4.0867 Responses to a Miscellany (4/61)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 8 Jan 91 14:57:34 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0867. Tuesday, 8 Jan 1991.


(1) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 91 09:52 (21 lines)
From: TIBBO.ILS@mhs.unc.edu (TIBBO)
Subject: ARIST Chapter

(2) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 91 17:00:57 -0500 (9 lines)
From: William J Frawley <billf@brahms.udel.edu>
Subject: Re: 4.0862 ... Agricultural Textbases

(3) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 09:52:55 PST (22 lines)
From: tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 4.0862 ... Language Drill Software

(4) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 91 17:04:56 -0500 (9 lines)
From: William J Frawley <billf@brahms.udel.edu>
Subject: Re: 4.0865 ... Latin Parser

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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 91 09:52
From: TIBBO.ILS@mhs.unc.edu (TIBBO)
Subject: ARIST Chapter

I would like to thank all of the HUMANIST members who responded to my
call for project descriptions and papers for the chapter on humanities
information systems that I am compiling for the Annual Review of
Information Science and Technology. I wish I had time to converse with
each of you individually, but as usual, time is short and the task is
great. If you did not see my earlier message or if you too were too busy
to respond, please send me any and all material you think might be useful
to a literature review in this area. My first draft is due in February
but I am sure that I can add new material after that date. Thank you
again.

Helen R. Tibbo
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
TIBBO@ILS.UNC.EDU

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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 91 17:00:57 -0500
From: William J Frawley <billf@brahms.udel.edu>
Subject: Re: 4.0862 Queries (6/165)

Prof. Moerk asked about specialized text bases on agricultural subjects.
I know of none on this topic in particular, but he might look at the
work on sublanguage, especially that done on the NYU string analysis
project: Naomi Sager and company.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 09:52:55 PST
From: tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 4.0862 Queries (6/165)

On Marco Simionato's question about Mac stackware for FL vocabulary
learning, I'm aware of two commercial products, one of which I have seen
and find useful. The first is Mac Flashcards by the Language Quest
Software Co., Los Altos, CA; stacks for major Western European languages
are available, though somewhat idiosyncratic in their choice of items,
judging from the German stack. I also used a template provided me by
the creator to make my own stack of Turkish vocabulary items. It worked
out very well. Cost a while back was about $25.

The other set of stacks is by Penton Overseas & is advertised in all
major trade rags: VocabuLearn 2.0. I haven't seen it yet, but would be
interested to hear reactions. Available for French, German, Spanish,
Italian, Russian, Hebrew, and Japanese; cost $35 a pop.

I hope that this information proves helpful. Any follow-up comments
welcome.

tom shannon, uc berkeley
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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 91 17:04:56 -0500
From: William J Frawley <billf@brahms.udel.edu>
Subject: Re: 4.0865 Latin Parser

On the Latin parser: Gerald Culley, Languages, University of Delaware,
has done an elaborate PLATO program for Latin that I believe icludes mor-
phological analysis. You might try him (Foreign Languages, U of
Delaware, Newark, DE 19716).