6.0371 Rs: Newspapers; Perform-L (3/63)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:56:52 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0371. Friday, 20 Nov 1992.
(1) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 16:17:55 -0800 (18 lines)
From: edwards@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Jane Edwards)
Subject: Re: 6.0362 Rs: Newspapers online (2/28)
(2) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 09:54 EST (28 lines)
From: BMENK@ccr2.bbn.com
Subject: Online Newspapers
(3) Date: 18 Nov 1992 09:30:18 -0400 (EDT) (17 lines)
From: KIRSHENBLATT@NYUACF.BITNET
Subject: Perform-L@nyuacf.nyu.edu
(1) --------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 16:17:55 -0800
From: edwards@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Jane Edwards)
Subject: Re: 6.0362 Rs: Newspapers online (2/28)
Regarding newspapers in electronic format, the following
also warrants mention:
The Association for Computational Linguistics Data Collection
Initiative (ACL/DCI) just put out its first CD-ROM, available for only
$25, contains about 300 Mb of Wall Street Journal text (plus about 180 Mb of
scientific abstracts, the full text of the 1979 edition of the Collins
English Dictionary in the form of a typographer's tape, and some
samples of tagged and parsed text from the Penn Treebank project). For
more information: Mark Liberman, Department of Linguistics, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; FAX: +1 (215) 573-2091;
email: myl@unagi.cis.upenn.edu.
Jane Edwards (edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu)
(2) --------------------------------------------------------------36----
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 09:54 EST
From: BMENK@ccr2.bbn.com
Subject: Online Newspapers
While Nexis is an excellent source of online newspapers, there are others that
offer equally many or more newspapers, with what I feel, are more pliable
searching languages.
Dow Jones/Datatimes offers as many or more newspapers as Nexis, and Dialog,
though it presently has fewer titles, is continually bringing up those that
were available on the former Vu-Text service.
Before deciding on a single service, I would suggest discussing them with a
librarian conversant with all of them. There are papers unique to each
service. Further, newspapers define what's "in" them differently. In order to
search effectively, one needs access to the major newswires as well as the
newspapers themselves, since for example, some papers consider AP material as
not part of "their" online service.
A final consideration concerns the searching skill level of the person who'll
be using the service. Searching full-text databases requires quite different
strategies than searching heavily indexed or abstracted material.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Bobb Menk Voice: 617-873-3278
Senior Technical Librarian Fax: 617-873-2156
Bolt, Beranek & Newman Internet: bmenk@bbn.com
(3) --------------------------------------------------------------28----
Date: 18 Nov 1992 09:30:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: KIRSHENBLATT@NYUACF.BITNET
Subject: Perform-L@nyuacf.nyu.edu
Date sent: 18-NOV-1992
Bolton asked for the address of the e-list devoted to Performance Studies.
Sign up. It's lively at the moment. Lots of news at the nexus of disciplines.
Perform-l@nyuacf.nyu.edu
-
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Email: kirshenblatt@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU
Phone: 212-998-1620