Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 09:54:08 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Charlotte Skuster Subject: back in business The problem with the listserv here has been corrected, so we are able to resume communication. I hope this has not inconvenienced you and I thank you for your patience. Those who had messages rejected last weekend please try again. There should be no problem now. Charlotte (Index-l moderator) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 10:05:17 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: ACH-ALLC93 Conference Subject: ACH-ALLC93 Conference ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ACH-ALLC93, the joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, will be held at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, June 16-19, 1993. Listed below are the keynote speeches and the papers and panels accepted for presentation at the conference. The conference announcement/registration form and the provisional program can be obtained in several ways: 1. by email request to ACH_ALLC93@GUVAX.GEORGETOWN.EDU 2. by anonymous FTP to GUVAX.GEORGETOWN.EDU in directory ACH_ALLC93 3. by gopher to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY in directory ACH_ALLC93 4. by surface mail from Paul Mangiafico, Project Assistant Center for Text and Technology Academic Computer Center 238 Reiss Science Building Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 USA ACH-ALLC93 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Keynote Speeches: Clifford Lynch, Director of Library Automation, Office of the President, University of California Hugh Kenner, Franklin and Calloway Professor of English, University of Georgia Accepted Papers: Douglas A. Kibbee (University of Illinois) The History of Disciplinary Vocabulary: A Computer-Based Approach to Concepts of 'Usage' in 17th-Century Works on Language Terry Butler, Donald Bruce (University of Alberta) Towards the Discourse of the Commune: Computer Aided Analysis of Jules Valles' Trilogy Jacques Vingtras John Lavagnino (Brandeis University) Hypertext and Textual Editing Risto Miilumaki (University of Turku) The Prerelease Materials for Finnegans Wake: A Hypermedia Approach to Joyce's Work in Progress Catherine Scott (University of North London) Hypertext as a Route into Computer Literacy Thomas B. Horton (Florida Atlantic University) Finding Verbal Correspondences Between Texts David Holmes (The University of the West of England), Michael L. Hilton (University of South Carolina) Cumulative Sum Charts for Authorship Attribution: An Appraisal Lisa Lena Opas (University of Joensuu) Analysing Stylistic Features in Translation: A Computer-Aided Approach Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Jean Veronis (GRTC/CNRS) An Encoding Scheme for Machine Readable Dictionaries Peter Flynn (University College, Cork) Spinning the Web - Using WorldWideWeb for Browsing SGML Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen) MECS - A Multi-Element Code System Wilfried Ver Eecke, Marvin Needell (Georgetown University) Computer Analysis of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind Tony Jappy (University of Perpignan) The Verbal Structure of Romantic and Serious Fiction Thomas Rommel (University of Tuebingen) An Analysis of Word Clusters in Lord Byron's Don Juan Daniel C. Jacobson (University of North Dakota) Multi-Media Environments for the Study of Musical Form and Analysis John Morehen (University of Nottingham) Computers and Authenticity in the Performance of Elizabethan Keyboard Music Christian Delcourt (Universite de Liege) Computational Linguistics from 500 BC to AD 1700 Catherine N. Ball (Georgetown University) Automated Text Analysis: Cautionary Tales Jean-Jacques Hamm, Greg Lessard (Queen's University) Do Literary Studies Really Need Computers? John Burrows (University of Newcastle, Australia) Noisy Signals? Or Signals in the Noise? Hans van Halteren (University of Nijmegen) The Usefulness of Function and Attribute Information in Syntactic Annotation R. Harald Baayen (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics) Quantitative Aspects of Lexical Conceptual Structure Elizabeth S.Adams (Hood College) Let the Trigrams Fall Where They May: Trigram Type and Tokens in the Brown Corpus Greg Lessard, Michael Levison (Queen's University) Computational Models of Riddling Strategies Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University), Steven Gilles, Gert Durieux (University of Antwerp) Learning Linguistic Mappings: An Instance-Based Learning Approach Michael J. Almeida, Eugenie P. Almeida (University of Northern Iowa) NewsAnalyzer - An Automated Assistant for the Analysis of Newspaper Discourse Kazys Baniulis, Bronius Tamulynas, Kestutis Pocius, Saulius Simniskis, Daiva Dmuchovska, Jolanta Normantiene (Kaunas University of Technology) Computer-Based Lithuanian Language Learning System in Humanities Programs Eve Wilson (University of Kent at Canterbury) Language of Learner and Computer: Modes of Interaction Floyd D. Barrows, Elaine Cherney, James B. Obielodan (Michigan State University) An Experimental Computer-Assisted Instructional Unit on Ancient Hebrew History and Society Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ting-Chuan Chung (National Taiwan University) Proper Treatments of Ellipsis Problems in an English-Chinese Machine Translation System Jorge Hankamer (University of California, Santa Cruz) keCitexts: Text-based Analysis of Morphology and Syntax in an Agglutinating Language Juha Heikkila, Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki) ENGCG: An Efficient and Accurate Parser for English Texts Wen-Chiu Tu (University of Illinois) Sound Correspondences in Dialect Subgrouping Ellen Johnson, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. (University of Georgia) Using Linguistic Atlas Databases for Phonetic Analysis Shoichiro Hara, Hisashi Yasunaga (National Institute of Japanese Literature) On the Full-Text Database of Japanese Classical Literature Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto) A Textbase of Early Modern English Dictionaries, 1499-1659 Dionysis Goutsos, Ourania Hatzidaki, Philip King (University of Birmingham) Towards a Corpus of Spoken Modern Greek Yannis Haralambous (Lille, France) ScholarTeX Kathryn Burroughs Taylor (McLean, Virginia) Transferring Automatic Speech Recognizer (ASR) Performance Improvement Technology to Optical Character Recognition David J. Hutches (University of California, San Diego) Lexical Classification: Examining a New Tool for the Statistical Processing of Plain Text Corpora Espen S. Ore, Anne Haavaldsen (Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities) Computerizing the Runic Inscriptions at the Historic Museum in Bergen Daan van Reenen (Free University, Amsterdam) Early Islamic Traditions, History and Information Science Angela Gilham (Tyne and Wear, UK) Knowledge-Based Simulation: Applications in History Malcolm B. Brown (Dartmouth College) Navigating the Waters: Building an Academic Information System Charles Henry (Vassar College) The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Global Library, and the Humanities Christian-Emil Ore The Norwegian Information System for the Humanities Michael Strangelove (University of Ottawa) The State and Potential of Networked Resources for Religious Studies: An Overview of Documented Resources and the Process of Creating a Discipline-Specific Networked Archive of Bibliographic Information and Research/Pedagogical Material Andrew D. Scrimgeour (Regis University) Cocitation Study of Religious Journals Accepted Panels: Documenting Electronic Texts Annelies Hoogcarspel (Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities), Chair TEI Header, Text Documentation, and Bibliographic Control of Electronic Texts Richard Giordano (Manchester University) Panelist TBA Preserving the Human Electronic Record: Responsibilities, Problems, Solutions Peter Graham (Rutgers University), Chair Barry Neavill (University of Alabama) W. Scott Stornetta (Bellcore) Networked Electronic Resources: New Opportunities for Humanities Scholars Christine Mullings (University of Bath), Chair HUMBUL: A Successful Experiment Richard Gartner (Bodleian Library) Moves Towards the Electronic Bodleian: Introducing Digital Imaging into the Bodleian Library, Oxford Jonathan Moffett (Ashmolean Museum) Making Resource Databases Accessible to the Humanities Developing and Managing Electronic Texts Centers Mark Day (Indiana University), Chair and Participant Anita Lowry (University of Iowa) John-Price Wilkin (University of Virginia) Design Principles for Electronic Textual Resources: Integrating the Uses, Users and Developers Susan Hockey (Center for Electronic Text in the Humanities), Chair Nicholas Belkin (Rutgers University) Elaine Brennan (Brown University) Robin Cover (Dallas, TX) What Next After the TEI? Call for a Text Software Initiative Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Chair Malcolm Brown (Dartmouth College) Mark Olsen (University of Chicago) Jean Veronis (CNRS, Marseille) Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica, Pisa) Representative of GNU Free Software Foundation Issues in Humanities Computing Support Charles D. Bush (Brigham Young University), Chair Peter Lafford (Arizona State University) Terry Butler (University of Alberta) Donald Spaeth (University of Glasgow) Malcolm Brown (Dartmouth College) The Scholar's Workbench and the "Edition:" Legitimate Aspiration or Chimera Frank Colson (University of Southampton) The Debate on Multi-Media Standards Manfred Thaller (Max-Planck-Instit t f r Geschichte) Exploiting Datasets Using Kleio under Microcosm Dino Buzzetti (University of Bologna) Masters and Books in Fourteenth Century Bologna Frank Colson, Wendy Hall (University of Southampton) Towards a Multi-Media Edition Interrogating the Text: Hypertext in English Literature Caroline Davis (Oxford University), Chair Patrick W. Conner, Rudolph P. Almasy (West Virginia University) Corpus Exegesis in the Literature Classroom: The Sonnet Workstation Mike Best (Victoria University) Of Hype and Hypertext: In Search of Structure Stuart Lee (Oxford Univ.) Hypermedia in the Trenches: First World War Poetry in Hypercard -- Observations on Evaluation, Design, and Copyright The Computerization of the Manuscript Tradition of Chr tien de Troyes's "Le Chevalier de la Charrette" Joel Goldfield (Plymouth State College), Chair and Reporter Karl D. Uitti (Princeton University) Old French Manuscripts, the Modern Book, and the Image Gina L. Greco (Portland State University) The Electronic Diplomatic Transcription of Chr tien de Troyes's "Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot):" Its Forms and Uses Toby Paff (Princeton University) The 'Charrette" Database: Technical Issues and Experimental Resolutions The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen), Chair Claus Huitfeldt, Ole Letnes (University of Bergen) Encoding Wittgenstein Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen) Manuscript Encoding: Alphatexts and Betatexts Alois Pichler (University of Bergen) What Is Transcription, Really? Signs, Symbols, and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided Literary Studies -- New Responses Paul A. Fortier (University of Manitoba), Chair Mark Olsen (University of Chicago) Signs, Symbols, and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided Literary Studies Donald Bruce (University of Alberta) Towards the Implementation of Text and Discourse Theory in Computer-Aided Analysis Paul Fortier (University of Manitoba) Babies, Bathwater, and the Study of Literature Joel D. Goldfield (Plymouth State College) An Argument for Single-Author and Other Focused Studies Using Quantitative Criticism: A Collegial Response to Mark Olsen Gina L. Greco and Peter Shoemaker (Princeton University) Computer-Aided Literary Studies: Addressing the Particularities of Medieval Texts Ellen Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University) Have It Your Way and Mine: The Theory of Styles Invited SIGIR Panel on Information Retrieval Edward Fox (Virginia Technical University), Chair and Presenter Electronic Dissertation Project Elizabeth D. Liddy (Syracuse University) Use of Extractable Semantics from a Machine Readable Dictionary for Information Tasks Robert P. Futrelle (Northeastern University) Representing, Searching, Annotating, and Classifying Scientific and Complex Orthographic Text The British National Corpus: Problems in Producing a Large Text Corpus Gavin Burnage (Oxford University Computing Service), Chair Roger Garside (Lancaster University) Ray Woodall (Oxford University Press) The Academical Village: Electronic Texts and the University of Virginia John Price-Wilkin (University of Virginia), Chair Kendon Stubbs (University of Virginia) David Seaman (University of Virginia) David Gants (University of Virginia) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 11:15:01 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Carol Roberts Subject: Hope springs eternal ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Many thanks to all of you who sent info/advice about indexing software for the MacAlbatross. I agree with the general sentiment that if you're going to make indexing your life's work, you should be prepared to make an investment. But I feel duty-bound to add, for the benefit of "youngsters" like me, that early on in our careers, it may be (a) impossible to make what-at-the-moment-feels-like large investments (we're not being tightwads; we're just poor) or (b) imprudent to do so (it may take months of part-time indexing to determine whether we like indexing enough to commit ourselves and thereby justify the expense (c'mon, you remember what it was like!). The upshot of that is that many indexers may have to make do, for a while, with the system they presently own. I am still thoughtprocessing the info I've received. As I follow up on some of these leads, I'll post anything newsworthy. -- Carol Roberts Publications Services Cornell University cjr2@cornell.edu 607 255-9454 Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 09:52:45 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Jessica Milstead <76440.2356@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Indexing research needs ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- What burning issues do you wish indexing researchers would study? Indexing is an art, not a science -- but would you like there to be empirical rather than impressionistic (or folkloristic) justification for many of our conventional practices? I'm working on a paper for a Perspectives issues of the Journal of ASIS, on the needs for research in indexing, and I'd like to hear any ideas on this issue. I have in mind topics such as cognitive processes (how do we decide what a document is "about"?), vocabulary control (needed? how much?), and layout/display (arrangement, useful data elements, organization of data). Any thoughts are welcome, and contributions will be acknowledged. If I get feedback via index-l, I will post a summary of responses. Jessica Milstead ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 09:53:38 ECT Reply-To: ab190@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "Richard W. Woodley" Subject: PARLIAMENTARY INDEXERS JOIN LIST ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- As a newcomer to the list I would like to introduce myself/ourselves. As an indexer with the Canadian House of Commons I have joined the list on my own behalf but also as a means of bringing the contributions to the list to those in our branch who do not have direct access to it. We recently became aware of Index-L through information in the IASC Bulletin (Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada) and recently gained access through the National Capital Freenet. Unlike most of the participants in Index-L we do not have Internet access at work - although we plan to install a PC with a modem in our office which will allow us to access the list through the Freenet. I have found many of the discussions quite interesting. The debates about the application of standardized cataloguing type headings to indexing is quite relevant to our work. We deal with political debate as well as the questioning of expert witnesses and public interest groups before Parliamentary committees. Unlike scientific journals, where everyone within a discipline may use standard (controlled) language, Members of Parliament use varying terms to discuss similar ideas and we have to deal with this and create relevant subject headings to deal with it. Indeed over time we often find our headings becoming obsoleted, for example, all of a sudden realizing we are using "Native people" while the relevant common usage has become "Aboriginal peoples". While librarians may automatically think of standard terminology when searching for references to a concept or idea our clients (Members of Parliament and their staffs) are in the day to day political frontline, so to speak, and automatically think in terms of the terminology of the day, so we have to reflect that. Mary S Stephenson asked "Has anyone had any experience with database or indexing software used to produce a "Hansard's" for parliamentary/ legislative debates?" Although I am not quite sure what she is looking for my inclination is to say that as far as we know there is no such thing. We use a completely indexer- controlled intellectual analysis system for creating our indexes using a computer system for input and publication purposes only. Although we also have search capabilities which we have recently upgraded adding the ability to search for and extract relevant index entries from many indexes in one search and produce specific index documents on request. Dave Strickler raised the issue of Telecommute Indexing. Interestingly enough we are in the process of drawing up guidelines for a telework pilot project which many of us are hopeful will begin this fall. Discussions on "standards" are also something we will be watching with interest. As far as filing order is concerned we let the computer system determine the filing order that we use. The exchanges on indexing software is quite timely as one of my colleagues is currently looking for indexing software for a IBM 386 system and would welcome any recommendations. Well, I guess this is enough of an introduction for now. We look forward to participating further in Index-L. -- ********* Richard W. Woodley (ab190@freenet.carleton.ca) ********** * Indexer-Analyst, House of Commons Index & Reference Service * * Secretary, Bridlewood Residents Hydro Line Committee * ************* "Communicate Globally - Act Locally" **************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 17:03:17 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Jessica Milstead <76440.2356@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Indexing research needs ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Please forgive my lack of knowledge about the format of messages that go from Compuserve over the Internet. I wasn't trying to be anonymous with my query about indexing research needs, just took it for granted my name would appear on the From: line. Sorry it didn't. Jessica Milstead ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 09:10:34 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Jean Dartnall Subject: Filemaker for Mac In-Reply-To: <199304081407.AA07858@jculib.jcu.edu.au> ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The Filemaker program I use on my Mac is version 4, dated 1988. It is marketed by Nashoba Systems. It's just a simple database system and I use a 'record' for each entry as I create them instead of a card or paper slip.There is then relatively little rekeying to do at the editing stages and alphabetisation is automatic. Jean =========================================================================