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The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities announce "Consensus ex Machina," the joint international conference of the ALLC and the ACH, to be held April 19-23, 1994, in Paris.
The ALLC-ACH conferences are the major forum for literary, linguistic and humanities computing. A particular focus of the conference "Consensus ex Machina" will be the methodological impact of computer science and mathematics on the humanities.
Resorting to computer science and to mathematics is now often the most dramatic attempt to impart more objectivity (and consequently more consensus) to the humanities. What obstacles does such an undertaking meet? What successes can it claim? What failures must it admit to? Is there a way forward which will increase our knowledge and understanding of the humanities?
The conference will be held at La Sorbonne which stems from a college founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon and presently hosts the Universities of Paris IV (Arts and Humanities) as well as the famous Ecole des Chartes (History). Accommodation for participants will be available in the lively Latin Quarter through the conference travel agency.
The Latin Quarter and la Sorbonne can be very easily reached from Paris airports and stations thanks to the metro and the RER (regional express network).
Tuesday, 19th, morning: welcome Tuesday, 19th, afternoon: opening and sessions Wednesday, 20th: sessions Thursday, 21th, morning: sessions Thursday, 21th, afternoon: excursion (Versailles) Friday, 22th, morning and afternoon: sessions Friday, 22th, evening: banquet Saturday, 23th, morning: sessions
The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities invite submissions on computer-aided topics in literature, linguistics and the language-oriented aspects of the humanities disciplines such as history, archaeology and music: statistical methods for text analysis, text encoding, text corpora, computational lexicography, machine translation, etc.
The official languages of the conference will be English and French. However papers can also be presented in another EEC language provided that they bear on the corresponding linguistic or literary themes.
Proposals should describe substantial and original work. Those that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities (e.g., a study of the style of an author) should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources.
Abstracts of 1500 words should be submitted for presentations of 25 minutes. Abstracts of 2500 words should be submitted for lectures of 45 minutes (state of the art themes only).
Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to the deadline.
All submissions should begin with the following information:
Title: title of paper Author(s): names of author(s) Affiliation: of author(s) Contact address: full postal address E-mail: electronic mail address of main author (for contact), followed by other authors (if any) Fax number: of main author Phone number: of main author
These should be plain ASCII text files, not files formatted by a word processor, and should not contain tab characters or soft hyphens. Paragraphs should be separated by blank lines. Headings and subheadings should be on separate lines and be numbered. Notes, if needed at all, should take the form of endnotes rather than footnotes. References, up to six, should be given at the end.
Choose a simple markup scheme for accents and other characters that cannot be transmitted by electronic mail, and include an explanation ot the markup scheme after the title information.
Electronic submissions should be sent to:
ALLCACH@BLIULG11
with the subject line "Author's surname Submission for ALLC-ACH94."
Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins.
Six copies should be sent to the ALLC-ACH94 Programme Chair:
Christian Delcourt, BELTEXT-Liege, Universite de Liege, place Cockerill, 3, B-4000 Liege, Belgium.
October 15, 1993 (proposals of papers).
December 15, 1993 (notification of acceptance)
February 15, 1994 (advance registration)
A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in the series "Research in Humanities Computing" edited by Susan Hockey and Nancy Ide and published by Oxford University Press.
Another one will be published as a special issue of _T.A. Information_.
Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Programme Committee comprised of:
Please address your inquiries to the ALLC-ACH94 Local Organizers:
Andre Salem and Maurice Tournier CNRS-INaLF, Lexicometrie et textes politiques Ecole Normale Superieure avenue de la Grille d'Honneur F-92211 Saint-Cloud, France Phone: 00+33+1+47.71.91.11 Fax: 00+33+1+46.02.39.11
The International Committee on Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for COLING '94, the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, to be held August 5-9 , 1994, at the Miyako Hotel in Kyoto, Japan.
The general chair of the conference is Makoto Nagao (Kyoto University). The chair of the program committee is Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield). The other members of the program committee are Louise Guthrie (Las Cruces), Graeme Hirst (Toronto), Margaret King (Geneva), Judith Klavans (New York), Wendy Lehnert (Amherst), Candy Sidner (Cambridge), Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo), Henry Thompson (Edinburgh), Jun-ichi Tsujii (Manchester), and Michael Zock (Paris).
Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, syntax, parsing, semantics, generation, phonetics, language understanding, phonology, speech analysis/synthesis, morphology, computational lexicons, discourse, electronic dictionaries, pragmatics, terminology, quantitative/qualitative linguistics, text database and retrieval, mathematical linguistics, documentation, contrastive linguistics, machine translation, cognitive linguistics, machine aids for translation, large text corpora, natural language interface, text processing, dialogue systems, hardware/software for NLP, and multimedia systems.
Papers should be either topical papers (maximum six pages in final format) or project notes with demonstration (maximum four pages), preferably in English.
Both should describe original work. The project note should specify the computer platform that will be used.
They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the COLING conference cannot be presented at another conference.
Authors should submit four copies of preliminary versions of their papers with the page limits above, on A4 paper with the title, author(s), addresses (including e-mail if possible), affiliation across the page top, a short (five line) summary, the words "topical paper" or "project note", and a specification of the topic area preferably drawn from the list above.
Authors are also strongly urged to e-mail the title page information. Papers and e-mail should be sent to the program chair by January 6, 1994, at:
COLING 94 Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2UH, England E-mail: coling@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk
Preliminary papers are due by January 6, 1994. Selected authors will be notified of acceptance by March 15, 1994, and camera-ready copy for the final papers must be received at the address below by May 1, 1994.
For further information on the COLING '94 conference, please communicate with the general chair:
Makoto Nagao Dept. of Electrical Engineering Kyoto University Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan Phone: +81-75-753-5344 Fax: +81-75-751-1576 coling94@pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp
The Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies of Charles University, Prague, Czechia, has announced a conference on "The Use of Computers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics," to be held in Prague on November 18-21, 1993.
The conference will focus on such topics as word-processing in ancient Indo-European and Semitic languages, applications related to the processing and linguistic analysis of ancient texts, and various scientific research projects in the field of Indo-European and Semitic studies, as well as in the philology of ancient Near Eastern languages.
The conference will also include an informal session for brief presentations and discussions about other work in progress at various institutions, and the computing facilities available in each institution.
The organizers of the conference are Petr Vavrousek and Petr Zemanek.
For further information on the conference, please communicate with:
Ancient Near Eastern Studies Charles University Celetna 20 CZ-110 00 Praha 1 anes@ff.cuni.cz anes@ff.cuni.cs
The University of Manitoba announces an International Conference on Refereed Electronic Journals, "Towards a Consortium for Networked Publications," to be held on October 1-2, 1993, at the Delta Winnipeg Hotel, 288 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3C 0B8.
The conference is sponsored by the Medical Research Council, the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council, the Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the University of Manitoba.
The Internet is a major new medium for dissemination of research, and it is vital that the scholarly community become acquainted with the enormous potential of the Internet for scholarship. Commercial companies are already devoting attention to developing computer network publication projects. It is imperative that the scholarly community not leave this major medium to be developed solely by commercial interests.
The aims of the conference are: to make academic merit the sole consideration in the publication of journal-type research; to advance the idea that the academic community should have a hand in determining what gets published and how it is disseminated; to provide an outlet of research publication that is not subject to the severe economic constraints of traditional paper-journal publishing; to make collective use of the scholarly advantages of network publication (savings in production costs, speed-up in publication and dissemination process); and to provide an effective and low-cost means for universities to play a greater role as disseminators of research information, and not only as producers and consumers.
This historic two-day event is organized as a series of plenary working sessions that will include presentations from major resource people from a variety of fields. It will include an exhibit and demonstration of the latest in computer technology for long distance data transfer as it applies to electronic journals, with an emphasis on text, image and sound signal processing and compression. Registration is limited to 200 participants.
Fees: If paid by September 1, 1993: $150.00 (Cdn) If paid after September 1, 1993: $200.00 (Cdn) Dinner for Guests of participants: $30.00 (Cdn) An "ice-breaker" session will be held after our Pre- Registration on September 30. A banquet is also being planned for the evening of Friday, October 1. Costs for both events are included in the registration fee. Participants are responsible for all other meals. Requests for information or the completed Conference Registration Form together with payment should be sent to: Co-ordinator Institute for Humanities University of Manitoba Room 108 Isbister Building Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3T 2N2 Fax: (204) 275-5781 Phone: (204) 474-9599 E-mail: umih@ccu.umanitoba.ca
The Conference will be held in the Manitoba Room at the Delta Winnipeg Hotel conveniently located downtown. The facilities at the Delta include a fitness centre, a heated indoor pool, a sauna area, etc. Restaurants in all price ranges are within easy walking distance. We have arranged an attractive hotel rate of $65/night, which is the same for either single or double occupancy.Taxi service from the airport to the hotel is approximately $11. The City of Winnipeg Winnipeg is a city with a population of more than 600,000. In early October the weather is cool but pleasant, with the temperatures usually averaging 10d C (50 d F) during the day. Winnipeg is the home of the world famous Royal Winnipeg Ballet and has its own Symphony Orchestra. It also has an IMAX Theatre, an Art Gallery, a Planetarium, and a Theatre Centre. Other attractions include the Winnipeg Mint, Assiniboia Downs, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, a European- style casino,and many parks. By Air Canadian Airlines International has been selected as "the official airline" for our Conference. For those attending from points in Canada, Canadian is offering 15% off the full economy fare. Should you qualify for advanced purchase fares, Canadian is offering a 5% discount off published year-round excursion fares (within Canada only). Contact Canadian Airlines' Conventionair Office (1-800-665-5554) or your travel agent, and be sure to mention number 4369.
Thursday, September 30, 1993
18:00, Pre-Registration, 11th floor foyer,
Delta Winnipeg Hotel
Friday, October 1, 1993
9:00, Welcome
Arnold Naimark, President, University of Manitoba
9:15, Session 1: The Nature, Advantages and Disadvantages
of Electronic Journal Publication
Opening and Chair: Larry Hurtado,
Religion, University of Manitoba
Portrait of the Electronic Journals World
Ann Okerson, Association of Research Libraries
The Economics of Journal Publication
Speaker T.B.A.
10:40, Break
11:00, Session 2: Practical Implementations:
Editing and Production
Editing and Producing Surfaces: Flexible Designs for
Shifting Objectives
Jean-Claude Gudon, Comparative
Literature, University of Montreal
Investigations in Electronic Delivery of
Chemical Information
Lorrin R. Garson, American Chemical Society
Editing an Electronic Journal: One Foot in
the Past, One Hand in the Future
Edward J. Huth, American Association for
the Advancement of Science
12:30, Lunch
13:30, Session 3: Practical Implementations:
The Distribution of Electronic Journals
Current Trends in the Distribution of Networked-Based
Electronic Journals
Michael Strangelove, Religious Studies,
University of Ottawa
So we have this great electronic journal,
now what?
John Black, Chief Librarian, University of Guelph
A Model for Producing, Delivering and Consuming
Refereed Electronic Journals
Timothy D. Stephen and Teresa M. Harrison,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
14:50, Break
15:10, Session 4: Issues of Quality
Maintenance of Scholarly Quality in
Electronic Journals
Speaker T.B.A.
The Future Place of Electronic Media Publication in
the Evaluation of Faculty, Research and Scholarship
James Gardner, Vice-President (Academic) and
Provost, University of Manitoba
16:30, Question Period
18:00, Dinner
Saturday, October 2, 1993
8:00 am-4:00 pm
Exhibit: A demonstration of the latest in computer
technology for long distance data transfer as it applies to
electronic journals, with particular emphasis on text, image
and sound signal processing and compression.
9:00, Session 5: Legal Issues
Copyright Protection or Copyright Sharing:
Two Alternative Legal Models for Management of
and Access to Electronic Journals
Jennifer Bankier, Dalhousie Law School
Electronic Journals: Abolishing the
Legal Impediments
Denis S. Marshall, Faculty of Law,
Queen's University
Electronic Journals: Defining the Relationships
Robert Franson, Faculty of Law,
University of British Columbia
10:20, Break
10:40, Session 6: Changing Technology for
Information Access I
Adobe Acrobat--The Electronic Journal Catalyst?
Speaker T.B.A.
Video Processing for Multimedia
Speaker T.B.A.
Interactive Images for Electronic Journals
Speaker T.B.A.
12:00, Lunch
13:00, Session 7: Changing Technology for
Information Access II
The HyTime Document Language
Speaker T.B.A.
Speech Processing for Electronic Journals
Speaker T.B.A.
New Techniques for Text, Image and Sound Compression
Witold Kinsner, Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Manitoba
14:30, Question Period
15:10, Break
15:30, Session 8: Whither Hence?
Summary of Proceedings
Larry W. Hurtado, Religion,
University of Manitoba
17:00, Conference closes
Last Name, First Name Title, (Prof./Dr./Mr./Mrs./Ms.) Preferred Name for Name Badge Organization Address City Province/State Country Postal Code Business Telephone No. Residence Telephone No. E-mail/Fax No. Meals: Special Dietary Requirements (specify) (e.g., diabetic, vegetarian, etc.) Banquet Preference Choice of: Salmon [ ] Beef [ ] Other Requirements: (e.g., physical handicap, etc.) Please specify.Please make your cheque or money order payable to The University of Manitoba. Registrations must be accompanied by full payment of registration fees. All fees are payable in Canadian funds. For practical reasons, enrolment is limited to 200 participants.
Cancellation: Requests for a full refund must be received by September 15, 1993. No refunds will be made after this date.
G.S.T. Registration Number: R119260669.
by Roy Flannagan
The genius of the ACH/ALLC conference at Georgetown in late June was in the details: the administration had prepared two name tags (take note, Sorbonists!) in case those of us who are normally forgetful professors left the originals back in the motel or dormitory.
The conference, June 16-19, 1993, was so well organized that the two sets of lecture halls where the four concurrent sessions were held in two different buildings backed up to one another. If you had been listening to a session, say, on preservation of manuscripts in the Bodleian and needed to rush to another session on threatened humanities computing programs, all you had to do was climb one set of stairs (or take the elevator) and you would come out of the building face to face with where you needed to be.
This arrangement represents the architectural genius of Georgetown and the organizational genius of Michael Neuman. The University cafeteria just happened to be within easy walking distance of the conference site, there was grass to sit on when one was hot and tired, and so many fine and inexpensive ethnic restaurants dot M Street that a gourmand would take a month just to eat the alphabet from Alsatian through Ethiopian.
The level of sophistication in the use of computer equipment rises from year to year and thus the staff of each new year's conference must know more about how well each type of multimedia software works with which overhead projectors. The techies need to know exactly how the sound system will interfere with whatever computer system is being used by the speaker on the podium, and how far the lighting in the auditorium must be dimmed so that the audience will be able to see what's on the monitor without falling asleep in pitch darkness.
Mike Neuman was not too proud to be seen carrying monitors or CPUs from one session to the next, he was always near by in case one needed something or somebody, and his staff worked well with him, obeying without resentment.
Clifford Lynch was the lead-off speaker, discussing the future of computing in the humanities and concentrating on the key issues of copyright and inexpensive storage. Hugh Kenner delighted and amused a large after-dinner audience by discussing how the technologies of the twentieth century helped Ezra Pound to punctuate his poetry with slashes instead of commas (the slash on his Olivetti was where the comma used to be on his earlier typewriters). The transition from one medium to another has also affected how we see writers: we now can have simultaneous access to all seventeen or so manuscripts of Finnegan's Wake, and we can almost see how Joyce's mind was working.
John Burrows, in the winding up of the conference, discussed how the language of great authors may indeed be sex-linked and education-linked: Mary Shelley did "write like a man," and Samuel Richardson also violated the norm of masculine writing in order to write novels appealing to both sexes.
Chadwyck-Healey, producers of the Patrologia Latina on CD and the English Poetry CD collection, and Oxford University Press, producers of the OED on CD-ROM and the Oxford Electronic Text series gave two joint receptions.
Other companies to watch in the fast lanes of humanities computing might be Ibuki and Intelex, producers, respectively, of multimedia literary and philosophical texts on disk and CD.
It looks as if the University of Virginia is building the best electronic resource library at its Electronic Text Center, using Windows to design multimedia academical villages, and Malcolm Brown's Dartmouth Information System looks as easy to use as that at Brown. WordCruncher is staying alive because of the speed and usefulness of its text-analysis programs, and it is being used to retrieve texts of Feuerbach, modern spoken German, and Shakespeare.
The shareware TACT from the University of Toronto Center for Computing in the Humanities is also flourishing, with its own user-group, TACT-L.
Two other text-handling systems are Wilhelm Ott's TUSTEP from Tuebingen University, which uses SGML encoding, and Herbert Klein's TERESA, which is described as a hypertext authoring system combining textual and bibliographical information in a way roughly similar to that of the commercial product--ProCite.
The learning curve as usual was steep, even for subscribers to Humanist. The Text Encoding Initiative's long-awaited P3 guidelines are getting done and the negotiations over what should be in that cooperative document are being arrived at with very little rancor, if slowly.
Multimedia is hot, discussed in many different settings, from "automatic translating" of languages to the teaching of first-year students how to write their own multimedia programs. As storage becomes less and less expensive and three or four new, faster, and more flexible operating systems stand waiting at the door of Microsoft or Apple, discussion moved to the uses of multimedia.
Will every computer off the shelf in the near future be equipped so that one may read _Paradise Lost_ from a facsimile of the manuscript of Book I while listening to Haydn's "Creation," and watching, in another window, the frescoes of Adam and Eve by Raphael or Michelangelo?
Other phrases often heard in the conference were "artificial intelligence," "natural lanugage processing," and "scholar's workstation."
The toy technology of computers was often measured against their durability, their cost-effectiveness in crowded university labs, and the longevity of their manufacturers in the crowded market-place ("Is Apple in trouble, after we put in a new Mac lab?").
Meanwhile, budgets for centers serving the humanities scholars are shrinking as the national debt grows and as state budgeters in the U.S. and abroad demand to know how these machines make us productive enough to turn out more students and more books and articles on lower budgets. Some classroom instructors worried about how, after they had designed the great learning program, they would be fired as supernumaries, but others rejoyced in how the tool of multimedia might be used to get students interested in conducting research, writing historically accurate descriptions, or connecting things logically, chronologically, and spatially. Perfectable texts (simple: you pay your customers to find the errors) were also one center of the attention of the the conference, as were relatable texts, group-edited texts, hot-keyed texts, indexed texts, and massaged texts.
June 15, 1993 Georgetown University
Attending: Elaine Brennan, Malcolm Brown, Eric Dahlin, Christian Delcourt, Paul Fortier, Marianne Gaunt, Joel Goldfield, Glyn Holmes, Nancy Ide, Estelle Irizarry, Randall Jones, Anita Lowry, Michael Neuman, Joseph Rudman Guests: Susan Hockey (ALLC), Stan Nicholson (UCSB), John Roper (ALLC), Ron Tobin (UCSB)
1. Presentation by Ron Tobin and Eric Dahlin of the University of California at Santa Barbara re hosting the 1995 ACH/ALLC Conference. Detailed information about facilities etc. Discussion after the presentation centered around cost, facilities and support. The registration will be about the same as the Georgetown conference. There was some concern about the possibility of the registration cost going up. Also, Tobin mentioned "instructional computing" as a possible conference theme. There was concern expressed about this.
After the presentation and discussion members of the ACH EC voted in favor of letting UCSB proceed with the planning of the conference. ALLC must also approve the proposal.
2. President's report: Nancy Ide. Mentioned the session on software initiative Friday afternoon.
3. Treasurer's report: Joe Rudman. Increase in membership for 1993. (Handed out printed information on membership and finances.) We had a large obligation from UCLA, but we are now in the black. Glyn Holmes asked why the membership is down from 1989. The answer seemed to be that the Toronto Conference brought a big increase in membership, many of whom did not renew. Michael Neuman reported that 46 ACH memberships were paid as part of the Georgetown conference. The question of credit cards was raised. Joe said that at Carnegie-Mellon it is currently not possible.
The matter of membership was discussed. A membership subcommittee was appointed: Glyn Holmes, Joel Goldfield, Estelle Irizarry, Michael Neuman, and Christian Delcourt. Members were encouraged to take brochures with them to distribute to colleagues, at professional meetings, etc. It was suggested that an electronic copy of the brochure be made available on FTP.
4. Executive Secretary's report: Randy Jones. Followed up on the need to increase the membership in order to reach the "critical mass."
5. Newsletter Report: Eric Dahlin. Support continues from UCSB, thus the Newsletter will continue as in the past. The electronic version is also going well. Nancy encouraged EC members to submit information to Eric. Appreciation was extended to Eric for his good work.
6. CHum report: Glyn Holmes. The journal has been behind the past while, but it is almost back on track. The first volume this year will be on music. Nrs. 2 & 3 are general topics. Future issues will be on Mark Olsen's MLA topic and the TEI. Christian Delcourt has been appointed European editor. The software and technical reviews have been very well received.
7. HUMANIST Report: Elaine Brennan. Membership is hovering around 1700. Number of postings has declined in the past year. Elaine is concerned that HUMANIST is becoming stagnant. Some smaller groups have expressed an interest in using HUMANIST to disseminate their information to members. There have been quite a few new discussion groups that started on HUMANIST, then have spun off to become independent.
8. TEI Report: Nancy Ide. ACH was the founder and is still a major sponsor of the TEI. The current report is now about 1,500 pages. There have been many contributors. The final report will be available sometime in the fall and available to the public. The TEI intends to continue its work after the publication of the guidelines. Funding is still to be secured. NEH was a major funder, but will not be able to continue. The TEI has its roots in humanities computing and ACH must continue to be a major player. If anyone knows about funding sources or who might be interested in using their services, please contact Nancy.
9. MLA report: Paul Fortier. The "Mark Olsen" topic at the 1992 MLA was a great success. The response to the 1993 MLA session in Toronto was not as enthusiastic. There were just five responses, two of which were not suitable. There will therefore be just one ACH-sponsored session this year. Paul would like to be replaced as the organizer for ACH-sponsored sessions for the next two years.
Michael Neuman asked if that person has to be from the EC. Nancy mentioned that Joel Goldfield was one possibility. Elaine Brennan suggested that because Joel is also a member of the MLA Committee on Emerging Technologies--who also organized MLA sessions on technology--someone else should be involved. No appointment was made.
10. 1994 Paris conference: Christian Delcourt. Christian distributed a paper explaining the details of the conference. Nancy mentioned that there will have to be a discussion of the composition of the program meeting. We will try to have a special lunch meeting on Thursday to continue the discussion.
11. Chuck Henry. The background information had been sent to all EC members by e-mail. There has already been an interest expressed by the humanities computing community in the CNI. The Coalition does have funds to sponsor small conferences, and there seems to be a benefit in an exchange of ideas among ACH and others interested in the CNI. The suggestion was made to form an ACH subcommittee to work with CNI. Nancy Ide, Paul Fortier, Elaine Brennan, Malcolm Brown, and Michael Neuman were asked to serve on the committee.
12. The Don Ross item will be discussed later in the meeting.
13. The discussion of the revision of the ACH constitution will not be discussed today; rather Nancy Ide and Mary Lee Harris will work on it and be in communication with members of the EC through e-mail.
14. Marianne Gaunt, Christian Delcourt, Eric Dahlin, Mark Olsen, and Nancy Ide were appointed as members of the 1993 nomination committee. They will elect their own chair.
15. No Liaison members were present to report.
16. Joe Rudman has asked to be relieved of his duties as treasurer and membership secretary. Chuck Bush was suggested as a possible replacement. No other nominations were presented. Chuck was approved.
Joe has served well as ACH Treasurer for five years. An enthusiastic expression of appreciation was voiced.
17. On behalf of the MLA's Executive Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research, Joel Goldfield asked members to submit information about support of faculty members experiencing difficulties in receiving recognition for work done in the area of humanities computing in cases of tenure and promotion.
18. It was announced that Jim Joyce, a charter member of ACH had recently passed away.
It was also announced that Elli Mylonas gave birth to a baby on Friday morning.
19. An enthusiastic expression of appreciation was given to Michael Neuman for his excellent job in hosting the conference and to Marianne Gaunt for her excellent work in chairing the program committee.
20. It was moved and seconded and approved that the meeting would adjourn and reconvene Thursday, June 17, 1993 at noon at the apartment of Estelle Irizarry.
June 17, Continued.
21. Nancy Ide read the main points of the Don Ross proposal. ACH should become more involved in on-line data bases. What should their role be? ACH does not have the resources as an organization to become heavily involved. Information gathering is not the main issue.
Perhaps ACH could filter the information. There are many lists available, some are valuable to ACH members but many are not.
It is a lot of work to evaluate each one. Perhaps a better coordination of projects within ACH is desirable.
HUMANIST is often the first list for many members. Information about existing lists should be put in the Newsletter. We need to revive the liaison program and use them as resources.
SUMMARY: The Ross proposal as it presently exists is too ambitious. A committee consisting of Elaine Brennan, Malcolm Brown and Eric Dahlin was appointed and charged with the task of evaluating the Ross proposal and making recommendations by September 15, 1993. They will select their own chair.
22. The document for the program committee is still being revised. A four-person ACH committee must be appointed for the 1994 conference. Joel Goldfield, Michael Neuman, Elaine Brennan and one of the ACH officers were suggested. This is, however, still tentative.
The question of whether or not members of the program committee may submit proposals or serve on panels was left unresolved. This needs to be resolved as part of the final guidelines for future ACH/ALLC conferences.
23. Elaine Brennan offered to establish a private discussion group at Brown University for use by the ACH Executive Committee and ACH officers. The discussion group could be a means of resolving some of the association issues during the course of the year.
Adjourned at approximately 1:45 p.m. An expression of thanks was given to Estelle Irizarry for her gracious hospitality.
Randall Jones, Executive Secretary
The University of Cambridge Centre of Middle Eastern Studies has just announced ICEMCO '94, the 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Multilingual Computing (Arabic and Roman Script), to be held in London, April 7-9, 1994. Topics will include editing Arabic manuscripts using computers, multi-lingual data bases, multi-lingual maps, computer based lexicography and machine translation, teaching of languages by computer, notation of Oriental music on computers, archaeology and computing, and the computer industry in the Arab world.
For further information, please communicate with:
Ahmad Ubaydli Centre of Middle Eastern Studies University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA, U.K. Phone: +44 (223) 334749/335106 Fax: +44 (223) 335110 au100@phx.cam.ac.uk
The 2nd Southern African Conference on Multimedia and Hypermedia will be held at the Conference Centre of the University of Pretoria on March 23-25, 1994. This conference will interest a broad spectrum of professionals in the fields of information science, computer science, cognitive science and education, as well as many related application domains.
Proposals for papers, posters, or workshops are invited. Relevant topics include: new developments in hypermedia and multimedia technologies; paradigms for information access and design; hypermedia and multimedia for computer based education and training (CBE and CBT); electronic publication and technical documentation; theoretical issues and underlying technologies; and experimental or observational studies.
Abstracts of papers, posters and workshops are to be submitted by October 18, 1993. Abstracts should be in English, approximately 500 words in length, on disc (in ASCII format) or printed/typed single sided, and should be accompanied by a short biography of the author(s). The author's name, title, postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address should appear at the top of the first page.
Accepted authors will be notified by December 1, 1993. The program committee reserves the sole right of selection on offered papers, posters and workshops. Final papers, in camera ready format, are to be submitted by January 31, 1994.
The chair of the program committee is Theo Bothma of the University of Pretoria. For further information about the conference, please communicate with:
The Conference Secretariat Hypermedia '94 c/o Dept. of Information Science University of Pretoria P.O. Box 32342 0010 Glenstantia, South Africa Phone: +27 (0)12 998-9002 Fax: +27 (0)12 43-2185 E-mail: bothma@libarts.up.ac.za
King Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences, Morocco, is organizing the second international conference in "Arabic and Advanced Computer Technology" to be held in Casablanca, Morocco, December 6- 11, 1993.
The conference is designed to explore ways by which the Arabic language can benefit from state of the art computer technology and from the results of the latest research in the field of computational linguistics. The conference will not only serve to review the progress made to date, it will also contribute to the advancement of research in the field by facilitating the exchange of information between researchers and professionals.
The conference includes three main activities:
An exhibition, open to both the specialists and the general public, which will display various computational products and projects which make use of the Arabic language.
An advanced tutorial session which will deal with "Natural Language Processing." Lectures will be given by distinguished scholars from around the world.
A specialized two-day symposium focusing on the automatic processing of the Arabic language which will present the results of research on the application of computational techniques to problems specific to the Arabic language.
The official languages of the Casablanca conference are Arabic, English, and French.
For further information on the conference please communicate with:
King Abdul-Aziz Al-Saoud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Science P.O. Box 12585, Bd. de la Corniche Ain Diab, Casablanca, Morocco Phone: (212-2) 39-10-27 (212-2) 39-10-30 Fax: (212-2) 39-10-31
Words by Joel D. Goldfield
(with apologies to several French & Hollywood lyricists & musicians)
"Georgetown Isle" is sung to the tune of the "Gilligan's Island" theme song. The second poem coincidentally matches up with "It Happens to Be True, I Only Want to Be with You."
(c) 1993 Joel D. Goldfield
Just sit right back, and you'll hear a tale, A tale of such good sense, Three hundred attendees who came, To the A-C-H Conference, The A-L-L-C Conference. The local host had planned so well, His staff was brave and sure, Could their air conditioning stand, A five or more day tour, A five or more day tour? The program started getting rough, Several computers were tossed. If not for the efforts of the fearless staff, The listeners would be lost, The listeners would be lost. Luckily we're now at Georgetown U., And have had time to eat with, Nancy Ide and Susan, too, Marianne, Mike and more. We hope we'll be together next, For Paris in '94!
For some of you new to literary computing, you may have been awed by the riches of our offerings at the conference, an embarras du choix with its own specialized vocabulary and enthusiastic proponents. Here is an homage to your intrepidness in braving these new waters in your quest of transcendental knowledge aided by technology.
(c) 1993 Joel D. Goldfield
I don't know what it is that really made me go, I only know I love concurrent sessions so, Factor analysis and co-occurrence, And even t-tests and z-scores never made me wince, It's crazy, but it's true, I only can compute with you! Who knows where networking will take us any day, I only know that it's my favorite form of play, To telnet around from place to place, And where I find my info will depend on WAIS, And maybe Gopher, too, I really don't know what to do! You stopped and cared to explain, Why this work is far from insane, But please tell me, it's no disgrace, How to exit from hyperspace! Oh A-C-H, And A-L-L-C are the real future for me, I wanna use TACT, Hyperbase and Micro O-C-P, Who knows, with networking, what we can do, But will we find for research enough funding, too? It happens to be true, There's so much that we all can do. It happens, it happens to be true, There's so much that we all can do!
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1993 ==== Sep 12-14 --------- CALL '93. Conference on Reactive and Creative CALL. University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K. Organizer: Keith Cameron, Department of French, Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, U.K. Phone: (0392) 264222 / +44 392 264222, Fax: (0392) 264377. E-mail: cameron@exeter.ac.uk Conference correspondence: Daphne Morton, CALL '93 Conference, Department of French, Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, U.K. Sep 15-17 --------- EUROCALL. Emancipation Through Learning Technology. University of Hull, U.K. June Thompson, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, Phone: 0482 466373, Fax: 0482 465991. E-mail: eurocall@hull.ac.uk Sep 27-28 --------- Making Sense of Words. The 9th Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED and Text Research. Oxford, England. Frank Tompa, Centre for the New OED, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. Fax: 519 / 885-1208. E-mail: newoed@uwaterloo.ca Oct 1-2 ------- Conference on Electronic Journals. University of Manitoba, Winnepeg, Canada. Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba, 108 Isbister Bldg., Winnepeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada. Phone: 204 / 474-9599, Fax: 204 / 275-5781. E-mail: umih@ccu.umanitoba.ca Nov 3-6 ------- 1993 Conference of the Museum Computer Network. Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Diane Zorich, MCN '93 Program Chair, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138. Phone: 617 / 495-1969, Fax: 617 / 495-7535. E-mail: zorich@harvarda.harvard.edu Nov 14-18 --------- ACM Conference on Hypertext. Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Steven Poltrock, Boeing Computer Services, P.O. Box 24346, MS 7L-64, Seattle, WA 98124-0346. Phone: 206 / 865-3270. E-mail: ht93@atc.boeing.com Nov 18-21 --------- Conference on the Use of Computers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Charles University, Prague, Czechia. Petr Vavrousek and Petr Zemanek, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Charles University, Celetna 20, CZ-110 00 Praha 1. E-mail: anes@ff.cuni.cz or anes@ff.cuni.cs Dec 2-4 ------- Colloquium on Musical Informatics. Milan, Italy. Organized by the Italian Association of Musical Informatics. Comitato Organizzatore del X Colloquio di Informatica Musicale, c/o L.I.M.--Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Universita degli Studi di Milano, via Comelico, 35, I-20135 Milano, Italy. Phone: +39 2 55006.338 / .382 / .380 (answering machine), Fax: +39 2 55006.373. E-mail: maclim@hermes.mc.dsi.unimi.it Dec 6-11 -------- 2nd International Conference on Arabic and Advanced Computer Technology. Casablanca, Morocco. King Abdul-Aziz Al-Saoud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Science, P.O. Box 12585, Bd. de la Corniche, Ain Diab, Casablanca, Morocco. Phone: (212-2) 39-10-27 or (212-2) 39-10-30, Fax: (212-2) 39-10-31. 1994 ==== Mar 14-18 --------- CALICO '94 Annual Symposium. Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S.A. "Human Factors: Screen Design, Ergonomics, Aesthetics, Human-Computer Interface." CALICO, 014 Language Center, Duke University, Box 90267, Durham, NC 27708-0267. Phone: 919 / 681-6455, Fax: 919 / 681-6485. E-mail: calico@dukemvs.bitnet or calico@dukemvs.ac.duke.edu Mar 23-25 --------- 2nd Southern African Conference on Multimedia and Hypermedia. University of Pretoria, South Africa. The Conference Secretariat, Hypermedia '94, c/o Dept. of Information Science, University of Pretoria, P.O. Box 32342, 0010 Glenstantia, South Africa. Phone: +27 (0)12 998-9002, Fax: +27 (0)12 43-2185. E-mail: bothma@libarts.up.ac.za Apr 7-9 ------- ICEMCO '94, 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Multilingual Computing (Arabic and Roman Script). London, England. Ahmad Ubaydli, ICEMCO '94, Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, U.K., Phone: +44 (223) 334749/335106, Fax: +44 (223) 335110. E-mail: au100@phx.cam.ac.uk Apr 19-23 --------- ALLC/ACH '94. Joint Annual International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. La Sorbonne, Paris, France. Andre Salem and Maurice Tournier, CNRS-INaLF, Lexicometrie et textes politiques, Ecole Normale Superieure, avenue de la Grille d'Honneur, F-92211 Saint-Cloud, France. Phone: 00+33+1+47.71.91.11, Fax: 00+33+1+46.02.39.11 Jun 25-29 --------- ED-MEDIA '94, World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. Vancouver, Canada. ED-MEDIA '94/AACE, P.O. Box 2966, Charlottesville, VA 22902, U.S.A. Phone: 804 / 973-3987, Fax: 804 / 978-7449. E-mail: aace@virginia.edu Aug 5-9 ------- COLING '94, 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Miyako Hotel, Kyoto, Japan. Makoto Nagao, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan. Phone: +81-75-753-5344, Fax: +81-75-751-1576. E-mail: coling94@pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp Aug 14-18 --------- Fourth International Conference on Bible and Computers. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Werkgroep Informatica, Faculty of Theology, Vrije Universiteit. Gregory Bloomquist, E-mail: gbloomq@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
OFFICERS
Nancy Ide President Dept. of Computer Science Box 252 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 ide@vassar.bitnet Paul A. Fortier Vice President Dept. of Romance Language University of Manitoba Winnepeg, Manitoba Canada R3T 2N2 fortier@uofmcc.bitnet Randall Jones Executive Secretary Dept. of German Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 hrcjones@byuvm.bitnet jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu Joseph Rudman Treasurer Dept. of English Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 rudman@cmphys.bitnetACH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Malcolm B. Brown Academic Computing Dartmouth College Kiewit Computation Center Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 malcolm.brown@dartmouth.edu Eric Dahlin Humanities Computing Facility University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106-3170 hcf1dahl@ucsbuxa.bitnet hcf1dahl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Christian Delcourt Universite de Liege Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres Place Cockerill, 3 B-4000 Liege, Belgium u017101@bliulg11.bitnet Marianne Gaunt Alexander Library College Avenue New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 gaunt@zodiac.rutgers.edu Joel D. Goldfield Dept. of Foreign Languages Plymouth State College Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264-1600 jdg@coos.dartmouth.edu Mary Dee Harris Language Technology 2153 California St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008 mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu Glyn Holmes Dept. of French The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7 gholmes@uwovax.uwo.ca Estelle Irizarry Dept. of Spanish Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057 irizarry@guvax.bitnet Anita Lowry Information Arcade University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, Iowa 52242 Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities Robarts Library, 14th Floor University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 1A5 mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca Elli Mylonas 321 Harvard St., #310 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 elli@ikaros.harvard.edu Michael Neuman Academic Computer Center 238 Reiss Science Building Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057 neuman@guvax.bitnet Mark Olsen ARTFL 1050 E. 59th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 mark@gide.uchicago.eduLIAISONS
Nancy Frishberg Linguistic Society of America P.O. Box 282022 San Francisco, CA 94128-2022 Mary Dee Harris Association for Computational Linguistics Language Technology 2153 California St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008 mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu Carol Zuses Modern Language Association MLA 10 Astor Place New York, New York 10003 mlaod@cuvmb.bitnet mlaod@cuvmb.columbia.edu David Owen American Philosophical Association Dept. of Philosophy University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 owen@ccit.arizona.edu J. Penny Small American Philological Association 7 West 96th Street Apartment 9D New York, New York 10025-6539 jpsmall@cancer.bitnetEX OFFICIO MEMBERS
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