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[1] From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG> (14)
Subject: Ubiquity 4.11
[2] From: Edward Vanhoutte <evanhoutte@kantl.be> (139)
Subject: TOC Literary & Linguistic Computing 17/4
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Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 06:44:32 +0100
From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 4.11
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Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM
Volume 4, Number 11, Week of May 5, 2003
In this issue:
Interview --
The Virtues of Virtual
Abbe Mowshowitz talks about virtual organization as a way of managing
activities and describes the rise of virtual feudalism.
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/a_mowshowitz_1.html
Excerpt --
Virtual Organization: Toward a Theory of Societal Transformation
Stimulated by Information Technology
By Abbe Mowshowitz
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book/a_mowshowitz_2.html
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Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 06:45:53 +0100
From: Edward Vanhoutte <evanhoutte@kantl.be>
Subject: TOC Literary & Linguistic Computing 17/4
Literary and Linguistic Computing
Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2002
<http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_17/Issue_04/>
Articles
- A Complete and Comprehensive System for Modern Greek Language
Processing Proposed as a Modern Greek Language Call Method Developer
S. D. Baldzis, E. Eumeridou and S.A. Kolalas
pp. 373-400
In this paper, we put forward a fully developed system for the teaching
of Modern Greek Language (MGL). The system comprises a parser and
generator for Modern Greek sentences as well as a computational lexicon,
encoding morphological, syntactic, and semantic information for words.
In this paper, we present the major components of the system,
highlighting their suitability for the teaching of MGL in an
experimental, open, and cooperative educational environment. The
proposed system can be used either in a classroom environment or by
Internet correspondence for the teaching of MGL as a native or foreign
language.
- Automatically Categorizing Written Texts by Author Gender
Moshe Koppel, Shlomo Argamon and Anat Rachel Shimoni
pp. 401-412
The problem of automatically determining the gender of a document's
author would appear to be a more subtle problem than those of
categorization by topic or authorship attribution. Nevertheless, it is
shown that automated text categorization techniques can exploit
combinations of simple lexical and syntactic features to infer the
gender of the author of an unseen formal written document with
approximately 80 per cent accuracy. The same techniques can be used to
determine if a document is fiction or non-fiction with approximately 98
per cent accuracy.
- Developing Conceptual Glossaries for the Latin Vulgate Bible
Andrew Wilson
pp. 413-426
A conceptual glossary is a textual reference work that combines the
features of a thesaurus and an index verborum. In it, the word
occurrences within a given text are classified, disambiguated, and
indexed according to their membership of a set of conceptual (i.e.
semantic) fields. Since 1994, we have been working towards building a
set of conceptual glossaries for the Latin Vulgate Bible. So far, we
have published a conceptual glossary to the Gospel according to John and
are at present completing the analysis of the Gospel according to Mark
and the minor epistles. This paper describes the background to our
project and outlines the steps by which the glossaries are developed
within a relational database framework.
- Web-based Dictionaries for Languages of the South-west USA
Sonya Bird, Michael Hammond, Maria Amarillas, Melody Jeffcoat, Heidi
Harley, Mizuki Miyashita, Laura Moll, Mary Ann Willie and Ofelia Zepeda
pp. 427-438
This paper outlines a project currently under way in the Linguistics
Department at the University of Arizona to create electronic
dictionaries of indigenous languages of the south-west USA and make them
available over the Web for language instruction as well as for
linguistic, psycholinguistic, and anthropological research. Working with
three languages-Tohono O'odham, Navajo, and Hiaki-we have created an XML
scheme that serves as a general template for structuring and archiving
language databases. We describe the process of compiling databases for
different languages and converting these databases to XML, which
contains all the relevant information in a manner that is easily
accessible. We discuss the general programming scheme used for
searching, and the interfaces used for presenting the dictionary on the
Web, which include several front ends for different user groups. We end
with a discussion of how to ensure that special characters are displayed
properly on the Web.
- Interpolations, Pseudographs, and the New Testament Epistles
George K. Barr
pp. 439-455
Scale-related patterns are found in all thirteen Pauline epistles. To
test their distinctiveness, graphs of other texts, ancient and modern,
comprising more than a million words, have been scrutinized; this survey
has failed to detect any similar patterns. They may therefore be related
to Pauline authorship. The longer passages claimed to be interpolations
are tested against these scale-related patterns and are found to be
essential parts of the original texts. Further scale-related patterns
are found in 1 and 2 Peter (which received wisdom claims are
pseudonymous writings) and in Hebrews. Consideration of these patterns
and of the partnership of Paul and Silvanus in mission, leads to a
possible solution to the problem of the hapaxes and throws light on the
points of contact between the Paulines (including the Pastorals), 1 and
2 Peter, and Hebrews.
- An SDRT Approach to the Temporal Structure of Modern Greek Narrative
Texts
Eleni Galiotou
pp. 457-474
We describe an attempt to analyse the temporal structure of discourse in
Modern Greek following the principles of Asher's Segmented Discourse
Representation Theory. We focus on discourse relations of a temporal and
causal interest and the use of linguistic knowledge for the
determination of these relations. This analysis is applied to a corpus
of short newspaper articles reporting car accidents in Modern Greek and
the discourse grammar is implemented using the Attribute Logic Engine.
- Modelling a Morpheme-based Lexicon for Modern Greek
E. Papakitsos, M. Grigoriadou and G. Philokyprou
pp. 475-490
This paper presents a method for designing and organizing a
multi-purpose morpheme-based lexical database for Modern Greek. The
authors are in favour of multi-purpose lexical databases, to avoid a
repetition of effort from one application to another, and of
morpheme-based lexica, to achieve flexibility, reusability,
expandability, and compact representation of data for future
developments. The suggested method for modelling the lexical database in
the word-processing function is the Entity/Relationship model, according
to the linguistic theory of Generative Lexical Morphology. In the
framework of this model, which depicts rich linguistic information, we
can introduce new data structures for storing the morphemes. These new
data structures are matrix encoding schemes; one type, called the
Cartesian Lexicon, has been designed as a part of our research. The
matrix data structures combine the advantages of hash-tables and tries,
which are very popular data structures in supporting machine readable
dictionaries. Our system was tested on the Modern Greek language, and
demonstrated a satisfactory overall performance in word-processing.
These methods could also be applicable to other languages having
morphological systems similar to Modern Greek.
Review Article
- 'Pioneers! O Pioneers!`: Lessons in Electronic Editing from Stijn
Streuvels's De teleurgang van den Waterhoek
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
pp. 491-496
Reviews
- CD-Rom Georgian Cities: La ville en Grande-Bretagne au sicle des
Lumires: Bath, Edimbourg et Londres
Reviewed by Patricia Whatley and Charles McKean
pp. 497-498
- Jerome McGann: Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web
Reviewed by Dirk Van Hulle
pp. 498-501
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