From: "Gregory Bloomquist" Subject: Round Table Text Date: Tuesday, May 30, 1995, 7:30 p.m. X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 1 (1) Location: Room R-M160, Ecole des sciences de la gestion, Universite du Quebec a Montreal 315, rue Sainte-Catherine est, Montreal --------------------------------------------------------- The round table is intended to stimulate the reflection of humanities scholars on the role of information technology in the humanities. The goals are to picture where the humanities and information technology will intersect in the coming years, and what the benefits and liabilities will be in such an intersection. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) was one of the scholars at the heart of Renaissance humanist learning. As a result of his innovative and creative explorations in thought, he fell afoul of the authorities of the day. He was known for his vivid imagination. PICO is a simple full screen ASCII editor for UNIX computer operating systems. It is the editor used within the popular Pine Mailer, and is thus known to and used by thousands of people daily on the burgeoning information highway. Thus, the name PICO v.2 (or Pico, version 2 ) is intended to suggest the need that scholars in the human sciences have to upgrade their own work in an information-based society, with new tools and new challenges to the old ways, even as computer tools are regularly upgraded and rethought in light of the input of those who use the systems. This creative dynamic made the first Pico's Renaissance a true period of rebirth . --------------------------------------------------------- ELAINE F. NARDOCCHIO, President, CFH and Founding President, Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (COCH/COSH) - Chair TONI CARBO BEARMAN, Dean, School of Library & Information Science, University of Pittsburgh and member of the U.S. Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure - Information Policy and Libraries RONALD BOND, Dean of Humanities, University of Calgary - Teaching and Administration PAUL DELANY, Department of English, Simon Fraser University - Teaching and General Overview JEAN-CLAUDE GUEDON, Departement de litterature comparee, Universite de Montreal and Editor of the electronic journal, Surfaces - Research SANDRA WOOLFREY, Director, Wilfrid Laurier University Press - Electronic Publishing (Co-sponsored with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)) From: czbu@musica.mcgill.ca (Ron Burnett) Subject: World Wide Web site Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 10:22:50 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 1 (2) Readers of this listserv may be interested in exploring the following Web Site which came out of the second year undergraduate course. It includes some experimentation by students and connections to vital resources in Cultural Studies and Communications. Address: http://polestar.facl.mcgill.ca/burnett/englishhome.html Any comments or feedback would be appreciated. Professor Ron Burnett Director, Graduate Program in Communications McGill University 3465 Peel Street Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1W7 From: Richard Bear Subject: Spenser Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 10:02:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 2 (3) An Edmund Spenser Home Page is under construction at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ and contains several useful links already. If you come across Spenser-related items not yet linked, please correspond with Richard Bear at rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu Thank you, Richard Bear rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu http://www-vms.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ From: Timothy_Seid@brown.edu (Tim Seid) Subject: NT Mansucripts WWW Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 17:21:40 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 3 (4) WORLD WIDE WEB ANNOUNCEMENT My Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts material -- formerly available in HyperCard -- has been adapted and revised for the World Wide Web. The URL is: http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/overview.html I have tried to cover the basic, introductory material regarding paleography and textual criticism with an example of the latter and a simulated exercise in English. I have attempted to make the web easy to use by having hypertext links within text, multiple links at the bottom of each page, as well as a complete index page. In addition to my material (with numerous excerpts from standard works on the subject) I have also integrated links to other relevant WWW sites. The goal is for students in Intro. to New Testament courses to be able to get a feel for what is involved in getting from the ancient manuscripts to the modern critical text. This also is a good foundation for students to continue study by reading the standard works of Metzger, Aland, Finegan, etc. (citations are noted throughout the web). I would also appreciate any information on how this material has been used for classes. I will be presenting a paper on the project at the International Medieval Congress in July so I would appreciate evaluative information. This project has taken a lot of work -- my reward is your feedback. Tim Seid -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Timothy W. Seid HOME: WORK: Graduate Student 74 Clyde St. Desktop Publishing Asst. Dept. of Religious Studies West Warwick, RI Kinko's of Rhode Island Brown University 02893-3525 Warwick, RI Providence, RI 02912 (401)828-5485 (401)826-0808 (M-Th 4-10) Timothy_Seid@Brown.edu Compuserve: 102024,72 INTERPRETING ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS WEB http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/overview.html> From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Latin quotation Date: Wed, 3 May 95 18:37:10 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 4 (5) #2: Pour les latinistes: j'ai besoin d'une traduction de la phrase d'Horace "materium superabat opus" I don't think this is by Horace, and the Latin goes "materiAm superabat opus", which is usually taken to mean: "The workmanship was better than the material(s)" or something like that. Formerly, I was a good latinist; now I must confess I can't place the author, though this is a familiar quotation. This is definitely not by Horace; I just looked into Lane Cooper and did not find it there. Jim Marchand. From: AthAlFLB@aol.com Subject: Re: 8.0485 Qs: ClipArt Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 03:21:06 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 5 (6) Find someone who has CorelDRAW! 5; it has thousands of different clipart selections, including many historical figures, landmarks, maps, etc. Cheers, Brent Yaciw, FSU From: Jann Tracy Subject: Re: 8.0485 Qs: Sesame; ClipArt; Public Domain; E-Dickens; AOL Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 20:49:06 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 6 (7) Try the following: Anonymous ftps - address: nic.funet.fi -- which has several Dickens texts ftp.uu.net -- author information and list of texts available at the site ftp.spies.com or gopher: wiretap.spies.com -- for pointers on where to obtain etexts Project Gutenberg, which has several ftp's Hope it's of some help; Jann From: h230490@stud.u-szeged.hu Subject: Re: texts by Charles Dickens online? Date: Fri, 5 May 95 15:46 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 7 (8) On Fri Michael Wolf Irmscher wrote Michael: You can find things like this, thanks to the Gutenberg Project. You can ftp them (maybe the list first: INDEX*.GUT) from: mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu they are in the /pub/etext dir They have Dickens, but I am not sure they have specifically the ones You seek though. ***** Don't trust the header: FROM: -bab. Attila Balazs Balogh (hun. order Balogh Attila Balazs-->BAB) The Graphics, Animate & DTP Buster e-mail: h230490@stud.u-szeged.hu e-mail2: h431002@vm.cc.jate.u-szeged.hu Snail mail: H-6701 Szeged Pf.: 1226. (PoBox) HUNGARY -------------------------------------------- From: AthAlFLB@aol.com Subject: Re: 8.0485 Qs: AOL Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 01:45:58 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 8 (9) Write to: SteveCase@aol.com. He rarely answers himself, but the techs respond shortly (in my experience). Cheers, Brent Yaciw, FSU From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: AOL Date: Wed, 3 May 95 18:39:27 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 9 (10) The person you need to contact, Jim, is one of those O'Donnells. David O'Donnell is the honcho of AOL: postmaster@aol.com. Customer relations no.: 800-827-3338, 9-2 MTWTF, according to the AOL.FAQ. Jim Marchand. From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Sesame Date: Wed, 3 May 95 18:55:16 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 10 (11) This is one scholars have argued about for years. Plants which opened doors and locks were well-known in folklore, e.g. springwort. It may be that sesame is just a magic word, it may be connected with sesame, which does have magical properties, or it may it is just a reference to springwort. If you want to go further, Funk and Wagnalls' Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend (s.v. "open sesame") is a good place to start; or Grimm's Germanische Mythologie. Jim Marchand. From: Donald Spaeth Subject: Re: 8.0485 Qs: Sesame Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 17:43:40 +0001 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 11 (12) Mark Calkins asked: [deleted quotation] Philistine that I am, I've always assumed that "open sesame" should be read as "open says (a) me". This would imply that the phrase was different in other languages. But I hope there's a more interesting explanation! Donald Spaeth Dr Donald A Spaeth Lecturer in Historical Computing School of History and Archaeology University of Glasgow 1 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom Tel: 0141 330-4942 Fax: 0141 330-5518 E-mail: dspaeth@dish.gla.ac.uk From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: CFP - Reception of Classical Texts Date: 5 May 1995 16:58:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 4 (13) Please excuse me mailing you in this way ... a colleague in the Arts Faculty at the Open University asked me if I would help her to give this call for papers as wide an audience as possible. I hoped that, by getting it posted in your forum, this would be achieved. Thanking you in anticipation Simon Rae _________________________________________________________________________ Simon Rae, User Services Officer, | S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK (Internet) Academic Computing Service, | The Open University, Walton Hall, | phone: (01908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. | fax: (01908) 653744 _________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please excuse any cross-posting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Open University - Milton Keynes, UK Faculty of Arts - DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL STUDIES First call for papers. A CONFERENCE on the RECEPTION of CLASSICAL TEXTS is to be held in JANUARY 1996 in the UK. Offers of papers are invited on any aspect of the reception of Classical texts, images and ideas both within antiquity and subsequently. Offers of papers from those wishing to report on work in progress or to explore the teaching implications of Reception research are just as welcome as from those aiming at immediate publication. We also welcome submissions from postgraduates and from groups as well as individuals. If you have any queries, please contact Dr Lorna Hardwick at the address shown below. Publication of conference proceedings: It is hoped to publish the proceedings of the conference electronically in March 1996. If you wish your paper to be considered for publication in the proceedings, please indicate this when sending your abstract. Those selected at this stage will then be asked to submit the full version of their papers by September 1995 for consideration by the Referees panel in advance of the conference. Papers will be limited to 30 minutes maximum. Please send abstracts (no more than one side of A4) by 31st May 1995 to: Dr Lorna Hardwick Department of Classical Studies Arts Faculty The Open University, Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA UK or via Email to: L.P.HARDWICK@OPEN.AC.UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: OCR software? Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 20:36:25 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 12 (14) I need some quick recommendations for commercially available OCR software than runs under PC/Windows (preferable for me) or Macintosh OS -- other than OmniPage Pro, which I have and am familiar with. That one eliminated, what is best, given all the usual demands of scholarly work? Please mail me a quick note as well as respond to Humanist. Thanks. WM Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: BASTICK_A@usp.ac.fj Subject: Qualitative or Quantitative research methods? Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 18:15:43 +1200 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 13 (15) Which do you prefer and why? It will be interesting to put together considered criticisms and rebuttals from different viewpoints. Please send your comments directly to me at Bastick_A@USP.ac.fj (rather than to the list) and I'll post results later. PS Oh yes - What was your Major (or equivalent) and your current area of study. You might also want to add a more relevant question that you think I should have asked and why? Thanks Tony Bastick Bastick_A@USP.ac.fj University of the South Pacific Fiji (Please excuse my cross-postings should you receive them) From: Neil.Forsyth@angl.unil.ch (Neil Forsyth) Subject: Re: Computing and University English Teaching Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 13:54:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 14 (16) I am looking for someone within the European purview of Humanist to write a brief article (1000-2000 words), or perhaps a series, for The European English Messenger, which I now edit, on the general topic of 'Computers and the English professor'. This would follow up our survey in the last number of what our members machines use and how they use them. The potential author should preferably be a member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English), but not necessarily. Chadwick-Healey has been invited to write up their CD-ROM projects for us, but so far nothing has come in. An article for the unconverted on, say, advantages, drawbacks, etc, is what I am looking for--a review and way forward article. Thanks, Neil Forsyth University of Lausanne Switzerland From: Yvan.Cruchaud@ilsl.unil.ch Subject: New issue CILSL Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 11:26:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 6 (17) The latest issue (n05) of the CAHIERS DE L'ILSL (Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage de l'Universite de Lausanne) IS NOW AVAILABLE. It is devoted to one important aspect of linguistics, and consists in the proceedings of an international conference recently held at Lausanne University. Cahiers de l'ILSL, no 5,288 p.: "L'ecole de prague: l'apport epistemologique, origines, methodes, perspectives" CONTENTS: Morteza MAHMOUDIAN et Patrick SERIOT: Presentation. I. LA GENESE DES CONCEPTS Jacqueline FONTAINE: La conception du systeme linguistique au Cercle de Prague. Patrick SERIOT: L'origine contradictoire de la notion de systeme:la genese naturaliste du structuralisme pragois. Jindrich TOMAN: Remarques sur le vocabulaire idiologique de R. Jakobson. Milena SRPOVA: Vladimir Smilauer (1895-1983): un contemporain du Cercle linguistique de Prague. Frangoise GADET: La genese du concept de marque (1926-1931). II. REGARD HISTORICO-CRITIQUE Henry SCHOGT: L'histoire du signe linguistique de Ferdinand de Saussure et les Pragois. Jiri CERNY: La tradition de l'Ecole de Prague et la linguistique contemporaine. Frantisek DANES: Prague School functionalism as a precursor of text linguistics. Savina RAYNAUD: Les unites lexicales entre systeme et enonciation. Jan SABRSULA: Etude du signifie: qu'en est-il pour les Pragois? III. Perspectives actuelles Carl EBELING: Les unites semantiques et leur arrangement dans la phrase. Cornelis Hendrik VAN SCOONEVELD: Dans l'analyse semantique structurale pragoise - jakobsonnienne finale, la signification est mathematique. Parth BHATT: Unites linguistiques et nosologie des aphasies. Mortiza MAHMOUDIAN: Une science pour les humanites? Le modele phonologique: apports, problemes, prolongements. This issue (Price: 20.- Swiss Francs) can be ordered from: ILSL, Faculte des lettres Universite de Lausanne BFSH2 CH-1015 LAUSANNE E-mail: ycruchau@ulys.unil.ch From: "Kurt De Belder" Subject: Union list of West European newspapers & news magazines Date: 4 May 95 15:09:34 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 7 (18) This message has been posted on several listservs. The Union list of selected West European newspapers and news magazines in New York metropolitan libraries has been made available on the WWW. The creation of the Union list was part of a cooperative collection development project among the four research libraries of the region (Columbia University, New York Public Library (Research), New York University, Rutgers University) in a joint effort to fill gaps in their Western European newspaper collection. The Union list provides information about 91 current newspaper and news magazine titles at 35 New York metropolitan libraries. The union list was created by a METRO [New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency] Task Force and will hopefully improve access to the joint collections and allow for correct referrals. The Union List can be reached at the following URL: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/unionlist We encourage other web sites to point to this resource. Kurt De Belder Chair, METRO Task Force on Foreign Newspapers (Western Europe) Assistant Curator, Western European Literatures & Languages Elmer Holmes Bobst Library New York University debelder@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu From: Subject: Re. Willard McCarty's cautionary tales Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 10:11:57 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 8 (19) Isn't that the flaw (? advantage?) of the human mind that we cannot grasp new technologies in their complete newness? That we always compare them to what was there before, that which they are supposed to replace? The first automobiles were built to resemble wagons, were they not? I, personally, find it hard to imagine a world without books. I can't imagine myself taking out my little pocket computer and begin to multimediate in the corner of my train compartment, the way I take out my pocket book and begin to read today. Computers for work, maybe for active leisure, but books for the quiet moments in bed, tub, busrides. Books still have one vast advantage: you don't have to turn them on before you can begin to use them (not to mention finding out that the battery has run down!) But is that just me/us, the generation that was brought up with books? What about the younger ones, the TV- and computer generation? Will they bring about the development of the tub-proof mini computer, the ergonomic bed computer? Gunhild Viden ---------------------------------- Gunhild Viden University of Goteborg, Sweden Tel: +46 31 7734691 Fax: +46 31 138030 From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: union list Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 19:54:50 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 15 (20) The URL for the recently announced union list of selected European newspapers and magazines, http://www.nyu.edu/pages/unionlist, appears from here to contain a non-existant domain address, at least one without a DNS entry. I attempted to write to the man who sent the note to Humanist, but my mailer balked at his address as well. Perhaps our systems here are somehow at fault. Would someone please supply an IP address for the server at NYU until such time as the problem has been fixed? Thanks. WM Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: gwp@dido.caltech.edu (G. W. Pigman III) Subject: Re: 9.0003 Rs: Latin; ClipArt; AOL; E-Dickens; Sesame (8/122) Date: Sun, 7 May 95 21:22:58 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 16 (21) Jim Marchand is right about the sense of "materiam superabat opus" (the workmanship surpassed the materials). The phrase comes from Ovid, Metamorphoses, ii. 5, the description of the palace of the sun, which is made of gold, silver, ivory, and pyropus (a mixture of bronze and gold). On the doors Vulcan carved a splendid example of his workmanship, a scene of sea, land, and sky. G. W. Pigman III gwp@dido.caltech.edu From: Judy Koren Subject: Re: E-Dickens Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 23:33:35 +0300 (EET DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 17 (22) [deleted quotation] Yes, everyone mentions the Gutenberg Project, which is undoubtedly the best known etext project, because it does the most publicizing of its good works. So I thought I'd mention a few places that hide their light under a bush, as they say (or did when I was growing up in England), but actually have more material than the GP: 1) OBI, the Online Book Initiative. ftp to ftp.std.com, directory: obi Also via gopher to world.std.com, choose the OBI from menus. A nice point about this, apart from having lots of stuff, is that they call their directories by the name of the author (eg Charles.Dickens) rather than the year the book happened to be put on the net as the GP does (etext/93, etext/94 etc. -- *terribly* helpful... :-) ) 2) OTA, the Oxford Text Archives. C'mon, Humanists, we all forgot it exists? They used to charge for service/postage in the days when they shipped you magnetic tapes, but since they made their stuff available for ftp they charge only for things that are still in copyright (which I assume does not include our friend Dickens). Last time I looked up the statistics they had 1,300 titles in 28 languages, I'm sure it's more now. Ftp to ota.ox.ac.uk, directory: ota, there's a list of what's on it in the file textarchive.list. The files themselves are in subdirs. of ota; there's also an "info" file in the ota directory which presumably tells you how to tame this beastie. 3) CETH, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities: joint project of Rutgers and Princeton. When I heard about it, it had just a small collection and its aim was both to provide etexts and to provide software for text analysis. Sorry, don't have an address but I'm sure Elaine can help me out here, 'cos one of the things it did have was the texts of the Brown Univ. Women Writers' Project. I doubt it's got Dickens but it's getting to be late at night and my editorial judgement is working slower than my fingers; I figured Humanists in general might like to know about it. Incidentally, while we're on the subject, there's a project to catalog e-text projects: CPET, Catalog of Projects in Electronic Text, run by Georgetown Univ.'s Center for Text and Technology (CTT -- I just discovered that PCMCIA "really" stands for People Can't reMember Computer Industry Acronyms, and I'm starting to get their point.) Includes info. on several hundred projects, arranged by subject, all in the humanities. Ftp to guvax.georgetown.edu, directory: cpet_projects_in_electronic_text Yes, this is a vax and those are underline characters. You can also try gophering to Georgetown U.'s gopher, it's supposed to be available from there too. Hope this helps. Me, I'd try OBI first. + ----------------------------------------------------------- + | Judy Koren, | | Consultant -- Internet, database and information services | | P.O.Box 405, Denya, Haifa, Israel 34981. | | Tel. 972-4-341704 email: judyk@tx.technion.ac.il | + ----------------------------------------------------------- + From: Nicholas Heer Subject: Sesame Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 23:01:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 18 (23) The phrase "Open, O Sesame" occurs, as is well known, in the story of `Ali Baba and the forty thieves in the Thousand and One Nights. The Arabic is "iftah ya simsim," simsim being the Arabic word for sesame. Nicholas Heer On Sun, 7 May 1995, Elaine Brennan wrote: From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 19 (24) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 20 (25) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 21 (26) [deleted quotation] From: Nicholas Heer Subject: Calera's WordScan Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 10:02:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 22 (27) Willard, I've just noticed that there is a review of Calera's WordScan in today's (9 May) New York Times. It's on page B11 in the national edition. The review also mentions Charactereyes for Windows from Ligature Software as well as the professional version, Charactereyes Pro. Nicholas From: ocramer@cc.colorado.edu Subject: RE: 9.0008 R: E-Pubs and Books and ... (1/27) Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 13:17:07 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 23 (28) So far, the enthusiasm for e-texts where they can replace printed has, in my experience, been in older rather than younger people: I sense in the young now less total love of reading and more resistance to high-tech reading than I detect in my contemporaries. Owen Cramer Classics, Colorado College OCRAMER@cc.colorado.edu From: ERASMUS@NTUVAX.NTU.AC.SG (Edie Rasmussen) Subject: SIGIR-95: Text Encoding Standards Course Date: Tue, 9 May 95 08:13:41 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 10 (29) ________________________________________________________ REUSABILITY, INTERCHANGEABILITY, AND COMPATIBILITY: ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS OF TEXT ENCODING STANDARDS Lou Burnard, Oxford University Judith Klavans, Columbia University C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago A PRE-CONFERENCE COURSE to be held in association with SIGIR '95: 18th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Seattle, WA, USA Saturday, July 8, 1995 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. ________________________________________________________ SIGIR '95, an international research conference on information retrieval theory, systems, practice and applications, will be held in Seattle, WA, from July 9-13. On the Saturday prior to the conference, a one-day course will be offered covering the theory and practice of markup languages for the representation of textual and other data, such as SGML and the Text Encoding Initiative. Taught by Lou Burnard, Judith Klavans, and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen. COURSE DESCRIPTION: The representation of textual data has raised serious problems since the early days of digital technology. Incompatibility between representations range from simple formatting issues, such as word delimitation, to data encoding schemes, such as 7-bit encoding for English, 8-bit for accented languages, up to 32-bit for Asian languages. Furthermore, the complications seem to be growing as the amount of digital data increases. Recognizing the predicament these complications cause in the information age, a group of researchers and practitioners, sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, joined in 1988 to explore ways to resolve the serious emerging incompatibilities in the representation of text. The Text Encoding Initiative has addressed these problems by developing detailed SGML Document Type Definitions (DTDs) to achieve comprehensive and generalizable encoding standards for a range of data types, from verse to syntactic analyses, from spoken language to hypertext, from terminological data to multilingual corpora. This one-day course will consist of three parts: the first will describe the challenges raised by the three ``abilities'' which concern effective text representation: reusability, interchangeability, and compatibility. The next section of the course will present the types of data handled so far by the TEI encoding scheme, some of the problems already solved, some ongoing projects, and some unsettled questions. If hands-on is possible, we will provide a session to experience the strengths of using the TEI for building intelligent text data bases from existing on-line texts. Otherwise, we will demonstrate widely available software and discuss practical issues in using the TEI for building intelligent text data bases from existing on-line texts. The course will be of interest to: computer scientists who are building large test-beds of textual data, researchers who must analyze and encode representational systems over such data, practitioners who must solve the incompatibility problem by choosing a standard encoding scheme for textual data, SGML hackers who want to know more about TEI DTDs, humanists who want to learn more about the issues in text representation. Since most of IR currently operates over textual data, the indexing issues in the TEI are of particular and pressing interest to the IR audience. Further information can be found at: http://www.columbia.edu/~klavans/home.html http://www-tei.uic.edu/pub/tei/sigir.html Questions re workshop content should be directed to C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, u35395@uicvm.cc.uic.edu; addresses for queries re registration and accommodation are given below. MATERIALS AND PRESENTERS All participants will be provided with a printed introductory summary guide to the TEI scheme and supporting materials on PC disks, including full versions of the TEI DTDs, public domain SGML software and sample TEI texts. The electronic version of the Guidelines will also be provided. Lou Burnard, of Oxford University Computing Services, is the European editor of the TEI project. He has degrees in English literature from Oxford, and has worked in computers since the seventies. His areas of expertise are in the applications of computing to linguistic and literary research, particularly with reference to database and text retrieval systems. He has published and lectured widely on these and related topics. His present responsibilities, aside from TEI work, include management of the British National Corpus project at OUCS, and the Oxford Text Archive, of which he is Director. Judith Klavans is the Director of the Center for Research on Information Access (CRIA) at Columbia University. The goals of the Center, established in January 1995, are to integrate and coordinate the various digital library related activities at Columbia University, to push forward research on technologies related to information access, and to serve as a source of information on the technological aspects of digital library applications to external projects. Dr. Judith Klavans has a research career which combines aspects of computer science and linguistics, including the automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge, multilingual text analysis, and the development of symbolic techniques for the presentation of information within the context of digital libraries. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is a senior research programmer at the academic computer center at the University of Illinois at Chicago; he currently works in the database group, on SGML applications and the university library's information arcade. Since 1988 he has been editor in chief of the ACH/ACL/ALLC Text Encoding Initiative. REGISTRATION: Cost of the course is $50 before May 29 and $65 after May 29 which includes a box lunch and course documentation. The attached registration form covers this course only. Attendance at SIGIR '95 is not required for this course. Those wishing to attend SIGIR as well should complete the separate SIGIR registration form; a copy plus full information on SIGIR '95, including descriptions of tutorials, workshops, all technical sessions, and accommodation, etc. is available from ftp.u.washington.edu (\public\sigir95\program) by anonymous ftp; or via WWW at URL: http://info.sigir.acm.org/ sigir/conferences/SIGIR_95_adv.pgm.html; or request a copy of the program by mail by contacting sigir95@u.washington.edu. The course venue will depend on enrolment but at present it is expected that it will be at the SIGIR conference hotel, the Seattle Sheraton Hotel & Towers, 1400 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101. Details of conference accomodation are available from the ftp and www addreses above. Cut here: >-------------------------------------------------- SGML/TEI COURSE REGISTRATION FORM in conjunction with SIGIR '95 Seattle, WA, USA, July 8, 1995 Please use block letters or type, and tick where appropriate __ Mr. __ Ms. __ Dr. __ Prof. Other: ______ LAST NAME:________________ FIRST NAME:_______________________ BADGE NAME (if different): __________________________________ COMPANY/ORGANIZATION:________________________________________ ADDRESS:_____________________________________________________ CITY:__________________ STATE:______ ZIP CODE: __________ COUNTRY:_______________ PHONE: ( ___ )____________________ FAX: ( ___ ) _______________ EMAIL: ________________________ COURSE REGISTRATION FEE: $50 prior to May 29; $65 after May 29) $ ________________ DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL NEEDS? Please explain: ___________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ALSO ATTENDING SIGIR '95? ____ yes ____ no METHOD OF PAYMENT (US Currency only): __ Check payable to ACM/SIGIR95 __ Credit card (Visa, MC, AMEX) ____________________________________ Credit card number, expiration date ______________________________________ Signature, date (I authorize to charge my account fees indicated above) Return Registration Form by May 29 to qualify for early registration. Use fax or email (credit card payment) or mail check or credit card) to: SIGIR95 c/o Convention Services Northwest 1809 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1414 Seattle, WA 98101 USA Fax: +1 206-292-0559 Email: SIGIR95@aol.com (Registration queries to: +1 206-292-9198 (Ask for Sarah Amendola) ______________________________________________________________ Efthimis N. Efthimiadis Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Graduate School of Education & Information Studies University of California at Los Angeles 241 GSE&IS Building, 152003 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 tel: 310-825-8975; fax: 310-206-4460; email: efthimis@gslis.ucla.edu From: chk@cs.oberlin.edu (Christian Koch) Subject: Third Stream Computing Online Learning Center Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 22:24:57 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 24 (30) I would like to call your attention to the Web pages of the Third Stream Computing Online Learning Center sponsored by the program in Third Stream Computing and the Computer Science Department of Oberlin College. The URL is: http://www-ts.cs.oberlin.edu/ Third Stream Computing is the name of an academic minor in Computer Science offered by the Computer Science Department/Program of Oberlin College. It is a program aimed in the general direction of humanities computing, but is perhaps more technical in orientation than some humanities computing emphases. Third Stream Computing is designed to provide relatively sophisticated application development computing skills to students having expertise in disciplines other than computer science (literature, economics, medicine, law, philosophy, etc.). By "Third" Stream Computing I mean to distinguish it from "First" Stream Computing, by which I understand computer science proper and "Second" Stream Computing, which I understand to be so-called computer literacy. It seems to me that, increasingly, computer science majors will write the complex tools that third stream type students will use to change the face of the future. Computer literacy seems to me to be the new name for sweatshop jobs -- data entry clerks, schedulers, word processors, etc. I urge you to log on to our Third Stream Learning Center server and browse around the various "rooms" -- Reference, Discussion, Classrooms, Technical, Recreation, Rotunda (Information), Student Offices, Lunchroom, etc. The rooms are far from completed but the general orientation is obvious. I see the Learning Center in the future as primarily discussion oriented (QuickCam technology, real-time emphasis, distributed real-time labs), but you will now also find all of my current courses online (lab assignments primarily), which include a set of online labs on using the Internet and writing HTML documents, which some of you may find useful (a course called "Internet '95" in the Classroom area of the Learning Center). The Learning Center is being developed on a daily basis. I would be very happy to hear your comments and suggestions. I am also anxious to join up with others -- both for personal research and for joint online course offerings -- in the general area of what I am calling third stream computing. The Third Stream Computing program at Oberlin is, in particular, looking to cooperate with others to achieve course enrichments which are more content specific than has been possible up to now with the limited faculty time available to our program. I am personally interested in the work of Martin Heidegger (as fraught with difficulty and danger as that may currently be) and in its relation both to the philosophy of the deep ecology movement and to applied computing in the humanities. Christian Koch Professor, Computer Science Oberlin College 223 King Building Oberlin, OH 44074 U.S.A. From: jramire@ccs.internet.ve (Jose Ramirez) Subject: WWW - VIII National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 07:59:49 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 25 (31) ** ANNOUNCING ** There is now a homepage for CNIASE 95 VIII National Conference on Artificial Intelligence 23 - 27 October 1995 Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ai/cniase95/home.html which includes the Call for Papers and related information. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- JOSE M. RAMIREZ jramire@conicit.ve UNIVERSIDAD METROPOLITANA Decanato de Ciencias y Artes Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Inteligencia Artificial PO Box 76819, Caracas 1070-A, Venezuela +58-2-2414833 Extension 247 or 297 +58-2-2425668 (fax) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: winder@unixg.ubc.ca (William Winder) Subject: Vacancy in French (UBC, Vancouver, 1 year) Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 17:04:49 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 12 (32) Vacancy -- French The Department of French of the University of British Columbia invites applications for a one-year vising position (maternity leave replacement) at the rank of Assistant Professor. Salary: $48,000 for 12 months, to teach September 1995-April 1996. Requirements: Ph.D. in hand in a relevant area; successful teaching experience and publications; bilingual. The successful applicant will teach a graduate seminar in literary theory, in French. Other courses will include an interdepartmental undergraduate course on post-structuralism given in English and/or a course on Renaissance Literature, as well as at least one language course. Closing date for applications: June 15, 1995 Send application, with c.v., and arrange for 3 referees to send letters directly, to: Dr. Valerie Raoul, Head Department of French The University of British Columbia #797-1873 East Mall Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1 Canada Fax: (604) 822-6675 Tel: (604) 822-2879 In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. UBC welcomes all qualified applications, especially from women, aboriginal people, visible minorities and persons with disabilities. -=-=-=-=-=-=- Le Departement de Francais de l'Universite de Colombie-Britannique annonce l'ouverture d'un poste de professeur adjoint remplacant (conge de maternite) pour l'annee 1995-6. Exigences: doctorat dans un domaine approprie; excellence dans l'enseignement; recherches et publications; bilingue. Les cours a donner, a partir de septembre, incluront un seminaire avance (3e cycle) en theorie litteraire, un cours interdisciplinaire sur le post-structuralisme (en anglais) et/ou un cours sur la litterature francaise du XVIe, plus au moins un cours de langue. Salaire: $48,000 pour 12 mois. Date limite des candidatures: le 15 juin 1995 Envoyer votre C.V. et faire parvenir 3 lettres d'appui a: Valerie Raoul, Directrice Department of French The University of British Columbia #797-1873 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Telecopie: (604) 822-6675, Tel: (604) 822-2879 La loi canadienne accorde la priorite aux citoyens et aux residents permanents du Canada. UBC encourage la candidature de toute personne qualifiee, en particulier celle des femmes, des autochtones, des membres de minorites visibles et des personnes handicapees. -- William Winder (Winder@unixg.ubc.ca, tel:(604)822-4022, fax:(604)822-6675) Department of French, U. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. From: traister@pobox.upenn.edu (Daniel Traister) Subject: Le Roy Ladurie to speak Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 16:53:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 13 (33) Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie will speak on The French National Library from the Year 1000 to the Year 2000 at 8 P.M., Thursday, May 18, in the Meyerson Hall Amphitheater, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Open to the public without charge, this talk is hosted jointly by the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Library and the French Institute for Culture and Technology. A reception will follow. For additional information, please call 215 573 3551. Please feel free to cross-post this invitation to lists where it may be of interest. Daniel Traister Special Collections Van Pelt-Dietrich Library University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 From: Hanna Kahana Subject: Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 16:50:45 +0200 (WET) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 14 (34) Subject: Does any of you use the "Chameleon" software for managing the Internet and if so - could you give me your opinion of it? I have bought it and am awed and terrified by its incomprehensible instructions manual completely written in "computerese" with a few words of English thrown in for good measure. From: PROF NORM COOMBS Subject: Important resource on education and disabilities now on internet" Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 10:09:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 15 (35) The HEATH Ressource Center, a Federal clearinghouse on information aabout education and persons with disabilities is now accessible on the internet. It is a significant source of up-to-date information on education, training, funding, legislation and persons with disabilities. You can either point your web browser to:
  • gopher://bobcat-ace.nche.edu/1D-1%3a255%3aHEATH%20Resource%20Center ">HEATH Resource Center Or here is its direct gopher address: # Type=1+ Name=HEATH Resource Center Path=D-1:255:HEATH Resource Center Host=bobcat-ace.nche.edu Port=70 Admin=Information Resources Management/ACE, (202) 939-939-9370 ModDate=Tue, May 2, 1995 10:31:28 AM <19950502103128> HEATH can also be accessed from the EASI Web home page: http://www.rit.edu/~easi located under an item pointing to other resources on the web. .................... Norman Coombs, Ph.D. www url http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh Professor of History Rochester Institute of Technology (716) 475-2462 (secretary at 475-6095) Chair, EASI Equal Access to Software and Information EASI www url http://www.rit.edu/~easi EASI's phone (714) 830-0301 (Pacific time zone) .................... From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: R: Chameleon Sampler Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 07:09:09 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 26 (36) In answer to Hanna Kahana's note in Humanist 9.14 about Chameleon software, I am one such user. The shareware version, known as the Chameleon Sampler, comes with books & is available online from ftp.netmanage.com. The version I prefer comes with Adam Engst, The Internet Starter Kit for PC, which as a book is rather less than useful but worth $39.95 (Canadian deflated dollars) for the diskette because it makes installation easier than otherwise. The comparative degree of "easy" I use advisedly. Installing TCP/IP Winsock software in order to achieve a direct Internet connection is not simple. I have suffered through the plains and anguish of doing so, to get a dial-up PPP connection from home, because the results are more than worth the hours spent and confusion fought through. If, that is, your online life is important to you. After I figured out as much of this stuff as I could, I wrote some WWW pages to explain the process to my colleagues here -- and elsewhere perhaps. Try the URL http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/connect/connect0.html Please keep in mind that the Technical Bulletin at the other end of this address was written for people at Toronto who use a specific machine. I am not technically adept enough to know if a more widely applicable version of the bulletin could be written for the world at large without making it too general to be of real use. Comments welcome. In fact, it would be useful to have some discussion of what people use to get their direct connections to the Internet. There are a number of rather expensive packages, but for our community, at least now, I think the attention should be paid to things like the Sampler that are free or very cheap. WM Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: bizer@clipper.ens.fr (Marc Bizer) Subject: Scanning Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 07:32:10 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 27 (37) [deleted quotation] Don't forget TextBridge 2.0 from Xerox. I think it's available in both Windows and Mac versions, and it received very good marks from reviewers. Most importantly, it only costs $99.95. --Marc Bizer From: David Bantz Subject: Re: 9.0009 Rs: Union List Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 08:44:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 28 (38) [deleted quotation] nslookup yielded two IP addresses for nyu.edu aliased to www.nyu.edu: 128.122.128.2 and 192.76.177.18 David Bantz 608-785-8024 (voice & secretary) 608-785-8825 (fax) Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology University of Wisconsin - La Crosse 145 Main Hall - 1725 State St. La Crosse, WI 54601-3788 From: "Lakritz, Andrew" Subject: USIA Syllabus Initiative Date: Thu, 11 May 95 9:44:03 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 17 (39) ANNOUNCING A NEW AMERICAN STUDIES INITIATIVE AT THE USIA For Immediate Release: The US Information Agency is undertaking a new American Studies Initiative in connection with its WEB/Gopher page, to place the latest curricular information at the finger tips of scholars, teachers, and students worldwide. Five years ago, the Division for the Study of the U.S. within the USIA organized a syllabus project in American Studies, directed by Professor Alan Davis of Temple University. Scholars from all over the U.S. were asked to donate their American Studies syllabi to the project, and the office received hundreds of responses. These materials have recently been made available to the Salzburg Seminar, in Austria, for use in American Studies workshops, but the original intent was to make the material available to Fulbrighters going overseas who were being asked to teach courses outside their routine teaching duties. The materials would function as a teaching resource for those who could not otherwise get such materials on short notice. Now these syllabi are out of date, and we are hereby calling for the academic community to respond again to this "call for materials." With the new technology available, we have the capability to expand our reach even further, making available world-wide materials that would otherwise simply not exist. These materials will be available to anyone with Internet/e-mail access. Users without access to Gopher or the web will be able to acquire the syllabi easily by sending simple commands via e-mail to a file storage facility. With this project we are looking to expand our reach in another way: we'd like to have scholars of American Studies contribute their materials from wherever they teach, whether in the U.S. or outside. We are especially keen to see materials from all regions of the world, where ever there is an interest in the study of the U.S. We particularly encourage materials that call for a comparative approach, either between the U.S. and one other country, or placing the U.S. in a context among several countries or within a region. By American Studies, or the Study of the U.S., we mean all disciplines that have a major U.S. component, including political science, history, literature, economics, business, cultural studies, women's studies, African American studies, music, law, architecture, geography, art history, urban history, material culture, interdisciplinary American studies, ethnic studies, immigration, among many others. The idea is for this resource to be both inclusive and expansive. The syllabus archive will be housed and made available in two locations: (1) the raw files will be placed on a file server associated with H-AMSTDY; (2) the archive will also be made available on the World Wide Web in enhanced electronic form through the American Studies Electronic Crossroads (ASEC), the WWW site for the American Studies Crossroads Project. All contributors to the archive will receive notice at an appropriate time about where the files are and how one can get access to them. Please forward this message to your colleagues who might also have an interest in contributing to this project. If you would like to contribute material to this archive, please follow the steps listed below. 1. Submit a cover page indicating name, address, institution, position, phone, fax, and e-mail address, and a list of academic specialties and interests. 2. Submit a syllabus (with any collateral material, including exams, bibliography, position papers, lecture notes, definitions, annotations--whatever you use in class that either exists in electronic format, or can be scanned into such a format), one that includes a descriptive title, name of instructor, date of course, and a paragraph placing the course within the context of the departmental or interdepartmental curriculum. Remember that the more useful syllabus will be the one that is clear and specific to audiences beyond your classroom. 3. If possible, submit these materials on disk (WP5.1 is the preferred format) as well as in hard copy format. Or, you can send them to me over the Internet. Send materials to: Dr. Andrew M. Lakritz, Scholar-In-Residence Division for the Study of the U.S. United States Information Agency 301 Fourth Street SE, Room 252 Washington, D.C. 20547 (Telephone) 202-619-5951 (FAX) 202-619-6790 e-mail--> ALAKRITZ@USIA.GOV From: bd498@freenet.Buffalo.EDU (Kizer Walker) Subject: call for papers Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 21:42:36 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 18 (40) SOUTHERN AFRICAN COLLOQUIUM ON GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES CALL FOR PAPERS/ FIRST CIRCULAR ** DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 31 MAY 1995 ** (NOTE: any questions should be directed to: deanarts@beattie.uct.ac.za) An international colloquium aimed at mapping the state of gay and lesbian studies in southern Africa will be held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on 20 and 21 October 1995. Keynote addresses will be delivered by internationally acclaimed Gay and Lesbian Studies critics. Papers are invited under the following proposed topics: 1. A white man's disease? Homosexuality/African culture: A challenge to anthropology in Africa. 2. South Africa's bill of rights: Does the emphasis on gender obfuscate Gay and Lesbian diversity in human and civil rights debates? 3. Hidden, even more "hidden from history". Elaborating methods to retrieve and to write a social history of Gays and Lesbians in southern Africa. 4. The queer obsession of Afrikaans literature: internalizing oppression? Two round-table discussions are envisaged. Suggestions for topics and round-tables are welcome. There will be no parallel sessions. Papers not to exceed 20 minutes, excluding question time. The proceedings will be published as the first volume of "African Gay and Lesbian Studies". Due date for submissions of proposals is 31 May 1995. Kindly fill in and return the form below to: Office of the Dean of Arts, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, 7700 Rondebosch, South Africa. Fax: +27 (021) 650-3726. Internet: deanarts@beattie.uct.ac.za Registration and booking forms as well as a provisional programme will be sent in the Second Circular in July 1995. ______________________________________________________________________ SOUTHERN AFRICAN COLLOQUIUM ON GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES NAME ADDRESS FAX INTERNET INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION ______________________________________________________________________ I WILL ATTEND BUT I DO NOT INTEND TO GIVE A PAPER ______________________________________________________________________ TITLE OF PAPER SHORT ABSTRACT _____________________________________________________________________ Office of the Dean of Arts University of Cape Town Private Bag Rondebosch 7700 South Africa Phone: +27 21 650 3722/3 Fax: +27 21 650 3726 Internet: DEANARTS@BEATTIE.UCT.AC.ZA Yours truly, Sander L. Gilman The Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology Wieboldt Hall 411 1050 East 59th Street Chicago IL 60637-1512 FAX: 312-702-9861 Department Telephone: 312-702-8494 Voice Mail: 312-702-3268 e-mail: slgilman@midway.uchicago.edu -- *************************************************** Kizer Walker bd498@freenet.buffalo.edu --or-- kw33@cornell.edu *************************************************** From: guojin@iss.nus.sg Subject: CFP -- International Conference on Chinese Computing'96 (ICCC96) Date: Fri, 12 May 95 16:44:00 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 19 (41) Please Post Please post Please Post Please Post Please Post International Conference on Chinese Computing'96 (ICCC96) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Latest Technological Advancement and Applications June 4-7 (Wed. - Fri.) Jointly Organized by Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (Singapore) Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore (Singapore) Chinese Information Processing Society (China) Theme: The theme of this conference is the application of advanced technologies and knowledge to the processing of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other oriental languages. Recent advances and developments in methodologies, systems and software and hardware will be emphasized. Papers: Suggested topics included but are not limited to the following: Large-scale lexical database construction Syntactic and semantic analysis New input methods and their application Natural language interface Machine(-aided) translation Intelligent information retrieval Application of corpus and statistics Text classification and abstraction Discourse understanding Knowledge acquisition and representation Speech I/O and OCR (printed / handwriting) Chinese Internet (WWW) and E-mail Font generations and Typesetting Localization (Han Hua) Submission: Send 3 copies of full paper of not more than 8000 words to: Prof. Dong Zheng Dong Institute of Systems Science National University of Singapore Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge Singapore 0511 FAX: (65) 774 4998 Email: zddong@iss.nus.sg Prof. Huang Chang Ning Department of Computer Science Tsinghua University Beijing, China 100084 FAX: (86 10) 256 2768 Important Dates: Submission Deadline Dec. 1 1995 Notification Mar. 1 1996 Final manuscript Apr. 1 1996 Official Languag: English and Chinese. An English abstract must be provided if the paper is written in Chinese. Tutorial: Proposals for tutorial should be submitted by 1 Feb. 1996 to: Dr. Lua Kim Teng Department of Information Systems & Computer Science, National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511 Fax 65-7722782, email luakt@iscs.nus.sg Venue: Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 0511 From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: Conference in Tel Aviv Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 20:19:32 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 21 (42) CULTURAL RESOURCES IN THE ELECTRONIC ERA Beyond Enthusiasm: Some Critical Perspectives Faculty of the Humanities Tel Aviv University 5-6 June, 1995 The increasing role of computers and information technology in the use of cultural resources is creating new challenges for the liberal arts. Although traditionally Humanists have eschewed technology in their research and teaching, a tidal wave of digitization is transforming the texts, images, artifacts and manuscripts that are the basic materials of humanistic scholarship. Libraries, archives, museums and galleries can now be accessed electronically, and their most valuable holdings are being reproduced digitally. Ease of access, dissemination, and preservation are major advantages of the electronic format. The potential of computer-assisted analysis and information retrieval from huge textual corpora can only be realized when resources are preserved or converted into an electronic format. These advantages, together with the early popularity of word processing, and the more recent enthusiastic acceptance of international networks and the concept of "cyberspace," have resulted in a growing intrusion of the new technologies into the traditional and tradition-bound spheres of Humanities research. Computers were first used in Humanities research in the 1940s, but have received a huge impetus during the last ten years. Almost all major universities and centers of scholarship can now boast academic projects that involve the digitization of primary sources. Scholars have traditionally stood at the gateways of culture, and have selectively chosen those cultural artifacts which merited preservation and distribution. However, the information explosion undermines the principles of selectivity. The purpose of this Conference is to place these developments into perspective, and to raise critical questions concerning the purposes, means and impact of this "revolution". The speakers, from the major Humanities computing centers and digitizing projects in Europe and the USA, will examine the impact of the information revolution and the new technology on research in the Liberal Arts. What has been achieved since Humanities computing was first introduced forty years ago? What major projects are underway today, how are they organized, and what principles guide them? What can be learnt from the success of some projects and the failure of others? What impact will the electronic era have on conventional scholarly publishing? How can the principle of selectivity be preserved? In addition to these general issues, the following specific questions will be addressed: 1. There is a mass of cultural information which we could work on, and we have limited resources. How are we going to decide where to direct these resources? 2. The pace of development constantly confounds our attempts to keep up with the technology. This causes problems of rapid obsolescence, when we are trying to preserve our cultural artifacts into the far future. Texts and data written on punch cards are no longer readable, whereas two thousand year old manuscripts can still be interpreted. Despite the promise of the new technology, digitization might ultimately be the enemy of preservation. What solutions exist to the problems of obsolescence in its various forms? 3. Are any standards starting to emerge? Are these overtaken as soon as we begin to adopt them? We need to consider urgently the different approaches in tagging, image formats, video and sound formats, compression techniques. 4. What is our relationship to 'edutainment'? We might feel that it is irrelevant as we deal with more 'serious' matters, but this drives the technology for better or worse, and it is an aspect of popular culture which we need to examine. (For example, the influence on fiction writing of interactive fiction and adventure games.) 5. Digitization and networking are challenging the printed word. What impact will this have on the preservation and transmission of our cultural resources across generations? Do the existing intellectual conventions of Humanities scholarship meet the needs of the new media? What impact will the new technologies have on academic research and publishing? 6. Are we trying to create a discipline of humanities computing? Or are we trying to persuade humanists that their individual disciplines need to change to accommodate to the demands of information technology? How do we support them while the changes take place? They need funding, training, theoretical underpinning. Where do we find the resources for the work we need to do? How do scholars get the institutional credit for the work done? 7. Can we share experience, technical resources, trained personnel? Can we establish a linked international consortium of humanities computing centers? During the Conference, there will be a display of Israeli software and digitization projects relevant to Humanities research. Participants: UK Dr Deian Hopkin, Dean, Faculty of Human Sciences, London Guildhall University Dr Peter Denley, Director, Centre for Humanities Computing, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Dr Seamus Ross, Assistant Secretary (Information Technology) The British Academy and Visiting Research Fellow in Humanities Computing and Multimedia, London Guildhall University Lou Burnard, Director, Oxford Text Archive, and European Editor, Text Encoding Initiative Dr Marilyn Deegan, Director, Office for Humanities Communication and CTI Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford University Dr Ruth Glynn, Chief Editor, Electronic Publishing, Oxford University Press Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Chairman, Chadwyck-Healey Ltd Professor Kathryn Sutherland, Professor of Modern English, University of Nottingham, and Director, Project Electra Dr Michael Alexander, Document and Image Processing Manager, The British Library Dr Eddy Higgs, Research Fellow, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford USA Dr Allen Renear, Director, Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Professor John Unsworth, Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia JAPAN Professor Andrew Armour, Faculty of Letters, Keio University, Tokyo. Presently Honorary Research Fellow, Office for Humanities Communication GREECE Dr Costis Dallas, Director, Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens, Greece FRANCE Dr Yannick Maignien, Head of Digitizing Project, Bibliotheque National de France (not confirmed) ISRAEL Prof. Ya'akov Choueka, Bar-Ilan University Dr. Tuvia Friling, Ben-Gurion University Dr. Irit Keynan, Hagana Archives (not confirmed) Mrs. Edna Mokady, Israel State Archives Dr. Ronald W. Zweig, Tel Aviv University ---------------------------- Anyone interested in attending the conference described above (for which there is no registration fee) should contact: Dr Marilyn Deegan Humanities Computing Initiative, Tel Aviv University E-mail: marilyn@rambam.tau.ac.il Anyone who is interested in the topic, but who cannot attend, might be interested to know that the proceedings are to be published in the Office for Humanities Communication series of publications. We are hoping that the volume will be available by the end of 1995. To register your interest, write to Marilyn Deegan at the above address until 11 June 1995, thereafter at marilyn@vax.ox.ac.uk. Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: OLAF Subject: CON: Marine resources & human societies Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 16:37:16 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 22 (43) Please draw the following conference information to the attention of anyone concerned with past and present state of fish stocks in the North Atlantic and their significance for fishing societies. Thank you. Olaf Janzen Department of History Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Corner Brook, Newfoundland Canada A2H 6P9 e-mail: olaf@kean.ucs.mun.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- MARINE RESOURCES AND HUMAN SOCIETIES IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC SINCE 1500 The Maritime Studies Research Unit (MSRU) at Memorial University of Newfoundland will sponsor a conference on October 20-22, 1995 on "Marine Resources and Human Societies in the North Atlantic Since 1500. Sessions will cover the historical origins of the present crisis in the fisheries by examining: marine resources in historical perspective; estimating fishing effort in the past; property rights and their ecological consequences; traditional ecological knowledge; fisheries and government management, maritime communities in history; and marine ecology and underde- velopment. For further information, contact: Daniel Vickers, chair, MSRU Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NFLD. A1C 5S7 (tel: +1 709-737-8425; FAX: +1 709-737-2164; e- mail: dvickers@kean.ucs.mun.ca). From: Michael Metzger Subject: Backpack CDROM & Scanman Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 06:06:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 29 (44) I am thinking of buying a Microsolutions Backpack 4x CD-ROM drive, which has its own interface and connects to the parallel port; the Scanman Powerpage scanner (Logitech) also connects to the parallel port and requires no further interface> Has anyone out there had experience with either piece of equipment. Obviously, what I like about both, in theory at least, is their portability and availability to another machine, and, in the case of the scanner, the minimal footprint. How about its bound-copy scanning abilities, though? Thanks in advance for your advice. Michael Metzger -- Univ at Buffalo (who has really missed HUMANIST, BTW, and is very glad it's back.) From: chorus@peinet.pe.ca (Todd J. B. Blayone) Subject: Pilgrimage to Jerusalem Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 13:14:05 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 30 (45) Can anyone help Joseph Keenan , a newcomer to cyberspace, with the following query? [deleted quotation] Thanks! Todd _______________________________________________________________ Todd J. B. Blayone McGill University Project Coordinator, Chorus chorus@peinet.pe.ca http://www.peinet.pe.ca:2080/Chorus/People/Todd_B/toddhome.html ________________________________________________________________ From: traister@pobox.upenn.edu (Daniel Traister) Subject: Looking for housing in Chicago Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 15:42:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 31 (46) I am posting the notice below for a colleague at the University of Penn- sylvania who is not a member of this list. She is looking for housing in Chicago or Evanston for the 1995-6 academic year. Please respond to Professor Bowers, *not* to me. Thanks, Daniel Traister Special Collections University of Pennsylvania * * * * * Chicago Sublet wanted -- August 95-July 96. SWF ivy professor, 36, seeks furnished sublet for self and school-age son in Newberry Library area or Evanston. 1 or 2 bdrms. Non-smoker. Reply to tbowers@dept.english.upenn.edu From: Anne M Robinson Subject: standard corpus of present-day american english Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 10:45:47 +1000 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 32 (47) I should know this but is The standard corpus pf present-day American English, put out by the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities available by ftp? Thenks -- -- Anne Robinson | Internet: ulamr@dewey.newcastle.edu.au Reference Librarian, Auchmuty Library, | Ph (intl+61+49) 216142 University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA | Fax (intl+61+49) 215833 From: weil@bred.univ-montp3.fr (Michele Weil) Subject: recherche bibliographique sur Mme de Villedieu Date: Sat, 13 May 95 11:52:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 33 (48) Nancy Klein recherche les tomes VII et VIII de l'ouvrage intitule La collection des meilleurs ouvrages francois, composes par des femmes, dediee aux femmes francoises, par Melle de Keralio (1786). Une analyse des oeuvres de Mme de Villedieu s'y trouve. Ces tomes manquent a la BN. Ou les trouver en France ou ailleurs ? Elle n'a pas de E-mail. je transmettrai. Merci. -- Mich=E8le Weil weil@bred.univ-montp3.fr professeur de litt=E9rature fran=E7aise Universit=E9 Paul Val=E9ry - Montpellier 3 Route de Mende, F 34032 Montpellier. T=E9l=E9phone bureau 33 67 14 24 62 T=E9l=E9copieur - FAX 33 67 14 24 26 From: MsCBecca@aol.com Subject: Help in Humanities areas Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 19:56:55 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 34 (49) Have no idea if I'm in the right spot but need to start somewhere. I work as a teacher/tutor on the net; am currently trying to help two students with following: a) symbolic meaning of different parts of landscape and landscape as a whole in Robert Frost poem that begins: I have been one acquainted with the night. b) the relationship of situational comedy on TV to American life/how it has affected the lives of people in America I've tried using the net to research these but many of the files I tried to look at listed "unable to retrieve at this time." Yours is the best reference I was able to obtain. Did locate one poem by Robert Frost (Stopping by the Woods, etc) but it didn't have any commentary. Found nothing even remotely relating to question on situation comedies on television. Any help will be greatly appreciated. ASAP (what else is new?).....thanks in advance for any help/advice. MsCBecca@aol.com Academic Assistance Center staff member From: Yorick Wilks Subject: MSc in Language, Speech and Auditory Processing Date: Mon, 15 May 95 15:12:27 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 24 (50) M.SC. in LANGUAGE, SPEECH AND AUDITORY PROCESSING ONE-YEAR M.SC. COURSE Department of Computer Science in collaboration with Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH) Department of Information Studies Department of Psychology Speech Science Unit UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD United Kingdom ** The Aims of the Course ** This advanced M.Sc. programme provides a sound professional education and research training in new areas of information technology concerned with computer perception and processing of human language in all its forms. It is designed to provide an academic and practical grounding in part of what is known in Europe as `The Language Industry'. It aims to provide training for further research in this rapidly growing field in this Department or elsewhere. Language, speech and auditory processing is an inherently interdisciplinary field, involving elements of linguistics, phonetics, computer science, signal processing and artificial intelligence. Graduates generally come into the field with training in a subset of these disciplines, which will vary from person to person. One role of this Master's degree is to fill out the profile of each student in the areas which are appropriate for that person. We therefore aim for a wide choice of modules which can be tailored to individual needs. The course also provides skills in demand in today's world of language and information in electronic publishing, political/economic and scientific information handling, computer aids to translation, speech technology, composition, language learning, and legal retrieval and information handling etc. This course is offered subject to final approval by the University Senate. ** The Academic Profile ** The Department has a substantial research base in these areas, which has now resulted in University funding for ILASH: the Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, with which the MSc. is associated. ILASH has its own machines and support staff, and academic staff attached to it from nine departments. Sheffield is a node on the EU-funded ELSNET (European Network in Language and Speech) network and participates in many Europe-wide programmes that give opportunities to link to work across the Community. We are coordinating the 11-laboratory Human Capital and Mobility (HCM) EU network SPHERE: `Representations in Speech and Hearing' We also participate in EU ERASMUS programmes in speech and language where students can complete their dissertations abroad. ** Staff ** The course teaching will draw on staff in the Computer Science Department and other Departments in the University. The following is a list of current Computer Science academic staff working in Language, Speech and Hearing together with their research interests: Guy Brown: auditory models, sound source separation, audition, speech Martin Cooke: auditory models, sound source separation, audition, speech Robert Gaizauskas: logical models of natural language texts, information extraction from corpora Phil Green: Speech perception, automatic speech recognition. Mark Hepple: Computational linguistics, grammatical formalisms, parsing, categorial grammar Mike Holcombe: formal models of NLP, formal models of user modelling visual formal specification languages Jim McGregor: user modelling, parsing, Prolog, tutoring systems Paul Mc Kevitt: pragmatics, intentions, natural language dialogue, revision in dialogue, user-computer interfaces, hyper/multimedia, user modelling, integration of speech, language and vision processing Bob Minors: Modelling arguments in discourse, illogic of argumentation, belief processing Amanda Sharkey: Connectionist and cognitive models of language: language acquisition, symbol grounding, parsing, translation. Noel Sharkey: Connectionist Natural Language Processing, Neural Network models of Cognition, Neural Representations underlying language and thought, Sensory and Action grounding of concepts. Tony Simons: machine translation, syntactic, chart, and object-oriented parsing Yorick Wilks: artificial intelligence, natural language understanding, belief pragmatics, lexical computation, parsing, information extraction. ** Entrance Requirements ** Applicants will normally be expected to have, or be expected to obtain before joining the programme, a 2-2 or better in any subject, but those with degrees in computing, mathematics, psychology, physics, electrical engineering, linguistics, phonetics and cognitive science will be preferred. Work in an information service, computer department, advanced publishing environment or anything similar is considered advantageous, but candidates without such experience will be given equal consideration. International student applicants whose first language is not English will be required to provide evidence of English language competence. ** Structure and Content ** The course consists of a taught part for two University Semesters, followed by examinations and then a project examined by dissertation and oral examination. The taught part of the course will consist of twelve modules. (A module occupies 1 semester and typically breaks down into 20 lecture hours and 10 practical/tutorial hours). Since? we aim to cater for students coming from multidisciplinary backgrounds, we endeavour to make the course as flexible as possible. Students take six core modules and choose six electives. The advice and approval of tutors must be sought before deciding on the choice of elective. The six core modules are 'Natural Language Processing (I and II),' `Speech and Hearing (I and II),' and `Research topics in speech and language' (I and II). `The latter consists of a series of guest lectures and local seminars which students must attend, discuss, analyse and write essays on. Such modules are valuable both for technical content and for research skills, since understanding the research of others is a valuable asset which requires practise. The Elective modules offered from year to year depend upon the availability of staff and the trends in research and professional practice. Among possible electives modules are (with other Departments noted where the courses are theirs): `(Psych/CS) Language and Logic', `Knowledge Engineering (I and II)'. `Data Structures', `Connectionism', `Computer Graphics I', `Human Computer Interaction', `Machine Reasoning ', `Functional Programming', `Logic Programming', `(Speech Science) Phonetics', `(IS) Information Resources I', `(IS) Information Storage and Retrieval I', `(IS) Computers and Information II', `(IS) Information Storage and Retrieval II', and `(IS) Scientific and Technological Information'. The period from June to 31st August will be devoted to the preparation of a supervised dissertation to be submitted on or before 30th September. ** Assessment ** Students will be required to pass continuous assessment and examinations for all twelve modules, and produce an acceptable dissertation. These three hurdles will be independent, in that to pass a student must pass all of them and to get a distinction a student must at least approach distinction standard in all of the continuous assessment, the examinations and the dissertation. ** Fees ** The University charges the standard fees 2260 for EU and 7360 for non EU students (Figures in Pounds Sterling). ** Sheffield ** Sheffield is one of the friendliest cities in Britain and is well-situated, having the best and closest surrounding countryside of any major city. The Peak District National Park is only minutes away. It is a good city for walkers, runners, and climbers. It has two theatres, the Crucible and Lyceum. The Lyceum, a beautiful Victorian theatre, has recently been renovated. Also, the city has three mulitplex cinemas. There is a library theatre which shows more artistic films. The city has a number of museums many of which demonstrate Sheffield's industrial past, and there are a number of Galleries in the City, including the Mapping Gallery and Ruskin. A number of important 'stately homes' are close to Sheffield, such as Chatsworth House and Hardwicke Hall. By 1995 Sheffield will be served by a 'supertram' system: the line to the Meadowhall shopping and leisure complex is already open. Sheffield has outstanding sporting facilities, many constructed for the World Student Games in 1991. We have an Olympic standard swimming pool and sports complex that is regularly used for international competition. The Sheffield Arena, is becoming an increasingly important venue for touring rock bands. ENQUIRIES AND APPLICATIONS: Please send enquiries and requests for application forms to: Ms. Vanessa Price M.Sc. Admissions Department of Computer Science Regent Court 211 Portobello Street University of Sheffield GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England. E-mail: vanessa@dcs.shef.ac.uk Fax: 44 1142 780972 Phone: 44 1142 825590 ***************************************************************************** From: stephen.parkinson@Modern-Languages.oxford.ac.uk Subject: Sesame Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 09:59:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 35 (51) The explanation given to me many years ago by a distinguished Persianist was that sesame wood was used to make doors, and that addressing a door as Sesame was no different from the Cambridge practice of referring to a study door as an "oak". (In student slang, "sporting the oak" was banging on a fellow student's door.) Stephen Parkinson Oxford University From: ltaylor@CS.UCLA.EDU Subject: Re: 9.0023 Qs: Pilgrimage; ... Date: Mon, 15 May 95 15:24:33 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 36 (52) I don't know how recent you need, but this book includes the history of pilgrimages. Author: Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. Title: Bible and sword; England and Palestine from the bronze age to Balfour. Published: New York, New York University Press, 1956. Description: xiv, 268 p. illus., ports., maps. 24 cm. Subject(s): Zionism--History. Great Britain--Relations--Palestine. Palestine--Relations--Great Britain. LAT From: marc bregman Subject: Anthologizing Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 21:03:02 +0300 (WET) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 37 (53) I am looking for bibliography on "Anthologizing" as a literary form, especially in the area of general critical theory or rhetoric studies, but any suggestions will be appreciated. Marc Bregman (Jerusalem) From: Ted Parkinson Subject: Query on "Twins" documentary Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 14:36:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 38 (54) I am posting the following query for a collegue who has email access, but is not subscribed to Humanist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ted Parkinson Department of English McMaster University parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Hamilton, Ontario Query: "Siamese Twins" Documentary. A colleague and I are desperately seeking a copy of a British documentary on the separation of a set of Irish cojoined twins. The title is "Katie and Eilish." We are also interested in viewing a supplementary documentary, called "Life After Katie." Any tips gratefully appreciated. I am at dclark@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca. From: stephen.parkinson@Modern-Languages.oxford.ac.uk Subject: Oak (sesame) Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 11:40:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 39 (55) Various colleagues have corrected my faulty recall of "sporting the oak", to remind me that it refers to the open or closed state of the outer door, indicating the inhabitant's readiness to be disturbed - in other words, it refers to whether Sesame is open or not! Stephen Parkinson Oxford University From: "F.W.Langley" Subject: Re: 9.0025 Rs: Sesame; Pilgrimages (2/32) Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 12:08:09 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 40 (56) [deleted quotation]Stephen Parkinson hasn't got this quite right. I don't know about Cambridge, but in my Oxford days, to "sport the/one's oak" meant to close the (outer) door of one's set of rooms in college as a sign that one was engaged and did not want to be disturbed. To bang on a fellow student's door when the "oak was sported" would have been regarded as a gross solecism. The expression "to sport the oak" is attested as far back as the eighteenth century (see OED). *************************************************************************** * Frederick Langley E-Mail: f.w.langley@french.hull.uk.ac * * Department of French * * University of Hull * * Cottingham Road * * Hull * * HU6 7RX * * England * *************************************************************************** From: Lucia Ruedenberg Subject: Emergency Action Alert Date: Mon, 15 May 95 20:45 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 28 (57) Sender: owner-kenslist@QueerNet.ORG ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT From the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences The House Budget Committee has recommended the complete elimination of NSF research funding for Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Linguistics, Political Science, Economics, Geography, Cognitive Science, Decision, Risk and Management Sciences, History of Science, and Statistical Research for the Behavioral and Social Sciences-- as NSF's contribution to balancing the Federal budget. There is no doubt that NSF funding will be cut in the effort to balance the budget. But to selectively wipe out the behavioral and social sciences goes far beyond simply saving money. This is the most important crisis these sciences have faced since Ronald Reagan attempted to eliminate the same sciences in the early 1980s. Action on this will happen very quickly. The Budget Committee approved the budget package on May 11. The vote on the package by the full House will happen sometime between the 15th and 18th of May. In all likelihood, the budget resolution will pass the House unaltered. The Appropriations Committee will be bound by the spending limits imposed by the Budget Committee. But it need not be bound by the particular cuts recommended by the Budget Committee! Unfortunately, the House leadership has also made it known that no program that lacks a current authorization will be funded. The National Science Foundation is not currently authorized. Efforts to pass its authorization failed last year in the Senate. The House Science Committee Chair, Robert Walker (R-PA) has said that as soon as the budget is passed, the Science Committee will proceed to report its authorizations which include, among other things, NSF, NASA, and the research programs of the Department of Energy. Robert Walker is also the Vice-Chair of the Budget Committee, and he played a key role in determining the selective cuts at NSF. In a news conference on May 12, Walker said that the Directorate containing the research programs mentioned above was created simply because it was "politically correct" and that it is now time to make a correction. This means that there is little chance the NSF authorization from his Committee will contain an authorization for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. If the Committee does not authorize the Directorate, the Appropriations Committee cannot fund the research programs it contains. So scientists must pay close attention to actions of the Budget, Appropriations, and the authorizing committee. The only way the course of events can be changed is for concerned citizens to let their elected representatives know that they as voters do not approve of these ideological cuts masquerading as budget balancing measures. You must take it on yourself immediately to 1) write or call your own representative and senator's office to express your disapproval 2) send a copy of your letter to: Robert Walker, George Brown (ranking minority member of the Science Committee and a likely ally of behavioral and social scientists), Jerry Lewis (Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee that appropriates money for the National Science Foundation). And this next thing is equally important: SEND, FAX OR EMAIL A COPY OF YOUR CORRESPONDENCE TO THE FEDERATION OF BEHAVIORAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES. We have to be able to monitor how great an impact behavioral and social scientists are having, and the only way we can do that is by keeping track of how many contacts from scientists congressional offices have received. Any letter to Congress may be addressed as follows: Representative's name, U.S. House of Representatives (or U.S. Senate) Washington, D.C. 20515 (House) or 20510 (Senate). The Federation email is federation@apa.org. Federation fax is (202) 336-6158. If you need more information, our telephone number is (202) 336-5920. 3) Help us get the word out. Please see that the anthropology, sociology, linguistics, economics, political science, cognitive science, and geography departments on your campus receive this action alert as well. 4) It is very important that elected representatives do not hear only from the scientists affected. If you have acquaintances in the physical or biological sciences or the university administration who would write a letter or make a phone call to an elected representative, do everything you can to get such a communication sent. __________________________________________________________________________ For help with senate-l, mail a message to majordomo@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu with the word "help" in the body of your message. __________________________________________________________________________ From: "Martin Irvine, Georgetown University" Subject: Cultural Studies Conference, Georgetown Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 23:26:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 29 (58) CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Cultural Frictions: Medieval Cultural Studies in Post-Modern Contexts A Local and World-Wide Interactive Conference at Georgetown University Washington, DC * October 27-28, 1995 Sponsored by: * Georgetown University (Medieval Studies Program and Graduate Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology) * George Washington University (Program in Human Sciences) * The Catholic University of America * The University of Virginia KEYNOTE SPEAKER Carolyn Dinshaw, UC-Berkeley ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: This conference will be devoted to the ways in which medieval literary studies are being reconceived and redefined with the models for social and cultural history developed in recent work on cultural studies and post-modern theory. Post-modern theory is also beginning to notice the impact of the new networked hypermedia environment of the World Wide Web on literary studies and the humanities, and the Web as a new context for cultural studies will be both a topic for discussion as well as the medium for transmitting this discussion worldwide during the weekend of the conference. THE WORLD-WIDE INTERACTIVE FORMAT: ACTING LOCALLY, THINKING GLOBALLY Papers presented at the conference will be published on the World Wide Web through the Labyrinth about 5 days before the meeting at Georgetown. Each paper will have a hyperlink to a comment form, which will allow readers around the world to respond to the papers and thus participate in the conference remotely. The comment files will also allow comments, either by the authors of the papers or by other virtual (or real) conference participants. The last session of the conference will be devoted to reviewing and discussing the accumulated global commentary on line, with a live Internet connection and projection monitor. Conference participants at Georgetown will also be given access to computer labs with Net and Web software. REGISTRATION AND LOCAL ACCOMODATIONS The registration fee for the day-and-a-half conference will be $25 for regular participants and $15 for students. Blocks of hotel rooms will be reserved at the Georgetown University Conference Center and at some local hotels for those wishing overnight accomodations. For further information and registration materials, send e-mail to: Martin Irvine(irvinemj@gusun.georgetown.edu), or surface mail to: Professor Martin Irvine Cultural Frictions Conference Department of English 305 New North Building Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Phone: (202) 687-7533 CONFERENCE WEB SITE For further information and Web resources in cultural studies, visit the Conference Web Site, which will be under development through October '95: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/conf/cs95/ From: CTI.Lang@hull.ac.uk (June Thompson) Subject: EUROCALL 95 Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 10:14:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 30 (59) EUROCALL 95, 7-9 September, Valencia, Spain Theme: Focus on Integration The "official" deadline for registration was 15 May 1995, but at the time of writing (16 May) there are still some vacancies. For further information, please contact the organiser without delay: Dra Ana Gimeno Sanz Departamento de Idiomas Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Camino de Vera, 14 46022 Valencia, Spain Tel +34 6 387 75 30 Ext 5300-5301 Fax +34 6 387 75 39 Email: agimeno@idm.upv.es The following is a provisional list of presenters:- Keynote Speakers: Patricia Grounds: Gerente Regional: Proyecto de Auto-Acceso, SEP (Educacion Superior), Consejo Britanico, MEXICO Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, CANADA Charles Jennings, CECOMM, Southampton Institute of Higher Education, UK Chris R Emery, CAMILLE Project Co-ordinator, University of Teesside, UK Other presenters: Oliver Bayerlein University of Kaiserslantern Alemania Word Wizard: Learning vocabulary with a little help from my PC Cilia Beijk Instituut voor Doven, Dept.R2D/T Holanda IHT: Improvement of Hearing through Training: a Computer Program for deaf and hearing impaired people Stanley A. Bishop c/o HRB Systems Estados Unidos ESL/EFL-2000: A Model for Government-Industry Initiatives to Promote Computer-Assisted Language Learning Francoise Blin School of Applied Languages; Dublin City University Irlanda Integrating Call in the Negotiated Leaner-Centred Curriculum Antonio Borraccino University of Westminster, School of Languages Reino Unido Corso interactivo Multimediale D'Italia Paul Brett University of Wolverhampton Reino Unido A Multimedia application to listening skills and learner"s evaluations of its use Gordon J.A. Burgess Department of German, University of Aberdeen Reino Unido The use of parallel concordancing for literary and linguistic text analysis Claudio Cappellini CNA Italia Project SPAC- LINGUA- A presentation of language training for textile and shoe companies Benedicte Cebrian Napier University, Edinburgh Reino Unido Creating NEGOWORLD: A dual purpose multimedia interactive business negotiation package Michelangelo Conoscenti Centro Linguistico e Audiosivi Universitario. Universita di Torino Italia R.E.A.D.(Reading Easily for Adults). Mary-Louise Craven 530 Scott Library, York University Canada Providing Scaffolding Strategies for ESL Students on a Conferencing System Graham Chesters CTI Modern Languages University of Hull Reino Unido The Tell Consortium: Strategies for Integration Graham Davies Thames Valley University Reino Unido Getting the Best out of Fun with Texts Jan De Baere Vlaamse Gemeenschapscomissie Education Belgica The Introduction of CALL in 50 secondary schools in Brussels: Strategy, implementation and results Philippe Delcloque Napier University, Edinburgh Reino Unido A Proposed Methodology for C.A.L.L. in L.S.P. Marina Dodigovic Hochschule Bremen Alemania Parsing Language for Special Purposes Paul Donnelly University of Glasgow Reino Unido Strategic consideration for implementing and widening CALL in the academic curriculum Richard Foley Language Centre, University of Lapland Finlandia Transit: Practising English Phonemic Transcription Anna Paola Fraternale I.T.I.S. E. Fermi -Roma; La Sapienza - Facolta di Economia e Commercio, Sede distaccata Latina Italia Learner"s Autonomy by Hypertext Use Marinela Garcia Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Espana New Technologies as an Interdisciplinary Tool for EEE Diego Garcia Lucas Vektor Limited Reino Unido The Setting Up and Operation of Multimedia Self-Access Language learning facilities Laura Garcia Vitoria Proyecto Sintagma 3 Francia Dise=96o Curricular y Nuevas Tecnologias June Gassin The University of Melbourne Australia Creating a viable multimedia development environment John H. Gillespie School of Languages and Literature University of Ulster at Coleraine Irlanda del Norte The Text Analysis Program: Moving closer to the Computer-based Language Classroom Pedro Gomez Vilda Univ.Politecnica de Madrid, Facultad de Informatica Espana A User Interface to integrate Speech Audio-feedback in CALL system Robin Goodfellow Aston University Reino Unido The Language Leaner and the Computer-What"s Really going on in there? Interpreted Results from a Vocabulary-Learning Program Pierrete Grellet I. U. T. B Universie Lyon I Francia Creating NEGOWORLD: A dual purpose multimedia interactive business negotiation package Marie-Josee Hamel UMIST, Dept. of Language & Linguistics Reino Unido The Conceptual Dictionary in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Mike Harland University of Glasgow Reino Unido De Tudo Un Pouco... E Mais Um Pouco: a year piloting integrated texbook and computer courseware for Portuguese Bettina Harriehausen-Muhlbaner IBM Germany, Science Center Alemania CoALA- an intelligent system for language acquisition combining various modern NLP technologies William Haworth School of Modern Languages, John Moores University UK The Internet as a language learning resource Sue Hewer Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt University Reino Unido Integration for the Uninitiated Sake Jager Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen Holanda Hologram: a fully interactive environment for grammar teaching and learning Kaj Bertel Jansson Kokkola Institute of Technoly Finlandia Computer Aided Learning in English (CALE) Tim Johns School of English, University of Birmingham Reino Unido 1) Keytext- A new tool for Data-driven Learning; 2) Parallel Concordancing: Computing theory and Classroom practice Kaori Kaboya IBM Japan, Ltd Japon A Multimedia Courseware for Survival Japanese Gunhild Kihlberg University of Stockholm Suecia Point par Point, Point by Point- A computerized aid to language teaching and evaluation. On learner involvement and learner responsibility M. Klijn Wuisman Department of Applied Linguistic. TU Delft Holanda A vocabulary workbench for Language Learners and Teachers Ton Koet Amsterdam Polytechnic Holanda Integration of CALL and TELL in the curriculum of the Department of Languages. Amsterdam Polytechnic Janos Kohn EECALL Centre, Berzsenyi Daniel College Hungria The use of parallel concordacing for literary and linguistic text analysis Lis Kornum Christianshavns Gymnasium Denmark Telematics and Didactics - A LINGUA project in action Liliana Landolfi Dept. of English, Faculty of Modern Languages I.U.O Italia Methodological Suggestions for CALL Applications Peter Leffek Middlesex University Reino Unido Testing Assesment and Marking with Question Designer. A case study. Michael Levy University of Queensland Australia Integrating Call: The Tutor and The Tool Maria Dolores Lopez Maestre Departamento de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa, Univ.de Murcia. Espana A Dbase IV Application for the Teaching of Syntactic Analysis to Students of English at University Level Maria Elena Lopez Torres Centro Andaluz Superior de Estudios Marinos Espana Multimedia Program for the Learning of Naval English Cosetta Mari SINNEA International Italia Developing distance learning language courses for technical and commercial staff Jane McKee School of Languages and Literature University of Ulster Irlanda del Norte The Text Analysis Program: Moving closer to the Computer-based Language Classroom Mafalda Mendes Faculdade de Ciencias Universidade de Lisbo Portugal O Meu Diccionario Interactivo - A Multimedia Picture Dictionary of Portuguese- Esther Menor Campos Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales, Apartado 439 Espana An Example of an Integrated Skills Session with Combined Media for Large Classes Raffaela Merlini Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori; University of Trieste Italia & the TELL Consortium, University of Hull InterprIt - Practising translation skills Metaxaki-Kossionides Department of Informatics, University of Athens Grecia Propositions for a Curriculum of Foreign Languages Teaching in Secondary Education Terry Miles London School of English and Foreign Languages Reino Unidoa Yo soy yo y mis circunstancias Jim Milton University of Wales. Swansea Reino Unido Design and Technical issues in the production of a multimedia training course: the case of Autohall. Richard Millwood ULTRALAB, Anglia Polytechnic University Reino Unido Portfolio Tools for Supporting Linguistic and Cultural Learning Jose Noijons CITO, Dutch National Institute for Educational Measurement Holanda The development of computer based adaptive tests of language proficiency Ana Ojanguren Universidad de Oviedo; Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieria Industrial e Ingenieria Informatica; Dept.Filologia Anglogermanica y Francesa Espana Tandem Learning Through E-mail Mark Osborne The British Council Grecia Network English: A British Council Pilot Project for the development of in-house CD-ROM based Multimedia courseware. Jenny Parsons CTI Modern Languages, University of Hull, Reino Unido The Tell Consortium: Strategies for Integration. Luc Pauwels FUCAM - Mons Multimedia on a DOS-plataform. Examples of practice & use of the authoring package Question Mark Professional for English, German, Spanish & Dutch language teaching James Potter Europa Universitat Viadrina Alemania Development of a Prototype for a computer system for EFL Evaluation using a Multi-Media Shell and a Parser-Analyser Cecile Poussard Equipe ORDI, UFR de Linguistique, Universite Paris 7 Francia D"un Dispositif Classique a un Dispositif d"Autoformation Guidee en Anglais, dans une Formation d"Ingenieurs a Paris Nigel Reeves Department of Languages and European Studies, Aston University. Reino Unido Assessing Corporate Foreign Language Needs-creating a computerised language auditing tool kit adequate to meet international needs Cristina Ros i Sole University of Strathclyde, Department of Modern Languages Gran Bretana The Application of Learning Strategies in Multimedia Courseware with Focus on the Listening Skill Izumu Saita Faculty of Arts & Letters, Tohoku University Japon A Multimedia Courseware for Survival Japanese A.G Sciarone Delft University of Technology Holanda FEEDBACK: The need for a flexible tool Niall Sclater University of Glasgow Reino Unido Strategies for distributing and running multimedia courseware on networked machines Mathias Schulze Manchester Metropolitan University Reino Unido Text Reproduction in a Hypertext Environment Paul Seedhouse The Norwegian Study Centre, University of York Inglaterra Using Newspapers on CD-ROM as a Resource Patricia Sneesby Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales Espana An Example of an Integrated Skills Session with Combined Media for Large Classes Mary Spratt English Dept., Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Commercially produced corpora in the ELT classroom Miranda Stewart University of Strathclyde, Dept. of Modern Languages Reino Unido Task as Organising Principle in the Development of Communicative Marieken Swart Dept. of English, University of Stellenbosh Sudafrica Bridging the Language Gap with an Integrated, Multimedia Support Programme Bedir Tekinerdogan Dept. of Computer Science, University of Twente Holanda An Instruction-Independent Domain Model for an Interactive Programming Languages Tutor June Thompson University of Hull, CTI Modern Languages Reino Unido The TELL Consortium: Strategies for Integration Guy Tilkin Lancommanderij Alden Biesen Belgica Teachers=D5 Council of Ministers by Satellit Anthea Tillyer City University of New York Estados Unidos Using Internet Resources for Language Learning Liliana Tolchinsky Institute of Educational Sciencies, University of Barcelona Espana Teaching Written Spanish for the Work-place Michael Townson Aston University Reino Unido Grammar is Back: The Astcovea Approach Julia Unwin SINNEA International Italia Presentation: Developing distance learning language courses for technical and commercial staff Ruth Vilmi The Language Center, Helsinki University of Technology Finlandia Helsinki University of Technology E-Mail Writing Project. Dieter Wolff Bergische Universitat Wuppertal Alemania Computers as cognitive tools in the language classroom Jane Woodin Modern Languages Teaching Centre, University of Sheffield Reino Unido Tandem Learning Through E-Mail Christoph Zahner Dept. of Language and Linguistics, U.M.I.S.T Gran Bretana The Conceptual Dictionary in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Dimitrios Zevgolis University of Patras, Physics Department Grecia Development of a Bilingual Electronic Dictionary for car spare-parts (Bilection) Qing-gang Zhang School of computing, South Bank University Reino Unido Concordance and Reading Comprehension -- from theory to practice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June Thompson CTI Centre for Modern Languages Tel 0482 466373 University of Hull Fax 0482 473816 Hull HU6 7RX, UK Email CTI.Lang@hull.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Helge Niska Subject: Thomas Mann translation--urgent Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 20:21:33 +0200 (MET DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 31 (60) I urgently need the published English translation of this quotation from Thomas Mann's "Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen" (Berlin 1918). According to World Translations Index, it was published by F. Ungar, New York 1983, with the title Reflections of a nonpolitical man. Translation by Walter D Morris. Our library has not been able to track it down after four months. "Schon das selbstverstaendliche 'Vor dem Gesetze sind alle gleich' ist nur Theorie; denn schon vor dem Richter sind sie es nicht mehr; der Kluge verteidigt sich besser als der Einfaeltige, der Freche besser als der Timide, der Reiche mit dem guten Anwalt besser als der Arme. Und das gleiche gilt ueberall im oeffentlichen Leben." Eternally grateful in advance, Helge Niska, Stockholm University. niska@tele.su.se or Helge_Niska@nkom.umu.se FAX: +46 8 54067243 From: "Int'l. Res. and Exch. Board" Subject: IREX 1996-1997 Grant Opportunities for US Scholars Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 16:13:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 32 (61) IREX GRANT OPPORTUNITIES FOR U.S. SCHOLARS AND HOST OPPORTUNITIES FOR US UNIVERSITIES 1996-97 ACADEMIC YEAR The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) announces grant opportunities for American citizens or permanent residents, as well as host opportunities for US universities, for the 1996-97 academic year. IREX provides field access for US specialists to scholars, policy-makers, and research resources of the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia. Specific grant programs include support for Advanced Field Research; Short-Term Travel; Language Training; and Special Projects in the Study of Eurasia, CEE, and Library and Information Science. Consult the IREX Gopher at info.irex.org for application deadlines, eligibility requirements, and information about specific programs. For applications or a hard copy of the IREX Grant Opportunities brochure, write to irex@info.irex.org or contact us by surface mail or phone: IREX 1616 H St., NW Washington DC 20006 ph: 202-628-8188 fax: 202-628-8189 A parallel announcement about IREX grant opportunities for non-American scholars from Eurasia and CEE will be forthcoming later this summer. From: "Evelyn Wrinn" Subject: job description Date: 17 May 1995 10:28:35 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 41 (62) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- LIBRARY SYSTEMS OFFICER, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Minimum Rank: Librarian III THE UNIVERSITY AND THE LIBRARY Yale University is one of the foremost universities of the world, preeminent in scholarship and research in the various fields of the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, and in the professional schools. Twelve schools or colleges offer courses of study: Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Schools of Medicine, Divinity, Law, Art, Architecture, Music, Forestry and Environmental Studies, Nursing, Drama, and Management. There are approximately 5,100 undergraduates and 5,700 graduate students at Yale. The faculty numbers over 2,500 and there are approximately 6100 FTE staff. The University Library has 10.5 million volumes housed in Sterling Memorial Library and 16 school and department libraries. It also maintains numerous distinguished special collections. The Library staff consists of 150 librarians, 40 managerial staff, 320 library assistants and approximately 95 FTE student assistants. THE POSITION The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library seeks an experienced Systems Officer to maintain and develop its automated systems. The Systems Officer, who will report to the Director of the Beinecke Library, collaborates with the managerial and professional staff of the library to evaluate, implement, and m aintain systems that enhance the Library's support of scholarly research and teaching. Working with the Library's management team, the Systems Officer reports on technology that might benefit staff and patrons, proposes measures to support staff initiatives, and defines the resources required to implement new programs. The Systems Officer maintains hardware and software, trains staff in their use and assists in designing and implementing programs to instruct patrons in the use of the Library's systems. The Systems Officer works closely with the University Library's Systems Office and with the staff of the University's department of Computing and Information Services. Maintains expertise in PC-based LAN systems, in particular Novell Netware and Windows for Workgroups. Serves as system administrator for the Library's LAN and oversees its integration with campus-wide computing resources. Supports local network resources including traditional field and full text databases, spreadsheets, word processing and desktop publishing programs, a network fax system, high speed network printers, and tape backup as well as DOS and Windows-based clients. Trains staff to make efficient use of these and other automated resources. Maintains expertise in using TCP/IP in Windows and Netware environments including TN 3270, Telnet, FTP, Gopher, and associated Unix services. Remains abreast of new developments in PC to mainframe connectivity including mainframe and LAN based E-mail. Maintains expertise in technologies to capture, index, retrieve and display digital text and images (including flat bed scanners, digital cameras, Kodak Photo-CD, Optical Character Recognition and image data base programs) as well as familiarity with standard graphic formatters. Understands the standards for and issues in bibliographic control (including MARC) and their relationship to digital text markup and encoding. Maintains expertise in Standard Generalized Markup Language, the Text Encoding Initiative, and SGML text markup software. Maintains expertise in World Wide Web server software, the Hypertext Markup Language, WWW client software and writing scripts for serving information through the Hypertext Transfer Protocol/Common Gateway Interface. Evaluates the needs of the Beinecke Library within the context of the University's and in particular the University Library's campus-wide systems. Assumes responsibility for representing the Beinecke Library's needs to University committees responsible for campus-wide systems. Provides assistance to the University Library's Systems Office in the development and maintenance of the Library's basic network of staff and patron workstations. Participates in and contributes to the general programs of the Beinecke Library. Serves on University Library committees and remains active professionally outside the University. QUALIFICATIONS MLS degree from an ALA-accredited library school or equivalent combination of experience and training. Five years relevant experience, preferably in a research library environment. Thorough knowledge of IBM-PC compatible hardware, software, peripherals, and operating systems. Familiarity with the underlying organization and protocols of integrated library systems, PC-based local area networks and the Internet. Familiarity with Netware, Windows, TCP/IP, and Internet resources. Awareness of current developments and issues in library automation. Excellent analytic skills. Ability to communicate effectively with librarians and systems staff as well as with patrons. Demonstrated ability to work well independently and collaboratively with others in a rapidly changing and demanding environment. Knowledge of UNIX, SGML, HTML and of the Text Encoding Initiative DTD desirable. SALARY AND BENEFITS Competitive salary, from $38,100, reflecting qualifications and experience. Comprehensive benefits package including 22 vacation days, 17 holiday, recess and personal days; health care; TIAA/CREF or Yale retirement plan; and relocation assistance. To be assured of consideration, please submit a letter of application, resume and the names of three references by June 2, 1995 to Diane Y. Turner, Director, Library Human Resources, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT, 06520-8240. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. EEO/AA From: joel@funrsc.fairfield.edu (Joel Goldfield) Subject: Japanese position for 1995-96 at Fairfield University Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 22:35:08 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 42 (63) [May 1995] Part-Time Adjunct Teaching Position in Japanese Fairfield University seeks an experienced adjunct instructor for Basic and Intermediate Japanese for the academic year 1995-96. Fall semester classes have been scheduled to meet on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday afternoons beginning at 3:00 p.m. Fairfield University is a selective, private, co-educational liberal arts university founded by the Jesuit order in 1942. The University is located in the town of Fairfield, CT, which is approximately one hour from New York City via the Metro-North Commuter Railroad. The 200-acre campus provides the undergraduate population of 2,850 students with extensive, modern facilities in a beautiful setting. Fairfield continues the Jesuit tradition of academic excellence with challenging programs in the University's three undergraduate divisions: the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business, and the School of Nursing. Please send a letter of interest, CV, and list of three references to: Prof. Robert M. Webster, Chair Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures Fairfield University Fairfield, CT 06430 For more information call Prof. Webster at (203) 787-4315, after 7:00 p.m. or call: Dean Beverly Kahn College of Arts and Sciences Fairfield University (203) 254-4000, ext. 2246 FAX (203) 254-4119 Internet: BKhan@fair1.fairfield.edu Applications will be accepted and reviewed until the position is filled. It is hoped that the decision will be finalized by late June. From: British National Corpus Subject: British National Corpus: First Release Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 17:41:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 34 (64) *********** BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS DISTRIBUTION BEGINS ************** On behalf of the BNC Consortium, OUCS is very happy to announce that we expect to start distributing copies of the long-awaited and British National Corpus to licence holders during the week beginning 22 May. This corpus is the end-product of a unique three-year collaboration, involving Oxford University Press, Longman, Chambers-Harrap, Oxford University Computing Services, Lancaster University and the British Library, with funding from the DTI and SERC. It contains 100 million words, from over 4000 different texts carefully selected to give maximal coverage of the varieties of modern British English, both spoken and written. The corpus is automatically tagged for part of speech, using the CLAWS stochastic parser developed at UCREL, and marked up in SGML, following the TEI Guidelines for corpus encoding. The corpus is currently available under academic licence within the European Union only. The first release, comprising three CDs and a detailed technical manual currently costs under 200 pounds. A full installation occupies about 4 Gb of disk space, and can only be carried out on a Unix system. Later this year we hope to announce availability of the BNC Sampler: a 2 million word sample from the corpus, using an enhanced word-class tagset, manually corrected. This Sampler will be usable on standalone PC. * * * * * * * * * * * PRICE RISE IMMINENT * * * * * * * * * * * * Our original budget for the cost of producing the BNC CDs * * was based on the assumption that the whole thing would fit * * onto two CDs. In the event, we needed three. However, we * * are holding the price at the original estimate of 150 pounds * * (plus VAT) until 1st JULY 1995. * * * * Orders received after 1st July 1995 will be charged at the * * full price of 220 pounds plus VAT. We apologise for any * * inconvenience this may cause. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * For full details, including ordering and licensing information, please see our web pages at http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc or write to the address below. ----------------------------------------------- B r i t i s h N a t i o n a l C o r p u s ----------------------------------------------- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS last update: 15 May 95 *** Q. What's in the BNC? A. Extracts from 4124 modern British English texts of all kinds, both spoken and written. Each text is segmented into orthographic sentence units, and each word automatically assigned a part of speech code. There are six and a quarter million sentences, and over 100 million words. Q. Where did it come from? A. It was produced by a consortium of leading dictionary publishers (OUP, Longman, Chambers-Harrap) and academic research centres (Oxford University Computing Services, Unit for Computer Research in the English Language at Lancaster University, British Library Research and Development), with funding from DTI and SERC, and the British Academy. It has taken three and a half years to complete. Q. What use is it? A. It provides a unique and authoritative view of the state of the English language today, with carefully balanced representation of as many different varieties of English as possible. It can be used to exercise NLP systems of all kinds, as a fertile source of real life examples for language learners, or simply to explore the way the language is currently used. Q. What do I have to do to get a copy of it? A. If you want to use the corpus solely for purposes of academic research, all you have to do is agree to the terms of the licence. If you want to use it for other purposes, we will refer your request to the BNC Consortium, who will discuss licensing arrangements with you. Q. How much does it cost? A. BNC Release 1.0 costs a total of 220 pounds, but we are holding to the originally announced price of 150 pounds until 1 JULY 1995. All prices are exclusive of VAT. Q. What do I get for my money? A. The first release of the BNC comprises: -- the full text of the 100 million word corpus -- printed and online documentation -- a full word index to the whole corpus -- ANSI C source code for the SARA server program and for a simple SARA client program packaged as 3 CD roms. The initial academic licence is valid for five years. Q. What kind of computer system will I need to use it? A. You can unpack the distribution CDs on any Unix system capable of reading ISO 9660 format. The corpus texts alone occupy nearly 2 Gb unpacked. The SARA index occupies a further 2 Gb. The BNC is an SGML document complying with ISO 8879. Q. How can I order a copy? A. You will need to get a copy of the order form and two copies of the licence. You can download these from our Web site or request them from the address below. Q. What are the licensing conditions? A. The licence says you can use the corpus for any non-commercial purposes, subject to the "fair-dealing" provisions of the Copyright Act. At present, you must be located in a member state of the EU. There are also a number of other conditions designed to protect the owners of IPR in the corpus contents and the interests of the commercial partners in the BNC Consortium. Q. Is it available online? A. Not yet. We have been running an experimental online service for some months, but the software is not yet ready for release. 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Email luakt@iscs.nus.sg From: Ann Okerson Subject: New Edition of Internet Journal Directory Available Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 23:00:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 36 (66) [This is being cross-posted to several lists.] Association of Research Libraries PRESS RELEASE May 18, 1995 Ann Okerson (ann@cni.org) ARL 5TH EDITION OF DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE The Association of Research Libraries announces publication of the 5th Edition of the hard-copy standard reference work for serials on the Internet: the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists. The extraordinary rate of expansion of microcomputers and linked networks as vehicles for scholarly exchange, along with growth in the rate of the use of the Internet, does not abate. The number of journals, newsletters, and serial-like academic publications continues to increase daily and scholarly communication expands in exciting new ways. Many journals, newsletters, and scholarly lists may be accessed free of charge through Internet and affiliated networks, along with those that are increasingly available via paid online subscription. Nonetheless, it is not always simple to find what is available. The new edition of the Directory is a compilation of entries for nearly 2500 scholarly lists and 675 electronic journals, newsletters, and related titles such as newsletter-digests -- an increase in size of over 40% since the 4th edition of April 1994 and 4.5 times since the 1st edition of July 1991. The Directory provides instructions for electronic access to each publication. The objective is to assist the user in finding relevant publications and connecting to them quickly, even if he or she is not completely versed in the full range of user-access systems. Diane Kovacs of the Kent State University Libraries continues to head the KSU team of individuals who collaboratively created the 5th edition's scholarly discussion lists and interest groups section. Principal compiler of the journals and newsletters section is Lisabeth A. King, Research Assistant for the ARL Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing, with support from Dru Mogge, Electronic Services Coordinator. Ann Okerson of the ARL/OSAP is overall project coordinator for the printed directory. The printed directory points to the widely available Kovacs files as the free-of-charge Internet sources for the discussion lists section. ARL made an abridged gopher version available in summer of 1994 and plans to create a World Wide Web directory in the summer of 1995. The 5th Edition is produced in 8.5 x 11 paperbound format in 770 pages. Scholarly lists are grouped by broad subject areas, and journals and newsletters are in alphabetical order. 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From: Yorick Wilks Subject: Short term research fellowships at Sheffield Date: Wed, 17 May 95 11:03:44 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 37 (67) University of Sheffield, UK Department of Computer Science COMPUTER SCIENCE SHORT RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ******************************************* This department intends to offer a number of short term research fellowships over the summer to distinguished scholars with areas of interest close to those of a member of one of our research groups. The stipend would be about US$4000 (2500 pounds) including fares to Sheffield etc. Those interested can consult the department's WWW pages. The department's four research groups are as follows: Formal Methods and Software Engineering --------------------------------------- Telematics, Formal Specification, Verification and Testing, Object-Oriented Languages and Design, Proof Theory. Parallel Processing ------------------- Parallel Database Machines, Parallel CASE Tools, Safety-Critical systems. Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks ------------------------------------------- Natural Language Processing (including corpus and lexically based methods, information extraction and pragmatics), Neural Networks, Computer Graphics, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Robotics, Computer Argumentation. Speech and Hearing ------------------ Auditory Scene Analysis, Models of Auditory Perception, Automatic Speech Recognition. More details can also be obtained from world-wide-web address http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk. Enquires and applications should be made through a member of the department known to the applicant or to the Director of Research: Professor Yorick Wilks, email yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk From: chorus@peinet.pe.ca (Todd J. B. Blayone) Subject: Chorus Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 17:15:36 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 38 (68) Chorus, a resource for academic and educational computing in the arts/humanities, continues to evolve. Two of our Special Sections (Bibliographic Programs and Bible-Search Software) provide an especially good indication of the shape of things to come. The Chorus home page URL remains: http://www.peinet.pe.ca:2080/Chorus/home.html **** REVIEWER WANTED **** At this time, I am looking for a reviewer for the new version of Citation, a bibiographic/notecard add-on for WordPerfect for Windows. You may check out the product info at the following URL: http://www.infinet.com/~puck/. Please note that Chorus warmly welcomes software and book review requests. Thanks! Todd _______________________________________________________________ Todd J. B. Blayone McGill University Project Coordinator, Chorus chorus@peinet.pe.ca http://www.peinet.pe.ca:2080/Chorus/People/Todd_B/toddhome.html ________________________________________________________________ From: Jeremy Johnson Subject: The World of the Vikings Project Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 15:44:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 39 (69) "The World of the Vikings Project have created a page of links to Viking history resources on the world wide web and elsewhere on internet, we aim to link to all available resources and to keep the list up-to-date. If this subject interested you please come and have a browse.. The Vikings History Resources page can be found at URL: http://www.demon.co.uk/history/index.html Further information about The World of the Vikings project, a joint research project led by The National Museum of Denmark and the York Archaeological Trust is linked to this page or can be accessed direct at URL: http://www.demon.co.uk/history/vikings/vikhome.html Many thanks to Willard McCarty for offering to post this message to the Humanist mailing list. Please address all follow-ups and inquiries to vikings@jjohnson.demon.co.uk. Regards, Jeremy Johnson The World of the Vikings Project. vikings@jjohnson.demon.co.uk Multimedia Management, UK Email: jeremy@jjohnson.demon.co.uk Phone and Fax: +44 (181) 467 9917 WWW: http://www.demon.co.uk/history/cdroms.html Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: chorus@peinet.pe.ca (Todd J. B. Blayone) Subject: Software Reviewers Needed (Chorus) Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 22:22:50 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 40 (70) Chorus (http://www.peinet.pe.ca:2080/Chorus/home.html) presently requires reviewers for the following packages: 1. Citation for WordPerfect 6.0a/6.1 for Windows This is an sophisticated bibliography add-on for WordPerfect. 2a. Sonar Bookends for Windows (See below) 2b. Sonar Bookends for Macintosh Sonar Bookends is a complex index generator that can produce word-frequency, word/phrase-list, and proper-noun indices. The Macintosh version is accelerated for Power Macintosh. One person may review the Windows and Mac OS versions, or two individuals may evaluate them separately. Thanks, Todd _______________________________________________________________ Todd J. B. Blayone McGill University Project Coordinator, Chorus chorus@peinet.pe.ca http://www.peinet.pe.ca:2080/Chorus/People/Todd_B/toddhome.html ________________________________________________________________ From: Anne M Robinson Subject: Rutgers inventory of machine-readable texts in the humanities Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 10:35:11 +1000 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 43 (71) I would like to know if the Rutgers inventory of machine-readable texts in the humanities/the Brown Corpus is available via ftp? One of our English professors is trying to establish if certain publications are included in it. Please reply to me directly. -- -- Anne Robinson | Internet: ulamr@dewey.newcastle.edu.au Reference Librarian, Auchmuty Library, | Ph (intl+61+49) 216142 University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA | Fax (intl+61+49) 215833 From: "jwical" Subject: humanist manifesto I and II Date: Mon, 22 May 95 17:18:10 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 44 (72) Does anyone on this list know where I can get a copy of the Humanist Manifesto I and Humanist Manifesto II on-line? John Wical jwical@ccmail.llu.edu From: Richard Blitstein Subject: ascii tools Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 15:20:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 45 (73) I am about to recieve a large dictionary in ascii file format. This is a foreign language dictionary which is in transliteration. What tools are there for me to manipulate such a large ascii file? Using Word and its "search for:" tool is not the ease of use I am looking for. Any ideas? Rich Blitstein richblit@u.washington.edu From: cies1@ciesnet.cies.org Subject: Fulbright Deadline Reminder Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 16:03:05 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 42 (74) FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES FOR FACULTY AND PROFESSIONALS IN THE HUMANITIES August 1 Deadline Approaching for the 1996-97 Competition What follows is a description of Fulbright grants for lecturing and advanced research worldwide. These grants are excellent professional development opportunities and provide funding to pursue professional interests abroad. Fulbright Grants for Faculty and Professionals Description: 1,000 awards for college and university faculty and nonacademic professionals to lecture or pursue advanced research and/or related professional activity abroad. For U.S. candidates, grants are available to nearly 148 countries. Application: U.S. candidates have an August 1 deadline for lecturing or research awards. Non-U.S. candidates apply in their home country for awards to come to the United States. Areas of Interest: Opportunities exist in every area of the social sciences, arts and humanities, sciences, and many professional fields. All specializations within the humanities are included in program offerings. Range of Consideration: Individual research; professional collaboration; undergraduate and graduate teaching; research collaboration; and much more. Eligibility: Ph.D. in hand is the standard requirement, along with U.S. citizenship. Grant Duration: Awards range in duration from two months to a full academic year. Language: The majority of teaching assignments are in English. Required in certain countries for certain areas of activity. Action: U.S. candidates may receive detailed descriptions of award opportunities and application materials via cies1@ciesnet.cies.org (REQUESTS FOR MAILING OF MATERIALS ONLY!). Non-U.S. candidates must contact the Fulbright Commission or U.S. embassy in their home country. From: sanderso@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Mark Sanderson) Subject: ESSIR - European Summer School Information Retrieval Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 12:37:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 43 (75) [If you receive multiple copies, I'm sorry] ESSIR European Summer School Information Retrieval University of Glasgow, 3rd - 8th September 1995 The second european summer school in information retrieval (IR) will be hosted this September by the Computing Science Department of the University of Glasgow. The school is aimed at those starting out in the field of information retrieval, and will cover a wide range of subjects. Each course will be taught by IR researchers who are regarded as experts in their field. Various student bursaries are available. Planned courses * Introduction * IR models * Architecture/implementation * Natural language processing for IR * User interfaces * IR and databases * Evaluation * Intelligent retrieval * IR and hypermedia * Multimedia and retrieval * IR and wide area networks Information Further information and application forms for this event and for bursaries can be obtained either via WWW... http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir/ ...or in a booklet that can be ordered from... Jane Reid Computing Science University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: +44 (0)141 330 5006 Fax: +44 (0)141 330 4913 Email: essir@dcs.gla.ac.uk ______________________________________________________________________________ Mark Sanderson, Fax : +44 (0)141 330 4913 Department of Computing Science, Tel : +44 (0)141 330 6292 University of Glasgow, Email: sanderso@dcs.gla.ac.uk Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK URL : http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~sanderso/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Good judgement comes from experience, but experience comes from bad judgement ______________________________________________________________________________ Mark Sanderson, Fax : +44 (0)141 330 4913 Department of Computing Science, Tel : +44 (0)141 330 6292 University of Glasgow, Email: sanderso@dcs.gla.ac.uk Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK URL : http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~sanderso/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Good judgement comes from experience, but experience comes from bad judgement From: nlprs95 Subject: NLPRS '95: 2nd CFP Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 19:29:12 +1000 (KDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 44 (76) +----------------------------------------+ | NLPRS '95 - CALL FOR PAPER | | (second announcement) | | | | THIRD NATURAL LANGAUAGE PROCESSING | | PACIFIC-RIM SYMPOSIUM | | | | Seoul, Korea | | December 4-6, 1995 | +----------------------------------------+ NLPRS'95, which will be held from December 4-6, 1995 in Seoul, Korea, is the third forums to bring together NLP researchers in the Pacific-Rim area for scientific exchange and presentation. The program will include tutorials, invited talks, and demonstrations as well as tracks for paper and video presentations. TOPICS OF INTEREST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submissions are solicited on original and previously unpublished research in all aspects of NLP, including, but not limited to: * phonetics * generation * phonology * parsing * morphology * machine(-aided)translation * lexicon * spoken language processing * syntax * linguistic models of natural language * semantics * natural language interface and dialog systems * pragmatics * language-oriented information retrieval * discourse * corpus-based language modelling * document analysis * multimedia and language INVITED LECTURERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following researchers have already confirmed their paticipation in NLPRS as guest speakers: Eugene Charniak, Brown University (USA) Kenneth Ward Church, AT&T (USA) Sadaoki Furui, NTT (JAPAN) Changning Huang, Tsinghua University (CHINA) PAPER SUBMISSION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Papers of no longer than 6 pages in the double-column conference format should be submitted by 20th June, 1995. We strongly encourage papers to be electronically submitted. In this case, they should be in LaTeX format, plain text or PostScript format for non-alphabet, and should be emailed to : nlprs95@cair.kaist.ac.kr Latex submissions must use the NLPRS submission style (nlprs.sty) retrievable from the NLPRS ftp server or WWW Home Page. The following is an example of getting the NLPRS submission style sheet by anonymous FTP: $ftp cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr Name:anonymous Password: ftp> cd NLPRS-95 ftp> get nlprs.sty ftp> quit If electronic submission is not possible, three hard copies of the paper should be sent to: Mr. J.M. KIM NLPRS'95 Secretariat Foreign Tourist Dept II Hanjin Travel Service Co.,Ltd.(Conference Agency) 132-4, 1-ka, Bongrae-dong, Chung-ku, 100-161, Seoul, Korea Phone:+82-2-726-5540, Fax:+82-2-773-1623 General Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gil-Chang Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology International Advisory Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Changning Huang (Tsinghua University) Young-Taek Kim (Seoul National University) Makoto Nagao (Kyoto University) Hirosato Nomura (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology) Tae-Ok Kim(Sogang University) Chung-min Lee (Seoul National University) Program Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chair: Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Vice-Chairs: Key-Sun Choi (KAIST), Changning Huang (Tsinghua University), Hitoshi Iida (ATR) Members: Terumasa Ehara (NHK), Seong-Guk Han (Wonkang Univ.), Young-Gyun Han (Univ. of Ulsan), Koichi Hashida (Electrotechnical Laboratory), Satoru Ikehara (NTT), Gunbae Lee (Postech), Hsi-Jian Lee (National Chiao Tung Univ.), Jong-Hyeok Lee (Postech), Hae-Chang Lim (Korea Univ.), Hiroshi Maruyama (IBM Japan Ltd.), Yuji Matsumoto (Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Kazunori Muraki (NEC Corporation), Yoshihiko Nitta (Hitachi Ltd.), Jonathan Oh (Univ. of Missouri at Kansas City), Seyoung Park (ETRI), Dong-Yul Ra (Yonsei Univ.), Jung-Yun Seo (Sogang Univ.), Chew Lim Tan (National Univ. of Singapore), Lua Kim Teng (National Univ. of Singapore), Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Benjamin K. T'sou (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong), OM Vidas (Embassy of India, Tokyo), Shiwen Yu (Peking Univ.), Zaharin Yusoff (Univ. Sains Malaysia), Ming Zhou (Tsinghua Univ.) Organizing Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chair: Key-Sun Choi (KAIST) Members: Dong-Un An (Chonbuk National Univ.), Hee-Rahk Chae (Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies), Jin-Hee Choi (KAIST), Young-Suk Han (KAIST), Dosam Hwang (SERI), Seung-Shik Kang (Hansung Univ.), Nam-Kyeng Kim (KAIST), Myoung-Wan Koo (Korea Telecom.), Hyuk-Chul Kwon (Pusan National Univ.), Kang-Hyuk Lee (Korea R&D Information Center), Yong-Ju Lee (Wonkang Univ.), Yong-Seok Lee (Chonbuk National Univ.), Hyung-Nam No (Korea Univ.), Yongkyoon No (SERI), Dong-In Park (SERI), Jae-Deuk Park (SERI), Gi-Chul Yang (Mokpo University), Jae-Woo Yang (ETRI) DEADLINES ~~~~~~~~~ Paper Submission: June 20, 1995 Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 1995 Camera Ready Copy Due: September 30, 1995 ACCOMMODATIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hotel Sofitel Ambassador is designated for the Symposium accommodation. Room rate is specially reduced as US$100.-/night approximately for single, double or twin type. The above rate includes 10% service charge & 10% VAT, but it does not include breakfast. Hotel reservation should be made through the Secretariat. PLANNING TO ATTEND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Researchers planning to submit a paper or/and to attend the NLPRS meeting are asked to complete and return the interest form below by fax or e-mail to NLPRS '95 Secretariat. It will help the conference organizers estimate the facilities needed for the conference and will enable us to provide all interested people with updated information. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | REGISTRATION OF INTEREST | | | | Prof/Dr/Mr/Ms . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Affiliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Postal Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fax . . . . . . . . . . . | | Email address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I intend to submit a paper (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I expect to attend NLPRS '95 (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ ****************************************************** * The WWW version of this CFP is also avaiable at: * * * * URL:http//cair.kaist.ac.kr/~nlprs95/NLPRS95.html * ****************************************************** From: ltaylor@CS.UCLA.EDU Subject: Re: 9.0041 Qs: M-R Texts; Manifestos; ASCII Tools (3/42) Date: Fri, 26 May 95 13:34:08 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 41 (77) From: "jwical" Subject: humanist manifesto I and II Date: Mon, 22 May 95 17:18:10 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 46 (78) Does anyone on this list know where I can get a copy of the Humanist Manifesto I and Humanist Manifesto II on-line? John Wical jwical@ccmail.llu.edu There is a large library of freethought, atheist, and Humanist material available at freethought.tamu.edu. Some relevant web pages: http://purcell.ecn.purdue.edu/~willey/humanism/humanism.html Humanism http://freethought.tamu.edu/ The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Secular Issues LAT From: Dorothy Day Subject: RE: 9.0041 Qs: M-R Texts; Manifestos; ASCII Tools (3/42) Date: Sat, 27 May 95 14:21:15 EWT X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 47 (79) [deleted quotation] I'd suggest you look into Nota Bene, which with its built-in textbase Orbis can superbly manipulate large ascii files. It also includes a bibliographic database N.B.Ibid, which allows you to create tagged records that can then be included in citations and bibliographies in style sheet of your choice, and which can also be "Orbised". Orbis itself indexes and allows boolean searches of multiple files without changing the indexed files themselves; you can then select from "hits" to insert into a document, save in a separate file, or just browse--which seems to be the function you're looking for. You specify what an "entry" consists of--I usually stick to double carriage returns (one blank line) as the separator, but there are other predefined choices and user-designed options. That "chunk" is what is returned as an "entry" in your search. Academic price for the "Scholar's Workstation" (Nota Bene 4.2, Orbis, Ibid, Ibid Plus (for customized fieldwork databases), and Tabula (concordance generator)) is $249. The Lingua Workstation (to also handle Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, and thousands of other special characters) with the same modules is $349. For more information, contact: Nota Bene 285 West Broadway Suite 460 New York NY 10013 Tel. (212) 334-0445 Orders (800) 462-6733 Fax (212) 334-0845 You can also browse the newsgroup bit.listserv.notabene or subscribe to the list at listserv@vm.tau.ac.il (or listserv@taunivm.bitnet). Dorothy Day, Indiana University SLIS day@indiana.edu From: Glyn Morrill Subject: Conference Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 18:00:33 UTC+0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 46 (80) FORMAL GRAMMAR Barcelona August 12-13, 1995 in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Saturday August 12th 1.00-2.00 "Linear Logic for Meaning Assembly" Fernando Pereira (Invited Speaker), AT&T Bell Laboratories 2.00-2.40 "Partial Proof Trees as Building Blocks for a Categorial Grammar" Aravind K. Joshi & Seth Kulick, University of Pennsylvania 2.40-3.00 "The Fall of Function-Argument Biuniqueness" Alex Alsina, National University of Singapore Break 3.30-4.10 "Features and Agreement in Lambek Categorial Grammar" Mark Johnson and Sam Bayer, Brown University 4.50-5.30 "Distribution, Collection and Scoping: a Categorial Approach to Plurality" Bob Carpenter, Carnegie Mellon University 6.00-6.40 "Bare Plurals in Spanish Are Interpreted as Properties" Louise McNally, The Ohio State University Break 6.00-6.40 "A Proof-Theoretic Approach to Natural Language Understanding - Ellipsis: a Case Study" Ruth Kempson, University of London 6.40-7.20 "Ellipsis and Multimodal Categorial Type Logic" Petra Hendriks, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 7.20-8.00 "Word Order Domains in Categorial Grammar" Koen Versmissen, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht Sunday August 13th 9.00-1.30 Special Session: "Clause Union and Argument Structure" Erhard Hinrichs & Tsuneko Nakazaw, Dani'ele Godard, Anna Abeill'e & Philip Miller, Esther Kraak, Miriam Butt, Owen Rambow. Discussion Chairs: Tilman Hoehle & Bob Carpenter Lunch 3.30-4.30 "Inflection, Derivation and Grammatical Architecture" Susan Steele (Invited Speaker), University of Arizona 4.30-5.10 "Ne-Cliticization Does Not Support the Unaccusative/Intransitive Split" Graziella Saccon, University of Texas at Austin 5.10-5.30 "Trees and the Representation of Disjunct Constituents" Marcel Cori and Jean-Marie Marandin, Universit'e Paris & CNRS URA Break 6.00-6.40 "Pomset Logic as an Alternative Categorial Grammar" Alain Lecomte and Christian Retor'e, INRIA Lorraine & CNRS CRIN 6.40-7.20 "Interpreting Lexical Rules" Mike Calcagno, The Ohio State University 7.20-7.40 "A Semantics for Lexical Rules As Used in HPSG" Walt Detmar Meurers, Universit"at T"ubingen 7.40-8.00 "OT, Finite-State Representations and Procedurality" T. Mark Ellison, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Lisboa Reserve: "On the Formalisation of Choice Functions as Representing the Scope of Indefinites" Yoad Winter, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (14th-25th August) contact: ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax +43 3 2054656; e-mail: esslli95@gilcub.es **********Cut here for LaTeX version below********** \documentstyle{article} \pagestyle{empty} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0in} \begin{document} \begin{center} {\Large \bf FORMAL GRAMMAR}\\ \medskip Barcelona, August 12-13, 1995 \\ in conjunction with the\\ {\bf European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information} \end{center} \setlength{\parindent}{0in} Saturday August 12th \medskip 1.00-2.00: {\it Linear Logic for Meaning Assembly}, Fernando Pereira (Invited Speaker), AT\&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill. 2.00-2.40: {\it Partial Proof Trees as Building Blocks for a Categorial Grammar}, Aravind K. Joshi \& Seth Kulick, University of Pennsylvania. 2.40-3.00: {\it The Fall of Function-Argument Biuniqueness}, Alex Alsina, National University of Singapore. \medskip 3.30-4.10: {\it Features and Agreement in Lambek Categorial Grammar}, Mark Johnson \& Sam Bayer, Brown University. 4.50-5.30: {\it Distribution, Collection and Scoping: a Categorial Approach to Plurality}, Bob Carpenter, Carnegie Mellon University. 6.00-6.40: {\it Bare Plurals in Spanish Are Interpreted as Properties}, Louise McNally, The Ohio State University. \medskip 6.00-6.40: {\it A Proof-Theoretic Approach to Natural Language Understanding --- Ellipsis: a Case Study}, Ruth Kempson, University of London. 6.40-7.20: {\it Ellipsis and Multimodal Categorial Type Logic}, Petra Hendriks, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. 7.20-8.00: {\it Word Order Domains in Categorial Grammar}, Koen Versmissen, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. \medskip Sunday August 13th \medskip 9.00-1.30: Special Session on {\it Clause Union and Argument Structure}. Erhard Hinrichs \& Tsuneko Nakazaw; Dani\'{e}le Godard, Anna Abeill\'{e} \& Philip Miller; Esther Kraak; Miriam Butt; Owen Rambow. Discussion Chairs: Tilman Hoehle \& Bob Carpenter. \medskip 3.30-4.30: {\it Inflection, Derivation and Grammatical Architecture}, Susan Steele (Invited Speaker), University of Arizona. 4.30-5.10: {\it Ne-Cliticization Does Not Support the Unaccusative/Intransitive Split}, Graziella Saccon, University of Texas at Austin. 5.10-5.30: {\it Trees and the Representation of Disjunct Constituents}, Marcel Cori \& Jean-Marie Marandin, Universit\'{e} Paris \& CNRS URA. \medskip 6.00-6.40: {\it Pomset Logic as an Alternative Categorial Grammar}, Alain Lecomte \& Christian Retor\'{e}, INRIA Lorraine \& CNRS CRIN. 6.40-7.20: {\it Interpreting Lexical Rules}, Mike Calcagno, The Ohio State University. 7.20-7.40: {\it A Semantics for Lexical Rules As Used in HPSG}, Walt Detmar Meurers, Universit\"{a}t T\"{u}bingen. 7.40-8.00: {\it OT, Finite-State Representations and Procedurality}, T. Mark Ellison, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Lisboa. \medskip Reserve: {\it On the Formalisation of Choice Functions as Representing the Scope of Indefinites}, Yoad Winter, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. \medskip For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (14th-25th August) contact: ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax +43 3 2054656; e-mail: {\sf esslli95@gilcub.es}. \end{document} From: anixon@carleton.edu (Andrea Nixon) Subject: Question: Cyrillic character mapping and fonts & Resource: MacTranslit Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 10:30:18 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 47 (81) Greetings to all. I have just returned from a long break from the list and it is great to be back. I have a question for the list about working with Cyrillic within the Macinstosh's system 7.1. The background is that I am helping a faculty member here at Carleton College who is working on her dissertation. The dissertation will be turned into her home institution in Russia and, as is the case everywhere, she has some very strict guidelines for the formatting of the final version. One of the requirements is that she use a font that would give her 60 characters per line (each line is 21cm in length). So, I am looking for a fixed space or monospace font for her. The tricky bit comes in with the character mappings for the Cyrillic characters. She has been working up until now with the Moscow font. My questions for the list are: 1. Is there anyone on the list that has done a dissertation on a Macintosh that they turned in to a Russian institution? If so, I would be grateful if you would e-mail me directly. 2. Does anyone on the list know how to find out what character mapping a Cyrillic font draws from? I did find one very helpful resource called MacTranslit that others on the list might find of interest. This is a utility for the Mac that converts text-only documents from one character mapping to another. You can get a copy from Sumex-Aim (sumex-aim.stanford.edu) in info-mac/textprocessing/mac-translit131.hqx. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Andrea Nixon Academic Computing Coordinator Languages and Humanities Carleton College anixon@carleton.edu From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: mortality of data Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 07:32:02 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 48 (82) Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott (Tuebingen) sent me the following message in response to my announcement of the Tel Aviv conference on "Cultural resources in the electronic era", Humanist 9.21. The message seems to me of sufficiently broad interest to pass along, and I do so with his blessing. WM ------------------------------------- Allow me two short remarks on the "specific questions" to be addressed there. ad 2: "Texts and data written on punch[ed] cards are no longer readable, whereas two thousand year old manuscripts can still be interpreted." Punched cards are still readable: the code is simple and well documented; the rectangular holes are at least as stable as ink on paper. Therefore, the interpretation without mechanical or electronic tools, though time-consuming, is no serious problem. This will not change as long as the card itself is not dissolved. - More recent data carriers pose more serios problems: try, e.g., to read a 556 bpi magnetic tape (this was the up to date technology when I started to use computers; we did not dare to use the new 800 bpi technology which came up those days: we did not trust the safety of this "extreme" density). ad 2: "digitization might ultimately be the enemy of preservation", and ad 5: "What impact will this have on the preservation and transmission of our cultural resources across generations?": Preservation is no serious problem as long as the data are converted carefully from one generation of data carriers to the next. But: who will do this for data which at a certain time are no longer considered to be worth converting? Think of a book which has fallen from a library shelf 400 years ago and which is detected physically undestroyed - and imagine a DAT cassette containing gigabytes of compressed data, found physically (and even magnetically) undestroyed after 50 years only ... I have the suspicion that to the same degree that new techniques allow for the fast and easy dissemination and multiplication of information, to the same degree these techniques guarantee for the safe destruction of this information. I am sometimes tempted to find this a very wise (wisely planned?) coincidence. Wilhelm Ott ---------------------------------------- Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Michael Metzger Subject: New Language software Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 10:22:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 49 (83) I have written three Macintosh programs for teachers, called Vinco Bingo, Roman Calendar, and Natalis. They are described at the end of this message. Vinco Bingo is of interest to teachers of any foreign language that is written in the Roman alphabet (e.g., French, Spanish, German, etc., but not languages like Greek, Russian, Arabic). The other two programs (Roman Calendar and Natalis) would interest only Latin teachers. (I teach Latin at SUNY Buffalo.) If you would like free shareware copies of the programs (Macintosh computers only), send a disk and two loose 32-cent stamps to: Leo C. Curran 4317 Harlem Road Snyder, NY 14226. (in%"lccurran@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu") No special mailing envelope is necessary when you send your disk to me. I have found that ordinary envelopes without stiffeners work fine. Leo C. Curran ************************************************************* Software for Foreign Language Teachers With Vinco Bingo your own list of words (e.g., vocabulary, grammatical forms, cultural items, etc.) can be automatically made into sets of "bingo" cards in the language of your choice. Each card of the set will be different, containing a different random selection of your words arranged in a random location in the boxes on the card. Included with the set of cards is a sheet with all of your words listed in random order; you can use this sheet to call out the definitions of your words when you play the game with your students. Roman Calendar, with only half a dozen keystrokes by the user, will automatically produce an 8.5" by 11" wall calendar for any month of any year. The square for each day of the month will contain, in a variety of typefaces, the day's number according to our calendar (e.g., "2"), the day's number as the Romans counted it (e.g., "IV" for the fourth day before the Nones), and the full Latin name of the day (e.g., "ante diem IV Nonas Apriles"). Along with the Latin name of the month, the year ab urbe condita will appear in Roman numerals at the top of the page. The program "knows" how many days are in the month chosen and whether the Nones and Ides come early or late in that month. With Natalis a student's birth date can be entered according to our calendar and the program will automatically print a decorative certificate bearing the student's name and birth date according to the Roman calendar. From: brody@newmedia.co.at Subject: pls post: The Digital Dialectic Conference August 4-6 Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 20:16:27 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 50 (84) ------------------------------------------------------------ Please forward this to those to whom it is of interest and post appropriatel= y ------------------------------------------------------------ The Digital Dialectic: A Conference on the Convergence of Technology, Media & Theory Art Center College of Design, Pasadena The Ahmanson Auditorium August 4-6, 1995 Panelists: Robert Stein, Florian Brody, George Landow, Peter Lunenfeld, Lev Manovich, Erkki Huhtamo, Brenda Laurel, Christian M=F6ller, William J. Mitchell, N. Katherine Hayles, Michael Heim, Carol Gigliotti. =46or more information contact Dr. Peter Lunenfeld, Graduate Faculty, Art Center College of Design, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA 91103. Phone: 818.568.4710; Fax: 818.795.0819. peterl@artcenter.edu. **************** The Conference: The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about what is happening to our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. This single track conference brings together scholars and artists who combine theoretical investigations with analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of the technologies involved in digital art and media. The digital dialectic grounds the insights of theory in the constraints of practice -- offering conceptual tools based on a user's understanding of how these media are created and work. This conference will build an aesthetic theory for the 1990s, carving out a discourse that is neither mired in the past nor overly enamored of the new. **************** The Panelists: William J. Mitchell -- Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn N. Katherine Hayles -- English Dept. at UCLA, author of Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science George Landow -- Professor of English and Art History, Brown University, author of Hyper/Text/Theory Brenda Laurel -- Interval Research, virtual reality expert and author of Computers as Theater Michael Heim -- philosopher, author of The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality Christian M=F6ller -- Frankfurt-based architect specializing in interactive environments and installations =46lorian Brody -- New Media Consulting, Vienna, formerly technical director of the Expanded Book Project at The Voyager Company Carol Gigliotti -- Education and Technology Liaison, Wexner Center for the Arts; Department of Art Education, Ohio State Universi= ty Lev Manovich -- University of Maryland, editor of Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture Peter Lunenfeld -- Art Center College of Design, founder of mediawork: The Southern California New Media Working Group Erkki Huhtamo -- Professor of Media Studies, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland Robert Stein, Founding Partner, The Voyager Company, New York ************* The Context: The Digital Dialectic takes place the weekend before the opening of SIGGRAPH '95 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Those already planning to come to SIGGRAPH will be able to extend their trip to include this event. In addition, there will be scholars interested in the implications of new technologies who will come to Southern California specifically to attend this conference. Finally, there is the huge audience for these issues already present in Southern California: scholars at USC, UCLA, Caltech, Cal Arts, etc.; entertainment industry members concerned with the convergence of Hollywood and Silicon Valley; artists and designers branching out into new media; and, of course, the vast public already obsessed with these issues. When the future writes the history of how the computer transformed culture, the 1990s will be seen as the decade that made "content" count. The Digital Dialectic's speakers are neither prophets nor business consultants: they won't be talking about what to do this quarter or next. They are, however, uniquely suited to think about the "big picture," and just as important, to caution against hype. The Digital Dialectic is a unique conference, which will appraise content with tools that go beyond buzzwords and address the use value of theory. Concurrent with The Digital Dialectic, the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center will mount Digital Mediations, an exhibition of seven international artists who are using digital and interactive media. These include Jim Campbell, Ken Feingold, Sara Roberts, Bill Seaman, Christa Sommerer/Laurent Mignonneau, and Jennifer Steinkamp. The show is curated by Laurence Dreiband, Erkki Huhtamo, and Stephen Nowlin and runs from August 6 to October 1, 1995. Opening reception, Saturday, August 5, 6:00-9:00 PM. =46or more information call 818.396.2244. ************ The Schedule: =46riday August 4 6:00 to 7:30 Welcome: David Brown, President, Art Center Keynote: Robert Stein 7:30 to 9:00 Conference Reception Saturday August 5 9:30 to 12:30 Florian Brody, George Landow, Peter Lunenfeld 2:00 to 5:00 Lev Manovich, Erkki Huhtamo, Brenda Laurel 6:00 to 9:00 Digital Mediations Gallery Opening and Reception Sunday August 6 9:30 to 12:30 Christian M=F6ller, William J. Mitchell, N. Katherine Hayles 2:00 to 4:00 Michael Heim, Carol Gigliotti 4:00 to 5:00 Panelists Roundtable *************** The Directions: To get to Art Center from Downtown Los Angeles: North on the 110 Freeway to Pasadena, approximately three miles past Dodger Stadium to Orange Grove Boulevard exit [L], go two miles to Holly Street Signal [L], to Linda Vista [R] (you will be entering a residential area); continue for two miles to Lida Street signal [L]. Continue on Lida Street to the top of the hill; you will see the see the Art Center sign on your left. Follow the drive and enter the Student Parking Lot and walk back through the building to the Ahmanson Auditorium. ------------------------------------------------------------ send all mail related to Digital Dialectics Conference to peterl@artcenter.e= du ------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ * Florian Brody * New Media Consulting * _______ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ______ /__ / / / /___/ /___/ / / brody@newmedia.co.at _____ / /__ /__/ /___/ / \ /__/ http://www.newmedia.co.at/brody/ vox:+43 1 526 43 03 - 0 fax:+43 1 526 43 03 - 4 <---- new fax number ! A-1070 Vienna, Lerchenfelderstr 63 ______________________________________________________________________ until August 15: Art Center College of Design 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena CA 91103 - fax (818) 405 9104 ______________________________________________________________________ From: John Merritt Unsworth Subject: PMC 5.3 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 14:21:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 51 (85) The May, 1995 issue of Postmodern Culture is now available. The issue includes essays on madness, the mired sublime, indexical criticism, Pynchon's Vineland, Gertrude Stein, stupid undergrounds; plus poetry, music, reviews, notices, letters from readers, and a popular culture column on the video game "Theme Park." The World-Wide Web version of this issue of Postmodern Culture, with full hypermedia capabilities, is available on a server run by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, at: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/issue.595/contents.595.html The issue is also available by gopher, ftp, and electronic mail: HOW TO GET PMC BY E-MAIL: To automatically receive the table of contents each time a new issue is published, send an email message to the internet address listserv@listserv.ncsu.edu with the one and only line: subscribe pmc-list [your name] To retrieve the items listed in the table of contents, send a mail message to listserv@listserv.ncsu.edu, containing as its one and only line the command get pmc-list [fn.ft] (replace [fn.ft] with the filename and filetype for the file you want to receive, as listed in the table of contents). There should be no blank lines, spaces, or other text preceding this line--however, you can type more than one get command in your mail to listserv, as long as each command is on its own line. More detailed Listserv instructions are available in the file NEWUSER.PREFACE: to retrieve this file, send mail to listserv@listserv.ncsu.edu with the command get pmc-list newuser.preface HOW TO GET PMC BY ANONYMOUS FTP: All PMC files are available via anonymous ftp; to retrieve items in this way, you will need to be on the internet. To connect to the ftp server, type the following at your command prompt, hitting the enter key at the end of each line of commands: ftp jefferson.village.virginia.edu Once you are connected, you can log in as "anonymous" or "ftp" using your email userid as a password. When you have logged in, type: cd pub/pubs/pmc/issue.595 To make sure that the ftp program expects to transfer ascii text, type ascii at this point. Now you can transfer individual files or groups of files. To transfer an individual file--for example, this table of contents--type: get contents.595 You will probably need to use only lowercase letters when you ask ftp for PMC files. To transfer a group of files--for example, the entire January, 1995 issue of PMC--type: prompt mget *.595 When you're done with your file tranfer, type "quit" to return to your own command prompt. HOW TO GET PMC BY GOPHER: If you have access to a gopher client, you will find PMC's gopher server at: jefferson.village.virginia.edu Once you've connected, choose "Publications of the Institute" and then choose "Postmodern Culture": you will find a menu listing all published issues of the journal, and within each issue, full text of all the issue's contents. For more information, email pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: the zipper Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 13:25:34 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 52 (86) To the several popular books in the history of technology, Robert Friedel has recently added Zipper: An exploration in novelty, wonderfully reviewed by Giles Foden, Arts Editor of the TLS, in No. 4808 (May 26 1995): 5-7. Since we have in our hands a technology that is still not very well understood, all such histories recommend themselves as grist for our electronic mill. Allow me to quote a paragraph from the review and be done with it: ----- What is enduringly interesting about a technology is only what is human about it (though there is an incipient sense of the sublime about many new technologies, and always has been), and what could be more human than the zip? But what, too, could be more innately technological? The Greek techne, as well as meaning "art" or "craft", had a sense of "sleight of hand" or "cunning device" - meanings which suggest the zip as the quintessential technological device. It does seem, after all, like a magic trick. Where zips are on the body makes this slyly close to the bone; as if, by the Faustian association of a technical and sexual overreaching that breaks a notional natural law, the zip in itself playfully contextualizes ancient worries about the ethics of technological progress. In other words, beware that you don't take a sleight of hand too far! ----- WM Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Otmar.K.E.Foelsche@Dartmouth.EDU (Otmar K. E. Foelsche) Subject: Re: 9.0047 Q; Cyrillic Fonts and Macs (1/43) Date: 01 Jun 95 16:53:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 53 (87) You may want to look at Apple's Russian OS or the script and fonts for Slavic languages coming with NISUS Writer's language pack. I believe there is a Russian type of Courier in the package that may satisfy the needs of the dissertation requirements. The character mapping is accessible through ResEdit - a program that your computer can make available to you. Otmar Foelsche From: yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Subject: ACL-95 Corpus-based NLP Workshop Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 16:54:24 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 54 (88) THE THIRD WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA ----------------------------------------- Friday, 30 June 1995 8:45 AM - 5:25 PM MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA at ACL-95 (Sponsored by ACL's SIGDAT and SIGNLL) The workshop will present original research in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Topics will include sense disambiguation, grammar induction, part-of-speech tagging, information retrieval, language modeling, and machine translation. This year's theme is: Supervised Training vs. Self-organizing Methods Historically, annotated corpora have made a significant contribution to tasks such as part-of-speech tagging and sense disambiguation. But annotated corpora are expensive and generally unavailable for languages other than English. Self-organizing methods offer the hope that annotated corpora might not be necessary. Can we achieve comparable performance using little or no tagged training data? What are the tradeoffs? Organizers: Ken Church and David Yarowsky Industrial Sponsor: LEXIS-NEXIS, Division of Reed and Elsevier, Plc. REGISTRATION: Registration fees are $35 for participants who register by 19 May 1995, $40 for payment received by 15 June 1995, and $45 at the door. Registration includes a copy of the proceedings, catered lunch and refreshments during the day. Acceptable forms of payment are US$ cheques payable to "ACL" or credit card (VISA/Mastercard) payment. E-mail registrations are encouraged. Please submit the following form along with payment: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Institution (for name tag): Postal address: Email address: Payment (specify cheque or credit card): Credit card info - Name on card: - Card number: - Expiration date: Dietary requirements (vegetarian, etc.): -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please send to: David Yarowsky Dept. of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania 200 S. 33rd St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 USA email: yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu More Information: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~yarowsky/wvlc3.html ACL-95 Homepage: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/cgdemarc/acl/acl-info.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 8:15 - 8:45 Registration. Coffee, danish, etc. available 8:45 - 8:50 Welcome 8:50 - 9:35 INVITED TALK (Mark Liberman) 9:35 - 9:50 Break 9:50 - 10:15 Eric Brill Unsupervised Learning of Disambiguation Rules for Part of Speech Tagging 10:15 - 10:40 Carl de Marcken Lexical Heads, Phrase Structure and the Induction of Grammar 10:40 - 11:05 Michael Collins and James Brooks Prepositional Phrase Attachment through a Backed-off Model 11:05 - 11:15 Break 11:15 - 11:40 Andrew Golding A Bayesian Hybrid Method for Context-sensitive Spelling Correction 11:40 - 12:05 Philip Resnik Disambiguating Noun Groupings with Respect to Wordnet Senses 12:05 - 1:05 CATERED LUNCH 1:05 - 1:30 Dekai Wu Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing 1:30 - 1:55 Lance Ramshaw and Mitch Marcus Text Chunking using Transformation-Based Learning 1:55 - 2:05 Break 2:05 - 3:00 INVITED TALK (Henry Kucera and Nelson Francis) 3:00 - 3:10 Break 3:10 - 3:35 Fernando Pereira, Yoram Singer and Naftali Tishby Beyond Word N-Grams 3:35 - 4:00 Jing-Shin Chang, Yi-Chung Lin and Keh-Yih Su Automatic Construction of a Chinese Electronic Dictionary 4:00 - 4:10 Break 4:10 - 4:35 Kenneth Church and William Gale Inverse Document Frequency (IDF): A Measure of Deviations from Poisson 4:35 - 5:00 Joe Zhou and Pete Dapkus Automatic Suggestion of Significant Terms for a Predefined Topic 5:00 - 5:25 Ellen Riloff and Jay Shoen Automatically Acquiring Conceptual Patterns without an Annotated Corpus More Information: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~yarowsky/wvlc3.html ACL-95 Homepage: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/cgdemarc/acl/acl-info.html From: cnycllINFO@SNYCORVA.BITNET (CNY Conference on Language & Literature) Subject: call for papers (multicultural issues) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 11:47:52 +0000 (EASTERN) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 55 (89) Greetings, Here is a brief reminder about some calls for papers that may be of interest to members of this listserv. CALL FOR PAPERS (abridged version) 5th Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature 15-17 October 1995 State University of New York College at Cortland Cortland, NY 13045 The Fifth Annual CNYCLL (scheduled October 15-17, 1995) will feature over 55 sessions on a variety of issues related to literature, language, and composition studies. As in previous years, this conference's range of sessions is very broad--encompassing both traditional and non-traditional topics (sessions on cultural diversity, non-canonical writers, etc.). The following abridged list includes some conference sessions related to multicultural issues. (If you wish to see the complete call for papers, please check for this via Gopher, World Wide Web, or by e-mail (at the addresses listed at the end of this message.) ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** NOTE: Those interested in proposing papers for this year's CNYCLL should contact directly the session chairs listed below and offer preliminary abstracts (or drafts of papers, if requested) by the deadlines specified. If your proposal is selected for a CNYCLL session, you will be expected to submit a final abstract of your paper to conference organizers by 1 September 1995. (For details, see the explanation of procedures near the end of this message.) In mid-September, final abstracts of papers will be disseminated via GOPHER and World Wide Web (see the information at the end of this file concerning Internet addresses). Those attending the conference in October also will be provided with printed copies of all final abstracts. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** African-American Literature Chair: Jill Jones 201 Middle Rd. Dover, NH 03820 Deadline for preliminary abstract: 7/1/95 African-American Literature: Life Writing Chair: Anissa J. Wardi Syracuse University African-American Studies 200 Sims Hall V Syracuse, NY 13224-1160 Deadline for preliminary abstract: 6/15/95 American-Jewish Literature Chair: Joel Shatzky State University of New York College at Cortland Department of English Cortland, NY 13045 Deadline for preliminary abstract: 7/1/95 American Literature And The Visual Arts: Practical And Theoretical Perspectives Chairs: Bettina Carbonell & Ralph Black NYU-English Dept. 19 University Pl. 2nd Floor New York, NY 10003 Deadline for preliminary abstract or papers: 6/15/95 Contemporary Literary Theory: Literary Theory And Postcolonial Cultures chair: Tanyss Ludescher 353 N. Eagleville Rd. Storrs, CT 06268 Deadline for preliminary abstract: 6/15/95 Immigrant Literature Chair:Prateeti Ballal 4417 Romlon St. #204 Beltsville, MD 20705 Deadline for preliminary abstract: 6/1/95 Literature Of U.S. Latinos/Latinas Chair: Norma Helsper Dept. of International Communications and Culture State University of New York College at Cortland Cortland, NY 13045 Deadline for preliminary abstract: 7/15/95 The Exile In Literature: Alienation In Contemporary Drama Focus: Changing 'Diasporas,' Changing 'Homelands' Chair: Barry Fruchter 6 Briarcliff Lane Glen Cove, NY 11542 Deadline for preliminary abstract: 7/1/95 The Exile In Literature: Alienation In Contemporary Drama Focus: The Fate of the Lost, Distanced, or (Self-)Marginalized Central Figure in Drama of the Past 20 Years Chair: Ben B. Halm English Dept. Fairfield Univ. 1073 N. Benson Rd. Fairfield, CT 06430-5171 Deadline for preliminary abstract: 7/1/95 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Reminder about General CNYCLL Guidelines: Generally speaking, participants should deliver only one paper and chair only one session. The chair shall consider all papers submitted in response to the general call for papers and shall not have pre-selected panelists. Papers should have a 15-18 minute reading time. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION To obtain further information regarding the conference, please use any of the options listed below. Information via World Wide Web Many other World Wide Web files related to this conference are currently available on the English Department's "Orchard" WWW server (http://orchard.cortland.edu/welcome.html). Based on a Power Macintosh in the English Department at SUNY Cortland, this server also contains information concerning various departmental and interdisciplinary projects related to the English Department at SUNY Cortland. Information via Gopher Information about this conference also can be obtained from other files on this Orchard Server. (NOTE: Gopher files related to this conference mirror the WWW files, so the same information can be obtained by either means.) In addition to CNCYLL information, this "Orchard" Gopher server also provides information concerning departmental and interdisciplinary projects. Information via E-mail If you have comments about this WWW server information or have specific requests for conference information, please send e-mail to: Dr. Thom Bunting via the Internet at CNYCLLinfo@snycorva.cortland.edu or via Bitnet at CNYCLLinfo@snycorva Information via Postal Service: CNYCLL Director's address: Dr. Alex Gonzalez/ English Department/ SUNY Cortland/ Cortland, NY 13045 CNYCLL Co-Director's address: Dr. Thom Bunting/ English Department/ SUNY Cortland/ Cortland, NY 13045 ** ** ** END of CNYCLL95 file ** ** ** Virtually yours, the CNYCLLinfo Committee From: Eric Johnson Subject: articles Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 06:08:43 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 56 (90) Members of this list might like to know that the full texts of some articles that I have published are now available through my Web page -- including two recent articles about Jane Austen: "Oxford Electronic Text Library Edition of the Complete Works of Jane Austen" "How Jane Austen's Characters Talk" (Abstracts of both articles have been included in ETEXTCTR reviews.) To read the articles, connect to my Web page: http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/eric.html Click on "publications and scholarship," and then scroll to the entry for one of the articles, and click on its title. I would be interested in readers' comments about the articles. -- Eric Johnson JohnsonE@dsuvax.dsu.edu From: E S Atwell Subject: NTI++ New Initiative: Workshop Call for Participants Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:37:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 57 (91) ************************************************************************* * Higher Education Funding Councils (England, Scotland, Wales) & DENI * * Joint Information Systems Committee - New Technologies Initiative * * Knowledge Based Systems and Speech And Language Technology projects * * * * 24-hour WORKSHOP: Review of Projects and CALL FOR NEW PROPOSALS * ************************************************************************* HEFCs JISC-NTI KBS+SALT Workshop Review of projects and CALL FOR NEW PROPOSALS 3-4 July 1995, Charles Morris Hall, Leeds University, Leeds OPEN INVITATION: NTI is a 3-year, 6M-pound programme in Higher Education Institutions to promote uptake of key Information Technologies, including KBS and SALT. JISC is on the point of launching a follow-up 3-year Initiative, as yet unnamed, to build on the successes of the NTI. You are invited to attend a 24-hour workshop - to review successful NTI-funded projects in the KBS+SALT field - to learn about NTI-funded KBS+SALT resources available to HEIs - to find out about the forthcoming Call for new projects - to hear NTI committee members' views on future funding priorities (and maybe to influence them!) BACKGROUND: Funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland, and Wales, the mission of the Joint Information Systems Committee is: 'To stimulate and enable the cost effective exploitation of information systems and to provide a high quality national network infrastructure for the UK higher education and research councils communities' To this end, JISC supports a number of national services and initiatives. These include the New Technologies Initiative, a 3-year, 6M pound programme to promote key information technologies in Higher Education institutions; and a planned follow-up Initiative, as yet unnamed, to consolidate the successes of the NTI. This meeting focusses on projects within the area of Knowledge Based Systems and Speech And Language Technology. The HEFCs' JISC is building on the work of its predecessor, the old Universities Funding Council's Information Systems Committee; the UFC ISC supported several national programmes including the Knowedge Crunching Machine Initiative and the Knowledge Based Systems Initiative. From 1993, these were subsumed into the HEFCs' New Technologies Initiative; NTI also funded a number of new projects in KBS and SALT. The meeting will include presentations of a number of KCMI, KBSI, and new NTI projects, focussing on KBS+SALT resources generated by the projects which have wider potential applicability in Higher Education Institutes. Note that the old PCFC had no equivalent to ISC, so "New Universities" had no involvement in KCMI and KBSI, and comparatively little new NTI funding. Proposals and consortia involving the "New Universities" will be particularly welcome under the new successor Initiative, so POTENTIAL PARTICIPANTS FROM NEW UNIVERSITIES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP. FURTHER DETAILS AND REGISTRATION: The workshop will run from midday Monday 3rd July to midday Tuesday 4th July, at Leeds University, Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Registration (including lunch on arrival and departure, dinner, bed+breakfast in Charles Morris Hall student residence) is FREE to the first 50 applicants from UK HEIs, FIRST COME FIRST SERVED, GBP50 inclusive for others. For further details and a REGISTRATION FORM, please Email or FAX the workshop organiser: Eric Steven Atwell HEFCs JISC-NTI KBS+SALT Review Workshop Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS) Artificial Intelligence Division, School of Computer Studies The University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, Yorkshire, England TEL: 0113-2335761 FAX: 0113-2335468 EMAIL: E.S.Atwell@Leeds.AC.UK From: Elizabeth Kirk Subject: Subject specialist librarian position Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1995 16:41:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 48 (92) ATTENTION FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE LIBRARIANS COME JOIN A DYNAMIC TEAM MILTON S. EISENHOWER LIBRARY THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY RESOURCE SERVICES LIBRARIAN FOR GERMAN AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Resource Services Librarians are subject specialists, each of whom is responsible for building strong, client-centered relationships with the faculty and students in the handful of disciplines he or she serves. The Eisenhower Library is commited to working as a valued and significant partner in the academic enterprise. This commitment is being manifested in four key ways: a concentration on designing services which respond to continuous user feedback; a commitment to enabling faculty, students and staff to master the new information environment; a strongly focused effort toward creating the digital library of the future; and a major remodeling and programmatic re-orientation of the library's service spaces. The Eisenhower Library prizes initiative, creativity, and professionalism and offers challenge, independence, and visibility to members of its Resource Services team. RESPONSIBILITIES Understand the work of the French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, and German departments, cultivate and maintain close working relationships with the members of those departments. Select materials to be added to the collection in assigned subject areas and manage the materials budget for each subject. Provide a variety of instructional and research services to the academic community. QUALIFICATIONS MLS from an ALA accredited library school required, and an advanced degree in one of the four assigned subjects, or equivalent experience strongly desired. Two or more years' experience in collection development and/or reference in a research library preferred. Ability to conduct seminars and instructional programs in the use of the library and its resources. Reading knowledge of German and two romance languages highly desirable. Willingness to work a flexible schedule (including some evenings and weekends) as part of a team. Knowledge of automated library systems. Knowledge of Internet and World Wide Web. The hiring range for this position is $32,000 - $43,400, depending on education and experience. Benefits include twenty-two days vacation; free life insurance; tuition benefits; TIAA/CREF retirement program, and group health plan cost shared by individual and university. To apply, send letter of application indicating Job #S94-xxx, resum=82, and three letters of reference to The Johns Hopkins University, Office of Human Resources, 119 Garland Hall, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, by July 31, 1995. AA/EOE. Smoke-free and drug-free. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. ------------------------------------ posted for MSE Library by Elizabeth E. Kirk Library Instruction Coordinator Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles St. Baltimore, MD USA From: CHURCHDM@VUCTRVAX Subject: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 21:39:11 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 49 (93) JOB OPENING - VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY DIRECTOR OF LANGUAGE CENTER Staff position (available 15 August 1995) to direct Language Center program and staff, assist users, provide technical support in a rapidly changing field, oversee continuing development of current facility, develop educational materials, administer budget, work with faculty and students; also to teach two courses in a foreign language per year. QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. or Master's degree and fluency in at least one foreign language, teaching experience, considerable experience with and technical knowledge of state-ot- the-art technologies used in FL teaching. Position reports to the Dean of the College of Arts and Science. SALARY: open. Position will remain open until filled. Send dossier to: Associate Dean F. Carter Philips, College of Arts and Science, 301 Kirkland Hall, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240. AA/EOE Dan M. Church (who is going back to full-time teaching and research after several years as "acting interim" Director) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 50 (94) test message 1 Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 51 (95) Test message 2. Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 52 (96) test message sent on Monday #1 Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 53 (97) test message sent on Monday #2 Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 54 (98) test message Monday 3 Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 55 (99) test Monday 4 Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: test message 2 from wlm account Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 18:56:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 56 (100) This is test message #2 from wlm. 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From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 62 (106) test message 5 Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: test message 6 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 09:45:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 63 (107) test message 6 from wlm From: Willard McCarty Subject: test message from wlm Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 18:51:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 64 (108) This is a test message from the wlm account. From: Willard McCarty Subject: test message 2 from wlm account Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 18:56:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 65 (109) This is test message #2 from wlm. From: Christopher Dietrich Subject: test message Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:39:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 66 (110) Test of new humanist list on Listproc. Chris Chris Dietrich, CIT Systems and Networking Princeton University chris@abe.Princeton.edu From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 67 (111) This is a test message. Please ignore it. An explanation will follow later today. WM 17/8/95 12:50 pm From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 68 (112) Please ignore this one as well. A genuine message will follow momentarily. WM Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 69 (113) Size: 142 lines Dear Colleagues: It is my great pleasure to welcome you back to Humanist after long silence and some months of preparation. In my first message as returning editor, I want to explain briefly what has happened and to speculate at greater length on the new and old things we might do with Humanist. As in the past that some of you will remember, I intend to let you know what I think and then leave it largely in your hands to make the best use of our eight year-old forum for humanities computing. Much has happened in computing and in the world since Humanist began, so we need to consider with care what we might do. 1. Technical matters. First, however, a note about software. Every effort has been made to ensure a trouble-free move to the new location (Princeton) and new software (ListProc). Many thanks are due to Gregory Murphy, Christopher Dietrich, Peter DiCamillo, Elli Mylonas, and others. Inevitably, however, there will be a few problems at the beginning. Please be patient. The next message will contain technical information that should help you adjust the parameters of your subscription and become familiar with new options. Suffering in silence may be good for the soul to some degree, but dying in silence is not. If you are stuck, please tell us. If you have submitted a message within the past few months but have not seen it on Humanist, consider it dead and resubmit -- if you can remember what it was about. 2. The recent past You may already know that earlier this year Elaine Brennan declared her intention to resign as editor, a post she had held continuously since May 1990, when I gave it up. The Advisory Board then requested nominations from the membership and, despite my best efforts, asked me to return as editor. I have accepted gladly, because the work is so interesting, and even more because I am convinced that despite the many changes, the growth of electronic discussion groups and their acceptance throughout the humanities, Humanist has a crucial role to play. 3. The new Humanist As I mentioned, Humanist has moved to Princeton University from Brown. It is published by the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), with offices at Princeton and Rutgers. Technical support is provided by Computing and Information Technology (CIT), Princeton. Individuals at CETH and CIT are involved in software development for Humanist, including a new digesting routine, and a WorldWideWeb component to extend the capabilities of Humanist beyond anything I could have imagined during my previous term of office. To show you that my imagination has not stopped functioning, I have put together a rudimentary homepage for Humanist, whose address is given in the header. Suggestions and comments about this page -- do not spare my feelings -- and about what we could do with the Web are most welcome. We have plans for a number of major enhancements. These will begin to appear shortly. 4. Whither thou goest.... Much has changed since Humanist began on 7 May 1987. The new Humanist cannot simply return to its old self, however fondly some of us may remember how "Humanist made me quack". (Sorry, please indulge us old-timers by permitting a few in-jokes.) Certain functions Humanist need no longer perform, or at least not in the same way; other groups and newer technologies have arisen meanwhile. The question before us is, then, what should Humanist now do? [deleted quotation]superior means of distributing relatively static information and, with some clever programming, will allow us to automate various aspects of subscription. A Humanist Web could as well easily become the focus of information gathering for humanities computing and thus provide a valuable resource for research and even advocacy. It seems to me, however, that the essential core of Humanist remains the broadly interdisciplinary discussions about the nature and purposes of humanities computing as such. In its early days Humanist was nearly the sole online forum where computer-using humanists could gather to discuss the professional matters that concerned them. In my mind the proliferation of discussion groups for the other areas of academic study has not rendered Humanist otiose but liberated it to focus on tending its own garden with something like the devotion it deserves. Since 1990 I have been teaching the subject and have observed it come into focus as an interdisciplinary subject as well as a collection of approaches and techniques by which we may better our other academic pursuits. I am convinced, therefore, that Humanist has a great deal of important work to do. You may wish to argue the point, but we are here to do just that, no? [deleted quotation]must change to serve the profoundly different academic world it now faces. In the Spring of 1987 and for some time afterward its primary concern was to build a community out of the widely scattered humanists who happened to use computers. Bitnet, JANET, and EARN were the information byways we used and helped make into scholarly instruments. Awakening our colleagues to the benefits of computing was a major task. Funds were relatively plentiful. Now, however, the widespread use of computing in the humanities raises the question of whether we have any need for humanities computing as such. The "information superhighway" is now a household word in many countries and has the attention of powerful interest groups whose agendas are very different from, and in some cases inimical to our own. Years of severe budget-cuts have weakened our universities, and the new means of communication challenges their former monopoly on the distribution of culturally valued information. Simply put, the sociology of knowledge is no longer the same. I do not wish to suggest that Humanist should focus on political questions, however pressing these are to the individuals affected. For one thing, Humanist is an international forum and so must address common concerns. The politics of computing specific to any one nation have only limited relevance here. What we can do, however, and what no other group of which I am aware is doing well, is to address the intellectual issues and problems raised by the application of computers to the humanities. Many if not all of these are of immediate, practical concern -- essential, I would argue, to our practice as humanists. We need to understand them, for example, to communicate with our students, advise our colleagues, indeed to understand what we study in terms of our dominant (and fascinatingly inadequate) cognitive model. If we are to improve humanities computing, we must understand them in order to build better software, know how to interpret the results, and design research projects worthy of our source materials. Anyone who pays close attention to computer-assisted research and teaching knows that the software we have is crude and our understanding of the analytic and pedagogical issues exceedingly primitive. The level of our work needs to be raised. Furthermore, we are having now to argue for continued funding and assignment of resources to humanities computing, which inevitably means away from something else. Hence cogent arguments and examples are demanded of us. As Yaacov Choueka said back in 1988, "The tools are here; where are the results?" I think he was more than a bit optimistic about the tools, but his question keeps nagging me for an answer. John Burrows has wisely counseled patience in the face of assertions that computing has not made much of a difference in many fields. Good results, as his work so ably demonstrates, often take a lot of time to achieve. Meanwhile, however, our accomplishments suggest that we need to talk our way through to a much better understanding of what we are doing and why. The ludic and serendipitous elements of Humanist, its use to exchange information, forge friendships, share enthusiasms, make unexpected discoveries, will remain if we wish, if we see that these things happen. Let play and seriousness dance together here! Serio ludere. Allow me, then, to invite you once more to enliven and profit from whatever we have the wit to make happen in this loosely controlled, chiefly self-regulating electronic piazza. Willard McCarty Editor Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto) (416) 978-3974 voice (416) 978-6519 fax mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/wm.html From: Princeton University ListProcessor Subject: HELP Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 18:35:06 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 9 Num. 70 (114) ListProcessor 7.2 Copyright (c) 1993-95 by the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN) Here is a brief description of the set of requests recognized by ListProcessor. Everything appearing in [] below is optional; everything appearing in <> is mandatory; all arguments are case insensitive, except mail addresses and passwords. The vertical bar ("|") is used as a logical OR operator between the arguments. Requests may be abbreviated, but you must specify at least the first three characters. Keep in mind that when referring to a , that list may be of two kinds: local or remote, unless otherwise noted. When referring to a local list, your request will be immediately processed; when referring to a remote list (a list served by another ListProcessor which this system knows about), your request will be appropriately forwarded. Issue a 'lists global' request to get a listing of all local and known remote lists to this ListProcessor. Recognized requests are: *** GENERAL *** help [topic] ------------ Without arguments, this file. Otherwise get specific information on the selected topic. Topics may also refer to requests. To learn more about this system issue a 'help listproc' request. To get a listing of all available topics, generate an error message by sending a bogus request like 'help me'. lists [local|global [keywords]] ------------------------------- Get a list of all local mailing lists served by this server, or of all known local and remote lists. If keywords are specified, they are treated as a logically ANDed list of strings/regular expressions; keywords can be quoted. When keywords are specified, only those lists' descriptions that match the keywords are listed. release version ------- Get information about the current release of this ListProcessor system. *** FOR LISTS *** information [list] ------------------ This file if no list is specified, otherwise get information about the specified list. purge ---------------- Remove yourself from all mailing lists on this host. recipients ----------------- Get a list of the current subscribers. review [short|description|subscribers] --------------------------------------------- Review the list's settings, get the list's general information file and get a listing of the current subscribers for the specified list. run [ ] ------------------------------------ Run the specified command with the optional arguments and receive the output from stdout and/or stderr. To get a listing of all available commands to run, omit the arguments, i.e. issue a 'run ' request. You have to belong to the specified list, and must have obtained the password from the list's owner; the owner's address may be found in the Errors-To: header line of each delivered message. set [