11.0132 virtual conference; new online forum

Humanist Discussion Group (humanist@kcl.ac.uk)
Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:26:29 +0100 (BST)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 132.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>

[1] From: Carole Meyers <Carole_Meyers@learnlink.emory.edu> (105)
Subject: Romantic Circles virtual conference series

[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> (107)
Subject: Convite para participar na "Forum-LP"

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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:18:13 -0400
From: Carole Meyers <Carole_Meyers@learnlink.emory.edu>
Subject: Romantic Circles virtual conference series


R O M A N T I C C I R C L E S:

C A L L F O R P A P E R S F A L L 1 9 9 7

Romantic Circles Announces its Virtual Conference Series!

** Please print and post

Romantic Circles (a Website devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, their
contemporaries and historical contexts) is pleased to sponsor two
upcoming virtual conferences, one built around Mary Shelley's _The Last
Man_ (to be held September 13, 1997) and the other around Percy
Shelley's "The Devil's Walk" (to be held October 18, 1997), two texts
currently available on RC's Web pages:

http://www.inform.umd.edu/RC/rc.html

The Conference Committee's idea is to use Romantic Circles' Web pages
and MOO (the Villa Diodati--a text only environment that allows for
real-time communication) to highlight the primary texts edited and
archived by RC. We thus hope to explore the ability of electronic
media to facilitate the kinds of creative, spontaneous engagements
(with both texts and people) traditionally facilitated by live
conferences.

The culmination of each conference will be a meeting in RC's MOOspace,
opening with a virtual plenary session during which invited respondents
will react to the previously posted keynote essays. This roundtable
discussion will then be opened up to all participants for a lively
exchange of ideas. Closer to the event, we will provide a variety of
MOO orientation sessions designed to get people of all skills up and
going in the MOO. EmoryMOO is available for teachers to hold classes
and other events (we had a literary masquerade ball last fall), so
check it out by telnetting to

chaucer.library.emory.edu 4444

For general MOO help, see the our help pages:

http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/help.html

A few participants will be invited to expand their pieces into formal
essays to be archived along with the keynotes on permanent Romantic
Circles Web pages--this lasting record will serve as a kind of
conference journal.

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C O N F E R E N C E #1
V I R T U A L L Y D E A D ?
M A R Y S H E L L E Y'S T H E L A S T M A N
September 13, 1997

Keynote speakers and respondents include:

Elizabeth Fay
Gary Kelly
Greg Kucich
Steve Jones
Anne Mellor
Alan Richardson

The Conference Committee invites papers, approximately 1,000 words in
length, to be submitted on subjects related to Mary Shelley's The Last
Man. The following are suggestions for possible paper topics:

* The Ends of Introspection: Imagining Solipsism in The Last
Man Sibylline Leaves: Mary Shelley's Prefaces
* Apocalypse Then and Apocalypse Now: Mary Shelley and the
Evolution of Lastness
* The Last Man as Ecological Novel
* The Last Man and the Radical Novels of the Romantic Era
* Questioning the Aesthetic Value of The Last Man
* Frankenstein's Monstrous Cousin: Teaching The Last Man

Deadline for submissions for The Last Man Conference: August 15, 1997

* * * *

C O N F E R E N C E #2
U R B A N E X C U R S I O N S:
P E R C Y S H E L L E Y'S "T H E D E V I L'S W A L K"
October 18, 1997

Keynote speakers and respondents include:

Stuart Curran
Neil Fraistat
Robert Griffin
Morton Paley
Walter Reed
Don Reiman

Suitable topics for papers could include, but are not limited to, the
following:

* "The Devil's Walk" and the Broadside Ballad Tradition
* Satanic Verses: Shelley, Southey, Coleridge, and Milton
* Unacknowledged Legislators: Anonymity and the Political
Writer
* "The Devil's Walk" as Augustan Satire
* Reloading the Canon: Teaching the Lesser Known Poetry of
Mary Shelley's Husband
* Questioning the Aesthetic Value of "The Devil's Walk"
* Faceless Publishing: Past and Present

Deadline for submissions for "The Devil's Walk" conference: September
15, 1997

Please send papers or inquiries to:

Mark Ledden--mledden@emory.edu
Carole Meyers--cmeyers@emory.edu
Liz Rackley--erack01@emory.edu

or to:

Liz Rackley
Emory University
English Department
302 North Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322

The general editors of Romantic Circles are Neil Fraistat, Steven E.
Jones, Donald H. Reiman, and Carl Stahmer.

Carole Meyers
Computing Specialist in the Humanities
Emory University
cmeyers@emory.edu
http:/prometheus.cc.emory.edu/cfm/cfmhome.html

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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:41:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu>
Subject: Convite para participar na "Forum-LP"

>> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 15:42:40 +0100
>> From: Grupo de Lingua Natural <glint@di.fct.unl.pt>
>>
Our apologies to the non-portuguese speakers.

As nossas desculpas por eventuais recepcoes duplicadas.
Por favor, divulgue esta mensagem a possiveis interessados.

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Caro(a) Colega:

E com muito prazer que o(a) convidamos a inscrever-se na recem-criada
lista
Forum-LP

que tem por objetivo reunir os investigadores interessados
em Processamento de lingua natural ou linguistica computacional
tendo o Portugues como lingua objeto. Pensamos que com esta iniciativa
contribuiremos para a quebra do isolamento das pessoas que trabalham
nestas areas.

Abaixo enviamos uma descricao detalhada da lista, com seus objetivos
e procedimentos de operacao.

Com os melhores cumprimentos

Prof. Dr. Jose Gabriel Pereira Lopes
Antonio Ribeiro & Michael Mora

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Forum-LP@ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt
http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~glint/Forum-LP

Forum de Linguistica Computacional da Lingua Portuguesa
criado a 6 de junho de 1997
promovido pelo Glint* - Grupo de Lingua Natural DI/FCT/UNL/PT

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Leia com atencao as informacoes abaixo para uma boa utilizacao desta
lista.

Apresentacao
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Este e' o Forum de Processamento de Lingua Natural e Linguistica
Computacional da Lingua Portuguesa. O forum nao e' moderado e toma
preferencialmente o Portugues como lingua de veiculacao.

Publico Alvo
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Esta lista e' destinada a todos aqueles que trabalhem com, facam
investigacao e/ou estejam interessados em Processamento de lingua
natural ou linguistica computacional tendo o Portugues como lingua
objeto.

Topicos de Interesse
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Todos os aspectos de linguistica computacional:
- pragmatica, discurso, semantica, sintaxe, lexico;
- fonetica, fonologia e morfologia;
- interpretacao e geracao de lingua falada e escrita;
- analise morfologica e gramatical;
- modelos linguisticos, matematicos, psicologicos e
cognitivos da lingua;
- extracao de informacao de lingua natural;
- modelos estatisticos e baseados em corpora;
- traducao automatica e semiautomatica de e para Portugues;
- interfaces em lingua natural e sistemas de dialogo;
- sistemas de compreencao de lingua natural;
- representacao de conhecimento para lingua natural;
- sistemas multimedia que envolvam linguagem;
- aplicacoes de lingua natural;
- arquitecturas multi-agentes para processamento de lingua natural;

Objetivos
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Esta lista destina-se a servir como um forum de anuncios e discussao de
assuntos relacionados com o processamento de Lingua Natural para
Portugues, de modo a aumentar a comunicacao e a cooperacao entre os
investigadores e interessados em todo o mundo.

Inscricao
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ou

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com o seguinte texto no corpo da mensagem:

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e envie os dados abaixo para glint@di.fct.unl.pt

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- Area de trabalho atual:
- Outras areas de interesse:
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Contamos com a participacao de todos os interessados.

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Glint* - Grupo de Lingua Natural
Departamento de Informatica
Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Correio eletronico: glint@di.fct.unl.pt
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