7.0455 Qs: Unicode; KLEIO; Long Names; Quote Query; MLA Online;

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 2 Feb 1994 18:20:38 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0455. Wednesday, 2 Feb 1994.


(1) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 23:45:31 ITA (15 lines)
From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT>
Subject: Unicode (new universal characters coding) (q)

(2) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 20:31:00 ITA (20 lines)
From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT>
Subject: latin morph. analysis in KLEIO? (q)

(3) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 15:43:00 -0500 (19 lines)
From: pwright@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Phyllis Wright)
Subject: longest name

(4) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 14:20:37 +0100 (10 lines)
From: nelro01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Thomas Rommel)
Subject: Quote query

(5) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 15:45:59 -0500 (EST) (21 lines)
From: Michael Peterson <mipeters@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Where to Find MLA Bibliography Online

(6) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 12:49:11 -0800 (63 lines)
From: edwards@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Jane A. Edwards)
Subject: stylistic analysis in legal contexts

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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 23:45:31 ITA
From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT>
Subject: Unicode (new universal characters coding) (q)

I remember that about two years ago some people spoke here on Humanist about Un
icode, consortium from Apple, Sony, Microsoft, and others, to define a new char
acters coding (a 24-bit coding) able to represent all the characters used in th
e world, or something like.
Now I'd like to get a pointer to a summary of information about this project an
d the new coding. I already tried FTP to unicode.ord (or was it ftp.unicode.org
) but there is only some very technical stuff (e.g. the actual coding for vario
us characters families).
Many thanks to anyone will help; double thanks if you cc: your answer to me (I'
m in a hurry, and this way I may finf your answer more quickly).
Maurizio
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 20:31:00 ITA
From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT>
Subject: latin morph. analysis in KLEIO? (q)

I read the KLEIO english version that appeared some weeks ago. It seems to me t
hat it should contain a latin morphological analyzer: am I true? did anyone use
it? is it possible to use Kleio almost only as a shell to run the analyzer ont
o latin texts (I'm not an historian, but would like to use Kleio if it does all
ow a wide access to the morph. analysis functions)? does it analyze also diffic
ult words (e.g.: qua propter / quapropter; quisque/ not quis + que; ktl.)?

I'm very interested to know something about this matter in order to decide if I
should buy my copy of Kleio or not...

Please, cc: your answer directly to me, I'm having some trouble here with mail
from the list I subscribe to.

Many thanks.

Maurizio
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 15:43:00 -0500
From: pwright@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Phyllis Wright)
Subject: longest name


Can someone help me out with two longest questions?
1) I need the Scottish village with the longest name
and
2) the longest British surname (I think it has 20 characters).

Many thanks for your help
Phyllis Wright
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
Canada
L2S 3A1
(905) 688-5550, ext. 3961
pwright@spartan.ac.brocku.ca

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 14:20:37 +0100
From: nelro01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Thomas Rommel)
Subject: Quote query

Dear Humanists,
a colleague of mine needs to know in what issue of the Guardian
Chomsky's "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" was called
"the government's white paper on the environment." Any suggestions?
Thomas Rommel
Rommel@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 15:45:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Peterson <mipeters@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Where to Find MLA Bibliography Online


Dear Elaine:

Could you please post this query on HUMANIST for me, if you deem it
appropriate?

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A friend of mine would like if it is possible to find a way of accessing
the MLA Biliography online, and if so where can he find it?

Replies to this query via private email would be most appreciated.

Michael Peterson
English, McMaster University

Mipeters@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 12:49:11 -0800
From: edwards@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Jane A. Edwards)
Subject: stylistic analysis in legal contexts

Below are appended two queries from other lists concerning
stylistic analysis in legal contexts. I'd like to add a query
of my own: Does anyone happen to know of a book or review of
the literature on this topic? Thanks for any information.
-Jane Edwards (edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu)

> ---------from LINGUIST@tamvm1.tamu.edu---------
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 11:33:12 EST
> From: Larry Horn <LHORN@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu>
> Subject: Expert testimony sought
>
> For a legal matter, expert testimony is needed from someone with
> experience in determining--from grammatical, lexical, and semantic
> cues--whether two texts are likely to have been written by the same
> individual. The texts in question are not literary, but experience in
> literary/stylistic detection would presumably be relevant. The expert
> testimony would be delivered in New England later this spring, so
> responses from those based in New England would be most relevant. If
> you don't do this sort of thing yourself but know someone who does,
> that would be helpful as well. Please respond to me at:
> LHORN@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu.
>
> --Larry Horn
>
> ---------------- From the Forensic Net: FL-LIST@BHAM.AC.UK -----
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 11:59:00 -0500
> From: neff@watson.ibm.com (Mary Neff)
> Message-Id: <9401311659.AA19654@musique.watson.ibm.com>
> To: FL-LIST@BHAM.AC.UK
> Subject: The Case of the Plagiarized Patent
>
> A few months back I was buttonholed at a party by the owner of a company in
> the middle of a patent infringement case. He wanted to know if, as a
> linguist, I might have anything useful to offer. Not a lot, it's not my
> field, but I just found this list, and one of YOU might. It seems that his
> company had signed a contract with another one that included giving them
> access to his design documentation and his patent applications. Some
> time later, he discovered that the other company is siphoning off his
> business and is making a product too similar to his to be accidental, and
> has filed patents also (I think in other countries). His question to me was
> whether it were possible to study and compare the two patents by structure,
> language, etc. to determine whether there might have been any plagiarism
> involved. I later looked at the patents and decided that it was perhaps
> not a wild idea, but that any investigation would also have to take into
> account the general "formula" of a patent, which might account for a lot of
> similarity. Who are the experts on this sort of thing? What are some of
> the other issues involved? It's not so often that I get approached at a
> party for some free advice as a linguist; usually it's the doctors and the
> lawyers that encounter that sort of thing!
>
> Interestingly, I read something in this month's DISCOVER magazine that
> mentions a couple of guys who designed a computer program to snoop for
> plagiarism in books.
>
> Mary S. Neff
>
>
> -------------------end of forwarded messages-----------------
>