4.0474 Responses on a Variety of Queries (6/110)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 11 Sep 90 23:45:52 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0474. Tuesday, 11 Sep 1990.


(1) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 11:32:22 EDT (17 lines)
From: Robert Hollander <bobh@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Re: 4.0467 Queries

(2) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 9:24 GMT (14 lines)
From: Don Fowler <DPF@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: 4.0467 Queries

(3) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 90 19:17:21 EDT (28 lines)
From: djb@harvunxw.BITNET (David J. Birnbaum)
Subject: Re: 4.0467 Queries

(4) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 10:25 GMT (21 lines)
From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: sgml & hypertext

(5) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 16:32:05 -0200 (15 lines)
From: onomata@bengus (nissan ephraim)
Subject: Re: 4.0407 Handedness

(6) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 08:59:49 MDT (15 lines)
From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
Subject: Morphological Tagging

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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 11:32:22 EDT
From: Robert Hollander <bobh@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Re: 4.0467 Queries

Concerning William Bowen's query regarding a possible connection between
the number "16" and homosexuality: I know nothing about this. It does,
however, happen that Dante devotes the 15th and 16th canti of the
INFERNO to homosexuality (there is some debate about all this, but I
do not think it valid). The 16th canto is devoted to Florentine
homosexuals involved in political/civic concerns. One of the things
that is most striking about his treatment is that, counter to the usual
and untutored view, which has such medieval writers as Dante holding
criminally unjust views of homosexuality, his presentation of these
men is arguably THE most sympathetic treatment of a group of sinners
(after those in Limbo) in the entire INFERNO. I do not know quite what
to make of this, but it is an obvious fact that the commentators
conveniently duck. Hope this is of some help.
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 9:24 GMT
From: Don Fowler <DPF@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: 4.0467 Queries

I'm no numerologist (a good opening line for a poem) and can't help on
16: but a colleague in Atmospheric Physics here wrote an intersting
piece {title}On the unconscious significance of the number thirty
one{\title} in the International Review of Pscyho-Analysis 11 (1984)
119-20: his name is Raymond Hide. Apparently 31 often has sexual
manings in many languages. He refers to Sir Hrold Jeffreys {title}The
Unconscious significance of numbers{\title} in Int. J. Psychoanal. 17
(1936) 217-223, but I guess that is well-known to numerologists.

Don Fowler.
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 90 19:17:21 EDT
From: djb@harvunxw.BITNET (David J. Birnbaum)
Subject: Re: 4.0467 Queries

>Date: Sun, 9 Sep 90 11:28:58 cst
>From: "Francis,Bill" <RISKS@GRIN1.Bitnet>
>Subject: Inquiry-machine readable dictionaries
>
>Perhaps this has been discussed -- would someone provide information
><about low-cost dictionaries usable by microcomputers? I am interested in
>the text more than the search and retrieval software.

By a happy coincidence, the 10 September New Yorker arrived today with
an ad on p. 67 for the American Heritage Dictionary (one of my
favorites) in an $89.95 (plus $3.95 shipping and handling) electronic
edition. They crow about their "revolutionary new SearchText (TM, of
course) retrieval feature," which does some sort of fuzzy semantic
searching. The dictionary is bundled with a word processor called
Writer that they say is worth (well, costs) $30.00.

1-800-633-4514
1-617-272-3707 in Massachusetts
1-800-458-9501 fax

--David

David J. Birnbaum djb@wjh12.harvard.edu [Internet]
djb@harvunxw.bitnet [Bitnet]
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 10:25 GMT
From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: sgml & hypertext

In answer to Willard's query about how to encode hypertextual links in a
portable way, the place to look for information is (of course) the Text
Encoding Initiative's draft Guidelines, chapter 5, section 7. This
proposes ways of recording point-to-point and point-to-span links, and
has some gestures in the direction of how one might deal with
span-to-span linkages. It also has a good comparative overview of the
different possible addressing strategies that can be used to specify
the target of a link. Most of it (the section) was written by Steve De
Rose who, by an agreeable coincidence, was also responsible for most of
the design of the CD-WORD product which Ephraim Nissim mentioned in an
earlier response to this query.

Anyone who's forgotten (or never knew) how to get a copy of the TEI
Guidelines, see me after break.

Lou

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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 16:32:05 -0200
From: onomata@bengus (nissan ephraim)
Subject: Re: 4.0407 Handedness

For those interested in handedness, here is a bibliographical entry:

S. Coren (Ed.) "Left-Handedness: Behavioral Implications
and Anomalies."
(Advances in Psychology, 67.)
Elsevier (Amsterdam & New York, 1990).
592 pages. US$ 130.75.

(I have not seen it. Cannot afford it anyway.)

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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 08:59:49 MDT
From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
Subject: Morphological Tagging

Information on DOS morphological parsing software for Greek, known
as PCMORPH, and available from Gordon Neal (mffgkgn@cms.manchester-
computing-centre.ac.uk), of the University of Manchester's Department of
Greek and Latin:

> Your hunch is right that our software (known at the moment as
> PCMORPH and based loosely on David Packard's 1970's mainframe
> program, MORPH) is specific to classical Greek at the moment.
> I would like something more general, and have plans in that
> direction, but can't promise any delivery dates. ...