19.047 citations? sameness of words? computer-assisted translation?

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:53:42 +0100

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   [1] From: "Written By Hand...Manuscript Americana P" (30)
                 <peter.pehrson_at_writtenbyhand.com>
         Subject: QUERY: Cites for rural diaries?

   [2] From: "Wayne Hanewicz" <hanewiwa_at_uvsc.edu> (129)
         Subject: how are words "the same"?

   [3] From: Marc Deneire <Marc.Deneire_at_univ-nancy2.fr> (11)
         Subject: introductory materials on computer-assisted
                 translation?

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         Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:33:28 +0100
         From: "Written By Hand...Manuscript Americana P"
<peter.pehrson_at_writtenbyhand.com>
         Subject: QUERY: Cites for rural diaries?

Hello, Colleagues:

For an upcoming Newberry Library (Chicago) Seminar, I seek assistance with
citations to published or unpublished sources
for my paper entitled, "Rural Diaries as Expressions of Personal Spirituality."

Specifically, I am interested in how rural inhabitants (whether on farms or
in small towns and villages), conveyed in diaries a
sense of piety, reverence, and worship through labor, domestic activities,
and other forms of interaction with their social and
physical environments, which were often characterized by isolation and
literal connections to the land and animals on which
they survived. Rural plant and animal husbandry, architecture, crops, and
domestic foodways are some ancillary topics.

The periods covered are 17th- through 20th centuries, the geographical
focus is North America, and the language limitation
is English (works translated into English would apply). I'm not including
in this examination the work of tract societies or
missionaries to American Natives, or established, organized urban
denominations.

Rural Utopian societies are included. As an example, I am aware of the
Oneida Society in upstate New York, as well as
Shaker communities in New Lebanon, etc. and would like to know about
published or unpublished personal writings from
the inhabitants. All of this is with a particular focus on the individual.

Citations for existing critical and scholarly examinations of the subject
are also welcomed.

I'm much obliged for any assistance.

Peter Christian Pehrson, Director
Written by Hand
Primary Source Manuscript Americana
Yale Box 206581, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

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         Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:35:47 +0100
         From: "Wayne Hanewicz" <hanewiwa_at_uvsc.edu>
         Subject: how are words "the same"?

I am new to this group. I am a philosophy teacher with a special
interest in the principles and practise of psychiatry, the activity of
perception, and the nature of consciousness. However, I am not very
capable in the skills that most of you use. So I hope you will excuse
these questions if they seem too primitive or "off base".

When you develop semantic language for use on a computer, how do you
specify the "sameness" among related words that allow you to place them
in the same linguistic category? What is the nature of the recursive
characteristics of words within the same categories and among the
categories? (By "recursive" I mean that each new word can be seen as a
simpler or more complex version of another in the category) What is the
nature of the information that exists among the words and categories
that allows you to categorize them as similar? Another way of asking
this question might be: What is the nature of the isomorphic
"information about the information" ( would you call this
"metainformation"?) contained in semantic categories that are developed
for use on the computer?

I am trying to understand the relationship between experiential and
semantic recursion, and to explore the existence and character of
"primitive" or "first level" recursion and recursive categories. The
results may be valuable to activity in theory and practise of
psychiatry, communication, learning, metaphysics, and a range of
disciplines in the humanities. I suspect they may be valuable to work
in which most of you are involved, but I do not know enough about your
work to say one way or the other.

Your insights to these questions, however simple they may seem to you,
will be most helpful as I prepare for
another graduate seminar to teach, and a forthcoming presentation and
article on this general subject.

Thank you all.

Wayne Hanewicz
Utah Valley State College

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           Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:36:47 +0100
           From: Cristina Vertan <cri_at_nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
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          Satellite Workshop at the MT Summit 2005
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Semantic Web needs human language technology and human language
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was
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The current workshop focuses on this topic, more exactly on the
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it
was produced. On the other hand, Semantic Web activities will have major
impact on natural language applications based on training on large
pieces
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Example-based machine translation is a relevant example: Up to now the
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Moreover, this annotation will provide the semantic information attached
to
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example based machine translation.
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The goal of the workshop is twofold:
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We welcome original papers related (but not limited) to following topics
- on-line Machine Translation
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- integration of semantic information in example based machine
translation
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We also encourage demonstrations of developed tools. Submissions for a
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         Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:37:29 +0100
         From: Marc Deneire <Marc.Deneire_at_univ-nancy2.fr>
         Subject: introductory materials on computer-assisted translation?

I am looking for introductory materials (books, articles, websites) to=20
prepare an course (undergraduates) in Computer Assisted Translation. Any=20
suggestions?

Thanks,

Marc Deneire

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Marc Deneire
D=E9partement d'anglais
Universit=E9 Nancy2

Courriel: Marc.Deneire_at_univ-nancy2.fr
http://www.univ-nancy2.fr/UFRLCE/DepAnglais =20
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