From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 14-SEP-1989 15:21:56.90 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 4" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:21 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 2115; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:20:48 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 7510; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:20:46 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 7932; Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:19:16 EDT Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:19:10 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 4" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Autobiographies of HUMANISTs Third Supplement Following are 19 more entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the HUMANIST discussion group. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome, to MCCARTY at UTOREPAS.BITNET. W.M. 11 October 1987 ========================================================================= *Bratley, Paul Departement d'informatique et de r.o., Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, Succursale A, MONTREAL, Canada H3C 3J7, (514) 343 - 7478 I have been involved in computing in the humanities since the early 1960s, when I worked at Edinburgh University on automated mapping of Middle English dialects. Since then I have been involved in projects for syntax recognition by computer and a number of lexicographical applications. With Serge Lusignan I ran for seven years at the University of Montreal a laboratory which helped users with all aspects of computing in the humanities. As a professor of computer science, it is perhaps not surprising that my interests lie at the technical end of the spectrum. I designed, with a variety of graduate students, such programs as Jeudemo (for producing concordances), Compo (for computer typesetting), and Fatras (for fast on-line retrieval of words and phrases), all of which were or are still used inter- nationally in a variety of universities. My main current research interest involves the design of a program for on-line searching of manuscript catalogues. The idea is to be able to retrieve incipits despite unstable spelling and such-like other variants in medieval texts. The project, involving partners in Belgium, Morocco and Tunisia is intended to work at least for Latin, Greek and Arabic manuscripts, and possibly for others as well. ========================================================================= *Carpenter, David I am an assistant professor of theology at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia (excuse the typos!) with training primarily in the history of religions. I work on Indian traditions (Hinduism and Buddhism) as well as some work on Western Medieval material. I have recently been engaged in putting a Sanskrit test into machine-readable form and would like to see what else has been done. ========================================================================= *Dixon, Gordon Bitnet Editor-in-Chief, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Institute of Advanced Studies, Manchester Polytechnic, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6BH U.K. In particular, my interest lies in the publication of good quality papers in the areas of: Computers applied to literature and language. Computing techniques. Reports on research projects. Hardware and software. CAL and CALL. Word Processing for Humanities. Teaching of computer techniques to language and literature students. Survey papers and reviews. ========================================================================= *Gilliland, Marshall Department of English, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 0W0 (306) 966-5501 campus, (306) 652-5970 home I'm a professor of English whose literary specialty is American literature, and I also teach expository prose, first-year classes, and utopian literature in English. Thus far, I'm the lone member of my department to use a mainframe computer and to teach writing using a computer. Most immediately, I'm the faculty member responsible for getting a large computer lab for humanities and social science students in the college, and one of the few faculty promoting using computers. I maintain the list ENGLISH on CANADA01. ========================================================================= *Hamesse, Jacqueline Universite Catholique de Louvain, Chemin d'Aristote, 1, B-1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE (Belgium) Je suis membre du Comite d'ALLC et Co-ordinator de l'organisation des Conferences annuelles de cette association. D'autre part, je suis Professeur a l'Universite Catholique de Louvain et Presidente de l'Institut d'Etudes Medievales. Je travaille depuis vingt ans dans le domaine du traitement des textes philosophiques du moyen age a l'aide de l'ordinateur. Pour le moment, j'etudie surtout les possibilites offertes par l'ordinateur pour la collation et le classement des manuscrits medievaux. Je viens de lancer avec Paul Bratley de l'Universite de Montreal un projet international de Constitution d'une base de donnees pour les incipits de manuscrits medievaux (latins, grecs, hebreux et arabes). ===================================================================== *Hubbard, Jamie I teach in the area of Asian Religions at Smith College, focusing on East Asian Buddhism. I am also active in attempting (??!!) to archive Chinese materials on CD-ROM and other sundry projects (IndraNet, bulletin board/ conferencing for Buddhist Studies, has been around for app. 2 yrs). ========================================================================= *Hughes, John J. (for other electronic addresses, see bottom of front page of last issue of the "Bits & Bites Review") 623 Iowa Ave., Whitefish, MT 59937, (406) 862-7280 Background: Vanderbilt University, Westminster Theological Seminary, Cambridge University. I taught in the Religious Studies Department at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, from 1977-1982. I am now the Editor/Publisher of "Bits & Bytes Review," the author of "Bits, Bytes, & Biblical Studies: A Resource Guide for the Use of Computers in Biblical and Classical Studies," and a contributing editor to Joe Raben's "The Electronic Scholars Resource Guide." I am also a free-lance editor and technical writer. I am a member of the ACH and ALLC. ========================================================================= *James, Edward Dept of History, University of York, Heslington, YORK YO1 5DD, U.K. My interests are in the field of early medieval history, specifically Frankish history, and with a special interest in Merovingian cemeteries. ========================================================================= *Jones, Randall L. Humanities Research Center, 3060 JKHB, Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602, (Tel.) 8013783513 I am a Professor of German and the Director of the Humanities Research Center at Brigham Young University. I have been involved with using the computer in language research and instruction since my graduate student days at Princeton, 1964-68. My activities have included the development of language CAI, diagnostic testing with the computer, interactive video (I worked on the German VELVET program), computer assisted analysis of modern German and English and the development and use of electronic language corpora. I have worked closely with the developers of WordCruncher (aka BYU Concordance) to make certain that the needs of humanists are properly met (e.g. foreign character sets, substring searches, etc.). In 1985 I organized (with the good assistance of my colleagues in the HRC) the 7th International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, which was held at BYU. I am a member of the Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Chairman of the Educational Software Evaluation Committee of the Modern Language Association, a member of the Committee on Information and Communication Technology of the Linguistic Society of America, and a member of the Editorial Board of "SYSTEM". I have written articles and given lectures on many aspects of the computer and language research and instruction. ========================================================================= *Lane, Simon Computing Service, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, England. I am currently employed as a Programmer in the Computing Service at Southampton University, England, and have special responsibility for liaison with the Humanities departments within the University, and support of their computing needs. ========================================================================= *Lessard, Greg I am a linguist (Ph.D. 1983, Laval, in differential linguistics, for a study of formal mechanisms of antonymy in English and French). I have been teaching in the Department of French Studies at Queen's since 1978 and have been involved in humanities computing for several years now, in a variety of areas: 1) computer-aided analysis of literary texts. In 1986 Agnes Whitfield and I gave a paper at the annual meeting of the "Association canadienne- francaise pour l'avancement des sciences" where we used a computer analysis to compare two novels by Michel Tremblay and Victor-Levy Beaulieu, respectively. Agnes is also in French Studies. 2) production of computer-readable texts. For the past year or so, I have participated in a group project in the Department of French Studies at Queen's which involves the entry into the mainframe of computer-readable texts by means of a Kurzweil data entry machine. 3) concordance production. J.-J. Hamm (of Queen's) and I are working on a concordance of the novel "Armance" by Stendhal. 4) linguistic analysis. I make heavy use of the computer in my work analysing errors in student texts produced in French. 5) annotation. Diego Bastianutti (of Queen's) and I are working in the area of annotation as a teaching tool in the humanities. We gave a paper at this year's Learned Societies where we outlined our research and presented a prototype of an annotation facility based on the word processing program "PC-Write". 6) computer-aided instruction. With a group of colleagues in the languages and in computer science at Queen's, I am working on an intelligent computer-aided instruction system for French, other Romance languages, and eventually a variety of other languages as well. We are in the second year of this multi-year project, funded in part by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities of Ontario. ========================================================================= *Logan, George M. Professor and Head, Department of English, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6; 613-545-2154 My area of literary specialization is the English Renaissance. For my research interests in computer applications to literary studies, see the biography of my colleague David Barnard. For 1986-87, I have been chairman of the Steering Group for Humanities Computing of five Ontario universities: McMaster, Queen's, Toronto, Waterloo, and Western Ontario. I am also a member of the steering group of the Ontario Consortium for Computing and the Humanities. ========================================================================= *Ravin, Yael YAEL(YKTVMH2) I have an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from Columbia University and a Ph.D in Linguistics from the City University of New York. My Ph.D thesis is about the semantics of event verbs. I am a member of the Natural Language Processing Group at the Watson Research Center of IBM. My work consists of writing rules in a computer language called PLNLP for the detection of stylistic weaknesses in written documents. I am now beginning research in semantics. This research consists of developing PLNLP rules to investigate the semantic content of word definitions in an online dictionary, in order to resolve syntactic ambiguity. ========================================================================= *Reimer, Stephen I am an assistant professor of English, using computers extensively both in research and in teaching. My introduction to computer use in the humanities came in the late 70s when I was beginning my dissertation and was faced with an authorship question in a set of medieval texts--I thought that the problem might be resolvable through quantitative stylistics with the help of the computer. Through John Hurd at the Univ. of Toronto, I learned the rudiments of programming in SNOBOL and learned much about concordancing algorithms; on this basis, I wrote a rather large and sloppy program to "read" any natural language text and to generate a substantial number of statistics. Producing the dissertation itself involved me with micro-computers and laser printers. And when I began teaching after graduation, I was involved in an experiment using Writers' Workbench as an aid in teaching composition. I have, this fall, moved from the U of T to the University of Alberta. Here I have been asked to act as something of a consultant for other English professors who are starting to make use of computers, and I have been assigned to a team with a mandate to establish a small computing centre to be shared by four humanities departments (English, Religious Studies, Philosophy and Classics). Finally, I am embarking on a long term project which is again concerned with authorship disputes: over the coming years I expect to consume huge numbers of cycles in an effort to sort out the tangled mess of the canon of John Lydgate. ========================================================================= *Salotti, Paul Oxford University Computing Service, 13, Banbury Road, OXFORD OX2 6NN U.K. Tel. 0865-273249 I work in the Oxford University Computing Service and provide support and consultancy for the application and use of databases (Ingres, IDMS, dBase etc) in academic research. ========================================================================= *Smith, Tony I have recently started work as research assistant to Gordon Neal in the Department of Greek at Manchester University. Our project has a number of aims. Ultimately we hope to program a computer to perform as far as possible the automatic syntactic parsing of Classical Greek. Texts with syntactic tagging (which in the early stages can be performed manually) can then be used for pedagogic purposes, by allowing a student on a computer to ask for help with the morphology and syntax of selected words and sentences. The tagged texts would also be very useful for research purposes, allowing various kinds of statistical analysis to be carried out. The texts will be drawn from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae database on CD-ROM, which will be accessed by a network of IBM-compatibles. The system will also offer facilities for searching through the Greek texts similar to those found on the Ibycus Scholarly Computer. ========================================================================= *Tov, Emmanuel Prof. in the Dept of Bible, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Tel. (02)883514 (o), 815714 (h). Together with R.A. Kraft of the U. of Penn. I am the director of the CATSS Project - computer assisted tools for Septuagint studies (for a description of the work, see CATSS volumes 1 and 2). ========================================================================= *Wolffe, John Temporary Lecturer in History, University of York, England. AT the moment my use of computers in my own research is confined largely to humble word-processing, but I have plans during the next academic year to develop some computer-based analysis of the 1851 England and Wales Census of Religious Worship. I am also very interested in wider questions about the use of computers in the humanities, especially as these relate to the development of coherent defense of the humanities in general and of history in particular in the face of the current political and social climate in the UK. ========================================================================= *Wyman, John C. Library Systems Office, Bird Library, Room B106F, Syracuse Univ. Syracuse, New York 13244-1260 USA, (315) 423-4300/2573 I am the Systems Officer for the Syracuse University Library, called Bird Library, and am in charge of all of our computer and system support for the library. This includes our on-line catalog (SULIRS); access to OCLC for shared bibliographic cataloging information; and our increasing use of microcomputers for staff support. Also I'm involved in our on-line access to remote data bases, such as Dialog or BRS, for our users and staff. Finally we have a growing effort of acquiring and providing access to collections of research data for people in the social sciences, called the Research Data System of the Libraries. My interests revolve around providing access to, and usage of computers for, non-computer type people. Even, and especially, at the expense of extra programming and systems effort. Too many computer systems today are hard for e for the casual user to use. My background is Electrical Engineering, Numerical Analysis, Computer User Service, Library User Service, with many systems designed and programmed by me or my staff. The human interface is the most important aspect of this work. =========================================================================