linz, later at the University of Salzburg, since 1994 at the Universities of Bergen and Salzburg. 1987 - 1992, 1994 and 1996 organizer of a summer school on source orientated data processing in Goettingen. Publications - since 1986 As author 1986 "Can We Afford to Use the Computer; Can We Afford not to Use it?" In: H. Millet (Ed.) Informatique et Prosopographie, Paris 1986 "A Draft Proposal for the Coding of Machine Readable Sources", in Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung. 40 (October1986). 1987 "Methods and Techniques of Historical Computation" in: Peter Denley and Deian Hopkin (Eds.): History and Computing, Manchester 1987. 1987 "Auf dem Weg zu einem Standard fur maschinenlesbare Quellen", in Friedrich Hausmann et. al. (Eds.): Datennetze fur die Historischen Wissenschaften , Graz . 1987 "The Daily Life of the Middle Ages, Editions of Sources and Data Processing", in: Medium Aevum Quotidianum 10 (1987). 1987 "Secundum Manus. Zur Datenverarbeitung mehrschichtiger Editionen", in Gunther Cerwinka et al. (Ed.): Beitrage zur Geschichte und Ihren Grundlagen, Festschrift Friedrich Hausmann zum 70. Geburtstag, Graz 1988 "Vom Beleg zum Begriff. Der Beitrag der Datenverarbeitung zur Losung von Terminologieproblemen", in: G. M. Dienes et al. (Eds.): Ut populus ad historiam trahatur., (Graz ,1988). 1988 "Gibt es eine fachspezifische Datenverarbeitung in den historischen Wissenschaften? Quellenbanktechniken in der Geschichtswissenschaft", in: H. Kaufhold and J. Schneider (Eds.): Geschichtswissenschaft und elektronische Datenverarbeitung (Wiesbaden 1988.) 1988 "A Draft Proposal for a Format Exchange Program", in: Jean-Philippe Genet (Ed.): Standardisation et echange des bases de donnees historiques., Actes de la troiseme Table Ronde Internationale tenue au L.I.S.H. (Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifique), (Paris 1988). 1988 "Was sind `fortgeschrittene Kenntnisse' in formalen Verfahren fur Historiker", in: Manfred Thaller, Gerhard Botz et al. (Eds.): Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, (Frankfurt / New York Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Frankfurt / New York . 1989 Kleio "Ein Datenbanksystem" St. Katharinen 1989 and later editions (Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 1). (St. Katharinen 1989, (Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 2). 1989 "Have Very Large Data Bases Methodological Relevance?", in: Otto Opitz (Ed.): Conceptual and Numerical Analysis of Data, Berlin 1989 "Warum brauchen die Geschichtswissenschaften fachspezifische datentechnische L'osungen? Das Beispiel kontextsensitiver Datenbanken", in: Manfred Thaller and Albert Muller (Eds.): Computer in den Geisteswissenschaften. Konzepte und Berichte, Frankfurt a. Main Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft 7 . 1989 "The Need for a Theory of Historical Computing", in: Peter Denley et al. (Eds.): History and Computing II, Manchester and New York . 1990 "Sphragid`Geographische Angaben in einer Historischen Datenbank", in: Eratosthene e 2 (1990). 1990 "Databases and Expert Systems as Complementary Tools for Historical Research", in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 103 (1990). 1990 "Entzauberungen. Die Entwicklung einer fachspezifischen historischen Datenverarbeitung in der Bundesrepublik", in: W. Prinz und P. Weingart (Eds.): Die sogenannten Geisteswissenschaften: Innenansichten. Frankfurt a. Main 1990 "The Need for Standards: Data Modelling and Exchange", in: Daniel Greenstein (Ed.): Modelling Historical Data, St. Katharinen 1991 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 11. 1991 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 16 (1991). 1991 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Computers and the Humanities 25 (1991). 1992 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Josef Smets (Ed.): Histoire et Informatique, Montpellier 1992. 1992 "The Processing of Manuscripts", in: Manfred Thaller (Ed.) Images and Manuscripts in Historical Computing, St. Katharinen 1992 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 14 1991 "Bildanalyse in der Geschichtswissenschaft", in: W. Neubauer und K.-H. Meier (Eds.): Deutscher Dokumentartag 1991 1992 "On the Conception, Training and Employment of Historical Data and Knowledge Daemons", in: Jan Oldervoll (Ed.): Eden or Babylon?, St. Katharinen . 1992 "Von der Miverst andlichkeit des Selbstverst andlichen", in: Rudolf Vierhaus et al. (Eds.): Fruhe Neuzeit-Fruhe Moderne. Forschungen zur Vielschichtigkeit von Ubergangsprozessen, Gottingen 1992 Veroff. des MPI fur. Geschichte 104. 1993 "Kleio A Database System", St. Katharinen 1993 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 11. 1993 "The Archive on the Top of your Desk? On Self-Documenting Image Files", in: Jurij Fikfak and Gerhart Jaritz (Eds.): Image Processing in History: towards Open Systems, St. Katharinen Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 16. 1993 "Historical Information Science: Is there such a Thing? New Comments on an Old Idea", in: Tito Orlandi (Eds.): Seminario Discipline Humanistiche e Informatica. Il problema dell' integrazione, (Roma 1993 ) Contributi Del Centor Linceo Interdisciplinare `Beniamo Segre' 87. 1994 "Source Oriented Data Processing", in: Informatik Forum 8. (1994). 1994 "Die Herausforderung groSer Korpora unstrukturierter Texte", in: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Berichte und Mitteilungen 1 1994. 1994 "Bilder und Manuskripte als Gegenstand der rechnergstutzten Bearbeitung", in: EDV-Tage Theuern 1993. Kolloquiumsbericht, Munich 1994. 1995 "Source Oriented Data Processing and Quantification: Distrustful Brothers", in: Manfred Thaller et. al: Statistics for Historians: Standard Packages and Specific Historical Software, St. Katharinen 1995 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 26. 1995 "The Archive on Top of Your Desk: An Introduction to Self-Documenting Image Files", in: Historical Methods 28 (1995). 1996 "L'immagine del passato: Accesso e memorizzazione delle fonti della cultura visiva", in: Immagini e memoria elettronica, Bologna. 1996 "Inventare und Forschungssysteme: Zwei Seiten einer Munze oder unterschiedliche Wahrungen?", in: EDV-Tage Theuern Kolloquiumsbericht, Munchen. As Editor 1981 - 1984 Software Editor for Historical Social Research / Historische Sozial -forschung: Quarterly reports. Since 1989 Series Editor of the Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik: so far ca. 30 volumes. Die Praxis der Quantifizierung in der osterreichischen Geschichtsforschung, abgedruckt in Bericht uber den 16 . Osterreichische Historikertag, Wien 1985. Datenbanken als Werkzeug Historischer Sozialforschung St. Katharinen 1986 Historisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen 20. with Ursula Klenk und Peter Scherber: Computerlinguistik und philologische Datenverarbeitung, Hildesheim etc. 1987 Linguistische Datenverarbeitung 7. with Gerhard Botz et. al. Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Frankfurt / New York 1988. with Albert Muller: "Computer in den Geisteswissenschaften. Konzepte und Berichte", Frankfurt a. Main 1989 Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft 7. with Heino Best und Ekkehard Mochmann: Computers in the Humanities and Social Sciences Munchen etc. 1991. Images and Manuscripts in Historical Computing, [St. Katharinen 1992] Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 14. with Leonid Borodkin and John Turner: Statistics for Historians: Standard Packages and Specific Historical Software, St. Katharinen 1995 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 26. --------- Fee Structure, Course Timetable The LUSIAS courses are offered as graduate programming. Students may also enroll on a non-credit basis. Credit and non-credit registration forms are available by clicking to go to the appropriate on-line registration form. Additional information can be sought from the contact addresses at the bottom of this page. A limited number of bursaries will be offered to students enrolled in three courses for academic credit. These bursaries will be awarded on the basis of academic performance. Course Timetable July 7 to 15, 1997 GS 5511 Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems July 16 to 26, 1997 GS 5115 Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities GS 5116 Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems GS 5117 Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning. Fee Structure 1 course (.5 FCE) $1,000 Canadian 2 courses (1.0 FCE) $2,000 Canadian 3 courses (1.5 FCE) $2,500 Canadian $200 is payable on registration, with the balance due at the start of the course. Make cheques payable to Lakehead University and send to the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. Registration Deadlines May 31, 1997 For more information please contact: Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1 telephone (807)343-8785 fax (807)346-7749 email LUSIAS@lakeheadu.ca From: "Dr. Pauline Kra" Subject: Re: 11.0077 suicide philosophically Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 11:27:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 114 (114) Dear Gregory, I am very grateful to you for the extensive expert bibliography. Your response to my query on the internet proves the power of the medium. Since you are uniquely qualified to interpret the Montesquieu letters on suicide, would you expand your comments on them? Where do you see the intention to "mock Neo-Stoicism"? Pauline From: David McNeil Subject: Re: 11.0077 suicide philosophically Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 12:16:01 -0300 (ADT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 115 (115) On philosophical discussions of suicide, see David Hume's suppressed essay in which he defends the practice. His publisher would have none of it. See also Arthur Schopenhauer who ultimately rejects suicide as a capitulation to the will but who expresses much sympathy for suicidal tendencies (& supports Hume's ideas to a degree). For Schopenhauer, see the essay on suicide and "suicide" in the index to _The World as Will and Representation_ (vol. 2)--Payne translation. David McNeil dmcneil@is.dal.ca From: Emily Rose Subject: Re: 11.0076 EPI-Centre? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 21:13:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 116 (116) [deleted quotation] You might try the H-Judaic list. From: Denis Dutton (141) Subject: The Annual Bad Writing Contest (fwd) Date: Sat, 31 May 97 12:26:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 117 (117) --Bad Writing Contest Winners-- We are pleased to announce winners of the third Bad Writing Contest, sponsored by the scholarly journal Philosophy and Literature (published by the Johns Hopkins University Press) and its internet discussion group, PHIL-LIT. The Bad Writing Contest attempts to locate the ugliest, most stylistically awful passage found in a scholarly book or article published in the last few years. Ordinary journalism, fiction, etc. are not eligible, nor are parodies: entries must be non-ironic, from actual serious academic journals or books. In a field where unintended self-parody is so widespread, deliberate send-ups are hardly necessary. This year's winning passages include prose published by established, successful scholars, experts who have doubtless labored for years to write like this. Obscurity, after all, can be a notable achievement. The fame and influence of writers such as Hegel, Heidegger, or Derrida rests in part on their mysterious impenetrability. On the other hand, as a cynic once remarked, John Stuart Mill never attained Hegel's prestige because people found out what he meant. This is a mistake the authors of our our prize-winning passages seem determined to avoid. * The first prize goes to a sentence by the distinguished scholar Fredric Jameson, a man who on the evidence of his many admired books finds it difficult to write intelligibly and impossible to write well. Whether this is because of the deep complexity of Professor Jameson's ideas or their patent absurdity is something readers must decide for themselves. Here, spotted for us by Dave Roden of Central Queensland University in Australia, is the very first sentence of Professor Jameson's book, Signatures of the Visible (Routledge, 1990, p. 1): "The visual is _essentially_ pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination; thinking about its attributes becomes an adjunct to that, if it is unwilling to betray its object; while the most austere films necessarily draw their energy from the attempt to repress their own excess (rather than from the more thankless effort to discipline the viewer)." The appreciative Mr. Roden says it is "good of Jameson to let readers know so soon what they're up against." We cannot see what the second "that" in the sentence refers to. And imagine if that uncertain "it" were willing to betray its object? The reader may be baffled, but then any author who thinks visual experience is essentially pornographic suffers confusions no lessons in English composition are going to fix. * If reading Fredric Jameson is like swimming through cold porridge, there are writers who strive for incoherence of a more bombastic kind. Here is our next winner, which was found for us by Professor Cynthia Freeland of the University of Houston. The writer is Professor Rob Wilson: "If such a sublime cyborg would insinuate the future as post-Fordist subject, his palpably masochistic locations as ecstatic agent of the sublime superstate need to be decoded as the 'now-all-but-unreadable DNA' of a fast deindustrializing Detroit, just as his Robocop-like strategy of carceral negotiation and street control remains the tirelessly American one of inflicting regeneration through violence upon the racially heteroglossic wilds and others of the inner city." This colorful gem appears in a collection called The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere, edited by Richard Burt "for the Social Text Collective" (University of Minnesota Press, 1994). Social Text is the cultural studies journal made famous by publishing physicist Alan Sokal's jargon-ridden parody of postmodernist writing. If this essay is Social Text's idea of scholarship, little wonder it fell for Sokal's hoax. (And precisely what are "racially heteroglossic wilds and others"?) Dr. Wilson is an English professor, of course. * That incomprehensibility need not be long-winded is proven by our third-place winner, sent in by Richard Collier, who teaches at Mt. Royal College in Canada. It's a sentence from Making Monstrous: Frankenstein, Criticism, Theory, by Fred Botting (Manchester University Press, 1991): "The lure of imaginary totality is momentarily frozen before the dialectic of desire hastens on within symbolic chains." * Still, prolixity is often a feature of bad writing, as demonstrated by our next winner, a passage submitted by Mindy Michels, a graduate anthropology student at the American University in Washington, D.C. It's written by Stephen Tyler, and appears in Writing Culture, edited (it says) by James Clifford and George E. Marcus (University of California Press, 1986). Of what he calls "post-modern ethnography," Professor Tyler says: "It thus relativizes discourse not just to form--that familiar perversion of the modernist; nor to authorial intention--that conceit of the romantics; nor to a foundational world beyond discourse--that desperate grasping for a separate reality of the mystic and scientist alike; nor even to history and ideology--those refuges of the hermeneuticist; nor even less to language--that hypostasized abstraction of the linguist; nor, ultimately, even to discourse--that Nietzschean playground of world-lost signifiers of the structuralist and grammatologist, but to all or none of these, for it is anarchic, though not for the sake of anarchy but because it refuses to become a fetishized object among objects--to be dismantled, compared, classified, and neutered in that parody of scientific scrutiny known as criticism." * A bemused Dr. Tim van Gelder of the University of Melbourne sent us the following sentence: "Since thought is seen to be 'rhizomatic' rather than 'arboreal,' the movement of differentiation and becoming is already imbued with its own positive trajectory." It's from The Continental Philosophy Reader, edited by Richard Kearney and Mara Rainwater (Routledge, 1996), part of an editors' introduction intended to help students understand a chapter. Dr. van Gelder says, "No undergraduate student I've given this introduction to has been able to make the slightest sense of it. Neither has any faculty member." * An assistant professor of English at a U.S. university (she prefers to remain anonymous) entered this choice morsel from The Cultures of United States Imperialism, by Donald Pease (Duke University Press, 1993): "When interpreted from within the ideal space of the myth-symbol school, Americanist masterworks legitimized hegemonic understanding of American history expressively totalized in the metanarrative that had been reconstructed out of (or more accurately read into) these masterworks." While the entrant says she enjoys the Bad Writing Contest, she's fearful her career prospects would suffer were she to be identified as hostile to the turn by English departments toward movies and soap operas. We quite understand: these days the worst writers in universities are English professors who ignore "the canon" in order to apply tepid, vaguely Marxist gobbledygook to popular culture. Young academics who'd like a career had best go along. * But it's not just the English department where jargon and incoherence are increasingly the fashion. Susan Katz Karp, a graduate student at Queens College in New York City, found this splendid nugget showing that forward-thinking art historians are doing their desperate best to import postmodern style into their discipline. It's from an article by Professor Anna C. Chave, writing in Art Bulletin (December 1994): "To this end, I must underline the phallicism endemic to the dialectics of penetration routinely deployed in descriptions of pictorial space and the operations of spectatorship." The next round of the Bad Writing Contest, results to be announced in 1998, is now open with a deadline of December 31, 1997. There is an endless ocean of pretentious, turgid academic prose being added to daily, and we'll continue to celebrate it. ********************************** Dr. Denis Dutton Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Art Editor, Philosophy and Literature University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Phones: 64-3-366-7001, ext. 8154; 643-348-7928 (home) d.dutton@fina.canterbury.ac.nz From: Geoffrey Rockwell (5) Subject: ARE YOU BEING INVESTIGATED ???? (fwd) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 118 (118) Dear Willard and fellow Humanists, An example of a recent SPAM message I recieved that should be of concern to all. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Learn EVERYTHING about your friends, neighbors, enemies, employees or anyone else! -- even your boss! -- even yourself! My mammoth SNOOP COLLECTION of internet sites will provide you... * Over 200 giant resources to look up people, credit, social security, current or past employment, mail order purchases, addresses, phone numbers, maps to city locations... it's incredible... * Track down an old debt, or anyone else that has done you wrong! * Locate an old friend (or an enemy who is hiding) or a lost love -- Find e-mail, telephone or address information on anyone! Even look up *unlisted* phone numbers! * Investigate your family history! Check birth, death, adoption or social security records Check service records of Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps. * Enjoy the enchantment of finding out a juicy tid-bit about a co-worker. * Check out your daughter's new boyfriend! * Find trial transcripts and court orders! * Find WORK by searching classified ads ALL OVER THE WORLD! * SCREEN prospective employees -- Check credit, driving or criminal records Verify income or educational accomplishments The Internet is a POWERFUL megasource of information, if you only know WHERE to look. I tell you how to find out nearly ANYTHING about anybody, and tell you exactly where to find it! You will be amazed to find out what PERSONAL information other people can find out about YOU! Check your credit report so you can correct WRONG information that may be used to deny you credit. Research YOURSELF first! You'll be horrified, as I was, at how much data has accumulated about you. If you believe (like I do) that the information that is stored about EACH ONE OF US should be freely accessible, you'll want to see the SNOOP COLLECTION I've compiled. Verify your own records, or find out what you need to know about others. And my huge collection is ONLY THE BEGINNING! Once you locate these FREE private, college and government web sites, you'll find even MORE links to even MORE information search engines! I'm telling you, it's incredible what you can find out using the internet! FOUR WAYS TO ORDER 1) WE TAKE: AMERICAN EXPRESS <> VISA <> MASTERCARD [material omitted] [deleted quotation] [material omitted] which will fully explain... * What information is available -- and exact URL to get there! * My easy-to-browse, categorized megacenter of information, has my own description of how to use each site, and what you'll find when you get there -- and tricky tips on how to extract the best data! * Exactly where to look for -- AND THE CLEVER WAY to use - the above search engines, and TONS more! INCLUDING ... Personal ads, logs of personal e-mail, mention of individuals anywhere on the internet (including PRIVATE bulletin boards), lists of resources to find even more information (private investigators, etc...), how to leverage one database against another, up-to-the-second news reports on any subject you choose, and MORE... Order surveillance/snoop tools (if legal in your state) Send anonymous e-mail Research companies or business issues Research and discuss the issue of privacy and technology Locate military records from Viet Nam, Korea, WW II, etc... Search legal opinions, trial transcripts, etc... Find Wanted fugitives -- maybe your reclusive neighor! You can know EVERYTHING about EVERYBODY with my SNOOP COLLECTION! ABSOLUTE SATISIFACTION GUARANTEED: Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed, just return the material for a full refund within 30 days if you aren't dazed & amazed. Copyright 1997 All Rights Reserved From: Donald Theall Subject: Re: 11.0020 CIEC; Monday MOO Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:51:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 119 (119) Almost three weeks ago, Willard raised the question of the forthcoming CDA decision anticipated from the U.S. Supreme Court in the near future. At the time I was undergoing surgery and thus not able to reply, but on returning I was surprised to see that there had been no response. While the results of the decision will only legally affect the United States, the issue itself and the U.S. approach towards it has implications everywhere, for it is bound to play a role in discussions about the free flow of information on the Internet globally. Currently I am working on an article on Censorship and the Internet to be published in a book on Censorship in Canada. In the course of researching and organizing this article, it has become apparent that certain decisions seemingly directed towards the prohibition of material deemed dangerous to certain sectors of society (e.g., children), or which might lead to dangerous actions against some group (e.g., hate literature) could have a profound impact on the normally expected freedom of inquiry within the research community -- that means us! If the CDA were to pass in its present form and similar legislation to be adopted in other countries as well, the danger to freedom of research inquiry -- in fact even to the more general public's freedom of inquiry and expression -- is apparent, as the U.S. District Court made clear in its decision which found the CDA legislation in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. But even if the CDA were to be rejected in full or in part by the Supreme Court of the United States, it is apparent that there will still be a strong movement to enforce legislatively the use of filtering software in public institutions, as well as providing it for parents in the home. Debates concerning the use of filtering software in public libraries have already surfaced in many areas (e.g. Boston) and in the course of exploring those controversies, it has become apparent that, in spite of the right of any user of a library to have free and unhindered access to all information, whoever controls the filtering software is making decisions which, without being clearly communicated to those using the facilities, may well block them from sources of important information without their even being aware of it. Such sites as those of the Electronic Freedom Foundation at M.I.T. have presumably been blocked by some widely used filtering software. It is arguable -- apart from libraries and other public institutions -- that on a variety of grounds this could also be extended to colleges and universities: protection of students under 18 years of age, support of presumed possibilities of harassment and dissemination of hate literature. I am trying to avoid getting into arguing the issues raised by Stanley Fish and others justifying censorship (although they obviously are extremely problematic) by raising only the issue of the university research community retaining the same free, open, and uninhibited research sources that it currently experiences. It is conceivable that such filtering could prevent students, and even faculty from access to crucial materials. The CDA issue and accompanying actions by other countries and international bodies to control the Internet must raise questions and concerns among humanists as well as all university researchers. Therefore, the profound silence after Willard's query has been one of those intriguing silences which we humanists are always tempted to interminably interpret. I realize the complexity of the problem and the difficulty in dealing with it briefly online is a factor in such silence, but I suspect there are many others. Yet to a community such as we humanists, who instinctively query any censorship, this is an issue of major importance. I would be curious to know the opinions of others on the issues posed by the CDA controversy currently receiving major attention in the world arena -- from Germany to Singapore and from China to the UN -- since it is bound to have some effects on our university communities. These may be minor and short-term; or they may be major and create a long-term battle to maintain essential rights which we have already achieved. So that some of our colleagues do not think I am being elitist, I believe the same freedoms that we have had in the universities, should be guaranteed to all. But I am raising here the specific problems presented to freedom of research and inquiry, which I believe humanists need to discuss among themselves. The broader issues are already being vigorously discussed in many other electronic forums, but there has been relatively little discussion as to the specific potential threats to the community of scholars. Perhaps a serious discussion of the harm that even a little control of research inquiry and academic freedom can do to academic integrity would provide an additional basis to defend these values for the broader global community. Donald Theall University Professor Emeritus Trent University On Wednesday, May 11th Willard McCarty wrote: The U.S. Supreme Court is due to hand down its decision on the infamous Communications Decency Act in June or July of this year. Meanwhile, information about the hearings on 19 March of this year are available from the Web site of the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC), "a broad group of Internet users, library groups, publishers, online service providers, and civil liberties groups", <http://www.ciec.org/>. Further pointers and comments welcome. From: Beth Kanter Subject: CA Governor's Conference on the Arts Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 14:05:48 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 120 (120) The California Arts Council's 1997 CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE ON THE ARTS (http://www.govcon.org) is examining the increasingly important issue of the globalization of the world economy, the telecommunications revolution, and the importance of the marketplace of ideas as they affect the arts. An online component, implemented by Arts Wire at http://www.artswire.org/reg/gov_reg.cgi provides an opportunity for anyone interested to participate Beth Kanter Arts Wire Network Coordinator kanter@artswire.org <http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/spiderschool/spider.htm> ======================================================================== Archives & Museum Informatics, Europe presents ICHIM 97 in partnership with le Musée du Louvre The Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums will be held 1-5 September 1997 at Le Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. Two days of pre-conference workshops and events are followed by three days of presentations by over 60 experts from around the world. Theme days feature Multimedia Publications, Geographic Information and the World Wide Web. Three days of rotating exhibits include dozens of demonstrations by developers of museum projects and commercial firms active in museum computing and cultural publication. Numerous opportunities will be provided for social interaction. The Preliminary Program and Registration details for ICHIM 97 are available at: www.archimuse.com/ichim97 ====================================================================== THE SPECIALIZED SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPH IN CRISIS OR HOW CAN I GET TENURE IF YOU WON'T PUBLISH MY BOOK? SEPTEMBER 11-12, 1997 WASHINGTON, DC CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY: AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PRESSES ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES "Saving 'Tenure Books' From a Painful Demise" Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/1/96 "Profit Squeeze for Publishers Makes Tenure More Elusive" New York Times, 11/18/96 Recent headlines in the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education warn of the dangers posed by the threat to the specialized scholarly monograph. The primary market for specialized monographs--research libraries--has been burdened over the past decade with significant increases in the costs of science and technology journals, resulting in dramatic decreases in monographic purchases. Faced with this eroding market and declining subsidies from both universities and funding agencies, university presses can no longer afford to publish the specialized research which is central to their mission. As a consequence, young faculty are not getting tenured or promoted, undermining the future of education and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. This conference on the specialized scholarly monograph brings together faculty, administrators, publishers, and librarians to focus attention on an issue central to the entire academic enterprise. It examines the current state of scholarly communication and explores the potential of new technologies to provide both new means of dissemination and new formats for conducting research and communicating the results. The conference examines: * the issues involved in the creation and dissemination of scholarly communication from the perspectives of a university administrator, scholar, publisher, and librarian; * the functions and costs involved in the scholarly communication process, examining the factors which have contributed to the endangered status of the monograph; * expectations for young faculty, and how and why they are changing; * how the issues differ across fields and disciplines and how these variables affect the decisions made by the presses; * current experiments in monographic publishing; and * new frameworks in scholarly communication and how these might provide new models for creation and dissemination of research. INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: John D'Arms, ACLS Scott Bennett, Yale University Library Stanley Chodorow, University of Pennsylvania Sandria Freitag, American Historical Association Joanna Hitchcock, University of Texas Press Peter Nathan, University of Iowa Marlie Wasserman, Rutgers University Press For more information or to register online, see <http://arl.cni.org/scomm/epub/program.html> -- Mary Case, Director Office of Scholarly Communication Association of Research Libraries 21 Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 296-2296 X112 Fax: (202) 872-0884 Internet: marycase@cni.org From: David Zeitlyn Subject: RAI Anthropology Today - Contents and Calendar of Events Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 12:17:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 121 (121) The RAI's publication Anthropology Today for June 1997 is now in press. The table of contents is already available on the RAI pages http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai/at.html and the calendar of events 'AnthroCal' which is availble from http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai/AnthToday/AnthCal.html We hope this is found to be useful (apologies for cross-posting) best wishes david z Dr David Zeitlyn, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Eliot College, The University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NS UK. Tel. (44) 1227 764000 -Extn 3360 (or 823360 direct) Fax (44) 1227 827289 http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/ From: David Green Subject: FCC CHAIR REED HUNDT TO STEP DOWN Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:28:54 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 122 (122) NINCH ANNOUNCE May 27, 1997 FCC CHAIR REED HUNDT TO STEP DOWN An important announcement, forwarded from the Benton Foundation, about Reed Hundt's announcement this afternoon of his intention to leave the FCC in the next few months. In many ways, Hundt has been an ally of the nonprofit community in the telecommunications arena. Note Andrew Blau's comments at the end of this Benton Announcement. David Green ==================== FCC Chairman Reed Hundt Announces Plan to Leave Commission Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt announced this afternoon that he will be stepping down from the Commission. Although Chairman Hundt's term does not expire until June 1998, his announcement today will set in motion a process that will probably end his tenure within the next few months. At a press conference at the FCC, Mr. Hundt noted the Commission's work to "put the power of communications into the hands of every child" as his greatest accomplishment. Also noted as important accomplishments were the FCC's rules of children's television and efforts to win free airtime for political candidates. Hundt pointed out that since the beginning of the Clinton Administration, 12 million new jobs have been created -- 8 million in the communications industry. Chairman Hundt said he felt lucky to have been asked to serve by President Clinton. The Chairman said that he has no immediate plans other than writing. He has a title for a work of nonfiction -- So You Want A Revolution -- on bringing competition to the communications industry. Hundt also plans to publish a work of fiction. Asked of his role at the Commission over the next few weeks, the Chairman said he would continue to be active and be a full voting member: "We're going to see if this duck can fly." Speaking for the Benton Foundation after the press conference, Andrew Blau said: "Whether the issue was connecting America's classrooms, paving the way for digital television, or ensuring that universal service would survive into the next century, Reed Hundt has been the best friend the public interest community has had in the Chairman's office for at least a generation - if not longer. "The last four years have been one of the most extraordinary periods for communications since the creation of the FCC itself, yet Chairman Hundt has been a principled voice for fairness and the public interest throughout. His door was open to people and constituencies that hadn't been on the 8th floor before. "He has been smart, took risks, and even dared to be unpopular -- a rare and risky thing in this political town. But his government service has been a true public service, and we will miss his leadership. We wish him the best of luck in whatever he does next." ================================== Communications Policy and Practice Benton Foundation 1634 Eye St, NW 12th Floor Washington, DC 20006 202.638.5770 202.638.5771 (fax) http://www.benton.org =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: tracihon Subject: JCMC's newest issue is out! Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:27:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 123 (123) Table of Contents, Volume 3, No. 1: "Studying the Net" Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Read JCMC at any of these sites: http://www.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/vol3/issue1/ http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol3/issue1/ http://207.201.161.120/jcmc/vol3/issue1/ In this issue: "Studying Online Social Networks" Laura Garton Sociology Department and Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto Caroline Haythornthwaite Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Barry Wellman Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto "Assessing the Structure of Communication on the World Wide Web" Michele Jackson Department of Communication, Florida State University "Casting the Net: Surveying an Internet Population" Christine Biship Smith Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California and Department of Systems Management, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey "Getting the Seats of Your Pants Dirty: A Methodology for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities" Luciano Paccagnella Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Università di Torino and Dipartimento di Sociologia, Università di Milano "Evaluating the World Wide Web: A Global Study of Commercial Sites" James K. Ho Department of Information and Decision Sciences and Applied Research and Consulting Services College of Business Administration University of Illinois at Chicago Brief Reports "On-line Services in India: A Market Analysis" Kaushik Banerjee Network Programs India "Demographics and Behavior of the Chilean Internet Population" Miguel Mendoza H. Jose A. Alvarez de Toledo Programa de Extensión en Computación e Informática Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas Universidad de Chile From: Costis Dallas Subject: Re: 11.0078 suicide philosophically Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 09:52:23 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 124 (124) An account of suicide in literature which I personally found fascinating back in the eighties - with many references - is Alvarez' The Savage God. It must have appeared in paperback form (Penguin? Pelican?) - can't recall other publication details. Also, a more specific reference: Nicole Loraux, Facons tragiques de tuer une femme, Hachette 1985, provides an interesting reading of how women in Greek tragedy, such as Ifigeneia, "internalise" their imminent murder - surely a form of suicide. There are more straightforward suicide instances too. Apologies if I repeat references you already know. Costis Dallas # Dr Constantinos Dallas, Visiting Associate Professor # Dept of Computer Science, University of Crete # Tel. (3081) 393576, 393502 (301) 8084193 # mailto:dallas@csd.uch.gr http://www.csd.uch.gr/~dallas From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0078 suicide philosophically Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:58:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 125 (125) Hume's essay on suicide is on the web if you are unaware at the Hume homepage. From: "Thomas P. Copley" Subject: ANNOUNCE> Summer '97 Links Workshop Still Open Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 23:18:12 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 126 (126) MAKE THE LINK WORKSHOP (WORLD WIDE WEB FOR EVERYONE) The Make the Link Workshop (World Wide Web for Everyone) is an eight week long distance learning workshop conducted entirely by HTML mail*. It introduces the beginner to the World Wide Web (WWW), the Internet's distributed hypermedia information system, and enhances the skills of the somewhat more experienced user as well. The workshop has been newly updated to reflect the latest information on HTML authoring tools, including NetObjects Fusion, Microsoft Front Page and Netscape Navigator Gold. The workshop also includes guidance on how to select an Internet service provider. Three Make the Link Workshop sessions will be scheduled for this summer. The dates are: June Session............. June 16 - August 9 July Session............. July 14 - September 6 August Session........... August 11 - October 3 The cost of the Workshop is $20 US. Sign up for ONE session only unless you plan to take the Workshop more than once.. To sign up for one of the Make the Link Workshop sessions, please send an e-mail message to the address: majordomo@arlington.com and in the body of the message, include: subscribe links-jun to subscribe to the June session, or subscribe links-jul to subscribe to July session, or subscribe links-aug to subscribe to the August session. This will automatically put you on the mailing list for more information about the Workshop, and you will receive an acknowledgment with the particulars about signing up, and unsubscribing, should you decide not to participate. If you have any difficulty with this procedure or fail to receive a response, please send e-mail to this address: tcopley@arlington.com The Workshop leader, Thomas P. Copley, Ph.D., has taught the popular Make the Link Workshop since 1995. He is also the author of the Tune In the Net Workshop <http://www.bearfountain.com/arlington/tune.html>, which will also be conducted this summer.. ________________________________________________________________ THOMAS P. COPLEY tcopley@arlington.com Make the Link Workshop www.bearfountain.com/arlington/ From: Stefan Sinclair <4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca> Subject: Humanities Computing Repository Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:35:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 127 (127) *** Please distribute widely *** to any and all computing humanists <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/> The Prospect of the inaugural number of Computers in the Humanities (1966) gives as the principle goals of the journal to encourage collaboration between researchers of various Humanites disciplines and to minimize needless repetition of work. The Humanities Computing Repository has the very same objectives. The Repository is a dynamic database that allows researchers to add entries for their work. Since these entries are available through the World Wide Web, they are easily accessible to all who might be interested. The Repository has very recently been made available, so please take a few moments to add an entry if you have worked on or are currently working on any project that you think may be of use to others. These projects include, but are not limited to, scholarly articles and journals, computer programs and databases. The interest and usefulness of a central repository for applications in humanistic computing need surely not be insisted upon. We look forward to seeing a description of your work in the Humanities Computing Repository. <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/> ------------------------ Stéfan Sinclair Departement of French 4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca Queen's University <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/> Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L 3N6 QI: <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/> (613) 545-2090 From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0083 censorship: CDA decision Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:40:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 128 (128) As a father of six children who allows them full access to the internet my solution is to tell my children the type of sites that I consider to be off limits to them and to have two caches of every page and downloaded file. Of course my children like to pull my chain occasionally. The other day I was going through the cache and I came across 12 jpegs that were entitled hot chicks 1-12. When I looked at the jpegs they turned out to be jpegs of fried chicken. Nice joke on me. Are you aware that the concern about sexual material on the web has turned those sites into some of the few sites on the web actually making money. Because you now have to have some sort of proof that you are an adult to get on. And usually that is a credit card number? As for sites which would not be considered politically correct as well as the one's that are, I think that we just have to live with them. You outlaw them and you find yourself running into talk about black data banks and libraries and blocking off parts of the web or services as Germany did with Compuserve and Communist China is trying right now. Or you are going to have people using PGP or it's like to communicated with whomever or whatever. From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0085 privacy? Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:58:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 129 (129) This is part of what I do in my business. About 80% of the items that are mentioned are of public record and anyone who knows how can access them. The remaining 20% are not. Unlisted phone numbers, credit reports and the like are all governed by privacy laws that have heavy fines and prison time for those caught breaking them. You run credit checks on people without their permission and you are in major trouble if they find out. Why do you think when you borrow money that you are required to sign a release? Part of this is cause by the information that financial institutions and governmental institutions ask in their applications and they are becoming more intrusive all the time. But you don't have to answer them. Recently the public schools in my area started asking for my children's social security numbers so that their files can be indexed under those numbers. I refused to do that. The social security number is what links up everything. And anyone who has it can link up your entire life. Your school,financial and medical records all become available to those who have it. From: K.SOHEIL@kcl.ac.uk Subject: RE: 11.0085 privacy? Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 16:13:27 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 130 (130) In reply to Geoffrey Rockwell's (are you the son of Peter Rockwell?) forwarded message re: privacy, is it for real, has anyone checked it out, doesn't it sound too much like a scam? Even if a scam, I'm pretty certain that the content is more true than not. I once called an operator at the telephone company on some query and soon realisedshe had access to information concerning my bank and insurance accounts and could trace my movements of the past 12 years. It requires no specific training or qualification to get her job. Short of breaking in and destroying all data, can anyone imagine a solution? "Rollerball" seems to have been far too accurate a vision: big business and sports. We need some positive checks. K. Soheil k.soheil@kcl.ac.uk From: Jeff Finlay Subject: bad writing wins Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 19:47:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 131 (131) [deleted quotation] It doesn't seem very philosophical to single out poststructuralist prose as the only kind of bad writing in academia. One would think a philosophy scholar would give second thought to what constitutes "badness." I don't see any writing in here by Lynne Cheney or ED Hirsch, but it seems they are equally "bad" to my way of thinking as any of the postmodern mouthfuls quoted in your message. Best Wishes, Jeff Finlay From: Charles Young Subject: Re: 11.0087 bad writing Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 19:12:53 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 132 (132) Jeff Finlay wrote: [deleted quotation] I myself disagree with much of what I've read of Cheney's, with rather less with what I've read of Hirsch's, but I've not noticed any special problems with either's prose. Quite the contrary, in fact, my impression is that Cheney is ususally quite clear, and that Hirsch is not only clear but sometimes elegant. Do you have any passages to cite of bad prose by either of them? I'm genuinely curious; this is not a bash. Best wishes, Charles From: Michael Guest Subject: Re: 11.0087 bad writing Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 18:30:11 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 133 (133) [deleted quotation] Me too. I suppose that one difficulty is that poststructuralism works against conventional grammar (c.f. Nietszche: "God is not yet dead while we still have grammar"). So too certain literatures, such as Joyce's "world's most famous unread book" _FW_ and Beckett of course. It would be easy for someone to pull bits out of Beckett and poke fun at him in the same way, on the grounds of impenetrable prose. At random: "nothing too to be sure often nothing in spite of everything dead as mutton warm and rosy always inclined that way ever since the womb if I may judge by what I know less and less that's true of myself since the womb the panting stops I murmur it" (_How It Is_ woops, lost the page). The most incredibly boring, thickheaded reading is without exception grammatically and stylistically scupulous. Moreover, from a poststructuralist point of view, I guess you could say that "transparent" writing is a priori crap, posited on an ideological illusion of the sign. The more you try to describe it, the worse it gets, as you see here. Wasn't one of the references to that stupid so called "parody" of postmodernism written by some illiterate? I had a giggle and accepted it underneath for what it is, some kind of retro backhander to have them haw-haw and hem-hemming. All mockery is self-mockery, after all. Dr Michael Guest Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Shizuoka University, Japan guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp From: BRUNI Subject: what is "good" writing? Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 10:20:19 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 134 (134) It doesn't seem very philosophical to single out poststructuralist prose as the only kind of bad writing in academia. One would think a philosophy scholar would give second thought to what constitutes "badness." I don't see any writing in here by Lynne Cheney or ED Hirsch, but it seems they are equally "bad" to my way of thinking as any of the postmodern mouthfuls quoted in your message. I agree wholeheartedly with Jeff Finlay's comments regarding the "bad" writing contest. The judges of the contest, it seems to me, have a fairly obvious ideological bias: that they wish to discredit ideas they don't like or approve of, such as Marxist or feminist theory, simply by discrediting how these ideas are expressed in writing. Thus, the judges kill the message along with the messenger. Let's look at this issue from the opposite side: what, then, is "good" writing? From whose perspective? I think we will find that writing standards can often appear as somewhat arbitrary, according to who gets to set the rules. John Bruni University of Kansas From: Willard McCarty Subject: ruminations on the field Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 15:46:31 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 135 (135) These are ruminations arising from the fine ACH/ALLC conference just held in Kingston, Ontario. As one perhaps more extensively involved that he should have been, I am very interested in what any Humanist might have to say about my ruminations and the issues they point to. Many Humanists might not locate themselves in humanities computing as such, but like comparative literature the field is defined so as to include anyone interested in the interdisciplinary common ground. That means all of us. Two broad developments seem now to be affecting our work. The first is institutional investment in the field. Within the last few years a small but significant number of institutions in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. have established posts in humanities computing itself or expanded their academic staff in the field. Jobs in the traditionally non-technical fields have also been advertised with explicit responsibilities for applied computing. In other cases academic-related and non-academic positions have been created along similar lines. As became obvious from talking to attendees of the conference, there are a number of quite different institutional models for humanities computing; these vary considerably with local conditions. Nevertheless, overall institutional commitment to our field is very encouraging. At the same time (as one attendee put it) those of us whose jobs put us squarely in this field may feel as if we're sitting in the road with tire-tracks up our backs. Computing has become so integral to what academics do that we can no longer lay claim to, or perhaps even keep track of everything that is happening. In some cases we may feel as if the action has moved elsewhere altogether. This is especially true since imaging and the Web took the centre-stage of humanities computing away from text-processing, leaving the Old Guard guarding an outpost at the edge of an empire expanding rapidly away from them. Having awakened our colleagues in the non-technical disciplines, we may feel as if they don't need us any more. But of course they do. No one else will tend the interdisciplinary common ground. Those appointed in the non-technical disciplines will cultivate and remain aware of only those patches that immediately verge on their bits of turf. If each discipline is the centre of all knowledge, then that knowledge is shaped to orbit the discipline, and those aspects of related knowledge that do not fit will be neglected or only seen dimly. Since applied computing is in flux, changing with the progress of the technology, our common ground must be tended and developments brought to the attention of the other disciplines as collegial service to them. At the core, however, must lie real research in humanities computing. The ACH/ALLC conference gave us examples of such research and strong reason to think that a critical mass of insight is possible if we are able to bring the bits and pieces of our work together. Communication is thus essential. One problematic aspect of communication among ourselves came out in a number of conference papers, namely the rhetoric of interdisciplinary discussion. How does one communicate common insights to one's colleagues in other disciplines? This is not an easy thing to do! I find generalities to be unconvincing, indeed empty of any real content. Thus to reach these colleagues I find that one must begin by explaining why anyone other than a specialist should care about the research one is doing, even the terms in which scholarly work in one's own field is defined. Even the nature of what is considered "scholarly" must sometimes be explained. It is simply not good enough to satisfy those who know these terms already and are already committed to the goals and methods of one's discipline. I guess what I am talking about is something we might call collegial teaching, a close companion of the collegial service that seems to me to lie at the core of humanities computing. It is also, perhaps, one of the best ways to prepare oneself for the outreach beyond the institution that some argue is vitally necessary to our survival as academics. How many of us can answer the questions one tends to get for example from children reaching adulthood and so wondering where their parents fit into the world -- what do you do? why do you do it? why should I care about that? "Opposition is true friendship" (Wm. Blake), and so comments please. Humanists from beyond the borders of the three countries I mentioned above are most welcome to correct any parochialisms. Yours, WM From: Jeff Finlay Subject: bad writing Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 13:34:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 136 (136) [deleted quotation] Charles, I think it depends how you assess elegance and clarity; such words are open to interpretation like anything else these days. The Wansee document might be regarded as a "clear" piece of writing insofar as its syntax and grammar and descriptions of procedures to be followed are correctly expressed. Would we therefore say it's "good writing"? Would we say Mein Kampf is "bad writing" because of its incoherent prose whereas the Wansee document is "good writing" because of its clinically precise prose? Extreme examples to be sure, but the criteria (such as they are) used by Phil-Lit would seem to suggest such a statement is possible. I'll grant you Cheney and Hirsch (to name but two writers) are "clear" insofar as they don't conceal the iron filings with which their gloves are filled, but once one gets beyond the diagetic dimension of their work, one is left asking "towards what end? why the insistence on negating the gains (and obvious victory) of multiculturalism?" and their implied answer on these grounds is much less clear. But, yes, on a transparent basis, both Cheney and Hirsch suck too at times. YOU might consider the following, from one of Hirsch's Core Curriculum documents, "elegant prose"; I'd describe it as "rivetingly awful": The words that children hear in school are like so many snowflakes falling on the school ground. (To continue the snowball metaphor, we would need to picture the children rolling among these flakes like so many snowballs!) Disadvantaged children may hear the words, but they do not pick up the meanings, whereas children who have already accumulated a covering of knowledge and vocabulary will be picking up knowledge rapidly. As their academic snowball grows, so does their ability to accumulate still more knowledge - - in strong contrast to disadvantaged students whose initially meager learning abilities get smaller and smaller by comparison, humiliating them still further and destroying their motivation. In response to the other comments on "bad writing" I'd like to suggest that the philosophical parameters of "bad" be extended beyond mere examples of syntax being unable to convey abstruse theoretical meanings to writing that is based upon a specious premise, writing that is overtly agenda-driven, or, as in the case of my Nazi analogy above, so emotive as to stimulate the reader's defenses rather than sense of reasoning 8-). Logocentrically yours, Jeff Finlay From: Tzvee Zahavy Subject: Re: HUMANIST digest 401 Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 23:35:15 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 137 (137) I read with great trepidation, indeed expectation, your latest missive in re: bad prose within the realm of scholarly discourse. Having been the victim of such for numerous years through the good graces of the learned journal and the well-intentioned often too focused monograph, I find myself lapsing into turgidity on occasion, such as at the present time. Well, here, here for perpetuating another myth, to wit, that academicians do not write crisp and clear articles and books. Naturally this reflects not a whit on their abitilities to reason effectively and draw logical conclusions, not to mention to act with ethical uprightness and moral certitude. Verily yours, Tzvee Zahavy Dr. Tzvee Zahavy Home: zahavy@andromeda.rutgers.edu http://newark.rutgers.edu/~zahavy/tzvee.html Office: zahavy@jcn18.com; http://www.jcn18.com/ Editor-in-Chief, The Jewish Communication Network From: "Mark K. Gardner" Subject: what is good writing? Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:35:47 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 138 (138) [deleted quotation] I was amused by the "bad writing contest," but good writing, like any form of communication, as an attempt to convey the inner workings of one human mind to another, must clearly portray the ideas in a manner that does not rely on 'implied' meanings or assumption of understanding on behalf of the reader; neither a post-modernist dictionary nor telepathy should be required to understand an article on any topic! Now, that very sentence by its sheer length, would probably shoot my computer's 'readability' meter off the scale, yet I think most people with an eighth grade education could get the gist of it. Even so, it is conceivable that I could have divided in half, retained its meaning, and not insulted the intelligence of anyone on this list. I think that on one hand scholars should not be forced to "dumb down" their work, but on the other hand _we all_ should take care to express our thoughts in manner less byzantine. I write this with some experience in the matter. My own style of writing was constructively criticized by a graduate professor of mine whose observations on my first report that semester included: "Your sentence structure is too complex--you take the meaning of each one right to the edge!" In other words, he explained to me in his office, we scholars need to simplify our written ideas so as to be more effective communicators. Just because our target audience is mostly composed of M. A's and Ph. D's, and just because they _can_ read at a more complex level than the average bear, doesn't mean we/they _want_ to be subjected to it page after page, he explained. As it turned out that semester, a required book for the Historiography class I was taking with him happened to be _The End of American History_ by David W. Noble (© 1985 Univ. of Minnesota Press). Anybody else out there ever _have_ to read this? While it was very informative, Noble's writing style is so complex that it is an extremely difficult book to read. Holding this text up as an example, my professor asked me to be aware of and avoid this tendency in my future writing assignments. In fact, when I saw the "Bad Writing Contest," I immediately thought of Noble. For example: "This attack on the necessity for critical distance, this declension from the pragmatic realism of the founding fathers, this repudia- tion of the need for the reconciliation of differences and compromise then became institu- tionalized in the business community as the cult of the self-made man." (Page 107) This seems to fit right in with the theme for the contest, in that the reader of this excerpt would be hard put to assign meaning to much of it; and there is plenty more where that came from. Taken out of context, it _is_ mostly meaningless. When read in context, it makes sense, but one has to attain a level of concentration that is impossible to sustain for a very long time. Very dense, each sentence so packed with meaning, one of my classmates described reading a chapter of Noble to be like "swimming through a pool of wheel-bearing grease." I felt fairly drained after every three-hour seminar discussion of this particular book. While communicating complex ideas is often a complex task, it should not be so couched in jargonese and so dense with meaning as to fry our minds with each reading. I learned a great deal about American historians from Noble's book, but I can't say I enjoyed reading it. I imagine most of you reading this have a jewel or two like Noble that came to mind when you read the examples in the "contest." Anyway, a compromise needed to be reached in my own writing style if I expected to receive anything higher than a A-/B+ for my work in that course. After training myself for two decades to pack as much as possible into as compact and concise a verbal area as possible, I had found it to be difficult, but not impossible. It was one of those "intangible" lessons I picked up that had nothing really to do with the topic of the class yet was one of the most important things I learned that semester. To return to the original question, "What is good writing?", I would propose some suggestions for improvement. One thing that I find helpful is when an author clearly defines any and all 'jargonese' in the forward/introduction. Another suggestion is one I am implementing in my own style. I simplify some of my more complex sentence constructs in the proofreading process by deconstructing them into smaller segments. I find I can still communicate complex ideas without straining the reader's sensibilities or reducing my writing down to a newspaper's level. I aim for a happy medium now instead of striving for something that sounds as it belongs in the "Bad Writing Contest." It is truly amazing what a period instead of another comma can do to create a clearer and more precise prose!! Finally, when the devoir must embrace a long composition of mind-numbing compexity, an analogous summary of the most salient points would be beneficient to facilitate and amend total gestalt constituent absorbtion... Oh my! What I meant to say was we should briefly summarize the main ideas in plain English. If we can't do that, then it is quite possible we don't really know what we are talking (writing) about. Regards Mark Gardner P.S. Out of curiosity, I ran this letter through the MS Word grammar program. According to MS Word, the averaged readinglevel/grade index of the above email is 10.1. Mea culpa--I should have said "anyone with a _tenth_ grade education should be able to get the gist of this..." From: Carmen Zavala Subject: Greek characters Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 14:01:13 -0500 (GMT-0500) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 139 (139) Dear colleagues : We are wondering if there is any possibility to write greek characters as codes and not as gif-images, as it is possible with some other European characters (as the German HTML code for "ss" [alt 225] is "ß"). The Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru is going to publish a journal of philosophy on-line (Estudios de Filosofia 3) and has entrusted us with the task of publishing this journal on-line. We would be most grateful if somebody could help us further with this Greek characters. Sincerely Carmen Zavala czavala@pucp.edu.pe Aurelio Mini amini@pucp.edu.pe From: Martin Wallraff Subject: Son of WinGreek Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:26:25 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 140 (140) [Forwarded from LEXI (Greek and Latin lexicography). --WM] Dear list members, a while I ago I wrote to this list about a forthcoming shareware package "Son of WinGreek". Here it is! Good news for all users of Win95... Martin Wallraff. ------------------------------------- Son of WinGreek is here! Classical Greek scholars who use WinGreek have been dismayed to find that its 'Beta' keyboard utility doesn't work in Windows 95. The author has no plans to make a new version. Other classical Greek programs use different character sets, so that they can't read documents that were made with WinGreek. Result - impasse. That's all changed now. Neil Beshoori of NRB Systems, author of the popular keyboard utility WinKeySwap, and Ralph Hancock, designer of the Greek Old Face font for use with WinGreek, have joined forces to make a successor to the program, which we have called Son of WinGreek. It works in both Win 95 and Win 3.x, and with US, British, German and other keyboard layouts. The current version is for Greek only, and comes with full instructions. Son of WinGreek uses a simplified 'dead key' system for diacriticals which, with a little practice, allows faster typing. The 13 most commonly used combinations are assigned to the numeral row at the top of the keyboard. A small chart is provided which can be printed out and laid above these keys as a reminder. The system gives access to every character, including the numerals themselves and a few extra symbols that don't even exist in the original WinGreek font. Son of WinGreek is distributed in a package with the Greek Old Face font in Type 1 and TT versions. It is sold as shareware with a registration fee of US$20 or equivalent in any hard currency. You can get Son of WinGreek by FTP: ftp://ftp.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/pub/institute/evtheol/sowg.exe or download it from the web: http://www.uni-bonn.de/~ute404/SoWG.html or from CompuServe: Program Title: SON OF WINGREEK Registration ID: 15533 Fee (US$): 20.00 Available for registration via SWREG - simply connect to Compuserve and GO SWREG, then enter details as above. The program will also be in the following fora: Foreign Languages Forum GO: FLEFO Library 4: Latin/Greek Desktop Publishing Forum GO: DTPFOR Library 12: Program Demos ---------------------------------------------- *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= MARTIN WALLRAFF --------------------------------------------------------- post Evangelisch-theologisches Seminar Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Am Hof 1, D - 53113 Bonn tel (+49) 0228 - 735275 fax (+49) 0228 - 739063 e-mail wallraff@uni-bonn.de online http://www.uni-bonn.de/~ute404 privat Fuerstenstrasse 8, D - 53111 Bonn tel/fax (+49) 0228 - 696741 ========================================================== From: Erik Sandewall Subject: ETAI - new kind of electronic publishing structure started Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:56:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 141 (141) [The following passed on from a discussion group to which I belong. The subject area may not be of interest to you, but the e-publishing ideas probably will. I am intrigued especially by the notion of reviewing after rather than before publication. This is not a new idea exactly -- as I recall, The Medical Journal of Australia launched something quite similar more than a year ago (<http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/MJA/mja/>). It would be interesting and helpful to know of other examples and to have commentary on the idea. --WM] Dear colleagues, I believe you may be interested in the following official announcement for the ETAI, the main ideas of which I described at the Stockholm meeting. Now it's official. The ETAI is a concrete attempt to realize many of the ideas which have been discussed in the present email exchange, including author-side payment of publication costs, free access for all would-be readers, a re-thinking of incentives and of reviewing structures, and at the bottom of it all, the insight that when a new technology arrives, people's first idea is always to transfer the usage patterns of older technology into the new one, but after a while it starts living its own life. Electronic publishing simply allows us to "cut the pie differently", that is, to find new structures for scientific communication services and for scientific knowledge management. Please take a look at it and write back what you think! Sincerely Erik Sandewall The official announcement follows: Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence -------------------------------------------------- The European Coordinationg Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) announces the creation of a new forum for exchange of scientific results, the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI). It is an Internet-based service which is available at http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/ All ETAI information is available free of charge. The editor in chief of ETAI is Erik Sandewall, Linköping University, Sweden. ETAI is both more and less than a scientific journal ---------------------------------------------------- In a certain sense, ETAI is an electronic journal. However, it is not simply a traditional journal gone electronic. The differences may be summarized by the following table of communication functions: Conventional journal ETAI Distribution major not our of the article function business Reviewing and major major quality control function function Debate about not much done major published function results Publication of impossible welcomed and on-line software already happening Bibliographic not much done major services function To explain: The basic service of a conventional (paper) journal is to have the article typeset, printed, and sent to the subscribers. The ETAI stays completely away from that process: it assumes the existence of First Publication Archives (similar to "Preprint Archives", but with a guarantee that the articles remain unchanged for an extended period of time). The ETAI only deals with URL:s pointing to articles that have been published (but without international peer review) in First Publication Archives. The reviewing and quality control is a major topic for the ETAI, like for conventional journals. However, the ETAI pioneers the principle of *posteriori reviewing*: the reviewing and acceptance process takes place *after* the article has been published. This has a number of consequences, but the major advantage from the point of view of the author is that he or she retains the priority right of the article and its results *per the original date of publication*, and independently of reviewing delays and possible reviewing mistakes. Reviewing in ETAI also differs from conventional journal reviewing in that it uses a succession of several "filters", rather than one single reviewing pass, and in that it is set up so as to encourage self-control on the side of the authors. The intention is that ETAI's quality control shall be considerably *more strict and reliable* than what is done in conventional journals. Besides the reviewing process, the ETAI also organizes *News Journals* in each of its speciality areas. News Journals are fora for information about current events (workshops, etc), but they will also contain debate about recently published research results. Naturally, the on-line medium is much more appropriate for debate than what a conventional journal is. Compared to mailgroups, the News Journals offer a more persistent and reputable forum of discussion. Discussion contributions are preserved in such a way that they are accessible and referencable for the future. In other words, they also are to be considered as "published". One additional type of contributions in News Journals is for links to software that is available and can be run over the net. This is particularly valuable for software which can be run directly from a web page. Already the first issue of an ETAI News Journal publishes two such on-line software contributions. The creation of bibliographies, finally, is a traditional activity in research, but it is impractical in paper-based media since by their very nature, bibliographies ought to be updated as new articles arrive. The on-line maintenance of specialized bibliographies within each of its topic areas is a natural function in the ETAI. Generally speaking, it is clear that the electronic medium lends itself to a different grouping of functionalities that what is natural or even possible in the paper-based technology. For example, the bibliographic database underlying ETAI's bibliographic services is well integrated with the reviewing process and with the News Journals where new contributions to the literature are first reported. Similarly, debate items pertaining to a particular article will be accessible from the entry for the article itself. The ETAI therefore represents a novel approach to electronic publishing. We do not simply inherit the patterns from the older technology, but instead we have rethought the structure of scientific communication in order to make the best possible use of international computer networks as well as electronic document and database technologies. The ETAI now starts operation, and welcomes contributions in the research areas and by the procedures described in the web pages specified above. From: David Green Subject: ALAWON v6, n45 - FAIR USE JOINT STATEMENT RELEASED (fwd) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 12:52:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 142 (142) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 7, 1997 Following up on my earlier report on the May 19 CONFU Meeting, I'm forwarding a joint statement by library, cultural and educational organizations that NINCH has endorsed on the future of the work, discussion and collaborative endeavor embodied by the Conference on Fair Use. David Green [deleted quotation] -- 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: Paul Miller Subject: Cross-domain use of metadata -- reports available for comment Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:16:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 143 (143) In an effort to explore the issues behind creating a cross-domain interdisciplinary service for the Arts & Humanities, the UK's Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and Office of Library and Information Networking (UKOLN) recently convened a series of workshops where participants addressed: - requirements for resource discovery within the discipline - current resource description/discovery practices - fitness of Dublin Core for resource discovery within the discipline In each domain-specific workshop, participants were drawn from within the domain, and were asked to consider likely needs, both within a service for the domain itself and for a domain-spanning service such as the AHDS, where the issues are slightly different. These workshops addressed the important subject of resource discovery, and explored the issues behind use of metadata to describe electronic resources in such a way that they might effectively be located and retrieved within a cross-domain interdisciplinary environment such as that of the AHDS. Although focussed upon the Arts & Humanities, it is intended that the workshop findings will have value more widely within the electronic libraries sphere, where several projects are concerned with describing or locating resources in an electronic environment. DRAFT reports from each AHDS Service Provider are now available on the web: <http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/project/metadata/res_dev_wrkshp1.html> (Archaeology) <http://hds.essex.ac.uk/metadata/draft_report01.html> (History) <http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/reports/metarep1.html> (electronic text) <http://pads.ahds.ac.uk/mu_rep.html> (digital sound resources) <http://pads.ahds.ac.uk/mi_rep.html> (moving image resources) <http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/Metadata1.html> (visual arts and cultural heritage). Each report is available in draft form until the end of July, at which time comments will be incorporated into finalised versions of the reports. AHDS would welcome comments from as wide a cross-section of the community as possible in the time available, and invites you to look at those reports of interest and submit comments to their authors. Comments on the series as a whole should be addressed to me in the first instance. Thanks, Paul == paul miller ================== collections@ads.ahds.ac.uk == collections manager, archaeology data service, king's manor york, YO1 2EP, UK tel: +44 (0)1904 43 3954 == http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/ ==== fax: +44 (0)1904 43 3939 == +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Reminder of Registration Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 10:17:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 144 (144) [deleted quotation] ******************************************************************* *************** REMINDER OF REGISTRATION ****************** ***************** DEADLINE 30.06.97 ******************** ******************************************************************* COMPUTERS AND TEXT: A PRACTICAL COURSE IN USING COMPUTERS FOR LANGUAGE ANALYSIS 4th-10th September 1997 DEBRECEN, HUNGARY Associated with the ESSE/4 Conference Course Tutors: ************** PATRICK HANKS Chief Editor, Current English Dictionaries Oxford University Press RAMESH KRISHNAMURTHY Corpus Manager Collins COBUILD, University of Birmingham DR. BELA HOLLOSY Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of Department English Linguistics, University of Debrecen Pre-Registration: ***************** Web: http://www.flc.klte.hu/Course Email: rovnyf@gin.flc.klte.hu Post: Ferenc Rovny, CLTDC, Foreign Language Centre, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - 4010, P.O. Box 41. REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 260, UK pounds 160 (before 30th June 1997) LATE REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 325, UK pounds 200 (after 30th June 1997) ******************************************************************** From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 10:18:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 145 (145) [deleted quotation] The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce the release of an alpha version of two on-line editions of the DICTIONNAIRE de l'ACADEMIE FRANCAISE. As part of an on-going project, we have started with the 1st (1694) and 5th (1798) editions. Both allow searches by headword and are available for general use at the following URL: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/academie We would appreciate reports of any difficulties that users may encounter. Jack Iverson ARTFL Project research assistant jack@gide.uchicago.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: news Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:35:29 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 146 (146) In the Guardian Online section for Thursday 12 June.... (1) Keith Devlin, "University Challenge". As has happened in N. America, representatives of what we call "industry" in Britain -- I think allegorically of some terribly industrious person constantly repeating good advice referring to the habits of bees and ants while efficiently accomplishing everything he or she has set out to do -- has warned "that employers may soon start to boycott universities and establish their own house educational units." They're worried about quality. One U.K. manufacturer, Unipart, is worried enough to have invested 4 million pounds to set up its own in-house training unit. What the Confederation of British Industry is arguing for, however, is "an expansion of higher education, with access for all." According to Devlin, the real threat to universities isn't these in-house training units, rather the possibility that we will not be able to respond to something much more difficult. "The real agent of change is already among us, and growing rapidly: information technology and the Web. The development of information technology has provided and alternative path to what used to be one of the principal benefits of attending a university" -- access to information. Devlin goes on to make what seem to me are highly exaggerated claims for the kind and quality of information currently available: "Today, all you need is a PC and a modem to access a far greater source of information than can be found in any single university library." How recently, one wonders, has he been in such a library? Is there a single subject for which a single aisle in the stacks of a major research library would provide more and better information than all the World Wide Web? If many of us have our way, his claims may not be so wide of the mark one day, but meanwhile we might give some thought to the consequences of people at large believing Devlin's claims. Or, what may be worse in the short-term, of senior university administrators who have forgotten what the inside of a library looks like believing these claims. (Please note that the relative clause in the previous sentence is restrictive!) Perhaps it would be more productive for us to distinguish between (a) what face-to-face instruction in a university setting does best, and (b) what the Internet does best -- and for whom. I would argue that only where the latter improves on the former should we push for a change in the way we educate our students. Clearly, however, we need to be very clear about both (a) and (b) in the face of poorly informed but influential public discourse. Who is better equipped to engage in this debate than we are? (2) Duncan Campbell, "Wig, gown and laptop". Big changes to the legal profession, it seems. Here again a sorting of what face-to-face encounter does best from what IT can do is called for. "So while some lawyers may dread the cost-efficient litigation that IT systems could bring, defendants and claimants may rest assured that robotic justice from Judge Dredd will be staying firmly in the comic books." Great to have some good news, yes? (3) Ken Cottrill, "Unplugged, unwanted and underground". Please, the next time you hear some environmentally naive person talk about "saving trees" direct them to this article. "Fifty-five million computers will be landfilled in the US by the year 2005, according to a preliminary report by Carnegie Mellon University's green design initiative due to be published later this month..." Furthermore, "for every four purchases of new computers in the US, another three used machines are lying abandoned in storage." Redeploying the old kit is problematic for many reasons and will not be done, according to Cottrill, until it is required by law. "Landfilling is fraught with difficulty because some units pose an environmental risk, because they contain toxic elements such as lead." The article ends with cautious optimism. Some companies, such as Xerox, are requiring their designers to think about recycling of components. It seems that the current estimate of landfilled computers in the US (55 million) is considerably less than a similar prediction in 1991 (148 million). Then there's the statistics about increase in paper usage directly attributable to computer use. (4) Kevin Wilson, "Witness for the elocution". New speech-recognition technology for the ordinary user is within reach of recognising continuous speech -- as opposed to speech in which the speaker pauses between each word. As with machine translation software, some humorous errors have been recorded, e.g. the name of the new French Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, was rendered "the analogy of sperm" by the beta version of this technology. Soon like Star Trek: "Computer, locate all the places in English literature where...."? See <http://www.guardian.co.uk/> for the online version of Online. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Dr. Pauline Kra" Subject: Re: 11.0081 suicide Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 22:28:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 147 (147) Thanks for the pointer to Hume. What is the address of the Hume homepage? Pauline Kra From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: 11.0091 ruminations Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 17:03:15 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 148 (148) At 15:57 +0100 08-06-97, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] This is also true in other parts of the world, although in some places where humanities computing institutions were established early there may not have been that much recent developement. Still I am happy to inform Humanist readers who did not hear this in Kingston that at the University of Bergen a larger humanities computing programme is now being establish. This is done by joining the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, and the Norwegian Terminology Bank, but there will also be some fresh money put into this. As for some of your other ruminations, I have always regarded interdisciplinarity not only as an extremely important ingredient of "humanities computing" but also as a result of using computers in the humanities. And here I think the WWW has appeared at the right time. Now it is possible to disseminate data in a more holistic way which comes closer to the complex culture which is the object of study for the humanities as a whole. (Of course, when we have managed to link all our data into complete Memex or Xanadu, people will start branching off in new specialities.) espen From: Dan Price Subject: Thanks for Ruminating Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 17:36:26 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 149 (149) Thanks for Rumiating on the state of affairs of the field. As usual there is much to ponder and the invitation is well put. In a recent posting, I asked about degree programs on this field specifically on the bachelors level, and was surprsied by the absence of response. Evidently we (the academic community) are not at that stage yet; probably more important is that there is not yet a perceived market for such a degree. While one can revel in the cross-disciplines, one must still eat! So thanks again and surely it will be a wonder to see where we are in 5, 10, and 20 years from now. OR do you think that the revolution is waning? No, even if computer sales are not matching expectations and the web is perhaps sending more away after a few hours of wandering here, the web is still too vital for education and research to be just a blip on the screen. This is the revolution, as far as I can tell and invest . Thanks again for reading of the above. Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, The Center for Distance Learning ************************************************************ The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 *********************************************************** From: Leslie Chan Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Symposium Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 16:19:08 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 150 (150) ** Apologies for cross-posting ** SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT September 26-27, 1997 University of Toronto at Scarborough New information technologies, and in particular the World-Wide Web, are offering tremendous diversity of channels and media for scholarly and scientific communication. At the same time, traditional paper-based publishing is being rapidly transformed and severely challenged by economic shortfalls and networking technologies. It is timely and critical to examine how elements of the established scholarly communication vehicle, the journal, can best be combined with the new elements of distributed network publishing. The Centre for Instructional Technology Development at the Bladen Library, University of Toronto at Scarborough, is hosting an international symposium to examine the changes in research practices and implications of electronic publishing. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This symposium is intended for all stakeholders in the scholarly communication processes, from academics and researchers from across the disciplines, who are primary producers and consumers of published knowledge, to librarians and publishers, who add value and order to intellectual products, and to computer specialists, who are increasingly called upon to design and maintain the conduits for information exchange. GOALS OF THE SYMPOSIUM: Promote knowledge of distributed network publishing among faculty and graduate students in the university and research communities, Draw attention to the wealth of scholarly and scientific information and peer-reviewed electronic journals already present on the Internet, Bring together librarians, computer specialists, publishers and academics to consider collaborative models that would further facilitate the scholarly communication process, Explore the emerging cooperative research, resource sharing and teaching models enabled by networked technologies, Examine the limitations and advantages of scholarly electronic publishing. KEY ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION: The role of Government Agencies and University Administrations in promoting electronic publishing Peer review and Quality Control Legal and Copyright Issues Archive and Retrieval of digital material Searching, linking and New Tools for scholarship Learning to Publish in the Electronic Milieu Electronic Publishing in the Sciences Electronic Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences SPEAKERS AT THE SYMPOSIUM: Keynote speaker: Stevan Harnad (Professor of Psychology, University of Southampton). Invited speakers: Gregory Crane (Professor of Classics, Tufts University), Peter Boyce (Senior Associate of Electronic Publishing, American Astronomical Society), Jean-Claude Guedon (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Montreal), Carole Moore (Chief Librarian, University of Toronto), Leslie Ellen Harris (author of Canadian Copyright Law), Katherine Denning (Editor of Assemblage), David McCallum (Principal consultant of the Electronic Publishing Promotion Project, Industry Canada), Anne Marie Corrigan (Vice President, Journals and Creative Services, University of Toronto Press), Sally Brown (Senior Vice-President, AUCC) and more. REGISTRATION: Individual from non-profit or educational institutions: $60 Cdn Individual from businesses or corporations: $120 Cdn Students: $30 Cdn For further information on registration, schedule, links to speakers and related resources, please visit the symposium web site: http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/Epub/1997.html or contact symposium co-ordinators Leslie Chan (chan@scar.utoronto.ca) or William Barek (Barek@scar.utoronto.ca) The symposium is supported by the Connaught Committee and the Snider Visiting Professorships of the University of Toronto. From: Scott Stebelman Subject: "Studies of Interest to English and American Literature Librarians" Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:18:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 151 (151) "Studies of Interest to English and American Literature Librarians" is a cumulation of citations that appear in _Biblio-Notes_, the newsletter of ACRL's English and American Literature Section. The scope of the bibliography is to include any research of interest to our members, from studies on building literature collections to the provision of literary reference service. Of potential interest to Humanist subscribers are the citations on computer applications in the humanities, and on the information seeking behaviors of humanities scholars. The URL for the bibliography is: http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib/english.html I welcome any additional citations people think germane to the subject. Scott Stebelman, Editor _Biblio-Notes_ Gelman Library George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 202/994-1342 (work) 202/994-1340 (fax) scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib From: "F.W.Langley" Subject: Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Medieval French Studies Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:38:00 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 152 (152) GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS The Department of French, University of Hull, wishes to appoint a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Medieval French Studies. GTAs pursue research for doctoral degrees and teach for not more than 6 hours per week. The post is available from the start of the next academic year and is for up to 3 years duration. The stipend is £6134 per annum and GTAs are not expected to pay academic fees. Applicants should send 2 copies of a detailed CV, including the names of two academic referees, to the Personnel Office, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, quoting the appropriate reference (T1) (tel.: 01482 465277; fax: 01482 465568; e-mail: J.Hardy@admin.hull.ac.uk. Prospective applicants may, if they wish, contact one of the medievalists in the Department of French: Dr A. Hindley: tel: 01482 465833; e-mail: a.hindley@french.hull.ac.uk Dr. F. Langley: tel: 01482 465206; e-mail: f.w.langley@french.hull.ac.uk Dr B.J. Levy: tel: 01482 465367; e-mail: b.j.levy@french.hull.ac.uk ---------------------- Frederick Langley F.W.Langley@french.hull.ac.uk From: "Gary W. Shawver" Subject: Re: 11.0092 bad writing Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:29:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 153 (153) [deleted quotation] These qualities were present in the contest winners. I'm not sure they were the primary criteria. From: Jeff Finlay Subject: bad writing Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:49:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 154 (154) [deleted quotation] I don't get it. What's complex or bad about this? Anyone who knows how to parse will see it as a kind of sentence more usually found in oratory: this thing, apposite of this thing, apposite of this thing then leads to this thing. Actually, though I haven't read the rest of the book, this one sentence seems beautiful to me. Perhaps that is what you mean by taking stuff out of context. As a matter of interest, I found your message rather hard to read, though it was probably not badly written. [deleted quotation] Well, anyone who gets a machine to judge their work is in really bad shape 8-) Jeff From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" Subject: Bad scholarly writing Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 16:23:20 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 155 (155) My own test of bad (i.e. failed) scholarly writing is the following: If discussions of a critic or theoretician's work focus on whether people disagree with him/her, then the writing is probably adequate. If discussions instead focus on arguments over what the critic or theoretician is trying to say, then the writing is bad (noncommunicative). Homi Bhabha is a classic case. I happily confess to clinging to the old-fashioned notion that criticism and theory should elucidate, not obfuscate, and remain unimpressed by the common stance: "Scholar X is making a brilliant point in language which you are too dim to make out but which I can't possible explain to you in different words." Never has literary scholarship been so far removed from the "common reader" and so irrelevant to the world outside the walls of academe. Modern theory is deep into denial on this point. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians From: Willard McCarty Subject: computing and the theoretical? Date: 13 June 1997 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 156 (156) Let me attempt to nudge this discussion into our official common ground. Many if not most of the complaints about bad writing among colleagues have to do with discussions and applications of theory, esp. literary critical theory. Is the preoccupation with theory over data constitute a flight from the data into a less demanding realm? Does applied computing offer a way out of the current mental labyrinth (if you think it so) into a confrontation with the data? Do we, then, have something rather important to offer in this regard? WM From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 11.0098 challenges & other Online matters Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:05:23 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 157 (157) [deleted quotation] In the original Star Trek series, the computer occasionally had a voice, but was usually a box with blinking lights, toggle switches, and a slot into which one fed small rectangular plastic chips (rather like 3.5 inch floppies). In the more recent incarnations of Star Trek the computer is usually a voice, an omnipresence with which one communicates through speech, though the occasional manual buttons under backlit panels are also much in evidence. The former seems rather laughably limited, the latter seems much more wonderfully useful, but we must remember that both are simply reflections of the times in which they were created, and both share a certain conceptual framework. In both cases the computer is definitely the Other, omnipresent, perhaps, but still an external entity. But in our own reality will the computer remain an external entity, easily identified as the Other or will it become much more invisible, more integrated into the world around us? Will the computer be outside us or will we live in and with the computer? I am not going so far as suggesting that in five years we will be "jacking in" a la Gibson. But take an example: You get dressed in the morning. As you walk to a nearby restaurant where you will be meeting someone you are charging your shoes which then supply power to your hat. Part of your hat is collecting visual data from around you, while another portion displays information to you at eye level. When you meet your party you shake hands, which initiates a data connection, passing her resume, research information, or other data to you. After the meeting you continue to your part-time office. Your hand on the doorknob initiates a security check which unlocks the door for you and delivers your e-mail... Well, I could go on. For many years we have been bombarded with and, indeed have fun laughing at, visions of wondrous future technology. Oddly enough, the things I describe above are already happening (see MIT's Wearble Computing pages at: http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearable/ for examples). So, what happens to education and universities (which are not the same thing) in a world where computing is much more ubiquitous than it is now? - Hope ------------ Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Landfilled computers Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:17:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 158 (158) In fact, in the US at least there is a very vigorous industry in the recycling of old computers: every component from the plastic to the heavy metals on the circuit boards is respectively recycled and/or reused. I have had to look into this for Mississippi state government (here, we're so poor that somebody in state government uses them until they are actually broken), and there are many recyclers in all parts of the country. Pat Galloway MS Dept. of Archives and History From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Re: 11.0098 challenges & other Online matters Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:19:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 159 (159) Another nightmare for environmentalists is the prospect of landfills overflowing with TV sets after digital television is introduced. We recently had Joel Brinkley (digital TV trailblazer) from the New York Times at NYU for a colloquium - he was asked a question about the garbage problems we'll have when everyone dumps old TVs for new ones at the same time. Needless to say, the media moguls haven't thought about this one! Lorna [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Academic Computing Facility Fax: (212) 995 4120 New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Scott Subject: Re: 11.0091 ruminations Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 15:32:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 160 (160) For me, the paper at ACH/ALLC that highlighted the crossover of interests and agendas was Andrea Austin's on "Discipline-Specific Humanities Computing: Whose Job Is It?". As I suggested at the time, the wide range of issues that academics are having to address in coming to terms with the practicalities of dealing with texts electronically can be mapped extremely easily onto the experiences that publishers are having in the same area. Publishers are devising ways of accommodating electronic activities into their core business, whether that be through establishing separate electronic divisions, integrating electronic products into our normal editorial processes and structures, or devolving control to external agencies, be they academics or commercial software companies. I would in fact take issue with the idea that "no one else will tend the interdisciplinary common ground". Publishers are also in this game, which is what we traditionally do in our print publishing activities. Arguably, we are very well placed to see the broad similarities in approaches between disciplines; in the electronic arena, this may include not only data schemas, but also the functionality that individual projects require. This is something that has become clear from our work on the Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM, which has some potentially interesting crossover with other subject areas in its handling of a multiple synchronised frames version of DynaText, which supports images (and also audio files). Attending conferences such as ACH/ALLC (and DRH as well) illustrates all too well that there is a huge overlap of interests, expertise and common ground between academics, publishers and librarians, all of whom are learning about the same technical, scholarly and pedagogical requirements, albeit from slightly different perspectives. These forums give us all the opportunity to compare notes and collaborate to deliver as much as possible what the broader academic community actually want and will use for both teaching and research. ___________________________________________________________________ Brad Scott, Electronic Development Manager Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE tel: 0171 842 2134 fax: 0171 842 2299 email: bscott@routledge.com Routledge Online: http://www.routledge.com/routledge/routledge.html ___________________________________________________________________ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Bayle's Dictionnaire Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 09:58:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 161 (161) [deleted quotation] The ARTFL Project is happy to announce completion of an experimental version of PIERRE BAYLE'S DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE ET CRITIQUE URL: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/bayle This is an image database of the four volumes of the 1740 edition. Users can search for articles, call up specific page numbers, or conduct text searches in the 100-page thematic index. The average size of the page image files is 400-450K, so transmission may be slow. We have undertaken this project, at least in part, as an experiment in accessing large image-base access methods, and we are eager to receive comments from many users. It is possible that at a later date we will proceed with full-text data capture, but we will not carry out this step for some time. Please send remarks and questions to Jack Iverson: jack@gide.uchicago.edu Mark Olsen: mark@barkov.uchicago.edu Thank you, Jack Iverson, ARTFL Project research assistant Mark Olsen Assistant Director ARTFL Project University of Chicago (773) 702-8687 WWW: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. --- Samuel Johnson From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Hypermedia in den Geisteswissenschaften Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:02:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 162 (162) [deleted quotation]An alle Interessentinnen und Interessenten von Hypermedia-Anwendungen und Entwicklungen: der Arbeitskreis Hypermedia der Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische Datenverarbeitung (GLDV) (Leiterin des AKs: Dr. Angelika Storrer, IdS Mannheim) wird sein naechstes Arbeitstreffen am 20. Juni 1997 am Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik der Universitaet Bonn abhalten. Der Workshop wird unter dem Thema Geisteswissenschaftliche Hypermedia-Anwendungen stehen. Das Programm koennen Sie unter http://www.ids-mannheim.de/grammis/bonn.html einsehen. Interessierte Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer aus Ihrem Bereich sind hierzu herzlich eingeladen. Ueber Zusagen bis Freitag, dem 13.06.1997, wuerde ich mich sehr freuen. Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Bernhard Schroeder Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik Universitaet Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn T.: +49 228 735621 F.: +49 228 735639 Web-Seite des IKP: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de Web-Seite der GLDV: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/GLDV Web-Seite des AKs: http:/www.ids-mannheim.de/grammis/ak.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: technophobia Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 16:31:13 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 163 (163) We all complain about technophobia, but at least two people have made a profession from it, namely Dr. Larry D. Rosen and Dr. Michelle M. Weil. See Rosen's homepage at the URL <http://www.csudh.edu/psych/lrosen.htm> for a number of interesting links, including those to the texts of articles on the subject. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: BRUNI Subject: theory, writing, and computers Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 12:40:50 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 164 (164) [deleted quotation] WM In response, I would say that theory tends to be confrontational, for it allows us to critique how data is disseminated and interpreted. This is especially true of Donna Haraway's work, as well as other scholars who interrogate scientific theory. Theory also critiques writing itself as a system of signification and communication. An example I would offer here would be the work of Jacques Derrida. Of course when writing is used to critique writing, problems do result in readability. It is not that anyone should have the license to write badly. It is instead that theory often reminds us, whether we would like to admit this, of the difficulty of critically separating any topic or research area from another. Theory breaks down the idea of neat, organized categories or borders. Computers also reflect this idea of connectivity. And this is where I see the value of merging computers and theory. We now have a chance to test out theory, to see how theory performs in a different space other than print. The results should be interesting. John Bruni English Department University of Kansas From: omar Subject: humor (was Re: 11.0099 bad writing) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 07:29:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 165 (165) On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Paul Brians wrote: [deleted quotation]Pater): "Tonight is the last night that the reading is 'tough.' After this it's like a breath of fresh air. The problem is you're all going to embrace aestheticism -- because you'll understand it." -Dr. Mark Facknitz James Madison University -john drummond -- drummojg@jmu.edu This Message Sent With Love From http://falcon.jmu.edu/~drummojg/ My Linux Box, The Mosque. From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 11.0101 future of computing Date: Fri, 13 Jun 97 07:39:54 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 166 (166) On the occasion of Hope Greenberg's question about the future of education and the university vis-a-vis computing, but also simply because I was going to recommend it to HUMANIST readers in any case, I would like to call your attention to the July Issue of Scientific American, which contains three articles of interest to computing humanists. One very short piece is a graphic which shows the concentration of Internet hosts/population throughout the world (p. 26). The map makes very clear that the vision of a "global electronic village" is at a considerable remove from a current infrastructure concentrated most heavily in North America, Scandanavia, and Australia. A second piece, a marvelous interview with Michael Dertouzos of M.I.T. attacks what he calls five myths of the Information Age. One comment may be especially comforting to humanists who find the rate of change a bit dizzying at times: Myth: The information revolution is moving too quickly for most to keep up. Dertouzos: "We've been four decades into the business, and we've hardly done anything. The second industrial revolution took nine decades. So relax." (29) Dertouzos also announces that it's time we put technology and humanism back together! Finally, an extensive article by W. Wayt Gibbs documents the hard look businesses have been giving to the claims that computerization will lead to greater productivity. (For the purposes of this article, education is included as a business.) Gibbs introduces his article by observing: the [information] explosion is well under way, and its economic blessings so far appear decidedly mixed. For all the useful things computers do, they do not seem, on balance, to have made us much richer by enabling us to do more work, of increasing value, in less time. Compared with the big economic bangs delivered by water-, steam- and electricity-powered machines, productivity growth in the information age has been a mere whimper....Recent studies of computer use in offices reveal that much of the time saved by automation is frittered away by software that is unnecessarily difficult, unpredictable and inefficient. Design experts warn that current industry trends toward increasingly complex programs and new, untested ways of presenting information could do more harm than good - and will almost certainly do less good than advertised. (82) Notably, productivity gains have _dropped_ from 4.5% in the 1960s to 1.5% more recently - and these drops have occurred most significantly precisely in those industries that have invested the most in information technology. In particular, many of the cutting-edge technologies dear to the hearts of the enthusiasts among us who confidently predict the quick end of the brick-and-mortar colleges - virtual reality, autonomous software agents, speech recognition/understanding, the Web, and videoconferencing - are not proving themselves to be useful technologies at least as far as business is concerned. In addition, the actual costs of introducing a simple PC into the workplace appear to be far higher than we ordinarily admit - for a $3,000 desktop machine, one group estimates the total costs are ca. $23,500. These costs include technical support, the loss of time as coworkers help one another with computer-related problems, and "futzing" - waiting for programs to run and/or help to arrive, double- checking printouts for accuracy and format, rearranging disk files, playing games, and going over that presentation software just one more time to make sure all the nifty effects are just right. (It is rumored that Sun Microsystems banned its managers from using presentation software to make slide presentations for meetings: 87). Part of the discrepancy between promise and reality may be explained by what academics would call assessment: it is notoriously difficult to assess what "productivity" in education might mean, much less determine how much of any demonstrated gain might be traced to computers. On the bright side (for us computer enthusiasts): productivity gains can be demonstrated for computer uses that involve human-factors engineering to custom fit interfaces and applications to specific tasks. But this lesson is being learned only slowly: in a recent computer-human interface conference, ....only nine of those 83 projects compared workers' performance on real tasks using the new interface with their current way of doing things. Four offered no gains at all. Radiologists completed their reports faster without the computer. Video offered no improvement over audio for collaborative writing or design. Only three new interfaces - an interactive blueprint program, the combination of a keyboard joystick with a mouse for two-handed input, and a "wearable" computer - sped work significantly. (89) While this report focuses on productivity gains in business, some analogies may be drawn for computer-use in education. At least, this report reinforces my concern that students can waste far more time on computers - between game-playing and spiffing up their web pages - than they may spend taking advantage of the many tremendous learning opportunities made possible by computers and networks. It further reinforces my sense that we run into serious questions of balance the more we focus on the _means_ of presentation (Web pages, PowerPoint, etc.) vis-a-vis the _content_ being presented. Finally, all of this reinforces my sense that academics - e.g., the President of a major state university down the street - who think that the future of education lies in "every faculty member putting his/her courses on the Internet" are painting with very broad and highly misleading strokes. My own experience - ranging from disappointing experiments with videoteleconferencing to somewhat successful (because, this article suggests, they were highly focused and specific) uses of e-mail and the Web - tells me that these technologies can indeed powerfully supplement more traditional classroom approaches (including readings, discussions, indeed - lectures!). But only supplement, not replace. If this is true, those institutions that have jumped on the distance learning boat in the belief that the Internet and the Web will replace bricks-and-mortar institutions may have jumped just a wee bit too soon. I strongly recommend Gibbs' article to anyone in the computing/humanities world who is put in a position of having to justify the costs of acquiring new technologies (all of us?). While some of us will not agree with every point, and serious questions need to be raised about the analogy between business and education - at least we need to know what our very business-minded administrators may be thinking when they review our next proposals. Appropriate to this audience, I've made some extensive notes on the Gibbs article at http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/technology/WGibbs.html This will give a strong sense of the article, but omits a great deal of Gibbs' supporting evidence and examples. Cheers - Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA http://www.drury.edu/phil-relg/ess.html From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0101 future of computing Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:09:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 167 (167) The future is not as far away as you might think. I have a CDROM product that is call the LDS Collectors Library 97 (That is a folio infobase product) where I can type in a topic,thought,phrase and it will bring up all the hits in its library. I would say that its about 75% to becoming all enclusive in its area. From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Tenure, Technology and Scolarly Futures Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:20:15 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 168 (168) The University of Vermont will be welcoming its new President, Dr. Judith Ramaley, on July 1. A new president provides a perfect opportunity to reexamine university practices. One of the concerns of academics who are involved in technology, particularly those of us who are in the humanities, is how creation and use of technological resources is reflected in university policy related to promotion and tenure. I would like to ask those of you who may have recently addressed this issue how it was handled, what the results were, what (online) documentation, if any, is available, and what advice you might offer. Comments from those who wish their university would address this issue are also welcome! Thank you. - Hope [Please send all replies for which the author can afford to be known by name directly to Humanist. Those who wish to remain anonymous but want their views circulated may send messages to me so that I may quote them anonymously. --WM] ------------ Hope Greenberg Humanities Computing Specialist University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: Willard McCarty Subject: the fate of universities Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 16:07:27 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 169 (169) As we contemplate the course of humanities computing and how our universities respond to changes in the sociology of knowledge, it is helpful to keep an eye on the history of our academic institutions. Helpful in this regard is Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, ed., A History of the University in Europe (Cambridge), volume 2 of which, Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800), has just been reviewed in the TLS for 13 June 1997 (no. 4915). In his article, "Academic distinctions: How competition blighted Europe's universities", Alastair Hamilton notes in particular the decline of European universities by the mid-eighteenth century: "their numbers were depleted, their standards dropped, and most of them were strongly in need of the reforms which would reinvigorate them in the nineteenth century." Hamilton cites several reasons for the decline: (1) availability of qualified teachers; (2) the failure of the universities to move with the times -- "unable to adapt to the inevitable glut they themselves had created"; but primarily (3) their loss of the monopoly on scholarship and education. The explosion of academic establishments after the Reformation, many of these theological seminaries, provided stiff competition, but even more schools sponsored by rulers for the benefit of a particular class or profession, e.g. the Inns of Court in London, which resulted in "the loss of the traditional legal faculties at Oxford and Cambridge". "As science advanced in the eighteenth century and the universities were ever less able to meet increasingly sophisticated demands, more and more scholars sought refuge in the academies.... Many universities did what they could to keep up.... But by and large they were overtaken, albeit only provisionally, by the numerous competing institutions." An object lesson for us here? See again the article in Thursday's Online section of the Guardian by Keith Devlin, "University Challenge", <http://online.guardian.co.uk/theweb/866040269-offline.html>. In the light of history, the threat would seem real. Comments? WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0097 Hume site(s)? Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:16:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 170 (170) There are four or five Hume sites on the web bu the best one for what you are looking for is www.utm.edu/research/hume/hume.html. From: Michael Guest Subject: Beckett, bad writing, computers Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 16:42:57 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 171 (171) Thanks both to Willard and John Bruni for so lucidly recapitulating the point I thought I'd made. "What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed"! I think of MOO programming as one site in which computers play a possible role in opening avenues of rhizomatic anti-reason (thought :)). One can program using a MOO a kind of virtual reality in text, which raises the question of whether a MOO should conform mimetically to known representations (e.g. represent structures of received reality, geography etc), or else try somehow to set in play some whole new kind of phenomenology, by which phrase I'm trying to suggest some original mode of human existence not rooted essentially in received reality. Well, I suppose that's not only MOOs, but research into virtual reality in general. One point is that computers are perceived to be products of a particular kind of purchase on reality, in a "hard" computer science sense. Out of this comes the inferiority complex of the humanities (psychological and economic). But the idea that there is a certain irrefutible pattern hardwired into the bases of computer science and immanent in reality can perhaps be influence by progressive thinking from the humanities: perhaps there is no reasonable underlying reality, but a hyperreality. It's a fairly common thought though, isn't it, about how much computing can contribute to the humanities? How easier their magic (i.e. that of computer scientists) can make our lives when we don't stick our finger into the wrong socket. But we (brilliant humanists) offer applications and possibilities that they would never be able in their wildest dreams to think of (scratching their behinds and misarranging their cutlery the way they tend to do). A fair comparison to make, I think, is between approaches to media communications: satellite technology etc. and the examination of economies and ideologies that produce media moguls etc. (see the Routledge series on communications), versus content analysis, semiotics and so on. The abstract stuff going on in heads either end of the wire link-up, versus technology and implementation of the wires themselves. Form requires content, to use such outmoded terms, and there is a necessary "backward" effect (sorry) through this necessary interface. I'd like to quote Samuel Beckett again to try to illustrate the point I'm getting at. There has existed a similar kind of relationship (i.e. computer science versus humanities computationalists) between philosophers and literateurs (Flaubert: "occupation of idlers"), according to which the latter tend only to represent or utilize the weightier ideas (read technologies) of the former. Hence, this beautiful little phrase from _For To End Yet Again_ always sticks in my mind: "First change of all in the end a fragment comes away and falls. With slow fall for so dense a body it lights like cork on water and scarce breaks the surface" (_For To End Yet Again and Other Fizzles_, London: John Calder, p. 12) I'm struck with Beckett's image of "Foucault's" episteme, according to which human perception undergoes discrete alterations--new eras begin, according to the principles structuring which it is only possible to think in a certain kind of way. The "I" here is surprised to see a dense body fall slowly, so the I is structured on the conception of a Newtonian viewpoint. It's an infinite point of balance, the beginning and end: "First change of all in the end..." You can never see outside of your own way of seeing. We can't say that Beckett reiterates Foucault's idea, however, since actually Foucault and D&G etc acknowledge Beckett lavishly in their seminal works. Beckett's writing feeds back into philisophy like a source spring. So too, the scientific episteme changes where it is influenced by feedback from imaginative channels. The little Beckett phrase is a metaphor and an agent for this kind of change, that seems to work against the grain of received reality. My idea is shareware, so if you use it, please acknowledge the place where it first occurs, my unpublished Ph.D. thesis, _Beckett's Later Prose: A Study in Structure and Rationale_ University of Sydney, 1989. I'll forward relevant pagenumbers on request by email. Does that sound arrogant? At least I didn't ask for money. Dr Michael Guest Assoc/prof. Faculty of Information Shizuoka University, Japan guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 172 (172) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 173 (173) Jeff Finlay wrote [deleted quotation]This is exactly my point--the level of complexity is understandable and certainly parsable than those out-of-context bad-writing contest examples, but when an author forces the reader to parse several times a paragraph, it becomes quite tiresome. None but the most determined will continue. If one's work is to be accessible by anyone other than a handful of acamedicians and their students, let's turn down the intensity knob a couple of notches. [deleted quotation] I'm glad Jeff got my joke--however MS Word does the same thing _all_ educators are taught to do in their "Reading in the Content Area" ed. course-how to determine readibility levels to decide if a text is appropriate for a particular grade level. As computer programs, spell/grammar checkers are still rather inefective. As texts become more electronically based, however, it may be possible to accomadate reading levels by "stacking" documents and data in so that concepts assumed by one author can be easily looked up in a more elementary text "stacked above"; the "deeper one delved into the stack the more complex and data based the presentation. This could take time, but as search engines become smarter, they could aid in the compilation process. Regards Mark Gardner From: Roger Easson Subject: Re: 10.0914 computer literacy courses? Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:17:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 174 (174) I've been reviewing the on line materials relating to information literacy created by research librarians especially as regards to evaluating the quality of website information. I think you'd be interested to see how much information is online regarding this subject. Please see Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators [http://www.capecod.net/wixon/eval.htm] which is an excellent overview. Cordially roger Roger Easson Professor Literature and Languages Christian Brothers University Memphis, TN 38139 "It is in the shelter of others that the people live." Irish Proverb From: Gerard Goggin Subject: scanning from microfilm Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:34:17 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 175 (175) I would be grateful if anyone could advise whether it is possible to scan a text directly from microfilm, rather than copying the microfilm onto paper and scanning from this. A colleague wishes to scan and edit a late 18th-century text. He has a microfilm of the original and would like to use scanning and OCR with optimum results. Gerard Goggin English Department University of Sydney /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Gerard Goggin ph. +61 2 9387 3416 fax.+61 2 9369 2206 e-mail:ggoggin@mail.usyd.edu.au http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~ggoggin/hello.html From: Raffaele Rizzello Subject: Re: 11.0077 suicide philosophically Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 01:48:34 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 176 (176) At 23.35 28/05/97 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation]thatP. Kra and R. Rizzello may find useful. Sorry about the French bias. Was very useful. Thank you! [deleted quotation] Please, where precisely? [deleted quotation] In which of his works? Thank you, very much. Raffaele Rizzello - sub signo angeli Raphaelis From: Mick Doherty Subject: Re: 11.0109 tenure & the fate of universities Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 01:52:43 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 177 (177) Tenure & Technology I have begun collecting sites which do address these issues at the following URL: http://www.rpi.edu/~doherm/recognition/ It includes links to the _Kairos_ Coverweb addressing the topic, the Rutgers resolution, Eric Crump's wonderful story-telling site, the MLA statement, and a host of other resources. I would appreciate feedback and suggestions for additions to the site. The site was actually featured in a recent papertext issue of the Chronicle of Higher Ed, but ironically, they mis-quoted (?) the URL ... Mick Doherty From: Willard McCarty Subject: contributions to Humanist Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:57:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 178 (178) Here is a matter with which the philosophers amongst us can help. It concerns the contributions to Humanist (or to other online seminars) that advance an argument or otherwise add to a discussion rather than those supplying factual information. In several exchanges I have had with members of Humanist -- or is it in exchanges I have wanted to have with them? -- I've been reminded that the point of such contributions is not to be right but to clarify the discussion as a whole, to advance the discussants' understanding in some way, even to provoke them into thinking a bit harder about something important. Once, that is, one moves from monologue to dialogue, what matters is the whole conversation rather than any of its individual parts. I would suppose that the same is true of the difference between a lecture and a seminar. Do we not have a particularly clear case of this in an electronic seminar, disembodied and shared among discussants who may never meet each other? Apart from the philosophical questions the above provokes, I mean this as encouragement to all who have only lurked on Humanist because they felt they did not know enough to say something that is true. Lurking is of course fine, but I would not like to think that anyone lurked in the conviction that he or she had to be right. One only has to avoid being dull! Fortunately for us all, here decorum seldom if ever seems to be a problem. 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: "Nancy M. Ide" (117) Subject: WorldCALL Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 179 (179) Marsha Sawkins WorldCALL Secretariat PO Box 895, North Sydney, NSW 2069 Australia Fax: 61-2-9954 4964 Ph: 61-2-9954 4544 email: fauroy@ozemail.com.au WorldCALL CALL to Creativity 13 - 17 July 1998 Inaugural World Conference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning Venue: The University of Melbourne, Australia Call for Papers Topics: - CALL as a catalyst for change - Motivating language acquisition through CALL - Interdisciplinary perspectives in CALL - The relationship between theory and practice - New models of evaluation and assessment - CALL in the developing world - New identities, new communities - New literacies, new genres - Learner autonomy versus learner dependence - Transparent technologies Submission of abstracts Deadline for receipt - 1 July 1997 Abstracts should be sent to the Conference Secretariat and should be submitted on disk with a hard copy attached. 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One of the goals of WorldCALL is to provide a number of scholarships for professional development, offering those who have worked with CALL in developing countries the opportunity to attend this Conference and benefit from the exchange of ideas and contact with leaders in the field. Funding has already been pledged to this end. Melbourne is the capital of Victoria and home to more than 3 million people. Awarded the title 'World's most liveable city', Melbourne is the gateway to regional Victoria and beyond that, the great expanse of Australia. Melbourne is close to beaches, ski-fields, desert and lush valleys. Melbourne enjoys mostly moderate weather, during winter (June - August) temperatures range from 7oC to 14oC. Registration brochures will be available from November 1997 with early bird registration of AUD $550 closing on 31 March 1998 (full price AUD $650). To receive further, more specific details as they become available, please register your interest below and mail or fax, or email your details to fauroy@ozemail.com.au Details can also be found at www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/~hlc/worldcall Family Name: Given Name: Title (Mr, Mrs, etc): Organisation: Address: Telephone: Facsimile: I will/will not be submitting a paper Please send more details on: Accommodation Discount Flights Conference Registration Pre-, Post Tours Conference committees Organising Committee: June Gassin (Chair), Denis Cunningham, Robert Debski, Mike Levy, Iain Morrison, Mike Smith Program Committee: Sue Otto (Chair), Robert Debski, Mike Levy Steering Committee: Richard Baldauf, John Barson, Keith Cameron, Chris Candlin, Carol Chapelle, Graham Chesters, Mary-Louise Craven, Graham Davies, Nina Garrett, Henry Hamburger, David Herren, Mike Levy, Peter Liddell, Brian McCarthy, Kazunori Nozawa, Gudrun, Oberprieler, Sue Otto, Peter Patrikis, Kari Sajavaara, Roly Sussex, June Thompson, Mark Warschauer, Peter White Supporting organisations ALAA, AILA, CCALL, EUROCALL, FIPLV, IALL, TESOL CALL-IS, Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning Sponsoring organisations Australian Technology Enhanced Language Learning Consortium (ATELL) The University of Melbourne Further details may be obtained from: The Conference Secretariat, Fauth Royale & Associates Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 895, North Sydney NSW 2060, Australia. Tel: 61 2 9954 4544 Fax: 61 2 9954 4964. Email fauroy@ozemail.com.au From: Lou Burnard Subject: Re: What REALLY happened in Canada (fwd) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:43:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 180 (180) A piece of ephemera preserved: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~csteph/tagteam.html :-) Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Information is not knowledge..." | | Humanities Computing Unit Chris Stephens | | Oxford University Humanities IT Support Officer | Computing Services | 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford Tel: +44 (0) 1865 283295 E-mail: Christopher.Stephens@oucs.ox.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: 11.0113 contributions to Humanist Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:12:20 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 181 (181) [deleted quotation] Am I the only one to detect a slightly paranoid attitude here? We seem to object both to the "spammer", whose presence on the list is only too obvious, and to the "lurker", who reads but doesn't make his/her presence known. Why should we feel uneasy about someone reading but not contributing? I don't think it's because we feel that that person is not "pulling his/her weight". I suspect that it's more akin to the feeling that we get when the passenger next to us on the tube (subway) reads over our shoulder the letter we have received from our mother... The lurker on one thread may be the contributor to the next. May I quote Molie\re. In the burlesque ceremony of intronisation of Monsieur Jourdain as "Mamamouchi", the "Turks" chant, in the Mediterranean _lingua franca_:- Si ti sabir, Ti respondir. Si no sabir, Taisir, taisir... This should be the battle-cry of all scholarly discussion-lists... Franc,ois C-R From: Glenn Everett Subject: microfilm scanning Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 16:03:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 182 (182) Gerard Goggin asked: [deleted quotation]You'll need a good scanner and good OCR software, and a transparency adapter for your scanner; in the US, these adapters may run between $350 and $850. Glenn Everett Faculty Multimedia Center University of Tennessee at Martin aaff@utm.edu From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0112 microfilm scanning? refs to philosophical suidide? Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:32:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 183 (183) The answer is yes it is possible to scan from microfilm (roll or fiche) I do it on a regular basis. The only thing you need to make sure is that the type face can be recognized by your software. From: Hans Joergen Marker Subject: RE: 11.0112 microfilm scanning? refs to philosophical suidide? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 97 08:43:00 +1 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 184 (184) Microfilm scanning. Microfilm scanning is most certainly possible provided naturally that you have the right equipment. I know of a couple of places where it is done on a major scale: The Netherlands Historical Data Archive (contact René van Horik) and the Danish State Archives Photographic Unit (contact Jesper Dal: jd@lav.sa.dk) The equipment you need costs in the order of 100.000 $ but in both of the mentioned places I believe that they would be willing to do the scanning for you if you pay them a resonnable compensation. Hans Joergen Marker Danish Data Archives hm@dda.sa.dk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Your Homepage Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:36:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 185 (185) [deleted quotation]Hello, My name is Einat Amitay and I'm a PG student at the Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, Scotland. I'm collecting a corpus of *manually* generated HTML files (homepages, at the moment.... but stay tuned...). I already 'possess' a corpus of 847 HTML files randomly retrieved from the web, but this time I need people to give me their consent to use their homepages. This is where you come into the picture: can you give me the URL of your homepage so that I could use it in my new corpus? This is for research purposes ONLY! I promise! please send the URL to the above email. Thanks a lot einat ------------^m-----o-------)---@@@---(--------o----------- Einat Amitay email: einat@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Tel: (44) (0131) 662-4448 ext. 24202 Tel in Israel: (972) (06) 757134 HomePage: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~einat/Home/Shalom.htm -------------------o------)---@@@---(--------o------------ From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: 11.0116 microfilm scanning Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 13:09:40 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 186 (186) [deleted quotation] A silly question, but we are talking about scanning a modern or at least modern-ish (say post 1850) edition aren't we? My experiments with scanning earlier printed material weren't at all satisfactory. Francois C-R From: Steve Taylor Subject: Re: 11.0116 microfilm scanning Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 08:12:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 187 (187) [deleted quotation] OK, I'll bite. What technique do you use? Steve Taylor Faculty Information Technology Center Emory University (404)727-8931 http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ussjt/ From: "Robert S. Tannenbaum" Subject: Re: 11.0111 bad writing, computing &c. Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 08:22:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 188 (188) I have often been struck by the "bad" writing in many scientific and technical pieces. By that I mean the inability of the writer simply and clearly to convey the meaning of the material. I recently received a perfect example of this phenomenon from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service: On the tax increase after the refund, we'll charge the lower refund rate of interest on the tax instead of the higher underpayment rate of interest. We'll charge the lower interest rate on the new tax (up to the amount of the refund) for the same period of time we paid interest on the overpayment. It is interesting to me to note their attempt at informality by the use of "we" and the contraction "we'll." Still, it is almost impossible to discern what they intend to do with my money. (It was all a mistake on their part, anyway, They had lost my tax return, but I have the receipts to prove that I had filed it on time.) Someone at Microsoft (another organization almost as large as the IRS) has a sense of humor with regard to bad technical writing, however. They sent a note to some users recently that read, in part, "We apologize for the fact that our recent documentation was not up to our usual standards of obfuscation. We will try to do better in the future." 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: Willard McCarty Subject: bad writing Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:52:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 189 (189) Software manuals are often, as we all know, very bad indeed. Apart from the author's simple incompetence with the written language, many of those I've seen suffer from a common failure of imagination. Prima facie evidence suggests very strongly that the authors of these things simply cannot imagine that their readers do not know what they know. I've picked up many a manual that never actually says what the software in question is, rather it launches immediately into details of how to do X, sometimes without saying what X is either, or why one would want to do it. Perhaps it is true that the perfect software interface does away with any need for a manual, but with a package like Excel, for example, I tend to doubt that the need for written documentation will ever wither away. The job in question is simply too complex. In any case, the interface, as a kind of implicit manual, is another area where failures of imagination are not uncommon. Those of us who teach beginners for a living, or whose technically ignorant partners or mates suddenly develop the yearning to know which buttons to push, are well aware of how misleading the claim for an "intuitive" interface is. I find it very salutory indeed to be reminded, and more to be forced to strive for the kind of understanding and communicative skills that teaching the beginner requires. When I took first-year chemistry at Berkeley, in the mid 60s -- the year xenon tetraflouride was first synthesized in labs there; I saw the first sample -- the professor (may his name be blessed, though I cannot remember it!) had such skills in such abundance that I doubt any of us, among the 500 or so in the lecture theatre, were not moved to a love of the subject, even if only for a moment. Such stories I could tell, but won't. He was chair of the department and a distinguished chemist, as I recall. Taught first year chemistry like a master. It's so easy to be an expert, be more correct than anyone about Y, so long as Y is sufficiently specialised; it's so difficult to communicate why anyone should care. It seems to me that if we're going to understand what humanities computing is, we need to be stuck with (blessed by being stuck with) teaching it. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: CFP: TEI 10th Anniversary User Conference Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:05:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 190 (190) ************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ************************* TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE TENTH ANNIVERSARY USER CONFERENCE http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/ November 14-16, 1997 Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, USA Sponsored by Brown University Computing and Information Services Brown University Libraries - o - To commemorate the tenth anniversary of its founding, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is sponsoring its first user conference, to be held 14-16 November 1997 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The TEI was established at an international planning meeting on text encoding standards, held at Vassar College on November 12-13, 1987. The TEI is sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange were published in spring of 1994. They provide an extensive SGML-based scheme for encoding electronic texts across a wide spectrum of text types and suitable for any kind of application. The Guidelines have already achieved wide-scale implementation in projects throughout North America and Europe. The TEI conference will bring together users of the TEI Guidelines in order to share ideas, experiences, and expertise, provide a forum for technical discussion and evaluation of the Guidelines as they have been implemented across a variety of applications. The topics include but are not limited to: o reports on the use of the TEI scheme in a particular project or in a particular application area or discipline o reports from particular user communities such as the builders and designers of electronic text centers, digital libraries, language corpora, electronic editions, multi-media databases, etc. o evaluations of the TEI scheme as applied to a particular class of texts or in a particular type of scholarly research o technical discussions of particular encoding problems and solutions such as unusual or complex text types, multi-media, multiple views or information types, multi-lingual data and internationalization, textual variation, overlap, etc. o papers on customization and extension of the TEI for particular application areas and text types o reports on experience using off-the-shelf software with TEI documents, or developing software to handle TEI material o discussions of markup theory and markup architectures, with particular reference to the TEI o discussions of the TEI in the light of developments in the larger computing community (the Web, XML, ...) A portion of the conference will also be devoted to consideration of the future of the TEI. Possible topics to be discussed include the organization of the project, membership on the component committees, priorities, and new work items to be proposed to the Technical Review Committee. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions of at least 1500 words should be sent by August 20, 1997. Email submissions or a URL where the submission can be retrieved should be sent to tei10@stg.brown.edu. Submissions in TEI Lite are preferred, but full TEI or (valid!) HTML 3.2 is acceptable. If it is not possible to submit in one of these forms, please contact tei10_program@stg.brown.edu to make special arrangements. Papers should include complete references to related work and should clearly identify the main problem being addressed, other similar projects and their relation to this project, the main and original contribution of the paper, and remaining or open problems. Authors are also asked to indicate if this paper is or will be submitted elsewhere. Notification of acceptance will be made by September 20, 1997. Final versions of full papers will be due by October 15, 1997. An electronic conference proceedings will be published; other publication details will be forthcoming. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: * Nancy Ide, Vassar College * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Susan Armstrong, University of Geneva * Winfried Bader, German Bible Society * David Barnard, University of Regina (Sask.) * Lou Burnard, Oxford University Computing Services * Tom Corns, University of Wales, Bangor * Steve DeRose, Inso Corp. * David Gants, University of Georgia * Dan Greenstein, King's College, London * Susan Hockey, University of Alberta * Stig Johansson, University of Oslo * Judith Klavans, Columbia University * Terry Langendoen, University of Arizona * Elli Mylonas, Brown University * John Price-Wilkin, University of Michigan * Gary Simons, Summer Institute of Linguistics * Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo * Syun Tutiya, Chiba University * Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: On program and paper submissions: tei10_program@stg.brown.edu About local arrangements: tei10@stg.brown.edu URL: http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/ FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEI: URL: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: tenure, technology Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 10:23:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 191 (191) A colleague in Japan sent me the following, with the request that should I decide to circulate his remarks I not mention his name or university. Thus the censored bits. ------------------------ I'm not yet a subscriber to the Humanist Discussion Group (though perhaps I should be); a friend who is a subscriber forwarded to me a message about "Tenure, Technology, and Scolarly [sic] Futures". [omitted material] Hope Greenberg wonders: [deleted quotation] The very simple answer is that, to the best of my knowledge, it's not reflected at all. [deleted quotation] I have yet to be convinced that it is an issue. Self-evidently, I use the kind of "technological resources" that I imagine are of interest to you. On balance, I'd prefer it if my colleagues did too. However, I'm much more concerned about their knowledge, and pedagogic enthusiasm and ability--whatever the "information" channels they care to use. [omitted material] 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Survey on Business Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:48:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 192 (192) [deleted quotation]I am conducting a survey on business ethics for an MBA project. I would appreciate if you could please take a minute to answer the survey at: http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Floor/3016 Thank you for your help. From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 11.0121 bad writing Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:16:59 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 193 (193) [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] When I first worked for IBM as a programmer back in the olden days (1960's), I was considered quite talented because I could READ the manuals and comprehend their meaning and intent. And even better I could explain it all to other people. In those days there was no such thing as a *user*; even the 'programming' manuals were written by and for the engineers. There were few explanations of any sort, certainly no algorithms, simply technical (VERY) description of the execution cycle of each assembly language instruction. We were supposed to figure out the rest. I never saw any instructions for something like operating a computer, which we did have to do on occasion to test our programs. I've always wondered how my academic background of mathematics, German, and English literature prepared me for that! I guess that's why we call it education and not training! Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 512-477-7213 Language Technology, Inc. 512-477-7351 (fax) 2415 Griswold Lane mdharris@acm.org Austin, TX 78703 mdharris@aol.com From: David Silver Subject: cyberculture studies Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:08:52 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 194 (194) List members, For a fairly extensive collection of resources and materials pertaining to cyberculture and a list of over 60 online syllabi related to the topic, see: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs> =-=-=-=-= David Silver, PhD Student, American Studies University of Maryland, College Park <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs> From: "M. Salimian" Subject: A Multimedia Instructional Design course on the web Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 19:35:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 195 (195) Greetings I would like to inform you that a multimedia design course is offered free to those who are interested in the subject. The focus of the course is to get the educators (and others) prepared for learning/teaching environment of the next century. It uses the web as the main medium of communication and instruction which might be of interest to the members of this list. The homepage for the course is at: http://www.eng.morgan.edu/~salimian/IEGR485/ I would also appreciate if you forward this message to any other list that you feel it might be appropriate. Thanks in advance, Masud Salimian Indust. Engr. Morgan State University From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" Subject: Early Registration deadline - CIMQL Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:53:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 196 (196) WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute Department of Statistics University of Glasgow, UK 11, 12 September 1997 EARLY REGISTRATION Please note that the early registration deadline has been extended until 30 June for this workshop. Payments received after this date will be subject to a GBP50 increase in the registration fee. To register, complete the form at http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql/regform.html, or download and complete the text version (regform.txt). Details of the workshop follow: In recent years techniques from disciplines such as computer science, articficial intelligence and statistics have found their way into the pages of journals such as the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Literary and Linguistic Computing and Computers and the Humanities. While this influx may bring more advanced methods of analysis to the fields of quantitative linguistics, stylometry and stylistics, the demands upon researchers to understand and use these new techniques are great. Familiarity with the appropriate software and the ear of a sympathetic expert are pre-requisites without which the technique may seem out of reach to the average researcher. The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute and the Department of Statistics of the University of Glasgow are hence supporting this practical workshop in Computationally-Intensive Methods in Quantitative Linguistics. The workshop is designed to introduce the participants to four such techniques in a practical environment. Each half-day session will be divided into an introductory session in a lecture theatre and a longer period spent working with software and practical examples. All of the speakers have published papers using the analyses they will present and their aim in this workshop is to enable the participants to return to their home institutions able to carry out these techniques in the course of their own research. The sessions and speakers are as follows: Deconstructing texts with electronic dice: Monte Carlo methods in lexical statistics. Harald Baayen; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Fitting probability distributions to linguistic data. Deductive and explorative methods in synergetic linguistics. Reinhard Koehler; University of Trier, Germany. Evolutionary Computing and Text Categorization. Richard Forsyth; University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. Neural Nets, Principal Component Analysis, Marlowe and Shakespeare. Thomas Merriam; United Kingdom. The workshop will be held in the Boyd Orr Building of the University of Glasgow, commencing on Wednesday 10 September with a reception in the Hunterian Art Gallery. The four workshop sessions will take place on Thursday 11 September and Friday 12 September. There will also be a half day to Loch Lomond and the Glen Goyne whisky distillery on the morning of Saturday 13 September. Accommodation has been arranged in university accommodation with some en suite facilities. Tea and coffee, lunches and evening meals on 11 and 12 September are included in the registration fee. The registration fee is GBP150.00 and GBP100.00 for students. For more information about the workshop and to register, please consult the web site at http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql, or send email to the conference organisers at cimql@stats.gla.ac.uk. From: Willard McCarty Subject: we have our moments Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:42:59 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 197 (197) Tagging may be characterised as a collection of moments in each of which an observation about primary data is followed by its encoding in some metalanguage (like TEI/SGML). Then, at intervals, the collection of tags is compiled, individual items perhaps corrected, after which the resulting metatext becomes the basis for analysis. The great virtue of tagging as the basis for study of primary material is that unaided we humans seem at best to be very good at making such momentary observations but rather less good at summing them up without overlooking or forgetting the troublesome ones. To the degree such oversight occurs, we get out of our primary material more or less what we expected, wanted to find. Consider, then, the following meditation on our kind, from Philip Gerrans, "Is it catching?", rev. of Dan Sperber, Explaining culture: A naturalistic approach (Oxford: Blackwell), in TLS 4916 for 20 June 1997, p. 5: "Rationality is a precarious achievement, almost instantly swamped in day-to-day life by other influences on human psychology.... Furthermore, it seems that rationality, even in situations where it is recognised as desirable, such as planning and prediction, is not an automatic part of the human inferential repertoire. Humans are very bad at employing the norms of rationality, such as logical inference, probabilistic reasoning and planning beyond the immediate future, but they are very good at convincing themselves that they have sound reasons for what they do. Perhaps the most tenacious aspect of mind is not rationality, but rationalization, the reinterpretation of evidence to support a belief rather than revising it in the face of counter-evidence and counter-argument. Indeed, Stuart Sutherland's recent book, Irrationality, demonstrates that even those areas of human culture consecrated to the norms of rationality, the academic professions, operate, in some cases, according to non-principles of confabulation, improbability and counter-induction." If the development of human mentality in essence involves, as some have argued, the externalization of mind through our creations and inventions, then is the computer a materialization of our desire to be rational? Are we in effect giving ourselves the means to be rational? Is this a good thing? Comments welcome. Yours, WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Prof. Jose Gomes Filho" Subject: Re: 11.0101 future of computing Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:56:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 198 (198) About these ideas and the future of computing, I go a little further and add that, in the future, when the science has gotten the complete "artificialization" of the human brain (and obviously the whole body) we will have completely evolved to a new species, the *homo cyber* , which among other characteristcs, will have a quasi ethernal life, since it will possibly posess something like a "black-box" that will make possible the individual's reinstallation in a new body, in case of accident. The Japanese already begin to think on the miniaturization of such body. Something like using nanoneurocybernetics... For the success on such direction we need for example that the movies business would also help and turn to show the cybernetic (and cloning) scientific evolution and fiction on a more *userfriendly* way, with the cybernetic creatures having a little more emotion too. [deleted quotation] From: Patrick Allen Subject: RE: 11.0117 paranoia about lurkers? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:48:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 199 (199) So far, I have only been a lurker on this list. I now think that it is time for me to "come out". Can I just say that I get an enormous amount of pleasure and knowledge out of just reading contributions to the list - that's when I get time to read them. I am now curious about the the relationship between pleasure and knowledge - any thoughts? Patrick Allen. From: Alfredo Elejalde Subject: Re: 11.0117 paranoia about lurkers? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:54:35 -0500 (GMT-0500) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 200 (200) [deleted quotation] Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough. (Stevens, Wallace. Final Soliloquoy of the Interior Paramour) Alfredo Elejalde F. elejalde@pucp.edu.pe http://macareo.pucp.edu.pe/elejalde [Editorial footnote. When I wrote my note about lurkers (self-knowledge, such as I have it, engaged) I meant only to encourage those with something to say. What a delight to have poetry in response! --WM] From: John Price-Wilkin Subject: job posting -- Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:56:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 201 (201) ANNOUNCEMENT OF VACANCY COORDINATOR, HUMANITIES TEXT INITIATIVE (Term Appointment through 7/31/99) The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) provides a program focus for building both commercially published and locally created electronic text resources, as well as for instruction and research related to electronic text and text analysis and systems for wider practical access to text in the humanities. With significant collaboration and guidance with faculty, the program serves as a catalyst for interdisciplinary scholarship through resource building, research support, symposia, and services related to the creation of and access to scholarly texts. The HTI coordinator has primary responsibility for the development and management of text resources and services in support of the Initiative. The HTI is a branch of the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) and has responsibility for encoded text resources in the humanities, as well as finding aids encoded using the EAD DTD. DUTIES: The HTI Coordinator works with a team of librarians and technologists in DLPS to establish priorities and build campus services in several clearly defined areas. The HTI Coordinator also plays a central role in the process of analyzing SGML-encoded materials in all subject areas in support of DLPS's non-humanities SGML support activities. Key areas of responsibility for the Coordinator include: * Collection development. * Text production and access services for materials encoded with the TEI and EAD DTDs. * Assistance with SGML system development. * Remote user support. * Working with the School of Information, course implementation and experiential opportunities for student community. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: ALA accredited MLS. Minimum two years experience in research library environment, including experience in service or collection role. Demonstrated extensive experience with SGML, text standards, and text production in the humanities. Demonstrated experience in the evaluation and implementation of text retrieval tools, and in evaluation and selection of humanities electronic text resources. Knowledge of one or more Western European languages. Demonstrated strong communication skills and ability to work in collaborative environment. Demonstrated ability to work effectively in multi-cultural environment. Supervisory experience. Desired: Advanced degree in humanities discipline. Teaching experience related to structured texts, especially in the humanities. Experience in design and use of image and multimedia resources relevant to the humanities. Experience in grant proposal development. Evidence of publication and research related to text resources. RANK, SALARY, & LEAVE: Rank of Associate Librarian. Final salary dependent on years of previous relevant professional experience. (Minimum salary - $33,000); 24 working days of vacation a year; 15 days of sick leave a year with provisions for extended benefits. RETIREMENT PLAN: TIAA/CREF retirement plan TO APPLY: Send cover letter & copy of resume to: Karen Downing; Library Human Resources; 404 Hatcher Graduate Library North; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205 APPLICATION DEADLINE: Applications received by 7/14/97 will be given first consideration. The University of Michigan is a non-discriminatory, affirmative action employer. ************************************************************************** John Price-Wilkin Phone: 313.764.8074 Head, Digital Library Production Service Fax: 313.647.6897 302 Hatcher North email: jpwilkin@umich.edu University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205 ************************************************************************** From: Carole Meyers Subject: Romantic Circles virtual conference series Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:18:13 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 202 (202) R O M A N T I C C I R C L E S: C A L L F O R P A P E R S F A L L 1 9 9 7 Romantic Circles Announces its Virtual Conference Series! ** Please print and post Romantic Circles (a Website devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, their contemporaries and historical contexts) is pleased to sponsor two upcoming virtual conferences, one built around Mary Shelley's _The Last Man_ (to be held September 13, 1997) and the other around Percy Shelley's "The Devil's Walk" (to be held October 18, 1997), two texts currently available on RC's Web pages: http://www.inform.umd.edu/RC/rc.html The Conference Committee's idea is to use Romantic Circles' Web pages and MOO (the Villa Diodati--a text only environment that allows for real-time communication) to highlight the primary texts edited and archived by RC. We thus hope to explore the ability of electronic media to facilitate the kinds of creative, spontaneous engagements (with both texts and people) traditionally facilitated by live conferences. The culmination of each conference will be a meeting in RC's MOOspace, opening with a virtual plenary session during which invited respondents will react to the previously posted keynote essays. This roundtable discussion will then be opened up to all participants for a lively exchange of ideas. Closer to the event, we will provide a variety of MOO orientation sessions designed to get people of all skills up and going in the MOO. EmoryMOO is available for teachers to hold classes and other events (we had a literary masquerade ball last fall), so check it out by telnetting to chaucer.library.emory.edu 4444 For general MOO help, see the our help pages: http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/help.html A few participants will be invited to expand their pieces into formal essays to be archived along with the keynotes on permanent Romantic Circles Web pages--this lasting record will serve as a kind of conference journal. * * * * C O N F E R E N C E #1 V I R T U A L L Y D E A D ? M A R Y S H E L L E Y'S T H E L A S T M A N September 13, 1997 Keynote speakers and respondents include: Elizabeth Fay Gary Kelly Greg Kucich Steve Jones Anne Mellor Alan Richardson The Conference Committee invites papers, approximately 1,000 words in length, to be submitted on subjects related to Mary Shelley's The Last Man. The following are suggestions for possible paper topics: * The Ends of Introspection: Imagining Solipsism in The Last Man Sibylline Leaves: Mary Shelley's Prefaces * Apocalypse Then and Apocalypse Now: Mary Shelley and the Evolution of Lastness * The Last Man as Ecological Novel * The Last Man and the Radical Novels of the Romantic Era * Questioning the Aesthetic Value of The Last Man * Frankenstein's Monstrous Cousin: Teaching The Last Man Deadline for submissions for The Last Man Conference: August 15, 1997 * * * * C O N F E R E N C E #2 U R B A N E X C U R S I O N S: P E R C Y S H E L L E Y'S "T H E D E V I L'S W A L K" October 18, 1997 Keynote speakers and respondents include: Stuart Curran Neil Fraistat Robert Griffin Morton Paley Walter Reed Don Reiman Suitable topics for papers could include, but are not limited to, the following: * "The Devil's Walk" and the Broadside Ballad Tradition * Satanic Verses: Shelley, Southey, Coleridge, and Milton * Unacknowledged Legislators: Anonymity and the Political Writer * "The Devil's Walk" as Augustan Satire * Reloading the Canon: Teaching the Lesser Known Poetry of Mary Shelley's Husband * Questioning the Aesthetic Value of "The Devil's Walk" * Faceless Publishing: Past and Present Deadline for submissions for "The Devil's Walk" conference: September 15, 1997 Please send papers or inquiries to: Mark Ledden--mledden@emory.edu Carole Meyers--cmeyers@emory.edu Liz Rackley--erack01@emory.edu or to: Liz Rackley Emory University English Department 302 North Callaway Center 537 Kilgo Circle Atlanta, GA 30322 The general editors of Romantic Circles are Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, Donald H. Reiman, and Carl Stahmer. Carole Meyers Computing Specialist in the Humanities Emory University cmeyers@emory.edu http:/prometheus.cc.emory.edu/cfm/cfmhome.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Convite para participar na "Forum-LP" Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:41:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 203 (203) [deleted quotation]Our apologies to the non-portuguese speakers. As nossas desculpas por eventuais recepcoes duplicadas. Por favor, divulgue esta mensagem a possiveis interessados. ====================================================================== Caro(a) Colega: E com muito prazer que o(a) convidamos a inscrever-se na recem-criada lista Forum-LP que tem por objetivo reunir os investigadores interessados em Processamento de lingua natural ou linguistica computacional tendo o Portugues como lingua objeto. Pensamos que com esta iniciativa contribuiremos para a quebra do isolamento das pessoas que trabalham nestas areas. Abaixo enviamos uma descricao detalhada da lista, com seus objetivos e procedimentos de operacao. Com os melhores cumprimentos Prof. Dr. Jose Gabriel Pereira Lopes Antonio Ribeiro & Michael Mora ====================================================================== Forum-LP@ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~glint/Forum-LP Forum de Linguistica Computacional da Lingua Portuguesa criado a 6 de junho de 1997 promovido pelo Glint* - Grupo de Lingua Natural DI/FCT/UNL/PT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Leia com atencao as informacoes abaixo para uma boa utilizacao desta lista. Apresentacao ------------- Este e' o Forum de Processamento de Lingua Natural e Linguistica Computacional da Lingua Portuguesa. O forum nao e' moderado e toma preferencialmente o Portugues como lingua de veiculacao. Publico Alvo ------------- Esta lista e' destinada a todos aqueles que trabalhem com, facam investigacao e/ou estejam interessados em Processamento de lingua natural ou linguistica computacional tendo o Portugues como lingua objeto. 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Knowledge is to know you enjoy something. The two are quite different. You need a theory to know that something is worth enjoying. Of course, theory and knowledge are also quite different. Coming to know something can be pleasurable except when that something is a theory that you know nothing. Then ignorance is pleasure. Dr Chris Floyd Oral: +61 8 9339 8632 Ink: +61 8 9385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd From: James O'Donnell Subject: list-serving software Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 08:48:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 205 (205) For a list I run, we are being made to change from majordomo to listproc. I am struck in going through the pains of transition that these things are all still mid-80s technology. I'll refrain from any venting here, but I write to this list to ask, if you really know something about this and were asked to recommend a list-serving software package to run on a unix server, what would you recommend? The best answer will take into account both the concerns of the sysop (security, load on server, ability to thwart spam) and the listowner (ease of use for owner, flexibility of configuration to do what you want it to, quality of documentation and ease of use for listmembers). (I agree that some kind of webcasting is probably the *future*, but for now I confine my question only to software that can build and maintain a subscription list and send e-mail to it.) Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: economics Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:54:52 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 206 (206) I am looking for an economist of electronic publishing who is primarily interested in the system-wide effects of e-publishing within the academy. A socio-ecological economist? The question I wish to raise with such a person is how e-publishing affects and is likely to affect the way we are organised, what we do, and how we do it. Suggestions please. Thanks. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: communication Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:57:18 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 207 (207) Many Humanists will likely be interested in the existence and work of the Human Communication Research Centre, Edinburgh and Glasgow, which "brings together theories and methods from several disciplines. Formal linguistics and logic, computational modelling, and experimental psychology are all recruited to the pursuit of a common goal. When people communicate, they process vast quantities of information. To understand better how this happens, we focus on spoken and written language; we also study communication in other media - visual, graphical and computer-based." See the URL <http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/hcrc/>. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: John Bradley Subject: Software for TACT users: TACTweb Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:30:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 208 (208) ***Announcing Version 1.0 of TACTweb*** A new version of TACTweb is now available. TACTweb is a WWW CGI program that allows you to share a TACT textbase (TDB file) over the Internet. With TACTweb you can provide colleagues and students a WWW accessible text analysis environment for modest textbases. With the TACTweb software comes a interactive workbook suitable for introducing undergraduates to text analysis. You can try TACTweb and the workbook at our demonstration site: http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca At this site we have links to other sites that are using TACTweb. You can download the (free) software to set up your own TACTweb server from the following sites: North America: http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca/download/TACTweb/ UK: ftp://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/d%3A/anonymous/TACT/TACTweb/ Installation instructions are available from the demonstration site at <http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca>, and are also included in the distribution package. We welcome suggestions and news from those who have tried TACTweb. TACTweb is an experimental project led by John Bradley and Geoffrey Rockwell. John Bradley Geoffrey Rockwell King's College, London McMaster University John.Bradley@kcl.ac.uk grockwel@mcmaster.ca From: John Bradley Subject: Software for TACT users: sgml2tdb Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:33:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 209 (209) Announcing an Update to sgml2tdb A new version of "sgml2tdb" is now available. sgml2tdb is software that can take SGML marked-up text (including TEI and TEIlite, but not limited to them) and create from them a TACT textbase (TDB file). Like the TDBs that are created by MakeBase, TDBs from sgml2tdb can be used by other TACT programs such as UseBase or Collgen, can be mounted on the WWW using TACTweb, or can be merged with other TDBs using MergeBase. You can download the software from the following two sites: North America: http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca/download/sgml2tdb/ UK: ftp://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/d%3A/anonymous/TACT/sgml2tdb/ Full instructions on how to set up and use sgml2tdb are available from both sites, and are also included in the distribution package. Sgml2tdb is still beta-level software. However, I welcome your comments and suggestions, and will update the software based on them as time permits. John Bradley King's College, London John.Bradley@kcl.ac.uk From: Jeff Finlay Subject: Re: 11.0131 list software? economics of e-publishing? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:05:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 210 (210) [deleted quotation] Without a doubt, revised Listserv 1.8c is the most powerful and flexible program for running a list. It'll run on a variety of platforms -- see the listserv homepage at http://www.lsoft.com Jeff Jeff Finlay, Administrator American Studies Crossroads Project 303 New North Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Phone: (202) 687-4535 Fax: (202) 687-5445 URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads Editor, ASA Opportunities & News http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html From: BRUNI Subject: Re: 11.0123 present & future of computing Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:27:39 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 211 (211) On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] One could certainly argue that computers are rational systems. But, then again, what does rationality, divested from imagination lead to? As Martin E. Rosenberg states, to be rational (in the abstract sense) can lead to a world view where only facts and figures count: "a...construct that disguises the nature of human awareness in order for it better to plot industrial schedules, the trajectories of cannonballs, the circumnavigation of the globe." I would hope that we use computers in more imaginative ways, for example, to create imaginative texts that can articulate how we perceive the increasing complexity of the world. Of course, rationality fits here as well. But let us not make it the entire picture. John Bruni English Dept University of Kansas From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Digital and rational Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:17:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 212 (212) [deleted quotation]Dear Humansits, The recent posting concerning the weakness of the human mind in matters of "rationality" has somewhat disturbed me. When Philip Gerrans says, "Humans are very bad at employing the norms of rationality, such as logical inference, probabilistic reasoning and planning beyond the immediate future..." to what is he comparing us? We are irrational compared to computers? We are the most rational being on this planet, in this solar system. Would we even be aware such things as probability and logic had not some human mind discovered / created them? Was it Plato that said that writing a sort of corruption of the mind because we used it to perform a function (memory) that we were capable of but chose not to exercise? I think we would agree that writing is a compliment to the mind, not a corruption of it. Although it might have started as a system for keeping track of finacial transactions, it evolved into essays, poetry, and fiction that allows to express and learn things about our selves and our world. Computers are the same. Compiling raw data about many texts using computers is no more rational, in principle, than using an abacus to help us add and subtract long lists of numbers. It is still the human mind that makes the tool, figures out how to use it to obtain results, and draws conclusions. Some of us might interpret the data differently than others, or make false conclusions. This is simply evidence of falibility, not irrationality. Alas, all humans are guilty of imperfection, even the most rational, even Philip Gerrans. Adam Foit From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 11.0124 lurkers, battle cries, and poetry Date: Wed, 25 Jun 97 13:03:31 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 213 (213) Patrick Allen asked about the possible relation between pleasure and knowledge. In these postmodern days we seem even more intent on forgetting our own past than might have been the case in "modernity" - so it is with fear and trembling that I recommend Plato's _Symposium_, specifically Diotima's speeches on _eros_ as the psychic drive that, ultimately unsatisfied by the beauties available among bodies and souls, aims for knowledge of beauty as such. Much follows, of course, in subsequent traditions, regarding the conjunction of knowledge, insight, wisdom, etc. with the intense pleasure our time seems to imprison within the simply bodily/sexual domains. So the religious mystics who speak of the Divine as their lover, etc. Curmudgeonly yours, Charles Ess Philosophy and Religion Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA homepage: http://www.drury.edu/phil-relg/ess.html From: Brian Nielsen Subject: Re: 11.0131 list software? economics of e-publishing? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:14:08 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 214 (214) At 10:27 PM 6/23/97 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Willard -- Two folks come to mind for me: one is the current dean of Berkeley's library school, Hal Varian, to whom you should at least pose the question directly. Hal is an economist, done some very interesting things, but perhaps not right on topic of your interest -- see The second person is Michael Buckland, FORMER dean at the same school. His training was in librarianship, but in Britain, where it was fairly heavy operations-research oriented. But take a look at his book: Buckland, Michael Keeble. Redesigning library services : a manifesto / Michael Buckland ; foreword by Michael Gorman. Chicago : American Library Association, 1992. x, 82 p. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-79) and index. Michael would be a fun person to talk with on your question. Brian Brian Nielsen Manager, Learning Technologies Group Academic Technologies Northwestern University 2129 N. Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-2850 (847)491-2170 fax:(847)491-3824 email: b-nielsen@nwu.edu http://www.nwu.edu/people/b-nielsen From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: economics of e-publishing? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:58:15 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 215 (215) Try the work of the economist Hal Varian, eg http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/people/hal/papers.html Leslie Burkholder From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New Babble Version Available Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:32:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 216 (216) [deleted quotation]Babble 1.1.1 (a synoptic Unicode browser) is now available for download at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/babble/download.html be sure to check the documentation at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/babble/babblehelp.html Some new features have been added: 1. Babble can now deal with SGML-tagged Unicode files delivered via the Web (fixing a problem with version 1.1 in which it couldn't find and load style sheets correctly). As part of this change, stylesheets are now specified in the SGML Doctype declaration (see the documentation). 2. Babble can now flip texts vertically (columns) to horizontally (rows) and back again. 3. Installation and setup instructions are broken down by platform, and more detailed instructions are included on how to set up Babble as a helper application, and on how to set up a web server to serve unicode files to Babble. 4. Two installation versions are available, one for Windows95/NT with a setup wizard, and one for manual installations on other platforms (Unix). The manual installation version includes a shell script that can be used to run Babble as a helper application. 5. A new utility, uni2ascii.java is included, for converting Roman-character files from unicode to ascii. 6. Help documentation now includes new features by release version and a list of known bugs and FAQs. Enjoy, and be sure to send bug reports or questions to: babble-l@jefferson.village.virginia.edu John Unsworth, Director Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities From: John Bradley Subject: Problems with TACTweb and sgml2tdb European Site Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 17:46:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 217 (217) Problems with TACTweb and sgml2tdb European Site A few days ago I announced new versions of TACTweb and sgml2tdb, and said that they were available from ftp://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk. On the very day of my announcement the ilex machine became unreliable, and yesterday it died entirely! Although service staff have been working on it, it is still not repaired. My apologies for the inconvenience. Both pieces of software are still available from http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca in Canada. ... John Bradley (john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk) From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 11.0124 lurkers, battle cries, and poetry Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:59:58 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 218 (218) It might be interesting for this inquirer about the association between pleasure and knowledge to start with Freud himself. If he hasnt read Freud's basic works, perhaps he may not follow too well the dense discussion in THE PROBLEM OF ANXIETY. But there is also BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE, etc. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Marnie Swanson Subject: Re: job at Michigan Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 17:01:35 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 219 (219) Wouldn't it be wonderful! I keep seeing this type of position being created in libraries in the U.S. Their budgets are obviously bigger than ours! [deleted quotation] Marnie Swanson University Librarian University of Victoria Victoria, B.C. V8W 3H5 Phone: (250) 721-8211 Fax: (250) 721-8215 E-mail: mswanson@uvic.ca From: Willard McCarty Subject: technical vs. philosophical Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:44:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 220 (220) In a recent offline discussion involving Humanist, one person asserted rather strongly that our field needs a new discussion group devoted to the technical aspects of humanities computing. One suggestion was that Humanist itself be used for the purpose, or sharpened in its provision of technical information, by denoting it as such, e.g. in the subject line. Presumably such a sorting would serve those who have little patience with the philosophical, sociological, historical and other "soft" parts of the field; they could then go straight for their gold and delete the dross. Wisdom, to my mind, prevailed: one acute participant observed that humanities computing lies precisely in the intersection of technical and non-technical, that to separate these would be to violate the spirit if not the body of what we do. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: Re: 11.0113 contributions to Humanist Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:07:56 +0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 221 (221) [deleted quotation] Factual information often provides a very good argument supporting a point, and this makes it quite difficult to fully separate the two. However, what can happen is that sometimes there are interpretations involved and many view the same facts or events differently, resulting in arguments. In many cases the facts themselves are not much interesting. What is more interesting is the competing versions of explanations of those facts, explanations which can strongly clash, but can well hopefully give rise to increased awareness and understanding on both sides. People can attach different meanings to the facts, to which all parties agree. But they disagree, if they do, on the significance and on how best to describe those facts. Terms used to describe or explain facts or events can be charged with meanings which might transform one event dramatically from one thing to another. Take as an example the coming handover of power in Hong Kong. The Chinese in Beijing (as evidenced in Deng Xiao Ping's unfulfilled wish to see its return before his death) view the event as a very important part of their history. An event which vindicates the more than a century of humiliation brought upon by the Opium War. But the Hong Kong residents view this sometimes with apprehension, sometimes with indifference. Thus when discussions come on line, what gets them going is often not just the announcements of facts, unless there's a moderator who specifically intends them to be that way. Of course people don't have to be always right in order to join a discussion. But who is? And if we are focusing on arguments and discussions, what we normally expect from contributions is that the facts are just the starting points. What is expected is what the contributors are going to do with them. (If it is agreed that those 'facts' are actually true.) Now the correctness of the facts is not so relevant. What is is that the points being offered are supported by reasons, and we hope that all would benefit through participating in the discussions. Lurkers benefit too. Often they just don't have the time or their ideas have already been expressed by someone else. There's certainly nothing wrong with that. Soraj. [deleted quotation]Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, THAILAND Tel.(662)218-4756 Fax.(662)218-4636; 218-4755 email -- , or Personal Web Page: http://pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html From: Patrick Durusau Subject: technical vs. philosophical Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:07:59 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 222 (222) In his report of a discussion concerning the focusing of the Humanist list on more technical aspects of humanities computing, Willard McCarty states: [deleted quotation] With deference to his concern for the spirit of humanities computing, I am more concerned such a separation would result in tools or techniques that do not address the concerns of humanities scholars. Most Humanist readers will be familiar with the now common "glyph" versus "character" distinction embodied in Unicode as well as other standards (see Working Draft of ISO/IEC TR 15285 Information technology - An operational model for characters and glyphs, MS Word format: ftp://ftp.jhuapl.edu/pub/cgmodel/cgm9608.doc and PostScript format: ftp://ftp.jhuapl.edu/pub/cgmodel/cgm9608.ps). The draft summarizes the relationship of glyphs and characters as follows: - A character conveys distinctions in meaning or sounds. A character has no intrinsic appearance. - A glyph conveys distinctions in form or appearance. A glyph has no intrinsic meaning. - One or more characters may be depicted by no, one, or multiple glyph representations (instances of an abstract glyph) in a way that may depend on the context. (Working Draft of ISO/IEC TR 15285, page 3) If "glyphs" have no meaning in information technology, is there any reason to develop tools to preserve the glyphs used information in pre-Gutenberg texts? I suspect a majority of humanities scholars would immediately protest that there are many situations where the actual "glyphs" used to record a text are relevant. For example, in the Hebrew text of Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6 begins with lemarbeh, with the m written as final form mem. If one reads the small masora (margin note), there is a reference that leads to other cases where the final form of a letter appears at other locations. A tool that does not allow for the placement of the final form of a letter at some location other than the end of a word would lose this information. In this case, preservation of the "glyph" information gives meaning to the marginal note, as well as being important for efforts to determine textual transmission and possible issues concerning scribal practices in the transmission of such texts. (Loss of this type of information is not an abstract fear, before the advent of Unicode the CCAT project elected to ignore final character forms in the Hebrew Bible as entirely predictable.) The intersection of the technical and non-technical sides of humanities computing is necessary for the development of tools and techniques that address meaningful questions for humanities scholarship. I was glad to learn that such interaction will continue on the Humanist list. Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu From: Michael Guest Subject: Re: 11.0138 discussion on Humanist Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 17:10:35 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 223 (223) [deleted quotation] Then perhaps they should start one. This dividing and sub-dividing of 'disciplines' according to one's specific research interests can only be counter-productive to our emerging quest to locate humanities studies within technology. It's Foucault's dream after a heavy night. I sometimes regret the dross and drivel that I spasmodically contribute, but does it really matter much? Someone somewhere might get an inkling from it, if only confirmation of their own antipathetical stance. If you bozo me, it hurts no-one; it's an entirely ethically justifiable action. I wonder about the 'hard' versus 'soft' definitions as well. Computer scientists of the highest order should require imaginative imput from all disciplines, to develop their discipline. The lesser order ought to too. Imagine how tedious would be this proposed list. I love Francisco Tarrega's statement, "to play guitar one must bathe in the fountain of culture." C.f. "How I can I get my Mac to make umlauts?" (not omelettes). I've been out of touch with Humanist for a couple of weeks, I'm sorry. Were there any 'hard' or other responses to the notion of episteme that I tried to sketch by way of a Beckett quote from _How it is_? Thanks as always to Dr McCarty for performing the work that he does to produce this progressive, indeed groundbreaking activity of inter-disciplinary discourse with this discussion list. I'll go with his intuitions any day, rather than submit to such retro suggestions as I've quoted above. Dr MIchael Guest Assoc/prof. Faculty of Information Shizuoka University, Japan guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp From: Mick Doherty Subject: Re: 11.0138 discussion on Humanist Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:47:08 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 224 (224) I have to admit, the quasi-standard bifurcation between "technical" (or "technological") and "philosophical" would be amusing if it weren't so painful. Sharing discussion about breakthroughs in code, interface, software, hardware, etc. -- we bring to that discussion assumptions, sometimes hidden, sometimes subconscious, sometimes overt and blatant, about what we expect/hope/want those "technical" things to do. And even if we somehow have miraculously freed ourselves from those assumptions, the interface (et al) has politics in its design and philosophical implications for the users, buyers, nstudents, teachers, educators, and techies who will use a^C& r To: humanist@kcl.ac.uk I have to admit, the quasi-standard bifurcation between "technical" (or "technological") and "philosophical" would be amusing if it weren't so painful. Sharing discussion about breakthroughs in code, interface, software, hardware, etc. -- we bring to that discussion assumptions, sometimes hidden, sometimes subconscious, sometimes overt and blatant, about what we expect/hope/want those "technical" things to do. And even if we somehow have miraculously freed ourselves from those assumptions, the interface (et al) has politics in its design and philosophical implications for the users, buyers, students, teachers, educators, and techies who will use and build upon these technological advances. (If they are indeed advances -- but that would be a philosophical question!) Langdon Winner's "The Whale and the Reactor" and Selfe & Selfe's "Politics of the Interface" (in _College Composition and Communication in early 1996) are two excellent examples (of a possible hundred/s) of forefronting (looking at) the fact that the technical and the philosophical can never be separated, and to do so would be, at best, naive. To my reading over the last year -- as long as I've been subscribed -- Humanist has been one of the few electronic resources to fill this role well without making it a badge of honor. Doing it without preaching it. Willard -- one vote from Dallas, Texas to keep this list as-is. Mick Doherty Internet Editor Dallas Convention & Visitor's Bureau *** Editor _Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_ http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/ *** mick@rpi.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: research profiles? Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 09:56:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 225 (225) This is a sociological question for those Humanists who are professionally engaged in other fields than humanities computing. It is motivated by a desire to understand how research in these fields tends to relate to professional activity, esp. the very public kind like giving papers at conferences. I expect that if we had the data to hand, the answer would vary from discipline to discipline. What I am wondering is this: does the real research of a discipline tend to be done by those who are also most active in this public way, or does maintaining a professional presence militate against research? One reason for asking the question relates to the effect of electronic communications and publishing on how research is conducted in a field. I have noticed in my own work and that of my colleagues a tendency for the pace of the new medium to push how we do humanities research in the direction of how the sociologists work. If I understand the latter, it may be characterised by frequent publication of relatively limited results, rather than the infrequent publication of a more extensive kind characteristic of the humanities. One perhaps transitional phenomenon (if in fact we are in a transition) is the tendency of humanists thoroughly engaged with the technology (if this is in fact the case) to publish more frequently than perhaps they should about long-term research. Sorry to be so tentative and anecdotal, but this really is an interrogative note meant to be questioned in every particular. Are we humanists undergoing an intellectual and professional metamorphosis? If so, what do we think about this? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: Willard McCarty Subject: "Web Usability": IJHCS special issue now on Web Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:09:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 226 (226) [deleted quotation]- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: Willard McCarty Subject: economics and technology Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:10:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 227 (227) Two useful URLs on the topic: <http://www.finearts.com.au/journals/soc/eco11.htm>, about (alas, only about) the journal, Economics of Innovation and New Technology. The managing editor, Edward Steinmueller, is a good person to watch on this topic. <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/cict/>, Science Policy Research Unit, Centre for Information and Communications Technologies, University of Sussex. These I have of course incorporated into my list of resources, "Overview of electronic publication", <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ohc/overview.html>. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA new resource Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:09:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 228 (228) [deleted quotation] [ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News ===================================== *** NEW CATALOGUE & NEW RESOURCES *** ELRA is happy to announce the update of its catalogue of Language resources for Language Engineering and Research. It currently consists of: 1) Spoken resources: 39 databases in several languages (recordings from microphone, telephone, continuous speech, isolated words, phonetic dictionaries, etc.). 2) Written resources: * 14 monolingual and multilingual corpora * 28 monolingual lexica * Around 60 multilingual lexica * A linguistic software platform and grammars development platform 3) Terminological resources: over 360 databases with a wide range of domains and several languages (Catalan, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish). We would like to inform you that a new resource (from ITC-IRST, Italy) is now available via ELRA. A brief description is given herein: ******************************** * ELRA-S0039 APASCI (ITC-IRST) * ******************************** APASCI is an Italian acoustic database recorded in insulated room with a Sennheiser MKH 416 T microphone. It includes ca. 16090 utterances and digits, 58924 words (2191 different words), 641 minutes of speech. The data is uttered by 100 Italian speakers (50 male and 50 female). Each of them uttered 1 calibration sentence, 4 sentences having a wide phonetic coverage, 15 or 20 sentences having a wide diphonic coverage. Six speakers (3 male and 3 female) uttered 26 occurrences of the calibration sentence, 104 sentences having a wide phonetic coverage, 390 sentences having a wide diphonic coverage. 54 of the speakers (42 male and 12 female) repeated 20 times 10 isolated digits. The linguistic annotations of the database are given at the phonemic and orthographic levels. This database aims to design, train and evaluate continuous speech recognition systems (speaker independent, speaker adaptive, speaker dependent, multispeakers). It is also designed for research on acoustic and linguistic models, and for research on new acoustic parameters for speech recognition. o Format: 16 bit linear o Standard: NIST SPHERE o Sampling rate: 16 kHz o Medium: CD-ROM ******************************************** For more information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 87, Avenue d'Italie 75013 PARIS Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00 Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88 E-mail: info-elra@calva.net http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ******************************************** ...................................... Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA /ELDA 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: Piero Meldini Subject: Call for help Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 08:18:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 229 (229) Some time ago, in a book whose title I don't remember, I found a quotation from a Greek author which sounded like this: 'Athenians made fun of the Thebans because they asserted that their moon was bigger then the one in Athens'. I could be wrong about the identity of the two populations (Athenians and Thebans) but I am quite sure about the general meaning of the sentence. I remember that the passage was considered as one of the first examples of rationalist reasoning. Could you help me (at your best convenienee) in finding my lost quotation? I will be forever grateful. Thank you in advance for your kind attention. Best regards. Piero Meldini From: Willard McCarty Subject: mindless enthusiasms Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 13:39:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 230 (230) Danger... strong opinion ahead. If the fate of ideals felt and articulated by the now ruling segment of society has taught us anything, it is that even intelligent enthusiasms tend to become mindless and so dangerous as they spread. Take the notion of the "electronic library" as an example. What happens when this fine idea spreads across the lands to places where the person in charge needs for whatever reason to keep up with what is happening elsewhere and has not the wit to sift fads for their value? Disaster, of course. In the latest TLS (4719, 27 June) J.C. writes in the "NB" column about nice words from the new Minister for the Arts in the U.K., Mark Fisher, who spoke last week at the Library Association Reference Awards, declaring strong support for public libraries, reading, literacy and publishing. In the same week the same Association published appalling statistics about the state of school libraries in England and Wales -- book funds down 33% in Kent and Anglesey, 26% in South Tyneside, and so on. As J.C. notes, paradoxically the first thing to go when library budgets are short is acquisition of new books. Into this situation enters the fever for "that unassailable symbol of progress, information technology". Once people believe (I use this word advisedly) that information access is the point rather than the reading of words and looking at pictures, then one has no choice but to buy the latest gear, and for many there goes the book fund. The main problem here is that computers are VERY BAD at presenting words for the purpose of continuous reading, though they are undoubtedly superior when synchronic access is what one wants. So it is at least arguable that quickly one very powerful way, perhaps the most powerful way of relating to knowledge becomes much more difficult, and then amidst the druggy haze of cant disparaging "linear" ways of presenting knowledge this old technology slides into decline -- or at least becomes very much more expensive, and so increasingly out of reach for those without money. Democratization of knowledge? Tales have circulated, in the august TLS and elsewhere, about destruction of books by those who thought they were no longer necessary. Some of these have been refuted, others not. J.C. for example notes that writer Nicholas Baker is currently suing the San Francisco Public Library for access to records documenting the discarding of 200,000 books. J.C. also quotes, from a recent article in Harper's, Sallie Tisdale's lament of the demise of her local public library in Portland, Oregon. It seems that the noisy activities of entertaining the folks with audio-visual/multimedia gear has made ordinary reading impossible. Isn't it up to us to raise a critical voice against the mindless enthusiasm? Or are we too badly compromised already? I sometimes suspect that pronouncements about the new medium, even from those who are qualified to be scholars, are made by people who have not been inside a library, and actually among the books, in quite some time. (Yes, this is sometimes hard to manage in a busy life, alas, but would appear to be a great occupational hazard for computing humanists.) I've always found that my street-cred among colleagues and students increases with intelligent scepticism. How do we develop the critical attitude? What courses do we put in place, what other disciplines involve, what approaches do we take? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: Neil Beagrie Subject: Humanist announcement Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 08:32:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 231 (231) The second edition of the Arts and Humanities Data Service Newsletter is now available from our web site (http://ahds.ac.uk/). In addition to AHDS news items, the current issue focuses on resource discovery with contributions about metadata, about integrating access to diverse on-line collections and catalogues, and about Internet gateways for the humanities. We are also launching a new feature involving case studies written by and for humanities scholars explaining how the creation or use of digital resources has enhanced their research and teaching. Many thanks Neil Beagrie ************************************************************************ Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076 Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080 The Executive Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK ************************************************************************ From: Sarah Subject: Environment 97 Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 08:34:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 232 (232) I would like to draw your attention to Environment97, the world's first environmental conference to take place entirely on the Internet, at: www.environment97.org The conference takes a broad look at environmental issues. Papers range from global issues (eg. Climatic change) through environmental philosophy (Can the US be sustained?, Is sustainable development compatible with the free market?) to toolkits and techniques (Life cycle assessment, Environmental impact assessment). 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Gants" Subject: CFP: Iberamia 98 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 14:46:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 234 (234) [deleted quotation]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 in 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 exhibitions, 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 eastern 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 official languages and with the aim to promote and diffuse 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 holiday in Portugal, may be dedicated to visit 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 (e.g. 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 sponsoring the event, and demonstrations of AI industrial products designed in IberoAmerican 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 applications 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 concourse 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). E-mail: iberamia@di.fct.unl.pt WWW: http://www-ia.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/ ***************************************************************************** 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 ***************************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------- Joao Balsa da Silva jbalsa@di.fc.ul.pt Dep. Informatica - Fac. Ciencias Lisboa Bloco C5 - Piso 1, Campo Grande, 1700 Lisboa - PORTUGAL Telef: +351 1 757 31 41 - ext 2553 Fax: +351 1 750 00 84 http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jbalsa/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Wendell Piez Subject: wiring the schools (item 2) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 235 (235) NETFUTURE Technology and Human Responsibility -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue #52 Copyright 1997 Bridge Communications July 2, 1997 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Stephen L. Talbott NETFUTURE on the Web: http://www.ora.com/people/staff/stevet/netfuture/ You may redistribute this newsletter for noncommercial purposes. CONTENTS: *** Editor's Note *** Quotes and Provocations Laws That Are Made To Be Broken Wiring Our Schools: Here Comes the Backlash Toward the Great Singularity (Part 2) We Are Not Becoming a More Image-based Society *** Alice Outwater on Engineering Our Water Resources (Steve Talbott) Should we leave it to beavers? *** About this newsletter -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Editor's Note (8 lines) I'll be mostly unavailable by email from now until after Labor Day, although I *will* eventually read all mail. I also expect to continue publishing NETFUTURE during the remainder of the summer -- perhaps at somewhat wider intervals. SLT -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Quotes and Provocations (260 lines) Laws That Are Made To Be Broken ------------------------------- Referring to Moore's Law -- which says that computer chip density, and therefore processing power, will double every eighteen months -- Gary Chapman (L.A. Times Syndicate, June 24) wisely points out that This `law' ... is less a law than an expression of how chip manufacturers invest their money. And also, of course, how the rest of us spend *our* money. So we might better have called it "Moore's Resolve," which is at the same time an American Resolve. But it's always nice to believe that our resolves have the objective necessity of natural laws. Of course, even after careful reflection and weighing of societal priorities, we might still want to keep to this particular resolve. But the important thing is to grasp willingly and with both hands the implications of the fact that it is indeed *our* resolve rather than a dictate of physics or fate or economic necessity. Only in making our resolves fully conscious and in accepting responsibility for their many implications can we escape mastery by our multiplying technological servants. Wiring Our Schools: Here Comes the Backlash ------------------------------------------- I suggested several months back that "1997 is very likely to see the first high-profile, tempest-causing note of sanity sounded against the cooption of primary and secondary education by the costs, the time drain, and the general irrelevance of computerized technology. Before long *someone* is going to step forward with an unexpected word of common sense." In fact, many will do so, it's begun, and the storm's preliminary breezes are already kicking up dust. You may have seen the cover article in the July *Atlantic Monthly*. Written by Todd Oppenheimer, it's called "The Computer Delusion," and is prefaced with these words: There is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning, yet school districts are cutting programs -- music, art, physical education -- that enrich children's lives to make room for this dubious nostrum, and the Clinton Administration has embraced the goal of "computers in every classroom" with credulous and costly enthusiasm. You may also have seen the little item from Edupage, drawn from the *Washington Times* (June 24), which sounded like it was taken verbatim from Lowell Monke's NETFUTURE pieces: BUY IT AND THEY WILL LEARN More than 2,800 pieces of classroom computers, printers or terminals are broken or neglected in Fairfax County (VA) public schools. A school official says: "The focus of attention was on buying the equipment, and the support of that equipment was not taken into account. It was assumed the current support systems would be able to handle things and that has not proven to be the case." The school board's budget panel chief says the board's decision not to hire additional technicians for this fiscal year was influenced by its budget policy to hire administrators only when absolutely necessary. I've mentioned previously (NF #42) the high-profile conference scheduled for September at Penn State: "Education and Technology -- Asking the Right Questions." Another equally important event, about which I expect to have an announcement soon, will be held in December at Teachers College, Columbia University. These conferences will bring what is, to date, unprecedented critical firepower to bear upon the reigning mania. Given the first substantial notice of the problems by the mainstream press, and given the press's herd instinct for periodic (and profitable) reversals of direction, I expect these conferences will provoke a lot of coverage and controversy. Perhaps most important of all, there is reality. One gets the feeling in talking to at least some educators that they simply cannot restrain their questions any longer, no matter how stifling the surrounding bandwagon mentality. As one school principal recently remarked to me, "I don't want to sound like a Luddite to my board, but we've *got* to slow down long enough to figure out where these computers really belong in the education of the child." And if the backlash is intense, what then? That's almost the only question worth asking, and I don't see a lot of ground for optimism. As a society we've been complaining about television for many years -- we moan and groan about it to the point of tedium -- and yet television's penetration of society, its redefinition of politics, entertainment and culture, continues unabated. Bill Gates and Larry Ellison, the computer companies, the telephone companies, charitable foundations -- all will continue making gifts to schools of hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment and software. Who will turn them down? Governments will not have the insight or the guts to change the course they've already set. And perhaps most perniciously: the drive to computerize education is the most convenient distraction imaginable from the persistent shortcomings of the educational process itself. These shortcomings were provoking a sense of national crisis just before the networked computer burst on the scene a few years ago; now that crisis has been forgotten as we indulge our recurrent wish that the right technology will kiss us and make everything okay. In the end, I don't know any other answer than to let families choose their schools in full freedom. We will then see, via a massive and tragic experiment, whether the attempt to cultivate nine-year-old geeks is preferable to the restoration of art, music, and shop classes, the pursuit of a hands-on science of the real world, and a wisely guided experience of the "classroom village." [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Online items Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 14:06:52 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 236 (236) [deleted quotation]<http://www.guardian.co.uk>. (1) Apple shares sinking, now to their lowest level since 1985. Power Computing (manufacturer of Mac clones) and Educational Access (leading reseller in the U.S. educational market) are both diversifying to handle PCs, and EA is dropping "real" Macs to sell Power Computing clones. (2) Long Now, <http://www.longnow.org/>, is a foundation established to foster long-term responsibility. "CIVILIZATION is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multi-tasking. All are on the increase. Some sort of balancing corrective to the short-sightedness is needed---some mechanism or myth which encourages the long view and the taking of long-term responsibility, where 'long-term' is measured at least in centuries." The primary project of the foundation is the Clock Library, whose mechanism is the Millenium Clock. It is based on an idea of Daniel Hillis (who invented massively parallel computing architecture): "When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 2000. Now, thirty years later, they still talk about what will happen by the year 2000. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of the Millennium. I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes. It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium." Stewart Brand's diagrams are worth the visit. (3) Douglas Rushkoff, "A potted history", about current hysteria concerning the supposed pro-drug contents of the Internet. Why, he asks, does "all this 'pro-drug' information [seem] to travel much faster and wider on the Internet than do anti-drug messages"? "The reasons are simple", he says. "First... the kind of information that spreads most readily on the Internet tends to be counter-cultural and anti-prohibitive. The Internet as an idea, an experience and a complex of hardware, fights censorship and control.... And because the information that is crucial to those who have chosen to eat or smoke illegal plants is not provided by the overground press, it is no wonder that these communities have turned on to the Internet.... Even more significantly, the reason why online culture appears so infused with pro-psychedelic conversations is that today's Internet was, in many ways, an achievement of psychedelic users.... The very conception of the almost hallunicatory realm we call cyberspace required the imaginative capacities of people who were familiar with navigating hallucinatory headspace. This is why so many Silicon Valley forms eschew the employee drug testing of other industries. If high-tech companies weeded out weed users, they'd have few employees left. Instead of reviling the Internet's psychedelic members, we should perhaps thank them...." You get the idea. People I knew used to say that after "the revolution" they'd be the only ones to know how to survive..... (4) Benign intervention. The U.S. government, specifically the White House, has "unveiled its first comprehensive policy statement on the Internet, coming out firmly in favour of a hands-off approach to the new medium." This is known as the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce. In combination with the recent Supreme Court ruling on the infamous Communications Decency Act, it represents a highly significant victory for those who advocate unrestricted (or rather self-regulating) approach to online communications. "Attorney Bruce Ennis, who represented the coalition opposing the [Communications Decency Act] has described the ruling as 'The legal birth certificate of the Internet'." For more information on the Supreme Court decision see, for example, the homepage of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, <http://www.eff.org/>. One wonders, once again, about peer review; is the online medium the place for it? (5) Posting for a Senior Systems Communications Analyst, King's College London, Computing Centre, 25K - 30K pounds sterling, inclusive of the London allowance. E-mail Louisa de Beaufort, . (King's has been known to hire foreigners.) WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: microfilm scanning Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:52:27 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 237 (237) Those still interested in the possibility to scan (and recognize) texts directly from microfilm, may like to know that here at CISADU we have experimented with good success the following procedure: scan microfilm with Nikon Coolscan II [attention, not a transparency adaptor, but a scanner in full capacity] produce a *.tif file pass the *.tif file to a good OCR. For modern-ish books [Crompton-Roberts] we find "optopus" very good. The equipment costs about US$ 20.000.000, including software (optopus is very expensive), so much less than that used in the Danish State Archives [Marker]. Cordiali saluti! ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Re: 11.0145 mindless enthusiasms Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 238 (238) At 07:52 PM 7/2/97 +0100, you wrote (in the Humanist list): [deleted quotation] To me, your opinion seems mild and mildly expressed. And I agree with it. I'd like to say more, but unfortunately it's late and I have to wake up early. A small point, however. You say that in TLS [deleted quotation] I haven't yet seen this TLS. The writer's name is not Nicholas but Nicholson Baker; using this name and "library" as keywords, you'll find plenty more of interest on the WWW, particularly via the search engine of the SF Chronicle/Examiner website, <http://www.sfgate.com/wais/search/chron-pro.html>. Hope this is of help. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Peter Evans From: David Green Subject: NINCH-Announce Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:35:36 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 239 (239) NINCH Announcement July 8, 1997 D-LIB and AHDS Newsletters Below is a fresh announcement from the British Arts and Humanities Data Service about its second newsletter, available on its website and an older announcement from D-LIB Magazine on its June issue. Apologies for the lacuna in NINCH announcements during my recent absence in the UK and the last week of catching up with pressing business. David Green ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. ARTS & HUMANITIES DATA SERVICE NEWSLETTER 1.2 The second edition of the Newsletter from the Arts and Humanities Data Service for UK universities is now available from our web site <http://ahds.ac.uk/>. In addition to AHDS news items, the current issue focuses on resource discovery with contributions about metadata, about integrating access to diverse on-line collections and catalogues, and about Internet gateways for the humanities. We are also launching a new feature involving case studies written by and for humanities scholars explaining how the creation or use of digital resources has enhanced their research and teaching. ************************************************************************ Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076 Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080 The Executive Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK ************************************************************************ 2. JUNE ISSUE OF D-LIB MAGAZINE The June issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at <http://www.dlib.org>. The UK Office for Library and Information Networking maintains a mirror site for D-Lib Magazine at: <http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/mirrored/lis-journals/dlib/>, and The Australian National University Sunsite also maintains a mirror at <http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/mirrors/dlib>. In addition to our usual collection of notices and announcements, we are pleased to feature the following stories: CONTENTS **Sui Generis Database Protection: Has Its Time Come?** Jonathan Band Jonathan S. Gowdy Morrison & Foerster LLP **From Static to Dynamic Surrogates : Resource Discovery in the Digital Age** Carl Lagoze Cornell University **The 4th Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Report : DC-4, March 3 - 5, 1997, National Library of Australia, Canberra** Stuart Weibel, OCLC Renato Iannella, DSTC Warwick Cathro, National Library of Australia **Paying Their Way : Commercial Digital Libraries for the 21st Century** Innes A. Ferguson Michael J. Wooldridge Zuno Ltd. **Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users : Document Access Control** Henry M. Gladney IBM Almaden Research Center **Multi-Media, Multi-Cultural, and Multi-Lingual Digital Libraries , Or How Do We Exchange Data In 400 Languages?** Christine L. Borgman University of California, Los Angeles **Workshop Report: The Technology of Terms and Conditions** James R. Davis Xerox PARC Judith L. Klavans Columbia University D-Lib Magazine is produced by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on behalf of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative. William Y. Arms, Vice President Amy Friedlander, Editor, D-Lib Magazine From: Mike Fraser Subject: CTI Textual Studies: Bursaries for DRH '97 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 23:28:17 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 240 (240) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES '97 CONFERENCE 14 - 17 September 1997 'Bringing together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of digital resources for the humanities.' http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bursaries available from CTI Textual Studies As part of our continuing efforts to encourage the use of technology in HE teaching, the CTI Centre for Textual Studies is offering a limited number of bursaries for attendance at the Digital Resources for the Humanities conference. Applications for the bursaries are sought from those involved in UK Higher Education teaching in the Arts and Humanities, and who have an established interest in the use of technology in teaching. This will primarily include HE teaching staff, but specialist IT Support Staff, and Subject Librarians are also welcome to apply. Application is by submission of a brief statement of interest (approximately 250 words) outlining your interest in the use of IT in HE teaching, preferably with some detail of current or planned implementation of IT in teaching. Bursaries cover the cost of registration fees, which includes the full academic programme, lunches and dinners (excluding the Conference Banquet). Accommodation, breakfast, and travel costs are not included. Places are limited to one per institution. Applications, including statement of interest, full contact details (including an email address), and institutional affiliation, should be submitted by Friday August 1st 1997. An online submission form and further details are available at: http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/bursary.html Alternatively submissions may be sent by email to ctitext@oucs.ox.ac.uk, or by mail to: Sarah Porter CTI Centre for Textual Studies Humanities Computing Unit Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN. Tel. 01865 283282. Fax. 01865 273275 From: Willard McCarty Subject: mediology Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 20:11:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 241 (241) Those of you who read the TLS will already know that the latest issue, 4918 for 4 July 1997 on Information Technology, has many items of interest for us. Were there world enough and time I'd summarise the lot for you, but all I can manage is to quote from the most important item, Re/gis Debray's review of Dan Sperber's Explaining Culture, "A plague without fleabites: The failure of Dan Sperber's 'epidemic' model to take account of our cultural milieu" (pp. 14f). Those of you whose French is in good condition will be able to read the original article online, in "Travail me/diologique" (a publication of AD.REM, Association pour le De/veloppement de la Recherche en Me/diologie, <http://www.ina.fr/CP/Mediologie/travaux.htm>), and Sperber's very interesting book in the original, La Contagion des ide/es. Sperber's project is in brief, as Debray notes, to develop a naturalist viewpoint on culture. "He aims to close the divide between the natural and human sciences, removing psychology from its myths of interiority and enthralment to ego." He does this by modeling the spread of culture on the transmission of infectious diseases. Debray's review is more of a contribution to the subject in its own right, and it is that aspect of it which I recommend to your attention. Short of reading Sperber, one can get more of a summary of his argument in the TLS review one or two issues back. Where Debray touches on our field is in his remarks on the externalisation of knowledge. These, I take it, could serve as a rough adumbration of the field of mediology, of which he is the founder. Quite a bit of work on externalisation seems to be going on these days. At the recent ALLC/ACH in Kingston, Ontario, for example, Merlin Donald (Queen's) gave a talk on the topic, "Symbolic Technologies: Challenges and Dangers for the Humanities", which is now available online at <http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97/papers/donald.html>. Such work suggests to me the beginnings of a theoretical basis for humanities computing. Comments on such a rash statement are welcome from Humanists who have already read Debray and are more familiar with the directions of his thinking than I am. In any case, here's a bit of what Debray says in his review article. ----- "The act of transmitting words and symbols and pictures first requires organised matter before organised people. Objective traces have to be accumulated in material memory either by recording (encoding, transcribing, symbolising), gathering or collecting (concentrating, summing, unifying marks), or preserving and reproducing. It is at this cost of effort, this series of externalising operations, that interiority survives beyond the place and moment of its passing. What is called a culture is the survival of a past in a present. Handing down and passing on memory presupposes a social setting and structure anchored in a collective heritage, and in certain procedures of memory-recording. Writing is but one such procedure, developed late in the day (extra-cerebral memory having begun with the tool-making biface hand axes and flint scrapers). Exteriority constituted the interior, and technology gave human beings their sense of time. "We must examine the material genesis of memory itself, if we do not want to go on in a vacuum about disembodied 'memory' -- as does the psychology of faculties restyled 'modules' by Jerry Fodor. To reflect, for example, on geometry and mathematics is to reflect on the history of writing. We have known this since Husserl and Derrida, and the idea was all but advanced by F.M.Cornford in his 1935 essay, 'The Invention of Space'. One cannot speak of the same unified, timeless 'memory' irrespective of its setting down in, and dependence on, either, first, a technology of letters (the linear alphabetic writing that Eric Havelock has studied for what can be called the early period of the Logosphere, coincident with Greek literacy and idols), or second, an analogical technology (of photography, phonography, cinematography, radiophony, etc), or third, the digitalized technology of today. The substrata of transmission modify its functioning and condition the nature of its contents. Passing from one mnemotechnology to the other alters the horizon, the community, the laws of patrimony, the dominant standards of knowledge and learning. The 'within' of mental phenomena cannot possibly be corralled, unless the 'without' of material devices is taken into account. Our regimens of belief, which today tend toward visibility, vary as a function of the techno-material bases of communication, in the same way that psychological individuality varies as a function of group identity and collective beliefs. Ideological support structures and mentalities change no less in accordance with the age of technological reproduction than do works of art.... "A pecularity of homo sapiens... is its irreducibility to the genetic coding of the species. We have a competence that is innate for biologically programmed speech but not for the skill of writing. Writing is a technological prosthesis transmitted in accordance with unpredictable and variable procedures. Precisely because it is technologically conditioned, cultural transmission operates under no biochemical guarantee and remains intrinsically fragile.... unable to benefit from permanence of programmes inscribed in our DNA.... What calls for explaining is the cumulative powers of the inheritance, which is *not* the same thing as the repetitive powers (with variation, of course) of heredity...." ----- Debray's most recent book, translated as Media Manifestos: On the technological transmission of cultural forms, was published last year. See <http://www.amazon.com/> for more exact information. A Web search on "regis debray" turns up a number of interesting items. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: John Price-Wilkin Subject: UM Making of America breaks the 1,000 volume barrier Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 19:40:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 242 (242) UM Making of America breaks the 1,000 volume barrier Several hundred new volumes were recently added to the University of Michigan's Making of America site http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/ bringing to the total number of books to 1,402. That's an average of 258 pages per volume, and a total size of 742Mb of searchable text. This represents a significant body of materials for research, 85% of the size of the English Poetry Database, now accessible freely on the Internet. Nearly 200 more monographic titles will be added in the coming months, bringing the size of the monographic portion to nearly 1Gb. The UM Making of America site will soon feature Michigan's first periodical titles in the project. Indexers are currently adding article separators and accurately keyed bibliographic information to the MoA periodicals. Several volumes have been prepared, and material will be added as indexing is completed. By the end of the summer, approximately 250,000 pages of 19c periodicals will be accessible through the project. The UM portion of the project uses a combination of automatically generated OCR with a low level of SGML encoding, using the TEI Guidelines. This strategy provides us with a means by which we can inexpensively build access mechanisms while at the same time building a consistent upgrade path. Volumes begin as lightly encoded materials, with a TEIHeader, body, and page breaks. As funding is found to improve materials in the collection, the OCR is proofed/corrected and the full structure of the volume (e.g., chapters, sections, paragraphs) are encoded. Initial materials are made available in the relatively "raw" form, displaying page images at various resolutions dynamically generated from 600dpi TIFF images. The improved, or "cooked", materials are used to display on-the-fly generated HTML, with links to the same page images for consultation. An announcement and fuller discussion on this capability will be made available late in the summer. We hope that over time resources can be found to improve large numbers of volumes in the MoA collection. Access mechanisms for this collection were developed by the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service, a federated organization with funding, staff, and computing resources contributed by the UM's Library, its Information Technology Division, and the Media Union. For more information about DLPS, see http://www.umdl.umich.edu/dlps/about.html. The collection itself was built by the hard work of collection development librarians and Preservation staff. Generous funding was provided by the Mellon Foundation for the original page conversion. A sister site with many significant 19c periodicals has been made available by Cornell University at: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/ For more information or to provide feedback about the University of Michigan MoA site, please e-mail moa-info@umich.edu. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CMC/98 First Announcement Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 08:57:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 243 (243) [deleted quotation]%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CMC/98 Second Int'l Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication, Theory and Applications ********* Sponsored by the Universities of Brabant Joint Research Organization (SOBU) and the ACL Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMED) Tilburg, The Netherlands, 28-30 January 1998 ********* FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS ********* Following the successful first conference CMC/95 (which has been the basis of a book published soon by Springer Verlag), the Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group at Tilburg University, in collaboration with the Center for Research on User-System Interaction IPO in Eindhoven and the Department of Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology, will host the Second International Conference on the theory and applications of Cooperative Multimodal Communication, CMC/98, to take place January 28-30, 1998. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers involved in the design, implementation, and application of forms of cooperative human-computer communication where natural language (typed or spoken) is used in combination with other modalities, such as visual feedback and direct manipulation. TOPICS OF INTEREST ********* The conference will focus on formal, computational, and user aspects of building cooperative multimodal dialogue systems. Papers are sought in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following topics: * cooperativity in multimodal dialogue * metaphors for human-computer interaction * communicative acts in multimodal communication * interacting with visual domain representations * natural language interpretation in a multimodal context * effective use of different media and modalities * formal and computational models of dialogue context * pragmatic concepts in human-computer dialogue * the role of time in multimodal communication * agent-based dialogue architectures * user modelling * approaches to dialogue management SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ********* Authors are asked to submit an extended abstract of their paper of minimally 4 and maximally 7 pages, including keywords and references, by October 1, 1997. Only electronic submission will be possible, in uuencoded compressed Postscript form, to be sent to tijn@win.tue.nl and to kievit@kub.nl (two copies). All extended abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee; authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper. Full papers will have to be submitted in Latex form, so it would seem advisable to use Latex also for the extended abstract. A Latex style file to be used for the full paper will be made available; for details see the CMC/98 Web page. IMPORTANT DATES ********* Submission of extended abstracts: 1 October, 1997 Notification of acceptance: 1 November, 1997 Final papers due: 1 December, 1997 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********* Harry Bunt (Tilburg) (chair) Nicholas Asher (Austin) Norman Badler (Philadelphia) Don Bouwhuis (Eindhoven) Walther von Hahn (Hamburg) Dieter Huber (Mainz) John Lee (Edinburgh) Joseph Mariani (Paris) Jean-Claude Martin (Orsay) Mark Maybury (Bedford) Paul McKevitt (Sheffield) Rob Nederpelt (Eindhoven) Kees van Overveld (Eindhoven) Ray Perrault (Stanford) Donia Scott (Brighton) Jan Treur (Amsterdam) Wolfgang Wahlster (Saarbruecken) Bonnie Webber (Philadelphia) Kent Wittenburg (Morristown) Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********* Robbert-Jan Beun Tijn Borghuis Harry Bunt Leen Kievit Margriet Verlinden INFORMATION ********* For questions about the program contact Harry Bunt@kub.nl; for issues relating to the submission of abstracts and papers contact tijn@win.tue.nl. For all other matters contact the conference secretariat: Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. phone: +31 13 466 30 60; fax +31 13 466 31 10; email: denk@kub.nl. Web: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC (soon available) -- ------------------------------------------------------ Harry C. Bunt Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen) 2653 (office, room B 310) Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110 Harry.Bunt@kub.nl WWW: http://tkiwww.kub.nl:2080/tki/Faces/Hb/Hb.html ----------------------------------------------------- From: BRUNI Subject: Re: 11.0148 wiring the schools Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:09:34 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 244 (244) In response to the "backlash" against "wiring the schools," I would like to offer the following remarks. The claim that "There is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning" seems like a rather empty assertion. It could easily be argued that "There is no good evidence that most uses of computers *do not* improve teaching and learning." My point is that we need to seek out this "evidence," instead of firing off broad polemics. I think it is unlikely that we will be able to keep Gates and his crew out of the schools. What I think we should do is actively participate: both in learning how to use computer technology and in overseeing how this technology is being used in schools. The worst thing we could do is leave the arena entirely. Because then, the technocrats will be running the show, and the results, I can assure you, will not be to our liking (unless we want our schools to turn into corporate-run "knowledge factories"). The solution that we allow parents to choose the schools that their children would attend (education as a cafeteria menu) does not seem to be a good one. This notion of "choice" will further siphon funds away from city schools. Maybe city kids would not mind being bussed to suburban schools. But, consider what would happen if the decline of the city is accelerated: the cultural loss is too great a price to pay for "choice." For, where else can we actively experience the culture that we are purporting to teach to our children? Surely, not in the suburbs, where culture is almost wholly commodified in the chains of "theme" restaurants, Borders bookstores (who espouse the belief that reading is good, unions bad) and simulated "art-house" movie theatres. John Bruni English Department University of Kansas From: "David L. Gants" Subject: JOB OPENING IN TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN FLENSBURG, GERMANY Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 11:41:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 245 (245) From: Klaus Schubert English text below. Die Fachhochschule Flensburg stellt - vorbehaltlich der Mittelbewilligung - ab sofort zeitlich befristet bis zum 31.01.2000 eine Lehrkraft fuer besondere Aufgaben fuer den Studiengang Technikuebersetzen zur Unterstuetzung des wiedergewaehlten Prorektors im Bereich der Lehre ein. Die Lehrgebiete umfassen Sprachkompetenz Englisch, Technisches Englisch, Technisches uebersetzen Deutsch-Englisch, Uebersetzungslehre. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich ausschliesslich an englische Muttersprachler/innen mit wissenschaftlichem Abschluss in einem einschlaegigen Fach. Verg=FCtung: bis BAT IIa. ******* On condition that funding is approved, the Fachhochschule Flensburg (Flensburg Polytechnic) invites applications for the post of Assistant Lecturer in the four-year study programme in Technical Translation. The post is for a limited period until 31.01.2000. =20 The successful applicant will be required to teach general English language competence with special reference to translation, technical English, technical translation German-English, translation theory. The postholder must be a native speaker of English and holder of an academic degree in a relevant subject. ******* AUSKUNFT erbitten Sie wegen der Urlaubszeit am besten parallel beiden Genannten. INQUIRIES should during the holiday period be directed to both persons named below in parallel. Prof. Dr. Brian J. Careless Tel. +49 (4 61) 8 05-2 01 Fax +49 (4 61) 8 05-3 00=20 Prof. Dr. Peter Baumgartner Tel. +49 (4 61) 1 44 97-15 Fax +49 (4 61) 2 11 25 From: "James W. Johnston" Subject: WordCruncher for Windows Beta Software Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 14:01:30 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 246 (246) WordCruncher has at times "lurked," at other times merely been "sighted," and has occasionally even played a "leading role" on the Humanities Computing stage. We are pleased to announce that WordCruncher has new life. WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc. was formed in late 1996. Many list members know that WordCruncher for Windows, developed on the Brigham Young University campus, has been subject to the infirmities that academic software is occasionally heir to. We are working to change all that, and on May 1, 1997, moved the WordCruncher development team under a new roof. Our objectives include: 1) Industrializing the software -- can it become the "Son of TACT, Daughter of OCP" that Willard has mentioned? We think so, and perhaps even more. 2) Create an Internet-accessible library, http://www.wordcruncher.com, that is chock full of WordCruncher-compatible books. We now have approximately 500-600 titles and are adding 50 to 100 new ones per week. NOTE: We asked list members for feedback on an earlier version of the Library. Based on your wise advice, counsel and criticism, it has been changed and we hope improved. Many thanks! Please feel free to make more suggestions. 3) Create a publishing/distribution/sales model that makes it attractive for others to create WordCruncher-compatible books and distribute them via the i-Library, CD-ROM or other venues. We invite interested Humanists to participate in WordCruncher's beta testing program. If you have an application that you would like to try out with WordCruncher, and are willing to provide us with feedback, insight, suggestions (for applications, improvements, etc.), constructive criticism, etc., please send an e-mail to beta@wordcruncher.com and tell us a little about you and your application ... we'll send you the ftp site address, a password and username, instructions, etc. By the way, the "View" element of this beta version can now search not only a local WordCruncher text, but also an Internet-based WordCruncher Library -- we have a few texts up for on-line searching, and will be adding our entire collection by the end of July. Please let me know if I can provide further information. Many thanks. Best, James Johnston WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc. johnston@wordcruncher.com http://www.wordcruncher.com ========================= Nothing would be done at all, If a man waited to do it so well, That no one could find fault with it. ========================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA Price Cut Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:59:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 247 (247) [deleted quotation] [ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News ===================================== *** PRICE CUTS ON THE M2VTS DATABASE *** Following all the requests regarding the speech database M2VTS (ref. ELRA-S0021), we are happy to announce a substantial price reduction for this database. The new prices have been set in agreement with the M2VTS provider. For ELRA members => 250 ECU (used to be 900!) For Non members => 500 ECU (used to be 1490!) The database is available for research purposes only. Please note that the entire catalogue of ELRA resources can be found on the ELRA Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html - please follow the links - ********************************************* + For further information, please contact: + + ELRA/ELDA + + 87, Avenue d'Italie + + 75013 PARIS + + Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00 + + Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88 + + E-mail: info-elra@calva.net + + http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html + ********************************************* From: David Green Subject: Heinz Electronic Library Interactive Online System Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:00:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 248 (248) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 10, 1997 DEMONSTRATION OF HELIOS at NARA, Tues July 15 On Tuesday, July 15, 1997, Mr. Edward A. Galloway of the Heinz Electronic Library Interactive Online System (HELIOS), will present a demonstration and overview of HELIOS to the National Archives Assembly and to the archival, library and historical community of the Washington, D.C. area, at the National Archives Building in College Park, Maryland. Mr. Galloway will begin his presentation at 10:45 a.m. The HELIOS Project will convert one million pages of the congressional papers of the late Senator John Heinz (R-PA) into digital format and provide access to these papers through innovative information retrieval software developed at Carnegie Mellon University. This digital archive will be available through the Internet. For further information concerning HELIOS, please see: <http://www.library.cmu.edu/Guide/Heinz/>. All interested individuals are encouraged to attend this presentation. There are no preregistration requirements, and public transportation is available to the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. For further information, please contact: Jim Cassedy National Archives Assembly Center for Electronic RecordsNational Archives and Records Administration 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740 (301) 713-6630 james.cassedy@arch2.nara.gov From: David Green Subject: Alert on NEH Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:00:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 249 (249) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 10, 1997 NEA-NEH Merger Proposal Apologies for cross-posting and to those who don't feel an urgency on this issue, but I think this report from the National Humanities Alliance is important enough to distribute on the NINCH-Announce list. David Green [deleted quotation] From: David Green Subject: Update on House, NEA & NEH Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:00:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 250 (250) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 10, 1997 UPDATE ON NEA-NEH 10 July 1997 [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Online bits Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:20:34 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 251 (251) [deleted quotation] (1) Photos from Mars. See the list of mirror sites at <http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/>. (2) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, <http://www.mk.net/~dt/Bibliomania/Reference/PhraseAndFable/>. (3) Richard Colbey, British barrister, on copyright, "Chapter and verse". (4) Fractals: Fractint deep-zooming at <http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/dz.html>. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Michael Guest Subject: Jesus in Japan? (Cross-post) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:33:29 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 252 (252) [The following will be out of context for Humanist readers but is interesting nonetheless. Some of the more valuable moments in Humanist's long conversation have been when cultures have unexpectedly mixed or mixed in unexpected ways, as when one moves to a "foreign" country and sees the exotic or quaint suddenly become the stuff of (extra)ordinary life. But I ramble... --WM] I would have answered the baroque criticisms of myself, Foucault, the number 42 and everything a couple of weeks ago [in that other! list], except that the moderators and I agreed in spirit that my submitted response may have also gotten off the track in places. Thus withdrawn and lurking, I thoroughly enjoyed those submitted instances of Japanese commercial appropriation of totally alien religious iconography. I wanted to point out in the first place that an image of someone "resembling Jesus" crucified, seen from a Tokyo train [advertizing a pop cd], cannot reasonably have been a picture of a slender blue eyed caucasian with long silky brown hair and pink cheeks such as we are used to seeing in churches, for instance, since Jesus was more likely a stocky dark-skinned fellow from the Middle East. We from the West sometimes forget our own history of appropriation and perversion of religious imagery perhaps. Indeed, many people (particularly the young) mistakenly believe that Jesus looked in reality as he is depicted in such Christian icons. So I cannot see Japanese commercial appropriation of Western appropriated and perverted symbolism as an instance of racism, to say the least. I, like another reader, found the Last Supper Drunken Salaryman motif ("Thank God it's over!") as rather amusing. And I have two more to offer: - Santa crucified in a department store. Perhaps this says something about how Christian celebrations are received here? And perhaps it's not so far from the truth of perceptions of Christianity even in some western countries? - "Beer loves you" A brand new commercial slogan, drawn I believe from a well known Christian (from my way of thinking, unfounded) assertion. What a wonderful notion! I take such findings as worthy both of my humour and study. I see them as indices to understanding, across barriers of reason, dogma and culture. They are socio-cultural phenomena and data about Japan. This is not a Christian country and it should not be judged according to Christian standards, nor necessarily any other extraneous standards. Dr Michael Guest Assoc/prof. Faculty of Information Shizuoka University guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0154 wiring the schools Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:00:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 253 (253) I don't have a problem with Gates or anyone else wiring the schools. I think that it is too little and way too late and way too expensive. The local schools in my area are still using Apple II's and IBM 8088's in their "computer literacy" classes. They will never catch up to the resources that I provide my children in my home. And quite a few other families in my area provide for their children. The schools don't even use the resources that they have very well. I have been giving CDroms such as those put out by Project Gutenberg for years to the public schools which my children attend. I was told just recently that they don't want me to anymore at the Middle School because they only have one computer with a CDrom player in the whole library and the librarian uses that for cataloging. I offered to donate a couple of 6x CDrom drives and have them installed to correct the situation. I was turned down. (The library has 4 386 machines) The reason that I was given was that they were trying to get the school board to give them better equipment which they couldn't do it I kept donating equipment. They killed the music programs in the elementary school a couple of years ago and now it is starting to effect the Middle School and the High School music programs. I expect that they will be cutting them soon. I have been supplementing my children's music, art, math and recreational education more and more each year. Which is as it should be. They are my children and I want the best that I can do for them. The time is swiftly coming where I can see that any benefits they can get from public education will be very minor. The cities are already in decline and have been so for all my lifetime. I don't see anything that is going to stop it. If anything it is accelerating. But there is more to life than than restaurants, bookstores and art movie houses. I really like the Barnes and Noble bookstores (We don't have Borders in my area). I don't find unionization to be a particular benefit to me. From: Mick Doherty Subject: Web Specs? Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:48:09 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 254 (254) Humanist colleagues, My supervisor has asked me to start collecting ideas for and authoring a draft of what he is calling "Internet Guidelines" for the CVB here. Some of the kinds of things he is looking for are (his specific examples): *The first screen of a site or subsite should take no longer than X seconds to load given Y speed modem *No single node in the website should scroll any more than X screens given Y monitor size and standard default settings in Z browser ... Etc. I fully realize that these kinds of specs are hard to come by given the lack of control authors have over the user-end interface and/or difficulties with distributed publication. I am *not* asking you to (necessarily) debate the actual specs, or the widsdom of collecting them. I am wondering if you know of any place(s) that have made avaialble these kinds of specs, or guidelines thereof. Thanks in advance for your suggestions! Mick Doherty Internet Editor Dallas Convention & Visitor's Bureau From: Pat Ensor Subject: PACS Review, v. 8, n. 2 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 09:56:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 255 (255) The Public-Access Computer Systems Review Volume 8, Number 2 (1997) ISSN 1048-6542 ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMMUNICATIONS Bruce Morgan, Is the Journal as We Know It an Article of Faith? An Open Letter to the Faculty The Dean of Libraries of Montana State University explains his conclusion that "the specialized paper-based journal no longer is effective in the wide or timely dissemination of scholarship." He notes, "We need to explore how we might achieve scholarly communication that is more effective and that will still adhere to the academic values (well-thought-out, well-written, well-researched, well-documented articles) that we have always deemed important." 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Copying is permitted for noncommercial, educational use by academic computer centers, individual scholars, and libraries. This message must appear on all copied material. All commercial use requires permission. From: David Green Subject: Digital Object Identifier System Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 09:54:48 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 256 (256) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 11, 1997 PRESENTATION OF PUBLISHERS' DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER--August 11, 1997 Below is an announcement by the Defense Technical Information Center of a presentation to be made in the Washington DC area on August 11, 1997, on the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). This mechanism for giving a digital identification to each piece of commercial digital publication is being developed with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) and is expected to be adopted by international publishing as a means of enabling on-line commerce. For more information on the DOI, see <http://www.doi.org/>. David Green *********************************************************** Defense Technical Information Center presents The Association of American Publishers Digital Object Identifier System Managing Electronic Content The Association of American Publishers has designed a system for marking digital objects in order to facilitate electronic commerce and enable copyright management systems. That system, called the Digital Object Identifier System, is now under development, in partnership with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, and is expected to be live on a limited scale in August 1997. Learn how DOIs might be used in practice by not only publishers but related organizations involved with Abstracting and Indexing, information aggregators, subscription agents, and libraries. The DOI, a prototype for managing content, is regarded by the publishing industry as a key component of safe and successful commercial use of the Internet and other networked environments. DOI, a type of "electronic license plate" for "digital content" traveling the information superhighway, will facilitate commerce in cyberspace by: 1) allowing users to locate digital materials and arrange for their purchase 2) helping publishers manage and market their digital products. Speakers: Carol Risher, Vice President for Copyright and New Technology for the Association of American Publishers (AAP), coordinates copyright enforcement activities, including strategic litigation, in the U.S. and overseas. She assists AAP members in their efforts to move from print-based products to electronic products. She is responsible for monitoring new technologies that affect publishers' markets and working with AAP members to promote development of pre-competitive standards such as the Digital Object Identifier that facilitate Internet commerce. Larry Lannom is with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) and is responsible for the Handle System and Repository. Where: HQ Complex Building Auditorium 8725 John J. Kingman Rd, Ft Belvoir, VA http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/directions.html When: August 11, 1997 Time: 1:30-3:30 pm R.S.V.P. to Julia Foscue, email: jfoscue@dtic.mil tel: (703) 767-8236 =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: lena gan Subject: Gather info Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:11:57 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 257 (257) Hi! I'm Ms. Lena. Currently I'm teaching secondary students on the morale subjects. Need to seek info & interact with educators who have been teaching this subject. Thanks From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:58:59 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 258 (258) Thank you to Willard McCarty for making excerpts from Re/gis Debray's TLS review of Dan Sperber's "Explaining Culture" available to us. Whoever once had to move his or her private library, documentation, and whatever accumulates around a serious scholar over time knows my current trouble. Nevertheless I would like to share a quote from a brief text that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz wrote exactly 300 years ago, as a thanks to Willard McCarty and a bow of reverence to the TLS. "What is called a culture is the survival of a past in the present," Re/gis Debray writes in summary of Dan Sperber's argumentation. Isn't that quite an outdated understanding that can well be situated in the 19th century (Tylor), but is inappropriate in the third millenium and quite surprisingly stands in contrast to the first origins of the term ? Read what Leibniz had to say in 1696: "Though many substances may have reached great perfection, those parts that still rest asleep in the abysses of things -- because of the infinite divisibility of the continuum -- need to be awakened and led to something greater and better, in one word: to a better culture. As a consequence, progress will never reach an end." (Translated from Herbert Herring's German translation of the original Latin text without access to my English dictionaries). This is a memorable statement by the founder of the Academy of Sciences of a country that today boasts of 650 000 unemployed academics. Funny also to read such a statement when you are leaving town because your kids do not receive adequate teaching at school, because the teachers do not consider it necessary to invest any effort into teaching once they have won a secure lifetime employment as "civil servants." Wiring up schools won't help; moving places is still the solution ? Kind regards Dr. Hartmut Krech NEW ADDRESS: Postfach 1430 Postfach D-27734 Delmenhorst D-28215 Bremen GERMANY GERMANY Ph/Fx ++49-4221-538 36 Ph/Fx ++49-421-355 755 eMail kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de eMail kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 11.0145 mindless enthusiasms Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 22:00:21 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 259 (259) If one may make some mild observations about this matter...? It seems to me that people are inclined to view and judge serious matters about values and their support in an either/or manner. I have always myself plumped for both/and. [If I recall the first time I read of such a discussion it was J C Powys' work on RABELAIS, and I was a junion in college, aged 18+, in 1948-49. He also used the term "multiverse" to describe the world of Rabelais' imagination.] What happens is that people fail to see that we are terribly rich in the West, but somehow money for the greater glory of culture and civilization is always lacking. Well, the bulk of taxes is paid by most people who cannot afford to support books, say, and wouldnt wish to, for any number of reasons, serious and trivial, fatigue, ignorance, television and ill-education. But then, c & c are made by elites, and high civilization is not what our resentful demos respect or wish. IN this century all the icons and statutes and gods are pulled down. Le petit ressentiment des petites. I say this as the son of workingclass people, raised in the Great Depression. But if we look about, we can hear all of Caliban redux: you gave me words (books, reading) and my profit on't is to curse. So literacy, the great goal of mass education from the High Victorians on, means one can read the comics, etc. All this should be obvious to all of us "serious" minded folks. Then, there is the specialization of fragmented cultures, something CP Snow mentioned an eon ago. Then, there is the an-estheticization of reading as something other, or more than utilitarian. Matthew Arnold wanted as did Huxley, all things to be read and available from the lowest to the highest. But my own Theory is that we are watching what I call the Greshaming of Culture and Civilization. The hallmark of it is also noticed in the way those who will not, not those who can not, hate those who will and can. See what has happened to music and ears and listening, concomitantly with the vast archival availability of treasuries of music from every where and every time easily to be had. The question is large. ONe wonders how it is that literary and culture works of whatever kind are printed in such teeny numbers in the UK, as one hears, and the libraries do not buy and cannot supply, or will not, all needs. And yet the UK is not as p;oor as it was 15 years ago! One could go on and on. But as Falstaff, the Old Fart [sic] remarked when he saw the new puritanism aiming in his direction, They hate us youth! Who are the "they" in our situation? Mass society? Too simplistic, but there. And then, why should there be more than the 60,000 "real readers" that Philip Roth remarked last year left in the USA. Is 60,000 too small a number in a population of 275 millions? Perhaps. How many "real readers" were they ever at one time? 60,000 is perhaps too small a number to support him properly, may be what he also meant. Tant pis Pour lui, pour nous. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Judith Altreuter Subject: Re: wiring the schools Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 15:21:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 260 (260) I can reply to this thread on wiring schools as a parent: I have a 7-year-old entering 2nd grade. Three years ago I did a lot of research on New York City elementary schools (public and private) in my area and one of the things I looked for was how they used computers. Most schools had them, some had them in the classrooms, some had computer labs. Most schools emphasized that in the younger grades social interaction is much more important than computer skills. The school I chose uses computers in the classroom, but in a very limited way in the lower grades. When I toured this school I was impressed with their use of computers with the 4th graders: they used the internet to be "penpals" with a school in Maine. The kids were able to talk to each other about banal features of their schools. One day the kids in Maine had a moose in their playground. The kids in here in New York City amazed the Mainers when they described their playground on the roof of the school. It seems to me that this kind of spontaneous interchange is a great use of computers for kids. In kindergarten there was one low-grade computer that was rarely used. In 1st grade some children used it for writing stories that they "published," they would make graphs in math and play games on them (3 Macs) before school started. Many children find writing on a computer much easier than handwriting them, so that the opportunity to use a computer helps them learn to write and read. While some schools are obsessed with how many computers they have, most parents I know are not and value the teachers more than the equipment. I believe wiring schools is a useful goal, as long as the uses for those wires are thought through carefully. Judith Altreuter Production Director, MLA From: "James W. Johnston" Subject: Re: 11.0162 wiring the schools Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 19:38:07 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 261 (261) [The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] I am not sure where Mr. Haradda lives, but we have a somewhat different situation where I live. In Utah, every High School has a T1 connection to the Internet. In the Alpine School District, there are a total of approximately 2,500 computers in the high schools alone (with an additional 5,400 in Jr. High and Elementary) -- 90% are networked. James Johnston WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc. http://www.wordcruncher.com johnston@wordcruncher.com From: "Lissa Lord " Subject: International Writing Program Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:54:10 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 262 (262) http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/ INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM THE INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM (IWP) at THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA and THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES have joined talents to create The IWP Homepage. The impetus for this project is a shared desire to provide access to selected original texts of the participant IWP authors. The IWP Homepage also details information about the program itself as well as research information on writing. The library is including these texts as part of an initiative to provide broad access to original texts in electronic format. The International Writing Program is including the writings as an integral part of their new Homepage. Also included in this collaborative project: IWP Annual Report; The Gallery (photos of participants); Roster of Writers; Author Biographies; Staff Profiles; Program Description; the program's literary magazine, "100 Words"; Internet links to writing programs including Writing at the University of Iowa. The page includes a selection of writings from the 35 participant authors in the 1996 International Writing Program. Also contained in the homepage collection are the writings of IWP Director, Clark Blaise and Rowena Torrevillas, the IWP Program Associate. Selected works of participating international writers from this renowned writing program can now be viewed by students and scholars from anywhere in the world. Information concerning this project can be obtained by visiting the IWP Homepage <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp> or by contacting IWP Program Associate, Rowena Torrevillas (rowena-torrevillas@uiowa.edu) or IRIS Team Leader for Research Services Librarian, Lissa Lord (lissa-lord@uiowa.edu). From: Willard McCarty Subject: information transfer Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:18:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 263 (263) A web page for a U.K. publisher, under the category "Books", begins with the insightful sentence, "Books are practical, effective and user friendly means of information transfer...." This reminds me of an incident several years ago in a hallway just outside my office, in an American college known for such foolishness. In this college, revolutionary for those days, you could check out all sorts of electronic gear from the library. An assemblage of such things intended to work together to teach you something, was known as a "self-paced learning unit". No kidding. One day I was standing outside my office and spied a student walking toward me with a book in her hand and a look of wonderment on her face. She stopped and remarked with astonishment, "You know, the book was the first self-paced learning unit!" What a discovery. As I think I said earlier, as soon as we accept such terms ("means of information transfer", "self-paced learning unit") as an adequate description of the codex, we have assigned it to the dustbin of progress. Is there a cure for the disease? WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Tzvee Zahavy Subject: Wiring the schools Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:42:39 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 264 (264) By all means - wire all the schools in the US if the aim is to kill the Internet. Logical? See if you follow this line of deductive inquiry: - Apple is the leading computer in schools (1980s) - Children cannot wait to escape the utter irrelevance of schools - Apple now has about 3% of the PC market So one might argue, keep the Internet out of schools and watch it flourish. Dr. Tzvee Zahavy Home: zahavy@andromeda.rutgers.edu http://newark.rutgers.edu/~zahavy/tzvee.html Office: zahavy@jcn18.com; http://www.jcn18.com/ Editor-in-Chief, The Jewish Communication Network From: Patricia Galloway Subject: school-wirings Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:24:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 265 (265) A propos of Mr. Johnston's amazing revelations about the wiring of Utah schools: is this a result of Novell's contributions? Maybe we in Mississippi could learn how to persuade LDDS-Worldnet to do the same for us, as we also have a large isolated rural population! Pat Galloway MS Dept. of Archives and History From: "James W. Johnston" Subject: Re: 11.0168 wiring the schools Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 05:07:19 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 266 (266) [deleted quotation] I am afraid I disagree ... while it may be satisfying to poke the bureaucratic eye, IMHO Apple's business troubles stem from one disastrous decision ... they maintained a proprietary hardware architecture, and did not provide an opportunity for other businesses to join in the party ... Intel didn't. The Apple operating system (e.g. user interface -- check the Mac vs WinEver) actually won ... unfortunately for Cupertino, some guy in Redmond copied and promoted it more successfully. As far as children wanting to escape the utter irrelavance of the schools .... I am afraid that higher education carries the greatest guilt ... undergraduates are considered a necessary evil, secondary education gets a cursory glance, most of the technology in education graduates go to business rather than to the educational trenches ... try to talk to computing humanists about taking what they are learning and moving it into the classroom, and the reactions run from an open sneer to a polite dismissal. I'll save my Colleges of Education rant for another day! -------------- [deleted quotation] No, not really ... it is due to a technology initiative from the Utah Legislature ... our state is in reasonably good financial shape, and they put about $60M into technology for the schools. Having said that, one could certainly argue the case that because Novell and WordPerfect (and 2,000 or so other high-tech companies) are in the state, there is a certain awareness that technology is important, but the initiative is the result of cooperation between the Governor's Office, the Utah Department of Education and the Legislature ... JWJ From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: "self-paced learning unit" Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:55:28 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 267 (267) [deleted quotation] Funny you should say that today of all days. I heard on my radio this morning that, as well as being St Swithin's day which determines the weather for the rest of the summer, today had been designated "Plain English Day", on which we are told we should eschew all verbiage and gobbledegook. We even heard one of our Professors of English, Lisa Jardine, lending her support to the cause. Best wishes to her and all plain speakers, I say... Francois C-R From: Francois Lachance Subject: accepting regeneration Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:12:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 268 (268) Willard, Information transfers, if I recall correctly involve labour and many if not most information transfers are labours of love. And if I read my Ovid correctly love affairs are affairs of resistence. And if I am permitted an observation on the nexus of reading and writing, information transfers like many an entropic whirl are also information transformations. Now "acceptance" and "assignation" may well be paired in many a discourse on the future of codex technology. However I wonder if in the following about the difference between their logical and syntactic ordering: [deleted quotation] The cure may be homeopathic and Erasmian in nature. The De copia offers readers and potential writers a wonderful set of exercises in variation. It has been suggested that the generation of lists of synomyms for the term "books" is an excellent rhetorical exercise. Such exercises are of course quite valuable in demonstrating the tenuousness of the link between ways of speaking and affective states. The cherished word may be anathema. The communicative power of a pedagogical statement may miss its mark. I am lead to ask about the nature of the codex in a situation where there is a failure of (complete) transfer. Can an "adequate description of the codex" account for the non-communicative non-pedagogical aspects of the object? Do such aspects even exist? Perhaps the discipline of computing in the humanities and the field of transcoding studies remind us of the difficulty of disentangling the tripartite functions of delighting, teaching and moving. Rhetorically but adaquately quizzical, -- Francois From: Carl Vogel Subject: Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:48:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 269 (269) [deleted quotation] I fail to perceive what the disease is. Was the questiion itself an example of its symptoms? Or does it have specific relation to creative application of terms from other fields to just books? From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ALLC/ACH '98: Call for Papers in Humanities Computing Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:26:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 270 (270) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ALLC/ACH '98 "VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES" JULY 5-10, 1998 LAJOS KOSSUTH UNIVERSITY, DEBRECEN, HUNGARY ALLC/ACH '98 invites submissions of between 1000 and 2000 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined as the point of intersection between computing methodologies and problems in humanities research and teaching, encompassing both traditional and new, and discipline-specific and inter-disciplinary, approaches. Appropriate discipline areas include, but are not limited to, languages and literature, history, philosophy, music, art, film studies, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, creative writing, and cultural studies. We particularly encourage submissions from non-text-based areas and from library science, both of which have been under-represented in the past. Other areas of interest include the creation and use of digital resources (what has been characterised as 'extending the scale and breadth of scholarly evidence') and the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering (including neural networks and image processing). We are interested in receiving - technical proposals that focus on new computational tools and approaches to research in humanities disciplines; - proposals that focus on traditional applications of computing in humanities disciplines, including (but not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, statistical models, and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other forms of text analysis; - proposals which present and discuss applications of computing methodologies and tools to audio and visual materials; - proposals that focus on significant issues of creation, representation, discovery, delivery, management and preservation of digital and other resources relevant to the humanities; - proposals that either present or evaluate software applications and uses for humanities-based teaching; - proposals dealing with the role of humanities computing in undergraduate and graduate training and institutional support for humanities computing. PhD students are encouraged to submit proposals. Those describing finished research may be submitted as papers. Ongoing dissertation research may be submitted as poster proposals. See below for details. Students and young scholars should also read the note on bursaries later in this document. Papers may be given in English, French, and German, but to faciliate the reviewing process we ask that proposals for papers in a language other than English are submitted with an English translation. The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is 20 NOVEMBER 1997. The deadline for submissions of poster/demo proposals is 31 JANUARY 1998. FORMAT OF PROPOSALS Proposals may be of four types: papers, posters, software demonstrations, and sessions. The type of submission should be specified in the header of the proposal. PAPERS Proposals for papers (1000-2000 words) should describe completed research which has given rise to substantial results. Individual papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including questions. Proposals should describe original work. Those that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Poster presentations and software and project demonstrations (either stand-alone or in conjunction with poster presentations) are designed to give researchers an opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, well-defined problems, or research that is best communicated in conversational mode. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Each presenter is provided with about 2 square metres of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference, but a block of time separate from paper sessions will be assigned when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Specific times will also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. The format for proposals for posters and software demonstrations are the same as those for regular papers. Proposals for software or project demonstrations should indicate the type of hardware that would be required if the proposal is accepted. SESSIONS Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: (a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 1000-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers. FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be sent electronically. Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to the deadline. All submissions should begin with the following information: TYPE OF PROPOSAL: paper, poster, session or software demonstration. TITLE: title of paper or session KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper or session If submitting a session proposal, give the following information for each paper: TITLE: title of paper KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author If submitting a paper proposal, give the following information: AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author AUTHOR: name of second author (repeat these three headings as necessary) AFFILIATION: of second author E-MAIL: of second author CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author or contact person for session proposals FAX NUMBER: of first author PHONE NUMBER: of first author Proposals should take the form of ASCII or ISO-8859/1 files. Where necessary, a header should indicate the combinations of ASCII characters used to represent characters outside the ASCII or ISO 8859/1 range. Notes, if needed, should take the form of endnotes rather than footnotes. Submissions should be sent to: submit-allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu with the subject line " Submission for ALLCACH98". Those who submit abstracts containing graphics and tables are asked to fax a copy of the abstract in addition to the one sent electronically. Faxes should be sent to: +36 52 418 733 The cover page should reproduce the header from the electronic submission. EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a slide projector, a data projector which will display Macintosh, DOS/Windows, and video (but not simultaneously), an Internet connected computer which will run Macintosh OS programs or DOS/Windows programs, and a VHS (PAL) videocassette recorder. NTSC format may be available; if you anticipate needing NTSC, please note this information in your proposal. Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizers; requests for special equipment should be directed to the local organizers no later than January 31, 1998. DEADLINES November 20, 1997: Submission of proposals for papers, posters and sessions and software demonstrations February 15, 1998: Notification of acceptance PUBLICATION A book of abstracts will be provided to all conference participants. In addition, abstracts will be published on the conference web page at <http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/allcach98> An announcement in regard to publication of full papers will be made in due course. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Program Committee comprising: Espen Ore, University of Bergen (Chair), John Dawson, University of Cambridge, Lisa Lena Opas, University of Joensuu, Thomas Rommel, University of Tuebingen, Jim Coleman, Stanford University, Robin Cover, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Julia Flanders, Brown University, John Unsworth, University of Virginia LOCAL ORGANIZER Laszlo Hunyadi Lajos Kossuth University hunyadi@llab2.arts.klte.hu BURSARIES As part of its commitment to promote the development and application of appropriate computing in humanities scholarship, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing will award up to five bursaries of up to 500 GB pounds each to students and young scholars who have papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Applicants must be members of ALLC. The ALLC will make the awards after the Program Committee have decided which proposals are to be accepted. Recipients will be notified as soon as possible thereafter. A participant in a multi-author paper is eligible for an award, but it must be clear that s/he is contributing substantially to the paper. Applications must be made to the conference organizer. The deadline for receipt of applications is the same as for submission of papers, i.e. November 20, 1997. Full details of the bursary scheme, and an on-line application form will be available from the coference web page. LOCATION Debrecen is the second largest city in Hungary with a population of 220 thousand. Located 220 km from Budapest and 38 km from Hortobagy, the Puszta, it is the cultural center of the eastern part of the country. It can be reached by train from all major cities of Hungary and there are direct train connections from Vienna and Frankfurt am Main as well. There are daily flights to Budapest from all European capitals as well as New York, Toronto and Tokyo. As an option, one can take a boat trip from Vienna to Budapest. The campus of the university is located in the city forest which can be reached by local transport. Accommodation will be offered in the new student residence hall. The cost of accommodation will be on the order of 25 USD (single occupancy) and 15 USD (double occupancy). In addition, a block of rooms have been reserved in the Aranybika Grand Hotel and the Hotel Thermal, both within 10-20 minutes walk from the campus. It is expected that the conference fee will be on the order of 150 USD for members. This will include the printed abstracts and morning and afternoon refreshment breaks. Other cultural events in Debrecen just preceding or following the conference will include the Bela Bartok International Choral Competition and the Bridge Fair of Hortobagy and Horse-Show. Detailed information on the conference, the university, and the city may be obtained at the conference web page: <http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/allcach98> FURTHER INFORMATION... Queries concerning the goals of the conference or the format or content of papers should be addressed to: ALLC/ACH '98 Center for Applied Linguistics Lajos Kossuth University Debrecen POB 24 Hungary H-4010 Tel.: +36 52 316 666 ext. 2116 Fax.: +36 52 418 733 E-mail: allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu or Laszlo Hunyadi hunyadi@llab2.arts.klte.hu Other useful email addresses are: allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu (general information) submit-allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu (submission of abstracts and papers) accommod-allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu (accommodation) From: Guedon Jean-Claude Subject: Re: 11.0158 mediology Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 06:18:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 271 (271) In response to Willard's remarks about Regis Debray's recent article in TLS. let me underscore the importance of several of his recent works such as Cours de mediologie generale (Gallimard, 1991), Vie et mort de l'image (1992), Transmettre (Odile Jacob, 1996) and his excellent Cahiers de mediologie published by Gallimard. The third issue in which i published a small piece with Bruno Oudet just came out last May. Debray, formerly known as the revolutionary author of Revolution in the revolution and a coompanion of el Che, was imprisoned in Bolivia between 1967 and 1971. More recently, he has been developing a very original line of analysis about "meaning through material transmission" and his works ought to be translated into English very fast. They are brilliant AND clearly written, a quality not always obvious in contemporary French philosophers :-) Highly recommended (along with Roger Chartier's analyses of reading and the history of books). Jean-Claude Guedon From: Andrew Hawke Subject: Safle newydd i Eiriadur y Brifysgol / Welsh Dictionary: new site Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:32:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 272 (272) [deleted quotation] Ceir safle newydd ar y We <http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww/index.html> sy'n darparu dolen gyswllt a thim Prifysgol Cymru sy'n gweithio ar _Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru_. Dechreuodd y gwaith ymchwil yn 1921 a'r golygu yn 1948, gan gyhoeddi'r rhan gyntaf yn 1950. Hyd yn hyn y mae 47 o rannau (hyd y gair _rhadus_) wedi eu cyhoeddi. Geiriadur hanesyddol y Gymraeg yw'r geiriadur o'r glosau cynharaf hyd heddiw, ar lun yr _Oxford English Dictionary_. Ceir hanes byr a disgrifiad o'r cynllun ar y safle hon, ynghyd a manylion llawn o'r cyfrolau a'r rhannau sydd ar gael, yn ogystal a chyfarwyddiadau archebu, a manylion ar sut i gysylltu a'r staff. Gobeithir cynnwys rhestrau o eiriau ac ymadroddion y mae angen rhagor o dystiolaeth iddynt, a chynorthwyol ar-lein megis modd i chwilio am fyrfoddau llyfryddiaethol na restrir yn y cyfrolau cyhoeddedig. Ni phenderfynwyd eto a ddarperir unrhyw ffyrdd i chwilio'r geiriadur ar y We. _________________________________________________________________ A new Web site <http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww/index.html> provides a point of contact with the University of Wales team working on _Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: A Dictionary of the Welsh Language_. Research for the project began in 1921, and editing commenced in 1948, with the first part being published in 1950. To date 47 parts (up to the word _rhadus_) have been published. The dictionary is a historical dictionary of Welsh from the earliest glosses to the present day, compiled on the lines of the _Oxford English Dictionary_. This bilingual site gives a brief history and description of the project, full details of the available volumes and parts, together with ordering information, and contact details for the staff. It is hoped to include lists of words or phrases for which further evidence is required, and on-line aids such as a way to search for new bibliographic abbreviations not listed in the published volumes. No decision has yet been taken regarding the provision of any Web-based searching mechanisms. _________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hawke -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Andrew Hawke ach@aber.ac.uk (01970) 627513 (+44) 1970 627513 (fx 627066) Golygydd Cynorthwyol/Rheolwr Systemau Assistant Editor/Systems Manager Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru University of Wales Dictionary Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH, U.K. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Job Vacancy: Research Officer Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 14:08:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 273 (273) [deleted quotation](With apologies to those who receive this more than once). Job Vacancy: Research Officer Dept. of Language and Linguistics University of Essex, UK The Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex has a vacancy for a linguist or computational linguist to work on a project involving World Wide Web access to linguistic corpora. The successful candidate will be involved in the Essex contribution to JTAP project JTAP-2/247: ``Word Wide Web-Corpora/Internet Grammar of English'', which involves the University of Essex and the Survey of English Usage at University College London. (JTAP is the Joint Technology Applications Programme of JISC, Joint Information Systems Committee of the UK funding councils). The aim of the Essex part of the project is to provide WWW access to linguistic corpora. The successful candidate will have a background in linguistics or computational linguistics, ideally with a strong corpus orientation, and will be expected to contribute to a variety of project tasks, in particular: + testing and evaluation of prototypes; + design of questionnaires to elicit feedback from users, and analysis of such feedback; + documentation, particularly design of on-line help messages, examples and exercises. + The CL/MT group at Essex is involved in a number of language engineering and computational linguistics projects in which the successful candidate may be involved. Applicants should, ideally, have a strong backround in corpus linguistics, and should be computer literate (ideally with familiarity of working in a Unix environment). The appointement will be on the RA1A/RA1B scale, commensurate with age and experience (i.e. in the range UKL 15,159 to UKL 22,785 per annum). The period of the appointment will be until the end of the project (31 July 1998), with a possibility of extension. We are looking to appoint as soon as possible (which means, realistically, a starting date at the end of Septembmer). More information on the project, and the CL/MT research group at Essex can be found at the following pages: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/ http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/group/ http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/w3c-ige/ Applicants should send a CV to Martin Rondell (rondm@essex.ac.uk), and can contact Martin Rondell (rondm@essex.ac.uk) or Doug Arnold (doug@essex.ac.uk) for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Doug Arnold, doug@essex.ac.uk Dept. of Language & Linguistics, http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/~doug University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Tel: +44 1206 872084 (direct) Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK. Fax: +44 1206 872085 ------------------------------------------------------------------ From: David Green Subject: AHDS Seeks Bids for Systems Suite Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 08:01:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 274 (274) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 15, 1997 Following is a technical request for bids for supplying a set of systems providing access to networked cultural heritage material. See <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ahds/pol/or4a.htm> for full information UK's ARTS & HUMANITIES DATA SERVICE SEEKS INTEGRATED SYSTEMS SUITE Apologies for cross posting. The AHDS requires an integrated suite of systems to provide users with integrated access to its extensively distributed, mixed media, and interdisciplinary holdings. A draft Operational Requirement detailing the functional and technical specification for that suite of systems which, it is expected, will be based on the Z39.50 network applications protocol, is currently available from our web site (http://ahds.ac.uk/). The draft is being notified for public review and comment for a two-week period ending 29 July 1997. All comments received before that date will be considered for inclusion in the final operational requirement. A full and final draft of the operational requirement will be posted and notified in early August 1997 inviting proposals to supply the systems that it details. All comments will be treated in the strictest confidence, and should be e-mailed to: daniel.greenstein@ahds.ac.uk Daniel Greenstein Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service, Executive King's College London, Library Strand, London WC2R 2LS From: David Green Subject: NCC Washington Update, Vol 3, #30, July 15, 1997 (fwd) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 16:52:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 275 (275) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 16, 1997 The following NCC Update contains a succinct summary of current Congressional movements on the Endowments, National Archives and NHPRC. The news includes: ** Last Friday's 328:96 defeat in the House of the Chabot Amendment to eliminate the NEH; ** Last Friday's 271:155 defeat in the House of the Ehlers Amendment for replacing the NEA with a system of block grants to states. The House Interior Appropriations Bill now includes no money for the NEA. ** Announcement that the Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee will meet this Friday July 18 to markup its appropriations bill, which will include the budgets for the NEH, NEA, the Smithsonian, historic preservation programs, and the National Park Service. ** Senate Appropriations Committee recommendations in its appropriations bill for the budgets of the Nationa Archives and NHPRC David Green ******************************************************************************* NCC Washington Update, vol. 3, # 30 , July 15, 1997 by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History 1. House Defeats By Large Majority Amendment to Eliminate Funding for NEH 2. Senate Appropriations Committee Endorses Subcommittee Recommendations for the National Archives and NHPRC 3. House Defeats Ehlers Amendment on $80 million in Block Grants To States for Arts Funding 4. Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee to Markup Budgets for NEH, NEA, and Other Cultural and Historic Preservation Programs On July 18 1. House Defeats By Large Majority Amendment to Eliminate Funding for NEH -- On Friday, July 11 the House debated an amendment introduced by Representative Steve Chabot (R-OH) to eliminate funding in FY 98 for NEH. On Tuesday, July 15 at 8 pm, in a roll call vote the House defeated the Chabot Amendment by a vote of 328 against with only 96 voting to eliminate NEH funding. There were 92 Republicans who joined the Democrats in defeating this amendment. Representative Ronald Dellums (D-CA) summed up the debate by saying that while he opposed the amendment, he felt that Chabot had done the House a service in allowing so many colleagues an opportunity to give eloquent testimony about the valuable work of NEH. In the debate which last over an hour, twenty-two members, including four Republicans, spoke in opposition to the amendment stressing the many and varied contributions of NEH. Only three members supported the amendment to eliminate funding for NEH. The twenty-two members who spoke in opposition to the Chabot amendment which called for the elimination of funding for NEH were as follows, listed in the order in which they spoke: Yates (D-IL), Vento (D-MN), Fowler (R-FLA); Boswell (D-IOWA), Bereuter (R- NEB); Baldacci (D-Maine), Castle (R-Del), Capps (D-CA), Johnson (R-CT), Gejdenson (D-CT), Obey (D-WI) Nadler (D-NY), Strickland (D-OH), Moran (D-VA), Pelosi (D-CA), Dellums (D-CA), Meek (D-FL), Engel (D-NY), Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Davis (D-IL), Mink (D-Hawaii), Sawyer (D-OH). The three members supporting the amendment were: Chabot (R-OH), Kingston (R-GA), and Cunningham (R-CA). Chabot rooted his case for the elimination of NEH in the argument that NEH benefits a small cultural bureaucracy. He stated that money should not be taken out of the pockets of hard working Americans for junkets for academic elites. The supporters of NEH responded by noting the many ways in which the ordinary folks of America, not the academic elite, benefit from the programs of NEH. The supporters of NEH highlighted the value of specific programs such as the summer institutes for teachers, documentary films, and many humanities councils programs that bring humanities programs to rural areas. The twenty-two supporters stressed the that NEH fosters creativity, teachers us as a nation who we are and what we might become, engages the public in life long learning, builds a sense of community, preserves America's history, enhances the soul of America, excels at creating a public-private partnership, nurtures critical thinking skills, and educates citizens about our democratic heritage. 2. Senate Appropriations Committee Endorses Subcommittee Recommendations for the National Archives and NHPRC -- The Senate Appropriations Committee met on July 15 and endorsed the recommendations of the Senate Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee for the budgets for FY 98 for the agencies under its jurisdiction. The Senate Appropriations Committee s markup of its appropriations bill includes $5 million for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grants program, this is a 25% increase above the President's request of $4 million. The NHPRC's grants program is currently funded at $5 million. The markup also includes $207.939 million for the FY 98 operating budget for the National Archives. The Archives operating budget is currently $196.963 million and the President had recommended $ 206.47 million. In a separate line item, the markup designates $10.65 million for the repairs and alterations of the National Archives buildings, which include the Presidential Libraries. This was an increase over the President's request of $6.65 million. 3. House Defeats Ehlers Amendment on $80 million in Block Grants To States for Arts Funding -- On July 10 the House in a very close 217 to 216 procedural vote decided to allow no votes on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and to permit only the Ehlers amendment on arts funding to come before the House. Representative Vernon J. Ehlers (R-Mich) amendment called for an appropriation of $80 million in block grants to states in FY'98 for arts funding with 60% going directly to local school boards for art education projects and 40% going to the state arts commissions. Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) was behind the development of this amendment and its intent was to dismantle the national program of NEA while allowing some federal funding for arts through block grants. Although the procedural vote -- that allowed the Ehlers' amendment to be brought to the floor -- passed by a very close vote, the Ehlers amendment when it came to the floor for a vote on July 11 failed by a significant majority with 271 voting in opposition and only 155 supporting it. The House Interior Appropriations Bill includes no money for NEA and provides no block funding for the arts. 4. Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee to Markup Budgets for NEH, NEA, and Other Cultural and Historic Preservation Programs On July 18 -- On Friday, July 18, at 10 am the Senate Interior Subcommittee will meet to markup its appropriations bill, which involves determining the budgets for all agencies and programs under its jurisdiction. This includes the NEH, NEA, the Smithsonian, historic preservation programs, and the National Park Service. Members of this committee are: Slade Gorton (R-WA) Chairman , Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) , Thad Cochran (R-Miss) , Pete Domenici (R-NM) senator_domenici@domenici.senate.gov>, Conrad Burns (R-MT) conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov> , Robert Bennett (R-UT) , Gregg (R-NH) , Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO), Robert Byrd (D-WV) Ranking Minority, Patrick Leahy (D-VT) , Dale Bumpers (D-ARK) , Ernest Hollings (D-SC) , Harry Reid (D-NV) , Barbara Boxer (D-CA) , and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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: ENDORSEMENT OF COPYRIGHT PRINCIPLES Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:31:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 276 (276) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 16, 1997 NHA PRINCIPLES ENDORSED BY CAA & ARL: OTHER ENDORSEMENTS NEEDED The boards of the College Art Association and the Association of Research Libraries recently voted to endorse the "BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT." This brings the total of endorsees to six organizations, including the NHA's own sponsorship. The National Humanities Alliance is an umbrella organization representing nearly 90 organizations concerned with federal policy affecting work in the humanities. The National Humanities Alliance encourages as many organizations as possible in the broadly defined educational community to consider signing on to these principles. Endorsements should be sent to John Hammer , Executive Director, National Humanities Alliance, 21 Dupont Circle, 6th floor, Washington, DC 20036; tel: 202/296-4994; fax: 202/872-0884. The "BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT" were developed in the Spring by a committee of the National Humanities Alliance from a draft document "University of California Copyright Legislation and Scholarly Communication Basic Principles." They were developed in an effort to build consensus within the educational community on the uses of copyrighted works in the digital environment. The PRINCIPLES have been developed to assert the basic beliefs of the educational community in the need to assure the continuation of the principle of balance between creators, copyright holders and the users of intellectual property from the present print environment into the electronic world. As the introduction to the PRINCIPLES states: "As they revolutionize the means by which information is recorded, disseminated, accessed, and stored, digital technologies are eliminating the technical limits that have supplemented the legal framework of balance between ownership and public dissemination: Unlimited technological capacity to disseminate by transmission in ways that can violate the rights of copyright holders confronts equally unlimited technological capacity to prevent works from being used in ways contemplated by law. Carried to its logical extreme, either trend would destroy the balance, with results that would likely undermine core educational functions as well as radically transform the information marketplace." The full text of the PRINCIPLES may be obtained from John Hammer at the address above or from the NINCH website at: <http://www-ninch.cni.org/ISSUES/COPYRIGHT/PRINCIPLES/NHA_Complete.html>. A list of the principles themselves, without introduction or commentary is appended to this message, together with a list of those organizations currently endorsing them. David Green ******************************************************************* BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT 1. Copyright law provisions for digital works should maintain a balance between the interests of creators and copyright owners and the public that is equivalent to that embodied in current statute. The existing legal balance is consonant with the educational ethic of responsible use of intellectual properties, promotes the free exchange of ideas, and protects the economic interests of copyright holders. 2. Copyright law should foster the maintenance of a viable economic framework of relations between owners and users of copyrighted works. 3. Copyright laws should encourage enhanced ease of compliance rather than increasingly punitive enforcement measures. 4. Copyright law should promote the maintenance of a robust public domain for intellectual properties as a necessary condition for maintaining our intellectual and cultural heritage. 5. Facts should be treated as belonging to the public domain as they are under current law. 6. Copyright law should assure that respect for personal privacy is incorporated into access and rights management systems. 7. Copyright law should uphold the principle that liability for infringing activity rests with the infringing party rather than with third parties. Institutions should accept responsibility for acts undertaken at their behest by individuals but should not be held liable for the acts of individuals--whether or not associated with the institution--acting independently. This principle is an essential underpinning for academic freedom. 8. Educational institutions should foster a climate of institutional respect for intellectual property rights by providing appropriate information to all members of the community and assuring that appropriate resources are available for clearing rights attached to materials to be used by the institution, e.g., in support of distance learning. 9. New rights and protections should be created cautiously and only so far as experience proves necessary to meet the Constitutional provision for a limited monopoly to promote the "Progress of Science and useful Arts." 10. Copyright enforcement provisions should not hinder research simply because the products of a line of inquiry might be used in support of infringing activity. EMDORSEMENTS AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH From: David Green Subject: NINCH NEWSLETTER No. 7 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 07:26:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 277 (277) N I N C H Networked Cultural Heritage Newsletter No. 7 July 16, 1997 www-ninch.cni.org/news/news.html ==================================================================== A news and information digest for those working to preserve and provide access to cultural heritage resources through networked digital technology. ==================================================================== 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. C O N T E N T S 1. COPYRIGHT: Where We Are 2. PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES D-Lib: July-August Issue (includes NINCH article on Networking Moving Images) Ariadne: July Issue ACLS Publishes Survey of Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship. Getty AAT & ULAN: Now Online Perseus Expands Into English Renaissance 3. MOVING ON ----------------------------- COPYRIGHT: WHERE WE ARE Midsummer, and it's time for the broad cultural community to assess where it stands and determine what its next steps are with regard to a number of copyright related issues. As the Association of Research Libraries has put it, one of the goals of the educational community should be to develop a consensus about "the kind of practices in digital environments that are understood to represent responsible applications of copyright, especially fair use." We should be able to extend that to the even broader cultural community (engaging museums, artists and arts organizations as well as libraries, education and research institutions). What is fair and just in the use of "intellectual property" on the networks? What are the tools that we need to proceed? For a sense of the landscape from tha research library perspective, see the Copyright Special issue of the ARL Newsletter for June 1997 at <http://arl.cni.org/newsltr/192/192toc.html>. A number of developments have now come to a head that make this the time to seriously survey the landscape and consider the direction we take. What has brought us to this pass? A. LEGISLATION The proposed language for both last year's domestic legislation, the "NII Copyright Protection Act," and the World Intellectual Property Organization's Copyright Treaty skewed the current balance away from that of existing copyright statute, re-asserting the rights of copyright holders at the expense of certain limitations, notably Fair Use. Fortunately, the domestic legislation was stalled and the final WIPO language reasserted the balance between the rights of copyright holders and those of the users of intellectual property. As we prepare for new U.S. domestic legislation (including WIPO implementing legislation) we need to be clear about what our values and priorities are. As a member of the Digital Future Coalition, NINCH has been an enthusiastic supporter of its positions and legislative activity. As a community, we all need to be clear about what the issues are and how they are represented in Congress. B. CONFU The longstanding Conference on Fair Use came to its ambiguous conclusion this May. None of the proposed guidelines gained majority support and many in the nonprofit educational world felt that their voices were not fully heard nor were their positions included in the guidelines. Some are prepared to continue the conversations; some are willing to test the guidelines but there was generally a very strong feeling of blockage and difficulty. There was the question whether some rights holders accepted and understood Fair Use as a fundamental aspect of copyright practice, or saw it as an obstruction to efficient commercial business. See the "Joint Statement by Libraries and Cultural Organizations," at <http://www.ala.org/washoff/confu.html>. C. FAIR USE TOWN MEETINGS Taking the debate on the road, the College Art Association and American Council of Learned Societies organized a series of Kress Foundation-funded town meetings to discuss the fate of fair use in a digital environment. Three were held before May 19 (an interim report is available at <http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/CurrentAnnounce/TownMeeting-Report>) and three more are being scheduled. These educate and engage an audience, air questions and grievances and will continue to shape our understanding of what positions and actions we may need to take. The next Town Meeting is scheduled for September 26-27 at Reed College, Portland Oregon, entitled: "Copyright Law in the Digital World: Fair Use, Education and Libraries after CONFU." Stay tuned for further announcements. D. NHA PRINCIPLES A committee of the National Humanities Alliance drew up a set of basic principles in an effort to build consensus within the educational community on the uses of copyrighted works in the digital environment. Currently seeking endorsements from as many in the educational community as possible, this document is a model for assembling community-wide bedrock principles upon which we build practice. See <http://www-ninch.cni.org/ISSUES/COPYRIGHT/PRINCIPLES/NHA_Complete.html>. If other communities are evolving similar principles or policies, we should encourage them but seek to integrate them with the NHA Principles. E. LICENSING Research libraries have been engaging commercial vendors delivering digital content via licensing arrangements. Both sides are determining, often through negotiation and practice, what acceptable terms and conditions are. Librarians are being aided by a number of recent resources, among them the "LibLicense: Licensing Electronic Resources" website and discussion list at <http://www.library.yale.edu/~Llicense/index.shtml> and "Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources," <http://arl.cni.org/scomm/licensing/principles.html> produced by six library associations. In another realm, the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL), examining the issues involved in licensing digital images from museums' collections for use on university campuses, is concluding and will shortly release its report. Two museum licensing collectives are now being formed to put MESL's lessons and recommendations into practice. F. ROLES Out of many of these developments, many have come to the realization that online, a great majority of us, both as individuals and institutions, will be, sometimes simultaneously creators, copyright holders and users of intellectual property. The scenario is a far more complex one than that between those who are exclusively copyright holders and those who are exclusively users of copyrighted material. ----------------------------- PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES **The July/August double issue of D-Lib Magazine, now available at <http://www.dlib.org>, is devoted to stories about conversion, preservation, and archiving. Aside from NINCH's piece on Networking Moving Images is an article on how humanities textbase projects can help the digital library research agenda and a number of reports on particular projects, including the University of Virginia E-Text Center, J-Stor, Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, the Model Editions Partnership, the Making of America project and others. **Ariadne, the magazine of the British e-Lib project, has just published its tenth issue online at <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/>. Contents include an interview with CNI's new director Clifford Lynch, an article on issues academia has with electronic journals, an example of how Dublin Core metadata is being embedded in Web pages and reports on a number of e-Lib projects. **The American Council of Learned Societies has just published "Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects and Challenges: The US Focus," as an Occasional Paper. This 54-page booklet, written and compiled by Pamela Pavliscak and Charles Henry from Rice University and Seamus Ross, of the University of Glasgow, is a selective review of the application of IT to humanities practice. It also identifies obstacles and challenges that need to be overcome for humanities computing scholarship to flourish. Copies of the booklet are available from ACLS (212/697-1505; ); an electronic version will be available this fall via the American Arts & Letters Network <http://www.aaln.org/>. **Getty AAT & ULAN: Now Online The extremely useful Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) <http://www.gii.getty.edu/aat_browser> and the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) <http://www.gii.getty.edu/ulan_browser> are now freely available for use on the website of the Getty Information Institute. Both sites include searching tips and information about the scope and content of the vocabularies. **Perseus Expands Into the English Renaissance The well-known Perseus project <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/>, well known for assembling a multimedia library of classical material is now beginning to build an English Renaissance digital library, beginning with all the work of Marlowe and expanding into Shakespeare's sources. Suggestions for texts to work on are being accepted at . ----------------------------- MOVING ON American Council of Learned Societies Douglas Bennett has now left ACLS and is ensconced as President of Earlham College; his position as ACLS Vice President is currently unfilled. Stan Katz leaves his position as President of ACLS at the end of August; John D'Arms takes his place September 1. Coalition for Networked Information Clifford Lynch, formerly Director of Library Automation at the University of California, is now installed as Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. See press release at <http://www.cni.org/press/> Kennedy Center Scott Stoner, Director of ArtsEdge at the Kennedy Center, also left this Spring. A search for his replacement is currently underway. President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities Ellen Lovell, Executive Director of the President's Committee departed for the White House this Spring. Her new position is as Deputy Chief of Staff for the First lady. Taking her place is Harriet Fulbright, formerly president of the Center for Arts in the Curriculum and, from 1987 to 1990, executive director of the Fulbright Association. ----------------------------- =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== ----- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ----- From: "[iso-8859-1] Raphaël Cohen" Subject: Re: 11.0173 wired enthusiasms & plain speech Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:18:57 +0200 (MET DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 278 (278) Ionesco : "The purpose of education is to cretinize young people". It is so true ... And it succeed so wonderful ! In spite of education, an other thing than can be given. Offered as a gift. Korban is proximity in hebrew. Raphael Cohen Paris ----- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ----- From: Ian Butterworth Subject: conference Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 16:52:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 279 (279) Readers of the Humanist may be interested to learn that in connection with the British Association Annual Festival of Science at the University of Leeds,the Academia Europaea is organising a half-day John Mason Conference on the afternoon of Thursday 11 September entitled "Gates vs.Gutenburg? The impact of electronic publishing on the scientific community" The speakers will be: Prof. Pieter Drenth (Chairman of the European Commission on Preservation and Access; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) :- "Preservation of Academic Results - on paper or in bytes?" Robert Cailliau ( Head of the World Wide Web Office,CERN; Chairman of the International WWW Conference Committee) :- "Goals for the world wide web" Prof. Erich Neuhold ( Director, GMD-IPSI,Darmstadt) :- "Technologies for scientific publishing" Terry Hulbert ( Producer,Electronic Publishing, Institute of Physics Publishing):- "Demonstration of electronic publishing" Conference chaired by Ian Butterworth ( Academia Europaea;Imperial College) Despite the title and location,I believe the content might also be of interest to those in the humanities. The location: Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 15, University of Leeds. For those who wish to attend only the Conference there is no charge. The BA of course hope that many will wish to register for the full Festival on a daily or weekly basis. Either way, for those who wish to attend, the simplest approach is to contact: Sandra Koura at Major Events,British Association,23 Savile Row,London W1X 2NB Tel: 0171 973 3076 Fax: 0171 973 3051 e-mail: ba.major.mgr@mcr1.poptel.org.uk Ian Butterworth =========== ----- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ----- From: "J. Trant" Subject: AMICO Update Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:50:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 280 (280) ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) UPDATE Please excuse any duplication ... The members of the Association of Art Museum Directors are investigating the formation of a consortium to make their digital documentation collectively available to the educational community. Representatives of major North American Museums are meeting to define the terms of their collaboration and to outline the nature of a common digital library of text, image and multimedia data. Details about this emerging organisation and the formation of the consortium can be found at www.amn.org/AMICO. The report of the group's most recent meeting is also available at this site. Questions regarding AMICO can be directed to: Maxwell Anderson Liason for Information Technology Association of Art Museum Directors max_anderson@ago.net or Jennifer Trant or David Bearman Archives & Museum Informatics jtrant@archimuse.com or dbear@archimuse.com -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museums Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- From: Willard McCarty Subject: Online items Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 09:16:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 281 (281) [deleted quotation] (1) Louise McElvogue, "Should spam be canned?" on the first ever "spam summit" in Washington, DC, convened by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, bringing together a truly motley crew of those concerned with spamming, including Sanford (a.k.a. Spamford) Wallace, head of Cyber Promotions. (2) Toby Howard, "Mad, bad and dangerous to know", on the proliferation of crazy ideas on the Internet from those cranks who have discovered that the new medium is a cheap way to circulate them. "There are thousands of pages devoted to crazy ideas. These range from traditional crank fixations on free energy and perpetual motion to the US couple who claim to psychically 'zap' the CBS evening news every Thursday and the Unarius Academy of Science, which channels the 'the brothers of light from the higher frequency planes'. And then there's the dark side, by which I mean worse than cinematic special effects can manage. The argument for self-regulation is based on such balancing acts as the "hate sites" (like that of the British National Party) and those who monitor them (see, for example, <http://www.rickross.com>, the virtual front-end for a consultancy business). Can dangerous information be countered, however? Take, for example, activities where mischief slides into serious anarchy. While I was listening to a Radio 4 programme on American militia types the other night, for example, I heard an articulate militia chap objecting to the interviewer's claim that he and his buddies were distributing seriously dangerous information, e.g. on how to make explosives. His point was that this information was already widely in circulation on the Internet, some of it published by official bodies. Being logged on at the time I took his strong hint (clever, that) to search for the keywords "amonium nitrate" (on AltaVista, type "amonium;nitrate" without the quotation marks) and found just what he said would be there, and quite a bit more, e.g. the Jolly Roger Cookbook. This sort of thing tests one's conviction that what Milton called "unlicensed printing" is a workable idea, i.e. it puts us back into the situation in which we are forced seriously to examine what publications media can do. How is this situation different from, say, 17th-century pamphleteering? How is the online publication medium fundamentally different, if it is, from what came before? (3) Jack Schofield, "Wild West Web", about Ira Magaziner, a corporate strategist who advises U.S. President Clinton on policy -- and the principal author of the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce (for which see <http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/Commerce/>). His approach, become official U.S. government policy, is essentially that of "laissez-faire capitalism largely uncontrolled by government regulation: a continuation of the Internet as, in Clinton's words, 'the Wild West of the global economy'." European governments have just endorsed a similar plan under the name of the Global Information Networks (<http://www2.echo.lu/bonn/themepaper.html>). There's a strong protectionist movement in Europe, however, where critical mass requires a rising above regional differences, i.e. the story of the EU played out in policy toward the virtual realm. Our toy has hit the big-time, though we have not. (4) Karlin Lillington, "So farewell then Gil..." and Jack Schofield, "Caught in a vicious circle", on the increasingly serious problems of the Apple Corp. (5) Douglas Rushkoff, "Make yourself @home", on yet another project to employ cable for super-fast Internet connection, by the @Home Corporation. "What's most troubling about the @Home vision of America's future on the Internet is its willingness to sacrifice the egalitarian nature of the Net's underlying architecture for the bravado of high-speed access to packaged media." High-speed interactivity puts quite a demand on the network, requiring upgrades from the various cable companies involved. "The other troubling feature of the @Home architecture is that wherever in the network a cable company cannot or will not upgrade its lines to full interactivity, coaxial cable will be used for incoming data and slower phone lines will be used for outgoing signal." This means that it becomes easier to listen than to speak, which as Rushkoff points out, encourages passivity. Probably nothing to worry about, as he says, since so little has come of other cable-company schemes. But @Home does help to clarify what we want -- something more like ham radio than FM? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Research Position at Sussex Univ. Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 15:35:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 282 (282) [deleted quotation] UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX SCHOOL OF COGNITIVE AND COMPUTING SCIENCES Research into robust parsing A research assistant position is available on a 3-year EPSRC-funded project entitled `PSET: Practical Simplification of English Text'. The goal is to build a computer system which takes in English newspaper text across the WWW, and outputs a simplified version with broadly similar meaning (with, for example, uncommon or unusual words replaced with more common or familiar synonyms, and difficult to follow syntactic constructs replaced with simpler ones); the system will be targetted at people suffering from aphasia which impairs their comprehension of written English. The component of the research at Sussex involves further development of an existing robust statistical parsing system. The project is in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sunderland. Applicants should have research experience in natural language processing (i.e. PhD-level or similar), with knowledge of statistical and/or unification/constraint-based computational linguistics, and should be familiar with UNIX and C. Ability to program in Lisp and experience of MacOS are also desirable. The salary will be on the Research 1B or 1A Scale (#15,159-22,785 pa), depending on age and experience. The project will start on or soon after October 1, 1997. The grant includes provision for attendance at relevant workshops and conferences. See <http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/carroll/carroll.html> for further details. Interested candidates should send a CV as soon as possible to: Dr John Carroll, Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK. E-Mail: john.carroll@cogs.susx.ac.uk; Fax: (+44 / 0)1273 671320 Previous applicants need not re-apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ian Butterworth Subject: Humanist: Half day Conference on Electronic Publishing Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:54:13 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 283 (283) SLIGHT CORRECTION Half-day John Mason Conference in connection with the British Association Annual Festival of Science at the University of Leeds on the afternoon of Thursday 11 September entitled "Gates vs.Gutenburg? The impact of electronic publishing on the scientific community" I would like to post a slight correction to the notice I sent out.It turns out that participants to our conference can attend the full Leeds BA Festival without any further formalities. All that is required is that they register for the Conference through the Academia Europaea. Please e-mail,fax or mail the Executive Secretary of the Academia,Peter Colyer e-mail: ACADEUR@Compuserve.com mail: Academia Europaea, 31,Old Burlington Street, London W1X 1LB fax: 0171 287 5115 Ian Butterworth From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Last CFP: ACM SAC'98 - Track on Coordination Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 15:39:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 284 (284) [deleted quotation] LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ==================== (Apologies if you receive multiple copies) 1998 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '98) Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications February 27 - March 1, 1998 Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia, U. S. A. (http://www.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/cs/SAC98.html) SAC '98: ~~~~~~~~ Over the past twelve years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC'98 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups SIGAda, SIGAPP, SIGBIO, and SIGCUE. Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical sessions. The most recent previous ACM SAC conferences were held in San Jose (SAC'97), Philadelphia (SAC'96) and Nashville (SAC'95). Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Track: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC'98. The term "coordination" here is used in a rather broad sense covering traditional models and languages (eg. ones based on the Shared Dataspace and CHAM metaphors) but also other related formalisms such as configuration and architectural description frameworks, systems modeling abstractions and languages, programming skeletons, etc. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: * Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques. * Relationship with other computational models such as object oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or extensions of them with coordination capabilities. * Applications (especially where the industry is involved). * Theoretical aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification). * Software architectures and software engineering techniques. * All aspects related to the modeling of Information Systems (groupware, Internet and the Web, workflow management, CSCW). Track Program Chair: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ George A. Papadopoulos Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O.B. 537 CY-1678, Nicosia, CYPRUS E-mail: george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy Tel: +357 2 338705/06, FAX: +357 2 339062 Guidelines for Submission: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Original papers and poster abstracts from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions: 1) original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry; and 3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM Press SAC'98 proceedings. A special issue on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications of the ACM/SIGAPP quarterly Applied Computing Review is planned for the Fall of 1998 comprising expanded versions of selected papers from those accepted in this track. Submission guidelines must be strictly followed: * Submit six (6) copies of original manuscripts to the SAC '98 Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Track Chair. Electronic submissions in uuencoded compressed postscript format are encouraged. Fax submissions will not be accepted. George A. Papadopoulos Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O.B. 537 CY-1678, Nicosia, CYPRUS E-mail: george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy Tel: +357 2 338705/06, FAX: +357 2 339062 * The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. * The body of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words (approximately 15 pages, double-spaced). * A separate cover sheet attached to each copy should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to which correspondence should be sent. * All submissions must be received by August 15, 1997. Important Dates: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * August 15, 1997: Paper Submission. * October 15, 1997: Author Notification. * December 1, 1997: Camera-Ready Copy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: AMICO Update Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:35:01 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 285 (285) NINCH ANNOUNCMENET July 21, 1997 Below is an update on the development of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and its plan for establishing a digital library of museum images, with supporting data, for site licensing to universities. Please note also an article on museum site licensing to appear in the ARL Newsletter <http://arl.cni.org/newsltr/> next month, which will put this announcement in a broader context. David Green ***************************************************************** ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) UPDATE Please excuse any duplication ... The members of the Association of Art Museum Directors are investigating the formation of a consortium to make their digital documentation collectively available to the educational community. Representatives of major North American Museums are meeting to define the terms of their collaboration and to outline the nature of a common digital library of text, image and multimedia data. Details about this emerging organisation and the formation of the consortium can be found at www.amn.org/AMICO. The report of the group's most recent meeting is also available at this site. Questions regarding AMICO can be directed to: Maxwell Anderson Liason for Information Technology Association of Art Museum Directors max_anderson@ago.net or Jennifer Trant or David Bearman Archives & Museum Informatics jtrant@archimuse.com or dbear@archimuse.com -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museums Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Hypercard to Web Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:15:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 286 (286) Dear Humanists, I have recently been having some discussions with faculty who have enquired about the possibility of porting elderly hypercard applications and stacks onto WWW pages. It strikes me that there are probably a lot of people out there who spent many hours painstakingly compiling hypercard stacks for teaching back in the good old days when that represented the cutting edge of technology - where are all these stacks now? Has anyone had success in importing hypercard stacks into a web based format? Or is it a case of re-doing all the links in a web authoring program? Is there a plug in that will help? Any suggestions, comments, or anecdotes welcome, thanks, Lorna --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Academic Computing Facility Fax: (212) 995 4120 New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: 11.0182 Hypercard to Web? Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:20:41 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 287 (287) At 17:48 +0100 23-07-97, Humanist Discussion Group (Lorna Hughes) wrote: [deleted quotation] It is possible to connect HyperCard stacks directly to MacHTTP (and WebStar, I think) but this is probably not the best solution in the long run. The project on which I should spend much more time than I have involves converting a hypermedia version of Ibsen's Peer Gynt from HyperCard + extras to some kind of SGML or HyTime for storage purposes and either use SGML-aware presentations software such us DynaWeb or define procedures for extracting fixed HTML from the material. -- espen Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Tel: +47-55582865 Fax: +47-55589470 From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: Re: 11.0182 Hypercard to Web? Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:29:43 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 288 (288) Hi, Lorna. Long time; no see. Actually, my Apple representative told me about a year ago that Apple (or maybe a third party) was in the process of creating such a plug-in. I'd love to see it, in order to put the old Beowulf Workstation in all of its antequated glory on the web. So, I reiterate your request: does anybody know anything? --Pat -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Patrick W. Conner Department of English P.O. BOX 6296 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506-6296 phone: (304) 293-3107 e-mail: pconner@wvu.edu fax: (304) 293-5380 From: Lou Burnard Subject: Re: 11.0182 Hypercard to Web? Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 17:53:05 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 289 (289) I once spent a happy hour or six writing a Hypercard stack which would dump the fields of a hypercard stack in an exportable ascii format, using SGML tags (what a surprise) to identify each field on the card. Of course that doesn't export much of the linking information, though someone who knows more about hyperTalk than I do shouldn't have much difficulty in doing that. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou From: Willard McCarty Subject: Hypercard to Web Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 07:01:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 290 (290) This is a followup question to the one in the last Humanist about converting from Hypercard to WWW. Has anyone thought through how to use the Web to do Hypercard/Toolbook-like things, with Javascript perhaps, to approximately the same degree of difficulty for the person who constructs them? I'm thinking of students who could handle Hypercard but might have difficulty writing the Javascript themselves, so would need some canned bits to plug into their pages. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Domenico Fiormonte (3) Subject: Adjunct Position in Turin Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 291 (291) The University of Turin is actively advertising adjunct positions for the academic year 1997-98. The disciplines of interest are: Economia aziendale (Business Management) Storia dell'arte contemporanea (History of Contemporary Art) Tecniche della comunicazione pubblicitaria (Advertising) Teoria e tecniche della comunicazione pubblica (Public Communication) Teoria e Tecniche del linguaggio giornalistico (Journalism) Teoria e Tecniche del linguaggio radio-televisivo (Broadcasted Media) Teoria e tecniche delle comunicazioni di massa (Mass Communication) The attached message gives more details on the application process. The letter signed by Professor Mario Ricciardi, Presidente del Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione, explicitly states that the process will be transparent and that the University seeks maximum advertising for these positions. Candidates currently teaching and/or working abroad are especially encouraged to apply for these positions. The review process will be overtaken by an ad hoc committee nominated by the Faculty of the Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione. Transparency in the hiring process and active advertising of the positions have not been a common practice among Italian academics. We welcome the action of the University of Turin as a sign of change. ======= http://italia.hum.utah.edu/maurizio/ricciardi/bandi/98.html ========= UNIVERSITA DI TORINO FACOLTA DI LETTERE E FILOSOFIA CORSO DI LAUREA IN SCIENZE DELLA COMUNICAZIONE Il Consiglio di Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione ha deciso di provvedere per gli insegnamenti sotto-indicati con la massima trasparenza e pubblicità onde garantire non solo la più ampia informazione verso la comunità della ricerca e delle professioni interessate ma anche un proficuo e corretto rapporto che integri in modo positivo lo stesso corso di laurea col mondo delle professioni, dell'amministrazione e delle attività economiche. I contratti di diritto privato si rivolgono, come recita lart. 25 del DPR 11 luglio 1980, n. 382 SPECIFICATAMENTE a docenti che insegnino in università non italiane o a rappresentanti della comunità scientifica e delle professioni dotati di alta qualificazione. E stato perciò predisposto un bando pubblico, che verrà pubblicato dagli organi di stampa italiani e che verrà pubblicizzato nelle forme più efficaci. Torino, 14 luglio 1997 Il Presidente del Corso di Laurea in Scienze della comunicazione prof. Mario Ricciardi BANDO DI CONCORSO PER PROFESSORI A CONTRATTO Il Consiglio della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Torino, ha deliberato di attivare per il prossimo anno accademico 1997/8 i seguenti insegnamenti, destinati al Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione, utilizzando la procedura di conferimento mediante contratti di diritto privato a tempo determinato, secondo le modalità previste dallart. 25 del D.P.R. 11 luglio 1980, n. 382.: Economia aziendale Storia dell'arte contemporanea Tecniche della comunicazione pubblicitaria Teoria e tecniche della comunicazione pubblica Teoria e Tecniche del linguaggio giornalistico Teoria e Tecniche del linguaggio radio-televisivo Teoria e tecniche delle comunicazioni di massa le modalità amministrative per la stipula del relativo contratto di diritto privato, gli impegni didattici conseguenti e la durata massima del contratto stesso, sono specificate nel citato art. 25 del D.P.R. 11 luglio 1980, n. 382. E' richiesta, a termini di legge, un'alta qualificazione scientifica o professionale, comprovata attraverso pubblicazioni scientifiche o dalle posizioni ricoperte nella vita professionale, economica e amministrativa del candidato. I candidati dovranno fare pervenire alla segreteria della Presidenza della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Università di Torino, un curriculum vitae dettagliato, in duplice copia. I candidati devono inoltre allegare copia dei documenti, pubblicazioni o altri titoli che ritengano utili per comprovare la loro alta qualificazione. Il Consiglio di Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia nominerà commissioni ad hoc, col compito di valutare le domande pervenute per ciascun insegnamento e successivamente procedere, con delibera del Consiglio di Facoltà stesso, all'attribuzione dei contratti elencati in questo bando. La domanda di rito, con la documentazione allegata, deve essere indirizzata a: PRESIDENZA FACOLTA DI LETTERE E FILOSOFIA VIA S. OTTAVIO 20 -10124 TORINO e deve pervenire entro il 1 settembre 1997. Torino, 14 luglio 1997 Il Preside prof. N. Tranfaglia ************************************************** Domenico Fiormonte University of Edinburgh Dept. of Italian DHT, George Square EH8 9XJ United Kingdom Tel. 44+131-6503646 Fax: 44+131-6506536 E-mail: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Online items Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:44:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 292 (292) [deleted quotation]<http://www.guardian.co.uk/>: (1) Jack Schofield, "Man and Supercomputer", reviewing Charles J Murray, The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards behind the Supercomputer. Brilliant, eccentric, insufferable seem to be the adjectives for the man. What's professionally interesting is the epitaphizing of the supercomputer: now a thing of the past because (a) the US government is no longer willing to pay the huge price-tags to underwrite development and to purchase these things, and (b) many supercomputing needs can be met by off-the-shelf chips. Once upon a time, even at universities where much greater needs went begging, such machines were bought, staff hired to manage them and to spend their time looking for customers whose work could justify the huge expenditures. There were or still are schemes to do supercomputing by means of paralleling individual workstations. Are these still current? (2) Douglas Rushkoff, "The plug that was waiting to be pulled", on the disasters that result from centralisation of key Internet components, such as the DNS list maintained by Network Solutions (U.S.). As most of you will likely know, a massive DNS failure caused by distribution of a corrupted list crippled the Internet recently. "The answer, of course, is to limit or altogether eliminate these high-leverage points in the global Internet. The less important any particular cable or server, the less damage will be done in any single accident.... As David Holtzman, senior vice president at Network Solutions boasted last month about one of his name servers, 'if you pull the plug out of the back of this baby, everything on the Internet would die in about two days.'" A fascinating collision of social models, in which we find ourselves on the side of the US government, with its deregulatory stance against the centralising tendencies of big business. (3) Jack Scofield, "Netwatch". a. The report that the entire higher education community in the U.K. has been waiting for, from the committee chaired by Sir Ron Dearing, published simultaneously on paper and on the Web, at <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/ncihe/>. b. European Museum Guide 1997-98, <http://www.museumguide.com/>. c. Fish4it.com, which chooses a random site based on keywords or established special topics, <http://www.fish4it.com>. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: ambiguity Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 16:27:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 293 (293) In the latest TLS, #4921 for 25 July, Jonathan Bate discusses in "Commentary" the origins of William Empson's thinking on ambiguity, in "Words in a quantum world: How Cambridge physics led William Empson to refuse 'either/or'". There's much for us to contemplate here, particularly about how computing relates to the cultural and philosophical changes that surfaced earlier this century -- in science through the work of Einstein, Planck, Dirac, Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Eddington and others, and in the humanities through Empson. I suppose we're always in danger of thinking that science is primary, the humanities derivative. In the case of Empson, who read for the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge (ranking Senior Optime) before he went on to study English, in 1928, the one does come before the other, apparently, but I prefer to think of both as articulating a common substrate. "It was during the first few months after he switched from Mathematics to English that Empson wrote the first draft of Seven Types [of Ambiguity]." This draft, Bate says, "seems to have become Chapter Two of the finished book", and at the end of that chapter, Empson recognises explicitly the parallel between how he reads Shakespeare and the thinking "in recent atomic physics". There are several other clues as well, and Bate makes a good case from them. In essence Bate argues that Empson was the first to replace the "either/or" perspective in literary criticism with "both/and". About Shakespeare in particular, Empson wrote, "So it is assumed, except when a double meaning is very conscious and almost a joke, that Shakespeare can only have meant one thing, but that the reader must hold in mind a variety of things he may have meant, and weigh them, in appreciating the poetry, according to their probabilities. Here, as in recent atomic physics there is a shift in progress, which tends to attach the notion of a probability to the natural object rather than to the fallability of the human mind." Computing has, I would suppose, emerged from the same world and is indebted to the same physical insights as was Empson. Allow me to suggest that as a result two opposites have separated out, and that the opposition puts into our hands a most potent means of understanding: one the one hand, the "both/and" of the physical and imaginative worlds (if these are different); on the other, the powerful "either/or" of computing. Computing humanists daily use the latter to study the former, but it is in understanding the former that computing first, it seems, became possible -- and now is fundamentally necessary to keep in mind if computing is to have any real meaning for us. Of course Shakespeare, Ovid and all the rest meant several things simultaneously; trying and inevitably failing to compute them shows us that. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EMLS 3.1 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:11:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 294 (294) [deleted quotation] _"All's Well that Ends Well," "Love's Labour's Lost," "A Midsummer Night's Worst Nightmare": Or, How Early Modern Literary Studies 3.1 Finally Came to Fruition._ This lamentable tale of the delay of EMLS 3.1 begins in March 1997 with a deliberate decision to move EMLS's publication schedule to May, September, January, to avoid clashing with beginnings and ends of term and the MLA's December convention. Our timing slightly out of joint, we nonetheless felt confident that all was on schedule. But then a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning was heard overhead and the Oriel College ethernet connection was hit by a bolt from the heavens. Suddenly, e-mail was no more, the internet receded into virtual unreality, and EMLS's non-existent funding was channelled into trans-atlantic phone-calls. The journal did not appear. Happier news was on the horizon, though, as a post-doctoral fellowship beckoned Ray Siemens to the University of Alberta. A welcome offer, its only drawback was that it meant him packing up and sending off his books and files and computer to these distant lands. And still the journal did not appear. Back in Oxford, meanwhile, and Joanne Woolway's other job (Adviser to Women Students) got her involved in a lengthy harassment case, which wiped out two weeks of term. This bode some strange eruption to our state . . . A job offer (Lecturer at Oriel College) added further distraction, though this time of a more welcome nature. So still the journal did not appear. Close to completion, the files were mounted on the EMLS site, carefully proof-read by a new team of editorial assistants, Sean Lawrence, Gillian Austen, and Jennifer Lewin (now in charge of interactive EMLS, with Paul Dyck). But some mischievous spirit had altered an access password and the homepage only showed issue 2.3. (O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set this right, said Joanne) And still the journal did not appear. To be or not to be?: that really was the question. But finally, it has appeared, and we now present this issue to our patient audience. The table of contents is below, and the EMLS site can be found at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html Included alongside issue 3.1 is the first in the EMLS Special Issue Series, edited by Ian Lancashire and Michael Best, and entitled _New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries: Applications of the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database._ EMLS is always happy to consider submissions and new ideas for publication: full submission details, contact addresses, etc. can be found on the site. Happy reading! Raymond G. Siemens Joanne Woolway Early Modern Literary Studies = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Early Modern Literary Studies 3.1 (May 1997): Editor: Joanne Woolway, Oriel College, Oxford Articles: Steve Sohmer. "12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe." Randall Martin. "Isabella Whitney's 'Lamentation upon the death of William Gruffith.'" Emma Roth-Schwartz. "Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters: Practice and Principle." Note: Jeffrey Kahan. "Ambroise Pare's Des Monstres as a Possible Source for Caliban." Reviews: Patricia Parker. Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996. Mary Bly, Washington University, St. Louis. Chris Fitter. Poetry, Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Pennsylvania State University. William S. Carroll. Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. Michael Long, Oriel College, Oxford University. Mark Breitenberg. Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Stephen Longstaffe, University College of St Martin. Hilary Hinds. God's Englishwomen: Seventeenth-Century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1996. Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato. Melanie Hansen and Suzanne Trill, eds. Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing. Renaissance Texts and Studies, Keele, Staffordshire: Keele UP, 1996. Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia. David Lindley. The Trials of Frances Howard: Fact and Fiction at the Court of King James. New York: Routledge, 1993. Bryan N.S. Gooch, University of Victoria. Lady Mary Wroth. Lady Mary Wroth: Poems. A Modernized Edition. R. E. Pritchard, ed. Keele, Staffordshire: Keele UP, 1996. Joyce Green MacDonald, University of Kentucky. S. P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents. New York: Routledge, 1996. Patricia Ralston, Covenant College. EMLS Special Issue Series 1 (April 1997): New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries: Applications of the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database. Ian Lancashire and Michael Best, eds. Editorial Preface. Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto, and Michael Best, University of Victoria. "That purpose which is plain and easy to be understood": Using the Computer Database of Early Modern English Dictionaries to Resolve Problems in a Critical Edition of The Second Tome of Homilies (1563). Stephen Buick, University of Toronto. Renaissance Dictionaries and Shakespeare's Language: A Study of Word-meaning in Troilus and Cressida. Mark Catt, University of Toronto. Did Shakespeare Consciously Use Archaic English? Mary Catherine Davidson, University of Toronto. An English Renaissance Understanding of the Word "Tragedy,"1587-1616. Tanya Hagen, University of Toronto. Understanding Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and the EMEDD. Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto. Reflections of an Electronic Scribe: Two Renaissance Dictionaries and Their Implicit Philosophies of Language. Jonathan Warren, University of Toronto. "A Double Spirit of Teaching": What Shakespeare's Teachers Teach Us. Patricia Winson, University of Toronto. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Leo Robert Klein Subject: Re: 11.0183 Hypercard and the Web Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:26:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 295 (295) On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] I'm not quite sure how Javascript would work but recently in a discussion on multimedia applications I heard that "Lingo" (the script used for Director/Shockwave interactive applications) is based on Hypercard. Having used Lingo myself, I can vouch for the fact that it is not really that difficult--on the order of learning how to write macros for MS Excel. And if the Hypercard heritage is true, it might be rather familiar to your students. 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: "Craig A. Berry" Subject: Re: 11.0183 Hypercard and the Web Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:27:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 296 (296) Lorna et al., I believe Hypercard 3.0 is supposed to have web integration as a major focus, but for now, Hypercard 2.3.5 includes: "LiveCard from Royal/Heizer Software, which enables real-time streaming of HyperCard stacks off the net that are viewable by Windows, UNIX, and Mac OS web surfers. LiveCard accomplishes this by streaming each card in the stack as an industry-standard HTML format file. These files are readable on any platform while maintaining button and script functionality. LiveCard enables educational, business, and productivity stacks to be leveraged across Internet/intranet and across an enterprise through any computer client." The foregoing excerpted from: <http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q1/961209.pr.rel.internet. html#Apple Announces HyperCard Update and Software Bundle> This is obviously Apple PR literature (several months old at that) and it is not clear how the web server interacts with Hypercard, but it does sound promising. Craig A. Berry mailto:berry@metamor.com From: Ken Tompkins Subject: Toolbook Assistant Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 07:52:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 297 (297) Willard.... Have you seen the new Toolbook Assistant? If you haven't you should ask them to send you the demo disk. It is Toolbook with drag and drop. Basically it has all the usual widgets except one doesn't have to learn OpenScript to get it to work. You can export to html or use the Neuron plugin or simply distribute with the runtime. I have college students creating all sorts of things including webpages with it. In my view -- because it powerfully exports to HTML/Java -- it is the best and most powerful authoring tool out there. You might want to look at it. kt ======================================== Ken Tompkins Richard Stockton College of NJ ktomkin@earthlink.net http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharram/wharram.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Randall Jones Subject: Recording with a mini-CD recorder Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:05:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 298 (298) I plan to make some voice recordings in Germany this fall and I am considering using a palm-size SONY MZR 30 mini-CD recorder. Aside from the price it seems to have many advantages, but it almost seems too good to be true. Can anyone advise me on using a mini-CD device for recording voice? How is the recording quality? Is it reasonably easy to use? I'd appreciate any advice. Randall Jones Brigham Young University From: Scott Stebelman Subject: Ph.D. Specialization in Computer Applications in the Humanities Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 06:56:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 299 (299) I would like to know if any English Departments have, among their areas of specialization for Ph.D. students, one for computer applications in the humanities. Students in such a specialization would take courses focusing on electronic concordances, the use of computers for stylistic analysis or authorial attributution, and the World Wide Web as a repository for scholarly resources. The courses do not all necessarily have to be offered by the English Department, but some should be. Thanks in advance for any information that can be provided. Scott Stebelman Faculty Outreach Librarian Gelman Library George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 202/994-1342 scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: the future of sloth Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:57:57 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 300 (300) "Perhaps the future of Sloth will lie in sinning against what now seems increasingly to define us -- technology. Persisting in Luddite sorrow, despite technology's good intentions, there we'll sit with our heads in virtual reality, glumly refusing to be absorbed in its idle, disposable fantasies, even those about superheroes of Sloth back in Sloth's good old days, full of leisurely but lethal misadventures with the ruthless villains of the Acedia Squad." Thomas Pynchon, "Nearer, My Couch, to Thee". (For the whole thing, see <http://pete.pomona.edu/pynchon/uncollected/sloth.html">; for the San Narcisco College Thomas Pynchon Home Page, "the profoundly unofficial but widely collaborative Web page devoted to the work of Thomas Pynchon", see <http://pete.pomona.edu/pynchon/>.) WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Digital Resources for the Humanities Subject: Conference announcement: please post Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 13:17:16 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 301 (301) DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES '97 September 14 - 17 1997, St Anne's College, Oxford FINAL CALL FOR REGISTRATIONS ***** Closing date is now 15th August***** 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. The conference fee of 250 pounds covers lunches, dinners, and the whole academic programme. The conference banquet will cost an additional 40 pounds. 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 in St Anne's College, in modern purpose-built blocks adjoining the quadrangle and within a few minutes walk of all conference facilities. A number of conference bursaries are available. The conference web site at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/ is regularly updated, and includes full details of the programme and registration information. DRAFT PROGRAMME KEYNOTES Opening Keynote Father Roberto Busa "Concluding a life's safari from punch-cards to WWW" Closing Keynote: Details to be announced PRESENTATIONS Historical Resources Sheila Anderson (University of Essex) "Developing the Potential of Historical Data" Phil Stringer (Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services) "GENUKI - The UK genealogical information service" Katharine Keats-Rohan (Linacre College, Oxford) "COEL: Continental Origins of English Landowners " The Digital Library LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress) "Whither the Humanities? An Ethnographer's View of the Digital Library Program" John Pull (Library of Congress) "Bridging the Gap between the Real and the ideal" Peter Robinson (De Montfort University) "The De Montfort/IBM Digital Library Project" The JISC Technology Applications Programme Stuart D. Lee and Paul Groves (Oxford University Computing Services) "Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature" Doug Arnold (University of Essex) "WWW-Corpora and the Internet Grammar of English" Katharine Stynes and John MacKay (Ravensbourne College) "Networked Collaboration for Design Students" Scholarly Resources Martin Mueller (Northwestern University) "The Chicago Homer as a Pedagogical and Scholarly Tool" Merrilee Proffit (Bancroft Library) "Progress Report on the Digital Scriptorium Project" John Price-Wilkin and Frances McSparran (University of Michigan) "The Middle English Compendium: Text, Lexicon, Bibliography" Developing Digital Collections Iain Watson (Arts Libraries and Museums, Durham County Council) "The Durham Record Project" Louise Smith (Museums Documentation Association) [To be confirmed] Alicia Wise (Archaeology Data Service) "Unearthing Archaeology for the Digital Age." Teaching with Digital Resources Sarah Porter (CTI Centre for Textual Studies) "Digital texts in humanities teaching: what about the users?" Gavin Burnage (University of Cambridge) "Integrating Digital Video into Language Learning Software" Judith Thomas (University of Virginia) "The Media Archive: Instructional Tool and Scholarly Resource" Film and Performance Dr E. Lyon, J.Maslin (Unversity of Surrey) "Audio and video on-demand for the performing arts: Project PATRON" Barry Smith (Nottingham Trent University) "Overload and underload in our digital future" Kjell Jerselius (University of Stockholm) "Papermaker and cut!" The Virtual Manuscript Matthew Driscoll (University of Copenhagen) "The virtual reunification of the Arnamagnaean collection" Fernando Magan (Centro de Investigacions Linguisticas e Literarias Ramon Pineiro) "Arquivo Galicia Medieval" Zoe Borovsky (University of Oregon) "If Looks Could Kill: TACT and Icelandic sagas" Non-Formula Funding of Special Collections Ian R. M. Mowat, (University of Edinburgh). "Non-Formula Funding of Specialised Research" Mark Nicholls (Cambridge University Library) Glyn Goodrick and Keith Webster (University of Newcastle) "The Gertrude Bell Archive" Beyond Resource Discovery Lorcan Dempsey (UKOLN) "Hybridicity" Oscar Struijv (History Data Service) "Telescope, Stethoscope... Microscope: extending the hyperspace exploration toolset for Humanities scholars and teachers" Keith Cole (Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services) "The KINDS project" Claire Warwick (Oxford University) "The British National Corpus" SGML as Metadata MacKenzie Smith (Harvard University) "Integrating metadata in the digital library" Richard Gartner (Bodleian Library) "Linking word and image" LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress) "EAD at the Library of Congress: a progress report" Peter Kidd (Bodleian Library) "Medieval manuscripts and metadata: an SGML approach" Documentary Resources Christian-Emil Ore (University of Oslo) "Making multidisciplinary resources" C.M. Sperberg-McQueen (University of Illinois) "What is XML and Why Should Humanists Care?" David R. Chesnutt (University of South Carolina) "The American Documentary Heritage Database: Building the First Cluster" Electronic Publishing Rolando Minuti (University of Firenze) and Guido Abbattista (University of Trieste) "The CROMOHS Experience" Espen S. Ore and Peter Cripps (University of Bergen) "Electronic publication of Wittgenstein's Nachlass" Donald A. Spaeth (University of Glasgow) "Reflections before Commercialisation: Electronic Publication and the TLTP History Courseware Consortium" Literary-Historical Resources Christopher Mulvey (King Alfred's University College) "The African American American Research Library OnLine" Glenn Dibert-Himes (Sheffield Hallam University) "Digital Access to the Edition Corvey" Susan Hockey and Patricia Clements (University of Alberta) "The Orlando Project" Linguistic Resources Lisa Lena Opas and Ilkka Savijarvi (University of Joensuu); Espen S. Ore and Sjur Moshagen (University of Bergen) "Language Contacts on the Internet" Milena Dobreva and Dobrislav Dobrev (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia) "Orthographic Variety in Medieval Slavic Texts" Florence Bruneseaux (CRIN-CNRS & INRIA, Lorraine) "A user-oriented linguistic resource server: the Silfide project" Literary Resources David H. Radcliffe (Virginia Tech) "Mapping Tradition in a Database: Spenser and Romantic Poetry, 1579-1830." Michael Groden (University of Western Ontario) "James Joyce's Ulysses in Hypermedia" Domenico Fiormonte (University of Edinburgh) "The Digital Variants Archive project" Preservation Seamus Ross (Glasgow University) "The Urgent Case for Digital Preservation" Nancy Elkington (Research Libraries Group) "Digitisation for preservation and digitisation for access" Richard Blake (Public Record Office) "Influencing the behaviour of data creators" [to be confirmed] Sean Townsend (History Data Service) "Data Need a Home" Performing and Fine Arts Christie Carson (Royal Holloway) "Shakespeare Studies in the Multimedia Age" Dan Fleming (University of Ulster) "Curating the Views: the Formations Project" J. Scott Bentley (Academic Press, San Diego) "The Image Directory: Bringing Electronic Publishing to Art Museums" PANEL SESSIONS Creating Digital Resources in the Humanities: panel organized by John Unsworth (University of Virginia) with Morris Eaves (University of Rochester), Ed Ayers (University of Virginia), Martha Nell Smith "Dickinson Electronic Archives", Ken Price "Walt Whitman Archive" Discovering Humanities Resources : panel organized by Neil Beagrie (AHDS Executive, Kings College) with Rosemary Russell (UKOLN) [To be confirmed], Paul Miller (AHDS) "Metadata for Resource Discovery"; Cressida Chappell, (History Data Service) "Changing Boundaries: the need for an Historical Geographical Thesaurus" AHDS User Services: roundtable organized by Astrid Wissenburg (AHDS Executive) with participants representing national projects and institutional departments involved in user support Changing Shape: The Electronic Journal: panel organized by Willard McCarty (Kings College London) with Jennifer Lewin (Early Modern Literary Studies) and Seamus Ross (Internet Archaeology) Network delivery of moving images: panel organized by Daniel Greenstein (AHDS Executive) and Murray Weston (British University Film and Video Council) [Details to be confirmed] New Services in the Visual Arts: panel with Catherine Grout (Visual Arts Data Service) Tony Gill (Surrey Institute of Art and Design), Jane Williams (University of Bristol) "Technical Advisory Service for Images: TASI and VADS working together" [To be confirmed] REGISTRATION FORM THE DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS IS AUGUST 15TH 1997 Please complete a separate form for each person intending to attend Please register the following delegate: Title (Dr/Mr/Ms etc).................................................. 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[ ] Please Invoice [ ] Bank Transfer - Please send necessary form Payment by Credit Card: Please debit .....................pounds from my Visa/Mastercard Card no:............................................. Expiry date: ........................................ Cardholder's name (as on card): ...................... Cardholder's address (to which statements are sent): .................................................................... .................................................................... Please return printed forms to Christine Merle, CPD Centre, University of Oxford, 67 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU, UK. Tel: +44 (1865) 288166 Fax: +44 (1865) 288163 to arrive NO LATER THAN AUGUST 15th 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jeff Finlay Subject: Ph.D in Humanities Computing Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 11:50:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 302 (302) [deleted quotation] The American Studies Program at University of Virginia has an MA program that is centered around hypertext and hypermedia publications as an expression of interdisciplinary scholarship. Alan Howard is the coordinator. See their fab website at http://xroads.virginia.edu for more info I think the English Dept at UVA has similar emphases. Other than this, I'm sure the rhetoric/composition programs at Michigan Tech, Texas Tech and some of the other well-known rhetoric schools have the kind of thing you are describing. Jeff Jeff Finlay, Administrator American Studies Crossroads Project http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads Need info about jobs, fellowships, conferences, neat resources? Check out http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: metaphors Date: Mon, 28 Jul 97 08:43:35 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 303 (303) Many years ago Heinz von Foerster warned us about the metaphors we use in speaking of information, data, knowledge. Have you noticed that the borders (if there ever were any) between these areas is blurring? Have you noticed the number of new metaphors? We now have data warehouses, data marts, data archaeology, data hygiene, data packaging, data mining, data migration, information brokering, knowledge workers, data clearinghouse, knowledge representation, etc., all terms for library, information storage and retrieval (to which Heinz objected), bibliography, cleanup, etc. Perhaps I could consider myself a data mole (you heard it here first). Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: either/or Date: Sun, 27 Jul 97 08:23:46 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 304 (304) I think that the problem of either/or has to do with concept formation and such things. I have always maintained that it was I who first said: "The problem is not that machines will come to think like human beings, it is that human beings will come to think like machines." Anyway a nice chiasm. The kind of yes/no but never maybe thinking has been pressed upon us from all sides: symbolic logic, set theory, computers. In fact, it was Claude Shannon's realization that switching theory and symbolic logic (in the form in which he studied it in the late thirties) were roughly isomorphic if not strictly isomorphic that gave much of the impetus for the first digital computers. But most of the concepts we humanists work with are not yes/no, digital, whatever, they are ambiguous, fuzzy, stippled spectrum, more so / less so, (non-)metrically ordered, ideal type, etc. concepts, such as dialect, language, medieval, ode, Shakespeare. By an as-if sort of thing which human beings do so well, we can pretend for some nefarious purposes, such as computerizing, that they are, but they are not. This situation has forced upon us such procrustean beds as authorship assignment by computer, dendrology by computer, and the like. It is not at all necessary to do this; we CAN have poly-valued computers. Cf. the collection of papers by Jon T. Butler, _Multiple-Valued Logic in VLSI Design_ (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991). Alternately, if we act as if dialect were an aristotelian concept for some purpose, we need to keep in mind that it is not in reality. One can act as if verb/adjective ratio were something amenable to quantification AND as if the result told us something about author attribution, but in the end one must realize that even `author' is not a well-defined, not to get into set theory, and that it is often quite hard to tell what is a verb and what is an adjective. Just try to parse what I am writing at this moment. Remember the ambiguities of doing sentence diagrams. Remember Chomsky! One of the outcomes of late 18th century / early 19th century Boolean thinking was Boolean algebra, another was the dendrology we see in Indo-European studies, in textual criticism (Lachmann school). To do one of these dry trees, one has to use either/or logic. It is either on one branch or the other, it cannot be on both. In practice, we cheat a lot, but dendrology requires the assumption of well-formed concepts without overlap and fuzzy borders. All of this has very little to do with Empson, the use of the number seven, and Cambridge logic. I had to read him as an undergraduate and came away with the feeling (I still have my term paper) that he didn't tell me much. We ought to know that much which we humanists do is profoundly ambiguous, fuzzy, etc. We need not be ashamed of this; it comes with the territory and is something to be proud of. ! Jim Marchand. From: "Paul R. Falzer" Subject: Re: 11.0190 either/or, both/and Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 14:43:20 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 305 (305) [The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] Willard, Regarding your remarks about Empson's thinking on ambiguity, I am reminded of section 352 of *Philosophical investigations*: "Here it happens that our thinking plays us a queer trick. We want, that is, to quote the law of excluded middle and to say: "Either such an image is in his mind, or it is not; there is no third possibility! The law of excluded middle says here: It must either look like this, or like that. So it really -- and this is a truism -- says nothing at all, but gives us a picture. And the problem ought now to be: does reality accord with the picture or not? And this picture *seems* to determine what we have to do, what to look for, and how -- but it does not do so, just because we do not know how it is to be applied. Here saying "There is no third possibility" or "But there can't be a third possibility!" expresses our inability to turn our eyes away from this picture: a picture which looks as if it must already contain both the problem and its solution, while all the time we *feel* that it is not so." I would only add that perhaps "both/and" is not the only alternative to "either/or," and that posing the two as complementary seems to illustrate the difficulty of turning away from the picture. In any case, I think that Wittgenstein's name can be added to the list of distinguished scientists and humanists who have addressed the problem -- though it may not be easy to classify him as one *or* the other. We could characterize his work as "both/and," but for what purpose? Paul R. Falzer From: John_Lavagnino@Brown.edu Subject: Re: 11.0190 either/or, both/and Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:06:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 306 (306) [deleted quotation] I have my doubts as to whether Empson really needed physics to spur his insights into poetry; I suspect that this is a case of science as rhetorically useful, to assist in making a case for an unusual though venerable way of seeing things, rather than as a direct inspiration (which is however something you can also find in Empson, especially in his poetry). My favorite comment of Empson's on science is from the 1955 foreword to his Collected Poems: By the way, I have been much disturbed by recent theories that the universe is not, after all, finite though unbounded, as the earlier poems here often require it to be; but I retain my confidence that the sane old views we were brought up upon will come back into favour. John Lavagnino ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Marta Steele Subject: either/or Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:50:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 307 (307) Willard, To trace some origins of this opposition (not THE origins, I'm sure), Kierkegaard titled what he considered to be the beginning of his authorship as _Either/Or_. The first volume, the writings of a young man, include _The Seducer's Diary_, which my employers (Princeton University Press) are bringing out as a separate volume forwarded by John Updike quite soon (n.b.: disappointingly, there is no actual seduction involved; SK "dumped" his fiancee/ in a panic over his intellectual future); in the second volume, Judge William writes the older friend's "or": the first volume collects the esthetic view of life, the second the ethical. I don't mean to sound too much like a jacket flap (from which I am quoting and paraphrasing), but the point is that SK leaves the resolution to his reader. until part iii, which appears in _Stages on Life's Way_: the third "existence-sphere" is the religious. This just to provide some background. I will not speculate on the nihilistic postscript he never did publish: _Neither/Nor_. Marta Steele PS: re my employers, the usual disclaimer: my opinions etc. bear no reflection on any attitudes or policies of PUPress. PPS: Volume 1 of _E/O_ actually gives some further background to the expression: the Latin aut/aut was used by Frederik Christian Sibbern in his review of Heiberg's _Perseus_ journal, in a discussion of the principle of contradiction: Mynster also used the phrase in his discussion of contradiction, in opposition to Hegel et al. (this, from p. x of the intro. to vol. I of _E/O_). So here are "official" contexts. One can joke that the Latin coordinating conjunctions existed far earlier as nothing more than that. From: Willard McCarty Subject: usefulness of either/or Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:20:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 308 (308) Marchand, Falzer and Lavagnino in Humanist 11.192 give thoughtful response to Bate's review of Empson's intellectual history and the question of the ambiguous. Like John I'm suspicious of any argument that sets up the humanities as reactive to core discoveries in the sciences. Could we call this "intellectual penis-envy"? To put the matter another way, there seems a prevalent sexism that sets the arts and humanities up as softly decorative, even sexy, but in doing so dismisses them from the real work of the hard sciences. Although it is possible that Empson was stimulated into thinking the way he did from hanging about other bright people who happened to be scientists, nevertheless it's difficult for me to accept that either/or froze the minds of everyone before. A false parallel here between intellectual development in the sciences and that in the humanities? What really interested me about the TLS piece was the possibility that it might provoke some thinking about the cultural change that directly concerns us here, that is, the intellectual shift brought about -- or more accurately represented -- by computing. Whether our mental ways can be programmed into a VLSI chip aside, the computers we have are either/or machines. What does it mean for either/or processing to become so culturally important at the very time when so many certainties have dissolved away or are crumbling, precisely when we are pushed more insistently than usual to realise fundamental ambiguities? Possibly, as Elaine Showalter argues in her book on hysteria, this has something to do with our millenarian circumstances. In any case, it's where we are. What opportunities does the moment present to us? I don't think our purposes need to be nefarious for us to take as a working assumption that either/or processing is at least useful. We know it's a seriously flawed model, but as we've shown over the last 50 years we can do some useful work with it, we can even get to some realisations about our materials that time and mortality made unreachable before. But we're terribly thick if we stop there. What about the failure of either/or? Is it our dirty secret or (as I keep arguing) one of the most powerful intellectual tools we have? And if the latter, then what? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: A. David Wunsch wunscha @woods.uml.edu Subject: ambiguity Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:23:58 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 309 (309) A friend sent me your piece on ambiguity that appeared in the Humanist Discussion Group Forum. It seems to me that there is much more ambiguity coming out of the special theory of relativity than there is in the quantum model of the atom. Is there any evidence that Empson was influenced by Einstein's work ? Yours A. David Wunsch Dept of Electrical Engineering U Mass Lowell Lowell MA 01854 wunscha @woods.uml.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Cindy Wambeam Subject: Re: 11.0191 Ph.D. in humanities computing Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:07:04 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 310 (310) [deleted quotation] The English Department at New Mexico State University offers a PhD in Rhetoric & Professional Communication that is very interdisciplinary, encouraging students to take courses outside of the department. Several doctoral students are focusing their studies on computers & the humanities -- some of us are looking at Internet communication, publishing on-line, hypertext, teaching with computers, visual rhetoric. Others are doing more with computer programming and linguistics, programming and program documentation, or programming and hypertext. As you can probably tell, we define our own areas of specialization. However, the department as a whole offers much for those interested in Rhetoric & Technology/Science. There are also two MAs, one in Rhetoric and one in Technical Communication, that encourage the same sort of interdisciplinary studies. You can find out more on our web site at: http://www.nmsu.edu/~english Other schools that I know of with similar PhD programs (in the U.S.) are Michigan Tech and Texas Tech. A variety of Technological Universities (like New Mexico Tech in Socorro) offer undergrad and MA programs that emphasize the connection between technology/computing and the humanities. Cindy _ ......................... ___(_) _ __ Cindy Wambeam : Oedipa, to retaliate,: / __| | '_ \ New Mexico State University : stopped believing: | (__| | | | | English department : in them: \___|_|_| |_|.......==>cwambeam@nmsu.edu<==....:.(The Crying of Lot 49): (http://scf.nmsu.edu/~cwambeam) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: bobevans Subject: All-in-one printer, scanner, copier Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:29:25 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 311 (311) I would appreciate any advice about purchasing an all-in-one printer, scanner, and copier. I have been looking at the HP OfficeJet Pro 1150 C, which is relatively new, and would welcome any comments on this or similar devices, especially those who may have used them. I am particularly interested in any opinions on the quality of the scanning. I need a device that has a flat-bed scanner rather than a sheet-fed model. Thanks for any help. Bob Evans bobevans@strudel.aum.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Sean Golden Subject: 4th International Conference on Translation Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:38:02 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 312 (312) 4th International Conference on Translation 25 years of Translation and Interpretation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Future Perspectives Faculty of Translation and Interpretation 6 - 8 May 1998 First Circular The 4th International Conference on Translation and Interpretation takes on special importance, coinciding as it does with the 25th anniversary of translation and interpretation studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the first university centre in Spain to introduce this discipline. The Conference will include three main sections: plenary sessions with guest speakers, papers and communications by conference members. Thematic areas of the 4th Conference: * Theory of translation * Specialised translation * History of translation * Audiovisual translation * Didactics of translation * Translation and new technology * Interpretation * Terminology * Literary translation In this 4th Conference priority will be given to future perspectives of research in each of the thematic areas and to research in the field of Catalan. A round table will be held entitled: "Les traduccions al català: models de llengua", moderated by Dr Francesc Parcerisas. The following speakers have confirmed their participation: Dr Daniel Gile (University of Lyons), Dr Albrecht Neubert (Emeritus Professor of the University of Leipzig), Dr Eugene A. Nida (American Bible Society), Dr Christiane Nord (University of Magdeburg), Dr Joaquim Mallafrè (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) and Dr J.A. Sager (UMIST, Manchester). The scientific committee is formed by Drs Anna Aguilar-Amat, Doris Ensinger, Joan Fontcuberta, Seán Golden, Amparo Hurtado, Francesc Parcerisas, Marisa Presas and the six invited speakers. Co-ordination: A. Aguilar-Amat, A. Hurtado and M. Orozco. Organising committee: M. Altimir, A. Beeby, E. Butterfield, D. Cinca, M. Conill, D. Ensinger, J. Minett, L. Molina, P. Orero, A. Pintori, J.M. Piqué, J. Sellent and J. Sureda Call for papers and communications All those interested in presenting communications and papers are invited to do so before 28 November 1997 at the address indicated below. Papers (40 minutes) and communications (20 minutes) should be summarised in writing (200 words) in English, French, German, Spanish or Catalan, indicating the area in which you wish to register and any special material you might need (video, O.H.P., computer, etc.). Papers and communications may be sent by e-mail to the following address: congres_ti@cc.uab.es, as an attached file (in accordance with the MIME standard) in Word, WP 5.1 or HTML format; the message will be acknowledged. The 4th Conference has the following WEB page: http: //cc.uab.es/congres_ti/ which contains further information. This may be used for pre-registration and papers and communications can be sent to it. Acceptance of papers and communications will be confirmed by the Conference Secretary before 31 January 1998 Registration fees: Students: 3.000 pesetas Other participants: 15.000 pesetas (before 15 April -18.000 pts after that date) Payment should be made by bank transfer to Title: Fourth International Conference on Translation Bank: Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona Branch: Universitat Autònoma Address: Edifici Rectorat. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) c/c: 02-001228-91 Pre-registration forms should be sent accompanied by proof of bank transfer to: Secretaria del Department de Traducció i d'Interpretació Facultat de Traducció i d'Interpretació (Edifici M-1) Campus Universitari s/n 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Tel: (93) 581 27 61/ 581 31 24; Fax (93) 581 2762 E-mail: congres_ti@cc.uab.es Pre-registration forms are available at http://cc.uab.es/congres_ti/ Sean Golden Dean of the Faculty Facultat de Traduccio i Interpretacio Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra, BARCELONA, Spain Tel: 34 3 5811374 FAX: 34 3 5811037 e-mail: sgolden@cc.uab.es From: David Green Subject: CONFERENCES Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:21:53 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 313 (313) New conferences added to the NINCH Calendar page, at <http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html>, include the following: * August 22 Coalition for Networked Information: New Learning Communities, Washington, DC * October 1-3 BUILDING THE GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, European Commission Brussels, Belgium * November 17-22 The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), Bethesda, MD * Feb 26-28, 1998 Consortium for School Networking (CoSN): K-12 School Networking '98 Washington, DC * April 1-3, 1998 EP98, 7th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography St Malo, France From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI '97 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:16:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 314 (314) [deleted quotation] [Sorry for possible duplicates] LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ESSLLI'97 European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information Aix-en-Provence, France (August 11-22, 1997) http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~esslli97 The ninth European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information will be held in Aix-en-Provence, France, from August 11 until August 22, 1997. ESSLLI has as its main focus the intersection of the areas of logic, linguistics, and computation. The programme includes courses, workshops and symposia covering a variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Language, Computation, Logic & Computation, Computation & Language, and Language & Logic. Courses are given at both introductory and advanced levels. [material omitted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Electronic Archives Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:50:46 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 315 (315) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 29, 1997 THE PRESERVATION OF DIGITIZED RECORDS AND REPRODUCTIONS In the context of continuing discussion and thought about the management and preservation of digital material come two related by separate policy statements, one from the Society of American Archivists and from the Australian Archives. The first is a statement of principles, recently approved by the Council of the SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS. The three-page "Statement on the Preservation of Digitized Reproductions," <http://www.archivists.org/governance/resolutions/digitize.html> covers the issues of preservation, selection, quality, integrity and access. Overall the document stresses the importance of considering and carrying forward the context of a document or object when it is digitized, the importance of an object's metadata accompanying the object throughout its digital history, and of the long-term care of an object through migration onto future generations of digital carriers. The second announcement concerns the release of the AUSTRALIAN ARCHIVES' policy document, "Managing Electronic Records - A Shared Responsibility" <http://www.aa.gov.au/AA_WWW/AA_Issues/ManagingER.html>. This is an update of a 1995 policy document and marks an increasing understanding of the importance of long-term care of electronic records and objects, from creation through migration. To quote from the Introduction: "The essential features of such an approach involve: * strategic management of electronic records; * the development and implementation of electronic recordkeeping systems; * the migration of electronic records, with their content, structure and context intact, across changes in software and hardware platforms." From: Willard McCarty Subject: cyberculture Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:19:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 316 (316) Some Humanists may not know about the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/>, run by a new member of this seminar, David Silver. It includes book reviews, interviews, course listings, listing of scholars, bibliography, conference listing, links, etc. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: David Green Subject: UNESCO World Information Report Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:33:57 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 317 (317) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 30, 1997 UNESCO WORLD INFORMATION REPORT RELEASED The first World Information Report has just been published by UNESCO. This 390-page volume provides a comprehensive and topical worldwide picture of archive, library and information services on the five continents in 1996. It is divided into three parts: In Part 1, libraries and information services, together with archives, are presented in 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular region; audiovisual archives are the subject of one worldwide chapter. Part 2 reviews the infrastructures for information work with 5 chapters devoted to computer developments, multimedia technologies, telecommunication technologies, the Internet, and design criteria for large library buildings. Part 3 offers 8 chapters in which a number of issues and trends are discussed: the information society, information highways, economic intelligence, book publishing, access to archival holdings and unique library materials, presentation of archival holdings and unique library materials, copyright in the electronic age, international co-operation and assistance. The report is edited by Yves Courrier (UNESCO) and ASIS member Andrew Large (GSLIS, McGill). The 32 authors were drawn from a variety of countries, but most authors in part 2 and 3 are from the industrialized countries. Of the 27 chapters of the report, nine are available online, together with an Introduction, at <http://www.unesco.org/cii/wirerpt/vers-web.htm>. The online chapters are as follows: Introduction, by Yves Courrier and Andrew Large; Part One, INFORMATION SERVICES WORLDWIDE: Ch 2: South Asia; Ch 8: Latin America and the Caribbean; Ch 10 The Arab States, Ch 11 Africa; PART TWO: INFRASTRUCTURES: Ch 17 Telecommunications Technologies; Ch 18 The Internet; PART THREE ISSUES & TRENDS: Ch 21 Information Highways; Ch 26 Copyright in the Electronic Age; ch 27 International Co-operation and Assistance. Those wishing to pursue issues raised in the report may join a listserv at: Orders for the 275FF Report may be made through UNESCO Publishing at <http://www.unesco.org/publishing/jp2.html#88d6bfd0208436f80a471d3fdd1cc76b> Below, I include the opening "Presentation" from the report "The World Information Report provides a worldwide picture of archive, library and information services in 1996. This sourcebook not only covers in detail the state of the art of archive, library and information services in the five continents, but also addresses the most challenging issues that they face at the dawn of the twenty-first century. "A thorough review of the world of information, from East to West and from North to South, is offered in Part I. For the first time , a general picture covering both developed and developing countries describes: national archives, libraries and information centres; school, university and public libraries; national and international networks; database producers; professional associations and education; public and private institutions providing all sorts of information services. Tables and figures synthesize the data available region by region. "The Part II deals with the basic technical components of information work, which are presented in the form of state-of-the-art reports. Computers, telecommunication and multimedia technologies, and Internet together with library buildings are accordingly reviewed from an information perspective. "Part III is concerned with issues and trends of relevance to information provision. Crucial problems such as the future of books and copyright, access to archives, preservation of the archival heritage, and international co-operation and assistance are presented for the benefit of the layman. Prevailing trends leading to the twenty-first century's information world are covered in chapters such as The Information Society, Information Highways, and Economic Intelligence. "Prepared by UNESCO, which secured the contribution of the best specialists from all over the world, the World Information Report is an instrument of both diagnosis and decision. It will provide decision-makers, government officials, information professionals and the public at large with a better understanding of the information world as it is today and a more acute insight of what it will be tomorrow. " =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Diane Whitehouse (5) Subject: HCC5 - Call Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 318 (318) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP/TC9 5TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN CHOICE AND COMPUTERS COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION GENEVA AUGUST 1998 Dear Colleagues and To whom it may concern, The IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing http://www.ifip.or.at) Technical Committee 9 (http://www.uta.fi/jarjestot/ifip/) is preparing a World Conference on Implications of new Information Technologies: The fifth Conference on "Human Choice and Computers" (HCC5) on COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION (Web site : http://www.hec.unil.ch/hcc5/) This Event will take place in Switzerland (Geneva) from 26 to 28 August 1998 (Tutorials, Working Groups Meeting, get together, 25 August), organized by the Inforge (http://www.hec.unil.ch/inforge/) from Lausanne University Business School (http://www.hec.unil.ch) In a particularly choatic period with a lot of social, economic, political and ethical problems, that Conference must be a most interesting and challenging event to cross intercultural perceptions and examine the issues to be settled for the next Millenium in relation with Informatics, Computer Science, Networks and Information Systems. As wide field of disciplines are concerned, the Programme and Organizing Committees, hope for large scientific contributions from non-computer research fields ie Sociology, Economy, Law, Politics, Business, Electronic Commerce, etc. The main topics of that Conference will covered: Methodological Paradigms and Shifts : Virtual Reality, Multimedia, Cyberspace, Information and Communication Infrastructures National and Regional Developments of Information Infrastructures Role of Work in Information Societies : Experiences and Perspectives Human Rights in Information Societies and Role of Groups with Special Needs Home Informatics and Telematics Threats to Information Economies and Societies: Legal Implications Information Societies in Historical Perspective Role of Education in Information Societies and Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Education Impact of Global InformationInfrastructures on Democracy and Culture Economic changes induced by Globalization Emerging organisational forms such as virtual organisations" Towards an Ethics of Information Societies and Cyberspace Informatics, Telematics & Automation Virtual Worlds - Applications and Social Implications Women, Work and Computerization Gender and Information Technology Accepted papers will be published with an official editor of IFIP SUBMISSION PROCEDURE The HCC-5 Programme Committee invite the submission of research papers, case studies, research-in-progress articles, panel session proposals to the Fifth World Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC-5). IMPORTANT DATES January 5 1998 : Deadline for submission February 11, 1998 : Paper Selection April 6, 1998 : Final Papers LANGUAGE English The original, unpublished papers, limited to 10-12 pages should be submitted electronically (Microsoft Word) : E-mail : iqlbr@cbs.dk If not possible, send your disk ( or paper) to the address of the Programme Committee Chairman : Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN Address for submission : Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN Project Centre CESAR Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Science Park SYMBION Fruebjergvej 3 DK-2100 COPENHAGEN 0 Denmark Phone : +45 39 17 98 66 Fax :+45 39 17 98 63 E-mail : iqlbr@cbs.dk See our Web site to get all other detailed informations : http://www.hec.unil.ch/hcc5/ We would appreciate if you could forward this announcement to your interested colleagues and within your own scientific networks. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN and Prof. Silvio Munari Chair of Programme Committee and Chair of Organizing Committee ----------------------------------------------------------------- Professeur Silvio MUNARI e-mail: Silvio.Munari@hec.unil.ch HEC-INFORGE Tel: ++41.21/692.34.01 University of Lausanne Fax: ++41.21/692.34.05 CH - 1015 Lausanne ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: Re: 11.0190 either/or, both/and Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:43:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 319 (319) Willard, I was intrigued that respondants to your posting about [loss of text here, for what reason I do not understand... WM] chose to address the "outer" subject line "either/or both/and". The direction of that particular discursive syntagm (either/or to both/and, Aristotle to Boole, the excluded middle to the fuzzy edge) intrigues me because it is often paired with an ascription of the digital to the cultural and the analog to the natural with the attendent valuations placed on such pairings. Very often, an implicit choice of the form EITHER either/or OR both/and functions in the discourse as the prelude to the inscription of a tale of progress, a movement from the simple to the complex. "Ambiguity" can be an indication of complexity. At a certain meta-level, there exists a decision either to apply or not to apply a "both/and" logical operation. To what is that "both/and" operation applied? The results of at least two either/or operations. The either/or operations can succeed each other temporally: An either/or operation leads to one result. An either/or operation is reiterated and leads to a second result. The "both/and" operation is applied to the results. The objection may be raised that the either/or operation can either be applicable or not. That would mean that a single attempted either/or operation would lead to a possible "both/and" operation. An appeal to the recursivity of frames could help make the claim that the single attempt of the application of an either/or operator requires at a meta-level another either-or operator to judge its applicability. Of course the foregoing seems to assume that "comparison" is primitive. However the movement between results and application of an operation (or for those familiar with Turing machines between states and instructions) seems to assume that "connection" is primitive. This is could be a replay of the semantics versus syntax debate. If it is, then is there something more primitive than either comparison or connection, something about semiotic artefacts that is neither semantic nor syntactic? Perhaps this is the wrong question. Perhaps the question to ask is how cognitive models offered by cybernetics yield an understanding of semiotic artefacts as objects in motion and subject to a variety of operations. And an other question might be about the sociology of knowledge -- how is it that certain cultural and ideological assumptions about the fluidity of semiotic objects affect the acceptance of cybernetic models of cognitive activity? Perhaps there is more than one question to ask and more than one way of connecting their asking. One could be more categorical about investigative pluralism. It is good. It leaves room for a certain primitive "ifyness". -- Francois From: Marta Steele Subject: either/or? Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:54:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 320 (320) Willard, Please print this only if you think it adds anything substantive to the discussion. Re the dichotomy you draw between humanities and the sciences, I have to say that I think the "top" of all intellectual pursuits converge into the same irrational quest/answer. Call it the vaste and horrifying edifice of the Great Unknown, call it Truth, or Metaphysics - i.e., philosophy transcending science even as it reinterprets it and reexpresses it. In the person of someone like Hans Christian Oersted, there was so much said about both pursuits, blending them and separating them as needed - his is a laudable and inspiring synthesis. We are publishing his collected scientific works one of these days, within which, even minus the humanistic writings, there was a lot for this poet/classicist to glean, gratefully. As usual the disclaimer, don't blame my employers for any of my opinions - they are strictly my own, though I learn a great deal from my editing experiences here. With best wishes, as always, Marta Steele From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: 11.0195 either/or Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:19:51 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 321 (321) Curiously, there was a slightly relevant thread on the French Language discussion list France_Langue recently. Someone commented on the recent appearance of the expression "et/ou" in French, saying that it was an anglicism. The French _ou_, unlike "or" in English, is inclusive and thus _et/ou_ is redundant. _Prenez-vous du lait ou du sucre dans votre café?_ does not preclude taking both, which, in English, only semantics tell us is a legitimate reply. I wonder if there might have been some slapdash translations of German and French writings... Incidentally, Latin makes the distinction between _aut_ and _vel_. Is it unique in this respect? François C-R From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 11.0195 either/or Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:55:36 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 322 (322) You write: [deleted quotation] Speak for yourself! And of course we must ask, between the sciences and the humanities, who is envying whom? Something to ponder! Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 512-477-7213 Language Technology, Inc. 512-477-7351 (fax) 2415 Griswold Lane mdharris@acm.org Austin, TX 78703 mdharris@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: VaniaCascio Subject: looking for a grant for a PhD. in Computer & Humanities Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:25:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 323 (323) Dear C&H friends, Do you know about any funding opporunities (grants, scholarships, EU projects, etc) for an European (Italian) student (M.A. in Applied linguistics) keen on undertaking a PhD. in Computer & Humanities (Main research interests: Electronic publishing; Translation Studies and Multimedia). Thanks in advance Vania Cascio ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Maurizio Oliva Subject: Re: 11.0197 printer+scanner+copier? Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:24:18 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 324 (324) On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] If your top priority among the different functions is scanning, then the HP OfficeJet Pro 1150 C is the way to go. There is nothing comparable around, at least for the 1,000 USD price range and the 1150 is the only one that operates on a flat bed. About two months ago the OfficeJet was banned in Singapore because the quality of the copies exceeds some governmental standards. If you have other priorities, such as message center functionality, FAX and PC FAX capabilities (the OfficeJet Pro does lacks them), then you should look into the Brothers 6500 or 7500. The Brothers do not do color though. The lowest cost solution is the HP OfficeJet 350 (gray scale). They have the reputation to wear out fast, and they are slow as compared to laser engines. The Canon BJ2500 is an interesting machine. It prints color, if you are ready to wait 3-4 minutes for one page. I personally own a Brothers, after having toyed with the idea of purchasing an HP 1150. Its operation is simple and reliable, I strongly recommend it. On the other hand. I am looking into buying a digital camera for scanning and other purposes. You can get an Olympus DL-200 for 500 USD and it allows you to have images of acceptable quality that can later be processed by OCR software. It fits in your pocket. It gives you several imaging solutions for different situations. If I had the money I would go for the Kodak DS 120, which allows higher resolution and better image quality, but especially provides for an uncompressed image option (avoiding lossy JPG compression). Maurizio Everything I said about digital cameras will be old and unreliable in a matter of three to four months. As far as multifunction peripherals are concerned. Things will take longer to change. Maurizio Oliva, Director Multimedia Language Lab Denison University Box M Granville, OH 43023 Tel. 614 587-6643 FAX: 587-6417 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Rita Wilson <099RITA@muse.arts.wits.ac.za> Subject: Re: conference announcement - please post Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 09:07:46 GMT + 2:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 325 (325) Apologies for any cross-posting FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS THE SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY FOR GENERAL LITERARY STUDIES (SAVAL) BIENNIAL MAIN CONGRESS HOSTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG A SENSE OF SPACE 2-5 JUNE 1998 An international, interdisciplinary conference will be held at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg from Tuesday 2 June to Friday 5 June 1998. The theme of the Congress, "A Sense of Space" aims to attract scholars from a wide range of disciplines and to stimulate debate around "the spatial forms and fantasies through which a culture declares its presence" (Paul Carter). Proposals are invited for papers addressing the conference theme and related areas. Topics could include: Narrative Metaphors: Labyrinths, Mazes, Worlds Architectural space, Landscapes Images and Realities Nation, Space, Identities Utopias Travel Writing Colonial Space, Centres, Peripheries, Boundaries Spatiality: Subjectivity, Metaphysical Theatrical and Visual space Cyberspace Translation, Transgression, Transposition Psychoanalysis Social Space The Congress will be held back to back with the AGM and seminar of the South African Translators' Institute (SATI). This offers a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary discussion. Interdisciplinary papers between these two fields are encouraged (this would apply particularly to literary translation). Papers should not exceed 30 minutes. Those wishing to present papers at the Congress are invited to send a provisional title and a brief synopsis not later than 1 NOVEMBER 1997. Your paper will be scheduled in an appropriate session. Papers delivered at the Congress will appear in published Proceedings. These will also be made available on the Internet via the SAVAL homepage. Proposals and enquiries should be addressed to: Rita Wilson or Carlotta von Maltzan Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Private Bag 3 WITS 2050 Phone: (+27 11) 716 3270 or (+27 11) 716 3426 Fax: (+27 11) 403 7289 E-mail: 099rita@muse.arts.wits.ac.za or 120car@muse.arts.wits.ac.za The University of the Witwatersrand is located in the largest metropolitan area and the industrial and commercial heart of South Africa. Wits is recognised both nationally and internationally for the quality of its graduates and its excellence in teaching, research and service to society. It has a longstanding commitment to university autonomy, academic freedom and non-discrimination. The Congress will be centred on the university's West Campus, located only minutes from Johannesburg's city centre. Full details of the Congress, including registration forms, will be forwarded at a later stage but any general enquiries now should be addressed to the Convener of the Organising Committee, c/o The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the above address. SAVAL (The South African Society for General Literary Studies) is an important interdisciplinary forum for general literary discussion, especially in the areas of literary theory and comparative literature. While most of its membership has been traditionally drawn from Departments of English and Afrikaans, at present it has 250 members from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from Theology to Romance Literatures. SAVAL (the acronym is derived from the Afrikaans name of the Society) is affiliated to the International Comparative Literature Association. SAVAL members regularly participate in activities of the ICLA. SAVAL is in fact in the final stages of a bid to host the 2000 ICLA Congress. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rita Wilson Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Private Bag 3, WITS 2050 Tel: +27 11 7163270 Fax: +27 11 4037289 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 11.0194 metaphors Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:38:27 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 326 (326) Notice, however, that the term data is an adjective, and all these figures or semimetaphors are part of the etherealization of human consciousness, as it relies on powerful machines to represent itself to itself. Nothing too bad there, or harmful. Better information retrieval than learning or wisdom retrieval? That etherealization was put religiously in a way by Teilhard about 1960 or so, and he thought it was a religious sort of thing, evolutionarily speaking. Mystics in Silicon, as 'twere. Who knows, it maybe so? Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: Code problems/archiving Date: Fri, 1 Aug 97 10:39:08 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 327 (327) This is a grumble, not a call for help, unless it be looked upon as a call for help on the part of our profession. These may be anecdotes, but they are literally true: 1. I just received an e-mail from a Spanish friend of mine. Every extended ASCII character was represented as =FNumber or symbols to that effect. Not a real problem, though I have another friend whose name I do not know, since the last letter of his name is =ENum. I don't have a conversion routine for such things, so I guess I will write one. Grumble, grumble. 2. When working with out library, I always capture my sessions, and get a capfile.out in ASCII and can do what I want with it. Now, my capfile.out is filled with escape codes of the form <-[[ etc. (you know what I mean). I do not have a scrubber for them; I guess I will write one, if I can remember my ANSI. Grumble, grumble. 3. I have inherited a very useful book catalog written in ProCite 2.1 on a Mac, and I am a PC freak. Even if it weren't there would be conversion problems. 4. I received a bunch of .tif files of manuscript pages the person wants me to work with. My graphics browser tells me that they are not proper .tif files. Probably have to debug them and put in good headers. 5. When calling libraries from home, I have always used lynx (a library does not usually come in pictures, especially if you want bibliography). My library, for its own secret reasons, does not permit interrogating databases with lynx; you must use netscape. From home?! 6. I just received a mime-encoded message. When I extracted it, it needed to be unzipped. After being unzipped, it had a self-extracting .exe file, which put out things that had to be installed in Windows 3.1. Enough of this. I overcame, mit Muehe und Not, as we Germans put it, all these problems, but it took some time and, on occasions, a little ingenuity. I have little of either. What we need is at least an attempt to standardize on the part of our nurturers/providers. We need conversion programs, of course, to convert between platforms, but we also need conversion routines for other things. How do you convert those great big disks? Can anybody read them? It is getting where no one can even read 5 1/4s. How about old tapes? I have not even gotten into things such as encoding foreign languages; I thought Unicode was going to save us, but nobody seems to use it much. These are not always frivolous problems. How about the mag tapes and paper tapes, not to mention the punch cards (and edge-punched cards) or yesteryear? We have the same problem I have converting my old 78s to something that a modern machine will play. Or what do you do with old tapes? I just saw about 100 of them on a junk pile outside of my building. I have kept my old tape recorder just so I could read the Zwirner tapes at 3 1/4. Que faire? ! Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: counterfactuals Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 21:17:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 328 (328) In his review of Niall Ferguson's collection of essays, Virtual History: Alternatives and counterfactuals, J. M. Roberts notes that "the fiction that things could have been otherwise often seems in some sense to illuminate what actually happened" ("Putting the What if? in history", TLS 4922 1 Aug 97 p. 6). The common-sense objection, that things turned out as they did, and so it is useless to speculate on what might have happened had conditions been different, obscures the contingencies in things. "Had Louis XVI been able to show more political flair, we reflect, the French Revolution might have taken a different course; no doubt he could not have behaved differently given the persistence of other facts in the equation (the identity of his family and advisers, for example), but that seems somehow only to focus our attention on such matters as the contingency of those facts and the particular degrees of personal responsibility, unless we assume some genetic or psychological determinism in that well-meaning and unhappy monarch." Roberts adds that "Much historical study" -- and, I would add, much of what happens in all the other disciplines of the humanities -- "is conversation, implicit or explicit, and counterfactuals can feed it usefully." They do so not only by recovering the living moment but also by putting what is not against what is, imagination against fact, and so allowing us better to understand the nature of each through its contrary. Is this not what we do with computing? With it we put what can be demonstrated against what we know but cannot say how. This seems to me like the frontier of knowledge, like what scholarship is all about. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: AHDS Invitation for System Bids Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:29:27 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 329 (329) **Final invitation to tender. AHDS Systems Operation Requirements** Apologies for cross posting. AHDS Systems Operational Requirement. Final statement of requirements and invitation to tender for the supply and support of a suite of networked information discovery and retrieval, and user registration, authentication, and resource ordering systems. This document is now available from the AHDS's web pages at <http://ahds.ac.uk/>. Full proposals for any system or systems detailed in this document must be submitted to the AHDS Executive by 5pm on 5 September 1997. Vendors interested in tendering to supply any one or several of the systems detailed in the document are invited to an open meeting to be held at 11am on 18 August 1997 in King's College London. Those interested in attending the meeting should contact Julie Wilson by 5pm on 13 August 1997 (Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive, King's College London, Library, London, WC2R 2LS, UK, phone: (0)171 873-5075, fax: (0)171 873-5080, email: julie.c.wilson@ahds.ac.uk). Daniel Greenstein Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service, Executive King's College London, Library Strand, London WC2R 2LS phone/fax: +44 (0)171 873-2445 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Gary Shawver Subject: Bibliographic query Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 14:51:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 330 (330) Dear HUMANISTs I would really like to get a copy of Akiyuki Jimura's "Chaucer's Use of 'Soth' and Fals' in The House of Fame" published in *Philologia* 23 (1991): 11-35, a publication of Mie University, Japan. The interlibrary loan librarian tells me she can't get it here. If anyone out there has access to the article, please contact me. I'm willing to pay postage and reproduction costs for the article. Gary Shawver ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "J. Trant" Subject: ICHIM 97 WORKSHOPS: Reminder, advance registration required Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 17:32:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 331 (331) Please excuse any duplication and forward as appropriate. *** ICHIM 97 *** September 1-5, 1997 *** *** le Musee du Louvre *** Paris, France *** Held by Archives & Museum Informatics, Europe, in partnership with le musee du Louvre, and in association with l'ecole du Louvre, the fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity takes place September 1-5, 1997. Full details for an exciting series of pre-conference workshops are now available on the ICHIM97 Web site . Two days of pre-conference workshops, September 1-2, 1997 offer opportunities for professional development the following areas: September 1, 1997 1. Systematic Design of Hypermedia Applications Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Paolo Paolini (University of Lecce, Italy) 2. Looking at new software architectures and their application to digital images. Brieuc Segalen (Directeur de la societe Briq, specialisee en Realite Virtuelle, France) 3. Current State of Museum Information Standards Alain Michard (Aquarelle, France) 4. Issues in Multilingual Terminology Work Theory and Practice Murtha Baca and Pat Young (Getty Information Institute, USA) 5. Copyright and other IPR concerns: What Progress? Jeremy Rees (IVAIN, UK) and Emanuella Giavarra (European Copyright User Platform, ECUP) September 2, 1997 6. Strategies for Museum Multimedia Delivery Peter Samis (SFMOMA, USA), Larry Friedlander (Stanford University, USA) and Xavier Perrot (AMIE, France) 7. Mapping Web Sites Paul Kahn (Dynamic Diagrams, USA) 8. Systematic Evaluation of Hypermedia Applications Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Paolo Paolini (University of Lecce, Italy) 9. Designing for Humans: big and small Slavko Milekic (Hampshire College, USA) 10. Multimedia Tools Katherine Jones Garmil (Peabody Museum, Harvard University, USA) Pre-registration is necessary for all workshops. Please return the registration form, available at: For further information, and full program details, visit the conference web site, or contact Archives & Museum Informatics at info@archimuse.com See you in Paris! jt -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museums Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: brief handover Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 22:09:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 332 (332) Dear Colleagues: I'm off for the better part of a week, to a place about 50 miles from Carmarthen, Wales, to stay with a friend, hike and be totally out of touch. In the interim, Humanist is passing into the hands of my capable assistant editor, David Gants (English, Georgia -- USA, that is). I am reminded of one of the first bouncing-mail crises in the early days of Humanist, when a certain computational linguist went away on vacation, setting his mailer automatically to reply with a note saying that he would be away, and I think specifying some exotic location. This was before Humanist was moderated, so each reply from the mailer generated a Humanist message, which in turn provoked another reply from the mailer, and so on. Each message, quoting the previous one, grew longer with the repetitions. One Humanist, after this growing message was automatically repeated several times, complained that the fellow really didn't need to boast so much! But a little boasting adds a kind of primitive tang to our rarified seminar, don't you think? Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: watching the net Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 11:35:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 333 (333) Dear Colleagues: There are few places in the world outside Silicon Valley, I would suppose, where computing is regularly front-page news, but the attention paid to our subject by the Guardian, 8 time-zones and many thousands of miles away from there, is remarkable. I trust that my habit of reporting on the Guardian Online section, which comes out each Thursday and which usually can be devoured in the time it takes to travel on the District line from Mile End to Temple, is not boring you. Should anyone else discover a useful source of information, tips and amusements related to computing, he or she is most welcome to report on it as well. 1. Jack Scofield's "Netwatch" has, this time, a number of intriguing items listed in it, e.g. (a) Dormant accounts held in Swiss banks -- a serious issue for those affected, of course, but it is also an interesting example of accessibility to information that formerly would have been rather hard for you and I to get. Scofield's URL, www.dormantaccounts.ch, doesn't work from here (DNS lookup fails), which I find curious given where Scofield presumably works from, but a quick flex of AltaVista did turn up the Swiss Rechtsanwaelte, von Erlach &al., <http://www.vonerlach.ch/>. (b) The Freepages directory, <http://www.freepages.co.uk/>, to find businesses in the U.K., with cinema guide, etc. Also an amusing animated GIF -- esp. given the recent discussion -- of the expression "and/or". (c) NYBooks, "The Website for the intellectually curious", <http://www.nybooks.com/>. Contains links to Reader's Catalog Online (ok, only promised, but worth waiting for, it would seem), "the entire Reader's Catalog database, annotated and illustrated, will be made available, as well as a wide-ranging database of over three hundred thousand other titles, virtually every book *really* available in the country [i.e. U.S.]"; New York Review of Books. The archive now contains 11 recent issues (February through July of this year) plus the first issue: "This special exhibition of our first issue inaugurates an ambitious archival project at The New York Review: the digital conversion of our entire 34-year publishing history. Over the next three years, The New York Review archives will be making back issues available electronically, in monthly increments. All archival articles will be exactly as they appeared in print and presented in an easily downloaded or printed form." Scofield notes that about half the current issue is there too. (d) About-Face, <http://www.about-face.org/>, "About-Face is a grassroots effort dedicated to combating negative and distorted images of women and promoting alternatives through education and action - and humor." Very effective design too. (e) Unicef report, "The Progress of Nations", <http://www.unicef.org/pon97/>. "The Progress of Nations charts the advances made since the 1990 World Summit for Children, at which governments pledged to take specific steps to improve the lives of their children." (f) Jonathan Inglis memorial Web site, <http://inglis.custard.co.uk/>, maintained by his colleagues as a memorial after his death at age 46 in a cycling accident. He was a graphic artist, "one of the first exponents of electronic art in the early eighties using Basic and a BBC-B computer". 2. Douglas Rushkoff, "Before the flood", about the new device marketed by the American branch of Sega, the Sega Saturn console, "a fully fledged TV-based Internet browser and online service". "As potentially radical as the first connection of computer and telephone, videogame access to the Internet invites an entirely new audience on to the Web, and invites a whole new style of browsing.... Think of it: millions of kids who previously used their control pads and keyboards as little more than grenade launchers will be unleashed on the Net." Indeed, just think of it. Some, when they do, are deeply disturbed about the shift of focus toward entertainment. "But more people in our real world are interested in playing games with their technology than discussing libertarianism, greenhouse gases, or Ram cache. And in a sense, we snooty intellectuals have been getting a relatively free ride all along, benefitting from the backbone and servers put in place by businesses who have seen little, if any, return on their investment." Did we want an audience for our work? Is this an opportunity, or what? There's more, of course, but I'm through with transcribing for now. One final, suggestive note. If you want to get a taste for how topical the Web can be, and how hot, try searching for "post traumatic stress disorder", "Gulf War syndrome", or "recovered memory". It might be interesting, though it would be very risky, to use such material in class, e.g. to teach a unit in text-analysis. Also interesting and less risky would be the material dredged up by searching for "tobacco" and "smoking". Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Pinaula Subject: Re: 11.0210 grumbling code Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 18:02:45 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 334 (334) I read Jim Marchand's grumblings with appreciation, as I and, I'm sure, many others have encountered similar problems in the past. With the prevalent forces that drive the computer industry, however, it seems doubtful we'll see the benefits of standardization any time soon. Innovation and technological evolution seem largely driven by the commercial marketplace and it is often elements of nonstandardization that mark one product from its competition. The recent development of HTML and Java comes to mind as an example of this phenomenon. HTML has long had a standard, albeit an evolving one, for the very reasons of multiplatform compatability and interchangeability Jim notes. One doesn't have to go far back in one's memory, however, to recall the enhancements to the standard Netscape and MIcrosoft both implemented as a way to add value and differentiation to their browsers. This attempt at innovation and added marketplace appeal subverts standardization, but often achieves the economic goals each corporation hopes to reach. How many of us have been guilty of implementing these nonstandard features on our Web pages, fully aware that doing so flies in the face of the universal exchangeability the Web might promise? This appeal of enhancement through nonstandardization continues to subvert standards today, perhaps best manifested in the need for a "100% Pure Java" campaign to stem the tide of performance-enhancing "tweaks" that defeat the multiplatform promise of Java. It's equally apparent that these forces are at work in the development of hardware. Removable storage media is in the midst of a period of nonstandardization that will not shake out until the marketplace has had its say. Will the next portable storage standard be that of Iomega, Syquest, the LS-120 group or one which hasn't yet made itself apparent? A de facto standard exists for portable storage media, but how can the capacity of a 1.44Mb floppy hope to hold off the onslaught of the 100Mb+ nonstandard media on the market now? It seems to me that nonstandardization to some degree is the price we pay for innovation and development, one which will continue to be exacted so long as marketplace competition drives research and development dollars on the corporate level. David Pinaula English Department 421 Greenlaw Hall, CB # 3520 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 USA pinaula@email.unc.edu Public Encryption Key 0xD921B79B ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ross Subject: Retiarius Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 08:01:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 335 (335) Announcing RETIARIUS: An electronic journal devoted to the study of post-antique Latin language and literature from the end of the Roman empire to the present day. Submissions are now invited. Each issue of RETIARIUS will be published only in electronic form on the World Wide Web. No hard copies will be issued. Readers, of course, may print for themselves any part of RETIARIUS which especially interests them. RETIARIUS will be published once a year. Latin (simple, clear, grammatically correct Latin) is the required language for all contributions. Each issue of RETIARIUS will be divided into two parts. The first part will be comprised of ÔcreativeÕ writing in Latin: verses, essays, short-stories. The second part will be exclusively devoted to the philological study of post-antique Latin texts. For this part of the journal we will consider articles on the linguistic and/or literary features of medieval and modern Latin texts, critical editions of shorter Neo-Latin works, articles proposing emendations, additions, or other improvements to already published editions of post-antique Latin works We will also consider book reviews, but we are not in a position to send out new copies of books to potential contributors. Instead we ask those interested to send us the texts of their reviews, which will be considered according to the same criteria as other submissions. An international editorial board will evaluate all submissions to RETIARIUS. Among the editors are experts in Latin philology, with specialities in the late antique, medieval, humanist and modern periods. Also among the editors are several authors of non-academic material in Latin. For further details, see: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/retiarius/ or contact Terry Tunberg (clatot@pop.uky.edu) From: Willard McCarty Subject: 1997 Conference on Editorial Problems Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 12:40:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 336 (336) COMPUTING THE EDITION: Problems in Editing for the Electronic Medium 7-9 November 1997 University College University of Toronto <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html> Convenors: Willard McCarty (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London) Fred Unwalla (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto) Conference Co-ordinator: Jennifer Forbes (Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto) The Conference on Editorial Problems, founded in 1964, holds annual conferences to examine methods of editing texts. Attendance usually consists of approximately 60 to 100 professional academic editors, together with delegates from publishing houses, granting agencies, and elsewhere. The invited papers are collected into a Conference volume published in time for the next Conference. Thirty-one volumes are now in print or in the Press, the most recent volumes from the University of Toronto Press. The objective of the 33rd annual Conference is to examine the practice of editing as it is shaped by the electronic medium, and to explore the practicality of the opportunities and the problems that come from their implementation. Papers from 7 invited speakers will be followed by a panel of Toronto scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. The speakers are Julia Flanders (Brown), "Data or Wisdom? Electronic editing, empiricism, and the quantification of knowledge John Lavagnino (Brown), "Access" Jerome McGann (Virginia), "The Contradictory Imperatives of Eye and Mind" Peter Robinson (De Montfort, Oxford), "The Canterbury Tales Project and other electronic editions: where next? Peter Shillingsburg (Mississippi), "The Dank Cellar of Electronic Texts" C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Illinois at Chicago), "Why You Should Not Teach Your Edition How to Swim" Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford), "The Real Presences of Texts" The panelists are Andrew Hughes (Music), Alex Jones (Classics), Ian Lancashire (English, panel chair), Keren Rice (Linguistics), Gary Shawver (Medieval Studies), Jens Wollesen (Fine Art History), Russon Wooldridge (French). Unlike previous Conferences, "Computing the Edition" will be published in two versions: one on paper, for the volume from the University of Toronto Press, the other designed for the electronic medium. The number of attendees is strictly limited, so early registration is highly recommended. Details about the 1997 Conference, including a registration form and information on hotels and the amenities of Toronto may be found at the 1997 Conference Web site, <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html>. Enquiries are welcome, to . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: update on the William Blake Archive Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 10:45:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 337 (337) The editors of the William Blake Archive -- Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi -- are pleased to announce that The Book of Thel, copy F, is now online in searchable form. This may seem a modest achievement, given that this is one of Blake's shorter works, and that its eight plates (with enlargements and accompanying transcriptions) have already been available on the site since November of 1996. In fact, however, this copy of The Book of Thel is a prototype for all future works to be added to the Archive (both illuminated books and other materials), and its appearance reflects the architecture and objectives of the Archive as they have taken shape over many months of development, testing, and refinement. Unlike its previous version, and unlike the other illuminated books currently available in the Archive, this copy of Thel has been tagged using SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). SGML tagging offers the Archive's users the opportunity to perform sophisticated searches, either on the text of the plates, or, more remarkably, on the content of their illustrations. Search results are retrieved and presented using DynaWeb, a product of the Inso Corporation. The text and image searching enabled by DynaWeb and the underlying SGML tagging is a powerful demonstration of the potential of electronic resources in the humanities. However, there's more. Users with Java-capable browsers can now make use of Inote, Java-based software developed at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, to assist them in their study of the Archive's visual materials. Users may employ Inote to examine editorial annotations of a given image independently of a search, or else, following a successful image search, Inote may be used to open the image, zoomed to the specific area containing the object of the search, together with the relevant editorial commentary. This is IATH's first public implementation of Inote, and its release marks a major advance for image-based electronic editing. Users with Java-capable browsers can also take advantage of a second, equally innovative Java program developed at IATH, the ImageSizer. This is a feature that allows one to view Blake's plates and images at their true size, reproducing the object's actual physical dimensions on the screen, regardless of the resolution of a particular monitor; indeed, users can calibrate this feature to consistently display the Archive's images at whatever proportions they may wish. Finally, the Archive's selective bibliography of criticism, reference materials, and standard editions, with about 500 entries, is now available. We hope to have the bibliography searchable by the end of the summer. We also hope to have David V. Erdman's Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake online and searchable by that same time. In the coming weeks and months we will turn our attention to placing other illuminated books online in searchable form, following on the model of The Book of Thel, copy F. We will begin with the other copies of Thel (copies H and O), as well as copies of Visions of the Daughters of Albion (copies C and J) now publicly available only in HTML -- thus lacking any of the capabilities described above. We will then move on to other books: All Religions are One (copy A), There is No Natural Religion (copies C and L), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (copy D), America (copy E), Europe (copies B and E), The Song of Los (copies A and B), The Book of Urizen (copy G), Songs of Innocence and of Experience (copy Z), The Book of Ahania (copy A), and The Book of Los (copy A). The Blake Archive is located at: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/ Please forward this announcement as appropriate. Matthew Kirschenbaum, Project Manager The William Blake Archive blake@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia, Charlottesville From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Site Web / Website Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 15:41:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 338 (338) [deleted quotation] La Soci=E9t=E9 canadienne d'=E9tude du dix-huiti=E8me si=E8cle est heureuse d'annoncer l'ouverture de son site web. On peut le consulter =E0 l'adresse suivante : http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~melancon/csecs.tdm.html * * * The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is proud to announce that it now maintains its own website at the following URL : http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~melancon/csecs.tdm.html Nous vous y attendons ! Come and visit ! Peter Sabor, pr=E9sident SCEDHS/CSECS President Beno=EEt Melan=E7on, webmestre/Webmaster ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: COCOSDA-97 in Rhodes Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:29:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 339 (339) [deleted quotation] ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS COCOSDA, the Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Assessment, was founded in 1991, and has held yearly workshops ever since. The 1997 COCOSDA workshop, on the theme "Standards and Tools for Linguistic Annotation of Speech Databases," will take place at the Convention Centre of the Rodos Palace Hotel, in Rhodes, Greece, on the two days following the Eurospeech meeting: Friday, September 26 and Saturday, September 27. It will be co-located with the COST workshop on "Speech Technology in the Public Telephone Network: Where are we today?" held in the same facility on the same two days. Overall registration is limited to 200, 100 from each organization. COCOSDA aims to promote collaborative work and information exchange for resources and standards in Spoken Language Engineering. It maintains working groups on Speech Corpora and Labelling, Speech Synthesis Assessment, and Speech Recognition Assessment. COCOSDA workshops include reports on relevant activities around the world, and discussions of topics of mutual interest. Further information about COCOSDA can be found at the URL http://www.itl.atr.co.jp/cocosda/, and further information about COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) can be found at http://www2.cordis.lu/cost/src/intro.htm. Submissions on the theme of COCOSDA'97, as well as other relevant subjects, are invited. REGISTRATION FOR COCOSDA'97 To register for COCOSDA97, see http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/cocosda97. COCOSDA'97 attendees are welcome to attend sessions of the COST workshop as well, though they will have to register separately for COST in order to get a copy of the proceedings. On Friday afternoon, there will be a joint COST/COCOSDA session on the topic of Speech Recognition. On Friday morning and Saturday afternoon, COCOSDA'97 will meet separately from COST. There will be both reports of general interest and presentations on the workshop theme. On Saturday morning, the three COCOSDA working groups (on Speech Corpora and Labelling, Speech Synthesis Assessment, and Speech Recognition Assessment) will meet separately, as arranged by their individual organizers. INFORMATION FOR COCOSDA'97 PRESENTERS COCOSDA'97 is focused on standards and tools for linguistic annotation of speech databases. If you would like to make a presentation on the workshop theme, or on another topic within COCOSDA's area of interest, please register for the workshop and send an abstract of 500 words or less to cocosda97@ldc.upenn.edu. If possible, include a URL for papers or project descriptions. All good-faith submissions will be accommodated, though some may have to be placed in a poster session. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: FOIS '98 - Call for Papers Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:50:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 340 (340) [deleted quotation] Preliminary Call for Papers INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOIS'98 In conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning KR'98 TRENTO, ITALY, JUNE 6-8, 1998 Under the auspices of the Project ONTOINT (Ontological Tools for Heterogeneous Knowledge Organization and Integration) funded by the Italian National Research Council Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer science community. Its importance has been recognized in fields as diverse as qualitative modelling of physical systems, natural language processing, knowledge engineering, information integration, database design, geographic information science, and intelligent information access. Various workshops addressing the engineering aspects of ontology have been held in the past few years. However, ontology -by its very nature- ought to be a unifying discipline. Insights in this field have potential impacts on the whole area of information systems. In order to provide a solid general foundation for this work, it is therefore important to focus on the common scientific principles and open problems arising from current tools, methodologies, and applications of ontology. The purpose of this conference is to take a first step in this direction. As the heterogeneity of the program committee indicates, the conference will have a strongly interdisciplinary character. Expected participants include computer science practitioners as well as linguists, logicians, and philosophers. Although the primary focus of the conference is on theoretical issues, methodological proposals as well as papers addressing concrete applications from a well-founded theoretical perspective are welcome. TOPICS Examples of problem areas that may be addressed at the conference include: THEORETICAL ISSUES * Foundations: parthood, constitution, identity, integrity, dependence, causality * Kinds of entity: particulars vs. universals, continuants vs. occurrents, abstracta vs. concreta, attributes, relations, qualities, quantities, tropes or moments, states, situations, environments * Matter, space, time, motion, change * Natural kinds, organisms, artifacts * The ontology of social reality: legal and administrative entities, artistic expressions * The ontology of information and information processing: representations, signs, software products, virtual reality, cyberspace * Top-level ontological taxonomies: new proposals or critical analyses of existing ones * Cognitive foundations of ontological distinctions * Kinds of ontology: top-level ontologies, domain ontologies, task ontologies, application ontologies * Ontological commitment APPLICATION AREAS * Knowledge organization, integration and standardization * Intelligent information access * Information systems design * Knowledge engineering * Conceptual modelling * Qualitative modelling * Lexical semantics * Terminology integration * Product knowledge integration * Geographic information systems * Legal information systems TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES * Ontological and linguistic instruments for conceptual analysis * Methodologies for ontology development, maintenance, and integration SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Papers will be selected on the basis of a rigorous review of full paper contributions. Authors should submit 5 copies to the Conference Chair by December 19, 1997. Papers received after the deadline or not conforming to the submission format will be rejected without review. The proceedings will be printed by a major publisher and will be available at the conference. Final camera-ready copies of the accepted papers will be due by March 9, 1998. Authors will be responsible for preparing the final camera-ready in conformity with the formatting requirements laid down by the publisher. Submitted papers must be unpublished and substantially different from papers under review. Papers that have been or will be presented at small workshops/symposia whose proceedings are available only to attendees may be submitted. Each submission should include a title page containing the title, author(s), affiliation(s), submitting author's mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address, as well as an abstract and keywords indicating the topic areas listed above that best describe the contribution. Submissions must be at most 16 pages, excluding the title page and the bibliography, with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt) using LaTeX or Microsoft Word. Papers should be sent in 5 copies. Fax or electronic submissions will not be accepted. Those proposing to submit papers must complete the form at the WWW address <http://mnemosyne.itc.it:1024/fois98/> by Monday December 15, 1997. If intending authors do not have WWW access, then an e-mail message must be sent to by the same date, giving details of any proposed submission in the following format: Title: Author: <Last name, initials> Author: <Insert as many more author lines as necessary> ..... CorrespondingAuthor: <name of corresponding author> CorrespondingEmail: <email of corresponding author> CorrespondingAddress: <address of corresponding author> Keywords: <insert list of keywords, preferably chosen from above list> Abstract: <insert short abstract, max 200 words> EndAbstract: <mark the end of the short abstract thus> Should intending authors not have e-mail access, the information above should be sent by letter to arrive to the Conference Chair by Monday December 15, 1997. SCHEDULE Monday, December 15, 1997 Electronic abstracts due Friday, December 19, 1997 Papers due Friday, February 6, 1998 Results sent to authors Monday, March 9, 1998 Final papers due Saturday-Monday, June 6-8, 1998 FOIS'98 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE CONFERENCE CHAIR ORGANIZATION CHAIR Nicola Guarino Alessandro Artale National Research Council ITC-IRST LADSEB-CNR Povo, I-38050 Trento, Italy Corso Stati Uniti, 4 e-mail: artale@irst.itc.it I-35127 Padova, Italy e-mail: guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it PROGRAM COMMITTEE John Bateman (Dept. of English Studies, Univ. of Stirling, UK) B. Chandrasekaran (Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Ohio State Univ., USA) Tony Cohn (Division of Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Leeds, UK) Ernest Davis (Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York, USA) Richard Fikes (Knowledge Systems Lab., Stanford University, USA) Kit Fine (Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA) Mark Fox (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Toronto, Canada) Nicola Guarino (LADSEB-CNR, National Research Council, Padova, Italy) Patrick J. Hayes (Inst. for Human and Machine Cognition, Univ. of West Florida, USA) Graeme Hirst (Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada) David Israel (Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, USA) Fritz Lehmann (CYCorp, Austin, Texas, USA) Diego Marconi (Dept. of Humanities, Univ. of Torino at Vercelli, Italy) Richiro Mizoguchi (Inst. of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka Univ., Japan) Kevin Mulligan (Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland) Sergei Nirenburg (Computing Research Lab., New Mexico State Univ., USA) Guus Schreiber (Dept. of Social Science Informatics, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Peter Simons (School of Philosophy, Univ. of Leeds, UK and Ontek Corp., USA) Doug Skuce (Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada) Barry Smith (Dept. of Philosophy, State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, USA) John Sowa (Philosophy and Computers and Cognitive Science, Binghamton Univ., USA) Mike Uschold (Boeing Corporation, Seattle, USA) Reind Van De Riet (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Univ., The Netherlands) Achille Varzi (Dept. of Philosophy, Columbia Univ., New York, USA) Laure Vieu (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse, France) Yair Wand (Faculty of Commerce and Business Admin., Univ. of British Columbia, Canada) Ron Weber (The Univ. of Queensland, Australia) Chris Welty (Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, New York, USA) Roel Wieringa (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Univ., The Netherlands) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale - Enrico Franconi (ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy) Nicola Guarino - Claudio Masolo (LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy) Luca Pazzi - Sonia Bergamaschi (Univ. of Modena, Italy) Geri Steve - Aldo Gangemi (ITBM-CNR, Roma, Italy) Cristiano Castelfranchi - Rino Falcone (IP-CNR, Roma, Italy) From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: SAC '98 Soft Computing Track CFP Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:18:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 341 (341) [deleted quotation] ###################################################################### [deleted quotation]# [deleted quotation]s [deleted quotation]t [deleted quotation]=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D [deleted quotation]l [deleted quotation]o [deleted quotation]n [deleted quotation]f [deleted quotation]e [deleted quotation]- [deleted quotation]- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: NEH 1998 Summer Stipends Competition: Deadline Oct.1, 1997 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:11:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 342 (342) [deleted quotation] PLEASE DISSEMINATE THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU! The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the October 1, 1997 deadline for the Summer Stipends program. NEH Summer Stipends support two months of full-time work on projects that will make a significant contribution to the humanities. Projects proposed for support may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities, and they may address broad topics or consist of research and study in a single field. In most cases, faculty members of colleges and universities in the United States must be nominated by their institutions for the Summer Stipends competition, and each of these institutions may nominate TWO applicants. Prospective applicants who will require nomination should acquaint themselves with their institution's nomination procedures well before the October 1 application deadline. Individuals employed in nonteaching capacities in colleges and universities, and independent scholars not affiliated with colleges and universities do not require nomination and may apply directly to the program. Adjunct faculty and academic applicants with appointments terminating by the summer of 1998 may also apply without nomination. APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 1, 1997 TENURE: Tenure must cover two full and uninterrupted months and will normally be held between May 1, 1998 and September 30, 1998. INQUIRIES: Summer Stipends Program Room 318 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20506 telephone: 202/606-8551 e-mail: stipends@neh.fed.us web: <a href="http://www.neh.fed.us/html/forms.html">http://www.neh.fed.us/html/forms.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Han Baltussen <Han.Baltussen@phil.ruu.nl> Subject: WInGreek Conversion Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:56:33 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 343 (343) I would be grateful if anyone knows a solution for a conversion of WinGreek (MS DOS) to Apple; a colleague of mine has found that the ASCII table in 128 and up dooes not work. yrs Han Baltussen ------------------------- Dr. Han Baltussen To be reached until sept. 3, 1997 at: Dept. of Philosophy Utrecht University P.O. Box 80.126 3508 TC Utrecht The Netherlands ------------------------- Phone :++ 31 - 30 - 253 43 60 Fax : ++ 31 - 30 - 253 28 16 From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: metaphors Date: Wed, 6 Aug 97 09:01:14 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 344 (344) Back to metaphors. As in the case of everything else, there is inflation here, too. Roy Tennant in the latest issue of Current Cites briefly reviews David Shank's recent book, Data Smog (San Francisco: HarperEdge, 1997). I am waiting for Information Slime, Information Sludge, Information Murk. We all know we are awash in a sea of information, against which we need to take arms. BTW, someone wrote asking for information on the article by Heinz von Foerster, mentioned earlier. It is: "Thoughts and Notes on Cognition," in Paul L. Garvin, ed., _Cognition: A Multiple View_ (NY: Spartan Books, 1970), 25-48. Though he is against others making up terms, his own, "pathological semantics", is perhaps apropos at times. His remarks on p. 30 on information storage and retrieval fit well today. I do not believe we can do anything at all about "pathological semantics"; people will continue to anthropomorphize and deify the computer: "The computer has shown that St. Paul did / did not write x" has been with us for a long time. I saw a computer that translated "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" from Russian as "the booze is good, but the meat has gone bad." The anecdotes of yesteryear are ever with us. ! Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: "Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship" Online Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 18:10:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 345 (345) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 6, 1997 Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges-- The United States Focus by Pamela Pavliscak, Seamus Ross, and Charles Henry (ACLS Occasional Paper No. 37) NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE The American Council on Learned Societies has just announced that its recently published Occasional Paper No. 37, "Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges--The United States Focus," is now available on-line in a hypertext version at <<a href="http://www.acls.org/op37.htm">http://www.acls.org/op37.htm</a>>. To introduce this report I can do no better than to quote its Preface: "This report surveys the various applications of information technology to research in the humanities. In the course of our investigations we came across a variety of innovative research that could have a profound impact on the humanities. However, the incidence of such work is uneven, and the widespread adoption of information technology in the humanities is being hindered by a number of significant obstacles. We also examine the challenges that must be overcome if such applications are to become the norm among scholars. "We present only a selective view of current activities, focusing primarily on work by American scholars, with some references to international projects of relevance to the humanities, since computer technology now makes scholarship a genuinely global enterprise. This overview is intended for scholars in the humanities who are not yet aware of what has been accomplished, as well as for those who direct and fund research and higher education. Their cooperation and understanding are needed for these obstacles to be overcome and for the potential of information technology in humanities scholarship to be realized. The report comprises five sections I: A Background essay II: Information Technology and Scholarship--a survey of work and achievements in a variety of media (text, data, images, multimedia), an examination of retroconversion projects and of the creation of original works, electronic publication and a look at available tools for scholars. III: New Developments and Change IV: To Challenge and Invigorate Future Scholarship--a look at what is needed to fully prepare faculty, researchers and institutions to take full advantage of the electronic medium V: Principal Recommendations and Follow-up Activities The report concludes with a useful list of links to exemplary projects and services <<a href="http://www.acls.org/op37-app.htm">http://www.acls.org/op37-app.htm</a>>. An expanded version of this report will be available later this year on the American Arts & Letters Network <<a href="http://www.rice.edu/aaln/">http://www.rice.edu/aaln/</a>> =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ============================================================== From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CL School: Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:08:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 346 (346) [deleted quotation] ****************************************************************** SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" Hotel Orpheus, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria 7-9 Sept'97 <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> [Summer School] ****************************************************************** The sixth summer school "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics" immediately precedes the international conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)" (11-13 Sept'97, same location). The school will continue its tradition of offering both introductory and advanced courses. The programme will consist of tutorials and short courses. LECTURERS_________________________________________________________ * Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Information Extraction * Sergei Nirenburg (New Mexico State University) Multi-Engine Machine Translation Environments * Pieter Seuren (Nijmegen University) Semantic Syntax * Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) Linguistically Intensive Content Characterisation * Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS) Natural Language Generation * Harald Trost (Austrian Institute for AI) Computational morphology * Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Corpus Linguistics * Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Recent Developments in Anaphora resolution * Carlos Martin-Vide (University of Tarragona) Natural Computation for Natural Language * Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong) Automatic Abstracting Course descriptions are available at: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> [Summer School] LOCATION__________________________________________________________ Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains on the shores of Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. A minibus will provide reasonably-priced transport between Sofia airport and the summer school's hotel. REGISTRATION FEES_________________________________________________ Industrial participants 150 USD Academic staff 110 USD Students 80 USD ACCOMMODATION AND HALF-BOARD PRICES_______________________________ * OPTION 1 Hotel Orpheus Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch) 40 USD a day (single room) 30 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) * OPTION 2 Guest house belonging to the Higher Medical Institute (VMI) Plovdiv. 2-3 minutes walking distance from the Hotel Orpheus amidst beautiful fir trees. Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch) 20 USD a day (single room) 15 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) * OPTION 3 Accommodation at VMI Guest house, half-board at Hotel Orpheus 30 USD a day (single room) 25 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) Option 2: two years ago the guest house had fixed times for meals which clashed with the programme. The local organisers are trying to sort this out. If you would like to share a room, please let us know; would you please also specify if you wish to share the room with someone in particular. REGISTRATION____________________________________________________ All participants are requested to complete the following registration form and send it to Victoria Arranz <victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk> We regret to inform you that the local organisers have difficulties in processing cheques, bank transfers and credit card payments. You are kindly requested to pay the registration fees and accommodation/ half-board on site in cash. Any major currency will be accepted; US dollars, German marks & British pounds are preferable. ! REGISTRATION FORM_______________________________________________ ! ! ! Names . . . : ! Organisation: ! Country . . : ! Fax . . . . : ! Telephone . : ! Email . . . : ! ! ! * Accommodation and half-board ! ! [ ] Option 1 ! [ ] Option 2 ! [ ] Option 3 ! ! [ ] Single room ! [ ] Double room (to be shared with another participant) ! ! I'd like to share the room with: _________________ (specify name) ! ! For the period (delete as appropriate) ! ! [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] September 1997 ! <-school--> <--RANLP'97--> ! ! ! Amount to be paid on site in cash: ! ! Accommodation + half board: ___ USD / DM / GBP ! Registration fee: ___ USD / DM / GBP ! ! (please specify the amount you are going to pay in USD or ! the equivalent in German Marks or British Pounds) ! ! _______________<mailto: victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk>_________________ Please reserve your accommodation as soon as possible. Accommodation capacity in both "Hotel Orpheus" and VMI guest house are limited: all reservations will be dealt with on a first-come, first-served basis. SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION_________________________________________ For further information, if you wish to participate please contact: - Victoria Arranz <victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk> or - Malgorzata Stys <m.stys@cl.cam.ac.uk> If you wish to exhibit books/software: - Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@cogs.susx.ac.uk> RELATED EVENTS____________________________________________________ The summer school will be followed by the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)". <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: ICHIM WORKSHOPS; METADATA REPORTS Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:12:20 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 347 (347) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 7, 1997 1. ICHIM 97 WORKSHOPS 2. AHDS/UKOLN DISCOVERY & RETRIEVAL ISSUE WORKSHOPS REPORTS 3. RLG REPORT ON "METADATA SUMMIT MEETING" 1. ICHIM 97 WORKSHOPS Held by Archives & Museum Informatics, Europe, in partnership with le musee du Louvre, and in association with l'ecole du Louvre, the fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity takes place September 1-5, 1997. Full details for an exciting series of pre-conference workshops are now available on the ICHIM97 Web site <www.archimuse.com/ichim97>. Two days of pre-conference workshops, September 1-2, 1997 offer opportunities for professional development in the following areas: September 1, 1997 1. Systematic Design of Hypermedia Applications Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Paolo Paolini (University of Lecce, Italy) 2. Looking at new software architectures and their application to digital images. Brieuc Segalen (Directeur de la societe Briq, specialisee en Realite Virtuelle, France) 3. Current State of Museum Information Standards Alain Michard (Aquarelle, France) 4. Issues in Multilingual Terminology Work Theory and Practice Murtha Baca and Pat Young (Getty Information Institute, USA) 5. Copyright and other IPR concerns: What Progress? Jeremy Rees (IVAIN, UK) and Emanuella Giavarra (European Copyright User Platform, ECUP) September 2, 1997 6. Strategies for Museum Multimedia Delivery Peter Samis (SFMOMA, USA), Larry Friedlander (Stanford University, USA) and Xavier Perrot (AMIE, France) 7. Mapping Web Sites Paul Kahn (Dynamic Diagrams, USA) 8. Systematic Evaluation of Hypermedia Applications Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Paolo Paolini (University of Lecce, Italy) 9. Designing for Humans: big and small Slavko Milekic (Hampshire College, USA) 10. Multimedia Tools Katherine Jones Garmil (Peabody Museum, Harvard University, USA) Pre-registration is necessary for all workshops. Please return the registration form, available at: <www.archimuse.com/ichim97> For further information, and full program details, visit the conference web site, or contact Archives & Museum Informatics at info@archimuse.com See you in Paris! jt -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museums Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- ================================================================ 2. AHDS/UKOLN FINAL WORKSHOP REPORTS ON HUMANITIES RESOURCE DISCOVERY ISSUES The Arts and Humanities Data Service and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking have organised a series of workshops to explore metadata, Dublin Core, and resource discovery issues. Between March and May 1997 six workshops were organised to cover the subject areas of archaeology; digital sound; electronic texts; history; moving images; and the visual arts, museums and cultural heritage. Each workshop has now produced a final report which is available online. Details and links to these reports are available from: <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ahds/pol/metareps.htm">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ahds/pol/metareps.htm</a> > ************************************************************************ Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076 Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080 The Executive Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK ************************************************************************ ================================================================ FR: Willy Cromwell-Kessler (bl.kes@rlg.org) RE: Metadata Summit Meeting Report On July 1, 1997, the Research Libraries Group hosted an invitational "summit" meeting on metadata issues. This meeting was an outgrowth of the work of the Task Force on Meta Access of the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). The participants represented a variety of research information projects, standards groups and related communities. The goal of the Summit was to identify metadata issues that have special relevance for the research community in order to identify, if possible, a common action agenda. Much of the discussion centered on the potential role of the Dublin Core elements as a mechanism for discovery of information resources available via the Internet, but which are not static html-Web pages. A full report on the meeting is available on the RLG Web site: <<a href="http://www.rlg.org/meta9707.html">http://www.rlg.org/meta9707.html</a>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Sixth International Summer School Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:00:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 348 (348) [deleted quotation] ________________________________________________________________ SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria 7-9 Sept'97 <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> [Summer School] ________________________________________________________________ The sixth summer school "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics" immediately precedes the international conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)" (11-13 Sept'97, same location). The school will continue its tradition of offering both introductory and advanced courses. The programme will consist of tutorials and short courses. LECTURERS * Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Information extraction * Sergei Nirenburg (University of New Mexico) Multi-Engine Machine Translation Environments * Pieter Seuren (Nijmegen University) Semantic Syntax * Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) Linguistically intensive content characterisation * Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS) Natural Language Generation * Harald Trost (Austrian Institute for AI) Computational morphology * Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Corpus Linguistics * Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Recent Developments in Anaphora resolution * Carlos Martin-Vide (University of Tarragona) Natural computation for natural language * Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong) Automatic abstracting For more information on the courses please check <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> LOCATION Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains on the shores of Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. A minibus will provide reasonably-priced transport between Sofia airport and the conference hotel. SUMMER SCHOOL VENUE The summer school will be held at the "Hotel Orpheus", Tzigov Chark. REGISTRATION FEES 150 USD for industrial participants 110 USD for academic staff 80 USD for students ACCOMMODATION AND HALF-BOARD PRICES The following options are available: *Option 1 Hotel Orpheus Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch) 40 USD a day (single room) 30 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) *Option 2 Guest house belonging to the Higher Medical Institute (VMI) Plovdiv (will be referred to in future correspondence as the VMI Guest House). The Guest House is within 2-3 minutes walking distance (amidst beautiful fir trees) from the "Hotel Orpheus". Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch) 20 USD a day (single room) 15 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) *Option 3 Accommodation at VMI Guest house, half-board at "Hotel Orpheus" 30 USD a day (single room) 25 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) Option 2 is contingent on the flexibility of the VMI guest house staff - two years ago they had fixed times for their meals which clashed with the conference programme. The local organisers are trying to sort this out: we shall inform you on this matter soon. If you would like to share a room, please let us know; would you please also specify if you wish to share the room with someone in particular. Accommodation capacity in both "Hotel Orpheus" and VMI guest house are limited: all reservations will be dealt with on a first-come, first-served basis. REGISTRATION We regret to inform you that the local organisers have difficulties in processing cheques and bank transfers. Neither can they accept credit card payments. You are therefore kindly requested to pay your registration fees and accommodation/half-board in cash on site. Any major currency will be accepted but preferably US dollars, German marks or British pounds. All participants are requested to complete the following registration form and send it to Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk). ------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM * Personal details Names: Organisation: Country: Fax: Telephone: Email: * Accommodation and half-board Accommodation requested: Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 (please delete as appropriate) Single room Double room (to be shared with another participant) (please delete as appropriate) I would like to share the room with (please delete as appropriate or specify name) For the period [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] (please delete dates as appropriate) Amount (accommodation + half board) to be paid on site in cash USD / DM / GBP (please specify the amount you are going to pay in USD or the equivalent in German Marks or British Pounds) * Registration Fee Registration fee(s) applicable: USD for the conference USD for the summer school (please specify which registration fee(s) will be applicable in your case and delete if appropriate) Amount to be paid on site in cash USD / DM / GBP (please specify the amount you are going to pay in USD or the equivalent in German Marks or British Pounds) ----------------------------------------------------------- Please reserve your accommodation as soon as possible. SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION For further information, if you wish to participate or exhibit books/software, please contact: - Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk) or - Malgorzata Stys (m.stys@cl.cam.ac.uk) RELATED EVENTS The summer school will be followed by the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)" (same location). For more information on the conference, visit <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: RANLP '97 Programme Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:23:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 349 (349) [deleted quotation] _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (RANLP'97) 11-13 September 1997, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria Co-organised by: * University of Wolverhampton * University of Sussex * University of Hamburg * Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics Sponsored by: * The European Commission, DG XIII * Evrika Foundation PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME 11 SEPTEMBER ___________________________________________________________________ 9.00-9.40 INVITED TALK: YORICK WILKS Combining Independent Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation Yorick Wilks, Mark Stevenson (Univ of Sheffield) STATISTICAL TAGGING ----------------------------------------------- 9.40-10.10 Extending N-gram Tagging to Word Graphs Christer Samuelsson (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies) 10.10-10.40 Automatically Acquiring a Language Model for POS Tagging Using Decision Trees Lluis Marquez, Horacio Rodriguez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) 10.40-11.10 Coffee break LEXICON ----------------------------------------------------------- 11.10-11.40 Designing a Dictionary of Derived Nominals Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman, Leslie Barrett, Ruth Reeves (New York University) 11.40-12.10 Partial Evaluation for Efficient Access to Inheritance Lexicons Sven Hartrumpf (Univ of Hagen) 12.10-12.40 Lexicon Filtering Frederique Segond, Max Copperman (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble) 12.40-3.00 Lunch break DISCOURSE --------------------------------------------------------- 3.00-3.30 Segmentation of Expository Texts by Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering Yaakov Yaari (Bar Ilan University, Israel) 3.30-4.00 Information Structure and Machine Translation: Generating Danish Existential Sentences Patrizia Paggio, (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen) 4.00-4.30 Robust Reference Resolution with Limited Knowledge: High Precision Genre-Specific Approach for English and Polish Ruslan Mitkov (Univ of Wolverhampton) Malgorzata Stys (Univ of Cambridge) 4.30-5.00 Coffee break CORPORA, TOOLS (parallel session) --------------------------------- 5.00-5.20 Can we Improve Part-of-Speech Tagging by Inducing Probabilistic Part-of-Speech Annotated Lexicons from Large Corpora? Nicolas Smith, Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) 5.20-5.40 An Internet Agent for Language Model Construction Peter Wyard (BT Laboratories, Ipswich) Tony Rose (Canon Research Centre Europe, Surrey) 5.40-6.00 Term Weight Learning for an Automatic Text Categorization Fumiyo Fukumoto, Hiroyasu Yamada, Atsumi Imamiya (Yamanashi University, Japan) 6.20-6.40 Using the TOPSIS Multicriteria Method to Direct an Agreement Error Correction Process: an Application to Arabic Belguith Hadrich Lamia, Ben Hamadou Abdelmajid, Aloulou Chafik (Faculti des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax) MACHINE TRANSLATION & TRANSLATION AIDS (parallel session) --------- 5.00-5.20 Gaijin: A Bootstrapping, Template-Driven Approach to Example-Based MT Tony Veale, Andy Way (Dublin City University) 5.20-5.40 Aspect Calculation in MIROSLAV: a German-Russian MT System Bernhard Staudinger, Nancy Smith 5.40-6.00 Verb Instantiation by Concept Coherence and Refinement Abolfazl Fatholahzadeh (Ecole Superieure d'Electricite) H. Altay Guvenir (Bilkent University Turkey) 6.20-6.40 Refining Domain Ontologies for Flexible Explanation Generation Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Kalina Bontcheva (Univ of Sheffield) 12 SEPTEMBER ___________________________________________________________________ 9.00-9.40 INVITED TALK: SERGEI NIRENBURG If You Have It, Flaunt It: Using Full Ontological Knowledge for Word Sense Disambiguation Kavi Mahesh, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale (New Mexico State University) TOOLS ------------------------------------------------------------- 9.40-10.10 Efficiency and Elegance in NLP: The EPISTEME Approach J. Gabriel Amores (Universidad de Sevilla) Jose F. Quesada (CICA, Spain) 10.10-10.40 Linguistic Processing using ALEP Andrew Bredenkamp & F.Fouvry (Univ of Essex) Thierry Declerk (DFKI Saarbruecken) B.Music (CST, Copenhagen) A.Theofilidis (IAI, Saarbruecken) 10.40-11.10 Coffee break MACHINE TRANSLATION ----------------------------------------------- 11.10-11.40 Using Hybrid Methods and Resources in Semantic-based Transfer Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf, Michael Dorna (IMS-CL Univ of Stuttgart) 11.40-12.10 Inflectional Information in Transfer for Lexicalist MT Davide Turcato, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 12.10-12.40 Lexical Ambiguity in Machine Translation: Using Frame Semantics for Expressing Systemacies in Polysemy Bolette Sandford Pedersen (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen) 12.40-3.00 Lunch break GENERATION -------------------------------------------------------- 3.00-3.30 Aggregative Utterance Planning for Interactive Instruction Tsuneaki Kato, Yukiko I. Nakano (NTT Information & Communication Systems Labs, Japan) 3.30-4.00 A Question/Answer Explanation based Approach for Customizable Text Expansion vs Summarization Yllias Chali (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) 4.00-4.30 AMALIA - A Unified Platform for Parsing and Generation Shuly Wintner (Univ of Thuebingen) Evgeniy Gabrilovich & Nissim Francez (Israel Institute of Technology, Technion) 4.30-5.00 Coffee break NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION, PARSING (parallel session) ----------- 5.00-5.20 Validation of STEP/EXPRESS Specifications by Automatic Natural Language Generation Hercules Dalianis, Anders Hedman, Paul Johannesson Department of computer and Systems Sciences (Royal Institute of Technology & Stockholm University) 5.20-5.40 A generation algorithm for f-structure representations Toni Tuells (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) 5.40-6.00 Memory-based Deep Syntactic Analysis of Unrestricted French Emmanuel Giguet, Jacques Vergne (Universiti de Caen) 6.20-6.40 Morphosyntactic Disambiguation for Basque Based on the Constraint Grammar Formalism Aduriz I., Arriola J.M., Artola X., Diaz de Illarraza A., Gojenola K., Maritxalar M. (University of the Basque Country) DISCOURSE (parallel session) -------------------------------------- 5.00-5.20 Subject Ellipsis in Chinese News Headlines Chi-on Chin, Benjamin K.Y. Tsou (City University of Hong Kong) 5.20-5.40 Slot Unification Grammar and Anaphora Resolution A. Ferrandez, M.Palomar, L.Moreno (Alicante University) 5.40-6.00 Reference Analysis of Deicitic Expressions to Visual Objects Hiroyasu Yamada, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Atsumi Imamiya (Yamanashi University, Japan) 6.20-6.40 Word Spotting of Radio News based on Topic Identification for Speech Recognition Yoshimi Suzuki, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshihiro Sekiguchi (Yamanashi University, Japan) 13 SEPTEMBER ___________________________________________________________________ SEMANTICS --------------------------------------------------------- 9.00-9.30 Combining Multiple Methods for the Automatic Construction of Multilingual Wordnets Jordi Atserias, Salvador Climent, Xavier Farreres, German Rigau, Horacio Rodriguez (Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya) 9.30-10.00 Using Wordnet to Complement Training Information in Text Categorization Manuel de Buenaga Rodrmguez, Josi Marma Gsmez Hidalgo, Belin Dmaz Agudo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 10.00-10.30 Probabilistic Word-Sense Disambiguation: a Portable Approach Using Minimum Knowledge Edward Teo, Christopher Ting, Hian-Beng Lee Li-Shiuan Peh (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore) 10.30-11.00 Probabilistic Event Categorization Janyce Wiebe, Rebecca Bruce, Lei Duan (New Mexico State University) 11.00-11.30 coffee break PARSING, INFORMATION EXTRACTION, EVENT CATEGORISATION ------------- 11.30-12.00 A New Approach to the Construction of Generalized LR Parsing Algorithms Miguel A. Alonso, David Cabrero, Manuel Vilares (Universidade de Coruna, Spain) 12.00-12.30 Statistical Ambiguity Resolution for Principle-Based Parsing Cathy Berthouzoz, Paola Merlo (Univ of Geneva) 12.30-1.00 MILK: a Hybrid system for Multilingual Indexing and Information Extraction A. Bolioli, L. Dini, V. Di Tomaso, A. Goy, D. Sestero (Centro per l'Elaborazione del Linguaggio e dell'Informazione; Torino-Vercelli-Pisa) 1.00-3.30 Lunch break INFORMATION FILTERING, TEXT CLASSIFICATION, SEMANTIC CONSTRUCTION 3.30-3.50 Using Supertags in Document Filtering: The Effect of Increased Context on Information Retrieval Effectiveness R. Chandrasekar, B. Srinivas (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) 3.50-4.10 Exploiting Thesaurus Knowledge in Rule Induction for Text Classification Markus Junker, A. Abecker (DFKI, Kaiserlautern) 4.10-4.30 Constructing Compact Representations of Ambiguous Language Kurt Eberle, Carl Vogel (IMS-CL, Univ of Stuttgart) 4.30-5.00 Coffee break SEMANTIC PROCESSING, DISAMBIGUATION (parallel session) ------------ 5.00-5.20 Word Class Functions for Syntactic-Semantic Analysis Hermann Helbig, Sven Hartrumpf (FernUniversitaet Hagen) 5.20-5.40 Extraction of Predicate-Argument Structures from Texts Sylvain Delisle (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres) Stan Szpakowicz (Univ of Ottawa) 5.40-6.00 Estimating Similarity of Word Senses by a Fuzzy Relation on a Large Dictionary YoungJa Park, ManSuk Song (Yonsei University, Korea) 6.20-6.40 An Alternative Approach to Lexical Categorical Disambiguation Joao Luis Tavares da Silva, Vera Lucia Strube de Lima (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul) LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING (parallel session) ------- 5.00-5.20 SVENSK: A Toolbox of Swedish Language Processing Resources Mikael Eriksson & Bjoern.Gambaeck (Royal Institute of Technology/KTH, Stockholm) 5.20-5.40 Reusability of NLP Tools for Detecting Rules and Contexts When Modelling Language Learners' Knowledge Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Montse Maritxalar, Maite Oronoz Anchordoqui (Univ of the Basque Country) 5.40-6.00 Learning Terminology in a Foreigh Language Vania Dimitrova (Univ of Shoumen, Bulgaria) Darina Dicheva (Sofia University, Bulgaria) 6.20-6.40 A Syllable-Based Extraction Method of Kana-Kanji Pairs from Japanese Sentences Hisahiro Adachi (Utsunomiya University, Japan) RESERVE PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------- Computation of the Preference in the Interpretation of Anaphors Soo-Yeon Kim (George Washington University) Encoding Danish Verbs in the PAROLE Model Costanza Navarretta (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen) Cautious Steps towards Hybrid Connectionist Bilingual Phrase Alignment Stefan Wermter, Joseph Chen (Univ of Hamburg) Bilingual parallel text segmentation and tagging for specialized documentation Raquel Martinez Unanue (U. Complutense de Madrid) Arantza Casillas Rubio (U. Alcala de Henares) Joseba Abaitua Odriozola (U. Deusto) Building of Semantico-Cognitive Representation of Different Types of Narratives in French Delphine Battistelli (Universite Paris IV - Sorbonne) Nikolay Vazov (Universite Paris IV - Sorbonne & LIMSI) LOCATION Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains on the shores of Lake Batak. 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. REGISTRATION Due to the limited conference facilities, registration will be carried out on a first-come, first-served basis. For further details and to check if there are still places available, contact Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk). CONFERENCE INFORMATION Visit RANLP'97 home page at: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> 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) or through the conference web site: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a>. 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. All wishing to demonstrate/exhibit software, please contact Nicolas Nicolov (nicolas@cogs.sussex.ac.uk). Publishers wishing to exhibit/promote books please contact Ruslan Mitkov (r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Prolamat 98: First Announcement and CFP Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:09:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 350 (350) [deleted quotation] The Tenth International IFIP TC5 WG-5.2 WG-5.3 Conference PROLAMAT '98 ------------ The Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era of the 21st Century: Innovation, Agility, and the Virtual Enterprise Conference date and venue: September 9-11, 1998 - Trento, Italy [deleted quotation] Abstracts Due: November 10, 1997 Acceptance Notification: December 20, 1997 Camera ready Paper Due: April 30, 1998 Please show interest in contributing to PROLAMAT '98 using attached form by: September 30, 1997 The conference scope of PROLAMAT '98 expands design and manifacturing issues to include teams and virtual enterprises which come together across space and time to develop new products and bring them to global markets. Manufacturing issues and information models have long been part of concurrent engineering; they are increasingly important in new product innovation and in the development of manufacturing plans and processes which span multiple companies along with multiple time zones. Past emphasis on human aspects and innovation provides a strong foundation for the next PROLAMAT, which emphasizes three themes in separate tracks of the conference: Track 1: Sharing experience gained from telecommunication use in industry for agility and innovation Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard representations, reuse Track 3: Telecommunication and agility impact on software technology for discrete manufacturing Background ---------- The PROLAMAT conference is an internationally well known event for demonstrating and evaluating activities and progress in the field of discrete manufacturing. Sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), the PROLAMAT is traditionally held every three years and it includes the whole area of advanced software technology for Design and Manufacturing in Discrete Manufacturing. Past conferences have explored: - Manufacturing Technology, - Advances in CAD/CAM, - Software for Discrete Manufacturing, - Software for Manufacturing. The Eight International PROLAMAT focused on the theme of Man in CIM. The 1995 PROLAMAT featured the theme of Life Cycle Modelling for Innovative Products and Processes. The 1998 conference in Italy will be organized by the University of Trento, School of Engineeering and Department of Computer and Managemet Sciences, jointly with Istituto Trentino di Cultura, under the auspices of the WG2 for "Computer-Aided Design" and WG3 for "Computer-Aided Manufacturing" of the Technical Committee 5 for "Computer Applications in Technology". This conference will be the last PROLAMAT before the next century, and it provides an opportunity to investigate and imagine what the digital communications revolution going on all around us will mean for manufacturing. _______________________________________________________________________ Conference Subjects ------------------- Track 1: Sharing experience from telecommunication use in industry for -------- agility and innovation Globalization of product opportunities and manufacturing processes, along with advances in digital communications, are simultaneously enabling and demanding agility and rapid enterprise innovation. A number of industries have been driven to exploit emerging telecommunication technologies as an important tool for meeting these demands. A major goal of this conference will be to complement the more traditional academic presentations with a separate track devoted to sharing industry experience and determining the implications of the emerging digital communications era for discrete manufacturing in the 21st century. - Case studies and descriptions of experience with emerging technologies for: - concurrent engineering involving shared product and process models, - applications of telecommunications for agility, innovation or virtual organizations, - distributed business process reengineering and out sourcing, - managing virtual teams and developing and sustaining virtual organizations, - Advances in telecommunication technology for collaborative knowledge processing for engineering - tele-presence, remote sensing, and distributed coordination of processes, - collaborative feature modelling, feature-based design, and geometric modelling - Integration of emerging technologies and tools into existing product development - collaborative version management and update sharing - tools for enterprise integration and managing organizational change - enterprise-wide distribution and coordination of emerging product models. _______________________________________________________________________ Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard -------- representations, reuse People, not machines, design new products and make manufacturing systems work. Increasingly, groups of people are required to design new products and bring them to market. Requirements for agility and the suitability of specific manufacturing processes must be matched with the culture and knowledge base of the work force. World-class processes have floundered when this was not done. Information and communication systems can either amplify or reduce the magnitude of differences across culture or engineering discipline. Researchers specializing in knowledge representation, modelling, communications, standardization, and reuse will be invited to share their experiences and research perspectives. - Enterprise data sharing across engineering, cultural, and supply chain boundaries, - distributed manufacturing and supply chain management - early stage product development which dynamically incorporates supplier constraints - standard models for component information representation, product and process interchange, - Technologies for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and across the product lifecycle, - adaptive systems for organizational management, knowledge sharing, education, and training - organizational and manufacturing process simulation - organizing and representing design and manufacturing process for dissemination and reuse - The interface between human and machine for information sharing, training, education, - virtual reality and multi-media in manufacturing and design - collaborative manufacturing process definition and operation - collaborative product and process modeling for the product life cycle - implications of models of human communication for the support of integrated manufacturing _______________________________________________________________________ Track 3: Telecommunication and agility impact on software technology for -------- discrete manufacturing Even in today's post-industrial information-society, machines, not people, ultimately make the products which humans have designed and will use. Digital telecommunication has become an enabling technology for agile organizations and an important tool driving some enterprise innovation. What are the implications of these profound changes in communications technology for discrete manufacturing? Which old assumptions must be rethought, and what totally new opportunities now exist? How have software tools for discrete manufacturing evolved during these past three years? The conference, as a whole, and this track, in particular, will attempt to answer these far reaching questions. - Rapid and virtual prototyping using distributed teams or distributed manufacturing, - concurrent and simultaneous engineering systems - distributed and global methodologies for design and collaborative manufacturing - Intelligent tools which communicate across the shop floor or across institutional boundaries for - automated machining operations, - scheduling, coordination, or planning for machining or manufacturing processes, - Architectures, frameworks, and DSS for design and integrated manufacturing, - formal design theories and methodologies - engineering simulation, product and process modelling, planning, and scheduling - Issues and systems relating to sustainable manufacturing - methods and tools for sustainable product development and manufacturing processes ________________________________________________________________________ Conference Chair: G. Jacucci Invited Members to the International Program Committee L. Alting (DK) S. Ansaldi (I) A. Baskin (USA) P. Bertok (AUS) S. Bhattacharyya (UK) O. Biorke (N) K. Bo (N) M. Boari (I) G. Bracchi (I) D. Brown (USA) L. Camarinha-Matos (P) L. Carlucci Aiello (I) B-K. Choi (K) G. Christensen (DK) C. Ciborra (F) E. Ciciotti (I) U. Claussen (D) J-P. Crestin (F) U. Cugini (I) B. David (F) C. Davies (UK) Z. Deng (N) C. Dent (UK) I. St.Doltsinis (D) G. Doumeingts (F) W. Ehrenberger (D) J.L. Encarnacao (D) L. Estensen (N) K. Fedra (A) S. Finger (USA) F. Gambarotta (I) J. Gero (AUS) R. Geudj (F) P. Gili (I) B. Girard (F) F. Giunchiglia (I) H. Grabowski (D) U. Graefe (C ) G. Guida (I) G. Halevy (ISR) J. Hardy (USA) J.M. Hee (DK) G. Hermann (H) B. Hofmaier (SW) T. Holden (UK) G. Jacucci (I), Chair H. Jansen (D) C.C. Kai (SP) F. Kimura (J) T. Kjellberg (S) D. Kochan (D) G. Kovacs (H) Z. Kozar (CZ) F-L. Krause (D) J. Latombe (USA) G. Lazzari (I) R. Levi (I) F. Lillenhagen (N) W. Loeve (NL) S. Lu (USA) K. MacLaughlin (USA) R. Manara (I) M. Mantyla (SF) A. Markus (H) T. Markus (H) R. Mayer (USA) G. Menga (I) E. Merchant (USA) J. Mermet (F) I. Mezgar (H) R. Michelini (I) G. Micheletti (I) V. Milacic (YU) P. Mudur (IND) G. Musso (I) L. Nemes (AUS) R. Ning (PRC) S. Nof (USA) S. Noll (D) G. Olling (USA) T. Otker (NL) M. Pallot (F) K. Pawar (UK) J. Peklenik (SL) G. Perrone (I) F. Plonka (USA) V. Ponomaryov (Rus) M. Pratt (UK) K. Preiss (ISR) F. Prinz (USA) B. Radig (D) F. Rigotti (I) J. Rix (D) F. Robson (UK) C. Rosenthal (USA) M. Sabin (UK) A. Sambura (AUS) T. Sata (J) D. Schelfi (I) J. Schneider (USA) G. Seliger(D) O. Semenkov (BJ) M. Shpitalni (ISR) D.L. Shunk (USA) R. Soenen (F) O. Stock (I) A. Storr (D) J.C. Teixeira (P) P. ten Hagen (NL) V. Tipnis (USA) P. Tiribelli (I) N. Todorov (BG) T. Tomiyama (J) M. Tomljanovich (I) E. Tyugu (S) H. van Brussel (B) F. van Houten (NL) G. Vernazza (I) M. Veron (F) A. Villa (I) R. Vio (I) M. Waldron (USA) K. Wang(PRC) E. Warman (UK) M. Wozny (USA) H. Yoshikawa (J) R. Zandonini (I) E. Zaninotto (I) A. Zorat (I) R. Zuest (CH) Submission Information Extended abstracts of two pages, written in English, should be e-mailed to prolamat@lii.unitn.it by November 10, 1997. Accepted formats are text only, Word attachment or Latex attachment. Abstracts will present an additional cover sheet providing title, all authors with affiliation, the full address of the principal author (with phone, fax numbers and e-mail address) and a list of keywords related to the paper contents. The Extended Abstracts will be reviewed by three referees for inclusion in the Conference Program. Accepted contributions will be published in the Conference Proceedings by Chapman & Hall. Format requirements from Chapman & Hall for the preparation of the camera-ready article, will be sent to the authors in due course. Conference Organizing Committee V. D'Andrea, University of Trento, (I) Y. Ficiciyan, IPK Berlin (D) E. Filos, European Commission, DGIII, (B) M. Marchese, University of Trento, (I) Chair M. Ronchetti, University of Trento, (I) G. Salvatori, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, (I) A. Servida, European Commission, DGXIII, (B) Official Language: English Contact Information: contact: Mara Gruber e-mail: prolamat@lii.unitn.it phone: +39.464.443.134 +39.464.443.140 fax: +39.464.443.141 www: <a href="http://www.lii.unitn.it/prolamat/">http://www.lii.unitn.it/prolamat/</a> mail: Laboratorio di Ingegneria Informatica via F. Zeni, 8 38068 - Rovereto (TN) Italy [deleted quotation]__________________________________________________________________ Reply Form IFIP International Conference PROLAMAT '98 The Globalization of Manufacturing in the digital communication era of the 21st century: Innovation, Agility and Virtual Enterprise September 9-11, 1998 Trento Name: ........... Institution: ........... E-Mail: .......... I am interested in receiving further notices on PROLAMAT '98. [ ] I am also interested in contributing a paper: Tentative Title: .......... The paper will touch upon the following topics: Track 1: Experience using telecom for agility and product/process innovation; [ ] Case studies and descriptions of experience with emerging technologies for: [ ] Advances in telecom technology for collaborative knowledge processing for engineering [ ] Integration of emerging technologies and tools into existing produt development Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard representations, reuse [ ] Enterprise data sharing across engineering, cultural, and supply chain boundaries, [ ] Technologies for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and across the product life cycle [ ] The interface between human and machine for information sharing training, aducation Track 3: Telecom and agility impact on software technology for discrete manufacturing [ ] Rapid and virtual prototyping using distributed teams or distributed manufacturing, [ ] Intelligent tools which communicate across the shop floor or across institutional boundaries for : [ ] Architectures, frameworks, and DSS for design and integrated manufacturing [ ] Issues and systems relating to sustainable manufacturing ___________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Lenoble Michel <lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA> Subject: Re: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 218 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:13:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 351 (351) [The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] En reponse au message de Humanist Discussion Group : [deleted quotation] I would try to find a version of the RECODE program developped by Francois Pinard for the GNU foundation. It would convert most character sets into any other. Check with F Pinard at: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca M.L. -- =================================================================== Michel LENOBLE | Fax et tel.: (514) 485-1799 lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca =================================================================== From: Richard Giordano <Richard_Giordano@Brown.edu> Subject: Humanities Applications in Computer Science. Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:52:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 352 (352) I'd like to draw attention to members of the Humanist some of the work that my collegaues at the Department of Computer Science (at the Unievrsity of Manchester) have begun with respect to applying structured terminologies and description logics for use by art archivists and historians. The project description can be found at <<a href="http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/people/seanb/starch">http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/people/seanb/starch</a>>. A position paper on the subject can be found at <<a href="http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/people/seanb/art/position.htm">http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/people/seanb/art/position.htm</a>>. This project, in my opinion, is an example of a marriage between the interests of computer scientists and the needs of art historians and archivists. /rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Otfried Lieberknecht <lieberk@berlin.netsurf.de> Subject: CONF: (fwd) "Dante, Data and toDay", Sofia, 15-21 Sept '97 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 97 13:12 MET DST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 353 (353) [X-posted to Italian-Studies, MedTextL, Medievale, Mantovano, Ficino, Humanist] "Dante, Data and toDay" 15-21 September 1997 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Department of Education in Mathematics and Informatics Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Block 8 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria The aim of this conference is to bring together teachers, students, and scientists to develop new roles and ideas of teaching and studying, with special regard to the use of electronic media. Dante's work and its reception will be viewed under interdisciplinary and intercultural aspects, including religion, philosophy, literature, history, science, mathematics and astronomy. The conference will be divided into two separate parts: lectures and discussions in the mornings and workshops in the afternoons, the latter including a demonstration of new computer possibilities in translation using Italian, English, Russian and Bulgarian versions of the Divine Comedy. The proceedings of the conference will be published and we would welcome any contributions. The participation prices are USD 50 till the 30th of August and USD 60 thereafter. Accomodation: there are appartments available in the Institute (cost: 10 USD), or rooms in several small but clean hotels in the area with prices of around USD 50. There are also adequate resturants and eating places in the Academy and nearby. For further informations please contact: John Muirhead E-mail: john@math.acad.bg Tel.: (003592) 713 2895 or 713 2891 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Otfried Lieberknecht, Schoeneberger Str. 11, D-12163 Berlin Tel.: ++49 30 8516675 (fax on request), E-mail: lieberk@berlin.netsurf.de Homepage for Dante Studies: <a href="http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html">http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html</a> ORB Dante Alighieri - A Guide to Online Resources: <a href="http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/lit/Italian/Danindex.html">http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/lit/Italian/Danindex.html</a> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:25:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 354 (354) [deleted quotation] *PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT* FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is organized in cooperation with other associations and consortia, including EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with the sponsorship of major national and international organizations, including ARPA, the European Commission - DG XIII and the NSF. Cooperation and co-sponsorship with other institutions is currently being sought. CONFERENCE TOPIC In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of language technologies and their relevance to practically all the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been widely recognized. Two issues are currently considered particularly relevant for promoting international cooperation: the availability of language resources and the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and products. The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically for building, improving or evaluating natural language and speech algorithms or systems, and in general, as core resources for the software localization and language services industries, for language studies, electronic publishing, international transactions, subject-area specialists and end users. Examples of linguistic resources are written and spoken corpora, computational lexicons, grammars, terminology databases, basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management, customization and use of these and other resources. The relevance of evaluation in Language Engineering is increasingly recognized. This involves assessment of the state-of-the-art for a given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a program, comparing different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and drawbacks, assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application, and finally product benchmarking. It accompanies research and development in Human Language Technologies, and has driven important advances in the recent past in various aspects of both written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international programs, including the US ARPA HLT program, EU Language Engineering projects, the Francophone Aupelf-Uref program and others, particularly in the localization industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unresolved basic research problems. The aim of this Conference is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information on ongoing and planned activities, present language resources and their applications, discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international cooperation in the areas mentioned above. CONFERENCE TOPICS The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which could be addressed by papers submitted to the Conference: - Issues in the design, construction and use of LR (theoretical & best practice) - Guidelines, standards, specifications, models for LR. - Organizational issues in the construction, distribution and use of LR. - Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of LR - Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access and use of LR - Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain-specific LR - Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g., terms, lexical information, language modeling) from LR - Monolingual vs. multilingual LR - National and international activities and projects - LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry. - Industrial production of LR - Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language) - Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (language technology, information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic commerce, etc.) - Industrial LR requirements and the community's response - Analysis of user needs for LR - Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR - Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation - Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR - national and international policies - Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international cooperation - Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, text understanding, summarization, localization, etc) - Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, etc) - Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and off-line machine and handwritten character recognition, etc) - Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems - Qualitative and perceptive evaluation - Evaluation of products and applications - Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems - Situated evaluation of applications - Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures - Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing - Economics of LRs IMPORTANT DATES 1. Submission of summaries for proposed papers: (approximately 800 words): 1 December 1997 E-mail submission in ASCII form is encouraged. Otherwise, five hard copies should be submitted. - E-mail submissions should be sent to lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it - Postal submissions should be sent to Antonio Zampolli - LREC Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR via della Faggiola, 32 56100, Pisa, ITALY 2. Notification of acceptance: 15 February 1998 3. Final version of the paper: 20 April 1998 The papers accepted will be included in the Conference Proceedings. PROGRAM The program will include both papers and poster sessions. In addition, the Program will also include invited speakers, and a number of panels on the major themes of the Conference. In particular, it is planned to organize a panel on various aspects and perspectives of international cooperation, with the participation of representatives of the major European, North American and Asian sponsoring agencies. WORKSHOPS Half-day pre- and post-conference Workshops can be organized, at the request of a presenter, to permit the discussion and debate of topics of current interest. The format of each Workshop will be determined by the Workshop organizer, who will set any necessary deadlines for the participants. The next announcement, to be circulated in September, will provide guidelines on how to submit a proposal for a Workshop to the Program Committee. SYSTEMS AND LR DEMONSTRATIONS Various platforms will be available for language resources and tools presentations and unreferenced systems demonstrations. Organizations interested in presenting systems should contact the local demonstration organizers, whose address will be provided in the next announcement. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE The full composition of the Scientific Committee will be listed in the next announcement. The Conference Chair is Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR and President of ELRA, via della Faggiola, 32, Pisa 56100, Italy). The Secretariat of the Conference is provided by Khalid Choukri (ELRA, 87, Avenue d'Italie, F-75013, Paris, FRANCE). The conference organizing committee consists of: Harald Hoege (Siemens, Munich, Germany). Bente Maegaard (CST, Copenhagen, Denmark), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France), Angel Martin-Municio (President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain), Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy). ********* From: Jean G Anderson <jganders@arts.gla.ac.uk> Subject: COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITIVE LINGUIST Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 17:45:55 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 355 (355) WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS Department of Statistics & Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute University of Glasgow, UK 11, 12 September 1997 Announcement and Call for Registration In recent years techniques from disciplines such as computer science, articficial intelligence and statistics have found their way into the pages of journals such as the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Literary and Linguistic Computing and Computers and the Humanities. While this influx may bring more advanced methods of analysis to the fields of quantitative linguistics, stylometry and stylistics, the demands upon researchers to understand and use these new techniques are great. Familiarity with the appropriate software and the ear of a sympathetic expert are pre-requisites without which the technique may seem out of reach to the average researcher. The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute and the Department of Statistics of the University of Glasgow are hence supporting this practical workshop in Computationally-Intensive Methods in Quantitative Linguistics. The workshop is designed to introduce the participants to four such techniques in a practical environment. Each half-day session will be divided into an introductory session in a lecture theatre and a longer period spent working with software and practical examples. All of the speakers have published papers using the analyses they will present and their aim in this workshop is to enable the participants to return to their home institutions able to carry out these techniques in the course of their own research. The sessions and speakers are as follows: Deconstructing texts with electronic dice: Monte Carlo methods in lexical statistics. Harald Baayen; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Fitting probability distributions to linguistic data. Deductive and explorative methods in synergetic linguistics. Reinhard Koehler; University of Trier, Germany. Evolutionary Computing and Text Categorization. Richard Forsyth; University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. Neural Nets, Principal Component Analysis, Marlowe and Shakespeare. Thomas Merriam; United Kingdom. The workshop will be held in the Boyd Orr Building of the University of Glasgow, commencing on Wednesday 10 September with a reception in the Hunterian Art Gallery. The four workshop sessions will take place on Thursday 11 September and Friday 12 September. There will also be a half day to Loch Lomond and the Glen Goyne whisky distillery on the morning of Saturday 13 September. Accommodation has been arranged in university accommodation with some en suite facilities. Tea and coffee, lunches and evening meals on 11 and 12 September are included in the registration fee. The registration fee is GBP 200.00 and GBP 150.00 for students. For more information about the workshop and to register, please consult the web site at <a href="http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql">http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql</a> or send email to the conference organisers at cimql@stats.gla.ac.uk _______________________________________________________ Jean Anderson Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK email: j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980 <a href="http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/">http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/</a> mailer: Pegasus _______________________________________________________ From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY COMPETITION Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:51:27 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 356 (356) Contact: Guy Lamolinara, Library of Congress (202) 707-9217 Crystal Ashton, Ameritech Library Services (801) 223-5330 GUIDELINES FOR 1997-98 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/AMERITECH NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY COMPETITION NOW AVAILABLE DEADLINE: November 3, 1997 ELIGIBLE SUBJECTS: collections of textual and graphic materials that illuminate United States history and culture for the period 1763-1920. APPLICATION WORKSHOPS: Chicago: Aug. 29; Washington DC: Sept. 8 * * * The Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition Guidelines for 1997-98 are now available. The Guidelines may be used by any nonfederal, tax-exempt, nonprofit (501(c)3) cultural repository in the United States holding primary sources suitable for digitizing and making available on the Internet. To order, view or download the Guidelines, visit the competition's Web site at <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/</a>>. With a $2 million gift from Ameritech, the Library of Congress is sponsoring a competition to enable public, research and academic libraries, museums, historical societies and archival institutions (except federal institutions) to create digital collections of primary resources. These digital collections will complement and enhance the collections made available on the Internet by the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress. The National Digital Library is envisioned as a distributed collection of converted library materials and digital originals to which many American institutions will contribute. The Library of Congress's contribution to this World Wide Web-based virtual library is called American Memory. This is the second year of the competition; 10 institutions received awards last April in the first round of the program. For this competition cycle, applications will be limited to collections of textual and graphic materials that illuminate United States history and culture for the period from 1763-1920. Program staff will be available for individual consultations Aug. 29, during the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Chicago (check program guide for location). A workshop will be held Sept. 8 in Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congress. Call (202) 707-1087 to schedule an individual consultation or use the on-line registration form at the competition Web site (<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award</a>) to sign up for the Sept. 8 workshop. ============================================ 1996/97 AWARD WINNERS Following is a list of the 1996 award winners. Detailed project descriptions are available at <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/award97.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/award97.html</a>> *Brown University: African-American Sheet Music Digitizing Project *Denver Public Library: History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library *Duke University: Historic American Sheet Music Project *Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Frances Loeb Library: American Landscape and Architectural Design,1850-1920: A Study Collection from the Harvard School of Design *New York Public Library: Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection, 1850-1910 *North Dakota State University: The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections *Ohio Historical Society: The African-American Experience in Ohio,1850-1920 *University of Chicago: American Environmental Photographs, 1897-1931 *University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: First-Person Narratives of the American South,1860-1920 *University of Texas, Austin The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jean G Anderson <jganders@arts.gla.ac.uk> Subject: Heritage Lottery Fund IT Survey Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 16:47:10 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 357 (357) Heritage Lottery Fund Information Technology Study The Heritage Lottery Fund has commissioned a study on information technology in the heritage sector which will take place over the next six months. I have appended a brief for the project. The consultants who have been commissioned to carry out the work are the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, led by Dr Seamus Ross. The National Heritage Act 1997 is likely to enable the Heritage Lottery Fund to consider a wide range of new types of projects which have hitherto been ineligible for Lottery funding. There are therefore many new opportunities for using IT in heritage projects. I would be most interested in receiving any information you might have relating to your own work in this area - for example, any studies or reviews you have undertaken, any IT projects in which you have been involved, or any guidelines you have developed on IT projects. I would also welcome any comments you might have on how the HLF might approach the area of information technology. We would appreciate any comments, however brief. Jean Anderson Principal Researcher HATII University of Glasgow ---------- Heritage Lottery Fund and Information Technology Projects Brief for research study Purpose of study 1.To assist in developing a policy framework and funding guidelines to support the Heritage Lottery Fund's wider powers under new legislation to fund projects involving: * compilation and dissemination of information about the heritage * encourage study, understanding and enjoyment of the heritage These new purposes, taken with HLF's established role in funding conservation of the heritage, imply that information technology will play will play a much greater part in future HLF grant activity. HLF wishes to identify the most effective contributions it can make in this field. 2.The new legislation widens the range of HLF's potential projects and applicants. There will be no new lottery funding to meet these demands, and capital projects involving the direct conservation of the heritage will remain a priority. Resources for information technology projects will be finite, and an important objective of the study will be to identify and recommend priorities in the short and medium term. 3.These priorities should take account of government policy on, and parallel developments in the use of information technology, for example in the fields of current information and education, to identify opportunities for HLF to complement other initiatives and avoid duplication. Specific objectives 4.To review (by means of a literature survey and targeted interviews) the established and developing uses of IT in the sectors covered by the HLF: i Built heritage a) Survey and Record b) Archaeology ii Countryside and Nature Conservation a) Survey and Record b) Biological & Natural Records iii Objects (including preserved ships etc.) and Collections (museums, archives, special library collections) 5. To examine the possible future applications and issues raised for the above by: i Databases, including image databases ii Interactive on-site and on-line systems iii Websites 6. To identify requirements for standards (principals for selection rather than particular standards), kinds of applications to be supported (eg database development, interactive systems, software development, hardware) and the issues raised by copyright and intellectual property rights. 7. To examine the issues related to the inclusion of information technology training and skills-development with bids to the Heritage Lottery Fund. 8. To examine dissemination issues and problems associated with improving access and making certain that technology-based projects succeed in reaching a wider user-base and not just the traditionally IT literate communities. 9. To identify policy options, and recommend priorities across the range of areas, in the short (eg first two years) and medium term. 10. To draw up recommended criteria, and guidelines for the material to be submitted by applicants, which are: * comprehensible to non-IT specialists among applicants, HLF staff and trustees * sufficiently robust about priorities to facilitate efficient and economic assessments by HLF 11. To define assessment tests for IT projects, including assessment of commercial viability, and appraisal of economic, cultural and social "market" for projects. 12. To review HLF options and resource implications for inviting/assessing applications for IT projects, including viability of establishing a special programme for IT in the heritage sector. _______________________________________________________ Jean Anderson Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK email: j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980 <a href="http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/">http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/</a> mailer: Pegasus _______________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Kevin Ward <kevin.ward@GSFC.NASA.GOV> Subject: Katharine Sharp Review #5 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:21:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 358 (358) Katharine Sharp Review ISSN 1083-5261 <a href="http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review">http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review</a> The Katharine Sharp Review, the review of student scholarship in library and information science, announces the publication of issue No. 5, Summer 1997! KSR is published by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Articles are available in both HTML and PDF formats. <a href="http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/5/">http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/5/</a> Table of contents: * Karla J. Block - Problem-Based Learning in Medical Education: Issues for Health Sciences Libraries and Librarians * Lisa C. Peterson - Time Management for Library Professionals * Charles D. Bernholz - Weeding the Reference Collection: A Review of the Literature * June Abbas - The Library Profession and the Internet: Implications and Scenarios for Change * Molly M. Moss - Reference Services for Remote Users + + Kevin Ward Editor The Katharine Sharp Review review@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu <a href="http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review">http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review</a> + + From: Neil Beagrie <neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk> Subject: AHDS Announcement Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:22:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 359 (359) Apologies for any cross posting The Arts and Humanities Data Service and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking have organised a series of workshops to explore metadata, Dublin Core, and resource discovery issues. Between March and May 1997 six workshops were organised to cover the subject areas of archaeology; digital sound; electronic texts; history; moving images; and the visual arts, museums and cultural heritage. Each workshop has now produced a final report which is available online. Details and links to these reports are available from: <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ahds/pol/metareps.htm">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ahds/pol/metareps.htm</a> > ************************************************************************ Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076 Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080 The Executive Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: MLA Draft Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:52:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 360 (360) [deleted quotation] I am pleased to report that at long last the draft guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions, under development by the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions for several years, are available for general comment. They are posted on the Sunsite Digital Library server at the University of California, Berkeley: <a href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MLA/intro.html">http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MLA/intro.html</a> INTRODUCTION These draft Guidelines were vetted and tentatively approved in September of 1996 by the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions. They follow the Committee's guidelines for printed scholarly editions as closely as possible. In fact much of the text is drawn word-for-word from the latter; with additions as necessary to accommodate the capabilities of the new media. They are designed to complement Peter Shillingsburg's "General Principles for Electronic Scholarly Editions," a copy of which is also included on the web site. The Guidelines have already been distributed to a small group of experienced scholars and modified on the basis of their comments. I should be very grateful if you could send any comments by 15 September 1997 to the Electronic Scholarly Editions listserv (ese@ra.msstate.edu) for full discussion. Please feel free to notify other scholars of their existence either privately or by posting this notice on appropriate mailing lists. Substantive reactions will be incorporated into a final draft version for discussion by the CSE at its September meeting. The goal is to have a document that enjoys broad support in the scholarly community for adoption by the Committee on Scholarly Editions and ratification by that Committee as an official MLA statement comparable to the current guidelines for printed editions. Many thanks for your help Charles B. Faulhaber U. of California, Berkeley [Humanists particularly interested in the MLA Guidelines will perhaps welcome another reminder of the forthcoming Conference on Editorial Problems, "Computing the edition: Problems in editing for the electronic medium", to be held 7-9 November in Toronto, Canada. Full information may be obtained at <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html</a>>. --WM] From: Terry Kuny <Terry.Kuny@xist.com> Subject: "Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards" Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:33:46 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 361 (361) Metadata Standards" Comments: To: meta2@mrrl.lut.ac.uk To: DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA This notice is being posted to several lists and newsgroups. Please forgive the duplication. CALL FOR PAPERS Special Topic Issue of _JASIS_ "Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards" The next Special Topics Issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) is scheduled to come out in 1999 on the topic of Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards. The guest editor for this special issue will be Zorana Ercegovac who is with the Department of the Library and Information Science, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the InfoEN Associates (www.lainet.com/infoen/). As more heterogeneous objects, including text, become available electronically, people have just started to look at different metadata standards that had independently evolved to identify and describe these objects (e.g., geospatial data such as imagery archives and remotely-sensed datasets; museum and cultural information repositories). These metadata standards (e.g., TEI, FGDC, AACR2) come from different disciplines and reflect different perspectives and traditional cultures. Only recently have we started to "mesh" these different content metadata standards and converge into superstandard schemes. Example is the collaboration between Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Metadata and Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR 2nd ed.) standards. Both standards have a capability to describe cartographic materials but from different perspectives: while, for example, FGDC focuses on coordinate access points, projection, and other spatial, temporal, security, and data quality attributes, AACR2 is entering maps under the author main heading. Similar differences exist in the areas of visual and archival representation. Specific topics of interest, but are not limited to, the following: -- Metadata elements for the representation of digital repositories including networked resources; for example, which elements should be included in a metadata record for images and spatial datasets in general? Which data elements should be included at different levels of detail? -- Federal metadata standards for data-intensive application areas -- Integrating multiple overlapping metadata standards (e.g., AACR2, FGDC) -- Designing a superstandard scheme, or a catalog, of metadata entries -- Multiple levels of metadata for multiple user needs -- Integration of data and its metadata -- Economic implications for the integration of metadata standards for multimedia and heterogeneous digital datasets -- Application-apecific metadata projects from academia, research laboratories, governmental organizations, and industry Inquiries may be made to the guest editor at zercegov@ucla.edu Manuscript submission (four copies of full articles) should be addressed to: Zorana Ercegovac, Ph. D. Department of Library and Information Science Graduate School of Education & Information Studies 222 GSLIS Building University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521 (310)206-9361 (work) (310)391-3923 (fax/voice) zercegov@ucla.edu <a href="http://www/gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html">http://www/gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html</a> The deadline for sumbitting manuscripts for consideration for publication in this special issue is April 30, 1998. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees, and those accepted will be published in a special issue of _JASIS_. Original artwork and a single copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers. A copy of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web as is further information about _JASIS_, at <a href="http://www.asis.org/">http://www.asis.org/</a>. Zorana Ercegovac, Ph. D. Dept of Library and Information Science Graduate School of Education & Information Studies 222 GSLIS Bldg University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521 Tel: 1-310-206-9361 Email: zercegov@ucla.edu <a href="http://www.gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html">http://www.gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: IRAL '97 Program Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:32:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 362 (362) [deleted quotation] Invitation The 2nd International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages -1997 October 8-9, 1997 The Tsukuba Center for Institutes 2-20-5 Takezono, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305 Japan 1. About the Workshop The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and developers who are interested in exchanging new ideas and presenting results of the field of information retrieval, with an emphasis on the issues related to Asian languages and multi-lingual issues.The first International Workshop was held with the name "Information Retrieval with Oriental Languages" on June 28-29, 1996, in Taejon, Korea. With the success of the workshop, the program committee has decided to make it an annual workshop with the new title, "Information Retrieval with Asian Languages", to extend the scope. 2. Program *October 8 (Wednesday)* Plenary session 9:30 Welcome---Co-Chair 9:40 Invited Speech: "Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing"(tentative) Prof. Jun-ichi Tsujii (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) 10:40 Break Chair:Arcot Desai Narasimhalu (National University of Singapore, Singapore) 11:00 "Korean Information Retrieval Model based on the Principles of Word Formation" Min-Jeung Cho, Bo-Hyun Yun & Hae-Chang Rim (Korea University, Korea) 11:30 "Improvements of Natural Language Modeling Approaches with Information Retrieval Techniques and Internet Resources" Lee-Feng Chien, Min-Jer Lee & Hsaio-Tiech Pu (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) 12:00 Lunch Break Chair: Lee-Feng Chien (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) 1:30 "A Construction Method for the Index Represented by a Pointerless Patricia Trie" Masami Shishibori, Masao Fuketa, Kazuaki Ando & Jun-ichi Aoe (University of Tokushima, Japan) 2:00 "Korean Compound Noun Indexing based on Lexical Association and Conceptual Association" Bo-Hyun Yun, Min-Jung Cho & Hae-Chang Rim (Korea University, Korea) 2:30 "Hybrid POS tagging with generalized unknown-word handling" Geunbae Lee, Jeongwon Cha & Jong-Hyeok Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) 3:00 Break Chair: Adachi, Jun (National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan) 3:30 "Structural & Contextual Index Extraction for Chinese Documents" James C.K. Pang, Kam Fai Wong, Boon Toh Low & Vincent Y.S. Lum (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 4:00 "Performance Evaluation of Character-, Word- and N-Gram-Based Indexing for Chinese Text Retrieval" Wai Lam, Chi-Yin Wong & Kam-Fai Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 4:30 "Fast Keyword Extraction of Chinese Documents in a Web Environment" Yuen-Hsien Tseng (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) 5:00 "A Korean Phrasal Indexing using a Greedy Parsing" Min-Jung Kim (Miryang National University, Korea) Hyuk-Chul Kwon (Pusan National University, Korea) 6:30 Evening reception *October 9 (Thusday)* Chair:Kam-Fai Wong(Chinese University, Hong Kong) 9:30 "A Character-based Hierarchical Information Filtering Scheme for Chinese News Filtering Agents" Von-Wun Soo, Pey-Ching Yang, Shih-Hung Wu & Shih-Yao Yang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) 10:00 "Information Retrieval Considering Adaptation to User's Behaviors on the WWW" Koji Eguchi, Hidetaka Ito & Akira Kumamoto (Kansai University, Japan) 10:30 Break Chair:Wu, Mei-Mei ( National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) 11:00 "The Effect of a Proper Handling of Foreign and English Words in Retrieving Korean Text" Sung Hyun Myaeng, Kil-Soon Jeong & Yun-Hyung Kwon (Chungnam National University, Korea) 11:30 "Various Transliterations of Foreign Words in Multilingual Information Retrieval" Jae Sung Lee & Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea) 12:00 Lunch Break Organization Committee meeting Chair: Aoe, Jun-ichi (University of Tokushima, Japan) 1:30 "Experiments on large test collections with probabilistic approaches to Chinese text retrieval" Xiangji Huang & S. E. Robertson (City University London, U.K.) 2:00 "Using Multiple Relevance Feedback Methods for High Retrieval Effectiveness" Kyi Ho Lee & Joon Ho Lee (KORDIC, Korea) Kyu Chul Lee (Chungnam National University, Korea) 2:30 "Informational noise reduction using prunning" Dongwook Shin, Hyojin Nam & Sejin Nam (Chungnam National University, Korea) 3:00 Break Chair: Kwun, Hyuk-Cheol (Pusan National University,Korea) 3:30 "Japanese Compound Nouns Matching For Information Retrieval" Koichi Yamada, Tatsunori Mori & Hiroshi Nakagawa (Yokohama National University, Japan) 4:00 "Design and Evaluation of Semantic-Based Sentence Categorization" Atsushi Fujii, Kentaro Inui, Takenobu Tokunaga & Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) 4:30 "Intelligent Information Retrieval System For the Metadata of Korean Technical Journals" P. K. Rhee & Y. H. Kim (Inha University, Korea) B. S. Sim (SERI, Korea) 5:00 "Voice Retrieval of Mandarin Speech Database" Hsin-min Wang (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Bor-shen Lin & Bo-ren Bai (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) 5:30 Closing *The Workshop Organization Committee Tetsuya Ishikawa (University of Library and Information Science, Japan) Co-Chair Sung H. Myaeng (Chungnam of National University Taejon, Korea) Co-Chair Lee-Feng Chien (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Arcot Desai Narasimhalu (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) Kam-Fai Wong (Chinese Univ., Hong Kong) *Program Committee Choi, Key-Sun (KAIST, Korea) Kim, Young Whan (Korea Telecom, Korea) Kwun, Hyuk-Chul (Pusan National Univ., Korea) Lee, Guen Bae (Pohang Univ., Korea) Lee, Joon Ho (KORDIC, Korea) Moon, Sung Been (Yonsei Univ., Korea) Myaeng, Sung H. (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) Rim, Hae-Chang (Korea Univ., Korea) Shin, Dongwook (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) Adachi, Jun (National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan) Aoe, Jun-ichi (Univ. of Tokushima, Japan) Ishikawa, Tetsuya (Univ. of Lib. & Info. Science, Japan) Fujishiro, Issei (Ochanomizu Univ.,Japan) Matsui, Kunio (Fujitsu, Japan) Nakagawa,Hiroshi (Yokohama National Univ., Japan) Nishida, Toyoaki (Nara Institute of Science & Tech., Japan) Ogawa, Yasushi (Ricoh, Japan) Tamura, Naoyoshi (Yokohama National Univ., Japan) Tokunaga, Tekenobu (Tokyo Institute of Tech., Japan) Arcot Desai Narasimhalu (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) MunKew Leong (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) Paul Wu (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) Chien, Lee-Feng (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Wu, Mei-Mei (Natioanl Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) Dik L. Lee (Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Kam-Fai Wong(Chinese Univ., Hong Kong) Xiling Zhou(Beijing Information Technology Institute, China) * Cooperations ACM-SIGIR SIG-KLP (Korean Language Processing of Korean Information Science Society) SIG-NLP (Natural Language Processing of Information Processing Society of Japan) SIG-DBS (Data Base Systems of Information Processing Society of Japan) Japanese Association for Natural Language Processing ACM Hong Kong Chapeter * Registration Regular: 20,000 Yen, Full-time student: 10,000 Yen. The regular fee includes a copy of Proceedings and an Evening Reception(10/8) ticket which is not included in the student registration fee. Additional tickets for the evening reception can be purchased with 5,000 Yen. Payment must be in cash only. Please read the '<a href="http://www.ulis.ac.jp:9090/~ishikawa/iral-1997/index.html'">http://www.ulis.ac.jp:9090/~ishikawa/iral-1997/index.html'</a> that includes the registration form, map, hotel list, and so on. * Registration form -----Please send Registration form to iral97@ulisdio.ulis.ac.jp.------ Title--- Prof / Dr / Mr / Ms Name (Family name)--- (Given name)--- Affiliation--- Position--- Postal address--- Country--- E-mail--- Fax--- Accompanied by Mr / Ms --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Allen Renear <ALLEN@BROWNVM.BITNET> Subject: CFP: TEI 10th Anniversary (Reminder) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 17:36:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 363 (363) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***** ABSTRACTS DUE AUGUST 20!!! ***** TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE TENTH ANNIVERSARY USER CONFERENCE <a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/">http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/</a> November 14-16, 1997 Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, USA Sponsored by Brown University Computing and Information Services Brown University Libraries - o - To commemorate the tenth anniversary of its founding, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is sponsoring its first user conference, to be held 14-16 November 1997 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The TEI was established at an international planning meeting on text encoding standards, held at Vassar College on November 12-13, 1987. The TEI is sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange were published in spring of 1994. They provide an extensive SGML-based scheme for encoding electronic texts across a wide spectrum of text types and suitable for any kind of application. The Guidelines have already achieved wide-scale implementation in projects throughout North America and Europe. The TEI conference will bring together users of the TEI Guidelines in order to share ideas, experiences, and expertise, provide a forum for technical discussion and evaluation of the Guidelines as they have been implemented across a variety of applications. The topics include but are not limited to: o reports on the use of the TEI scheme in a particular project or in a particular application area or discipline o reports from particular user communities such as the builders and designers of electronic text centers, digital libraries, language corpora, electronic editions, multi-media databases, etc. o evaluations of the TEI scheme as applied to a particular class of texts or in a particular type of scholarly research o technical discussions of particular encoding problems and solutions such as unusual or complex text types, multi-media, multiple views or information types, multi-lingual data and internationalization, textual variation, overlap, etc. o papers on customization and extension of the TEI for particular application areas and text types o reports on experience using off-the-shelf software with TEI documents, or developing software to handle TEI material o discussions of markup theory and markup architectures, with particular reference to the TEI o discussions of the TEI in the light of developments in the larger computing community (the Web, XML, ...) A portion of the conference will also be devoted to consideration of the future of the TEI. Possible topics to be discussed include the organization of the project, membership on the component committees, priorities, and new work items to be proposed to the Technical Review Committee. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions of at least 1500 words should be sent by August 20, 1997. Email submissions or a URL where the submission can be retrieved should be sent to tei10@stg.brown.edu. Submissions in TEI Lite are preferred, but full TEI or (valid!) HTML 3.2 is acceptable. If it is not possible to submit in one of these forms, please contact tei10_program@stg.brown.edu to make special arrangements. Papers should include complete references to related work and should clearly identify the main problem being addressed, other similar projects and their relation to this project, the main and original contribution of the paper, and remaining or open problems. Authors are also asked to indicate if this paper is or will be submitted elsewhere. Notification of acceptance will be made by September 20, 1997. Final versions of full papers will be due by October 15, 1997. An electronic conference proceedings will be published; other publication details will be forthcoming. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: * Nancy Ide, Vassar College * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Susan Armstrong, University of Geneva * Winfried Bader, German Bible Society * David Barnard, University of Regina (Sask.) * Lou Burnard, Oxford University Computing Services * Tom Corns, University of Wales, Bangor * Steve DeRose, Inso Corp. * David Gants, University of Georgia * Dan Greenstein, King's College, London * Susan Hockey, University of Alberta * Stig Johansson, University of Oslo * Judith Klavans, Columbia University * Terry Langendoen, University of Arizona * Elli Mylonas, Brown University * John Price-Wilkin, University of Michigan * Gary Simons, Summer Institute of Linguistics * Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo * Syun Tutiya, Chiba University * Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: On program and paper submissions: tei10_program@stg.brown.edu About local arrangements: tei10@stg.brown.edu URL: <a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/">http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/</a> FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEI: URL: <a href="http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/">http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: James O'Donnell <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Subject: cybercafes in Europe Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:26:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 364 (364) Foreseeing a trip, I would like to know if cybercafes in Europe are likely to have telnet capability -- to get at my e-mail. I'm happy to sneak into telnet through netscape (open location of the form <a href="telnet://hostname.domain.edu">telnet://hostname.domain.edu</a>) and in worst case could imagine getting my e-mail by ftp, but would appreciate any reassurance or caution from experienced voyagers. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn. jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: distributed work? Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:44:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 365 (365) Dear Colleagues: My stay in Wales, near the village of Llandewi Brefi, which is itself near Lampeter (see your Ordnance Survey map 146, Landranger series) is over. No more waking to the sounds of sheep, cows and horses. If only, I thought, a fast Internet connection were possible without great expense, then life there, as I know it, would be possible. How sharp dropping out would be otherwise, i.e. as things stand. (An account at the University in Lampeter would serve basic needs from Llandewi Brefi, but the cost would be prohibitively high, I would suppose.) Yet another way of sensing how much computing has changed in the last decade. Places like many in Wales, or in a number of other places, could support vigorous collaborative work & businesses of various kinds by use of the Internet and Fax. It would be interesting to hear from Humanists who know about any trends toward geographically distributed academic and commercial work by the Internet. Is the possibility being realised? A seemingly wonderful prospect, to be able to live in a Welsh village community yet not give up the connections. Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Ken Tompkins <ktomkin@earthlink.net> Subject: Word Processors for Humanists Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:20:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 366 (366) Willard.... I have read the recurring statements on Humanist about word processors for humanists, what capabilities we want, etc. I can remember you and others suggesting that we need to identify what we want and try to influence those who produce them to incorporate our ideas. It is with that as background that I draw your attention to a statement in the most recent issue of _Lingua Franca_. In an article on Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, there appears the following: "Now that hundreds of thousands of people make use of free software, what's next? A web browser, for one. Stallman also plans to develop word processing software. It's a tantalizing notion, one that might bring Stallman's ideas more directly into the mainstream. Instead of waiting the years it takes for Microsoft to release ( and charge for) a new update of its popular Word program, users of Stallman's software could email directly to the FSF site. Scientists could modify the program to deal with complex mathematical notations, while humanists might help develop the ultimate poststructuralist thesaurus. These specialized versions would each be available for downloading on the Internet. All that would be missing would be the shrink wrap and the styrofoam." (pp. 47-48) So, there is a possibility, at last, that we might get the program we want. ken tompkins ======================================== Ken Tompkins Richard Stockton College of NJ ktomkin@earthlink.net <a href="http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharram/wharram.htm">http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharram/wharram.htm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: exteriorising Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:47:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 367 (367) Some argue that the development of our species is tied intimately to our inventions, at least those which exteriorise our mental life. Thus the written record exteriorises memory, even more so the computer, which can give virtual substance to something like our processes of thought. The degree to which we depend on our external environment for proper operation of mind is suggested by the common trauma of moving from one culture to another, and this (I am told) is exacerbated by a move that involves a change of language. My own experience has been quite striking, especially considering that British and N. American cultures are, as these things go, quite similar. Temporary moves are not a good test, I would guess, not even for a year or so, say on a sabbatical; it's the one-way trip that brings out the deep relationship between mental functioning and one's environment. Such experiences lead one to think about the arts of memory, but I raise the matter here because it seems to me that there is much for us to think about in the relation between our use of computers and the way we may be going as a species. This sounds more than a bit over the top, but I think it's worth entertaining as a possibility. Apocalyptic thoughts should, I suppose, be taken cum grano salis, but seeds of great changes start off small. What led me to recall the trauma of displacement was musing with a friend of mine about how difficult it sometimes is to, as I put it, shrink back into the physical body after sending my mind out into the world through the Internet. The compelling thing is often not writing to this or that particular individual, or accessing this or that Web site, rather it is simply *being online*. Of course one has such experiences, or something very much like them, when reading a good novel, say, but it seems to me that the online world is much more a matter of the vehicle. We open a channel of communication, and what turns out to be the most significant fact is the open channel, not what comes through it. Living like this, how can we not become rather different? But where is this pushing us? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Lorna Hughes <Lorna.Hughes@nyu.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0225 European cybercafes Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:02:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 368 (368) Jim and others, Remember the days when we planned our trips abroad around museums, galleries and concerts? Now it seems that when I'm in Europe I spend more time working out how to access my e-mail than anything else. It is either a symptom that this is truly an electronic age, at the cutting edge of dynamic communications exchange we can't afford to miss, or a symptom that I really need to get a life... Anyway, I have had lots of adventures trying to access my e-mail when I'm in Europe (but I'll spare you the grisly details). However, my research has concluded that the cybercafe is truly a great invention, where accessing your e-mail is as easy as grabbing a cup of overpriced cappucino. Most major cities have such an establishment now, and they are listed in most guide books (The "Rough Guide" series and the "Time Out" guides generally list them). There is even a list of European cybercafes on-line at <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~bertb/index.html">http://www.xs4all.nl/~bertb/index.html</a> I've used Cyberia in London for the last couple of years, and I think it is fairly typical of most of CyberCafes. They generally have a long wait for computers at peak periods (lunchtimes and after work) so it is a good idea to call ahead and schedule time on the computer. That way you can do a little bit of sightseeing while waiting for your computer. They have Telnet capability as well as Netscape on all their machines. And you can always justify your presence in such places in anthropological terms - your average cybercafe is truly the Rick's cafe of the 90's ("in the end, they all come to the Cybercafe") - you have wandering scholars checking their e-mail, students surfing the net, people doing business on the mobile phone while accessing their ISP, illegal gambling (alright, I made up the last bit). Anyway, it is all good fun. I'm looking forward to my European trip already... Lorna --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Academic Computing Facility Fax: (212) 995 4120 New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: Update on UNESCO WORLD INFORMATION REPORT Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:39:52 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 369 (369) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 13, 1997 ************************************************************** As I have received a number of calls, resulting from the July 30 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT posting, asking how to obtain a copy of the UNESCO WORLD INFORMATION REPORT, I thought I would clarify a few points. ============================================================== "UNESCO WORLD INFORMATION REPORT 1997, 390 pp., 21 x 30 cm ISBN: 92-3-103341-7 Price: 275 FF "Written by leading experts from around the world, this first World Information Report provides a global and topical picture of archive, library and information services in the five continents and addresses the most challenging issues that they face at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Publié également en français : Rapport mondial sur l'information 1997/98 ISBN 92-3-203341-0 / 275 FF ============================================================== * The above UNESCO WORLD INFORMATION REPORT may be ordered directly online (by mailing or faxing in an order form) at: <<a href="http://www.unesco.org/publishing/jp2.html">http://www.unesco.org/publishing/jp2.html</a>> * The Report may be obtained in the U.S. from the two official UNESCO distribution centers: 1. Bernan Associates (ex UNIPUB), 4611-F Assembly Drive, Lanham, MD 20706-4391, tel. : 1 800-274-4447, fax : (301) 459-0056 . 2. United Nations Bookshop General Assembly Building, New York, NY 10017, tel. : (212) 963 76 80, fax : (1-212) 963 4910, e-mail : bookshop@un.org. * If necessary, the Report may be ordered directly from UNESCO Publishing in Paris: UNESCO Publishing, Promotion and Sales Division, 1, rue Miollis F - 75732 Paris Cedex 15 France; Fax: +33 01 45 68 57 41; E-Mail: c.laje@unesco.org. Details of how to order and pay may be found at <<a href="http://www.unesco.org/general/eng/publish/order2.html">http://www.unesco.org/general/eng/publish/order2.html</a>> * An introduction, overview and description of the chapter authors is available at <<a href="http://www.unesco.org/webworld/wirerpt/report.htm">http://www.unesco.org/webworld/wirerpt/report.htm</a>> * Ten of the Report's 27 chapters are available online at the above URL (see NINCH homepage for links to three of the chapters of most interest to the cultural community: <<a href="http://www.ninch-cni.org">http://www.ninch-cni.org</a>>) =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: luigi monga <monga@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu> Subject: hand-held scanners and the libraries Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 06:11:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 370 (370) Dear Friends, Since some of the European libraries where I am doing my research don't offer microfilming services, I am considering using a hand-held optical scanner (of the small and non-obtrusive persuasion) to obtain an image of the page (manuscript or book). I am told that a high-density diskette would hold about twenty images, and this is quite satisfactory. I have, however, a couple of questions. The first, obviously, is the legality (or "permissibility") of such an operation: does anyone know what is the common practice re: scanners in European and US libraries? Are they allowed, and if so, under what circumstances? The second question is the quality of the image obtained (I'd be happy with a good black and white one). My third question could be what kind, brand name, etc. of scanner to buy... Thanks for any help and suggestions! Luigi Monga Luigi Monga Professor of French and Italian Box 1660 Station B 1903 Linden Avenue Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37212 Nashville, TN 37235 tel. 615-292-5887 tel. 615-322-6900 fax: 615-343-6909 From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" <brians@mail.wsu.edu> Subject: Display software for the Mac? Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:58:20 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 371 (371) I am about to start using a newly-equipped classroom which will allow me to do computer-based presentations but I will be lacking the second screen which my old software demanded and I need to choose something new. I will be displaying high-resolution, 16-bit color graphic images, mostly of fine art on a big screen, plus some text, some maps. Hardly any graphs, bullet charts, etc. I need something fast, easy to use, and--most important--which will let me alter my presentation on the fly (skip ahead five screens, jump back two, choose an image at random from a menu, etc.). The software must run on a Mac. Any suggestions would be welcome. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu <a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians">http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Carl Vogel <Carl.Vogel@cs.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: 11.0226 influencing software development Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 00:26:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 372 (372) [deleted quotation]next? A web browser, for one. Stallman also plans to develop word processing software. It's a tantalizing notion, one that might bring Stallman's ideas more directly into the mainstream. Instead of waiting the years it takes for Microsoft to release ( and charge for) a new update of its popular Word program, users of Stallman's software could email directly to the FSF site. Scientists could modify the program to deal with complex mathematical notations, while humanists might help develop the ultimate poststructuralist thesaurus. These specialized versions would each be available for downloading on the Internet. All that would be missing would be the shrink wrap and the styrofoam." (pp. 47-48)< one might argue that LaTeX already implements this. it's free. it's powerful. it meshes with GNU. and it's mainstream, depending on your stream. i'd argue that folks needn't hassle Stallman over their desires for word processing, but should investigate the time savings that would emerge from defining abstract document and bibliography classes under latex and bibtex. The specialized facilities already exist; it'd be a waste of resources to reinvent them. kind regards, carl From: "N. Heer" <heer@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0226 influencing software development Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:59:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 373 (373) We already have Richard Stallman's editor, Emacs, and it can be used with Donald Knuth's typesetter, TeX. Both are in the public domain and can be downloaded from many sites. You don't have to use TeX with Emacs; you can use it with any editor. I've used TeX with PCWrite (an old shareware program) for years and have always preferred TeX to any word processor put out by a commercial company like Microsoft. TeX will do anything you want it to, once you learn the proper markup language. There are also versions of TeX for languages written in non-Latin scripts. I use ArabTeX, developed by Klaus Lagally for Arabic-script languages. If you want to do something with ArabTeX that it's not yet designed to do, all you have to do is write to Lagally and he'll incorporate a way to do it in his next version. Would Microsoft ever be so accommodating? Nicholas Heer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nicholas L. Heer, Professor Emeritus Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization University of Washington, Box 353120, Seattle, WA 98195-3120, USA E-Mail: heer@u.washington.edu Telephone: 206-325-0852 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: Ted Parkinson <parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0226 influencing software development Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:22:48 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 374 (374) Perhaps I'm misremembering, but I thought Stallman et al had already done this. It's called "Emacs" and while it's true that it's only a text "editor," it's free and does lots of things with multiple windows, and when used in conjunction with something like LaTex, it manages to be very flexible for the relatively few people who want to spend the time learning it. Also, there already _is_ a free web browser: it's called "Microsoft Explorer." However, the thought of users and "scientists" re-hacking a program on an ongoing basis is a little frightening. I've used Nota Bene for years, and it's an _excellent_ program with most everything a Humanist could want, but its creators started with an excellent product (XYWrite), employed talented programmers, learned support people and several sales and office staff, and still have had problems (in the past) with upgrades and stability, not to mention marketing. Ted Parkinson, English, McMaster, Ontario, Canada parkinsn@mcmail.mcmaster.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com> Subject: AMICO Documents Available Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:59:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 375 (375) ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE Please excuse any duplication ... The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) is founding the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO). The members of this new not-for-profit organization will build a shared library of digital documentation of their collections for licensing and distribution to the educational community. A formal invitation to form the Consortium was issued by Hugh Davies, President of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) on August 7, 1997. Founding Members of AMICO are invited to attend the Consortium's inaugural meeting, September 22-23, 1997 at the Art Institute of Chicago. The founding of AMICO follows a number of planning meetings, where over 70 representatives from art museums in the United States and Canada defined the terms of their collaboration. Together these museums will build a shared library of digital documentation of their collections for licensing and distribution to the educational community. AMICO will build a collective Library, comprised of multimedia works (at least text and image) documenting the collections of its member museums. Products derived from that Library, which may or may not include value-added indexing and retrieval tools, will be offered to different markets under specific licenses and through a number of distribution channels A set of agreements reflecting this consensus were drafted by Archives & Museum Informatics, who acted as consultants and facilitators throughout the AMICO planning process. These include frameworks for organizing the Consortium, governing its strategic planning, developing a standards-based approach to the distribution of the AMICO Library, and defining its products and licenses. Key among these are the draft University and Museum licenses, that outline the terms under which the library will be offered to these communities. Next on the licensing agenda is the drafting of K-12 educational and public library licenses, as the museums involved have active educational programs that are already reaching these communities. This work will continue in tandem with plans for a testbed distribution of a significant Library of digital documentation to a limited number of universities in the Fall of 1998. AMICO's framework documents are now available for public comment at <a href="http://www.amn.org/AMICO">http://www.amn.org/AMICO</a> Questions regarding AMICO can be directed to: Maxwell Anderson Liaison for Information Technology Association of Art Museum Directors max_anderson@ago.net or Jennifer Trant or David Bearman Archives & Museum Informatics jtrant@archimuse.com or dbear@archimuse.com -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museums Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: WRITERS LOSE COPYRIGHT CASE Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:36:40 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 376 (376) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 14, 1997 An extremely important and telling piece of news is contained in the following News Release from the National Writers Union. The NWU president, Jonathan Tasini, lost a recent court case against several major publishers and electronic database operators. The claim was that the publishers were commercially re-distributing previously published writers' works on their electronic outlets without the permission of the writers and without compensating them. The publishers involved are: The New York Times, Newsday, Sports Illustrated, Lexis/Nexis and the UMI Company. The NWU is considering both an appeal and legislative action to counter this court decision. David Green ======================================================================= NEWS RELEASE August 13, 1997 Contact: Ann Filloramo or Tisha Davis-Memminger Phone: (212) 254-0279 WRITERS CONSIDER APPEAL, LEGISLATIVE ACTION IN WAKE OF COPYRIGHT LAWSUIT DECISION [deleted quotation] From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: AMICO; Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:57:14 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 377 (377) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 14, 1997 CANADIAN INITIATIVE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) TO BE FORMALLY INAUGURATED The following two announcements are of new consortia that have recently been formed. The first is the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (CIDL), created to foster greater coordination of Canadian digital library resources. The second is the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), which after many months of detailed planning, is being formally inaugurated this September. AMICO will build a shared library of digital images and documentation of art museums' collections for licensing and distribution to the educational community. David Green ------------------------------------------------------------------ Announcing the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries A new alliance of Canadian libraries interested in improving communication and coordination in the development of Canadian digital library resources has been formed. The Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (CIDL) will provide a forum for: *sharing information and experience related to digital libraries, *discussing best practices in areas such as digitization, metadata, encoding, rights management, etc., *defining roles and responsibilities for long-term archiving of Canadian digital resources, *raising awareness of Canadian digital library activities both in Canada and internationally, *and discussing many other issues including training, funding, interoperability, public access, etc. CIDL will be directed by a steering committee elected in the Fall 1997 from member libraries, and there will be subgroups on specific issues. CIDL is open to all Canadian libraries. For more information on CIDL--its mandate, objectives, proposed activities, how to become a member, etc.--and to find some other useful information on digital library development, please see our site at <a href="http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cidl/">http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cidl/</a> Gwynneth Evans Director-General, National and International Programs National Library of Canada gwynneth.evans@nlc-bnc.ca **************************************************************** ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE [See Jennifer Trant's message, above] From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: Scanning Conference Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:50:05 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 378 (378) NINCH ANNOUNCMENT August 14, 1997 SCHOOL FOR SCANNING: Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections November 3-5, 1997 New York Academy of Medicine, NYC The Northeast Document Conservation Center presents the following conference: School for Scanning: Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections. November 3-5, 1997; At the New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Ave. (at 103rd St.), NYC What is the School for Scanning? A seminar that will take the mystery out of digital technology while training participants in: * The Basics of Digital Technology; * File Formats; Content Selection for Digitization; * Legal Issues; * Text and Image Scanning; * Quality Control and Costs; * Metadata; * Digital Preservation; * World Wide Web Applications; * CD-ROM Publications. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? If you are an archivist, curator, interpreter, librarian, historic preservation specialist, registrar, or other cultural or natural resource manager dealing with paper-based collections, you will be interested in attending the School for Scanning. No prior knowledge of digital media is required. WHO ARE THE FACULTY? Steve Dalton, NEDCC; Howard Besser, University of California at Berkeley; Steve Chapman, Harvard University; Paul Conway, Yale University Library; Richard Ekman, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Franziska Frey, Image Permanence Institute; Janet Gertz, Columbia University; Kevin Guthrie, JSTOR; Paul Handly, National Park Service; Melissa Smith Levine, Library of Congress; Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration; Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University; Maxine Sitts, Commission on Preservation and Access; Roy Tennant, University of California at Berkeley; Diane van der Reyden, Conservation Analytical Laboratory; Diane Vogt-O Connor, National Park Service; and Stuart Weibel, OCLC. WHAT DOES THE CONFERENCE COST? The cost of the seminar is $255 including lunches. All participants will also be responsible for all their travel and lodging costs. The number of participants is limited and registration applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. The deadline to register is October 17, 1997. For more information about NEDCC and a calendar of workshops and seminars, visit NEDCC s homepage at <<a href="http://www.nedcc.org">http://www.nedcc.org</a>>. For more information or to request a flier with a registration form, contact Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810-1494; 508 470-1010; <tracy@nedcc.org>. Gay S. Tracy Public Relations Coordinator Northeast Document Conservation Center 100 Brickstone Square Andover MA 01810-1494 Tel 508 470-1010 Fax 508 475-6021 <tracy@nedcc.org> Web site: <a href="http://www.nedcc.org">http://www.nedcc.org</a> =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: EFL Teaching Position in Korea Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:56:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 379 (379) Jeonju University from Korea is looking for an English native speaker who can teach English conversation to Undergraduate students, children, and adults. One position is available on Sept. 1, 1997. 7-8 positions will be available in March, 1998. The qualification and payment are as follows: i) MA or Ph.D. in EFL, TESOL, Education, English, Linguistics is preferred. ii) Teaching experience is preferred. iii) 10 month contract first year and 12 month contract next year iv) one-way air-fare, free apartment v) 15 hours/week teaching vi) 4 weeks paid vacation (2 weeks during summer and winter) If you need more information, please contact me by E-mail or fax, or send your CV with transcipt to me: Dr. Byong-seon Yang Director International Cooperation and Education Jeonju University Chonju, Korea fax) 82-652-220-2464 tel) 82-652-220-2122, 2213 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: not joking Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:12:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 380 (380) Two items to lighten your mental load, from the Thursday Guardian, the main section, pp. 2 and 3. (1) "It's good to talk to a petrol pump". These days it seems that many service devices, such as traffic lights, petrol (gas) pumps, drinks dispensers and public toilets, have their own telephone lines and modems so that they can call in to report problems. "Automation, while failing to deliver on many promises (self-propelled vacuum cleaners, robot lawnmowers), has managed to give us the mechanical nuisance caller. Self-diagnosing machines, sitting on the end of their own telephone lines, are programmed to ring control points to report faults or other problems. But when the wrong telephone number is programmed, those at the wrong end of the line can be driven up the wall. This is because the machines often dial tirelessly, on and on, until someone stops them.." The British Telephone Nuisance Calls Bureau reports that, "We've had a soft-drinks machine which has run out of drinks ringing every few minutes and a medical fridge full of insulin trying to raise the alarm because the temperature had fallen.... In another case, an elderly woman was rung throughout the night by a public lavatory in a part trying to report a fault." This is more annoying than you might think, because these devices do not generate any tone but remain entirely silent, so that the one rung can mistake such a call for a malicious event. (2) "An online service to die for: your very own virtual headstone". Right, this is about Britain's first online cemetery. "There will be no need to walk to the gravestone of loved ones to pay your condolences, only to click on their virtual headstone.... 'We are seeking to bring back the dignity to funerals,' said Mr. [David] Wilkinson [Methodist preacher from Clevedon, near Bristol], who works at an estate agent's [information that will add much meaning to his comments for anyone who has recently purchased a house in London]...." I couldn't possibly comment. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: galloway@archives1.mdah.state.ms.us Subject: Re: 11.0231 exteriorising mind, and the cybercafe Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:16:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 381 (381) Willard, Sherry Turkle's latest opus, Life on the Screen, speaks a little bit to this theme. IMHO, for most westerners, who no longer spend much time exploring the timeless and boundless "inner space" that we have called "spirituality", being online in cyberspace--which we endow with the same timelessness and boundlessness--is an analogue and substitute, but like other spiritual exercises it can be taken to excess.... Aren't there people who suggest that cyberspace is Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere come into being? Pat Galloway From: BRUNI <jbrun@eagle.cc.ukans.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0231 exteriorising mind Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:56:25 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 382 (382) [deleted quotation] Ever since Descartes's postulation of the mind/body split, we seem to have had a fairly rigid conception of what defines the physical "body." This belief, when extrapolated to the experience of cyberspace, leads us to assume that we lose, or cannot sustain, the experience of a "real body" once we enter cyberspace. This means, then, that bodies in cyberspace are somehow seen as "different" from bodies in real spaces. Indeed, the body, in Gibson's popular description of cyberspace, found in his cyberpunk novel *Neuromancer*, becomes nothing more than "meat." Leaving the body--a desire that comes right out of Western metaphysics--is, however, a rather privileged notion; for only those who have the access to powerful computer-based technology can take part in this illusion. The belief that one can become "bodiless" in cyberspace, furthered by high-tech slight-of-hand, merely and conveniently "forgets" that the body is always there, only partially "hidden" from us and the larger social world (that determines what bodies are and can be) as we sit in front of our computers... John Bruni English Department University of Kansas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0230 hand-held scanners? Mac display software? Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:47:51 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 383 (383) For one thing, I found years ago that CAERE's THE TYPIST handscanner was not good at all. Dont spend money on it. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Margaret Lantry <mlantry@imbolc.ucc.ie> Subject: Re: 11.0230 hand-held scanners? Date: 14 Aug 1997 09:54:55 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 384 (384) Re the legality of using hand-held scanners. Remember that using a scanner is similar to photocopying: EU law states that no more than 5% (correct me someone if this is incorrect) of a text can be copied or more than one chapter of a book, and then the text copied can only be used for non-commercial purposes (e.g. your own research). I know that some years ago in the University of Cambridge Library use of hand-held scanners was prohibited, but this may have changed. Why not browse the webpages of libraries you intend visiting and emailing them to ask? Do these scanners need a power source other than batteries: would you be permitted to plug into the library's sockets? Margaret L. =================================================== Margaret Lantry Managing Editor CELT Project Computer Centre University College Cork <a href="http://www.ucc.ie/celt/">http://www.ucc.ie/celt/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: _Kairos_ Expands Staff, Board for 1997-98 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 14:18:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 385 (385) [deleted quotation] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Please distribute freely, in part or whole. ---------------------------------------------------------- _KAIROS_ REVAMPS STAFF, BOARD FOR 1997-98 ACADEMIC YEAR 14 August 1997 Compiled from E-Mail and MOO Transcripts DALLAS, TX -- The editorial team of _Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_ is pleased to announce the addition of twelve new members, who will join the _Kairos_ staff and board beginning immediately for the production cycle of issue 2.2 (Fall 1997). _Kairos_ is a hypertext journal exploring pedagogical and scholarly uses of hypertext, written in hypertextual format(s). It is designed to serve as a resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing, including: Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, Literature, and a broad base of Humanities curricula. _Kairos_ is sponsored by the Alliance for Computers and Writing and hosted by the English Server at Texas Tech University. The most significant change for _Kairos_ involves Michael J. Salvo's move from the position of Managing Editor to a position on the Editorial Board. Salvo has been Managaing Editor for _Kairos_ since Day One of the journal's inception, and has become synonymous with the _Kairos_ project at conferences and in online environments. Salvo is pursuing other projects toward completing his doctoral work at Texas Tech, but will also stay involved with _Kairos_ in an advisory role. Moving into the position of Managing Editor is Claudine Keenan of the Penn State Lehigh Valley Campus. Keenan has spent the last year as Sections Editor for _Kairos_, responsible for the News, Reviews, and Response sections of the journal. According to _Kairos_ Links Editor Greg Siering, "Since Claudine took over the Sections Editor position, the scope of that job has grown immensely, with even larger prospects for the future. And while she's been doing an incredible job, as I told (_Kairos_ Editor Mick Doherty) on the phone, I don't want us to be responsible for Claudine's brain exploding. So I feel that giving [her] more managerial responsibilities and hiring her some help for some of the sections that have been growing each issue will be a good step for us." To provide that help, _Kairos_ has created three new positions for the editorial staff: Reviews Editor, News Editor, and Response Editor. Filling those positions will be Nick Carbone of Marlboro College; Patty Ericsson of Michigan Tech University; and Jenn Bowie of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Carbone, a two-year member of the _Kairos_ Editorial Board, is completing doctoral work at the University of Massachusetts. He has been a frequent contributor to _Kairos_ over the last two years, publishing in the News, Reviews, and LoggingOn sections. He will be responsible for determining what books, software, websites, and other resources should be reviewed, assigning those reviews to particular authors, and recruiting and working with coordinators of special _Kairos_ sections such "The E-List" and "PaperText." Ericsson will enter the doctoral program at Michigan Tech University in the Fall of 1998 after 15 years of teaching and administration at Dakota State University, where she also founded the DSU Online Writing Lab (OWL). Ericsson claims that "my most recent publication proves that online publications [are the] only way to go -- it was written four years before it was finally published in the very book it was originally written for!" She will be responsible for coordinating the _Kairos_ InterMOOs, Calls For Participation Resource, Conference Roundup Reviews and other pertinent online pedagogy news. Bowie has just completed her bachelor's degree in Communication at Rensselaer, where she will begin the graduate program in Rhetoric and Technical Communication in this Fall. Her hypertext fiction web "A Drink with Morte" won the McKinney Award for best undergraduate electronic fiction writing, and she has led several MOO workshops on gender-fair language in professional writing situations. Bowie will be responsible for revamping "_Kairos_ Interactive," soliciting feedback for publication in the journal, and for coordinating a series of _Kairos_ "Meet The Author" and "Roundtable Discussion" MOO sessions. Also joining the _Kairos_ team in the position of Chief Copy Editor is Sandye Thompson of Texas Woman's University. Thompson has spent the last year as a member of the journal's copy team, and also coordinated the inaugural edition of "The E-List" for the Fall 1996 issue (1.3). She is completing doctoral work at TWU, and has book chapters in press regarding MOOspace and hypertext, gender and electronic communication, and the reconceptualization of "publication" in MOOspace. She will work with Assistant Editor Amelia DeLoach in coordinating a still-developing team of copy editors during _Kairos_ production cycles. In addition to Doherty, Keenan, Siering, and DeLoach, returnees to the _Kairos_ Editorial Staff are Production Manager/Graphics Editor Jason Cranford Teague and Coverweb Editor Douglas Eyman. The reconfiguration of the staff is accompanied by a similar expansion of the Editorial Board, as another wave of some of the finest scholars in computers, writing & pedagogy have agreed to offer their talents to the journal's peer review process over the next year. A position on the _Kairos_ Editorial Board focuses on interactive peer commentary with contributing authors of Feature, News, Review and Coverweb materials, in a non-blind review process. As the invitation to these new Board members stated, "This is a new kind of peer review, and to be blunt, we are making it up as we go along. Each member of the current Editorial Board has been encouraged to develop his or her own style of reviewing, and to make that style as author-specific as possible." Joining Salvo -- one of the primary architects of the non-blind interactive peer review process -- as new members of the Editorial Board are nine fresh faces: John Barber, Northwestern State University of Louisiana; Kris Blair, Bowling Green State University; Michael Day, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Keith Dorwick, University of Illinois-Chicago.; Cynthia Haynes, University of Texas at Dallas; Jan Rune Holmevik, University of Bergen INorway); Beth Kolko, University of Texas at Arlington; Pam Takayoshi, University of Louisville; and Todd Taylor, University of North Carolina. Returning for a second year on the Board are Joel English, Ball State University; Dene Grigar, Texas Woman's University; Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Purdue University; Judith Kirkpatrick, Kapi'olani Community College; Susan Lang, Southern Illinois University; Ted Nellen, Murry Bergtrum High School of New York; Anthony Rue, University of Florida; and Cindy Wambeam, New Mexico State University. Third-year members of the Board include Carbone; Eric Crump, NCTE; Jeff Galin, Cal State San Bernardino; Bill Hart-Davidson, Purdue University; Lee Honeycutt, Rensselaer Polyechnic Institute; Steve Krause, Southern Oregon State College; Tony Rue, University of Florida; and Dickie Selfe, Michigan Tech University. Becky Rickly of the University of Michigan returns for a second year with the _Kairos_ board after a one-year sabbatical. Completing their tenure with the _Kairos_ board are Wayne Butler of the Daedalus Group; Dean Fontenot of Texas Tech University; and Terry Harpold of Georgia Tech University. These changes bring the number of "Karoi" on the Editorial Board to 27. For more information about _Kairos_, please contact Editor Mick Doherty at <mick@rpi.edu> or <mdoherty@dallascvb.com>. The Fall issue (2.2) is due for publication release on October 27, 1997 and will feature a Coverweb focus on gender and electronic communication. Visit the _Kairos_ webpage at <<a href="http://english.ttu.edu/kairos">http://english.ttu.edu/kairos</a>>. From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: MCI Study: Alternative Public Internet Access Points Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:39:15 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 386 (386) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 15, 1997 The press release below, forwarded by the Benton Foundation contains some interesting and I believe relevant news on the increasing use of libraries, museums and community organizations for Internet access. David Green What's Your Log-On Locale? MCI Study of Internet Access Finds Sharpest Increase Among Alternative Public Points WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- According to an MCI LibraryLINK study released today, the number of people who regularly access the Internet through points other than home, office or school has nearly tripled in the last year. The growing phenomenon of "alternative points of access" such as libraries, museums and civic organizations, illustrates the heightened need for the Internet among diverse audiences. MCI LibraryLINK a public-private partnership between MCI and the American Library Association, commissioned the analysis to determine the trends associated with society's growing demand for Internet access. The analysis is based on Internet research from the CommerceNet/Nielsen Media Research Internet Demographic Studies. In a random telephone survey of U.S. and Canadian residents, respondents were asked where they log on to the Internet. The analysis uncovered some startling data about Internet access. In the spring of 1996, approximately 1.5% of the Internet users claimed to access the Internet through an "alternative point of access" such as a library. Today, that number has almost tripled to 4% and the analysis shows it will continue to grow exponentially as communities respond to the public's growing need for increased public access. "The flourishing popularity of 'alternative points of access' illustrates the Internet's escalating importance in the daily lives of more and more Americans," said Vint Cerf, Senior Vice President, Internet Architecture and Engineering at MCI. "For people who don't work with computers in the workplace or have the ability to go online from home, these alternative points of access are their lifeline to the Internet and to the wealth of information it holds such as job lines, business databases, and homework help stations." MCI defines "alternative points of access" as any venue other than home, school or work where the public or a group's members have access to the Internet. These venues are classified as "alternative points" because going online has not, until recently, been a service or activity associated with these locations. These venues include public libraries, museums, churches, community centers, retailers, hospitals and recreational facilities. Percentages of respondents claiming to access the Internet from an alternative point break down as follows: Public libraries 36% Churches/Community Centers 14% Retail Outlet 11% (mall computer store, coffeehouse etc.) Hotels 6% Museums/Recreational Facilities 5% Hospitals 3% Airports 3% -- Statistics has been reclassified to exclude someone else's home and relative's workplace -- 20% of respondents did not answer or did not know where they accessed the Internet Other segments of access showed growth, but not as large a growth rate as access from alternative points. Compared to 1996, the number of respondents claiming they accessed the Internet from a school nearly doubled. Users accessing from home and work categories each increased by four percentage points from 1996 to 1997. Since 1995, MCI LibraryLINK has awarded more than $1 million in grants to 27 main libraries impacting over 200 community library branches, helping to increase the number of Internet-connected libraries from 21% to 80%. These grants have helped create and enhance information technology systems linking people to library resources, government services and to the Internet. "These public points of access are important because they help level the playing field. By the year 2000, nearly 30% of all Internet users could be accessing through alternative points," said Diane Strahan, Executive Director of Corporate Community Partnerships at MCI. Nielsen Media Research, a Cognizant company, has headquarters in New York City and offices in major markets across the U.S. Through its Interactive Services division, Nielsen Media Research develops audience measurement and custom research on new media, including the Internet, the Web and online services. MCI, with its world headquarters in Washington, D.C., offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of communication services. MCI reported 1996 annual revenue of $18.5 billion, making it the tenth largest telecommunications company in the world, along with being the world's third largest carrier of international voice traffic. Credited with first bringing the benefits of long distance competition to American consumers and businesses, MCI now is leading the charge to open up local calling markets to competition. MCI is awaiting final regulatory approvals to complete its planned merger with BT to form Concert. SOURCE MCI LibraryLINK CONTACT: Christa Poston, 202-887-2757, or Jill Arquette, 703-358-0012, both for MCI LibraryLINK/ (MCIC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: richmond <richmond@ustanne.ednet.ns.ca> Subject: CCALL/CELAO 3 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 97 11:32:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 387 (387) Dear Colleague, The following is the first call for papers for the CCALL 3 conference, which will be held next June. Please forward it to any other colleagues you believe might be interested. Thank you. Cher(e) collegue, Voici le premier appel de communications pour le colloque CELAO 3, qui aura lieu au mois de juin prochain. Veuillez avoir l'obligeance de le faire parvenir a d'autres collegues qui pourraient s'y interesser. Merci d'avance. Ian M. Richmond. --------------------------------------------------- CCALL 3 / CELAO 3 ################# Troisieme Congres Canadien sur l'Enseignement des Langues Assiste par Ordinateur Third Canadian Conference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning 25-27 June, 1998 / 25-27 juin 1998 Universite Sainte-Anne Pointe-de-l'Eglise, N.-E. / Church Point, NS CCALL 3 / CELAO 3 Troisieme Congres Canadien sur l'Enseignement des Langues Assiste par Ordinateur Third Canadian Conference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning Call for Papers The Third Canadian Conference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning will be held at Universite Sainte-Anne, Church Point, Nova Scotia from 25 to 27 June, 1998. Presentations, software demonstrations and poster sessions, in English or French, are invited on all aspects of computer-assisted language learning. Papers and demonstrations will be limited to 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes allocated to questions and discussion. Please submit a 200-250 word summary, preferably by e-mail, to the address given below no later than 30 November, 1997. Presenters will be notified by 15 March, 1998. Appel de Communications Le Troisieme Congres Canadien sur l'Enseignement Assiste par Ordinateur se deroulera les 25, 26 et 27 juin 1998 a l'Universite Sainte-Anne, Pointe-de-l'Eglise, Nouvelle-Ecosse. Nous sollicitons des communications, des demonstrations de logiciels et des presentations par affiches, en francais ou en anglais, sur tout aspect de l'enseignement des langues assiste par ordinateur. Les communications et les demonstrations ne devront pas depasser 20 minutes afin de permettre une periode de 10 minutes consacree a des interventions. Veuillez soumettre, par courrier electronique si possible, un resume de 200 a 250 mots a l'adresse ci-apres avant le 30 novembre 1997. Toute decision concernant les soumissions sera rendue le 15 mars 1998 au plus tard. Ian M. Richmond Ian M. Richmond VRER VP (Academic and Research) Universite Sainte-Anne Universite Sainte-Anne Pointe-de-l'glise, N.-. Church Point, NS B0W 1M0 B0W 1M0 Telephone: (902) 769-2114 Telephone: (902) 769-2114 Teléeopieur: (902) 769-3120 FAX: (902) 769-3120 richmond@ustanne.ednet.ns.ca <a href="http://ustanne-59.ustanne.ednet.ns.ca">http://ustanne-59.ustanne.ednet.ns.ca</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: out on the inner trip Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:41:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 388 (388) Willard, What strange musings you bring to us back from Wales. At least that is one story I can compose out of the missives that you have launched on certain parts of the actual world. Or such a narrative is but a trick of memory or, more acurately, remembering. Indeed reflection upon the activity of remembering as the fine analysis you provide for the tagging of a tale of dismembering by Ovidian hounds raises a quivering frisson concerning the ontological status of what is remembered...goosebumps if you will about the simple mundane transactions of storing and sorting. The allusion sans citation above to one of your publications is for some readers, placed in the position of overhearing, the occassion of a minor case of the "common trauma" which, to transcode or relabel, is also the great joy of the foreigness of homesickness to the one intrigued by cultural differences (and similarities). The value one assigns such experiences relates not only to what stories one has been told, what one has preserved but also what one wants to tell. The telological is never far away from the archeological in such matters. Time bends. That beast of indeterminate ontological status - what is remembered - returns to us the wonderful though at times puzzling topic of synchronization. To consider the intersubjective ground of "what is remembered" brings out in the conceptualization of certain theories of memory a notion that is logically prior to that of place: event. T H elsewhere alien T R E is here. Memory as the activity of link making or link activating. can be a leisurely walk around the palace or a dizzying run through it (Remember those Flash Card drills for learning multiplication tables?) Being online, [deleted quotation] Perhaps to an event where more people deal with artefacts, digital or otherwise, as sites for the exercise of mnemonics and calculii, sites where the made and the played are not all that different. As ever, overdeterming the coincidences, crostically -- Francois From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0236 out-of-body experience Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 12:20:12 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 389 (389) Out of the body in cyberspace? One is out of the body when one really thinks or dreams or creates. At the screen, one comes back immediately as soon as one rises from one's seat and the back cracks and the knees falter. Not to speak of carpal syndrome. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Glen Worthey <glenw@sulmail.stanford.edu> Subject: mind, body, book Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:45:41 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 390 (390) Willard's recent thoughts (and others' comments) on mind-body dualities and cyberspace brought to mind a recent review of an internet-only publication of a children's book, <cite>The End of the Rainbow</cite> by Bjarne Reuter, at <<a href="http://www.penguin.com/usa/buster">http://www.penguin.com/usa/buster</a>>. The review, by Sarah Ellis, appears in <cite>The Horn Book Magazine</cite>, May/June 1997. Ellis claims that her experimental reading of children's literature on-line was different from that on paper not in the physical ways of which we often hear: "I had expected that the use of a machine for reading would be uncongenial, but in fact it was fine. A laptop radiates a mild pleasant warmth on the lap; it leaves your hands free for your sandwich; and because it contains its own light, it solves the bedside light issue. I was pleasantly surprised." What she found deeply unsatisfying about this type of reading was its _failure_ to transport her as book-reading on paper does: "By reading ..... I mean the absorbing experience of being taken out of yourself." She found that, while reading this electronic text, she was not as involved a reader as she usually is, not as attentive; the reading experience itself was not as "real" or memorable for her. "Reading from a screen," she writes, "turned me into a reluctant reader." For this particular task (and perhaps for this particular reader, although I believe many of us would concur with her), cyberspace turns out to be less transporting than paperspace; it proves less able to emphasize the mind-body difference, and less capable of enabling the jump from body to mind. This little review makes other common-sense observations which seem to counteract some of the claims of computer media: "Reading on the screen also gave me a revelation about my own reading style. I realized that I do not read in a strict linear, steady way. I speed up and slow down. I skip. I put my finger in a page that I'll go back to when I've finished the really good bit that I'm on. I even occasionally start in the middle of a book. Looking back, I know that this is a reading style that I developed in childhood to cope with the problem of savoring versus galloping. None of this works on the screen. It is too cumbersome to scroll back and forth. Ironically, the medium which prides itself on being interactive and nonlinear was, in this experience, tiresomely inflexible, ploddingly linear." She also relates a similar, altered perception of time while using interactive media -- an impatience with downloading, scrolling, etc: She finds that "this 'just get on with it' mood is deeply antithetical to the reading of fiction." Ellis recalls the "multisensual experience" of childhood reading that she missed in this experience: the tactile, visual, aural, even olfactory "child pleasures" of book reading -- "the pleasure of someone who knows that carrots cut in sticks taste better than carrots cut in coins." It strikes me that modern children's literature is a prototypically multimedia creation, even without considering the inexplicable (or perhaps less defensible) multisensory experience of childhood reading Ellis remembers; how and why is it that multimedia cyber-reproductions fail even in this regard? Finally, the very appearance of the book on the Net prompts some economic questions, for the publishers claim that "the harsh realities of today's market for translated books" -- this one is an English translation from Danish -- "prohibit traditional publication in bound form. However, Dutton Children's Books believes so passionately that this book deserves an audience that we have arranged with the author for the complete book to appear only on the Internet and free to all readers." Doesn't prevailing wisdom in the humanities computing community hold that a good electronic text is often more expensive than a print edition? Or is this merely a shifting of financial burdens? And should we be grateful to publishers who refuse to print good books? Ellis contemplates the possibility that her reading experience was perhaps poisoned by her grown-up association of computers with work, with heightened feelings of download-impatience, and that children may well "read" computers quite differently. It seems to me that these are not trivial questions, but ones that relate to larger issues of reading and even of consciousness (child and adult, physically and cybernetically bound and unleashed) -- and, more immediately, to the type of political pronouncement that initially led Ellis to write about her small reading experiment: that school libraries would soon, thanks to the Net, become obsolete. We've heard that sort of claim before. -Glen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Glen Worthey Academic Text Service Stanford University Libraries ph:(650)725-5647 fax:(650)725-8495 glenw@sulmail.stanford.edu From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: imaginative uses of the Web Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:05:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 391 (391) In "Oetzi the Alpine iceman cometh, but only between nine and five", Kate Connolly reports in this morning's Guardian on an Irish anthropologist, Tom Varley, who is doing his best for five months to live like an ice-age man. ("Oetzi" is the name given to the perfectly preserved specimen, found in a glacier about 6 years ago in the Oetztaler Alps.) "Dressed in animal skins and a grass coat, Mr. Varley, aged 41, is trying to piece together the life of 'homo tyroliensis'. He lives in Ferlach, Carinthia, in a hut made of branches and mud, and has planted a garden. His life centres on the fireplace, whose ashes he uses for rituals.... [He] survives on nuts, berries, roots and mushrooms, and by fishing in a nearby river. He hunts small animals, but only when absolutely necessary. He is not allowed to speak. Visiting members of the public can look into his three-acre enclosure but are not permitted to enter." His three daughters "consider him 'a weirdo, but they'd be upset if I wasn't'". Those of us with daughters, or sons, may be excused for wondering if he isn't painting a rather different picture from that of his offspring, who were not interviewed, but there certainly are children less lucky in their parents. "'It's great, living like this. You're free as the breeze. In the Stone Ages you could do what you wanted, you could sleep all day and you had no job to go to. I advise everyone to do it.'" Hmm. Not being an anthropologist I cannot say with any authority at all, but I'd guess that Stone Age men and women had to work reasonably hard to survive, like all the time they were awake, or nearly. The remarkable thing about Mr. Varley's story, however, is that in the evenings he puts aside his Stone Age existence "to record the day's adventures in a daily diary, on the Internet at <<a href="http://www.swp.org/">http://www.swp.org/</a>>". This is a very sophisticated site, with RealAudio clips of Varley speaking and a number of images. Most of the text is in German, but not the interview clips. At first, I suppose, one marvels at the disjunction between the purist's imitation of something so very old followed daily by description of it using something so very new, and the humour of the article, more than hinted in the title, may point this disjunction into a dismissal. But the intensity of the effort is clear, and the passion to recreate a vanished past, with more than a little idealising of it, something very contemporary if not quite coeval with the net. And here we are, with him virtually in Austria, living out his experiment. Does he update his Web site while wearing his grass coat? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: New Collection from the Linguistic Data Consortium Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 20:50:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 392 (392) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM CALLHOME Collection in Six Languages The objective of the CALLHOME project is the creation of a multi-lingual speech corpus that will support the development of Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition (LVCSR) technology. The collection covers six languages, American English, Egyptian Arabic, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. Each CALLHOME language includes telephone speech, transcripts and tables, and a lexicon. Each language can be distributed as a complete set of speech, transcripts, and lexicon (lexicons to be released in the near future) or the components can be ordered separately. The telephone speech consists of either 100 or 120 unscripted telephone conversations between native speakers of the specific language. All calls, which lasted up to 30 minutes, originated in North America. Participants typically called family members or close friends. Most calls were placed to various locations overseas, but some participants placed calls within North America. The transcripts cover a contiguous 5 or 10 minute segment taken from a recorded conversation. The transcripts are timestamped by speaker turn for alignment with the speech signal, and are provided in standard orthography. The lexicons, which are not yet available, contain tab-separated information fields with orthographic, morphological, phonological, stress, source, and frequency information for each word. The lexicons will be covered by a special license agreement. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1997 Membership Year will be able to receive the CALLHOME materials at no additional charge, in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Due to a delayed release, 1996 members are entitled to CALLHOME Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. Nonmembers can purchase CALLHOME materials for research purposes only. The cost of the CALLHOME collection is $3000 per language. The various components of this collection can be purchased separately; Speech databases are $1000, transcripts are $500, and lexicons are $1500 each. 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 <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/</a>. 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. Language Speech Transcripts Lexicon Membership $1000 $500 $1500 year ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- American LDC97S42 LDC97T14 LDC97L20 97 English (PRONLEX) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Egyptian LDC97S45 LDC97T19 LDC97L19 97 Arabic ----------------------------------------------------------------------- German LDC97S43 LDC97T15 LDC97L18 97 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Japanese LDC96S37 LDC96T18 LDC96L17 96/97 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mandarin LDC96S34 LDC96T16 LDC96L15 96/97 Chinese ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Spanish LDC96S35 LDC96T17 LDC96L16 96/97 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Hartmut Krech <kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de> (8) Subject: Re: Update Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:22:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 393 (393) I cannot help but share the following with the list. It was originally posted on the mailing list of the International Society for the History of Medicine, so a quote may not be inappropriate for a list such as Humanist. (Excuses for any duplication). Greetings from a sunny Bremen, Germany. Dr. Hartmut Krech [deleted quotation] .../. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CFP: AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:03:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 394 (394) [deleted quotation] INTELLIGENT TEXT SUMMARIZATION <a href="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/aaai-sss98-its">http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/aaai-sss98-its</a> With the proliferation of online textual resources, it has become very difficult to find information of interest. Improving access to online information includes finding relevant documents (Information Retrieval) and presenting only information that matches the user's interests (Text Summarization). In the recent very successful workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization at the ACL/EACL conference, papers focused largely on statistical approaches. In this symposium, we aim to discuss also the strengths of other, symbolic/rule-based, techniques. We particularly welcome contributions that address some of the fundamental issues underlying summarization: what is a summary? What is an abstract? How can one evaluate the quality of a summary? The symposium will include formal presentations and discussions of existing techniques and open problems. Using input from potential participants, the program committee will present a series of questions to which attendees will be encouraged to suggest approaches and solutions. Sample topics: - Knowledge Representation Issues - AI and Statistical Techniques - Discourse Analysis and Discourse Planning - Concise Text Generation - Summarization of Multiple Documents - Generation of Updates - Architectures for Summarization - Multilingual and Multimodal Summarization - User Modeling - Scalability - Evaluation of Text Summarization Potential participants should submit one of the following: o Full technical paper (PostScript, 11-point font, up to 5000 words). o Statement of interest (up to 1000 words): - description of an ongoing research effort, - position statement, - description of a problem to be discussed, - proposal for an activity related to text summarization that can take place at the symposium, - description of a completed summarization system, or - descriptions of tools, corpora, or other resources, especially if they can be shared with others. o Description of a demonstration or video. Participants are encouraged to include URLs related to text summarization (bibliographies, papers, projects, tools, corpora). Selection will be made in the following order: 1. people who present papers (one person per paper) 2. other presenters 3. collaborators of the above 4. people with strong statements of interest 5. others as space permits. Send all submissions electronically to radev@cs.columbia.edu If you are unsure whether your file will print at our site, please submit four days before the deadline in order to receive a confirmation. Dragomir Radev (co-chair) Department of Computer Science Columbia University 1214 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027-7003, USA Phone: 1-212-939-7118 Fax: 1-212-666-0140 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Branimir Boguraev Apple Computer bkb@research.apple.com Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion University elhadad@cs.bgu.ac.il Eduard Hovy USC/ISI hovy@isi.edu (co-chair) Inderjeet Mani MITRE imani@mitre.org Daniel Marcu University of Toronto marcu@cs.toronto.edu Kathleen McKeown Columbia University kathy@cs.columbia.edu Dragomir Radev Columbia University radev@cs.columbia.edu (co-chair) Amit Singhal AT&T Research singhal@research.att.com Karen Sparck Jones University of Cambridge ksj@cl.cam.ac.uk Stan Szpakowicz University of Ottawa szpak@csi.uottawa.ca From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Deadlines: AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:04:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 395 (395) [deleted quotation] Submissions for the symposia are due on October 24, 1997. Notification of acceptance will be given by November 14, 1997. Materials to be included in the working notes of the symposium must be received by January 17, 1998. More information is available at the AAAI symposium Web site: <a href="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/aaai-sss98-its">http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/aaai-sss98-its</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CONF: International Workshop on Parsing Technologies Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:05:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 396 (396) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION ______________________________________________________________________ 1997 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PARSING TECHNOLOGIES Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA September 17-20, 1997 sponsored by SIGPARSE Special Interest Group on Parsing Technologies (A Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics) ______________________________________________________________________ IWPT'97 is the fifth workshop in a series of parsing technologies workshops organized by ACL/SIGPARSE. This series of workshops was initiated by Masaru Tomita (CMU) in 1989. This first workshop (Pittsburgh & Hidden Valley) was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico), Tilburg & Durbuy (Netherlands/Belgium) and Prague & Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic). IWPT'97 will be held in and near MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA. TOPICS OF INTEREST for IWPT'97 include: Theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences, speech input, multi-dimensional (pictorial) languages, and parsing issues arising or viewed in a multimodal context. REGISTRATION: This year's meeting will take place at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, September 17-20. All talks will be held in the Wong Auditorium, located in the Jack C. Tang Center. = LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Robert C. Berwick (MIT), Charles D. Yang (MIT) Send queries about local arrangements to pbp@ai.mit.edu, or via the conference home page. CONFERENCE HOME PAGE: <a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/berwick/parse.html">http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/berwick/parse.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Leslie Chan <chan@scar.utoronto.ca> Subject: 2nd Announcement of Symposium on Scholarly E-Publishing Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 21:48:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 397 (397) ================= 2nd Announcement ======================== The Centre for Instructional Technology Development, University of Toronto at Scarborough, is presenting a symposium entitled BEYOND PRINT: SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ELECTRONIC ENVIORNMENT, September 26-27, 1997. Speakers at the symposium will discuss the rapidly changing world of scholarly and scientific communication as it evolves from a paper-based model to one based on electronic networks that transcend traditional publishing boundaries. The implications of this shift involve the economics of the new forms of publishing, control of the publishing media, peer review and quality control, the role of government agencies and university administrators, accessibility, legal and copyright issues, and questions of retrieval, archiving, and changing technology. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Stevan Harnad, an acknowledged pioneer in the emerging field of networked scholarly publishing, and founding editor of the journal Behavioural and Brain Sciences and the first peer-reviewed psychology e-journal, Psycoloquy. Other speakers will include Margot Montgomery, Director General of the National Research Council of Canada; Taissa Kusma, Director of Electronic Product Development, Academic Press; Lesley Ellen Harris, author of the book Canadian Copyright Law; Richard Hulser, Consultant for the IBM Digital Library program; Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief of the Perseus Project; Shealagh Pope, Project Director of the e-journal Conservation Ecology; Peter Boyce, Senior Associate of e-publishing at the American Astronomical Society, Barbara Kirsop and Vandelei Canhos of Bioline Publications; Ian Lancashire, Founder of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at the University of Toronto. (For a complete list of speakers and agenda, see: <a href="http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/EPub/agenda.html">http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/EPub/agenda.html</a>). The symposium will be of interest to academics and researchers, librarians and publishers, computer specialists, and anyone who is a stakeholder in the realm of scholarly and scientific communication. Proceedings begin at 1 p.m. on Friday, September 26 and continue until 9 p.m., then reconvene Saturday, September 27 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. A dinner/reception will be held on Friday at 5:30. The registration fee is $60 for individuals from non-profit or educational institutions, $120 for individuals from business or corporations, $30 for students. The fee includes conference materials, refreshments, and Friday's dinner/reception. U of T at Scarborough is located at: 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, Ontario, M1C 1A4. For more information or to register electronically, visit our Web site at: <a href="http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/Epub/1997.html">http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/Epub/1997.html</a> or contact symposium co-ordinator Leslie Chan (chan@scar.utoronto.ca). You may also call (416) 287-7505. ============================================================= Registration for BEYOND PRINT: SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ELECTRONIC ENVIORNMENT September 26-27, 1997 University of Toronto at Scarborough. First Name:_________________ Last Name:_____________________ Institution/Organization:________________________________________ Address:_________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ City:_____________ Province/State:_______________ Country:__________ Postal Code: ________________ Phone:________________ e-mail:________________________ Fee: Individuals from non-profit or educational institutions: $60 Cdn Individuals from business or corporations: $120 Cdn Students: $30 Cdn Please make cheque or money order to : The University of Toronto Send completed registration form and payment to : Centre for Instructional Technology Development University of Toronto at Scarborough 1265 Military Trail Scarborough, Ontario M1C 1A4 Canada From: "Thomas P. Copley" <tcopley@GIGANTOR.ARLINGTON.COM> Subject: ANNOUNCE> Fall '97 Tune In the Net Workshops Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 14:18:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 398 (398) TUNE IN THE NET WORKSHOP: GLOBAL REACH FOR THE 21ST CENTURY "Tune In the Net Workshop: Global Reach for the 21st Century" is an eight week distance learning workshop focusing on tools for Internet interactivity and conducted via e-mail and the World Wide Web (WWW). The workshop will introduce the beginner to the basic concepts of interactivity, and assist the more experienced user in making his or her Web pages into a stand-out interactive site. BACKGROUND Interactivity is the ability of the Internet user to alter certain aspects of his or her environment, resulting in useful functionality. It is the method of control and contingent response between user and medium. Some popular terms to describe interactive systems include multimedia, hypermedia, infotainment and edutainment. Interactivity can be as simple as an animation or as complex as a multi-user game played over the Internet. However, most users will find practical interactive applications more useful--applications such as hooking up HTML forms to virtual shopping cart or on-line sales catalog scripts in order to enhance a commercial site. Interactivity provides many ways to obtain input from users, including the ability to make regions of an image active so that a click on a "hot spot" will activate a link to another Web page or initiate some other action. Users may also interact with the Web page itself. Some examples of this include a self-assessment quiz for a Web course, a price comparison calculator for a commercial site, or a decision assistant, such as a color picker. Internet site builders and Web page generators have become increasingly sophisticated, incorporating "wizards" in order to simplify the work of authors. These wizards provide templates and other useful functions that enable authors to produce Web pages with little or no HTML coding by hand. JavaScript and VBScript have been introduced to provide scripting capability for the two most widely used Web browsers, Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, respectively. These simple-to-use scripting languages allow a content author to write short programs that can be activated by various Web page elements including buttons, forms, backgrounds, and frames. Scripts can also be used to program Web servers, as well as browsers, in order to make content interactive. Server scripts are short programs that provide additional Web server capabilities, such as processing information from Web page forms. The most common way to provide interactivity to Web pages is through Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Web server scripts. Despite their popularity, CGI scripts can be awkward in some cases and may place unnecessary demands on the Web server. When they can be used, browser scripts are usually preferable to server scripts as they cut down on unnecessary requests to the often heavily taxed Web server. With the introduction of the Java language by Sun Microsystems in 1995, the Internet has become a rapidly evolving means for delivering interactive content using text, graphics, audio, and video. Java is quite different from the above mentioned Web server or browser scripting. It is a platform-independent programming language with built-in security and network communications capabilities. Java programs, or applets, can be launched from a Web browser, or may operate independently from the Web, with direct access to the Internet. Several Java builder programs, such as JFactory and Marimba's Bongo, permit experts in a given domain of knowledge, but who have limited programming experience, to produce interactive content using easy-to-use graphical tools. Java is also increasingly being used for application programs, such as word processors, spreadsheets, and database front-ends. Java's built-in networking and security make it ideal for so-called "push" media, wherein applications and content are updated often over a network when new information and new versions of the software become available. For example, a Java-based on-line newspaper can be updated with breaking news on the user's desktop frequently, and automatically, during the day. WORKSHOP CONTENT The Tune In the Net Workshop will focus on how to efficiently and effectively design and use interactive Internet sites. During the workshop you will learn how to: * quickly prototype Web pages and complete sites using page generators and site builders such as Netscape Navigator Gold, Microsoft FrontPage, NetObjects Fusion, and Adobe PageMill and SiteMill. * make Web page forms and link them to useful applications such as databases, key word searches, guest books, and user surveys. * give Web pages an interactive graphical look with client-side image maps. This capability of both Navigator and Internet Explorer permits clicking on different regions of an image in order to link to another Web page or function. * make animations. This often entails using an image-file format that will display multiple frames as the file loads. * use frames, HTML 3.2, as well as Netscape and Microsoft extensions, to customize Web pages. The latter consist of HTML functionality developed separately by each company that has yet to be officially accepted as part of the recognized standard. * use JavaScript and VBScript to give Web pages interactive capabilities, such as personalizing pages with names and e-mail addresses, displaying current date and time, image-flipping to produce buttons that highlight, providing colored backgrounds that appear to fade in from one color to another, and other special effects. * utilize "push" media. For example, to use Netscape's InBox Direct and explore new frontiers such as Marimba channels with Bongo. Bongo is a Java applet, or application builder, that enables one to develop a Java applet or application for Marimba Castanet, a new way of distributing information on the Internet in which programs and content become "channels" on one's computer desktop. HOW TO SIGN UP Three Tune In The Net Workshops are scheduled for this fall: Session III .............. September 2 - October 25 Session IV ............... September 22 - November 15 Session V ................ October 13 - December 6 The cost of the workshop is $40 US.* To sign up for the workshop, please send an e-mail message to: majordomo@arlington.com and in the body of the message, place subscribe tune3 to sign up for Session III, or subscribe tune4 to sign up for Session IV, or subscribe tune5 to sign up for Session V. Or, sign up online by pointing to the URL <a href="http://www.bearfountain.com/arlington/tune.html">http://www.bearfountain.com/arlington/tune.html</a> In order to gain maximum advantage from the Tune In the Net Workshop, it will be necessary to have a Web browser, preferably either a recent version of Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. ABOUT THE AUTHOR The workshop leader, Thomas P. Copley,Ph.D. has successfully taught several on-line courses in the past, including, most recently, "Make the Link Workshop" during 1995 and 1996, and the "Go-pher-it Workshop" in 1994. He has been actively involved in on-line teaching for more than a decade, and has been a consultant to Apple Computer, Inc. He is also one of the founders of the Electronic University, and has been on the faculty of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and Washington State University. He is the editor of an electronic newsletter, the Telelearning Network Synthesizer. ----- * A 12.5% discount is available to anyone who has already participated in "Make the Link Workshop"(MLW), or intends to do so now. While not a prerequisite for the "Tune In the Net Workshop"(TINW), MLW provides complimentary information that may also be of interest to many participants in TINW. With the discount the cost of TINW is $35US, and for MLW the cost is $20. For both workshops the cost is $55. For more information about MLW, send email to links-ad@arlington.com or access the URL <<a href="http://www.bearfountain.com/arlington/links.html">http://www.bearfountain.com/arlington/links.html</a>>. ________________________________________________________________ THOMAS P. COPLEY tcopley@arlington.com Make the Link Workshop www.bearfountain.com/arlington/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: Copyright Town Meeting, Portland, OR Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:13:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 399 (399) ****************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 26, 1997 FAIR USE TOWN MEETING SERIES: MEETING No. 4 "COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE DIGITAL WORLD: FAIR USE, EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES AFTER CONFU" Reed College, Portland, OR Saturday, September 27, 1997 Following is an announcement of the fourth in a series of FAIR USE TOWN MEETINGS organized by the College Art Association and the American Council on Learned Societies in affiliation with NINCH. This next meeting is an all-day meeting in Portland, OR on SEPTEMBER 27. For a Web announcement and for the latest information, see <<a href="http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/pdx.htm">http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/pdx.htm</a>> David Green ----------------- "Copyright Law in the Digital World: Fair Use, Education and Libraries after CONFU (The Conference on Fair Use)" Presented by the College Art Association (CAA), the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), and National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) Saturday, September 27, 1997, 9 AM to 5:30 PM Portland, Oregon, on the campus of Reed College On May 19, 1997, the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) concluded that the guidelines that had been under development for more than two years had failed to achieve consensus support. The proposed guidelines, negotiated by various copyright stakeholders representing creators, publishers, and users of information, sought to interpret fair use in the development of multimedia works, the creation and use of digital images, and the transmission of digital media in distance education. The reasons this effort fell short of its goals are anything but simple. The process preceding this decisive action is documented in an interim report published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This document contains the proposed guidelines, along with those covering electronic reserves and making copies for interlibrary loan (that were ultimately not included in the ratification process because participants could not reach agreement on key issues). The interim report may be viewed at <a href="http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/confu/">http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/confu/</a>. In the wake of this action, libraries, educators, and intellectual property users continue to ponder the future of fair use. As libraries become more heavily invested in the delivery and use of digital information, many questions remain about how they should proceed -- regardless of agreement or endorsement of guidelines. Educators and students are equally perplexed with these issues as the traditional classroom and curriculum are quickly being transformed by new technologies. On Saturday, September 27, 1997, a "town meeting" in Portland, Oregon, will provide an opportunity for the academic community to learn about the CONFU guidelines and discuss the future of fair use in these contexts without "official" guidelines. This town meeting is the fourth in a series of programs supported by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in order to help educators, librarians, and other interested parties learn more about the CONFU process, the guidelines and fair use. Speakers and panelists currently scheduled to participate include: Gerald Barnett, University of Washington Kathleen Cohen, San Jose State University Kenneth Crews, Indiana University Georgia Harper, University of Texas Mary Levering, U.S. Copyright Office J. Q. Johnson, University of Oregon Maryly Snow, University of California, Berkeley Other participants will be announced. For the latest information, please visit: <<a href="http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/pdx.htm">http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/pdx.htm</a>>. Organizers include Georgia Harper, University of Texas System, and Christine Sundt, University of Oregon The program will be held in the Vollum Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 S.E. Woodstock Blvd. "Copyright Law in the Digital World: Fair Use, Education and Libraries after CONFU (The Conference on Fair Use)" Presented by the College Art Association (CAA), the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), and National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) Saturday, September 27, 1997 Reed College, 3203 S.E. Woodstock Blvd., Portland, Oregon Registration The registration for "Copyright Law in the Digital World: Fair Use, Education and Libraries after CONFU (The Conference on Fair Use)" is $40. Your registration includes a box lunch, conference materials, refreshments and admission to the Conference. Seating is strictly limited. Registrations invited from all interested persons. Electronic and faxed registrations will be accepted with payment immediately following. Please make checks payable to the College Art Association. Lodging Reasonable accommodations are available at hotels in downtown Portland, a short commute to Reed College. For more information, please contact Christine Sundt (csundt@oregon.uoregon.edu) or FAX 541/346-2205. "Copyright Law in the Digital World: Fair Use, Education and Libraries after CONFU (The Conference on Fair Use)" Saturday, September 27, 1997, Reed College, Portland, Oregon Registration Form Name: _________________________________________________________________ Nametag Name:__________________________________________________________ Title/Institution:__________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Mailing Address:__________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Telephone:(___)_____________Fax:(___)____________ Email:_________________________________________ Vegetarian box lunch? Yes or No Do you plan to attend the Bonus Session on September 26? Yes or No Bonus Session: On Friday, September 26, 3:00 - 5:00 pm, Prof. Kenneth Crews will lead a workshop on copyright issues as they relate to higher education and library services. This session will be useful background for analyzing the issues encompassed in the CONFU report and on the agenda during the next day's conference. Electronic or faxed registrations accepted, with payment immediately following. Please return your completed registration form and your check payable to College Art Association to: John Farmer College Art Association 275 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10001 Please send electronic reservations to: sball@collegeart.org Fax reservations to: John Farmer, CAA, 212/627-2381 For general program information call: Christine Sundt, 541/346-2209 or email csundt@oregon.uoregon.edu We will send you additional conference information once we have received your registration. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christine L. Sundt Visual Resources Curator Architecture & Allied Arts Library University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 - USA 541-346-2209 / FAX: 541-346-2205 <a href="http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/index.htm">http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/index.htm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Resistance is futile! & other Online matters Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:38:50 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 400 (400) [deleted quotation]<<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">http://www.guardian.co.uk</a>>. (1) Paul Marks, "Anything worth watching on the radio tonight?" (pp. 1-2), on the launch of digital radio in Europe, in Berlin this Saturday. This audience is, of course, inclined to think the innovation a Good Thing, and in many ways it is (better reception, menu of radio stations by name on screen, &c.), but it's worth considering at this juncture the contingency of technological innovations, and pondering what in particular radio does well as is. We tend all too easily to forget, with the teleology of hindsight, that sometimes, perhaps often, the inventions which seem to us inevitable have only been able to reach us through a series of accidents and compulsive promotions. I've mentioned before a favourite book of mine, Robert Friedel's <cite>Zipper: An exploration in novelty</cite>, which documents the many contingencies in the history of this seemingly inevitable part of modern life -- how, for example, its survival depended at times on the irrational determination of a few individuals to see it succeed. As an aside, an AltaVista search for "zipper" gives some insight into the murky psychological cross-currents with which our device for opening up clothing quickly is tangled, and turns up a delightful set of Web pages at <<a href="http://www.zenzero.com">http://www.zenzero.com</a>>, including next to a photograph of peaches, this from Thomas Hardy: "If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!" Keep it zipped up? For us the real question here is how possibly an invention that gets so deeply entangled with our murky depths -- or, perhaps, in part emerges out of them -- can be anything but contingent on the state of our collective mind at the moment of its emergence? In the case of digital radio, it will be interesting to observe which of the features survive, and how they evolve. I recall at a colloquium celebrating the invention of the radio (at which Marconi's distinguished daughter spoke) that an official from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation spent some time enthusing about what will become possible with radio once it goes digital -- e.g. selection of programmes for play at whatever time is convenient for the listener. I recall breaking out (silently -- this WAS a Canadian event) in full rebellion. I like radio the way it is (sans bad reception, of course, but even then there's a charm to that), its play within the stream of time, the deeply engaging sense of being there when the event is happening. I think radio does its job particularly well, so why mess with it? Later, in conversation with said official, I was instructed that people nowadays, being postmodern and all, like the play with fragments, do not like to concentrate for long periods of time, e.g. in order to catch a radio play. Is this true? To what degree does my own pleasure in the non-visual and necessarily continuous communing with the speakers or musicians on radio have to do, for example with my date of birth, with the fact that my family did not have a TV until I was about 8 years old, thus giving me a compelling association of radio with early childhood? This autobiographical outbreak, I hope, illustrates the contingencies that would appear to be so very important to how things turn out. How about the computer? I note, thanks to Jack Schofield in "Windows dressing" (p. 7) that Windows 98 is now known to contain, among the several enhancements that current PC owners will not be able to appreciate, those "needed for the next generation of entertainment-oriented PCs". (2) Tom Shakespeare, "To Helix and back", on the U.K. Millennium Commission-funded International Centre for Life, "a combination of a research institute, a commercial biotechnology centre and a high-tech visitor attraction called Helix". It seems that past the initial funding -- an object lesson for Big Science and Big Humanities projects -- it will be necessary to attract "almost 300,000 punters a year. To achieve these numbers... genetic science has to be presented at the level of sensationalism." Shakespeare notes that "The exhibition master-plan gives cause for anxiety" -- because in order to succeed Helix must gloss over "the complexities of the new science. Notably absent is any discussion of the social and ethical implications of the new genetics: no mention of the dangers of a genetic discrimination in employment and insurance, of the ethics of gene patenting, or the threat to disabled people from increased pre-natal screening." "Theme-park style triumphalism", it seems. We can be glad that humanities computing is unlikely to attract the degree of interest that biotechnology does, but perhaps it is worth thinking about the virtues of opting for the small, modest projects in which scholarship comes first. Thirst for funds means appealing to the public, which it is noble to educate, but is not entertainment at fundamental odds with what we're about? (3) Karlin Lillington, "The agony and the extropy", on the vision of a group of cyber-enthusiasts for the coming of the Borg -- or, for those of you who have not grown up through the American TV series Star Trek, for the moment "when you can upload yourself and become truly posthuman". The idea is called "extropy", all packed into the mnemonic command "BeSt Do It So", or Boundless Enthusiasm, Self Transformation, Dynamic Optimism, and Spontaneous Order. Extropians recently came to Silicon Valley in California (where else?) from around the world, for the Extro3 conference; last year's keynote was given by Marvin Minsky (MIT), who considers himself an Extropian, as does Ralph Merkle (Xerox PARC) -- there are serious people involved with this. The questions raised by the Borg invasion, resonating with the ancient human dream of physical immortality, ARE interesting ones. Even if the Extropians are wrong, perhaps especially if they are wrong, their arguments are worth some attention. "The basic idea", according to Max More, co-founder of the Extropy Institute (A Brit, with Oxford degree), "is that personality, conscience, mind are in the brain... you can describe the brain in terms of software. You should be able to write a program that simulates the brain" -- which he thinks will be possible in 20 years. Good luck! For a full explanation of the movement, see the Website of the Extropy Institute, "Spearhead of the Transhumanist Movement", at <<a href="http://www.extropy.com/">http://www.extropy.com/</a>>. A nifty animated gif too. Shall we rename our seminar Transhumanist? Posthumanist? We can now; when Humanist was named a decade ago, the name had to be 8 characters or less. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Richard Bear <rbear@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> Subject: Courtier Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:33:33 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 401 (401) An HTML edition of Sir Thomas Hoby's 1561 translation of Baldesar Castiglione's <cite>Book of the Courtier</cite> is now available online at <<a href="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier.html">http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier.html</a>>. -- Richard Bear <rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu> Coordinator, Microforms Collection University of Oregon Knight Library ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: visual aids Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:47:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 402 (402) First a quotation: [deleted quotation]that grows with the flesh. Pupils are pushed on to specialise in various branches of learning and science, before they have received sufficient formal training in the use of language to enable them either to learn from books or to achieve clarity of thought and expression themselves. No programmes of wireless talks or visual aids will ever compensate for this neglect. Somehow pupils have to be persuaded that only by command of language can they give evidence of the possession of mind or make an individual contribution to the study of whatever other subject they have chosen." [deleted quotation] I suppose there is inevitably an old-fogyish flavour about such a complaint, but at the same time I wonder, increasingly with the approach of the millennium and millennarian enthusiasms, what we have to take the place of hic-haec-hoc (each declined form muttered under the breath with each footstep, while swinging a metal lunch pail, marching to school). How much of our effort with computer-assisted learning, for example, qualifies as a distraction from the main event, which we are neglecting because we do not know what to do? The computer is, after all, very much a hic-haec-hoc sort of thing. How do we use it to communicate the basis for disciplined learning and thinking? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: New Corpus from the Linguistic Data Consortium Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 18:54:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 403 (403) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM Boston University Radio Speech Corpus The Boston University Radio Speech Corpus was collected by Mari Ostendorf of Boston University, primarily to support research in text-to-speech synthesis, particularly generation of prosodic patterns. The corpus consists of professionally read radio news data, including speech and accompanying annotations, suitable for speech and language research. The corpus includes speech from seven (4 male, 3 female) FM radio news announcers associated with WBUR, a public radio station. The main radio news portion of the corpus consists of over seven hours of news stories recorded in the WBUR radio studio during broadcasts over a two year period. In addition, the announcers were also recorded in a laboratory at Boston University. In this, the lab news portion, the announcers read a total of 24 stories from the radio news portion. The announcers were first asked to read the stories in their non-radio style and then, 30 minutes later. to read the same stories in their radio style. Each story read by an announcer was digitized in paragraph size units, which typically include several sentences. The files were digitized at a 16k Hz sample rate using a 16 bit A/D. The paragraphs were annotated with the orthographic transcription, phonetic alignments, part-of-speech tags and prosodic markers. The orthographic transcripts were generated by hand and include indication of where the speaker took a breath. The phonetic alignments and part-of-speech tags were generated automatically and hand corrected. The prosodic labels were marked by hand and are available only for a subset of the corpus. Institutions that have membership in the LDC for either the 1996 or 1997 Membership Year will be able to receive the BU Radio Corpus at no additional charge, in the same manner as all other speech corpora published by the LDC. Nonmembers can receive a copy of this corpus for research purposes only for a fee of US$400. 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 <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/</a>. 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: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: New Collection from the Linguistic Data Consortium Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 18:56:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 404 (404) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM CALLFRIEND Collection in 12 Languages and 3 Dialect Comparisons The CALLFRIEND project supports the development of language identification technology. Calls were collected in the following languages: American English, Canadian French, Egyptian Arabic, Farsi, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Tamil, and Vietnamese. Two major dialect groups were collected for English, Mandarin, and Spanish. The dialect comparison groups include: southern vs. non-southern American English, Caribbean Spanish vs. non-Caribbean Spanish, and Mainland Mandarin (China) vs. Mandarin as spoken in Taiwan. Each CALLFRIEND language consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5 and 30 minutes. The corpora also include documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers). For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of the designated language. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic. Institutions that have membership in the LDC for either the 1996 or 1997 Membership Year will be able to receive the CALLFRIEND materials at no additional charge, in the same manner as all other speech corpora published by the LDC. Nonmembers can purchase CALLFRIEND materials for research purposes only. The cost of the CALLFRIEND collection is $600 per language or per dialect. If you would like to order any of these corpora, 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 <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/</a>. 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. LDC96S46 CALLFRIEND American English-Non-Southern Dialect LDC96S47 CALLFRIEND American English-Southern Dialect LDC96S48 CALLFRIEND Canadian French LDC96S49 CALLFRIEND Egyptian Arabic LDC96S50 CALLFRIEND Farsi LDC96S51 CALLFRIEND German LDC96S52 CALLFRIEND Hindi LDC96S53 CALLFRIEND Japanese LDC96S54 CALLFRIEND Korean LDC96S55 CALLFRIEND Mandarin Chinese-Mainland Dialect LDC96S56 CALLFRIEND Mandarin Chinese-Taiwan Dialect LDC96S57 CALLFRIEND Spanish-Caribbean Dialect LDC96S58 CALLFRIEND Spanish-Non-Caribbean Dialect LDC96S59 CALLFRIEND Tamil LDC96S60 CALLFRIEND Vietnamese From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: New Chorus Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 19:00:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 405 (405) [deleted quotation] Announcement A reconstituted Chorus has opened at its new home: the College Writing Programs, University of California, Berkeley. Chorus is a rich, WWW-based publication that explores new media in the arts and humanities. Developed and maintained by an independent committee of scholars and new-media professionals, it features essays and reviews related to computer-assisted language learning, textual analysis of the bible, citation management and electronic research, and information management. A new "Mixed Reviews" section will give special attention to electronic publishing and the adaptation of literary and artistic culture in electronic media. Finally, a writing and composition section is under development. Chorus is mirrored by Cycor, Canada and archived by the National Library of Canada as part of their Electronic Publications Project. We invite your feedback, especially during this beta-testing phase of development. Please visit us at: <a href="http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus">http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus</a> Todd J. B. Blayone Founding Editor, Chorus <a href="http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus">http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus</a> media north, web publishing <a href="http://medianorth.simplenet.com">http://medianorth.simplenet.com</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: ECAI-98 #1: CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 18:51:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 406 (406) [deleted quotation] ______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' CALL FOR PAPERS <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/call.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/call.html</a> The ECAI-98 Programme Committee invites submission of papers for the Technical Programme of the 13th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98). IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- 23 Jan 1998 Deadline for papers 15 Apr 1998 Notification of acceptance 15 May1998 Camera-ready copies of papers 26-28 Aug 1998 Technical programme at ECAI-98 Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to: Abduction, Temporal, Causal Reasoning, and Diagnosis; Automated Reasoning; Application and Enabling Technologies; Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning; Case-Based Reasoning; Cognitive Modelling and Philosophical Foundations; Computational Linguistics; Constraint-Based Reasoning and Constraint Programming; Distributed AI and Multiagent Systems; Fuzzy Logic; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Representation; Logic Programming, and Theorem Proving; Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Natural Language and Intelligent User Interfaces; Neural Networks in AI; Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning about Actions; Probabilistic Networks; Qualitative Preferences and Decision in AI; Qualitative and Spatial Reasoning; Reasoning under Uncertainty; Robotics, Vision, and Signal Understanding; Search and Meta-Heuristics for AI; Verification, Validation and Testing of Knowledge-Based Systems. Submission procedure Detailed formatting guidance will be published on the ECAI-98 website in due course. Accepted papers will have 5 A4 pages in 2-column format in the proceedings. 6 copies (hard copy only) of papers should be submitted by post to the ECAI-98 Programme Chair, Henri Prade at the following address: ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION ---------------------- Henri Prade, ECAI-98 Programme Chair IRIT Universiti Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 4 France Email: Henri.Prade@irit.fr Tel: +33(0)561 55 65 79 Fax: +33(0)561 55 62 39 The deadline for receipt of proposals is 23 January 1998 . For other important dates, see the table above. Other information All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI-98 Programme Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI-98 Programme Chair. The ECAI-98 Programme Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448 Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320 University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98</a> ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex on behalf of AISB. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Etext Tristan Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 18:49:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 407 (407) I am forwarding this request to the list in the hopes that some one of its subscribers might be able to assist the requestor. - Gregory Murphy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- [deleted quotation]Dear Sirs, I am a student of French, English and Spanish at the University of Cologne, Germany. For my final exam in French I am conducting an analysis of a French literary text by means of linguistic statistics. More precisely, I am trying to contribute results to the discussion of the unity or duality of the Tristan romance by Beroul. For this reason I am looking for an electronic version of this text in the Internet, where I have also come across your site. I would be very thankful if you could maybe help me in my search for this text. If you know an archive in the Internet which contains this e-text please let me know. Otherwise you could also help me by forwarding this request to any other person or institution who can give me the necessary information. In addition I am looking for an appropriate WINDOWS tool for a linguistic analysis of texts. Please be sure that I would be happy about any kind of help or reply concerning my problem. I am hoping to hear from you asap and thank you very much in advance. Regards, Michael Fuecks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: "technology" Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 08:40:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 408 (408) Leo Marx, Emeritus Kenan Professor of American Cultural History at MIT, reviews two books on technology in the current TLS (4926, for 29/8/97), Kirkpatrick Sale, <cite>Rebels against the future: The Luddites and their war on the Indistrial Revolution</cite>, and Robert McC. Adams, <cite>Paths of fire: An anthropologist's inquiry into Western technology</cite>. Marx is not happy with the former and somewhat dissatisfied with the latter, but his own views, which consume most of the article, are at least worth our attention. Marx makes two rather important points in "In the driving-seat? The nagging ambiguity in historians' attitudes to the rise of 'technology'", or so it seems to me. The first you can guess from his title. "'Driven by technology' is one of the more revealing stock phrases in the fin-de-siecle lexicon of public affairs", he begins. "Just about every major trend these days -- the restructuring of the global economy, rising productivity, the population growth, the information revolution, the world-wide dissemination of American media culture, climate change, the accelerating rate of species extinction -- is said to be 'driven by technology'. The causal efficacy of technological innovation is an all-purpose explanation of the direction, and the rate, of social change. Technology, on this view, is assumed to be a discrete entity, a virtually autonomous agent and the primary driving force of contemporary history." Out of this mental state of affairs Marx draws his two points: "It is a hazardous concept not only because, like all reified abstractions, it tacitly refers to a complex set of human relationships as if it were a determinate object, but also because 'technology', by virtue of its close identification with artefacts (tools, devices, machines), is particularly susceptible to reification. The word becomes problematic, it should be said, primarily when used as the subject of an active verb, as in today's stock media plaint, 'Where is technology taking us?' In this usage, human history is assumed to be a sequence of transformations, each keyed to a major technological innovation, by means of which Homo sapiens has acquired a unique power over nature.... [T]he tacit projection of the concept of technology back into prehistory -- as if tracing a direct line from automobiles to stone tools -- is deceptive. During all but the last very few seconds, as it were, of the ten millennia of recorded history... that concept did not exist.... It is odd... that so many scholars who were, or should have been, sensitive to the distorting effects of anachronism (I include myself), have for so long casually projected the concept of 'technology' back into a past, and into cultures, in which neither the word nor the phenomenon to which it refers was known." The problem Marx raises is not only the blinkered view so prevalent today (I also include myself, for it is very difficult not to speak the current tongue), it is also a source for a fascinating and very important insight into changes in our mental life. "From a cultural historian's viewpoint, the emergence of a pivotal word -- whether newly coined or an old word invested with significantly different meaning -- is invariably a marker of far-reaching changes in society and culture." Let me stop here (although there is much more I am tempted to quote) with a literary critic's observation on Marx's venture into the syntax of the problem he identifies, which occurs in language "when ['technology' is] used as the subject of an active verb". When so used an abstraction is personified, made not just into an "autonomous agent" but to some degree into a person, or to put the matter psychologically, into an image of ourselves, which often means into a self-image of what we fear. The human tendency to anthropomorphise the natural world would appear to be irresistible, which with an alert mind we can perhaps avoid the evil consequences of. As Northrop Frye used to observe, we have this habit of treating a human invention (such as the book or the wheel) as if it were an autonomous device (thus the Book of Life or the Wheel of Fortune) and so enslaving ourselves to it. Our current psychomachia is, it would seem, with the personified abstraction "technology" or the physical computer, which is very often what is meant by that abstraction. As Humanists this is our topic? Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Judith A. Turner" <judith@turner.net> Subject: Come see the new Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 13:43:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 409 (409) Why Publish a Journal On Line? THE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING Tells Why September 1, 1997 -- You can't read it on the train, or make notes in the margin. You can't tear out an article to put in your files. You have to buy an expensive machine, learn a confusing interface, and master a cranky connection even to open it up. So why does anyone publish a scholarly peer-reviewed journal electronically? Editors of eight electronic-only peer-reviewed scholarly journals answer that question in the latest edition of The Journal of Electronic Publishing, available now at <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep</a>>. JEP is published by the University of Michigan Press. JEP has a new design, a new format, and a host of new articles (including reviews JEP itself, and brave commentary by a librarian who wants to invest in article futures and by a university-press leader who prefers paper). The JEP reincarnation has come with the editorship of Judith Axler Turner, who sharpened her e-publishing teeth creating the online version of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The September issue of this sparkling online quarterly is entitled ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: Why? -- A look at how eight e-journals came about, and what they offer that you can't get in print The invited feature articles are: ACM's Journal of Experimental Algorithmics "Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice" by Bernard M. E. Moret ACM Earth Interactions "Transcending the Limitations of the Printed Page" by Judy C. Holoviak American Geophysical Union and Keith L. Seitter American Meteorological Association The Electronic Journal of Cognitive and Brain Science "Democracy Replaces Peer Review in an All-Electronic Journal" by Zoltan Nadasdy Rutgers University First Monday "Waiting for Thomas Kuhn" by Edward J. Valauskas Internet Mechanics Living Reviews in Relativity "Making an Electronic Journal Live" by Jennifer Wheary and Bernard Schutz Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Public-Access Computer Systems Review "Testing the Promise" by Pat Ensor and Thomas C. Wilson University of Houston Libraries RSNA EJ "Beyond Paper Images: Radiology on the Web" by Laurens V. Ackerman Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and Alphonse Simonaitis RSNA TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism "A Modern Experiment in Studying the Ancients" by James R. Adair, Jr. Scholars Press In addition, the issue includes invited articles by Mike Cuenca, William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas; Paul M. Gherman, Vanderbilt University; Peter Grenquist, New York University; and Thom Lieb, Towson University. JEP is continuing its effort to find and reprint articles important to electronic publishing that have appeared elsewhere. The September issue includes an excerpt from conference proceedings in textual scholarship, an article on the economics of online publishing, and an article on how electronic publishing supports the Muslim diaspora community. JEP welcomes submissions of original articles for peer review, and of articles that have appeared elsewhere that are of interest to JEP's unique audience, publishers, authors, and scholars interested in the online-publishing environment. Contact: Colin Day 313-764-4388; colinday@umich.edu Judith Axler Turner 202-986-3463; judith@turner.net Judith Axler Turner Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing <a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep</a> (202) 986-3463 From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 19:14:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 410 (410) THIS is partly to reassure Humanists elsewhere that the U.K. does have news apart from that concerning the late and much lamented Princess. But in case more is required, see <<a href="http://www.royalnetwork.com/clubdi/">http://www.royalnetwork.com/clubdi/</a>> & others that AltaVista surely would turn up. Otherwise, with a view to the rule about not drinking until after sunset, see <<a href="http://www.blackwalk.com/suntimes.htm">http://www.blackwalk.com/suntimes.htm</a>> (which oddly specifies the range of time-zones in the world as "Automatic | Eastern | Central | Mountain | Pacific | Zulu/GMT"). Personally I take great satisfaction in keeping time with the Zulus -- or does British Summer Time deprive me of this benefit? Big in the Guardian Online this week is the complex relationship between what we think or imagine and what happens in the outside world -- a dubious distinction, I would think, a "cloven fiction". But putting our heads down into the smell of wet wool, we read about: the changing scientific perceptions of schizophrenia ("Odd ideas and beliefs are held unshakeably against all evidence to the contrary"); the current form of the old mind-body problem, i.e. mind-brain ("why do patients experience self-generated activity as not under their control and, sometimes, coming from the outside world?"); the impossibility of detecting lies reliably (or "why you can fool all of the people all of the time"). It is useful, I'd suppose, for us as computing humanists to think about where we sit, at the intersection of readings and things read, or viewings and things observed. On the growth of the Internet (more than 19.5 million users, expanding at the rate of 52%/year), Jack Scofield directs us to the bi-annual survey by Network Wizards, <<a href="http://www.nw.com">http://www.nw.com</a>>. One consequence of this growth Douglas Rushkoff features in his regular column, namely spamming. After recounting the troubles he has had from spammers, and their hiding behind layers of intermediate servers, he suggests that as countermeasures you should (1) remove your e-mail address from your Web page, replacing it with a version that must be read and interpreted by a human being in order to be used, e.g. rather than "sam.cooke@motown.detroit.org" write "sam.cooke at motown.detroit.org"; (2) avoid browsing the Web from your normal account; and (3) stay current with the action, by visiting <<a href="http://www.spam.abuse.net">http://www.spam.abuse.net</a>>, <http://www.cauce.org> and the like. Is all this really necessary??? It reminds me of my own reaction after being burgled a few months ago; I woke up when the nice man from Bates Alarms handed me an estimate of 2,000 pounds sterling for a high-tech, computer-controlled, multi-beamed system that could tell the difference between a cat and a human being.... For e-mail security all I do now is to keep adding spammers' addresses to my Eudora filtering mechanism, redirecting all unwanted mail to the trash folder. Is this not enough? All in all not a very newsworthy week online. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: New Corpus from the Linguistic Data Consortium Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:01:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 411 (411) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM The Kids Corpus This database is comprised of sentences read aloud by children. It was originally designed in order to create a training set of children's speech for the SPHINX II automatic speech recognizer for its use in the LISTEN project at Carnegie Mellon University. The children range in age from 6 to 11 (see details below) and were in first through third grades (the 11-year-old was in 6th grade) at the time of recording. There were 24 male and 52 female speakers. Although the girls outnumber the boys, we feel that the small difference in vocal tract length between the two at this age should make the effect of this imbalance negligible. There are 5180 utterances in all. The speakers come from two separate populations. Since the LISTEN reading coach needed good examples of reading aloud, it was decided that the majority of the speakers should be "good" readers. They were recorded in the summer of 1995, and were enrolled in either the Chatham College Summer Camp, or the Mount Lebanon Extended Day Summer Fun program in Pittsburgh. They were recorded on-site. This set will hereafter be called SUM95. There are 44 speakers and 3333 utterances in this set. The LISTEN system also needed examples of errorful reading and dialectic variants. The readers who supplied this type of speech come from a school which has a high population of children who are at risk of growing up poor readers and who could therefore benefit from any reading tutor or other system built upon this database. They come from Fort Pitt School in Pittsburgh and were recorded in April 1996. This subset will be referred to as FP. There are 32 speakers and 1847 utterances in this set. The list of speakers, the set they are in, and the number of sentences per speaker can be found in the "tables" directory, in the file named "speaker.tbl". It should be noted that although there will be some dialectal variation in the speech of the SUM95 subset, the speech of the FP subset gives us a very good representation of dialects of the children that may be targeted for the LISTEN system. However, the user should be aware that the speakers' dialect partly reflects what is locally called "Pittsburghese". The text presented to the children was obtained from Weekly Reader stories. Weekly Reader is a four-page color reading supplement given out to children in many classrooms. Special reprint permission granted by Weekly Reader (R), published by Weekly Reader Corporation Copyright (c) 1994, 1995 by Weekly Reader Corporation All Rights Reserved. Because of restrictions imposed by the copyright holders, this corpus is available to 1997 LDC members only. 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 <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/</a>. 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: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: New Corpus from the Linguistic Data Consortium Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:02:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 412 (412) From: LDC Office <ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu> Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM SWITCHBOARD-1 Release 2 The Switchboard-1 Telephone Speech Corpus was originally collected by Texas Instruments in 1990-1, under DARPA sponsorship. The first release of the corpus was published by NIST and distributed by the LDC in 1992-3. Since that release, a number of corrections have been made to the data files as presented on the original CD-ROM set, and all copies of the first pressing have been distributed. SWITCHBOARD is a collection of about 2400 two-sided telephone conversations among 543 speakers (302 male, 241 female) from all areas of the United States. A computer-driven "robot operator" system handled the calls, giving the caller appropriate recorded prompts, selecting and dialing another person (the callee) to take part in a conversation, introducing a topic for discussion, and recording the speech from the two subjects into separate channels until the conversation was finished. About 70 topics were provided, of which about 50 were used frequently. Selection of topics and callees was constrained so that: (1) no two speakers would converse together more than once, and (2) no one spoke more than once on a given topic. In this new release, assembled and published by the LDC, all known errors affecting the original publication of speech files have been corrected. In addition, modifications have been made to the contents of the NIST Sphere headers of all speech files, to identify each file as being part of the new release, and to make the usage of the "sample_count" header field consistent with standard Sphere usage. (In particular, the "sample_count" field should reflect the number of samples on each channel in the file. In the initial release, this field was improperly set to be the total number of samples in both channels of the file; this has been corrected in the new release.) SWITCHBOARD-1 Release 2 is distributed in a notebook-style binder with 23 CD-ROMs. The intermediate version of the corresponding transcripts is available separately. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1997 Membership Year will be able to receive SWITCHBOARD-1 Release 2 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 SWITCHBOARD-1 Release 2 for research purposes only for a fee of $10,000. 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 <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/</a>. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:14:34 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 413 (413) [The following was announced in Humanist earlier, but the NINCH version comes with additional information -- and the new issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing is worth a second notice, don't you think? --WM] NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 5, 1997 JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING RE-FURBISHED Under a new editor, Judith Axler Turner, the JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING has resumed publication with a new issue, focusing on how and why some e-journals have come into being and what they offer beyond hard copy. The JEP is published by the University of Michigan Press, is free and available online at <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep</a>>. Apart from the articles cited below in the new issue, readers will probably also be interested in the re-print of Malcolm Getz' paper, "An Economic Perspective on E-Publishing in Academia," <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu:80/jep/03-01/getz.html">http://www.press.umich.edu:80/jep/03-01/getz.html</a>>, delivered this April at the Scholarly Communication and Technology conference, organized by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at Emory University. David Green +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contact: Colin Day 313-764-4388; colinday@umich.edu Judith Axler Turner 202-986-3463; judith@turner.net NEW ISSUE OF The Journal of Electronic Publishing NOW AVAILABLE September 1, 1997 -- You can't read it on the train, or make notes in the margin. You can't tear out an article to put in your files. You have to buy an expensive machine, learn a confusing interface, and master a cranky connection even to open it up. So why does anyone publish a scholarly peer-reviewed journal electronically? Editors of eight electronic-only peer-reviewed scholarly journals answer that question in the latest edition of The Journal of Electronic Publishing, available now at <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep</a>>. JEP is published by the University of Michigan Press. JEP has a new design, a new format, and a host of new articles (including reviews JEP itself, and brave commentary by a librarian who wants to invest in article futures and by a university-press leader who prefers paper). The JEP reincarnation has come with the editorship of Judith Axler Turner, who sharpened her e-publishing teeth creating the online version of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The September issue of this sparkling online quarterly is entitled ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: Why? -- A look at how eight e-journals came about, and what they offer that you can't get in print The invited feature articles are: ACM's Journal of Experimental Algorithmics "Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice" by Bernard M. E. Moret ACM Earth Interactions "Transcending the Limitations of the Printed Page" by Judy C. Holoviak American Geophysical Union and Keith L. Seitter American Meteorological Association The Electronic Journal of Cognitive and Brain Science "Democracy Replaces Peer Review in an All-Electronic Journal" by Zoltan Nadasdy Rutgers University First Monday "Waiting for Thomas Kuhn" by Edward J. Valauskas Internet Mechanics Living Reviews in Relativity "Making an Electronic Journal Live" by Jennifer Wheary and Bernard Schutz Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Public-Access Computer Systems Review "Testing the Promise" by Pat Ensor and Thomas C. Wilson University of Houston Libraries RSNA EJ "Beyond Paper Images: Radiology on the Web" by Laurens V. Ackerman Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and Alphonse Simonaitis RSNA TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism "A Modern Experiment in Studying the Ancients" by James R. Adair, Jr. Scholars Press In addition, the issue includes invited articles by Mike Cuenca, William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas; Paul M. Gherman, Vanderbilt University; Peter Grenquist, New York University; and Thom Lieb, Towson University. JEP is continuing its effort to find and reprint articles important to electronic publishing that have appeared elsewhere. The September issue includes an excerpt from conference proceedings in textual scholarship, an article on the economics of online publishing, and an article on how electronic publishing supports the Muslim diaspora community. JEP welcomes submissions of original articles for peer review, and of articles that have appeared elsewhere that are of interest to JEP's unique audience, publishers, authors, and scholars interested in the online-publishing environment. From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Scholarly Communication and Technology Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 17:30:22 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 414 (414) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 5, 1997 SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE PAPERS AVAILABLE ONLINE Following my previous message concerning the Journal of Electronic Publishing, in which Malcolm Getz' paper on "Electronic Publishing in Academia: An Economic Perspective" could be found, I'm forwarding an announcement of the availability of companion papers to Mr. Getz' also delivered at the Mellon sponsored conference on Scholarly Communication and Technology at Emory University in April. David Green =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). Send any replies to the original author, listed in the From: field below. You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not use the "redirect" command. For information on RRE, including instructions for (un)subscribing, send an empty message to rre-help@weber.ucsd.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= [I don't have the original header.] September 4, 1997 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE PAPERS AVAILABLE ONLINE The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries, is pleased to announce the availability of selected papers from the conference, Scholarly Communication and Technology. The two-day conference, organized by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and held at Emory University in April 1997, brought together technologists, publishers, librarians, and scholars to discuss the changing nature of scholarly communication in the electronic environment. The papers can be accessed via the ARL web site at: <<a href="http://arl.cni.org/scomm/scat/index.html">http://arl.cni.org/scomm/scat/index.html</a>>. Issues under discussion during this two-day event included, the economics of electronic scholarly publishing, incorporating technology into academia, the future of consortia and access versus ownership, electronic content licensing, and updates on several electronic scholarly initiatives, such as the Columbia University Online Books Project, Project Muse at Johns Hopkins University, and JSTOR. Distinguished speakers whose presentations are available online include: Janet Fisher, Associate Director, Journals Publishing, The MIT Press "Comparing Electronic Journals to Print Journals: Are there Cost Savings?" Malcolm Getz , Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Vanderbilt University "Electronic Publishing in Academia: An Economic Perspective" Willis G. Regier, Director, The Johns Hopkins University Press "Epic: Electronic Publishing is Cheaper" James G. Neal, Sheridan Director, Johns Hopkins University Library "The Use of Electronic Scholarly Journals Models of Analysis and Data Drawn from the Project Muse Experience at Johns Hopkins University" Sandra Whisler, Assistant Director, Electronic Publishing, University of California Press Susan F. Rosenblatt, Deputy University Librarian, University of California at Berkeley=CA "The Library and the University Press: Two Views of the Costs and Problems of the Current System of Scholarly Publishing" Robert Shirrell, Journals Manager, The University of Chicago Press "Economics of Electronic Publishing: Cost Issues" Hal Varian, Dean, School of Information, Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley "The Future of Electronic Journals" Karen Hunter, Senior Vice President, Elsevier Science "The Effect of Price: Early Observations" Andrew M. Odlyzko, Head, Mathematics and Cryptography Research Department, AT&T Research "The Economics of Electronic Journals" Thomas A. Finholt, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, University of Michigan "Analysis of JSTOR: The Impact on Scholarly Practice of Access to On-Line Journal Archives" Richard Hamilton, Paul Shorey Professor of Greek, Bryn Mawr College "Patterns of Use for the Bryn Mawr Reviews" Michael E. Lesk, Division Manager, Computer Science Research, Bellcore "Digital Libraries: A Unifying or Distributing Force" Carol A. Mandel, Deputy University Librarian, Columbia University Mary C. Summerfield, Coordinator, Online Books Project, Columbia University Libraries "Online Books at Columbia: Measurement and Early Results on Use, Satisfaction and Effect" Peter Lyman, University Librarian, University of California at Berkeley "Digital Documents and the Future of the Academic Community Susan Hockey, Department of English, University of Alberta "Making Technology Work for Scholarship: Investing in the Data" Brother Eric Hollas, OSB, Director, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Saint John=D5s Library "Technical Standards and Medieval Manuscripts" Anne R. Kenney, Associate Director, Department of Preservation, Cornell University Library "Digital Image Quality: From Conversion to Presentation and Beyond" Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia University School of Law "The HYPATIA Project (toward ASCAP for Academics)" Ann S. Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University "The Transition to Electronic Content Licensing: The Institutional Context in 1997" Andrew Lass, Project Manager, Czech and Slovak Library Information Network, Mount Holyoke College "The Cross Currents of Technology Transfer: The Czech and Slovak Library Information Network" Richard W. Meyer, Director of Libraries, Elizabeth Coates Maddux Library, Trinity University "Consortial Access Versus Ownership" Raymond K. Neff, Vice President for Information Services, Case Western Reserve University "A New Consortial Model for Building Digital Libraries" Scott Bennett, University Librarian, Yale University "Information-Based Productivity" James J. O'Donnell, Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost (Interim), Information Systems and Computing, University of Pennsylvania "Cost and Value in Electronic Publishing" Deanna B. Marcum, President, Commission on Preservation and Access "Summary Remarks" ____________________________________________ For further information please contact: Richard Ekman (re@mellon.org) Patricia Brennan (patricia@arl.org) The purpose of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is to "aid and promote such religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes as may be in the furtherance of the public welfare or tend to promote the well-doing or well-being of mankind." Under this broad charter, the Foundation currently makes grants on a selective basis to institutions in higher education; in cultural affairs and the performing arts; in population; in conservation and the environment; and in public affairs. For additional information see the home page at: <<a href="http://www.mellon.org/about.html">http://www.mellon.org/about.html</a>>. The Association of Research Libraries is a not-for- profit membership organization comprising 121 libraries of North American research institutions. Its mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. For more information about ARL and its programs and services, visit our home page at <<a href="http://arl.cni.org">http://arl.cni.org</a>>. From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: what next? Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 19:01:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 415 (415) Faced with the prospect soon of talking to the seemingly ubiquitous subject, electronic publishing, I've been wondering quite a bit recently what questions are blowing about at the horizon of our knowledge and experience. In the above notes on the subject I'm very pleased to see attention being paid to the question of economics, which in the broadest sense of this word seems a crucial one to me. It's the system-wide effects that are most important to us in the long-term, not so much the reduction of costs, or the hidden ones that mean total cost will not be reduced, or not by as much as some have imagined. How will the sociology of knowledge be changed? What, then, are the big questions we should all be paying attention to? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu> Subject: TEI Conference: REMINDER Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 18:37:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 416 (416) ************************************************************************ REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER ************************************************************************ ***** ABSTRACTS DUE AUGUST 20!!! ***** TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE TENTH ANNIVERSARY USER CONFERENCE <a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/">http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/</a> November 14-16, 1997 Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, USA Sponsored by Brown University Computing and Information Services Brown University Libraries - o - To commemorate the tenth anniversary of its founding, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is sponsoring its first user conference, to be held 14-16 November 1997 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The TEI was established at an international planning meeting on text encoding standards, held at Vassar College on November 12-13, 1987. The TEI is sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange were published in spring of 1994. They provide an extensive SGML-based scheme for encoding electronic texts across a wide spectrum of text types and suitable for any kind of application. The Guidelines have already achieved wide-scale implementation in projects throughout North America and Europe. The TEI conference will bring together users of the TEI Guidelines in order to share ideas, experiences, and expertise, provide a forum for technical discussion and evaluation of the Guidelines as they have been implemented across a variety of applications. The topics include but are not limited to: o reports on the use of the TEI scheme in a particular project or in a particular application area or discipline o reports from particular user communities such as the builders and designers of electronic text centers, digital libraries, language corpora, electronic editions, multi-media databases, etc. o evaluations of the TEI scheme as applied to a particular class of texts or in a particular type of scholarly research o technical discussions of particular encoding problems and solutions such as unusual or complex text types, multi-media, multiple views or information types, multi-lingual data and internationalization, textual variation, overlap, etc. o papers on customization and extension of the TEI for particular application areas and text types o reports on experience using off-the-shelf software with TEI documents, or developing software to handle TEI material o discussions of markup theory and markup architectures, with particular reference to the TEI o discussions of the TEI in the light of developments in the larger computing community (the Web, XML, ...) A portion of the conference will also be devoted to consideration of the future of the TEI. Possible topics to be discussed include the organization of the project, membership on the component committees, priorities, and new work items to be proposed to the Technical Review Committee. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions of at least 1500 words should be sent by August 20, 1997. Email submissions or a URL where the submission can be retrieved should be sent to tei10@stg.brown.edu. Submissions in TEI Lite are preferred, but full TEI or (valid!) HTML 3.2 is acceptable. If it is not possible to submit in one of these forms, please contact tei10_program@stg.brown.edu to make special arrangements. Papers should include complete references to related work and should clearly identify the main problem being addressed, other similar projects and their relation to this project, the main and original contribution of the paper, and remaining or open problems. Authors are also asked to indicate if this paper is or will be submitted elsewhere. Notification of acceptance will be made by September 20, 1997. Final versions of full papers will be due by October 15, 1997. An electronic conference proceedings will be published; other publication details will be forthcoming. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: * Nancy Ide, Vassar College * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Susan Armstrong, University of Geneva * Winfried Bader, German Bible Society * David Barnard, University of Regina (Sask.) * Lou Burnard, Oxford University Computing Services * Tom Corns, University of Wales, Bangor * Steve DeRose, Inso Corp. * David Gants, University of Georgia * Dan Greenstein, King's College, London * Susan Hockey, University of Alberta * Stig Johansson, University of Oslo * Judith Klavans, Columbia University * Terry Langendoen, University of Arizona * Elli Mylonas, Brown University * John Price-Wilkin, University of Michigan * Gary Simons, Summer Institute of Linguistics * Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo * Syun Tutiya, Chiba University * Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: On program and paper submissions: tei10_program@stg.brown.edu About local arrangements: tei10@stg.brown.edu URL: <a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/">http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/</a> FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEI: URL: <a href="http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/">http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Michael Kessler <mkessler@ceres.sfsu.edu> Subject: Spamming Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:43:48 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 417 (417) On 5 Sep 97 at 19:23, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] My experience with spammers is that they use fake addresses, sometimes using an innocent user's address. Rarely will a reply to <abuse@sender's address> result in more than a mail daemon message teeling me that the address is unknown. ******************************************** Michael Kessler voice (415) 338-1662 College of Humanities mailto:MKessler@ceres.sfsu.edu San Francisco State University FAX (415) 338-7030 1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132 From: Hartmut Krech <kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de> Subject: Re.: Why online ?/HUMANIST Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 15:35:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 418 (418) Dear Dr. McCarty Thank you always for the inspiration shared in your contributions to HUMANIST. They are very helpful. As to a recent discussion on HUMANIST: Could it be that neither discerning (Plato) nor critique (Bayle), but reflection essentially is the Royal Art ? Though each is only half the story. Just a thought... Thanks again. Dr. Hartmut Krech Buddestrasse 15 D-28215 Bremen Germany Ph/Fx +49-421-355 755 eMail kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Portland Town Meeting - REGISTER / SEND QUESTIONS Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:26:58 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 419 (419) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT SEPTEMBER 10, 1997 COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE DIGITAL WORLD: FAIR USE, EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES AFTER CONFU A reminder from organizer Christine Sundt of the registration deadline for the latest in the FAIR USE TOWN MEETINGS, this one Sept 26-27 at Reed College, Portland, oregon. David Green COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE DIGITAL WORLD: FAIR USE, EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES AFTER CONFU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Presented by the College Art Association (CAA), the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) Friday and Saturday, September 26 and 27, 1997 Reed College, 3203 S.E. Woodstock Blvd., Portland, OR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is still time to register for this program, so if you have not yet made your reservation, please do so without further delay. We are anticipating a full house, but as of today, some seats are still available. The program is described in detail at our website: Program description: <<a href="http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/pdx.htm">http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/pdx.htm</a>> Schedule: <<a href="http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/schedule.htm">http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/schedule.htm</a>> Accommodations & transportation: <<a href="http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/local.htm">http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/local.htm</a>> If you are unable to access this information for any reason, please contact me directly at csundt@oregon.uoregon.edu or by phone: 541-346-2209. SEND US YOUR QUESTIONS! In keeping with the spirit of the "town meeting" format, I invite you to send your questions or comments related to the issues that will be covered in the program to me or to any of the speakers listed below. We will endeavor to address these at an appropriate time during the program. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PROGRAM SCHEDULE ************************** Friday, September 26, 1997 (BONUS SESSION) 3:00 - 5:00 PM WORKSHOP: Copyright and Fair Use -- Higher Education and Libraries Professor Kenneth Crews, Indiana University (kcrews@iupui.edu) **************************** Saturday, September 27, 1997 8:15 - 9:00 AM Registration and Coffee 9:00 - 9:30 AM WELCOME REMARKS AND INTRODUCTION: Elaine Koss, College Art Association (ekoss@collegeart.org) 9:30 - 10:45 AM SESSION I: FACING THE CHALLENGE Moderator: Victoria Hanawalt, Reed College (hanawalt@reed.edu) * The Challenge to Educators: Robert Baron, Museum Consultant (rabaron@pipeline.com) * The Challenge to Rightsholders: Mike Holcomb, University of Oregon (mikeh@nmc.uoregon.edu) * The Challenge to Libraries: J.Q. Johnson, University of Oregon (jqj@darkwing.uoregon.edu) 11:00 - 12:15 PM SESSION II: USERS' PERSPECTIVES Moderator: Charles Rhyne, Reed College (Charles.Rhyne@reed.edu) * Electronic Reserves: Penny Hazelton, University of Washington (pennyh@u.washington.edu) * Distance Learning: Gerald Barnett, University of Washington (barnett@u.washington.edu) * Digital Images: Maryly Snow, University of California, Berkeley (slides@ced.berkeley.edu) 12:15 - 1:45 PM Lunch 1:45 - 3:00 PM SESSION III: WORKING WITH THE GUIDELINES, OR WHAT FOLLOWS AFTER CONFU Moderator: Deborah Carver, University of Oregon (dcarver@oregon.uoregon.edu) * CONFU: The Big Picture: Georgia Harper, University of Texas System (GHarper@utsystem.edu) * Trying out the Guidelines: Mary Levering, Library of Congress (mlev@loc.gov) and Robert Baron, Museum Consultant (rabaron@pipeline.com) * Licensing and Other Initiatives: Chrysanne Lowe, Academic Press, Inc. (clowe@acad.com) 3:30 - 5:30 PM SESSION IV: FORUM Moderator: Christine Sundt, University of Oregon (csundt@oregon.uoregon.edu) Questions and discussion, between and among participants and speakers ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` REGISTRATION FORM: The registration for "Copyright Law in the Digital World: Fair Use, Education and Libraries after CONFU (The Conference on Fair Use)" is $40. Your registration includes a box lunch, conference materials, refreshments and admission to the program. Seating is strictly limited. Registrations invited from all interested persons. Electronic and faxed registrations will be accepted with payment immediately following. Please make checks payable to the College Art Association (Federal ID#13-1671148). Please complete the following information: NAME_________________________________________________________ NAMETAG NAME_________________________________________________ TITLE/INSTITUTION____________________________________________ MAILING ADDRESS______________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ TELEPHONE________________________ FAX________________________ EMAIL________________________________________________________ Box lunch preference: 1)meat 2)poultry 3)vegetarian Do you plan to attend the Bonus Session on September 26? Yes or No BONUS SESSION: On Friday, September 26, 3:00-5:00 PM, Prof. Kenneth Crews will lead a workshop on copyright issues as they relate to higher education and library services. This session will be useful background for analyzing the issues encompassed in the CONFU report and on the agenda during the next day's conference. Electronic or faxed registrations accepted, with payment immediately following. Please return your completed registration form and your check in the amount of $40.00 payable to College Art Association (Federal ID# 13-1671148) to: John Farmer College Art Association 275 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10001 Please send electronic reservations to: sball@collegeart.org Fax reservations to: John Farmer, CAA, 212/627-2381 For general program information call: Christine Sundt, 541/347-2209 or email csundt@oregon.uoregon.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christine L. Sundt Visual Resources Curator Architecture & Allied Arts Library University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 - USA 541-346-2209 / FAX: 541-346-2205 <a href="http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/index.htm">http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/index.htm</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: ECAI-98 #2: CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:24:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 420 (420) [deleted quotation] ______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS <a href="http://www.coggs.susx/ac/uk/ecai98/workshopscall.html">http://www.coggs.susx/ac/uk/ecai98/workshopscall.html</a> The ECAI-98 Programme Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops will be held on 24-25 August 1998, immediately prior to the start of the main conference. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------- 1 Nov 1997 Deadline for proposals 1 Dec 1997 Notification of acceptance 15 Dec 1997 Deadline for workshop summaries 5 Jan 1998 Publication of ECAI-98 workshop programme 15 Jun 1998 Camera-ready workshop notes and other information 24-25 Aug 1998 Workshops at ECAI-98 ECAI workshops Gathered in an informal atmosphere, workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics, fostering the active exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners. Members from all segments of the AI community are invited to submit their proposals for review. To encourage interaction, the workshops will be kept small, preferably under 30 participants and certainly under 40. Attendance should be limited to active participants only. Workshops are intended to be genuinely interactive events and not mini-conferences. Thus, although the format of workshop presentations are to be determined by their organizers, ample time should be allotted for general discussion. Workshops can vary in length, but most will last a full day. Attendees at workshops must also register for the main ECAI-98 conference. As a new feature in ECAI-98, a special series of sessions will be reserved in the main ECAI-98 conference programme for 15 minute presentations of the main workshop issues by each workshop chair. A booklet summarising the main features of each workshop is also planned. How to propose a workshop Proposals for workshops should be two to three pages in length and should contain: + A brief technical description of the specific technical issues that the workshop will address + The reasons why the workshop is of interest this time. + The names, postal address, phone and fax numbers and email addresses of the Workshop Organising Committee, which should consist of at least three people knowledgeable in the field but not all at the same institution. + The name of one member of the Workshop Organising Committee who is designated the contact person. + A list of previously-organized related workshops by any of the Workshop Organising Committee, although previous experience with similar workshops is not required. This is to help the Workshop Coordinator putting the workshop in context. + If possible, a list of potential attendees in case the proposal of the workshop being accepted. + A schedule for organising the workshop and a preliminary agenda + A summary of the intended workshop Call for Participation, showing how the organisers will encourage a workshop, rather than a mini-conference, atmosphere. + A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements. Proposers are encouraged to send their draft proposal to the potential participants for comments before submission. Submission procedure Proposals should be submitted electronically (in ascii, UNIX compatible postscript or rtf) to the ECAI-98 Workshop Coordinator, Lluis Godo, at the following address: ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION -------------------------- Lluis Godo, ECAI-98 Workshop Coordinator IIIA - CSIC Campus Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra Spain Email: godo@iiia.csic.es URL: <a href="http://www.iiia.csic.es/IIIA.html">http://www.iiia.csic.es/IIIA.html</a> Tel: +34(3)580 95 70 Fax: +34(3)580 96 61 The deadline for receipt of proposals is 1 November, 1997. For other important dates, see the table above. Additional information Workshop organizers will be responsible for: + Producing and distributing a Call for Participation in the workshop, open to all members of the AI community. The Call for Participation should be make clear that all workshop participants are expected to register for the main ECAI-98 conference and that the number of participants is limited. It should also make clear the process by which the Workshop Organising Committee will select the participants (for example, by reviewing submitted papers). + Reviewing requests to participate in the workshop and selecting the participants. + The production of camera-ready copy for the workshop notes in accordance with guidelines to be supplied by the Workshop Coordinator. + Providing a provisional list of workshop participants. + Arranging for a short summary of the workshop to be presented to the main conference if required, and providing a written summary to be included in the workshops booklet. The ECAI-98 Organising Committeee will be responsible for: + Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. + Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop. + In conjunction with the workshop organisers, determining the workshop date and time. + Setting the rate for participation and dealing with registration of participants. + Duplicating working notes and distributing them to the participants. ECCAI encourages the production of publications based on the workshops, but the ECCAI and ECAI-98 names cannot be used on such publications without prior permission being given. In case of any disagreement over procedures or arrangements, the ECAI-98 Organising Committee Chair will have final authority. The ECAI-98 Organising Committee reserves the right to cancel any workshop if deadlines are missed, or if the number of registered attendees is too low to support the costs related to organising and running the workshop. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448 Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320 University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98</a> ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex on behalf of AISB. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: ECAI-98 #3: CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:23:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 421 (421) [deleted quotation] ______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/tutorialscall.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/tutorialscall.html</a> The ECAI-98 Organising Committee invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. The tutorials will be held on 24-25 August 1998, immediately prior to the start of the main conference. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------- 1 Nov 1997 Deadline for proposals 1 Dec 1997 Notification of acceptance 15 Dec 1997 Deadline for tutorial summaries 5 Jan 1998 Publication of ECAI-98 tutorial programme 1 May 1998 Camera-ready tutorial notes 24-25 Aug 1998 Tutorials at ECAI-98 We invite proposals for four-hour tutorials on topics relating to theoretical and applied AI. The aim is to offer conference delegates both tutorials on up-to-date AI technologies, and case study tutorials on the application of the AI technologies to real-world problems. A list of suggested topics is given below but other related topics will be considered: case-based reasoning knowledge representation constraint management machine learning genetic algorithms model-based reasoning information management natural language processing intelligent agents neural networks intelligent interfaces ontological engineering intelligent workflow planning and scheduling knowledge discovery and data mining probabilistic reasoning and uncertainty knowledge engineering qualitative modelling and simulation. knowledge management temporal and spatial reasoning How to propose a tutorial Proposals for tutorials should be between two and three pages in length and should contain: + A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in ECAI-98 promotional literature and registration brochure. + A detailed outline of the tutorial specifying: Tutorial Objectives: What should attendees know or be able to do as a result of taking the tutorial and why is the topic important? Tutorial Content: How will the objectives be met? + The necessary background and potential target audience for the tutorial. + Administrative information concerning the presenter(s), including: name, postal address, phone, fax numbers, and email address. + A brief resume of the presenter(s), including: background in the tutorial area, references to published work in the area, evidence of teaching experience. This information may be used in promotional material relating to the conference. + A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements. Submission procedure Tutorial proposals should be submitted by post or electronically (in ascii, postscript or rtf) to the ECAI-98 Tutorial Chair, Ann Macintosh, at the following address: ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION ---------------------------- Ann Macintosh, ECAI-98 Tutorial Chair Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute The University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN, UK Email: A.Macintosh@ed.ac.uk URL: <a href="http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/">http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/</a> Tel: +44(0)131 650 2732 Fax: +44(0)131 650 6513 The deadline for receipt of proposals is 1 November, 1997. For other important dates, see the table above. Additional information Tutorial organisers will be required to enter into a contract with the ECAI-98 Organising Committee. Remuneration will be on the basis of a flat rate plus an amount per participant. Rates for participation will be set by the ECAI-98 Organising Committee. In case of any disagreement over procedures or arrangements, the ECAI-98 Organising Committee Chair will have final authority. The ECAI-98 Organising Committee reserves the right to cancel any tutorial if deadlines are missed, or if the number of registered attendees is too low to support the costs related to organising and running the tutorial. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448 Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320 University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98</a> ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex on behalf of AISB. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0257 electronic publishing Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 16:06:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 422 (422) Willard noted: Faced with the prospect soon of talking to the seemingly ubiquitous subject, electronic publishing, I've been wondering quite a bit recently what questions are blowing about at the horizon of our knowledge and experience. etc What, then, are the big questions we should all be paying attention to? How about how information and knowledge is "authorised"? If we move to a world in which anyone can publish anything to a world-wide audience (we're not there yet by a long shot), how do we go about establishing guidelines for the reliability of such information? gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: lecture series Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 18:30:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 423 (423) For the interest of Humanists both near and far from Berkeley, California, I forward this announcement of a lecture series organised by Ken Goldberg <goldberg@ieor.berkeley.edu>, an Assoc. Prof of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, <<a href="http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg">http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg</a>>. [deleted quotation]- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: INTO THE FUTURE now available Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:11:10 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 424 (424) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 9, 1997 The following announcement on the availability of Terry Sanders' new film about the approaching crisis in preserving digital information comes from the July/August issue of the Newsletter of the Commission on Preservation and Access <<a href="http://clir.stanford.edu/cpa/newsletter/cpanl101.html">http://clir.stanford.edu/cpa/newsletter/cpanl101.html</a>> David Green INTO THE FUTURE Now Available "Into the Future, On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age," a film by Terry Sanders, is now available in one-hour and half-hour VHS versions from the American Film Foundation. "Into the Future" is about the hidden crisis of the digital information age. A sequel to the award-winning "Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record," the film was produced in association with the Commission on Preservation and Access and the American Council of Learned Societies. Narrated by Robert MacNeil, the new film asks whether digitally stored information and knowledge will survive into the future. Will our descendants twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now have access to the electronically recorded history of our time? Can we even now read magnetic tapes from early Voyager probes into outer space? What about reel-to-reel, CD-ROMs, and Windows 2.2.? Into the Future features such prominent figures of the information age as Peter Norton and Tim Berners-Lee. Funding was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Xerox Corporation. The film is copyrighted by the Commission on Preservation and Access, and a production of the American Film Foundation and Sanders & Mock Productions. -------- Ordering Information: The film may be ordered in one-hour and half-hour versions by sending a check or purchase order for the total amount to: American Film Foundation PO Box 2000 Santa Monica, CA 90406 For further information, contact the American Film Foundation: Phone (213)459-2116; Fax (213)394-1260. Prices One-Hour VHS--$59.50 plus shipping and handling Half-Hour VHS--$39.50 plus shipping and handling From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Announcing Romantic Praxis Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 15:58:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 425 (425) [deleted quotation] ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT ROMANTIC CIRCLES is proud to announce the launching of a new series on its Website: ROMANTIC PRAXIS, an ongoing series of contemporary scholarship devoted to current literary and cultural theories. ROMANTIC PRAXIS has justed mounted its first three volumes: "Romanticism and Conspiracy," edited by Orrin N. C. Wang; "The Young Shelley: Vulgarisms, Politics, and Fractals," edited by Neil Fraistat; and "The Last Formalist, or W. J. T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur," edited by Orrin N. C. Wang. "Romanticism and Conspiracy" explores the wide-ranging figural and historical presence of conspiracy narratives in Romantic writing while "The Young Shelley" offers a fresh look at Percy Shelley's overlooked early career, one that mixed scatalogical humor, radical politics, and quantum physics. "The Last Formalist" combines the genres of the interview, epistolary-autobiographical essay, and pastiche as it allows W. J. T. Mitchell, editor of CRITICAL INQUIRY, to meditate on Blake, Romanticism, pictorial theory, and his forthcoming book on dinosaurs. "The Last Formalist" is the first of the PRAXIS CAMEO series, PRAXIS volumes that will feature the thoughts and writings of prominent scholars working in the field of Romantic studies. Forthcoming volumes will explore the relation of Romanticism to the cinema, neo-classicism, passion, law, and philosophies of history. We expect the PRAXIS series to present Romanticist scholarship that mixes in equal parts the eclectic, the pertinent, and the provocative. We invite users to visit us and to see for yourself. Romantic Circles: <a href="http://www.inform.umd.edu/RC/">http://www.inform.umd.edu/RC/</a> Romantic Praxis: <a href="http://www.inform.umd.edu/RC/pages/praxis/index.html">http://www.inform.umd.edu/RC/pages/praxis/index.html</a> Orrin N. C. Wang John Morillo Editors, ROMANTIC PRAXIS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Maurizio Oliva <mo5027@u.cc.utah.edu> Subject: Re: Netscape spell checker Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 08:23:40 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 426 (426) On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, EDTECH Editors-Whitehill & Batten wrote: [deleted quotation] I have to disagree on this. I just checked Netscape Communicator 4.03. You can spell check email and news messages, and you can spell check the HTML page you are composing. The spell check box allows you to select among English dictionary and others. As you know Netscape has gone a considerable length in trying to internationalize the interface. The primary dictionaries come as a default when you chose the language for the interface. I am now looking into where to get and how to add the secondary ones. Maurizio Maurizio Oliva, Director, Multimedia Language Lab, Denison University Fellows 302, Granville, OH 43023, O (614) 587-6684, F 587-6417, H 235-9618 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Otfried Lieberknecht <lieberk@berlin.netsurf.de> Subject: Conferences and events, Sept-Febr 97 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:07:02 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 427 (427) Some conferences and events which might be of interest, extracted from "Job-Newsletter DIE ZEIT", 15 Sept 1997 (ZeitimInternet@zeit.de): 16. - 18. September "media@uni. multi.media" Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fuer Medien in der Wissenschaft (GMW), FernUniversitaet Hagen, <a href="http://www.avmz.uni-siegen.de/extern/GMW/events/JT97/">http://www.avmz.uni-siegen.de/extern/GMW/events/JT97/</a> 25. - 27. September "RUFIS '97" Konferenz an der Czech Technical University, Prag unterstuetzt von UNESCO, International Administration of Universities und Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, <a href="http://www.cvut.cz/cp1250/cc/icsc/NII/index.html">http://www.cvut.cz/cp1250/cc/icsc/NII/index.html</a> 27. - 31. Oktober "Systems 97" 16. Internationale Fachmesse fuer Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation mit Kongress, Muenchen Messe Muenchen GmbH Messegelaende 80325 Muenchen Tel.: 089/51 07-0 Fax: 089/51 07-506 mailto:info@messe-muenchen.de T-Online: *35075# <a href="http://www.systems.de/">http://www.systems.de/</a> 29. - 31. Oktober "Online Educa" Internationale Konferenz zum Thema Telelearning, Berlin International Conferences, Exhibitions and Fairs (ICEF) Niebuhrstr. 69 A 10629 Berlin Tel.: 030/327 61 40 Fax: 030/324 98 33 mailto:100770.3137@compuserve.com 3. - 5. Februar 1998 "LEARNTEC 98" 6. Europaeischer Kongress fuer Bildungs- und Informationstechnologie, Karlsruhe Karlsruher Kongress- und Ausstellungs-GmbH, Festplatz, 76137 Karlsruhe Tel.: 0721/37 20-137 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Otfried Lieberknecht, Schoeneberger Str. 11, D-12163 Berlin Tel.: ++49 30 8516675 (fax on request), E-mail: lieberk@berlin.netsurf.de Homepage for Dante Studies: <a href="http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html">http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html</a> ORB Dante Alighieri - A Guide to Online Resources: <a href="http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/lit/Italian/Danindex.html">http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/lit/Italian/Danindex.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: James R Hamilton <hamilton@ksu.edu> Subject: Re: query concerning print serials Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 16:31:12 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 428 (428) Our university, like many others, is going through yet another upheaval concerning cuts in print serials. We are trying to find the right mix of serials, monographs, and electronic retrieval of serial publications. We believe, mostly on the basis of anecdotal self-observations, that the actual uses of these various research and teaching resources varies considerably from discipline to discipline (and even among sub-disciplines). But we have as yet found no way to provide the kind of hard and convincing evidence that would be an appropriate basis for a sound policy. Do any of you have experience with gathering reliable information about use variations? Please reply directly to me, off list. Regards, James R. Hamilton, Head Department of Philosophy (913) 532-6758 Kansas State University hamilton@ksu.edu Manhattan, KS 66506 [Answers to the above would, I think, be of interest to other members of Humanist, so perhaps those who reply would send copies to Humanist as well. --WM] From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu> Subject: History/Sociology of Academic Journals Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:09:55 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 429 (429) In a discussion of the credibility of academic e-journals a poster (on another list) suggested that "...major pieces will not be submitted until there is credibility, and credibility will not be bestowed until there are major pieces..." (That snippet does not reflect the entire posting which also addresses the amount of committment to form an electronic journal versus a print one and other issues.) While I have seen comparisons of electronic publishing with the invention of the printing press, I was wondering if any Humanist readers are familiar with any historical/sociological treatments of the rise of the modern academic journal? Of particular interest would be any treatments of how such journals were viewed by the academic community. Were such journals always viewed as credible or is the present credibility of the Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS), for example, the result of a credibility building process? (I choose JAOS because it began publication in the mid-19th century and is one of the leading journals in its field.) If this if of interest to the list generally, I will create a short annotated bibliography of the suggested sources for posting to the list. Many thanks. Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu> Subject: TEI Conference Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:31:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 430 (430) CORRECTION of an earlier posting *********************************** CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INFORMATION *********************************** TEI 10th ANNIVERSARY USER CONFERENCE Brown University Providence, Rhode Island November 14-16, 1997 *** EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 15, 1997 *** Registration available on-line at http:www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10 To commemorate the tenth anniversary of its founding, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is sponsoring its first user conference, to be held 14-16 November 1997 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The TEI was established at an international planning meeting on text encoding standards, held at Vassar College on November 12-13, 1987. The TEI is sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange were published in spring of 1994. They provide an extensive SGML-based scheme for encoding electronic texts across a wide spectrum of text types and suitable for any kind of application. The Guidelines have already achieved wide-scale implementation in projects throughout North America and Europe. The TEI conference will bring together users of the TEI Guidelines in order to share ideas, experiences, and expertise, provide a forum for technical discussion and evaluation of the Guidelines as they have been implemented across a variety of applications. A portion of the conference will also be devoted to consideration of the future of the TEI. Local organizers ---------------- Elli Mylonas Mary-Jo Kline Scholarly Technology Group University Library Brown University Brown University elli_mylonas@brown.edu Mary-Jo_Kline@brown.edu Program Committee Chairs ------------------------ Nancy Ide Michael Sperberg-McQueen Department of Computer Science Computer Center Vassar College University of Illinois at Chicago ide@cs.vassar.edu u35395@uicvm.uic.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: hiatus, with explanation & rewards Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:39:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 431 (431) Dear Colleagues: My apologies for the hiatus in transmission of Humanist. I have just returned from the Digital Resources in the Humanities conference at St. Anne's College Oxford, <<a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/</a>>, during which time I could have had access to e-mail but was too engaged to make the small trek to a terminal. So much for explanation and apology. DRH 97 was, I am happy to report, a huge success. It was very well organised and run, thanks to Lou Burnard (the local organiser), the team from Oxford University Computing Services and the Conference committee. The quality of papers was high overall. Although it was intended primarily as a European event, many participants came from North America. The opening plenary address was given by Fr. Roberto Busa, who 51 years ago initiated what we now call humanities computing with a computer-assisted study of the works of St Thomas Aquinas. (Busa tells the story himself, as I recall, in an article entitled "The Annals of Humanities Computing", published in Computers and the Humanities a few years ago.) At the very beginning he understood the central principles of our field, principles that some of us are just now coming to articulate. As Harold Short said in his introductory remarks, whatever you discover about humanities computing, you can be sure that Father Busa was there at least 30 years before. Two remarks from Busa's talk stick in my head. The first was that the human being and the computer form a single entity, the second that "we know how to speak, but we do not know how we speak". In other words, hazarding a paraphrase, in communion with ourselves through the machine we have invented we discover how we think. Could there be any activity as exciting as this? Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CMC/98 Final Call Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:43:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 432 (432) [deleted quotation] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CCCCC MMM MMM CCCCC CCC MMMM MMMM CCC CCC MM MM MM MM CCC CCC MM MM MM MM CCC / 999999 888888 CCC MM MMMM MM CCC / 99 99 88 88 CCC MM MM CCC / 9999 888888 CCC MM MM CCC / 99 88 88 CCCCC MM MM CCCCC / 99 888888 CMC/98 Second International Conference on COOPERATIVE MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION, Theory and Applications ********* Sponsored by the Universities of Brabant Joint Research Organization (SOBU) and the ACL Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMEDIA) Tilburg, The Netherlands, 28-30 January 1998 ********* SECOND AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ********* The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group at Tilburg University, in collaboration with the Center for Research on User-System Interaction IPO in Eindhoven, and the Department of Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology, will host the Second International Conference on the theory and applications of Cooperative Multimodal Communication, CMC/98, to take place January 28-30, 1998. The principal aim of the conference is to bring together researchers involved in the design, implementation, and application of forms of cooperative human-computer communication where natural language (typed or spoken) is used in combination with other modalities, such as visual feedback and direct manipulation. The conference will focus on formal, computational, and user aspects of building cooperative multimodal dialogue systems. Papers are sought in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following topics: * cooperativity in multimodal dialogue * metaphors for human-computer interaction * communicative acts in multimodal communication * interacting with visual domain representations * natural language interpretation in a multimodal context * effective use of different media and modalities * formal and computational models of dialogue context * pragmatic concepts in human-computer dialogue * the role of time in multimodal communication * agent-based dialogue architectures * user modelling * approaches to dialogue management SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ********* Authors are asked to submit an extended abstract of their paper of minimally 4 and maximally 7 pages, including keywords and references, by October 1, 1997. Only electronic submission will be possible, in uuencoded compressed Postscript form, to be sent to tijn@win.tue.nl and to kievit@kub.nl (two copies). All extended abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee; authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper. Full papers will have to be submitted in Latex form, so it is advisable to use Latex also for the extended abstract. A Latex style file available; see the CMC/98 Web page. IMPORTANT DATES ********* Submission of extended abstracts: 1 October, 1997 Notification of acceptance: 1 November, 1997 Final papers due: 1 December, 1997 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********* Harry Bunt (Tilburg) (chair) Nicholas Asher (Austin) Norman Badler (Philadelphia) Don Bouwhuis (Eindhoven) Walther von Hahn (Hamburg) Dieter Huber (Mainz) John Lee (Edinburgh) Joseph Mariani (Paris) Jean-Claude Martin (Orsay) Mark Maybury (Bedford) Paul McKevitt (Sheffield and Aalborg) Rob Nederpelt (Eindhoven) Kees van Overveld (Eindhoven) Ray Perrault (Menlo Park) Donia Scott (Brighton) Jan Treur (Amsterdam) Wolfgang Wahlster (Saarbruecken) Bonnie Webber (Philadelphia) Kent Wittenburg (Morristown) Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********* Robbert-Jan Beun Tijn Borghuis Harry Bunt Leen Kievit Margriet Verlinden INFORMATION ********* For questions about the program contact Harry Bunt@kub.nl; for issues relating to the submission of abstracts and papers contact tijn@win.tue.nl. For all other matters contact the conference secretariat: Anne Adriaensen Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. phone: +31 13 466 30 60; fax +31 13 466 31 10; email: denk@kub.nl. Web: <a href="http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC">http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC</a> -- ------------------------------------------------------ Harry C. Bunt Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen) 2653 (office, room B 310) Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110 Harry.Bunt@kub.nl WWW: <a href="http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm">http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm</a> From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: Conference Announcement (fwd) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 13:32:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 433 (433) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 16 Following is an announcement of an interesting seminar on scholarly publication organized by the Faxon Institute Forwarded message: [deleted quotation] -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Maurizio Oliva <oliva@cc.denison.edu> Subject: Hart on 20 year extension of publishers rights (from Edupage) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 14:08:58 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 434 (434) "INFORMATION AGE?". . .FOR WHOM? Project Gutenberg founder Michael S. Hart says he is disturbed by copyright legislation in Congress which would extend all current copyrights by 20 years with no provision for maintaining the public domain. "To add 20 years to copyright creates a Landed Gentry of the Information Age," he says. The public domain is an inalienable right of the public which cannot be a commodity to be bought or sold, either by persons or by their government. "Copyright extension destroys both the concept and content of the public domain." (Time 15 Sep 97) Maurizio Oliva, Director, Multimedia Language Lab, Denison University Fellows 302, Granville, OH 43023, O (614) 587-6684, F 587-6417, H 235-9618 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Gudrun Oberprieler <oberprie@socsci.uct.ac.za> Subject: 'super grammar checker' Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:05:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 435 (435) [Please note: replies should please be sent directly to Doug Clerk at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, doug@gecko.biol.wits.ac.za, and not to the sender of this message. Thanks. --WM] **************************************************** We have recorded lessons/lectures in various subjects at both school and varsity level and hope to analyse the transcripts, which are stored as Wordperfect files. What I envisage is something that will work basically like a grammar checker, i.e. it will be able to perform tests such as the Flesch test for readability and to flag identifiable features of the text such as long sentences or colloquialisms or jargon. (`Grammatik' will do these and more). In addition we need the following which the standard grammar checks don't seem to include: 1. We need to be able to annotate the text rather than to correct it, on the basis of the analysis. 2. We need to be able to store the report of the analysis as a file and to print it. 3. We need to be able to make comparisons between several reports, perhaps via a spreadsheet or DBMS. 4. We need to be able to customise the list of features to be flagged- for e.g. we are specifically interested in logical connectives, which `grammatik' doesn't seem to flag other than under the heading of `big words' (and then what about the short ones like `as' or `and'?) In short the package we are after would be some sort of `super grammar checker'. Two likely packages have been suggested to us, namely `Nudist' and `Ethnograph' ; we need to know more about them in terms of both their potential suitability and their availability. Also what about other possibly more suitable packages? We would be grateful for any help you can give and If you need more details than these I will happily send them. Doug Clerk University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, doug@gecko.biol.wits.ac.za ********************* Dr. Gudrun Oberprieler University of Cape Town Academic Development Programme Private Bag, 7700 Rondebosch Cape Town, South Africa Tel: ++27-21-650 3477 / 2251 Fax: ++27-21-650 3793 E-mail: oberprie@socsci.uct.ac.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Guedon Jean-Claude <guedon@ERE.UMontreal.CA> Subject: Re: 11.0263 academic journals: use, history & sociology? Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:56:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 436 (436) Regarding the history of scientific periodicals, a good bibliography to consult would be that of the History of science Society that is found in their journal Isis and which has been reorganized first in collected volumes and later in CD-ROM format. A good start can be found in the book edited by A. Jack Meadows, Development of Science publishing in Europe (Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1980). The volume La transmission des savoirs scientifiques, edited by Rémi Coutin, Henri Hudriser and marcel V. Locquin (Paris, CTHS, 1996) contains quite a few interesting articles that touch upon this topic. The Journal Solaris published in Paris had an issue in 1994 devoted to "Pour une nouvelle economie du savoir". And there are historical remarks in J. L. Boursin's Le periodique scientifique de langue francaise (Paris, CNRS, 1078). This is an off-the-cuff bibliography, but it should allow you to begin your work. Best, Jean-Claude Guedon Universite de Montreal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Maurizio Oliva <oliva@cc.denison.edu> Subject: Spell Checking in Pine Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 08:45:24 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 437 (437) LINUX and many UNIX operating systems come with engines and lists of words, mostly public domain software. For example the latest Debian distribution of Debian allows to use ISPELL with an English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese dictionary (dictionaries are just lists of words, often compiled by dynamic grouping (Luigi Bianchi, York University, led the compilation of the Italian list of words in 1991, by using the Soc.Culture.Italian newsgroup as a channel of aggregation). Many email users relay on Pine, a freeware developed by the University of Washington, Seattle. Pine allows to set a spell checker. However, the choice of the language is set in the pine Setup and that makes shifting between languages unergonomic. It would be very useful to have the spell-check command (^T) prompt the user for a choice among a list of the avaliable dictionaries. ----------------------- setup screen ---------------------- ( ) nickname ( ) dont-sort goto-default-rule = Set Rule Values --- ---------------------- (*) inbox-or-folder-in-recent-collection ( ) inbox-or-folder-in-first-collection ( ) most-recent-folder character-set = ISO-8859-1 editor = pico speller = <No Value Set> composer-wrap-column = <No Value Set: using "74"> reply-indent-string = :) empty-header-message = <No Value Set: using "Undisclosed recipients"> image-viewer = <No Value Set> use-only-domain-name = No display-filters = <No Value Set> sending-filters = <No Value Set> alt-addresses = <No Value Set> ? Help E Exit Config P Prev - PrevPage Y prYnt * [Select] N Next Spc NextPage W WhereIs ---------------------------- help ---------------------- OPTION: Speller This option affects the behavior of the ^T (spell check) command in the Composer. It specifies the program invoked by ^T in the Composer. By default, Pine uses the system's "spell" command. Pine will use the command defined by this option (if any) instead. When invoking the spell-checking program, Pine appends a tempfile name (where the message is passed) to the command line. <End of help on this topic> Maurizio Oliva, Director, Multimedia Language Lab, Denison University Fellows 302, Granville, OH 43023, O (614) 587-6684, F 587-6417, H 235-9618 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Anne Foerst <annef@ai.mit.edu> Subject: invitation to public lecture series Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 16:24:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 438 (438) GOD AND COMPUTERS Minds, Machines, and Metaphysics Public Lecture Series --------------------- Wednesdays, MIT 34-101, 50 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139 Refreshments 4:15 p.m., talk 4:30-5:30 p.m. SCHEDULE: Oct 1: "GOD, THE SCIENTIST", Paul Penfield, head of the MIT Department for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Oct 8: "HOW HUMANS EVOLVED A SENSE OF SELF AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR MORTALITY", Marc Hauser, Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology & Psychology, Program in Neurosciences, Harvard University Oct 15: "BRAIN, MIND AND SPIRITUALITY", Ming Tsuang, head Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center; director Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics Oct 22: "ARTIFICIAL HUMANITY", Rodney Brooks, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Oct 29: "SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT IN STUDYING SCIENCE", Federico Girosi, Principal Research Scientist, Associate Director of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT Nov 5: "WHY A SCIENCE OF MIND IMPLIES THE TRANSCENDENCE OF NATURE", Francisco Varela, Director of Research, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, France Nov 12: "ALL IS FOREKNOWN, BUT FREE WILL IS GIVEN", Lynn Andrea Stein, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT. Nov 19: "INTELLIGENCE AND GOD: SHANKARA'S VIEW OF THE WORLD AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE", Bijoy Misra, Faculty in Computer Science, Harvard Extension School; Consultant in Radiology and Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham Women's Hospital Dec 3: "THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES", Ray Kurzweil, Chairman and CEO of Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc. Dec 10: "TOWARD MACHINES THAT CAN DENY THEIR MAKER", Rosalind W. Picard, NEC Development Professor of Media Technology, MIT Media Lab Abstracts will be published one week before the talk on the website <a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/events/god-and-computers.html">http://www.ai.mit.edu/events/god-and-computers.html</a>. For information please contact Anne Foerst, annef@ai.mit.edu, Tel: (617) 253-7891 or the Boston Theological Institute, bti@world.std.com, Tel: (617) 527-4880. -- Dr.theol. Anne Foerst Postdoctoral Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology SQ, NE 43 - 812 Cambridge, MA 02139 +1 / 617 / 253-7891 Harvard Divinity School Center for the Studies of Values in Public Life 56 Francis Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 <a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/annef/">http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/annef/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Fullbright Scholars Directory? Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:25:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 439 (439) [deleted quotation] Please let me know if there exists a directory of Fullbright Scholars, or any other way I might contact a Fullbright Scholar in the Boston area: Mr. Bernard (possibly Bernardo) ZENELLI (possibly only one "l"). I believe he started as a Fullbright Scholar in September 1995. Thanks for e-mailing me any relevant information directly, so as not to clog the list. (Dr.) Neil B. Bishop nbishop@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Professor and Chair of Graduate Studies Department of French and Spanish Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, N.F. Canada A1B 3X9 voice: (709) 737-4322 or -7636 fax: (709) 737-4000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: LOST MESSAGES Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:03:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 440 (440) Due to a strange accident -- a fleeting error message, then nothing -- a few messages sent to Humanist today were lost. Would those who submitted them please resend. Many apologies on behalf of lame (but dangerous) software. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Online developments Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:56:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 441 (441) The latest issue of the Guardian Online is fatter than usual, indeed bursting with items interesting and, in one case, rather disturbing. (1) Duncan Campbell, "Screw the Internet: Spooks on both sides of the Atlantic are interested in retaining their power to monitor the world's telecoms traffic". But for the small details we could probably all write the article with reference to our knowledge of tendencies in government and what, some say, is wrongly called "paranoia". In case you've been somewhere else since the beginning of time, or at least since Sir Francis Walsingham did the job for Elizabeth I: "Intelligence agencies in the US have stepped up their campaign to control the flow of information over the Internet, counterattacking an unholy alliance of civil libertarians and business chiefs who back the introduction of secure encryption technologies to protect personal privacy and commercial data online." Amendments won to a draft pro-encryption law replace "rights to sell effective encryption systems to the world with regulations to ban even US citizens from using them. The agencies and their political backers are now demanding that any American whose electronic communications cannot immediately be read by US intelligence should, after January 2000, face up to five years' imprisonment. Furthermore, they want the US to use its political and industrial power to force the rest of the world to follow suit." The new government in the U.K. is considering.... Yes, it would be difficult even for some well-funded agencies to employ enough people to read all those messages, but since they are in electronic form, supercomputers can be put to the task to run text-analytic algorithms on the data stream. Perhaps there's employment for some of us in this exciting new development. One must consider both sides of the question, however. In other words, we are now coming to bear on the full range of human failures as well as edenic visions. As computing humanists, we have arrived! (2) Celia Locks, "Soundbites". "All these malfunctions can be traced to the years when the industry has had absolutely no money, and we have had to find ways to survive using spare parts and old techniques." Viktor Blagov, deputy chief of Russia's mission control, on this week's computer breakdown on board the Mir. (3) Fred Pearce, "And it was here, on this very spot". A review of educational CD-ROMs, with *very* high praise for Attenborough's Antarctic (BBC Multimedia, 29.99 pounds). Also Jim McClellan and Paddy Allen's review of Disney's Magic Artist, also very highly praised. (4) Microfile, a note on how swindlers are "taking to the Internet in a big way", and a URL for those interested in the trade, <<a href="http://www.fraud.org/internet/intinfo.htm">http://www.fraud.org/internet/intinfo.htm</a>>, the Internet Fraud Watch. Also a note about Intel's initiative to make the video camera a standard accessory to ordinary PCs; "Not that everyone shouldn't get a computer-based camera as soon as possible. Connectix has launched a software package called Digital Radar.... The program detects motion around your desk, takes pictures and stores them on your computer's hard disk. It can be set up to sound an alarm...." (5) Douglas Rushkoff, "The Web will return after this commercial break", about the failure of online adverts to do the job -- because they are so annoying and can be ignored, mostly. "[T]he art of advertising is to create desires in passive recipients. Since those of us on the Web are attempting to be active, not passive, we are not a good audience. We already have our desires, and are trying to exercise them. We don't need them replaced by other ones. "The bigger problem for advertisers online is that interactive technology makes commercials obsolete. In economic terms, the Internet closes the gap between supply and demand. You can get whatever you want by simply accessing it and then clicking. You don't stop and play an ad for someone once they are inside your store." 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Sarah Porter <sarah.porter@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Computers & Texts 15 Online & Call for Articles Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:15:14 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 442 (442) I am pleased to announce that Computers & Texts 15 is now available online. Computers & Texts is the journal/newsletter of CTI Textual Studies. The URL is: <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/</a> TABLE OF CONTENTS Michael Fraser, Dearing & IT: Some Reflections Stan Beeler, World Wide Web Teaching in a Northern Environment James Davila, Enoch in Cyberspace Murray Weston, The BUFVC and Legal Deposit Lou Burnard, SGML on the Web: Too Little Too Soon, or Too Much Too Late? Michael Popham, Metadata for Electronic Texts and Linguistic Corpora Jean Chothia, Review: The Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM Tim Unwin, Review: CD-ROM Descartes: Vie, Philosophie et Oeuvre Claire Warwick, Review: The Annotated Bibliography for English Studies COMPUTERS & TEXTS 16: 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 HE 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 (especially within UK higher education). Reviews of relevant books and conference reports are also welcome. All contributions for Computers & Texts 16 should reach the Centre by November 8th 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 800-1,500 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 edit contributions where necessary. Contributions will appear in both the print and electronic editions of Computers & Texts. Sarah Porter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CTI Centre for Textual Studies Fax: +44 1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit Tel: +44 1865 283 282 University of Oxford Email: ctitext@oucs.ox.ac.uk 13 Banbury Road <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/</a> Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Project Assistant/Faculty IT Support Officer Position Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 16:01:46 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 443 (443) OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES CTI Centre for Textual Studies/Faculty of Literae Humaniores Project Assistant/Faculty IT Support Officer Grade: RS1B Salary: UKP 15,159 - 19,371 The CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative) Centre for Textual Studies promotes the use of computers in the teaching of literature (all languages), linguistics, theology, classics, philosophy, film & media studies, theatre arts and drama. Further information about the Centre is available from <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/</a>. The Faculty of Literae Humaniores carries out research and teaching in Ancient History, Classical Languages and Literature, and Philosophy, and comprises 120 members of academic staff. Further information about the Faculty is available from <a href="http://units.ox.ac.uk/departments/classics/">http://units.ox.ac.uk/departments/classics/</a> and <a href="http://units.ox.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/">http://units.ox.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/</a> The CTI Centre is seeking to appoint a Project Assistant to assist with the completion of the Centre's Guide to Digital Resources (online and print) and also to assist in the creation of an electronic edition of Edward Gibbon's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire. The Faculty of Literae Humaniores is seeking to appoint a Faculty IT Support Officer to provide support for a range of computing facilities, and subject-based advice to individual members of the Faculty. The post holder will also be responsible for the maintenance of the Faculty's electronic information services. The two half-time posts are offered as a full-time post for a fixed-term one year contract in the first instance. The salary will be at the lower end of the RS1B scale. The successful applicant will have a strong academic background in a literary, philosophical, or historical subject area combined with a demonstrable interest in computer applications for the humanities and good IT skills. A formal computing qualification is not required though a willingness to acquire new skills is essential. Good time management skills are required to organise a busy and varied workload, and the ability to work as part of a team is desirable. To apply, please obtain further details and an application form from Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. (tel: 01865-273230, e-mail: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Closing date for the submission of applications is Friday 3 October 1997. Interviews will be held during week commencing 13 October 1997. This advert and the further details are available at <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/position.html">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/position.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Espen S. Ore" <Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no> Subject: Re: 11.0266 hiatus, with explanation & rewards Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 08:32:34 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 444 (444) At 21:42 +0100 17-09-97,Willard McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation] Another thing that stuck in my head was when he said (more or less in these words): "In the days of publish or perish, does this mean that there is no value in a project with a 10 years - 20 years - 30 years horizon?" Afterwards in conversation he expanded upon this: "Short time projects are like stones, long time projects like jewels - and there are few jewels and many stones in this world." espen (and thank you very much to all the organisers!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Wendell Piez <marcus@lab.com> Subject: Re: 11.0274 Online developments Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:37:13 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 445 (445) Willard, on the subject of our governments' desires to steam open our electronic mail at will.... [deleted quotation] Yes, "arrived," but where? I can hardly imagine a sadder (and scarier) application of our understanding of the subtle vagaries of language and text analysis: well-paid, we will dumb down this hard-won wisdom to the point where it can be encoded and sold off, on the pretense that it answers the requirements of the spymasters. How will this algorithm work? Will it perform an irony test? Will it distinguish between real, earnest threats, and (say) on-line fantasy games? What will it actually do? Willard, you have sometimes remarked that it is in those moments when we confront what the computer _cannot_ do, readily or at all, that we learn the most, about computers and about human culture. How is such a sensibility to be encouraged among the dark lords of literalism (while they are sorting through our mail)? I shudder to think what they will do (are already doing) with these crude instruments. Wendell Piez HuskyLabs marcus@lab.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: 1st Int Conf on Lang & Resources Eval CFP Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 14:22:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 446 (446) [deleted quotation] *PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT* FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is organized in cooperation with other associations and consortia, including EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with the sponsorship of major national and international organizations, including ARPA, the European Commission - DG XIII and the NSF. Cooperation and co-sponsorship with other institutions is currently being sought. CONFERENCE TOPIC In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of language technologies and their relevance to practically all the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been widely recognized. Two issues are currently considered particularly relevant for promoting international cooperation: the availability of language resources and the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and products. The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically for building, improving or evaluating natural language and speech algorithms or systems, and in general, as core resources for the software localization and language services industries, for language studies, electronic publishing, international transactions, subject-area specialists and end users. Examples of linguistic resources are written and spoken corpora, computational lexicons, grammars, terminology databases, basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management, customization and use of these and other resources. The relevance of evaluation in Language Engineering is increasingly recognized. This involves assessment of the state-of-the-art for a given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a program, comparing different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and drawbacks, assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application, and finally product benchmarking. It accompanies research and development in Human Language Technologies, and has driven important advances in the recent past in various aspects of both written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international programs, including the US ARPA HLT program, EU Language Engineering projects, the Francophone Aupelf-Uref program and others, particularly in the localization industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unresolved basic research problems. The aim of this Conference is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information on ongoing and planned activities, present language resources and their applications, discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international cooperation in the areas mentioned above. CONFERENCE TOPICS The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which could be addressed by papers submitted to the Conference: - Issues in the design, construction and use of LR (theoretical & best practice) - Guidelines, standards, specifications, models for LR. - Organizational issues in the construction, distribution and use of LR. - Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of LR - Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access and use of LR - Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain-specific LR - Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g., terms, lexical information, language modeling) from LR - Monolingual vs. multilingual LR - National and international activities and projects - LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry. - Industrial production of LR - Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language) - Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (language technology, information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic commerce, etc.) - Industrial LR requirements and the community's response - Analysis of user needs for LR - Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR - Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation - Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR - national and international policies - Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international cooperation - Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, text understanding, summarization, localization, etc) - Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, etc) - Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and off-line machine and handwritten character recognition, etc) - Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems - Qualitative and perceptive evaluation - Evaluation of products and applications - Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems - Situated evaluation of applications - Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures - Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing - Economics of LRs IMPORTANT DATES 1. Submission of summaries for proposed papers: (approximately 800 words): 1 December 1997 E-mail submission in ASCII form is encouraged. Otherwise, five hard copies should be submitted. - E-mail submissions should be sent to lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it - Postal submissions should be sent to Antonio Zampolli - LREC Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR via della Faggiola, 32 56100, Pisa, ITALY 2. Notification of acceptance: 15 February 1998 3. Final version of the paper: 20 April 1998 The papers accepted will be included in the Conference Proceedings. PROGRAM The program will include both papers and poster sessions. In addition, the Program will also include invited speakers, and a number of panels on the major themes of the Conference. In particular, it is planned to organize a panel on various aspects and perspectives of international cooperation, with the participation of representatives of the major European, North American and Asian sponsoring agencies. WORKSHOPS Half-day pre- and post-conference Workshops can be organized, at the request of a presenter, to permit the discussion and debate of topics of current interest. The format of each Workshop will be determined by the Workshop organizer, who will set any necessary deadlines for the participants. The next announcement, to be circulated in September, will provide guidelines on how to submit a proposal for a Workshop to the Program Committee. SYSTEMS AND LR DEMONSTRATIONS Various platforms will be available for language resources and tools presentations and unreferenced systems demonstrations. Organizations interested in presenting systems should contact the local demonstration organizers, whose address will be provided in the next announcement. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE The full composition of the Scientific Committee will be listed in the next announcement. The Conference Chair is Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR and President of ELRA, via della Faggiola, 32, Pisa 56100, Italy). The Secretariat of the Conference is provided by Khalid Choukri (ELRA, 87, Avenue d'Italie, F-75013, Paris, FRANCE). The conference organizing committee consists of: Harald Hoege (Siemens, Munich, Germany). Bente Maegaard (CST, Copenhagen, Denmark), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France), Angel Martin-Municio (President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain), Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy). From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: 9th INLG Workshop Call for Papers Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 14:16:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 447 (447) [deleted quotation] ============================= 9th International Workshop on NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 5-7 August 1998 Prince of Wales Hotel Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada CALL FOR PAPERS (For more information, visit <a href="http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98">http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98</a> ) The 9th biennial Workshop on Natural Language Generation will be held in the scenic town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, near Niagara Falls, in Ontario, Canada, on 5-7 August 1998. The INLG workshop is the principal gathering for researchers in natural language generation, providing a pleasant atmosphere for stimulating and informative talks on all aspects of the topic. The workshop attracts a healthy mixture of researchers from both universities and research institutes, graduate students, and visitors from related fields such as machine translation, multimedia presentation planning, and parsing. About 65 people are expected to attend the workshop, which traditionally has had a very diverse international representation. The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is in the heart of one of Canada's major fruit-growing and wine regions, and is 30 minutes' drive from Niagara Falls. It is one of the oldest settlements in Canada, with many fine examples of Victorian architecture. Niagara-on-the-Lake bills itself as the prettiest town in Canada, and many would agree: its main streets are quaint and picturesque, with many interesting shops, cafes, and restaurants. It is also the home of the Shaw Festival, one of the top North American repertory theatre companies. The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics and ACL SIGGEN (Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation). The workshop is in the week immediately prior to the joint conference of COLING and ACL, in Montreal, Canada (10-14 August 1998). After the workshop, a bus will take participants who wish to attend COLING / ACL directly to the Toronto train station, for an express train to Montreal (approximately 4 hours). TOPICS OF INTEREST Of interest are papers on all topics relating to the automated production of natural language, including but not limited to: discourse structure; grammar; lexis and lexical choice; text planning and schemas (macroplanning); sentence planning (microplanning); semantics and knowledge representation; register, genre, and pragmatics; generator architecture; realization; generator applications; system descriptions; generator evaluation; planning of text formatting; generation in multimedia planning and presentation systems; speech synthesis. Also welcomed are demonstrations of generation systems, or modules of systems, running either via the Web or on a Sun computer to be provided at the workshop. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Papers should describe unique work not published before. They should emphasize the creative and interesting aspects of the work, but should also describe empirical validation and testing as much as possible. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must state this fact on the first page. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Theoretical papers must not exceed 10 pages, including title, references, figures, etc. Please use no smaller than 11pt font, with margins of 1 inch / 2.5 cm all around. Papers not satisfying the specified length and formatting requirements will be rejected without review. System demonstrations will be reviewed as well. Please send an outline, clearly marked as a system demonstration in the heading, that describes the demonstration, including if possible screen shots. Outlines may not exceed 4 pages, all included, using font no smaller than 11pt and margins of 1 in / 2.5 cm all around. Outlines not satisfying the specified length and formatting requirements will be rejected without review. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Electronic submissions should be in the form of a PostScript file. This file should be sent to hovy@isi.edu, with the subject field "INLG submission". SUBMISSION IN HARD COPY Hardcopy submission is possible too. Five copies of the paper or demonstration outline should be sent to: Eduard Hovy, INLG-98 Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 U.S.A. DEADLINES Electronic submissions must be received by 28 January 1998, so that they can be printed and checked for completeness. Electronic submissions will be accepted only if they can be printed at ISI. Hardcopy submissions must be received by 1 February 1998. Late papers will be returned unreviewed. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance before 10 March 1998. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a format to be specified, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 15 June 1998, along with a signed copyright release statement. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS The workshop is being organized by Chrysanne DiMarco of the University of Waterloo, with the assistance of Graeme Hirst of the University of Toronto. The Program Chair is Eduard Hovy of USC/ISI. General workshop questions: Chrysanne DiMarco, cdimarco@logos.uwaterloo.ca, phone +1 519 888 4443 General paper-submission questions: Eduard Hovy, hovy@isi.edu, phone +1 310 822 1510 x731 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey (chair) Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Saarbruecken Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Helmut Horacek, University of the Saarland Xiaorong Huang, Formal Systems, Toronto Kristiina Jokinen, ATR, Kyoto Guy Lapalme, University of Montreal Elisabeth Maier, DFKI, Saarbruecken Chris Mellish, University of Edinburgh Marie Meteer, BBN Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Sydney Owen Rambow, CoGenTex Inc., Ithaca Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen Elke Teich, Macquarie University, Sydney Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park For more information, visit the INLG-98 Website: <a href="http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98">http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Lily Diaz <lily@mlab.uiah.fi> Subject: Re: 11.0273 Fullbright Scholars directory? Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 07:42:05 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 448 (448) Some information regarding how to contact former Fulbrighters: The Fulbright Alumnae Association is a network of former Fulbright scholars. One of their projects has been to set up and maintain a database of names and addresses. The person you are looking for may very well be on their list. Here is a copy of their latest press release with information on some of the activities of the organization and how to contact them. September 9, 1997 Dear Fulbrighter: Following is the 1997 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding press announcement that was released this morning. The Fulbright Association is delighted that Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, will receive the award this year. The award presentation, lecture, and reception will take place October 3, at the U.S. State Department. The Fulbright Association 20th Annual Meeting and Conference will be held October 2-October 5, at the ANA Hotel in Washington, D.C. Registrations to attend the conference and prize events are still being accepted. To reserve a special--rate hotel room, contact the ANA Hotel at 202-492-2400 or 800-262-4683 before midnight September 11. Information can be obtained from the Fulbright Association at 1130 17th St., N.W., Suite 310, Washington, D.C. 20036. (telephone) 202-331-1590; (fax) 202-331-1979; (e-mail) fulalum@ciesnet.cies.org or fulbright@fulbright.org ___________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jane Anderson Fulbright Association 202-331-1590 CZECH REPUBLIC PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL WILL RECEIVE 1997 J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT PRIZE FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING Playwright, President Honored For Courage and Vision WASHINGTON, September 9, 1997 -- The 1997 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding will be awarded to Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, the Fulbright Association announced today. President Havel will be presented with the award at an Oct. 3 ceremony at the State Department during the association's annual conference. "In the long process of ending communist rule and ushering in democracy in his country, Vaclav Havel has promoted liberty and human dignity worldwide," said The Honorable James T. Laney, former U.S. ambassador to Korea and chairman of the international selection committee convened by the Fulbright Association. "Scholar, diplomat, and leader of his country, Vaclav Havel is a man of great courage and vision. His eloquence and his utter fearlessness gave hope to millions in a time of despair." The Fulbright Association created the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding in 1993 with a grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation to recognize individuals who have made extraordinary contributions toward bringing peoples, cultures, or nations to greater understanding of others. The prize was awarded to South African President Nelson Mandela in 1993, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in 1994, former Austrian Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky in 1995, and former Philippines President Corazon C. Aquino in 1996. It carries a $50,000 award from The Coca-Cola Foundation. "President Havel has become a symbol of the vast human potential for positive transformation of societies," said Dr. Philip O. Geier, president of the Fulbright Association's Board of Directors and president of Armand Hammer United World College. "Over recent years, he has unleashed the momentum of democracy to improve the well-being of the Czech Republic and its citizens, defending human rights, strengthening the economy, and most recently, promoting NATO expansion to include the Czech Republic." For nearly two decades, playwright Vaclav Havel rallied public support for democracy and social change in Czechoslovakia. He wrote open letters to the government, centered his literary works on civil society and liberty, and created a human rights manifesto called Charter 77. In 1989, Havel was unanimously elected spokesman of the Civic Forum opposition movement, which brought about the end of communist rule in the country. Havel's leadership of the peaceful 1989 "Velvet Revolution" resulted in the rise of democracy. On December 29, 1989, Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia. In 1990, he was re-elected president by the new Parliament, but resigned the position in 1992 when it became clear Czechoslovakia would be split. He became the first president of the Czech Republic on January 26, 1993. Serving on the committee that selected President Havel for the 1997 Fulbright Prize were Ambassador James T. Laney; Dr. Anton Amon, a Fulbright Association director and senior vice president, The Coca-Cola Company; Minister Gudmund Hernes, Minister of Health, Norway; The Honorable Geza Jeszenszky, member of the Hungarian parliament and president, Hungarian Atlantic Council; and Sir Ronald Wilson, president, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Australia. Dr. Amon, Minister Hernes, Dr. Jeszenszky, and Sir Ronald Wilson are all past recipients of Fulbright awards. Vaclav Havel was born in Prague on October 5, 1936. After studying at the Czech Technical University and serving two years of compulsory military service, Havel studied drama and graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in 1967. A prolific playwright and author, Havel has published more than 20 literary works, which have been performed around the world. He has received 14 honorary degrees from 10 universities, among many other awards for both his literary and political accomplishments. The Fulbright Association is a private, non-profit organization that supports and promotes the Fulbright Program, an international educational and cultural exchange initiative created in 1946 through legislation sponsored by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. The Fulbright Association also runs educational and cultural programs for foreign Fulbright scholars during their U.S. stay, linking them with U.S. Fulbright alumni. It collaborates with Fulbright scholars and more than 50 Fulbright alumni organizations in other countries. Since 1949, there have been more than 200,000 participants in the Fulbright Program throughout the world. Fulbright exchanges with Czechoslovakia began in the late 1970s. Since then, approximately 270 Czech citizens have studied in the United States through the Fulbright Program, and more than 200 scholars from the United States have studied in the Czech Republic and the former Czechoslovakia on Fulbright grants. This year, the Fulbright Association celebrates the 20th anniversary of its founding and the fifth anniversary of the Fulbright Prize. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: new electronic edition of Marlowe Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:07:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 449 (449) [deleted quotation] NEW SITE FOR CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html</a> Editor: Hilary Binda (hbinda@perseus.tufts.edu) Last spring we released an edition of Doctor Faustus that interlinked the A and the B texts along with the English Faust Book. This month we would like to announce an electronic edition of the rest of Marlowe's works. This edition is of interest, in part, because it collates many earlier editions of the plays: for instance, users may select the 1590 Octavo version of Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 or view instead Robinson's 1826 collation. By selecting from the pop-up menu above each text, viewers may choose between approximately twenty versions of each of Marlowe's works. We anticipate that every text will be available for viewing with textual variants within the next couple of weeks. PLEASE REPOST From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Corpus Encoding - A User Review Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:08:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 450 (450) [deleted quotation] Dear Corpus User, I would like to invite you to make your views known on corpus encoding. A web site is operational where you can participate in a survey of corpus encoding requirements. The work is being undertaken as part of a review of corpus encoding for the European Language Resources Association. Make your views known - visit - <a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/question.htm">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/question.htm</a> There is a form there which you can complete and submit. Most answers are given by clicking on a limited range of options. Get clicking! Thanks, Tony McEnery, Andrew Wilson & Paul Baker ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: BRUNI <jbrun@eagle.cc.ukans.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0274 Online developments Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:15:12 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 451 (451) Douglas Rushkoff, "[T]he art of advertising is to create desires in passive recipients. Since those of us on the Web are attempting to be active, not passive, we are not a good audience. We already have our desires, and are trying to exercise them. We don't need them replaced by other ones. "The bigger problem for advertisers online is that interactive technology makes commercials obsolete. In economic terms, the Internet closes the gap between supply and demand. You can get whatever you want by simply accessing it and then clicking. You don't stop and play an ad for someone once they are inside your store." Rushkoff, I think, is onto something: the Internet is fast becoming a consumerist space, where supply, demand, and desire can be made to seem infinite. But I disagree on labeling what is done on the Internet automatically "active." Being bombarded by information with little chance of filtering it reduces us more to a "passive" state. Indeed, on many hypertext sites, choosing among links--with little or no knowledge of where we will go or what we will get--appears an awful lot like "shopping," doesn't it? And, I have been in "real" stores. where the loud music and video screens are definitely designed to break down one's resolve not to buy or consume. To conclude, it is only a matter of time before hyperadvertising comes to the Internet. Anyone want to speculate on the aftereffects? John Bruni English Department University of Kansas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway <PatGalloway@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Re: 11.0281 publish & perish long-term projects? Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:53:09 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 452 (452) In response to Espen's recall of Father Busa's remarks (each a jewel in its own right), I would observe that projects of as long a term as Father Busa's are likely to depend on people and institutions whose main criteria of excellence are seen as eternal and who can fully devote themselves to the project because it is of crucial importance to the supporting institution and to those who devote their lives to it. In a sense, (non-sectarian) universities and even the governments of nation-states are too ephemeral to support projects of very large-scale significance; the "project" of literary history, say, thus has to be carried out by more informal structures (which if successful receive the recognition of becoming named "schools" of thought/scholarship) built of generations of professors and their students and the intellectual capital they can build within universities and grant funders. From my old days as a medievalist I have a calligraphed motto framed and propped against my printer: "sub specie aeternitatis", which is how medieval religious orders were meant to judge their work. I don't live up to it often enough. Pat Galloway ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Alfredo Elejalde <elejalde@pucp.edu.pe> Subject: Martin Adan poetry Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 18:00:04 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 453 (453) Dear Colleagues For those interested in peruvian poetry, the whole work of Martin Adan can be read in : <a href="http://macareo.pucp.edu.pe/elejalde/martin_adan/index.html">http://macareo.pucp.edu.pe/elejalde/martin_adan/index.html</a> Yours ----------------------------------- Alfredo Elejalde F. elejalde@pucp.edu.pe <a href="http://macareo.pucp.edu.pe/elejalde">http://macareo.pucp.edu.pe/elejalde</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Stuart Lee <stuart.lee@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: LLC Contents Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 13:49:35 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 454 (454) [Humanists may not know that Literary and Linguistic Computing, one of the major journals in our field, has recently come under the editorship of Marilyn Deegan and Stewart Lee (Oxford) and is in the process of changing its direction and policies. As in the past, Humanist publishes its table of contents. As you can see, this issue promises to be most interesting. For more information about Literary and Linguistic Computing, see the publisher's Web page, <<a href="http://www.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/litlin/">http://www.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/litlin/</a>>. --WM] ----------------------------------------- Literary & Linguistic Computing 12.3 1997 ----------------------------------------- Editor: Marilyn Deegan Assistant Editor: Stuart Lee Special Issue on the Use of Computers in the Study of Ancient Documents ed. A. K. Bowman and M. Deegan CONTENTS Editorial (M. Deegan and S. Lee) Introduction (A. K. Bowman and M. Deegan) Imaging Papyri: A Strategic View (R. S. Bagnall) Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS): The Michigan Experience (T. Gagos) Imaging the Carbonized Papyri from Herculaneum (D. Obbink) Imaging Inscriptions (C. V. Crowther) Imaging Incised Documents (A. K. Bowman, J. M. Brady, and R. S. O. Tomlin) The Daidalos Project (R. Kilpatrick, H. Short, H. Walda, and G. Waywell) The Electronic Beowulf and Digital Restoration (A. Prescott) Digital Imaging and the Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales (M. Pidd, P. Robinson, E. Stubbs, and C. E. Thompson) Book Reviews (ed. F. Tweedie) ************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-283403 Fax: 01865-273221 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Web: <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: primary tools? Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:19:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 455 (455) In a recent online article, at <<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/comment.htm">http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/comment.htm</a>>, a group that calls itself the Microsoft Scholars met to discuss the use of technology in higher education. They informed the leader of the meeting "that there are still people in the academy who think that technology does not need to be incorporated into their daily activities (i.e., teaching, research, service or administration)." Obviously a matter for serious concern [heavy irony]. Motivated by this concern, they then identified the "three areas that represent the minimum level of skill and knowledge required of every member of the higher education community (i.e., students, faculty and staff)": wordprocessing, e-mail and Internet. Nothing very notable here except, perhaps, for the exercise, which is one I have gone through recently. Thus my question. It seems to me that we can usefully divide what we teach into two categories: the "core" skills, which everyone in the humanities should know whatever the discipline or area, and the more specialised ones. If we do that, what falls under which category? I would suppose that for us the former would constitute a longer list than the Scholars enumerated, but what would it contain? Presuming further that we restrict the scope of the question to a single university year, what topics would we not include that we would move, say, to a second year? Just for purposes of argument, I offer this list: CORE TOPICS SPECIALISED TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------- basic computing concepts spreadsheets wordprocessing database management e-communications text-analysis e-publishing (WWW, HTML &c.) text-encoding imaging (intro only) bibliographic management Even if there were no disagreement over the contents and structure of the above list, do you think that it would prove unstable over time? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: distribution of infrastructure? Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:48:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 456 (456) This is a question for those within universities where specialised centres or units offering support for humanities computing exist alongside other units that share some of the same interests, e.g. computing centres of the older type. Where this happens, are there instances in which the former and the latter have been able to establish a cooperative arrangement that works well for all concerned, especially the students and academic staff? For those cases in which the relationship does not work well, what are the strategies for achieving a successful infrastructure? One might guess that the state toward which we are progressing is one in which a centralised service (a.k.a. the computing centre) handles the networking and e-mail services and discipline- or area-specific academic centres, as for humanities computing, take care of everything else. In other words, the former largely disappears from sight, like the water-works, while the latter handles direct, high-profile involvement with its non-technical relations on a collegial basis. Anyone who would like to offer examples and comments but who would prefer to remain anonymous please indicate this clearly in the submission. (Remember, no submission is published without your editor's intervention.) I think it would be very useful indeed to many of us to know which way the winds are blowing and, if necessary, to have battle with these winds. They are a strong and elusive but not unconquerable opponent. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "S.A.Rae" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: Skills versus Scholarship in arts and humanities Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:52:04 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 457 (457) higher education Skills versus Scholarship in arts and humanities higher education A one-day conference on Saturday 11 October 1997 at The Open University, Walton Hall, MILTON KEYNES, UK. (Funded by the Department for Education and Employment.) The annual HAN (Humanities and Arts Higher Education Network) Conference. This one-day conference is planned to stimulate debate about the meanings and implications of a higher education in arts and humanities subjects viewed, on the one hand, mainly as a training in 'core', 'transferable' and vocational skills and, on the other, as a site of particular kinds of knowledge. The day include keynote addresses from Marshall Gregory, Harry Ice Professor of English at Butler University (Indianapolis), and Dr Peter Wright, Assistant Director of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. It will conclude with panel/delegates' discussion of the relationship between scholarship and employability in the arts. There will also be an exhibition of new teaching materials, methods and projects. More details are available from Carol Rowland, c.a.rowland@open.ac.uk or: <a href="http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/HERG/skills.html">http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/HERG/skills.html</a> The proceedings of the 1996 HAN conference on Quality & Creativity : Teaching and Learning in Arts & Humanities Higher Education are available at: <a href="http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/HERG/quality">http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/HERG/quality</a>&creativity.html (provisional programme for HAN'97 - Saturday 11 October 1997) 10.00 - 10.30 : Coffee and welcome 10.30 - 11.15 : Keynote address - Skills versus scholarship or liberal education knows a hawk from a handsaw Marshall Gregory, Harry Ice Professor of English, Butler University, Indianapolis 11.15 - 12.00 Keynote address - "Thought alone moves nothing" (Aristotle): An arts education as a preparation for employment Peter Wright, Assistant Director, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education 12.00 - 12.30 (parallel) - Literature and ethics: The uses of english in higher education Sebastian Mitchell, Hartley Institute, University of Southampton (parallel) - Skills, scholarship and employability? Exploring graduateness in the humanities Pat McLernon, Wendy Triffitt and Angela Vesey - Nottingham Trent University 12.30 - 1.00 (parallel) - Kick starting the curriculum: Introducing personal transferable skills via undergraduate history courses Marcus Merriman, University of Lancaster (parallel) - Critical appraisal of the justification of learning outcome design in Religious Studies Ron Geaves, University of Wolverhampton 1.00 - 2.15 : LUNCH Literature display/demonstrations of teaching materials and methods Workshop on developing core skills - Ian Duckett, Barnet College 2.15 - 2.30 - Skilful means - the value of Religious Education in the workplace Jim Robinson, The Open University 2.30 - 2.45 - The Speak-Write Project at Anglia Poly University Cordelia Bryan and Simon Avery, Anglia Polytechnic University 2.45 - 3.00 - Skills in the sticks: Designing a part-time humanities degree for a university outpost Ella Westland, University of Exeter in Cornwall 3.00 - 3.30 (parallel) - Groupwork, assessment and the journey to graduate employment: A survey of History students at Sheffield Hallam University Julia Allen and Roger Lloyd-Jones, Sheffield Hallam University (parallel) - (Language graduates and their employment - title to be confirmed) Marie-Monique Huss, University of Westminster 3.30 - 4.00 : Panel discussion 4.00 : Tea and farewell ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Electronic Editing conference Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:20:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 458 (458) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 24, 1997 --------------------------------------------- COMPUTING THE EDITION: Problems in Editing for the Electronic Medium 7 - 9 November 1997 University of Toronto <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html</a>> ** R E M I N D E R N O T I C E ** --------------------------------------------- The Conference on Editorial Problems, founded in 1964, holds annual conferences to examine methods of editing texts. Attendance usually consists of approximately 60 to 100 professional academic editors, together with delegates from publishing houses, granting agencies, and elsewhere. The invited papers are collected into a Conference volume published in time for the next Conference. Thirty-one volumes are now in print or in the Press, the most recent volumes from the University of Toronto Press. The objective of the 33rd annual Conference is to examine the practice of editing as it is shaped by the electronic medium, and to explore the practicality of the opportunities and the problems that come from their implementation. Papers from 7 invited speakers will be followed by a panel of Toronto scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. The speakers are o Julia Flanders (Brown), "Data or Wisdom? Electronic editing, empiricism, and the quantification of knowledge o John Lavagnino (Brown), "Access" o Jerome McGann (Virginia), "The Contradictory Imperatives of Eye and Mind" o Peter Robinson (De Montfort, Oxford), "The Canterbury Tales Project and other electronic editions: where next? o Peter Shillingsburg (Mississippi), "The Dank Cellar of Electronic Texts" o C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Illinois at Chicago), "Why You Should Not Teach Your Edition How to Swim" o Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford), "The Real Presences of Texts" The panelists are Andrew Hughes (Music), Alex Jones (Classics), Ian Lancashire (English, panel chair), Keren Rice (Linguistics), Gary Shawver (Medieval Studies), Jens Wollesen (Fine Art History), Russon Wooldridge (French). Unlike previous Conferences, "Computing the Edition" will be published in two versions: one on paper, for the volume from the University of Toronto Press, the other designed for the electronic medium. The number of attendees is strictly limited, so we recommend you register as soon as possible. Details about the 1997 Conference, including a registration form and information on hotels and the amenities of Toronto may be found at the 1997 Conference Web site, <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html</a>>. Enquiries are welcome, to ep1997@chass.utoronto.ca>. Convenors: Willard McCarty (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London) Fred Unwalla (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto) Conference Co-ordinator: Jennifer Forbes (Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: T-Score and MI: query Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:17:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 459 (459) [deleted quotation] Could anybody tell me the difference between T-score and Mutual Information, please? (in easy words, I am new to this) Thanks a lot in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Michael Kessler <mkessler@ceres.sfsu.edu> Subject: Re: infrastructure? Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:42:25 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 460 (460) On 23 Sep 97 at 21:30, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 461 (461) [deleted quotation] As the LAN manager in the College of Humanities at San Francisco State University, I might be able to provide some useful information. As concerns e-mail, every member of the SFSU community has the right to an e-mail account (henceforth called PINE) from the centralized system. The PINE account is crucial because no one can get into the SFSU system from a modem without giving an account name or password. This is before connecting to the PINE account itself. However, the College of Humanities runs a Novell network (most of the campus uses Windows NT), so that we have available a local mail account (henceforth called Pegasus) that connects also to the internet. Any new account automatically gets a Pegasus account on the Novell system. Some opt to not receive Pegasus mail, others have the mail forwarded automatically to their PINE account, still others have their PINE mail automatically forwarded to Pegasus, and others simply do not pay any attention to what mail system they have or where. The presumed division between local and university-wide mail is a contentious issue, which is why we are hardly using either mail system for messages intended for everyone in the College of Humanities. But now there is talk of replacing paper memos with e-mail within the College of Humanities. The problem is that about 25% of those listed in our college directory do not have Pegasus mail, although they might have a PINE account (theoretically every tenure-track faculty member has a computer in her office, but some have asked that it be taken out). The College of Humanities provides all the standard software and some specialized software on its Novell network. Most of it is purchased by the College on a licensed basis, but some of it comes via campus or system licenses. Thus virus protection is purchased by Computing Services at San Francisco State University on a licensed basis, while SPSS is available through a license obtained by the California State University system. The campus maintains open labs in various buildings, including a 24 hour lab in the library, which provide access to the most common software, although there is a definite bias toward Microsoft software. Those who are enamored of Microsoft or absolutely want to be on the cutting edge of technology get the latest and greatest (?) as soon as it comes out, others prefer to wait and see what happens. The result is that some labs on campus use Office 97 while we decided to wait because of the reported bugs in some of the applications; backward compatility is a real problem. Since faculty rarely use computers on campus except in their own offices, it makes sense to localize the service that they require or simply demand. Similary, some CAI software and specialized software should remain under the control of the local college and schools, or even departments. The College of Humanities purchases and maintains its own equipment. Only the data closets contain equipment maintained and sometimes purchased by Computing Services. Hope this helps. ******************************************** Michael Kessler voice (415) 338-1662 College of Humanities mailto:MKessler@ceres.sfsu.edu San Francisco State University FAX (415) 338-7030 1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132 From: Dan Price <dprice@union1.tui.edu> Subject: Clarification Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 14:58:40 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 462 (462) Enjoyed your posting this AM re. the core areas of familiarity; and have two further comments for clarification. imaging (intro only) I am professing my ignorance on this one; not quite sure what you mean--scanning or graphics presentation or what. bibliographic management--Again, I am not sure of your intention here; does it concern the use of Search Engines? This would be a primary catagory, similar to using a card catalogue. Funny, now that I think about it. I never took a course in the latter, just someting that I and probably most picked up by hit and miss an questions. At any rate, I suggest further elaboration, especially on this latter one. thank you for all the work on the Listserv (a presumed skill under e-communications?) It can start a thought in he back of the head for the day and come forth in intersting discussion during coffee or dinner. Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, The Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 <a href="http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html">http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html</a> From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: clarifications Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:41:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 463 (463) Dan Price, in the foregoing note, asks for clarifications on a couple of points. (1) imaging. By this I mean the capture and manipulation of digital images. Capture includes the use of a digital camera, image scanning (with a slide-scanner or flat-bed scanner), digitization from videotape. Manipulation, in an introductory course, I would presume to go no further than resizing, altering of brightness and contrast, cropping, and the like. (2) bibliographic management. Here I mean nothing more than the use of dedicated software for recording and formatting bibliographic information, such as EndNote, Citation or Library Master. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Norm Holland <NNH@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu> Subject: Impermanent permanence (sub specie aeternitatis) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 97 15:47:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 464 (464) Pat Galloway's comments on scholarship "sub specie aeternitatis" pushed one of my buttons. Belatedly, I fear, I am coming to recognize a geological shift in our attitudes toward permanence in scholarship. Perhaps this will seem oldhat to others, but I am just learning it as I look back over forty years in the scholarly game. When I entered the profession in the mid-50s, we held scholarly ideals like those of Pat's monks and indeed Pat herself, who seeks to write "sub specie aeternitas" and feels she has fallen short if she doesn't. Back in the '50s, we thought we were making permanent "contributions to knowledge," as our dissertation instructions asked us to do. Increasingly, I think we are no longer concerned with the long term but with the now, the new, the immediate, recognizing that what we do will be here today and gone tomorrow and feeling no discomfort about that. What counts today is the size of the splash one can make, the amount of publicity, the number of people who hear about what you do. I'd say we are witnessing a shift from permanence to broadcasting. A few instances from the hundreds one could marshall: Under previous editors, the _New Yorker_'s aim was to publish writing of such quality that it could be read anytime in the indefinite future. In the last few years, driven by falling circulation, the aim has become to cover at length the most recent craze. To cover very well, to be sure, but who will be reading today's _New Yorker_ writers the way we read John McPhee or E. B. White? This week's change in the _New York Times_ from the good gray "newspaper of record" to a brightly colored imitation of _U.S.A. Today_, again, chasing a lost market. Our Dean has this year begun a list in his monthly newsletter giving high prominence to those faculty mentioned in the media, greater prominence than to those who publish this or that. Peter Gay subtitles his great biography of Freud, "A Life for our Time." Would a 19C biographer have done so? When I read current criticism or theory (not, to be sure, medieval or Renaissance scholarship), I rarely see any references cited that are more than ten years old. It is as though the scholars and critics who led the field in the '50s, '60s, and '70s have simply vanished. In my own lifetime as a critic, I have the witnessed the following "waves" of scholarly orthodoxy: philology; intellectual and literary history; the New Criticism; theory; critical studies (politics). That's a lot, surely, for forty years. Do they reflect real changes in ideas or simply a need to do something new, more "visible"? I'm particularly interested in publication on the Internet as marking the change, because I edit a peer-reviewed e-journal, PSYART, only one of many peer-reviewed journals online. When you publish an article on the Net, you expose it to an audience, potentially, of millions (not that millions would be interested in your reading of Donne, but they have access). To the extent that people learn of your ideas, you achieve a kind of permanence, the kind that a memorable broadcast, like Orson Welles' Halloween hoax, does: lots of people carry it in their minds. To the extent that people download your essay and treasure it in their files, you achieve another kind of permanence. But in exchange, you give up traditional "library" permanence. URLs disappear or move or become unavailable. An Internet article is not irrevocable; it can be updated easily. It can be moved, copied, deleted, changed, plagiarized, melded with another essay--whatever--to a far greater degree than could an article in the heavy bound volumes sitting on our shelves. Yet the advantages of e-publication in cost and convenience and, yes, wide audience, are overwhelming. One more example: our university president wants radical cuts in the budget for print journals and a corresponding increase in budget for electronic media, and he's right. Why such a change from repository permanence to the temporary permanence of broadcasting? I would nominate the usual suspects: the media, notably television; the constant consumerist push to have something new and different; the commercial need for more and more sales; the pressure on faculty to publishing anything and everything; simply the technological change in the speed with which we do things over the course of the century, radio vs. letters, air vs. train, word processor vs. typewriter. I don't mean to sound like a disgruntled, aging walrus. I will confess to some discomfort with this shift in our idea of permanence, but frankly I am more curious about its sources and its future than regretful. I do not think it makes sense to judge this shift good or ill, better or worse than the previous state of mind. I think one simply has to recognize it as a change in the _Zeitgeist_, a very profound change in one of our fundamental psychological traits, our sense of time or continuity or permanence. What is interesting to me, and a bit amusing, is that it should have started in the frenzies of New York and Washington and Hollywood (and Bollywood!) but percolated quite rapidly, all things considered, to the formerly quiet groves of academe. --Best, Norm +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Norman N. Holland Department of English / P. O. Box 117310 | | University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611-7310 | | Tel: (352) 377-0096 Fax: (352) 378-9318 or (352) 392-0860 | | (352) 392-7332 email: norman-holland@ufl.edu | | World Wide Web: <a href="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/nnh">http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/nnh</a> | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Giorgio Perissinotto <giorgio@humanitas.ucsb.edu> Subject: Job Annoucement Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 13:57:47 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 465 (465) PLEASE NOTE and DISTRIBUTE AS APPROPRIATE University of California, Santa Barbara Lectureship in Hispanic Language & Linguistics. The position is one of Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment (PSOE), which although not a ladder faculty position with research obligations, is a potentially permanent position, equivalent to tenure-track. Responsibilities include (1) coordinating a large language program in Spanish and Portuguese with approximately 100 language classes per year taught by some 40 TAs and temporary lecturers; (2) the training and supervision of instructors; (3) textbook selection, testing, grading, and other aspects of the language program; (4) teaching an appropriate number of courses, including a graduate course in teaching methodology required of all new TAs, and advanced undergraduate language courses such as Spanish for native speakers, advanced Spanish grammar and composition, and courses in Hispanic linguistics. Ph.D. in an area of Hispanic Studies, Applied Linguistics, or Teaching Methodology is required by time of appointment. Native or near-native fluency in Spanish required; knowledge of or fluency in Portuguese a plus. Familiarity with emerging technology and commitment to multimedia delivery of language instruction highly desirable. Expertise or previous experience in language teaching methodology, language acquisition or other area of linguistics preferred. Appointment effective July 1, 1998. Salary comparable to ladder track position, commensurate with qualifications and experience. To apply, submit a letter of application and current CV and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to: Professor Giorgio Perissinotto, Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Phelps Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4150. Application deadline: Monday, December 1, 1997. Telephone: (805)893-2865 or 3162; Fax: (805)893-8341. Visit the campus website at <a href="http://www.ucsb.edu">http://www.ucsb.edu</a> and the department website at <a href="http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/depts/span_port/departm.html">http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/depts/span_port/departm.html</a>. An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer Giorgio Perissinotto, Chair Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Tel. (805) 893 2865 Fax (805) 893 8341 E-mail giorgio@humanitas.ucsb.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: searching manuscripts? Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 15:59:59 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 466 (466) On behalf of a colleague I would like to collect any information about current work in making manuscript images searchable by computer. I recall someone describing how it was possible to calculate with fair degree of accuracy the location on a mss. page-image of a specified word. I don't mean searching a transcription, then displaying the mss. page for the corresponding form to be located by eye, but a technique that would fetch up the page and point to the location. Thanks for any hints. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Ted Parkinson <parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0289 impermanence (sub specie aeternitatis) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 09:32:39 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 467 (467) [deleted quotation] Of course there is a great deal of solid scholarship from the 50s and 60s and I won't bore anyone with a list. But _thinking_ that one is making "permanent `contributions to knowledge'" does not "make it so" (to quote from a transient television character from a now cancelled series). There are lots of turgid, impressionistic and generally wrong-headed articles and dissertations out there dating from the present all the way back to the 20's and earlier, and it's a mistake to think that scholarship was somehow "purer." [deleted quotation] Well, good scholars make good use of the richest ideas presented in these various critical practices. With the necessity of publishing and the increasing number of journals, there is no doubt more superficial drake out there. It couldn't be otherwise. But there are also plenty of interesting, well-written and researched books and articles out there as well. There is more freedom now to use different methodologies which is pretty positive. In your post, you've idealized the concept of "scholarship" and ignored the fact that it is produced by graduate schools (probably accepting too many students), the professionalization of the academy and the extraordinarily tough competition for the diminishing number of jobs. Ted Parkinson, English, McMaster, Hamilton, ON, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: the value of face-to-face Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:25:49 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 468 (468) Liking nothing better than to provoke a good scrap, I offer the following somewhat edited extract from a note I just received. The author begins by offering his opinion on the utility of our humanities computing associations.... ---- On the question of associations... they are all... anomalies in their present form. They should exist via the Internet. There is no money for physical activities such as travelling across [the country], and they should be able to exist without as much as they would need to continue in their present form. It's like the users groups which flourished ... in the days of mainframe computing, when one had to go to the [physics building] to see if there was any printout beyond the pages of JCL, when [the computing centre] was a hive of direct-contact activity and when [technical experts] could captivate a large audience with tales of how it was practically impossible to destroy data on a 5 1/4 floppy despite stomping on it in hobnail boots or soaking it in treacle. Humanities computing is now carried out by individuals at their individual work-stations, mostly at home, who communicate with each other by e-mail. The answer to the desire to have physical contact is not to focus on computing but on [beer]. The mention of Oxford choristers [in your message] makes me think that Inspector Morse has the right idea: go to the pub and have a pint.... The distance equivalent to a pint is not expensive travel and physical publication, but e-mail and the WWW. ---- Comments? Yours, WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: James O'Donnell <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Subject: laus machinae Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:31:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 469 (469) I went to print a letter of recommendation for a colleague and suddenly realized that the printer for which I was casually reaching will in a few weeks be ten years old. Easily the most cost-effective investment in electronic technology I've made since the table model radio at Radio Shack for $50 in 1968 (it still works too). My printer was the first laser printer I thought I could afford. 51,000 pages later it has never given me a moment's mechanical trouble, and is still remarkably effective (at 8 ppm) for my personal needs. To be sure I have a fancier one on the network at the office that I can send stuff to, but this printer got its start when my computer had DOS 3.0, WordPerfect 4.2, and 512K of memory, and now works equally cheerfully with NT 4.0, WP-Win 6.1, and 32M of memory, and I cannot imagine why I would ever need a new one. Amazing. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn. From: Maurizio Oliva <oliva@denison.edu> Subject: Proprietary Vs. Open Systems (comment, Edupage) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:07:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 470 (470) Time to take matters into our own hands. I am very glad that Microsoft and the flock are pushing for an open standard Java. Java is the future. I hope that Microsoft wins, the same way I hoped they will win with TicketMaster. I hope too that soon we will be able to do the same to Microsoft with their operating systems (and everybody else's operating systems, for that matter). I really think that operating systems should be lean, based on open architecture, and copyrighted under the GNU agreement. Maurizio SUN WANTS JAVA AS A STANDARD OF ITS OWN Sun Microsystems is accusing Microsoft of trying to cripple the Sun-developed Java computer language by leading Intel, Compaq, and Digital in a call for Sun to turn Java over to the Geneva-based International Standards Organization (ISO). "Every single thing that Microsoft says and does is designed to protect their monopoly," says Sun executive Alan Baratz. Sun wants to win ISO approval for Java as an industry standard and yet retain ownership of Java by Sun. (New York Times 23 Sep 97) Maurizio Oliva, Director, Multimedia Language Lab, Denison University Fellows 302, Granville, OH 43023, O (614) 587-6684, F 587-6417, H 235-9618 oliva@denison.edu <a href="http://www.denison.edu/mll">http://www.denison.edu/mll</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Re: Corpora: T-Score and MI: query Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 16:10:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 471 (471) your question is not quite specific enough to give you a real answer. it sounds like you are talking about the approximate t-score that ken church used in his papers on finding collocates. if that is what you mean, then the meanings for t-score and mutual information are rather idiosyncratic to ken's work. the measure that he called mutual information is perhaps better called a log-association ratio. it attempts to measure the degree to which two words occur together more than would be expected based on observation of their overall frequency of occurrence. unfortunately, these association ratios cannot be directly compared for words which have very different underlying frequencies. thus the t-score. in general, a t-score is a statistic which assumes that the values being analyzed are distributed in the standard bell-shaped curve (what is called the normal distribution). the t-score allows measurements which conform to some normal distribution to be reduced to the standard unit normal distribution which has a mean of zero and a known average squared deviation. once this is done, then the significance of a measurement can be assessed by referring to standard tables. in fact, though, the assumption of normal distribution is not very good for association ratios. i argued in my 1993 CL paper that it was better to use statistics which were not based on this assumption. i proposed that a statistic called G^2 or log-likelihood ratio was more appropriate for this sort of work. log-likelihood ratios can be used in many other areas of statistical natural language process with good results. G^2 is closely related to the statistic which is normally called mutual information (which is *not* what ken church used). in later work, ted pederson and rebecca bruce have extended this work and found that for many applications with a very large number of degrees of freedom that G^2 becomes less useful and another statistic based on fisher's exact test becomes more useful. in unpublished work, i have been able to compensate the G^2 test so that, at least in some situations, it becomes very useful again. this quick explanation is necessarily very inadequate if you intend to do serious work with any of these statistics. each of these tests has its own virtues and defects. if you plan to do more than read the work of others, then it would be a very good idea to find a sympathetic statistician who is familiar with the issues which arise in analysing data involving small counts. [deleted quotation] BLdlC> Could anybody tell me the difference between T-score and BLdlC> Mutual Information, please? (in easy words, I am new to BLdlC> this) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Al Shoaf <rashoaf@clas.ufl.edu> Subject: EXEMPLARIA WWW Preprints in Anglo-Saxon Studies Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 12:21:24 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 472 (472) _Exemplaria_ is pleased to announce the electronic preprints of three essays scheduled to appear in volume 10, number 1 (March 1998). A cluster in Anglo-Saxon studies, they are 1. _Beowulf_'s Tears of Fatherhood, by Mary Dockray-Miller (Boston College) 2. The Parturition of Poetry and the Birthing of Culture: The _Ides Aglaecwif_ and _Beowulf_, by James Hala (Drew University) 3. Cultural Syncretism and the Construction of Gender in Cynewulf's _Elene_, by Joyce Tally Lionarons (Ursinus College) and they are available as of this posting at URL <a href="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria/">http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria/</a> under the link _Preprints_ . Each article is presented in frames containing the text in the upper frame and the notes in the lower, so that the notes can be consulted during an uninterrupted scroll through the article (when you click on a note number in the upper frame, that note opens in the lower frame). Visitors to the site who are not using frames-capable browsers may open the separate links below the frames links to access the texts of the articles; the note links within each article will open a separate window for the notes as you activate them. 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If such communications facilitate dialogues which both cross and preserve irreducible cultural and political boundaries, they may contribute immeasurably to greater global understanding and democratization. But diverse cultural attitudes towards technology and communication also issue in culturally distinctive ways of implementing and using CMC technologies. Some of these culturally-grounded differences in implementation and use frustrate, rather than facilitate, hopes for greater global communication. Our thematic question: how do diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of CMC technologies? We seek to respond to this question by bringing together, in a special journal issue, international conference, and likely book publication, papers which articulate the connections between specific cultural values and present and/or possible future communicative practices involving CMC technologies. We seek articles which, taken together, will help readers, researchers, and practitioners of computer-mediated communication - especially in the service of "electronic democracy" - better understand the role of diverse cultural attitudes as hindering and/or furthering the implementation of global computer communications systems such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. The conference brings together presenters from throughout the world who will provide diverse perspectives - both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference themes: * Communicative attitudes and practices in diverse industrialized countries - i.e., whose infrastructure and economic resources are roughly comparable, but whose cultural attitudes and communicative practices may differ. * Communicative attitudes and practices in industrialized and industrializing countries, including attention to: the role of gender in cultural expectations regarding appropriate communicative behaviors; how different cultures cope with information overload, and with more information (= more knowledge?) of other cultures. * Emerging uses of CMC technologies to preserve local languages/cultures over against a prevailing, homogeneous/homogenizing "Internet Culture," - vis-a-vis the isolation of those who have access to the highly technological resources of CMC environments from "marginalized" communities in both developed and developing societies. * East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices. * "The Politics of the Electronic Global Village" - how far do CMC technologies "democratize" (meaning?) and how far do they help preserve more hierarchical regimes/cultures? PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Saturday, August 1 9:00 First session: Communication in Industrialized Cultures Presenter/chair: Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy, Vienna), "New Kids on the Net" Mike Sandbothe (Philosophy, Magdeburg) "American Pragmatism and the Internet" Fay Sudweeks (Key Centre of Design Computing, Dept of Architectural and Design Science, University of Sydney, Australia, "Group Consciousness and Collaborative Work" Lucienne Rey (TA-Programm, Switzerland), "Attitudes towards Technology and Communication across the Multiple Cultures of Switzerland" 11:00 Break 11:30 Respondant/Discussion 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Second session: Communication in Industrializing / Capitalizing Countries Chair: Fay Sudweeks Additional papers to be selected 16:00 Break 16:30 Respondant/Discussion (ca. 1 hr) Sunday, August 2 9:00 Third session: Homogeneity, Marginalization, and the Preservation of Local Cultures Chair: Sheizaf Rafaeli (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Papers to be selected 11:00 Break 11:30 Respondant/Discussion 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Fourth Session: The Politics of the Electronic Global Village Chair: Charles Ess Ian Connell (University of Wolverhampton, UK), "European Policy and Political Use of Information and Communications Technology" Antje Gimmler (Marburg University), "The Internet, the Public Sphere, and Individual and Group Identity" Additional papers to be selected 16:00 Break 16:30 Respondant/Discussion 19:00 Conference Dinner Monday, August 3 9:00 Fifth session: East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices Chair/presenter: Ang Peng Hwa (Nanayang Technological University, Singapore). "Internet Censorship in Asia and the Pacific Rim" James Dew (Beijing) "Chinese and English conceptions of privacy and the Internet" Sunny Yoon, "Computerization and Education in Korea" Additional papers to be selected 11:00 Break 11:30 Respondant/discussion 12:30 Lunch 14:00-17:00 Conference plenary, closing remarks: Philosophers and Communication Theorists in Dialogue Sponsoring institutions and organizations: Communication & Technology Division, International Communication Association; The Communication Technology Policy Section, International Association for Media & Communication Research; Javnost-The Public, the journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture (Ljubljana, Slovenia); The National Museum of Science and Industry (the Science Museum), London, UK The Korea Society, publisher of The U.S.-Korea Review; Philosophy East and West: a Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy, affiliated with the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy; Technology Assessment Programm, Switzerland. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers. The special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue electronique de Communication (EJC/ReC) will appear in the third quarter of 1998. For additional information on this project, visit our Web sites: <<a href="http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/index.html">http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/index.html</a>> <<a href="http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac/index.html">http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac/index.html</a>> Submissions to the special issue with an abstract, are due to the guest editor, Dr. Charles Ess, by November 1, 1997. For more information, please contact Dr Charles Ess, <ejcrec@lib.drury.edu>. Submissions to the conference are due to the co-chair, Fay Sudweeks, by 1 November 1997. For more information, please contact Fay Sudweeks, <fays@arch.usyd.edu.au>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Francois Crompton-Roberts <F.Crompton-Roberts@qmw.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0297 impermanence (sub specie aeternitatis) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 15:40:20 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 474 (474) [deleted quotation] For me, this thread evokes Paul Valery's "Nous autres civilisations, nous savons maintenant que nous sommes mortelles". (We civilisations now know that we too are mortal). It seems as if it took a generation of more for the consequences of this relisation to filter through to the consciousness of academics... Francois C-R PS Thanks to Steve Walton <SWALTON@nh1.nh.pdx.edu>, Valentine Drevet-Benatti <vdb@montesquieu.u-bordeaux.fr> and Jean-Pierre Piriou <jppiriou@arches.uga.edu> for confirming the exact quotation: [deleted quotation]completes t 1, p. 988). From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Faces to fasces Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:49:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 475 (475) Willard, How ironic that the faceless remain nameless (which is not the same as the face of anonymity). I suspect you protect the flamable from torching. [deleted quotation] or by poor graduate students working in groups in labs or by faculty working out of offices and libraries or by technical staff coding software or by networked individuals working asynchronously [deleted quotation]and the WWW. Communication by e-mail is indeed effective and efficient. I do believe that shared pints or cups of tea or mugs of coffee do contribute to the effectiveness. If I had not been at conference A or workshop Y where scholars, librarians, technical experts and the throng of curious gathered, I would not have met person X or Y with whom I conducted a correspondance and without this exchange born out of the fortunate encounters aforementioned I would not have been encouraged by person X or Y to contact world expert Z (indeed would not have known that world expert Z held the particular arcane knowledge to get me through a particular thorny problem). Knowledge is not all. The network of colleagues also gives one the sense of legitimation necessary to pose any question at all. This is not to say that courage or chutzpah are found in the wash of a pint of ale or the swirl of sweet sweet wine. Scholarship requires passion. Passions are nurtured singlely and fed collectively. And we must not forget the wonderful fishbowl effect of gatherings. In a culture of the question, how a question is asked is as much under scrutiny as to how it is answered. The distance equivalent to a pint may be a nice meandering that includes studies of the chemistry of brewing, the microeconomics of pubs, and comparative taxation and the discources pertaining to such topics -- a pint being a volume, a very spacious volume. It was at one of those wondering in vivo exchanges that I learnt that if I can cup my hand then my glass is never forever empty. The cupped hand may raise, from the stream, water to the mouth. The cupped hand can also remember heartfelt handshakes and not fear extending itself in the gesture of need. [of course, the preconditions here are clean, unpolluted waterways and an integrated social sense that does not kowtow to excessive individualism and, for example, assume every user owns a machine or works from home]. Hands demonstrate much: the agile fingering on the keyboard, the clasp of greeting and the wave good-bye. And if I should be handless, I trust my friends working in adaptive technology who understand that all our mediated interactions are built upon many a face-to-face encounter (and tortuous committee meeting) and who understand that the measure of technological effectiveness and efficiency is actually a political index. [deleted quotation] Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Andrea Nixon <anixon@carleton.edu> Subject: Query about M. S. in Educational Change and Technology Innovation Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:36:23 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 476 (476) Does anyone on the list know about Walden University's M. S. program in Educational Change and Technology Innovation? I have been through the web pages for the program and have a sense of the structure of the program. What I am really looking for are impressions of the program. Any gratuates on the list? Others that know about the program. Please e-mail me directly at: anixon@carleton.edu. Thank you in advance. Sincerely, Andrea Nixon Academic Computing Coordinator in the Humanities Carleton College anixon@carleton.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Prof.Dr. K.Gaertner" <gaertnek@Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE> Subject: Re: 11.0298 searching mss.? Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:58:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 477 (477) [deleted quotation] I suggest to ask Peter Robinson about his Canterbury Tales-project oder somebody from the Charette-project at Princeton; they know all about it. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof.Dr. Kurt Gaertner <gaertnek@mailer.uni-marburg.de> FB II Sprach- und Literaturwiss. office: Tel. 0651-201-2323 Germanistik Fax 0651-201-3909 Universitaet Trier secretary: Tel. 0651-201-2321 D-54286 Trier private: Tel. 06421-35356, Fax 06421-35415 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "James W. Johnston" <johnston@wordcruncher.com> Subject: Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:16:07 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 478 (478) Has anyone had experience having Greek either scanned (not much hope here I fear) or keyed in? Thanks. JJ James W. Johnston johnston@wordcruncher.com WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc. <a href="http://www.wordcruncher.com">http://www.wordcruncher.com</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: gleanings Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:30:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 479 (479) A couple of items from the local press. (1) The first is from John Lloyd, in "The self-inventors: New Labour's artists of a floating world and the tests they face" (TLS 4930 for 29 September), reviewing <cite>Life after politics</cite> by Geoff Mulgan, newly appointed advisor to Tony Blair. He quotes Mulgan on the invention of self: "If you no longer automatically take your identity from your origins, you can make it yourself. If it is no longer given by your race, your parents or your village, you can define yourself as you like, even choosing your own name and inventing your own history. You can submerge yourself in another given identity -- perhaps as a member of a religious cult, a follower of sport, a member of a subculture -- or you can make an entirely distinctive identity out of the materials around. On the Internet you can play and mimic identities: a child can play at being an adult, a man can play at being a woman. You can also invent a persona with its own history, prejudices and style." In my experience (I tried this once) creating a new persona is not terribly difficult but maintaining it, in its own voice, is. A more interesting question, however, is the relation between Internet personae and the person in other modes of being. We have tended to think of the shock of meeting an Internet-only friend face-to-face as a matter of our perceptions of him or her, but surely it is more complex than a one-way error. Who we become by virtue of the medium in which we are becoming must have to do with something "between". Again McLuhan's "global village" metaphor misleads; perhaps "global theatre" would be more like it? Another theme in Mulgan's work (from the recent book <cite>Connexity</cite>, and now a theme running through New Labour, is the role of government in social services, including education. Here the ideas are not all that new, nor unique, but when spoken by such a person they take on the weight of public policy. These touch intimately on what we are about when we teach our students, in particular when we are teaching them humanities computing and explaining what it is for: "In a world where governments can no longer exercise much sovereignty either over their defenses or over their economies, the best service they can perform for their citizens is to help them to be stronger, more responsible, more capable of making decisions and understanding the world in which they live. Narrowly this means providing them with skills to make them employable: the habits of being disciplined and flexible, creative and adaptive, able to speak many languages and work with many different technologies. More broadly it means helping them to look after themselves and to care for others, helping with life skills and emotional intelligence rather than just the analytical intelligence that older educational systems valued so highly. But there is a moral dimension, in that a more connected world brings with it a moral duty to consider the effects we have on others and a need for a moral fluency that goes beyond simply learning codes of right and wrong by rote. For moral as well as practical reasons we need to think in a different way, understanding the world as made up of complex systems rather than linear relationships, ecologies rather than machines.... if we want to make a better world then it is with ourselves that we have to start, and amidst the interdependence of connexity we need much stronger characters, more sensitive, more emotionally literate, more morally fluent, than in a world made up of separate villages and households who could rarely do much harm to anyone but themselves...." I quote this at length because it articulates quite well the increasingly common view of what education is for and because, again, it puts our technical concerns with electronic communications into a broad social context. Humanities computing responds easily to the demands for employable skills and disciplined thinking, and brings the student directly up against the consequences of a densely interconnected world. What's missing in the above, however, is the Socratic function, the sharp and often unwelcome probing of assumptions and received knowledge. Do we draw the conclusion that in order to avoid the hemlock we conceal our deeper purpose in a socially (or at least governmentally) acceptable packaging? (2) Andy Beckett, in "Sound bytes" (Guardian Media section, 29 September), writes about the unlikely success story of the very different computer magazine known as <cite>Mute</cite>, published from "half an upstairs room in east London" by Skyscraper Digital Publishing, Shoreditch -- the creation of some former art students in their late 20s. What's remarkable about it is the coverage of our electronic culture. "They ponder. And what they conclude, while slightly too thick with French philosophy and the thrill of a good dictionary, is original and brave. Mute criticises American cheerleading about digital technology ('implacable in its certainties . . . uncritically reproducing the views of the extreme right'); it celebrates office workers who adapt their computers for illicit ends; it recommends thinkers with contradictory things to say. In short, it treats computer culture as an ambiguous and uncertain scramble, as a recognisable example of human endeavour. Half of Mute's readers are women." The article is online, at <<a href="http://online.guardian.co.uk/paper.html">http://online.guardian.co.uk/paper.html</a>> (the second item) as is a version of Mute itself, at <<a href="http://www.metamute.com">http://www.metamute.com</a>>. The latter is very much worth a look, even if all you're interested in is the design of Web pages. Comments welcome, as always. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Endowed Journals Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:12:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 480 (480) Willard, The Beyond Print conference on Scholarly Publishing and Communication <<a href="http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/EPub/1997.html">http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/EPub/1997.html</a>> got off to a very intersting start with Sally Brown (Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada) raising the issue of the surrender of copyright. Why should the results of research conducted in publicly funded institutions be bought back by those same institutions because publicaction passes through commercial hands? Much discussion centred on costing models. It seemed evident to all that subscription was being replaced in the short term by a variety of of arrangements. Most notable: user pay and page costs (authors paying for the "typesetting" fee - apparently a quite common practice in some of the sciences) Stevan Harnad the keynote speaker strongly suggested that preprints and reprints be freely available via the Internet. The stress was on FREE. Of course the pressure is then on peer reviewed journals whose objective is scholarly communication to become freely available. Jean-Claude Guedon reminded folks that the system of scholarly communication was commercialized in the 19th century in response to self-censorship on the part of learned societies (in regards to the touchy topics of statistics and phrenology). Well let me assure that whatever the average distribution of cranial bumps in the assembled audience lots of grey matter was heating up. Jean-Claude Guedon did not fail to remind us either that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe, learned societies exchanged journals. Following some very informative presentations about the nitty-gritty of actual publishing ventures, an audience member asked (I'm paraphrasing) if it were not time to make the business case for "endowed journals"? I unfortunately could not attend the concluding sessions and so am unable to report the effect of such a bold call for a return to the patronage model.Perhaps news will reach you through the ether of the invisible college or the relays of the official proceedings. Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Chris Floyd <cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au> Subject: Re: 11.0295 hardware and software Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 08:30:00 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 481 (481) [deleted quotation] Surely Microsoft and GNU are a contradiction in purposes. Microsoft is winning. It doesn't need encouragement. Dr Chris Floyd Oral: +61 8 9339 8632 Ink: +61 8 9385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au <a href="http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd">http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Alessandro Rizzi <rizzi@bsing.ing.unibs.it> Subject: Eurobot '97 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 482 (482) EUROBOT '97 2nd EUROMICRO WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED MOBILE ROBOTS Brescia, Italy October 22-24, 1997 This is the final announcement for EUROBOT '97 workshop, whose central topic this year.will be "Learning in Mobile Robots". In order to keep this message short, it was decided not to include the technical program, that can be found at <a href="http://ag-vp-www.informatik.uni-kl.de/Eurobot97/program.html">http://ag-vp-www.informatik.uni-kl.de/Eurobot97/program.html</a> Information on the conference, venue, etc. is available at <a href="http://ag-vp-www.informatik.uni-kl.de/Eurobot97/">http://ag-vp-www.informatik.uni-kl.de/Eurobot97/</a> or can be requested via e-mail to mailto:rizzi@bsing.ing.unibs.it --------------------------------------------- Alessandro Rizzi University of Brescia Department of Electronic for Automation Via Branze, 38 - 25123 Brescia - Italy Tel +39-30-3715457 Fax +39-30-380014 E-Mail: rizzi@bsing.ing.unibs.it From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: job in Paris Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:02:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 483 (483) [deleted quotation] See below for the English version of the job description ---- Erli a Paris, France, recherche un linguiste-informaticien bilingue anglais-francais. Description du poste Le candidat retenu rejoindra I'equipe Ressources Linguistiques, dont la responsabilite est d'assurer la gestion et l'evolution des grammaires et dictionnaires au sein du departement Produits. La premiere mission du candidat consistera a prendre en charge la gestion du dictionnaire monolingue anglais. Rapidement, il participera l'elaboration du dictionnaire bilingue francais-anglais. La construction des dictionnaires multi-applicatifs tels qu'ils sont geres dans la societe requiert une formation linguistique solide, l'habitude de travailler sur la base de modeles linguistiques elabores et une bonneaisance en programmation logicielle. Qualifications Les candidats devront - etre bilingues anglais-francais. Ils devront poss=E9der un tres bon niveau dans les 2 langues. - avoir une formation de linguiste (eventuellement lexicographe) - etre capables de programmer dans des langages informatiques (C, Perl, SQL) et connaitre Unix. - aimer le travail en equipe - etre a meme de relever des defis techniques Une premiere experience d'environ 2 ans dans un contexte industriel est souhaitable. La societe Erli est une societe fran=E7aise specialisee depuis 20 ans dans le Traitement Automatique de la Langue, leader dans ce domaine en Europe. Debut 1997, grace au soutien d'un groupe d'investisseurs europeens et americains, elle est devenue editeur de logiciels permettant l'acces =E0 l'information "non-structuree" (sur Internet/Intranet). Les technologies mises en oeuvre dans les produits sont essentiellement basees sur des composants linguistiques. Pour plus d'informations sur notre societe, vous pouvez consulter notre site Web: <a href="http://www.erli.com">http://www.erli.com</a> Contact Si vous etes interesse, vous etes invites a envoyer votre CV et une lettre d'accompagnement Daniel Bachut Erli 1, Place des Marseillais 94227 Charenton-Le-Pont Cedex ou daniel.bachut@erli.com=09 ---- Erli in Paris, France, is looking for a computational linguist, fluent in English and in French. Job Description The applicant will join the Linguistic Resources Team within the Product Department. This team is responsible for the management and development of grammars and lexicon for all Erli products. His/Her main mission will be to take charge of the English Lexicon. Later, he/she will participate in the development of the English-French lexicon. The management of the Erli multi-functional lexicon requires a sound linguistic background, the ability to deal with high-level linguistic models and good skills in language programming. Qualifications Applicants should - be fluent in English and French - have a linguistic (or lexicographic) background - have a working knowledge of programming languages (C, Perl, SQL) and of Unix - be a good teamworker - be willing to take up technical challenges Previous experience in an industrial context (2 years) is recommended. The company Erli is a French company, started-up 20 years ago, dedicated to Natural Language Processing. It is an European Leader in the field. In the beginning of 1997, with the help of European and American investors, Erli became a software publisher active in the field of access to "non-structured" information (e.g. Internet/Intranet). Technologies embedded in its products are mainly based on linguistic components. For more information on the company, please see our Web Site: <a href="http://www.erli.com">http://www.erli.com</a> Contact If you are interested, please send your CV and an accompanying letter pre= senting your motivations to Daniel Bachut Erli 1, Place des Marseillais 94227 Charenton-Le-Pont Cedex or to daniel.bachut@erli.com=09 From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Second CFP: AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:17:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 484 (484) [deleted quotation] INTELLIGENT TEXT SUMMARIZATION <a href="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/aaai-sss98-its">http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/aaai-sss98-its</a> With the proliferation of online textual resources, it has become very difficult to find information of interest. Improving access to online information includes finding relevant documents (Information Retrieval) and presenting only information that matches the user's interests (Text Summarization). In the recent very successful workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization at the ACL/EACL conference, papers focused largely on statistical approaches. In this symposium, we aim to discuss also the strengths of other, symbolic/rule-based, techniques. We particularly welcome contributions that address some of the fundamental issues underlying summarization: what is a summary? What is an abstract? How can one evaluate the quality of a summary? The symposium will include formal presentations and discussions of existing techniques and open problems. Using input from potential participants, the program committee will present a series of questions to which attendees will be encouraged to suggest approaches and solutions. Sample topics: - Knowledge Representation Issues - AI and Statistical Techniques - Discourse Analysis and Discourse Planning - Concise Text Generation - Summarization of Multiple Documents - Generation of Updates - Architectures for Summarization - Multilingual and Multimodal Summarization - User Modeling - Scalability - Evaluation of Text Summarization Potential participants should submit one of the following: o Full technical paper (PostScript, 11-point font, up to 5000 words). o Statement of interest (up to 1000 words): - description of an ongoing research effort, - position statement, - description of a problem to be discussed, - proposal for an activity related to text summarization that can take place at the symposium, - description of a completed summarization system, or - descriptions of tools, corpora, or other resources, especially if they can be shared with others. o Description of a demonstration or video. Participants are encouraged to include URLs related to text summarization (bibliographies, papers, projects, tools, corpora). Selection will be made in the following order: 1. people who present papers (one person per paper) 2. other presenters 3. collaborators of the above 4. people with strong statements of interest 5. others as space permits. Submissions for the symposium are due on October 24, 1997. Notification of acceptance will be given by November 14, 1997. Materials to be included in the working notes of the symposium must be received by January 17, 1998. Send all submissions electronically to radev@cs.columbia.edu If you are unsure whether your file will print at our site, please submit four days before the deadline in order to receive a confirmation. Dragomir Radev (co-chair) Department of Computer Science Columbia University 1214 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027-7003, USA Phone: 1-212-939-7118 Fax: 1-212-666-0140 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Branimir Boguraev Apple Computer bkb@research.apple.com Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion University elhadad@cs.bgu.ac.il Eduard Hovy USC/ISI hovy@isi.edu (co-chair) Inderjeet Mani MITRE imani@mitre.org Daniel Marcu University of Toronto marcu@cs.toronto.edu Kathleen McKeown Columbia University kathy@cs.columbia.edu Dragomir Radev Columbia University radev@cs.columbia.edu (co-chair) Amit Singhal AT&T Research singhal@research.att.com Karen Sparck Jones University of Cambridge ksj@cl.cam.ac.uk Stan Szpakowicz University of Ottawa szpak@csi.uottawa.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:18:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 485 (485) [deleted quotation] A new issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) is ready! Please check it out at one of the following sites: <a href="http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue2/">http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue2/</a> <a href="http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol3/issue2/">http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol3/issue2/</a> Part 1 of a Special Issue on "Virtual Environments" Edited by: Frank Biocca, M.I.N.D. Laboratory Department of Telecommunication Michigan State University Wendy Robinson Department of Religion Duke University and School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In this Issue: "Bridging the Gulfs: From Hypertext to Cyberspace" by Thierry Bardini (Universite de Montreal) "The Cyborg's Dilemma: Progressive Embodiment in Virtual Environments" by Frank Biocca (Media Interface and Network Design [M.I.N.D.] Lab, Michigan State University) "At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Telepresence" by Matthew Lombard and Teresa Bolmarcich Ditton (Departments of Broadcasting and Mass Media and Communication, Temple University) "Telepresence via Television: Two Dimensions of Telepresence May Have Different Connections to Memory and Persuasion" by Taeyong Kim (Department of Communication, Appalachian State University) and Frank Biocca (Media Interface and Network Design [M.I.N.D.] Lab, Michigan State University) "Virtual Reality: An Empirical-Metaphysical Testbed" by Rita Lauria (School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) This issue includes several new interactive features, including a readers' poll, a dynamically updatable online CMC resource list to which readers may submit URLs, a new threaded message board, and a CMC newsletter edited by Fay Sudweeks, Key Centre of Design Computing, University of Sydney. There is a new Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Online Journalism. JCMC is currently experimenting with banner advertising for selected types of CMC-related products and services (graduate programs, books from academic presses, conferences, etc.) and will offer free banner ads to our subscribers for a limited period. Advertisers will be able to monitor the progress of their ads online, including exposures and click-thru rates. Online signup is here: <a href="http://207.201.161.120/jcmc/advertising.html">http://207.201.161.120/jcmc/advertising.html</a> JCMC is a joint project of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, and the School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Editors are Margaret McLaughlin (mmclaugh@usc.edu) and Sheizaf Rafaeli (sheizafr@shum.huji.ac.il). jcmc@usc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Espen S. Ore" <Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no> Subject: Re: 11.0298 searching mss.? Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 22:45:17 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 486 (486) At 23:34 +0100 25-09-97, Humanist Discussion Group (Willard) wrote: [deleted quotation] At the ALLC-ACH '94 in Paris Andrea Bozzi from Pisa gave a paper where he showed how this could be done for a certain type of manuscript (reference works if my memory doesn't let me down completely). Not all the abstracts from that conference are completely available, but Andrea Bozzi told me that the paper was in fact published in a journal somewhere. espen From: Kevin Kiernan <kiernan@beowulf.engl.uky.edu> Subject: searching manuscripts Date: Fri, 26 Sep 97 18:30:46 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 487 (487) [deleted quotation] Willard, Colleagues here in Computer Science are developing a means of searching manuscripts for subregions which match examples provided by a user. Samples of a letter form, for instance, form the basis for a search of a digitized manuscript for subportions which resemble the letter form samples. The search process and the criteria which need to be satisfied to declare that a match has been found are all being studied. A researcher from the Univ. of Kentucky, Brent Seales, will be making a presentation on these topics at the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo this May. Kevin Kiernan -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin S. Kiernan ~ e-mails: kiernan@pop.uky.edu Department of English ~ kiernan@beowulf.engl.uky.edu University of Kentucky ~ FAX: 606.323.1072 Lexington, KY 40506 ~ Phone: 606.257.6989 WWW: <a href="http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/BL/kportico.html">http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/BL/kportico.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Marco Simionato <simionato@ve.nettuno.it> Subject: Old German fonts for the Mac Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 07:51:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 488 (488) I'm writing for a friend who's writing her dissertation on some Medieval German stuff - sorry, I cannot be more precise. She presently needs a Macintosh font for special characters (for example some characters have a ° on top). I know this fonts exists, but I don't have any clue as to their whereabouts. Plese reply DIRECTLY, I'm not on this list. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marco Simionato Technical Translator, Software Localizer Dorsoduro 2408/b tel. +39 41 723106; fax 5225570 30123 Venezia, ITALY mobile +39 348 2608584 email: simionato@ve.nettuno.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 11.0304 capturing Greek? Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:52:00 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 489 (489) [deleted quotation]I answer publicly to this (in my view strange) request, because I see that such questions come out from time to time, and I hope that my answer may be useful to more than one person. There is at least one very good OCR for (also) non-latin alphabets: the OPTOPUS by Makrolog (Wiesbaden). We in Rome regularly scan Greek and Coptic (!), and the only problems arise, as with all OCRs, from the quality of the original, never from the fonts. Saluti! ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <a href="http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi">http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi</a> From: Jim Marchand <marchand@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU> Subject: scanning Greek Date: Tue, 30 Sep 97 08:33:16 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 490 (490) I had great success training the old Kurzweil 400 (?) to do both Greek and Hebrew. I am sure that such programs as OmniPage Pro (Caere) could be trained in the same way, but with somewhat more difficulty. You could call Caere and ask them; they may already have a training set available for Greek. If not, someone ought to tell them to work on it. We were even able to scan the various accented characters as characters and then global them. Jim Marchand. From: Nikos Goulandris <Nikos.Goulandris@ens.fr> Subject: Re: 11.0304 capturing Greek? Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:23:08 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 491 (491) [deleted quotation] If you are on PCs try to get some information on the *Anagostes* (=The Reader) scanning software at: <a href="http://www.hol.gr/business/ideatech">http://www.hol.gr/business/ideatech</a>. I have not seen it myself but people tell me it is reasonably efficient. Nikos Goulandris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Domenico Fiormonte <ITADFP@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk> Subject: Computers and Humanties Conference in Rome Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 13:03:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 492 (492) GIOCANDO S'IMPARA. IL GIOCO E LA RICERCA DALL'UNIVERSITA' MEDIEVALE ALLA DIDATTICA DELL'INFORMATICA VI Computers and Humanities International Conference October 7th-8th, Conference Hall of University of Rome 'La Sapienza', 117 Via Salaria, Rome Organised by the Franceschini Foundation in Collaboration with IBM Foundation, Internet Scuola-Enea-Campus, Craiat and the University of Florence For many years the Ezio Franceschini Foundation has been collaborating with Enea's Internet Scuola to develop hypertexts for the school. It is in this spirit that the Foundation has decided to devote its 6th Conference on Computer and Humanities to a specific theme: 'Learning by playing'. The Conference is organised with the collaboration of ENEA's Internet Scuola, the Italian Rectors' Conference, CRAIAT of the University of Florence and IBM Foundation. To lay the grounds for the discussion to take place during the Conference, we set up a Forum which can be reached at Internet Scuola Homepage (<a href="http://www.enea.it/internetscuola">http://www.enea.it/internetscuola</a> - for GARR users- and http//:www.quipo.it/internetscuola - for non-GARR users) as well as from <a href="http://sismel.meri.unifi.it/">http://sismel.meri.unifi.it/</a> of the E. Franceschini Foundation VI Computers and Humanities International Conference PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE October 7, 1997 Playing, Imagining and Discovering in the Middle Ages 10:30 Opening Remarks, C. Leonardi (Ezio Franceschini Foundation, Florence) Introduction, T. Gregory (University of Rome, La Sapienza) Music and play. Ludic aspects in epic literature (XII-XV) M. Praloran (Padua University) Rules and practice in the logical games at Medioeval universities G. Roncaglia (University of Viterbo, La Tuscia) Imagination and Fantasy in Paracelsus at the time of the Medicis, M. Bianchi (Lessico Intellettuale Europeo, Rome) Discussion 15:30 Games, Research and Culture in modern culture Chairwoman R. Simili (Bologna University) Rediscovering the role of play in education between the Middle Ages and Humanism, G. Ortalli (Venice University) Macchina Ludens. Machines between entertainment and knowledge (XVIII. XIX) V. Marchis (Turin Polytechnic Institute) Acting/playing/role-playing: from Siena's Intronati (Dazed) to role-games, M. Pieri (Trieste University) Optical Plays and Literary Research in XVII-XIX cent. A. Anichini (CRAIAT, Florence) October 8 9:30: Today's games Chairman M. Morcellino (Rome University, La Sapienza) Play, Technology and Research at the University, S. Acquaviva (Padua University) Does Scientific Research have a Ludic Side? A. Oliverio (CNR, Rome) Writing Games, L. Toschi (Florence University) Games, roles, identities. From hypermedia to virtual communities, M. Ricciardi (University of Turin) Conclusions P. Blasi (President of the Rectors' Conference of Italian Universities) From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu> Subject: Conference: TEI 10 PROGRAM Date: Wed, 1 Oct 97 14:05:55 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 493 (493) ***************************************************************** Text Encoding Initiative 10th Anniversary Conference November 14-16, 1997 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island ***************************************************************** General conference and registration information: <a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/">http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/</a> CONFERENCE PROGRAM ================== Friday, November 14 ------------------- 12:00-1:00pm BOX LUNCH 1:00-2:30pm OPENING SESSION Opening Remarks Keynote Address Andy van Dam (Brown University) 2:30-3:00pm COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS 3:00-5:00pm PAPER SESSION TEI and the Encoding of the Physical Structure of Books Syd Bauman (Brown University) Terry Catapano (Rutgers College) Textual Variation and Version Control in the TEI David A. Smith (Tufts University) Using Architectural Forms to Map TEI Data into an Object-oriented System Gary Simons (Summer Institute of Linguistics) Representing TEI Documents in the CLASSIC Knowledge Representation System Nancy Ide, Tim McGraw and Chris Welty (Vassar College) 6:00-8:00pm OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, November 15 --------------------- 9:00-10:30am PAPER SESSION Delivering Electronic Texts Over the Web Alan Morrison and Jakob Fix (Oxford University) An SGML/HTML Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library Janet Erickson (University of Michigan) Do Digital Libraries Need the TEI? A View From the Trenches LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress) 10:30-11:00am COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS 11:00-12:30pm PAPER SESSION Metadata, TEI, and the Academic Library Community: An Update Brad Eden (North Harris Montgomery Community College District) Putting our Headers Together Michael Popham and Lou Burnard (Oxford University) The TEI Header - a Metadata Package? Daniel Greenstein (Kings College, London) 12:30-2:00pm LUNCH 2:00-3:30pm PAPER SESSION Creating a Parallel Corpus from the Book of 2000 Tongues Philip Resnik, Mari Broman Olsen, Mona Diab (University of Maryland) TEI Encoding and Syntacting Tagging of an Old French Text Dominique Estival and Nick Nicholas (The University of Melbourne) A TEI Extension for the Description of Medieval Manuscripts Richard Gartner and Lou Burnard (Oxford University) 2:30-3:00pm COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS 4:00-5:30pm PAPER SESSION Keying <name>s: The Women Writers Project Approach Syd Bauman (Brown University) Using the TEI Writing System Declaration David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh) Mavis Cournane (University College Cork) TEI and XML Steven DeRose (INSO Corporation) 2:00-6:00pm SOFTWARE AND PROJECT DEMOS 6:00-8:00pm SPECIAL SESSION : The Future of the TEI Sunday, November 16 ------------------- 9:00-10:30am SESSION 6A The Text Encoding Initiative and the Model Editions Partnership David Chesnutt (University of South Carolina) TEI Extensions for Legal Text Nick Finke (Center for Electronic Text in the Law) What Not to Tag John Lavagnino (Brown University) 9:00-10:30am SESSION 6B Taking Snapshots of the Web with a TEI Camera Derek Walker (Queens University) Silfide: A System for Open Access and Distributed Delivery of TEI Encoded Documents Laurent Romary (CRIN-CNRS & INRIA Lorraine) Independent Links: A Maintenance Advantage? Erik van den Hout (Groningen University) 10:30-11:00am COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS 11:00-12:30pm CLOSING SESSION Keynote Address Jon Bosak (Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Chair, W3C XML Work Group) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: NCC Washington Update, Vol 3, #41, September 30, 1997 (fwd) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 10:45:40 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 494 (494) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 1, 1997 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES AGREE ON BUDGETS FOR NHPRC, NARA, NEA, NEH The extracts below from the latest NCC Washington Update summarize the recent agreements of the House/Senate Treasury Appropriations and Interior Appropriations Conference Committees. David Green * * * * Extracts from... NCC Washington Update, vol. 3, #41, September 30, 1997 by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History <pagem@capaccess.org> 1. House/Senate Treasury Appropriations Conference Approves Increases for NHPRC and the National Archives 2. House/Senate Interior Appropriations Conference Committee Agrees to FY'98 Budgets for NEH and NEA 1. House/Senate Treasury Appropriations Conference Approves Increases for NHPRC and the National Archives -- On Monday, September 29, the Conference Committee for the Treasury Appropriations Bill met briefly at 7:30 pm to vote on previously negotiates numbers. The agreed upon bill which will now go back to both the House and Senate for their votes includes $5.5 million for the NHPRC grants program, $205.165 million for the operating budget of the National Archives and $14.65 million for repairs and restoration of National Archives buildings. These numbers represent a 10% increase for the NHPRC grants program and a 4% increase for the National Archives operating budget. Of the $14.65 million designated for building restoration and repairs, $4 million is earmarked for the FDR Library and $4 million for the Truman Library. The House will vote on the Conference report on October 1 and the Senate soon thereafter. Since only 3 of the 13 appropriations bills have been signed into law, the Congress is in the process of passing a Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government for an additional 23 days past the October 1 deadline for the beginning of a new fiscal year. 2. House/Senate Interior Appropriations Conference Committee Agrees to FY'98 Budgets for NEH and NEA -- The House and Senate Conference Committee on the Interior Appropriations Bill began meeting at 2 pm on September 30 All the details have not yet been confirmed; however, it does appear that the Conference Committee agreed to an FY'98 budget for NEH of approximately $110 million, its current level. The Conference Committee also voted for an FY'98 budget for NEA of $98 million, close to its current level of $99.5 million, but with certain conditions stipulated by Representative Ralph Regula (R-OH), the Chairman of the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee. The Conference agreed to Regula's condition that the percentage of NEA money that would go to the state councils be increased from 35% to 40% and that priority be given in the grant making process to underserved areas and to projects with an emphasis on education. The Conference Report must now go back to the House and Senate floors for final passage. * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NCC invites you to redistribute the NCC Washington Updates. A complete backfile of these reports is maintained by H-Net. See World Wide Web: <a href="http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/">http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/</a> * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. From: Stuart Lee <stuart.lee@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Announcement: Free online WWI Poetry Tutorials (fwd) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:42:26 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 495 (495) Please cross-post accordingly: JISC TECHNOLOGIES APPLICATION PROGRAMME (JTAP) VIRTUAL SEMINARS FOR TEACHING LITERATURE PROJECT Humanities Computing Unit Oxford University Computing Services (<a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/</a>) The Virtual Seminars Project (funded under JISC's JTAP initiative) are pleased to announce the availability of the following four web-based tutorials to teach First World War poetry. Access to all the material is free of charge, but please note that copyright restrictions apply to several items. Tutorials (<a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/</a>): 1. An Introduction to WWI poetry Introduces the life and works of a number of First World War poets (<a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/intro/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/intro/</a>) 2. 'Break of Day in the Trenches' An in-depth look at the poet Isaac Rosenberg, based around his poem 'Break of Day in the Trenches' (<a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/rose/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/rose/</a>) 3. An Introduction to Manuscript Study Introduces editorial practices and manuscript studies. You will be taken through the various stages involved in the creation of an edition. (<a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/manuscript/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/manuscript/</a>) 4. An Introduction to Text Analysis Introduces the use of concordances, and the study of a concordance of Wilfred Owen's war poetry. (<a href="http://paulg.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tactweb/">http://paulg.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tactweb/</a>) The researchers on this project warmly welcome any comments or suggestions for improvement. They would also like to hear from anyone who intends to use these tutorials in their teaching. Please send all comments to jtap@oucs.ox.ac.uk Paul Groves Project Officer Stuart Lee Project Manager ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Groves Email: paul.groves@oucs.ox.ac.uk JTAP Project Officer Fax: +44 (0)1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit Tel: +44 (0)1865 273 226 Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford, England. OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Thorburn <thorburn@mit.edu> Subject: mit conference on books and digital media Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 07:47:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 496 (496) Dear colleagues -- I write to invite you to attend our forthcoming conference, "Transformations of the Book," on Friday and Saturday, October 24-25. The conference will consider the ways in which digital technologies are transforming traditional literary and humanistic materials. Pioneering scholars and designers will demonstrate hypertext and web-based projects involving some of the landmark texts and materials of humanist culture. The event will cover a fascinating range: from classical literature, Chaucer and Shakespeare to Hitchcock's films. Other presentations will center on the visual arts, and on Friday evening two leading hypertext fiction writers, Michael Joyce and Shelley Jackson, will discuss their work and the future of the cyber-novel. Other speakers include Peter Robinson, co-editor of the Canterbury Tales Project; Jerome McGann, Director of the Rosetti hypermedia archive at the University of Virginia; Robert Stein, founder of the Voyager Company, leading producer of serious CD ROM and videodisc materials; and William J. Mitchell, author of _The Reconfigured Eye_ and Dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. Each session will conclude in an open discussion with the audience, and we're anticipating lively and provocative discourse throughout the conference. The complete schedule, brief sketches of the participants and a registration form are available on the "Media in Transition" web site: <a href="http://media-in-transition.mit.edu">http://media-in-transition.mit.edu</a>. You may also register by sending email to Ann Rowbotham (annr@mit.edu), listing name, address, email address and your plans for attending on a single day or for the entire conference. We will supply significant amenities as well as stimulating discourse: a reception Friday after the afternoon panels; lunch on Saturday. There is no charge for registration. I hope many of you will be able to attend. Cordially, David Thorburn Professor of Literature Director, Communications Forum 14N-335, MIT Cambridge, MA 02139 617 253-6950 <a href="http://www.mit.edu/~thorburn/home.html">http://www.mit.edu/~thorburn/home.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: adolescence/obsolescence? Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:04:26 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 497 (497) In the latest Guardian Online, Douglas Rushkoff writes in "How cyberia lost its chill", about the problem of identity that those of us professionally involved with computing now tend to feel. "When I started this column [on cyberlife] I thought of myself as something of a midwife," he writes. "We were birthing a new culture, and had experienced some complications in our labour.... Well, that baby is born. Cyberculture is not an edge phenomenon, a future technology, or fringe cultural expression. It's the way things are. We live in an online world." He goes on to note the darkening tone in the columns he has written, and the sense of being both adrift and no longer very special. "The birthing is over. Our job is no longer to envision and proselytise an electronic future.... The electronic future is now the electronic present.... There are real issues to deal with... but these are the same issues confronting us everywhere we turn. They are not unique to the online world. And right now, neither am I." So he talks about the temptation to back away, stop writing the column, go off and do something else. "How does one write a cyber column when there really is no such thing as cyber, anymore?... It's not cyberia that has been grounded by the realities of business and government. It's business and government that have been co-opted by the spirit of cyberia. They just don't know it yet." In the end, he has decided to reduce the frequency of his submissions while he retools. Personally, as a reader of the newspaper concerned, I regret this -- I look forward to his column in Online each Thursday -- but it's certainly easy to understand the decision. Several people in humanities computing have expressed more or less the same sentiments. I recall in particular one old-time computing humanist, at a recent conference, who said he felt like he was sitting in the middle of the road with tire-tracks up his back. Once we owned the turf, or could easily think we did, but now computing is everywhere, or we can easily think it is. Just as a footnote, I'd argue that Rushkoff is quite wrong about the ubiquity -- unless you restrict what you mean by that to the tiny elite (powerful, for sure, but still tiny) among whom the knowing involvement with computing is commonplace. Once you consider those who use computers but don't realise that they are (in banking machines, modern automobiles, telephones, etc.), and the huge majority of us humans who have never even done that, ubiquity seems rather a stretch. But yes, among our kind computers are everywhere, our turf is now a commons, so what have we that distinguishes us, justifies our continuing existence? This sounds to me like an adolescent's angst, does it not? The same could be said for Humanist. Once it was more or less the only seminar, very nearly the first of its kind, with every new crisis a frontier of experience, at least for the humanists then involved. Now there are thousands of online discussion groups. For Humanist it isn't hard to see what the role is nor is it difficult to justify our continuing existence as a virtual seminar. The development of the medium has restricted the scope of the job Humanist needs to do, but at the same time clarified what remains. Similarly, for the academy as a whole I think there's quite a good answer to Rushkoff's question. It is simply that no one else but us will pay full attention to what is happening in the field of humanities computing, because others do not have the time nor the broadly interdisciplinary, methodological focus. The bounds of this concern we may not be able to delimit -- witness the variety of matters that arise on Humanist -- but it does have a centre. Those who think that "humanities computing" means text-analysis (particularly of the oldfashioned kind) will, of course, find their subject increasingly in the minority of computing-related interests, but it seems to me that as the computer becomes ever more a part of daily life we should have an ever bigger audience. Comments? WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: gleanings Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 20:59:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 498 (498) [deleted quotation] (1) Jim McLellan, "Flying fish, virtual skin" (<<a href="http://online.guardian.co.uk/">http://online.guardian.co.uk/</a>>), about the sQuawl show, in London's Oxo Tower, by students from the Middlesex University's Digital Art MA, <<a href="http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/CEA/96-97/DART96-97/sQuawl/show.htm">http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/CEA/96-97/DART96-97/sQuawl/show.htm</a>>. Apparently a much more interesting show than Web site, featuring Digital wRap, a wearable computer described as "a dress with an address", and Artephyshal Life, a tank with four fish whose movements triggered sounds. The Middlesex MA students have a much better page for themselves at <<a href="http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/CEA/96-97/DART96-97/DART.htm">http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/CEA/96-97/DART96-97/DART.htm</a>>. (2) Jack Schofield, "Make it snappy", his regular Netwatch column, includes a notice about an online study by Juliet Gosling, "Virtual Worlds of Girls", in partial fulfilment of a PhD in Communication and Image Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. It's "an ebook which explores the 20th-century British genre of girls' school stories and looks at the future of reading in an electronic age." See <<a href="http://www.netmatters.co.uk/ju90/start.htm">http://www.netmatters.co.uk/ju90/start.htm</a>>. Note also her compilation, "Health & Safety in the Non-Linear Environment", about the health risks posed by improper use of the computer, at <<a href="http://www.netmatters.co.uk/ju90/health.htm">http://www.netmatters.co.uk/ju90/health.htm</a>>. (3) Alex Bellos, "X marks the trouble spot", about a project by the Red Cross in several of its front-line trouble spots, to put digital cameras to allow its workers to send back over the Internet images of events as they happen. For a rather different, fascinating and disturbing application of the digital camera, see Hari Kunzru, "The story of the eye" (Mute vol. 8, online at <<a href="http://www.metamute.com/doc/issue8/jenni.htm">http://www.metamute.com/doc/issue8/jenni.htm</a>>), on a project by Jennifer Ringley, known as Jennicam, to record and publish on the Internet images of her daily life. It seems that Ms. Ringley has set up this camera in her dorm room. "The 'Jennicam' updates every three minutes, and is never switched off. Whatever Jenny does, she does in front of a crowd." (4) Dan Jellinek, "Cyberpower to the people", about the promise of revolutionary democracy brought by electronic communications to politics. Anna Coote, deputy director of the Institute for Public Policy and Research, warns, however, "that there is a corresponding potential for harm if people are misled or if they misunderstand the nature of online processes." This should give us considerable pause. Who understands "the nature of online processes"? Should anyone here feel that we don't have any work to do, here is a challenging assignment! 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Mark Olsen <mark@tuna.uchicago.edu> Subject: HI-Fido/Chicago Jazz Archive Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 15:20:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 499 (499) Hi, Daniel Foster, working on projects in association with ARTFL, asked me to pass this along. I've wanted for a long time good music in 16 bit audio to my workstation and finally have it. :-) Enjoy! Here's what Daniel has to say: The URL is: <a href="http://eos.lib.uchicago.edu/html/jazz.html">http://eos.lib.uchicago.edu/html/jazz.html</a> History: Hi-Fido (High-Fidelity Digitization Online) was first developed at ARTFL on a Power Macintosh by Daniel Foster, Scanning Technician for the University of Chicago Libraries. This page is still maintained by him and his email is: dhfoster@tuna.uchicago.edu Description: Hi-Fido offers both the sheet music and recordings for a number of classic Jazz songs. The original source for these artifacts is The Chicago Jazz Archive at The University of Chicago. Equipment Needed: In order to listen to the recordings you will need to install a RealAudio Player on your computer. The RealPlayer is obtainable free of charge from <a href="http://www.real.com">http://www.real.com</a>, and there are versions for Windows, MAC, and Sun. Installation is relatively painless. Depending on your modem speed, you can listen to an array of different recordings which differ in quality according to how fast your modem is. Thus, there are recordings for 14.4 modems which transmit at a bitrate of 8 Kpbs, for 28.8 modems which transmit at a bitrate of 20 Kbps, and for ISDN connections or faster which transmit at a bitrate of 80 Kbps. Instructions for Using this Web Page: In the left-hand frame of this Web page there is an alphabetic list and and a simple search mechanism if you know the song for which you're looking. If you click on the song name, this will load in the right-hand frame a full bibliographic record of the song and whatever recordings are available for it. At this point you can click in the right-hand frame to load the sheet music you wish to study, click on the appropriate modem speed for the recording you want to hear (in either the left- or right-hand frame), or download both recording and sheet music so you can follow the song with the sheet music. Alternatively, if you are just interested in listening to recordings you can click in the left-hand frame on the appropriate modem speed for the song you want to hear. Also, you may browse through the full bibliographic records of these songs in no particular order. Mark Mark Olsen Assistant Director ARTFL Project University of Chicago (773) 702-8687 WWW: <a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html">http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html</a> Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. --- Samuel Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Re: downloadable fonts for Old Germanic etc. Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 15:37:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 500 (500) [deleted quotation] re Old Germanic fonts: The Summer Institute of Linguistics (www.sil.org) has marvelous links to all kinds of information, including downloadable fonts for hundreds of languages, f. ex.: www.sil.org/computing/fonts/ regards, Joseph Wilson, Prof. of German Dept. of German & Slavic Rice University PO Box 1892 Houston,Texas 77251 jwilsona@rice.edu 713-527-8101 ext. 3227; home: 713-686-2733; weekends: 409-242-3745 From: Hartmut Krech <kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de> Subject: Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 17:26:07 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 501 (501) Re.: Capturing Greek ? With respect to optical character recognition (OCR) of Greek fonts, allow me to direct your attention to ReadIRIS, if commercially available software is the only option to take. ReadIRIS was developed by Pierre de Meulenaere of the University of Louvain (Belgium). The most recent version has language support for 22 Eastern and Western European languages, including the Cyrillic alphabets, mathematical symbols, and Greek. While character mapping files for trained characters used to be restricted to a size of 64 KB in Omnipage Pro, files for trained fonts may become four times as large in ReadIRIS. Remember that for best results with exotic fonts, OCR should be executed interactively rather than automatically. Sincerely Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Hope Greenberg <hope.greenberg@uvm.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0286 tools? infrastructure? Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 15:14:00 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 502 (502) Willard posed a question on 9/23, a lifetime ago on this forum, but one that I'd like to address anyway. The question was: [deleted quotation] I'd like to approach the topics from a slightly different angle by focusing not on the applications but on the scholarly uses. Here's my list: 0) Basics: File management in a networked world (OS's come and go but so far file management remains a fairly constant, and crucial to understand, task) 1) Communication: e-mail, listservs, newsgroups, WOOs etc. 2) Writing: word processing/web publishing (they are nearly the same and will get even closer), bibliographic management, text encoding, imaging, video and audio capture 3) Research: text analysis, online search strategies 4) Scholarship: (that is, using and producing knowledge bases) text-encoding, text-analysis, database management, spreadsheets, textbase management. And if pressed I would probably break this down even more by listing the top few things one should know on any of the above topics. For example, in writing I'd list things like: - know how to set and use tabs and indents - know the difference between default, document, and paragraph formatting - understand styles (which makes text encoding a heck of a lot easier, too) - understand the difference between paper-destined text, electronic text, and machine readable text So, my focus is first on the scholarly pursuit, and then on the applications that can be used in that pursuit. Along with that I would emphasize the general concepts behind the software over the actual nitty-gritty workings. I stress this because I've seen too many people, faculty and students alike, use a word processor like a typewriter, avoid spreadsheets because they are "just for number-crunching," and jump through all kinds of unnecessary hoops when a database program would easily help. In addition, I've seen so many people learn how to do a task in one specific version of a specific application, but because they don't understand what they are doing and why, can't transfer that knowledge to the next version or application they use. Also, by putting the emphasis on task instead of tool I hope we can make computing technology more sensibly palatable. It is, after all, no longer very new. - Hope ------------- Hope Greenberg University of Vermont <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~hag">http://www.uvm.edu/~hag</a> From: Hope Greenberg <hope.greenberg@uvm.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0286 tools? infrastructure? Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 15:49:59 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 503 (503) In reply to Willard's comments: [deleted quotation] I offer the following article, not so much for the fact that it supports the aforementioned conclusion, but for what is, to me, a more important point: the writer of the article and the people quoted don't seem to have a very clear idea of what information or classroom technology is. We all have technology in the classroom that impacts how we teach: we have fixed seating or tablet chairs or tables, chalkboards, and predetermined class sizes. Nor does anyone in the article mention that computers do not necessarily mean less face-to-face or that lectures necessarily mean more communication. ------------- [deleted quotation] Canadian University Promises It Won't Require Professors to Use Technology By JEFFREY R. YOUNG Professors at York University walked picket lines earlier this year with posters reading "Televisions don't teach, people do" and "Clone sheep, not Internet courses." In what may have been a first, new instructional technology was a major issue in a faculty strike -- one that lasted 55 days. Union leaders at the Toronto university claim victory on the issue, one of several at the heart of the strike. Among the technology-related provisions in the final version of the contract is an unusual promise from the administration: Professors will not be forced to use technology in their classrooms or to deliver courses over the Internet. The contract says decisions to use technology for enhancing classroom sessions or for delivering courses to remote locations using videoconferencing "shall be consistent with the pedagogic and academic judgments and principles of the faculty member employee as to the appropriateness of the use of technology in the circumstances." It adds: "Normally, a faculty member will not be required to convert a course without his or her agreement." David Clipsham is chairman of the faculty union, the York University Faculty Association. He says that forcing the university to accept the restrictions was a pre-emptive move stemming from "fears that the administration was moving too fast into technology that no one understood." The union was deeply concerned about protecting the autonomy of professors. "When you put your course on a Web site," says David Noble, a history professor, "you are essentially giving up control of the course." Fitting a course to a Web site constructed to someone else's specifications can interfere with a professor's plan for the course, he says. Another professor involved in the strike simply doesn't believe in using technology in the classroom. "I have no interest in using the Web for my teaching," says Janice Newson, an associate professor of sociology. "My own judgment on this is that I am not persuaded that this is the best way to go." She says multimedia software created for classroom use has several drawbacks: It reduces face-to-face contact; it can discourage critical thinking by students who move quickly among screens full of information; and its bugs and glitches can waste valuable teaching time. Both Dr. Newson and Dr. Noble say they are worried about being replaced by their own high-tech creations. Dr. Noble says administrators at York and other universities may one day use World-Wide Web sites or video-taped lectures to cut back on faculty staffing. "Whatever the rhetoric of the institution," he says, "the unspoken agenda is to eliminate direct labor." Paula H. O'Reilly, York's director of academic and staff relations, represented the university in negotiations during the strike. She says the institution had no intention of forcing professors to use technology anyway. Most of the decisions about whether to use technology are made at the departmental level or by individual professors, she says. "We don't see ourselves as controlling technology." She says the administration agrees that, if faculty members don't believe in using technology in education, "their right to oppose it needs to be respected." During the contract negotiations, she says, administrators wanted to make sure that any promises they made were flexible enough to accommodate unanticipated changes in technology. The new contract also calls for the creation of a "Joint Subcommittee on the Impact of Technology." The panel will consider a variety of issues, including providing adequate training and support to professors who want to use high-tech tools; setting guidelines for purchasing and developing packaged courses and distance-learning courses; and long-term goals for technology use. Perry M. Robinson, deputy director of the higher-education department at the American Federation of Teachers, says technology issues are becoming more and more important in contract negotiations. "There are quite a number of issues now with distance learning," he says. "I think it will increasingly become important." Mr. Robinson says that union contracts at a few colleges already address technology issues. Many of those contracts specify class size or compensation policies for distance-education courses -- for instance, at the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District in California, Glen Oaks Community College in Michigan, and Salem Community College in New Jersey. Promising not to force technology on professors is more unusual, he says. That's because few cases, if any, have surfaced in which professors are being forced to use technology, he says. But Dr. Noble, whose specialty is the history of technology, says he sees a trend -- the "commoditization of instruction." As universities find ways to package teaching in digital form, he says, professors could be phased out, just as some assembly-line workers have been replaced by robots. He points to a new program at the University of California at Los Angeles, where administrators have promised that every class in its main undergraduate college will have a Web page. That's a sign, he says, that faculty members at other colleges need to take a fresh look at their contracts. "We worked very hard to protect ourselves," he says. Copyright (c) 1997 by The Chronicle of Higher Education <a href="http://chronicle.com">http://chronicle.com</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Prof.Dr. K.Gaertner" <gaertnek@Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE> Subject: Re: 11.0304 capturing Greek? Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 15:48:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 504 (504) [On the question of capturing Greek....] There is a system called OPTOPUS: It manages even the spiritus asper and lenis, all the accents, iota-subscr. etc. Try the web-page: www.makrolog.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof.Dr. Kurt Gaertner <gaertnek@mailer.uni-marburg.de> FB II Sprach- und Literaturwiss. office: Tel. 0651-201-2323 Germanistik Fax 0651-201-3909 Universitaet Trier secretary: Tel. 0651-201-2321 D-54286 Trier private: Tel. 06421-35356, Fax 06421-35415 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: tools, skills Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 08:16:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 505 (505) Hope Greenberg's reorientation of my question about core skills, in Humanist 11.317, is a good reminder of the problem with terms like "Information Technology" (IT), which puts the technology too much in the foreground: "information", as Regis Debray might point out, is both too abstract and far too porous a term, so that one arrives at the "technology" without the levening of human intelligence. As it were. "Humanities computing" does not have that problem: it's more, as Ezra Pound might have said, like the radical metaphor in haiku, where there is no copula -- not "this is that" but "this that", leaving the reader to work out the identity. Humanities. Computing. Humanities computing. Humanitiescomputing. Hcuommapnuittiinegs! In any case, I take her point. We begin with the field of application -- almost. I say "almost" because long before we take up the question we've been marinated in computing for years. But then most of us were soaked in the humanities before that. By the time we take up the question, the two have become one? When I introduce humanities computing to students, I describe an idealised form of the process of scholarship, from gathering materials for research to the publication at the end, and match a form of the technology to each stage. When I teach them, however, I find that I have to work tool-by-tool, more or less in the order established by the above process, but modified for practical reasons. (For example, we need to look at e-mail first thing, for communication among members of the class, even though in the process this is used everywhere; the Web similarly is used first and last, etc.) In the introductory course, it seems to me that the skills must be in the foreground -- the ABCs before the poetry -- though the latter must always be shining through. The difference of this approach from that taken in the usual sort of computing centre is that courses given by the latter are in my experience fragmentary (literally in-coherent) and rootless because they do not have any field of application, as in the humanities, or theoretical approach, as in computer science, to give them the needed coherence. In other words, I have found that an introductory curriculum in humanities computing is a matter of apparent compromise, the deep structure coming from the scholarly application, the surface structure from the practical considerations of teaching these ABCs. Comment? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: items from a Microsoft Colloquium Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 08:50:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 506 (506) Allow me to direct your attention especially to the first item here, an online essay by James Ellsworth (U.S. Army) on the systemic effects of introducing computing technology into higher education. The issue of system-wide consequences, or what one might call the ecology of computing, seems to me one of the most important questions for people like us to address. I would be grateful for any pointers to further work on the topic. Yours, WM [deleted quotation]- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: infrastructure Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 20:33:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 507 (507) In reply to my message on Humanist, 11.0286 (2) of 23 September, on the "distribution of infrastructure", a colleague responded today with a long, thoughtful message. His (letting the masculine gender take the entire load of suspicion) request was that this remain private to me, but he did give his permission for me to paraphrase, which I do as follows. Apologies to him for any distortions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our computing center at the faculty started more than a decade ago as a complement to the university computing center, as the staff there were thought to be too much concerned with the technology and its application to scientific processing. We began with a mini-computer (those rather huge machines with terminals connected to them) and just two staff positions and soon evolved into what was essentially a separate computing center at the faculty level. Much of our time was consumed by technical support. And it was even worse when we distributed the computer power to the desktops and had to give technical support to more people in their offices. We had no time for matters concerning humanities computing as such. Now I think we are in a better position. We have twice as many full-time employees plus one half-time technican and a 25% of a full-time secretary. Our mandate is still to run the computer network, servers and common computer labs. We must also give support to the administrative staff in the faculty office and in the departments. This is our primary mission. Besides that we are expected to give support to students, teachers and researchers as much as we can. But we are given no guidance or rules on how to do that. As there is a large number of teachers, administrative staff and researchers, and several thousand students, we simply cannot satisfy all their wishes. There are almost as many wishes as persons! This autumn, in order to retain support of the university administration, we must report to the provost on exactly what we are doing. Usually it is a rather uncomplicated matter to compare one's goals to what one has actually accomplished and to document people's willingness to buy or use the product, and to what degree. For us, however, the goals are only partially defined; we actually don't know if we have defined these goals correctly or given them the right priority or even identified the right ones as far as our users are concerned. We have as well our own vision about the possibilities of humanities computing, and we have good reason to think that this vision may in some respects be clearer than that of our users -- if they can be said to have a vision of such things. This raises the question of what humanities computing is, of course. From our perspective it seems to be divided into at least two branches, one for language-study and one for research into the historical and philosophical disciplines. I think the needs of these two branches differ too much for us to offer common seminars. We simply cannot be experts in everything. So, what are we doing now? Students are offered unstructured access to the computer labs. Every Wednesday there is a five-hour course to teach them the basic skills of computing, e.g. e-mail, Web browsing and wordprocessing. With the latter two especially we emphasise need peculiar to the humanities. That means looking for texts and other web sites with content relevant for the humanities, and using wordprocessors to write compositions with competent formatting. For teachers and other members of the faculty we occasionally offer seminars in different areas of humanities computing. We also offer courses for the administrative staff. For the members of faculty we tailor the courses to the concerns of specific departments. Both Linguistics and Computational Linguistics departments are giving similar courses on regular basis. Other language departments are now starting up courses on concording and text-analysis. The archaeologists use their special mapping and cataloguing programs. Philosophy uses simulations in logic. In all those instances our role is to help build the bridge between the technology and the scholarly methodology. That is the direction of our progress as far as I can see it. As for your notion of an invisible infrastructure, or "water works", supporting a humanities computing operation, I beg to differ. I don't think the former can ever be completely anonymous, and I don't see how there can be successful organisational units for just "humanities computing". Computing methods have become an integrated part of all scientific work and should not be separated out. The "water-workers" have to understand the need for increasing the dimension of the pipes and of the reservoir. The teachers/researchers may need to discuss new technical functions, new methods or just ideas. Our Humanities Computing Centre is that bridge, that information channel, but also a unit following what is going on (like the annual ACH/ALLC conferences) to stimulate people to accept new thinking, new contacts and a new level of interdisciplinarity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Dan Price <dprice@union1.tui.edu> Subject: Promises not to Use Technology??? Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:51:52 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 508 (508) Reaction to the article from "The Chronicle of Higher Ed." "Canadian University Promises It Won't Require Professors to Use Technology" The events and comments of the story seemed rather bizarre to me--were the professors likewise going to protest the use of typewriters because of what it was doing to penmenship. I was wondering what folks in similar positions were saying to Gutenberg about the use of the printing press in education OR even better, the response to the scribes of Sumer. Did the elders of the tribe protest the new "crippling technology" of script? Yes change is difficult, sometimes imposible--for some. Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, The Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 <a href="http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html">http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell <jgt@hum.gu.se> Subject: The 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 12:07:39 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 509 (509) This year's Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced on Thursday, October 9, at 13.00 MET (11.00 UT). The Announcement and the Press Release will be announced on the www server at The Swedish Academy (<a href="http://svenska.gu.se/academy.html">http://svenska.gu.se/academy.html</a>) and The Nobel Foundation (<a href="http://www.nobel.se/">http://www.nobel.se/</a>). -- Jan-Gunnar Tingsell <tingsell@hum.gu.se> Humanistiska fakultetens dataservice tel: +46 (0)31 773 4553 Goteborgs universitet fax: +46 (0)31 773 4455 URL=<a href="http://www.hum.gu.se">http://www.hum.gu.se</a> From: Chris Stephens <christopher.stephens@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Update to HUMBUL Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 17:52:49 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 510 (510) ##################################################################### ################# The HUMBUL Gateway ###################### ##################################################################### ############## <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul/">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul/</a> ################### ##################################################################### The HCU at Oxford University is pleased to announce the re-launch of the HUMBUL Gateway. HUMBUL has recently undergone an extensive re-working. This incarnation, the third since its inception in the mid 1980s, has taken the material from the HTML version and put the links into a database which can be queried via a web interface. This means, among other things, that individual links are no longer tied to a particular section page. The database records do contain a field identifying the section so that the links can still be sorted by subject heading. This was thought to be the most logical grouping of links to allow browsing of the HUMBUL material. As with the Web version, the user can click on the link from the home page for a given subject and will be presented with a page containing all the links in the database for that section. Each section will also be linked to a short essay, written by a subject specialist, giving guidance on the use of the Internet in the particular area of study. The subject sections are not the only way to discover relevant resources within HUMBUL. A new Search function allows users to enter a keyword and be returned a page containing all the links from the database which mention the keyword in any of the record fields. This should make it easier for the user to find relevant information without having to wade through all the material from several large sections. HUMBUL also has a page which allows the user to search the WWW via several of the Web's major search engines. The new HUMBUL will give its users the chance to participate in the future shaping of the resources it carries. Users can submit new links for the database or add events to the conference diary. Users also have the opportunity to add their comments about any of the sites they reach from HUMBUL. These comments will be held in the links database. They will be associated with the link being commented on and will form part of the searchable material. For each link the user will have the option to either visit the link, view a description giving further details about the link, see what others have said about the site to which the link points, or add their own comments about the site, including a 1 to 5 rating for aspects of the site such as the amount of original material, the general design and so on. This, it is hoped, will become a useful resource in itself and will help to guide the user through the vast amount of material available on the WWW. The original HUMBUL used to carry a conference diary. The new HUMBUL has reinstated this function and now contains a conference diary which will give details of up coming conferences in the field of Humanities Computing. The material relating to diary entries is also held in database form and can be searched in much the same way as the links. The new HUMBUL will give its users the chance to participate in the future shaping of the resources it carries. Users can submit new links for the database or add events to the conference diary. Users also have the opportunity to add their comments about any of the sites they reach from HUMBUL. These comments will be held in the links database. They will be associated with the link being commented on and will form part of the searchable material. For each link the user will have the option to either visit the link, view a description giving further details about the link, see what others have said about the site to which the link points, or add their own comments about the site, including a 1 to 5 rating for aspects of the site such as the amount of original material, the general design and so on. This, it is hoped, will become a useful resource in itself and will help to guide the user through the vast amount of material available on the WWW. HUMBUL will continue to develop in the near future as the further possibilities of the dynamic nature of the database become apparent. If you have any questions regarding the development of HUMBUL please contact Chris Stephens (Christopher.Stephens@oucs.ox.ac.uk) at the Centre for Humanities Computing. The new HUMBUL can be found at: <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul/">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul/</a> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Information is not knowledge..." | | Humanities Computing Unit Chris Stephens | | Oxford University Humanities IT Support Officer | Computing Services | 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford Tel: +44 (0) 1865 283295 E-mail: Christopher.Stephens@oucs.ox.ac.uk From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: CONFU "FINAL" REPORT Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 12:45:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 511 (511) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 7, 1997 PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE RELEASES CONFU REPORT: "REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER ON THE CONCLUSION OF THE FIRST PHASE OF THE CONFERENCE ON FAIR USE" Peter Fowler's "Report to the Commissioner," based on the "final" CONFU meeting of May 19,1997 was released September 30, 1997. The Report may be read on the PTO's website at <<a href="http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/confu/conclutoc.html">http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/confu/conclutoc.html</a>>. Individual print copies may be obtained by writing to the address or fax number below: CONFU Report c/o Richard Maulsby, Director Office of Public Affairs U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Washington, DC 20231 fax: (703) 308-5258 I reproduce the Results and Conclusion of the Report below: * * * * III. RESULTS 1. It was agreed by the participants at the CONFU plenary session meeting held on May 19, 1997, that a Report to the Commissioner on the Conclusion of the First Phase of the Conference on Fair Use will be written by the facilitator, that said Report will include the three sets of guidelines for digital images, distance learning, and educational multimedia and all statements and comments received concerning them, and that said Report would be made available and published in both hard copy and electronic form to all CONFU participants and the public. 2. It was agreed by the participants at the CONFU plenary session meeting held on May 19, 1997, that in connection with the Proposed Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Images, a use period of at least one year will be instituted for their voluntary adoption, implementation, and review by interested institutions. During this use period the Digital Images Working Group will meet periodically to address the various concerns, observations, and criticisms received in connection with the proposed guidelines, and to discuss and negotiate possible refinements of the guidelines with the goal of achieving broad-based support and endorsement of the guidelines. A report by the Working Group on its activities and the results of the use period will be made at a meeting on May 18, 1998. 3. It was agreed by the participants at the CONFU plenary session meeting held on May 19, 1997, that in connection with the Proposed Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Distance Learning, the membership of the current Distance Learning Working Group would be expanded to include academic and educational institutions directly involved in distance learning activities. During the next year, the Distance Learning Working Group will continue to meet periodically to address the various concerns, observations, and criticisms received in connection with the proposed guidelines, to discuss and negotiate the development of guidelines for asynchronous network delivery of distance learning courses, and to discuss and negotiate possible refinements of the proposed guidelines with the goal of achieving broad-based support and endorsement of the guidelines. A report on the working group's activities will be made at a meeting on May 18, 1998. 4. It was agreed by the participants at the CONFU plenary session meeting held on May 19, 1997, that the Steering Committee be expanded to eleven members. Following a discussion on the need to expand the Steering Committee in such a way as to make it more representative of both the copyright owner and user communities, the following individuals were elected by consensus to serve on the expanded Steering Committee: Christine Dalziel, American Association of Community Colleges and the Instructional Communications Council; Adam M. Eisgrau, American Library Association; Mary B. Levering, U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress; Lisa Livingston, Consortium of College and University Media Centers; Victor S. Perlman, American Society of Media Photographers; Carol Risher, Association of American Publishers; Judith M. Saffer, Broadcast Music, Inc.; Mark Traphagen, Software Publishers Association; Laila van Eyck, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; John C. Vaughn, Association of American Universities; and Patricia Williams, American Association of Museums. 5. It was agreed by the participants at the CONFU plenary session meeting held on May 19, 1997, that CONFU remains committed to fostering a dialogue on all fair use issues, including browsing, electronic reserves, interlibrary loan and document delivery, even though proposals concerning these issues have not been developed fully to date nor been widely accepted by participants. 6. It was agreed by the participants at the CONFU plenary session meeting held on May 19, 1997, that a meeting would be convened on May 18, 1998, to receive reports from the continuing working groups on their activities, to receive a report from the Digital Images Working Group on the voluntary use period initiated in connection with the proposed fair use guidelines for digital images, to review the experiences of institutions that have implemented the fair use guidelines for educational multimedia, and to assess the progress, if any, in drafting more comprehensive fair use guidelines for distance learning, as well as toward achieving greater acceptance in the copyright owner and user communities for the three sets of fair use guidelines. IV. CONCLUSION CONFU is an extraordinary public-private effort, requiring many days of meetings and travel since its inception in September 1994. Many organizations, from both the public and private sector, and especially a large number of nonprofit organizations, have devoted substantial human and financial resources and have made significant sacrifices to participate in the CONFU effort to develop fair use guidelines for educational and library uses of copyrighted works in a digital environment. The total investment of time, resources, and sustained participation by those involved cannot be measured fully. Some organizations approached CONFU initially in the belief that there was little chance of reaching agreement on guidelines. Others expressed their misgivings and skepticism as to whether such a negotiating process could yield substantial and meaningful results. Yet, most participants feel that it is both a beneficial forum for discussion and an instructive and productive endeavor for those interested in fair use issues, even when the good faith efforts and best intentions of the participants have not always resulted in a meeting of minds. Now that CONFU has concluded its first phase of activity, and has placed three sets of guidelines in the world for public debate, discussion, endorsement, and implementation, as institutions and organizations see fit, it now necessarily moves into a new phase of existence. Much the way an engineer, after spending time and energy to build a model of his or her invention, must now use it to see if it works, making refinements or changes where necessary to improve its functioning, so, too, does CONFU now need to encourage the implementation and use -- the experimentation, if you will -- of the guidelines to see how they work in the classrooms, libraries, and media centers where they are needed, and, ultimately, where their value as workable guidelines will be assessed. It is true that not all CONFU participants support the three sets of guidelines. Indeed, some CONFU participants strongly oppose them, while others strongly support them. It can fairly be said that the CONFU process of developing fair use guidelines has amply proven the truth of the old adage that reasonable minds can disagree. That is why this Report, therefore, contains all statements and comments received in connection with the three sets of guidelines, so that such information and opinions may be included in one's own assessment of the value of the guidelines. As CONFU moves into its next phase, there may not be agreement among all participants as to the value and viability of the guidelines so far produced, but there does appear to be wide-spread support among participants for continuing a dialogue on fair use issues with an ultimate goal of developing broad-based agreement, at the very least, on principles and practices, if not guidelines, in the copyright owner and user communities. Should this happen, this accomplishment alone will have proven the worth of CONFU as a valuable and important contribution to the appreciation of fair use in the rapidly expanding digital environment in which we live. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CFP: COLING-ACL '98 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:16:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 512 (512) [deleted quotation] COLING-ACL '98 WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS CALL FOR PROPOSALS University of Montreal Montreal Quebec Canada The Programme Commitee would like to receive proposals for tutorials and workshops to be held in conjunction with the Joint COLING-ACL Conference. TUTORIALS Tutorials will be held on Sunday 9th August, the day preceeding the conference proper. Tutorials may address any topic of current or possible future relevance to the field. The duration of each tutorial should be approximately 3 hours. Those interested in presenting a tutorial should send a 300-500 word proposal to Pete Whitelock, pete@sharp.co.uk, describing the relevance of the subject matter to the conference participants, an outline of the tutorial's content, and a short statement of the proposer's relevant experience. WORKSHOPS Workshops will be held on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th of August, immediately following the conference proper. Workshops will normally be one day in length, but may extend to a second day if required. Those interested in organising a workshop should send a brief proposal to Pete Whitelock, pete@sharp.co.uk, describing the topic of the workshop and its relevance to Coling, the approximate number of participants expected and the likely duration of the workshop, and a short statement of the proposer's relevant experience. It is hoped that it will be possible to accomodate all proposals for tutorials and workshops, but the room space available will place an upper limit on the number. Since proposals will be accepted primarily on a first-come first-served basis, proposers are encouraged to submit as early as possible. Early submission is particularly important if workshop presentations are to be refereed. In any event, no proposals will be accepted after the final deadline of Dec 31st. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway <PatGalloway@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Re: 11.0297 impermanence (sub specie aeternitatis) Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 19:57:37 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 513 (513) Actually, re Ted Parkinson's post, I thought we were in fact talking about an ideal of scholarship, which Norm Holland was suggesting had sadly gone the way of the dodo. Maybe that's the case now in academe; I have been employed outside academe for eighteen years, working as a historian in state government, and I can assure you that the public is in fact very interested in their money being spent on what for practical purposes (i.e. lasting a generation or so) is a "permanent" contribution. Of course we don't imagine we're writing for the ages (heaven forfend: that would be totalizing, wouldn't it?), but my original point was that I still think it's worth behaving as though we have that kind of serious responsibility. I write Native American history, and am not myself Native American; I hope and expect that eventually my work will be superseded by the work of Native American scholars. But I--and many historians--am writing things today that are highly consequential for real people, and it is because writing is and can be such an act of power that IMHO we should do it responsibly. I have real living people to answer to, and that keeps me honest: sub specie aeternitatis I take as meaning not "for the ages" but "for people whose lives may be changed by your actions" or "for (substitute any god you may worship)". Pat Galloway MS Dept. of Archives and History ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: altered vistas Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:27:11 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 514 (514) I came across a short note from Willard on the AHDS server explaining why he prefers search engines like Alta Vista to manually maintained links on gateway pages (like Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle): largely because the overhead on gateway pages is simply too high for them to be reliable or current. I pointed out in a return message that the large search engines are not nearly as current or comprehensive as we tend to think, and Willard asked that I post to Humanist. Here's the message that first alerted me to this problem, from Phil Agre's inimitable Red Rock Eater list: [deleted quotation] This went out last March, and in my experience Alta Vista is still at least six months behind the curve. There are some fascinating issues here, obviously of relevance to many of us. Anyone have an update? --Matt ====================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu or mattk@virginia.edu Department of English <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/</a> The Blake Archive | IATH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CMC/98 Call for Posters/Demonstrations Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:45:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 515 (515) [deleted quotation] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% C A L L F O R P O S T E R S / D E M O N S T R A T I O N S ------------------------------------------------------------- CCCCC MMM MMM CCCCC CCC MMMM MMMM CCC CCC MM MM MM MM CCC CCC MM MM MM MM CCC / 999999 888888 CCC MM MMMM MM CCC / 99 99 88 88 CCC MM MM CCC / 9999 888888 CCC MM MM CCC / 99 88 88 CCCCC MM MM CCCCC / 99 888888 CMC/98 Second International Conference on COOPERATIVE MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION, Theory and Applications ********* Sponsored by the Universities of Brabant Joint Research Organization (SOBU) and the ACL Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMEDIA) Tilburg, The Netherlands, 28-30 January 1998 ********* CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS ********* The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group at Tilburg University, in collaboration with the Center for Research on User-System Interaction IPO in Eindhoven, and the Department of Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology, will host the Second International Conference on the theory and applications of Cooperative Multimodal Communication, CMC/98, to take place January 28-30, 1998. The principal aim of the conference is to bring together researchers involved in the design, implementation, and application of forms of cooperative human-computer communication where natural language (typed or spoken) is used in combination with other modalities, such as visual feedback and direct manipulation. The conference will focus on formal, computational, and user aspects of building cooperative multimodal dialogue systems. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: * cooperativity in multimodal dialogue * metaphors for human-computer interaction * communicative acts in multimodal communication * interacting with visual domain representations * natural language interpretation in a multimodal context * effective use of different media and modalities * formal and computational models of dialogue context * pragmatic concepts in human-computer dialogue * the role of time in multimodal communication * agent-based dialogue architectures * user modelling * approaches to dialogue management The deadline for sumission of extended abstracts of papers has passed, but propspective participants are invited to submit short abstracts of posters to be presented at the conference, or descriptions of multimodal systems to be demonstrated. Abstracts/descriptions should be maximally 2 pages long and should be submitted before November 10. Only electronic submission is be possible, in uuencoded compressed Latex form, to be sent to tijn@win.tue.nl and to kievit@kub.nl (two copies). A Latex style file to be used is available via the CMC/98 Web page (see below). Abstracts/descriptions will be reviewed for their appropriateness for the conference by members of the program committee; authors will receive notification of acceptance by December 1. Accepted abstracts/descriptions will be published in the conference proceedings. If the conference timetable allows, authors will be given the possibility of a short, 10-minute plenary presentation of their work. IMPORTANT DATES ********* Submission of short abstracts: 10 November, 1997 Notification of acceptance: 1 December, 1997 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********* Harry Bunt (Tilburg) (chair) Nicholas Asher (Austin) Norman Badler (Philadelphia) Don Bouwhuis (Eindhoven) Walther von Hahn (Hamburg) Dieter Huber (Mainz) John Lee (Edinburgh) Joseph Mariani (Paris) Jean-Claude Martin (Orsay) Mark Maybury (Bedford) Paul McKevitt (Sheffield and Aalborg) Rob Nederpelt (Eindhoven) Kees van Overveld (Eindhoven) Ray Perrault (Menlo Park) Donia Scott (Brighton) Jan Treur (Amsterdam) Wolfgang Wahlster (Saarbruecken) Bonnie Webber (Philadelphia) Kent Wittenburg (Morristown) Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********* Robbert-Jan Beun Tijn Borghuis Harry Bunt Leen Kievit Margriet Verlinden INFORMATION ********* For questions about the program contact Harry Bunt@kub.nl; for issues relating to the submission of abstracts contact tijn@win.tue.nl. For all other matters contact the conference secretariat: Anne Adriaensen Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. phone: +31 13 466 30 60; fax +31 13 466 31 10; email: denk@kub.nl. Web: <a href="http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC">http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC</a> -- ------------------------------------------------------ Harry C. Bunt Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science Dean, Faculty of Arts Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen) 2568 (Dean's office) 2653 (office, room B 310) Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110 Harry.Bunt@kub.nl WWW: <a href="http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm">http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: dharries@afionline.org (Dan Harries) Subject: Classic D.W. Griffith Film @ AFI OnLine Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:15:41 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 516 (516) The American Film Institute's popular OnLine Cinema is now showing the classic 1912 D.W. film, THE GIRL AND HER TRUST, during the month of October. Using cutting-edge streaming video technology developed by VDOnet, the AFI OnLine Cinema offers a global audience the opportunity to view hard-to-see classic Hollywood films. The AFI OnLine Cinema is located at <www.afionline.org/cinema> THE GIRL AND HER TRUST, a charming early short by Griffith, features 130 scenes and 20 camera positions, more than in any other short Griffith had previously made. The film climaxes with an exciting chase scene involving a locomotive - a scenario to be replicated in many following films. Since its historic launch on January 22 with Charlie Chaplin's THE RINK, the AFI OnLine Cinema has been visited by a global audience of more than 200,000 people from over 100 countries. In 1995, AFI created the popular AFI OnLine on the Internet's World Wide Web to provide global access to AFI's rich resources in film, television and new media. Located at <www.afionline.org>, AFI OnLine provides an international authority source for all aspects of the moving image arts, a one-stop guide for anyone interested in this art form. This month also features extensive coverage of the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival. One of the most valuable assets on the AFI Web site is CineMedia, the Internet's largest film and media directory with links to more than 16,000 sites worldwide. =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: SAA Response to NHA Principles Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 16:42:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 517 (517) ***************** NINCH ANNOUNCMENT October 8, 1997 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS' RESPONSE TO NHA PRINCIPLES The Society of American Archivists <<a href="http://www.archivists.org/">http://www.archivists.org/</a>> (SAA) has just announced that the SAA Council has approved a detailed response to the statement issued by the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) entitled "Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property In the Digital Environment." The SAA makes it clear that it enthusiastically endorsed the NHA Principles in August 1997. However, it felt it important to amplify them by adding archival concerns, identifying how the Principles apply to the specific needs and practices of archivists. "Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment: An Archival Perspective" is available on-line at <<a href="http://www.archivists.org/governance/resolutions/nha%20response.html">http://www.archivists.org/governance/resolutions/nha%20response.html</a>>. A few important perspectives identified in this document include: * the importance that exemptions permitted under the copyright law to support educational use of material recognize the enormous amount of education taking place outside the classroom; * the importance of taking into account the privacy rights of those who are the subject of archival records; * the practical difficulty of determining clear copyright ownership of many of the documents in archival collections, or even of determining the date of authorship or the date of the death of document authors; * archivists' acceptance of the responsibility for educating researchers about the appropriate use of copyrighted material held by their repositories, but with the caveat that: * ultimately, the protection of the rights of copyright owners rests with the owners themselves, not with archives; * that de-encrypting devices or software must be legalized for enabling legal access to encrypted, copyright material (especially for material that eventually comes into the public domain). David Green =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: On ranking of journals/conferences Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:44:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 518 (518) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleagues, We are attempting to compile a list of journals and conferences for our research group. I shall be most appreciative if you can kindly return this email with the following suggestions: 1. Good international peer review journals in the research areas: (i) AI in general (ii) Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics (iii) Chinese computing/Processing of Oriental Languages 2. International Conferences in the following areas: (i) AI in general (ii) Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics (iii) Chinese computing/Processing of Oriental Languages If possible, please rank them. Thank you very much. A/Professor Lua Kim Teng Head, Computational Linguistic Lab, NUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Charles L. Creegan" <ccreegan@ncwc.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0327 altered vistas Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 16:55:02 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 519 (519) ....all of which is to say, use MetaCrawler. The syntax is necessarily limited, but you do get answers from several indices and search engines, each of which has a slightly different protocol. There's no systematic research behind my recommendation, I just notice consistent useful results. I don't *want* do know *everything* the web has to say on a topic! I did find arbitrary Geocities pages I know of using metacrawler. They were returned by the WebCrawler engine. BTW: a 6,000 page site should probably have tables of contents, at least, for every major topic in the top 300 pages. At a minimum a page full of keywords and a link to your own internal search engine... -- Charles L. Creegan N.C. Wesleyan College ccreegan@ncwc.edu <a href="http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan">http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan</a> From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@hd.uib.no> Subject: Re: 11.0327 altered vistas & eroded feet of clay Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:19:10 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 520 (520) At 08:41 PM 10/7/97 +0100, Willard McCarty forwarded a note from Matthew Kirschenbaum, who enclosed a posting from John Pike on the Red Rock Eater list; one or more of these individuals (it's not always clear to me who wrote what) wrote: [deleted quotation] The phrase 'as current or comprehensive as we tend to think' is as near to irrefutable as one can come while still making what sounds like a substantive statement. So I won't try to refute it. But I will point out that it doesn't say as much as one might be inclined to suppose on first reading. In fact, I have no problem with any of the substantive observations in the posting, whether from Dr. Pike, Dr. Kirschenbaum, or Dr. McCarty. It's more than plausible to me that a web crawler might take several weeks or months to visit all the pages on a plausible starting list of Web pages, and that an indexer which must not only visit, but index, each page is likely to take weeks, if not months, before revisiting and reindexing pages which have changed. What does bother me is the shock and dismay, and the tone of exposure; these, like some of the characterizations of search engine behavior, do not seem to me to be warranted by the claims made. If we tend to think that AV can do the implausible, because we have not bothered to do even a back-of-the-envelope calculation of the bandwidth and indexing speed which would be required, then it seems to me that the shock and dismay ought to be directed at user's unrealistic and ill-founded expectations of the Web search engines, rather than at the search engines themselves. I didn't see anything in the posting to suggest that the search engines have actively misrepresented their services or their algorithms; at the most, there is some evidence that they have chosen to pass in silence over the misconceptions some users will bring to their services, rather than attempt to refute them. This may be sad, but it doesn't surprise me that much. [deleted quotation] None of the adjectives used here seem to me to be justified by anything else in the posting. 'Small' is justified only in comparison to the expectation (based on what? On journalistic oversimplifications in the Washington Post?) that search engines ought to index every page on the Web. In any absolute sense, I think 31 million pages is hard to call 'small'. The words 'flawed', 'arbitrary' and 'not ... random' may be true, or may not be. But if any evidence is given to support them, I missed it. [deleted quotation] Not only are they speculative, but I rather suspect the high end of the range of estimates includes (does it not?) generated text, PDF and other formats often not indexed, pages behind fire walls, and pages flagged do-not-index. What is the high estimate after such pages are deducted? What is the low estimate? [deleted quotation] 'Surely'? Why not? At the least, it makes 20% an implausibly low number. [deleted quotation] When did 'the impression' become a 'claim'? [deleted quotation] I don't know about anyone else, but I rely on Altavista because Digital has devoted (at last report) eight Alphas to perform the searches, sharing a RAM array larger than my hard disk, and the engine is (I assume for that reason) pretty fast. An implausible and uncritical assumption that it somehow captures even everything on the Web (let alone the rather larger set of everything online) as of any given date does not, as far as I can tell, play any part in my decision. I have not read about AV's algorithm for finding new Web pages, but from the statement quoted I think it would be folly to assume that the submission of a single URL from a site would lead automatically and unconditionally to the indexing of the entire site. At the very most I might hope that (a) if my site constitutes a connected graph (every page is reachable by following links from some single page on the site -- not true, in fact, for the sites I maintain) and (b) the page whose URL I submit is one of the (non-existent, in my case) ones from which I can reach every other page on the site, then (c) a sufficiently determined Web crawler could find every page on my site. [deleted quotation]had [deleted quotation] To be fair, I should admit that I had pretty much this impresion, too. But I'd prefer to distinguish between impressions one has got and the stated policies of a search service. The curious thing, for me, about Dr. Pike's exchange with AV's technical support is that they do not seem to describe, and he does not ask about, the algorithm they use to decide what pages to index. [deleted quotation] Since the algorithm is not described, I'm not sure it's strictly fair to characterize it as 'arbitrary'. [deleted quotation] Any suggestions? One reason one might choose to limit the depth of indexing in a given domain is the risk of falling into a black hole, where every page you index gives you two more URLs to index, for a long enough time that your indexer effectively stalls in that domain for an appreciable period of time. So even if one did want to index every page one could find, one might reasonably choose to put all the newly found URLs at the bottom of the list of pending URLs -- which would (if it took a long time to get to the bottom of the list) look to users a lot like the Altavista behavior Dr. Pike describes. In other words, is there any reason to believe it is feasible to index the 'entire' web instead of a sample (arbitrary or otherwise)? If it's feasible, is there any reason to believe any search service available for free or for hire actually does so? [deleted quotation] Did I miss something? Dr. Pike does not describe any search of any Altavista documentation seeking clarification on the indexing and page-selection policy. And now it's suddenly "undocumented"? The mismatch between common expectations and the reality of the search engines is an important topic. But I could do without the adjectives like 'arbitrary', 'flawed', and the implications that innocent users have somehow been misled. The only really misleading statement cited in the entire piece is from the Washington Post, not from AltaVista. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: gleanings Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 08:12:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 521 (521) [deleted quotation] On the front-page: (1) "British team discover's the Internet's holy grail". A team at Essex, in conjunction with Canadian researchers, has discovered a means of delivering Internet services to the home through the electricity mains (powerlines). The new technology isolates, or is able successfully to extract, the Internet signals from regular transmission of electrical power. "It will enable electricity companies to offer their customers Internet access at speeds 30 times greater than today's high-speed modems... and open the way to mass marketing of the Internet at prices most families will be able to afford." Once we complained about our activities and interests not being popular. Will these become the Gold Old Days? Or is the Internet not something that the general public will take to? If the technology does become universal, will this then offer a means for Europeans finally to have access to the Internet without having to pay per-second connect charges, and if again so, will the balance of use be shifted away from a preponderance by N. Americans? Surely too many contingencies for a prediction. In the Online section: (2) Karlin Lillington, "Now read on, or back, or sideways, or anywhere", on hypertext fiction, featuring (of course) Michael Joyce's "afternoon, a story". The occasion is the decision of the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction to include hypertext narratives. "If you look at Mailer, Pynchon, Burroughs," declares Andrew Levy, one of the editors, "you see that they were fascinated by the technology and communications media of their time as well. But you also see that they were trying -- in the 50s and 60s -- to break the bounds of the printed page and the models of linear narrative implied by the printed page." Unfortunately this analysis makes the development of fiction sound like an inevitable progress toward the enlightened state we have now reached. Poor Pynchon (not to mention Homer, Vergil, Ovid, Goethe & al.) didn't have the right toys, etc. Is not the epic technique of beginning in medias res precisely a creative struggle against the creative constraints of a linear FIRST-TIME reading? Since when is the total interaction between a book, printed or otherwise, and a human reader "linear", and to the degree it is, since when is this a bad thing? Makes good copy, perhaps, but at the expense of a dangerous line of unreasoning. (3) Dan Jellinek, "Grid expectations", on the wiring up of Britain's schools by the Labour government, which made an election promise to connect every state school in the country to the Internet. This would appear to be a promise that will be kept. Bill Gates has formally promised, in an appearance alongside the Prime Minister, help in developing content. The other night our local TV news had a feature on whether the massive shift to computers in the schools, already well underway, will result in the dumbing-down of the next generation. Against computers was an editor of an American newsmagazine, speaking from San Francisco; for them was the head of an English school where a pilot project has been in progress for some time. Interestingly, the editor, his position apparently determined from the outset, was no match for the calm, carefully reasoned and factually based argument of the school head. He referred to all kinds of dark possibilities, unnamed and unspecific studies that suggested this or that evil consequence; she simply told of her experience in her school. Do we know? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Seminar in Humanities Computing Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:27:03 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 522 (522) PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT Please circulate ------------------------ Seminar in Humanities Computing Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 1997-98 <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminars.html">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminars.html</a>> You are cordially invited to attend the Seminar for the academic year 1997-98, which as in the past features lectures and demonstrations from leading international scholars and IT professionals. Complete information about the Seminar is maintained on the Web, at the above URL. Please note that a few details for the Spring semester remain to be determined; these will be announced shortly. ----- Autumn semester FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER (1.00-1.55pm) Scholarly electronic publishing: opportunities and problems, a panel discussion sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Data Service and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities Room 2B25, 2nd Basement Strand Building FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER (1.00-1.55pm) Andrew Prescott (British Museum) Digitisation and manuscript studies Room 2B25, 2nd Basement Strand Building Spring semester FRIDAY 16 JANUARY (1.00-1.55pm) Tony McEnery (Linguistics, Lancashire) The British National Corpus in English language research Room 2B13, 2nd Basement, Strand Building FEBRUARY (Date TBA, one-day colloquium) Gregory Crane (Tufts), James O'Donnell (Pennsylvania), Don Fowler (Jesus, Oxford), Geoffrey Waywell (King's College London and Institute for Classical Studies) Computing in Classical Studies Room TBA FRIDAY 20 MARCH (1.00-1.55pm) Derek Law (Information Services and Systems, King's College London) Treasure chest or Pandora's box: unleashing the electronic library Committee Room WEDNESDAY 6 MAY (One-day colloquium) Barry Ife (King's College London), Stanley Katz (Princeton), John Laver (Edinburgh and British Academy) and Antonio Zampolli (Pisa) Computing in the Academy, focusing on the academic recognition of computing-related scholarly work in the humanities. Room TBA ----- WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Call for Papers: HENRY STREET 7.1 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:56:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 523 (523) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Now inviting submissions for HENRY STREET vol. 7.1 A Graduate Review of Literary Studies _Henry Street_, formerly known as _Critical Mass_, is in its seventh year. We aim to provide an international forum for graduate students of English and related disciplines. The editors, themselves graduate students, are committed to providing their colleagues with the opportunity to publish their own work and to read the work of others in their field. _Henry Street_ invites contributions of critical essays, short fiction and poetry from graduate students in English or a related discipline. We also welcome essays on pedagogy, the job market, graduate programs, and other topics of interest to graduate students. We aim especially to publish and promote innovative criticism that, in the words of one of our contributors, "combines the personal with the scholarly." _Henry Street_ is indexed by the MLA and the Canadian Literary Periodicals Index. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Essays should not exceed 7000 words, and must follow MLA guidelines for citation and presentation. All submissions, except poetry, should be double-spaced on standard 8.5" x 11" bond. To facilitate our process of anonymous reading, the author's name should not appear on the manuscript. Send two copies of submissions, and include a self-addressed return envelope accompanied either by Canadian stamps or international reply coupons. Manuscripts submitted without SASE cannot be returned. The cover letter must indicate the author's degree status and university affiliation. Send your submission to: _Henry Street_ Department of English Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 3J5 You can also send e-mail inquiries to henry.street@dal.ca. Please note that this address is for inquiries only, not submissions. *** We welcome submissions at any time, but the deadline for our next *** issue is November 15, 1997. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 6.1 includes: * Sarah Elmsley (Dalhousie), "Caroline Kirkland: Whose Home? Who'll Follow?" * Katherine M. Davis (Duke), "Jean-Francois Lyotard Meets Ralph the Duck" * Kenneth Spiers (NYU), "Herman Melville's Violent Heavens" * Brian Johnson (Manitoba), "Allegories of Reading in Levi-Strauss and Chatwin" * Poetry by William DeGenaro (Youngstown State), Chris Yurkoski (Lakehead), Mary Kasimor (St. Cloud State), Michael Londry (Alberta) From: Bonnie Duncan <bduncan@marauder.millersv.edu> Subject: Call For Papers Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:59:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 524 (524) Please Post: (Re)Soundings: <a href="http://www.millersv.edu/~resound">http://www.millersv.edu/~resound</a> CALL FOR PAPERS While materials are accepted at any time, texts submitted by November 1, 1997 will move smoothly into the next publication set. Articles are particularly solicited that take advantage of the multimedia potential of the World Wide Web. While materials are most easily accepted as HTML coded materials, there is no necessity that they be submitted in that format. Hard copy submissions are entirely welcome, as are materials on diskette utilizing either IBM or Macintosh platforms. Materials are peer-reviewed. About (Re)Soundings: (Re)Soundings: A World Wide Web Publication is a collaborative effort among an international group of scholars publishing in electronic form on the Internet. The journal is innovative in comprising music, visual art, and verbal texts while allowing readers to engage these texts with their own multimedia commentary hotbuttons which become part of the journal. The scope of the peer reviewed journal is the humanities. The critical texts should be primarily in English; translations should be supplied for texts in other languages. The multimedia format encourages interaction among traditional disciplines including art, history, literature, and music, while particularly inviting multicultural, ethnic, and women's studies participation. This is an environment in which scholars and artists can create and discuss texts, sharing and building commentary in a variety of media, integrating sound and graphics as well as written materials. Send submissions to: Bonnie Duncan (Re)Soundings Internet Addresses: Department of English resound@marauder.millersv.edu Millersville University Phone: (717) 872-3069 Millersville, PA 17551 FAX: (717)871-2446 To view (re)soundings, or for further information, see <a href="http://www.millersv.edu/~resound">http://www.millersv.edu/~resound</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Alfredo Elejalde <elejalde@pucp.edu.pe> Subject: Re: 11.0332 gleanings Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 19:15:08 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 525 (525) Hello (Sorry about my English...:) Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] Do not forget Third World Countries... There are universities located in towns that have no libraries and no bookstores... I wonder how students can get recent books. If this technology really works, many people could have access to good scholar material as long as scholars around the world make their researches available through Internet... On the other hand, I see Internet as a very free place where I can publish anything I think, and I try to publish material that not only my students at the university can use, but school students too. If Internet II Project separates universities from the rest of the world... How can we put material on line for school students or for some Third World Universities that are isolated from book publishing channels? I am not afraid of american or european preponderance in Internet, but of poverty. Maybe each language community -or country- should have a policy on Epublishing cultural, scientific and technological information in its native tongue, and maybe scholars should organize that data in order to make it comprehensible to others. There is so much data in Internet that need to have sense... Yours ------------------------------------ Alfredo Elejalde F. elejalde@pucp.edu.pe <a href="http://macareo.pucp.edu.pe/~elejalde">http://macareo.pucp.edu.pe/~elejalde</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: BRUNI <jbrun@eagle.cc.ukans.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0332 gleanings Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:06:01 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 526 (526) On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation]While I am pleased at Norton's decision to include "afternoon, a story" in their latest pomo anthology, I too am suspicious of the claims being forwarded here. Hypertext is multilinear, not nonlinear; for hypertext cannot break the limits of linear geometry: that which constructs the links. And, the idea of some sort of authorial evolution--from Pynchon to Michael Joyce--is teleological in the extreme. But, hypertext needs to be experienced in order for people to be able to decide for themselves what are, and what are not, dubious claims. So, the increased availablity of hypertext, made possible by publishers such as Norton, should further a better understanding of this electronic medium for text. The decision of Norton might also encourage departments to take an active interest in hypertext, for both teaching courses and granting promotions/tenure. It took me, for example, a full year of searching around until I could get "afternoon" for my students to view. And few, if any, departments consider work in designing/writing hypertext as grounds for promotion and/or tenure. Without such widespread support and encouragement, how then can we expect academics to make serious contributions to hypertext for studies in the humanities? John Bruni English Department University of Kansas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: IR on Oriental Languages (CFP for Special Issue of Int'l J.CPOL) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 08:52:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 527 (527) [deleted quotation] ** Second Call For Papers ** ########################################### COMPUTER PROCESSING OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES ########################################### Special Issue: "Information Retrieval on Oriental Languages" INTRODUCTION ============ The International Journal on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (CPOL) is devoted to the publication of original theoretical and applied research work in oriental language computing. In particular, this special issue focuses on the field of "Information Retrieval on Oriental Languages". The increasing volume of information available globally through the World-Wide-Web places high demands on the information search engines in terms of both speed and effectiveness. As a result, much research interest in Information Retrieval (IR) has been spurred in recent years in the direction of performance and/or effectiveness enhancement, e.g. in the areas of indexing, NLP, etc. Although the latest IR researches in English, and in other Western languages, are widely and timely publicized, the same for Oriental Languages (OL) is rare. For this reason, this special issue is dedicated to reporting the state-of-the-art and/or state-of-the- practice R&D efforts in IR technology for Oriental languages (IR-OL). Ori- ginal papers in all areas of research in this field, including, but not limited to, the following are invited: * Natural Language Processing for IR-OL * Automatic Information Extraction * Multilingual and Cross Language Text Retrieval * Automatic Text Categorization * Automatic Text Summarization (Abstraction) * Structural and Conceptual Indexing * Dictionary Management * Query Interface * Intelligent Agent Technology * Information Filtering * Resource Discovery * Logic based IR Framework * Applications in IR-OL * Benchmarking GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION ========================= Original papers which are not submitted to, under reviewed by and pub- lished or to be published in other journals or conferences in any areas of IR-OL are invited to this special issue for possible publication. The pub- lication language is ENGLISH and electronic submission is welcome. Authors should send FOUR copies of their paper to one of the following co-editors by January 2, 1998: For papers in relation to IR on Korean and Japanese: Professor Jong-Hyeok Lee Department of Computer Science and Engineering POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) San 31 Hyoja-dong Nam-ku, Pohang 790-784 Republic of Korea Email: jhlee@vision.postech.ac.kr Tel: +82 562 279 2253 Fax: +82 562 279 5699 For papers in relation to IR on Chinese and any other Oriental languages: Professor Kam-Fai Wong Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Chinese University Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong. Email: kfwong@se.cuhk.edu.hk Tel: +852 2609 8332 or +852 2609 8313 Fax: +852 2603 5505 IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission deadline (confirmed): January 2, 1998. Author Notification (confirmed): April 3, 1998. Final Version (tentative): July 7, 1998. Publication (tentative): September, 1998. -- Jong-Hyeok Lee Dept. of Computer Science Pohang University of Science & Technology San 31 HyoJa Dong, Pohang, 790-784 Republic of KOREA TEL: 0562-279-2253 FAX: 0562-279-5699, 2299 E-mail: jhlee@vision.postech.ac.kr From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@VMA.SMSU.EDU> Subject: call for papers - undergraduate interdisciplinary research Date: Tue, 14 Oct 97 08:38:19 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 528 (528) With apologies for duplication and cross-posting, may I ask sister and fellow humanists to distribute the following as appropriate... Call for Papers Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Conference // Faculty Conference on Interdisciplinary Research in Teaching Drury College (Springfield, Missouri) - Feb. 6-7, 1998 Deadline for submissions: Nov. 14, 1997 Deadline for hotel reservations at reduced conference rate: January 21, 1998 ** Undergraduate conference ** Submissions from all disciplines and programs are welcome. We seek papers which make a claim regarding an important issues (ethical, political, religious, etc.), and support that claim through argument and research drawn from more than one discipline. The undergraduate conference seeks to evoke a broad conversation among generally-educated undergraduates - by requiring that the central claims in each paper engage a topic which does not require specialized and/or disciplinary expertise (though supporting research may be specialized, i.e., undertaken within the student's major and/or minor areas of study). In this way, the conference will highlight the value of liberal arts education as a general education, one that prepares students for life-long challenges and learning, in conjunction with their professional preparation and careers. We thereby hope to encourage a generally-shared, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary conversation among conference participants regarding important topics and questions, and thereby to encourage further interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in the liberal arts and pre/professional programs at the undergraduate level. ** faculty conference ** Submissions from all disciplines and programs are welcome. We seek papers which describe and critique faculty efforts to incorporate research in the undergraduate humanities - especially as those efforts focus on the intersection between liberal arts and pre/professional education. The goal of this parallel conference is to encourage faculty to develop and implement new approaches to incorporating interdisciplinary research in their teaching. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by a team of students and faculty from Drury and participating institutions. Submissions accepted for presentation will be available on the Conference Web site at least three weeks in advance of the conference, in order to allow all participants time to review Conference presentations well in advance of the actual conference itself: Multi-media presentations are encouraged. Papers will also be reproduced in a Conference Proceedings Our web site provides additional information on the conference: example submissions and presentations, requests for peer- reviewers, submission guidelines and deadlines, and hospitality arrangements: <a href="http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/irconf/draftcall.html">http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/irconf/draftcall.html</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Call For Papers Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:23:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 529 (529) [deleted quotation] Call for Communications The Journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" will publish a special issue on multilingual processing: Theme ----- Multilingual processing presents special challenges for Natural Language Processing. Most NLP research and applications concentrate on one language only and rarely deal with either low-level problems (multiple codesets, localization vs. internationalization, linguistic variants) or higher-level problems (organization of multilingual lexicons and grammars). This special issue will recognize the importance of adequate low-level processing and multilingual software organization, describe multilingual applications, and present approaches to the structuration and development of multilingual lexicons and grammars. Topics (non limitative) ------ - multilingual text processing - localization and internationalization - multilingual information retrieval and extraction - multilingual MT systems - multilingual text generation - multilingual WWW - multilingual dictionaries and terminological databases - multilingual ontologies and thesaurii - multilingual grammars and parsers Format ------ Papers (30 pages max in double space, Helvetica 12) are accepted in RTF, Latex or MIF formats. Latex style is downloadable from <a href="http://ticotico.linguist.jussieu.fr/~atala/tal/normes.html">http://ticotico.linguist.jussieu.fr/~atala/tal/normes.html</a>. Papers can also be submitted in French. Papers should be submitted to (e-mail preferred): Rimi Zajac Computing Research Laboratory New Mexico State University Box 30001 / Dept. 3CRL Las Cruces NM 88003 USA Tel +1-505-646-5782 Fax +1-505-646-6218 Email zajac@crl.nmsu.edu The Journal ----------- The Journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" is published by ATALA (<a href="http://ticotico.linguist.jussieu.fr/~atala/">http://ticotico.linguist.jussieu.fr/~atala/</a>) and distributed by Klincksieck.: Editor: A. Abeilli (Universiti Paris 7) Editorial Board: J. Anis (Universiti Paris 10) D. Climent (Bergische Universitdt Wuppertal) A. Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail) C. Gardent (Universitdt des Saarlandes) R. Grunig (Universiti Paris 7) B. Habert (ENS Fontenay-Saint Cloud) C. Jacquemin (IRIN, Nantes) P. Lafon (INALF, ENS St Cloud) J-L. Lebrave (CNRS, ITEM) P. Miller (Universiti Lille III) P. Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6) Scientific Board: M. Borillo (CNRS, P. Sabatier, Toulouse) R. Carri (ENST, Paris) J-P. Desclis (Universiti Paris IV) C. Fuchs (CNRS, ENS Paris) M. Gross (LADL, Paris 7) F. Rastier (Paris 4) W. von Hahn (Univ Hambourg) Y. Wilks (Sheffield Univ) A. Zaenen (Xerox Grenoble) From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: ECAI-98 #2: CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:23:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 530 (530) [deleted quotation] ______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/workshopscall.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/workshopscall.html</a> The ECAI-98 Programme Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops will be held on 24-25 August 1998, immediately prior to the start of the main conference. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------- 1 Nov 1997 Deadline for proposals 1 Dec 1997 Notification of acceptance 15 Dec 1997 Deadline for workshop summaries 5 Jan 1998 Publication of ECAI-98 workshop programme 15 Jun 1998 Camera-ready workshop notes and other information 24-25 Aug 1998 Workshops at ECAI-98 ECAI workshops Gathered in an informal atmosphere, workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics, fostering the active exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners. Members from all segments of the AI community are invited to submit their proposals for review. To encourage interaction, the workshops will be kept small, preferably under 30 participants and certainly under 40. Attendance should be limited to active participants only. Workshops are intended to be genuinely interactive events and not mini-conferences. Thus, although the format of workshop presentations are to be determined by their organizers, ample time should be allotted for general discussion. Workshops can vary in length, but most will last a full day. Attendees at workshops must also register for the main ECAI-98 conference. As a new feature in ECAI-98, a special series of sessions will be reserved in the main ECAI-98 conference programme for 15 minute presentations of the main workshop issues by each workshop chair. A booklet summarising the main features of each workshop is also planned. How to propose a workshop Proposals for workshops should be two to three pages in length and should contain: + A brief technical description of the specific technical issues that the workshop will address + The reasons why the workshop is of interest this time. + The names, postal address, phone and fax numbers and email addresses of the Workshop Organising Committee, which should consist of at least three people knowledgeable in the field but not all at the same institution. + The name of one member of the Workshop Organising Committee who is designated the contact person. + A list of previously-organized related workshops by any of the Workshop Organising Committee, although previous experience with similar workshops is not required. This is to help the Workshop Coordinator putting the workshop in context. + If possible, a list of potential attendees in case the proposal of the workshop being accepted. + A schedule for organising the workshop and a preliminary agenda + A summary of the intended workshop Call for Participation, showing how the organisers will encourage a workshop, rather than a mini-conference, atmosphere. + A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements. Proposers are encouraged to send their draft proposal to the potential participants for comments before submission. Submission procedure Proposals should be submitted electronically (in ascii, UNIX compatible postscript or rtf) to the ECAI-98 Workshop Coordinator, Lluis Godo, at the following address: ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION -------------------------- Lluis Godo, ECAI-98 Workshop Coordinator IIIA - CSIC Campus Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra Spain Email: godo@iiia.csic.es URL: <a href="http://www.iiia.csic.es/IIIA.html">http://www.iiia.csic.es/IIIA.html</a> Tel: +34(3)580 95 70 Fax: +34(3)580 96 61 The deadline for receipt of proposals is 1 November, 1997. For other important dates, see the table above. Additional information Workshop organizers will be responsible for: + Producing and distributing a Call for Participation in the workshop, open to all members of the AI community. The Call for Participation should be make clear that all workshop participants are expected to register for the main ECAI-98 conference and that the number of participants is limited. It should also make clear the process by which the Workshop Organising Committee will select the participants (for example, by reviewing submitted papers). + Reviewing requests to participate in the workshop and selecting the participants. + The production of camera-ready copy for the workshop notes in accordance with guidelines to be supplied by the Workshop Coordinator. + Providing a provisional list of workshop participants. + Arranging for a short summary of the workshop to be presented to the main conference if required, and providing a written summary to be included in the workshops booklet. The ECAI-98 Organising Committeee will be responsible for: + Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. + Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop. + In conjunction with the workshop organisers, determining the workshop date and time. + Setting the rate for participation and dealing with registration of participants. + Duplicating working notes and distributing them to the participants. ECCAI encourages the production of publications based on the workshops, but the ECCAI and ECAI-98 names cannot be used on such publications without prior permission being given. In case of any disagreement over procedures or arrangements, the ECAI-98 Organising Committee Chair will have final authority. The ECAI-98 Organising Committee reserves the right to cancel any workshop if deadlines are missed, or if the number of registered attendees is too low to support the costs related to organising and running the workshop. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448 Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320 University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98</a> ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex on behalf of AISB. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: gleanings Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:32:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 531 (531) [deleted quotation] Front page <a href="news:">news:</a> (1) Dan Glaister, "Laureate goes off message with throwaway lines". It seems that our Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, asked to write a poem in defense of national libraries, moved from a stirring defense of the book -- detailing crimes against literature, such as the various book-burnings -- to an attack on the new technology. The powers-that-be, having made a rather large political and financial investment in that technology, were not amused. The poet rewrote. Apparently the discarded lines cannot be found. Editorial: (2) "Restocking the digital shelves: In future public libraries will come to us, not we to them", on the New Library report (commissioned by the last government), just published this week. Noting that "as a means of discovering instant knowledge the Internet has no peer", the editor questions "whether the L. 750 million proposed by yesterday's report to put libraries on-line is the most cost-effective way of reducing the emerging gap between the info-rich and the info-poor: or whether it would be better spent helping to give poorer people on-line access in their homes." The answer is both, please, but clearly the government hasn't the money, so the private sector needs to be tapped. The libraries in the U.K. are in "sad decline". But "The 1.3 million people who visit libraries every day -- far more than go to football [soccer] matches or the cinema -- aren't so gung-ho about new technology as enthusiasts presume. They tell market researchers that what they really want is old-fashioned things like more books, longer opening hours, particularly at weekends, and more sociable facilities. It is said that only two libraries in the country now open more than 60 hours a week. That is a chronic underuse of one of the country's most priceless assets." To the great credit of the author, he or she concludes that "The real problem facing the new age is to motivate the large underclass of youngsters who are not interested enough to fulfill their own potential. Not even free Internet access at home let alone at public libraries will prove an easy solution to this problem. The first task of the information society is to find out more facts about itself." Online section: (3) Steve Shipside, "The write stuff", about the large impact e-mail is having on businesses, who find it difficult to keep up with the flood of e-mail from customers. Interestingly, the author notes that as the rate at which e-mail users increase begins to level off, as it apparently has, the volume of data transmitted by this means is growing exponentially. "E-mail has become multimedia", according to Eric Arum, editor of Electronic Mail and Messaging, "with the exchange of digital images, attached files like spreadsheets and presentations, not to mention MIME-encoded messages... and HTML Web pages being passed on." People are recording images on camcorders and shipping these around by e-mail. So-called "intelligent agents" such as Guideware <<a href="http://www.guideware.com/">http://www.guideware.com/</a>> cannot cope. "One thing the analysts agree on is that there is no easy answer. In the meantime, the smart advice is to invest in hard drive manufacturers." (4) Duncan Campbell, "Europe spikes spooks' e-mail evesdrop bid", on the blow to the intelligence community (if it can be called that) by an EC report urging the adoption of effective encryption standards. See <<a href="http://www.ispo.cec.be/eif/policy/97503.html">http://www.ispo.cec.be/eif/policy/97503.html</a>>. "Law-abiding citizens need to protect themselves against attacks"! (5) Jim McClellan, "Games we used to play", about nostalgia for a good old days of gameplaying before graphics became more important than the game itself. (6) Bill O'Neill, "Three weeks in the life of the shy (but caring) Mr Gates". Official protocol "for the state visit to Cambridge of his eminence Bill Gates of Microsoft" shows, one editor of the Guardian commented, "contempt for the press". The protocol imposed "a universal ban" on reporters. "Last week, in OnLine, [Esther] Dyson wrote that Microsoft 'is so pervasive that it can't pick and chose its markets the way a smaller company can; its health depends on the health of the entire computer/Internet marketplace.'" It is comparable, Dyson notes, to a government. Much material here for reflection, particularly I would think on the degree to which computing has "captured" the imagination and passions of the ruling elites and their penumbra of employees. I put the crucial word in quotation marks in order to slow down an immediate dive into the illusion of autonomous power. Allow me to suggest that the really interesting question here takes us back to the closing line of the Guardian editorial, "The first task of the information society is to find out more facts about itself." I would, however, substitute for the word "facts" something a great deal more intimate. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: CONVERGENCE: THE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES 3:3 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:09:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 532 (532) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 15, 1997 **** Out now **** CONVERGENCE: THE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES 3:3 To order single copies from BRAD Fax +44 1702 556 095. To subscribe e-mail ulp@luton.ac.uk with your fax number. *** Full details below *** DEBATES Dina Iordanova On-line Teaching in International Communication John Byrne The Object(ive) of Art in the Age of Digital Revolution Bonnie Brennen and David Primeaux Public or Private? E-mail and the Ethics of Privacy ARTICLES Michele White Cabinet of Curiosity: Finding the Viewer in a Virtual Museum Hugh Dauncey A Cultural Battle: French Minitel, the Internet and the Superhighway Nickianne Moody The Representation of Disability/Special Ability in the Cyberpunk Workforce FEATURE REPORT Greg Boiarsky The Psychology of New Media Technologies: Lessons from the Past REVIEWS Julia Knight Art and Activism: Engaging with Body and Space Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance, held in Coventry, UK, 28-29 March 1997; and Video Positive 97, 'Escaping Gravity', held in Liverpool and Manchester, UK, 11 April-18 May 1997. Stuart Moulthrop Where To? 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Any author(s) wishing to have their published text reproduced elsewhere should seek the necessary permission via the Editors. Edited by Julia Knight and Alexis Weedon Department of Media Arts, University of Luton, 75 Castle Street, Luton. LU1 3AJ. Editorial e-mail: Convergence@luton.ac.uk Tel: +44 1582 489031/489144. Fax: +44 1582 489014. Subscriptions and samples from John Libbey Media at the above address. E-mail: ulp@luton.ac.uk Tel:+44 1582 743297. Fax: +44 1582 743298. From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: AMICO Members Announced Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:09:15 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 533 (533) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 15, 1997 ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) OFFICIALLY FORMED 22 Art Museums Form Initial Testbed Group Following is the official announcement from the Association of Art Museum Directors of the founding of AMICO with the list of its initial members. David Green ======================================================================== ASSOCIATION OF ART MUSEUM DIRECTORS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC. 41 East 65th Street New York, NY 10021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Millicent Hall Gaudieri 212-249-4423 Maxwell L. Anderson 416-979-6613 Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) Founded: Collections of over Twenty Art Museums to be Digitally Available for Educational Use New York, NY - October 15, 1997 - The Association of Art Museum Directors Educational Foundation, Inc. announces the formation of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), a non-profit organization that will provide educational access to a joint multimedia digital library documenting works of the collections of the major North American art museums. ìAMICO is an unprecedented collaborative effort of many of the worldís leading art museums. It seeks to make a sustained and significant contribution to the education of our young people about the history of art and its usefulness in studying countless aspects of the humanities and social sciences. The digitized text, images, audio tours and multimedia being created in museums provide a rich source of content for on-line curriculum, and interest in their use is growing. AMICO will offer non-proprietary, networked access to images of the information about works of art scattered in dozens of major collections, and allow the casual user and scholar alike to sample and research works of art in our collective care,î stated Maxwell L. Anderson, Director, Art Gallery of Ontario, and Director, Art Museum Network (www.AMN.org). Both information providers and users acknowledge that new economic and social models are required to support the desired uses of digital information in learning, teaching, and research. A not-for-profit Consortium that licenses the content of museums collectively is a means of distributing museumsí digital information he educational community. The directors and representatives of the founding art museums (see below) desire to take advantage of an emerging new educational opportunity. ìReaching out together through new technology, we can bring our collections closer to those who use them for research, education, and enjoyment. This unprecedented collaboration amongst art museums will create a rich resource, unique in its scope and depth,î said Hugh M. Davies, President of the Association of Art Museum Directors and Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Working together through a six-month planning process, member museums have defined mechanisms for the collection and distribution of a multi-media digital library documenting and interpreting their collections. Prior to announcing the full availability of its digital library, AMICO is launching a year-long testbed project. The founding members wish to validate the proposed framework for the collective licensing of museum digital collections, and to evaluate a means of delivering this content to the higher educational community. The university testbed project will also increase understanding of the ways that universities are adopting digital teaching and reference tools and enable AMICO member museums to offer a Library that meets the needs of its users. A call for participation in the AMICO University Testbed can also be found at <a href="http://www.amn.org/AMICO">http://www.amn.org/AMICO</a> Working within AMICO enables members to fulfill their educational missions. By using digital technologies museums have the opportunity to make their cultural resource more relevant and accessible to a wide range of educators and students. This is the first step toward using these resources creatively to illustrate and explore history, art, and culture. By reaching out into the community, AMICO members hope to engage more students with art, developing a visually and culturally literate public that, in turn, comes to the museum. A set of agreements were drafted by Archives & Museum Informatics, who acted as consultants and facilitators throughout the AMICO planning process. These include frameworks for organizing the Consortium, governing its strategic planning, developing a standards-based approach to the distribution of the AMICO Library, and defining its products and licenses. Key among these are the draft University and Museum licenses, that outline the terms under which the Library will be offered to these communities. AMICO's framework documents are available for public comment at: <a href="http://www.amn.org/AMICO">http://www.amn.org/AMICO</a> AMICO Founding Members: 1. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario 3. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 4. Asia Society Gallery, New York, NY 5. Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ 6. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 7. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA 8. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 9. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA 10. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 11. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 12. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN 13. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 14. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec 15. Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec 16. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 17. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario 18. National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC 19. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 20. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 21. San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 22. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN Other AAMD members are expected to join the Consortium following the initial offering. About the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD): The AAMD represents 170 directors of the largest art museums in the Untied States, Canada, and Mexico. The membership meets twice a year to explore topics in the arts and education as well as to participate in programs on professional development and management. The President is Hugh M. Davies, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. The Executive Director is Millicent Hall Gaudieri. Further information about AAMD can be found at <a href="http://www.amn.org">http://www.amn.org</a> About Archives & Museum Informatics. Since 1986, A&MI has consulted for archives and museums worldwide, organized conferences, workshops and seminars and published journals and monographs that provide specialists in archives and museum information systems with timely and challenging opportunities for professional exchange and training. The consulting services emphasize strategic planning, inter-institutional collaboration and standards based solutions. Further information about their activities can be found at <a href="http://www.archimuse.com">http://www.archimuse.com</a> J. Trant Partner and Principal Consultant Archives & Museum Informatics jtrant@archimuse.com www.archimuse.com From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: NEH Announcement--Summer Seminars and Institutes Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:33:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 534 (534) [deleted quotation] NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES PROGRAM Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports study opportunities for educators to strengthen humanities teaching and scholarship in the nation's schools and colleges. Now is the time to begin planning a proposal to direct a seminar or institute in the summer of 1999. The application deadline is March 1, 1998. Contact a program officer now to discuss a topic for a *seminar* or an *institute*. Seminars and institutes are offered either for school teachers or for faculty who teach undergraduates. The program officers listed below are available to advise applicants on choice of topic, format, and audience. Samples of successful proposals and application guidelines are available upon request. Thomas M. Adams 202/606-8396 Douglas M. Arnold 202/606-8225 Wilsonia E. D. Cherry 202/606-8495 F. Bruce Robinson 202/606-8213 Seminars and Institutes Program Division of Research and Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities Washington, DC 20506 E-mail: Research@neh.fed.us ***** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: intelligent agents? Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 23:09:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 535 (535) I am interested in collecting information about software devices called "intelligent agents" or "semi-autonomous agents". These are systems that actively seek information based on profiles of interests that you describe, deliver the information to you and accept retraining based on their performance. I would be particularly interested in knowing about any application of such things to academic or academically interesting bodies of information. One such system recently described in the Guardian is called Autonomy, for which see <<a href="http://www.agentware.com/">http://www.agentware.com/</a>>. On this site a free trial is offered, but it's rather difficult to determine how successful the system would be were it turned loose in an academic environment. I know that very well-funded work has gone on at MIT for some years, by Tom Malone and others, but don't know if any of this has escaped into the realms we can reach. Information from you totally autonomous agents would be much appreciated. Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Alexander Matveev <imeams@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk> Subject: SEMCOM:CALL FOR PAPERS- Archaeology of Weaponry: Middle Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:32:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 536 (536) CALL FOR PAPERS- Archaeology of Weaponry: Middle East and Eurasia In April 1998 a conference on The Archaeology of Weaponry ["Military Archaeology: Weaponry and Warfare in a Historical Perspective"] will be held at the Institute of the History of Material Culture (the Institute of Archaeology) in St. Petersburg, Russia. The conference will cover a large number of research topics concerned with the history of pre-modern warfare, arms, armour, and related subjects. The major goal of the conference will be to promote the history of pre-modern weaponry as a separate branch of historical knowledge. The importance of this issue reflects the fact that, despite a relatively large number of publications on this topic, the Archaeology of Weaponry does not exist as a distinct branch of historical research. This particular field of study has tended to be neglected by scholars, resulting in it being a marginal aspect of several historical disciplines. Archaeology has been the first to face this problem as one of the most important forms of archaeological finds are the remains of arms and armour. Yet even here the subject has yet to develop into a specialized field of research. More surprising still is the fact that weaponry remains a marginal though important field within Military History. The problem lies in the very nature of the subject itself. Archaeological finds include many different sorts of object, from the sort of things found in museums such as medieval and oriental arms and armour, to essentially Ethnographic objects. Consequently disciplines as diverse as Archaeology, Ethnography as well as different branches of Medieval and Oriental Studies are all involved. Written sources are not less important than Archaeological ones. These range from the occasional references to the weapons used in a battle to thorough treatises on warfare, arms and armour. There are, in fact, plenty of such specialized treatises stemming from Medieval Europe, Mamluk Egypt, Ancient and Medieval China, and elsewhere. Thirdly, and of at least equal importance, is the pictorial record on such sources as ceramics, metalwork, sculpture, manuscript miniatures. Finally, there is the question of arms manufacturing technology. The study of this requires participation by scientific specialists such as metallurgists. Experimental Archaeology, involving the making and testing of replicated ancient weaponry, can also be useful. The conference will be held at St. Petersburg, a city which is worth seeing in its own right. The conference will include several sections, including one dedicated to the Middle East, and the proceedings of the conference will be published. Anyone who is interested should contact me at the following e-mail address, imeams@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk Messages should be marked "Archaeology of Weaponry." Participants are asked to provide a 1500 word abbreviation of their contribution (3 pages plus one page of B & W illustrations, if necessary) by 1 January 1998, which will be published before the opening of the conference. Alexander Matveev From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processsing Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:34:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 537 (537) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS: __________________________________________________________________________ 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processsing ICSLP 98 Call For Papers * Introduction * DOWNLOAD the Call for Papers * Important Dates * Submission Procedure * Format of Submission * Means of Submission * Restrictions on Submissions * Acknowledgement of Receipt * Conditions of Acceptance * Student Day Submissions * Submissions Addresses * Co-Sponsoring Societies * International Advisory Board * Australian Consultative Committee * Conference Coordinating committee * Technical Programme Committee * Conference Secretariat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION The ICSLP '98 conference will continue the eight year tradition of the ICSLP series in bringing together professionals from all the diverse disciplines that contribute to Spoken Language Processing. It will be the premier international display of the state-of-the-art in this broad field in 1998. The conference will build bridges between people and sub-disciplines in order to create and nurture synergies that are important for the future of the field. Keynote presentations and other plenary events which bring both experience and vision of multi-disciplinary attacks on grand challenges in spoken language processing in both humans and machines will contribute to our aims. A student day at which full-time student registrants may present their ideas under the guidance of senior mentors is also planned. However, it is the quality of the delegate presentations which will be the major factor in making ICSLP '98 a truly landmark event. This call for papers offers to you the opportunity to be a part of this significant event. CO-SPONSORING SOCIETIES Acoustical Society of America Acoustical Society of China Acoustical Society of Japan Association for Computational Linguistics Audiological Society of Australia Inc. Australian Linguistic Society European Speech Communication Association IEEE Signal Processing Society International Phonetic Association International Society for Phonetic Sciences INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Souguil J.M. Ann, Seoul National University, Korea Jens P. Blauert, Ruhr-Universitaet, Germany Michael Brooke, University of Bath, United Kingdom Timothy Bunnell, University of Delaware, USA Anne Cutler, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo, Japan Julia Hirschberg, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA Bjorn Granstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Roger Moore, Defence Research Authority, United Kingdom John J. Ohala, University of California, Berkeley, USA Louis C.W. Pols, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Christel Sorin, Centre Nationale d'Etude des Telecommunications, France Yoh'ichi Tohkura, ATR, Japan Jialu Zhang, Academia Sinica, China AUSTRALIAN CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE Yianni Attikiouzel, University of Western Australia Robert Bogner, University of Adelaide John Clark, University of Western Sydney Mary O'Kane, University of Adelaide Roger Wales, University of Melbourne and representatives of financial sponsors CONFERENCE COORDINATING COMMITTEE Peter Blamey (Financial), University of Melbourne Bruce Millar (Technical), Australian National University Julie Vonwiller (Organisational), University of Sydney/APPEN TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Robert Dale (Chair), Microsoft Research Institute Roberto Togneri (Deputy Chair), University of Western Australia Denis Burnham, University of New South Wales Michael Wagner, University of Canberra CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT Tour Hosts Conference & Exhibition Organisers GPO Box 128 SYDNEY NSW 2000 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 9262 2277 Fax: +61 2 9262 3135 Email: icslp98@tourhosts.com.au SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submissions are invited in any of the following technical topic areas: A. Human Speech Production, Acoustic-Phonetics and Articulatory Models B. Human Speech Perception C. Language Acquisition: First and Second Languages D. Spoken Language and Dialogue Modelling; Dialogue Systems E. Isolated Word Recognition F. Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition G. Utterance Verification and Word Spotting H. Speaker Adaptation and Normalisation in Speech Recognition I. Speaker and Language Recognition; Dialects and Speaking Styles J. Multilingual Perception and Recognition K. Signal Processing, Speech Analysis and Feature Extraction L. Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments M. Hidden Markov Model Techniques N. Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Algorithms O. Spoken Language Understanding Systems P. Text-to-Speech Synthesis Q. Prosody and Emotion; Focus, Stress and Accent R. Speech Coding S. Spoken Language Generation Systems; Concept-to-Speech T. Spoken Language Translation Systems U. Analysis of Speech and Hearing Disorders V. Speech Processing for the Speech-impaired and Hearing-impaired W. Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora X. Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interfaces Y. Spoken Language Processing and Multimodality Z. Other Areas of Spoken Language Processing FORMAT OF SUBMISSION Acceptance of papers for presentation at the conference will be on the basis of reviewed summaries. You should submit a summary of your paper comprising approximately 500 words. At the top of the page, please specify the following: Corresponding Author contact details: * Full Name * Full Postal Mail Address * Email Address * Fax Number * Phone Number Proposed Paper details: * Paper Title * Author List * Topic ID (A-Z) * Four additional keywords * Presentation preference (oral, poster, student day) The Topic ID should be a single category from the topic list specified as an alphabetic letter; if your submission falls within the broad area of spoken language processing but is not explicitly represented in the topic list, please use the Z category. The four additional keywords are requested in order to assist the programme committee in assigning reviewers. MEANS OF SUBMISSION Electronic submission of summaries via the World Wide Web is preferred. A Summary Submission Form is available via URL = <a href="http://cslab.anu.edu.au/icslp98">http://cslab.anu.edu.au/icslp98</a> . Alternatively, a pro-forma for email submission can be obtained from this URL or by emailing icslp98@tourhosts.com.au . Email submissions should be sent to icslp98@one.net.au . If electronic submission is not possible, postal submissions (4 copies) to the ICSLP '98 Secretariat address specified below will be accepted provided that they adhere to the above format. Please do NOT fax submissions. RESTRICTIONS ON SUBMISSIONS Please note that only ASCII summaries written in English will be accepted. Do not include any attachments, graphics, or embedded formatting commands. Given the large number of submissions we expect to receive, anything that cannot be printed directly will be rejected without consideration. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT You should receive an acknowledgement of receipt within 72 hours of electronically submitting your summary. If this does not happen, then you should resend your submission by email to icslp98@one.net.au with the word RESUBMISSION at the beginning of the subject line. If an acknowledgement is still not forthcoming, an email problem should be assumed, and the summary submitted by fax. Please do not resubmit or send by fax for any other reasons than lack of acknowledgement from the conference. CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE All papers must be presented in English by one of the listed authors. That author will be required to register no later than the full-paper submission date. Summaries will not be accepted after the submission date. STUDENT DAY SUBMISSIONS Students wishing to submit papers for the SST Student Day should submit summaries as above. These submissions will be separately reviewed and published under the banner of the 7th Australian Speech Science & Technology Conference and will also be included on the CDROM containing the ICSLP '98 proceedings. SUBMISSION ADDRESSES World Wide Web: URL = <a href="http://cslab.anu.edu.au/icslp98">http://cslab.anu.edu.au/icslp98</a> E-mail Submission: icslp98@one.net.au Postal: ICSLP '98 Secretariat, GPO Box 128, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia Technical queries: Robert Dale - email: rdale@mpce.mq.edu.au General Information: Email: icslp98@tourhosts.com.au IMPORTANT DATES Friday 1st May, 1998 Paper summaries due for review Friday 26th June, 1998 Acceptance notification Friday 21st August, 1998 Deadline for full-paper submission ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: M. A. Keller (Stanford) and Ann Okerson (Yale) Subject: Barschall site available on WWW Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:31:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 538 (538) Re: Gordon & Breach v. American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society The addresses of the web sites containing the entire texts of the decisions of Judge Leonard B. Sand of the U.S. Second District Court and the entire testimony of the witnesses at the trial before Judge Sand, along with links to some related sites are: barschall.stanford.edu and www.library.yale.edu/barschall The case of Gordon & Breach v. American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society is of wide interest to those who care about the creation and diffusion of scientific journals. In its assertions, arguments, and counterarguments can be found a microcosm of all the issues that plague scientists, librarians, and information producers at the end of this millennium. It is a rich trove of primary information provided for members of the academic and legal communities and the citizenry who are interested in the values and diffusion of scientific and scholarly communications against the backdrop of the 20th-century marketplace. The materials on these sites are from publicly available sources, including documents of the courts involved in the referenced legal actions. The materials are presented in the interests of informing the public discourse on the actions and related matters. We fully expect to add more materials from the U.S. trial and materials from the European trials as well. The sites are named to honor the memory of Henry Barschall, the distinguished physicist who conducted the research and reported the results of his research on the costs and impact factors of the journal literature in physics. The decisions of Judge Sand in the U.S. Second District Court and of two of the three European courts in which he, the American Institute of Physics, and the American Physical Society were sued by Gordon & Breach have supported his studies. Among others, the Association of Research Libraries honored him with a special citation, representing formally the admiration and respect he had earned from the global communities of research librarians and scientists. We invite your use of these materials and we request wide distribution of the announcement of the availability of the documentation of these cases. ---------------------- Michael A. Keller University Librarian; Director of Academic Information Resources; Publisher, HighWire press Stanford University 245 Green Library Stanford, CA 94305-6004 U.S.A. voice: 1-650-723-5553 fax: 1-650-725-4902 e-mail: makeller@sulmail.stanford.edu Ann L. Okerson Associate University Librarian for Collection Development & Management Yale University P. O. Box 208240, 130 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06520-8240 voice: 1-203-432-1764 fax: 1-203-432-8527 e-mail: Ann.Okerson@yale.edu URL: <a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/alo.html">http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/alo.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Position available (Computer Science) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:36:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 539 (539) [deleted quotation] UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY: Visiting Assistant Professor (Computer Science)/ Associate Director of the Center for Arts & Technology. Connecticut College seeks a person who wishes to teach part time and also direct cross-disciplinary research in arts and technology. Duties will include teaching three computer science courses per year, participating in collaborative research with faculty and students, directing student summer research, helping to initiate innovative programs in arts and technology, and managing a technology lab. Connecticut College is a small, private, highly selective college with a strong commitment to the liberal arts tradition and an emphasis on broad interdisciplinary teaching and research. Its Center for Arts & Technology supports students and faculty as they study and explore the symbiotic relationship between technology and the creative arts. More information about this position may be obtained at cat.conncoll.edu/center/csjob.html Appointment begins immediately for a 2 year appointment with possible renewal for an additional year. Requirements include a Ph.D. in computer science or related field, imagination, interest in arts and technology, and a desire to work closely with students and faculty. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Connecticut College is an AA/EO employer and is actively seeking to further diversify its faculty and staff. Candidates should send a resume, a list of at least four references, and a statement of research and teaching interests to Professor Bridget Baird, Box 5412, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320; bbbai@conncoll.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Avigail Oren <avigor@post.tau.ac.il> Subject: intelligent agents Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 08:22:14 +0200 (IST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 540 (540) hi, Recently I was engaged in summing up the r&d in educational technology as a prepreation for a grant my place is going to get. In my way I found some info about these agents. 1.At media-lab in MIT you may find info looking on the projects and courses of Pattie Maes.(casr.www.media.mit.) 2. You may look at escalante.cs.byu.edu/colloquia/johnson/abstract.txt for an abstract of a project dealing with autonmous agents/ 3.D. KIRSH at the Universuty of California in Sun-Diego is planning a MOO with int. agents with different roles to guide the users. 4. At mobile.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~yjhsu/itla.html is some info on Teaching/Learning agents. It is apparent that in the far east (in Japan at Osaka University) they are engaged in r@d related to ITS (intelligent learning systems). 5.At Leeds University, The Computer Based Learning Unit (J self, P. Brna) they are working on these subjects. I hope it helps as a begining Avigail Dr. Avigail Oren School of Education Tel- Aviv University and The Center for Educational Technology (CET) Url: <a href="http://muse.tau.ac.il/~avigail/personal.html">http://muse.tau.ac.il/~avigail/personal.html</a> From: Orth_Michael_P/cpslo_employee1@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu Subject: 11.0343 intelligent agents? Date: Fri, 17 Oct 97 16:21:30 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 541 (541) I've used several agents. One good one lay in wait for the subject I chose to appear in list serve messages on that server (Standford) and then sent me a list of messages with what I wanted. I have several other, more active, agents--like EchoSearch--and of course all search engines qualify, in a dumb way. I haven't used a really good one yet. But wow, they are very close to ready . . . . A ferret. From: "Amsler, Robert" <Amsler@dyniet.com> Subject: Re: agents Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 21:26:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 542 (542) Not sure how autonomous these are, but I discovered a rather good new periodical, The Knowledge Engineering Review, which recently had a review article on Software Agents that seemed intelligible, namely, Software Agents: An Overview, by Hyacinth S. Nwana, The Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol. 11:3, 1996, p. 205-244. From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: agents Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 21:58:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 543 (543) Subsequent to my query in Humanist 11.343, I did a quick search of the Web and discovered the following URLs, the first of many: IBM Intelligent Agents homepage <<a href="http://www.networking.ibm.com/iag/iaghome.html">http://www.networking.ibm.com/iag/iaghome.html</a>> Intelligent Agents: review of current lit. <<a href="http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/ui/persona/isbister.htm">http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/ui/persona/isbister.htm</a>> Intelligent Agent Technology <<a href="http://escalante.cs.byu.edu/~whitehur/agents/">http://escalante.cs.byu.edu/~whitehur/agents/</a>> Intelligent Agents <<a href="http://www.augusta.co.uk/isip/sigs/rnr/agents/">http://www.augusta.co.uk/isip/sigs/rnr/agents/</a>> But again my question: does anyone know of an academic use of these, esp. in the humanities? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Maurizio Oliva <oliva@denison.edu> Subject: Congratulazioni a Dario Fo Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 07:49:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 544 (544) Il premio Nobel per la letteratura a Dario Fo è stata una sorpresa inaspettata. Con molto ritardo vorrei celebrare con voi la mia gioia (*). <a href="http://www.nobel.se/announcement-97/literature97.html">http://www.nobel.se/announcement-97/literature97.html</a> <a href="http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1997a.html">http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1997a.html</a> Maurizio (*) The Nobel Prize for literature went to Dario Fo. With much delay, I would like to share with you my surprise and joy. Maurizio Oliva, Director, Multimedia Language Lab, Denison University Fellows 302, Granville, OH 43023, O (614) 587-6684, F 587-6417, H 235-9618 oliva@denison.edu <a href="http://www.denison.edu/mll">http://www.denison.edu/mll</a> = Reproduction allowed, integrity required = From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: The "New" Fair Use Symposium Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:46:02 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 545 (545) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 20, 1997 ****************************** The "New" Fair Use: Fresh Perspectives on Technology for Teaching and Research Thursday, November 6, 10:00 AM * 12:00 PM EST Moderated by Kenneth D. Crews, Director, Copyright Management Center Panelists include: Thomas Ho, Chairman and Professor of Computer Technology, IUPUI <a href="http://www.engr.iupui.edu/~ho">http://www.engr.iupui.edu/~ho</a> tho@iupui.edu Ken Barger, Professor of Anthropology, IUPUI kbarger@iupui.edu Suzanne Thorin, University Dean of University Libraries, IU thorin@indiana.edu Michael Klein, Associate University Counsel, IU kleinm@indiana.edu In an era of multimedia, web sites, videotapes, and digital scanners, each member of the university community is increasingly responsible for understanding the basics of copyright and fair use, and must know how to deploy them for advancing our educational mission. Too often we see copyright law as a barrier to our pursuits, but the law in fact provides crucial opportunities and rights for creative uses of educational materials. This lively and informative discussion will examine important and recent developments in fair use and will give direction for their new meaning throughout the academic community. ****************************** Sponsored by the IUPUI Office of Faculty and Senior Staff Development and the Copyright Management Center, this live videoconference will be available via the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS) ****************************** A downlink of this videoconference is available at all IHETS sites by contacting the IHETS regional coordinator at the site desired. To locate a particular coordinator, contact Regina Mack at IHETS (263-8929, rmack@ind.net), the CMC (274-4400, copyinfo@indiana.edu), or consult the IHETS web page <<a href="http://www.ind.net">http://www.ind.net</a>>. ****************************** Questions will be accepted in advance of the program via fax (317/278-3301) or e-mail <copyinfo@indiana.edu>. Senders should clearly indicate that the question is for the program. Questions may be submitted during the program to phone and fax numbers that will be announced on air. ****************************** For more information, contact the Copyright Management Center: Phone: (317) 274-4400 E-Mail: copyinfo@iupui.edu or copyinfo@indiana.edu Surf: <a href="http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo">http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo</a> [deleted quotation] Judy Homer - Copyright Management Center Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis, IN 46202-5195 (317) 274-4400 - Fax (317) 278-3301 <a href="http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo">http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo</a> [deleted quotation] From: Stephen C Leggett <sleg@LOC.GOV> Subject: TV/video study press release Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:05:05 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 546 (546) Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today released a comprehensive 5-volume study on the present survival status of American television and independent video productions. Two years in the making, the report paints a horrifying picture of losses already sustained and looming problems for an important part of America's cultural heritage. As stated by Dr. Billington, "Television affects our lives from birth to death. Most Americans inform and entertain themselves through it, and we use it to distract our children by providing (to paraphrase a famous quote) "chewing gum for their eyes." Sadly, we have not yet sought to preserve this powerful medium in anything like a serious or systematic manner." Among the troubling problems described in the report: * The audiovisual record of the first few decades (esp. 1940s-60s) of American television and video history is fragmentary and incomplete, the result of programs never being recorded, being recorded and then erased and reused, or subjected to inadequate storage conditions * America's collective audiovisual memory of its history and culture has been primarily entrusted to videotape the past several decades, yet videotape was never designed as a permanent preservation/recording medium. Videotape is subject to a wide assortment of damaging chemical and physical problems. Format obsolescence also remains a real danger. Over 100 videotape formats have been introduced into the marketplace since 1956 and archivists do not have enough financial resources to copy the many valuable programs found on obsolete formats * The nearly complete loss of almost three decades of local television news footage, primarily from the 1950s through late 1970s. As a result, no substantive moving image documentary record exists of many American cities, communities, events, locations, and personalities during this era. Local television stations discarded or routinely erased the material during this era to save storage space. * The access difficulties faced by educators in finding and using television material in the classroom; * The financial inability of video artists and independent video producers to preserve their own work. To remedy these problems, the report recommends several key actions, most notably: * Exploring possible new avenues of funding through means such as allocating shares from FCC broadcast spectrum auction proceeds to benefit preservation efforts at nonprofit archives. * Creation of a private sector organization to raise funds and distribute grants to aid television and video preservation projects at nonprofit archives and similar institutions throughout the United States. * Raising public awareness by establishing a national registry of historically and culturally important television and video programs, similar to the Library of Congress National Film Registry . * Establishing a Study Center for Video Preservation to collect and provide technical information to institutions across the U.S. and to maintain equipment able to copy obsolete formats. * Continuing dialogue among educators, archivists and the entertainment industry on ways to improve educational access to American television programs. * Urging the Library of Congress to use the full extent of off-air taping authority it possesses under the 1976 Copyright Act. This five-volume report is the first comprehensive look at American television and video preservation. Information was gathered through hundreds of interviews, public hearings and written statements from over 100 individuals and organizations, and the deliberations of three task forces. Volume 1 contains the report; volumes 2-4 contains transcripts of the public hearings; and volume 5 reproduces the written statements. In releasing the report, Billington thanked the hundreds of broadcasters, industry officials, archivists, educators, artists and others who testified at public hearings, submitted written comments, served on task forces, and otherwise contributed to the report. He singled out for praise the report's chief researcher/author (William Murphy of the National Archives and Records Administration), and the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the nation's largest and most important body of moving image preservationists. The report will be available for purchase from the Government Printing Office in a few weeks. Ordering information as well as an online version of the report can be found at the following World Wide Web address: <a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/tv.html">http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/tv.html</a>. For additional information, contact Steve Leggett at p: 202/707-5912; f: 202/707-2371; email: sleg@loc.gov. From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: TV/Video Preservation Report Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:18:18 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 547 (547) ****************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 20, 1997 TELEVISION/VIDEOTAPE PRESERVATION REPORT ISSUED BY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS An important, 5-volume report on the state of television and videotape preservation, was released on Thursday October 16 by the Library of Congress. This report, together with its companion report: "Film Preservation 1993: A Study of the Current State of American Film Preservation," is important for this community because both effective preservation and digitization of moving images are dependent on description, indexing and cataloging standards that are still in a state of disarray. If digitally networked cultural heritage is to include the huge array of twentieth century material in moving image formats then the issues of preservation, description and indexing have to be solved. For background and further thinking on this issue see my article "Beyond Word and Image" in the July/August issue of D-Lib magazine <<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july97/07green.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july97/07green.html</a>> For background on the report see the Library of Congress Website at <<a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/tv.html">http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/tv.html</a>>, where information about how to purchase the report will be available around mid-November 1997. The report (volume 1) will also be posted on the Internet at the National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) Web site around the end of October <<a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/">http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/</a>> (look under "New Projects"). Volumes 2-4 comprise transcripts of hearings in Los Angeles, New York and Washington. These volumes are available now online at the above NFPB site. David Green ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Re: 11.0338 gleanings Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:54:11 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 548 (548) ************************************************************ Edupage, 16 October 1997. Edupage, a summary of news about information technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom, a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. ************************************************************ TOP STORIES GTE Joins BT And WorldCom As Rival Suitors For MCI Intranet Use Exploding Cyberchic Hits The Fashion Runway British Cybersquatters Head For Court ALSO Tapscott Calls N-Gen "Unprecedented Force For Change" Australia Sees New Revenue Source In Online Gambling Blair Wants All U.K. Students Wired To "National Grid" Zundel's Site Exposes Jews To Hatred IBM's Power Drive BMI Creates Robot To Protect Copyrights On Web ........................ TAPSCOTT CALLS N-GEN "UNPRECEDENTED FORCE FOR CHANGE" In his new book "Growing Up Digital: the Rise of the Net Generation," best-selling technology guru Don Tapscott says: "The Net-Generation is here. The baby boom has an echo and it's even louder than the original. Eighty million strong in the U.S. alone, they are combining their demographic muscle with digital mastery to transform every institution in society. They are the first generation to come of age in the digital age. They are an unprecedented force for change and they will dominate most of the 21st century." Tapscott argues that "There is no issue more important to parents, teachers, policy makers, marketers, business leaders, and social activists than understanding this new generation, their culture, psychology, values and what they intend to do with their digital expertise." Tapscott worked with 300 "N-Gen-ers" on the Net over a one-year period and combines survey research to show how the Ne(x)t Generation is changing learning, marketing, the family, the nature of the corporation and society. ("Growing Up Digital," McGraw-Hill 1997) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Michael Guest <guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp> Subject: LaTeX Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 01:00:05 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 549 (549) I'm about to set off on a journey into Tex / LaTeX use. I've downloaded all the files and read a printed manual...what a fantasy-land of learning experience for me: all those "trivial" typesetting tasks that I've set aside for wo/man or machine in the past! I understand now the value of a human typesetter! Such terribly significant bits and pieces I'd thougt wordprocessors must handle (ha!). To what extent does Tex / LaTeX replace a human typesetter in practice? Are there any bogs or whatever they are of despair in store? I earnestly seek your exeriences of both good and evil in this respect. One further question: where does the question of copyright lie in relation to the overall _style_ one uses in producing a journal ("style" defined in the broadest sense)? Forgive me if I've missed a thread on this. Michael Guest guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Geoffrey Rockwell <grockwel@mcmaster.ca> Subject: Job Posting Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 09:38:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 550 (550) The Faculty of Humanities, of McMaster University, invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the level of Assistant Professor in the area of Multimedia Design. Duties will include teaching courses in Computer Graphics, Multimedia and Human/Computer Interface Design. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in a Humanities discipline or the equivalent, and experience in multimedia development including computer graphics, digital audio and video, and computer-based instructional technology. The candidate will also have demonstrated excellence in the teaching and development of multimedia works and have research interests in the history, rhetoric, or theory of multimedia design and the human-computer interface. Experience in the arts or arts-related endeavours would be an asset. The current minimum salary for an Assistant Professor at McMaster is $41,260. The starting date for the appointment is July 1, 1998. Applications, including curriculum vitae, transcripts, a multimedia design portfolio, and letters from three referees, should be addressed to : Dr. Evan Simpson, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L9. Applications received by December 15, 1997 will be assured consideration. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada (please indicate status). McMaster University is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and women. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Harold Short <Harold.Short@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Lynne Grundy 1957-1997 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:03:46 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 551 (551) Humanist readers will be much saddened, I know, to hear of the death of our colleague Lynne Grundy, after a long illness and at the young age of 40. As many will be aware, Lynne was a medieval scholar, with specialist interests in Anglo-Saxon culture. Her PhD thesis was on the medieval cleric, Aelfric, and this was the basis for a 1991 book: 'Books and Grace: Aelfric's Theology'. For the past nine years she worked part-time as a researcher for the Thesaurus of Old English, and played a key role in bringing it to print in 1995. She was the first occupant of the post of Lecturer in Humanities Computing at King's College London. She was an exceptional research scholar, and was a constant and refreshing reminder that in our field of humanities computing the technology is there to serve the scholarship. Lynne was also the most gifted of communicators - a born teacher who inspired numbers of Old English and humanities computing students, both undergraduate and postgraduate. But most of all she will be remembered by those who knew her, and especially by her students, colleagues and friends, as a remarkable individual with a wealth of interests, insights and infectious enthusiasms, graceful and full of vitality - which makes it all the harder to accept that she has gone. The funeral service is to take place on Tuesday 21 October at the church of St Paul's Covent Garden, where for many years Lynne and her husband Martin have sung in the choir (a choir she organised). Later that day she will be buried in the parish churchyard at Eynsham, a village just outside Oxford. Lynne came from this area, and it is particularly fitting that her grave will be on the hillside where stood the abbey in which Aelfric was at one time abbot. A memorial fund is to be established with the purpose of assisting young scholars. Further details will be made known in due course. From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Lynne Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:01:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 552 (552) I first met Lynne in April 1996, I think it was, when I appeared at King's College London for a job interview, and then again a couple of months later, on a visit, and finally when I began work in late September with her in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities. We worked together for a total of about 2 1/2 months, for the first term of my first year at King's. When she went away on sick-leave we hardly knew each other. Real friendship only grew with her illness, and we became close only after the disease seemed likely to claim her, and then only in a necessarily one-way correspondence illuminated by a single telephone conversation. Little more than a flicker in the scale of things, but I kiss this joy as it flies. At a recent meeting of computer scientists and humanists, Stan Katz (now former President of the American Council of Learned Societies) spoke of the fragility of our common enterprise, pushed along by so few of us and so extraordinarily dependent on a few hearts continuing to beat. He was referring then to the death of Paul Peters, formerly head of the Coalition for Networked Information (U.S.), suddenly of asthma, but his mortal thoughts recur now and will continue to recur. A kind of immortality is in remembrance of exemplary individuals, like Lynne, because of the mental leaven they leave behind, an "agency which produces profound change by progressive inward operation" (OED). Personally this leaven may be more important for us than any conscious action we might take, but professionally we must do more. Coming to work at King's was a great turning point in my professional life, since it meant that at long last my job-description and my intellectual passions became one. There are, however, very few institutions as forward looking with respect to our field as King's, so very few people in positions like Lynne's and mine. The loss of just one of us is serious. It seems to me that wherever and whenever possible we must do everything in our power to communicate what we know and can see, particularly to students. For us professionally a much more important form of continuity -- immortality seems more than a bit presumptious here -- lies in training the next generation. Perhaps hybris has done the gods' work on me, but I do think that humanities computing is crucial to the arts and humanities, and I am old-fashioned enough to believe that they are in turn crucial to the public at large, with whom we must connect to survive. "A life-time burning in every moment...." The moment I will remember always is when walking just a couple of weeks ago by the Thames at sunset, with the fiery golden light shining slant-wise across the river and on the riverside buildings, thinking of Lynne in the dying of the light. Farewell, my friend and colleague! W - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: GOODMAN RICHARD <goodma@COOPER.EDU> Subject: New listserv for graphic design Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 13:31:41 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 553 (553) This is to introduce NGDA-L, a new listserv to discuss the National Graphic Design Image Database at The Cooper Union. What follows is a brief description of the database along with instructions on how to join. The National Graphic Design Image Database at Cooper Union was developed at The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, a division of the Cooper Union School of Art is designed to electronically preserve and disseminate material related to the history and theory of graphic design. The software, entitled CUIMAGE, enables students, designers and artists to access and input images and analysis from web sites worldwide. NGDA-L is intended to promote discussion on visual analysis issues related to the NGDA Image Database. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the project aims to build a virtual visual encyclopedia through an electronic community of educators. Additional information on the project is available at www.cooper.edu/art/lubalin/. To subscribe, send a message to Majordomo@cooper.edu with the following message in the body of your message: subscribe ngda-l your name Public Access: Public access to the National Graphic Design Image Database at Cooper Union is available at <a href="http://ngda.cooper.edu">http://ngda.cooper.edu</a>. The public access version displays data for all the records, but access to images is currently restricted to select items and those created before 1920. Test Sites: Comprehensive Access Educators interested in accessing the unrestricted version of the Database, should send e-mail to Lawrence Mirsky, director of the The Herb Lubalin Study Center and the NGDA Image Database, at mirsky@cooper.edu or Richard Goodman, Visual Analyst/Cataloger, at goodma@cooper.edu. Please enter "NGDA Access Request" in the subject heading. In your request for access please include your name, title, institution, IP address, e-mail address, physical location of the computer (to verify on-campus use) and a statement explaining the purpose for accessing the Database. The IP address is the unique identifying number for a computer's internet connection. Please ask your network administrator for assistance. ============================================================== Software Details: CUImage Web System Highlights 1. Supports Multiple, Concurrent Users for Queries and Cataloguing from Web Sites Worldwide 2. Supports Comprehensive Import and Export Capabilities 3. Offers Flexible Hierarchies for Relating Images 4. Runs Client Software on all Major Platforms 5. Integrates Film,Video and Multimedia Formats The system currently supports images (GIF and JPEG format), motion pictures and sound (QuickTime format and Macromedia Director) and text. New media formats may be added through the component template system. 6. Incorporates Visual Identity Programs The user interface of the system is based upon user defined sets of HTML template files. The system can use any graphics created for the web and provides full support for all features of HTML allowing users the flexibility to establish their visual identity. An arbitrary number of user defined interfaces may be created and can coexist with one another through a single computer serving the Database. Interfaces can be constructed for specific uses and access points in a collection. 7. Customizes Cataloging for Cross-Disciplinary Applications The data structures used are generic enough to be useful for use in engineering, technical and comercial visual database applications. Standard vocabularies for other disciplines can be imported into the system and coexist with the AAT (or any other hierarchy). =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: NARA Strategic Plan: why we should listen Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:09:01 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 554 (554) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 21, 1997 READY ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL EVIDENCE: THE STRATEGIC PLAN OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS ADMINISTRATION, 1997-2007 <<a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/vision/naraplan.html">http://www.nara.gov/nara/vision/naraplan.html</a>> "Impressive developments in technology for creating records have not been matched by technological developments for managing them" <<a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/vision/naraplan.html#1.3">http://www.nara.gov/nara/vision/naraplan.html#1.3</a>>. This statement in the recently released NARA Strategic Plan speaks to the concerns of many of us on this list and justifies our consideration of the applicability of its concerns to our broader community. In particular, the aspects of the plan that should interest many here involve NARA's comments on its approach to electronic records and to finding aids. As the Update below highlights: a) Government agencies do not follow standardized procedures for archiving electronic records. NARA plans to develop and implement advisory guidelines with the goal that by the year 2007 50% of agencies will "incorporate the NARA record keeping requirements in the design, development, and implementation of their automated systems." b) Only 20% of materials in the National Archives have sufficient finding aids. Here the performance goal is to have "85% of all NARA records holdings described at the series or collection level and have the finding aids available Online by the year 2002, with the goal of 100% by 2007." David Green ================================================================== From: NCC Washington Update, vol. 3, #43, October 21, 1997 by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History <pagem@capaccess.org> 1. National Archives Releases Strategic Plan With Performance Targets ........... 1. National Archives Releases Strategic Plan With Performance Targets-- On October 3, U.S. Archivist John Carlin submitted the National Archives' strategic plan to the President, the Congress, and the American public. "Ready Access to Essential Evidence : The Strategic Plan of the National Archives and Records Administration 1997-2007" is a 48 page booklet that includes the specifics lacking in earlier drafts. The performance indicators for the section titled "How will we know we have succeeded?" flow from the National Archives' four mission goals -- identifying and appraising federal records, making records easily accessible, preserving records, and making the changes at the National Archives necessary to realize the vision. Under each goal there are performance targets that establish benchmark percentages and dates. One strength of the plan is that it realistically evaluates the current situation. The discussion of archiving electronic records systems, for example, recognizes the Archives' current deficiencies. The report states that "the absence of standards and guidelines for electronic record keeping threatens the Government's ability to ensure access to records generated and maintained in electronic formats." The targeted goal is to develop the guidance that agencies need in archiving electronic records, conduct pilot projects on the feasibility of the guidance, and by 2007 have 50% of all federal agencies incorporate the NARA record keeping requirements in the design, development, and implementation of their automated systems. Some view this goal as disappointing, focusing on the 50% of agencies that will not have incorporated the Archives' guidance and on the electronic records that may be lost due to the slow implementation. Yet others note the considerable difficulty the Archives has had in dealing with electronic records during the past decade and wonder if this goal isn't overly ambitious. The plan recognizes that one of the key aspects of making records more accessible is having good finding aids. Currently about 20% of the records at the National Archives do not have adequate finding aids. This means that users have to rely on staff who are already overburdened to assist them in locating records. The strategic plan has set as a goal having 85% of all NARA records holdings described at the series or collection level and the finding aids available OnLine by the year 2002, with the goal of 100% by 2007. It is doubtful, however, that this ambitious task that requires intensive work can be accomplished without the infusion of a considerable amount of additional resources and staff. Many recognize the need today for catchy slogans; however, the plan's title "Ready Access to Essential Evidence" is troubling for some historians. Access should be easy for a genealogist seeking a particular piece of information about a great-great uncle or for a veteran seeking information from a personnel file. However, scholars who wish to understand the activities and policies of the federal government will continue to have to visit research rooms and to confront the immensity of the National Archives' holdings -- equivalent to a 230 mile long shelf of records. Serious archival research is by its very nature labor intensive and anything but easy. But it is this research that delivers the treasures of the Archives to the American public in the form of documentary films and prize winning books. The term "essential evidence" is also discomforting. Much of the richness of the current holdings are in records that have informational value and do not provide "essential evidence." Many scholars fear that beneath the phrase "essential evidence" will be a tendency to use a more limiting approach to the task of deciding which records will be retained and which will be destroyed. Despite whatever short comings there may be in the Archives' new strategic plan, the central thrust of the plan -- focusing on the life cycle of records -- sets the National Archives in an important new direction. Many observers of the National Archives see much that is positive in the plan's emphasis on working more closely with agencies to promote what the plan refers to as "front-end records management." This approach involves dealing with records at the time they are created, which is particularly crucial in dealing with electronic records. How the ambitious goals set forward in the plan can be met within the current budget and staff remains problematic. Thus supporters of the National Archives must stand ready when the next appropriations bill comes forward to inform Congress of the Archives' backlogs and the need for additional resources to enable this agency to meet its legally mandated mission of identifying, preserving, describing, and making available federal records that document the activities and policies of the federal government. * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NCC invites you to redistribute the NCC Washington Updates. A complete backfile of these reports is maintained by H-Net. See World Wide Web: <a href="http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/">http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/</a> From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com> Subject: AMICO University Testbed: Information Session Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 12:54:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 555 (555) Twenty-three of North America's largest art museums have founded the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) to make multimedia documentation of their collections available for educational use. AMICO is a not-for-profit consortium open to institutions with collections of art. The AMICO digital library will initially be distributed in the academic year 1998/1999 in a university testbed project. A Call for Participation will solicit interest from institutions willing to play an active role in evaluating the use of multimedia museum information. Twenty universities will be selected based on their proposed contribution to the testbed project. An Information Session for potential testbed participants will be held in conjunction with the upcoming Coalition for Networked Information Meeting. (A general project briefing will be given during the CNI Program.) The Call for Participation will be distributed at this time, and the Goals and Objectives of the Testbed will be presented and discussed. AMICO University Testbed Briefing Minneapolis Marriott Elk Lake Room Sunday, October 26, 1997 9:30 - 12:00 [remember this is the morning after Daylight Savings Time ends] Please RSVP to J. Trant (jtrant@archimuse.com) so that we make sure there is enough coffee and pastry for everyone. J. Trant Partner and Principal Consultant Archives & Museum Informatics jtrant@archimuse.com www.archimuse.com From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: The "New" Fair Use Symposium Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:14:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 556 (556) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 21, 1997 S O L D O U T ****************************** The "New" Fair Use: Fresh Perspectives on Technology for Teaching and Research Thursday, November 6, 10:00 AM * 12:00 PM EST ****************************** This program at Indiana University is now booked to capacity and organizer Kenny Crews informs us that the satellite videoconference will only be available within Indiana (downlink sites available at <<a href="http://www.ind.net">http://www.ind.net</a>>). A videotape of the program is being considered and would be available for purchase at a reasonable rate for nonprofit institutions. Those interested should send a message to <copyinfo@iupui.edu>. A more widely available telecast is planned for 1998. David Green [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: MW 98: Call for Papers Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:38:17 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 557 (557) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 21, 1997 MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 1998 Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 22-25, 1998 CALL for PAPERS DEADLINE: October 31, 1997 Submissions are invited from those actively involved in shaping what the museum will look like on the World Wide Web. Suggested broard topics include: 1. Moving Museum Programs to the Web 2. Adapting Museum Structures for the Web 3. Evaluating Museums' Presence on the Web Fuller details can be found at <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98</a> We are particularly interested in proposals for non-traditional presentations and workshops. Send your abstract, full personal contact details [including job title, phone, fax, email and URL] along with AV requirements for your presentation to: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant MW98 Conference Co-Chairs dbear@archimuse.com or jtrant@archimuse.com J. Trant Partner and Principal Consultant Archives & Museum Informatics jtrant@archimuse.com www.archimuse.com From: "R.G. Siemens" <Raymond.Siemens@UALBERTA.CA> Subject: CFP: Computing Technology and Renaissance Studies Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 21:43:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 558 (558) [please excuse x-posting] "Computing Technology and Renaissance Studies" A joint session of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (May 28-30, 1998). Reflecting larger societal trends, the past several years have seen a rise in the importance of computing technology to our work; they have also seen an increased recognition of the body of scholarly approaches and tools, influenced by the electronic medium, that aid in one's teaching, study, and research. The New Humanism, Project Gutenberg, the Electronic Renaissance: nominal allusions abound that suggestively ally this late twentieth-century movement with the print-oriented technological revolution in the period of our study; urging that such comparison may not be not ill-founded are a large number of valuable computing tools and resources available today to Renaissance academics (and, of course, far beyond this group). This session seeks to explore ways in which computing technology has added and can add to the field of Renaissance studies. Paper proposals assisting in this exploration -- critical and scholarly work, discussions and presentations of resources, and so forth -- may be sent (before November 15) for consideration in this joint session to Raymond Siemens Department of English University of Alberta 3-5 Humanities Centre Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 Electronic Mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a> wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca www homepage: <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm">http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm</a> From: Simone Saint Laurent <lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it> Subject: Corpora: FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:07:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 559 (559) ****We apologize if you receive multiple copies**** ****PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY**** ****CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS**** FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 Hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA Departamento de Traducción e Interpretación Departamento de Electrónica y Tecnología de Computadores With the support of DG-XIII of the European Commission and Fundación Banco Central-Hispano (Spain) The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is organized in cooperation with other Associations and Consortia, including ACL, ALLC, COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA, EURALEX, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with major national and international organizations, including the European Commission - DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863 Project (China), the ICSP Permanent Committee (Korea) and the Japanese Project for International Coordination in Corpora, Assessment and Labeling. Cooperation and support from other institutions are currently being sought. CONFERENCE AIMS In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of language technologies and their relevance to practically all the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been widely recognized. Two issues are currently considered particularly relevant: the availability of language resources and the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and products. Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing these issues through international cooperation. The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically for building and evaluating natural language and speech algorithms or systems, for the software localization industries and language services, for language enabled information and communication services, for electronic commerce, electronic publishing, language studies, subject-area specialists and end users. Examples of linguistic resources are written and spoken corpora, computational lexicons, grammars, terminology databases, basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management, customization and use of these and other resources. The relevance of evaluation in Language Engineering is increasingly recognized. This involves assessment of the state-of-the-art for a given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a program, comparing different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and drawbacks, assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application, product benchmarking, and assessment of the user satisfaction. Language engineering and research and development in language technologies has driven important advances in the recent past in various aspects of both written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international programs, including the US ARPA HLT program, EU Language Engineering projects, the Francophone Aupelf-Uref program and others, particularly in the localization industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unresolved basic research problems. The aim of this Conference is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information regarding ongoing and planned activities, language resources and their applications, discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international cooperation in the areas mentioned above. CONFERENCE TOPICS The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which could be addressed by papers submitted to the Conference: Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages Resources (LR) (theoretical & best practice) Guidelines, standards, specifications, models for LR. Organizational issues in the construction, distribution and use of LR Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of LR Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access and use of LR Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g., terms, lexical information, language modeling) from LR Monolingual vs. multilingual LR LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry Industrial production of LR Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language) Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (language technology, information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic commerce, etc..) Industrial LR requirements and the community's response Analysis of user needs for LR Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing Economics of LRs Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging, text understanding, summarization, localization, etc.) Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, etc.) Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and off-line machine and handwritten character recognition, etc.) Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems Evaluation of multimodal systems Qualitative and perceptive evaluation Evaluation of products and applications Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems Situated evaluation of applications Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures General issues National and international activities and projects LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national and international policies Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international cooperation PROGRAM The Scientific Program will include invited talks, presentations of accepted papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations, and panels. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submission of summaries for proposed papers and posters should consist of about 800 words. Demonstration of LR and related tools will be reviewed as well. Please send an outline of about 400 words. If a demo is connected to a paper, please attach the outline to the paper summary. A limited number of panels is foreseen. Proposals are welcomed and will be reviewed. Please send a brief description, including an outline of the intended structure (topic, organizer, panel moderator (if different), tentative list of panelists). All the submissions should include a separate title page, providing the following information: the type of proposal (paper, poster, demo, paper plus demo, panel); the title to be printed in the program of the Conference; names and affiliations of the authors or proposers; the full address of the first author (or a contact person), including phone, fax, email, URL; the required facilities (overhead projector, data display; other hardware, platforms, communications); and 5 keywords. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Electronic submission should be in ASCII file format. This file should be sent to: lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it Attn: Antonio Zampolli - LREC SUBMISSION IN HARD COPY You may also submit hard copies. Please send five hard copies to: Antonio Zampolli - LREC Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR via della Faggiola, 32 56126, Pisa, ITALY IMPORTANT DATES Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos, panels and workshops: 1 December 1997 Notification of acceptance of workshop and panels proposals: 20 December 1997 Notification of acceptance of papers, posters and referenced demos: 15 February 1998 Final version of the paper: 20 April 1998 The accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings. Conference dates: 28-30 May 1998 LANGUAGE RESOURCES, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS DEMONSTRATIONS Internet connections and various computer platforms and facilities will be available at the Conference site. In addition to referenced demos concerning LR and related tools, it will be possible to run unreferenced demos of language engineering products, systems and tools . Those interested should contact the organiser of the demonstrations, Antonio Rubio, directly. WORKSHOPS May 27 will be dedicated to Pre-Conference Workshops. How to propose a workshop: Proposals for workshops should be two to three pages in length and should contain: - A brief technical description of the specific technical issues that the workshop will address - The reasons why the workshop is of interest this time. - The names, postal address, phone and fax numbers and email addresses of the Workshop Organising Committee, which should consist of at least three people knowledgeable in the field but not all at the same institution.. - The name of one member of the Workshop Organising Committee who is designated as the contact person. - A schedule for organising the workshop and a preliminary agenda. - A summary of the intended workshop Call for Participation. - A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements. The workshop proposers will be responsible for the organizational aspects (e.g. Workshop Call preparation and distribution, review of papers, notification of acceptance, etc.). Further details will be sent to the proposers. CONSORTIA AND PROJECT MEETINGS Consortia or projects wishing to take this opportunity for organizing meetings, should contact the Conference Secretariat for assistance in arranging meeting facilities. VENUE Granada has lived under and been influenced by many cultures: Iberian, Roman and then Jewish and Islamic. It was the last "piece" in the making of modern day Spain, thereby opening the way to the discovery of America and to the embrace of European and American cultures. Granada has remained a cultural center and has lost little of its original splendor providing a perfect environment for humanities and arts. Granada lies at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the Autonomous Region of Andalusia. It has a wonderful climate, with over 2795 hours of sunshine (average max. temperature 23 C, min. 8 C). CONFERENCE ADDRESSES The Conference Chair is Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR and President of ELRA). Antonio Zampolli - LREC Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR via della Faggiola, 32 56126 Pisa, ITALY +39 50 560 481 tel. +39 50 555 013 fax pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it The Secretariat of the Conference, who will provide general information on the Conference, is: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Dpto. de Traducción e Interpretación C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 Granada, SPAIN +34 58 24 41 00 tel. +34 58 24 41 04 fax reli98@goliat.ugr.es The demonstration organizer is Prof. Antonio Rubio: Antonio J. Rubio Ayuso - LREC Grupo de Investigación Procesamiento de Señales y Comunicaciones Dpto. Electrónica y Tecnología de Computadores Universidad de Granada 18071 Granada, SPAIN +34 58 24 31 93 tel. +34 58 24 32 30 fax rubio@hal.ugr.es Information on travel, accommodation and general information on Granada can be obtained from: Carmen CANO El Corte Inglés C/ Arabial, 97, 1 18003 Granada, SPAIN +34 58 28 26 12 tel. +34 58 20 30 90 fax REGISTRATION FEES, PAYMENT, SOCIAL EVENTS The registration fees will be 25.000 pesetas (about 150 ECU) per participant, with reduced fees of 20.000 pesetas (about 120 ECU) for early registration by March 1, 1998, and 12.000 pesetas (about 70 ECU) for students. The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedings, welcome reception, social events, coffee breaks and refreshments. Advance registration payment can be made using the Registration Form included at the end of the Announcement. Registration fees can be paid on-site in cash, using pesetas. A social dinner, as well as a visit to Granada and an entertainment show, will be organized. For accompanying persons, the social dinner will be 6.000 pesetas (about 35 ECU). CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Harald Hoege, Siemens, Munich, Germany Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France Angel Martin Municio, President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain Antonio Zampolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Souguil Ann, Seoul National University, Korea Roberto Cencioni, Commission of the EU, DGXIII, Luxembourg Feng Zhiwei, The State Language Commission of China, Beijing, China Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo, Japan Lynette Hirschman, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA Bernard Quemada, Conseil Supérieur de la Langue Française (Premiere Ministre), Paris, France Allen Sears, ARPA, Washington, D.C., USA Gary Strong, NSF, Washington, D.C., USA Piet G.J. Van Sterkenburg, International Permanent Committee of Linguists, Leiden, The Netherlands Jialu Zhang, Academia Sinica, Institute of Acoustics, Beijing, China SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Niels Ole Bernsen, Odense University, Denmark Robin Bonthrone, Fry & Bonthrone Partnerschaft, Language Consultancy Services, Mainz-Kastel, Germany Louis Boves, SPEX (Center for Speech Processing Expertise), Leidschendam, The Netherlands Maria Teresa Cabré, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy Nick Campbell, ATR, Kyoto, Japan George Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece Giuseppe Castagneri, CSELT, Torino, Italy Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France Ron Cole, OGI, Portland, Oregon, USA Christian Delcourt, BELTEXT-Université de Liège, Belgium Pamela-Blanchard Faber, University of Granada, Spain Christian Fluhr, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Christian Galinski, Infoterm (International Information Centre for Terminology), Wien, Austria Robert Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK Dafydd Gibbon, Universität Bielefeld, Germany Annelise Grinsted, Handelshøjskole Syd, Kolding, Denmark Ralph Grishman, New York University, New York, USA Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Ulrich Heid, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California, USA Nancy Ide, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA Shuichi Itahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan Norbert Kalfon, CL Servicios Lingüísticos S.A., Madrid, Spain Margaret King, ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland Steven Krauwer, ELSNET Coordinator, Utrecht, The Netherlands Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster University, UK Mark Libermann, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Joaquim Llisterri, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Spain Jock McNaught, UMIST, Manchester, UK J. Bruce Millar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Roger Moore, Defense Research Agency, Worchester, UK Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA Ole Norling-Christensen, DSL, Copenhagen, Denmark Brian Oakley, IT World Consultancy, London, UK David S. Pallett, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA Louis Pols, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands Antonio Rubio, University of Granada, Spain Antonio Sanfilippo, SHARP Laboratories of Europe, Oxford, UK Thomas Schneider, Munich, Germany Harold Short, King's College London, UK Herman J.M. Steeneken, TNO Human Factors Research Institute, Soesterberg, The Netherlands Wolfgang Teubert, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany Hans G. Tillmann, Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation der Universität München, Germany Giovanni Varile, Commission of the EU, DGXIII, Luxembourg Victor Zue, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA LOCAL COMMITTEE Lorenzo Morillas Cuevas, Rector of the University of Granada, Spain Angel Martín Municio, President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain Rosa Castro Prieto, Dept. of Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada, Spain Antonio J. Rubio, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Technology, University of Granada, Spain Presentación Padilla Benítez, Dept. of Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada, Spain Natividad Gallardo San Salvador, Dept. of Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada, Spain ELRA For more information about ELRA (the European Language Resources Association), please contact: Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO 87, avenue d^ÒItalie 75013 PARIS, FRANCE Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00 - Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88 E-mail: elra@calva.net Web: <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</a> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION FORMS FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 E-MAIL OR FAX TO: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Dpto. de Traducción e Interpretación C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 GRANADA, SPAIN +34 58 24 41 00 tel. +34 58 24 41 04 fax reli98@goliat.ugr.es Name: ________________________________________________ Affiliation: ________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ City: ________________________________________________ State/Province: ________________________________________________ Country: ________________________________________________ Postal/Zip Code: ________________________________________________ Phone: ________________________________________________ Fax: ________________________________________________ E-mail: ________________________________________________ Web: ________________________________________________ I intend to: ______ attend the conference as a ____ full participant ____ student (If you are paying the registration fees now, please complete payment form below) ______ submit a paper Tentative title or topic: ____________________________________________________________ ______ propose a demo Short description: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ______ propose the organization of a workshop/panel Topic: ____________________________________________________________ Short description: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION PAYMENT FORM REGISTRATION FEES Full participant* By March 1, 1998 20.000 pesetas (about 120 ECU) After March 1, 1998 25.000 pesetas (about 150 ECU) sub total: __________ Student* 12.000 pesetas (about 70 ECU) sub total: __________ Social Dinner for accompanying persons 6.000 pesetas (about 35 ECU) sub total: __________ Total: __________ * Registration fees include one copy of the proceedings, welcome reception, social events, coffee breaks and refreshments. METHOD OF PAYMENT You may pay by credit card (VISA, MasterCard or Eurocard only; we cannot accept American Express, Diners Club, etc.). You may also pay by Banker^Òs Cheque, bank transfer or by Eurocheque. All payments must be in Spanish pesetas. If payment is by Banker^Òs Cheque, bank transfer or by Eurocheque, please send it by regular mail. If payment is by credit card, it may be faxed. Please DO NOT e-mail credit card numbers, as we cannot guarantee the security of our e-mail system, and because we require signatures. Please indicate (X) one of the following four payment options: ____ I enclose a Banker^Òs Cheque in Spanish pesetas payable to "First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation". ____ I have transferred the full fees by bank transfer to your account at: Banco Central Hispano, c/ Recogidas, 13, 18002 Granada. Account Name: First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Account Number: 0049 - 0372 - 18 - 2210856078. 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I enclose a copy of the bank transfer papers with the person(s) name written on the transfer. ____ Please debit my VISA/MasterCard/Eurocard account: Amount: _________________________________________ Card No: _________________________________________ Valid from: ___/___ to ___/___ (as printed on your card) Cardholder^Òs Name and Address: Last Name: _________________________________________ First Name: _________________________________________ Street Address: _________________________________________ _________________________________________ City: _________________________________________ State/Province: _________________________________________ Country: _________________________________________ Postal/Zip Code: _________________________________________ Signature as on card: _________________________________________ Credit card charges will be processed in Spanish pesetas. ____ I enclose Eurocheque(s) for the full fees. I have written my Eurocheque number on the back of each Eurocheque. MAIL OR FAX TO: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Dpto. de Traducción e Interpretación C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 GRANADA, SPAIN reli98@goliat.ugr.es +34 58 24 41 04 fax ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: interruptions Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 22:17:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 560 (560) Dear Colleagues: At the end of this week we will move house, from Bow to Leyton (both districts of London), a happy conclusion to a seemingly long and certainly traumatic process. Those of you without experience of house-buying in England will have but scant appreciation of how wild a process this can be. (Ah, the fortunate people of Scotland!) In any case, within the next day or two my computer will be packed away, nearly the last of the items to be boxed -- of course. From then until the time it emerges into the light of day 3 tube stops from here, Humanist may not be as well tended by your editor as should be. Proleptic apologies for that. Wish us luck for the removal. Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Position opening Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 16:46:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 561 (561) [deleted quotation] ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY/ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA/CHAMPAIGN Position Announcement Project Administrator Lincoln Digitization Project PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR: Academic and special libraries in Illinois are seeking a creative, innovative, and enthusiastic full-time administrator to coordinate all aspects of a 2-year grant project to digitize materials relating to the life of Abraham Lincoln. The grant is funded by the Illinois Secretary of State's "Educate and Automate" program through the Cooperative Collection Management Program, a consortium of 63 academic libraries in Illinois. The Project Administrator will coordinate oversight for intellectual content, creative design, and development of a final product. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Lincoln Digitization Project will be a freely accessible web site concentrating in its first year on Lincoln's activities and experiences as a politician and campaigner prior to the presidential years. The primary goal of the Project is to improve and expand access to existing Illinois collections of materials by and about Abraham Lincoln. Newly commissioned content such as essays, bibliographies, or articles, also will be solicited specifically for inclusion in the Web site. One long-term secondary goal of the Project is to enhance knowledge of the richness and diversity of Lincoln materials held throughout the state of Illinois. The Project will operate under the direction of the Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program, dedicated to the principles and practice of collaborative development and management of resources in Illinois academic libraries. Since late 1996 the CCMP has worked with the Illinois State Library and a core group of institutions with significant, unique collections of Lincolniana to develop a plan for the Project. HOST INSTITUTIONS: Illinois State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the host institutions for the project, operating under the auspices of the Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program and the Lincoln Project Advisory Board. The project administrator will be headquartered at Illinois State University's Milner Library and will have access to the collections and facilities of that library, the University of Illinois Library, and the collections of numerous participating Illinois libraries and museums, including the State Library and the Illinois State Historical Library. The technical functions will be headquartered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The two host libraries have combined holdings of nearly 10 million volumes. QUALIFICATIONS: The project administrator's task will be to coordinate all aspects of the project, including content identification, negotiations for use, editorial work; publicity, administration, and assessment. Minimum qualifications include: Master's degree or Ph.D. in library science, archival sciences, history, or related field. Five years' recent professional experience. Familiarity with the scholarly, academic, and library communities. General knowledge of editing, publishing, and digital imaging processes, procedures, technologies, and standards. Grant-writing skills to explore additional funding sources. Knowledge of American history. Knowledge of HTML and SGML markup languages (desirable). Good negotiating skills. Communication and public speaking skills. Strong interpersonal skills. SALARY: $45,000 for each of two years. Benefits include a standard university package of group medical, dental, and life insurance; 24 days vacation; sick leave. PREFERRED BEGINNING DATE: February 1, 1998. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Applications will be accepted until position is filled, but for maximum consideration, applications should be submitted not later than November 30, 1997. TO APPLY: Submit letter of application, resume, and names of at least three references to Lincoln Digitization Project Administrator Search Committee, Attn.: Cheryl Elzy, Associate Dean, Milner Library, Illinois State University, Campus Box 8900, Normal, Illinois 61790-8900. For more information about both libraries, visit us at <a href="http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu">http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu</a> or http://www.grainger.uiuc.edu/. ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER ENCOURAGING DIVERSITY. Cecile M. Jagodzinski Illinois State University Milner Library Voice: 309-438-3449 Campus Box 8900 FAX: 309-438-3676 Normal, IL 61790-8900 e-mail: cecile@mhsgate.mlb.ilstu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Richard Bear <rbear@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> Subject: Gascoigne Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:49:35 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 562 (562) George Gascoigne's _The Steele Glas & the complaynt of Philomene_ (1576) is now available online at <<a href="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/steel/steel.html">http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/steel/steel.html</a>>. -- Richard Bear <rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu> Renascence Editions <<a href="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm">http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: James R Hamilton <hamilton@ksu.edu> Subject: "seventh threshold" Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:24:44 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 563 (563) A colleague in music, not on the list, asks for some help locating a reference (in ancient Persian philosophy she thinks) to a phrase "the seventh threshold." It occurs in a renaissance musical setting; and she wishes to help a graduate student trace down the passage that is being set. James R. Hamilton, Head Department of Philosophy (913) 532-6758 Kansas State University hamilton@ksu.edu Manhattan, KS 66506 From: James O'Donnell <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Subject: advice on e-plagiarism? Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:52:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 564 (564) With some urgency (a workshop to be held 10/22), I ask if there are any good resources out there on the web to help students understand how, when, and why to cite on-line materials in their own academic work. Our tutoring and advising folks tell me they are getting increasing reports of kids using e-stuff and either innocently or stupidly failing to cite it in any appropriate way. My thought is that there must be a website or six that people have already created. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Stefan Sinclair <4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca> Subject: [ISO-8859-1] Colloque LIL98: L'informatique dans les Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 12:56:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 565 (565) humani[ISO-8859-1] tés ******************************************** * LIL98: L'informatique dans les humanités * ******************************************** <a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Confs/lil.html">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Confs/lil.html</a> Colloque virtuel et interdisciplinaire pour les étudiants et étudiantes de deuxième et troisième cylces: le 14 mars 1998 Depuis sa conception en automne 1996, le colloque "LIL: L'informatique dans les étudies françaises" se donne comme objectif principal l'échange de théories, de méthodes et d'idées sur l'informatique dans ses divers rapports avec la littérature et la linguistique françaises. Il se veut avant tout une occasion d'encourager la communication interdisciplinaire entre les étudiants et étudiantes de deuxième et de troisième cycles dans ce vaste domaine pourtant relativement jeune. Le colloque ne prétend être ni un bilan des diverses et innombrables applications de l'informatique dans les études françaises ni une présentation des plus récents développements technologiques, mais plutôt, un échantillon des projets qui se font parmi nos collègues. Si en cours il arrive à former de nouveaux liens entre chercheurs et chercheuses ou à inspirer des directions futures pour des recherches, le colloque aura réalisé son but. Étant donné que l'informatique est le fil conducteur du colloque LIL, il n'est guère surprenant que lui-même se penche si largement sur les possibilités offertes par l'informatique. À chaque étape de son déroulement, le colloque LIL est virtuel: d'abord, l'appel de communications est disponible sous forme électronique; ensuite, la version préliminaire des communications est publiée sur l'hypertoile; et enfin, la discussion électronique a lieu par le biais d'un système de communication virtuel. C'est justement cet aspect informatique qui a permis au colloque LIL97 (l'année dernière) de se voir enrichir par une participation internationale importante: le Canada, les États-Unis de l'Amérique, l'Écosse, l'Angleterre, la France et la Hongrie. Au fait, il est assez rare qu'un colloque se donne la possibilité d'être deux fois profitable: d'une part pour le contenu des communications et d'autre part en tant qu'expérience pour ce qui sera peut-être la voie de l'avenir dans le milieu universitaire. Les sujets possibles de communications sont nombreux, des plus simples emplois de l'informatique aux plus élaborés. Les communications peuvent prendre la forme d'une présentation de nouveaux outils, approches ou applications, d'une démonstration de nouveaux logicels ou système informatique, d'un examen d'outils, d'approches ou d'applications connus, d'une étude du rapport entre l'informatique et les études françaises, et bien d'autres encore... Visitez le site hypertoile ci-dessous pous plus de renseignements et pour remplir une proposition de communications. Veuillez transmettre ce message à toute personne qui pourrait s'y interesser. <a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Confs/lil.html">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Confs/lil.html</a> -- Stéfan Sinclair, Queen's University (Canada) WWW: <<a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/</a>> HCR - Rih: <<a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Stefan Sinclair <4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca> Subject: LIL98: L'informatique dans les humanites Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:03:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 566 (566) ******************************************** * LIL98: L'informatique dans les humanites * ******************************************** <a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Confs/lil.html">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Confs/lil.html</a> Colloque virtuel et interdisciplinaire pour les etudiants et etudiantes de deuxieme et troisieme cylces: le 14 mars 1998 Depuis sa conception en automne 1996, le colloque "LIL: L'informatique dans les etudies francaises" se donne comme objectif principal l'echange de theories, de methodes et d'idees sur l'informatique dans ses divers rapports avec la litterature et la linguistique francaises. Il se veut avant tout une occasion d'encourager la communication interdisciplinaire entre les etudiants et etudiantes de deuxieme et de troisieme cycles dans ce vaste domaine pourtant relativement jeune. Le colloque ne pretend etre ni un bilan des diverses et innombrables applications de l'informatique dans les etudes francaises ni une presentation des plus recents developpements technologiques, mais plutot, un echantillon des projets qui se font parmi nos collegues. Si en cours il arrive a former de nouveaux liens entre chercheurs et chercheuses ou a inspirer des directions futures pour des recherches, le colloque aura realise son but. Etant donne que l'informatique est le fil conducteur du colloque LIL, il n'est guere surprenant que lui-meme se penche si largement sur les possibilites offertes par l'informatique. A chaque etape de son deroulement, le colloque LIL est virtuel: d'abord, l'appel de communications est disponible sous forme electronique; ensuite, la version preliminaire des communications est publiee sur l'hypertoile; et enfin, la discussion electronique a lieu par le biais d'un systeme de communication virtuel. C'est justement cet aspect informatique qui a permis au colloque LIL97 (l'annee derniere) de se voir enrichir par une participation internationale importante: le Canada, les Etats-Unis de l'Amerique, l'Ecosse, l'Angleterre, la France et la Hongrie. Au fait, il est assez rare qu'un colloque se donne la possibilite d'etre deux fois profitable: d'une part pour le contenu des communications et d'autre part en tant qu'experience pour ce qui sera peut-etre la voie de l'avenir dans le milieu universitaire. Les sujets possibles de communications sont nombreux, des plus simples emplois de l'informatique aux plus elabores. Les communications peuvent prendre la forme d'une presentation de nouveaux outils, approches ou applications, d'une demonstration de nouveaux logicels ou systeme informatique, d'un examen d'outils, d'approches ou d'applications connus, d'une etude du rapport entre l'informatique et les etudes francaises, et bien d'autres encore... Visitez le site hypertoile ci-dessous pous plus de renseignements et pour remplir une proposition de communications. Veuillez transmettre ce message a toute personne qui pourrait s'y interesser. <a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Confs/lil.html">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Confs/lil.html</a> -- Stefan Sinclair, Queen's University (Canada) WWW: <<a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/</a>> HCR - Rih: <<a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: accented characters and ISO-8859-1 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:02:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 567 (567) It is the year 1997 in common reckoning, and yet we still have grief over the display of accented characters, even for French. Oi veh! This is a request for advice on the matter, provoked by a message you would already have received were it not for your editor's worries. Perhaps you can put these to rest. Simply I need to know what happens when you receive a message through Humanist encoded in the ISO-8859-1 standard. I'm told that those who can read the (natural) language of the message and care to do so will already have their e-mail programs properly set, and that anyone who does not have his or her program configured for ISO-8859-1 can safely be ignored, since he or she clearly won't care about the contents. Is that true? As a test, this message will be followed by two others, the second a stripped-down (one might say "humiliated") version of the first, which is in the ISO encoding. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THE FIRST VERSION, please simply read and enjoy it, and delete the second. If you do experience some distress with the ISO'd message, let me know (via willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk) what happens. Wisdom of experience from those with it will be most welcome. Yours (in ignorance), 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Daniel Brink 1940-1997 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:08:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 568 (568) [The following I received earlier today from Peter Lafford, Director, Language Computing Laboratory, Arizona State University, <Peter.Lafford@ASU.edu>. -- WM] Daniel T. Brink, Professor of English and creator and founding Director of the Humanities Computing Facility at Arizona State University, died Friday, October 18, 1997, in Tempe, Arizona, USA.. After three years' illness, he succumbed at 57 to cancer of the brain. Professor Brink held a B.A in German with a minor in mathematics from Lawrence University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Wisconsin. After teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he came to ASU in 1976 and pursued his two primary academic interests: historical linguistics, chiefly comparative West Germanic, and humanities computing. His work in both fields brought prestige to ASU and national recognition to Professor Brink. Because of his achievements, he was elected to the Executive Committees of the Society for Germanic Philology, the Modern Language Association (MLA) Discussion Group for Netherlandic Language and Literature, the MLA Discussion Group for Germanic Philology, and the Association for Computing and the Humanities. In addition he wrote regular editorial columns for both Modern Language Journal and Computers and the Humanities and was appointed Manager of the Office of Technical Assessment and Development (1987-88) and Associate Dean for Technology Integration in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU (1990-92). Before falling ill in 1995, he was continuing to work to bring historical linguistics and humanities computing into closer alliance and to bring the combination more fully into the classroom. Professor Brink is survived by his wife Jean R. (Wise) Brink, also a Professor of English at ASU, two sons, Robert Patrick and Peter Curtis, a daughter-in-law, Pam, and a granddaughter, Dana. He is also survived by his parents, Elinor (Welch) and Daniel Theodore Brink, and his brothers, John and Phillip. He was a man of considerable intellect and integrity, a major force of reason, innovation, and humor at ASU. [Supplementary note] The memorial service for Dan will be held Saturday at 3:30 Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time until Sunday). The family has requested no flowers, but rather contributions to a fund in Dan's honor at the ASU Foundation. Details will be forthcoming on Humanist. It's strange what one remembers. Of Dan, whom I knew and will miss very much, a sustained and very funny bit of play with the names of streets in Toronto, when he visited perhaps for the first time during the 1989 ACH/ALLC conference. We were at Barron Brainerd's, with Joe Raben and other worthies, drinking beer, when he launched into "Yonge Street". Had us in stiches, he did. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: "Imaging in Libraries" VINE special issue Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:47:45 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 569 (569) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 22, 1997 This call for papers is so topical and of such broad concern right now that I thought it deserved a broader distribution than it might normally receive. David Green ============================================================= IMAGING IN LIBRARIES : Call for papers VINE, published quarterly by the Library Information Technology Centre (LITC) in London, is Europe's premier journal for library systems professionals, providing timely and definitive overviews of the hottest topics in the field. VINE's intention is to publish informative, well-researched writing that will be of immediate practical use to its busy, influential readership. For a forthcoming special issue of VINE, authors are invited to submit short papers (2000-3000 words) on any aspect of the practice of digital image management in libraries in Europe. Potential themes include: o image digitisation / scanning programmes o image databases: of digitised paintings, photographs, slides, maps, video clips, multimedia documents or scanned texts o image indexing, classification and cataloguing o image retrieval systems o user interfaces for image access o integrated multimedia library systems Alternative approaches include: o product-specific reviews: e.g., of the multimedia modules of library automation systems (Sirsi's DMA / Hyperion, VTLS's InfoStation / Image Manager, etc.) o site-specific reports: of innovative installations in individual libraries o overviews of funded research projects: eLib, Telematics, Digital Library, etc. o sector-specific surveys: of image management in public, academic or special libraries; small, medium or large organisations; etc. o general surveys: of the tools, techniques and technologies used for the processing of digital images in libraries or information services In the first instance, please send a brief abstract (150 words) of your proposed paper to the guest editor, Jonathan Furner (email: j.furner@rgu.ac.uk), by THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER. Authors of selected papers will be notified on MONDAY 10 NOVEMBER. The deadline for receipt of full papers will be MONDAY 18 DECEMBER, for publication early in 1998. Further information about the work of the LITC may be found at URL: <a href="http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~litc">http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~litc</a> VINE's home page is at URL: <a href="http://www.sbu.ac.uk/litc/publications/vine.html">http://www.sbu.ac.uk/litc/publications/vine.html</a> Queries about this issue of VINE should be directed to Dr Furner at j.furner@rgu.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@hd.uib.no> Subject: Re: 11.0356 accented characters and ISO-8859-1 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:39:05 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 570 (570) At 08:05 AM 10/22/97 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] I don't think it's true, though I'm not sure you can draw the obvious conclusion from it. Mail gateways are, for better or worse, not required to accept mail in coded character sets other than ASCII; other coded character sets (such as your 8859-1 message) must be encoded using characters in the ASCII range. The most common method of doing this is Mime encoding, which I believe I remember from experience is what your mail system does with 8859 in any case. (For technical reasons, I am not in a position to tell from where I'm sitting at the moment.) There are, of course, other encodings. Mime gets the information across, but mail gateways are, for better or worse, not required to be Mime-compliant, so that mail in ISO 8859 encoded with Mime arrives at my IBM mainframe looking somewhat the worse for wear. One nice thing about Mime, however, is that the determined user can decipher it even if the mail system doesn't, so I have a little filter on the IBM system to de-mime mail and turn it into the IBM equivalent of ISO 8859-1. So I'm a case in point: I do read French, and I do care about proper spelling, so I strongly prefer that accents be included. (Native speakers often do without, but it's easier for them than for non-native speakers.) But I don't have a Mime-compliant mail system and have no influence over the choice of the mail system in any case. I would be astonished to discover things are substantially different in the average Unix installation. Those of us who read mail on their PCs may have more say in how it is presented, if they are willing to figure out how to have that say. On the other hand, I can handle such mail, and the frequent use of Mime encoding in mail is a good argument to use to persuade system administrators to install better mail systems, and better terminal display systems that can handle eight-bit characters. (Here, the IBM system is miles ahead of every Unix system I've ever used; IBM system administrators know that character encoding is a problem to be solved; Unix system administrators all seem to be in denial.) So no, not *everyone* in the intended audience is actually likely to have their mail systems configured right for ISO 8859 part 1. But you should use ISO 8859-1 nevertheless, as part of the computing humanist's eternal struggle against the forces of ignorance, monolingualism, sloth, and 7-bit character sets. NEVER SURRENDER. WE SHALL OVERCOME. NO COMPROMISE WITH THE FORCES OF DARKNESS. -Michael Sperberg-McQueen (currently away from the mainframe and using a mail system which displayed the accented characters just fine) From: Carl Vogel <Carl.Vogel@cs.tcd.ie> Subject: ISO Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 09:10:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 571 (571) Good morning. Just a quick reaction to your note yestereday: "... anyone who does not have his or her program configured for ISO-8859-1 can safely be ignored, since he or she clearly won't care about the contents. Is that true?" No -- particularly for users of unix systems without system administration permissions. They can be stuck for a long while before centralized services like mail readers are updated, and mail with non-ascii characters can be rejected or corrupted. Take care, Carl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Carl Vogel, O'Reilly Institute, Department of Computer Science Lecturer in Computational Linguistics Trinity College, University of Dublin telephone: 353 1 608 1538 Ireland facsimile: 353 1 677 2204 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "by way of Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>" Subject: Strange characters Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:35:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 572 (572) Dear Willard, Not all do have the mail programs which can be instructed to handle the incoming mail properly. Out complete Faculty of Arts has to do with PC-mail, which cannot handle any of the schemes used for accented characters. Your example gave e acute as Greek theta (ASCII 233) e grave as Greek Phi (ASCII 232) c cedille as Greek gamma (ASCII 231) o ^ as something looking like high s (ASCII 244), and a acute as Greek alpha (ASCII 224). I do often get email where higher ASCII characters are replaced by = plus a Hex code, and most frustrating also email where all higher ASCII characters are simply stripped off. I wish you all the best with your moving. My brother bought a house in England two years ago, and his experiences sounded quite unbelievable to a Dutch audience. So I have some idea of what you are going through. Moving house is bad enough as it is.. My dear mother used to say that even if someone had murdered his whole family, he still didn't deserve to move. Thanks for all you are doing for us, Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen Department of Comparative Linguistics Postbus 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands Phone: 071-5272507 (work) From: Remi Jolivet <Remi.Jolivet@ling.unil.ch> Subject: accented characters and ISO-8859-1 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:39:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 573 (573) Bonjour Willard, Les accents du premier texte annonçant le colloque virtuel LIL98 ne sont pas arrivés jusqu'à moi... Or mon programme (EudoraPro sur Macintosh) est correctement configuré, ainsi que les machines de transit (serveur pop) de l'université de Lausanne puisque je reçois régulièrement du courriel en français correctement accentué et "cédillé" (ç). Bonne chance pour trouver le maillon défectueux de la chaîne qui nous relie! A toutes fins utiles voici la copie de l'en-tête développée du message reçu. Je constate que le Content-Type précise "charset=US-ASCII"... Avec mes remerciements pour tout le travail offerts aux Humanist[e]s et bon courage pour ce déménagement. From: Carl Vogel <Carl.Vogel@cs.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: ISO Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:40:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 574 (574) Hello again, perhaps then we happen to have the ISO features installed here. i looked into the two messages you sent this is a bit from the first: "Depuis sa conception en automne 1996, le colloque "LIL: L'informatiqu= e dans les =E9tudies fran=E7aises" se donne comme objectif principal l'=E9c= hange de th=E9ories, de m=E9thodes et d'id=E9es sur l'informatique dans ses div=" And this is from the second: "Depuis sa conception en automne 1996, le colloque "LIL: L'informatique dans les etudies francaises" se donne comme objectif principal l'echange de theories, de methodes et d'idees sur l'informatique dans ses divers" Now, the =E7 (etc.) in the former is an improvement over when any mail that had an accent was simply rejected here, but the second is significantly easier on the eyes. (I am of course presuming that by return mail, the ascii encodings of nonascii characters will reach you as ascii characters, and not decoded into lovely diacritics -- else I guess you'll find this mail rather strange.) take good care, Carl From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell <jgt@hum.gu.se> Subject: Re: 11.0356 accented characters and ISO-8859-1 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:40:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 575 (575) Willard, We will welcome the implementation of ISO-8859-1. For us with more characters in our alphabets than the usal english a-z, have for a long time used the ISO standard. In the discussion list OLDNORSENET, which we are hosting, we use ISO-8859-1. From the beginning there were lot of protests from the North American society, but I think most people have accepted it now. Most new programs also use ISO as the default character set. The advantages to us who use non-english alphabets are great. /Jan-Gunnar -- Jan-Gunnar Tingsell <tingsell@hum.gu.se> Humanistiska fakultetens dataservice tel: +46 (0)31 773 4553 Göteborgs universitet fax: +46 (0)31 773 4455 URL=<a href="http://www.hum.gu.se">http://www.hum.gu.se</a> From: John Bradley <john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0356 accented characters and ISO-8859-1 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:02:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 576 (576) Willard: For the record, Simeon here at King's read the message and displayed the accents without any problem. ... john ---------------------- John Bradley john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk From: Hans van der Laan <H.R.van_der_Laan@ThuisNet.LeidenUniv.NL> Subject: (Fwd) 11.0356 accented characters and ISO-8859-1 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:01:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 577 (577) Dear Willard, Being a Dutchman, not French, I didn't bother to set my e-mail program at all. I use it right from the box. But yes, I care about the contents (I read French a little), and yes, I did receive the first version of your test, and yes, it was completely as it should be: all diactritical signs were perfect. I am using Pegasus Mail and I think it is the best e-mail program. Sincerely, Hans | Hans van der Laan - Computerraadsman | W.F.Hermanszijde 3 2353 TL Leiderdorp | Tel. (071) 541 64 31 / 589 69 49 | vdlaan@pobox.LeidenUniv.nl From: Luis Villar <Luis.Villar@Dartmouth.EDU> Subject: Accented Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:02:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 578 (578) Willard, The second message 11.0358(2) was readable. The first one, as usual, is readable, but requires a bit of imagination. luis From: "Charles L. Creegan" <ccreegan@ncwc.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0356 accented characters and ISO-8859-1 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:02:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 579 (579) On the theory that positive results might also be useful...Using Eudora Light 3.0 under win 3.11, I had no trouble seeing accented characters correctly in the first message. I have not knowingly done any setup to ensure this...it just worked. -- Charles L. Creegan N.C. Wesleyan College ccreegan@ncwc.edu <a href="http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan">http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan</a> From: "[iso-8859-1] René Audet" <rene.audet@creliq.ulaval.ca> Subject: accents Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:01:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 580 (580) Hi, It's quite strange... As a French Canadian, I'm used to read accents in email, but Sinclair's ones appear as squares... I use Eudora Pro 3.1 on Mac, which encode accents in MIME standard, I think (is it really a type of encoding?). Maybe a part of the problem is the software used by Stefan. Thank you for trying to preserve this particularity of the French language. René Audet (do you read normally my accents? there are some in my signature) ____________________________________________ René Audet <aaa093@agora.ulaval.ca> Etudiant, maîtrise en littérature québécoise CRELIQ Université Laval Québec From: "Christopher G. Fox" <foxchris@lion.shu.edu> Subject: Accented characters Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:34:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 581 (581) Dear Willard, .... I wanted to let you know that your first version of the conference announcement did not come through, because Seton Hall is using Lotus Notes as its mail program, and Lotus does not use ISO standards for character encoding. Yes, I have made the open standards argument a million times, but larger forces prevail. Best wishes, Chris Fox - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Christopher G. Fox, Ph.D. Research and Information Design Projects Leader Center for Academic Technology Adjunct Faculty (French), Modern Languages Seton Hall University voice: 973-275-2753 fax: 973-761-9758 data: foxchris@shu.edu From: "Dr. Joel Goldfield" <joel@funrsc.fairfield.edu> Subject: Accented characters Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:33:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 582 (582) Dear Willard, Thanks for checking on this. I now have my NCSA Telnet program's Session/Translation setting on ISO 8859-1, but it doesn't do a damn bit of good. I still see the usual =E9 business instead of e-acute (ASCII 130), etc., on my Mac PowerBook. Do you have some diagnostic explanation of what's going on? Thanks, Joel From: Robert Kraft <kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Subject: 11.0357 (1) Colloque LIL98 (fwd) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 17:42:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 583 (583) In the incoming message with my machine configuration I get all these highlighted number codes for the "unusual" characters, from an English, standard ASCII perspective. But I notice that when I forward the message back to you (as below), it all comes out correctly, with accents, etc., and not highlighted codes! (But note the Subject line.) So even though I do care, I apparently haven't cared enough to determine how to fix it. I have received numerous messages with such features (apostrophes coded, umlauts, etc.), and haven't had time to check things out. Now I'm better informed, thanks to your test! (and presumably can get something done about it). Bob -- Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html</a> From: Michael Kessler <mkessler@ceres.sfsu.edu> Subject: Reading text Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 17:44:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 584 (584) I had no problem reading the accented text. I am using Pegasus for Windows, and the mail is delivered to a Novell server. I do not know what would happen if I were to retrieve the message with a POP mailer from a PINE account. ******************************************** Michael Kessler voice (415) 338-1662 College of Humanities mailto:MKessler@ceres.sfsu.edu San Francisco State University FAX (415) 338-7030 1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132 ******************************************** From: "Espen S. Ore" <Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no> Subject: iso-test Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 17:43:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 585 (585) Willard, [deleted quotation] It might have worked if you used another "charset" encoding (see above). It did not work by my computer, probably because it believes tha 8-bit characters in something called US-ASCII are extended DOS-charset rather than ISO 8859/1 (so you have to teach the mailer to tell that it is sending ISO). espen From: "N. Heer" <heer@u.washington.edu> Subject: ISO 8859-1 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 23:08:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 586 (586) Willard, Very few IBM compatible computers sold in the USA include the ISO 8859-1 code page. Some of the new multilingual browsers do because, I think, ISO 8859-1 is one of the standards adopted by the WWW. The fault is clearly Microsoft's because they have long refused to incorporate ISO standards in their software. The only way I was able to read your message was by loading into memory a different screen font in the 8859-1 code page. Some of us have been fighting for a number of years now to get Microsoft to use ISO 8859-6 for its Arabic software instead of using its own codepage for Arabic (MS 1256). This whole problem of code pages will of course be solved when everyone, and especially Microsoft, starts using Unicode (ISO 10646). Nicholas +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nicholas L. Heer, Professor Emeritus Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization University of Washington, Box 353120, Seattle, WA 98195-3120, USA E-Mail: heer@u.washington.edu Telephone: 206-325-0852 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0357 (1) Colloque LIL98 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 23:10:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 587 (587) Dear Willard, I'm afraid I'm among those for whom the first message is full of strange (and I don't mean foreign) characters. Is this a system or application thing? gary From: Glenda Warren Carl <carlg@southwestern.edu> Subject: Colloque Lil98 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 23:10:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 588 (588) Dear Professor McCarty, I am one of the benighted few (?) who cannot read messages like the first one you sent. That is, such messages are legible except for accented characters. These appear usually as a square and occasionally as another character (an inverted question mark, for example). I know what the word is supposed to be and so can mentally supply the necessary characters, but it is a nuisance. There may be settings I can change that would make these characters appear as they should, but I don't know what those settings are. I hope this is useful information for you. Please feel free to respond privately or on-list if I can tell you more. Glenda Carl ******************************* Glenda Warren Carl Southwestern University Georgetown, Texas 78627-0770 (512) 863-1590 FAX (512) 863-1846 carlg@southwestern.edu <a href="http://www.southwestern.edu/~carlg/French_Web/maison.html">http://www.southwestern.edu/~carlg/French_Web/maison.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Lorna Hughes <lorna.hughes@nyu.edu> Subject: advice on e-plagarism? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:49:41 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 589 (589) Jim (and others), I direct our students to the following: ÿ ÿ1. MLA Style citations of electronic sources <a href="http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html">http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html</a> 2. A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/cite.html">http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/cite.html</a> Lorna --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Academic Computing Facility Fax: (212) 995 4120 New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA From: Julie Rabine <jrabine@BGNet.bgsu.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0350 7th threshold? e-plagarism? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:44:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 590 (590) Try this site: Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information <<a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/">http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/</a>> There's a book that goes with it, _Electronic styles: A Handbook for citing electronic information (1996)_, that your library probably has. The book is quite well known and accepted among librarians. Julie Rabine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Julie Rabine jrabine@bgnet.bgsu.edu Bibliographer (Arts & Humanities) (419)372-7421 Jerome Library Bowling Green State University "Time flies like an arrow; Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 fruit flies like a banana." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Rick Anderson <rianders@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: Has anyone run TACT on Windows NT? Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:59:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 591 (591) I've been attempting to get TACT operate under Windows NT. Something about the dougmenu.exe executable launching method seems to conflict with NT's control of launching executables. The individual executables for Makebase and other features will launch when type from the command line. Has anyone got this to work without rewriting the launching program? --Rick Anderson ________________________________________________________________________ Rick Anderson | rianders@rci.rutgers.edu ________________|_______________________________________________________ CETH (Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities) Systems Administrator and Technical Consultant, (732)932-1384 _________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: kmatsum@tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp Subject: Re: 11.0356 accented characters and ISO-8859-1 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 10:00:24 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 592 (592) Dear Willard, This is how an ISO'd message looks like on my screen. Well, practically speaking, you have little problem as long as you know the character codes and are ready to replace them with some combinations of ASCII characters. Many of my Finnish friends don't mind sending me messy messages and I've given up reminding them of the serious inconvenience they are causing. It would take much more time to explain what they should do than do the substitution :-) Best wishes Kazuto Matsumura kmatsum@tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp ------------------ Beginning of a mess --------------------------------- [deleted quotation]E9cha= [deleted quotation]diver= [deleted quotation]cycle= [deleted quotation]EAt= [deleted quotation]projet= [deleted quotation]nouveau= [deleted quotation]future= [deleted quotation]LI= [deleted quotation]versio= [deleted quotation]= [deleted quotation]communicati= [deleted quotation]profitable= [deleted quotation]peuvent [deleted quotation]= [deleted quotation]3D= [deleted quotation]3D= [deleted quotation] ------------------- The mess ends here ---------------------------------- From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: code problems Date: Thu, 23 Oct 97 10:32:35 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 593 (593) It is interesting to notice how chauvinistic we can be about codes / characters. There are those who tout 8859-1, codepage 850, mail program xxx, etc., but the truth is that unless you and the receiver are on the same page (pun intended), you cannot expect the receiver to get what you are writing on your screen. All the extended characters in your message come out in my mail program as !. If I download using html, they come out as Gk. sigma = a umlaut, etc. It is not, as some intimate, an example of American imperialism, though way back when somebody decided we needed only ASCII, and the A does stand for American. You can encode anyway you want, e.g. é for e acute, or e/ for e acute, c, for c cedilla, etc. The sender and receiver have to be on the same page. Those who decry American alphabet imperialism will please note that 8859-1 is called "European". It is really sort of western European, with this or that character left out. If you really want to let it all hang out and to have the capability of sending and receiving all writing systems, you need to go Unicode / persuade your administrator and Bill Gates to go Unicode. Windows NT is unicode compatible / compliant, but Windows 95 is not; I don't know yet about Windows 98. This subject seems to come up at regular intervals on whatever list one is on. It frequently comes about because of egotists who imagine that whatever is on their particular machine is on everyones. The solution is at hand, but collective we do not seem to want to get it done. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Geoffrey Rockwell <grockwel@mcmaster.ca> Subject: New Courses Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 18:04:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 594 (594) The Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University is introducing a set of new courses in the general area of Humanities Computing and Multimedia Communication. I have enclosed a list of the courses with brief course descriptions below. They are all one semester courses. As we prepare to defend such a collection of courses to the appropriate University committees I would appreciate any comments members of Humanist might have. Please feel free to send your comments directly to me (grockwel@mcmaster.ca) or to the list, if of general interest. In addition to introducing these courses we are proposing a Certificate in Multimedia Communication that students can get in addition to their degree if they take a sufficient number of these courses and fulfill certain other requirements. At McMaster Certificates are like Minors, but with fewer requirements. Anyone interested in the full proposal shoulld write me - I would be happy to send you a copy, should such bureaucratic documents interest you. Thanks in advance, Geoffrey Rockwell Director, Humanities Computing, McMaster University ------------------------------------------- 1.1 HUMAN 2E03 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS IN THE HUMANITIES An introduction to issues in Humanities Computing. Students will study the history and present state of computing and information technology with particular attention given to issues around communication and human interaction. In this context, students will also learn skills such as how to use MS-DOS, word processing, electronic mail, how to browse the Internet, and how to search a database. No previous experience with computers is necessary. 1.2 HUMAN 2H03 THE DIGITAL IMAGE: COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND DESIGN An introduction to the creation of digital images and associated design issues. Students will read about issues concerning the digital image, learn to design for the World Wide Web, and learn to use graphics software in order to complete design assignments. 1.3 HUMAN 2I03 WRITING IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE Covering the fundamentals of grammar and essay composition in the electronic age, this course will use supplementary writing software, distribution lists, and on-line discussion, to increase students' awareness of the communication potential of the Internet. Readings will explore the effects of the electronic age on communication and composition. 1.4 HUMAN 2J03 ORALITY AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE The study of classical and electronic examples of oral discourse, and the analysis of their persuasive techniques. Students will analyse numerous examples of oral communication collected from print and electronic media. There will be a practicum where students deliver an expository speech with multimedia support. 2.1 HUMAN 3G03 MULTIMEDIA IN THE HUMANITIES This course is for students in the humanities who want to study computer-based multimedia and create multimedia works. Students will discuss how to evaluate multimedia works, create such works, and consider the application of multimedia technology to the humanities. 2.2 HUMAN 3A03 TOPICS IN THE PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF COMPUTING Seminar in the history and philosopy of computing and communications technology; topics will include: Computers and Gender, The Ethics of Computing, The History of Computers and Communications Technology, and Privacy and the Freedom of Speech in the Age of the Internet. 2.3 HUMAN 3F03 ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND THEIR STUDY An introduction to the fundamentals of computer-assisted text analysis research in the humanities. In the context of humanities research, students will learn to use text-analysis tools and will be introduced to computational linguistics. Students will be expected to work on projects related to their specific discipline. 2.4 HUMAN 3B03 TECHNICAL WRITING AND COMMUNICATION Explore issues such as audience analysis, the role of jargon and specialized language. Students will be asked to complete a project of their own devising, including a proposal, a final report, and a videotaped presentation. 2.5 HUMAN 3C03 HUMAN COMPUTER INTEFACE DESIGN Explore the history and design of computer interfaces. Work on a major project in interdisciplinary teams to research and prototype an interface for presentation in class. We will also discuss issues around usability and evaluation of computer interfaces. 2.6 HUMAN 3D03 INDEPENDENT ENQUIRY IN MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS Independent enquiry projects in the area of multimedia communications are encouraged. Students will be expected to make a formal proposal, to present the results of the enquiry to their peers, and to summarize the results in the appropriate form. From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Lecture Hall Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:06:59 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 595 (595) Humanists will be interested at minimum in checking out the World Lecture Hall, which "contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials." It's at <<a href="http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/">http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/</a>>. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Christoph Eyrich <eyrich@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Subject: FYI: Typesetting critical editions with TeX Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 13:44:41 +0200 (MEST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 596 (596) I just came across an URL describing how to use TeX for the technical accomplishment of critical editions: <a href="http://s.top.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/bernt/cetinfo.htm">http://s.top.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/bernt/cetinfo.htm</a> Those not afraid of using (La)TeX might be interested in the information provided there. Regards Christoph Eyrich eyrich@zedat.fu-berlin.de From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: AMICO University Testbed Project: Call for Participation Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:36:52 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 597 (597) [deleted quotation] The full Call for Participation in the Art Museum Image Consortium's University Testbed project is now available at <a href="http://www.amn.org/AMICO/testbed.call.html">http://www.amn.org/AMICO/testbed.call.html</a> Multimedia digital documentation of over 20,000 works, from the collections of the 23 member museums, will be made available under license to selected university participants during the academic year 1998-1999. AMICO will use existing distribution channels to deliver access to the Library during the test-bed phase and beyond. Discussions are currently underway with the Research Libraries Group to provide distribution support during the test-bed. As previously announced, an information session about the testbed project will be held in conjunction with the upcoming CNI meeting, at 9:30, Sunday October 26, 1997. If you are unable to attend, please feel free to address specific questions about the testbed to Jennifer Trant <jtrant@archimuse.com> or David Bearman <dbear@archimuse.com> AMICO's management consultants. -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museum Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0350 7th threshold? e-plagarism? Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:26:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 598 (598) [deleted quotation] On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 599 (599) [deleted quotation] Try this site: Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information <<a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/">http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/</a>> There's a book that goes with it, _Electronic styles: A Handbook for citing electronic information (1996)_, that your library probably has. The book is quite well known and accepted among librarians. Julie Rabine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Julie Rabine jrabine@bgnet.bgsu.edu Bibliographer (Arts & Humanities) (419)372-7421 Jerome Library Bowling Green State University "Time flies like an arrow; Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 fruit flies like a banana." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Suzette Worden <S.A.Worden@bton.ac.uk> Subject: Plagiarism Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 13:35:36 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 600 (600) To Jim O'Donnell and others The site below might be of interest in relation to plagiarism. I reproduce(!) part of a mail message that was forward to me in September. For citation advice - MLA handbook advice is available: Gibaldi, Joseph "MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses and Dissertations" 4th edition, New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1995. The best web link I know is <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/">http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/</a> Suzette Worden ------ [deleted quotation]------------------------------------------------------------------------- Suzette Worden s.a.worden@brighton.ac.uk Director, CTI Art and Design Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1273 643119 Faculty of Art, Design & Humanities University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 2JY, UK. From: "S.A.Rae" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: RE: 11.0350 7th threshold? e-plagiarism? Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:03:12 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 601 (601) I've found that this site: <a href="http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/lists/epub.html">http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/lists/epub.html</a> is a useful compendium of URLs dealing with such matters. Cheers Simon * Simon A Rae * ACS, The Open University, Walton Hall, MILTON KEYNES. MK7 6AA * OU's WWW home page - <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/">http://www.open.ac.uk/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: M Beddow <gll6mb@GPS.LEEDS.AC.UK> Subject: Re: TactWeb and WindowsNT Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 10:41:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 602 (602) To: Multiple recipients of list TACT-L <TACT-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA> [deleted quotation] I spent (wasted) many days during the last Summer vacation trying to get IIS 3 working consistently with *any* DOS CGI program, and failed completely, despite a lot of help and advice from people in the relevant newsgroups. I, too, had wanted to use it with TACTWeb but I couldn't even get it to run a basic "Hello World" CGI script reliably under the NT CMD.EXE. Even when you get past the oddity of IIS requiring you to write out all the headers explicitly, scripts that work for a time suddenly start producing error messages: sometimes stopping and starting IIS will fix it, at other times you have to reboot NT or even deinstall and resintall IIS. All these problems (and Microsoft's indifference to them: they want people to use ISAPI, not CGI, and certainly not CMD.EXE based CGI) are well documented on USENET. > > Has anyone tested TactWeb with the same platform hardware and > software? The problem could be in the compatibility 16/32 bit? > If the IIS DOS-CGI interface were not seriously broken, the 16/32 bit issue would indeed be a problem, but an easily fixable one. Soon after TACTWeb 1.0 was released, I posted amended script files to this list which allow any non-broken NT server (eg WebSite) to work with TACTWeb. As distributed, TACTWeb 1.0 assumes you'll be running WebSite under WIN95, which still uses the 16-bin COMMAND.COM to run DOS CGI scripts. Because a 16-bit program (COMMAND.COM) cannot inherit or pass on standard input or standard output from or to a 32-bit process (the Webserver) John Bradley's dotactq.bat etc files have to work via temporary disk files instead of stdin and stdout. (In brief, the Webserver writes what would normally be its stdout to a file, then tactweb.exe running inder COMMAND.COM reads this file and writes its output to another file, which is then passed to the stdin of the Webserver process). This method can't be used with NT, because of the way NT handles virtual DOS machines; but it doesn't need to be used anyway, because NT's CMD.EXE, though it runs DOS programs, is a 32 bit process which can straightforwardly pass stdin and stout to and from the Webserver. dotactq.bat needs to be changed to dotactq.cmd by the elementary changes (actually simple deletions) I outlined in my posting. But unless you have a lot of time to waste, I'd advise you to give up trying to get this to work with IIS; and since the problem is definitely not caused by TACTWeb, there's not much people on this list can do to help anyone who really has to use IIS to run TACTWeb. Also, this only applies to TACTWeb 1.0. Version 0.5 *can* be got to work with NT also, but it's a more complicated business, and not worth is since 1.0 is superior in every way. Michael Beddow Professor of German University of Leeds <a href="http://www.german.leeds.ac.uk/">http://www.german.leeds.ac.uk/</a> ------------------ Giuseppe Gigliozzi Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari Facolta' di Lettere e Filosofia - Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Via Andrea Cesalpino, 12 - 14 - 00185 Roma Italia Piazza Aldo Moro, 5 - 00185 Roma Italia Tel. ++.6.44239405 - ++.6.44243482 - ++.6.4991.3183 Fax. ++.6.44240331 - ++.6.4991.3575 e-mail GIGLIOZZI@AXRMA.UNIROMA1.IT - gigliozz@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it <a href="http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/crilet">http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/crilet</a> From: David Dargie <dargie@cltr.uq.edu.au> Subject: Re: 11.0363 TACT under Windows NT? Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:57:24 +1000 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 603 (603) [deleted quotation] Rick, You don't specify the exact nature of the problem. I had experienced some problems running TACT under Win95. I found that my problem was being caused by the %tactpath% statement in tact.bat. I simply changed the %tactpath%\dougmenu.exe %tactpath%\tact.mnu %2 %3 to my precise path, which happens to be D:\tact2, giving: D:\tact2\dougmenu.exe D:\tact2\tact.mnu %2 %3 which made my dougmenu work fine. It's probably because the tactpath statement doesn't exist in my autoexec.bat file, or is being ignored. Best of luck Regards David Dargie ***************************************************************** David Dargie Centre for Language Teaching and Research University of Queensland email: dargie@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au Phone: +61 7 3365 6917 Home: +61 7 3397 6863 ***************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: obeying God Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:24:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 604 (604) [deleted quotation] Anybody know who said "I don't obey God; I agree with him"? Michael Ossar mlo@ksu.edu Department of Modern Languages 913-532-1919 voice Kansas State University 913-532-7004 fax 104 Eisenhower Hall Manhattan, KS 66506-1003 From: Raffaele Rizzello <raffaele.rizzello@torino.ALPcom.it> Subject: About OPTOPUS Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 00:34:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 605 (605) I would like to know, please: 1. if OPTOPUS is an OCR concerning latin and greek texts; 2. how much it costs? 3. is there an electronic latin dictionary to be used with an OCR or a Wordprocessor? Thank-you. sub signo angeli Raphaelis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "S.A.Rae" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: RE: 11.0344 intelligent agents Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:12:03 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 606 (606) [deleted quotation] wandering around your 'Intelligent Agents' query I came across the IDA'97 - Intelligent Data Analysis '97 conference (see web page: <a href="http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/ida97/">http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/ida97/</a>) ... I quote from their web page: "The focus of IDA-97 will be "Reasoning About Data". We are interested in intelligent systems that reason about how to analyze data, perhaps as human analysts do. Analysts often bring exogenous knowledge about data to bear when they decide how to analyze it; they use intermediate results to decide how to proceed; they reason about how much analysis the data will actually support; they consider which methods will be most informative; they decide which aspects of a model are most uncertain and focus attention there; they sometimes have the luxury of collecting more data, and plan to do so efficiently. In short, there is a strategic aspect to data analysis, beyond the tactical choice of this or that test, visualisation or variable." which echos, at least in part I feel, your original posting. Cheers Simon [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Prolamat 98: Second Announcement and Call for Papers Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:37:44 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 607 (607) [deleted quotation] We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. Please distribute to interested persons. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Tenth International IFIP TC5 WG-5.2 WG-5.3 Conference PROLAMAT '98 ------------ The Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era of the 21st Century: Innovation, Agility, and the Virtual Enterprise Conference date and venue: September 9-11, 1998 - Trento, Italy [deleted quotation] Abstracts Due: November 10, 1997 Acceptance Notification: December 20, 1997 Camera ready Paper Due: April 30, 1998 Early Registration: May 10, 1998 The conference scope of PROLAMAT '98 expands design and manifacturing issues to include teams and virtual enterprises which come together across space and time to develop new products and bring them to global markets. Manufacturing issues and information models have long been part of concurrent engineering; they are increasingly important in new product innovation and in the development of manufacturing plans and processes which span multiple companies along with multiple time zones. Past emphasis on human aspects and innovation provides a strong foundation for the next PROLAMAT, which emphasizes three themes in separate tracks of the conference: Track 1: Sharing experience gained from telecommunication use in industry for agility and innovation Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard representations, reuse Track 3: Telecommunication and agility impact on software technology for discrete manufacturing Submission Information ---------------------- Extended Abstracts of two pages, written in English, should be e-mailed to prolamat@lii.unitn.it by November 10, 1997. Accepted formats are text only, Word attachment or Latex attachment. Abstracts will present an additional cover sheet providing title, all authors with affiliation, the full address of the principal author (with phone, fax numbers and e-mail address), and a list of keywords related to the paper content. Please provide us also with the reply form included at the end of this announcement in order to place your contribution in the most appropriate track and sub-track. The Extended Abstracts will be reviewed by three referees for inclusion in the Conference Program. Accepted contributions will be published in the Conference Proceedings by Chapman & Hall. Format requirements from Chapman & Hall for the preparation of the camera-ready article, will be sent to the authors in due course. Official Language: English ------------------ Contact Information: -------------------- contact: Mara Gruber e-mail: prolamat@lii.unitn.it phone: +39.464.443.134 +39.464.443.140 fax: +39.464.443.141 mail: Prolamat 1998 Laboratorio di Ingegneria Informatica via F. Zeni, 8 38068 - Rovereto (TN) Italy Please find updated information on the Prolamat'98 Web site: <a href="http://prolamat.cs.unitn.it">http://prolamat.cs.unitn.it</a> Conference Background --------------------- The PROLAMAT conference is an internationally well known event for demonstrating and evaluating activities and progress in the field of discrete manufacturing. Sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), the PROLAMAT is traditionally held every three years and it includes the whole area of advanced software technology for Design and Manufacturing in Discrete Manufacturing. Past conferences have explored: - Manufacturing Technology, - Advances in CAD/CAM, - Software for Discrete Manufacturing, - Software for Manufacturing. The Eight International PROLAMAT focused on the theme of Man in CIM. The 1995 PROLAMAT featured the theme of Life Cycle Modelling for Innovative Products and Processes. The 1998 conference in Italy will be organized by the University of Trento, School of Engineeering and Department of Computer and Managemet Sciences, jointly with Istituto Trentino di Cultura, under the auspices of the WG2 for "Computer-Aided Design" and WG3 for "Computer-Aided Manufacturing" of the Technical Committee 5 for "Computer Applications in Technology". This conference will be the last PROLAMAT before the next century, and it provides an opportunity to investigate and imagine what the digital communications revolution going on all around us will mean for manufacturing. _______________________________________________________________________ Conference Subjects ------------------- Track 1: Sharing experience from telecommunication use in industry for -------- agility and innovation Globalization of product opportunities and manufacturing processes, along with advances in digital communications, are simultaneously enabling and demanding agility and rapid enterprise innovation. A number of industries have been driven to exploit emerging telecommunication technologies as an important tool for meeting these demands. A major goal of this conference will be to complement the more traditional academic presentations with a separate track devoted to sharing industry experience and determining the implications of the emerging digital communications era for discrete manufacturing in the 21st century. - Case studies and descriptions of experience with emerging technologies for: - concurrent engineering involving shared product and process models, - applications of telecommunications for agility, innovation or virtual organizations, - distributed business process reengineering and out sourcing, - managing virtual teams and developing and sustaining virtual organizations, - Advances in telecommunication technology for collaborative knowledge processing for engineering - tele-presence, remote sensing, and distributed coordination of processes, - collaborative feature modelling, feature-based design, and geometric modelling - Integration of emerging technologies and tools into existing product development - collaborative version management and update sharing - tools for enterprise integration and managing organizational change - enterprise-wide distribution and coordination of emerging product models. _______________________________________________________________________ Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard -------- representations, reuse People, not machines, design new products and make manufacturing systems work. Increasingly, groups of people are required to design new products and bring them to market. Requirements for agility and the suitability of specific manufacturing processes must be matched with the culture and knowledge base of the work force. World-class processes have floundered when this was not done. Information and communication systems can either amplify or reduce the magnitude of differences across culture or engineering discipline. Researchers specializing in knowledge representation, modelling, communications, standardization, and reuse will be invited to share their experiences and research perspectives. - Enterprise data sharing across engineering, cultural, and supply chain boundaries, - distributed manufacturing and supply chain management - early stage product development which dynamically incorporates supplier constraints - standard models for component information representation, product and process interchange, - Technologies for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and across the product lifecycle, - adaptive systems for organizational management, knowledge sharing, education, and training - organizational and manufacturing process simulation - organizing and representing design and manufacturing process for dissemination and reuse - The interface between human and machine for information sharing, training, education, - virtual reality and multi-media in manufacturing and design - collaborative manufacturing process definition and operation - collaborative product and process modeling for the product life cycle - implications of models of human communication for the support of integrated manufacturing _______________________________________________________________________ Track 3: Telecommunication and agility impact on software technology for -------- discrete manufacturing Even in today's post-industrial information-society, machines, not people, ultimately make the products which humans have designed and will use. Digital telecommunication has become an enabling technology for agile organizations and an important tool driving some enterprise innovation. What are the implications of these profound changes in communications technology for discrete manufacturing? Which old assumptions must be rethought, and what totally new opportunities now exist? How have software tools for discrete manufacturing evolved during these past three years? The conference, as a whole, and this track, in particular, will attempt to answer these far reaching questions. - Rapid and virtual prototyping using distributed teams or distributed manufacturing, - concurrent and simultaneous engineering systems - distributed and global methodologies for design and collaborative manufacturing - Intelligent tools which communicate across the shop floor or across institutional boundaries for - automated machining operations, - scheduling, coordination, or planning for machining or manufacturing processes, - Architectures, frameworks, and DSS for design and integrated manufacturing, - formal design theories and methodologies - engineering simulation, product and process modelling, planning, and scheduling - Issues and systems relating to sustainable manufacturing - methods and tools for sustainable product development and manufacturing processes ________________________________________________________________________ Conference Chair: G. Jacucci (University of Trento) ----------------- Invited Members to the International Program Committee ------------------------------------------------------ L. Alting (DK) A. Baskin (USA) C. Battistoni (I) P. Bertok (AUS) M. Boari (I) D. Brown (USA) L. Camarinha-Matos (P) L. Carlucci Aiello (I) B-K. Choi (K) G. Christensen (DK) C. Ciborra (F) E. Ciciotti (I) U. Cugini (I) B. David (F) C. Davies (UK) I. De Lotto (I) G. Degli Antoni (I) Z. Deng (N) F. Denoth(I) C. Dent (UK) I. St.Doltsinis (D) G. Doumeingts (F) J.L. Encarnacao (D) L. Estensen (N) D. Fichtner (D) S. Finger (USA) F. Gambarotta (I) J. Gero (AUS) F. Giunchiglia (I) H. Grabowski (D) U. Graefe (C ) G. Guida (I) G. Halevy (ISR) J. Hardy (USA) G. Hermann (H) B. Hofmaier (SW) G. Jacucci (I), Chair H. Jansen (D) F. Jovane (I) C.C. Kai (SP) F. Kimura (J) T. Kjellberg (S) D. Kochan (D) G. Kovacs (H) F-L. Krause (D) J. Latombe (USA) G. Lazzari (I) R. Levi (I) W. Loeve (NL) S. Lu (USA) M. Mantyla (SF) A. Markus (H) R. Mayer (USA) E. Merchant (USA) I. Mezgar (H) R. Michelini (I) G. Micheletti (I) M. Missikoff (I) P. Mudur (IND) L. Nemes (AUS) R. Ning (PRC) S. Nof (USA) S. Noll (D) G. Olling (USA) T. Otker (NL) M. Pallot (F) K. Pawar (UK) J. Peklenik (SL) G. Perrone (I) F. Plonka (USA) V. Ponomaryov (Rus) M. Pratt (UK) K. Preiss (ISR) F. Prinz (USA) B. Radig (D) M-J Radig (D) F. Rigotti (I) J. Rix (D) M. Sabin (UK) T. Sata (J) D. Schelfi (I) J. Schneider (USA) G. Seliger(D) M. Shpitalni (ISR) R. Soenen (F) O. Stock (I) A. Storr (D) J.C. Teixeira (P) P. ten Hagen (NL) V. Tipnis (USA) P. Tiribelli (I) N. Todorov (BG) T. Tomiyama (J) M. Tomljanovich (I) E. Tyugu (S) H. van Brussel (B) F. van Houten (NL) G. Vernazza (I) M. Veron (F) A. Villa (I) M. Waldron (USA) K. Wang(PRC) E. Warman (UK) M. Wozny (USA) R. Zandonini (I) E. Zaninotto (I) A. Zorat (I) R. Zuest (CH) Conference Organizing Committee ------------------------------- V. D'Andrea University of Trento (I) Y. Ficiciyan IPK Berlin (D) E. Filos European Commission, DGIII (B) M. Marchese University of Trento (I), Chair M. Ronchetti University of Trento (I) G. Salvatori Istituto Trentino di Cultura (I) A. Servida European Commission, DGXIII (B) Registration Fees ----------------- by May 10th,1998 after Members of IFIP, CIRP 600.000 IL 700.000 IL Non Members 700.000 IL 800.000 IL Speakers 500.000 IL 500.000 IL All registration fees include: ------------------------------ Admission to all sessions Admission to the demonstrations A copy of the Conference Proceedings Coffee-break refreshments Lunch on Sept 9th-11th Reception on Sept 8th Conference location and venues: ------------------------------- The Conference will take place in the lecture auditoriums at the Centro Servizi Culturali S.Chiara in down-town Trento, a town located in the North-East of Italy, in the middle of the Dolomites, and close to Garda Lake. Both Venice and Milan are within 200 km from Trento. Travelling information and dates: --------------------------------- Conference sessions will start early on Wednesday September 9th and will terminate late on Friday September 11th. Conference participants are expected to arrive in Trento on Tuesday September 8th and to leave Trento on Saturday September 12th. Trento is served by the 100 km distant Catullo airport at Verona, well connected to the Munich airport, and served by an airport bus service to and from Trento. Early booking of seats on flights to and from Verona^Rs Catullo airport will be essential for success. The 200 km distant Milan, Bologna and Venice airports may be used in connection with railway. More travel info is available on the PROLAMAT web site and will be distributed to all participants. Accomodation: ------------- A block of hotel rooms are reserved for Conference participants in down-town Trento hotels. Availability of 250 rooms is granted up to May 10th, 1998. Reservations can be made upon registration. [deleted quotation]__________________________________________________________________ Preliminary registration Form IFIP International Conference PROLAMAT '98 The Globalization of Manufacturing in the digital communication era of the 21st century: Innovation, Agility and Virtual Enterprise September 9-11, 1998 Trento Name First Author ........... Institution: ........... Phone: ........... Fax: ........... E-Mail: ........... [ ] I intend to participate to the conference [ ] I am interested in contributing a paper: Tentative Title: .......... The paper will touch upon the following topics: Track 1: Experience using telecom for agility and product/process innovation; [ ] Case studies and descriptions of experience with emerging technologies for: [ ] Advances in telecom technology for collaborative knowledge processing for engineering [ ] Integration of emerging technologies and tools into existing produt development Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard representations, reuse [ ] Enterprise data sharing across engineering, cultural, and supply chain boundaries, [ ] Technologies for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and across the product life cycle [ ] The interface between human and machine for information sharing training, aducation Track 3: Telecom and agility impact on software technology for discrete manufacturing [ ] Rapid and virtual prototyping using distributed teams or distributed manufacturing, [ ] Intelligent tools which communicate across the shop floor or across institutional boundaries for : [ ] Architectures, frameworks, and DSS for design and integrated manufacturing [ ] Issues and systems relating to sustainable manufacturing ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: campbejo@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Subject: Standards for Web-Based Learning and ALN Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:57:43 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 608 (608) Date:Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:38:07 -0600 You are invited to join our new discussion: Standards for Web-Based Learning and ALN The free, moderated discussion will take place October 20 to November 2, 1997 as part of ALNTalk. ALN stands for Asynchronous (anytime/any place) Learning Networks. You can join the discussion by accessing <<a href="http://www.aln.org/alntalk">http://www.aln.org/alntalk</a>> Here is message from the Forum Moderator: The "Standards for Web-Based Learning and ALN" thread will include discussion of - efforts to standardize asynchronous instructional systems - existing ALN systems and work in progress - ways to achieve standardization. We will also discuss ways standards could improve (1) access to authoring tools for instructors, (2) the quality of access to and the diversity of instructional domains, (3) methods of payment to instructors, and (4) the size of markets for software makers. Furthermore, disadvantages of standards as well as critiques of the progress of current ALN standardization efforts and both successful and unsuccessful standardization efforts in related areas will also be topics for discussion. ALNTalk is a free conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks. An expert in the field moderates each forum for two weeks. Previous forums remain active, but are not moderated. To remove your name from the list, send email to campbejo@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu and include your email address to which this announcement was sent. This ALNTalk forum is moderated by James Salsman, Systems Analyst and Web Programmer email: james@bovik.org If you are already participating in ALNTalk, you will need to select "Options" and click on the new forum to add it to the list of forums you can view. ALNTalk is part of the ALN Web, which provides a free online journal, magazine, review of work in ALN, pointers to workshops and conferences, and related resources. You can find the ALN Web at <a href="http://www.aln.org/">http://www.aln.org/</a> We express appreciation to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which underwrites the ALN Web. Sincerely, J. Olin Campbell and John R. Bourne .. . . for the ALN Web From: "Dennis S. Karjala" <karja003@tc.umn.edu> Subject: Copyright Term Extension Date: Thu, 23 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 609 (609) Historians, biographers, archivists, and scholars generally should be aware that Congress is again considering action on a piece of welfare legislation that will cost the U.S. public and the academic communities dearly. This is the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1997 (S.505, introduced by Senator Hatch, and H.R. 2589, which has already moved unanimously out of the House Subcommittee and been referred to the entire House Judiciary Committee). These bills would add 20 years to the term of copyright protection for all works--not just those created after adoption of the bills but even those already in existence. This would include books, music, and films from the 1920's of great historical and cultural significance that otherwise are about to enter the public domain. This public-domain-robbing legislation would also add 20 years to the term of protection for old, previously unpublished letters, diaries, and other works that get published prior to the year 2003. Under CURRENT law, these old works are protected by copyright until 2003, and if published before that year they remain protected until 2028. For example, I have recently heard from a correspondent that Indiana University has placed on line published a number of papers dating back to 1789 or perhaps even earlier, not previously published, that represent "a major advancement to ease the work of research." By virtue of their on-line publication, these papers will remain copyright-protected until the year 2028. If the current legislation passes, they will remain protected until 2048! Whether or not Indiana University infringed anyone's copyright in placing the papers on line (that depends on whether the University had permission or, if not, whether it was a "fair use"), any subsequent use of these research materials would be an infringement if copies are made or distributed without permission of the copyright owners--whoever and wherever they are. The proposed legislation is no more than a welfare measure to those persons who own copyrights on old works--a wealth transfer imposed on the American public for the benefit of large corporations (like Disney, whose copyright on Mickey Mouse has only a decade or so to run) and descendants of creative authors like George Gershwin or Oscar Hammerstein II. Schools that wish to publicly perform plays and music, archivists who wish to restore lost or forgotten works, scholars and creative artists who wish to use these cultural building blocks in creating new works, and the U.S. public in general through its royalty payments will foot a very heavy bill. New creativity and scholarship will suffer badly and irretrievably. Excessive copyright terms hurt the general public but feather the nests of copyright interest groups, who actively contribute to congressional campaigns--especially the campaigns of members of the two Judiciary Committees, which deal with intellectual property legislation. Scholars, librarians, educators, and consumer advocates are worn out with the continuous assault on the public domain. As Congress moves toward taking yet another big bite out of the public domain, the territory lies virtually undefended. It will pass unless a true public interest spirit is instilled in enough voices to make Congress listen. Please circulate this message among your colleagues and impress upon them that the time for action is now. Letters and email must start pouring in to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and to others in Congress, if this thing is to be derailed. The supporters are trying to ram it through with a minimum of public discussion. So far, they have succeeded. Please write, and get your colleagues to write as well. For more detailed information (including sample letters to Congress), and for names, addresses, and phone numbers of members of Congress, visit the "Opposing Copyright Extension" web page at <<a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~dkarjala">http://www.public.asu.edu/~dkarjala</a>> Dennis S. Karjala Irving Younger Visiting Professor of Law University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 612-625-3084 612-625-2011 (fax) karja003@tc.umn.edu or dennis.karjala@asu.edu Visit the "Opposing Copyright Extension" web page at <<a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~dkarjala">http://www.public.asu.edu/~dkarjala</a>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent via the Book People mailing list. Posting address: spok+bookpeople@cs.cmu.edu Admin. address: spok+bookpeople-request@cs.cmu.edu Charter: <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/bookpeople.html">http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/bookpeople.html</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: EMLS 3.2 now available Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:34:55 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 610 (610) [deleted quotation] [please excuse x-posting] It is with considerable pleasure that we are able to announce EMLS' new home, at the University of Alberta's Department of English. Publication from the University of Alberta begins with the September 1997 issue (3.2). The EMLS editorial group wishes to express its gratitude to Alberta's Department of English, and its Faculty of Arts, for their generous promise of support for EMLS, and also to our past sponsors at the University of British Columbia, where EMLS was founded in 1994: the Department of English, the Faculty of Arts (including the Arts Computing Centre), and the University Library. While distributed from a new location, our Persistent Universal Resource Locator (PURL) will remain the same, at <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a> Our new contact and mailing addresses are listed in the document below. R.G.S. ===== Submission Information EMLS invites contributions of critical essays on literary topics and of interdisciplinary studies which centre on literature and literary culture in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Contributions, including critical essays and studies (which must be accompanied by a 250 word abstract), bibliographies, notices, letters, and other materials, may be submitted to the Editor by electronic mail at EMLS@UAlberta.ca or by regular mail to Early Modern Literary Studies, Department of English, 3-5 Humanities Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E5. Electronic mail submissions are accepted in ASCII format. Regular mail submissions of material on-disk are accepted in ASCII, Wordperfect, or Microsoft Word format; hard-copy submissions must be accompanied by electronic copies, either on-disk or via electronic mail, and will not be returned. All submissions must follow the current MLA Handbook, in addition to the following conventions used by Early Modern Literary Studies for ASCII text: <b>bold text</b> is indicated by tags which surround the text that is to appear in bold, likewise with <i>italicized text</i>, <u>underlined text</u>, and <sup>superscript</sup>; superscript is used for note numbers in the text, and notes themselves appear at the end of the document. A document outlining the representation of non-ASCII characters is available on-site or by request. Reviews and materials for review may be sent to Lisa Hopkins, the Associate Editor (Reviews), at L.M.Hopkins@shu.ac.uk or by regular mail to the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, UK, S10 2BP. Please note that all unsolicited materials sent to EMLS for the purposes of review must be plainly marked with the word "Donation" on the front of the mailing cover. Brief hard-copy correspondence may also be sent by fax to (403) 492-8142. General Information EMLS (ISSN 1201-2459) is published three times a year for the on-line academic community by agreement with, and with the support of, the University of Alberta's Department of English. EMLS is indexed by the MLA International Bibliography, the Modern Humanities Research Association's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), Web-Cite, the Lycos and InfoSeek indexing services and others, as well as being linked to resource pages of scholarly journals, libraries, educational institutions, and others worldwide. EMLS does not appear in print form, but can be obtained free of charge in hypertextual format on the World Wide Web at <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a> The EMLS site is mirrored at Oxford University. EMLS is a participant in the National Library of Canada's Electronic Publications Pilot Project, where it is also archived; it is also archived by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Electronic Journals Collection. Contact Points Journal Information, Comments, Mailing List: For more information, to join our mailing list, or to offer your comments on EMLS, please contact our Assistant Editor, Sean Lawrence, at sean@unixg.ubc.ca. Site Information, Comments, &c.: All correspondence pertaining to our site may be sent our Associate Editor, Paul Dyck, at Paul.Dyck@UAlberta.ca. Editor: Correspondence to the Editor may be sent to EMLS@UAlberta.ca. Hard-copy correspondence may be addressed to: Early Modern Literary Studies, Department of English, 3-5 Humanities Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Fax: (403) 492-8142. ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a> wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: EMLS@UAlberta.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Universal Preservation Format User Survey Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:21:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 611 (611) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 29, 1997 UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION FORMAT NEEDS ASSESSMENT SURVEY The UPF Project is eager to incorporate the needs of potential users into the development of a platform-independent Universal Preservation Format that will ensure the accessibility of a wide range of data types, but especially video formats, into the future. To do this the project has devised a survey to canvas the needs of a range of potential users. The survey, along with information about the UPF is available at <<a href="http://info.wgbh.org/upf">http://info.wgbh.org/upf</a>>. David Green ================================================================== The Universal Preservation Format User Survey is now available on-line via the UPF homepage: <a href="http://info.wgbh.org/upf">http://info.wgbh.org/upf</a> Anyone involved or interested in digital archives or digital libraries is welcome to fill out this form. The information collected from this survey will be presented at the next meeting of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Study Group for the Universal Preservation Format will be held on Tuesday, December 9, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Sony Corporation in San Jose, CA. It is crucial that those who establish technical standards hear from those who will be most affected by them. Our proposed standard will not only have an impact on video and film collections, but on all materials that are digitized for the purpose of preservation. To access our survey, just click on the "User Survey" link on our homepage, fill out the form, and click on the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page. You will then be prompted to return to the UPF homepage. If you haven't had the opportunity to look at the information on this site, please think about doing so now. In particular, download some of our colorful presentations in Adobe Acrobat format. If you have trouble accessing our survey or web pages, please send me email at thom_shepard@wgbh.org . Thom Shepard UPF Project Coordinator WGBH-Boston ............. The UPF project is sponsored by the WGBH Educational Foundation and funded in part by a grant (97-029) from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission of the National Archives for the purpose of advocating "the need for a platform-independent Universal Preservation Format, designed specifically for digital technologies, that will ensure the accessibility of a wide range of data types into the indefinite future." =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: A New Corpus from the Linguistic Data Consortium Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:56:26 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 612 (612) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW CORPUS from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM North American News Text Corpus The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) announces the availability of a corpus of North American news text. This corpus is a collection of journalistic text in English from newswire and newspaper sources in the United States. The North American News Text corpus is composed of news text that has been marked using SGML. The text is taken from the following sources: Source Dates Aprox. #Words Covered (Millions) - ------------------------------------------------------- Los Angeles Times & 05/94-08/97 52 Washington Post New York Times News 07/94-12/96 173 Syndicate Reuters News Service 04/94-12/96 85 (General & Financial) Wall Street Journal 07/94-12/96 40 - ------------------------------------------------------- Both the New York Times and the L.A.Times/Washington Post services actually include a range of other newspaper sources in their syndicated newswires. The L.A.Times/Wash.Post material will be found to include the following sources (in lesser amounts) in addition to the two predominant sources: Newsday The Baltimore Sun The Hartford Courant The New York Times material will be found to contain the following sources (in lesser amounts), but N.Y. Times articles predominate: Bloomberg Business News The Boston Globe Los Angeles Daily News Fort Worth Star-Telegram Newsweek Cox News Service The Arizona Republic Seattle Post-Intelligencer San Francisco Examiner Houston Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle Economist Newspaper Ltd. Hearst Newspapers Both of these newswire services also include small numbers of articles from a larger set of miscellaneous sources. The ones listed above appear with some frequency on a daily basis. Because of restrictions imposed by the copyright holders of the news text, this corpus is available to 1995, 1996 and 1997 LDC members only. Members who wish to receive this corpus must sign the North American News Text user agreement. This agreement is available on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/index.html">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/index.html</a>. 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: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: preservation film screening Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:44:37 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 613 (613) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 30, 1997 "THE RACE TO SAVE 100 YEARS" Perhaps marginally off-topic, but reflecting my interest in the preservation of moving images as prelude and parcel of networking them, here is an announcement from Steve Leggett at the Library of Congress of a new film on film preservation. David Green ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Library of Congress during November will hold several screenings of the excellent new Time Warner/Turner Entertainment Co. 57-minute documentary on film preservation, "The Race to Save 100 Years". Screenings will take place in the intimate 64-seat Mary Pickford Theater (Library of Congress James Madison Bldg, 3rd floor; Street Address: 101 Independence Avenue SE; Metro Stop: Capitol South) on the following occasions: Thursday, November 6 at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.; Thursday, November 20 at 7:00 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. David Francis, Chief of the LC Motion Picture Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, will introduce the 7 p.m. screening on November 20. Admission is free, but reservation are recommended. To make reservatiosn, call the Mary Pickford Theater voice mail at 202/707-5677. If anyone has other questions, please contact me at 202/707-5912 or via email at sleg@loc.gov. Thanks, Steve Leggett From: Germaine Warkentin <warkent@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Machine-readable map of historic English Parish Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 13:47:11 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 614 (614) Boundaries [Cross-posted from Ficino, with thanks. --WM] The following will be of interest to FICINIANS: [deleted quotation] [cross posted by: tony.campbell@bl.uk] ----------------------------------------------------------- A MACHINE-READABLE MAP OF ENGLISH AND WELSH HISTORIC PARISH BOUNDARIES A NEW RESEARCH PROJECT AT EXETER UNIVERSITY, UK ----------------------------------------------------------- I am pleased to announce that the UK Economic and Social Science Research Council has agreed to fund the above project at Exeter. Dr Richard Oliver will be employed as research fellow from 1st January 1998. The following is a copy of the ESRC press release: "This project will reconstruct and make available in electronic map form the boundaries of all the pre-1850 parishes, townships and other local administrative districts of England and Wales (the so-called 'ancient' or 'historic' parishes). A comprehensive gazetteer recording the archival provenance of all the boundaries will accompany the map. The need of such a map has been long-felt but its production has only become realistic at relatively modest cost by the completion of recent Leverhulme Trust and ESRC funded work at Exeter University on tithe surveys (compiled after 1836 in the process of reforming the wqy that the Church of England was financed) and on enclosure maps (used to record land ownership as the process of enclosure brought about the change from communal to individual exploitation). These projects provide us with about 85 per cent of 'ancient parish' boundaries. We will fill this gap by reference to other sources, compile a complete map on a National Grid base, and publish the map and accompanying gazetteer as a CDROM. This will serve both users who wish to download boundaries into a GIS platform and those who want to print a paper copy of the boundaries in a particular locality." ------------------------------------------------------------ r.j.p.kain@exeter.ac.uk Roger Kain Department of Geography, University of Exeter, EXETER EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom Tel 01392 263333 [+44 1392 263333] Fax 01392 263342 [+44 1392 263342] Home Fax 01395 223754 [+44 1395 223754] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: ACM MM97 and ASSETS98 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:52:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 615 (615) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleagues: Please take a moment to read this short message, in which I'd like to draw your attention to two upcoming important conferences you won't want to miss. o ACM MULTIMEDIA'97 will take place November 9-13 in Seattle. The 40 technical papers in the truly outstanding program cover all aspects of multimedia technology and systems, so no matter what your specialty you'll surely find much of interest here! Two great keynote talks by Brad Myers of CMU and Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland, and a reception at the Seattle Space Needle, will be highlights of the conference. And yes, YOU -CAN- AFFORD TO COME, even at this late date, because we've arranged incredibly cheap coast-to-coast zone fares with USAir which -DO NOT- require a Saturday night stay or way-in-advance purchase. For full details, check out the superb conference web site: <a href="http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM97">http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM97</a> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me personally as General Co-Chair. o ASSETS'98, the 3rd ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, will take place April 15-17, 1998 at the Marina del Rey Hotel in Los Angeles (back-to-back with CHI'98). This is the premier international forum where researchers and developers from academia and industry meet to exchange ideas and report on new developments relating to computer-based systems to help people. The conference scope spans disabilities and special needs of ALL types; there are no parallel sessions, in order to encourage total group participation throughout the meeting (even meals are taken together). THERE IS STILL TIME TO SUBMIT a paper or to volunteer to participate in other ways - the deadline is November 14, 1997. For complete details, please see the conference web site: <a href="http://www.acm.org/sigcaph/assets">http://www.acm.org/sigcaph/assets</a> Or contact one of the lead organizers: General Chair: Arthur I. Karshmer (e-mail: arthur@cs.nmsu.edu) Program Chair: Meera M. Blattner (e-mail: blattner@llnl.gov) I hope to see you at one or both of these great events. Thank you! -Ephraim From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Coling-ACL '98 Call for Papers Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:57:13 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 616 (616) [deleted quotation] COLING-ACL'98 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'98) and 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'98) Universite de Montreal Montreal (Quebec), Canada August 10-14, 1998 Deadlines: * for submissions: January 30, 1998 * for submissions in the student sessions: March 7, 1998 * proposals for pre-conference tutorials: December 31, 1997 * proposals for post-conference workshops: December 31, 1997 For details, see: <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca</a> or send an e-mail request to: coling-acl98@iro.umontreal.ca or send a hardcopy request to: COLING-ACL'98 Dr. Pierre Isabelle RALI, DIRO, Universite de Montreal CP 6128, Succ. Centre-ville Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3C 3J7 From: Anne Foerst <annef@ai.mit.edu> Subject: Call for Papers - please distribute!! Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:06:19 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 617 (617) - IDENTITY, FORMATION, DIGNITY - The Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science upon Jewish and Christian Understandings of Personhood April 30 - May 2, 1998 The Boston Theological Institute (BTI) MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Center for Faith and Science Exchange (FASE) Sir John Templeton Foundation CALL FOR PAPERS: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cognitive science are challenging our basic understanding of personhood, as formed in part from ancient Greek, Jewish, and Christian sources of revelation and wisdom. The mechanistic and functionalist assumptions which guide AI and cognitive science research already influence current perceptions of humankind. Scientific progress in understanding human intelligence and its emotional and bodily basis, and engineering advances in building intelligent machines enforce penetrating questions about the nature of human identity and its relationship to religious faith and its assumptions. Our thinking about personhood shapes patterns of education and character formation as well as the way in which human dignity is conceived and practiced - or violated - in contemporary society. We seek to draw AI and cognitive science into dialogue with theology on these issues. The doctrine of trinity and that of the two natures of Christ helped to frame conceptions of personhood and dignity: the trinity draws us to a notion of dynamic unity transcending rationality; that of the two persons of Christ emphasizes the importance of embodiment for a relationship with the divine. Most religions would agree that humankind exists in a sphere which includes the body and emotional reactions in the context of nature, human community, and a sacred narrative. For the last decade, AI and cognitive science have been struggling with the questions of the importance of embodiment, emotions, and cultural settings for intelligent systems. These research results can inform theological reasoning about the meaning of personhood; AI and cognitive science, on the other hand, can learn from the Jewish concept of humans being created in the image of God. We want to establish a dialogue of mutual enrichment in which scholars in both fields build relationships to become able to rely on the expertise and experience of the other. For this purpose we would like to invite papers for a public conference in Spring at MIT. Please send papers by March 1, 1998 either electronically to Dr. Anne Foerst <annef@ai.mit.edu> or via posted mail or fax to The Boston Theological Institute, "Identity, Formation and Dignity", 210 Herrick RD, Newton Center, MA 02159, fax (617) 527-1073. Possible topics are: -- philosophical aspects of the concept of the identity of the person; -- formation of personhood in a biological system; -- implications of mechanistic or idealistic assumptions for human dignity; -- the development of current historical and cultural concepts of the person; -- theories of character formation in light of mechanistic or idealistic assumptions about humankind; -- functional explanations for religion; -- biological, sociological, or mechanistic explanations for rejection of science and/or religion; -- analysis of assumptions in science and/or religion from a philosophy of science perspective; -- differences in the Jewish and Christian perception of the person; -- differences between scientific and theological understandings of personhood and dignity; -- body-mind and body-mind-soul relations; -- perspectives on human nature from medical, psychological, psycho-analytical perspectives; -- different understandings of intelligence within AI and/or the cognitive sciences; -- techniques for dialogue between AI, the cognitive sciences and theology; -- epistemological explanations of the origins of the difficulties emerging in a dialogue between theology and AI; -- patterns of interactions which emerge for participants in this dialogue. -- Dr.theol. Anne Foerst Postdoctoral Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology SQ, NE 43 - 812 Cambridge, MA 02139 +1 / 617 / 253-7891 Harvard Divinity School Center for the Studies of Values in Public Life 56 Francis Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 <a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/annef/">http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/annef/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Stefan Sinclair <4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca> Subject: diacritical egotists Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:01:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 618 (618) [deleted quotation] As the sender of the original message in French, I will read your use of the word "egotist" as someone who sends a message with extended characters and *expects* that everyone else will be able to read it. I wonder though what short-term solution you suggest for non-egocentric individuals who don't expect that everyone will be able to read their messages but who are unwilling to simply succumb to the tyranny of anglicizing their messages. I think you'll agree that as far as the sender goes there simply isn't an adequate short-term solution. One knows that one's message will be difficult to read for certain readers. The choice then becomes one of deciding which is the best of poor alternatives. Given the wide-spread use of ISO 8859-1 on the Internet, its status as an International standard and the possibility for most system administrators to make it usable from the server side of things, it seems to me the best choice for now (though most of us look forward to Unicode of course) - if anyone has counter-arguments to this positions, I'd be very interested in hearing them. It's true that this subject comes up frequently in various newsgroups, especially those with some non-English participation. The discussion usually passes quickly though, with at best a collective decry of the current circumstances. I would like to think that given the nature and readership of this seminar, we could come up with something a little more constructive. As I wrote to Willard McCarty, I think it's shameful (through no fault of his) that I have access to computers that will allow me to televideo conference over the Internet and yet I can't confidently send a e-mail in French (to an International readership). Granted, not everyone has access to machines that can televideo conference, but the fact that messages with diacriticals have been possible for a long time now makes this issue even more anachronous. So... at all levels (sender, administrator, recipient) any practical solutions? By the way, I should like to point out that an HTML document might represent my name below as Stéfan; who knows what brutalities will be inflicted upon it in transit from my screen to yours. -- Stéfan Sinclair, Queen's University (Canada) WWW: <<a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/</a>> HCR - Rih: <<a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Tharon Howard <tharon@HUBCAP.CLEMSON.EDU> Subject: Professional/Technical Communication positions at Clemson Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:00:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 619 (619) October 28, 1997 The Department of English at Clemson University is recruiting for two tenure-track positions in Professional/Technical Communication or in a related area of Rhetoric and Composition. These positions are at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank and are available August, 1998. Our department offers a Masters of Arts in Professional Communication and a Bachelors and a Masters of Arts in English. The department administers document design, usability testing, and multimedia-authoring facilities for research and teaching. The teaching load is three courses per semester and will include courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, with opportunities to advise graduate students on their research. All faculty also have the opportunity to work closely with the Pearce Center for Professional Communication. This endowed center oversees initiatives involving communication across the curriculum, outreach to the schools and community, and partnerships with the professional sector. Application deadline is November 14 for MLA interviews. Candidates should send letter of application and a c.v. to: Professor R. Barton Palmer, Chair, Department of English, Clemson University, Box 341503, Clemson, SC 29634-1503. Clemson University, South Carolina's land-grant university, is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. </bigger</bigger</fontfamily Art Young Dept. of English Clemson University Clemson, S.C. 29634-1503 (864)656-3062 fax: (864)656-1846 From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Instructor Position/Brown University Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:51:21 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 620 (620) [deleted quotation] Instructor for Semester II 1997-98 to Teach Cognitive Neuroscience Course at Brown University A temporary position is available in the Spring semester (II) of 1998 to teach a course in the Department of Neuroscience in the area of Cognitive Neuroscience. This course will deal with fundamental issues of Cognitive Neuroscience at a level appropriate for advanced undergraduate neuroscience concentrators and for graduate students. This lecture course emphasizes a systems approach to neuroscience and covers several neural systems from among consciousness, sleeping and waking, thinking, selection of action, higher visual and motor processes, sensorimotor integration, learning and memory, attention and emotion. Discussions focus on cerebral cortical mechanisms of behavior and cognition, though subcortical neural mechanisms are discussed. Emphasis on experimental work from functional neuroimaging in humans, behavioral neurophysiology, and observations from human pathology. Some degree of flexibility in course content is possible. Job Requirements: At least 1 year's prior teaching experience. Ph.D. in Brain or Behavioral Sciences The position is available as an adjunct assistant, associate or full professor for one semester only. Appropriately trained postdoctoral fellows will be considered for this position. Strong teaching skills are essential. We encourage applications from women and minority candidates. Brown University is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. Interested individuals should send a CV and names of 3 references by November 20, 1997 to: John P. Donoghue, Ph.D. Chairman Department of Neuroscience Box 1953 Providence, RI 02912 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Fotis Jannidis <Fotis.Jannidis@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> Subject: Optopus? Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:13:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 621 (621) [deleted quotation]Optopus can and has to be trained for every new text/font. The plus is: you can teach the software to read cyrillic or greek, but you have to train every font. So it is best used together with an omnifont OCR software. [deleted quotation]some thousand deutsch mark [deleted quotation]Not with the standard package. In my experience optopus is quite unstable on windows 95. Our copy is on a "normal" windows 95 PC** so unstable that real work is impossible. Their technical service was helpful and send us a new version, but it didn't help. On the other hand on another system it may work. Hope this helps, Fotis Jannidis **A Compaq with 32 RAM, ca. 2 GB HD and a HP Scanjet 4 ________________________________________ Dr. Fotis Jannidis Institut fuer Deutsche Philologie LM Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Schellingstr. 3 /RG * D-80799 Muenchen Fx: -49-89-2180-3871 <a href="http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de">http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de</a> From: Friedrich.Heberlein@ku-eichstaett.de Subject: Re: 11.0365 obey or agree? Optopus? Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:55:30 +1 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 622 (622) As to 3.: I'm afraid the thing you are looking for, i.e. a dictionary comprising all the possible forms of a given lexem, does not exist. If you are looking for a lemma list, there is the well known one of father Roberto Busa (Forcellini), which is available on several ftp sites. Prof Denooz of the university of Liege (LASA/CIPL, <a href="http://www.ulg.ac.be/cipl/lslbdlla.htm">http://www.ulg.ac.be/cipl/lslbdlla.htm</a>) has written a program "ANALYSE" , the main components of which are a latin lexicon and a archetypic "grammar" . It is able to identify a good deal of the text forms it scans. Unfortuately, LASLA seems to have changed its distribution policy and the program is not available any more (but may be you are luckier than me....) Fritz Heberlein Dr. Friedrich Heberlein, AkadDir Dept. of Classics KU Eichstaett Ostenstr. 26-28 D-85071 Eichstaett From: Mavis Cournane <cournane@imbolc.ucc.ie> Subject: Optopus Date: 29 Oct 1997 13:08:05 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 623 (623) [deleted quotation] Optopus is a trainable OCR system and yes it can handle non-latin alphabets. It is manufactured by Makrolog in Wiesbaden, Germany. You can find their webpage at <a href="http://www.makrolog.com/">http://www.makrolog.com/</a> There is also an optopus users mailing list which you can subscribe to and post a query there. To subscribe to this list send the following message to listserv@listserv.hea.ie with the following command: sub OPTO-L _Your Name_ I have been working for a project that has used Optopus for OCRing medieval Irish text with an ornate Celtic script. We found it very good. I hope this helps Mavis Cournane University College Cork Ireland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Natalia Smith <nsmith@email.unc.edu> Subject: UNC-CH digitization project, "Documenting the American South" Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:00:26 +0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 624 (624) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce its Library's digitization initiative, "Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America" (<a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth">http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth</a>). This database presents primary source materials documenting the cultural history of the American South. It features diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery and regional literature drawn from the rich Southern holdings of the UNC--CH Academic Affairs Library. Over 70 titles (or 16,000 pages of primary source materials) have already been digitized and published on the WWW. This type of ambitious electronic effort is increasingly viewed as important and timely; the UNC-CH initiative recently won a National Digital Library Competition sponsored by the Library of Congress and Ameritech Co., Inc. The library also started up a new project, "A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920" (<a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/southlit.html">http://sunsite.unc.edu/southlit.html</a>).. In 1995, the late Dr. Robert Bain wrote to some fifty scholars throughout the United States who specialize in Southern and American literature. He requested that they nominate what they considered the ten most important works of Southern literature published before 1920. From their responses, Bain compiled the list of one hundred important Southern literary texts that forms the basis of this project. He completed the list three months before his death in July 1996. A faculty member at UNC-CH from 1964 until 1995, Bain taught American and Southern literature and co-edited five scholarly works on Southern writers. The first twenty-five texts come from the premier Southern collections of the libraries at UNC-CH: the North Carolina Collection, the Rare Book Collection, and Davis Library. A recent internal funding from the Chancellor's Academic Enhancement Grant will enable us to digitize and publish more literary texts on the Web. Initial interest in the database has been enthusiastic; users range from elementary school teachers and students through post-doctoral researchers. Readership is already world-wide -- individuals from Canada, England, Russia, Brasilia and Australia have read texts and provided inspiring comments. All the selected materials are encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI P3) SGML-based Guidelines, using TEILite.DTD (version 1.6). We also provide an HTML version, as an alternate format, for all the electronic editions encoded in SGML/TEI. The translation from SGML to HTML has been generated using a perl script. The project is available at <a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth">http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth</a> and supported by the Academic Affairs Library, the Ameritech Co., Inc., the Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the SunSite at UNC-CH. We would really appreciate your comments and suggestions essential for the database development. For further information contact: Natalia ("Natasha") Smith Digitization Librarian Davis Library, CB#3918 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 email: nsmith@email.unc.edu tel. (919) 962-1095 fax (919) 962-4450 <a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth">http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth</a> From: John_Lavagnino@brown.edu Subject: Computer-related sessions at the 1997 MLA Convention Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:43:53 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 625 (625) The Association for Computers and the Humanities now offers on its web site information about the sessions it will be running at the Modern Language Association's convention in Toronto this December, as well as a list of the several dozen sessions at the convention that include computer-related talks. <a href="http://www.ach.org/mla97/index.html">http://www.ach.org/mla97/index.html</a> Corrections and additions are welcome; we will continue to update this information up until the beginning of the convention. John Lavagnino ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Michael Guest <guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp> Subject: More TeX and LaTeX Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:33:57 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 626 (626) Thanks for the link on TeX posted recently. Here are some more on LaTex, the friendly derivative with erotic connotations: LaTex Help: <a href="http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/robertsa/LaTeX/latex2e.html">http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/robertsa/LaTeX/latex2e.html</a> Text Processing using LaTeX: <a href="http://club.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/LaTeX_intro.html">http://club.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/LaTeX_intro.html</a> Hypertext Help with LaTeX: <a href="http://www.ens.fr/~cousot/software/LaTeX-html/index.html">http://www.ens.fr/~cousot/software/LaTeX-html/index.html</a> Help by Subject, Command or Environment: <a href="http://www.ens.fr/~cousot/software/LaTeX-html/ltx-2.html">http://www.ens.fr/~cousot/software/LaTeX-html/ltx-2.html</a> I've set a couple of documents after only a couple of weeks on and off activity, using links such as these, related ftp downloads and consultation of Leslie Lamport's _Latex User's Guide and Reference Manual_ (Addison-Wesley: 1986). The reason I had to begin was involvement in the editorial board of a journal with a lot of hard scientific and mathematical as well as humanistic input, in Japanese and English and European languages. TeX and LaTeX are very good for typesetting high-quality documents with mathematical text (LaTeX is a compilation of a lot of macros that simplify TeX, so you don't have to be so concerned with formatting). What I've found to be exciting from a humanistic point of view is how mathematical, scientific and optical etc. journals are increasingly using LaTeX templates to accept submissions. That is, anyone who wants to submit simply downloads the appropriate style-template and uses it to format the paper. The resulting submission is stylistically spot-on and the whole editing process is much simplified. Of course, this is great for the complex formulae and so on that such journals require. But I believe it's also the future for more humanistic journals. Wouldn't you feel less anxious about the presentation of your work if you simply fit it into a style template that you knew was absolutely sound and just had to fire it off by email (having previewed its appearance in a "device independent" viewer)? The related beauty of the system is that it works to a great extent across platforms because the initial formatting is all done in plain text files. Furthermore, the structuring of a LaTeX document is highly logically as opposed to aesthetically based, which might benefit the style of many humanistic submissions. Resulting postscript files can also be distributed via www and viewed with postscript viewers, thus obviating the need for html transcription. I don't believe that such a system would be repressive to the creativity in any way, either, while it imposed a certain stylistic rigour. I think that all sorts of creative applications will emerge as TeX/LaTeX makes its way into arts and humanities studies. There's not much around on humanistic LaTex at present. I'd be most grateful for any advice or practical reference (particularly to templates etc; I probably know most of the print references--for others, they're available at the cited links). Do you think I'm off-beam about what I see as an enormous arts/humanistic potential of TeX/LaTeX? Michael Guest guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: KAIROS 2.2 (FALL 1997) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:27:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 627 (627) [deleted quotation] *********** A N N O U N C I N G *********** KAIROS: A JOURNAL FOR TEACHERS OF WRITING IN WEBBED ENVIRONMENTS Vol. 2 Issue #2 (Fall 1997) .... is now available on the Web: <a href="http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2">http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2</a> ***TABLE OF CONTENTS*** LOGGING ON --> "As We May Link" ... From the Editor's Desk(Top) Mick Doherty, Kairos Editor & Publisher --> @Whois Kairos *New: Kairos FAQ! Staff members answer some frequently-asked questions. *Kairos Revamps Staff, Board Updated for the 1997-98 Academic Year. *Call For Hypertexts Features, Reviews, Response, CoverWeb Themes. *Work for Kairos Seeking News Editor, Copy Editors, Staff Archivist. COVERWEB: --> Gender and Electronic Discourse In the hypertexts that make up this CoverWeb, each author considers the implications of gendered discourse in electronic media. Through narrative, discussion, and empirical study, each hypertext looks at a different concern for gendered electronic discourse, including online harassment, censorship, and the liberatory prospects for electronic writing spaces. Contributing: Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock University; Julia Ferganchick-Neufang, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; William Lantry, Catholic University; Dean Rehberger, Michigan State University; Sandye Thompson, Texas Woman's University. FEATURES --> Passing Theory in Action: The Discourse Between Hypertext and Paralogic Hermeneutics Lee Libby, Iowa State University --> The Online Tutor as Cross-Curricular Double Agent Patricia Ericsson, Dakota State University; Tim McGee, The College of New Jersey. --> Hypertext Reflections: Exploring the Rhetoric, Poetics, and Pragmatics of Hypertext Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University; Will Hochman, University of Southern Colorado; Beth Kolko, University of Texas at Arlington; Emily Golson, University of Northern Colorado; Jonathan Alexander, University of Southern Colorado; Luann Barnes, Colorado State University; Kate Kiefer, Colorado State University. NEWS --> "Where are the snows. . . " An InterMOO with Myron Tuman: Essays past, present, and Connect.Net A conversation with Joe Essid, University of Richmond and Claudine Keenan, Penn State, Lehigh Valley --> Conference Wrapups *College Composition & Communication *Computers & Writing *Scholarly Communication and Technology --> News You Can Use: A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW Developed by: Craig Branham, St. Louis University --> NewsWired All the News that's Fit to "Print" ... Announcements ... Resources ... Updates --> cfp@www Calls For Participation Conferences, Edited Volumes, Online Journals, Print Journals REVIEWS Upon Further Review ... *Reviews: Websites, Software, PaperTexts *Pre/View: A Book-in-Progress *Responsaviews: Feedback & More KAIROS INTERACTIVE Response, Replies, and Commentary *Meet the Authors: New MOO Discussions *Classroom Spotlight: UVA ENLT 248 *Responsaviews: Feedback & More *Interactive Peer Reviews: Join the Process *BackTalk: Authors' Replies and Commentary ****** Publisher's Note: The nature of web publishing demands that we design our product to be accessible through as many browsers as possible. If you encounter any link, connection, or navigational problems with Kairos, please send us an email (to mick@rpi.edu) describing the problem, and listing your technical specs: platform, operating system, browser, modem (or other) connection method and speed, and screen size. Thank you! ****** Kairos is sponsored by the national Alliance for Computers & Writing <a href="http://english.ttu.edu/acw/">http://english.ttu.edu/acw/</a> [Contact us: Editor Mick Doherty, mick@rpi.edu] ****** From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: KMTA #1: Hypertext Reflections Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:30:28 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 628 (628) From: Mick Doherty <doherm@rpi.edu> KMTA -- More than just a radio station in Billings, Montana! KMTA -- _K_airos _M_eet _T_he _A_uthors MOO Series! KMTA -- _K_icks off _M_onday (November) _T_enth _A_t ... LinguaMOO! The Meet the Authors Series is a Lingua MOO forum in which the Authors of Kairos webtexts lead discussions about the issues raised in the texts as published. MOO Logs for these texts will be edited for publication and reaction in forthcoming issues of the journal. The Inaugural KMTA MOO is: Monday, November 10th 8:00 PM ET (7:00 PM host time, in Texas) Featuring the seven authors of "Hypertext Reflections" in issue 2.2: <a href="http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/bridge.html">http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/bridge.html</a> Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University  Will Hochman, University of Southern Colorado  Beth Kolko, University of Texas at Arlington  Emily Golson, University of Northern Colorado  Jonathan Alexander, University of Southern Colorado  Luann Barnes, Colorado State University  Kate Kiefer, Colorado State University The goal of "Hypertext Reflections" was to "discuss some of the most compelling elements of current hypertext theory, as well as ... to break the frame of the traditional [by] creating a [text] that will practice the theory it preaches, we hope to explicitly model the theoretical interrogations of the session. You are invited and encouraged to bring students in your undergraduate or graduate web-writing classes to read this text and join in the MOO session, and/or respond in other ways (e-mail, review, response node). Forthcoming KTMA sessions this semester will feature Classroom Spotlight teacher (in issue 2.2) Matt Kirschenbaum, with author Doug Brent ("Rhetorics of the Web," issue 2.1); and Lee Libby ("Paralogic Hermeneutics, issue 2.2) with editorial reviewer Nick Carbone. Each session will be hosted by a member of the Kairos Editorial Staff, but the discussion is designed to be open and free-flowing. If you cannot attend the session but would like to ask a question of the Author(s), please feel free to send text of that question for a MOO slide to Response Editor Jennifer Bowie <bowiej@rpi.edu>. To join these discussions telnet to lingua.utdallas.edu:8888 or use the Web by going to <a href="http://lingua.utdallas.edu">http://lingua.utdallas.edu</a> and click on the option 'Login'. [deleted quotation]with how to MOO in general, or with LinguaMOO specifically, see Lingua's "Beginner's Guide to MOOing," linked to the URL above. Seven more Meet the Authors sessions will be scheduled for January through March of 1998. Details: mick@rpi.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CFP: IBERAMIA '98 - Call for Papers Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:23:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 629 (629) [deleted quotation] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please apologize if you receive this announcement more than once ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ C A L L F O R P A P E R S =========== IBERAMIA-98 =========== SIXTH IBERO-AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Lisbon, Portugal October 5-9,1998 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence) Please visit the web page for the most recent information: <a href="http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/">http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/</a> 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 in 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 exhibitions, 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 eastern 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 official languages and with the aim to promote and diffuse 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 holiday in Portugal, may be dedicated to visit 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 (e.g. 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 sponsoring the event, and demonstrations of AI industrial products designed in IberoAmerican 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 contributions to the paper track will be published by Springer Verlag. Submission ========== Submissions are namely requested in the following topics: Agent-oriented programming Case-based reasoning Computer vision Constraint programming Database mining tools and applications 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 concourse 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) SBC (Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao) Caixa Geral de Depositos Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian E-mail: iberamia@di.fct.unl.pt WWW: <a href="http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/">http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/</a> ***************************************************************************** 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: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: ELRA commissioning LRs Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:26:05 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 630 (630) [deleted quotation] *************************************************************** CALL FOR PROPOSALS - ELRA COMMISSIONING PRODUCTION OF LANGUAGE RESOURCES *************************************************************** The European Language Resources Association invites proposals for the production of language resources, open to companies and organisations world-wide. Starting date for proposals being 1 November 1997. ELRA was established in February 1995, with the support of the European Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (LR). These resources includes 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, to collect and validate the data and, foremost, make them available to users. =20 ELRA is planning to commission the production, packaging and customisation of language resources needed by the Language Engineering Community, and is inviting applications for production projects, which could be eligible for funding from ELRA.=20 As of now, there is no deadline set for the presentation of proposals. But there will be continuous reviewing of incoming proposals, which means that the first proposals to be received will have the first chance of being commissioned. =20 Included in your proposal should be the following: =B7 A clear and detailed description of the data to be produced.=20 =B7 A description of how the data will be used. If it is to be incorporated= in any applications or used for development of any applications. =20 =B7 A statement on why the data and the production is of importance the Language Engineering Community.=20 =B7 A statement on why the data and the production is of importance for your company/organisation. =B7 A statement justifying why ELRA should support the production,= accompanied with a list of previous work, experience, skills of the producer. =B7 A specification of by whom the data will be used. (internal use, general/public use, etc.) =20 =B7 A detailed description of how the production will be conducted; elements of production and production phases, including detailed time estimates for the entire production process, specifying all different phases of the production..=20 =B7 A breakdown of the costs estimated for the entire production process. Specify the cost effectiveness of the production, estimate the price of the final product and the return on investment.=20 =B7 Full co-ordinates of the applicant (including fax number and email= address). Proposals may be submitted by email (elra@calva.net), fax (+33-1-45 86 44 88) or post (ELRA/ELDA, 87 avenue d'Italie, 75013 Paris, France).=20 Please note: =B7 Only complete proposals will be reviewed. Should you have further questions, please contact the ELDA office for details. =B7 All information will be kept strictly confidential and only used in the context of this project.=20 =B7 This call is an initial step towards the production projects and ELRA reserve all rights to select the projects which will be qualified for= funding. ************************************************* Malin NILSSON = =20 ELRA/ELDA = =20 87 Avenue d'Italie 75013 - PARIS = =20 FRANCE Tel. +33 1 45 86 53 00 Fax. +33 1 45 86 44 88 Email: elra-elda@calva.net WWW <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</a> ************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Nelson Hilton <nhilton@english.uga.edu> Subject: Can These Bones Live? -and- Concordances Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:19:23 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 631 (631) [Forwarded with thanks to Dr. Nelson Hilton from H-CLC]: Dear H-CLC reader-- A growing number of inactive lists, it seems, have folded their tents and disappeared into the electronic night after a ritual call into the void met with resounding stillness. Perhaps it is a sign of advanced maturity in the medium --novelty has long worn off and we return to work at hand. If a list speaks to that work, we pause and read, perhaps respond --otherwise, quite rightly, why bother? As the very call for discussion about the rationale of a list's existence seems post-mortem, I refrain --but it does look like H-CLC is at critical juncture, having been flatlined now for many weeks. One of the reasons for my own not posting anything of late is a seeming mountain of labor to bring forth two mousy little Perl scripts for an on-line concordance to Blake (www.english.uga.edu/Blake_Concordance). Very primitive stuff--just string look up and an option for three lines of context (which takes forever)--but the experience has prompted some questions about concordancing on the web and the state of concordance software. Is anyone working on a new version of something like TACT? or is the discussion on other lists about running TACT on NT mean that that's the current goal? While very impressed by what TACT can produce, I have not used it to any proficiency, being wearied at each outset by all the various DOS screens (though I'm still willing to be converted!). Has anyone be able to get HUM to work on a Solaris 2.x system? if so I'd very much like to hear particulars about that. How about the new Windows WordCruncher? the demo is wonderfully fast though, the free library is awfully weak. I'd still prefer to see texts and engines up on the web for all to use with a minimum of fuss and expense; not to mention some elementary tutorials to help students make sense of what can be done. Perhaps H-CLC should produce such a site... Reports of what's in progress or just being dreamed of would be most welcome! Cheers, Nelson Hilton ========================================================================== "... the historical moment is ideal for initiating computer activity in the field of literary studies." B.H. Rudall and T. N. Corns, _Computers and Literature_. Cambridge, MA: Abacus Press, 1986 [!] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Job Advertisement Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:24:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 632 (632) [deleted quotation] ================================================================ Jobs offered ================================================================ Senior Research Officer Spoken language dialogue access to partially structured data The University of Essex has a vacancy for a senior research officer to work on a project to develop spoken language dialogue access to partially structured data. The project will develop a system that can take part in spoken dialogue. It will use artificial intelligence, natural language processing and knowledge representation techniques to extract useful information from partially structured data. The project is based in the Computer Science department of the University of Essex. This post is available from January 1998. It is funded by a telecommunications company. The successful applicant will be expected to take part in the design of the system, to carry out the implementation, and take part in evaluations and demonstrations. The position is especially suitable for those intending to make a career in artificial intelligence. Applicants should have a solid background in computer science and artificial intelligence: for instance, a good honours degree or MSc. Experience of programming in C is an advantage. Appointment, initially for one year with possibility of continuation for two more years, will be made on the Grade 1A scale for auxiliary (research) staff, 15,159-22,785 pounds per annum. Starting salary will depend on previous experience. Application details may be obtained by phoning Colchester (01206) 872462 (24 hours), quoting reference R/227, or by writing to the Personnel Section, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, or by email to staffing@essex.ac.uk Closing date: 18 November 1997 You can also send questions to Dr Sam Steel, sam@essex.ac.uk ================================================================ Sam Steel ---------------------------------------------------------------- FURTHER PARTICULARS Department of Computer Science Senior Research Officer grade IA Job title and grade: Senior Research Officer Department: Computer Science Responsible to: Head of Computer Science Department Reports on day to day basis to: Dr Steel, Ms De Roeck, Prof Turner, Dr Scott Purpose of job: Research and development on a project to enable spoken language dialogue access to partially structured data Duties of post: The duties of a research officer are naturally wide-ranging. In general, they are to advance the construction of the system by design, implementation and testing as far as possible in the time available. The post-holder may expect continuous direction and advice from the principal investigators, but they will also have wide scope for initiative and invention. The successful applicant will be expected to take part in the design of the system, to carry out the implementation, and take part in evaluations and demonstrations. They will also be responsible for preparation, revision and input of the data on which the system will operate. They may have to assist in presenting descriptions of the system both internally and externally, and both in writing and orally. They will perform any other such duties as may be assigned from time to time by the Head of Department or his/her nominee These duties are a guide to the work that the postholder may initially be required to undertake. They may be changed from time to time to meet changing circumstances and do not form part of the contract of employment' Essential experience, skills and attributes of the postholder Applicants should have a solid background in computer science and artificial intelligence: for instance, a good honours degree or MSc. However, candidate with relevant work experience in computing or artificial intelligence are also welcome. They will show ability to think constructively and inventively about problems. Desirable experience, skills and attributes of the postholder Experience of any of these is an advantage: programming in C programming in Prolog speech and signal processing natural language processing; linguistics formal methods in computer science; logic However, it may well be the case that applicants have skills which they feel are relevant to the project but which are not listed here. They should mention these in their application. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Other relevant information Aims of the project The goal is a wholly artificial system that can respond sensibly to spoken enquiries about partially structured data. The most interesting and difficult aspects are not the voice input, but the control of dialogue and the retrieval of information from the data. It would build on extant ``spoken language dialogue systems'' (SLDS), but would be unusual in its attempt to deal with a large pre-existing body of knowledge. The assistant must work, even if only crudely, after one year. If the data was which organizations sold what goods and services, it should then be able to participate in dialogues such as this, User: I want to buy some teaspoons. System: What are teaspoons? User: Teaspoons are small spoons. System: What are spoons? User: Spoons are used for eating. System: Do you buy spoons at food shops? User: No. System: Do you buy spoons at catering suppliers? User: Yes. System: [Lists catering suppliers.] Do you buy spoons at restaurants? User: That's enough. System: Goodbye. SLDSs already have a fairly standard design. It contains: A SPEECH RECOGNIZER to convert voice input into strings of words; A SPEECH-TO-MESSAGE CONVERTER to try to recognize possible messages of known form in the string of words, even if that loses information; A DIALOGUE MANAGER to attempts to see user input as a step in a known class of dialogues: if this succeeds, the next move will be made by the system; A DATABASE AND ``INFERENCE ENGINE'' because the questions will often not be instantly answerable from the database. The standard SLDS is inadequate for this project because of BRITTLENESS OF DIALOGUE (because at any point which responses are allowable is determined by the system) and BRITTLENESS OF DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE (when the system could know that teaspoons were cutlery, and that house furnishings were sold at J Smith's, but not know that J Smith's might sell teaspoons because it did not know that cutlery was a sort of house furnishing). We will reduce brittleness by trading away correctness for coverage. To help do this, the system should be DECLARATIVE, with a clear separation of the knowledge of dialogue and of the domain from the machinery that deploys that knowledge; SHALLOW, so that the machinery can run even with knowledge that is very incomplete and very shallow; CORRECTABLE, so that improving the system's knowledge is part of the way it is used, not just part of the way it was constructed; ERRATIC BUT EXPOSED, where by accepting a high (though declining) error rate in the system's understanding and responses, compensated for by providing a visible model of its model of the dialogue. The dialogue scripts will rely on interrogating the database. Though those enquiries are simple, the information by itself will not be enough. For instance, any adult can guess that ironmongers or home furnishing shops are good places to try. There are four ways of approaching that. DEEP KNOWLEDGE where the database would contain facts where the primitives are a privileged a priori set of ``concepts''. SHALLOW KNOWLEDGE where the primitive types and most of the primitive relations are lexemes --- word stems. Such a representation is not far from the original text, and will relatively little translation. TEXTUAL RETRIEVAL which is simple, easy and fast; and it misses very little. ``ASK THE USER'', because ``What sort of thing are TEASPOONS?'' or ``What sort of trader sells TEASPOONS?'' are reasonable questions. We assume that we start with the basic information in machine-readable form, perhaps as a simple table of the form goods/service offered, trader, address, phone number but which could also contain the cross-referencing of categories and sections of free text. We must translate this into a database, rapidly and shallowly. The system's knowledge will be assumed to be permanently incomplete. When the system fails in an irritating way --- that is, when the user feels sure that the original information contains the answer ---, the whole enquiry will be logged for a maintainer to look at later. Failures of use of knowledge will not be seen as bugs needing debugging, but as ignorance needing education. Robustness can only be achieved at the cost of making mistakes. We will accept a high error rate, but compensate by making the system explain its responses to the user, and able to accept the user's corrections. This will use a subsidiary, conventional, channel. It is important that the project provide demonstrations of what it is doing at every stage of its development. The principal investigators are Dr Sam Steel, Ms Anne De Roeck, Dr Paul Scott and Professor Ray Turner. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Appointments, initially for one year with possibility of continuation for two more years, will be made on the Grade 1A scale for auxiliary (research) staff, 15,159-22,785 pounds per annum. Starting salary will depend on previous experience. The appointment will be initially for one year with possibility of continuation for two more years, depending on the performance of the person appointed and the continuation of the project into a third year by the funder. Applicants should note that the University operates a No Smoking policy. A completed application cover sheet, curriculum vitae, comprising a statement of the candidate's experience and qualifications, and a covering letter should be sent to The Personnel Section University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester Essex CO4 3SQ to arrive not later than 18 November 1997 Please quote job reference number R/227 in your application. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: UCSD Cognitive Science - Junior Faculty Position Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:27:06 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 633 (633) From: elman@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Elman) FACULTY POSITION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO The Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego invites applications for a faculty position at the assistant professor level (tenure-track) starting July 1, 1998, the salary commensurate with the experience of the successful applicant and based on the UC pay scale, and subject to the availability of funds. Applicants are sought in the area of higher cognitive function and must have a PhD (or ABD). A broad interdisciplinary perspective and experience with multiple methodologies will be highly valued. Postdoctoral experience is desirable. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of California, San Diego is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All applications received by January 1, 1998 will receive thorough consideration until position is filled. Candidates should include a vita, reprints, a short letter describing their background and interests, and names and addresses of at least three references to: University of California, San Diego Faculty Search Committee Department of Cognitive Science 0515-JE 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0515 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: characters Date: Sat, 1 Nov 97 13:15:13 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 634 (634) It seems to me that the question is communication. If one uses IBM Codepage 350 or ISO 8859-1 or whatever, one is putting the burden on the receiver, whose machine may not be compliant with them. If you don't care whether you communicate or not, or if you feel so offended at having to give up dicritics that you cannot give them up or encode them, so be it. We who deal with Middle English feel lost without our yogh, Old Icelandic specialists must eschew the o hook, even if we use the above. When I write Yiddish, it takes me five letters to write JW. As far as communication is concerned, I have no trouble reading French without diacritics, though I am sure that there are minimal pairs one could cite. We have some in English, in fact, and there was a movement at one time to add more, so that clods like me would not say mizeled for misled or now + here for nowhere. Germans have more reason to complain -- my library, for instance, makes no distinction between a and a-umlaut. If you imagine that you are writing in caps on an old Remington, it is all easy. Telegrams are sent every day in France without the hint of a diacritic. Having said this, and being a polyglop, I resent also having to write my languages without diacritics. I do not see ISO 8859-1 as an answer; your systems administrator and Bill Gates could install Unicode compatibility just as easily. Then we could write in the writing system of our choice. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Anne Foerst <annef@ai.mit.edu> Subject: Call for Papers please distribute!! Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 11:15:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 635 (635) IDENTITY, FORMATION, DIGNITY - The Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science upon Jewish and Christian Understandings of Personhood April 30 May 2, 1998 The Boston Theological Institute (BTI) MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Center for Faith and Science Exchange (FASE) Sir John Templeton Foundation CALL FOR PAPERS: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cognitive science are challenging our basic understanding of personhood, as formed in part from ancient Greek, Jewish, and Christian sources of revelation and wisdom. The mechanistic and functionalist assumptions which guide AI and cognitive science research already influence current perceptions of humankind. Scientific progress in understanding human intelligence and its emotional and bodily basis, and engineering advances in building intelligent machines enforce penetrating questions about the nature of human identity and its relationship to religious faith and its assumptions. Our thinking about personhood shapes patterns of education and character formation as well as the way in which human dignity is conceived and practiced or violated - in contemporary society. We seek to draw AI and cognitive science into dialogue with theology on these issues. The doctrine of trinity and that of the two natures of Christ helped to frame conceptions of personhood and dignity: the trinity draws us to a notion of dynamic unity transcending rationality; that of the two persons of Christ emphasizes the importance of embodiment for a relationship with the divine. Most religions would agree that humankind exists in a sphere which includes the body and emotional reactions in the context of nature, human community, and a sacred narrative. For the last decade, AI and cognitive science have been struggling with the questions of the importance of embodiment, emotions, and cultural settings for intelligent systems. These research results can inform theological reasoning about the meaning of personhood; AI and cognitive science, on the other hand, can learn from the Jewish concept of humans being created in the image of God. We want to establish a dialogue of mutual enrichment in which scholars in both fields build relationships to become able to rely on the expertise and experience of the other. For this purpose we would like to invite papers for a public conference in Spring at MIT. Please send papers by March 1, 1998 either electronically to Dr. Anne Foerst <annef@ai.mit.edu> or via posted mail or fax to The Boston Theological Institute, "Identity, Formation and Dignity", 210 Herrick RD, Newton Center, MA 02159, fax (617) 527-1073. Possible topics are: -philosophical aspects of the concept of the identity of the person; -formation of personhood in a biological system; -implications of mechanistic or idealistic assumptions for human dignity; -the development of current historical and cultural concepts of the person; -theories of character formation in light of mechanistic or idealistic assumptions about humankind; -functional explanations for religion; -biological, sociological, or mechanistic explanations for rejection of science and/or religion; -analysis of assumptions in science and/or religion from a philosophy of science perspective; -differences in the Jewish and Christian perception of the person; -differences between scientific and theological understandings of personhood and dignity; -body-mind and body-mind-soul relations; -perspectives on human nature from medical, psychological, psycho-analytical perspectives; -different understandings of intelligence within AI and/or the cognitive sciences; -techniques for dialogue between AI, the cognitive sciences and theology; -epistemological explanations of the origins of the difficulties emerging in a dialogue between theology and AI; -patterns of interactions which emerge for participants in this dialogue. -- Dr.theol. Anne Foerst Postdoctoral Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology SQ, NE 43 812 Cambridge, MA 02139 +1 / 617 / 253-7891 Harvard Divinity School Center for the Studies of Values in Public Life 56 Francis Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 <a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/annef/">http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/annef/</a> ------End of forwarded message ------- From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Alliance for Computers in English Needs Your Help Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 11:40:23 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 636 (636) [deleted quotation] Colleagues, Apologies in advance to those who receive more than one copy of this message. Please forward to lists or individuals you think may be interested. The NCTE Assembly on Computers in English (ACE) needs your help. At each convention we provide a booth on the exhibits floor where we share ideas about using computers and computer technology to facilitate the teaching and learning of English, demonstrate software, distribute computers/networking and English-related brochures and/or handouts, display posters and announcements, and provide a highly visible spot for persons of cool demeanor to see and be seen. If you are attending the 1998 NCTE Convention in Detroit later this month we invite you to help us out. If you have developed computer software related to the teaching and learning of English and would like to demonstrate it in front of thousands of potential customers we invite you to join us. If you would like to demonstrate what you are doing with computers in your English classrooms to thousands of teachers yearning to be set free we invite you to join us. We would like to provide demonstrations on the hour and half hour. We plan to have a few IBM and Mac computers at the booth and you will be welcome to use them to demonstrate your work. If you are a shy person and uncomfortable with public demonstrations to clamoring teachers hungry for new ideas we invite you to display a poster describing your work. This is a separate activity from the poster session during the ACE meeting Saturday evening, though there could be some overlap. We invite you to volunteer to participate in both---or display your ACE poster session poster at the ACE Software Center before and after the ACE meeting. Even if you have nothing to demonstrate we invite you to help us staff the ACE Software Center. We hope to have people at the booth during all operational hours. No matter what your experience with computers (and even if you are not of cool demeanor) we hope you will help us out by volunteering as much time as you can spare to help us make the ACE Software Center a success. We guarantee that time spent there will be more rewarding than a tour of any auto plant in Detroit. Significant contacts and contracts have been made at the ACE Software Center in the past. It could happen to you this year! The Ace Software Center will be open during the regular Exhibit Floor hours: Friday, Nov. 21-- 12 noon-6:00 pm Saturday, Nov. 22-- 12 noon-5:00 pm Sunday, Nov. 23-- 10:00 am-5:00 pm If you have brochures or handouts that you would like to distribute at the ACE Software Center please send them (NOT COD!) so that they arrive *NO LATER* than November 20, 1997 at this address: ACE Software Center Booth 207A NCTE Convention c/o Convention and Show Services, Inc. 12700 Royal Grand Redford, Michigan 48239 Your brochures and handouts will receive wide distribution among the English teachers attending NCTE. As you know, computer technology and the teaching of English has not been highly valued at NCTE conventions in the past. ACE is working to change this but we can't do it alone. We truly need your help to promote a viable presence within NCTE during the upcoming convention. Please help us out and volunteer some time and effort at the ACE Software Center this year. Contact us at the addresses below. Tell us what you would like to do and when. We will reward you with the highly coveted ACE Award of Highest Merit for Good Buddy Volunteerism, which we can tell you from personal experience will change your life forever. Thanks for considering ACE; hope to see you at the NCTE convention! John Barber jfbarber@alpha.nsula.edu Dene Grigar dene@eaze.net Michael Day mday@silver.sdsmt.edu From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Call for Papers: Probabilistic Logic and Randomised Computation Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 11:43:21 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 637 (637) From: Alessandra Di Pierro <adp@cs.city.ac.uk> ESSLLI-98 Workshop on PROBABILISTIC LOGIC AND RANDOMISED COMPUTATION August 17 - 21, 1998 A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98) August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany ** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ** ORGANISERS: Alessandra Di Pierro and Herbert Wiklicky (London) Web site: <a href="http://www.cs.city.ac.uk/~adp/esslli98.html">http://www.cs.city.ac.uk/~adp/esslli98.html</a> BACKGROUND: Probabilistic concepts recently gained widespread interest in logic and computer science, for example in the investigation of randomised algorithms and probabilistic proof systems. Whereas probability and randomisation have always played an important role in complexity theory (from average case analysis to probabilistic complexity classes) the investigation of these notions in semantics was much more limited and only in the last years renewed interest seems to develop. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from areas like philosophy, logics, semantics and the theory of algorithms whose research is related to aspects of probability, stochastic processes, randomised algorithms etc., in order to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among them. The workshop topics include: o philosophical foundations of probability o probabilistic logics o probabilistic proof systems o probabilistic proof checking o probabilistic knowledge representation o probabilistic games o randomised automata o randomised algorithms o semantics of probabilistic languages o probabilistic non-determinism o probabilistic reasoning o fuzzy and belief systems o inexact matching o constraints and probability o Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods o practical applications o randomised optimisation (e.g. simulated annealing, genetic algorithms) o (stochastic) approximation algorithms (for NP problems) WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will be held as part of ESSLLI'98. There will be five sessions of 90 minutes each, one on each day of the first week of the school (August 17-22, 1998). The workshop will consist in the presentation of submitted papers and discussion sessions. Notes containing the papers accepted for presentation will be made available in electronic form. Opportunities for publishing revised versions of the papers will be explored. The workshop will be open to attendance by all school registrants. SUBMISSION: All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are encourage to submit a paper. Papers should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract of NO MORE THAN 4000 words (8-10 pages) in length, and must include the e-mail address of all authors and a 200-300 word abstract. Deadline is February 15, 1998. To submit a paper, please send a postscript file to <adp@cs.city.ac.uk> or <herbert@cs.city.ac.uk> OR send three (3) hard copies of your paper to one of the organisers (below). Alessandra Di Pierro adp@cs.city.ac.uk <a href="http://www.cs.city.ac.uk/~adp">http://www.cs.city.ac.uk/~adp</a> Herbert Wiklicky herbert@cs.city.ac.uk <a href="http://www.cs.city.ac.uk/~herbert">http://www.cs.city.ac.uk/~herbert</a> Department of Computer Science School of Informatics City University Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB United Kingdom Electronic submission is STRONGLY encouraged. REGISTRATION: Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-98, but they will be elligible for a reduced registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES: Feb 15, 98: Deadline for submissions Apr 15, 98: Notification of acceptance May 15, 98: Deadline for final copy Aug 17, 98: Start of workshop FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI-98 please visit the ESSLLI-98 home page at <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Paul groves <paul.groves@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.381 Concordances Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 16:51:30 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 638 (638) [deleted quotation] Have you seen the Blake concordances at: <a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/English/wics/wics.htm">http://www.dundee.ac.uk/English/wics/wics.htm</a> and <a href="http://virtual.park.uga.edu/Blake_Concordance/">http://virtual.park.uga.edu/Blake_Concordance/</a> Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Groves Email: paul.groves@oucs.ox.ac.uk JTAP Project Officer Fax: +44 (0)1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit Tel: +44 (0)1865 273 226 Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford, England. OX2 6NN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Wendell Piez <marcus@lab.com> Subject: Re: 11.381 Concordances Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 17:23:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 639 (639) While not quite TACT in terms of functionality, the concordancing program MonoConc is quite nice, runs in Windows on plain text files, handles fairly copious libraries at once (it was developed with linguists in mind), and is intuitive and configurable by the user for wildcards and such. Check it out: Athelstan software, at <a href="http://www.athel.com/mono.html">http://www.athel.com/mono.html</a> (You can download a demo from the site). --Wendell Piez HuskyLabs wendell@lab.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: jmaczew1@gwdg.de Subject: Re: 11.0230 hand-held scanners Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:48:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 640 (640) Apart from the legal questions, the use of hand-held scanners to "copy" books is a tricky one in itself. I suggest a short check-list: First, the fundamental consideration: 1. Which kind of sources do you intend to scan (important criteria are paper and font size, print quality, used fonts, used styles (incl. footnotes, quotations, etc.)) Then, the basic technical consideration: 2. Is there a system that supports your project? * Hardware: a) Does your notebook support the particular scanner? b) Is a separate power supply required? c) How long can you scan using batteries? * Software: a) Does the scanner's software run on your system without difficulties? b) How long does an average scan take? c) How much time do you need to spend on post-processing? In 1994, when I was technical advisor to a project intending to scan 19th century german texts, we experimented with hand-held scanning but could not find a convincing solution. For modern texts, the situation might be better by now, but it's still rather time and money consuming to scan and post-process texts scanned in "hand-heldedly", I should think. Jan-Mirko Maczewski U of Goettingen jmaczew1@gwdg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0370 new & online courses Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 15:08:30 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 641 (641) I'm trying to find info on introductory undergraduate courses in humanities computing. In addition to course title and content, it would be useful to know admin. details, such as amount of live teaching vs. Web-based or self-paced learning, qualifications of instructors (discipline background), whether the course can be challenged for credit, and if differential (aka higher) fees are charged b/c of additional costs. Also, which department teaches the course - Computer Science, a Humanities dept, another unit? I'm aware of courses at BYU and McMaster (thanks to Geoffrey Rockwell's recent posting here), but would like to hear of others. If you prefer to send me contact info only, I'd be grateful for that too. Thanks Peter Liddell ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: ELRA new resources Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 11:41:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 642 (642) EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News *** NEW CATALOGUE & NEW RESOURCES *** ELRA is happy to announce the update of its catalogue of Language resources for Language Engineering and Research. It currently consists of: 1) Spoken resources: 64 databases in several languages (recordings from microphone, telephone, continuous speech, isolated words, phon etic dictionaries, etc.). 2) Written resources: * 15 monolingual and multilingual corpora * 40 monolingual lexica * Around 60 multilingual lexica * A linguistic software platform and grammars development platform 3) Terminological resources: over 360 databases with a wide range of domains and several languages (Catalan, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish). ******************************** * ELRA-S0042 POLYCOST * ******************************** The POLYCOST speech database was recorded during January-March 1996 as a common initiative entitled "Speaker Recognition in Telephony" within the COST 250 action. The main purpose of the database is to compare and validate speaker recognition algorithms. The data was collected via international telephone lines, with more than five sessions per speaker, and with English spoken by foreigners. The database contains around 10 sessions recorded by 134 subjects from 14 countries. Each session contains 14 items. All items, except the last two, are expressed in English. The speakers come from the European countries taking part in the action. Approximately 10 speakers per country were provided by each partner. Each session comprises 15 prompts, including one prompt for DTMF detection, 10 prompts with connected digits uttered in English, 2 prompts with sentences uttered in English and 2 prompts in the speaker's mother tongue. One of the prompts in the speaker's mother tongue consists of free speech. * English: - 4 prompts distributed throughout the session in which the speaker pronounces his or her 7-digit client code; - 5 prompts distributed throughout the session in which the speaker pronounces a sequence of 10 digits (the same from session to session and from speaker to speaker); - 2 prompts in which the speaker pronounces the sentences: ''Joe took father's green shoe bench out'' and ''He eats several light tacos'', as fixed password phrases which are common to all speakers; - 1 prompt in which the speaker is supposed to give his or her international phone number. * Mother tongue - 1 prompt in which the speaker gives his or her first name, family name, gender (female/male), town and country; - 1 prompt with free speech. The database was collected through the European telephone network and was recorded through an ISDN card on XTL SUN platform with an 8 kHz sampling rate. Most of the calls were automatically classified by DTMF detection. Manual classification has been used in the case of no DTMF or wrong DTMF PIN code (circa 10% of the database). The English prompts are segmented and labelled at the word level (orthographic transcription and word stretches). The prompts in mother tongue are simply labelled (an orthographic transcription will be given). The conventions used for the annotation are those defined within the SpeechDat project. Character set: ISO-8859-1 Medium: CD-ROMs. The first CD contains speech data from speakers M001-M069, and the second CD contains data from speakers F001-F060 plus M070-M074. Total size CD1: 636 MB=09 Total size CD2: 610 MB=09 File format: A-law, 8 kHz sampling rate, 8 bits/sample, with no file header. Price for ELRA members: o price for research use: 500 ECU o price for commercial use: 1000 ECU Price for non members: o price for research use: 600 ECU o price for commercial use: 1200 ECU Price for COST 250 partners: 100 ECU ********************************************* * ELRA-S0043 ONOMASTICA-COPERNICUS database * ********************************************* The ONOMASTICA project was a European-wide research initiative within the scope of the Linguistic Research and Engineering Programme, the aim of which was the construction of a multi-language pronunciation lexicon of proper names. That project covered eleven European languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Although the ONOMASTICA project ended in June 1995, the work continued with the introduction of new partners, addressing names in Eastern and Central European languages: Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian and Ukrainian, in a new project funded by the European Commission's Copernicus Programme. Though the result of the Onomastica project related to Western languages is not available (except for the German), the result of this new project is available. It consists of a collection of 1,783,390 transcriptions of 1,705,653 names, broken down as follows: =B7 Czech: 257,700 entries consisting of 244,025 names prepared by Dr. Pavel Kolar of the Language Institute, Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic. =B7 Estonian: 209,515 entries consisting of 208,380 names prepared by Dr. Peeter P=E4ll of the Institute for the Estonian Language, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia. =B7 Latvian: 258,214 entries consisting of 245,331 names prepared by Dr. Andrejs Spektors of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. =B7 Polish: 285,412 entries consisting of 244,632 names prepared by Prof. Wiktor Jassem of the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Posnan, Poland. =B7 Slovak: 228,257 entries consisting of 228,257 names prepared by Dr. Peter Durco of the Department of Foreign Languages, Police Academy of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. =B7 Slovenian: 285,862 entries consisting of 283,449 names prepared by Dr. Zdravko Kacic of the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia. =B7 Ukrainian: 258,430 entries consisting of 251,579 names prepared by Dr. Yevgeniy Ludovik of the Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine. The databases are presented in Microsoft Access format and in ASCII text format, together with database browser software prepared by Keith Edwards of the Centre for Communication Interface Research, The University of Edinburgh. Price for ELRA members: o price for research use: 400 ECU o price for commercial use: 3000 ECU Price for non members: o price for research use: 800 ECU o price for commercial use: 6000 ECU ******************************************** For more information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 87, Avenue d'Italie 75013 PARIS Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00 Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88 E-mail: info-elra@calva.net <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</a> ******************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Hand-held scanners Date: Sat, 8 Nov 97 12:23:50 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 643 (643) One of the worst problems with hand-held scanners is that they touch what they are scanning. If I were an archivist, I would not permit them into my archive. I see absolute no reason nowadays not to use a digitalizing camera. They have come down in price substantially. The problem is that you DO need to know a little about cameras, lighting, lenses and the like, but, then, you need to know those things anyway if you are going to be working with manuscripts. You can't use a Brownie to photograph manuscripts. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: MICHAEL NEUMAN <neuman@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> Subject: Position in Humanities Computing Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 15:47:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 644 (644) Academic Computing Services of Georgetown University is seeking a Faculty Support Coordinator to help faculty in humanities departments incorporate technology into teaching and research. S/he will help faculty select and learn relevant technologies and analytical methods, propose pedagogical strategies for implementing them, and help find and develop new textual and image-based resources. Ideal qualifications: an advanced degree (Ph.D. preferred) in one of the central disciplines of the humanities; minimum three years' experience in providing computing support, preferably in a university setting; experience with most of the following: integrating analog and digital technologies into teaching and research; skills in instructional design, analysis of electronic text, and selecting and evaluating courseware; faculty-support experience in a library, academic department, or computing center; experience in developing multimedia, Web resources, and/or SGML-encoded text. Interpersonal skills, fluency in writing and speaking, and a demonstrable service orientation are essential. The competitive salary for this twelve-month staff position will be based on the experience and qualifications of the successful candidate. Before the deadline of December 15th, applicants should send a letter describing relevant experience and interests, a curriculum vitae, and the names of three references to: Georgetown University Human Resources Job # 11979 37th and O Streets, NW Washington, DC 20057-1021 Review of applications will continue until the position has been filled. Georgetown University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Eric Johnson <johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu> Subject: Humanities Computing Course Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 06:33:58 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 645 (645) In answer to a question by Peter Liddell, I have taught (and will again teach in the summer of 1998) CHUM 650, Computing for the Humanities. Information about the course can be found on the Web at <a href="http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/chum.html">http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/chum.html</a> and an article I wrote about teaching the course is online at <a href="http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/webprof.html">http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/webprof.html</a> Students access a series of Web pages, read assigned articles, and download software and data files. They then complete assignments and send their observations to the instructor via email. Although it is a graduate course, some undergraduate students have enrolled in CHUM 650. I am a Ph.D. in English who enjoys writing computer programs. CHUM 650 is taught in the College of Liberal Arts. In theory, any course at Dakota State University can be challenged for credit, but the nature of CHUM 650 is such that students earn credit by working with unique programs that would not be available to them if they were not enrolled in the course. I would appreciate any comments about my course and about my article, and I will attempt to answer any questions. -- Eric --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu <a href="http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/">http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "[iso-8859-1] Raphaël Cohen" <cohen.raphael@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: 11.385 CFPs Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 07:30:21 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 646 (646) There is NO RELATION between Jewish (that is kabalist and talmudic knowledge) and Christianism, with his own story. I don't admit that Judaism is considered as an appendice of Christianism, which is the contrary of his conception of humanhood, life, happiness, science and God. Raphael Cohen Paris _________________________________________________________ | | | RAPHAEL COHEN | | | | Paris | | | | cohen.raphael@wanadoo.fr | | | | | | Internet | | | | <a href="http://www.cyber-espace.com/poesie/ondees">http://www.cyber-espace.com/poesie/ondees</a> | | | | Ondees Tora Etoiles Questions et reponses | | | | | |________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Digital Resources in the Humanities '97 - preprint volume Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 22:48:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 647 (647) Tidying up at the Humanities Computing Unit last week (yes it does happen) we discovered an extra box of copies of the fat volume of conference preprints distributed to participants in the recent Digital Resources in the Humanities conference, held at Oxford in September. It occurs to me that readers of this list might like the chance to buy a copy of this excellent volume in handy paper format, although the contents also remain available on the web at the conference web site (<a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97</a>). After all, the book format allows you to read in the bath, or on public transport when your laptop battery has died. It also looks really keen on your bookshelf, and makes a superb Christmas gift for that hard to please scholarly person in your life! The 350 page book provides a snapshot of the current state of play in the community of all those creating, using, distributing, and curating digital resources in the humanities, with over 70 papers from a wide spectrum of active players in this new world. For details, see the web site mentioned above. Copies are available at 30 pounds ($25) each, post free. Send your order to Abigail Cook (abigail.cooke@oucs.ox.ac.uk, fax +44 1865 273 275), using the order form below. Please enclose payment made out to "Oxford University Computing Services". We can also accept credit card (Access or Visa only) orders. Watch this space for announcements of the edited highlights volume from the conference, to be published by the Office for Humanities Communication next year. Lou Burnard ----------------------------------------------------snip------------------- TO: Abigail Cook HCU Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN, UK fax +44 1865 273 275 PLEASE SUPPLY ___ copy/ies of DRH97 Conference Abstracts Volume NAME: ADDRESS: I ENCLOSE PAYMENT OF ____________ (30 pounds or US$25 per copy) OR PLEASE CHARGE MY ACCESS/VISA CARD: Number ______________________________ Expiry Date _________ Name if different from above ____________________ Copies will be despatched by mail as they are received. If you would like confirmation that your order has been despatched, please supply your email address: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn <D.Zeitlyn@ukc.ac.uk> Subject: ANTHROPOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS conference programme Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 14:41:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 648 (648) The programme of the forthcoming NNTLA conference ANTHROPOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON PEDAGOGIC CULTURE AND ITS INSTITUTIONAL ORGANISATION Is now available on the Anthropology In Action pages on the CSAC web server URL <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Anthaction/conf_nov97.html">http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Anthaction/conf_nov97.html</a> Apologies for cross-posting david z From: John Price-Wilkin <jpwilkin@UMICH.EDU> Subject: UM Making of America: 685,885 pages online Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 23:33:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 649 (649) UM Making of America site -- 685,885 pages now online <a href="http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/">http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/</a> The University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative is proud to announce the completion of the first phase of its Making of America project, now including approximately 650,000 pages of books and journals from the latter part of the 19th century. This tremendous resource now contains 1,601 books and ten journals with more than 49,069 articles documenting America's social history. Based on feedback solicited in earlier announcements for the resource, as well as local user studies, the current implementation adds functionality in a number of areas. Notable features of the current system include the following: o Users may search the full text of the 685,885 pages, retrieving results almost instantly. o The system now includes browsable bibliographies for the journal articles and the monographs. o The UM MoA resources have been encoded in a simple SGML form (a 40 element DTD conforming to the TEI Guidelines); consequently, we are able to seamlessly integrate both automatically processed (i.e., "raw") texts, and texts whose OCR and encoding is carefully evaluated (i.e., "cooked" texts). Users who encounter a "cooked" text will find attractively rendered HTML with links to page images, while "raw" texts are presented as page images until resources can be found to improve them. o A major project undertaken during the summer of 1997 subdivided the UM MoA periodicals into articles, adding title and author information to the rough OCR at the article level, thus making it easier to navigate the large body of material or to search for specific items. o Although the functionality of the resource is enhanced by the use of browsers that support frames, the current implementation also supports frameless browsers. Especially if you^Òve been a user of the UM Making of American system in the past, we would be very interested in your comments. Please take a look at the new system and send comments to moa-info@umich.edu. Future Developments The resource will continue to improve along several different fronts. o Integration with the Making of America materials at Cornell University (<a href="http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/">http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/</a>) is a high priority. o Migration from "raw" to "cooked" can take place gradually, based on the availability of resources and specific demands. The Humanities Text Initiative, a part of the Digital Library Production Services at the UM, will undertake the process of proofing OCR and refining markup based on user demand. A call for suggestions of priorities will be made in the coming weeks. o The UM Library will be incorporating digital conversion into its Preservation Department's "Brittle Books" program. New materials will be added to the MoA site as they are converted. o Bibliographic information in monographs will be enhanced with improved catalog records by the end of 1997. o We hope to work with other institutions and funding agencies to make more significant additions to the MoA site. Please send expressions of interest to moa-info@umich.edu. The project is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. ---------------------------------------------- Miscellaneous statistics: Total SGML: 1.826 gigabytes Total words: approximately 300 million ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: John_Lavagnino@Brown.edu Subject: The unconscious is structured like a programming language Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 23:04:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 650 (650) Here is a comment made by Tom Nairn, "The Departed Spirit", London Review of Books, 30 October 1997, 3, 5-6, in the middle of an interminable discussion of Diana Spencer's death: [...] it is not an exaggeration to say that on the night of 30-31 August something was killed in each member of the public. In today's computerese, it could be imagined as something like a Java-language `applet' embedded in most Britannic craniums: that is, the micro-code of emotional authentication and orientation through which a community is triggered, maintained, occasionally celebrated---but also controlled. I hope that Sun Microsystems will take action to halt the apparent security holes in their software that are revealed here. Java applets were supposed to be incapable of taking over a host computer in this abusive manner. John Lavagnino ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Chris Floyd <cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au> Subject: 11.394 re: CFPs Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:59:39 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 651 (651) [deleted quotation] This is a weird piece of misinformation. JC was Jewish. The cabbala draws on the Old Testament which is the first part of the Christian bible. Even Islam is linked up. Whose "conception of humanhood, life, happiness, science and God"? I presume JC. A wellspring of inhumanity and unhappiness in the world is religion. See Arthur Miller's "The Crucible". Another source is egocentric greed manifested in multinational corporations and fostered by Christian leaders like Bill Clinton and John Howard. Surely the Protestant work ethic is Hebraic not Hellenic. See Matthew Arnold's "Culture and Anarchy". _______________________________ Dr Chris Floyd Phone: +61 8 9339 0490 Fax: +61 8 9385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au <a href="http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd">http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Nikos Goulandris <Nikos.Goulandris@ens.fr> Subject: Re: 11.390 Scanners Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:07:12 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 652 (652) But then, one could have a piece of glass, so the scanner does not come in contact with what one is scanning. If the glass is clean enough, archivists (the ones I am obliged to) have no objections. Nikos Goulandris [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: TOM DILLINGHAM <tomdill@wc.stephens.edu> Subject: Re: 11.398 re: CFPs Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 20:22:06 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 653 (653) I realize that often ignorance best responds to ignorance (or at least incoherence to incoherence and confusion compounded), but between Mr. Cohen [Humanist 11.394] and Mr. Floyd [11.398] we have reached, on an otherwise well-informed and informative list, some sort of benchmark (at least in this context--I admit I have seen greater absurdities on other lists, but usually there they are expected). Tom Dillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: translating Computing the Edition Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 23:29:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 654 (654) Dear Willard, At the recent Computing the Edition conference, Keren Rice, the linguist spoke briefly on the concluding panel however it was with depth in word and gesture that she spoke true as elders do. Her presentation of the challenges facing the deliver of a dictionary of a living Athapasckan tongue to a community of users where electricity may often fail, where the the socio-demographics call out for an edition with sound files searchable by voice recognition software, all deliverable on the newly developed cousin of the wind-up radio (the laptop rechargeable by hand-cranking) could not help but remind provide an excellent example of a them running throughout the conference the intricate resonance of the "popular" reader woven across the categories of audience, public and community. I hope Humanist will carry reports about this fine project. It is also my hope that the intense exploration at this conference of vehicular, architectural and even culinary models of textual artefacts has contributed significantly to deconstruct the digital imaging versus textual encoding opposition. I suspect in the months ahead we will hearing from Robert Rosenberg at the Thomas Edison Papers Project at Rutgers about how the problem of encoding pictorial elements can be resolved by the use of overlays (grids applied to images). I'm sure there will be papers inspired by the discussions at Computing the Edition that will outline how mark-up is a process akin to the application of templates. Plus, I bet, someone will, drawing up recently developed encryptolope technology point out that we need to rethink presumptions concerning the location of metadata. Others will generate a counter-discourse claiming that metadata clusters always existed. Some catchwords in these debates will be "recursivity" and "granularity". And watch for the birth of Technomorphogenia - a savant term for the process by which technology transforms and is itself transformed. By the way, in your closing remarks you doubted that there might be professional translators present. There was a least one member of the gathering who earns a living exchanging the labour of wordsmithing for money. I am sure if you could find that person they would have much to say about the translated text, the translating text and the translation. There was a lot in motion in that room at that time --- some spherical music, I hear Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: C M Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@tigger.cc.uic.edu> Subject: SGML/XML '97 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:28:23 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 655 (655) Some readers of this list may find the attached announcement interesting. Note that although the sponsors of this even continue to charge industrial rates for registration which surpass what most academics can bring themselves or their institutions to pay, anyone who does a poster presentation can get a pass to the conference sessions that day. The conference itself is one of the most uniformly informative and useful that I attend, so academics within day-trip distance of Washington should seriously consider offering a poster and attending. Posters may address any SGML- or XML-related topic; important or offbeat SGML applications (and, for industrial purposes, many academic projects count as offbeat) are perennial topics, so you might simply choose to describe your SGML-based project and explain what markup problems you face and how you have solved them or plan to. If you have an interest in markup, you may have something more technical to offer; those who organize the poster program do not frown upon offering more than one topic. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago ---- notice of SGML/XML '97 Poster Program, Deadline, and Guidelines --- ****** SGML/XML'97 POSTER GUIDELINES ****** What You SEND for the Poster Program (Deadline November 24, 1997) (E-mail to : Melanie Yunk <mel@cfi.org>) 1. Title of your poster presentation 2. Poster Abstract (1-3 short paragraphs) 3. Your name(s) and address(s) (including email) What You BRING to SGML/XML'97 (or ship: Deadline December 7/8, 1997) (To post on a 4 foot by 8 foot cork board) 1. Poster(s) -- Text big enough to read from 4 or 5 feet away. Size approximately 22 x 28" (56 by 71 cm). (22 x 26" is fine.) Thin paper, not foam core. 2. Handouts (Optional) Poster Categories 1. Technical poster (case study or technical topic) 2. Vendor posters (free advertising)) Notice: FREE ENLARGING is available (if we receive your poster before November 12, 1997) Send 8 1/2 x 11 or A4 paper to GCA and they will enlarge to poster size for free. GCA's address: Graphic Communications Association; Poster Submission; ATTN: Tanya Bose; 100 Daingerfield Road; Alexandria, VA USA 22314-2888 If you don't know what a poster is, want to know if there is a reward in all this, have other questions, have comments or want to send title/abstract/name by email: Melanie Yunk <mel@cfi.org> From: Laszlo Hunyadi <hunyadi@llab2.arts.klte.hu> Subject: Call for Papers: Humanities Computing Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:27:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 656 (656) ** Please disregard if not applicable ** FOR THOSE WHO NEED YET ANOTHER LAST MINUTE REMINDER: The deadline for the submmission of your paper for the conference below is just in TEN DAYS! CALL FOR PAPERS ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ALLC/ACH '98 "VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES" JULY 5-10, 1998 LAJOS KOSSUTH UNIVERSITY, DEBRECEN, HUNGARY Please consult for details: <<a href="http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/allcach98">http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/allcach98</a>> ALLC/ACH '98 Center for Applied Linguistics Lajos Kossuth University Debrecen POB 24 Hungary H-4010 Tel.: +36 52 316 666 ext. 2116 Fax.: +36 52 418 733 E-mail: allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu or Laszlo Hunyadi hunyadi@llab2.arts.klte.hu Other useful email addresses are: allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu (general information) submit-allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu (submission of abstracts and papers) accommod-allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu (accommodation) From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Discourse, Anaphora and Reference Resolution 2 - CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 17:11:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 657 (657) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS DAARRC2 - Discourse, Anaphora and Reference Resolution Colloquium Lancaster University, 1 - 4th August , 1998 Invited Speakers - Branimir Boguraev "Anaphora in Computational Linguistics" Prof. Michael Hoey "Looking at the Text Linguistics of Certain Words" Prof. Pieter Seuren "A Discourse-Semantic Account of Donkey Anaphora" Anaphora and problems of reference resolution have received a great deal of attention from workers in linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and information retrieval for a number of decades. Such problems have proved a major challenge for all of these fields, and a great many differing theories and solutions have been proposed and implemented with varying degrees of success. This colloquium aims to fill a need for researchers in this field to meet. Our hope is that this meeting will allow all of the different strands of work to be identified, with a view to producing an up-to-date review of the field. To this end, a coloquium will take place from the 1st to the 4th of August, 1998 at Lancaster University, UK, organized jointly by the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University and the Institute for English Studies, Lodz University, Poland. This colloquium is a follow up to the highly succesful DAARC colloquium held at Lancaster in 1996. Our aim this time is specifically geared towards encouraging a cross-fertilization of ideas between theoretical linguistics, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. Papers are requested for presentation on all aspects of anaphora and reference resolution. The following research areas are of particular interest, but do not constitute an exhaustive list: corpus-based studies of anaphora in natural language, statistical approaches to reference resolution, cognitive and psychological perspectives, discourse and text-processing perspectives, information retrieval and other computer applications, pragmatics and anaphor resolution, and linguistic-theoretical approaches. Papers reporting work in any language are welcome. The official language of the conference, for purposes of publication and presentation, is English. Research may be work in progress, or work that has already been completed. Abstracts may be sent either electronically, by email or fax, or by traditional surface mail. Email submission of abstracts is, however, strongly encouraged. Details below. Abstracts should arrive at Lancaster by 1st February, 1998, and notification of acceptance will be sent by 14th February, 1998. Draft versions of full papers should arrive by 30th June, 1998. The proceedings will be published in time for the colloquium. ============================================================================= The DAARC2 Organizing committee Simon Botley, Lodz University, Poland Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov, Wolverhampton University, UK Pieter Seuren, Nijmegen University, Netherlands Andrew Wilson, Chemnitz University, Germany Surface mail submissions: DAARC2, Department of Linguistics and MEL, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA14YT EMAIL: eiamme@msmail.lancaster.ac.uk FAX: +44 1524 843 085 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Robert Kraft <kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Subject: Senior Director, School of Arts and Sciences Computing Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:01:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 658 (658) [Please cross-post as appropriate; original sent only to HUMANIST] Forwarded message: [deleted quotation] -- Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Yaacov Choueka <choueka@macs.biu.ac.il> Subject: award for the Rav-Milim Project Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:09:02 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 659 (659) [Those of you familiar with the work of Professor Choueka may know that the award reported here has a broader significance for the work we do, commitment to long-term research. All too often, it seems, we are pushed to undertake short-term projects, with their quick rewards and relative safety. As a result, big projects do not get done, and the field suffers accordingly. I wonder how many of us, able to afford the luxury, have sworn off the quick fix, numerous repetitive conference papers and small topics. What Choueka reports below is none of these, and I think we all might applaud him for sticking with the big job. --WM] (Announcement, translated from Hebrew): Prof. Yaacov Choueka, from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Bar-Ilan University, and Head of its Institute of Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics, was recently awarded Israel Prime Minister Prize for Computer Programming - 1997. The prize was awarded by the Prime Minister Mr. Netanyahu on 16 September 1997 at a ceremony held at the Kenesset (Israeli Parliament) auditorium and attended by a large number of guests from academic circles of computer science as well as by representatives from the high-tech industry and from governmental and parliamentary agencies. The award was given to Prof. Choueka for his program "Nakdan-Text" (Text Vocalizer) and for the underlying "Rav-Milim" computerized infrastructure for intelligent processing of modern Hebrew. Once installed as an add-on to a Hebrew word-processor (e.g., Microsoft Hebrew Word), Nakdan-Text can then automatically vocalize any given Hebrew text (letter, document, or even entire books) on the fly, with 95% accuracy. A first version of Nakdan-Text already won the 1992 IPA (Information Processing Association of Israel) prize for best technological applications of computing. The Rav Milim system, highlights of which are given below, was developed at the Center for Educational Technology (C.E.T.) in Tel-Aviv by a large team of linguists, programmers and lexicographers directed by Prof. Choueka, in the years 1989-1996. Yoni Ne'eman, from CET, the chief programmer of Rav-Milim and in charge of the linguistic algorithms, was a co-recipient of the prize. Other recipients of the prize were Prof. David Harel from the Weizman Institute of Science (a former student of Prof. Choueka) for his "Dynamic Statecharts" system, and the managers of Checkpoint Co., a high-tech start-up, created about four years ago by three students in their twenties from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem to develop Firewalls for the Internet, now worth at Wall Street close to 1 billion dollars. Prof Amir Pnueli, Chairman of the Award Committee (himself a recipient of the prestigious Turing award), presented the committee recommendations and Prof. Choueka responded in the name of the prize's recipients, stressing the critical importance of building and continuously updating the basic tools necessary for the intelligent processing of Hebrew, the language which embodies the very soul of the Jewish people and of its immense 3,000 years of cultural heritage, ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Rav-Milim" (Multi-Words) A Computerized Infrastructure for Intelligent Processing of Modern Hebrew Principal Investigator: Yaacov Choueka (Highlights) "Rav-Milim" is a broad, comprehensive, robust and integrated computerized infrastructure for the intelligent processing of modern Hebrew, developed in the years 1989-1996 at the Center for Educational Technology in Tel-Aviv. Large teams of programmers. linguists, computational linguists, lexicographers and editors were involved in this project, which was initiated, directed and supervised by Prof. Y. Choueka from Bar-Ilan University. Yoni Ne'eman was in charge of the linguistic algorithms as well as chief programmer of the project. The names of some of the other major team members are given at the end. A few papers on the system and its various components are now under preparation. The basic modules of the system, from which scores of products and applications (both computerized and printed) have been derived, are as follows: - "Milim": A complete, accurate, comprehensive and portable morphological analyzer and lemmatizer for modern Hebrew (there is an estimated 70 million of word-forms in Hebrew). The program takes as input any word (string of characters) in Hebrew and outputs the set of all its (linguistically correct) grammatical analyses, including: root, dictionary entry, part-of-speech, gender-number for nouns and adjectives, mode-tense-person-gender-number for verbs, attached prepositions, attached pronouns (including person-gender-number of the pronoun), and more. Milim recognizes all common modes of Hebrew spelling (defective - "hasser" and plene - "male") and also some extra-linguistic units such as acronyms (abundant in Hebrew), abbreviations, and frequent proper nouns (of persons, places, products). The program, a library of subroutines in C, takes a few hundred K's, and can analyze about 1,000 words per second on a Pentium PC. - "Katvan" (spelling checker): Unlike English, an adequate spelling checker for Hebrew can not consist of long lists of words with some rudimentary suffix stripping, and has to be based on a morphological analyzer. Katvan is an accurate and comprehensive Hebrew spelling-checker based on Milim, that recognizes both the "defective" and "plene" spellings, and can correctly convert from one mode to the other (it also suggests corrections to flawed strings). Katvan was chosen by Microsoft and Word Perfect to be the standard spelling-checker for their Hebrew word-processors. - "Nakdan" (Vocalizer): A program that, given a word-form and its grammatical analysis, will output its (unique) vocalization (including long and short vowels, stresses, etc.) according to the rules of grammatical Hebrew vocalization. Given any word in Hebrew (without context), the program will activate "Milim" to get all its possible morphological analyses, and will attach to each of them the appropriate vocalization, thus producing as output the set of all (linguistically correct, context-free) possible vocalizations of that word. - "Nakdan-Text" (Text Vocalizer): Given a sentence in Hebrew, this program will vocalize it, by first activating "Nakdan" to find all possible morphological analyses and attached vocalizations of every word in the sentence, then choosing, for every such word, the "correct" context-dependent one, using short-context syntactical rules as well as some probablistic and statistical modules. The program works with a 95% accuracy, and is available, e.g., as an on-the-shelf add-on to Microsoft Hebrew Word. After installation, any Word document (or even book), can be vocalized by just marking it and clicking on the pertinent icon; the vocalization is done online, and the document can be printed with the diacritic vocalization points on any (Word-supported) printer. Proofreading and correcting the erroneous vocalizations are very easy and do not require a professional linguist (as is the case generally with manual vocalization). Nakdan-Text is an essential step for Text-to-Speech applications in Hebrew; without such vocalization, computerized "reading" is obviously impossible. - "Hamilon" (The Dictionary): A new dictionary of Hebrew, built a-priori on modern lexicographical principles and with an architecture that is easy to use and embed in computerized processing contexts. Radically different in philosophy and approach from the available classical dictionaries of Hebrew, the Rav-Milim dictionary is synchronic (rather than historical), descriptive (rather than normative, although bad usage is clearly tagged as such), comprehensive - covering all registers of the language (from the literary to the slang and vulgar) and all strata (from the biblical to the modern) - but not exhaustive (omitting historical curiosities, discarded inventions, etc) and user-oriented. Following the new sensitivity to meaning-in-context acquired by the extensive processing of large corpora, the full and rich spectrum of the different meanings of an entry is deployed, and usage examples for every (non-encyclopoedic) entry, carefully designed to highlight its appropriate sociolinguistic context, are given. For each entry, the family of its related terms (words with the same root and the same semantic field) is detailed. Special attention is given to collocations (a generic term used here loosely for compound nouns, verbal attachements, fixed phrases, idioms, etc, that deserve a special dictionary heading and explanation): every collocation appears under each of its pertinent entries, and some 8,000 new collocations (out of a total of 20,000), never recorded before, are explained. The printed version of the dictionary was published in April 1997 (by C.E.T., Steimatzky and Miskal) as a 6-volume set, and the computerized version appeared at about the same time, as part of "The Hebrew Language CD", described below. - "The Hebrew Language CD": All of the grammatical and lexicographic modules described above, and more, are integrated in this CD-ROM, which is in fact a complete "laboratory" of Hebrew processing (on the word level). Keying any word, the user can spell-check it or ask for its (correct) spelling in the different modes, see its vocalization(s) and its decomposition into meaningful components, look at its complete morphological analysis (or analyses), see the full family (in the sense defined above) of related terms, review all collocations that contain it (there may be hundreds of them) - and for each one that he marks, read its explanation - , ask for the full conjugation table of the corresponding base-form (in both vocalized and non-vocalized forms and spellings), ask for all entries that have the same vocalization pattern, and, of course, ask to see the full dictionary record of the appropriate entry. It should be noted here that looking for a word in a printed Hebrew dictionary can be a frustrating experience even for experienced users, since one has first to reduce the word, in the form encountered, to its base-form (or its root), a task that is not needed here. The user enters the word in any variant encountered, and the program will automatically display the pertinent entry (or, sometimes, entries). This feature also allows the user to mark any string in an explanation or a usage-example, and the appropriate entry and explanations will be displayed, ad infinitum. - "Young Rav-Milim - The Dictionary": A dictionary of modern Hebrew (2 vols, 1,000 pgs, same publishers as above) for the young (ages 7-16), with (1000, color) illustrations (the first of its kind ever in Hebrew). All of the dictionary contents (entries and subentries, collocations, explanations, usage examples, etc) reflect the young world of knowledge and associations. A unique feature of the dictionary is the thousands of annotations scattered in it, giving the reader a wealth of additional interesting information on morphological, grammatical, semantical, historical and cultural aspects of the entry. The page layout is reminiscent of a Talmudic page: a rectangular box of basic text, surrounded by related glossaries, commentaries and notes. The dictionary thus functions as an attractive book to read and browse into, in addition to its basic function as a reference book. - "Young Rav-Milim - The Multimedia CD-ROM": A multimedia version of the dictionary, that reflects the whole contents of the printed one, and, in addition, pre-taped pronounciation of the entries, typical sounds for appropriate entries (animals, musical instruments, special verbs, etc), linguistic and "dictionary" games, etc. Rav-Milim Team (major participants): ------------------------------------ Yaacov Choueka, PI and Director Yoni Ne'eman, Chief programmer and in charge of linguisitic algorithms Programmers: Avi Danon, Yosi Sarousi Linguistics: Rahel Finkel, Hagit Avioz The Dictionary: Steering Committee: Prof. Yacov Choueka, Prof. M.Z. Kaddari (Vice-President, Academy of Hebrew Language), Prof. R. Nir (Hebrew University), Prof. R. Mirkin (Academy of Hebrew Language), Prof. O.Schwarzwald (Bar-Ilan University), M. Zinger. Editor-in-Chief: Uzzi Freidkin Senior Editors: Dr Haym Cohen, Yael Zachi-Yannai Science and Technology Editor: Yakhin Unna Assistant Editors: Rahel Finkel, Hagit Avioz, Sara Choueka Dictionary for the Young: Steering Committee: Prof. R. Berman (Tel-Aviv University), Dr. Zvia Walden (Berl College), Prof R. Nir, Dr. Dorit Ravid, Prof. Maya Fruchtman, Prof. O. Schwarzwald Editor: Yael Zachi-Yannai Assistant Editors: Hagit Avioz, Sara Choueka Consultants: Uzzi Freidkin (lexicography), Dr. Haym Cohen (linguistics), Dr Zvia Walden (Educational approach and design). Multimedia version: Design and supervision: Ofra Razel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: SPARC Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:02:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 660 (660) [deleted quotation]- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Symposium: University Libraries and Museums in the Digital Marketplace Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:53:43 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 661 (661) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT November 14, 1997 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS IN THE DIGITAL MARKETPLACE Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall Friday, November 21, 1997 1:00-5:00pm The Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale will host its first annual symposium on Friday, November 21, 1997. Devoted to the theme "University Libraries and Museums in the Digital Marketplace," the symposium will address the opportunities and challenges posed by the emerging digital marketplace to research universities with distinguished library and museum collections. Questions to be addressed will include: * How can the mission of a research university be most fully realized in the digital arena? * What does this new arena mean for the university's traditional mission of collecting, teaching, learning, and discovery? * What challenges and opportunities does this new arena pose in the realms of intellectual property, copyright and distance learning? The first half of the symposium will be devoted to these themes, with the second half providing an overview of emerging digital marketplace models. Speakers will include: * Charles Altschul, noted lecturer and consultant on multimedia technology and the arts, * Susan Ball, Executive Director of the College Art Association * Michael Ester, President of Luna Imaging, Inc., and * Geoffrey Samuels, founder of the Museum Licensing Collective. A round table discussion will conclude the symposium, and a reception will follow. Participants will include Scott Bennett (University Librarian), Dan Updegrove (Director of Information Technology Services), and Richard Benson (Dean of the School of Art), as well as the speakers. This event is sponsored by the new Digital Media Center for the Arts, an interdisciplinary site for learning, teaching and expression in the arts, with support from the following programs: the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Schools of Art, Architecture, Drama, and Music, the Yale University Library, and Yale Information Technology Services. It is part of the ongoing ITS Lecture Series. From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: New NEACH Series Nov 21 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 97 19:18:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 662 (662) ================================================================= NEACH: NorthEast Association for Computers and the Humanities Heyward Ehrlich, President after a hiatus of two seasons is pleased to invite you to attend the inauguration of a revived NEW PROGRAM SERIES to be presented jointly with NYU ACF: Academic Computing Facility of New York University Lorna Hughes, Assistant Director for Humanities Computing ================================================================= Alan Morrison and Jakob Fix of the Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford Text Archive Delivering Electronic Texts on the WWW 3:30 pm, Friday, November 21, 1997 101 Warren Weaver Hall 251 Mercer St. (corner of W. 4th St) New York, N.Y. 10012 ================================================================= The program will begin with a welcome, business meeting, and open access. A reception will follow in Room 313 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Warren Weaver Hall is one block east of Washington Square Park between Greene and Mercer Streets on W. 4th St (Wash. Sq. So.). NEACH meetings are free and are open to the public. Advance reservations are accepted by e-mail but are not required. ================================================================= The Humanities Computing Group of NYU ACF also presents Richard Gartner, Bodleian Library, Oxford "Digitizing Manuscript and Slide Collections" Tuesday, November 18, 1997, 4:00 pm Warren Weaver Hall 101 ================================================================= TRAVEL DIRECTIONS: <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/infocenter/directions-g.html">http://www.nyu.edu/infocenter/directions-g.html</a> INFORMATION: Reservations, programs, membership: Phone: (212) 998-3070 Lorna Hughes Fax: (212) 995-4120 E-mail: ehrlich@newark.rutgers.edu lorna.hughes@nyu.edu Web site: english-newark.rutgers.edu/neach.html From: Thierry van Steenberghe <t_vs@compuserve.com> Subject: Announcement - Please post Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 07:38:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 663 (663) Apologies in advance to those who receive more than one copy of this message. Please forward to lists or individuals you think may be interested. ********************************************************************** Announcement and Call for Participation! Please post. ********************************************************************** ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: International Conference "Magritte au risque de la sémiotique" Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium, 22-23 May 1998. ********************************************************************** The Theme o The conference is organized on the occasion of the centenary of René Magritte's birth (1898-1967). The importance of Magritte is considerable and his images are very often reproduced. Designed to thwart cultural habits, they are largely exploited by culture and have been "naturalised". People say about them "It's Magritte's". By deepening our knowledge of Magritte through semiotics, we hope to counter the cultural rob of this work's originality, due to its very success. o The work and thought of the Belgian surrealist painter form an area of study which lends itself particularly well to a semiotic analysis: is there a better example to introduce a reflection about the transparency and the opacity of signs than the famous "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"? Magritte presents his paintings as "a visible trace of thought": he reflected about the relation between "words and images" and about questions such as resemblance and similarity, the hidden visible, the representation, etc. o From putting together Magritte and semiotics, a reciprocal enlightenment can be expected: Magritte's work will allow semioticians to sharpen their concepts, while the semiotic analyses will bring a new understanding of the work. The invited speakers have been selected so as to trigger a confrontation between aesthetics and different semiotic approaches. Speakers: Michel BALLABRIGA, Université de Toulouse II. Joseph COURTES, Université de Toulouse II. Andre DE TIENNE, University of Indianapolis. Jean-Patrick DUCHESNE, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Bruxelles. Nicole EVERAERT-DESMEDT, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Bruxelles. Jean FONTANILLE, Université de Limoges. Groupe mu: Francis Edeline et Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, Université de Liège. Rene JONGEN, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Bruxelles. Serge LEGARE, Université Laval, Québec. Stamos METZIDAKIS, University of Washington. Jose Maria NADAL, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao. Jan-Gunner SJOLIN, University of Lund. The working language for the conference will be French. Related event: An important exhibition "Magritte" will be presented in Brussels from 6 to 28 June 1998, at the "Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique". More information, e.g. about the programme and the lodging possibilities, as well as registration forms can be obtained from: Nicole EVERAERT-DESMEDT Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis boulevard du Jardin Botanique, 43 B-1000 Bruxelles (Belgium) Fax: +32-2-211-7997 E-mail: everaert@fusl.ac.be A French version of this announcement is available on request, and can also be found on the Web site of the AISV/IAVS (Association Internationale de Sémiotique Visuelle/International Association of Visual Semiotics), at the URL: <a href="http://www.iconet.com.br/aisv/calend.htm">http://www.iconet.com.br/aisv/calend.htm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0400 report on Computing the Edition Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:12:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 664 (664) Thanks Francois; I'd enjoy additional reports from any Humanists who attended Computing the Edition. Matt =================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu or mattk@virginia.edu Department of English <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/</a> The Blake Archive | IATH [The organisers of the Conference on Editorial Problems would also very much like to see additional reports. --WM] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: gleanings: secondary meat? Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:37:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 665 (665) The Guardian Online this week holds little of striking interest for us, or at least for me, except for a book review of David Bodanis, The Secret Family: 24 hours inside the mysterious world of our minds and our bodies (Simon and Schuster). The striking bit is a quotation on the air quality of Los Angeles: "In Los Angeles 'what's humorously known as fresh air is loaded, in addition to the well-known car fumes, with stupendous numbers of floating greaseballs.' These are generated by 3,000 tons of meat fried at fast-food joints in the city: four percent of air pollution is made up of this stuff. It represents 46,000 lb of flying hamburger bits every day. This is more than just food for thought.... [A] lot is breathed in, so the human tracheal lining is also a burger-rich environment." I'll let you extrapolate this fact with the rhetoric of medico-political correctness. A mathematician would say that this is trivial. What's striking to me apart from the irony of the situation is its coming together in my daily tube-reading with an important book for those of us who need distancing from our devices, Edward Tenner's Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Random House, 1997). This is essentially a book about system-wide consequences of what we do, i.e. socio-political ecology. I have been thinking on and off recently about the systemics of electronic publishing, which might be a subject for economists if they were not paid so much to analyse the economics of sports arenas and other such highly remunerative subjects. They are, so the big thinking falls back on us, it seems, and Tenner's book is a valuable addition the smallish library on the subject. I've just begun it so cannot say much more other than I've picked up the scent of real food and am pursuing it. In England we breathe fish and chips, an altogether better junk-food, I would think, than hamburgers. Enjoy. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Alex Ross <alexr@leland.Stanford.EDU> Subject: better URL for SPARC Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:32:42 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 666 (666) [The following refers to The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition site, most worthy of your visit. --WM] Prof McCarty, I couldn't get the URL in the message (no. 405 [1]) about the ARL SPARC initiative to work. However, one that does is <<a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.html">http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.html</a>>. Alex Ross Stanford Univ Art Library From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: EDSITEment Is Live Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:55:46 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 667 (667) [deleted quotation] Do you remember hearing about EDSITEment last spring? Well, the EDSITEment web site is now live on the web (<a href="http://edsitement.neh.fed.us">http://edsitement.neh.fed.us</a>), and we'd appreciate if you would take a look at it. In case you haven't heard about EDSITEment, it is a new web site created and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI Communications Corp., and the National Trust for the Humanities, and serves as a gateway to what we consider to be the best humanities-related educational content on the Internet. Last spring we asked you to nominate web sites to be used in EDSITEment and, out of the more than 300 sites you suggested, our Blue-Ribbon Panel, using the national merit review process developed by NEH, selected 20 sites to be included in EDSITEment. Once again, we are in the process of selecting new sites for EDSITEment and am asking your help in identifying web sites in the humanities of particular excellence that would be especially useful in classrooms. We are not interested at this juncture in comprehensive bibliographical web sites that offer numerous linkages to a variety of other related sites. Rather we are seeking sites that are themselves content-rich and designed to engage students in a significant body of knowledge and in intellectually worthwhile activities. As you survey the particular sites that you find most useful and interesting, we would ask you to consider the following questions: Intellectual Quality: Does the site provide rich, deep, and multilayered humanities content? Does it provide the student access to authentic, worthwhile materials with precise references and clear qualifications? Is the information accurate, balanced, and updated frequently? Is this site unique, or is the material more easily available elsewhere? Web site Design: Is the site user-friendly and attractive graphically? Is it easy to access information at different parts of the site? Does the site provide for more than a one-dimensional exposition, allowing students to experience a continuum of working with the materials towards greater sophistication and creativity? Does the site allow for an active, constructive relationship to the material? If teacher guides or exercises are available, do they tap the resources of the site deeply? (Note: such resources are not a requirement.) Does the site require additional hardware or software? Are links to other related sites easy and accessible? Does the site have any special features to attract or engage users? Web site Impact: Can this site serve multiple audiences or is it highly specialized? Are you aware of any particular uses it would have in the curriculum of a school or college? Does the content relate to education standards developed by your state? If you use this site in your teaching, for which courses and what kinds of assignments or student projects is it most useful? Does the site engage students and encourage them to develop active interest and mastery of the subject area? Is this the best or one of the best sites that you know of in this subject area? Our deadline for nominations is December 1. To nominate a site, or to contact us, send an e-mail message to ceisner@cgcs.org, or use the "Talk to Us" function on EDSITEment (<a href="http://edsitement.neh.fed.us">http://edsitement.neh.fed.us</a>). You need only to send the URL and any comments that would be helpful. We are grateful for your help and will send you the results of our survey within the next few months. Thanks again for your help, Caroline Eisner Program Director EDSITEment ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: ELRA LRE conference - DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS 1 DECEMBER 1997 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:56:29 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 668 (668) [deleted quotation] ****************************************************** ** REMINDER: ** ** DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS 1 DECEMBER 1997 ** ****************************************************** **** CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS **** FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is organized in co-operation with other Associations and Consortia in Granada, Spain on 28-30 May 1998. In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of language technologies and their relevance to practically all the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been widely recognized. Particularly relevant are the following two issues: the availability of language resources and the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and products. Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing these issues through international co-operation. The topics of the conference will therefore be; Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages Resources (theoretical & best practice); Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation ; General issues regarding international activities and projects. Please note that the deadline for submissions of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos, panels and workshops is 1 December 1997. For full details on the submission procedures and the conference topics, please consult the ELRA Web site: <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA</a> ============<><><><><><><><><><><><>============ Malin Nilsson Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00 ELRA/ELDA Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88 87, Avenue d'Italie E-mail: elra-elra@calva.net 75013 PARIS <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA</a> ============<><><><><><><><><><><><>============ FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 1 December 1997 <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/conflre.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/conflre.html</a> ============<><><><><><><><><><><><>============ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: New House Copyright Bill Introduced Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:18:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 669 (669) ****************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT November 17, 1997 NEW, BALANCED COPYRIGHT BILL INTRODUCED TO HOUSE H.R. 3048 is suitable Companion to Ashcroft Bill in Senate Just before Congress adjourned last week, Representatives Dick Boucher (D-VA) and Tom Campbell (R-CA) introduced a new comprehensive House Bill that would suitably update the Copyright Act for the digital age. The Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act (H.R. 3048) includes language to implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty but, unlike the Administration's proposed implementing legislation (S. 1121/H.R. 2281), also includes sections recognizing the importance of Fair Use, First Sale and Distance Learning. In addition to recognizing the continuance of Fair Use and First Sale as necessary components of copyright legislation in the digital era, H. R. 3048 also authorizes educators to use electronic networks for distance learning in the same way they now use broadcast and closed-circuit television. Importantly, the bill would address the issue of contracts now being discussed in the reformation of the Universal Commercial Code by which "shrink-wrap" or "click-through" licenses and contracts could abrogate or pre-empt rights and provisions guaranteed by federal law. Section 7 of the bill would pre-empt any such changes in state law, thus guaranteeing the supremacy of federal law. Also, unlike the WIPO Treaties Implementation Act (S. 1121/H.R. 2281), the Boucher-Campbell bill would follow the tenor of the WIPO Copyright treaty itself in focusing more on infringing conduct rather than infringing devices, as far as circumvention of copyright protection software goes. Watch for further updates here and, for more detailed analysis of this bill, see the section-by-section analysis of H.R. 3048 by the Digital Future Coalition at <<a href="http://www.ari.net/dfc/docs/sbsbou.htm">http://www.ari.net/dfc/docs/sbsbou.htm</a>> David Green From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: DETAIL on Boucher/Campbell Copyright Bill Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 12:53:42 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 670 (670) Following the NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT this morning, here is the FULL TEXT of a press release from Rep. Rick Boucher's office, for those of you interested. PRESS RELEASE FROM CONGRESSMAN RICK BOUCHER November 14, 1997 Contact: Sharon Ringley (202) 225-3861 BOUCHER AND CAMPBELL INTRODUCE COMPREHENSIVE COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION (Washington, D.C.) --U.S. Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Representative Tom Campbell (R-CA) have introduced the first comprehensive House bill to update the Copyright Act for the digital age. The Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act will implement two international copyright treaties, enhance distance learning for students throughout the United States, firmly recognize the doctrines of First Sale and Fair Use for the digital era and foster the continued growth of the Internet. "This legislation provides an historic opportunity for Congress to enact a comprehensive set of reforms to modernize our copyright law in a way that will spur creativity, advance the frontiers of education, and promote technological innovation," Boucher said upon introduction of the legislation. Commenting on practical applications of the bill, Campbell said: "Educators should be able to use computers in the same way they currently use televisions to foster distance learning, and librarians should be able to use the latest technology to preserve and to share great works of literature and scientific discoveries with their patrons. Through enactment of our measure they will enjoy the benefits of new digital technology in the same way they historically have enjoyed advances in technology throughout the analog era." The bill has its genesis in the negotiation of two international copyright treaties last December under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Earlier this year, at the request of the Administration, legislation was introduced to implement the two treaties. That legislation only addresses copyright provisions in the WIPO treaties and does not provide a forum for a discussion of the broader copyright changes which the advent of digital technology will require. The Boucher/Campbell bill provides a single, comprehensive approach that seeks to balance the interests of copyright owners and users of copyrighted works. In addition to implementing the treaties, the bill also contains Fair Use, First Sale and distance learning provisions. **Section 1201 (Circumvention).** The legislation proposed by the Administration to implement the WIPO treaties includes a device-oriented approach to stemming copyright infringement. This approach was rejected by the delegates at the WIPO negotiations. Compelling testimony offered before the Intellectual Property Subcommittee stated that the approach of the Administration's bill would stifle the introduction of new technology and would effectively overturn the long-settled law of the United States regarding infringing and non-infringing uses. "Because of my reservations about the implications of the Administration's approach for digital technologies with a focus on controlling so-called "circumvention devices," our legislation attempts to address the legitimate concerns of copyright owners by focusing instead on infringing conduct," Boucher explained. As proposed in the Boucher/Campbell bill, this new section 1201 would create liability for the person who, for purposes of facilitating or engaging in an act of infringement, knowingly circumvents the operation of an effective technological measure used by a copyright owner to preclude or limit reproduction of a work in a digital format. **Copyright Management Information** To address a second international treaty matter, the bill creates liability for a person who knowingly provides false copyright management information or removes or alters copyright management information without the authority of the copyright owner, and with the intent to mislead or induce or facilitate infringement. To assure privacy protection, the bill explicitly excludes from the definition of copyright management information any personally identifiable information relating to the user of a work. **Fair Use** The legislation makes clear that the Fair Use doctrine in the copyright law -- which generally preserves the ability of users, including libraries, teachers and scholars, to make limited, noncommercial use of copyrighted works -- continues to apply with full force in the digital networked environment. **First Sale** Given the historical importance to librarians, scholars, educators, and consumers of transferring to others lawfully acquired copies of works, the bill offers assurances of the continued applicability in the digital environment of the First Sale doctrine. The bill will permit electronic transmission of a lawfully acquired digital copy of a work as long as the person making the transfer eliminates (e.g. erases or destroys) that copy of the work from his or her system at substantially the same time as he or she makes the transfer. **Library Provisions** The bill permits libraries to utilize digital technologies for preservation purposes and increases the number of copies of a work that may be made for archival purposes. **Distance Learning** The bill fully authorizes educators to use data networks for distance learning in the same way they now use broadcast and closed-circuit television for that purpose. **Ephemeral Copying** The bill amends the Copyright Act to make explicit that it is not an infringement of copyright for a person to make a digital copy of a work when such copying is made incidental to the operation of a computer in the course of the use of the work in a way that is otherwise lawful. **Preemption** Finally, the bill includes a measure to address the increasing practice by which copyright owners use non-negotiated terms in "shrink-wrap" or "click-on" licenses in ways that can abrogate or narrow federal rights consumers otherwise would enjoy under the federal Copyright Act. The bill has the strong support of many public and private sector groups, including the American Committee for Interoperable Systems, the American Library Association, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association, the Digital Future Coalition, the Home Recording Rights Coalition and other groups which support preserving balance in the Copyright Act as it is amended for the digital era. "With this measure we will help educators, librarians, scholars, computer hardware and software manufacturers, and many other groups in their effort to realize the great potential of the digital networked environment. Our legislation sets a firm foundation for the Congressional debate on modernization of the Copyright Act next year. We look forward to the discussions with our colleagues, the Administration and other interested parties that will produce a balanced reform," Boucher concluded. - 30 - From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: NEH Seminars & Institutes for College Teachers, Summer 1998 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:57:23 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 671 (671) [deleted quotation] NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 1998 SUMMER SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES FOR COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TEACHERS Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports study opportunities for educators to strengthen humanities teaching and scholarship in the nation's colleges and universities. Chinese philosophy, the environment and world history, Rome's Renaissance palaces, Bertolt Brecht in Berlin, and ethnicity and culture in New York City are a few of the topics that college and university teachers will address this summer in 25 NEH summer seminars and institutes. View the complete slate of summer study opportunities for college and university teachers on the NEH home page: <<a href="http://www.neh.fed.us/html/seminar2.html">http://www.neh.fed.us/html/seminar2.html</a>>. Information and application forms for specific seminars and institutes are available from their directors. Participant applications are due March 1, 1998. For printed copies of the slate of seminars and institutes: 202/606-8463; research@neh.fed.us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Charles L. Creegan" <ccreegan@ncwc.edu> Subject: PURLs Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:38:47 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 672 (672) Of possible interest to some here, an interim attempt to deal with the vexed issue of link rot is the 'persistent URL' or PURL, being implemented at OCLC. The idea is to have a central registry which resolves the actual location of a requested resource; when the resource moves only the registry need be changed. See their page at: <<a href="http://www.purl.org/">http://www.purl.org/</a>> I found out about this through an article in the Offline column of Religious Studies News: <<a href="http://shemesh.scholar.emory.edu/scripts/Offline/off59.html">http://shemesh.scholar.emory.edu/scripts/Offline/off59.html</a>> -- Charles L. Creegan N.C. Wesleyan College ccreegan@ncwc.edu <a href="http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan">http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: ELRA New Resources Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:50:13 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 673 (673) [deleted quotation] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News ===================================== *** ANNOUCEMENT OF NEW RESOURCES AVAILABLE FROM ELRA *** ELRA is happy to announce the update of its catalogue of Language Resources for Language Engineering and Research. ************************************* * ELRA-S0034 Verbmobil * ************************************* This resource consists of spontaneous speech recorded in a dialog task (appointment scheduling). The German corpus has a total of 13,910 utterances (turns). The BAS edition of the German part is fully labelled and segmented into phonemic/phonetic SAM-PA by the MAUS system and partly segmented manually. New corpora available via ELRA (for the complete list, please contact ELRA or visit ELRA or BAS Web sites): VM CD 4.0 - VM40 (1 CD-ROM, original edition) 72 Dialogues, 181 Appointments, 1,588 Turns. VM CD 4.1 - VM41 (1 CD-ROM, new edition) 72 Dialogues 181 Appointments 1,588 Turns This new edition contains the transliterations of all dialogues, signal files with PhonDat 2 Header structure, software and speaker documentation and partitur files*. All files were evaluated according to BAS guidelines. VM CD 5.0 - VM50 (1 CD-ROM, original edition) 101 Dialogues, 256 Appointments, 2,154 Turns. VM CD 5.1 - VM51 (1 CD-ROM, new edition) 101 Dialogues, 256 Appointments 2,154 Turns. This new edition contains the transliterations of all dialogues, signal files with PhonDat 2 Header structure, software and speaker documentation and partitur files*. All files were evaluated according to BAS guidelines. VM CD 6.0 - VM60 (1 CD-ROM, original edition) American/English and 'Denglish'**. 146 Dialogues, 191 Appointments, 1,828 Turns. VM CD 6.1 - VM61 (1 CD-ROM, new edition) American/English and 'Denglish'**. 146 Dialogues, 191 Appointments 1,828 Turns. This new edition contains the transliterations of all dialogues, signal files with PhonDat 1 Header structure, software and speaker documentation. All files were evaluated according to BAS guidelines. VM CD 7.0 - VM70 (1 CD-ROM, original edition) 68 Dialogues, 238 Appointments, 1,739 Turns. VM CD 7.1 - VM71 (1 CD-ROM, new edition) 68 Dialogues, 238 Appointments, 1,739 Turns. This new edition contains the transliterations of all dialogues, signal files with PhonDat 2 Header structure, software and speaker documentation and partitur files*. All files were evaluated according to BAS guidelines. VM CD 8.0 - VM80 (1 CD-ROM, original edition) American/English 167 Dialogues, 167 Appointments, 1,181 Turns. VM CD 8.1 - VM81 (1 CD-ROM, new edition) American/English 167 Dialogues, 167 Appointments, 1,181 Turns. This new edition contains the transliterations of all dialogues, signal files with PhonDat 1 Header structure, software and speaker documentation. All files were evaluated according to BAS guidelines. VM CD 12.0 - VM120 (1 CD-ROM, original edition) 207 Dialogues, 207 Appointments, 2,154 Turns. VM CD 12.1 - VM121 (1 CD-ROM, new edition) 207 Dialogues, 207 Appointments, 2,154 Turns. This new edition contains the transliterations of all dialogues, signal files with PhonDat 2 Header structure, software and speaker documentation and partitur files*. All files were evaluated according to BAS guidelines. VM CD 13.0 - VM13.0 (original edition) American/English and 'Denglish'** - 90 speakers - 1714 turns - 200 spontaneous dialogues. VM CD 13.1 - VM13.1 (new edition) American/English and 'Denglish'** - 90 speakers - 1714 turns - 200 spontaneous dialogues - transliteration. VM CD 14.0 - VM14.0 (original edition) 97 speakers - 1891 turns - 156 spontaneous dialogues - transliteration. VM CD 14.1 - VM14.1 (new edition) 97 speakers - 1891 turns - 156 spontaneous dialogues - transliteration - PhonDat 2 headers - Partitur Files*. * partitur files : files describing the different parts which constitute the corpus - word order, phrase order, etc. ** 'Denglish' : English spoken by Germans. Price for ELRA members: 76 ECU per CD Price for non members: 152 ECU per CD *********************************************** * ELRA-S0044 SPINA Corpus ("Robots Commands") * *********************************************** This German corpus contains read speech of 22 different speakers (6 male, 16 female). The corpus consists of 10 robot command sentences and 62 robot command words. Each speaker reads the whole corpus 5 times, except one speaker who reads the sentence corpus 16 times and the word corpus 51 times. The speakers were recorded at two different sites in Germany (University of Goettingen, University of Bochum). The corpus contains a total of 10,810 recorded utterances. All speakers are within the age of 25-30. Two speakers are non-native speakers. One file gives information about the speakers (speaker ID, recording site, sex). The task for the speaker was to read carefully but fluently. If an error occurred, the recording was interrupted by the supervisor and the sentence was repeated. The signal files are raw files without any header, 16 bit per sample, linear, most significant byte first, 16 kHz sample frequency. The orthography of the corpus is given in two distinct files which contain the prompted words and the prompted sentences as an ordered list. The recording conditions are as follows: Microphone: AKG acoustics, C414B-TL, condensator microphone omnidirectional, built-in attenuator and high pass filter switched off, distance to mouth 50 cm. Environment: Studio Quality, echo cancelled room, about 121 qqm Preamplifier: John Hardy, M-1 Sampling rate: 48 kHz to DAT recorder, filtered to 16 kHz Resolution: 16 Bit, most significant byte first The speech data were digitally filtered to 8 kHz cut-off frequency and downsampled to 16 kHz. The corpus consists of 1 volume, total size 266,361 KB uncompressed data. The signal of each utterance is stored in a separate file. Symbolic information like segmentations or labelling (e.g. Phonological Segmentation of words or Word Segmentation of sentences) are stored in files with the same prefix but with different extensions. Price for ELRA members: 76 ECU Price for non members: 152 ECU *********************************************************** * ELRA-S0045 German Pronunciation Rules Set - PHONRUL 9.0 * *********************************************************** PHONRUL is a collection of computer-readable underspecifying pronunciation rules of standard German. This set describes the most common known effects in German pronunciation if deviating from the so-called canonic or citation form of words. The knowledge of this rule set was derived from empirical analysis of speech corpora as well as from a multitude of publications about German phonetics. The set does not contain any dialect-specific rules, however the line between Standard German and dialects is indistinct. Presently, this rule set is used at the University of Munich to aid automatic segmentation and labelling of unknown speech utterances. The rule set, in its present form, consists of approximately 1,500 complex rules which expand to 5,546 simple replacement rules. The rule set was designed for extended German SAM-PA, but can be translated into other alphabets (e.g. Worldbet, IPA) without much effort. Price for ELRA members: o for research use: 76 ECU o for commercial use: 482 ECU Price for non members: o for research use: 152 ECU o for commercial use: 964 ECU ******************************************** For more information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 87, Avenue d'Italie 75013 PARIS Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00 Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88 E-mail: info-elra@calva.net <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</a> ******************************************** From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: BNC Online Service Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:24:27 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 674 (674) I'm very pleased to announce (at last) that the British National Corpus (BNC) can now be searched online over the internet from anywhere in the world. The new BNC Online Service allows anyone with access to the internet to: * search for words, phrases, or patterns in the BNC via a simple web interface * register for an account on the BNC server (free for twenty days unlimited usage) * download the SARA client software needed to talk to this server (also free: available for Windows3.x or 95 only) This new service is made possible by the generosity of the British Library (who run the server); thanks are also due to its ingenious developers (Scotty Logan and Tony Dodd). The address of BNC Online is <a href="http://thetis.bl.uk/">http://thetis.bl.uk/</a> For more information on the BNC, see <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc">http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc</a> ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 12 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:45:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 675 (675) [deleted quotation] !!our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message!! VILEM MATHESIUS LECTURE SERIES 12 including the conference "BRIDGES AND INTERFACES: FORM, MEANING, AND FUNCTION" The Vilem Mathesius Teaching and Research Center in Linguistics and Semiotics (Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague), will organize its twelfth Lecture Series in March 1998. The Lecture Series programme features numerous courses among which courses focusing on issues in discourse semantics, syntax, and their interaction. An integral part of the Lecture Series is the international linguistic conference "Bridges and Interfaces: Form, Meaning, and Function" held at the occasion of the 650th Anniversary of Charles University. The conference will take place on March 12 until 14, 1998, and it will focus on the relationships between form, meaning and function of linguistic items from the perspective of different theoretical approaches providing thus a fruitful basis for a discussion of bridges and interfaces between different linguistic theories. Below you will find more detailed information on the programme of the series and the conference. GRANTS, and REGISTRATION Applications for grants for students from CEE countries should be accompanied by a recommendation of the student's professor from his home university or country. The grants will cover the participation both at the lectures and at the conference (Lecture Series 12). Normal registration is USD 350, covering the tuition fee, acommodation, breakfast, and lunches. IMPORTANT DATES DEADLINES are as follows: - Applications for grants should be received at the address below by DECEMBER 20, 1997 People will be informed whether they have been awarded a grant by JANUARY 10, 1998 - Normal registrations should be received at the address below by FEBRUARY 9, 1998 in order to enable us to reserve accommodation for you in time. CONTACT INFORMATION For registration, and further information, please contact: Vilem Mathesius Center MFF UK - Linguistics Malostranske nam. 25 118 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic e-mail: brdickov@ufal.mff.cuni.cz (cc: hajicova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz) fax: +420-2-2191 4309 tel:+420-2-2191 4278 ************************************************************************ LECTURE SERIES 12 The twelfth cycle of the Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series, organized by the Vilem Mathesius Centre for Research and Education in Semiotics and Linguistics (Charles University), will be held in Prague, Czech Republic,= March 9-20, 1998. The venue will be the Krystal Hotel, J. Marti Street, Prague 6. The scientific program will consist of the following invited courses: Nicholas Asher: Dynamic Semantics, Discourse Structure and the Pragmatics Semantics Interface Vladimir Borschev and Barbara H. Partee: Integrating the Semantics of Lexicon, Syntax, Discourse Structure, and Context W. U. Dressler: Functional explanation in linguistics Kai von Fintel: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quantifier Domains Ferenc Kiefer: Ways of explaining polysemy Fred Jelinek: Advanced methods of language modeling for speech recognition James D. McCawley: Notions of Syntactic Structure James Pustejovsky: The Logic and Metaphysics of Semantic Universals Henk van Riemsdijk: Projections: functional, semi-lexical and lexical heads Helmut Schnelle: The development of language in the brain Jind=FDich Toman: Theories of Clitics Annie Zaenen: Complex Predicates, a typological approach The *preliminary* time schedule is as follows. Note that there are four courses a day, each course lasting 90 minutes. First week: Mo 9 Pustejovsky Jelinek Toman Asher Tu 10 Pustejovsky Dressler Asher Jelinek We 11 Asher Toman Dressler Jelinek Thursday - Saturday: "Bridges and Interface: Form, Meaning and Function". The conference forms an integral part of the Lecture Series. Second week: Mo 16 Partee/ Riemsdijk Kiefer von Fintel Borschev Tu 17 Partee/ Riemsdijk Kiefer von Fintel Borschev We 18 Riemsdijk McCawley Kiefer Zaenen Th 19 von Fintel McCawley Partee/ Schnelle Borschev Fr 20 McCawley Partee Zaenen Schnelle ************************************************************************ BRIDGES AND INTERFACES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 17.00-19.00 Registration, hotel Krystal 19.00-22.00 Welcome reception, hotel Krystal THURSDAY, MARCH 12 8.30- 9.30 Registration 9.30- 9.40 Opening 9.40-10.20 B.Partee and V.Borschev: Integrating formal, functional and lexical semantic information: More on the genitive of negation 10.20-11.00 N.Asher: Bridges between philosophy and linguistics in dialogue coffee break 11.20-11.45 E.Paducheva: Compositionality principle: A natural bridge between formal semantics and cognitive linguistics 11.45-12.10 Y.Tobin: "Conditionals" in Hebrew and English: the same or different? 12.10-12.35 B.Rozwadowska: Event structure - a bridge and an interface lunch 14.00-14.40 K.von Fintel: Indicative conditionals in a dynamic context 14.40-15.20 J.Pustejovsky: Qualia structure and other named relations coffee break 15.40-16.05 J.Firbas: Meaning, form, and function in the theory of functional sentence perpective 16.05-16.30 L.Duskova: Interaction between syntactic form and information structure: Synonymy vs. differentiation of variant syntactic realizations of the basic FSP functions 16.30-16.55 B.Gyuris: Focus, aspect and quantification in Hungarian: a compositional approach coffee break 17.15-17.40 V.Vankova: Reduplicated objects and topic/focus articulation in Bulgarian and Macedonian (Formal similarities and functionl differences) 17.40-18.05 G.-J.Kruijff and I. Kruijffova: From Functional Generative Description to File Change Semantics 19.00 CONCERT (chamber music, Liechtenstein Palace, Malostranske Sq.; preceded by drinks and refereshments; transport by buses from the hotel Krystal) FRIDAY, MARCH 13 9.00- 9.40 J.D.McCawley: Notions of syntactic structure 9.40-10.20 H.van Riemsdijk: The decomposition of syntactic categories: a reapparaisal 10.20-11.00 J.Toman: Resumptives in Czech coffee break 11.20-11.45 R.Ruzicka: Remarks on the interface between core and periphery 11.45-12.10 P.Kosta: tba 12.10-12.35 A.Steube: Weak quantifiers lunch 14.00-14.40 E.Hajicova: From constituency to dependency 14.40-15.20 F.Kiefer: How to combine formal and functional explanation coffee break 15.40-16.05 E.Conte: The role of abstract terms in text 16.05-16.30 J.Tarnyikova: Sentence adverbials or discourse markers? 16.30-16.55 V.Zabotkina: Cognitive-pragmatic aspects of neology coffee break 17.15-17.40 K.von Heusinger: Intonation meets information structure 17.40-18.05 C.Bartels & A.Merin: Decision-theoretic semantics for speech melody 19.00 BANQUET (the Old University Building Carolinum, Praha 1, Ovocny trh; transport by buses from the hotel Krystal) SATURDAY, MARCH 14 9.00- 9.40 P.Sgall: Freedom of language 9.40-10.20 H.Schnelle: "Language - the social product deposited in the brain of each individual" 10.20-11.00 W.U.Dressler: Early language acquisition and linguistic theory coffee break 11.20-11.45 S.Marcus: At the interface of classical and nonclassical logic 11.45-12.10 A.V.Bondarko: Meaning and sense; function; form; system-environment interaction 12.10-12.35 Zd. Wasik: On the functions of language and functionalism from an interdisciplinary perspective lunch 14.00-14.40 L.Karttunen: Rules vs. constraints 14.40-15.05 P.Pognan: tba 15.05-15.30 Ken-Ichi Kadooka: Morphological peculiarity in Japanese onomatopoeia coffee break 15.50-16.15 E.Wasik: Zum Funktionsbegriff in der Sprachsoziologie 16.05-16.30 M.S. Anwar: Proportions between function and hierarchies of markedness 16.30-16.55 A.Svoboda: Janacek's music and modern linguistics 16.55-17.20 P.Chan: Towards an interface between language and literature in Hong-Kong EFL classroom 17.20: CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE: SHERRY HOUR (hotel Krystal) ---------------------------------------------------------- Conferences in Logic, Language and Information Maintained by: Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, gj@ufal.mff.cuni.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Missing Subscriber APB Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:49:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 676 (676) Greetings, A little over a month ago, Kimmo Turenius apparently joined Humanist using the Web subscription mechanism. However, this user later contacted the editor wondering if the subscription had indeed been entered, for postings had not begun arriving. A check of the Humanist database indicates that Kimmo Turenius is not currently subscribed. However, the e-mail address provided by Kimmo Turenius (ktureniu@ibm.net) comes back with an unknown user error report. I would appreciate any help that Humanist subscribers might offering in locating this user so that we can straighten out the subscription confusion. Thank you, Dave Gants Asst. Editor -- David L. Gants *** Department of English *** Park Hall University of Georgia *** Athens, GA *** 30602-6205 dgants@english.uga.edu *** (706) 542-1261 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Stefan Sinclair <4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca> Subject: Dernier rappel pour le colloque LIL98 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:05:44 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 677 (677) (Pour ceux et celles qui ont du mal a dechiffrer les accents dans le message suivant, je suis desole. Je vous encourage de contacter l'adminstrateur ou l'administratrice de votre serveur pour voir s'il n'y aurait pas moyen de rendre possible la transmission et l'affichage des messages qui se servent du standard ISO-8859-1.) ******************************************** * LIL98: L'informatique dans les humanités * ******************************************** Colloque virtuel et interdisciplinaire le 14 mars 1998 pour les étudiants et étudiantes de deuxième et de troisième cylces Date limite pour les propositions: 24 novembre 1997. Formule de proposition et autres renseignements à l'adresse suivante: <<a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Confs/lil.html">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Confs/lil.html</a>> Veuillez retransmettre ce message à toute personne qui pourrait s'y intéresser. Merci. -- Stéfan Sinclair, Queen's University (Canada) (Stéfan) WWW: <<a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/</a>> HCR - Rih: <<a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/</a>> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: ESSLLI'98 Student Session Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:44:20 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 678 (678) [deleted quotation] !!!!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!!!! !!!!! Please circulate and post as much as possible !!!!! 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We welcome submissions of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI'98 Student Session and to appear in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This is going to be the third ESSLLI Student Session and as before, it will provide an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own WORK IN PROGRESS and get valuable feedback from other researchers and fellow-students. Presentation of creative and innovative ideas is encouraged. The ESSLLI'98 Student Session welcomes submissions from students at any level, that is, from undergraduates (before completion of Master degree) as well as postgraduates (before completion of PhD degree). Note also that all authors of ESSLLI'98 papers have to be students, papers co-authored by non-students cannot be accepted. As in the previous years, the ESSLLI'98 Student Session will consist of paper presentations. The ESSLLI'98 Student Session has its own timeslot in the ESSLLI'98 schedule: 60 minutes every day for two weeks, provided that a sufficient number of good quality papers is accepted. Each presentation will last 30 minutes (including 10 minutes of discussion). REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. All topics within the usual six ESSLLI subject areas are of interest, without further restrictions. The areas are as follows: Logic, Linguistics, Computation, Logic & Linguistics, Logic & Computation, and Linguistics & Computation. The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI'98 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available along with the readers for the ESSLLI'98 courses. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 4 pages of length exclusive of references and a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be "blind", the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., ``We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'') should be avoided. Instead, use references like ``Smith (1991) previously showed ....''. To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), the author(s)' affiliation(s) and complete addresse(s) a short (5 line) summary and a specification of the subject area into which the paper belongs. The subject areas considered are: Logic, Linguistics, Computation, Logic & Linguistics, Logic & Computation, and Linguistics & Computation. MEDIA OF SUBMISSION AND FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS: The student authors should submit their papers electronically to: korbay@ufal.mff.cuni.cz For any kind of submission a plain ascii text version of the identification page should be sent separately by email, using the following format: title: <title> author: <name of first author> address: <affiliation and address of first author> ... author: <name of last author> address: <affiliation and address of last author> short summary (5 lines): <summary> subject area (one of): [ Logic | Linguistics | Computation | Logic&Linguistics | Logic&Computation | Linguistics&Computation ] Please always submit the identification page in a separate message. The submissions should be in one of the following formats: - self-contained LaTeX source (the most encouraged) - PostScript - ASCII text ESSLLI'98 STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at the ESSLLI'98 Student Session, every student author has to register as a participant at ESSLLI'98. However, authors of accepted papers will be eligible for a reduced registration fee. For all information concerning ESSLLI'98, please consult the ESSLLI'98 web site : <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/</a> If you have specific questions about the student session please contact the chair. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: February 15, 1998 Notifications: April 15, 1998 Final version due: May 15, 1998 ESSLLI'98 Student Session: August 17-28, 1998 PROGRAM COMITTEE FOR THE ESSLLI'98 STUDENT SESSION: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (chair) korbay@ufal.mff.cuni.cz UFAL MFF UK Malostranske nam. 25 118 35 Praha 1 Czech Republic tel: (+420-2) 2191 4288 fax: (+420-2) 2191 4309 Area co-chairs: Language and Computation: Kordula de Kuthy (University of Saarbruecken) Computation: Michal Soch (Czech Technical University) Logic: Carlos Areces (University of Warwick) Language: Berthold Crysmann (University of Saarbruecken) Logic & Computation: Jaime Ramos (Technical University of Lisabon) Logic and Language: - to be confirmed ---------------------------------------------------------- Conferences in Logic, Language and Information Maintained by: Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, gj@ufal.mff.cuni.cz From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CFP: ISIC-CIRA-ISAS '98 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:46:00 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 679 (679) [deleted quotation] [ This call was sent to several lists. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this. ] *************** CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- ISIC/CIRA/ISAS '98 IEEE Int. Symp. on Intelligent Control (ISIC) Int. Symp. on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA) Intelligent Systems and Semiotics (ISAS) A Joint Conference on the Science and Technology of Intelligent Systems September 14-17, 1998 --------------------- National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA General Chair ------------- James Albus, NIST, USA Program Co--Chairs ------------------ Sukhan Lee, U. of South. California and JPL, USA Antti Koivo, Purdue University, USA Alex Meystel, Drexel University and NIST, USA F.-Y. Wang, University of Arizona, USA Finance Chair -------------- G. Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA Publications Chair ------------------ M. Polycarpou, University of Cincinnati, USA Vice--Publications Chair ------------------------ P. Flanagan, NIST, USA Publicity Co--Chairs -------------------- T. Parisini, University of Trieste, Italy G. Vercelli, University of Trieste, Italy E. Messina, NIST, USA Local Arrangements Chair ------------------------ Richard Quintero, NIST, USA IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Feb 27, 1998 Full Papers Due May 8, 1998 Notification of Acceptance Jun 12, 1998 Final Camera-Ready Due PAPER SUBMISSION ---------e copies of your paper (including an abstract) should be received by February 27, 1998. Clearly indicate who y indicate who will serve as the corresponding author and include the title, the name of the author(s), affiliation, address, telephone number, fax, and e-mail address. Please indicate to which topic the paper is being submitted. Notification of acceptance and the author's kit will be mailed by May 8, 1998. The full paper typed in camera-ready form must be received by June 12, 1998. Final instructions for camera-ready copy submission will be in the author's kit. Papers should be limited to 6 pages including abstract, figures, and tables (i.e., two column format, 10pt Times font, and 8.5 x 11 inch paper). Please mail your submission to: ISIC/CIRA/ISAS 98 Submissions NIST, Intelligent Systems Division Building 220, Room B124 Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA Phone: 301-975-3418 Fax: 301-990-9688 E-mail: is98.submit@cme.nist.gov WWW HOME PAGE ------------- More information, including registration forms, is available on the WWW page accessed by <a href="http://isd.cme.nist.gov/proj/is98">http://isd.cme.nist.gov/proj/is98</a> SPONSORED BY ------------ National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Control Systems Society, National Science Foundation Army Research Office IN COOPERATION WITH ------------------- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and IEEE Neural Network Council SCOPE ----- The theme for the Joint ISIC/ISAS'98 conference is "Intelligent Control of Complex Systems." We define intelligent control as that which causes a complex system to successfully perform complex physical tasks in the presence of uncertainty and unpredictability. This conference will focus on theoretical issues, engineering methodologies, and applications of intelligent control systems. CONFERENCE TOPICS ----------------- o Theory of intelligent systems o Intelligent system architectures o Engineering principles for intelligent control systems o Intelligent control applications o Performance measures o Goals, skills, and behavior generation o Deliberative, reactive, and emergent behavior o Planning and problem solving o Perception, cognition, and symbol grounding o Knowledge representation and world modeling o Entities, events, attributes, and relationship o Multi-level range and resolution in time and space o Sensing and acting o Sensory processing and situation assessment o Complexity (in the controller and in the world) o Attention, grouping, filtering, estimation, and recognition o Game theory and decision making o Values, motives, and behavior o Learning, adaptation, and optimization o Self-reference, introspection, and consciousness o Hybrid systems o Simulation, modeling, and prediction o Semiotics o Language, communication, meaning, and pragmatics o Inference, deduction, probability, and uncertainty o Symbolic manipulation vs. connectionist vs. control theory approaches o Modern control methods for intelligent systems o Multi-agent systems o Human-machine interfaces o Real-time control and computational resources Applications ------------ o Manufacturing o Construction o Semi-autonomous vehicles o Process control (materials, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotech) o Power plants and energy systems o Agriculture and food processing o Health care and elder care services o Transportation systems o Environmental restoration o Mining and drilling o Physical security and inventory control o Battlefield operations (air, land, sea, undersea) o Undersea and planetary exploration Panel Discussions ----------------- o Progress report on a national program for intelligent systems o Progress report on applications of intelligent control Tutorials --------- o The NIST Real-time Control System (RCS) o Neural nets, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms o Real-time image processing for mobility o Product and process models for intelligent manufacturing systems Tours of NIST laboratories -------------------------- o The National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed o The Next Generation Inspection System o The NIST Hexapod machine tool o A semi-autonomous HMMWV for on-road and cross country mobility o RoboCrane applications o An open architecture controller for intelligent machines PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- o K. Baheti, NSF, USA o K. Bellman, Aerospace Corporation, USA o P. Borne, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France o A. Chikrii, Inst. of Cybernetics, Ukraine o N. DeClaris, U. of Maryland, USA o E. D. Dickmanns, U. der Bundeswehr, Germany o S. Drakunov, Tulane U., USA o V. Finn, VINITI, Russia o D. Fogel, Natural Selection, USA o T. Fukuda, Nagoya U., Japan o K. Furuta, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan o J. Goguen, U. of Calif. at San Diego, USA o J. Gray, U. of Salford, UK o W. Gruver, SFU, Canada o M. Gupta, U. of Saskatchewan, Canada o M. Herman, NIST, USA o C. Joslyn, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab, USA o M. Juberts, NIST, USA o O. Kaynak, Bogazici U., Turkey o Y. Klimontovich, Moscow State U., Russia o L. Kohout, Florida State U., USA o M. Kokar, Northeastern U., USA o V. Kreinovich, U. of Texas at El Paso, USA o R. Lumia, U. of New Mexico, USA o R. Mann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA o J. Maulbetsch, EPRI, USA o G. T. McKee, U. of Reading, UK o B. Mirkin, DIMACS, Rutgers U., USA o A. Mironov, Moscow State U., Russia o I. Muchnik, DIMACS, Rutgers U., USA o C. Nehaniv, U. of Aizu, Japan o U. Ozguner, Ohio State U., USA o K. Passino, Ohio State U., USA o L. Perlovsky, Nichols Research Corp., USA o T. Reader, WSMR, USA o B. Rieger, O. of Trier, Germany o G. Ritter, U. of Florida, USA o P. Schenker, JPL, USA o A. Stopp, Daimler-Benz, Germany o T. J. Tarn, Washington U., USA o B. Turksen, U. of Toronto, Canada o S. G. Tzafestas, NTUA, Greece o J. C. A. van der Lubbe, Delft U. of Technology, The Netherlands o P. Wang, Duke U., USA o J. M. Weiss, EPRI, USA o P. Werbos, NSF, USA o X. Yun, Naval Postgraduate School, USA o F. Zhao, Ohio State U., USA *************** -- Dr. Gianni Vercelli vercelli@univ.trieste.it DEEI - Universita` di Trieste +39 40 676.3222 (voice) Via A. Valerio, 10 +39 40 676.3460 (fax) I-34127 TRIESTE (IT) <a href="http://www.univ.trieste.it">http://www.univ.trieste.it</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Chris Floyd <cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au> Subject: Helping Flying Meat Not Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:38:28 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 680 (680) [The following follows on a discussion between Dr. Floyd and me concerning what is and is not within the scope of Humanist. We both hope it provokes some discussion. --WM] For the term Humanist Discussion Group is to have any sense apropos of "the application of computers to the humanities" it needs to incorporate the human dimension as it involves thinking, feeling people moving into the new world. That is, "the application of computers to the humanities" should not be some insular ivory tower Nero fiddling thingammy. Eventually the already holey instutions will gape open, the corpse of academic freedom choke on its phlegm, as the new blood oozes offshore cyberspace wise. Issues of humanist concern need to include: *The whole new world order as it relates to global employers & electronic money with the high end of Metropolis throttling away on their keyboards whinging about over work, & the rest expected to clean their shoes, wash the car, walk the dog, wipe the babies' bum, ..., be starved, raped & massacred. *The dumbing down of society at large, where the push for market matching education pares away the intellectual, esoteric & innovative options, leaving a prescriptive regime of vocational/technical training. *The resultant busy work produced by computers which is enlightening NOT because of the money preoccupation & the disillusionment of many, especially the young. I apologise for being Australian here, & not doing a poncy kowtow. Language is crucial & I only have to quote this weekend's edition of Murdoch's _The Australian_ where the economics editor writes that economists are recognising that "if unemployment is to be seriously tackled the welfare function has to be removed from the labour market". Now perhaps you guys/gals out there can bring all your humanist computers to bear on deciphering this message, but I reckon it means eliminating the welfare option, ie. abrogating any responsiblity for the effects of economic management, making sure that those on the edge have to prostitute themselves, beg, borrow, steal, anything. To talk about a "welfare function" is dishonest, similar to US military-speak. As a person with 20 years computing experience & a humanities background, the fact that there is an area referred to as 'humanities in computing' or a permutation thereof is exciting. However, such being reduced to AI & text processing is depressing. Here, & I'm sure elsewhere, there is a lot of flak aimed at the internet literate, as if they are spoilt kidz, even if the Corps. Inc. & other institutions are trying to jump on the bandwagon. The message of this is, computer nerds are dangerous unless they are happy family consumers or on-the-ball economic saviours. Ultimately, I believe the tool of internet communication is powerful & will undermine centralising tendencies. This means efforts to create code standards & be preoccupied with e-text esoterics can quickly become redundant. Handed down standardisations can easily be circumvented, for political reasons, ie. the entrenched interest may be contrary to the impetus of many communications. The key is to field the human issues. The vitality of 'new' communication is an ephemeral thing. While I have been enthusiastic about the possibility of a martrix of literary e-text, I am also realising that the user pays gates & the possibilities of e-texts can be counter productive, that in many respects, it is preferable to go to a good paper library for literary research. I also believe that the future of 'humanities in computing' necessarily involves the interface between the humanities episteme & contemporary expression as facilitated by computing, ie. not driven by such, or any other agenda, especially economic. Which side of the World Order do you wake up in the morning? Chris. _______________________________ Dr Chris Floyd Phone: +61 8 9339 0490 Fax: +61 8 9385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au <a href="http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd">http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: What Everyone Should Know About Information Technology Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:09:53 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 681 (681) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT November 24, 1997 "WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY" An important new project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council is to define the basic terms of "information technology literacy." The first workshop of the committee working on this project will be held January 14-15, 1998 in Irvine, California. In preparation for that meeting, the committee is issuing a call to participate by answering relevant sets of questions, designed for different communities. The questions are for the following groups: 1. Computer and Communications Scientists and Engineers 2. Employers and Labor Professionals 3. K-12 and Post-Secondary Educators 4. Librarians 5. Commercial and Business Information Technologists (e.g., MIS support, Chief Information Officers) If you are interested in participating, go to the project website for the sets of questions and for more detailed information on the project: <<a href="http://www2.nas.edu/cstbweb/549a.html">http://www2.nas.edu/cstbweb/549a.html</a>>. David Green =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "R.G. Siemens" <Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.CA> Subject: Re: 11.0415 flying meat boomerangs Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:57:41 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 682 (682) Still afflicted by what some of my friends inform me are naive notions of the value of traditional humanities study and pursuits -- specifically, I am thinking here of the inherent 'good' in literacy and reading, the values and ideals promoted and sustained (and, perhaps most importantly, questioned) by humanists, and the positive role that humanists ideally should, can, and do take in society-at-large -- I found the concerns raised in by Chris Floyd's posting to be quite pertinent. I, too, agree that "'the application of computers to the humanities' should not be some insular ivory tower Nero fiddling thingammy." Moreover, while I do have sympathies with the U of Toronto graduate student who commented in Canada's _Globe and Mail_ newspaper (during the last Modern Language Association conference held in Toronto) that as a discipline we are deceiving ourselves if we think our work is accessible or even of interest to the society-at-large that we may ultimately and ideally hope to address, I hope that this is not the case, and do see how HC plays a positive role. (While not directly addressing this concern, the role of HC in a wired world, as the first generation to have been 'technologised' early-on begins to understand that term, provides the underlying discourse for a forthcoming collection of essays -- editors of that volume, please pipe up!) For me, perhaps the most important thing that HC has to offer in light of the very tangible concerns noted by Chris Floyd is the further dissemination of the staple of our discipline, of our engagement of it and, consequently, of the 'good' contained therein. It is a positive step towards countering the "dumbing down of society" and also the affliction of "affluenza" (the pursuit of affluence, figured as a disease) that appears to dominate [deleted quotation] Others, with some good reason, may argue that the humanities in fact help perpetuate this new word order, good and bad elements alike. This is only a partial response, I realise, but to it I would also like to add that the question [deleted quotation] posed in the context that it is, for a humanist (and for HUMANIST) can also be recast in terms of the role (active & passive) that the discipline has in society. What role does our pursuit have in society? How can we ensure that our role is, indeed, a positive one? (And, specifically, for those whose interests are served by HUMANIST and HC) how can HC assist in fulfilling that positive role? Yours, likely in naivete, Ray Siemens ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a> wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca www homepage: <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm">http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm</a> From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: martrix Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:47:16 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 683 (683) Willard, I found a lovely philological curiosity in the message of Chris Floyd that you copied to Humanist. martrix of literary e-texts The mother of mars... the martyrs of revolt... Sometimes a revolt can mar a revolution... Sometimes you do need to jump to turn. I often twist before I shout, I do think Martrix would be a wonderful WWW site devoted to the literature of war, trickery and diplomacy. -- Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: help Date: Mon, 24 Nov 97 18:22:45 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 684 (684) I used to have a favorite article on things like "pocketa-pocketa", in other words, on words which an author liked to use, things like Goethe's _weben_ (which scarcely ever meant `to weave'), but, as such things go, I have lost it. It had as title "Favoritord" and was obviously written in Swedish; can anyone supply a citation? Jim Marchand. From: Eric Jungchin Yoon <eric.yoon@YALE.EDU> Subject: New on-line journal Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 21:14:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 685 (685) [Forwarded, with thanks, from the Electronic Journal Publishing List <VPIEJ-L@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>, with thanks. Replies should go to Dr. Yoon as well as to Humanist. --WM] I am Editor-in-Chief of a new on-line journal at Yale Law School, specializing in human rights and development issues. The members and I decided to pick the Internet as our medium because of its capacity to attract readers and submissions from abroad, something that most law journals, even the international ones, have failed to do. We've collected a fair amount of attention from scholars, and our editing process is going well. However, now we are facing some interesting, though difficult, technical and financial issues. At this stage our main questions are: 1) Over the long-term, how can an e-journal be financed? Foundations? Subscription rates? Working together with a printed version that produces revenue? 2) What are some interesting ways that the special capabilities of the Internet could be taken advantage of? Are there many examples of this already out there on the Web? 3) Are there convenient programs that allow the easy translation of, say, a legal article (complete with footnotes and small caps) to HTML code? I am a newcomer to this LISTSERV, but from the few e-mails I have received, I have the sense that many of you have a great deal of experience in working with or leading electronic journals. I would be very thankful for any advice or referrals that you could give me. Best wishes, Eric Yoon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: MLA Convention: Computer-related Talks Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:52:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 686 (686) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT November 24, 1997 THE ACH GUIDE TO HUMANITIES-COMPUTING TALKS AT THE 1997 MLA CONVENTION December 27-30 Among several conferences recently added to the NINCH CONFERENCE CALENDAR <<a href="http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html">http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html</a>> is an extremely useful compilation by the Association for Computers in the Humanities of computing-related sessions and talks at the upcoming 1997 conference of the Modern Language Association (in Toronto, Ontario, from December 27 through 30). For this invaluable guide go to <<a href="http://www.ach.org/mla97/guide.html">http://www.ach.org/mla97/guide.html</a>>. Some of these talks do not require conference registration. However for information on the MLA Convention see <<a href="http://www.mla.org/set_con.htm">http://www.mla.org/set_con.htm</a>> [Dec 5 is deadline for pre-registration and guaranteed housing] Below are some of the 30 sessions included in the ACH listing (not all of these sessions are themselves exclusively computer-related) 58: Electronic Culture I: CyberStyle 60: Ethnic Science Fiction 94: The Muse Collaborates: Writing Communities for Learning Literature and Composition 97: Revolution or Evolution? Electronic Resources in the Humanities 119: Multimedia Literature: Hypertext and Beyond 129: Exploring the Relation between Instructional Design and Technical Communication 174: Talking the Digital Talk 175: What's New with William Morris 207: Computers and Theory 288: Beyond "Community": New Perspectives on the Making of Knowledge 308: Electronic Texts in the Humanities 343: The Refereed Electronic Journal 347: New Compositions, New Configurations I 352: Technology in the Classroom 355: Electronic Culture II: A Theory Performance 362: Drama as Public Fantasy II: Barely Touching 393: Pedagogy in the Ruins of the University 428: Problems in the Romance Epic I 456: Wrestling the Word: Teaching Poetry in the Contemporary Classroom 485A: The Role of Statistics in Computer Studies in Language and Literature 534: Electronic Culture III: Cyborgs, Performance, and the Political 600: Technologies of Inscription and Reproduction 604: Romantic Media III: Composite Forms and Transmediations 614: Cyborg for Hire: Postindustrial Work in Contemporary American Culture 624: Literary Theory and Children's Literature: Reflections on the Past and Predictions for the Future 640: Computer Conferencing in Literature and Language Classes 655: Spatial and Geometric Metaphors for Text =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to <listproc@cni.org>. From: Adrian Alexander <alexander@FAXON.COM> Subject: Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:41:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 687 (687) Cross-posted. Second announcement. THE FAXON INSTITUTE'S SECOND ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION ISSUES, January 7-8, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana This interactive conference for research library decision-makers, scholarly publishing executives, chief academic officers, and scholars will be held at the Hotel Intercontinental in New Orleans, just prior to the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association. Wednesday, January 7 - Opening Reception and Dinner; Keynote Address by Stanley Chodorow, Provost, University of Pennsylvania Thursday, January 8 - Robert Siegel, co-host of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", will moderate a series of four roundtable sessions in which attendees can participate in a dialogue on scholarly communication issues: I. Electronic Publishing and the Scholarly Communication Process II. Emerging Intellectual Property Models III. Evolution of Licensing Models for Electronic Information IV. Funding Issues and Scholarly Communication Full conference registration fee of $295.00 includes opening reception and dinner on January 7, roundtable discussion participation, and continental breakfast, lunch, breaks, and closing reception on Thursday, January 8. Payment by check, MC, Visa, or AmEx accepted. Registration form is available at: <a href="http://www.faxon.com/html/fi_frm.html">http://www.faxon.com/html/fi_frm.html</a> Special conference room rates have been secured at the Hotel Intercontinental for Colloquium participants ($125.00 single/$138.00 double). For reservations, call the hotel's direct reservation line at 800-445-6563. Attendees can remain at the Intercontinental throughout ALA Midwinter at the same low rate. For further information, contact Adrian W. Alexander, The Faxon Institute, at alexander@faxon.com. ************************************************************ Adrian W. Alexander, MLS Senior Manager, Strategic Development The Faxon Company, Inc. Head, The Faxon Institute 913-865-5560 (Voice) 913-865-5818 (Fax) alexander@faxon.com <a href="http://www.faxon.com">http://www.faxon.com</a> From: "R.G. Siemens" <Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca> Subject: COCH/COSH CALLS FOR PAPERS (1998) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 20:12:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 688 (688) ************************** COCH/COSH CALLS FOR PAPERS ************************** Dear Colleagues, Below please find the calls for papers for COCH/COCH, and jointly-sponsored sessions with COCH/COSH, at the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. 1. MOVING RESEARCH ON-LINE (COCH/COSH) 2. COMPUTING THE MODERNIST NOVEL (COCH/COSH & ACCUTE) 3. COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES (COCH/COSH & CSRS) The full texts of these CFPs are given below. With best wishes, Ray Siemens ---- *1. MOVING RESEARCH ON-LINE A session of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (May 27-28, 1998). Readers of the World Wide Web often expect to find the best that has been thought and written on-line. Yet academe is yet to make a firm transition from traditional to electronic publishing. Issues such as peer review, copyright, encoding, professional recognition of electronic scholarship, and the lack of authoritative reference sources are often cited. To many, the essential infrastructure for on-line research is not so far in place, but electronic scholarly projects today are increasingly both facing and overcoming these constraints. How such projects are doing so is instructive. Proposals for papers on projects that are now engaging the challenge of putting research on-line are welcome, as on topics such as - missing links: essentials missing or in progress of becoming - engaging off-line critical discourse with an on-line community - shifting paradigms and stretching the critical envelope - editing dynamically, or publishing a staged process rather than a final product - as well, moving TEACHING online Paper abstracts (two pages maximum) should be sent (before January 15) to: Ian Lancashire Department of English University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1 Electronic Mail: ian@chass.utoronto.ca ---- *2. COMPUTING THE MODERNIST NOVEL A joint session of ACCUTE and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (May 27-28, 1998). Electronic editions of the modernist novel, embedded in electronic technologies on and off the World Wide Web, give rise to innovative ways of representing the text and in studying it. Possible topics for this session include: - ways in which computer technology affects the study of a specific modernist author or novel - theoretical connections between computer technology and a specific modernist author or novel - computer technology as an explicit or implicit theme in modernist fiction - descriptions and demonstrations of ongoing projects involving computers and modernist fiction Paper abstracts (two pages maximum) should be sent (before January 15) to: Michael Groden Department of English University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Electronic Mail: mgroden@acm.org ---- *3. COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES A joint session of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (May 28-30, 1998). Reflecting larger societal trends, the past several years have seen a rise in the importance of computing technology to our work; they have also seen an increased recognition of the body of scholarly approaches and tools, influenced by the electronic medium, that aid in one's teaching, study, and research. The New Humanism, Project Gutenberg, the Electronic Renaissance: nominal allusions abound that suggestively ally this late twentieth-century movement with the print-oriented technological revolution in the period of our study; urging that such comparison may not be ill-founded are a large number of valuable computing tools and resources available today to Renaissance academics (and, of course, far beyond this group). This session seeks to explore ways in which computing technology has added and can add to the field of Renaissance studies. Paper proposals assisting in this exploration -- critical and scholarly work, discussions and presentations of resources, and so forth -- may be sent (before November 15; extended to December 5 for COCH/COSH members) for consideration in this joint session to Raymond Siemens Department of English University of Alberta 3-5 Humanities Centre Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 Electronic Mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca ------------------ ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a> wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca www homepage: <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm">http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Mark Olsen <mark@barkov.uchicago.edu> Subject: Announcement: Textes de Francaise Ancien database Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 17:23:23 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 689 (689) Le Laboratoire de Français Ancien (LFA, Université d'Ottawa) et l'American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL, Université de Chicago) ont le plaisir de vous annoncer la mise sur le Web de la première version des Textes de Français Ancien (TFA), base textuelle consacrée aux textes d'ancien et de moyen français. On peut consulter la base à l'adresse suivante:</P> <P> <a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/LFA/">http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/LFA/</a></P> <P> The "Laboratoire de Français Ancien" (LFA, University of Ottawa) and the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL, University of Chicago) have the pleasure to announce the release of the first version of a database ("Textes de Français Ancien", TFA), devoted to Old and Middle French texts. The base can be found on the Web at:</P> <P> <a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/LFA/">http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/LFA/</a></P> Pierre Kunstmann Laboratoire de Francais Ancien University of Ottawa kunstman@aix1.uottawa.ca <a href="http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/lfa/">http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/lfa/</a> Mark Olsen ARTFL Project University of Chicago WWW: <a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html">http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Bob Evans <bobevans@strudel.aum.edu> Subject: The Internet and Copyright Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 01:31:29 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 690 (690) How old does a text have to be before it can be posted to the WWW? In other words, at what point does copyright no longer apply? It looks as if texts from the ninteenth century and before are exempt (at least from the number of them posted), but are texts from the early years of this century also now exempt? Thanks for any advice. R.C. Evans bobevans@strudel.aum.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "R.G. Siemens" <Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca> Subject: COCH/COSH CALLS FOR PAPERS (1998): one more CFP Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 08:05:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 691 (691) (Please add, to the three COSH/COSH session CFPs sent in the previous posting, a fourth, as below.) -- *4. THE LETTER AND THE COMPUTER A joint session of ACCUTE and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (May 27-28, 1998). Traditional methods of publishing correspondences have offered a limited perspective on epistolary texts, their exchange and circulation. Usually author-focused, print editions have rarely been able to represent either the dialogic aspect of letters or their embeddedness in a web of epistolary discourses. Electronic technologies, however, offer new approaches to the representation and study of epistolary texts. Proposals for papers on projects concerning any aspect of epistolary discourse and computing are welcome. Possible topics might include: - electronic publishing and editing - information retrieval - epistolary discourse analysis - the representation of discourse structures - descriptions and demonstrations of ongoing projects Paper abstracts (two pages maximum) should be sent (before January 15) to: Katharine Patterson Department of English Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Electronic Mail: kpattera@sfu.ca ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a> wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca www homepage: <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm">http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: LREC reminder of submission date! Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:54:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 692 (692) [deleted quotation] This message is a reminder that the deadline for receipt of summaries for the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC, is Monday 1st December. Summaries of papers and posters on any aspect of Evaluation of Language Engineering Technologies are welcome, and should consist of about 800 words.= =20 The topics of the conference are: =B7 Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages Resources (theoretical & best practice) =B7 Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation =B7 General issues on Language Resources and international issues. =20 Authors are asked to submit in either: =B7 Electronic format, ASCII file, to lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it Attn: Antonio Zampolli - LREC. =B7 Hard copy. Please send five hard copies to:=20 Antonio Zampolli - LREC Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR via della Faggiola, 32 Pisa, ITALY All the submissions should include a separate title page, providing the following information: the type of proposal (paper, poster, demo, paper plus demo, panel); the title to be printed in the program of the Conference; names and affiliations of the authors or proposers; the full address of the first author (or a contact person), including phone, fax, email, URL; the required facilities (overhead projector, data display; other hardware, platforms, communications); and 5 keywords. For further information, please contact: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traducci=F3n e Interpretaci=F3n Dpto. de Traducci=F3n e Interpretaci=F3n C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 Granada, SPAIN +34 58 24 41 00 tel. +34 58 24 41 04 fax reli98@goliat.ugr.es <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA</a> Khalid Choukri (on behalf of the organising committee) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: trivial vs. arcane Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 21:05:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 693 (693) Just this evening, riding home on the tube, I was reading a recent collection of papers in our field, and as I skimmed through them I felt a mounting annoyance and frustration, particularly with one of them. How far we have yet to go! (and yet Father Busa has been there already). Mark Olsen was last to rattle our cage on this particular frequency, and I still think he was quite wrong in the substance of his remarks though just as right to point out that we need to do some fundamental thinking about our field (yes, ok, "if it is a field") and how we conduct our practice. Though utterly incapable of doing an Olsen properly (or, more to the point, improperly), I'd like to make an informal attempt here provocatively to examine the snapshot of humanities computing I saw in that collection of papers and, I hope, stir you to some comments. Broadly speaking, the papers fell into two categories: the new-flexible-powerful, or "I can't show you any results but my nifty new toy sure does alot of nifty things with this great collection of scholarly resources" kind; and the heavy-duty number-crunching, or "if you take the coefficient of the cube root of the frequency of every third word, multiplied by the Mueller factor, the answer is within 0.43 of the standard deviation" kind -- accompanied, of course, by a thorn-bush of equations. Please don't get me wrong: I love toys that do nifty things; I love mathematics though am not very good at it, and I have deep respect for the intelligent application of statistics to textual material. All things considered, however, shouldn't these two kinds of projects both be in the relative minority? Where do we find studies that show, rather than merely assert, the value of the computational approach to knowledge? Where are considerations of how computers alter our intellectual landscape rather than just the claims that they do so? Highly mathematical studies are fine, but can these be considered "humanities computing" if they do not communicate (as John Burrows' studies do eloquently) to working humanists and interested outsiders? I was particularly frustrated by the former kind because at least with the latter one has the sense (taking leaps of faith where required by one's ignorance of the maths) that competent persons are at work with tools they understand. The former is all promise, all possibility. The toys may work exactly as described, but what reasons do we have to think the mechanisms provided will do anything at all for the study of the subject material? THE AGE OF PROMOTION IS OVER, and if delivery is yet a little ways off, then perhaps we should shut up and finish the projects to the point that we have something real to say. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu> Subject: CHUM: new issue Date: Wed, 26 Nov 97 16:45:53 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 694 (694) ************************************************************************ JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED ************************************************************************ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Daniel Greenstein and Nancy Ide, Editors-in-chief Volume 30, Issue 5, 1996 Special issue on Computers and History Computers and historians: Past, present, and future Jose E. Igartua Bringing Bacon Home: The Divergent Progress of Computer-Aided Historical Research in Europe and the United States Daniel Greenstein The Lincoln Legal Papers and The New Age of Documentary Editing Martha L. Benner The Common Style of Common Sense Lee Sigelman, Colin Martindale, Dean McKenzie Integrating Nineteenth-Century Canadian and American Census Data Sets Lisa Y. Dillon New York, New Immigrants 1900: A Teaching Framework for Historical Datasets Julie M. Flavell, Donald A. Spaeth ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Espen S. Ore" <Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no> Subject: Re: 11.0422 copyright expiry? Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 09:18:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 695 (695) At 21:50 +0000 26-11-97, Bob Evans wrote: [deleted quotation] (All the necessary caveats, I don't even play a lawyer on TV, but I work with digital resources.) In principle this varies from country to country, but the different countries are to a certain degree standardizing. Not all texts are protected by copyright, they have to be the result of a certain level of intellectual work - but this limitation usually doesn't have many practical conseqences (you could probably reprint the text on a modern bus ticket withoutv getting sued). In Norway the copyright now extends for 70 years after the death of the author, and I think the same applies in most other Western European countries. espen From: Margaret Lantry <mlantry@imbolc.ucc.ie> Subject: Re: 11.0422 copyright expiry? Date: 27 Nov 1997 11:24:04 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 696 (696) [deleted quotation]Depending on which country you are in, it differs. (But then again, the people accessing your text may be living under a different legal system ...) Under EU law (see Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993 harmonizing the term protection of copyright and certain related rights, Official Journal of the European Communities L290/9 (24/11/93)), the basic term of copyright is author's life + 70 years. If there are multiple authors, then term is last surviving author + 70 years. See also Intellectual Property by W.R. Cornish (London: Sweet & Maxwell 1996) for explanation of copyright. The Council Directive is fairly straightforward. However, there is one point that I would like clarified and which is not discussed in any of the legal textbooks I've seen. This is to do with Article 5 dealing with Critical and Scientific publications. The term for these is 30 years after the publication has been published. I can find nowhere a definition of a critical publication. In discussions of author's life + 70 years, edited works are discussed so I guess they come under that particular term. But what is a critical work: can anyone help here? Also does the EU directive make laws to do with copyright in member states redundant? I would have thought so but reading a legal article (which in Ireland's case refers to the 1963 and 1987 Copyright Acts) has made me think again. Anyone know about this? As for database copyright, there is also an EU Directive (Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, Official Journal of the European Communities L77/20 (27/3/96). This doesn't come into effect until 1/1/98. Again I don't know how sweeping this is. Margaret ---------------------------------------------------------------- Margaret Lantry mlantry@imbolc.ucc.ie Managing Editor +353-21-902736 Corpus of Electronic Texts <a href="http://www.ucc.ie/celt/">http://www.ucc.ie/celt/</a> Computer Centre University College Cork Ireland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Chris Floyd <cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au> Subject: Re: 11.0419 flying meat Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:00:41 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 697 (697) Ray Siemens also raised some highly pertinent points, notably: [deleted quotation] Clearly the esotericism of the nooks and crannies of humanities as well as the sophistication of some ot its dialogue can be offputting to a popular audience, but there is more to it. For a start no one would suggest they dumb down science to make it easy for the layman (well admittedly they do to a certain extent with popularised presentations, but the theoretical papers etc. is still in the appropriate languages of the disciplines). The problem is, every cat and its dog thinks they are entitled to a view about humanities subjects, which they well are, but there remains a body of knowledge that has developed over the millennia which requires attentive scholarship. It should be kept in mind that humanities is faltering in the race against social science, particularly economics and psychology, both of which lean to formulaic notions of society. Thus we have the economic rationalist regime that evaluates the health of society using financial indicators and prescriptions. Then there are the psychologies of work, of downsizing, of unemployment, all involving quantification of the norm as if the suffering quality of life is inevitable, a curious syndrome to be band aided. As an able computer programmer with experience spanning 20 years, the thing that puts me off is its abstract intensity, and furthermore its lack humour and passion. Thus I will eternally return to humanities because it has something to say in a creative way. The merging of computing with humanities is the best thing since sliced bread because of the power of text processing and communication. E-mail, for example, is a wonderful medium. [deleted quotation] The question of what is the 'good' is very problematic and humanities understands that. I would go so far as to say that science and social science does not, but I would be wary of the corollary that taking schools of humanities out of the equation will necessarily mean ignorance on this score where there can be such as the philosophy of science etc. which question fundamental motives. Actually, I would promote such. Nonetheless, there remains in humanities the episteme of metaphysics that supports the questioning of the 'good'. Where responsibility for the new world order could be laid at humanities since the whole of academic studies and university disciplines derives from it, and also where the modern is a project of enlightenment, then equally it contains the seeds of its criticism. [deleted quotation] The most positive role any academic discipline can have is an informative, educative one. Thus the relationship between academic departments and school curricula is important, particularly in core cultural/literary subjects. Furthermore, where the hot subject may be computing, which is privileged as the up-to-date prerequisite for success in the next millenium, the push should be to include humanities applications which are different to games, spreadsheets, etc. This becomes a resource issue where there are the have and have-not schools/students. Ultimately, the crunch is resources. I live in a two computer, no car, many book, a subsistence level income household, and cannot afford an upgrade to get the extra grunt for the latest web browser. I do not starve, but am classified poor, despite the richness of my resources and skills. It is all a question of values, which comes down to the bedrock of what humanities is about. A quick aside: today the prime minister of my country, John Howard, sought to deny the the listing of human rights on the APEC agenda, thus he is proposing that human rights should not be discussed at a conference about Asia-Pacific economic cooperation. So, the economic policy measures discussed at the conference will be administered in our countries as if social consequences are of secondary importance. How does he get away with it? Well, the dumbing down factor is crucial. The media writes down to an elementary reading age. While I would hazard to say that representational democracy is fundamentally flawed because the vote is too limited given the complex political agenda, and furthermore, the electorate is largely uninformed. One may even generally say it is intellectually incapable of appreciating the multiplicity of factors. So the common denominator rules. Admittedly, there are checks and balances, leading to the situation where say a judiciary opposes the executive. Nonetheless, the underpinnings of such remain in humanities, in Hume, Locke, et al. At the moment, here in Australia we have a major political debate about indigenous land rights where two High Court decisions have provoked legislation that attempts to rationalise contradictory demands, that this continent was originally inhabited, and Europeans invaded it and stole land by circumscribing it as their property. The concept of "property" is one deriving from human principles not science. So, the rationalisers can't hack it. A lot of contemporary disjuncture in humanities has involved the reaction of liberal traditionalists to postmodern theorists, which has been called such as the "crisis of English" by Peter Widdowson and the "Balkanization of literary studies" by Harold Bloom. While the traditional suits the conservatives-in-power, the postmodern is more typically reflected in the everday even if the average Joe couldn't get through a sentence of Derrida. Here I am arguing for solidarity based on the principles of humanities scholarship, against self-destructive factionalism that succours the divide-and-rule crowd. This means let a hundred blossoms bloom not varnish dead wood. What is the centre of humanities? Surely the passion and creativity of the human spirit, not some affluenza tainted token of material exchange. Spit on it I tell you. The only way to undo the preoccupation with money is share it around so the value drops, and that won't please a few, but is perfectly rational humanistically speaking. Humanist of all countries, unite! Yours in spirit, Chris. _______________________________ Dr Chris Floyd Phone: +61 8 9339 0490 Fax: +61 8 9385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au <a href="http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd">http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd</a> From: Alfredo Elejalde <elejalde@pucp.edu.pe> Subject: Re: 11.0419 flying meat and 11.0420 the trivial and the arcane Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 05:03:58 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 698 (698) Hello. Some comments to this conversation (and please be patient with my English :-) [deleted quotation]concerns [deleted quotation]values and [deleted quotation]by [deleted quotation] It seems to me that Humanism is no longer a view of the universe, an interest in scientific, technical and cultural issues, but a profession organized acording to the division of labour and ruled by its constraints. Now, in this techno age, that the old humanist tradition has to be redefine, the discussion is about what humanist in general should do, what moral principles embrace, and the role in the present and the future beyond the universities, with or without technology. However, professionalization makes easy for us to forget the sources of the discipline because there are many humanists dedicated to highly specialized tasks in a totally descentralized world, with different interests and problems, and each one has the right to choose his(her) own ethic principles. An agreement becomes not easy at all. [deleted quotation]dissemination [deleted quotation] Renaissence of ethics concerns can lead to positive ways of being and acting in our societies. It does not mean that we all should do politics, but that our work can be useful if published, that it is good to write to the "masses", and that humanists have a role in education (specially distance education). But the ethic problem goes far beyond what humanism has to say... [deleted quotation] Humanism itself can not change neither the economical nor the political order of the world, but it can serve to discuss political or ethical issues. Of course discussion may lead some of us to political action... And can also serve to focus political debates outside the Academy. It is not too difficult to feel good when our discussions go beyond the academy and we can see the effects of our work, no matter how specialized it might be. It is not as easy for us to discuss the issues posted outside the Academy because they seem to be not related with our work. However, internet communications allow us to speak without knocking newspapers' doors, and that changes the way humanists have been in contact with the public during most of this century. So now it is possible to have a strong commitment with our professional field and also participate in public debates using telecommunication technologies. [deleted quotation]in [deleted quotation] There are two ways to understand this question : in terms of what we do (a neutral description) or what we should do (a commitment). Perhaps it is better to start from the first question, then discuss the second, and finally take a position. And never forget that people dedicated to a highly specialized task is as necessary as people involved in the res publica. [deleted quotation]Siemens) I would like to have an answer... :-) [deleted quotation] The major language in Internet is English, but not the only one. Having HUMANIST debates translated into other languages and published in the WWW could be a starting point. I realized it is not an easy task because there is some support needed, but when I look at those fine terminology databases, at the conceptual systems that allow to understand the position of a specific concept in the theory it belongs to, I imagine how much knowledge would be available and how many uses could be done with it. This way does not sound like the humanism based on exchanging ideas. Maybe we are to reproduce, preserve and spread the old knowledge using the new technology, not to create new knowledge. It is curious to me that so many messages posted to this list talk about how to do something instead of why to do it. And this is our age: how to make machines work is what consumes most of our time. We are learning how to print. [deleted quotation] After promotion of toys, people are learning how to use them. I am sure, after that, we will have something to say. And something interesting I think, because humanists are learning the language of engineering, forgotten during too much time, and humanity is entering in an age only science fiction writers dreamed of, and there is still too many social problems around. A humanist is not only a man that reads and writes philosophy or literature, but a man who also wants to understand how things work, and how make them work. Yours ------------------------------------------------------------- Alfredo Elejalde F. elejalde@pucp.edu.pe <a href="http://macareo.pucp.edu.pe/~elejalde">http://macareo.pucp.edu.pe/~elejalde</a> From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0420 the trivial and the arcane Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 08:27:54 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 699 (699) [deleted quotation] I tend to agree, though I wonder if institutional and practical pressures might not have some influence in this area. Again, the need to publish or perish may be showing its influence. How many CHum scholars, who need to invest considerable time and effort to learn the skills necessary to understand and effectively use computer tools in addition to doing the other things required of humanities scholars, have the luxury to finish lengthy projects to point where there are useful to the humanities in general? gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Yaacov Choueka <choueka@macs.biu.ac.il> Subject: Help: hundreds of gigabytes storage Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 15:38:49 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 700 (700) I would be grateful for any information on (or pointers to) projects with very large (100-500) gigabytes of online storage (for documents images): hardware, software, institutions, researchers, etc. Many thanks, Prof. Yaacov Choueka Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Head, Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 52900 choueka@cs.biu.ac.il Fax: 972-2-6781245 Tels: (office) 03-5318716 (sec) 03-5318407 (home) 02-6789229 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Chris Floyd <cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au> Subject: Toy promotion Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 09:03:48 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 701 (701) Willard, When I first scanned your "the trivial and the arcane" post, I picked up a few key words including: toy; promotion; reading; paper; and tube, so put that together to think about how I felt about all the must-have crappy toys flogged in glossy brochures shoved into snail boxes, etc. The conservation value in not producing all this ephemeral junk that litters $2 shopfront has to be healthy, though it might need a mathematician figure it out. But, of course your post was about something else; the promotion of computer knowledge tools. But the paradigm is similar, where on the one hand the consideration is of the conservation of material resources, and on the other intellectual priorities. Entrepreneurial wisdom is, it's good to make a buck whatever, and look at the success of the Asian economy because of precisely this kind of enterprise. Well, actually the Asian economy is looking a bit rough this morning, with its pollution and dodgy currencies. A lot of this cheap merchandise circulates money and keeps people in work, even if the more durable, sensible products are preferable. The same applies in computer software, where the annual upgrades of packages does not reflect a quantum leap in development. In other words, the busy work does not add up to much action. The material versus intellectual opposition is perennial, as per the contrast between the waste of physical resources and mind work. Now I am not an economist, but my impression is that this collective busy work is to keep people straight, or at least heading in the right direction around the threadmill. Otherwise, they might think too hard or something. A model that has been hanging around in such as Douglas Adams and Deep Blue, is of a godhead computer that will somehow solve all the world ills if it gets the right parameters. A "humanities computing" approach might be to match computer grunt with a humanist symbolic system. My poser is, why can't we design a better economic system from first humanist principles not market mystification? I admit this is naive. That economics is as "real" as say Freud's "unconscious". Chris. _______________________________ Dr Chris Floyd Phone: +61 8 9339 0490 Fax: +61 8 9385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au <a href="http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd">http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd</a> From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: constraints Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:18:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 702 (702) Gary Shawver, in Humanist 11.425, is surely right when he points to the pressures that force the junior scholar into writing before the time that he or she has something to say. Tales from N American graduate students I know suggest that publishing before completion of the PhD is now a de facto requirement in order to be considered for an academic job. I'm morally certain that I don't know the half of it, and certainly part of me doesn't want to. There's also the problem of the scholarly soul in a semi-scholarly position whose opportunities to publish are confined to the promotional description of untried tools. My note was intended in part to provoke qualifications such as Gary's; doubtless others have been too kind in not taking me to task for launching an insensitive broadside. Be that as it may, a real problem remains for our field. I'm raising the question of what we do about it. Actually, of course, it's a set of problems, but let me focus on one: the quality of work specifically identified as "humanities computing". A bit of a digression first. Just today, over quite good pasta in a restaurant near my College, a professor of English with whom I was having lunch said that our post-graduates really should be trained in the techniques of digital imaging, e.g. for mss. study. I agreed, of course, and said that this was part of our humanities computing programme for them. She replied that such training belonged in the English department, not for example as part of a humanities computing MA. The two alternatives are not necessarily contradictory, but I was reminded of the tendency, as aspects of humanities computing become recognised as properly scholarly, for them to be claimed by this or that discipline as its own. I still think this tendency is deeply mistaken. Not that English professors cannot teach digital imaging but that the loss of the interdisciplinarity inherent in a humanities computing approach is a serious one. The rewards are, however, with the departments that have the jobs, so a gradual absorption of the scholarly into the conventional disciplines should be no surprise. If this absorption is in fact taking place, then it follows that the quality of work in our field will decline. [deleted quotation]conclude that the problem is not an intellectual one at all, rather it is institutional. What is required to solve it are enlightened administrators, I would suppose at the level of the dean / head of school or higher, who are willing to make a substantial long-term investment by creating positions as secure as they may be. Serious commitment from senior academics who have no more to gain in status would help a great deal. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Call for Participation: SENSEVAL WSD Evaluation Exercise Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 11:05:47 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 703 (703) [deleted quotation] (This document is <a href="http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/senseval/cfp.txt">http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/senseval/cfp.txt</a>) **************************************** * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * WSD EVALUATION EXERCISE * * (SENSEVAL) * * * * WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT * * "SENSEVAL AND THE LEXICOGRAPHY LOOP" * **************************************** Sponsored by ACL SIGLEX There are now many automatic Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) programs but it is currently very hard to determine which are better, which worse, and where the strengths and weaknesses of each lie. There is widespread agreement that the field urgently needs an evaluation framework. Under the auspices of ACL SIGLEX, a pilot will take place in the course of 1998. As in ARPA evaluations, the framework comprises: 1) definition of task and scoring metric 2) preparation of a set of manually tagged correct answers 3) a dry run, with sample data distributed to participants 4) distribution of test data to participants 5) participants sense-tag and return the data 6) participants' taggings scored against correct answers 7) workshop to discuss results, lessons learned, way forward We shall be undertaking evaluation for English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The workshop will be held at Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, UK on Sept 2-4 1998 If you have a working WSD program (or will have one by Summer 1998), and would like to subject it to objective, quantitative evaluation, or if you have skills or resources that you would like to contribute to the exercise, first look at <a href="http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/senseval/exp-interest.html">http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/senseval/exp-interest.html</a> and then mail your expression of interest to senseval-coord@itri.bton.ac.uk Provisional timetable ===================== By end of Dec 97: expressions of interest to be registered Mar 98: 'dry run' data samples distributed to participants May 98: test data distributed to participants, and, one week later, returned with taggings Jul 98: correct answers and scores made available Sep 98: workshop The workshop will comprise: (1) reports/papers on the manual tagging and other aspects of the evaluation exercise (2) reports/papers from participants on the design and performance of their system (3) other related research papers (4) working sessions on the way ahead for WSD evaluation The deadline for "other related research papers" is 16th April 1998 * Preference will be given to papers discussing WSD, with particular attention to evaluation issues * Maximum submission length: 6 pages * First page to include title, abstract, and author's name(s) and contact details * Electronic submission of postscript documents permitted but must be supported by hard copy to arrive not later than 7th April (in case of printing problems). email: senseval-submissions@itri.bton.ac.uk hard copy: SENSEVAL Submissions ITRI University of Brighton Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK A background paper is available on <a href="ftp://ftp.itri.bton.ac.uk/pub/reports/ITRI-97-11.ps.gz">ftp://ftp.itri.bton.ac.uk/pub/reports/ITRI-97-11.ps.gz</a> Planning and Programme Committee ================================ Robert Amsler Science and Engineering Associates, Inc. Susan Armstrong ISSCO, University of Geneva Roberto Basili University of Rome, Tor Vergata Henri B\'{e}joint University of Lyon II Bran Boguraev Apple Computers Nicoletta Calzolari Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa John Carroll University of Sussex Steve Crowdy Addison Wesley Longman Roger Evans ITRI, University of Brighton Helmut Feldweg University of T\"{u}bingen Christiane Fellbaum WordNet, Princeton University Patrick Hanks Oxford University Press Marti Hearst University of California, Berkeley Lynette Hirschman MITRE Corporation Nancy Ide Vassar College Adam Kilgarriff (co-ordinator) ITRI, University of Brighton Judith Klavans Columbia University Ramesh Krishnamurthy University of Birmingham Robert Krovetz NEC Research Institute, New Jersey Marc Light University of Stuttgart Dan Melamed University of Pennsylvania Rosamund Moon Collins and University of Birmingham Boyan Onyshkevych US Department of Defense Martha Palmer (ACL SIGLEX chair) University of Pennsylvania Philip Resnik University of Maryland Michael Rundell Lexicographer Hinrich Sch\"{u}tze Xerox Parc and Stanford University Fr\'{e}d\'{e}rique Segond Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble Jean V\'{e}ronis Universit\'{e} de Provence Evelyne Viegas New Mexico State University Clare Voss ARL (US Army Research Lab) Piek Vossen University of Amsterdam Jan Wiebe New Mexico State University Yorick Wilks University of Sheffield David Yarowsky Johns Hopkins University Antonio Zampolli University of Pisa (This document is <a href="http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/senseval/cfp.txt">http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/senseval/cfp.txt</a>) From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Call for papers: Coling/ACL 98 workshop on Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 11:07:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 704 (704) [deleted quotation] Call for papers Coling/ACL 98 workshop Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers August 15, 1998 Universite de Montreal Montreal/Canada The notion of discourse relation has received many interpretations, some of which are hardly compatible with one another. Nonetheless, there is a consensus among researchers that intersegment relations hold between adjacent portions of a text and that these relations may be signalled by linguistic means, including so-called cue phrases, aspect and mood shifts, theme inversions, and other markers. The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on discourse relations and discourse markers in different linguistic traditions and different NLP applications. The particular focus of the workshop is the issue of discourse relations from the viewpoint of linguistic realization. Specifically, contributions should address one or more of the following questions: * What are sound methodologies for comparing similar discourse markers (contrastive studies, distribution analyses, etc.)? * What are sound methodologies for relating discourse relations with potential realizations? * Are there discourse relations that are *always* lexically signalled? Are there any that are *never* lexically signalled? * What non-lexical (i.e., syntactic or prosodic) means are used to signal a relation? * In production, how does one decide whether to signal a relation at all? * In production, how does one motivate a choice among candidate signals for a given relation? * In production, how does the choice of signal interact with other decisions (in particular, those of linearizing some tree or graph structure)? * In analysis, is it possible to reliably infer discourse relations from surface cues? * In analysis, how can one disambiguate polysemous signals such as "and", "since" (temporal or causal) etc.? * What are useful lexical representations of discourse markers, for both analysis and production? * What are useful representations of discourse relations (and the entities they relate), such that they facilitate the realization decision? What features would one like to have handy in a representation so that choices can be made easily? * Are there significant differences between realizations in spoken and written language? * How do individual languages differ in terms of any of the above issues? Organizing committee The workshop is organized by Manfred Stede (Technical University, Berlin) Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart) Eduard Hovy (ISI/USC, Marina del Rey) This call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can be found at <a href="http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html">http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html</a> Requirements for submission Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above. Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL: <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty</a>. Papers can be submitted either electronically in PostScript format, or as hardcopies. Submission from North America should be sent to: Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 U.S.A. hovy@isi.edu Submissions from elsewhere should be sent to either of the following: Manfred Stede Leo Wanner TU Berlin Computer Science Department KIT Project Group Intelligent Systems Sekr. FR 6-10 University of Stuttgart Franklinstr. 28/29 Breitwiesenstr. 20-22 D-10587 Berlin D-70565 Stuttgart Germany Germany stede@cs.tu-berlin.de wannerlo@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Timetable Deadline for electronic submissions: March 10, 1998 Deadline for hardcopy submissions: March 13 (arrival date) Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1998 Final manuscripts due: June 12, 1998 Program committee o Sandra Carberry (U Delaware) o Barbara DiEugenio (U Pittsburgh) o Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI) o Alistair Knott (U Edinburgh) o Alex Lascarides (U Edinburgh) o Owen Rambow (Cogentex Inc.) o Ted Sanders (U Utrecht) o Donia Scott (U Brighton) o Wilbert Spooren (U Tilburg) o Manfred Stede (TU Berlin) o Keith Vander Linden (Calvin College) o Marilyn Walker (ATT Laboratories) o Leo Wanner (U Stuttgart) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eduard Hovy email: hovy@isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute tel: 310-822-1511 ext 731 4676 Admiralty Way fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 project homepage: <a href="http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html">http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: plaint Date: Sat, 29 Nov 97 11:04:19 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 705 (705) I have been spending my Thanksgiving vacation performing a familiar task, namely, converting media (?). I remember that I began with punched cards, edge punched cards, then paper tape, then mag tape, then hard disks (remember those old 10 Mb monster?), then floppies (16", 8", 5 1/4 ", then 3 1/2 "), zip disks, CD-ROM writable, then rewritable. As the crazy woman in All Creatures Great and Small says: "when is it going to stop?" I still have some old Control Data tapes (7 whatever they called those things) which need to be converted, since they contain a parsing of the entire Gothic corpus, for one thing. Alas, technology is not always a blessing. First we had wood and stone we could carve to make characters, then fonts into which we could pour them, then those nice little half-moons, then the flexowriter, then the bouncing ball, then the chain link printer, the dot-matrix, the laser printer. We had programs which would allow us to write any font in the world if we worked at it. Now we have Unicode, with which we CAN write and send any writing system. In spite of all this, we still have fights over and over again on all the lists I am on as to how to encode "foreign" characters, I mean FIGHTS! Technology is not an unmixed blessing. As for me, I must confess that I am still using WP 5.1 and am writing this on an old 386 clunker; when I print, I use a HP Series II. Part of this is because I have to buy my own equipment, part because "if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. I don't see anything in any of the new equipment that I can't already do, such as type-setting, generating fonts, doing concordances, though I must admit that looking at pictures can be slow and at times impossible. As we move more and more towards Netscape and its cogeners, I see that I am going to have to give in there and get a new machine. As it is, for example, I cannot access the MLA bibliography online, though my Library has a Silver Platter license, since it cannot be done with lynx. I liked lynx, since as a humanist I am more word oriented than picture oriented, though I do some work in iconography. Mostly I am interested in information. I can also see (always could) that I am going to have to buy a terabyte notebook when they become available (soon -- you saw it here first). I am down to putting my CD-ROMs on my hard disk, in spite of the speed of the new CD-ROM drives. I never did like (nor have the money for) those juke-boxes and towers. The point of this jeremiad is that technology is not always a blessing, and we DO need to keep up and keep the fundamentals in sight at the same time. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: The White House & NEA Announce a Millennium Logo Competition Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 15:03:54 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 706 (706) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 1, 1997 The White House and the National Endowment for the Arts Announce a Millennium Logo Competition November 26, 1997 Washington, DC -- The White House Millennium Office and the National Endowment for the Arts today announced a competition for a Millennium Graphics Design Package. The winning graphic design will be used by the White House and the Executive Branch of the government as a symbol for official millennial projects over the next three years. The contest is open to all American citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Entries may come directly from individuals or through graphic design firms. The White House Millennium Program is a multi-year initiative to mark the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the new millennium. The Program will celebrate achievement, recognize and initiate projects, and engage every sector of society in conveying our rich heritage to future generations. The President and First Lady have invited all Americans to take part in the program by "giving gifts to the future -- gifts that will help rekindle our spirit of democracy, renew our commitment to citizenship, and unleash the full creative and intellectual potential of the American people as we chart our common future." The White House Millennium Program prepares for the new century by "honoring the past and imagining the future." It will highlight projects that recognize the creativity and inventiveness of the American people, and focus on culture, scholarship and scientific exploration. The winning Graphics Design package should reflect and embody this spirit. The winning design will be unveiled in January, 1998 in the White House as part of an event that highlights American creativity. The year 2000 coincides with some of the federal government's most important milestones -- the 200th anniversary of presidents occupying the White House, the 200th anniversary of the first meeting of Congress in the Capitol, and the 200th anniversary of the Library of Congress. The Logo may be used for these celebrations and should allow for specific language and design to be added to the base package to specifically commemorate these anniversaries. The National Endowment for the Arts will manage the initial phase of the design competition with the final selection to be made by a panel of professional designers. The winning designer will receive a professional fee to create the final design and a graphic standards manual for using the symbol on stationery, signage, and other iterations. Entries should be sent to: MILLENNIUM LOGO NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS ROOM 523 1100 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW WASHINGTON, DC 20506-0001 Logo entries must be ink on paper, mounted on presentation board measuring 9" X 12" and no thicker than 1/16". Mounted on the back of the board should be a sealed envelope containing the designer's name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Individuals and design firms may submit one entry only. Acceptance of the commission for final design constitutes a release to the government of all rights to the design. Entries must be postmarked by December 30, 1997. The winning designer will be chosen early in 1998. Entries will not be returned. Additional information about the White House Millennium Program may be found on the World Wide Web at <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/index.html">http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/index.html</a>. Go to <a href="http://arts.endow.gov">http://arts.endow.gov</a> to find additional information about the National Endowment for the Arts. Contact: Cherie Simon 202-682-5570 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Elisabeth Burr <he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> Subject: PRISCIANUS and help with Latin verse Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 12:58:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 707 (707) Dear Humanists, a) does anybody know of an online version of: Priscianus: Institutiones Grammaticae? I have searched all the medieval sources pages I could find on the WWW but without success. b) in an old French grammar of Latin I came across the following verse, which I just cannot decypher: "Id quoque per genera dans fixis mobile serva" the context is a rule about gender concord. In fact the French text establishes that whenever there are more than one noun and one of them is masculine, the comunal adjective has to be used in masculine gender, if there is no masculine noun, then it has to be used with feminine gender. The rule is then illustrated with the above mentioned verse. After that the text goes on establishing an exception, i.e. that the adjective can also concord with the nearest noun. The rule is illustrated with the following verse, which doesn't cause any problems: "Vel conformari poterit tunc proximiori" Can anybody help? Best regards Elisabeth Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.in phil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH Geibelstrasse 47048 Duisburg +49 203 3791957 Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de Editor of: <a href="http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/home.html">http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/home.html</a> <a href="http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/home.html">http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/home.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0429 toys & non-trivial pursuits Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 11:39:53 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 708 (708) I am afraid that Willard's gentle request for enlightened administrators is dreamy. Most of the administrators I have known for nigh onto 50 years are themselves former scholars or scholars manquees. Who becomes a Dean, etc., except a former professor, in most places. Who are therefore the enemies of the people, people being of course young graduate students and aspiring scholars. There is more to this than meets the mind's eye. There is the fact of disillusionment, and failure, and rancor, and conversion of hope into hardnees of heart. When good scholars are bored and tired of their field they get kicked upstairs, usually, rewarded by those even higher, now called CEOs, etc. (Castigators of Excellence in the Organization, etc.?), as with corporations. Engineers, whose knowledge is usually good for 5-10 years, routinely move up to management, because technology moves so very fast, and has for decades now. At least, they were engineers, before getting retrained as managers or MBAs, etc., and understood. But...a failed professor, whether in sociology or history or psychology or poli sci? Usually a rather dangerous person. The saints and serious folks are a only a bit more common than hen's teeth. No, they have vulturine dispositions and beaks, and prefer carrion, killing to make it a bit higher in odor, etc. Well, before becoming a Cardinal, one has to serve a long time, but the view and the perspective changes as one ascends. The best parable I can think of is Thurber's late story about the orbiting astronauts who had terrific nuclear bombs under their capsule, to be launched...in case. Well, they get to thinking one patch down there resembles another, from that height, and, well, the reader can surmise the very Swiftian dialogue that leads us to a Final Solution.... Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Chris Floyd <cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au> Subject: Light at the end of the dark ages? Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:37:37 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 709 (709) In the last day or so I read John Ralston Saul's _The Unconscious Civiliation_ which raises a number of cogent points relating to the role of humanties in this period. Essentially, Saul's argument is that the new world order of corporate economic rationalism is undemocratic; is not in the interest of the public good, and is based on invalid assumptions that plainly do not come up with the goods. He compares corporatism to the rise of neo-conservatism/fascism in the 1930s. Alfredo Elejalde wrote: [deleted quotation] Against this new world of professionalism in universities, Saul writes: "If the universities cannot teach the humanist tradition as the central part of their narrowest specialiations, they they have indeed sunk back into the worst of medieval scholasticism" (70); and furthermore, "A student who graduates with mechanist skills and none of the habits of thought has not been educated" (74). In this case it would seem that the truely professional path of a humanist scholar would be to be unprofessional, to speak out against the careerist divide & rule of contemporary universities that seeks to sever the soul from the body. A purely technical/vocational/mechanistic approach to training propagates ignorance rather than reason. [deleted quotation] The title of Saul's book, "The Unconsious Civilization", signifies a collective unawareness of people to the reality of corporatism, which is effectively the totalitarianism of capitalist self-interest groups. For example, the recent bust of the Asian economies is publicised as a natural occurrence, like a typhoon, without any serious questioning of the ethics of money market speculation, and the fact economies have been undergoing recession since 1973, despite the Chicago School of Business. So, yes, a speaking out the violation of basic humanist principles of the public good and democracy is important, and internet has the potential for facilitating such dialogue. [deleted quotation] At this stage, I am wondering if the issue of translation is a red herring. I speak and write in English; you are reading it. Internet is global, but face it, we are an elite. We have power because we have knowledge. The new world order is knocking; they won't wait until humanities computing gets its act together, resolves the Babel of languages, then starts talking turkey. The "welfare function" will be further eroded, increasing the psychic disequilibrium of the world's people, causing gross individual hardship. I don't have faith in computer solutions themselves; only in the human choice to communicate and break silence. [deleted quotation] It is easy to get caught up in the bells & whistles of our new machines, but we have been printing since the fifteenth century. We have to look up and see the light of the day, step out of our medieval cells. The Renaissance broke the back of the dark ages; thus Saul's argument that universities are sinking into medieval scholasticism. We have to grow up and learn by doing, not playing with toys. [deleted quotation] And how the world works, and what is in the common interest for the public good, and what generates an atmosphere of selfishness, distrust, hate, and self-loathing. Where do you want to go to today? Chris. _______________________________ Dr Chris Floyd Phone: +61 8 9339 0490 Fax: +61 8 9385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au <a href="http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd">http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Steve McCarty <steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp> Subject: Academic Websites subject to Attribution Ethics Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 16:11:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 710 (710) Pre-season's greetings from Japan, and so sorry for the length. The struggle continues to reconstitute Academia in cyberspace, and certain academic standards evidently need to be reaffirmed or renegotiated. Here my concern is that source files such as those on Web servers be recognized as intellectual property in academic if not legalistic discourse. There have been cases in Academic of wholesale copying of Web pages from source files without permission or attribution. The practice is most common with alphabetical lists of links which have a weak claim to copyright in terms of content. Yet if the plagiarizing of source files is condoned, those working on e-texts and so forth could also find their files copied with the rationalization that copyright has expired on the literature. So awareness needs to be raised of how academic ethics of attribution apply to the processing as well the creation of online content by scholars, while institutions maintaining servers can assert their rights over computer files as original sources and condemn any form of plagiarism. As these cases can arise from inexperience with Web publishing, the goal here is prevention of either inadvertent or rationalized plagiarism by encouraging action along with further clarification of academic ethics in this new medium. Although illicit copying will increase with worldwide Internet access, infringements are not only from the periphery of Academia. My presentation at an online academic conference was copied onto a server of one of the University of California campuses. In response to my query asking why there was not simply a link to the original source, I received an apology and the site was rectified. Among the rationalizations by an inexperienced graduate student was one that will be heard more often from people on distant continents trying to save money: others in or near their institutions can supposedly load the Web pages faster. Now recently I discovered that a South Korean PhD professor has copied source files from universities in Japan and the U.S. Prof. Hitoshi Goto of Tohoku University maintains lists of humanities and linguistics Websites in Japan, and about 650 links have been made to his pages in Japanese and English. This shows that the one who copied his page and removed his name and copyright notice was an aberration from the norm even here in East Asian Academia. Furthermore, Prof. Goto also knew about the infringement and considered it plagiarism, but had e-mailed the Korean professor to no avail. The historical enmity between their two countries is not ostensibly the issue here, as I have already heard from another Korean condemning the widespread copying of software in his country along with this WWW case. First I discovered that the Korean page: <a href="http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/ling-jap.htm">http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/ling-jap.htm</a> was an unauthorized and unattributed copy of: <a href="http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~gothit/kanren-en.html">http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~gothit/kanren-en.html</a> Then by checking the index: <a href="http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/">http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/</a> I found other pages similarly copied without attribution, viz: <a href="http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/ling.htm">http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/ling.htm</a> AND <a href="http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/departments.htm">http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/departments.htm</a> are apparently copied from the source at the U of Rochester: <a href="http://www.ling.rochester.edu/departments.html">http://www.ling.rochester.edu/departments.html</a> <a href="http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/cog.htm">http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/cog.htm</a> has the title changed to Korean, but I found the original at Indiana University: <a href="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/rudesai/cogsci-prog.html">http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/rudesai/cogsci-prog.html</a> by the following Alta Vista search on consecutive items listed: +MIT +"Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences" +"The Center for Biological and Computational Learning" +"UC San Diego" +"Department of Cognitive Science" How much easier, then, would it be to catch student plagiarism by putting eloquent passages in quotes and running Web searches! Link searches can also uncover information routes, e.g., with Alta Vista tracing links to Prof. Goto's "Humanities Web Sites in Japan": link:www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~gothit/zinbun-en.html <a href="http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/univ.htm">http://inote.com/~bamboo/sites/univ.htm</a> is a copy with some changes and the copyright notice cut from: <a href="http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html">http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html</a> As a longtime expatriate Japanologist in Japan, what gives me reverse culture shock is that I e-mailed the administrators of the Rochester, Indiana and MIT Web sites, offering assistance and more information, yet none have responded. Whereas I fully understand Prof. Goto's indignation and he fully backs what I'm trying to do here to further establish Academia in cyberspace. My final reason for appealing to this discussion group is therefore to ask those willing to work on this problem to kindly contact me. Collegially, Steve McCarty steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp <a href="http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html">http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Judith A. Turner" <judith@turner.net> Subject: The new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 07:53:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 711 (711) Dear JEP Subscriber: The December 1997 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing is now available at <a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep</a> WORDS from the WISE: Lessons Learned in Electronic Publishing "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." --Aristotle There are those who would amend Mr. A. by pointing out that we learn best by doing them *wrong.* In this new world of electronic publishing, though, we learn any way we can -- by doing things right, by doing things wrong, and by learning from others' successes and failures, because when you don't know where you're going, any road you take will be the right one. This issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing is about a host of different roads, all of them right for those of us who are trying to master the medium. In "The Importance of Failure" John Unsworth exhorts us to attempt projects that have a good chance of failure, and then to document that failure as assiduously as we document our successes, to leave a trail for those who might follow. <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/unsworth.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/unsworth.html</a>> Morris Eaves explores the fascinating world of virtual collaboration, explaining how the William Blake Archive was conceived and developed by editors, programmers, and project managers at different universities using e-mail (and occasionally the phone) to create something new. However, he cautions, "Collaboration Takes More Than E-Mail." <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/blake.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/blake.html</a>> Michelle Miller-Adams and Eve M. Trager remind us that CD-ROM is still a viable and useful digital technology, and they write about their adventures on the way to publishing a new take on the Bible. Their "Catechism for Digital Publishing" proves that even "older" digital technology has its pitfalls if you don't plan ahead. <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/bible.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/bible.html</a>> One of the most exciting events of 1997 was the introduction at the Frankfurt Book Fair of the Digital Object Identifier, a system that will allow all of us to manage our intellectual-property rights in ways we probably can't imagine today. Bill Rosenblatt tells us how that achievement came about, and the ideas that were jettisoned on the trip, in "Solving the Dilemma of Copyright Protection." <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/doi.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/doi.html</a>> Some ideas seem great at the time, but they are just not right for the time. The Internet Public Library may be one of them. The IPL came out of the traditions of public libraries espoused by Ben Franklin and Andrew Carnegie, but the Internet has no town meeting and very little true selflessness in a communal sense. Lorrie LeJeune writes about a lovely project that just won't make it in "Before Its Time." <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/IPL.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/IPL.html</a>> And this issue I check in with my own lessons, learned as I put The Chronicle of Higher Education on the Internet -- one of the first full-text newspapers to grace the 'net. I reveal some of the mistakes I made, the expectations I didn't meet, and, yes, the success of "Pioneering an Online Newspaper." <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/chronicle.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/chronicle.html</a>> Come read and enjoy! --Judith Axler Turner --Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing December, 1997 Volume 3, Issue 2 ISSN 1080-2711 <a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/gloss0302.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/gloss0302.html</a> Judith Axler Turner, Principal Turner Consulting Group mailto:judith@turner.net (202) 986-3463 <a href="http://www.tcg-inc.com">http://www.tcg-inc.com</a> [deleted quotation] From: Paul groves <paul.groves@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Announcement: New Reports from the Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature Project Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 12:17:48 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 712 (712) Apologies for cross-posting JISC TECHNOLOGIES APPLICATION PROGRAMME (JTAP) VIRTUAL SEMINARS FOR TEACHING LITERATURE PROJECT (<a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/</a>) The Virtual Seminars Project (funded under JISC's JTAP initiative) is pleased to announce the availability of two new reports: "Digitising the Primary Source Material at the English Faculty Library, University of Oxford" - Dr. Stuart Lee <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/digit/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/digit/</a> This brief report describes the stages gone through and equipment used in the digitisation of Wilfred Owen's manuscripts and other material from the special collections room at the English Faculty Library, University of Oxford "Electronic publishing and issues of information access, preservation, and copyright: a case-study of the Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature Project." - Jennifer Haigh (now Jennifer Goodfellow) <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/thesisf.html">http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/thesisf.html</a> (with frames - for contents etc.) <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/thesis.html">http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/thesis.html</a> (without frames) This case-study was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of MA of University College London. With the permission of UCL and the student in question, it was felt appropriate that this case study be made publically available from the Virtual Seminars Web site. In addition to these two reports, the monthly reports detailing the activities of the project have been brought more up to date. Paul Groves Project Officer Stuart Lee Project Manager ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Groves Email: paul.groves@oucs.ox.ac.uk JTAP Project Officer Fax: +44 (0)1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit Tel: +44 (0)1865 273 226 Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford, England. OX2 6NN From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Visual Arts Data Service Survey Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:27:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 713 (713) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 2, 1997 The Visual Arts Data Service (one component of the UK's Arts & Humanities Data Service) has produced a survey of potential user needs that it is keen to see distributed (and completed) as widely as possible. The survey aims to discover how electronic resources are currently used by higher education and other visual resources organizations (including museums and art galleries). Those completing the survey are even eligible for a cash prize. David Green UK's VISUAL ARTS DATA SERVICE USER SURVEY <<a href="http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/survey/">http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/survey/</a>> The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) User Survey is now available at <<a href="http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/survey/">http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/survey/</a>> to fill in electronically on our website. Those who submit the survey by 15th January 1998 will be entered into a prize draw to win £100 GBP. We would appreciate your assistance in circulating this URL widely to members of the visual arts, museums and cultural heritage communities. A paper version is also available from Catherine Grout Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Falkner Road, Farnham, GU9 7DS ABOUT THE VADS SURVEY This survey is intended for members of the visual arts community, especially those involved in higher education research or teaching. We are also interested in hearing from members of art galleries, museums and other organisations, commercial or public, who are involved with any aspect of the visual arts. We are hoping that our Survey will help us to achieve the following aims: - To help us understand more about how electronic resources are being used now by members of our community - To help us target the services of VADS more closely to your electronic information provision, creation and management needs - To help us build up an accurate picture of what digital resources have been already been created by you; how they are being used; and what we can do to help you maximise your investment in these resources. DATA PROTECTION All information on the returned questionnaire will be treated confidentially -- *Catherine Grout*Visual Arts Data Service Project Manager* **Surrey Institute of Art & Design**Farnham**Surrey** **URL: <a href="http://vads.ahds.ac.uk">http://vads.ahds.ac.uk</a> *tel: 01252 722441 ex 2427** =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0432 dreaming of the light Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:12:16 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 714 (714) [deleted quotation] I certainly haven't. I think the whole point of getting caught up in the "bells & whistle" is that for perhaps the first time in human history persons of moderate means can publish their own material and make it world accessable (to other persons of moderate means). It's certainly more power than the printing press or photocopier has afforded for some time. [deleted quotation] Is the implication here that contemplation is wrong and that the natural place of the academic is out on the barricades? [deleted quotation] That sounds painful! As is the logical disjunction between this clause and the one following. [deleted quotation] If Saul's understanding of the past is as simplistic as this (haven't read the book so I'm relying on this redaction), I mistrust his ability to say anything useful about the present. As a medievalist, I have found that moderns use the Middle Ages as a convenient means of negative definition. We are not what they were. It is the ultimate other. Unfortunately, we often ascribe to that age the very qualities that define us simply because they are unpleasant. The Renaissance did indeed "break the back of the dark ages" (a disturbingly appropriate metaphor). It also ushered in the era of witch-hunts, totalitarianism, and genocide on a global scale, which we call the modern age. There, I feel much better now. Please forgive my medievalist rant, though it does point out that not all we academics accept even the simple proposition that the so-called "dark ages" were. It also points out that Saul may have unconscious assumptions of his own that bear examination. Surely the culture wars that have swept universities for the past few decades with all the vehemence of the earlier wars of religion are at least as big a reason for academia's impotence as any unconscious corporatism. Could it be that the triumph of many divergent ideologies, and of the idea of ideology itself, has lead to academia's self-marginalization? How can we hope to affect change in a democracy if to the electorate we appear to be speaking in tongues? ^ÄWe have to grow up [deleted quotation] It there a real distinction here? And haven't we become what we are fighting if we reject the idea of play? gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: LREC New Submission Date: December 8 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 12:37:31 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 715 (715) [deleted quotation] ************************************** CHANGED SUBMISSION DATE FOR SUMMARIES OF PAPERS AND POSTERS- 8 DECEMBER 1997=20 ************************************** FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 This message is an announcement of the changed deadline for receipt of summaries for the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC, which is now Monday 8th of December. Summaries of papers and posters on any aspect of Evaluation of Language Engineering Technologies are welcome, and should consist of about 800 words. The topics of the conference are: Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages Resources (theoretical & best practice) Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation General issues on Language Resources and international issues. Authors are asked to submit in either: Electronic format, ASCII file, to lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it Attn: Antonio Zampolli - LREC. =B7 Hard copy. Please send five hard copies to: Antonio Zampolli - LREC Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR via della Faggiola, 32 Pisa, ITALY All the submissions should include a separate title page, providing the following information: the type of proposal (paper, poster, demo, paper plus demo, panel); the title to be printed in the program of the Conference; names and affiliations of the authors or proposers; the full address of the first author (or a contact person), including phone, fax, email, URL; the required facilities (overhead projector, data display; other hardware, platforms, communications); and 5 keywords. For further information, please contact: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traducci=F3n e Interpretaci=F3n Dpto. de Traducci=F3n e Interpretaci=F3n C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 Granada, SPAIN +34 58 24 41 00 tel. +34 58 24 41 04 fax reli98@goliat.ugr.es <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA</a> Khalid Choukri (on behalf of the organising committee) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Gregory Crane <gcrane@medusa.perseus.tufts.edu> Subject: Job Openings Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 15:32:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 716 (716) POSSIBLE JOB OPENINGS! (Please repost!) Perseus Project, Tufts University, Medford MA The Perseus Project seeks candidates for two two year positions for classicists with a solid background in their field and excellent potential. These positions require substantial work, but they are also designed to increase the number of classicists with concrete experience in emerging technologies. Proven expertise with computing and a background in programming would be an advantage, but knowledge of the field, intellectual excellence, energy and a proven aptitude for learning are crucial. 1) Assistant Editor for Electronic Publications: This position will work with a consortium of classicists who are developing new editorial standards and examplary new publications designed to match the rigor of print but also to exploit the new possibilities of the medium. This position will work with classicists, helping them redesign their publications both in regards to content and to form: the candidate should be prepared to master technologies such as SGML or VRML. A background in archaeology and an interest in appropriate technologies would be particularly useful. 2) Assistant Editor for Greek Language and Lexicography: This position will both help convert print resources (e.g., grammars, commentaries, articles, lexica) into electronic documents and help develop new articles about Greek language. An advanced graduate student interested in doing a dissertation on a topic of general interest (e.g., the language of tragedy) could develop a project that was also relevant to this position. Candidates should send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae and three letters of recommendation to Gregory Crane, Editor in Chief, Perseus Project, Eaton 124, Tufts University, Medford MA 02155. Review of applications will begin December 8. Gregory Crane Associate Professor of Classics Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Project Eaton 124 Tufts University Medford MA 02155 <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/About/grc.html">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/About/grc.html</a> From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@VMA.SMSU.EDU> Subject: job advertisement - philosophy Date: Wed, 03 Dec 97 08:19:03 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 717 (717) Colleagues: Please distribute the following as appropriate - and please accept concommitant apologies for duplications and cross-postings. PHILOSOPHY: Assistant Professor, tenure-track. Starting date: August 20, 1998. AOS: History of Philosophy, with a concentration in either Medieval and/or American. AOC: comparative philosophy or a non-Western tradition(s); ethics; philosophy of mind or language; gender issues. Normal teaching load is four courses/semester; approximately half of the teaching assignment will be in courses supporting a new interdisciplinary curriculum, including Interdisciplinary Ethics, Global Futures, American Experience. Drury College is related to the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). No religious affiliations are required of students, faculty, or staff - but the Department pursues the UCC and Disciples' committments to social justice and rigorous dialogue between faith and reason. A New American College, Drury further values excellence in teaching and the integration of liberal arts and career preparation. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Salary competitive. (See our web site: <<a href="http://www.drury.edu/phil-relg/depthome.html">http://www.drury.edu/phil-relg/depthome.html</a>>.) Applications (letter of interest, CV, three letters of reference, and teaching evaluations) are due by February 6, 1998 to: Charles Ess, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College, Springfield, MO, 65802. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: gleanings Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 20:13:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 718 (718) It's been a while since I posted to Humanist bits of this and that gleaned from my two favourite newsprint sources, the Guardian Online and the Times Literary Supplement, but then a house-move and its aftermath do tend to absorb one's attention. My daughter could tell you about the bed I promised to build her and have still not finished, but she won't, and I could describe how for lack of shelving, for which materials have yet to be scouted out, my papers are mostly in chaotic piles all over the floor, and so on. I have, however, convinced myself that the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, which dims away by 4 p.m. these days, is slowly getting closer and so take time to see what morsels can be gathered from the two publications, both newly read this evening. (1) Christopher Hitchens, "With a deafening report", reviewing James H. Jones, Alfred C Kinsey: A public/private life (TLS 4940 5 December 1997), notes that Kinsey (the famous American sexologist whose wife was reported as saying that "Since he took up sex, I never see him") "believed that, with sufficient primitive accumulation of fact, truth would emerge. He believed that factual accumulation should be rammed home, as it were, by exhausting bouts of field work." I am reminded of a lecturer once who, hoping to get a job by impressing her audience, recounted a truly impressive collecting of all 11,564 instances in Greek literature of the phenomenon she was studying. I don't think anyone doubted that she had actually examined all 11,564 cases. But what this accumulation had given her was, as it were, the hybris of being in command of a huge tank, which she could drive wherever she wished, over gardens, houses, public squares, whatever. In the end she drove it, alas, into the nearby sea, where she drowned. Makes one think about our craft, does it not? About the bold salutory application of reason and interpretation to the masses of evidence our machine can deliver to us. In this light, it would seem a good idea to read Thomas Nagel's latest, The Last Word, reviewed by Barry Stroud in that same issue of the TLS. (2) Joanna Bawa, "50 years of the transistor" (Guardian Online for 4 December), on the invention made about the time that Father Busa got started with what became the Index Thomisticus and Vannevar Bush wrote "As We May Think". The online version of this article omits the photos, alas, including the useful one showing the progression of vacuum tube to microchip. Some informed glances into the near future too. (3) Jim McClellan, "Ode to the joystick", on the book Joystick Nation by J. C. Herz, a serious study of video games, their history and cultural importance. (4) Kevin Wilson, "From tags to riches", on XML (the TEI is not mentioned but should be!). Tim Bray is quoted at length and pictured too. (5) Jack Schofield, "Netwatch", points to -- <<a href="http://www.audionet.com/twa8080/">http://www.audionet.com/twa8080/</a>>, the CIA Simulation of the Crash of TWA Flight 800, presenting the findings of the FBI, in RealPlayer format. Works fine at this distance. -- <<a href="http://www.punpunpun.com/">http://www.punpunpun.com/</a>>, site of The International Save the Pun Foundation; the Foundation publishes a newsletter, The Pundit.... 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Chris Floyd <cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au> Subject: Re: 11.0437 light on dark ages Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:10:23 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 719 (719) Gary Shawver wrote: [deleted quotation]r [deleted quotation] Absolutely, the power of internet communications is very exciting. That's what we are doing here, wherever that is. However, you are playing fast and loose with the word "publish". The actual publishing process is a drawn out affair with proofreaders, copy editors, etc. The marvels of desk top 'publishing' can even be a liability in this. In many cases, internet texts are the equivalent of tacking a notice to a board. Admittedly, this is a privileged notion of publishing. Nonetheless, it bears thought where texts accessed through internet are impermanent; they rely on a functioning server than can guarantee memory space. It adds a twist to 'book burning' where a published text can be switched off at will. Of course, there remains the opportunity to send copies. This consolation does not deny the point there are different kinds of publishing. Furthermore, the respective publications have different statuses. Academics would be aware of their standing relative to their publications. Eg. an e-mail post would not be equated with a refereed article in an esteemed journal. Refereed texts meet criteria set by gatekeepers. The so-called deomocratic freedom of the press applies to publishers. Writers have to write to an audience/market, which in the first instance is the publishers. Clearly it is good communication practice to know one's audience and to use the appropriate language. Nevertheless, the flip side is censorship, conformity to the prevailing agenda as defined by the gatekeepers. Such relates to the Humanist discussion group as it is moderated (& censorship happens as I encountered with one of my submissions). A significant part of the appeal of moderated discusion groups is the focus, the cutting out of the crap as it were. We can have a resonable expectation of our audience, that they can appreciate our messages. This is a lot different to big pond publishing by shark gatekeeepers like Murdoch Ink. Yes, we can distribute our own material worldwide, and I love it. But we are still a small group. Where we are preoccupied with the busy work of novelty information tools/toys, my concern is that maybe the humanist plot is being lost to Darth Vader. Gary's mention of "moderate means" in regard to internet access is curious. "Moderate means" is similar to saying "a length of string". Despite being an unemployed person, I am internet connected because of my priorities, the way I elect to apportion my resources. The fact remains, that first, the internet community is a small subsection of the computer user population, and second, the major use is computer games. Here I am alluding to a recent Australian Bureau of Statistics study of Household Use of Information Technology where 8% of the estimated four million home computer have internet access, which is a third of Australian homes. Added to this is the unrealistic expectations of business for the quick buck on the super e-highway. Given that maybe 5% of homes are internet connected, and the predominant usage is'tittytainment', the worldwide access angle has to be taken cautiously. Are we preaching to the converted is a useful question? I am suggesting that generalisations about mass internet audiences is misplaced. That the internet audience is fairly well segmented. Ghettoized is another way of putting it. Compare the audience of Princess Diana's funeral. Here we see a major press event which ironically reveals the worst of yellow journalism, but still vindicates the system with bums on seats. Thus I am saying that the 'moderate means' aspect of internet access is contraindicated. That the educated are more likely to take advantage of the publishing potential of internet. Furthermore, there are class implications where the affluent have the greater tendency to make the double investment of hardware and education. [deleted quotation] Not necessarily. There is a place for thought and a time for action. [deleted quotation]d [deleted quotation]k [deleted quotation]l [deleted quotation] Hold on. Not so fast. There is nothing especially modern about "witch-hunts, totalitarianism, and genocide". On a global scale sure, but there was the Spanish Inquisition, Sparta, pogroms,... Not being a medievalist, I appreciate you might be sensitive. Nonetheless, the Rennaissance is a high point of Western culture, despite the ill will of European colonisation. Saul made it clear that the Industrial Revolution was no picnic, and that the real advances of suffrage and better health and living standards are more recent. He also indicated the backsliding of the contemporary, the point of his thesis. [deleted quotation] We all have our "unconscious assumptions". I would agree that Saul's specific reference to "medieval scholasticism" might be misleading (he uses the scholastic search for the divine plan as an analogy to the way economic rationalists approach the market). However, I wonder if you are trying to have your cake and eat it. Earlier on you were chiming about the "first time in human history...world accessable...more power than the printing press". Then you were tying the Renaissance to the negative outcomes of modernity vis a vis global "witch-hunts, totalitarianism, and genocide". The "bells and whistles" of the modern depend on the Renaissance; computer graphics would be impossible without Cartesian coordinates. There is no going back to the medieval, however painful. [deleted quotation]t [deleted quotation]e [deleted quotation] The cliche of "ivory tower" has long been applied to universites. There has been a level of opening up of recent, which Allan Bloom adversely criticised in his _The Closing of the American Mind_. As a beneficiary of 'free education', I don't coincide with his sentiments. I am also unconvinced by the assertion that academia has somehow 'self-marginalized' in response to a 'triumph of divergent ideologies'. There is an ironic sleight of hand here which leads me to suspect that Gary is speaking in tongues. The opening up of universities in the sixties on (as satirized by Malcolm Bradbury et al) involved greater access by the less moneyed classes. There is a greater number of people in higher studies than ever before. It's big business, and it suits the government to keep kids in school longer, off the unemployment statistics. Thus it difficult to claim that universites are more marginal to the electorate. Notwithstanding this, there is increased specialisation, and more significantly, the promotion of vocationally attractive courses like "public administration". I feel that Gary's reference to the 'vehemence of cultural wars' is a distraction when the real issue is the survival of the humanistic underpinnings of the Academe. In short, I am accusing entrenched academics of selling out, of trying to look flashy and competitive with their new toys when they are really letting the baby drown in the bathwater. In a period where the big push is in the ideology of the market, I am arguing that humanities academics should be strong in their voice of the value of a liberal arts based education TODAY, not when they've got all their information tools tested and operational. The tools work: publish or be damned! [deleted quotation] There is nothing wrong with playing, but too much of it and you will go bli= nd. I like Jascha Kessler's comments re dangerous administrators. That is a part of the problem, the situation of administration for administration's sake, where academic promotion is higer grades of remove from scholarship. Furthermore, that the new world corporate mentality cuts corners with research and development, where the contrary would be indicated with growing unemployment by investing in creative endeavour. Chris. _______________________________ Dr Chris Floyd Phone: +61 8 9339 0490 Fax: +61 8 9385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au <a href="http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd">http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> =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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: A Word from One of our Sponsors Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:28:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 720 (720) [deleted quotation] Loyal participants of Humanist (and lurkers too) include many once and future members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. To those of you waiting for a propitious time to join: this is it. Our fine journal, Computers and the Humanities, now has editors based both in North America and Europe, and the quality of issues has improved as standards for acceptance have become more rigorous. Several special issues are in the pipeline, including one (expected fall, 1998) featuring selected papers from the recent conference at Brown University celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Text Encoding Initiative and looking forward to the emergence of XML (Extensible Markup Language). If you join ACH for 1998, your membership includes a subscription to CHum for the 1998 issues (volume 32). But because publication of the journal is running somewhat behind schedule, the issues coming out now are still from the 1997 series (volume 31). This means there will be a delay before you can start receiving 1998 issues, but it also means we can still offer members [both recent and forthcoming] a 1997 subscription for only $50 (our cost). In other respects, thanks to the efforts of our members and a dedicated Council, ACH in the past two years has broadened its scope and focused its organizational commitments. Collaborative arrangements with our sister organization, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, have increased, and last year's excellent joint international conference at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, will be followed by ALLC- ACH98 at Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen, Hungary, July 5th through the 10th. On the national scene, ACH has become a participating member in the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage and is in the process of applying for membership in the American Council of Learned Societies. Membership has increased, thanks in part to new interest in ACH by librarians and other participants in digital library activities. For more details, visit the ACH Web site at www.ach.org. Another reason to join ACH now is that all members as of December 15th will be eligible to vote in the upcoming election. The ACH Nominating Committee has prepared an excellent slate of candidates for President, Vice President, three new members of the Executive Council, and one replacement position. Ballots, incidentally, must be postmarked by January 15, 1998. In summary, this is an excellent time to (re-)join the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and you can do this from the Web site (via credit card) or by sending $65 dues to Charles D. Bush, Treasurer Association for Computers and the Humanities 3060 JKHB Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 USA Regards and best wishes for a smooth transition to happy holidays, Mike Neuman, President Association for Computers and the Humanities ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Patrick W. Conner" <pconner@wvu.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0441 publishing, babies and bathwater Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 17:26:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 721 (721) Chris Floyd wrote: [deleted quotation] No, you won't. I'm quite sure of that. --Pat ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Patrick W. Conner Department of English P.O. BOX 6296 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506-6296 phone: (304) 293-3107 e-mail: pconner@wvu.edu fax: (304) 293-5380 From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0441 publishing, babies and bathwater Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 18:34:41 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 722 (722) [deleted quotation] Point taken, though if you can't afford electricity or decent food, and haven't the basic literacy and numeracy to establish an internet connection, you're unlikely to be on the internet and even less likely to publish Web pages. I do use "publish" loosely because we're talking about, and in, a post-print medium in which a work is authorized not by some third party but by its author and, ultimately, by its audience. (Here I'm talking mainly of the Web, not e-mail.) There are implications both good and bad in this. It is, however, fundamentally different from the modern, print paradigm of knowledge production. [deleted quotation] Actually, there is. They (and pogroms and the Spanish Inquistion) are very much tied to ideas of authority and identity which were prevalent hallmarks of the Renaissance and Modern Age. Perhaps, in my own muzzy-headed way, I'm suggesting that it would be helpful to question whether we are still living in the Modern Age, or at least in a Modern Age which sees its self in the Renaissance and its opposite in the Middle Ages. In the words of another well-know corporation, perhaps it's time to "think different" about a whole host of questions, including how to preserve the humanities in a post-national era of trans-national corporations. The past two decades have seen the redefinition of the humanities and the rejection (from within the humanities) of what some have called "the humanist project." How do we who are concerned with computing in the humanities fit into this? In another vein, one of the OED's definitions of a humanist is one whose beliefs are in accordance with "A pragmatic system of thought introduced by F. C. S. Schiller and William James which emphasizes that man can only comprehend and investigate what is with the resources of the human mind, and discounts abstract theorizing; so, more generally, implying that technological advance must be guided by awareness of widely understood human needs." Does this describe the general outlook of this list, especially in regard to the uses of technology? Or is this only a partial picture at best? Perhaps we need a neo-scholastic search for the precise nature of human needs vis-a-vis computer technology. gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Call for Proposals Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:09:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 723 (723) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 5, 1997 A welcome announcement of a call for papers for a conference next year examining the interplay of digital technologies and the arts. "STATE OF THE ARTS: PRODUCTION, RECEPTION, AND TEACHING IN THE DIGITAL WORLD" <<a href="http://www.inform.umd.edu/CRBS">http://www.inform.umd.edu/CRBS</a>> October 8-11, 1998 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Proposal Deadline: January 8, 1998 The Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and the Committee for Creative Humanities Applications in the New Technologies (CHANT) at the University of Maryland, in conjunction with the statewide Celebration of the Arts, is issuing a call for contributions to an interdisciplinary conference entitled: "State of the Arts: Production, Reception, and Teaching in the Digital World." The conference is planned for October 8-11, 1998. It will be held on the University of Maryland's College Park campus for an audience of university faculty and students, K-12 faculty and administrators, artists, museum curators, archivists, and the interested public. Conference Objectives: - To show innovative technological applications in the arts and humanities. - To raise awareness of the creative potential of the new technologies by sharing digitally mediated innovations in the studio, the museum, the school, and the university with the general public. - To encourage the integration of new technology into the professional lives of artists and humanities educators. - To foster collaborations and mentoring. The conference planning committee welcomes proposals for plenary papers and workshops from individuals nationally and internationally who represent diverse perspectives on the arts and humanities and technology. Maryland arts and educational institutions are invited to participate as paperand workshop presenters and as conference satellite sites. For detailed information about the conference go to our web site: <www.inform.umd.edu/CRBS>. FOR Further INFORMATION AND AN APPLICATION FORM, send e-mail to crbs@umail.umd.edu or go to www.inform.umd.edu/CRBS. From: "David L. 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The conference is organized by the Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group in the Faculty of Arts at Tilburg University, jointly with the Center for User-System Interaction IPO in Eindhoven, and the Department of Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology. The principal aim of the conference is to bring together researchers involved in the design, implementation, and application of forms of cooperative human-computer communication where natural language (typed or spoken) is used in combination with other modalities, such as visual feedback and direct manipulation. The conference will focus on formal, computational, and user aspects of building cooperative multimodal dialogue systems. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: * cooperativity in multimodal dialogue * metaphors for human-computer interaction * communicative acts in multimodal communication * interacting with visual domain representations * natural language interpretation in a multimodal context * effective use of different media and modalities * formal and computational models of dialogue context * pragmatic concepts in human-computer dialogue * the role of time in multimodal communication * agent-based dialogue architectures * user modelling * approaches to dialogue management PROGRAMME ********* See the CMC/98 web page <a href="http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC/">http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC/</a> where a preliminary program can be found, and where updates on the program will be available. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********* Harry Bunt (Tilburg) (chair) Nicholas Asher (Austin) Norman Badler (Philadelphia) Don Bouwhuis (Eindhoven) Walther von Hahn (Hamburg) Dieter Huber (Mainz) John Lee (Edinburgh) Joseph Mariani (Paris) Jean-Claude Martin (Orsay) Mark Maybury (Bedford) Paul McKevitt (Sheffield and Aalborg) Rob Nederpelt (Eindhoven) Kees van Overveld (Eindhoven) Ray Perrault (Menlo Park) Donia Scott (Brighton) Jan Treur (Amsterdam) Wolfgang Wahlster (Saarbruecken) Bonnie Webber (Philadelphia) Kent Wittenburg (Morristown) Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********* Robbert-Jan Beun Tijn Borghuis Harry Bunt Leen Kievit Margriet Verlinden REGISTRATION INFORMATION ********* To register, please fill out the registration form below and return it by email to the conference scretary Ms Anne Adriaensen either by email at J.B.P.Adriaensen@kub.nl, or by fax or ordinary mail (see addresses below). 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() Do not make any hotel reservations for me Send this form to: Anne Adriaensen Tilburg University Faculty of Arts P.O.Box 90153 NL-5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands J.B.P.Adriaensen@kub.nl Or register via the CMC/98 webpage: <a href="http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC/">http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC/</a> ____________________________________________________________________________ For questions about the program contact Harry Bunt@kub.nl; for issues relating to the submission of abstracts contact tijn@win.tue.nl. For all other matters contact the conference secretariat: Anne Adriaensen Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. phone: +31 13 466 30 60; fax +31 13 466 31 10; email: denk@kub.nl. Web: <a href="http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC">http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC</a> ____________________________________________________________________________ -- ------------------------------------------------------ Harry C. Bunt Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science Dean, Faculty of Arts Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen) 2568 (Dean's office) 2653 (office, room B 310) Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110 Harry.Bunt@kub.nl WWW: <a href="http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm">http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: ACLS publications Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 08:20:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 725 (725) It has been said, on Humanist at least, that electronic seminars have some of the characteristics of an oral culture, in particular that although everything we natter on about is recorded and available, in fact we keep our memory refreshed by repeating the contents we particularly value. In the early days of Humanist there were not a few complaints from those with better memories about people repeating themselves, and newcomers asking the same fool questions that had already been asked and answered. These complaints seem to have died away. I like to think that this is because we've simply accepted the fact that our communal memory is maintained in repetition. Those who like to observe what's happening may value the phenomenon, as it marks what currently needs repeating. Quite a long prefix for yet another such repetition! I am reminded by a chance visit to the site of the American Council of Learned Societies, of which Humanist is an affiliated publication, that the ACLS's other publications are increasingly appearing online. See <<a href="http://www.acls.org/pub-list.htm">http://www.acls.org/pub-list.htm</a>>. In addition to those that directly concern or address computing, I note that the Charles Homer Haskins lectures, entitled "A Life of Learning", are now becoming available. See in particular the latest one, by Natalie Zemon Davis. One needs reminding that learning constitutes a wonderful, privileged life, or more accurately, I hope, one needs the occasional sign that others still live who understand the wonder and the importance of this privilege. Daily life is quite a carborundum*, no? In any case, enjoy Davis' inspirational account of her life. Yours, WM *"A compound of carbon and silicon, SiC, a very hard crystalline substance, used either as a powder or in blocks for polishing and scouring, for grinding tools and as a refractory lining in furnaces" (OED s.v.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu> Subject: IATH Research Reports (double issue) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 19:11:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 726 (726) 1996 and 1997 Research Reports from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities IATH is pleased to announce the publication of a double set of research reports, from 1996 and 1997, on IATH projects in 3D modeling, British literature, Ethics, Italian literature, American literature, Religious studies, Mayan epigraphy, Greek History, American architecture, literary theory, contemporary American history, and art history. These projects collectively present a very large amount of publicly accessible primary research materials, and they also demonstrate innovative applications of SGML markup and delivery tools, Unicode, Java, and VRML. See below for a complete listing of the authors, titles, and URLs for individual projects, or visit the entire set of IATH research reports, including those from earlier years (many of which are still developing and adding new material and features) at: <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/reports.html">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/reports.html</a> An updated list of finding aids for IATH projects is also available, at: <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/search.html">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/search.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------ Research Reports, Fifth Series (1997) Series Co-Editors: Daniel Pitti & John Unsworth ISSN: 1077-9671 Dan Ancona, The Ocean of the Streams of Story: Virtual Worlds at the University of Virginia <<a href="http://urizen.village.virginia.edu/stories/report.html">http://urizen.village.virginia.edu/stories/report.html</a>> Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, Joseph Viscomi, The Blake Archive <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/</a>> The Center for Ethics, Capital Markets, and Political Economy <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/cecmpe/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/cecmpe/</a>> Deborah Parker, The World of Dante <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dante/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dante/</a>> Kenneth M. Price, Ed Folsom, et al., The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/</a>> Michael Satlow, Inscriptions from the Land of Israel: the Second Temple Period to the Moslem Conquest <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mls4n/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mls4n/</a>> Martha Nell Smith et al., The Emily Dickinson Editing Collective <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dickinson/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dickinson/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------ Research Reports, Fourth Series (1996) Series Co-Editors: Thornton Staples & John Unsworth ISSN: 1077-9671 Raf Alvarado, The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/med/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/med/</a>> Malgosia Askanas et al., Spoon Collective <<a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons">http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons</a>> Frank E. Grizzard, Jr., Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University of Virginia, 1817-1828. <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/grizzard/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/grizzard/</a>> Elizabeth Meyer, A New Interpretive Study of the Evolution of Slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Greece. <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/meyer/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/meyer/</a>> Kali Tal et al., The Sixties Project <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/</a>> Richard Guy Wilson, The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson: Creating and Exploring an Interactive Database <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/wilson/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/wilson/</a>> Constanze Witt, Barbarians on the Periphery? Origins of Celtic Art <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~umw8f/Barbarians/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~umw8f/Barbarians/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Tim Reuter <T.Reuter@soton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0444 calls for papers Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 23:13:27 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 727 (727) Way back in the early days of Humanist, its wise editor had a policy that people couldn't waste our time and bandwidth by sending out conference announcements with hundreds of lines giving the names of every member of their organising committee and all the local hotels' addresses; you got a screenful to say where the info was for those who wanted it. Any chance of a revival of this enlightened policy? Tim Reuter, University of Southampton ----- Tim Reuter, above, feels wise nostalgia for the days when conference calls were abbreviated. The fact that in the age of the Web we still get ones advertising not only everyone remotely associated with the event, but also the cost of the T-shirts, making crude attempts to reproduce a fill-in form, I also find unworthy. I confess to letting too many long conference notices pass through to you and can offer as explanation only my crowded schedule. If, however, it is the concensus of the membership that such things should be truncated or even sent into quiet oblivion, I am more than willing to consider instituting the policy. Your advice please. 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The successful candidate will have strong interpersonal skills; ability to work collegially in small group and team environments; strong commitment to public service and collection management and development; strong reference and online searching skills; familiariity with use and application of microcomputers in a fully networked campus environment and knowledge of the literature in the subject fields listed above. RANK AND SALARY: Rank and salary commensurate with experience and qualifications with a minimum salary of $30,000 for Librarian I or $32,500 for Librarian II. Full benefits package including 22 vacation days; comprehensive health care; TIAA/CREF; and relocation assistance. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE INFORMATION: World Wide Web: <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu">http://www.dartmouth.edu</a> APPLICATION: Applications received by January 30 1998, will be given first consideration; applications will be considered until the position is filled. Please send resume to: Phyllis E. Jaynes Director of User Services 115 Baker Library Hanover, NH 03755. Dartmouth College is an AA, EEO, M/F employer. Minoriy candiates are encouraged to apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: 11,564 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:01:25 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 729 (729) Willard, I've reread often a section from one of your recent postings to Humanist. It first appeared that you were ascribing to exhaustive examination a certain warping power. Upon rereading it became clear that you were making the point that in this one particular case "this accumulation had given [...] hybris". So I reread your narration: [deleted quotation] It then appeared, to me, that you were arguing inductively from a single however exemplary case and I longed to find stories where the careful inspection of minutiae led to a preservation of humility. However it was that appeal to the bold and salutory application of reason that made me understand or gave to me the insight that the connection between what we do and what we are is far more tenuous than the grammatical and narrative structure of a "being-given" would suggest. Of course, what I was applying was "interpretation" rather than "reason". It is your story (and my rereading of it) that has given me a greater appreciation for that sometimes disjunctive conjunction which is "and" in the English language. Of course, I am curious as to whether the nature of the relation between "reason" and "interpretation" changes with scale. Does the existence of "masses of evidence" affect the doing and the being of the examiner and investigator? Just being and performing, Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Scum of the baths Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 22:06:00 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 730 (730) Chris, You may be reading a version of this missive without the ad hominem pleasantry (mostly of an eponymous sort relating to Christ bearers who want to _be_ Saviours). I rather be blind than not indulge in textual sports & spurts not fit to be published. This is just to say, honey, you ain't got no monopoly on censorship or righteousness. I say to you caster of stones: Name names. Name those "entrenched academics" you accuse of "selling out". The entrepreneurial Erasmus would not come away clean from the scrutiny of your eyes. Nor, I venture, would Humbolt, that imposing academic-administrator, architect of the modern university. If you were to apply the standards you set out for the present to the past there would be no room for nostalgia nor envy, both signs of a misprision of the locus power. The figure of the out-of-touch administrator could serve a mirror function. You write that you [deleted quotation] I too like them for the signal to my some healthy humanist irony. There are people both within and without the academy that clean the tubs through which pass the bathwater and the baby. Those are my heroes and heroines whatever office they may occupy. They are ready to throw out both the bathwater and the baby (the one down the pipes to the recycling plant; the other in the arms of some tutor). Then there is the brave lot that can toss away the bathing basin itself. I am reminded of the great joy of the baths that I have on occasion frequented where puer and senex may let their towels fall with equal dignity. And from the culture of these establishments, long under siege, has emerged a collective response vowing never to replicate a culture that breeds shame and blame. That is the ethos that I want to carry. I want to recite from long rosters and with great honour the names of humanists that eschew the roles of victim or villain. I want to read them and have them read to me. I care little if my own name is there; I care greatly to see that of friends. There are wells to dig, aqueducts to build. And many many strange things to uncover. Off to check the references to water in the Digger corpus of songs, In dissent, Francois From: Chris Floyd <cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au> Subject: embedding humanism Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 17:50:31 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 731 (731) Gary Shawver maintained: [deleted quotation] I thought you would get me on this, and you passed the test. Nonetheless, the incidence of man's inhumanity to man is nothing new. We just do it better. I suggest we are living in the Postmodern Age insofar as certain technological developments have given humankind amazing knowledge and power which cannot be undone, such as nuclear fission; the discovery of DNA; and computers. This has all occurred in about fifty years, and represents the extrapolation of the modern, but is majorly different in terms of humans and their environment. I suggest we are all in the postmodern with a few commentators explicitly addressing it and others mystifying the issue. [deleted quotation] Where there are clear notions of "inhumanity" vis a vis the illtreatment of our kind, I don't feel the essentials have changed. Thus Saul's comment in _The Unconscious Civilization_ that: "the humanist, individualistic, democratic argument has come to us in a direct, unimpeded line from the very first century of our civilization" (61). Interpretation is a different matter, as is the thrust of the Enlightenment project. When rich people put up walls and employ security brutes, then I know we are at war, but I don't believe that means a redefinition of the 'humanities'. A case of calling a different thing by the same name when you didn't understand it in the first place. [deleted quotation] Actually, mine indicates that is sense 5 of "humanism", the point being there are heaps of definitions including "Belief in the mere humanity of Christ: cf. HUMANITARIAN" which is not my cup of tea. A problem with the Schiller/James definition is it has the Romantic denial of the intellectual as if there were essential organic ideas uncorrupted by the modern fall of patriarchs. Not saying I am unromantic, or opposed to the sentiment of a controlled fall into the new world. Just that it provides enough room to drive a truck through. Recently I have been looking at conservative theory. There are several schools, notably the more progressive, modernizing ideology of economic conservatism (Friedman) and that of philosophical conservatism (say Bloom). However, the effect might be the same where there is a vindication of socio-economic inequity, and a concerted opposition to what they call liberals. Philosophical conservatism is critical of the separation of theoretical knowledge from practical knowledge: "The result is that abstract knowledge, because it appears systematic, measurable, and cost effective, is adopted by well-intentioned people who then ignore the technical-practical knowledge that underpins the ability to solve problems, practice skills, and express creative impulses" (Bowers, C.A. _Elements of a Post-Liberal Theory of Education_ 103). Accordingly, socialism is democratic in theory but not practice. Further to this, Bowers cites Heilbroner's distinction between radicals who "view life as an epic" and conservatives who view "it as a process of re-enactment, of renewal, to be justified in the present" (104). Underlying this is the concept of human 'embeddedness' in society. Where humans in conservative terms are 'unregenerative elements' as per original sin, who despite education will 'continue to manifest selfish, irrational, and destructive behaviours' (98), then conservation of the 'good' ultimately relies on social order, as renewed through the natural cyclic boom/bust, feast/famine events of social organization. The latter is mystified into some sort of Aristotelian system where the divine plan is hidden, unknown to mere mortals who are "not the center of the universe and thus is not the absolute source of authority and meaning" (100). The implications are obvious in this new world of economic rationalism where the trend is to free the market and trust in its divine course. Confronted with logic like that, I am nonplussed. Perhaps I should strip naked, roll in ash, and travel the streets with a switch from a gum tree. This is millenarian thinking and nothing to do with humanism. It is contra humanism, not a redefinition. [deleted quotation] What? Yet another search engine? There is no such thing as the "precise nature of human needs" because it is variable. It's a bit like the question of the meaning of life and everything in _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_. As for computer technology, the cognitive parameters are plain: text manipulation; data retrieval; communication; ... There can be no proper definition without an assertion of political will. What do human's want is a better question. At the moment, the prevailing argument seems to be that the majority want a go at the big wheel of fortune when they know it is dead set against them. My argument is, since we are the smart guys on the block, have an appreaciation of the big picture of the last two thousand odd years, and can even operate computers, we have something more valuable to contribute than context free technical applications. The least would be a relentless dissection of conservative standpoints and the place of technology. For example, the daily trillion dollar money stream that traverses the planet is administered by similar electronic data transfer technology to that which solitary thinking individuals, independent of the socio-familial matrix, operate with internet. The difference is that conservative cultural critics regularly snip at the latter in the same way as they would jibe at a bookish person even though literacy is prescribed. The consistency of a conservative mindset works here, where first, a context embedded scenario fragments and mystifies the broader perspective; and second, the independent thinking individual contradicts herd wisdom as it is dominated by the natural leaders. In the schooled society, intellectual endeavour is a hard thing, not achievable by all, and certainly a privileged indulgence, while team sport (not surfing) is a soul developing thing. This is fraught with contradictions, particularly the proposition that conservative thinking is somehow less abstract and more practical/realistic than other political viewpoints (sounds very Hegelian). The place of computers is interesting because they are symbolic processors without a material context vis a vis life and death. Conservatism accommodates such technology within the greater scheme of social organization, as if they are a natural progression, a feature of contemporary reality that has a practical context without any intrinsic implication for the social future. Allen Bloom in _Closing of the American Mind_ notes that he: "personally tried to teach teach [his] students prejudices... Prejudices, strong prejudices, are visions about the way things are. They are divinations of the order of the whole of things" (42). I wonder when they learn to grow up, to question the so-called natural order of things, and deal with complex scenarios. Chris. _______________________________ Dr Chris Floyd Phone: +61 8 9339 0490 Fax: +61 8 9385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au <a href="http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd">http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd</a> From: Domenico Fiormonte <itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk> Subject: Role of the Humanities? Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 22:05:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 732 (732) I would like to follow the discussion on the "role of the Humanities" (messages by Floyd, Kessler, McCarty, etc.) sending few passages of an article that I recently wrote for the "Bullettin for the Society of Italian Studies". The piece was originally written in response to a series of scurrilous articles published by the Guardian HES on the Italian university system. This specific debate perhaps is not of particular interest to Humanist, but believe that the function vs. knowledge argument drafted down here and the story of my experience in the USA are relevant to our discussion. (A full version of the article is available at <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/TALBOT7.htm">http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/TALBOT7.htm</a>) Apologies for the unmerciful recycling and self-quoting (*citarsi addosso*, as we say in Italian). Thanks Domenico Fiormonte ****************************************** Copyright "The Bulletin for the Society of Italian Studies", 30, 1997, pp. 18-27 ****************************************** In USA, while teaching Spanish, I carried out administrative work within the Rhetoric and Technical Communication Graduate Programme of Michigan Technological University. During this time I studied the bulk of the administrative procedures: application and admission rules (written and unwritten), teaching requirements and assignments, assistantships, quality assessments, etc. To improve the knowledge of my task I also gathered a lot of material from other sources and universities. Following this research, I will divide my argument in three parts: 1) The Company University; 2) Customer and Learner; 3) Function and Knowledge. 1) THE COMPANY UNIVERSITY The Federal and State governments policy of financial cutbacks in education and the consequent market-based competition have already: a) lowered admission requirements standards; b) affected dramatically the quality of teaching; c) reduced or frozen the stipends of the staff without improving social benefits; d) made obtaining tenure a mirage and turned into legalised exploitation part-time contracts of postgraduate students and staff. These four factors (five, if one includes local or departmental funding crisis) increased the level of pressure and stress within the campus, leading to unbearable social strain and a degradation of the quality of life. e) The increase of the teaching loads for postgraduate students, who absorb most of the first-year teaching assignments within the Humanities departments (English and Modern Languages especially). Postgraduate students who, I remember: i) are not recognised as workers (see the rebellion of Yale postgraduates); ii) are paid with survival stipends (from 500$ to 800$ monthly); iii) cannot protest if their contract requires twenty hours per week but they have assignments for thirty or forty. Every teaching assistant knows that when he has 20-25 students the distinction between 'contact hours' and preparation (and tutoring, correction, etc.) is a trick, since it determines the latter on the basis of abstract calculations that have no relation with real teaching which is an 'individual' rather than a quantitative process. f) The 'funding threat' soon becomes the 'surviving problem' producing a gradual impoverishment of postgraduate research. In order to keep their teaching contracts and to publish quickly students are forced to do 'small bites' project; often less substantial and relevant research that engages for short period of time and get them fast into the job market. 2) CUSTOMER AND LEARNER g) The 'quantitative' (pseudo-scientific) evaluation process has devastating effects when applied to non-quantifiable phenomena. The introduction of anonymous teaching evaluations to determine teachers' effectiveness is a good example. These multiple-choice questionnaires are distributed to the students at the end of each term, but the teacher sees them at the beginning of the next one. The results of the evaluation, in the words of the same 'evaluators', "should be one item among several" which determine teaching effectiveness. But this is not what happens in reality. Teaching evaluations (and written class observations) are checked by Supervisors, Foreign Language Mentors, Heads of departments, and sometimes by colleagues. In this situation the real danger is that the teaching evaluations system allows students to expect services rather than assignments. The metamorphosis from learner into customer has notable effects at the pedagogical level. When the responsibility of the learning process is placed entirely on the teacher-clerk's shoulders the relationship between teacher and student degenerates, and it becomes impossible to exercise the minimum authority (a taboo word) required by the transition from a state of less knowledge to a state of higher knowledge. (Horkheimer defines authority as "a superiority that can be acknowledged and accepted.") Not to mention the problem of respect and independence of judgement, two concepts more and more hard to define in a system that has cancelled (even in Ivy League institutions) the idea (and the grade) of 'failure', forbidding the teacher to express his or her right of assessment. h) Teaching evaluations can be also a source of manipulation in consequence of the perverse mechanism of the"University average", usually showed at the end of each skill evaluated. The university average includes all ranks and all courses taught and evaluated. Evaluations scores (modelled on the military ones) are expressed in a scale of 5. Where 1 means 'poor', and 5 'excellent'. Suppose that our university average on a given item is 4. This means in practice that whatever you get below 4 is automatically (though tacitly) considered by your global performance evaluation team (and by your supervisors) "below average", and therefore "inadequate". Once the "University average" mechanism is established, everything between 1 and 4 becomes irrelevant: you loose -- or, as they say in the industry, you are "out of standard". As it stands, the evaluation system rather than a useful diagnostic tool is a threat, another instrument of pressure that risks also to foster potential 'complicities' (not say do ut des temptations) between the student and teacher. i) When a system which communicates and produces knowledge tends to transform itself into a company, accepting its challenges and its mentality, our freedom as teachers and researchers is in danger. And it is not 'just' a question of freedom: an archaic industry mentality is incompatible with the typical quality control processes used to review the relevance of scientific research. Here is helpful to tell a personal experience. During my stay at MTU I was assigned to take care of an internal survey on our PhD programme (Rhetoric and Technical Communication). The survey was realised to provide fresh information to an external 'evaluation team' paid by the same department. The practice is quite common in the US, where University programmes and departments are promoted and advertised in a marketing style. The evaluation process, to which I participated as 'team assistant' and campus tour guide, is similar to the company job interviews system where the scheduling provides meetings (both formal and informal) from 8 am to 8 pm. Every minute is carefully organised and planned, and the 'subject' cannot be left alone an instant. The 'treatment' is undoubtedly impressive, both for its efficiency and professionalism. At the same time, the control over the team is all pervasive. Every source of information is accessed (and filtered) through university bodies or 'employers'. This complex procedure develops in an atmosphere of mutual trust and reliance, where both parties feel confident of the information given and provided. At this the point the exhausted team, after dozens of lunches, dinners, meetings, etc. can go back home with a bunch of data (two hundred pages survey) to read and verify. All the features and questions of the survey were decided entirely by departmental staff. At that moment I was in charge to e-mail collect the questionnaires from staff and postgraduate students and draw up graphs and bar charts showing the 'audience' feedback. I was concerned with the effectiveness of the survey preparation, and when I tried to avoid the task pleading my insufficient training in administrative matters, I clashed with the Head of Department. Later in the week (believe it or not) I became ill, and the survey was completed directly by the Head of Department and the Director of the Graduate Studies. To get the questionnaires for the external review survey my personal e-mail account was entered by the system administrator with the authorization of the Head of Department, but without niether consulting or informing me. The lesson of this story (apart from the account-breaking episode, quickly buried by campus authorities) was very clear: when a humanities department needs set up marketing strategies to survive, advertising and propaganda become vital. l) Coming to the last and perhaps most disturbing point, from what I noticed above it follows that PhD and Master students are more and more selected not according to their academic performances, but to their work flexibility and resistance. Of all deformations this is by far the most dangerous, as it casts together the notion of paid worker with that of researcher, eliminating the independence of the second, and destroying the rights of the first one. FUNCTION AND KNOWLEDGE All the phenomena described are intertwined, forming a fuse for an explosive mix. In 1915 John Dewey discussed similar problems when arguing with David Snedden about the difference/opposition between education and "trade-training". Today applying naive business criteria to research and teaching may lead to debase the very character of education, which is --still-- erroneously identified with the "acquisition of specialised skill" (Dewey) rather than an articulate, long-term process of learning. We risk allowing an unjustified equivalence to take root in the in the collective sub-conscious. The equivalence, certainly aberrant, between function and knowledge. Function here means: efficiency, performance, functionality, and marketability of the product.Who is affected by this process? The "improductive" humanities department, of course. But not just them: *dopo gli anelli deboli verranno gli anelli forti* [the strong links of the chain will be affected after the weak ones]. We are facing a global crisis of educational systems, and in tackling this we are coming to a crucial bifurcation. Two forces are facing each other in the field, and both are a reflection of fragile economic, historical, and cultural balances which are slowly becoming manifest: a prevalently market-oriented model, represented by the North American system (and its more or less tempered clones), and a heterogeneous European system, whose model does not yet exist but which it is urgent to invent. The watershed question is still whether or not, and to what extent the State has to mantain a prominent (public) financial and political role in orienting research and education. Personally, I see a potential conflict between these two systems; a conflict which is at the same time dangerous and inevitable, and which we would not hesitate to define a clash between cultures. There is no point in avoiding or denying this conflict, since it will decide the future quality of our life. The troubles of the Italian university system do not prove the virtues of the other systems. It is fair to discuss these problems, but we must bear in mind that we are facing a global crisis of educational models, which goes back to the industrial reorganisation process carried out in the past twenty years by many Western governments. This started out as a restructuration of the economy and was followed by a shift in our way of thinking which replaced a paradigm of social advance with one of economical progress. (The day after Berlusconi's election Alberto Cavallari, recalling Tocqueville, wrote on La Repubblica: "We are approaching a world where men will be ruled by their interests, and not by values.) [...] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte University of Edinburgh, Department of Italian David Hume Tower, George Square EH8 9JX -- United Kingdom Fax: 131-650-6536 E-mail: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk or mc9809@mclink.it <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/digitalv.htm">http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/digitalv.htm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Lou Burnard <talc98@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Teaching and Language Corpora: First Call for Participation Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:54:04 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 733 (733) [ Please post: apologies for any duplication ] T A L C 98 Teaching And Language Corpora 1998 Keble College, Oxford, 24 - 27 July 1998 Call for Proposals The use of large computer-held corpora of real language, no longer novel in linguistic research, is increasingly a focus of attention for language teachers. Experiments in data driven learning and corpus-based methods are beginning to bear fruit in a wide range of language teaching environments. This international conference will bring together practitioners and theorists with a common interest in the usability of corpus data for such purposes as: * language teaching and learning * student-centred learning and investigation * cross-linguistic comparison * cultural and historical studies Following the highly successful TALC94 and TALC96 conferences at Lancaster University, TALC98 invites proposals for position papers, reports of work in progress, case-histories of successful corpus applications, and introductions to relevant new resources. In addition, we welcome proposals for introductory tutorials or technical workshops. Suitable topics include (but are not limited to) 1. software for corpus based language and linguistics learning 2. design and implementation of corpora for teaching purposes. 3. development and evaluation of corpus based teaching and learning materials Further details are available from the conference web site: <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98/">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98/</a> Timetable Abstracts (500 - 1000 words) should be submitted to arrive before 1 March 1998. Workshop Proposals should be submitted to arrive before 1 February 1998. All proposals will be reviewed. Authors of those accepted for inclusion will be notified by 15 March 1998. The programme will be finalised during April 1998. Full papers (up to 5000 words) must be received by 15 May for inclusion in the conference pre-print volume. The conference will run from lunchtime on Friday 24 July to lunchtime on Monday July 27th, with a single strand of presentations. There will be a book and software exhibit in parallel. Venue Keble College is located in the heart of Oxford, one of the most beautiful University cities in Europe, which is easily accessible by road, rail, or air from most major cities. All delegates will be accomodated in modern fully-equipped study-bedrooms within a few minutes walk of the conference centre and all facilities. Organizing Committee Guy Aston (Bologna); Geoff Barnbrook (Birmingham); Lou Burnard (HCU); Mike Fraser (CTI Centre for Textual Studies); Michael Hoey (Liverpool); Bernhard Kettermann (Graz); Tony McEnery (Lancaster); June Thompson (CTI Centre for Languages); Chris Tribble (Warsaw); Claire Warwick (Oxford). How to submit a proposal Proposals for papers should include the following * Authors full name and affiliation * Title of proposal * Contact details (Email, URL, phone, fax, postal) * 500 to 1000 words description of the proposed presentation The conference email address is: talc98@oucs.ox.ac.uk. For further information about submitting proposals, please see <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98/proposals.html">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98/proposals.html</a> From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: "CULTURE OF INTERACTIVITY" Conference Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 10:00:41 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 734 (734) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 8, 1997 VISUAL ARTS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES: THE CULTURE OF INTERACTIVITY January 17-18 <<a href="http://www.interactive-culture.org/home.html">http://www.interactive-culture.org/home.html</a>> The Culture of Interactivity is a four-panel, two-day conference to be held January 17-18 at Rockefeller University, 1780 York Avenue, New York City. Cost: $125 before Dec 18 "With four sessions in two days, (Origins, Metaphors, Spaces and Changes) each one is structured differently--designed to best serve the topic at hand and encourage interaction between audience and presenters. ORIGINS OF COMPUTER INTERACTIVITY In a traditional panel format we'll delve into the history of computer interactivity and address basic philosophical questions. METAPHORS OF INTERACTIVITY Next, through demonstrations of software and interfaces, we'll probe common and uncommon metaphors. NEW SOCIAL SPACES the third session, where the audience, divided into groups, probes the claims for new social spaces in a networked experiment. CULTURAL CHANGE, DEMOCRACY & POLITICS Finally, a solo speaker sums up and looks at the climate for change, democracy's place, the future with active audience response. The Culture of Interactivity starts a process -- building a community, exploringdifferent directions in a critical yet creativeatmosphere aiming to transform the waywe interrelate through the computer. We welcome your interaction: Visit SPACES at any time and post suggestions. As presenters for ORIGINS and METAPHORS post their contributions beginning in early November, we invite you to ask questions and comment on what you read, see, and hear there. The contribution for CHANGES will appear later. We'll let you know when, in our NEWS section, along with other interactions planned for our site.: Speakers Include: Elliot Anderson: Artist working with interactive technologies, curator, educator, and software engineer. WILLIAM ASPRAY: Historian of science, author or editor of a number of books and dozens of articles, Director, Computing Research Association, Washington, D.C. His books include John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing and A History of the Information Machine, co-authored with Martin Campell-Kelly. WOLFGANG COY: Professor of Computer Science and head of the Computers in Education and Society Program in the Dept. of Computer Science, Humboldt University, Berlin. He has written several books and numerous articles dealing with computers, digital media, and the social and cultural issues around both. MARVIN DENICOFF: Director of the Information Sciences Program of the Office of Naval Research from 1962 to 1983, where he was a pioneer in funding major university research programs in robotics, computer graphics, and AI, among other areas. He was a co-founder of Thinking Machines Corp. and is a Principal Research Associate of MIT's Media Lab. Denicoff is also a published short story writer and a playwright. MONIKA FLEISCHMANN: Artist, head of MARS (Media Arts Research Studies program) at the GMD (German National Research Center for Information Technology) near Bonn, Germany. ALAN J. FRIEDMAN, Ph.D. (Physics): Director of the New York Hall of Science, New York City's science and technology museum. He is co-author of Einstein as Myth and Muse (Cambridge University Press, 1985). Dr. Friedman received the 1996 Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. STEVE GANO: Veteran computer interface designer, with a background including Atari Lab, Apple Multimedia Lab, and Kaleida. Now head of Modular Arts, San Francisco. MICHAEL JOYCE: author; pioneer noted for his hypertext fiction, including Afternoon, A Story; and educator. PAUL PANGARO: Computer consultant, researcher with concentration in cybernetics, and software developer. His client list includes Xerox, Lotus, NYNEX, AT&T, and NOVA WGBH-TV, Boston. SARA ROBERTS: Artist exhibiting electronic installations internationally, teacher, and Director, Graduate Program in Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts. PAT SABOSIK: Long career in publishing, both paper and electronic, including the American Library Association, Booklink, America Online, and now with Elsevier Science Inc. Allen Sears: Program Manager, Information Technology Office, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). GARY W. STRONG: Program Director, Interactive and Intermedia Technologies Program, National Science Foundation, and Coordinator for the NSF on the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Computing, Information, and Communication. CHARLES TRAUB: Educator, founder and chair, MFA Photography and Related Media Program, School of Visual Arts, New York. HEINZ VON FOERSTER: scientist and humanist, whose work in physics, biology, math, computer science, cybernetics, and the humanities defies easy categorization. His contributions as academic, researcher, writer, and public lecturer span more than five decades. GRAHAME WEINBREN: Artist known for his pioneering work in interactive installations. Also an educator and active professional in film. All speakers and arrangements subject to change without notice. Origins | Metaphors | Spaces | Changes From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: ArtSci98 Symposium.... Roger Malina keynote speaker Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:19:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 735 (735) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 8, 1997 A r t S c i 9 8: SEEDING COLLABORATION Cooper Union, New York City April 4-5, 1998 <<a href="http://www.asci.org/ArtSci98">http://www.asci.org/ArtSci98</a>> Below is another in the recent flurry of announcements of conferences next year on the inter-relations between the arts and sciences. This conference, ArtSci98, taking place next April, is the latest in a series of conferences organized by the Art & Science Collaborative, based in New York. Also occurring around the same time is "circuits@nys" <<a href="http://www.circuitsnys.org/">http://www.circuitsnys.org/</a>>, an arts and technology conference organized by the NYS Council on the Arts next March.<a href="http://www.circuitsnys.org/">http://www.circuitsnys.org/</a>. To keep these conferences straight, check NINCH's Community Calendar page regularly <<a href="http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html">http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html</a>> David Green ============================================ Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) and The Extended Studies Program at The Cooper Union invite you to: A Public Symposium...... <<<A r t S c i 9 8: SEEDING COLLABORATION>>> (Panel discussions & visual presentations) Sat. April 4th & Sun. April 5th 10am - 6pm each day The Great Hall at Cooper Union, New York City (huge discount for Pre-Registration) Full Details: <a href="http://www.asci.org/ArtSci98">http://www.asci.org/ArtSci98</a> Cynthia Pannucci/ ASCI: 718 816-9796 asci@asci.org Cooper Union: 212 353-4195 Registration ========================================= INTRO: Technology: it's the social, political, and economic buzzword of our time. But what about the creativity of the minds working at the forefront of "pure science" that underlies it all? And how is their discovery and innovation effecting contemporary art and aesthetic thought? This is the theme of ArtSci98, a two-day symposium to be held in the Great Hall at Cooper Union on April 4 & 5, 1998. There, 40 of our nation's most curious minds: research scientists, artists, educators, writers, and science and technology professionals, will present their work in relation to issues of discovery, creativity, innovation, invention, and current career challenges. The goals of Art/Sci'98 are to dispel misconceptions, confirm suspicions about the advantages of multi-disciplinary learning, and take an affirmative step in the direction of narrowing the personal and professional schisms between scientists and artists and the general public. This event is SPONSORED BY: Discover Magazine and Leonardo Journal; with additional support from AT&T. The special web-segment created for ArtSci98 was donated by Roy Harrison and includes: Program, Topic Premises, Short Bios, Registration Info, Hotel info, and info. about producers and sponsors. ================================================== KEYNOTES: Agnes Denes...... pioneer environmental artist; 1997 Prix de Rome Roger Malina...... astro-physicist & Editor of Leonardo Journal PANEL FORMAT: (75min. each) - Introduction of each panelist (1min.) by moderator - Each panelist talks about & shows (A/V) the conceptual framework of their current career challenge (5min.) - Followed by a moderated discussion of specific panel topic (30min.) - Questions & Answers from the audience (15-20min.) EACH PANEL CONSISTS OF: a scientist, artist, educator/ theorist/ or writer, science or technology industry representative, and moderator. PANEL TOPICS I. Creativity - its meaning and function in science and art. II. The Transformative Functions of Science & Art III. The Dialectics (Cybernetics?) of Art and Science IV. The Artist and Scientist in Society V. Technology & Creativity VI. Problem Solvers & Mythmakers VII. Science in Art, Art in Science: Influence and Integration VIII. Literal & Actual Collaborations LOUNGE/ GREEN ROOM: Comfortable furniture with coffee tables to provide a quiet, thoughtful place for participants and speakers to meet one another informally. Lite food and beverages will be available for sale. For between panels and during the lunch-break, especially if it rains. ((((SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY)))) CD-ROM GALLERY/ SPONSORS ROOM: Just before you enter the Great Hall, there is a gallery area for Sponsor booths/ info tables /displays. Also, situated along one wall, 4-5 computer stations will showcase some of today's hottest art and/or science CD-ROMs. (((SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY))) SCIENCE AREAS: -materials science -computer & math science -sound -astro-physics -bio-technology -geo-science -digital imaging -science fiction =============================================== PANELIST LIST: (short bios are on the ArtSci98 web-segment) ROBERT ATKINS -Editor in Chief of the Arts Technology Entertainment Network, writer/ critic MIKE BATES -Director Academic & Institutional Relations for Yamaha Corporation GREG BLONDER -physicist, Director of the Customer Expectations Lab at AT&T RED BURNS -educator, Director of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program AGNES DENES -environmental artist, REO Conference commission ASHOK DHINGRA -a chief materials scientist at Dupont specializing in natural systems MICHELE OKA DONER -grows materials for her public sculpture via ocean accretion GREER GILMAN -author of award-winning science fantasy novel, Moonwise. CYNTHIA GOODMAN -curator and organizer of international exhibitions on art & technology RONALD GRAHAM -Director of Research at AT&T Labs, mathematician & juggler ROBERT GREENBERG -leading innovator in use of computers for movie special effects JAN HAWKINS -Director of the Center for Children & Technology, NYC ROXANNE HILTZ -Professor & author; first to conceptualize and study "online communities" CHUCK HOBERMAN -sculptor and designer of "unfolding structures" DON IHDE -one of the pioneers in the North American philosophy of technology CHIRSTOPHER JANNEY -creates interactive sound environments for public spaces DAVID KATZIVE -President of the Visual Technology Group for Ruder Finn, NYC BILLY KLUVER -co-founder E.A.T.(Experiments in Art and Technology), editor & producer KEN KNOWLTON -former Bell Labs scientist, the "father of use of computers in animation" JEAN Le MEE -professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at The Cooper Union MARY LUCIER-internationally renown pioneer of the video installation genre ROGER MALINA -astro-physicist and Editor of LEONARDO Journal CARL MACHOVER -world-wide lecturer & consultant on computer graphics, editor TOD MACHOVER -composer, hyper-instrument designer and professor at M.I.T. PAULINE OLIVEROS -composer, musician, educator, pioneer in electronic music DORIS SCHATT-SCHNEIDER -mathematics & author of book on the work of M.C. Escher NADRIAN SEEMAN -the originator of the field of DNA nanotechnology DOREE SELIGMANN -3-D virtual environments & web projects for Lucent Technologies STEPHEN SOREFF -conceptual artist and author of AGAR (www.asci.org)... (click "future" icon) LINDA STONE -The Director of Microsoft Research's Virtual Worlds Group HELEN THORINGTON -writer/composer, Director: Turbulence website & New American Radio MURRAY TUROFF -Co-author, The Network Nation; design of electronic-based social systems TYLER VOLK -professor geo-physics, NYU; author, Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth GEORGE WHITESIDES -professor chemistry Harvard; research in chemistry, physics, biology CARL ZIMMER -Sr. Science Editor at Discover Magazine, and author of At the Water's Edge ============================== PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD..... please forward this message to your mailing list around the world! Thank-you. Cynthia Pannucci Founder/Director Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) 718 816-9796; pannucci@asci.org PO Box 358, Staten Island, NY 10301 URL: <a href="http://www.asci.org">http://www.asci.org</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: seductive power of evidence Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 20:57:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 736 (736) Francois, It's a joy to know that what one writes will be subjected to imaginative scrutiny, read and reread like a lover's missive, or a poet's poem. All that I thought I meant when I contributed that anecdote about the hybristic young scholar with masses of evidence was how seductive they can be. I've spend some years pouring with scrupulous care (I hope) over a large body of evidence, and hold as personal heroes those who have done the same or better with more, but I do wonder about what skills we are beginning badly to need as the evidence mounts up. I wonder, for example, if anyone has done a study, informal or otherwise, on the kinds of arguments we are now tending to get in ancient Greek studies from those who have used the TLG, or those in English from users of the Full-Text Poetry Database, or those in Dante studies from beneficiaries of the Dartmouth Dante Database, and so forth. Are there whole sections of the countryside devastated from the hybristic exploits of mad tank-driving scholars? Even if not, it seems to me that those of us fortunate enough to be teaching humanities computing require a component in our courses that teaches students how to deal with evidence. Not that this is uniquely a problem in computer-assisted applications, but it is brought to the fore by the evidence vending machine. Northrop Frye used to say that with enough prose one could link any statement with any other statement. With enough evidence at hand, I'm thinking, one can get away with less specious reasoning by substituting a few footnotes fat with references to this or that database. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Licensing Workshop; NFAIS "Rights & Responsibilities" Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 15:20:40 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 737 (737) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 9, 1997 Two separate copyright announcements: 1. A White Paper from the National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services on "The Rights & Responsibilities of Content Creators, Providors and Users." This association of database producers has drafted this white paper not in specific reaction to the European Database Directive but in the context of that directive and current US copyright and database protection legislation. Comments are invited. 2. A UK Workshop on Digital Licensing Models between Libraries & Publishers. This, interestingly, cites a model licence between UK Universities and Publishers recently proposed by a Joint Information Systems Committee/Publishers Association (JISC/PA) working group as well as a report on copyright clearance and digitisation in UK Higher Education for a JISC/PA Working Party on Clearance Mechanisms. See <<a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/pa/">http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/pa/</a>> for information on these JISC/PA Working Group papers and reports. David Green ************************** 1. THE RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES OF CONTENT CREATORS, PROVIDERS, AND USERS National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services A White Paper December 9, 1997 <<a href="http://www.pa.utulsa.edu/nfais/whitepaper.html">http://www.pa.utulsa.edu/nfais/whitepaper.html</a>> Introduction Though the electronic dissemination of scholarly information -- encouraged by rapidly developing networking technology -- offers great promise, it has also created a great challenge for authors, publishers, and users of scientific, technical, medical and other research-based information. The difficulties are demonstrated by recent, and often abortive, efforts of legislative bodies, international agencies, and various groups to agree to a set of rules that should govern the use and reuse of scholarly information in an electronic environment. Most groups today agree that the challenge is inherently one of balancing the rights of those who have invested in making scholarly content available in a useful form with the rights of those who need to make use of the content. It is only by resolving the conflicts that have arisen between creators and users that we will be able to, as a society, develop sound rules for electronic information use and reuse. The National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services (NFAIS) is an organization of approximately 60 of the world's leading producers of both printed reference works and databases of electronic information in the sciences and the arts. NFAIS has been involved in the electronic distribution of information since the deployment of mainframe commercial computers in the 1960s. NFAIS continuously monitors worldwide technological developments that could have an impact on authors, publishers, distributors, and users of information, and therefore has taken a great interest in the recent debates, proposed legislation, treaty talks, and other initiatives regarding the development of a legal infrastructure that supports the exchange of electronic information. We as database producers maintain that: databases require large investments of time, money, and intellectual effort to produce and keep updated; they are increasingly vulnerable to copying; existing law is inadequate to protect them; and legislation can be crafted so as to provide legal protection without harming legitimate interests of users. This White Paper was developed over a three-year period by the NFAIS Information Policy & Copyright Committee (Bonnie Lawlor and Jim Walsh, Co-Chairs) and Dick Kaser, NFAIS Executive Director. It was approved for distribution by the NFAIS Board of Directors in November 1997. Readers are encouraged to freely distribute copies of this White Paper to others. NFAIS agrees with the findings of the U.S. Copyright Office in August 1997, that the basic principles are these * Databases are vulnerable to copying, and adequate incentives are needed to ensure their continued creation; * Individual facts should not be subject to private ownership; * Anyone should be free to obtain facts independently from original sources, even after they have been incorporated into a database; * U.S. government databases should not be protected; * It is important not to harm science, research, education, and news reporting; * "Free riding" in the form of substantial copying for commercial, competitive purposes should not be permitted. We are aware that there is a debate among various segments of the community. Therefore, in the spirit of promoting the development of a consensus on the issues related to electronic commerce and scholarly research, NFAIS offers this white paper on the subject of the rights and responsibilities of information creators, information providers, and information users, in general. It is our suggestion that these basic rights and responsibilities transcend the medium of expression or transmission and apply equally to traditional media as well as new electronic channels. It is our hope that by calling to public attention these basic issues that affect the use and reuse of information in general that we might be able to reach consensus on the larger issues that affect electronic information use and reuse in particular. For this reason, we invite open debate and public comment on this document. See <<a href="http://www.pa.utulsa.edu/nfais/whitepaper.html">http://www.pa.utulsa.edu/nfais/whitepaper.html</a>> for Rights & Responsibilities of Authors,Publishers, Distributors and Users Please send your comments to: The National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services (NFAIS) 1518 Walnut St., Suite 307 Philadelphia, PA 19102 U.S.A. : 215/893-1564 Phone: 215/893-1561 e-mail: nfais@nfais.org ************************** 2. The OPEN UNIVERSITY Library, Project Edbank - part of the eLib programme and the OU Rights Department in association with SCONUL prsent: NEGOTIATING ELECTRONIC COPYRIGHT PERMISSIONS: exploring the issues and considering the alternatives Tuesday January 20th 1998 Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK Price: £80.00 to include lunch and refreshments The objectives for this day are to: * identify the issues for institutions seeking to create electronic resources in the context of the legislative environment and organisational needs * examine alternative approaches with case studies from other industries/sectors * highlight the importance of developing an institutional process for licence negotiation, administration and review * foster an understanding of copyright as a working tool involving commercial transactions * engage participants in a review of licence terms and conditions Intended audience: * policy makers at institutions reviewing the implications of the electronic library * librarians and other institutional staff engaged in the process of negotiating copyright permissions for electronic resources Numbers will be limited BACKGROUND TO THE DAY The advent of the electronic library and an increasing demand for services delivered to the "desktop" has been accompanied by a need to approach publishers and other rights owners for permission to create electronic resources. This applies equally to journal contents pages (for current awareness), whole journal articles, images, illustrative materials, books and book chapters, newspaper articles and out of print materials. Publishers are trying to meet these new demands from libraries while maintaining the financial viability of their activities for the future. The model licence between UK Universities and Publishers recently proposed by a JISC/PA Working Party is an attempt to improve mutual understanding of copyright issues and produce workable solutions to satisfy both publishers and university requirements. Bide, Oppenheim and Ramsden have reported on copyright clearance and digitisation in UK Higher Education for a JISC/PA Working Party on Clearance Mechanisms. They concluded that the issue of pricing for digital use "can only benefit from further open discussions.... and that mutually acceptable models of pricing should not be beyond us." Even more recently, the Dutch scientific librarians together with a large number of German university libraries have decided to take a joint stand in their negotiations with publishers. PROGRAMME 10.00 - 10.15 Coffee and registration 10.15 - 10.30 Welcome and introduction Charles Oppenheim, International Institute for Electronic Library Research 10.30 - 11.00 Considerations in rights licensing Richard McCracken, OU Rights Department 11.00 - 11.30 Licensing Principles Adopted by Dutch and German Libraries Hans Geleijnse, Librarian, Tilburg University 11.30 - 11.45 Discussion 11.45 - 12.45 Workshop 1: Terms for the licence 12.45 - 1.30 Lunch 1.30 - 2.00 Report back from rapporteurs 2.00 - 3.00 Alternative Licensing Models Gavin Robertson, New Technologies Schemes Manager, MCPS Kevin Stewart, Senior Contracts Manager, Hodder Headline (to be confirmed) 3.00 - 3.15 Discussion 3.15 - 3.30 Tea 3.30 - 4.15 Workshop 2: Negotiation/Terms for the licence contd 4.15 - 4.30 Round up and conclusions 4.30 Workshop close REGISTRATION Including lunch and all refreshments Stlg 80.00 FURTHER INFORMATION Please contact: Mary Hunt Jennie Lee Library The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Tel: 01908 652672 Fax: 01908 653571 Email: m.e.hunt@open.ac.uk BOOKING FORM Negotiating Electronic Copyright Permissions Milton Keynes, Tuesday January 20th 1998 Surname: ......................................(Dr/Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms) First name: ..................................... Name for delegate badge: ................................................ Organisation: .................................................................. Address: ........................................................................ From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Getty Trust--World Bank Partnership Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:00:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 738 (738) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 9, 1997 An intriguing and powerful alliance was recently announced by the Getty Trust and the World Bank to work together to "support access to, conservation of, and education about cultural heritage." It is perhaps especially interesting in the link seen between the protection and promotion of cultural heritage and the building of sustainable economic development. This relationship had been initiated earlier in specific projects and new projects will be announced. Stay tuned via the Getty Information Institute's impressively re-designed Website <www.gii.getty.edu> as well as this space. David Green ============================================================================= November 4, 1997 Contact: Sylvia Sukop, J. Paul Getty Trust (310) 440-6474 David Theis, World Bank (202) 473-1955 WORLD BANK AND GETTY TRUST PARTNER TO SUSTAIN CULTURAL HERITAGE Organizations Sign Operational Partnership Agreement at the Getty Center Los Angeles, Calif./Washington, D.C. -- The World Bank and the J. Paul Getty Trust today agreed to an operational partnership to sustain cultural heritage in developing countries--to support access to, conservation of, and education about cultural heritage. The agreement was co-signed November 4, 1997 at the Getty Center in Los Angeles by James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, and Harold M. Williams, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. It reflects a growing focus by the Bank in the cultural field and increasing efforts with a number of institutions to integrate cultural heritage as a force in promoting sustainable development; for the Getty, it continues a longstanding commitment to forging broad alliances on a global scale--in conservation, education, scholarship, information technology, and museology. "In every country I have visited," said World Bank President Wolfensohn, "I have seen the importance of a sense of history and a link to the past. For real development to occur, it should be grounded in the culture of the people--drawing strength from their history. I am proud that the Bank and the Getty can help people preserve and pass on their heritage." "We have always worked in close collaboration with other organizations around the world," said Getty Trust President Williams. "Now, by combining the experience and resources of our two organizations, the Getty-World Bank partnership will generate needed attention and support for some of the most important cultural heritage sites that are at risk." The Bank and the Getty Trust will strengthen their activities related to cultural heritage by working together to: * Identify specific operations and projects where the Bank and the Getty can collaborate to protect and sustain cultural heritage--the Getty, for example, providing expertise to Bank-assisted projects; * Jointly undertake pilot projects in cultural heritage and develop a research and evaluation agenda to assess the performance of these projects; * Develop the Bank's knowledge of current international standards of conservation and documentation practices and identify potential applications of Getty expertise; * Mobilize financial and institutional resources for these objectives. In addition to these actions, the World Bank and Getty Trust will engage in staff exchanges to increase awareness of the methods, resources, and operational practices of the partner organization. The relationship between the World Bank and the Getty Trust is not entirely new. Prior to 1997, the organizations had already engaged in two cultural heritage projects, one in Djenne, Mali, and another in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Getty Conservation Institute assisted in the design of the preservation strategy and project implementation for a new $55.5 million urban development project in Mali. Approved by the Bank's board in December, 1996, the project includes a $12.1 million component to preserve cultural sites in the towns of Djenne and Timbuktu. It provides infrastructure, technical assistance, and training to 10 local governments, and preservation of historic sites covering a five-year investment program. Other initiatives now underway, such as the Buenos Aires Exhibition and Project Partnership, and an ambitious, five-country Mundo Maya project, led to today's agreement on a formal partnership between the Bank and the Getty with a commitment to cultural heritage and sustainable development and a clear vision of the vital role both play for present and future generations. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: December 10th Project Gutenberg Newsletter Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 12:49:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 739 (739) [deleted quotation] ***The Project Gutenberg Newsletter for December 10, 1997** Some of you may receive this a day later due to shifts in a major listserver of ours, details are appended below. CONTENTS: Shakespeare Portuguese Etext Team Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine Site of the Month For December: A new release of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare; which brings us to Etext #1137. This brings us to 10 times as many files as we had available just 4 years ago today. As you may be aware, December 10th has been important to us in the past, as we posted our 100th Etext on December 10th, 1993--just four years ago. As promised, we are releasing a version of this as independent files, so you no longer have to download the Complete Works of Shakespeare to get any of the particular plays or poems you may wish to use. We need Shakespeare volunteers to scan or type and proof Two Noble Kinsmen and Cardenio, dubious Shakespeare texts. Please contact: Dianne Bean <beandp@primenet.com>. * Please put us on your holiday gift list. . .last year about this time was the first month we ever received more than we spent on running Project Gutenberg; details appended below. It would be nice if we could manage this for two months for 1998, and we will hopefully continue to gain publicity from the major media that will encourage volunteers & donations. * We need xeroxes of the title page [both sides] of the Oxford Book of English Verse [pre-1923 edition]. * Would those interested in Edgar Allen Poe let me know. The files are mostly ready for final proofreading. * In general, those of you who have worried about sending big amounts of email or snail mail, or being too demanding on a few of us, now is the time to send in xeroxes, questions or some other items you were worried might take too much time, effort, etc., on the parts of our volunteers or myself. The holidays are traditionally a period when we do huge amounts of work, and the computers are very fast because others are off on vacations. We are also working on a new high bandwidth listserver: we have crashed the prairienet listserver several times. This is often because people do not notify the listservers of an email address change, and the number of error messages that come back is too great for the mailer to handle. Please do unsubscribe and resubscribe when moving, even if your gurus tell you this is not necessary. . .it often is. A list the size of 10,000 will often generate 500 error messages which have wreaked havoc on prairienet.org, so we are moving to a more robust server, as detailed at the end of this message. * Our Portuguese Team is forming up, and anyone interested in doing Etexts or sites in Portuguese or in translation is an extremely welcome addition. Please contact Lucia Segovia: <lsegovia@mail.telepac.pt> about Etexts in Portuguese: and Marco Campos <mcampos@esoterica.pt> about forming sites. * "Yahoo Internet Life" magazine has chosen Project Gutenberg as their "Site of the Month" for January, 1998, in an issue dedicated to the "Top of the Net." This issue should reach the newsstands this week and my advance copy is interesting in the extreme. I would suggest taking a look at the whole thing, and possibly at our article with is the middle at pp 68-69. Somehow I think our press is getting better, and it may yet help us keep afloat. "In the galaxy of Website awards we offer our five stars just 12 times a year. Here's this month's in-depth look at a Web site or service that is truly distinctive. . ." Also: As of today, TopTenLinks ranked your web site as one of the top ten web sites on the Internet! Your ranking can be found at TopTenLinks located at: www.toptenlinks.com * I have returned from my month of hobnobbing, with my fellow wizards on the West Coast and have made numbers of contacts that should someday provide some help in nearly all areas I think we need help: financial, incorporation, more Etexts, and more computers and scanners. I will be following up on these contacts in the year[s] to come, and hopefully make a variety of new contacts each November to come. If you have suggestions for areas I did not include above please let me know. Oh, I also made a public relations contact that I am hoping will get us more publicity. * Now, here are the 32 November Etexts, and 17 from December-- we promised that as soon as we had 1,000 Etexts we would put out individual editions of the Shakespeare works that we had posted as a single large file as our 100th Etext, four years ago this very week, and dedicated to my father, who died the 10th of December, 1989, after helping me take one of the big steps towards getting Project Gutenberg out of this basement and into a more worldwide mode of circulation. Thanks Dad!! Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext]#### A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work. Dec 1997 A Lover's Complaint, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws44xx.xxx]1137 Dec 1997 King Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws42xx.xxx]1136 Dec 1997 Tempest, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws41xx.xxx]1135 Dec 1997 The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws40xx.xxx]1134 Dec 1997 Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws39xx.xxx]1133 Dec 1997 The Life of Timon of Athens, by Wm Shakespeare [WL][1ws37xx.xxx]1132 Dec 1997 The Tragedy of Coriolanus, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws36xx.xxx]1131 Dec 1997 Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws35xx.xxx]1130 Dec 1997 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws34xx.xxx]1129 Dec 1997 King Lear, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws32xx.xxx]1128 Dec 1997 Othello, The Moor of Venice, by Shakespeare [WL][1ws32xx.xxx]1127 Dec 1997 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws31xx.xxx]1126 Dec 1997 All's Well that End's Well, William Shakespeare[WL][1ws30xx.xxx]1125 Dec 1997 History of Troilus and Cressida, by Shakespeare[WL][1ws29xx.xxx]1124 Dec 1997 Twelfth Night; or What You Will, by Shakespeare[WL][1ws28xx.xxx]1123 Dec 1997 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by Wm Shakespeare [WL][1ws26xx.xxx]1122 Dec 1997 As You Like It, William Shakespeare [World Library][1ws25xx.xxx]1121 Nov 1997 Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare[World Library][1ws24xx.xxx]1120 Nov 1997 King Henry V, William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws23xx.xxx]1119 Nov 1997 Much Ado about Nothing, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws22xx.xxx]1118 Nov 1997 King Henry IV, Part 2, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws21xx.xxx]1117 Nov 1997 The Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare[WL][1ws20xx.xxx]1116 Nov 1997 King Henry IV Part 1, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws19xx.xxx]1115 Nov 1997 The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws18xx.xxx]1114 Nov 1997 A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws17xx.xxx]1113 Nov 1997 Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws16xx.xxx]1112 Nov 1997 King Richard II, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws15xx.xxx]1111 Nov 1997 King John, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws14xx.xxx]1110 Nov 1997 Love's Labour's Lost, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws12xx.xxx]1109 Nov 1997 Two Gentlemen of Verona, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws11xx.xxx]1108 Nov 1997 The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws10xx.xxx]1107 Nov 1997 Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws09xx.xxx]1106 Nov 1997 The Shakespearian Sonnets, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws07xx.xxx]1105 Nov 1997 The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws06xx.xxx]1104 Nov 1997 King Richard III, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws04xx.xxx]1103 Nov 1997 King Henry VI, Part 3, William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws03xx.xxx]1102 Nov 1997 King Henry VI, Part 2, William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws02xx.xxx]1101 Nov 1997 King Henry VI, Part 1, William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws01xx.xxx]1100 Nov 1997 The Riverman, by Stewart Edward White [rvrmnxx.xxx]1099 Nov 1997 The Turmoil, A novel, by Booth Tarkington [BT#5] [turmoxx.xxx]1098 Nov 1997 Mrs. Warren's Profession, by G. B. Shaw [Shaw #4] [wrproxx.xxx]1097 * Nov 1997 The Story of Jees Uck, by Jack London [London #34] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096 Nov 1997 Batard, by Jack London [Jack London's Etext #33] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096 Nov 1997 The Marriage of Lit-lit, by Jack London[London #32][fthmnxx.xxx]1096 Nov 1997 The One Thousand Dozen, by Jack London [London #31][fthmnxx.xxx]1096 Nov 1997 Too Much Gold, by Jack London [London #30] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096 Nov 1997 The Faith of Men, by Jack London [London #29] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096 Nov 1997 A Hyperborean Brew, by Jack London [London #28] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096 Nov 1997 A Relic of the Pliocene, by Jack London[London #27][fthmnxx.xxx]1096 * Not sure how we are going to index a collection and member of the collection, when both have the same name. Suggestions? * Nov 1997 The Faith of Men, by Jack London [London #27-34] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096 Nov 1997 Light of the Western Stars, Zane Grey[Zane Grey #4][lwstrxx.xxx]1095 Nov 1997 Tamburlaine the Great PT 1, by Christopher Marlowe [tmbn1xx.xxx]1094 Nov 1997 The Beast in the Jungle, by Henry James [James #15][bstjgxx.xxx]1093 Nov 1997 The Description of Wales, by Geraldus Cambrensis [dscwlxxx.xxx]1092 Nov 1997 Heroes and Hero Worship, by Thomas Carlyle [TC#3] [herosxxx.xxx]1091 Nov 1997 Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift[#4][bstafxxx.xxx]1090 Nov 1997 Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London[#19-26][mfacexxx.xxx]1089 Nov 1997 Planchette, by Jack London [#26] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089 Nov 1997 All Gold Canyon, by Jack London [#25] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089 Nov 1997 The Shadow and the Flash, by Jack London [#24] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089 Nov 1997 The Minions of Midas, by Jack London [#23] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089 Nov 1997 Amateur Night, by Jack London [#22] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089 Nov 1997 Local Color, by Jack London [#21] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089 Nov 1997 The Leopard Man's Story, by Jack London [#20] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089 Nov 1997 Moon-Face, by Jack London [Jack London #19] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089 Here is a request for help from Donald Knuth. [Yes, THE Donald Knuth] Mies van der Rohe was famous for saying "God is in the details"; for example, his obituary in the New York Herald Tribune (1969) mentioned this. So I tried to find it in his writings; no luck. [It is of course a wonderfully apropos motto for computer scientists.] I talked to some architects, and got the following lead, supposedly quoted from a biography of Mies by Franz Schulze (U Chicago Press, 1985), footnote on page 281, although Stanford's library doesn't have that book: More details on request. * [deleted quotation]materials for Project Gutenberg--[Please note that we can only use books published before 1923. . .due to the U.S. copyright laws. . .but that we will be posting books in other countries that will be produced there, of later dates, but which are public domain in those countries.] "Had a real shocker today, although I imagine it's no surprise to you. I spent a few hours digging, only to find that the General Circulation Section of the Main Branch of the New York Public Library has no public domain books!! The closest I came was one 1924 edition of the oeuvres of some obscure Frenchman - en francais. Just out of curiosity, I checked some of the reference section as well, w/ the same result." We would like to find out where the pre-1924 editions are being kept. Thanks so much for any information you can provide. hart@pobox.com * About our efforts to run from a new listserver: There are TWO Project Gutenberg Lists. . .volunteers will also want to subscribe to the "gutvol-l" list AND the "gutnberg" list, simply by including a second line with "gutvol-l" in place of "gutnberg." [That is an "-L" after "gutvol" for the Volunteer's Listserver.] To SUBSCRIBE to the Project Gutenberg mailing list, "gutnberg" please send an email message to: listproc@listserv.oit.unc.edu The subject line of the message will be ignored. 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Michael ============================================= Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext Benedictine University, Lisle, IL 60532-0900 No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC Permanent Internet Address!!! hart@pobox.com Internet User Number 100 [approximately] [TM] One of the several "Ask Dr Internet" Sponsors Break Down the Bars of Ignorance & Illiteracy On the Carnegie Libraries' 100th Anniversary! If I don't answer in two days, please resend. It usually means I did not get/see your note. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Dan Price <dprice@union1.tui.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls? Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:21:16 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 740 (740) How about the simply announcement and where to get further info. Thanks for asking! Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, The Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 <a href="http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html">http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html</a> From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls? Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:57:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 741 (741) I have no desire to add to our esteemed editor's chores. Yet, there is no denying that lengthly calls for papers are quite annoying and a waste of bandwidth. Much of the type of info included in these calls should be on a Web page (the url accompanying the call for papers). This should be especially true for calls issued by CHum organizations. Perhaps you could put the onus for editing the lengthy call for papers upon its creator. Do you think sending a polite form letter asking for a less prolix call would do the trick? gary From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:43:35 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 742 (742) As a regular perpetrator of long boring conference announcements I'd like to apologise immediately for the editor's laziness in not cutting mine down to a mere reference to its URL (<a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98</a>, by the way) Come on Willard, get those virtual scissors out, and make sure that no-one ever reads anything that doesn't begin with "http".... Seriously, there is a need for a regular web site at which conference announcements can be found en masse. Such sites do exist in fields related to those which interest Humanist's readers (there are two excellent ones for linguists -- see <a href="http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/conf.html">http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/conf.html</a> and <a href="http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html">http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html</a>) but without the postings to general purpose lists like Humanist or Linguist I doubt whether they'd get populated. Can I also recommend to your readers the HUMBUL bulletin board (<a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul</a>) which has recently relaunched its conference diary facility. If you're organizing a conference in this field, make sure you post an announcement there too... Lou ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou</a> From: gaichele@adrian.adrian.edu Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:47:41 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 743 (743) Yes, abbreviated conference calls would be preferable. George Aichele From: Hope Greenberg <hope.greenberg@uvm.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:51:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 744 (744) [deleted quotation]than willing to consider instituting the policy. Pressing "delete" is not overly taxing but four lines and a URL would be better. - Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont, <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~hag">http://www.uvm.edu/~hag</a> From: Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0446 decorum for calls? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:23:53 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 745 (745) Willard This is in reply to your request for reactions to Tim Reuter's plea for shorter (or no) conference announcements on Humanist. I wouldn't at all like them to disappear altogether, but limiting them to about 15-20 lines for title, dates, deadlines, venue and scope shouldn't be too hard. This might encourage more of our colleagues to exploit the Web, and simply point us to a URL. Any readers unfamiliar with what the Web can do for a conference, could try looking at: WorldCALL: www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/~hlc/worldcall/program.htm or (pardon the pro domo), a site we were asked to leave up, because some colleagues who teach IT courses wanted to use it as an exemplar: web.uvic.ca/hrd/fleat3/ Peter Liddell ======================================================================== Dr. Peter Liddell, Assoc. Professor, Germanic Studies & Academic Director, Language Centre, University of Victoria, PO Box 3045, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3P4 Ph: +(250) 721 8295 or 7321 Fax:+(250) 721 7319 e-mail address: pgl@uvic.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: gleanings from Pacific Asia Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:35:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 746 (746) Dear Colleagues: By one of life's coincidences a fellow Humanist I met recently in the virtual way, Steven McCarty, has the same surname and much of the same kind of experience in moving to a new culture. In his case, the move (to Japan) was rather more radical than mine, but in any case the coincidence was sufficient to start a conversation about perspectives on humanities computing from Pacific Asia. We agreed that Humanist would benefit from occasional if not regular contributions on the topic, and he agreed to make them. So we can all look forward to these "gleanings", as I have called my own regular commentary on items from local sources. Our informal agreement certainly does not exclude others in Pacific Asia from commenting. In fact I would hope that members from various parts of the world would be moved to undertake similar projects. Since computing has begun to surface as regular news in the daily press here and in many other places, we have been given a significant opportunity to extend our scope if not influence :-)... In places where the infrastructure has not developed to the point that computing can become a public topic, I would think that observations would be equally welcome and perhaps more than equally valuable. So, please write to me if you are tempted by the prospect. Steven McCarty is full Professor, General Education, Kagawa Junior College, Japan; staff member of several electronic journals; founder of the East-West Discourse List (Hawaii); and among many other things, Web developer in Japanese and English, including the Bilingualism and Japanology Intersection, an Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library 4-star site <<a href="http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html">http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html</a>>. Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Final CFP (Special Issue of IR on Oriental Languages) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 15:36:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 747 (747) [deleted quotation] ** Final Call For Papers ** ########################################### COMPUTER PROCESSING OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES ########################################### Special Issue: "Information Retrieval on Oriental Languages" INTRODUCTION ============ The International Journal on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (CPOL) is devoted to the publication of original theoretical and applied research work in oriental language computing. In particular, this special issue focuses on the field of "Information Retrieval on Oriental Languages". The increasing volume of information available globally through the World-Wide-Web places high demands on the information search engines in terms of both speed and effectiveness. As a result, much research interest in Information Retrieval (IR) has been spurred in recent years in the direction of performance and/or effectiveness enhancement, e.g. in the areas of indexing, NLP, etc. Although the latest IR researches in English, and in other Western languages, are widely and timely publicized, the same for Oriental Languages (OL) is rare. For this reason, this special issue is dedicated to reporting the state-of-the-art and/or state-of-the- practice R&D efforts in IR technology for Oriental languages (IR-OL). Ori- ginal papers in all areas of research in this field, including, but not limited to, the following are invited: * Natural Language Processing for IR-OL * Automatic Information Extraction * Multilingual and Cross Language Text Retrieval * Automatic Text Categorization * Automatic Text Summarization (Abstraction) * Structural and Conceptual Indexing * Dictionary Management * Query Interface * Intelligent Agent Technology * Information Filtering * Resource Discovery * Logic based IR Framework * Applications in IR-OL * Benchmarking GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION ========================= Original papers which are not submitted to, under reviewed by and pub- lished or to be published in other journals or conferences in any areas of IR-OL are invited to this special issue for possible publication. The pub- lication language is ENGLISH and electronic submission is welcome. Authors should send FOUR copies of their paper to one of the following co-editors by January 2, 1998: For papers in relation to IR on Korean and Japanese: Professor Jong-Hyeok Lee Department of Computer Science and Engineering POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) San 31 Hyoja-dong Nam-ku, Pohang 790-784 Republic of Korea Email: jhlee@vision.postech.ac.kr Tel: +82 562 279 2253 Fax: +82 562 279 5699 For papers in relation to IR on Chinese and any other Oriental languages: Professor Kam-Fai Wong Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Chinese University Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong. Email: kfwong@se.cuhk.edu.hk Tel: +852 2609 8332 or +852 2609 8313 Fax: +852 2603 5505 IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission deadline (confirmed): January 2, 1998. Author Notification (confirmed): April 3, 1998. Final Version (tentative): July 7, 1998. Publication (tentative): September, 1998. -- Jong-Hyeok Lee (Associate Professor) Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering POSTECH(Pohang University of Science & Technology) San 31 Hyoja-dong Nam-ku, Pohang, 790-784 Republic of KOREA TEL: +82-(0)562-279-2253 FAX: +82-(0)562-279-5699, 2299 E-mail: jhlee@vision.postech.ac.kr URL: <a href="http://madonna.postech.ac.kr/~jhlee">http://madonna.postech.ac.kr/~jhlee</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Extended deadline: CFP - TAL Special Issue on Multilingual Processing Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:48:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 748 (748) [deleted quotation] Extended deadline: January 27, 1998. Call for Communications: Special Issue on Multilingual Processing The Journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" will publish a Special Issue on Multilingual Processing: Theme ----- Multilingual processing presents special challenges for Natural Language Processing. Most NLP research and applications concentrate on one language only and rarely deal with either low-level problems (multiple codesets, localization vs. internationalization, linguistic variants) or higher-level problems (organization of multilingual lexicons and grammars). This special issue will recognize the importance of adequate low-level processing and multilingual software organization, describe multilingual applications, and present approaches to the structuration and development of multilingual lexicons and grammars. Topics (non limitative) ------ - multilingual text processing - localization and internationalization - multilingual information retrieval and extraction - multilingual MT systems - multilingual text generation - multilingual WWW - multilingual dictionaries and terminological databases - multilingual ontologies and thesaurii - multilingual grammars and parsers Deadline for reception of submissions: January 27, 1998. -------- Format ------ Papers (30 pages max in double space, Helvetica 12) are accepted in RTF, Latex or MIF formats. Latex style is downloadable from <a href="http://ticotico.linguist.jussieu.fr/~atala/tal/normes.html">http://ticotico.linguist.jussieu.fr/~atala/tal/normes.html</a>. Papers can also be submitted in French. Papers should be submitted to (e-mail preferred): Rimi Zajac Computing Research Laboratory New Mexico State University Box 30001 / Dept. 3CRL Las Cruces NM 88003 USA Tel +1-505-646-5782 Fax +1-505-646-6218 Email zajac@crl.nmsu.edu The Journal ----------- The Journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" is published by ATALA (<a href="http://ticotico.linguist.jussieu.fr/~atala/">http://ticotico.linguist.jussieu.fr/~atala/</a>) and distributed by Klincksieck.: Editor: A. Abeilli (Universiti Paris 7) Editorial Board: J. Anis (Universiti Paris 10) D. Climent (Bergische Universitdt Wuppertal) A. Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail) C. Gardent (Universitdt des Saarlandes) R. Grunig (Universiti Paris 7) B. Habert (ENS Fontenay-Saint Cloud) C. Jacquemin (IRIN, Nantes) P. Lafon (INALF, ENS St Cloud) J-L. Lebrave (CNRS, ITEM) P. Miller (Universiti Lille III) P. Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6) Scientific Board: M. Borillo (CNRS, P. Sabatier, Toulouse) R. Carri (ENST, Paris) J-P. Desclis (Universiti Paris IV) C. Fuchs (CNRS, ENS Paris) M. Gross (LADL, Paris 7) F. Rastier (Paris 4) W. von Hahn (Univ Hambourg) Y. Wilks (Sheffield Univ) A. Zaenen (Xerox Grenoble) ------------------------------------- From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CFP Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 12:48:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 749 (749) [deleted quotation] Attached is the final call-for-paper, with a new deadline, for a special issue of Information Processing & Management. The change is in response to a number of requests for such an extension. Those people who have submitted an article are welcome to submit a revised one if necessary. ================================================================ Call for Articles (revised) A Special Issue of Information Processing & Management on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages Interest is growing in effective and efficient retrieval of relevant information from large unstructured databases. Research in information retrieval (IR) has expanded its scope widely with advances in related areas such as natural language processing, machine learning, and human-computer interactions. Especially with the explosion of information in the World Wide Web, the need for information retrieval and related functions has become ubiquitos regardless of languages and cultures. This special issue of Information Processing & Management, an international journal with a strong emphasis on information retrieval, will be devoted to research and development in information retrieval with Asian languages. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - retrieval or routing of texts at variouls levels of granularity - cross-language text retrieval - automated text categorization - infomation extraction and filtering - automatic text summarization (including automatic abstracting) - use of machine readable dictionaries and/or thesauri - language- or task-specific user interfaces for IR-related systems - various natural language processing techqniques for IR-related tasks Interested authors should submit five copies of their articles by January 31, 1998, to: Prof. Sung H. Myaeng Dept. of Computer Science Chungnam National University Yusong-ku, Taejon 305-764 Korea Phone: +82-42-821-5446 Fax: +82-42-822-9959 E-mail: shmyaeng@cs.chungnam.ac.kr <a href="http://irsun.chungnam.ac.kr">http://irsun.chungnam.ac.kr</a> - The tentative publication date is October, 1998. - Only papers not publiched elsewhere will be considered for publication. However papers already presented at a conference or workshop are acceptable only if they are additionally updated, revised, or enlarged. - Length: The final article should be about 8-10 typeset pages (approximately 20-25 typed, double-spaced, pages). - Format: Double-spaced pages preferred, but the typeset style is acceptable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0457 baths and dirt Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:58:15 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 750 (750) Dr Floyd left out the name of a great, great hydrophobe, namely James Joyce. Just to fill in his list. Of course, JAJ lived mainly in Paris, and baths were not very available in that City of (En) Light (enment) until the last few decades. Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0457 baths and dirt Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:59:36 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 751 (751) PS: Another great nonbather was Eric Satie, of whom it is told that when they came to fetch his corpse, and opened his closet, they found some hundreds of dress shirts, worn until black, never washed, but stashed in his closet. His sheets were black as black can be. Well, his music is clean and light. How strange these mortals be! Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0442 gleanings Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:44:33 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 752 (752) It is not only in literature that the accumulation of pieces of evidence seems to impress some who take bulk for quality, as if Marx's dictum, which was made into metaphysics, puerile at that, by Lenin (vide, dialectical materialism, an oxymoron if ever there was one), that quantity transforms quality ever made sense. Moses Finley's short book of the three lectures, Oxford U was it? takes up the same issue for history, and how! As I recall, he begins his lectures with the example of a recent vast tome on Alexandrian shards, tens and tens of thousands, which taken all together tell us...what? Cases do not speak, shards do not speak. It is a book well worth reading, and short and full of much wisdom. Innumerates abound among Humanists, but the computer has for us little to do with numbers, etc. Sales figures are something else, to be sure. Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0455 evidence Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:00:36 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 753 (753) And Northrop Frye knew not Alta Vista! Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Ken Litkowski <ken@clres.com> Subject: Re: 11.0457 baths and dirt Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:47:28 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 754 (754) [deleted quotation] I would highly commend the science fiction "Beggars" series by Nancy Kress for an exploration of just such a scenario. -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-926-5904 CL Research EMAIL: ken@clres.com 20239 Lea Pond Place Gaithersburg, MD 20879-1270 USA Home Page: <a href="http://www.clres.com">http://www.clres.com</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Art on Film Online Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:37:31 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 755 (755) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 11, 1997 PROGRAM FOR ART ON FILM LAUNCHES EXPANDED WEB SITE <<a href="http://www.artfilm.org">http://www.artfilm.org</a>> Includes Fully Searchable Database of More Than 25,000 Films, Videos, and New Media on the Arts Brooklyn, New York. The Program for Art on Film, Inc. today announced the launch of its newly expanded Web site, ART ON FILM ONLINE, located at <<a href="http://www.artfilm.org">http://www.artfilm.org</a>>. Art on Film Online features a fully searchable version of the Program's renowned Art on Screen Database an annotated research index to more than 25,000 films, videos, and new media on the visual arts. Subjects covered in the Database include painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, archaeology, photography, decorative arts, design, costume, and more. Access to the Database will be free during an initial introductory period. "The Program for Art on Film is pleased to offer this unique service online, making it even more accessible to arts and media professionals," says Executive Director Nadine Covert. "Art on Film Online is an important international forum for art and architecture on screen." Other new Web site features include: * Art on Screen E-News, an electronic version of the Program's Art on Screen newsletter, featuring up-to-the-minute information on international festivals and film programs, news of colleagues in the field, and reviews of new films, videos, CD-ROMs, and books. * Art & Architecture Discussion Group, an electronic forum for visual arts media professionals, including media producers, museum personnel, librarians, and educators. (Art on Film membership required.) * Web Citings, an extensive listing of Internet sites of interest to arts and media professionals, covering: film/video/media sites, art sites, artists' film/video sites, library resources, education sites, and professional societies and membership organizations. * Festival and Conference Calendars, including calendars of Art & Architecture and Archaeology events. * Other Resources, including Program for Art on Film research reports, guidelines, and articles. Support for the Program for Art on Film Web site has been provided by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. The Web site was developed and is hosted by UNET 2 Corporation, New York City. The Program for Art on Film was founded in 1984 as a joint venture between the J. Paul Getty Trust and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its mission is to foster a better understanding and appreciation of the visual arts through the effective production and use of moving-image media. An international leader in the field of visual arts media, the Program maintains the Art on Screen Database, and has published several major reference works drawn from Database research. Other Program services include workshops and seminars for educators and museum professionals, a series of short films and videos on the visual arts, and a festival of films and videos on architecture scheduled for January, 1998. In 1996, the Program was restructured as an independent non-profit, tax-exempt corporation, and relocated to Pratt Institute's Brooklyn campus, where it is affiliated with the Graduate School of Information & Library Science (SILS). States S. M. Matta, Dean of SILS, "I am delighted to have the Program for Art on Film in our School. The Program is a vivid illustration of Pratt's global leadership in the education of artists, designers, architects, and information managers." Pratt Institute educates more than 3,850 undergraduate and graduate students from around the United States and seventy foreign nations in its schools of Architecture, Art and Design, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Information and Library Sciences, and Professional Studies. The 25-acre main campus is located in the historic Clinton Hill section of Brookly, with additional classroom facilities in the landmark Puck Building in Manhattan's SoHo district. Contacts: Nadine Covert Janet Fisher, Pratt Institute Program for Art on Film Office of Public Relations (718) 399-4206 (718) 636-3471 artfilm@sils.pratt.edu jfisher@pratt.edu # # # From: Debra Steidel Wall <debra.wall@ARCH2.NARA.GOV> Subject: NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL) Evaluation Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:10:06 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 756 (756) As part of its Electronic Access Project, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is constructing a nationwide, integrated online information delivery system. The project, a priority under the agency's Stategic Plan, will eventually result in a virtual card catalog of all NARA holdings nationwide, including those in the Presidential libraries and regional archives. In addition, copies of some of NARA's most popular and significant manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, maps, drawings and other documents will be digitized and available for researchers to view online through the catalog. To complete the final functional requirements for the catalog, NARA is undertaking an evaluation of its prototype, the NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL). Everyone is invited to use NAIL and to comment on its ease of use, functionality, and terminology. NAIL can be accessed on the World Wide Web at <a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html">http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html</a>. Comments can be sent through the online comments link or by e-mail to <nail.mailbox@arch2.nara.gov>. Comments should be received by January 31, 1998. Thank you. =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to <listproc@cni.org>. From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL) Evaluation Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:09:27 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 757 (757) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 11, 1997 COMMENTS INVITED ON NATIONAL ARCHIVES' NARA ARCHIVAL INFORMATION LOCATOR (NAIL). <<a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html">http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html</a>> From: David Zeitlyn <D.Zeitlyn@ukc.ac.uk> Subject: At calendar and TOC now updated live on web Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 15:55:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 758 (758) The December 1997 Anthropology Today calendar of Events, as well as the table of contents for recent issues of Anthropology Today are now available on the web at the RAI web site. The main RAI URL is <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai">http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai</a> The calendar of events is at <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai/AnthToday/calendar.html">http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai/AnthToday/calendar.html</a> and the contents pages can be accessed via <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai/at.html">http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai/at.html</a> Readers may also be interested in the very foot of the main CSAC page <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/">http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/</a> which now has an image of great seasonal relevance Best wishes david z Dr David Zeitlyn, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of Anthropology, Eliot College, The University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NS, UK. Tel. (44) 1227 764000 -Extn 3360 (or 823360 direct) Fax (44) 1227 827289 <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/">http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/</a> From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> Subject: Blake Archive update Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:45:13 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 759 (759) The editors of the William Blake Archive -- Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi -- are pleased to announce that the main research and development phase of the project has now been completed. At the present moment, the Archive contains three copies of <cite>The Book of Thel</cite> (copies F, H, and O) and two copies of <cite>Visions of the Daughters of Albion</cite> (copies C and J); all of these works are fully searchable for both text and images, and all are supported by the unique Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our previous updates. At this point we can now move rapidly into a full-time production schedule, adding new illuminated books to the Archive without pausing to address major technical issues. Because we expect that they will be widely used in the classroom, the first books to be added -- at or near the start of the spring semester -- will be <cite>The Marriage of Heaven and Hell</cite> (copy D) and <cite>Songs of Innocence and of Experience</cite> (copy Z). Others will then follow, with the goal of making at least one copy of each of Blake's illuminated books available by summer. In addition, work continues on the SGML edition of David V. Erdman's <cite>Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake</cite>, which we anticipate releasing sometime in the spring semester. Those of you who have been following our progress over the past two years will understand that we've reached a much-anticipated milestone. Thank you for your patience and continued interest in the Blake Archive. The William Blake Archive is located at: <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/</a> Please forward this announcement as appropriate. Matthew Kirschenbaum, Project Manager The William Blake Archive Edited by Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi blake@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia, Charlottesville From: Amistad at Mystic Seaport <amistad@mysticseaport.org> Subject: exploring Amistad Web site Launched Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:04:41 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 760 (760) We are delighted to announce the launching of the "Exploring Amistad" web site. "Exploring Amistad" brings together a unique compendium of primary historical documents about the Amistad incident, provides historical context, offers resources for teachers, and provides opportunites for discussion of the incident and its legacies--and it is available now at: <<a href="http://amistad.mysticseaport.org">http://amistad.mysticseaport.org</a>>. "Exploring Amistad" will open with a LIVE, Real Audio & chat based interactive online discussion of the issues the Amistad incident first brought to the fore and their continued vibrancy for Americans today. The live webcast will be on from 6 to 8 pm EST *tonight* December 12th. The launch forum will consider the subject of the Amistad as a series of stories. From 1839 when it exploded into American consciousness, to the present day this event has held powerful meanings. Why? What about the incident made it such a spectacle in the 1830s and 40s? Why does it continue to resonate today? What can it teach us now? Panelists in this open discussion include: * Fred Dalzell, Web Site Project Director, Exploring Amistad * Mahen Bonettie, Curator of the African Film Festival at Lincoln Center * Gloria Harper Dickinson, Department of African American Studies, College of New Jersey * Quentin Snediker, Amistad Project Coordinator, Mystic Seaport (building the replica of the schooner Amistad) Our panelist's lively dialog will address hot topics surrounding the renewed interest in Amistad. Take a listen! To get the most out of the Amistad discussion forum, we advise that you visit Better Living through Radio, the host of "ExploringAmistad's" live launch before 6pm to be sure that you have the necessary software: <a href="http://www.BLTRadio.com/">http://www.BLTRadio.com/</a>. Sponsors: Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University <a href="http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/">http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/</a> Africana Studies Department at NYU <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/cas/dept/afri.htm">http://www.nyu.edu/cas/dept/afri.htm</a> Amistad America: building the freedom schooner <a href="http://www.amistadamerica.org">http://www.amistadamerica.org</a> Produced in part with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities: <a href="http://www.neh.fed.us">http://www.neh.fed.us</a> Guy S. Hermann ** guy@mysticseaport.org ** 860-572-5392 <a href="http://www.mysticseaport.org/">http://www.mysticseaport.org/</a> The Museum of America and the Sea The Museum Computer Network: <a href="http://www.mcn.edu">http://www.mcn.edu</a> From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: "EXPLORING AMISTAD" WEB SITE Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 17:19:47 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 761 (761) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 12, 1997 EXPLORING AMISTAD WEB SITE Live Opening Friday Dec 12, 6-8pm (EST) <<a href="http://amistad.mysticseaport.org">http://amistad.mysticseaport.org</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Qsums <Qsums@aol.com> Subject: Attributing Authorship (Marlowe/Shakespeare) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 11:14:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 762 (762) "Attributing Marlowe and Shakespeare" is the title of an essay by Jill Farringdon which has just been selected at the winner of the 1997 Calvin and Rose Hoffman Prize for Distinguished publication on Christopher Marlowe. The essay focuses on attributing the two playwrights by the technique of cusum analysis (Qsum). Qsum is a method for attributing utterance, both spoken and written, and fully explained in ANALYSING FOR AUTHORSHIP (University of Wales Press, 1996) of which Jill Farringdon is principal author. A simple introduction to the method, illustrated by letters of D.H. Lawrence, is available at <a href="http://members.aol.com/qsums">http://members.aol.com/qsums</a> From: Qsums <Qsums@aol.com> Subject: PS to Attributing Authorship (Marlowe/Shakespeare) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 08:58:10 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 763 (763) In message sent yesterday, I think I may have forgotten to sign it, though It may automatically get signed. However, just in case, my signature: Michael Farringdon qsums@aol.com Ariel Cottage, 8 Hadland Terrace, West Cross, Swansea SA3 5TT, Wales, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Tank Driving Scholars Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 11:09:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 764 (764) Willard, I was puzzled by your suggestion that humanities computing courses include a component on how to deal with evidence. Evidence and reasoning I assume to be staples of the humanistic enterprise and covered by the very nature of academic instruction in that tradition. After re-reading your post over the weekend, however, I decided that the term "evidence" was ambiguous in this context and that at least one (of many) definitions of evidence would support your call for instruction. [deleted quotation] "Evidence" as it is presented to undergraduate as well as graduate students does in some cases involve the use of primary source materials. It is more often the case that students use scholarly summaries of primary materials or diplomatic editions in the course of their research. Even in those cases where students have access to original source materials, it is a rather limited set of materials and not the large textual databases mentioned in your post (TLG, Dartmouth Dante Database). "Evidence" consisting primarily of prior scholarly opinion and possibly some original source material is addressed by current academic instruction. "Evidence" in the sense of the output of large textual databases as opposed to prior scholarly opinion offers different challenges to scholars. In addition to normal inquires such as the accuracy of the information contained in the database, more technical issues such as how the material was encoded, does the encoding scheme bias the results of certain queries, how representative is the material contained in the database, must be answered as well. In this sense of "evidence" I think your call for further work is well founded. [deleted quotation] Specious reasoning did not await the development of textual databases to make its appearance in humanities scholarship. To the extent that such databases are widely available and in some cases publicly accessible (Dartmouth Dante Database) the checking of cited evidence becomes easier. Certainly far easier than checking the citations of primary materials where access to those materials is restricted due to geographic location or for other reasons. Evaluation of evidence and reasoning remain the task of scholarship even if the drudgery (and uncertainty) of obtaining access to primary materials is reduced. Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Information Technology Services Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu Co-Chair, SBL Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Bradford A. Morgan" <bmorgan@silver.sdsmt.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0440 jobs Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 18:16:30 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 765 (765) Assistant Professor of Humanities Position Announcement Tenure-track position beginning Fall 1998. The normal workload is three sections of composition/technical communications and one humanities course as appropriate and assigned. The successful candidate will have 1) earned doctorate in the appropriate field, 2) proven outstanding teaching experience, 3) potential to engage in on-going scholarly activity, provide professionally based service, and serve as a student advisor in a student-centered environment. Special consideration will be given to candidates with strength in philosophy. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, a state university located in Rapid City, South Dakota, is composed of four colleges, all of which have a strong commitment to quality education in the sciences and engineering. The university offers 15 baccalaureate degrees, 14 masters degrees, and 5 doctoral degrees. The 2100 student body consists of local, regional, national and international students. (<a href="http://www.sdsmt.edu">http://www.sdsmt.edu</a>) The College of Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS) is one of four colleges within the university. The Bachelor of Science degree in Interdisciplinary Sciences is a college degree, granted by the faculty from the four departments within the college: Humanities, Military Science, Physical Education, and Social Sciences. The IS program has grown from its inception in 1989 to become the largest science degree program at the university, with over 300 students enrolled. (<a href="http://www.sdsmt.edu/is">http://www.sdsmt.edu/is</a>) The Department of Humanities is the largest department in the CIS, offering students a range of courses in art, written and spoken communications, drama, foreign language, humanities, literature, music, philosophy, and religion. (<a href="http://www.sdsmt.edu/is/humanities">http://www.sdsmt.edu/is/humanities</a>) Rapid City, located in the Black Hills near Mt. Rushmore and the Badlands, is the population hub for a rapidly growing region encompassing five states. Western South Dakota is known for its rich history, high quality of life, and year-round recreational/cultural opportunities. Candidates should submit 1) letter of application, 2) vitae, 3) writing sample, 4) three references names, addresses, and phone numbers and 5) evidence of successful teaching experience. Submit to: Dr. James D. Feiszli, Chair Department of Humanities South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 501 East St. Joseph Street Rapid City, SD 57701 FAX #: 605-394-6124 jfeiszli@silver.sdsmt.edu Review of applications will begin 1/16/98, and will continue until the position is filled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: halsted@h-net.msu.edu Subject: Re: 11.0461 C/C++ programming? literary treatment? Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 20:22:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 766 (766) I'd also like to wonder whether anybody has written a similar volume for Perl. If so, I haven't seen it. Seems rather a natural, though. Dave Halsted H-Net MSU From: Jim Marchand <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: imaginary languages Date: Mon, 15 Dec 97 09:30:22 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 767 (767) I have a friend who is writing on the "imaginry language" of Hildegard von Bingen. We were talking about glossolalia and xenoglossia, and I mentioned to him that he ought perhaps to seek generality in his study by looking at other cases of imaginary languages. I could come up only with a few cases: Swift, of course, with his "little language." More, Utopia, caused me to look into James Knowlson, _Universal Language Schemes in England and France_, 1600-1800 (Toronto, 1975), with his interesting Chapter 4: "Ideal Languages in the Imaginary Voyage." He mentions, of course, Rabelais and George Psalmanaaszaar's Formosan Language, familiar to all of us. I remember a recent case (about 10 years or so ago), but I do not really remember it at all; I believe it concerned two young women. Does anybody out there have anything handy on imaginary languages? ! Jim Marchand. From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: London architecture? Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 17:47:27 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 768 (768) I have recently compiled a Web page whose subject is the architecture of London and aspects of its urban life that one could at least argue have to do with its buildings. Thus "Online resources for London architecture" at <<a href="http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/year1/architecture.html">http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/year1/architecture.html</a>>. I would be most grateful for references to online resources that you think belong on that page -- keeping in mind that life is short, etc. Thanks. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> From: Anita Jawary <anitaj@cs.monash.edu.au> Subject: Comparative teaching exercise Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:36:55 +1100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 769 (769) Help with research: I teach Professional Communications as an undergraduate course at Monash University, Melbourne Australia. In this course my students do an exercise where they must communicate with students overseas via the internet and reflect on various social and technological aspects of that communication. I am trying to conduct some research into similar projects in order to try to assess our project, its efficacy, educational value and originality. If you use a similar exercise for your students,if you have had experience of this kind of exercise in any way or if you simply know of such exercises being conducted anywhere in the world, I would very much like to hear from you. Anita Jawary ============ Anita Jawary Department of Computer Science Monash University Wellington Road, Clayton 3168, Victoria, Australia. anitaj@cs.monash.edu.au ph:(03) 9905-5210 Fax:(03) 9905-5146 URL:<a href="http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~anitaj/">http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~anitaj/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Tim Reuter <T.Reuter@soton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0461 D'Is/D'Ys Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 17:20:12 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 770 (770) It figures extensively in A S Byatt's Victorian literary pastiche novel _Possession_ (? c. 1990), including a poem on the subject by the female lead, whose name I can't remember. Tim Reuter From: Orth_Michael_P/cpslo_employee1@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu Subject: 11.0462 dark social visions Date: Sun, 14 Dec 97 10:02:49 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 771 (771) Oh Good! Class War. I'm looking forward to it. I am still a good shot, and I haven't killed anyone in over thirty years. I will enjoy being on the Right side of the barricades. From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0462 dark social visions Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 11:22:29 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 772 (772) Speaking of contracts, there was a news item in the NYTimes a week or so ago, about a Professor of Psychology, at top of profession, president of a section of APA, for education (?), who is suing. For why? They agree that though he has tenure, and is listed as Faculty, they also ask, Where is it written that salary is linked to tenure? They are not, in short, paying him. It didnt say if he was continuing to teach. The wedge is in, in this case, and the maul is swinging. Ah, lawyers! What was it Shax's character says in some play? Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Maurizio Oliva <oliva@denison.edu> Subject: DEC Internet translation engine (funny) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:14:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 773 (773) <a href="http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?">http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?</a> Languages covered: English to French English to German English to Italian English to Portuguese English to Spanish French to English German to English Italian to English Spanish to English Portuguese to English In English: a lot goes the gatta one to the lardo that us it leaves the zampino In Italiano (Original text): tanto va la gatta al lardo che ci lascia lo zampino From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: keep them profs off the surfboards Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 08:38:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 774 (774) The following, quoted from <<a href="http://ivory.trentu.ca/www/cl/cac/caclist/cc5.html">http://ivory.trentu.ca/www/cl/cac/caclist/cc5.html</a>> with thanks, I suspect depicts a not entirely unusual attitude on the part of dinosaurian moralists. The one flash of darkness that it omits is the suspicion, which I have heard voiced, that all these feckless scholars are doing in any case is lookin' at dirty pictures. I am reminded of something Blake said about the secret desires of the self-righteous. If not taking humanities computing scholarship seriously is Scylla, then here we meet Charybdis. Yours, WM [deleted quotation]- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp (Steve McCarty) Subject: Korea-Japan-U.S. Website copying case closed Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:00:01 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 775 (775) In "Academic Websites subject to Attribution Ethics" (Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 433, 1 December 1997) I reported on a case where U.S. and Japanese Websites were copied to an academic Website in Korea. In an e-mail message to Seoul, I identified exactly what was copied from where, and seconded the earlier request by Prof. Hitoshi Goto, who agreed I should make the case public for the sake of academic ethics internationally. Today I'm happy to report that, without recourse to legalities, academic peer pressure has worked to close the case, as per the forwarded message below: [deleted quotation] Collegially, Steve McCarty E-mail: <steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp> Japanese-English Home Page: <<a href="http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/">http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/</a>> From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: knowing not AltaVista Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 11:09:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 776 (776) In a recent Humanist posting, our long-time colleague Jascha Kessler noted that Northrop Frye "new not Alta Vista". This is quite true, as my old teacher did not live long enough. Frye was, however, one of the first at the University of Toronto to submit a book to a publisher in electronic form (the publisher then messed it up badly, but that is another story). More significantly, he said in his opening address to the 1989 ACH/ALLC in Toronto that if he were beginning his work today he would pay a great deal of attention to modeling on the computer as a means of understanding theoretical constructs in literature. As one would expect, the lecture is a brilliant piece, wonderfully understated. See the volume Research in Humanities Computing 1, ed. Ian Lancashire (Oxford, 1991), for the printed version. It took some persuading to get Frye to give that lecture -- he said he had nothing particular to say about computing.... Who would not be happy to have such nothing to say? May others say nothing of similar calibre &c. So, would Frye now know not Alta Vista and its like? An Alta Vista search on his name just turned up ca. 400 items, including the homepage of the Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, <<a href="http://128.100.124.81/fryecent.htm">http://128.100.124.81/fryecent.htm</a>>. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: evidence Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:49:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 777 (777) Thanks to Patrick Durusau in Humanist 11.463 for subjecting my use of the term "evidence" to scrutiny. I was indeed intending the kind we are now getting from large databases, the preparation, delivery and application of which require our attention -- or so it seems to me. I was also, however, suggesting that this kind might prompt us to reconsider the whole question of evidence in the humanities and its relation to scholarship. The penetration of computing techniques into the disciplines we all know very well does not mean that the scholars in them will simply be doing what they did before, only faster, more efficiently, more accurately and so on. Changes brought about by the applications of computing are bound to have broad, systemic effects. Does it not seem reasonable to argue that if empirical evidence becomes so much easier to get, then the kinds of study that depend on such evidence will tend to be favoured, especially if those kinds are regarded by administrations, funding bodies et al. as particularly attractive? If this is the case, then is it not urgent for us to understand both the probable effects and how to instruct our students in uses of evidence that will tend to produce better rather than worse scholarship? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Stephen Clark <srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk> Subject: imaginary languages Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:01:19 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 778 (778) Jim Marchand <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> asked about imaginary languages: The best known modern imaginary language is Elvish (in two versions, Quenya= =20 and Sindarin), invented by Tolkien and elaborated since. There is a short Introduction to Elvish, and there used to be an email list, tolklang. Then= =20 there's Klingon (elaborated from Star Trek). And there are some details of several languages invented by C.J.Cherryh, a classicist and sf writer: e.g. in *Hunter of Worlds*, in *The Faded Sun*, and in *Foreigner*. Dialects of English have been created by Anthony Burgess, Russell Hoban and probably many others. Stephen Clark srlclark@liv.ac.uk From: Ambroise Barras <ambroise.barras@yale.edu> Subject: Re: imaginary languages Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:32:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 779 (779) About imaginary languages, read the recent book by Umberto Eco (1994): _La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europa_, published in english too (Basil Blackwell, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford). I quote here the introductory words of the french version of this book: "Au cours des si=E8cles o=F9 l'unit=E9 linguistique et politique du monde r= omain entre en crise et o=F9 commencent =E0 r=E9sonner ces langues que l'Europe p= arle aujourd'hui encore, la culture europ=E9enne m=E9dite de nouveau l'=E9pisode biblique de la confusio linguarum, et tente de gu=E9rir la blessure de la Tour de Babel en essayant de r=E9cup=E9rer la Langue Adamique, ou de la reconstruire comme Langue Parfaite. Quelques-unes des personnalit=E9s les plus marquantes de la culture europ=E9enne se sont consacr=E9es =E0 ce r=EA= ve et, bien que leurs utopies ne se soient pas r=E9alis=E9es, chacune d'entre elle= s a produit des "effets collat=E9raux". C'est pour cette raison que si nous connaissons aujourd'hui le monde naturel =E0 travers des taxinomies rigoureuses, si nous inventons des langages pour les machines, si nous tentons des exp=E9riences de traduction automatique, nous sommes encore, en quelque sorte, d=E9biteurs de ces tentatives multiples de retrouver une langue adamique." See particularly the extensive bibliography. Ambroise.Barras (@yale.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> =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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 780 (780) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Steve McCarty <steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp> Subject: Japan's Cultural Receptivity to Computers Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:56:47 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 781 (781) Ambulances were wailing all over urban Japan last night as about 550 children simultaneously went into convulsions. They had been=20 watching an animated TV program where the cute Pocket Monsters=20 (loanwords turned into "Pokemon") entered a computer and fought=20 a virus with a vaccine. Apparently a strobe effect of the bright=20 flashing colors at a certain frequency disturbed the children's brain=20 waves, or so I gleaned from initial TV interviews with professors.=20 It was my wife Chisato Ishikawa who suggested the ironic source of flicking on the TV. For I had asked her (in Japanese) what the=20 computer story might indicate about cultural attitudes towards=20 the new technology. Her reply, translated, was: "You can't generalize.=20 Ask 100 people and you'll get 100 answers. It may not be known scientifically, but anyway they'll interview experts on TV."=20 So much for stereotypes about Japanese women.=20 Our younger son has been playing CD-ROM games by himself since age 3, and the kids chant a song that I would liberally translate as: "Kon kon computer, gone gone haywire" (they know computers well).=20 The government has actively encouraged the public to be receptive to new technologies, and in a nearly full employment society there has been little fear of automation. The article below reviews the University of Hong Kong Knowledge and Discourse Conference, touching upon what sociologist of knowledge Steve Fuller had to say about how Japan disproved modernization theory in the history of science:=20 "East meets West and South in Hong Kong" =20 Asia-Pacific Exchange Electronic Journal^=C1@ Click on Vol. 3, No. 2 (June 1996) at URL: <<a href="http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/pub/apexj/">http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/pub/apexj/</a>> or select it from other items of possible research interest at URL: <<a href="http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html">http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html</a>> Best wishes for the holiday season, Steve McCarty =20 steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> =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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: linda.bandy@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu Subject: Re: 11.0365 obey or agree? Optopus? Date: Tue, 16 Dec 97 04:34:23 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 782 (782) [deleted quotation] re: obey or agree. Easy to see how lax I am in handling my email; apologies if you've already routed the source, but it seems to me this is the KIND of thing M. Eckart would say. I recall reading such things from him: God isn't good. I am. He was always knocking God out of his tallest tree, only to bring Him to human-eye level. I could easily picture Eckart saying such. Which I could site it for you. L.B. From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0467 WWW curiosities, uses and happenings Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:42:26 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 783 (783) Ah, but my remark was simply, if not obviously clearly, meant to suggest that going to Alta Vista is like falling into the Pacific Ocean without much more than a flotation vest. I am sure it will improve, though. When I am confronted by 104,536 links to something I needed to find...I let go and drown the screen, that is I leave for a blank page in a text I should be finishing. Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS' ACTION ALERT ON COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:39:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 784 (784) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 19 LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS EXHORT COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT COPYRIGHT BILLS <<a href="http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/">http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/</a>> In the latest issue of its Washington Office Newsletter (ALAWON), the American Library Association reports on an appeal from the presidents of four library associations to mobilize the library community in support of two copyright bills now before Congress. Specifically, they urge their members to encourage both of their Senators to cosponsor Sen. John Ashcroft's (R-MO) "Digital Copyright Clarification and Technology Act" (S. 1146) and their House Representative to cosponsor the "Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act," introduced by Reps. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Tom Campbell (R-CA) (H.R. 3048). The four presidents of the American Library Association, the American Association of Law Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries and the Special Library Association, make it clear in a letter to library members that they believe these two bills are the "best approach to meet the challenges of the digital environment while, at the same time, preserving the critical balance between copyright owners and users in the electronic age." This is an important time for other members of the cultural community to clearly articulate their positions on these and other critical copyright bills. Over the next few weeks, NINCH will be compiling the positions of its own members on this critical issue. Stay tuned. David Green Below, I reproduce the first part of this three-part issue of ALAWON. For the complete issue, see the ALA website at: <<a href="http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/">http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/</a>>. ====================================== [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Coling-ACL'98 Final Call for Papers Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:53:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 785 (785) [deleted quotation] COLING-ACL '98 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'98) and 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'98) August 10-14, 1998 Universite de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca</a> On behalf of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), we are pleased to announce a major joint conference -- COLING-ACL'98 -- which will be held on the campus of l'Universite de Montreal between August 10-14, 1998. The RALI laboratory of the Computer Science and Operations Research Department of l'Universite de Montreal will be hosting the first North American COLING since the joint COLING-ACL'84 was held at Stanford University in 1984. We welcome submission of papers describing substantial, original, and unpublished research contributions on ALL aspects of computational linguistics. Program subcommittees will be organized around 16 main areas, as follows. * [L] Linguistic issues & associated formalisms o L1. Morphology & phonology o L2. Syntax & parsing o L3. Semantics, pragmatics, cognition o L4. Discourse & dialogue * [R] Linguistic resources & computational methods o R1. Corpus processing & empirical methods o R2. Lexical resources & computational lexicography o R3. Computational paradigms (symbolic, stochastic, neural, hybrid) o R4. Languages, tools & environments for lingware development * [A] Applications o A1. Form checking (spelling, terminology, grammar, style) o A2. Summarization, abstraction, generation o A3. Text and speech machine translation & translation aids o A4. Multimodal NLP (speech & dialogue processing, integration of speech, text, gestures) o A5. Text and speech information retrieval and categorization, electronic libraries * [P] Projects o P1. Large R&D cooperative projects o P2. Validation & testing programmes o P3. Small scale innovative research projects o P4. Others (contributions not falling in above categories) Authors will be asked to identify the areas (a maximum of two) to which their submission corresponds. Contributions that do not fall into any of the above areas but are nevertheless relevant to the field are also welcome. All contributions will be reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions may be of two different types: 1) regular papers; and 2) project notes. Regular papers should report the results of original completed research. Project notes, on the other hand, should describe ongoing research or demonstrate a system. Regular papers will be presented in 3 parallel sessions that do not overlap with the presentation of project notes. LANGUAGES In order to encourage multilingualism within our research community, authors will be allowed to use one supplementary page to write up their abstract in one or more additional languages. REQUIREMENTS All papers should describe original work, completed or in progress rather than merely planned, and clearly indicate the current state of advancement of the work. No previously published papers should be submitted. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed provided it is explicitly indicated on the identification page. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION The maximum allowable length is 7 pages for regular papers and 5 pages for project notes, plus one optional page for abstract(s) in other language(s). Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title, centered page numbers in footers, and 2 columns after title and abstract. Figures may range across columns. Since reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page is required. It should include: * submission type (regular paper, project note [+demo]), * title * author(s) name(s) * affiliation(s) * complete addresses * abstract in English * 1 or 2 topic areas * submission to other conferences ('none' or list) * and author of record (for correspondence). Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted in the paper itself. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead use references like "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. While submissions must be sent in hardcopy, we encourage authors to use our style files and templates for preparing them (available on COLING-ACL'98 Web site). This will help ensure that the requirements described above (including the separate identification page) are met, and that the effort required to format the final version will be minimized. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE All submissions (hardcopy and electronic) and questions regarding submissions should be sent to: COLING-ACL'98 submissions Professor Christian Boitet GETA, CLIPS, IMAG BP 53 38041 Grenoble cedex 9 France e-mail: ColingACL98.program@imag.fr (from 15/9/97) 1) Submission notification: send the complete identification page of each submission by e-mail at least 10 days before the submission deadline. A submission_id will be returned. Please use it from that point on to identify everything related to your submission. 2) Submission proper: send six hard copies of the paper and one copy of the identification page (with submission_id) early enough so that so that they reach the program chair no later than the deadline indicated below. Fax submissions will not be accepted. Late submissions will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the author of record shortly after receipt. 3) In addition, authors are strongly encouraged to send in an electronic version (which is in no way a substitute for the hard copies). Only pdf or postcript formats are acceptable. Please e-mail your paper, specifying as the subject submission_id.{pdf/ps}, AFTER sending your hard copy. The hard copy and electronic versions must be identical. DEADLINES * Submission notification (id page): e-mail before January 20, 1998 * Submission (6 copies + id page): to arrive in Grenoble no later January 30, 1998 * Notification to authors: April 17, 1998 * Final camera-ready copies (2): to arrive in Montreal no later than May 30, 1998 A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final version. STUDENT SESSION There will be a special session for students organized by a committee of ACL graduate student members. See Web pages at: <a href="http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/">http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/</a> TUTORIALS & WORKSHOPS Workshops will take place on Saturday, August 15 and possibly extend to August 16. If you would like to give a tutorial or organize a workshop, send your proposals before December 31, 1997 to: Dr. Pete Whitelock Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd Oxford Science Park Oxford, OX4 4GA, England e-mail: pete@sharp.co.uk ORGANIZING COMMITTEE The organizing committee is being chaired by: Dr. Pierre Isabelle RALI, DIRO Universite de Montreal P.O. Box 6128, Succ. Centre-ville Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3C 3J7 e-mail: coling-acl98@iro.umontreal.ca tel: (514) 343-6161; fax: (514) 343-2496 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Christian Boitet (GETA-CLIPS, Grenoble, ICCL) Co-chair: Peter Whitelock (Sharp, Oxford, ACL) Area chairs: o L1. L. Karttunen (XRCE, Grenoble) o L2. A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) o L3. E. Hajicova (Charles University, Prague) o L4. Y. Wilks (University of Sheffield) o R1. D. Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong) o R2. N. Calzolari (ILC, Pisa) o R3. H. Tanaka (TIT, Tokyo) o R4. R. Zajac (NMSU, Las Cruces) o A1. S. Richardson (Microsoft) o A2. W. Lenders (University of Bonn) o A3. J.I. Tsujii (Tokyo University) o A4. A. Waibel (CMU, Pittsburgh) o A5. S. Nirenburg (CRL, New-Mexico State University) o P1. A. Zampolli (ICL, Pisa) o P2. J. Mariani (LIMSI, Orsay) o P3. H. Schnelle (Bochum) o P4. E. Wehrli (LATL, Geneva) We look forward to receiving your submissions, Christian Boitet and Peter Whitelock Program Chairs, COLING-ACL'98 From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CFP: NON-LEXICAL SEMANTICS Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:54:31 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 786 (786) [deleted quotation] Call for papers for the second conference on (PREFERABLY) NON-LEXICAL SEMANTICS The conference will be hosted by the University of Paris 7 (France), and will take place in May 28-30, 1998 There will be three one hour talks by invited speakers and the rest of the talks will be contributed papers chosen by the program committee on selection basis. Submissions of abstracts (in English or in French) for 30-minute contributed talks (with 10 additional minutes for discussion) on any topic in the semantic analysis of natural languages, with strong preference for non-lexical semantics, are welcome. Authors should submit 5 copies of (so called "anonymous") abstracts, no more than two pages (but not significantly less than 2 pages) long. Data allowing us to identify and contact the author (or authors) should be given separately. E-mail submissions will be accepted (only when in LaTex or Word). In this case authors shoud send a title page with authors' name, etc. in addition to the anonymous two page abstract. Abstract deadline: March 17, 1998. Send abstract to: Conf=E9rence de S=E9mantique c/o R. Zuber Universit=E9 Paris 7 UFR LINGUISTIQUE Case 7003 2 Place Jussieu 75251 Paris Cedex 05, =46rance The e-mail address to which the abstracts should be sent: rz@ccr.jussieu.fr. This is also the e-mail address for inquiries. The program of the conference will be completed around the 17th of April at which time conference information will be made available. For organizational reasons we would like to be able to estimate the number of submissions and possible participants well in advance. For this reason we invite any person which would like to submit an abstract or to attend the conference to let us know as soon as possible (by e-mail). Program Committee: R. Zuber - chair (CNRS, Paris), F. Corblin (University of Rennes), B. Laca (University of Strasbourg), D. Lacombe, (University of Paris 7), F. Recanati (CNRS, Paris), D. Wilson (CREA, Paris and University College, London) From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: ECAI-98 #4: EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:55:19 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 787 (787) [deleted quotation] ______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/call.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/call.html</a> The ECAI-98 Programme Committee invites submission of papers for the Technical Programme of the 13th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98). IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- 20 Jan 1998 Deadline for abstracts 23 Jan 1998 Deadline for papers 15 Apr 1998 Notification of acceptance 15 May 1998 Camera-ready copies of papers 26-28 Aug 1998 Technical programme at ECAI-98 An extended call for papers is attached. See the ECAI'98 website (<a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98</a>) for full details. Recent additions to the site include: + finalised programme committee listing + detailed formatting and paper submission information + form-based submission of abstracts + call for exhibitors CALL FOR PAPERS <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/call.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/call.html</a> Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to: Abduction, Temporal, Causal Reasoning, and Diagnosis; Automated Reasoning; Application and Enabling Technologies; Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning; Case-Based Reasoning; Cognitive Modelling and Philosophical Foundations; Computational Linguistics; Constraint-Based Reasoning and Constraint Programming; Distributed AI and Multiagent Systems; Fuzzy Logic; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Representation; Logic Programming, and Theorem Proving; Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Natural Language and Intelligent User Interfaces; Neural Networks in AI; Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning about Actions; Probabilistic Networks; Qualitative Preferences and Decision in AI; Qualitative and Spatial Reasoning; Reasoning under Uncertainty; Robotics, Vision, and Signal Understanding; Search and Meta-Heuristics for AI; Verification, Validation and Testing of Knowledge-Based Systems. Formatting guidelines Submissions must not exceed 6000 words. Submissions which exceed this length will be rejected without review. This is the only strict formatting requirement for paper submissions. (But note that a five page limit will be imposed on the final camera-ready papers - for some papers this may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Additional guidelines on the format of submissions are available on the ECAI-98 Style Guide page. We hope to make available soon a latex style file supporting these guidelines. Accepted papers will be required to conform more strictly to the publishers' formatting requirements, which will be broadly in line with the present formatting guidelines. Submission procedure Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary of their paper by email to ecai98@irit.fr by 20 January 1998. This summary should include the title, authors, contact address and abstract for the paper, plus keywords drawn from the above list (plus other keywords if appropriate). A web-based summary submission form is available to make this easier. This summary information should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, electronic submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet), should be sent by post to the ECAI-98 Programme Chair, Henri Prade, at the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 23 January 1998. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION ---------------------- Henri Prade, ECAI-98 Programme Chair IRIT Universiti Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 4 France Email: Henri.Prade@irit.fr Tel: +33(0)561 55 65 79 Fax: +33(0)561 55 62 39 Multiple submissions policy ECAI-98 will not accept any paper which at the time of submission is under review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialized meetings with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement that the paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal. The review process All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI-98 Programme Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI-98 Programme Chair. The ECAI-98 Programme Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Conference proceedings The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the formatting guidelines specified by the publisher, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline for receipt of camara-ready copy is 15 May 1998. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Programme Committee The final membership of the programme committee for ECAI-98 is as follows. A. Aamodt Norway F. Giunchiglia Italy J.J.A. Alferes Portugal W. Horn Austria E. Andri Germany F. Jensen Denmark N. Asher USA A. Kakas Cyprus F. Bergadano Italy R. Kruse Germany H. Bersini Belgium N. Lavrac Slovenia C. Bessihre France D. Lehmann Israel S. Biundo Germany M. Lenzerini Italy M. Brady United Kingdom M. McTear United Kingdom P. Brazdil Portugal S. Moral Spain J. Breuker The Netherlands J.P. M|ller Switzerland G. Brewka Germany E. Orlowska Poland H. Bunt The Netherlands U. Reyle Germany H.T. Christensen Sweden K. Satoh Japan M.O. Cordier France T. Schaub Germany P. Cunningham Irish Republic D. Scott United Kingdom A. Del Val Spain B. Selman USA P. Doherty Sweden M. Shanahan United Kingdom B. Faltings Switzerland P. Siegel France L. Fariqas C. Sierra Spain del Cerro France O. Stepankova Czech Republic R. Feldman Israel Y-H. Tan The Netherlands R. Fisher United Kingdom P. Torasso Italy J. Fox United Kingdom P. van Beek Canada C. Freksa Germany W. van de Velde Belgium D. Gabbay United Kingdom G. Widmer Austria A. Galton United Kingdom M-A. Williams Australia O. Gascuel France A. Zaenen France M. Ghallab France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448 Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320 University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98</a> ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex on behalf of AISB. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CFP -- Coordination Technologies for Information Systems (CTIS'98) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:59:04 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 788 (788) [deleted quotation] *** Call for Papers *** International Workshop on Coordination Technologies for Information Systems CTIS'98 (http:/www.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/cs/CTIS98.html) in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA'98 to be held in Vienna, August 24-28, 1998 (<a href="http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa98/">http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa98/</a>) and co-located with the 22nd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference COMPSAC'98 to be held in Vienna, August 19-21, 1998 (<a href="http://compsac98.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/compsac98/">http://compsac98.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/compsac98/</a>) and the 15th IFIP World Computer Congress IFIP'98 to be held in Vienna and Budapest, August 31 - September 4, 1998 (<a href="http://www.ocg.or.at/ifip98.html">http://www.ocg.or.at/ifip98.html</a>) Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press THEME According to Thomas Malone and Kevin Crowston, coordination is the act of managing interdependencies between activities. Some of the issues to be explored in this area are developing approaches to analyse coordination in different kinds of systems, designing coordination tools and languages, and applying the notion of coordination to distributed and parallel processing systems. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are using in one way or another the notion of coordination in the development of information systems. Of particular interest are papers highighting the interdisciplinary nature of coordination and those describing "coordination-in-the-large" activities. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Programming languages, tools and systems * Software architectures * Groupware * CSCW * Design patterns for coordination (coordination patterns) * Workflow management * Collaboration and cooperation environments * Agent communication and coordination * Mobile computing * Internet and intranet technology * Industrial applications and case studies (eg. the potential of coordination in the development of the Information Society, Electronic Commerce, etc.). The papers must clearly show how the concept of coordination was used, what were the benefits gained but also the problems encountered, if any. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: 15 March 1998 * Notification of acceptance: 15 May 1998 * Camera-ready copies: 5 June 1998 SUBMISSION DETAILS Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA'98 workshops. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by IEEE Computer Society Press and MUST NOT be longer than FIVE pages. Electronic Submission --------------------- Please submit your paper electronically by e-mail to the address below . Please prepare your paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding, condensing, or encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. Do not use bitmapped fonts such as Computer Modern if you can avoid it. Guidelines for generating and submitting PostScript files are available here. Please also send an electronic copy of your abstract, in ASCII format and including the paper title, keywords, author names, addresses, and affiliations, to the address below. Hard Copy Paper --------------- If, for some reason, you cannot send an electronic copy of your paper, ONLY THEN you may submit it as four hard copies to the address below. ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS George A. Papadopoulos Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Str. P.O.Box 537, CY-1678 Tel: +357-2-338705/06/04 Nicosia Fax: +357-2-339062 CYPRUS E-mail: george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy WORKSHOP CHAIR * George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey * Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway * Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA * Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland * Mike P. Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands * Wolfgang Prinz, GMD-FIT, Germany For any further questions or inquiries please contact: George A. Papadopoulos Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Str. P.O.Box 537, CY-1678 Tel: +357-2-338705/06/04 Nicosia Fax: +357-2-339062 CYPRUS E-mail: george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: BRUNI <jbrun@eagle.cc.ukans.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0471 imaginary languages Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:47:50 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 789 (789) I don't know if this exactly qualifies, but Vaclav Havel's play *The Memorandum* features an invented language called "ptydepe." Briefly, the play which satirizes bureaucracy is about an office where all memos must be written in ptydepe, and how a complete breakdown in communication results. John Bruni Department of English University of Kansas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Patrick W. Conner" <pconner@wvu.edu> Subject: Situation Advertised Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:09:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 790 (790) ASSOCIATE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY Nominations and applications are sought for the position of Associate Provost for Research. West Virginia University is the primary land grant institution in West Virginia. WVU is also designated as a Four-year I, Research I University. The main campus is located in Morgantown; regional campuses are located in Keyser (Potomac State College), Montgomery (West Virginia University Institute of Technology), and Parkersburg (West Virginia University at Parkersburg). Extension offices are located in all 55 counties. The university community is committed to student centered priorities, research, and service to the State and nation through innovation and technology. Information about WVU is available at <a href="http://www.wvu.edu">http://www.wvu.edu</a>. A recently completed Research Task Force report confirms that WVU will aggressively enhance its research mission (<a href="http://www.wvu.edu/~research/RTF/RTFreport430.html">http://www.wvu.edu/~research/RTF/RTFreport430.html</a>). EXPECTATIONS: The Associate Provost reports directly to the Provost, is a member of the President's Cabinet, serves as a member of the University Research Corporation and the Corporation's management team, and is a liaison to the West Virginia Congressional delegation. He/she is expected to work collaboratively with the vice presidents, deans, and directors. He/she is responsible for providing the leadership to and execution of the University's comprehensive research programs. Included among these programs are the myriad of research activities that occur in colleges and schools, the University's Research Office, and three independent centers--the National Research Center for Coal and Energy, the Concurrent Engineering Research Center, and the Regional Research Institute. The Associate Provost must be able to articulate a 21st century vision for research and represent the multiple goals of program units to a broad array of constituents including the university community, government agencies, business and industry, and the public at large. The Associate Provost oversees programs, budget, and personnel. He/she is also involved in developing policies and procedures that support and enhance activities that serve a broad research constituency and to which will lead to a continued growth in external funding and national recognition. The Associate Provost oversees institutional activities relating to federal compliance and to technology transfer. QUALIFICATIONS: The successful candidate should have: .. *an earned doctorate with sufficient academic accomplishments to meet the standards for an academic appointment at the rank of professor .. *successful management experience in research development and administration .. *success in acquiring competitively awarded funding .. *a history of applying technology in communications and program development .. *a demonstrated record in personnel and budget management and strategic planning Other qualifications include a high level of energy, excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and a commitment to social justice. APPLICATIONS: Candidates should submit a letter of application addressing his/her qualifications and vision within the context of the position description, a curriculum vitae, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least five references. Review of applications will begin on February 13, 1998 and will continue unitl the position is filled. The appointment is available on July 1, 1998. Applications and nominations should be directed to Dr. M. Duane Nellis, Dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, Chair of the Search Committee, P.O. 6286, West Virginia University, Morgantown WV 26506-6286. Phone: (304)293-4611; FAX: (304) 293-6858; E-mail: dnellis@wvu.edu. West Virginia University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, national origin, or sexual orientation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: C/C++, Perl Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:56:18 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 791 (791) [deleted quotation] Two correspondents asked about books on C/C++ and Perl aimed at an audience of humanists, in the vein of Susan Hockey's _Snobol Programming for the Humanities_. Ms. Hockey's book is essentially about using Snobol to do text processing, which is exactly what Perl was developed for. If you want to learn how to extract word/phrase patterns, filter text, build concordances, etc., all you need to know is basic Perl - so get a basic book. I highly recommend anything published by O'Reilly; if you are new to programming, get _Learning Perl_. Text processing with C/C++ can be extraordinarily tedious, especially if the platform you are using doesn't provide libraries of functions for doing regular expression pattern matching. Unless speed and efficiency of execution are among your primary goals, I advise sticking with Perl. Or doesn't anybody use Snobol/Spitbol anymore? Gregory Murphy, Text Systems Manager CETH (The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities) W^3="<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~gjmurphy">http://www.princeton.edu/~gjmurphy</a>" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: MLA Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:59:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 792 (792) [deleted quotation] I am very pleased to annouce that the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions has released its Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions. They are available at: <a href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MLA/intro.html">http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MLA/intro.html</a> Questions, comments, and suggestions should be addressed to: Electronic Scholarly Editions <ese@ra.msstate.edu> What is now needed is list of recommended software packages for carrying out the Guidelines. Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 793 (793) Dear Colleagues: I do two things at this moment in the year: celebrate Christmas with my family and send a celebratory note to Humanist. This year the family gathering is especially warm and poignant, since it is likely the last time for a while that all of us are together in one spot. Offspring disperse in early January, one to Alaska for a protracted time to study the Inuit culture there, the other to Toronto, also to study. Gift-giving is of course an important part of the family event, but as far as I can determine, I've never before been able to offer a gift to my fellow Humanists at Christmas, and so bring the two solstitial events together. This year, however, I can and do: if you go to the Humanist homepage and explore it carefully, you will find something quite special. Old-timers will know its significance, but many of you will not, so allow me to explain. An Excite search for "duck", "mallard" and perhaps also "quack" will reveal an early thread of discussion that began in a suggestion made by Sebastian Rahtz and Abigail Young about a secret society or "frarority" of Humanists, which would have meant a symbol or logo, for which Sebastian suggested the mallard duck. As I recall, a plan then formed to have T-shirts made, and perhaps sold at an ACH/ALLC conference. Sebastian then produced the design and motto, which by now I hope you have found. Years passed. It was on a visit to Goteborg, Sweden, in April 1994 that our colleague Jan-Gunnar Tingsell so kindly presented me with a copy of the printed design. (I hope this gift in return is particularly welcome to him!) It then had to travel back to Toronto, wait years in a special (paper) folder, neglected but safe, suffer packing up and shipment across the Atlantic by sea in a container, unpacking in our first house in Bow (where from time to time I would run across it), packing up again for the move to Leyton, then a brief period on the notice-board in my office at King's before I was able to acquire a scanner, get that to work under Windows NT with much help from HP Tech Support, construct a Web page for it and upload the thing. Thus the history of my gift -- with apologies to E. Annie Proulx. Finally, in the remainder of the quiet time I have before certain members of my family return with the turkey (this once deviating from a de facto vegetarian diet), and frantic last-minute grocery-shopping pulls me up the High Road to Tesco's, allow me to wish all of you the happiness of our virtual fellowship, at a time of year when so many traditions allow us to notice such things. I for one treasure it more than I can reckon or compute. A good, warm and silent night! Yours, WM From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: "Into the Future" screens on PBS in January Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 17:06:30 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 794 (794) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 23, 1997 SAVE THE DATE: JAN 13, 1998 "INTO THE FUTURE: ON THE PRESERVATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE" <<a href="http://www.pbs.org/whatson/1998/01/descriptions/INFU.html">http://www.pbs.org/whatson/1998/01/descriptions/INFU.html</a>> Terry Sanders' film will be shown nationally on PBS at 10pm on Tuesday Jan. 13 (but check local listings). A sequel to Sanders' award-winning "Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record," "Into the Future" was produced by the American Film Foundation in association with the Commission on Preservation and Access and the American Council of Learned Societies. "This program confronts the hidden crisis of the digital information age -- will the human record, as it is increasingly stored in fragile and complex digital forms, survive into the future? Will people have access to current electronically-recorded knowledge and history of our time 20, 50 or 100 years from today? The program provides examples of the impending crisis and features insights from articulate shapers and philosophers of the Information Age. The special is narrated by Robert MacNeil."--PBS program notes A review of the film by Paul Wallich in the January 1998 issue of Scientific American, "Preserving the Word," is available at <<a href="http://www.sciam.com/0198issue/0198review2.html">http://www.sciam.com/0198issue/0198review2.html</a>>. "Into the Future" can be ordered from The American Film Foundation as a one-hour or 30-minute VHS tape; contact: 310/459-2116. =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to <listproc@cni.org>. From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: XML Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 08:21:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 795 (795) [deleted quotation] 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: silent nights & days Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:22:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 796 (796) Dear Colleagues: I do two things at this moment in the year: celebrate Christmas with my family and send a celebratory note to Humanist. This year the family gathering is especially warm and poignant, since it is likely the last time for a while that all of us are together in one spot. Offspring disperse in early January, one to Alaska for a protracted time to study the Inuit culture there, the other to Toronto, also to study. Gift-giving is of course an important part of the family event, but as far as I can determine, I've never before been able to offer a gift to my fellow Humanists at Christmas, and so bring the two solstitial events together. This year, however, I can and do: if you go to the Humanist homepage and explore it carefully, you will find something quite special. Old-timers will know its significance, but many of you will not, so allow me to explain. An Excite search for "duck", "mallard" and perhaps also "quack" will reveal an early thread of discussion that began in a suggestion made by Sebastian Rahtz and Abigail Young about a secret society or "frarority" of Humanists, which would have meant a symbol or logo, for which Sebastian suggested the mallard duck. As I recall, a plan then formed to have T-shirts made, and perhaps sold at an ACH/ALLC conference. Sebastian then produced the design and motto, which by now I hope you have found. Years passed. It was on a visit to Goteborg, Sweden, in April 1994 that our colleague Jan-Gunnar Tingsell so kindly presented me with a copy of the printed design. (I hope this gift in return is particularly welcome to him!) It then had to travel back to Toronto, wait years in a special (paper) folder, neglected but safe, suffer packing up and shipment across the Atlantic by sea in a container, unpacking in our first house in Bow (where from time to time I would run across it), packing up again for the move to Leyton, then a brief period on the notice-board in my office at King's before I was able to acquire a scanner, get that to work under Windows NT with much help from HP Tech Support, construct a Web page for it and upload the thing. Thus the history of my gift -- with apologies to E. Annie Proulx. Finally, in the remainder of the quiet time I have before certain members of my family return with the turkey (this once deviating from a de facto vegetarian diet), and frantic last-minute grocery-shopping pulls me up the High Road to Tesco's, allow me to wish all of you the happiness of our virtual fellowship, at a time of year when so many traditions allow us to notice such things. I for one treasure it more than I can reckon or compute. A good, warm and silent night! Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Norm Holland <NNH@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu> Subject: Xmas gift from an ex-wise-man Date: Tue, 23 Dec 97 15:25:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 797 (797) Dear Colleagues, Hearing a beautiful performance Sunday on the radio of _Messiah_ (Robert Shaw Chorale, Atlanta Symphony) has put me in an Xmas spirit. I'd I'd like to send you a gift, courtesty of the New York Times, Sunday edition. It's a spoof of confessional TV and some other things, perhaps closer to our hearts. The picture above this Op-Ed essay, a big picture, shows a television screen with a man's head and shoulders. The face is obscured by one of those electronic blobs that turns the image into little squares, and the man's hands are clawing at the blob, pulling its edges askew. Beneath his image is a caption band: "J" (for our host) and: "Alex" Identity Destroyed By Postmodernism Enjoy! And enjoy your holidays, too! --Best, Norm Holland Copyright 1997 The New York Times Company The New York Times December 21, 1997, Sunday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section 4; Page 11; Column 1; Editorial Desk LENGTH: 1330 words HEADLINE: Geraldo, Eat Your Avant-Pop Heart Out BYLINE: By Mark Leyner; Mark Leyner is the author, most recently, of "The Tetherballs of Bougainville." DATELINE: HOBOKEN, N.J. BODY: JENNY JONES: Boy, we have a show for you today! Recently, the University of Virginia philosopher Richard Rorty made the stunning declaration that nobody has "the foggiest idea" what postmodernism means. "It would be nice to get rid of it," he said. "It isn't exactly an idea; it's a word that pretends to stand for an idea." This shocking admission that there is no such thing as postmodernism has produced a firestorm of protest around the country. Thousands of authors, critics and graduate students who'd considered themselves postmodernists are outraged at the betrayal. Today we have with us a writer -- a recovering postmodernist -- who believes that his literary career and personal life have been irreparably damaged by the theory, and who feels defrauded by the academics who promul- gated it. He wishes to remain anonymous, so we'll call him "Alex." Alex, as an adolescent, before you began experimenting with postmodernism, you considered yourself -- what? Close shot of ALEX. An electronic blob obscures his face. Words appear at bottom of screen: "Says he was traumatized by postmodernism and blames academics." ALEX (his voice electronically altered): A high modernist. Y'know, Pound, Eliot, Georges Braque, Wallace Stevens, Arnold Schonberg, Mies van der Rohe. I had all of Schonberg's 78's. JENNY JONES: And then you started reading people like Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard -- how did that change your feelings about your modernist heroes? ALEX: I suddenly felt that they were, like, stifling and canonical. JENNY JONES: Stifling and canonical? That is so sad, such a waste. How old were you when you first read Fredric Jameson? ALEX: Nine, I think. The AUDIENCE gasps. JENNY JONES: We have some pictures of young Alex. . . . We see snapshots of 14-year-old ALEX reading Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia." The AUDIENCE oohs and ahs. ALEX: We used to go to a friend's house after school -- y'know, his parents were never home -- and we'd read, like, Paul Virilio and Julia Kristeva. JENNY JONES: So you're only 14, and you're already skeptical toward the "grand narratives" of modernity, you're questioning any belief system that claims universality or transcendence. Why? ALEX: I guess -- to be cool. JENNY JONES: So, peer pressure? ALEX: I guess. JENNY JONES: And do you remember how you felt the very first time you entertained the notion that you and your universe are constituted by language -- that reality is a cultural construct, a "text" whose meaning is determined by infinite associations with other "texts"? ALEX: Uh, it felt, like, good. I wanted to do it again. The AUDIENCE groans. JENNY JONES: You were arrested at about this time? ALEX: For spray-painting "The Hermeneutics of Indeterminacy" on an overpass. JENNY JONES: You're the child of a mixed marriage -- is that right? ALEX: My father was a de Stijl Wittgensteinian and my mom was a neo-pre-Raphaelite. JENNY JONES: Do you think that growing up in a mixed marriage made you more vulnerable to the siren song of postmodernism? ALEX: Absolutely. It's hard when you're a little kid not to be able to just come right out and say (sniffles), y'know, I'm an Imagist or I'm a phenomenologist or I'm a post-painterly abstractionist. It's really hard -- especially around the holidays. (He cries.) JENNY JONES: I hear you. Was your wife a postmodernist? ALEX: Yes. She was raised avant-pop, which is a fundamentalist offshoot of postmodernism. JENNY JONES: How did she react to Rorty's admission that postmodernism was essentially a hoax? ALEX: She was devastated. I mean, she's got all the John Zorn albums and the entire Semiotext(e) series. She was crushed. We see ALEX'S WIFE in the audience, weeping softly, her hands covering her face. JENNY JONES: And you were raising your daughter as a postmodernist? ALEX: Of course. That's what makes this particularly tragic. I mean, how do you explain to a 5-year-old that self-consciously recycling cultural detritus is suddenly no longer a valid art form when, for her entire life, she's been taught that it is? JENNY JONES: Tell us how you think postmodernism affected your career as a novelist. ALEX: I disavowed writing that contained real ideas or any real passion. My work became disjunctive, facetious and nihilistic. It was all blank parody, irony enveloped in more irony. It merely recapitulated the pernicious banality of television and advertising. I found myself indiscriminately incorporating any and all kinds of pop kitsch and shlock. (He begins to weep again.) JENNY JONES: And this spilled over into your personal life? ALEX: It was impossible for me to experience life with any emotional intensity. I couldn't control the irony anymore. I perceived my own feelings as if they were in quotes. I italicized everything and everyone. It became impossible for me to appraise the quality of anything. To me everything was equivalent -- the Brandenburg Concertos and the Lysol jingle had the same value. . . . (He breaks down, sobbing.) JENNY JONES: Now, you're involved in a lawsuit, aren't you? ALEX: Yes. I'm suing the Modern Language Association. JENNY JONES: How confident are you about winning? ALEX: We need to prove that, while they were actively propounding it, academics knew all along that postmodernism was a specious theory. If we can unearth some intradepartmental memos -- y'know, a paper trail -- any corroboration that they knew postmodernism was worthless cant at the same time they were teaching it, then I think we have an excellent shot at establishing liability. JENNY JONES wades into audience and proffers microphone to a woman. WOMAN (with lateral head-bobbing): It's ironic that Barry Scheck is representing the M.L.A. in this litigation because Scheck is the postmodern attorney par excellence. This is the guy who's made a career of volatilizing truth in the simulacrum of exculpation! VOICE FROM AUDIENCE: You go, girl! WOMAN: Scheck is the guy who came up with the quintessentially postmodern re-bleed defense for O. J., which claims that O. J. merely vigorously shook Ron and Nicole, thereby re-aggravating pre-existing knife wounds. I'd just like to say to any client of Barry Scheck -- lose that zero and get a hero! The AUDIENCE cheers wildly. WOMAN: Uh, I forgot my question. Dissolve to message on screen: If you believe that mathematician Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem has caused you or a member of your family to dress too provocatively, call (800) 555-9455. Dissolve back to studio. In the audience, JENNY JONES extends the microphone to a man in his mid-30's with a scruffy beard and a bandana around his head. MAN WITH BANDANA: I'd like to say that this "Alex" is the single worst example of pointless irony in American literature, and this whole heartfelt renunciation of postmodernism is a ploy -- it's just more irony. The AUDIENCE whistles and hoots. ALEX: You think this is a ploy?! (He tears futilely at the electronic blob.) This is my face! The AUDIENCE recoils in horror. ALEX: This is what can happen to people who naively embrace postmodernism, to people who believe that the individual -- the autonomous, individualist subject -- is dead. They become a palimpsest of media pastiche -- a mask of metastatic irony. JENNY JONES (biting lip and shaking her head): That is so sad. Alex -- final words? ALEX: I'd just like to say that self-consciousness and irony seem like fun at first, but they can destroy your life. I know. You gotta be earnest, be real. Real feelings are important. Objective reality does exist. AUDIENCE members whoop, stomp and pump fists in the air. JENNY JONES: I'd like to thank Alex for having the courage to come on today and share his experience with us. Join us for tomorrow's show, "The End of Manichean, Bipolar Geopolitics Turned My Boyfriend Into an Insatiable Sex Freak (and I Love It!)." GRAPHIC: Photo: (Jesse Gordon/Click 3X) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: December 21, 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Coling-ACL'98 Workshop Call for Papers Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 09:01:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 798 (798) From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> COLING-ACL'98 WORKSHOP "The Computational Treatment of Nominals" August 16, 1998 Universite de Montreal Montreal, Canada This workshop aims at bringing together researchers who are interested in the study of the computational properties of nominals and noun phrases. The focus is on representational questions as they relate directly to NLP requirements and applications. Understanding the properties of the nominal system is extremely important since nouns and nominalizations are used extensively by both people and systems: searching and communicating with either a telegraphic or a more expressive language involves heavy use of nominal forms. A number of NLP applications, ranging from "intelligent" key-word search to text summarization and information extraction, among others, not only require some way of recognizing nominal forms, but also require a shallow understanding of the semantic information that nouns carry. It is therefore of great interest to consider what impact representing semantic knowledge at a finer level of granularity would have towards enhancing a system's performance. Submissions are invited on one or more of the following topics: - Representation of nominals: * design of noun ontologies for use in lexical semantics and machine translation * ambiguity, polysemy, vagueness, and underspecification in the semantics of nominals * identifying the minimal requirements for lexical representations - Representational issues in the acquisition of knowledge: * from corpora * from MRDs * syntactic and morphological bootstrapping * semantic boostrapping (role of prepositions, arguments, etc.) - Role of representations for the interpretation of nominals: * techniques for recovering implicit information in nominals * interpretation and generation of nominals in descriptions of events and abstract objects in discourse * recovering implicit semantic relations in nominal compounds * defining implicit semantic relations between nominalizations and the forms they are derived from ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Federica Busa (Brandeis University) Inderjeet Mani (The MITRE Corporation) Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier) This call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can be found at <a href="http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~federica/workshops/coling">http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~federica/workshops/coling</a> Information about COLING-ACL'98 can be found at: <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca</a> SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above. Maximum length is 8 pages (single-spaced) including figures and references. Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by COLING-ACL'98: <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty</a> Authors should send 5 copies in either electronic (PostScript or Latex) or hard-copy format to: Federica Busa Computer Science Department Volen Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 U.S.A. federica@cs.brandeis.edu Criteria for selection will include clarity, originality, relevance, and significance of results. DEALDLINES Deadline for submission: March 15th, 1998 Notification of authors: May 1st, 1998 Final versions due: June 1, 1998 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Federica Busa (Brandeis University) Bob Ingria (Psyche Systems Corporation) Beth Levin (Northwestern University) Inderjeet Mani (The MITRE Corporation) Paul Portner (Georgetown University) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier) Antonio Sanfilippo (SHARP Laboratories of Europe) Evelyne Viegas (CRL, New Mexico State University) Piek Vossen (University of Amsterdam) From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Coling-ACL'98 Student Call for Papers Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 09:01:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 799 (799) [deleted quotation] *** COLING-98 CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS ACL-98 *** Student Sessions at the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'98) and 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'98) August 10-14, 1998 Universite de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada <a href="http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/">http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/</a> PURPOSE: The goal of the sessions is to provide a forum for student members to present WORK IN PROGRESS and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. The sessions will consist of paper presentations by student authors. The accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings. Note that the existence of the student sessions does not influence the treatment of student-authored papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the aim of the student sessions is to provide a separate track emphasizing students' work in progress rather than completed work. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. Topics of interest are the same as for the main conference. All authors must be students with ACL membership at the time of the conference. For membership information, see the ACL home page (<a href="http://www.aclweb.org/">http://www.aclweb.org/</a>). Papers submitted to the main conference cannot be considered for the student sessions. Students may, of course, submit DIFFERENT papers to the main conference and the student session, or papers on different aspects of a particular problem or project. Information about COLING-ACL'98 and about the student session can be found on the COLING-ACL98 homepage, at <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/</a> and at the student session homepage at <a href="http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/">http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/</a>. The official language of the conference is English, and hence student papers should be written in English. However, authors will be allowed to use one supplementary page to write up their abstract in one or more additional languages. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: The maximum allowable length is 3 pages (about 1800 words exclusive of references), plus one optional page for abstract(s) in other language(s). Please use A4 or US letter format, 2.5 cm margins, classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title and centered page numbers in footers. Figures may range across columns. We encourage authors to use the LaTeX style file described below. Since reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page is required. It should include: - title - author(s) name(s) - affiliation(s) - complete addresses - abstract in English - 1 or 2 topic areas - submission to other conferences ('none' or list) and - author of record (for correspondence). Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted in the paper itself. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead use references like "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. MEDIA OF SUBMISSION: Authors may submit their papers electronically or in hard copy. Electronic submission is strongly preferred. 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For further information about the student session, see the web site at <a href="http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/">http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/</a> PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The committee is co-chaired by Dragomir Radev (Columbia University) and Maria Milosavljevic (Macquarie University). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: gleanings Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 16:34:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 800 (800) [deleted quotation] (1) Duncan Campbell, "Have a hammy Christmas", on the perfect gift for the season, notes Irdial Discs, <<a href="http://www.pcug.co.uk/~irdial/">http://www.pcug.co.uk/~irdial/</a>>, in English or German, Java-enhanced in any case. An avant garde electronic music business in London. Interesting if only for the design of the pages -- which is very good; make sure your sound card is connected up to an amplifier. There's more here: in particular, a page on the world-wide phenomenon of the "numbers stations". Irdial explains: "For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been employed by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of 'Numbers Stations'." In the U.K. these, the Guardian warns, are formally illegal to listen to, or to tell anyone what you hear if you do, and quite active, with new ones started up recently. Irdial sells a 4-CD disc set, which offers 3 hours of broadcasts from these stations in various languages. (2) Jack Scofield, "Netwatch", notes a. Online translation, using Systran software, at <<a href="http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com">http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com</a>>: English to French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and each one of these to English. Judge for yourself, and report back particularly amusing results, please. b. Award-winning educational Web sites created by school children, at <<a href="http://www.advanced.org/ThinkQuest/">http://www.advanced.org/ThinkQuest/</a>>. c. ACSES, which (breathlessly) "checks out prices, availability, plain shipping time and shipping costs of your book at over 20 online stores with over 20.000.000 pricing informations simultaneously!" at <<a href="http://www.acses.com/">http://www.acses.com/</a>>. Most Humanists will already know about amazon.com, which now greets the repeat-customer by name, offering up a list of recommended books. Somewhat spooky, that, but at least in my case the recommendations weren't at all bad. It is nice to be recognised when you go into a shop.... (3) Alex Bellos, "Called to the Bar", <<a href="http://online.guardian.co.uk/three.html">http://online.guardian.co.uk/three.html</a>>, on Navigating the Bible, designed to help candidates study for their Bar or Bat Mitzvahs, with all that is required, including of course the sound. "The CD-ROM is mot just useful for Bar and Bat Mitzvah students. It would be handy to have around all year, containing the blessings for all the main festivals. It is also possible to get the reading for any week. You can't help but think that rabbis might soon be out of a job." On a somewhat different note, picking up on the thread concerning evidence, I have often wondered what the effect of having in any field electronic access to all the source material that it was formerly the chief distinction of learned scholars to recall. One would hope that scholars then work hard at different things. Are there, for example, any studies of the effects of access to the Global Jewish Database on the day-to-day life of rabbis? Is there enough complexity in the data that one must more often interpret than simply recall whatever it is that one can recall? What happens in secular law when masses of precedents are so quickly available? Has the practice of interpretation, sacred or secular, become more rather than less necessary? Is it harder for the interpretationally challenged to get by? (4) Jamie Wilson, "Baby Reborn", <<a href="http://online.guardian.co.uk/two.html">http://online.guardian.co.uk/two.html</a>>, on what is said to be the world's first stored-program computer, rebuilt at Manchester University. There's a contest on for the most imaginative program that runs on Baby, for which see the rules and other material hyperlinked from the Guardian article. The CS Department's Virtual Museum is worth a visit. (5) Keith Devlin, "The Net set", on a survey recently taken to determine the sociability of habitual net users. The conclusions? "Net users tend to belong to more, nor fewer , organisations that involve regular face-to-face contact.... Moreover, [the survey] found that a lot of Net use involved families staying in touch. Add the promotion of family values to your list of Net pluses.... Far from replacing personal contact, the majority (60%) of those who reported making few friends through the Net said that this eventually led to a face-to-face meeting.... In short, Katz and Aspden's research indicates that the Net is populated in large part by families and social groups using it to maintain their existing relationships over long distance, and people making new friendships that in the majority of cases lead to face-to-face contact." 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: neurosciences to poetry Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 08:58:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 801 (801) Some Humanists will be interested in a new publication of BioMedNet, "Neurosciences on the Internet", <<a href="http://ny.hmsbeagle.com/hmsbeagle/1997/22/webres/wreview.htm">http://ny.hmsbeagle.com/hmsbeagle/1997/22/webres/wreview.htm</a>>, which offers "a comprehensive index of online neurological science resources.... outstanding for researching topics ranging from the basics to neurosurgery, psychiatry, and cognitive science" in approximately 4200 links. The fields of the Neurosciences, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Psychology, Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence are covered. See the table of contents for details. BioMedNet, "The Worldwide Club for Biomedical Scientists" provides a number of services free if you register. As I recall, you need to style yourself as a biomedical researcher, but it would seem that anyone with a legitimate interest e.g. in such a fuzzily delimited field as cognitive science could qualify him- or herself in good conscience. Apparently, however, the neuroscience resource is outside the orbit of BioMedNet membership so that anyone can access it without joining the Club. If you do, however, you will find this month in HMS Beagle, the newsletter of BioMedNet, a transcription of John Donne's "A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day", available for reading (edition unspecified). At the bottom of the transcription is a hyperlink on Donne's name to the Java-enhanced <<a href="http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/">http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/</a>>, which collects online resources from several places -- not a small amount of work. (Do the Humnists whose resources have been collected know that theirs have been gathered?) Luminarium itself is an online anthology of Medieval to early 17th-Century work, described by the editor, Anniina Jokinen, as a labour of love by someone without the usual academic seal of approval. "Some write to me skeptical of the validity of my materials due to my 'lack of credentials' i.e. lack of a degree. Being a scholar does not mean one is no longer a student, nor does being a student necessarily mean one is not a scholar. I often admonish these skeptics to visit the site -- with their expertise they should soon realize that the site is scholarly and aims for accuracy at all times. Everything is verified from the authorities in a given subject." If only we had more such people. But back to technical matters. The question of how the creators of the neuroscience resource can possibly manage to maintain such a site is an interesting one. Of course corners of the multidisciplinary field it stakes out, such as neurosurgery, do bring in a fair bit of cash, but still the problem must be an enormous one. Is it reasonable to think that an online resource so well positioned and well constructed that it became unthinkable not to use it would be properly maintained by those who depend on it? Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp (Steve McCarty) Subject: A matter more of expressiveness than infrastructure Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:54:26 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 802 (802) Asia-Pacific as a geographical region spans nearly half the world and houses over half of humanity in its bewildering variegation. As the worldwide community of scholars can now become an organized reality via the Internet, this series aims to provide a Pacific Asian perspective for computing Humanists, with a view to facilitating academic exchanges across the East-West divide. Japan is the first large non-Western nation to achieve a vast Internet infrastructure, as can be seen for example by using Japanese language search engines and directories. In research as elsewhere, Japan's wealthy economy draws the lion's share of attention, yet this series does intend to introduce the Net presence of places like Fiji and Argentina. The "Lion City" of Singapore arguably surpasses Japan in effective use of the Internet, but its entire population of 4 million is roughly half the Internet users in Japan. Up to 30 million of 125 million people in Japan could be online in the foreseeable future, including nearly all the youth in education, so communicating with them will be an important issue. As to the current state of Internet use in Japan, a 1995 survey, although statistically unreliable, showed that browsers of a domestic site were 96% male, 80% under 35 years old, and mostly with technical or scientific backgrounds. I translate the gist of a vernacular daily newspaper article as follows: Young women, who like to write and chat, hold the key to mass acceptance of the electronic media. The Internet calls for a youthful sense of play, a connectivity culture, freedom and self-expression. For this to happen, the Japanese must go beyond materialism and break the mental habit that forces everyone to be the same. Pessimists argue that Japan could be isolated by its organizational ways even on the Internet. Inability to express themselves in written English will leave the Japanese as passive recipients of the world network. The title of this definitive editorial could be rendered as "Japan is weak in both infrastructure and expressiveness." The technological hurdles will be surmounted, but Japan's voice in cyberspace will still be diminutive, so the challenge will be how to reach them. Sources for the above paragraph are cited in the presentation below, which also shows the impact of the Aum cult incidents on the debate over vocationalization of universities in Japan, and sees a worldwide convergence of specialist and generalist knowledge as within the purview of educators: "Revalorizing General Education and TEFL in Japan" First Annual TCC-L Online Conference (Honolulu, 1-3 April, 1996) <a href="http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcc_conf96/bios/mccarty.html">http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcc_conf96/bios/mccarty.html</a> Questions are welcome. For the best in 1998, Steve McCarty steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Lily Diaz <lily@mlab.uiah.fi> Subject: Re: 11.0466 imaginary languages? Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 16:03:56 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 803 (803) [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] About imaginary languages... In his short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" the argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges describes some of the features of the different languages spoken in the imaginary planet of Tlön. Lily Díaz From: Qsums <Qsums@aol.com> Subject: Re: 11.0474 imaginary languages Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 13:25:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 804 (804) Has Anthony Burgess's invented language 'Nadsat' in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE been mentioned? A comparison of samples of Nadsat with Anthony Burgess's ordinary discourse from the novel is made in Jill Farringdon's ANALYSING FOR AUTHORSHIP, pp. 167-169. Michael Farringdon qsums@aol.com From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: imaginary languages Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 22:35:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 805 (805) The question of imaginary languages softly metamorphoses into the question of imaginative language, private languages, fictional lexicons and so on. David Grossman's masterful <title>See: Under Love comes immediately to mind, and his earlier The Book of Intimate Grammar, and Amos Oz's latest, Panther in the Basement, to name a few Hebrew novels only. Then there's the Kazar lexicon, a book I disliked enough to manage to lose it at some point in my moves eastward. In other words, this has all the earmarks of a very fruitful topic, extending outward from fiction as we name it into the writings and babblings of the severely dysfunctional, the cliques of literary theorists and other omphaloscopic academics who talk only to each other, almost any pair or larger grouping of people who know each other well, and so on. An interesting side-branch of the topic takes in the voluminous and necessarily paradoxical writings on the unsayable, and the saying of it, e.g. by such masters as Chuang Tzu, or practitioners of instruction by koan, as in "Before Abraham was I am". One gets quickly lost, or perhaps it's found. In any case, good luck. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Halsted Subject: Re: 11.0478 perl is what you want Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 18:01:58 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 806 (806) Well, the reason I asked about the Perl book was that I suspect many humanists won't see immediately how even (the excellent) _Learning Perl_ applies to their work, or could apply to their work. Seems to me that there's rather a dearth of computer books aimed at people in the Humanities and social sciences. Is this impression shared by others? Dave Halsted H-Net MSU From: Leo Robert Klein Subject: Re: 11.0478 perl is what you want Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 18:31:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 807 (807) On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] Having just been through the above work, I would hardly recommend it to anyone without a pretty good programming background already under one's belt. The whole is peppered with comments like: "and for those already familiar with C++, you'll be happy to know that also in Perl..." For those not already familiar with C++, the book is not particularly helpful. It is definitely not written with someone with a background in the humanities in mind. The introductory "Tour of Perl" is gratuitiously intense and overwhelming. This is a wonderful book if you feel like reading it over maybe fifteen times before you can make head or tail of it. While I haven't read the Larry Wall book ("Programming Perl"--or therabouts), which is another Oreilly publication, I have heard it is rather dense--a quality shared in large measure, by the way, by the work, "Introduction to Perl", mentioned above. I tried desparately to find a manual on Perl which was written is something approximating English and was none too successful. Hopefully others have had more luck. Leo Robert Klein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Robert Klein 70 Washington Square South Web Coordinator & Reference Associate New York, NY. 10012 General & Humanities Reference Tel.: (212) 998-2666 Elmer Holmes Bobst Library Fax: (212) 995-4383 New York University Email: leo.klein@nyu.edu From: Don Wilkins Subject: Re: 11.0478 perl is what you want Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 07:54:11 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 808 (808) Though I don't work with Perl, I am familiar with similar languages (e.g. Tcl/Tk) and would agree with Gregory Murphy in principle. I was tempted to respond to the original question about C/C++ and humanities because I am heavily involved with C/C++ in my own humanities research (Greek, which is blessed with huge databases). C/C++ has an overwhelming learning curve, and unless you have the full moral support of your department--which I unfortunately have not had--you will get little else done and pay dearly for it in terms of job security or advancement. However, there are at least two drawbacks to Perl: (1) if I am understanding Gregory's closing comment about speed and efficiency correctly (I assume that Perl is an interpreter, like Tcl/Tk, HyperCard, etc.), it may be too slow to do a good job on any large database, and (2) it may have a learning curve that is still too steep for the typical humanities prof (meaning that most will not have the patience). Gregory may very well object to my first comment, and perhaps he will or would say that Perl is adequately fast. In my own work, however, I find myself trying to eek our every tiny microsecond of improvement in speed even in my C++ programming. While I can, in effect, live with a massive search that perhaps takes a couple of hours, it nevertheless makes a significant difference if I can cut the time in half or so. Therefore, if you are asking yourself--to parody Microsoft-- "Where do I want to go in terms of programming," you should also ask, "How long do I want to take to get there?" Also, Gregory may have an objection to my comment about the learning curve for Perl, but I have looked a Perl files before at internet sources and can only say that I lost patience too quickly to learn it, which is saying something for someone who has taken on C/C++. Perhaps my problem was a (false?) perception that Perl is not sufficiently user-friendly. In that case, I'll conclude by encouraging others to at least take a look at Perl. You might also take a look at HyperCard, which I think is about as user-friendly as it gets, but far too slow to do any serious text processing or searching. Don Wilkins From: Eric Johnson Subject: Programming for the Humanities Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 07:10:35 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 809 (809) A recent posting on HUMANIST asked, [deleted quotation] The answer is that some of us do indeed continue to use modern versions of SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL. Descriptions of programs for text analysis are contained in my article "The World Wide Web, Computers, and Teaching Literature." The full text of my article can be found on the Web at http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/webprof.html I would be interested in any comments. --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Tzvee Zahavy Subject: Re: HUMANIST digest 488 Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 09:42:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 810 (810) ______________________________________________________________________________ ___ _ __ _____ _____ __ _ ___ ___ _ __ ___ _ ___ _ ___ _ __ ___ || | //\ || | || | || | // \ || | //\ ||\ | || | || / //\ || | ||--| ||--| ||--/ ||--/ \\/ || ||--| ||--| || \| || | ||/ ||--| ||--| ||~~| ||~~| ||~~ ||~~ // || ||~~| ||~~| || | ||__| ||\ ||~~| ||~~| || | || | || || || \\_/ || | || | || | \_/ || \ || | || | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \ ' / - (\ / (\ (\ (\ (\ / | ) - (\ (\ (\ (\ | ) | ) | ) | ) `| | ) | ) | ) | ) `| `| `| `| |~| `| `| `| |~| |~| |~| |~| | | |~| |~| |~| |~| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \~~~/ | | | | | | | | \~~~/ \~~~/ \~~~/ \~~~/ (_) \~~~/ \~~~/ \~~~/ \~~~/ (_) (_) (_) (_)_____(_)_____(_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) \======(_)======/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)_____________(_)_____________(_) (_) (_) (_) (_) \==============(_)==============/ (_) (_) (_) (_)_____________________(_)_____________________(_) (_) (_) \======================(_)======================/ (_) (_)_____________________________(_)_____________________________(_) \==============================(_)==============================/ __(_)__ __(=======)__ (=============) ______________________________________________________________________________ \ ____ ,_ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ ____ __ ____ / \ | | /_| |/_/ , | __| | __\ | | ,\ | | / \ / \----------------------------------------------------------------/ | ___ _|_____________________|_ | | _ _ ,------|,,,|------,| | C H A N U K A H | || | ( \___/^\___/ ) |_ ========= | \_/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\_/ | | |-------------| |\| 8 o o 8 | | | ||,\ ,-,-,_,-|| |~ 8\ /8 | ,*, , , , _ , , , , | | |||_||_|_|_|_|| | __|||||__ |/~/_U_U_U_U_|_U_U_U_U_ | | || _ _,-,_,-|| | / \\|// \ (@} \_\_\_\_|_/_/_/_/ | | || |=|-|=|-|=|| | / / \ \/ / |_\_\|/_/_| | | ||_|_|_|_|_|_|| | / /_ : |\__/ |\|/| | | ||-,_,-,,-, || | \___} : | | \|/ | | ||=|=|=||=|_ || | \____:____/ | | | | ||_|_|_||_|\\|| | //| | |\\ | /|\ | | |~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | ""| | |"" | |/|\| | / |/~~~~~~~~~~~\|--|----| | |----|---------/|/|\|\-----------\ / \__/ \__/ _| _|_ |_ \ / (__| |__) _ |_ \ / _|_ / \ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\ ============================================================================= Dr. Tzvee Zahavy Editor-in-chief, The Jewish Communication Network 212-302-3366 // mailto:zahavy@jcn18.com *Over 10 million hits each month* http://www.jcn18.com // World's Leading Jewish Internet Company http://www.jewishink.com // Cool Print Magazine of the Jewish Internet http://www.jewishguide.com // Jewish Places to eat and to go in NYC http://chat.jcn18.com // Jewish Chat anytime http://www.jewishclassifieds.com // Free ads online http://www.jewishmall.com // Jewish Shopping online http://www.jewishpersonals.com // 5000 Jewish Singles ---> http://www.NewDesk.com from Advanced Standards ---> Your Ready-to-Use Dynamic Content Publishing System ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: AP Postmaster Subject: TELICA: An on-line discussion Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:19:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 811 (811) The PERPETUAL ARISTOTLE announces a new discussion list, TELICA, an on-line forum for discussion of the theory of fine art. Discussion on TELICA is paced by periodic postings of a question by the moderator. A total of 150 of these questions will be posted beginning in early 1998. The exact date of the first posting will be announced to the list in early January. The philosophical vocabulary of the questions is Aristotelian. The forum is intended to encourage disciplined argument in the Aristotelo-scholastic manner. CONTRIBUTIONS Each subscriber to TELICA is required to submit one substantive contribution to the discussion each month. Subscribers who, in the estimation of the moderator, fail to participate in the discussion substantively will be unsubscribed. This rule will be applied seriously, not strictly or pedantically. A NOTE ON THE TITLE OF THE FORUM The title of the forum, TELICA, is a coinage fashioned after the Greek term *telos,* "end." It is employed as a generic name of things such as paintings, poems, musical compositions and so forth that today are often collectively called "artworks" or "works of fine art." The choice of this term reflects a view that such terms as "fine art" and "aesthetic" for different reasons are ill-conceived DISCUSSION ETIQUETTE Subscribers are asked to avoid addressing one another in the second person on-list, and to avoid mentioning persons, and in particular other subscribers, save as the authors of philosophical texts or arguments. A fuller explanation of this protocol is found in the welcome message to the list. SUBSCRIBING, UNSUBSCRIBING and DIGEST To send a message to the list, address it to: telica@aldinepress.com To send messages to the listserv, address it to: maiser@aldinepress.com To remove yourself from the list, address a message to the listerv (maiser@aldinepress.com) with the following single sentence in the message body: unsub telica To set your mail option to DIGEST, address a message to the listerv (maiser@aldinepress.com) with the following single sentence in the message body: SET TELICA DIGEST To reset your mail option to its original state, address a message to the listerv (maiser@aldinepress.com) with the following single sentence in the message body: SET TELICA NODIGEST To send a message to the list's moderator, Gerald Harnett, address it to: harnett@aldinepress.com To send a message to the director of the Perpetual Aristotle, Gerald Harnett, address it to: harnett@aldinepress.com From: Lloyd Davidson Subject: ALA Panel on Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 16:35:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 812 (812) For those of you who are going to the Midwinter meeting of the American Library Association in New Orleans: Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals LITA Special Interest Group http://www.lita.org/igs/epej.htm Panel Discussion and Business Meeting New Orleans Convention Center Rms. 97-98, Monday, January 12, 1998, 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Document Tracking in an Electronic Universe: Description, Applications and Implications of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and Publisher Item Identifiers (PIIs) Introduced and moderated by Kimberly Douglas Director, Sherman Fairchild Library and Technical Information Services California Institute of Technology Overview of issues: The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system has been designed to overcome the impermanence of URLs and to identify and track digital media at any desired level of granularity. The DOI System has been designed by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), in partnership with the Corporation For National Research Initiatives (CNRI), to link customers with publishers, facilitate electronic commerce, and enable copyright management systems. The DOI System, governed by The International DOI Foundation, is now in use by more than a dozen U.S. and European publishers. These include Academic Press, Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Houghton Mifflin, Springer-Verlag and Harcourt Brace. Widespread implementation of this system promises to have a profound effect on library functions and services, from ILL to online catalogs. The PII - Or, A funny thing happened on the way to the DOI Karen Hunter Senior Vice President Elsevier/North-Holland Scientific Publishing Co. DOI overview: what they are; how they are to be used; and how they work Ed Pentz Manager, Electronic Business Development Academic Press DOIs as an Internet standard: Update on NISOs DOI working groups Brian Green and Pat Harris Managing Agent of Book Industry Communication (BIC) BIC / EDItEUR Bringing DOIs into the library: DOI implementation in an integrated library system Cindy Edgington Miller Director of Product Strategy Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. Implications for library users and library services Julia C. Blixrud Senior Program Officer Association of Research Libraries \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Useful URLs for understanding digital object identifiers ------------------------------------------------------- Articles about DOIs: http://www.arl.org/newsltr/194/identifier.html Article by Clifford Lynch published in issue 194 of the ARL newsletter describing in very readable language the background on DOIs and articulating five issues and concerns regarding their use. A response by Bill Arms is linked from the end of this article. http://www.ybp.com/yrm/trialogue/497/497doi.htm DOI: Darling of Industry or Dead on Impact, Trialogue, no. 4, Spring 1997 http://www.ybp.com/yrm/trialogue/497/497rtsmn.htm Rights Management in the Digital Age: Trading in Bits, not Atoms, Trialogue, no. 4, Spring 1997 http://www.scripting.com/seybold/stories/960702.html Seybold's commentary is somewhat dated, July 1996, however the issues he articulates with the implementation of DOIs remain largely unresolved. http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/bicinfo.html This site provides the British perspective and is maintained by Brian Green, one of the programs speakers, and includes a link to the article, "In Search of the Unicorn: the DOI from a user Perspective" by Mark Bide discussing the methodology behind DOIs with scenarios and discussion. http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/uniquid Article by Brian Green (speaker) and Mark Bide entitled "Unique identifiers: a brief introduction." Introduces DOI vocabulary and addresses the shortcomings of legacy object identifiers (ISBN, ISSN, SICI). http://elsevier.nl/inca/homepage/about/infoident/ Norman Paskin's article "Information Identifiers," originally published in Learned Publishing, vol 10, no. 2 pp. 135-157 (April 1997), provides extensive technical background and assessment of various types of object identifiers that publishers have explored. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Publisher Demonstrations and Explanations of their work with DOIs: http://www.doi.org Publisher organized information describing the purpose and progress of each organization's work in developing DOIs. There are demos illustrating different publishers' implementations. http://www.apnet.com/www/doi Academic Press explanation and demonstration of its work with DOIs. The speaker Ed Pentz, above, is instrumental in this work. http://www.alcs.co.uk/doidocs/index.htm This site is for the Author's Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) which has linked the DOI system to a text numbering scheme and embedded the DOI in a text watermark using a system developed by the IMPRIMATUR project. This is done to identify any illegal use of the text. ###################################################### Organized by Lloyd Davidson Head Life Sciences and Access Services and Kaplan Humanities Fellow Northwestern University Mudd Library for Science and Engineering LDavids@nwu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jessica Altstatt Subject: FYA Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 19:52:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 813 (813) "Memo of the Month," From The Washington Monthly, January/February 1991, page 24: "This is an actual alert to IBM Field Engineers that went out to all IBM Branch Offices...." _____________________ Abstract: Mouse Balls Available as FRU (Field Replacement Unit) Mouse balls are now available as FRU. Therefore, if a mouse fails to operate or should it perform erratically, it may need a ball replacement. Because of the delicate nature of this procedure, replacement of mouse balls should only be attempted by properly trained personnel. Before proceeding, determine the type of mouse balls by examining the underside of the mouse. Domestic balls will be larger and harder than foreign balls. Ball removal procedures differ depending upon manufacturer of the mouse. Foreign balls can be replaced using the pop-off method. Domestic balls are replaced using the twist-off method. Mouse balls are not usually static sensitive. However, excessive handling can result in sudden discharge. Upon completion of ball replacement, the mouse may be used immediately. It is recommended that each replacer have a pair of spare balls for maintaining optimum customer satisfaction, and that any customer missing his balls should suspect local personnel of removing these necessary items. "To re-order, specify one of the following: P/N 33F8462 - Domestic Mouse Balls P/N 33F8461 - Foreign Mouse Balls" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Pinaula Subject: Re: 11.0481 perl and programming Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:03:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 814 (814) At 02:32 PM 12/24/97 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation]*snip* [deleted quotation]While having a copy of the O'Reilly book at least as a reference is a good idea once you've learned PERL, I can see how non-programmers may find it a little too code-intensive. David Till's _Teach Yourself PERL in 21 Days_ may prove readable enough for novices. The book is set up in a series of lessons and self-tests aimed at building the fundamentals of how PERL accomplishes tasks, leading to a pretty good understanding of the language by the book's end. Then, buying the O'Reilly book can help make you a wiz. David L. Pinaula English Department 421 Greenlaw Hall, CB # 3520 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 USA pinaula@email.unc.edu david.pinaula@mci2000.com Public Encryption Key at: http://www.unc.edu/~pinaula/pinaula.asc From: Fotis Jannidis Subject: Re: 11.0481 perl and programming Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 11:30:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 815 (815) I started two years ago programming with Perl and had almost none programming experience before. I used David Till: Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days. Sams 1996 as an introduction, because _Learning Perl_ is obviously not meant for the programming beginner and Till doesn't assume any programming knowledge. There is a lot to say in favour of Perl. It has no steep learning curve and you can start to do real work after a few lessons. Even if Perl is not as fast as C/C++, it is fast enough to handle even very large chunks of data. The "quick-and-dirty" access to programming in Perl comes very handy for a humanist, who doesn't want to bother about memory management, pointer arithmetics or the types of variables he/she uses. And another point worth mentioning: Perl is available on most platforms and there is a huge library of free modules and programs. The drawbacks are: Perl doesn't enforce structured programming which can easily lead to huge amounts of unmanageable "spaghetti-code". Its object-oriented programming model is difficult to understand and handle (at least for me and some others I talked to), but you don't have to use it. Perl does not provide any tools to develop a graphical interface (actually you can use Tk from Tcl, but only on Unix). The modules are version dependent. If you want to give a program to some non-programmer nowadays, I found it very difficult to persuade them to use text oriented ones. So I started working with Java for this kind of program. Its powerful API provides one with most of the building blocks for a program. Programming becomes more the glueing together of prefabricated software blocks, which seems to me to be the best way for people like us who have an area of knowledge to take care about next to programming. But Java has a much steeper learning curve. For the processing of text it is as far as I can see difficult to beat Perl. Regards, Fotis Jannidis I found Perl very useful. ________________________________________ Dr. Fotis Jannidis Institut fuer Deutsche Philologie LM Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Schellingstr. 3 /RG * D-80799 Muenchen Fx: -49-89-2180-3871 http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:19:23 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 816 (816) [deleted quotation] Fellow Colleagues: Bellow is an email message I have sent out to various individuals. It describes a proposed masters program I am trying to develop. Michael Neuman, Director of the Research, Curriculum, and Development, Academic Computing Services at Georgetown University suggested I send this proposed course of study to this Humanist Discussion list. I would be interested in getting your feedback. I should be done with a preliminary version of the masters proposal by the end of the month, or some time in early Feb. I would appreciate any feedback on it also after I send it out. Thanks Greg Thompson ------------ Hi Mark: Remember me? I was your student at the recorder workshop in Marin county this summer and I was wondering if you were interested in a business/professional proposition. I need a mentor for an independent masters program I am designing through Norwich University in Vermont. What I want to do is to combine my skills on software and multimedia development, historical research and the recorder into an interdisciplinary program studying some aspect of English Renaissance recorder music... As an undergraduate history student, I have been fascinated by the idea of the use of computers to enhance the study of the humanities, but I have been frustrated professionally in combining these two areas in some field of study or profession. Now, the opportunity has arisen to do so. This program at Norwich University is based on the Oxford tutorial manner of learning. I have always excelled in the is manner of learning, from special projects I have done in high school, through an accelerated program I got into in college, though my independent research as a professional writer and www page designer in the software industry. I spent Oct at Cambridge and Oxford and the British Museum, where I have gotten applications for reader privleges. I will have 3 mentors. You, if you choose to accept, would supervise my historical research on this period (meeting with me by phone or electronically to the tune of no more than an hour or so per week and helping me choose a body of literature of the period to study. If I choose to add a performance component by actually recording to a CD the works I research, I would pay Fred Palmer as a informal fourth mentor to supervise this activity), another mentor appointed by Norwich would be the coordinator, and the third mentor would handle the computer/multimedia/ instructional design component of my program. All three of you would approve my program before I would embark upon it. What would the possible outcome of such an interdisciplinary program be? Here are a few possibilities that I am incorporating into the proposal: 1. A final scholarly paper on some historical issue related to English Renaissance music (this is probably required) 2. A software multimedia presentation/CBT (computer based training) program (WWW based or CD-ROM both) giving a historical overview of the period for a college level music history student. 3. A sophisticated database of the recorder and music of the English renaissance period with full text and multimedia search capabilities.. As an employee of a database company, I have become fascinated how the use of technology alters of view of information, changing data into usable knowledge. I am looking at query tools by companies like Business Objects and IVEE that allow users to get graphical visualizations of trends in data. 4. Any combination of the previous 3 choices or the use of any other technology to explore the humanities.. There is an professional organization I plan on joining called the Association for Computers and the Humanities. I think I will be able get to get some potential project ideas from reading their scholarly journal. So what do you think? The university would pay you a nice stipend per year for your efforts. We can do the entire program by distance (the mentors don't have to be co-located, as long as we can demonstrate that we have regular contact with each other by some medium). I respect your love of recorder music and I think you and I have compatible personalities and interests such that we would work well together, and I think it would be a tremendous learning experience for both. If you are interested, I can send you all the literature about the program that Norwich University sent to me. I do have a favor to ask of you: I am in the process of putting together my initial proposal to send to Norwich University. I have to provide them with an initial bibliography that would cover the areas of study I wish to pursue. I was wondering if you and I could have a brief phone conversation with you about the music component of this bibliography? I would appreciate suggestions as to what type of material I should be looking for. I will call you. Take Care, Greg Thompson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: MLA Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 08:28:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 817 (817) The following query came to me out of a Washingtonian blue. Would anyone have an idea of where this fellow would look? If so, please send your suggestions to him directly, with a copy to Humanist. Thanks. Yours, WM [deleted quotation]- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources to Sublanguages and Applications Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 11:43:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 818 (818) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPER Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources to Sublanguages and Applications Granada May 26, 1998 This workshop will be held in conjunction with the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), to be held in Granada, Spain on May 28 - 30, 1998. The workshop will provide a forum for those researchers involved in the development of methods to integrate corpora and MRDs, with the aim of adding adaptive capabilities to existing linguistic resources. Workshop Scope and Aims Lexicons, i.e., those components of a NLP system that contain "computable" information about words, cannot be considered as static objects. Words may behave very differently in different domains, and there are language phenomena that do not generalize across sublanguages. Lexicons are a snapshot of a given stage of development of a language, normally providedwithout support for adaptation changes, whether caused by language creativity and development or the shift to such a previously unencountered domain. The divergence of corpus usage's from lexical norms has been studied computationally at least since the late Sixties, but only recently has the availability of large on-line corpora made it possible to establish methods to cope systematically with this problem. An emerging branch of research is now involved in studies and experiments on corpus-driven linguistics, with the aim of complementing and extending earlier work on lexicon acquisition based on Machine Readable Dictionaries (MRD): data are extracted from texts, as embodiments of language in use, so as to capture lexical regularities and to code them into operational forms. The purpose of this workshop will be to provide an updated snapshot of current work in the area, and promote discussion of how to make progress. Central topics will be (though this list is in no way exclusive): * corpus-driven tuning of MRDs to optimize domain-specific inferences, * terminology and jargon acquisition, * sense extensions, * acquisition of preference or subcategorization information from corpora * taxonomy adaptation, * staistical weighting of senses etc. to domains * use of MRDs to provide explanations of linguistic phenomena in corpora * what is the scope of "lexical tuning" * the evaluation of lexical tuning as a separate task, or as part of a more generic task Organizers: Roberto Basili (University of Roma "Tor Vergata"), Roberta Catizone (University of Sheffield), Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma "Tor Vergata"), Paola Velardi (University of Roma "La Sapienza), Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Preliminary Program Committee Yorick Wilks University of Sheffield Roberta Catizone University of Sheffield Paola Velardi University of Roma "La Sapienza" Maria Teresa Pazienza University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Roberto Basili University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Bran Boguraev Brandeis University Sergei Nirenburg New Mexico State University James Pustejowsky Brandeis University Ralph Grishman New York University Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University Paper Submission FORMATTING GUIDELINES: Papers should not exceed 4000 words or 10 pages. HARD COPIES: Three hard copies should be sent to: Paola Velardi Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Informazione via Salaria 113 00198 Roma Italy ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Electronic submission will be allowed in Poscript or Word per Mac or RTF. An ftp site will be available on demand. Authors should send an info email to Paola Velardi (velardi@dsi.uniroma1.it) even if they submit in paper form. An electronic submission should be accompanied by a plain ascii text. # 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 (Hard Copy/Electronic) February 20 Paper Notification March 20 Camera-Ready Papers Due April 15 L&CT workshop May 26 =========================================================================== Prof. Paola Velardi Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Informazione via Salaria 113 Universita' "La Sapienza" 00198 Roma ph. +39-(0)6-49918356 fax +39-(0)6-8541842 8841964 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: THE EVALUATION OF PARSING SYSTEMS - Workshop Call for Papers Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 11:44:45 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 819 (819) [deleted quotation] THE EVALUATION OF PARSING SYSTEMS a workshop jointly organised by the CEC Language Engineering 1 projects SPARKLE and ECRAN to be held at the FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 26 MAY 1998 This workshop will provide a forum for researchers interested in the development and evaluation of natural language grammars and parsing systems, and in the creation of syntactically annotated reference corpora. Organisers: John Carroll, Roberto Basili, Nicoletta Calzolari, Robert Gaizauskas, Gregory Grefenstette WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIMS The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of evaluation methods for parsing systems, and proposals for the development of syntactically annotated language resources. With increased attention to evaluation of component technology in language engineering, evaluation of parsing systems is rapidly becoming a key issue. Numerous methods have been proposed and while one, the Parseval/Penn Treebank scheme, has gained wide usage, this has to some extent been due to the absence of workable alternatives rather than to whole-hearted support. Parseval/PTB evaluation has several limitations and drawbacks, including a commitment to a particular style of grammatical analysis, and oversensitivity to certain innocuous types of misanalysis while failing to penalise other common types of more serious mistake. Also, the original published description of the scheme -- and the evaluation software widely distributed as a follow-up to it -- is specific to the English language. It may be that there are currently no alternative more workable schemes or proposals, but this needs to be more fully discussed: this workshop will provide an opportunity for such a debate. This workshop is particularly timely given the large number of CEC Language Engineering projects that involve parsing in one form or another and which need to evaluate and share the results of their efforts. Parsing is an essential part of many larger applications, such as Information Extraction, which have gained in importance over the last few years. Often in such systems, the strength of the parser and grammar has a direct effect on the desired results, and thus achieving good results rests on being able to determine and improve weaknesses in the parser/grammar. Without a reliable parser evaluation method this cannot be done effectively. A parsing evaluation workshop is also appropriate at this time given the imminent creation of large-scale syntactically annotated resources for European languages. Contributions from those involved in such activities are welcomed, so as to improve communication between the resource construction and the resource utilisation communities. This should ensure that the resources constructed are maximally useful to the general language engineering community. The organisation of this workshop brings together two European language engineering projects which are closely related and whose partners share similar research interests: SPARKLE and ECRAN. The organisers solicit contributions from the general community on the following topics: -- descriptions of generic syntactic annotation schemes -- methodologies and metrics for parsing system evaluation -- reports and analyses of the results of utilising particular parser evaluation schemes -- description/analysis/experience of language-dependent (especially for languages other than English) and task-dependent syntactic annotation schemes PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Roberto Basili Gregory Grefenstette Ted Briscoe Mark Hepple Nicoletta Calzolari Tony McEnery John Carroll Maria Teresa Pazienza Roberta Catizone Paola Velardi Robert Gaizauskas Yorick Wilks PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should not exceed 4000 words or 10 pages. Submission may be in either hard copy or electronic form. The submission deadline is February 15th, 1998. Hard Copy Submission: Three copies of the paper should be sent to: Dr John Carroll Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH UK Electronic Submission: Electronic submission may be in either self-contained Latex, Postscript, or RTF formats, to john.carroll@cogs.susx.ac.uk. For each submission -- whether hard copy or electronic -- a separate plain ascii text email message should be sent to John Carroll, containing the following information: # NAME : Name of first author # TITLE: Title of the paper # PAGES: Number of pages # NOTE : Any relevant instructions # KEYS : Keywords # EMAIL: Email of the first author # ABSTR: Abstract of the paper . . . . . . IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline (hard copy/electronic) February 15th Notification of acceptance March 10th Camera-ready papers due April 10th Workshop May 26th CONFERENCE INFORMATION General information about the conference is at: <http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/conflre.html> Specific queries about the conference should be directed to: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traduccion e Interpretacion Dpto. de Traduccion e Interpretacion C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 Granada, SPAIN Tel: +34 58 24 41 00 - Fax: +34 58 24 41 04 reli98@goliat.ugr.es From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Deception and Trust Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 11:45:41 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 820 (820) [deleted quotation] DECEPTION, FRAUD and TRUST in AGENT SOCIETIES Workshop at the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA'98) <http://www.cis.udel.edu/~agents98> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Description of the workshop: The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers that can contribute to a better understanding of trust and deception in agent societies. Most agent models assume secure and reliable communication to exist between agents. However, this ideal situation is seldom met in real life. Therefore, many techniques (e.g. contracts, signatures, long-term personnel relationships) have been evolved over time to detect and prevent deception and fraud in human communication, exchanges and relations, and hence to assure trust between agents. In recent research on electronic commerce trust has been recognized as one of the key factors for successful electronic commerce adoption. In electronic commerce problems of trust are magnified, because agents reach out far beyond their familiar trade environments. Also it is far from obvious whether existing paper-based techniques for fraud detection and prevention are adequate to establish trust in an electronic network environment where you usually never meet your trade partner physically, and where messages can be read or copied a million times without leaving any trace. Trust building is more than secure communication via electronic networks, as can be obtained with, for example, public key cryptography techniques. For example, the reliability of information about the status of your trade partner has very little to do with secure communication. With the growing impact of electronic commerce distance trust building becomes more and more important, and better models of trust and deception are needed. One trend is that in electronic communication channels extra agents, the so-called Trusted Third Parties, are introduced in an agent community that take care of trustbuilding among the other agents in the network. For example, in some cases the successful application of public key cryptography critically depends on trusted third parties that issue the keys. Although we do not focus in this workshop on techniques for secure communication (e.g. public key cryptography), we would welcome analyses about the advantages and limitations of these techniques for trustbuilding. The notion of trust is definitely important in other domains of agents' theory, beyond that of electronic commerce. It seems even foundational for the notion of "agency" and for its defining relation of acting "on behalf of". So, trust is relevant also in HC interaction; consider the relation between the user and her/his personal assistant (and, in general, her/his computer). But it is also critical for modeling groups and teams, organisations, coordination, negotiation, with the related trade-off between local/individual utility and global/collective interest; or in modelling distributed knowledge and its circulation. In sum, the notion of trust is crucial for all the major topics of Multi-Agent systems. Thus what is needed is a general and principled theory of trust, of its cognitive and affective components, and of its social functions. Analogously the study of deception not only is very relevant for avoiding practical troubles, but it seems really foundational for the theory of communication. First, because it challenges Grice's principles of linguistic communication; second, because the notion of "sign" itself has been defined in semiotics in relation to deception: "In principle, Semiotics is the discipline studying whatever can be used for lying" (U. Eco). Thus not only practical defences from deception (like reputations, guaranties, etc.), but also a general and principled theory of deception and of its forms (including fraud) are needed. We would encourage an interdisciplinary focus of the workshop as well as the presentation of a wide range of models of deception, fraud and trust(building). Just to mention some examples; AI models, BDI models, cognitive models, game theory, and also management science theories about trustbuilding. Suggested topics include, but are not restricted to: * models of deception and of its functions * models of trust and of its functions * models of fraud * role of trust and trusted third parties (TTP) in electronic commerce * defensive strategies and mechanisms * ways to detect and prevent deception and fraud WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION The full-day workshop will be aimed at creating an informal atmosphere for stimulating discussions, interdisciplinary exchange and deep understanding of each other's pespective. We plan to have both: Paper presentations: Long presentations (25-30 min) of the accepted papers, plus 10-15 minutes for discussion (possibly with discussants). Plenary discussion at the end. Panel sessions: A couple of topics will be selected for a focused discussion. Some of the attendees will be requested to participate as panelists. The panels chairs will circulate prior to the workshop a list of questions for the panelists. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. The publication of a revised version of the accepted papers is being negotiated with a high quality publisher. SUBMISSION: CRITERIA, FORMATS, PROCEDURE The workshop welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers addressing issues that are clearly relevant to trust, deception and fraud in agent-based systems, either from a theoretical or an applied perspective. Papers will be peer reviewed by at least two referees from a group of reviewers selected by the workshop organizers. Submitted papers should be new work that has not been published elsewhere or is not about to be published elsewhere. Paper submissions: will include a full paper and a separate title page with the title, authors (full address), a 300-400 word abstract, and a list of keywords. The length of submitted papers must not exceed 12 pages including all figures, tables, and bibliography. All papers must be written in English. * The authors must send by email the title page of their paper by January 15th. * Submissions must be send electronically, as a postscript or MSword format file, by January 20th. * The authors must also airmail one hard copy of their paper to two of the organizers as soon as possible after the electronic submission. * No submissions by fax or arriving after the deadline will be accepted. SUBMISSION ADDRESS for the electronic submission Rino Falcone falcone@pscs2.irmkant.rm.cnr.it tel. +39 - 6 - 860 90 211 for the airmail hard copy Babak Sadighi Firozabadi Department of Computing - Imperial College 180 Queen's Gate - London SW7 2BZ - U.K. and (notice "and") Cristiano Castelfranchi National Research Council - Institute of Psychology Viale Marx, 15 - 00137 Roma - ITALY tel +39 6 860 90 518 IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for the electronic title page January 15, 1998 Deadline for Paper Submission January 20, 1998 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection March 1, 1998 Deadline for camera-ready version April 1, 1998 Workshop May 9, 1998 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Phil Cohen Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Oregon Inst. of Science and Tech., USA Robert Demolombe CERT/ONERA, France Andrew J I Jones Dept. of Philosophy - Univ. of Oslo, Norway Anand Rao Australian AI Institute, Melbourne, Australia Munindar Singh Dept. of Computer Science - North Carolina State University, USA Chris Snijders Dept. of Sociology, Utrecht, The Netherlands Gilad Zlotkin VP Engineering, Israel Gerd Wagner Inst.f.Informatik - Univ. Leipzig, Germany Cristiano Castelfranchi (co-chair) National Research Council - Institute of Psychology- Rome, Italy Yao-Hua Tan (co-chair) EURIDIS - Erasmus University - Rotterdam - The Netherlands Rino Falcone (co-organizer) National Research Council - Institute of Psychology- Rome, Italy Babak Sadighi Firozabadi (co-organizer) Department of Computing - Imperial College - London - UK ========== Rino Falcone IP - CNR National Research Council Division of "Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Modeling and Interaction" Viale Marx, 15 00137 ROMA email: falcone@pscs2.irmkant.rm.cnr.it or falcone@vaxiac.iac.rm.cnr.it tel: ++39 6 86090.211 fax: ++39 6 86090.214 From: Mike Fraser Subject: Computers & Texts 16: Call for Articles and Reviews Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:46:31 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 821 (821) COMPUTERS & TEXTS 16: 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 HE 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 IT currently being used in undergraduate/postgraduate courses (especially within UK higher education). Reviews of relevant books and conference reports are also welcome. We would also consider short IT-related profiles of UK departments (further details available on request). All contributions for Computers & Texts 16 should reach the Centre by 20 February 1998. 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 screenshots) on a 3.5" disk. Articles should not normally exceed 2,500 words and reviews should be between 800-1,500 words. Please feel free to discuss any article/review prior to submission. Contributions will appear in both the print and electronic editions of Computers & Texts. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michael Fraser Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk Manager, CTI Textual Studies Fax: +44 1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS Tel: +44 1865 283 282 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/ Oxford OX2 6NN From: Ineke Schuurman Subject: Corpora: EUROCALL 98 Conference (update!) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 18:13:48 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 822 (822) UPDATE !! KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, LINOV-UPV, WvT-COTO, VGC-BITS2 invite you to the EUROCALL 98 Conference FROM CLASSROOM TEACHING TO WORLD-WIDE LEARNING venue: Faculty of Arts, K.U.Leuven, Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, Leuven, Belgium, 9 - 12 September 1998 Update of GENERAL INFORMATION CALL FOR PAPERS REGISTRATION FORM Pre-conference workshops, keynote presentations, poster sessions, demonstrations, parallel sessions and workshops; PC-labs, the one-computer classroom, multimedia, courseware, software, authorware; learning theory, educational principles, psychology of instruction, educational policy; e-mail, WWW, video-conferencing, school projects, text processing, idea management ICT (Information and Communications Technology) expands the boundaries of learning: from the small classroom to a global scale, passing limits of space and time. Learning becomes asynchronous: e-mail, the WWW, video-conferencing,... allow international contacts. Learning becomes more autonomous, student-oriented with the teacher as a facilitator. From being teacher-centred the process becomes learner-centred. Language learning plays the central role in this change. All correspondence to the Conference Secretariat: Claudine Van Volsem, EUROCALL 98, LINOV/UPV, Celestijnenlaan 200 A, B-3001 Heverlee, BELGIUM, tel. +32 16 32 77 31, fax +32 16 32 79 75 e-mail: eurocall98@linov.kuleuven.ac.be web-site: http://www.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/eurocall98 President of the local organising committee: Prof. dr. Michael Goethals, Faculty of Arts, e-mail: michael.goethals@arts.kuleuven.ac.be EUROCALL is the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning, an association of language teaching professionals in Europe and world-wide CONFERENCE THEME FROM CLASSROOM TEACHING TO WORLD-WIDE LEARNING: FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE WORLD * integration of ICT (Information and Communciations Technology) in the language curriculum with emphasis on their potential for stimulating international contacts and enhancing the quality, diffusion and cost-effectiveness of language content either in a classroom, self-access or distance-learning environment * assessment and evaluation of software tools and resources (with a special attention on telematics and multimedia) FROM THE TEACHER TO THE LEARNER: * new language learning strategies (autonomous learning, data-driven learning, learner-centred learning) and their influence on courseware design * ICT-developments (www, e-mail, computer conferencing, and their implications for new language learning strategies) [material deleted -- see the Web page] Eurocall98 Conference: http://www.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/eurocall98 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ECML'98 TANLPS Workshop: First Call for Paper Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:21:32 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 823 (823) ECML-98 Workshop: First Call for Papers ECML-98 Workshop: Towards adaptive NLP-driven systems: linguistic information, learning methods and applications Organized by : R. Basili, M .T. Pazienza (University of Roma, Tor Vergata), ITALY Since most of the applications, from syntactic to semantic, are lexicon driven, systematic and reliable acquisition on a large scale of linguistic information is the real challenge to Natural Language Processing (NLP). Empiricist view on Natural Language Processing and Learning has become recently more attractive for a wider research community: computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology then seemed to converge on a specific data-oriented perspective aiming to overcome the traditional knowledge acquisition bottleneck. It has been often noted that the limited attention paid by the machine learning community to text and speech data seems unjustified. It is thus more and more evident that empirical learning of Natural Language Processing (NLP) can alleviate the NLP main problem by means of a variety of methods for the automatic induction of lexical knowledge. Lexical knowledge is often hard to compile by hand, and even harder to port and reuse. NLP application systems have still a low impact on real world problems, mainly due to the costs related to reusability and customization of the required lexicons. In particular changes in the domain, causes changes in the lexical information required in the underlying natural language. Empirical, symbolic machine learning methods can be perfectly suited for this task like automatic acquisition and adaptation of this klnowledge. Rule induction, symbolic approaches to clustering, lazy learning, and inductive logic programming, have been already proposed by a growing community that is entering the challenge for theoretical (i.e. methodological) and application purposes A variety of techniques seems to be combined in order to successfully design realistic inductive systems for text processing: the target of this research are methodological and design principles for systems combining linguistic and lexical learning capabilities for large scale language processing tasks. This is what we mean with adaptive NLP-driven systems. Within this research enterprise, some issues can favour a sinergistic process between NLP and ML areas: the access to large data sets, that are even increasing over time, due to the telematics facilities available nowaday; extending the set of typical classes of ML problems to other hard cases (particularly dense in the NLP processes); adding inductive capabilities to NLP system for tasks related to specific applications (i.e. Information Extraction). The proposed Workshop is thus aiming to stimulate reasearch and discussion on the following aspects : - Establishing results and evidencies on the suitability of different ML paradigms on specific levels of representation of lexical knowledge (morphology, syntax, linguistic inference among others) - Comparison of the quantitative approaches to lexical acquisition with empirical symbolic methods - Stimulating discussion on cognitive perspective of some models within a plausible architecture for Language Processing and Learning - Establishing results on the applicability of the extracted/induce knowledge within NLP systems, with respect to assessed evaluation criteria, typical of the ML and Language Engineering (LE) area - Case studies on adaptive NLP systems, i.e. effective NLP systems integrating linguistic inferences with inductive capabilities (WWW KB at CMU, ECRAN), - Critical review of existing experiences on adaptive NLP systems - Establishing guidelines for an evaluation framework of adaptive NLP systems : accuracy of the linguistic process, robustness of the induction process, ... - Promote cooperation among research groups in Europe and USA to exchange ideas, data and tools for design and experiment architectures for adaptive NLP systems WorkShop format : The Workshop is expected to cover the whole day. In the first session, a part from an invited talk, we expect to cover methodological issues. Papers related to advanced research on suitability of learning paradigms for the different target lexical information will be favoured. Prototypical examples in this area are studies on empirical learning of tasks like POS tagging, induction of grammatical information, symbolic learning of word sense disambiguation criteria and lexical semantic information. A panel discussion is expected to close the morning session and focus on principles of suitability for learning paradigms vs. lexical levels. In the second half of the day we expect to stimulate partecipants to cover application areas, like IR and IE, by a couple of invited talks on existing adaptive systems as a basis for presenting novel aspects on integration of NLP capabilities with learning from experience (examples, errors, performance). A set of at least other 3 or 4 papers is expected to concentrate on original research works that we know are currently under development in several reasearch centres in Europe (Sheffield University, Tilburg, Rome Tor Vergata and Torino University). A Panel discussion on the implication of the adaptive paradigm on existing and potential NLP systems will close the Workshop. Program Committee R. Basili (University of Roma, Tor Vergata, ITALY) M. Craven (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) W. Daelemans (University of Tilburg, NEDERLANDS) M.T. Pazienza (University of Roma, Tor Vergata, ITALY) L. Saitta (University of Torino, ITALY) C. Samuelssonn (Bell Labs, AT&T, USA) Y. Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK) Paper Submission: ============ Papers should not exceed 3000 words or 6 pages Hard Copy Submission: Three copies of the paper should be sent to: Roberto Basili Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production University of Roma, Tor Vergata Via di Tor Vergata 00133 Roma (ITALY) e-mail: basili@info.utovrm.it Electronic Submission: Electronic submission may be in either self-contained Postscript or RTF formats, to basili@info.utovrm.it For each submission -- whether hard copy or electronic -- a separate plain ascii text email message should be sent to Roberto Basili, containing the following information: # NAME : Name of first author # TITLE: Title of the paper # PAGES: Number of pages # FILES: Name of file (if attachments are submitted electronically) # NOTE : Any relevant instructions # KEYS : Keywords # EMAIL: Email of the first author # ABSTR: Abstract of the paper . . . . . . Timetable: Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers: 5 January 1998 Papers due : 15 February 1998 Notification of Acceptance : 5 March 1998 Final version due : 25 March 1998 ==== cut here ==== ------------------------------------------------------ Roberto Basili Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production University of Roma, Tor Vergata Via di Tor Vergata 00133 Roma (ITALY) e-mail: basili@info.utovrm.it tel: +39 - 6 - 7259 7391 fax: +39 - 6 - 7259 7460 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Technology in the Department Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 15:47:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 824 (824) Greetings all, Despite the myriad of problems and discomforts attending the annual MLA convention, I find that it affords me the pleasure of renewing friendships that have faded during the previous twelve months. Out of this renewal process I often arrive at a "theme" for the gathering, a subject that invariably arises in every chat and discussion. This year's theme seems to be despair over the continuing indifference to technology found in most departments. The theme manifested itself in a variety of subplots, but the overriding feeling was one of resignation verging on hopelessness. Those on the market were discouraged that this year's job advertisements rarely mentioned technology (outside Composition and Rhetoric), and then the key phrase seemed to be World Wide Web. Interviewers too seemed uninterested in the subject, aside from the occasional reference to e-mail or Web pages. Those who have been active in using digital resources noticed that sessions on technology prompt the same audience responses as in past years, usually a variation of "Gee, I really ought to try that." Those who pursue research within the broad field of humanities computing report continued disregard for their efforts in terms of promotion and tenure. Only my colleagues who have left academia for the private sector seemed happy and prosperous. By the time I boarded my Air Canada flight back to Atlanta, I felt rather like Trevisan fleeing the Cave of Despair. Now, I confess I have often taken the zealous attitude of the convert when discussing technology with colleagues in my own department. If only they would open their minds to the healing power of computers, I think, as if I were a fundamentalist healer trying to invoke a born-again experience. I fear such an evangelical approach has sparked few to take up the new, white, digital robe--indeed, some look at me as if I were asking them to grab a snake. My Toronto experience has prompted me to rethink my zealotry. Perhaps it's time to drop the reformer stance and work instead on a quiet, collaborative strategy. My New Years resolution, then, is to create opportunities within my department and college that gently encourage the introduction of humanities computing into teaching and research. I'll try to come up with projects designed to get traditional- and technology-minded scholars working together. I'll look for ways to develop training programs that fit into the typical academic overbooked calendar. And I'll resist the urge to play John the Baptist in the common room! Best wishes to all for 1998, and I'd welcome responses from anyone who would like to share similar resolutions. Dave Gants -- David L. Gants *** Department of English *** Park Hall University of Georgia *** Athens, GA *** 30602-6205 dgants@english.uga.edu *** (706) 542-1261 From: Willard McCarty Subject: systematic and explicit Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 08:05:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 825 (825) In the process of writing about my own research, I keep trying to simplify what I say it is all about, and in particular how my computational methods have affected the nature of the work. As a New Year's greeting (under the gloom of wet and blustery skies) let me try out one version of one part on you. Reactions will be most welcome. For the sake of simplicity, consider only textual computing. Then would it be fair to say that a project that uses computational methods for analysis differs methodologically from one that does not in that the former is systematic, explicit and exhaustively detailed? Of course one can use computational methods in an unsystematic way, hide how one does what one does and give much of the detail a miss, but I am assuming that the project in question goes as far as one can to follow the methodological contours of the machine, as it were. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: COMPARISON OF COPYRIGHT BILLS Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 14:25:40 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 826 (826) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 5, 1998 COMPARISON OF COPYRIGHT BILLS <http://www.ari.net/dfc/legislat/wipo.htm> For those wishing to compare the language and provisions of the Administration's "WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act" (H.R. 2281) with H.R. 3048, the "Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act" introduced by Representatives Boucher and Campbell in November, 1997, a side-by-side comparison is available on the web site of the Digital Future Coalition: <http://www.ari.net/dfc/legislat/wipo.htm>. Among other differences, you will note that H.R. 3048 has provisions for Fair Use, Library/Archive Exemptions, First Sale, Distance Learning, "Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs and digital copies," and non-preemption by licensing terms, while H.R. 2281 does not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Seminar at King's College London Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 08:44:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 827 (827) PLEASE CIRCULATE ---------------- King's College London Seminar in Humanities Computing Spring term 1998 FRIDAY 16 JANUARY (1.00-1.55pm) Tony McEnery (Linguistics, Lancashire) Who do the British think they are? Room 2B13, 2nd Basement, Strand Building ABSTRACT Collocations have begun to achieve increasing attention in both corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. Studies have shown that rather loose groupings of words are clearly observable in texts which seem to reflect both norms of usage and cultural attitudes. In short there seems to be a variety of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic references that we can observe in text without input from native speakers. In this talk I want to review what work has been undertaken to date in corpus and computational linguistics on collocation. With this done, I want to examine how credible both human and machine ratings of collocates are by looking at a series of examples drawn from the British National Corpus. Examples which reveal the attitude of the British to themselves and to others. -------------------- The following Seminars are confirmed for this term. Additional details will be published for each closer to the event. THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY (One-day colloquium) Gregory Crane (Tufts), Charles Crowther (Oxford), James O'Donnell (Pennsylvania), Don Fowler (Oxford), Geoffrey Waywell (King's College London and Institute for Classical Studies) Computing in Classical Studies Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU FRIDAY 20 MARCH (1.00-1.55pm) Derek Law (Information Services and Systems, King's College London) Treasure chest or Pandora's box: unleashing the electronic library Committee Room WEDNESDAY 6 MAY (One-day colloquium) Barry Ife (King's College London), Stanley Katz (Princeton), John Laver (Edinburgh and British Academy) and Antonio Zampolli (Pisa) Computing in the Academy, focusing on the academic recognition of computing-related scholarly work in the humanities. Room TBA -------------------- All events are held at King's College London, Strand campus, unless otherwise noted. For more information, contact the undersigned. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: David Green Subject: MANAGING DIGITAL IMAGE PROJECTS: AN RLG WORKSHOP Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:40:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 828 (828) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 5, 1998 MANAGING DIGITAL IMAGING PROJECTS: An RLG Workshop <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mdip.html> February 4-6, 1998 - University of Chicago May 13-15, 1998 - University of Leeds, UK May 18-20, 1998 - University of Leeds, UK November, 1998 - CA Registration for Chicago workshop now open at <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mdip.html> ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- [deleted quotation]Managing Digital Imaging Projects: An RLG Workshop Following on the heels of October's successful workshop held at the Smithsonian Institution, RLG is pleased to offer its second 2.5-day workshop designed to assist librarians, archivists, curators, and preservation administrators in managing digital imaging projects. Through lectures, demonstrations, and group exercises, participants will learn to: * set realistic goals and objectives * benchmark imaging and indexing requirements * determine necessary technical infrastructure to support imaging and access (hardware, software, network, communication protocols) * prepare budgets (including the use of the RLG Worksheet for Estimating Digital Reformatting Projects) * identify facilities, space, and staffing needs * develop an RFI & RFP from models provided, select vendor(s), prepare a contract for services, and develop on-going relationships * monitor project activities and schedule * establish a quality control program * collaborate with others to provide access to and maintenance of digital collections. The curriculum was developed for RLG through a contract with Cornell University's Department of Preservation and Conservation. Taught by Anne Kenney, Associate Director of the Department of Preservation and Conservation, Cornell University and Oya Rieger, Digital Projects Librarian, Cornell University, the workshop will be offered four times in 1998. The first workshop was held on October 27-29, 1997 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The upcoming workshop will be held on February 4-6, 1998 at the University of Chicago. The remaining workshops are tentatively scheduled as follows: May 13-15, 1998 (University of Leeds, UK) May 18-20, 1998 (University of Leeds, UK) November, 1998 (CA) How to Register: Registration for the workshops is on a first-come, first-served basis, with RLG members having priority over non-members. Enrollment for each workshop is limited to 35 participants. Online registration is available through the RLG PRESERV web site <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/>. The prepaid registration fee for the workshop is $250 for RLG members and $400 for non-members. The cost includes the course workbook as well as lunch on days one and two. Additionally, workshop participants may purchase a copy of Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives by Anne R. Kenney and Stephen Chapman (Cornell University Library, 1996) for the reduced rate of $50. (Though not required for the workshop, this notebook is a valuable source of information and is recommended reading for the course.) Transportation and hotel accommodations will be the responsibility of participants (email with hotel reservation information will be sent to those whose applications have been accepted). Registration for the February, 1998 (Chicago, IL) workshop is now open. Please use the on-line form to apply for registration. You will be notified of acceptance within a few weeks. If you are interested in any of the other regionally-located workshops, you can use the registration form to express interest. If you have questions about the workshops or the registration process, please contact either Fran Devlin (650-691-2239) or Robin Dale (650-691-2238). ------------------------------------------------------------- |Robin L. Dale | |Member Programs & Initiatives | |Research Libraries Group, Inc. Email: BL.RLD@RLG.ORG*| |1200 Villa Street Voice: (650) 691-2238 | |Mountain View, CA 94041-1100 Fax: 650.964.0943 | | | | * For long or MIME-compliant email messages, please use: | | Robin_Dale@notes.rlg.org | ------------Please note the new area code-------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Steve McCarty Subject: 50 Excellent Universities in Asia Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 15:58:58 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 829 (829) This installment of "Gleanings from Pacific Asia" to start the Year of the Tiger will be longish in order to serve as a reference document. For the first time, and from a reliable source based in Asia, the 50 best universities in Asia have been reported on by Cesar Bacani et al., "Asia's Search for Excellence," in a December 1997 _Asiaweek_ special edition "Asia's Biggest and Best 1997." The universities are listed with little commentary, and the results should be viewed as a first attempt. They surveyed peer reputation, quantifiable faculty resources and the value undergraduates receive for their tuition. Although they factored out relative wealth, they did concede that money buys quality to some extent, affecting the representation of countries listed. I would add the caution that, although it is remarkable that most countries have adopted aspects of Western university institutional culture, the people of countries not listed must not be considered backward for maintaining their indigenous languages and approaches to knowledge. _Asiaweek_ itself is published in English in Hong Kong. I recommend it as an offline news source, although much of it is offered free on the Web^Á@ at URL <http://www.pathfinder.com/@@8p1GuAUA69QxAfrH/Asiaweek/>. There it can be seen that _Asiaweek_ aims to covers Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, "Central Asia", China, "The Gulf", Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. However, it is not evident that _Asiaweek_ attempted to survey Central Asian, Siberian or Middle Eastern universities, as they are not represented among the 50. The scope of the survey may thus be confined to universities in South Asia, East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. "College and University Home Pages - Geographical Listing" at URL <http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/geog.html> includes over 3,000 institutions in more than 80 countries. One might select Asian geopolitical entities and still be faced with long lists of schools with unfamiliar names. So the _Asiaweek_ survey will be of reference, e.g., to academics seeking contact with the more reputable Asian universities or needing to evaluate the educational credentials of Asian scholars. In any event, the above URL provides access to WWW home pages and contact information for most universities online worldwide, including the 50 presented below and many more in Asia worthy of recognition. Rather than listing the 50 in order, I think it will be easier to follow if I go by country in rough order as to their number and relative quality. It will be seen thereby that the first tier of countries includes Japan, Australia and China, if Hong Kong is included (the survey treats them as separate entities). Now here are the results of the _Asiaweek_ survey: JAPAN: 1) Tokyo U, 2) Kyoto U, 12) Keio, 26) Waseda, 35) Doshisha, and 40) Aoyama [Gakuin]. AUSTRALIA: 6) U of New South Wales, 9) U of Melbourne, 13) Australian National U, 14) U of Sydney, 17) Monash U, 21) U of Queensland, 24) U of Adelaide, and 46) U of Western Australia. HONG KONG: 3) U of Hong Kong, 5) Chinese U of Hong Kong, and 10) Hong Kong U of Science and Technology. CHINA: 7) Peking U, 28) Fudan U [in Shanghai, the world's most populous city], 33) Zhongsan (Sun Yatsen) U, 45) Qinghua U, and 48) Nanjing U. SINGAPORE: 4) National U of Singapore, and 15) Nanyang Technological U. SOUTH KOREA: 16) Seoul National U, 18) Yonsei U, and 31) Korea U. INDONESIA: 19) Institut Teknologi Bandung, 32) Universitas Indonesia, 37) Universitas Gadjah Mada, 38) Universitas Airlangga, and 42) Universitas Diponegoro. MALAYSIA: 11) U of Malaya, 20) National U of Malaysia, and 49) Science U of Malaysia. TAIWAN: 8) National Taiwan U, and 23) National Tsing Hua U. PHILIPPINES: 25) U of the Philippines, 39) Ateneo de Manila U, 41) De La Salle U, and 43) U of Santo Tomas. INDIA: 29) U of Delhi, 47) Jawaharlal Nehru U, and 50) U of Bombay. NEW ZEALAND: 22) U of Auckland, and 27) Victoria U of Wellington. THAILAND: 36) Thammasat U, and 44) Chulalongkorn U. MACAO: [China from 1999] 30) Universidade de Macao. SRI LANKA: 34) U of Columbo. Among the anomalies were that some universities did not respond to the survey, yet were included on their academic reputations (44-50). Others were in effect docked for withholding sensitive financial or personnel information. So it is possible to rank the 50 differently by looking more closely at the results, but comparisons like this are relative. Nonetheless, the survey represents a useful first attempt to compare the quality of many Asian and Australasian universities. This and more refined future surveys will afford more discernment in networking decisions with respect to Asia. Steve McCarty Professor, Kagawa Junior College, Japan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" (2) Subject: Corpora: Call for papers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 830 (830) ****************************************************************** Natural Language Processing in Computer-Assisted Language Learning One-Day Conference UMIST, Manchester, 9 May 1998 ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ++ Please forward to other people who might be interested. ++ DATE and VENUE Saturday 9 May 1998 at UMIST, Manchester, UK. Centre for Computational Linguistics, Renold Building, F5. The conference is organised by the Centre for Computational Linguistics in association with EUROCALL. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Allan Ramsay, UMIST Tony Hartley, Brighton Bernd Rueschoff, Karslruhe Christoph Zaehner, Cambridge ORGANISERS Marie-Jose Hamel, UMIST Mathias Schulze, UMIST AIMS Natural language processing (NLP) tools and techniques are used in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). This conference aims to look at their use and integration in CALL software. NLP tools supporting all areas of language learning and all linguistic skills can be discussed. WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? Researchers in CALL, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence who are interested in combining Natural Language Processing and Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Researchers who have designed or are designing CALL software which makes use of any kind of NLP tools (tagger, parser, conceptual dictionary, speech synthesis and speech recognition systems, etc.). YOUR CONTRIBUTION A presentation of 30 minutes which will be followed by 10 min. for questions. Please send an abstract of about 500 words, by email (see the address below). Please include title of presentation, name, affiliation, contact address. Deadline: 28 February 1998 POSSIBLE TOPICS - Use of NLP tools in CALL programs - NLP techniques and SLA - Linguistics for NLP in CALL - Notion of Intelligence in CALL - Assessment and feedback with NLP tools PUBLICATION Papers presented at this conference will be refereed for the ReCALL journal. COST The conference fee is 40 pounds, to cover registration, light lunch and refreshments. Accomodation can be arranged through the conference organisers. FURTHER DETAILS / QUESTIONS / ABSTRACTS All correspondence regarding this conference should be sent to: mjhamel@ccl.umist.ac.uk or mathias@ccl.umist.ac.uk Marie-Jos Hamel & Mathias Schulze Department of Language Engineering UMIST PO Box 88 Manchester, UK M60 1QD http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/whatsnew/nlpcall.html mathias mathias@ccl.umist.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Elaine Nardocchio 1945-1998 Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 09:13:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 831 (831) Dear Colleagues: It is with great sadness that I announce the death of our colleague Elaine Nardocchio, 3 January 1998, pioneer in humanities computing in Canada, founding President of the Consortium for Computing in the Humanities and friend to many of us there. As a representative to the Consortium for a number of years and editor of its newsletter, I recall many lively meetings chaired by Elaine and stimulated by her enthusiasm and driving energy. Pulling representatives from across that stretched-out country to any one place along its narrow band of population centres -- and convincing their deans to pay for the trips and to help fund the organisation -- takes much energy, persuasive power and vision. She had that, and more. She will be missed. As Ian Lancashire, current President of the Consortium, wrote in a recent note to members, [deleted quotation] The following obituary is taken directly from her web page. Yours, WM ----- Nardocchio, Elaine Frances, B.A. St Francis Xavier University, M.A. Middlebury College, Ph.D., Université Laval, Associate Professor of French at McMaster University - Born July 5th, 1945 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Died peacefully at home in Toronto January 3rd, 1997, after a courageous and in many ways successful struggle against cancer. Survived by her husband, Charles Jones and her son, Gavin Nardocchio-Jones, as well as by her parents, Anthony and Kay Nardocchio and her sisters, Carolyn Ross and Patricia Barrington. Sincere thanks to friends, colleagues and health care professionals who helped in so many ways over a three-year period. Open, generous, outspoken and with considerable presence, she served as President of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities (now the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Federation) as well as exercising leadership in a wide range of organizations from the North Toronto Soccer League to the Canadian Consortium for Computing in the Humanities and the PLURALT interdisciplinary research group at McMaster University. Always striving to make a difference, she attended many academic gatherings and ornamented them with her passion and style. The videos that she made for her course on Québec theatre will contribute to her teaching legacy, as will those she made about her strategies for coping with cancer. Visitation at Trull Funeral Home, 2704 Yonge St., 2:00 p.m. Monday January 5th. Funeral service at Glenview Presbyterian Church, 1 Glenview Avenue 2:00 p.m. Tuesday January 6th. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Elaine Nardocchio Memorial Fellowship, Dean of Humanities, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L9, or to the Wellspring Foundation: 81, Wellesley St. East, Toronto, M4Y 1H6. ----- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Richard Heinzkill Subject: MLA citation template Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 15:09:05 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 832 (832) Dear Larry- Let me take a stab at answering your request for a template to use when using MLA citation format. Reference Point Software sounds like bibliographica software similar to Pro-Cite where you input or download citations and then they are formatted according to a particular style sheet. My page on some Web resources in the field of English for college students at: <http://libweb.uoregon.edu/subjguid/humanities/english/citing.html> has links for filling in the blanks and having an MLA style citation result. If there is a site for doing a similar procedure for print formats,e.g. books, journals, etc. I'd like to know about it. @-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@-@ Richard Heinzkill University of Oregon Knight Library Eugene, OR 97403-1299 (541)346-3095 fax (541) 346-3485 heinzkil@oregon.uoregon.edu http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~heinzkil From: altreuter@smtpgwy.mla.org Subject: Re: 11.0490 MLA template for Word? Date: Tue, 06 Jan 98 12:48:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 833 (833) A program called _Citation_ formats bibliographic material according to a number of styles, including the MLA's. The publisher says that the program works with Word and other word processors. The MLA does not publish or contribute to this product. The publisher maintains this Web site about the program: http://www.oberon-res.com/index.html It appears that you can buy the product from software sellers, but the Web site allows online ordering and also offers this information for direct purchases: Nota Bene 285 W. Broadway Ste 460 New York, NY 10013 USA 1 800 243 3833 (Sales) 1 212 334 0445 (Sales) 1 212 334 0845 (Fax) Send questions and inquiries to: sales@notabene.com puck@oberon-res.com --------------------------------------------------------------- Judith Altreuter Production Director and Supervisor of Inhouse Typesetting Modern Language Association, NY, NY altreuter@mla.org From: Ken Litkowski Subject: Re: 11.0490 MLA template for Word? Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 13:36:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 834 (834) Citation (http://www.oberon-res.com/products.html) can be added as a tool to "MSWord 6.0c, 7, and now 97, as well as WordPerfect for Windows 6.0a, 6.1, 7, and 8". They include more than 1000 publishing styles, including MLA. -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-926-5904 CL Research EMAIL: ken@clres.com 20239 Lea Pond Place Gaithersburg, MD 20879-1270 USA Home Page: http://www.clres.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: CHum 30:6 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 98 11:21:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 835 (835) ************************************************************************* JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED ************************************************************************* COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Volume 30 No. 6 The sixth number of Volume 30 (1996) of Computers and the Humanities (CHum) has just been published by Kluwer Academic Press. This issue includes an extensive survey article on the treatment of punctuation in computational linguistics, covering past and current approaches to the problem: Current Approaches to Punctuation in Computational Linguistics B. Say, V. Akman Other articles in this issue: Machine Learning Applications in Anthropology: Automated Discovery over Kinship Structures Sally Jo Cunningham The Charrette Project: Manipulating Text and Image in an Electronic Archive of a Medieval Manuscript Tradition Gina L. Greco, Toby Paff, Peter W. Shoemaker Invalidation Reappraised Thomas Merriam The Enemy Within: Autocorrelation Bias in Content Analysis of Narratives Robert Hogenraad, Dean P. McKenzie, Colin Martindale Ten Desiderata for Computer-Assisted Language Learning Programs: The Example of ELSE John Robin Allen *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* 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 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 Members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) receive a subscription to CHum at less than half the price of an individual membership. For information about ACH and a membership application, consult http://www.ach.org/. Or send email to chuck_bush@byu.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: TAG+ WORKSHOP--PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:27:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 836 (836) [deleted quotation] TAG+ WORKSHOP--PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT The fourth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related frameworks (hence the + after TAG) will be held at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania in August 1998, from August 1 to August 3. Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn (1992), and Univ. Paris 7 (1994). Papers on all aspects of TAG (linguistic, mathematical, computational, and applicational), as well as papers relating TAGs to other frameworks, are invited. As in the past there will be some invited talks on other grammar formalisms which have interesting relationships to TAGs (for example, Categorial Grammars and HPSG). GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACTS: Abstracts should be at most two pages (exclusive of references), and should be submitted in ASCII format, as a .ps file, or as SELF-CONTAINED latex file to jmacdoug@central.cis.upenn.edu. (If email is not available, please send the abstract to the address given below.) Please indicate on the abstract if you would prefer to give a short presentation (10 minutes) or a long one (30 minutes). The abstract should contain your name, address, and email address. Proceedings including extended versions (4 pages) of accepted abstracts will be available at the workshop. Deadline for submission for abstracts: April 15 Notification of acceptance: May 15 Deadline for submission of camera-ready extended abstract: July 6 Workshop Dates: August 1 to August 3 If you do not want to submit an abstract, but would like to attend, we would appreciate it if you could inform us by email by July 6 (unless you have already done so). If you would like to present a demo, please let us know as soon as possible, including information about required hard and software. CONTACT ADDRESS: Jennifer MacDougall 553 Moore Building University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 USA Telephone: (215) 898-3191 FAX: (215) 898-0587 Email: jmacdoug@central.cis.upenn.edu TUTORIAL: Prior to the workshop there will be a tutorial (including labs and demos) from July 28 to July 31 1998. Details about the tutorial will be sent out soon. We are trying to get some partial support for some of the students attending the tutorials. More information about this will appear in future announcements. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Tilman Becker (DFKI) Owen Rambow (CoGenTex) Giorgio Satta (Universita di Padova) K. Vijayshanker (University of Delaware) From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd CfP: Workshop on LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN CONTEXT: CORPUS, INFERENCE AND DISCOURSE Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:29:04 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 837 (837) [deleted quotation] ESSLLI-98 Workshop on LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN CONTEXT: CORPUS, INFERENCE AND DISCOURSE August 17 - 21, 1998 A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98) August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany ** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ** ORGANIZERS: Johan Bos (Saarbruecken) and Paul Buitelaar (Brandeis University) The workshop aims at bringing together research in two complementary fields of semantic analysis that are still too far apart. In order to achieve both a broad and a deep understanding of any given text document, a system needs both advanced acquisition of corpus specific lexical semantic knowledge and powerful inference mechanisms that utilize that knowledge in discourse analysis. Given the still relatively limited results within both areas there has been little impetus to combine them. Corpus-based extraction of lexical semantic knowledge has only recently become a more feasible task, because of the growing availibility of on-line text documents; robust corpus processing technologies, such as broad coverage part-of-speech tagging and shallow parsing; and readily available statistical methods. The various approaches to discourse analysis, originating in such diverse fields as formal semantics, psychology and AI, are in the process of converging into a unified approach to the analysis and representation of the cohesive structure of natural language documents. The intersection between these two fields lies in the application of lexical semantic knowledge to such problems in discourse analysis as anaphora resolution and discourse segmentation. In fact, the benefit will be mutual, because knowledge of discourse structure is helpful to lexical knowledge extraction as well. In summary, large scale domain specific lexical semantic knowledge acquisition can assist in analyzing discourse structures, which in turn can assist in acquiring even more accurate lexical semantic representations for the relevant terms in the domain. FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information please visit the workshop home page at http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~paulb/esslli98.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd CfP: ESSLLI'98 WS on Probabilistic Logic and Randomised Computation Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:30:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 838 (838) [deleted quotation] ESSLLI-98 Workshop on PROBABILISTIC LOGIC AND RANDOMISED COMPUTATION August 17 - 21, 1998 A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98) August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany ** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ** ORGANISERS: Alessandra Di Pierro and Herbert Wiklicky (London) Web site: http://www.cs.city.ac.uk/~adp/esslli98.html BACKGROUND: Probabilistic concepts recently gained widespread interest in logic and computer science, for example in the investigation of randomised algorithms and probabilistic proof systems. Whereas probability and randomisation have always played an important role in complexity theory (from average case analysis to probabilistic complexity classes) the investigation of these notions in semantics was much more limited and only in the last years renewed interest seems to develop. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from areas like philosophy, logics, semantics and the theory of algorithms whose research is related to aspects of probability, stochastic processes, randomised algorithms etc., in order to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among them. The workshop topics include: o philosophical foundations of probability o probabilistic logics o probabilistic proof systems o probabilistic proof checking o probabilistic knowledge representation o probabilistic games o randomised automata o randomised algorithms o semantics of probabilistic languages o probabilistic non-determinism o probabilistic reasoning o fuzzy and belief systems o inexact matching o constraints and probability o Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods o practical applications o randomised optimisation (e.g. simulated annealing, genetic algorithms) o (stochastic) approximation algorithms (for NP problems) WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will be held as part of ESSLLI'98. There will be five sessions of 90 minutes each, one on each day of the first week of the school (August 17-22, 1998). The workshop will consist in the presentation of submitted papers and discussion sessions. Notes containing the papers accepted for presentation will be made available in electronic form. Opportunities for publishing revised versions of the papers will be explored. The workshop will be open to attendance by all school registrants. SUBMISSION: All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are encourage to submit a paper. Papers should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract of NO MORE THAN 4000 words (8-10 pages) in length, and must include the e-mail address of all authors and a 200-300 word abstract. Deadline is February 15, 1998. To submit a paper, please send a postscript file to or OR send three (3) hard copies of your paper to one of the organisers (below). Alessandra Di Pierro adp@cs.city.ac.uk http://www.cs.city.ac.uk/~adp Herbert Wiklicky herbert@cs.city.ac.uk http://www.cs.city.ac.uk/~herbert Department of Computer Science School of Informatics City University Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB United Kingdom Electronic submission is STRONGLY encouraged. REGISTRATION: Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-98, but they will be elligible for a reduced registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES: Feb 15, 98: Deadline for submissions Apr 15, 98: Notification of acceptance May 15, 98: Deadline for final copy Aug 17, 98: Start of workshop FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI-98 please visit the ESSLLI-98 home page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli From: David Green Subject: The Information Ecosystem: Managing the Life Cycle of Information for Preservation and Access Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:19:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 839 (839) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 7, 1998 THE INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM: MANAGING THE LIFE CYCLE OF INFORMATION FOR PRESERVATION AND ACCESS March 10-13, 1998 <http://www.nedcc.org/calendar.htm> Below is information on a four-day course offered by the Northeast Document Conservation Center at the National Archives, College Park. Designed for those who manage cultural or natural resources, it aims to teach how to create, manage, adapt, and reuse information, particularly electronic information, in a project setting. David Green ============= [deleted quotation] The Information Ecosystem: Managing the Life Cycle of Information for Preservation and Access March 10-13, 1998 at Archives II, College Park, Maryland Sponsored by the National Park Service Museum Management Program and National Register of Historic Places, the National Archives and Records Administration Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center What is the Information Ecosystem? A course that teaches managers how to create, manage, adapt, and reuse information, particularly electronic information, in a project setting. Attendees will learn answers to: * What is the ecology of information? * Who are the stakeholders in the information ecosystem? * How do you create long-lived information effectively? What are the payoffs? * What information systems exist? How can you adaptively reuse their contents? * How do you plan for effective information management in the 21st century? * How do you integrate legacy data into your systems? * What new and endangered species do we have in the information ecosystem? * What are the special challenges and opportunities of digital projects? * What are the legal constraints on information use? * What are the best research sources, strategies, tools, and help sources? WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Middle and upper managers of cultural and natural resources who are responsible for supervising the creation, management, use and/or adaptive reuse of information. Program heads, division and department directors, park superintendents, information officers, records managers, librarians, archivists, state historic preservation officers, and others from the federal and state government, nonprofit organizations, and corporations will be interested in attending. WHAT WILL THE COURSE COST? The fee for the conference is $285 including lunches. Participants will be responsible for their travel and lodging costs. The number of participants is limited. DO I REGISTER OR GET MORE INFORMATION? For more information on The Information Ecosystem: Managing the Life Cycle of Information, contact: Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810, Fax 978 -475 6021, email . The registration deadline is 2-27-98. This conference was made possible, in part, with special funding by the National Park Service through its Cultural Resource Training Initiative and by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: CFP: The Content-Provider as Colleague (MLA; 3/13) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 21:00:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 840 (840) Apropos of Dave Gants's recent comments. I'd look forward to receiving proposals from Humanists. Matt The Content-Provider as Colleague: Creating Institutional Spaces for New Media Teaching and Research A session at the 1998 MLA in San Francisco, sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities <http://www.ach.org/>. This panel will address the apparent contradiction between the casual enthusiasm for new media technologies increasingly evident among members of the profession, and the material resistance scholars working with those very same technologies often encounter when attempting to secure professional rewards, departmental support, and administrative commitments. The panel rests on the assumption that without sufficient institutional space (and time) for new media work, humanities computing will cede current footholds in literary and cultural studies to the commercial infotainment industry. Possible topics include: the professional demographics of new media teaching and research; hiring/tenure/promotion prospects in humanities computing and the new media; curriculum development for humanities computing and new media degree programs; _funding_; collaboration with computer science departments, libraries, and the campus computing infrastructure; cooperative ventures with commercial publishers and hardware/software developers; technology and academic labor issues; dealing with administrators who are skeptical of new technologies; dealing with administrators who embrace new technologies as cost-effective short-cuts to teaching and research; what organizations like the ACH, the ACW, and the MLA can (and can't) do; and futurology: where humanities computing will (and won't) be in the next century. Preference will be given to those papers which promise to combine workable institutional strategies for supporting new media teaching and research with an effective analysis of the material conditions of technology (and technologists) in English or other modern language departments. A response to the panel will be delivered by Joseph Tabbi, Department of English, University of Illinois, Chicago. Professor Tabbi writes on contemporary fiction and media studies, and is the founding editor of _ebr_ (the _electronic book review_ <http://www.altx.com/ebr/>). Send 1-2 page abstracts and short CV by March 13 to: mgk3k@virginia.edu or Matthew Kirschenbaum Department of English 219 Bryan Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 Panelists need not be members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities; however, all panelists must be members of the Modern Language Association by no later than April 1, 1998. Further information about this session will be available from <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/>. From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: Conference: EMNLP3 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 98 08:48:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 841 (841) --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- Third Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-3) WHEN: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 (following the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation and the NSF Workshop on Translingual Information Management) WHERE: Granada, Spain CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION: In the spirit of SIGDAT events, this conference will offer a general forum for novel research in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): - robust parsing, phrase structure analysis - part of speech tagging - term and name identification - word sense disambiguation - morphological analysis - anaphora resolution - event categorization - discourse structure identification - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology - language modelling - lexicography - machine translation - spelling and grammar correction In addition, we encourage submissions that describe and evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, and recent advances in corpus-based NLP as applied to MULTI-LINGUAL APPLICATIONS. The development of natural language applications which handle multi-lingual information is the next major challenge facing the field of computational linguistics. How well do techniques for lexical tagging, parsing, anaphora resolution, etc., handle the specific problems of multi-lingual applications? What new methods have been developed to address the deficiencies of existing algorithms for these tasks or to address problems specific to handling multi-lingual applications? What problems still lack an adequate empirical solution? Conversely, how can data-driven NLP methods be improved with the help of multi-lingual data? PROGRAM CHAIRS: Nancy Ide Vassar College (chair) Atro Voutilainen University of Hlesinki (co-chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: To be announced SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP) FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper (3500-8000 words) either electronically or in hardcopy. Electronic submissions should be mailed to "emnlp3@cs.vassar.edu" and must either be (a) plain ascii text or (b) a single postscript file (US letter format). Hardcopy submissions should be mailed to Nancy Ide (address below), and should include six (6) 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: Monday, March 2, 1998 Notification date: Friday, April 3, 1998 Camera-ready copy due: Friday May 1, 1998 Conference date: Tuesday, June 2 CONTACTS: Nancy Ide, Chair Department of Computer Science Vassar College 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA Tel: (+1 914) 437 5988 Fax: (+1 914) 437 7498 E-mail: ide@cs.vassar.edu Atro Voutilainen Research Unit for Multilingual Language Technology Department of General Linguistics P.O. Box 4 (Keskuskatu 8, 7th floor) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Finland Tel: (+358 9) 191 23 507 Fax: (+358 9) 191 23 598 E-mail: atro.voutilainen@ling.helsinki.fi FURTHER INFORMATION: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/emnlp3.html http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Workshop on Very Large Corpora, ACL-Coling98 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:27:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 842 (842) [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA WHEN: August 15-16, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98) WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: As in past years, the workshop will offer a general forum for new research in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): - robust parsing, phrase structure analysis - part of speech tagging - term and name identification - word sense disambiguation - morphological analysis - anaphora resolution - event categorization - discourse structure identification - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology - language modelling - lexicography - machine translation - spelling and grammar correction PROGRAM CHAIR: Eugene Charniak Brown University PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Steven Abney Lillian Lee Eric Brill Christopher Manning Ted Briscoe Dan Melamed Rebecca Bruce Scott Miller Claire Cardie Raymond Mooney Bob Carpenter James Pustejovksy Glen Carroll Lance Ramshaw Ken Church Adwait Rathnaparkhi Michael Collins Ellen Riloff Joshua Goodman Hinrich Schutze Vasilis Hatzivassiloglou Ralph Weischedel Mark Johnson Janyce Wiebe Andrew Kehler Dekai Wu John Lafferty David Yarowsky SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP) WEB SITES: For COLING-ACL'98 - http://coling-acl'98.iro.umontreal.ca FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-8000 words) to Eugene Charniak at the Johns Hopkins University address below. 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 20, 1998 Notification Date: June 1, 1998 Camera ready copy due: June 22, 1998 CONTACT: Eugene Charniak e-mail ec@cs.brown.edu Address: Before February 1, 1998 and After June 1, 1998 Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence RI 02912-1910 Address: From February 1, 1998 until June 1, 1998 Department of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University NEB 224, 3400 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218-2694 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Granada Workshop Call for Papers Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:29:07 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 843 (843) [deleted quotation] ADAPTING LEXICAL AND CORPUS RESOURCES TO SUBLANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS a workshop to be held at the FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 26 MAY 1998 The workshop will provide a forum for those researchers involved in the development of methods to integrate corpora and MRDs, with the aim of adding adaptive capabilities to existing linguistic resources. Organisers: Roberto Basili (University of Roma "Tor Vergata"), Roberta Catizone (University of Sheffield), Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma "Tor Vergata"), Paola Velardi (University of Roma "La Sapienza), Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIMS Lexicons, i.e., those components of a NLP system that contain "computable" information about words, cannot be considered as static objects. Words may behave very differently in different domains, and there are language phenomena that do not generalize across sublanguages. Lexicons are a snapshot of a given stage of development of a language, normally provided without support for adaptation changes, whether caused by language creativity and development or the shift to such a previously unencountered domain. The divergence of corpus usages from lexical norms has been studied computationally at least since the late Sixties, but only recently has the availability of large on-line corpora made it possible to establish methods to cope systematically with this problem. An emerging branch of research is now involved in studies and experiments on corpus-driven linguistics, with the aim of complementing and extending earlier work on lexicon acquisition based on Machine Readable Dictionaries (MRD): data are extracted from texts, as embodiments of language in use, so as to capture lexical regularities and to code them into operational forms. The purpose of this workshop will be to provide an updated snapshot of current work in the area, and promote discussion of how to make progress. Central topics will be (though this list is in no way exclusive): * corpus-driven tuning of MRDs to optimize domain-specific inferences, * terminology and jargon acquisition, * sense extensions, * acquisition of preference or subcategorization information from corpora * taxonomy adaptation, * statistical weighting of senses etc. to domains * use of MRDs to provide explanations of linguistic phenomena in corpora * what is the scope of "lexical tuning" * the evaluation of lexical tuning as a separate task, or as part of a more generic task PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yorick Wilks University of Sheffield Roberta Catizone University of Sheffield Paola Velardi University of Roma "La Sapienza" Maria Teresa Pazienza University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Roberto Basili University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Bran Boguraev Brandeis University Sergei Nirenburg New Mexico State University James Pustejowsky Brandeis University Ralph Grishman New York University Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University PAPER SUBMISSION FORMATTING GUIDELINES: Papers should not exceed 4000 words or 10 pages. HARD COPIES: Three hard copies should be sent to: Paola Velardi Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Informazione via Salaria 113 00198 Roma Italy ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Electronic submission will be allowed in Poscript or Word per Mac or RTF. An ftp site will be available on demand. Authors should send an info email to Paola Velardi (velardi@dsi.uniroma1.it) even if they submit in paper form. An electronic submission should be accompanied by a plain ascii text. # 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 (Hard Copy/Electronic) February 20 Paper Notification March 20 Camera-Ready Papers Due April 15 L&CT workshop May 26 CONFERENCE INFORMATION General information about the conference is at: <http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/conflre.html> Specific queries about the conference should be directed to: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traduccion e Interpretacion Dpto. de Traduccion e Interpretacion C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 Granada, SPAIN Tel: +34 58 24 41 00 - Fax: +34 58 24 41 04 reli98@goliat.ugr.es From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Museums and the Web Preliminary Program Announced Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:30:52 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 844 (844) [deleted quotation] ***************************************** ***** Museums and the Web ***** ***** April 21-15, 1998 ***** ***** Toronto, Ontario, Canada ***** ***** http://www.archimuse.com/mw98 ***** ***************************************** The full program for Museums and the Web is now available. Three days of conferece sessions, featuring more than 60 papers by over 100 authors from 16 countries, explore issues and controversies, highlight museum applications, and take an in-depth look at particular uses of the Web at exceptional museum sites. Pre-conference events include behind-the-scenes visits to Toronto museums, and a day of detailed workshops for museum professionals, offer a chance to learn new skills to enhance your museum web site. Professionals from museums, galleries and cultural organizations, as well as consultants and technologists from around the world are planning to attend the only international conference in 1998 devoted to Museums and the Web. Join us in Toronto, and online at http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/ ! jennifer -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museum Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: evidence & class wars Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 22:46:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 845 (845) Willard, As you know, I was struck by the invocation of hubris in one of your timely mediations on the nature of evidence. It is with a certain amount of pride that I have probably rediscovered a humanist commonplace: evidence is the nemesis of argument For example if one were to read non-response, or rather, the lack of response traces (i.e. counter flames or rants) to the recent glowing endorsements of class warfare appearing on Humanist as a sign of consensus, one would have to contend with an equally elegant interpretation that read the same non-evidence as a sign of the sophisticated irony of the audience reading the missiles or missives. And of course, neither generalisation is quite correct though they may both be, on the whole, totalizingly and tantilizingly to the right. I was pondering your evidence questions at the same time as I was trying to understand how Chris Floyd's listing in point form of elements from Domenico Fiormonte's text appeared to be a concatenation that due to its order gave the impression of wanting the reader to conclude that the series represented a chain of causation. The listing/syntagm is narratologically intriguing. Allow me to refresh your memory: [deleted quotation] Evidence is stacked as the cause of the next piece of evidence. And the great unnamed first mover we are led to believe is cutbacks or underfunding. If we decouple labour practices from enrolment policies, we might then be able to argue that quality of education has significantly improved for with less resources per capita great numbers of students are making the grade. In my books, one measures the quality of education by the difference between entry and exit. The greater the spread, the greater the accomplishment of both learners and teachers. But assessment is a cost. A cost, and this is where I join Dr. Floyd in his characteristic condemnation of past administrators, which should have been built into the post-secondary system long before the cutbacks came and while the axe was falling and continues to fell. There just was no EASILY READ evidence to prove that the expansion of the post secondary system in the post war period was a social good. Yes this is a rather defensive posture but certain to score some recruits to the game if not a winning goal. Unlike Huizinga in Homo Ludens, I am not about to make the rapprochement between war and game. I will however conclude by a sketch of how the play of critical reading with the aid of digital technologies is not unlike a great deal of serious play. Electronic processing of text teaches us that the old questions remain. In mark-up we appreciate a crux. We teach ourselves and our students to ask how categories shape the answers to the either/or questions. (Is it the case that?) In placing the crucial moments of reading, we produce frequency series that need to be adjusted for the presence of stop words or not. This is but a rather technical variation on the basic question: what counts when? If not now when? By the way, I invite all interested parties, to download a small version of the Humanist logo, affix to some of their WWW pages and point people in the direction of Humanist. For their convenience such a file exists at <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/humsmall.gif> I'll be checking Dr. Floyd's home page regularly. It would be my com-radical duty to do so. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Julie Wilson Subject: For Moderation - Job Opportunity at the AHDS Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 19:28:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 846 (846) Information, Training and Research Officer Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Executive The AHDS is a distributed service which collects, manages, and encourages re-use of high-quality digital information which results from or supports humanities research and teaching. Its Executive, based at King's College London, seeks and ITRO to promote information about and encourage widespread use of arts and humanities data resources and services, and to contribute to research undertaken by the AHDS Executive into the creation, management, and use of scholarly digital collections. The ideal candidate will be a graduate with an arts degree and at least two years' experience developing and supporting the use of digital collections in a university, library, or cultural heritage organisation. S/he will possess excellent presentation, research, and writing skills and have experience developing and delivering relevant informational and instructional materials. Competence in Web authoring and in the normal range of office and network software will be essential, as will an abilaity to integrate into a small, friendly, and energetic team working closely to tight deadlines . Secondment arrangements will be considered. The post is available until 31 July 1999 and the appointment will be made on the Academic Related Grade 2 or 3 salary scale dependent on experience (currently £19740-£24,919 or £25,825-£30,119) respective.y, inclusive of £3,134 per annum London allowance). Holidays will be 25 days per year, plus public holidays and six further days when the College is closed. For further details and an application form please send a large self-addressed envelope t0: Elaine Farndale Personnel Department King's College London Waterloo Bridge House 57 Waterloo Road London SE1 8WA email: elaine.farndale@kcl.ac.uk or for further information look at the AHDS website <http://ahds.ac.uk/> ---------------------- Julie Wilson AHDS Project Manager julie.c.wilson@ahds.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Norm Holland Subject: APA citing of Web sites Date: Wed, 07 Jan 98 10:50:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 847 (847) The Sept. 1996 _Internet World_ listed the Modern Language Association's rules for citing various electronic sources. Does anyone know if there's a similar listing online for the American Psychological Association's rules? --Best, 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) 378-9318 or (352) 392-0860 | | (352) 392-7332 email: norman-holland@ufl.edu | | World Wide Web: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/nnh | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: GETTY THESAURUS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES RELEASED Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:54:14 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 848 (848) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 7, 1998 GETTY THESAURUS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES RELEASED <http://www.gii.getty.edu/tgn_browser> [deleted quotation] Introducing the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names The Getty Information Institute is pleased to announce the release of its latest vocabulary tool, the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN). Described as "an important and promising start in efforts to create a unified source for geographic name information around the globe," the TGN is intended to be a source of geographic names for documenting and retrieving cultural heritage information. For example, geographic names may be used to record the current location of an art object, its place of origin and the sites of an artist's birth, activity and death. The TGN is the product of eight years of research and is based on data provided by several Getty projects. The nearly 900,000 places in the TGN are arranged in a hierarchical structure representing all nations of the modern world. This hierarchy is arranged from broader to narrower context (e.g., continents, nations, states, provinces, cities etc.). The TGN provides vernacular and English names of places, variant names in other languages, and whenever possible, historical names. The record for a place may also contain geographical coordinates, dates, and notes. The TGN is available in three formats: on the Web, as tagged ASCII files, and in relational tables. The Web version is available at <http://www.gii.getty.edu/tgn_browser>. The relational tables and tagged ASCII files will be available upon request in early 1998. The TGN will be expanded with the addition of new names and historical places. While we continue to collaborate with various Getty contributors, the growth of the TGN depends on our forming partnerships with other institutions interested in contributing their expertise to the development of the resource. CONTACTS If you are interested in becoming a contributor to the TGN, please contact the Getty Information Institute's Vocabulary Program at (310) 440 6364 or send e-mail to . Comments and questions about the TGN may be sent to . The Vocabulary Program also plans to host several training sessions on the TGN. If you are interested in training, please e-mail . From: Jim Phelan Subject: _Teaching Literature with Computers_ Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 00:20:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 849 (849) I thought that at least some list members might be interested in this relatively new electronic journal (it's just about a year old). The website, www.triton.dsu.edu.tlwc, contains examples of 3 essays. Teaching Literature With Computers:A Refereed Electronic Publication Philosophy: Literature teachers have begun using computers to expand their pedagogical repertoire. Computers offer new ways to perform traditional classroom activities and, more significantly, give teachers the ability to create activities that cannot be reproduced in the traditional literature classroom. At all levels of instruction, there are many teachers who are looking for information and ideas about how to teach literature with computers. TLWC: Teaching Literature with Computers seeks to meet these teachers' needs by publishing articles that give detailed descriptions of specific uses of computers in teaching literature. Articles also analyze the use of computers in teaching by discussing the strengths and weaknesses of particular uses of computers and proposing ways to improve the use of computers in literature instruction. As a peer-reviewed, online collection, TLWC serves as a continuously growing, evolving resource, offering challenging ideas to innovative teachers. Articles may discuss any use of computers in teaching literature, including (but not limited to) synchronous and asynchronous discussion, MOOs, using and authoring hypertext/hypermedia, CD-ROMs, the World-Wide Web, online textbooks, word processing, and authoring software and multimedia packages. Articles should focus primarily on classroom and course-related applications of computer technology. Articles that relate classroom applications of computer technology to particular theoretical concerns are also welcome. Jim Phelan phelan.1@osu.edu From: altreuter@smtpgwy.mla.org Subject: Re: 11.0359 citing e-materials Date: Thu, 08 Jan 98 15:42:35 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 850 (850) Back in October there was some discussion of places on the Web where users could go to learn about MLA style. The new Web site from the Modern Language Association now includes updated information on MLA style. The site summarizes how to cite sources from the World Wide Web. This information will appear in the forthcoming edition of the _Style Manual_ (pub. date April 1998) but is currently not available anywhere else. (The _Style Manual_ will go into the subject of Internet sources in greater detail than the Web page.) The page also answers some frequently asked questions about MLA style. The pages are the only MLA-authorized Web site on MLA style. <http://www.mla.org/set_stl.htm> --------------------------------------------------------------- Judith Altreuter Production Director and Supervisor of Inhouse Typesetting Modern Language Association, NY, NY www.mla.org altreuter@mla.org From: Mark Olsen Subject: Wordsmyth English Dictionary Thesaurus Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:56:34 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 851 (851) ANNOUNCEMENT: THE WORDSMYTH ENGLISH DICTIONARY-THESAURUS - A WORLD WIDE WEB OF WORDS. (Please circulate this announcement as appropriate.) New Integrated Dictionary-Thesaurus Available on the World Wide Web: THE WORDSMYTH ENGLISH DICTIONARY-THESAURUS at http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt Please bookmark this site, and circulate the address. Dr. Robert Parks, and the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago, announce the availability of full dictionary and thesaurus look-up services on the world wide web. With over 100,000 entries and 50,000 headwords, The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT) is a full dictionary AND a complete thesaurus, integrated into one work. So you only need to look up a word once, with hyperlinks to synonyms, and similar or related words available where appropriate. This makes the dictionary into a true "web of words", useful for reference, for brainstorming, and for following your semantic intuitions to build your own semantic network. The Wordsmyth site will be sponsoring participatory projects to expand and build upon the usefulness of this reference process. Projects include a "Word of the Day" section, an SAT Dictionary (available next month), lesson plans, word lists, a Visual Dictionary ("One word can spawn a thousand images"), and a "Thesarus of Quotations". Please wisit the site at "http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt", or contact Bob Parks at bobp@lightlink.com for further information. For the ARTFL Project, visit "http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/". Send comments and suggestions to Bob Parks at "bobp@lightlink.com". Mark Olsen Assistant Director ARTFL Project University of Chicago (773) 702-8687 WWW: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. --- Samuel Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: sacralization of the secular Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 17:50:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 852 (852) "A wild question: could it be that the democratic ideal of secularism is a dogma that threatens the freethinking pluralism of democracy as we experience it? One possible answer: suspicion of secularism is warranted by the fact that most contemporary secularists unthinkingly sacralize it. Secularists suppose that, during the past few generations, religious illusions have gradually disappeared, and that this is fortunate, since the extrusion of religious sentiments from such domains as law, government, party politics and education - the separation of Church and State - releases citizens from irrational prejudices and promotes open-minded tolerance, itself a vital ingredient of a pluralist democracy. The modern quest for personal meaning and salvation has, it is argued, taken the place of religion, becoming what Thomas Luckmann calls the 'invisible religion' of 'self-expression' and 'self-realization'." (John Keane, "The limits of secularism: Does the marginalizing of religion impose a new intolerance?", TLS 4945, 9 January 1998: 12). Here may be a much broader discussion of a topic that has surfaced on Humanist from time to time as we have struggled with a certain kind of enthusiast among our ranks. I'm thinking of various people I have known who have embraced the computing of the humanities with fervour because, it seems, the machine represents a long-awaited means of proving acts of the imagination, finally of doing away with interpretation and its leap of faith so that we may build our scholarly work on a solid foundation. But whether or not the apotheosis of computation is analogous to this sacralization of the secular, I have a question for you, or rather a request for reflection: what happens to the interpretative act when computing is involved in research? Is it the same, or different? If different, how? By being forced to resolve matters that before we could let pass, are we gaining, or losing, or both? Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Charles Ess Subject: "The Computer and the Virgin"? Date: Mon, 12 Jan 98 09:40:47 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 853 (853) Willard: With apologies to Henry Adams... I was struck by David Gants' reaction to the apparent indifference, if not outright move away from things technological among his colleagues at the MLA - and the resulting recognition that we are perhaps more effective evangelists (to stay with his - appropriate! - religious metaphors) when we move from the John the Baptist model (demanding repentence for our technological incompetence and a marked jump into a (re)new(ed) relationship with the transcendent) to a more reformer's model - one which recognizes that personal and cultural shifts usually come about only gradually, especially if they depend upon the personal choices and habits of individuals. I was struck for two reasons: one, my experiences tell me that he's exactly right. As but one example: some two years ago, I began working with colleagues in philosophy to set up on-line dialogues in applied ethics, using a sophisticated web-based conferencing software. (This was not only an excuse to play with some new toys: there's a long line of research in computer- mediated communication which suggests that CMC environments may offer certain advantages to certain types of communication: we hoped to exploit these advantages, coupled with some theoretical commitments to discourse ethics which in turn seemed well suited to the CMC environment.) I assumed, as a minor figure in a good, but obscure regional university in the Midwest of the U.S. (whose geography seems utterly baffling to even colleagues in theStates) - if _I_ have access to these tools, surely most others must as well. Wrong. Of the 20 or so participants we hoped to invite to each forum, only 60% even had identifiable e-mail addresses. Getting those who agreed to participate in the forum - itself a matter of moving well beyond the traditional academic cultures of what counts as scholarship, what gets rewarded, etc. - to make effective use of the conferencing software was still more challenging. Even academics at prestigious universities sometimes had _abysmal_ network connections and environments (one scholar had to go a student lab for web access - not the most conducive environment for careful reflection); and for those with relatively good access - the "cognitive overhead" of learning a new software interface was costly and demanding. It took about 45 minutes for some - and as one colleague noted, when we're in the middle of finals week, 45 minutes is a lot of time. Despite all these problems, however, at least two of the dialogues succeeded in achieving important, even remarkable philosophical consensus. (This material is archived at <http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/CAAE/Home/Forum/ethics.html> for those interested in seeing the details.) The upshot of this experience for me was (a) to confirm my strong sense that the new technologies do indeed offer new, very promising potentials -if (b) these potentials are incorporated in ways that acknowledge the legitimacy of, and seek to incorporate the prevailing cultural preferences and personal habits of those we are asking to take up these technologies. That is - the revolutionary model (one fostered strongly by especially the postmodern analyses of electronic culture as overturning all of modernity as print-based, linear, etc.), however sound and suggestive these analyses may be, is not generally appealing or effective with most of our colleagues. This experience moved me towards projects that seek to incorporate the new technologies in ways more seamless with existing academic patterns and preferences - e.g., by using a web site to provide conference participants with copies of papers well ahead of the face-to-face conference itself, in order to minimize presentation time and maximize discussion time, so as to complement, but_not_ to replace the traditional activities of presenting, discussing, and print publishing. More ambitiously, as Willard knows, several of us are working on a conference (dedicated, in fact, to "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication") which seeks to take advantage of the Internet and the Web, both in terms of the e-mails needed to announce, organize, etc., and in terms of the Web as a publishing venue for at least some of the conference papers - all of which is further tied to a book manuscript. Wrapping all of this up in the traditional, print-based package of a book provides scholars who prefer (for both personal and professional reasons) the familiar medium of print with a solid reward for their participation - as it also provides a way of distributing our results to colleagues who, for reasons of either habit and/or infrastructure, will not access the electronic publication. Two: a few weeks ago I visited my brother's "shop" - a computer facility which holds about 1,500 gigabytes of data used on ca. 400 engineering workstations. It looked very much like something out of Star Trek or some other supposedly futuristic vision of our technological trajectories. My nuanced and critical sensibilities regarding computer technologies were immediately replaced by a sense of amazement - something like Henry Adams' encounter with the electric dynamo at the Great Exposition of 1900 (an encounter, many Humanist readers will know, which led to an extensive reflection on the powers of the new technologies vis-a-vis sacred powers - specifically, those of the Virgin as reflected in Medieval worship and architecture). I have very little idea just what humanists could do with such technologies - perhaps, ultimately, not very much at all. But I remain deeply impressed by this power - and thus still carry around the inarticulate and perhaps simply mistaken conviction that all of this must hold some great potential for humanities scholarship, a potential we have scarcely tapped. This sensibility, of course, spins us off in the direction of wild-eyed revolution - the direction David Gants has suggested will not work. In sum, I'm betwixt and between, as often describes those in the liminal domain - no longer in ordinary reality, but not permanently removed from it either. Perhaps this is a productive state to visit - especially if, following David Gants' suggestion, we should be more reformers than revolutionaries. In any case, best wishes to Humanist for the new year! Cheers, Charles Ess Philosophy and Religion Drury College Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA From: Jascha Kessler Subject: re Secularity vs Secularism Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:14:39 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 854 (854) I rather imagine that it is "fetishization" of the Secular not its "sacralization," which is involved here. There have been vast and powerful reasons, which remain as vast and as powerful today, given the use of terror by societies living today in what I think are longpast eras of social structure and organization, for the separation of the religious from the mundane, legal, humanistic societies of the Western 20th Century. DH Lawrence called in his later career for the re-awakening and revitalization of the religious "instinct," but he did mean religion necessarily. He meant the modern forms of totalist constriction, at least in 1924, he did; after which he found "Tenderness" to be the aim of one's life, and wrote LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER. He put the issue most poignantly in his fable, his Fifth Gospel, THE MAN WHO DIED. The mother of the young virgin of Isis is a big powerful woman of the latifundian sort. I should think Humanists would not find it, or should not, find it hard to distinguish between non-selfworship, eg of the human creature, needful to help one get out of bed mornings, and face the newspaper headlines, religious self-worship, which is the illusory projection of that essential, and needful Narcissism, and is called organized religion, and its commandeering of the simple, inborn animal and naive faith given to us at birth. Nothing human, and nothing "sacred" ought to be alien to the Humanist...nor should anything of those domains be worshipped either. The selfmade preacher Gunther Schuller of Los Angeles, the man who got into a fracas of some sort on an airline a few months back, and who built the extraordinary Crystal Cathedral, with its computer run louvering windows for air, etc., writes yesterday in the LA Times that cloning cannot clone the soul. That is desperate ignorance of the matters of ethics and science. I dont expect more than such obscurantist nonsense from the good Dr. Schuller. We will surely soon clone a human being's DNA identity. Where does soul come into it, and what is it? I tend to imagine that that thing is something, if it is anything, that gets made in time, as Yeats thought of it, that one makes the soul, which becomes what it contemplates, a sort of tinkertoy concept with Neo-Platonic nerves threaded through it. At least it was empirical and naive to an extent. The other kind of soul-talk, which so disgusted DHL early on because it was meant to dominate and suppress, is part of the oppressive social stuff and superstition that was one had hoped part of the Galilean protest that evolved into the Enlightenment, and was returned into play partly because of the terror that godless warriors of all kinds imposed after the French REvolution. The whole discussion is a long one, as we all know, but if we think about what we learned once upon a time, we should know it is not either/or, or word play like "sacralization" of the secular. That is to worship idols, and I thought we learned not to away back with the Hebrew Prophets, whose like never reappeared, interestingly enough, after philosophy got started, in the East and the West, both. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: my PS Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:29:12 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 855 (855) That posted quotation from TLS sounds to me like a review of a book that came out in early 1997 in the USA, in which some professor argued that the Secular was in the saddle, and how, in the US, and that it was not what the majority of Americans cared to believe or act upon, or accept. This is a terrific, in the Blakean sense, long range issue for the US, since the religious and the secular had been shown by Martin Marty some decades ago to have reached a good sort of accomodation, necessary because under the US Constitution ALL sects were free to worship as they chose, and that led to problems of doubt and faith, and competition (for tithes, too), and for local power issues, etc. Americans think of themselves as a godfearing, -following nation, but also of many varieties of faith in the One. It is not so simple. Some religious types and thinkers are becoming restless at their lack of domination and blame the secular for all the messes in common life and society, and they are huge, etc. Religion is not really, I think "marginalized," but kept on the margins if possible when legislation and policy are pursued, and we have the abortion wars, which continue, etc. Clone wars next? When one drives through the USA, one is struck (and bemused) by the bemusing that upon entering most small towns, under 25,000 say, one sees signs listing upwards of 2 dozen or more of churches and Clubs of all kinds, Elks, Lions, Masons, etcetc., and places and hours of worship. It is an interesting thing. You wont find that in Europe. And people organize themselves by their churches for 7 nights a week of meetings and works of all kinds, and never have time to read or study or think, but are busy busy busy, when not in bars, bowling alleys, or roadhouses, doing other things, etc. It is when those sects and votaries begin as the Christian Coalition shows it to group themselves together in a "Common Front," that the attack on the secular begins to manifest itself. I am not sure it is not our Elmer Gantryism, the legacy of the Protestant fissiparous tendencies, that decries the secular and says it part of the Evil of the non-Xtians, etc., and Masons, they used to be called, when they were founding the US, etc. In short, it is not a simple thing that has been brought up, unless one elides the life spent before the computer screen as the ultimate in secularity sacralized. That would shade into Luddism. Xtian Luddism? All this is for the 21st, and it is coming, the attack on everything that is not of the nature and intent of the Taliban, for instance. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Eric Johnson Subject: New online Journal Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 05:57:06 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 856 (856) Teaching Literature with Computers: A Refereed Electronic Publication <http://www.triton.dsu.edu/tlwc> New Publication Announcement and Call for Papers _Teaching Literature with Computers is pleased to announce the publication of a new article, "Is There a Hypertext in this Class? Teaching Victorian Literature in the Electronic Age" by Jonathan Smith, Department of English, U of Michigan-Dearborn. The essay describes and analyzes the use of hypertexts, in particular George P. Landow's The Dickens Web and The In Memoriam Web, in two undergraduate Victorian literature classes. Hypertext is shown to encourage active student engagement, especially with contextual material; to lead to more focused research topics; and to facilitate student collaboration. The potential of hypertext is best realized, however, when it is extensively integrated into a course. Focus is thus given to two practical questions: 1) How must classroom management and writing assignments be reconceptualized? 2) How are students to be taught to read hypertextually? Landow's claim about the ease with which the latter occurs is questioned. TLWC: Teaching Literature with Computers has been created to meet the needs of teachers at all levels of instruction who are looking for information and ideas about how to teach literature with computers. TLWC is looking for articles that describe in detail specific uses of computers in teaching literature. Articles should also analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the uses of computers described. As a peer-reviewed, online collection, TLWC serves as a continuously growing, evolving resource, offering challenging ideas to innovative teachers. Articles may discuss any use of computers in teaching literature, including (but not limited to) synchronous and asynchronous discussion, MOOs, using and authoring hypertext/hypermedia, CD-ROMs, the World-Wide Web, online textbooks, word processing, and authoring software and multimedia packages. Articles should focus primarily on classroom and course-related applications of computer technology. Articles that relate classroom applications of computer technology to particular theoretical concerns are also welcome, though article should focus explicitly on teaching. For more information on and submission guidelines for TLWC, please visit our webpage at http://www.triton.dsu.edu/tlwc or e-mail the editor, Seth Katz, at seth@bradley.bradley.edu. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Announcement: the latest issue of the JCMC is out! Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:29:56 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 857 (857) [deleted quotation] The latest issue of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is ready at our USC server: http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue3/ our HUJI server: http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol3/issue3/ Volume 3 Issue December, 1997 Part 2 of Special Issue on Virtual Environments Special Issue Editors, Wendy Robinson and Frank Biocca In this issue: Information Does not Equal Knowledge: Theorizing the Political Economy of Virtuality Marcus Breen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This paper argues that causation theory has a role in discussions about knowledge in the virtual context. Drawing on cultural studies, it suggests that the fragmentation of rational knowledge in the postmodern world has produced a focus on information that is unaware of its history. A knowledge gap has been produced that needs careful consideration by those people and institutions advocating the use of virtual technologies. Virtuality is about a politics of convenience, where contemporary knowledge is characterized by two modes of action: mathematics and marketing. The paper suggests that contemporary capitalism fits well with this type of knowledge. It argues that other ways of conceptualizing causal relationships between information-knowledge are necessary in the virtual world. Heaven's Gate: The End? Wendy Gale Robinson Duke University In San Diego on March 26, 1997, police found the bodies of 39 similarly dressed men and women who took their own lives in a mass suicide. Led by Marshall Applewhite, the Heaven's Gate cult believed that a flying saucer was traveling behind the Hale-Bopp comet. They chose to leave their physical bodies behind to find redemption in an extraterrestrial "Kingdom of Heaven." The sect also left behind apocalyptic messages in their Rancho Santa Fe mansion and on home pages on the World Wide Web. This paper looks at online material produced by the cult and the media coverage of their tragic end, it explores the background of the cult and the science fiction and millennial influences on their beliefs, and it considers the group's connection with cyberculture and some of the questions raised by their mass suicide, which perhaps, as David Potz said in Slate, "promises to be the first great Internet mystery". Breaking out of Binaries: Reconceptualizing Gender and its Relationship to Language in Computer-Mediated Communication Michelle Rodino University of Washington Virtual environments provide a rich testing ground for theories of gender and language. This paper analyzes interactions in one virtual environment, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), to look at the extent to which research on face-to-face (FTF) talk and computer-mediated communication (CMC) can describe gender and its relationship to language. Neither the function of utterances nor the construction of gender adheres to dualistic descriptions, as past research has implied. Reconceptualizing gender as performative helps researchers break out of binary categories that have bound past research. Conceiving of gender as under constant construction also helps demystify and thus disrupt the binary gender system which naturalizes patriarchy. Virtual Communities, Virtual Settlements & Cyber-Archaeology: A Theoretical Outline Quentin Jones Hebrew University of Jerusalem If useful explanations are to be provided about the relationship between computer mediated communication (CMC) technologies and online behavior, then a longer-term perspective needs to be taken than the current focus of CMC researchers. This paper provides such a perspective by outlining in theoretical terms how a cyber-archaeology of virtual communities can be conducted. In archaeology, researchers focus on cultural artifacts. A similar focus on the cultural artifacts of virtual communities should be a focus for CMC researchers as these artifacts can provide an integrative framework for a community's life, be it virtual or real. It is proposed that CMC researchers pursue cyber-archaeology by systematically examining and modeling the framework for virtual community life provided by their cultural artifacts. The systematic exploration of cyber-space via cyber-archaeology cannot proceed without adequate linguistic tools that allow for taxonomy. The first step in the creation of such a taxonomy is to distinguish between virtual communities and their cyber-place, the virtual settlement. The second is to define and operationalize the term virtual settlement so that they can be systematically characterized and modeled. With this new terminology, it is possible to detail a cyber-archaeology where technological determinism is replaced with the notion of bounded hierarchies and material behavior. The theoretical outline will show how cultural artifacts can play a role in constraining the forms virtual settlements can sustain. The modeling of the boundaries of virtual settlements via cyber-archaeology should dramatically increase our understanding of communication in general. On-Line Forums: New Platforms for Professional Development and Group Collaboration Terry Anderson and Heather Kanuka University of Alberta This study evaluated the output, level of participation and perceptions of effectiveness and value among participants in a virtual forum. Twenty-three experts in the field of adult education and community development were invited to participate in a three-week interactive session using a WWW-based, asynchronous computer conferencing system. Data gathered through surveys, interviews, transcript analysis and on-line discussion revealed that this technology has relative advantage for organizers and sponsors, but is perceived by most users as being less satisfying than face-to-face interaction. The on-line forum was found to be observable, trialable and relatively easy to use (compared with existing tools), indicating that this innovation has potential to become a widespread medium for continuing professional education. Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli, Editors From: David Green Subject: Current Cites December 1997 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:11:19 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 858 (858) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 12, 1998 Although this may be too detailed for some, too abbreviated for others, I thought I would post this latest monthly edition of "Current Cites," from the Berkeley Library, giving brief reviews of some recent articles on digital networking. Here 8 articles are cited. David Green =========== _Current Cites_ Volume 8, no. 12 December 1997 The Library University of California, Berkeley Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne ISSN: 1060-2356 <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1997/cc97.8.12.html> Contributors: Christof Galli, Kirk Hastings, Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips, Richard Rinehart, Jim Ronningen, Roy Tennant Digital Libraries Cromwell-Kessler, Willy. "Dublin Core Metadata in the RLG Information Landscape" D-Lib Magazine (December 1997) (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/12cromwell-kessler.html). - In July 1997, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) held a "Metadata Summit" to provide a venue for a number of communities interested in metadata to explore their commonalities and differences, particularly vis. a vis. the Dublin Core. One of the outcomes of this meeting is the document "Guidelines For Extending the Use of Dublin Core Elements to Create a Generic Application Integrating All Kinds of Information Resources", which is aimed at those involved with developing the Dublin Core specification. At the core of this article as well as the "Guidelines" is the issue of how to handle the original object vs. the digital surrogate. - RT Frey, Franziska. "Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards" RLG DigiNews 1(3) (December 15, 1997) (http://lyra.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3.html#com). - This brief article serves as a good introduction to the issues relating to digital imaging. But since it is the barest of overviews of the outcome of a two-year project of the same name, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, one is left with a feeling of impatience until the products from the project are published "sometime next year". But at least this piece can give a sneak peek into what will be coming soon in more detail. - RT Mintzer, Fred, Jeffrey Lotspiech, and Norishige Morimoto. "Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Digital Watermarking" D-Lib Magazine (December 1997) (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/ibm/12lotspiech.html). - Digital watermarking is the online equivalent of the long-practiced art of marking paper with a mark of ownership or origin. Digital watermarking may be important to assert copyright or to mark a file as authentic. This article is a great introduction to the principles, applications, and technologies relating to digital watermarking. But if you are interested in this topic, don't stop your investigation here, as only technologies from IBM are highlighted (all the authors are IBM employees). - RT Electronic Publishing Valauskas, Edward. "Waiting for Thomas Kuhn: First Monday and the Evolution of Electronic Journals" First Monday 2 (12) (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_12/valauskas/). - First Monday's editor surveys the growth of the journal as a case study in Internet-based, peer-reviewed journals. It's not at all a self-serving piece; on the contrary, he uses his experiences with the journal and with print journals to think about the future in broad terms. The print journal will not disappear entirely, he believes; instead, a rich diversity of formats will persist. - TH Multimedia & Hypermedia CIDOC Multimedia Working Group Multimedia Evaluation Criteria (http://www.archimuse.com/cidoc/cidoc.mmwg.eval.crit.html) September 1997. -- This set of evaluation criteria can be used in many evaluation or survey projects as a set of questions and criteria for measuering the full effectiveness of multimedia resources on web, CD-ROM, DVD, etc. - RR Networks & Networking Global Information Locator Service FAQ, Dec. 26, 1997 (http://www.usgs.gov/gils/faq.html) . - This FAQ, compiled primarily by Eliot Christian of the US Geological Survey, is very thorough in answering questions about this new technical standard to facilitate resource discovery. - RR Minow, Mary. "Filters and the Public Library: A Legal and Policy Analysis" First Monday 2 (12) (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_12/minow/). - Minow insightfully reviews the tangled area of public policy covering Internet access in public libraries. Much policy is decided without empirical evidence for any stance, and the resulting policies demonstrate this gap in their ambivalence, and lack of clarity. Minow maps some strategies librarians can employ to balance the needs of the community with the directives of the profession, and provides a useful review of the issues along the way. - TH Olson, Nancy B. Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide. Second edition. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 1997 (http://www.purl.org/oclc/cataloging-internet). - In what is clearly a nascent field, this online resource stands out as the only reference tool for librarians cataloging Internet resources using MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging). If you are a cataloger, this is the kind of nitty-gritty guidance that makes a difficult job easier. One of the most useful sections is the appendix with record examples, although in poignant counterpoint at least a couple of the URLs in the example records were out of date. - RT _________________________________________________________________ Current Cites 8(12) (December 1997) ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright 1997 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley. _All rights reserved._ All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Mention of a product in this publication does not necessarily imply endorsement of the product. [URL:http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/] To subscribe, send the message "sub cites [your name]" to listserv@library.berkeley.edu, replacing "[your name]" with your name. To unsubscribe, send the message "unsub cites" to the same address. 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All commercial use requires permission from the editor, who may be reached in the following ways: trinne@library.berkeley.edu // (510)642-8173 From: David Green Subject: Museum Digital Licensing Collective Web Site Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:42:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 859 (859) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 13, 1998 WEBSITE FOR MUSEUM DIGITAL LICENSING COLLECTIVE NOW OPEN [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: 1998 TIIAP Program Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 09:52:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 860 (860) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 12, 1998 1998 TIIAP GRANT PROGRAM ANNOUNCED March 12 Deadline <http://www.ntia.doc.gov/> Some $17 million will be awarded in this year's TIIAP grant program. Cultural projects are strongly advised to apply: "TIIAP is looking for innovative projects that use the new tools of the information age to strengthen communities, improve the delivery of public services, promote public safety, and enhance health, education, culture, and lifelong learning." Otreach workshops will take place in the following locations: January 26: Seattle January 30: Minneapolis February 4: Pittsburgh February 6: Atlanta February 9: Dallas For further information, consult the NTIA website: <http://www.ntia.doc.gov/> David Green ===================== FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Paige Darden January 5, 1998 (202) 482-7002 NTIA ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE FOR 1998 APPLICATION PROCESS FOR INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS; WASHINGTON, DC BRIEFING AND OUTREACH WORKSHOPS SCHEDULED WASHINGTON, DC -- The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today that it will accept applications for the 1998 round of the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP). For fiscal year 1998, approximately 17 million dollars in grant funds will be awarded. The deadline for submitting applications is 9:00 p.m., EST, March 12, 1998. TIIAP, a highly competitive, merit-based grant program, provides seed money for innovative, practical projects that extend the benefits of advanced telecommunications and information technology to rural and urban underserved Americans. Since its inception in 1994, the information infrastructure grant program has funded 332 projects in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. TIIAP has awarded more than $100 million in matching grant funds, while leveraging $150 million in local matching funds, to non-profit organizations, such as schools, libraries, hospitals, public safety entities, and state and local governments. Priorities in the 1998 grant round include funding projects which will serve as nationally significant demonstrations of how telecommunications and information technologies can be used to extend valuable services and opportunities to all Americans, especially the underserved. TIIAP is looking for innovative projects that use the new tools of the information age to strengthen communities, improve the delivery of public services, promote public safety, and enhance health, education, culture, and lifelong learning. TIIAP seeks projects that can serve as models for other communities to emulate, thereby ensuring that the benefits of an advanced information infrastructure is realized by all Americans, regardless of economic status or whether they live in urban or rural areas. On January 15, NTIA will hold a short public briefing to introduce the 1998 TIIAP competition. The briefing will be held at the Department of Commerce, Room 4830, at 10 a.m. NTIA will also hold a series of regional Outreach Workshops and Partnering Events to discuss the TIIAP program, introduce the 1998 TIIAP grant round, and discuss program funding priorities and application requirements. The workshops are a key opportunity for interested parties to understand the TIIAP goals and application process and meet representatives of other organizations interested in the TIIAP program. The Outreach Workshops and Partnering Events will be held on January 26, in Seattle, Washington; January 30, in Minneapolis, Minnesota; February 4, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; February 6, in Atlanta, Georgia; and February 9, in Dallas, Texas. Information about the application process and requirements can be found in the Notice of Availability of Funds, published in the Federal Register on January 5, 1998. For more information about TIIAP and the Outreach Workshops and Partnering Events, visit the NTIA web site at <http://www.ntia.doc.gov/>, or call (202) 482-2048, or e-mail to . TIIAP is administered by the U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). NTIA serves as the principal adviser to the President, Vice President and Secretary of Commerce on domestic and international communications and information issues and represents the Executive Branch before the Congress, other Federal agencies, foreign governments and international organizations. ### From: David Green Subject: Reminder: "Into the Future" screens tonight Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:59:54 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 861 (861) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 13, 1997 REMINDER "INTO THE FUTURE: ON THE PRESERVATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE" <http://www.pbs.org/whatson/1998/01/descriptions/INFU.html> Terry Sanders' film will be shown nationally on PBS tonight at 10pm (but check local listings). Produced in association with the Commission on Preservation and Access (a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources) and the American Council of Learned Societies, "INTO THE FUTURE: explores the issues behind the survival of digitally stored information into the future. It will air on PBS stations nation-wide on January 13 1998 at 10PM EST (check local listings). The program features insights from articulate shapers and thinkers of the Information Age, such as Peter Norton, founder of Norton Utilities; Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web; John Seely Brown, chief scientist at Xerox Corporation; Michael Dertouzos, director of M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science; Deanna Marcum, president of the Council on Library and Information Resources; and Jeff Rothenberg, senior computer scientist for RAND Corporation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Anthropological Index Online developments Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 18:57:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 862 (862) Anthropological Index Online continues to develop - the recent data file was updated before and after the new year, and we have now implemented the automatic searching of cross reference files - of use for names (where alternative transliteratiosn exist, for journal titles where names change (e.g. Man => JRAI) and for keywords (soon). More changes are planned over the next few months and email-only access is now in advanced beta testing yours sincerely david z Dr David Zeitlyn, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of Anthropology, Eliot College, The University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NS, UK. Tel. (44) 1227 764000 -Extn 3360 (or 823360 direct) Fax (44) 1227 827289 http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter for January Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:31:47 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 863 (863) [deleted quotation] The Project Gutenberg Newsletter for January 1, 1998 [We will hold off sending this for a week so it will not clog your mailboxes during the holidays. . . . ] 1997 was the first year we did not double production of Etexts in quite some time, but on the other hand, it was the first year other Etexts producers created enough Etexts that our goal of getting 10,000 Etexts online by the end of the year 2001 is still viable-- presuming we can gain some reciprocity with them, in the matter of posting each other's Etexts. Many of these other Etext operations have taken some different approaches to the creation or distribution of Etexts than anyone might have envisioned just the smallest number of years ago, from the changing of a few words here and there to attempt to copyright the Etexts posted on their sites, to simply requesting a voluntary situation in which no one reposts the file even though it is admittedly in the Public Domain. This has been caused by the manners in which the Web services propagate their own existence: Hits have become the currency of the World Wide Web! 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The login and password system for at least one of the new site locations is somewhat different than before. *** 1998 is the first year I will be putting any serious efforts into the administrative area known simply as Schmoozing If you could suggest anyone I should contact to work on getting support for Project Gutenberg, please let me know, as it has become very obvious to me that it is not going to be that much longer that I can be an overly central figure in Project Gutenberg. If this project is going to continue 10,000, 1,000, 100, 10, or even five years from now it is going to take more support than I can personally provide. Once again my HUGE THANKS to all of you who help our efforts to combat ignorance and illiteracy. And here are the 32 December Project Gutenberg Etexts which conclude the 384 Etexts for 1997. We will make /etext98 directories shortly, and will advise you how to get the files from them when we announce 32 Etexts for January, about a month from now. Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext]#### A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work. Dec 1997 The Story of the Volsungs [re: Wagner's "Ring"] [vlsngxxx.txt]1152 Dec 1997 The Nibelungenlied [Another Source for The Ring] [nblngxxx.txt]1151 Dec 1997 The Danish History/Books I-IX, by Saxo Grammaticus[dnhstxxx.txt]1150 Dec 1997 From London to Land's End, by Daniel Defoe [DD #6][lndlexxx.txt]1149 Dec 1997 Itineray of Baldwin in Wales, Giraldus Cambrensis [itwlsxxx.txt]1148 Dec 1997 From This World to the Next, by Henry Fielding #2[jtwtnxxx.txt]1147 Dec 1997 Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding #1[jlsbnxxx.txt]1146 Dec 1997 Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope [See Zenda]# [rprhnxxx.xxx]1145 Dec 1997 In the Cage, by Henry James [Henry James #16] [incagxx.xxx]1144 Dec 1997 Notes on Life and Letters, by Joseph Conrad [#19] [ntlflxx.xxx]1143 Dec 1997 Typhoon, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #18] [typhnxx.xxx]1142 Dec 1997 Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #17] [spoowxx.xxx]1141 Dec 1997 Latter-Day Pamphlets, by Thomas Carlyle[Carlyle #4][latdaxx.xxx]1140 Dec 1997 Fisherman's Luck, by Henry van Dyke [Van Dyke #3][fshlkxx.xxx]1139 Dec 1997 The Research Magnificent, by H.G. Wells [Wells #13][rschmxx.xxx]1138 Dec 1997 A Lover's Complaint, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws44xx.xxx]1137 Dec 1997 King Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws42xx.xxx]1136 Dec 1997 Tempest, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws41xx.xxx]1135 Dec 1997 The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws40xx.xxx]1134 Dec 1997 Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws39xx.xxx]1133 Dec 1997 The Life of Timon of Athens, by Wm Shakespeare [WL][1ws37xx.xxx]1132 Dec 1997 The Tragedy of Coriolanus, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws36xx.xxx]1131 Dec 1997 Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws35xx.xxx]1130 Dec 1997 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws34xx.xxx]1129 Dec 1997 King Lear, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws32xx.xxx]1128 Dec 1997 Othello, The Moor of Venice, by Shakespeare [WL][1ws32xx.xxx]1127 Dec 1997 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws31xx.xxx]1126 Dec 1997 All's Well that End's Well, William Shakespeare[WL][1ws30xx.xxx]1125 Dec 1997 History of Troilus and Cressida, by Shakespeare[WL][1ws29xx.xxx]1124 Dec 1997 Twelfth Night; or What You Will, by Shakespeare[WL][1ws28xx.xxx]1123 Dec 1997 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by Wm Shakespeare [WL][1ws26xx.xxx]1122 Dec 1997 As You Like It, William Shakespeare [World Library][1ws25xx.xxx]1121 I am currently caught up with 80% of the email, and should do another 10% each day for the rest of the week, thus keeping some promises that I will be caught up by the end of the week, at least with email. This will make the rest of the month run at posting two Etexts per day, which I can do-- if nothing major comes up. If you have been expecting email from me, and do not receive it Friday... please resend, and let me know it is a resent message. We are currently creating the /etext98 directories, so those of you doing mirrors of our etexts should make sure that it comes up on your systems. This particular note is going out on a number of listservers, including a new gutnberg listserver at the University of North Carolina, whom we will be indebted to for the duration. A separate message will go out in a day or two, reviewing 1997, and another message will go to the volunteers. I would NOT use THIS message to conclude whether you are on our listserver. We will keep you updated on the new listservers and fileservers as things get underway for 1998. Again our thanks to all those who have helped us get this far, and thanks to those who will be helping us through 1998! 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Selfe Humanities Department Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Dr. Houghton, MI 49931 Internet: cyselfe@mtu.edu Telephone: (906) 487-2447 Fax: (906) 487-3559 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ECAI-98 #5: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:32:39 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 865 (865) [deleted quotation] ______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' **** The deadline for submission of technical papers to the ECAI-98 **** **** conference is 23 January 1998. Full details in previous emails **** **** and on the website at http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98. **** **** **** **** The website now includes latex style files for submissions **** **** (NB: now at version 2, dated 14 January 1998) **** The ECAI-98 Organising Committee is pleased to announce a comprehensive pre-conference programme of tutorials and workshops. 12 tutorials and 23 workshops will take place on 24 and 25 August 1998, covering a wide range of AI topics. The following lists the titles, principal contact and *provisional* scheduling of the programme. Further details are available on the ECAI-98 website: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/tw/timetable.html TUTORIALS 24 August 1998 - AM T1 Access and management of information in the web Daniele Nardi (nardi@dis.uniroma1.it) T2 Applying agent technology Nicholas R. Jennings (N.R.Jennings@qmw.ac.uk) T3 Local search techniques for scheduling problems Andrea Schaerf (aschaerf@dis.uniroma1.it) 24 August 1998 - PM T4 Qualitative spatial reasoning Anthony G Cohn (agc@scs.leeds.ac.uk) T5 Inductive logic programming Peter Flach (Peter.Flach@cs.bris.ac.uk) T6 Automatic text summarisation Udo Hahn (hahn@coling.uni-freiburg.de) 25 August 1998 - AM T7 Intelligent multimedia interface agents Elisabeth Andre (andre@dfki.de) T8 Rough sets for data mining and knowledge discovery Jan Komorowski (Jan.Komorowski@control.lth.se) T9 Applying case-based reasoning: techniques for enterprise systems Ian Watson (i.d.watson@surveying.salford.ac.uk) 25 August 1998 - PM T10 Agent theory Michael Wooldridge (M.J.Wooldridge@qmw.ac.uk) T11 Connectionist models for processing structured information Marco Gori (marco@neuron.ing.unisi.it) T12 Ontological engineering Asuncion Gomez-Perez (asun@delicias.dia.fi.upm.es) WORKSHOPS 24 August 1998 W1 Combining AI and graphics for the interface of the future Thomas Rist (rist@dfki.de) W2 Applications of ontologies and problem-solving methods Asuncion Gomez-Perez (asun@delicias.dia.fi.upm.es) W3 Empirical AI Toby Walsh (tw@dai.ed.ac.uk) W4 Constraint techniques for artistic applications Frangois Pachet (pachet@csl.sony.fr) W5 Model based systems and qualitative reasoning John McCardle (jrm@pophost.aber.ac.uk) W6 Practical reasoning and rationality John Bell (jb@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) W7 Binding environmental sciences and artificial intelligence Ulises Cortes (ia@lsi.upc.es) W8 Synthesis of intelligent agent systems from experimental data Jan Komorowski (Jan.Komorowski@control.lth.se) W9 Machine discovery Vincent Corruble, (disco98@csd.abdn.ac.uk) W10 AI/Alife and entertainment Frank Nack (nack@darmstadt.gmd.de) W11 Decision theory meets artificial intelligence - qualitative and quantitative approaches Jerome Lang (lang@irit.fr) W12 Monitoring and control of real-time intelligent systems Abdel-Illah Mouaddib (mouaddib@cril.univ-artois.fr) 25 August 1998 W13 Multilinguality in the lexicon II Lynne Cahill (Lynne.Cahill@cogs.susx.ac.uk) W14 Intelligent virtual environments Ruth Aylett (R.S.Aylett@iti.salford.ac.uk) W15 Non binary constraints Jean-Charles Regin (regin@ilog.fr) W16 Conflicts among agents: avoid or use them? Catherine Tessier (Catherine.Tessier@cert.fr) W17 Many-valued logic for AI applications Patrick Eklund (peklund@cs.umu.se) W18 Building, maintaining and using organizational memories Stefan Decker (Stefan.Decker@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) W19 Abduction and induction in AI Peter Flach (Peter.Flach@cs.bris.ac.uk) W20 Model based reasoning for intelligent education environments Bert Bredeweg (bert@swi.psy.uva.nl) W21 Intelligent data analysis in medicine and pharmacology (IDAMAP 98) Riccardo Bellazzi (ric@aim.unipv.it) W22 Spatial and temporal reasoning Hans W. Guesgen (hans@cs.auckland.ac.nz) W23 Intelligent information integration Holger Wache (wache@informatik.uni-bremen.de) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448 Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320 University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98 ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex on behalf of AISB. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Discourse, Anaphora and Reference Resolution 2 - Final CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:36:37 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 866 (866) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS DAARRC2 - Discourse, Anaphora and Reference Resolution Colloquium Lancaster University, 1 - 4th August , 1998 Invited Speakers - Branimir Boguraev "Anaphora in Computational Linguistics" Prof. Michael Hoey "Grammatical constraints on the reference functions of lexical signals: a corpus perspective" Prof. Pieter Seuren "A Discourse-Semantic Account of Donkey Anaphora" Anaphora and problems of reference resolution have received a great deal of attention from workers in linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and information retrieval for a number of decades. Such problems have proved a major challenge for all of these fields, and a great many differing theories and solutions have been proposed and implemented with varying degrees of success. This colloquium aims to fill a need for researchers in this field to meet. Our hope is that this meeting will allow all of the different strands of work to be identified, with a view to producing an up-to-date review of the field. To this end, a coloquium will take place from the 1st to the 4th of August, 1998 at Lancaster University, UK, organized jointly by the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University and the Institute for English Studies, Lodz University, Poland. This colloquium is a follow up to the highly succesful DAARC colloquium held at Lancaster in 1996. Our aim this time is specifically geared towards encouraging a cross-fertilization of ideas between theoretical linguistics, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. Papers are requested for presentation on all aspects of anaphora and reference resolution. The following research areas are of particular interest, but do not constitute an exhaustive list: corpus-based studies of anaphora in natural language, statistical approaches to reference resolution, cognitive and psychological perspectives, discourse and text-processing perspectives, information retrieval and other computer applications, pragmatics and anaphor resolution, and linguistic-theoretical approaches. Papers reporting work in any language are welcome. The official language of the conference, for purposes of publication and presentation, is English. Research may be work in progress, or work that has already been completed. Abstracts (500 - 1000 words) may be sent either electronically, by email or fax, or by traditional surface mail. Email submission of abstracts is, however, strongly encouraged. Details below. Abstracts should arrive at Lancaster by 1st February, 1998, and notification of acceptance will be sent by 14th February, 1998. Draft versions of full papers should arrive by 30th June, 1998. The proceedings will be published in time for the colloquium. ============================================================================= The DAARC2 Organizing committee Simon Botley, Lodz University, Poland Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov, Wolverhampton University, UK Pieter Seuren, Nijmegen University, Netherlands Andrew Wilson, Chemnitz University, Germany Surface mail submissions: DAARC2, Department of Linguistics and MEL, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA14YT EMAIL: eiaamme@msmail.lancaster.ac.uk FAX: +44 1524 843 085 From: David Green Subject: AMICO presentation at CAA Conference Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:04:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 867 (867) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 18, 1998 AMICO PRESENTATION AT COLLEGE ART CONFERENCE Friday, February 27, 7:30-9:00 a.m. Convention Centre South Building--room 709 Omitted from the preliminary program of the College Art Association's upcoming conference is a session on the Art Museum Image Consortium, presented by three of the founding members. Below is a description of the presentation. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] THE SEEDS OF REVOLUTION: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) For many institutions and individuals involved in the study of art, advances in image technology--including digital imaging, campus intranets, and the World Wide Web--have only led to confusion and anxiety. Vexing issues such as electronic rights, data standards, fair use, and the digitization of slide libraries and other types of visual collection have blunted the benefits technology was supposed to herald. But in 1997, a nonprofit consortium of 23 leading North American art museums began work on a solution that promises new pathways around the technological impasse. This panel, presented by representatives of three of the founding members of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), will show how AMICO is tackling the complexities of standards, hardware, intellectual rights, electronic distribution systems, and confusing museum procedures. By the fall of 1998, AMICO will have assembled digitized art images from museum collections around the US and Canada and combined it with related data-- including bibliographies, provenance, conservation information, and catalogue entries-- into a digital library which it expects will eventually grow to millions of works from museums around the world. The AMICO Library will be licensed and distributed exclusively for educational use to colleges and universities. Panel members will present the problems of museum image use in the past; review AMICO's progress to date; and explain how its approach differs from image locator services, photo archives, and rights agencies and resellers. The panelists will also demonstrate the potential revolutionary effects of digital libraries on future research and teaching in such fields as art history, studio art, conservation, chemical and materials analysis, cultural history, and the social sciences.. LIST OF THE THREE PANELISTS -Susan Chun, Publications Manager, Asia Society Galleries, NY, NY -Stephanie A. Stebich, Administrative Coordinator, The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH -Peter Walsh, Director of Information and Institutional Relations, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, CT From: Charles Ess Subject: Interdisciplinary Research Conference Date: Thu, 15 Jan 98 11:46:06 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 868 (868) With apologies for cross-postings - and the request to cross-post as appropriate... Colleagues: I'm pleased to announce the First Annual Drury Conference on Interdisciplinary Research, to be held on our campus on Febrary 6-7, 1998. As you can see from the program at http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/irconf/program.html the conference will bring together widely diverse students and faculty whose research and teaching conjoin the disciplines of psychology, economics, political science, literature, history, education, philosophy, architecture, and feminist studies. (Competetion for the undergraduate papers was relatively stiff: only 50% of submissions were accepted for presentation.) (This web page will also lead you to detailed information regarding location, accomodations, registration procedures, etc.) I would encourage you to review the conference program, first of all for your students' sake: in particular, there are clusters of papers in the social sciences (psychology and economics) as well as in education which may be of specific interest to students and/or classes in those domains. On the faculty side, especially the papers from our cohort institutions in the Associated New American Colleges - including the "Feminist Musings on Pragramtic Liberal Education," which examines ANAC goals and leading lights such as Ernest L. Boyer and Bruce Kimball in light of an exceptional range of feminist thinkers - will be of considerable value to faculty and institutions seeking to develop and refine their interdisciplinary curriculum and offerings. The web site includes most of the papers in their entirety, so that participants in the conference can become familiar with the material prior to the conference itself. Our goal in the conference is thereby to minimize time spent on presenting ideas, arguments, etc. so as to maximize time available for discussion and debate. The ideas, energy, and realization of this conference largely derive from our students, I'm pleased to say. The conference is further sponsored by the departments of Philosophy and Religion, History and Political Science, and Interdisciplinary Studies, as well as Drury College as such. As a consequence, conference costs will be minimal (ca. $10.00 registration fee, primarily to help offset the costs of the conference banquet). On behalf of the Drury community, we invite you and your students to participate in this conference. I also hope you will be able to make time to attend the conference, most especially the faculty presentations on Saturday, February 7, on integrating interdisciplinary research in undergraduate instruction. Thanks in advance for your interest, support, and participation. Charles Ess Professor and Chair, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/phil-relg/ess.html Research Associate, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA, 1996-1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS: CALLS FOR PROPOSALS Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:58:43 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 869 (869) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 15, 1998 DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES '98 Glasgow, Scotland September 9-12 PROPOSAL DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15 =========== MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Preservation Santa Monica, CA September 23-26 PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MARCH 1 =========== DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES '98 The Third International Conference brings together the creators, users, distributors, and curators of Digital Resources in the Humanities. Following two successful years in Oxford the Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference (DRH98) will be held in Glasgow in 1998. In 1999 it will be held at King's College London. DRH98 is the internationally recognised forum for all those involved in and benefiting from the digitisation 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 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 characterises contemporary culture and scholarship. FORMAT The conference will take up three intensive days of papers, panel discussions, technical reports, and software demonstrations, between the evening of 9th September 1998 and lunchtime on the 12th September 1998. 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 To date, sponsors of the conference include 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 Library of University College London, the Humanities Computing Unit of Oxford University and the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow. PROPOSALS Proposals are now invited for academic papers, sessions, discussion panels, and reports of work in progress. Proposals (500 - 1000 words) should be submitted by 15th February 1998. An independent panel of reviewers will evaluate proposals, and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 31st March 1998. Abstracts of all the accepted proposals from registered participants will be included in a volume distributed at the conference. Papers will also be considered for a post-conference publication. See for submission details. THEMES * Creation and management of digital resources (e.g. 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. * Implications of digital resources and electronic delivery for teaching, learning, and scholarship. * Encoding standards. * Rights management (e.g. intellectual property rights). * Funding, cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms. * Digitisation techniques and problems. ======================================= MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE As modern cultures move rapidly from analog to digital media, atoms to bits, the role of museums as preservers of artifacts becomes more important. Information and communication technologies are important tools for creating, sharing, and preserving cultural knowledge through the presentation and representation of museum objects. Today, this includes not just the atoms of real exhibitions, but the bits accessed by remote visitors from classrooms and living rooms all over the world. Anyone concerned with information technology and museums - educators, registrars, curators, archivists, librarians, managers, designers, systems analysts, writers, lawyers - will find MCN '98 a key professional event. Technology, administration, legal issues, design concerns, research and commercial implications will all be discussed from the perspective of museum applications and the diverse audiences for which they are created. The five-day program includes: * Pre-conference seminars and workshops on practical topics ranging from strategic planning to communication technology tools. * A three-day technical program on information technology and museums. * A two-day exhibit hall showcasing commercial products. * Special interest group meetings. * Reception at the new Getty Center and the MCN Silent Auction. Walking distance from downtown Santa Monica's fine restaurants and shops, the conference will be held at the four star Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel with sweeping views of the Pacific. We look forward to seeing you there! MCN '98 session topics may address infrastructure, software tools, hardware innovations, successful approaches to problems, or any of a variety of technical solutions to knowledge creation, sharing, and preservation issues. Proposals may address ideas and issues in any area of museum computing. For submission details see =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ron Tetreault Subject: Re: 11.0501 APA citing of Web sites? Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:30:40 -0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 870 (870) Nancy Crane and Xia Li, who published *Electronic Style: a guide to citing electronic information* in 1993, maintain a website offering their versions of MLA and APA style for electronic citations. Their APA rules reside at http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/apa.html Neither is officially approved by the organizations in question, though the MLA has just recently made available guidelines that incorporate a good deal of what Crane and Li proposed. --Ron [deleted quotation] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + 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 + ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: 21st Century Teachers Network Now Hiring Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:55:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 871 (871) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 14, 1998 THE 21st CENTURY TEACHERS NETWORK <http://www.21ct.org> Normally we don't post job openings but this announcemnet serves to describe a new, interesting project as well as a clutch of jobs. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]Please send replies to: Jeff Hannah 21st Century Teachers Network Now Hiring! The 21st Century Teachers Network <http://www.21ct.org> is a growing movement of teacher leaders helping themselves and their colleagues develop new skills for using technology in their teaching and learning environments. Over 6,000 teachers have already volunteered; over 100,000 will eventually be recruited. 21st Century Teachers was announced by the President, is supported by leading education organizations, and is guided by The McGuffey Project. The McGuffey Project is a non-profit organization committed to the effective integration of technology in the classroom. We are looking to hire dynamic leaders to lead this effort and fill these positions immediately. _____________________ Project Director - The Project Director will oversee all aspects of the 21st Century Teachers Network. This person should have experience leading a non-profit organization or directing an extensive education project. While serving as the primary spokesperson for 21CT, she or he must be able to communicate effectively with others inside and outside educational constituencies and direct staff. This person will require boundless enthusiasm, strong leadership skills, and the ability to build an organization from the ground up. Director of Development - The Director of Development will be primarily focused on raising resources to meet the Project's budget, helping build the Board of Directors, and soliciting contributions from a wide variety of sources. This will include meeting with corporate and foundation representatives, as well as working to secure "in-kind" contributions such as software resources, rewards for 21CT Network members, office space for group leaders, use of training facilities, etc. Government Resources Coordinator - This senior level position will have two primary roles with the Network: 1) keeping federal, state, and local public leaders informed about the success of the Network and get them involved in 21CT activities as supporters of the project; 2) aggressively locate content resources and other Government opportunities for the Network's Intranet and outreach functions. Director of State & Opportunity Group Support - This person will be the central outreach and support representative from the Network to Opportunity Group leaders. They will work closely to develop programs and provide materials for group leaders, coordinate events in the field, recruit additional leaders, develop new Opportunity Groups and their leadership (particularly in states), and develop partnerships in the field with public and private programs. Intranet Site Coordinator - The Intranet Site Coordinator will oversee all aspects of the user documentation and content portions of the Intranet site ("Site Editor"). In addition to building content, events, and activities into the site, this person will work to ensure that all users can access and find value in their use of this community. This position will require strong Web-based skills such as knowledge of HTML, as well as experience working with education technology Web sites. Staff Assistant(s) - This junior level position(s) will support all personnel and provide a wide range of office administrative functions. This person(s) should have excellent communication skills to speak with teachers in the field through the Service Desk and computer experience to assist in document production, Intranet communication, and development of presentation materials. _____________________ The McGuffey Project is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please send/fax a cover letter and resume to: Jeff Hannah c/o The McGuffey Project 888 17th Street, N.W., 12th Floor Washington, D.C. 20006 Phone: 202-429-8744 Fax: 202-296-2962 e-mail: jhannah@natstrat.com ------------------------------ To join the Benton Communications Policy Mailing List, email the following command in the body of a message to listserv@cdinet.com: subscribe benton-compolicy YourFirstName YourLastName If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from the Benton Communications Policy Mailing List, email the following command in the body of a message to listserv@cdinet.com: signoff benton-compolicy If you have any problems with the listserv or any questions about the postings, please direct them to benton@benton.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Chris Floyd Subject: endorsements of class warfare Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 20:01:50 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 872 (872) Crazy idea Francois. I am a deconstructionist. In a class war, I would be out of a job if I had one. [deleted quotation] So, if I'm reading you right Francois, the blatant silence is a vindication of the strength of my argument. [deleted quotation] You picked the ellipsis. Yes, I cited Domenico's points and left them open suggesting there was a continuum. There is more to the cutbacks now that universities like UCLA are moving into on-line courses with the pedagogical function being reduced to web site management. Also, that cutbacks and globalism in general has to be taken back to the energy crisis in 1974 when the major oil importers, USA, Europe, and Japan, were cut short. Globalisation overcomes national economic action. It also overcomes local resistance. Privatisation is the continuum of this because it floats national economies, making them vulnerable to global trends that ideally enhance the efficiency of production. To dumb down universities is the icing on the cake. No intelligent resistance, apart from a few disgruntled losers. Obviously, "evidence is the nemesis of argument" is a double edged sword. [deleted quotation] Absolutely correct. If there is no one to understand the evidence, then clearly the post secondary system has failed and is no good. On the other hand, in a totalitarian system, clearly such evidence is not to anyone's social good, especially if it is readable. Ignorance is the safety valve of a society that does not want to know itself. Thus the silence. Evidence is the nemesis of the new world order because bugger all have stood up against its logic. There is no solidarity. Now I will have to clean up my web page. Cheers, Chris. _______________________________ Dr Chris Floyd Phone: +61 8 9339 0490 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Chris Powell Subject: New additions to the American Verse Project Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:06:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 873 (873) The Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce the addition of 35 new texts to the American Verse Project. Works by little-known women and African-American authors not contained in other electronic text collections have been added, as have works by well-known authors such as Emily Dickinson. The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form and coded in Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML) using the TEI Guidelines. The texts are searchable and can be viewed in HTML as well as SGML. The American Verse Project is located at http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/ A complete list of added texts follows: American Female Poets Anthology of magazine verse for 1920 and year book of american poetry / edited by William Stanley Braithwaite Anti-slavery poems : songs of labor and reform / by John Greenleaf Whittier April airs : a book of New England lyrics / Bliss Carman Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard Ballads and lyrics / by Bliss Carman Candle and the flame : poems / by George Sylvester Viereck Complete poetical works of John Hay / [by John Hay] ; with an introd. by Clarence L. Hay Cup of comus : fact and fancy / by Madison Cawein Downing legends : stories in rhyme / J. W. DeForest Earth deities and other rhythmic masques / by Bliss Carman and Mary Perry King Echoes from Vagabondia / Bliss Carman Farm ballads / by Will Carleton Farm festivals / by Will Carleton Idyl of the South / Albery A. Whitman Illustrated poems / by L. H. Sigourney ; with designs by Felix O.C. Darley Lays for the sabbath : a collection of religious poetry / compiled by Emily Taylor ; revised, with additions, by John Pierpont Lyric bough / Clinton Scollard Lyrics of joy / by Frank Dempster Sherman New pastoral / by Thomas Buchanan Read Ode on the sailing of our troops for France / by John Jay Chapman Passing show : five modern plays in verse / by Harriet Monroe Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson Poems / by Madison Cawein ; with a foreward by William Dean Howells Poems and sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton / [by Louise Chandler Moulton] Poems of Emma Lazarus. Vol. 2, Jewish poems : translations Poems of Emma Lazarus. Vol. I, narrative, lyric and dramatic Poems, 1899-1902 / George Cabot Lodge Pro patria : verses chiefly patriotic / Clinton Scollard Rape of Florida / by Albery A. Whitman Southern flight / Frank Dempster Sherman, Clinton Scollard Verse / Adelaide Crapsey Voice on the wind and other poems / by Madison Cawein Wild cherry / by Lizette Woodworth Reese Christina Powell Coordinator, Humanities Text Intiative University of Michigan http://www.hti.umich.edu/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Word Translator Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:34:38 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 874 (874) [deleted quotation] Word Translator software can help you to: translate web pages, e-mail, letters, facsimile, reports, memos, manuals, books, etc. written in a English and German language. Interactively learn and learn to pronounce new words and phrases in a English and German language. If you are interested in this software, please visit our homepage: http://www.tranexp.com There you can download demo, and order full version. From: David Green Subject: THE FCC, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND ACCESS CHARGES Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:46:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 875 (875) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 14, 1998 ANOTHER INTERNET "MYTH" I know you all probably know this but... I've just come across two appeals recently to write to the FCC in order to prevent the phone companies imposing per-minute charges for Internet Service Providers. I thought this was wrong and checked the FCC page. At <http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/ispfact.html> I found this and reproduce it below, just in case any of you are confused: THE FCC, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND ACCESS CHARGES "In December 1996, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requested public comment on issues relating to the charges that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and similar companies pay to local telephone companies. On May 7, 1997, the FCC decided to leave the existing rate structure in place. In other words, the FCC decided not to allow local telephone companies to impose per-minute access charged on ISPs. Please Note: There is no open comment period in this proceeding. If you have recently seen a message on the Internet stating that in response to a request from local telephone companies, the FCC is requesting comments to by February 1998, be aware that this information is inaccurate." There is more information on this page should you be interested. David Green From: David Green Subject: Good Copyright Article Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:18:42 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 876 (876) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 15, 1998 "THE GOOD, BAD, UGLY OF COPYRIGHT LAW REWRITES" by David Loundy, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin January 8, 1998, p.5. <http://www.Loundy.com/CDLB/1998-Copyright.html> A good, clear, short article about current copyright law, focusing on why the Boucher-Campbell, "Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act" (H. R. 3048) is "one of the best pieces of proposed digital technology legislation" can be found at the web site of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin <http://www.Loundy.com/CDLB/1998-Copyright.html>. David Loundy explains why the Boucher-Campbell Bill is so superior to other competing bills: "1. It shows an understanding of the technology; 2. It shows an understanding of the law and how it applies to the technology; and 3. It attempts to strike a balance between the rights of intellectual property owners and intellectual property users." Loundy counterposes what he calls the reasonable and sensible approach of H. R. 3048 with other legislation, such as the recently enacted "No Electronic Theft Act" (The NET Act-- H.R. 2265). This, as other pieces of proposed legislation go overboard in their protection of owners' rights on the Internet, forsaking the traditional calibration of checks and balances of existing Copyright Law: "I have long claimed that the Copyright Act contains some legitimate holes to be filled when the law is applied to a digital context. Unfortunately, too much of the resulting legislation is reactionary and poorly considered. While the Digital Copyright Enhancement Act is a refreshingly informed and balanced attempt to fill some of these holes, why is it that Congress always seems to be most excited about mistakes such as the NET Act?" I recommend your reading this article. Thanks to Pamela Samuelson and Peter Jaszi for the citation. David Green ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "James W. Johnston" Subject: History of The Book Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:24:27 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 877 (877) I am trying to find information on the development of what I call the "navigational aids" that are now common in books. For example, when were page numbers introduced? Is there any record of the first index ... or concordance ? Advice, counsel, or suggestions would be gratefully received! Thanks James Johnston johnston@wordcruncher.com WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc. http://www.wordcruncher.com =============================== May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until me meet again ... may God hold you in the palm of his hand. ================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 11.0509 computers, idols, cogent approaches Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:55:07 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 878 (878) Charles Ess says one thing that should help to clarify the situation for Humanists at least. Humanities were the last to get anything at all 5 years ago and more, say 8 at UCLA, which is ambitious. The money went to the Social Sciences first, and my pals in Poli Sci used to laugh at us, and even the few with dinky set ups. They were too behind, and even today, no lab will not have it own servers and ISDN lines and all that, not to speak of medschool etc. Priorities are not given to Humanities and Arts, etc.Still not, because the machines online are the oldest and least, and even I was finally given a Mac Quadra rebuilt with a screen too small to bear. Answer, I have my money invested at home, and stay away. As for those Ess says are recalcitrant, and yet prominent, consider: if they were given the equipment with all the gigabytes and screens and programs, it would mean they have to where the equipment is, and anyone who thinks and is not required to attend a laboratory will not wish to be where all the others are milling about, including students, and so forth, and in offices that are usually jerrybuilt and noisy and the last, least and worst, as at UCLA. Budget annually of over a billion, but where does it go? Let us not get started on all that. But poor relations act accordingly, and their reaction when it comes to the computer is sour grapes...they dont get to join the feasters, and that brings up to, What use is it to the bottom line to give those folks screens to work, what, after all, are they "producing"? IN the case of the last 25 years, the answer is, a lot of bad writing and thinking, and pseudo-social science homilies with big words reifying very little reality. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Chris Floyd Subject: Re: 11.0507 sacred computer Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 20:37:46 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 879 (879) [deleted quotation] This is a worry Willard. I would need first to understand exactly what you mean by interpretive work vis a vis your research. Humanities scholarship has been on a solid foundation for over two thousand years. It worked well enough to facilitate the logic and design of computers. I have no problems with computer assisted text analysis. However, as a literary critic, I see no place for computer interpretation. The same goes for computer text generation. The existential position of humans is totally different to computers. We die alone. Computer memory can be backed up, and placed on another machine. I criticise texts from a particular perspective, at that moment in my life. Literature is an expression of mortals. I can appreciate the dada factor of automatic writing, poems randomly pulled out of a hat, something computers can easily replicate. But the human reading of that is still human. Being an atheist, I am not so disposed to cling to a religious notion of the sacred, but I know that I am looking for ideas embedded in human experience more than absolute interpretation. Language contains ambiguity that cannot be accurately translated by an immutable system. The meaning of words is not a constant. Heaven forbid it should be. The vitality and play of language is the stuff of human society, not machines. Finally, it boils down to what are you suggesting by the "interpretive act". I believe that translation is an art that involves human choice not clinical exactitude. Cheers, Chris. _______________________________ Dr Chris Floyd Phone: +61 8 9339 0490 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: gleanings Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 20:17:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 880 (880) Dear Colleagues: Perturbations in my schedule due to turbulence at Christmas -- must pleasant turbulence, I assure you -- has made it difficult to take all the little steps that result in my bringing in of such sheaves as lie below: remembering what day it is, getting to the news agent's in time to get a Guardian on Thursday, having the coins at the right moment, and so on. Yesterday I managed, however, so here I am with the usual offerings from the public arena. (1) Karlin Lillington, "Mouth to mouse", on the development of practical speech-recognition equipment that will allow us to talk to our machines. Bill Gates wants it to happen, so I guess it will.... The bit that particularly got my attention concerns the relationship between progress in the area and linguistics: "Surprisingly, speech teehnologies don't use linguistic models at all. Initially, researchers thought linguisties coupled with artificial intelligence were the way forward. "But 'linguistics models don't work very well,' says [Steve] Young [director of the Speech, Vision and Robotics Research Group at Cambridge], because they tend to offer strict rules which humans don't follow in real conversation. 'So instead we analyse huge volumes of text, count the occurrenees of given words and then design statistical models.' "The linguistics experts may yet have their day. Researchers now think they need the subtleties of linguistic models to achieve true 'natural language', where a computer would not just recognise words but understand what you're trying to say. 'Take the sentence 'Mr Wright will write a letter right now'. A natural language model would help predict which of those words I used and where,' says [Kevin] Schofield [senior programming manager for Microsoft's speech technology group]." I wonder, ignorantly, to what extent the spread of probabilistic modeling will put subtle, or not so subtle pressure on us all to say the predictable things. "'People can say anything they want because what we've learned is that they only ask about 15 things,' says director of AT&T's Speech Laboratory Larry Rabiner." Do I ask only about 15 different questions? Is this the world we want to live in? Ok, yes, I realise that these folks are addressing questions that people repeatedly ask in commercial and similar transactions, and I too would go around the bend having to respond to them, and would wish a computer in my place, but still I wonder if the end result is not a dumbing-down of playful wit (which one does get frequently among people in those situations, at least in London) into efficient exchange of commands. (2) Emma Keelan, "A big white lie", on the hidden special effects behind the movie The Winter Guest, set in a small costal town in northern Scotland. Crucial to the film is the bleak landscape, showing a sea completely frozen over. Only the frozen sea and overall bleakness were not originally there but added using a system called Domino, which does something called "digital compositing". See Quantel's page on the movie, at <http://www.quantel.com/news/5jan98.htm>. First it was still photos showing things that never happened (my favourite remains the Diesel clothing company's remake of the Yalta Conference, for which see <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/year1/yalta.jpg>) and, one hears, fashion models whose ideal bodies have been digitally remade, and now moving landscapes one can never visit. (3) Jack Schofield, "Netwatch", which mentions the RTMARK site, for the organisation that "has been funding the sabotage of mass-produced items for nearly five years." They're behind the Barbie Liberation Organisation's GI Joe/Barbie projects and the famous SimCopter hack. See <http://www.paranoia.com/~rtmark/>. (4) Keith Devlin, "You win sum", about the call by the Director of the U.S. National Security Agency on the mathematics community to join with the NSA and other defense agencies in preparing for what he calls World War Four, which (you've guessed it) will be played out entirely in cyberspace. Mathematicians, it seems, have a crucial role to play in maintaining the integrity of the online technologies on which the world is coming increasingly to depend. I recall as a lad in a special summer programme in mathematics at Berkeley, California a number theoretician told us with great pride that his subject was the most perfect because no one would ever find a use for it. He's no doubt dead now, but if I were to run into him, I'd advise him to take up literary criticism, perhaps -- or is our skill with interpretation of complex discourse just what MI5 and the CIA are looking for? And now for the If That Were Not Enough for You Department: (5) Danny Penman, "Armageddon by accident", tells the tale of an incident on 25 January 1995 when a US scientific probe was mistaken by the Russians for a multiple-warhead missle rising off the coast of Norway and bound for the heart of Russia. "[Boris] Yeltsin had 150 seconds left on the clock when the decision [to launch a massive counter-attack against N America and Europe] was postponed...." Remember all those nuclear weapons? It seems they are still on alert, and it also seems that our communications and computing systems are not up to the task. "All it takes is the failure of a 5 cent chip or a problem like the millenium bug and we could be looking at an accidental nuclear war." Comments, as always, are welcome. If you can find your voice. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp (Steve McCarty) Subject: Computing in Japanese Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:09:10 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 881 (881) This installment aims to provide a brief overview, and readers can experiment with accessing some Chinese characters used in Japan. The way East Asian languages are encoded and decoded may also offer some insight into how the Internet works. Because Chinese characters can exceed 20 strokes, they each require twice as many bytes as plain ASCII text. Therefore from the viewpoint of Japanese word-processing, where English is a subset of Japanese, ASCII letters take half a space. Web servers in Japan use ASCII such as in UNIX code, yet Japanese language software is not necessary. But since Chinese characters each need twice the bytes of ASCII text, they cannot be uploaded to a Web server or later downloaded "as text." From the ASCII viewpoint, East Asian text must be uploaded as something like raw data, in the case of the Fetch ftp program. The ASCII source file looks like gibberish except for the HTML tags, yet Japanese language software reads it, that is, decodes it as it was encoded. Similarly, Japanese language sent to U.S-based mailing lists can be read by recipients with Japanese software. Anomalies do occur, however, as data goes from Japanese system Internet gateways through English ones and back. There has been some gibberish at the edges of these gleanings, apparently because cyberspace, like the rest of nature, abhors a vacuum. Let us try a quick experiment where you can see some Chinese characters if you open your browser or view this message at URL: <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v11/#end>. Japanese language is converted into many inline .GIF images at an innovative Website called Shodouka, which in Japanese means conversion into calligraphy. You might select and copy the exact URL for this message from the location window and then paste it into the launchpad at <http://www.shodouka.com>. Then the file will be reloaded with the Chinese characters written below converted into images quite resembling a Japanese font. ^Í^Á^Ðì^ÒZ^Êú^Ñå^Êw^˳^Îö This is my institution and position from my signature file for messages in Japanese. It takes only eight Chinese characters, so does it appear as something like 16 characters of gibberish? There is also a shortcut that I employ on Web pages where you just click on the highlighted text and the embedded URL goes to the Shodouka Launchpad. For example, you could see Japanese, romanized and English versions of haiku poems, all previously published, with several for each season. Now I am going to write the HTML, including a "mailto" around my signature, so let us see what happens as it goes onto the Web via hypernews: http://www.shodouka.com/nph-sh.cgi/http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_m c/haiku.html">Bilingual Haiku Scroll _Bon voyage_, Steve McCarty ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: CONFERENCES ON VALUES & POLICY MAKING Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:01:42 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 882 (882) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 15, 1998 VALUES & POLICY MAKING Forgive the recent deluge of important conference announcements. Be sure, as always to check the NINCH webpage for Calendar listings <http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html>. David Green =========== Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science WORKSHOP ON DESIGN FOR VALUES: ETHICAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY <http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Ethical/announcement.html> February 28 - March 1, 1998 Princeton University Organizers: * Helen Nisssenbaum, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, helen@princeton.edu * Bernard Chazelle, Computer Science Department, Princeton University Contact: Sandy Barbu, barbu@cs.princeton.edu The workshop will offer four panel presentations beginning Saturday, February 28 at 9:30 a.m. The final panel will take place Sunday, March 1, 10:00 - 12:00 a.m. Panels will be organized around the central theme of how computer and information systems are shaped by societal and ethical values, including broadly encompassing values such as fair distribution of goods and power, freedom, autonomy, sovereignty, and privacy as well as more specific human ends such as wealth, efficacy, and rights to free expression, association, private and property. Panel presenters, representing the fields of computer science, the social sciences, philosophy, and policy studies, will discuss values embedded in specific systems, including but not limited to the net, encryption, security, autonomous agents, educational software, user-interfaces, and the structure of information systems. They may be guided by questions such as: * How do values influence or determine the shape of computer and information systems? * Whose ends, interests or values are best, and most frequently, represented in contemporary systems? * By what means are values embedded in systems -- public policy, markets, or the discretion of individual scientists and engineers? * Are some of these sources more ``legitimate'' than others? * What values ought to shape computer and information systems? * Is there some shared sense of public, community or individual welfare that ought to drive the design of systems? * Is it enough to ``let the market decide''? For details on panels and registration see <http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Ethical/announcement.html> ================== ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING (ACM) ANNUAL CONFERENCE * * * POLICY98 * * * "Shaping Policy in the Information Age" Washington, DC, Renaissance Hotel May 10-12, 1998 <http://www.acm.org/usacm/events/policy98/> The ACM Annual Conference will focus on public policy issues affecting future applications of computing. Our goal is to forge stronger links between computing professionals and policy makers. Attendees will interact with prominent leaders from academia, industry, Congress, and Executive agencies, and participate in debates on policy issues including Universal Access, Electronic Commerce, Intellectual Property, and Education Online. The conference will promote more regular engagement of computing professionals in democratic processes related to productive use of computing and information processing innovations. A blend of technical skills and policy insights are essential to cope with the inherent opportunities and dangers of any transformational technology. Continuing collaborations between computing professionals and policy makers will benefit citizens, consumers, entrepreneurs, researchers, and students. You can make a difference! May 10: Ethical and social impacts papers and panels May 11-12: Public policy panels and featured speakers All Policy98 attendees are invited to the Annual ACM Awards Banquet on Sunday evening May 10th, and a conference reception on Monday evening May 11th. PANEL TOPICS AND COORDINATORS Universal Service: Ollie Smoot Electronic Commerce: Jim Horning Intellectual Property in Cyberspace: Pam Samuelson Education Online: Charles N. Brownstein CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Ben Shneiderman, USACM (U.S. Public Policy Committee) C. Dianne Martin, SIGCAS (ACM Special Interest Group on Computers & Society) PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Marc Rotenberg, Public Policy Keith Miller, Ethics and Social Impacts From: "David L. Gants" Subject: AiML'98: First Call for Papers Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:39:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 883 (883) [deleted quotation] [Please post. Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AiML'98 Advances in Modal Logic '98 October 16-18, 1998 Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a workshops series together with volumes based on those workshops. Advances in Modal Logic '98 is the second workshop organized as part of this initiative. AiML'98 will be held from October 16-18, 1998 in Uppsala, Sweden. The workshop is intended for users of modal logic in cognition, computing, and language, as well as for logicians working in modal logic. TOPICS. AiML '98 will be organized around a number of thematic areas: - modal logics of agency and normative systems - algebraic and model-theoretic aspects of modal logic - modal approaches to grammar and natural language semantics - computational aspects of modal logic - philosophical aspects of modal logic - modal logic and belief revision. Papers on related subjects will also be considered. SPECIAL SESSION. During the workshop there will be a special afternoon session on modal logic and belief revision; this session will be chaired by Sven-Ove Hansson and Sten Lindstrom. INVITED SPEAKERS. Invited speakers include J. van Benthem, K. Fine, J. Horty, M. Kracht, and R. Parikh. PAPER SUBMISSION. Authors are invited to submit a detailed abstract of a full paper of at most 10 pages by e-mail to Heinrich Wansing (e-mail address: wansing@rz.uni-leipzig.de), using `AiML98 Submission' as the subject line. The cover page should include title, authors, and the coordinates of the corresponding author. Following this it should be indicated which of the thematic areas best describes the content of the paper (if none is appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best describe the topic of the paper). To be considered, submissions must be received no later than June 1, 1998. The preliminary version of the full paper to be included in a planned volume from the workshop should be available at the workshop; the volume will be submitted to CSLI Publications. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by December 1, 1998. SPONSORS. AiML '98 is generously sponsored by Neurotec Hochtechnologie GmbH, the Computational Logic Group at the University of Amsterdam, the Compulog Net network for Computational Logic, the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, and the University of Uppsala. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: June 1, 1998 Notification: August 1, 1998 Workshop: October 16-18, 1998 Preliminary version for workshop volume due at the workshop Notification of acceptance for publication: December 1, 1998 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Maarten de Rijke, Amsterdam Krister Segerberg, Uppsala Heinrich Wansing, Leipzig Michael Zakharyaschev, Moscow PROGRAMME CHAIR Michael Zakharyaschev Institute of Applied Mathematics Russian Academy of Sciences Miusskaya Square 4 125047 Moscow RUSSIA (e-mails: mishaz@math.fu-berlin.de and mz@spp.keldysh.ru) AiML STEERING COMMITTEE Maarten de Rijke, Heinrich Wansing, Michael Zakharyaschev AiML ADVISORY BOARD Johan van Benthem, Amsterdam Max Cresswell, Wellington Luis Farinas del Cerro, Toulouse Larry Moss, Indiana Krister Segerberg, Uppsala Colin Stirling, Edinburgh FURTHER INFORMATION. Email enquiries about AiML '98 should be directed to Krister.Segerberg@filosofi.uu.se. Information about the AiML initiative can be obtained on the World-Wide Web at http://www.wins.uva.nl/~mdr/AiML. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 9th Workshop on NL Generation-Final CFP Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:39:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 884 (884) [deleted quotation] ============================= 9th International Workshop on NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 5-7 August 1998 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th biennial Workshop on Natural Language Generation will be held in the scenic town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, near Niagara Falls, in Ontario, Canada, on 5-7 August 1998. The workshop is in the week immediately prior to the joint conference of COLING and ACL, in Montreal, Canada (10-14 August 1998). Electronic submissions must be received by 28 January 1998. For more information on topics and submission procedures, visit http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS General workshop questions: Chrysanne DiMarco, cdimarco@logos.uwaterloo.ca, phone +1 519 888 4443 General paper-submission questions: Eduard Hovy, hovy@isi.edu, phone +1 310 822 1510 x731 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Computing in Classical Studies Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:18:46 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 885 (885) PLEASE CIRCULATE ---------------- Computing in Classical Studies A colloquium on the current role, possible futures and both the scholarly and professional implications of applied computing in classical Greek and Roman studies. Sponsored by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Department of Classics, King's College London, and the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. Gregory Crane (Perseus Project, Tufts), "The philologist on Mars: Words and language in a multimedia postmodern world" Don Fowler (Jesus College, Oxford), "From scroll to screen: The future of epistemological prosthetics in Classical Studies" Geoffrey Waywell and Hafed Walda (Classics) and Robin Kilpatrick (Computing Centre, King's College London), "Daidalos: A database of sources and images for ancient Greek sculptors and sculpture" Charles Crowther (Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents) and Veit Schenk (Engineering Science, Oxford), "Ancient Documents and Digital Images" James J. O'Donnell (Classics, Pennsylvania), "Past Presence: Technology and the Way Classicists Understand Themselves" Thursday, 12 February 1998 Institute of Classical Studies University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Programme and registration details available at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/classical_studies.html>. ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New summer internship in speech and language processing Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:36:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 886 (886) [deleted quotation] NEW UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER INTERNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT The Center for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins University is seeking outstanding members of the current junior class to participate in a summer workshop on language engineering from June 29 to August 21, 1998. No limitation is placed on the undergraduate major. Only relevant skills, employment experience, past academic record and the strength of letters of recommendation will be considered. Students of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Electrical Engineering, Linguistics, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, etc. may apply. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. * An opportunity to explore an exciting new area of research; * A two week tutorial on speech and language technology; * Mentoring by an experienced researcher; * Use of a computer workstation throughout the workshop; * A $4800 stipend and $1680 towards per diem expenses; * Private accommodation for 8 weeks covering the workshop; * Travel expenses to and from the workshop venue; * Participation in project planning activities. The workshop provides a vigorously stimulating and enriching intellectual environment and hopes to attract students to eventually pursue graduate study or research in the field of human language technologies. Application forms are available via the internet or by mail. Electronic submission of applications is strongly encouraged. Applications must be received at CLSP by 30th Jan., 1998. For details, contact CLSP, Barton Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, visit our web site at http://www.clsp.jhu.edu, or call 410 516 4237. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP INFORMATION Automated systems that interact with human users in naturally spoken language will greatly enhance productivity and program usability. Such interfaces will act as on- and off-ramps to the information super-highway, allowing user-friendly access to services. In other tasks, such as accessing a database of maintenance manuals while performing intricate repairs, and for handicapped users, enhancing the interface with speech is essential, not just a convenience. Yet other applications are conversion of phone mail to text, transcription of radio or television programs, translation of data from one language to another, and information retrieval. While speech systems have made a commercial appearance, mostly in the form of personal dictation systems, recognition technology is still inadequate in many respects for the tasks listed above. For instance, automatic recognition of natural conversational speech results in incorrect transcription of one-third of the words spoken. Mechanical translations of technical manuals from English to Spanish result in confusing and ungrammatical instructions. Even parsing sentences from newspaper articles, which one may expect to be easy due to their professional editing, leads to faulty automatic analysis of half the sentences. There is need to make progress in this important field. The number of available personnel educated in the field is small and relatively few universities presently educate students capable of performing the required tasks. We are organizing a six week workshop on Language Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University from July 13 to August 24, 1998, in which mixed teams of professionals and students will work together to advance the state of the art. The professionals will be university professors and leading industrial and government researchers presently working in widely dispersed locations. Six or more undergraduate students will be selected through a nationwide search from the current junior class based on outstanding academic promise. Graduate students will be selected in accordance with their demonstrated research performance. Three topics of research for this workshop were determined by a group of leading professionals in the field: 1. Dynamic Segmental Models of Speech Coarticulation. 2. Rapid Speech Recognizer Adaptation for New Speakers. 3. Core NLP Technology Applicable to Multiple Languages. The Center for Language and Speech Processing has successfully organized similar workshops for the last three summers. Visit the CLSP web pages for project details and information about past workshops. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Seminar on Biblical Language Texts Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:12:34 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 887 (887) ****************Biblical Language Standards Mailing List**************** Announcing the Biblical Language Standards mailing list! The Biblical Language Standards mailing list is a forum for discussion of and announcements concerning the ongoing work of the SBL Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts. Biblical scholars, publishers, librarians, archivists, researchers and software designers need good computer tools for working with biblical langauges and texts. This seminar is dedicated to solving problems such as interchange and publication of materials containing biblical languages, creation of electronic texts for analysis and archiving, and other problems routinely faced by those working with biblical materials. The goals of the seminar are to: (1) Create standards for electronic representation and interchange of all types of documents in biblical and related studies. These standards will include naming, description, and analysis. (2) Encourage the development of software implementing these standards. (3) Produce a set of sample documents and software developed as models which are consistent with these standards. (4) Build a consensus for adoption of these standards. (5) Provide training in their use. The Seminar is using the TEI Guidelines as the starting point for its discussion of encoding biblical language texts with a view of modifying or extending those guidelines as necessary. Current Working Groups of the Seminar and their members include: Critical apparatus: Jimmy Adair, jadair@emory.edu (chair), Winfried Bader, bader@dbg.de, Lewis Barth, lbarth@mizar.usc.edu, Michael Bakker, mbakker@let.uva.nl, Bruce Morrill, bruce@math.ksu.edu, Bernard Taylor, taylorb@earthlink.net. Dictionaries: Stephen Kaufman, skaufman@cn.huc.edu (Chair), Erik Eynikel, e.eynikel@theo.kun.nl, Peter Burton, burto009@maroon.tc.umn.edu, Dale Wheeler, dalemw@teleport.com, Richard Whitaker, Richard.Whitaker@ptsem.edu. Entity Sets and Writing System Declarations: Patrick Durusau, pdurusau@emory.edu, Kirk Lowery, KirkLowery@xc.org. Hebrew Syntax: Kirk Lowery, KirkLowery@xc.org, Dale Wheeler, dalemw@teleport.com. Imaging: Robert Kraft, kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Practical Applications: Proposed group for short-term projects and testing of proposed solutions from other working groups. Participation in the work of the Seminar and its groups is open to biblical scholars of all viewpoints, publishers and software developers. New working groups will be formed to address additional issues as the work of the Seminar progresses. Please contact either Patrick Durusau, pdurusau@emory.edu, or Susan Hockey, Susan.Hockey@UAlberta.ca, the co-chairs of the Seminar if you would like to formally participate in the work of the Seminar. Subscription to the list is open to any interested party but the list is moderated. To subscribe send the following command to majordomo@shemesh.scholar.emory.edu: subscribe bls The Seminar hopes to result in standards that will assist scholars, publishers, librarians and archivists, software developers and anyone else involved in biblical studies. Your support is appreciated. Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu Co-Chair, SBL Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts From: David Green Subject: ARL: Directory of E-Journals Now Online Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:59:37 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 888 (888) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 15, 1998 Association of Research Libraries' DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS & ACADEMIC DISCUSSION LISTS New Seventh Edition <http://www.arl.org:591/> [deleted quotation]January 15, 1998 ARL Announces... Seventh Edition of the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists <http://www.arl.org/scomm/edir> The Association of Research Libraries is pleased to announce the availability of the most recent edition of the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists (1997). 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From: dougb@bobo.link.cs.cmu.edu (by way of Willard McCarty Subject: Lexical FreeNet Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 06:20:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 889 (889) Now available on the Web for your entertainment and edification is a semantic network program called Lexical FreeNet: http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/lexfn/ FreeNet is a database system for creating and querying "finite relation expression networks". Lexical FreeNet combines several WordNet-derived relations with a statistically-derived trigger relation, and throws in a couple phonetic dictionary-derived relations for good measure. The result is, I hope, a useful resource for discovering relationships between concepts across dimensions of meaning and sound. You can presently issue shortest path queries, concept "intersection" queries, and "rhyme coercion" queries. The latter finds rhyming word pairs that are similar in meaning to two input concepts. You can also use the system simply to lookup the words that are related in some way to a source, so in some ways this program supercedes my WordNet-enhanced online rhyming dictionary (http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme.html), but not completely. My intent is to use the system for continued research on automatic segmentation, summarization, and information extraction on transcripts of spontaneous speech. The code is not yet publically available but if there is sufficient interest I would be happy to make it so. Please feel free to check out the program and read the technical note if you get a chance. Any feedback is much appreciated. Regards, Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: computing in Japanese Date: Mon, 19 Jan 98 13:55:02 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 890 (890) Thanks, Stever, for all the information on Computing in Japanese. Without getting into Unicode and 16-bit, etc., could I recommend two (getting old) books which are good for the basics: 1. Ken Lunde, _Understanding Japanese Information Processing_ (O'Reilley, 1993). 2. Nadine Kano, _Developing International Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT_ (Microsoft, 1995). Both have helped me tremendously in encoding and dealing with Genji, etc. BTW, Windows NT is Unicode compatible or at least sort of compliant. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jean G Anderson Subject: A Guide to Scottish Literature Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:49:11 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 891 (891) Unit Three, "Poetry, Fiction and Drama from 1920", of the cd "Guide to Scottish Literature", is now available. Cost stlg175. Orders should be sent to the address below. For more information email me. Jean Anderson ____________________________________________ Jean Anderson Humanities Computing, University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980 http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/ From: David Green Subject: NYT article on US Digital Copyright Issues Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:45:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 892 (892) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 20, 1998 New York Times Copyright Article DIGITAL COMMERCE / By DENISE CARUSO "A Tough Stance on Cyberspace Copyrights" Monday January 19, page D3 <http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/digicom/011998digicom.html> In yesterday's New York Times (January 19, p. D3), Technology correspondent Denise Caruso reported on the conflict over digital copyright legislation that will be even more in the open once Congress reconvenes next week. In her column, Digital Commerce, Caruso focused on the strong language of the Administration's proposed "WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act" that bans, for any reason whatsoever, all anti-circumvention devices. These devices are manufactured to break the code of copy-protection technology. Even if material should be freely available for specific uses or in specific circumstances (as those allowed under "fair use"), if it is encoded by the owner of the material using copy-protection technology, under the Administration's bill, it would be criminally illegal to circumvent the technology. Caruso ends her piece by quoting a letter from 50 law professors protesting the Administration's bill as employing overly strict protection mechanisms. They point out that existing copyright law strikes a balance between owners of existing copyright material and the creators of new material. This way education, research and individual creativty have been encouraged, "as well as the growth of copyright industries which today dominate the international marketplace in information products." That letter concludes: "We should not rush to drastically alter that tested system in ways that might produce unsought, unforeseen and unwelcome consequences." For the full text of that letter see <http://www.ari.net/dfc/legislat/profltr.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jean G Anderson Subject: Humanities Computing Courses Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 15:41:35 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 893 (893) Can any list member tell me where I can find out about humanities computing courses in the USA? I have a level 1 student (at Glasgow) who would like to do a second year of humanities computing abroad. Thanks, Jean ____________________________________________ Jean Anderson Humanities Computing, University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980 http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:05:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 894 (894) Re.: History of hypertext (was: history of the book) In reply to James Johnston's query, let me add two cents from my own reading -- (1) Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) is said to have been (one of) the first to have added "footnotes" (or "endnotes" ?) to his texts. This information appears unreliable to me and would need further verification. If Bayle did make use of footnotes in an appreciable manner, his influence upon enlightenment literary culture would have been without compare. (2) Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), one of the founders of modern art history, writes in his "Versuch einer Allegorie, besonders fuer die Kunst" (Dresden, 1766): "Among the Greeks [...] science was wrapped up in pictorial language, which is meant by the word hypographein ." (1766, p. 7, my translation). It was his idea to re-invent allegory as a general pictorial language of the arts where images would represent concepts (1766, p. 2), as it is nature's original working to render things as images. Despite his sad ending in a north Italian hotel room, Winckelmann was rather successful in his other endeavours. Still one might argue if (and when) "hypographein" became "hypertext". Winckelmann was certainly highly influential in defending lateral thinking and graphical repre- sentation within the domain of textual science (see my dissertation, "Ein Bild der Welt. Die Voraussetzungen der anthropologischen Photo- graphie," Constance, 1984, p. 175 et passim). Thank you to you all for your inspiration and encouragement throughout the last year. Yours, Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de From: "James W. Johnston" Subject: Interesting News on the WordCruncher Horizon ... Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:05:44 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 895 (895) First, many thanks to all who contributed (both on and off list) to helping me better understand the history of the book. Second, for those who may find computer industry shenanigans a welcome break from your more scholarly pursuits, WordCruncher has been in the news lately. Take a look at http://www.wordcruncher.com for a bit of a chuckle! Best, James Johnston johnston@wordcruncher.com WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc. http://www.wordcruncher.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Eric Johnson Subject: Computing for the Humanities Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 06:59:35 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 896 (896) In answer to the question posted on HUMANIST, members might look over the syllabus for my course, Computing for the Humanities -- it is found on the Web at: http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/chum.html Let me know if you have questions. -- Eric --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Graduate Student places in Language and Speech Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:37:55 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 897 (897) [deleted quotation] University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science Content-Length: 1796 RESEARCH DEGREES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE This department intends to recruit a number of postgraduate research students to commence studies in October 1998. Successful applicants will read for an M.Phil or Ph.D. The department has four research groups, with interests as follows: Verification and Testing Formal Specification, Verification and Testing, Object-Oriented Languages and Design, Proof Theory, Safety-Critical systems, Biocomputing and Multimedia databases. Communications and Distributed Systems Broadband Communication Networks, Data over Cable TV Infrastructure, Network Modelling, Performance Prediction and Evaluation, Network Tariffing, New Protocols for Multi-service Networks (Z39.50, GSM/SMS), Distributed Systems, Fault-tolerant Systems, Active Networks, Virtual Environments, Information Brokerage. Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, Robotics, Computer Graphics, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Computer Argumentation. Speech and Hearing Auditory Scene Analysis, Models of Auditory Perception, Automatic Speech Recognition, especially Large Vocabulary Recognition and Recognition in Noise. For more details, browse <<<http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research For funding possibilities, see <<<http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/admissions Candidates for all awards should have a good honours degree in a relevant discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), or should attain such a degree by September 1998. Part-time registration is a possibility. For details on how to apply, see <<<http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/admissions/applns.html Informal enquiries may be addressed to research group heads (in web pages) or Dr. Phil Green, phone +44-114-222-1828, email p.green@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: POSITIONS AVAILABLE: Professorships at Reading University, UK. Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:38:13 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 898 (898) [deleted quotation] THE UNIVERSITY OF READING DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE PROFESSORSHIP OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE PROFESSORSHIP OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS Applications are invited for the posts of Professor of Linguistic Science and Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistic Science. The advertised posts are established Chairs in the Department of Linguistic Science made vacant by the retirement of Professors E.Fudge and D.A.Wilkins. The successful applicants will be expected to maintain the Department's high reputation as a centre for research in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, to develop research and teaching in new directions and generally to provide academic leadership. Applications will be welcome in any area of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. Informal enquiries may be made to the Head of Department, Professor Peter Roach, telephone +44 (0)118 931 8138, email p.j.roach@reading.ac.uk. Information about the Department and some of its activities may be read in its World Wide Web pages, which may be found at the following address: http://www.linguistics.rdg.ac.uk/ Further information may be obtained from: The Registrar, Room 214, Whiteknights House, P.O.Box 217, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading UK RG6 6AH Tel: +44 (0)118 9318114 Fax: +44 (0)118 987 4722 email: r.t.bayer@reading.ac.uk The closing date for applications is February 27th 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Workshop Announcement: Computerm'98 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:33:46 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 899 (899) [deleted quotation] (We deeply apologize if you recive multiple copies of this announcement) ====================================================================== ACL/COLING-98 COMPUTERM Workshop First Workshop on Computational Terminology August 15, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98) University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada) PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS DESCRIPTION The workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers from the fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated translation, information retrieval and lexicography who share an interest in computational aspects of terminology processing: acquisition, extraction, indexing, machine-aided thesaurus building, dictionary construction, etc. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate the exchange of innovative ideas and results of diverse aspects of automatic term processing in order to bridge the gap between these fields. TOPICS The topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to): - Construction of terminology resources - Semi- or automatic acquisition of terms - Semi- or automatic acquisition of conceptual knowledge - Thesaurus construction and maintenance - Use of terminology resources (term banks, thesauri, specialized lexicons,...) - Terms in information retrieval (stemming, automatic indexing, query expansion, ...) - Multi-lingual terminological resources for cross-language IR - Terminology management in machine-aided translation - Terminology and NLP (parsing, tagging, text understanding, generation,...) - Terminology processing for other applications SUBMISSIONS Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-5000 words). Submissions should be sent: Didier Bourigault Laboratoire de Linguistique Informatique Universite Paris XIII Avenue J.-B. Clement F-93430 Villetaneuse France Style Files and Templates for Preparing Submissions http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html The official language of the Conference is English. However, papers can also be submitted in French. The final version of the papers will be accompanied by two long abstracts in two different languages. All the presentation at the workshop will be given in English. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submission Deadline: March 23, 1998 Notification Date: May 15, 1998 Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey, UK) Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK) Peter Anick (Digital Equipment Corporation, USA) Teresa Cabre (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelone, Spain) Ken Church (AT&T Labs Research, USA) Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse, France) Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, USA) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Beatrice Daille (IRIN Nantes, France) Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Eric Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Stephanie Haas (University of North Carolina, USA) Benoit Habert (LIMSI & ENS Fontenay-St Cloud, France) Ulrich Heid (Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany) Kyo Kageura (NACSIS, Tokyo, Japan) Judith Klavans (Columbia Univesity, USA) Robert Krovetz (NEC Research Institute, USA) Robert Losee (University of North Carolina, USA) Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada) Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada) Padmini Srinivasan (The University of Iowa, USA) Tomek Strzalkowski (General Electric Company, USA) Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Labs Innovations, Lucent Technologies, USA) Richard Wojcik (Boeing Company, USA) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP & Universite Paris 6, France) ORGANIZERS Didier Bourigault (CNRS and Universite Paris XIII, Paris, France) Christian Jacquemin (IUT de Nantes, France) Marie-Claude L'Homme (Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada) EMAIL CONTACT mailto:db@lli.univ-paris13.fr, Christian.Jacquemin@iut-nantes.univ-nantes.fr, lhommem@ere.umontreal.ca From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Workshop announcement Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:34:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 900 (900) [deleted quotation] *************** Call for papers *************** Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources *********************************************** Workshop immediately before the First International Conference on language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 27 1998 Granada, Spain http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/conflre.html Short description: This workshop will discuss ways to increase the efficacy of linguistic resource distribution and programmatic access, and work towards the definition of a new method for these tasks based on distributed processing and object-oriented modelling with deployment on the WWW. Organizers: Yorick Wilks, Hamish Cunningham, Wim Peters, Remi Zajac Workshop Scope and Aims ----------------------- In general the reuse of of NLP data resources (such as lexicons or corpora) has exceeded that of algorithmic resources (such as lemmatisers or parsers). However, there are still two barriers to data resource reuse: 1) each resource has its own representation syntax and corresponding programmatic access mode (e.g. SQL for CELEX, C or Prolog for Wordnet, SGML for the BNC); 2) resources must generally be installed locally to be usable (and of course precisely how this happens, what operating systems are supported etc. varies from case to case). The consequences of 1) are that although resources share some structure in common (lexicons are organised around words, for example) this commonality is wasted when it comes to using a new resource (the developer has to learn everything afresh each time) and that work which seeks to investigate or exploit commonalities between resources (e.g. to link several lexicons to an ontology) has to first build a layer of access routines on top of each resources. So, for example, if we wish to do task-based evaluation of lexicons by measuring the relative performance of an information extraction system with different instantiations of lexical resource, we might end up writing code to translate several different resources into SQL or SGML. The consequence of 2) is that there is no way to "try before you buy": no way to examine a data resource for its suitability for your needs before licencing it. Correspondingly there is no way for a resource provider to expose limitted access to their products for advertising purposes, or gain revenue through piecemeal supply of sections of a resource. This workshop will discuss ways to overcome these barriers. The proposers will discuss a new method for distributing and accessing language resources involving the development of a common programmatic model of the various resources types, implemented in CORBA IDL and/or Java, along with a distributed server for non-local access. This model is being designed as part of the GATE project (General Architecture for Text Engineering: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/gate/) and goes under the provisional title of an Active CREOLE Server. (CREOLE: Collection of REusable Objects for Language Engineering. Currently CREOLE supports only algortihmic objects, but will be extended to data objects.) A common model of language data resources would be a set of inheritance hierarchies making up a forest or set of graphs. At the top of the hierarchies would be very general abstractions from resources (e.g. lexicons are about words); at the leaves would be data items that were specific to individual resources. Programmatic access would be available at all levels, allowing the developer to select an appropriate level of commonality for each application. Note that although an exciting element of the work could be to provide algorithms to dynamically merge common resources (e.g. connect WordNet to Celex), what we're suggesting initially is not to develop anything substantively new, but simply to improve access to existing resources. This is NOT a new standards initiative, but a way to build on previous initiatives. Of course, the production of a common model that fully expressed all the subtleties of all resources would be a large undertaking, but we believe that it can be done incrementally, with useful results at each stage. Early versions will stop decomposing the object structure of resources at a fairly high level, leaving the developer to handle the data structures native to the resources at the leaves of the forest. There should still be a substantial benefit in uniform access to higher level strucures. Draft Program Committee ----------------------- Yorick Wilks Hamish Cunningham Wim Peters Remi Zajac Roberta Catizone Paola Velardi Maria Teresa Pazienza Louise Guthrie Roberto Basili Bran Boguraev Sergei Nirenburg James Pustejowsky Ralph Grishman Christiane Fellbaum Paper Submission ---------------- FORMATTING GUIDELINES: Papers should not exceed 4000 words or 10 pages. HARD COPIES: Three hard copies should be sent to: Gill Callaghan, FAO Yorick Wilks Dept. Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court 211 Portobello St., Sheffield S1 4DP UK ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Electronic submission will be allowed in Poscript or HTML. An ftp site will be available on demand. Authors should send an info email to (Yorick Wilks) even if they submit in paper form. An electronic submission should be accompanied by a plain ascii text. # 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 (Hard Copy/Electronic) February 15th 1998 Paper Notification April 1st Camera-Ready Papers Due May 1st DALR workshop May 27st From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI'98 Student Session - 2nd CFP Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:32:41 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 901 (901) From: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova !!!!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!!!! !!!!! Please circulate and post as much as possible !!!!! 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We welcome submissions of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI'98 Student Session and to appear in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This is going to be the third ESSLLI Student Session and as before, it will provide an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own WORK IN PROGRESS and get valuable feedback from other researchers and fellow-students. Presentation of creative and innovative ideas is encouraged. The ESSLLI'98 Student Session welcomes submissions from students at any level, that is, from undergraduates (before completion of Master degree) as well as postgraduates (before completion of PhD degree). Note also that all authors of ESSLLI'98 papers have to be students, papers co-authored by non-students cannot be accepted. As in the previous years, the ESSLLI'98 Student Session will consist of paper presentations. The ESSLLI'98 Student Session has its own timeslot in the ESSLLI'98 schedule: 60 minutes every day for two weeks, provided that a sufficient number of good quality papers is accepted. Each presentation will last 30 minutes (including 10 minutes of discussion). REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. All topics within the usual six ESSLLI subject areas are of interest, without further restrictions. The areas are as follows: Logic, Linguistics, Computation, Logic & Linguistics, Logic & Computation, and Linguistics & Computation. The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI'98 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available along with the readers for the ESSLLI'98 courses. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 4 pages of length exclusive of references and a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be "blind", the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., ``We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'') should be avoided. Instead, use references like ``Smith (1991) previously showed .....''. To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), the author(s)' affiliation(s) and complete addresse(s) a short (5 line) summary and a specification of the subject area into which the paper belongs. The subject areas considered are: Logic, Linguistics, Computation, Logic & Linguistics, Logic & Computation, and Linguistics & Computation. MEDIA OF SUBMISSION AND FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS: The student authors should submit their papers electronically to: korbay@ufal.mff.cuni.cz For any kind of submission a plain ascii text version of the identification page should be sent separately by email, using the following format: title: author: <name of first author> address: <affiliation and address of first author> ... author: <name of last author> address: <affiliation and address of last author> short summary (5 lines): <summary> subject area (one of): [ Logic | Linguistics | Computation | Logic&Linguistics | Logic&Computation | Linguistics&Computation ] Please always submit the identification page in a separate message. The submissions should be in one of the following formats: - self-contained LaTeX source (the most encouraged) - PostScript - ASCII text ESSLLI'98 STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at the ESSLLI'98 Student Session, every student author has to register as a participant at ESSLLI'98. However, authors of accepted papers will be eligible for a reduced registration fee. For all information concerning ESSLLI'98, please consult the ESSLLI'98 web site : <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/</a> If you have specific questions about the student session please contact the chair. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions: February 15, 1998 Notifications: April 15, 1998 Final version due: May 15, 1998 ESSLLI'98 Student Session: August 17-28, 1998 PROGRAM COMITTEE FOR THE ESSLLI'98 STUDENT SESSION: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (chair) korbay@ufal.mff.cuni.cz UFAL MFF UK Malostranske nam. 25 118 35 Praha 1 Czech Republic tel: (+420-2) 2191 4288 fax: (+420-2) 2191 4309 Area co-chairs: Language and Computation: Kordula de Kuthy (University of Saarbruecken) Computation: Michal Soch (Czech Technical University) Logic: Carlos Areces (University of Warwick) Language: Berthold Crysmann (University of Saarbruecken) Logic & Computation: Jaime Ramos (Technical University of Lisabon) Logic and Language: - to be confirmed From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Re: Workshop on Databases of Central and Eastern European Languages Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:36:31 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 902 (902) [deleted quotation] First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) Granada, May 28-30 1998 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS (((( WE APOLOGISE TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS )))) ______________________________________________________________________ SPEECH DATABASE DEVELOPMENT FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 27th, 14.30 - 19.00 This workshop, which is held in conjunction with the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in Granada, Spain, will be concerned with the design, production and transcription standards required for the construction of speech databases for languages of Central and Eastern Europe. Speech databases have been produced for a number of the world's major languages, but most languages of Central and Eastern Europe have received little attention in international terms until recently, though they are of major importance for the future of European speech science. There are special issues which arise in the production of representative samples of these languages, and this workshop will attempt to address these issues. The BABEL project (funded by the European Union under the COPERNICUS programme, project #1304) has been working on these issues since 1995, and will soon complete a database of Bulgarian, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish and Romanian. The work of the project will be reported at the workshop, and aspects of the project will be the subject of practical demonstrations, but it is hoped that papers will be contributed by other interested researchers who are not associated with the project. Information about BABEL can be read on its WWW pages: <a href="http://www.linguistics.rdg.ac.uk/speechlab/research/babel">http://www.linguistics.rdg.ac.uk/speechlab/research/babel</a> Information about the main conference can be read at: <a href="http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/conflre.html">http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/conflre.html</a> ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- Peter Roach, University of Reading, UK (BABEL Project Coordinator) Klara Vicsi, Technical University, Budapest Lori Lamel, LIMSI, Paris CONTACT PERSON -------------- Peter Roach, Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AA, UK. Tel: (+44) 118 931 8138 Fax: (+44) 118 9753365 email: p.j.roach@reading.ac.uk WORKSHOP TOPICS --------------- We hope that the following topics can be considered in the workshop; this list is not exclusive, however. (1) Recording techniques and standards (2) Available software tools (3) Annotation, transcription and labelling (4) Automated time-alignment of labels (5) Phonetic problems of specific languages of Central and Eastern Europe (6) Quality control (7) RequirementS for larger-scale databases (8) Dissemination of data; recording further languages; possibilities for future collaboration. THE WORKSHOP WILL CONCLUDE WITH A DISCUSSION OF THE POSSIBILITY OF FORMING AN INFORMAL ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCHERS SPECIALISING IN THE SPOKEN FORMS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. SUBMITTING A PAPER ------------------ You are invited to send an abstract of around 250 words to Peter Roach at the above address, before February 27th. You will be notified within two weeks if the offer of a paper has been accepted. The limit on papers is 4000 words or 10 pages. Details of the required format will be sent with notification of acceptance. The deadline for submission of the completed paper is Friday, April 10th. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Machine Translation: Special issue on anaphora resolution Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:49:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 903 (903) [deleted quotation] We apologise if you get multiple copies of this call for papers. CALL FOR PAPERS THE MACHINE TRANSLATION JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE ON ANAPHORA RESOLUTION IN MACHINE TRANSLATION Guest editor: Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) The interpretation of anaphora is crucial for the successful operation of a Machine Translation system. In particular, it is essential to resolve the anaphoric relation when translating into languages which mark the gender of pronouns. Unfortunately, the majority of MT systems developed in the seventies and eighties did not adequately address the problems of identifying the antecedents of anaphors in the source language and producing the anaphoric "equivalents" in the target language. As a consequence, only a limited number of MT systems have been successful in translating discourse, rather than isolated sentences. One reason for this situation is that in addition to anaphora resolution being itself a very complicated task, translation adds a further dimension to the problem in that the reference to a discourse entity encoded by a source language anaphor by the speaker (or writer) has not only to be identified by the hearer (translator or translation system) but also re-encoded in a coreferential expression in a different language. The nineties have seen an intensification of research efforts in anaphora resolution in Machine Translation. This can be seen in the growing number of related projects which have reported promising new results (e.g.Wada 1990; Leass & Schwall 1991; Nakaiwa & Ikehara 1992;=20 Chen 1992; Saggion & Carvalho 1994; Preu=DF et al. 1994; Nakaiwa et al. 1994; Nakaiwa et al. 1995; Nakaiwa & Ikehara 1995; Mitkov et al. 1995; Mitkov et al. 1997). However, we still feel that additional work is needed to highlight and further explore the specifics of the problem in operational MT environments, including fully automatic Machine Translation and Machine- aided Translation. We are inviting high-quality, original research papers describing recent advances in anaphora resolution in Machine Translation. Topics to be addressed include (but are not limited to) - operational anaphora resolution components in Machine Translation - resolution of zero pronouns in MT environments - lexical transfer of anaphors across languages - to what extent have the latest trends towards knowledge-poor, corpus- driven and robust approaches in anaphora resolution, been called upon in Machine Translation? - what are the most scalable contributory factors /resolution strategies in MT? - what makes anaphora resolution a more complex task in Machine Translation? SUBMISSION AND FORMAT Articles should be submitted directly to the publishers, either by e-mail to Ellen.Klink@wkap.nl, with the Subject header "Submission to COAT Anaphora special issue", or in hard-copy to Machine Translation Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 990 3300 AZ Dordrecht The Netherlands or Machine Translation Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 230 Accord, MA 02018-023 U.S.A. The SUBMISSION DEADLINE is 15 May 1997. The journal is typeset using LaTeX, so the preferred medium for submission of articles in electronic format is LaTeX source (using the Kluwer style file) or gzipped postscript. For more details, please consult the journal's web pages: Home page: <a href="http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0922-6567">http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0922-6567</a> Instructions for Authors: <a href="http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA0922-6567">http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA0922-6567</a> LaTeX style files: <a href="http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnlstyle.htm/0922-6567">http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnlstyle.htm/0922-6567</a> If submitting hard-copy, four copies of the paper are required. The length of the papers should be approximately 10-20 pages if using the Kluwer style file (around 20k words). Authors are also requested to send a copy of an abstract of not more than 200 words to the guest editor R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk or in hard-copy to Ruslan Mitkov, School of Languages and European Studies, University of Wolverhampton, Stafford St., Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, United Kingdom. GUEST EDITOR: Ruslan Mitkov School of Languages and European Studies University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB Telephone (44-1902) 322471 Fax (44-1902) 322739 Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk GUEST EDITORIAL BOARD: Breck Baldwin (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) David Carter (SRI International, Cambridge) Guenter Goerz (University of Nuernberg/Erlangen) Lynette Hirschman (MITRE, McLean) Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) Susan LuperFoy (MITRE, McLean) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Frederique Segond (Ranx Xerox, Grenoble) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ELRA - SPEECH RECOGNITION Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:36:56 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 904 (904) [deleted quotation] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News=20 *** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ELRA - SPEECH RECOGNITION *** Paris, France -- The European Language Re-sources Association, the central distribution unit for Language Resources in Europe, today presents a special announcement on resources in speech recognition. As of today, the association can offer as many as 70 databases in the area of Spoken resources. The Language Resources available for Speech and Speech Recognition are illustrated below. *Speech Recognition for Telephone Applications* American English: Siemens VoiceMail: 921 American speakers recorded 25,000 utterances over the digital telephone network. Danish: Danish SpeechDat(M) database: 1,523 speakers. Dutch: Dutch Polyphone database: Read & spon-taneous speech over the telephone from 5,050 Dutch speakers. English: English SpeechDat(M) database: 1,000 speakers over digital telephone lines. French: FRESCO: 1,000 speakers over the tele-phone in France. German: German SpeechDat(M) database: 1,000 speakers. SieTill (Siemens Tillman): 730 speakers and 36,000 utterances (digit sequences, dates, spelled names, ...). Italian: COLLECT: 500 Italian speakers uttered the 10 Italian digits and 5 command words. Swiss-French: Swiss-French SpeechDat(M) polyphone database: 5,000 speakers answered 10 questions and read 28 items. *Microphone-Based Databases* Dutch: GRONINGEN: Over 20 hours of Dutch read speech material from 238 sp= eakers. English: TED (Translanguage English Database.): 188 oral presentations in English given at Eurospeech'93 in Berlin. TEDPhone: Polyphone/SpeechDat-like recordings of 64 speakers in English and in their native language. French: BREF-80: Training data of 5,330 sen-tences read by 80 French speakers. French BREF-POLYGLOT: training data of 3,193 sen-tences read by 6 French speakers. German: PHONDAT 1: Read speech from 201 German speakers who read 450 different sentences each. PHONDAT 2: 200 different sentences from a train inquiry task read by 16 German speakers. SIEMENS 100: 100 sentences from the German newspaper S=FCdDeutsch Zeitungen and read by 101 speakers. SIEMENS 1000: 1,000 sentences from the German newspaper S=FCdDeutsch Zeitungen and read by 10 speakers. VERBMOBIL: German spontaneous speech data-bases recorded in a dialogue task. Italian: Apasci: 100 speakers with 16,090 utter-ances and digits, 58,924 words and 641 minutes of speech. EUROM1i: Over 60 speakers who pronounced numbers, sentences, isolated words using close talking microphone. *Speaker Verification/Identification* English: COST232 - Multi-English database: 797 calls received in Italy and in the UK. POLYCOST: Over 100 speakers with ca. 10 call sessions per speaker (English spoken by foreigners). German: PolyVar: 143 speakers with 3600 recor-ded sessions. SpeechDat Speaker Verification database: Sub-set of PolyVar with 20 speakers who recorded 50 ses-sions. Multilingual: M2VTS: Multilingual database using multimodal identification of human faces (speech & image). The European Languages Resources Association, funded in Luxembourg in 1995, provides the infra-structure for identifying, collecting, classifying, validating, distributing, and exploiting language resources. Such resources include both speech and text, terminology and software tools. More details on these and all other ELRA databases can be found on the ELRA Web-site: <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home</a> Contact: ELRA/ELDA, 87 Avenue d'Italie, 75011 Paris, France, Tel +33-1-45 86 53 00, E-mail: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr Valerie Mapelli Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00 ELRA/ELDA Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88 87, Avenue d'Italie E-mail: info-elra@calva.net 75013 PARIS <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA</a> FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/conflre.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/conflre.html</a> From: Lorna Hughes <lorna.hughes@nyu.edu> Subject: Talk at NYU: Networking Cultural Heritage in a New Era--Fri., Jan. 30 at 2 pm Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:54:28 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 905 (905) NETWORKING CULTURAL HERITAGE Issues and Strategies for a New Era ------------------------------------------------ A special presentation in a New York University series of colloquia on uses of computers and communications, to be given by DAVID GREEN Director, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 at 2 p.m. Room 109 Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer St. at West 4th ST. ------------------------------------------------ Global libraries, electronic archives, e-journals, hypertext, new media, digital arts, Internet2: innovative technology is changing how and what we teach, study, and create. For educators, scholars and practitioners in the arts and humanities, a new digital era brings enormous opportunities and critical challenges. Arts, humanities and educational organizations across the country are banding together to exchange ideas and technical know-how in a multi-disciplinary collaboration. They share a vision of a globally linked digital environment in which important new bodies of cultural resources are readily created, accessed, and preserved. Our speaker---a central figure in the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH)---will discuss that vision and some of the technical, social and political issues that must be addressed before it can be achieved. Dr. Green will describe NINCH projects in such areas as fair use and copyright; techniques for networked scholarly collaborations in the arts and humanities; and new ways in which humanists and computer scientists in industry and academia can work together to develop truly effective digital tools for the humanities. ---------------------------- NINCH at NYU: NINCH comprises some 60 organizations representing the arts, museums, libraries and archives, and humanities faculty at universities around the nation---including, most recently, NYU. The University recently joined NINCH, and under this institution-wide membership, NYU community members may participate in NINCH-sponsored events, working groups, and debates, and form new partnerships with scholars and artists in diverse disciplines around the country. ---------------------------- ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: Director of the new National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), David Green has worked with the contemporary arts for the past decade and has a doctorate in American Studies from Brown University. Most recently, as Director of Communications at the New York Foundation for the Arts, Dr. Green was instrumental in the development of Arts Wire, the nation's largest online network for the arts community. At the same time, he also ran British Arts in New York, a program which fostered and promoted British arts expression in New York City. ---------------------------- All are welcome. We hope you'll be able to join us. This colloquium is co-sponsored by NYU's Academic Computing Facility (ACF); the Faculty of Arts and Science; the Institute of Fine Arts; the Program for Archival Management (FAS); Computer Advocacy @ NYU; and the Northeast Association for Computing in the Humanities, with support from Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Academic Computing Facility Fax: (212) 995 4120 New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Call for Papers, 1998 MLA Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:47:52 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 906 (906) [deleted quotation] The Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature will organize a panel for the December 1998 MLA convention in San Francisco, CA. We invite 500 word abstracts of papers that report on studies in Language or Literature that make substantial and significant use of the computer. Please submit abstracts electronically to: bngg@odin.cc.pdx.edu Submission deadline is March 15, 1998. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: "Voices from the Dust Bowl" Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:28:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 907 (907) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 20, 1998 "VOICES FROM THE DUST BOWL" NOW AVAILABLE AT AMERICAN MEMORY <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html</a>> [deleted quotation] The American Folklife Center and the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress announce the release of the online presentation: "Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection," a multi-format ethnographic field collection from the American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture, has just been made available through the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html</a>>. This collection documents the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips undertaken by Todd and Sonkin. In addition, viewers may enjoy "Today in History," accessible through the Library of Congress's main homepage (<a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/">http://lcweb.loc.gov/</a>). The entry uses the fiddle tune "Eighth of January" as represented in "Voices from the Dust Bowl." The following materials on our website may also be of interest: * "California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the '30s," another ethnographic field collection from the American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture, continues to be available online <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html</a>>. This elaborate online collection includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and manuscripts documenting the musical traditions of a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in California. It comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing 185 musicians. * "Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States," has been revised and expanded for 1997. Chapters include directories for graduate programs, public sector folklore organizations, archives, serial publications, and more. This edition will be available as an online resource only. Please send updates on information in the directory to Peter Bartis, peba@loc.gov. The URL for this publication is: <<a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/sourcebk.html">http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/sourcebk.html</a>>. In addition, the Folklife Center's web pages <<a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/">http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/</a>> include many popular publications, guides to collections, information about projects to publish recordings from the collections on CD, and the Folkline information service. Posted by: Tom Bramel NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM American Folklife Center Library of Congress January 7, 1998 From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Web Indexing Prize 97 winners Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:38:15 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 908 (908) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 20, 1998 AUSTRALIAN WEB INDEXING PRIZE RESULTS An interesting announcement forwarded from the Visual Resources Association about a web indexing prize organized by the Australian Society of Indexers. Many readers might be interested in examining the websites organized by the winners. David Green =========== [deleted quotation].. [deleted quotation] ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Jennifer Brasher Librarian (Slide/ Art Reference) EMAIL: j.brasher@ins.gu.edu.au PHONE: INTERNATIONAL 61 7 3875 3130 AUSTRALIA 07 3875 3130 SNAIL MAIL Queensland College of Art Library * Information Services * Griffith University * * PO BOX 84 Morningside QLD 4170 *`` AUSTRALIA ````` ````````` ``````````` ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` From: "David M. Seaman" <dms8f@etext.lib.virginia.edu> Subject: New Japanese Texts on the web Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 06:40:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 909 (909) New Online Japanese Texts Added to Web Site The University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library are pleased to announce additions to the Japanese Text Initiative (JTI), an ongoing collaboration to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web. These searchable texts are in SGML-encoded Japanese and -- often -- in an English translation. All versions conform to the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines. 17 new Japanese texts are now available at the JTI Web site: <a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/">http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/</a> The additions to the site include o new introductions to the JTI and to the Noh plays by Professor Thomas Rimer. o 13 Noh plays with furigana, together with one or more English translations of each play by authors ranging from Pound and Waley to Tyler, Brazell, and other recent translators: a total of 37 versions of the 13 plays. Each play is displayed in frames with parallel Japanese and English. Markers in the texts allow you to locate a passage in the Japanese version, click on a marker, and display the English translations of the same passage in the other frames. For Hagoromo, for example, you can compare the translations of Pound, Waley, and Tyler with the original Japanese on the same Web page. o an edition of Kokinshu edited from the Date Family manuscript and with an introduction by Professor Lewis Cook. o Japanese texts of Ise monogatari, Hojoki, and Yosano Akiko's Midaregami. o an interactive search interface that lets you search online in Japanese or English for any characters or words in individual texts or in all the texts together. The interface also supports proximity searching of kanji or kana: look for the kanji for "aki" within 40 characters of the kanji for "kaze," for example, and you will get 39 hits in Kokinshu, Matsukaze, Semimaru, Midaregami, etc. An example of a hit is no. 781 from Kokinshu: "fukimayou nokaze o samumi akihagi no utsuri mo yuku ka hito no kokoro no" o advice on how to read and input Japanese in Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape Communicator 4.0. The Japanese Text Initiative is part of the online library of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library. The E-Text Center has on the Web thousands of texts in English, French, German, Latin, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and other languages. All of the texts are tagged in SGML according to Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. For Web display, PERL filters convert the SGML tags to HTML. Information on the Center is available at <a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu">http://etext.lib.virginia.edu</a> For further information on the Japanese Text Initiative, please e- mail the Center (etext@virginia.edu) or the Initiative editors, Kendon Stubbs (kstubbs@virginia.edu) or Sachie Noguchi (noguchi+@pitt.edu). From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Mixed Reviews: New and Arriving Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:35:44 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 910 (910) [deleted quotation] Announcement Mixed Reviews @ Chorus is pleased to announce the posting of five new reviews on software and computing books of interest to humanities computing folk. The latest reviews cover: - SoftQuad Author/Editor 3.5 (Sue Fisher) - SoftQuad Panorama Pro 2.0 (Gregory Murphy) - Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 (Sean Lawrence) - Director 6 Studio Skills (Susan Herrington) - Teach Yourself Photoshop in 14 Days (Tom Green) Many more reviews will be arriving over the next weeks and months covering several web design packages, image editors, and books. Please visit Mixed Reviews @ Chorus at: <a href="http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/mixed/index.html">http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/mixed/index.html</a> Chorus is a rich, WWW-based publication that explores new media in the arts and humanities. Developed and maintained by an independent committee of scholars and new-media professionals, it features essays and reviews related to computer-assisted language learning, textual analysis of the bible, citation management and electronic research, and information management. A new "Mixed Reviews" section will give special attention to electronic publishing and the adaptation of literary and artistic culture in electronic media. Finally, a writing and composition section is under development. Chorus is mirrored by Cycor, Canada and archived by the National Library of Canada as part of their Electronic Publications Project. Our URL is: <a href="http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus">http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus</a> Andrew Mactavish ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andrew.Mactavish@UAlberta.ca Department of English, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~amactavi">http://www.ualberta.ca/~amactavi</a> Managing Editor, Mixed Reviews, Chorus <a href="http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/mixed/index.html">http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/mixed/index.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: ACH Election Results Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:58:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 911 (911) [deleted quotation] It is my pleasure to report the results of the recent election for officers and council members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, one of the organizations for which Humanist is the official discussion list. President Allen Renear Vice President Willard McCarty Executive Council: Charles Faulhaber Julia Flanders [four-year terms] David Seaman David Gants [three-year term] David Birnbaum [one-year term] On behalf of the Executive Council of ACH, I would like to congratulate the winners and to thank all those who volunteered to run for office and those who took the time to vote. For more information about the Association for Computers and the Humanities, please visit our web site at www.ach.org. Regards, Mike Neuman Immediate Past President, ACH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Crossroads Announces Engines of Inquiry Print/Video Package Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:35:03 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 912 (912) [deleted quotation] AMERICAN STUDIES CROSSROADS PROJECT PUBLICATIONS Engines of Inquiry: Learning and Technology in American Studies Video & Print Guide Engines of Inquiry--A Video Tour, a multimedia companion to the Crossroads print publication Engines of Inquiry: A Practical Guide for Using Technology to Teach American Studies, is now available, and can be purchased by itself or as a package with the print Guide. Engines of Inquiry--A Video Tour provides an extensive overview of approaches to using new technologies in the teaching of American culture and history. A collection of diverse visual materials, interviews, and footage of students and teachers engaged in learning activities in the American Studies classroom, the videotape provides a conceptual framework designed to aid teachers in thinking about the possibilities for integrating technology into their curricula. This video will be of interest for teachers in all areas of American Studies, literature, history, and related interdisciplinary areas of culture and history. Engines of Inquiry: A Practical Guide for Using Technology to Teach American Studies is a print companion to the Crossroads videotape. The print Guide, 350 pages in length, is a teacher's guidebook, containing practical and pedagogical information on the integration of technologies into teaching and learning. The book contains more than a dozen case study essays, numerous reflections from faculty in the Crossroads Classroom Research project, sample assignments, and easy to use, orienting information on the most common interactive technologies, their technical and practical requirements, and their uses in the classroom. Engines of Inquiry--A Video Tour and Engines of Inquiry: A Practical Guide for Using Technology to Teach American Studies can be purchased together as a package or as separate publications. Pricing Guide for Engines of Inquiry (Video OR Print Guide) copy + US shipping & handling (ASA member) $20 + $5 S&H copy + Overseas shipping & handling (ASA member) $20 + $10 S&H copy + US shipping & handling (non-Member) $25 + $5 S&H copy + Overseas shipping & handling (non-Member) $30 + $10 S&H Pricing Guide for Engines of Inquiry Package (Video AND Print Guide) Engines of Inquiry--A Video Tour AND Engines of Inquiry : A Practical Guide to Using Technology to Teach American Culture copy + US shipping & handling (ASA member) $35 + $5 S&H copy + Overseas shipping & handling (ASA member) $35 + $10 S&H copy + US shipping & handling (non-Member) $40 + $5 S&H copy + Overseas shipping & handling (non-Member) $40 + $10 S&H Note: Overseas rates include Mexico & Canada. How to Order Send a check payable to the AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION to: American Studies Association P.O. Box 630304 Baltimore, MD 21263-0304 Or: To order by electronic transfer, please wire your payment to the American Studies Association to: Nationsbank 10 Light Street Baltimore, Md 21202 2003616414 Acct No. 052001633 Routing No. Please make the words "CROSSROADS GUIDE" visible on either the check or the electronic transfer. Allow 3-4 weeks for delivery. Address further inquiries about ordering to Crossroads. We can be reached by phone: (202) 687-4535; fax: (202)687-5445; or by email: cepacs@guvax.georgetown.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- American Studies Crossroads Project Hosted by Georgetown University Randy Bass, Project Director The American Studies Crossroads Project is an international project on technology and education focusing on the creation of resources to help faculty incorporate the use of new media into the teaching of culture and history. Crossroads is sponsored by the American Studies Association and funded with major grants from the US Department of Education's FIPSE program and the Annenberg/CPB Project. Please visit the Crossroads Website at: <a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads">http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads</a> A complete project prospectus is available; please send a request to cepacs@guvax.georgetown.edu From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Book: Time map phonology Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:35:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 913 (913) [deleted quotation] KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 5 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis TIME MAP PHONOLOGY Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition Julie Carson-Berndsen University of Bielefeld, Germany Time Map Phonology addresses key areas of sound structure at which the two technologies of natural language processing and speech technology are beginning to converge. Solutions are presented to the problems of how to process words which have not been heard before and how to develop fine-grained knowledge representation and processing techniques for linguistic units smaller than the word. The solutions are based on a careful comparison of linguistic theories and on the investigation of computational techniques for the next generation of flexible spoken language input and output devices. The approach has been fully implemented for the vocabulary of German and subjected to quantitative evaluation.=20 Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, December 1997 Contents -------- Preface. 1. Introduction.=20 2. Phonology and Computation.=20 3. Finite State Techniques in Computational Phonology. 4. The Event Concept in Time Map Phonology.=20 5. Phonotactic Descriptions and Their Representation.=20 6. Excursus: Constraint-Based Segmental Phonological Parsing.=20 7. Constraint-Based Phonological Parsing: An Event-Based Approach.=20 8. SILPA.=20 9. Evaluation.=20 10. Conclusion.=20 Appendix A: SAMPA Phonetic Alphabet for German.=20 Appendix B: The Chomsky Hierarchy.=20 Appendix C: Event-Based Phonotactic Network for German.=20 Bibliography.=20 Index. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7=20 Volume 4: Exploring textual data Ludovic Lebart, Andr=E9 Salem and Lisette Berry Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Check the series Web page for order information: <a href="http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/series.htm?TLTB">http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/series.htm?TLTB</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Book: TSLP Vol. 4 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:36:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 914 (914) [deleted quotation] KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 4 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis EXPLORING TEXTUAL DATA by Ludovic Lebart Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France Andr=E9 Salem Universit=E9 de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France Lisette Berry L. Berry Associates, Inc., New York, USA =20 Researchers in a number of disciplines deal with large text sets requiring both text management and text analysis. Faced with a large amount of textual data collected in marketing surveys, literary investigations, historical archives and documentary data bases, these researchers require assistance with organizing, describing and comparing texts.=20 Exploring Textual Data demonstrates how exploratory multivariate statistical methods such as correspondence analysis and cluster analysis can be used to help investigate, assimilate and evaluate textual data. The main text does not contain any strictly mathematical demonstrations, making it accessible to a large audience. This book is very user-friendly with proofs abstracted in the appendices. Full definitions of concepts, implementations of procedures and rules for reading and interpreting results are fully explored. A succession of examples is intended to allow the reader to appreciate the variety of actual and potential applications and the complementary processing methods. A glossary of terms is provided.= =20 =20 Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Contents -------- Foreword. Introduction. 1. Textual Statistics: Scope and Applications. 2.The Units of Textual Statistics.=20 3. Correspondence Analysis of Lexical Tables.=20 4. Cluster Analysis of Words and Texts.=20 5. Visualization of Textual Data.=20 6. Characteristic Textual Units, Modal Responses and Modal Texts.=20 7. Longitudinal Partition, Textual Time Series. =20 8. Textual Discriminant Analysis.=20 Appendix 1: Singular Value Decomposition and Correspondence Analysis.=20 Appendix 2: Clustering Techniques.=20 Appendix 3: More Details About the Nonparametric Estimation Model.=20 Appendix 4: Search for Repeated Segments in a Corpus.=20 Glossary.=20 References.=20 Author Index.=20 Subject Index.=20 Symbols. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7=20 Check the series Web page for order information: <a href="http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/series.htm?TLTB">http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/series.htm?TLTB</a> From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Miracles and Machines Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:49:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 915 (915) [deleted quotation]U.K.), Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, "novelists, poets, scientists and cybernauts examine how the technology we invented is reinventing us". For the programme, see <<a href="http://www.sbc.org.uk/">http://www.sbc.org.uk/</a>>, then click through "Literature and Talks" to the event listed for Saturday January 31. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Neil Beagrie <neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk> Subject: Crown Copyright in the Information Age- UK Government Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:33:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 916 (916) Consultation Paper Apologies for any cross-posting. This is likely to be of great interest to anyone using/wishing to use digital information produced by government agencies in the UK. A Green Paper entitled "Crown Copyright in the Information Age: A consultation document on access to public sector information ", Cm 3819, was released on 19 January 1998. The paper discusses Crown Copyright in the context of discussions on Freedom of Information and the growth of electronic information industries and invites responses. It can be viewed at: <a href="http://www.hmso.gov.uk/document/cfuture.htm">http://www.hmso.gov.uk/document/cfuture.htm</a> Alternatively hard copies have been published by the Stationery Office (ISBN 0 10 138192 1)and cost 9.75 pounds sterling. The Green Paper requests views on seven options for the future of Crown Copyright (from Retain to Abolish) and invites replies to 21 questions by the 31st March 1998. ************************************************************************ Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076 Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080 The Executive Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: WLSS98 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:38:29 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 917 (917) From: WLSS98 <wlss98@alphalinguistica.sns.it> ____________________________________________________________ CHANGE OF DATE AND EXTENDED DEADLINE ------------------------------------------------------------- WLSS98 II WORKSHOP ON LEXICAL SEMANTICS SYSTEMS Pisa, 6-7 April 1998 Scuola Normale Superiore ------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by CELI, ILC, ITC-IRST and Scuola Normale Superiore With the support of University of Pisa and Xerox Research Centre Europe ----------------------------- <a href="http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98">http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98</a> ---------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS (provisional list) Gennaro Chierchia (University of Milan) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University) Ewan Klein (University of Edimburgh) Hinrich Schuetze (Rank Xerox) ----------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS WLSS98 is organized by Centro per l'Elaborazione del Linguaggio ed Informazione (CELI), Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC), Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia (ITC-IRST) and Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), and will take place in Pisa on the 6-7 April 1998. WLSS workshops aim at bringing together Italian and international scholars, active in both theoretical and applicative domains of research in lexical semantics, with the goals of: - providing an overview of the state of the art and exchanging information on ongoing and planned activities; - bridging the gap and enhance the trade-off between theoretical models of lexical knowledge and applications in NLP systems. These goals are justified: - by the increasingly central position that lexical knowledge, and in particular lexical semantics, is assuming within the general architecture of cognitive systems, both as a dynamic module which interact with other non-linguistic sources of knowledge, and as a component playing a major role in interfacing syntax and semantics; - by the fact that lexical resources (such as tagged corpora, computational dictionaries, Machine Readable Dictionaries, WordNets) are among the most crucial aspects of practical NLP systems. Issues concerning the structure, the representation, the development, and the acquisition of lexical knowledge are thus of the uttermost importance when building NLP systems. Lexical systems also play a crucial role in the design and construction of multilingual systems, a key feature at least for applications designed to operate in a distributed, non- centralized environment such as the World Wide Web. This second edition of WLSS will focus on the portability and reusability of lexical systems, and on the issue of word sense disambiguation and semantic tagging. We also encourage the submission of papers concerning more general issues about linguistic lexical semantics and its interaction with computational lexicography. Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks. Here follows a non- exhaustive list of topics which could be addressed: * Lexical resources for semantic tagging and word sense disambiguation. * Use of lexicons and thesauruses to improve information retrieval / extraction techniques. * Automatic acquisition and management of lexical resources. * Reusability and tuning of existing lexical resources for novel tasks. * Trade offs between generic and domain specific lexical resources. * Multilingual lexical resources. * Description and evaluation of existing tools and systems. * Evaluation of different representation formats. * Issues in computational lexical semantics and computational lexicography. * Issues in the design, construction and use of lexical resources. * Architecture for a cognitive plausible lexicon * Lexical representation and the interface with syntactic processes ** CHANGE ** EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS ** CHANGE ** Only electronic submissions are accepted. Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages in length, in Postscript or ASCII format, and should be sent to the following address: wlss98@celi.sns.it. Separate information should be sent, including the title of the talk, author's name, address and affiliation. Submissions must be limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. The deadline is: 20 February 1998. The Program Committee intends to publish a selection of the papers presented at the conference. ** CHANGE ** IMPORTANT DATES ** CHANGE ** Submission of abstracts: 20 February 1998 Notification of acceptance: 9 March 1998 Conference: 6-7 April 1998 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pier Marco Bertinetto (Scuola Normale Superiore) Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC) Luca Dini(CELI) Vittorio Di Tomaso (CELI) Alessandro Lenci (Scuola Normale Superiore) Bernardo Magnini (IRST) Fabio Pianesi (IRST) Frederique Segond (XRCE) Antonio Zampolli (ILC) CONTACT PERSONS For every further information please contact the conference secretariat: Vittorio Di Tomaso CELI ditomaso@sns.it Alessandro Lenci Scuola Normale Superiore lenci@alphalinguistica.sns.it Scuola Normale Superiore Laboratorio di linguistica Piazza dei Cavalieri 7 56126 PISA (Italy) Tel. +39 50 509219 Fax: +39 50 563513 More information on the Workshop and a copy of this call for papers is available on the Web at the following address: <a href="http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98">http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Workshop: Mutual Knowledge, Common Ground and Public Information Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:39:11 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 918 (918) From: Wolfgang Heydrich <100732.1675@compuserve.com> Apologies to those of you who receive multiple copies ESSLLI-98 Workshop on MUTUAL KNOWLEDGE, COMMON GROUND AND PUBLIC INFORMATION August 24 - 28, 1998 A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98) August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany ** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ** ORGANISERS: Wolfgang Heydrich and Hannes Rieser (Hamburg/Bielefeld) Web site: <a href="http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html">http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html</a> BACKGROUND The topic of the workshop is in the common focus of several disciplines: cognitive science, linguistic pragmatics & semantics, philosophical logic, AI, and psychology. It concerns research in areas like discourse analysis, coordination, presupposition and accomodation, as well as the formal reconstruction of dialogue and interaction. There are obvious connections to problems of group-epistemology and general (philosophical) concepts like intersubjectivity. The topic constitutes a field of discussion where empirical and formal methodologies meet (from controlled experiments and discourse analysis to, say, non-well-founded set theory). We invite contributions from all the fields mentioned above, which may focus on: - foundational problems (epistemic logic, social ontology, set theory), - descriptive and experimental work in psychology, linguistics and ethnomethodology, - applications in models of agent's behaviour based on e.g., intention analysis, Gricean accounts or speech act theory, - computer simulation implementing the concepts mentioned. WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will consist of five sessions (90 min. each) of presentation and discussion of contributed papers. It will take place during the second week of the Summer School and will be open to all members of the LLI community. SUBMISSIONS: All reserchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young reserachers, are encouraged to submit a two-page abstract (hard copies or by e-mail) to one of the following addresses: Prof.Dr. Hannes Rieser PD Dr. Wolfgang Heydrich University of Bielefeld University of Hamburg Fak. Lili Germanisches Seminar Postfach 100131 Von-Melle-Park 6 D-33501 Bielefeld D-20146 Hamburg Germany Germany rieser@lili.uni-bielefeld.de heydrich@lili.uni-bielefeld.de phone: 0049-521-1063666 phone: 0049-40-4222501 fax: 0049-521-1062996 fax: 0049-40-4222603 The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 1998. Notification of contributors will be given around April 15, 1998. Contributors of selected papers will be asked to provide extended abstracts (five pages) to be distributed as work-shop notes. The deadline for submission of extended abstracts is May 15, 98. REGISTRATION: Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-98, but they will be elligible for a reduced registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES: Feb 15, 98: Deadline for submissions Apr 15, 98: Notification of acceptance May 15, 98: Deadline for final copy Aug 17, 98: Start of workshop FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI-98 please visit the ESSLLI-98 home page at <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Kristine L. Haugen" <klhaugen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Subject: Re: 11.0535 history of hypertext (& of the book) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:20:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 919 (919) To elaborate on Professor Krech's note, Pierre Bayle did indeed use footnotes, most famously in his /Dictionnaire historique et critique/ (first 1697; several later editions and printings, including an 18C English translation). The game was that the text of the /Dictionnaire/ articles tend to be bland accounts of not-very-exciting figures, but the footnotes that ostensibly document these articles contain daring animadversions de omni re scibili et quibusdam aliis, and often run to several times the length of the articles themselves. An intellectual historian's ruminations on the footnotes of Bayle and numerous others appear in Anthony Grafton, /The Footnote*: *A Curious History/ (Harvard UP 1997), also in German as /Die Tragischen Urspru:ngen der deutschen Fussnote/ (Berlin 1995). Anyone who wants more information could probably start with its--voluminous--footnotes. Best, Kristine Louise Haugen Department of English Princeton University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Christian Wittern <cwitter@gwdg.de> Subject: Re: 11.0530 Japanese & Chinese encoding & texts Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 22:24:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 920 (920) Peter Evans writes: [deleted quotation] Kind of. How many Chinese characters do you think are out there? Nowbody finished counting yet, but the largest Codeset I know of encodes ~75000 characters. [deleted quotation] The behaviour you are decribing here is a property of Japanese Word, rather than Japanese encoding in general. Full width Roman letters are encoded in Japanese with an # mark betwenn, like #T#h#i#s# #i#s# #f#u#l#l#w#i#d#t#h. To speak of ASCII to denominate the 256 codepoints that can be adressed by one byte is rather misleading, since this encodes only 128 codepoints. In ShiftJis, which is the most commonly used encoding on small computer's operating systems (DOS, MacOS, Windows), The ASCII range is actually mapped to itself with no spaces or hash-marks in between, so writing English in ShiftJis looks exactly like ASCII-english. All the best, Christian Wittern Christian Wittern Visit the Database of Chinese Buddhist texts University of Goettingen at <a href="http://www.gwdg.de/~cwitter">http://www.gwdg.de/~cwitter</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0530 Japanese & Chinese encoding & texts Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:39:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 921 (921) [deleted quotation] A correction and a tip. I mentioned the forthcoming book "Understanding CJKV Language Processing" ["CJKV" meaning Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese]. Sorry, that should have been *Understanding CJKV Information Processing*. The good news is that the nitty-gritty (and it's gritty indeed) is amassed in a wonderful file of plain ASCII (181 kB uncompressed) that is free for the downloading: <<a href="ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/nutshell/ujip/doc/cjk.inf">ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/nutshell/ujip/doc/cjk.inf</a>>. Despite first appearances, this also deals with Vietnamese and Mongolian. For other material on and resources for the encoding and processing of east Asian languages, peruse and pursue the links from <<a href="http://www.ora.com/people/authors/lunde/cjk_inf.html">http://www.ora.com/people/authors/lunde/cjk_inf.html</a>>. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Peter Evans <peterev@alles.or.jp> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Lorna Hughes <lorna.hughes@nyu.edu> Subject: Humanities Computing Job at NYU Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:22:30 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 922 (922) The Academic Computing Facility at New York University is looking for a humanities computing specialist to assist in the design and implementation of ACF facilities supporting the development of a state-of-the-art digital research and instruction environment for humanities faculty, researchers, staff and students. The successful applicant will work closely with NYU faculty, providing training and support of a variety of humanities software and systems, and assist in the implementation of new technology in humanities teaching. Qualifications: a Bachelors in a humanities discipline; strong computing and technical abilities; experience in providing computing support, preferably in a university setting; excellent interpersonal and writing skills; experience with some or all of the following: - digitization of humanities resources, - dissemination of materials on-line, - developing multimedia or web based resources, - computer assisted language learning. Applicants should send a letter describing relevant experience and salary history, and a resume to: Shaaron Francis Assistant Director for Business and Administration Academic Computing Facility New York University 251 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012-1185 E-Mail: Shaaron.Francis@NYU.EDU Deadline for applications is March 10th, 1998. New York University encourages applications from women and members of minority groups. NYU Academic Computing Facility Website: <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/acf/">http://www.nyu.edu/acf/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: New Journal Announcement Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:32:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 923 (923) [deleted quotation] Profuse apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone who would be interested. Thankyou ____________________________________________________________ First announcement on the Internet and call for papers for a new journal E V O L U T I O N A R Y O P T I M I Z A T I O N An International Journal on the Internet Archives Published by Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research High quality research and survey papers are solicited, covering the scope of the journal outlined below. Aims and Scope: The subject of Evolutionary Optimization has recently experienced a remarkable growth. New concepts, methods and applications are being continually proposed and exploited to provide efficient tools for solving a variety of optimization problems. The aim of this international journal is to collect and disseminate the progressive body of knowledge on evolutionary optimization techniques and their applications, via a single organized medium. These techniques include Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies among others, all of which are inspired by restricted models of natural evolution. Applications of evolutionary optimization cover a wide range of engineering optimization problems, operations research and other related fields. The principal focus of the journal will be the implementation of Evolutionary Optimization techniques to practice. The journal will be primarily concerned with these applications which include those aspects of computing techniques that use the model of natural selection and other biologically oriented models to perform the process of optimization. Evolutionary Optimization will be publishing invited papers, original research and review papers and short letters. The journal will also have special issues devoted to relevant topics. Book reviews, forthcoming events and software sections of the journal will report the recent developments and advances in the field. A section of the journal will be devoted to short communications, letters, abstracts and notes. These short papers will be quickly reviewed and published. Mission Statement of the Journal (i) Fast Turnaround The journal will strive by all means to reduce the throughput for the submitted papers, by extensive use of the electronic media in communication and publishing. (ii) Fast Communication The journal will provide the forum for fast exchange of ideas by means of publishing short letters which will be devoted to results obtained immediately upon their discovery and reports from important events and activities. (iii) Collective responsibility The journal tries to make its contribution in the field by collective support of its editors, editorial board and its global network of correspondents. All board members are equally responsible to uphold the mission of the journal. (iv) Active Readers The journal expects to have active readers which will contribute to the future development of the journal. The journal is open to the readers and new ideas are warmly welcome. =========================================================== Editors and Editorial Board =========================================================== Honorary Editor: David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Editors: Andrzej Osyczka, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Terence C. Fogarty, Napier University, Scotland, UK. Raphael T. Haftka, University of Florida, USA Associate Editor: Sourav Kundu, Kanazawa University, Japan Book Review Editor: Koetsu Yamazaki, Kanazawa University, Japan. Forthcoming Events Editor: Byoung-Tak Zhang, Seoul National University, Korea. Software Review Editor: Cezary Z. Janikow, UMSL, USA. =========================================================== Editorial Board: =========================================================== Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State University, USA. Jarmo Alander, University of Vaasa, Finland. Gengdong Cheng, Dalian University of Technology, China. Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA. Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Gusz Eiben, University of Leiden, Netherlands. Mitsuo Gen, Ashikaga Institute of Technology, Japan. John S. Gero, University of Sydney, Australia. Fred Glover, University of Colorado, USA. Don Grierson, University of Waterloo, Canada. Zafer Gurdal, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. J.J. Merelo Guervos, University of Granada, Spain. Witold Gutkowski, IPPT-PAN, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Prabhat Hajela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Phil Husbands, University of Sussex, UK. Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Andy Keane, Southamptom University, UK. Vlasis Koumousis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. John R. Koza, Stanford University, USA. Sushil J. Louis, University of Nevada, USA. Bernard Manderick, Free University Brussels, Belgium. Juhachi Oda, Kanazawa University, Japan. Ian Parmee, University of Plymouth, UK. Lalit M. Patnaik, Indian Institute of Science, India. Gregory J. E. Rawlins, Indiana University. USA. Grant P. Steven, University of Sydney, Australia. Robert Elliot Smith, University of Alabama, USA. Takao Terano, The University of Tsukuba, Japan. George Thierauf, Essen University, Germany B.H.V.Topping, Herriot-Watt University, UK. Hans-Michael Voigt, Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Mike Xie, Victoria University of Technology, Australia. Weixuan Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California at Berkeley, USA. The EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION journal will be published quarterly starting from 1998. All correspondence should be sent to: Sourav Kundu (Phd) Department of Human and Mechanical Systems Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Kanazawa University 2-40-20 Kodatsumo, Kanazawa 920-8667 Japan Tel: +81-76-234-4758, Fax: +81-76-234-4668 Email: sourav@kenroku.ipc.kanazawa-u.ac.jp From: Bob Godwin-Jones <rgjones@atlas.vcu.edu> Subject: Language Interactive site updated Date: Fri, 30 Jan 98 8:27:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 924 (924) The Language Interactive Web site has been updated, in fact extensively rewritten and re-structured. Located at... <a href="http://www.fln.vcu.edu/cgi/interact.html">http://www.fln.vcu.edu/cgi/interact.html</a> Mirror at... <a href="http://www.vcu.edu/idc/li/interact.html">http://www.vcu.edu/idc/li/interact.html</a> This is intended to be a guide for language teachers on options for creating interactive Web pages for instruction. In addition to sections on program linking, JavaScript, and CGI, there is a new section on Java. Included are extensive links to learning resources and examples, including ways to create interactivity without programming. Recommendations for changes, addtions, corrections are welcome. -- Bob Godwin-Jones | Director, Instructional Development Center rgjones@vcu.edu | Professor, Department of Foreign Languages <a href="http://www.fln.vcu.edu/gj.html">http://www.fln.vcu.edu/gj.html</a> | VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: WLSS98 <wlss98@alphalinguistica.sns.it> Subject: Appel: WLSS'98 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:09:39 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 925 (925) ____________________________________________________________ CHANGE OF DATE AND EXTENDED DEADLINE ------------------------------------------------------------- WLSS98 II WORKSHOP ON LEXICAL SEMANTICS SYSTEMS Pisa, 6-7 April 1998 Scuola Normale Superiore ------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by CELI, ILC, ITC-IRST and Scuola Normale Superiore With the support of University of Pisa and Xerox Research Centre Europe ----------------------------- <a href="http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98">http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98</a> ---------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS (provisional list) Gennaro Chierchia (University of Milan) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University) Ewan Klein (University of Edimburgh) Hinrich Schuetze (Rank Xerox) ----------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS WLSS98 is organized by Centro per l'Elaborazione del Linguaggio ed Informazione (CELI), Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC), Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia (ITC-IRST) and Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), and will take place in Pisa on the 6-7 April 1998. WLSS workshops aim at bringing together Italian and international scholars, active in both theoretical and applicative domains of research in lexical semantics, with the goals of: - providing an overview of the state of the art and exchanging information on ongoing and planned activities; - bridging the gap and enhance the trade-off between theoretical models of lexical knowledge and applications in NLP systems. These goals are justified: - by the increasingly central position that lexical knowledge, and in particular lexical semantics, is assuming within the general architecture of cognitive systems, both as a dynamic module which interact with other non-linguistic sources of knowledge, and as a component playing a major role in interfacing syntax and semantics; - by the fact that lexical resources (such as tagged corpora, computational dictionaries, Machine Readable Dictionaries, WordNets) are among the most crucial aspects of practical NLP systems. Issues concerning the structure, the representation, the development, and the acquisition of lexical knowledge are thus of the uttermost importance when building NLP systems. Lexical systems also play a crucial role in the design and construction of multilingual systems, a key feature at least for applications designed to operate in a distributed, non- centralized environment such as the World Wide Web. This second edition of WLSS will focus on the portability and reusability of lexical systems, and on the issue of word sense disambiguation and semantic tagging. We also encourage the submission of papers concerning more general issues about linguistic lexical semantics and its interaction with computational lexicography. Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks. Here follows a non- exhaustive list of topics which could be addressed: * Lexical resources for semantic tagging and word sense disambiguation. * Use of lexicons and thesauruses to improve information retrieval / extraction techniques. * Automatic acquisition and management of lexical resources. * Reusability and tuning of existing lexical resources for novel tasks. * Trade offs between generic and domain specific lexical resources. * Multilingual lexical resources. * Description and evaluation of existing tools and systems. * Evaluation of different representation formats. * Issues in computational lexical semantics and computational lexicography. * Issues in the design, construction and use of lexical resources. * Architecture for a cognitive plausible lexicon * Lexical representation and the interface with syntactic processes ** CHANGE ** EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS ** CHANGE ** Only electronic submissions are accepted. Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages in length, in Postscript or ASCII format, and should be sent to the following address: wlss98@celi.sns.it. Separate information should be sent, including the title of the talk, author's name, address and affiliation. Submissions must be limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. The deadline is: 20 February 1998. The Program Committee intends to publish a selection of the papers presented at the conference. ** CHANGE ** IMPORTANT DATES ** CHANGE ** Submission of abstracts: 20 February 1998 Notification of acceptance: 9 March 1998 Conference: 6-7 April 1998 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pier Marco Bertinetto (Scuola Normale Superiore) Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC) Luca Dini(CELI) Vittorio Di Tomaso (CELI) Alessandro Lenci (Scuola Normale Superiore) Bernardo Magnini (IRST) Fabio Pianesi (IRST) Frederique Segond (XRCE) Antonio Zampolli (ILC) CONTACT PERSONS For every further information please contact the conference secretariat: Vittorio Di Tomaso CELI ditomaso@sns.it Alessandro Lenci Scuola Normale Superiore lenci@alphalinguistica.sns.it Scuola Normale Superiore Laboratorio di linguistica Piazza dei Cavalieri 7 56126 PISA (Italy) Tel. +39 50 509219 Fax: +39 50 563513 More information on the Workshop and a copy of this call for papers is available on the Web at the following address: <a href="http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98">http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98</a> From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Workshop: Preservation of Digital Information Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:03:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 926 (926) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 29, 1998 EUROPEAN COMMISSION "DELOS" WORKSHOP: PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL INOFRMATION June 17-19, 1998; Lisbon, Portugal <<a href="http://www.inesc.pt/events/ercim/delos6">http://www.inesc.pt/events/ercim/delos6</a>> DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 16 March 1998 [deleted quotation] The sixth workshop of the DELOS Working Group, to be held from 17 to 19 June 1998 in Lisbon, Portugal, will examine issues related to the preservation of digital information. Apart from the presentations of proposed papers, we will have also a number of invited guest speakers who will present details of relevant technical and research issues. Papers: We invite contributions, in the form of position papers, addressing topics relevant to the theme of the workshop. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Long-term storage and access architectures for digital publications. - Formats and standards for preservation of digital information. - Preservation of digital information formats. - Metadata standards for preservation. - Preservation of metadata and other contextual information. - Information retrieval in archived collections. - Reliability, authenticity and intellectual preservation in media migration. - Digital document genres and preservation (policies and criteria). - Preserving electronic publications (content) versus manifestations (presentation). - Organisational challenges and strategies in archiving of digital information. - Managing change in an digital repository environment. - National challenges and strategies in archiving of digital information. - The legal deposit of digital publications. - Commercial protection and public interest in the access to (legal) deposit collections. - Longevity of digital media (CD-ROM, magnetic media, optical media, etc.). - Preservation of hardware dependent digital information (games, CBTs, etc.). - Preserving information through digitalization. Important dates for papers: - Paper proposals (2 pages) must be submitted to <delos6@inesc.pt> until 16 March 1998. - Authors will be notified of paper acceptance until 30 March 1998. - Final paper versions (5 to 10 pages) must be submitted until 8 June 1998. Organization: The sixth DELOS Workshop will be co-organized by the DELOS Working Group and the NEDLIB Project. DELOS is a working group funded by the ESPRIT Long Term Research Program of the European Commission. The main objective of DELOS is to contribute to the advancement of digital library construction by identifying and promoting the discussion of research issues. The members of the DELOS group are the twelve ERCIM research institutes, as also the University of Michigan (USA) and Elsevier Science. NEDLIB is a project promoted by the CoBRA+ group and supported by the Telematics for Libraries Programme of the European Commission. The project consortium includes nine European national libraries, a National Archive and three main publishers. The objective of NEDLIB is to ensure that digital publications of the present can be used now and in the future. The NEDLIB project is scheduled to start in January 1998. The project will define an architecture for capturing, preserving and accessing digital publications. It will develop tools and define standards and procedures required to implement this architecture in a deposit system of digital publications. NEDLIB will take account of the requirement of long term storage and retrieval as well as the terms and conditions applying to the access of those publications. As a result, the project will define the technical environment and develop test implementations. The local organization of the workshop will be a joint initiative of INESC (both a DELOS and NEDLIB partner), and the Portuguese National Library (a NEDLIB partner). Please look for more details at: <a href="http://www.inesc.pt/events/ercim/delos6">http://www.inesc.pt/events/ercim/delos6</a> To contact the organization please Email to delos6@inesc.pt. =========================================== ______ Jose' Luis B. Borbinha - IST / INESC Jose.Borbinha@ip.pt <a href="http://bruxelas.inesc.pt/~jlb">http://bruxelas.inesc.pt/~jlb</a> Tel./Fax: +351 1 3100307/3145843 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: History of the footnote (still is: History of hypertext) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:33:33 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 927 (927) [deleted quotation] Re.: History of the footnote (still is: History of hypertext) It is good to learn from Kristine Haugen's contribution that the foot note has already found the curious attention of philologers in the person of Anthony Grafton. To judge by Kristine Haugen's spirited account, Grafton's books must be fun reading. [deleted quotation] Riess, Peter / Fisch, Stefan / Strohschneider, Peter: Prolegomena zu einer Theorie der Fuánote.; ( fuánote, 1). Muenster: Lit-Verlag, 1995 (57 pp.) ISBN 3-88660-552-3 [read "Fuánote" as "Fussnote"] or Burkle-Young, Francis A. / Maley, Saundra Rose: The Art of the Footnote: The Intelligent Student's Guide to the Art and Science of Annotating Texts; University Press of America, 1996 (ISBN 0761803483) [most probably with some captioned illustrations] [ASIDE: Although it is highly flattering, Kristine, I am not a Professor; just one longtime unemployed academic who will soon be ordered to line up with his toothbrush to clean German sidewalks.] Kind regards Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Hiding Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:36:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 928 (928) Many Humanists will, I think, be interested in a new book, <cite>Hiding</cite> by Mark C. Taylor, just published by the University of Chicago Press, and a parallel multimedia CD-ROM, <cite>The Réal, Las Vegas, Nevada</cite> by Mark C. Taylor and José Márquez, published by the Massachussetts Museum for Contemporary Art and the Williams College Museum of Art. I have not yet seen either, but thanks to a well designed Web site, at <<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/791599.html">http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/791599.html</a>> one can get a most intriguing taste. The site contains an interview with Taylor in which he describes his work, and a brief essay by the designers of the book. In the Library of Congress cataloguing information the book is described as "religion and postmodernism", with the subject areas 1. Surfaces (philosophy), 2. Postmodernism, 3. Philosophy. Taylor describes it as interplay of surface and depth. It looks to me like the kind of thing one gives up trying to describe, or circumscribe. Taylor says, "The argument itself is layered; turning the pages is like peeling away layers of skin. [Here a hypertextually linked verbal play on skin and bones.] Even single pages are layered in ways that allow space for the reader's imagination to play. Rather than a closed book, Hiding is designed to be an a kind of interactive game." Whether or not the book and CD are good, I get a whiff of something important for the rapidly developing assimilation of computing into the cultural mainstream, involving a large university press (to which recognition is due for taking the risk), museums, a philosopher/theologian (...?), and a most interesting assemblage of professional designers, artists and technicians (who apparently worked largely for free or at a fraction of their usual rate). Information on the makers/actors of the CD is given on a linked Web site for the CD, at <<a href="http://motelreal.wcma.org/">http://motelreal.wcma.org/</a>>. Has anyone undertaken a serious review of this work? Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Steve McCarty <steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp> Subject: The Net Facing Chinese Humanists (Long) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:03:22 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 929 (929) The previous installment was experimental and apparently not very successful in providing an overview of "Computing in Japanese." Allow me to continue surveying Asia-Pacific developments of possible interest to computing humanists, with a view to fostering the globalization of the discipline. David Seaman (11.0534) beat me to the punch with a notice on the Japanese Text Initiative by the universities of Virginia and Pittsburg. I would just add that the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library has given it the highest rating of essential for research. No rigor implied here, but the Web will be truly worldwide when more than one non-cognate writing system can be widely read in the same document or at least by the same terminal. Universities such as Monash in Australia have advanced software solutions, but the readers, i.e., subscribers, also need the same decoding software. The University of British Columbia is looking for a way to break the usual mold of English plus romanization by including Asian languages in a proposed electronic journal. Recent 4.0-series browsers allow for more language choices, and HTML 4.0 supports tags for reading languages from left to right. But particularly in non-Western countries, people including myself do not have access to all the latest technologies, with bells and whistles adding to the obstacles for non-native acquirers of English in less wealthy countries. That is why I could read the above-mentioned Japanese Text Initiative at my terminal, but to view the Chinese-English one <<a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/">http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/</a>>, I had to run upstairs to the terminal of my colleague from China, Asst. Prof. MAO Young. We communicate in Japanese, one of his specializations along with economics. He said that many Chinese texts are available electronically, and he showed me brochures for CD-ROMs. The translation of Chinese documents into other languages, however, will provide some opening for collaboration with non-Chinese. Languages that are codified in cyberspace and read by software are more likely to survive than the ones that are not, another reason that cyberspace is not unreal. Be that as it may, Chinese is not in any danger, and will be asserted in cyberspace, just as the French and Japanese governments have actively promoted their national standard languages. The problem seems to be that Chinese scholars are afraid to go too far out on a limb and be tattled on as too chummy with Westerners. They are justified in not risking their careers or attempting the politically impossible. Much as China has been the butt of jokes over its Internet policies, its government has consistently gotten its way without compromise towards Western values. My colleague Mr. Mao has not received an answer by e-mail to his acquaintances in China, and I have hardly heard from the Chinese scholars who were so friendly at the University of Hong Kong in 1996. There are Chinese addresses on mailing lists, but obscenities or discussions of independence for Tibet, Taiwan, and so forth render the list mail illegal in China. Mr. Mao agrees that computing is an ostensibly harmless area where some Sino-Western rapprochement is possible, but rosy expectations will continue to be thwarted by the Chinese government. The above is anecdotal and not asserted as an argument. It may provide some perspective, however, as the Asia-Pacific Chapter of AACE conducts the "Global Education on the Net" conference in Beijing, 14-17 October 1998: <<a href="http://www.njtu.edu.cn/icce98/">http://www.njtu.edu.cn/icce98/</a>>. For there may be another sort of Net restraining Chinese scholars. Mr. Mao also agreed that there is a disadvantage facing Westerners in the Humanities seeking to reach their Asian counterparts. While there are Humanities divisions at major Asian universities, the users of Western languages such as English are more likely to be affiliated with other divisions. Considering also the need for intercultural sensitivity, it may be more effective to take a bilingual approach. Collegially, Steve McCarty <steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: disciplines Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:25:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 930 (930) Any references to articles or books touching on the history of academic disciplines would be most welcome. I am specifically interested in the socio-political as well as intellectual conditions under which the modern academic disciplines were formed, e.g. English and anthropology. English, I have heard, was the subject of debate at Oxford about a century ago. Have there been any arguments e.g. for and against bibliography as a discipline? What about art history, which must have been viewed by some as deeply suspect because of its links to art-appreciation and simple collecting. I would guess that similar suspicions would have been voiced about anthropology and archaeology, which even today attracts amateurs, gifted and otherwise. Are there any particularly notable cases in which a leading scholar wrote a manifesto establishing the credibility of a new discipline? Thanks for any leads. Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Eric Johnson <johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu> Subject: Computer-Based Writing Specialist Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:42:34 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 931 (931) ENGLISH FACULTY POSTION: Computer-Based Writing Specialist Dakota State University is seeking applications for a Composition Specialist. One year leave replacement beginning fall, 1998, possibly renewable for an additional year. Duties include teaching computer-based writing at the basic, freshman, and junior levels. Typical semester load of 12 credits. Salary competitive. Teaching experience with computer-based writing applications essential; interest in teaching writing courses on the Internet a plus. Ph.D. or ABD in English or related area desired. Additional information about DSU may be found at <a href="http://www.dsu.edu">http://www.dsu.edu</a>. Send letter of application, resume, copies of graduate transcripts, and names and current telephone numbers of at least three references to English Faculty Search, c/o Academic Vice President & Provost Office, 820 N. Washington Ave., Dakota State University, Madison, SD 57042-1799. Email: slaughts@columbia.dsu.edu; or FAX: 605-256-5316. Review of applications will begin March 2, 1998, and continue until the position is filled. Dakota State University is committed to developing a faculty reflecting cultural diversity. Individuals from underrepresented groups are urged to apply. Applicants with disabilities are invited to identify any necessary accommodations required in the application process. EOE. --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu <a href="http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/">http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Galileo Project Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 18:18:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 932 (932) Humanists will likely be interested to browse around in the online Galileo Project (Rice, U.S.), "a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time." It includes, for example, a Catalog of the Scientific Community of the 16th and 17th Centuries, "A searchable database of detailed histories of over 600 individuals who made significant contributions to Western science" compiled by Richard S. Westfall, Department of History and Philosophy of Science (Indiana). 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Joseph Rosenzweig <josephr@linc.cis.upenn.edu> Subject: lexical resource available (fwd) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 19:32:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 933 (933) Sorry if some have already seen this information. [deleted quotation] Klein, Julie Thompson. Interdisciplinarity : history, theory, and practice Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1990. This is not systematic history based on detailed examination of cases, but it has an extensive bibliography that should be worth combing. On anthropology, George Stocking has written alot that should be of interest, e.g.: Functionalism historicized : essays on British social anthropology / edited by George W. Stocking, Jr. University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. After Tylor : British social anthropology, 1888-1951. University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Anthropology at Chicago : tradition, discipline, department : an exhibition marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Department of Anthropology, October 1979-February 1980, the Joseph Regenstein Library, the University of Chicago. [Chicago, Ill:] The Library, [1979] The following is an item I haven't actually looked at, but I think people working in this area have found it worthwhile: Ringer, Fritz K. Fields of knowledge : French academic culture in comparative perspective, 1890-1920. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992. Best, Michael Winter Social Sciences Librarian 288 Shields Lib Univ of Calif, Davis Davis CA USA 95616/mfwinter@ucdavis.edu From: Frederick William Langley <f.w.langley@french.hull.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0545 history of disciplines? Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 19:59:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 934 (934) For English, you could do worse than starting with this: AUTHOR Palmer David John CORPORATE AUTHOR University of Hull TITLE The rise of English studies an account of the study of English language and literature from its origins to the making of the Oxford English School IMPRINT London Oxford University Press 1965 DESCRIPT 0192p SERIES (University of Hull publications) --- Frederick Langley From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0545 history of disciplines? Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 20:17:17 +73900 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 935 (935) Willard, One volume you might wish to consult on disciplinary formation and evolution is The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Approaches to Theory and Practice. Clayton Koelb & Susan Noakes eds. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988 In particular Wlad Godzich's "Emergent Literature and the Field of Comparative Literature" may be of some interest. The article opens thus: It is in the nature of knowledge to be unstable: on one hand, it must ensure its continuance by the preservation of the achievements of the past; on the other, it must not let them stand in the way of new advances and discoveries. And this passage from the editors' introduction takes up a topos that echoes some of your remarks about Humanties Computing: Comparative Literature today seems to be less a set of practices (e.g. comparing texts in different languages, comparing literary and "nonliterary" texts, comparing literature and the other arts) and more a shared perspective that sees literary activity as involved in a complex web of cultural relations. Thank you for your call which has allowed me to indulge in that rather delightful practice of quotation. BTW, has anyone ever done a count as to the frequency of quoted material appearing on discussion lists versus newsgroups? or on a discussion list over time? Francois -- Stability is a key to innovation. Q. What is stability? A. The ability to participate in meaningful innovation. <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Wordnet <wn@clarity.Princeton.EDU> Subject: WordNet 1.6 PC package Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:07:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 936 (936) ****** WordNet 1.6 is now available for PC users. ****** You can download version 1.6 from either our Web site or FTP site: Web - <a href="http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/obtain/">http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/obtain/</a> FTP - ftp.cogsci.princeton.edu To FTP WordNet use anonymous FTP. You must specify your email address as the password. WordNet 1.6 is in the directory "pub/wordnet". The file is "wn16pc.exe". The package is a self extracting archive - just run it. Then read the file "INSTALL.txt" for installation instructions. You should first download and read the file "README" for information about the release, including disk space requirements. You can also download "INSTALL.pc", which is the same as "INSTALL.txt" in the PC package. If you are in Europe, you can download WordNet from our mirror site in Germany: ftp.ims.uni-stuttgart.de. We expect to release the Macintosh versions in a few weeks. I will send mail again when it is released, and will update information on the Web site. The WordNet Web site is found at <a href="http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/">http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/</a>. Please remember to send e-mail to wordnet@princeton.edu when you download or upgrade WordNet. Include the package name and the computer platform you are using. If you are upgrading, please indicate this so I don't add you to the user database again. Feel free to include any words of thanks or praise, as well :-) Send e-mail with problem or questions to the same address. I am totally swamped (and only work part-time), so I will only answer mail that asks reasonable questions, and even these may take a few days. Happy WordNetting! Regards- randee tengi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Computer Assisted Learning of French Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:51:32 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 937 (937) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS Computer Assisted Learning of French Guest editor: Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS) (submission deadline: 10 March 98) The international journal CALL will devote a special issue to the research on computer assisted language learning of French. The goal of this special issue is to offer an acurate description of what has been achieved, both outside and inside France, and I invite you to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. SCOPE Papers are invited on any topic related to computer assisted language learning of French. Though desirable, they do not need to report on implemented work: new research ideas are of paramount importance in this guest issue. Topics could include: (I) The learning of low-level skills such as: * grammar * vocabulary * spelling * pronunciation (ii) The learning of higher level skills: * NL-generation or comprehension * discourse planning * composition (making an outline) * abstract creation, r=E9sum=E9s * Machine-aided translation * cognitive issues (iii) Development of computational tools: * grammar environment * writer's workbench * spelling checkers * coherence checkers * On-line help to dictionaries * Natural language interfaces * Multimodal interfaces * navigation aids * hypertext tools =46ORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS Papers should be written in English (this is the international language used in this journal) and should not exceed 18 pages (in a 12pt proportional font) including figures and references. They should also include the author's name, affiliation and address (incl. phone number, e-mail address), as well as an abstract and key words, indicating which of the thematic areas best describe the content of the paper. Electronic submissions in MS-Word, or plain text format are also welcome (please avoid LaTeX). SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Three hard copy submissions should be sent to: Michael Zock LIMSI - CNRS, BP 133 F-91403 ORSAY, FRANCE Email: zock@limsi.fr Submissions must be received no later than 10 March 1998. All submissions will be thoroughly evaluated by at least two reviewers. Acceptance will be based on originality, importance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition and relevance to the subject of the special issue. Authors will be notified of the editorial decision by 31 March 1998. IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for submission: 10 March 1998 * Notification of acceptance: 31 March 1998 * Camera-ready copies: 30 April 1998 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************** Michael ZOCK Langage & Cognition Phone: +(33-1) 69 85 80 24 LIMSI - CNRS Fax: +(33-1) 69 85 80 88 91403 Orsay / FRANCE E-mail: zock@limsi.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Paul groves <paul.groves@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Announcement: 'Virtual Seminars' Project - Digital Archive taster Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:52:45 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 938 (938) (Apologies for cross-posting) JTAP 'Virtual Seminars' Project - Digital Archive taster Part of the JTAP Virtual Seminars Project is involved in the creation of a freely available digital archive based around the First World War and in particular the experiences of Wilfred Owen. To look at a few samples of the types of material that will be available point your browser to: <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/taste.html">http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/taste.html</a> Dr Stuart Lee Project Manager, Virtual Seminars Paul Groves Project Officer, Virtual Seminars From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Online Copyright Tutorial for Educators Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:46:35 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 939 (939) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 2, 1998 ONLINE COPYRIGHT TUTORIAL--starts Feb 9 Indiana University's Copyright Management Center is offering a free copyright tutorial via listserv, sending three messages per week. Details for signing up follow. David Green [deleted quotation] INDIANA UNIVERSITY ONLINE COPYRIGHT TUTORIAL A series of short, readable, and helpful (we hope) electronic messages will be provided via listserv from February 9 through the end of Spring Semester 1998. To subscribe, simply send e-mail to listserv@iupui.edu. Put nothing in the subject line. In the message body type: sub Copyright-Online-L yourname. Do not use a signature block. For additional details, visit <a href="http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo/Online_Tutorial.html">http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo/Online_Tutorial.html</a> For more information about the CMC, visit <a href="http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo">http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Call for Papers: PKDD'98 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:50:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 940 (940) [deleted quotation] [.. Profuse apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone who would be interested. Thank you ..] PKDD'98 -- 2nd European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Nantes, France September 23-26, 1998 <a href="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/pkdd98">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/pkdd98</a> Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) have emerged from acombination of many research areas: databases, statistics, machinelearning, automated scientific discovery, inductive logic programming, artificial intelligence, visualization, decision science, and high performance computing. While each of these areas can contribute in specific ways, KDD focuses on the value that is added by creative combination of the contributing areas. The goal of PKDD'98 is to provide a European-based forum for interaction among all theoreticians and practitioners interested in data mining. Interdisciplinary collaboration is one desired outcome, but the main long-term focus is on theoretical principles for the emerging discipline of KDD, especially on KDD-specific principles that go beyond each contributing area. Both theoretical and applied submissions are sought. Reviewers will assess the contribution towards the principles of KDD, in addition to the usual requirements of relevance, novelty, clarity and significance. Applied papers should go beyond an individual application, presenting an explicit method that promises a degree of generality within one or more stages of the discovery process, such as preprocessing, mining, visualization, use of prior knowledge, knowledge refinement, and evaluation. Theoretical papers should demonstrate how the proposed theoretical contribution advances the discovery process. The following non-exclusive list exemplifies topics of interest: Data and knowledge representation for data mining * Beyond relational databases: new forms of data organization * Data reduction * Prior domain knowledge and use of discovered knowledge * Combining query systems with discovery capabilities Statistics and probability in data mining * Discovery of probabilistic networks * Modelling knowledge uncertainty * Discovery of exceptions and deviations * Statistical significance in large-scale search * The problems of over-fit Logic-based perspective on data mining * Inference of knowledge from data * Exploring different subspaces of first order logic * Rough sets in data mining * Boolean approaches to data mining * Inductive Logic Programming for mining real databases * Pattern-recognition for data mining * The use of tolerance (similarity) relations in data mining * KDD-motivated discretization of data * Discovery of approximate schemes of reasoning from data Man-Machine interaction in data mining * Visualization of data * Visualization of knowledge * Interface design * Interactive data mining: human and computer contributions Artificial Intelligence contributions to KDD * Representing knowledge and hypotheses spaces * Search for knowledge and its complexities * Combining many methods in one system * Data mining in distributed/multiagent systems High performance computing for data mining * Hardware support for KDD * Parallel discovery algorithms and complexity * Distributed data mining * Scalability in high dimensional datasets * From concept learning to concept discovery * Expanding the autonomy of machine learners * Embedding learning methods in KDD systems * Conceptual clustering in knowledge discovery * Applications of scientific discovery systems to databases * Scientific hypothesis evaluation that transfers to KDD * Hypothesis spaces of scientific discovery applied in KDD * Differences between the data handled in both fields * KDD applications on scientific databases * Decomposition of large data tables Quality assessment of data mining results * Multi-criteria knowledge evaluation * Benchmarks and metrics for system evaluation * Statistical tests in KDD applications * Usefulness and risk assessment in decision-making Applications of data mining and knowledge discovery * Medicine: diagnosis and prognosis * Control theory: predictive and adaptive control, model identification * Engineering: diagnosis of mechanisms and processes * Public administration * Marketing and finance * Data mining on the web in text and heterogeneous data * Natural and social science * Prediction and intervention use of knowledge * Fraud detection Interaction between symbolic KDD methods and neural nets * Interpretation of knowledge accumulated in a trained NN * Hybrid NN/Symbolic KDD systems * NN architectures for higher transparency and interpretability Submitted papers should be in English and not exceed 10 single-spaced pages of 12pt font (excluding title page but including tables, figures and bibliography). Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. A separate title page should begin with title, authors, affiliations, surface and e-mail addresses, and an abstract of about 200 words. Submitted papers should preferably be formatted according to the LNAI guidelines. LaTeX and Word style files are available at <a href="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/pkdd98/styles">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/pkdd98/styles</a>. The following items must be submitted by May 15th, 1998: an electronic version of the paper (uuencoded and compressed PostScript), and an electronic version of the titlepage in plain ASCII format. Four hard copies of the paper by regular mail are also accepted if electronic submission is not possible. All items should be sent to the following addresses: * Regular mail: Mohamed Quafafou - PKDD'98 Conference (see full address below) * Electronic mail : pkdd98@irin.univ-nantes.fr All accepted for regular and poster presentations will be published by Springer Verlag as part of the ``Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence'' (LNAI) series. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission deadline: May 15th, 1998 Notice of acceptance: June 15th, 1998 Camera ready papers: July 5th, 1998 PANEL DISCUSSIONS: proposals are sought for panels that stimulate interaction between the communities contributing to KDD. Include title, the main goals, prospective participants and a summary of the topics to be discussed. Submission to zytkow@uncc.edu by May 15th, 1998. Notification of acceptance by June 15th, 1998. TUTORIALS: proposals are solicited for tutorials that: (1) transfer know-how and provide hands-on experience, (2) combine two or more areas (e.g. rough sets and statistics, high-performance computing and databases, etc), or (3) cover application domains such as finance, medicine, or automatic control. Submission to zytkow@uncc.edu by May 15th, 1998. Notification of acceptance by June, 15th, 1998. DEMONSTRATIONS OF SOFTWARE for data mining and knowledge discovery are invited, including both commercial and experimental systems. Send descriptions to quafafou@irin.univ-nantes.fr by July 15th, 1998. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ------------------- Jan Zytkow, Mohamed Quafafou, Dept. of Computer Science IRIN, 2 rue la Houssiniere UNC Charlotte BP 92208 - 44322 Charlotte, NC 28223 Nantes cedex 03 USA France zytkow@uncc.edu quafafou@irin.univ-nantes.fr PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------- Pieter Adriaans (Syllogic, Netherlands) Pawel Bradzil (U. Porto, Portugal) Henri Briand (IRIN U. Nantes, France) Leo Carbonara (British Telecom., UK) A. Fazel Famili (IIT-NRC, Canada) Ronen Feldman (Bar Ilan, U. Israel) Patrick Gallinari (U. Paris 6, France) Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (U. Paris 6, France) Attilio Giordana (U. Torino, Italy) David Hand (Open U., UK) Bob Henery (U. Strathclyde, UK) Mikhail Kiselev (Megaputer Intelligence, Russia) Willi Kloesgen (GMD, Germany) Yves Kodratoff (U. Paris 11, France) Jan Komorowski (Norwegian U.Sci. & Tech.) Nada Lavrac (Josef Stefan Inst., Slovenia) Heikki Mannila (U. Helsinki, Finland) Steve Muggleton (Oxford U., UK) Zdzislaw Pawlak (Warsaw Technical U., Poland) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (Knowledge Stream, Boston, USA) Lech Polkowski (U. Warsaw, Poland) Mohamed Quafafou (IRIN U. Nantes, France) Zbigniew Ras (UNC Charlotte, USA) Lorenza Saitta (U. Torino, Italy) Wei-Min Shen (U. So. California, USA) Arno Siebes (CWI, Netherlands) Andrzej Skowron (U. Warsaw, Poland) Derek Sleeman (U. Aberdeen, UK) Nicolas Spyratos (U. Paris 11, France) Shusaku Tsumoto (Tokyo Medical & Dental U., Japan) Raul Valdes-Perez (CMU, USA) Thierry Van de Merckt (Belgium) Rudiger Wirth (Daimler-Benz, Germany) Stefan Wrobel (GMD, Germany) Ning Zhong (Yamaguchi U., Japan) Wojtek Ziarko (U. Regina, Canada) Djamel A. Zighed (U. Lyon 2, France) Jan Zytkow (UNC Charlotte, USA) +_________________________________________________________________________+ | Mohamed Quafafou | | IRIN, 2 rue la Houssiniere tel: (+33) 240 37 49 75 <<<<<< New <<< | | BP 92208 - 44322 fax: (+33) 240 37 49 70 | | Nantes cedex 03 mail: quafafou@irin.univ-nantes.fr | | France. | From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: LREC WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:52:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 941 (941) [deleted quotation] *We apologize for multiple copies* WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS LINGUISTIC COREFERENCE WORKSHOP 26 May 1998, Morning Session Held in conjunction with The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Granada, Spain (28-30 May 1998) WORKSHOP AIMS It is essential, for a natural language processing system, to instantiate each object, process, attribute, and property correctly, so that all references to the same item be recognized as such and an inventory of all distinct items be accurate at all times. This problem is far from being resolved. There are both linguistic and computational reasons for this deficiency. First, there is no satisfactory microtheory of linguistic coreference. Secondly and consequently, there is no satisfactory application of such a microtheory to NLP. A microtheory of coreference in natural language includes in its scope all the phenomena that satisfy the following condition: an object/entity, an event, an attribute, a property or its value, an attitude, or any combination of the above is referred to more than once in a natural-language text, and the understanding of the text depends on the correct interpretation of the two or more referring expressions as designating the same object, event, etc. A linguistic microtheory of coreference for a language consists of the following elements: - a complete range of covered phenomena in the language; - a taxonomy of the range; - a typology of the range; - a list of rules forming the various types of coreference; - a list of rules interpreting the various types of coreference. There has been a considerable amount of work on a few selected types of coreference, focusing almost exclusively on object coreference. Thus, significant work has been done in theoretical linguistics on anaphora and cataphora, subsuming, for the large part, earlier work on deixis. A small minority of authors have tried to extend their studies of anaphora beyond mere syntax. In the cognitive-linguistics and philosophy-of-language traditions, interesting work has been done relating anaphora and deixis to ambiguity resolution and discourse structure. At the same time, an effort in comparative-contrastive linguistics has led some writers to examining the data of more than one language at a time, still emphasizing entity or object reference. In computational linguistics, the problem of coreference took early on the form of pronoun antecedent resolution, and this particular task, somewhat broadened to include a few other types of anaphora, still remains in the center of the problem. The most sustained effort in the computational treatment of coreference has been mounted within the Tipster/MUC-6 initiative. While it has been recognized since quite early in the game that coreference resolution is based in large part on world knowledge, most of the work done on the matter computationally and theoretically ignores and avoids world knowledge. The MUC-6 initiative makes such an orientation quite explicit: the work should be based on such simpler resources as part-of-speech tagging, simple noun phrase recognition, basic semantic category information like, gender, number, and [to a limited extent] full parse trees. Such an approach--trying to explore and maximize everything that can be done simply and cheaply towards the resolution of a complex program--is perfectly legitimate as long as it is realized that a considerable part of the problem remains unsolved, and it is indeed realized fully well within the MUC-6 initiative. One persistent problem throughout the existing computational ventures into coreference has been the lack of a consistent theoretical approach to it. The result is that coreference phenomena are treated as self-obvious, and most of them are overlooked, especially if they are not explicit pronoun-antecedent or other equally evident anaphora cases. What is needed for a full, accurate, and reliable approach to coreference can be summarized, somewhat schematically, as involving the following steps: 1. understanding fully the range of the phenomenon and of the rules that govern it (theory); 2. determining the extent of machine-tractable information in the rules; 3. taking stock of all the rules that can be computed; 4. developing the appropriate heuristics for the computable rules; 5. computing the rules. WORKSHOP AGENDA The workshop will be held during the morning session of 26 May 1998 and will include a joint address by the Organizing Committee (listed above), followed by 5-8 individual presentations in two 90-120-minute blocks, with a break provided midway through. CALL FOR PAPERS The Workshop solicits papers addressing any one or more of the points addressed above as well as any other pertinent issues. Papers based on a diversity of languages are encouraged, both one language at a time and, especially, comparative/contrastive studies. Also strongly encouraged are papers which extend the study of coreference beyond entity/object reference, across document boundaries, and/or into non-text media. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions should consist of an extended abstract of approximately 800 words, along with a brief description of the proposed presentation structure (e.g., paper, paper plus demo,etc.). Each submission should include a separate title page, providing the following information: the title to be printed in the Conference program; names and affiliations of all authors; the full address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, fax, email; and required audio-visual equipment. Papers may be submitted by sending three hardcopies or one softcopy (in TeX, ASCII, or post-script format) to the appropriate address as listed below: Dr. Victor Raskin Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics Heavilon Hall Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA vraskin@purdue.edu Submissions must be received no later than 1 March 1998 for a 15 March notification of paper acceptance. (Full versions of all accepted papers are requested no later than 15 April 1998 for inclusion in the conference proceedings.) WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dr. Sara J. Shelton (Contact Person) US Department of Defense 9800 Savage Road, R525 Ft Meade, MD 20755 USA sjshelt@afterlife.ncsc.mil 301-688-0301 (voice) 301-688-0338 (fax) Dr. Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California 4676 Admirality Way Marina Del Rey, CA 90292-669 USA hovy@isi.edu 310-822-1511, ext. 731 (voice) Dr. Victor Raskin Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics Heavilon Hall Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA vraskin@purdue.edu 765-494-3782 (voice) 765-494-3780 (fax) From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: DIGITAL PRESERVATION: A new conversation Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:43:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 942 (942) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 2, 1998 DIGITAL PRESERVATION ISSUES: An Important Conversation "TIME AND BITS: Managing Digital Continuity" <<a href="http://www.ahip.getty.edu/timeandbits/intro.html">http://www.ahip.getty.edu/timeandbits/intro.html</a>> As more of the cultural heritage community understands the urgency of digital preservation issues (how do we save existing digital material that is already proving to be unreadable and how do we prepare a strategy for ensuring the long-term availability of material we are now digitizing?) one group is preparing to expand the conversation beyond the merely technical and technological. This week, the Getty Center will host a small group that will open a discussion on "technology, culture, and time," that will examine the sociocultural and economic implications of the digital preservation issues. The ambition of the conversation is to "provide a framework for long-term digital cultural preservation." Those included in the conversation include the following: Howard Besser Stewart Brand Doug Carlston Ben Davis John Heilemann Danny Hillis Brewster Kahle Kevin Kelly Jaron Lanier Peter Lyman Margaret MacLean Paul Saffo Bruce Sterling This project is being co-organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Information Institute and the Long Now Foundation of San Francisco. The web site announcing the conversation and the issues will report on the dialog. It also contains a very useful list of web resources on digital preservation issues at <<a href="http://www.ahip.getty.edu/timeandbits/links.html">http://www.ahip.getty.edu/timeandbits/links.html</a>>. Below is the introduction to "TIME & BITS" as it appears on the web page. David Green =========== "TIME AND BITS: Managing Digital Continuity" <<a href="http://www.ahip.getty.edu/timeandbits/intro.html">http://www.ahip.getty.edu/timeandbits/intro.html</a>> Introduction The enthusiastic and increasing use of electronic media for storing information of various kinds demonstrates the utility of the format and its possibilities. In the field of cultural heritage, there is an enormous amount of significant information in digital form. These data are vulnerable on many levels. Because of the increasingly fast cycle of obsolescence in hardware and software, we are at the point where the proliferation of electronic data on various platforms has prompted some serious concerns about the long-term protection of the data. A number of international organizations are examining technological issues that bear on the problem, including data types, media stability, and options for refreshing and migrating data to ever-evolving platforms. There is, however, an important gap in the discussions. An integrated technical and philosophical discussion of digital archives and their future that includes the sociocultural and economic implications of both the problems and the solutions could provide a framework for long-term digital cultural preservation. The Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Information Institute [of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles] are collaborating with the Long Now Foundation [San Francisco] to generate some strategic thinking on these issues with important digital theorists. In February of 1998, we will convene a small group at The Getty Center to share concerns and expertise in technology, culture, and time. We will use this Web site to present certain ideas for moderated discussion, including a summary of the state of the technological work. We will post comments and incorporate some of them into the body of work being collected. The on-line discussion and meeting should provide a set of insightful and responsible recommendations that will chart a thoughtful course for the resolution of problems related to long-term digital data protection, preservation, and reconstruction. =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0552 history of disciplines Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 13:37:27 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 943 (943) For the rise of literary studies as a discipline, see Gerald Graff's _Professing Literature: An Institutional History_ (Chicago 1987); also Terry Eagleton's opening chapter in his _Literary Theory: An Introduction_ (Minnesota 1983). Matt From: Chris Floyd <cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au> Subject: history of disciplines Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:28:52 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 944 (944) With regard to English, I often refer to: Eagleton, Terry. _Literary Theory: An Introduction_. Oxford: Blackwell, 1983. and Widdowson, Peter. _Re-Reading English_. London: Methuen, 1982. Background research into F. R. Leavis and the "Newbolt Report" is crucial. See: King, Noel. " 'The Teacher must exist before the Pupil': The Newbolt Report on the Teaching of English in England, 1921". _Literature and History_. 13:1. Spring 1987. (14-37). The story goes that scratch an English lit specialist and you find a Leavisite. This has somewhat changed since what Widdowson calls 'the crisis of English' and Harold Bloom (in _The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages_. New York: Harcourt & Brace, 1994. p527) characterises as "the Balkanization of literary studies", being the incorporation of a set of possible theoretical approaches including Marxism (trans. 'liberal' for Americans); structuralism; post-structuralism; psychoanalysis; and feminism. I hazard to mention: Bloom, Allan. _The Closing of the American Mind_. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Clearly it touches on the history of academic disciplines insofar as it is a conservative critique/diatribe. However, I fear its effect is prophetic in the sense of the dumbing down that is occuring in institutions. Chris. BTW I encountered another new discipline yesterday, namely industrial design which is a cross over between engineering and art. It appears to me more about packaging than content, but it begs the question of the arts side. Whether it merely assumes the formal aspect, neglecting the historical and philosophical issues. Thus becoming a sanitised, market driven discipline. _______________________________ Dr Chris Floyd Phone: +61 8 9339 0490 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au <a href="http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd">http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Preservation Plans & Millennium project Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:02:20 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 945 (945) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 2, 1998 HISTORIC PRESERVATION IS PART OF NEW PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVE: THE MILLENIUM PROGRAM As many heard in President's Clinton's State of the Union Address last week, there was a committment to furthering the preservation of this country's cultural heritage. References to this preservation interestingly sandwiched Clinton's remarks about the scientific challenges to the nation and the announcement of the largest ever increases to the National Science Foundation. "This year, Hillary and I launched the White House Millennium Program to promote America's creativity and innovation, and to preserve our heritage and culture into the 21st century. Our culture lives in every community, and every community has places of historic value that tell our stories as Americans. We should protect them. I am proposing a public-private partnership to advance our arts and humanities, and to celebrate the millennium by saving American's treasures, great and small.... I ask all Americans to support our project to restore all our treasures so that the generations of the 21st century can see for themselves the images and words that are the old and continuing glory of America..." (See the very end of the President's speech: <<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/SOTU98/address.html">http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/SOTU98/address.html</a>>). Below are some of the emerging details of the President's preservation plans. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]from... NCC Washington Update, vol. 4, #3, February 2, 1998 by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History <pagem@capaccess.org> 1. President Recommends a Budget Increase for National Archives 2. President's FY'99 Request for NHPRC is $6 Million 3. Update on Funding for Historic Preservation Programs 4. Historic Preservation Is Part of a New Presidential Initiative, The Millennium Program <snip> 4. Historic Preservation Is Part of a New Presidential Initiative, The Millennium Program -- President Clinton in his January 27 "State of the Union Address" proposed a program to preserve and restore our nation's heritage as we enter the new millennium. The theme of the "Save America's Treasures" program is "Honor the past; imagine the future." Part of this program will be the development of a challenge grant initiative, that over the next three years, will assist in the preservation of endangered historic places and artifacts across the United States. The President's budget proposal states that the funding for these grants will come from the Historic Preservation Fund and shall be used "to preserve the Nation's irreplaceable heritage, as authorized by the Historic Preservation Act, including preservation of intellectual expressions and cultural artifacts, and of historic structures and sites." The President's budget specifics that one half of these funds are to be transferred to federal agencies for preserving our cultural heritage and the other half is to go to the State Historic Preservation Offices and Indian Tribes. The State Historic Preservation Offices -- with appropriate state partners -- will assist state agencies, local governments, and nonprofit organizations in preserving America's historic treasures. The "Save America's Treasures" program will be located in the Department of Interior. The President's FY'99 budget request includes $50 million this year for the program, with an anticipated $50 million to be also allocated in each of the following two years. At this point only the conceptual outline of the program is available for many of the details have not yet been determined. However, it does appear that the grants will require matching funds. * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NCC invites you to redistribute the NCC Washington Updates. A complete backfile of these reports is maintained by H-Net. See World Wide Web: <a href="http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/">http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/</a> * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: importance of small things Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 21:11:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 946 (946) My continuing meditation on small things surfaces at odd times, most recently while walking home through the winding intricacies of residential Leyton and puzzling over our blindness to their importance (i.e. the small things, not the streets, though they are most pleasant). Very small changes in the presentation of a text, for example, work great changes on our perceptions of it. Compare, any handmade concordance with a KWIC, then think on what has come about in our understanding of language from the centering of the target word with arbitrary context on either side. Has any comparable change in understanding resulted from what we would much more likely claim is an important advance in humanities computing? Surface and depth, the superficial and the profound, the playful and the serious, the light and the weighty -- these terms betray a not always enlightening set of prejudices. It seems to me that if we are going to understand the significance of what we're doing in this field, we'll need to dwell much more on the simplest things that our tools can do. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Chris Powell <sooty@umich.edu> Subject: New Middle English texts online Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 10:58:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 947 (947) The Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce that six new texts have been added to the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse: An Alphabet of Tales, The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry, Merlin, Malory's La Morte Darthur, Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum, and Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe. The Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse is the largest collection of texts in Middle English on the World Wide Web, with 42 titles comprising almost three million words. The entire Corpus can be browsed or searched all at once, or searches can be restricted to an individual text or a user-defined group of texts using the Personal Collection search mode. The texts are encoded in Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML) using the TEI Guidelines and converted into HTML on-the-fly. New texts continue to be added to the collection; we hope to add ten more before the end of the semester. Full information about the creation of these texts -- scanning, keyboarding, proofing, and markup -- is available in the text headers. The Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse is available at <a href="http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/mideng/">http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/mideng/</a> Christina Powell Coordinator, Humanities Text Intiative University of Michigan <a href="http://www.hti.umich.edu/">http://www.hti.umich.edu/</a> From: Daniel Ridings <ridings@svenska.gu.se> Subject: Wordclassed tagged Swedish corpus on the web (fwd) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:55:39 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 948 (948) There is now access to 10,000,000 words of corpus material via the web. It has been tagged with the Swedish version of the PAROLE tagset (156 tags).. It is possible to search for individual words, phrases, or tags, thus making it possible to extract patterns based on the morphosyntactic tags. (see http:www2.echo.lu/langeng/en/le2/le-parole/le-parole.html for more information about PAROLE) Please note that in the following the quotation marks are part of the query language and are thereby essential. Truncation is not a simple * but .* (period-star). WORD (followed by truncated examples) [word="skattemedel"] (tax revenue) Since word searches are so frequent the above can be abbreviated to: "skattemedel" With truncations: "skatte.*" ".*medel" PHRASES "för" "egen" "del" (for his/her part) "för" [] "del" (för followed by any word and then "del") "för" []{1,3} "del" (för followed by 1-3 words then followed by "del") "för" []{1,3} "del" within S (as above, but limited in range to within an s-unit (sentence)) TAGS (msd = MorphoSyntactic Description) [msd="DF@US@S"] []{0,4} [msd=NCUSN@DS"] (all NP's consisting of a determiner in the definite form, 0-4 words and a noun with genus=utrum, numerus=singular, case=normal and the feature for definite or indefinite set at "definite"). Similar searches can be done for prepositions (msd=SPS). The first letter of a tag provides the word class information (N=nomen, A=adjective, V=verb, S=preposition, R=adverb, D=determiner etc.) The other positions are features (genus, numerus, case, definite/indefinite for nouns, mood, tense, passive/active (actually s-form, not passive for these tags) for verbs. There are two tables providing correspondences between the Swedish PAROLE tags and the tags used in the Stockholm-Umeå Corpus. Fairly advanced queries can be made. For example, the periphrastic futurum in Swedish consists of "kommer" (come) + infinitive marker + infinitive. In recent times, the infinitive marker is being left out with growing frequency. This can be confirmed by comparing the corpus from 1965 with the PAROLE corpus (both are on the web page). The search string would be as follows: "kommer" [word!="att" & msd!="(V@I.*|FI)"]{0,4} [msd="V@N.*"] within S != (not equal), & (and), | (or) "kommer" followed by 0-4 words (which are not "att", not verbs in the indicative or internal punctuation (FI), followed by an infinitive (V@N.*) within a sentence. The same query run against the contemporary material and the material from thirty years ago is revealing. The address is: <a href="http://ldb20.svenska.gu.se">http://ldb20.svenska.gu.se</a> The query motor is the one from IMS in Stuttgart (Oli Christ et al.). <a href="http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart/Tools/CorpusTools">http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart/Tools/CorpusTools</a> Granted, not everyone is interested in Swedish, but for those who are, this could be quite helpful. Eventually the interface will be made nicer and in the course of the next few weeks the material will be lemmatized. The tagging has been performed by yours truly with a version of Eric Brill's tagger that I'm working on. I'm almost satisfied with it, but not quite. There are mistakes and this tagged version is a phase in my efforts of improving the tagger. Daniel Ridings Språkdata Göteborgs universitet Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Arts and Technology Conference posting Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:03:40 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 949 (949) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT FEBRUARY 4, 1998 GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE ON ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY circuits@nys: the arts in a digital age March 27 - 29, Palisades, NY <www.circuitsnys.org> Registration is soon to close for this innovative conference organized by New York's arts community on the relationship between new technology and the arts. David Green [deleted quotation]GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE ON ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY [deleted quotation] How to use the latest technology to create, present and promote the arts will be the topic of the Governor's Conference on Art and Technology, "circuits@nys", sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) in partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Activities begin March 26, 1998 with a conference kick-off event at the New York Information Technology Center in Manhattan's downtown "Silicon Alley" and continue with a 2 1/2 day conference from March 27 - 29 at the Palisades Executive Conference Center in Palisades, New York. Over 45 sessions will be offered, including hands-on learning experiences, roundtable discussions, policy review and case studies. Speakers include Stephen Johnson, co-founder of the leading web magazine "Feed," and author of "Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms The Way We Create And Communicate;" Joan Shikegawa of the Rockefeller Foundation; and renowned video artist and founder of the Kitchen, Steina Vasulka. Organizations represented include: the Soho Guggenheim Museum, the American Museum of the Moving Image, Dia Center for the Arts, Creative Time; ECHO, Pseudo, NINCH, the Benton Foundation, the World Wide Web Consortium and The Electronic Frontier Foundation. The conference will also feature performances, installations, computer animation, and artist CD-ROMS and web projects, including artists from the 5th Annual New York Digital Salon, as well as SIGGRAPH^Rs annual computer graphics conference. New tech companies will also be on hand to demonstrate cutting-edge software and hardware. The Palisades Conference Center features state-of-the-art conference rooms in a beautifully-landscaped setting, plus a health and fitness center, swimming pool, spa, tennis courts, and deluxe guest rooms equipped with a computer. Accommodations and meals are included in registration. Registration fees for the full conference begin at $100. Registration forms can be downloaded from the conference website at www.circuitsnys.org. For additional information, call 212-366-6900 ext. 342, or email to circuits@circuitsnys.org. "circuits@nys" is made possible with major funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, in partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Empire State Development Corporation, and Bell Atlantic. Corporate sponsorship includes: America Online, IBM and Rudin Management. Partners include: Arts & Business Council, Media Alliance, Museum Association of NYS, the New York State Alliance of Arts Organizations, NYS Alliance for Arts Education and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> Subject: abbreviations in the UK Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 21:32:54 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 950 (950) If such a thing exists (and surely it must), can anyone direct me to a standardized set of abbreviations used for libraries and museums in the UK? (Something akin to the abbreviations used in the American National Union Catalog.) Thanks in advance, Matt =================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu or mattk@virginia.edu Department of English <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/</a> The Blake Archive | IATH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Grover.Zinn@oberlin.edu Subject: Re: 11.0560 history of disciplines Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 15:40:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 951 (951) Willard, On the history of disciplines, see the following: Clyde A. Holbrook, _Religion, A Humanistic Field_ (Humanistic Scholarship in America: The Princeton Studies; Englewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice-Hall, 1963; reprint Greedwood Press). [Fundamental in proposing an approach to the teaching of religion in colleges and universities that was not "theological" in presuppositions and intent; set the blueprint for the present way of teaching religion as an academic discipline] On the question of the "liberal arts", etc., Francis Oakley (a medieval historian and, as they say in England, sometime President of Williams College [he has returned to teaching!]) has published articles and now a book: Francis Oakley, _Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition_ (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992). (This was done for the ACLS, I believe.) Grover Grover A. Zinn (216) 775-8478 (office) Danforth Professor of Religion (216) 775-8520 (department) Department of Religion (216) 775-8124 (fax) Rice Hall Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074 From: Brad Scott <Brad.Scott@routledge.co.uk> Subject: History of disciplines Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:09:05 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 952 (952) Willard I'm not sure if you meant your query to extend to scientific disciplines as well, but biochemistry is an interesting example of discipline creation. Nineteenth century work which is now conventionally described as 'biochemistry' was carried out by a wide variety of scientists from backgrounds as diverse as physiology, botany, agricultural science and the brewing industry etc. Only around the turn of the century did a separate discipline called biochemistry emerge. Robert Kohler's book 'From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry' (CUP, c. 1986) covers this fairly well, concentrating on the North American dimension. In addition, I have done some work (but not yet published!) on the Biochemical Society in Britain (founded 1911) and Benjamin Moore, who was the first professor of Bio-Chemistry in the UK. The latter had a clear set of ideas underpinning his claims for a new discipline, which were certainly informed by his socialist beliefs. He founded the Biochemical Journal as a vehicle for his ideas, but his programme eventually failed, in favour of the more practical consensus emerging during the creation of the Society. The latter consensus was also arguably informed by extra-scientific concerns, not the least of which was the then editor of the Journal of Physiology who rejected many 'biochemical' papers. Many of the founders of the Society also had definite left wing leanings and the society's constitution was self consciously more inclusive of existing areas of enquiry than other organisations. After an early acrimonious row, they also admitted women; something which neither the Physiological Society nor the Chemical Society allowed. I could go on about this for ages, and it is a complex debate which I've barely touched on. Perhaps of some relevance though? Brad ___________________________________________________________________ Brad Scott, Electronic Development Manager Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE tel: 0171 842 2134 fax: 0171 842 2299 email: bscott@routledge.co.uk Routledge Online: <a href="http://www.routledge.com/routledge/routledge.html">http://www.routledge.com/routledge/routledge.html</a> ___________________________________________________________________ From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0555 history of disciplines Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:43:46 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 953 (953) From: Joan B Fiscella <jbf@uic.edu> Here are a few other titles that you may wish to look at: Divided Knowledge: Across disciplines, across cultures. David Easton and Corinne S. Schelling, eds. Sage Knowledges: Historical and critical studies in disciplinarity, ed by Messer-Davidow, Shumway, and Sylvan. University Press of Virginia Daedalus, Winter 1997. (Vol 126 #1) Title of the issue is American Academic Culture in transformation: Fifty years, four disciplines. Joan Joan B. Fiscella Bibliographer for Professional Studies University of Illinois at Chicago Library 312-996-2730 jbf@uic.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ELRA - VALIDATION MANUALS Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:42:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 954 (954) From: info-elra@calva.net (Valerie Mapelli) EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News *** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ELRA - LANGUAGE RESOURCES VALIDATION MANUALS *** ELRA is happy to announce that the manuals for lexica and written corpora can now be obtained free of charge from the ELRA secretariat or the ELRA Web site. VALIDATION MANUAL FOR LEXICA: The final version of the validation manual for lexica was produced and delivered in June of 1997 from CST, Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark. The work on the lexicon manuals involved technical validation and conformity with standards (both the producer's own and ELRA's). This resulted in content validation and the drafting of the chapters of the ELRA validation manual, the ELRA standard and the validation methodology (including validation schemata). VALIDATION MANUAL FOR WRITTEN CORPORA: The work on a manual for written corpora subcontracted to the Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University, UK and they have during 1997 produced a draft for the manual, which has been made public and open for comments and feedback. The final version is planned to be ready in the beginning of 1998. The work was initiated with a first phase which consisted of consulting several experts in order to get a consensus about the real needs. This produced a first document entitled "The Definition of a Functional Specification for the Technical Validation of Language Corpora". Also a questionnaire was published on the ELRA and University of Lancaster Web sites, this to inquire for feedback from interested parties. The draft document covers the approaches for the establishment of an analytic framework for validation (technical and descriptive characteristics, linguistic properties), and the definition of appropriate validation procedures. The manuals are: Lexicon validation: "Towards a standard for the evaluation of lexica", N Underwood & C Navaretta. "A draft manual for the validation of lexica - Final report", N Underwood & C Navaretta. Corpora validation: "An analytic framework for the validation of language corpora", P Baker, L Burnard, A McEnery & A Wilson.=20 To obtain copies, please contact ELRA at the following address: ELRA 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin 75013 Paris, France tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30 email. elra-elda@calva.net (Ms Malin Nilsson) or download them from the ELRA Web site: <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: PACLIC'12 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:39:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 955 (955) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PACLIC'12 --THE 12TH PACIFIC ASIA CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE FEBRUARY 18-20, 1998 <a href="http://sunzi.iss.nus.sg:1996/paclic12/">http://sunzi.iss.nus.sg:1996/paclic12/</a> paclic12@iss.nus.sg Attached below are papers to be presented at the conference. For further information, please check the web page and/or email us. Guo Jin For PACLIC12 -------------------------------------------------------- Opening Ceremony (9:00--9:30am, 18 Feb 98) Tea Break (9:30--10:00am, 18 Feb 98) Session I Grammar (10:00am--12:30pm, 18 Feb 98) 1. Daeho Chung: Ettehkey 'How' as a Small Clause Head. 2. Beom-mo Kang: Three Kinds of Korean Reflexives: A Corpus Linguistic Investigation on Grammar and Usage. 3. York Chung-Ho Yang & June-Jei Kuo: The Chinese Temporal Coverbs, Postpositions, Coverb- Postposition Pairs, and Their Temporal Logic. 4. Jie Xu: Grammatical Devices in the Processing of [+Wh] and [+Focus] 5. Lian-Cheng Chief: Mandarin Intransitive Reflexive Verbs and the Unaccusative Hypothesis (Mandarin Intransitive Reflexive Verbs). Session II Syntax and Phonology (2:00pm-- 5:30pm, 18 Feb 98) 1. Masahiro Oku: Analyzing Embedded Noun Phrase Structures Derived from Japanese Double-Nominal-Case Construction. 2. Akira Ikeya and Masahito Kawamori: The Two Kinds of Japanese Negative Nai in Terms of their NP1 Licensing Condition. 3. Chiharu Uda Kikuta: A Multiple Inheritance Analysis of the Internally- Headed Relative Clause in Japanese. 4. Yoshie Yamashita: The Acquisition of Functional Categories: Data from Japanese. 5. Seiichiro Inaba: Moras, Syllables, and Feet in Japanese. 6. Seok-keun Kang: English Nasal-Final Prefixes and Uniform Exponence. Session III Lexicon and Semantics (9:00am--12:30pm, 19 Feb 98) 1. Jae-Il Yeom & Ik-Hwan Lee: Common Grounds as Multiple Information States. 2. Yibin Ni: Co-Interpretation Network in English Discourse. 3. Cornelia Maria Verspoor: Predictivity vs. Stipulativity in the Lexicon. 4. Dan-Hee Yang, Ik-Hwan Lee & Mansuk Song: On Using Case Prototypicality as a Semantic Primitive. 5. Hiroaki Nakamura & Takeshi Fujita: Case Alternations in Potential Constructions in Japanese and Their Semantic Implications. 6. Kiyoshi Ishikawa: On Plural Anaphora. Session IV Keynote Speeches (2:00pm--4:30pm, 19 Feb 98) 1. Jhing-fa Wang: Experience on the Development of Spoken Language System based on Continuous Speech Recognition. 2. K. P. Mohanan: A Topic on Theoretical Linguistics to be Announced Special Workshop: (5:00pm--6:00pm, 19 Feb 98) 1. Yasuhito Tanaka & Kenji Kita: Machine-Readable Dictionary Headwords. 2. Charles Lee: The Advantages of 3D-Trees in Modelling Human Sentence Processing. 3. Young-Soog Chae: An Improvement of Korean Proof-Reading System Using Corpus and Collocation Rules (A Korean Proof-Reading System Using Multiple Dictionaries and a Corpus). 4. Shun Ha Sylvia Wong & Peter Hancox: An Investigation into the Use of Argument Structure and Lexical Mapping Theory for Machine Translation. 5. Kok Wee Gan: Using A Semantic Classification in Parsing Chinese: Some Preliminary Results. 6. Yong-Beo Kim: Adjunct Roles and External Predication. 7. Mariko Saiki: On the Underlying Representation of the Tough Construction in English. 8. Minako Nakayasu: Tense and the Speaker's Attitude in English. Session V Language Modelling (9:00am--1:00pm, 20 Feb 98) 1. Guodong Zhou & Kim-Teng Lua: MI-Trigger-Based Language Modelling. 2. Zhao-Ming Gao & Harold Somers: Extracting Recurrent Phrases and Terms from Texts Using a Purely Statistical Method. 3. Haizhou Li & Baosheng Yuan: Chinese Word Segmentation. 4. Julia Hockenmaier & Chris Brew: Error-Driven Learning of Chinese Word Segmentation. 5. Yujie Zhang & Kazuhiko Ozeki: Automatic Bunsetsu Segmentation of Japanese Sentences Using a Classification Tree. 6. Kenneth Lau & Robert Luk: Word-Sense Classification by Hierarchical Clustering. 7. Zhao-Ming Gao: A High-Precision Translation Lexicon from Parallel Chinese-English Corpora (Automatic Acquisition of a High-Precision Translation Lexicon from Parallel Chinese-English Corpora). Session VI Parsing and Processing (2.00pm-- 5:30pm, 20 Feb 98) 1. Joe Zhou: Surrogator: A Simple Yet Efficient Document Condensation System. 2. Haodong Wu: A Computational Method for Resolving Ambiguities in Coordinate Structures. 3. Simin Li & Y. Itoh: On Removing Ambiguity in Text Understanding. 4. June-Jei Kuo: An Automatic Chinese Document Revision System Using the Bit and Character Mask Approach. 5. Yasuo Koyama: Japanese Kana-to-Kanji Conversion Using Large Scale Collocation Data. 6. Hanmin Jung et al: Syntactic Verifier as a Filter to Compound Unit Recognizer From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Workshop on Analogy Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:40:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 956 (956) [deleted quotation] Workshop Advances in Analogy Research: Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Computational, and Neural Sciences Sofia, July 17-20, 1998 Aims: This workshop is intended to stimulate the researchers in the field of analogy to cooperate more intensively and to integrate various approaches and data in their study. Its aim is to advance our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms of analogy-making, i.e. how people notice/perceive analogies, how they retrieve analogs from memory or how they construct them, how they map and transfer knowledge from one domain to another, how they combine knowledge from multiple analogs or how they combine analogy with rule-based reasoning, how they generalize and learn from the analogies made, how they use analogies for problem solving, explanation, argumentation, creation. What is the place of analogy among the various cognitive processes, such as perception, thinking, memory, learning, etc. What is the role of analogy in human development? Which are the brain structures involved in analogy-making processes? What kind of deficits do brain-damaged patients exhibit? This workshop will be highly interdisciplinary and will make a serious attempt to integrate the knowledge researchers have accumulated on analogy-making in various domains: Artificial Intelligence/Computational Modeling, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Neuropsychology, Philosophy, Cognitive Linguistics, as well as various applications in Education, Legal and Political Reasoning, etc. A serious attempt will be made to integrate all the positive results obtained so far in theories of analogy-making, computational modeling, and experimental work. The workshop participants will participate in numerous formal and informal discussions which we hope will lead to systematization of the knowledge in the field, formulating established facts, open issues, and ideas for new approaches. Format of the workshop The workshop will consist of key talks (45 min) (see the list of key talks), short papers (20 min), poster presentations, round table thematic discussions, working group sessions, informal discussions, concluding discussions on ideas for future work and cooperative projects. Pre-Proceedings of the workshop (containing all the accepted papers) will be published in advance and distributed to the participants, so that we can focus on discussions and joint work at the workshop. Submission instructions Paper and poster submissions should be made both electronically (in RTF format) and in hard copy (A4 or US letter (11" x 8.5") paper format) following these instructions. Papers should be no more than 8 pages long, poster abstracts - one page. The text should be formatted in two columns with an overall width of 14 cm and length of 20 cm, with 0.7 cm between the columns. Use 10 point Times Roman with 11 point vertical spacing, unless otherwise specified. The title should be 14 point, bold, centered, 0.5 cm below the top margin. Authors' names should be in 11 point, bold, and centered; authors' affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address should be in ordinary 10 point, centered. First-level headings should be 12 point, bold, initial caps, and centered. Second-level headings should be 11 point, initial caps, bold, and flush left. Third-level headings should be 10 point, bold, initial caps, and flush left. Use standard APA citation format, e.g. (McClelland & Rumelhart, 1981). Send your submissions electronically to analogy@cogs.nbu.acad.bg and my regular mail to: Boicho Kokinov - Analogy'98 Cognitive Science Department New Bulgarian University 21, Montevideo Str. Sofia 1635, Bulgaria Timetable Deadline for workshop registration - March 1st, 1998 Deadline for submission of papers - March 1st, 1998 Deadline for poster abstracts - March 20th, 1998 Notification of Acceptance - April 15th, 1998 Invited participants' deadline for papers - June 1st, 1998 Publication of the Workshop Proceedings - June 30th, 1998 Workshop - July 17-20, 1998, (arrival 16th, departure 21st) Participants and Funding Participation in the workshop is mainly by invitation to ensure high quality and balance of representatives of various schools of thought, of various disciplines, of various countries and continents. The organizers hope that all these schools and geographic regions will be represented. The following list of invitees is provisional and open for additions. The workshop is, however, open to other participants as well, up to the upper limit of 50 participants. The organizers are looking for some funding which would allow us to support some of the participants for their participation in the workshop. However, as this is still uncertain, we would like to kindly ask the potential participants to look for their own funding sources and to try to ensure their participation in advance. Co-events The workshop will take place during the 5th International Summer School in Cognitive Science (July 13-25, 1998) which will offer an opportunity to have external critics and advisors from well known researchers working in other areas of cognitive science. Location Sofia is an old city first established by the Thracians about 4000BC. There are still some ruins from the old Roman time city. The National History Museum holds some fascinating gold treasures from Thracian times. There is a small church with frescos from the 12th century painted in a realistic Renaissance style a long time before the Renaissance in Europe started. Not very far from Sofia is the beautiful Rila monastery as well as some old towns like Plovdiv (with an old town part and a Roman amphitheater) and Koprivstitza. You may also want to combine your trip with a holyday at the Black Sea side. Organizing Committee: Dedre Gentner (Northwestern Univ., USA) gentner@nwu.edu - Co-Director Keith Holyoak (Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA) holyoak@lifesci.ucla.edu edu - Co-Director Boicho Kokinov (New Bunlgarian Univ., Bulgaria) kokinov@cogs.nbu.acad.bg edu - Co-Director Robert French (Univ. of Liege, Belgium) rfrench@ulg.ac.be Erica Melis (Univ. of Saarland, Germany) melis@cs.uni-sb.de List of key talks Umberto Eco - (not confirmed yet) Douglas Hofstadter - Analogy as the Core of Cognition Keith Holyoak - The Place of Analogy in a Physical Symbol System Dedre Gentner - Comparison and Cognition Gilles Fauconnier - Analogy and Conceptual Integration Jaime Carbonell - Analogy in Problem Solving, from the Routine to the Creative Boicho Kokinov - Analogy is like Cognition: Complex, Emergent, Context-Sensitive Mark Keane - Why Conceptual Combination is Seldom Analogy David Premack - Analogies in Chimpanzees Andy Meltzoff - The Origins and Early Development of Analogy in the Preverbal Period Usha Goswami - Analogical Reasoning in Children Graeme Halford - The Problem of Structural Complexity in Cognitive Processes: A Metric Based on Representational Rank Ken Forbus - Qualitative Mental Models: Simulations or Memories? Paul Thagard - Emotional Analogies James Hampton - Analogy is like categorization: thoughts on the role of conceptual structure in analogical reasoning Adam Biela - Analogical Resoning as a Base for Structuring Cognitive Schemata in New Situations: A Case of Economic Transformation in Post-Communist Countries List of invited participants Ron Ferguson (Northwestern University, USA) ferguson@ils.nwu.edu Ken Kurtz (Northwestern University, USA) kjk@nwu.edu Arthur Markman (Columbia University, USA) markman@paradox.psych.columbia.edu John Hummel (UCLA, USA) jhummel@lifesci.ucla.edu Richard Catrambone (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) rc7@prism.gatech.edu Charles Wharton (National Institutes of Health, USA) wharton@codon.nih.gov Barbara Spellman (U. of Virginia, USA) spellman@psyvax.psy.utexas.edu Laura Novick (Vanderbilt University, USA) novicklr@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Mary Jo Rattermann (Hampshire, USA) mratter1@swarthmore.edu Judy DeLoache (U. of Illinois, USA) jdeloach@[s.psych.]uiuc.edu Manuela Veloso(CMU, USA) mmv@cs.cmu.edu David Leake (Indiana University, USA) leake@cs.indiana.edu Robert Goldstone (Indiana University, USA) rgoldsto@ucs.indiana.edu Jim Marshall (Indiana University, USA) marshall@cogsci.indiana.edu Brian Bowdle (Indiana University, USA) bbowdle@indiana.edu Melanie Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute, USA) mm@santafe.edu Miriam Bassok (U. of Washington, USA) mbassok@u.washington.edu Roger Thompson (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA) r_thompson@acad.fandm.edu Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Tech, USA) nancyn@cc.gatech.edu John Clement (University of Massachusets, MA, USA) jclement@educ.umass.edu Eve Sweetser (UC Berkeley, USA) sweetser@cogsci.berkeley.edu Adele Goldberg (UCSD, USA) aegoldberg@ucsd.edu Lokendra Shastri (UC Berkeley, USA) schastri@icsi.berkeley.edu Thomas Ward (Texas A&M University, USA) tbw@psyc.tamu.edu Ronald Finke (Texas A&M University, USA) raf@psyc.tamu.edu Jim Herriot (Sun, USA) Jim.Herriot@Eng.Sun.COM Cameron Shelley (U. of Waterloo, Canada) cpshelle@watarts.uwaterloo.ca Bipin Indurkhya (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan) bipin@cc.tuat.ac.jp Hiroaki Suzuki (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) susan@ri.aoyama.ac.jp Tony Plate (Victoria U of Wellington, New Zealand) Tony.Plate@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ Pentti Kanerva (SICS, Sweden) kanerva@sics.se Robert French (University of Liege, Belgium) rfrench@ulg.ac.be John A Barnden (University of Birmingham, UK) <J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk> Michael Ramscar (University of Edinburgh, UK) Michael@aisb.ed.ac.uk Bruce Burns (U. of Potsdam, Germany) burns@persius.rz.uni-potsdam.de Friedrich Wilkening ( U. of Tuebingen, Germany) wilk@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de friedrich.wilkening@uni-tuebingen.de Michael Waldmann (Max-Planck Institute of Psychological Research in Munich, Germany) waldmann@mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de Meredith Gattis (Max-Planck Institute of Psychological Research in Munich, Germany) gattis@mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de Erica Melis (Univ. of Saarland, Germany) melis@cs.uni-sb.de Cristina Cacciari (University of Bologna, Italy) cacciari@psibo.unibo.it Stella Vosniadou (University of Athens, Greece) svosniad@atlas.uoa.ariadne-t.gr Merry Bullock (University of Vilnus, Estonia) mxb.apa@email.apa.org, merry@vm.ee Maciej Haman (University of Warsaw, Poland) MEH@sci.psych.uw.edu.pl Dan Simon (Haifa University, Israel) dsimon@research.haifa.ac.il From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: THE EVALUATION OF PARSING SYSTEMS - Workshop final CFP Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:40:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 957 (957) [deleted quotation] THE EVALUATION OF PARSING SYSTEMS a workshop jointly organised by the CEC Language Engineering 1 projects SPARKLE and ECRAN to be held at the FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 26 MAY 1998 This workshop will provide a forum for researchers interested in the development and evaluation of natural language grammars and parsing systems, and in the creation of syntactically annotated reference corpora. Organisers: John Carroll, Roberto Basili, Nicoletta Calzolari, Robert Gaizauskas, Gregory Grefenstette WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIMS The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of evaluation methods for parsing systems, and proposals for the development of syntactically annotated language resources. With increased attention to evaluation of component technology in language engineering, evaluation of parsing systems is rapidly becoming a key issue. Numerous methods have been proposed and while one, the Parseval/Penn Treebank scheme, has gained wide usage, this has to some extent been due to the absence of workable alternatives rather than to whole-hearted support. Parseval/PTB evaluation has several limitations and drawbacks, including a commitment to a particular style of grammatical analysis, and oversensitivity to certain innocuous types of misanalysis while failing to penalise other common types of more serious mistake. Also, the original published description of the scheme -- and the evaluation software widely distributed as a follow-up to it -- is specific to the English language. It may be that there are currently no alternative more workable schemes or proposals, but this needs to be more fully discussed: this workshop will provide an opportunity for such a debate. This workshop is particularly timely given the large number of CEC Language Engineering projects that involve parsing in one form or another and which need to evaluate and share the results of their efforts. Parsing is an essential part of many larger applications, such as Information Extraction, which have gained in importance over the last few years. Often in such systems, the strength of the parser and grammar has a direct effect on the desired results, and thus achieving good results rests on being able to determine and improve weaknesses in the parser/grammar. Without a reliable parser evaluation method this cannot be done effectively. A parsing evaluation workshop is also appropriate at this time given the imminent creation of large-scale syntactically annotated resources for European languages. Contributions from those involved in such activities are welcomed, so as to improve communication between the resource construction and the resource utilisation communities. This should ensure that the resources constructed are maximally useful to the general language engineering community. The organisation of this workshop brings together two European language engineering projects which are closely related and whose partners share similar research interests: SPARKLE and ECRAN. The organisers solicit contributions from the general community on the following topics: -- descriptions of generic syntactic annotation schemes -- methodologies and metrics for parsing system evaluation -- reports and analyses of the results of utilising particular parser evaluation schemes -- description/analysis/experience of language-dependent (especially for languages other than English) and task-dependent syntactic annotation schemes PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Roberto Basili Gregory Grefenstette Ted Briscoe Mark Hepple Nicoletta Calzolari Tony McEnery John Carroll Maria Teresa Pazienza Roberta Catizone Paola Velardi Robert Gaizauskas Yorick Wilks PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should not exceed 4000 words or 10 pages. Submission may be in either hard copy or electronic form. The submission deadline is February 15th, 1998. Hard Copy Submission: Three copies of the paper should be sent to: Dr John Carroll Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH UK Electronic Submission: Electronic submission may be in either self-contained Latex, Postscript, or RTF formats, to john.carroll@cogs.susx.ac.uk. For each submission -- whether hard copy or electronic -- a separate plain ascii text email message should be sent to John Carroll, containing the following information: # NAME : Name of first author # TITLE: Title of the paper # PAGES: Number of pages # NOTE : Any relevant instructions # KEYS : Keywords # EMAIL: Email of the first author # ABSTR: Abstract of the paper . . . . . . IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline (hard copy/electronic) February 15th Notification of acceptance March 10th Camera-ready papers due April 10th Workshop May 26th CONFERENCE INFORMATION General information about the conference is at: <<a href="http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/conflre.html">http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/conflre.html</a>> See <<a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html</a>> for information on local arrangements Specific queries about the conference should be directed to: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traduccion e Interpretacion Dpto. de Traduccion e Interpretacion C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 Granada, SPAIN Tel: +34 58 24 41 00 - Fax: +34 58 24 41 04 reli98@goliat.ugr.es ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Museums and the Web 98: Best of the Web Contest Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:46:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 958 (958) From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com> Once again, the 1998 Best of the Web Contest will be held in conjunction with Museums and the Web, the only international conference devoted to museums' use of the World Wide Web. [The full program for MW98 is available at the conference web site: <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/</a>] Awards will be made by an international panel of judges, representing the spectrum of those involved in web site development in museums including previous winners, students, artists and initiators of innovative projects. The criteria used for evaluation of the best museum Web sites will be based on the draft Criteria for Evaluating Museum Multimedia (see <a href="http://www.arch.imuse.com/cidoc/cidoc.mmwg.eval.crit.html">http://www.arch.imuse.com/cidoc/cidoc.mmwg.eval.crit.html</a>) put together by the ICOM/CIDOC Multimedia Working Group in Nuremburg in Sept. 1997. Return the on-line nomination form (<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_best">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_best</a> html) to nominate your favourite site for consideration. The winners will be announced at the opening ceremony in Toronto. Prizes include free registration at Museums and the Web 99 for the institution judged Best Over all. Rewarding innovative projects, whose conception illustrates the possibilities for future designs on the Web is a the concern for all involved in museum web projects. Please join me in ensuring that the Best of the Web is a great venue for this. If you have any queries do not hesitiate to contact the Contest Coordinator, Sarah Kenderdine <sibk@xtra.co.nz> or the Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman <dbear@archimuse.com> and Jennifer Trant <jtrant@archimuse.com> of Archives & Museum Informatics (<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/">http://www.archimuse.com/</a>). Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you. Sarah Kenderdine Coordinator, Best of the Web Museums and the Web 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Chuck Bush <Chuck_Bush@byu.edu> Subject: Origins of "Lorem ipsum" Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 13:39:29 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 959 (959) Can anyone tell me the origins of the "Lorem ipsum" text that is often used as content-less filler in word processor tutorials, demos, manuals, etc.? What is it about the "work" that everyone seems to use it? It sounds Latin-y, but seems to be complete nonsense--at least to someone as weak in Latin as I am. Is there more to it than just the two or three lines you usually see? Just curious. Chuck Bush BYU Humanities Research Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: TIME & BITS UPDATE Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:50:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 960 (960) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 5, 1998 TIME & BITS: Managing Digital Continuity Discussion Opened and Extended <<a href="http://www.gii.getty.edu/timeandbits/discussion.html">http://www.gii.getty.edu/timeandbits/discussion.html</a>> Background Papers by Carlston, Besser/Lyman, and Lesk also available <<a href="http://www.gii.getty.edu/timeandbits/comm.html">http://www.gii.getty.edu/timeandbits/comm.html</a>> Responding to broad interest from the community, the organizers of the "Time & Bits" conversation on the future of our digital resources have opened the on-line conversation to any who are interested in contributing. If you have expertise in this area, you can request participation in the discussion by completing a form at <<a href="http://www.gii.getty.edu/timeandbits/discussion.html">http://www.gii.getty.edu/timeandbits/discussion.html</a>>. Please also note the very informative background papers to be found at <<a href="http://www.gii.getty.edu/timeandbits/comm.html">http://www.gii.getty.edu/timeandbits/comm.html</a>>: 1.Storing Knowledge, by Doug Carlston 2.Time & Bits Conference Background Paper, by Peter Lyman & Howard Besser 3.How Much Information Is There In the World? by Michael Lesk --with a response from physicist Philip Morrison. David Green =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ============================================================== From: Gregory Crane <gcrane@medusa.perseus.tufts.edu> Subject: New Site for Julius Caesar Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 15:37:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 961 (961) PLEASE POST We are pleased to announce a working version of a site on Julius Caesar. The current emphasis is on Shakespeare's play, but the site will evolve to include many Roman materials as well. The major components of the site now available are: 1) The Furness Variorum edition of Julius Caesar (text, full commentary and most of the appendices). 2) The Kittredge modernized text and commentary. 3) The Skeat Edition of North's Plutarch 4) Student Projects from a course taught at Tufts this past fall. The URL is: <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/JC/">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/JC/</a>. Gregory Crane Associate Professor of Classics Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Project Eaton 124 Tufts University Medford MA 02155 <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/About/grc.html">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/About/grc.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Digital Policy: DC Event & Book Publication Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:47:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 962 (962) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 5, 1998 Below is an announcement from the Cato Institute of a "book forum" this Friday, Feb 6, celebrating and examining the co-publication by the Cato institute and the Brookings Institution of a new book on policy considerations. David Green =========== GOING DIGITAL!: A GUIDE TO POLICY IN THE DIGITAL AGE BOOK FORUM National Press Club Conference Room, 529 14th Street, N.W. <<a href="http://www.cato.org/events/calendar.html">http://www.cato.org/events/calendar.html</a>> February 6, Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.: "Going Digital!: A Guide to Policy in the Digital Age," featuring the authors Robert E. Litan, Director, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution and William A. Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute. Comments by Ira Magaziner, Senior Advisor, Policy Development, The White House. New technologies have brought us to the dawn of a virtual revolution. A new book published jointly by the Cato Institute and the Brookings Institution--a first time collaboration between these two institutions--brings to the attention of a wide audience some of the major public policy issues presented by the current "digital revolution." "Going Digital!: A Guide to Policy in the Digital Age," outlines in brief, simple, and clear prose for non-technical audiences such issues as the implications of the digital age for the workplace, privacy, taxation, protection of intellectual property, and data security and encryption. It also examines the new responsibilities that government must shoulder in coping with these technologies, such as the adoption of a legal institutional infrastructure appropriate to the digital age. Perhaps most importantly, the book explores the ways in which government must shrink its regulatory domain and eliminate barriers to electronic trade and commerce. --Cato Institute ================================================================================ CATO INSTITUTE Founded in 1977, the Cato Institute is a nonpartisan public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C. 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In its research, The Brookings Institution functions as an independent analyst and critic, committed to publishing its findings for the information of the public. In its conferences and activities, it serves as a bridge between scholarship and public policy, bringing new knowledge to the attention of decisionmakers and affording scholars a better insight into public policy issues. The Institution traces its beginnings to 1916 with the founding of the Institute for Government Research, the first private organization devoted to public policy issues at the national level. In 1922 and 1924, the Institute was joined by two supporting sister organizations, the Institute of Economics and the Robert Brookings Graduate School. In 1927, these three groups were consolidated into one institution, named in honor of Robert Somers Brookings (1850-1932), a St. Louis businessman whose leadership shaped the earlier organizations. Brookings is financed largely by endowment and by the support of philanthropic foundations, corporations, and private individuals. Its funds are devoted to carrying out its own research and educational activities. It also undertakes some unclassified government contract studies, reserving the right to publish its findings. From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Town Meeting on Copyright & Fair Use Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:39:27 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 963 (963) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 6, 1998 LAST IN CURRENT SERIES OF TOWN MEETINGS ON COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE CAA Conference, Toronto, Feb 26, 1998 <<a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm">http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm</a>> Below is a notice on the last in the current series of "Copyright & Fair Use" town meetings organized by the College Art Association, the American Council of Learned Societies and NINCH, with funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. A future series of copyright education town meetings will be announced in the next few months. David Green [deleted quotation]TOWN MEETING on COPYRIGHT and FAIR USE NOTICE: The College Art Association, in association with the American Council on Learned Societies and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, with funding provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, will present its final "Town Meeting" on the Fair Use of Digital Images on Thursday, February 26, 1998, during its 86th annual conference, at the Royal York Hotel, 100 Front Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The program will include the following speakers: David Green (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage) Gary Schwartz (Curators of Dutch Art) Peter Walsh (Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College) Maxwell Anderson (Art Museum Image Consortium and American Association of Museum Directors) Howard Besser (University of California, Berkeley) The program is being coordinated by Robert Baron and Leila Kinney along with the College Art Association. For detailed information, including a list of topics and statements by the speakers, refer to <<a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm">http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm</a>> ===== The second half of this two-part meeting will be devoted to a debate between Max Anderson and Howard Besser on intellectual property issues pertaining to AMICO and similar licensing schemes which promise to make museum images available to academia. Readers of this notice (whether they plan to attend or not) are urged to submit questions for this session in advance of the meeting. Please send your questions to Robert Baron. Kindly identify your questions by placing "TTM:" at the start of the subject line: <robert.baron@pipeline.com> ===== For more information about the 1998 Conference, consult the CAA conference website: <<a href="http://www.collegeart.org/caa/conference/1998/index.html">http://www.collegeart.org/caa/conference/1998/index.html</a>> or contact Mary-Beth Shine: (212) 691-1051, <mbshine@collegeart.org>. Registration information can be found at the CAA conference site: <<a href="http://www.collegeart.org/caa/conference/1998/registration.html">http://www.collegeart.org/caa/conference/1998/registration.html</a>> ================================= Robert A. Baron mailto:rabaron@pipeline.com <a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/">http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/</a> =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to <listproc@cni.org>. ============================================================== From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: EXTRA! The Latest News from the ACLS Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 20:35:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 964 (964) [deleted quotation] From: A J M Colson <ajmcolson@lusias.org> Subject: Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 09:24:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 965 (965) Dear Willard McCarty, I am writing as the administrator of the Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies. You might be interested in the courses offered by this Graduate Summer Institute. Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies <a href="http://www.lusias.org">http://www.lusias.org</a> The Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies offers graduate courses in the use of computing technologies for research in the humanities and social sciences. This Graduate Summer Institute aims to promote and create a research environment where students can work with professional staff and researchers from leading institutions across the world. Students first learn about Hypermedia technologies, and then have the option to apply them to their own research materials. There are two sessions to choose from and all courses are taught at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. The MacKenzie Ward Trust is collaborating with Lakehead University in organizing this innovative Graduate Summer School in 1998. The courses offered at LUSIAS aim to bridge the gap between technologies and the social sciences. The explosion of digital information has not yet been accompanied by a similar growth in software tools to manage and organize digital data. Hypermedia technologies offer the potential to resolve these information management problems. They will enable students to investigate issues from new angles and invite new ways of molding and presenting their research materials. The completion of courses allows students to gain graduate level credits or they can be used to further professional training. There are two sessions in 1998: Session I: May 11th to 30, 1998 Session II: July 6th to 25th, 1998 If you have any questions please contact: Alicia Colson LUSIAS Administrator ajmcolson@lusias.org <a href="http://www.lusias.org">http://www.lusias.org</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "[ISO-8859-1] Mats Dahlström" <MAD@adm.hb.se> Subject: Diskette incunabula? Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:13:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 966 (966) Dear HUMANIST:s, Some ten days ago or so, one of Sweden's major antiquarian booksellers, "Thulin & Ohlsons Antikvariat" published their new catalogue (no 301), mainly dealing with "books on books" and bibliographies: <a href="http://www.connoisseur.se/thu_kat_301.htm">http://www.connoisseur.se/thu_kat_301.htm</a> If one scrolls down to the end of the cataloguefile, one discovers an interesting item: "[Lot no.] 5.877 Tallmo, K-E: Iakttagarens förmåga att ingripa. 3 disketter i fodral. Diskettinkunabel. Detta är den första romanen direkt skriven för datamedia. Utkom 1992. Endast för Macintosh. 5,5 Mb. SEK 500" Or in English: "Tallmo, K-E: The Watchers Ability to Interfere. 3 diskettes. Diskette Incunabulum. This is the first [Swedish] novel written specifically for computer media. Published 1992. Only Macintosh." "Digital books" seem to be entering the market of used / rare books... Is this a phenomenon well established elsewhere (this is the first incidence I've seen in Swedish catalogues)? (By the way - 500 Swedish crowns is quite expensive - the novel is still available from the author himself, at a cost of 190 crowns...) Besides - what is Your reaction regarding the term "Diskette Incunabulum"? "Appropriate"? Clever? Innovative? Silly? Yours sinc., Mats Dahlstrom Mats Dahlstroem / Lecturer University College of Boras, Sweden Dept of Library and Info. Science mats.dahlstrom@hb.se +46 (0)33 - 16 44 21 Fax: (0)33 - 16 40 05 URL: <a href="http://www2.hb.se/bhs/mad/www/">http://www2.hb.se/bhs/mad/www/</a> Co-director of ITH: Information Technology Studies as a Human Science <a href="http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/ith.htm">http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/ith.htm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Norm Holland <NNH@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu> Subject: "The Explosive Trade Deal You've Never Heard Of" Date: Mon, 09 Feb 98 09:01:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 967 (967) While the U.S. and world media have been gorging on the Lewinsky affair, 29 of the world's most developed nations have been drafting something called the Multilateral Agreement on Investment. The treaty would bar Congress, state legislatures, and local governments from using trade sanctions to push labor, environmental, or human rights standards. It would end "enterprise zones" or "Buy American" efforts to improve the lot of American workers. Multinational corporations, predictably, are in favor of the treaty. Opponents include small business, AFL-CIO and other labor unions, state governments, environmentalists, and consumer groups. Opponents call it "NAFTA on steroids." Multinationals see it as a way to keep all governments, from Federal on down, from interfering with profits by means of boycotts or regulations, for example, that would provide labor laws, human rights, or environmental standards. The treaty is scheduled to be signed into final form in April and then to come before the U.S. Senate for ratification as a treaty (meaning it overrules all domestic laws in the U.S.). I have seen virtually no press coverage of this Trojan horse except for an article in the current (February 9) _Business Week_. The text of the treaty has been posted, however, by Public Citizen Global Trade Watch at <a href="http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/tradehome.html">http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/tradehome.html</a> . The site also tells you how to contact the State Department's negotiators. I encourage you to take a look and write them and your senator accordingly. I am posting this, because I believe MIA poses a devastating threat to any kind of progress in saving the environment, human rights, or simply human welfare from the insatiable we-want-it- all greed of the multinationals. I yrge you to take a look and write your legislator about your views. Yours, 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) 378-9318 or (352) 392-0860 | | (352) 392-7332 email: nholland@ufl.edu | | World Wide Web: <a href="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/nnh">http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/nnh</a> | From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: ELRA/ELDA new address Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:43:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 968 (968) From: info-elra@calva.net (Valerie Mapelli) The European Language Resources Association and its Distribution Agency have moved! We are expanding our activities,and our offices are moving to new premises. As of the 1st of February 1998, we have the following address: ----------------------------- 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin 75013 Paris France Tel. +33 - (0)1 - 43 13 33 33=20 Fax. +33 - (0)1 - 43 13 33 30 ----------------------------- The ELRA Web site and the e-mail addresses are=20 not changing, you may still reach us on: <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</a> Khalid CHOUKRI, CEO: elra@calva.net R=E9becca JAFFRAIN, Assistant manager: info-elra@calva.net Val=E9rie MAPELLI, Technical assistant: info-elra@calva.net Malin NILSSON, Marketing assistant: elra-elda@calva.net=20 Valerie Mapelli Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33 ELRA/ELDA Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30 55-57 rue Brillat Savarin E-mail: info-elra@calva.net 75013 PARIS <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA</a> First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998): <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/conflre.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/conflre.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: DRH98: Call for Papers Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:55:41 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 969 (969) <Please post if considered appropriate> DRH98 - Digital Resources for the Humanities 1998 University of Glasgow Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute 9 September 1998 to 12 September 1998 Information: <a href="http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DRH98/">http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DRH98/</a> Email enquiries: enquiries@drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk Important dates Submission deadline: March 15th, 1998 Notice of acceptance: April 15th, 1998 Preliminary Information The third international Digital Resources for the Humanities conference (DRH) brings together the creators, users, distributors, and curators of Digital Resources in the Humanities. Following two successful years in Oxford the 1998 Digital Resources for the Humanities conference will be held in Glasgow. About DRH The DRH conference is the internationally recognised forum for all those involved in and benefiting from the digitisation 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 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 characterises contemporary culture and scholarship. --- This notice posted on behalf of the DRH Programme Committee by Dr Michael Fraser Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk Manager, CTI Textual Studies Fax: +44 1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS Tel: +44 1865 283 282 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/</a> Oxford OX2 6NN From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Re: DRH98- Deadline for Proposals extended Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:12:53 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 970 (970) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 9, 1998 DEADLINE FOR DRH PROPOSALS EXTENDED March 15, 1998: new deadline for submissions DRH98 - Digital Resources for the Humanities 1998 GLASGOW, Scotland: Sept 9-12, 1998 <<a href="http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DRH98/">http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DRH98/</a>> The deadline for proposals for sessions at the important DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES conference has just been extended from February 15 to March 15, 1998. I would urge all readers of this list to consider proposals fpr DRH98, reporting on research or on the creation of resources for networking cultural heritage material. For last year's conference, DRH97, see <<a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/</a>> David Green =========== [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: lorem ipsum Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 16:08:28 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 971 (971) As I recall, lorem impsum showed up first for me with Pagemaker over a decade ago, and the explanation was that it was a printer's gabble, to fill a block of type, set by hand, as the linotype of yore used to seize up and print shrdlu, or something close to that. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: "[ISO-8859-1] Mats Dahlström" <MAD@adm.hb.se> Subject: Re: 11.0571 Lorem ipsum? Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:24:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 972 (972) In response to Chuck Bush, [deleted quotation] I quote below from: <a href="http://www.uni-mb.si/local/fontfaq/cf_36.htm">http://www.uni-mb.si/local/fontfaq/cf_36.htm</a> Rick Pali submits the following from Before and After Magazine, Volume 4 Number 2.: [quote] After telling everyone that Lorem ipsum, the nonsensical text that comes with PageMaker, only looks like Latin but actually says nothing, I heard from Richard McClintock, publication director at the Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, who had enlightening <a href="news:">news:</a> "Lorem ipsum is latin, slightly jumbled, the remnants of a passage from Cicero's _de Finibus_ 1.10.32, which begins 'Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...' [There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain.]. [de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, written in 45 BC, is a treatise on the theory of ethics very popular in the Renaisance.] "What I find remarkable is that this text has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since some printed in the 1500s took a galley of type and scambled it to make a type specemin book; it has survived not only four centuries of letter-by-letter resetting but even the leap into electronic typesetting, essentially unchanged except for an occational 'ing' or 'y' thrown in. It's ironic that when the then-understood Latin was scrambled, it became as incomprehensible as Greek; the phrase 'it's Greek to me' and 'greeking' have common semantic roots!" [end quote] Enlightening? Yours sincerely, Mats Dahlström Mats Dahlstroem / Lecturer University College of Boras, Sweden Dept of Library and Info. Science mats.dahlstrom@hb.se +46 (0)33 - 16 44 21 Fax: (0)33 - 16 40 05 URL: <a href="http://www2.hb.se/bhs/mad/www/">http://www2.hb.se/bhs/mad/www/</a> Co-director of ITH: Information Technology Studies as a Human Science <a href="http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/ith.htm">http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/ith.htm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Reason (about technology) online Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 13:17:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 973 (973) Humanists may be interested to note the online magazine, Reason, "a monthly magazine of 'free minds and free markets,' [which] examines politics, culture, and ideas from a dynamic libertarian perspective", at <<a href="http://www.reasonmag.com/">http://www.reasonmag.com/</a>>, and in particular the 1996 issue in which various writers and scholars were asked "to recommend three books--preferably including a work of fiction--that provide a more positive, or at least more complex, view of the relationship between human beings and the made world" than usually results from critical views of technology. See <<a href="http://www.reasonmag.com/bookissue96.html">http://www.reasonmag.com/bookissue96.html</a>>. I quote from the views of Penn Jillette, "Technology is all that matters. Technology is all that makes us human. You want books on technology? Every goddamned book is about technology. Every conversation is technology. Technology is all we got. If you don't like technology, you don't like humans. If you want the above premise written by authors who aren't smartasses, try Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology (1993), by Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas Toth. They're a nutty couple that went out, lived in the bush, made stone-aged tools, and used them for wacky stuff like butchering an elephant. Is that science or performance art? It's the best of both. Read it." Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Calling all historians of Humanities... Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 16:50:23 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 974 (974) Here, colleagues, is an interesting example of the way progress may be exemplified by a helical upwards coil. Take the Medieval, pre-Gutenerg situation, and add the new computer powers, and what does one find? a new venture, a flyer about which I received in the mail, and which I followed up and had a new long letter from the President, John Feldcamp in Princeton. Rather than tell you what it is all about, I offer here the address, though I myself have been reading his letters to me, and not looked at the website yet. www.Xlibris.com I think I am ready to have a go at this thing myself, of course at my own expense, but I am not vain about my outofprint books, not in the vanity vain sense, but concerned to make them available to those who wish, and of course to be able to renew my copyrights too. I think the prospect, if it pans out, may be a real shot in the arm for independent thinkers and scholars, though not for the committees, who judge books and tenure and promotions, by the presses that choose to publish work. While I am about it, I will say that for example a rather prominent and excellent historian left UCLA in the 60s in high dudgeon, because the tenure committee thought he didnt merit tenure, since Harvard UP had published his first work. I can recall some colleagues (over lunch, at least) raging, that our committee in his case was letting the Presses decide who was meritorious, and not reading for themselves, or daring to trust their own judgment, and of course the presses had anonymous readers, and still do. So tangled a web we weave, and mostly to deceive...to allude to an old saw. Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Current Cites January 1998 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:15:25 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 975 (975) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 9, 1998 JANUARY ISSUE OF "CURRENT CITES" <<a href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1998/cc98.9.1.html">http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1998/cc98.9.1.html</a>> Among the many articles cited in the January issue of "Current Cites" from the Library of the University of California, Berkeley, are the following: * "The Perseus Project and Beyond: How Building a Digital Library Challenges the Humanities and Technology" * "Locating Public Domain Images" * "Digital Libraries: A Selected Resource Guide" * "Advancing the Digital Map Library" * "Solving the Dilemma of Copyright Protection Online: The Digital Object Identifier" * "Conceptual Models for Network Literacy" * "The Best Library-Related Web Sites" David Green ============ [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: WORKSHOPS Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:22:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 976 (976) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 9, 1998 WORKSHOPS 1. METADATA INSTITUTE "MANAGING METADATA FOR THE DIGITAL LIBRARY: CROSSWALKS OR CHAOS" Washington DC: May 4-5, 1998 <<a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/institutes/metadata.html">http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/institutes/metadata.html</a>> 2. Society of American Archivists: Workshops Spring/Summer 1998 ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION DIGITAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY DESCRIPTIVE STANDARDS INSTITUTE COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE FOR ARCHIVISTS ARCHIVES IN CYBERSPACE ==== 1. METADATA INSTITUTE "MANAGING METADATA FOR THE DIGITAL LIBRARY: CROSSWALKS OR CHAOS" Washington DC: May 4-5, 1998 <<a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/institutes/metadata.html">http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/institutes/metadata.html</a>> "Managing Metadata for The Digital Library: Crosswalks or Chaos," an institute cosponsored by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), will be held on May 4-5, 1998, in Washington, D.C., at the Georgetown University Conference Center. The registration deadline is April 17, 1998. ALCTS and LITA are divisions of the American Library Association. Part of the challenge of building digital libraries is developing the metadata infrastructure needed to manage, maintain, and deliver digital materials. Metadata for the digital library encompasses not only traditional cataloging information, but also all of the information necessary to construct, preserve, and control the access to and presentation of digital content. This institute brings together experts in the metadata and digital library fields to present the latest developments, standards, and tools, and to explore the impact of digital library development on our existing catalogs and processes. For additional information or to register, visit <a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/institutes/metadata.html">http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/institutes/metadata.html</a> or contact Valerie Edmonds at vedmonds@ala.org or call 312 280-4269. ==================== 2. Society of American Archivists: Workshops Spring/Summer 1998 ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION DIGITAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY DESCRIPTIVE STANDARDS INSTITUTE COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE FOR ARCHIVISTS ARCHIVES IN CYBERSPACE [deleted quotation]The following is a complete listing of SAA courses scheduled for Spring/Summer 1998. Registration materials are in the mail to members of SAA. We hope that you will be able to join us for one of these exciting educational opportunities! ************************************************************************ ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION ($342; SAA Members: $269) 1. Workshop #9801; University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee March 12-13, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: Feb. 13) 2. Workshop #9810: New York University May 21-22, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: April 22) Instructors: Kris Kiesling and Michael J. Fox ************************************************************************ DIGITAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY ($235; SAA Members: $189) 1. Workshop #9802; Smithsonian Institution, DC March 26, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: Feb. 26) 2. Workshop #9808; Yale University, New Haven, CT May 15, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: April 15) ************************************************************************ DESCRIPTIVE STANDARDS INSTITUTE Lowell, Massachusetts Co-sponsor: New England Archivists April 20-24, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: March 20). 1. Archival Cataloging as a Component of Description ($342; SAA Members: $269) Workshop #9803 April 20-21, 1998 Instructors: Kris Kiesling and Steven Hensen 2. Application of the USMARC Format ($215; SAA Members: $169) Workshop #9804 April 22, 1998 Instructor: David Carmicheal 3. Access Points ($342; SAA Members: $269) Workshop #9805 April 23-24, 1998 Instructors: Susanne Warren and Peter Wilkerson ************************************************************************ COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE FOR ARCHIVISTS ($215; SAA Members: $169) Workshop #9806: Chicago, Illinois April 29, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: March 30) Instructor: Peter Jaszi ************************************************************************ ARCHIVES IN CYBERSPACE: Applying Techniques to Improve the Business of Archives Workshop #9809: Pocatello, Idaho May 20, 1998 (Deadline: April 20) ($215; SAA Members: $169) Instructor: Tom Ruller ************************************************************************ For further information, contact: Joan E. Sander <jsander@archivists.org> <www.archivists.org> From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu> Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS : ACL Workshop on Translingual Information Management Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 11:16:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 977 (977) ************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************ ACL/COLING-98 Workshop on TRANSLINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CURRENT LEVELS AND FUTURE ABILITIES August 16, 1998 (following ACL/COLING-98) University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada) CALL FOR PAPERS DESCRIPTION ----------- The development of natural language applications which handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information is the next major challenge facing the field of computational linguistics. Over the past 50 years, a variety of language-related capabilities has been developed in areas such as machine translation, information retrieval, and speech recognition, together with core capabilities such as information extraction, summarization, parsing, generation, multimedia planning and integration, statistics-based methods, ontologies, lexicon construction and lexical representations, and grammar. The next few years will require the extension of these technologies to encompass multi-lingual and multi-modal information. Extending current technologies will require integration of the various capabilities into multi-functional natural language systems. However, there is today no clear vision of how these technologies could or should be assembled into a coherent framework. What would be involved in connecting a speech recognition system to an information retrieval engine, and then using machine translation and summarization software to process the retrieved text? How can traditional parsing and generation be enhanced with statistical techniques? What would be the effect of carefully crafted lexicons on traditional information retrieval? This workshop is a follow-on to an NSF-sponsored workshop held in conjunction with the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in Granada, Spain (May 1998), at which an international panel of invited experts will consider these questions in an attempt to identify the most effective future directions of computational linguistics research--especially in the context of the need to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information. The follow-on ACL workshop is intended to open the discussion to the computational inguistics community as a whole. The workshop will include ample time for discussion. A report summarizing the discussions at Granada will be available before the ACL workshop. TOPICS ------ The workshop will focus on the following fundamental questions: 1. What is the current level of capability in each of the major areas of the field dealing with language and related media of human communication? 2. How can (some of) these functions be integrated in the near future, and what kind of systems will result? 3. What are the major considerations for extending these functions to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information, particularly in integrated systems of the type envisioned in (2)? In particular, we will consider these questions in relation to the following areas: o multi-lingual resources (lexicons, ontologies, corpora, etc.) o information retrieval, especially cross-lingual and cross-modal o machine translation o automated (cross-lingual) summarization and information extraction o multimedia communication, in conjunction with text o evaluation and assessment techniques for each of these areas o methods and techniques (both statistics-based and linguistics- based) of pre-parsing, parsing, generation, information acquisition, etc. We invite submissions which report on work in these areas. All papers should clearly identify how the work addresses the issues and questions outlined above. SUBMISSIONS ----------- Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six (6) copies of the full-length paper (3500-5000 words). Submissions should be sent to: Nancy Ide Department of Computer Science Vassar College 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA Style files and templates for preparing submissions can be found at <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html</a> The official language of the conference is English. IMPORTANT DEADLINES ------------------- Submission Deadline: March 23, 1998 Notification Date: May 15, 1998 Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE -------------------- Charles Fillmore University of California Berkeley, USA Robert Frederking Carnegie Mellon University, USA Ulrich Heid (tentative) University of Stuttgart, Germany Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute, USA Nancy Ide Vassar College, USA Lauri Karttunen (tentative) Rank Xerox Research, France Kimmo Koskenniemi (tentative) University of Helsinki, Finland Mun Kew Leong National University of Singapore Joseph Mariani LIMSI/CNRS, France Mark Maybury The Mitre Corporation, USA Sergei Nirenburg (tentative) New Mexico State University, USA Akitoshi Okumura (tentative) NEC, Japan Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, USA James Pustejovsky Brandeis University, USA Peter Schaueble ETH, Switzerland Oliviero Stock IRST, Italy Felisa Verdejo UNED, Spain Piek Vossen University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI, Germany ORGANIZERS ---------- Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA INFORMATION ----------- Information on the workshop can be found at <a href="http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/translingual.html">http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/translingual.html</a> Inquiries may be addressed to the organizers: Robert Frederking <ref@nl.cs.cmu.edu> Eduard Hovy <hovy@isi.edu> Nancy Ide <ide@cs.vassar.edu> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: ECAI-98 #6: CALL FOR YOUNG RESEARCHER PAPERS Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:43:56 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 978 (978) [deleted quotation] ______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' CALL FOR YOUNG RESEARCHER PAPERS <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/youngrescall.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/youngrescall.html</a> The ECAI-98 Programme Committee is pleased to announce a special programme of short papers for young researchers. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- 6 Mar 1998 Deadline for abstracts 11 Mar 1998 Deadline for papers 15 Apr 1998 Notification of acceptance 15 May 1998 Camera-ready copies of papers 26-28 Aug 1998 Student programme at ECAI-98 The aim is to encourage younger AI researchers to attend ECAI-98 and to present their on-going work, in the form of short (2 page) papers, which will appear in the conference proceedings. A short paper may either report on the innovative points of work in progress, or on a particular result of special interest. The call is open to researchers who satisfy at least one of the following criteria on 11 March 1998: - they are under 28 years old - they are currently studying for a PhD or other degree qualification in AI (or a related topic) - they received a PhD in AI (or a related topic) within the past two years. Submissions are invited on original and previously unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to: Abduction, Temporal, Causal Reasoning, and Diagnosis; Automated Reasoning; Application and Enabling Technologies; Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning; Case-Based Reasoning; Cognitive Modelling and Philosophical Foundations; Computational Linguistics; Constraint-Based Reasoning and Constraint Programming; Distributed AI and Multiagent Systems; Fuzzy Logic; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Representation; Logic Programming, and Theorem Proving; Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Natural Language and Intelligent User Interfaces; Neural Networks in AI; Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning about Actions; Probabilistic Networks; Qualitative Preferences and Decision in AI; Qualitative and Spatial Reasoning; Reasoning under Uncertainty; Robotics, Vision, and Signal Understanding; Search and Meta-Heuristics for AI; Verification, Validation and Testing of Knowledge-Based Systems. Submissions should be two pages long using the format described on the ECAI-98 Style Guide web page: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/style.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/style.html</a> A latex style file is available on the website (or on request. to ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk). Accepted papers will be required to conform more strictly to the publishers' formatting requirements, which will be broadly in line with the present formatting guidelines. Submission procedure Submission is a two stage process, similar to the process for long papers. An electronic abstract should be sent to ecai98@irit.fr by 6 March 1998. This summary should include the title, author, contact address and abstract for the paper, plus keywords drawn from the above list (plus other keywords if appropriate). A web-based summary submission form is available to make this easier. This summary information should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, electronic submissions will not be accepted. Four copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet), should be sent by post to the ECAI-98 Programme Chair, Henri Prade, at the address below. The title page should include a statement indicating which of the above eligibility criteria the author satisfies and that the paper has not been submitted elsewhere. The deadline for receipt of papers is 11 March 1998. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION ---------------------- Henri Prade, ECAI-98 Programme Chair IRIT Universite Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 4 France Email: Henri.Prade@irit.fr Tel: +33(0)561 55 65 79 Fax: +33(0)561 55 62 39 Multiple submissions policy ECAI-98 will not accept any paper which at the time of submission is under review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialised meetings with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement that the paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal. However, if a young researcher has already submitted a regular paper to ECAI-98, a new submission on the same topic in the form of a short paper is permitted provided that the author declares it on submission. If the regular paper is accepted, the short paper will be considered to have been withdrawn. However such a double submission is not encouraged. The review process The short papers will be reviewed under the control of the ECAI-98 Program Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI-98 Programme Chair. The ECAI-98 Programme Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Accepted papers will be allocated 15 minutes for oral presentation and 2 pages in the official ECAI-98 proceedings. Note: as is usual at ECAI conferences, students will be able to register for the conference at a significantly reduced and subsidised rate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448 Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320 University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98</a> ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex on behalf of AISB. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS / CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:50:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 979 (979) [deleted quotation] [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.] APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS / CALL FOR PAPERS Revue LANGUES / Journal LANGUES CALL FOR PAPERS We have the pleasure to announce the setting up of a new journal, LANGUES This publication, which will mainly publish papers in French and which is partly financed by AUPELF-UREF, aims to facilitate the dialogue between all the people who work on or with language, researchers, teachers of French, etc. It will thus publish papers on various subjects having to do with all the domains or disciplines related to language: linguistics (phonology, morphology, lexical semantics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics), sociolinguistics (social and cultural aspects of language and language use, linguistic variations, creole studies), applied linguistics (teaching French as a second language, learning to read), psycholinguistics, language engineering (automatic understanding, automatic translation, man-machine dialogue, production, speech analysis, information retrieval, corpus processing). This is not an exhaustive list. LANGUE will be accompanied by an online web server where one or more paper(s) per volume will be accessible, as well as some services, conference announcements, table of contents for other scientific journals, new publications, theses, etc. It will also be accompanied by an electronic mailing list, which will encourage discussions about papers published in the journal and will allow exchanges on other subjects as well. LANGUE will issue two volumes in 1998, one in September and one in December. You will find below two calls for papers for the first and second volumes. The journal will be published in French, but submitting papers in English is possible. Papers submitted in English and accepted will be translated in French. CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts of at most 2 pages long (3 000 characters) in the domains mentioned above or in related domains can be submitted before the 20th of February 1998. These abstracts can be either in French or in English. CALL FOR PAPERS N=B0 2 Papers of 20 pages (30 000 characters) at most in the domains mentioned above or in related domains can be submitted before the 20th of may 1998. Papers in French should respect the instructions to authors which are available on the web at <<a href="http://www.john-libey-eurotext.fr">http://www.john-libey-eurotext.fr</a>> or which can be obtained through Catherine Lavau ((33) 01 46 73 06 65, fax: (33) 01 47 46 81 06 or (33) 0140 84 09 99) after the 15th of february. Illustrations or schemas are welcome. MAIN INFORMATIONS Abstract size: 2 pages (3 000 characters) Electronic format: Word 6 or less, or ascii (for other formats, contact us) Deadline for the reception of abstracts: 20 february 1998 Notification of acceptance by: 20 march 1998 Final versions of complete papers due on: 30 june 1998 Email addresses: <Anne.Reboul@loria.fr> or <Laurent.Romary@loria.fr> Snail mail address: = LANGUES LORIA-CNRS BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy FRANCE Tel: (33) 03 83 59 20 37 Fax: (33) 03 83 41 30 79 N=B02 Papers size: 20 pages (30 000 characters) Electronic format: Word 6 or lower, or ascii (for other formats, please contact us) Deadline for paper reception: 20 may 1998 Notification of acceptance: 1 september 1998 Final version due on: 15 october 1998 Email addresses: <Anne.Reboul@loria.fr> or <Laurent.Romary@loria.fr> Snail mail address: = LANGUES LORIA-CNRS BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy FRANCE Tel: (33) 03 83 59 20 37 Fax: (33) 03 83 41 30 79 Submission of abstracts or papers by Email is possible at the adresses = indicated above. -- = bonhomme@loria.fr | Office : B.228 <a href="http://www.loria.fr/~bonhomme">http://www.loria.fr/~bonhomme</a> | Phone : 03 83 59 20 37 -------------------------------------------------------------- * Projet Aquarelle : <a href="http://aqua.inria.fr">http://aqua.inria.fr</a> * Serveur Silfide : <a href="http://www.loria.fr/Projet/Silfide">http://www.loria.fr/Projet/Silfide</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Extended Deadline! LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN CONTEXT: CORPUS, INFERENCE AND DISCOURSE Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:19:35 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 980 (980) [deleted quotation] ESSLLI-98 Workshop on LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN CONTEXT: CORPUS, INFERENCE AND DISCOURSE August 17 - 21, 1998 A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98) August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany ** LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ** ** EXTENDED DEADLINE : March 2, 1998 ** ORGANIZERS: Johan Bos (Saarbruecken) and Paul Buitelaar (Brandeis University) The workshop aims at bringing together research in two complementary fields of semantic analysis that are still too far apart. In order to achieve both a broad and a deep understanding of any given text document, a system needs both advanced acquisition of corpus specific lexical semantic knowledge and powerful inference mechanisms that utilize that knowledge in discourse analysis. Given the still relatively limited results within both areas there has been little impetus to combine them. Corpus-based extraction of lexical semantic knowledge has only recently become a more feasible task, because of the growing availibility of on-line text documents; robust corpus processing technologies, such as broad coverage part-of-speech tagging and shallow parsing; and readily available statistical methods. The various approaches to discourse analysis, originating in such diverse fields as formal semantics, psychology and AI, are in the process of converging into a unified approach to the analysis and representation of the cohesive structure of natural language documents. The intersection between these two fields lies in the application of lexical semantic knowledge to such problems in discourse analysis as anaphora resolution and discourse segmentation. In fact, the benefit will be mutual, because knowledge of discourse structure is helpful to lexical knowledge extraction as well. In summary, large scale domain specific lexical semantic knowledge acquisition can assist in analyzing discourse structures, which in turn can assist in acquiring even more accurate lexical semantic representations for the relevant terms in the domain. FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information please visit the workshop home page at <a href="http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~paulb/esslli98.html">http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~paulb/esslli98.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jonathan Benda <benda@s867.thu.edu.tw> Subject: Positions Available, Tunghai University Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:23:36 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 981 (981) This may be of interest to you. I apologize for cross-postings. For more information, please write to flld@s867.thu.edu.tw or check out the FLLD Website at <a href="http://s867.thu.edu.tw/~flld/flld.htm">http://s867.thu.edu.tw/~flld/flld.htm</a> TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY, Department of (Western) Foreign Languages and Literature. We invite applications for 1) Assistant Professor in Composition/Writing, to teach writing and oral skills courses in English Majors Program in EFL environment. Ph.D. in Rhetoric, English, TEFL (with emphasis in teaching writing), or other relevant field required; expertise in teaching literature, humanities, or cultural studies desirable. Closing date: March 31, 1998. 2) Lecturer/Assistant Professor in TEFL, Foreign Language Education, or Applied Linguistics to teach integrated skills EFL classes and participate in curriculum/program development; background in educational technology and language testing desirable. M.A. or Ph.D. in hand by time of appointment. Closing date: April 30, 1998. For both positions we require commitment to teaching and scholarship in a regional (Taiwan) and international context, and minimum three-year commitment. Send English cover letter, vita, graduate transcripts, and at least three reference letters to Karen Kingsbury, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University. Provide telephone and fax numbers or e-mail address to facilitate communication. Jonathan Benda Dept. Foreign Languages and Literatures Tunghai University Taichung, Taiwan R.O.C. benda@s867.thu.edu.tw From: Fotocomposizione Giuntina <foto-giuntina@fol.it> Subject: annoucement Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:45:09 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 982 (982) Job Opportunity Tipografia GIUNTINA - Florence (Italy) YOUNG SGML-EXPERIENCED ENGINEER/PROGRAMMER 6 months contract (renewable for other 6 months) Salary for six months: 20,000,000 ITLire (gross) Giuntina is an old-established important typesetting and printing company located in Florence. In the last years we are more and more engaged in SGML projects, oriented to the production of European multilingual paper and electronic publications. We are seeking a full-time young SGML expert to follow the start-up of an important multilingual project; he will be directly supervised by the president of the company (project-leader). The appointment should run from mid March 1998. Applicants should have training and experience in SGML projects including data-capture, SGML mark-up and validation, on-line editing by authors, production of in-house typesetting-system compatible files, production of HTML files from the same source. Knowledge of PC-based systems (especially in a WindowsNT environment) is preferable; knowledge of French or English is required; knowledge of Italian is not a requirement but it is preferable. Applicants are expected to live in the Florence area for the whole period. Enquires and applications may be addressed to: Dr. G. Passigli (member of International SGML User Group) Via Ricasoli, 26 I-50122 Florence (Italy) E-mail: giuntina@fol.it Phone: +39-55-268684 +39-55-2382774 Fax: +39-55-219718 In applications please specify name, address, age and nationality, previous experiences in SGML mark-up, experiences in publication production and references. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: XML 1.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:43:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 983 (983) [deleted quotation] Subscribers to Humanist will be interested, I hope, in this news about the World Wide Web Consortium and XML. XML has the potential to bring support for generic SGML to the average user's desktop, and thus to make the use of the Text Encoding Initiative's Guidelines much easier and much more common. Please repost as appropriate. -CMSMcQ ---- XML 1.0 Is Official The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today announced the publication of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) as a W3C Recommendation (text of press release at <a href="http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/XML10-REC">http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/XML10-REC</a>). The Text Encoding Initiative greets this development as a major milestone in the development of a network infrastructure usable for literary, linguistic, historical, and other text-based research. XML is a simplified subset of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), the international standard on which the TEI's encoding scheme is based. XML is simpler than SGML, which means that it will be easier to develop tools to support XML than to support full SGML. For all practical purposes, however, XML has the same expressive power as SGML. This means that texts encoded according to the TEI Guidelines can be used readily, after a simple mechanical process of normalization, in an XML environment. With XML and the related standards XLL and XSL (now being developed by W3C work groups), the World Wide Web will gain the flexibility long known to users of SGML: the ability to use different tag sets for different purposes or different kinds of material. At the same time, XML preserves the simplicity of design and implementation which has done so much to ensure the success of the Web. A great deal of the interest in XML is commercial in nature, and many believe that XML will play a key role in making Web-based electronic commerce feasible. But that is not its only importance. Susan Hockey, a member of the TEI's steering committee and the former secretary of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, commented that "XML will be extremely important not only for commercial exploitation of the Internet, but for research at all levels and in all fields: personal, educational, and professional. Everyone interested in the digital preservation and use of knowledge will find, in XML, a powerful new tool." Allen Renear, the new President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (and the head of the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown University) summarized the importance of XML to the humanities very bluntly: "XML will make digital libraries possible." The TEI--and thus, indirectly, also the TEI's major funding agency, the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency--has provided significant support for the development of XML: its North American editor (the poster of this message), serves as a co-editor of the XML specification, together with Tim Bray of Textuality and Jean Paoli of Microsoft. And the TEI's European editor, Lou Burnard, serves as a member of the XML Special Interest Group, which is responsible for clarifying the technical issues before action is taken by the XML Working Group. The TEI is currently preparing for the possible revision of the TEI markup scheme to make it formally XML compliant; some TEI users have already begun experimenting with XML versions of the TEI document type definitions. "The wide adoption of XML by existing SGML vendors, Web software providers, and academic software developers will make the use of TEI encoding significantly easier: TEI users will have more and easier access to off-the-shelf tools for multilingual data preparation, linguistic annotation, and network distribution," said Judith Klavans, the Director of the Center for Research on Information Access at Columbia University, who represents the Association for Computational Linguistics on the TEI steering committee. Most important, we expect TEI users to be among the first and most enthusiastic adopters of this new W3C Recommendation. David Chesnutt, the coordinator of the Model Editions Partnership and a long-time TEI participant and user, said recently that XML is important because it will let scholarly audiences have different views of the same document, on the Web. Julia Flanders, Textbase Editor at the Brown University Women Writers Project, said in response to a query, "XML is the answer to every academic text encoder's prayers." XML is a great step forward for everyone interested in the digital preservation of our cultural heritage or in computer-assisted research into human language and human texts. The TEI is happy to be part of it. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago Editor, ACH/ACL/ALLC Text Encoding Initiative Co-coordinator, Model Editions Partnership cmsmcq@uic.edu, tei@uic.edu +1 (312) 413-0317, fax +1 (312) 996-6834 From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Deadline for Applications to NEH (Preservation and Access) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:44:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 984 (984) [deleted quotation] The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is a grant-making agency of the U.S. federal government that support projects in the humanities. Eligible applicants are: U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations, as well as U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the United States for a period of at least the three years immediately preceding the submission of the application. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that will create, preserve and increase the availability of resources important for research, education, and public programming in the humanities. Support may be sought to preserve the intellectual content and aid bibliographic control of collections; to compile bibliographies, descriptive catalogs, and guides to cultural holdings; to create dictionaries, encyclopedias, databases, and other types of research tools and reference works; and to stabilize material culture collections through the appropriate housing and storing of objects, improved environmental control, and the installation of security, lighting, and fire-prevention systems. Applications may also be submitted for national and regional education and training projects, regional preservation field service programs, and research and demonstration projects that are intended to enhance institutional practice and the use of technology for preservation and access. Projects may encompass collections of books, journals, newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, and objects of material culture held by libraries, archives, museums, historical organizations, and other repositories. The Division has a single, annual DEADLINE for applications, JULY 1. Final decisions will be announced the following March. Guidelines and instructions can be downloaded from the NEH Web site: <a href="http://www.neh.gov/html/guidelin/preserva.html">http://www.neh.gov/html/guidelin/preserva.html</a> A list of recent awards is also available at that site under "What's New". To obtain a print version of the Guidelines or to address a question to the NEH staff, e-mail us at preservation@neh.gov Postal address: Division of Preservation and Access NEH, Room 411 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 Telephone: 202/606-8570 From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Yenta Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:11:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 985 (985) Humanists, who are incurable communicators, will undoubtedly be interested in Yenta (how does one translate this Yiddish word?), a software system "that will provide privacy-protected, distributed, automatic generation of clusters of users who are interested in similar topics: a sort of coalition-building or matchmaking system." See <<a href="http://foner.www.media.mit.edu/people/foner/yenta-brief.html">http://foner.www.media.mit.edu/people/foner/yenta-brief.html</a>>. Oi veh es mir! 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Exhibits: Tibetan Book of Dead; Adrian Scott; Brecht Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:02:20 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 986 (986) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 10,1998 VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS Below are three web exhibits that have recently opened. The first is a stunning web accompaniment to an exhibit at the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The second and third are a little less satisfying. One is a collaborative exhibit between the University of Maryland and University of Wyoming on the screenwriter and film producer Adrian Scott and the Hollywood Ten. The other is the opening of a developing exhibit on Bertolt Brecht in the U.S., based on the collections of the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library at the University of Southern California. Both the Adrian Scott and Brecht exhibits include House Un-American Activities Committee material. David Green THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD: Literature and Artwork on Prayer, Ritual, and Meditation from the Religious Traditions of Tibet, India and Nepal <<a href="http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/">http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/</a>> ONE IN TEN: ADRIAN SCOTT AND THE HOLLYWOOD TEN <<a href="http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs/blacklist/">http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs/blacklist/</a>> BERTOLT BRECHT TURNS 100 <<a href="http://www-lib.usc.edu/Info/FML/Brecht/">http://www-lib.usc.edu/Info/FML/Brecht/</a>> ============== [deleted quotation]THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD: Literature and Artwork on Prayer, Ritual, and Meditation <<a href="http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/">http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/</a>> "Actor Brad Pitt may have taken moviegoers to the edge of their seats in "Seven Years In Tibet," but the University of Virginia's Special Collections Department will take you on an enlightenment odyssey with a ground-breaking 19-week exhibition that appeals simultaneously to the intellect and spiritual senses. A prayer wheel. A ritual scepter and bell. A magnificent ivory statue depicting Padmasambhava -- revered for subduing demons -- seated on a silver throne. A ritual dagger to conquer evil or negative emotions, a sacred altar and a bunting of prayer flags. These are just a few of the symbols of peaceful and wrathful deities in Tibetan iconography and scroll paintings that are mounted as part of a comprehensive exhibition titled, The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Literature and Artwork on Prayer, Ritual, and Meditation from the Religious Traditions of Tibet, India and Nepal, which runs through March 14, 1998 in the Library's McGregor Room and is available online at: <a href="http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/">http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/</a> Discover the nuances of Tibetan culture from the pages of old woodblock printed books. Learn what Tibetan Lamas do when they meditate in isolation, and about the colorful rituals and artifacts that frame events relating to death and dying for Tibetans. The show brings together more than a dozen ritual artwork items from the holdings of the University's Bayly Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and from private collections. This is the most inclusive exposition in subject matter and scope ever displayed at Alderman, says Kathryn Morgan, associate director of special collections at the U.Va. library. Anyone willing to surrender to the serenity and harmony of the display will become attuned to how a culture that believes in past and future lives explores the process of death and rebirth. "Tibetan Buddhism is known for its detailed descriptions of the psychological and physical processes of death," says Jeffrey Hopkins, a professor of Religious Studies at U.Va. With a trove of more than 10,000 titles, U.Va. has the largest collection of Tibetan literary materials outside Tibet. More than 40 of the library's prized texts will be showcased, and a limited-edition catalogue of the exhibit will be issued. Curators of this exhibition are even scheduling lectures by professors of religious studies, including one by Tibetan Lama Tenzin Wangyel Rinpoche, who will open the lecture series with a discussion on "Facing Death With Hope and Without Fear." Since artwork and ritual symbols are an integral part of the religious system for Tibetans, scroll paintings and statues depicting a dizzying array of deities help viewers gain familiarity with the dying process. Tibet, often referred to as "the roof" of the world because it sits on a high plateau, is situated between China and India. Most of its 6 million inhabitants practice Buddhism, a religion not confined behind the region's high mountainous peaks. Interest in Tibetan Buddhism is growing in the United States, with practitioners totaling up to 100,000 according to a recent article in Time magazine. Attention to things Tibetan is not expected to wane anytime soon. In addition to "Seven Years in Tibet," movie audiences can see "Red Corner", starring devout Buddhist Richard Gere and "Kundun," a Martin Scorsese film about the Dalai Lama. It is in keeping with growing interest that U.Va. aspires to raise awareness of Tibet through its artistic and philosophical reading materials. To signal the start of the exhibit, a large traditional cotton banner designed and crafted by Khedup Gyatso, a Tibetan residing in America, will hang outside Alderman Library. Accompanying the banner will be colorful traditional Tibetan prayer flags, which also will adorn the McGregor Room. The prayer flags are printed in black ink on blue, white, red, green and yellow panels of fabric. Each panel is printed with identical Tibetan text with a representation of the "Wind Horse," a symbol of good fortune bearing a blazing jewel at the center. Tibetan text on each flag includes various mantras and Tibetan prayers for averting obstacles, and for luck and prosperity. Such flags are traditionally placed at high mountain passes so that their prayers and good wishes will be carried on the wind. ============ [deleted quotation] ONE IN TEN: ADRIAN SCOTT AND THE HOLLYWOOD TEN <<a href="http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs/blacklist/">http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs/blacklist/</a>> A collaborative project between the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of Maryland and the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, "One in Ten: Adrian Scott and the Hollywood Ten" explores the life of screenwriter Adrian Scott, who was blacklisted and imprisoned for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist activities in the motion picture industry by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Currently, the virtual exhibition includes Scott's testimony before the Committee on Un-American Activities, an article-length essay on Scott's and other blacklistee's use of pseudonyms and fronts, a filmography of the Hollywood Ten, a detailed timeline of their trial, and an extensive archive of photographs and personal letters. Research conducted on Adrian Scott and his Papers has been made possible through an American Heritage Center Travel grant, which are awarded annually to allow scholars to conduct research in AHC collections. ================= [deleted quotation] BERTOLT BRECHT TURNS 100 <<a href="http://www-lib.usc.edu/Info/FML/Brecht/">http://www-lib.usc.edu/Info/FML/Brecht/</a>> I am pleased to announce a website created to celebrate the anniversary of Bertolt Brecht's 100th birthday today -- February 10, 1998. This web exhibition highlights archival materials from the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library at the University of Southern California while describing various aspects of Brecht's six years living in Los Angeles. The first phase of the exhibition is ready for viewing but continue to check back at the site since additional pages will be added throughout 1998 to celebrate Brecht's centennial. I would be happy to receive any comments about the exhibit or answer any questions you might have about the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library. Marje Schuetze-Coburn =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Marje Schuetze-Coburn Feuchtwanger Librarian Feuchtwanger Memorial Library Department of Special Collections Information Services Division University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 -=- Voice: 213-740-7119 -=- Fax: 213-740-2343 -=- Email: schuetze@calvin.usc.edu -=- URL: <a href="http://www-lib.usc.edu/Info/FML/">http://www-lib.usc.edu/Info/FML/</a> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: New on Web Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:42:18 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 987 (987) [deleted quotation] The Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT) project hosted by University College Cork, Ireland, is pleased to announce that the complete works of Oscar Wilde are available at our web site <<a href="http://www.ucc.ie/celt/wilde.html">http://www.ucc.ie/celt/wilde.html</a>>. Also recently made available are the complete works of James Connolly, the influential socialist who died in Ireland's 1916 rising <<a href="http://www.ucc.ie/celt/connolly.html">http://www.ucc.ie/celt/connolly.html</a>> CELT uses SGML/TEI to mark texts in Old and Middle Irish, English, Hiberno-Norman French and Latin. We have an experimental search interface available <<a href="http://www.ucc.ie/celt/search.html">http://www.ucc.ie/celt/search.html</a>>: we would be grateful for any comments and suggestions. Margaret Lantry ---------------------------------------------------------------- Margaret Lantry mlantry@imbolc.ucc.ie Managing Editor +353-21-902736 Corpus of Electronic Texts <a href="http://www.ucc.ie/celt/">http://www.ucc.ie/celt/</a> Computer Centre University College Cork Ireland From: Wendy McFarland <wendy@chaos.press.jhu.edu> Subject: Postmodern Culture 8.2 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:18:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 988 (988) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 8, Number 2 (January 1998) ISSN: 1053-1920 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editors: Robert Kolker (guest editor) Lisa Brawley Stuart Moulthrop Editors Emeritus: Eyal Amiran John Unsworth Review Editor: Paula Geyh Managing Editor: Anne Sussman Research Assistant: Lisa Spiro Editorial Board: Michael Berube Phil Novak Nahum Chandler Chimalum Nwankwo J. Yellowlees Douglas Patrick O'Donnell Jim English Elaine Orr Diane Gromala Marjorie Perloff Graham Hammill Fred Pfeil Phillip Brian Harper Peggy Phelan David Herman David Porush E. Ann Kaplan Mark Poster Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Susan Schultz Neil Larsen William Spanos Tan Lin Allucquere Roseanne Stone Saree Makdisi Gary Lee Stonum Jerome McGann Rei Terada Larysa Mykyta Paul Trembath Jim Morrison Greg Ulmer -------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL ISSUE ON FILM Robert Kolker, guest editor CONTENTS ------------------ Editor's Introduction ------------------ Articles Gina Marchetti, "Transnational Cinema, Hybrid Identities and the Films of Evans Chan" Stephen Mamber, "Simultaneity and Overlap in Stanley Kubrick's _The Killing_" Joseph Christopher Schaub, "Presenting the Cyborg's Futurist Past: An Analysis of Dziga Vertov's Kino-Eye" Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Casablanca's Regime: The Shifting Aesthetics of Political Technologies (1907-1943)" William D. Routt, "The Madness of Images and Thinking Cinema" Adrian Miles, "_Singin' In the Rain_: A Hypertextual Reading" Peter Donaldson, "Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: _The Tempest_ and the End of Books ------------------ Review Essay Edward Brunner, "Ersatz Truths: Variations on the Faux Documentary. A review of Rick Prelinger's _Ephemeral Films 1931-1960_: _To New Horizons_ and _You Can't Get There from Here_ and Prelinger's _Our Secret Century: Archival Films from the Dark Side of the American Dream:_ Volume 1: _The Rainbow is Yours_ with Volume 2: _Capitalist Realism_; Volume 3: _The Behavior Offensive_ with Volume 4: _Menace and Jeopardy_; and Volume 5: _Teenage Transgression_ with Volume 6: _The Uncharted Landscape_. CD-ROMs. New York: Voyager, 1994 and 1996. ------------------ Reviews Kim Fedderson and J.M. Richardson, "Looking for Richard in _Looking for Richard_: Al Pacino Appropriates the Bard and Flogs Him Back to the Brits." A review of the recent film/video. Anthony Enns, "The Art and Artifice of Peter Greenaway." A review of Alan Woods' _Being Naked Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway_. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1996. Mark Welch, "The Grim Fascination of an Uncomfortable Legacy." A review of Eric Rentschler's _The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and its Afterlife_. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1996. Benzi Zhang, "(Global) Sense and (Local) Sensibility: Poetics/Politics of Reading Film as (Auto)Ethnography." A review of Rey Chow's _Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema_. New York: Columbia UP, 1995. Hassan Melehy, "Looking Forward to Godard." A review of Wheeler Winston Dixon's _The Films of Jean-Luc Godard_. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997. M. Klaver, r rickey, and L. Howell, "Peripheral Vision." A review of E. Ann Kaplan's _Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze_. New York: Routledge, 1996. ------------------ Response Arkady Plotnitsky and Richard Crew, Exchange on Plotnitsky's essay, "'But It Is Above All Not True': Derrida, Relativity and the 'Science Wars,'" _Postmodern Culture_ 7.2 ------------------ Letters ------------------ Related Readings ----------------- Notices ----------------- Abstracts Gina Marchetti, "Transnational Cinema, Hybrid Identities and the Films of Evans Chan" o Abstract: This article attempts to rethink cultural relationships within the dynamics of an increasingly globalized media environment, using the case of Evans Chan as the focus for the study. Chan is a New York-based filmmaker, born in mainland China, bred in Macao, educated in Hong Kong and America, who makes independent narrative films primarily for a Hong Kong, overseas Chinese, "greater China" audience. To date, Chan has completed two features, _To Liv(e)_ (1991) and _Crossings_ (1994). Both of these films openly address issues that find only a marginal voice in the mainstream cinema of Hong Kong, the United States, and other Chinese cinemas globally. His work will be used here as an illustration of the necessity for a new approach to nation and culture within media criticism. With one foot in the United States and the other in Hong Kong, Chan can freely address issues as diverse as Hong Kong's return to China in 1997, the legacy of the events of June 4th in Tian'anmen Square, the role of women in the world economy, and the processes of immigration and dispersal involving the Chinese globally. While fears of censorship arising from Hong Kong's laws and the unofficial censorship of the marketplace in the United States place a boundary around what can and cannot be said in the cinema, Chan, with his transnational production team, manages to seriously explore controversial issues. In this way, Chan creates a transnational, transcultural discourse through the medium of the motion picture, pointing to a new type of cultural sphere that must be noted within media studies.--gm Stephen Mamber, "Simultaneity and Overlap in Stanley Kubrick's _The Killing_" o Abstract: This article explores the temporal construction of the 1956 Stanley Kubrick film, _The Killing_. A caper story presented through an elaborate series of isolated segments, the film is organized around moments of simultaneity and overlap--a grand conceptual design explored in the article partly through the use of a chart and some 3-D re-creations. The linkage between the film's temporal strategy and its spatial construction is also examined.--sm Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Casablanca's Regime: The Shifting Aesthetics of Political Technologies (1907-1943)" o Abstract: In this essay, I illustrate how the film _Casablanca_, while bearing little visual resemblance to the city in Morocco where it draws its name, exists and performs in symbiosis with the real Casablanca. I argue for a more cohesive analysis of the Casablanca phenomenon, presenting a previously neglected urban/filmic comparative study as intrinsic to our historical understanding of both aesthetic objects. This work delineates the construction of Casablanca around both World Wars, first by France (architecturally), and then by North America (filmically). The history of each building effort is presented %vis a vis% that of the other, capitalizing on their dist urbing similarities of intent, methodology, anticipated political effects, and relation to dominant modes of perception. The modern city was a full scale urban experiment of France's colonial administration, meant to boost national self esteem and secure military support from the people in the face of World War I, while the film was a calculated American attempt to quell national anxiety about engaging in World War II. Both objects were produced on the run, riddled with incertitude, and invested with an agenda to aestheticize politics in an attempt to establish social order by mobilizing entire populations towards war. The success of each effort lay in its ability to excite the desires of their audience by drawing on familiar conceptions of reality and manipulating them so as to drive the general perception of the world towards a politicized %imago mundi% of clear rights and wrongs. "Casablanca's Regime" introduces the reader to Casablanca as an exceptional virtual city, where images--architectural, filmic, or otherwise--are jointly weapons of political control, and instruments of seduction.--jop Joseph Christopher Schaub, "Presenting the Cyborg's Futurist Past: An Analysis of Dziga Vertov's Kino-Eye" o Abstract: Since Donna Haraway's groundbreaking essay, "A Cyborg Manifesto," there has been a great deal of debate concerning the liberatory potential of cyborg subjectivity. Of particular interest have been the effects that the cyborg, which dissolves the boundary between human and machine, will have upon the equally contested boundaries which comprise distinctions of gender in the late twentieth century. In this paper I examine a cyborg construction which appears in the early twentieth century films of the Soviet theorist and filmmaker Dziga Vertov. The Kino-eye (or camera-eye) is a cyborg combination of the mechanical movie camera and the human eye. It is most fully explored in Vertov's _Man With a Movie Camera_ (1929), the %magnum opus% of his cinematic theories. _Man With a Movie Camera_ has interesting contemporary implications because of the prominence that Vertov gives to women in this film. The Kino-eye is seen as a cyborg combination that incorporates both the male cameraman and the female editor. As the film unfolds woman is depicted as maker of meaning, rather than spectacle. That Vertov, a Russian Futurist, was unusual in this respect can be seen by comparing his work to the writings of his contemporaries. In particular, the misogynist writings of the Italian Futurists provide a strong contrast to the theories of the cyborg Vertov explored in his own film work. This paper then, also explores the way that Vertov rescues the cyborg (his Kino-eye construct) from the misogynist framework of its initial Italian Futurist conception, and suggest that there is much that can be applied from his work to the contemporary debate on gender in cyberspace.--jcs William D. Routt, "The Madness of Images and Thinking Cinema" o Abstract: This article attempts a preliminary understanding of the experience--or sensation--of place evoked in the cinema, based on some of the earliest films and their spectators. It exposits certain ideas contained in Vachel Lindsay's _The Art of the Moving Picture_ and finds a delirious resemblance between these ideas and some in Gilles Deleuze's two Cinema books. Perhaps the piece suggests that madness is a property of the sensation of place in the cinema. Animated gif files, maddening their sources, offer a crude supplementary patchwork commentary.--wdr Adrian Miles, "_Singin' in the Rain_: A Hypertextual Reading" o Abstract: _Singin' in the Rain_ is a canonical self-reflexive film which combines an informed self-consciousness with an argument about its own legitimacy as art. The film's argument is structurally evident within one of the film's more famous self-reflexive sequences, "You Were Meant for Me." Through the incorporation of video into the essay and an emphasis on a hypertextual writing style, this hypertext attempts to find a middle ground between hypertext and film theory where each complements the other. It is hoped that the inclusion of part of the object of study within the work exerts some hermeneutic force on the reading and the writing, and it is intended as a preliminary move in an exploration of new academic genres in film theory that hypertext and digitisation might allow.--am Peter Donaldson, "Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: _The Tempest_ and the End of Books" o Abstract: This multimedia essay traces how Peter Greenaway's film _Prospero's Books_ reads _The Tempest_, anachronistically, as a play about the end of books and the advent of electronic forms. Greenaway finds _The Tempest_ relevant to this shift because, as he puts it, we are living in the early years of a new "Gutenberg Revolution," in which the ambitions of the Renaissance magus with his magic books are being realized, in part, through digital technologies. _Prospero's Books_ is an anticipatory or proleptic allegory of the digital future, figuring the figuring the destruction of libraries and their rebirth as "magically" enhanced electronic books. It is set in the past, and extrapolates from the several passages in the play in which Prospero's books are mentioned the story of twenty-four wonder-working books through which Prospero achieves his magic; yet, by calling attention to the digital special effects by which these books have been created on screen--"paint" and photoprocessing applications, computer animation, multiple screen overlays--Greenaway suggests that the magically enhanced codex volume is as much a part of our future as our past. The essay also compares the "creative" magical volumes of Greenaway's film to several kinds of documentary evidence concering the fate of real books (Shakespeare's Folios) and their vicissitudes in the material world (damage, compositorial variation) and the use of specialized books such as fold-out anatomies in ways that parallel Greenaway's attempt to rival the miracle of human reproduction in digitally enhanced cinema. Like _Prospero's Books_, this essay itself exists in a transitional form (networked hypertext with linked images and brief video citations), and like _Prospero's Books_ it imagines future forms and depends on them. It is relatively linear in its form, and bounded in its contours, presenting a small number of textual and visual citations. Yet it asks its readers to imagine that they are exploring a path, one particular path, through an immense networked digital archive. Such an archive would include the complete film _Prospero's Books_--as well as all other Shakespearean film adaptations, linked to relevant lines of text; which includes all extant copies and page fragments of the Folio text of _The Tempest_, and an extensive library of commentary; which is linked as well to extensive collections of anatomical illustrations from the Renaissance forward, and to texts and images that illustrate the motif of the "end of the book" in the late twentieth century.--pd --------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE AT <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/issue.198">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/issue.198</a> UNTIL RELEASE OF THE NEXT ISSUE. A TEXT-ONLY ARCHIVE OF THE JOURNAL IS ALSO AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE AT <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only</a>. FOR FULL HYPERTEXT ACCESS TO BACK ISSUES, SEARCH UTILITIES, AND OTHER VALUABLE FEATURES, YOU OR YOUR INSTITUTION MAY SUBSCRIBE TO PROJECT MUSE, THE ON-LINE JOURNALS PROJECT OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS. From: Daniel Traister <traister@pobox.upenn.edu> Subject: New web site: "Cultural Readings" Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:30:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 989 (989) --PLEASE EXCUSE MULTIPLE POSTINGS; PLEASE CIRCULATE-- ANNOUNCING A NEW ON LINE EXHIBITION "CULTURAL READINGS: COLONIZATION AND PRINT IN THE AMERICAS" <a href="http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/kislak/index/cultural.html">http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/kislak/index/cultural.html</a> This collaborative web site presents and interprets a wide variety of texts--books, manuscripts, illustrations, maps, and artifacts--generated by Europe's colonization of the Americas. Comparative and broad in scope, the exhibition investigates Spanish, French, English, and Dutch "readings" of the New World and the "readings" of Europeans made by many Native cultures. Topics covered include the literature of colonial promotion; printed images of Natives; Native responses to print; missionary activities; Indian languages; the geographies of the New World; and captivity narratives. The web site also contains essays by Louise Burkhart, Sabine MacCormack, Michael Ryan, Daniel Slive, and Karim Tiro; bibliography; and web links. Materials shown in "Cultural Readings" are drawn from the collections of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation; the Rosenbach Museum & Library; the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Special Collections; and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: update from the Blake Archive Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:23:30 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 990 (990) The editors of the William Blake Archive <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/</a>> are pleased to announce the publication of an electronic edition of _Songs of Innocence and of Experience_, copy Z. It joins editions of three copies of _The Book of Thel_ and two copies of _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_. In the coming week, these works will be joined by _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_, copy D, _The Book of Urizen_, copy G, _America, a Prophecy_, copy E, and _Europe, a Prophecy_, copy B. All of these editions have newly edited texts and were scanned from 4x5 color transparencies made specifically for the Archive. They are all fully searchable for both text and images and are supported by the unique Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our previous updates. _Urizen_ copy G and _Songs_ copy Z were produced in Blake's late printing and coloring styles, c. 1818 and c. 1826 respectively. _America_ copy E is a monochrome copy from 1793; _Europe_ copy B was color printed in 1794, and _Marriage_ copy D was produced in 1795 on large paper and with some rudimentary color printing. We will be adding second and third copies of most illuminated books in the coming months, with the goal of having the entire illuminated canon online later this year. In addition, work continues on the SGML edition of David V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake_, which we anticipate releasing sometime this spring. Joseph Viscomi, Morris Eaves, and Robert Essick ====================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu or mattk@virginia.edu Department of English <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/</a> The Blake Archive | IATH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Hans van der Laan <H.R.van_der_Laan@ThuisNet.LeidenUniv.NL> Subject: Lost title Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:03:05 +0001 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 991 (991) A friend asks me: A few years ago someone on the net advised me to read a book. I liked it and would like to look a few things up in it again now, but I can't find my notes on it any more. I think I remember the name of the author: Modris Eckstein, but I am not sure about its spelling. I do not remember the title. It was about WW-I and the time preceding it. I remember especially a chapter (or were it several) on Diaghilev and Les Ballets Russes. So it was not just about the war itself, but also, and especially, on the cultural context. Any help with recovering the precise bibliographic information will be highly appreciated. Hans | Hans van der Laan - Computerraadsman | W.F.Hermanszijde 3 2353 TL Leiderdorp | Tel. (071) 541 64 31 / 589 69 49 | vdlaan@pobox.LeidenUniv.nl From: ¶óÁ¾Çõ <hyok305@chollian.dacom.co.kr> Subject: re: writing styles Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:48:39 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 992 (992) I'm collecting various writing styles--the MLA style and Beyond MLA, etc. If you have any idea of writing styles and of the Internet sites regarding them, let me know. I welcome ideas from Europe, Asia, and Africa, etc. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: error Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:31:48 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 993 (993) Oops! that should have read not: I will say that for example a nowrather prominent and excellent historianleft UCLA in the 60s in high dudgeon, because the tenure committee thought he didnt merit tenure, since Harvard UP had published his first work...but "since Harvard UP had NOT published his first work. I ruint me f'rinstance there. Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Re: salt workers Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:41:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 994 (994) [deleted quotation] On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:08:40 +0000 (GMT) Irene Berton Labigalini <an601ibl@scorpio.gold.ac.uk> wrote: [deleted quotation] Hello, I don't know much about salt workers but I have seen the product of a society of people who mined salt for a living. The salt mine (I can't remember it's name) is just outside Krakow (in Poland). My girlfriend and I visited the mine in 1995. We really intended to visit Auschwitz but the train took us in the other direction and we ended up at the mine. The mine is an incredible sight where the workers carved intricate sculptures of mythical figures and even built an underground cathedral, all out of salt. I think it's quite famous and there is probably a lot written about it somewhere so this might be a good starting point for you. Regards Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Geoffrey Rockwell <grockwel@mcmaster.ca> Subject: Book Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:51:28 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 995 (995) Dear Hans, Regarding the book you were looking for. I think it is: Author Eksteins, Modris. Title Rites of spring : the Great War and the birth of the Modern Age Imprint Toronto : Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989. Description xvi, 396 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects World War, 1914-1918 --Influence Civilization, Modern --20th century ISBN 0886192005 0395498562--rel Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell [and thanks to the others who responded with the same citation -- WM] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Re: salt workers Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:37:38 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 996 (996) [deleted quotation] Pierre Lemonnier of CNRS Marseille did work with salt makers in France, I believe. His email address is: lemon@ehess.cnrs-mrs.fr Dan Jorgensen At 10:03 AM 11/02/1998 -0500, BLTMHALL wrote: [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Babelfish output Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:38:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 997 (997) [deleted quotation] You invited amusing examples of Babelfish output. Some of my friends have had fun pointing it at one another's Web pages, at Railtrack's site (West Ham becomes 'il prosciutto ad ovest' in Italian) or a bus timetable ('Angeho:riges Ausdru:cklich' is 'National Express'!). My husband tried translation from English and back again on something more literary with the following results: [deleted quotation] Dr. Virginia Knight email: v.knight@mcc.ac.uk <a href="http://www.mcc.ac.uk/~zzaasvk/virginia.html">http://www.mcc.ac.uk/~zzaasvk/virginia.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn <D.Zeitlyn@ukc.ac.uk> Subject: Revised General anthropology bibliography now available at CSAC Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:05:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 998 (998) Apologies for cross-posting A newly revised version of our General Anthropology bibliography is now available at CSAC at the following URL <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/uncgi/search_bib2/Makhzan">http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/uncgi/search_bib2/Makhzan</a> We welcome new references for inclusion in this - we can accept most tagged formats, but prefer the "Refer" format. We plan to include a form allowing new references to be sent in via the web We hope this is found useful yours sincerely david z Dr David Zeitlyn, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of Anthropology, Eliot College, The University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NS, UK. Tel. (44) 1227 764000 -Extn 3360 (or 823360 direct) Fax (44) 1227 827289 <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/">http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: length of words in English Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:36:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 999 (999) [deleted quotation] I am interested in the distribution by length of types (different words) and tokens (occurences) of words in the British National Corpus. At least, I would like to know the average length of types and tokens there. I woud be grateful to anyone who can help in this. Yaacov Choueka, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Micrfilm to digital images Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:36:52 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1000 (1000) [deleted quotation] I would be grateful for any information on (or pointers) to reliable companies that are in the business of converting large volumes of microfilms of textual material (i.e. newspapers) to digital images. I would specially appreciate comments about previous experiences with such companies (quality, cost, etc) Prof. Yaacov Choueka Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Head, Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 52900 choueka@cs.biu.ac.il Fax: 972-2-6781245 Tels: (office) 03-5318716 (sec) 03-5318407 (home) 02-6789229 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: PALC97 Proceedings Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:08:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1001 (1001) From: "Rafal Uzar" <raffy@krysia.uni.lodz.pl> Announcing the following publication: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE CORPORA THE PROCEEDINGS OF PALC97 EDITORS: BARBARA LEWANDOWSKA-TOMASZCZYK & PATRICK JAMES MELIA Includes papers given at the conference by: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Tony McEnery, Andrew Wilson, Michael Hoey, Lou Burnard, Guy Aston, Patrick Hanks, Philip King, Stig Johansson, Bengt Altenberg, Bernhard Kettermann and many others. To order this 578-page volume, which includes 39 papers, please contact: Patrick James Melia at pjmelia@krysia.uni.lodz.pl Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk at blt@krysia.uni.lodz.pl or write to: 'PALC97' Professor B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Chair of English Language, University of Lodz, Al. Kosciuszki 65, Lodz 90-514 Poland From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: CHWP paper on Eye-Con Tact Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:09:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1002 (1002) [deleted quotation] Computing in the Humanities Working Papers (CHWP) is pleased to announce the publication of a paper on the desiderata of text-analysis tools, "Eye-Con Tact", by Geoffrey Rockwell and John Bradley. "Anyone who has used a text-analysis tool like TACT has at some point been frustrated by its limitations and wished that a feature or two could be added. In 1992 we set out to imagine a text-analysis environment which would not only have the features we desired, but could be extended continually as our research evolved. This paper describes the limitations of current tools, possible solutions to these limitations, and the design philosophy behind Eye-ConTact, a prototype of a visual programming environment suited for text manipulation." (Abstract) CHWP is at <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/chwp/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/chwp/</a> and <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/chwp/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/chwp/</a> [Version francaise] Les Computing in the Humanities Working Papers (CHWP) ont le plaisir d'annoncer la publication d'un article sur les desiderata des logiciels d'analyse textuelle, "Eye-Con Tact", de Geoffrey Rockwell et John Bradley. "Tout utilisateur d'un systeme d'analyse de texte comme TACT bute inevitablement a ses limites et vient a regretter que certaines fonctions ne puissent pas etre ajoutees. En 1992 nous nous sommes donne pour but d'imaginer un environnement pour l'analyse des textes ayant certains attributs que nous recherchions, mais egalement concu pour etre continuellement renove au fur et a mesure qu'evoluait notre recherche. Cet article decrit les limites des outils disponibles a l'heure actuelle, les remedes possibles a ces limites et la philosophie conceptuelle de Eye-ConTact, le prototype d'un environnement de programmation visuelle concue pour la manipulation des textes." (Resume) [nota: l'original porte tous les accents comme il faut!] Les CHWP se trouvent a <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/chwp/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/chwp/</a> et a <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/chwp/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/chwp/</a> Russon Wooldridge Co-Editor ----------------------------------------------------------------- Russon Wooldridge (Department of French, University of Toronto) Address: Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada Tel: 1-416-978-2885 -- Fax: 1-416-978-4949 E-mail: wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca Internet: <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wulfric/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wulfric/</a> From: Fabio Ciotti <ciotti@axrma.uniroma1.it> Subject: Italian translation of TEI U5 and encoded Italian texts available on the Web. Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:12:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1003 (1003) Italian translation of "TEI Lite. Introduction to Text Encoding for Interchange" and encoded Italian texts available on the Web. [Apologies for cross posting] The CRILet, Centro Ricerche Informatica e Letteratura [Literature and Computing Research Centre], is pleased to announce the publication of the Italian translation of TEI document n. TEI U5, "TEI Lite. Introduction to Text Encoding for Interchange". The document is available in HTML format both from CRILet Web site <a href="http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/crilet/sgml/sgml.htm">http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/crilet/sgml/sgml.htm</a> and <a href="http://crilet.let.uniroma1.it/sgml/sgml.htm">http://crilet.let.uniroma1.it/sgml/sgml.htm</a>] and from official TEI Web Site [<a href="http://www.uiuc.edu/orgs/tei">http://www.uiuc.edu/orgs/tei</a>]. Beside the publication of the TEI Lite guidelines, CRILet has started as an experimental project the publication on the Web of some texts of the Italian literary tradition encoded according to TEI P3 or TEI Lite DTD. The texts are available on the CRILet Web site (at the same address given before) and are browsable on-line with the help of an SGML browser like Softquad Panorama. One or more stylesheets and navigators are associated with each text. Given the experimental nature of the project, CRILet is pleased to receive comments, advice or contributions in any form from interested scholars. Information about CRILet. The Centro Ricerche Informatica e Letteratura is a research group established at the Dept of Linguistics and Literary Studies of the University of Roma La Sapienza. The group is co-ordinated by Prof. Giuseppe Gigliozzi, and is composed by a number of under and post graduated students and researchers. The main objectives of CRILet are to conduct studies in the Humanities and Literary computing and to produce digital and on-line literary resources and archives. For more information regarding CRILet activities and projects check the web site at the addresses <a href="http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma.it/crilet">http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma.it/crilet</a> and <a href="http://crilet.let.uniroma1.it/">http://crilet.let.uniroma1.it/</a>. _____________________________________________________________________ Fabio Ciotti Centro Ricerche Informatica e Letteratura (CRILet) [<a href="http://crilet.let.uniroma1.it">http://crilet.let.uniroma1.it</a>] Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari Facolta' di Lettere e Filosofia - Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Piazza Aldo Moro, 5 - 00185 Roma Italia Tel. +39 (6) 4991.3183 Fax. +39 (6) 4991.3575 E-mail: ciotti@axrma.uniroma1.it Web: <a href="http://crilet.let.uniroma1.it/ciotti">http://crilet.let.uniroma1.it/ciotti</a> From: Tatiana Barr <tb103@columbia.edu> Subject: microforms: Re: digitizing microfilms Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 09:05:03 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1004 (1004) Preservation Resources of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is supplying this service. They will be coming to our library soon and give us a demonstration. The President is Meg A. Bellinger and the addresses are: Nina S. Commerce Way Bethlehem, PA 18017-8916 1-610-758-8700 FAX 1-610-758-9700 1-800-773-7222 meg_bellinger@oclc.org They are a division of OCLC. Sincerely, Tatiana G. Barr Microformats Cataloger Columbia University Libraries On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Richard Bear wrote: [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: gleanings Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:13:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1005 (1005) (1) Jack Schofield, "One small step for couch potatoes", on a new technology for making display screens out of plastic -- hang them on the wall, roll them up afterwards. The prototype fits in the palm of one's hand, but larger versions are promised. (2) John Graham-Cumming, "Return to ISP, address unknown", on the likelihood that soon the 4 billion possible Internet IP numbers won't be sufficient. "With the proliferation of PCs connected to the Internet, large numbers of users are predicted to demand that other devices be connected also" -- such as personal digital assistants. The author draws an analogy with the fax machine, which apparently was responsible for the explosive growth in the number of telephone lines. In London the STD code used to be 01, then it was 071/081, and now 0171/0181 -- marking in part the popularity of the fax machine. (3) Dan Jellinek, "To blindly go...", reports on the warnings from Joe Chester of the Institute of Technology in Ireland about our blind lust for technological expansion without thought to its impact on the society at large. Chester cites other technologies whose environmental impact was not considered until various disasters hit (see the nuclear industry, oil industry, rocket engineering, bioengineering). "There has been an implicit assumption of benefit from new technologies through history, and governments have blindly followed the will of technologists and listened only to the economic arguments," he says. "Those who have advised caution, extensive testing and controlled exploitation have been silenced.... What kind of world will it be when, due to conditioning from an early age, most adults spend a significant portion of their day immersed in a virtual world indistinguishable from reality?" he says. "The idea of providing extensive Internet access for every school child, which is the stated aim of many governments, including the UK's, amounts to a massive social experiment." (4) Jack Schofield, Netwatch, points to (a) The Tate Gallery now online, at <<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk">http://www.tate.org.uk</a>>. Looks very good, though portions have yet to be put online. More than a declaration of intention, less than a complete guide. (b) Virtual Jerusalem, at <<a href="http://virtualjerusalem.com/saddam/">http://virtualjerusalem.com/saddam/</a>>, offers the Saddam-o-meter, which daily measures the mood of the Israeli public from "complete calm" to "all out panic". Schofield also refers us to the site of the Israeli Defense Forces, <<a href="http://www.idf.il">http://www.idf.il</a>>, for more serious information. (5) Microfile, "Floating Points", which among gems points us to Viewlogy. "Imagine being able to read a person^Òs whole life story at their final place of rest. View^Õlogy^Ù was developed to provide a ^Ñvisual eulogy^Ò of your loved one. Now, for the first time, you can electronically store and display a person^Òs whole life story in words and photographs for those who visit the grave site well into the future...a lasting legacy." More at <<a href="http://www.leif.com/">http://www.leif.com/</a>>. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Reference Librarian Openings (Kansas City, MO) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:07:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1006 (1006) [deleted quotation] Two Reference Librarian I Positions (Humanities, and Social Sciences): Dynamic, growing urban academic library seeks creative, energetic, flexible individuals with strong public services commitment. Report to Head of Reference Services for general reference/library instruction, and to Assistant Director for Collection Development for collection development/faculty liaison. (Humanities: communication studies, English, world languages/literature, philosophy, theater; Social Sciences: education, psychology, sociology, administration of justice.) Some evenings, weekends required. Participate on team of librarians developing public service plans, policies, procedures that support the Libraries' service mission. Professional development encouraged, required for promotion. Extensive library automation. Minimum requirements: ALA accredited MLS; degree in subject area related to liaison assignment; exceptional interpersonal, communication skills; current experience with online, CD-ROM, WWW resources; ability to work positively, productively with diverse constituencies in environment of rapid change; understanding of scholarly research environment; evidence of professional initiative, mature judgement; potential to meet promotion requirements in non-tenure track appointment; legal right to work in U.S. Preferred: Graduate degree in subject area related to liaison assignment; successful, current academic library reference, instruction, collection development, government documents experience; familiarity with major European language. Salary: $28,000 minimum. Benefits include health/dental plans, 75% tuition discount, no payroll deductions required for retirement, life/disability insurance. Low cost of living in exciting city. Equal opportunity employer. Send letter of application, resume, names of three references to: Helen H. Spalding, Associate Director of Libraries, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110, 816-235-1531/ spaldinh@smtpgate.umkc.edu. Application review continues until position filled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Humanities Computing Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:04:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1007 (1007) [deleted quotation] For an update on an encyclopedia article on humanities computing, I would appreciate recent bibliographic items. Joseph Raben <jqrqc@cunyvm.cuny.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty"kcl.ac.uk> Subject: book reviews Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1008 (1008) Several responses to my query follow. Some of them suggest that I wasn't as clear as I should have been, so let me say here more exactly what I have in mind. First of all, the model with which most of us begin is the Bryn Mawr Review, which publishes online reviews of high quality in classics and medieval studies. I cannot on my own manage such an operation for humanities computing, so my proposal is much more modest, and alas less professional. Since I find myself writing a book review once a month for my local college newsletter, I thought perhaps there might be others doing the same sort of thing and who wouldn't mind sharing them with the rest of us. In other words, a cottage industry of book reviewing. What sort of books, some have asked? Well, this is Humanist, so anything relevant to humanities computing, I'd think. With that kind of scope, the number of books we could informally review here is large. I presume that many of us are reading books in the field (thus defined), that we have views on them, like to say what we think, and can write reasonable English. A formula for success, surely. The last review I wrote was also the basis for a longish note to Humanist, so I won't share that one, but the book I reviewed previously I don't think I mentioned at any length, so I include it herewith. Continuing comments, please. Book reviews would be even better! WM --------------- Book of the month Edward Tenner, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (New York: Vintage, 1997). As new technologies begin to settle down into the routines of daily life, one is struck by two facts: first that they do not simply replace what came before but tend to alter the way we approach the situations to which they apply, second that they have unexpected consequences. The eventual application of a new technology is sometimes foreseen, but often considerable time is required before we understand what the device is for. We tend at first to avoid the problem by confusing a device with something it apparently replaces -- thus the terms "iron horse" (for the locomotive) and "horseless carriage" (for the automobile). When the personal computer first appeared many tried very hard to construe it simply as a kind of typewriter, then as a productivity tool", then a means of saving paper. The unexpected consequences about which Tenner entertainingly writes take us by surprise, even in an age of ecological awareness. As he shows, not only is a new technology to some degree an unknown quantity in the beginning, but its assimilation into the social, economic and cultural system of which it is a part is both complex and historically contingent. Seldom, it seems, are we particularly eager to think about the consequences. The promotional phase that moves us to experiment with new things may lead us to believe that the advertised benefits are without cost or fundamental alteration of our professional and personal lives. Experience shows otherwise. Tenner's book is valuable because it contributes to the growing body of literature on the system-wide effects of our devices, thus their "ecology". Ironically, as he argues, intervention in natural processes (such as the control of forest-fires) means greater long-term involvement, necessitating more rather than less vigilance. The cognitive scientist Andy Clark has asserted somewhat humorously that "We use intelligence to structure our environment so that we can succeed with less intelligence. We make the world smart so that we can be dumb in peace" (Putting Brain, Body, and the World Together Again, MIT Press, 1996). Tenner's argument suggests on the contrary that we cannot afford to be dumb, at least not for a long time to come. One might, however, wish for less of the anthropomorphic in the book. Tenner's notion that "technology" has its "revenge" on us, depicted on the cover of the paperback edition by a coiled power cord rearing up in the posture of a cobra, is an amusing but dangerous conceit. We already indulge too much in the apotheosis of our own devices, as if the benefits and threats were not of our own making. From: Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0589 book reviews? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1009 (1009) Yes, definitely, to Humanist reviewing relevant books. I just got Cairncross' Death of Distance, based on a review I read in one of the online newspapers I peruse - the Times (London), I think. To have a single source for reviews on books of interest to humanists would be a boon indeed. Peter From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu> Subject: Book Reviews on Humanist Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 19:34:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1010 (1010) Willard, I think the idea of book reviews on Humanist is a very good one! I will probably need a higher credit card limit for orders through amazon.com but that is one of the prices of progress! All the best! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Information Technology Services Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu Co-Chair, SBL Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts From: "F. Levy" <flevy@u.washington.edu> Subject: reviews Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 19:35:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1011 (1011) Willard: It sounds like a good idea, but it would be easier for me to judge if you'd mention a clutch of the titles you have in mind. Fritz Levy Department of History, Box 353560 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98105 (206) 543-5790 (dept. office) (206) 543-9451 (dept. fax) From: Toby Burrows <tburrows@library.uwa.edu.au> Subject: Re: 11.0589 book reviews? Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:42:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1012 (1012) Dr McCarty, I think this is a very worthwhile idea. The number of books relevant to Humanist subscribers is growing at an exponential rate - and range from the technical to the more cultural / speculative / scholarly. For example, I've just completed a review article covering eleven books on SGML and XML published in the last six months (and there were others I missed!). To have a regular book announcement/reviews service would be very helpful. Let's keep the reviews shorter rather than longer, though! I'd be happy to help in some way, though Australia may be a bit far removed from the action! Toby Burrows ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr Toby Burrows Principal Librarian, The Scholars' Centre The University of Western Australia Library Nedlands 6907, Western Australia E-mail: tburrows@library.uwa.edu.au Facsimile: + 61 8 9380 1128 Telephone: + 61 8 9380 2358 WWW: <a href="http://docker.library.uwa.edu.au/~tburrows/">http://docker.library.uwa.edu.au/~tburrows/</a> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: Orth_Michael_P/cpslo_employee1@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu Subject: 11.0589 book reviews? Date: Thu, 19 Feb 98 11:08:58 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1013 (1013) Yes, I'd like them--but with a journalistic word limit (good stuff first, then details the editor can cut off) of say 500 words. And with categories in the subject line, so we can avoid books on vegetarian ideals or homeopathy in the future, if we choose? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Last call Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:05:44 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1014 (1014) From: Richard Zuber <rz@ccr.jussieu.fr> Final call for papers for the second conference on (PREFERABLY) NON-LEXICAL SEMANTICS The conference will be hosted by the University of Paris 7 (France), and will take place in May 28-30, 1998 There will be three one hour talks by invited speakers (E. Zimmermann, S. Tsohatzidis and X.) and the rest of the talks will be contributed papers chosen by the program committee on selection basis. Submissions of abstracts (in English or in French) for 30-minute contributed talks (with 10 additional minutes for discussion) on any topic in the semantic analysis of natural languages, with strong preference for non-lexical semantics, are welcome. Authors should submit 5 copies of (so called "anonymous") abstracts, no more than two pages (but not significantly less than 2 pages) long. Data allowing us to identify and contact the author (or authors) should be given separately. E-mail submissions will be accepted (only when in LaTex, Word or PS). In this case authors shoud send a title page with authors' name, etc. in addition to the anonymous two page abstract. Abstract deadline: March 17, 1998. Send abstract to: Conf=E9rence de S=E9mantique c/o R. Zuber Universite Paris 7 UFR LINGUISTIQUE Case 7003 2 Place Jussieu 75251 Paris Cedex 05, =46rance The e-mail address to which the abstracts should be sent: rz@ccr.jussieu.fr. This is also the e-mail address for inquiries. The program of the conference will be completed around the 17th of April at which time conference information will be made available. For organizational reasons we would like to be able to estimate the number of submissions and possible participants well in advance. For this reason we invite any person which would like to submit an abstract or to attend the conference to let us know as soon as possible (by e-mail). Program Committee: R. Zuber - chair (CNRS, Paris), F. Corblin (University of Rennes), B. Laca (University of Strasbourg), D. Lacombe, (University of Paris 7), F. Recanati (CNRS, Paris), D. Wilson (CREA, Paris and University College, London) From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Coling-ACL'98 Workshops CFPs Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:09:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1015 (1015) [deleted quotation] Below are two Coling-ACL'98 Workshop Calls for Papers: - The Computational Treatment of Nominals - Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems They are seperated by: ************************************************************************ [Apologies if you see this more than once.] Call for papers Coling-ACL '98 workshop "The Computational Treatment of Nominals" August 16, 1998 Universit=C8 de Montr=C8al Montr=C8al/Canada <a href="http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~federica/workshops/coling/call.html">http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~federica/workshops/coling/call.html</a> This workshop aims at bringing together researchers who are interested in the study of the computational properties of nominals and noun phrases. The focus is on representational questions as they relate directly to NLP requirements and applications. Understanding the properties of the nominal system is extremely important since nouns and nominalizations are used extensively by both people and systems: searching and communicating with either a telegraphic or a more expressive language involves heavy use of nominal forms. A number of NLP applications, ranging from "intelligent" key-word search to text summarization and information extraction, among others, not only require some way of recognizing nominal forms, but also require at least a shallow understanding of the semantic information that nouns carry. It is therefore of great interest to consider what impact representing semantic knowledge at a finer level of granularity would have towards enhancing a system's performance. Submissions are invited on one or more of the following topics: * Representation of nominals: o design of noun ontologies for use in lexical semantics and machine translation o ambiguity, polysemy, vagueness, and underspecification in the semantics of nominals o identifying the minimal requirements for lexical representations * Representational issues in the acquisition of knowledge: o from corpora o from MRDs o syntactic and morphological bootstrapping o semantic boostrapping (role of prepositions, arguments, etc.) * Role of representations for the interpretation of nominals: o techniques for recovering implicit information in nominals o interpretation and generation of nominals in descriptions of events and abstract objects in discourse o recovering implicit semantic relations in nominal compounds o defining implicit semantic relations between nominalizations and the forms they are derived from Organizing Committee =46ederica Busa (Brandeis University) Inderjeet Mani (The MITRE Corporation) Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT, Universit=C8 Paul Sabatier) Submission Information * Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above. * Maximum length is 8 pages (single-spaced) including figures and references. * Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). * Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. * LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by COLING-ACL'98: <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty</a> * Authors should send 5 copies in either electronic (PostScript or Latex) or hard-copy format to: Federica Busa Computer Science Department Volen Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 U.S.A. federica@cs.brandeis.edu Criteria for selection will include clarity, originality, relevance, and significance of results. Important Deadlines * Deadline for submission: March 15th, 1998 * Notification of authors: May 1st, 1998 * Final versions due: June 1, 1998 Program Committee * Federica Busa (Brandeis University) * Jean Mark Gawron (SRI International) * Bob Ingria (Psyche Systems Corporation) * Beth Levin (Northwestern University) * Inderjeet Mani (The MITRE Corporation) * Paul Portner (Georgetown University) * James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) * Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT, Universit=C8 Paul Sabatier) * Antonio Sanfilippo (SHARP Laboratories of Europe) * Evelyne Viegas (CRL, New Mexico State University) * Piek Vossen (University of Amsterdam) ------------------------ Dr. Inderjeet Mani Phone: 703-883-6149 Principal Scientist Fax: 703-883-1379 The MITRE Corporation, W640, 11493 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, Virginia 22090 ***************************************************************************** ...................................................................... Due to some construction problems one of the large machines here had to be shut down, threfore I had to change the URL of the workshop to: <a href="http://www.ai.sri.com/~harabagi/coling-acl98/acl_work/acl_work.html">http://www.ai.sri.com/~harabagi/coling-acl98/acl_work/acl_work.html</a> Sorry for the inconvenience, Sanda Harabagiu CALL FOR PAPERS ===Coling-ACL '98 Workshop == "Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems" August 16, 1998 Universite de Montreal Montreal, Canada Lexicons are indispensable resources for almost every natural language project. To date, WordNet 1.5 represents the largest publicly available on-line lexical resource, already used in various applications of the human language technology. Systems performing word sense disambiguation, information extraction or retrieval, prepositional attachment, interpretation of nominalizations, textual summarization, coreference resolution, abductive reasoning conversational implicature, recognition of textual cohesion and coherence, intelligent Internet searches and some of the digital libraries projects use WordNet. This workshop intends to bring together researchers that use WordNet in different systems and to focus on two particular issues: (a) how to customize the knowledge derived from WordNet for various NLP applications and (b) how to derive methods that infer semantic information using WordNet. The contributions might address one or more of the following questions: * What are the NLP applications for which WordNet is a valuable resource and how much effort was involved to integrate it in your systems? * Is WordNet used to build ad-hoc ontologies? What are the applications that use WordNet-derived ontologies? * How can WordNet be used to develop a word sense disambiguation algorithm of high performance? * How to extend WordNet for identifying thematic roles and resolving verb polysemy? * What minimal customization should be implemented to use WordNet for a large-scale abductive reasoning system? * Is WordNet a lexical knowledge base that can be easily used to adjust Information Extraction systems across domains? * Are the lexico-semantic relations from WordNet a valid base for developing an extended coreference task for information extraction, and what are the possible methodologies? * How can WordNet be mined to find textual implied information and what is the degree of plausibility of the returned information? * What are the approaches of using the extensive linguistic knowledge of WordNet to derive the discourse structure of a text; can it be the only knowledge source and if not, what additional knowledge may be used? * What is the current performance boost provided by WordNet in the systems using it? Could your systems perform without WordNet? * What are the desirable features of WordNet for your system, and what would be the predicted performance increase when having them? _____________________________________________________________________ Organizing committee The workshop is organized by Sanda Harabagiu (SRI International) Joyce Yue Chai (Duke University) _____________________________________________________________________ HOME PAGE: <a href="http://www.ai.sri.com/~harabagi/link_paper/chpt/acl_work.html">http://www.ai.sri.com/~harabagi/link_paper/chpt/acl_work.html</a> _____________________________________________________________________ Requirements for submission Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above. Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL: <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty</a> Papers can be submitted either electronically in PostScript format, or as hardcopies. Submissions should be sent to: Sanda Harabagiu SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A. (Ph) (650) 859-3852 harabagi@ai.sri.com _____________________________________________________________________ Timetable Deadline for electronic submissions: March 10, 1998 Deadline for hardcopy submissions: March 13 (arrival date) Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1998 Final manuscripts due: June 12, 1998 _____________________________________________________________________ Program committee Alan Biermann (Duke University) Joyce Chai (Duke University) Martin Chodorow (New York University) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University) Fernando Gomez (University of Central Florida) Ken Haase (MIT) Sanda Harabagiu (SRI International) Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) Claudia Leacock (Educational Testing Service) Mitch Marcus (University of Pennsylvania) George A. Miller (Princeton University) Dan Moldovan (Southern Methodist University) Hwee Tou Ng (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore) Philip Resnik (University of Maryland) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Teaching And Language Corpora 1998 Subject: TALC98: Second Call for Proposals Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:57:21 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1016 (1016) *-*-*-*-*-*-* T A L C 98 *-*-*-*-*-*-* Teaching And Language Corpora 1998 Keble College, Oxford, 24 - 27 July 1998 Second Call for Proposals * NOTE EXTENDED DEADLINE * The use of large computer-held corpora of real language, no longer novel in linguistic research, is increasingly a focus of attention for language teachers. Experiments in data driven learning and corpus-based methods are beginning to bear fruit in a wide range of language teaching environments. This international conference will bring together practitioners and theorists with a common interest in the usability of corpus data for such purposes as: * language teaching and learning * student-centred learning and investigation * cross-linguistic comparison * cultural and historical studies Following the highly successful TALC94 and TALC96 conferences at Lancaster University, TALC98 invites proposals for position papers, reports of work in progress, case-histories of successful corpus applications, and introductions to relevant new resources. The programme will include plenary lectures from Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford) and from Jeremy Clear (Cobuild). Other speakers will include: Guy Aston (Bologna); Lou Burnard (Oxford); Prof Michael Hoey (Liverpool); Knut Hofland (Bergen); Bernhard Kettemann (Graz); Tony McEnery (Lancaster); Chris Tribble (Warsaw). For further details, please read the conference web site at <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98/">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98/</a>, or send enquiries by email to talc98@oucs.ox.ac.uk. Timetable Abstracts (500 - 1000 words) should be submitted to arrive by 20 March 1998. All proposals will be reviewed. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 10 April 1998. The programme will be finalised during May 1998. Full papers (up to 5000 words) must be received by 1 June for inclusion in the conference pre-print volume. The conference will run from lunchtime on Friday 24 July to lunchtime on Monday July 27th, with a single strand of presentations. There will be a book and software exhibit in parallel. Venue and cost Keble College is located in the heart of Oxford, one of the most beautiful University cities in Europe, which is easily accessible by road, rail, or air from most major cities. All delegates will be accomodated in modern fully-equipped study-bedrooms within a few minutes walk of the conference centre and all facilities. A single fee of approximately 350 pounds will be charged, covering meals and accomodation, registration, proceedings, and social events for the whole conference. How to submit a proposal Proposals for papers should include the following * Authors full name and affiliation * Title of proposal * Contact details (Email, URL, phone, fax, postal) * 500 to 1000 words description of the proposed presentation Proposals may be sent via the web page at <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98/proposals.html">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98/proposals.html</a> or by email,fax, or post, using the form below ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REMINDER: The closing date for applications is now 20 March 1998 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * * * * * * * * * TALC98 PROPOSAL * * * * * * * * * * * Name: Affiliation: Title of proposal: Email: URL: Telephone: Fax: Contact address: Abstract (500 to 1000 words): PLEASE RETURN COMPLETED FORMS TO TALC98, Humanities Computing Unit, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK email: talc98@oucs.ox.ac.uk fax: +44 1865 273 275 From: "K. C. Cameron" <K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0593 conferences Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:54:07 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1017 (1017) UNIVERSITY OF EXETER CALL FOR PAPERS 19-21 APRIL 1999 The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early-Modern France It is intended to hold a three-day colloquium on the above topic (see below for more ample details) at the University of Exeter in April 1999. It will provide an opportunity to discuss more fully issues raised by the celebrations surrounding the quatercentenary of the Edict of Nantes. The organisers (Mark Greengrass, Sheffield; Penny Roberts, Warwick; and Keith Cameron, Exeter) invite you to submit abstracts of papers for consideration as soon as possible. The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early-Modern France This colloquium is to be held in the year which follows the 400th anniversary of the pacification at Nantes in 1598 which brought the French 'wars of religion' to a close. It cannot be termed however, a conventional 'commemorative' conference (as the date suggests), for there are many, lavishly conceived conferences of this king currently being planned for 1998 in France. Simple commemoration is not a sufficient reason for studying a historical and cultural event. A significant historical - and cultural - problem (and one that is currently exercising the minds of historians and literary historians) is, however, worth defining and studying collectively. This is planned as a working colloquium where the atmosphere will be convivial and informal. It will aim to publish subsequently a volume of studies. The 'problem' is one that has been created by strong historiographical traditions. On the one hand, there is a residual and powerful protestant, confessional tradition that interprets the Edict of Nantes as one of the defining moments in its history. The pacification was the moment when legitimate testant rights of identity were recognised. At the same time, the edict contained within it the seeds of the later, and inevitable, betrayal and revocation. Bourbon and royalist traditions interpret the edict as a triumphal 'politique' act that enabled the absolute monarchy to reunite France at a critical moment and lay the foundations for the consolidation of the French state in the seventeenth century. The difficulty with these traditions is that they rely for their interpretative weight upon a retrospective writing of the past. Our problem is to recreate the sense of 'adventure' into the unknown that was associated with the edicts of pacification. How was it that the largest and most coherent monarchy in Europe could possibly contemplate the acceptance and integration of a substantial religious minority into the realm? It would have been much easier to have attempted the kind of religious pluralism afforded by the German Reich after 1555, or later in the Netherlands, where religious diversity was eventually secured by degrees of political separation. Integrative pluralism of the kind attempted by the French state was a much more ambitious adventure altogether. The fact that the French state embarked upon such an adventure leads us to ask complementary questions about the nature of that state as well as early-modern French society and its cultural life. How were the edicts of pacification enforced in practical terms? We know that everything in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe was mediated and 'brokered'. How did this process work for the edicts of pacification? Were there greater degrees of pluralism in its intellectual life than we have previously imagined? What comparisons can be drawn between the privileges granted to other groups in society and those granted to the Huguenots? Can regional or local examples tell us more about the practical degrees of toleration that existed and upon which the edicts of pacification built? Can cultural and literary historians explain more clearly for us how the conservative legal traditions of France managed to justify to themselves and others this extraordinary adventure into what must have seemed like dangerous plurality? The sessions at the colloquium will depend to some degree on the papers that we secure. We shall invite participants to prepare outline synopses of papers of about 6,000 words in length which they will be asked to summarise in 20 minute presentations. Each session of two or three such papers will have a commentator who will have read the papers in their entirety and prepare a commentary on them to focus our discussion. Those who are interested in participating are also invited to submit synopses independently for consideration by the conference organisers. There may be limited funds available to defray the costs of post-graduate or post-doctoral students. The draft programme will be available in September 1998. The final programme will be circulated in January 1998. Accommodation will be provided in the recently built Post-Graduate Centre situated on the main campus of Exeter University. If you are interested in attending please complete and return the reservation slip. Invoices will be issued on 1 December 1998 and, for administrative reasons, we expect payment by 15 January 1999. If you wish to pay in advance of this date you may do so making your cheque/money order payable to the University of Exeter. The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early-Modern France April 19-21 1999 NAME ............................................... ADDRESS ............................................... ............................................... ............................................... . .............................................. ............................................... I wish to attend the The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early-Modern France Colloquium on April 19-21 1999 Resident / Non-Resident Please invoice me Total cost for full board and conference fee £130 (pounds sterling) Total cost for meals only and conference fee £85 (pounds sterling) Please return to: Keith Cameron, Queen's Building, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH. Tel: (0)1392 264221 FAX: (0)1392 264222 E/mail: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk ------------- Keith Cameron Professor of French and Renaissance Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts Editor of: - Computer Assisted Language Learning, (<a href="http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/call.html">http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/call.html</a>); - Exeter Textes litteraires, (<a href="http://www.ex.ac.uk/uep/french.htm">http://www.ex.ac.uk/uep/french.htm</a>); - Exeter Tapes, (<a href="http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/staff/cameron/ExTapes.html">http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/staff/cameron/ExTapes.html</a>); - EUROPA-on line & European Studies Series, (<a href="http://www.intellect-net.com/europa/index.htm">http://www.intellect-net.com/europa/index.htm</a>); - Elm Bank Modern Language Series, (<a href="http://www.intellect-net.com/elm-bank">http://www.intellect-net.com/elm-bank</a>) Department of French, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, G.B. WWW (<a href="http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/">http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/</a>) Tel: 01392 264221 / + 44 1392 264221;Fax: 01392 264222 / + 44 (19) 1392 264222 E/mail: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0589 book reviews? Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:14:56 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1018 (1018) The Content-Provider as Colleague: Creating Institutional Spaces for New Media Teaching and Research A session at the 1998 MLA in San Francisco, sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities <<a href="http://www.ach.org/">http://www.ach.org/</a>>. This panel will address the apparent contradiction between the casual enthusiasm for new media technologies increasingly evident among members of the profession, and the material resistance scholars working with those very same technologies often encounter when attempting to secure professional rewards, departmental support, and administrative commitments. The panel rests on the assumption that without sufficient institutional space (and time) for new media work, humanities computing will cede current footholds in literary and cultural studies to the commercial infotainment industry. Possible topics include: the professional demographics of new media teaching and research; hiring/tenure/promotion prospects in humanities computing and the new media; curriculum development for humanities computing and new media degree programs; _funding_; collaboration with computer science departments, libraries, and the campus computing infrastructure; cooperative ventures with commercial publishers and hardware/software developers; technology and academic labor issues; dealing with administrators who are skeptical of new technologies; dealing with administrators who embrace new technologies as cost-effective short-cuts to teaching and research; what organizations like the ACH, the ACW, and the MLA can (and can't) do; and futurology: where humanities computing will (and won't) be in the next century. Preference will be given to those papers which promise to combine workable institutional strategies for supporting new media teaching and research with an effective analysis of the material conditions of technology (and technologists) in English or other modern language departments. A response to the panel will be delivered by Joseph Tabbi, Department of English, University of Illinois, Chicago. Professor Tabbi writes on contemporary fiction and media studies, and is the founding editor of _ebr_ (the _electronic book review_ <<a href="http://www.altx.com/ebr/">http://www.altx.com/ebr/</a>>). Send 1-2 page abstracts and short CV by March 13 to: mgk3k@virginia.edu or Matthew Kirschenbaum Department of English 219 Bryan Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 Panelists need not be members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities; however, all panelists must be members of the Modern Language Association by no later than April 1, 1998. Further information about this session will be available from <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/</a>>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cbailey@UH.EDU> Subject: Version 16, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 22:16:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1019 (1019) Version 16 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 600 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: <URL:<a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html</a>> Acrobat: <URL:<a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf</a>> Word: <URL:<a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc</a>> The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 180 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements 5.3 Other Legal Issues* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. <URL:<a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm</a>> <URL:<a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Fodor on Pinker Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 08:12:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1020 (1020) John Lavagnino has kindly pointed me to Jerry Fodor's very fine, lucid and typically funny, review of Steven Pinker, How the mind works, and Henry Plotkin, Evolution in mind, "The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism", London Review of Books, <<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20n02/fodo2002.html">http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20n02/fodo2002.html</a>>, or by clicking via <<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/">http://www.lrb.co.uk/</a>> in the frames version. This is worth reading for several reasons, among them to see the value of stating clearly what we don't know -- in fact the value of stating clearly. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" <brians@mail.wsu.edu> Subject: Articles on doing Internet research and publication Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:42:46 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1021 (1021) I've written an article describing my experiences doing collaborative research and publication via the Internet (for my Satanic Verses notes at <<a href="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/satanic_verses/">http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/satanic_verses/</a>>). Before I start sending it out to journals, I need to catch up on what other people have published on the subject: articles about what makes research using the Internet different in terms of resources, priority, collaboration, documentation and review. I want to be sure to cite any previous work that anticipates mine. I would welcome suggestions of articles and books that are essential. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu <a href="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians">http://www.wsu.edu/~brians</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." <bralich@hawaii.edu> Subject: JAVA SPEECH API Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:53:36 -1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1022 (1022) The following will be of interest to all those working in speech and/or NLP. You may have heard that Sun is about to release its Javaspeech API that can use all the major speech rec programs, but you may not be aware that there are already test versions available at their web site, and that they have estpablished an email discussion group for those who are interested. WEB SITE <a href="http://www.javasoft.com/marketing/collateral/speech.html">http://www.javasoft.com/marketing/collateral/speech.html</a> EMAIL LIST address: javamedia-request@sun.com message: subscribe javaspeech-interest or subscribe javaspeech-announce Here is a brief quote from that site: [deleted quotation] Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: neologisms Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:34:48 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1023 (1023) Many Humanists will, I am sure, be delighted to find that the Research and Development for English Studies, University of Liverpool, is "providing a series of lists of neologisms in context for the benefit of teachers of English language", at <<a href="http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/newwds.html">http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/newwds.html</a>>. Their source is the Independent, for which see <<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/">http://www.independent.co.uk/</a>>. Some of you will know about the research behind the detection of neologisms and of their use to track the process of word- and expression-formation in English over time; a bibliography is provided at <<a href="http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/newwds/aviator_bibl.html">http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/newwds/aviator_bibl.html</a>>. What's online is most entertaining, but the possibilities for taking the pulse of the public, as it were, has all sorts of implications. If we betray what we're thinking about through word-usage in our newspapers, then we can be offered what we are already giving signs that we want, yes? WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: MUSEUMS & THE WEB: Two Announcements Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:31:25 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1024 (1024) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 23, 1998 MUSEUMS & THE WEB: BEST OF THE WEB CONTEST <<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_best.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_best.html</a>> * * * MUSEUMS & THE WEB: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR ONLINE ART EXHIBIT: "Beyond Interface: net art and Art on the Net" <<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_dietz.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_dietz.html</a>> DEADLINE: MARCH 9, 1998 As the MUSEUMS & THE WEB conference nears (April 22-25, Toronto) and the deadline for discounted registration (Feb. 28) is only days away, here are two reminders of conference events: the popular "Best of the Web" contest for museum web sites (six categories, including "Best Overall," won last year by San Francisco's Exploratorium <www.exploratorium.org>), and an innovative online exhibit, "Beyond Interface," for works of art "for which the Net is both a sufficient and necessary condition of viewing/experiencing/participating." David Green ============== MUSEUMS & THE WEB: BEST OF THE WEB CONTEST <<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_best.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_best.html</a>> [deleted quotation]Dear MW97 Attendee: Once again, the 1998 Best of the Web Contest will be held in conjunction with Museums and the Web <<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/</a>>, the only international conference devoted to museums' use of the World Wide Web. Museums and the Web 1998 will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 22-25, 1998. Three full days of conference sessions (April 23-25, 1998) explore issues and controversies, highlight museum applications, and take an in-depth look at particular uses of the Web at exceptional museum sites. Pre-conference events include behind-the-scenes visits to Toronto museums and a series of detailed and hands-on workshops. The full program is available at the conference web site: <<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/</a>>. In 1997, Museums and the Web attracted over 400 participants to Los Angeles to hear reports and analysis by over 50 speakers from 11 countries. This year, over 600 people are expected to participate in a more extensive program featuring over 60 speakers from 16 countries. This conference draws the museum professionals from around the world responsible for innovative museum web-based projects and programs. The Best of the Web contest recognises this effort and achievement. Awards will be made by an international panel of judges, representing the spectrum of those involved in web site development in museums including previous winners, students, artists and initiators of innovative projects. The criteria used for evaluation of the best museum Web sites will be based on the draft Criteria for Evaluating Museum Multimedia (see <<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/cidoc/cidoc.mmwg.eval.crit.html">http://www.archimuse.com/cidoc/cidoc.mmwg.eval.crit.html</a>>) put together by the ICOM/CIDOC Multimedia Working Group in Nuremburg in Sept. 1997. We encourage you to register for the conference (see <<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/</a>> ) and to return the on-line nomination form (<<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_best.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_best.html</a>>). The winners will be announced at the opening ceremony in Toronto. Prizes include free registration at Museums and the Web 99 for the institution judged Best Overall. Rewarding innovative projects, whose conception illustrates the possibilities for future designs on the Web is a the concern for all involved in museum web projects. Please join me in ensuring that the Best of the Web is a great venue for this. If you have any queries do not hesitiate to contact me, Sarah Kenderdine <sibk@xtra.co.nz>, or the Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman <dbear@archimuse.com> and Jennifer Trant <jtrant@archimuse.com> of Archives & Museum Informatics. Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you. Sarah Kenderdine Coordinator, Best of the Web Museums and the Web 1998 ********************************************************************** Sarah Kenderdine curator 14 Tinakori Rd ph: 00 64 4 4726372 Thorndon e-mail: sibk@xtra.co.nz Wellington New Zealand ********************************************************************** MUSEUMS & THE WEB: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR ONLINE ART EXHIBIT: "Beyond Interface: net art and Art on the Net" <<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_dietz.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_dietz.html</a>> DEADLINE: MARCH 9, 1998 [deleted quotation] Call for submissions: "Beyond Interface: net art and Art on the Net" For many institutions, "art on the net" is putting images of works in their collections on the Web. For many practitioners, digital media are a tool that allow the recreation of familiar strategies of traditional art practices or the Web is little more than another venue, a delivery mechanism. "Beyond Interface" is an online exhibition of juried and curated net art projects for which the Net is both a sufficient and necssary condition of viewing/experiencing/participating. "Beyond Interface" occurs in conjunction with Museums and the Web: An International Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 22-25, 1998 (<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/</a>). There will be an accompanying online discussion forum from April 4 to May 10, 1998. See also <<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_dietz.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_dietz.html</a>>. Submit URLs of specific projects for consideration to <beyondinterface@yproductions.com> by March 9, 1998. Organizing Curator Steve Dietz, Walker Art Center Jury/Steering Committee Remo Campopiano, artnetweb Craig Harris, Leonardo Electronic Almanac Susan Hazan, The Israel Museum Greg Lam Niemeyer, Stanford University Digital Art Center Chris Locke, University College, London Pedro Meyer, ZoneZero Randall Packer, San Jose Museum of Art Laura Trippi, independent curator Paul Vanouse, Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Institutional affiliations are for identification only. Museums and the Web is organised by Archives & Museum Informatics and Sponsored by the Canadian Heritage Information Network. ** ** Steve Dietz || YProductions ** ** Director of New Media Initiatives || 24680 Smithtown Rd. **** Walker Art Center || Shorewood, MN 55331 ** 612 375-7686 voice || 612 401-0330 voice ** 612 375-7575 fax || sd@yproductions.com ** <a href="http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/">http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/</a> From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: George Washington Papers & Spanish-American War Movies on American Memory Site Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:48:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1025 (1025) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 23, 1998 NEW COLLECTIONS ON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS' AMERICAN MEMORY SITE George Washington Papers 1741-1799 <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html</a>> The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html</a>> Two new collections have recently been posted to the Library of Congress' AMERICAN MEMORY site. One is the Manuscript Division's first of eight installments of the complete George Washington papers in the form of letterbooks. The material is accompanied by a time line, brief essays and a bibliography. The second is mounted by the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division and comprises 53 motion pictures from the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, produced between 1898 and 1901. This was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role and this web presentation will eventually contain 68 motion pictures together with sound recordings. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the Manuscript Division announce the online publication of the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress on the American Memory Collections homepage: <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html</a>> This first release includes forty-one letterbooks (about 8,000) pages from among 65,000 items to be published online within the next two years. Included in the collection as a whole are correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes, accumulated by Washington from 1741 through 1799. The Library of Congress Manuscript Division holds 85-90% of extant Washington documents. Washington's life as a Virginia county surveyor, as colonel of the militia during the French and Indian Wars, his election as a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, and his command of the American Army during the Revolution, and two presidential administrations are well documented. Because of the breadth of Washington's activities, his papers are a rich source for almost every aspect of colonial and early American history, social and cultural, as well as political. The Washington Papers was digitized from the Library of Congress microfilm of the collection. Documents are presented online as GIF images and also as 200 dpi grayscale JPEG images. Transcriptions, provided for most documents, are from copyright available published editions of the Washington Papers. Reference aids include a selected bibliography, time line or chronology with links to relevant documents, educational essays about the George Washington Papers, and technical information on the digitization of the collection and transcriptions. Project Coordinators Martha Anderson Laura Graham (lgrah@loc.gov) National Digital Library Program Library of Congress The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures ============ The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division announce the new online presentation, The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures, available through the American Memory collections at the Library's home page (<a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov">http://lcweb.loc.gov</a>), or directly at: <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html</a> Fifty-three films made from 1898 to 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection are featured in this first release, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the battleship U.S.S. Maine. Fifteen more films will be added in April 1998, along with selected sound recordings related to the war. The Spanish-American War is notable for being the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role. The films presented were made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, and consist of actualities filmed in the U.S., Cuba, and the Philippines, showing troops, ships, notable figures, and parades, as well as reenactments of battles and other war-time events. A special presentation, entitled "The Motion Picture Camera Goes to War: the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection," lists the films in chronological order and offers essays that provide an historical context for the filming of the motion pictures. Comprehensive catalog records are also available for each film title. The motion pictures are available in MPEG and Quicktime formats for downloading and viewing. From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Digital Library Initiative-Phase 2 Welcomes Humanities Projects Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:00:31 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1026 (1026) ****************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 23, 1998 DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE--PHASE 2 ANNOUNCED <<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm</a>> * * * $50 MILLION MAJOR GRANT OPPORTUNITY INCLUDES ARTS & HUMANITIES * * * NEH, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, SMITHSONIAN & NARA PARTNER WITH NSF, NASA & OTHERS ========= FOR NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR HUMANITIES RELEASE SEE: <<a href="http://www.neh.gov/html/guidelin/dli2.html">http://www.neh.gov/html/guidelin/dli2.html</a>> Below is a preliminary posting of a major national grant opportunity for the cultural community interested in expanding research and demonstration projects in networking our cultural resources. Awards for individual investigators can reach $200,000 a year for 1 to 3 years. Multi-disciplinary group research projects can reach $1,200,000 per year, for 1 to 5 years. The National Endowment for the Humanities is a full partner with the National Science Foundation and other sponsors of this second phase of the "Digital Libraries Initiative." [For the projects funded in the first phase of DLI, see <<a href="http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/DLHome.html">http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/DLHome.html</a>>.] In its announcement, the NEH invites the community to consider making proposals in a range of areas. It suggests "projects that focus on issues important to the effective creation, use, and preservation of digitized humanities collections." As part of this grant initiative, NEH "could support the creation of testbeds comprising digitized humanities collections from libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations; the development and testing of metadata for describing and preserving access to digital humanities objects; and other activities that establish a clearer understanding of the ways in which digitized collections can be used for education, research, and public programming in the humanities." Letters of intent for the first of two rounds will be due by APRIL 15, 1998. Details of application workshops will be announced shortly. Although opportunities for individual projects abound, I trust that this community will spend considerable effort considering cross-sector, multi-disciplinary collaborative projects. Stay tuned for more information. Below I reproduce first the announcement on the NEH webpage and then the announcement from the National Science Foundation. David Green [deleted quotation] The Digital Library Initiative -- Phase II is conducted through the National Science Foundation in cooperation with federal agency sponsors and partners. The purpose of the initiative is to foster research and demonstration projects that promise to increase the useability of globally distributed, networked information resources. The initiative addresses the entire life cycle of digital information: its creation, accessibility, and preservation. Successful applicants will conduct research designed to open new areas of activity in the digital library field, demonstrate tools and methods for providing digitized information to a broad range of users, and explore ways of preserving access to digital information into the future. *DLI2 at NSF* As a sponsor of the digital library initiative, the National Endowment for the Humanities, through its Division of Preservation and Access, offers support for components of digital library projects that focus on issues important to the effective creation, use, and preservation of digitized humanities collections. NEH could support the creation of testbeds comprising digitized humanities collections from libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations; the development and testing of metadata for describing and preserving access to digital humanities objects; and other activities that establish a clearer understanding of the ways in which digitized collections can be used for education, research, and public programming in the humanities. ==================== [deleted quotation]Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 2 Announcement Number NSF 98-63 (NEW) See: <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm</a> DUE DATES: FY 1998 Competition - ------------------- Letters of Intent: April 15, 1998 Full Proposals: July 15, 1998 FY 1999 Competition - ------------------- Letters of Intent: February 15, 1999 Full Proposals: May 17, 1999 INTRODUCTION Innovative digital libraries research and applications will be jointly supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the Library of Congress (LoC), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and others. This announcement describes the goals and features of Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 2 (DLI-2), with particular attention on NSF interests and requirements. More detailed information on the domain-specific interests of the partnering agencies may be obtained from them. Within NSF, DLI-2 is administered by the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Supporting Directorates include the Directorate for Education and Human Resources and the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. Contacts for these and related activities at other agencies are referenced at the end of this announcement. The current effort extends the joint NSF/DARPA/NASA "Research on Digital Libraries Initiative". Since announcement of that initiative, digital libraries research and applications efforts have proliferated; new communities of researchers, information providers and users have become engaged; the definition of a digital library has evolved; technologies have advanced; stores of digital content have increased dramatically; and new research directions have emerged. These advances point to a future in which vast amounts of digital information will be easily accessible to and usable by large segments of the world's population. To help achieve this, the Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 2 plans to: * Selectively build on and extend research and testbed activities in promising digital libraries areas; * Accelerate development, management and accessibility of digital content and collections; * Create new capabilities and opportunities for digital libraries to serve existing and new user communities, including all levels of education; * Encourage the study of interactions between humans and digital libraries in various social and organizational contexts. Electronic information is being created by many people and data gathering instruments in many forms and formats, stored in many repositories around the world, and becoming increasingly interconnected via electronic networks. Digital libraries research is faced with the challenge of applying increasing computational capacity and network bandwidth to manage and bring coherence, usability, and accessibility to very large amounts of distributed complex data and transform it into information and knowledge. Since digital libraries are meant to provide intellectual access to stores of information, research in this initiative is concerned with developing concepts, technologies and tools to gain use of the fuller knowledge and meaning inherent in digital collections. For example, for users this means intelligent search, retrieval, organization and presentation tools and interfaces; for content and collections providers this means new information types, structures, document encoding and metadata for enhancing context; for system builders this means designing hardware and software systems capable of interpreting and implementing users' requests by locating, federating and querying collections to provide the user with the structured information sought. PROGRAM GOALS The primary purposes of this initiative are to provide leadership in research fundamental to the development of the next generation of digital libraries, to advance the use and usability of globally distributed, networked information resources, and to encourage existing and new communities to focus on innovative applications areas. Since digital libraries can serve as intellectual infrastructure, this Initiative looks to stimulate partnering arrangements necessary to create next-generation operational systems in such areas as education, engineering and design, earth and space sciences, biosciences, geography, economics, and the arts and humanities. It will address the digital libraries life cycle from information creation, access and use, to archiving and preservation. Research to gain a better understanding of the long term social, behavioral and economic implications of and effects of new digital libraries capabilities in such areas of human activity as research, education, commerce, defense, health services and recreation is an important part of this initiative. Collaboration between academic, industry, non-profit and other organizations is strongly encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental science and technologies development and use, through partnerships among researchers, applications developers and users. ...... CATEGORIES OF SUPPORT All awards for this announcement made by NSF will be as grants or cooperative agreements to academic institutions and qualified non-profit research organizations. Partnership arrangements with other groups are encouraged, including subcontracts with the single proposing organization. NSF expects to fund two general types of projects under this initiative: 1. Individual investigator research grants. Awards will not exceed $200,000 per year, for 1 to 3 years. 2. Multi-disciplinary group research projects. Awards will not exceed $1,200,000 per year, for 1 to 5 years. The number of awards will depend on the quality of proposals received, the availability of funds, and considerations for creating a balanced overall program. Total support for the initiative from federal sponsors is projected to be $40-$50 million over the 5 year Initiative. Awards will not exceed $1,200,000 per year, except in exceptional circumstances. Ideas for projects requiring support above this level should be discussed with the NSF program officer before proposal preparation. **************************************************************** Please see the full announcement for additional information. **************************************************************** NOTES: 1. We are seeking CREATIVE proposals at ALL levels that will significantly advance digital libraries research. I would like to encourage the Information and Data Management Program community to play an active role in the conception of innovative DLI proposals. 2. Although there is overlap between Knowledge and Distibuted Intelligence (KDI), Program Annoucement NSF 98-55 (<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf9855">http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf9855</a>), in particular its Knowledge Networking component, and Digital Libraries, note that the Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) is strongly interested in collections and users. Proposals for DLI should involve people making use of information (or make it clear that users' needs are the driving motivation of the proposed research). KDI is a fundamental research support program which does not stress collections of information. All KDI proposals, however, must be interdisciplinary. If the focus of a proposal is on information or user communities which now exist, it may be better in DLI; if the focus is on the creation of new information or communities, it is perhaps better in KDI. 3. Inquiries: Stephen M. Griffin Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Program Director: Special Projects Digital Libraries Initiative - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mail: National Science Foundation | e-mail: sgriffin@nsf.gov 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 1115 | phone: (703) 306-1930 Arlington, VA 22230 | fax: (703) 306-0599 - ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Information on DLI - Phase I projects, see: <a href="http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/DLHome.html">http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/DLHome.html</a> =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ============================================================== From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: COPYRIGHT UPDATES Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:05:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1027 (1027) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 23, 1998 The American Library Association's Washington Office has reported that two copyright-related bills are scheduled for mark-up imminently. H.R. 2281, the Administration's supported "WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act," often characterized as minimalist and failing to mention many of the concerns of the cultural community, is scheduled to be considered by the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property this Thursday February 26. Subsequently, the "database" bill, H.R. 2652, the "Collection of Information Antipiracy Act," will be considered for mark-up on March 12. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Steve Dietz <stevedietz@yproductions.com> Subject: Exhibition call Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 02:22:43 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1028 (1028) Call for submissions: "Beyond Interface: net art and Art on the Net" For many institutions, "art on the net" is putting images of works in their collections on the Web. For many practitioners, digital media are a tool that allow the recreation of familiar strategies of traditional art practices or the Web is little more than another venue, a delivery mechanism. "Beyond Interface" is an online exhibition of juried and curated net art projects for which the Net is both a sufficient and necssary condition of viewing/experiencing/participating. "Beyond Interface" occurs in conjunction with Museums and the Web: An International Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 22-25, 1998 (<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/</a>). There will be an accompanying online discussion forum from April 4 to May 10, 1998. See also <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_dietz.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_dietz.html</a>. Submit URLs of specific projects for consideration to beyondinterface@yproductions.com by March 9, 1998. Organizing Curator Steve Dietz, Walker Art Center Jury/Steering Committee Remo Campopiano, artnetweb Craig Harris, Leonardo Electronic Almanac Susan Hazan, The Israel Museum Greg Lam Niemeyer, Stanford University Digital Art Center Chris Locke, University College, London Pedro Meyer, ZoneZero Randall Packer, San Jose Museum of Art Laura Trippi, independent curator Paul Vanouse, Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Institutional affiliations are for identification only. Museums and the Web is organised by Archives & Museum Informatics and Sponsored by the Canadian Heritage Information Network. ** ** Steve Dietz || YProductions ** ** Director of New Media Initiatives || 24680 Smithtown Rd. **** Walker Art Center || Shorewood, MN 55331 ** 612 375-7686 voice || 612 401-0330 voice ** 612 375-7575 fax || sd@yproductions.com ** <a href="http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/">http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: gatekeepers Date: Tue, 24 Feb 98 10:16:45 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1029 (1029) One of the problems of scholarship, particularly the publication of scholarship, is that of the postulant at the gate and the gatekeeper (not to sound too Kafka-esque). I write this partly in the pain of having two rejections in the same week, so you know where I am coming from. Robert Merton invented a thing he called "The Matthew Effect", based on Matthew's having said that "for unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance, but from him that hath not shall be taken away from that which he hath," or "them as got, gits." By this he means that people who publish a lot have a tendency to get their stuff published. It doesn't work that way. I went over 30 years without receiving a single rejection, now two in the same week. Having long since passed the biblical, I feel hurt and unwanted. Interesting also are the remarks: Article no. 1: "Hasn't kept up with the literature," article no. 2: "Too scholarly." I don't want to sound like the famous Harvard professor who, having failed to get a Ph.D. and being chidden for this, said "But who would examine me?" I have been on the other side of things, and I know the problems the editor faces. In fact, I just received an article to referee from a major journal in our field. I feel trepidatious about judging a colleague's work in view of my recent experiences. I wonder whether "refereed journal" is such a good thing. One often receives requests to judge a piece of work, and one can see that the editor had not a clue as to ones expertise. I have seen, horresco referens, graduate students given articles to referee. Everyone has someone telling them what to do, and the editor has to satisfy his superiors. He has deadlines, financial problems, unreasonable authors, etc., but many editors sound like St. Bernard's prelates. Power corrupts. The next problem is the so-called "vanity press." Most presses nowadays require a subvention on the part of the author of the book. What vanity? Of course, electronic publishing is always there, and in some cases I feel that one gets more readers that way. If one publishes on CD-ROM, one has at least control of mise-en-page and such things, and can do hypertext. And the guilt for poor work can be squarely placed on the author, who has not had to fight with adamantine editors or unswayable typesetters. Thank you for listening to me. As the old saying goes, this may not be well written, but it is true: se non e ben trovato, e vero. ! Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: MLA Session Call for Proposals Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:43:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1030 (1030) [deleted quotation] Proposals for papers for the following panel at the Modern Language Association's 1998 Convention in San Francisco are sought: Trails and Trials of Scholarship in the Digital Age What significant issues for scholars, publishers, and libraries are emerging as scholarly communication is transformed due to increasing digital literacy? How will new practices of peer review, critical editions, bibliographies, maintaining archives, and managing digital libraries affect the production and record of scholarship? Detailed proposals to Susanna Bartmann Pathak [sbpathak@hsc.vcu.edu] by March 10th. Susanna Bartmann Pathak Virginia Commonwealth Univ. Libraries From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Another Coling-ACL'98 Workshop CFP Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:45:18 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1031 (1031) [deleted quotation] [Apologies if you recieve multiple copies] Final CFP : DEADLINE March 23, 1998 First Workshop on Computational Terminology COMPUTERM'98 WHEN: August 15, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98) WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada) DESCRIPTION The workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers from the fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated translation, information retrieval and lexicography who share an interest in computational aspects of terminology processing: acquisition, extraction, indexing, machine-aided thesaurus building, dictionary construction, etc. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate the exchange of innovative ideas and results of diverse aspects of automatic term processing in order to bridge the gap between these fields. TOPICS The topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to): - Construction of terminology resources - Semi- or automatic acquisition of terms - Semi- or automatic acquisition of conceptual knowledge - Thesaurus construction and maintenance - Use of terminology resources (term banks, thesauri, specialized lexicons,...) - Terms in information retrieval (stemming, automatic indexing, query expansion, ...) - Multi-lingual terminological resources for cross-language IR - Terminology management in machine-aided translation - Terminology and NLP (parsing, tagging, text understanding, generation,...) - Terminology processing for other applications SUBMISSIONS Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-5000 words). Submissions should be sent: Didier Bourigault Laboratoire de Linguistique Informatique Universite Paris XIII Avenue J.-B. Clement F-93430 Villetaneuse France Style Files and Templates for Preparing Submissions <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html</a> The official language of the Conference is English. However, papers can also be submitted in French. The final version of the papers will be accompanied by two long abstracts in two different languages. All the presentation at the workshop will be given in English. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submission Deadline: March 23, 1998 Notification Date: May 15, 1998 Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey, UK) Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK) Peter Anick (Digital Equipment Corporation, USA) Teresa Cabre (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelone, Spain) Ken Church (AT&T Labs Research, USA) Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse, France) Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, USA) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Beatrice Daille (IRIN Nantes, France) Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Eric Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Stephanie Haas (University of North Carolina, USA) Benoit Habert (LIMSI & ENS Fontenay-St Cloud, France) Ulrich Heid (Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany) Kyo Kageura (NACSIS, Tokyo, Japan) Judith Klavans (Columbia Univesity, USA) Robert Krovetz (NEC Research Institute, USA) Robert Losee (University of North Carolina, USA) Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada) Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada) Padmini Srinivasan (The University of Iowa, USA) Tomek Strzalkowski (General Electric Company, USA) Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Labs Innovations, Lucent Technologies, USA) Richard Wojcik (Boeing Company, USA) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP & Universite Paris 6, France) ORGANIZERS Didier Bourigault (CNRS and Universite Paris XIII, Paris, France) Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI/CNRS, France) Marie-Claude L'Homme (Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada) EMAIL CONTACT mailto:db@lli.univ-paris13.fr, Christian.Jacquemin@iut-nantes.univ-nantes.fr, lhommem@ere.umontreal.ca WEBSITES COMPUTERM WORSHOP: <a href="http://tornade.ERE.UMontreal.CA:80/~lhommem/coling/computerm.html">http://tornade.ERE.UMontreal.CA:80/~lhommem/coling/computerm.html</a> COLING-ACL'98: <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Call for papers Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:46:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1032 (1032) [deleted quotation] The 20th Annual Conference of the Association for Integrative Studies will be held at the DoubleTree Hotel in downtown Detroit, Michigan, October 8-11, 1998. It is being co-sponsored by Wayne State University's Interdisciplinary Studies Program, in the College of Lifelong Learning, as part of their 25th anniversary. We invite you to submit paper proposals: CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline April 10, 1998 Proposals for the 1998 AIS Conference are invited on the theme of: Integrative Studies: Building Bridges across Disciplines and Cultures The conference will focus on the diversity of disciplinary, cultural, institutional, and organizational boundary-crossing. Submissions from graduate students are especially encouraged! We invite formal papers, panel discussions, workshops, round tables , book and research reviews, and poster sessions on topics such as: * the internationalization of interdisciplinarity * interdisciplinarity in the information age * knowledge, power, and interdisciplinarity * building active institutional partnerships * interdisciplinarity and adult education * interdisciplinary implications for social change * interdisciplinary curricula and the business community * the future of interdisciplinarity * preparing for interdisciplinary teaching * advancing interdisciplinary graduate criteria A proposal submission for is available at: <a href="http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/conf_1998_submiss.html">http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/conf_1998_submiss.html</a> To submit a proposal, send, FAX, or E-mail the information requested on the proposal submission form by April 10, 1998, to: Linda Hulber, AIS Conference Proposal Coordinator: Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Wayne State University, 2404 A.A.B., 5700 Cass Ave. Detroit, MI 48202 Phone:(313)577-6567 FAX: (313)577-8585 Email: LHulber@Cll.Wayne.Edu For more information about the conference, see: <a href="http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/conf_1998.html">http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/conf_1998.html</a> or contact Linda Hulbert. For information on the Association for Integrative Studies, please see: <a href="http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/">http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/</a> or contact: William Newell, Phone: (513)529-2213, FAX: (513)529-5849, E-mail: NewellWH@MUOhio.Edu Notification of Acceptance by May 1, 1998. Joan Joan B. Fiscella Bibliographer for Professional Studies University of Illinois at Chicago Library 312-996-2730 jbf@uic.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: ACH meeting Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:44:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1033 (1033) [deleted quotation] Can anyone tell me the date and location of the upcoming ACH/ALLC meeting this summer? Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." <bralich@hawaii.edu> Subject: IR Systems and Software Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:53:54 -1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1034 (1034) I would like to purchase, download, or view any and all IR systems that are available either on the web or for my own use. Could someone help me get started in finding all those that are available. Is there a clearing house somewhere? Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Ari Kambouris <aristotl@interport.net> Subject: Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:54:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1035 (1035) Please cross post as appropriate and address all inquiries to the addresses below. Thank you. The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans announces funding opportunities for graduate study. Visit the web site at <a href="http://www.pdsoros.org">http://www.pdsoros.org</a> for more information. About the Fellowhships: The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans are for graduate study in the professions and academic disciplines at any institution of higher education in the United States. The Fellowships are for up to two years, with a third year possible at the discretion of the Program. Eligibility: A New American is a person who holds a Green Card, or is already a naturalized citizen, or a child of two naturalized citizen parents. Individuals completing or already holding their bachelor's degrees or enrolled in a graduate program are eligible. A candidate must be between 20 and 28 years of age. How many Fellowships will be awarded? In the Spring of 1998, a pilot program of ten Fellows will be selected. Thereafter, thirty Fellowships will be awarded annually. Fellowship Awards: Each year the Fellow receives a maintenance grant of $20,000 and a tuition grant of one-half the tuition cost of the US graduate program attended by the Fellow. Selection Criteria: Candidates must demonstrate the relevance of graduate education to their long-term career goals and potential in enhancing their contributions to society. A successful candidate will give evidence of at least two of the following three attributes: (1) creativity, originality, and initiative, demonstrated in any area of the candidate's life; (2) a commitment to and capacity for accomplishment, demonstrated through activity that has required drive and sustained effort; and (3) a commitment to the values expressed in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Fellowships are not solely awarded on the basis of academic record. Selection Process: Candidates submit essays, transcripts and recommendations available by mail or at <a href="http://www.pdsoros.org">http://www.pdsoros.org</a>. From those who apply, finalists will be selected and invited to interviews. The interview panel will include educators and distinguished New Americans. After its recommendations have been reviewed and approved by the Program's Board of Trustees, the class of Fellows will be announced. Application Deadline: In the pilot class, the deadline for completed applications is March 30th, 1998. Thereafter the deadline will be November 30th. All application materials are available on the Paul and Daisy Fellowships for New Americans web site at <a href="http://www.pdsoros.org">http://www.pdsoros.org</a> Administration: Warren F. Ilchman, Director Carmel Geraghty, Program Officer The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans 400 West 59th Street New York, NY 10019 212-333-9741; 212-245-8381 (Fax); pdsoros_fellows@sorosny.org; www.pdsoros.org The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans web site is a joint production of the Metaphor Group, Inc. and AKA Detroit. _________________________________________ Ari Kambouris The Metaphor Group, Inc. tel. 212.396.3092 pager 917.243.1548 e-mail <aristotl@interport.net> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Revista Brasil de Literatura Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:46:55 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1036 (1036) [deleted quotation] Prezado(a)s, criei e edito a Revista Brasil de Literatura, desde julho de 1997. Ela ja esta crescidinha e tenta dar novos passos, alcancando novos leitores. Eh por isso que lhes escrevo. Esta eh uma revista brasileira de literatura, ou seja, tenta traduzir o olhar brasileiro sobre a literatura e a cultura de um modo geral. Prima pelo pluralismo responsavel. Todas as correntes de pensamento democraticas ahi se expressam, em favor do homem e da liberdade. Apenas estao excluidas as manifestacoes de intolerancia racial, nacional, sexual, politica e filosofica. Seu Conselho Editorial pode bem dar uma ideia da proposta e do trabalho ali desenvolvido, composto que estah por nomes representativos no pais e no exterior. As colaboracoes sao livres e passam apenas pelo crivo da qualidade, sem a qual a revista nao se sustentaria, operado pelo Conselho Editorial. Este "e-mail" eh um convite a uma visita e a uma avaliacao de nosso trabalho. Se gostar, por favor diga aos outros; se nao gostar, inclua entre os outros o editor da Revista Brasil de Literatura. Tomo a liberdade de incluir como "attachement" o "Indice" atual da revista, para que avalie o que poderah lah encontrar. Ele deverah ser aberto a partir de seu navegador na Internet (Open File/Abrir arquivo): Netscape, Internet Explorer, CyberDog, Mosaic, etc. Desculpe-me a liberdade e o tempo que lhe tomo. 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Reviews should be approximately 2000-3500 words long, and should follow the journal's format guidelines below. The deadline for submissions is March 22 (please send any queries before March 11). A selection will be made at that time. All correspondence will be answered and all submissions will be given careful consideration. Send reviews and queries to Paula Geyh, the review editor at p-geyh@nwu.edu, not to the _PMC_ offices. If e-mailing reviews, make sure the document is not encoded, and that it has been stripped of all word-processing codes (i.e, saved as ASCII or DOS text). Submissions can also be sent on floppy disk to Paula Geyh at the Department of English, 215 University Hall, Northwestern University, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208. All submissions should follow the format guidelines detailed below. FORMAT GUIDELINES FOR _PMC_ REVIEWS You can save us a good deal of work by following these guidelines: Reviews should generally run between 2000 and 3500 words, or about 8-14 ordinary manuscript pages. Set margins to half-inch left, two-inch right, and set your font to Courier 10cpi (or any 10cpi, non-proportional font). This is very important, as it prevents too many characters on a line. Put a title at the top of the first page, and under it your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and mailing address. Center these lines. Number all paragraphs of your text with bracketed numbers. These bracketed numbers should be margin-released into the left-hand margin (this will place them at the 0" spot on the line). Indent (to 1") the first line of each pargraph and all lines of set- off quotations. Single-space the document throughout. Use _this_ for underlining titles, *this* for bold print or emphasis, %this% for foreign words, and ^this^ for superscript. Footnotes, if any, should follow MLA format. Page references in the text, if any, should not be preceded by p., pp., or any other notation; use just the page number itself. --- From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: House Subcommittee recommends copyright bills to full House Judiciary Committee Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:53:43 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1038 (1038) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 27, 1998 HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE RECOMMENDS COPYRIGHT BILLS TO FULL HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE As reported below by Page Miller, the House Courts and Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee yesterday approved the "World Intellectual Property Organization Treaty Implementation Act," passing it on to the full House Judiciary Committee for its consideration. The subcommittee rejected numerous amendments attempting to ensure that legitimate circumvention of copyright protection software (by librarians or for educational purposes, under the fair use defense, for example) would be permitted. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] NCC Washington Update, vol. 4, #6, February 26, 1998 by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History <pagem@capaccess.org> 1. House Subcommittee Recommends Copyright Legislation To the House Judiciary Committee 1. House Subcommittee Recommends Copyright Legislation To the House Judiciary Committee -- On February 26 the House Courts and Intellectual Property Subcommittee met to mark-up several bills, including two copyright bills. In the "mark-up" the subcom mittee considered several amendment to the bills and then voted to recommend their marked-up versions to the Judiciary Committee. The two copyright bills on the subcommittee's agenda were HR 2281, the World Intellectual Property Organization Treaty Imple mentation Act, which was introduced last summer and HR 3209, a bill to limit liability for copyright infringement for on-line material, which was introduced on February 12 by Representatives Coble (R-NC) and Goodlatte (R-VA). The packed committee room and the 100% attendance of all the members of the subcommittee indicated the high interest in these bills. In opening remarks Representative Howard Coble (R-NC), the Chair of the subcommittee, stressed that all members had had 72 hours to study his amendments. He made clear that he did not like dealing with "surprise" amendments. Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), the Ranking Minority member of the subcommittee, used his time for opening remarks to give a strong lecture to those on all sides of copyright issues, urging everyone "to keep hysteria to a minimum." He noted that supporters and opponents of this legislation have tended to conjure up the most horrible but unlikely scenarios. "Partisanship and ideology," he said are irrelevant to these bills and members are trying to reach appropriate compromises. Both Coble and Frank indicated their interest in "fair use" issues and that they had listened to the library community's concerns during the hearings. Following opening remarks, Coble introduced an amendment that would assure that no criminal cases would ever be brought against a library, archives, or educational institution under the provision of this law regarding use of circumvention devices designed for gaining access to copyright protection systems. Frank then offered a substitute amendment that would include a new section to the law dealing with exemptions to the circumvention provision for libraries, archives, and educational institutions if the purpose of access was solely to browse in order to decide whether to acquire the material. Coble clarified the differences between the two amendments by saying that under his amendment it would be unlawful but not subject to criminal penalties but under the Frank amendment circumventions for browsing would be legal for libraries, archives, and educational institutions. In the debate Representative Conyers (D-MI) said that he opposed the Frank amendment which he characterized as designed as "allowing browsing rights if you don't steal anything." The Frank amendment was narrowly defeated by 7 nays and 6 ayes. McCollum (R-FL) was not present for the vote. The five members voting with Frank were Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Pease (R-IN), Boucher (D-VA), Lofgren (D-CA), and Delahunt (D-MA). The Coble amendment passed on a voice vote. Representative Boucher then introduced an amendment to section 1201 on the "Circumvention of copyright protection systems" which deals with devices "primarily designed or produced for the purposes of circumventing protection afforded by a technological protection measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner. . ." Boucher's amendment would expand this section to clarify that the penalties did not apply to circumvention devices that have "substantial non-infringing uses." Representative Lofgren supported Boucher stressing the need to avoid unintended adverse consequences that would stifle work on new technologies. However, the subcommittee overwhelmingly rejected the Boucher amendment in a voice vote. The subcommittee then turned to Representative Lofgren's two amendments which also addressed the issues of circumvention devices. Lofgren emphasized that the purpose of her amendment was to make a distinction between circumvention used to infringe copyright law and circumvention that has no unlawful use, such as circumvention for purposes of diagnosing computer problems, reverse engineering, encryption research, and access to work in the public domain which is protected by old encryptions. Coble noted that there was an upcoming mark-up on legislation dealing with the maintenance and testing of computers and that this issue could be considered under that bill. Although the subcommittee rejected this Lofgren amendment, there was general consensus on the subcommittee that more work needed to be done to ensure unintended consequences prior to the mark-up by the full committee. Lofgren's second amendment dealt with applying the "fair use" principle which applies to use of copyrighted material for educational purposes to the circumvention provisions. This amendment was also defeated. By a large majority -- with only Boucher and Lofgren opposing -- the subcommittee approved favorable as amended HR 2281 to the House Judiciary Committee. In introducing HR 3209 which would limit liability for copyright infringement for on-line material, Coble noted that Representative Goodlatte had spent over two years conducting negotiations between all parties. Coble said that he believes this is a balanced bill, yet he was also aware that there are many issues still unresolved. The divisions on the committee concerning this bill were clearly reflected in Conyers' opening statement in which he said that he thought the courts were doing a good job and that providing a safe harbor for Online providers could be a problem. Frank, Boucher, Lofgren, and McCollum all had amendments. However, the subcommittee decided not to vote on the amendments but to work among themselves prior to the full committee mark-up to deal with the concerns raised by the amendments. The subcommittee voted overwhelmingly to recommend the bill to the Judiciary Committee. * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NCC invites you to redistribute the NCC Washington Updates. A complete backfile of these reports is maintained by H-Net. See World Wide Web: <a href="http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/">http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/</a> * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From: Michael Popham <michael.popham@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Text Encoding Summer School, Oxford, July 1998 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:33:19 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1039 (1039) *Please bring to the attention of any interested individuals* TESS: The Text Encoding Summer School Organized by Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit 19th-23rd July, 1998 Oxford University hcu@oucs.ox.ac.uk <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tess/">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tess/</a> The Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford is pleased to announce that applications are now invited for our second TEXT ENCODING SUMMER SCHOOL, to be held in Oxford 19th-23rd July. By the end of the Summer School delegates will: * have hands-on experience of digitizing texts using OCR * understand the principles of document analysis * understand the basics of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) * have hands-on experience of marking-up an electronic text using the Text Encoding Initiative's TEI Lite Document Type Definition * have hands-on experience of SGML authoring and browsing software * understand the issues involved in distributing SGML documents * gain basic knowledge of the range of SGML-aware software products available * know how to mark-up a complete document in SGML and deliver it via the Internet * have discussed their work with experts in the field of text encoding The cost of the Summer School is set at 250.00 (sterling), although a limited number of places will be made available to members of Oxford University at a concessionary rate. This fee covers registration, B&B accommodation in an Oxford college, lunch, a banquet, and all course materials. See the web pages for more information. Numbers are strictly limited to 20, and after the success of last year's Summer School we expect it to be heavily oversubscribed. You are therefore advised to apply as soon as possible. The closing date for applications is Friday 1st May, 1998. For the latest information about TESS, and details of the application procedure, please visit <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tess/">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tess/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Domenico Fiormonte <itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk> Subject: The Centro Virtual Cervantes Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:39:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1040 (1040) PROMOTING THE SPANISH LANGUAGE IN THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD Please: find information about one of the leading Spanish Web-sites: the Centro Virtual Cervantes: English version: <a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JAMillan/cvcengl.htm">http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JAMillan/cvcengl.htm</a> Spanish version: <a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JAMillan/cvc.htm">http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JAMillan/cvc.htm</a> Jose Antonio Millan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte University of Edinburgh, Department of Italian David Hume Tower, George Square EH8 9JX -- United Kingdom Fax: 131-650-6536 E-mail: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk or mc9809@mclink.it <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/digitalv.htm">http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/digitalv.htm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu> Subject: 20th-century American Bestsellers (an invitation) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:39:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1041 (1041) I'm writing Humanist to find out whether, among its subscribers, there are any who might be interested in teaching a course on 20th-century American bestsellers and having their students contribute to a web-accessible database of information about those books. I have designed and set up all the database and cgi mechanisms for doing this, and I am teaching my own version of this course in the current semester: others could choose different sets of assigned reading, but the basic course design and (in particular) the design of the assignments would need to remain constant, and the information compiled by students would need to be centrally collected, as part of the database already established. I'll give a brief description of the course design and the assignments here, but I invite anyone who might be interested in more information to take a look at the current course web site, at <a href="http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses/entc312/s98/">http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses/entc312/s98/</a> and especially, to look at the student work in progress, which can be found under the link labeled "Browse the Bestsellers Database" off that course home page. My hope in designing this course was that students could compile a useful research resource in the course of doing their own research--research which makes an excellent and intensive introduction to library resources (print and online), research methods, bibliography, and literary history. My hope in inviting others to take part in the project is that, collectively, we might complete this resource in a few years, rather than the dozen or more that it will take me to do so if I keep the course to myself. What follows is some material excerpted from the class home page, to describe the course and its assignments more fully. If you're interested in taking part in this experiment, please email me at jmu2m@virginia.edu. Thanks, John Unsworth -------------------------- Course Description: In this course, we will use 20th-century American literature as a means of understanding 20th-century America. We will do so by reading best-selling novels--at least one from each decade--and analyzing the causes and components of their popularity. Non-fiction best-sellers will also be considered, we will watch film versions of the assigned readings, and supplementary reading will focus on American history, the publishing industry, and the profession of authorship in America. Assignments: Students will be required to complete a series of assignments during the semester, focused on a single best-seller (chosen from the lists of bestsellers by decade, below, but not one of the required readings for the course). These assignments will comprise a bibliographical description of a first edition, a publication history (including performances in other media, if any), a biographical sketch of the author, a reception history, and a critical analysis of the work in its cultural and literary contexts. All of these assignments will be submitted online, using Web-based submission forms: they will become part of an ongoing project to compile a Web-accessible database of information about best-selling 20th-century American literature. For each assignment, students will also submit a printed list of the sources used in completing the online submission, listed by assignment subsection. Required Reading: Thomas Dixon, Jr., The Clansman Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind Lillian Smith, Strange Fruit Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe Grace Metalious, Peyton Place John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Alex Haley, Roots Stephen King, It John Grisham, The Firm [NB: required books are not available to be chosen by students during the semester in which they are assigned. The list of assigned books would, of course, be at the discretion of the instructor, and could be selected to highlight any of a large variety of themes and concerns.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 17:41:26 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1042 (1042) The times, they are a changin'. One must assume Marchand knows it really goes, s'e non a vero, e ben trovato. (No accents included). That old saying he reverses, but it comes out wittily. As for screening MSS., my wife, Julia Barrett, the author of two sequels to Jane Austen (PRESUMPTION, a sequel to PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, the next, THE THIRD SISTER: a Continuation of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY), both out within the current lustrum, and very successful in a difficult market, because they are very high end pastiche, not revisionist feminist PC Little Shoppe at Chawton murder mysteries, etc., almost had a movie sale, but the agent was a flake, as it turned out, though we knew she was (but that is another story, and went on a month's vacation, instead of signing the option letter. To my surprise, I happened to mention the difficulties of the market to a playwriting seminar of undergrads, last year about this time, when, Lo! and Behole! as Pogo used to squeak, a Chinese boy with very poor English, poorly spoken and scarcely written, but a charming and ambitious fellow, said, I know that book! I read it for such and such a studio, and I recommended it upstairs. This kid was 21 at most, and working as in intern, in the high paying Hollywood world that doesnt pay interns, you see...talk about TAs? and that is what is the fate of well published pros, as Barrett is with Penguin, etc., comes down to.... The academic world is ridden with nonliterates, as you can imagine, and friends helping friends, not attempts to make things better...etc. This, just for your laughs out there. Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu> Subject: call for papers Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:57:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1043 (1043) The Committee on Scholarly Editions invites proposals for a panel on scholarly editing at the 1998 MLA Convention. Possible topics: disciplinary perspectives on the scholarly edition, tenure prospects for the harmless drudge, selecting subjects for scholarly editions, new or forthcoming scholarly editions, theory of electronic editions. Interested parties should email John Unsworth (jmu2m@virginia.edu) as soon as possible. From: Fay <fays@arch.usyd.EDU.AU> Subject: latest call Date: Sat, 28 Feb 98 12:05:58 +1100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1044 (1044) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC98) 1-3 August 1998, Science Museum, London <a href="http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/">http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/</a> <a href="http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac/">http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents: Aims and Scope Extended Abstracts Conference Program Committee Venue Accommodation Provisional Program Registration Form ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AIMS AND SCOPE -------------- Computer-mediated communication (CMC) networks, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, offer tantalizing possibilities of global communications. If such communications facilitate dialogues which both cross and preserve irreducible cultural and political boundaries, they may contribute immeasurably to greater global understanding and democratization. But diverse cultural attitudes towards technology and communication also issue in culturally distinctive ways of implementing and using CMC technologies. Some of these culturally-grounded differences in implementation and use frustrate, rather than facilitate, hopes for greater global communication. Our thematic question: how do diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of CMC technologies? The conference brings together presenters from throughout the world who will provide diverse perspectives - both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference themes: * Communication in industrialized cultures * Communication in industrializing/capitalizing countries * Homogeneity, marginalization, and the preservation of local cultures * East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices * The politics of the electronic global village EXTENDED ABSTRACTS ------------------ Extended abstracts (3-4 pages) of research in progress are invited. Abstracts are due 16 March 1998 for review. Accepted abstracts will be included in the proceedings and authors will have the opportunity of giving a brief presentation of their work. Please submit to the co-chairs Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeks at catac98@arch.usyd.edu.au. CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------- Conference Co-Chairs: Charles Ess, Drury College, USA, ejcrec@lib.drury.edu Fay Sudweeks, University of Sydney, Australia, fays@arch.usyd.edu.au Organizing Committee: Simon Joss, Imperial College, UK, s.joss@ic.ac.uk Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria Lucienne Rey, Swiss Office of Technology Assessment, Switzerland Slavko Splichal, University of Ljublijana, Slovenia Advisory Board: Warren Chernaik, Centre for English Studies, UK Ian Connell, Wolverhampton University, UK David Kolb, Bates College, USA Colin Finney, Imperial College, UK Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria Ang Peng Hwa, National Technical University, Singapore Thomas L Jacobson, State University of NY, Buffalo, USA Guedon Jean-Claude, University of Montreal, Canada Willard McCarty, Kings College London, UK Cliff McKnight, Loughborough University, UK Sheizaf Rafaeli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Lucienne Rey, Swiss Office of Technology Assessment, Switzerland Rohan Samarajiva, Ohio State University, USA Slavko Splichal, University of Ljublijana, Slovenia Fay Sudweeks, University of Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VENUE ----- The venue of the conference is the Science Museum, one of three British museums which, together with the National Railway Museum, York and the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, make up the National Museum of Science & Industry (NMSI). Address: The Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD Nearest Tube Station: South Kensington Buses : 9, 14, 10, 45, 49, 52, 74, C1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACCOMMODATION ------------- CROFTON HOTEL Accommodation has been booked at the Crofton Hotel, a five-minute walk from the Science Museum, the venue for the conference. The Crofton Hotel, an historic Grade II listed building. Rooms are newly refurbished with en-suites, colour TV, and direct-dial telephones. Rooms are small (by American standards), but comfortable. Many of the rooms have mini bars, trouser presses and hair dryers. The accommodation package, per person, includes 4 nights accommodation, from 31 July to 3 August inclusive, continental breakfast, and VAT (full English breakfast is available at an extra charge): single room, USD250; twin room, USD175. Rooms are limited, so book early! Address: 13-16 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5EN Tel: +44 (0)171 584 7201 Fax: +44 (0)171 589 6412 Email: lon.crofton.htl@dial.pipex.com (not reliable yet!) How to get there... [deleted quotation] Take the Underground train (Piccadilly Line) to Gloucester Road station (~45 minutes travelling time). Train fare is 3.20 pounds. It's only 5-7 minute walk to the hotel, but with luggage you may want to take a taxi from the station which will cost ~3 pounds. [deleted quotation] Take a British Rail train to Victoria station (journey time 40 minutes) and then by Underground train (Circle or District Line; westbound) to Gloucester Road. Both airports are some distance from central London and a taxi is not recommended for the whole journey. However, if you have to do so, establish the cost before you get in. London Hotel's Airport Shuttle Transfers between London hotels (including Crofton Hotel) and Heathrow/Gatwick airports by Golden Tours Airport Shuttle take approximately 1.5 hours (variable according to traffic conditions). From Heathrow, the fare is 10 pounds and transport is by minibus. From Gatwick, the fare is 16 pounds and transport is by minibus and train (porterage throughout your journey). Booking is essential, at least 24 hours in advance. Book toll free from USA on 1-800-456-6303 or directly with Golden Tours on +44-(0)171-233-9050. OTHER ACCOMMODATION Alternatives to the conference accommodation are the John Howard Hotel (standard single 89 pounds, standard twin/double 119 pounds, executive twin/double 129 pounds - book directly with hotel tel +44 (0)171 581 3011, Fax +44 (0)171 589 8403) which is a few steps from the Crofton Hotel or campus accommodation at Imperial College (single 28 pounds, twin 45 pounds - book directly with the college vacation.accommodation@ic.ac.uk). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROVISIONAL PROGRAM ------------------- All sessions of the conference (unless otherwise specified) will be held in the Fellows Room of the Science Museum. Registration will be on the first level foyer of the north entrance to the Museum. All breaks and lunches will be in the Ante Room, adjacent to the Fellows Room. FRIDAY 31 AUGUST 17:00-19:00 Reception Registration in the Ante Room SATURDAY 1 AUGUST 09:00-09:15 Opening Co-Chairs: Charles Ess (Drury College) and Fay Sudweeks (University of Sydney) 09:15-10:00 Keynote Speaker Professor John Durant Public Understanding of Science Unit Science Museum Library 10:00-11:00 Session 1 Communication in Industrialized Cultures Chair: Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna) 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-12:30 Discussion Session 1 issues and papers 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Session 2 Communication in Industrializing/Capitalizing Countries Chair: Fay Sudweeks (University of Sydney) 15:00-15:30 Break 15:30-16:30 Discussion Session 2 issues and papers 18:00 Conference Dinner: Elizabethan Banquet, Hatfield House (tentative) SUNDAY 2 AUGUST 09:00-11:00 Session 3 Homogeneity, Marginalization, and the Preservation of Local Cultures Chair: Sheizaf Rafaeli (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-12:30 Discussion Session 3 issues and papers 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-16:30 Tour: Science Museum (including coffee break) 16:30-18:00 Session 4 East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices Chair: Ang Peng Hwa (Nanayang Technological University) 18:30-20:00 Dinner: Crofton Hotel 20:00-21:00 Discussion Session 4 issues and papers (at Crofton Hotel) MONDAY 3 AUGUST 09:00-11:00 Session 5 The Politics of the Electronic Global Village Chair: Charles Ess (Drury College) 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-12:30 Discussion Session 5 issues and papers 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-16:00 Plenary Summary reports from previous sessions: "Trialogue": Philosophy, Communication Theory, and Cultural Criticism 16:00-16:15 Closing 18:00- Dinner/Theatre: Optional (not included in conference fee) ---------------------------------><------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM ----------------- To register for the conference, please complete the registration form at <a href="http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/register-form.html">http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/register-form.html</a>. Or you may fill this form and email to fays@arch.usyd.edu.au or fax to +1-417-873-7435, attn Dr Charles Ess. Note: All prices are in USD. First name: Surname: Name for badge: Institution: Mailing address: Phone: Fax: Email: Special dietary needs (please specify): REGISTRATION FEE Fee includes technical sessions, proceedings, lunches, morning and afternoon coffees, reception (31 July), conference dinner (1 August), dinner at Crofton Hotel (2 August). [ ] Early Bird Conference Fee - $275 (until 31 May 1998) [ ] Full Conference Fee - $325 (after 1 June 1998) [ ] Check if you are a presenting author [ ] Check if you are a full-time student [ ] Check if you wish to be considered for a travel subsidy if available. EXTRA OPTIONS [ ] Dinner/Theatre ($90) [ ] Additional Reception ($15) (for accompanying person) [ ] Additional Dinner ($75) (for accompanying person) TRAVEL Your travel details: Arrival date in London: July 1998 Arrival time is: Departure date from London: August 1998 Departure time is: ACCOMMODATION The accommodation package at the Crofton Hotel includes 4 nights accommodation and continental breakfast. Accommodation is limited, so please book early. Payment of accommodation at the Crofton Hotel is required with registration fee. CROFTON HOTEL Please book my accommodation at the Crofton Hotel [ ] Single - 4 nights $250 [ ] Twin (share) - 4 nights $175 [ ] Twin (with accompanying person) - $350 If you have chosen twin share accommodation, please indicate the arrangement: [ ] I have arranged to share accommodation with: [ ] I wish to share accommodation, please arrange if possible. OTHER ACCOMMODATION I will be using other accommodation (please specify: [ ] Imperial College (contact [ ] John Howard Hotel (contact [ ] Private arrangement PAYMENT METHOD 1. CHECKS Checks must be in USD, payable to 'Drury College CATAC Philosophy Conference', and mailed to: Dr Charles Ess Philosophy and Religion Department Drury College, 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 USA 2. CREDIT CARD Please fax or mail credit card details (with signature) to +1-417-873-7435, attn Dr Charles Ess. 3. EFT Bank details for Electronic Funds Transfer are: Bank: Mercantile Bank ABA No.: 081000210 Account No.: 6501192618 Reference: Drury College CATAC Philosophy Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORING INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS - Communication & Technology Division, International Communication Association - The Communication Technology Policy Section, International Association for Media & Communication Research - Javnost-The Public, the journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, Ljubljana, Slovenia - The National Museum of Science and Industry (Science Museum), London, UK - Office for Humanities Communication, King's College, London, UK - The Korea Society, publisher of The U.S.-Korea Review - Philosophy East and West: a Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy, affiliated with the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy - Technology Assessment Program, Switzerland. -------------- Fay Sudweeks -- Key Centre of Design Computing -- Dept of Architectural and Design Science -- University of Sydney -- NSW --- 2006 -- Australia Tel +61-2-9351-5933 - Fax +61-2-9351-3031 - Email fays@arch.usyd.edu.au WWW: <a href="http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay">http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay</a> From: Special Issues Project <ejcrec@lib.drury.edu> Subject: latest call (fwd) Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 07:42:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1045 (1045) Willard: Here is Fay's complete call for participation - it's a bit long, but perhaps not too far out of bounds for a HUMANIST posting? If it needs editing, let me know and I'll attend to it. Thanks for putting this through to Humanist! Cheers - Charles Ess Professor and Chair, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: <a href="http://www.drury.edu/phil-relg/ess.html">http://www.drury.edu/phil-relg/ess.html</a> Research Associate, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA, 1996-1998 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carl Vogel <vogel@cs.tcd.ie> Subject: Assistive Technologies, Last CFP Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 17:11:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1046 (1046) AAAI-98 Workshop on Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Technology At the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98) Madison, Wisconsin July 26-30, 1998 Richard Simpson (Chair), Holly Yanco, Kathleen McCoy, Gerard Lacey --------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline is 11 March 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Researchers in several disciplines within AI have discovered that assistive technology (AT) offers a fertile domain for challenging research problems. Developing assistive technology for individuals with disabilities requires the construction of robust, practical systems with different constraints than systems meant to act autonomously or with able-bodied users. Areas of AI research that have influenced AT include robotics, vision, natural language processing, gesture recognition, intelligent environments, adaptive interfaces and user modeling. Questions this workshop will address include: What is the "state of the art" in the various areas of assistive technology research? How can research in different areas of AT be integrated into useful products? What would clinicians and users like to see in future AT research? What are the major barriers to moving AT research from the laboratory to the marketplace? Additional topics of interest are listed at <a href="http://www.hypercon.com/rich/workshop.html">http://www.hypercon.com/rich/workshop.html</a> The workshop will be divided between paper presentations by participants, invited talks, and a panel of clinicians active in AT. Papers will be selected for presentation based on quality and a desire for presentations from a variety of AT disciplines. Invited speakers will discuss what future developments in AT would be most useful for clinicians and end users. Following the invited talks will be a panel discussion in which the clinicians and workshop attendees will discuss the challenges involved in moving AT research from the laboratory to the real world. Potential participants should submit a paper (5-8 pages) describing work in progress, completed work, or discussion of one or more of the questions above (or at the web page). Other interested researchers should submit an abstract (up to 2 pages) describing their work (which may be AI research that has not been applied to the AT domain), their interest in AT, and any specific questions or issues that they feel should be addressed in the workshop. We encourage electronic transmission in ASCII text (preferred), PostScript, or MS Word format to rsimpson@traclabs.com. Please use single-column format and 12 point type. Deadlines: Submission deadline: March 11, 1998 Notification date: April 1, 1998 Camera-ready copies deadline: April 22, 1998 Conference date: July 26-30, 1998 Submissions and inquiries should be sent to: Rich Simpson TRACLabs 1012 Hercules Houston, TX 77058 rsimpson@traclabs.com Ph: 281-461-9525 Fax: 281-461-9550 Workshop Committee: Gerard Lacey Trinity College Dublin Gerard.Lacey@cs.tcd.ie Kathleen McCoy University of Delaware mccoy@mail.eecis.udel.edu Rich Simpson TRACLabs rsimpson@traclabs.com Holly Yanco MIT AI Lab holly@ai.mit.edu From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: ECAI-98 #7: FINAL CALL FOR YOUNG RESEARCHER PAPERS Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:04:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1047 (1047) [deleted quotation] ______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' FINAL CALL FOR YOUNG RESEARCHER PAPERS <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/youngrescall.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/youngrescall.html</a> *** STUDENT REGISTRATION RATE BEFORE JUNE 1ST WILL BE 90 POUNDS STERLING *** The ECAI-98 Programme Committee is pleased to announce a special programme of short papers for young researchers. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- 6 Mar 1998 Deadline for abstracts 11 Mar 1998 Deadline for papers 15 Apr 1998 Notification of acceptance 15 May 1998 Camera-ready copies of papers 26-28 Aug 1998 Student programme at ECAI-98 The aim is to encourage younger AI researchers to attend ECAI-98 and to present their on-going work, in the form of short (2 page) papers, which will appear in the conference proceedings. A short paper may either report on the innovative points of work in progress, or on a particular result of special interest. The call is open to researchers who satisfy at least one of the following criteria on 11 March 1998: - they are under 28 years old - they are currently studying for a PhD or other degree qualification in AI (or a related topic) - they received a PhD in AI (or a related topic) within the past two years. Submissions are invited on original and previously unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to: Abduction, Temporal, Causal Reasoning, and Diagnosis; Automated Reasoning; Application and Enabling Technologies; Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning; Case-Based Reasoning; Cognitive Modelling and Philosophical Foundations; Computational Linguistics; Constraint-Based Reasoning and Constraint Programming; Distributed AI and Multiagent Systems; Fuzzy Logic; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Representation; Logic Programming, and Theorem Proving; Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Natural Language and Intelligent User Interfaces; Neural Networks in AI; Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning about Actions; Probabilistic Networks; Qualitative Preferences and Decision in AI; Qualitative and Spatial Reasoning; Reasoning under Uncertainty; Robotics, Vision, and Signal Understanding; Search and Meta-Heuristics for AI; Verification, Validation and Testing of Knowledge-Based Systems. Submissions should be two pages long using the format described on the ECAI-98 Style Guide web page: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/style.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/style.html</a> A latex style file is available on the website (or on request. to ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk). Accepted papers will be required to conform more strictly to the publishers' formatting requirements, which will be broadly in line with the present formatting guidelines. Submission procedure Submission is a two stage process, similar to the process for long papers. An electronic abstract should be sent to ecai98@irit.fr by 6 March 1998. This summary should include the title, author, contact address and abstract for the paper, plus keywords drawn from the above list (plus other keywords if appropriate). A web-based summary submission form is available to make this easier. This summary information should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, electronic submissions will not be accepted. Four copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet), should be sent by post to the ECAI-98 Programme Chair, Henri Prade, at the address below. The title page should include a statement indicating which of the above eligibility criteria the author satisfies and that the paper has not been submitted elsewhere. The deadline for receipt of papers is 11 March 1998. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION ---------------------- Henri Prade, ECAI-98 Programme Chair IRIT Universite Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 4 France Email: Henri.Prade@irit.fr Tel: +33(0)561 55 65 79 Fax: +33(0)561 55 62 39 Multiple submissions policy ECAI-98 will not accept any paper which at the time of submission is under review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialised meetings with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement that the paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal. However, if a young researcher has already submitted a regular paper to ECAI-98, a new submission on the same topic in the form of a short paper is permitted provided that the author declares it on submission. If the regular paper is accepted, the short paper will be considered to have been withdrawn. However such a double submission is not encouraged. The review process The short papers will be reviewed under the control of the ECAI-98 Program Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI-98 Programme Chair. The ECAI-98 Programme Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Accepted papers will be allocated 15 minutes for oral presentation and 2 pages in the official ECAI-98 proceedings. Note: as is usual at ECAI conferences, students will be able to register for the conference at a significantly reduced and subsidised rate. The registration rate for students who register before June 1st will be 90 pounds sterling. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448 Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320 University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98</a> ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex on behalf of AISB. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: WORKSHOP - Call for Papers Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:05:33 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1048 (1048) [deleted quotation] ADAPTING LEXICAL AND CORPUS RESOURCES TO SUBLANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS a workshop to be held at the FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 26 MAY 1998 ****(SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT WITH EXTENDED DEADLINE AND NEW EVENT)**** The workshop will provide a forum for those researchers involved in the development of methods to integrate corpora and MRDs, with the aim of adding adaptive capabilities to existing linguistic resources. Organisers: Roberto Basili (University of Roma "Tor Vergata"), Roberta Catizone (University of Sheffield), Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma "Tor Vergata"), Paola Velardi (University of Roma "La Sapienza), Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIMS Lexicons, i.e., those components of a NLP system that contain "computable" information about words, cannot be considered as static objects. Words may behave very differently in different domains, and there are language phenomena that do not generalize across sublanguages. Lexicons are a snapshot of a given stage of development of a language, normally provided without support for adaptation changes, whether caused by language creativity and development or the shift to such a previously unencountered domain. The divergence of corpus usages from lexical norms has been studied computationally at least since the late Sixties, but only recently has the availability of large on-line corpora made it possible to establish methods to cope systematically with this problem. An emerging branch of research is now involved in studies and experiments on corpus-driven linguistics, with the aim of complementing and extending earlier work on lexicon acquisition based on Machine Readable Dictionaries (MRD): data are extracted from texts, as embodiments of language in use, so as to capture lexical regularities and to code them into operational forms. The purpose of this workshop will be to provide an updated snapshot of current work in the area, and promote discussion of how to make progress. Central topics will be (though this list is in no way exclusive): * corpus-driven tuning of MRDs to optimize domain-specific inferences, * terminology and jargon acquisition, * sense extensions, * acquisition of preference or subcategorization information from corpora * taxonomy adaptation, * statistical weighting of senses etc. to domains * use of MRDs to provide explanations of linguistic phenomena in corpora * what is the scope of "lexical tuning" * the evaluation of lexical tuning as a separate task, or as part of a more generic task ***** NEW EVENT : INDUSTRIAL PANEL ***** Automatic adaptation of lexicons to new domains through the use of application corpora makes NLP applications more adaptable and portable. The Program Commettee is organizing a joint panel to discuss this (and other) issues concerning next generation Information Extraction Systems. The panel intends to bring industrial representatives to confront expectations in IE from their viewpoint and degree of maturity of the offering. Relevant issues that will be discussed are: Is there a market for IE? What is the demand in domains such as New Services for the citizens, Telecommunications, Management Support, etc? What are the technical requirements?Is the technology near to the market? PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yorick Wilks University of Sheffield Roberta Catizone University of Sheffield Paola Velardi University of Roma "La Sapienza" Maria Teresa Pazienza University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Roberto Basili University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Bran Boguraev Brandeis University Sergei Nirenburg New Mexico State University James Pustejowsky Brandeis University Ralph Grishman New York University Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University PAPER SUBMISSION FORMATTING GUIDELINES: Papers should not exceed 4000 words or 10 pages. HARD COPIES: Three hard copies should be sent to: Paola Velardi Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Informazione via Salaria 113 00198 Roma Italy ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Electronic submission will be allowed in Poscript or Word per Mac or RTF. An ftp site will be available on demand. Authors should send an info email to Paola Velardi (velardi@dsi.uniroma1.it) even IMPORTANT DATES (****PLEASE NOTE EXTENDED DEADLINE****) Paper Submission Deadline (Hard Copy/Electronic) March 10 Paper Notification April 1 Camera-Ready Papers Due April 20 L&CT workshop May 26 Prof. Paola Velardi Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Informazione via Salaria 113 Universita' "La Sapienza" 00198 Roma ph. +39-(0)6-49918356 fax +39-(0)6-8541842 8841964 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Berkeley Conference on Article 2B Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:32:25 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1049 (1049) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 2, 1998 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CONTRACT LAW IN THE INFORMATION AGE: The Impact of Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code on the Future of Transactions in Information and Electronic Commerce April 23-25, 1998 University of California at Berkeley <<a href="http://sims.berkeley.edu/BCLT/events/ucc2b">http://sims.berkeley.edu/BCLT/events/ucc2b</a>> An important conference will take place at UC Berkeley, April 23-25, 1998, to discuss the potential impact of Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), which is still undergoing revision. Under current proposals, this article will not only "validate shrinkwrap and other mass-market licenses, but also proposes to regulate virtually all transactions in information: everything from online database contracts to motion picture deals to consulting arrangements to technology transfer agreements. "Potential conflicts between intellectual property law, the traditional legal touchstone of information commerce, and Article 2B are substantial. Although the debates surrounding Article 2B have many focal points, our conference will address this particularly complex topic-the intersection of Article 2B and intellectual property law." The organizers maintain that their goal is to "help shape a text and interpretation of Article 2B that provides optimal rules for a highly competitive digital marketplace, while respecting the economic and social wisdom underlying intellectual property laws as they exist today." For the arts and humanities, the major impact of Article 2b would be its potential for asserting the pre-eminence of contracts (especially those un-negotiated "shrink-wrap" or "click-through" licences) over copyright law and its up-till-now guaranteed exemptions, such as the fair use defense. The website for this conference is quite complete and it includes the latest draft of Artice 2b and an online registration form. Arrangements are being made to publish presentations. An outline of the conference, with speakers is included in this announcement below. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology proudly presents... _______________________________________________________ INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CONTRACT LAW IN THE INFORMATION AGE: The Impact of Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code on the Future of Transactions in Information and Electronic Commerce _______________________________________________________ April 23-25, 1998 Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business University of California at Berkeley <a href="http://sims.berkeley.edu/BCLT/events/ucc2b">http://sims.berkeley.edu/BCLT/events/ucc2b</a> To register Call: 510.642.4041 With Generous Support From: The John & Mary R. Markle Foundation & Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Co-Sponsors Include: American Law Institute Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) Fisher Center for Management and Information Technology, UC Berkeley Information Technology Association of America School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley ______________________ THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM ______________________ ________ THURSDAY, April 23rd, 1998 International House Auditorium, UC Berkeley Tutorial Sessions: ARTICLE 2B AND ITS INTERSECTION WITH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW Coordinated by: Peter H. Carson, Cooley Godward, UCC Committee of the State Bar of California; Pamela Samuelson, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley; Dawan Stanford, Morrison & Foerster ______ FRIDAY, April 24th, 1998 Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley WELCOME Pamela Samuelson, on behalf of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Michael Traynor, on behalf of the American Law Institute Marc A. Pearl, on behalf of the ITAA KEYNOTE ADDRESS Raymond T. Nimmer, Reporter for Article 2B of the UCC Session: UCC 2B THROUGH THE EYES OF COPYRIGHT SCHOLARS: PERSPECTIVES & COMMENTARY ON THE INTERSECTION OF COPYRIGHT AND CONTRACT Papers Presented By: Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia Law School; David Nimmer, Irell & Manella; Jerome H. Reichman, Vanderbilt Law School Commentators: Henry Barry, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Amelia Boss, Temple University School of Law; Lucie Guibault, Institute of Information Law, University of Amsterdam; Brian Kahin, Office of Science & Technology Policy, White House; Jessica Litman, Wayne State University Law School; Margaret Jane Radin, Stanford Law School LUNCH Presentation by Jay M. Tenenbaum, CommerceNet Session: INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY & ARTICLE 2B: PERSPECTIVES & COMMENTARY ON PATENT AND TRADE SECRET LICENSING Papers Presented By: Martin J. Adelman, Wayne State University Law School; Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, New York University School of Law Commentators: Dan L. Burk, Seton Hall University School of Law; Peter M.C. Choy, Sun Microsystems; David L. Hayes, Fenwick & West; James Pooley, Fish & Richardson Session: THE INTERFACE OF STATE CONTRACT RIGHTS WITH FEDERAL PROCEDURE & POLICY Papers Presented By: Mark A. Lemley, University of Texas School of Law; David F. McGowan, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin Commentators: John H. Barton, Stanford Law School; Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, Microsoft Corporation; Christopher J. Kelly, U.S. Department of Justice; Charles R. McManis, Washington University School of Law EVENING RECEPTION Sponsored by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati ________ SATURDAY, April 25th, 1998, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Session: THE MECHANICS OF LICENSING I: CONTRACT FORMATION Paper Presented By: Peter A. Alces, College of William & Mary School of Law Commentators: Peter Harter, Netscape Communications Corp.; Holly K. Towle, Preston Gates & Ellis Session: THE MECHANICS OF LICENSING II: ELECTRONIC MONITORING & TECHNICAL SELF-HELP Papers Presented By: Julie E. Cohen, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Ronald J. Mann, University of Michigan Law School Commentators: Kaye Caldwell, Silicon Valley Software Industry Coalition; James R. Davis, Xerox PARC; David D. Friedman, Santa Clara University School of Law; Michael Froomkin, University of Miami School of Law; Hal Varian, School of Information Management & Systems, UC Berkeley LUNCH Session: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF ARTICLE 2B Presenters Include: Susan DeSanti, U.S. Federal Trade Commission; P. Bernt Hugenholtz, Institute of Information Law, University of Amsterdam, European Commission Legal Advisory Board for the Information Market; Tsuneo Matsumoto, Hitotsubashi University School of Law, Japan Session: BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME? PERSPECTIVES FROM AFFECTED INDUSTRIES Presenters Include: Lorin Brennan, American Film Marketing Association; Stephen Y. Chow, Perkins Smith & Cohen; Ronald Epstein, Intel; Michele C. Kane, The Walt Disney Company; Cem Kaner, Law Office of Cem Kaner; Peter Lyman, University of California at Berkeley Library; Matthew R. Lynde, Price Waterhouse; Joel Wolfson, The NASDAQ Stock Market Inc. ______________________ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MCLE credit is provided through the Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB). CEB certifies that this activity has been approved for MCLE credit by the State Bar of California. Arrangements are underway to publish papers and comments presented at the conference. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: LREC 3RD CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:06:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1050 (1050) [deleted quotation] (Apologies if you receive multiple copies) ****PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY**** ****3RD CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT**** ***REMINDER - REDUCED REGISTRATION FEE IF YOU REGISTER BY ***MARCH 9, 199= 8*** FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 Hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA Departamento de Traducci=F3n e Interpretaci=F3n Departamento de Electr=F3nica y Tecnolog=EDa de Computadores With the support of DG-XIII of the European Commission and Fundaci=F3n Banco Central-Hispano = (Spain) The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation h= as been initiated by ELRA and is organized in cooperation with other Associations and Consortia, including ACH, ACL, ALLC, Cocosda, EAFT, Eagl= es, EDR, Elsnet, ESCA, Euralex, Francil, LDC, Parole, Telri, etc., and with major national and international organizations, including the European Commission - DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863 Project (China), the ICSP Permanent Committee (Korea) and the Japanese Project for International Coordination in Corpora, Assessment and Labeling. The conference will focus on the following issues: the availability of language resources and the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and products, for written and spoken language. Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing issues like these through international co-operation. The aim of this Conference is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information regarding ongoing and planned activities, language resources and their applications, discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, explore possibilities and promote initiativ= es for international co-operation. PROVISIONAL LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS (ABOUT 220) May be found at our website <a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html</a> or via e-mail by sending a request for list of provisional papers to lrec@ilc.pi= ...cnr.it PROVISIONAL LIST OF PANELS TO BE HELD AT LREC 1. Panel of the Funding Agencies: Members of the major agencies funding research and development in Languag= e Engineering (EC, ARPA, NSF, etc) will discuss priorities and perspectives for international cooperation. 2. Lexical Semantic Standards for Information Systems: The panel will discuss guidelines for the standardization of lexical encoding with specific reference to requirements for Machine Translation = and Information Systems. 3. Industrial and R&D use of Language Resources: Users and providers of Language Resources, from industrial companies and from the public research sector, will discuss the priorities and the economical aspects of producing, distributing and using Language Resource= s, and the importance of their availability. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AT LREC The Program Committee will invite Keynote Speakers to discuss the major aspects of Language Resources and Evaluation. The provisional list will = be circulated at a later date. PRE AND POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOP INFORMATION Pre-Conference Workshops, May 26 and 27 There are 8 half day workshops, to be held May 26 and 27 with two in parallel during the morning session and two in parallel during the aftern= oon session. 1. Linguistic Coreference Workshop 26 MAY 1998 morning session <a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/coreference.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/coreference.html</a> Contact: Sara J. Shelton, US Department of Defense, Ft. Meade, Maryland, = USA sjshelt@afterlife.ncsc.mil, tel +301-688-0301, fax +301-688-0338 2. Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources to Sublanguages and Applications 26 MAY 1998 morning session <a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/adapting.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/adapting.html</a> Contact: Paola Velardi, Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Informazione, Rome, = Italy velardi@dsi.uniroma1.it, tel 39-(0)6-49918356, fax +39-(0)6-8541842 88419= 64 3. Minimising the Effort for Language Resource Acquisition 26 MAY 1998 afternoon session <a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/minimizing.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/minimizing.html</a> Contact: Svetlana Sheremetyeva, Computing Research Laboratory, Las Cruces= , New Mexico, USA lana@crl.nmsu.edu, tel +505 646 5466, fax +505 646 6218 4. The Evaluation of Parsing Systems 26 MAY 1998 afternoon session <a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/parsing.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/parsing.html</a> Contact: John Carroll, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK john.carroll@cogs.susx.ac.uk, tel (+44 / 0)1273 678564, fax (+44 / 0)1273= 671320 5. Towards an Open European Evaluation Infrastructure for NL and Speech 27 MAY 1998 morning session <a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/towards.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/towards.html</a> Contact: Steven Krauwer, ELSNET, Utrecht, NL steven.krauwer@let.ruu.nl, tel +31 30 253 6050, fax +31 30 253 6000 6. Language Resources for European Minority Languages 27 MAY 1998 morning session <a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/minority.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/minority.html</a> Contact: Briony Williams, briony@cstr.ed.ac.uk 7. Speech Database Development for Central and Eastern European Languages 27 MAY 1998 afternoon session <a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/speech.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/speech.html</a> Contact: Peter Roach, University of Reading, UK p.j.roach@reading.ac.uk, tel (44) 118 9318138, fax (44) 118 9753365 8. Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources 27 MAY 1998 afternoon session <a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/distributing.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra/distributing.html</a> Contact: Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk, tel +44 114 222 1814, fax +44 114 278 0972 POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOP, 31 MAY - 1 JUNE "Translingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future Abilitie= s" Contact: Nancy Ide, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA ide@cs.vassar.edu, tel: (+1 914) 437 5988, fax: (+1 914) 437 7498 This workshop is by invitation only. If you are interested in participating, please contact Nancy Ide directly. VISIT OUR WEBSITE OR REQUEST VIA E-MAIL FOR THE FULL CALLS FOR PARTICIPAT= ION OF THE WORKSHOPS <a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html</a> lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR LREC AND PRE AND POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Conference The registration fees will be 25.000 pesetas (about 150 ECU) per participant, with reduced fees of 20.000 pesetas (about 120 ECU) for earl= y registration by March 9, 1998, and 12.000 pesetas (about 70 ECU) for students. The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedin= gs, a social dinner, coffee breaks and refreshments. For accompanying persons= , the social dinner will be 6.000 pesetas (about 35 ECU). Pre Conference Workshops Pre Conference Workshops are 5,000 pesetas each for those attending LREC = and 10,000 pesetas each for those not attending LREC, and include a copy of t= he proceedings of the workshop and a coffee break. Post Conference Workshop The 2-day Post Conference Workshop is 10,000 pesetas for those attending LREC and 20,000 pesetas for those not attending LREC, and includes a copy= of the proceedings of the workshop and coffee breaks. Registration will be made only for those persons who have been invited to participate by the organizers. Advance registration payment can be made using the Registration Forms bel= ow. Registration can be made on-site and must be paid in cash, using pesetas. REGISTRATION FORMS FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 E-MAIL OR FAX TO: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traducci=F3n e Interpretaci=F3n Dpto. de Traducci=F3n e Interpretaci=F3n C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 GRANADA, SPAIN, tel +34 58 24 41 00, fax +34 58 24 41 04, reli98@goliat.ugr.es Last Name: ______________________________________ First Name: ______________________________________ Affiliation: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ City:___________________________________________ State/Province: ___________________________________ Country: ________________________________________ Postal/Zip Code: __________________________________ Phone: _________________________________________ Fax:____________________________________________ E-mail:__________________________________________ Web:___________________________________________ REGISTRATION PAYMENT FORM REGISTRATION FEES Full participant* By March 9, 1998 20.000 pesetas (about 120 ECU) After March 9, 1998 25.000 pesetas (about 150 ECU) sub total: __________ Student* 12.000 pesetas (about 70 ECU) sub total: __________ * Registration fees include one copy of the proceedings, a social dinner, coffee breaks and refreshments. Social Dinner for accompanying persons=09 6.000 pesetas (about 35 ECU) sub total: __________ Pre Conference Workshops, May 26 - 27, 1998 5,000 pesetas each for those attending LREC 10,000 pesetas each for those not attending LREC Please indicate the workshops you plan to attend (X) _____ "Linguistic Coreference" May 26, morning session _____ "Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources to Sublanguages and Applic= ations" May 26, morning session _____ "The Evaluation of Parsing Systems" May 26, afternoon session _____ "Minimizing the Effort for Language Resource Acquisition" May 26, afternoon session _____ "Towards an open European Evaluation Infrastructure for NL and Sp= eech" May 27, morning session _____ "Language Resources for European Minority Languages" May 27, morning session _____ "Speech Database Development for Central and Eastern European Lan= guages" May 27, afternoon session _____ "Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources" May 27, afternoon session Total Number: __________ x 5,000 (if attending LREC) __________ x 10,000 (if not attending LREC) __________ =09 sub total: __________ Post Conference Workshop, May 31 - June 1* _______"Translingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future Abilities" *Register only if you have been asked to participate and have confirmed w= ith the organizers 10,000 (if attending LREC) 20,000 (if not attending LREC) sub total: __________ =09 Grand Total: __________ METHOD OF PAYMENT You may pay by credit card (VISA, MasterCard or Eurocard only; we cannot accept American Express, Diners Club, etc.). You may also pay by Banker'= s Cheque, bank transfer or by Eurocheque. All payments must be in Spanish pesetas. If payment is by Banker's Cheque, bank transfer or by Eurocheque, please send it by regular mail. If payment is by credit card, it may be faxed. Please DO NOT e-mail credit card numbers, as we cannot guarantee the security of our e-mail system, and because we require signatures. Please indicate (X) one of the following four payment options: a) ____ I enclose a Banker's Cheque in Spanish pesetas payable to "First International Conference on Language Resource= s and Evaluation". b) ____ I have transferred the full fees by bank transfer to your account at= : Banco Central Hispano, c/ Recogidas, 13, 18002 Granada. Account Name: First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Account Number: 0049 - 0372 - 18 - 2210856078. I have told my bank to charge me/us with all bank charges so that "First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation" will receive the full fees. I enclose a copy of the bank transfer paper= s with the person(s) name written on the transfer. c) ____ Please debit my VISA/MasterCard/Eurocard account: Amount: _________________________________________ Card No: _________________________________________ Valid from: ___/___ to ___/___ (as printed on your card) Cardholder's Name and Address: Last Name: _________________________________________ First Name: _________________________________________ Affiliation: _________________________________________ Street Address: _________________________________________ _________________________________________ City: _____________________________________ State/Province: _____________________________ Country: __________________________________ Postal/Zip Code: ____________________________ E-mail: ____________________________________ Web: _____________________________________ Signature as on card: _________________________________________ Credit card charges will be processed in Spanish pesetas. d) ____ I enclose Eurocheque(s) for the full fees. I have written my Eurocheque number on the back of each Eurocheque. MAIL OR FAX TO: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traducci=F3n e Interpretaci=F3n Dpto. de Traducci=F3n e Interpretaci=F3n C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 GRANADA, SPAIN reli98@goliat.ugr.es +34 58 24 41 04 fax VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION <a href="http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html">http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html</a> CONFERENCE ADDRESSES The Conference Chair is Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR and President of ELRA). Antonio Zampolli - LREC Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR via della Faggiola, 32 56126 Pisa, ITALY +39 50 560 481 tel. +39 50 555 013 fax pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it The Secretariat of the Conference, who will provide general information o= n the Conference, is: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traducci=F3n e Interpretaci=F3n Dpto. de Traducci=F3n e Interpretaci=F3n C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 Granada, SPAIN +34 58 24 41 00 tel. +34 58 24 41 04 fax reli98@goliat.ugr.es CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Harald Hoege, Siemens, Munich, Germany Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France Angel Martin Municio, President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid,= Spain Antonio Zampolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy EXHIBITION An exhibition will be organised by ELRA. This exhibition is open to companies and projects wishing to promote, present and demonstrate their language resources products and prototypes to the wide range of experts a= nd representatives from all over the world participating in the conference. = For more information on this, please contact the ELDA office on elra-elda@cal= va.net. ELRA For more information about ELRA (the European Language Resources Association), please contact: Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin F- 75013 Paris, France Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 39 E-mail: elra@calva.net Web: <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: older wiser Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:09:31 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1051 (1051) Willard, Of late the plight of the jobless younger, though not young, scholar has received a modicum of attention. Despondancy, (despair is perhaps too hard a word), also haunts the ranks of those about to retire. Its source as far as I can reckon lies not in the prospect of penny pinching pensions but in the angst generated by the simple onset of age. A senior colleague wrote to me recently wondering why they should go on "bothering with further cup-in-hand" action to collect much needed funds for an editorial conference -- this on the heels of grant failure for a large ongoing project. Further communication revealed that the brute fact of reading obits provoked a majestic bout of melancholy. Of course I can argue that scholars must come together in conferences to forge the collegial climate that fosters cross-generational projects. I would however feel better equipped rhetorically were I able to pass on some reflections from our learned audience. Hence my plea for postings on the topic of technology and the aging scholar esp. for the aging novice computer user. Regards from one whom a memento mori renders mendicant Francois -------- Resilience resides in imagination. "Renegade Academy Notes" <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/para.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/para.htm</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: NEH Fellowships 1999-2000 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:08:29 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1052 (1052) [deleted quotation] NEH Fellowships, 1999-2000 Deadline: May 1, 1998 The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the 1999-2000 competition for NEH fellowships. These fellowships provide opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced research in the humanities. Applicants may be faculty members of colleges and universities, staff members of colleges and universities, or faculty and staff members of primary and secondary schools. Scholars and writers working independently or in institutions such as museums, libraries, and historical associations or in institutions with no connection to the humanities also are eligible to apply. Projects supported by NEH Fellowships may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Such work might eventually produce scholarly articles, a monograph on a specialized subject, a book-length treatment of a broad topic, an archaeological site report, a translation, an edition, or an other scholarly tool. Citizenship: Applicants should be U.S. citizens, native residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the U.S. or its jurisdictions for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Eligibility: Scholars affiliated with institutions granting the Ph.D. in the subject area of the project should apply to the Fellowships for University Teachers Program. Scholars affiliated with institutions not granting the Ph.D. in the subject area of the project, scholars affiliated with other types of organizations, and independent scholars should apply to the Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars Program. Applicants whose professional training includes a degree program must have received their degrees or completed all official requirements for them by the application deadline. Persons seeking support for work leading toward a degree are not eligible to apply, nor are active candidates for degrees. Further information on the two programs is available in the printed guidelines. Stipends and Tenure: Tenure must cover an uninterrupted period of from six to twelve whole months. The earliest date that fellows may begin tenure is January 1, 1999, and the latest is the start of the spring term of the 1999-2000 academic year, or April 1, 2000 for those who are not teachers. Tenure periods for teachers must include at least one complete term of the academic year. A stipend of $30,000 will be awarded to those holding fellowships for a grant period of from nine to twelve months. A stipend of $24,000 will be awarded to those holding fellowships for a grant period of from six to eight months. Submission of Applications: All applications must be postmarked on or before May 1, 1998. Please note that the Endowment does not accept applications submitted by fax or e-mail. Applicants will be notified of the decisions on their applications by mid-December 1998. Application Materials and Information For application materials and further information, point your browser to the NEH web site: <<a href="http://www.neh.gov">http://www.neh.gov</a>> Fellowships for University Teachers: e-mail: fellowsuniv@neh.gov Phone: 202-606-8466 Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars: e-mail: fellowscollind@neh.gov Phone: 202-606-8467 Mail inquiries: NEH Fellowships, Room 318 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: AMICO University Testbed Participants Announced Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:03:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1053 (1053) [deleted quotation] ***** AMICO University Testbed Participants Announced ***** Art Museum Image Consortium is pleased to announce the results of its Call for Participation in the University Testbed Project. A select group of universities will be the first to receive the AMICO Library of multimedia documentation of museum collections in the 1998/1999 academic year. Together the AMICO University Testbed Participants and AMICO members will explore issues related to the licensing and delivery of multimedia museum documentation to higher education. University Testbed Project Participants 1998/1999 Academic Year Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA California State Universities, CA, USA San Jose State, San Jose, CA Long Beach, Long Beach, CA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Harvard University, Boston, MA , USA Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA and Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, IN, USA Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough,Ontario Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA The AMICO Library will be available under license to all higher educational institutions in the 1999/2000 academic year. Access to the AMICO Library during the University Testbed Project is being provided by the Research Libraries Group (RLG), Mountain View, CA, USA. RLG will offer access to universities under subscription beginning in the 1999/2000 academic year. AMICO is in discussions with the California Digital Library initiative and the OhioLINK Consortium to act as distributors to their higher education constituencies beginning with the 1999/2000 academic year. A number of other distributors will serve Public Libraries and Kindergarten through Grade 12 Educational Institutions beginning in 1999/2000. AMICO is a not-for-profit consortium of institutions with collections of art, who have come together to improve educational access to the documentation of objects in their care. Further information about joining AMICO, and details of its license terms and programs, is available at the Consortium's web site <a href="http://www.amico.net">http://www.amico.net</a> or contact Jennifer Trant <jtrant@archimuse.com> or David Bearman <dbear@archimuse.com> AMICO's Management Consultants. -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museum Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1054 (1054) Leading Art Site Suspended <<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/03/cyber/articles/03adaweb.html">http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/03/cyber/articles/03adaweb.html</a>> One of the leading websites for the creation and distribution of Web-specific art works, adaWeb, has been closed down by its new corporate owners according to a report by Matthew Mirapaul in today's New York Times' CyberTimes. [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Serena Roberts <serena@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU> Subject: intro note Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:01:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1055 (1055) I am writing to request your help with the research upon which I will base my doctoral dissertation. The study is designed to gather data about the use, utility and function of Web sites in secondary and post-secondary literature classes and to assess professionals^Ò perceptions of the effectiveness of Web sites used in those settings. This is a three stage study. The first stage is an on-line survey that will take about 20 minutes to complete. Much of the information requested is demographic data, but six questions require short paragraph responses. It will remain on line for one week from the date of this posting. By the beginning of April, I will host a three week electronic discussion for those who responded to the survey to see if we can reach agreement about a method for measuring effective goal attainment. During part of May you will be asked to use the mutually agreed upon criteria to measure whether your instructional objectives have been met using the Web. You will report your results via another Web form. The results of all portions of the study will be made available on the Web. If you know of anyone who would be interested in participating in this study, please forward this message to him or her. Additionally, if you know of information I should include in my review of literature, please post the bibliographic citation to me privately. I especially need leads to research about the decision-making processes of professionals and commonly used evaluation methods. More information and a link to the survey can be found at <a href="http://busboy.sped.ukans.edu/~serena/research.html">http://busboy.sped.ukans.edu/~serena/research.html</a> Thank you, -- Serena Roberts, ABD <a href="http://busboy.sped.ukans.edu/~serena/research.html">http://busboy.sped.ukans.edu/~serena/research.html</a> Graduate Research Assistant, Teacher Team South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium <a href="http://scrtec.org/">http://scrtec.org/</a> serena@scrtec.rtec.org Tech Corps Kansas State Coordinator <a href="http://www.ustc.org">http://www.ustc.org</a> serena@ukans.edu 3091 Dole Building University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 (785) 864-0564 fax (785) 864-0704 From: BRUNI <jbrun@eagle.cc.ukans.edu> Subject: pedagogy and websites Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:33:43 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1056 (1056) A colleague, Serena Roberts, at the University of Kansas is doing research on pedagogy and websites for her dissertation. I am forwarding her request for information which will help her with her research. Thanks, John Bruni Department of English University of Kansas ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Recording digital speech on DVD Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:48:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1057 (1057) [deleted quotation] I am interested in learning how much speech can be stored on a DVD. If anyone has experience or is other knowledgeable about storing and retrieving digitized speech on DVDs or other similar mass storage devices, I would be interested in hearing from you. Randall Jones Brigham Young University randall_jones@byu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: "Computing and the Humanities," report now available Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 14:39:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1058 (1058) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 3, 1998 "Computing And The Humanities: Promise And Prospects," A National Arts and Humanities Computing Roundtable Summary Report Published by American Council on Learned Societies <<a href="http://www.acls.org/op41-i.htm">http://www.acls.org/op41-i.htm</a>> A summary report of the "Computing and the Humanities," roundtable meeting conducted last year at the National Academy of Sciences has now been released as an "Occasional Paper" by the American Council of Learned Societies. It is also available online. NINCH was an organizing sponsor of this meeting together with the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, the Coalition for Networked Information and the Two Ravens Institute. Determined to find more effective ways of working productively together in networking cultural resources, a prominent group of scholars, teachers and practitioners in the arts, humanities and computer and communications sciences met for what proved to be a most stimulating conversation, in which the possibilities and challenges of productive collaboration were equally examined. For all involved, this day was clearly the first step in continuing conversations that could lead to practical productive projects. Print copies of the publication may be obtained by contacting Candace Frede, Office of Publications, ACLS, 228 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017-3398. Fax: (212) 949-8058. E-mail: candace@acls.org. David Green =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ============================================================== From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: American Studies Association: RECENT WEB RESOURCES Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:13:25 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1059 (1059) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 3, 1998 [deleted quotation] from the AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS INDEX Week Ending March 1, 1998 Sponsored by the American Studies Association and provided as a free service to the community by the American Studies Crossroads Project (<a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads">http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads</a>) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To subscribe to the Opportunities index, or to submit a posting, contact Jeff Finlay, Crossroads Administrator <finlayji@guvax.georgetown.edu> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following public access items were posted recently to American Studies Opportunities & News. 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Set in the historic Debating Chamber at the Oxford Union, this one-day colloquium will address the challenges presented to teachers, librarians, and publishers by Computers and Information Technology. Taking the form of three short debates, the event will bring together both practitioners and visionaries in each field who will take stock of where we have come to, and assess what might lie on the horizon at this pivotal moment in the development and application of the new technologies. The debates will be appropriate to ALL subjects not just the humanities. Each debate will centre around a motion designed to stimulate discussion of some of the major issues we are facing. Invited experts will present arguments for and against the motions, and the audience will be encouraged to air their views. Venue The Debating Chamber of the Oxford Union The Oxford Union is the world's most famous debating society. Established in 1823 and located in glorious Victorian Buildings in the heart of Oxford University, it aims to promote debate and discussion not just in Oxford University, but across the globe (for more information see <a href="http://www.oxford-union.org/">http://www.oxford-union.org/</a>). Format There will be three debates. The principal speakers will support and oppose the motion, each speaking for approximately 15 minutes. Contributions will then be invited from the floor, followed by a brief response by the speakers, and a vote. The Debates 1) Teaching (Duration 1.5 hours) Motion: 'This House believes that the Internet will revolutionise teaching across British Higher Education' Speaking for the motion: Dr Gary Alexander, Director of the Electronic Media in Education Research Group, the Open University Speaking against the motion: Ms Nicky-Sinead Gardner, Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) - Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) 2) Libraries (Duration 1.5 hours) Motion: 'This house believes that there is no future for Libraries outside the Electronic Medium' Speaking for the motion: John Tuck, Deputy to the Director of University Libraries and to Bodley's Librarian, University of Oxford Speaking against the motion: Mr Mike Crump, Director of Reader Services and Collection Development, The British Library 3) Publishing (Duration 1.5 hours) Motion: 'This House believes that the New Technologies are raising publishing standards' Speaking for the motion: Mr Michael Upshall, Executive Director of Publishing, Helicon Publishing Group PLC Speaking against the motion: Ms Jane Dorner, Freelance Writer and Author's Licensing & Collecting Society Director 4) Round Table Discussion (30 mins) Cost: The day is as follows: 40.00 - educational 100.00 - commercial 5.00 - student Please note that lunch is not included in the price. Please book early as spaces are limited. Concessions for block bookings of five or more (though not at the student rate) are available; please contact the organisers below for more details. A small number of reduced price places will be available for members of the Oxford Union and Oxford University. Cheques should be made payable to 'Oxford University Computing Services' and sent to the organisers below. To register for this event please complete the tear-off slip below and return it to: Dr Stuart Lee/ Ms Abigail Cooke Humanities Computing Unit Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN UK N.B. Closing date for registration is Thursday 16th April. If you have any questions please contact Abigail Cooke at: Abigail.Cooke@oucs.ox.ac.uk; tel: 01865-283295; FAX: 01865-273275. ********************************************************************* Please print off, complete and return to: Stuart Lee/Abigail Cooke, Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK; Fax: +44 1865 273275 by THURS 16TH APRIL. I WOULD LIKE TO APPLY FOR A PLACE ON THE HUMANITIES COMPUTING UNIT 'BEYOND THE HYPE' ONE-DAY COLLOQUIUM ON APRIL 23RD, 1998 TITLE: FIRST NAME: SURNAME: POSITION: DEPARTMENT: INSTITUTION: ADDRESS: POSTCODE: COUNTRY: TELEPHONE: FAX: E-MAIL: I DULY ENCLOSE A CHEQUE FOR 40.00 (pounds sterling) [Educational Rate]/100.00 [Commercial Rate]/5.00 [Student rate] MADE PAYABLE TO 'OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES'. SIGNED: DATE: ************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-283403 Fax: 01865-273275 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Web: <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/</a> ****************************************** From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: INTO THE FUTURE: Web Site & Airings Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:05:53 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1061 (1061) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 4, 1998 INTO THE FUTURE On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Digital Age New Webpages & More Viewing Dates <<a href="http://www.clir.org/film/intro.html">http://www.clir.org/film/intro.html</a>> Texas: KLRU-TV Wed March 4, 11pm Washington, DC: WETA Tues March 24, 10pm The Council on Library and Information Resources has published an informative collection of pages on digital preservation around the "Into the Future" film at <<a href="http://www.clir.org/film/intro.html">http://www.clir.org/film/intro.html</a>>. The pages include a brief clip from the film and a useful list of online resources on the issue of the preservation of digital material. Most of the country had the opportunity of viewing "Into the Future" on PBS stations in January. Other showings include KLRU in central Texas (tonight) and Washington DC on Tuesday March 24 at 10pm. For other local listings, search the PBS page at <<a href="http://www.pbs.org/whatson/locallistings.html">http://www.pbs.org/whatson/locallistings.html</a>> David Green =========== [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Discourse, Anaphora and Reference Resolution 2 - First Call for Delegates Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:49:41 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1062 (1062) [deleted quotation] First Call for Delegates DAARRC2 - Discourse, Anaphora and Reference Resolution Colloquium Lancaster University, 1 - 4th August , 1998 Invited Speakers - Prof. Michael Hoey "Looking at the Text Linguistics of Certain Words" Prof. Pieter Seuren "A Discourse-Semantic Account of Donkey Anaphora" Branimir Boguraev "Anaphora in Computational Linguistics" In this email: Description Draft Programme Registration Form Description Anaphora and problems of reference resolution have received a great deal of attention from workers in linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and information retrieval for a number of decades. Such problems have proved a major challenge for all of these fields, and a great many differing theories and solutions have been proposed and implemented with varying degrees of success. This colloquium aims to fill a need for researchers in this field to meet. Our hope is that this meeting will allow all of the different strands of work to be identified, with a view to producing an up-to-date review of the field. To this end, a coloquium will take place from the 1st to the 4th of August, 1998 at Lancaster University, UK, organized jointly by the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University and the Institute for English Studies, Lodz University, Poland. This colloquium is a follow up to the highly succesful DAARC colloquium held at Lancaster in 1996. Our aim this time is specifically geared towards encouraging a cross-fertilization of ideas between theoretical linguistics, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. The DAARC2 Organizing committee Simon Botley, Lodz University, Poland Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov, Wolverhampton University, UK Pieter Seuren, Nijmegen University, Netherlands Andrew Wilson, Chemnitz University, Germany Draft Programme Day 1 2 - 5 Registration 7 Buffet/Wine Reception Day 2 8 - 9 Breakfast 9 - 10 Plenary A - Michael Hoey 6 "Looking at the Text Linguistics of Certain Words" 10 - 11 Session A - Corpus 1 Marco Antonio de Rocha, University of Sussex, UK, "Anaphora, Collocations and Discourse Markers in Dialogues in English and Portuguese" Michael Barlow, Rice University, USA, "Feature Mismatches and Anaphora Resolution" 11 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 1 Session B Computational Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK, "Evaluating Anaphora Resolution Approaches" Suzanne LuperFoy, Mitre Corporation, USA, "Incremental Pronoun Resolution in Discourse Representation Theory" S. Azzam, K. Humphreys, and R. Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK, "Extending a Simple Coreference Algorithm with a Focusing Mechanism" 1 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 4:00 Session C - Theoretical Approaches 1 Kris Fletcher, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, "Proactive Versus Retroactive Processing In Pronominal Resolution" Sophia Cormack, University of Sunderland, "Incremental Pronoun Resolution in Discourse Representation Theory" Miriam Eckert, University of Edinburgh, UK, "The German Topic Position and Null Anaphora " 4 - 4:30 Tea 4:30 - 6:30 Session D - Theoretical Approaches 2 Ileana Comorowski, University of Nancy, France, "Wh-Complements and Donkey Anaphora" Evelyn Fogwe, University of Hamburg, Germany, "Anaphora dn Binding in Meta Questions" Seth Minkoff, University of New Mexico, USA, "Structural And Hybrid Binding" Ana Teresa Alves,Univesridade dos Azores, Portugal, "Sentential Anaphora and Restrictions on Temporal Operators" 7:30 Dinner Day 3 8 - 9 Breakfast 9 - 10 Plenary B - Pieter Steuren, Nijmegen University, Netherlands, "A Discourse-Semantic Account of Donkey Anaphora" 10 - 11 Session E - Corpus 2 Ronald Geluykens, University of Munster, Germany, "Conversational Anaphora and Referential Repair in English" Botley & Uzar, University of Lodz, Poland, "Investigating Learner English Anaphora the PELCRA Way" 11 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 1 Session F - Computational Donna Byron and James Allen, University of Rochester, USA, "Resolving Demonstrative Anaphora in the TRAINS93 Corpus" Amit Bagga, Duke University, USA, "The Evaluation of Coreferences and Coreference Resolution Systems" Roland Stuckardt, University of Frankfurt, Germany, "An Efficient Centering-Based Algorithm for Anaphor Resolution" 1 - 2:30 2:30 - 4:00 Session G - Theoretical approaches 3 Fridirique Depain-Delmotte, University of Besancon, "Resolving Anaphoric Reference - A Multi-Strategy Approach" Gary Wilson, University of Lincolnshire & Humderside, UK, "Do Situational or Thematic Roles Provide the best cues to pronoun assignment?" Maarten Jaansen, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, "Nominal versus Plain Anaphora" 4:00 - 4:30 Tea 4:30 - 6:30 Session H - Theoretical approaches 4 Tomoko Tsujimoto, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan, "Discourse deixis: this, that and it" Kirsi Hiltunen, University of Joensuu, Finland, "Reflexive Pronouns in Finnish: Syntactic or Pragmatic?" Andrei Popescu-Belis and Isabelle Robba, LIMSI-CNRS, France, "Evaluation of Coreference Rules on Complex Narrative Texts" Antonio Branco, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and University of Lisbon, Germany/Portugal, "A Lean Constraint Based Implementation of Binding Theory" 7:30 Dinner Day 4 8 - 9 Breakfast 9 - 10 Plenary C, Bran Boguraev "Anaphora in Computational Linguistics" 10 - 11 Session I - Corpus 3 Tony McEnery, Simon Botley & Paul Baker, Lancaster & Lodz University, UK/Poland, "Developmental Deixis - deixis in the age range 7 - 11" Antonio Ferandez, M. Palomar and L. Moreno, Alicante University, Spain, "A Computational Approach to Pronominal Anaphora, One Anaphora and Surface-Count Anaphora" 11 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 1 Session J - Computational 3 Claude Belisle and Denis Morell, Universities of Tours & Nantes, France, "The Automatic building of a relationships tranducer between proper names based on relational database system - an example of detection and processing of relationships between names of places and names of inhabitants" Ivadre Parabono and Vera Lucia Strube de Lima, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, "Possessive Pronominal Anaphor Resolution in Portuguese Written Texts" Jan Kuper, University of Twente, Netherlands, "Anaphora in the Case of Universal and Existential Quantifiers" 1 - 2:30 Lunch THE END DAARC2 Registration Form ======================== To register: 1. Send this form by surface mail to: DAARC2, 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@comp.lancs.ac.uk Please register BEFORE 5th June 1998, otherwise we cannot guarrantee the availability of accommodation. The fee for DAARC2 includes the following: Attendance at all DAARC2 sessions Conference Pack including Proceedings Accommodation on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd August Meals: 1st August: evening buffet and wine reception 2nd August: mid-morning coffee, lunch, afternoon coffee and dinner 3rd August: breakfast plus mid-morning coffee, lunch, afternoon coffee and dinner. 4th August: breakfast, mid-morning coffee, lunch Accommodation is provided in single study bedrooms on the Lancaster University main campus. Should you wish to bring a partner and require double or twin room accomodation please contact the organizers as soon as possible. Such accomodation is limited at the the campus and will be given on a first come first served basis. Payment Details: Fees are payable in Pounds Sterling or US Dollars. PLEASE MAKE CHEQUES PAYABLE TO 'LANCASTER UNIVERSITY'. Sterling money orders can also be used for payment, and must be made payable to 'LANCASTER UNIVERSITY'. US Dollar cheques are also acceptable, using a fixed exchange rate of 1.5 $US to the Pound. Unfortunately, we cannot accept credit card payments. You may pay at the conference in cash. Please indicate clearly on the form if you wish to exercise this option. Early registration discounts do not apply to such registrations, however. ================================================================ REGISTRATION FORM ================= Name: _______________________________________________ Title: _______________________________________________ Department: _______________________________________________ Institution/ Organisation: _______________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________ Postcode/City: _______________________________________________ Country _______________________________________________ Telephone: ____________________________ Fax: ____________________________ Email: ____________________________ Payment before 14/6/98 Residential 280.00 GBP [ ] Student 200.00 GBP [ ] Non-Residential 150.00 GBP [ ] Payment after 14/6/98 [ ] OR Payment at registration [ ] (Tick as appropriate) Residential 300.00 GBP [ ] Student 220.00 GBP [ ] Non-Residential 170.00 GBP [ ] Accompanying persons: Accompanying persons, who will not attend the conference but who are travelling with delegates, may register for the conference for accomodation and meals only at an 80 GBP discount on the full residential price. They should fill in registration form and ammend it accordingly, marking it clearly ACCOMPANYING PERSON. NOTE: Students must provide written evidence of their full time student status, such as an official headed letter from their supervisor. Additional accomodation on night of July 31st (including breakfast on 1st of August): 40.00 GBP [ ] Additional accomodation on the night of 4th August (including breakfast on the 5th August): 40.00 GBP [ ] Special dietary requirements: None [ ] Vegetarian [ ] Vegan [ ] Other [ ] Please specify: _______________ ______________________________ Any other comments: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: 2nd CFP - COLING WORKSHOP Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:38:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1063 (1063) [deleted quotation] Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages COLING-ACL98 Sunday August 16, 1998, University of Montreal Second Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Although there exists a considerable body of CL research specifically targeted to Semitic languages, much of the work to date has been the result of initiatives undertaken by individual researchers or research establishments. A direct consequence is that there is comparatively little awareness amongst practitioners of either the state of the art as practiced outside their own locality, the common challenges faced by all practitioners, or the potential for developing a coordinated approach. The aims of this workshop are therefore: * To provide a forum where current work in a broad range of subfields can be presented, collected and diffused. * To assess the state of the art with a view to identifying promising areas for future collaborative research. * To set up initiatives to explore the possibilities of supporting such research through national and international funding agencies. SUBTOPICS Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): * Educational Applications * Empirical Methods * Orthographic Represention * Language Modelling * Language Resources * Lexicon and Lexical Represention * Machine Translation * Morphology and Phonology * Multilinguality * Syntax, Parsing and Generation * Speech Applications WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (coordinator) Mohamed Abd-Elsalam, Sakr Software, Egypt<bhoueka, Bar Ilan University, Israel Fathi Debili, CNRS-CRLAO (Paris) / IRMC, Tunis Mamoun Hattab, Arabic Textware, Amman, Jordan George Kiraz, Bell Labs, USA Chadia Moghrabi, Univerity of Moncton, Canada Mori Rimon, Hebrew University, Israel SPONSOR Mid-Med Bank, Malta SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Deadlines * Submission Deadline: April 6, 1998 * Notification Date: June 1, 1998 * Camera ready copy due: June 22, 1998 Format * Electronic submissions only, Postscript format. * Provide a list of keywords and indicate the best fitting subtopic from the above list. * LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL: <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty</a> * Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. * Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). * Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. * Please submit papers to mros@cs.um.edu.mt. All submissions will be acknowledged. CONTACT Michael Rosner: mros@cs.um.edu.mt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Rosner (mros@cs.um.edu.mt) Last modified: Fri Feb 20 15:08:23 MET From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: 2 more Coling-ACL'98 Workshop Announcements Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:46:06 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1064 (1064) [deleted quotation] Call for papers Coling-ACL '98 workshop "Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers" August 15, 1998 Universiti de Montrial Montrial/Canada (See also: <a href="http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html">http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html</a>) The notion of discourse relation has received many different interpretations, some of which are hardly compatible with one another. Nonetheless, there is a consensus among researchers that intersegment relations hold between adjacent portions of a text and that these relations may be signalled by linguistic means, including so-called cue phrases, aspect and mood shifts, theme inversions, and other markers. The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on discourse relations and discourse markers in different linguistic traditions and different NLP applications. The particular focus of the workshop is the issue of discourse relations from the viewpoint of linguistic realization. Specifically, contributions should address one or more of the following questions: o What are sound methodologies for comparing similar discourse markers (contrastive studies, distribution analyses, etc.)? o What are sound methodologies for relating discourse relations with potential realizations? o Are there discourse relations that are always lexically signalled? Are there any that are never lexically signalled? o What non-lexical (i.e., syntactic or prosodic) means are used to signal a relation? o In production, how does one decide whether to signal a relation at all? o In production, how does one motivate a choice among candidate signals for a given relation? o In production, how does the choice of signal interact with other decisions (in particular, those of linearizing some tree or graph structure)? o In analysis, is it possible to reliably infer discourse relations from surface cues? o In analysis, how can one disambiguate polysemous signals such as "and", "since" (temporal or causal) etc.? o What are useful lexical representations of discourse markers, for both analysis and production? o What are useful representations of discourse relations (and the entities they relate), such that they facilitate the realization decision? What features would one like to have handy in a representation so that choices can be made easily? o Are there significant differences between realizations in spoken and written language? o How do individual languages differ in terms of any of the above issues? Organizing committee The workshop is organized by Manfred Stede (TU Berlin) Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart) Eduard Hovy (ISI/USC, Marina del Rey) Requirements for submission Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above. Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL: <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty</a> Papers can be submitted either electronically in PostScript format, or as hardcopies. Submissions from North America should be sent to: Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 U.S.A. hovy@isi.edu Submissions from elsewhere should be sent to either of the following: Manfred Stede Leo Wanner TU Berlin Computer Science Department KIT Project Group Intelligent Systems Group Sekr. FR 6-10 University of Stuttgart Franklinstr. 28/29 Breitwiesenstr. 20-22 D-10587 Berlin D-70565 Stuttgart Germany Germany stede@cs.tu-berlin.de wannerlo@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Timetable Deadline for electronic submissions: March 10, 1998 Deadline for hardcopy submissions: March 13 (arrival date) Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1998 Final manuscripts due: June 12, 1998 Program committee Sandra Carberry (U Delaware) Barbara DiEugenio (U Pittsburgh) Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI) Alistair Knott (U Edinburgh) Alex Lascarides (U Edinburgh) Owen Rambow (Cogentex Inc.) Ted Sanders (U Utrecht) Donia Scott (U Brighton) Wilbert Spooren (U Tilburg) Manfred Stede (TU Berlin) Keith Vander Linden (Calvin College) Marilyn Walker (ATT Labs) Leo Wanner (U Stuttgart) **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS ACL/COLING-98 Workshop on PARTIALLY AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSCRIBING NATURALLY OCCURRING, CONTINUOUS SPEECH August 16, 1998 (following ACL/COLING-98) University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada) CALL FOR PAPERS DESCRIPTION ----------- The development of robust systems for speech analysis and synthesis depends crucially on the availability of well-annotated corpora of naturally occurring, continuous speech. Yet existing speech corpora are rarely well-annotated. A key to proper annotation is the availability of partially automated systems for linking selected portions of a visual display of speech to the corresponding transcriptions. To be of practical use, such systems must be able to handle large files of digitized speech and they should permit transcriptions at different levels of analysis. This workshop will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of papers and software demonstrations which reflect the current state of the art. We invite proposals of up to 800 words which address the development, use, evaluation, or potential commercial application of such systems. SUBMISSIONS ----------- Only email submissions in LaTeX or Ascii will be accepted. Authors should submit an abstract of no more than 800 words to: trans98@cs.concordia.ca Style files and templates for LaTeX submissions can be found at <a href="http://colingacl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html">http://colingacl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html</a> The official language of the conference is English. IMPORTANT DEADLINES ------------------- Submission Deadline: April 15, 1998 Notification Date: May 15, 1998 Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998 PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- Nancy Belmore Concordia University, Canada Sabine Bergler Concordia University, Canada John Esling Univ. of Victoria, Canada Eric Keller Univ. of Lausanne, Switzerland Roland Kuhn Panasonic Technologies, Inc., U.S.A. Douglas O'Shaughnessy INRS-Telecommunications, Canada Ching Y. Suen Concordia University, Canada ORGANIZERS ---------- Nancy Belmore Concordia University, Canada Sabine Bergler Concordia University, Canada Douglas O'Shaughnessy INRS-Telecommunications, Canada REGISTRATION ------------ There is a discounted workshop fee for participants of Coling/ACL. Participants who are not registered for Coling/ACL will have to pay the full workshop fee (to be announced shortly). INFORMATION ----------- Any requests for information should be sent to trans98@cs.concordia.ca From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Invitation to EXHIBITION at LREC Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:47:46 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1065 (1065) [deleted quotation] Invitation to participate at the ======<><><><><><><><><><><><><>====== EXHIBITION at the FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION (LREC) GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 ======<><><><><><><><><><><><><>====== The European Language Resources Association, ELRA, is organising an Exhibition at the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in Granada, Spain. The exhibition is open to companies wishing to promote, present and demonstrate their products and prototypes, to the wide range of experts and representatives from all over the world, participating in the conference. You will have an excellent opportunity to meet with all of the major players in the area of Language Engineering, both from main international and national companies and from European CEC projects. The number of accepted papers to be presented at the conference is well over 200, and we are expecting more than 350 participants, balanced between academia and industry. Panel sessions on important topics will attract major decision makers. The themes of these panels will include: "Funding LRs" - economic aspects and thoughts on the future for the field of evaluation; "International programmes in LE" - European, American and world-wide programmes in comparison. To benefit from this remarkable opportunity and for further details and registration, please contact the ELRA secretariat in Paris: ====<><><><><><><><><><><><><>==== ELRA secretariat Malin Nilsson or Rebecca Jaffrain tel. +33-1-43 13 33 33 e-mail: elra-elda@calva.net ====<><><><><><><><><><><><><>==== Please note that the deadline for registration is the 15th of March. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Studies in Bibliography On-Line Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:46:54 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1066 (1066) [deleted quotation] "STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY" ONLINE: 50 YEARS OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE ON THE WEB The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia is pleased to announce a major new website for literary study, textual scholarship, and bibliographical analysis, which can be accessed on the Internet at <a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/">http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/</a> In addition to information about the society, visitors will find several large electronic text resources. In celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, the Bibliographical Society has made freely available in electronic form the first forty-nine volumes of its flagship journal, "Studies in Bibliography", a premier publication of bibliographical studies worldwide. Users may search the entire contents of all the volumes published 1948-1996, making this a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, and research institutions alike. "Studies in Bibliography" is "a virtual encyclopedia of scholarly work on the history of books and editing over the past 50 years," according to Thomas Tanselle, President of the Society and Vice President of the Guggenheim Foundation. The online database will serve a wide variety of pedagogical and research needs, reaching audiences who do not now have ready access to the print versions: * the high school student and teacher can find out more about the early printings of "Hamlet" and the bearing they have on the play; * the community college teacher can call upon the database to collect material for a lecture on Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones"; * the research scholar working on Chaucer can extract a wealth of data on early manuscripts of "The Canterbury Tales". According to David L. Vander Meulen, editor of "Studies in Bibliography", the project "honors the Society's mission to advance bibliographical and textual scholarship, both by making existing materials accessible in new and helpful ways and by providing a model for the retrospective conversion of journals in the humanities." Other notable electronic publications available at the Society's site include "Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century" and "Attribution Voltaire Foundation. 1.30 - Demonstration: Italia Due Mille, Gavin Burnage, University of Cambridge 2.00 - 2.45 CDU on CD-ROM, Werther on the Web: Electronic Resources for German Studies, Duncan Large, Dept. of German, University of Wales Swansea 2.45 - 3.15 German Literature Online: Creating a Teaching and Research Tool Arend Kuster, Chadwyck-Healey Publishers 3.15 - 3.45 COFFEE and EXHIBITION 3.45 - 4.15 Virtual Seminars for Teaching World War I Poetry, Stuart Lee, Centre for Humanities Computing, Oxford University 4.15 - 4.45 Panel Discussion Cost -------------- 40 pounds sterling / 25 pounds sterling (postgraduate). Cheques should be made payable to 'Oxford University Computing Services', or by telephoning Abigail Cooke on 01865 273221 for credit card bookings. The price includes lunch and coffee, but *not* accommodation. Lists of accommodation are available on request. Reservation ------------ A booking form is available on the WWW at: <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/service/workshop/eurolit.html">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/service/workshop/eurolit.html</a> Alternatively, print out and return the following: REGISTRATION FORM Teaching European Literature and Culture Wednesday 18 March 1998 ----------------------- NAME: INSTITUTION: DEPARTMENT: ADDRESS: TELEPHONE: FAX: EMAIL ADDRESS: PAYMENT TYPE: I would like to reserve one place for the conference at [ ] full rate (40 pounds sterling) [ ] postgraduate rate (25 pounds sterling) PAYMENT METHOD: [ ] I enclose a cheque made payable to Oxford University Computing Services. [ ] I enclose credit card details (please do not transmit electronically). Sarah Porter, CTI Textual Studies, Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Tel: 01865 283 282 Fax: 01865 273 275 Email: ctitext@oucs.ox.ac.uk From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Conference announcement: AMTA-98 (Machine Translation) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:44:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1067 (1067) [deleted quotation] AMTA-98: MACHINE TRANSLATION AND THE INFORMATION SOUP (MT in a growing field of language technologies) The Sheraton Bucks County Hotel Langhorne, Pennsylvania October 28-31, 1998 Organized by AMTA - Association for Machine Translation in the Americas The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas is pleased to convene its third conference in the biennial series, to be held at the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel in Langhorne, PA, on 28-31 October, with tutorials and welcoming reception on Wednesday, October 28. The MT Summit last year commemorated the 50th anniversary of machine translation. During that time, MT grew from a tantalizing dream to a respectable and stable scientific-linguistic enterprise, with users, commercial systems, university research, and Government participation. But until very recently, MT has been performed in a relatively isolated manner, as a distinct enterprise. This situation is changing rapidly. The explosive growth of the web has brought multilingual text into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer. It is increasingly urgent that the various types of language processing technologies--information retrieval, automated summarization, multimodal and multilingual display, and machine translation--be interconnected. AMTA invites all who are interested in any aspect of Machine Translation--developers, researchers, users, and watchers--to attend the conference in October. At AMTA-98 we will focus on methods of integrating the language technologies, with invited speakers, panel discussions, papers by researchers and developers, workshops, tutorials, and more. Participation by members of AMTA's sister organization, AAMT in Asia and EAMT in Europe, is strongly encouraged. And people working in related areas, such as information retrieval and summarization, are very welcome to attend. REGISTRATION FORM A copy of the AMTA-98 registration form will soon be posted on the Web at: <a href="http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html">http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html</a> THE PROGRAM Once again there will be something for everyone! Retaining the pattern of parallel sessions established by its predecessors, AMTA-98 will offer a mixture of: - invited talks - panels on current and debated issues - practical and theoretical papers - tutorials - live theater-style system demonstrations - exhibits of systems and products FEATURED SPEAKERS - Situating MT in the Information (Language Technology) Soup - Commercial Demands on MT - What can MT Technology Deliver? - Integration of MT with Other Language Tools SPECIAL SESSIONS - MT Related Language Technologies - Automatic Extraction of Bilingual Lexicons - The Future of the Lexicon in MT PANELS - New Users: Implementing MT Technology - The AMTA/IAMT Seal of Approval: Sorting the Good from the Bad - Future Needs: Breaking the Quality Ceiling SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations will be given both in a theater-style setting as part of the regular program and on tabletops, where non-commercial systems will be presented on an announced schedule. Demonstrations will occur in parallel with the research paper sessions. RESEARCH PAPERS Papers on a variety of topics, written and presented by researchers, practitioners and users of Machine Translation and related language technologies will be presented in sessions parallel to the system demonstrations. EXHIBITS In addition to the scheduled demonstrations, vendor booths will showcase commercial products on an ongoing basis throughout the conference. TUTORIALS Participants may choose from a number of tutorials to be held in the morning and the afternoon of Wednesday, 28 October. ACCOMMODATIONS: The Sheraton Bucks County Hotel - Langhorne, PA Conveniently located in an area renowned for its beauty, history and culture, the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel offers easy access to Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey. Just off I-95 and Route 1, northeast of Philadelphia, it is minutes away from planes, trains and turnpikes, right in the heart of Berenstein Bears countryside. Guests are surrounded by unique shopping, sightseeing and enter- tainment opportunities including Sesame Place, Peddler's Village, and the Franklin Mills Mall, and minutes away from historic New Hope. Atlantic City and the Pennsylvania Dutch country are easy day trips. This recently built, colonial style hotel has 187-rooms. Accommodations include luxurious suites for corporate lodging and entertaining, and an executive floor. Spacious guest rooms are soundproof and feature individually controlled air conditioning, direct two-line touch-tone phones, cable TV with remote control, and coffee makers. The elegant hospitality is complete with valet parking, a hair salon for men and women, valet service, gift shop, video game room, fully-equipped spa with indoor pool, state-of-the-art exercise equipment, jacuzzi, steam room and sauna. Guests and members may receive individualized expert assistance with their fitness programs. Further information will be available from: <a href="http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html">http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html</a> RELATED EVENTS - Wednesday, Welcoming reception in Exhibit Area (complementary) - Friday, Banquet at the University of Pennsylvania Museum - Saturday, Optional tour of historic downtown Philadelphia area: Independence Mall, Liberty Bell, etc. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Please contact Eduard Hovy at the address below if you have further questions about the program, site, or accommodations, or to request the AMTA-98 registration packet, which includes a map and directions for ground transportation. For more information as it becomes available, as well as a printable copy of the AMTA-98 registration form, see: <a href="http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html">http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html</a> ORGANIZERS Conference Chair Eduard Hovy USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 USA Tel: +1-310-822-1511 ext. 731 Fax: +1-310-823-6714 Email: hovy@isi.edu Program Chairs Laurie Gerber SYSTRAN Software, Inc. 7855 Fay Avenue, Suite 300 La Jolla, CA 92037 USA Tel: +1-619-459-6700 ext. 119 Fax: +1-619-459-8487 Email: lgerber@systransoft.com David Farwell Computing Research Laboratory New Mexico State University Box 3001/3CRL Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 USA Tel: +1-505-646-5108 Fax: +1-505-646-6218 Email: david@crl.nmsu.edu Local Arrangements Chair Martha Palmer Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania 200 S. 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: +1-215-898-2661 Fax: +1-215-898-0587 Email: mpalmer@linc.cis.upenn.edu Exhibits Coordinator Kim Belvin 659 Dell Street Solana Beach, CA 92075 Tel: +1-619-481-8446 Fax: +1-619-350-8613 AMTA Focal Point Deborah Becker Association for Machine Translation in the Americas 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 300 Washington, DC 20004 USA Tel/fax: +1-703-716-0912 Email: amta@clark.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eduard Hovy email: hovy@isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute tel: 310-822-1511 ext 731 4676 Admiralty Way fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 project homepage: <a href="http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html">http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1068 (1068) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 622. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> Willard's comments on the plight which those of us who are getting a bit long in the tooth fine, or soon will find ourselves started the following chain of thoughts. A month ago I received an email from a student seeking some information for a research paper. He had found out that I had written a book on the subject of interest. I responded saying that I might be more help if I knew whether this was an undergraduate or graduate paper on which he was working. Neither, he assured me. He was in the seventh grade and was working on a project for History Day. I made some suggestions that I hope were useful and corresponded a bit with the scholar's mom, something that doesn't happen every day. Although I was initially surprised by this contact, I quickly recognized that this is the nature of this new word of electronic communications. All anonymous fingers on keyboards are equal, at least upon their initial presentation, and the world of potential contacts for intellectual inquiry, exchange or fun is far wider than I at least had suspected. How may this help the elders, whom we will all become? First, the potential isolation that may come from retirement can be broached via email and the WEB. Second, if we allow ourselves to expand our definition of colleagues, we may discover all kinds of exhilarating (and irritating) communications we may never have allowed ourselves. Third, ah, but here I must backtrack or perhaps I should say, forward track a bit, and indulge in a bit of guesswork about the future. Now that the WEB is emerging as a vast course delivery medium at the same time that universities and colleges are under great pressure to reduce costs, I think that we can no longer assume that the past is prologue as far as the professorate is concerned. There was a time when most scholars were "independent"-- unattached, living on whatever means they had. The institutionalization of scholars and intellectuals in secular universities is about as new as the secular universities themselves. The process begins in the Anglo-American world in the late nineteenth century. I am not sure that this situation will survive in tact in the post-modern century that is close upon us, at least as far as the humanities disciplines are concerned. At some point in the next century, sooner rather than later, many people pursuing interests in humanities fields may find that they, like their nineteenth-century predecessors, are "independent" -- without full-time salary. Indeed, such vestiges of the past/harbingers of the future are already among us. We call them adjuncts. The time is ripe to establish the new "institutions" that will support independent scholars (perhaps economically but certainly intellectually) and the electronic media seem to offer us the most likely means to do this. While some of the ground is already being laid, there is still much to be done. It is here that elders, retired and with time heavy on their hands, and no longer locked into the incessant schedules of publications, committees and teaching, could help pioneer the new intellectual environment, and have a hell of a good time in the process. William H. A. Williams The Union Institute 440 E. McMillan St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45206-1925 (513) 861-6400 bwilliams@tui.edu <a href="http://www.tui.edu/~bwilliams/">http://www.tui.edu/~bwilliams/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Joan B Fiscella <jbf@uic.edu> Subject: For posting on HUMANIST, please. Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 08:46:29 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1069 (1069) The 20th Annual Conference of the Association for Integrative Studies will be held at the DoubleTree Hotel in downtown Detroit, Michigan, October 8-11, 1998. It is being co-sponsored by Wayne State University's Interdisciplinary Studies Program, in the College of Lifelong Learning, as part of their 25th anniversary. We invite you to submit paper proposals: CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline April 10, 1998 Proposals for the 1998 AIS Conference are invited on the theme of: Integrative Studies: Building Bridges across Disciplines and Cultures The conference will focus on the diversity of disciplinary, cultural, institutional, and organizational boundary-crossing. Submissions from graduate students are especially encouraged! We invite formal papers, panel discussions, workshops, round tables , book and research reviews, and poster sessions on topics such as: * the internationalization of interdisciplinarity * interdisciplinarity in the information age * knowledge, power, and interdisciplinarity * building active institutional partnerships * interdisciplinarity and adult education * interdisciplinary implications for social change * interdisciplinary curricula and the business community * the future of interdisciplinarity * preparing for interdisciplinary teaching * advancing interdisciplinary graduate criteria A proposal submission for is available at: <a href="http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/conf_1998_submiss.html">http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/conf_1998_submiss.html</a> To submit a proposal, send, FAX, or E-mail the information requested on the proposal submission form by April 10, 1998, to: Linda Hulber, AIS Conference Proposal Coordinator: Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Wayne State University, 2404 A.A.B., 5700 Cass Ave. Detroit, MI 48202 Phone:(313)577-6567 FAX: (313)577-8585 Email: LHulber@Cll.Wayne.Edu For more information about the conference, see: <a href="http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/conf_1998.html">http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/conf_1998.html</a> or contact Linda Hulbert. For information on the Association for Integrative Studies, please see: <a href="http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/">http://www.muc.muohio.edu/~ais/</a> or contact: William Newell, Phone: (513)529-2213, FAX: (513)529-5849, E-mail: NewellWH@MUOhio.Edu Notification of Acceptance by May 1, 1998. Joan B. Fiscella Bibliographer for Professional Studies University of Illinois at Chicago Library 312-996-2730 jbf@uic.edu From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Dublin Core Metadata for Museums Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:23:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1070 (1070) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 6, 1998 CONSORTIUM FOR THE COMPUTER INTERCHANGE OF MUSEUM INFORMATION: CIMI Dublin Core Metadata Testbed Call for Participation <<a href="http://www.cimi.org/documents/metafinalPD.html">http://www.cimi.org/documents/metafinalPD.html</a>> [deleted quotation] March 1, 1998 Summary Details follow on an opportunity for museums, corporations, and other organizations that produce and distribute digital object descriptions to take part in an 8-month Consortium for the Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) testbed of Dublin Core (DC) metadata creation and conversion starting April 1998. This testbed reflects CIMI's approach to investigating standards for solving information problems by through practical implementation experience. This study will investigate validation of assumptions underlying the sufficiency and efficacy of DC metadata to describe heterogeneous museum collections and the creation of localized case histories from which to share lessons learned and identify areas of further work. Organizations interested in participating should contact Erin Stewart erins2@mail.airmail.net, CIMI Dublin Core Metadata Testbed Project Manager, by March 20, 1998. RESPONSE DEADLINE: MARCH 20, 1998 ********************************************************** Dear Colleague, CIMI is pleased to announce the CIMI Dublin Core (DC) Metadata Testbed Project <<a href="http://www.cimi.org/documents/metafinalPD.html">http://www.cimi.org/documents/metafinalPD.html</a>>. This opportunity will afford those charged with responsibility for making museum object collections available for resource discovery and retrieval to explore the potential of the DC metadata scheme <<a href="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core">http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core</a>> to describe heterogeneous collections. For more information on CIMI, see www.cimi.org. This Call for Participation is available at <<a href="http://www.cimi.org/documents/metafinalCFP.html">http://www.cimi.org/documents/metafinalCFP.html</a>>. The selected group of participants will work with CIMI to create a pilot implementation of DC metadata records. This testbed will serve as the foundation for an evaluation of assumptions concerning the discovery and retrieval of resources within an electronic, networked environment such as that offered by the World Wide Web. The CIMI DC Metadata Testbed offers an opportunity to explore these assumptions within a systematic context, and to make the more generically applicable findings available to the wider DC community. Please see the complete project description at <<a href="http://www.cimi.org/documents/metafinalPD.html">http://www.cimi.org/documents/metafinalPD.html</a>>. Goals of the testbed include: * Evaluating the efficacy and utility of DC for the museum community * Bringing to the surface and provide a forum for understanding and resolving issues concerning the operational aspects, technical infrastructure, intellectual challenges, and economics of DC record creation * Promoting international consensus on DC practices in the museum and cultural heritage community CIMI is seeking responses from interested parties who: * are interested in acquiring practical experience in creating and converting from legacy databases a sizeable number of DC records, including identification and discussion of intellectual, operational, technical, and economic issues * represent the widest possible range of institution size, geographical/cultural dispersion, charter, and information management requirements and practices, including vendors * have or can secure access to a digital collection suitable for project use * have demonstrated commitment to dedicate resources * are or are willing to become a member of CIMI <<a href="http://www.cimi.org/about/how_to_join.html">http://www.cimi.org/about/how_to_join.html</a>> International participation from organizations representing a diverse collection of digital objects of varying aggregation levels and disciplines is strongly encouraged. Participants will receive a $1,000 U.S. dollar stipend (to defray expenses of testbed participation including approximately 3 meetings to be held in conjunction with professional conferences when possible). Participants will: * Identify a set of objects representing a broad range of disciplines, formats, and aggregation levels for description by DC Simple and Qualified elements * Create a task list and timetable for accomplishment of work items * Create, convert, and manage a sizeable number of DC records * Maintain a detailed activity log and complete questionnaires describing progress, task outcomes, and issues * Support content analysis of the derived DC records by availing existing catalog representations and objects * Participate in three meetings to discuss intellectual, operational, technical, and economic issues concerning record creation * Assess the adequacy of DC to map both from existing metadata and to end-user-oriented CIMI Access Points * Understand the relationship of DC to other resource discovery and retrieval mechanisms Interested parties are asked to supply an expression of interest in the following format to Erin Stewart by March 20, 1998. CIMI will evaluate responses and contact eligible institutions to answer questions and discuss expected project outcomes in greater detail. CIMI will then select up to 10 participants for the DC Metadata Testbed Project. All participants must be or be willing to become CIMI members <<a href="http://www.cimi.org/about/how_to_join.html">http://www.cimi.org/about/how_to_join.html</a>>. FORMAT FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST * Name of organization or institution * Physical address of organization or institution * URL of organization or institution * URL of digital collection if available * Personal contact name, job title, telephone number, and email address * Half-page description of organization or institution, mission statement, and reasons for interest in the Dublin Core and participating in CIMI's testbed project. We encourage you to copy and/or pass this announcement on to appropriate colleagues in your organization or elsewhere. We look forward to hearing from you by March 20, 1998. Erin Stewart Project Manager erins2@mail.airmail.net voice: 972-776-7538 (CST) John Perkins CIMI Project Director jperkins@cimi.org voice: 902-826-2824 fax: 902-826-1337 =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Judith A. Turner" <judith@turner.net> Subject: The latest issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 07:52:38 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1071 (1071) Dear JEP Subscriber: The March 1998 issue of "The Journal of Electronic Publishing" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep</a>> is now available for your reading enjoyment. Talking Together to Work Together "Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely." --Lord Macaulay "Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street." --William Blake Given all the meetings held over the years on electronic publishing and its effects on publishers, libraries, and budgets -- not to mention tenure, archiving, and scholarship -- it's hard to imagine that we need another one. But indeed we do, because each time more people learn more about the issues, and each time we come closer to the answers to problems that once seemed insoluble. This issue of "The Journal of Electronic Publishing" is devoted to the Second Annual Faxon Colloquium on Scholarly Publishing, held in January, which focused on electronic publishing and its effect on scholarship. We might have had a single article to report on the meeting, but that would have lost the basic meaning of the colloquium, the many voices that talk together. Our lead-off article is by Adrian Alexander, the soon-to- be-former head of the Faxon Institute, which sponsored the colloquium and invited the attendees. He tells us Faxon's reasoning in "Why We Do It" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/alexander.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/alexander.html</a>>, an interesting look at how a company in the middle manages to stay in the fray without taking sides. Stanley Chodorow's well-received keynote address, "The Faculty, the University, and Intellectual Property" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/chodorow.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/chodorow.html</a>> set a lofty tone for the colloquium and does the same here. Underlying that history lesson is a cogent and penetrating exploration of the future of scholarly communication, and the side issues that will take center stage very soon. Michael B. Binder's "Information as a Commodity" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/binder.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/binder.html</a>> is a straight report of discussions at the two-day meeting, while Johann van Reenen saw in the discourse a trend that disturbed him enough to move him to activism, and his article, "Library Consumerism in the Digital Age" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/vanreenen.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/vanreenen.html</a>> contains his plan for change. Margit A. E. Dementi also saw in a trend in discussion, a trend she outlines in "Access and Archiving as a New Paradigm" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/dementi.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/dementi.html</a>>. Douglas E. Jones, in his article "From Language Barriers to Contemporaneous Minds" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/jones.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/jones.html</a>>, and Carolyn L. Helmetsie, in her article "Consortia and Electronic Products" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/helmetsie.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/helmetsie.html</a>>, both take the position that the questions have not yet been settled "rightly." Karen Hunter used the colloquium as a jumping-off point in "Adding Value by Adding Links" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/hunter.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/hunter.html</a>>; like many who attend many conferences she let her ideas flow from the discussion around her. Terry Ann Rohe shares her stream-of-consciousness thinking in a question-and-answer format, "How Does Electronic Publishing Affect the Scholarly-Communication Process?" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/rohe.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/rohe.html</a>>. We also offer a look at the problems of independent scholarship in an electronic environment. Not having an office means more than not having ready access to paper clips and the communal coffeepot, it is a serious disadvantage when trying to cope with new technology, as Harold Orlans tells us in "A Home Scholar's Electronic Woes" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/orlans.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/orlans.html</a>>. Finally, Thom Lieb checks in again with his practical look at online publishing, this time helping us understand the importance of interactivity in the online environment. He asks us to interact with him in "Inactivity on Interactivity" <<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/lieb0303.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/lieb0303.html</a>>. Special thanks to Trisha L. Davis, head of the continuation acquisition division of the Ohio State University Libraries, who -- despite illness and injury, served as Guest Editor for this issue, finding and persuading her colleagues to contribute their excellent pieces. Enjoy! Judith Axler Turner Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing <a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep</a> (202) 986-3463 From: "J.W.T.Smith" <J.W.T.Smith@UKC.AC.UK> Subject: Conference Announcement - ICCC/IFIP Electronic Publishing '98 Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 18:47:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1072 (1072) ICCC/IFIP Electronic Publishing '98 Towards the Information-Rich Society 20-22 April 1998, The Central European University Residence and Conference Center, Budapest, Hungary The ICCC (International Council for Computer Communications) in conjunction with IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) is pleased to announce the Second ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing to be held in the Central European University Residence and Conference Center, Budapest, Hungary, 20-22 April 1998. The title of this year's conference is Electronic Publishing '98 - Towards the Information-Rich Society. There will be two parallel tracks: one on socio-economic issues; and the other on technical issues. There will also be plenary sessions for papers and discussions that cover the whole of electronic publishing. A major underlying theme of the ICCC/IFIP Electronic Publishing conferences is the promotion of an 'exchange of experience' between the participants - especially between academics researching in the area, and publishers and others with practical experience. All papers are refereed to ensure high quality. ....Keynote speakers We are particularly pleased to welcome our two invited speakers: Professor Sir Roger Elliott, ICSU Press (Former Chief Executive of Oxford University Press), UK, and Miles Ellis, Director of the Educational Technology Resources Centre, University of Oxford, UK. ....Target audience The Conference is aimed at anyone involved in the production, provision, or use of Electronic Publishing and/or its products, or the academic study of these activities. This includes (but is not limited to): publishers; providers of net services; providers of support services for e-publishing; information professionals; librarians; information consultants; all academics in information and publishing studies; and others with an interest in any aspect of e-publishing and the provision of public information. ....A truly international Conference We already have speakers from 20 countries and expect delegates from even more. We have speakers from: Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden,. Ukraine, UK, and the USA ....Conference language The working language of the Conference is English with simultaneous translation into Russian. ....The Programme An Advance Programme (in timetable form), including links to abstracts of papers, is available at: <a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/ICCC98/advprogttbl.htm">http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/ICCC98/advprogttbl.htm</a> NB. This is the Advance Programme and speakers, times, etc. may change. The Web page will be updated with any changes. ....Brochure A colour brochure is available - you may request one from: iccc-ep98@ukc.ac.uk. ....Exhibition An Exhibition is being organised in parallel with the Conference. The exhibition will be open to Conference delegates and external visitors. If you are interested in exhibiting please contact: Laszlo Szeibert Open Society Institute Electronic Publishing Development Program Tel: +36 1 327 3122 Fax: +36 1 327 3042 E-mail: szeibert@osi.hu ....The Venue The Conference is to be held at the Central European University Residence and Conference Center. This a 'state of the art' conference centre completed in 1995. We have been enabled to use this venue with the help of a team from the Electronic Publishing Development Program of the Open Society Institute, Budapest, led by Michael Kay. This team is also providing the Local Organisation for the Conference. *** The Organising Committee would like to acknowledge the financial support provided to ICCC/IFIP Electronic Publishing '98 by the Electronic Publishing Development Program funded by the Foundation Open Society Institute. *** ....Accommodation (Note: See 'Fees' below for charges) The majority of delegates will be accommodated in the Conference Center itself. These are single rooms with showers, direct-dial telephones and cable television. The complex includes a self-service restaurant and coffee lounge. There is also an indoor swimming pool and sauna. We have also reserved rooms in other hotels. Where these are not within easy walking distance of the venue transport will be arranged to and from the Conference Center during the Conference. The allocation of rooms will be on a 'first come - first served' principle with the Conference Center rooms being allocated first. In all cases the accommodation is 'bed and breakfast' only and you will need to pay separately for any other meals and services. *** The accommodation we have reserved is limited so you are advised to Register for the Conference as soon as possible if you want one of these rooms! *** Alternatively you are free to make your own accommodation arrangements if you wish. Simply indicate you are doing this in the space on the Registration Form for 'other special needs' and leave the accommodation section of the form blank. ....Fees The Conference Fee (includes lunch/refreshments at the Conference) is 200 UK Pounds or 350 US Dollars. Single accommodation (single, bed and breakfast) is available at 40 UK Pounds or 70 US Dollars per night. NB - All fees must be paid in advance of the Conference. ....Registration Delegates should register using the official registration form. Copies in various electronic formats can be found at our main Web page: <a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/ICCC98/index.htm">http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/ICCC98/index.htm</a> or you may request a paper or fax copy. Please e-mail iccc-ep98@ukc.ac.uk giving your full postal address or fax number (including international code). ....Sponsorship opportunities Would you like to be a sponsor of an identified item or event? A list of items/events than can be sponsored can be found at: <a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/ICCC98/icccsplst.htm">http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/ICCC98/icccsplst.htm</a> If you would like to identify your company with this Conference please contact: Prof Dipak Khakhar Department of Informatics Ole Romers vag 6 S-22363 Lund Sweden E-mail: dipak.khakhar@ics.lu.se Tel: +46 46 222 8028 Fax: +46 46 222 4528 ....Any other enquiries If you have any enquiries about the Conference, or just want a colour brochure, please e-mail: iccc-ep98@ukc.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@mdah.state.ms.us> Subject: Re: 11.0622 RE: Older Wiser Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 16:41:08 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1073 (1073) I agree heartily with William Williams on the potential of the new medium of the Web to recreate the real roots of the university: independent scholars can easily become adjuncts from afar (if they need a paycheck or to offer their knowledge in a context in which the recipient accrues academic capital) or simply set up to offer knowledge independently to those who are interested, either for a fee (a good model is the low-cost training sites like ZDU) or for free if they can afford to do so. This time, of course, the students won't have to be peripatetic; conceivably they could study with scholars all over the world at the same time; multi-scholar seminars could be created using MOOs; etc.etc. Universities are investigating these possibilities already (viz. the Western Governors' cooperative concept in the US), but there is no reason why the narrow degree-granting concept needs to be the only model out there. And we computing humanists need not depend upon the campus educational-applications people: we can just go ahead and do it. More power to these pioneers! Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: Dan Price <dprice@union1.tui.edu> Subject: RE: 11.0622 RE: Older Wiser Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:36:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1074 (1074) A furthre thought. It will indeed be curious to see what response this raises. D -----Original Message----- From: Humanist Discussion Group [SMTP:humanist@kcl.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 1998 4:01 PM To: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 622. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> Willard's comments on the plight which those of us who are getting a bit long in the tooth fine, or soon will find ourselves started the following chain of thoughts. A month ago I received an email from a student seeking some information for a research paper. He had found out that I had written a book on the subject of interest. I responded saying that I might be more help if I knew whether this was an undergraduate or graduate paper on which he was working. Neither, he assured me. He was in the seventh grade and was working on a project for History Day. I made some suggestions that I hope were useful and corresponded a bit with the scholar's mom, something that doesn't happen every day. Although I was initially surprised by this contact, I quickly recognized that this is the nature of this new word of electronic communications. All anonymous fingers on keyboards are equal, at least upon their initial presentation, and the world of potential contacts for intellectual inquiry, exchange or fun is far wider than I at least had suspected. How may this help the elders, whom we will all become? First, the potential isolation that may come from retirement can be broached via email and the WEB. Second, if we allow ourselves to expand our definition of colleagues, we may discover all kinds of exhilarating (and irritating) communications we may never have allowed ourselves. Third, ah, but here I must backtrack or perhaps I should say, forward track a bit, and indulge in a bit of guesswork about the future. Now that the WEB is emerging as a vast course delivery medium at the same time that universities and colleges are under great pressure to reduce costs, I think that we can no longer assume that the past is prologue as far as the professorate is concerned. There was a time when most scholars were "independent"-- unattached, living on whatever means they had. The institutionalization of scholars and intellectuals in secular universities is about as new as the secular universities themselves. The process begins in the Anglo-American world in the late nineteenth century. I am not sure that this situation will survive in tact in the post-modern century that is close upon us, at least as far as the humanities disciplines are concerned. At some point in the next century, sooner rather than later, many people pursuing interests in humanities fields may find that they, like their nineteenth-century predecessors, are "independent" -- without full-time salary. Indeed, such vestiges of the past/harbingers of the future are already among us. We call them adjuncts. The time is ripe to establish the new "institutions" that will support independent scholars (perhaps economically but certainly intellectually) and the electronic media seem to offer us the most likely means to do this. While some of the ground is already being laid, there is still much to be done. It is here that elders, retired and with time heavy on their hands, and no longer locked into the incessant schedules of publications, committees and teaching, could help pioneer the new intellectual environment, and have a hell of a good time in the process. William H. A. Williams The Union Institute 440 E. McMillan St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45206-1925 (513) 861-6400 bwilliams@tui.edu <a href="http://www.tui.edu/~bwilliams/">http://www.tui.edu/~bwilliams/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Ken Litkowski <ken@clres.com> Subject: Re: 11.0622 RE: Older Wiser Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 14:50:27 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1075 (1075) What a lovely way to put things!!!! -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-926-5904 CL Research EMAIL: ken@clres.com 20239 Lea Pond Place Gaithersburg, MD 20879-1270 USA Home Page: <a href="http://www.clres.com">http://www.clres.com</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu> Subject: 11.0620 Re: 20th-century American Bestsellers (an invitation) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 16:33:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1076 (1076) At 08:58 PM 3/5/98 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation] The best-seller lists I used are the Publisher's Weekly/Bowker's Annual lists, provided by Cader Books. The lists are browsable by decade from my course site, and cover 1900-1994. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 14:59:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1077 (1077) [deleted quotation] ******* IMMEDIATE OPENING ******* 3/6/98 RUTGERS-Newark Campus -PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT/COGNITIVE SCIENCE Systems Adminstration/Cognitive Science Research We are looking for an individual to do research in Cognitive Science and to help administer the computing resources of the Psychology Department at Rutgers-University (Newark Campus). Resources include a network of Sun workstations, PCs and Macs, printers, pc-voice mail system and various peripheral devices. The individual will be responsible for installing and debugging software, and various routine system administration activites. At least half their time will be spent in research involving Cognitive Science especially related to Connectionist networks (or Neural Networks and Computational Neuroscience. Familiarity with C programming, UNIX system internals (BSD, System V, Solaris, Linux) and Windows (95, NT) and local area networks running TCP/IP is required. Image processing or graphics programing experience are pluses. Candidates should possess either a BS/MS in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, AI or other relevant fields or equivalent experience. Salary will be dependent upon qualifications and experience. Rutgers University is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer. Please send resumes and references to Stephen J. Hanson Department of Psychology 101 Warren Street Rutgers University Newark, New Jersey, 07102 Direct email inquiries or resumes to: jose@psychology.rutgers.edu Please indicate on SUBJECT Line: SYS ADM as a keyword. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Susanne Lenz <lenz@mx300e.ids-mannheim.de> Subject: pinker review Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 14:42:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1078 (1078) Dear Discussion-Group Members, The following message was forwarded to me by SEMCOM [deleted quotation] send [deleted quotation] and I would like to know where this review was published and if it is available via the WWW (I could not find it so far). Thanks a lot for any information you couls give me. Best wishes Susanne Lenz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Susanne Lenz Research Assistant Dept. for Lexical Studies Institut für deutsche Sprache R5, 6-13 68161 Mannheim Tel/Fax: +49 621 1581 427 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1079 (1079) PRESS RELEASE All You Have to Do Is Go Out and Prove Your Innocence Professor Seeks Justice After 3 1/2 Years The current practice of sexual harrassment litigation creates absurd situations that destroy careers and cause significant harm to employer, accused, and claimant alike. In this respect, the case of Professor Leroy Young, which is scheduled to go to trial shortly in Concord, NH is a case of national significance that illustrates the untenable situation created by the current wave of sexual harrassment litigation. In March 1994, Young, a tenured Professor of Art at Plymouth State College (PSC) of the University System of New Hampshire was dismissed by first year President of the college, Donald Wharton. His dismissal was based on unproven accusations of sexual harassment made by a student, Tracy Schneider. Ms. Schneider had graduated from PSC the previous year and had passed the time limitation set forth by the college for any complaint. Formal charges were never filed against Professor Young by the college and he was not afforded a hearing before a panel of his peers prior to dismissal. This was done in violation of the PSC Faculty Handbook which serves as a contractual agreement in most university systems. In three meetings with the president and university counsel, Ron Rodgers, Professor Young was not shown any evidence of impropriety on his part and was told that he would not be told the witnesses for Ms. Schneider. Professor Young submitted to a polygraph test conducted by an expert and the results confirmed his story. Nevertheless, the president subsequently held a press conference and announced that Professor Young was being dismissed because of moral delinquency of a grave order, neglect of duty, and lying. Having lost his source of income, Professor Young filed for unemployment with the state. Although the request was initially denied, a subsequent hearing at the State of New Hampshire Unemployment Appeal Tribunal found that the employer had provided no credible evidence to support its position, that the claimant had been discharged for other than cause, that there had been no supporting evidence for the dismissal, and that the University conduct had been reprehensible. Professor Young followed the university system and Plymouth State College guidelines for a hearing and the Faculty Committee chaired by Professor A. Datta decided that a hearing was not a part of the university policy because Ms. Schneider was no longer a student and had not been a student when her complaint was made. Again requesting some type of hearing, a Special Faculty Hearing was eventually granted. This hearing occurred fourteen months after Professor Young's firing. The faculty committee chaired by Professor Herb Otto found that the president had fired Professor Young without proper cause and had libeled the professor in his press conference. The committee also recommended that Professor Young be placed on paid leave of absence pending his continuation in the appeal process. Immediately after this, the president rehired Professor Young and dismissed him again the following day. Throughout this ordeal, Professor Young's wife of 32 years, Tatum Young, has remained his strongest ally and supporter. Ms. Schneider obtained new counsel in 1996, Chuck Douglas and Suzanne Robinson, who continued a suit in state court on her behalf suing the college for not firing the professor sooner. Because the college had never investigated her allegations, it had no evidence to dispute her claims of negligence. She was awarded $115,000. The college's counsel, Mr. Joseph M. McDonough of Devine, Millimet and Branch has filed an appeal on behalf of the college. Professor Young was approached at one point and asked if he would be open to appearing as a witness for the college in this appeal. Professor Young and his wife have filed suit in US District Court in Concord, New Hampshire based on violation of his Constitutional rights, lack of due process, wrongful dismissal and defamation of character. The college requested non-binding mediation and made an unacceptable monetary offer of $80,000. Professor Young rejected the offer made because his main concern is his good name, character, and ability to obtain employment. He is also concerned that if one university system can dismiss a tenured professor without due process, then other university systems may follow suit for any arbitrary reason. Tenure and academic freedom will no longer exist in the educational system and lives and careers will continue to be destroyed. *************************************************************** Tatum P.and Leroy S. Young 153 Stradley Mtn. Rd. Asheville, NC 28806 hm: 704-665-7478 fx: 704-665-7413 email: lroy_tatum@ioa.com *************************************************************** Statement from C. Alex Young,<ayoung@comptel.sr.unh.edu>, son of Leroy and Tatum Young. My parents situation for the past many years has consumed them and come close to consuming me. I remember it was the weekend before the first day of my second year of grad school. Pop called me "You won't believe what has happened." He told me about being called into the dean's office and what he was confronted with. What seemed so shocking was not only the allegations, but who had made them. I had always seen Jennifer Otten as kind of grumpy and stubborn, but I still thought she got along well with Pop, just as most of his students did. Then the details of some of the charges, "he complimented her on a blazer she was wearing, said she looked good." All I could think was this will clear up quickly, there must be some sort of mistake. Then Rose Bente, who had just consoled him, made claims the next day that he had also harassed her. I had thought they had a friendly relationship. She and her daughter had been to our house in the past. Most of all, there is or was no way that Pop would ever harass a person. Much less sexual harassment. Besides Mom and I would have known if something like that were going on, since we both spent so much time at Pop's office. He had no interest in these girls. He simply saw them as students and casual acquaintances. It became pretty difficult to get all of this out of my mind so that I could enjoy and do well in Grad school. It was also hard to listen to people write or comment about the case. It was like listening to gossip float around a room and return to you completely different. I heard people say he must be guilty, there were rumors of him assaulting women, etc. I made me sick to my stomach to know people were saying these lies about Pop and Mom. Plus half the stuff was far worse than anything he had been accused of. The clincher was Tracy Schneider. Tracy Schneider, my mother, and my father all had a friendly relationship. I was also an acquaintance of Tracy's because I spent a year living with my parents and working in the area. My parents were very kind to her. My father helped her improve her skills and talents as an artist. He also gave her and the rest of the senior thesis class (male and female) a second chance on their senior projects when the rest of the faculty (male and female) said the graphic design seniors should not pass to the final semester. My parents (not just my father) lent her money when she could not pay tuition to finish her last year of school. My mother also sent her flowers when her father died. Tracy is the one who betrayed my parent's trust and friendship. During all this time, she was supposedly being preyed upon and was in fear of my dad, however, she still came to parties he held for friends, faculty and students. At two of these parties, one of which was held for me, she was quite happy and social with everyone. I have pictures of her smiling and laughing. I don't know why she made these accusations.I have asked some female friends, including my fiancee, if women could be mean (just to make sure I was not misinformed). All of their answers told me that just like some men, some women could be quite vicious and manipulative to both other women and also to men. The president, and other members of the college, chose to believe her and not my father, without an investigation. He was fired without a hearing and was called a liar and a "lecherous man". Not a single administrator has listened to my parents. Pop has had countless people give personal, as well as, professional praise to him. Letters have been sent to the president by previous employers. These have been ignored. Pop has been a great teacher and also a friend to many of his students over the years. I have seen this first hand through all of my years. Many of his students have even come to be friends with me. I cannot begin to understand how this case could ever get this far. The administrators have not only insulted my parents integrity and good name, but they have also insulted all those who have spoken on their behalf. They essentially believed Tracy's word over my parents, deans of other schools, teachers and community members. Her word is so pure that they don't even have to listen to anything else. This is arrogance at its highest! The school awarded Pop tenure which he had EARNED through hard work and with recommendations from respected persons. However, the school has not even looked at their own decisions for guidance. These people are not only arrogant, they are stupid! What seems to have slipped by many of the faculty observing this case is that their tenure means nothing. All it takes is one person, a little spitefulness, and a few well placed lies, and lives can be ruined. ______________________________________________________________________ This press release has been forwarded to you by the Foundation for the Advancement of Sexual Equity (FASE). See the accompanying e-mail for information on FASE or e-mail case@csulb.edu From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1080 (1080) Leroy and Tatum Young Legal Defense Fund Professor Leroy Young is now in a fight for his life. This is an appeal to professors, students and staff in every area and walk of university life to help the Young's with this fight. Professor Young was accused of sexual harassment by a student and summarily dismissed by the president of the college without an investigation, proof, or a hearing. He was a tenured professor who lost his job, his benefits, his retirement and his means of supporting himself and his family. There is now a case in place in US Federal District Court on behalf of Professor Young. He is currently without an attorney, a job, or any means of financial support. If this professor can be so treated within a university system, then each of us as tenured faculty are in jeopardy. Each of us could be accused and find ourselves in this situation tomorrow. The Youngs have spent $75,000 of their own money for legal expenses thus far in this case. They have also cashed in their retirement and borrowed against life insurance in order to survive this ordeal. To date they have not yet had their day in court. This travesty has been on going since August 1993 when he was accused and then March 1994 when he was fired. The president then accused Professor Young of moral delinquency, dereliction of duty and lying in the press. They Youngs are in need of our financial help. They must obtain another attorney to take this case to court and they are without resources. A fund has been started for them: Leroy and Tatum Young Legal Defense Fund, Post Office Box 10533, Asheville, NC 28806. The fund is being held in the NationsBank in Asheville for their benefit. Please look into your heart and into your pocketbook to help fellow professionals in great need. The Youngs can be contacted at: 704-665-7478 home 704-665-7413 fax or lroy_tatum@ioa.com *************************************************************** Tatum P. and Leroy S. Young 153 Stradley Mtn. Rd. Asheville, NC 28806 hm: 704-665-7478 fx: 704-665-7413 email: lroy_tatum@ioa.com *************************************************************** From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@mdah.state.ms.us> Subject: Re: 11.0634 Where does it go? Where has it gone? Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 09:03:41 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1081 (1081) Jim Marchand wonders about obsolescence of media, formats, etc; archivists everywhere are busy worrying about this issue and have regretfully recognized the fact that in the case of electronic data (and other such evanescent vehicles--I think of brittle books), an eternal responsibility for migrating data is one they must assume. But this also means that they will have to justify the expense of this activity, and the implications of that for what data are carried into the future and what data are left to bleed their bits onto the information highway are rather scary. No scarier, however, than the loss of oral historical forms and their swamping by written historical forms, such that to the West now "history" belongs as a word to the latter. I think that the concept of memes struggling for survival is far too simplistic, but it bears a closer resemblance to reality in the socially darwinistic environment of the global capitalist economy where everything is forced to make a profit or die. It will be interesting to see whether any other values will reemerge to rescue our whole enquiry into the richness of *all* of human experience. Oh, and the obsolescence problem? If you have material that must lie dormant for tens of years and don't have an obliging archives willing to maintain it, a nice low-tech way to preserve it indefinitely is to print it on acid-free paper in a clean font and store it in a suitable environment, then scan it back in when you need it! (I confess that I have some Marie de France contes on paper tape that I never expect to read again in any other way than the printed version.) Patricia Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: Christoph Eyrich <eyrich@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: 11.0634 Where does it go? Where has it gone? Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:54:12 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1082 (1082) On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Jim Marchand wrote: [deleted quotation] I don't want to start a discussion of the pros and cons of various operating systems and of the programs running on top of them. But what has been described by Jim Marchand is exactly what makes those of us using a Unix system `hate' the standard PC world. One of the central tenets in the Unix world was portability, and this is why you use simple text files where and whenever possible. Changing media is not much of problem but changing file formats certainly is. I have no problems reading age-old TeX files (no need to convert them) but converting between the various proprietary file formats used in today's PC/MAC word processors is a pain. Life would be easier could we return to a simple ASCII file format but it is just a few PC/MAC programs (e.g., Quark) that are capable of storing their file information in such files. In the Unix world, in contrast, this is the rule... But we all know that it is new file formats that force people to upgrade their programs, and only rarely new features (remember the problems with the `new' Word file format?). Regards Christoph Eyrich eyrich@zedat.fu-berlin.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Position Announcement: SPARC Enterprise Director (fwd) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:33:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1083 (1083) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 11, 1998 DIRECTOR NEEDED SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING & ACADEMIC RESOURCES COALITION (SPARC) <<a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/">http://www.arl.org/sparc/</a>> [deleted quotation] March 10, 1998 Position Announcement: SPARC Enterprise Director The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is seeking an entrepreneurial senior-level Director for a new enterprise, the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). The Director will be the lead business and strategic developer, director, implementor and advocate for SPARC becoming a significant positive force within the multi-billion dollar international industry for the authorship, publication, dissemination, acquisition, archiving and use of academic and research information in both traditional and new media. A position description may be found on the ARL web site <<a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/">http://www.arl.org/sparc/</a>>. Requirements include extensive experience and working knowledge in the business side of academic journals publishing (non-profit or commercial); familiarity with libraries and academia; working with authors and editors; familiarity with relevant niche markets; R&D, strategic and action planning, new enterprise launch and use of information technologies; and proven deal-making ability (partnerships, joint ventures, etc.). This is an exciting opportunity to shape, launch and manage a start-up enterprise having the advantage of being established by an important, highly-committed association and its influential members. Position requires a graduate or advanced degree in business or librarianship, or another pertinent field, and excellent communication, PC and Internet skills. Compensation and benefits are highly competitive. Washington, DC location. Some travel. Reply (including salary history/requirements) to: Mary Jane Brooks, Office Manager, Association of Research Libraries, 21 Dupont Circle, NW, Ste. 800, Washington, DC 20036. Fax (202) 872-0884. Screening of applications will begin on April 3, 1998, and will continue until the position is filled. ARL is an Equal Opportunity Employer Committed to Diversity in the Professional Workplace ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu> Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Comuters and the Humanities Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:33:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1084 (1084) ************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES For over thirty years, Computers and the Humanities (CHum) has been the premier international journal for publications on language, text, and humanities-related research. Starting with the publication of volume 31, CHum is taking on a new look, with a new cover and format, together with a new editorial staff representing areas across the variety of disciplines covered by the journal. In addition to continuing to publish top-quality articles covering all kinds of textual analysis, corpus studies, and language and literary analysis, we are actively seeking to extend our scope to cover the full range of materials which are available for research in humanities disciplines, including images, sound, speech data, etc. We invite the submission of high-quality articles describing research concerning the creation, representation, and maintenance of text resources and other media, as well as descriptions of methodologies and results of research using such materials, including statistical and symbolic methods, strategies for information storage and retrieval, etc. In keeping with Chum's long tradition of fostering inter-disiplinary work, we also encourage submission of articles involving multi-lingual and/or multi-modal applications and research. We extend a special invitation for articles which survey the current state-of-the-art in any relevant area. Such articles should provide an overview of past and recent work, an assessment of the current achievements and directions for future research, and a full bibliography which may serve as a reference for those interested in the field. For a recent example, see "Current Approaches to Punctuation in Computational Linguistics", B. Say and V. Akman, Chum 30:6 (1996). In addition to publishing full-length research articles, CHum also publishes a section on Reports and Discussion, which includes shorter articles reporting on projects, intermediate results, or discussing relevant issues. Contributions to this section are also solicited. For information about Computers and the Humanities and article submission procedures, consult <a href="http://www.wkap.nl/">http://www.wkap.nl/</a> COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ---------------------------- Editorial Staff Editors-in-chief: Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Daniel Greenstein, King's College, UK Resource Review Editor: Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA Board of Commissioning Editors: Sheila Anderson, University of Essex, UK Stephen Arnold, Glasgow University, UK R.H. Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands David T. Barnard, University of Regina, Canada Christian Delcourt, Universite de Liege, Belgium Richard Giordano, University of Manchester, UK Claus Huitfeldt, University of Bergen, Norway Judith L. Klavans, Columbia University, USA John Lavagnino, Brown University, USA Kirk Martinez, Birkbeck College, UK Mark Olsen, University of Chicago, USA Philip Resnik, University of Maryland, USA Julian Richards, York University, UK Laurent Romary, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, France Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Syun Tutiya, Chiba University, Japan John Unsworth, University of Virginia, USA; Ellen Voorhees, National Institute for Standards and Technology, USA From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: 2nd CFP NLP+IA'98 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 18:25:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1085 (1085) [deleted quotation] ********************** CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITS ************************** ================Appel aux communications & expositions ===================== INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS NLP+IA 98 [deleted quotation] Conference internationale sur le traitement automatique des langues et ses applications industrielles TAL+AI 98 [deleted quotation] AUGUST/aout 18 - 20, 1998 Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA Come to Canada this summer... IWNLG August 5-7 in Niagara-on-the-Lake Coling-ACL August 10-14 in Montreal NLP+IA/CALL August 18-21 in Moncton TOPICS OF INTEREST: The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Universite de Moncton is organizing its second international conference on NLP and industrial applications. This year a special attention is given to Computer assisted language learning. Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to, * computer assisted language learning, * natural language understanding and generation of textual, spoken and hand-written language, * natural language interfaces to databases, expert systems, or industrial applications * machine translation, computer aided translation, translation aids, * syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, morphology, * dictionaries, corpora, & other language resources * multimodality * multilinguality * NLP industrial applications * papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and practice of NLP in general and Language learning in particular. LANGUAGE: Authors are invited to submit preliminary versions of their papers not exceeding 400 words (exclusive of references) either in English or in French, the two official languages of the conference. Proceedings would be published in the language of the submitted texts. SUBMISSION: 1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title, the authors' names, affiliations, addresses, a five (5) keyword list specifying the subject area, a five (5) line summary, and the name and address of the contact person. TITLE/ Titre: AUTHORS INFO/ Auteurs et infos: KEYWORDS/ Mots clefs: SUMMARY/ Resume: CONTACT PERSON/ Personne contact: 2) Abstracts should not exceed 400 words in length excluding references (12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2,5 cm) all around; if using A4 please keep text within 19cm x 25,5 cm). 3) The identification page and the abstract should be submitted in 4 HARD COPIES (12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2,5 cm) all around; if using A4 please keep text within 19cm x 25,5 cm) to: NLP+IA 98 / TAL+AI 98 Pr. Chadia Moghrabi GETA, CLIPS, IMAG 385 rue de la Bibliotheque BP 53 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 France Phone: +33 4 76 51 4369 Fax: +33 4 76 51 4405 E-mail: NLP+IA-98@imag.fr 4) The identification page should also be e-mailed in plain text. REFEREEING: All abstracts shall be refereed by three members of the Program committee. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Anne De Roeck (Essex, UK) Arnold Smith (NRC, Canada) Chadia Moghrabi (Moncton, Canada) Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France) Chrysanne DiMarco (Logos, Waterloo, Canada) Eric Wehrli (Geneva, Switzerland) Eva Hajicova (Charles U., Prague) Genvieve Caelen-Haumont (GEOD, Grenoble, France) Graeme Hirst (Toronto, Canada) Harry Bunt (Tilburg, Netherlands) Henry Hamburger (George Mason, USA) Howard Hamilton (Regina, Canada) John Hutchins (East Anglia, UK) John Tait (Sunderland, UK) Junichi Tsujii (UMIST, UK) Manfred Stede (TU-Berlin, Germany) Marcel Cori (Paris-7, France) Mark Seligman (GETA-CLIPS & Red Pepper, USA) Michael Levison (Queens, Canada) Nocoletta Calzolari (Pisa, Italy) Pierre Isabelle (RALI, Montreal, Canada) Pierrette Bouillon (Geneva, Switzerland) Paul Tarau (Moncton, Canada) Remi Chadel (Inxight, Xerox, France) Roberto Basili (Roma, Italy) Ruddy Lelouche (Laval, Canada) Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland) Thierry Chanier (Franche-Comte, France) Thierry Van Steenberghe (Leuven, Belgium) Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser, Canada) Yael Ravin (IBM, USA) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, UK) Some more to be confirmed SCHEDULE: Submissions are due on April 28th 1998. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the contact person soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 june 1998. Camera-ready copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of August 1998 along with registration fees. Participants are also requested to indicate their intention to participate in the conference as soon as possible to the same e-mail address with the single word INTENTION in the subject line. EXHIBITS: Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief electronic description along with a specification of physical requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs, etc.) to the same address with the single word EXHIBIT in the subject line. OTHER ACTIVITIES: Accompanying persons can enjoy the lovely outdoor living in New-Brunswick and visit the highest tides in the world. Moncton is only 20km away from the sandy beaches of Shediac, la Capitale mondiale du homard. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: The conference is organized by GRETAL, Groupe d'etude sur le traitement automatique des langues at the Universite' de Moncton in cooperation with GETA-CLIPS at l'Universite' Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. The members of the organizing committee are: Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair Jalal Almhana, Director & Professor of Computer Science Julien Chiasson, Professor of Computer Science Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, director Manufacturing Technology Centre Boubaker Meddeb-Hamrouni, Researcher GETA & WinSoft Paul Tarau, Professor of Computer Science From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: CFP: 'Literary and Linguistic Computing' Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 18:26:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1086 (1086) [deleted quotation] [Apologies for multiple postings] 'Literary and Linguistic Computing' is a refereed journal, published by Oxford University Press. Marilyn Dear Colleagues As many of you know, during the last year Marilyn Deegan and Stuart Lee took over the editorship of Literary and Linguistic Computing. The journal had been ably steered for the previous 12 years by Gordon Dixon, whose hard work and dedication we should like to acknowledge here. Literary and Linguistic Computing is, of course, the journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. In recent years there has been a broadening of the concepts included in 'literary and linguistic computing', and this has been reflected in the contributions to the annual joint conference with the Association for Computing in the Humanities and, to some extent, in papers offered to the journal. This broadening is a result of both changes in the possibilities offered by the technology, and also developments within literary and linguistic disciplines. The new editors would like to further encourage this broadening of the discipline bounds, and are therefore seeking contributions for the journal which are commensurate with some of the new definitions. In the past, literary and linguistic computing has been largely text-centric, text being the easiest artefactual state to manipulate electronically. More recently, there has been an extension of the definition of 'text' to include many artefacts with meaning encoded on them which are not normally included in this category. No longer to be defined only as a document written in alphabetic characters, a text can be a film, a radio script, a dramatic performance, a pictorial image from a manuscript, and many other things. Given this ontological extension which goes hand in hand with a greater technological expansiveness, the computational manipulations which can be performed are also of a broader and more interesting scope. The environment in which we experience text, in particular digital text, has also burst its boundaries within recent years-from punch cards which could store 80 characters (one line of text) each , to floppy disks capable of holding a book, CD-ROMs an encyclopaedia, and now the Internet which may one day encompass all the texts in the world. This extension brings with it a fuzziness on the margins of texts, a dispersion and permeability which is creating new interest in digital text among textual and literary theorists, as well as cultural theorists and others interested in the post-modern analyses of cultural forms. Computerized textuality is, in some ways, straddling the different media: adventure games and simulations are, for instance, partly texts and partly interactive films. Digital resources are becoming as important for the humanities as resources in other media and they raise many issues of access, discovery, copyright, etc which we should like to see debated. It is within the context of the textual movements outlined above that we wish to extend the range of contributions to the journal and hopefully our readership. We seek articles on any aspects of the use of computers in textual investigation, and dealing with any period. We would be happy to publish materials on highly theoretic issues, as well as on more practical approaches to textual analysis, encoding, or presentation. We would also like to extend our panel of referees to take account of these new areas, and so anyone who would like to comment on contributions for us is encouraged to contact us. Suggestions for articles, special sections, project reports and other forms of contribution should be sent to: Dr Marilyn Deegan Project Manager, RSP Digital Library Project Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing Refugee Studies Programme Queen Elizabeth House University of Oxford 21 St Giles Oxford OX1 3LA E-mail: marilyn.deegan@qeh.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44-1865-270435 Fax: +44-1865-270721 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Multimedia Shakespeare Workshop, 30 March 1998 Date: 30 March 1998 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1087 (1087) Venue: CTI Textual Studies, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford Cost: Free of charge TITLE: FIRST NAME: SURNAME: POSITION: DEPARTMENT: INSTITUTION: ADDRESS: POSTCODE: TELEPHONE: FAX: EMAIL: BRIEFLY DESCRIBE ANY USE YOU MAKE OF COMPUTERS IN YOUR TEACHING OR RESEARCH: EARLY BOOKING RECOMMENDED. PLEASE FAX/EMAIL COMPLETED BOOKING FORM TO: Ms Abigail Cooke, CTI Textual Studies Email: abigail.cooke@oucs.ox.ac.uk Fax: 01865 273 275 Tel: 01865 273 221. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Workshop Deadline Extension Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 18:23:09 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1088 (1088) [deleted quotation] ======================================= DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED! In response to concerns about the short time span between the final cfp issued a few days ago and the original submis- sion deadline, it has been decided to extend the deadline by 3 weeks. Please see the revised timetable below. ======================================= (Final) Call for papers Coling-ACL '98 workshop "Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers" August 15, 1998 Universiti de Montrial Montrial/Canada (See also: <a href="http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html">http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html</a>) The notion of discourse relation has received many different interpretations, some of which are hardly compatible with one another. Nonetheless, there is a consensus among researchers that intersegment relations hold between adjacent portions of a text and that these relations may be signalled by linguistic means, including so-called cue phrases, aspect and mood shifts, theme inversions, and other markers. The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on discourse relations and discourse markers in different linguistic traditions and different NLP applications. The particular focus of the workshop is the issue of discourse relations from the viewpoint of linguistic realization. Specifically, contributions should address one or more of the following questions: o What are sound methodologies for comparing similar discourse markers (contrastive studies, distribution analyses, etc.)? o What are sound methodologies for relating discourse relations with potential realizations? o Are there discourse relations that are always lexically signalled? Are there any that are never lexically signalled? o What non-lexical (i.e., syntactic or prosodic) means are used to signal a relation? o In production, how does one decide whether to signal a relation at all? o In production, how does one motivate a choice among candidate signals for a given relation? o In production, how does the choice of signal interact with other decisions (in particular, those of linearizing some tree or graph structure)? o In analysis, is it possible to reliably infer discourse relations from surface cues? o In analysis, how can one disambiguate polysemous signals such as "and", "since" (temporal or causal) etc.? o What are useful lexical representations of discourse markers, for both analysis and production? o What are useful representations of discourse relations (and the entities they relate), such that they facilitate the realization decision? What features would one like to have handy in a representation so that choices can be made easily? o Are there significant differences between realizations in spoken and written language? o How do individual languages differ in terms of any of the above issues? Organizing committee The workshop is organized by Manfred Stede (TU Berlin) Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart) Eduard Hovy (ISI/USC, Marina del Rey) Requirements for submission Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above. Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL: <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty</a> Papers can be submitted either electronically in PostScript format, or as hardcopies. Submissions from North America should be sent to: Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 U.S.A. hovy@isi.edu Submissions from elsewhere should be sent to either of the following: Manfred Stede Leo Wanner TU Berlin Computer Science Department KIT Project Group Intelligent Systems Group Sekr. FR 6-10 University of Stuttgart Franklinstr. 28/29 Breitwiesenstr. 20-22 D-10587 Berlin D-70565 Stuttgart Germany Germany stede@cs.tu-berlin.de wannerlo@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Timetable Deadline for electronic submissions: April 6, 1998 Deadline for hardcopy submissions: April 9 (arrival date) Notification of acceptance: May 25, 1998 Final manuscripts due: June 15, 1998 Program committee Sandra Carberry (U Delaware) Barbara DiEugenio (U Pittsburgh) Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI) Alistair Knott (U Edinburgh) Alex Lascarides (U Edinburgh) Owen Rambow (Cogentex Inc.) Ted Sanders (U Utrecht) Donia Scott (U Brighton) Wilbert Spooren (U Tilburg) Manfred Stede (TU Berlin) Keith Vander Linden (Calvin College) Marilyn Walker (ATT Labs) Leo Wanner (U Stuttgart) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Copyright "Town Meeting" papers available Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:12:41 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1089 (1089) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 11, 1998 TORONTO COPYRIGHT & FAIR USE TOWN MEETING PAPERS AVAILABLE <<a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm#Program">http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm#Program</a>> The final meeting in the series of "Copyright & Fair Use" Town Meetings, co-organized by the College Art Association, the American Council of Learned Societies and NINCH was held in Toronto on Thursday February 26. The three talks delivered in the first of two sessions of the town meeting are now available on a website organized by Robert Baron. This series was funded by the Kress Foundation. A report on all five town meetings will shortly be available online and plans for a new series are under way. David Green =========== [deleted quotation][This notice has been posted to several discussion lists. You may receive duplicate copies. Kindly excuse the imposition.] Dear Readers: All three papers delivered at Session One of the College Art Association's recent "Town Meeting" on Copyright and Fair Use have now been posted to the Town Meeting website: Peter Walsh. "The Coy Copy: Technology, Copyright, and the Mystique of Images." <a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/WALSH.htm">http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/WALSH.htm</a> Gary Schwartz. "No fair: long-term prospects for regaining unencumbered use." <a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/SCHWARTZ.htm">http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/SCHWARTZ.htm</a> David Green. "Your Copyright Future is Being Determined Now, or: Public Interest? What Public Interest?" <a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/GREEN.htm">http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/GREEN.htm</a> Peter Walsh discusses how the US copyright statute misunderstands and misrepresents the process of copying images. Gary Schwartz suggests various long-term strategies scholars can use to regain their rights to publish images without having to submit to steep reproduction fees. David Green discusses the copyright legislation before congress and the efforts of the library and scholarly communities to obtain favorable treatment. The general address for the Town Meeting site follows: CAA/Toronto Town Meeting on Copyright: 2/26/98 <a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm">http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm</a> ============================================= Robert A. Baron mailto:rabaron@pipeline.com <a href="http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/">http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/</a> =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ============================================================== From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: EARLY THEATRE 1 (Fall, 1998) (Journal) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 18:23:53 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1090 (1090) [deleted quotation] ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW JOURNAL Early Theatre: A Journal associated with the Records of Early English Drama (acronym ET/REED, ISSN 1206-9078) will appear annually beginning in the fall of 1998. Early Theatre is a peer-reviewed journal with a nine-menber international editorial board. The first volume will contain articles and notes on a variety of cultural and theatrical concerns, such as: John J. McGavin on early Scottish attitudes to plays and performance in "The Kirk, the Burgh, and Fun" Robert Tittler on new biographical material concerning "Henry Hardware of Chester and the Face of Puritan Reform" W. R. Streitberger on household and court preparations involved in "Devising the Revels" David Mills on travelling players in Chester James Stokes on the waits in Lincolnshire Dominick Grace on the apothecary scene in Romeo and Juliet Early Theatre is also experimenting with a new reviewing format. For the first issue, several scholars, including Barbara Palmer, David Bevington, Garrett Epp, Peter Meredith, David Mills, and Ralph Blasting will participate in a forum reviewing the York Cycle in performance, in Toronto (June) and in the city of York (July), with comments on various aspects of staging, special effects, and treatment of text. We invite you to show your support for the new journal by subscribing to Early Theatre for an initial one- or two-year period. Our new publisher, McMaster University Press, will be taking over the subscription lists in May, and we anticipate that the cost of the journal may increase within the next two years. 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Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Last Chance: Nominate your favourite for Best of the Web 98 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 18:24:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1091 (1091) [deleted quotation] Dear Virtual Museum Goers, Nominations for the Best of the Web, to be awarded at Museums and the Web 1998 <<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98</a>>, close on March 20, 1998. Visit the conference web site to nominate your favourite musweum web, and ensure that it will be considered by the international panel of judges. The Categories Sites will be recognised in the following areas: * Virtual Exhibition * Educational Use * Membership Use * Research Site * Museum Professional's Site In additon, the judges will choose a Best Overall Museum Site. 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The studentship will be awarded in one (or more) of the following topics in Computational Linguistics: DOCUMENT GENERATION (including TEXT GENERATION): architectures; corpus analysis; diagrammatic reasoning; discourse; evaluation; hybrid generation; implementation; layout; multilinguality; multimodality; representation languages; pragmatics; tools LEXICONS: corpus analysis; evaluation; lexical statistics; lexicalized grammars; lexicography; lexicon induction from text; multilinguality; representation; tools; tuning; word sense disambiguation NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES: dialogue; interface design Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or Linguistics. EPSRC studentships are restricted to UK or EU residents. Residents of the UK are eligible for fees and a maintenance allowance; other EU residents are only eligible for fees (and so would need to be able to support themselves during their studies). The EPSRC baseline rate of maintenance allowance is currently approx 5,295 pounds sterling per annum. For further general information on EPSRC studentships, please consult <a href="http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/in-depth/indpfram.htm">http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/in-depth/indpfram.htm</a>. Further information on the Institute's research programme can be found on the ITRI home page (<a href="http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk">http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk</a>) and information about students and how to apply on our research students page (<a href="http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/students">http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/students</a>). If we already have your application on file for consideration this year, you do not need to apply again. Deadline for applications: 30 April 1998 For additional advice and information, please contact: Ms. Vivienne Wicks, Research Administrator Information Technology Research Institute University of Brighton Lewes Rd. Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK Email: postgrad-admissions@itri.brighton.ac.uk Tel: +44 1273 642900 Fax: +44 1273 642908 From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: EMLS 3.3 / Special Issue 2 now available Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 18:27:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1093 (1093) [deleted quotation] Early Modern Literary Studies 3.3 (January, 1998) <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a> Articles:=20 The Internet Shakespeare: Opportunities in a New Medium. Michael Best, ed. Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 2 (January, 1998) - Foreword. [1]. Michael Best, University of Victoria. -Article Abstracts / R=E9sum=E9s des Articles. - Hypertext and Editorial Myth. [2]. Paul Werstine, University of Western Ontario.=20 - What Do the Users Really Want? [3]. Anne Lancashire, University of= Toronto.=20 - The Common Reader's Shakespeare. [4]. Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto.=20 - A Romance of Electronic Scholarship; with the True and Lamentable Tragedies of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Part 1: The Words. [5]. Donald Foster, Vassar College.=20 - Disparate Structures, Electronic and Otherwise: Conceptions of Textual Organisation in the Electronic Medium, with Reference to Electronic Editions of Shakespeare and the Internet. [6]. R.G. Siemens, University of Alberta.=20 - Afterword: Dressing Old Words New. [7]. Michael Best, University of Victoria.=20 Note: - Additional to "Production Resources at the Whitefriars Playhouse, 1609-1612" (EMLS 2.3 [December, 1996]: 2.1-35). [8]. Jean MacIntyre, University of Alberta.=20 Reviews: - Ian Green. The Christian's ABC: Catechisms and Catechizing in England c. 1530-1740. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996. [9]. Douglas Bruster, University of Texas, San Antonio.=20 - J.R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring, eds.; Andrew Gurr, advisory ed. Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. [10]. Bryan N.S. Gooch, University of Victoria.=20 - Margo Todd, ed. Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in Early Modern England. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. [11]. Bernadette Andrea, West Virginia University.=20 - W. R. Owens and Lizbeth Goodman, eds. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon. London: Routledge, 1996. [12]. Nancy Bunker, Southwest Missouri State University.=20 - Philip Edwards. Sea-Mark: The Metaphorical Voyage, Spenser to Milton. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1997. [13]. Jim Daems, Simon Fraser University.=20 - Albert H. Tricomi. Reading Tudor-Stuart Texts Through Cultural Historicism. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996. [14]. Alison Findlay, Lancaster University.=20 - Paola Pugliatti. Shakespeare the Historian. New York: St. Martin's P, 1996. [15]. Michael T. Siconolfi, Gonzaga University.=20 - John J. Joughin, ed. Shakespeare and National Culture. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1997. [16]. Swen Voekel, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.=20 - Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt, eds. Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. [17]. Mark Thornton Burnett, The Queen's University of Belfast.=20 - John Donne. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems. Gary A. Stringer, General Editor. Ted-Larry Pebworth, Gary A. Stringer, and Ernest W. Sullivan, II, Text Editors. William A. McClung, Volume Commentary. Jeffrey Johnson, Contributing Editor. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996. [18]. Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia. - Reviewing Information, Books Received for Review, and Forthcoming Reviews.= =20 Readers' Forum:=20 Responses to articles, reviews, and notes appearing in this issue that are intended for the Readers' Forum may be sent to the Editor at EMLS@UAlberta.ca. ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies:= <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a> wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: EMLS@UAlberta.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Malcolm Hayward, English, IUP, Indiana PA 15705" Subject: Re: 11.0636 Re: Where does it go? Where has it gone? Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 08:18:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1094 (1094) I think Christoph Eyrich has it just right. The upgrades are forced on us not by features but by the need to have all the various systems compatible. But his response and that of Patricia Galloway suggest an alternative to Jim Marchand's global upgrading: archiving in ASCII--a step up from paper copies for re-scanning, but still always readable. Well, I guess this is part of the TEI plan. But I had not considered adopting it for my own files. And an aside on the subject, since most upgrades affect merely the formatting of documents (new fonts, etc.) I have a certain nostalgia for typing in <unl -5> at the beginning of a paragraph and knowing that a tab will appear in the printing, in the same way that first writing html texts allowed you to imagine what would appear on the screen. There was a kind of pleasure in that ... Malcolm Hayward From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0634 Where does it go? Where has it gone? Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 14:01:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1095 (1095) From: "Gregory J. Murphy" <rejek@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Jim Marchand wrote: [deleted quotation] All media have a finite lifetime; magnetic and optical media may seem short-lived when compared in absolute terms to (some) forms of organic material, but think of it in relative terms: how costly is it to copy data periodically, where the period is determined by the expected lifetime of the media? Does that cost justify the media's longevity? There are many ways of measuring cost. One might be the total time it takes to transfer the data. I am told that most of the books printed nowadays won't last very long, so let's compare with parchment. I am told that a good compositor can lay down on the order of 1000 characters per hour. Let's take an upper bound of a super-human compositor who never stops for food or sleep, and can lay out at a rate of 2000 chars per hour. It will take him 1,440 hours to compose a text of 1.44 x 10^6 characters, or about what will fill a 1.44 MB floppy. I am told that parchment lasts from 2,000 to 4,000 years. Let's take an upper bound of 5,000 years, or 4.37 x 10^7 hours. That gives a ratio of time of production / time of duration of 3.30 x 10^-5. The slowest drive in my office will copy that much data onto a floppy diskette in about 1.5 minutes. Say we are coppying from diskette to diskette, which will take 3 minutes plus a minute or so to get the label on (I always get them on crooked). If we have to perform this once a year, either to guard against slow decay, or, as Mr. Marchand laments, to keep up with the latest technological migration, then we are still operating within a expense/benefit ratio of 7.6 x 10^-6, a factor of ten better than print on parchment. This is, I know, a gross over-simplification, and I may have picked an invalid comparison (type setting isn't exactly the same thing as data copying), but I just wanted to point out that, as in all things, you have to think in terms of economies of scale. - Gregory Murphy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Knowledge Loss Date: Fri, 13 Mar 98 09:48:38 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1096 (1096) [deleted quotation] I am back craving your indulgence one more time. I have been worrying for some time about knowledge loss, so I thought you might be interested in: Some animadversions on knowledge loss. [Knowledge has to be put in some kind of concrete form in order to be transmitted. Knowledge is, of course, not all cognitive, aristotelian, either-or, but if we just stick to that for the moment.] 1. It can be lost by the thinker failing to put it into concrete form, see the introduction to Thurneysen's Old Irish Grammar. 1a. In fact, it can be lost by not being such that it can be put in such form (would that the tongue could utter), see Croce. 2. The encoding can be such that the key to it is lost, see Etruscan. 3. The encoding is often of such a nature that it cannot be "translated". See belles infideles. 3a. Even where it can be translated, loss may occur through lost intertextuality, see Old Norse kennings, medieval patristic references; e.g. we may not realize that Sling of David means Virgin Mary. 4. Transfer from one medium to another may involve loss, see editions of the Gothic Bible, almost any edition of any manuscript. 5. Means of medium transfer may be lost. Who has a 78 deck to convert old 78s to modern tapes? Even old tape decks are slowly going out of date; cf. Marchand's complaint. 6. The medium in which the knowledge is encoded may disappear, see brittle books, runestones. 6a. This involves inevitably attempts to rejuvenate, refresh, etc., with their accompanying problems, see Swedish churches, painting in of runestones and rock carvings. 7. Transliteration, transcription, etc., see ASCII. Once you have transliterated Gothic o with a dot in it as hv, people are going to think it is hv. 8. Replicative experiments as a means of recovering lost knowledge, e.g. Lejre in Denmark, Sutton Hoo harp, Viking ships. 9. Non-intrusive measures, see problem of Etruscan graves, votive ships. 10. Knowledge packaging and labeling. The problem with LOC Headings, upfront engines, false-friends and the like. 11. Each of these represents a chapter in a book which I am working on but which will undoubtedly never see the light of day and so will represent itself an example of (little) knowledge lost. ! Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: 2 Coling-ACL'98 Workshops Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 13:59:28 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1097 (1097) [deleted quotation] NEW workshop Call for Papers: Evolutionary Computational Linguistics and Second CFP: Senseval and the Lexicography Loop ************************************************************************** EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS COLING-ACL '98 WORKSHOP 16th August 1998 University of Montreal Montreal Quebec Canada CALL FOR PAPERS There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the application of evolutionary theory to the understanding of language development, typology, acquisition and change, and to the development of NLP systems. Two significant developments potentially distinguish this new work from that undertaken 100 years or so ago (and ultimately banned by the French Philological Society). Firstly, a rich body of mathematical work in population genetics, (non-linear) dynamic systems, game-theoretic models of evolution, and so forth has since been developed by theoretical biologists, complexity theorists and others. Secondly, the study of evolutionary processes has been further enhanced by the use of computational modelling techniques (in the simulation of adaptive behaviour, artificial life, etc.) which have enabled researchers to gain insight into processes too complex for full mathematical analysis. Evolutionary computation (in the form of genetic algorithms, genetic programming, hybrids of GAs and neural networks, etc.) has also been studied and deployed for practical engineering purposes, including tasks such as grammar induction, disambiguation, and so forth. The evolutionary approach is of direct relevance to NLP, and computational linguists are in a strong position to make a significant contribution to the development of this research. Synchronic generative linguistics models a language as a static well-formed (grammatical) set of strings (sentences) focussing on the (ideal) individual speaker and her idiolect at a single moment in time. Much of current NLP technology is based on implementation of generative models of idiolects and is consequently brittle when it comes into contact with the reality of language variation and language change across idiolects and across time. The crucial shift in perspective provided by the evolutionary approach is to study *changing populations* of (ideal, generative) speakers. Once this step has been taken, language is naturally modelled as a dynamic system emergent from individual idiolects: variation between idiolects interacts with the process of language learning, leading to `imperfect' or selective transmission (inheritance) between generations of speakers. This changes the distribution and composition of idiolects in the population and thus causes some forms of language change. Once it is recognised that `bias' in language learning, production and interpretation creates selection pressure for more learnable, producible and interpretable variants, then it becomes natural to treat language as a (complex) adaptive system responding dynamically to such (often conflicting) pressures. We are soliciting papers on any aspect of evolutionary computation and language for this one-day workshop. We hope that the workshop will stimulate further interest amongst computational linguists and will provide a forum for cross-fertilisation of ideas between those applying evolutionary computation to practical NLP tasks and those using similar techniques to address issues in language acquisition, change and variation. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Bob Berwick (MIT, USA) berwick@ai.mit.edu. Ted Briscoe (Cambridge Univ, UK) ejb@cl.cam.ac.uk. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Steve Abney ATT Research Jim Hurford Edinburgh University Bill Keller Sussex University Partha Niyogi Bell Labs Luc Steels Sony, Paris FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions should be full length papers between 3500--5000 words on A4/US letter in 11/12pt Times Roman or similar font. Preferably, email self-contained latex source to the co-chairs using <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty</a>, or send 5 hardcopies to the address below. Ted Briscoe Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge Pembroke St. Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK SCHEDULE Submission Deadline: April 20, 1998 Notification Date: June 1, 1998 Camera ready copy due: June 22, 1998 **************************************************************************** **************************************** * SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * WSD EVALUATION EXERCISE * * (SENSEVAL) * * * * WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT * * "SENSEVAL AND THE LEXICOGRAPHY LOOP" * **************************************** Sponsored by ACL SIGLEX and EURALEX There are now many automatic Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) programs but it is currently very hard to determine which are better, which worse, and where the strengths and weaknesses of each lie. There is widespread agreement that the field urgently needs an evaluation framework. Under the auspices of ACL SIGLEX and EURALEX, a pilot will take place in the course of 1998. As in ARPA evaluation exercises, the framework comprises: 1) definition of task and scoring metric 2) preparation of a set of manually tagged correct answers 3) a dry run, with sample data distributed to participants 4) distribution of test data to participants; participants sense-tag and return; taggings scored against correct answers 5) workshop to discuss results, lessons learned, way forward We shall be undertaking evaluation for at least English, French, Italian and Spanish. The workshop will be held at Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, UK on Sept 2-4 1998 If you have a working WSD program (or will have one by Summer 1998), and would like to subject it to objective, quantitative evaluation, or if you have skills or resources that you would like to contribute to the exercise, first look at <a href="http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/senseval/exp-interest.html">http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/senseval/exp-interest.html</a> and then mail your expression of interest to senseval-coord@itri.bton.ac.uk Timetable ========= As soon as possible: expressions of interest to be registered By end of: April 98: 'dry run' data samples distributed to participants June 98: test data distributed to participants, and, one week later, returned with taggings July 98: correct answers and scores made available Sept 98: workshop The workshop will comprise: (1) reports/papers on the manual tagging and other aspects of the evaluation exercise (2) reports/papers from participants on the design and performance of their system (3) other related research papers (4) working sessions on the way ahead for WSD evaluation The deadline for "other related research papers" is 16th April 1998 * Preference will be given to papers discussing WSD, with particular attention to evaluation issues * Maximum submission length: 6 pages * First page to include title, abstract, and author's name(s) and contact details * Electronic submission of postscript documents permitted but must be supported by hard copy to arrive not later than 23rd April (in case of printing problems). email: senseval-submissions@itri.bton.ac.uk hard copy: SENSEVAL Submissions ITRI University of Brighton Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK Full details available at <a href="http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/senseval/">http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/senseval/</a> Adam Kilgarriff SENSEVAL co-ordinator ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Non-intrusive measures Date: Fri, 13 Mar 98 09:59:59 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1098 (1098) [deleted quotation] A public answer to a private question: What do you mean by non-intrusive? Knowledge is often obscured and erased, sometimes by benign ignorance or neglect, as in the case of palimpsests, sometimes through more sinister measures. During the 19th Century, it was common for scholars (even such as Tischendorf, Grimm, Waitz) to travel with vials of vitriol or nut gall in their kit bags, to apply these reagents to manuscripts they could not read, in order to bring out the script. That this meant that the next scholar could not read anything did not seem to occur to them, though Waitz once said, after mishandling the Auxentius manuscript: "I don't believe my treatment has damaged the manuscript." He ought to see it now and have to listen to the curses of modern authorities trying to decipher it. Worse, some people smeared the manuscripts so treated with gelatin so that they would not deteriorate further, which then assured that UV treatment would not work. BTW, in case you think such practices are only examples of 19th century barbarity, they still go on. The very act of digging into an Etruscan tomb may destroy some of the evidence one is looking for, and many archeological digs, where stratification is of the essence, involve interstratificational confusion. Steaming apart of books, pasting on of support, etc. can involve loss, often serious loss. All measures used in treating materials containing knowledge ought to non-intrusive. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Find a position for Post-doctor Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 14:02:55 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1099 (1099) [deleted quotation] I am tsinghua university Ph.D. student, and I will graduate in fall 1998. I want to find a position to continue my research in computer vision or extend my research field. If you have appropriate chance, Please contract with by following address. Yang Lei Bldg#19-211 Tsinghua university Beijing,100084 P.R.China Email address yanglei97@rocketmail.com //******************************************** //******************************************** // follwing section is my resume //******************************************** //******************************************** RESUME Personal information Name: Yang Lei Gender: Male Date of birth: Nov. 4, 1970 Place of birth: Tianjin City Physical Condition: Excellent Marital Status: Single Educational background * Tianjin University 1988.9-1992.7 Bachelor Major: Computer Science and application * Beijing Institute of Technology 1992.9-1995.3 M.E Major: Computer Science and application As Graduate Student in the Department of Computer Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, My major is the Computer System Software. My main job is that to do some research in the Multimedia Software development. The title of my thesis is "Multimedia Image Database". * Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 1995.3---1998.10 Ph.D. Major: Computer Science and application In the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology & System, Department of Computer Science in Tsinghua University. My main research interest is Virtual Reality construction, Computer Vision, and Mobile Robot Navigation. I am the member of the research team of the 863 Project of Out-Door Mobile Robot 7B8. The title of my thesis is "Virtual Reality System & Construction". Academic work: * 1997.3 to 1997.10: "The Flexible Transport Systems: AGV for Letter Automatic Transport". Funded by the Research Institute of Postal Science & Technology of M.P.T. * 1997.3 to 1997.10: "GPS Database system for Postal Transport Monitor". Funded by the Research Institute of Postal Science & Technology of M.P.T. * 1996 to now: The 9th five-year plan of the department of defense. "The tele-operate out-door mobile robot ". I am the member of the research team. Main Duty, Robot Tele-present System Design and Vision Navigation. * 1995 to now: The National Natural Science Fund. "Out-Door Road Map Automatic Create by Multi-Sensor Fusion", I am the 4th author in this project. * 1995 to 1996: The National Natural Science Fund: " Robot Simulation System: THROBSM", I am the 4th author in this project. * 1994/12 to 1994/10: "The Multimedia database", Fund by the Taiwan Channel information Co. Position: system analysis and developer * 1992/10 to 1994/12: "The central heating system of BIT campus". System Design &Developer. Publications: 1. Yang Lei, Yang Xinxin, Zhang Bo, "A Double_Level Fuzzy Controller with an Intelligently Adjusting Strategy of Quantization and scale F2actors", IEEE Proceeding of System, Man and Cybernetics, 1996. Pp280-285. , 1996 OCT, Beijing, P.R.China. 2. Yang Lei, He Kezhong, Zhang Bo, "The research on Mobile Robot Sensor Simulation & Visualization ", IEEE Proceeding of System, Man and Cybernetics, 1997., Rensselar, USA. 3. Yang Lei, Yang Xinxin, Zhang Bo, "The research on Mobile Robot Simulation & Visualization Under Virtual Reality ", IEEE First International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing, Singapore, 1997. 4. Yang Lei, He kezhong, Bo Yuan, "Simplifying Line Drawing Based On Dominant Point Detection", International Conference on Computer Graphics, 1997, Beijing. 5. Yang Lei, He kezhong, " Sensor-based Outdoor Mobile Robot Simulator Under Virtual Reality", The Proceeding of the 4-th China Computer Application Conference. 1997, Beijing. PP. 1087-1092. 6. Yang Lei, He Kezhong, "Survey of Virtual Reality research on Mobile Robot", Journal of Robotics, P.R.China. (already accepted in 1997) 7. Guo muhe, Yang Lei, "Eliminate Shadows in Robot Navigation based on Fuzzy Neural Network", Journal of China Software, P.R.China. (already accepted in 1997) 8. Yang lei, Guo muhe, "Estimate vanish point based on RBFN", The fifth International Conference on Intelligent Automation System, Japan, 1998. 9. !0Foundations of Delphi Development for Window's 95!1#,Publishing house of Electronic Industry,1997. 10. !0Video & Music Express!1#,Publishing house of Science and Technology, 1998. Project: 1. 1996 to now: The 9th five-year plan of the Defense Natural Science. "The tele-operate out-door mobile robot ". I am the member of the research team. 2. 1995 to now: The National Natural Science Fund. "Out-Door Road Map Automatic Create by Multi-Sensor Fusion", I am the 4th author in this project. 3. 1997.3 to 1997.10: "The Flexible Transport Systems: AGV for Letter Automatic Transport". Funded by the Research Institute of Postal Science & Technology of M.P.T. 4. 1997.3 to 1997.10: "GPS Database system for Postal Transport Monitor". Funded by the Research Institute of Postal Science & Technology of M.P.T. 5. 1994/12 to 1994/10: "The Multimedia database", Fund by the Taiwan Channel information Co. Position: system analysis and developer 6. 1992/10 to 1994/12: "The central heating system of BIT campus". Developer. (IMPORTANT PART TIME JOB) 7. 1996/6 to 1996/9: The Hebei Province, The 97 Project in Baodian District Wide Area Network System installation and test, position: System engineer of the center of the software development of the Research Institute of Postal Science & Technology. 8. 1997/10 to 1998/3: Japanese JVC corporation !0LL9900 CAI Video & Audio Language Classroom!1. Main organizer and Developer in Beijing. Resume Yang Lei Bldg#19-211 Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 P.R.China Yanglei97@rocketmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: PMC <pmc@JEFFERSON.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU> Subject: PMC Call for Peer Reviewers Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 08:29:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1100 (1100) 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, World-Wide Web, or hard copy). 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: Drawing on Saul Friedlander's essay "Reflections of Nazism, an Essay on Kitsch and Death," this essay proposes a reading of the media coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. The author argues that underlying the ostensibly neutral description offered by the media is a narrative that both condemns and invests the spectacle of rightist heroism. The author then examines the structure of heroic agency itself through a reading of Georges Bataille's essay "The Psychological Structure of Fascism." MS #2: An analysis of styles of honor in Malcolm X and Miles Davis. The author argues that by positioning themselves as archetypal black men, X and Davis became champions of the black male-delineated worlds of black religion and black music, spheres in which black mastery privileged an ethic of "cool." X's and Davis's investments in codes of honor, in "coolness," the author suggests, not only offered a context for their cultural successes, but also provided a basis for the construction of a re-energized and progressive African- American socio-political movement. References include Eldridge Cleaver, bell hooks, Perry Imani, Greg Tate, and Cornel West. MS #3: Focusing in particular on the documentary _Blood in the Face_, this paper explores some of the primary debates in semiotics as they pertain to documentary film. The author argues that documentary film, as a genre without a code who referent is reality as such, provides a rich arena for understanding the contradictions in both sign theory and ideology. References include Bazin, Barthes, Metz, Pasolini, Heath, Bahktin, and Volosinov. MS #4: A response to Ron Silliman's essay "Wild Form," this article asks, "Why does a poet write a statement of poetics?" Noting that Silliman is indebted to a Kerouac letter for the title of his essay, this paper suggests that both Silliman and Kerouac see form as a vehicle for liberation. Whereas Kerouac views this liberation as essentially aesthetic, however, Silliman --as demonstrated in his poem _Tjanting_-- regards it as political and social. References include David Levi Strauss and Nils Ya. MS #5: An analysis of the relevance of sampling in art to postmodern art theory, this article offers close readings of the use of sampling in Charles Bernstein, Laurie Anderson, and Beck. The author proposes that the concerns and practices of these artists blur the boundaries between high and low culture, and that the diversity their work offers invites a panoptic and dialectic examination of artistic sampling. References include Mark Dery, Simon Frith, Russell Potter, and Susan Schultz. MS #6: An examination of the contemporary "superfluity" of poetry, this essay argues that because poetry has been confined to "writing," as such, it has been prevented from questioning its own nature and limits. This essay is thus a "paratactic rumination on poetry and parataxis. It examines the residual surplus of insufficiency that poetry accumulates in the idle melancholy of its endless beginnings." Translated from Russian. MS #7: An interrogation of postmodern identities and Versace's %culto del corpo%. Supplemented by fashion photographs from Versace's menswear catalogues and quotes from the couturiere, this essay explores the ways in which the fashion system has evolved as a public situs for the exploitation and extrusion of the ambivalences produced by the social self, and how fashion photography, in particular, is aimed at postmodern notions of decentered subjectivity. References include Roland Barthes, Joanne Finkelstein, Moe Meyer, Laura Mulvey, Camille Paglia, and Gregory Woods. MS #8: An inquiry into the celebrity status of intellectuals within the academy, this essay begins by exploring complaints about the so-called academic star system, and then attempts to fit this system into a more general problematic of upward mobility narratives. References include Cary Nelson, Sharon O'Dair, David Shumway, and Jennifer Wicke. MS #9: A dialogic enactment of a conversation with the author, Bataille, Haraway, and Arnold Schwarzenager, this piece explores the relationship among animals, humans, and machines. MS #10: This essay reviews the work of Peter Holbrook, a photorealist painter. The author argues that Holbrook's landscape paintings are in tune with the late twentieth-century American aesthetic culture which mingles modern and postmodern sensibilities: Holbrook's landscapes relate to time as well as space, his photographs blend the modern fetish of precision to the postmodern aesthetics of presence/absence, and his gaze is driven both by the modern desire to command and the postmodern tendency towards ambivalence. References include Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Clive Semmens <clisem@bps.org.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0641 Re: Where does it go? Where has it gone? Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:07:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1101 (1101) [deleted quotation] This basic assumption is out by an order of magnitude: 12 000 characters per hour is pretty normal; rates of 20 000 cph are not unheard of. Clive K Semmens, Journals Manager, The British Psychological Society ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: the Digital Library at Berkeley Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 08:37:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1102 (1102) Many Humanists will be interested to know about the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, at <<a href="http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/">http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/</a>>, "where we build digital collections and services while providing information and support to others doing the same." See in particular the California Heritage Digital Imaging Access Project, at <<a href="http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/CalHeritage/">http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/CalHeritage/</a>>. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: SW for Modelling the Human Figure Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:22:56 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1103 (1103) [deleted quotation] And now for something completely different . . . A colleague of mine in Classics/Archaeology studies Classical Greek statues that no longer exist and attempts to re-create them on the basis of surviving descriptions. She uses surviving statues and accompanying descriptions to determine the conventions governing relationships between the two. Does anyone know of software for modelling the human figure (for designers, sports medicine, whatever) that my colleague could use to re-create these statues? Thanks for any leads. Mike Michael Neuman, Director neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu Research, Curriculum, and Development 202-687-6283 (voice) Academic Computing Services 202-687-8367 (fax) Georgetown University www.georgetown.edu/acs/people/neuman Washington, DC 20057 From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Romanian corpora? Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:55:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1104 (1104) A colleague in London needs to know of any substantial corpora or dictionary projects in modern Romanian, i.e. post 1918, preferably post 1989. Please post any replies to Humanist directly. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:19:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1105 (1105) From: Eugene Charniak <ec@cs.brown.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA WHEN: August 15-16, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98) WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: As in past years, the workshop will offer a general forum for new research in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): - robust parsing, phrase structure analysis - part of speech tagging - term and name identification - word sense disambiguation - morphological analysis - anaphora resolution - event categorization - discourse structure identification - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology - language modelling - lexicography - machine translation - spelling and grammar correction PROGRAM CHAIR: Eugene Charniak Brown University PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Steven Abney Lillian Lee Eric Brill Christopher Manning Ted Briscoe Dan Melamed Rebecca Bruce Scott Miller Claire Cardie Raymond Mooney Bob Carpenter James Pustejovksy Glen Carroll Lance Ramshaw Ken Church Adwait Rathnaparkhi Michael Collins Ellen Riloff Joshua Goodman Hinrich Schutze Vasilis Hatzivassiloglou Ralph Weischedel Mark Johnson Janyce Wiebe Andrew Kehler Dekai Wu John Lafferty David Yarowsky SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP) WEB SITES: For COLING-ACL'98 - <a href="http://coling-acl'98.iro.umontreal.ca">http://coling-acl'98.iro.umontreal.ca</a> FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-8000 words) to Eugene Charniak at the Johns Hopkins University address below. 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 20, 1998 Notification Date: June 1, 1998 Camera ready copy due: June 22, 1998 CONTACT: Eugene Charniak e-mail ec@cs.brown.edu Address: Before February 1, 1998 and After June 1, 1998 Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence RI 02912-1910 Address: From February 1, 1998 until June 1, 1998 Department of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University NEB 224, 3400 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218-2694 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: *** NEW NLP BOOK *** Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:18:53 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1106 (1106) From: Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@cogs.susx.ac.uk> ========================================================= === === === RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGES PROCESSING === === === === R.Mitkov & N.Nicolov (eds) === === John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia === === === ========================================================= <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> [Volume by J.Benjamins] The RANLP web site contains: 1. PS version of the front pages of the book (inc. Table of Contents) 2. Abstracts of all papers (sorry - can't put the actual papers :-) 3. Bibtex entries of the book and all papers 4. Link to the on-line ordering page at John Benjamins ___________________________________________________________________________ @BOOK{Mitkov-Nicolov'97, EDITOR = {Ruslan Mitkov and Nicolas Nicolov}, TITLE = {Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing}, YEAR = 1997, PUBLISHER = {John Benjamins}, ADDRESS = {Amsterdam/Philadelphia}, SERIES = {Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT)}, VOLUME = 136 TOTALPAGES= {xii, 474}, ISBN = {90 272 3640 2}, PRICE = {Hfl. 180} } ___________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------------- Editors' Foreword ix I. MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX Aravind K. Joshi Some linguistic, computational and statistical implications of lexicalised grammars 3 Allan Ramsay & Reinhard Schaler Case and word order in English and German 15 Khalil Simaan An optimised algorithm for data oriented parsing 35 Marcel Cori, Michel de Fornel & Jean-Marie Marandin Parsing repairs 47 Matthew F. Hurst Parsing for targeted errors in controlled languages 59 Ismail Biskri & Jean-Pierre Descles Applicative and combinatory categorial grammar (from syntax to functional semantics) 71 Udo Hahn & Michael Strube ParseTalk about textual ellipsis 85 Inaki Alegria, Xabier Artola & Kepa Sarasola Improving a robust morphological analyser using lexical transducers 97 II. SEMANTICS AND DISAMBIGUATION Hideki Kozima & Akira Ito Context-sensitive word distance by adaptive scaling of a semantic space 111 M. Victoria Arranz, Ian Radford, Sofia Ananiadou & Jun-ichi Tsujii Towards a sublanguage-based semantic clustering algorithm 125 Roberto Basili, Michelangelo Della Rocca, Maria Teresa Pazienza & Paola Velardi Contexts and categories: tuning a general purpose verb classification to sublanguages 137 Akito Nagai, Yasushi Ishikawa & Kunio Nakajima Concept-driven search algorithm incorporating semantic interpretation and speech recognition 149 Eneko Agirre & German Rigau A proposal for word sense disambiguation using conceptual distance 161 Olivier Ferret & Brigitte Grau An episodic memory for understanding and learning 173 Christian Boitet & Mutsuko Tomokiyo Ambiguities and ambiguity labelling: towards ambiguity data bases 185 III. DISCOURSE Malgorzata E. Stys & Stefan S. Zemke Incorporating discourse aspects in English - Polish MT 213 Ruslan Mitkov Two engines are better than one: generating more power and confidence in the search for the antecedent 225 Tadashi Nomoto Effects of grammatical annotation on a topic identification task 235 Wiebke Ramm Discourse constraints on theme selection 247 Geert-Jan M. Kruijff & Jan Schaake Discerning relevant information in discourses using TFA 259 IV. GENERATION Nicolas Nicolov, Chris Mellish & Graeme Ritchie Approximate chart generation from non-hierarchical representations 273 Christer Samuelsson Example-based optimisation of surface-generation tables 295 Michael Zock Sentence generation by pattern matching: the problem of syntactic choice 317 Ching-Long Yeh & Chris Mellish An empirical study on the generation of descriptions for nominal anaphors in Chinese 353 Kalina Bontcheva Generation of multilingual explanations from conceptual graphs 365 V. CORPUS PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS Jun'ichi Tsujii Machine Translation: productivity and conventionality of language 377 Ye-Yi Wang & Alex Waibel Connectionist F-structure transfer 393 Yuji Matsumoto & Mihoko Kitamura Acquisition of translation rules from parallel corpora 405 Harris V. Papageorgiou Clause recognition in the framework of alignment 417 Daniel B. Jones & Harold Somers Bilingual vocabulary estimation from noisy parallel corpora using variable bag estimation 427 Jung Ho Shin, Young S. Han & Key-Sun Choi A HMM part-of-speech tagger for Korean with wordphrasal relations 439 Ivan Bretan, Mans Engstedt & Bjorn Gamback A multimodal environment for telecommunication specifications 451 List and Addresses of Contributors 463 Index of Subjects and Terms 469 ___________________________________________________________________________ HOW TO ORDER: John Benjamins Publishing Company P.O.Box 75577 1070 AN AMSTERDAM The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 6762325 Fax: +31 20 6739773 service@benjamins.com (North America) customer.services@benjamins.nl From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Museums and the Web: First Papers Available Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:20:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1107 (1107) From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com> ************************************* ** Museums and the Web 1998 ** ** <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98</a> ** ** April 22-25, 1998 ** ** Toronto Ontario Canada ** ************************************* The first 12 of over 60 papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 1998 are now available online. See this first release for a taste of the breadth of issues that will be discussed in Toronto by an international group of speakers. Highlights include: Antonio Ramiers Fernandez, Hugo Castelo Pirez and Rui Rodrigues, Universidade do Minho, Portugal A Virtual Interactive Art Gallery <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/papers/fernandes">http://www.archimuse.com/papers/fernandes</a> Digitising Collections: The Redefining of Museums Steven Smith, United Focus Pty, Ltd, Australia <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/papers/smith_s">http://www.archimuse.com/papers/smith_s</a> Richard Gerrard, Heritage Toronto, Canada With all this IT, Are We Doing our Job Better? <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/papers/gerrard">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/papers/gerrard</a> Additional papers will be linked to their abstracts - now on the site - as they become available. Conference proceedings will be available on CD-ROM; contact info@archimuse.com for further information. See the conference web site at <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw98">http://www.archimuse.com/mw98</a> for full program and registration information. Those planning to attend the meeting should make their hotel reservations soon. The conference rate, of $159 CDN (approx $112 US) is guaranteed only until March 31, 1998. Looking forward to seeing you in Toronto! jennifer Co Chair Museums and the Web -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museum Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: AAM Conference Schedule; IFLA Seminar on Convergence Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:46:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1108 (1108) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 17, 1998 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS CONFERENCE: SCHEDULE AVAILABLE May 10-14, Los Angeles, CA <<a href="http://www.aam-us.org/98Directory.htm">http://www.aam-us.org/98Directory.htm</a>> ============== IFLA CONFERENCE SESSION: CONVERGENCE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS & ARCHIVES August 13-14, Amsterdam <<a href="http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/IV/ifla64/64intro.htm">http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/IV/ifla64/64intro.htm</a>> ============== The American Association of Museums has released the program for its conference in Los Angeles, May 10-14. I indicate here some of the sessions that would most interest those here. Also an announcement of a component of the IFLA conference this August presenting examples of archives, libraries and museums thinking together digitally. David Green =========== AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS CONFERENCE: SCHEDULE AVAILABLE May 10-14, Los Angeles, CA <<a href="http://www.aam-us.org/98Directory.htm">http://www.aam-us.org/98Directory.htm</a>> Monday May 11: FINDING NEW WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER: THREE WEB-TEAM MODELS --"As the World Wide Web rapidly gains popularity in the museum world, staff members have devised innovative approaches to the challenges of creating and maintaining their sites. This session will present three models of developing "Web Teams" -- groups of individuals with different skills who work together to support Web sites. The panelists will summarize how and why they organized their teams, how team members work together, and how successfully they have met project goals for their Web sites. The speakers will provide other institutions with guidelines for developing their own Web Teams." Tuesday May 12: DIGITAL MEDIA IN MUSEUMS: PREPARING FOR THE POST-HYPE ERA --"What if the widespread hype over the Internet, CD-ROMs, videoconferencing, and other digital media were to die down? Would museum educators and exhibit developers continue to find them valuable? This session will further the discussion about which applications of computer technology make sense in museum learning environments and which do not. Panelists will offer examples from their work and then encourage discussion on related issues: Which applications of technology support visitors' direct experience with objects, artwork, or nature? How can museums use digital media to support interaction among visitors? How can computers illuminate aspects of physical exhibits that otherwise would not be seen or heard? This session is based on case studies in the Journal of Museum Education on digital media in museums." THE VIRTUAL AND THE REAL: THE MUSEUM - TECHNOLOGY INTERSECTIONTHE VIRTUAL AND THE REAL: THE MUSEUM - TECHNOLOGY INTERSECTION --"New media can broaden, deepen, and change the relationships among museum, visitor, and object. This presentation will explore practical and philosophical implications of the intersection of museums and technology. Discussion will focus on the various roles that media can play in exhibitions; audience and evaluation; and how museums can employ media to help visitors build meaning, deepen their relationships to the museum, and better understand their relationship to human culture. The three panelists and the session chair wrote chapters in The Virtual and the Real, an AAM publication about museums in the information age. Panelists and session attendees will discuss how media can help museums build meaning, support interpretive goals, and make connections with visitors." THE USE OF DISTANCE LEARNING WITH MUSEUMS --"This session will examine how distance learning offers museums a wide array of opportunities for outreach to local, regional, national, and international communities. Museums and cultural and scientific agencies use a variety of technologies -- including satellite, cable, public television, ITFS, Internet and the World Wide Web -- to provide their resources to underserved students, parents, and teachers across the U.S., allowing them to develop new understanding and skills. Session attendees will learn about test projects using museums that are employing a full range of the latest technologies." Wednesday May 13: INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AND THE INTERNET --"The promise of the Internet - open access and freely exchanged information - has clashed often and vociferously with the reality of community values and local cultures. In 1997, the Supreme Court protected the rights of free speech on the Internet, but cultural institutions continue to struggle with Internet-related issues. Can cultural institutions provide full service to adults while protecting the minors who also use their services? How can an institution protect a donor's privacy in cyberspace, and how does this concern affect ongoing donations? What are the legal responsibilities for museums? Panelists with experience in libraries, museums, and the law will address these and other issues." NEXT STEPS, VERSION 2.0: EXPANDING WEB SITES AND OTHER INTERACTIVE PROGRAMS --"This panel will discuss directions museums are taking to expand their programmatic use of interactive technologies, particularly their Web sites. This session moves beyond previous presentations on program development to focus on museum philosophies, priorities, interpretive needs, and audience responses, with emphasis on Web-delivered programs. Panelists will provide insight into the reasons for embarking on new Web programs or choosing to focus on existing ones. They will also discuss the relationships between interactive programming for on-site use by museum visitors and those developed for distant audiences." THE WIRED MUSEUM -"This session goes beyond the book by the same title published by AAM in April 1997, exploring issues identified in the book and examining solutions to problems that have been proposed or explored in the last year. The book discussed emerging technologies like the Internet, the World Wide Web, and digital imaging, and how they are changing the way we work. The session will focus on three areas: image licensing, training in the area of information technology for museums, and the steady flow of new information technologies into the workplace. Panelists will present an overview of these issues and will discuss the latest developments and options. BRINGING THE COMMUNITY INTO THE COLLECTIONS --"This session will present several projects that have adapted a variety of media and technologies to take museum collections and educational experiences outside the museum's walls and into diverse neighborhoods. Panelists from an art museum, a history museum, and a public library will use their projects to provide insight into a broad discussion on the nature of the conference theme. To bridge the differences between institution and community, each of these institutions invited specific audiences to actively participate in the development of programs. This session will discuss the different processes, the benefits (to both public and institution), and the problems associated with this approach. It will introduce delegates to innovative yet cost-effective programs, and it will use these examples to help explore the philosophical issues that surround the relationship between museums and their audiences, and the opportunities that media present to enhance this relationship." CULTURAL NETS AND DIGITAL COMMUNITIES: EXPLORING DIFFERENCES AND FINDING CONNECTIONS ON-LINE In 1995, The Getty Information Institute initiated a project to build an on-line community network linking arts and cultural information acrossthe southern California region. Called "Los Angeles Culture Net," the project incorporates the perspectives and resources of its key constituents: schools, libraries, museums, universities, local government, and businesses, as well as artists, musicians, and writers. The project links key information about cultural resources in Los Angeles and connects cultural institutions with each other through the World Wide Web. A unique aspect of the initiative is the "Faces of L.A.," virtual database that provides research access to the collections of 19 institutions with information about the culture and history of southern California. The panel offers insight on how this innovative project uses technology to connect people and build a community. Thursday May 14: PROVIDING INTEGRATED DIGITAL ACCESS TO DIVERSE COLLECTIONS: CASE STUDIES --"Original letters, photographs, oral history interviews, home movies, paintings-- all are examples of primary source materials in museum holdings. Because museums can contextualize and authenticate primary content, they play important roles as information providers. It is difficult for many museums to present in a standardized way primary information from a variety of media such as artworks, sound recordings, moving images, artifacts, photographs, and manuscripts. This session will explore how museums are providing integrated digital access to such diverse collections materials. Panelists will discuss the methodology adopted by their institutions to achieve the goal of integrated access to primary source materials. They will address issues of prioritizing collections for digitization and finding the most effective means for describing and delivering digital versions of primary materials for use by museum audiences. AUTHORS, OWNERS, AND USERS: MUSEUMS AND THE FAIR USE DOCTRINE Over the last three years, museums have been active participants in the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), which brought together copyright owners and users to develop guidelines for fair use of copyrighted work in the digital environment. Legal experts in the museum field will provide an overview of copyright law and the fair use doctrine for museums, a critique of the proposed digital images guidelines, and provocative insight on the broader legal and public policy implications surrounding the CONFU and the fair use debate. Steps that museums can take to become more actively engaged in the public policy process on the issue will also be highlighted. ======================= IFLA CONFERENCE SESSION: CONVERGENCE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS & ARCHIVES August 13-14, Amsterdam <<a href="http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/IV/ifla64/64intro.htm">http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/IV/ifla64/64intro.htm</a>> Although there is no webpage yet on the meeting, this seminar on European digital projects that exemplify the convergence of libraries, museums and archives should both be useful to follow and perhaps a model for a similar meeting in the U.S. David Green =========== Convergence in the Digital Age: Challenges for Libraries, Museums and Archives. Seminar, Thursday 13 - Friday 14 August, Amsterdam, The Netherlands On 13 and 14 August 1998, a seminar on "Convergence in the Digital Age: Challenges for Libraries, Museums and Archives" will be held with support of the European Union, in Amsterdam. The seminar is a satellite event of this year's IFLA General conference which takes place in Amsterdam from 16 to 21 August 1998. Libraries, museums and archives are all increasingly dealing with documents, publications and information in electronic form. This new environment is obliging them to confront digitisation, archiving, preservation, new users services and new economic models in a complex legal framework. The seminar is hence a unique opportunity for those interested in the fields of libraries, museums or archives to share their experiences of handling digital information and to discuss common issues and challenges. It also aims at providing new ideas for the definition of strategies for co-operation in a digital environment. The seminar is organised in 6 main thematic sessions: I. The Organisation of Knowledge in a Digital Environment II. The Citizen's Access to the Digital Heritage III. New Services in their Legal Context IV. The Future of the Digital Present V. Converging Technologies and Standards for Digital Collections VI. Strategic Issues in Research and Technological Development These themes will be illustrated by presentations of ongoing projects. Most of these projects are sponsored by the European Commission. The full programme is to be published within a few weeks. Organising committee: * Ms. Concha Fernández de la Puente, European Commission DGXIII/E-4, Luxembourg * Prof. Dr. Eric Ketelaar, Professor of Archival Science at the Universities of Leyden and Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Dr. Christian Lupovici, Member of the IFLA Section on Information Technology and librarian of the University of Marne-la-Vallée, France * Dr. Maria Vittoria Marini-Clarelli, Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Italy * Mr. B. Rugaas National Librarian, National Library of Norway, Norway * Dr. Juan Zozaya, Subdirector of the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Spain * Mr. Johan van de Walle, Secretary of the National Focal Point for the Telematics for Libraries programme in the Netherlands, The Netherlands The seminar will be held in one of the most attractive and historical buildings of Amsterdam. Once the residence of an important trading family, it is now the seat of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. For further information and reservations, please contact: Johan van de Walle TNO-STB PO Box 80544 NL-2508 GM The Hague The Netherlands E-mail: vandewalle@stb.tno.nl and jvdwalle@bart.nl The registration fee will be 200 Dutch Guilders. Coffee, lunch and social events are included in the price. The price will be 300 Dutch Guilders for registration after the 1st of July. From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: New American Memory Collection: "Century of Lawmaking Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:06:50 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1109 (1109) for a New Nation" NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 17, 1998 NEW "AMERICAN MEMORY" COLLECTION OPENS A CENTURY OF LAWMAKING FOR A NEW NATION: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html</a>> The latest release in the "American Memory" body of collections is the first part of the papers of the first two U.S. Congresses. Most of the material is available both as digital facsimile images and as searchable (SGML encoded) texts. Further information about how the collection was digitized can be found at: <<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwdigit.html">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwdigit.html</a>>. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] New Law Collection from the National Digital Library Program and the Law Library of Congress (This message is being cross posted) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation" Debuts Online The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the Law Library of Congress announce the online publication of the first part of "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873" as part of the American Memory Collections of the Library of Congress: <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html</a>. This first release includes the records of the First and Second Congresses, 1789-1793: the House and Senate Journals, the Senate Executive Journal, the Annals of Congress, and the Journal of William Maclay, Senator from Pennsylvania in the First Congress, approximately 4,400 pages in all. The Journals are available both as digital facsimile images and as searchable texts. The Annals of Congress are available as digital facsimile images accompanied by searchable page headings (subject terms)and indexes. Users will now have unprecedented access to these historic records for research in law, history, genealogy, and many other areas. The Law Library of Congress houses one of the fullest collections of U.S.Congressional documents in their original format. In its final form "A Century of Lawmaking" will bring together online records from the Continental Congress through the Forty-second Congress, some 355,000 pages in all. Plans for the second online release include the Journals of the Continental Congress, the records of the Constitutional Convention, and the subsequent debates over the adoption of the Constitution. Further releases will bring the records of the U.S. Congress up to 1873, the year in which the Government Printing Office assumed the publication of the proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record. In addition, the final collection will include the United States Statutes at Large from 1789 to 1873 and the American State Papers, 1789-1838, legislative and executive documents published by Congress. The images in this collection are bitonal TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) images scanned at 300 dpi. The text materials are presented with full text transcriptions encoded with Standard General Markup Language (SGML) according to the American Memory DTD. The text was translated to HTML 3.2 for indexing and viewing on the World Wide Web. Further information about how this collection was digitized can be found at: <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwdigit.html">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwdigit.html</a> For further information about the collection, please contact: Emily Lind Baker Law Library of Congress National Digital Library Program ebak@loc.gov. **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** DIGLIB is a public service provided by IFLA (<a href="http://www.ifla.org">http://www.ifla.org</a>) and sponsor, Sun Microsystems Inc.: "The Network is the Computer" See Sun's Whitepaper, "Information Technology Directions in Libraries" at: <a href="http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/libraries/libtechdirection.html">http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/libraries/libtechdirection.html</a> This paper addresses Library Trends, Java Computing, and Digital Libraries. From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu> Subject: COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES: VOL. 31 NO. 2 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:05:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1110 (1110) ************************************************************************ JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED ************************************************************************ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Volume 31 No. 2 1997 The most recent issue of Computers and the Humanities includes a special section entitled "Debates in Humanities Computing". This issue's debate addresses a fundamental question underlying work on automatic word sense disambiguation: the viability of definitively distinguishing senses of polysemous words. Yorick Wilks, a well-known researcher in the area of automatic sense disambiguation and computational semantics, presents his view of word senses which supports the viability of current approaches to automatic word sense disambiguation. An opposing position is taken by lexicographer Adam Kilgarriff, who argues that definitive sense division is so difficult, even for humans, as to be virtually impossible, and describes an empirical study supporting his claim. Table of Contents ----------------- SPECIAL SECTION --------------- DEBATES IN HUMANITIES COMPUTING : THE VIABILITY OF AUTOMATIC WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION Senses and texts Yorick Wilks I don't believe in word senses Adam Kilgarriff OTHER ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE: ----------------------------- An Estonian morphological analyser and the impact of a corpus on its development Heiki-Jaan Kaalep MtScript: A multi lingual text editor Malek Boualem and Stephane Harie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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, consult the journal's WWW home page: <a href="http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/">http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/</a> 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 Members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) receive a subscription to CHum at less than half the price of an individual subscription. For information about ACH and a membership application, consult <a href="http://www.ach.org/">http://www.ach.org/</a>, or send email to chuck_bush@byu.edu. From: Lorna Hughes <lorna.hughes@nyu.edu> Subject: Humanities Computing Talks at NYU - Spring 1998 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:03:56 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1111 (1111) Humanities Computing Talks at NYU After a successful program last fall, the Humanities Computing group at New York University is continuing its program of talks on various aspects of humanities computing, inviting distinguished scholars in the field from all disciplines and special interest groups. All are welcome to attend these events - there is no need to register in advance. You can see a full description of all our talks, and get information on how to get to NYU's Washington Square campus at our seminars web page: <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/seminars.html">http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/seminars.html</a> Spring Semester Program, 1998 1. Humanities Computing and Scholarship in the 21st Century Susan Hockey, University of Alberta, Canada Friday, 3 April 1998 - 2:00 PM - Room 109, Warren Weaver Building 2. Escaping Flatland: 3D Computer Modeling for Humanists Matt Kirschenbaum, University of Virginia Wednesday, 8 April 1998 - 1:00 PM - Room 102, Warren Weaver Building 3. Preservation and Access: Resolving the Contradictions John Price-Wilkin, University of Michigan Friday, 1 May 1998 - 2:00 PM - Room 109, Warren Weaver Building Please contact Lorna Hughes for any additional information, or to make suggestions for future events! Lorna --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Academic Computing Facility Fax: (212) 995 4120 New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: ALA Reports on Status of Copyright Legislation Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:18:42 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1112 (1112) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 19, 1998 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION REPORTS ON STATUS OF SUPPORT FOR BOUCHER-CAMPBELL PROPOSED COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION (H.R. 3048, the Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act) The American Library Association reported today in its ALAWON Newsletter that the copyright bill proposed by Representatives Boucher and Campbell now has the support of 25 co-sponsors in the House. This bill, the "Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act" was put forward as a more comprehensive and balanced response to the Administration's proposed "WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act," which has been approved by the Courts and Intellectual Property Subcommittee and which will be considered by the full House Judiciary Committee later this month. David Green ============ [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu> Subject: 11.0652 figure modelling? Romanian corpora? Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:15:51 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1113 (1113) Humanist Discussion Group writes: [deleted quotation] In the project Multext-East, we developed lexicons and a corpus of 6 central and eastern European languages, including Romanian. For each language there is a corpus of newspaper material and modern fiction, as well as a translation of Orwell's 1984. All six versions of 1984 are tagged for part of speech and aligned to the English original. The entire corpus, which is freely distributed for research, is encoded according to the TEI-compliant specifications of the Corpus Encoding Standard (see <a href="http://www.cs.vassar.edu/CES/">http://www.cs.vassar.edu/CES/</a>). The Multext-East web site, which describes the project and gives samples as well as information about obtaining the corpus, is <a href="http://nl.ijs.si/ME/">http://nl.ijs.si/ME/</a>. The Romanian partner is Dan Tufis, tufis@valhalla.racai.ro. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nancy Ide, Chair Tel: (+1 914) 437 5988 Department of Computer Science Fax: (+1 914) 437 7498 Vassar College WWW: <a href="http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide">http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide</a> 124 Raymond Avenue E-mail: ide@cs.vassar.edu Poughkeepsie New York 12604-0520 USA From: Giovanni Adamo <adamo@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it> Subject: Re: 11.0652 Romanian corpora? Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:28:57 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1114 (1114) Dear Willard, concerning the message listed below, I can only send you an address: Mr. Dan MATEI TermRom [Romanian Association for Terminology] c/o Institutul de Lingvistica Calea 13 Septembrie n. 13, CP 42-37 76100 BUCURESTI Tel.: +40-1-410.34.09 Fax: +40-1-410.34.10 All the best, Giovanni At 00.55 19/03/98 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1115 (1115) [deleted quotation] ***************************************************************** Dott. Giovanni ADAMO Lessico Intellettuale Europeo - CNR Via Nomentana, 118 00161 ROMA (Italia) Tel. +39-6-86320527 Fax +39-6-4991-7215 adamo@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it <a href="http://www.cnr.it/CSLIE/">http://www.cnr.it/CSLIE/</a> ***************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Paul T Orkiszewski <orkis@is.rice.edu> Subject: Job Posting in Humanist Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 01:37:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1116 (1116) Electronic Resources Librarian Rice University, a private university, is seeking a highly motivated librarian committed to working closely with users and exploring creative new ways to provide services. This librarian will work primarily on providing innovative approaches to using information technology and the development of services for the scholarly community in the electronic context. Responsibilities include: Coordinate activities in the Electronic Text and Image Center; assist and train faculty and staff in the use and maintenance of these resources; support the integration of new technologies and new approaches to the delivery of information into library operations; coordinate the development and maintenance of library web pages; act as a catalyst and resource for digital library initiatives; help develop interfaces to library resources; provide reference service; participate in general and subject specific user education; perform collection development in assigned subject area; supervise student assistants; and serve as part of the Humanities Computing Support Team. Some evening and weekend work is required. The Fondren Library is an exciting place to work, with opportunities to participate in the development of leading edge library technologies in a team setting. Current projects include expanding the services of an Electronic Text and Image Center; tailoring user interfaces for the integrated library system; the development of an Electronic Reserves service; the digitization/creation of multimedia projects in coordination with the Special Collections Division; and the cataloging of electronic resources. The Electronic Resources Librarian leads the Fondren Library in creating innovative, user-responsive electronic services and resources. Requirements: an ALA accredited MLS; a degree in a humanities field; working knowledge of at least one foreign language; excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work well with faculty, students, and colleagues, a high degree of flexibility, and a positive record of collegial relationships; excellent written and oral communication skills; a demonstrated high degree of initiative; a demonstrated commitment to public services; demonstrated knowledge and interest in electronic resources; thorough knowledge of internet tools; excellent Macintosh and PC computer skills; knowledge of the major bibliographic utilities including OCLC or RLIN; and hands on experience with integrated library systems, preferably SIRSI. Preferred: previous experience in an electronic text center; previous professional experience in an academic library; UNIX computing skills; experience using advanced HTML; experience using a variety of computer databases (full-text, images, bibliographic); and demonstrated ability to learn new software systems. Salary/benefits: minimum salary $40,000 with hiring salary based on experience and education; no state or local income tax; career advancement program; 21 benefit days; 8 study days; TIAA/CREF; health and life insurance; and tuition waiver. Applications received by April 20, 1998 will receive first consideration. To apply, send letter of application, resume, and the names, titles, addresses, and telephone numbers of 3 references to: Ferne Hyman, Assistant University Librarian, Rice University, Fondren Library MS44, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005-1892. Rice University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name="etextjob.txt" Content-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980319165315.17355L@is.rice.edu> Content-Description: text file Electronic Resources Librarian Rice University, a private university, is seeking a highly motivated librarian committed to working closely with users and exploring creative new ways to provide services. This librarian will work primarily on providing innovative approaches to using information technology and the development of services for the scholarly community in the electronic context. Responsibilities include: Coordinate activities in the Electronic Text and Image Center; assist and train faculty and staff in the use and maintenance of these resources; support the integration of new technologies and new approaches to the delivery of information into library operations; coordinate the development and maintenance of library web pages; act as a catalyst and resource for digital library initiatives; help develop interfaces to library resources; provide reference service; participate in general and subject specific user education; perform collection development in assigned subject area; supervise student assistants; and serve as part of the Humanities Computing Support Team. Some evening and weekend work is required. The Fondren Library is an exciting place to work, with opportunities to participate in the development of leading edge library technologies in a team setting. Current projects include expanding the services of an Electronic Text and Image Center; tailoring user interfaces for the integrated library system; the development of an Electronic Reserves service; the digitization/creation of multimedia projects in coordination with the Special Collections Division; and the cataloging of electronic resources. The Electronic Resources Librarian leads the Fondren Library in creating innovative, user-responsive electronic services and resources. Requirements: an ALA accredited MLS; a degree in a humanities field; working knowledge of at least one foreign language; excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work well with faculty, students, and colleagues, a high degree of flexibility, and a positive record of collegial relationships; excellent written and oral communication skills; a demonstrated high degree of initiative; a demonstrated commitment to public services; demonstrated knowledge and interest in electronic resources; thorough knowledge of internet tools; excellent Macintosh and PC computer skills; knowledge of the major bibliographic utilities including OCLC or RLIN; and hands on experience with integrated library systems, preferably SIRSI. Preferred: previous experience in an electronic text center; previous professional experience in an academic library; UNIX computing skills; experience using advanced HTML; experience using a variety of computer databases (full-text, images, bibliographic); and demonstrated ability to learn new software systems. Salary/benefits: minimum salary $40,000 with hiring salary based on experience and education; no state or local income tax; career advancement program; 21 benefit days; 8 study days; TIAA/CREF; health and life insurance; and tuition waiver. Applications received by April 20, 1998 will receive first consideration. To apply, send letter of application, resume, and the names, titles, addresses, and telephone numbers of 3 references to: Ferne Hyman, Assistant University Librarian, Rice University, Fondren Library MS44, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005-1892. Rice University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Job Announcment: Open Studio Writer/Researcher Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:34:30 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1117 (1117) NINCH ANNOUNCMENT March 20, 1998 [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@CS.VASSAR.EDU> Subject: REMINDER: ACL/COLING WORKSHOP on TRANSLINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:19:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1118 (1118) ************************************************************************ REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER ************************************************************************ !!!! SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 23 !!!! COLING-ACL998 Workshop on TRANSLINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CURRENT LEVELS AND FUTURE ABILITIES August 16, 1998 (following ACL/COLING-98) University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada) CALL FOR PAPERS DESCRIPTION ----------- The development of natural language applications which handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information is the next major challenge facing the field of computational linguistics. Over the past 50 years, a variety of language-related capabilities has been developed in areas such as machine translation, information retrieval, and speech recognition, together with core capabilities such as information extraction, summarization, parsing, generation, multimedia planning and integration, statistics-based methods, ontologies, lexicon construction and lexical representations, and grammar. The next few years will require the extension of these technologies to encompass multi-lingual and multi-modal information. Extending current technologies will require integration of the various capabilities into multi-functional natural language systems. However, there is today no clear vision of how these technologies could or should be assembled into a coherent framework. What would be involved in connecting a speech recognition system to an information retrieval engine, and then using machine translation and summarization software to process the retrieved text? How can traditional parsing and generation be enhanced with statistical techniques? What would be the effect of carefully crafted lexicons on traditional information retrieval? This workshop is a follow-on to an NSF-sponsored workshop held in conjunction with the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in Granada, Spain (May 1998), at which an international panel of invited experts will consider these questions in an attempt to identify the most effective future directions of computational linguistics research--especially in the context of the need to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information. The follow-on ACL workshop is intended to open the discussion to the computational inguistics community as a whole. The workshop will include ample time for discussion. A report summarizing the discussions at Granada will be available before the ACL workshop. TOPICS ------ The workshop will focus on the following fundamental questions: 1. What is the current level of capability in each of the major areas of the field dealing with language and related media of human communication? 2. How can (some of) these functions be integrated in the near future, and what kind of systems will result? 3. What are the major considerations for extending these functions to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information, particularly in integrated systems of the type envisioned in (2)? In particular, we will consider these questions in relation to the following areas: o multi-lingual resources (lexicons, ontologies, corpora, etc.) o information retrieval, especially cross-lingual and cross-modal o machine translation o automated (cross-lingual) summarization and information extraction o multimedia communication, in conjunction with text o evaluation and assessment techniques for each of these areas o methods and techniques (both statistics-based and linguistics- based) of pre-parsing, parsing, generation, information acquisition, etc. We invite submissions which report on work in these areas. All papers should clearly identify how the work addresses the issues and questions outlined above. SUBMISSIONS ----------- Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six (6) copies of the full-length paper (3500-5000 words). Submissions should be sent to: Nancy Ide Department of Computer Science Vassar College 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA Style files and templates for preparing submissions can be found at <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html</a> The official language of the conference is English. IMPORTANT DEADLINES ------------------- Submission Deadline: March 23, 1998 Notification Date: May 15, 1998 Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE -------------------- Charles Fillmore University of California Berkeley, USA Robert Frederking Carnegie Mellon University, USA Ulrich Heid University of Stuttgart, Germany Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute, USA Nancy Ide Vassar College, USA Lauri Karttunen (tentative) Rank Xerox Research, France Kimmo Koskenniemi University of Helsinki, Finland Mun Kew Leong National University of Singapore Joseph Mariani LIMSI/CNRS, France Mark Maybury The Mitre Corporation, USA Sergei Nirenburg New Mexico State University, USA Akitoshi Okumura NEC, Japan Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, USA James Pustejovsky Brandeis University, USA Peter Schaueble ETH, Switzerland Oliviero Stock IRST, Italy Felisa Verdejo UNED, Spain Piek Vossen University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI, Germany ORGANIZERS ---------- Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA INFORMATION ----------- Information on the workshop can be found at <a href="http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/translingual.html">http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/translingual.html</a> Inquiries may be addressed to the organizers: Robert Frederking <ref@nl.cs.cmu.edu> Eduard Hovy <hovy@isi.edu> Nancy Ide <ide@cs.vassar.edu> From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: DIGITIZATION SUMMER SCHOOL, Glasgow, Scotland Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 17:01:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1119 (1119) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 20, 1998 DIGITIZATION SUMMER SCHOOL July 5-18, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND <<a href="http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/SumProg">http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/SumProg</a>> [deleted quotation] From: BU Conference on Language Development <langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu> Subject: BU Conference on Language Development Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 07:17:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1120 (1120) The 23nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development Call for Papers November 6, 7 and 8, 1998 Keynote Speaker: Peter Jusczyk, Johns Hopkins University Plenary Speaker: Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University ***************************************************************************** FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION All topics in the field of language acquisition will be fully considered, including: Bilingualism Literacy & Narrative Cognition & Language Neurolinguistics Creoles & Pidgins Pragmatics Discourse Pre-linguistic Development Exceptional Language Signed Languages Input &Interaction Sociolinguistics Language Disorders Speech Perception & Production Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon) Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research. Presentations will be 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions. Please submit: 1) six copies of an anonymous, clearly titled 450-word summary for review; 2) one copy of a 150-word abstract for use in the conference program book if your abstract is accepted. If your paper is accepted, this abstract will be scanned into the conference handbook. No changes in title or authors will be possible after acceptance. 3) for EACH author, one copy of the information form printed at the bottom of this sheet. Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for acknowledgment of receipt. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent by early August. Pre-registration materials and preliminary schedule will be available in late August, 1998. All authors who present papers at the conference will be invited to contribute their papers to the Proceedings Volumes. Those papers will be due in January, 1999. Note: All conference papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts submitted. Although each abstract will be evaluated individually, we will attempt to honor requests to schedule accepted papers together in group sessions. DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by May 15, 1998. Send submissions to: Boston University Conference on Language Development 704 Commonwealth Ave., Suite 101 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. Telephone: (617) 353-3085 e-mail: langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu (We regret that we cannot accept abstract submissions by fax or e-mail.) Information regarding the conference may be accessed at <a href="http://web.bu.edu/LINGUISTICS/APPLIED/conference.html">http://web.bu.edu/LINGUISTICS/APPLIED/conference.html</a> ***************************************************************************** Author Information Form (fill out one form completely for EACH author) Title: Topic area: Audiovisual requests: Full name: Affiliation: Current address: Summer address if different, and dates: Current email: Summer email: Current phone number: Summer phone if different: * To accommodate as many papers as possible, we reserve the right to limit each submitter to one first authorship and if circumstances warrant, to limit each submitter to two papers in any authorship status. * Please indicate whether, if your paper is not one of the 90 initially selected for presentation, you would be willing to be considered as an alternate. (If you indicate that you are willing to be considered, this does not commit you to accepting alternate status if it should be offered to you.) _____ Yes, consider me as an alternate if necessary _____ No, please do not consider me as an alternate Please indicate how you received the 1998 Call for Papers: ____ email/electronic ___surface mail ____word of mouth Please indicate how you wish to receive the 1999 Call for Papers: ____email/electronic ___surface mail ____ both ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu> Subject: Image annotation software available Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 12:44:04 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1121 (1121) Inote 6.0 available for download Inote is an image annotation tool written in Java: it allows the user to attach textual annotations to various regions in an image and then store those annotations and details in a separate text file. It can also generate certain kinds of details automatically by reading the image: soon, we will add a utility that will generate overlays by reading SGML markup associated with an image. Currently, Inote runs under Windows95 as a self-contained executable (using the Java Runtime Environment), or on various Unix platforms (with a separately installed JDK). Using Inote as a stand-alone application, you can create details of several types (rectangle, polygon, circle, point), you can attach one or more annotations to each of these details, and you can organize details into overlays, using as many overlays as you like. Details can be moved across the overlay, resized, and copied or moved from one overlay to another; annotations can also be copied or moved. Annotations are saved as XML data, using an XML structure that can be incorporated into other XML or SGML structures. Once you have created overlays with details and annotations, you can provide the annotated image to Java-capable Web browsers by running Inote as an applet. When Inote loads an image and its overlays, it displays colored lines on the overlays delineating annotated details. To browse the annotations associated with those details, click the mouse inside the detail. If the region in question has overlapping details or multiple annotations, a scrollable list will appear, from which users may select the detail and annotation desired. For complete information regarding download, installation, and use of Inote, see <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/inote">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/inote</a>>http://www.iath.virginia.edu/inote/ John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/">http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Costing Redevelopment Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:52:25 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1122 (1122) Willard, This may be of interest to some of the readers of Humanist, especially those caught up in the joys of spring time budget processes. Mary McGugan in the March 1998 issue of Technology in Government about St. Francis Xaviers initiative WEBf/x St. Francis Xavier lacks a clearly enunciated implementation strategy and the detailed costing analysis that comes from it. That omission may have the university floundering in needless debt, according to a 1995 study commissioned by the Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC). "One of the thins that has got to be front and centre when educational institutions make decisions about technology acquisitions is a very clear definition of what the anticipated benefits are going to be and what the costs are going to be." says Wendy Cukier, author of the Information Highway Advisory Council study and a professor at Ryersopn University in Toronto. "That assessment is often not done." Institutions end up buying a beautifully marketed solution at an incentive price without properly examining alternatives and without conducting any in-depth business case analysis where objectives and [measurable] outcomes are clearly defined, says Cukier. She adds that course redevelopment --- "to do it right" --- can typically cost $50,000 or more per course. At that price [St. Xavier's] fund would only be enough to redevelop ten courses. [I don't know if McGugan has or plans to report on other initiatives at the same institution or in the same region. One cannot help wondering that at a systemic level, the price of "failures" is part of the cost of learning, especially when the title of McGugan's piece is "Teachers become technology students at St. Francis Xavier University"] [Any one else have reports on programs for massive faculty skill acquistion?] Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Ken Litkowski <ken@clres.com> Subject: Re: Microsoft Word and Wordnet Integration Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 13:51:28 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1123 (1123) [The following bit of conversation on the WordNet discussion group may interest a number of Humanists. For those who do not know about WordNet, "an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory", see <<a href="http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/">http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/</a>>. --WM] Douglas Beeferman wrote on WN-USERS: [deleted quotation] Forgive the proselytizing, but the continuing declines in funding for the publicly available and useful WordNet lexical research, combined with the Microsoft successes have prompted my plea to all who might influence such funding. I share Doug's sentiments and revel in the advances that Microsoft has made, not simply for the low-level accomplishments of analysis within the lexicon, but more for the fact that finally, after many years of research on MRDs, they were able to reach a critical mass to enable the demonstration that useful material could be generated from MRDs, in contradistinction to the many naysayers. At the same time, it is clear that it is impossible for the individual researcher to reach that same critical mass. The only alternative is WordNet (and perhaps the Unified Medical Language System being developed at the National Library of Medicine). George Miller, in a conversation with me a few years ago, said that practical considerations, not theoretical, limited the number of semantic relations that could be included in WordNet. These limitations obviously continue within the limited and declining resources available to the yeoman efforts of the WordNet staff. Given that Microsoft's use of MindNet is clearly ever-expanding and probably more and more useful now that they have the critical mass, isn't it time that more resources be devoted to enabling the rest of the CL world to participate in exploring the ramifications? Can't funders out there put some more money, rather than less, into a lexical knowledge base commensurate with the times? Even Steve Richardson of Microsoft lamented with me in personal communications the dearth of funding for lexical research. Maybe the SENSEVAL being sponsored by the ACL SIGLEX will help, but I suspect it will only accentuate the poor plight of lexical resources for research. -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-926-5904 CL Research EMAIL: ken@clres.com 20239 Lea Pond Place Gaithersburg, MD 20879-1270 USA Home Page: <a href="http://www.clres.com">http://www.clres.com</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "K. C. Cameron" <K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk> Subject: Re: About Francofil (please keep) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:06:40 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1124 (1124) Book announcement of interest to literary, history and CALL specialists: Elm Bank Publications 24 Velwell Road EXETER, EX4 4LE Tel: 01392 264221 Fax: 01392 264222 Announce Two New Publications in their Modern Language Studies Series 1998 A Tragic Farce: The Fronde (1648-1653) By Wendy Gibson The civil war of the Fronde, which provided the young Louis XIV with five years of object lessons in the facts of kingly life, was recognized right from the start as having the makings of an entertaining piece of theatre: colourful intrigues, spectacular episodes, unstoppable heroes, dreadnought heroines, and one or two villains worth hissing. This book, after the fashion of a play programme, introduces the leading members of the cast, gives a synopsis of the plot, and shows how and why a performance that initially drew applause ultimately turned out to be a flop. Price £ 14.99 (vii + 148pp. Paperback 229 x 170 mm.) ISBN 0 9502595 8 6 Multimedia CALL: Theory And Practice Edited and presented by Keith Cameron This collection of essays presents a timely contribution to current research on the use and development of Multimedia in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. The papers, which were given in Exeter at the seventh biennial international CALL Conference, are essential reading for all those who wish to keep abreast of the 'state-of-the-art' and who seek ideas for new avenues of research. Price £ 24.99 (vii + 307pp. Paperback 229 x 170 mm.) ISBN 0 9502595 9 4 ------------- Keith Cameron Professor of French and Renaissance Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts Editor of: - Computer Assisted Language Learning, (<a href="http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/call.html">http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/call.html</a>); - Exeter Textes litteraires, (<a href="http://www.ex.ac.uk/uep/french.htm">http://www.ex.ac.uk/uep/french.htm</a>); - Exeter Tapes, (<a href="http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/staff/cameron/ExTapes.html">http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/staff/cameron/ExTapes.html</a>); - EUROPA-on line & European Studies Series, (<a href="http://www.intellect-net.com/europa/index.htm">http://www.intellect-net.com/europa/index.htm</a>); - Elm Bank Modern Language Series, (<a href="http://www.intellect-net.com/elm-bank">http://www.intellect-net.com/elm-bank</a>) Department of French, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, G.B. WWW (<a href="http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/">http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/</a>) Tel: 01392 264221 / + 44 1392 264221;Fax: 01392 264222 / + 44 (19) 1392 264222 E/mail: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: analysing e-pubs Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 07:21:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1125 (1125) Humanists with an interest in electronic publication (and who is not?) will welcome the new article by the sociologists Rob Kling and Roberta Lamb, "Analyzing Visons of Electronic Publishing and Digital Libraries", at the URL <<a href="http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/~kling/pubs/EPUB6.htm">http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/~kling/pubs/EPUB6.htm</a>>. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Alan Burk <burk@sisyphus.sun.csd.unb.ca> Subject: Building Electronic Texts - Summer Institute Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 12:21:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1126 (1126) This message has been cross-posted, please excuse any duplication. **Announcing the Second Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick / Fredericton / New Brunswick / Canada** Creating Electronic Texts and Images -- a practical "hands-on" exploration of the research, preservation and pedagogical uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities. August 16 - 21, 1998 Instructor: David Seaman, University of Virginia Sponsored by the University of New Brunswick Library's Electronic Text Centre (<a href="http://www.unb.ca/etc/">http://www.unb.ca/etc/</a>) and the Department of Archives and Special Collections COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will centre around the creation of a set of electronic texts and digital images. Topics to be covered include: SGML tagging and conversion Using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines The basics of archival imaging The form and implications of XML Publishing SGML on the World Wide Web EAD - Encoded Archival Descriptions The course is designed primarily for librarians and archivists who are planning to develop electronic text and imaging projects; for scholars who are creating electronic texts as part of their teaching and research; and for publishers who are looking to move publications to the Web. Course participants will create an electronic version of a selection of Canadian literary letters from UNB's Archives and Special Collections. Participants will encode the letters with TEI/SGML tagging, tag an EAD finding aid (a one day course component) and explore issues in creating digital images. COURSE PREREQUISITES: This year's institute presupposes that participants have some experience with the Web and HTML. It is highly recommended that participants also have had some basic exposure to other SGML applications besides HTML, such as TEI, XML or EAD. For those with little or no previous experience with SGML applications, there will be a one day introductory level session on Saturday, August 15. For those on the West Coast, an introductory session taught by David Seaman will be offered on June 17, 1998 as a pre-conference workshop at the Canadian Library Association Annual Conference & Trade Show in Victoria, British Columbia. FACILITIES: The course will be held in the Instructional Technology LearningCentre (ITLC) in the Harriet Irving Library on the campus of the University of New Brunswick. The lab is a state-of-the-art facility with a Windows 95 PC for each participant and a high end digital projection system. The facility is air conditioned. REGISTRATION FEES / HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS: Registration will be limited to 20. The tuition $750.00 (Canadian dollars) will include all course fees for the Institute, nutritional breaks, lunches and a number of special events. Tuition does not include cost of accommodations. The tuition for the UNB one-day (August 15) introductory workshop on HTML and SGML is not included in the $750 and is an additional $75.00. There will be five bursaries offered at $200.00 each for those who could not otherwise afford to come to the Institute. The Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in downtown Fredericton is offering special room rates at: $70.00 + tax (Canadian) Single Room $77.00 + tax (Canadian) Double Room Course participants will be responsible for making their own reservations: Jill Amos - Contact Person - 506-455-3371 FURTHER INFORMATION: Detailed course information will be available in April - see: <a href="http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Announce/seaman98.htm">http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Announce/seaman98.htm</a> If in the meantime you would like further information, contact Karen Maguire (kmaguire@unb.ca or 506-453-4740). Information on last year's Institute, including comments from participants is available at: <a href="http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug97/index.html">http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug97/index.html</a> ***************************************************** Registration Form Note: You can also go to our Web Registration Form at: <a href="http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Announce/seaman98.htm">http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Announce/seaman98.htm</a> Introduction To Electronic Texts and Images August 16th to 21st, 1998 Name:________________________________ Organization/Title:____________________________________ Please provide a description of present and future projects to which you will apply the skills learned in this course. In addition, briefly outline your reasons for interest in taking this course. ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Phone:_________________(Home) ______________________(Business) Business address: _______________________________________ _______________________________________ Home address: _______________________________________ _______________________________________ FAX: ____________________ email: ________________________ Method of payment (please circle one): 1. Cheque (made payable to: UNB Libraries) 2. Visa or Mastercard Card#: ___________________________________ Expiry date:_______________________________ 3. Purchase Order (please attach): Number:__________________________________ Signature:_________________________________ Payment is due in full by June 30, 1998. Refunds will not be honoured after Aug 1/98. (Optional) In addition, please register me for the Introductory One Day Workshop on HTML and SGML on Saturday August 15 (tuition cost is $75.00) ___________ Please return Registration Form by email, Fax, or mail to: Karen Maguire Administrative Assistant UNB Libraries PO Box 7500 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 Phone: (506) 453-4740 Fax: (506) 453-4595 email: kmaguire@unb.ca Confirmation of registration will be sent to you after processing. ****************** Alan Burk, Associate Director of Libraries and Director of Electronic Text Centre (www.unb.ca/etc) phone: 506-453-4740 fax: 506-453-4595 From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: NYU-NEACH Spring 98 Talks Date: Tue, 24 Mar 98 11:14:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1127 (1127) ............................................................. Heyward Ehrlich, President, NEACH and Lorna Hughes, Asst. Dir., Humanities Computing, ACF, NYU jointly announce program details of NYU-NEACH Talks on Humanities Computing, Spring 1998 ............................................................. The Academic Computing Facility (ACF) of New York University and the Northeast Association of Computing and the Humanities (NEACH) announce the Spring 1998 schedule of four talks on humanities computing. These events of the Humanities Computing Unit of the Academic Computing Facility of New York University, co-sponsored by NEACH, will take place in Warren Weaver Hall, West 4th and Mercer Streets, off Washington Square South, in New York City. For travel directions, see <<a href="http://www.nyu.edu/infocenter/directions-g.html">http://www.nyu.edu/infocenter/directions-g.html</a>>. ............................................................. HUMANITIES COMPUTING AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY Susan Hockey, University of Alberta, Canada Friday, 3 April 1998 - 2:00 PM - Room 109, Warren Weaver Bldg. ............................................................ ESCAPING FLATLAND: 3D COMPUTER MODELING FOR HUMANISTS Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Virginia Wednesday, 8 April 1998 - 1:00 PM - Room 102, Warren Weaver Bldg. ............................................................. ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Preservation and Access: Resolving the Contradictions John Price-Wilkin, University of Michigan Friday, 1 May 1998 - 2:00 PM - Room 109, Warren Weaver Bldg. ............................................................. THE PENNSYLVANIA _FRANKENSTEIN_ ELECTRONIC EDITION Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania Friday, 8 May 1998 - 2:00 om - Room 109, Warren Weaver Bldg ............................................................. HUMANITIES COMPUTING AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY Susan Hockey, University of Alberta, Canada Friday, 3 April 1998 - 2:00 PM - Room 109, Warren Weaver Bldg. New technologies offer exciting opportunities and challenges to scholars across the broad range of humanities disciplines. What changes in humanities teaching and research might we expect to see in the early decades of the 21st century, and what are some of the major concerns? Join us as Susan Hockey, a well-known expert in humanities computing, outlines the ingredients of well designed and useful resources for the humanities and addresses important issues for this new frontier. For example, what do we do about copyright and ownership? How can we know the source of something, when art can be scanned and then digitally altered with a few clicks of the mouse? What must we consider when linking across different projects, or maintaining the longevity of electronic information? What are the implications of a scholarly arena which includes both print and electronic media? Perhaps most importantly, what do we need to do to train the next generation of scholars and teachers, and how do we persuade them to use and develop these resources when there is a perception of low academic quality and poor interfaces? Professor Hockey will survey current resources and techniques in humanities computing, and point out what she finds to be well- designed and useful. She will also outline some of the challenges in creating and maintaining these resources, and discuss strategies for new research that addresses the needs of the humanities scholar of the 21st century, while alerting us to the pitfalls and obstacles. Susan Hockey is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Director of the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in Arts at the University of Alberta. Her current research focuses on the representation of humanities source material in electronic form and on the design of processing tools to aid humanities scholarship. She is the author of two books and numerous articles on humanities computing and has given lectures and presentations in Europe, North America and Japan. Prior to moving to the University of Alberta in February 1997, she was director of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH). ............................................................. Escaping Flatland: 3D Computer Modeling for Humanists Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Virginia Wednesday, 8 April 1998 - 1:00 PM - Room 102, Warren Weaver Bldg. This talk will address applications of 3D computer modeling technology (specifically the Virtual Reality Modeling Language, or VRML) in the humanities. After an introduction to the VRML standard, Mr. Kirschenbaum will demonstrate some of the 3D work undertaken by himself and the staff of the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities: recreations of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's studio and a historic room at the University of Virginia Library; first editions of rare American novels; a visualization of narrative patterns in Dante's Inferno; time-lapse simulations of Civil War battles; and a multi-dimensional fly-through textual landscape. ............................................................. Electronic Texts and Digital Libraries: Preservation and Access: Resolving the Contradictions John Price-Wilkin, University of Michigan Friday, 1 May 1998 - 2:00 PM - Room 109, Warren Weaver Bldg. The growth of digital libraries has aided both Library preservation enterprises and the development of access systems for digital library collections. Despite this, these two enterprises work primarily apart from each other, with many digital Preservation efforts failing to bring their materials online, and with many access enterprises failing to embrace preservation-friendly technologies. This situation is not only unnecessary, but undermines the missions of both preservation and access. Price-Wilkin will discuss the UN-Making of America project as a model for creating a continuum between the preservation object and the access system. Through this continuum, he contends, the energies of both preservation and access find new efficiencies and energy. Technologies covered in the discussion include preservation quality imaging, SGML encoding, OCR systems, and production quality access systems. Price-Wilkin is the Head of Digital Library Production Services at the University of Michigan. DLPS is a staff of approximately 20 persons devoted to digital object creation/conversion, system design/deployment, and instruction. Information regarding DLPS is online at: <<a href="http://www.umdl.umich.edu/dlps">http://www.umdl.umich.edu/dlps</a>> ............................................................. The Pennsylvania _Frankenstein_ Electronic Edition Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania Friday, 8 May 1998 - 2:00 om - Room 109, Warren Weaver Bldg A discussion of the decisions that have gone into constructing the Pennsylvania Electronic Edition of _Frankenstein_, a hypertext edition of Mary Shelley's novel, edited by Stuart Curran, that situates it in over 20,000 pages of commentary. The discussion will focus not on the abstract promises of hypertext editions, but on their practical application in an actual large-scale literary project. ............................................................. The NYU-NEACH series is free and open to the public. For further information, contact: Lorna M. Hughes, Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Academic Computing Facility, New York University 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012-1185, USA E-mail: lorna.hughes@nyu.edu Phone: (212) 998 3070 Fax: (212) 995 4120 <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/neach/neach.html">http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/neach/neach.html</a> <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/seminars/seminars.html">http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/seminars/seminars.html</a> or Heyward Ehrlich, President, NEACH Dept of English, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102 E-mail: ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu <a href="http://english-newark.rutgers.edu/neach.html">http://english-newark.rutgers.edu/neach.html</a> ............................................................. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Scott Stebelman <scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0662 works on methodology? Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 18:21:27 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1128 (1128) Many relevant citations will be found in "Studies of Interest to English and American Literature Librarians." The URL is: <a href="http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib/english.html">http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib/english.html</a> Scott Stebelman Faculty Outreach Librarian Gelman Library George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 202/994-1342 (work) 202/994-1340 (fax) scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu <a href="http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib">http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib</a> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: help with quotation Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:16:44 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1129 (1129) [deleted quotation] Does anyone know the source of the verse: "I love Sepetember best of all months" Michael Ossar mlo@ksu.edu Department of Modern Languages 913-532-1919 voice Kansas State University 913-532-7004 fax 104 Eisenhower Hall Manhattan, KS 66506-1003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: SEMCOM: Australian Jour. of Computers & Lang Education Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:18:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1130 (1130) [deleted quotation]============================================================================ SEMCOM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ==================================//online bulletin of the Commission on Semiotics and Communication, National Communication Association// [If you would like to be included in the SEMCOM list, please reply or send a note to alan.harris@csun.edu with the command, "add SEMCOM", in the body. tia, a.] ============================================================================ On-CALL: The Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education Table of Contents: Volume 12, Number 1. January 1998 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial Note 1 CALL through the eyes of teachers and learners of Asian languages: Panacea or business as usual? Marilyn McMeniman and Robyn Evans 2 Computer Mediated Communication: Technology for enhancing foreign language/culture education. Meena Singhal 10 The social dimensions of CALL Roland Sussex. 16 Towards meaningful interaction in multimedia programs for language teaching. Uschi Felix 20 Multifocal German Program for beginners: Progress report. Kristina Brazaitis 30 ALSIC: A new electronic journal for French. Thierry Chanier 41 -------------------------------------------- Past issues of On-CALL can be found on the World Wide Web at <a href="http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/oncall">http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/oncall</a> For further details regarding On-CALL, send email to: On-Call@cltr.uq.oz.au From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: DLI-2 update: letters due 4/30 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:36:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1131 (1131) NINCH ANNOUNCMENT March 26, 1998 DLI-2 Letters of Intent Deadline extended from April 15 to April 30 <<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm</a>> [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: WordNet and MindNet Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:15:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1132 (1132) [deleted quotation] Douglas Beeferman wrote on WN-USERS: [deleted quotation] Ken Litkowski replied: [deleted quotation] I'm fully in favor of more funding for work on lexical resources, and I think there are definitely good reasons to look beyond WordNet, not least of which is the apparent possibility that it may not reach version 1.7. But I have to say I'm skeptical at the moment about MindNet as an alternative -- though I'd be very happy to have my skepticism proven wrong. For a start, I wonder if Doug or Ken could please provide references with respect to Microsoft "aggressively publishing" with regard to MindNet? My attempts to search the web for papers on MindNet, including several major search engines, the CMP-LG archive, and research.microsoft.com, turned up no references to MindNet other than publicity/marketing material ("Bill Gates Builds His Brain Trust", and the like), and the "NLP publications" page at Microsoft Research <URL:<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/nlp/nlppubs.htm">http://research.microsoft.com/nlp/nlppubs.htm</a>> has no more than half a dozen papers that might be relevant to MindNet, none of which was published later than spring 1995 (other than Steve Richardson's 1997 dissertation). The contrast between this and WordNet is striking: if you want to see what the benefits of a freely available resource are for the research community, compare the above with the original "Five Papers on WordNet" plus the 146 WordNet-related publications (as of January, 1998) listed at <URL:<a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~josephr/wn-biblio.html">http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~josephr/wn-biblio.html</a>>. I believe that if Microsoft would like the rest of the CL world to participate in exploring MindNet, it would do well to make the resource easily available with a minimum of encumbrances -- and I think the resulting level of MindNet-based R&D activity would more than repay Microsoft's investment. (Truth in advertising, though: doing so would be less in keeping with Microsoft's general philosophy than, say, with Sun Microsystems' approach. My philosophical bias and my relationship with the latter would fail a sufficiently sensitive test for statistical independence. :->) Meanwhile, let's not forget that EuroWordNet is alive and kicking, even if the Princeton WordNet has reached the limit of its resources... Philip ---------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Resnik, Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies 1401 Marie Mount Hall UMIACS phone: (301) 405-6760 University of Maryland Linguistics phone: (301) 405-8903 College Park, MD 20742 USA Fax : (301) 405-7104 <a href="http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik">http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik</a> E-mail: resnik@umiacs.umd.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: 2nd CfP Konvens98 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:13:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1133 (1133) [deleted quotation] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS KONVENS 98 Computer, Linguistik und Phonetik zwischen Sprache und Sprechen - Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and Speech 4. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache - 4th Conference on Natural Language Processing Oct. 5-7, 1998, University of Bonn, Germany <a href="http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98">http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98</a> Organized by: Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische Datenverarbeitung (GLDV)(responsible in 1998) Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI), FA 1.3 "Natuerliche Sprache" Informationstechnische Gesellschaft/Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Akustik (ITG/DEGA) Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Artificial Intelligence (OeGAI) CALL FOR PAPERS Subjects of the conference are all areas of language processing dealing with language in its written or spoken form. Special attention will be paid to approaches focussing on the structural and the phonological/phonetic aspects of computer-aided/based language research and aimed at bridging the gap between both aspects. Please submit proposals for: - lectures, - workshops, - demonstrations and - posters. All proposals will be reviewed anonymously. Please add a title page specifying the author's names and institutions as well as title and form of the contribution. Proposals should be submitted in 5 paper copies (DIN A4 paper size, Times 12pt), and in electronic form per e-mail (preferably LaTeX or PS). Word and WordPerfect format files and LaTeX style files will be available for download after March 15, 1998. Proposals should not exceed 10 pages for lectures, and 5 pages for workshops. Poster contributions will be published as short papers limited to 4 pages. Workshop proposals should explain the significance of the subject, and they should name the prospective participants and their contributions. Demonstrations should be briefly described; the equipment needed should be specified. All proposals should contain German and English abstracts of 12 lines max. Conference languages are German and English. All proposals are reviewed by at least two independent reviewers nominated by the programme committee. Accepted proposals will be published in the conference proceedings which will be available before the beginning of the conference. DEADLINES March 1, 1998 Deadline for the submission of workshop proposals April 15, 1998 Deadline for the submission of proposals for lectures and posters May 15, 1998 Notification on acceptance June 15, 1998 Submission of the printable contribution to the proceedings July 15, 1998 Deadline for submitting proposals for system demonstrations LOCAL ORGANIZERS Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders Dr. Thomas Portele Dr. Bernhard Schroeder PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Dr. Ernst Buchberger, Wien (OeGAI) Dr. Stefan Busemann, Saarbruecken (GI) Prof. Dr. Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld (DGfS) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoeppner, Duisburg (GI) Prof. Dr. Roland Hausser, Erlangen (GLDV) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess, Bonn (ITG/DEGA) Prof. Dr. R. Hoffmann, Dresden (ITG/DEGA) Dr. Tibor Kiss, Heidelberg (DGfS) Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders, Bonn (GLDV) Dr. Harald Trost (OeGAI) CONFERENCE OFFICE Gisela von Neffe Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik der Universitaet Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn Internet: http//:www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98/index.en.html Email: konvens98@uni-bonn.de Phone: +49-228-735638 Fax: +49-228-735639 LOCATION KONVENS 98 will take place at the University of Bonn's Central Building, which is situated in the city's centre, in walking distance from the main railway station. WORLD WIDE WEB <a href="http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98">http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Autumn School 1998 of the GLDV Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:14:55 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1134 (1134) [deleted quotation] GGGGGGGGG LLL DDDDDDDDD VV VV GG LLL DD DD VV VV GG LLL DD DD VV VV GG GGGGGG LLL DD DD VV VV GG GG LLLLLLLLL DD DD VV VV GGGGGGGGG LLLLLLLLL DDDDDDDD VVV H E R B S T S C H U L E 1 9 9 8 FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------- 1. Aufruf zur Teilnahme von Montag, den 28. September bis Freitag, den 2. Oktober 1998 veranstaltet die Gesellschaft f|r Linguistische Datenverarbeitung (GLDV) eine Herbstschule mit dem Thema World Wide Web & Linguistik ----------------------------- Sprachtechnologie f|r das Internet Veranstaltungsort ist die Abteilung f|r Computerlinguistik (CLUE) der Friedrich-Alexander-Universitdt Erlangen-N|rnberg Vorldufiges Kursprogramm ======================== 1. Informationsmodellierung in XML und SGML (Henning Lobin, Universitdt Bielefeld) 2. Hypertext und Textdatenbanken im WWW (Angelika Storrer, IDS Mannheim & Roman Schneider, Oracle) 3. Text-Mining-Technologien (Sebastian Gvser, IBM Stuttgart) 4. Multimedia NN 5. Unicode (Carl-Martin Bunz, Universitdt Saarbr|cken & Koaunghi Un, Universitdt T|bingen) 6. Web-basierte maschinelle \bersetzung (Uta Seewald, Universitdt Hannover & Rita N|bel, Universitdt Saarbr|cken) Alle Veranstaltungen finden in deutscher Sprache statt. Zur praktischen Vertiefung der vermittelten Sachverhalte stehen Rechnerarbeitspldtze zur Verf|gung. Teilnahmegeb|hren ================= f|r studentische Mitglieder der GLDV.............DM 100,-- f|r studentische Nichtmitglieder inklusive GLDV-Schnuppermitgliedschaft.......DM 110,-- f|r nichtstudentische Nichtmitglieder inklusive GLDV-Schnuppermitgliedschaft.......DM 150,-- f|r studentische Nichtmitglieder.................DM 200,-- f|r sonstige Nichtmitglieder.....................DM 250,-- Bei Anmeldung vor dem 25. Juli erhalten die Teilnehmer einen 20%-igen "early bird"-Rabatt. Adresse des Veranstalters ========================= Friedrich-Alexander-Universitdt Erlangen-N|rnberg Abteilung f|r Computerlinguistik (CLUE) Prof. Dr. Roland Hausser, Ph.D. Bismarckstr. 6/12 D-91054 Erlangen Unterkunftsmvglichkeiten ========================= Zur Unterbringung sind das Hotel Frankenhof und die Jugendherberge Erlangen vorgesehen. Reservierungsw|nsche richten Sie bitte an Jvrg Schreiber <joerg@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de> Telefon +49 9131 85-9250 Fax +49 9131 85-9251 Online-Information ================== Weitere Information (Veranstaltungsplan, Anreise, ...) wird in K|rze unter <<a href="http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/GLDV/Herbstschule1998.html">http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/GLDV/Herbstschule1998.html</a>> und <<a href="http://www.gldv.org/Herbstschule">http://www.gldv.org/Herbstschule</a>> abrufbar sein. -- Jochen Leidner leidner@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de CLUE From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Oxford One-Day Colloquium, 'Beyond the Hype', Web Site Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:19:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1135 (1135) From: Stuart Lee <stuart.lee@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> WEB SITE ANNOUNCEMENT 'BEYOND THE HYPE' A One-Day Colloquium to be held in the Oxford Union Debating Chamber 23rd April 1998 Organised by the Humanities Computing Unit Oxford University Computing Services For the latest information on this event, please point your browsers to: <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/events/beyondh/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/events/beyondh/</a> Reminder: Set in the historic Debating Chamber at the Oxford Union, this one-day colloquium will address the challenges presented to teachers, librarians, and publishers by Computers and Information Technology. Taking the form of three short debates, the event will bring together both practitioners and visionaries in each field who will take stock of where we have come to, and assess what might lie on the horizon at this pivotal moment in the development and application of the new technologies. The debates will be appropriate to ALL subjects not just the humanities. Stuart Lee ************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-283403 Fax: 01865-273275 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Web: <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/</a> ****************************************** From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Semitic Languages Workshop Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:17:31 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1136 (1136) [deleted quotation] Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages COLING-ACL98 Sunday August 16, 1998, University of Montreal Final Call for Papers ** Submission Deadline: April 6, 1998 ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Although there exists a considerable body of CL research specifically targeted to Semitic languages, much of the work to date has been the result of initiatives undertaken by individual researchers or research establishments. A direct consequence is that there is comparatively little awareness amongst practitioners of either the state of the art as practiced outside their own locality, the common challenges faced by all practitioners, or the potential for developing a coordinated approach. The aims of this workshop are therefore: * To provide a forum where current work in a broad range of subfields can be presented, collected and diffused. * To assess the state of the art with a view to identifying promising areas for future collaborative research. * To set up initiatives to explore the possibilities of supporting such research through national and international funding agencies. SUBTOPICS Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): * Educational Applications * Empirical Methods * Orthographic Represention * Language Modelling * Language Resources * Lexicon and Lexical Represention * Machine Translation * Morphology and Phonology * Multilinguality * Syntax, Parsing and Generation * Speech Applications WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (coordinator) Mohamed Abd-Elsalam, Sakr Software, Egypt Ken Beesley, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France Khalid Choukri, ELRA /ELDA, France Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University, Israel Fathi Debili, CNRS-CRLAO (Paris) / IRMC, Tunis Mamoun Hattab, Arabic Textware, Amman, Jordan George Kiraz, Bell Labs, USA Chadia Moghrabi, Univerity of Moncton, Canada Mori Rimon, Hebrew University, Israel SPONSOR Mid-Med Bank, Malta SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Deadlines * Submission Deadline: April 6, 1998 * Notification Date: June 1, 1998 * Camera ready copy due: June 22, 1998 Format * Electronic submissions only, Postscript format. * Provide a list of keywords and indicate the best fitting subtopic from the above list. * LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL: <a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty</a> * Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. * Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). * Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. * Please submit papers to mros@cs.um.edu.mt. All submissions will be acknowledged. CONTACT Michael Rosner: mros@cs.um.edu.mt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Rosner (mros@cs.um.edu.mt) Last modified: Fri Feb 20 15:08:23 MET ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: empirical aesthetics; image analysis Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 07:39:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1137 (1137) Humanists may not know about the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, <<a href="http://www.ume.maine.edu/~iaea/">http://www.ume.maine.edu/~iaea/</a>>, founded in 1965 for "empirical studies of creativity, aesthetics, and of the arts, literature, and music. Most members are anthropologists, psychologists, semioticians, and sociologists. However, a number are practicing artists, humanistic scholars, and philosophers who have an interest in empirical studies of the arts." Its forthcoming conference, to take place in Rome in late September, is a promising event. Among the items on the IAEA links page is NIH Image, image analysis software for Macintosh, converted to Windows 95/NT by Scion Corporation, <<a href="http://www.scioncorp.com/">http://www.scioncorp.com/</a>>, and to Java by NIH, <<a href="http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/">http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/</a>>. Reports on experiences with this software would be 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Anne Foerst <annef@ai.mit.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0668 September loving? Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 21:49:01 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1138 (1138) As an answer to Michael L Ossar: Soren Kierkegaard said it and if I translate it from the German quote I know it roughly sounds like "I love September best of all months because the trees loose their leaves and the people look towards heaven instead to the ground." -- Dr.theol. Anne Foerst Postdoctoral Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology SQ, NE 43 - 934 Cambridge, MA 02139 +1 / 617 / 253-6532 Harvard Divinity School Center for the Studies of Values in Public Life 56 Francis Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 <a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/annef/">http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/annef/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Review of the CTI & TLTSN Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:01:34 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1139 (1139) This message is particularly aimed at UK HE members of the list but may be of interest to others also (especially those who may wish to offer alternative perspectives). As many of you will already be aware the UK higher education funding bodies are conducting a review of the CTI and the TLTSN (Teaching and Learning Support Network). The review will decide what should happen to both programmes after 1999 (when the current funding comes to an end). As part of the review process the Review Committee have inaugurated a hypernews discussion arena where they are soliciting opinions on past and future funding of C&IT in teaching and learning within the UK. You are encouraged to visit the hypernews site and make your opinion known concerning the future of the CTI in particular or the funding of IT-related programmes in general. You may also wish to record how the CTI and related programmes have influenced the use of IT in your own academic teaching. The CTI & TLTSN Online Discussion Forum is at: <a href="http://www.cit.ed.ac.uk/CTIREV/">http://www.cit.ed.ac.uk/CTIREV/</a> You are recommended to read the page entitled, 'Background to the Review' which outlines the remit of the Review Committee. There are three main discussion forums, and your opinions would be valued in one or all of them: * Assumptions: for discussion of a list of 'assumptions' or propositions which the Review Committee have identified as being significant (e.g. 'Appropriate use of CAL and ICT can reduce the cost of teaching'). * Questions for Institutions: for discussion of teaching & learning strategies and also the barriers to effective use of IT. * Questions for the HE Sector: for discussion of what the sector really needs by way of programmes, initiatives, support for using IT in teaching & learning (e.g. do we now have too many programmes, too much overlap, and little co-ordination? How would you like the money to be spent? On courseware? On support?). The forum will close on 24 April 1998. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michael Fraser Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk Manager, CTI Textual Studies Fax: +44 1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS Tel: +44 1865 283 282 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/</a> Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: PMC <pmc@JEFFERSON.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU> Subject: PMC Call for reviews Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:04:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1140 (1140) PMC CALL FOR REVIEWS -- DEADLINE APRIL 10 ------> REPLY TO: p-geyh@nwu.edu _Postmodern Culture_ is looking for reviews of recent books, films, CDs, plays, TV shows, concerts, sporting events, performances, exhibitions, conferences and conventions, happenings, and so forth, for the May 1998 issue. Reviews should be approximately 2000-3500 words long, and should follow the journal's format guidelines below. The deadline for submissions is April 10. A selection will be made at that time. All correspondence will be answered and all submissions will be given careful consideration. Send reviews and queries to Paula Geyh, the review editor at p-geyh@nwu.edu, not to the _PMC_ offices. If e-mailing reviews, make sure the document is not encoded, and that it has been stripped of all word-processing codes (i.e, saved as ASCII or DOS text). Submissions can also be sent on floppy disk to Paula Geyh at the Department of English, 215 University Hall, Northwestern University, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208. All submissions should follow the format guidelines detailed below. FORMAT GUIDELINES FOR _PMC_ REVIEWS You can save us a good deal of work by following these guidelines: Reviews should generally run between 2000 and 3500 words, or about 8-14 ordinary manuscript pages. Set margins to half-inch left, two-inch right, and set your font to Courier 10cpi (or any 10cpi, non-proportional font). This is very important, as it prevents too many characters on a line. Put a title at the top of the first page, and under it your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and mailing address. Center these lines. Number all paragraphs of your text with bracketed numbers. These bracketed numbers should be margin-released into the left-hand margin (this will place them at the 0" spot on the line). Indent (to 1") the first line of each pargraph and all lines of set- off quotations. Single-space the document throughout. Use _this_ for underlining titles, *this* for bold print or emphasis, %this% for foreign words, and ^this^ for superscript. Footnotes, if any, should follow MLA format. Page references in the text, if any, should not be preceded by p., pp., or any other notation; use just the page number itself. From: AITBS Summer School <aitbs@math.acad.bg> Subject: summer school announcement - please distribute Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 18:01:50 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1141 (1141) HESP SUMMER SCHOOL APPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES TO BIBLICAL STUDIES (AITBS) July 27-August 7, 1998 Sofia, Bulgaria COURSE DIRECTOR: Dr. SERGUEY IVANOV, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad APPLICATION FORM THE HESP SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAM ? THE MISSION OF THE PROGRAM: OSI/HESP SUMMER SCHOOLS PROGRAMME IS OPEN FOR YOUNGER UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, TEACHING ASSISTANTS AND PROFESSIONALS. IT OFFERS A SERIES OF INTENSIVE TWO, THREE OR FOUR-WEEK COURSES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE REGIONAL ACA DEMIC COOPERATION AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT BY DRAWING TOGETHER YOUNG FACULTY IN LECTURES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS. ? STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The basic purpose of the proposed summer school Application of Information Technologies to Biblical Studies is to present the state-of-the-art in the field to young faculty staff and researchers teaching at Universities. This field has been underestimated in the countries of the CEE region, and the specialists in Biblical Studies are not well informed and/or do not have access to modern tools. This situation leads to some isolation of the experts in the field of Biblical Studies from their colleagues from countries who have modern facilities. The School intends to attract participants which basic field of expertise is related to Biblical Studies and who have basic computer literacy. Additional goals of the School are: ? To serve as an ideal forum for contacts of specialists from the CEE region; ? To promote establishment of links for future cooperation; ? To start building a network of institutions and individuals in the CEE region interested in the field. Participants in the School will have the possibility to present their own experience in the field. ELIGIBILITY AND FUNDING: APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FROM ANY COUNTRY. ? ALL PARTICIPANTS FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION RECEIVE A GRANT COVERING TUITION COST, ACCOMMODATION, TRAVEL, AND A BOOK ALLOWANCE. IT ALSO PROVIDES A STIPEND TO COVER MEALS AND INCIDENTALS. HOWEVER, PARTICIPANTS FROM SOFIA WILL ONLY RECEIVE FREE TUITION, A BOOK ALLOWANCE AND A REDUCED STIPEND. ? APPLICANTS FROM COUNTRIES OTHER THAN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE MUST PAY FOR TUITION ($200/WEEK OF INSTRUCTION EQUALLING 1,200 CLASSROOM MINUTES), ACCOMMODATION, HEALTH INSURANCE, TRAVEL AND MEALS. THERE ARE, HOWEVER, A LIMITED N UMBER OF TUITION WAIVERS AVAILABLE FOR WHICH APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED ON A COMPETITIVE BASIS. APPLICANTS MUST MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA: ? THEY MUST HAVE A UNIVERSITY DEGREE AND HOLD A TEACHING POSITION AT A UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY, OR WORK AS A PROFESSIONAL. GRADUATE STUDENTS WITH TEACHING EXPERIENCE MAY ALSO APPLY. UNDERGRADUATES WITHOUT A UNIVERSITY DEGREE WILL NOT B E CONSIDERED. ? THE LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION IS ENGLISH, THUS ALL APPLICANTS HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE A SUFFICIENT COMMAND OF ENGLISH TO BE ABLE TO FOLLOW LECTURES AND PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY IN DISCUSSIONS AT SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS. ADMISSION POLICY: PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO APPLICANTS CURRENTLY WORKING ON PROJECTS RELATED TO THE TOPIC OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL. APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE SUMMER SCHOOL OFFICE NO LATER THAN APRIL 30, 1998. APPLICANTS MUST PROVIDE AS PART OF THEIR APPLICATION A PAPER WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED DURING THE COURSE. A DETAILED COURSE DESCRIPTION WITH NAMES OF LECTURERS AND TOPICS TO BE COVERED WILL BE AVAILABLE IN DUE COURSE. CHANGES IN FACULTY AND/OR TOPICS MAY OCCUR. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Summer School Applications of Information Technologies to Biblical Studies Attn: Milena Dobreva Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bl. 8, Acad. G. Bonchev St. 1113 Sofia BULGARIA TEL.: (359-2) 713-2809 FAX: (359-2) 971-3649 E-MAIL: aitbs@math.acad.bg WWW SITE: to be announced in due course INSTRUCTIONS (THIS APPLICATION FORM MAY BE PHOTOCOPIED AND IS FREE OF CHARGE) PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY. FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES BELOW MAY RESULT IN THE WITHDRAWAL OF YOUR APPLICATION FROM THE SELECTION PROCEDURE. 1. PROVIDE ALL REQUESTED INFORMATION IN ENGLISH. PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT ONLY. 2. COMPLETE ALL SECTIONS OF THE APPLICATION AND SUBMIT ALL REQUESTED ATTACHMENTS. 3. ONE LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY A PROFESSIONAL IN THE FIELD WHO CAN ESTIMATE YOUR ABILITIES, QUALIFICATIONS AND ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE. THERE IS AN ATTACHED FORM FOR THE RECOMMENDATION LETTER. 4. YOUR APPLICATION AND ALL RELATED MATERIALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE SUMMER SCHOOL OFFICE NO LATER THAN APRIL 30, 1998. FULL FELLOWSHIPS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO APPLY BY THIS DATE. LATE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. 5. THE APPLICATION FORM MAY BE SUBMITTED BY E-MAIL, FAX OR SURFACE MAIL, BUT RECOMMENDATIONS MUST BE POSTED. FAXED APPLICATIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS WILL NOT BE PROCESSED. AITBS 1998 SUMMER SCHOOL APPLICATION FORM ALL APPLICATION MATERIAL MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE SUMMER SCHOOL OFFICE NO LATER THAN APRIL 30, 1998. E-mail applications are preferred. Summer School Applications of Information Technologies to Biblical Studies Attn: Milena Dobreva Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bl. 8, Acad. G. Bonchev St. 1113 Sofia BULGARIA TEL.: (359-2) 713-2809 FAX: (359-2) 971-3649 E-MAIL: aitbs@math.acad.bg I. PERSONAL DATA ___________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME FIRST NAME SEX: _________MALE __________,FEMALE OFFICE ADDRESS: ___________________________ _________________ ________________ __________ NUMBER AND STREET, CITY ,COUNTRY, ZIP CODE OFFICE TELEPHONE :_____________________ FAX: ____________________ E-MAIL:___________________ HOME ADDRESS: ___________________________ _________________ ________________ _________ NUMBER AND STREET CITY COUNTRY ZIP CODE HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER: ________________________ DO YOU PREFER YOUR MAIL TO BE SENT TO ____YOUR HOME ADDRESS_____ YOUR OFFICE ADDRESS CITIZENSHIP: ______________PASSPORT NUMBER: ______________DATE OF BIRTH:________________ II. 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YOU HAVE ANY INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED EXAM WITH TEST SCORES (TOEFL, CAET, CPT, IELTS OR OTHER) PLEASE SEND A COPY OF YOUR DIPLOMA OR CERTIFICATE WITH TESTS SCORES IF EITHER OF THE ABOVE IS APPLICABLE. 3. YOU ARE A NATIVE SPEAKER OF ENGLISH IN ALL OTHER CASES PLEASE FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW. ENGLISH LANGUAGE SELF-EVALUATION To be completed by the Applicant THE SUMMER SCHOOL OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IS ENGLISH. THE COMPLETED ENGLISH LANGUAGE EVALUATION SHOULD REFLECT THE APPLICANTS' TRUE ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMPETENCY. A/ SUMMARY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES 1. NUMBER OF YEARS ENGLISH WAS STUDIED: ____________________________ 2. YOU STUDIED ENGLISH IN _____PRIMARY SCHOOL ____SECONDARY SCHOOL ____COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY _____PRIVATE LANGUAGE SCHOOL ,OTHER: ______________ 3. PLEASE, ATTACH A PHOTOCOPY OF THE CERTIFICATE IF ANY: INTERNATIONAL EXAM: _____________________________________________________ NATIONAL EXAM IN YOUR COUNTRY: ____________________________________________ 4. HAVE YOU EVER SPENT SOME TIME IN AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRY? ____YES ____NO 5. HOW LONG? ___________________________________________ 6. WHICH COUNTRY/COUNTRIES? _______________________________ 7. WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR STAY? ____TOURISM ____STUDY ___WORK ____ CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP, OTHER_________: 8. HAVE YOU DELIVERED A CONFERENCE PAPER IN ENGLISH? ____YES ____NO IF YES, ON WHAT TOPIC? _____________________________________________ B/ LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORM PLEASE EVALUATE YOUR OWN LANGUAGE SKILLS. PLEASE MARK THE STATEMENTS WHICH YOU FEEL BEST DESCRIBE YOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS (YOU CAN MARK MORE THAN ONE STATEMENT. ) READING: I CAN READ SIMPLE, EVERYDAY TEXTS___ I CAN READ SPECIALISED LITERATURE IN MY FIELD ___ I CAN READ NON-ACADEMIC AND ACADEMIC PROSE WITHOUT DIFFICULTY ___ SPEAKING: I CAN COMMUNICATE AT A SURVIVAL LEVEL ___ I CAN COMMUNICATE IN EVERYDAY SITUATIONS FLUENTLY___ I CAN PARTICIPATE IN AN ACADEMIC DISCUSSION ___ I CAN INTERACT WITH EASE IN A WIDE RANGE OF SITUATIONS, BOTH ACADEMIC AND NON- ACADEMIC ___ LISTENING: I CAN UNDERSTAND SLOW, ARTICULATE SPEECH ___ I CAN FOLLOW NATURAL SPEED CONVERSATION ___ I CAN FOLLOW LECTURES ___ I CAN UNDERSTAND SEMINAR DISCUSSIONS___ WRITING: I CAN WRITE PERSONAL AND BUSINESS LETTERS ___ I CAN WRITE ESSAYS AND COMPOSITIONS ON NON-ACADEMIC SUBJECTS ___ I CAN WRITE RESEARCH PAPERS___ VII. ATTACHMENTS IN ADDITION TO THIS COMPLETED FORM, YOUR APPLICATION MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: * CURRICULUM VITAE * A LIST OF PUBLICATIONS * SHORT SUMMARIES OF YOUR MOST IMPORTANT WORKS, NOT LONGER THAN 250 WORDS EACH (UP TO THREE). * A COPY OF ANY ENGLISH LANGUAGE CERTIFICATE, IF AVAILABLE * A COPY OF AN ARTICLE YOU HAVE PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH, IF AVAILABLE * A BRIEF STATEMENT OF PURPOSE (SEE SECTION IV OF THE APPLICATION FORM) VIII. LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION THE ATTACHED "LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION" FORM MUST BE COMPLETED BY FACULTY MEMBERS, JOB SUPERVISORS, ETC. WHO ARE MOST FAMILIAR WITH YOUR PROFESSIONAL AND/OR ACADEMIC ABILITIES AND CHARACTER. THE LETTER MUST BE COMPLETED IN ENGLISH. THE FORM MUST NOT BE COMPLETED BY ANY PERSON OTHER THAN THE REFEREE WHOSE NAME IS INDICATED. WHEN COMPLETED, THE "LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION" SHOULD BE PUT IN AN ENVELOPE, SEALED AND SIGNED BY THE REFEREE ACROSS THE SEAL. YOU SHOULD MAKE CERTAIN THAT YOUR R EFEREE MAIL THEIR RECOMMENDATION DIRECTLY TO THE SUMMER SCHOOL OFFICE IN SOFIA. YOUR APPLICATION CANNOT BE CONSIDERED WITHOUT THE LETTER. BY SIGNING MY NAME HERE, I ATTEST THAT ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS APPLICATION AND ITS ATTACHMENTS IS ACCURATE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE. I UNDERSTAND THAT MISREPRESENTATION OF THESE DOCUMENTS MAY CAUSE MY APPLICATION TO BE WITHDRAWN AND/OR ANY AWA RDED FELLOWSHIPS RESCINDED. ___________________________ ___________________________ SIGNATURE, DATE PLEASE NOTE: ? THE APPLICAION WILL BE DISCARDED IF ANY DATA/ATTACHMENTS ARE MISSING. ? THE SUMMER SCHOOL OFFICE WILL NOTIFY APPLICANTS ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THE COMPETITION IN MAY 1998. ? THE FINAL DECISION IS NOT OPEN TO APPEAL. Summer School Applications of Information Technologies to Biblical Studies Attn: Milena Dobreva Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bl. 8, Acad. G. Bonchev St. 1113 Sofia BULGARIA TEL.: (359-2) 713-2809 FAX: (359-2) 971-3649 E-MAIL: aitbs@math.acad.bg LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION TO THE WRITER OF THIS RECOMMENDATION: THE PERSON NAMED BELOW IS APPLYING FOR ADMISSION TO A SUMMER SCHOOL SUPPORTED BY THE OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE/HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAMME. PLEASE ASSESS THE APPLICANT'S ACADEMIC AND/OR PROFESSIONAL ABILITY AND COMMENT ON HIS/HER POTENTIAL GROWTH IN T HE FIELD OF APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES TO BIBLICAL STUDIES. PLEASE SEAL THIS LETTER IN AN ENVELOPE, SIGN YOUR NAME ACROSS THE SEAL AND MAIL DIRECTLY TO THE SUMMER SCHOOL OFFICE TO BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN APRIL 30, 1998. NAME OF THE PERSON EVALUATED: _______________________________________________________ CHOOSE ONE: I _______ THE PERSON TO BE ADMITTED TO THE COURSE S/HE IS APPLYING FOR. A/ STRONGLY RECOMMEND B/ RECOMMEND C/ RECOMMEND WITH RESERVATIONS PLEASE ADD BELOW YOUR COMMENTS ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ SIGNATURE: ______________________ DATE: _____________________ NAME (PLEASE PRINT):__________________ POSITION: ___________________ OFFICE TEL.:_________________ HOME TEL.: ________________ FAX:________________________E-MAIL: _________________________ From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Summer Institute - Creating Electronic Texts Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 10:40:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1142 (1142) NINCH ANNOUNCEMNT March 30, 1998 CREATING ELECTRONIC TEXTS & IMAGES: Second Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada August 16 - 21, 1998 <<a href="http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Announce/seaman98.htm">http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Announce/seaman98.htm</a>> This message has been cross-posted, please excuse any duplication. **Announcing the Second Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick / Fredericton / New Brunswick / Canada** Creating Electronic Texts and Images -- a practical "hands-on" exploration of the research, preservation and pedagogical uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities. August 16 - 21, 1998 Instructor: David Seaman, University of Virginia Sponsored by the University of New Brunswick Library's Electronic Text Centre (<a href="http://www.unb.ca/etc/">http://www.unb.ca/etc/</a>) and the Department of Archives and Special Collections COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will centre around the creation of a set of electronic texts and digital images. Topics to be covered include: SGML tagging and conversion Using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines The basics of archival imaging The form and implications of XML Publishing SGML on the World Wide Web EAD - Encoded Archival Descriptions The course is designed primarily for librarians and archivists who are planning to develop electronic text and imaging projects; for scholars who are creating electronic texts as part of their teaching and research; and for publishers who are looking to move publications to the Web. Course participants will create an electronic version of a selection of Canadian literary letters from UNB's Archives and Special Collections. Participants will encode the letters with TEI/SGML tagging, tag an EAD finding aid (a one day course component) and explore issues in creating digital images. COURSE PREREQUISITES: This year's institute presupposes that participants have some experience with the Web and HTML. It is highly recommended that participants also have had some basic exposure to other SGML applications besides HTML, such as TEI, XML or EAD. For those with little or no previous experience with SGML applications, there will be a one day introductory level session on Saturday, August 15. For those on the West Coast, an introductory session taught by David Seaman will be offered on June 17, 1998 as a pre-conference workshop at the Canadian Library Association Annual Conference & Trade Show in Victoria, British Columbia. FACILITIES: The course will be held in the Instructional Technology LearningCentre (ITLC) in the Harriet Irving Library on the campus of the University of New Brunswick. The lab is a state-of-the-art facility with a Windows 95 PC for each participant and a high end digital projection system. The facility is air conditioned. REGISTRATION FEES / HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS: Registration will be limited to 20. The tuition $750.00 (Canadian dollars) will include all course fees for the Institute, nutritional breaks, lunches and a number of special events. Tuition does not include cost of accommodations. The tuition for the UNB one-day (August 15) introductory workshop on HTML and SGML is not included in the $750 and is an additional $75.00. There will be five bursaries offered at $200.00 each for those who could not otherwise afford to come to the Institute. The Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in downtown Fredericton is offering special room rates at: $70.00 + tax (Canadian) Single Room $77.00 + tax (Canadian) Double Room Course participants will be responsible for making their own reservations: Jill Amos - Contact Person - 506-455-3371 FURTHER INFORMATION: Detailed course information will be available in April - see: <a href="http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Announce/seaman98.htm">http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Announce/seaman98.htm</a> If in the meantime you would like further information, contact Karen Maguire (kmaguire@unb.ca or 506-453-4740). Information on last year's Institute, including comments from participants is available at: <a href="http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug97/index.html">http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug97/index.html</a> ***************************************************** Registration Form Introduction To Electronic Texts and Images August 16th to 21st, 1998 Name:________________________________ Organization/Title:____________________________________ Please provide a description of present and future projects to which you will apply the skills learned in this course. In addition, briefly outline your reasons for interest in taking this course. ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Phone:_________________(Home) ______________________(Business) Business address: _______________________________________ _______________________________________ Home address: _______________________________________ _______________________________________ FAX: ____________________ email: ________________________ Method of payment (please circle one): 1. Cheque (made payable to: UNB Libraries) 2. Visa or Mastercard Card#: ___________________________________ Expiry date:_______________________________ 3. Purchase Order (please attach): Number:__________________________________ Signature:_________________________________ Payment is due in full by June 30, 1998. Refunds will not be honoured after Aug 1/98. (Optional) In addition, please register me for the Introductory One Day Workshop on HTML and SGML on Saturday August 15 (tuition cost is $75.00) ___________ Please return Registration Form by email, Fax, or mail to: Karen Maguire Administrative Assistant UNB Libraries PO Box 7500 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 Phone: (506) 453-4740 Fax: (506) 453-4595 email: kmaguire@unb.ca Confirmation of registration will be sent to you after processing. From: "UiL OTS (Leslie Dijkstra)" <uil-ots@let.ruu.nl> Subject: revised second call for papers Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 23:54:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1143 (1143) =============================== SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT CALL FOR PAPERS =============================== The Utrecht Congress on "Storage and Computation in Linguistics" ***** Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 19th, 20th and 21st , 1998 Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 15th , 1998 ***** On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS is organizing a three-day international congress from October 19th through October 21st 1998. The theme of this congress is "Storage and Computation in Linguistics". Invited speakers include: Steve Pinker, evening lecture; Ray Jackendoff (keynote lecture) / Frans Zwarts, The Architecture of the Language Faculty; Harald Clahsen / Steven Gillis, language acquisition; John Ohala / Geert Booij, language change; Sarah Thomason / Pieter Muysken, language variation; Nicholas Asher / Frans van Eemeren, discourse analysis; Ed Keenan & Ed Stabler / Jan Koster, grammar design. Two distinct cognitive resources that people may employ in interpreting and producing linguistic utterances are, on the one hand, memory, and, on the other, computational procedures. An utterance may be assigned a certain structure and interpretation because it is recognized as an instance of a pattern that is stored in memory, or because computational procedures build up a complex representation of that pattern. In linguistics, this contrast is usually identified with the contrast between lexicon and grammar. In the context of this congress, the distinction is broadly conceived as a tool for exploring our understanding of language structure and language use. The relation between storage and computation will be analysed on the basis of a broad range of empirical questions, concerning issues in the representation and acquisition of linguistic knowledge, the foundations of language and information, and the cognitive and computational aspects of language use and processing. Implications of the distinction between storage and computation will be discussed for six different domains of linguistic inquiry: ¨ the architecture of the language faculty ¨ language acquisition ¨ language change ¨ language variation ¨ discourse analysis ¨ grammar design The format of the congress is as follows: (1) A number of well-known linguistic scholars of different persuasions and from different subdisciplines are asked to contribute invited papers relating to the congress theme. There will be two invited speakers for each of the six domains of linguistic inquiry mentioned above. (2) There will be around twenty slots for presentations of selected papers. Each selected paper will be allotted 25 minutes, including discussion. There will only be plenary sessions. =============================== ABSTRACT SUBMISSION ================================ To submit a paper, participants are requested to send one original and four anonymous copies of a one-page abstract, by regular mail. Each abstract should at least contain the following information: Names of authors, title of the paper, brief description of the content of the paper, and an indication of how this paper is related to the theme of the congress The abstract should preferably be printed in Times New Roman on white paper of A4 size, with top and bottom margins of 2.54 cm and left and right margins of 3.17 cm. The total number of words in the abstract should not exceed 500. Together with the abstract please send a 3" x 5" index card with the following information: ¨ title of the paper; ¨ name(s) of author(s); ¨ mail address of (first) author; ¨ affiliation; ¨ phone number; ¨ electronic mail address of (first) author. ===================================== DEADLINE ===================================== The abstract must have reached us before May 15th 1998. On the basis of abstracts, selection will take place during the month of June 1998. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be given before July 1st 1998. ====================================== PRACTICAL INFORMATION ====================================== Organizing institute: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Congress committee: Sieb Nooteboom (Chairman), Leslie Dijkstra (Secretariate), Jan Don, Ton Naaijkens, Henriette de Swart, Arie Verhagen, Fred Weerman, Frank Wijnen Dates: Deadline abstracts: May 15th 1998 Notification: Before July 1st Early registration: Before October 1st 1998 Congress: October 19th, 20th, and 21st 1998 Fees: Registration before October 1st 1998: dfl 100,- (dfl. 50,- for students with proof of studentship) Registration after October 1st 1998: dfl. 150,- (dfl. 75,- for students with proof of studentship) Registration A registration form is available from our secretariate (for address see above) or can be found at our website <a href="http://www-uilots.let.ruu.nl/UiL-OTS/Conferences/sc_home.htm">http://www-uilots.let.ruu.nl/UiL-OTS/Conferences/sc_home.htm</a> ***** The Utrecht Congress on Storage and Computation in Linguistics 1998 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands phone: #31 30 253 6006 fax: #31 30 253 6000 e-mail: uil-ots@let.ruu.nl ***** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: gleanings Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 07:56:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1144 (1144) [deleted quotation]<<a href="http://online.guardian.co.uk/">http://online.guardian.co.uk/</a>>. (1) "The hacker who turned himself in", about an Israeli, "the Analyser", against whom the U.S. Government is thundering but "in Israel no one, from Netanyahu down, has a bad word for him". Plainly the U.S. Government is worried, as are a number of large companies. "Some analysts have already concluded that protecting information systems is the central security challenge of the 21st century, as crucial as battles fought with missles and bullets." There's at least one Star Trek episode I can recall about that.... (2) Mark Tran, "Trial by e-mail", about the trial of Oliver Jovanovic, accused of kidnapping and sexual assault, the primary evidence being e-mail between him and his alleged victim. "Prosecutors say that Jovanovic used his formidable intellect to dominate the woman emotionally and lure her to a movie and dinner date, and then to his apartment." They downplay the importance of her messages to him, which are none too innocent from the sound of it, and the defense argues that she was an equal player in a game that went wrong. Whatever the merits on both sides, the case itself gives more evidence of the degree to which our medium is becoming a fact of life, such as it is. (3) Dan Jellinek, "When the Web reaches psychologists' screens", which begins with phenomena like JenniCam, about which see <<a href="http://203.18.241.20/flooks/2346_1ce.htm">http://203.18.241.20/flooks/2346_1ce.htm</a>>, among several other sites. Obvious material for the psychologist. "A Web home page," according to Hugh Miller (Nottingham Trent), "is a 'constructed identity'... a method by which people present themselves to the world. Hypertext links allow them to define themselves as part of wider social groupings." Miller and others gathered last week for the Internet Research and Information for Social Scientists conference in Bristol, <<a href="http://www.sosig.ac.uk/iriss/">http://www.sosig.ac.uk/iriss/</a>>, where you will find a link to a virtual conference space for ongoing discussion. Edmund Chattoe (Centre for Research on Simulation in the Social Sciences, Surrey, <<a href="http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/simsoc/cress.html">http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/simsoc/cress.html</a>>), "draws a parallel between the replication of text messages on the Internet and the survival of DNA and genetic material.... 'Until now it has been hard to do much with this idea because it was very difficult to find out which memes people had in their minds at particular times,' Chattoe says. But the Web allows him and his team to search for particular pieces of text and watch them spread." Perhaps this will put new life into text-analysis. (4) Microfile. Intel has demonstrated a P2 running at 700 MHz and promises 450MHz in the shops by the end of the year. Apple has countered with claims that the G3 will turn Intel into toast, with cartoon advertising to prove it. Digital's Aplha is quietly even faster. (5) Steve Shipside, "Nurse, the screens". IBM is proposing healthcare over the Net, a system in which the nurse follows a structured clinical interview, recording her suggestions and her action, forwarding the result to a physician if you decide you want to see a doctor, who responds by e-mail. The promise is that the electronic device will help the spread of the latest techniques, which already trained physicians tend not to use. The one example cited, prostate cancer, suggests that people tend less often to opt for surgery than when in front of a physician. One can certainly see a downside to all this, but as in so many other situations that are economically driven, or which we allow to be so driven, the alternative(s) may not be as attractive. (6) Douglas Rushkoff, "How I learnt to love the government", begins with "a new branch of technology criticism" known as Technorealism, which (you will not be surprised to learn) has a Web site, <<a href="http://www.technorealism.org/">http://www.technorealism.org/</a>>. The organisation seeks "to expand the fertile middle ground between techno-utopianism and neo-Luddism. We are technology 'critics' in the same way, and for the same reasons, that others are food critics, art critics, or literary critics. We can be passionately optimistic about some technologies, skeptical and disdainful of others. Still, our goal is neither to champion nor dismiss technology, but rather to understand it and apply it in a manner more consistent with basic human values." Its principles are given on the page: 1. Technologies are not neutral. 2. The Internet is revolutionary, but not Utopian. 3. Government has an important role to play on the electronic frontier. 4. Information is not knowledge. 5. Wiring the schools will not save them. 6. Information wants to be protected. 7. The public owns the airwaves; the public should benefit from their use. 8. Understanding technology should be an essential component of global citizenship. On an attached page one is invited to sign up, "join our ranks". People who have done so are listed on another page (but nowhere I could find are we told explicitly anything about the organisation itself). In any case, Rushkoff goes on to talk about the need for regulation of the Internet by government to prevent the great pirate captains of the age, such as Microsoft, from taking control of public virtual space. The point of contact with Technorealism is that blind techo-utopianism plays into the hands of these pirate captains and so is part of their rhetorical weaponry. Indirectly its opposite, neo-Luddism, does as well because it is part of the anti-intellectual escape into the cartoon world of white and black hats -- in which virtue cannot exist without vice. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: messages lost Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 08:30:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1145 (1145) Dear colleagues: For reasons I have yet to discover, all messages sent to Humanist since the last posting were destroyed by my digesting software this morning. Would those who remember submitting messages please send them again? All apologies on behalf of the software, and for the frustrations that the authors of these messages must feel. Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: ELRA Focus - MLCC Multilingual Corpora for Co-operation Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:51:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1146 (1146) [deleted quotation] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA Focus MLCC Multilingual Corpora for Co-operation A collection of newspaper articles from financial newspapers=20 in 6 languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish)=20 and a set of parallel texts in the 9 European Union=20 official languages (as of 1993) The current catalogue of ELRA consists of more than 500 language resources (!) available for speech, written or terminology works. This electronic message aims to remind of the availability of one of them, namely the MLCC Multilingual Corpora for Co-operation. The MLCC text corpus has two main components - one set to allow comparable studies to be carried out in different languages and one set as the basis for translation studies. The first set is referred as the Polylingual Document Collection (ELRA-W0006), a collection of newspaper articles from financial newspapers in 6 languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish). It consists of the following sub-corpora: Dutch - "Het Financieele Dagblad" - 1992-1993 The corpus contains articles from the Dutch financial newspaper "Het Financieele Dagblad" editions of 2nd January 1992 through to 24th December 1993. It contains around 8.5 million words of text. English - "The Financial Times" - 1993 The corpus contains articles from the British financial newspaper "The Financial Times" editions from the year 1993. The corpus contains around 30 million words. French - "Le Monde" - 1992-1993 A corpus of articles from the French newspaper "Le Monde", consisting of two years worth (1992-1993) of articles on financial subjects, approximately 10 million words. German - "Handelsblatt" - 1986-1988 This subcorpus consists of articles from the period 02.01.1986 to 15.06.1988. It contains some 33 million words. It may be possible to obtain more recent articles from "Handelsblatt". Italian - "Il Sole 24 Ore" - 1992-1993 The corpus described here contains articles from the Italian financial newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore" from the year 1992. This corpus contains some 1.88 million words. The SGML-markup was done by the University of Edinburgh. Spanish - "Expansion" - 1994 This subcorpus contains articles from the Spanish financial newspaper "Expansion" editions from 21.10.1991 to 24.10.1991 and 14.05.1994 to 27.12.1994. It contains some 10 million words. Price for ELRA members: for research use: 360 ECU for commercial use: 1500 ECU Price for non-members: for research use: 750 ECU for commercial use: 3200 ECU The second set is a Multilingual Parallel Corpus (ELRA-W0007) consisting of translated data in nine European languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The parallel data, provided by the European Commission, comprises two sub-corpora from the Official Journal of the European Communities: Official Journal of the European Commission, C Series: Written Questions 1993 Records of questions and answers regarding European Community matters. The data is regularly published as one section of the C Series of the Official Journal of the European Community in all official languages (previously nine). This corpus contains written questions asked by members of the European Parliament and corresponding answers from the European Commission in 9 parallel versions. The total size of th corpus is approximately 10.2 million words (ca. 1.1 million words per language). Official Journal of the European Commission, Annex: Debates of the European Parliament 1992-1994 This parallel corpus is the records of Parliamentary sitting published as an annex to the Official Journal of the European Community Debates of the European Parliament. The Parliamentary Debates are a record of what was said by members of the meeting as well as written input provided to the meeting. The original data from which the translations are produced consist of a transcript of the sittings, each member speaking in the language of his choice. The final version consists of nine parallel versions of the material. The texts delivered comprise the Debates of Parliament from January 1992 to July 1994. This sub-corpus contains some 5 to 8 million words per language. Price for ELRA members: for research use: 120 ECU for commercial use: 480 ECU Price for non-members: for research use: 200 ECU for commercial use: 800 ECU ******************************************** For more information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat Savarin 75013 PARIS Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail: info-elra@calva.net <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</a> ******************************************** From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: ELRA News - New speech resources 1/2 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:52:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1147 (1147) [deleted quotation] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News *** NEW SPEECH RESOURCES - Part 1 *** The ELRA catalogue is growing up. Since our last news on this electronic list, the following resources appeared in our catalogue. **************************** * ELRA-S0046 PolyVar * **************************** PolyVar is a speaker verification database comprising native and non-native speakers of French, mainly from Switzerland but also=20 from other European countries. It consists of read and spontaneous=20 speech recorded by 143 speakers (85 male and 58 female) amounting=20 to 160 hours of speech. Each speaker recorded from 1 to 229 sessions,=20 giving a total of 3,600 recorded sessions. The data are provided with orthographic annotation. The number of calls per speaker is as follows: =B7 13 speakers called 100 times =B7 9 speakers called from 51 to 100 times =B7 16 speakers called from 21 to 50 times =B7 3 speakers called from 11 to 20 times =B7 31 speakers called from 2 to 10 times =B7 71 speakers called only once Each speaker uttered up to 53 different items per session, including: =B7 3 sequences of digits (1 ID number, 1 credit card number and 1 sequence of 6 digits) =B7 24 application words (17 words about tourism =96 Martigny) =B7 10 read sentences =B7 4 numbers (2 natural numbers, 2 amounts) =B7 2 items with dates (1 read/1 spontaneous) =20 =B7 2 items with hours (1 read/1 spontaneous) =B7 2 spelled words =B7 3 spontaneous answers (questions about their gender, native language and the weather) =B7 1 comment =B7 1 telephone enquiry File format: 8-bit a-law Standard in use: NIST Sampling rate: 8 kHz Medium: 8 CD-ROMs Price for ELRA members: =20 for research use: 1,000 ECU =20 for commercial use: 2,000 ECU =20 Price for non-members: for commercial use: 4,000 ECU for research use: 2,000 ECU ************************************************************** * ELRA-S0047 SpeechDat Speaker Verification database * ************************************************************** This subset of PolyVar consists of 20 speakers which recorded 50 sessions.=20 The format in use is a-law with SAM headers. Medium: 3 CD-ROMs Price for ELRA members: =20 for research use: 750 ECU =20 for commercial use: 1500 ECU =20 Price for non members: for research use: 1500 ECU for commercial use: 3000 ECU ******************************************** For more information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat Savarin 75013 PARIS Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail: info-elra@calva.net <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</a> ******************************************** From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: ELRA News - New speech resources 2/2 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:54:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1148 (1148) [deleted quotation] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News *** NEW SPEECH RESOURCES - Part 2 *** The ELRA catalogue is growing up. Since our last news on this electronic list, the following resources appeared in our catalogue. ************************************************ * ELRA-S0048 SIelex (Siemens Phonetic Lexicon * ************************************************ The lexicon consists of a list of 100.000 entries with phonetic transcriptions, main stress markers and syllable boundary markers. Most of=20 the entries were selected from the political and economical parts of two=20 German newspapers namely the 'S=FCddeutsche Zeitung' (SZ) and the 'Frankfurter=20 Allgemeine Zeitung' (FAZ). The transcription follows in most parts the so called standard German pronunciation. Departures are described in the=20 documentation. For some entries multiple pronunciations are taken into account especially in the case of homographs and abbreviations. The=20 alphabet chosen is extended German SAM-PA, but it can easily be translated=20 into other alphabets. The character set chosen is ISO-8859-1, a tool for=20 conversion into LATEX is provided with the CD-ROM. Price for ELRA members: 27500 ECU =20 Price for non members: 35000 ECU ********************************* * ELRA-S0049 The SPK database * ********************************* SPK is an Italian speech database of isolated and connected digits. It was=20 designed and collected at the Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (ITC/IRST), Trento, Italy. SPK was conceived for speaker=20 recognition and verification purposes. With this CD-ROM, speech material corresponding to isolated digits acquired from 100 speakers (30 females and 70 males, from 23 to 50 years=20 old) is released. Most of the speakers are from the North-East of Italy..=20 Speech material was collected from each speaker during five recording=20 sessions scheduled on different days. During a recording session four=20 repetitions of the ten Italian digits were acquired from a speaker. A total=20 of 20,000 speech waveform files form the corpus. Recordings were performed in a quiet room. Speech was acquired at 48 kHz, with 16 bit accuracy, by means of a Digital Audio Tape-Recoder Sony=20 TCD-D10PRO and a super-cardioid microphone Sennheiser MKH 416-T.=20 Then, digital recordings were downsampled to 16 kHz. Speech waveform files=20 in the corpus were stored in the NIST-SPHERE format by using the SPHERE library, version 2.6a. Price for ELRA members: =20 for research use: 400 ECU =20 for commercial use: 800 ECU =20 Price for non members:=09 for research use: 800 ECU for commercial use: 1,600 ECU ******************************************** For more information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat Savarin 75013 PARIS Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail: info-elra@calva.net <a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</a> ******************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Domenico Fiormonte <mc9809@mclink.it> Subject: Literature, Philology and Computers Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 14:38:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1149 (1149) UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH DEPARTMENT of ITALIAN ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ LITERATURE, PHILOLOGY AND COMPUTERS: An international seminar 7-9 September 1998 The seminar was made possible thanks to a grant from the Faculty of Arts for the year 1997-98 and it is organised in association with: The Computer & Writing Association, University of Aberdeen; CTI Textual Studies, University of Oxford; CRILet, Center for Literary Computing, University of Rome; BOLLETTINO '900, Dept. of Italian, University of Bologna. The seminar, conducted in English, aims to bring together a heterogeneous but significant group of scholars in order to promote lively and informal discussion on the future of philology, writing, and literary analysis in the digital support era. The conference will be interdisciplinary and contributions are welcome from the fields of literature, philology, writing and composition, linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, etc. 1. Themes of the seminar and keynote speakers 2. Call for papers 3. List of contributors (provisional) 4. Registration Form 1. THEMES *Encoding of linear and non-linear document sources*: Theory and practice. Text encoding has been the central problem of humanities computing for years. However, today the question is not only how to achieve a standard for representing texts, but also how to structure (concept mapping) and encode different sources of information (images, sounds, etc.). What happens to structured information once it has left its paper medium and become electronic? What does this process imply for transmission of information? In this session, apart from theoretical papers, there will be discussions on present conventions (such as SGML, HTML, etc.) and future developments. *Computers and Philology*: digital realisation of critical editions and the possibilities of the WWWeb. New definitions of the concept of the editio critica or abandonment of the concept of authorship? The epistemology of text and the problems of text transmission will be at the heart of this session, which will evaluate current projects and examine the prospects opened up by the Internet. *Text analysis and virtual data-banks*: new definitions of textual criticism in the light of literary computing. How information technology modifies the concept of source and interpretation, challenging traditional historical disciplines. Presentation of projects and applications in progress. *Hype or Hypertext?* Critical evaluation of the theoretical underpinning of the North American school (George Landow, Michael Joyce, Ted Nelson, etc.), and assessment of the place of hypertext theory in the history of books and writing. Review of the more promising products available on line, and investigation of the educational possibilities of hypertext in the study of languages and literature. *Keynote speakers* include: Lou Burnard (Oxford University); Giuseppe Gigliozzi (University of Rome); Willard McCarty (King's College, London); Francisco Marcos Marin (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid); David Robey (University of Reading); Antonio Zampolli (CNR, Pisa). 2. CALL FOR PAPERS *IMPORTANT NOTICE*: due to time constraints, and to preserve the creative dynamics of the seminar, the number of presentations will be limited to 15. *Contributions* should be 20 minutes in length and proposals in the form of a 500 word abstract (preferably written in HTML) should be submitted via e-mail by June 30th to: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk or mc9809@mclink.it. All proposals will be reviewed, and authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 15th. Abstracts of papers will be published on the seminar web site. For more information contact: *Computers, Literature and Philology* Department of Italian The University of Edinburgh David Hume Tower, George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JX Tel: 0131 650 3646 Fax: 0131 650 6536 Check the conference web site regularly <<a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm">http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm</a>> for updated information on the seminar programme, venue and timetable, or send enquiries by email to: Anna.Middleton@ed.ac.uk or the e-mail addresses mentioned above *Conference fees*: £35 per person (academic) / £25 Associated Institution / £15 (post-graduate). This includes a buffet lunch on 8 September. *Venue* (provisional): Edinburgh University, Room G10, Adam Ferguson Building, George Square. *Accommodation*: A limited number of single rooms are available at Pollock Halls of Residence, University of Edinburgh, for 7, 8 September at £24 (20.35 + VAT) per night. Early booking advisable: contact Dr Anna Middleton at Anna.Middleton@ed.ac.uk 3. CONTRIBUTORS (provisional) Lou Burnard is a leading figure in the Computers and Humanities field, and among the founders of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), the most important project for the development of guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts. He is currently Manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford University Computing Services. Giuseppe Gigliozzi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Department of Linguistic & Literary Sciences. Founding director of CRILet, a research centre for literary computing at University of Rome. Dr Giuseppe Gigliozzi's scholarship centres on narrativity, text analysis and encoding, and literary theory. He has published a number of book-length contributions in the field of computers and the humanities. Francisco Marcos Marin, full professor of Linguistics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Departamento de Lingüística General, has been working in the field of Computers and the Humanities since 1971. He is the editor of Admyter, a series of advanced Cd-Roms of digitalised manuscripts and incunabula of medieval Spanish literature (1992, 1993, 1998). Willard McCarty, Senior lecturer at the King's College Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), editor of Humanist, and Vice-President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities is among the pioneers of literary computing. Among his various digital projects there is the Analytical Onomasticon, "a printed and electronic reference work to all devices of language by which persons are named in the Metamorphoses of Ovid." Federico Pellizzi, University of Bologna, Dept. of Italian. General editor of Bollettino '900, one of the main electronic journals dealing with Italian contemporary culture and literature, which has editorial input from across Europe. Federico Pellizzi has recently organised an international computers and literature conference at the Universita' di Bologna (October 1996) which attracted participation from the likes of George Landow and Ezio Raimondi. Mario Ricciardi, University of Turin, full professor of Italian Literature, Dept. of Communication Studies. Director of the programme on Communication within the Arts Faculty of Turin University and comissioning editor for the main imprints which publish academic books on computing and literature (Bollati-Boringhieri, Franco Angeli, etc), Mario Ricciardi is an influential theorist on computer literacy and computer-assisted literary analysis. Massimo Riva, Brown University, Director of Graduate Studies of the Italian Studies Department and editor of the Decameron Web works closely with the George Landow's Hypertext Group at Brown University. He is also among the first organisers of a Web-based Italian literature course. David Robey is currently Professor of Italian at Manchester University and moves in September to the University of Reading. He has worked on literary theory and Renaissance Humanism, and is now engaged in a computer-based analysis of the structure of sounds in the Divine Comedy. He was Chair of the Verse Work Group of the Text Encoding Initiative. Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa, full professor of Computational Linguistics, director of the Instituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Pisa. Antonio Zampolli has been working in the field of Computational Linguistics since 1967 and is responsible for a number of European projects related to Humanities and Computing. Claire Warwick works for the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford, on the British National Corpus, and for the Faculty of English on high level IT support for teaching and research in English literature and language. Although her doctoral work was on Seventeenth Century poetry, she is now increasingly interested in theories of electronic textuality and the way in which it may effect scholarly editions, and future research and teaching in English studies. 4. REGISTRATION FORM "Literature, Philology and Computers: An International Seminar" UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, 7-9 SEPTEMBER 1998 I should like to attend the above seminar on September 7-9 1998 at the University of Edinburgh. Name.................................................... Work address......................................... Address for Correspondence................................................... Tel. No. (Work) Tel No. (Home) Registration £35/ Associated Institutions £25 / Student £15 ..... I enclose a cheque/money order for £35 ...... Associated Institutions (£25) ...... Student (£15) ...... I require accommodation for Monday 7 September and Tuesday 8 September and enclose a cheque/money order for forty eight pounds. (Please tick as appropriate) Please send by August 30 1998 completed form and cheque/money order made out to the Department of Italian, University of Edinburgh to: Anna Middleton, Department of Italian, University of Edinburgh, DHT, George Square EH8 9JX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte University of Edinburgh, Dept. of Italian DHT, George Square EH8 9XJ -- United Kingdom Tel. 44+131-6503646 Fax: 44+131-6506536 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> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: FroCoS'98: Second Call for Papers Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:55:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1150 (1150) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Frontiers of Combining Systems FroCoS'98 ILLC, University of Amsterdam October 2-4, 1998 In various areas of logic, computation, language processing, and artificial intelligence there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and they must be integrated into general purpose systems. The development of general techniques for the combination and integration of special systems has been initiated in many areas. The first international workshop on `Frontiers of Combining Systems' (FroCoS'96) was held in Munich in 1996. Like its predecessor, `Frontiers of Combining Systems `98' (FroCoS'98) is intended to offer a common forum for research activities in the general area of combination and integration of systems. It also offers the possibility to present results on particular instances of combination and integration, and on their practical use. TOPICS OF INTEREST Papers on the following topics are especially welcome: + combination of constraint solving techniques and combination of decision procedures + integration of data structures deduction processes + integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems + combinations of logics and of term rewriting systems + hybrid systems in computational linguistics, knowledge representation, natural language processing, and HCI + logical modeling of multi-agent systems. Papers on related subjects will also be considered. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Franz Baader, David Basin, Jacques Calmet, Dov Gabbay (co-chair), Natasha Kurtonina, Aart Middeldorp, Istvan Nemeti, Jochen Pfalzgraf, Maarten de Rijke (co-chair), Christophe Ringeissen, Klaus Schulz, Amilcar Sernadas, John Slaney, Michael Wooldridge INVITED SPEAKERS Krzysztof Apt, Doug Howe, Claude Kirchner and Andrzej Tarlecki (unconf.). PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original research papers by e-mail (preferred) or surface mail to the second Programme Committee co-chair at frocos98@wins.uva.nl using `Submission' as the subject line, or at Maarten de Rijke attn: FroCoS'98 ILLC, University of Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 1018 TV Amsterdam The Netherlands Submissions may not exceed 15 typed pages in no less than 11-point font. They should be formatted as a PostScript file in A4 size. The cover page should include title, authors, and the coordinates of the corresponding author. Submissions should begin with a succinct statement of the issues, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the workshop. References and comparisons with related work should be included. Results must be unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions must be received no later than May 15, 1998. On the basis of the referee reports, papers will be selected for presentation at the workshop and for the proceedings. Authors will be notified by July 15, 1998; final versions of accepted papers are due September 1, 1998. It is a condition of acceptance that at least one author of each accepted paper attends the workshop to present the work. We intend to publish the proceedings as a volume of the Kluwer series on ``Applied Logic.'' IMPORTANT DATES + Deadline for submissions: May 15, 1998 + Notification: July 15, 1998 + Final version of accepted papers due: September 1, 1998 + Workshop dates: Friday October 2 - Sunday October 4, 1998 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Carlos Areces, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, Marco de Vries SPONSORS FroCoS'98 is sponsored by the Spinoza project `Logic in Action' at ILLC, University of Amsterdam. FURTHER INFORMATION Further information and a PostScript version of this Call for Papers is available on the World Wide Web at <a href="http://www.wins.uva.nl/~mdr/FroCoS98">http://www.wins.uva.nl/~mdr/FroCoS98</a> . From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: CFP NLP+IA'98/ TALN'98 Moncton, Canada Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:56:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1151 (1151) [deleted quotation] ********************** CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITS ************************** ================Appel aux communications & expositions ===================== INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS NLP+IA 98 [deleted quotation] Conference internationale sur le traitement automatique des langues et ses applications industrielles TAL+AI 98 [deleted quotation] AUGUST/aout 18 - 21, 1998 Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA Come to Canada this summer... IWNLG August 5-7 in Niagara-on-the-Lake Coling-ACL & workshops August 10-16 in Montreal NLP+IA/CALL August 18-21 in Moncton TOPICS OF INTEREST: The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Universite de Moncton is organizing its second international conference on NLP and industrial applications. This year a special attention is given to Computer assisted language learning & teaching. Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to, * computer assisted language learning & teaching, * natural language understanding and generation of textual, spoken and hand-written language, * natural language interfaces to databases, expert systems, or industrial applications * machine translation, computer aided translation, translation aids, * syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, morphology, * dictionaries, corpora, & other language resources * multimodality * multilinguality * NLP industrial applications * papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and practice of NLP in general and Language learning in particular. LANGUAGE: Authors are invited to submit preliminary versions of their papers not exceeding 400 words (exclusive of references) either in English or in French, the two official languages of the conference. Proceedings would be published in the language of the submitted texts. Final versions would be around 7-8 pages. SUBMISSION: 1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title, the authors' names, affiliations, addresses, a five (5) keyword list specifying the subject area, a five (5) line summary, and the name and address of the contact person. TITLE/ Titre: AUTHORS INFO/ Auteurs et infos: KEYWORDS/ Mots clefs: SUMMARY/ Resume: CONTACT PERSON/ Personne contact: 2) Abstracts should not exceed 400 words in length excluding references (12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2,5 cm) all around; if using A4 please keep text within 19cm x 25,5 cm). 3) The identification page and the abstract should be submitted in 4 HARD COPIES (12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2,5 cm) all around; if using A4 please keep text within 16,5 cm x 23 cm) to: NLP+IA 98 / TAL+AI 98 Pr. Chadia Moghrabi GETA, CLIPS, IMAG 385 rue de la Bibliotheque BP 53 X 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 France Phone: +33 4 76 51 4369 Fax: +33 4 76 51 4405 E-mail: NLP+IA-98@imag.fr 4) The identification page should also be e-mailed in plain text. REFEREEING: All submissions shall be refereed by three members of the Program committee. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Anne De Roeck (Essex, UK) Arnold Smith (NRC, Canada) Chadia Moghrabi (Moncton, Canada) Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France) Chrysanne DiMarco (Logos, Waterloo, Canada) Eric Wehrli (Geneva, Switzerland) Eva Hajicova (Charles U., Prague) Genvieve Caelen-Haumont (GEOD, Grenoble, France) Graeme Hirst (Toronto, Canada) Harry Bunt (Tilburg, Netherlands) Henry Hamburger (George Mason, USA) Howard Hamilton (Regina, Canada) Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, France) Johanna Moore (Pennsylvania, USA) John Hutchins (East Anglia, UK) John Tait (Sunderland, UK) Junichi Tsujii (UMIST & Tokyo, Japan) Kathleen McCoy (Delaware, USA) Margaret King (ISSCO, Switzerland) Manfred Stede (TU-Berlin, Germany) Marcel Cori (Paris-7, France) Mark Seligman (GETA-CLIPS & Red Pepper, USA) Michael Levison (Queens, Canada) Nocoletta Calzolari (Pisa, Italy) Pierre Isabelle (RALI, Montreal, Canada) Pierrette Bouillon (Geneva, Switzerland) Paul Tarau (Moncton, Canada) Remi Chadel (Inxight, Xerox, France) Roberto Basili (Roma, Italy) Ruddy Lelouche (Laval, Canada) Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland) Thierry Chanier (Franche-Comte, France) Thierry van Steenberghe (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium) Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser, Canada) Yael Ravin (IBM, USA) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, UK) SCHEDULE: Submissions are due on April 28th 1998. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the contact person soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 june 1998. Camera-ready copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of August 1998 along with registration fees. Participants are also requested to indicate their intention to participate in the conference as soon as possible to the same e-mail address with the single word INTENTION in the subject line. EXHIBITS: Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief electronic description along with a specification of physical requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs, etc.) to the same address with the single word EXHIBIT in the subject line. OTHER ACTIVITIES: Accompanying persons can enjoy the lovely outdoor living in New-Brunswick and visit the highest tides in the world. Moncton is only 20km away from the sandy beaches of Shediac, la Capitale mondiale du homard. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: The conference is organized by GRETAL, Groupe d'etude sur le traitement automatique des langues at the Universite' de Moncton in cooperation with GETA-CLIPS at l'Universite' Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. The members of the organizing committee are: Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair Jalal Almhana, Director & Professor of Computer Science Julien Chiasson, Professor of Computer Science Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, director Manufacturing Technology Centre Boubaker Meddeb-Hamrouni, Researcher GETA & WinSoft Paul Tarau, Professor of Computer Science From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Reading Early Modern Women: Symposium at Brock University, Canada Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:57:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1152 (1152) [deleted quotation] ANNOUNCEMENT : Symposium on Reading Early Women Writers: Research and Pedagogy Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, CA on May 1, 1998. Please note that registration is accepted by email. [deleted quotation] Symposium on Reading Early Modern Women Writers: Research and Pedagogy Brock University, May 1, 1998 [deleted quotation]This Symposium provides a forum for discussions about reading, researching, and teaching women writers of early modern England, and features presentations by Professor Susanne Woods on the Brown University Women Writers Project and Professor Susan Brown on the Orlando Project. [deleted quotation]The Symposium is co-organized by Elizabeth Sauer (Brock University) and Helen Ostovich (McMaster University), with the assistance of Isabel White (McMaster University) and Jane Farnsworth (Brock University), and is sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities, Brock University. For more information, contact Elizabeth Sauer at emsauer@spartan.ac.brocku.ca or phone: 905 688-5550 x3887 [deleted quotation]pay for photocopying costs. [deleted quotation]Please make your $15 cheque payable to Brock University and either bring it with you on May 1, or send it now, along with this form, to: [deleted quotation]We have a limited number of places. [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: TAG+ WORKSHOP (final call for papers) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:59:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1153 (1153) From: Jennifer MacDougall <jmacdoug@central.cis.upenn.edu> *DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO APRIL 30, 1998* TAG TUTORIALS -- ANNOUNCEMENT July 28 to July 31, 1998 TAG+ WORKSHOP -- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS August 1 to August 3, 1998 Philadelphia, PA, USA URL: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/tag98.html">http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/tag98.html</a> The fourth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related frameworks (hence the + after TAG) will be held at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania in August 1998, from August 1 to August 3. Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn (1992), and Univ. Paris 7 (1994). Prior to the workshop there will be a tutorial (including labs and demos) from July 28 to July 31 1998. Information about the tutorial is below, followed by information about the workshop. TUTORIAL Attendance ========== The tutorial is open to anyone interested, though we request a pre-registration and we may limit attendance. We therefore suggest you indicate interest in attending to Jennifer MacDougall at the earliest date possible. (See contact information below.) Travel Stipends =============== A limited number of travel stipends will be available for graduate students (i.e., people studying towards a master's or doctorate degree). This stipend will be limited to a maximum of US$600. If you are interested in obtaining such a stipend, please send a message to Jennifer MacDougall at the address below. Please include a one-page summary (in ASCII text format) of your educational background and of your planned or present research, and indicate how the tutorial would enhance your education and/or planned research. (Information about accommodations will be provided at a later date.) Contact Information =================== Jennifer MacDougall 553 Moore Building University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 USA Telephone: (215) 898-3191 FAX: (215) 898-0587 Email: jmacdoug@central.cis.upenn.edu Proposed Schedule ================= Tuesday July 28 Overview and Introduction -------------------------- Morning Lectures * General Introduction * Formal Overview * Linguistic Overview * Lexicalized Grammars Afternoon Lab session * Intro to the XTAG system * Lab session with XTAG Wednesday July 29 Computation and Applications ----------------------------- Morning Lectures * Parsing * Supertagging and other stochastic approaches * Synchronous TAG * Generation Afternoon Demos: * XTAG-- second lab session * Supertagger * Other parsers * TAG-based generation systems Note: if you would like to demo a system, please let us know and we will include it. Thursday July 30 TAG, Linguistic Issues, and Related Grammatical Systems -------------------------------------------------------- Morning Lectures * TAG and Generative Grammar * TAG and HPSG * TAG and Categorial Grammars * TAG and LFG Afternoon Lecture * Grammar organization Demos * Grammar organization demos * MT demo Friday July 31 Selected Advanced Topics ------------------------- Morning and early afternoon Lectures * Advanced Topics: Formal and Linguistics Issues + Coordination + Scrambling + Clitic climbing + Lexical semantics + D-Tree Grammars + Other topcis WORKSHOP Papers on all aspects of TAG (linguistic, mathematical, computational, and applicational), as well as papers relating TAGs to other frameworks, are invited. As in the past there will be some invited talks on other grammar formalisms which have interesting relationships to TAGs (for example, Categorial Grammars and HPSG). GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACTS: Abstracts should be at most two pages (exclusive of references), and should be submitted in ASCII format, as a .ps file, or as SELF-CONTAINED latex file to jmacdoug@central.cis.upenn.edu. (If email is not available, please send the abstract to the address given below.) Please indicate on the abstract if you would prefer to give a short presentation (10 minutes) or a long one (30 minutes). The abstract should contain your name, address, and email address. Proceedings including extended versions (4 pages) of accepted abstracts will be available at the workshop. Deadline for submission for abstracts: April 30 (extended) Notification of acceptance: May 15 Deadline for submission of camera-ready extended abstract: July 6 Workshop Dates: August 1 to August 3 If you do not want to submit an abstract, but would like to attend, we would appreciate it if you could inform us by email by July 6 (unless you have already done so). If you would like to present a demo, please let us know as soon as possible, including information about required hard and software. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Anne Abeille (Universit'e Paris 7) Tilman Becker (DFKI) Christy Doran (University of Pennsylvania) Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins University) Klaus Netter (DFKI) Richard Oehrle (University of Arizona) Owen Rambow (CoGenTex, Inc.) Giorgio Satta (Universita di Padova) Yuka Tateisi (University of Tokyo) K. Vijayshanker (University of Delaware) David Weir (University of Sussex) CONTACT ADDRESS: Jennifer MacDougall 553 Moore Building University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 USA Telephone: (215) 898-3191 FAX: (215) 898-0587 Email: jmacdoug@central.cis.upenn.edu ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Anne Abeille (Paris 7) Tilman Becker (DFKI) Owen Rambow (CoGenTex, Inc.) Giorgio Satta (Universita di Padova) K. Vijayshanker (University of Delaware) From: "S.A.Rae" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: FW: CFP - Classical Studies ... Int. Conf. on Theatre: Ancient and Modern Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 15:26:27 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1154 (1154) [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Hope Greenberg <hope.greenberg@uvm.edu> Subject: Update on HUMANIST Gleanings post Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:25:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1155 (1155) Associated Press, 03/31/98 14:11 JERUSALEM (AP) - An 18-year-old Israeli hacker who broke into the Pentagon's computers will be drafted into the Israeli army - and he wants a computer job. The hacker, Ehud Tenenbaum, will put on a uniform Sunday, said Zvi Eyal, the teen-ager's newly acquired media adviser. If rejected by the Givati infantry brigade, Tenenbaum hopes to get an army job that will let him use his computer skills, Eyal said Tuesday. In the meantime, the teen-ager who calls himself ``The Analyzer'' is being flooded with offers for paid interviews, books and movie deals. Eyal said Tenenbaum had granted an exclusive, paid interview to the Israeli mass-circulation daily Yediot Ahronot, and is negotiating interview deals with U.S. television networks. Tenenbaum was named earlier this month by the U.S. Justice Department as the Pentagon hacker. He reportedly also has broken into computer systems of American companies and universities. Israeli police have questioned Tenenbaum and placed him under house arrest, but he has not been charged. It was not clear what will happen to the investigation once Tenenbaum is drafted. Tenenbaum worked in tandem with two other Israeli teen-agers and two California juveniles. The young hackers apparently penetrated the Pentagon's computers in February. The Pentagon has said the intrusions appeared to have been aimed at systems that contained unclassified personnel and payroll records. Eyal defended Tenenbaum's actions. ``It was for the intellectual challenge,'' Eyal told The Associated Press. The publicist said Tenenbaum also destroyed Internet sites belonging to Islamic militants and neo-Nazis, and sent warnings to owners of 500 credit cards exposed on the Internet. ``He's like Robin Hood, he did not take a shekel for himself,'' Eyal said. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: PhD studentship in automatic abstracting Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:58:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1156 (1156) [deleted quotation] RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING (Current value of bursary =A3 5,500) The University of Wolverhampton, School of Languages and European Studies invites applications for a research studentship on corpus-based automatic abstracting. We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science and with excellent programming skills. Overseas candidates must have a good command of English. The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship on 1 September 1998. =46or further information about the project, please contact Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk. =46ormal applications must be made to: The Research Support Unit University of Wolverhampton Dudley Campus Castle View Dudley DY1 3HR and must include a completed application form (to be requested from Mrs. Lesley Barlow - tel. 01902 323317, Email L.Barlow@wlv.ac.uk), a CV and a covering letter in which the candidates explain why they apply for the studentship and give details of their research interests/experience, background and programming skills. (Please quote the reference number of the studentship - RS207) Please note that the closing date for applications is 28 April 1998. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Ian Butterworth <i.butterworth@ic.ac.uk> Subject: ACM report on Internet activities in the U.S. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1157 (1157) [The following taken from Professor Butterworth's report to participants in the upcoming Seeheim conference, with thanks. --WM] ACM WASHINGTON UPDATE U.S. Office of Public Policy of the Association for Computing Machinery __________________________________________ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ April 3, 1998 Volume 2.3 _____________________________________________________ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ CONTENTS =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ INTRODUCTION ACM POLICY 98 CONFERENCE POLICY BRIEFS Intellectual Property Legislation President Speaks on Internet Taxes Novel Data-Scrambling Method Proposed Senate Committee Approves Two Net Censorship Bills Hearing on Scientific Partnerships Information Technology Partnering Act Policy Articles in Communications of the ACM Upcoming Hearings _________________________________________________________ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ACM 1998 CONFERENCE =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ACM POLICY '98 "Shaping Policy in the Information Age" May 10-12, 1998 Washington Renaissance Hotel Washington, DC The leading professional society in computing will hold its 1998 conference in Washington, DC and focus on public policy issues affecting future applications of computing. Our goal is to promote ongoing engagement between computing professionals and policy makers to further the productive use of computing and information processing innovations. Computing professionals can become more influential if they are more informed about political processes and issues. Policy makers can be more effective if they have access to technical experts who can provide thoughtful testimony and offer a wide range of options. Attendees at ACM Policy 98 will exchange ideas with prominent leaders from academia, industry, Congress, and Executive agencies. Join us on May 10, 1998 to explore the ethical and social issues related to computer technology, participate in the debate between Esther Dyson and Gary Chapman, and honor computing professionals at the ACM Awards Banquet. Then on May 11-12, 1998 listen as national leaders present their reports: Speakers include: * Senator Orrin Hatch (invited): Future of Intellectual Property * Special Advisor to the President Ira Magaziner: White House Report * Representative Vern Ehlers: Reformulating US Science Policy * Representative Constance Morella: The Role of the Federal Government in Computing * Federal Trade Commissioner Mozelle Thompson * Robert E. Kahn, President, CNRI: Technology Keynote * Assistant Director Juris Hartmanis: The Role of the National Science Foundation in Computing Policy * Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information: Larry Irving * Debate: Esther Dyson and Gary Chapman * ACM Presidential Award for founding NetDay: John Gage, Sun Microsystems * Making Science Policy: Roundtable with NPR Correspondent Dan Charles Policy Panels: + Electronic Commerce + Intellectual Property + Learning Online + Universal Service Ethics and Social Impact Sessions: +Kids Online: Home, School, and the Web +Privacy: Lost in Cyberspace? +Point and Counterpoint: Media Views of the Future of Computing For Conference and Registration information see: <a href="http://www.acm.org/usacm/events/policy98/">http://www.acm.org/usacm/events/policy98/</a> __________________________________________________________ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ POLICY BRIEFS =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LEGISLATION On March 31, 1998, the House Judiciary Committee marked up H.R. 2281, the "WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act." Introduced by Representative Henry Hyde (R-IL), H.R. 2281 makes the use, manufacture or sale of any technology that can be used to circumvent copyright protections illegal. Rather than providing protection and legal against the act of unlawful circumvention itself, H.R. 2881 focuses instead on the technologies used to enable the circumvention. The Act which is backed by the Clinton Administration has the stated purpose of enacting the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) copyright treaties passed in Geneva in December of 1996. However, the Act would actually go much farther than the treaties require, disrupting the balance between owners, creators and users of copyrighted information. The anti-circumvention provisions of H.R. 2281 would give content owners the unprecedented power to bar consumers (including value-added innovators) from making copies of material that is being distributed commercially to the public, effectively gutting the fair use doctrine of copyright law. USACM criticized this approach which was ultimately rejected in the WIPO treaties. USACM wrote, "This could adversely effect a company which legitimately develops a product that people use for different purposes than that for which it was developed. Since it is likely to be extremely difficult for a developer to collect data about the primary use of the product, it may be impossible to refute a claim made by copyright holders who argues that the primary effect of a particular device is copyright infringement. As a result, the Article could have the undesired effect of dissuading manufacturers or software producers from investing in a new technology with substantial non-infringing purposes for fear that an anxious copyright holder might pursue litigation using the "primary effect" standard. USACM concluded, "We believe that the Article should address the intent of the individual or company, not the effect of its actions or product. Furthermore, this bill would impede encryption research that helps ensure secure networks, prevent legitimate reverse engineering in the development of new software, and effectively overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984), which permitted the home taping of television broadcasts. A much better WIPO implementation bill, which punishes the "act" of unlawful infringement and maintains fair use protections, is H.R. 3048, the "Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act." H.R. 3048 would encourage the development of new technologies and markets for copyrighted works in digital form, while giving intellectual property holders the strong tools they need to go after infringing conduct. H.R. 2281: <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281:">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281:</a> H.R. 3048: <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.3048:">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.3048:</a> USACM letter: <a href="http://www.acm.org/usacm/copyright/wipo_copyright_letter.html">http://www.acm.org/usacm/copyright/wipo_copyright_letter.html</a> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ PRESIDENT SPEAKS ON INTERNET TAXES On March 19, 1998, The President released a brief statement rescinding his call for a short-term moratorium on new and discriminatory taxes that would "slow down the growth of the Internet, and a search for long-term solutions to the tax issues raised by electronic commerce." Instead he stated, "We cannot allow 30,000 state and local tax jurisdictions to stifle the Internet, but neither can we allow the erosion of the revenue that state and local governments need to fight crime and invest in education." The President continued by praising the agreement reached by groups representing state and local elected officials as "an important and constructive step towards a long-term solution." <a href="http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/urires/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1998/3/19/">http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/urires/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1998/3/19/</a> 10.text.1 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ NOVEL DATA-SCRAMBLING METHOD PROPOSED Ronald Rivest, a computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the inventors RSA described a new approach to data scrambling, in a short technical paper posted at his web site. He describes the process as "chaffing and winnowing" digital information instead of encrypting it. Rivest's paper explains that it is possible to hide a message by breaking it into packets that are secretly identified as good information, or ``wheat,'' and gibberish, or ``chaff,'' in such a way that an eavesdropper cannot distinguish the two. According to Rivest, because the individual packets would not be encrypted, such a system would circumvent current export restrictions. His paper concludes, "As a consequence of the existence of chaffing and winnowing, one can argue that attempts by law enforcement to regulate confidentiality by regulating encryption must fail, as confidentiality can be obtained effectively without encryption and even sometimes without the desire for confidentiality by the two communicants. Law enforcement would have to seek access to all authentication keys as well, a truly frightening prospect. Mandating government access to all communications is not a viable alternative. The cryptography debate should proceed by mutual education and voluntary actions only." <a href="http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/chaffing.txt">http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/chaffing.txt</a> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES TWO NET CENSORSHIP BILLS The Senate Commerce Committee approved two bills on March 12 designed to limit access to material on the Internet. S. 1619, introduced by Senator John McCain (R-AZ), requires that schools and libraries must "select a system for computers with Internet access to filter or block matter deemed to be inappropriate for minors" before they can receive money under the E-Rate Universal Service fund to provide net access from the Federal Communications Commission. The Committee also discussed amendments introduced by Senator Burns and Breaux that would limit the scope of the bill. The amendments will be considered before the legislation is sent to the Senate floor. The other bill, S. 1482, introduced by Senator Dan Coates (R-IN), criminalizes the distribution of commercial material that is "harmful to minors." The penalty is a $50,000 fine and six months jail time. In additional, the bill also says that violators " shall be subject to a civil fine of not more than $50,000 for each violation. For purposes of this paragraph, each day of violation shall constitute a separate violation." In the House, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced H.R. 3442, E-Rate Policy and child Protection Act of 1998 on March 11. The bill would only require that "an elementary or secondary school or library that obtains services or preferential rates or treatment under this section shall establish a policy with respect to access to material that is inappropriate for children." More information is available on the bills from the Internet Free Expression Alliance at: <a href="http://www.ifea.net">http://www.ifea.net</a> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ HEARING ON SCIENTIFIC PARTNERSHIPS Pursuant to the 1993 Government Performance and Results Act, the House Science Committee held two hearings on March 11 and 25 in order to provide input for Rep. Vern Ehlers' National Science Policy Study. The first hearing focused on successful scientific partnerships and the second on reviewing the benefits to the U.S. from international scientific cooperation. On March 11, flexibility in policy was the key element stressed by witnesses at the hearing. The national labs' CRADA process was criticized for both its lack of adaptability and its over-emphasis of intellectual property rights, which "sometimes turned out to be an impediment", according to professor David Mowery, of Univesity of California at Berkeley. Other elements of successful parterships were also cited, including an understanding of each others' goals, cultures, and time scales, as well as effective, understanding management. On March 25, the witnesses agreed that because of constrained science funding in the U.S. and the increasing quality of research done in other countries, in many cases the U.S. can effectively leverage its resources by partnering. This, said Ehlers, enables American researchers to "reap the full benefits of that research at a fraction of the cost of performing the research ourselves." However, the witnesses echoed Ranking Minority Member George Brown (D-CA) when he called the U.S. approach to international collaborations "disjointed, to say the least." In closing, Ehlers said he hoped his policy study would develop a more effective process for bringing all the players on board at the beginning of a large international collaboration. He added that while many see risks of failure in committing to large projects, such as ITER, current policies and technologies are not always sufficient for the future. "We can fail by not going forward, too," he declared. Ehlers will be discussing the science policy study at the ACM Policy 98 conference on May 12 at 8:30 AM. <a href="http://www.house.gov/science/science_policy_study.htm">http://www.house.gov/science/science_policy_study.htm</a> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PARTNERING ACT On March 18, 1998 Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) introduced H. R. 3496, known as the Information Technology Partnership Act. The bill would "develop a demonstration project through the National Science Foundation to encourage interest in the fields of mathematics, science and information technology," according to Ms. Johnson. The bill, if passed, would allocate funds for teacher training in math and the sciences and private sector participation in the form of computer donations and student mentoring. <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.3496.IH:">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.3496.IH:</a> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ POLICY ARTICLES IN COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM The April issue of Communications of the ACM is dedicated to "Digital Libraries: Global Scope, Unlimited Access." USACM member Pamela Samuelson's article "Encoding the Law Into Digital Libraries" appears in the Legally Speaking column. In it she discusses the tensions between the technologists who build the digital library systems, the users, and the policymakers. <a href="http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/cacm/1998-41-4/p13-samuelson/">http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/cacm/1998-41-4/p13-samuelson/</a> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ UPCOMING HEARINGS April 28, 1998. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee YEAR 2000 COMPUTER PROBLEM www.senate.gov/committee/commerce/html. ________________________________________________________________________ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Washington Update is a biweekly publication of the U.S. Public Policy Office of the Association for Computing <a href="http://www.acm.org/usacm">http://www.acm.org/usacm</a> 666 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 302B, Washington, DC 20003. 202/544-4859 (tel), 202/547-5482 (fax). ________________________________________________________________________ /\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Association for Computing, + <a href="http://www.acm.org/usacm/">http://www.acm.org/usacm/</a> Office of U.S. Public Policy * +1 202 544 4859 (tel) 666 Pennsylvania Ave., SE Suite 302 B * +1 202 547 5482 (fax) Washington, DC 20003 USA + gelman@acm.org To subscribe to the ACM Washington Update, send e-mail to: listserv@acm.org with "subscribe WASHINGTON-UPDATE name" (no quotes) in the body of the message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Margaret Schaus <mschaus@haverford.edu> Subject: Humanities Indexes on the Web? Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:02:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1158 (1158) Dear Colleagues, I edit an index on the Web, the Medieval Feminist Index, and am looking for other "niche" indexes in the humanities that are available free-of-charge on the Web. MFI indexes journal articles (350+ journals checked), essays in collections, and book reviews on women, gender, and sexuality in the Middle Ages. Records include century, geographic region, primary sources used (including manuscripts), illustrations, and tables, as well as the usual author, title, source, and subject headings. There are over 2000 records currently for publications from 1995 through 1997. It seems to me that the Web is an ideal publishing venue of indexes, particularly for fields in the humanities that are not well served by commercial products. With a small group of volunteers and a part-time student worker, we are building a guide to current scholarship in a fast growing field. On the Web we can link to full-text (when given permission), update frequently, provide search aides, and allow boolean (AND only at this point)searches by field. I would like to find others engaged in similar projects. Margaret Schaus (mschaus@haverford.edu) Magill Library Haverford College Haverford, PA 19041 Tel. 610-896-1166 Medieval Feminist Index, Editor <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html">http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html</a> From: "Thomas W. Benson" <t3b@psu.edu> Subject: Electronic Journals and Tenure/Promotion/Merit Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:37:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1159 (1159) HUMANISTs: I have been a subscriber to HUMANIST since its inception, but during most of that time I have had my machine set to lurker mode. I turn to HUMANIST now with a question that has come up in various ways over the years, in the hope of getting some current views. I have been asked to prepare an editorial for my discipline (speech communication) that describes and advocates policies and practices that govern, or ought to govern, the evaluation of scholarship published in electronic, on-line journals. I would be grateful for any pointers to current policies and practices in this area, and for personal anecdotes and opinions. Should universities and colleges have specific policies governing the evaluation of on-line scholarship when it comes time for consideration of promotion, tenure, and merit pay decisions? Replies might be sent either to me or to HUMANIST. Thanks. Tom Benson Tom Benson Department of Speech Communication Penn State University 227 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802 t3b@psu.edu 814-865-4201 <a href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/t3b">http://www.personal.psu.edu/t3b</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu> Subject: EMNLP3 conference program and registration Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:30:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1160 (1160) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-3) Sponsored by ACL SIGDAT Tuesday, June 2, 1998 Granada, Spain Following the First International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) [Material deleted] Web: <a href="http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/emnlp3.html">http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/emnlp3.html</a> <a href="http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html">http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: CFP: SHARP 99 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:49:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1161 (1161) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS SHARP 99 MADISON, WISCONSIN The seventh annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing will take place July 14-17, 1999, in Madison, Wisconsin, under the auspices of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, a joint program of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In keeping with SHARP tradition, we welcome proposals from researchers interested in the creation, diffusion, and/or reception of the written or printed word in any historical period and in any region of the world. Because of the multi cultural, geographic and chronological focus of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, however, we especially welcome proposals for papers and sessions that investigate: print culture history in the United States since 1876. the role print has played in and among groups historically outside dominant cultures. traditions of the written word in non-English languages in the Western Hemisphere. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Dr. Nicholas Kanellos, Director of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston, and Dr. Janice Radway of the Literature Department at Duke University. Conference proceedings will be in English. We encourage submissions from graduate students and members of all scholarly communities interested in print culture studies. We welcome proposals for individual papers, or for complete sessions. While in Madison conference attendees will have access to the superb collections of the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Proposals (one page maximum per paper) and inquiries about the conference should be sent to: SHARP 1999, c/o Maureen Hady, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 816 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706-6598 USA; fax (608)264-6520; e-mail: printcul@macc.wisc.edu. Although submissions by e-mail and fax will be accepted, original hard copy is greatly preferred. Deadline for submission of proposals is November 19, 1998. Proposals will be considered by an interdisciplinary subcommittee of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Print Culture in Modern America. For information about the Center for the Study of Print Culture in Modern America, visit our website at <a href="http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/printcul/">http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/printcul/</a> Or contact Wayne A. Wiegand, Co-Director, Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, 4226 Helen C. White Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Oxford Text Archive <archive@sable.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Testers wanted for new OTA website Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 14:57:05 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1162 (1162) The Oxford Text Archive is launching a state-of-the-art web service later in the year, reflecting our new status as a Service Provider for the UK's national Arts and Humanities Data Service. Before this web site goes live, we need feedback from all types of user. So whether you are new to electronic text or an expert in the field, we invite you to visit our site and use our feedback form to tell us what you think. As always, the OTA's homepage remains <a href="http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/">http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/</a> but throughout this period of testing, users will have the option to visit either our current site, or our new experimental service. NB.in order to fully appreciate this service, we recommend that you use either Netscape Navigator 4 or IE 3 (or better). Features of the new OTA site include: - an online catalogue of all our texts, whether online or offline - a facility to create a corpus of texts - a download facility for TEI encoded texts that allows you to choose from a variety of different formats - online tools to help you preparing your texts in SGML - a listing of future events, as well as papers from previous workshops and conferences. - a FAQ, based on the OTA's 22 years of operation. - a search tool and site map to help you find your way around the site - an SGML software repository - "Guides to Good Practice" on the creation and documentation of electronic texts (in preparation) ------- Oxford Text Archive <a href="http://ota.ahds.ac.uk">http://ota.ahds.ac.uk</a> info@ota.ahds.ac.uk +44-1865-273 238 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Ken Litkowski <ken@clres.com> Subject: Re: corpus expansion question Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:09:11 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1163 (1163) Jeff, I have sent a copy of this message to the CORPORA and HUMANIST newsgroups. They may be able to provide you with some specific answers. The issue is of considerable importance and there is work going, but I am not directly engaged, so I am not the best source. Jeff Allen, translators@juno.com wrote: [deleted quotation] -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-926-5904 CL Research EMAIL: ken@clres.com 20239 Lea Pond Place Gaithersburg, MD 20879-1270 USA Home Page: <a href="http://www.clres.com">http://www.clres.com</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0689 print vs. online? scholarly edns? Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:27:30 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1164 (1164) On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] We have linked to a few web-based ones (mostly 'in progress' and concerned with the presentation of variants) via our online FAQ at <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/enquiry/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/enquiry/</a> (see the section on Literature). A book arrived on my desk last week which may be of interest to you and which I don't think has been mentioned on Humanist: Kathryn Sutherland (ed), Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory (Oxford, 1998) Table of Contents Introduction, Kathryn Sutherland The rationale of hypertext, Jerome J. McGann Annotating a text - literary theory and electronic hypertext, Claire Lamont Lighting out for the territory - hypertext, ideology, and Huckleberry Finn, Patrick Conner Out of praxis - three (meta) theories of textuality, Allen Renear The body encoded - questions of gender and the electronic text, Julia Flanders New directions in critical editing, Peter Robinson Digital archive as expanded text - Shakespeare and electronic textuality, Peter Donaldson Coda - is it morphin' time?, David Greetham Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michael Fraser Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk Manager, CTI Textual Studies Fax: +44 1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS Tel: +44 1865 283 282 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/</a> Oxford OX2 6NN From: Michael Thompson <thompson@RESOURCENTER.COM> Subject: Publishing meeting Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:55:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1165 (1165) In response to queries from several people on the list, here is the url for more information on the meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. We are also working on a more up to date list of speakers for those who requested it. Thanks for your interest. <<a href="http://www.edoc.com/ssp/AnnualMeetingF.html">http://www.edoc.com/ssp/AnnualMeetingF.html</a>> ******Michael P. Thompson****** ****Director of Communications*** ***thompson@resourcenter.com*** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Dorothy Day <day@indiana.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0689 print vs. online? scholarly edns? Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 13:32:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1166 (1166) On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] Andrew Dillon's *Designing usable electronic text: ergonomic aspects of human information usage* (London; Bristol, PA: Taylor & Francis, 1994) has a useful discussion and many relevant citations to other materials on the subject. ***** Dorothy Day School of Library and Information Science Indiana University day@indiana.edu ***** "He also surfs who only sits and waits." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "H.C. Earwicker" <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: control Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:50:40 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1167 (1167) Dear Colleagues: Those with long memories will know, and those with intense curiosity and much patience discover, that complaints of TOO MUCH (a.k.a. infoglut) go back a long way on Humanist. As I recall, the first such complaint was voiced within a month of its beginning, when the volume of its e-mail was a tiny fraction of what it is now. When I asked "what's the problem?" I wasn't being naive or insensitive, rather curious as to what form the expression of infoglut would take this time. What do people mean when they say "too much!"? In the past the complaint has almost without exception had more to do with our ability to cope with volume than with the amount itself. Digesting of messages in its current form was an early response, my sense being that if we reduced the number of messages, made sure that each digest grouped together related messages and provided a table of contents, we'd be able to handle the amount much more easily. I think experience has proven that to be right. So I am very reluctant indeed to unbundle long messages, and so return to the bad old days of sending out a flock of 15-20 of them to roost all over your e-mail accounts, like pigeons. We've been there, done that, and it didn't work. As a Londoner I am only too well aware of what roosting pigeons do and would not wish even the virtual equivalent on anyone. So, where does this leave us? Ideally, long announcements would all come with a few lines of summary followed by a URL. Unfortunately they don't. Since I do not have the time to edit these things down to reasonable size, nor even to write back to the sender asking that this be done, my choice is either to delete them or pass them on. Even if I did send the messages back, my guess is that the senders wouldn't take the time, and so we'd not see the contents in any form. We can all point to messages whose contents we'd not feel much poorer without, but then I'd suppose that for each of us there are long messages we would not want to miss. These are hard to remember as such, however, because we tend not to think of interesting things as being too long. Again, the problem is often not line-count per se; it's rather murkier than that. I see no practical solution to the problem other than the self-control of our membership. Unfortunately, again, even this would not cure the problem completely because some if not many of the longest messages come from those who are not actually members. A simple problem to solve, you'd think, but it isn't. Because our software is so simple-minded (if you'll allow the anthropomorphism) it cannot distinguish someone who is not nor has ever been a member of Humanist from someone who is but who is using an address different from the one the software knows. Sometimes this happens because a Humanist cannot be bothered to change his or her address, sometimes because a person in the local computing centre changes the domain name, etc. Since Assistant Editor David Gants kindly passes on bounced messages, many of us are saved the effort of changing the address Humanist knows each time our address changes. What then I propose to do -- thinking self-control unlikely in the short-term -- is to begin to exercise discretionary authority over messages I regard as too long, especially the ones that advertise the T-shirts and give full details of parking arrangements in exotic foreign cities no one whom I know can afford to visit. Let's see if this makes a difference. Meanwhile, I'd recommend as spiritual exercise that all those who are deeply annoyed at long conference announcements (as I am) put themselves in the place of an organiser who is deeply worried about the success of his or her event (as I have been). One's annoyance then is likely to be that one's cherished announcement is not the first one in a series of them. As this note reaches two screenfulls on my large screen, I invite further comment, at length. Yours, WM From: Tim Reuter <T.Reuter@soton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0688 small is beautiful, but why? Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:42:53 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1168 (1168) Willard's own question is answered by 11.0691, which once again is 37k long/large and contains four messages, all from David Gants (who could perhaps consider setting up his own conference announcement list?). The problem comes when you actually want to read message 5 in a 5-message posting, and have to wade through 20 screens to get there. Of course Willard doesn't have to edit them himself; he should impose a 30-line limit (per sender?) and bounce all messages which exceed this back to the sender for editing down to the limit. Alternatively, we ban conference announcements altogether, but that would perhaps be baby with bathwater. Tim Reuter ---------------------- # Tim Reuter # Department of History # University of Southampton # Southampton SO17 1BJ # T +44 1703 594868 (w) 552623 (h) # F +44 1703 593458 # email tr@soton.ac.uk # <a href="http://www.soton.ac.uk/~tr/tr.html">http://www.soton.ac.uk/~tr/tr.html</a> From: Mary Dee Harris <mdharris@acm.org> Subject: Re: 11.0688 small is beautiful, but why? Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:36:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1169 (1169) One suggestion that would probably annoy others but would help me is to unbundle the long announcements so that we don't have to scroll through to look at the next one! I wouldn't mind a few more messages if it meant I could just look at the first few lines to know whether I want to read the rest. But when the index at the beginning of a series of announcements just says CFP, it's hard to know whether it's worth looking at. My $.02. . . Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 512-477-7213 Language Technology, Inc. 512-477-7351 (fax) 2415 Griswold Lane mdharris@acm.org Austin, TX 78703 mdharris@cs.utexas.edu From: "Charles L. Creegan" <ccreegan@ncwc.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0688 small is beautiful, but why? Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:12:41 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1170 (1170) Digests in which the first message(s) are very long are particularly pernicious. Humanist 11.0691 has 4 parts each of which is 9 or 10 screens long (133, 183, 212, 184 lines). Who can be bothered seeking the start of each new part? If these must be sent, at least send them one to a message. Then I'll easily see the first screen of each. Though having more messages implies other headaches. But if I ran the zoo I'd have automatic rejection of messages longer than 50 lines or so. Only the very occasional tirade has *content* of that length. (I don't consider ascii art, or lists of the program committee for a conference in Rotorua, to be content.) Let the posters edit! Curmudgeonly yrs., -- Charles L. Creegan N.C. Wesleyan College ccreegan@ncwc.edu <a href="http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan">http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan</a> From: Harold Short <Harold.Short@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0688 small is beautiful, but why? Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:28:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1171 (1171) I took Peter Evans to be appealing to contributors rather than to the Editor, and wholeheartedly endorse his appeal. Clear, concise expression is much to be desired in any medium. In making an announcement, a brief description with guidance on where to obtain further information is an estimable and practical model. As to the question 'Where's the problem?', it is crucially one of time, and information overload. So easy is it to replicate information held in electronic form, it is done with too little thought. Many postings begin with an apology for cross-posting, including one today on Humanist; these cross-postings would be fine if they consisted of a 5-line description and an URL. The grouping and naming of messages by our Editor is invaluable. If the contributors would in addition offer economy of expression, Humanist would be an even more valuable publication. Best wishes Harold Harold Short, Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK Harold.Short@kcl.ac.uk Tel:+44 (0)171 873 2739 Fax:+44 (0)171 873 5081 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Computing in the academy Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:59:50 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1172 (1172) PLEASE POST / FORWARD --------------------- Computing in the academy -- A one-day colloquium at King's College London on the acceptance of computing in humanities scholarship -- Barry Ife, Cervantes Professor of Spanish and Vice-Principal, King's College London Stanley N. Katz, Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and Director, Princeton Center on Arts and Cultural Policy John Laver, Professor of Phonetics, Edinburgh, and first Chairman, Humanities Research Board, British Academy Antonio Zampolli, Professor of Linguistics, Pisa, and Director, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) for more information, please see <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/seminars.html#new">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/seminars.html#new</a>>. -- ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: ACLS/CLIR Task Forces on Scholarship and Technology Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:00:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1173 (1173) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 16, 1998 ACLS/CLIR TASK FORCES ON SCHOLARSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY <<a href="http://www.clir.org/issues/issues01.html">http://www.clir.org/issues/issues01.html</a>> <<a href="http://www.clir.org/issues/issues02.html">http://www.clir.org/issues/issues02.html</a>> As reported by James M. Morris in the first two numbers of "CLIR Issues," the Council on Library and Information Resources has organized, with the American Council of Learned Societies, a series of task forces on the opportunities and challenges of technology for scholarship. The task forces comprise scholars, librarians and administrators and have been organized by media, as follows: area studies materials; audio materials; manuscripts; monographs and journals; and visual materials. Although the primary focus is on the impact on librarians of the needs of scholars in an electronic environment, the effects on teaching and scholarship will also be considered. For a list of the task force members, see <<a href="http://www.clir.org/issues/issues01a.html">http://www.clir.org/issues/issues01a.html</a>>. The articles by James Morris indicate some of the highlights of the meetings held to date. Some of the needs that participants have articulated include the following: an overall strategy for the provision and discovery of digital materials; more finding aids for digital material and the greater integration or cross-referencing of those finding aids; new methods for scholarly certification (beyond print journals); moving beyond the current limitations of the Web; easier electronic provision of material in other than Roman script (the Area Studies group was especially concerned about the marginalization of the study of non-Western cultures); and greater collaboration between institutions--including the development of distributed models for collecting material. CLIR will issue a summary report of the deliberations of the task forces. Meanwhile you might check future numbers of "CLIR Issues" for the progress of the task forces. =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Kay Galloway <galloway@mdah.state.ms.us> Subject: scholarly editions online Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:23:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1174 (1174) Is anybody old enough to remember Todd Bender's (U of Wisconsin) ideas about electronic editions (ca. early 1970s)? It wasn't called hypertext then, but that's what it was. Pat Galloway From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" <brians@mail.wsu.edu> Subject: "Classic" articles on Internet publishing & research? Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:53:14 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1175 (1175) I am reshaping a talk I gave last year to our department on my experiences doing research on The Satanic Verses and publishing the results on the Web, to send it out for possible (paper) publication. A quick look in various indexes didn't turn up anything useful I could cite as "earlier research" but I'm sure there must be plenty. Are there classic or important articles on the subject of doing Internet/Web-based research and publication (as distinguished from conventional publication) that I should look at and cite in order not to look like an ignoramus? I don't mean the typical magazine article lamenting that lots of Web publications are trash and evade the fine mesh of peer review--something more thoughtful and serious. I do a lot of Web work, but I don't follow the theory of it very closely. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu <a href="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians">http://www.wsu.edu/~brians</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Hope Greenberg <hope.greenberg@uvm.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0695 small is beautiful if by self-control Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:59:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1176 (1176) This is marvelous! I thought the original objection was to the length of conference postings and announcements. "Three lines and a URL" thought I. It is the rule for announcements on several of the other discussion lists I belong to. The moderators need to remind the group of that occasionally but for the most part it works. "Well" say some "what about conferences that don't have a web site." "Well" say I "they should!" (And I'll happily provide reasons why to anyone who cares to ask.) It appears I missed part of the original disucssion. But why marvelous? Because I see in these messages on brevity vs. length a real playing out of the thoughts on "how is electronic writing different from paper writing" "how does the medium alter how we design our message" "why do people think that because some find reading long messages on computer screens tiresome and uncomfortable, that all do, or will forever" "does thoughtful commentary fall into ponderous pontificating more quickly in the electronic world or does electronic writing foster the glib, the lightweight, the shallow" and all those delicious questions about writing and reading the electronic word. Viewpoints abound about how long is too long and what structure works best. Jakob Nielsen recently said in an interview: "When you write for online, you are not really writing a story. You are contributing to an experience, a navigation space. Rather than writing one long article, you split it up into smaller pieces and have them linked together in meaningful ways. Rather than having a linear progression of arguments, you state your main points. If you want to see (supporting arguments), click here and we'll give you another page full. Click here if you want to see the counter-arguments. If you already know something, or you don't care, you just skip it." (Los Angeles Times Syndicate. April 14, 1998 2:43 p.m. EDT <a href="http://www.nando.net">http://www.nando.net</a>) Where will it all go? What are we creating? And here we are in the throes of that very creation right here, right now on HUMANIST! ---------------- hope.greenberg@uvm.edu, U of Vermont, <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~hag">http://www.uvm.edu/~hag</a> From: "S.A.Rae" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: RE: 11.0695 small is beautiful if by self-control Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:52:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1177 (1177) I agree with the sentiments of Mary Dee and the Curmudgeonly Charles L. Creegan. As a recent CFP poster of 61 lines about a 'Classical Studies ... Int. Conf. on Theatre: Ancient and Modern' (11.0682) that was unfortunately buried at the end of a collection of 6 such calls totalling over 660 lines, I did wish that mine had either gone first or alone. (What IS the collective noun for a number of CFPs? - a shout, an echo, perhaps a stutter?) My vote goes for individual messages - with a meaningful that can trigger the Delete Key response on first sighting. Cheers Simon * The Open University, Walton Hall, MILTON KEYNES. MK7 6AA * OU's WWW home page - <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/">http://www.open.ac.uk/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: e-mail problem fixed Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:21:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1178 (1178) Dear Colleagues: Due to problems with which I will not bore you, e-mail was routinely being turned away from King's College London until yesterday. As far as I am aware, delivery is now as it should be. If any messages sent to Humanist are not published here, then please resend -- but wait a couple of days until you do. Thanks. Yours, 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Final CFP: European Workshop on Learning Robots 1998 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 14:07:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1179 (1179) [deleted quotation] -----------------------Final Call for Papers ------------------------------- European Workshop on Learning Robots 1998 (EWLR-7) - Edinburgh, 20 July 1998 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [material deleted] ---- ** The workshop has a frequently updated WWW page with additional information inc. travel, accomodation, etc, at <a href="http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/conferences/ewlr7/">http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/conferences/ewlr7/</a> ---- From: Sajda Qureshi <squreshi@jans.fbk.eur.nl> Subject: HICSS-32 Call for papers "Methodological Issues and Directions in Collaborative Computing" Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:37:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1180 (1180) Apologies for cross-postings HICSS-32 Call for papers for a session on: "METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND DIRECTIONS IN COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING" Part of the minitrack on Engineering Organizational Processes and Systems Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track of the Thirty-second Annual Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Maui, HI - January 5 - 8, 1999 A large number of studies have emerged in information systems within the last few years that use a number of research approaches and investigate a number of issues in collaborative technology. In particular, the use of multi-disciplinary, multi-methodological approaches associated with an increased awareness of the organizational complexities associated with such technologies are gaining momentum. As research into collaborative systems and technology is still in its formative stages, it is valuable for researchers in this area to be able to share and compare experiences with the approaches they use.... [material deleted] For more information about these tracks and a list of minitracks each consist of, please check the HICSS web page <a href="http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss">http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss</a> Or contact the Track Administrator, Eileen Dennis, at edennis@uga.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: RE: 11.0624 Requests for help/info Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:48:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1181 (1181) [deleted quotation] I am interested in learning how much speech can be stored on a DVD. If anyone has experience or is other knowledgeable about storing and retrieving digitized speech on DVDs or other similar mass storage devices, I would be interested in hearing from you. Randall Jones Brigham Young University randall_jones@byu.edu dennis cintra leite py2-etn the sao paulo school of management (eaesp/fgv) dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Paul groves <paul.groves@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 11.0689 print vs. online? scholarly edns? Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:00:12 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1182 (1182) On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Charles Faulhaber wrote: From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1183 (1183) [deleted quotation] You could have a look at the Oxford Text Archive: <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ota/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ota/</a> Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Groves Email: paul.groves@oucs.ox.ac.uk JTAP Project Officer Fax: +44 (0)1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit Tel: +44 (0)1865 273 226 Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford, England. OX2 6NN From: Giovanni Adamo <adamo@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it> Subject: 11.0701 Scholarly editions online Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:52:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1184 (1184) Referring to the suggestion expressed by Patricia Galloway, I would remember one of Todd K. Bender's contributions, published in CHum (10, 1976, 4, pp. 193-200): "Literary Texts in Electronic Storage: The Editorial Potential". "The 'real' repository of information -- says Bender -- is the electronic data. Any printed expression of that data is merely one among many possible provisional, incomplete, and arbitrary formats of information which exists in its fullest and most flexible form in electronic memory. [...] Rather than use electronic equipment merely to imitate the features of printed data storage, we should try to see in what ways it can be a better medium than paper for preserving our literary heritage" (pp. 194-195). Later, illustrating his researches on Joseph Conrad's works, Bender presents a data base conceived to collect different states or versions of a text, speaking of two dimensions: the first one has to be considered as an horizontal axis ("length": the collection of the printed works of Conrad in MRF); the second is the vertical dimension ("depth"), consisting of the different versions stored for each Conrad's work. "On the horizontal axis, we can compare vocabulary or syntactical patterns in an early novel to those found in a later work. In the vertical stack, we can see how Conrad modified his spelling and punctuation for an English edition as opposed to an American edition, or how he refined his style or modified his ideas in varying revisions" (p. 196). In my opinion, it is an interesting piece of the not yet written history of humanities computing, but it is too an excellent sample to think on the integration of the editorial tradition within computing methods and technologies. I could not say the aims for which hypertexts have been thought (probably they were not specifically editorial targets), but we could consider many other editorial technologies (beyond the critical editions, the glosses, synoptic texts, and so on) as the forerunners of the present hypertexts. All the best, Giovanni Adamo Lessico Intellettuale Europeo - CNR, Roma (Italy) adamo@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: MCN'98 Keynote Speaker Announcement Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:12:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1185 (1185) [deleted quotation] Press Release April 20, 1998 Knowledge Creation - Knowledge Preservation - Knowledge Sharing The Museum Computer Network Annual Conference September 23-26, 1998 Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Santa Monica, California, USA Contact: Leslie Johnston, MCN '98 Program Chair (650) 725-5383 lesliej@leland.stanford.edu As modern cultures move rapidly towards the integration of digital media into everyday life, information and communication technologies have become important tools for creating, sharing, and preserving cultural knowledge in the presentation and representation of museum collections. Today this includes exhibitions of the physical and the virtual object as accessed by remote visitors from classrooms and living rooms all over the world. The Museum Computer Network Conference is the only annual international event dedicated to learning opportunities and information exchanges on all aspects of technology use in museums. Information is the greatest resource of museums, and managing knowledge is one of our key challenges. MCN '98 explores the current issues of creating, sharing, and preserving cultural knowledge. This year's keynote speaker is Richard Lucier, Executive Director of the new California Digital Library, which will integrate the holdings of the nine University of California campuses and provide international access to the collections via the Internet. Founder of the Center for Knowledge Management and originator of the Knowledge Management Model, Mr. Lucier has written and lectured widely on the changing scholarly communication process, scientific databases, electronic publishing, and digital libraries. It is especially exciting to have Mr. Lucier speak given the leadership role that the University of California is playing in the creation of the Museums and Online Archive of California. The four-day conference program will include practical pre-conference workshops with expert instructors and presentations from international speakers, drawn from within as well as outside the community of museum technology professionals. There will be informal networking opportunities and a vendor exhibit hall showcasing technology products and projects. One highlight of the conference will be a reception at the new Getty Center on the evening of Wednesday, October 23. This will be an opportunity to explore Los Angeles' newest cultural attraction, home of the organizations of the J. Paul Getty Trust, featuring stunning architecture and panoramic views. The conference will be held at the ocean-fronting four-star Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, conveniently located near Los Angeles' and Santa Monica's developing entertainment technology centers. Anyone concerned with information technology and museums will find MCN '98 a key professional event, where technology, legal issues, design concerns, research and commercial implications will all be discussed from the perspective of museums and their diverse audiences. Established in 1972, the Museum Computer Network is a not-for-profit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies. For more information on attending the conference as a delegate, vendor or member of the press, contact Michele Devine, Museum Computer Network, 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501, Silver Spring, MD 20910, (301) 585-4413, mcn@mcn.edu From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:13:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1186 (1186) [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSOLUTELY LAST CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS BEEN EXTENDED BY 1 WEEK BECAUSE ACL/COLING IS LATE IN SENDING OUT NOTIFICATION AND WE WISH TO ENCOURAGE SUBMISSIONS FROM THE AFFECTED GROUP. THE NEW DEADLINE OF APRIL 27 IS ABSOLUTELY FIRM. WHEN: August 15-16, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98) WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [material deleted; for full information see <<a href="http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/WVLC6.html">http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/WVLC6.html</a>>. --WM] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "Jennifer J. Vinopal" <jv3@is.nyu.edu> Subject: E-text center service models Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:02:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1187 (1187) Hello all: Here at Bobst Library, NYU, we are re-thinking the way we provide access to and support for e-text at our library. At present we have cd-roms loaded on computers but provide minimal tech/research support. We're seeking another model for access and research assistance which wouldn't necessarily involve creating a complete e-text center, (possible alternatives: stand-alone access in the humanities reference center, or some campus-wide networked access; part-time staffing or use of resources by appointment only; etc.). Are any of you out there at institutions which do NOT run full-fledged e-text centers but still provide decent access and research assistance? How are you doing it? Any ideas would be extremely helpful. Jennifer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jennifer Vinopal Librarian for Western European Languages and Literatures Bobst Library, NYU New York, NY 10012 vinopalj@elmer4.bobst.nyu.edu jennifer.vinopal@nyu.edu Phone: (212) 998-2522 Fax: (212) 995-4583 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Lorna Hughes <lorna.hughes@nyu.edu> Subject: Digital Collections: Preservation & Access, Fri., May 1 at 2 pm Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:52:04 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1188 (1188) DIGITAL COLLECTIONS: Preservation and Access in the Information Age A special presentation in a New York University series of colloquia on computers and communications, to be given by John Price-Wilkin Head, Digital Library Production Services, University of Michigan Friday, May 1 at 2 pm Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall (251 Mercer St. at 4th St.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New technologies are redefining the way scholarly information is archived, published, and researched. At universities across the country, projects for establishing network-accessible digital collections have sprung up. Representing diverse disciplines and differing approaches to preservation and access, they raise both opportunities and challenges for research and teaching. Our speaker heads a collaborative endeavor that is at the forefront in setting standards for electronic archives across the disciplines, and in exploring ways of integrating their management and access. Dr. Price-Wilkin will describe how the Digital Library Production Services - a joint venture of disciplinary, information services, and library groups at the University of Michigan - has integrated diverse project-oriented efforts by creating a general architecture for digital resources. Dr. Price-Wilkin will focus on the development of the underlying campus infrastructure and its critical role in supporting the success of individual projects. He will touch on issues in preservation-quality imaging, SGML and text encoding, automated OCR operation, and the development and assessment of production-quality access. The Making of America project will be featured as an example of a successful merging of differing preservation and access models. A vast collection of primary sources in U.S. social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction, the project illustrates one way of resolving conflicts in digitization technique - text-encoded, page-imaged - so that we can turn to the question of the long-term viability of our digital collections. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All faculty, staff, and students are welcome. We hope you'll be able to join us. This colloquium is co-sponsored by New York University's Academic Computing Facility (ACF); the Faculty of Arts and Science; the Institute of Fine Arts; the Program for Archival Management (FAS); the Commission for Arts and Humanities in Education (School of Education); Computer Advocacy @ NYU; and the Northeast Association for Computing in the Humanities, with support from Apple Computer, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Academic Computing Facility Fax: (212) 995 4120 New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/">http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Kairos Best Webtext Award: Second Call For Nominations Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:11:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1189 (1189) [deleted quotation] KAIROS BEST WEBTEXT AWARD: SECOND CALL FOR NOMINATIONS *** WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED AT C&W CONFERENCE IN JUNE *** Nominations for the second annual Kairos Best Webtext Award will be accepted through the end of April. The Kairos "Best Webtext Award" is intended to recognize the most effective engagement of the medium in presenting useful and innovative information to teachers of writing in native webbed environments. The winner will be selected through ballot by the editorial board and staff of the journal _Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_. <a href="http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/">http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/</a> Kairos is a webbed journal sponsored by the national Alliance for Computers and Writing, dedicated to exploring all aspects of the pedagogical and scholarly uses of hypertext and other web-based technologies. Founded in August of 1995, Kairos is designed to serve as a resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing, including: Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, Literature and a wide variety of humanities-based scholarship. To be eligible for the award, the nominated webtext must have been published during the calendar year 1997, and be available free via the World-Wide Web. The staff of _Kairos_ recognizes that "published" on the WWW can mean many things, and request that nominations include a brief statement defining how the webtext was published -- in an online journal, for a class syllabus, as part of a conference presentation or department site, or any other venue. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. If you nominate another author's work, please include electronic mail contact information so the individual(s) can accept the nomination(s). A brief description of why the piece is being nominated is required; collateral materails such as testimonials and/or reviews are welcome but not required. Please specifically indicate the URL with which a user might be expected to start reading/using/exploring the webbed environment. Nominations should be sent via electronic mail (ASCII only please, no attachments) to Kairos Editor Mick Doherty at <mick@rpi.edu>, cc: to <mdoherty@dallascvb.com>. The winner of last year's inaugural award was Karen McGrane Chauss of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for her webtext "Reader as User: Applying Interface Design Techniques to the Web," available at <a href="http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/features/chauss/bridge.html">http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/features/chauss/bridge.html</a> (We are anxious to point out that while the first winner was for a webtext originally published in _Kairos_, this is neither a requirement nor an advantage in the judging process for this year's award.) The award will be presented at the annual Computers & Writing Conference, held this year from May 28-31 at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Nominees need not be present at the conference to be considered for the award (two of last year's three finalists, including the eventual winner, sent their "virtual regrets"). The three finalists will be named on May 14 and informed via electronic mail. The winner will receive a package of software and other materials generously donated by publishers in the field of writing pedagogy, a plaque, and a small cash award. The site will also be invited for re-publication in a future issue of the journal, at the author(s)' option. Nota Bene: Many of you may note that the name of the award has changed slightly since our original call for nominations. Discussion with various members of the computers/writing/humanities community have suggested that to use the term "Hypertext" is inappropriate. It both ignores the fact that much of the very best hypertext currently being developed is not available via the web, and dismisses the fact that much of the technology-dependent material on the web is not precisely "hypertextual." The award has been retitled to reflect this; the parameters for selecting the finalists and winner have not been affected, and in fact are significantly more accurate now, given the change. Mick Doherty, Editor & Publisher on behalf of Jason Cranford Teague, Production Manager Claudine Keenan, Managing Editor Greg Siering, Links Editor Douglas Eyman, Coverweb Editor Nick Carbone, Reviews Editor Jennifer Bowie, Response Editor James Inman, News Editor Sandye Thompson, Chief Copy Editor Jeff White, Archivist From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: New Corpora from the Linguistic Data Consortium Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:14:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1190 (1190) [deleted quotation] Announcing NEW RELEASES from the Linguistic Data Consortium 1996 Broadcast News Training Speech Data 1996 Broadcast News Dev. and Eval. Data 1996 Broadcast News Transcripts The 1996 Broadcast News Speech Corpus contains a total of 104 hours of broadcasts from ABC, CNN, and CSPAN television networks and NPR and PRI radio networks with corresponding transcripts. The primary motivation for this collection is to provide training data for the DARPA "Hub-4" Project on continuous speech recognition in the broadcast domain. The speech files are available in a 19 disc training data set with one additional disc of development data and an additional disc of evaluation data. The following programs are represented in this corpus: ABC Nightline ABC World Nightly News ABC World News Tonight CNN Early Edition CNN Early Prime News CNN Headline News CNN Prime Time News CNN The World Today CSPAN Washington Journal NPR All Things Considered NPR Marketplace Transcripts have been made of all recordings in this publication, manually time aligned to the phrasal level, annotated to identify boundaries between news stories, speaker turn boundaries, and gender information about the speakers. The released version of the transcripts is in SGML format, and there is accompanying documentation, and an SGML DTD file, included with the transcription release. The transcripts are available via ftp. Because of restrictions imposed by the copyright holders of the news text, these corpora are available to 1997 and 1998 LDC members only. Members who wish to receive these corpora MUST SIGN BOTH THE USC AND THE NPR AGREEMENTS. These agreements are available on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/index.html">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/index.html</a>. If you would like to order a copy of these corpora, 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: <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/</a> 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: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: New Corpora from the Linguistic Data Consortium Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:15:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1191 (1191) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM COMLEX English Syntax Lexicon, Version 3.0 This is a moderately broad coverage English lexicon (with about 38,000 lemmas) developed at New York University under LDC sponsorship. It contains detailed information about the syntactic characteristics of each lexical item, and is particularly detailed in its treatment of subcategorization (complement structures). In the current dictionary, nouns have 9 possible features and 9 possible complements; adjectives have 7 features and 14 complements; verbs have 5 features and 92 complements; and adverbs have 11 positional classes and 12 features. The entries for 750 frequent verbs contain 100 tags each, where a tag includes: a pointer to an instance of that verb in a corpus and the subcategorization appropriate for that instance. This latest version of COMLEX Syntax has been updated to include the adverb classes. We also added diacritics to foreign words, while retaining the unaccented versions and performed various other updates to correct and supplement our lexical entries. For more details about this revised version, please contact Adam Meyers at New York University (meyers@cs.nyu.edu). This release is accompanied by the COMLEX Syntax Text Corpus, Version 2.0. The Text corpus consists of material from the following sources: The Brown Corpus, Francis, W. Nelson, 1964 Brown University, Providence Wall Street Journal Material, Copyright 1989 Dow Jones, Inc. San Jose Mercury News, Copyright 1991 San Jose Mercury News Associated Press, Copyright 1988 Federal Register materials courtesy of IBM; formatted version copyright 1992, University of Pennsylvania Computer Library materials copyright owned by Ziff Communications Company and other parties as their respective interests may appear. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1998 Membership Year will be able to receive COMLEX Syntax Lexicon 3.0 at no additional charge, in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Members who wish to receive this corpus must sign the COMLEX user agreement. This agreement is available on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/index.html">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/index.html</a>. Nonmembers can receive a copy of COMLEX Syntax Lexicon 3.0 for research purposes only for a fee of $1500. 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 <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/</a>. 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: Andrew Hawke <ach@aber.ac.uk> Subject: Revised Welsh dictionary website Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:34:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1192 (1192) The University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language now has a completely revised website offering much more information than before, including the full bibliography. Much use is made of forms to collect information from readers. The address is unchanged: <a href="http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww">http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww</a> Andrew Hawke, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, NLW, Aberystwyth. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Andrew Hawke ach@aber.ac.uk (01970) 627513 (+44) 1970 627513 (fx 627066) Golygydd Cynorthwyol/Rheolwr Systemau Assistant Editor/Systems Manager Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru University of Wales Dictionary Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH, U.K. URL: <a href="http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww/">http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Prolamat 98: Call for participation and Program Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:22:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1193 (1193) [deleted quotation] ---- Call for participation and Program ----- I I_______________________________I I I I I I I I >>> IFIP PROLAMAT 98 <<< I I -------I_______________________________I------- I I I TRENTO - ITALY September 9-11, & 12 1998 I ----------------------------------------------- The Call for papers has been very succesful: over 140 refereed papers will be presented at the conference in three technical tracks: 1 Sharing experience from telecom use in industry for agility and innovation 2 Human and machine communications, modeling, standard representation, reuse 3 Telecom and agility impact on software technology for discrete manufacturing The program will include keynote speeches, an applied track organised in thematic sessions, and a selection of R&TD projects co-financed by the European Community on subject areas related to PROLAMAT 98. For information about program, registration fees, accomodation and forms, please find the Call for participation and preliminary Program on the PROLAMAT 98 weekly updated web site: <a href="http://prolamat.cs.unitn.it">http://prolamat.cs.unitn.it</a> Please note that the deadline for the reduced registration fee is May 10, 1998, and that early registration and early travel & hotel booking is advisable. prof. Gianni Jacucci, Conference Chair From: Thierry van Steenberghe <t_vs@compuserve.com> Subject: Announcement -please post Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 13:11:20 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1194 (1194) *************************************************************************** Apologies in advance to those who receive more than one copy of this message. Please forward to lists or individuals you think may be interested. *************************************************************************** Second Announcement and Call for Participation! Please post. *************************************************************************** ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: International Conference "Magritte au risque de la sémiotique" Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium, 22-23 May 1998. *************************************************************************** The Theme o The conference is organized on the occasion of the centenary of René Magritte's birth (1898-1967). The importance of Magritte is considerable and his images are very often reproduced. Designed to thwart cultural habits, they are largely exploited by culture and have been "naturalised". People say about them "It's Magritte's". By deepening our knowledge of Magritte through semiotics, we hope to counter the cultural rob of this work's originality, due to its very success. o The work and thought of the Belgian surrealist painter form an area of study which lends itself particularly well to a semiotic analysis: is there a better example to introduce a reflection about the transparency and the opacity of signs than the famous "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"? Magritte presents his paintings as "a visible trace of thought": he reflected about the relation between "words and images" and about questions such as resemblance and similarity, the hidden visible, the representation, etc. o From putting together Magritte and semiotics, a reciprocal enlightenment can be expected: Magritte's work will allow semioticians to sharpen their concepts, while the semiotic analyses will bring a new understanding of the work. The invited speakers have been selected so as to trigger a confrontation between aesthetics and different semiotic approaches. Programme: Per Aage BRANDT, U. of Aarhus. (title to be announced) Joseph COURTES, Université de Toulouse II. Les valeurs personnelles, de R. Magritte Andre DE TIENNE, University of Indianapolis. Ceci n'est-il pas un signe ? Magritte sous le regard de Peirce Jean-Patrick DUCHESNE, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Bruxelles. Magritte et la publicité Nicole EVERAERT-DESMEDT, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Bruxelles. Un objet hybride. Etude de cas : La culture des Idées Groupe mu: Francis EDELINE et Jean-Marie KLINKENBERG, Université de Liège. Les pièges de l'iconisme. Nouvelle enquête sur le commissaire Magritte Rene JONGEN, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Bruxelles. De la justesse poétique, ou du dicible pongéen au visible magrittien Serge LEGARE, Université Laval, Québec. Iconisation, indexicalisation et symbolisation dans la peinture de Magritte Stamos METZIDAKIS, University of Washington. Magritte au carrefour de la peinture et du poème en prose Jose Maria NADAL, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao. Esthétique de la discursivisation et de la prédication chez Magritte Nathalie ROELENS, University of Antwerpen Les modalités de l'invisible magrittien Joël ROUCLOUX, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve. Un chant d'amour ? Chirico, Magritte, Breton The working language for the conference will be French. Related event: An important exhibition "Magritte" is held in Brussels from 6 march to 28 June 1998, at the "Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique". Please note that this exhibition is organized along a 'time slot' scheme, and is thus only accessible upon prior reservation. More information, e.g. about the programme and the lodging possibilities, as well as registration forms can be obtained from: Nicole EVERAERT-DESMEDT Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis boulevard du Jardin Botanique, 43 B-1000 Bruxelles (Belgium) Fax: +32-2-211-7997 E-mail: everaert@fusl.ac.be <a href="http://www.fusl.ac.be/magritte.html">http://www.fusl.ac.be/magritte.html</a> A French version of this announcement is available on request, and can also be found on the Web site indicated above or on the Web site of the AISV/IAVS (Association Internationale de Sémiotique Visuelle/International Association of Visual Semiotics), at the URL: <a href="http://www.iconet.com.br/aisv/calend.htm">http://www.iconet.com.br/aisv/calend.htm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu> Subject: Re: damage greater than suspected Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:54:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1195 (1195) [Recently a change in servers at Virginia resulted in a temporary loss of the Humanist archives. They are now restored. An unexpected benefit came to me in a message from John Unsworth, namely the following poetic meditations on loss and the grief we computing humanists so often suffer. --WM] ********************* A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. - - - - - - - - - - - - The Web site you seek cannot be located but endless others exist - - - - - - - - - - - - Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. - - - - - - - - - - - - ABORTED effort: Close all that you have. You ask way too much. - - - - - - - - - - - - First snow, then silence. This thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully. - - - - - - - - - - - - With searching comes loss and the presence of absence: "My Novel" not found. - - - - - - - - - - - - The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao, until You bring fresh toner. - - - - - - - - - - - - Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. - - - - - - - - - - - - Stay the patient course Of little worth is your ire The network is down - - - - - - - - - - - - A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. - - - - - - - - - - - - Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that - - - - - - - - - - - - Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. - - - - - - - - - - - - You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here. - - - - - - - - - - - - Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will. - - - - - - - - - - - - Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. - - - - - - - - - - - - Rather than a beep Or a rude error message, These words: "File not found." - - - - - - - - - - - - Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Toby Burrows <tburrows@library.uwa.edu.au> Subject: The Humanities in Australia: Strategic Review Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 09:58:41 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1196 (1196) Subscribers to HUMANIST may be interested in the following new report: Knowing Ourselves and Others: the Humanities in Australia into the 21st Century. (ISBN 0 642 23746 8) This Strategic Review was prepared by the Australian Academy of the Humanities for the Australian Research Council. It is in three volumes, and contains: * 29 recommendations on major issues affecting the future of humanities research in Australia; * surveys of 27 disciplines within the humanities in Australia; * "reflective essays" on a range of important topics, including "the information infrastructure"; * statistical tables and analyses. For more information, contact the Australian Academy of the Humanities: aah@anu.edu.au ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr Toby Burrows Principal Librarian, The Scholars' Centre The University of Western Australia Library Nedlands 6907, Western Australia E-mail: tburrows@library.uwa.edu.au Facsimile: + 61 8 9380 1128 Telephone: + 61 8 9380 2358 WWW: <a href="http://docker.library.uwa.edu.au/~tburrows/">http://docker.library.uwa.edu.au/~tburrows/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David M. Seaman" <dms8f@etext.lib.virginia.edu> Subject: Humanities Computing/Digital Library Job at Virginia Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:42:22 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1197 (1197) Humanities Computing/Digital Library Job at Virginia Associate Director Electronic Text Center The University of Virginia <a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/">http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/</a> WE WILL CONTINUE TO ACCEPT APPLICATIONS UNTIL THIS POSITION IS FILLED. The University of Virginia Library is seeking a creative, enthusiastic humanist who will help to develop the mission of the Electronic Text Center, aggressively implement and evaluate services, and ensure delivery of quality information and service in a dynamic environment. This faculty position reports to and assists the Center's Director in the overall planning and operation of the Center; develops the collection and maintains the Online Library of Electronic Texts; creates SGML-encoded humanities texts in TEI, and creates archival-quality digital images; maintains web interfaces for full-text databases; manages the development of ongoing faculty and University projects (such as multimedia research archives, course-related websites, grant-funded projects, and new uses for e-text); develops and teaches classes in electronic text and image creation and use; explores emerging etext standards and technologies. The University of Virginia is a national focal point for humanities computing and digital library initiatives. The Library includes electronic centers for texts, digital images, music and media, geospatial and statistical data, and rare books and manuscripts. In addition, we are closely allied to related UVa organizations, including the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), and the Teaching and Technology Initiative. The Library system consists of ten libraries, with independent libraries for health sciences, law, and business. The libraries serve 11,000 undergraduates, 6,000 graduate students and 1,600 teaching faculty. The Historic Grounds and Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village provide a gracious backdrop for teaching, learning, and reseach. Qualifications: Master's degree in library science, or master's degree in a related field such as the Humanities, required. Knowledge of and ability to use computer information technologies effectively and demonstrated familiarity with the methods of scholarly research, especially bibliography, textual criticism, and textual analysis. Experience creating and searching full-texts, familiarity with SGML/TEI and other tagging systems and with archival imaging standards. Experience with full-text search engines for PC and UNIX platforms. Knowledge of the UNIX operating system, X-Windows, and Internet protocols. Ability to conduct effective user education. Effective organizational, communication, presentation, and supervisory skills. Strong service orientation. Commitment to professional growth and development. Salary and Benefits: $35,000 or higher, depending on qualifications. General faculty status, generous vacation and sick leave, group health insurance, TIAA/CREF and other retirement plans. Applications received by April 24 will be given first consideration. WE WILL CONTINUE TO ACCEPT APPLICATIONS UNTIL THIS POSITION IS FILLED. Send letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, and phone numbers of three references to: Ms. Gail Oltmanns, Associate University Librarian, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-2498. The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Old IBM statement Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 14:29:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1198 (1198) [deleted quotation] This is a long shot, but I'm constantly surprised by the abstruse knowledge displayed by HUMANIST contributors, so here goes. A book I've been editing contained a parenthetical question by the author to himself, reading "(time to quote the old IBM statement?)". Naturally, I queried this, and the author replied: "I was going to quote the statement made in the 50's by IBM about the total needs of the world in terms of computing capacity, but i don't have the actual quote - it you can find it, it would be good to use." So - does anyone have details of the original quotation, or know where I might be able to find it? Many thanks, Iain Brown i_brown@compuserve.com (on behalf of a non-HUMANIST subscriber) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> Subject: Hypertext resources Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 14:28:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1199 (1199) [deleted quotation] Students and faculty in the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia have been working for some time to provide a variety of internet resources for the AS community. These now have enough richness and diversity that they may be of interest to subscribers to this list. Most immediately useful are a series of core-texts in American literature and history, hypertexts, hypertexts with search utilities, hypertexts with critical apparatus, and fully developed hypertexts that include large arrays of projects that place the central text in cultural con-texts. Texts now available include: The Education of Henry Adams, Wieland, The Red Badge of Courage, Letters from an American Farmer, Dicken's American Notes, Emerson's Representative Men, Sister Carrie, Uncle Remus, Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl, Studies in Classic American Literature, The Journals of Lewis and Clark (abridged), Melville's The Confidence Man, The Oregon Trail, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Walden, Turner's The Frontier in American History, Twain's Connecticut Yankee, Huckleberry Finn, Innocents Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, and Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. In addition, the texts of Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land: The West as Symbol and Myth and of Alexis deTocqueville's Democracy in America are presented inside of extensive hyper con-texts. <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html">http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html</a> In addition, we have an on-going project on the National Capitol Building where we are trying to read and re-present that structure as a hypertext, a quasi-sacred text of national identity. <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/cap_home.html">http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/cap_home.html</a> We also maintain the American Studies Yellow Pages, a series of subject specific guides for American Studies and related fields. These current, selective, and descriptive pointers to internet resources can be found at: <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~YP/yp_home.html">http://xroads.virginia.edu/~YP/yp_home.html</a> Finally, those subscribers who are interested in the ways in which this site and these assets are integrated into the teaching and learning process here at Virginia should go to: <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~AS@UVA/aspgrm.html">http://xroads.virginia.edu/~AS@UVA/aspgrm.html</a> Thank you. alan Alan B. Howard The University of Virginia abh9h@virginia.edu From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mgk3k@jefferson.village.virginia.edu> Subject: Blake Archive's April Update Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:38:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1200 (1200) The latest news of work completed here at the Blake Archive. Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward as appropriate. Matt K. -- The editors of the William Blake Archive <<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake</a>> are pleased to announce the publication of seven new electronic editions of Blake's illuminated books. They are: _The [First] Book of Urizen_ copy G _The Book of Los_ copy A _The Book of Ahania_ copy A _The Song of Los_ copy B _America, a Prophecy_ copy A _Europe, a Prophecy_ copy E _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ copy F We had announced _Urizen_ copy G as forthcoming two months ago, but formatting the double-columned text diplomatically in SGML for both Netscape and Internet Explorer proved more taxing and time consuming than anticipated. Such are the joys and tribulations of electronic publishing. Solving the problems there, though, ensured diplomatic transcriptions for Blake's other books with double-columned texts, _The Book of Ahania_ and _The Book of Los_. Together, these three works are often referred to as Blake's Bible of Hell or, simply, the Urizen books. _Urizen_, of which there are only seven extant copies, was first produced in 1794, color printed to form copies A, C, D, E (untraced), F, and J. It was printed again in 1795 to form copy B, which was produced as part of a set of illuminated books printed on large paper, and then one last time in c. 1818 to form copy G, which was produced in Blake's late printing and coloring style. The editors are currently working on copies A, B, C, and F and expect to have them in the Archive by the end of the year. _The Book of Ahania_ and _The Book of Los_ exist in unique copies, with only a few proof impressions extant. They were printed in 1795 and executed in intaglio instead of in relief etching, the technique Blake normally used for his illuminated books. Although their texts are printed in intaglio, their frontispieces are beautifully color printed from the surface of the plates. With _The Song of Los_, which consists of two parts entitled "Africa" and "Asia," we complete Blake's other series of illuminated books, sometimes known as the Continental Prophecies, begun in 1793 with _America_ and continued in 1794 with _Europe_. The copy of _The Song of Los_ included here is one of six extant; all were color printed in the same printing session in 1795. With fourteen complete copies extant, _America_ is not as rare as these other illuminated books, but copy A, which was printed and colored in 1795 as part of Blake's large-paper set of books, is, along with copies K, O, and M, one of only four colored copies-- and it was the model for copy K. Moreover, only it and copy O have the last four lines on plate 4, which was masked in the printing of the other copies. The Archive will include copies M and O (c. 1807 and 1818) later this year. Only nine copies of _Europe_ are extant, and only two of those, copies H and O (1795 and 1818), have plate 3, the Preludium. The Archive will include both of these copies by the end of the year. Copy E, included here, was lightly color printed on both sides of the paper in 1794 and joins copy B, color printed more heavily on one side of the paper the same year. _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ copy F is an exquisitely beautiful copy, heavily color printed (especially its frontispiece) in c. 1794, and never before reproduced. It joins copies C and J (both 1793), and will be joined later this year by copies G and P (1795 and 1818). All of these editions have newly edited texts; all images in the editions were scanned from either 4x5 or 8x10 transparencies, nearly all of which were made specifically for the Archive. Like our other editions, these are all SGML-encoded, fully searchable for both text and images and supported by the unique Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our previous updates. The Archive now contains sixteen copies of ten illuminated books. In the coming months, we will be adding copies of _All Religions are One_, _There is No Natural Religion_, _For the Sexes_, _Milton_, and _Jerusalem_, along with copies of books already in the Archive but from different printings. Our goal is to have the entire illuminated canon online this year. In addition, work continues on the SGML edition of David V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake_, which we anticipate releasing sometime this spring. Morris Eaves Robert Essick Joseph Viscomi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Emily Rose <erose@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Subject: Re: 11.0711 conferences Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:47:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1201 (1201) Am I the only one who thinks that subject matter entitled "Program" or "Annoucement" next to useless? I have to scroll down pages and pages to find out what is in Humanist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Ari Kambouris <aristotl@interport.net> Subject: Re: 11.0710 old IBM statement? Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:15:30 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1202 (1202) I believe that this was something to the effect that there will never be a need for more than 3 computers to house all of the information in the world. Unfortunately, I can only suggest that you contact the following witness to the actual event, but cannot provide his address. I was recently at the Interactive Culture Conference in NY <<a href="http://www.interactive-culture.org">http://www.interactive-culture.org</a>> and one of the speakers, Marvin Denicoff, a co-founder, in 1983, of Thinking Machines Corporation and an affiliate with MIT's Media Lab in the as a Principal Research Associate, corrected one of the other panelist who brought up the same quote. He had been at the meeting/conference where the chief of IBM made this statement. Perhaps he could be contacted through his position at MIT. Good Luck, Ari _________________________________________ Ari Kambouris The Metaphor Group, Inc. tel. 212.740.6306 pager 917.243.1548 (number then # key) e-mail <aristotl@interport.net> From: Orth_Michael_P/cpslo_employee1@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu Subject: 11.0710 old IBM statement? Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:54:39 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1203 (1203) I bet me means the statement by Watson (I think), president of IBM then, that the total world need for computers would not be more than three or four. Obviously, I don't have the quote quite, but that's close. And any book about Watson should turn it up. From: Jack Lynch <jlynch@dept.english.upenn.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0710 old IBM statement? Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:27:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1204 (1204) Iain Brown writes: [deleted quotation] I remember hearing it when I toured Penn's ENIAC Museum. The (then-?) curator of the museum is called Paul Shaffer; you can reach him at pws@eniac.seas.upenn.edu -- perhaps he'll know the source. From: Dorothy Day <day@indiana.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0710 old IBM statement? Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:33:18 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1205 (1205) See the following: <a href="http://www.iste.org/Publications/Future/Chapter2.html">http://www.iste.org/Publications/Future/Chapter2.html</a> which is a chapter of *The Future of Information Technology in Education,* containing a number of such amusing quotations. This one is given as: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. (Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.) Unfortunately, everywhere I've seen the quote, that's all the information provided. Everyone seem satisfied with getting a laugh, and no one bothers to say where the remark was made or first reported. Perhaps a search of a newspaper index for that year could turn it up. ***** Dorothy Day School of Library and Information Science Indiana University day@indiana.edu ***** "He also surfs who only sits and waits." From: Peter Evans <peterev@alles.or.jp> Subject: Re: 11.0710 old IBM statement? Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:37:44 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1206 (1206) Iain Brown wonders on an editor's behalf about "the statement made in the 50's by IBM about the total needs of the world in terms of computing capacity". My guess is that it is something allegedly said in 1943 by Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." This quotation is one of a number that appear on numerous web pages, among them: "Predictions" <<a href="http://www.ncns.com/predict.html">http://www.ncns.com/predict.html</a>> "Quotes" <<a href="http://lwg2.res.lehigh.edu/quotes.html">http://lwg2.res.lehigh.edu/quotes.html</a>> "Views on the Future" <<a href="http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/~kim/junk/future.html">http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/~kim/junk/future.html</a>> "If They only Knew" <<a href="http://warp.eecs.berkeley.edu/os2/funpage/last_words.html">http://warp.eecs.berkeley.edu/os2/funpage/last_words.html</a>> "Open Mouth, Insert Foot" <<a href="http://byrdd.home.mindspring.com/fun/quotes.htm">http://byrdd.home.mindspring.com/fun/quotes.htm</a>> "Wet Blankets throughout History" <<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jhr18/humor/wet_blankets_history.html">http://www.columbia.edu/~jhr18/humor/wet_blankets_history.html</a>> None purports to say where this or any of the other quotations comes from. I wonder if some are apocryphal. A quarter of an hour's Hotbotting around produced nothing more authoritative than their presentation in Prof. Ralph Droms' outline for Bucknell University's Fall 1996 course CS320, Computer Architecture: <<a href="http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~cs320/1996-fall/index.html">http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~cs320/1996-fall/index.html</a>>; Professor Droms also does not give his sources, but as he gives his mail address you might ask him. Perhaps the quotation appears in Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky's *The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation* (1984); I don't have a copy. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Peter Evans, Tokyo evans@i.hosei.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0714 an old pond, the frog goes plop! Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:50:31 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1207 (1207) Willard, et al: I hasten to add that the haiku I sent you didn't originate with me--they came to me from Jerry McGann, and to him from somewhere in California, and so on and so on. The death of the author has arrived... John From: Peter Evans <peterev@alles.or.jp> Subject: Re: 11.0714 an old pond, the frog goes plop! Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 09:33:47 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1208 (1208) The haiku are delightful. To see more (and the names of their authors), turn to: <a href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html">http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html</a> Mysteriously anonymized, they have been forwarded from one mailing list to another. (I myself first received a message containing them about a month ago, and immediately forwarded it to dozens of people.) For the original editors' bemused reactions to this, see: <a href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/rose/1998/02/24straight.html">http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/rose/1998/02/24straight.html</a> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Peter Evans, Tokyo evans@i.hosei.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: computer terms auf Deutsch Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:29:29 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1209 (1209) Would someone please recommend a printed or online source that translates current terms for computers and their parts from German into English? Thanks. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: DIGITIZING AWARDS ANNOUNCED Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:45:47 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1210 (1210) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 29, 1998 WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN 1997-98 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/AMERITECH NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY COMPETITION <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/98award/award98.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/98award/award98.html</a>> NEXT ROUND DEADLINE: NOV 2, 1988 The following seven projects were funded in the second round of the Library of Congress/Ameritech program to fund the creation of cultural digital library collections as part of its "National Digital Library Program". The deadline for proposals for the third of this three-year project is November 8, 1998. Specific Guidelines for the last round will be available in July 1998. Application workshops will be held: 1. WASHINGTON DC: Information sessions only: June 27, 3:30-4:00 p.m. and June 28, 4:00-4:30p.m. in the Visitors' Center, Madison Building, Library of Congress. 2. WASHINGTON DC: August 13, 1998 Washington, DC One-day open session on proposal preparation and technical requirements. The workshop is free but seating is limited to 55 and advance registration is required. For reservations, call (202) 707-1087 3. ORLANDO, FL: August 31-September 3, 1998 Orlando, FL Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting: A presentation will be scheduled. Check the final program for time and place. Individual consultations by appointment, call (202) 707-1087. David Green +++++++++++ "With a gift from Ameritech, the Library of Congress is sponsoring a three-year competition to enable public, research, and academic libraries, museums, historical societies, and archival institutions (except federal institutions) to create digital collections of primary resources. Eleven institutions received seven awards in the second year of the competition. The postmark deadline for the third competition year is November 2, 1998. For further information, see the competition homepage at <<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award</a>>. Chicago Historical Society Haymarket Affair: Chicago Anarchists on Trial Approximately 5,500 pages/images including the complete original transcripts of the proceedings of the historic Haymarket trial; the evidence books;' the original draft autobiographies written by two of the Haymarket defendants, and numerous pamphlets, accounts, and pictorial portrayals of the events in the popular press of the time. Contact person: Bernard Reilly, (312) 642-5035, <reilly@chicagohs.org>. Duke University The Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 8,500 images relating to the history of advertising including Eastman Kodak ads, tobacco related posters and insert cards, and ephemera representing ads for bicycles, patent medicines, and food. Contact person: Ellen Gartrell, (919) 660-5836, <egg@mail.lib.duke.edu>. Nebraska State Historical Society Prairie Settlement: A Story of Determination 2,500 glass plate negatives of images recording the process of settlement of Nebraska between 1886 and 1912 and approximately 3,000 pages from diaries and letters written by the Oblinger family as they moved from Indiana to settle in a sod house on the prairie. Contact person: Jill Marie Koelling, (402) 471-4409, <koelling@nebraskahistory.org>. Northwestern University North American Indian Photographs by Edward S. Curtis 2,222 plates from one of the best recognized and most significant records ever produced of the culture and daily life of about 80 Native American tribes. Contact person: Richard Frieder, (847) 491-4672, <frieder@nwu.edu>. University of Iowa Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century 38,000 talent flyers and promotional pamphlets representing text and images from performers and public speakers, including educational, cultural and religious lecturers, politicians, as well as vaudeville and variety acts. Contact person: Carol Hughes, (319) 335-5900, <carol_hughes@uiowa.edu>. University of Miami Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934 A consortial collection that includes materials from the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of South Florida. The collection documents the history of South Florida, especially the Everglades, which is a unique subtropical ecosystem that has a rich, but troubled history. Contact person: William E. Brown, Jr., (305) 284-3247, <wbrown@umiami.ir.miami.edu>. University of Washington American Indians of the Pacific Northwest A consortial collection that includes materials from the University of Washington, the Eastern Washington State Historical Society in Spokane, and the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle. The collection consists of 2,350 pictorial images and 6000 pages of selections from manuscripts, printed ephemera and journal articles concerning Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest from 1763 to 1920. Contact person: Gary Menges, (206) 543-1929, <menges@u.washington.edu>. From: John Price-Wilkin <jpwilkin@umich.edu> Subject: Meeting: TEI and XML in Digital Libraries Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:39:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1211 (1211) TEI and XML in Digital Libraries -Meeting sponsored by the Digital Library Federation- June 30-July 1, 1998 Washington, DC The Digital Library Federation is pleased to announce a two-day meeting on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) to be held at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. See <a href="http://www.hti.umich.edu/misc/ssp/workshops/teidlf.html">http://www.hti.umich.edu/misc/ssp/workshops/teidlf.html</a> for more information. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (co-editor TEI Guidelines and co-editor XML specification; University of Illinois, Chicago) and Lou Burnard (co-editor TEI Guidelines; Oxford University) will be among the invited guests. The meeting is open to all, on a space-available basis. Please register by sending the following information to tei-dlf@umich.edu. Please include the subject line "DLF-TEI Registration". Full name Institution Full mailing address Telephone number Fax number Email address ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: REVISED: Computing in the academy Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 15:56:14 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1212 (1212) Dear Colleagues: The following is a revised programme for the one-day colloquium, Computing in the academy, which takes place this Wednesday, 6 May, at King's College London. Unfortunately one of our speakers, Professor Stanley Katz, was forced by circumstances beyond his control to cancel his appearance, but we have been fortunate to get Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey in his stead, and so extend the scope of discussion to include a well-informed external view of the role of computing in the academy. Note as well that the order of speakers has changed, again due to an irresistible and unforseen change. Please circulate this message to anyone whom you might think to be interested. Yours, WM PLEASE POST / FORWARD --------------------- Computing in the academy -- A one-day colloquium at King's College London on the acceptance of computing in humanities scholarship 6 May 1998 -- 09:30 Registration and coffee 10.30 John Laver, Professor of Phonetics, Edinburgh, and first Chairman, Humanities Research Board, British Academy 11.30 Barry Ife, Cervantes Professor of Spanish and Vice-Principal, King's College London 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Antonio Zampolli, Professor of Linguistics, Pisa, and Director, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) 15.00 Coffee 15.30 Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Chairman, Chadwyck-Healey Ltd 16.30 Round Table discussion 17.00 Wine and conversation For more information, please see <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/seminars.html#new">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/seminars.html#new</a>>. ----- ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 11.0718 computer terms auf Deutsch? Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:01:27 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1213 (1213) [deleted quotation] May I remind all those who have such problems, that there exists one _Bibliografia di Informatica Umanistica_ (ed. Giovanni Adamo, Roma 1994). E.g., you can find under the nn. 890, 2800, 4407, 5272, 5365, items which fit Willard's request. Also, in the web page of CISADU you find the "catalogo" of the Biblioteca di Informatica Umanistica, with on-line interrogation by subject (e.g. see Informatica generale, Dizionari e enciclopedie). Cordialmente, Tito Orlandi ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <a href="http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi">http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi</a> From: Wolfgang Bechstein <wolfie@alles.or.jp> Subject: Re: Dokugo Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 06:47:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1214 (1214) I used to have a couple of printed dictionaries (or, more precisely, I still have them but they fell off the edge of my desk, so to speak), none too useful. Since these things age so quickly, and since I very rarely (read never) have to translate computerese *from* German (sometimes *into*, though), I haven't bought anything in that department for several years. I know there are several on-line dictionaries some of which might have a computer focus, but again, I'm not terribly au courant regarding these either. Possible starting points might be these two (rather slow-loading) lists: <a href="http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction2.html">http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction2.html</a> <a href="http://www.lai.com/glossaries.html">http://www.lai.com/glossaries.html</a> A friend [Andreas] keeps a subscription to a surprisingly meaty German computer mag [sorry, the name escapes me due to a momentary neuron blackout], and that's where I usually turn when I need info about up-to-date Teutonic compuspeak. Wolfgang Bechstein wolfie@alles.or.jp From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Dokugo, take 2 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 06:47:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1215 (1215) [deleted quotation]<peterev@alles.or.jp>) [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Margaret Lantry <mlantry@imbolc.ucc.ie> Subject: Re: 11.0717 complaint Date: 29 Apr 1998 10:00:41 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1216 (1216) Agreed, it's enormously useful if the Conference title is mentioned in the I may hit the delete key faster but at least I'm not fuming! Margaret Lantry On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Margaret Lantry mlantry@imbolc.ucc.ie Managing Editor +353-21-902736 Corpus of Electronic Texts <a href="http://www.ucc.ie/celt/">http://www.ucc.ie/celt/</a> Computer Centre University College Cork Ireland From: Dan Price <dprice@union1.tui.edu> Subject: RE: 11.0717 complaint Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:20:35 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1217 (1217) Re. the Posting of Information about Conferences of Possible Interest. Is it possible for the one posting the information simply to post a message to effect that those looking for more information could click on the following URL? Thank You, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 <a href="http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html">http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html</a> *********************************************************** From: MNIELSEN34 <MNIELSEN34@aol.com> Subject: Re: 11.0717 complaint Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:54:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1218 (1218) Though I have yet to attend one of these events or submit a paper, I still find it interesting and helpful to know what's going on out there in academia and humanities/computing-related areas. However, I do agree that the items could sometimes be shorter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Franklin Furnace: Archive & Performance Schedule Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:02:42 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1219 (1219) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 28, 1998 FRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE & LIVE PERFORMANCE ONLINE <<a href="http://channelP.com">http://channelP.com</a>> <www.franklinfurnace.org> Franklin Furnace, subject of one presentation in a "Museums & the Web" session on the "Virtualizing" of museums, is an example of an institution with both a cultural collection and performance space that it is taking into the digital realm: cataloging and archiving its artists' book collection online (now owned by New York's Museum of Modern Art) and presenting and archiving performance art online. David Green [deleted quotation] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: NEW ED WEB SITE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:50:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1220 (1220) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 28, 1998 U.S. DEPT. OF EDUCATION LAUNCHES INTEGRATED TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES WEBSITE: FEDERAL RESOURCES FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE (FREE) <<a href="http://www.ed.gov/free">http://www.ed.gov/free</a>> [deleted quotation]================================================================= ALAWON Volume 7, Number 43 ISSN 1069-7799 April 24, 1998 American Library Association Washington Office Newsline EDUCATION SAVINGS BILL PASSES SENATE; GORTON BLOCK GRANT INCLUDED DEPARTMENT OF ED ANNOUNCES ONE-STOP WEB SITE; TEACHERS AND OTHERS SOUGHT FOR PARTNERSHIPS WITH FEDERAL AGENCIES _________________________________________________________________ <<SNIP>> _________________________________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF ED ANNOUNCES ONE-STOP WEB SITE; TEACHERS AND OTHERS SOUGHT FOR PARTNERSHIPS WITH FEDERAL AGENCIES The Department of Education announced a new one-stop web site of federal resources for teaching and learning. The new site, called FREE, or Federal Resources for Educational Excellence, links more than 45 federal agencies. The tool is expected to provide a way for federal agencies and teachers to begin forming partnerships to develop additional high-quality, standards-based resources for teaching and learning. The FREE web site is at <a href="http://www.ed.gov/free">http://www.ed.gov/free</a>. As part of FREE, the Department is hoping to award support for up to seven partnerships of federal agencies and teachers, as well as other organizations. Each partnership will develop two products: 1) a set of Internet-based learning resources organized around a topic and tied to challenging academic standards, and 2) an Internet-based learning community of teachers, students and other who use the developed resources. Proposals to be submitted by federal agencies on behalf of each partnership and must be received by May 19, 1998. The invitation requesting proposals and the complete application can be found at: <a href="http://www.ed.gov/free/980406.html">http://www.ed.gov/free/980406.html</a> _________________________________________________________________ ALAWON is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. To subscribe, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc @ala.org. To unsubscribe, send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc@ala.org. ALAWON archives at <a href="http://www.ala.org/">http://www.ala.org/</a> washoff/alawon. Visit our Web site at <a href="http://www.alawash.org">http://www.alawash.org</a>. ALA Washington Office 202.628.8410 (V) 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, #403 202.628.8419 (F) Washington, DC 20004-1701 800.941.8478 (V) Lynne E. Bradley, Editor <leb@alawash.org> Deirdre Herman, Managing Editor <alawash@alawash.org> Contributors: Mary Costabile Claudette Tennant All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: George Aichele <gaichele@adrian.adrian.edu> Subject: query Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:00:54 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1221 (1221) Sorry is this is inappropriate -- it's way out of my field. My daughter is seeking a story about an angel who refused to take the soul of a child and as punishment was cast out of heaven and became a shoemaker on earth. Possibly by Tolstoy. Any suggestions? Thanks! George Aichele gaiche@tc3net.com <a href="http://users.tc3net.com/gaiche">http://users.tc3net.com/gaiche</a> voice: 517-265-4401 fax: 517-265-7414 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: NEACN: Jack Lynch 8 May Date: Mon, 4 May 98 21:10:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1222 (1222) New York University's Academic Computing Facility (ACF) and the Northeast Association for Computing and Humanities NEACH) invite you to hear a talk on Friday, May 8, 1998 at 2:00 pm in Room 109, Warren Weaver Building, West 4th and Mercer Streets, New York City ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack Lynch, The University of Pennsylvania _Frankenstein_: The Pennsylvania Electronic Edition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Futurists have a habit of dealing in abstractions, and many discussions of electronic textuality therefore make tentative speculations or grand promises about how the world will be transformed by various technologies of the word. This talk will be concerned not with technology's promises, but with the nitty-gritty side of a very large hypertext project nearing completion, the Pennsylvania Electronic Edition of Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_, edited by Stuart Curran. The talk will focus on the practical considerations that have gone into creating one of the largest literary hypertexts yet created -- the two hundred pages of the novel are situated in over twenty thousand pages of commentary. A demonstration of the project will accompany the discussion of the design decisions, from choice of copytext to choice of software, and we'll address the compromises demanded by the current state of the technology. The emphasis will be not on what electronic textuality may do down the road, but on the (often unexpected) implications of an actual large-scale hypertext. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack Lynch is an eighteenth century special in the English department of the University of Pennsylvania. His web site, "Literary Resources of the Net" is one of the best known in its field <<a href="http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Lit/">http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Lit/</a>>. -------------------------------------------------------------------- All faculty, staff, students , and members of the public are welcome. At the conclusion of Jack Lynch's talk, there will be an open reception with refreshments. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Academic Computing Facility Fax: (212) 995 4120 New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/">http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/</a> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heyward Ehrlich E-mail: ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu President, NEACH <a href="http://english-newark.rutgers.edu/neach98sp.html">http://english-newark.rutgers.edu/neach98sp.html</a> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: what we're up against Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 08:51:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1223 (1223) Dear Colleagues: The following will give you some idea of the efforts being expended to reach you with adverts. WM [deleted quotation]- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Meeting: TEI and XML in Digital Libraries Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 10:20:04 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1224 (1224) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 4, 1998 TEI & XML IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES Two-Day Meeting. June 30-July 1, 1998 Sponsored by the Digital Library Federation Location: Library of Congress <<a href="http://www.hti.umich.edu/misc/ssp/workshops/teidlf.html">http://www.hti.umich.edu/misc/ssp/workshops/teidlf.html</a>> Having reached a certain maturity and widespread implementation by many digital library projects, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) faces a number of challenges, among them input from librarians in its further development and implementation and questions about the impact of the soon to be uguquitous XML. To consider these and other issues, the Digital Library Federation is organizing an open 2-day meeting at the Library of Congress. Details at the URL above. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] TEI and XML in Digital Libraries -Meeting sponsored by the Digital Library Federation- June 30-July 1, 1998 Washington, DC The Digital Library Federation is pleased to announce a two-day meeting on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) to be held at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. See <a href="http://www.hti.umich.edu/misc/ssp/workshops/teidlf.html">http://www.hti.umich.edu/misc/ssp/workshops/teidlf.html</a> for more information. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (co-editor TEI Guidelines and co-editor XML specification; University of Illinois, Chicago) and Lou Burnard (co-editor TEI Guidelines; Oxford University) will be among the invited guests. The meeting is open to all, on a space-available basis. Please register by sending the following information to tei-dlf@umich.edu. Please include the subject line "DLF-TEI Registration". Full name Institution Full mailing address Telephone number Fax number Email address =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ============================================================== From: CATAC 98 <catac98@arch.usyd.EDU.AU> Subject: Update on CATaC98 Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 18:00:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1225 (1225) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC98) 1-3 August 1998, Science Museum, London <a href="http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/">http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/</a> <a href="http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac/">http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac/</a> catac98@arch.usyd.edu.au Computer-mediated communication (CMC) networks, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, offer tantalizing possibilities of global communications. If such communications facilitate dialogues that both cross and preserve irreducible cultural and political boundaries, they may contribute immeasurably to greater global understanding and democratization. But diverse cultural attitudes towards technology and communication also issue in culturally distinctive ways of implementing and using CMC technologies. Some of these culturally-grounded differences in implementation and use frustrate, rather than facilitate, hopes for greater global communication. Our thematic question: how do diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of CMC technologies? The conference brings together presenters from throughout the world who will provide diverse perspectives - both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference themes: * The politics of the electronic global village * Homogeneity, marginalization, and the preservation of local cultures * Communication in industrialized cultures * Communication in industrializing/capitalizing countries * East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Theater metadata standards Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 16:57:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1226 (1226) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 4, 1998 [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@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Hartmut Krech <kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de> Subject: Re: 11.0718 computer terms auf Deutsch? Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 12:22:35 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1227 (1227) A quick search at <a href="http://www.telebuch.de">http://www.telebuch.de</a>, the biggest online bookseller in germany that has just been purchased by amazon.com and will sell American books in Germany at American retail prices without customs and duties, returns the following results: Grieser, F. (Ed.): Computer-Lexikon. Muenchen: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1998 Schulze, H. (Ed.): Computerkuerzel. Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag, 1998 (only about abbrev.) Walk, H.: Lexikon Electronic Publishing. Verlag: Beruf und Schule, 1996 Regards, Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany "with computer-stained fingers" (Roy Harper, 1970) From: "H-CLC (Barbara Diederichs)" <bdiederi@ucsd.edu> Subject: RE: 11.0718 computer terms auf Deutsch? Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 23:52:09 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1228 (1228) And while you are at it, how about French? Thanks! Barbara Diederichs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: text-analysis Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 11:38:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1229 (1229) [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] I have been thinking recently about exemplary problems in text-analysis, whether this is done algorithmically or metatextually, in markup. My context is popularist, I hope in the best sense of the term, i.e. arising from the need to reach undergraduates on the one hand and recalcitrant colleagues on the other. Between those two, more in the line of what we call research, is I think some genuine gold ore. By exemplary I mean particularly rich, complex, difficult, taking these qualities to exemplify the problem of interpretation most fully. What sort of texts, what genres? I would think the kind that works mostly by suggestion. A very simple example would be Victorian pornography, but that was written to be transparent, usually involving (I'm guessing, of course never having read any :-) nothing more difficult than substitution of one term (e.g. "flower") for another ("%$£^"). Possibly current text-analytic techniques can handle that kind quite easily, and perhaps we'll see very soon some articles on the subject in our learned journals. Cheap shots aside, however, I'd think that texts that cannot say what they must say, because the recipient's reaction is uncertain, as in preliminary verbal flirting, because the message may be read but must not be understood by others than the intended or because the author is writing in extremis, perforce in a "language of the unsayable" about matters that lie outside the orbit of language altogether. Take, for example, attempted communication between lovers so estranged that no communication is possible: words that tear one apart mean nothing to the other. Does this not suggest that meaning cannot lie in words at all but is evoked by them? Contrast this with a situation of intense intimacy, in which any textual trace whatever is sufficient, any word suggestive of that intimacy. Doesn't this indicate the same tangential relationship between words and meaning? So what can be the business of text-analysis? All this leads me to think that the textual analysis of love letters, or more accurately letters between lovers, future, present and former, would make a wonderful project, if only to indicate the enlightening futility of the attempt. What other kinds of texts would work well along such lines? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: philately Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:11:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1230 (1230) Willard, Postage stamps may only peripherally interest the readers of Humanist. However, when these mark the anniversary of a copyright law and depict cultural production, they may deserve some attention. I borrow the following description of a recent Tawainese issue from Robert Aaron writing in the Toronto Star of April 25. Its innovative design features 10 symbols representing categories of human creative or intellectual endeavour protected under the law. They are all superimposed across the silhouette of a human head, symbolizing brainstorming. Surrounding the head is a rainbow, symbolizing wisdom, while two hands -- signifying protection -- cup the head. The symbols within the head represent works of written or oral language, music, drama and dance, fine arts, photography, graphics, audiovisuals, sound recording, architecture and computer programming. That is a lot of freight to make one stamp carry. I am curious as to how it would be carried off. And curious about other matters as well. Since Aaron disingenuously concludes his ekphraksis with a statement of being unable to provide an illustration of the design since it is itself the subject of copyright, one wonders if he or his editor ever sought the right to reproduce an image of the stamp. One could observe the incursion of the trope of irreproducibility in other contemporary discourses. Then again one could consider permission seeking and the different production scales of newspaper publishing and academic presses. Or to return to specifics, one could try to find out if the Tawain postal service has a WWW site and meditate upon the ephemerality of pretexts and the construction of archives. Of course that's a lot of questions for one instance to generate. As ever intrigued by the telling detail, Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Hartmut Krech <kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de> Subject: Electronic Bacon Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 20:13:39 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1231 (1231) As far as I know, there is no electronic version of Sir Francis Bacon's "Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning" on the Net; it was first published in 1605 and is dedicated "To the King." I have just finished digitizing the text (using Yefim Schukin's excellent OCR software Cuneiform 3.1 [www.ocr.com]) and would like to place the results into public domain. My electronic version has the page numbering of Spedding's 1854 edition and the analytical chapter and section numerals of Wright's 1869 edition. Lacking a homepage of my own, I should appreciate any suggestions for institutions that would like to house the text. Please try to contact me directly at the eMail address given. Regards, Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: DECADE OF DANCE PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 15:03:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1232 (1232) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 4, 1998 A DECADE OF DANCE PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM Papers Available at: <<a href="http://www.preserve-inc.org/decade/papers.html">http://www.preserve-inc.org/decade/papers.html</a>> Although the notice for this meeting came in rather late and the symposium occurred this past weekend, the website contains abstracts of the papers delivered at the conference. The issues of dance preservation itself is not directly an issue for NINCH, but the fact that they are at the heart of networking dance performances and dance resources make it an important issue. Abstracts available are as follows: Introduction Images of American Dance: Documenting and Preserving a Cultural Heritage Report on a study sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Panel 1: Archives of a Company, Person or Tradition American Dance Legacy Institute, Carolyn Adams Classic Black, Jonnie Green Classic Black, Dawn Lillie Horwitz African American Dance Ensemble, Andrea Lawson Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sherry Hunter New York Baroque Dance Ensemble, Catherine Turocy Legacy Oral History Project, Jeff Friedman Erick Hawkins Dance Foundation, Rogert Engstrom Jose Limon Dance Foundation, Carla Maxwell Panel 2: Film and Video Initiatives Momenta - Doris Humphrey , Stephanie Clemens and Amy Reusch Bay Area Video Coalition , Sally Jo Fifer George Balanchine Foundation, Nancy Reynolds Check Your Body at the Door, Sally Sommer House Foundation for the Arts, Barbara Duffy UCLA Dance/Media Project, Judy Mitoma Panel 3: Technological Innovations Ohio State University OSU-MDP, Vera Maletic Dance Notation Bureau, Illene Fox Benesh Institute, Andrew Ward Cunningham Dance Foundation, David Vaughan Arizona State University, John Mitchell Panel 4: Library and Archival Initiatives Dance Librarians Discusison Group, Mary Strow Dance Archives in England, Mary Edsall Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Norton Owen Lawrence and Lee Theatre Institute, Nena Couch Dance Heritage Coalition, Michelle Forner and Catherine Johnson David Green =========== * * * PLEASE EXCUSE CROSS-POSTING *** PRESERVE, INC. presents A DECADE OF DANCE PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY - MAY 1 AND 2 at the JOYCE SOHO THEATER 155 MERCER STREET, NEW YORK CITY How do we preserve the legacy of dance? How do we document our cultural heritage? What has been achieved in the field over the past ten years? A DECADE OF DANCE PRESERVATION will examine these issues and disseminate models of preservation, providing a framework for other dance companies and organizations to follow, strengthening our dance heritage and setting an agenda for the next decade. Using the findings from the NEA/Mellon Foundation report IMAGES OF AMERICAN DANCE: DOCUMENTING AND PRESERVING A CULTURAL HERITAGE as a point of departure, representatives from some forty major dance documentation and preservation projects will explore the range of archival initiatives undertaken in the past ten years. An exposition of dance preservation models, videotapes, books, films, CD-ROM's, websites, and new technologies will be on display throughout Saturday's sessions. If you can't join us in person, please join us on-line at www.preserve-inc.org. Click on the SYMPOSIUM logo on our home page to get the conference schedule and abstracts of papers to be presented on the topics of: Archives of a Person, Company, or Tradition; Film and Video Initiatives; Technological Innovations; and Library and Archival Initiatives. We invite you to visit the symposium website and share your thoughts and insights about dance documentation and preservation. Your comments, questions, and contributions will help inform the field. Cheers! Leslie Hansen Kopp Executive Director Preserve, Inc. Preserve_Inc@msn.com From: "S.A.Rae" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: RE: 11.0719 computer terms auf Deutsch Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 14:18:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1233 (1233) [My apologies -- this should have been grouped with the digest specifically about terms in German. Faulty wetware. --WM] There is a web site connected with the European Commission DG13 that attempts online translation between any of the various languages of Europe. It is at: <a href="http://www2.echo.lu/edic/">http://www2.echo.lu/edic/</a> I tried it with the English phrase 'word processing', specified into German and got this response: EURODICAUTOM Query Results ---------- new record --------     English Keyword 1) text-processing; 2) text processing; 3) word processing German Keyword Textverarbeitung ---------- end of records --------     Then I tried the other way around and at least got the same suggestion (I didn't know any German to begin with!). I'm not sure where it picked up the text processings from ... I would assume from reports on other work that the EC have been doing that EDIC could be expected to be quite good with technical terms (and not so good perhaps, with philosophical queries). Cheers Simon * Simon A Rae * ACS-CAST, The Open University, Walton Hall, MILTON KEYNES. MK7 6AA * OU's WWW home page - <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/">http://www.open.ac.uk/</a> From: Marco Palone <palomar@itelcad.it> Subject: R: 11.0724 angel cast out Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 23:16:10 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1234 (1234) Dear George Aichele, I know the title of the story your daughter is seeking. The story was written by Lev Tolstoy and the title is (sorry, translated from italian) "What makes the men living". Unfortunately I don't have the original title. However, this should be a good clue for you. Good Luck! Marco Palone Dottore in Lettere classiche via di casa colonnella, 285 00031 Artrena - Roma (Italy) From: Linda Bandy <Linda.Bandy@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0724 angel cast out, becomes shoemaker? Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 0:59 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1235 (1235) Sounds like Pinoccio to me -- the book, not the Disney movie. From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@uic.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0717 complaint Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 18:57:08 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1236 (1236) At 20:06 28.04.98 +0100, Emily Rose wrote: [deleted quotation] Note that messages in Humanist are consistently separated by lines of hyphens. If your email reader has a search function, you should be able to get to the end of a long posting fairly quickly even if you just search for a bunch of hyphens. If you actually attend to the way the message numbers are formatted, you should be able to get there in a single jump. Me, I don't mind long conference announcements in Humanist. Most are for conferences I am not directly interested in, but some are for conferences I won't go to but wish I could; I don't mind reading about the details. And some are for conferences I will in fact attend. And then I am usually grateful to have the information all there in Humanist, without having to look somewhere else for it. I may be the only one, but if you're counting votes, Willard, put me down as saying I do not mind hitting Page Down a few times, or Delete once. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen University of Illinois at Chicago ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1237 (1237) This is the end of volume 11 of Humanist From: John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: DRH '99: last call Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 09:10:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1238 (1238) The last few places for DRH99 @ King's College London are going fast--- if you're thinking of attending, register now to avoid disappointment! If you're unable to attend, we recomment our web site to your attention: it contains abstracts for all the panels and talks at the conference, and an extensive catalogue of the exhibitions that are being mounted at the conference by scholars, publishers, libraries, and museums: <<a href="http://www.drh.org.uk/">http://www.drh.org.uk/</a>> John Lavagnino, King's College London From: Alison Stevenson <A.Stevenson@chart99.events.arts.gla.ac.uk> Subject: CHArt99 Annual Conference Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 09:10:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1239 (1239) Only a short time left to register: CHArt99 DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS: Design, Heritage and Architecture University of Glasgow, 24-25 September 1998 <a href="http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Chart99/index.htm">http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Chart99/index.htm</a> The annual conference for Computers in the History of Art, CHArt99 fast approaches. This year's conference will focus on the impact of computers on the designing, study and preservation of the built environment. Papers will be presented describing projects and research from countries throughout the world, including Japan, New Zealand, Italy, Turkey, France and the United Kingdom. Topics covered will include: Reconstruction Conservation Research methodologies Virtual archives Teaching and Information Projects and Demonstrations A full conference programme appears below. You can register for the conference on line at: http:www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Chart99/Register.htm. The Reception on Friday evening will be hosted by the City of Glasgow and will be in St Mungo's Museum. [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: SILFI - VI Convegno Internazionale Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 09:17:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1240 (1240) [a translation of into English follows] [deleted quotation] [material deleted] [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: ICHIM '99 reminder Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 09:21:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1241 (1241) [deleted quotation][material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mgk3k@jefferson.village.virginia.edu> Subject: Re: 13.0169 humanities computing Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 09:09:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1242 (1242) [deleted quotation] My own opinion is that this is a false predicament. The so-called "technological base" is an ever-receding plateau. Witness the Apple G4, which cannot be legally exported to certain countries because it is technically classifiable as a supercomputer. What will humanists do with a supercomputer on their desktop? There will _always_ be pockets of high-end users who refuse to permit their tools to become transparent. [deleted quotation] To paraphrase Bill Clinton, that depends on how you define "it." ;-) [deleted quotation] Best, Matt : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor, Department of English Research in Computing for Humanities Group <a href="http://www.rch.uky.edu">http://www.rch.uky.edu</a> University of Kentucky Technical Editor, The William Blake Archive mgk@pop.uky.edu mgk3k@jefferson.village.virginia.edu <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/</a> From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: after the Revolution Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 09:10:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1243 (1243) In Humanist 13.162, Hope Greenberg mischievously (I assume) asks, [deleted quotation] and [deleted quotation] These are questions asked many times before -- but still interesting to consider and reconsider. I think of the implied argument as a "withering away of the State" assertion, which is not an unintelligent thing to imagine, just to assume or act as if it will ever actually happen. I'd think that if computers were to become ubiquitous, the questions to which we are occasionally awakening would be considerably more urgent because more widely instantiated in the things of academic and daily life. There is, however, a partially hidden assumption in the idea that computation will be invisible in scholarship, at the edges of rational thought where what can be said in computationally recognisable form breaks down into what we know but cannot say how we know -- though we know we must keep on trying. (Ah yes, thank you, Mr Eliot, "The rest is not our business.") As John Searle notes in his discussions of the Chinese Room parable -- for example, in the brilliantly accessible Minds, Brains and Science: The 1984 Reith Lectures (read it tonight!) -- the problem fundamentally has nothing whatever to do with how powerful the machine is or how clever the algorithm -- or how cheap the product. For us as humanists, in other words, there will always be interesting problems, though we may quickly be able to put to bed the uninteresting impediments to reaching them. (Yes, I see the metaphor struggling to free itself to better use -- please be patient.) For us as human beings, I dare say, we will continue as long as we are *alive* to spend our lifetimes in unpacking such mad, totally unjustifiable utterances as "I love you", however thoroughly these might be collocated with all other things we have said, thought, done, or however quickly such utterances may be flashed across the distances separating those who would communicate. Ok, computation is all around me and I don't think about it much, in my microwave oven, in my clock-radio, in the machine that gives me money too often. Ceasing to think about these, as I will again in a few minutes, they become invisible -- though they are part of a world I wonder about consciously for much of the time I am awake. But more importantly, I think, it's not that the target of thought has vanished, rather it has moved on. In mathematicians' terms, a problem has been rendered trivial (which doesn't mean I can solve it, just that I know it has been solved, so I can move on). Since with computers the problem has always to do with the fuzzy boundary between computation and knowledge, there's no threat to us, only opportunities. Do we have the wit and energy to realise them? When all books are bits? Oi veh es mir! I urge you to look again at The Bed, <<a href="http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/short-talk/cd.htm">http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/short-talk/cd.htm</a>>, formerly brought to your attention in Humanist 12.609, and meditate on why this provokes (I very much hope) a profound uneasiness. 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