10.0888 seminar on digitisation; course in e-text

WILLARD MCCARTY (willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Wed, 23 Apr 1997 21:11:11 +0100 (BST)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 10, No. 888.
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton/Rutgers)
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
Information at http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/

[1] From: Rene van Horik <rvhorik@rullet.LeidenUniv.nl> (15)
Subject: SEMINAR "DIGITISATION OF HISTORICAL SOURCES ON
MICROFORM"

[2] From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy (57)
<ramesh@cobuild.collins.co.uk>
Subject: Course in Computers and Text

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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:38:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rene van Horik <rvhorik@rullet.LeidenUniv.nl>
Subject: SEMINAR "DIGITISATION OF HISTORICAL SOURCES ON MICROFORM"

In the Historical / Archival community microform is a widely used data
storage medium. Nowadays digital storage is an attractive alternative.
It can be used supplementary and complementary with microform
techniques. Systems and methods are available to digitize microform very
efficiently and with high quality. On May 12th, just before he IMC at
Dusseldorf (Germany) (http://www.iimc.org), the Netherlands Historical
Data Archive (NHDA) will organise a seminar to inform the archivist,
researcher and librarian on the possibilities to digitize several types
of microform, resulting in high quality images.

For more information on the program of the seminar and a registration
form, see: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nhda/seminar.html

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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:35:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy <ramesh@cobuild.collins.co.uk>

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.

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.

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A. BELA HOLLOSY (LAJOS KOSSUTH UNIVERSITY, DEBRECEN):

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

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COURSE ORGANIZER: Ferenc Rovny, CLTDC, Foreign Language Centre, Lajos
Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - 4010, P.O. Box 41.
Email: rovnyf@tigris.klte.hu
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

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PRE-REGISTRATION FORM
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1. YES,I want to take part in the course described above from 4th-10th
September 1997, in Debrecen,Hungary.

REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 260, UK pounds 160

LATE REGISTRATION (after 30.6.97): US$ 325, UK pounds 200

2. I understand that it is a pre-condition to register with the ESSE/4
Conference as well.

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