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(A letter from Nancy Ide, President of the ACH)
Don Walker, Director of Language and Knowledge Resources Research at Bellcore, Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and Secretary-Treasurer of IJCAI, passed away on November 26, 1993 following several years' battle with cancer.
Don may have been best known to members of ACH because of his instrumental role in establishing and promoting the Text Encoding Initiative. However, he was also a vocal and active supporter of humanities computing throughout his career.
His notable attribute, and the one which will be most missed, was his ability to see the long range and global picture for the future of all research involving the study of language and texts by computer. For this reason, he understood the importance of many humanities computing activities which many of those in his primary field of computational linguistics ignored, and worked hard to establish links between the two communities.
In 1987, Don heard about a meeting in Poughkeepsie, New York, funded by NEH, which was intended to explore the idea of developing an encoding standard for machine readable texts.
Those invited were mainly various researchers in the field of humanities computing and electronic text archive directors. Don recognized the importance of such an activity for his field, and called me up and invited himself to the meeting, at his own expense.
At this meeting, Don was instrumental in co-establishing the Text Encoding Initiative, and in setting up co-sponsorship from three major organizations, ACH, ALLC, and ACL.
Support from the computational linguistics community has had enormous importance for the scope and impact of the TEI Guidelines.
In the first years of the TEI, Don at times struggled within his own community to make clear the importance of the TEI for computational linguistics research, which is only now becoming obvious due to the recent trend in that field toward the use of large corpora. Nonetheless, he continued to use his position as the eminent spokesperson for computational linguistics research in both North America and Europe to promote the TEI, oftentimes in places where humanists would not likely be heard.
His belief in and dedication to the TEI were driving forces in its development and success, and for this reason the TEI Guidelines, to appear in early 1994, will be very appropriately dedicated to his memory.
Don was also instrumental in promoting awareness within the computational linguistics community of activities which, although originally part of that field, had become identified with humanities computing over the past 30 years and were often forgotten or ignored by computational linguists. He worked very hard in the 1980's to foster the field of computational lexicography, which is now seen as an integral part of computational linguistics research.
In the late 80's and early 90's, when statistics-based methods began to take hold in the field of computational linguistics, he promoted awareness of the thirty years of work in this area in humanities computing research.
In 1991, he arranged for a special session at the ACH/ALLC conference in Tempe, Arizona, to acquaint humanists with statistics use in computational linguistics research, and in 1993, Don and I co-edited a special issue of _Computers and the Humanities_ on the topic of Common Methodologies in Humanities Computing and Computational Linguistics.
As a final note, I should add that Don became a close personal friend to me over the past seven years of our acquaintance, and I feel very deeply the loss of him as both a colleague and a friend.
Members of the humanities computing community who knew him less well, or did not know him at all, may not be aware of the importance and impact of his persistent and indefatiguable efforts to push forward the field of research involving the study of language and text with computers, and therefore are perhaps not aware of the loss they suffer as well.
However, Don's memory is clearly with us and will remain, because our field would not be what it is, nor would it become what it will become, without his efforts.
(Here are highlights from the newsletter, available in both print and electronic versions.)
by Annelies Hoogcarspel
For all of you who are not on the mailing list of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities yet, Vol. 1, No. 2 of the CETH Newsletter was published a couple of weeks ago in print form.
If you did not receive a copy but would like to have one, send us a message with your full postal address, at:
ceth@zodiac.bitnet or ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu
and we will mail one out to you immediately.
The newsletter is now also available in electronic form. I will provide instructions on how to get access separately.
The editorial appended below describes highlights from the newsletter.
CETH Newsletter
Volume 1, Number 2
We are very pleased to announce that in the recent round of funding for the Reference Materials Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded CETH a grant of $300,000 in outright funds over three years from July 1, 1993.
In addition, NEH has offered a larger amount in matching funds, for which we are now actively seeking support.
This grant enables CETH to embark on the first phase of our planned development to establish a consortium of member institutions which will work together to provide a framework for advancing scholarship in the humanities by the use of high quality electronic texts.
The new grant ensures support for the Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities which Annelies Hoogcarspel described in the first issue of the CETH Newsletter.
In addition it is enabling us to begin work on establishing Internet access to focused collections of scholarly texts. We are now seeking a Text Manager to develop this aspect of our work and plan to recruit somebody with skills in SGML and UNIX as well as a good knowledge of humanities computing.
In this issue, Tamara O'Callaghan, a graduate student at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, reports on the second CETH Summer Seminar on Methods and Tools for Electronic Texts in the Humanities which was held at Princeton in August 1993.
The seminar was co-sponsored by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto.
We are now making plans for a third seminar in summer 1994. Details will be announced first on CETH's electronic discussion list:
ceth@pucc
We also highlight a new ACRL Discussion Group on Electronic Text Centers which Marianne Gaunt and Annelies Hoogcarspel have initiated.
The group held its first meeting at the ALA conference in New Orleans in June and has established its own electronic discussion group:
etextctr@rutvm1
Another article discusses the need for markup and gives an overview of the Text Encoding Initiative's implementation of SGML, concentrating on its value for scholarly texts in the humanities, as well as giving an outline of the structure of a TEI text.
Lisa Horowitz reports on her field experience at CETH which was part of her course as an MLS candidate at the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers.
We also include reports on conferences in which CETH has participated, and a brief overview of some introductory reading.
CETH and the Rutgers Inventory for Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities have received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New Jersey Committee for the Humanities and the Booth Ferris Foundation. Further substantial funding is being sought.
For further information, please communicate with:
Annelies Hoogcarspel Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Phone: 908 / 932-1384 Fax: 908 / 932-1386 hoogcarspel@zodiac.bitnet hoogcarspel@zodiac.rutgers.edu
Thursday 14th and Friday 15th 09.00-17.00 Ecole normale superieure de Fontenay Saint-Cloud SALEM (Andre) and TOURNIER (Maurice), Seminaire "Statistique textuelle" or DELCOURT (Christian), Tutorial "Use and misuse of statistics in literary and linguistic studies" Monday 18th 16.00-18.00 Room "Descartes" ACH Committee Meeting 18.00-20.00 Room "Descartes" ALLC Committee Meeting Tuesday 19th 10.15-11.00 Room "Richelieu" SALEM (Andre), POUSSOU (Jean-Pierre), GRUNIG (Blanche- Noelle), MARTIN (Robert), HOCKEY (Susan), IDE (Nancy) and TOURNIER (Maurice), Welcome speeches Coffee break 11.00-12.30 Room "Descartes" Epistemology, chair: . . . GANTS (David L.), Toward a rationale of electronic textual criticism LIEBERT (Wolf-Andreas), Metaphora ex machina: how to use the creative potential of the humanities for the "hard sciences" MEISTER (Jan Christoph), Against the quest for "zero meaning," Theory and practice of a computer based analysis of "action"-structures in literary texts 11.00-12.30 Room "Guizot" Databases, chair: . . . SIMONS (Gary F.), Conceptual modeling versus visual modeling: a technological key to building consensus STORRER (Angelika) and HAUSER (Ralf), Automatic recognition of textual structures of dictionaries ZARRI (Gian Piero), Automatic representation of the semantic content of complex legal texts 11.00-12.30 Room "Richelieu" omputational linguistics, chair: Christian Delcourt BOUCHAFFRA (Djamel), LALLICH-BOIDIN (Genevieve) et ROUAULT (Jacques), Des mots et des nombres HABERT (Benoit), Hierarchie sur les regles syntactiques et semantiques pour l'analyse des textes MOLIA (Andre), Une approche computationnelle de la coordination de categories differentes en fran'cais Lunch 14.00-15.30 Room "Descartes" Greek, chair: . . . GRIGAR (Dene) and CORWIN (Mindi), The Loom and the Weaver: Hypertext and Homer's Odyssey? SCALTSAS (Theodore), Project Archelogos VAGELATOS (Aristidis) et al., An Analysis of the Literary Style of Poet A. Sikelianos: A Computer Based Approach 14.00-15.30 Room "Guizot" Humanities computing, chair: Michael Neuman KOCH (Christian), Redirecting Humanities Computing: Emphasizing Technique in Support of Point of View SEAMAN (David M.), From Margin to Mainstream, Creating a Broad-Based Humanities Computing User Community at the University of Virginia SHORT (Harold), Resources and structures to support Humanities Computing 14.00-15.30 Room "Richelieu" Textual studies, chair: Benoit Habert BEHAR (Henri), Traitement electronique des donnees en histoire de la litterature fran'caise, bilan premier GICQUEL (Bernard), Stylistique litteraire assistee par ordinateur POSWICK (Reginald-Ferdinand), Recherche sur texte(s): l'art reste difficile! Coffee break 16.00-18.00 Room "Descartes" pertext, chair: Elli Mylonas BERNSTEIN (Mark), On Writing Hypertexts: Tools for Information Farming MARSHALL (Catherine), Aquanet and VIKI MYLONAS (Elli), Directions in Hypertext Research: Four systems. An Introduction NANARD (Marc) (presumably), Knowledege-Based Hypertext STREITZ (Norbet A.), Computer Support for Authoring with a Cooperative Hypermedia System 16.00-17.30 Room "Descartes" TACT, chair: Edward Heinemann JACQUET-PFAU (Christine), TACT applique a un corpus de poemes, Alcools de Guillaume Appolinaire WOOLRIDGE (T. Russon), Acquisition de la langue assistee par TACT HEINEMANN (Edward A.), Vers un corpus electronique de chansons de geste indexees sous TACT 18.00-19.00 Room "Richelieu" ACH Annual Meeting Wednesday 20th 09.00-10.30 Room "Descartes" Linguistics and the computer, chair: Gordon Dixon COPPEN (Bas) and VAN BAKEL, The Computerization of Linguistics GREEN (Georgia) and LAKE (J. Michael), Grammar Development Environments in Teaching and Research MORENO-TORRES (Ignacio), Computer Assisted Learning of Computational Linguistics 09.00-10.30 Room "Guizot" English literature, chair: . . . DAWSON (John L.), The Ring of "The Lord of the Rings": A Dimensional Analysis of Narrative and Dialogue ROBINSON (Peter M. W.), The Canterbury Tales Project ROMMEL (Thomas), Temporal and Topographical references in Robinson Crusoe 09.00-10.30 Room "Richelieu" Lexicometry and politics, chair: . . . BOURQUE (Gilles) et DUCHASTEL (Jules), Pour une analyse du discours politique assistee par ordinateur GUILHAUMOU (Jacques), L'analyse de discours et la lexicometrie. Le "Pere Duchesne" et le mouvement cordelier (1793-1794) ROMEU (Lydia), L'approche statistique d'une serie textuelle chronologique : les discours du General Franco Coffee break 11.00-12.45 Room "Descartes" Corpora, chair: . . . KALLGREN (Gunnel), ERIKSSON (Gunnar) and HOGLUND (Magnus), Introducing the SUC: A large Balanced Corpus, Linguistically Analyzed and Marked-up in Accordance with Recommendations Issued by the Text Encoding Initiative THOMPSON (P. M.) and PEI-CHUAN (Wei), The ULAS Corpus of Ancient Chinese Texts--Implications for the Study of the Language and the Texts of Chinese Antiquity BRODDA (Benny), Automatic Tagging of Turns in the London- Lund Corpus with respect to Type of Turn, and ERMAN (Britt), Computer analysis of female and male conversational strategies in same-sex and mixed-sex interaction in the London-Lund Corpus 11.00-12.30 Room "Guizot" History and the computer, chair: . . . CRAVEN (Paul) and HAY (Douglas), Spreading the word, the imperial dissemination of English employement law, 1562- 1950--a textual approach OLSEN (Mark), The Parisian Stage from 1789 to 1799, a Study of the Social, Economic and Political Contexts of Text ROCKWELL (Geoffrey) and BRADLEY (John), A Growing Fascination with Dialogue: Bibliographic Databases and the Recent History of Ideas 11.00-12.30 Room "Richelieu" Literary statistics, chair: . . . BEAUDOUIN (Valerie), Corneille et Racine BRUGIDOU (Mathieu), Distribution irreguliere des mots-themes LABBE (M. Dominique) and HUBERT (Pierre), La richesse du vocabulaire Lunch 14.00-15.30 Room "Descartes" Preservation, chair: Susan Hockey BOZZI (Andrea) and SAPUPPO (Antonio), Digital imaging and diachronical lexicography: a proposal for the old printed French Dictionaries Archive of the Bibliotheque de France CONNER (Patrick W.), Morphing anglo-saxon scripts STAPLES (Thornton), Using digital images of texts in humanities research 14.00-15.30 Room "Guizot" Non European languages, chair: . . . CANFIELD (Kip), Tagging navajo texts for linguistic research--A database capture methodology HAVILAND (John B.), Morphological profiles: extracting categories of Tzotzil verbal roots from textual and lexical corpora YEN (W. J. Ketty), Designing a Chinese Syntax Checker for Language Instruction 14.00-15.30 Room "Richelieu" Statistics and methodology, chair: . . . BENZECRI (Jean-Paul), Title (?) FOSSAT (Jean-Louis), AURREKOETXEA (Gotzon), RABASSA (Lidia), LANGARD (Michel), PEYTAVI (Marc), ZAFAR (Choeb) et HAMERLAIN (Mustapha), Elements de choroscopie geolinguistique: du calcul numerique a la modelisation des donnees linguistiques: traitement de donnees empiriques dans le cadre d'une theorie de la variabilite langagiere LEBART (Ludovic), Discrimination a partir de textes Coffee break 16.00-18.00 Room "Descartes" Hypertext and English literature, chair: Janet H. Murray DONALDSON (Peter S.), The Shakespeare Interactive Archive and the Future of Multimedia Interpretive Research FINNERAN (Richard J.) and FITZGERALD (Mary), Towards a Hypermedia Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats FRIEDLANDER (Larry), The Stage and Beyond: Theater as a Model for Multimedia Design MURRAY (Janet H.), Hamlet on the Holodeck or Towards an Aesthetics of Cyberspace 16.00-18.00 Room "Richelieu" Large projects, chair: Antonio Zampolli DENDIEN (Jacques), L'informatisation du dictionnaire T.L.F. MAIGNIEN (Yannick), ( texts and libraries) MARTIN (Eveline), Vers un systeme de reconnaissance de concepts dans un corpus textuel 18.00-19.00 Room "Richelieu" ALLC Annual Meeting Thursday 21st 09.00-10.30 Room "Descartes" Metrics, chair: . . . BARQUIST (Claudia) and SHIE (Duane), Phonological Patterning in Old English Prose and Verse HAYWARD (Malcolm), Analysis of a Large Corpus of Poetry by a Connectionist Model of Poetic Meter ROBEY (David), Computer analysis and the process of interpretation: the meter of Dante's Divine Comedy 09.00-10.30 Room "Guizot" CALL, chair: Victor Acker IRIZARRY (Estelle), Tampering with the text to teach awareness of poetry's art (Theory and Practice with a Hispanic Perspective) LESSARD (Greg), Prepositional usage in French 2 TSCHUMI (Corinne) et al., Developing an English writing tool and grammar checker for French-speakers 09.00-10.30 Room "Richelieu" Approaches, chair: . . . CHARPIN (Fran ois), TELA, un logiciel multi-media pour le traitement de la langue et de la civilisation latines NUNES (Geraldo), Propositions pour une methode d'analyse du discours entrepreneurial bresilien PANCKHURST (Rachel), Constitution d'une base lexicale verbale 11.00-13.00 Room "Descartes" Standardization, chair: . . . CALZOLARI (Nicoletta), Standardization in linguistic resources: EAGLES and its first result IDE (Nancy) and VERONIS (Jean), Let's not rebuild the encoding Tower of Babel MCCARTY (Willard) and WRIGHT (Burton), Modeling and method: encoding names in Ovid's Metamorphoses SPERBERG-McQUEEN (C. M.) and BURNARD (Lou), The Odd System of Tag Set Documentation 11.00-12.30 Room "Guizot" Text theory, chair: . . . BAAYEN (R. Harald), Derivational Productivity and Text Typology DELMONTE (Rodolfo) and PIANTA (Emanuele), Discourse structure and linguistic information JAPPY (Tony), Cohesion, Information and Verbal Transitions 11.00-12.30 Room "Richelieu" Corpus exploration, chair: . . . CABRE (Teresa) et YZAGUIRRE (Lluis de), Strategie pour la detection semi-automatique de neologismes de presse DEROUBAIX (Jean-Claude), De la scurit sociale l'inscurit. Le modle social belge dans le lexique des dclarations gouvernementales LOCHARD (ric-Olivier), Questions de mthodes autour d'un thesaurus informatis de configurations narratives Lunch Excursion to Versailles 14.00- Friday 22nd 09.00-10.30 Room "Descartes" Textual analysis, chair: . . . BRADLEY (John) and ROCKWELL (Geoffrey), What Scientific Visualization Can Teach Us about Text Analysis HEATHER (M.A.) and ROSSITER (B.N.), Category Theory--a mathematical breakthrough for the humanities HORTON (Thomas B.) Applying Advances in Software Engineering to the Domain of Text Analysis Software. 09.00-10.30 Room "Guizot" Speech and spelling, chair: ... BORELLO (Erico), Italian Text-to-Speech Synthesis: the Linguistic Processor GEORGIEV-GOOD (Hristo), SYNTPARSE and SYNTCHECK ROCHET (Bernard L.), Computer technology in the understanding and reduction of foreign accent: Toward more objectivity and a better consensus 09.00-10.30 Room "Richelieu" Models and methods, chair: . . . ACHARD (Pierre), La construction discursive du sens : un modele categorique LAHLOU (Saadi), Modelisation des representations sociales par l'analyse lexicale des enonces de dictionnaires : une nouvelle approche pour la psychologie sociale. SARRAZIN (Michele), Pour une utilisation raisonnee de l'informatique dans les sciences humaines Coffee break 11.00-12.30 Room "Descartes" Quantitative linguistics, chair: . . . BURR (Elisabeth), Occupational termes in Italian--A corpus based approach KELLE (Udo), KLUGE (Susann) and PREIN (Gerald), Computer- aided Methods for the Analysis of Verbal Data in Ethnography and Interpretative Sociology KRETZSCHMAR, Jr. (William A.) Linguistic Theory and Computer Modeling of Linguistic Survey Data 11.00-12.30 Room "Guizot" The psychological dimension, chair: . . . KIBBEE (Douglas A.), Male Language/Female Language and Translation: A Computer-Based Approach OPAS (Lisa Lena), A cross-linguistic study of stream-of- consciousness techniques POTTER (Rosanne), Creating and Searching a Reader Response Database on Modern Drama 11.00-12.30 Room "Richelieu" Lexical statistics, chair: Philippe Thoiron JUILLARD (Michel), Quels outils pour quelle linguistique ? LAFON (Pierre), Analyse statistique d'un corpus sociopolitique : quelles unites? Application a un corpus de Congres syndicaux CGT (1972 a 1992) MULLER (Pierre), Lexicometrie et structures de l'enonciation Lunch 14.00-15.30 Room "Descartes" Projects, chair: Glyn Holmes BEEKEN (Jeanne) and SPEELMAN (Dirk), Electronic writing: the CONST-Project HARTWICK (Laura), Qbic Visual Query KEELER (Mary) and KLOESEL (Christian), Testbeds and Tool Development in the Humanities 14.00-15.30 Room "Guizot" Stylometry, chair: Paul A. Fortier LAAN (Nancy M.) Stylometry reconsidered: some points of method MEALAND (David L.), Discriminating Paul SCHILS (Erik) and DE HAAN (Pieter), New experiments on authorship attribution 14.00-15.30 Room "Richelieu" Language and machine, chair: . . . LASKRI (M.T.), BOULAKRADECHE (M.) et KNIPPEL (J.M.), Analyse de premiere approche du langage naturel a base de connaissances pour la construction de thesaurus LOUBEJAC (Richard), Informatique, langues de specialites et aide a la traduction MOSCAROLA (Jean), Actes de langages: Statistique lexicale et protocole d'enquete Coffee break 16.00-18.00 Room "Guizot" Teaching computers and the humanities, chair: Willard McCarty GAUTHIER (Robert), Curriculum ex machina: DEUG, Licence, Matrise, DEA, post-DEA KOCH (Christian), Minor in Computing in the Liberal Arts ORLANDI (Tito), Corso di Perfezionamento Informatica per le Scienze Umanistiche SHORT (Harold), Humanities Computing Courses at King's College London MCCARTY (Willard), Graduate Courses in Humanities Computing 16.00-18.00 Room "Richelieu" Generated literature, chair: Michel Lenoble ANIS (J.), La generation de textes litteraires: cas particulier ou discipline a part? BALPE (J.-P.), Pourquoi ecrire avec un ordinateur? BERNARD (Michel), Lire l'hypertexte CLEMENT (Jean), L'hypertexte de fiction: Naissance d'un nouveau genre PAPP (Tibor), Formes poetiques visuelles et ordinateur 19.00- Senate House Banquet Saturday 23th 09.00-10.30 Room "Descartes" Hypermedia, chair: Mary-Louise Craven BIERMAN (James), Interactive interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet DEVITO (Ann F.), Linking Concepts within a Hypermedia Shell Designed for Literary Research SPAETH (Donald A.), In Search of Metaphor for Hypermedia: The Enriched Lecture 09.00-10.30 Room "Guizot" Applications, chair: . . . BASS (Randall), "Jesuit Plantation Project": Integrating Research and Pedagogy through an Electronic Archive Project in an American Studies Curriculum GURNEY (Penelope J.), Enhanced Content Analysis of Inflected Languages Through A System of Computer-Assisted Lemmatization OTT (Wilhelm), Strategies and tools for safer computing in the humanities 09.00-10.30 Room "Richelieu" Applications; chair: . . . CATACH (Nina) et CATACH (Laurent), Le projet GRAPHIST et la recherche en industries de la langue PETITJEAN (Luce), Modelisation d'une typologie MEUNIER (Jean Guy), Approches connexionnistes dans l'analyse de texte par ordinateur Coffee break 11.00-11.45 Room "Richelieu" QUEMADA (Bernard), Bilan 11.45-13.00 Room "Richelieu" SALEM (Andre), TOURNIER (Maurice), ZAMPOLLI (Antonio), IDE (Nancy) and DAHLIN (Eric), Concluding speeches.
(The National Initiative for Humanities and Arts Computing moves forward.)
by Charles Henry
At a critical meeting on January 17, the ad hoc steering committee of the National Initiative on Humanities and Arts Computing met to plan the next steps in gaining a voice for the humanities and arts in the development of the National Information Infrastructure, the much-publicized plan for a national telecommunications system.
The group agreed on a number of action items.
The Getty Art History Information Program, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the American Council of Learned Societies--the sponsors of the National Initiative--will convene two working groups to develop a profile of humanities and arts computing in the United States.
In the coming three months, these working groups will gather a nationwide array of experts in scholarly, instructional, and creative computing in order to draw a picture of the breadth and vitality of technology in the humanities and arts.
The Working Group on Technical Requirements will define the particular challenges that these fields pose for technology.
The Working Group on Electronic Resources will survey the range and variety of computer-based information and tools, available and in development for transmission on the electronic superhighways.
The findings of these working groups will be presented in June to a National Task Force, comprised of major organizations and institutions involved in humanities and arts computing in America.
The goal of this process is to reinstate the values and basis for community that the humanities and arts bring to the dialogue shaping public policy.
The sponsors recognize that this goal requires gaining the recognition and support of the Clinton-Gore administration if the special needs of this vital community are to be met.
Only a coordinated National Initiative can secure a future for the American people's cultural heritage in the digital environment, and guarantee the network as a medium of creativity and learning.
The Getty Art History Information Program will provide the seed money for these initial steps, with the expectation that other interested organizations will demonstrate their commitment to the National Initiative through significant contributions, according to their means.
At a meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information on November 19, 1993, this National Initiative was launched by a group of twenty-five concerned leaders in the movement to automate humanities and arts information.
At that time the group produced the following statement of purpose:
The absence of the humanities and arts in the development of a national information infrastructure ignores the value of the American people's cultural heritage, and the network as a medium of creativity and learning, in the crucial formation of technology policy.
The members of the Task Force on a National Initiative for Humanities and Arts Computing endorse the principle that humanities and arts voices are critical--indeed equal to the recognized interests of the sciences--in the balanced development of the nation's technological infrastructure.
Reinstating the humanities and arts in the dialogue shaping this public policy is of utmost urgency. We call for the reintroduction of the humanities and arts in the formation of such policy.
For further information about the National Initiative, please communicate with:
Charles Henry Director of Libraries Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 chhenry@vassar.edu
or
Susan Siegfried Getty Art History Information Program 401 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 1100 Santa Monica, CA 90401 ssiegfried@getty.edu
Randall Jones, Executive Secretary of the ACH, reports the election of the following officers and Executive Council members as a result of the recent ballot of the membership: President: Nancy Ide Vice President: Michael Neuman Executive Council: David Barnard, Charles Henry, John Price-Wilkin The Association extends its thanks to the following members of the Executive Council whose terms of office ended in December: Malcolm Brown Marianne Gaunt Michael Neuman The current members of the Executive Council and the ending years of their terms are: 1994 Joel Goldfield Estelle Irizarry Willard McCarty 1995 Christian Delcourt Mary Dee Harris Anita Lowry 1996 Eric Dahlin Elli Mylonas Mark Olsen 1997 David Barnard Charles Henry John Price-Wilkin Note: The Executive Council, during its meeting held at ACH/ALLC '93 at Georgetown University, selected Charles Bush to replace Joseph Rudman as treasurer of the ACH. The complete text of the minutes of the Executive Council meeting appeared in the Summer 1993 issue of the ACH Newsletter.
by Annelies Hoogcarspel
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Honorary committee
Jean-Pierre Poussou, president de l'Universite de Paris 4--
Sorbonne
Etienne Brunet, professeur a l'Universite de Nice
Blanche-Noelle Grunig, directrice adjointe, ENS Fontenay
Saint-Cloud
Georges Th. Guilbaud, directeur d'etudes EHESS, Paris
Jean-Louis Lebrave, directeur scientifique au CNRS
Robert Martin, professeur a l'Universite de Paris 4--
Sorbonne
Charles Muller, professeur emerite, Universite de Strasbourg
Bernard Quemada, directeur de recherches au CNRS
Programme committee
Christian Delcourt, Universite de Liege, president, ALLC
Elaine Brennan, ATLIS Consulting Group, ACH
Gordon Dixon, Manchester Metropolitan University, ALLC
Paul A. Fortier, University of Manitoba, ACH
Joel D. Goldfield, Plymouth State College, ACH
Susan Hockey, Rutgers and Princeton Universities, ALLC
Michael Neuman, Georgetown University, ACH
Andre Salem, ENS de Fontenay Saint-Cloud, ALLC
Antonio Zampolli, Universita degli Studi di Pisa, ALLC
Organization committee
Andre Salem and Maurice Tournier, Local organizers, CNRS/ENS
de Fontenay Saint-Cloud
Francoise Dougnac, Anne-Marie Hetzel, Camille Montaldo,
Pierre Muller, Gabriel Peries, Marie-France Piguet
Stage: Statistique Textuelle
Tutorial: Use and Misuse of Statistics in Literary and
Linguistic Studies
Deux stages sont prevus dans la semaine qui precede le
colloque.
Two tutorials will take place in the week preceding the
conference.
April 14 and 15, 1994, at Ecole normale superieure de
Lettres et Sciences humaines Saint-Cloud (near Paris)
Stage no/1 (en francais) Statistique textuelle
Initiation aux methodes de la Statistique textuelle et aux
traitements lexicometriques sur micro-ordinateur. Ateliers.
Tous publics. Par A. Salem & M. Tournier
Tutorial no/2 (in English) Use and Misuse of Statistics in
Literary and Linguistic Studies
For an audience of philologists and linguists with some
experience in quantification but no
mathematical training. By Chr. Delcourt (Univ. de Liege)
Registration fees
before after
February 1, 1994 February 1, 1994
ALLC/ACH members 580 FF, 100 US$ 700 FF, 120 US$
non members 870 FF, 150 US$ 990 FF, 170 US$
stage/tutorial 290 FF, 50 US$ 350 FF, 60 US$
at St.Cloud
Note: Registration fees for the conference and tutorials are
to be sent to the local organizers by cheque or bank
transfer. (credit cards are not accepted)
Accommodation
Hotel reservation, local excursion (Versailles) and dinner
(at the Senate-house) are to be paid by Visa card or bank
transfer to:
WAGONS-LITS TOURISME, Departement CONGRES
50 rue de Londres
75008 Paris
Phone: (33-1) 44.90.33.10
Fax: (33-1) 44.90.33.15
Approx rates (you will receive more information after
sending your fax number to the agency):
hotel category 1/2** FF 280/320 (US $52/60)
2** FF 435/460 (US $81/86)
3*** FF570/760 (US $106/141)
Youth hostel (no age limit) FF600 (US $111) 4 nights
Further Information:
CONSENSUS EX MACHINA?
ENS de Fontenay Saint-Cloud
Grille d'honneur du Parc
92211 Saint-Cloud Cedex
Phone: (33-1) 47.71.91.11 (ext. 337-339)
Fax: (33-1) 46.02.39.11
E-mail: salem@allch94.msh-paris.fr
Literary Texts in an Electronic Age: Scholarly Implications and Library Services. 31st Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Phone: 800 / 982-0914 or 217 / 333-2973. E-mail: dpc@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Seventh Annual Conference of the Association for History and Computing (UK Branch). University of Hull, U.K. Steve Baskerville, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, U.K. Phone: 0482-465684. E-mail: s.w.baskerville@amstuds.hull.ac.uk
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
KR '94. Fourth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Gustav Stresemann Institut, Bonn, Germany. Institute of Computer Science III, University of Bonn, Roemerstr. 164, D-53117 Bonn, Germany. Phone: +49-228-550-281, Fax: +49-228-550-382. E-mail: kr94@cs.uni-bonn.de, or, for an automatic announcement copy, kr94-info@cs.uni-bonn.de
32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A. Judith Klavans (ACL), Columbia University, Computer Science, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A. Phone: +1-914-478-1802, Fax: +1-914-478-1802. E-mail: acl@cs.columbia.edu
Second Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Kyoto International Community House (Tentative), Kyoto, Japan. Pierre Isabelle, WVLC2, CITI, 1575 Chomedey Blvd., Laval, Quebec, Canada H7V 2X2. E-mail: isabelle@citi.doc.ca
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
1994 Joint Conference of the 8th Asian Conference on Language, Information and Computation and the 2nd Pacific Asia Conference on Formal and Computational Linguistics. Shiran Kaikan, Kyoto, Japan. Akira Ishikawa, Dept. of English Language & Studies, Sophia University, 7 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102, Japan. Phone: 81-3-3238-3917, Fax: 81-3-3238-3910. E-mail: ishikawa@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp
LP'94, Item Order in (Natural) Languages. Institute of Linguistic and Finnougric Studies, and Institute of Phonetic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. LP'94, Institute of Linguistic and Finnougric Studies, Charles University, 2, Jan Palach Sq. 168 41, Prague 1, Czech Republic. E-mail: palek@ruk.cuni.cz, or palek@ff.cuni.cz
CATH '94. Courseware in Action, Computers and Teaching in the Humanities. Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland. Centre for Humanities Computing, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6N, U.K. Phone: 0865-273221, Fax: 0865-273221. E-mail: cath94@vax.ox.ac.uk
EW-ED'94. East-West Conference on Computer Technologies in Education. Simferopol State University, Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine. Site: Black Sea Coast, near Yalta. Svetlana Dikareva, Computer Center, Simferopol State University, Yaltinskaya, 4, Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine 333036. Phone: (0652) 23-23-82, Fax: (0652) 23-23-10. E-mail: cted94%ccssu.crimea.ua@ussr.eu.net Peter Brusilovsky, E-mail: plb@plb.icsti.su Valery Petrushin, E-mail: petr%itslab.kiev.ua@ussr.eu.net
QUALICO '94, Moscow Conference on Quantitative Linguistics, Moscow State University, Russia. Anatoliy A. Polikarpov, Department of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 117899, Russia. Phone: +7 095 939-31-78, Fax: +7 095 939-26-22. E-mail: comm-pub@comlab.vega.msk.su Reinhard Koehler, University of Trier, Department of Computational Linguistic, D-54286 Trier, Germany. Phone: +49 651 201-2270 (or 2271), Fax.: +49 651 201-3946. E-mail: koehler@ldv01.Uni-Trier.de
4th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing. Institut f r Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universit t Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany. Uwe Reyle, Institut f r Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universit t Stuttgart, Azenbergstr. 12, D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany. Phone: +49-711-1211361, Fax: +49-711-1211366. E-mail: reyle@ims.uni-stuttgart.de
ACH/ALLC '95, Joint Annual International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.
Nancy Ide President Dept. of Computer Science Box 252 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 ide@vassar.bitnet Michael Neuman Vice President Academic Computer Center 238 Reiss Science Building Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057 neuman@guvax.bitnet Randall Jones Executive Secretary Dept. of German Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 hrcjones@byuvm.bitnet jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu Charles Bush Treasurer Humanities Research Center 3060 JKHB Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 chuck_bush@byu.edu
David Barnard
Computing and Info. Science
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7I 3N6
barnard@qucis.queensu.ca
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
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
Charles Henry
Library
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
chhenry@vassar.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
anita-lowry@uiowa.edu
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
Mark Olsen
ARTFL
1050 E. 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
mark@gide.uchicago.edu
John Price-Wilkin
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
vpw@virginia.edu
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.bitnet
Eric Dahlin Editor, _ACH Newsletter_ Humanities Computing Facility University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106-3170 hcf1dahl@ucsbuxa.bitnet hcf1dahl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Glyn Holmes Editor, _CHUM_ Dept. of French The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7 gholmes@uwovax.uwo.ca Elaine Brennan Editor, HUMANIST Women Writers Project Box 1842 Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 elaine@brownvm.bitnet Allen Renear Editor, HUMANIST Box 1885/CIS Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 allen@brownvm.bitnet
The _ACH Newsletter_, the newsletter of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, is published four times a year by the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Editor: Eric Dahlin E-mail: HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.bitnet HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Phone: 805/893-2208 Address: Humanities Computing Facility 4421 South Hall University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106-3170 U.S.A.
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