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NL-KR Digest Volume 12 No. 02
NL-KR Digest (Wed Jun 2 21:17:11 CDT 1993) Volume 12 No. 2
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Announcement: ACH-ALLC93 Conference - Last Call
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From: ACH-ALLC93 Conference <ACH_ALLC93@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Announcement: ACH-ALLC93 Conference - Last Call
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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1993 11:49:32 -0400 (EDT)
LAST CALL: 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. The current draft of the conference
program -- of interest to anyone who develops, provides, or analyzes
electronic text -- appears below.
Highlights of the conference include keynote addresses by Clifford Lynch and
Hugh Kenner; a report on the Text Encoding Initiative; special-interest-group
meetings on Teaching Humanities Computing, the Patrologia Latina Database,
and the Oxford Text Archive; a text-analysis workshop using TACT; a Software
Fair with dozens of presentations; and vendor displays from major commercial
producers of electronic texts and analytical software.
A registration form and other conference-related information can be obtained
in several ways: by anonymous ftp or gopher from the ach_allc93 directories
at guvax.georgetown.edu or from Paul Mangiafico, Project Assistant, by email
at ach_allc93@guvax.georgetown.edu; by surface mail at 238 Reiss Science
Building, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057; or by telephone 202-
687-6096 (voice) and 202-687-6003 (fax).
ACH-ALLC93 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
PLENARY EVENTS AND TRACK I
TUESDAY, JUNE 15
9:00 Registration at Copley Formal Lounge
1:30 Optional Tour of Washington, DC (from Village C)
2:00 ACH Executive Committee Meeting (Room 550 ICC)
4:30 ALLC Executive Committee Meeting (Room 550 ICC)
6:00 Welcome Cocktail Party at Leavey Center Esplanade
Sponsored by Chadwyck-Healey Inc and Oxford University Press
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16
9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Welcomes: Mr. John J. DeGioia, Associate Vice President and Chief
Administrative Officer for the Main Campus; Rev. Robert B. Lawton,
S.J., Dean, Georgetown College; Susan K. Martin, University
Librarian; Nancy Ide, President, Association for Computers and the
Humanities; Susan Hockey, President, Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing
Keynote Speaker: Clifford Lynch, Director of Library Automation, Office
of the President, University of California
11:00 Vocabulary Studies
Chair, Christian Delcourt (Universite/ de Lie\ge)
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
2:00 Interrogating the Text: Hypertext in English Literature (Panel)
Harold Short (King's College, London), Chair
Patrick W. Conner, Rudolph P. Almasy (West Virginia University)
Corpus Exegesis in the Literature Classroom: The Sonnet Workstation
Mike Best (University of Victoria)
Of Hype and Hypertext: In Search of Structure
Stuart Lee (Oxford University)
Hypermedia in the Trenches: First World War Poetry in Hypercard --
Observations on Evaluation, Design, and Copyright
4:00 The Computerization of the Manuscript Tradition of Chre/tien de Troyes's
"Le Chevalier de la Charrette" (Panel)
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 Chre/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
5:45 ALLC Annual General Meeting (Reiss 103)
8:00 Report of the Text Encoding Initiative (Reiss 103)
THURSDAY, JUNE 17
9:00 Hypertext Applications
Chair: Roy Flannagan, Ohio University
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
11:00 Statistical Analysis of Texts
Chair, Joel Goldfield (Plymouth State College)
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
2:00 The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (Panel)
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?
4:00 ACH Open Meeting (Reiss 103)
5:30 Reception in Leavey Conference Center
7:00 Keynote Speaker
Introduction, Roy Flannagan (Ohio University)
Hugh Kenner, Franklin and Calloway Professor of English, University of
Georgia
8:00 Conference Banquet in Leavey Conference Center
FRIDAY, JUNE 18
9:00 Text Encoding and Encoded Text
Chair, Lou Burnard (Oxford University)
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
11:00 Statistical Analysis in Literature and Philosophy
Chair: Helmut Schanze, (Universitat Gesamthochschule)
Wilfried Ver Eecke (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
2:00 Music Applications
Chair, Gordon Dixon (Manchester Metropolitan University)
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
4:00 Signs, Symbols, and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided
Literary Studies -- New Responses (Panel)
Paul A. Fortier (University of Manitoba), Chair
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
Peter Shoemaker (Princeton University) and Gina L. Greco (Portland State
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
Greg Lessard and Johanne Be/nard (Queen's University)
Computerizing Ce/line
Mark Olsen (University of Chicago)
Critical Theory and Textual Computing
SATURDAY, JUNE 19
9:00 Overview of Methodologies
Chair, Mark Olsen (University of Chicago)
Christian Delcourt (Universite/ de Lie\ge)
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?
11:00 Featured Speaker
Introduction, John Roper (University of East Anglia)
John Burrows (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Noisy Signals? Or Signals in the Noise?
11:30 Closing Ceremony
Comments by Nancy Ide, President, Association for Computers and the
Humanities; Susan Hockey, President, Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing; Michael Neuman, Local Organizer, ACH-ALLC93;
Pierre Lafon, Local Organizer, ALLC-ACH94.
TRACK II
TUESDAY, JUNE 15 (Same as Track I above)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16 (Same as Track I above)
9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
11:00 Statistical Analysis of Corpora
Chair, Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
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
2:00 Discourse and Text Analysis
Chair, Estelle Irizarry (Georgetown University)
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
4:00 Computer-Assisted Learning Systems
Chair, Randy Jones (Brigham Young University)
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, James B. Obielodan (Michigan State University)
An Experimental Computer-Assisted Instructional Unit on Ancient
Hebrew History and Society
5:45 ALLC Annual General Meeting
8:00 Report of the Text Encoding Initiative
THURSDAY, JUNE 17
9:00 Parsing and Morphological Analysis
Chair, Paul Fortier (University of Manitoba)
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
11:00 Phonetic Analysis
Chair, Joe Rudman (Carnegie Mellon University)
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
2:00 Data Collection and Collections
Chair, Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale)
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
4:00 ACH Open Meeting
6:15 Reception in Leavey Conference Center
7:00 Keynote Speaker
8:00 Conference Banquet in Leavey Conference Center
FRIDAY, JUNE 18
9:00 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
11:00 Technological Enhancements
Chair, Mary Dee Harris (Language Technology)
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
2:00 Historical Information Systems
Chair, Willard McCarty (University of Toronto)
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
SATURDAY, JUNE 19
9:00 The British National Corpus: Problems in Producing a Large Text
Corpus
Gavin Burnage (Oxford University Computing Service), Chair and Presenter
Roger Garside (Lancaster University)
Frank Keenan (Oxford University Press)
11:00 Featured Speaker
11:30 Closing Ceremony (Same as Track I above.)
TRACK III
TUESDAY, JUNE 15 (Same as Tracks I and II above)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16 (Same as Tracks I and II above)
9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
11:00 The Academical Village: Electronic Texts and the University of
Virginia (Panel)
John Price-Wilkin (University of Virginia), Chair
Kendon Stubbs (University of Virginia)
David Seaman (University of Virginia)
David Gants (University of Virginia)
Edward Ayers (University of Virginia)
2:00 Networked Information Systems
Chair, Eric Dahlin (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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
4:00 Information Resources for Religious Studies
Chair, Marianne Gaunt (Rutgers University)
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
5:45 ALLC Annual General Meeting
8:00 Report of the Text Encoding Initiative
THURSDAY, JUNE 17
9:00 Documenting Electronic Texts (Panel)
Annelies Hoogcarspel (Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities),
Chair
TEI Header, Text Documentation, and Bibliographic Control of
Electronic Texts
Richard Giordano (Manchester University)
Lou Burnard (Oxford University)
11:00 Preserving the Human Electronic Record: Responsibilities, Problems,
Solutions (Panel)
Peter Graham (Rutgers University), Chair
Gordon B. Neavill (University of Alabama)
W. Scott Stornetta (Bellcore)
2:00 Networked Electronic Resources: New Opportunities for Humanities
Scholars (Panel)
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
4:00 ACH Open Meeting
6:15 Reception in Leavey Conference Center
7:00 Keynote Speaker
8:00 Conference Banquet in Leavey Conference Center
FRIDAY, JUNE 18
9:00 Developing and Managing Electronic Texts Centers (Panel)
Mark Day (Indiana University), Chair and Presenter
Anita Lowry (University of Iowa)
John-Price Wilkin (University of Virginia)
11:00 Design Principles for Electronic Textual Resources: Integrating the
Uses, Users and Developers (Panel)
Susan Hockey (Center for Electronic Text in the Humanities), Chair
Nicholas Belkin (Rutgers University)
Elaine Brennan (Brown University)
Robin Cover (Dallas, TX)
2:00 What Next After the TEI? Call for a Text Software Initiative (Panel)
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
4:00 Issues in Humanities Computing Support (Panel)
Charles D. Bush (Brigham Young University), Chair and Presenter
Eric Dahlin (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Terry Butler (University of Alberta)
Kathleen Russell (University of Maryland)
Malcolm Brown (Dartmouth College)
Harold Short (King's College, London)
Representative (CTI Centre for Textual Studies, London)
SATURDAY, JUNE 19
9:00 The Scholar's Workbench and the "Edition:" Legitimate Aspiration or
Chimera (Panel)
Frank Colson (University of Southampton), Chair and Presenter
The Debate on Multi-Media Standards
Manfred Thaller (Max-Planck-Institu%t fu%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
11:00 Featured Speaker
11:30 Closing Ceremony
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