8.0166 Rs: Reading Aids; Stop Words; Context; Article;

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 6 Sep 1994 17:23:07 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0166. Tuesday, 6 Sep 1994.


(1) Date: Thu, 01 Sep 1994 20:18:37 -0400 (EDT) (13 lines)
From: Michael Metzger <MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.BITNET>
Subject: Reading aids for the blind

(2) Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 11:35:51 -0500 (CDT) (22 lines)
From: "_NAME MICHAEL B. PATE" <9566PATEM@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU>
Subject: Re: 8.0163 Qs: OCR; Context; Stop Words; Article Sought;

(3) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 06:38:00 -0500 (CDT) (17 lines)
From: Eric Johnson <johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu>
Subject: Re: 8.0163 Stop Words

(4) Date: Sat, 03 Sep 94 13:19 PDT (29 lines)
From: Tom Davey <IZZYOM8@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Submission attached

(5) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 94 22:27:36 EST (23 lines)
From: Dorothy Day <DAY@ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: 8.0163 Qs: OCR; Context; Stop Words; Article Sought;

(6) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 94 13:37:11 EDT (14 lines)
From: Peter Graham <psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: 8.0162 Rs: Faculty at Bennington (2/27)

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Date: Thu, 01 Sep 1994 20:18:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Metzger <MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.BITNET>
Subject: Reading aids for the blind

I tried to answer Graham Davies directly, but the message came bakc as
undeliverable. It would be best if the student could get access to a Kurzweuil
reader, whose optical character recognition program is linked to a converter
that produces the appropriate phonemes, thus "reading" the printed text to the
user. I understand that one can also feed digitized ASCII texts into it, with
the same result, perhaps faster. Your campus's office for students with
disabilities should be able to help here, or one of the associations for the
aid of the blind, perhaps even the National Health Service. Good luck, Michael
Metzger
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Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 11:35:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: "_NAME MICHAEL B. PATE" <9566PATEM@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU>
Subject: Re: 8.0163 Qs: OCR; Context; Stop Words; Article Sought; Reading

This is in response to Graham Davies question for assistance to a
blind student. The well known equipment is the Kurzweil Reader made
and sold by Xerox Imaging Systems. This uses DECtalk. there is
other equipment available and two books may be of help:

Adaptive Technologies for Learning and Work Environments by
Joseph Lazzaro. American Library Assoc., 1993

Computers and the Americans with Disabilites Act: A Manager's
Guide by John McCormick. Windcrest, 1994.

ADA has stimulated much movement in this field and one of
your local libraries may be of help.

Michael Pate
Marquette University
9566patem@vms.csd.mu.edu

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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 06:38:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: Eric Johnson <johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu>
Subject: Re: 8.0163 Stop Words


In reply to John Hughes' posting, I have developed a list of 125
stop words that I use with indexing and concordance programs. My list
contains the very frequently used English words (articles, pronouns,
forms of "to be" and "to have," etc.) that most users would not want
indexed. I would be glad to share my list with anyone wanting it
(send me email), and I would like to compare my list with stop-word
lists that others may have (please email me a copy).

-- Eric Johnson
JohnsonE@columbia.dsu.edu
johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu

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Date: Sat, 03 Sep 94 13:19 PDT
From: Tom Davey <IZZYOM8@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Submission attached

In Humanist 8.0163, John J. Hughes writes:

> (2) I am looking for articles that explore the topic of defining
> "context" in concordances of modern English texts, especially articles
> that discuss designing computer algorithms to define contexts.

Try the preface to Marvin Spevack's 1973 _Harvard Concordance
to Shakespeare_, vii-viii. Spevack gives a fairly complete
description of the computer algorithm that extracted the contexts
for his massive work. The slightly earlier (1967?), multi-volume
edition of his _Concordance_ may give an even fuller explanation.

Tom

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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 94 22:27:36 EST
From: Dorothy Day <DAY@ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: 8.0163 Qs: OCR; Context; Stop Words; Article Sought; Reading Airds


> (EWERS 1992: 172)
>
>I have no other details other the surname, the year, and the odd quote like
>this one.

>From CARL UnCover:

Ewers, Hans-heino
Children's Literature and the Traditional Art of
Storytelling.

Poetics today.
Sprg 1992 v 13 n 1
169

Dorothy Day, Indiana University
Bitnet: DAY@IUBACS
Internet: day@indiana.edu
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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 94 13:37:11 EDT
From: Peter Graham <psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: 8.0162 Rs: Faculty at Bennington (2/27)

>...for an enlightening, depressing,
savagely-written recap, see the recent survey in _Lingua Franca_.<

This so accurately describes the contents of Lingua Franca so often that I
discontinued my subscription. I don't feel it's credible any more. --pg

Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries
169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)445-5908; fax (908)445-5888
WWW URL:http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/pghome.html PHONES CHANGED 7/1 932>445;
from (908)932-xxxx to (908) 445-xxxx (not all of Rutgers changed)...8/20/94.